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R 4\CE. have trat:flated the foaming Ankle front a French Paper ribliased in Lond‘m. Wc clnnot ;.f.:ertain its authentic4y; but it is catai,,ly much in the ityle a the Fibt6T CONSUL, and the Ipint it br,....tbi.s is entirely hi ow.t. PARIS, JUNG 20 —TN3 days 2go BONAPARTI In f:nmed the Council f State, that hz would pretide in it probably for the Lill dine before his departure. The 1::tio: - . t was unnfualy lon,;, and the Cosset. never appea; - c .1 more tranquil, and aff A hle, than on this o:e.ifion.—He ad.lrs fled them by a writ n related to a cumber of palitical and adin'n:!h:a.it a !cp . ,:s. Ile 141. - ac 1 cointr.ence one of the molt important loy:,:ies ever undcilat;:m by the Chief of an Fmpii e, 1 ti 1 - . k it n:..celfity to inform toy Council of State, that I "in perfenly fr.:stied with their zeal and lide• lity, on which I have ftill it farther reliance, par.icu lady in my ablence. "A gr'..it entcrprife occupies my mind, great ame• Ikratious ,:.err.and my attention. Without detailing to you at this moment a wall projea, in which I than require the affiltance of your knowledge and your eff rtc, I than, however, defcrihe to you the different lubjeas which I am detirous the Seaions edam Coun cil deliberate without delay. ~ We ca:um; conceal from ourielves, that our in ternal adminilliation has not that unity and activity which dittinguith our external relations. We are powerful and refpeCted abroad, but at home we ate timidly irrefolute—obliged to confult public opinion, without, however, poireding at all times the means of controuling or direning it. d , Why is our progrefs thus embarrafTed—whence there internal dittiaCtions ? This 1 have not yet com pletely dilcovered. Pei haps enterprizes which re quired boldt:efs have been condtiEted with too much t circumipation—perhaps too much importance has t been given to public opinion in circumtlances in I which it ought to have been oppofed or difregardcd. I know not, but it appears to me to be Recast.) , in dandy to break all the habits which great bodies of [ the people have contraeled by the Revolution. Thus i conduced to obedience by ft n mcafures, they will , feel lefs intereft in the changes which the return of order requires, and we (hall at the fame time be more at liberty to attempt thefe changes. " The French are in general of an unquiet and difcontented difpofition. That levity with which they were reproached, and which fome fkilful mini- Rers have turned to their advantage, in eftabli(hing abfolute authority, no longer cliffs. It is replaced by circumfpenion and t AI - diners. I have received many reports on the manner in which the people view our adminiaration, on what they hope, and on ve•at they require. I have almoft always obferved a difcontent without any pretext, or by which thole which exiited were exaggerated. 'We have not yet advanced far enough from the chaos to which we fuc eeeded, and the pretenfions which contributed not a Ilittle to produce it are but too well recollected. In deed, when I fee the injuftice with which our ameli orations are received, and the liberty which is taken with our conduct, I am compelled to afk myfelf whe- I Cher we have not been too gentle, too conciliating, and whether it is potfible for this nation to accommo -1 date itfelf to a temperate authority ? 1 ' I am pretty well fatisfied with the rich proprie tors. They have that refpe& and deference for the I Government which we are entitled to require of them. But, perhaps, they have not difplayed fufficient con f fidence—perhaps they have ff,:wn little anxiety to involve themfelves in its defliny—and finally, they bave, perhaps, made too few facrifices for fupporting it in its embarrafrments ; but this is not the proper moment for invefligating all thefe fubjefts of difratif i fa Lion. It is, however, necefrary to difcover the cattle l of this uncertainty and coldnefs in the public opinion, and to remedy it promptly by ftrong meafures and vigorous inftitutions. 1 4 , I know, that in general the new Government is reproached for its expences—if, however, the people could reafon when their wants are in quellion, it would be eafy to prove that the expends which are fo difagreeable to them, fall in a very (mall proportion on the public treafury : but we well know that the multitude are incapable of entering into filch details. The . Revolution has rendered them jealous of every thing connected with rank and fplendour ; but to that it is proper their minds lhould be habituated. As to the burthen of taxes, I am of opinion that it is not fufficiently difguifed, and that it may be augmented without being fo fallibly felt. It is the opinion of Financiers, that too much is levied on land. We mull bave recourfe to indireft taxation, but that requires an extended commerce ; and this war, which I could ' neither prevent nor delay, has deranged all my plans I for the reiteration of our indultry and navigation. I ;hope, however, that with the aid of fome regular tri kutes which we have a right to require from our neighbours, either for the benefits which they have received, or which we grant them, it will be poffible to diminifh the public charges: but this refource is not yet fixed, though it has ;tire idy produced much: Lot the mcafure, in the execution of which I have expericacei teal obltacles and open dilaffeCtion, is my att-jrtpt to increafe the army to that degree of force which is propoitionated to our influence in Europe, and the expeditions I am preparing. [" W C cannot fippott mir power without a great military etlablithrnent. We cannot terrain formida• ' lilt milers we tat:fent to afloniilted Europe a gigantic army. Military glnty has faired us to cur prelent Ration, and it is only by a difplay of military power that we can maintain oi.rfelve . in it. .. I coact's, that fur con( tatting this formidable fupport of ow- gran& itr, 1 tinviglit I pet ceived great CA cilities in the national cha:.l,‘ti.:„ iii the w ii bio: ta lents of the French p.:ople, and in their !Lila i'llilot y and c nnqueft, which focccfs only ferves to ititii•Jate. In this, however, I have bea :t good deal ikccive,,f. T:ie confcription was at fit a cffc.ted ~,:ti, 1,!.I; C at y obit ael-f, tint not without great marmots; that initi• twiny+, which peculiarly belonged to Fra-re, (cams al. , ,tit to toil completely. T:terc is no ardour in the vi,titli, g..J !Mich indilpontion in the parcnt:.. The Government ought, toerctote, to direet all its anen t; ,n t , , :V: i71:1111r) into III': CatlitS which hate produced 01 7 . :ip.:ti , y litil reti!tai.ce. Vigorous meafurcs ate nits iftry to 1 eine:). ,h',te c vil, partici:;Jrl .i I c !,, n ot i .cetcd in the ,n, •t t, 1 itid intencl to make in my Into n'' for is: . ninti•a Mg , :tat warts: cc ;pirit. whicb icons slo.nit to be C.VitigUl.L'ed. " 1 mull TIM notice thole fcenes fropt which I have experienced an almoll equal degree of anxiety, which fortunately, however, begins to diminifh. I mean the crimes of every kind which fame months ago Rill afTailed us. That frenzy of vengeance and pillage has long given me great uneafinefs, and the fpecial tribunals will never be able to protea us from its attempts. Here I mull obferve that our judicial organization is bad : the Judges are too independent of the Government. Their places ought not to be for life, and we ought to poffefs more means of fii mulating them when they arc inactive or timid, or of punning them when they mifunderfland their duty. The infi;tiuion of Juries, which I have preferved out of refpeet to thole mho founded it, rather than from any regard to the public opinion, is ufelefs, and can neve: be naturalized among us. Popular inflitutions will never twit France. Every thing which approxi mates to the people (non becomes either the objed of their c, ntellipt or indifference. We mull have severe judicial forms and inflexible Judges. Such a reform would be worthy of our meditations. You ought to pave the way fur it by your fpeeches and your writ ings. Without it there is neither repute for us, nor kcurity for the people." rARLIAMENTARr PRUCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, TUESDAY, JUNE 28. Purfuant to a former Order of the Houle, Counfel were called to the Ler, relative to the claim of Sir Cecil Bifhop, Baronet, to the Barony of Zouch. But, on account of fome informality in part of the introduelory proceedings, the further confideration of the cafe was poltpored. The various Bills before the Houfe were forwarded in their re fool ive Rages. Among there were the kith Glebe Houfe Bill, the frith Ship Protedion Bill, the Corn, and Irilh Mi'itia Transfer Bill, which feverally went through Committees of the whole Houle. The Bill for making a certain Provifion for the Widows of the Writers to the Signet in Scotland, was read a third time and *AL Some private bullmfs was then difpoLal of, and their Lorus adjourned till to-morrow. HOUSE OF COMMONS. A Perron from the Treafure prefentcd at the Bar an Account o the Amount of the Exchequer Ball which had been Blued purfu ant to an A a of the left Seffinn (or granting the fum of Five Mil lons by way of Loan.—Ordered to lie on the Table. A meirage from the Lords Rated their Lordfhips' 'rent to one public and fcvcral Private Bills. Averal Petitions u :re prefented from the Hop Planters in dif ferent part; of the country. The Report was brought up from the Committee appointed to confider of the propriety of granting parliamentary aid to the Wet Dock Company, for the better enabling them to carry their plan into execution.—Referred to a Committee of the whole Houfe to- morrow. Tilt' Scot', Affeffcd Tax Bill wag read a fecond time, and referred to a Committee of the whole Houle to-morrow. The further confideration of the Report of the Additional Af felled Tat Bill, and of the Aileffed Tax Colledion Bill, was polt poned till to-morrow. The further confideration of the Report of the Real Property Bill was deferred till Friday. The Scotch Militia Families Bill was reported, and ordered to be road a 3d time on Thurfday. The Militia Field Officers' Bill was read a third time and paired. Mr. Wica HA m gave notice, that on Friday he mould move Come further regulations relative to the frith Militia. The Report on the frith Combination Bill was brought up and agreed to, and the Bill ordered to be read a third time to•murrow. The hilh Spirit Excite Bill, and the frills Mili•ia Pay Bill, were each read a firft, and ordered to be read a fecond time to-morrow. A new Writ was ordered to be iffued for the Burghs aStran raer, Wigtown, &c. in the room of Joust SPALDING, Efq. who ►as accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. SOUTHLIN WHALE FIIIICRY SILL. On the motion being made, that the Houfe Ihould then go into a Committee on the Southern Whale Filhery Bill, Mr. Lee Bated, that it appeared to bins and feveral of his eon. nitumts rather a hardfhip, now that we were to be confidered as one united kingdom, that a bill Otould pats granting bounties to Britith thip, employed in that trade, and that it was not extended to Ireland alto. Lord GtCNaravlO übferved, that the fum given could not ex ceed to,ocol. and that in many inflances the whole had not been paid. In the year Int , and feveral times fince that period, money had been paid to frith ihlps employed in that trade, provided they firit touched at a port in England. What he alluded to was before the Union ; and in his opinion no bounty could with propriety be paid either before or fince the Union, under any other eircumftm ces However, if the Hon. Gentleman who frolic laft, or any other Hon. Member, could point out any mode by which that difficulty could be obviated, ►e would feel kimfelf extremely hap py in having an opportunity in the (=Heft degree to teftify Lis gra titude to that People with whom he had the honour of being for merly conneeted. The °Made which he fuppofed lay in the way of what tie Hon. Gentleman intended was, that the money was taken from the individual revenue of the Britifh ports, and there paid to the petfons engaged in that article of commerce. The mo ney was not taken out of the aggregate purfe of the United King dom; and, being paid in that manner, Britifh merchants would expect that they were alone entitled to a bounty paid out of their own revenues. _ . . Mr. Lac laid, if that were the on'y material objalion, thehoun tics tobe paid to I rith Blips might be paid out of their own reve nues, payable wi•hin their own ports, in the fame manner as the bounties to britith [hips were paid out of the revenues of the Sri tab ports Gm. ral GASCOY e remarked that there was not at prefent,ac cordirg to the belt information he could receive, one Blip bel ng in; to coat t art o the United Kingdom engaged in the trade to which the Bill gave the bounties in queftion. He had not the lull obje.ftion that bounties, and every [hipping regulation, fhould be extLnded equaly to both countries. Betide that, the Hon. Gentle• man had nu rijit to iarticipate in what has been ellublithcd here for years. Mr. Le r laid, that the prA-nt law had prevented many fpecula tions in that trade, and inlitted, that in a cafe where a merchant or two pained 4 or socl. by bounties, as was frequently the cafe, it would be of v, ry great lervice to a merchant trading with a fmall capital, or trading with perhaps nearly the whole of his capital fun', in enterp. . The obtaining of fuch a (um under fuch was an oljet'l of importance; and it appeared, on the c of it, tioaccouniabl.• how the fu: jee'ts of one part of a king dom could lweiiii.l,el to that prt ference over thole of another part. I be quettion was then put, and the lloufe refolved into a Cum- hlr. I,rr then kbrnitted a Chide to the Committee, which rant to ratenil the houitti,e to ha (hips, and to be payable in the tame nistim r tnt re a, they are here to Britith. The Con" oi of the I: ace Fity CR begged to fet his Hon. Fund er.t in point ni form. In the prefent Rage of the !intim(' it was ineentiftent with the rules of the Houfe that any Clat.fe Ili-oi' hr dd,d. The Cntnmittee might be ptiftgroned, and in the interon an InftrusEtion might be moved to be given to the Commit ter to t ell , et. lt he merits of tin. intended Claufe wou!el then he dikulled ta the Houle. then reftimeti, and the Rcport was ordered to be into cooll,icr Hon to-morrow. Tht CHAMCk LA Olt of the Exciito2ira rcfe to take notice of an order, which the Houle had made yd . - tcrday on the motion elan Hon. Member then pre :ent. tot the production of certain papers prefented in the Ihape of memorials to the Lords of the Admi t•ity. It was his intention now to move, that that ortli.r be (..!fsharged. It was with regret and furprife he learned fuch an order had been`made. The ac. cuftnined pia:lice of that Houle was, that all mo taais iiitci:dtd to be made upon tubjefts that might produce a u teotTi.in, and particularly on fubjefts ssh c't in ;hem vcr) fcrions charges againft receded by a n.P.; -c. In the p rf i oia.tocc nn n , tice WAS given; it Was , TUC the I :ion. .tertal.o.r had communicated to him (Mr. Ad• inith tin this fubjedt, and his iutention to :notice ttc motion ; and as he had received no answer to this communication, he probably thought the mo, tion would not be objefted to. If he (Mr. Adding ton) had known yeflerday of the motion, it would not have palled without objedions from him ; not becaule no previous notice had been given, but be-, 'mire no Parliamentary ground had been laid for making it. It was a rule of that Houle, that before any motion could be agreed to, a parliamentary ground mull be Rated, particularly in the prefent Hance, when the tendency of the memorial that was moved for would be to throw a grofs imputation on the charailer of the Court of Admiralty, and upon the Government of the country, for permitting thole ads which that Court was charged with having done : and for having taken no Reps to enquire into the con duet of the great Law Officers belonging to that Court. He would contend, that the imputation againa thrife Hon. Perfons was wholly unmerited; there was nothing improper in their condud. Same irregularities might have taken place ; but if tl.ey did, they were afterwards corrected, when his ilcn. and Learned Friend who fat near him (Sir William Scott) came to prelide in that Court. It was, there• fore, nothing more than what he owed to that molt refpc.ftable Court, and to the Government, of which the late Adminiaration formed a part, to move that the order made yefterday, for the produCtion of the memorial in quellion, be now difcharged. Captain COCHRANE entered into a hiflory of all the circumstances which give rife to the memorial, the whole of which it is unnecellary for us to detail. He laid lie had taken a great number of prizes, against which appeals were afterwards made in the Admi ralty Court of this country. The caufes came into a courfe of invefligation ; and for a long time he was prevented from attending to them. At laft, when he came to exaniihe into his affairs, he found the groffefl negled had taken place in the management of them. He found that he had been precluded ftont profecut ing tis appeal by fuch agents as be might think fit to employ, and that the King's Proftc,r had not only taken upon himfelf the management of his cattle, but that he was alfo employed by his adverfaries to at againit him ; the caufes were decided againll him ; and by that means he not only loft his prizes, but in curred a marl enormous expellee, by the extravagant bill of coils, charges, dec. brought against him. In confequence of this, he called a Committee of Naval Officers, who were all interefted in, and affefted by thefe decifions. They all confidered that the intereft of the whole British Navy was at flake. Several other Officers were in the fame predicament with himfelf. They found they were denied the liberty of employing their own Proftots to defend their claims. He could prove to that Houle that the King's,Pi oc tor monopolized to hirotelf the right to conduff their caufes, contrary to their content ; and that he not only did fo, lout he got ferret agents of his own to aft as Pro tors on behalf of the oppofite party ; tome of whom were the enemies of the country. The Hon. Member read feveral papers, in which thefe fads were Rated ; and as he was proceeding, The CHANCELLOR of the Each EQSEEL role to (peak to order. He Paid, he fhould objet to the produetion of the papers moved for yesterday, hecaufe no Parlia mentary ground had been laid. But now, while the Houfe was debating whether there papers were to be produced or not, the Hon. Member availed himfelf of the indulgence of the Houle to read the very do cument which was objet ed to. Captain Coclf tax le laid, he thought he had a right to read thefe papers as a pat t of his argument, in or der to induce the Houle not to difch ge the order. The SPEAKER Paid, it was control) , to order to bring to the knowledge of the Houle the contents of a paper, the produdt on of which it was doubtful whe ther the Houle would agree to. Mr. HOWARD contended, that the Hon. Gentle. man was in order, and to Thew that he was, lie would quote a cafe in point. At the time when an enquiry was made in that Honk telative to the expedition to Ferrol, a Right Hon. Secretary of State read a letter, which was one of the documents then moved for, and he was nit. prevented from reading it. • The Caeactd.Loit of the Exc soy ea defended the conduit of the Hon. Secretary of State. He had in that inflance fir ft read his extracts himfelf, without the Houle making any objeftion, but that did not bind him to lay the document on the table. In the prefent inflance the Houle were deliberating on the propriety of receiving or rejecting a paper, and in the midll of that diicuffirm, an Hon. Member reads it to them, before the Houle were determined in their decifion as to its reception. The cafes were not in the fmalleft degree to be confidered parallel. Mr. W. Duwoas admired the perfpicuity of the Hon. Member who defended the order of fuch a mode of proceeding. The Hon. Gentleman fuppofed that the Houle would admit a paper to be presented di redly to one fenfc, at the lame time that it was ex• petting its ftrong dtfapprobation of submitting it to the operations of another. They flould be ftippored to have not the !call objection to hearing what they fo flrongly oppofed being (hewn to them. Mr. Kaufealan raid that there was an cfrential dif ference between reading a paper and laying it on the table. In the comic of an argument an Hon. Mem• ber might find himfelf oppofed in fuch a way, that the belt mode for him to reply was, by the reading of a paper which, by its being the chief fublat mat ter of the debate between them, would belt support his argument, if he had previoufly given a cot red (Lament of its contents. But, by la) ing a paper on the table of the Houle foniething more w•as done; for the Houle then admitted it as a fair document en which to ground their proceedings relpeding the ob ject to which it had reference. The CHANCELLOR of the ExcHaos)t obferved, that any other paper but that, the receipt of which Was then difiliffing, in his opinion, might be fairly introduced in ftipport of the Honourable Member's argument; Col. BA STAID fupported the opinion of the Chan cellor of the Exchequer. Captain Cot HIANE declared again that it was not his inclination to aft in the lean manner in oppofition to the opinions of the terpeflah'e Members who had fpoken on the lithjea, and on whole atilltro it y 1:e re lied, that he was not lilting Meow; ilent with the resu. laCcrts of that Honfe. He fliould theickre lead allo. ther paper or two in fupport of his complaint. Ile flinnlci, however, Bra deny that the precart-es h' comp Lined of had l een icrneJicd. The I:jog's Prrt tot and his partner, indeed, had fcpxrate honks after fume interference had been made ; vr f,m...ozdv ed ; but 1111 things went on in nearly the old way.—' Some officers almorl ruined themfelves by the enor. mons expellee of prize caufes ;—and, as an inllance, he would (hew them one of the Proctor's bil!s— [He here produced it.] He had heard of taylor's and of apothecaries' bills too, but he never heard o r f a w one that equalled that bill. There was a caflz alto he recolle&ed of a tidy having been taken undzr Danith colours, as fair a prize as ever (truck to hist Majefly's flag;.and that, he recolloled, was flipport ed in an appeal made by the fuppofed or avowed owner, by the fame dtfcription of people, againft hie Majelly's officers. He felt himfelf pleading his own cattle, he fel4imfelf the advocate of his brother of. and he gloried in Lying that he was endea vouring to fupport the caufe of the whole Britilh na vy, who relied on the jullice and liberality of the Houle, that it would afford them protection. Hz hoped that ether flame plan would be adopted, that every tmto might be at liberty to choofe his own pro c . L )r, or ells that the number of King's Prod-tors won!! be augmented, if the employing of them was not to be avoided. _ _ _ Dr. Laultsue!, in a fpeech of great ability, cor. reeled the want of knowledge of the forms of tl: Houfe, erhi:!, he faid had been difplayed by the gal. lant officer. He then made a Rrong appeal to 1:1; feelings as a man of honour, whether it was right :5 libel perfons in a place where they had not t!:e p ,wer to deLnd theinfclves. He Rated alio, that tor wife confide.rations the Couftitution of the coe:• try had laid it down as the law of that Court, th tt Prostors' fees fhould be regulated in firth a mann:: as that they would have an interefl its the conders. nation. The Honourable and Learned Gentleman then concluded with a Rrong and elaborate defence of the character and condud of the Proetor and h,: partner, and declared his hearty affent to the motion of the Ri,ht Hon. Gentleman who (poke firft in the debate (the Chancellor of the )exchequer). Mr. Jon x STONE could rot allow that no Parliarn:m tary ground had been laid by the Honourable ,m 1 gallant Commander in fupport of his motion. lie contended that the Houfe bad the cicarell right to militate inquiry in all cafes Where they thought fences of a public nature had been committed, and certainly the cafes which bad been Rated were well dcferving of examination. That it was quite sm. feemly for the King's Prnetor to conduit one fide of a cattle and his partner the other, was denied on ra side, and the Right Hcnourable Judge of the Admi ralty Court dekrved the thanks of the public for or dering the parnerfhip to be diffolved, The CHANCeLLOR of thip,,Excoeqyra explained, and intitied that the Honourable Gentleman had nei ther Rated fulficient Parliamentary grounds in making his motion, nor halite yet fltewn fufficient grqunds why the ordcr following that motion fhotild not nnw be difcharged, for the reatons already Rated to the Houk. Sir WILLIAM Scoff fpoke in behalf of the King's Proaor, and the proceedings which took place rela tive to the prize caufes. He obferved, that thole who turned out to be their own lawyers, frequently found themfelves deficient in talents. A greater fyftem of juilice bad never exifted in any tribunal, than in that wherein the prefent complaints were derived; com plaints which might create fufpicion in weak minds, to the injury of refpeiftable perfons. The only con federation the Honourable Member had for fuppofing that collufive meafures had been ufed during the tri als of the caufes, was merely becaufe the fame were defended by the King's Proaor. It was not upon the information to be derived from the hangers on about a Court, the Honourable Member was to form luipicions fo injurious to perfons of the higheii cha racters. Suppole even there had been an undue in tacit tiled, there were other means of redrefs thatt an appeal to the Houle of Commons. If a Gentle man found his attorney had overcharged his bill, he could not reafonably make appeal to Parliament; there were other ways to procure justice, and justice in all inflances would undoubtedly be found, it pro perly fought for. Was the Honourable Member to bring in a bill like a taylor's bill, and beg the Houle to cut the fame fhort with their (hears ? The Hon. Member had complained much refpeding the velfels called the Black ,joke and Poor gad ; he had only to fay on that point, that if they had proceeded longer than they did in the bufinefs refpeaing thous wilds, there would have been added Come feet more in length to the Honourable Member's Bill. He was furpriied that a petfon poll - aired of the fenfe which he knew the Honourable Member was, Ihould have doubted the honour and justice of fuch a refpeeable Court. If the Honourable Member was not fafe in their hands, in what hands was fafery to be found ? He obferved that he (hould difmifs the fubjea with giving a piece of advice to the Honourable Member, np,mely, in future, to repofc his prize interells iu the hands of• thole whom the Government of the country had ap pointed to that, and without apprehenfion. He de fcribed the purenefs with which prize caufes were conduaed, and concluded with obferving, that the good fenfe of the Houle would fee the impropriety of tile appeal, as one of a mifchievons tendency. Sir STEPHEN LUSIIING row laid, that as he was onc of the perf;ms who had been alluded to in the tooth, o . the prelent clifeuflion, as being the late partner of h s Majesty'. Pro tor, he felt it his duly to fay a few words in his own exculpation. It was utterly iropof lible that any collulion or cruet agency could have existed. He thoroughly believed that the whole Bri tish Navy were perfealy latisfied with the condua of hi, Majelly's Protlor. The King's Advocate was the pylon confulted on all occasions, lo that the Proaor became as it were the mere machine to carry his ad vice into execution.. With regard to. the allegation of the fees charged again(l the Hon. Gentleman being exorbitantly high, he could allure the Houle that they were at prefent much lower than 3o years ago. Mr. Huasr thought there did exift, at one time, Come caufe for comp!aint, when his Majtfty's Proaor and a Partner had joined in carrying on both fides of fuch extensive queltions as came before the Court Admiralty. lie, however, thought, that that Houle w•.ts not the proper place to have thole grievances redreffcd. Mr. BASTARD fpnke arzainfl the motion; he (aid be had himfclf I'm) applied to, during the fitting Parliament, by thirty or forty Captains on this rub jeEl ; but the advice he gave them was, that no red: cfs was to be expcfted from Parliament, and that they night ruin thunfelves by the appli:. , tN'm,• as th y wntild pr,d).6ly draw down the vengeance of the ' Admiralty upon them. lit had, however, a batter V 0