§ Lord Palmerston, in rising to submit to the House those details which it was his duty to lay before them, wished to state them as succinctly as possible, reserving to himself the right of speaking on any subject which might appear to require a more ample explanation than he might give in the first instance. The expences might be divided into two heads: 1st, those which, like regimental charges, grew on fixed establishments; 2nd, those which, like recruiting charges, were contingent. In the former, every care had been taken to compress them within as narrow a compass as possible; in the latter, the actual expenditure of the last year had been taken as the basis of the estimate for the present.—He would first take the estimate of the Land Forces, which of course was divided into many smaller heads. In this estimate, a considerable increase of 894 expence would be found, and a considerable addition in men, the increase in the expence being for the increase in the numbers. In the first instance, he had to notice an addition of ten men to the Household regiments, and a consequent increase of expence of 1,700l. This increase arose from the appointments of Serjeant School-masters. For some years the schools for the instruction of soldiers' children had been supported by no established fund, but by the zeal, intelligence, and liberality of the officers, and by private contributions. The necessity of placing such schools on a regular and permanent establishment, had been strongly felt by the commander in chief, whose attention to the welfare of the army was too well known in that House to require any comment from him. In consequence of this, a school had been established in every battalion in the service, and this led to an expence of 20,000l. Out of this the charges for the pay of the Serjeant School-masters, for books and contingencies, were met, and he thought that this expence would neither be deemed useless nor lavish, when the benefit thence derived to the country was considered, and the advantages it afforded to the army.—Another increase of expence arose from an addition of twenty men, which had two years ago been taken from each troop of cavalry. These troops, it was at that time thought, might be dismounted without detriment to the service, but in consequence of the nature of the operations in which we had since been engaged in the peninsula; from the applications made by lord Wellington for cavalry, in order the more effectually to meet the force opposed to him by the enemy, it had been found necessary to remount them. The committee were aware of the difficulty of keeping horses on a distant service, and of the various circumstances which rendered it necessary to send out frequent supplies, and therefore he would not detain them on that subject.—An increase had been made in the regular cavalry of 126 officers, which caused an increased charge of 22,400l. In the regiments of the line, the returns of the present year presented an increase of 9,522 men, of which the charge was 277,000l. This increase was made by the transfer of a considerable portion of the array which had been in the service of the East India Company, and which had been maintained by them 895 in their territorial acquisitions. These, in consequence of their late conquests, were no longer wanted by them, and were therefore transferred to the crown. In the charge was also included a second battalion, which had been raised within the year to the 12th regiment of foot. The waggon-train had been also augmented. A considerable portion of this force was employed in the peninsula, and from the value set on their services by lord Wellington, two troops, which it had been in contemplation to reduce, were still retained. Of their utility, lord Wellington's last dispatches bore honourable testimony, and two troops had been added, in consequence of the report which that noble lord had made of them. Adding two troops, and thus raising their number from nine to eleven, it was, however, to be observed, that they were still short of what they formerly were by one troop.—The noble lord, among other items, stated to the committee, that, in the miscellaneous services, there was an increase of expence amounting to 25,000l. The increase on this head would have been larger, but for the diminution on the Irish establishment. The increase arose from larger sums having been given to recruits than were formerly given. In the year 23,000 men had been raised, on which the charge was 513,000l. Last year, for the first time, a sum was specified for the recruiting service. It had, however, turned out, that the sum named had fallen short 70,000l. but the diminution in the Irish establishment, arising from the appropriation of beer money and contingencies, reduced the total increase to 25,000l. from the sum total 350,000l. might be deducted as applicable to other services.—He had another item to propose, under the head of allowances for the cure of wounds, and the loss of baggage of officers in the army. It was usual in such cases to give them a gratuity of a year's pay, and to allow them certain other compensations. In the navy, however, it was usual to grant pensions in such cases, according to the rank of the officer at the time he received his wounds. His royal highness the Prince Regent, anxious to place the army on a better footing than heretofore, had commanded him to propose an additional vote on that head, for granting pensions to officers wounded in the army. If this proposition were agreed to, it was the wish of his Royal Highness to extend the provision retrospectively 896 to all who had been wounded since the commencement of the war in 1793, and he was persuaded the House would be happy by their concurrence in such a motion, to mark the high sense they had of the services of those whom it was proposed to relieve.—He then took a view of the number and charge of the forces paid out of the revenues of the East India Company, and proceeded to take a survey of the state of the Militia. There, he observed, the hon. House would be quite surprised to find that there was a diminution in number amounting to 14,000, while there appeared an increased charge of 800l. At the time the estimates were framed last year, the numbers of the militia considerably exceeded its regular establishment; but as it was then in the contemplation of government to propose two measures to parliament on the subject (the interchange of the militias, and the permitting them to volunteer into the line), they were not called upon then to make a provision suitable to the number then embodied, while a deduction was made of 150,000l. for non-effectives. On the Foreign Staff, Home Staff, and Irish Staff there appeared an increase of 75,000l. This he explained as arising in a great measure from that charge being transferred to the army estimates, which had been formerly included in the grant for foreign corps, and from an increase in the foreign staff. This increase was principally on the foreign staff in the peninsula. The additional charge was incurred in consequence of the promotion of the general officers, and through an augmentation of the number of medical men on the staff. The utility of this arrangement was sufficiently obvious from the improved state of the army in point of health. The staff in our colonies was included in this statement, and in the Mauritius, which was entirely new to the estimate—Under the head of full-pay of retired officers, there was a diminution of 563l. in consequence of the death of certain officers. Under the head of half-pay and allowances, there was a diminution of 3,481l. In the estimate for the in-pensioners of Chelsea and Kilmainham, compared with the estimate of last year, there was a diminution of 640l. This, however, was not a saving nor a diminution to be reckoned on as permanent. In those establishments the pensioners were only cloathed once in two years; and this being the alternate year in which they were not to receive 897 clothing, the diminution was at once accounted for, while the sum was to be expected again in the estimate of next year. The estimate for the out-pensioners of Chelsea and Kilmainham, exceeded that of the last year by 47,705l. The principal increase in this head arose from the increase of the number of pensioners. The pay-master general, it would be remembered, had two or three years back recovered 200,000l. from certain prize agents. Of this sum 100,000l. in 1810, had been applied to the public service, and the further sum of 25,000l. in the last year. The remaining balance it was thought proper to keep for the service of the establishment. From this it would be seen that 25,000l. of the sum named was not actually an increase. On the Widows' Pensions there was an increase of 855l. which arose from the increase of their numbers. For the Volunteer Corps, there was a diminution of 34,850l. In the Foreign Corps, there was an increase of men to the full amount of 5,503, and the charge consequent on this increase was 180,000l. These were so effective, that one corps consisting of 2,000 men exceeded its establishment by 30 or 40, and out of their whole number in our service, amounting to 27,000 men, there were not more than 1,500 non-effective.—In the estimate for the Royal Military College there was a reduction of 7,517l. This did not arise from any charges of the establishment, but was caused by the balance of a former vote remaining in hand, applicable to the service of the current year. In point of fact, there was an increase of 1,200l.; but this, set against the total amount of the balance in hand, made a diminution in the estimate, as he had stated before, of 7,517l. For the building of Sandhurst College, the sum, in the estimate, was 100,000l. The original estimate was 175,000l. Of this sum 40,000l. had been voted in 1810, 30,000l. in 1811; if, therefore (as the building was expected to be completed in the course of the present year,) they resolved on voting the sum necessary for its completion, they could not grant less than 100,000l. In the charges for the support of the Royal Military Asylum, there was an increase of 1,364l. and on the Compassionate Fund an increase of 1,913l. On the Irish Barrack department there was a diminution of 49,320l.; and there was one in the Commissariat department of 16,113l. and under the head of Superannuated Allowances 898 there was to be seen a diminution of 3,568l.—The noble lord here summed up his statements, and took a general view of the subject, and of the measures adopted during the last year for recruiting the regular army. The additional charge on the increased numbers in our army, he stated to be 576,166l. In the last year there had been raised for the regular army:—By the ordinary mode of enlistment 11,472. By allowing the militia to volunteer into the line 11,716. For the foreign corps 4,795. These, added to the Greek infantry, would make a total of not less than 28 or 29,000. These were more than enough to cover all the casualties of the year; and while in numbers it was seen that more had been raised than was sufficient to cover those casualties that might occur, it was most satisfactory to find the casualties were less than they had been in the preceding year. In 1810, the casualties amounted to between 24 and 25,000; in the last year they did not exceed 21,000, and hence it would be found, that the aggregate increase in our army was not less than 7,889. Not only had our military force thus increased in the last year, but if we calculated as we ought to calculate on the probability of our being still called on to persevere in the contest in which we were engaged, it was satisfactory to find, that what he might call the recruitable capacity of the country, was still such, that it would abundantly supply the means. Of the number raised in the last year, there were more English subjects than were sufficient to cover all the casualties of the army. They exceeded the casualties by 2,000, as while the latter did not exceed 21,000, the former amounted to 23,188, leaving a clear surplus to the amount before stated. It might be said that this statement was too high, and that an allowance should be made for the number of the militia that had volunteered over the number which it had been proposed to draw from thence to recruit the regular army. This might, perhaps, be said, as more than 11,000 had so volunteered, when but 10,000 were called for. Making, however, the necessary deduction on this account, still would it be found that the number properly raised within the year, would cover the casualties, as deducting the surplus he had alluded to, 21,286 would remain. Notwithstanding we had been fighting battles in almost every part of the world; notwithstanding we had been incessantly engaged in de- 899 structive sieges, and notwithstanding we had made important conquests, still it would hence be seen that all the casualties of the year, including the ravages made in our ranks by the various climates to which our troops had been exposed, as well as those occasioned by the sword, were more than covered by the extent of our population, and that without severely pressing on the civil part of that population. While this cheering view was presented by the state of our resources at home, and while we were still waging successful war against the enemy in various parts of the world, it was in no small degree gratifying to see our enemy himself furnishing us with the means of successful resistance to his unprincipled aggressions. It was seen, that wherever he found his way, and dragged the reluctant inhabitants to his standard, to be at once the victims and the instruments of his diabolical and unjust oppression, no sooner were they converted into soldiers in his service, than at the first opportunity they quitted his detested ranks and came over to the English. With these observations he should now conclude, reserving to himself the right of replying to any remarks that might be made on the statements he had had the honour to make. The noble lord then concluded by moving his first Resolution.
Mr. Bankescomplimented the noble lord on the perspicuous statement be had made, and expressed his satisfaction at the success which had attended the recruiting for the line. He lamented, at the same time, the frequent change of system in some departments, for instance the cavalry, by which the country was put to great expence.—He then adverted to the Corps de Depot, not noticed by the noble lord, and inquired why it was not noticed? He feared that the college at Sandhurst would exceed the estimate: its object was good, but he hoped that economy would be practised. There was one part of the Estimates to which he had not only a strong objection, but would take the sense of the Committee upon it, or if he did not press it to night, he should certainly when the report was brought up. He alluded to the item in the 32d page of the Estimates, of a sum of 2,790l. to be paid to the Paymaster of Widows' Pensions. He saw that charge with unaffected surprise; and he thought that such an office should not be filled up at such a time, in the very teeth of a Resolution entered on the Journals 900 of that House, and made on the 31st of May, 1810. That Resolution stated that it was expedient to abolish all offices executed by deputy. Was it not, then, a most extraordinary matter, and one which it would well become the House to examine, that an office, such as he was now alluding to, should, in defiance of the sense of the House, be filled up, when, it was evident, there was no effective duties to discharge? The case, too, was the more extraordinary when it was remembered that commissioners, military commissioners, appointed by a government whose views were not peculiarly favourable to the abolition of sinecure places, had reported of this very office, "That it was executed entirely by deputy and clerks, that the principal never appeared at all in the business, that the office appeared to them unnecessary, that the public derived no benefit from it, that it was a perfect sinecure to the principal, and not much less so to the deputy, and that, as it created an unnecessary expence to the public, it ought no longer to exist." When these circumstances were joined together in the remembrance of the House, he should not think that parliament did its duty, if such a manifest violation of its Resolution was permitted; and when, therefore, the Resolution which related to that estimate was proposed, he should move for its deduction, and if he failed in obtaining it, which he could hardly imagine would be the case, he would take a further opportunity of resisting it when the Report of the Committee was received.
§ Colonel M'Mahonrose and spoke as follows:—Sir, I must intreat the indulgence of the House for a few moments, on a subject which of late has so frequently been brought before its consideration. I mean, Sir, the office of Receiver and Paymaster to the Widows' Pensions. At the time, Sir, when the Prince Regent was graciously pleased to confer upon me this office, his Royal Highness, as has been already stated by the right hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer, certainly gave it to me subject to the will and pleasure of this House. On such conditions, Sir, most certainly I accepted it, and to that will and pleasure I now most implicitly bow. Sir, I must beg to observe, that this goodness on the part of his Royal Highness, was entirely spontaneous; for I never had the presumption to suppose that any humble services I could give to 901 the illustrious personage whom I have the pride and happiness to serve, could entitle me to claim any public remuneration; and I do readily agree with an hon. gentleman, who, on a former night, with more justice than perhaps kindness, observed, that the situation I possessed in his Royal Highness's family was perfectly sufficient for any services I could render. Indeed, Sir, I will go further than that hon. gentleman, by declaring my reward to be more than sufficient, and owning that life at this moment seems to promise me but too short a span to ever requite, by any services, the abundant over-payment which the generous and noble heart of my royal master has heaped upon me for sixteen years past, in acts of kindness and affection—acts which have been of so delicate and peculiar a nature, as to bind my life, heart, and soul, in eternal love and attachment towards him. It seems, Sir, to have erroneously gone abroad, that this office was not a civil, but a military one, from my predecessor having been for many years, and at the time of his death, a general officer; but I beg to observe, in proof of its being a civil, and not a military office, that if my information be correct, general Fox did enjoy this office before, and when he was a lieutenant of dragoons. If so, Sir, I am not called upon to make out any case of military services, for this distinction. But, Sir, were such a case to be necessary, I flatter myself that I could have the good fortune without any ostentation, or without any departure from becoming modesty, by an appeal to the testimonies of commanders eminently high in the profession, and deservedly so in the estimation of their country, under whom I had the honour to serve, that few men had undergone, in the same space of time, more real and actual service, and with more individual credit to himself, than I had the good fortune to do in the several gradations of rank, from ensign to colonel, for 21 years, from 1775 to 1796; when, from ill health, and that chiefly acquired in the service, having served the entire seven years of the American war, I was compelled to retire from the army; in which, however, had it been my lot to have continued until this time, equally fortunate and unimpeached in my conduct, I should hope that I might now have the honour to be a lieutenant-general in his Majesty's service. I have now, Sir, only one or two observations more to trespass on the House. I beg leave, Sir, 902 to submit to its feeling, that I have by the acceptance of this office already vacated my seat in parliament, and since undergone the inconvenience and difficulties of a re-election for it; and although I am quite satisfied that the office of Receiver and Paymaster to the Widows' Pensions is of a most efficient and important nature in its duties, having nearly 1,600 widows to keep a regular account with, by three several payments in every year, to write in the course of each payment as many letters to them, and to take an equal number of affidavits on those different occasions, and which duties would well require not only the constant attendance of one chief and two or three assistant clerks, besides the proper personal superintendance of the Receiver and Paymaster to the Widows' Pensions himself; and also that the item of the poundage is always greatly over-rated in the army estimates, by the events of deaths, marriages, and other casualties, which considerably diminish it. Still, Sir, I have no wish for any tenure of this appointment beyond the decided sense and pleasure of this House, and intirely submit it with the utmost respect to their favourable construction and judgment. For the recollection of the most kind, handsome and liberal beyond my merit, tributes which have been paid to my character, private and personal, by so many honourable and highly respectable gentlemen, in the course of the several discussions which this subject has already undergone, I shall ever be most grateful for, and it will be a reward to my feelings of greater value than any other I could receive upon earth.
Mr. Bennetthought it a monstrous and intolerable proposition to grant 2,790l. a year to a person who had such slender claims on the public, on the very night when they were voting only 2,000l. to the earl of Wellington, and would give his entire concurrence to the motion of the hon. gentleman.
The Chancellor of the Exchequerobserved, that the filling up of the office had not been done from ignorance of the Report of the Commissioners alluded to: that was not the ground upon which the transaction was to be defended. The appointment, in fact, of the hon. colonel, did not form the slightest impediment to parliament exercising its rights, just the same as if the appointment had not taken place. When the grant of it was made to colonel 903 M'Mahon by his Royal Highness, there was nothing stipulated which could afford the slightest claim for its being retained as a matter of right, in opposition to the will of parliament. On the contrary, it was expressly stated, that he was to receive it as an office likely to undergo the discussion of parliament—likely to undergo a reform—likely even to be abolished; and if so, he could have no claim to oppose to such reformation, or to such abolition. There was nothing, therefore, to preclude the hon. member from making his motion, nothing to impede any one in giving his vote upon that motion—as far as regarded either the one or the other, it was as if the office still remained unfilled. He would wish to know, therefore, what had been done, in appointing colonel M'Mahon, which could be construed into flying in the face of parliament, when the very way in which the appointment was made was one which left it free to the discussion and to the disposal of parliament? In that committee which had been alluded to, it was a distinct specification that no sinecures should be abolished without a previous consideration how those who held them should be otherwise rewarded; and it was a question for parliament to consider, what reward might be justly due in this case. The services, the civil services, which the hon. colonel had performed for his prince, gave him a claim upon the generosity of his royal master. The right hon. gentleman then stated what had been the specific intention of the committee in recommending the abolition of this office; and concluded by observing, that whatever might be the sense of the committee, of the House, or of parliament on the subject, he trusted, at least, that no one would concur with the hon. gentleman in thinking that the office had been granted in such a way as could be interpreted into a violation of the express declarations of that House.
§ Mr. Whitbreadmerely wished to ask the right hon. gentleman, whether he thought the hon. colonel, for whom he sincerely professed a very high esteem, really executed that description of high and effective office which was meant by the Resolutions alluded to?
The Chancellor of the Exchequerdenied that he had made any such statement; and he denied that it was the intention of parliament to deprive the crown of any means of reward for such services as might be deemed worthy of reward; nor could he 904 believe otherwise, till such intention, if it existed, was passed into a law.
§ Mr. Tierneyagreed with gentlemen in thinking that the Prince Regent ought to have the means of rewarding old and faithful servants; but the question was, whether or not the right hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer had not, under all the circumstances of the case, grossly misconducted himself in advising the grant of this sinecure in the teeth of a Resolution of that House. At the time that the House came to that Resolution, he was anxious that there should be some specific understanding between the hon. gentleman (Mr. Bankes) and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, as to what was to be done after the passing of that resolution until the meeting of parliament; for sure he was that otherwise the right hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer would, at the first opportunity, set their resolutions at defiance: indeed, the right hon. gentleman had told them, that he did not think them operative upon him, because, truly, he himself had always opposed them; but if the right hon. gent. had been at all anxious to preserve any show of decency in the mode of this grant, why could he not have suspended the office till the meeting of parliament? But it seemed that in granting the office, he had told the gallant colonel, that he was to receive it subject to the will of parliament—a mighty condescension truly! as if the right of parliament to quash any such grant depended upon this saving condition made by the right hon. gentleman. But had he done his duty to his royal master, by thus holding him up as a public spectacle, and exposing him in one of the most prominent acts of a new reign to so much clamour and ill humour? As for the hon. colonel, no blame attached to him. He was offered a good place with nothing to do, and he took it, but certainly the Chancellor of the Exchequer had placed him in a most awkward situation. Was there no other way of rewarding the services of the gallant colonel than by flying in the face of a resolution of that House, and exposing the Prince Regent to all the opprobrium of such a grant, dragging him as it were through the dirt for the last six months, by making him so prominent in granting a sinecure in the purest and most disgusting sense of the word—and after all, what must be the consequence?—the hon. colonel could not keep it. He could not possibly rise on Tuesday morning in possession of it. He lamented the circum- 905 stance, for he thought most respectably of the claims of that hon. colonel to the Prince's kindest notice, and was of opinion that he had been most hardly treated in being made to accept of so objectionable an office. He should give his decided vote for striking it out of the Items.
The Chancellor of the Exchequersaid, be would not grant any sinecure or reversionary places which did not come under the authority of parliament. It was impossible for him to characterize the ill-humour of the expressions made use of on the subject by the other side of the House. He never felt that any person was responsible for the advice given on this subject to the Prince Regent, but himself. He thought it was a fair exercise of his duty, as parliament had not enacted that sinecures should be done away with. The Resolution of the House of Commons was nothing, until it was recognized by parliament; and it never had had its sanction. He thought sinecure places better than the provision that was proposed in the place of them. The situation could not be granted to the hon. colonel for life, while the Prince Regent was under restrictions, and so he informed him; but that he was to hold it until parliament met. He thought the appointment ought not to be interfered with until sinecures were abolished altogether. A mistaken statement had gone out to the public, that the poundage came out of the Widows' Pensions. It was not the case: for the salary was calculated from the amount paid to the widows, and government liquidated the debt: not one shilling was taken from the original pensions. (Hear, hear!)
§ Mr. Johnstonesaid, it was a most unfortunate appointment, and it would be a length of time before the new reign would recover it: esteeming as he did the administration of his right hon. friend, and wishing him full success in his new career, he must yet vote against the present question. The present was not a question of clamour and ill-humour: every impartial man out of the House had been hurt at the little attention paid by his right hon. friend to the recommendation of the House of Commons in the appointment alluded to. It had been most unfortunate advice; it had excited in the nation unfavourable sentiments and ill omens of the new reign. He could not, without injury to himself, and still more without injury to the character of the House, suppress these reflection, especially when he reflected on what 906 had lately happened in that House,—when it had, on a subject which it had repeatedly espoused, been completely turned round by the bare suggestion of his right hon. friend. He should think himself disgraced if he did not rote against this sinecure.
§ Mr. Elliotobserved that he could not let the subject pass without expressing his opinion, that the ordinary recruiting was not equal to one half of the waste of the army; there were also a number of desertions, which were caused by the morals of the lower orders of the people being corrupted. The Prince Regent had acted most laudably towards a meritorious servant, but he thought he had been unwisely advised.
General Fergusonobserved, that there was sometimes too little attention paid to the description of recruits that were sent to join regiments. To his knowledge there was a regiment in Guernsey, 600 strong, to which the commanding officer had paid the greatest attention, not only with respect to discipline, but to their morals also. There was an order lately to complete that regiment, and for that purpose 147 convicts had been sent to them from the hulks. This must certainly be very painful to an officer who had paid the strictest attention to the morals of his men.
Mr. Abercrombysaid, if the statement of the hon. general was grounded on fact, it was incumbent on the House to require that the culprits should be recalled.
Mr. Secretary Rydersaid, that it was by the advice of Mr. Graham that a number of persons who had been sent on board the hulks for slight offences, and conducted themselves very well during their confinement, were permitted to volunteer into regiments going on foreign service.
General Fergusonsaid, that this was a garrison battalion, and not a regiment going on foreign service.
§ After a few further observations the usual annual Resolutions were agreed to.
§ On the Resolution, "That a sum, not exceeding 62,159l. 13s. 6d. be granted to his Majesty, for defraying the charge of Pensions to be paid to Widows of Officers of the land forces, and expenses attending the same, in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, from the 25th Dec. 1811 to the 24th Dee. 1812."
§ Mr. Bankes moved as an Amendment, "That the amount of the sum expected to be paid to the Paymaster of Widows, 907 Pensions, being 12d. in the pound on the said Pensions (2,790l. 1s.) be deducted from the said sum." Upon this the Committee divided, when the numbers were
| For the original Motion | 54 |
| For Mr. Bankes's Amendment | 38 |
| Majority against the Amendment | —16 |
| List of the Minority. | |
| Abercromby, J. | Horner, F. |
| Adams, C. | Hutchinson, C. H. |
| Baring, Sir T. | Johnstone, G. |
| Bankes, H. | Kemp, T. R. |
| Bankes, W. | Lockhart, J. |
| Babington, T. | Macdonald, J. |
| Busk, W. | Martin, H. |
| Bowyer, Sir G. | Neville, Hon. R. |
| Bennet, Hon. H. G. | Pochin, C. |
| Brougham, H. | Parnell, H. |
| Combe, H. C. | Sebright, Sir J. |
| Calvert, N. | Sharp, R. |
| Campbell, Gen. | Smith, W. |
| Eden, Hon. G. | Sumner, G. H. |
| Elliot, Rt. Hon. W. | Temple, Earl |
| Fergusson, Gen. | Tierney, Rt. Hon. G. |
| Fremantle, W. | Vernon, G. G. V. |
| Fane, John | Wynn, C. W. W. |
| Grenfell, P. | Whitbread, S. |
| Graham, T. |
| List of the Majority. | |
| Arbuthnot, C. | Long, C. |
| Ashburnham, G. | Montgomery, Sir J. |
| Benyon, R. | Montague, M. |
| Bathurst, Rt. Hon. C. | Nepean, Sir E. |
| Beresford, Capt. | Patteson, J. |
| Bickerton, Sir R. | Palmerston, Visc. |
| Bagwell, W. | Perceval, Rt. Hon. S. |
| Bourne, S. | Phipps, Gen. |
| Courtenay, T. P. | Peel, R. |
| Clements, H. J. | Pole, W. |
| Clerke, Sir G. | Robinson, Gen. J. |
| Croker, J. W. | Robinson, Hon. F. |
| Chute, W. | Rose, Rt. Hon. G. |
| Disbrowe, E. | Ryder, Rt. Hon. R. |
| Desart, Lord | Singleton, M. |
| Farquhar, James | Sutton, M. |
| Fitzgerald, W. | Swann, H. |
| Gibbs, Sir V. | Thomson, Sir T. |
| Goulbourn, H. | Tempest, Sir H. V. |
| Greenough, G. B. | Tyrwhitt, T. |
| Herbert, C. | Wharton, R. |
| Holmes, W. | Ward, R. |
| Hume, Sir A. | Wallace, T. |
| Herbert, H. | Walpole, Lord |
| Hill, Sir G. | Wellesley, R. |
| Hall, B. | Wood, Col. |
| Kenrick, W. | Wedderburne, Sir D. |
| Lygon, W. B. |