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PARIAMEATART PROCEEDINGS. ROME OF COMMONS. MONDAY. APRIL s 9. Mr. CALCRArf prefanted a Petition, (toed by out *naiad and ninety Houlelkepors. &pipit the Patter's Poor Rill. He tbooebt be Oiaiki not bare beard of the Dill any more this ficilloor or fat timid bait - taken the frac of the Houk upod it beforepa Ordeal to ue• ok the table. Mr. WILLIAMS, from the (Mee of the Contrails/re of Racal togniry.gretemed the Corttfpoqdeoct of the Treefarer of the Navy with the Onairedioncrs, of the loth and t yth Pity, t So* Ordered to he printed. Mr. JOHNSON gradated an Aeeoein of the Calile of Dub- Iln Fortification Cootrad...-Ordered to he printed. Mr H HORNTON gave notice. that he Omuta to-morrow niove,that the Petition *Anti.] tai the Houfe a t taina the return of Mr. Mainwaring: be &charged, Sir Frania Bunicu having bcas feat& SIR ANDREW HAMMOND. Sir ANDREW HAMMOND moved for the Pa pers he had given nonce of on Thurfday, relative to the Eleventh Report of the Commiffioners of Naval Enquiry. Mr. GR LY obferved, that the Honourable Ba roner's motion was irregular, as he bad not Rated the nature of the papers for which he moved. He had come down to the Houle, on the day of ballot ting, before the ballot had taken place, and was fur. priced to find thai the Honourable Baronet had dif pofed of his notice at that early hour of the day, which was before public bufinds commenced. The Honourable Baronet, and any Member, had certainly A right to move for any papers they thought proper ; but it was rather too much that he fhould move for a private letter, written by himfelf, and not - explain the nature of it. Thus not only the notice the Ho nourable Baronet gave of his motion, but the time and circtinillances under which the motion was brought forward, were unjullifiable The motion was of an extraordinary nature. If then were defeas in the evidence reported in the Eleventh Report, the Honourable Baronet could have Rated that in his place as a Member of Parliament, but, to move for • his own letter, and the documents encloftd by him to the Admiralty Board, was both a novel and un becoming procedure. Neither Lord St. Vincent, nor the friends of Lord St. Vincent, could meet the flateusents of the Honourable Baronet, before what ever impreffion they were calculated to make fhould reach the public—a circumita,nce which increafed, in his mind, the objections to the line of condo& the Honourable Baronet had thought proper to purfue. Since, therefore, the motion was fo extraordinary. and to his mind fo unwarrantable, he thought it ought to be expunged from the Journals. Sir A. HAMMOND entered on his own vinclica tioo, both in point of the time he gave his notice, and of the manner in which he gave it, and moved-the nonce in conformity to it. ,lie gave the notice io a fall Houfe. and defcribed his motion to be one which Scald call for the produaion of certain papers, in • bladed to. elucidate his condo& as Comptroller of the Navy, and to obviate the effeas of the millatement. of the Eleventh Report.. He was unaware, there fore. of having either offended againa propriety, or juftly incurred the reproaches or centures of the ,Honourable Gentleman. Mr. TIERNEY profeffed himfelf anxious as any Man. that the Honourable Baronet, or whoever mould be placed in a painful fituation by the reports of the CommiLlioners of Naval Enquiry, fhould have an opportunity to defend himfelf as far as he was able. It was not to tile wills to make his defence, fo very natural to the Honourable Baronet, that Mr. Tierney in the leall objeaed, but to the manner in which that defence was now inflituted. Not only the Houfe knew nothing, either from the notice, or the motion, of the purport of the papers the Honour able Baronet wilbed to be produced, but not even a title could be found to lead to the remota conjeaure as to their llatemcnts f or tendency. But here a mo tion was made by the Honourable Baronet, for the predation of a letter from himfclf, as Comptroller of the Navy, to the Admiralty, with its ench)fures, mid the Houfe could not be at all aware of their, contents. _ The Honourable SPEAKER here drew the at. tuition of the Hook to the point of order. There being no queftion before the Houfe, whatever length the eonverfistion might go into, there could be no Wire. Mr. TIERNEY refonsed.—He obferved, that it *u the duty of Sir A. Hammond to have Paid why be moved for the papers in queflion. However, he was, for one, happy that the papers were brought forward, being convinced that the more the fubse of the condo& and charafter of Lord St. Vincent were inveftigated, the more the nation would feel that the Noble Lord could not be injured in his re• potation by any calumny. Sir ANDREW HAMMOND was furprifed at the language of the Hon. Member who had jull fat down, and at that of Mr. Grey. Sir Andrew en forced his lot mer ftatements by an appeal to the can dour of the Houk, where the reputation of a ter vast of the Crown, holding no low office in the Go vernment, loch as hinafelf, was traduced. Mr. GREY was by no means convinced of the fit. nets of the reafoning or affertions of the Hon. Ba ronet. What was the fae ? Why, that the Hon. Baronet had given notice of his motion before the bnfinefs of the cla! commenced ; and in no nage of the proceeding did he give the Houle that informa tion, refpeeing the nature of the papers, which the }kat had a right to tepee. A moll unwarrantable and unjell attack was commenced on the character of Lord St. Vincent, in the abfence of thole Members who interefled themfelves in the reputation of the Noble Lord, and now it is complained of that inch a procedure is denounced as unwarrantable. The Mi. tiller did not do fo in the cafes of his own friends.— If any of the friends of the Miniller were made the fubjeft of notice or motion, then the Minifter took umbrage, and di• eely complained. of Oppofition.— The other night the Houfe had an example of this when an Honourable Friend of Mr. (Ley, (a Lear a-d Serjeant behind him,) moved for certain papers relative to Mr. C. Scott, the Minitler took fire, and charged upon Oppolition a want of due regard to the . feelings of in.:.voluals, although Mr. Belt had, in his n.aice.diftinely apprifed the Houfe of the fuhjea of the motion he was to make. Under all thole circum fiances, Mr. Grey waked the motion of Sir A. Ham. mond to be exposited. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER —" The motion, Sir, is for a Copy of a Letter from the Comptroller of the Navy to the Com miffioners of the Admiralty, together with its en eloiures. Now, when we know that the papers naov. td for refer to the teitcluiro, the Comptt ono of dle] Navy in his i official capacity, and when in a printedl Report of a CommilGon of this Houfe, the fttongeft language is employed refpeding fuch condda, will any min deny, that the Hon. Baronet ought to hart an npu.)rtunity given him to vindicate himfelf to the utrunfl he is able,? or is the Comprroller of the Na vy ti;;10 Phut out from evidence. and the Houfe of Commons from .information ? As to the pa pers moved for, I can be fuppofed to know no thinrclf their contents, the Houfe illy having them before it ; yet I will go fo far as to intimate, that I believe th at when the papers (hall be before us, they . . . . will turn out to be documents which do afford at once a juflification and defence of the Honourable Baronet, and thew that the Eleventh Report is not cor.ea, as it ought to be, and should have been, if the Cornmiffioners had not done very much what is now attempted by the Hon. Gentleman- —fhut out my Hon. Friend from giving that evidence which it was fully in his power to give. In point of fall, Sir, the lion. Bart. can only put the Houfe in poffeffion of his cafe, by fnbmitting to its confideration the papers moved for, fine they are thofe which were offered to the Commiffloners, but which thole Gen tlemen thought proper to refute. Correaly (peaking, the papers are official documents requifite to the elu cidation of this fubjeft ; and the Houle ought to be in poffeffion of them preparatory to its coming to any decifion whatever on the fubjeft of the Eleventh Report. How unjult would it be, if, when the Re port came to be confidered, it was found the Hoare had &at out the main evidence in the queflion, and ttsat only becaufe it might reflea on 'he Noble Lord who is fo folicitous for enquiry ? ( Wear! Hear !) I, Sir, ant not defirous to undervalue the perfornd at tachments of the Hon. Gentleman corer againft me to the Noble Lard. lam as little defirous to detraa from the honours and fplendours of that attachment, but, undoubtedly, Sit, I do think we are bound to prosier% the feelings, and efpeatally the reputations, of others, as well as Lord'St.• Vincent. If I enter tain the fame opinion I always had of the profeffion al (kill and gallantry of the Noble Lord—if I Would be as ready as any man tb check any opinions I might fee fpreading injurious to his charaaer as a eommandet, am I, therefore, to approve of the con dua of his friende who have brought forward his tame this night as an interference with the jollies of Parliament, and` the charaaer of an important offi cer oldie Crown ? (Hear! Hear!) Mr. GREY objefted to the mpde the Minifter had argued the fubjea. The Minitter had Rated the queßitan on his own grounds. The Minister Paid no thing as to the mode the queflion was brought for ward, but pallid over altoge her the circumaances of the giving the notice, as well as bringing forward the motion. The motion was inconfillent with the jußice cluelo an individual, whole charafter it ma• terially involved, and when that individual was Lord St. Vincent. the interference of the Honfe was the more neeeffary. On the other hand, fo far as the Eleventh Report rakes on the Hon. Baronet, Mr. Grey by no means swatted to deprive him of every proper op?ortunity of defence. GOD forbid that he &outd ohjeft to the produftion of the papers, it the Houfe could he allured that they were really neeef (.try to the defence of the Honourable Baronet. What be complained of was the notice and (Mr. Grey's) motion, both were filent as to the contents of the papers. fo that the friends of Lord St. Vincent had no means if knowing whether, and in what the pa pers were defeEtive, which, if they did know, they would recommend alteration. No fimilar cafe had occurred, excepting one or two lately on the Mini finial fide of ithe Honfe. He *Reapproved the mo tion, becaufe the Houle would be fubjefted, by cons plying with it, to the odious fituation of being made the medium of circulating any trafh whatever which might be Rated in letters or other documents. Public rumour Rates, that the papers contain an attack on the Noble Lord, which, if the cafe, rendered it molt particularly incumbent on the Honk to be jealous of the motion. The Chancellor of the Exchequer alks, whether we had not done the fame thing on this fide the other night? to which the anfwer was " No," for the papers were defcribed. But it was objeaed, that the friends of Lord St. Vincent fay, that his charaaer is above enquiry ; now no friend of his lays but all thought it above calumny. Sir ANDREW HAMMOND again rote. It was impolfible, when the Comptroller of the Navy was particularly refleaed on by the Comma:otters of Naval Enquiry, for him to pafs over a great part of the Eleventh Report. 4. Either the Noble Lord or myfelf will Rand, after the inveßigation of the evi dence therein given, and after the perufal of the do cuments moved for, in a fituation in which no man of honour could wifh to be." Sir Andrew proceed ed. •' The papers I wills to be laid before the Houle, confill of my own letters to the Commit: (loners, their anfwers, and thofe various documents, wl.ich I deem necefeary to my defence. I wrote to the Commiffioners to be re-examined, and was told that they had made their report to the three branches of the Legiflasure, and lhould abide by it as it Rood. I am in an inferior fituation under the Lords Corn miffioners of the Admiralty, and cannot but with to gland well with them. Accordingly when I found that the Commit:Goners of Naval Enquiry would not grant me a re examination, I wrote to the Ad miralty, and dellred the Lords Commiflioners to look over the papers enclofed to them in my letter. Thole papers I have moved for ; and if out of or der, I hope the Houfe will pardon my anxiety for giving this explanation of my motion and conduit." Here the dircueGon in the mean time ended, and the Clerk proceeded to read the letter and the feveral enclofurcs, viz. Rama of a Letter from Sir Artoitzw SNAPS HAMMOND, to the Lords of the Admiralty, dated nil April, zlics. " My Lords—liaving read the Eleventh Report orthe Com milioners of Naval Enquiry, :Ind thinking the conduit of Lord St. Vincent Inemreet in the cvid nee given in the Appent:ix to that Report, and likely to mitlead the public, I wrote a letter in ex plahation to the Commiffioners of Naval Enquiry, which is here encli,ted : " Gentlemen, " lit April, 1805. " a tld your R eport, and learning that Earl 5:. Vincent had therein Rated, that he had no knowledge of the toms of money chat vt d to my account, I ;deg to he re-examined, in order that my tettimuny m..y be made to fopply the ignorance he these profeiLs. " I nttcr.ded the Board of Commillionera, with a letter, on that day, and fad I would wait their pleallsre in the bulinefs. I was informed that I th,,uld have an anfwer ou the fubjed, which 1 re• cared the 17th instant- It is as follows: " air—We have received your letter, propnGng a re-examina tion r. f ot that part of our Eleventh Report, which relates to your , fell; we have very lately bad oeeafion to retele a fimilar requelt from st.otJaer quarter, and we do hot fee any thing In catalog eir- r eviellanalet that Mould lead us to adopt a Siffereot line of coedit& We have the honour to be, Sir. See. Ste. 0 Not having an opportunity to exculpate myna( upon oath, in cooui mfrerence of this refute!, and being unwilliug that the public be left in ignorance on the fubjedt, 1 gavein the following Statement and Declaratlotatirtich I am willing to Verify mum oath. have the honour to be, my Lords, your Lordthips' obedient, and molt humble fereartt (Signed) A. S. HAMMOND." STATEMENT AND DECLARATION. " On reading the Eleventh Report of the Commaruiners of Na val Enquiry, and more particularly the evidence given by my Lord St. Vincent, I have Jaded proper to make this declaration in my owndefence, and have enclofed copies of letters Which are herein named, front Nat to to, and which -o to prove that his Lordthip bad a knowledge of one part of the tranfaetion, which he has de nied; and though I have no means of proving it, yet there is Itroog melon to fuppofe, from his Lordthip's forgetfulnefs in this, that be was forgetful in retard to the part of the tranfadtion to which his Lordthip was privy. As to his Lortahip's general know ledge of inch trailfadions„ there could be Fin doubt of his being aware of their nature, for in order that the Admiralty might have information en the fubjed, I took oecafion, loon after Lord St. Vincent came into °lnce, to enquire of his Lordthip, If he was acquainted with any fimilar traafadlions going forward under Lord Spencer? Lord St. Vincent's anfwer was, that Lord Spencer had not raid any thing to him upon the fubjedt, neither had he left any memorandum of the kind in the office. I then told him, that it was my duty to inferno him of feveral particu lan that reguarded the building of ea gun flaps by merchant builders, and explained other caufes of the enormous expences attending the building of veffds, which ought to be fully coofi. tiered. Tbis his Lordiblp fully approved of I next informed him of all the changes that had taken place, and of the probable laving there would be to the panic. I afterwards lutormed him of the expedients which the Treafurer relented to, when he had nu money left under that heed of fervice. I acquainted him of all the tranfadtlona that refpcdcd the application of the 100,0001. In page 191. of the Eleventh Report, and de (crated ii as not fit to be made the fulled of a public report. But I fubjoin a copy of a letter to the Commilhoecre of Naval Inquiry, Sating that the tranfadion was of a nature that required !Cerny, but if they would enter into a re-examination of my evi dence, I had no doubt but they would find my reafons good for not giving an explicit anfwer upon the fahjed. With raped to the 3o,ccel. charged the 14th of March, agog, that traufaation occurred before Mr. Pitt quitted his office. Dated and April. (Signed) " A. HAMMOND." Copies of she Enclufures referred to in Sir Andrew Hammond's Letter to the Board of Admiralty. No. I.—From Sir A. Hammond to Lord St. Vincent. My Lord, Navy Office, 9th March, Igoe. 0 I had not the honour of feting your Lordfhip when I called this morning at the Admiralty. I meta& an order from hi. Ma jetty, and beg leave to acquaint you, that I have followed the in ttrudions therein given as far as it is in my power. I alto beg leave to acquaint you, that I have avoided taking any additional Rams from the dock yard, and on account of the extraordinary dilpatch that is neeeldary, 1 have had recourfe to Chatham and Woolwich yards (Signed) " A. HAMMOND." No 11.--Copy of the Order (molt keret) from Lord HOBART to Sir ANnaiw HAMMOND. " SIR, Downing.ftrect, Feb. 9, 18 0 4- " It being thought advifable to carry into executiou a project ' for chocking up the harbour of Boulogne, and the fuccefs of the mature depending upon the fecreey and difpatch with which it is carried into effetft, I have the King's co-onands, that you take the preparations for this purpofe tinder your controul, and com municate with fupplying hint with the neceffary funds, and providing him with Roue and other materials which you may judge neceffary to be embarked. " The advances you may have oecafion to make, vnll hereafter be replaced to you by the Treafury. As form as the wife:, hall be laden, you will direet that they will proceed to the Downs where farther orders will be given by Lord Keith refpeding theft: (Signed) " HOBARL.' No. 111.—From Lord Sr. VINCENT to Sir ANDREW HAMMOND. " SIR, roth March, tgoa. I lave received your letter, with an inftrudion regarding the execution of the fecret fervice, and which will, I doubt not, be well performed. But as the whole expense is to be defrayed by tile . I . ITAry, I do not fee the neceffuy of fubmitting any part of the glair to the confideratitin of the Admiralty. (Signed) ST. VINCENT." No. IV.—From J. Sueeuvaw,Efq. to Sir ANDIEW HAMMOND. " MT DEAR SIR, " Downing-area, Feb. 045804. " I hope you can report progrefs. I have not teen or heard front Mr. fince 1 law you. Lord St. Vincent approves much of the direction being given to you, and wii! write a Ivaer to Lord Keith upon the fubjeeL (Signed) " J. SULLIVAN." No. V.—From 1. SULLIVAN, Efq. to Slr ANDREW HAMMOND. " Mr DEAR SIR, Downing-ftrcet, Feb. 21,1804. " Lord Hobart hopes the verde taking ground was not in co n fequence of their drawing too much water. He is going to his bu [meth at the Treafury, and I am going to mine at the Cullom houfe. (Signed) " J. SULLIVAN." No. VI.--From J. SULLIVAN, Efq. to Sir ANDREW HAMMOND. " MT DILA% SIR, Downing-fire:et, Feb. 23, Igoe. Lord Hobart propores fending a letter to Lord Keith by the next conveyance, and hopes you will fend your packet. Lord St . Vincent's letter will alio go by it. Some fufpiclon is entertained of fraudulent practices going forward, which, if it Dumb' prove true, they will not be fent, unlefs all is cleared up. I will fee he is Informed of the bounds. Send Mr.—a copy. (Signed) " J. SULLIVAN.' No. Vll.—Addreffed to Sir ANDREW Hem le oN O. "MV DEAR SIR. Downing-ftreet. " I have had comfort from what Mr. —.-- informs me of the bufinefs. He lays the project will fucceed, and produce all the effed dared. Send to Lord St. Vincent." [While this letter was under reading, Oppontion took notice of an apparent informality and incorradt nefs in the collateral circumfiances el the document. The. Clerk had not Paid, that the letter was fuper fcribed to any one, which he had intimated in the cafe of the refpedive letters by which it was preceded.— Sir A. HAMMOND obferved acrofs the table, that the letter bad been addreffed to him. This did not ap pear to remove the fcruples of Oppofstion. Mr. PITT and all on his fide of the Hottfe, fignified, by geiture, their entire approbation of the document being re• ceived by the Houfe, the fame as if the fupe&rip don were not wanting to its formal regularity. Still Oppofstion preffed on the notice of the Houle the ap parent informality, when the Clerk, in turning the paper over, difcovered the fuperfcription in one of the folds. The Minifter frniled]. No. VIII.—j.SULLIVAN to Sir ANDREW HAMMOND. " MT DEAR SIR, Downing-ftreet, April it, ; 1 3 ,- 4. " When you have looked over the enclofed papers, feud them me back. If you take a copy of Captain Owen's letter, fend one a copy of it. I have in co ofidence (cut you there papers. (Signed) " J SULLIVAN." N0.1X.--Sir ANDREW HAMMOND to the Earl of BUCKING. NAMSIIIII. " MT LORD, April t. " As I find, upon reading the Eleventh Report, that Lord St. Vincent does not teem to recoiled the fecret fervice your Lordlhip committed to my care, of blocking up the entrance of Boulogne ; you will remember that his Lordlhip thought that if the charge of the prnjed was committed to the fmuggiers, it would be more likely to infure fuccefs, than if executed by the Navy. Your Lord- Snip directed use to take the whole affair under my controtil, and to draw for the expellee that would be incurred by it. I find that an impreMon is made, that I undertook and cendudcd ti.e i.ult nefs wallow the knowledge of the Hi it Lord of the Admiralty, ar.tl theref ire pray that your Lordthip would furraili me with ne celfary documents that I may exculpate mytctf. (Signed) "A. S. HAMNIOND." No. X.—From the Earl of BUCKINGHAMSHIRE to Sir ANDREW HAMMOND. "Sra, Grofvcuor•plare, 23 April, 18:5. "1 avail myfelf of the firft okportunity of anfwering your let • ter, which did not reach me till ydtcrday. You are to underitand that, hcfure you knew of it, the projedt was fulimitted to Lord St. Viuctut, who approved the plan of placing it under your e m. trout; and I f.gnilied his Majdty's orders to give you the R.m•s requifite, an,: to inform you that they should be &scarcer replaced. `. I: i: be iireuiled to mii:.e a public document of this, 1 mutt, for ohviuLs :cafons. rcqudt th.it the naa,e ot the individual, who palled co..fulentially ix-twuoi ui, lie (Signed) " No. HAstmoNn to the C0 M!..:5 , 13 LP 0, Isidtv.‘l. kas(apgr. " Gittrtztart4, N3sy ofhee.3 " Since my return to town, your prccept to the N..vy r . . . . . . . has been put into my hands.; and i And that the ford. y‘.l, to, were ailed by orders for lecret fervice. I IL.%e t:t, h.... :r to acquaint you, that the (nuts ifrued, under the .I.4te th, , Odober, 1799, were iireed by order of the Trearury; :411 - 1 I the fer,r4l fumsiffued up to the 9th April, 13or, a like °Mgr to fervices of a dtlicate nature. And though it bardlbip to tte perfon who performed the fcrvice, it e at dct; entire fatisfadlion lam of opinion, that to mention r by name, in any report before the public, would not only ger the lots of money, but opportunities to the Country 0• ads- 0 • tage from fecret fcrvice, and i n this inftance prove 2 rre.t inn . . . . • lenience to the individual. With refped ti the itrltroelions i r-- eeived for the application of the fuft fun*, I am willing to la). he. fare you privately all the particulars, if f ant alTured that it is •ae publicly reported. Bat with refped to thc feeond Ate, I bee leave to aegtiaint you, that any Lord Holtsrt lifr.iti .1 to Inc Ins Majelty's pleafure, that I thould take the projea under any COll. trout. and that the money in the funde fhould 1..: l z ted in thc hands of a private banker. and it was acco7dinpla lt.l!nd ;ta Lauds of Marrs. Harnmerney and Co. for the zrnatt.r eta: , ce: icnee of drawing for fecret lervice. (Signed) A. Ii.I\IN,ONLI" I Mr. TIERNEY obierved, that the Honourable Baronet had made nothing short of a (tired charge of perjury againft the Earl of St. Vincent. His Oa racer was far above any injury which loch an impu tation was calculated to effeet. That gallant officer might, therefore, be perfealy at reit as to that point. The quellion, however, which had been put to the Noble Earl, he conceived to be with a view to afcer lain his knowledge of the application of public money, and he could hear tellimony to the moll fair, molt lltialy honourable and pure condo& of that Noble Lord as a fervant of the public. He could bear tef timony that that Noble Lord had moil uniformly, molt conllantly, and moll fcduloufly taken care that no countenance thould be given by him, in any ac tion whatever that he did as a public man, to the ap plication of naval money to other purpofes. The stone Expedition was to be conducted by other per f,ns not officers in his Majelty's Navy. No man could deny that Lord' St. Vincent mutt have known that loch an expedition was going forward ; but then it was evident from the 4etter of Earl St. Vincent to Sir A. S. Hammond, that he could not ooffibly have any knowledge of the application of public money for that purpufe, as it was there exprefsly dated that the whole expence was to be paid by the Treafury. He could not poffibly have more completely waffied his hands of the bufinefs than lie there did He knew nothing of the depofiting of 14,0001. in Meffrs. Ham malley's Bank. As a feaman he had given his opi nion of the prafticability of choaking op one of the enemy's harbours ; but, as an honourable man, he had taken care that the public money voted for the fei vice of the Navy, fhould not be applied to a put-- pofe that was not in the kali conncded with that ICrvice. He now thanked the Honourable Baronet for having brought before Parliament and before the public a paper which had ;o completely removed all doubt upon that fobjea. kr. CANNING &dared, that he underflood that the lion. Baronet had moved for Papers, which he thought were calculated to repel a charge Made againit him to the application of public money in his office. When thefe documents were controlled with other evidence, the public would then judge bow far he was right in that conjeatire. Mr. FOX laid, that the Right Honourable Gen. demon had thought proper to forget the other part of the Honourable Baronet's defence, which Rated that the evidence of Lord St. Vincent was incorreEt. When the whole of the fubjed came to be explained. he was well convinced that nothing that was the leaf improper could be alledged to have exifled in any part of the public conduit of that Noble Lord. It would then be manifeft, that there was the utmolt corrednefs in every thing he did as a public man ; that there was the molt honourable corrednefs in every thin he raid as to the tranfadion alluded to, as well as throughout the whole of his Adminiftration. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCIIEQIJER Paid, the language of hi. Lordiirip would bear this conftrudion—..The tranfattion may occation expence, but to the expence incur red he had no ohjedion ; but he difapproved of tiro charge being defrayed out of the Navy funds." Mr. GREY admitted Lord St. Vincent was ap prifed of the airair by tome means, but he protelled againft the- application of Naval money. None in confequence was ilfued ter this purpole, and to this particular the interrogatory dirediy applied. He knew he never authorifed any fich payments, and his Lortifhip Rood wholly clear in the tranfanion. Mr. WALLACE—" The Honourable Baronet, (Sir A. S Hammond) was to undertake the fervice, and the Admiralty was to provide the resources."— (A cry of No ! f o!) Mr. G REY—" I'he reprelentation is precifely the' reverfe." Sir A. S. HAMMOND—" Were the funds to be fupplied from my pocket' Lord St. Vincent writes he is fatisfied that the fervice will be properly per formed—that he had read the enclofure refpe&ing it, and that it has his entire approbate n."—(A cr . r of Read! Read!)—on which the Speaker gave. diredien to the Clerk to read No. 2 and No. 3, which wcre read accordingly." Mr.WALLACE—" I have, in no retpel, miltat ed the matter as far as I underitand it. The funds, his Lordthip acknowledges, were to be fupplied, altho' they were to be aired from the Treasury." Mr. TIERNEY—‘ , I !villa Lord St. Vincent did refute the funds." Mr. GREY—" Lord St. Vincent dinindly flys, the whole expences are to he detrayed firrin the Trek fury ; he protetts agaiatt any application if Naval money to loch a purpole ; and I have authority for laying, he would have fioner his office ; or, to use own expreffion, tic', :are rather thrun his tight hind into the tire. t!,:n tee confcnted to the due ct Naval money for any 'itch obka." WALLA C E— 4 What I (aid rod'. that !Ilcra was nothing of that 100.1 on tt: face of thr P , ti.Cr'. I could lay nothinc tc private communicat; , r , made to the Hon. Gentleman." Mr. SULLIVAN lair:, t'tat knowing Lord Vincent to he an liono, ra •.e man, he n.alt bitn ; but, it he had rot laid fo ;Jimick, he fbania have though: that his Lordibip was .icquamted the circumilances which had bee.. ailu,tr t to. Mr. VANSITTART contekided r i•, documents now before rte Houle ;::ov. .; :;1 A. S. Hammond had n.a. tilheal Navy I; ; • 1(11 ,1 fufficient authority. The CHANCELLOR of the I:. then atkeki, if this tioft the ' t:.