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II Llm---b.-1 " .. '"" . """!/"."'"t"T"' man wayikrth notke, Who would not take advice The SPEAKER laid, it .vas the courfe to au te r a even for his milt relief. The hurry of theptefs wail the Houfe a fecund time on the lane queßibn; in . gisieb to eicufe for the original paragraph ; but, it order to move an imenciment. (Muhl be' retodelled that the circumttance opal Mr. GREY confideleti the Petition a ferious ag: *Hide that writer hid thotight fit to comment, toole gravatino of the libel. He had hitherto forborne WI plait:heibre`theneell, and it was not right to 011ie fay any thing revere, hot it %add be improper, it an] thing which was untrue at an extenuation. winsidbeinipoCkbl e to abttain from fome feeling or Mr. WILBERFORCE was a friend to the hie indignation at the condo& of . this Petitioner. He dote of the prefs, in all public afairs:-- , bot; dicker eertaiiily did feel lime mottillcation when an Hon. .be did not at firer think of following up the bifidefs- Friendd of his (Mr. Meriden) hoe f'atfed a Isitaltir.i any feather than the vote of thet night, the tone and lion lie (Mr. Grey) thought fit' to. futimit to the' Ryle of the petition had induced him to alter his opi- Roble as a grout libel. merely a milk and water he mon. Was it refpeilful to the Houle to declare his filers : nothing could have induced him tobring the' adherence rosin' part, and confequently, his oprfo trlatiOr. forward; hitt his regard for the dignity rift fition to die other? Was' it feemly that any.peti.• that Houle ; and under this fentiment he thought: : libeler (houldintrodnce any fubjeet which likely , that, inßead of acceding' to the rhOtiott, tht:Ekta to create difeudion at the time that he was fuppli. ought to fend the delinquent out of the cultbdy of :citing them-for forgivenefs Would' it be right in the Serjeant at Arms, to Newgste ; yet he °tool& laity man,. who waehronght before a Bench of tuf. content hinifelf with yivirtghit negative-. a ces, for the purpore of exprefling contrition With Mr. CANNING c o nld' Wy no mean s underflandi lair hope of 'being'dithharged; would' it te right in the Petition in the way in which it hadbeen &initials 'fuck a perfon to introduce a fubjelt that would be ed by the Hon. Gentlemen on' the other fide of the. ! likely to create dilfenGon among them ?He though t Houfe. The fate was, that:in the difpofition . whiter 'the apology &mild have been to the whole Motile ; had been treanifelled, there were no expreffiens. 'without making any dillinetion as to its parts. Which could be employed that world nor incur eets ; The SO LICITOR GENER 4.l..entirelyeoncuived fure. Had the Petitioner kited his high refpeft. ',with the HMI: Gentleman and the Noble Lord• who fn- the Speaker of the Hook of CoMmoni. it %void& jhad jilll fpoken, that' it Was hie). unbecoming in have been Paid, he dittingtinid bet: Wren that Right any perfon, in the 6:rum/lances of the-Petkioner, to Hon. Gentleman's puhlitaind private charaeler and !endeavoor to flicker himfelf tinder the inthroity of defigned to -convey an unlasinutuble inipreffign of .any party, when it was his duty to apologile f* a the latter. But the FlntilV was BOW to look to the ;breach of pi ivilege committed a Mt the dignity of r pregi•with rignar , a new delta waif eottimtneed, and the Houk ; but he could not 1 'eV that there was licence *as to be reflralned. IF it were fo he beg- any fuch attempt on the part o dOe Petitioner. On ged it might he underftood to Whielt Me oftlieHouli examining the Petition ittelf,notvnththanding &that this leverity Vl . elS•tfl be ateribtietif, that when new oc- had been laid, he did not apprehend it aratcapable of cations arofe in exert the aothoritY of Parliament •fucti condrudion. The Petitioner had eipreffed in RI repieft there irregniaritie, wt Might not have . eiditive termi his forrow as well as regret, for hating lolly deelethatiola oh that litietty Which Gentlemen incurred their Mph-afore. AR who had fpoken, in feemedinitittcli difpofed to Milli Theiutiglitent of deed, on the quettion, had admitted that the former the peit , ianer might be ittiorreee, be might even be .part of the Petition, fo far as an 'arrolcigy *as dreg& vain and prefunaptunus, but he Cal nothing in . an ;Cary, wes.perfeetly unexceptionable, and that had it application to the Houfe calculated tO excite thole ; not httiti for the paragraph that followed, they would . irritable feelings which had beesf indulged. ,vnllingly hive agreed to the motion. He was fur. Mr. SHERIDAN felt if eittentely nnialtalant to ll:end/6 hear a Noble Lord farther maintain, that interfere in a debate Of this kind, • but lie could not the Petitioner had nowwilfully tranfgrefed again* 11Iently linen to the ififinunttotts which were thrown the dignity of the Houfe, and from tle fpirit of his nut reepeaing future profeeutioni. Tire Right lion. Petitionfeented to perrevire in that tranfg,telhon. He Gentleman endeavoured to catt the . elfin* of any had peroled the lecithin, and could acoreet no'llgeh. libliquent proceedicgi alp-ft that Gaol the Hoak; *irk. He admitted that it was not she blithe* of es if its emillant prattiec was not tO fliptiort the the Petitioner,, who was praying for rtierey; . 4-teil freedom of the prefi, not to retell this pal/adios* uPthy enheefutikel; but contended that he fillistil of onerights, hut to drafty it. friers Out thset he in the Petition no attack on any pert of the Hoace, did isle the words of which his tfrin. Friendhadenm: nor law any reflieftioa thrown on auy of its stets. The plained ; but they were not applied citliciwife thin coedit& of the Petitioner was not culpablitotiongh be as comparatively, and, there/ore, with nianyAraine might have raid mote perhaps than was , prudent or of allowance they ought to be hneteeftood. e nit- need/fag. He had Mated his former condnet and be. fatally feh inclined to every lenient' Mealure an ftieb haviniir relative to that Houle, and reprefented him a fubjeet, and it would be reooilcaed, in his anzieiy felfaelupporring osidl oecifions its honour and dig to enlarge the means for the circulation of knowledge lay. To attache any importance to his exertions 'of he had °pried the duties so wilidh - cheap public* thit End Might be regatalid is fooling, hut could bons were rendered.llo4; indtheregneetines, with never be confidered as an aggravation of his offence. regard to printers, by wbiai Cho. uOri expoed to In what re ( pa6ed Lord Melville , the Petitioner had pew Cituation's of rcfponrshility. He had, too, oppo advanced balking that could 'be conitrued into an fed that infientous lavn--that• expretion dictated by approbation of what the Houfe had condemned ; and hi s &a ils , he m att r ei r apt.._.rh a y t a w, by whi c h a nothing ; tfserefore, which be could confider as repre libellci opt a fieoad coniti4ton is liable to be tract: lienfible. On the whole, ' he was of opinion, that the ported to Botany Bay. \Val; Come falls regarding fentiments expreffed by the Petitioner, though not the preterit Petition, he happened to' be made ae. neeetrary to the Petition, were rather calculated to epiainted. Pt was propped CIS WA to prefeat k, and Opefate io his' favour thefi lit any aggravation of his When it was /Kenn him lei thge oiiiPoll, be die* a offence. He therernee'rupported the original motion. tine down the prolix feniiel of paper which bad , Sir H. mrttirw„in infwer to an Honourable occafioned In much animiktverlion. This alteration Gentleman °orifice (Mr. Sheridan) Who had taid ' it •feetned, was not acceptable, and the whole was that the objeettonable paragraphs had been perfißed *tUrnej. He, however, eoriunended the Petitioner, in, notwithtianditig his remonftrairices to the contra• ntat when be perked in that form of bit Petition, ry, Rated that the paragraphs were not the fame as he had the decency, at lead, not to defire him (Mr. they had originally been, but had undergone confi- Sheridan) to prefent it : be however, found for his &rabic alteration finee that Honourable Gentleman 1 purpofe the worthy Baronet, and to him the butioefs had feentheM. was cotdigned. He (Mr. Sheridan) difagproved par- Mr. SHERlDAN,admittei that the par.:Tr:lphi in titularly of that part of the petition which gave the quellion ntighthaie undergone Come verbal alters credit t i Government, exclufively, for the formation, but did not filppole the Honorable Baronet tion of thole laws, by which it was laid, the Hanle meant to lay theytheiX here not the Wile in rntiOaatia , ~‘ would have been not now in exillence to ceofure Mr. ATKYNS WRIGHT fps he in favour of the Melville, or tp pardon your Petitioner." Did Paitioncr l he mean that the blinifiry alone framed the laws , Mr. STURGESS iitililiNE alluded to Mr. fbe • that they were not prepared by Parliament ? and ridan's iffettion for the',llberty of the prefs, and re, was the falvation of the country not to be attributed (erred to a cafe which bellsould never forget, that.Of to the colleCtive wi(dom of the Legillature ? Mr. Reeves, in which that Gentleman movie:the Mr. CANNING laid a few words in explanation. punifhment of the author. Mr. DEN!' thought the Hon. Gentleman was Mr. SHER.IDAN 414 that if the Hon. Gentkr, unwilling to acknowledge the merit due to the Exe- man was riever to forget cafe, he hoped he !mild amend his recollationv as Ile was qUite wrong in his cutive Government, by which thole Watery laws were propofed. flatetneht. It was the..tite Member for Bridport, Mr. SHERIDAN laid. the Hon. Gentleman was who brpoghtthat metier before the Houle. He was pet Belly corral, he certainly did not mean to give hinifelf Chnirnsiti . Of the P.onimittce on that occafion. credit to the Executive Government for the prepare- Mr. S. BOT.IttNE admitted that he had not, et tion of falutary laws. that tinie, a feat in the,. e. 2nd had only fpoken The ATTORNEY GENERAL Was mach fur- hittOtieilly.- . - ~• prifed at the change of tone in an Hon. Gentleman Sir R. miumpura •Gili Will receiving the (Mr. Sheridan). What was, a few days ago, milk Petition. .. . . . . L and water, harmlets and innocent, .was converted The quelthas being pat, th e: }ure div i ded ; on into what was offenfive and dangerous . , The Peti- Which the Outithersaippearad,, lif ' t boner very properly apologized, by avowing that he Ayes, t42—Noes , is I.—__ajority, 2 . was not led into the unguarded exprefrions by any The Petiantift was the called in, and addrefted difrefpell to the HosiCe, bat by his attachment to the thus by Mr. SilL'efi t t4l,s . . Noble Lord, whole former (deices to the State he " Peter jiret,,,y, PapeF . ... ar ja r °e thi r i e, f Z ei P u ri O* i W . highly appreciated. tag libellous retake* . Mr dluolatter sod condict, one thil Mr. WHITBK.EA taisfereeel. that if the para- H oa k s an a fa r a kta, tact rat were thereby s aucy ore breach of graph had been written by a gember of the Oppo. Its privikke and ordered you to be taken loco euftody. By your I tLion, relleCting on the other fide of the' Honk he .Petitir .t° lay; you A.PPear te. hive eifotted forrov! for Lear of did not think that fuch a petition as die prelint, rr ram fa tia ltr o r • ie : d r the 1 1 : batf , :jaw Pu t x.;:tv would have been eery likely to hafrf reconciled it to iiiie t tht tbthe 80. t ..,yo e kio r li ns o t t e d rat • I h ave t he re . the feelings of thofe g_entletnea to fay, tit the poi- tereinrearfonte Oa adrOoth yell, as a irirn tio °Oral, tan tioner had made ailithcient apology. The formers this poodle edditid wig refine kas se high antesee to any iiviri .f the writer, however, mightitave induced him to litkliti t ter tb wr in t i r!dw i " thu el Z.. a e' r e e 'hal thde'th.ttr . . th actvife the petition to be worded as it was. He ; A y r . (grew to ' , t w in 7w , t h at you ate now dit c h arge 44* ghought i: would be tao It lenient to the petitioner to idrYollrfeitl." order the petition to be svitb4myeri, and then ano th er Oh the motion of Mr. WHITBREAD, the Addrifi conitrueted fo as to be More in the manner of a, Cup. of the Speaker was ordered to be entered on the pliant, and more refpeafol to the- Houle, might be Journals. prefented indeed of it. THANKS TO THE COMMISSION Or naval. limner. The SPEAREk reminded the Hon. Member of . Mi. sHEItiDAN rofe—u Sir, if there be any what was the ulna' piatttice of the Houle in fuck pErfoni indifpofed to the motion which I am to nafes. The Motion might be withdrawn by the bring forward to-night, the latenefs of the Loot may Member who introdneeatt ; nr, it was competent to kid them to think that I may pane it farehei any other Honourable Member to negative it if he ban. Sir, I Ronald indeed be table to dehttk Thought fit. a moment longer, notnithlta rig the interruption bit HENRY MILDMAY heard nothing in the it has received by the bufrnefs already underdifeuf entirfe of the dAuffiou which could alter bit opinion, Goo. I trull it is not neceffary, in fulaniuing this pro. lie therefore pc:filled in his Motion. polnion, to take up much of the time of the Heade. Mr. ItYDER fepported the motion. . . I &odd rather have wifhed merely to Rate my mo. Lord de IILACt_LTIERE. did clot th ink that it was tion, for I Utould naturally have expeeted the gaited . of Inch Magnitude,lltai tte - Hatife thOulil . taken** . concurrence and 'feeling pf th is Houle is mg favoor, of every fentiment that was put in writing by a block-• as well as thee . of tht country at large. I thought head. He could not bring hinafelf to think that a I &mild have (Imply to refer to the Papers them- kiveri. *sinecure a general expiates of. confidestse and-4 ellprobation, an4of gratitude for the lerricee, .thifilommiffioners ofs*eel Boquwy hareeperforraed.) tircountry. I finek.llositeer, that I ant opt en- ', ' •at liberty to fuopoifk all prefiee sutneeeitary, 1 forthe Right Hon. GenttediA appetite . hiss- announ- Aid his Ml:approbation of the ativroisiinr manner in which he coact - el the Cottimiffioners to have con dueted their 6nportant enquiries ; but I !hall not 'dwell upon this arctrmfiance; as r iilt that on het- • , ter confideratioti-hrviill resale witerhellis already faid to , 'thelr direr/vintage, or at lead reprefs it. If I the perfeverei ;Otis deslitatio'n, all I whit is, den Br ',. will dietary Watt . sigatlt iethat he confiders tepee ' henfible or unbecoming in the. Repot.% tutu have i been delivered• to the I , fodfe. This I demand of the Right HcanGetittinhisti; duty we iv', have foeseguides with refpcd to our contied in the renewal of this , Commiflion. There CollhaglllerS Weft appointed 'under peculiar eitcuetitanore, and , ifi they have done their duty to the public well, they have done it under . ipeettlier difadtrintigts. It was , ndt therelyete era- 'thine the . peccadis of clerkssittuffice, that they ! were appointed ; they hake? ineettsgme the ogir..ial conduit, and to gored andeamsfeithe corruptions of pelting in high fiteatiofir I they laser to look great men boldly in the face; an to Mate a Mir, a flea% and an impartial report of their tianfadions. •Of a very different nature arm that Cc aiffites to which the Leta line. Gettliestmodeligi.. .te to tam my at- tension. I have looked at i:, Sir, and contend that it dyes contain powers is compel pedals: to anfwer , fully and , dilkinily the csaeltioes put to them, with: ! out any referve refpeding the *mem of eliminating i themfelves ; but that Act does not tooth the principle 'of thii. It Was very different from it. It was one of ! die theft gentlemanly, well,bred, Adoof Parlizritent, ' . th at e'er' was trained: Ft not even liWoce Mem ' hoes, of Parliament s a 44 g• 491 1, high lit tame capable of ally irregularity or terra/item. It takes the higher officers as the Aim of the ClinneiSoners, and em- ' powers them le' einiepel ill the kibatterte to render :aceounts • no theret ere foppofed among the heads of office. ' So meth tor the difereoCe of the two gilts, , awl of their confequineow r. 1 hive kid that the Ad wasp ender diffi• entries, and that the CoMMitheners had to ad under 1 great difndvantage . There was at the fird a very treat thipofttila tnanirelled to oppok thek appoint. meat, and a cry way railed in the crimper again* what war call a rid' inifeffititm, and a tyrannical' mei fare intended. to make men criminate therefe(res.— Some Hon. Friends of mine looked at the aseafure with contiderable doubts. Notices were brought for it frd of Motions againft the Noble Eart, ftippolk. 4 to he particularly :idled in the introducing, the hilt which were not followed up, and others made andnot kcended. But the A& after ail has worked its own way, and hat Ifisblillied its thereat(' by its own Metits. The Riglit Hoe. Gentletnan oppefite then came.forward with his motion to procure the cenliWe • of the Board of Admiralty by this Houk, but this too failed. Thus was the Corairtiifion threatened through the Noble Lord who had ;worded it, till at tall arrived a change of the Adminillratism, and the heads of the Admiralty and the Traitory were re moved. The perfon who arraigned the centred of the Admiralty returned to the head of his lilajefty'S 1 Councils, and though be was not willing, spin to enter into enquiries, he hint &tee declared that hi retains all Ms finest; opinhins I and that all hi has ge#, or 04, et heard, on the fabled, haeconertfied hess.ht thole apiaigew One clam* in this AR was, tniqueltionahly, ihoik &lily perverted The fifth eau* certithdy *Murree ?mended by the gropafers of. it to be fo periertest 'el it has Veen by thole who, twee abated the .advantages it *tads them Nor can I here errerleek in edam of dikontagemeet in the hey efihe entutniftehers from a Right Hon. telletneo, :MO. treaforer of the Navy ; a tircum- Om which has. drawn from the Celereilfroners fame eery more remarks. If he who brddsin high . a fitatifiat e wintwhe hos fe many titles to milkier*. don, if hi itilllk high Ihnation in the thstnagement of naval coticeisli, bpi is hii.fignals, as ft were, frown his lierliap, be isil the inkrior officer* of Ilse depart-' :nests, what is to be expeified from theitlibedience to the authority-of the ParliamerstaryEnqpiry! On the loth of July the Cansatiffioners applied to the Trea firer of the Navy. Wee it creditable telt Gentle man of his manners anti refpedability, to delay pay his issention to a C.otemiffiort, he might tay tepee fentiig dm Sotertign on his Throne, cloashod with all th e privileges which Parliamentfliad bellorkel up. bet then*, and whom it is the duty of Parliament to tatted,. and to nuke the objects of refpeft i Tin the sd of Ofteber, not the flighted notice was taken of their requell : they repeated their applications, and than Obese his ezpissations ! Then, Sir, were great dikoeragementathrowein the way of the Conon Wien traand I hope, and crud, the Houk 'will think with me, that they have sewn uncommon zeal, courage, (di perfiverante r in the rofecution hi their doty, when. they .wer e, yfiet powerfu ll y thwarted and op- Kited by there viliofe:doty it clearly was to elfin them by every Mtani in their powet. The duty of Parliament, refpeeing the public money, is threefold W. 100 firlt to grant e foppty, whieh caw only be done in this Honk, and for which ire line* the elli- Meuse fairly laid before us; for this the Rode of Commons eeprefsly and particularly rewires the thanks of the Sovetergu In the difeharge of this dit ty de are net to be prodigal. We AM, Th the hest tilset, to pYoride the Ways and Means with the bell dour ability and dikrattonsmioPortioll, olkd light ly upon the folsjeft as see find it poffible. Thirdiy, tee bare the more impettant duty of taking etre of the faithful applicstioh of the alms voted and pro vided for, or all that we have done before is fadly de ficient. The two fattier branches of our duty can. not be delegated to ethers : bet that is not always the cafe with the lath. Untefs you 'motel and ( 01) - port the Coinmiffinit which teprefents you.felves, as much a yon would prated year own rights and privileges, do benefitiol preetedings can be tinseled from Them. *. * Now, Sir, baring raid thus much, I afk, fith, is this a fit time for ear shanks ? and, feeoadry, are they necellary for their Mier, encouragement ?In point of precede et objection can be Elated. The Commiffioners of Accounts received the thanks of. the Hoare, Previous to the termination of their la-; boars. The Right Memorable. Gentleman has givers *notice for t Bill for the renewal of the Com miffron. Can there lie, thee, fe proper a tithe is the prefent s , to enquire refpeihig the pall, as when you a-: called upon to renew the fame ? 1 am not fat;.fied with faint dila meegie pi dile, tit :t there is malting fo much amen, more of pi Atte owl 'of blame, a hide to be oveslooked,'and the o:!ter Modes of that fort, that perfons might attempt to .avoid Rating what they had to object to. When we fee Parliament,. with perfons of all the different pro feffions and • ptirfuits in the kingdom, feleaing tire only for this important talk, I mutt demand of them perfett - perfirmatice of their duty. It they have !thine thirobey arefully entitled* to our thanks, even hstependent at • all titfootsragements they had *reineiv-* jed. It they have nor dosu their duty, I will not ac cept of lased manes-z. I would renew the Commit (nor, but I wonidebssage theozen. I have socks _worded my motion seism provoke uoneateLsep or as elent debate ; butt leave fo worded it, that the se-. , preaches. made egoist& the ContenifFiuners n m ia ei ,ther be retrattad or explained,dillinaly to the Houle, ,if they are meant to be repeated. 1 (hall trouble the Uinta with-hut a fewntore obiervetions on ibis fubjea ; and I aik, what has been done ? What yet remains to be done ? Amid whether, under all bit cuthfiances. farther encouragement ought not to be given by the vote of thii Houle ? With relpea to what has been done, every Gentleman. perhaps,lbts not looked In very minutely at the previous lteports as he has at the Tenth. There is nothing in tlient :that attraas fuch particular notice ; they do nor 4' ! at. fuck- WO game ! but its them are continually played the gteatek pesfeetertmee and. utility. The Firlt Report relktt'srerflrarticularly to fraufeitiops tin Jamaica; and to a Kir. Dick . ; and from - ft ap pears that the masion has been defrauded of a loan , ot 36,0021. in peovigows. and another of 34,0001. ilavithed by Itauds in the. put'chafe of ffores. The !Second Report treaty of the Chen at Chatham.— ;Atli here we fhould eatie4 fe bounds to our iibe rality, in the feeling every man mutt have of the fere 'vices-of reir brave feu-men. But here, by mans of agems and other Mures, more th an 34 pek cont. !hg been fobtraded roar the remuneration of this ;country to htr brave defenders. They now receive their **fiance at-their own homes. The abeminable 'fyfteni of obliging the poor felloirs to come up here; from Scotland and from Ireland, is dyne away, with all its great and enormous shares. la- the Third Re port, relpeßing the Meek Contraß, great abufes have been deteded at Woolwich s 0101. have been Charged in a cafel.where the total charge ought net to have exceeded 341. In the Fourth Report. the fyllem of Prize-Agency .is fdlowed op, and eau toughly lifted. Thofe perfons Who fatten at the expellee of the brace captors are expofed, and rev/. letions are prepofea foe the advantage of thole who ought to reap the benefit of their exertions and flaw gets. A Learned Gentleman is bringing in a OA on this fettled, in which, however, t am much afraid rthall not be able to agree with him (Sir W. Scott); but on that bead I far no mote now. In the • Fifth Report, Gentkoien will end much worthy oC their notice, regarding the Sixpenny Oteceotfid g e 4 negligence iu the Hofpital department. Much -crif. icathwe wete found at Plymouth, refpeaing the amount of wages to workdays : Bgoaaool. had beta: paid for work clotte without airy proper cheek or is. • teitirition of the ferrite. sterually performed. The Sixth. Report-relates to Woolwich, when it is proved that jtysßl. otik paid ter the Amaranth, when it appears, after examining the Mailer Shipwright, thatls2l. wailbffictient. In the Seventh )Report the modes by lib rc,t the funds devoted to the Gck and Intutided onepluederod, are the fuhjsit of saimiaar, ties. In she &oak there is lonic imposters* matte eenteentlog the Viffiteflifig °Ake at Plymouth,. an in the .Ninth, r..p receipts of Bores at Plymouth, aid cimamllinees of farther plunder and abuts, prow* Cht she fitirsjea . of the Tenth Lepoet, I seed ler sw thing,ewthe - Hoefe is felNetendy apptized of its atio. tenth. Ihtt inlthe Eleventh 'Report is detreted and developed thaliartneftd, etad.ileras, and uncunititu tional condo*. of Ming ftaitiom Navy Bilts, by or der of the Itte l lfuri t triMont sfahority of 111-filament ; areitiee pregnaAt. lids danger to the intakes of the country, and drawl."' Welly the atteatioe otitis Heat. "'rhos far, Si,, I hint fluted, very . bsieffy, foil* of the materiel heads thrvice perfornied by thee commiffioners. I am cAnvinced, dial, in fuck a hay [ketch of their nweite l I sun obliged very far ter under-rate the diligence, ability; and firmnefei that have bees difplayed. I now call the attention Gentlemen to what yet remained tole doe for they have fiU many diffiettit talks before them. They hate to examine hill twitter refpetting the Attires, and in , fhort the whole eritrdna of the Neey. - They have to iprefligate the affairs of tree Vißualliag Of f ice s the Tranffiort Board. and the tick and Hurt (Ace. We have, tit, the authority of a gallant Admiral for fay ing (not ateloding the other), : tbat in the lee of there,. fmnfideralite oboes Oath Ali the Tell of the pudi c pltmder taiains to be examined into, and brought to light. There is another (obit& wherein. on the comparifon, the plunder is much greater than it it at home; I mean the foreign dock-yards. The et pences attendhig the fleets in the Mediterranean, and repaissuffer the battles off St. Vincent, of the negate and the ..Oftion of Sir James Sautriaret, and certain tranfaaions at Aurigae, with a variety of &Mkt! tnittedc They have alfo to examine into the tit cullzitazice of arms, which the tranfports were eons pilled to purchare, to the extent of sonoo which, though declared otel and ufelefs, were bought it an tWornione mite. They have, likewife, perhaps, to fee who were partakers in this contra&, and whe ther there were any perfons in office mange them. — They have. likewife, to look a little into the tranfac dons of Doctors Commons, as far as the Nary is cor cerned, and they have alfo to turn their attention to the management of Greenwich Hofpital, the recep tacle provided for our infirrn veteran maritiers. is Now, Sir, if any Mir: have been thrown upon thefe Commiflioners, if there be any charge to make againft them for any pert o.f their condua in the per fortnance of the ditties entrufled to them by the vote of Parliament, let thdfe who accufe them fiend forth, and !tate fairly the grounds of their reptnaches and complaints. Let the Hcufe condemn or approve , their eondtta. I know very well, Sir, that reforms are always invidious. There are conaandy perfons enough concerned in the perpetration of public :thole, to ralfe a my apinfi any man who dares to 11, eve to eitinguifit corruption, and put an end t puillic plan der. Therenever was in the history of this country fuch a heat df ContraCtors and Jobbers of every potr4le fcription, all ready to life, as one roan, agAiutt the