Star. — London, England, 1804-06-23 00:00:00

arr. Whitbread then proceeded to obferve, that the pen which had been read were thole on which he Pounded hit aceufation againfl the Right Hon Gen tleman. whom he had then the good fortune to per t:ire in his place. He trained that the Membeis of the Honk had formerly read and maturely confi erred fide letters, and that they had now come to a airatirron of this important quellion with minds free ii- , an . prtjosiice, and totally unbialled Sy partial mo • lives. He, tbr Ids.own part, could venture, on this oceation, to put in his claim to unprejudiced triotivei, tied had come,to the Hoare to leave the matter to a difoaffsimate difeuffinn. - The more he read theft knots the more he confidered it to be his duty to bring the queßion before the Houfe. But though he felt warmly upon the fuhjeB, he could awe them %tat it WAi totally unattended with paffion. In order ta imluse the Houk to come to the refolution which be Was about.to fuhnsit to there, be hoped it would appear to them that he had not been inclined to 4rew any other conclullon than what appeared evi r tinily adtniiSble from the papers themiclres. kle conceieer that it vas peculiarly fortuitous towboat' the ends'of public intik% that the amok" and ebb ' scented had met in the form place, a circus[jtoree' • erlaiob bad bees always attended with beneficial 4100. Sequences in every infante where an acenfailon was to he brought. It would afford the Right Hon. Gentleman Cr. opportunity to urge in MI own lan guage what he might judge properte Rate in his nu ideisee. The Hos& atCommoss ware in no man. oar preeltided . from eowrinp to a eleoifloa arra this] trecatipri, berms& It . was impoffible they meld al* idler% iri, after having fans hated the Rep of ordain the poodsition of the paper* which. sow lay ithe oath. Alefules, they Writhe advantage- of elm Right Hon. Gentleman's precious, sthielswasla ear- AU 'bra com a completely to co. to it' decifura of Aye pe bpi septa the gueflion. ' It was a detrital which became die to the chararorof the individual who. thora.oppeellid, are in joilibeles the people of Sow *ad. envy one off - whom were peculiarly istereherk be the event, Ittid Wank+ that they might be ilk tared from a 4 agar micosiduft in future. fle hilesglit it would bit sin& fair to flats. is the outfit. *Mims of the Minima with which he steam to rAik; i f the Houk, m well as himfaf. alto die Right Hon. G t *inhales aerosta t were saiwiessd of the truth of she semediains. mhich Wei that It &mid be fathered sp with as Alikk4b link Sh)ety. Mahler the propsietifi d ehe Wit t Gestleman's being removed Am W e e shish- he could not be Laid to be g for ems eratiom.: The primacies be hoe to tribe was, that the Right Hon. Gestkotasi by Ow mem ith• t l e d to, had a& atoll opprelllively Illy, sod writh a ig at Si at set quite catursey to hit (ham sit Lore A.tomatenf Scotland. The perm somfmmill upon the perfoa who held that heipopmer Amalie, sirerytew,it wilfingtnacknowledgeteiteecrolitlygnenta bid it was not confident with common fettle. nor r dotal uslosasatioa of the laws of Scotland. to integre that the-powers of the Lord Advocate could be eat. tied to filch an amazing extent. As he did not this*, however!,4hae the . popofition of illegality waaal ways. I.:ululates in coder to majotain a obargo al eopreffooti, ltellbsonld grant Air a moment thee thie .Lord rtavatatretSerifiand was fully invefied with all the degree of authority which that Right HOW Gentleman had affunled ; Int would fill a&m, thee his condo& had been grofdy (*reifies upon Mr. liforifon, the Gentleman mentioned in the letter.-- He would fupprife things utterly impollible, except for the purpule of argument, that . the Right Hop. Gentleman had a power to defame every man in Scotland, to cot him off from the comfort of-civil fi ciety, and to render him a wretch upon the face of the earl , r and that he could defile any odic(' to deptive individuals of their liberty. to enquire into the teciet motives of men in the ordinary aaiona of their lives, at.d to attribete their aetios to motives the moll diflpyal, and the moil prejudic n jal to the fate, Ilili he would (ay, that the Lord Ady-catc bad bee guilty of profs opprefS aon the individual al luded Arils the pearept infarct. Although be-was not inclined to enter into any recapitulation of what he had formed) Paid, yet he thought a fatal' degree of it tieceffary, as what he had Paid befnerbad bevy fp°. het in the *Mime of the Right Hon. Centimes; and be hoped the Houle would to far indulge him—tHeee the Hon. Gentleman entered upon a brief detail of {he nitellniflaneea of the cake, as fated in ear former report.] Had the opinion which the Right Hon. Gentleman delivered upon the memorial which bad been prefented to him by Garrow, the fervantof Mr. )fforifon, been only intended for the petufal of his client, he (Mr. Whitbread) would not "militia the right of a counfel to ufe rich free eapteflona as to the character and condo& of a third perfon, Come what concerned in the tranfaion I but. in the prelim cafe, the Load Advocate bad takes care to promo'. seselais opinion, by the ad of fending it to Banffshire, to be recorded by the Sheriff of that county. He (the 1.-'rd Advocate) had, in rat, proceeded to pu- , With, aithout the formality of a trial, or public moot- I ration, or iii hen lag one word from Mr. Morifoa is his own defence. He (Mr. W.) celled upon the Eng - lift and Scuts La eyers withio that Houle to give their opinions, to fupport what he had Paid on this occalim. Nth ips it might not be prefumption to alit the Learned Gentleman on the oppiitite rule, alp well at thole upon the other fide of the Houfe to give their kiJgments upon loch a point, in orJer :hat Urn- land might not lay under the Ragan of fuels a code f laws, without that code meeting with the utmn* -reprobation of that Kroft. It was INA* that the fervent, iii confequence of what had walled betwixt his waiter and him, relative to voleateerisg, might have grot.ly mifbelisveo himfell t and it might alfo have happened, that Mr. Morifran himfelf partici pated in that ipii it of loyalty in defence of his King and country, %lath had le generally diffuied itfelf through all ranks of fociety. As to the (errant, how ever, iie knew to.thing ; and as to Mr. Morifon, it appeared to him that the Right Honourable Gen tleman had never done any overt at by which ha motives could Mi iewried. Altboito he (the Lotti Atie ,, c4te) haddani that he (DM:jct.-et Mr. M-nfan's conduit to have since from difittleciion, there was - - - topl..t Otto letter. IA tecomoisEstloo thereat winos; Patel tbOy traoltiltod b altodiotho to Vat enter 64 Me Hoak of Caw boo, Aliteet 616 Jost, illooi owl voported t^ OW 160 G tooto4. —r be words Lieut. Col. G. G. Robbie. to took: burg • tic reaosuara tattoo. basis II vas gloom In to be ro- YA 1. ROaE, SIMONE 1 Stalitit. I no fuch thing known to this day by thtlfeldso wen heft acquainted with him in, the whole tenor of his proceedings. Information had been lately fent so him (Mr. W.) of the Rory which hail led to the dircharge of Mr. Morifon's fervent. and certainly it was a trantattinn which would had to the ditiniffel of his (Mr. W.'s) fervent, or of any gentleman's fervent, without the necetfity bf their incurring the itn putatinn of &Royalty or difaffeßion to the interefts oftheir country. Mr. Morifon was a farmer, in the icrvistity of Banff, very refpeetable in his fituation of life and dillinguilhed in that part of the country ;for his loyalty, which was particularly confpicuous Sour years ago, when fympinms of difaffellion pre vailed emote a certain defcriptien of individuals.— 'This fervent had entered into a volunteer corps of 'Banffshire, whole place of affembling was at fevtn miles diflanee fruit his mafier's refidence. It hap pened that in the mnini(4oetober be had became, ployed by M. Mnt iffWill`thatelting a bars, midi had been told by his iltbr that he could not pofii.i bly fpare hint at that time to attend an infinities's of the Corps, mit was abfoletely, neceffery that the. work (Wald be completed loon. and if be went he *would be cursed et immediately. sotwithftanding thi,scautipn,. however, the fervent went s .cuntrary to esprefs orders; and was accordingly diimiffed the (erilce. Ii appeared that that was the only tinse his make had ever prevented him from attending. the various meetings of his corps, and was it not very Literal thd le *sold have refuted ance with his requell al tech a feafon of the year when be wanted the barn compkted for the pow pries of sagriciattuie 1 There was no fy_mptom of didayalty here. k was a very seems/ lion latch a partieblar entegenvy. But 11'1 , dist eMeeprly to the Vehmteer.fityllens Wein 10 try% 4nitrioned, • WA the V,willitteet SeiViCe terati4 /40' 10 + told that we eistai.its4 hinder cm. immune from eateries among* them t We we Mlle celled &Weal; and were alt the ..traina sOd penult* to he , inilißed upon tte that beep itbirfa. mann Mr. hiorifott fas cdufingtpstifit tic Mani 01: a . ferniest main 0ne..10.1e twei ;A tit eetelf.— The volunteer flee* ems tlytteisiff. liberty. If the whole country mere to be finie in this man ner, we vetestrame machines, and in a thort time the volunteers would be entirely cliff iived. It was eta dent that there was nen law either in England or Scotland 6W the procedure of Cie Lord Advocate, Lad therefore his condalt mull be Riled illegal and z:kve. There was another feature in this tranf which. !lace the Right Hon. Gentleman was preknt, he would mention. After the letter been written, Mr. Morita* made an application melts Lord Advneare. referring to a 'timber of re , le people for hi. charalke, and requefted that t Wield Ise a ktter fent him 7 [Here the Lord vacate kids " actin the Terms you have Rated") —in order an rewire the felinity of the lenience. — The anfwer font by the Sheriff Clerk was. that all might be very MI; but that Mr. Muciten mull he a fool. if not acquidcing in the Lord Advocate's opinion, he refuted to pay espences, It was in the power of the Lutd Advocate to deny or to give par dna, and his comb, on that occation pertienlarly aggravated the tradation, and proved him (fill more to he unfit for the official fituation which he held in that . nut. it appeared to him, that fop poling the Lord Advocate to have ..&d hp* 7.0 be had idled antrimay. There was not, however, the healed foundation try law for filch a fingular• Ondalt. The reed Advocate of Scotland had no power to commit under filch ciisumfiences, The liberty of the rabid* was guarded by law., of which were the Lord Advocate to he fuppotaat ignorant, test ignorance alone would difqinality him. He was well aware. however' that the knowledge of the Right Honourable Gentleman in the laws of his country, would leave him without the [mailed lha. dew ordefenee upon that footing. He (the:Laird Advimete) knew as well as any man, that what he had done was in defiance of all law whatever. He 441 nat. wilik to be prefumptuons in pretending to go into 'a hiliticy of the law of Scotland, but he might eertainli venture to refer to the Statute of the firli Parliament of ling William 111. which was ex piefily intended for the liberty of the fubjell. It was these eneßed, that no man ffinuld be imprifoned, he be fornifittel with an information of the rounds of his imprifeement, eitc. It might be fait!, That it was true, that though the law was prec'fe upon the febjek there might he emergencies, when' it would be neessrary for men to do things. ether (medians they could not be jellified in doing but in this cafe the line of cnndult was provided tur by the law of Scotland. The imprifonment of per foes, without expreffing realms, was contrary to law, and in this ode there was no information given. If Mr. Morrifon had (lain the perfnn fent to execute the illegal warrant, there was no law to which he could be maderamenshle for taking away the life of any individual executing fuch a commiffinn. The Alt further Lays, that there (hall be a trial of the w hin (ley day's after his apprehenfinn. The Lord Advocate, however, had not only violated the law in ether particular., but a' o in this one. beeaufe he had ordered the Sheriff to keep Mr. Morifon till he (the Lord Advocate) fhould give orders foe his fibs. ration, which, being an unlimited time, was perfelt• ly illegal. '!'hough the cafe of invafiun too was ac• total, provided for by the AR, yet this did not fall within it to as to be pleaded as an excult. Commit ments, according to the law of Scotland, might, in ' that cafe, proceed bran order from the Privy Coen. oil, Um perfon apprehended having always his relief tby law. He thought he had (hewn therefore that the Lord Advocate had thus aided in every point of view not may illegally, but opprerLvely, and contrary to the sowers dunce of his official litnati in. The Right Hun. Gentleman flood in a Giusti 'n of very high refponfthility. He had flat power either of pro fecuting or at abitaiaing from profccutimi. If a mat ter, bassever.saimmout, be lateig,bt under his cog/1;- 6am,, with ,a prayer to him founded on a mecogni tion to proficule. he had the power even in that eels to refute compliance with that rt.gliell. Thi. we. not a fancied cafe, hut one which, many years ago, had been determined try the fupert..r ttibunel if this country. deeldieg dud the Loid -Advocate of Sent. lied had the power' to Retitle railing a prnfeention. There. were powers which ought evedeatiy only to be entrefted twa,perfostocapable of bsing leaved by any motives but thous it juttice and coity. It was therefore from a thorpugh cnn.ini.et roe Right Han. Gesideama being him/manic its al! tilde p sti• • oslary,ter (Mr. MY nrrairwd hind l i re that ': triktunk; Wit the natare .uf his defence 'nigh; be. she thou( d not prefuencteranticipate ; bap he *opted And reviled he lhould be able to make it appear t r the Houk that all was *ld of foundation, and that he-had juil grounds to entitle him ur aa in the man ner he had done. If there were aaually any law which the Right lion. Gentleman could *Hedge as an authoritithr hie Condua, it ought inftantly to be abrogated. If he was to tel his defence on his re. 'fpontibility, he did not think that who'd be a valid :defence, bccaufe there was no occation for inch ea, ;traordinary hurry. The French were not here, nod though•aaually esnafted, there was n& crearfion for •Reppang beyond the line of his duty. Ttocnaintry. .did not require the Sacrifice at his hods.. * Mit. Mo arra was furrounded with people who, bad there ' boo any *caliph for ,fufpeaing him, could eafily have fecured hint If, however, the Right Hon.*. able Gentleman had taken it upon him to aa at *4, own rifk, would it not have been iscumbant • him to have Rated it to Governor*, that hobo sta• aa of tigoor might ',raise afieryraeda looked bn as*" precedent, that the people or Scotland might not tut., pole that by foal ,ia ettfolgetilPael breach of power their laws ware careetnenni, and that he hinsfelf i mityht love ere! 0414 hokannit .He then . 4 04 concluded with . feif%, tif the flo eta far. I F ther confijeraliagonall . ~frearing h e .17405. nourable Gentlemante Meal aimlld , be 01 - APiniu. that his Conctua jgfalleat facia an accufation, he thought they would alto unite in thinking, that he was not fit for the high refiton(ible Atuation which be held. Mr. SPEAKER here rofe; and obfereed.• that as • the Hon. Member had• made a complaint to the. Houle, he conceived that the _mitre* procedure was, that the Hon. end Learned Member againft whom it was directed, fliould be beard in his defence s mot then withdraw, in order to leave the queßion to be . fairly difeutred. The LORD ADVOCATE of 8COTLA)01). , then soft, and began his defence to the charge that i had thu. been preferred agaishil him. lie 6. - • • ed the open and manly moaner in which the Ho nonrable Gentleman (Mr. Whitbread) had brought. it forward. He felt that he (Mr.W.),lnol. ta4r3 vi te make this grieious chant as pad:able to him as pofiible. It way imps e, honenril that I 'MOW lath candour and politenefeen the p ar e erF Om . 2 , H onorable Gentleman could ' pre at 'O4 l I. bird Advocate) from feelinet Mtn If iet,a . vyyiagajt. ward predicament. .It had.fadoti e p et 1 1 irah aim man that on the Left 6 ccafian on wW ha aeldeaffet that allembly, he Should ttand in funk eh • • , . . ,liiciati• n, atid still lets did he celled talon of wlful in:Judie,. Theft were ch a rges ~= tebnld alture lim (Mr. W.) and the Houk:, he had •nohran often accullooed. to hear ; for fare ha was, ['that inihflice and oppreflion were never before eon pled wt:h the name he bore. The lionouralitelata: lemon was a petfon titular, unknown to bins and TIC who fawned perfaetly ignorant.' of the fcaling• which the csiuntry (rim whence be (the Lord Ad vlseate) had come, lonctosearala bite. In t! is criiin ',.try Inch an aeculation may hays been credited ; but l i he might venture to far Oland the kinanurable Geo Ocean, hr any mire pevon,had gaited ftsalt A.* rof Imiisitice .ir °pars:lll.m agaiitit him, in the city where l!he lived ( F a .linhurgti )" it.i leis than • hiodred. ikon. 1' fand tongues wouh: have beet; tailed agaiall Mooed, he .night ert n venture u. faaa, not a few arms. The letter allock.l to was dated the t 3th of December ; but the Honoutable Gentleman had chaos to pals over the whole ince:mediate peoitid of fig months, daring part of which he (the Lord Advocate) could shave been here, anuaanally was here, to *scoter any ,charge against him.' This, he thought. Was fame. ,what suicandid and ungan;rou , ; but he was willing to admit of the Honourable Gentleman's apohigy for delay, and.to attribute it to th. 4 with whom the charge had f: rfl cm iginatcd. 'The a& of accufation , he laid, carried its puoilliment along with it ; at the time it was brought he was bnfily employed in his profe(lioral avocations', and in being Ptirlkil' to came to that floufe to meet the charge, though he fuffered no imprifonmenz, he had at leaß been pu niftiest by a cool:der:4l.le fine. It bad been laid, that Mr. Morifon could not proceed againft a roan naval ed with fuch authoritrds his ; the affertion, however, was difproved by the proceedings which took place. Mr.. Writ - on was a rdpeaabie man, and a man of property in his part of the country, and its about three weeks after the letter was written, fent an at ' terney to him to complain of it, who laid, that he himfelf believed Mr. Morifm tube a loyal man. His anfwer was, that if Mr. Motifon came to him, and acknowledged, that, as a loyal fubjea, he was wrong in dirmilling hit Servant for attending on his encreife as a volunteer, he fbonld have no objellion to apologist, and countermand the letter. Mr. hi. , however, did no Inch thing, end lie never heard any more of him or the letter till it was, mentioned in 'that Houle. Surely, then. it was no vanity or pre fumption initim to expel Such a conceflion from Mr. M. hclore he revoked the opinion chicle he enter tained, on the reprefentation of the Shelia' of the • counts in which Mr. M. retitled. To enable ; he Houle to judge of his motives, ;se mutt Rate to them what was the fituation of Scotland at the time when the letter was written. Ot all the regular army, only two battalions and one regiment if dragoons west left 1 , 4 the defence .4 - Scotland, and even colt of thefe it was intended to fcr.d a reinforcement into tke ' county of Northumbei land. The defence of &attai' . tl.en WoLachictly entrulied t., thirteen battalions oftheir own Msiitia, the givatcr part of which were neh her clothed nor armed. Tit , : C-rontander in Chief, (the Earl of Moira) who, in th; piitiZto it di:charge cfhts &idiom, &Piss, had colciliat , :d the kft.ftion and ex cited the contidcii,:e nt the people in filch a manner, that what was before ;a drcAil, was lion COP% etzed into a fort of with for invatinr, had, in c•mcert with him, conlidered, that if the cncrr.‘, mho, :leen:ding to a letter from the Secretary , f State, was cm petted to land daily, Mould gain priffrffwn .4 . the capiiiii, the moll fatal clef!. might cnliii. ionised ti. cor,centrate the minaret force 1,,r site lee..•;ts of Eclinbu t g li.-- The Noble and g Al.. nt I -.••:.1 was ;le - , fo much in . cited:lain)* of an imnie.haie iasa:inn, riat ir.: . e.m! r,l ' Sleeping, as ;dual, at Daik.iiii, tie I,:at , f the (Pike of hacciengh, he dl.rrir im:d to fir-p in Edit.tioagh. , and tequefled him ti., (!-- ',!::: iamc, v. hick, of chink. ' Lt readily complied with. he the r. ,, l•ettll AIWA of • the scoops near Edisiburxh, !Liar, Moray, and the notthets puts of Scotland acre lett nattier:oiled, es.- I eepV by the Volunteers. Under fnelPcircumflar.c:... as the lead impediment to volunteering might e. • danger materially the defence of thole parts again. the enemy. he. did not think himfelf bound to met,- . Are hi, official ditty by the rigid rules of law. Th e ,Commander in Chief had fo much reafon to espea an immediate attack, that he really thought the ene my might have landed in that part of th e c ountr y I before his letter refpe&ing Morifon mouthed the coun ty of golf. . In thus gong beyond the law, for the .I)ot:the fafety, he looked with confidence to an in demnity from the tandem' ivitwitdunt of that Houle; , fee his dike was both dangerous and refpotrfible. It :was Doter tits faine.dry. formal,and prattle nature as that allhe Attnntey General in this cation y, as all She (Intim which formerly belonged Ittk: the Officers d &ate in Scotland derided", litres the Union, ;open the Kiag's Advocate. The JoiligestaMagiiirsitet, lerewim indite, and Authorities. of bill defcriptions„ booked to the perfot holding the Iltoottfm "of King's • .445004t0 for *dem and diteelios. Every one knew. the esalteelehmaaer.of the Earl of Moira, and wete , • he a man .4 an oppmerre, Leith, or ereeldifporttion, he left the Houk to ledge, whether be could hate had the confidence sod co operation of that Main guillted Nobleman, who had bees a witners to his* • condlia dewing the, eight. wroth* that he commanded tin that coning? He begged of them to confider, that the cap:tal of.Scotlartd, being Aloe miles from the feat of Government, made it imp?filbte for hint to aptly here for inaruaions I every thing of aonlequence was 'of neeeffity referred to him, - 1.4. a„ kr osorotts was his office, from the time that the danger of our ateack•wasreprefeated to be fo imminent; that when .the affair of Mnrifon happened, he had not written left than 800 letters. He then Rated a,variety of ez. Ft'riss at- which his peedecatirs as well as bimfelf, exceededthe Aria letter et the lies t and initead J o being called to an aCCO;101 for their conduct. had •nreeirect the cOmmendation of their fuperiors, If the llitouk thought proper t 6 fake upon itfolf the Mduoue eludes of the King's Advocate of Scotland. he Ikoeld. feel much obliged to it. The Sheriff Sobeitate gave . him good restive* to think that Kraig , * was a difaf lofted mon. There has/ been in his neighbourhood .a fociety of A dessert:as a name, that- the. Sheriff was obliged to venue* them to &rout him wish the honours of the fitting, upon. width they difolvof thenifelem, and &Sleek wens .00 with the inter fyf tern in - Committees, and kept ,up a regular mmdence with Franc*. One part of thew pir r ar i t Meirerioad their fervent* with fo mush. wee* that they thould be unable to attend to their military osereire in the Volunteers. It was- then a matter of Rate oneflity that all &citifies liquid. be gives to (errant. who were Volenteers. to oaks them , (elves foldiera in as omit a degree as wit attainable. Now haring Rated - 4W* eileanstinnees, who that. confiderect theeendnet of Mr. Morifon, towards hit irritant, could liefitate to decide again* whom the charge of iojuttice and oppreffien moil properly applied t In Eat, if Mr. Morifon had been retained its theme of the fiirß Coatul, be mold sot hare wiled to a manner more immediately in tusifon with the objeito andpurpofes of thr enenty.-Sneh, in fait, , , would be the coudua which the Firff Centel would psecitely toped and demand at bi..lituade t for what could be more to the purpok of the assumes enemy, than for him to deprefs and• discourage, as much as, in him lay, the. voluntesring tpirit.. and thereby dif coo: age the increate of that branch of the public 'fue cc, upon which, ender (Wail* eitealinaiances, the detente ut the counts/ aimealolely relied! But it was not merely uponthi. Cita4UltitaiNtik: that the or- . der in quedion bad been iffued, but' *pmt -ether Or., cumitances joined with' it, and 'Which, wheelie thank; erglain„ the Houle would judge hew . Kee' he, was w monied to ham iheratinor fuelt. fufpl clans as, under , the aedisons refponfibility of his fituation. aught him not to confine' his diferetion within the told forms of ordinary legal proceed ing. He had been confidentially informed by the Sheriff Sobtlitute, what/ official .-disty it was to communicate to him the Rate - of the Polite, anti Alta condo& of the inhabitants • within his diftria, itliat earl! in. the French Revolution a Society was 'funned. and held their meetings within two miles :of Islotifon's !route. It affumed the appellation of * the Friends of Univerfal Liberty, and held ailual •ccurcfpondence with the Revolutionary Convendos and Jacobin Clubs of France, by whoen"t they were. enjoined to perfevere moil' they Amid obtain the , univerfal liberty of mankind. He did not With on' this occafion to allude to any man by.name.bat there was a perfoa who took the lead in this Grady.. whoa fituation and eiremnfiances mutt have given'him w very tirong influence over Me. , Btotifon. But the proceedings of' this facies y became fo flagitious, their cabals and refolothom were fa fraught with (editions, doarines, as to roduee, the Sheriff, as a magifirate ; to infill opon.the honotris of a fitting at their future meetings. ,Thefirroeo, thee dikoocerted, held after wards private- meetings. in-finaller numbers, aid Rill continuato 'perkvere in their Colt purpoks ; and it was.reantWable, that the wren who conspired-this fer-iity, .ever fence the commencement of the prefect . way; had done every thing within their power and • inflame: ti impede, to discourage, and to prevent `the progreft of volunteering. Raveling, therefore, on thole eircumflancea; knowing that the &Nation of the country depended. at the moment, on the Von . lunteers, and feeing the condo& of Mr. Morifon in perfeet unifon with the condira of this fociety, at a moment, trio, when the country was in a Rafe of mi strial alarm, another Nohle Lord, who bell there the chi:f command, mealuring by half bears the expeaution of the enentri approach; - .what, he would ailtinitill be the fituation of his mind with re fpeel to Mr. Morifon, a man acting as if it were under the potitive initeueliisee of the enemy I It • rev the ezercife of difcretine f order filch heavy refponlibili. ty, could warrant the Itt;ftell vigilance, and molt de. tided difcmintenance (wards the condua of fuch • r7 , an i p at filch a crifis, it 4' AI in fuck a cak. Hayloft thus detailed to the Houle the 414144 and er• preffive conaluel of Mr. Morifon, whale (errant* for no other caufe than atmmg for the deform of his count, yr, and the reprefentetioe of hie conclaft, and its effeas opt' the volunteering fylient. made to him officially by the Woe' id oi the county of Bear whole duty it eavin revort to tin the date. of the police and the condtta u t the people within Oh dif• ta eft ; he would now pra:ced to fay a few words wit! retped to the letter which the lips. Gentleman had made the ground of In avert a charge aguinit 1,.. official evoilea. 'lime nes one oirmunaance, wit I