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-71 - EIZ LIL ~P A RLIAME • VT, .HOCISE . OF P7SEIIS. WtDNE3DAY, MAY - 14. pls . NIA 1 STN"s MESSAGE. The Order of the..llay-fOr the..wnsiderationotHis, "A1aj,..ty.:.A1e54age,.111.44 to Lord Nelsopt* . s latides•moved, • Lord SP-ENCER. said, that -in conkequence• °;-tile - neces,ary abienee of his Noble. Friend (Lord Gren villo), it tiAd faleif to l,is lot to move an Address to: •' I its Mjekty, in. 'return fol leis .gracicitis , .l\les;4o; Tie•woulti not , take. np.the time of the.ilbuse.-byen teriug j.ntothe. merits, the . extraordinary.. ,rnerits of, the Noble 1.nrd,..t0 the•memory of , wh:;s: . great act-.• tions thissigtial=instancebf• - royal dis.tinaiou•and pub., •lio'gratitude was due. These merits were-ofl.them t 'selves sufficient ; to induce their Lordships . to concur with 'heat Ini:atrying into effect the- ohjea His . Ma jesty had in view ; but, in addition to that, they cOuld not but: be sensible- of, the powerful influence *bleb s(i houtrarablea reward must-have in stimu-; lating .others . to emulate those heroic actions, - or -which it' woukkonstatitly serve...to, remind .them, His . Lordship then moved, an humble .Acltlress_ His AlaJesty, drawn up in language appropriate to. the.l\leisao - e.—lt was agreed to nein. dis. and or dered to'b: presented • by the Lords with. the. white, staves:. • Seve . ral Petitions for and. against the Insolvent. Debt ors- Bill .were presented._ Oh-the ivfotion L6rd AVESTNORLA.NI),"varicus. Papas relat.i've to th Stave .Trade...ttestlidin Bill were ordered to be printed. .• INSOLVENT• DEBTORS' BILL. Lord Hoteeen woved the Paler of the. Day for commiteingebie Bill. , • • Lord Ft, 144 ; VBOS 0 UGH dedarg4 that be was .extremely unwilling to otfer any opposition tt a neeesUre Which .was Proposed on the grourill of hu manity, but . the sense he entertained of his duty would'hot pare:: hire tolet - this Bill proceed'farthef ,!bo , lt-rtiaking sutrr Obsereatiens upon it. •' HiS 1. Loreseip . objeaed to dee -frequency of Bills of this kind. They had recerred so often of late, that the heaXatiou of tree,seerrity which the law Bete tc.) di toei: might prove a reaterial injury to ierade. ' The Peteions ,on the Teble stated _teat the, gaols were oti eitiewhig ; but , upon ineestigetion ti. would" be be. found that' many-persons had-vOluntarily gene: into prison in order to: take advantage of. this Ad : his Lordship quoted the lists preseetedeo, the House, to skw- that a, majority of the-persons confined for debt in elle:Prisons of the-. metropolis had entered. , them since laSt , MichtteknaTerro. He believed the okie . to ,he Much the.,same , : with _respea to the'coue try - gaols.; and the consequence was, - that bypassing .. tliis Bill their Lord,hiPs, would set at -1114erty a-num ber. of 'pereens who were endeavouring to. their creditors.. I the right of enforcing the pa 4 l 7, .ment of debts was thus taken aevey, the present ctee dines veoeld of:necessity be .compelled-to supply ,the placee:ol: their' debtors, in prison. He hoped the house' would not, be induced, by a false irepressiun of humanity - , to sanction a. measure ;which, upon a large view of the subjeCt; weeeld 'be. found injurious to 'some of: the most iMportant interests of society: The Duke cf•NO.UOLK . supported the Bill, and observed, "that though a great proportion of persons ,had been imprisoned siace:Michaelmas Term, there was no proof of any frauchalentintention on their part. 147-d ,HOLLAND,observed,, that in a conversa ' tion which had 50111.1 time ago taken place' in _that' Hous.e,:it seemed to be the opiniue 'of several.of the. Most repealable authorities among their Lordships, that some alteration of - the laws now subsisting he tween debtor and creditor was necessary,. It was at tile same • time . understood, that, from the I ressure of .public business, it would be impossible to give due .consideration' to any general measure on this. iniportatit sehjeel during the. present Session';. but. as -there was a general feeling of the' very severe and oppressive nature of the._ present system, he had i:odged it-proper:9, introduce this as a means . atfording relief- to those immediately • His. Lordship then replied to the are:Mews of his Noble and Leartied'Friende He stated, that upon- aninspeetien of the Journals, it would be found that Insolvent Bills lied in the :early. part of ail's: reign been frequent and .extensive than they were of late. He alluded -to the Bezekrept LaWs, end - easerved,' that the Bill before the House. put the creditor Of the. inselvent, debter, on a better footingehan the creditor of the bankrupt ;' when the bankruPes dividend' was paid, nothingenore was to be e'epetted fromliirn ; whereas this Bill secured to the creditor not only the present property of his debtor, see hire a claim otehiseeture. acquisi tions. le C.';',ld see do reeson to suppose that any persons inteieeeel ill this Bili exPeEted ;cep'. pass so far back.es Micheelmas Term. Every kind of fraud' ought to L , 2 severelyenmislied ; but it was not just,. soli the mere suspicion of efraud, to- withhold relief from a - vast number of innocent and unfoettaeate per soas:. He therefore -hoped their Lordships would safer the Bill to go izno.t;',2 Committee. Laid - ELDON said, that. his conduit' had beets muclernisendeestood if hefhad been represented as always an enemy to Bills ()flies nature. 'On the cone trarv, iae had once introduced a Bill for the relief of insolvent, Debtors into the, Commons ; but' experi enceied convinced him that all such measures were atteeded with mischievous Consequences. He wished much toeee some general measure adopted, by which . the creditor and debtor would distinctly understand ' what„ they had to depend upon. In the mean time, nothing eduld be a more false , principle of legisla tion than that on which Insolvent BillS went, which was this, that- it became necessary to violate the . law because the jails' were full. His lordship - theught. that the whole. of the Laws of Debtor and Creditor required consideration. He pointed out the,hardship to which a bankrupt was liable, as tour fifths of his creditors must concur before he can oh tain the benefit of the Ad ; a creditor entitled vnly to two shillings :and sixpence might turn the scale against hiM, and prevent him from obtaining his cer tificate, however -justly he may be entitled to . it.— lt was their Lordseips' duty to consider both sides of . the question, and when they had invesligated the . lois of the creditor, it would perhaps be very gene rous to set the ;debtor 'at liberty ; ',but then their ' Lordshipe uiu t remember that their generosity, cast, them' nothing. if any general meastire - should be , adopted, it ought to be tirely prespe.:itiee. Lercl MOIRA obserrel, that the Noble and terip3- ed 'Lords had done justice to the obj4iou3 . thii kind which p t revailed in bis . had for Many - years in4lAced thot solu&t.general. measure .-on he 8a hie& mirrh t adopted. But, at. the same time, he- found compelled to support the present Big, •iu conse quence-of thewant. of. an k T o ther_reme dy. The-re, seEtion of this Bill would not .onlYbe illeasure :of great severity, but of marked injustice, Ile was con vinced' Of the propriety of-the Noble 'an& Learned Lords recOmmendation-toconsider. both side's. of the . question, - -If he did not -so-considerit, be should con- Si4ktihinil . elf not only .ading on a principle of tithe humanity,.butdishonestly influenced. He wishecra strict. investigation into:every kind of fraud to 'take. place;.. Theobjeelion, however, of persons going into , prison in_order to take advantage of the had nothing to do with baud: They might do it . pot . only very naturally, but : very justly. • They might throw themselves into prison , with the view, of lionestlydist.ributing their property among their cre ditors:, When .an honest debtor had no means of paying what be owed, - was repugnant , to every principle of justice that he should be detained in prison. If the Noble and Learned Lord considered imprisonment as a punishment for an injury done _to .the creditor, he should be glad to know to what term that punishment ought to extend. He remembered reading • in the newspapers two cases of manslaughter, which had struck him' very, fbrcil4, as approaching very closely to murder. — One was thuk case of a farmer in Wales,. who. had kicked his servant maid so violently that she died of the bruises, she received. -The PtlkOr was the case of a deserter killed by a' blow which a Serjeant.gaye hull s on the heal with his Halbert. He had no cioubt but the Jury decided rightly in each of these cases, tho' - in Loth the Shade which.divided them from the high if est of all offences,coul& only be distinguished by a very nice discrimination* Yet what was the sentence. ilstances ? Nlei'4lyiinprisontueritfor one,. year.- It that Was. thought a 'sufficient punishment , for such aggravated tminilaughter, what, itppri- Sonment would the Noble Lord reqPire to s4t!sly a , creditor. ? If, fraud ;Was proved, fraud be pu nished. The longer -this Bill' was iu passing the . g, - eater injury would be diine the creditor, because Would be much longer'beforg iw,wpuia be enabled to .compel the debtor to make-that compeusation.whiek itmight still. be. 41 his pow6r to agoi - A, Lord ELL4xBoiouGH, iu explanation, obWved, the Bill relieved.all prisbners 'in the gross, and there was therecore no.discrimiugion. Their. Lordships then divided on the question for cominl.taing the )3ill. Contedts Non-contents 5 Majority 6. • The Bill was committed,pro forma, and an QrJcr made for its further consideration tc-morrow. Adjourned. • MOUSE OF COM 4 TIONS:, WEDNESDAY . ; MAY• f 4 A Message from the Lords announced their Lord !ship;' intention to proceed wikthe trial of Viscount Melville at ten o'clock to-mbrrow morning. A person from the Exci:Ae presented an , Aceount •of.the Quantity of Spirits imported into'Great Bri= tam from Ireland, pursuant to the order of the House,—Ordered to be printed. On: the Motion of .the Suc.R.F,TARY at WAR, the Mutiny Bill passed, through a Committee. The Re,- port %Vas- brought up and agreed to; and . dip Bill ordered.to be read a third tirk.to-Morro*. Lord HowicK brought up the Report of the Com mittee of Supply, the Resolutions of which (fora proviSion for the tinnily of the late Lord nelson) were read and agreed to, and lenve given to- bring in a 'Bill in pursuance.of the,same, • Mr. ALVLANDER broug Et up the Report of the Committee on the Irish Treasury ►gills Bill, which was agreed to, and the BiliGisdeted to be read,a third time to-morrow. Mr. VAN'SITTART having moved the Order -of the Day for the House resolving itself into a Committee of Supply, ' . Sir JOHN, ANDERSON rose, and stated a few wards, the necessity that existed for some assistance On the. part of Government to the Trustees of Beth lehein Hospital, 'to enable them to continue to the unfortunate persons who were the objeets . of that be nevolent InstitutiOn the advantages that they had hitherto. enjoyed :he therefore moved, that-the Re port tethe 'ComMittee on. the Petition from the Triistees of Bethlehem tiospitai, Iler'efert:ed. to the ComMit tee. of Supply. • ' Mr: VAN6ITTART having expressed his coincidence in Opinion With the worthy . Baronet, the Motion was aveed- to, and the Howie ,having resolved itself into the - Comumittee of Supply, a W.-solution wrv , , agreo to; that ,- a stud not exceeding . 1 . 0,9Q01. be granted to the Trustees of Bethlehem 1 - er poses expressed in tneir ketttion. The Repert was ordered to be rei•eived to-morrow. Sir Jou N o au- brought upthe Irish Stamp Duty Bill,, the Irish Lean hill, and the: Tea 'Duty BJI, all which were read a -first and de cd :to *be read a 'seCond time on,,Friday. On .tl.o.?`gotion of Lord 1:1 E y PETTY., the fur titer consideration of His Majesty's l'elessage was or derect to be referred to the Committee - of.,Supply on Friciay. . The ilish Bank Annuity Bill went through a Com mittee, the RePort of wnkb was Ordered to be re ceived 0-morrow. Oti the Motion of Mr. PARNm.t„. an Account was ordered to be laid before the Honse pt . the vanity of Bank Rotes, including Bank. Post Bills, issued from the respective Banks of England and. Ireland, from the tst of Feb. 180, to the tst of Feb..lBo, distinguishing the amount in the different quarters, and the Notes under '5l. • 'EARL • Mr. JEFFERIES rose in,plirsuance of his no tice, '.to call the attention, of the house to the'Papers on the Table.relative. to the Mnral apartment, and to bring forward and substantiate his Charges against Earl St. Vincent, , for culpable negled and miscon duet during the time that he had-been at the head of the Board of Admiralty. He repeated, 'that upon his honour he bad undertaken this nations and un pleasant task without previous consultation with any 'one whatever, though not ..'.without warrantable grounds. When he first mentioned the subjeCt in the House,. however, he had nointention, of pro ceeding so far •as he now meant to do.; but he bad been so provoked by the muted ituravagaut and pane - .e Jed cUleelerrek of the Noble Earr.-; fri'ends Clt ci ti s ine 'when ire felt that by ine:rsrireS th4,indepenilence an-:1 cety ine Country I .lh:d be,4lbieatened that he , utidertook his present 4a - k. withopt.ebeing aware of- ins magnitude. 'his he did not lament; any farther then A 'he wished •it was in more able L'is a foreas .h e. puraued hisituaulaiaasalaaao-the jest, derived - strength . and . confidence from the 'strength of hiS - CiihStia • the prOofsof-which lay in. the. dOchmentston the Table, to the invesligaticin of whiCh • he bespoke the candid - attentiou;of the Honse. Bea - fore he adduced his Charges ita - ainst Earl St. Vincent for unprecedented neglect •in ,ltis Ade:inistratien, it would be : necessary for him to sheea , :a hat had; been_ theaneasures of the NOble preclecessora in of= fice, to : keep up rhe' efficiency and paver of the Bri tish Navy. ' After having done this, he should only have (a task sufficiently ardnous).to inquire, whether the steps • adopted by the Noble Earl were stich as to make pro; ision equal to thealemandS of the Coun try-, f r kipporting the Navy, dtit-','ng the time that he was First Lord of the Adoiirally :the .ac counts on' the 'Fable it wouldbe seen, that no lessthan 4e sail of the line and 45 frigates had 'been,. launched. from 1783 to I 7.9, prey ions to the com nencetn:.nt of the last War. - , Or these 30 sail of the line and 40 frigates. had been I:an:cherl frai - n Mer- chants yards. This was during a period of Peace, when a less necessity exi - Stedfortoverrinent'S avail- ing of the assista'nce - of the'.l;lerchanta; - .yfit'da than at the time* Earl St. .Vincent's letter, dated 29th Dec. 1804, to the Cant: t ett-oiler of the Navy, of Which he should subsequently speak, allotwithstarad ing this great aelivity in bUilding ships dnring the pe. nod which he had inetnioned, no less exertion had. been inanifte , aed hi repairing in the - King's }ands throne:li the whole of that Peace. The consequence, had been, that at t;,;; commencement of the:War in 1793 100 sail of the line,: and Stnallea vessels in proportion, were in complete. order,. and fit to be sent to any Tart efthe world. The ac counts- on the Table would - shew• the way in' . which the Navy had been afterwards augatien - ta - . From'Jaiivary 1793, to January 1801- (at-which lat ter period Earl 'St. 'Vincent caine'into office), - .l'B'. sail ,of the line and 46 frigates had been built; . 43. " sail of the line and 66 frigates captured; and 5-sail of the line and 9 frigates paieb-y.e:i i. making in the whole 66 sail i of. the: line and va i e frigates ; being at an average 8 ships of the line and a quarter,: and i 5 7! frigates annually. He allowed that . the captured and purchased ships ought ,not to be estimated 2.S entirely new ; to deduct aqhird on that accOuht would be :a 'liberal comptitation. •It would then appear that for the eightyears before mentioned (from - 179 j to 180 the Navy had received an aceession of strength, averaging at6 - neaci.ships of the line, and a - q uarte6 and 12 new•frigates annually. W Was this increase Of strength unnecessary ? NO. Great as' had been the exertions of the .Noble Earl's ; predecessors, they would have been insuffiCient during the state •of war, and would not have beeneqUal•tokeep uptheNavy to its proper : establishment. • A i ship when'new could not run for more than fifteen years on an average.— During the greater part of the' last - war, there had been`.llo sail of the line and 170 frigates in commis sion ; so that it would have required an annual sup ply of 7 sail of the line and 12 frigates to - support that establishment. This was ekelusive of contin'-' gencies and casualities. He would now inquire whe ther Earl St. Vincent •had added even 6 ships of the line and it quarter and l''>-frigates annually to the Navy, which it rimniff_-_stly. was his duty at least to do, and whether he left to his successors in office the power °kiwi:easing, or even,of keeping up the Naval Force of the Country ? would first state what' the Noble Earl did with regard to ships of the line. On the i Bth of February, 1801, when Earl St. Vincent entered on his office 'of First Lord of the Admiralty, there were 15 sail of the line on the stocks, viz. 6 in the King's yards, and 9 in the, Merchants' yards. Between . that period and May, four sail of the line were captured from the Enemy, so . that without any extraordinary exertions, without resorting..to the visionary schemes that had been in -agitation, by which it was absurdly said, that 59 sail of tlhe line could be built annually in .the yardS, but merely by following the steady and certain plans of his predecessors in office; he mightbaveeaccome plished that which it was his duty to . do. He . hal o however, negle&ted th6e plans, as 'well as every ,Other mode of supply. During . the three years and three mouths that Earl St. Vincent had been at the . head - of the Admiralty, ten ships Of the, line only, had been launched, viz.,sevea in,the Merchants' yards, and three in the King's yards.. Nor was the Earl entitled to Muth credit even for these;S for the whole of the ships built i h the -Merchants' yards had been contra; for before he came into office, and two of thOse: built iii the King's ya - rds,. were so forward at that period, that they • iaere launched in a few months.• Strange as it might lip, pear, it was nevertheless true, that. the Noble Earl had really launched but a siiigle ship of the line of entirely his own building, froM October 1801 to May i 804 ! It might appear that he had a6lually.bnilt three Ships of the line, but this was not the. case:— TO Earl-St. Vincent was left la ships of the line building b% his, predecessor; he left but nine to his successor, five of which nine were absolutely on the stockS when he came into office.. Fi=em, these nal. controverfed and incontrovertible fatits, it Was proved that Earl St. :Vincent hadbeen put in possession by his . predecessors • of ample nieens to support the Na val roree of the Couetry ; but that instead of tht. filling this : . great object; he had only. launched 10 sail of the line, and put Seven more in: state that rendered it possible to launch them' in, three years more. Thus the Noble Earl had not provided half the number furnished by, his pre decessor, 'although he had had Peace in his fa vour. rf, however, he had provided as many an, nually as his predecessor, it would' by no means have equalled the demands of the Country. So much for the linezof-battle ships ; now for the fri gates. On FebrUary 18, 1801, when Earl St. Vincent came into office, 11 frigates were building, viz, 4 in the King's yards, and 7 in the MerchantS' yards ; the former nearly ready to ' be launched ; the latter in a state of great forwardness. All therefore that was ' necessary fOr the Noble Earl was, to follow the system which had been pursued for a series of years to keep up the establishment. The Noble Earl's suc cessor.had built 4 frigates in the King's yards in six months-- 7 a striking contrast to the supineness and, negligence Manifested by Earl St. Vincent, who, not withstandurg the favourable circumstances in ' was placed, lattnehod -only 12 frigates. during the whole three years and three niontha 9f his admini— strationl Ten frigates . had .been captured trona the Enemy during that period ; the same reduc tion from these as'in. the former Calculation, namely, a third (on, account of their not being new), it would be fthind that the total number of frigates added to he44ritisk-Nav thtrirrr the-three yeltrs — an &I-lute :months of EarLSt.Vincent's AchniUistratiorrannonnt eel to 1,9. For the three years preceding the Noble Earl's entrance upon titE • ceptwelve.frig - ates hadbeen . annually .added- to•the Navy, and even: that - addition was not enough. What then could bethought the . conduct of Earl .St'. Vincent when it was - evil dent that instead of making greater exertion - than,his Predecessor (en increasL; of exertion whiehthe situa-• Lion of the Country loudly called for),. he had not done half what his predecessor had done ! .Had the `Noble Earl only ecinalled his predecesSnr, instead of nineteen frigates he would haye'added thirty-nineto • the list. The fata .. .•Wics, :that Earl - St,Vincent was only awakened to the necessity of exertinghiMself in. Providing vessels of this, description just ,before he quitted office. - He thenzave orders for laying dowt eight s frizates: in 'the yards; 'but these orders Were attributed 'solely" to the dissatisfaetion which had evinced itself vvithlregard to. his condnd both In the House and in the country. ''These orders., how ever. were nut at the, tithe enforced, and on the 15th of MaY,'l 804,: St: Vincent quitted' Office, he 14.%builling- 041- the -stocks-.in the -King's yards but one single frigate and no more; nine bad, been contra4ed far ilk yard*, but .ofthese oalyfour were just beglin when the Country was fair:- ttinately'relie - l . froiat the further, naval superintend ence of the .Nahle Earl., • He trusted that. ha,viog liedrd these statements drawn.from . official documents on the Table, the }.cure woulddh him the justice to `agin - Owledge that he had •suf.P. : eient grounds for the investigation which he had undertaten.. Having thus .proved that Earl St.. Vincent did not make, the exertiOitsl,NiVll.joi had'dOne; at a peritid more 'favotirabler thane that in - which, they _hod aCted,land - in a':sittiation. of the.COuntry which demanded more, vigeroas measures fie. Weald ask where - was:the cause of this neg,leEt ?. what extenu ation had the Niyhle -E - ari to plead ? Whether there _ . di:l•not eXis r t thepecessitY for rnakiii& great exer:- . tions ? ILad the Noble . Eiri been more fortunate - iii • capturearont h e• En tiny Dia t4"o:liolitical situa 7 tier of thebountry demand leas euergy.to . be displaya 7 'Were the preparations, in the OflpOsite ports less vigorous ? Ai - ere their naval armamems„deserwing • the.appellation that bitd been hestowed.upon.thein, by air Hon. Admiral, Of cockle shells ? Hestabmitted, it tothejcidgi - nent of the House, whether, in every pOirit of view in which the stabjea could 4)e consi dered, the Noble Earl ii id done that which it \vas . his duty to do. By a 'reference to the Papers on the, Table, it would be ,C.ound,' that front Jaaaary.l793, to Vebrtufry . 1801, b(i sailof the line had been added. to . the Navy, by building, captures,. end .purchases; taking away from these 21: for casualties, there would , reniain an addition:of 45 line-of-battle.ahips. in eight years ; 121 frigates bad. been_ s in _a similar . way s added ;_ taking away from these n . for. ea snalties, the result of the. whole iit,redid . be 45 of the line, and Ga . ,frigatas in eight years. During the administration of Earl St. Vincent, from Fe bruary 1801, to .May 8Q4, - 0'i.)) ; 1,4 sail Of the. line 14, been .added taking , away trorn these eleven sir casualties, there would remain an addition of three sail of the line in three years andthree.months; s. tothe_ ft;gates 22 only.had been added,. and 30 taken. away by casualties, so that there was a'diminution of 8 frigates during the Noble Eilrl" s Adrninistrationer-r• Earl St. Vin&ent'r, conduca in this respeCt was the. . more criminal, because he could not plead ignorance of- of. the necessity that existed f or ma ki ng great exer dons. He had declared, to use his OWnempha tic language; " that there was an urgent necessity for building shins all over the kingdom." The - Hon. Gentleman here read a corrspondence between Earl St. Vincent .and the Comptroller of the. Navy, in a letter, of which, the 'above expresQion occurred ; and also, a correspondence betwieen Earl St. Vincent and. Sic Lsiii ivepc in relative,to tettdersmade by btiiidera . to buiideshl pa of war at mil. a toil. in fourteen.days. after the-Nob-re Earl` had expressed his, seicee of the necessity of building ships all over' the kingdom, he capriciously reject theae tenders ? If toe Noble Earl . had 'changed his mind' about building men of war . in . yartf, did that remove the neces sity for building at all ? Why not build in the King's yards ? And yet, for thiee, months; Earl St, Vincent did net give • direCtions to . the Navy Bard 7 so for build a single ship ! The House would clearly-'see that• a prokai had. been broach ed about that time; by which it' wad 'pretended that •;fifty'sail of the line could: be built annually in the , King's yards. ' He should take a future Opporthnity ' s of proving the. fallacy of this' scheme, which was founded in imposition and deception, and was , in deed; very the atatenient Made 'pretty nearly by the . same. - Authdr, in which rapes had' been turned into 'pounds sterling; for the purpose Of criminating a gallant Na -al Officer, The N o ble Earl's inactivity not arise frons aVapt of slips, for at the time he Went, i n t o office thirteen slips, out of twenty were unoccupied: . No ; his Lor& ship had wantonly • diScharged the artificers in the yards, many •of whom were now at work in the, dock-yards of the Enemy, and, by his haughty, and he would say, illiberal condua, he had disguated all round him at a time when the Navy was fast rim ing to destruCtion. proviSion, was; Made either . for repairing old ships, or blinding new one's., The , dock yards were absolutely. without materials: The Hon: Gentleman here read letters from the tifficers of the different yards to the Navy Board, complain-- lug of the alarnaing'deficiency in timber, Which in severakif those yinds did not amount to a be . ggariy . stock - for a bankrupt shipbuilder. Was that the mode, he asked, in which, ,the wants of the Bri tish Navy ought to be.supplied ? He thought that lie had succeededin fully proving the.tiegleet of the Noble Lord.. 'lle would now chew, what was the result-of that neglect.. In the first place, in cOcse-, quence of Earl • St. Vincent's having caoric' yusly :rejeCted the , tenders• of the merchant buildOas, the. , Country sustained" a loss of eoq,oool. ; for the Navy Board were subsequently compelled to contra.. with those very Merchant builders for the building of .. ten 74:5, at the advanced rate of 361. a-ton. The rea sons assigned by these builders for' thus raising their ' price from their former otter of .c, , 61. per ton were, mat the King's dock=yards had been so exhausted during the Naval' Administration' Of the Noble-Earl,