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- PARLIA MEAT/IRr PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, MONDAY, APR IL is. Mr. WYATT attended at the liar,' and Elated to the Hoar that the preparations for the trial of Lord Vacuum Melville would-be completed by Saturday next. Lord HAY (Earl of Kimmel) took the Oaths and his Stott. In the appeal tt iienderfon er. Ramby and others," Mr. Nolan we. heard for [fit Appellant, aid Mr Alan, for the Refpondent. The further conlideratinnlVAS pultponed till to sootraw. The Royal Aire tit was eiven, I,y Conenn filnee, to the 2r.oacl, - e.. 1. Loan Bill. the hifh Treefure Bills BM. tie.: eras Militia S, tyke Bill, the Cape of Good Hope Trade itreulation Rill, the liritith FiOisrks Eacesantgen , cot MI and feven Private rills. The CammiSmers teems the Lord Chancellor, Lcrd Walfing ham and Lord Mickland. Mr. WHrEBRE.ADand feveral other Members ef the l leer , * of Commons brought no a hleffage containiep a further I ift ;.f Witneffea to be produced an the Trial of Lord Vi ten..., a.l,lvilSe, and requefthsg that Curb Witneffes might he funimoned ,^ attend OD the 29th blame On the motion of Lord fiVALSINGH AM. a menage was or • der d to be fent to the Houle of Conemoo., con.aiineg a com pliance with the above tequeft. Sir J. T. Duekwortla'a Annuity Bill, and the Treafueer of the Ordnance's Regulation Bill, were read a third time and pnrac‘i, and a sac/rage ordered to be fent to the Houle of Commons to ac quaint them therewith. Mr. BAILLIE and fevered other Mensher , or the Haute of Commons brought up %bells:Mot Paving Bill, which was read a Srft time. HOSTILITIFS WITH PRUSSIA• Lord GRENVILLE prciented the following Me!- fags from his Mcjeay : O.R. .. His Majefty *hicks It proper to acquaint ti's Houle. that be has found Islinfelf under the neceffity of withdrawieg his Ml sifter /men the Court of Berlin. and of adopting provibmwily meafares of jolt retaliation againft the committee 'and naviga- , don of Pruffia. Hit Majefty deeply regrets this casseeon and, aggravation of calamities. already fo (evenly felt by the nationant the Continent, whore Independence and pro'perity be has never ailed to confider as intimately connedked wish nude of his own people. Bat meafures of dime *senility, deliberately adopted Weft him, have kit him no alternative. i In a moment of confidential,Lntercourfe, without even the pm tenee of any castle of complaint, forcible polrefLon has been takw. by Ps elan of his Majelly** Etcetera! Dorninions• Deeply as tbb peat Aided the isiterefts of this kingdom, his Majcfty chola. amerthalefa, to forbear, on this painful. meanest), all recourse iS. the tried and a:catenate attachment Of his Britt& fuNeds: Ha retnooftrated, by amicable nesociatioo, againft the Injury he had fsftained, and reftce) his claim fur reparation on the moderation d his modal, on the Mike of his reprefentations, and on the cost Nile Were: which Pendia herfel( malt ultimately feel, to refill a POONA ddtroalve of the (moat' , of all legitimate poff Him But, whim, inibend of receiving affurances ebnfornaablo to this Juft ex relation, Ida Majefty was informed that the skeennination had ham taken of if:eluding, by force, the 'effete and the commodi. tka Otitis kingdom from ports and countries under the lawful deathdon, or forcible controls' of Podia; his Majefty could no tenger delay to a.f.t, without negleellog the firilduty which be owes to hie people t the dignl•y of his crown, and the interefts of his (oblate, equally forbid his sequiercing in this open and unpro. yoked aggreilion. He has no doubt of the full fupport of his Par- Ilunant, in vindicating the honour of the Bridal Flag, and the frooken of the Britlis Navigation ; and be will look with anxious apeibeien es tat moment, when a snore dignified and enlight • mud policy, on the part of Profile, lhaU remove every limped'. VW* to the mama of peace and friendedp with a Power with wham his Majdly has no other carafe of difference than that now monad by tisk Wilk aas. . G. R. The biefrage having been read. Lord GRENVILLE moved that it fhonld be taken into confiders. don ot: Wednefday, and that the Lords be lomat oned for that day.—Ordered.. His Loedfitip prekoted,by his Majefty's command, certain pa.' pen refpeding Pru Mat for copies of tome of which, and refer ence to others already infected in the Sraa, fee our Report of the proceedings in the Houle of Commons: Earl SPENCER prefented fevered Returns relpedUng the Addl. clonal Force At, which were ordered to be printed. ADNINISTILATION OT JUSTICE IN SCOTLENO. Lord GRENVILI.E laid, he teak to give notice on a [Olean, , cenfiderable importance to a great number of his Majefty's fidaei jab, and alfo to that Houle, with refpc,t to a part of its procent.! Inge. He alluded to the Admiontration of Jullice in Scotland, with rerpeet to the forms of which. be believed, It was the opt. Moo of the Bar in that country, and the general opinion, that an alteration might be made with great advantage to all thofe who were fultore in the Contra. Far be it from him to fay, that the fyftem of legal proceedings In Scotland was not one wifely eßa bliftied.bot in the loge of time it had become , In fume of Its parts inferior to the fyftem eitablifhed in England, which had flood the tell of fo many ages and which 'till retained all its Mabel hearty and purity. Far be it from him to fay, that the Laws of Scotland were not adminiftered with the greaten purity. There was, however, one conederatlon of the ereatelt Importance, namely, that Janice ought to be fpeedily adminiftered, ntlierwire, in many cafes, it ceared to be jufllce. Their Loc.ithipa had taken upon them/dyes to. he a Court of denier refort for all pane of the United Kingdom, to the execution of which important bulimia much of their time had been devoted. Nuswithltandine, how- Mr, an their diligence and attention, the number of appeals from Scotland, now on the table of the Houle. which were yet mule. tided, Chewed that they had arrived at that point when they mutt either declare they could not do juftice to the parties appealing en their decifion, or take hone vicariate to reduce the number of sp peals from that ccontry. It was doobtlefr of 'be greaten inipoz tance in every cafe that the difpaicis of boGueli mould keep paci with the bufintle which adlually arofe. He was afraid Ise could not promife any rneafurc en tit ; . fubjrsl In the creole of the pre test &Moe, and, though tome might complain of this delay. it was neverthelcis of the greaten iniponai , :c that fuch a meafitrc fluedd be carefully digerh.d. and receive every advayarge which 4 Andelpidord from the fuggeftione of there who had • tho- ' M. BigaserlWge of the Scottie' Law. The mode he intended to -- - -' 4 dMit was, to ISTOTore certain Refolutlons, Lyon which, in the ftl• Aline Salon, a Bin might be founded; but which, In the mean , time, might go forth to the rutile, and receive all that cnefiders tint' which their importance deferred, and particularly front the Scottifh Bar, from etio,,S talents many advantageous foucf. dons might be expeaed. Ills Lortilhip concluded by wiring no. , tire. that he mould brlr^ ' forward foam motioi, on the futjcZt on ' Monday fe'nnight, alth ough he would not pledge himself es to the particular day, and moved that the Lords be fute.moned for C.,at day. The Duke of MONTROSE eepreffed his thardia to the Noble Lord for having turned his attention to this ful;j, 41, and he was convinced the Noble Lord would air° have the thanks of the whole Country, for propofine a mearure, which was fo much wanted, and to which the Noble Lord was Co able to do juftice. The Lords were then ordered to be fununoned for Monday fe'nnight. 1 . 11 - • INTLICOULSI BETWEEN •...1 ERICA AND TN. WIRT INDIES. Lord HOLLAND raid, be had difcovered that thereinto's in formality in the Bill. which he intended to prefent this d.y. by which ha was precluded tram bringing it in. He Would, however, Rate, that It was a Bill to authorise his Majefty to. theca the Go vernors of the Weft India Wands, :rim time to time, to permit the importation sod expurtation of certain articles, to and from the Writ Indies In American vac's. If he was enabled to pre fect the Bill to morrow, he inreaded to Weft it (Tumid be printed and read a feeond time on Thurfday. He would not. however, prefs the latter motion. if any Noble Lord °Nedra' to it. The Duke of MONTROSE obferved, that the queltion which the Noble Lord's Bill involved, was one of very great importance —it **snot • party cueßion, but on. which related entirely to ' our own colonies and our own Shipping. There were pedals who i:tended to petition the Houk upon this fubjedi ; and from this eonfideration, added no that of 'the importance of the queltion, he died the Noble Lord would not object to put WI the fvcond i I b 1 t I I 1 reading of the Bill for a week after tio day he had mentioned. Hi; M t n, a meafure, in which the e:rcutalnuees, and intended to move for papers which iwoold prove the importance nt i I e approaching arrival of oar :rc,aps will not admit the trade carried on by this country for the fupply al the Weft e India, as it would appear that It employed upoirdt of . tOC.cr>",* ot any delay. tons of out el:ppiAlk, /11, upwards of :camera Ire quell you to accept the reiterated alrurance of Nothing further was raid refpedlng this Bill, and my high and perfedt confideration. The Duke of MONTRuSE role again, to move for feveral Bußn, attli January. tgoitt. Accounts refpedtios the to le Detwe,a this country and the weft (Signed) oaattesssaa• Indies, which were all ordered Ts Mr. Jack Ton. bin Majefty's Britannic Fnvoy Istr SAC Hal FR T nI LORD MS LVI LLI. Extraordinary* and Minifter Picniptentiary. Lord WALSINGH AM pref . -fitted a Report .rom the Commit- (No. 23 fee appointed to ( e ar t h refpedliog Procredinea at Impochnients, His Prullian Middles Proclamation on taking temporary contah.bie; the ceremonial to Inc 05ferved on the trust of Lord Vif- l' e fEon of the Electorate of Hanover. slated syth January, a count Mdrille. ha. already been publiated in the STAR. The Fade RADNOR moved, ttot the Report betaken into (No. 3.) —Copy of • Note from Mr Secretary Fox to Baron Ja conflict at ton on Wednefavy —Onte'eti. cob' Kloelt, dated lyth of March, tBO6 Lord AUCKLAND moved that the Horde fhould proceed tot The onderligned is commanded by his Malefic, to the trial of Lord Vis'enunt Melville. I. kr dorm, except 'root any fpecisi co n fid r e at i e ,,,,, t h ey th oo 4l d eem i t e „ pe .ii,,, t (fate to Baron Jacobi Kleed„ for the information of yourn to the day after the morrow of the day on which the mo• hi• Court, the great anxiety felt by his.Majelly, at tiott thould be m. de. the manner in which poffedion has been taken of the The Fall of RAI/NOR moved that the further ctwMc,ation Eleanrate of Hanover. If bis Prudian Majelty of this motion Mould alto he pcdtpoticd till Wldnefday. The Earl of ROSSLYN and the LORD CHANCELLOR op. judged it expedient, in order to prevent French troops pored Lord Ittadnor's motion, rot the urnund of Its being winced' from approaching fo near that part of his frontier, lacy. it being already the general and tieeitled omnion of the Hoak to take tq himielf the military occupation of the that they ought to protein on the trial Ir doe ia AO. Eleanrate, it does not appear to his Majelty, that it The macho' of Lord Radnor was then put and negatived. Ott putting the otiginal motion, was by any means neceffary. that the civil gov e r n- The Earl of RADNOR oppaorl it. c.. a , lying that four days lo ' ment of that unhappy country fhould be (obverted, the weak were as litany 13 the Mutt :7uld devote to the trial, or that an army more numerous, and confequently ter:Saintly with that attention which they mutt nevilerily pay to bufioefs. He declined, tv. , o , •••!r. Prortoint alteration more injurious to the inhabitants, than neceffity re. other In the motion. The motionwas then put rod carried. tinned, fhould be maintained there. His Majelty re lies with the greateft confidence on his Fruition Ma. rosni.vrtr DE RTJR Lord HOLLAND laid, though he had not rucceeded in his jetty's Declaration, that the prefers; occupation is proposition Weeding the Bill he intended to intrnduc:, there was merely temporary F but his Majelly.caonot but ez on< Bill which he had the honour to pit fent to their I ordfhips, prefs a with that the Declaration on this point were with rerpeet to which he thought there could be too difference of optnion,.be meant the for the relief of certain Infolet more folemnly made in the face of Europe. The , Debtors, which he propofed (hook' he read a (mood time of on, honour of the Court of Berlin, as well as the con& ibtaftlay, for which day he moved that the Lords be furaworted. deration mutually due to 'each other. from two —Ordered. Adjourned till tonoorroyr (thin day.) Princes In nearly conneaed in blood ar.d feems to call for a clear explanation on this imps toot fubjed. His Malefic' on his part defires to be equally expli cit, and to put an end to all hopes (if fuel, indeed; have been entertained by the Court of Berlin) that any convenience of political arrangement, much lets any offer of equivalent or indemnity, will ever in duce his Majelty fo far to forget what is due to his own legitimate rightd, as well as to the exemplary fidelity and attachment of his Hanovetian fubjeas, as to content to the alienation of the Eledorate. His Malefic , learns with concern, that it is in agi tation to give up Anfpach, and other parts of his Pruflan Malay's dominions to Bavaria, in court quence of a Convention with France ; but he does not pretend any right to interfere, or to give any opinion with refpea to the propriety of the meafures, what ever they may tie, which his PrulLan Majelty may deem eligible for the intereits of his crown and peo ple ; at the fame time it is to be obferved, that his 4ajedy e whether in his capacity of King of Great Britain, or in that of Eleaor of Hanover, was in nn wife a party to the Convention alluded to, or re fponfible for its confequences. The eedions, there fore, which his Prutflan Majelty may make to his kiajefly's enemies, cab finely never be alledged as a judification of taking to himfelf his Mitlelly's lawful inheritance. His Malay, therefore, hopes that his Prußian Malay will follow the honourable diaates of his own heats , and will demonarate to the world, that whatever faerifiegs the prefent circumftances may in duct him to make with rapt& to his own territories. be will net fet the dreadful example of indemn , fying timfelf at the expence of a third party. whore fenti ments and condut towards hid Pruffian Majelty and his fabled's, have been uniformly friendly and pacific. Downing.ftrect, March ty, iBO6. (Tranflation of No. 4.)—NoteVerbale. Until the explorion of the lid Continental war, his Prulfian Malefic' had no other objeti in view, than to fecure the tranquillity of his Monarchy, and that of the neighbouring Rates. He was then able to die& this upon terms, which met the entire approbation of ever c•Coort. He has been defirous of doing the fame fince the breaking out of the prefent war. But the choice of the meant' had no longer been in his power. France has ma; tiered Hanover as her conqued, and her troops were on the point of entering it, for the purpofe of dif. poling of it definitively, according to the pleafure of the French Emperor, without the polflbility of his Britannic Majedy's preventing it. The occupation of that country by his Pruffion Med jetty, and the (hutting of the ports in the Genesi Seta, and that of t.ubeck, againa the Britifh flag, (es was the cafe during the poffedion of Hanover by the French) were the indifpenfible conditions of an sr. rangement by which the country is fecured againi the entry of foreign troops, and the quiet of the north of Germany prererved. This has not been obtained without painful facets. Vices on his Majelly's part. Thole of the Hours or Hanover are in no degree to be attributed to the Kibler meafirres, but are the inevitable confequences of a war, which his conciliating policy has in vas endeavoured to prevent. This war might have pro, duced more fetions confequences. The treaty between Prudia and France, at lead, proteas the Northern States from farther evils, and could every power but duly appreciate how mach they are in debted to the fyflem he has adopted, the King would with jullice obtain the gratitude of all. HOUSE OF COMMONS. A Mange front the Lords informed the Houle, that their Lordfhlps would give orders (or funnatut.ing certain Witnetfes on the Trial of Lord Mehtine. Mr. WHITBREAD . gave notice, that he would to-morrow move that there be read an entry it, the Journals of the Houle, or d Sing the Attorney General to fulpend all Civil Saito apinft Mr. Trotter, with a view to renew the iaid order. Mr HOBHOUSE poftposed the fecund reading of the Bill for granting additional Powers to the Commiffionces appointed to ex amine into the Debts of the Nabob of Arcot. A Paton from the Nary Ornte prefeuted certain Navy Ac counts Mr.V A NSITTART moved that there he laid before the Houle an Account of the value of Tin-plates exported for the lot ten years ; and alto a variety of other Accounts, relating to Exports Brice 5793. The Infpedtor General of Imports and Exports prefented the laid Accounts, which were ordered to be printed The SECRETARY at WAR brought tip Papers containing an Account of the Recruiting Panics employed for the Regular Ser. • vice fince t 835 ; and alto an Account of Recruiting Parties em ployed under the Additional Forte Ad.—Lahl on the table. Mr. STURGES BOURNE pm notice, that he would, to-mor row, move for additional Papers thfpeding the Army. The SECRE TARY at WAR (*starved, that beheld In his hand a Lift of Papers on the totaled, Which he mated would be la& dent to give the lion. Gentleman faMfaelior. lie then moved for a Copy of a Circular Letter, authorifing recrolting for limited fetvice in 177 r, and a Copy of an Advertisement on the failed of the fame date ; which being ordered, were brought up by the Secretary at war, and ordered to be printed. On the motion of Mr. PERCIVAL, the order of the day for the fecond reading of the Stipendiary Curates' Bill on Wednefday, was ditcharged, and ordered for Friday nest. Mr. PERCIVAL gave notice, that be would, to-morrow, move for an Account of the Expences incurred by the Volunteer,. MINIM moved for a number of additional papers hi defames of Lord Et. Vincent. He Rated, that though the papers now mite dar wait ammerous, yet they were not volumieous ; and as they were all readLt s o be pretested, be hoped the Hon. fienthman appetite to Mos Mx. =ley , would specify the time when he mould be able lii . Mr. JEFFREY kat. Imetherapsiateetr=rfor were fo nu merous, that it would require months to Superstar' to pent theca. It would be therefore In vain to think of :Irlnging faeward *On thin in this Seffion, or even in the next. He oadd ant, tbrollare, name any &Bent day for hit motion. Lord HOWICK obterved, that the papers were ready for being prefented immediately. Admiral MARKHAM brought up the paper for which he had moved.—Ordered to be printed. )(MAGI FRCNI TN? [IMP. Mr. FOX then brought down a Meffage from the King, for which fee the Lords. On the motion of Mr. FOX, his Moiety's Meffage was ordered to be taken into confidera, inn to-morrow. Mr.FOKthen brought up certain Papers conneacd with his Moiety's MclTage : (No. 5.) Copy of a Difpateh from Mr. jackfon, his Majefty's Envoy at Deena, in January Ilion, with an Inciofure from Baron Har gasbag, of which lociofure the following is a Tray fladon Sir—l hafien to fulfil the promite given to Lord Harrowby, on the Bth of this month, to communi cate to you, Sir, an Coon as a final decifion mould be taken on the fubjeft, the additional circus:silences re lating to the fccurity of the North of Gerosany, and to the guarantee by the King of the fafety or thole Britillt troops which are in that part of tbe Conti nent. • A mefrenger from Munich has Oil brought his Ma , jelly intelligence of the confummation of the arrange ! toms which the prefent conjonaure of affairs has induced him to enter into with France, in order to Pave thofe countries, and especially the States of Ha nover, from the misfortunes of another ruinous war, 1 and to inflate their tranquillity. As theft arrange. mews Iliptilate particularly toe committing of that', coutury to the excjuiive guord of the Pr ufflao troops,', and to the Adminiltration of the King, wail gar con tlifion of a Peace beteoem I arlaad and France; his Ma - I jetty could not dehty taking the necelrary ,Mearutes for the entry therein of a corpt, of his artr.y, which will he under the ()Ickes 4114 Eccellentiy the Gene ; ral of Cavalry Count Scholenbe, g Kehnert, to whom i aifo the King has confided the Admilliat anion of the country. His Mayfly, animated by the moll lively I define to fee the importance and the urgency of the motives which have induced him to take theft fleps,.l 1 jullly appreciated by his Britannic Nlajelly, and his I enlightened Miniflera, has direaed Boron Jacobi to give a detailed explanation thereof at London. It would bcfuperfluous to point out to your atten• tion, how urgent and indifpenfable in the prefent (late . of affairs, the re-embarkation if the Englifh troops in the North of. Germany is become ; fince On! re treat of the foreign troops is the condition, upon which France has promited not to order her troop; to re-enter Hanover, and fince olio it was upon tho : foppolition alone, that the Sing guaranteed their fe -1 curtly. - I prefume, that Lord Cathcart bat aireadi received, and is !Ton the point of executing, the et -1 1 ders of his Court for the retorts Of there obops, for which tranfports have Imo twailistig for fume tint; pall. I have, however, to requa, Sk, tbat yoit I would, fur the purpofe of :till furtber elifpatch, write to that Commander in Chief on the fohje4 ; and, at quainting him wish the pretest eiremetttheicea, that you will i nduce him to lisaest, fu far 4 &pada on. (No. .o—Proclamation of Coautt Sehalenburg, announcing the fiiettlets of the Ports of the North Sea. agaiuft the Smith Mips and trade, dated Hanover the 28th of March, 2806. (No. 6.)—Proelamatiots of His Pro Man Majelly for taking do. finitive potf (14: of Hanover, dated bertin, lit April, 'god. There )t..tfe alseady been publilbed in the Alf die above papets were ordered to be !aid on the table. INDIA Lcrd ARCHIBALD HAMILTON. purfnant to his notice, rote to move for a propofed difpateph the Court of Direftors to the Governor General of India, dated 3d of April, 1803. The Noble Lord apologized to the Houle for bringing forward this motion, but the paper teemed to him fo effential to have on their table, that he felt it a duty to move for its produaion, as an Honourable Gentleman who had given notice of a motion to that effed, had re. linquiftsed his intration. It w;s not his ()Ned in moving for this document, to make it the foundation of any elyurge, or to fupply any evidence againft Marquis Willefleye His *ldea was to rr eke it a ground of charge spina the late Board of Controul, and particularly the Noble Lord who preftded over that Board. That Noble Lord had for many years pat! reprefented the nitration of the Eaft India Ccun• my% affairs, as one of great prolperity. The ca -1 hami:ous circumftarteea of that part of the Britith ,Esohite vias priocipsl4 to be atttibuted to ths late Board of Contronl. In mowing for 'bele Papers. he withed to afcertain, wheth:r the Noble Lord would acknowledge himfclf as the author of there medium, or fhift dime part of the gutsy ..1 them upon others. The Noble Lord concluddi by moving, that there be laid before the Houfe •• A Copy of a propofed DiC patch from the Court of Directory dated April 3el, 1805, to the Governor General—a Copy of the An fwer of the Board of Controul refuting to tranfmit the Difpatch, and of the reply of the Court of Direaors to this refitfal.”—On the (tattoo being pat, Mr. fiIIDDLESTON ouferved, that the allufion which had been made to him by the Noble Lord. made it neceffary for him to Rate the grounds on which he had seed in this matter. A general_ be lief had been Produced. that the Directors approved of the Treaties with the Nabobs of Oude and Per ruckabad, while he knew that they had expreffed their difapprobation of , hods, He therefore felt anxi lIUS to remove this falk impreffion, and, for this purpole, intended to hive moved for' the Paper's which were the fubjett of the prefent motion. Thefe documents, however, in the mean time, had been called fur, and obtained by the EaR India Proprie tors, and thus the objea of his with was eccomplitli ed. The Papers had now been produced in another place, and would diffidently remove the,mitioncep iron that bad prevailed. He trotted that what he had laid; would acct him of the charge of indon ' fatency. But thoug h he had declined moving for dm • Papers on thigrounds he had Rated, he thould now vote for - their produCtion. He did not fee how ddi matter Aura aired either the Directory or the Board of Count 1. The Dircaors had delivered their opi nion, andthe Board of Controul were 'right in re jetting it. if they thought it proper to do fu. Mr. PDX laid, that it gave him confiderable pain; when be heard the prefent motion brought forward by a Noble Lord, for whom he felt the higbetk perfo. nal' regard, and whole general opinions on political t fubjedsappearedto him to refi on the Jae@ grounds. To differ from him on the prefent occafion, was therefore highly difagreeable ; but he could not help thinking that the prefent motion went to do an ea of gra' injustice to the Noble Lord, late at the head of the government in India. The production of the papers in queftion would be utterly inconfiltent with the praltice followed in all Courts of Jullice in every criminal proceeding. There it would not be admitted for a moment, that the general opinion of any num ber of men, deliveredinto Court, &oald have any weight with regard to the charges agaiaft the prifo ner. Nay, were fuch an opinion read, it would be a fufficient argument for putting off the trial altoge. Cher. In the prefent cafe, therefore, from analogy, he timid equally object to the produaion of papers that might tend to prepared the Houfe againft a Noble Lord, whole conduit was afterwards to be the fubjea of dikullion. According to the eflablithed fyflem for concluding the affairs of India, the Diem. tors were bound to submit to the rejection of any dill patches which they might think proper to make up. they could only appeal to Parliament on the inkier% and there was no other mode of obtaining redrefs.— Who were the . perfone who had delivered this opi nion on the condo& of Lord Welletley ? Their names were of high authority, and their opinions of great weight. So muds the greater would be the impro priety and injuftict of laying their opinions at prefent before the Honfe, while the perfon whole condo& they arraigned -was under an accnfaiion in this Houfe. This principle was fo clew; as to be recog nized in the jurifprudence of every country, however defpotie the government might be. The fituadon of the Direflors was indeed Gnat/or. They were bound to execute the commands of the Board of Controul, whatever their own opinions might be. They flood ins Rate of peculiar hardthip, and rink only remedy was an appeal to Parliament. Such a fituation as theirs, he contended, was not to be found under the moll defpotic Governments ; but Rill they had it in their power to Rate their cafe to Parliament, and to pray redrefs. If the prefent motion was fuppor ted on the ground of its enabling the Diretiors to juftify themfelves, be would anfwer that this was not the proper time for fuch juilification. If the Directors had thought that their character was at Rake, they thould, beforethis, have come forward and appealed to the Houfe. There was betides uo necelfity for producing a paper in exculpation of perfons who were under no actufation. No man &mild entertain feel. ings of anxiety for his own character at the expends of - another s fafety. It had been laid, was it fit that the public Ihould be poffeffed of information of which that Houfe was deprived ? But finely, every particle of information poffeffed by the public mutt alfo be poffeffed by that Houfe, which formed only a part of that public. The information had indeed been given to the'public ; bet the Houfe of Commons. and not the public, were to be the judges of Lord .Wellefley's conduct. The accusers of the Noble Lord would not avow the with to run down the Noble Lord, but this would be the evident ten dency of the produftion of the papers moved for.—i He hoped they did not mean to Rand behind the Di reelors in making their accufations agaial him. But whatever might be the reafon for which the papers were moved, the evident tendency would be collatcr ally to make the Houfe prejudge the caufe. On this fubjea, he would appeal to thole feelings of justice and equity, which he was lure peculiarly charaaer iied the Noble Lord :ha moved for the papers in quellion. How would he feel if another ufe were made of them than he intended, or could at prefent forefee ? He then concluded with recapitulating the arguments he had ufed, and obferving, that if the prefent motion fhould not be withdrawn, he fitoulct confider it as his duty to move the previous queftion. , Mr. G. JOHNSTONE expreffed an aflonithment to which he could fcarcely give utterance, pt the fenti. meats that had fallen from the Right Honourable Gentleman, who had ever been the advocate of en quiry and publicity. He did not think to live toheaf the public records of the Court of Direttors called inofficial documents. If he had not heard the Right Honourable Gentleman, he thould not have believed him to have fo expreffed himfelf. The Honourable Member here cited two cafes: one on the IR or June, 18ot ; the other in 1798 ; in which fimilar docu ments to thole now called for, had been produced. lie had mot fimported the criminal charge againtt Marquis Wellefley, though he difapproved of all his meafures, which he believed to have arifen not from criminal motives, but the influence of ambition on a man of high talents polfelled of power. He thought it would be an injustice to themfelves, and to the Prablic, to withhold the t.spera. I