SPEECHES OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE WILLIAM HUSKISSON, &c. &c. LONDON DOCKS' BILL. July 6, 1804. THE Docks, undertaken by private subscription for the greater accommodation and security of Shipping, Commerce, and Revenue within the Port of London, in pursuance of an Act passed on the 20th of June 1800, being nearly completed, Mr. HUSKISSON (one of the Secretaries of the Treasury) rose, pursuant to notice, to move for leave to bring in a Bill, "for warehousing goods within the limits of certain docks made under an Act, passed in the thirty-ninth and • The following is a List of the Ministry, as it stood at this time: Cabinet Ministers. The Duke of Portland ...............President of the Council. Lord Eldon ..... The Earl of Westmorland Right Hon. William Pitt..... .....Lord Chancellor. ....................Lord Privy Seal. { First Lord of the Treasury, and Viscount Melville..................... First Lord of the Admiralty. fortieth of his Majesty, intituled, 'An Act for making wet docks, basons, cuts, and other works, for the greater accom'modation and security of shipping, commerce, and revenue, within the port of London; and to make regulations relating to the said docks."" The motion was, he said, one to which no honourable member, he trusted, would have any objection. On the contrary, he believed it would afford satisfaction to every one to learn that the London Docks, towards the opening of which he was about to propose certain regulations, were in so great a state of forwardness, that it was expected they would be ready for the reception and accommodation of shipping early in the month of September. The objects of the Bill which he proposed to bring in were three-fold: first, to afford additional facilities to the trade of the port of London; secondly, to provide Right Hon. William Dundas ......Secretary at War. Right Hon. George Canning ......Treasurer of the Navy. Right Hon. George Rose......... Right Hon, Lord Chas. Somerset} Joint Paymaster of the Forces. Hon. Spencer Perceval ............Attorney-General. The Earl of Hardwicke ............Lord Lieutenant. Lord Redesdale.......................... Sir Evan Nepean Ministry of Ireland. ..Lord Chancellor. ....Chief Secretary. Right Hon. Isaac Corry............Chancellor of the Exchequer. for the greater security of that trade; and thirdly, to provide, at the same time, for the better security of the revenue arising out of it. The Bill would necessarily embrace a variety of detail, into which he would not now enter; but these constituted its principal objects. The regulations contained in it had been already concerted and planned by the Directors of the Company, and had met with the approbation of all those to whom they had been submitted. Leave was given to bring in the said Bill. It passed through the House without opposition, and received the royal assent on the 28th of July. The ceremony of the opening of the docks took place on the 30th of January following. THE BUDGET. March 28, 1806.* Lord Henry Petty, the new Chancellor of the Exchequer, having this day brought forward the Budget, Mr. HUSKISSON took occasion to congratulate the House and the country on the pledge which the present government had given—a pledge which, in his opinion, did them great honour-that they would adhere to the system of • In consequence of the death of Mr. Pitt, which took place on the 23d of January, a new Administration was shortly after formed, consisting of the following members: Earl Fitzwilliam Lord Erskine Viscount Sidmouth Lord Grenville.......... Lord Howick Earl of Moira Cabinet Ministers. ........... President of the Council. ...... ....Lord Chancellor. ...Lord Privy Seal. ....First Lord of the Treasury. First Lord of the Admiralty. finance which had been adopted by his right honourable friend, who was now no more. The leading feature of that system was to raise the ways and means as much as possible, in such a way as to make them equal the supplies, and thereby to keep down the amount of the loans for which it might be necessary to contract. He was happy to have heard this pledge, because, from certain rumours which were current out of doors, the friends of that Lord Auckland....................... ......................................President of the Board of Trade. Right Hon. Richard Fitzpatrick Secretary at War. Right Hon. R. B. Sheridan.........Treasurer of the Navy. Duke of Bedford...................... Lord Lieutenant. Right Hon. Sir John Newport ...Chancellor of the Exchequer. |