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Was Cure. make that imprelEon, at the time, nn Mr.' Ticruey's mind aq has been fince reprefented. He confidered that advice, of which fo much had been Gid. ail a legacy only, left by Mr. Trotter to Mr. Tierney, as his friend. The public bad heard much alto, of a fine palace. bat that palace. he was,war ranted k laying, bad not cofl hiceTrotur Rood. nor was that Gentleman fo rich as had been Rated ' • his incotne. and he would pledge his word for the file, was not more than ttool..The ends of public Of fice, the Hon. Baronet thought, were already (nfl ciently anfwered, and he objetled, therefore. to any farther meafures. Mr. TIERNEY contended, in reply to 'the laR fpeaker, that the drafts made at the Bank might be conformable to the Aa of Parliament, and yet a violation of that Alt, becaufe, though made con formably to the Aa. they might be drawn for Cer vices that had no eziltence. He illuftrated very forcibly the impropriety, and in Tome cafes the dag ger of a balance in the hands of the Paymaller or his private Banker. The advice Mr. Trotter gave him on entering into office, related to the nuffengers ens played in conveying money, and confined an a new plan of managing the drafts, fo as to prevent acci dents fruits the meffengers lofing, embezzling. or ab- 1 fconding with the money, The ATTORNEY GENERAL Paid, that he had 1 1 been backward in delivering his opinion, until he had' now been called upon individually to Rate his opinion upon the cafe; or. otherwife. as his Right Honour. able Friend (Mr. Tierney) had expreffed himfelf, no doubt with the pureft motive, it had been silted how far the Law-officers of the Crown would undertake in the proceedmg fubmitted to the Houfe? His rya fon for having thus been backward in giving his opi nion to the Houle, was, that it bad been always held as priaper, that the Crows Lawyers fhould re frain frost delivering any opinion of their own, when a motion for them to profecute was before the likaufe,, unlefs they law that any particular mode was likely , to be adopted, which would not be afterwards tena ble in a Court of Jullice. Now that he had been called upon, however, he had no hefitation in fay ing, that any perfon who fhould be Called upon to render an account in a Court of Law, might enter their demurrer. And. if it Mould be proved in a Court of Equity, that Mr. Trotter had derived a. pro ht from the ore of public money, and that a partici pation of fuck profits could not be 'traced to Lord Melr the public would not be able to recover from him at Equity. He was clearly of opinion, however, that a proceeding in *Court of Law, would be much Inert likely to be advantageous to the pub lic, than any proceeding which a' Committee of that Houle could pollibly adopt. Mr. TIERNEY, in explanation, (aid that he edit to be dißinaly Rated whether, if Mr. Trotter. Gould Rate what way the amount o f profit which bad been gained by the ufe of the public money, it would be confillent with the forms of law in that cafe, to afk, whether Lord Melville had participated to any, and to what amount, in fuel profits • The ATTORNEY GENERAL Rated, that be believed that, if it fhould be laid that the public mo ney which had been Co improper!y applied had been folly reftored to the public ufe, it would not be in their power to prefs the queftion farther. Mr. ALEXANDER obferved, that he had always had the Lrreateft deference for public opinion. but he hoped that the day would never come when the Houfe of Commons would, coptrary to their own food fence, be induced to adopt a particular line of conduit in confequence of any public clamour which might then be ratfed. He had attended minutely to the different arguments which had been ufed on both tides, and upon a ferious confideration of the whole, it appeared to him that the mode of proceeding by l'w was the molt temperate and difpaffioned that t iuld be adopted in the prefent inflance. Mr. SHERIDAN adverted to.the tardy opinion which he Paid the Attorney General had given ; the Solicitor General and an HonourableJudge oppofire had as yet remained filent. But he recollected that the principal Members .f the South Sea Company had been aril examined before a Committee of that Houk, that profecutions were afterwards common-, cod, and that Come Members had been expelled that Houk in confequence of the part which they had taken in that tranfailicm. There was an additional tallied to be gained by an examination before a Com mittee of that Honk, that they could order the ac counts of Meer.. Coots and Co. or Meffrs. Drum. moods to be produced, and they would not dare to tefufe them. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER explained. Mr. FULLER reminded the Houle, that an Hon. Member under the Gallery (Sir J. C. Hippifley, he refined to allude to), bad raid that be could prove that the moil magniicent edifices, and the moll Cu perb palaces, had been railed out of tsool. a year. In fuch a cafe he timid be afhamed to belong to any party, but he thought it his dotty to recommend fur ther inquiry into Inch a bufinefs. A great deal had been Paid about the propriety of perfons anfwering to queltions which might tend to criminate themfelves. He knew, without pole:fins at the fame time any knowledge of the regular forms of law, that it had been the uniform pratice of every villain a , the Old Bailey, for theta too years pail s to fay. 44 0, Lord, I mull not anfwer that queßion, becaufe it may lead to convia myfelf !" But in Honourable Society, what would be laid to a Gentleman who would an wer in this manner ? On the other hand, if a perfon in office did honeßly confefs that he had mi(ap. plied the public money, but would prove that he had ,iist done fo to enrich himfelf, the generofity of that Haute, and of Englifhmen in general was fuch. that he might be certain of being tree from any further profecutinn. Mr. FOX obferved, that the apprehenfions of a Committee being appointed for the purpofe of in quiring into Lord Melville's condne fat heavy on the minds of all Lord Melvilles friends. The'Attomei General had even gone fo far as to fay, in of e, that nothing could be gained by a proceeding at law. if ht underflood him right,and yet he bad recommended to the Houk to adopt that mode of proceeding. He had Paid that, if the guilty participation was not traced home to Lord Melville. we could not recover from him; but, in a civil maim+, df what confeqoence was that, fo as he was able to remover the furs Rated for his client ? It might be proper in a legal fenfe to (Ay that a man had a right to refafir giving an anfwer as lite R eprciestatives of the pea • • • • • - • • pie whom they ferred undoubtedly were ; but it was alto right that they Would do their duty, and take care that (itch perform thould never at any future pe riod have an opportunity of injuring their Conftituents. Mr. CANNING Paid, that if one mode was adopt ed, there muff be a pledge that the other thould be abandoned. If it was laid that great turns of money had been loft by the public, the molt certain means of recovering thole rums, was by a legal procefs. He fuppofed the Hon. Gentleman had only changed his mode with the hopes °Coining a few (ray votes. The SOLICITOR GENERAL was of opinion, that aU the evidence which was defirc4 to be brought forward, could be as well enforced in it court of law as in a Committee of the Houle. Mr. FON BLANQUE Rated, that whatever might be the pradice in the particular Court to which the Honourable and Learned Gentleman alluded, it was not fo in that which he pradifed in. • I Mr. WHITBREAD relied on the contradielione which had been given to the opinion of the Crown Lawyers, by ftsch refpedable perfons in their pro feifions, as his Honourable Friends (Mr. Serjeant Beft, Mr. Ponfonby, and Mr. Fonblanque.) If he Mould get any ftray votes, it would be, perhaps, that .of the Right Honourable Gentleman liimfelf (Mr. Canning), which it was not anal for him to have. • The Houfe then divided—For the Amendment arkw-For Mr. Whitbread's motion t ti—Maj /wit y 78. Mr. WHITBREAD then Paid that he held in his hand a lift.of Members whom he meant to propofe to the ennfidetation of the Honfe, as fit perfons to compare acC,ommittee to whom the fnbjed Arnold be referred. It leis of the otmort importance that this Committee Wald confift of perfons whole chandler for talents, independence and integrity. &mild give confidence to the country, and he was Cure that no objedion would be made to any one of the names that be held in his hand. They were Melted. without confiderat ion to party, frortrboth fides of the Mae. He read over themait, as follows : Mr Baker Lord Ards bold Hamilton Mr. Banks Mr. Madetka Mr. Blackburn Lord Mariano. Mr. N. Calvert Han. T. Walks Hon. Spencer Cowper Sir Jahn Wrt Raley Mn fir Rabat Pole Han. e lr e itairepoint Lord Henry Petty I Hon. John Pane Mr. Sheridan Sir Jahn Newport Mr. Whkbread Lord Poiktione Lord Robert Spencer F. Gregor, Efq and concluded with moving the firft name, William Baker, Efq. Member for the County of Hertford. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER objeaed to this mode of naming the Committee. and moved as an Amendment, that the Committee (hould be ebofen by ballot. Mr. FOX exprefed his aftonifliment, that on a cubjeft of fuch moment the Right Hon. Gentleman &mild retort to this mode.. Nothing but the moll perfed . publicity could fatisfy the ends of juftice. or convince the public that they were in earneft. That it was perfeely underlined that a fele& Committee of aI, if cbofen by ballot; was a Committee of per lons who. fumehow or another, [poke tbefentiments of the hliniiter, and if this were chorea in that way, jealoufy and diftru& would be the eonfequence.— That this was a Committee to try the Minifters them. felvea—and that it was a monftrous thing that it thould be nominated in a way that would counte nance the fuppofition of influence. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER sainted, that the mode of ballot was the &neje* ufage of Parliament in fuch cafes.. That to the pro ceedings. of Committees ehofen by ballot, the coon trrowed the highell obligations—and he trolled his friend) 'would not be diverted from following the an. cient pradice of the Houfe in the belt times by any infinuations of finiller motive,. Mr. GREY replied -to Mr. Pitt, and the Houfe divided. no the motion for a ballot. AYks sit—Noes I:o.—Majority 13t. The Hoare will ballot for the Committee this day. Adjourned at half pat} one o'clock. LONDON. FRIDAY. APRIL 26 ; FMCS OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE OVLOCRI Confab, for Mosets 371' 40 r May 3 8 1 - ' 42o malans Si. The AGa, a spanifb flop from Linuovidt *vain: able cargo, and 280h000 dollars on board, has beta captured by the Merfey privateer of Prerrxd, and fent into Falmouth. A letter from an Officer in the fqoadron off Offend Rates. that all the enemy's armed seals have left that port and gone to the afeftward. Yederday, after our Paper was at peers, difpatches were received at the Admiralty from Sirlosie Ouse, brought to Plymouth, by the F sus lugger, Lieu tenant Boca's, containing advice chat. the Toulon fqnadron, confiding of eleven fail of the line, two fri gates (tome fay (even frigates) and am iloop, with to,ooo troops on board, had eluded the vigilance of our blockading Nett, and paged the Gut of Gibraltar on the gth ind. Its &dilation is fuppofed to be for the Ead Lord 14st.sos,it is (aid, had obtained intelligence of the event, and detached a pan of his fqtutdron in per fnit of the snooty. It is probetble, however, if he has been inforried of the movements tithe French Ileet, that be would follow, Rot with a part, but with whole of his tquadrou. Information has likewife beta received of the for. ward flare of the enemy's preparations in Cadiz. The Spanifk fleet confifts of nine fail of the line, and three or four frigates. Great exertions are alfo making to complete the French 74 which has fo lone • been in that hirbour. We have teeeived Dutch Papers to a late date...- One of 'that% mentions the (ailing of the Toulci Fleet, with to,ooo troops on board, conjeaured to be dellined for* Ea* Indies."—The loth of March is Wed as 14 day altartgab Ws gest faded. . -:-~ ..: - . We have received Parisjonenais to die 17th Ina. The French official journal, the Meeireer. makes the following remarks by way of notes, to the es trafts of intelligence trandated from the Eaglifh Newf. papers : The Englifh conceal hail the truth—the fail is, that Hoaaaa's army malts of more than too,ooo men, without reckoning a body of referee, compofed of Europeans, enemies to the Englifh in India, to whom General Dicta. has added two companies of light artillery, and feveral Officers of the Staff and Engineers." 44 If it be true that the Englifh troops at Dominica are only soo men, and that there are only seq.= Europeans in India, qOOO at Candia, ecooat Jamaica, and sotto at &Arians and Demerara, it mat be con feted that the Easliakem very wrong to keep on the rock of Malta sooossen, wholeiest be mach better employed in the idand 6f Ceylun. Or . 44 If the Bret fqnadron had willed to go' out, the fqoadron of Sir COMMIS COTTON could not have prevented it, fine it confined only of fizteen Admiral GONTNIMUNIN was defirous, no doubt, to exercife the crews and oblige the Englifh, as be has, already done fever") times Taft winter, to expo& thensfelees to the equine:dial gales." On an article from London, dating, that the Englifh Government means to take poieffion of Alexandria, and with the affifiance of the Ruffians, to fecure Egypt againil an attack from the French, a Note 4s to the following cleft : vi;. " The Eng. have troops at Malta : if they have tome at Mi norca and at Alexandria, what harm does it do to us ? they have none in Ireland, at Dominica, at Jamaica n in Ceylon, and in the Eafi Indies." , The Moslem, of the 16th announces the capture of an Engl,fh fhip, called the pope, by the - French pet vateer le Glanneur, Captain Coax y de fasas.ki the prise was fent to Offend. - '• • Ad snick from Augsburg, dated. April 7 6 lates t that letters had been received there froth Vienna, announcing tie capyre of Belgrade by the infurgents of Servia, A Gottenburgh snivel! 41Is 'owning. Our letters from Stockholm by this conveyance; of the date of t4th intl. Rate that a cal", to confill of $OOO men, has been ordered to be formed in Schwan, and that preparations' are already making for it. Difpatches were received this morning from St.Pe• ter {burgh, brought by the King's Mellinger, Mr. Das- UT, in the fame packet that brought the above moil their contents halve not !ranfpirid, . By a letter jaG received from ()twee, dated the 28th February, we learn, that the illand is in a very healthy fate. Major LLOYD, and the Royal African corps, are very healthy; the only officer whom they loft was the Affiflant Surgeon. The Lau (loop of war has been very unhealthy on that Ration; left feafon the Soli five officers, and a number of men. y heard of the war in January, but not officially —they &iced* rich Spoil!' argil in the river Gam bia, on tl4 faith of the report of var. Yelltrday, in thelioufe of Commons, Mr. Prry gave notice of his intention, on Monday. to move for the appointment of a &lea Committee to inquire in to the Expenditure of the Army. Alto, for leave to bring in a Bill to continue the Powers of the Commit fioners of Naval Inquiry. Mr. WurraasAus likewife announced his intention of making a Motion on his Maims-es anfwer, no receiving the Refolutions of the Bth of April. It will be of s e fimilar tendeqcy with that which he withdrew on the toth: A debate not very animated or entertaining, but certainly very important, took place on the further proceedings that are to be adopted in regard to Lord Mt LTII.IB and Mr. TROTT ea. The Oppofition wifleed that the wholeefthe Tenth Report Ihould be referred to a Sella Committee, giving up fur the prefent the idea of liral proceedings for an account as inadequate to the end ; but referring to themfelies the right to mime them, Ihould the refult of a Committee juftify that courfe. The Minificrial fide Were defiroas to take from the Committee, in the firft inflance, the cog. nuance of Lord MILYII.I.I and Mr. TIOTTIII, as debtors to the public, preferring the proceeding in equity, at the infiance of the Attorney General, again& them ; at the , fame time they. contended, that if neccflary, the powers of the Committee might be enlarged. "On the Motion of Mr. WM ITSIt lAD, for a large Committee, and Mr. Purr's Amendment, which went to define the powers tsf the Committee— s divifion took place, in which the numbers were i r — For the Amendment ass) For Mr. WIIIIIIIIIIID'S MOllOll 151 Majority 78 Sir CHARLES MIDDMON, who is to be created Baron Batas's, will, it is Paid, occupy the chief feat at the Admiralty Board, only during the few weeks that Vifcount ROYSTOV. srandion of the Earl of KULDWICILI N wants of one and twenty. Whets that period is accompliiked. Mr. Yolks' will vacate his feat for Cambridgefkite, for which 1..0rd Rovrron will be a candidate. Mr. You. will then take the Admiralty, and his feat in the Houk of Peers, with the title of Lord Doyle. American papen to the ith alt. have been receiv ed. there we lien that Judge Cm's' was on the ill acquitted on all the charges brought againit Aim. This event appears to have greatly enraged the party who had wolfed hint. and much warm liiicufrum terwards took pisFe is Cottrell, ••, .6: • . . MARK-LANL CORN 12CNAllert APRIL 26. This day our arrival; of Wheat are large, with many arrivals of Foreign. So few Bers caufes • further reduaion of los. per quarter face Monday. Peas and Beans of both forts keep about our.lati price. There being no demand for Oats for public fervice, they are rather on the decline at the clofe of lalt market day they were at Ids than our currency. Bar ley in great plenty. and Rill almofk without Pale.-- Malt at Ids. Fine Flour is not very plentiful, main tains its price; other forts lower, and this article con feqnently is exported to be cheaper. GENERAL CURRENCY AS UNDER Wheats 41e. boa. 08$. per qr. Orel Pak. 37 4 . 10 41 1 . Pine Dkto, Su. ass. ad. Rime, pa. 4 6... RI; 481;54 1 . Tick Diu% 364.415. inky, 3ss. 374. od. Oats, so. sp. s7s. MA. 654 . ,Ns- Mond ditto. 44. spe. Wilke Mlle, 41$. 475. Rspe Sea, 00/. to 001. peolaft. PRICE OF FLOUR. rim Flfter 7.5.. Coit;./i;teadiiosw a Iss. per flick. NAVTICA. INTELLIGENCE. FALMOUTH, APRit. a3.—Sailed the Auckland packet, Poem's, (acing) with mails for Lilbon, and theLeicefler packet, HARVEY (Rai%) with mails for the Windward lflands. Arrived Ins Majeftz's pn brigs Fervent and Dextereus, to give inftruarons to viffels here hound to Lilbon, Oporto, and the hie diterraneen. llis kajelly's (hips gy . a so, of 0 guns, Admiral KaidliTs Capt. Palladia ; DRACOII. of 74 Capt. Gain-rim, and a (loop of war, with about 7• fail of trartfports &c. pu ff ed this port this afternoon, to the We ft ward. Arrived alfo the _4panith (hip Afla from Lima, with aBo,ooo dollars, and a very valu. able cargo of fundries, ize to the Matey Letter of Marque, of Liverpool, Janvrin and Alarm privateers of Guernfey, captured in let. 34. long. 36. The (hip Weftmorland, which we mentioned left week at having been taken by a French privateer, is not the. privateer of that name commanded by Capt. Coda. ALL, 'but a Letter of Marque, called the Weffm or_ land, Capt. Rein, which failed from Liverpool on -iftse tat of March, and wee takes on the soth by (;Tench brig, of 46 guns;after an anion in which,Cae!., tale Maser Was ditzaily wounded, on which 'the mate immediately (truck the colours. Four men of the.. late crew of theWeftmorland arrived here yefterday in the Carteret packet, put on hoard her by an Atne rican hoye, about a week ago l Preparations are Mil going on for making this port a liatioufor his Majefty (hips of War. The T or ifice" hoye, arrived lea week from Plymouth, with throe tranfport bout's and chains, to he laid down io our Roads.—Wind S.E. ' Pr.ruourn. Aral!. 14.—Came in the Velocie, of Finme,"fiom Palermo, bound to London, with &n -oose ; Lsrcra, Capt. Rowe, from Lifbon ; Laurentio Maria, from. Frederickftadt, for this Port. PORVERIOUTp, Ars;i as.—The &gonna man of war, and the, Garr mourn frigate, with (he fleet under convoy for the Eaft (ailed through the Needles this morning. The Duchefs of Gordon Eaft Indianian rentaiss here. Wind S. E. Dias, Arius 23. —Arrived in th e Downs the Lotus? gun-brig. Mod - the Ss ecucaroa logger, with !even of the enemy% flotilla, captured off Cape Grit; nez, on their pagige - from Dunkirk for. Boulogne, by the Lana frigate, and Haar? floc/ of war, its company with feveral other cruisers: have not heard of any being killed or wounded on our fide. Thep are fchoyts, each mounting 'three large guns, and are fent into Ramfgate barbells-. Wind S. E. YARJEOUTN, Mats as.—Thie morning failed on cruise, off the Teed, the following (hips of war, under Rear Admiral Russets, Yip. ST. Atilass, this Achiteralts flag (hip,; Aerssore, larsairay, Ana. man?, Instacrottoad SOORTION ( loops; and Vasil gun brig ; the Dutch fleet haring, it is laid. made fonse mooting:lt. Sailed foe Leith the AutapLa gate. Artived from &cruise the rentsors frigate ; Coastline:r (loop, and A t om gun brig. The Sips remaining hero. twc the Moomourn, of 64 guns Ptall.ol.l frigate ; Coa 610111:1611T, and Muscat err° Amps of wur • As w and 6N at* pa brigs ; acid Al gae lugger. Wind E. S. E. Yellerday a fpeciat Court of COlllllllO2 Council was held, in which it was moved maddrefe his btainve tfpos the fubjea of the nsalrerfations of the Vifcoont Met.vist.e. Sane very fpirited Refolutions were nwv ed and carried, with the objeainn of only four mem. hers, two Aldermen and two Consume C.ounciUen: In the borough a Meeting of the Elfaors was'elfo held yelierday, upon the fame molt important fub jett, when various Refolutions were unanimougy agreed to, collaring the abufes and dplinquencies brought to light by the Gommiffioners of Naval En. qniry, and calling upon the Hoofs of Commons to detedt and punith the guilty. The thanks of the Borough were unaninsoufly voted to the Earl of Sr. Ville INT. There never was an innance, until the prefent time, of any Lottery. confining of only thirty thoufand Tickets, that contained fo large a Prize as 30,0001. In•the prefent Lottery there are two of that amount, betides two of zo,osol. three of to,oool. and more than the ufual proportion of (mallet Capitals. It is alto an encourageshent to Adventurers, that almoll all the great Prizes in the two laf Lotteries were fold is Shares—at Swirv's Office alone more than fif; r perfons received Shares of the highea Prizes. " Let thofe laugh who win," rays the old Prove/h. Stern moralias may rail, therefore, as much as they pkafe spina Lotteries ; but all their railing camiot invalidate the afiertion, that many individuals 'Ati' nually rife, by this means, to opulence arid indepen dence, who had no other profpea in life of fo fodder. an elevation to the pre-eminence - of wealth, not one, in (bon, of this cynical tribe, but would feriouny re• joke to polies even but a (hare of the firti drawn number. in the now fuperlative-rich fcheme, that pre fent4 no lefs a Prize than so,oool. suhio employers, DltD. On the 53th Init. at Paris, the fon of Lord Elgin, late his Ma. Jelly's Amboliador at Conftantinoplc. Lately at the Wand of Grenada. Andrew Davidfon, Efq. furgcon. Lately at Prmerara, spiverfally rert4ted; Colin 'Allau, E(q. M. D. His talents and ddaa66eeadl knowledge obtained him general rtrpeß, and his facial and amiable turn procured blrn uttiverf,tl skatm and repast Dr. Aliso bad been for flame years a Surgeon In the Artilkry. bakes be fettled In burin& as a Pbykcian in the Jihad of Demerara. LONDON: Netted and Pablibed by LEVEL KI.N I' Cot ‘4R= telhanr whea Lsobetli), at the STAR °TRIM 140. 11.CA:11' *am alio at the STiR Qi etc 1, Wavle-Ser.