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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. MADRID, MAY 12. The Military preparations at St. Roche and Cadiz become every day greater. Orders have been sent to all the ports to hasten the equipment of the men of war. The disorder of our finances is beyond all con ception ; but a loan was indispensible, and the book have been filled almost as soon as they were open*/ PARIS, MAY 17. The period when the destiny of the Spanish nation and of its Sovereign will be irrevocably fixed, no longer appears to be remote. The Official Jou: nail already begins to throw aside pat t of the veil which concealed the negotiations, whereof Bayonne was the centre, by announcing the conclusion of a treaty bet seen the Emperor and the different members of the Spanish House. The article wherein the IJloniteur announces this important intelligence is dated Bayonne, May 11, and is as follows : _ _ " By a treaty concluded between the Emperor Na poleon and King Charles, and which has ben acceded t • by the Prince of the Asturias, and the Infants Don Carlos, Don Francisco, and Don Antonio, who com pose the whole of the Members of the House of Spain, all the existing differences have been adjusted. We are still ignorant of the conditions of the treaty. Accord ing to the Constitution of our Government, it cannot be made public till it has been communicated to the Senate. But we perceive by the Proclamation of the King of Spain, and that of the Prince of Asturias, that the Emperor Napoleon is clothed with all the rights of the House of Spain. King Charles, Queen Louisa Maria, Queen Maria Louisa, and the Infant Don Francisco, dine to day with the Empe ror, and set off to-morrow for Bourdeaux. They will make this journey in four days, and will repair to Fontainbleau, whence they will go to Compeigne. It is believed that this residence has been destined by his Majesty to King Charles, that he may spend the re mainder of his days there. The Prince of Asturias, the Infant Don Carlos, and the Infant Don Antonio, spent the evening yesterday with their Majesties the Empe ror and Empress. They will spend two days at Bour deaux, and will afterwards proceed to Valency, whence it is probable they will go to Navarre. It is believed that his Majesty has ceded to them that superb do main, and the forest appertaining to it. " It is said that many Spaniards of distinction are on the road to Bayonne, where, it appears, that the Emperor is about to hold a general Junta. It is pre sumed, that he will be occupied, not only in regulat ing the succession to the Throne, but also in fixing certain ameliorations, which all good Spaniards call for. Every thing is entirely tranquil in Spain. Things are on the best footing there." To the above article were joined, a mandate from King Charles to the Junta of the Government, an nouncing the nomination of the Grand Duke of Berg, Lieutenant-General of the Kingdom ; and a Procla mation addressed to the Spaniards, both dated on the 4th of May; a Proclamation, of the sth of May, from the Junta to the inhabitants of Madrid ; a circular (proclamation) sent on the 6th by the Inquisition, to ad the 'Tribunals of the kingdom ; and finally a let ter from the King, to the Supreme Council of Castile, and to the Council of the Inquisition. The first two of these pieces are to the tenor following : TO THE SUPREME JUNTA OF THE GOVERNMENT. " Having judged it expedient to give one sante direction to all the forces of our kingdom, in order to maintain security of prc perty and public tranquillity against enemies, as well exterior as iitter'o-, we have thought it fit to nominate our cousin, the Grand Duke of Berg, Lu utenant General of the kingdom, who, at the same time, commands the troops of our ally, the Emperor of the French. We command the Council of Castile, and the Captains General and Governors of our provinces, to obey his orders. In the same quail.) , he shall preside over the Junta of the Govern ment. " Given at Bayonne, at the Imperial Palace, Riled the Palace of the Government, 4th May, 180 8. (Signed) " I, THE KING." PROCLAMATION. A SPANIARDS !—My beloved subjects, perfidious men seek to mislead you. They would put arms into your hands against the French troops ; they seek alike to arm you against the French, and the French against you. The sacking of all Spain, calamities of *very kind, would be the r,:sult. The spirit of fa ction, the sad effects of which I have already felt, is still in motion. In the midst of these important and critical circumstances, I am occupied in, concerting with my ally, the Emperor of the French, all that con cerns your welfare. Beware of listening to the enemies of it.— All those, who spask to you against France, thirst for your blood; they are either the enemies of your nation, or agents of England, who are busily availing themselves of circumstances, and whose intrigues would involve the loss of your colonies, the separation of your provinces, or a series of years of trouble and calamity for your country. " Spaniards ! trust to my experience, and obey that authority which l hold from GOD and my fathers ; follow my example, and think that in the position in which you stand, there is no prospe rity and safety for Spaniards, but in the friendship of the Grcat Emperor, our Ally. " Given at Bayonne, from the Imperial Palace, 'tiled Palace of the Government, May 4, 1808. I (Signed) " I, THE KING." MAY 19.—The Conservative Senate has just beer convoked to an extraordinary meeting on Friday next. After the important documents relative to Spain, pub lished by the official journal, there is every reason to suppose that this extraordinary meeting must be cm nected with the affairs of that kingdom ; and it is probable that the treaty by which the Emperor Na poleor has just acquired all the right of the House of Bourbon to the 'Throne of Spain, will be communi cated at tbs Sitting to the chief public body of the State. 'We are also assured, that there will be pre sent( d for the sanction of the Senators, the project of a Senc:us Conn/bum, relative to the union of Tuscany with the Empire ; and that the Government General of thoi-e departments, which heretofore composed the kingdom of Etruria, will be erected into a great dig nity of the empire, and given to General Mellott. It is added, that in this case there will be established in that country a Junta, over which a Governor General will presde, and which will be composed of three' Masters of Requests, and an Auditor of State Coun cil, nel f amaitu , the functions of a Secretary General. Resides tic oecial papers relative to Spain, pull , .shed in the Motii!-,:r, and the insertion of which we have begun in our paper of this day, the Moniteur has pub lished alsl a proclamation, addressed to the inhabi tants of Spain, by the Prince of Asturias, and the other Princes of the Royal Family ; wherein their 1-Fghnesses announce to the Spaniards, that they have ceded all their right to the Crown of Spain to the Emperor Napoleon. The third of the papers in ques tion is the following • THE SUPREME JUNTA TO THE INHABITANTS OF MADRID. " Inhabitants of Madrid—Your tranquillity will be from henceforth unalterable. You *lll owe it to the loyalty of your own character; but it will be still More assured to you by the confidence, which is inspired by the laws, and by the prudence of zealous Magistrates, to whom their execution is committed. It is in this conviction that the Supreme Junta of Government proclaiuts, that in obedience to the dictates of humanity, the allied army has suppressed die Military Commission, established only for one day, as a necessary, though severe measure, which would not have been established, but for the perverseness of some in.. dividuals ; that, front henceforth, every inhabitant, whatsoever may be his rahk, Who shall have given cause for being seized by the French troops. provided ht has not borne arms against them, shall be anntedlately given over to his proper Judges, and tried by them. And even in the only excepted case, viz. that of hav ing borne arms against the French troops, a Judge nominated by the competent Tribunal of the Nation, shall always assist in regu lating the whole of the process against the accused, till sentence is pronounced. No countryman doiniciliated in the town, nor stranger shall be molested on account of the peculiarity of his dress ; and still less the Ecclesiastics. The carriers emplored in bringing provisions to the town, shall henceforward be subject to no vexation, or detention of their carriages or mules. Every in dividual, who shall have just complaints to make, on addressing himself to the Judge of Police, may rest assured, that he will on the same day obtain full justice and reparation, for whatever da mage he may have sustained. As to the Muleteers, who are likewise employed in bringing provisions to town, and who gene rally stay there a few days, only one half of their cattle shall in fit cure be put in requisition, even tinder the most urgent necessity; and in no case shall they , be detained longer than three or four days, for which they shall be paid at the prices already given nut. Orders shall be given at those gates of the town, where carriers have suffered arbitrary detentions, in order to be searched and stripped of their arms, that this abuse be in future prevented.— But it is also necessary to repeat the order against introducing fire arms, or other prohibited weapons into the city ; they ought al ways to be deposited at the gate. s• Given at the Palace, by order of the Supreme Junta of Government, May 9, 1808. " The Compte CASA VALENCIA, Secretary." MAY 20.—0 n the Lit inst. the King and Queen cf Spain arrived with their suite at Bourdeaux. The guard of honour, as well as the civil and military powers, went out to meet their Majesties, and accom panied them to the Imperial Palace, where the King and Queen alighted. ROME, APRIL 1.4 t. The Senattir Lucien Bonaparte quitted Rome on the 14th of this month, to repair to Florence, where it is understood, he descended first at the Black Eagle, and afterwards settled in the Hotel Ximenes, where General Fiorella lodged. His Holiness persists still in the same disposition with respect to the concessions which have been required of him. Towards the end of the last month, his Holiness addressed, through his Secretary of State, the following circular letter to all the Cardinals who had received orders to quit Rome, conceived in these terms: " His Holiness our Master has ithinnattded his Secretary of State, Cardinal Doria Patnfili, to make known to your Eminence, that his heart has been penetrated with the most poignant grief, on being informed of the order given by the French General to so many Members of the datred College, to quit Rome within three days. His Holiness, whc clearly sees that this measure tends to overthrew the empire of the Church, since those Members arc removed from his person who are necessary to the direction of his affairs, and at last his hlinister, his Vicar, cannot in conscience permit this departure. He prohibits, therefore, every one upon his oath of obedience to remove from Rome, unless absolutely compelled by force ; and his Holiness, foreseeing this case, that after having torn your Eminence from his bosom, you might be left at a cer tain distance frnen Rome, is of opinion, that you should not con tinue your journey, unless compulsion should be used, to the place designated to you ; in order that it may be a matter of public no toriety that your removal from the head of the church has not been voluntary, but from compulsion. The virtues of all the in dividuals who have received the order to depart, alone support the afflicted soul of his Holiness, and are a pledge to him, that, ac cording to his example, they will support these persecutions with patience, and that the sentiments of the Sacred CoUege, far from being weakened, will be strengthened." Though this piece had been sent to the Cardinals before their departure, it did not prevent some of them from going voluntarily to the places pointed out to them. M. Lefebre, who, after the departure of M. Alquier, remained in this city, in the quality of Charge d'Affaires from France to his Holiness, has just set out to Paris, carrying with him all the papers an* archives of the legation. PARLIAMEATARr PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, MAY 31. In the Committee of Privileges, the consideration of the Maim to the Banbury Peerage, was proceeded in. Further consideration on Thursday se'nnight. The Duchess of Brunswick's Annuity Bill was read a third time and passed. The Irish Militia Volunteering Bill, and the Scots Game Laws Bill, were brought up from the Commons by Mr. Blackburn, and other Members, and read a first time ; as were also the Vauxhall- Bridge Bill, brought up by Mr. Thornton, and some private Bills by Sir Charles Pole, and other Members. In an Apreal from the Couri of Session in Scotland, " Forbes v. Honyman, Bart. and others," Mr. Alexander and Mr. GiUles were heard for the Appellant. The LORD CHANCELLOR thought it unnecessary to hear the Counsel for the Respondents, and moved to affirm the judg ment of the Court of Session.—Ordered. On the third reading of the Irish Clergy Residence Bill, an amendment was proposed by the Earl of MOIRA, to save the privileges of the Peers, Archbishops, and Bishops of Ireland with respect to Chaplains, which after some conversation between his Lordship, Lords HAWKCSBURY, HARROFFST, REDZSDALE, the Duke of NORFOLK, the LORD CHANCELLOR, and the Bishop of LIIEFRICK, was agreed to with a slight alteration; as was also a clause proposed by Lord HARROW BY, to obtain returns with re spect to Lie residence of the Clergy, after a few observations trom MP Archbishop of Carnet, Lot ds REDESDALE, and HAwKES- On the Report of the Irish Clam House Bill being presented by Lord WALSINGHAM, the Duke of NORFOLK objected to the amendments made in the Committee, on the ground that they r.nght endanger the rejection of the Bill in the other House. Lord REDESDALE thought the amendments essential. After a few nhservations - Crain the Duke of NORFOLK in reply, the House divided. On the question for agreeing to the ainendplents, Contents 6—Nan-contents 2—Majority 4. Adjourned till to-morrow (this day). HOUSE OF COMMONS. Mr. CAMPBELL presented Petitions from Ditm!‘ar:on and Paish y, is favour of the Sugar Distillation, Ordered to iie on the _ Mr. FULLER brought up the Small Pox Prevention Bill ; read a first time and ordered to be read a .ticarl time to-morrow, Lord MII,TON presented a Petition from the Counties of York, &menet and Wilts, against certain provisions in theM'ool len Acts Repeal Bill. Ordered to lie on the Table. Tke British Ships Bill was reported and ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. A Message from the Lords announced their assent to the Du chess of Brunswick's Annuity Fill; the Assesstd Taxes Consnli dation Bill ; the Irish Customs tees Lill; the Indi:tment Bill; and Chudleigh Fire Bill. A Petition was presented from certain Inspectors, Searchers and Sealers of Woollcn Cloth, agaii.s: some provisions of the Woollen Acts Repeal Bill. The consideration of the Report of the I.and Tax Commis sioners Bill was postponed till this day sent light. SUGAR EXPORTATION. The House went into a Committee to consider of the Film tation of Sugar from the Colonies. Mr. Rose propos: d a Reso lution, that it should be permitted to Export Sugar and Coffee from his Majesty's Co:or:les to any part of Europe, south of Cape Finisterra ; and to imp:. rt Corn in exchange into the sail Color i a. 'llls was agreed to. The House resumed, and a Bill was ordtced accordingly to the tenor af u r Ittsolution. WOOLLEN MANUFACTURE' The Woollen Manufacture Acts Repeal Rill WAS rend a vecond time, and after a few wends from Mr. Wilberforce, Lord Milton, Mr. Pereeval and Mr. Rose % was ordered to be referred to a Committee above Stairs, for the purpose of hearing Counsel on the Petition!. WEST INDIA COMMITTFF:. Lord BINNING presented the Second Report of the West India Committee Report and Appendix. Ortier,d to be printed. The White Herring Fishery Regulation Bill WAS brought in, read a first, and ordered to be read a second time to-morrow. BI'DGET. The CHANCMI.OR of the EXCI4EQUEA gave notice, that to-morrow he would bring forward t►e Budget in the Wayb and Means. _ _ _ The Report M the committee- to consider of the Exportation of Oxyinitiiatic Acid to Ireland was brought up, and the Resolu tien allowing a Drawback of 133. 4d. a barrel on such Exporta ticn agreed to. Mr. HUSKISSON moved for leave to bring in a Rill for Vest• log the Barrack Lands in Coniniissioners, under certain condi tions. Leave given. Mr. WARDELL moved for an Account of the Prices of Clo thing the Artillery and German Legion for the rears 1805-G. Ordered. The Orders In Council Warehousing Bill was oonimitted.— Report to-morrow. Mr. HUSKISSON presented a Petition from the, Veterinary College, praying aid. Ordered to lie or. the Table. Dr. LAWRENCE brought in a Bill to Prev , •nt brands and Impositions on Masters and Vessels by Pilots .ind others within the jurisdiction of the Cinque Ports, and to provide for the Ad justment of Differences in Cases of Salvag Read a first, and ordered to be read a second time to-morrow. Mr. HUSKISSON brought up the Thro, per Cent. Annuity BBL Read a Brtt, and ordered to be read a secousl tialt! en Fri day, and to be printed. IRIS!! BANK. Mr. FOSTER brought up the Bill for the renewal of the Irish Bank Charter, and for the acceptance of a front that Bank of L 1,500,000 Irish currt•nry. Sir JOHN NEWPORT, besides the rxelu;•on of Catholics film the Direction, had strong objections to this Bill ae a nica‘ttre of Finance, being of opinion that it was a via: bad bargain for the public, and he was against the consideration of tin subject at all till the Finance Committee should hrve an opportunity of exa mining into the regulations of that Batik. He was surprised that a measure of this importance should be so hurried. Mr. FOSTER denied that it had been hurried, and was pre pared to meet the objections in the Committee. ' Lord H. PETTY gave notice, that he would move an instruc , tion to the Committee, to admit a clause to remove the ties of the Catholics with respect to the oßices of Governor and Director. The BiU was then read a first, and ordered to be road a second time to-morrow, and to be printed. The I.and Revenue Bill was committed, and its proeisi,ns et tended to the Duchy of Lancaster. Report to-morrow. MR ROME POIVAM. Mr. LUSHINGTON, after observing that he brought forward this subject in consequence of a mo tion by Sir F. Burdett, respecting the King's Droits of Admiralty, proceeded to state that the Legislature had very properly, years ago, prohibited any trade he tween Ostend and the East Indies. An Honourable and gallant Captain (Sir Home Popham), had, how ever, gone to Ostend, in the year 1787, ►aving pre viously applied to the East India Company for leave to go to India for two years. That was refused, but at rength he prevailed, on an assurance that he would reside during that time at a Danish settlement, called Fredericknagore, relinquishing his half pay as a Lieutenant in the Navy. He got to India in a foreign vessel, and it appeared, by certain documents, that the gallant Captain, in the year 1789, Was trading illegally, to say no worse of it, and it was also cer tain, that by that traffic he had realized a considerable sum. He was connected with a house at Ostend, a house of the most notorious description for illegal trade, and he soon thereafter returned to Europe The gallant Captain meditated a second voyage, but it did not appear that he got fresh leave from the Ad miralty. In his second expedition, therefore, he made the voyage under Tuscan colours, for which a sum o fl 621. 10s. had been paid. He made the voyage out and home, and the gallant Captain was not aware that in sb doing he was violating the laws of his coun try. After this, in the Etrusco, he came to the Cove of Cork, where he pretended he was taken under con voy by the Diadem ; but that was not the case. A Lieutenant on board that ship was ready to prose there was a prize-master on board the Etrusco at the time, and he could prove that fact at the bar, if ne cessary. He then proceeded to accuse the gallant Captain with having, in a variety of occasions, resor ted to false papers for purposes of deception. Off Dungeness, however, the contfuct of the gallant offi cer was called by him, Mr. Lushington, "smuggling," and he was not disposed to retract that word. (Loud cries of hear !) The gallant officer went on shore at Dungeness, and when he returned five boats came alongside into which were put several chests of tea, rhubarb, and other articles. This was at twelve at, night. The Etrusco was soon thereafter brought into the Thames, from the roads of Ostend, by Admiral Robinson, and was condemned in the Court of Ad- 1 miralty as lawful prize. The gallant Captain was in London at the time of the trial in August, 1793, and he did not think fit to appear. Mr. Lushington, at great length, proceeded to condemn the payment of 25,0001. to Sir Home Popham, as being a wanton ex penditure of the public money, to which he was by no means entitled. Admiral Robinson had not got a shilling for the capture of the Etrusco, and that Ad miral was within call to prove that fact. He con cluded by moving a resolution censuring the payment to Sir Home Popham, of 25,0001. as injurious to the naval service. Sir HOME POPHAM complained of the different persecutions which had been fomented and kept alive against him for years ; since this question had been agitated, the Editors of Newspapers had been un commonly virulent. He then read a paragraph from one, which accused him of carrying arms and am munition to Tippoo Saib ; having denied this asser tion, he said it was impossible for an Englishman to act so disloyal; but if he had acted in the manner imputed to him, he ought to be tied to a stake in Palace-yard. There were other paragraphs of the same nature in almost every other Paper published in London, which he thought it his duty to treat with contempt. There was another circumstance which he had to complain of, namely, an Hon. Gentleman opposite (Mr. Calcraft) had on a former evening, asserted in his place that his appointment as Captain of the Fleet in the Expedition to Copenhagen, was an outrage on the feelings of the Officers of the Navy, and had given general disgust. To prove the con trary he read two letters, one from the Commander in Chief, Admiral Gambier; the other, from Sir Thomas Graves, highly approving of his conduct and appointment, which was a sufficient proof that no prejudice existed against him. He then denied in positive terms that he had gone to India clandestinely or fled from justice in this country. His conduct in that had been approved of by the Govertn'tr.C. A .„.. A, Lord Cornwallis, and certainly he was not awaretat he had in any instance vicilatZd the laws of his m in . try ; and in proof of what he asserted, he read a letter from his Lordship to the Court of Directnrs, detailing the services he had rendered in that qua r t (r of the globe. It is true, that when he went t- !Rd:,. he was not in his Majesty's service, lie went nit re i n a private character, and denied his having be en g „il tv of smuggling either in Ireland or at Dungeness, in proof of the former, he had a letter from :q r . Fitzgerald, of Cork ; and as for the five chests (t . tea seized at the latter place, he did not know :171 . thing of them, only that they had lai:ett given he mate of the Etrusco to the Hastings' pilot, for pilo t . age over dangerous sands. By the capture et that vessel he had suffered a pecuniary loss of 45,0001. which he thought a severe punishment NVilhellt feelings being again carbonized by the ag:tra,r. the question. Mr. I'ERCEVAL. asked across the table if I l k present motion was intended to criminale the K A U AI officer, and being answered in the affirmative, Speaker observed, that it was a rill.. i;t such cases for the I{un. Member to withiray...---:; 1 7 H. in imediately withdrew. Mr. LONG defended the docisien of the Tre aql , in granting to Sir 110100, on his memmiai, 0 5,0001, Mr. CA I.olt A FT maintained his Reiner ass'...- tions, and read a letter from Admiral, Keats, Sto; ford, and S. hood, stating, that the appointment .f Sir Home. as Captain of th.• Fleet, had giver cli• gust ; as he had never lten in a battle, nor undo: t..; command of an Admiral. Sir .10.1 i N N ICHOLL contcal•cl. that tlie 711 , 41. n awarded to the Honourable B3:l. , itet was not P.:".a: money, but tilt property :he \\ was the true character of the gram. ? Whs this a terni..sion of a forfeiture, incurred in violating the monopoly enjoyed by the East India Company.— The Learned Gentleman went into a history of the voyage of the Honourable •Baronet to India, was tor the purpose of providing for his family. When there, the Government counived at the Ira carried on by British subjects. From this topic he ; ceeded to represent to the House the immediate ine fives that induced the advice given to restore Sir lic‘i!.e to his rights; and this, he contended, was done with. out any injury to Captain Robinson, who should no: I have urged so severely as he did the forfeiture against a Brother Officer.—[here a voice under the gallety, which we understood to be that of Admiral Sir C. Pole, cried out, " Order! Order ! he was no Brother Officer I")—He lamented that there appeared so much irritation in this debate, as he was per suaded that in their cooler moments Gentlemen on• both sides of the House would at last acknowledge that restoring Sir Home Popham his proper right, Justice, and barely justice, was. done : that no other person was wronged of theirs by it ; that the public was not injured ; and that those who advised the Crown in making the grant, had the greatest and best consolation in their own minds for what they'*i.tid, exercising an impartial duty to their Country, tlitir . King, and their conscience. Mr. WINDHAM was not disposed to admit the distinction between the case of the Honourable Baronet and the Treasury ; it was one and the same. He deprecated the idea held out by the Right Honourable.Gentlerrian, of abstaining from inquiry as regarding the ,Treasury, because Mr. Pitt was no more. You might as well interdict inquiry during the whole period of that great man's administration. —lt had been admitted that the trade was illegal, and that was the great blame ; and it had also hee:x contended, that no injury . had accrued to the coun try. He should like to hear, howe,ver, who it was thought it was not injurious. The Honourabl.: Baronet had to be sure taken upon himself, in more instances than one, to judge what was best for the country—He had placed hiinself in the situation of a Government, a situation which, if allowed to exist, on all occasions, might involve the nation in the most ruinous consequonces. The Right I lon. Gentleman reprobated, in ironical terms, the language of the Learned Gentleman respecting Captain Robinson's conduct. The Learned Gentleman seemed to think that the Captain ought to have been brought to a Court Martial for doing his ditty in seizing the Hon. Baronet's ship, and in-attempting to put a stop to a little innocent smuggling: The consequence, however, to Captain Robinson, of fulfilling his duty was th s, that he is nearly ruined—Hear ! hear!—This was the sort of reward he met with ; hut what was the rcward which the Hon. Baronet obtained.? Why, a 'Treasury warrant for '25,000.! " Is that the way (said Mr. \V.) you would deal with smaller offenders against the Re venue Laws ?"--(Hear I hear !)—Those Laws were very severe, and every day furnished examples of severe penalties inflicted, sometimes upon innocent persons !—(Hear ! hear !)—An abatement of the ri gour Administration would find necessary, for many an unfortunate man came under the cognizance of those Laws, having even a better plea in defence than the Honourable Baronet ; but woe betide them if they expected mercy !—( Hear! hear!) The Learned Gen tleman had this night taken up a new chxracter, in de fending those who offended against the Crown Laws. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that however the present case might be disguised,' the real fact charged was a misapplication of the public money against Government. Sir Home Popham had done great services to the State when Mr. Windham was Minister at War ; and although he might have forgot them, itnppeared that Earl Spencer had not. Besides all this, the grant to Sir Home Popham was what was done every day in the Court of Exchequer, and the Solicitor-General, on his left hand, had thi; moment whispered to him, that he had done it nine times this morning. Mr. WHITBREAD observed, that Sir Herne Popham had not denied one fact that was charged against him. He had, to be sure, urged the affair of Copenhagen, as justifying every thing ; but he had for gotten the circumstance of being driven into Bc:nhay by stress of weather—a misfortune, which he, like ail great men: —(A laugh)—had turned to his ad vantage, by smuggling his cargo on shore there, because he found others doing the same. This was like a thief taking shelter at Hounslow from the non, and then going out to rob on the highway, telling us as an excuse that other gentlemen of the same des cription were taking shelter along with him. In con• elusion he had merely to state, that Captain Robinson, who captured Sir Home Popham's smuggling ship. was willing to make oath at the Bar, that he was et' I W' Mr /vide Pugle Yet" ,