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Conduct of the Minfry and Opposition with
regard to the Firfl Lord of the Admiralty, .
jwitb the particular Charges against bis
Lordfoip.
To the virtuous Lovers of their Country in both houses
— of Parliament,
My Lords and Sirs, -•- , ,
Allow a man, who dares to assume to himfelr the cha-:
-rafter he has bestowed on you, to address you on the pre
fenf critical occasion. Our common 'country, by a continued
series of blunders, and a misapplication of the national Itrength
is verging fait to ruin.. This situation has beep decelerated by
the corrupt indolence of men in office, and the f&ftleflnels ofa
faction inveterate against the honour and iutereft rs their
country. A
Our preservation depends wholly on your taking an active,
decided part againff the ruinous meafurcs Of @1) sides,, The
criminality of Administration consists in permitting, after ,
decisive conviction of his incapacity, a.landr&n to continue
to conduct a general naval war, which fi as gritty icl'e^fimas
it would be togive the direction of a band gt?^^, '° ' l °^'
norant cobler. In the Houle of Commons tn&erirc, two Mwi
fters, who are equally with him members brttiec^inet. Let
it be put to their honour to declare, if they think, tig he,has
inade a proper use of our naval strength, or ever acquiesced fa
any vigorous exertion that they have suggested, and if thtir
anfiver be, as it must be, unfavourable to his reputation; Jhe
conclusion to be drawn is, that they have a^d a treachery
part by their country, in continuing ^co-operate with a man,
whose mismanagement is hastening on the publick rum....
This curie of his country, it is true, has been, and isnow
opposed with much seeming virulence>by a factious party among I
you. But from the ' manner in which., they "have hitherto con-<
dueled their opposition, I am warranted in concluding their
real intention to.be, to fix him more firmly in his feat, that,lk'
may have time and newer to accomplish that diabolical pur
pose of their hearts, the disgraceful deftruftioq of Biitain. How
tliey came to be possessed of such an unnatural attribute, Ties
not with me to determine. It is Efficient for me, that their
whole practice proves its exigence. A madness pervaded every
corner of the British empire, whose object is the ruin of the
faireft fabrick that ever commerce and liberty conspired toge-•
ther to raise.
Is there a man absurd enough to believe, that that wellmform
ed, active, penetrating nobleman, who conduced the enquiry
concerning Greenwich Hospital, couldj>dffibly have been ig
norant of the noble Lord's merit reflecting that char/y; or it
he had been furious in investigating the truth, that he would
not have acknowledged ,Iris mistake, when cfrcnmftances turned
out so favourable for hrs antagonist.. His apparent fallen be
haviour on the winding up of that affair can only he accounted
for from his hostile designs against the welfare of his country,
while affecting a patriotick concern for her glory.
Again, when last feffibn, an inquiry was made into the im
press service, an inquiry' conduced by the most popular orz
'tors, affixed By . once Fearer fea-efficerf" why did they flop
short of the very circumstance that woiihl haveihewn the
whole to be a job of venality and corruption. In par^ctilkr,
why did they not call for the hospital books to fee bow many
hundreds were difeharged nbferviceabTe within fix months of
their having received the King's bounty; why did they not
demands lifts of every different rendezvous ? Why not enquire
fotothe family connexions of the officers there Rationed, and
the uses to which their gangs were put ? The reason is plain,
it would have brought to light such scenes of inquiry, &h a
waste of ptiblick money, as would have precipitated the noble
culprit from the reins. This was not their intention.. By part
ing theenquiry, they had answered their parpofc of holding
cuta tub to the people : by rendering it ineffectual, they con
firmed thepoWer, that they had affe&e<fto Ihakc.
The mode in which the prefect enquiry is instituted, is
plainly meant to five him from, not bring him to justice. It
is to dired the publick clamour from the mifitpplicaffon of the
riavy to the equipment of ships ;—things entirely different and
independent of each other. His Lordship, as a landsman, is
able, and did he not make every publick service subservient to
parliamentary influence, is equal to any department of the
Rate, except that of a naval board. He has nreriffor breaking
the combination of the timber merchants ~and thy Weffmin
fler demagogue's honourable naval relation will readily acknow
ledge, that there never was such plenty of dores, such method
and expedition in our dock-yards, as under his direction. This
is therefore to be the objeX of the present enquiry; and doubt
less it 'will turn out to his credit and eftablhhment in power.
Yet here the magnitude of his crime appears; With such a
navy every service is starved, every obje& of offence or defence
isnegle&ed. Thus do Administration and Opposition combine
to fix in his feat the only man who by a fatal concurrence; of
circumstances is possessed of the power of precipitating his
country into rum. And they who shall attempt to save it from
his mismanagement must encounter the clamour of both par
ties. But fbalf not something be risked for the general fafety ?
Is there not vigour and exertion among you to oppoie this
combination against your country ?
I charge this noble Lord's ignorance and incapacity with the
threatened ruin of our country ; 1 charge the irresolution of
Ministers, and the treachery of opposition, for conspiring to
confirm his baneful influence and ruinous power: and when
you have before yot instances of mifcondu&, that he can nei
ther parry nor answer, I trust, you will have a foundation for
forming an accusation against him. I pretend not to dive into
the secrets of the cabinet ; I have no access there. I shall give
such instances as a sincere observant lover of his county, ac
quainted with our principal ports, and having a refpedabfe
correspondence, could not be ignorant of. Audi refer for my
Vouchers to theminutes of the several boards and offices, con
reded with his Lordihips department; to his correfpohdence
with the several offices (particularly that ofthe secretary for the
colonies) to the hospital books, to his orders tri the officers
commanding at the several ports, to his owrt reports of the
disposition of the navy. I speak of him rather than of the
Board; because it is well known, that the other members are
cyphers, nevet consulted on publick, bufinefs,^ which is trarit
afted between him and a secretary, of as little prdfeffional
Knowledge as himfelf. And can a nation prosper, whose wel
fare depends on the due execution of an intricate profeffion,
that is only to be acquired by long practice, when two men of
acommoa rate of parts; totally ignorant of every principle of
this profeffion, dare to'dired every operation in it? Or, indeed
can a cabinet direct a naval war, that never confnits a naval
officer on the fubjed? But I hasten to particular charges'.
Uiftilfulnefo in the difa/ititoh of Cruizers Jbezun.
In the total negied of the Carolina ftatiou, from June 1776,
bo January 1778, which enabled the rebels to convert all the
rice and indigo of that province into warlike stores. In the
Unchecked havock made in the Irish and Scotch trade. In the
rant of channel cruizters; In allowing the officer command-
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ing at Jamaica, to employ all b's cruiz&rsin searching for prizes
about Cura£oa and Hilpaniola, instead of disposing them to
protest the trade of that illand. In allowing every favourite
Captain of a frigate to, run down,, arid continue there, to the
Parting of every other flation: irikeeping a large squadron of .
line 'of battle ships totally unemployed there, when wanted
on other ferviecs. Tn this laR I particularly refer to October
1706 ,wired, by account there were fifteen fail of two decked :
Ihips,, 'and an extravagant number of frigates.
.yaftilfalne/s in the choice of Officers Jbeivn.
In contriving to fupercede Barrington by a man tota'ly im-'
'acquainted with the Ration, which he was to protest. In giv
ing the command of a plundering expedition to Walfingham
with several (hips of the line, at a time when we were'every
where inferior to the enemy. In the general want of exertion
■ of a l most every officer employed. In keepnifan officer at Ja
maica, that fees the tea hardly once in fix months, in th'c ho
advantage that has been madeof that great improvement, that
would otherwise have done him so much credit, the'eoppering
'of flrips., ..
Unftilffincfs in the a bangementof Cori fc s, foefan,
Tn the general late failing of the outwardbound We.o.lndia
convoys; contriving tnat they shall arrive in July, as if to be
delivered over to th^ fury of the turicancs, by wliich means -
fliips are either wrecked, or, at best, i& the following year's
voyage. lb,vrithbUing 'a convoy from the Quebec fame drips .
bnd trade, which hrs obliged the m-to pass this winter in Cork
harbour. In having.no cruisers out in September 178^, th
;watch the combined fleets, with coirthtional orders, as soon
as they saw them into port, , toga off Cape Clear in Ireland, to
fondud the WeR-IndfciJT&lts tip the Channel: lit fending no
orders to meet these fleets at Cork, by which five weeks wei^
jofte 'he trade wa^endkn^rM py thcapproaCh'of v'iiit&ftil'd
the flops could net be fyot read, in'tinte for their voyage.
' ~• # ^ ^ Mamafliftiow^ybiam..\
.In never enquiring how D'ERaign, .in 1779, was permitted
by a fanadron of upwards o'twehtyihips of the line, to accu
mulate his from twelve to twenty fi*. In all our mhtobagtd
sea mßionStnever enquiring where the fault lay. In enfor
cing neither obedience in the men, I,or good treatment in the
'oflfcers: the firft' exemplified in the "mutiny on board the
Duke, the fecund on board rhe St. Ammonica, In allowing
Jhe comn+anders on foreign Rations, to buy into the feffhte,"
at mod extravagant prices, every old rotfcfEitf tried Ttiip "taken ,
by their cruized, to the mifypheatibu of phbliek money/of
the (lores allotted ' for th^ use of oftheir fyuadrons, and of the „
'men that fhouTd man them; rind to the fthdaToris iucreamig
of the navy lifts with boy and,children officers wiri'e expeif-"
enced men are fctafulG or riegk&ed. In-permitt : ng Admirals
land officers, whose Jquadrqn^an,d fifos.are fitting out .fix
;Jfervice,' to be abfenfcon leave, to thegrea, bindrrnce of publick
business, as in -he late case with Kempcmftlt, and in the case
of a 64 guirfnip kft in Plymouth found,„m Deccn^er 1731,
under the command of an.a&fog Lieut rant.
, .Jftrnl of Intrfigence foc.wn.,
In almost everv ope; ation of the prefect,war, particularly the
expedition of De Graffe in March 1781; the manoeuvres ofthe
'cc*hbinext fleets, August i,&x; the Dutch fleet that engaged
Parker, Suffrein, &c. &c.
Corruption ffe^n.
tn perverting the ditpofal of r^nk, and places in the gift es
the board, to the pnrppfe of parriamentary influence, instead of
encouraging merit, and rewarding service. In the notminal in
create of the navy, by buying irp every melefs, ill conftru&d
vessel that is offered by corporation mongers, or that can give
fuch'rank.
An inattention to ffflW bufnefcJhum. ,
In the want of every plan for Ratidring ships, providing agatoft
events, or eoixln&jng the hariil fervid ; m being conflantly
guided bycontingeucy, and, after a misfortune has happened,
providing in vain double ®f that wVeh might have prevented
'it. In keeping the commanders on the Barbadoes, Jamaica,
and Ahacricaii ft,.ffon,independent on each other, whereby each'
is induced to ftarfe the service committed to the others, that
he may have mere officers to make, and prize-money to receive.
In paying no attention to the keeping up of the stores and pro
visions of rhe fleet, by which" Months are uselessly fpeut in poit.
1 his is particularly exempliked in the case of Darby's fleet
sent out to watch Guichen returning from the Weft-Indies,
November E7BO, which in five weeks was obliged to hurry
into port, to avoid halving' at sea, and which again took near
four months, to vi£tual;and store, before it could fail to the re
lief of Gibraltar. Tbe .confeguence of all this was, that the
relief of that gawifow cost the grand fleet of Britain full seven
.months employment
s forofan:?Jbe^n.
In always tripling,our fquadrens on service by the want of
a proper number, of attending.frites, ^ was the case of By
ron, .Inly 1779, ami Ktiw[>cnfelt, # December 1781. .4 or
dering the outward bound African ^nd Wtft-Ipdiauconvoys.
then at Corke, Augult X7Bl, when alarmed about the eoinbined
; fleets, though it would Appear he knew nothing, certain of
thcm r to go north about Ireland" ,instead of ordering them to
eeaff along re leaguesoff the south weft quarter of Ireland, with
good ports under their lee every second or third league, keeping
frigates a-hehd to look out. A piece of fitch gross ignorance,
that not one of the merchants fhfos would obey the Commo
dore's signal. In the incapacity of dißinguifhing between tri
lling and effentjal defers , of Jhips, too often confounded by
officers who with to have a.run-afhore, or tp refit at particu
lar ports. In not knowing what particular flrips are adapted
for paHfcrlar services. In not contriving to lupply the several
Rations with officers acquainted with them.
Negfeafa=n.
In the scandalous inattention to the impress service, making
every rendezvous aJi.riec.ure for some officer conne&ed with the
corporation, allowing improper objects to pass muster, that
must De immediately 'difeharged unferviceabic; permitting offi
cers to fix themftlves arid fanrilies, and employ their boats and
gangs on filly amu'femenfs and private business. For the dis
charge of unferviceable men, I particularly appeal to the Ply
"m&uffihPipital books, during the years 177.6, 1777, 1778. In
not having ah officer-df rank and character to go about, and
infpe& the conduct of the officers on the impress fei vice.
To -— —
My Lord,'",
YOUR own conrcioufnefs will tell you the justice of the
foregoing charge, and that it is not made for the purposes of a
fadion, but for the benefit of our common country. Such is
my abhorrence of the fa&ious motives for prosecuting the en
quiry concerning you, that I cannot with them fuccels. Yet
I am fully persuaded, that nothing can~ save our count ry but
your redgnation. You pretend to no.principle ; but had you
the Left principles, your being a landsman would, with me,
be an ir/foperable objection to your holding your present office.
I profefe myfelf a seaman, and to have studied the service, and
to have been a nice observer of your condud. And I know,
that every, hour, things must be fabmitted to your decision,
that a seaman only is capable cf determining on. The best
service you can do your King and Country, is to recommend
some able sea officer, pntin&ired with faction, to fill your
prefect Ration, arid in all sea affairs take the lead in the Cabi
net. Forwhat absurdity is it for a set of Ignorant landlmen
to direct the operations of an intricate profeffion, that can
only be 'mattered by experience and p.aßice.
Portfreutt, Jan. 178%. CATO CENSOR.
I^TSH Liners
()fn<burgs
Russia Sheeting
Nankeens
Corduroys
Long I.awns
'Slrallo'ons
Callimancoes
Itmuaies
Dutch Cord
Cottonl
Thread and, Hose
Worked )
Broad Cloths fuperfine
Yorkfliire Cloths
Printed ^imittics
Ververe'ti
Threads
Stripes
Umbrellas ,
PUBLICK AUGTIONQ
On WEDNESDAY the 3d day of July next,.
WILL BR^OL D,
At No. 74, in Broad-Street,
B, GOOXE&'WEB B,
All the EFFECTS ofThm^ Pbefeoe, Esq;
(Who intends leaning the Province)
consisting or
Mahogany Chairs, Tables, Bediteads, Looking GlaOhs,. Carpets
China, Glass Ware, &c. &c.
ALS O,
A large QU ANTIT Yof
Elegant and ufeful PLAT E,
Some PLATED WARE, a GOLD REPEATING WATCH,
A large and roomy POST CHAISE,
A CHAISE, and a. WINDSOR CHAIR,
TWO good HORSES,
A PEW in St. Michael's Church, No. 40, in the South Aile%
All his LIBRARY of BOOKS,
A N D,
Several valuable NEGROE S.
AT THE SAME TIME,
A LEASE for 2^ Years of the HOUSE No. 74, to com
nieirce from the 26th of June.
The Sale nvill begin at NINE o' Clock in the Morning, an^
the Conditions noill be made known at that Time.
ON Monday next, the ^ of July, at one o'clock, will be
paid, to the officers and seamen of his Mafefty's ship
Narriffiis, Capt. Edwards, and Vulture ffoop of war, Capt.
Lehorne, their refpefoe shares of prizeAr.oney arising from
the sale of the privateer brigantine Grand-Turk.
R. M'CULLOCH, 7 Agents for
JAMES FRASER, ) the Captors.
-Fir lTguTn fr "S R EWARD.'
WHEREAS, in the night between the 26th and 27 inftane,
the Cellar under the House, at present occupied by
Mr 9 ,. Dawson in Meeting-street,, was broke into, and a Quan
tity of Hams, rtfred Sugar, and Madeira Wine stole from thence ^
This is to request of any Person, to whom any of the Said Ar
ticles may be in a clandestine Manner offered for fide, to take
the necessary Steps towards a Discovery ofthe Perpetrators of
this daring Robbery; by which Means they will be entitled to
the above Reward : And the Subferiber engages to pay a fur-,
ther 'Reward of FIVE GUINEAS to any Person who will pro
cure fufficient Evidence for the Conviction of all, or any ofthe
Offenders, so as to bring him or them to condign Punishments
ALEXANDER DRYSDALE,
No. or, Meeting-Street.
Shopped from a Negro,
Supfeofed to be folen,
A large HAM and a CHEES E.
The owner may have them again, by paying for this adver
tisement, and applying at No. 55, Queen-street.
TUB filbferiber -hereby warns any person whatever from'
I receiving in.payment his note of hand, dated in June 1780, to
Benjamin Cohen, for feventy-five pounds currency, or thereabouts, as
he is determined not to pay it^ the fame being fraudulently obtained.
NATHANIEL MORGAN.
WadmAinv-Ifland, June lsth, 17^2. *f.
TAKEN or stolen in Charleftown, from the fubferiber,
I about ten days ago, a CYPRESS CANOE, 24 feet long and
3 feet 8 or 10 inches wide, with black fries and awning Naples. —
The fubferiber has empowered Mr. Thomas Simmons to step and
take pofl'effion of her wherever the may be found, as being mv pro
perty. NATHANIEL MORGAN.
Wadmelcriv, June igtb, iffc. *f.
Some Wearing Apparel., Shirty, an elegant Afforsmeot of Jewel
fery, a Watch, some Books, and sundry other Articles, by
ROBERT NORRIS,
Who has a (Quantity of Steci and Bar Iron, Beef, Forty
Flour, . Butter and. Cheele to dispose of; also, a few Pipes and Haig.
Pipes. Madeira Wine, upon moderate Terms.
SJLE of the EFFECT'S
Of a Person deceased, and a Gentleman declining Business,
By PUBLICK AUCTIO'N,
On MONDAY theist of July next,
In the Subferiber's Store, No. 1, near the Exchange,
At T'E N c'CloA in the Morning, and to be continued daily till, tie
icbole n diftfed off; - .
CONSISTING OF
LATELrPUBLISHED,
And to BE SOLD,
By ROBERT WELLS & SON,
In one Volume Quarto, price Two Guineas,
POLITICAL ANNALS of the present United Colonra
from their settlement to the peace of 1763, compiled chiefly
from records, and authorifed often by the insertion of ftatc
papers.
ilfeut eclairer l' biftoire far les Pis, et les Pis par Ehifloire.
Montesquieu."
By GEORGE CHALMER S, Esq.
-EirilTrE T H H AITVEV
Begs leave to acquaint her Friends and Cuflomers,
n^HAT die carries on the STAY-MAKING and MA NTUA
I MAKING BUSINESSES, in the neatest manner, at
No. 36, Broad-street ; where foe will be obliged to such persons
as will favour her with their commands. ||
Charter Parties, Securities, Petitions,
Memorials, &c. &c.
Done at Campbell' ^Noiar,-Publick Ofce, &o-jfo Bay. |
A few Sets elegant Damaft: Ta
blecloths and Napkins
Canvas Frocks and Duck Breeches
by the Package or Dozen
' Mens fine black and White Hats'
Sailors bound and Boys Hats
• Check Shirts
Several Sets elegant Table Knives
1 and Forks
Mens fine Shoes
Military ditto
Womens Slippers
Callimanco Shoes
Sifc ditto
Childrens Morocco ditto
Pewter Bafons
Back Pepper
Raisins
Backgammon Tables
Plated Buckles