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sure, refused to allow that. Ttotter then said- he would find the money to make the purchase, which could be re-paid by money borrowed on the credit of the stock. But the Hon. and Learned Manager, who summed up, the evidence for this Prosecattion,, contended, that Trotter's account of the trans adion was not AO be credited. Which or the two Ma nagers-. was. to be believed, the one who opened the Pro secution, by whom Trotter was represented as worthy of the fullest credit, or .the Hon. and 'Learned Manager who summed up, by whom - he was represented as, worthy of no credit whatsoever. The Hon. Manager who summed up, contended, that the account given of the stock porchased, and the money subsequently raised upon it, was a -perfeet _farce ; that no. man beyond the degree of an idiot could think of 'lending money_ upon stock -so circumstanced. — Yet that man, - that ideot, was found ; and who was the man who was such an extreme driveller ? Why, it was that foal Mark SPrott , The release and the dest ru Won of the papers had been construed as evidence of - corrupt pradices, and a design to destroy the evidence of the existence .of these pradiees, This argument might pOssibly have some weight, if the papers destroyed were of a public nature ; but it did not appear that they were. On the contrary, they were of a nature merely private; and was it to be argued, that because two individuals held situations of public trust, -they were never to settle their private accounts; nor-to adopt th:ose mea sures of mutual acquittance and security against future claims which were usual in all accounts ? It had been, beSides, proved, that Lord_ Melville had been in the -habit of "destroying his -private papers when he had settled the affairs to which they related. As to the release, it had been prepared by a most respeaable Solicitor, with out the knowledge of Lord Melville, and because it con tained a clause of obligation to give up and destroy all prior papers of account and dealing, it was arped that it was in tended to conceal transadions of a crtininal nature. But every one must' be aware, that Artafead of conceuling, this would have been the most efiedaial Mode of discovering tranS adions of such a nature, if any,stich there - were.' It would not be necessary to trouble their. Lordships with any details of evidence for the defence, because the evidence adduced for• the Prosecution made entirely tor the defence. 1 t had been said by the Honourable and' Learned Manager (Sir S. Ro milly), that while Lord- Melville's private affairs pros pered und-r his negktd, the. public aftiirs were ruined by his . care. But very few. of their Lordships would, he was sure. be of that opinion. On the contrary, it would be almost universally acknowledged,, that thelaublic:service had benefited most materially by, the exertion of Lord Mel ville's talents. The Hon. Manager who opened the'prose-: cution, had justly complimented Lor d Melville on the services he hadrelidered when Treasurer of the .N avy:- The Honourable Manager had acknowledged that the regulations established by Lord tblclville, with respect to seamen's wills, aNere 'most essential to the preservation of their property to their widows and orphans, and justly entitled the Noble Lord to the eternal gratitude ,ot that class of men on whom the_ glory and the safety of the totintry so much depended ; and yet this was' the man in whose hands the °the i r Hon. Manager,. in summing up, stated, that the public affairs had withered and gone to ruin. He trusted, that on the consideration of the whole of the evidence for the prosecution, which made chiefly, it not wholly, in favour of L'ordANlvil le, their Lordships would see no proof of crimi nal of-Corrupt inttattioil in the Noble Lord ; and that what ever negligence-may be chargeable upop him, would appear to their Lr,nishiaas abundantly punished, without any further aggravation of his - sufferings, if indeed it would be competent to their Lordships to inflict any. You are now, my Lords, said Mr. P tomer, charged with a duty of the highest and most awful nature. You stand in the situation of the highestitribunal the world contains, the highest of which' the human mind can form an idea, except that one higher and . more awful one, be fore which you will yourselves be judged for the judgment you will give in, this case. You sit in judgment on a person of exalted rank, whose chari&&er, at the close of a long life spent in the service of his country, depends wholly ou your judgment. I have nothing further to add, than that this Court is the tribunal to which he has resorted for that pure, impartial jui , tiee, which he could "nit obtain elsewhere, and for which lie relies with confidence on your Lordships' ho nour. THIRTEENTH DA Y -.THURSDAY, MAY 75. A short examination of Witnesses took place to prove the relinquishment of his salary 'by -the Noble Defendant whilst Secretaorof State for the Home Department, and atrerwards whilst Secretary of, State for the War and Colonial Depart ment, as stared by the Learn , ...tl Counsel. Mr. Ao A M then addrested the Court at considerable length in behalf of Lord Melville. The condu4of that Noble Lord, from the earliest period of life, had, he said, completely evinced that he was tree froiu the slightest taint of avarice, and rendered any use of public money on his pat 4, for the purposes of private gain, in the highest.degree improbable. The Learned Counsel went over the same grounds as those taken by. Mr. P coat e e, contending for a similar construction on the At ofParliament,and maintaining that the charges tvere complete_ ly disproved by the evidencebrought to support them. The si lence of Lorl 'Melville, and' the silence of NI r. Trotter, had, he said, been the cause of this prosecution; but now that the trans actions in which the former was supposed to be concerned were explained, he trusted that the innocence of the former would be considered by their Lordships as fully established, and his acquittal be the result of their Lordships' deliber ations, After Mr. ADAM had concluded, the Court adjourtted to the next day, Friday. • FOURTEENTH DAY—FRIDAY, MAY 15. The ATTORNEY-G ENER t.L begged. their Lordships' at tention to two points, to which the observations of the Learned Counsel on the other side had been principally di rected. Those points were, with regard to the construc tion of the Statute and Common Law, as applying to the Charges against the Noble Defendant; without referring to the Reports of the Commissners or xam4ig Public Ac counts, or the 14esolution io s of f the e House of Commons grounded upon those Reports, or to the professed object of the Statute of 25 Geo. 111. he might appeal to all those who bait been Treasurers of the Navy since its enactment, with the eeception of the Noble Defendant, and indeed to corninon sense itself, against the construction of the Learned Counsel on the other side. What, -could it be contended, that the object of the Act WAS accomplished the moment the money• was put into _the Bank, and that it might be drawn frost theme the moment afterwards, and applied to ' private purposes ? " Ott unwise, improvident Legislature,was this the only security devised for the Public Money !" But that such was not the object of the Law was evident frOm the interpretation- which it received from the Treasurers, who did not conceive it sufficient to draw money from the Exchequer, place it in the Bank,-and draw it out again im mediately. The purpose of the Statute was, that the Pub lic Money should not remain in the hands of Sub-Ac countants. And if such delinquency as that with which the Defendant stood charged had occurred prior to the Statute, there was no doubt that the Attorney-General might have tiled an information against the delinquent., Lord Kenyon, when Attorney-General, did file an information against a Paymaster of the Navy ; and the conduct of that Paymaster in using the -Public Balances was tolerated only on the ground tiler Ms salary was inadequate to the duties. Lords North, and other Public Accountants, saw the mis chiefs resulting from such a practice, and forwarded those measures which led so bringing in the Bill in 170. The Learned Counsel on the other side had stated, that the- Re solutions of the House of Commons were to be considered as nothing; but His Majesty gave effect to these Resolu tions by new Modelling the Navy Office; and it could not be doubted that Ilk Majesty had power to prescribe the duty of his office, and that it was criminal fur them to vio late the prescrioed line. The Noble Defendant, by accepting the office,of Treasuier of the Navy, with an increased salary in lieu of all fees and perquisities, bound himself to follow the rules prescribed; and it was preposterous to say that he was not guilty of a misdemeanor it he violated them. It had been hinted that no criminal information could at Common Law be tiled against a Public Accountant ; but it had been only hinted, for it was too„absurd seriously to argue. It waS not true that a public defaulter stood in the same situa tion as a private defaulter. A public defaulter was liable to criminal prosecution for breach of duty, as well as to. pro cess from the Exchequer for his default. And it was clear Law, that when no express punishment was provided' by Statute tot violation of public duty, it was punishable at Common Law as a misdemeanor, particularly when the of fence related to the Public ReVenue ; if the doctrine of the Learned Counsel on the other side could hold, a Public Ac countant would scarce be under . any restraint. But, in truth, theme did exiA an Act of Parliament, which, what ever construction might be put upon it, certainly meant to protect the public: interest, and guard the public Money I I so, can any rational man for a moment believe, that that Act was satisfied by carrying the money from the Exchequer to the sank, and letting it remain there but tnr a moineot ? In short, the 4th and ith clauses of the Act evinced the absur dity of this argument; thr by them it was expressly stated, that the money should not be drawn out but fur public ser- LON DON : Printed try RICHARD RRS, of No. 4, Martlett-court, Bow-street; I , ..ibbsbed b} WILLIAM AR MIGIR Sca'ir s t , of South Molton-street, Grosvenor-square At the SUN-.ATICE. No. 1 Strand where Advirtisiments Orders for the Paper, Letters f6r the .Ediior, &c. (tort -paid), must be addregged. !viee;-and.the service rwr whi*:lt it was wanted was to be ex pressly stated.-and that the course pursued by the Noble Defendant and his PayinaSter was an evasion of the Act was moil clear and manifest. In: deciding these points he was sure their-Lordships -vvould- consult the dignity of their own character, and - decide as was bzliting them, Mr. W itl r n coincided perfedly in the-law as stated by his Learned Colleague, and thought it - sufficiently an swered the Leamed Gentleman on the - other 'side. Mr: Whitbread commented on the conlud of the Noble De, fendanf, as to his al tedged inaccuracy in accounts. He was accurate enUugh to make up his own salary 40001. a year, and in his statement of the India Budgets, he was always stall ? ciently lucid and unembarrassed, to repel the idea that he, was not capable of accuracy in- accounts. It was argued, that it was itnpossit.de - to disprove all the Objedions to the conduit of a man whO had been 24 years in office. Mr. Doug.: las was dead; he could have explained all during his time, it was said. They then came to a later period,—Then all the Papers were burnt which could tt.trow any light on the transaction.. Could' Douglas have been called-Could the destroyed Papers' have be,n - produced = Flow much might they not susped they would have been'able to have proved, judging front what they had been able to prove. The Learned Counsel had attempted to ridicule the fad of tracing • the Bank Notes, but if _the history of all the Bank Notes could have been unravelled, whil a history might it not have dis closed. They had ail heard 61 - a book called Ghrysal, or, The Adventures rf a Guinea. Suppose some such commu nicative,guinea could now •be found. It--might tell them it found its way lints the Exchequer into Mr. Swaffield's iron chest, at the . Navy Office —front thence it might say, " I expeded t 6 be transported to the pocket of some .brave sea man or Seaman's • widow ; but judge of my surprise, when I was taken out to_pay a bill of the Treasurer of-the Navy. Soon afterwards I found myself in the House of (. - :,otrunons, and to my astonishment heard Lord. Melville. say, that he applied me) and to - ,0,0 others to public purposes, which he would never name - . Subsequent to that, when I had made a few more transactions, I found myself in. Westmin ster Hall, in the poeket of - a Counsellor, who was pleading the cause of Lord Melville, who was most stridly endea vouring tocoutrovert both the law and the fid—but what surprized me most, Was, to hear another Counsellor, who professed to be on the same side, contradict his Colleague point blank." Here the guinea tale must, end. The books, about which the Learned Gentlemen . differed,.it was possible to open. No more than the spirit. Glyhlyn could open the book of the Abbot of Melrose. The-Honourable Manager contended,. as he went along, that the evidence was conclusive of the guilt of the Noble Defendant, and eon chided his speech this day With declaring he had no feel- - , ings of personal animosity .—His cluty•done, he should re tire, and he trust I, his name, in going down to posterity along With.tbe cause. would not be dishonnwred. But that which was' honourable in itself would derive some lustre from the etfidgence of the glory of that Court. FIFTE ENTII DAY, SATURDAY, MAY 17. Mr. WHITEREAD resumed his, Speech. commented at length-on the co; fession of the Noble Lord respecting the application of to,ooal. to purposes which he avowed he would not - disclose.• He then adverted to the demeanour of Mr. Trotter in giving his evidence, and insisted that from his manner as much was to be inferred as from the plainest tes timony. He argued from the 4th and sth clauses of the Act of 1716, and contended that they were notoriously violated byahe Noble Defendant.. With respect to the want of care in the Noble.Deieodant in exarnintng his accounts, it did not appear that•such was ,4is character by his subsequent conduct. He had had .the caution to insert an unusual clause in a release for:tne destruction of all vouchers, and he had not neglected to perform- that agreement. What would the Noble Lord have said when in office to any of his inferior agents, if he liad_come to him with such excuses as the Noble Lord now offered to the Court un behalf of himself? With regard to the re,t,oval of the money from • the Bank to Coutts's, it 'was argued that the Noble Defendant had dOne it for reasons - of official convenience, when the Pay-office was removed from Broad-street to Somerset-house. But in, fact, it was in 1784 that theunoney was removed to Coufts's, and the Office was not removed until the year 1787 the fal sity of that pretence was therefore most evident. The Hon. Manager next adverted to the refuge taken by the Noble Lard under the sth clause, in refusing to answer the Commis sionerSof Inquiry. He considered this as strongly indicative of what were the Noble. Lord's feelings. He fled td the sth Clause, anftxclanned in the words of the Scotch Song, " Throw yont auld cloak over me." If a conduct such as the Noble Defendant's could be overlooked and escape punishment, it would have the most baneful: -public influ ence. It was little matter comparatively how this case ended; but the example was most terrific. No Public Accountant hereafter heed dread any responsibility should the Defendant stand acquitted ' He- then entered into a detail of the trans actions of tSao with mocli spirit, and observed, had not that Loan been rtegotiated,'the Noble Lord would not probably have been enabled to pay his balances, and the Public must haVe suffered a loss. In adverting to the conversation stated to have passed between Lord Melville and Trotter, he ob served, that though the latter would not recolelict any of the conversation with precision, it was not to' be doubted but that they-understood each other : there were many modes of communicating ideas besides, by words. When our immOrtal Bard represents King lohn as wishing--the death of his Ne phew, Arthur, without daring to speak his wishes direct to Hubert, he thus addresSes him— " If that thou could'st see without eyes, " Hear without thine ears, and make reply " Without a tongue, using conceit alone— • 1 ‘ Without eyes tears, and harnttul sound of words, • " Then in despite of blooded watchful day, " I would into thy bosom pour my thoughts." Similar, most likely was Lord Melville's directions to 'Trotter respecting India Stock ;..but if any dipubt remained as to this point, surely there could be none to those sums, which the Noble Lord admitted he had applied, contrary to the purposes of the Act. In conclusion, the Hon. Manager adverted to the manner in which the Counsel had attempted to defend their Client. Instead of attempting to rescue his impeached honour, and ,rt.store his Character, they had only ; attempted to save him front punishinent. Oh ! miserable 'man, to be so defended, said the Hon., Manager. Every one of the Charges which, the Managers have presented against you have been completely substantiated. By your own confession, you • have shesyn that vou have illegally applied a large sum -of the Public Money, and for that alone we are justified in seeking a verdict of con.' demotion against you. You expressed your readiness to swear that you did hot derive any profits atom the public money, during the Paymastership of Douglas and we have proved that you did. You have also declared that you derived no ptofits during the Paymastership of Trot ter, and we have proved that you did. And what has been de posed by our evidence not'a single witness has been called on your part to controvert. No; your Counsel have not ventured to repel it. _Their strength has been to secure a retreat. We attacked them in theiriortresses.. - " We pursued them in - their flight tor refuge—first to the bastion, and next to the citadel; where, being unable to -make a stand, they endeavoured to carry otr the body of their. Client—but in this too, it' will be seen that they have failed.' They have not -fought but fled. We, however, have overtaken and conquered, and we • claim from your Lordships the just reward of our success—a Yerdietagaihst the Noble Defendant. The LORD CHANCELLOR asked the Learned Counsel for the Defendant, if they wished to say any thing upon- the cases quoted by the A ttorney-G eneral —M r, P tom Ea. mere ly observed, that he thought the case of Brembridge and •Poarl,l did not apply.---The ATTORNEY-GENERAL stated, that' he quoted the case. for the principle it established, which, he insisted, was analogous to the present case. The Court then adjourned to the Chamber of Parliament. SIXTEENTH DAY, THURSDAY, !UNE 12; This being the day appointed by the Lords for giving judg ment, about ten o'clock the Sra-sxER of the House of Com mons took the Chair, and after counting the House, pro ceeded at half.past ten to Westminster - Hall. 'The Lords were closely shut up until Twelve o'clock, during which time the several Articles of Impeachment were read, and the final arrangements made for passing I udgment in the High .Cou7t of Parliament. - Their Lordships then pro ceeded in the accustomed procession to the Hall. The reers sat exactly arranged according to their rank, as they were called upor from a Paper which the Lord Chancellor held in his hand Til: LOFD CHANCELLOR addressed them thus: " My Ltrds, you have heard and examined the Charges preferred in the name of the Commons of Great Britain Ireland, of High Crimes and Misdemeanors against Henry Lord Viscount Melville ; and the first question I have to put to you s---" Is Henry Lord Viscount Melville guilty of the first A - tide of the Charge—(then beginning with the youngest Hiron,,and addressing him by his title, lie added,) Witat say pu to this Article ?" The same question was repeated in the same manner to each attendaut Peer upon each - A rticle,, in succession, tin to the highest title; and after his Royal. Highness Frederick Augustus Duke of York had voted, the Lord Chancellor con cluded with saying---" And 1, Thomas Lord Erskine do say, that.lle is, or l►e is not guilty," as it happened. After the ten Articles were gone through, .a scrutiny of the Votes took place, which occupied an hour. They were as follow : _ _ _ Charges. N: Guilty, First - z 6 - 119 Second - S 6 - - 79 Third - - 52 - - 83 Fourth - - o - -13 S Fifth - - , 4 - I Sixth - 4 6 g 9 Seventh - - so' - • - 8i Eighth - 14 - ill Ninth , 16 - 119 Tenth 12 - 121 Among the Peers who voted Lord Melville guilty on the Ist Charge were, Lord Lati,derthile, Lord Holland, .Lord at. John, Earl Stanhope, the Dukes of Gloucester, Sussex, and Clarence. The Lord Chancellor voted last; and laying his hand upon his breast said, " I, Thomas Lord Erskine, Lord thigh Chancellor' of Great , Britain, give it as My opinion to your Lordships, that Lord Viscount Melville is not guilty of the High Crimes and Misdemeanours containedin the first Charge." On the second Charge, amongst those Lards who declared Lard Melville guilty were—Lords Crewe, Lauderdale, El. lenborough, Carystort. Lilford, Mint°. De Dtinstanville. Upper 0 ssory, Auckland, Gage, Verulam ( Viscount Grim ston), Fite, Somers, Holland, King, St. john, Bishop of St. Asaph, Viscount Hereford ; Earls of Carnarvon, Mansfield, Grosvenor, Radnor, Donoughinore, Egremont, Buckingham shire,.. Stanhope, Cowper. Carlisle, Winchelsea, Suffolk, Derby ; Dukes of St."Alban's, Somerset. Lord Viscount Sid mouth, Dukes of Sussex. Kent, and Clarence, and lastly the Lord Chancellor. Amongst the Lords who declared Lord Metiillc Not Guil ty on this Charge, were Lords Barham, Shettield, A rden, St. Helen's, Hawkes bury, Eldon, Bolton, Carrington, Hare wood, Stuart, of Castle. Stuart (Earl of Moray). Mulgrave, Douglas. of ,Lochleven (Earl of Morton), Amherst, Bray 'brooke, Kenyon, Montagu,.ooritigdoo. Bulkeley, Hay (Earl of Kianoul), Earls of Digby, Mount Edgecumbe, Strange (Duke of Athol), Camden, Bathurst, Hardwicke. Graham (Duke of Montrose), Macclesfield, Essex, Westmorland. Onslow, Caledon, Enniskillen, Longford. Westmeath, Kel lie. Marquisses ornwallis and Abercorn ; Dukes of Rut land, Cambridge, Cumberland, and York. We were unable to hear the answers of several of the Lords, on account of the low tone in which they were delivered. On the Third Article of Charge, amongst the Lords- who declared Lord Melville Guilty were, Lords Lauderdale, El lenborough, Holland ; the Bishop of St. Asaph ; Viscount Hereford ' • Earls of Carnarvon, Radnor, Egremont; Stan-- hope, Oxford, Carlisle, Suffolk, Derby; Duke of St. Al ban's ; Lord Viscount Sidoiouth ;, Dukes of Gloucester, Sussex, Kent, Clarence, and the Lord Chancellor. The Lords who voted Lord Melville Not . Guilty of the Second' Article, also acquitted Itlnion this Charge. • On' the Fifth Charge the acquittal was nearly unanimous, not above three or four Lords declaring Loid - Melvilte Guilty.. The Lord Chancellor declared him Not Guilty upon this . Charge. On the Sixth Charge, amongst the Peers who declared the Defendant Guilty, were Lords Veruitim l Rawdon (Earl oh Moira), Grantley„ Holland,St. ) ohn; the B ishop of St. A saph ; Viscount Herekrd ; Earls of Donouglimore, 'Caritarvoni Grosvenor, Radnor, Stanhope, Cowper, 'Suffolk, Derby ; Duke of St. Alban's; Lord Viscount .Sidniouth ; Dukes of Gloucester, Sussex, Kent, Clarence ; and the Lord Chan cellor. _ On the 7th Article of Charge, the Lord Chancellor and Lord Ellenborough pronOuriced the Defendant Guilty.-., On the-Sth Article, Lord Elliiborough said Guilty, and. the Lord Chancellor, Not Guilty. l'he Royal Dukes twitti the exception ,of the Duke of Clarence) Not Guilty. On the gth and lath . Articles, the Lord Chancellor, and, we believe, Lord*.Ellenborouglt,' voted Not'-Guilty on both these Charges, as also, we believe, did the Royal Dukes. Lords Eldon, Hawkesbury, Mulgrave, and many other Lords, including most of those we before enumerated, asde daring Lord Melville Not Guilty on the Second Charge, voted the Defendant Not Guilty on all- the Charges. linty three Spiritual Lords were present, nam:ly, the Bi shops of St. Asaph, Bath and Wells, and ChicheSteT. The LORD CHANCSLLOR then said—" My Lords, you have acquitted Henry Lord Viscount Melville of all the Ar ticles of l inpeachment ; 'and Henry -Lord Viscount Melville, you,are acquitted of the said,Articles, and every thing con tained therein."—The Court then:adjourned. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF PEEItS: • ' THURSDAY, JUNE 12. About four o'clock their Lordships returned from the Han to their own House; and shortly after the Lotto Can set L. Lo it rose and apprized their Lordships of what passed in the High Court, viz. that Lord Viscount Melville was acquitted of all the Charges of High Crimes and Misdemeanours pre. ferred against him by the Commons, and of every thing con. timed therein ; and that by conference the Impeachment was now dismi ssed. HOUSE OF COMMONS. • s TILLTRSDAJC, JUNE 12- Alderman Comas brought up a Bill for amending the Lon don Dock Act. Read a first, and ordered 'to be read a second time. Mr. VANSITTART brought up the Bill for exempting for children from the Assessed Taxes; which was read a first, and ordered to be read A second'time tomorrow. Mr. Ross moved for several Public Accounts, as did also Lord H. PETTY. SLAVE TRADE. Mr. Fox, pursuant to his notice, made a Motion for leave to bring in a Bill to prevent any Ship from clearing out of any I'ort of .;reat Britain for the Coast of Africa, for the purpose of taking Slaves on board, unless such as have previously been engaged in the trade, or already contraaed for. The Right Hon. Secretary then moved, That the Motion be related to a Committee of the whole House.—Ordered. The House went immediately into the Committee, Mr. WILB6RFoxes in the, Chair, and resolved that the Chair man do move for leave to bring in the Bill;'abd on the House being resumed, Mr. WI aza FOrte - s. Moved for, and obtained leave to bring in the Bill. LORD MELVILLE'S IMPEACHMENT. . Mr. WHITBREAD gave 'notice, that on . Monday next he should move that a Committee be appointed to hoped. the Lords' journals, respeciing.their Lordst,ips' Proceedings rela tive to the Impeachment of Lord Viscount GENERAL TRAI.NI.NG-.ACT, Mr, WINDHAM obtained leve to . bring in a - Mil to enable His Majesty to direct the Training of a'• ertainnumber of Pei-, sons every year to the use of arms. The Bill .was then brought u-p by the Right Hon. 'Secretary, read a first tinie, and ordered to be printed, .and read a second tiine on Thuri day next. CHELSEA HOSPITAL. • • - Mr. Secretary W 'pion Ast moved the third reading of the Chelsea Allowance bill ; a long discussion 'ensued, in which Lord CASTI.titEAGH, Mr. WIN6HAM; Mr. PERCEVAL, Mr. Fox, Mr. CANNING, the ATIPIINEY GENERAL, Mr. Rose, Lord TtmeLE, Sir lArles.P•o6r,LivEy,and Dr. [kw eNce, participated, and which chiefly turned upon the claim that the present Administration possessed to the confi dence of the Country. On a division, there Ippeared,- For the third reading 65—Against it so —Majority :A. The Bill was then read a third time mad passed, and at One o'Clock the House adjourned. THE SUN. • •OLSM QUIS DICERS TALSUM LONDON; FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 1806. We are prevented by want of room from laying before ou r Readers in detail the contents of the Hamburgh Mail which arrived yesterday evening,. They are, however, very imPortant. I t seems now to be ascertained beyond a doubt, that the. Em 'pnor orßuspia has conserited to evacuateCataro.iilconseTle ct of which orders have been sent from V ienna toTrieste termand the intended shutting 'of- the Austrian Ports British and Russian' Ships. The EMPE 12,31 t of Aussl-A :3 exerting his influence to reconcile the ditkrenees bet went.' Prussia and Sweden, and frOm the marked reluaance which. his Prussian Majesty has manifested to enter into hostilities. there is reason to belie4e that lie will succeed. A. very general opinion prevails on the Continent that a• most important change is about to take place in the Germanic Constitution ,it is indeed asseited, in a Letter from Ham burgh, dated the 6th instant, " Ti:at a Convention,has bees aCtually signed at Paris, by which the Constitution of the Gennanic Body is totally changed, at the expellee of the for influence, of the House of Austria over the Empire, which is transferred to Bori.te a - r and his Allies." It is also said that PrUssia, Bavaria, and Baden, have consented to the new system. The following Letter. from Amsterdam confirms, the ac.. count we published'some time'ago respeaing the New Cuts. stitution which is to be imposed upon Holland. AMSTERDAM, !UNA 3.—lt is' understood that their High; Mightinesses and his Majesty the Emperor of the French and King of Italy have concluded a Convention, by which it is stipulated that our Republic shall in future bear the title of 41 t h e Ki ng d om of Holland," and that his Imperial Highness Prince Loots of France shall be hereditary Constitutional King oe the same. Of the .annual Civil List of the King, amounting to two millions, a fourth part ‘vill be taken from the incomes of the domains of the House of Orange. To the Legislative Body, which will bear the title of " 'their High IVlightinesses," the Province of Holland will send t 7, or,. according to others. IS Members; Cuelderland, Brabant, and Friesland, each 4; and each of the other Departments By one one of the Articles of the new Constitution, the Military Conscriptions will be introduced into this Country. Last. ly, we are assured that our territory will receive an enlarge. merit. The great length to which the proceedings on the Trial or, Lord MELVILLE extend in our Paper of this day, prevents us from entering into any observations on the subject.—This result of the Trial; however, we doubt hot will be highly acceptable to every liberal mind, which must rejoice that,• after the most solemn investigation, before the highest Tri.: bunal an the. Country, and which we may justly chi66lmi= as the first in the world, an old Servant of the Public, of dis. tinguished abilities, and who has upon many important oc. casions exerted those-abilities for the advantage of the State, is restored to his proper rank in society.—The right of such in.. , quirics we never presumed to question, nor did we in the ptesent instance. We only' resolutely objected , to that spirit of party and persecution, by the public press, which treated the Noble Lard as guilty before he had been put upon his trial. We congratulate the. Country on the progress, as well as the issue 'of the' trial, ;as it , shews that whatever may be the condition of other States, the course of justice pro. ceeds with Out impediment among us ; that the highest chat-. raaers are exposed to judicial inquiry if their condua pears to have bees injurious to the Public, but that in she end Innocence is sure of prote6tion. Yesterday a Court of Diretlors was held at the East India House for the - purpose of reading the Advices received by the Fleet lately arrived. The Court adjourned at five o'clock tilt Tuesday next. • The overland Packet received yesterday at the East India House brings nothing of importance. The Castle Eden, and General Stuart, sailed from Ben. coolen the 7th February last, and lett there the Ship Cal.. cutta, Capt. Repots. • The Euphrates, H a sear, and the Northumberland, rt n t :4 coot ' outward-bound, were to sail from the Cape the ss th March. The Cyrus and Charlton, Whalers, arrived off Plymouth the gth instant, with the India Fleet. The Walsingham Packet arrived on Wednesday at Fal• mouth from Lisbon: she does not bring any intelligence of importance. - - - The West India Fleet sailed under the Convoy of the Alexandria Frigate, yesterday, limn Portsmouth. We have receives{ Jamaica Papers to the 3oth April ; but they do not bring any ►ntelligence of importance. A report was circulated yesterday in the city, by a Gentle. man who is said to have just arrived front New-Ydrk, that the expectation of a War wit,h this Country MS so strong, and so generally entertained, that the -Merchants were ac tually fitting out Privateers to criaize against the British Commerce in that quarter. We learn by letters from the Cape of Good Hope, that the Officers who were wounded, and who behaved so gallantly at the taking of the Settlement, were all doing duty when the Fleet sailed. Lieut.-Colonel HONLYIN AN, who distinguish ed himsellas Major of the93d Regiment, had had a long cqn ftneinent but was then perieetly recovered; the wound this Officer received was from a cannon shot, and its bad effeets had been increased by the fatigue he underwent during the remainder of the adlion. CORN-EXCHANGE, TUNS 13..... There are to.day some fresh arrivals of Wheat, and middling supplies at hand; the trade is heavy in sale, prime samples are cheaper, and infe rior continue almost unsaleable ; good Barley keeps its price, and Malt has few buyers ; Tick Beans are rather dearer; Oats are in tolerable quantities, and this article does not support last prices ; .there is much Flour of second quality at hand, but the general price of this and other articles are at little variation. Aftittvin—t 1-lamburgh, 3 Waterford, r Lisbon. Duz---2 Gottenburgh, t Dublin, z Waterford. PRICE W. STOCKS DAY ,'AT TWILVT O'CLOCK. Consols - , -61 i l Red. Ann 601/ Omnium - z 3 OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, June 6, 1836. THE PRINCIPAL OFFICERS of HIS MA IESTY's ORDNANCE do hereby give Notice, That Proposals will be received at their Office, in St. Maygaret.strett, Westminster, on or before Monday, the 23d instant, from sod; Persons as may be willing to undertake the Supply of stab Quan tities of FOREIGN TI MBE R and DEALS as may be required for Service , 2 ftbis Department, at the following Stations, viz. C hatham, Sheernesss, The Tower, Woolwich, P urfleet, Gravesend, Tilbury Fort, Further particulars, together 'with the Terms and Condition , of the Contrail, may be known upon application at the S'ecrehvy'r Office, in St. Margaret-sheet, any day between the hours of Tp! and Four o'clock, where ,be Proposals eve to be delivered sealed up; and marked on the outride; " Proposals for the Supply of Timber and Deals for Service of the Ordnance Department ;" but no Proposal can be admitted after the said 2.3 d day of 'tune. Faversham, acid Waltham Abbey. By Order of Oa Board, 'R. H. CREW; Seattary.