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mplu beret 'ter.. The House must be Lord Melville was a man who had, for rl ra ; ession of years, filled situations of great • and anthonty; that he bed means of bei ' , :he most extensive patronage ;.that he hig hly . WAS silted in -the Insult that nals.ansswended, numerous Blends and relations ; and that he long, by the closest ties of friendship, sal co•operati on . b een l eagued with the 3" nsos erful ; and against such a man and so pow er . • supported, It became the duty °fella kl mons to take the most rational security it could in, that the ume thing should not /lapp et% h did in the case of Lord George Rockville, after having b een dismissed from His M a . 'a service, by the sentence of a court marti al afterwards placed in the high and impo stam tof Secretary of State. The Gentlemen on the site side, while they recommended moder a n oi • ad very anxious also to deprecate any thi ng anion; but by the attitudes, gestures, fury of the Right Honourable Gentle man Canning) on the Treasury Bench, he seemed to have forgotten his own admonition, and er ed a passion of the most animated kind. As to elf, he declared that he bad no . passion, no if any kind, but to do that which he thought he t to do. He wished the House of Commons o relax in its discipline, not to tarnish its fail s honours, not to spoil the gloss of thate rug nt robes with whi c h t h e i r l ate conduit had in d them. The Horse should not so soon kart had undergone an honourable reformation in iblk opinion; and though he should ever profess tlf one of those who were determined always :probate regard being paid to popular our; yet he could never cease to venerate c opinion, and to be highly sensible of its va- The distindion was wide between that sense orm which public clamour might call for, and sonourable reformation which served to conci the good opinion of the public. One of the et charges against Lord Melville was that his I& was such as must necessarily shock the opi of the public, and one of the highest orna. , of the House of Commons was, that by the Kahle decision of the Chair they had recalled iheruselves. Laying all corrupt motives on the It that Noble Lord out of their minds, th e y see that his Lordship had put the House of nom in that situation that it could not asoid mincing a strong judgment upon him, without ncing all pretensions to the confidence of the The House was not now to consider itself y in the situation of a court of justice, but ; itself called upon to ad nn the more en d principles both of law and jurisprudence. were to corichia themselves without fear your, and to provide that the great power influence which Lord :Civil!, mi , z7ht ac by a restoration to offize, shauld .1 , 7, with instance of his numerous frien.ls, •e with nralyse all their future proceedings After owever, if he could have any suffi ien; secu. tat Lord Melville should not be restored to and that such was to be the effect of the Re. ern already voted, he should not olntinateiy for a division on the present Motion. sCHANCELLOR of the F.XCHEQUER— se, Sir. merely for the purpose Si expressing use and understanding of the present state of 'Nod, and not by any means to injure the m the motion which what 1 have now to offer nu.; ps render uunecessary; I cannot but hope, that louse will have the same feeling on this sub. 'Lich was expressed in the conclusion of the of the Right Hon- Gentleman who spoke I confidently trust, that the generous semi. of liberality and tenderness of sparing the •s of the Noble Visconti:, in so new earl ;sting a situation, will be adopted. They [ expeiil, be satisfied with hearing, that whik resent resolutions appear upon the Jour. if the House, all thoughts of Lord Mel. restoration to power or office must be toteliy end. It; however, in the subsequent course proceedings, the House should he of a dif opinion, and vote that the present resolutions be rescinded, it must naturally follow, that squalification of t to Noble lord will cease, the ch ages disappear but the only thing !itched my surprise was, that while these tions existed and other proceedings pending, a motion as the present should have been 'it necessary, for surely, under the present cir ances, it would be impossible for any Minister ire His Majesty to confer any employment he Noble Viscount. The only J.fference be us is, therefore, in the mode of following tip tolutions, for while they remain there, can be irence as to the consequence.'" PDX—s The Hon. Gentleman ( Mr. Banker) to me to have mistaken the proceedings on a night, at least with regard to their import. if the resolution now proposed had been 1 upon Oust occasion, he should have been din to vote for it as a csnollary to that .proltosi nit that the state of th e q u e s t io n firs been al ly what has taken place since the: time. Now t be in the recollection of the Noose, that the Hon. Gentleman opposite ( Mr. Pot) end at se that it was not fit to discuss a SUbjed of So magnitude at so late as hour of the night. ; recommendation I acquiesced, because I do ;nerve of the prititice of introducing motions sortatice at an unseasonable time, although I I may be as guilty of that pradice as troy However, when l did so yield CO the Sl:g• sof the Right Han. Gentle:min, I did Rot - rsd him as - hinting in the remotest deg raq since passed, and making st.sh consfaimial vent fur delaying the business. I did not say iinuate that the House would be satis•44l with iignation of Lord Melville. I did, no doubt, Mini.ters might do their duty in the meal in such a way a. might render it unnecesse ry , pose any m e asu re the removal of Lori. le; bat I Was not looking to env course which Melville might thus: for himself. If then ec out the vote of the Lion. Gentleman, it is not e we have varied our condue., or on lciioupc • thing that has since taken Ow, but I to art argulusuleint ad ter•• ~ 1 11d14/14 and con to the delay proposed by the Right Hoc. amen (Mr. Pitt). Sir, with regard SO th e of a flight Hot,. Member opposite (Mr. Co is so weak and irrelevant. I can scrircely er it as wor:b notice. It looks as it the p! • lit ikon felt by the pabile at the vote or wan , night, and the Tian "kit of the emus. bad excited in the breast bf that Right Ho oostrable Gentleman, a spirit of indippbsqpb which rents its elf, irrelevant. and destiatto of &sr grounds. Among other thi n g s, it allergia art .Honentrabbe Friend of mine (Mr. G. Ponsonby). with advancing tyrannical and unconstitutional principles. Now, si r , what are these principles ? My Fl o e s Friend, a f ter plaWy and candidly stating the ease of Lord i o le n that a man, thus conviaed by his own l' awl, that should have been suspended from office. cl There are innumerable cases in which this course has been taken, and there is not one prece dent of the contrary way. What, in the name of G o d ! when our Stewed has betrayed our confi dence, mid been, upon his own corifession, guilty of gross mismanagement, must we continue him in i lest we should prej udice his hra situation, to he told, th-it it is uncon- r ;li and, d ar c lsa a t tr e t t i e s t st i tutt onal and tyrannical to observe that caution which is necessary to prevent the continuance of the injuty and the evil ? A contrary course may have s.itisfi: I the Right ! lon. Gentleman, who thought c ..ntione Mr. Trotter in ogee, lest his dismissal r•'g , reju lice his charader ; and this, after Mr. totter hal confessed his ow.i miscondua, awl was, t the knowledge of the Right Hots. Gentleman, 1 th o ,‘ log every obstruelion in the way of an enquiry, n , sessa y to the atta'nme-t of the ends of justice. But, if the Right H n. G ntleman thought it right to continue end filename Mr; Trottel under =eh circumstances, has he d smissed him now? The vote of the Noise, on Monday night, only related to Lord Melville ; bite, with regard to Mt. Trotter, iliac sub. judtce its est. His case is now precisely in the same state in which it Was then, and requires the same tenderness and delicacy. To account, then, for this change of condtn, I can only sup pose that the Right Hon. Gentleman, seeing the impression which the vote has made, and the SAiIS•. fdlion which it has given, has yielded to the public voice. Having said thus much, in justice to my Hon. Friend, I will now add, that, however I may subjelt myself to the same censure, and shall be chuged with bitterness and rancour, I cannot sit si lent iu the Huum, ant bear unfounded panegyrics bestowed upon Lord ',Wyllie I know nothing in the charaeler of Lord Melville that should entitle him to tenderness, in a case of cnnvieied guilt. Is It because he has enereased the emoluments of of fie to an extent beyond any of his predecessors ? Is it became he has obtained a grant to Lady Mel ville, of the Fears of Fife, with the arrears due at the time, without considering how these arrears -toad at the tim,, and whether they were not the . hlic mcney ? for it is now understood, that the amo tnt of tbese arrears was not known at the time, and that the grant was made without knowing its extent. Is it because he has added 4.5001. a-year to his salary at the Admiralty ? Are these his claims to tenderness, and his titles to panegyric ? But, t is said Lcrd Melville never was a bitii't adversary; that he has employed in the army and in the navy, persons who differed from him in political principles. Ia %hat case have Ministers, is his situation, not done so ? Could herefuse to employ such men as Sir George Saunders and Admiral Keppel, because they differed from him in political sentiments ? I - trilinefil/frlc Iterwewr; that; at a time when this country was in great danger, when its very existence was at stake, a pcnposititm for the defence of the , country, the most ceconomical for Government, and the most liberal and spirited, on the part of the per son pivot - sing , I mean an offer from 'Favistock, to raise a boy of men, as reietled by the Noble Lord, because he knew the late Duke of Bedford was to command them. Id i not mention the cir- cumstence in com ph mentte the memory of my much lamented friend. I have related the anecdote only to slew how unfounded air& panegyrics are upon the liberality of Lord Melville. There is another CAW, which proves how little his Lordship deserves the praise of never suffering his conduit to be influ enced by party feeling ; I mean the dismissal of the Dean of Faculty of Advocates of Edinburgh (the Hon. Henry Frskine), the brother to my worthy friend who sits near me ; two men, to whom. if any extraordinary exertions ut virtue were necessary, I do not know any to whom I should look with more confidence. Hot Pie eases of Sir CliailesGrey and Sir John J. ry s (Lord Grry and Lill S . Vincent), have been referred to as instances of the great liSe ratite of Lord Melville. I have taken the trouble of looking over the Imirrals for this ease. in which t'se Right Honourable Gentleman has made so much parade of the support received by the parties from Lord Melville. Did he do so not knowing their cause to be just ? These two meritorious Officers, i el a• on service in the West Indies, had .0 1....141 tic blenders of the Administration, of the Noble Lord was a pan ; but, in so doing, had made themselves responsible by undertaking •r measete not exaely within their in•treClions, and si:s the sit nation in which my Lord Melville makes a e.teit ut his support Now, Sir, having made these ob,ervitions, I nine. 'abide to what has fallen from a Bank Director ( Mr. Thornton). That Hon. Gen \ tleman admits that Lord Melville has been guilty of negligence and Mattentinsi in office. Sir, I can only say,thatthe voteof Mceiday night west much farther, and if the Hon. Gentleman thinks it did not charge a greater offence, he ongja not to have supported it. Now, Sir, 1 have no ribjesnion to say, that in conies: pence of what has fallen from the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite (Mr. Pitt), and from the Hun. Gentleman who sits upon the sanie side of the 'liise with me (Mr. Banks.;, I have no wish to eress the I louse to a division. The Hon. Gentle man ~ ‘y., we may do hereafter what is now pro- Poied. 1 thick so too; and. what is more, I think we must do so. He adds, that we cannot yet know how the buiness may turn out, and that it may some to an impeachment. In this also I agree with him ; but I fear some Gentlemen do not discrimi nate as they ought in . the troi:eedings, which the case demands. If the Attorney General is to be direCieti to take legal steps for the recovery of the sums which have been made from the public money, that is a civil process. if also several grants have been mad e to L or d M e l v ill e , i t ma y h e necessar y to 4 enquire on what grounds His Majesty has been in • Alticed to make them; and if they have been made iepon missentations. they ought to be re however, are all civil proceed hag:wand very distinct from the course that should his condna, considered as a breach of 111 1 0 law- Whatever course then may be takes , . • upon the eitril: aide of the inestar; I think the address is the hest mode of finishing the criminal proceedings. HoPever, sifter the de claration of the Right Hopoarable Gentleman (Mr. Pitt), and 'made in the wat it is. I have, no objedims its delay it; 14Catise, after such an assurance, .and from such a quarter. I think there can be nis stinger of Lord Melville being placed in any office of trust. With regard, Sir, to the punishment sought for, I find that, during the 45 years of His present Majesty's reign, there have beeri but two persons upon whom the punishment of removal from His Majesty's Privy Council has been inflided ; the Duke of Norfolk, and nip self. Now, Sir, I may venture to say, for bosh of as, that we want no such 'companion as Lord Melville. In Ireland, no doubt, some instances have occurred. There is one case particularly, I mean that of my honoured and esteemed friend, Mr. Grattan. In consequence of the union, he comes into the same situation as the Duke of Norfolk and myself , and, therefore, though, for our own part, we did not objeß to the company of Lord Melville, we do not wish to introduce my esteemed and revered friend, the prosecutor of pub lic abuses, the supporter of public virtue, pre-emi nent in purity, as he is in talents, to the company Of Lord Melville. Atter the declaration of the Right Hon. Gentleman, he admitted it was not pos sible that Lord Melville could be restored ; and In that case the motion not heist pressing, he had no objet"Con to its being widsiessrn. But admit tin that, and supposing this course to be taken, it may be worth considering how the case stands. supposing Lord Melville resigned, and the business to proceed no farther. On Monday we voted the premises. Does, then, the Hon. Member (Mr. Brakes) mean to negative the conclusion ? Is that the course which the accerate mind of the Hon. Member approves; that we should pronounce Lord Melville guilty, but refuse to call for judgment upon him ? Such would he the inconsistency which the motion, if negatived, would involve ; but if it be only withdrawn, the case will not be so aukward. There may be also this further reason for delay, that something may be expelled te be done In the mean time. The question has made a greater impression upon the public mind, than any case that h aalocc tined .for many years. The public were gtatetul to the House for their condue, and looked up to them with joy and thankfulness. but, was the House to be anxious onh- for their own charasler, and to lie inattentive io the honour of the Government and the Crown ? The House of Commons have proved themselves the true representatives of the people, by expre.iing their indignation at the conduek of Lord Melville ; but not a sile mark of di s approbation has been expressed by his Majesty. No such dis approbation can be implied from the resignation of Lord Melville. The resignation of a Minister may be the most honourable ad of his life. It has fallen to my lot to be in office, and to have resiy,ned more than once ; and I went next day to Court, feeling myself neither punished nor degraded, to pay my respells and duty torn; Sovereign. May not Lord Melville do the same ? . Dearly as 1 love this House, a.. the source of every great truistic benefit and ad svantage futile country ; dearly as I love it, as the caner -A-me of the . Cons , lotion, and the founds of out liberties ; i will not say that it is more dangerous that the natio; should lose its confidence in the House of Commons, than its confidence in the Throne. Anti is there not a ,danger that such may be the case, if it may sail that, upon a great question like t his, the House of Commons have done their duty, but His Majesty has been satisfied in a different manner ? Sir, tl is sill not be a nine days wondes% From the impres sion which it has made (upon the public, and the state of ferment in which the atchation of it may long keep the public mind, will at be right, I ask, to enable those persons, who may not be the best dis posed cowards the Monarchical part of our Constitu tion, to draw a line between His Majesty and the Parliament ? I warn Ministers of their duty to tate care that no such language shall be held, by leav ing ne pretence for it, or implicating the true late rs sts of the Throne. Trusting, therefer, s, that Mi nisters will do their duty, I have no ohjeftion that the Mot'on should he withdrawn, in the confidence of a more complete and satisfaCtory explanation and conclusion at a future day." Mr. WILBERFORCE did not apprehend any danger at the present day, but times might hereai ter arrive more liable to danger, and favourable to abuses, and it was the duty of the House to aa with diligence a .d attention in conteo plation of such tu- Doe times. At the saute time that he was satisfied with every thing that he had said upon the last night, he agreed with those Alio wished the motion to be withdrawn for the present. He owned that he con ceived the del.ty was granted for the purpose of affording an opportunity to Lord Melville of with drawing, and he left the Floue without any ex peetation ef the present measure being brought for ward. So far as he had an opportunity of convers ing with Gentlemen upon it. he thought it came by surprise. He would not say that he should vote for it, hut he would not say that he she uld vote against it in the detail, and after he had an opportunity of giving it a more mature consider ation. The House were bound to alt upon prin ciples of independence ; but he could not help say ing, that, in circumstances like the present, they should not exercise a legal justice, but proceed upon the eternal and univetsal principles of right.— ' He, s therefote, regretted, that party prine !'were adverted to in the course of the night. i le k : s n tlemen upon such a question ought to divest them selves of such principles, and aft only upon the • broad basis of justice and liberality. He agreed that this would not be a nine days wonder, nor a transient feeling, but that the vote of Monday night .would be recorded in the page of history, as one of the brightest events of the present day. Looking at it therefore in that flatteriug point of view, he did not wish to takeaway from the effea which the vote of Monday night had produced upon the public mind. For this reason he wished the Hon. Gentleman to withdraw the minion, at the same time wishing it to be understood, that he gave no promise whether he should vote for it hereafter or not. Mr. FULLER expressed a hope, that the Hon. Gentleman who had moved the Resolution, would slit the matter to the bottom. The public mind was greatly agitated by the subjeff, and he trusted, that if it should be found that the Noble Lord bad made any pelf by the business, bviiiuld get a • - . _ . • .„ would forte wove the publitmoney. If any thing eget wrested from the patine purse, he hoped the Hos. Betithispass would 'fellow up the matter to the utmost, in order that such sums might be restored.' One Xiendetnan had said they were too hasty, another hid said the •punishmeat had been snificiently infliaed already, others said so and so . He cawed nothing about what was said; bat', a. a representative of the people. he felt it his duty to see the money of the public properly disposed of, and that the recovery should not be delayed, not withstanding what any little man, in a great situa tion, might say upon the sub)ea. Mr. HO RNION explained. Mr. DAVID SCOTr said, that his only wish was to express a leen .n for the purpose of inducing the Honourable Gentleman who had brought for ward the question before the Homo. to withdraw his motion. If it was to be carried any further upon the present occasion, the public opinion would be otherwise than it was at present; iostead of input ing the condua of the House to the real motives, they would say that the measure arose, not from a wish to do public justice, bat hoe; bitterness and rancour against the party. h would be said, that after forty years faithful service to this public, 'they were not satisfied with the severe censure whidshad ssready passed upon the Noble Lord, but s= oj , him altogether. The public, he *laden it is this light, and no other. No men 4,eidleve a that his Lordeltip had &steed any be. stalk frogs participation of emoluments arising from the public funds. (A general maremer.J With restto the dismissal of the Dean of the Faculty of Advocates of Edinburgh, he was satisfied the. Noble Lord had nothing whatever to do with that initiation ; and he challenged any Member of the )louse to say that he had any power over that office. Mr. K ENNA I ItD said, he should trespass but three moments upon the House, in answer to the observations of the Hon. Gentleman who spoke last. With respeet to the Dean of Faculty, could it be said the Noble Lord bad not been a bitter political ad versary in that transaction ? The Honourable Gen tleman could . know nothing of the history of that part of the kingdom; except what he might have read in Dr. Johnson's History of So eland ; Lord Melville possessed great power and authority in. that part of the country, he could not tell how far that power might go ; but in defiance of the assertion made use of, he would ask the Right Hon. Gentle man whether Lord Melville, with all his family had not made use of all his interest, authority, ids. ence, and power, in turning out that Honourable and Learned Personage ? The SECRETARY at WAR said, he should have abstained from speaking upon the present ques tion, but he felt himself called upon in such a man ner, that he could not refrain fronsmating some falls. He first begged leave to ask when the Honourable Gentleman who spoke last, foitnd out that the No ble Lord was a bitter political adversary ? was it when the Honourable Gentleman was in stria habits of intimacy with the Noble Lord ? was it when he was entertained daily at his hospitable board? was the present a time for him to call the Noble Lord s bitter political adversary, a time of need, the time of his disgrace? He trusted. he did not speak with too Much wittetb - upon Mei sublet, when the Hon. Gentleman had introduced a topic, which was extraneGus to the present question, when he had expressed himself in such terms, after the Hon. Gentleman opposite had agreed to withdraw his motion. With respea to the fact of the dismissal of the Dean of Faculty of Advocates ' that measure tcok place at a time when democratiedoarines were disseminated in that part of the country, when a number of persons i imiscalling themselves the Friends of the People, bad held meetings, at some of which the Dean of Faculty, inadvertently, certainly attended, and incautiously countenanced such most. ings by his presence. Lord Melville had nothing to do with the business. The College of Advocutes, indignant at the conduit of the Dean of Faculty, which they conceived to be highly reprehersible, had a speedy call, and unanimously agreed to his teMOVII. Mr. FOX observed. that the o' e-rvations of his Hon. Friend (Mr. Kinnaird) might have been somewhat irrelevant to the present question, but had been provoked on the other side. Mr. KINNAIRD, in explanation, said, he felt himself called upon to take some notice of what had fallen from the Right Hon. Gentleman ; he was accused of calling the Noble Lord a bitter poli- tical adversary ; he had been abused for his want of gratitude to the Noble Lord at a time of need, as the Right Honourable Gentleman had chosen to term it. He admitted he had been in ha bits of great intimacy and familiarity with the Noble Lord. He had often been in his company, and residing in the same county with him, had ad mired him as a pleasant companion; but, was it because he had lived in terms of good neighbour hood with him as an individual, that he was now justified in sinking from his duty, and condemning his condua as a public man ? It had been said, be had introduced this 'tibial; but he felt the speech of the Right Hoo. Gestlensan was an indecent re proach to himself; and he thought it was necessary he should give some explanation for the satisfaaion of the House, not for that of the Right Honourable Gentleman. Mr. ELLISON said, he had come down to the House for the express purpose of following up the resolutions, and to carry the whole measure into ace ; and with the firm hope, that, by the resolu tions of that night, they should punish the Noble Lord as far as they could consistently, and make him refund every farthing of the public money which he had obtained by his nefarious peculation. He tonsidered the public money should be expended in every way that economy could diaate, and he would go any length to obtain justice upon these parties. if a Committee would throw any light upon the subjea, he was ready and willing to sup port that measure. Mr. WHITBREAD felt that he bad not only been arraigned by the Right Hon. Gentleman op posite (Mr Canning) for bitterness in the manner he had carried on this question ; but he also was arraigned by the Right Hon. Gentleman for express ing himself with passion in the course of his argu ment. Upon this subjea all he could say was, that be had not a particle of either bitterness or passion in his heart ; and whether the Right Hon. Gentleman bad misunderstood him or not, be could not plumed • 1 . „ to say I tot hiPwreived what he tad said crested grestwarmth on the part of that Right lion.•Gen dement He never condemned Lord Melville for sending. in his resignation ; be shonld • have consi dered, it a high, aggnoeition of his offence had he • persevered in holdieggitolEce of First Lord of the Admiralty a but he thOught His Majesty's Minis ters should have laid Wore His Maleety the whole of the Circumstances. and that he shook' bay. been distriiped, at least, with „ainse marks of die: pleasure or disgrace. A parallel had been drawn between Lord Melville and Mr. Trotter, Which *he would not then observe upon; but the eesignation of Lord Melville was not sufficient to satisfy the public; lhe honour of the I louse of Cornmons. He ha 4 piesnaraived by the Right Hon. Gentleman itiliseeipeit to his represents' ion of the Noble Lord's ='Sillative to Sir Ch, - - . - b the year 1795. head the L , .rd Melville upon that occasion, nr Earl St. Vincent were at Lord fbr his interference. Grey and Lord Melville were Grey stood upoh his stood upon his trial. thanks to those Noble P his duty in doing justice . present case, no arguments no reply given; and, iron every part of the House, maned to preemie thror dons, and that was. that . hold any official 'italic' u _- Crown. The Right Honourable Pitt) had made a promise -' again admitted into His Majesty's Councils the Kin; may not, at ..e period his advisers? and what regular knowing that this promise w3l to ? Has the Right communication to His House ofCommons ? ' him of all the matters , From the situation of extremely anxious not could again bring the i _ repute. How then was be to _ in conformity with the opinion . Commons and consioent with his duty ? On the other night, the greatest anxiety was expressed for a motion to dismiss Lord Melville from His Ma jesty's Councils and presence for ever. On that very night nonce was given of the Motion for to ' day. His motive for postponing it then was not in :1 contemplation of his Lordship's resignation; it was i only from the exhausted state of the House after so long a debase, and nothing else. The Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Pitt) had not up and returned the Gentlemen on this side would postpone the Motion ; he knew, by the expression of the Right Hon. Gen tleman's countenance at the time, waat be meant, when he said, that on every account the Motion should be postponed ; but nothing whatever i . roipsd from him relative to the resignation of the tsL!-.le Lord. The public were by no means satisfied r tr.ir itself had not done the whole which they bound to in justice, and • 'Ai ty.gr n Ilhniinr and dignity: - Hata 'Si Tsa *hole House with him, that NUM& ld sr be again permitted to hold any effigy Under the Crown. Something, elutefore t thpuld he done. It was not for the purpose of futtliet persecuting Lord Melville, that such a Tote'' as lobe present was nude; what had already been .done, must have wrung the feelings of the Noble Ltie Lord, if he had any ; this was the only thing which made him hesitate. If, therefore, it were possible to state upon the Journals of the House, something yrhicb might appear regular and consistent wi th the proceedings of the House, it was all he thee wished. IsWith respeel to Lord North's Administration, it Was pia very di ff erent matter ;he resigned at a tins. when another was appointed in his room. It was not in consequence of sensor.; it was from political, principles. Lord Melville was Who smack of the „list of Privy Counsellors entirely. His Honourable Friend had been struck off, not from iroproper con duit. but from a difkrence in polities froth the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite; through whose interfer ence he had been so punished : but, of that aft, the Right Hon. Gentleman had repented both to God and man. Witb raped to the conduit of the Bank of England, he was happy the Hem Gentleman (Mr. Thornton) had explained that point, and eis imputation whatever now rested with that HOll. Board. He was rejoiced to be told by the Trea surer of the Navy. that the business of the ether night had already conduced to very great amend ments 1 that deportation When princi pals began to aft themselves, the business was always better done. Mr. Trotter was dis missed, but Mr. Wilson was not. Why not ? The Commissioners thought daferently, they had stated his evidence was discreditable; it was not, . .. • , becoming in the Right Hon. Gentleman • ' hits in office. Either the Commission belled him, or he ought not to be continued. co "i femme, therefore. to the opinion of several ef he Hon. Friends, and of the House in general, hangetied to withdraw hie motion, but wished something might be done to make the proceedings consisteet 1 he should be sorry now to divide in a minority, and suffer it to go forth that they were in- - capable of following up the magnolia of yes terday. He had entuired, and found several precedent! in what he theta wished to propose, • , which was. that they should In y the relolotione O'L of yesterday at the foot of His Majesty's Throne, without any comment upon them. His Ms- . jesty having received such information, he was sure, would follow it up by every necessary aSt on i his part. and he was confident neither the Right Honourable Geutlernan opposite, or at y other Ho- ‘: mutable Member et that House, would objet to ths mode of proceed ; it would, be said, make t:se proceedings of ilouse consistent, assimeet the approbation of all parties. H... then moved, , " That those kesoluttons should be laid at the boa of the Throne." The question was put and cart ied sea. ewe. He then moved, " That the whole Hosts do wait upon His Majesty with those rrsolutions " ... . • The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHE 11, -- said, he understand it was the nutlet:in House to Ity the resolutions before His ' without any comment. . . . y the &Tut lion. Lies= res.eatat ion of the Noble • lir Charles Grey and Sakai r 9.5. ft never entered insole, ille bad seed a generous pe4 or that Sir Charles Grtrand e at all obliged to the Nola nee. The cases ot Sir Chattel ille were very diferent. ForC: is own merits, Lord IKet . When Ms Lordships' e Personages, he only lice at that time. Bat, in till ments whatever had bedn iise4 I, from what had fallen &old louse, one general eentiniesi darcassbout the whale itits that Lead Melville sbettlif irtfation whatever under' data • Honourable °endear:an (Ms: romise that be should not be • any place of trust, or ini its; but mild we be sore that one pitied or other, eleven _ bat regular means harefw ad a %anise wUI be always Hon. Gent. mark ant ta Is Majesty of the opinion of the ! if so, he nine have infonned s laid to his Lordshfp's charge. the sehjee, there e, he Mt ot to let any thing dip whiclf e House of Cot:mons into dis- ras be to ad upon this occasion s the opinion of the House of r - -,,