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PARIAMENTART PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF COMMONS, TUESDAY, APRIL to. Mr. WILBERFORCE motto!, that the Petition from the Cloth workers of York fhire, Sonterfetihire, and Gloucefterfhire, prefented on the ayth of February, be read; which was accordingly done; and they were referred to a Committee. Mr. OWEN prefented India papers, and Mr. IRWIN,from the Infpcdtors of Excite and Cuitonts, brought up fundry papers. Mr. BROOKE. moved for an account of old copper ufed in the Ring's duck-yards, alto of fheathing nails, dtc. now in fince,diain guilhing the quantities at prefent in ftore--Ordered. Mr. ROSE moved an account of the quantify of ballaft delivered for the lalt 30 years by the Trinity.houfe, with the profits and the prices paid by collier% and other coatting yards. Mr. I.EE obtained kave to bring in a Bill for better fupprying Market Towns and Cities in Ireland, with Waren Mr. VANSiTTART moved for an Account of the Amount of S.atupt on Game Licences in Ireland, finct the Year 1801;diftits gtiifhing each year and county.—Granted. Mr. W. DUNDAS brought up fundry Papers relative to charges ' of Volunteer Corps, and gave notice of his Intention to move the lAtimate on Friday. • Mr. FOR.STE.it brotight In a Bill to prevent the counterfeiting of dollars in Inland, which was read a ft:wand...ism, and ordered to be printed. rautoLlistx esscrusit. Mr. H.. THOR,.NVON tenved to difcharge the order for the Petition of Sir F. Burdett being taken into confideratitim 'which be had expeEted Gentle men on the other Mk would have moved, to have • withdrawn. The day wai near approaching, and Ito inconvenience could relult from difcharging the order, as Vir F. Burdett or his friends could be heard before the Committee notwithflanding. did not think it advifeable to have two Committees fitting on the fame general bulinefs. He concluded bj Moving, that the order for 11.turfday, May 2,be read. Mr.o It LENT.Y thought the Petition could not be taken oft the Order Book, and stifhed the matter poltpOned till to•morrotv. After lonic converfation, the Speaker explained the Rate of the hufincfs before the Houle. A Peti. Lion againft a Gentieman, then a Member, had been prefented, complaining of his want of qualiEcation. This had been rendered ufelefs by his feat being taken away by a Committee. The queltion now was, how to difpole of the order complaining of rune who had no longer a feat in the Houle, and this flood for Thur next, when the Houfe mtifl ballot for a Committee to do %hat the Houfe might deem need:- Cary. The Aft provided that a Petition might he withdrawn by thole who prefented it, in cafe of the feat being vacated by death, or in any other man ner. If the parties did not apply, there might be a qtiellion, whether the Houfe fhould appoint a Com mittee to try the matter of which no refult could be getio_d? After explanation from Mr. Creevey, Mr. H. Thornton, ;owl Pone words from Mr. P. Moore, it being undetllnod that difcharging the order pre cluded not the right of Sir E. Burdett to be heard be fore the Coromittce, the order was read and dilcharged. rnsiceas PARISH. Sir T. NIETCALIE moved the fecond reading of the Pincras Mr. METCALFE thought it his duty to take the fenfe of the Houle on thi> matter. This was the third Bill of the kind. In the IA Bill feven Audi tors were to be chofen by the Pariih ; but in this they were to be elated by the very Directors themfelves, to the prejudice of the privileges of the parith. Sir T. METCALFE explained. This Bill was merely to remedy the defeds of the lall. Objedions might be met stud accommodated eafily and fairly in the Committee. The oppolition arofe from the lower claires in the Farah, as the object of the Bill was to place the r.anagement in the hands of nobility, gen try, and reputable inhabitants, in the manner of St. George's and Mary -la-bonne, &c. Mr. CA LC RA F obferved, that the county 'Wernher who brought it in abandoned it, becaufe he did not find the fopport in the pari!h which he was taught to expeA. Mr. P. MOORE confirmed the laft natement of Mr. Caleralt, and made feveral remarks on the Elate of the parith of Pancras, where the direEtors wanted auditors of their owl, choofidg, to examine their own accounts.—On a divilinn there appeared—For the fe• cr•nd reading 47—Againft it 30—Majority ta.—The bill was accordingly read a fecond time. cossres. The ATTORNEY GENERAL made fome ob fervations on the Clergy Refidence Bill, relative to the (Upends of citrates. A claufe was then iwro. duced, which had hen 101 l in the other Houle, and he therefore withed now to bring in a leparate Bill. The Bilhops had already power to tee that citrates in refidence under 4001. a year were properly paid ; but he &mild with that in all livings exceeding that turn, the Ripend lhould amount to one fi fth, fo that in a living of t ocol. a year, the officiating curate, the incumbenttheing a non-refident, fhould receive tool. a year. He moved, therefore, for leave to bring in a bill for encouraging the refidence of tlipendiary cu rates in their cores. Sir JOHN NEWPORT highly approved the bill, and hoped the provifions would be extended to Ire land. He tl ght it much better to make the eta blilhed clergy attend to their duty, than to deprive ether religions of the privileges of fubs. The CHANCELLOR of the E CHEQUER (aid, that a Learned Gentlem..n intended to bring in a bill of a fimilar nature, refpraing Ireland. • Mr. PITTON hoped that refidence would be at tended to. Mr. CREEVEY thought the bill a dire 4 attack on rcclelianical property. . The ATTORNEY GENERAL espreffed his de. fire that filch a-bill timid.' be framed for Ireland.— • The indent Wlti only an aeceffary to a former .Al,f and it would ineumber it were it attempted to intro duce into it the church affairs of Ireland. There were many particulars relative to that country, of which he had nut at prefent futficient information for \ the Parpofe. • , %, Dr. DUIGENAN Paid, that the Bill he bad the honour to move for wouktembrace the objees allud. al to by the Hon. Baronet. • Sir J. NEWPORT expelled his fatisfalion at , 1 what left from the Attorney General. • Leave was granted to bring in the Bill. • Mr. JAMES FITZGERALD role to call the at tention of a Right Houourablc Gentleman to a moil important futtjeB, refpeaing the trial of an individu- Al in the three different divifions of the Empire for offences bailable or not ; when the Speaker interrup cd him, by obterving, that he cculd riot• speak at f L ogilt withesut Maio! kakthimg fpccific to the Houk. Mr. prTzcEßAtti Wanted to and whenit teas finen - d'in . te move to . The ATTORNE'Y GENERAL of certain quellion wasiiiii peo ch • g in the and when that was .over, he h ped no occur in prnero fi ng fome fix& edam. ! ''_. .1 warm MM . Sir A. S. HAOND iu6ved for the Navy board - to'ti , Adiiiralty, .., April, 1805 ; and of an inclefed fiktutirih ~og to the asstiver of the i‘L*ylitrard to the Centrivittee : of Naval Inquiry. After a fgw. wore, fame lir C. Pot.), Sir A. HAKMOND laid, that no time had been loft in endeavouring to recover certain tnprries. Tte matter had been We js i efy . re the Law Officers.—Or dered7-T,he papy,Ws:' 1 T e,.4 a6erivards brought up and 'LtiLl On the table. s a Lsor Ps , 'f*, room reel ON THE Tt.111411 steerreei The. OHAP ICt i t. f.:Oß 'pf - the ElErgpvgt, McivenlieltqaiirY bretie!CO6inittee, which, I* are 'ciu'digisSir rml• Whoa theasasues wentread, which we have already *jawed, ' Mr. W H IT Bjt EA D. enfe; 'anti' ofetve di Aid the . liff contained Me: (Medi *ties lie had a l ireiidy 1 lead to the . Hoisre:"l'ls prosted that the 'geniis! Ireport was welfoultsied. it was declared by the decifion of the Hence, to be no breach of privilege . to circulate frch a lift I but it would be thought a breach were he to Rate, that fuch a liit was circu lated by the Treafury, ;hough of that fad he had an doubt.—(A /41,40--Gentlemen wkight laugh, Ink in his view of the fohjeel,.he thought the tranfac• don highly difcrediahre to the Right Hon. Gentle. man oppo4e. iit was ready to prove that circu lation— (No I No !)‘--lie believed many of thofe who cried No, No, might he brought as his witnefres.— The Right Hon. Gentleman fhould recollect how he . Roo I. He had come forward and boldly taken upon hitirrelf a greet rerponSbility as to the conduit in which. Lord Melville had been concerned. He had dared and challenged inveffigation. He had plumed hirofelf on ,the purity of his individual chiraeter, and confldetcd himielf as being, (hiring a long poli tical life, perfealy unimpeachable. '1 i-is was not his ( Mr. Whitbread's) intention, at prefent, to qua don. He had moll magnanimonily declared his rea diners to go upon his ti ial ; but it did appear that he wiflied to be tiled by a Pet of judges of his own naming. To fuch conduit nnqueßionably a NO- - cion might attach, not very creditable to Mm, Sifter' all he had Paid. His conduct, indeed, appeared quite ludicrous. " Here t am;" Paid the 'tight LlO nourable Gentleman, " ready to meet any thing that you have to fay."—" Well, will you name your judges, one by one, by a fair and open eleetion,?". —" No," lays he, " I don't mean that ; I will have a ballot, and name my own judges : in other word., my nominees !" It was a fort of !ham fight on the part of the Right Hon. Gentleman. He draws up two divifions of his volunteers, Pets his Major at the bead of thole oppofed to his own, and fettles bel;,re hand that be u to be victorious. He had entirely withdrawn Lord Melville front the contideration of the Conithittee, and had fubßituted limit g.diantly himfelt, declaring, that there was nothing at all in . the Tenth Report, from the beginning to end, in' which his chara&er was in the yeti implicated. But, in truth, he was under claderable fufpicions, par-. titularly rerpeeting the ferret and delicate frantic- Lions with Government, and the rico,: he had giveii to Lord Melville for Mr. Jellicoe. Had he really read the Tenth Report r He feemed to forget him- I fell altogether when he raid he was quite oui Of the quellion in that Report. The knowledge he mull be luppofed to have had of the conduit of Lord Melville; required that he fhould be cleared from the fufpicion that mutt necerarily attach to the tranf aetions of that Noble Lord. Lord Melville is with drawn, and up (tarts the Right Hon. Gentleman, and far, lam clear. It was an object to afcertain whether an application was not made to him re fpeeting the transfer of the money from the BAnk.— He felt he fhuuld be deficient in his duty did he not call on the Houfe to lee who they were in whom they were called riofr to confide for invelligalion,.. There were thofs who had made oath that they could not attend an Elation Committee with con fcience to public bufinefs. Lord Calllereagh had pofitively llaorn, that his attendance *mild produce material inconvenience; and fo had the Malltr of the )tolls, on account of Chancery Suits and the Appeal Cattle. Sir W. Scott, as Judge of the Admiralty, had done the lame. Here %%ere three difqualified by oath front the duties of this Committee—(lfear, Hear.) Was this Committee likely to be lefs troublefome than Election Committees, from which he believed they had fworn off, not on fuch occafions as the Middle felt Committee, but generally on all Elation Com mittees ? It was their regular practice. Sir W. Scott could not even bring in a Bill lag &Ilion from his other avocations. The Houfe Purely meant that every Member fhoeld he an efficient one in fuch a Committee, and not a friend of the Right Hon. Genlleinan's, and fome other new names, with out caring whether they attended or nut. The Right Hon. Gentleman might chortle to have the labours of the Noble Lod, and the name of the Learned Gentleman. He would appeal to the Right Hon. Gentle Man, whether he would will; to 'have his Committee fubjeeted to fufpicions. He did not mean to queftion the individual purity of his narniirfes —(Near! Hear!)—or, if the term was liked better, of his recommendrions. Did Gentlemen doubt that they were fo ?—(Hear!)—would they go to the proof of that fact he alledged ?—(Hear!)—Did not the Right Hon. Gentleman, or his friends, circulate the hit ? Did they not know the flee, difcreditable as it was? He would put it to him, Itanding iii the place of Lord Melville, magnanimous and gallant as he was, whether it was proper to go to trial in fetch a mitlft ? He had heard of a perfun playing at cards. haling to name his own trumps. Time Right Hon. Gentleman • minted to name all the cards, and who than play them too. He meant no perfonal'difrerpea to the individuals, but be bad great ()Nations to their poli tical connections with the Right Hon. Gentleman, which, be thought, rendered them unfit perfons.— He thought on fuck a charge, the Right Hon. Gen ' tleman fhould not have thought of making his own political friends his judges. That might not he the /am Way ; and thefijegway feemed to borefufed by the ,Right Hon. Gentleman. He, for himself, in inch a fituation, would not have desired to be tried by his coadintors,, in !scare *herein his 61(10 and Ileadiefl i politicil ally bid,* if had beep tspreircd in this very ical a difgrated a, late. Efpecially Illlereagl9, wla , himlat Wl'fit' Lord, from ihie _ader thcorefent MOD,. There was a RtglitHetts."Gx.. 1711*h rank_Lifr.- FOilois alt -4 AIN ww. -- saot - c, -- who coul _ phtstid de tt intent. He had. rads, . ever retied he might hatre,foralien3, fee two country Gentlestirn lit iiii places, iltdugh their Went* 444 knoWledge eflitfinefis trtighi bi?tiferior. The i 4 ltib#e Lord (ealtlereaglt) was not merely a plactinan, but a istiowsel piaceonisn. Nethitsg eoeld suove , hien. 'He was not to belhalcestly pcibtical therms and tempefts, they only bettudltim mate Bendy to his pMI. *That Noble Lerchfautned invulnerable ; he laughed at the con-Tuitions. of a•verimeat and partici,. Nothina %WS 44,nst • earths:teaks could fink •hists. his ;ha d been already celebrated for having taro tkingsanitis bows Paul - 13 e kept his birth aiwaysitretsg. He feetn lcil'Agt to .have two Oriags map to his low, but att tatany as wcertain perfoti was.nartd-for having to his L A - ier. He was in power. in Abe ;Bight Lion. a:e'entle ma.n's laft Adraiiiilratioa. .t he polarised fame fer • vices at the Union ; after the Union, leaving Ireland, fee came here, and was in place again. That admi niaration Went out, on , a fpecifw ;Oahe grostod. sad inothe; came in on a s ettfol* *4474PriaciNg ; Aka LW' the 'Noble Lord clung ,tp, s office,...and kegs. in p/tack-r w tha'Nfiniltry was corned oa t by the help 9Ehis. Honourable friend I . het Oen w i ts the again in . talarte; *lst I 4sts#r Isblit sii , ,..!Af i tfl: . eMI, .1- fie didwor Otglgoofewl ,4sl."M i pi la all tho 4 vligoisans itt WOO Malta 4 P. Raja' tarn his panics, - and kneiP hill' . Ali. Where he ire but would the country tOistle him. itorilper gettirtts.th-. velligate the ctilitluet behistiatratt? He anrihtipation, no doubt; deferved each othisee• friendthlp, lbt their mutual fervietl. He would give his Lordflcip tweak for manly poiity,• and gratitede tb the Right HIM. Gentleman; :bitt thotrO.llilt itligl4l4e vet t gr alt ; 4 : ; ;rig in privatelife, it lc tl)ett)ifqiiali&cl hire for .thc, Gtuation to be allatutd, ; a n .:: of what was the. Coa t, mittee to examine? kit. and fecret tranfailliont. The NetblesiAfrd 44 beltk''tataged in limiter tran. rations Id rt i et,i,44 Wreath t iiitiet his palate mitylme become vitialed . 'in tbcfe matters; and the..pohlii and he entertain very different ideas oethe,ufee - atiel , abnfes of public motey . . He tnielt ittittifto fo*e!, t r ate matters. 'rim Noble .i...ordid.lmeu charged,: with a kaii4gßis rnifuie 4 moner,jtkpapments to perfons in. :inland, ito ..earry the ttniots,' aid:had hood and fat Mee. Th etarile _bad been 'yeftat:rf ia the Atitifh hfe.Of..P- in?if AO 1 4 rtl i s An*. male. • .fear / .ear?) ' e-klk gotined that the Right Hon. Gentleman oppedltetende hot, iftwair his HIM acctitity, have . nititiclie . !Ofa • - could 'W not have proved it. it was.teptap t4 jul . til l t ? ' / ,A would refer. he Noble 1 4 .041, , _ _ ig t Honour able able Friend. If he dealed:ir, what if he examined Mr. Fofter at the B-tr? nat.ltilgt.ll,.l6liiiiiiiiii thefe delicate ;tiantadiOne - . id.,lagillielviUr ? Was the Noble Lord a potion fit .ferthat.enmenitote2.=. Let the enquiry be eieilofeiert4tetbonefl i thepnb lic would not he fatisfied - atrithditFla p Commi t t er , after filch a charge tiiiiCh he TlCfr. - W.,) 4'6-alio pre. He recleaned, therefore, Cush a motion not extraordinary, after what had happened, though not precedented. The Hon. MeMber then altnded' es felt own name, and obferved, that be would gladly withdraw front fuch a Committee—but if itappearoi a general with for him to remain on it, he Soiled cer tainly take care to attend to it. Let him, however, he !truck off, if any perfon thought hi. coudatt In this bufinefs cancerous—if they confidered him a perfecutor indeaci of a prolocutor ; or if they could fee the folly he was accufed ofi relpeaing the alledg ed changes in the ord er of hi s m ot io n . H e liked h is conduct the betterfor th e cen f uret h e r ecei ve d f rom Come perfons.—After dwelling at great length on the modes attempted to fcrcen Lord Melville, and the li mitations of the power of the Committee, he main tained, that with the firft majority of one, aye the minorities (ince, the people of England, scot: and, and Ireland, taint hand in .hand, applauded fociir jutuice and fpirit. Was all talents gone ? Could no independent Gentlemen belound to make up a Committee fur. fuch a purpcife - as this ? He would pot it to the flume of the oppofite fide, whether they world Make this Committee a fcreen, or a (talking boric! Would the leave the -Public' confider it as a cloak to cover Lord Melville? He , thought he could name - a Gentleman, even is the place of the Matter of the Balls, though lets able, yea whole the country - would like better-and 'this would apply more largely to the other obj-lionable per lons. He could find perfons as competent and poffeffing more of the ;faith -of the public. Indeed of the name of the Noble Lord, he would propofe a Gentleman whom hi had loved and tefpeaed from his youth, but whom he had alma contlantly oppofed in politics, both in and not of that Houle ; with Whom he mug have fometimes had the • heats and even the bitternefs of eontefla bitternefs of .zeal and not of - aitimony ; one who had given the Right Honourable Gentleman an independent (import for years. This Gentleman he had even within there few months oppnfect ad . .% ety in -his ele6lion to ferve in that Houle, and he did not repent of it—he might do fo again.. He meant Mr. Baker, of Hertford, a Gentleman of talents, and anxiotifly laborious in every thing rclativt to public advantage, and com manding every refpeet from all who knew him. He concluded by moaing that the name of Lord Cattle reagh be. (truck off, and that of Mr. Baker fubdituted in its room. Tkert : *Mini srd too, Id not at- The MASTER of the ROLLS fail, if it were ne celTary that every member of a Committee Should conllantly attend his duty, many of thote now pro poled ought to be excluded ; but this was not con lidered expedient. He had never reprefented himfelf as fo - abforhed in Wines, that he had no moment and no daj which he could devote to this branch of his Parliamentary engagements. He hadfrequently meted n filch flotations: he was nained.fof One on the Civil Lift; for another of confiderable confe quence relating to bailey grain in Scotland ; and he haerPltcient time to form his opinion, and to aflifl ,in the„pieparations of the report. He trolled then he was stet to be confidered as unqualified, and he hyp e d it was not thought on every frivolous pr etence he was difpofed to abandon any duty, which it was tit that a Member of that Houle Should perfotm. Cer tain he was, that he had never deferted any fituation of this kind in. which he wes called upon to ad, bat 1 o cr n et a c cc o o m un mi t o tt f ee its in in f te 7 r 9 firen up c o e n w i i n th oth h e is r i in n sl l if 7 pe w n , fa b b i l : u in kt fo w m i e th oth r e e r a p t l p ac k e a . fur H e e: b •a m s:n t : S te . he ed of high ;polities to the ditparagement of oth ers . siat direftion of the Houle . Many years he had enjoyed If he w ere u n fit ts:i for i : a c hi h ern a b c er ha a rge .th a lt s tHhaotunko.wbuptri: zinced hie- sintroaer mod depend, not capon fell. C li n a :lf d cd niv rnh e e r enni m t ade extravagant profefflont ; he war con appliure; I li ol opal conduit. Übe had never vaunt. he had tibt Widely difclaimed party feelings and party principles, and heihnuld rather think the work of t o * " mi. 0 9 sires dellitote of either. if, b y she pecu i lai eseas i oratences he was now called.• upo n to vindicate, his own honour, h e would publicly pro claim, that he never in that Houle. 'tittered a tepti, nienilie did Rot nnikcientinal feel. When he , el., nikirSd this 91)04, 1 i 0 !% bat .00 Shr-rKs ()meld ni x punifhed berort they wa l e heard by th eir Coun t y' whatever might be attributed to hiti, he was ht • fluenced by no party bias: he imputed to neither Ade improper motives; ice had a more Fit employment in regarding the purity of liis own. He was 'Metalling a molt uppleafant topic—(tbe iffsgier of the &E L eemed much efederl).—He was /peaking of /tin:Qt.—a fubjea, he hoped, he &mad never again have neck, fiAtl to recur to. He could confidently affirt he'had never given the fisnaion of his authority (humble, • indeo; it was) in the fupport of any principle, of which, in his conkience, be dilapproved. If he were objeaed to for his deportment, it mull be in the Hot*, pot in the Committee ; the members of there feleer eftablifhme — nts had no option—they had only to exereife common fenfe on the evidence thtt wa s produced before them. He apologifed to the Houle, the rather becaufe he did not (peak to the quellion, ; but to that part of the Hon. Gentleman's, addref s ; which appeared to convey fume Inspittatiins on his , (thy Matter of the Roil's) charaisler, but at the fain t time he acquitted that Hon. Gentleman of any dery 1 taker to Oran relent is condu& or his motives` hfr. - AUL. 1 4 I$E.. lanteMed he hackbeen fo un fuccefsful as not 44 anak-e •hitsifeif underitood ; he thqught . it tvii impi4ble for any men t o app l y a connenlbon on what tvesfaid gs the &soli c it f t wet difrefpedfpl to *0 Slot f_Mon.,Guathiman; --1,00-11ifeettet-FHARfIf-0 utifere,4 that the ,ilrue of a tiff by the Xrtaftary; forlltt purpere of the ballot, was not at all, mom cztqper th aa the nomination of a ,CnotapiNce by lionograble Gentleman. • • ..,,' • ' ' .1 1 1t.ml e 0X•tras.at iffi tim es happy to pal ' due dere, rtitt* ;t1 th e tit 4 or e the Hnufe,„*ltgo it was govern ed ivy the dt relpea to the prinaipin of the arid& enn4ltOtion. The attempt of an individual to foret rlill far a - Committee tipcia r tlie HOtltes *4l4d be Gat liiiiSlpi but it was in a numb higher degree ainal as i, toe any loch experiment to :emanate Crone the Tstsb fury, aecompAnied with the influence 'that mute be prefurned fops. that qutarter. ', if his ;-fon. Friend (W. I)llti4wead , ) bad-brought down a lilt, helkaidtt 'haat 1044 an' tt, provided he:approved of. it $ Vet if his own condo& were tint intheadiate die& csf is. velligetion, he Mould hieeiseen inter# Oireed of bittireg s g be did not take all poirAf : Means of thew, inietn'the linbriC• Ale Tattillitars.eko tkire in reams. gleadiag 1 finale ingkeielnal„ far ..she rim* of Nab an enquiry. If his friend fbould piodude to'him a Wt. ' where he (Mr.. Fox) was etten perfonally concerned, he would lay, 4 4 I haste nothli to do with the nomi nation of sty own judges," and he would not conde fund to infpea it. If his eye were to dray upon the ;paper, and he fhoulddlkorer in the lid the name if his Hon. Friend, he ()mold enquire if his Friend meant 1 to furrender his affection, and infult him by fuch a propofition I much lefs could he do fuch an all in a clandedine manner ; in fuch a cafe every name mad be fobrziitted to the obfervation of the Houle, and be expofed to its folemn decition. Confidering the con duet of the Flight Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Pitt) was implicated in the charge, it was mod indecent that his own colleagues &Quid be appointed to the Corn mittee. : He could only fay, that to -place himfelf in fuch a fituerion, was diametrically oppotite to every fentiment he (Mr. Fox) copld indulge; but if the Right Honouratie Gentleman could accommodate his feelings to filch a condition, he (Mr. Fox) fincerely congratulated him on the convenient effect of his in- fentit:Pity. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQYER Paid, Gentlemen teemed difpofed, in. order•to joilify a fort of language of defiance, to reprefent the per fon to whom the exprelLcuts were directed, as not only upon his trial, but as if consitted, and as hav ing received hie/erne:lice everybefore be was accofed. (A cry of Hear, Ivan fiats the Oppoftiorr beach::.)-- Whatever might be the sletnantie -notions fume Gentlemen =Olt entefiain, it Termed to him a very Itrange opioion, at le:4 E that whenever an imputa tion was thrown out againft a Miniller, the only pro. per way of examining into his con d o & was , b y CI• cluding the m a j or i t y Or theHoufe from any (hare in the enquiry, and admitting thole only to the duty who had been in the regular habit of refinance to his meafures, .He had nothing fo chimerical in his ideas of honour, as to furrender to them every principle cf reafon and common fenfe, every fentiment that was held yerterable.in our laws, in order to recommend himfelf •to thofe Gentlemen who profeffed loch a doctrine. Nor was the praflice of Parliament on this occa(ion fo incontinent as had been reprefented, with the maxims of the Britifla Connitution. The Committee had been appointed in the way the mnS 4 ufual on fuch occafions. It was true, that the mode had often been objetted to, yet, upon argument, it had beep approved. Committees to appointed bad pruduced Reports molt fatisfadory to the Houle and to the Nation, and he was nor, - upon old explodcd reafiming, difpoled to renounce what had been 1" , long ettablifhed. Had not the Houle already des - . I ded the Committee wat to be cholen by ballot When this was propofed, in the purfilit of his prelert h ele a fi ve gn p ' r t o he po H‘' fed n. th Ge a t t a l l l i e ;near i n n i c s M i t r i . I . l e6 7 h c i t e b il r i e v a t d d ) d fh b c ou c tl . eluded from the ballot ; he (hould have gone tarther s and have Malted, that all Gentlemen who had con defcended io honou r him (the Chancellor of the Ex. chequer) with their private friendthip, fhould all.) be excluded. Such were the extraordinary prepoli tions by which theft wild notions of perfonal delicacy • and private honour mill be maintained, that his (Mr. Pitt's) colleag ues in oftice, as w e ll as t h o l e w i t h w h om lie wag conneaed by the tics of .iffeelion, were in he (kepi ived of their Farliarneetazy frit ileges. VII the know wile* t , etnnTry, hecnme arnami •!'-Wirat (nag end affociJ obrenre, di* Lord (Car the IriCl rendered no delay ... llrd t o r Noble L re. 3 / 4 4 n office and J;tfktl oe). Then n. a Letter f?out in aplace of hieb r, of the sth of of tl)e pik e RA entdrial Mating =terttrltinirptibl lb r I! 1,