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FRENCH AND DUTCH PAPERS. PARTS, MAY B.—They write from Marfeilles, that from the great quantity .1 hifc&t preparing at Ton lon and the adjacent country, it is conjeCtured that a fleet will arrive there to be proviiimied in that port. Their Imperial MajeQies, and the whole Court, left Turin for Alexandria, on the 30th ult. at eleven in the .morning. May 9.—There is fcarcely any news here. The Moairear, after having declared that all the intelligence in tte French and foreign newfpapers was fputiout., adds, " Eugl Ind and France are at open war. The feelings of moderation and pacific views of the Emperor, are blunted by the mad en thnfialm of Lord MELVILLB and Mr. PITT. Several of our Iquadrons have failed and united with the Spann forces. Brit;fh commerce is perplexed and impc.led every where : and the failing of our vellels has ei!ceady raifed the premium of influence for the Wek Indies five-and-twenty per tent. A fimilar rife will greedily take place for the EaR Indies, the north and eat leas, and the Mediterranean. The Englifh will ruler incalculable : and thus they will be convinced, that by the war they have nothing to gain, every thing to lore." 44 Scarce had the Emperor NAYOLYQN featei him felf on the Throne of Italy, when he battened to communicate that event to the EstrEaort of Gra il:am the Kum of PIIVS•IA, and the KING of firma : and has received fatisfatlory anfwers from there Powers."---. 4 Well-informed perfons allure us, that Ituffia has given pacific counfel to Great Bri tain: an advice which certainly would have had its Weft, bad not the hatred, the low jealoufy, and ,mean Artifice of the Cabinet of London, forbidden the Brit& Miniflers to attend to that which would promote the happiaefs and welfare of the people." Mont% APRIL t 7.—The building of gun boats "and bombs at Algefiras is very brifk, and appears to hive in view an attack upon Gibraltar. Our aimy io Galicia, coned, of aS,OOO men. APRIL 12.—As there is a fcarcity of feamen in this country, the King has iffued a decree, charging the Tribunals to fct at liberty thole who are sot etc-. cufed of murders, burglary, and other capital crimes, in order that they may be employed is the fen fer• vice, the arfetrals, &c. It appall c.-vain that our Goiernment has com bined, in concert with that of France, a raft plan of military operations, the execution of which will give a deadly blow to the power of England. The fccret is I,j:het to pedal y preferred, and the extent of there plans will only be known at the moment when it • will be out of the power of the enemy to oppore them. The armament of our fleet at Ferrol was entirely 'completed on the a4th of March. This fleet confilts of twelve fail of the line, witluiut • including frigates and corvettes and French vac's. For Come time pall this city has been greatly an noyed by robbers ; and fcarcely a day pallid with out tt burglary, or rime fintilar offence. At length, however, the police has dilcovered the ring leader of the gang, who appears to be a perfon who never could have been ItZpan.-.1, if an accidental circum fiance had not ai tin tranfaainn to light. He was formerly a Docitu- of Divinity at Murcia, a man of a good family ; be has travelled frequently into foreign counfrie!, and had admittance here to the bell families. APRIL 16.—0 n the 9th ;nil. n French fleet was ob ferved off Cadiz ; it was the Toulon fleet. Towards evening they anchored near fort S,:ballian. The fleet cont . /11s of eleven fail of the line and two brigs. The Englifh firindron under Vice Admiral Sir JOHN 0120 E, which had blockade.' Cadiz, and confllts of fix of the line and three brigs, fell hack as loon as they perceived the French at about a league, to keep a watchful eye upon their enemy. Our Admiral, GRAVINA, joined the French the next day ; leis fleet, confilling of fix fail of the line, and 2 4 00 troops, among whom are 300 difmounted cavalry, too canooeers, and a vita deal of artillery, befsdes (mailer velels, The fame day the combined fleet failed with a favourable wind, Sir JOHN ORDII being too unequal in force to cope with them. We have fincc Len anted the men of war at Car. thagena have jqincd the combined fleet. The forces in Cadiz and Ferrol will loon join.— The latter will be acci•mpanied by a very numerous French corps expetted from France. Scaisriam, MAY to.—We hely that his Excellen t, the Penlionary, on Monday lag, made a nomina tion of the perfons who are to form the College of their High Mightinefles, reprefenting the Batavian nation. This nomination is as follows t _ Gueiderland : W. G. Var. Rlionen, and Van Aylna, of Nor), rm.—Holland : Van 8001, laar, of Kyfliock ; J. Balch, C. Van lorceft, J. F. Van Laydi.n, of Weftbarendrecht ; Chareies Six, 1. Van Styrum, and A. P. Twent ot Raaphortt.—Zaahind: W. C. Crane.—Utrecht : H. J. Van Herget.—Friefland: R. L. Van Amhinga de Kempenaar and F. S. G. J. Van Burmanni [tenger& Overyfki : C. de Vat Van Steenwyk, and A. J. Werrtz—Gmn ingen : Eppo Cremcr. and Van Alhcrda, of Dykfterhuis.—Bra han: : P. J. Cuyrcrs, and J. F. R. Van Hoof.—Recorder to their High MightinctTes, J. Couperus. HAMBURCH, APRIL 26—It is afTerted that there is now on the tapir, a projet for maintaining peace nn the Continent, which has been approved by Ruflia, and fent by a courier to Milan. Great endeavours arc, it is laid, ni ide to remove the difficulties which opp , ,fe the re-eflablifhment of peace between Eng land and France ; and it is Rated that Ruffia has al ready . t r ee d nn this fobjea -with England, on feve r,l points, with the exception of that relating to ,I'a. The latter power does not with to renounce •tk advantages which fhe derives from the poffefilon th tt ifland, and is defirnus of at !call preferring tire a confiderahle inflaence : on the other fide, ' they will not content that Great Britain fluinld pre ferve thefe advantages, and inlifl upon a flatus cflO. It is faid that M. de Novotsivicorr has returned to London, flo .:;shed with lull powers and new inftruc tions, to retiorc, jibe can, the peace of Europe. FRAM THP. NFTHiIt ELBR, MAY 3.—There is no news f rom the Nevi' ; an.l notwithitanding all that has been circulated, there is no vifible Ifign of the pr nrofed coalition. It is even faid, that pacific ne getiations are on foot between England and France, r i o,!er the mediation of Pittflia. to fupport of this it is faid, that the King of SARDINIA is to get as in demnity the Seven lilaads and Malta, with the Grand Mallerthip of that Cider. One of the exiting dit ficulties between Frince and Ruffia was, as is well known, an adeqt,,rte indemnity for that dethroned Monarch. PARLIAMENTART PROCEEDMVS, HOUSE OF LORDS, 111URSDAY, MAY i 6. The confideratton of the Iriilt Appeal Caute, Redlngton v. Re diogron, be lug returned, Mr. PLONLR Ms heard at conbderable length on the part of the Appellant. rurtber hearing deferred till to-morrow. Sir J. STEWART, aceomp.sn!ed by feveral Members, brought up a MelTage from the Houle cf Commons, in purport rcepiclilng that the Earl of St. Vincenebe permitted to attend on the &lea Committee of that Houle, to whom the confideration of the cafe of Sir Home Riegs Popham, Bart. is referred. On the motion of Lord HAWK ESBURY, it was ordered to be communicated to the Meffengers, that their Lordibips would fend an an fwer by toeffengers of their own, which was accordiugly done by the Lord Chancellor. Several Private Bills were brought up from the Commons, by Mr. Fellowes, Mr. H. Browne, lion. Mr. Pierrepont, and other Gentlemen, which were feverally read a Ertl time. The Bills upon the Table were read in their feveral Rages ; thefe were twaftly third readings. CORPoItATON ()ATMs. The Order of the bay for the fecund r,:aciing of a Bill (intro- duced by the Earl of Radnor), ' ter enabling Bodies Corporate, in the cafes and under the reftriaions therein contained, to obtain the corredlion of Local Oaths, adminiftered by the laid Bodies Corporate," bring read, the Bill was accordingly read a feerind time. Lord HAWKESBURY felt it proper to oppofc the further pro grefs of the Bill. What their Lordfhips would do, were they to Fars the Bill in qucition, would be to enact a general law for a particular cafe; a principle which he mutt alvrzys object to. If any particular Corporation, or body of men, felt themfclves ag grieved or inconvenienced by the mode in which the oaths they were obliged to take were dietated, let them come to Parliament, Rate the fpecifie grievance, and what they conceived to he a rea fonable remedy, and he was willing to pay every attention to it ; but to a gmerallaw.fuch as the prelene Bill went to enact, in can fcquenee of fome difficulties experienced, or ohjmftions entertain ed, to the form of their Oath., by the Carporati in of a particular place, was what he could not content o. He should therefore re flft the further progrefs of the Bill. _ _ The Earl of . 12 - ADNO's defended the grounds on which he brought forward the meafure,and adverted to fume cafes in which correetion or alteration of the Oaths was evidently neceiTary. It had been his duty, in an office which he had the honour to hold (we believe that of Recorder of New Sarum), to adminifter the Oaths to ceetain Members of a Corporati .... , parts of which were ponfenfe, and other parts inentaillent with, or contridic tory to each other ; there were refl., led to by the Noble Earl, and created tome edibility among their 'There was every proper caution adopted in the provifmns of the Bill, to prevent any improper safe being made of it The intervention of the Judges of Mize was reqUired by the Fill, and, after thefe, the Lord Chancellor was recurred to, as checks and commies with refpeet to proceedings under the authority of the Bill; at the fame time, his Lordfhip did not feem willing to prefs the Bil.. The LORD CHANCELLOR was willing to allow his N ble Friend every credit as to the purity of his motives in coming tor ward ; and the übjeift, which was good in Welt; was endeavoured to be attained by the purelt means ; but, with his Noble Friend who fir it fpLke, he rather difapproved of enagting a general law, when a remedy was called for on the part only of a particular place. He thought the mod: of application, trider the circum itances of the particular cafe, for redecia to the Crown, would be a preferable mode to that preferibed by the Bill—a rearli:v and more unexcepti unable mode. Upon the whole, he would beg leave to recommend his Noble Friend to withdraw the Bill. The Earl of RADNOR (poke ihorly in explanation ; after which the LORD CHANCM.I OR moved " That the BM he committed this day three months," which was ordered accordingly, and, conlequence, the Bill is loft for the prefea; icffion. 4dJouruzl till to morrow. HOUSE OF COMMONS. A Melage from the Lords announced that they had agreed to the frith Loan of 1,800,0c01. the lrilsa. Poftage, the frith Promilfory Notes, and a variety of private Bills. Colonel STANLEY moved that the Papers prcfentcd to the Houle, relative to the We of Man, be referred to a Committee— which, after a few words from Mr. Curvet!, was agreed to. Sir JOHN W. ANDERSON brought up the Report of theirint ner's Bill, which M3l read a thin( time and paired. . - Sir M. RIDLEY brought in aA3ill to enable the Corporation of the Trinity Houle to cred Two Light-honks on the Coati near Newcaßle. Lord W. RUSSELL prefcnted a Petition from the Freeholders of Surrey, thanking the Houle for their proceedings on the Tenth Report, and praying it to prtfevere M the farth t tr invcltigatioo of Auks. Sir J. STEWART moved, that a Mt Mtge might be fent to the Lords, tequeftiog pernation for Lord St. Vincent. to attend the Committee appoimcd to take into confider:Min the repairs of the Romney and Scout,le, while under the orders of Sir Home Pop- Mr. BARNS moved, that there be Lid before the liccre an ac count ache difporal of the 50'',CL Di. granted by the frith iloofe'of Commons, for the purpofes of the Inland Navi i ;ation in irclat4, to the lateft period at which the fame can be made up. Mr. LCVEDEN tutored for 1 'rral Accounts relator to the Unclaimed Dividends made at the t uk, or the South Sea Honk, with the names of the pruprictora of elude dividends, and (dating the amount unpaid. Mr. JCHINiTONE moirail for an Aeccunt of tlr Sums of Mo- ney ariling from the Pale of old Stores: irons the year r 75.; to the Weft period to width they could be made up. diitinguill.big the (hips and payments :miler their fcv:ral head-. He Mated tiara they amounted to no left a fun than ito,cc7l. Mr. MATTHEWS moved for leave to bring in a Bill for altrr lnb Act of the ath of the King, as far as relater! .n the pe nalties by informers, on narrow 4-wheeled waggons, of 6 inches, on the turnpike roads, when drav n by four horfes. Sir R. BUXTON lajd, be would not divide the Houfe upon the prefent motion, though he was convinetd that the public roads would not bear 4-wheeled waggons of the defFription alluded to, and that however unpopular private inform , rs may he, they were abfolutely neetirary, as long as no pt;blic informers were employ ed by Government. He truded that in th: Committee, it would be made local, as it could never be gcner..lly efeful. Leave was then LiD.n to bring in the pill. • THE TENTH REPORT. Mr. LYCESTER brought up . a Mcffage, announcing that the Seigel Committee appointed to invettigate the various matters (late,' in the Tenth Report, upon a full cunfideration of the rellric lions and limitations contained in the minute+ of the conference with the Lords, refpeeting kite attendance of Lord Vircoant Mel ville before du Committee, cannot proceed fatleadority in his examination. wi:hout Infringing the regulations and privileges under which he is permitted to come beterc them . The Report was then ordered to be laid on the Table. UNIVERSITIES ADVOwSoNS BILL. The CHANCFI.I.OR of the EXCHEQUER movo:l for tl,e firft reading of the Bill, brouOtt up from tha.ords,, for repealing fo much of the Aa of Geo. H. as reftrains the Colleges in both the Univerfities from porchafing Advawfons of Livi.igo, beyond the amount of half of the number of Fellows in the raid Colleges, which was agreed to--the Bill arc:crud to be read a recondthte on Twdday next, and to Le printed. PAM:HNC:TON CANAL COALS. Mr: HUSKISSON, after a few prefatory obfer vations, in a low tone of vo.ce, moved, that a Com mittee be appointed to enquire into, and report upon the expediwcy of allowing 'Foals to be brought, to alimhed extent, through the Grand Junction Canal by Paddington to London, fubjet to the fame duties as thole that were brought coattways. Mr. BURDON fail, though he was fenfi'ole of the difficulty and inerpedie.icy of the meafure in con templation, lie thould hot objea to the motion now made. • He mutt, however, obferve, that the pro ceedings of the Committee of the Grand Junftion Canal had lately fhewn a great difpofition to en croachmerit, and infornuch that the Houle fhould be aware of them. It was originally propofed, that a mark fhould be fet up at an intermediate place, be tween the collieries and London, for the carriage of coal ; but the fcheme was fincez:ltered, and the mat k removed to Paddington. By the plans which that Company had adopted, they had deprived Govern ment of 30,cc01. or 40,0001. ' He objeBed to :he mcsfure now propofed, as it would tend•to difcou. 'rage that great not fery of i:arran aluch the prefcnt coal trade afforded. Mr. DUPRE made a fcw obferveions to the fame effelt. Sir M. W. RIDI.EY was apprelsenive, that by affording this indulgence and encouragement to the canals, we (honld thereby reaily Area the Coall Trade, which would cut Of that vrand refource, which at this moment furnifhed no gf, than 30,003 brave and hardy featnen to the B•itilh Navy. Mr. CURWEN fpoke neatly to the fame effel— after which the motion was agreed to, and the Com mittee appointed, with the condition that all who at tended it Ihould have voices. IRISH INFIRMARIFS. Lord CASTLEREAGH gave notice, that on to-morrow he lhould move for leave to bring in a Bill for regulating the County Infirmaries in Ireland. SMUGGLING SILL. Mr. GREY kid, that before the Houfe went into a Committee on the Smuggling Bill, be had a Petition to prt rent to the Houfe againft it from Mr. Daniel Line Brock, one of II!. Juratt of Guem. fey. The Petition was laid upon the table, and ordered to be ta ken into eonfideration by the Committee. Upon the motion of Mr. SPURGES BOURNE, the Order of the Day for the Houfe refolving itf If into a Committee upon the Smuggling Bill was read and difeharged, and ordered for Wainer day next. IRISH ELECTION BILL. Col. BAGWEL.L role to 'rune " That the Houle Chouhl go in to a Committee on the frith Election Hal," when The CHANCELLOR of the F X.:11 ['QUER fail, that a: it might, perhlp., oce.fign fume th.cullion, h wilhed the Hon. Member to poßpone his motion till anther day. there w.s i - ome other matter that would take up the time of the matre. was accord:‘ii,iy pullponed till to morrow. MOTION V IN. PAPERS. Admiral MARKHAM role, purfuant to notice, to move for certain Papers conneaed with the Navy. He had fo thaped his motions, that they would net operate to the prejudice of Government by making an improper difclofure; he therefore fuppofed they would meet with no oppAion. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER fah!, that there was one of the Hon. Admirals mo tions, regarding the contra& for Timber, which he fhould feel it his duty to oppofe, but he had no objec lion to granting the refl. The Motions were then read from the Chair as follow : alt. A Lilt of all Ships in Commiffion, Rating thofe built in the King' yards and Merchants yardi, and took taken from the ene my, with the fums expended en them in the King's yards. 2d. Copy of the Order froth the Admiralty tc the Navy Board, refpeding the quantity of timber in the Dock yards. 3d. An Account of the Report of the Commiffiorters of the Na vy Board, rcfpedling Chatham Dock yard. 4 and 5. The Report of the Surveyors of Sherwood Foreft, and the Lelter of the Navy Board to them. 6th. An Account of the lowe.it price of Timber in the Kittle* yards. 7. An Account of the Loans to the Navy Board fince the 15th May, 1804. gds. An Account a' the price of Timber in the King'; yards in dor, and the vari.itions in price fince that time. 9 to ti. Reports from the Officers of the Dock yards to the Navy Board, and from the Navy Board to the Admiralty, refpcd iug the fupply of Foreign Timber. Copy of the Contradt with John Larkin for the fupply of Timber, and the allowances of money ..dvanced him in part of the Contr.iet The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER apprehended that the produCtion of this Contra& would be attended with a difcli.fore of the ((mites from whence we procured the fupply of Timber.— If the ribjea of the Hon. Adreil al would he aufwer ed by the 0 - nduelion of the `.:per, without fpecify ing the names of places. from whence the thrumr was brought, there could b: nnobjeftion to it. Admiral MARKHAM amid noi fay whether the nrodUtion of the rper, with this referee, would an rwet' his purpofe, becaufe the quality and price of timber depended in a great meafttre upon the place from whence it came. The timber of Europe was of an infet:or quality. If, however, the produetion of this paper was attended with any inconvenience, he would waive this motion ; and up , n the fuggefli in of Mr. Pitt, it was entirely withdrawn; the Hon. Admiral, however, referved to himlelf the liberty of moving for it a; a future period, if it Ihould be found nee( frary. The remaining motions related to the \\'ages of Shipwrights and Apprentices in the Ring's yards ; the lt eprefentations made to the Navy Board on the fubjeg cfShoaling Shipwrights ; fe.'eral Letters from the Navy Board to the Admiralty ; an Account of all Additional Contrads fince May, tgc+ and an Account of all Oak in (lore at the fereral yards. R U SSI A 1! Tit EATY, Mr. GREY obfcrved, that, on the ern day of the Seffion, a communication was made to the Hoof: by his Majelly, Rating, that overtures of peace had been made to him by the enemy, but that he was in duced to decline them, on account of the intimate and conf;dential .tegociations, then going on with Foreign Powers, 1-fe bad to remark alto, that, in propofing the fums of money required for the fervice of the year, the Right Hon. Gentleman had appro priated a confiderable part of the fupplits i r Conti• nental purpofes. Since that time, he did not attempt to make any enquiries upon the fubjea, or pi els the Right Hon. Gentleman to any difclofure whatever ; neither did he mean to do to now, if it theuld be thought by any means inlifcreet or improper ; but, as the Seflion was now drawing towards a conclu lion, he Ihould with, if there was no ferious objec- tion to it, to a:lc, whether there was arty reafon to expeel, that the Houle would fhortly receive any communication upon that fubjeti, froset his Majetly ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQ!JF,R r e plied, that as loon as the bittinefs was in a iufficient degree of forwardnefs, or abfolutely concluded, his Majelly would be advifed to make a communication of it to Parliament ; but he thought it for the prefent fufficient to fay, that the fubjeet alluded to was not yet in Inch a (fate as would render a communication adyifable or necefftry. Mr. FOX wifhed to know whether there was any probable hope that any communication would be made in the courfe of the prefent Sefton ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER re plied, that any ()lade of opinion which could yet be given on that fubjeFt might pothibly turn out to be merely conjeaural. Mr.FOX fill' thought that fome opinion might have been given, as to the potlibility of fome information being given to Parliament. If the Uttilnefs was not yet concluded, it was probable that, from the dillarce of thole Powers with which we were ftippiifed to be ne gociating, and the latenefs of the fellion, the Pat ha went may be prorogued before any treaty could be brought to a conclution ; therefore, without priding for any explanation of ate nature of it, be thought, at lean, that tome general communication ougnt be expeaed. Here the converfAt inn ceaftd. COMMISSION OM MrLI rAMY EPPE%OITURP. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQ . VER moved the Order of the I)ay, and the Houle ai.• cordingly refolved itfelf into a Committee on the Bill for appointing Commi(fanners to enquire intc Abnfes upon Military Expenditure, Mr. A Laxaaor r. in the Chair. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER limed to the Committee, that with a view to the molt lair, impartial, and minute enquiry into the whole of the fttbjed, which it was the obje& of the Houle in this Bill to refer to the inveftigation of Commillioners, he had judged it neteliary, in ap pointing thofe Commifliomrs, to ;mita.: the princi ples on which the Commitliuncrs of Accounts, in the ye.o t 779, had been conflituted, namely, by the Telethon of men who, from their avocations and es. perience, might be naturally fuppofed molt conver fant with the fubjed referred to them id its different views; whofe charatiers in life might place them above any fulpicion of want of integrity ; and whole want of connedion with political parties might ob viate all ideas of partiality. Aduated by this opinim, he conceived that the Committee fhould be formed alto of men in the different profellions, whole know ledge refpedively might the better enable the whole to aid each other, and facilitate the objefts rf their inve ;gat ion ; namely, men of the military proleffion, whole long and arduous experience rendered them molt converfant with the details of Army Expenditures ; Gentlemen of the law, whole profetlional knowledge rendered them competent to dired on all points where legal confiderations fhould interfere ; and for the fubje& of pecuniary confiderations, men of the mer cantile profeffion, and confequently familiar with ac counts. In forming the feledion of thole perfons un der thefe different heads, he hag been guided entire ly by the opinion he was enabled to form, either from perfunal knowledge of their charaders and compe tence, or from the known reputation which they bore in the world, and which he was able to learn from the fulleft enquiry. One of them he had known for a long ferics of years ; others were perfonally un known to him, and he would propofe them ftom the charader he had heard of them frcm others, on whole authority he could place the t!-ongelt reliance; he believed when their names (bould be reported to the Committee, there could be no objedion to their appointments. He then named Ma:or General Oakes, Colonel Beckwith, and Lieutenant Co lane! Drinkwater, in the Military Line ; Mr. Cos, the Mailer in Chancery, and Mr. Templeinan, in the Law ; and Mr. Peers, the Banker, and Mr. Cl:arlc4 Qolightly, in the Accoun-ante part; and there being no objection whatever offered to thole Gentlemen, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved that they be appointed ComnsitEoners under this AEt. The claufe b•ing read, which gives the Commif fioners authority to enquire into what abufes do exifl, Mr. GILES thought it was of the higheft impor tance to the objeets of the enquiry, that it (hould be retrofpenive, as pall abufes in the iyfiem of army ex pendrure were to the full as clearable for deteelioa as any at prefeut exiting, and therefore hen oved in amendment the words, or that may have elided." Mr. ROSE Paid, he wifhed the enquiry to be as wide as pollible. What he was going to fay had no perfonal motive, hut was intended merely to (hew :he neceflity of going far back with the enquiry. A fur of 250,0001. of the public money had laM in the hant • of Lord Holland and his Executors for the fpace o. fourteen years. The fum, it was needlefs 'to fay, would in that time be doubled, by the operation of interell. The Honourable Gentleman oppolite hires might wrap bimfelf up in his integrity, and fay, its behalf of Lord Holland, there was no pcfitive law. But the lots to the public was enormous ; for the public were paying intereft for all that money for fourteen yezrs after Lord Holland was out of office ; and forty years have tince elapfed, and at this mo.. ment the account is unfettled. He would afk the Honourable Gentleman and the Houle, if that Ho nourable Gentleman declares himfelf ignorant of the tranfaetion, if he is ignorant of receiving the profit ? He did riot mean, by comparison, to 'ellen the offence of Lord Melville, although in one cafe there was an aftuai lots, in the other none. His only motive was, to provide a fufficient remedy for fuch evils if the preleF4 provifions were inadequate. Mr. l''OX was very willing to believe the Right Honourable Gentleman could mean nothing perfonal to himfelf; but he begged to obferve, that as the fob jeft alluded to by the Right Honourable Gentleman bad been laid before, and fully inveftigated by the ' foriner COMnsiffionets bf Accounts, who had report cd their opinion to the Houle thereon, he &mild have thought the bnfinefs then* finally clofed, and that it wbuld'be rather odd now to appoint new Commif (loners again to confider that lubjeet, and to enquire into the ctmduet of the former Commiffioners. As to bimfelf, he was fret to acknowledge he had been appointed one of the executors to the will of his father, but fo loon as he learned that there was fuel! an arrear, he himfelf, for motives not riecce:iry now to explain, had declined to aft as an executor any longer. He would not pretend to fay that the per fon on whom that office' devolved, had not derived any confiderable emoluments from the mot - I,y in hand, or been guilty of any mifcondutl, yet he would af furc the Right Honourable Gentleman, that he had never received one fingle !haling of thole profits. He had attended before the former Comma .Hers of Ac counts, and was ready t o d o f o b e f ore th e p re f ent , it required ; nor had he any objeetion to the fulleft en quiry ; and he was convinced, the gallant Officer, his relation, now Lieutenant Governor in Gibraltar, would be ready to give every fatisfanion fo the (me eff,aft, and to thew he never received ,a !billing. Mr. ROSE answered, he molt religioufly believed what the Honourable Member now laid, but until now he always underflood that the Honourable Member, the Gallant Officer his relation, and the mi nor his nephew, were the perfons who received the whole of the emoluments miring from the half mil lion, as the legatees of the late Lord Holland, and the Honourable Gentleman was hinifeil the ailing executor. Mr. FOX explained, that his father, after fome le gacies to his brother and himfdf, had appointed his mother refiduary legatee to his perfonal eaate; that his mother, who died in a few weeks after, had made him her executor, and bequeathed her part of his fa