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P.II2LIAMENT.ARr PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, TUFSDAY, FEB. s. The further corfuleration of the Apical Caufe, Lucina v. Craa - furd, was pottpotiel lbe rills upon the table were forwarded; among there, the Place and P. Pi; )1 Bill, and the Malt TAX Bill, feverak went through Colon:it:as of the who.: hook•. The formsr Ast reerircd a tli-ht verbal ::m:•. Intent, formally movsil by Lord N IPI FR, which apps:irsd to be reCtina of an oatillTnisi in bill, of the word Tax. .1 he bill wu orderol to be r..2:,rted t,rniurrow. The! ar: of CAMDF.N preterite,: an accoont of the hate or the Anny in 6: United upon •hr t.t January., 1803. 1 hip , on hts Lordfhip's mrrion, tva- orillyi it tube printed. SI ASISII FAPEIU. Lord MULGP .kVE laid on the tale Supple mentary Papers rel-ti tl:c timilar to thole I:oriented t. the Co: unions on the prc,:edilig day. Earl SPENCER, in the abkoce rf a Noble Friend of his (Lord Grenville) ‘vithed to fubmit to their Lordthips the leries of motions which had been read yetterday. As Minitters had taken Come time t.) confider the fobjeft, he would, without farther preface, move, " That an humble Addrefs be pre tented to his Majetty, praying for a Copv of any in- formation Which had hcen tectiveti, reipeaing the conference which Mr. Iriere mentioned in his lever of the sth of March, ISo4, as about re) take place next day with M. Cevallo, lhould be laid before the }lnure." Lord MULGRAVE begged leave to affore the Noble Earl that no document of that nature was to be found in the 'Jae of which he was the head. If ki s LoNtlhip &mild take the trouble of referring to No. XIV. of the Supplementary Correfpondence. he would find the fubjea allud..d to ; hot n o a a oa l communication of what had paffed in that ii:Lt view had ever been tranlinitted. Earl SPENCER next moved for Copies of the Notes of Mr. Frere, of the 231 and z4th February, 1804, to M. Cevallos, and of the aufwer of the lat ter, of the z7th of the fame month. Lord MULGRAVE (Wed that no documents of the precife date were in exigence. Through an er ror of M. d'Anduaga, thole notes were Itat•ed IA have paired in the month of February, when 'het- really were interchanged on the correfponding dates in the preceding month, and were inferted in the !La deli very of papers. Earl SPENCER next moved, " that an Addrefs Thould be prefented to his Majclty, praying Copies of the anfvrer returned by Lord Hawkefoury to the Note of M. D'Andnaga, of the 9th of March, 5804." Lord MULGRAVE Hated, that no anfwer had been returned to it ; and on Earl Spencer wifhing know whether the fame anfwer would apply to the feveral Notes of the ,Spanilh Minifter to the Secre tary of State for the Foreign Department, beating the refpedive dates of the 3oth March, May 1, and December 2 2 ; Lord Mulgrave anfwered that it did. Earl SPENCER next moved, " that the fubilance of fuch information a, had been tranfmitted by M. D'Amluaga, t , ) his Majelly's Government, through the medium of the Secretary of State, relating to the Spanifh armament in Ferrol, fhould be laid bi.forc the Houfc.." He thought it was extremely impor tant, that their Lordllips fhculd be put in potfellion of thi, information, as it was particularly alluded to by M. D'Anduaga, in his letter of the zzd Decem ber, to Lord Harrowby. Lord I`,.IULGRAVE (bated, that the particulars of that information were now in the COMIC of prepa- ration, and that he hoped to be able to lay them on the table to-morrow. Earl SPINCER then moved for a copy of the or der on which Mr. Frere grounded his demand of the prohibition of the fate of prizes in the Spanifh ports. Lord HAWKESBURY could affitre the Noble Earl that no order of that precife nature had ever been tranfmitted by his Majetly's Government to Mr. Frere. It was true, that Minifier had infirttaions to require of the Spanith Court, that his Majelly's (hips Mould be placed on the footing of the molt favoured nation, and it was not impoffible but, under the au thority of that order he might have conceived him (elf julli fi ed in making the demand which the Noble Earl fuppofed to have direitly emanated from Go vernment ; but he could politively affirm that no di reet order of that tenor had ever been tranfatitted to the Englifh Minifler at Madrid.. Earl SPENCER laid, that the lafl point on which be had to trouble their Lordfhips, was not of imme diate urgency, as it went only to afcertain whether the amount of the fubfidy to be paid to France, by Spain, in confequence of the Convention of the 19th of Oilnber, a:Q.3, was payable in French litres or Spanith teals. It wa:: deferable that this point lhould be afcertaincd, as it was not Bated in liufficiently clear reruns by Mr. Five, in his correlPondence with his Government. Lord MULGRAVE anfwered, that Mr. Frere had been at tnrte dillance in the country ; an cline's, however, had i►een tent to him latt night, and he tin. derdood he was arrived in town, although he had as yet no opportunit y of corn muri.:atin4 with him. On the next day be hoped he fhould enabled to latizfy the Noble Earl on this point. A (port converfation took place, rtlat:rg to the fuppofed conference between M. Cevallos and Mr. Frcre, on the Gth of March, tlio4, as antionnced in the letter of the latter, on the preceding day, in which two Noble Secretaries of State, and Lords Spencer, Carlille, Darnley, and King, nude foul: lhoic obfcr •ations. Lord HAWKESBURY emphatically aff.7rted, that no correfpondence whatever, fuhfecittent to the jth of March, was to be found ia the Fortign Office, a elating to that fuppofed conference. There had been, isowcver, a conference between the Spann Secretary and the p:•rfon ailing as his Majelty's Mihiaer at the Court of Madrid, oh the 3d of March, 1804. ; the fob fiance tf which was to be found in the papers which had been on their Lordfh;ps' table. Pollibly there might have been fame miflake on the part of Mr. Frere, which, now that he was in town, he may be able to ratify. Lord KING could not fay that the explanation of the Noble Secretary was by any means fatistaaorv, )fition to the palllrge in tilt ljourned till to-wurrusv. as it was in diteB op poi luta of Mr. Frcre.—Adj • HOUSE OF COMMONS. The Hon. Mr. Foley toot the oaths and his feat, M Wernher . for Droitwteh, in the room of Sir E. Winnington, deeeafed ; ati Ath did Lord Proby, as one of the Reprefentatives of the Town of Bueltit:6ham. The Exchequer Sill, fill was read a ftermd time, and commit ted for to-morrow, on the motion of Mr. The Affrired Tax Cusemilloncra Bill was paffed through a Connu;!t ,, e the whole Mout:: the Report was received, and the d to lie rfa.l a third time to.ruureiw. Mr. f.1.1.:0TT aiked, if the Return nu de to the Houfe of the Amount cf Colenel l t ench'a Levy, was inelutive or exclulive of theme) Pori, (tattd in that Paper ? 'the t ARY at WAR was not prepared to give the Hon. Motobf r any aea.:_te Information oi, the tubjeet. He was rather inclined to bh. ve that the jos included the whole of the number r.;hd by that UlliCtsr. However, he ilinuld make inquiry at the ot the .-Vjiit.int nerd, and sviinbl .;ten very readily corn. to tilt ilet. Member any information which he might u.quire on that point. Mr. Al.l X INDER brought up the Report of the Army ERl m;.ttu: ettetslav's Committee. Ou the Clerk reading the Rao lat'oti whit Fuvides fur the expellees on the Scoff, The VARY at WAR informed au Hon. Gentleman op. polite, that he had liner yelterday looked at the votes of laft year, out tumid by a coniparifon with that now before the Houle, thlt tlsc tx:eis contained ill this year's ellen:ate amnuntfil to 73,cc01. and nut it 4cool as that Hon. Gentleman had then fuppofed. Un t he Refolutinn for granting a fum for the fupport of the Mi lk..ry Eltaiiiiffinient in Ireland being read, SFCRETARY at WAR moved, that the Order of yeiter dar Ihmth.ibe ilifcliarged, and that the fum of 604621 Its. Bd. Iliould be voted ialtead thereof, being a redo Mon of about 70,000 L 0.-tiered. The SECRETARY at WAR moved the firft readiog of the Mutiny Bill. filr.l , it.ttiClS (laud, that as he had miffed the proper opportu ni y, thought fit now to inquire of the Right Honourable the Secretary at W.r ii the 360 Artillery and 6454 Infantry at Cey lon were Al lid lt ? The Si - CR ETARY at WAR (aid, that he believed there were 3 N3tiv,s Th, Itaoktions were then read and agreed to. IRISH LOAN. I.nrd ARCI4II3ALD HAMILTON moved, Thst there he I lid before the Houle. •ceounts of the fume borrowed in England for the (mice of Ireland, trom the sth of January 170, to the fame period in the prefent year, difLoguifiting each year. That there be Lid before the Houle, an account of the quantity of flank of Ireland Nt tea in circulation in the year 1804, dill:a -1 guilfing thofc under 51. 1 hat there be laid before the lioufe, a ftatcment of the time at which the Loan for the feevice of Ireland wa4 negotiated fart year, alie Wei of the terms upon which it was agreed. Alcoa ftaternent of the Price:: which Rank of Ireland Stock bore at various periods from the sth of January, 170, to the sth of ja nuarr, in t! c prcrent year. Mr. FOS] F:R. informed the Hoare, that the Noble Lnrd had done him the honour to communicate his intention drinking th-de motions, and he certainly had no ohje chitin to them. There was one circtuttutte.: however, which he Iheuld xplaio, that 1./As The lank of England had heeli amnied to, to lend over a coniiil,r able fum or - money to Ireland, intt they w. re impelled to moil nit it to Ireland, at par. The [h• eMors, howcw.x, n lured, as many of them dealt in Exchange mid (inn a trallradi ~,, 11101 f 11C Injurious to th..it charader. 'ch., Tr. afury then feat the aunts int of the lum to which he referred itt Bank Port rsillo. The day of their being ilfecd was previonfly announced, in order that every one who thow.,ht fit might have an w,,partunity of bidding for them. They were at tint fa up at t but the people would not purchafe at that rate. The price of Rank Bats was then lowered until it was brought down to par, and there the matter now Rands. The quer-ion was then put on the different Rdalutions, and carried nein. con. CHARGE AGAINST SIR H. POPHAM. Mr. KINNAIRD, purfuant to his notice on a for mer day, role to move for the produftion of certain papers, calculated to enable the Houle to judge of a Charge made in a Report of the Navy Board, on the fubjeft of certain very large charges for the repairs of the Mips Romney and la Senfible, while under the command of Sir Home Popham in the Red Sea. On a fubjea of fuch importance, he thought it incum bent on him, both continently with his duty to the Houle, and in fairnets to the Hon. and Gallant Of ficer whole conduit was implicated, he hoped the lioute would indulge him while he flared a few of the circumnanccs which induced him to inflitute an inquiry into the grounds of this charge. He hoped the licule would do him the juflice to believe that he had not taken up the tubjeft on light grounds, or from batty conclutions. It was not till rumours on this butinefs had long met the *public ear—it was not till he had, for feveral months, teen a publication containing the molt feriotts charges againit the Ho nourable Officer, and °Nerved that this publication remained unanfwered, that he had felt hiintelf called no longer to poll pone the confideration of a fohjeft, in which, not only the chandler of the Britifh Navy, but the whole fyftem of economy in the public expen diture, were intimately involved. I tideedeit was the lefsnecetrary for him to offer any apology on the pre terit occafion, for while he was confident the Hotafe would never Phew themfelves deficient in a defire to uphold the honour of our brave defenders, they would evince a determination not lets firm, that no officer, however high his charafter, or extenlive his merits, fhould be tuffered to wane the public money introit ed to his care with unneceffary and ruinous prodiga lity. The Houle had ninon a difpolition to aft on loch principles, in the appointment of a commiffion to inquire into Naval abufes, and, he trotted, the fame ideas would continue to regulate their delibera tions. It would, furely, not be difputed that the whole duty of a Britilh Officer gas not confined to his mere conduit in the hour of battle. He would never forget that he had other, and not lets important offices to perform, in watching over the dittribution of the national refources committed to his care, and that all accounts were to be patted from the validity of his affurances that no idle or unneeet fairy expenditure had occurred. Having made the general ()Nervations, he proceeded to the immediate tubjeft on which he had rifen to added's the Houle. It would be recollefted, that about the end of the year itico, the Romney and la Senfible were fitted out for the put pole of co-operating in the expedition to Egypt, which took plac= in the Spring of the fubliquent year. About May 1833, as neatly at he could rccol;t:ft, thete rattined to this country. l'iev:out to this peri d, bills from India had reaches the Ac:m.:..uty, to the amount vino leis than eighty thoufanci r ounds for the repair of thele vetfels. The Admiralty Board svcie naturally anunitheal at fo enormous a charge, and they accordingly infirueted the CenunifTioners of the Navy Board to examine into all the flutes and repairs which thefe veffcls had received, and from the tine of their departure from England, and to call for the levet al Journals in u Lich accounts of the expenditure had been prefervcd.— On the tc.ne and charafter of the Report made ;) theft Conintiffioners, lie had beets principally inclined to reit his arguments to the Houle for the pt oduflion of the papers, with motions for which he meant to conclude. At the time the Romney failed, the was Rated to he completely provided with limes, of all forts, for twelve months. Yet, as foon as the reacted Cie Cape of Good Hope, which was before the expiration of three months, it was found that fre(h fupplies of flores were obtained—and, in the cod& of the months of November and December, other fupplies, to the amount of four thouland pounds wets charged to the public. This was finely a very exti4ordinary charge, but it was one contained in the Report of the Commiffioners of the Navy Board, and cotiftquently, worthy of the utmnfl attention. The next point to which he wiffied to dire& the attention of the Houfe, was the comparative ftatemeht of the Journal of the Captain, and the feveral othcrjournals of the expenditure which had come under the infpec tion of the Commiflioners. On this part of the cub- jed it was impollible for him to go into any technical detail:—but it would be fufficient to refer gen er ally to the tone and temper of the Report, the language of which clearly imported that the Journals were both irregular and in many inflances contradifrnry. In the Report it was diflindly (laced, that articles for the ufe of the Romney and la Senfihle had been pur•. chafed at a muff enormous rate, and that other arti. eke, on the contrary, had not been accounted for in a tatisfadory manner, or rather had been difpnled of at 1r Is than the 2ctli part of their real value. Among the charges was one for a fifty hundred anchor, purchaf ed in the room of one which had been 101 l in the In dian feas. Here, however, a remarkable circumstance occurred, that when the inquiry was inflituted at Sheernefs as to the (fate of the Romney, it was flirt ed that when the failed from England the had the identical anchor which was found on board after her return. While this was mentioned, it did not at all appear that the other anchor, in room of which the fifty hundred anchor was purchafed, had ever been nr if it was loft, that it had ever been recovered. In addition to this he had to add, that, in the report, charges for ftores are taken notice of to the amount of four or five thoufand pounds, of which the necef fity of no other account is given than that it was de rived from the high charader of the officer under whole command the velfels were at the time the charges were fuppafed to have been incurred. It was afferted that the Romney, when the left Eng land, was fully provided for twelve months with all requifite (torts. lint after the molt minute inquiries, the Commirroners had Brand, that in a very Hutto time after her fariiirg the had received repairs, and that nearly nine thouland pounds had been charged for there repairs. Sorely in this there was vet y little of the appeararce of wconomy, and it was tit, at fuch a period as the prefent. that the brilinen thatild ire folly inveiligated. The Commillioners had Itated the charges to he enormous, and it was proper that the grounds of their decifion thould he rimed. With refped to the charges on the repairs of the other vef fel, the fame opinion as to extravagance was deliver ed, mid the fame neceflity for full inveftigation ezift ed. Whether the Hon. officer at the time the fop. pored repairs were made, was tinder the orders of Admiral Rainier, or whether, as he had heard it in tinuated, he had an independent command, he con ferred himfeif unable to detiele. If he was under the orders of Admiral Paiuier, it certainly mutt he al lowed to have been a molt extraordinary circutn fiance, that the fuperiar officer had not been c"nfult ed on a tlep which was furely one of very great con fequence, and neceffarily attended with va9 expence. The Rep to which he alluded was the changing nf, la Senfible into a thirty-two gar frigate. The Hononrable officer might have had grounds for this alteration, but it could not be pretended that he had communicated his reafons to the Admiral on the Eaft India Nation. On the contrary it appeared, that a month previous to the arrival of the (hip at Calcutta, the cordage, rigging, and other articles neceffiny to form the alteration, had been ordered and were in a finite of preparation. Thus, it appeared, that the Honourable officer had taken the whole refporifibility of the Instinct's on himfeif, and it was proper that the gronnds on which he proceeded fhould be explain ed. It was ftated that before the Senfible had been altered, her fituation had been fully examin ed, but what he had jolt flared refpen%ng the or ders for ftores, completely refuted this idea. There were other accounts of tranfaEtions in the Red Sea which were not a little curious. The Honourable officer feemed to have found, contrary to general opinion, every thing quite aa converient for the repair of (hips as if he had adtially been in the heart of the ri ver, and in the vicinity of our arfenals. It was proper that the public thould under:land the whole of there trantadions, which were neceffary to complete the view of the fubjed. Conneded with this part of the queflion, the thould alto take the liberty of moving for certain letters from Marquis Wellefley relative to the expenditure of the veffils under the command of the Honourable Officer while in the India ICA:•.— Before he fat down, he wifficd to fay a few words as to the mode of inveffigation which he had thou ;lit it his duty to prupofe. It might be affied, whether this was the only potlible mode of it ye ligatiro the fubjed ; whether there was not anoth o tribu nal, before which the men:* of the queoi n might not be more &fist:glorify decided ? It :nig] t beeurged that the Board of Admiralty were much more competent to try a miettion of this kind than an atremltly compofed as that was ssi iclt he had the honour to addrefs. To this his anfwer *as plain and fatisfadory. Ile had heard, on au tlanity which to him appeared highly relpeetatne, that the late Board of Admiralty had detigned to in- Ititute a criminal prolecution againft tile Hotioura• ble Officer. The change of adminiftration which • took place, however, prevented them from cart) ing their views into effed, and there was no profped of the prefent Board of Admiralty fedowing tip the reffiltition of their predecerloi s. When he fa w the Honourable Officer not only invelltd with an impor tant command, but apparently high in the confi dence of his Majelly's Minideto, he tilovglit it was not at all unnatural to fuppofe, that nn fort of pro ceeding relpeBing the Honourable Officer's condo& was in contemplation. It might be laid again, that this fubjeO would, with notch more propriety, have been fubmitted to the confideration of the Cemmil lion appointed to inquire into naval abures. For his part, he thould have felt pride and fatisfadion in having the merits of the rotation tried b:oro. that Board. Never, be believed, did any men, inverted with great powers, diteharge their duty to the Hnufe and the public with more zeal, and more fidelity. But a; it was underflood that this Board bad it not in their power to take cognizance of the butinefs, lie had felt it his duty to fubmit it to the e of the higheß tribunal in the cow prounds he hoped he would receive ft gurity of hia motives. He walled it the Honourable Officer, not leis tl ar. of •he :hat niattn- Ihould be fatisfafloii:y what was Rated in the Reputt to which he had .•: often alluded, !hoo!d turn out to be unfounded, fhould lincerelv- rejoice at it, and lie WAS fore t! Honourable Officer would be harpy to have an o; , • portunitv of vindicating hi; condaa. After a few wore üb . fervations, the Honourable Gentleman con chided by moving— For a Copy of the Statement of the R7pain of the Romney in TBOO. A Cnpy of t"e Report of the ConiniiiTisners of t'ac Navy Bnar refpeeting the Repairs of the Romney and la Setifilde, while ti-d, the command of Sir Home Porilati, rrefetited in Fehruory t ; 4 ,• 4. A Copy of all the Account; of h'r. Spearman, the Otlicrr soui furcrititended the pin - chafe u.` Stores for thole (hips iir the Red :sr.., and any Ripon of the Navy Board on the (abject. And Copies of all Letters from M3rgliii t 1 dl.G.y It) the Court of Directors refreding the fame BuGa.fs. . As f ion as the &ft motion was put from theClia'o Sir HOME POPHAM got up, and iorured the Houfe, that no man in exittence was more ariiiHo than himft.:l; to have every part of !u condo& lo;:. canvatied ; no exertion had been omitted on his pal! to have a fair opportunity of vindicating liimlelffront any charges which were fo induffrioutir circulated against kim in an anent =MS pamphlet, from which the Honourable Gentleman who introduced the btoi nels, appeared to have drawn all his information. The Honourable Member had expreffed his furprife, that no anfwer had been given to that pamphlet. He begged leave to aifure the Honourable Gentleman and the Houfe, that this had as ifen from no hark wardnefe on his part, to meet the fcandalous falle hoods which that pamphlet contained. The fat':t e however, was, that a certain degree of caution and alarm in the profs had retarded the publication of his anfwer; which now, however, was before the public. From this anfwer, he begged leave to read a few extracts of letters which had pat Ted bet'veeit him and the Board of Admiralty, from which it world be clear beyond all pollibility of doubt, that he had on every occafinn evinced the molt ardent &Ire, not only to throw no obttacles in the way of the invelli gation of the charges, but had, on the contrary, preffed upon the Board of Admit alty, every confide. ration which feemed to him the !call calculated to accelerate the difcaffi on. In iiipport of this i.bferva tion, the Honourable proceeded to read art extract from a letter to Lord St. Vincent, as Firt Lord of the Admiralty, in Italy, 03..)3, in which he alludes to the grufs and iiiamendcd charges made againit him, and foheits their Lsrdillips to tote no time in ordering a flail invelligation of his conditet. To tins letter he received an antwer, that the bufincts (hook! be referred to theCommiflioners of the Navy Board, and as loon as they had prepared a report on the lubjeCt, a copy Humid be foenithed him. The Honourable Officer, !lilt anxious to accelerate the inveltigation, wrote another letter, reprefenting the proriety of his being called before the Navy Board, to afford fuch explanations as would materially faci litate a final decifion. 'rhe whole of his correlpon dence with the Admiralty had, he maintained, this difpatch in the invettigatiun as the objed dearest to his heart. It could not be at all contended, there fore, that if the matter was not folly inveffigated, any blame was to be attached to him in the butinefs. Indeed, from a review of the whole of his condo 1, he had no reatim to Ihrialt from impiiry. He was confident that on every occation, and during the whole of the fervice on ivhich the charge was founded, he had never looked to private iaterea, but to the in. terell and the glory of his country. He had ample tettimonies of the difcipline, the healthinefe, and the failor-like appearance of the crew of the Romney while under his command, and he confoled himfelf, amidll malignant and unfounded charges, Oy the rcfleaion that he had been fortunate ettough to re ceive the good opinion of the molt refpeClable melt in the Honourable profeflion tr, which he belonged. He was never confcions of having given an order for a fingle article which did not teem to him neceirary to the public fervice. The Honourable Officer next referred to a letter to Sir Evan Nepean about the end of July, ifio3, fish prtiiing the expediency of battening the invetiioation to a dole. He voted I another letter to the First Lei d of the Admiralty, propolng a number of epiettions to be put by the Commillioners of the Navy 11 iard, all of which he pled d hi.ofelf to anfwer in foe:, ain inner as onto pleteiy to do away any charot againtt hi rr. Vet though he had carneitiy withed thete queilinns to he propoled, his proplition 100 l met with no fort of at tention, and toe inv , oi;gailoti continued to be pro n.:sled. As a prod ut the falfity el 0:: charges 0 .1 Lim, the I ,yid .1 ieticr limn an toiicer now employed in the feiv ce ef the country. this was a voluntary aPidavit from a g.m tleinan who went out :1h Limn as hearth Lieuteneint. and bad gradua4 to be outlier. The Linguae: of the letter was to the highelt degree gratifying to the Ilon. Officer's feelings. It pitneg!rized every part of his concitiA, deferibed the clfoges of ext. a vagance as Wk. and malignanr, represented him es a man of too high honour an.' :me?, itY to wane the nati-nal refourr:ss committed to his care, and Ite!,t him tip as an Oricieer who lived only fir the p r of v ei:- ty, the honour, and the glory of his eouotry. Sina lar taimony in hi., favour the Hon •I from the letter of a relpecchahle Gentleman in todir, in which he attributes the 1.0“.•ty of. the Calcutta traa (poi t in the Red Sta to the sxei lions or Sir Fiume Pol2ham, his officers, and crew. Ile mimed i-n tl:c awn - Mk:ince of I,i) :irerry, , t being made ty. - to pnrdlitnent as a It?.,;%;•ioill of his h.nticenve. the Board of Ad•ttira:•y tttoatz:;',. thq !tad a c..s• 111 , 4 ;x nut ;Tahiti hit - nov/1 d:d they r.ot I;:-%ag him t a coint martial . 1 hat tl)..ty were not unwill n: t have done II) can fcarciy !!e &met!, :tr.! their - ing taken no Ileps in the bidaleis WAS is plea y gaa th tt they were convinced that tubilantiate any chat ge him pin abot tire. Nt% leis than tllirieen mot.tfr after ld• Tf• turn elapi - ed before any t cp,•l I I ttoed, attd.tii * that the Report was bethre the public nearly a ve,t no Reps had been taken to foilow tip the charge . I - 3e was happy that the lubjz-1 WaF now bro ug h t t c e ward, and he trifled that there would rot h:t a t! fentient voice in agreeing; to the production or Papers for which the Hon. Gentleman h to moved 14e was anxious to have no ittformati,ti stet : ha, r and he was highly gratified to think that lie now have an opportnaity of vindica--in? c•inslii the confidcratiun I bd . . .re fo hig:l n tribunal. litffore he t! • ' intry. On woe I 1-lon.Oflieer Animadverted on the fcr.:enc: t• • full credit fur the I, Reiwrt of the , Commitlirm.rs of the Navy it fat the fake of I was Iliac ajirlittcd by ti.i; Cuinruilioners, • • . F l