§ The House resolved itself into a Committee of Supply.
§ Mr. Spring Rice, before he called on the Committee to consent to the Resolutions which he had to propose, felt it his duty to say, that the Estimates, which he now wished to provide for, were those framed by the late Government. His Majesty's present Ministers had rather directed their attention to those Estimates which were to be prepared than to those which had been already made up; and as the sums now required were merely directed to supply the expenditure of the two months of the quarter, and to provide for expenses already incurred, he did not anticipate any objection to them from the hon. Gentlemen opposite. Having said thus much, he should at once move that a sum not exceeding 137,500l. be granted to make good the extraordinary expenses 791 of the Array up to the end of the year 1830.
§ Resolution agreed to.
§ On the Resolution granting a sum of 113,000l. to defray the Army services for seven days, from the 25th to the 31st of December, 1830,
§ Mr. Cresset Pelhamcondemned the extravagance of the Estimates for the Army, and observed, that at the commencement of the American war the whole annual amount required for the Army was only 613,000l., a sum scarcely sufficient to pay the expenses of the present force for a single month.
§ Resolutions—granting 93,872l. to complete the sums required for the expenses of the Commissariat; 40,000l. for the Civil Contingencies; and 50,000l. to de- fray the expenses of works completed under the direction of the Board of Ordnance were agreed to.