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• s tstetisktitat he Rlt the pettVar disadvantage of '4,4ving ealy tb observe uplift one part of the case, sa the only.eviclqnce yet -before that Supreme C ocr t, was that o.k tlllt al:closer. He could not, I :, c , e fore, until true evidence was before their Which•wai to be ad heed on the pats e , the defence, positively insist that anj of the c • Irge l ; was fylly and completely, proved ; and all t ; At he had to do, at 'presedt, was, to submit to ,!,sir ihips what he conceived to be the force s: . .d elite of the evidence already before them, in i'qe charges, an 4 how jar they had been proved. He should then begin, by stating to their Lord sips what had been the grounds of the proceed ings, .and Upon what. circumstances the charges vete established. This. was a duty which he considered as due to • the- ChM:mons of Eng land and Ireland, and even to the I t ceased him self, for the chsraittv of the Commons was sheve•the suspicion of their,ei?teitaining any pet ' vital . %laity to the Nnble Dlfeudant ; so far were Abelnfrons It, that -.key could net., without pitiful feelings, contrast th- situati , n of t he N o . tleViiebiattollsenlatastated of piiwer, authority, srd the . favosts.st c , - of his Sovereign, ssitA that 'vies now placed, at their. Lordships' Bar, as a Deli, einem, ittipped of all those advintager, *and °bib ged to jitstify himself against tbarges of high crimes and mi.d.mea pmes. Bat the Managers were; at t)se same time, awfully imptessed . with.a due Sense.of the serious duties imposed upon them. and thetespon,ibili,y of choir sWation, when they had, ‘at the same tune. to sustairtbedigoky and charter of those who sent them these. and to deal with justice to wards the individual accused. In a word, they were , serviblo_that the eye s . of the country were theft. then, 11,1 1 1-I rodaslir indeeii, carried Wads it a peculiar.cha * - saner ; for, tistzly nothing could be more extra -4"digli4S.oll9 *led g public accountant refusing to give a single evidence of the manner in' soh ch he employe d ttdr tramey entrusted to his care. However. drat esp W.ll.tallilaffhafili 4 1 4:. would : AA shais:Lar ; -.diskaitthe affet ence. !'fibitraine4 MnattrethohWPlirstvtot to the arsanitentent he laid •• fawn, at this Cointnence. , ment of his'epeecis, tever:el to the-origin an the proceedings, of which we .4141 on!y summarily s' ite, that, in consequence of a report of the Com missioners elf Public Accounts, stating that it would he expedient to withdraw front the l'reap taiw of the Navy, all emoluments to be derived from the temporary ap i slicaiinn of the public mo. • eey for Isis own purpose, and to place them i . il.e drawn from it for naval purposes. 0 ,, 1y, it for that purpose was broZ in by tie is' 'El ms. Henry Janda, (the . 1 - be -lent), abet reasurer of the Navy, Azad passed into a law. .Hleobial..!sty was then graciriasly-pleased to granr to the lreasnrer of the Nary an-additional - , salaiy of 20001. a VlNlT.llll.tuil compensation and' rati,laelion for 41 losses he may sustain in con , sto : aencie of --the new arrangement ; an.' yet he"! ' b:2,ed their Lordships to observe, that even so esily as the month of August foller.ving, the lfe , 1 nclant cause) a bala-ce of 110001. of the poldic money to be applied fer his own priratP purposes. •I:ie question then veal, did he corm with the r ndi:ion ? r If he bad sustained . any loss by t.. use new arrangemeuts, which he so disinterest. e•! ,, , as it after wards type:are& proposed hi m . LI, there mien have been some feeble ex c uw -Tt for ii znd . - el . _ t , er palliation 1 „MR, but hit had received • iFey lam Ole . . it for any reisnnahle prefit eremolument he might havehad be:ore the passing i;f this law. When the erisnlirner.t, were elm rinted for an additional salary, the public thongh: that they had Made a cheap, and certainly a sate La•gain ; but, by the ciindu4l of the -accirsed, b^ t , k care not only that the public should pa..- rnthing by it, bur that greater advantages shouid he raten of them. than could have been done by 6.1 f fair profits antecedently to the A 3. Un the ! , :11. of November, in the same year. he different • 'ass of 110,0001. end 0,0001. were drawn by the Ts - ran:um of the N ivy from the Bank ; : but of t".se it appeared, that 1 1,0001. had been inter rpttd in its pregresi; aril was, in various ways, lolly unsatisfaeorily aci,ounteil fot. We shall rrc attempt to folksy the Learned Manager in t'.e several itern, of sums which he adverted to. until he came to the sum of 45.0001. drawn trom CI. ILA on account of thea'reaturer, of the I •tart of which the Managers had fo.:nd means to trace a Bank note of (we believe) 10.)01. pail ir.:o a banking-house in the city, in payment of a 1..11 of exchange drawn upon Lord Nlelviile, by a ,coca of the nanstrerf-Mudie.. " , -"l. l bel44ll4govae - lt observed, laboured under a petuliar difficulty ksoLi' c"ndnetinft this prosecution ; as they had nn (!'.er evide nce to r,isort to. bet the undestroyed unts and lett ers 0 r L or i &Igrille himr-Ir. t 3 !the stra.igest thins of all eras, Ciat even iill3. -.- • Milli, Iff karaentlving id afford an* exptn a- ' ;ion, (tittered, on his part, a solemn protestation against kt. Their Lrirdships, no &film, would know hew to appreciate this species of defelsee ; for.. in his opinion, tlee ohjenions• of Viscount Mehrillt's counsel to allow the prodtition of his own accounts, and of his own hand-writing, Af., I forded the most complete evidence. and coo- 1 viaj ou o f his g a ily. lie rules of law were not so mach at variance with those of commuai sense, as to rejed this proof ; for surely, the same documents, which. if favourable, would have jus t tified the accused, must, when ttrafavourable, be allowed to operate against him. The Learned' Manaaer then nitro: irtm a very long and circum stantial statement of all the various accounts re furred to in the course of the trial. comparing the official, with the Bank accounts, from day to day,' &c. The last that he dwelt upon, *as the declar ation made by Viscount Melville, in the House of Commons, that of all the satins of public mon•y coming through his hands, as Treasurer of the Navy, none was applied to other than Naval pur poses, except the sum of 10,0001. and in what man ner he employed that, his sense of public duty would prevent him from ever disclosing to that House, or to any human being. Such a decla ration, mole in the face of the ration, within the walls of du House of Common,, and in the teeth of an Aft of Parliament. must, if submitted to, have the preposterous and monstrous effell of put ing a public accoaatant above the law, and SU rrior to all responsibility. How was this mys tery to be unravelled? Was he authorised to do so by His Majesty, or by any other authority superior to his own? That he did not deign to tell you. In this country, there was no man pos sessed of public money, far which he was not accountable. He, however, openly declare a that he would not account for it. Englishmen always thought, that the I louse of Commons alone had , any power over the public money, and had a right to inquire into. and infotro itself of the manner in wnicls it had been appropriated. It was true, that His Majesty's Ministers, in par. ticular cases, were allowed the discretion of ea pending money in secret services, but then, even, they were obliged to state. that it AA§ so aapi:ed I but the present Defendant was above that, he would give no account; but his own authority, and called upon the country to be satisfied with 'his Assertion. What! was it for amoment to be endured, that.a man, in a situatiou in w: ids ,000,anol. of public money was passing igh- his -hands. tto tell the country, that he id not be accontitahle for the manner in which disposed MIL He did not even say, that he tsposed of it officially, or for any pelsiic pur -1 le might, for any thing the public kciew, employed it for purposes of oppression or ; corruptiob. or . to desire/ the liberties of the pro : . pie ; his accuse: s had a right to say so ; and yet. such wes the declaration which he dared to make. 'fen in the - very Sanctuary of Liberty l=in the • louse of Commons I Surh was thr,11,4 which, selefted • for t: e aviakal•of so ear iog, so hors ed a doetrioe ! He left no vestiges by-winch the slication could-be traced; and when called upon discloshre,'or th give same account; he an ed with this manifesto, disclaiming his duty. 4 Auseraig -big. Oafs, autaositv.. and power ! ut what a figure did he'eut; when the sam •man, who could Cm' glaringly dare Ind have the Commons of England, crooChed iiil4 shrank, to • 'awn r...eklilest. a. •Itiuse in The Learned afitiriager recapitulate the articles of chsr, , ,e, asai then 'reVerted tutlim first, namely, the vicpation ht Las Law.—Ajj turned to 1 ursJay. - • ematma T, WAY 13. TS l.! Mani • As tarin as the Court was opened. with the usual f trmalities. the LOKI> Cuisonsectou called on the Counts I for the Detendant to pi oceed. , Mr. PLOWIII then rose, but began in sir low a ' tone of vote, t a ut we could only near him state, that, standiag iii such a situation as he then did, lie stood in rued of all the candour and indulgence that the (louse conal passthly shew •Inm, as the ditty which he owed to the Noble Dern font, that I ittgh Court. and the public, requirad iil the ener gies that could be possessed, by .iii ads of mire capacity than he found himself Ist asesse I of. It was true, indeed, that he was released from ap pre. ettsioos, which, on ordinary occasio s, he might very j•iatly entertain, as he was convinced the liberal and enlightened minds of their Lord ships, would not be susceptible of those injurious imptessions, which prevailed amongst the gone= rainy of the public, by speeches and publications, prejudging the cause which he had now to advo cate. Their Lordships were, no doubt, sensible of the inequality of the parties now before therm. The Commons cable to the prosecution, armed with all the power and authority which justly belonged to that important branch of the Legis lature; and the • Manager.. besides being per sons endowed with no otalinary share of learning, eloquence, industry, and Ability, bad the addi tional and important advantage of all the power. dignity, and authority, that the Comosons of Great Britain could confer upon them ; but he had, not withstanding all this, the corsolation and satisfac. tim to know, that their Lordship; deci ion would be made according to the justice and merits of the ease. Ile then adverted to the Report of the Naval Commissioneis, which had gone abroad, and taken possession of the public mind, before the Noble Defendant could have even been aware of the injury which his reputation was sustaining, from the notoriety of the abuses which prevailed in the department committed to his manage. meet. After this, it was perfealy fit and proper that the public should have the matter sifted to the bottom, and know whether the Noble Viscount, now upon his trial, had encouraged or employed them for his own benefit or not. However, be fore this inquiry could be made, sine of the first steps taken, was to strike the Noble Viscount from the presence. councils, and confidence of his So. eel-sign, for ever. The Noble Viscount was also stripped of a:I the afices, power, and influence. which he might before hare possessed. Levy obstacle-that could have opposed itself to in quiry was spee •ily removed, and witnesses were examined, from week to week, and from day to ' day ; all the N tble Viscount's papers and corre spondence ransacked. and his private dealings scratisised is vain. for grounds of criminality.— After stating so mueh, their Lordship, must think that Cur Noh'e, Detendanr. instead of gentle vs..: meat, had te:n very hardly deck by. But l a s a ccusers and eits‘mirs did not stop here; foe .......—.... , . epos *eta. •..levAlse fi rst place, then, he would tested of public money, fc siativehicieerettreivimes of which the NobleV is- accountable. He, however, colan;arokse3s.ivli, afterwards, the nature of the he would not account for it. e, ideetdoatc cottilotto the proof of them ; and, thought, that the I louse of tnallT ; .befiwhe coosidered the charges to have any power over the public been proved. The crime was' that of a wilful right to inquire into, and violition of tb law, la' the. breach .of an Ad manner in wnich it had b, of raillarkiii.. :ad the appropriatioli of the was true, that His Majost) public ;may to. his ows purposes, both of titular cases, were allowed vide,* .carte, 'in -fiat, • resolved hate ate and the pending money in secret se: $ um! imp. It :coul d . hi no: barddsip to .the they were obliged to state. t acc 4 tit, Managers rernsil.kirota stubborn but the present Defendan .51 1 . and ential fads. _They chatted Shim with would give no account; b the InisaPpticadon o f tOsdfXn. the =miner of em'-' and called upon the conntt playing,. Whicls, be - hid left them . no • pitssible s 'his ion. What! was mead troditag l ,Tbe aeciaied liersO possible endured, that.a, man, in rzessei • fsi‘kis eatilselt. Mad thclawiordainod • .144,000,0n01. of public that .111 c Agouti( muse Apply the Fab& sibsey but through- his hands.. to to f•••• put lie portent!, he received an additional ra- would not be accountable fl Jars `ill tvito;Sensattoss fer not doingso. This wa s be disposed of ' it. He did ti- set ition on whichAllisteld•bilteffice. and oto. &posed of it officially, o tainted an additio ral salarg ; and yet it was proved, poses. lie might, for any herald rite .passibilittdf ventrAdielion, that he have employed it for par rec-heed die adifttiettialretakry; and. at the same"' corruption. or .to destroy t tim iat .. 4adfcl.i/se..e.ost#ti;il tims tr,bith ketib, , ple ; his accuse:s had a ri tai ner A ltit. 0 .4. 41 : 4 10 ,., 5 a his airsti- such was the declaration IA •—orslity: it efurilsim to mention, even in the. very darrctuar thettielaiiiiMAlriltevi , ilatotti:vnts of hitpl.ll Mouse of Commous I Su .. . Pr')-$ ' ; Ilfbad . tit,dved.Kftiw, is innett, .he selefted • for t: e avoical Jai? who, gw Aa r •an Abstratit from the Jour- faced a donne, ! He left r psis O? eIi4INII 40'nfueriir ; froutn witictrit application cuuldbe traced a ppealedi VaiiCibi :died liostbStYble Henry fpr a disclosure, or tto give Druishis•WW‘ise 4 One . s'e - rfriyfra . in't'edsu pre- kvered with ibis manifest' pare , ~ • !, J r 4. e4 , 404 _asserting -ale title . . .• . i . r. aw , , s • • ' .e •" . ts.tu ear him out But what a figure did he'c io us . r"'!" •A. gioderst i On—to war..44;he ac. wlio could tl•us glaring! cosed,Asisw • . • • -tOot t =liing en, or Commons of Englatid. ci even fliootioninitotlb •i.. ve - ' dant.biansuit treats 'ate "J .0111.111111stildildillkilhal sock. ass.• an Aft •.1 Parliament I sv thus. he 'ci r the cries Orthe INIE S 3.I. nett proccedeil to recap .. . e,1,71 se, II gland d Xn Linc ;;,fii P ing t Jun;l VI v !). re * " of5C nt Mel r %Or b : 1 tur bi to Mt OffiC ;:tr t C U.C.. +~'C':^~ ~'r a.. e ( '1 , • ' I ..es: • • , that .Itatraett . osaty, 'sot to sap acre:dans outrage, to ait justice and .humanity, by. intamons,libels, circul,sted through all parts Ef the kingdom.. with an awinisbing degree of incharry and adivity.— These libels were not only scattered and dissemi nated abroad, to inflanie.the minds-of the people. bat wcre,even carried to the foot of the throne, i and registered amongst the records of his Lord- ship's accusers. Nay. they had gone so fat, as to pass an Ad of rarliament, to facilitate tlit. means of bringing evidence against him. In this man ner was the natural purify and integrity of the minds of Englishmen distutbed and prejudiced by libellous speeches, publications, andivocerd ags of every kind Un&r All these disadvantages, he. must once more observe, that he stood in. need of their Lordships' utmost candour and indulgencq. In what he had to address to them, he should rot attempt to tread through the immense labyrinth ' of evidence and accounts referred to on the part of the Managers. He would not fatigue the at tention of their Lnrdships by any such unnecessary repetitions, but he trusted that his omission of any of the topics referred to in the opining or summing urr of the Managers of the Prosecution, may not operate against the Noble Defendant. The subject to which he had principally to call the attention of their Lordships, might heidivided into two general heads : first, what regarded the transaainns before the passing of the Asa of Parliament for regulating the office of Thasurer of the Navy; and, second, the transaelious which happened posterior to the passing of that Ae, In tAet, the sole charge against the Noble Viscount miy fairly he said to be ule cot rupt application of the public money to his own ofe, and the de claration ire made in the Howe of Commons, that he had diverted the tam of 10.0001 , which cams into his hands as Treasurer of Me llaey. to other. than naval ourpo,es, hut nest to his own use or benefit, and that he never would disclose in what in inner :•e had so applied it. The Bth article charged his having transferred money from the Bank to any ot:ier place of custody, as a er;me ; and the corollary made upon it was, that this transfer was for his own benefit and emolument. The other article to k IsO Lordship's having de stroyed certain accon ,ts, a, an inference of his , criminality. These rte considtred as forming as outline of :he Whole of the charges. In all these. precerdi gs, be swerved, that whatever irregu larity or inattention to order might be apparent, it would oi• for the judgment of their Lordships.. whether they proceeded front corrupt minim, ora the intention of converting these predicts to his own emolument. But if what came out in evi dence should amount to no more than that something still remained unexplained in a series of rw-nty-fitin years transaaions, he hoped thetz , dshipa would rause before they pronounced we Noble Defendant guilty of corruption. whose hAhl‘f sat life were well known always to iliart exhiirited every NOM •rtt confluences with regard to 'utility matters. The flew Manger himself, (Ir. W oitbread), who • opened _ th os e charges, with a nand , candour and libeetility, which did Ann the bigheit ho.tour. declar d. that he "be haved Viscount Melville tu p otc &enemas% sOi. r.t in retied so twittey, incapable ralbeies iefloiin ced by ~be sordid pit:Kyle of avarice." Such a tl..clatation on the part of an *teasel, when coupled with the known hatsitifit bit life, mutt render it incretitiiie that he shoolakin this single instance, depart from his usasl &grater, for an ovj-4.110 sewer veals.attache444. •4 Pieced-. M -be • • _r .1111111....... W 45. IR A situation perh 4 pr. of all rubies, the bloat likely to elevate the mind. filling up he did, same of the most =poi taw oti,:es of thealtate, being at the same tiale one of His .slafroy's Prmeapal Se cretari.a of State, President Of the Boa, d of Con troul ov r East India Affairs. Treasurer of the Navy, 0“., it was not to be supposed that be could sink rad let himself down into so degraded a tieing as these chat ge. would represent him to . be. and that for a.i objei that it Was impossible he should ever he in want oft nor would their ' L irds!lips, he was convinced. su6re it to operate to use Defendant's d sadventage, if he could not. Mirr the lapse of two and twenty years, produce witnesses to disprove every article of ciiarge ; and atter the Witntlif WAS dead. whore testimony would otherwise serve to acquit him. As to the hrst sum, the irregular apnoea lion nf Nhtch was charged against the Noble Viscount. it would be eutfictent for him to say that it arose at a period when there was no com• m.l nor written law against it. He might, M full confidence, rest there ; but he would not have the !louse to savant. that he erasskine from the charge, or sheltering himself ender the absence of the A of Patlisosent which safterwards took place. So far from its being a crime, for a public accountant ter make even the greatest temporary use of tie 'sunk money to Isis advantage, he would shew their Lordships, that there was no law, no condition, no. ant even any express or implied nisiigation Against it. it Was true, that his Hm. and Learned Friend, the Manager, who ann3 nO.l op the evidence, did not much insiit upon this point; but the Mon. Manager whir opens.: the proem:horn toor — eldly thrown down the gauntlet.and •inimed, at such ap plication seas always a crime by law, which law was declared and stnetioned by tbe House of Commons Hz, however, denied the existence of ' the law, and it th.re were any such, it was incum bent upon them to shew it. as their .Lordships k - sew very well, that no resolution of either liocce of Parliament, even supposing it to remain in full force, could have the effect of a law. This opinion of his was far from being new, as it Was one, which, by snmeof the first palitmentary authorities, was declared over and over again, in that very sanctnary of liberty (the Honse of Cons- minis) which his Loarned Friend (Sir Samuel imilly) seem..d to think violated by the decla ration as tdc in it by Viscount Melville. All the ar guments on the other side would have equzily applied to every former public accountant ; but he was prepared to shew, that it was not then the law. was not now the law, -and never was the law, that such applications of the public money was a hi tat crime and misdemeanour. He would even go farther, and thew. that the contrary was the law, and had been so declared by the an cestors and relatives, not only of many of their Lordships, but of one of the preseat Managers, and that too, in the sanctuary of liberty. He then went into a detail 'MTh* numerous instances, in which public accountantslaad acknowledged that they applied the public money to their own advantage, and maintained that they had a tight to do so, preiided the public stsweined no len by _, . ' • • • e ped Holland. who, when called tee ateottenrot 401 tree of noises than 4;0,0011 wde so tar finer+ neekenirledgieg thee he had-no fiyt;trs ettpler the halanees ?Wee to. his nee a lireetait- e thitt he lowietisinsiet hise:ight te cin so, an! has he was reaSy to proldsece thenewheeever called ; 30611, for the service for Which they were intended, ary intermediate use. he Wilts mike et there beings !octet of indifference to the puhlic. Wheteleas sell mo e to his purpeee l that deatiee WAS ASe.l Sell'e.4 to by the Vlinitter of the day (fee late „Earl cl Chatham) and these tees great men. who wetter agreed in an) ether point, were of the seine opinion upon this. The resolution of tree house of Cammons against such• applications, passed on the I ith of Juee, 1782, had never since beet acted upon, hut at all events could not have the firm of a law upon the snhjea. Arelengst the instarves he stated in support of his prove+ sition. was one in which a motion was mad-, io the House of Cornineos, to oblige the Receiver- General of the Land Tat to pay in his balances to the Bank, when one of their Lordships, now present, bus then a Member of the other House, : was not ashamed to ctani up in his piece, in that . sanetuaty of liberty, and oppose the motion, on the ground that it would be a hardship on the Receiver-General. Even a Right Hon. Gentle. man, whose name and virtues, he was sn e, would . always be considered with the highest respect in that House, (he meant the late Mr. Grenville), when called upon for the balances of t peblic money in hands. required two months to pay them in, which was tantamount to a con fession, that he had bean applying them other- wise than to the public use, for which they were intended If, therefore, it ware true that the. Noble Defendant, in this CAW, had • been applying say sums of the public money- to his own use, it 'mild be a sitficient defi;nce for him to say, that they were always promptly, fairly, situ honour ably paid, whenever called upon tor the public service ; and it, he had *beast,' :hewn, it was of little consequence, whether he intermediately ap . plied theta for purposes of profit to himself, or 1 heft them depesited is the Bank, where they could be advantageous er proirahle to no one. With re spect to the io.oria referred to by Viscount Mel. in the House of Commas. it was a sum which never was called foe, never was wanted. and which he steed not have said any thiug ahost, it he thought proper. He made tto disposition of that money, until his accounts were passed, and that he was edibility to transfer it to any other branch of the public service be thoaght proper, or . where it rnight be most wanted. Upon this subject. which hid been so emphatically dwelt upon, he must maintain that I.te Lordship was under ao obligation, either legal, or moral, of telling is what :winner he disphsed of it : it was quite. sufficient for him that the Stoney had been paid. When called upon to make the clic:Joe-are, it roust lee remembered, that it was thee/ill of an enemy, l the call of an accuser, to convict himself of hied etrimes and misdemeanours. The Learned Gentle- + man then went into a legal dasquisettep of the obligations imposed by conditions and cowpaets j And contended. that even if any such obligatNn ifij ease at any time, it must cease as soon as 'the Noble Lord was out of office. Was it to be ea. peaed that he would spoke a candid disclosure at she moment that he was called upon to auswer for crimes ! If he WAS. let men talk no moo. of the liberality of British justice. Wise it ever held to be a printiple of law, that whoa a man was pot urns-his defetice,'lltersee should . tie- iwaspret- ...Macon no td as a crime? As far as he understood the law of than on hie •ir England; -a person accused had the liberty of where tie making whatever answer he thought proper. or if made it as age[' •liie so chose to do, it we.: net incumbent on him to Lord, that he s make any answer at ail. The charge of the Ma- Bill for regoietin e nagers against the Noble Viscount wits,that he had Navy into the Hot. not told enough against himself, bet lie believed, circumstance was to that. before this time, silence was never held to be It was no high crime ay n.. a crime in that or any other Court whatever. If draw the money from th Bank, and &reit ac • then it was shewn that silence was never before his private banker's, in his iron a se, deemed a crime, why was it held so nowt The I which ever he might deem ere wound.. ' et reason was, that the kohle Defendant. in the dig- l puplic purposes, rer for great . seciuity. He nity and manliness of his nature, spurned at an he was much deceived if there AS a clearer eat accusation unworthy of his charaifter. The only I firer argued, than :ea Viscou. Melved e s • on e , proofs produced in support of his criminality, dui. in chi!' recpea, was not aga•lsst the law; ael were the suggestions of the Managers, and hit Wit was, the ill should not be sunned in moon• owe silence. He candidly cordessed, that he felt in force one moment, as it would twee je „, himself bound by honour. and a sense of public greatest cruelty And oppr-siren toweede ee , e awe .. duty, nut to tell in what manner he disposed of seamen, that e v e r was enaaed. The w ee lige the money ; and was he to suffer for being Mau- count, he said, not, wit-lout the g in treed by such principles ? and was it to be deems , justice and hardship, do etheiwise. ed a crime, if, COISSCIWIS of being in the right, he Rees contended, that the Bank was the only piece chose to carry his secret with him to the grave, of deposit, authorised by the AB; that he tesueli. and make himself re ponsiele for any consequen- Upon cacti a stoastittelion, she law couli sir er ces that may attend it ? But, though - tee Nohle - t be cartied into effea. If there we, only trire. Defendant considered himself been& by various I to be paid to the eor four different moms, re - ties to observe this silence, sure the enlighseeed current ezpences, nothing could be moat me • mines of their Lordships must easily suggest cir- bate assing, than to Fend each of them wesfl a. • cumstaoces, in which i high officer, seeing the I draft- upon the Bank. Would 'it be peed/estate • " country surrounded by enemies; foreign and to pay such sums as 9s. or less, to a sedan, domestic, might bind a necessity for applying a when he came to demised it, by a check epee sum of money, for a psis-pore idierevent from that the Bank. The sailer may say he didelen Inver for which it was apprepriated by law. WAS it his way - to the Bank ; and if k did, he muse, - diffacuk to devise cases in which such an aopiices. from hie iguerance of - muds tratitieeeions. be ea. gin would he mericorionn instetad of criinittal ? posed mennuraerable impositions. A sailor's wife! The Managers alleged, that he nude the applica- or mother also, when applying for a pittance et e term corruptly ; but of that they had not been few shillings, must, by the eeine interpretation, be kale to produce a single tittle of evidence. One sent to receive theiritrifies 'et die husk erg. ref the hlanAgers (Mr. Whitbread) occupi-d some land. He begged their Lordships to ceneieere time in representing to their Lordships the im- how such minute accountc, occurrent every 1210• presions which this trAnsietion made upon •his meat, coals' posablybe kept key the Bank of Peg~. own mind. The Hen. Gentleman, however, then land. But there was one observation. 'bids went out of his way, and assumed the charaaer must be decisive rf the queition. By an AO of of a witness. He had stated. not the imprec- Parliament, patted sortie time ago. all drafts shoed which it made upon an unhi used mind, but 'for money. under the *Mount of twee.y shelesns, u, en the mind of an accuser ; and, theretore, they were declared to be illegal, aid the: efore the Pe,- " were not retitled to all the weight which they • melte: of the Navy was petcluded borne , - ;semi might'otherwise have. For the Hon. Manager biliey of paying sums of A fete shillings by drafts, ' must excuse him for saying, that, in the Sueretne and therefore must always be supplied with read, • Court of Judicature,Whitbread, the Manages, and moire to answer than demands ernesedierely. Tee eithithread,thewitness, stood in eery different the- Noble Viscount, he maintAieed, carried the Ace , • ramie. In opposition to these impressions na the isiti electric n in every point of policy, }usu.', mind of the Flonourablirlsianneer, be had to state, and ceneenience. The necessity for the Act awe, ' that this charge had already been clearly and posi- from large balances of money being left for ' ''ll ti-rely disproved, bytwo witnesses; end if, after pityinent in the hands of inferior clerics. 6,- 41 the ingenuity and talents which the Managers in; only small salaries ; and it was not always could empiny ; end these qualities in them, he be- easy to get th ese balances out ot their hands. • 'Tieved never to have seen exceeded by ane set of On these. and a variety of other groun,:s. wheel ' Managers ; if. after all the most minuet researches he lensed et considerable length, ne eisbna t est so • • ice° : the of documents of the Noble Defend- their Lordships, that the. Node Detradas.t was ante arid even the memorials presented to him ; not guilty of any breach in viuteries f the • if, ifter ran: asking all his letters anal corre- law. spoodenee ; if, After the most laborious ihvestiga- 'rut Loao•Cneneettoe then informed M • [ton into his private accounts, and most twit-nee' rester, that the Lords, being desirous ti his. • anceconfidenttal relations in life, they wets nth I witil attention, al! ha had allege in e ' e n & e e able to trace out one shilling of the rabiee mete) the feadent. and perceiv•eg that he wan deb applied to his own private use, it erculd be most I nca y e hansted oy ern- stseueons es-items be • .4.. ow. :u•S.g. morgia , kofscciii a these einirget. if* thee mute tit enis 4,14 the additional 7,Vaihititi by the pfrer she Nock tre;:nunt hat it in hi, ntst trisvdcr n and Said, that he did not yr on front their that candour, of wnich they made so mach woreseinis. in giving hint time in pin inn stapp . .e. ppm !ry apirret% Itt hii article, the Hon. \lane- • get,. hada:nada " confusion snore conhannoe.i." .Tne* !lid crated. siricrally, dire,c sums, at divers • rs. , times,dn livers days, to charge upo n hi m t h e run af 26,00di. but they ran :eyed it Inspossi-le i .A fist hill to refer back in those divers unsoee tied . . • days, and bad incledrd, in the •ime of tit it charge. sine Months of a petbd ware tipt N Laid was (Alt of Once. After all, however, he would ask, what di.l the prookiseought on the part of the Managers amount to? It. in faet, came to nothiag more :hail this—ghat Viee l artt Melville, after the lapse ;A th year', of titre and official life. tons not able to.occonat fir every little item of the puhiic money -mat cis** iota hands. The Managers, after ye se ,li,,, g over all the accounts, from the Rank tothe C surer of the Navy, end back again. 44 he contended, proved a single itt , a of th =r• • charges. All they cnuid discover from their hp- • .4 quit ie. was. that the money had been appled (rum . unier the bead of one puhiic service, to esio....er so that all tile time enaplisyed in thesetietaiir. vo, • • uselessly consumed. They showed that at. in,„ , t i had been transferrel, but they hal not r • . that. hit made any•proSt by the.transfer; t that caul/ not evert he ; orermi„ rnmikie trig money Irons tree placer() another. All the r they charged - 4)4d Seemsulficinstly a nel manly accounted for, with the exception of ;we sums, which . appeared to be plae..d la the Viscriont's 4pri vine ACCOttnt. at bb,.'. miff"; 'lid sappesiejt s witicla.lusa'eeetds 'did for the sake .1 the argutnerg. tflat i bre i be unanle to g:re any account of theseatme from the failure of ace:timing for - such attr the immense trairsaaions of tome a id . I yea,* an d it na4. haying been proven! th Noble Viscount wade any private profit balances. within,: could be more unfair or it than to drew trout such a fa:lumen Wen his guilt. Could it be eapes9ed that . *ni St.tte, constan' iy occupied in tire meat bn r public c.incerus. should dire much ofs , tii in prying into ail the mittiria of aecousts I it surprising that a men, eegsged ie lio ars Partments connected with t h e ins tn a e , cure, s hould have a running ace-opt of i 15s. Id. at his Nicker's, In lure* inn tion of his innocence, it appeared, at a time when he was i,/,, erele d o f his over-druwa his banker, he did ant helpl out of the public purse, but replaced th by remittances from his own fortune, in Sur though at the tints, and for ten arooke e had in his possession public belaaera =eel to the am runt of 56.0001. As so the soi ceived by a draft from the bank. which hi , traced to a banker's id the city. *Mere it i in payment of a bill. it by no evens %for, thing like the inference that we; tirawn /5 They wet:, no: to inquire into Inch a- i stance, in the manner that' on II • occasions MIS resorted to. far tbb dotard forgery. It surely signified notising.mbe sent this note. or any other that , fin sow tAthi.out of his pocket. as the sohntost•o not found deficient Sathe4ossiseJSE Weal reeseors. not to keep the n Here. Memelr ration on the pert of the • the pergra who btou ;1,12e Office of 'Pressures Commons, as if e onsi Jere d • as a _ _• _ _ 1