hazard the system upon which the peace of Europe had been restored, we could not but join with the confederated powers to give France encouragement to declare herself, and to enable the royal party to struggle for the liberty of their country before its present chief should be in possession of its whole resources. How far the enterprise might succeed, he could not say. But hearing as he did, in many parts of France, murmurs half suppressed, and seeing in others open hostilities against the ruling power, he could not but cherish a belief that the real supporters of Buonaparte were very few indeed, beyond the limits of the army, which had been accustomed to live under his banners. But supposing, for the misery of mankind, and most of all for that of France, that, carried away by her lust for military triumphs, she should prefer a warlike chief to lead her armies to the conquest of Europe, and that for such a character, she had deliberately rejected a mild and moderate government, terrible as it might be to combat the whole strength of France embodied under such a leader, such a consideration would make little difference with respect to the measures that ought to be pursued. Greater means ought, in fact, to be put forth, and more intense energy exerted to crush a government, in its nature inimical to all other governments. He was unwilling to believe that France had acted such a part; that she had rejected the sway of a moderate and legal Prince, for one who ruled without law, and who even now trampled

on the constitution he so recently pretended to establish. Such a power must be combated. It must find its end in internal discord or by external force, or it would never rest satisfied till its military domination extended over the whole of Europe. He would not however suffer himself to be led into the discussion of topics, however interesting and important, which were not immediately under the consideration of the committee, and was not aware that he had omitted to state any thing necessarily connected with the business of this evening; but he should hold himself ready to offer any further explanation which might be required by the committee. He then moved his first resolution, which was, "That, towards raising the Supply granted to his majesty, the sum of 36 millions be raised by Annuities, whereof the charges of 27 millions are to be defrayed on the part of Great Britain, and 9 millions on the part of Ireland."

After some remarks by Mr. Tierncy, the resolutions proposed by the chancellor of the Exchequer were put, and carried.

Irish Budget.-On June 16th, the House being in a Committee of Ways and Means,

Mr. Vesey Fitzgerald (the Chancellor of the Irish Exchequer) rose and spoke to the following effect:

It is to-night, Sir, my duty to submit to this committee the amount of the supply which Ireland is required to provide for the service of this year, and the ways and means by which I propose to make the provision which is necessary; and I cannot lament that

on more than one occasion in this House, and in another place, where an inquiry into the state of the finances of Ireland was gone into, the attention of gentlemen has been turned to the revenue of that country and the state of its resources; since so much of what else it would have been my duty to offer to the consideration of the committee, has been anticipated by those discussions. In the statement which I have to bring before you, it will be seen, that however the pressure of the present moment may be felt by England, however great and unexampled the demands on her may be, as represented by my right hon. friend the chancellor of the Exchequer of England on a former evening, I have, standing here on the part of Ireland, a duty comparatively more arduous to discharge. Ireland has been called upon, in the last two sessions of Parliament, to furnish a supply, and consequent ways and means larger than have ever been made before. Taxes have been laid on to an extent which that country, I fear, was little prepared to expect; and we have now to provide still greater supplies, and by imposts exceeding those of the preceding years, great as was the exigences of those times. How the present charge had been aggravated, my right hon. friend has sufficiently explained. The liquidation of the arrears of the late war, has, indeed, swelled that charge very considerably beyond the expenditure of any single year. It remains for me, however, to perform my duty. I trust that Ireland will not be found unequal to the difficulties of her si

tuation; and if, in the extent and magnitude of her contribution to the general expenditure of the empire, the sacrifices she has been called upon to make are great, it must be remembered, that there are heavy burthens which have hitherto not been imposed on her, though every other part of the United Kingdom cheerfully endures them. Let us not forget, too, that great as the sacrifices may be for which we are called on now, or which may be required hereafter, they are the price that Ireland pays for her peace and for her strength, for her security and for her glory.

The right hon. gentleman pro ceeded to state, that he should submit to the committee, as distinctly as he could, the amount of the supply, and the ways and means which he proposed to meet it, as well as the provision for the interest of that loan, which, conjointly with the British loan, had been contracted for in this country, and of which the terms had already received all the sanction which, up to this time, they could have received. He should first state the estimated quota of contribution of the year 1815, at 10,574,2151. The interest and sinking fund on the present debt, 6,098,1491. making the total supplies 16,672,3641. The state of the consolidated fund was, balance in the exchequer on the 5th January 1815, 1,689,252., remaining of the Irish loan of 1814, 322,500l.; remaining of the loan raised in England in 1814, 3,852,3831. making a total of 5,864,165. But from this he had to deduct, first, the arrears of contribution for 1813,

1,794,380.; the same for 1814, 3,294,300l. exclusive of exceed ings of army extraordinaries applicable to 1814, and supplied this year; there was also to be deducted the principal of outstanding treasury bills and lottery prizes 282,240., and for votes of parliament which remained undischarged, appropriated to inland naviga. tions and public buildings in Ireland, 57,438., making the whole arrear due by the consolidated fund, 5,175,3581.; leaving a net surplus of the consolidated fund of Ireland on the 5th January last, of 688,8071.

Having thus stated the supply, he should proceed to state the Ways and Means. He should first take the surplus of the consolidated fund as made out above, £688,807

at

100,000

Re-payment of Sums advanced by Ireland for Naval and Military Services 2-17ths of Old Naval Stores, 15-17ths having been taken credit for by England Loan raised in Eng. land for the service of Ireland, 9,000,000 British 9,750,000

Making a Total of

former years. The net produce in the year ending the

Ways and Means £.16,854,112 He stated the whole of the

being an increase of revenue in four years of 1,400,000l.; and he had to remark, that of the taxes of last year, only one half of the produce had been brought into this account. The diminution of the custom duties

UT few of the remaining proceedings in parliament were of sufficient importance to require notice.

The glorious victory of Waterloo produced a message to both Houses from the prince Regent on June 22nd, recommending to them "to enable his Royal Highness to grant such additional provision to Field-marshal the duke of Wellington as shall afford a further proof of the opinion entertained by parliament of the duke of Wellington's transcendant services, and of the gratitude and munificence of the British nation." Parliament, never backward at such a call, unanimously concurred in a vote for adding the sum of 200,000l. to the former liberal grants by which its sense of his extraordinary merits had been demonstrated. The thanks of both Houses were afterwards voted to the Duke of Wellington, and to many officers of distinction in his army, and to Marshal Prince Blucher, the Prussian army, and the allied troops under the Duke's command. A motion being afterwards made in the House of Commons by Lord Castlereagh for an address to the

Prince Regent, that he would be pleased to give directions for erecting a National monument in honour of the victory at Waterloo, and in commemoration of those who gloriously fell in achiev ing it, the same was unanimously agreed to.

The arrival of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland, with his spouse the Princess of Salms, for the purpose of repeating the marriage ceremony in this country, is recorded in our Chronicle for the month of June. On the 27th of that month a message from the Prince Regent was received by both Houses of Parliament, informing them "that a marriage, to which the consent of his Royal Highness was duly given, had been solemnized between his brother the Duke of Cumberland, and a daughter of the reigning Duke of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, niece to her majesty the Queen of the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and relict of the Prince Salms Braunfels." The message further expressed a confidence of the readiness of Parliament to enable his Royal Highness to make such provision for their Royal Highnesses on this occasion