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Earl SPENCER stated, that. in the absence of his Noble Friend (Lord Grenville), he had to call their Lordships' attention to what took place ymter day, at the instance of that Noble Lord, respetting certain additional Spanish documents, which ha conceived necessary to be produced. Adverting to the explanations which had passed yesterday be tween his Noble Friend and the Secretaries of State, ' upon the subjea, his Lordship proceeded to moye for the produeion of accounts transmitted, relaio . „ to the conference with M. Ceyallos, and refe. red to by Mr. -nevi, in his dispatch of the s s :Ch March, 1804, to Lord Hawkesbury. Lord MULGR AV E expressed surprise at the line of proceeding chosen by tib" Noble Earl upon the occasion. He understood ', A u a full stee l : mo m o f what was required was to 'nave beep made that day, previous to any regnl7:, m o d = being made, for the purpose of affor"....ing Minlsters an opportunity of either answer,ag as to the diqinel items, or explain ing whig . might have proceeded in the way of mis , infon-mation or mistake, with resped to documents supposed to exist. Earl SPENCER spoke shortly in explanation, in which he was followed by The Earl of DARNLEY, who stated his opi nion that the previous explanation of what was in ''tended to he moved for this day was given yester day by hi, Noble Friend, and that the distinct an swers or explanations of the Noble Lords opposite were then fairly to l v expened. Lord HAW KESBUR Y admitted the competency of any Noble Lord to make the Motion adverted to ; yet, circumstanced AV the Noble Earl was, in the present instance, he saw not what advantage it would be to him. The answers or explanations of Ministers, as to the existents of particular docu ments, the expediency of producing them, or as to a mistaken idea concerning their import or nature, could be as well given without. On the particular topic to which the Motion re ferred, some explanatory conversation took place, chiefly between the Earl of D ARP:LIT. Lords Myr on* v s and S P ct R ; the result was as assurance, on the part of the Noble Secretaries of State, that no account, minute, or document whatever, existed in the oEce, which referred to, or was explanatory of, the proposed conference with M. Cevallos, as mentioned by Mr. Frere in his Dispatch of the Sth of March, or, at least, of a subsequent date. There was, however, a reference made to a conversation on the subje9, in a dispatch of Mr. Frere's, dated the 3d of March, which was included in the first selec tion of the Papers ; whether or not that (as possi bly some mistake might have been made as to the dates) may not refer to the conference mentioned in a dispatch of a subsequent date, they were not prepared to state. Earl SPENCER proceeded to advert to the other documents and further information, which, it was the opinion of his Noble Friend, ought to be laid before the House. lie first adverted to the corre spondence between Mr. Frere and Ni. Cevalos, at Madrid, particularly the Letters adverted. to by the - Chevalier D'Anduaga. in his letter to Lord Hawkes bury of the Stith of - March, 1804, of the dates of the 23d, 24th, and 27th of February. With respect to these documents, in the course of some explanatory conversation between the Noble Earl and Lords Mulgrave and Hawkesbury, it ap • peered, that the dates, as set down in February, were by mistake; that they should be on those days •in the preceding month ; and that they were to be found in the first selection of the Papers communi cated to Parliament. ' The Noble Earl then proceed-d to advert to the important letters of the Chevalier D'Anguada, of the 9th and 30th of March, the Ist of May, mid more especially that of the 22d of December, 1804, to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs the Official Answers to these' Documents, he was of opinion, it was highly impokant should be laid before their Lordships. This proposition also gave rise to some conversa tion, in the course of which, it was stated by the Noble Secretaries of State, that no such documents as these adverted to Ly the Noble Earl, in point of fa. 9, existed. With respet% particularly, to the last mentioned letter of the Chevalier D'Anguada, no answer, 'ruder the circumstances of the case, could with propriety be given, especially as a negotiation was in train at the time, between the British Charge Ajfairet and the Spanish Ministers at Madrid.- i The next topic respeCted the information received, as adverted to in the last mentioned document. re lative to the. Naval Armaments ; but no accounts of this description, as explained by the Noble Secre- ' taries of State, were to be found. The instruCtions transmitted to Mr. Frere rape/l ing the sale of the Prizes. and on which that Minis ',ter, in certain parts of his negoeiation, laid so much ',stress, were represented by the Noble Earl as neces ;Lary to be pro.iliced. ' This topic induced much conversation, in which the Earl of CA none and Lord Maria took a part, but principally between the Noble Earl aid the Secretaries of State: the importance of what was required was insisted upon by the Peers in Opposi tion, in support of which position a reference was made by Lord Kite to one of Mr. Frere's dis patches. Lords HAW/1[1111;11W and Mvtoaave, particularly ...~ ~s . . 1 .. .. .. . . ritplitaL "maxima* MOUSE or WI - i3Or b raa..4. , The further isensi • - -She 41184 da q tta 1;11.1 tucikiii .. Crawford, Avast: ' . ..t 7• . The Bills upset the *lsle vi - t anumg these; the Place and Pension Duty Bi . and the -Mak Tea Bill. 'esti-Ay-went IhiesiglirOmnittees of the whole House. Th.". firmer A6t remived.a slight verbal amendment, formally moved by Lord Nast ER ,• ' iibieh apPeased to bed reftification of an omission in the :Bill, of the word tax. The Bill I was ordered to be repotted to-Morrow. 1 The Earl of CAM.oss presented an account of the • • • . . . ... the former, explained, 'that there vixen no specific instructions forwa*fell to Mr. Prete CS Iheatibead Th. Noble id not *tenets= to go into tettin hire upon litho tli Nof loOfr Mr. Uwe was 6r was not j eseboyasion, sfust . may ootoo t t be' miter of future'discOuion ; but' ills initiations were of a general nature, and more specifically ap plying to the topic adverted to by the Noble Earl. The lest point adverted to by Earl See tiCilt, on the pan of . Isis Noble ,Friend, was an explanation respeding the mode of calcolisting the sums in limes, instead of reals, &c. rirsng wh ich, it v. 'peered, from what was stated betm N obble Secrets- cies of State, that Mr. Petri wis seat for to town, for porpoise of explanatino on that head, and which of course would be adverted to, in that way, upon a future Opportunity. The questions, as we could perceive, were not pat On one or two Motions, formally made, in the course of the above, by Earl S same Ea, which in duces the understanding, that they were, in effect, withdrawn. Their Lordships then, after disposing of 'rime routine business, adjourned tall to-morrow. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The Hon. Mr. F °L ev t°4 the omits andnis seat, as Representative for the towt o f nockinir l am. The Exchequer Bills' n 1 was read a second time, and ordered to be s'iri miued to-morrow. The House ' if :cot through a Committee on the Co,mlni.ssi9 o "..n of Assessed fazes ' Bill, which was "?. I_7 t to be read a third time to-morrow. Mr. ELLIOT T, preparatory to the discussion on the Military Force of the country, wished to know the amber of persona in the Asylum, enlisted for military service. . The SECRETARY at WAR replied, that the regular returns were not made to the War-Office, but that he understood the number to consist of 396 boys. If any motion should be made upon That sub ject, he said, that he should make no objelion to it. Mr. ALEX ANDER brought up the report of the Commium of Supply, of yesterday, which, after a trifling explanation, was agreed to, and Bills ordered to be brought in upon it. IRISH ESTIMAtFS. Lord A. HAMILTON moved for an account of the sums upon loan, borrowed in England, for the service of Ireland, distinguishing each y,ar, and the interest paid for them, up to ffie latest period. Mr. FOSTER said, that he had no objection to the motion, but wished to explain, that the Direc tors of the Bank of Ireland did not think them selves right in advancing money directly, and were, from circumstances, obitged to take the money at eleven and a hilf, for every MI. which was after wards !educed to ten and a half; and, in the end, was taken at par. His Lordship also moved for an account of the sums borrowed in the present year, and the interest thereon, and particularly since August last, which was agreed to. CHARGE AG SINST SIR HOME POPII %M. Mr. KINNAI RD, after disclaiming any perso. nal motives in the enquiry he was about to institute ' said, he rose for the purpose of calling for some pa rrs relative to theexpences of the two ships Romney and Le Sensible, under the command of Sir Horne Popham, in the Red Sea. Nothing but a sense of duty could have led him to urge any thing which could be supposed to derogate from the character and conduct of a distinguished Officer, employed in a profession so highly and justly tespesed, and who, he understood, had A considerable rank in the confidence and esteem of His Majesty's present Mi nisters. The charges which would follow from his motion, came from high authority, and were Con tained in a pamphlet, which had hitherto been un answered by that Hon. Officer, whose pen had not been idle upon sonic other business. It would be needless for him to argue, that a person holding the rank of Captain in His Majesty's navy, and in pos session of a command, was respousiik for any waste that may be committed of the public money. and liable togive a sat isfidory account of it. It appeared from the report of the Navy Board, that, in the end of the year iBO3, the ships Romps', and Le Sen sate, were under the command of Captain Sir H. Popham ; and it also appeared, that, in the accounts transmitted from the East-Indies, there was no less a sum than 80,0001. charted for the expences of those vessels. The persons. in whose depaitment the expences of this charge arose, found themselves, in duty bound, to look into it; and the result was, that the Commissioners of the Navy, as appeared from thiir report, stated, that die Rumne,, in the year MO, was in complete repair, and that, in the year following, the repairs of it cost 11,0001. The cha rater of the Report, and of those who formed it, needed no advocate; and the representation contain. ed in it stated gross irregularity, and extreme defi ciency. Amongst these were included, sundry arti cles bought at an enormous price, and soon after wards sold for a tenth part of their value. Amongst the items were, that an anchor was said to be lost, and the same anchor was afterwards returned from 'the Cape of Good Hope. This was stated to have occurred en the 12th of August, 1800. That the boatswain had expended more than he bad in charge; and, upon the whole, the expences amounted to 6,0001 more than was authorised for extraordina ries ; that the Romney was returned to have had two repairs in !NUS, and that the charge was 90001. in stead of 7001. at which it was calculated, &c. &c.-- These charges were explicitly stated in the Report of the Naval Commissioners. They were alleged against an officer whom he supposed, on that station, to have had an independent command. What defence Might be set up against these, he could not antici. pate. 'llse Hon. and gallant Officer .might, per haps, urge the necessity of sneh rerai,e,, or some other cbtonnstances in his justificatvin I but, as a Member of Parliament, whose duty it ws s to watch over the expenditure of the public mons•y l he telt himself Woad to pat him to that justifica twit, and should feel infinitely happy if he could exculpate himself fairly. It might be said, that nett s charge WAS brought in compliance with the wishes of the late Admiralty Board; but, •at all events, it was a subject proper foreequiry; and. if the chavges or imputationi werewtong, he considered bit! welt - as doing the gallant Officer a favour, in giving him the present opportunity of vindicating himself. H. concluded with moving, that there be laid before the House an account of the expences incur-red by the reptir of His Majesty's ship Romney, in ate year 1804. Sir liobl POPI4AIyi observed, itcreply th7 llllllll the animadversions of the Hon. G ent . founded n the report of the Navy Commissio ners , were found. ' ed entirely upon crOrte information, wind ) he had in vain solicited an opportunity of contraveni ng In regard to what had been alluded to, of the scni:. iaveftives eenstainesi in a pamp as, writte n h i , some anonymous author, his pen should not on t h at occasion have been idle, as he had prepared a very fell and complete teiutation; but, such were his in dignant feelings, and such the constraint upon th e press, that he was - losable to get any person who would vesture t 6 piblieh it for him. He would, however, with the permission of the House, read, part of his speech the then read several L etters to Earl St. Vificent, the !list Lord of the Admiralty, on thelOth of June, 1303, on the 12th of July, th e same year, red more particularly a subsequent Let ter, in which he demanded an enquiry into the na ture of the charges, and that he may be tried b y ~ Court Martial. In the last, he stated a number questions, relatin to the charge, which could I. answered by all tEe Captains and other Officers served under him in the Red Sea, tlai answer'. which would clearly spew v'hether he was at all ins peachable in hit condut on the 19th of Nov,.',nt 1803. He also read a Letter to Sir Evan Isle da ,a Secretary of the Admiralty, in which he pressea far an immediate determination, and earnestly re. quested that the Board might order his personal at. teadance). The Rowney he represented as one a" the best equipped ships, in point of condition ,tad crew, that ever he had seen or known of in His Ma jesty's Nary ; and, notwithstanding the necessiiy of repairs, frens the service she was engaged in, it would be seen, by the proper documents, that he nit. ver dreW any bill' on that account, after the month of. November, 1801. With regard to his making use of his pen on various other occasions, he repeat. ed, that his answer to the scurrilous pamphlet he be. fore spoke of, WAS not his fault, but occurred by the circumstance of his not being able to obtain 4 publisher. The circumstances of his justification wars sworn to in an affidavit taken before Sir Joh n • : Mew, the then Mayor of Portsmouth, by several OK Officers besidethe Gentleman who was then Lis Fogirth Lieut. and had sincebeen a commander unii r Earl St. Vincent. He then read the affidavit,statieg that there was tits unnecessary expenditure in the lit tle squadron under his command; that, with infinite pains, he had saved a crew of 400 men, who were shipwrecked ; and also the testimonials to the same effect, written by Lieutenant-Colonel Harris to the Marquis of Wellesley. If the Navy Board thoe t ala he was so culpable, as their report stated him to be, , why not institute a criminal prosecution againa him, as there was sufficient time for the Cra Lawyers to decide upon their mode of proceediii; ? and he himself soliciting an enquiry, ha .:rag rem ed, together with his Officers, in England, from :he swath of February to the month of May. Whea !maltreated fo: enquiry, they said, that no proceed ings could take place till the full reports were re. teived from the East-Indies ; and, as these must now have come to hand, he was in hopes that the Bowl would yet institute a criminal proceeding ap'7lst hlm, in which he should have the opportunity of exculpating . himself from all the imputations against him, contained both in their report, and in, j a ; pamphlet, in which it first made iraappearance, at ter refusing to give him a copy of it. Admiral MARK HAM observed. that the of the Navy Board, on the conduct of the last Speaker, was precisely such as t was descri The Admiralty then ordered Sir H. Popham to be. furnished with that report, and that was the time when he skald have made his justification. Ica first proceeding of the Admiralty, when charges of irregularity appeared to be substantiated against officers, was to stop them. This was not done is the present instance ; but a criminal prose cution was certainly intended, but was nett car ried into died, on account of doubts whether the prosecution would stand in law, until all rise ac counts, which had any relation to it, should arrive 'from the Red Sea. Such was the opinitas given when the charge was aftually sent into the Ex chequer. He aided, that he knew of no (scurri lities in the pamphlet alluded to, but what ap. peared in the Report of the Navy Board. Mr. W. DICKINSON said, he did not know whether the Navy Board meant or meant not to prosecute the enquiry ; but, of this he was sure, that the rormer Navy Board, in this instance, afted oat of their usual pradlice. The Commissioners of Na val Eirsquiry rejected it, as the term of their cont. rnissioi t had expired ; but he was happy to be con vinced, that the Han. and gallant Officer, should any enquiry take place, would have to combat, nut with itnituations, but by opposing fad to fa& Mr. KINN AIRD said a few words its rapier:Gull - al. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQL KR said, that .be was far from having any wish to enter into the msvits of this question in the present stage ; bat he cools: not avoid expressing hit feeling that it would be move consonant to the rules of equity and liberality to aNstnita from any premature animad versions, and not attempt to aggravate a charge. when no part of it was proved. Great stress was laid upon the report of the Navy Board ; but it re mained to he consielered whether this report was not made without due a nituiry, and supported this con jeaure by reading a transcript of the, concluding paragraph of the report from the Navy Boatel, wherein it stated itself - to have :idled in compliance with the wishes of the Admiralty Board at that time. Mr. FOX said, he was by no means desirous of anticipating the result of this inquiry, and he thought the Right Hon. Gentleman who spoke last might as well have delayed any opinion he ought to form on the report from the Commissioners of Naval Enquiry. When the subjeA should be before them in detail, the House may be inclined to snake a very different conclusion from that which was drawn by the Right Hon. Gentleman. Ile could not con• ceive how the idea of aggravation catt:d have sug gested itself on such an occasiun. Whenever a n l( '' 41011 was made of late for an enquiry, he or others who might have submitted, were uniformly told, that acase, ands strong one too, must previously be made out as the ground of such enquiry. If it shots's' be answered that the Hon. and gallant Officer W/4 willing to have the enquiry instituted, it did not safe& his argument, because, however a MAO may be influenced by motives of personal rewire', it ought got to influence his Parliamentary cooduft, and therefore he bad a right to represent thins in itr._2; 1