HC Deb 06 February 1824 vol 10 c101
Mr. Hume

asked the right hon. secretary for foreign affairs, when he intended to effect his long promised reform, respecting British Consuls abroad?

Mr. Canning

replied, that he would submit a motion on the subject to which the hon. member alluded, during the present session, and at no distant period. In the mean time, he might perhaps remove the hon. gentleman's uneasiness on one particular point, by telling him that he had already reduced the consular salaries.

Mr. Hume

said, that it was not so much the amount of the salaries, as the manner in which they were paid, that he objected to. He disliked the system of consular charges upon goods imported.