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The Deputy :Warden of the 'Fleet ; Mr. New man, Keeper of NOwgate ; Mr. Kirby, Keeper of Giltspur-street Compter; .and Mr. Teague., Keeper of the Poultry Compter and Ludgate Prison, pre sented Aceotints, of the Number of Debtors confined in those Prisons—which were ordered to lie on the Table. • In an . Appeal from .Scotland, " llenderson v. Ramsay and others," the Solicitor-General was 'heard in behalf athe Appellant; alter which the. further consideratiOn W 35 poStponed,till Monday. ' Th e 20,000;0901. Loan Bill was read a third time and passed, and;a Message ordered to he cent to the House of Commons, to acquaint them therewith. Sir J. T. Duckworth's Annuity Bill, and the Treasurer of the Ordnance's• Regulation Bill, passed through Committees, and were reported. The. Hons.° resolved itself into a Committee on the West India Indemnity Bill. Some verbal Amend- • thentS Werv: Made on the Bill, on the. Motion of Lord AucKffAND ; and, alter a fis- words- 'from Lord SHUYIELI), the House sesumed, and the ,Report was ordered to be received .on Monday. • •. IMPEACiIMENT 0Ff.0.12D MELVILLE.: INlr..Ciles, r and several other Members of 2the House of Commons, brought up a Message, contain=' ino - a List of Witnesses to be produced on the Trial' of Lord Viscount Melville, and requesting that' their Lordships would take measures to summon siich witneSses'to:attend on:the 29th instant, and to bring with thenf'such 'bookS, papers,: and documents, as were marked against their respe6tive names: On the ,Motion of Lord WALSINGHAN, a stge .y/a4;:orgerea to lie sent to. the' House of Com mons, containing a compliance with the above request. Lord \VALSIMGHAM also moved,. . that Mr.. Wyatt should attend the House on Monday, to state what progress had been made in the preparations for - the trial or Lord Viscount Melville, and when the 4ttimr up of the Court was likely to be finished.--Ordercd. It was-likewise_ordered, on the Motion .of Lord WALSINGILIM, that the Lord Chincellor should send. letters to tlio Peers of the Blood Ropl, and the other Lords', inforning them of t4e day fixed for the trial of Lord Vist;Onnt Melville, and requesting their .at tendance,—.Adjourned.till Monday. HOUSE OF, COMMONS. FRIDAY,, APRIL 18. ,Ori the \I —ot.on of Sir J OHN N EWPORT , a. h ew Wilewa3 orde:ved fo r t- the County' of Wichlow, the room or the 4-ight Hon. George POOSOIlby; Who, since liis eliaion, had aecel)te.l orkice of lord. cbadceller Ireland. ' " ' EX PARTt CRIMtNAL.P.ROe,g;T:DILVC;'&' , Sedeagt 114 ST rose, agreeably' to iiotice; to move for leave - tf bring in a hitl for .preventing ail interlocutors or ex, parte, procedings' . Matters, from-being published in the neWspapers.---- • Nonni), he declared, had a greziter diSposaion to support the liberty of they press than he had-none. could more auxionAly. wish that that liberty shoUld be extended to•its utmost limits. NO man, how ever, who was a friendi to the press, .on rational and liberal, principles, but would with to see it. kept within some fair_ and sati4a6torz bounds. It was . well known that not 4 case oceurred in :which the evidence, supposing it to he ei - en "of the Most un-' satisfadory and doubtful nature, did- not find its Way into the Newspapers, thereby prejudging the public mind,. arid there - was. too much reason 'to suppoSe, often even that of the Jury, who, it was to be feared, could not always divest themselveS . of the prejudices they' had imbibed' in corisequenc of those partial statements. The praaice alluded to was .acknowledged by Most_ Of his I Orrthren. at the bar to lie improper and illegal ; and, in evi-, dence 'that it was esteemed to he. such ; two Editors of Papers in the County - of Susseti had lately Ween snbjeaed_to•six months imprisonment forasimilar 'offence. It might 'be' asked, why, in such -circum - stances, bringin oiis Bill? answer was--Hile • cause the law was not: sOfficicntly knoWn. It had been his misfortune to be Counsel in two•cases hi which complaints .of this nature Lad.been made to and felt by hittl. ` The case ofColotiei I)espard„ and the more-remit one of Patch. In both these case s it ‘Nra' stibmitted:to hini, in what way redress eetild be procured' .for the . injury under Which the party was supposed to labour. His ailiiwer was, as it . would unquestionably be in 'any other case i of the, kind-,--It Wts impossible that any redress could bp • procured 'without • inCreash.g. the odium and, suspicion which formerly existed:' against them, The Attorney Gen'eral, as the case nbw stOod,•cenld'' not properly complain, the laW on this point hot being sufficiently - explicit. :Neither he, nor the party likely to heeome the viCtirn of this Suspicion, being - - in a capacity to - complain, the question was, Who' could ? The "learned -Seeleatirs' objeet was, to give a p4palty of WI.. to any person who Would prose cute in such a case; and, as he knew the Public to be so desirous Of hearing statements of this kind, and Proprietor of 'NewspaperS inc-lined to stand at no expence ox trouble •which could gratify he Curiosity, he proposed conferring a power of -punish ing t violation Of the' AEI. by ialpris6pment. Not only were proceedings , hefore - Magisittates, in cases of felony, iMproper SUbjeols , 'prematurely to meet 'the public - eye, but there were'alsO'caSes which oc curred in the Cqurts in. -Westrninster Hall, to which it was his meaning that the - present . Bill should et(. tend, and 'lVhich he - con c eh , ed-jto be eqtvi'y im proper as ex parte staternentS l -,-.4hese were Motions ti): Criminal Informations.' Stich applications pro ceeded 'merely on. Affidavits on one side; and': the facts, as, appearing an the face of . them, very . frequentiy,„ on `steeling. to trials turned *nit Tine otherwise. It was, in such cases, highly improper that the observations of the Judges on those ea; parte and flifaCious statiments should be •read by persons called on, probably afterwards, to decide on the rile.;- rits of the ease,. and who thereby ran every risk of having their sentiments on the snbje&'perverted. His thereThre, went to sebtiall pubh.ining in Newspapers, not only of cases of Felony before Ma-, gistrates, but Of Criminal intbrinatons moved for in Westminster Hall, thereby preventing the statement of the one party from meeting the public eye till the Case should fairly come beforeia Judge and Jury.— He accordingly conchided by moving for leave to bring in a Bill to prevent the publishing in News papurs all ex. parte - and interlocutory Criminal Pro ceedings. This. Motion was seconded by Mr. a ERSPIIE (son of the Lord Chancellor), and leave was given accordingly. ' A Gentiernan from the -,lrish Treasury presented an Account s of the Sums paid from the Civil List, in Ireland, for tile last year, in consequenceof Addresses from the House of Commons.' LORD MELVILLE. Mr. GILES moved that a Message be sent to the 'Lords, with a List of the names of the Witnesses to be adduced for subStantiating tire Charges against Henry Lord Viscount Melville, and requesting 'of the Lords to issue their summons •to such Wit nesses fdr• their attendance on the said Trial, on Tuesday the 2gth inst.—Ordered. A Message was afterwSrds received from the Lords,-' stating that they had received the Mes Sage from the Commons, and had 'ordered the necAsary summonses to.he issued for the attendance of the Witnesses, and also for. bringing with them, and producing the pa pers, hOoks, and accounts set opposite to their' names. • - Sir W. CURTIS presented a Petition from certain Owners of African Traders against the Slave Bill. The Irish Bank Note Bill, and the Three Millions • Exchequer Bills Bill, and the Irish House'Doty. Bill; were read a second tithe, - andcommittedforMond,iy, ' Mr. GOLD6:G gave notice, that be should on Monday move that a Copy of a Letter froin'the Court ofDirectors of the East India Company, Of Sept. 14, 1803; and other, Papers relative to India previous to. Lord Wellesleys, departure for that Country, be added to. those already before the House. . .e-commitment of the Property Tax Bill was discharged, and ordered to stand for 'Wednesday next. The Inspe&or General of Exports and Imports presented an Account of Wine imported lait year ; which was ordered to be printed. On the Motiou of the SECRETARY at WAR, there was ordered to be laid before the House an Account of the Number of Men of Regular Forces,. Militia and Fencibles, enlisted for the Service of Great Britain,' fro - rn the' 29th of September, 1774, to 29th Septecti ber, 1800, ciiifinguishing each year. This he moved for, in order to shew the number of, men which had then enlisted for a limited number of years. He then: brought up the Account, which was ordered to printed. . • On the Motion of Mr. flAwmonst, there was ordered to belaid before the House a Return of the Nu:nber of effective Men in the Service of Great Britain on the Ist ofJanuary, 1803, 4; 5, and fi, and of March, 1800, respettively, distinguishing each COrps, 40 l'ar as the same can be made up. ' .The. Longitude bill and Witneses' Bill were re ported, and ordered to be read a third time ou Mendu, Tlic: l'--e Put y hill I,.vtS coiiimitted, and ordered to I be reported'ou:MundAy. . , -', : • j: - • INDIA. ( .On the ,Motiotl of Mr. PAULL, two several Or- , 1 ders Of ilia - House of the Of 7th March and 17th , -. i ;of March, 1805,- were ',read i the fosrmer, ordering.. the produaion of certain Papers rehitive to Bhurt . t pOre ; and thc latter to : Surat, and the Papers con- - tained in them, were, after some observations from Mr. ADDINGTO.N . ZII)&3/in GRA'tiTYCirdered to be pro= r dUced forthwith. Sir A. \WriList.C - y; Wished that Mr. Paull would - be so ' kindis• 'to explain the nature, of - his Chare ,[ against Lord Wellesley:` ..'- . . . 1 Mr:'.PAUL,L answered, that the Charge he should ron Tuesday submit against him vitas for having abused the Public •Money, and applied the same to his own use and splendour, against an AO of Par- liament. He was proCeeding to quote from a printed ' IReport, a similar case . brought forward by Mr: i Burke, when be was called to order by Lord 1 TEMPLE. . Mr, PA,Urd, then proceeded to make his pro mised Motion for Papers relative td the Rajah of :Furruckabad. , He entered into 'the history of the connexion betwcen that Prince and the East India Company, from the - Treaty concluded between. them in the: year 1799, afterwards guaranteed by that Company, and by which the Rajah agiced to pay a certain part, of his Revenue for the support of the British Troops, till the mis!4ion of Mr. 1-/: whoa that tribute was, without oily just rea son, gz'eatly increased; imd/by si:Wing the diSap .pruhation of the Court of Direaors to that mea sure, argued, tha,t. lie had the testilnony of twenty three' honest rifen, - - whose conduct 'derived 'additi onal' credit from thecirctnstance of its being ex ' pressed - in oppoiition to their own interest, in sup portof the plea Av hich he should ground on tho • Papers_ which ire sto - tild tow call for.. After entering largely into the sqbiPet, and readiug a great many Extraas from the speeches of Mr. Burke and of Francis In support his Motida, conchided. by _moving,' That• tiiere .be befre the 'House a Copy of the Treaty between Asoph Doulah, Nabob of :Furruckabad; .and the East India Com pany, %afterwards 'guaranteed: by Alajesty is • Council. • . LordV4STI,EREAGH would not enter on the merits' of the subject now ; but with regard to the Dispatch for Which he had called; though signed by ' the. Members 'of the Secret Committee, it was, fa6t, and was understood to be, twit of the Board of Controul. The Direaors might orlefa Dispatch' whiCh might; be. approved . of-by - the Secrq Com .mittee; but the Board had the , power' of altering it, and the .Alembprs• •of the -Secret Committee were I obliged ex ojficizi•to . gig - tr-it thus altered. The Coin- missioners,ihen were alone responsible, ath,l .t* prepared to justify them at the proper time. • Mr. PAuth. and Lord GasTLEREAGIIIpIitUaIIy CX* • - H. -.4DDINGTOW thought. that the •Hon. Gentleman • might have made' his .Motion without is entermg- so much thus prematurely upon hit subjet,. especially as he knew that no. objectiOn was, to he made. He at present gaVe no opimou,.but request-, ed that Gentlemen woiild come to the consideratioil Of the question without having their minds biased, by partial Extrads, and 'would decide only after a examination of all zn=t - I)..,ocnineuts, K .L; thought flint some patticu-. tar circumstances might occur which would make it the duty of a great Qfficer, :such as Governor-, • General ef. India, to overstep the bounds, of the. law. In considering this•subjeot Gentlemen, ought to be in possession of ace.nrate information rel.ative to the Countries to which the questioo referred, with all the circumstances connected ith it, • Mr. FRANM .said,, that the particular appeal to him justified km in saying a few words. As to the powers of the Commissioners of Cautroul, and the Court ofDireetors, he had, when the hiil was brougiit into the .House in 1734, by Mr. Dendas, particular-. ly reprobated the absurdity and inconsistency which, even according to the present Staten4nt of the Noble Lord ,(Castlereagh), it clearly invorve4. Be. was not talking of the law as it was now, but only mention ing what opinion he had given when, it 'was a Bill. What did it enact? Why, that the ostensible pow*, should be first in 24 Directors,. next in three persons chosen froM these as a Secret. Committee, but that in fad - it Fiould be in neither. A coniroul might be necessary, and it might pep . haps be proper some times to s.apersede , the orders. the pifeetors ; • outi the absurdity was, that the Secret Committee, atter giving one dispatch' as that which they approved, , might 'afterwards be compelled to sign one oidmetri cally . the reverse, and one which they .abhorred. As. to their protests, these were not known, and their authority was thus given to a measure, of which, - in the most positive manner, they Cisapproved. Hence the 'ruinous situation to which our Id 4 Possession were reduced, and' the degradation of the Court of Dire6tors. New ; as to the appeal `to him, if be wished to be silent he might do as ihe Hon. Geoile- Man did to whom he formerly Sheri dan), that. ig.,• stay, away ,w,itite rt.it,ll.4:d-- he should by present.--[l2he SPEAKER here said, that it was irreguiarto bring charges against a Member who . was absent].—Mr. Francis,' in continuation, observed; that he had only said that the Gentleman . • alluded to stayed .away ; but he believed his opinions remained unaltered, and he would surely come some time to support them. When'the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Paull) consulted him, about this businc,s, he had rather discouraged him- from going on with it. It would do him no good but if he was satisfied with that reward which every honest mind must feel in doing his duty, he would have that and no other. He-would experience desertion—perhaps he could not say desertion, as .he had not been encou raged. Bat he would: not be supported. As to his own Speech, it would not become him to say any thing in praise of it, but the more he thoughton the subject, the mare lie believed what he there stated to be true, and he confessed that it contained charges of a very high nature. His Right Hon. Friend opposite (.7`dr. b'ox) had approved of it, and he indeed had behaved to him in time most Jibe rid manner, It might be asked, N.vliy. he , did not .proceed upon these charges ? that was not his objedt. His design was to have Lord Wellesley recalled, and another system . adopted ; but he at the &rine time thought that' 'there were sufficient grounds of im peaelmaent against that Nobleman. His objea was in some measure answered when L rd Cornwallis was sent to India; and , as to the impeaclAmeut of