The omission of Mr. Harvey's name on a Committee on
his own pet subject, does appear singular ; but it arises from a peculiar cause. You recollect that last session Harvey, being on the Poor-law Com- mittee, published the evidence contrary to the wish, and then to the express vote, of the Committee ; and declared his resolution to print in the True Sun the proceedings of every Committee of which he might be a member. Now, the Pensions Committee is one of which it is most desirable that the proceedings should, until the whole are com- pleted, be kept secret ; and the Chancellor of the Exchequer thought himself not justified in putting Harvey's name on the.Committee, mail be obtained torm him some pledge that he would not publish without the consent of the Committee. This Harvey refused to do; the Chan- cellor of the Exchequer consequently refuses to put his name on the Committee ; and to untie this knot Sinclair appeals on the stage.— London Correspondent of Monday in the Scotsman of Wednesday last. The True Sun quotes this paragraph, and promises next Monday to publish the correspondence between Mr. Spring Rice and Mr. Harvey. In the meanwhile it may be asked, who authorized Mr. Spring Rice to make terms with Mr. Harvey ? The Committee was appointed by the House of Commons, not by the Chancellor of Exchequer.
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