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respeaftil tei-ly on that conficknec,
than on these arvenients of my own, which, unless
Abe Hemse had teen possession of the minutes Of
the evidence, .it could ect puteibly have under-
Mr. FOX. " I do not trieut,to afttse my confi-
dence :o this Committee, but •Iletsli.to knwei some-
thing of the'*thjiad before I implicitly give it. I
catinet consent to stsCh a •Nfotion-oit bately-hearing
the soilbjesct stated,..without having time e, enquire
.introit. Surety.no.maawiil wain tain i..that one or
. two particular acmes in violation of the freedom
.eleZtiun, can 4.mount. to ..a justification for net
.moving for a new..wi it ? hi cases of bribery,, the.
(plosion is ea a different footing.; for, by the acts of, .
briber.,:the tights of the ,electors duelsselees ere'
empendvd, .4n! therefurait isethatit has been uni-!
fora.) tlie..opioion of the House,: that no new. writ
sliould• be moved- for aiatil Parliament had . deter-
. zoned who (eight to be.the electors. This being a
'sew .case. I think the House ought to take a few
days, to consider, not what credit is due to the Com-
mittee, but riliceher it is expedient to adopt a prin.
eiple way be Illoyt clasigeruus and ialcuuve-
nient in its applic.ation."
I)I.INITAS-e" It may be anew
. ease, but I submit to the House, bow tar they can
refuse to .give credit •to its Committee, who have
told us, if the, issue of a new writ is not suspended
till after the subjeCt has been, considered by the
House, a free elation for the town of Nottingham,
is an event which muse be despaired of. Surely no
Gentleman in this House, need take a few days to
enquire .whether it is desirable for the interests of
• the country at large, that an eleCtion should be free
and peaceable ; if the :Committee, which has sat
and patiently investigated tie.! subJeCt fur a period
of three weeks, haw. not foreied an accurate judg.
ment, : what chance there,•that any Gentleman
in this House will, in the course of a few days, he
able to ciu so All the Honourable Gentleman de-
sires is, two or three slays time to consider of the
Report, and he wii.hes not to be precluded from
rnoyieg fora new writ, if he 5h.v.114.1 think proper.
New in answer to tins, I rely on my: first proposi-
tion, that iinnlicit credit is due Iron. th.e House to
those Gentlerr.en, who oa their oaths hay,: told us,
lire it is necessary for the eis of justice a new
elettion for I%:tittirglesin ought not•to take place till
after the circur.istance Gr the late tines bane been
eliquired into. Fur my part, I am persuaded the
Committee have .recommeraled theoilig but what
the House ought to adopt."

ll"be CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER—
"'I am led to concur in the proposition of my
lion..l.riend, and very moth on the same princi-
ple of reasoning, Our Committee have declared,
that,legittitive provisions are indispensably neces.
Farr to make a free oleftion'for the town of Not-
tingham. It Is not proper then, dfter an enquiry
bas taken .plate by a Committee of Gentlemen,
sworn to do their duty, and after that Committee
has told us, that the freedom of eledlon in Not..
tingham cannot be preserved without legislative
lazerference, that we should interpose and refuse to
xive them credit for the runtives which urged
them to make the Report. Before we have had an
upportipnity of considering the evidence on which
that Report was founded, I do not consider myself
as pledged to the approval of the,recommendation
PI the Committee, but I feel itincumbent on me to
pay that deference to their opinion, to suspend any
judgment. until I have had as opportunity of coml.
dering the.grouads of the Repore."
The question that the issue- of a new writ for a
burgess to serve in Parliarnentfor the Town of Not-
.llngintm should be suspended, till after the Report
.of the Committee had been taken into cm/shit:talon,
was put, and carried Kale affirmative.
Mr. I. H. BeowNL.presented aiktition from Mr.
Frederic Shuttleworth, who had been committed by
the Nottingham Election Committee for prevarica-
tion, stating, bow extremely sorry he was at having
incurred the displeasure of the Committee, and
praying to be liberated —Ordered that he be
brought to the kir of the House to-morrow, in or-
der to be discharged.
Mr. POWELL in consequence df a 'Report
from the Chippeuham Medico Committee' moved
that Mr. I). GeosvANost, a ?Clamber, to ordered to
attend ia his place to-morrow ; which tae agreed
to.
[lf weunderstord the lion. Member right, this
Motion was trade in consequence of the nen-atten-
elAnce of the former Gentleman upon the said Com-
mittee.)

. NON4I.ESIT;EN".F. OF CLERGY.
Mr. DICKINSON. moved, That the An of List
Res,ion for suspending prosecutions against Clergy.
alma for non-residence, be read; which tieing corn-
.plied with, he said, that though a snore general mea-
sure for fina!:y regulating mattes of this kind was,
the unikerswod, shortly to Le submitted to Parlia-
znrin, yet as the pr.e4eit Aft -would aburtly, expire,
• he moved fur leave to bring.in a kill to continue the
said Aft time ;o be limited.
Sir it. BUXTON, and Mr. 1. 4. BROWN*:,
expressed thei; desire of, seeing tbr ,general measure
brought forward.
The .CHA,NCF.I,LOR of the EXCHEQUER
taaid, .he was aware of the urgent necessity of em-
ploying scene correttive against the abuses of late so
much complained of. lie understood, and indeed
knew, fr..:t.a Right Hon. and Learned Yriend of
his (Sir W4ll. S,:ott, we believe) bad I.een fist some
Ptinie digesting I general measure to tipit effed,
• which w.e, row in a considerolde degree of.forward-
nes% Ishail-.l)cen his intention, if the circunistauces
had preeented its iaaroda.ainn !nth, rto, but 13: made
uu doubt that it fv.itild speediiyhe submitted toile
Asiaasideration a Vaslialnent,
Leave was then given to bring,in the Bill.
c.PtITAiN M C TnONIAs TROWRRIDGF.
Cppt. KHAM (of the Adniiralty) then
4d4ressed the liptise, •observiryg, that he felt the
'necessity of drawing the attention of the House to a
..objec} of a delicate but interesting nisturr.
Jfe obsesyed,•thaeyrhen the eharit4er of indivi-
sdual bvlongiy to that Mow 'was ;publicly.r at.
tacked, a curtain degree of rdshiss-was dlie.to him ;
and the absence of an Hosx. Member, under sech
kunl.stances, ;no4t necessarily throw the cli.‘aereea.
ofsicc of vindicating him on his fr:endi. g was.
at .011vtexts, iaidisoetsibly tisquici•e, tbat some as.
planation take pl:tce. An non. Member(
bit. Per.t) 11.1,14 tared in theliowe, that crnne ire.
proper t;sayaitinns had taken place in Stork
e..ieb4cge, rn which sore of.cial :pet:colic had Lbs.
closed, the tetrerg of ttictlovisrrntent. He did not
prutcal to vane the • Hon. Member's words

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,oretirmidy ;:but he bogeyed that somethiog `t9
ilia% Pow '..stated went •abrocid, . and. Jrns, • i
tpre3lllll' . uptin ties ?Waite Miind. . A mit*
reporti tad since been in cirenhtion, in which ,
name and charafter cif Sir T. Trowbridge were
. iurolved,; and A letter from his agent had .ypear-
' ed in the public! papers, IditiVc to the sae iif simile
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money in the funds, tne property of the Hon, Mem-
- he- Minded • in. du some way or other, it eras
necessary to have the whole of that trarturtion ex-
tuned. in dont or .itily lam, Sir Thom* 'Trow-
bridge was desirous of purchasing an estate in Sus-,
sex, or some of 'the adjoining counties. At length•
,i.t.
he fixed upon airestatticalled, as he•was informed,
..Chidliam, in feassex, and gave direliiimerto his agent
So. sell oat a; much money in the fundso within a few
hundreds, as, would be equal .to the• soul required,
The person who lived on and farmed the estote, and.
.airho was said to have made a deal of 'money on it,
resolved to purchase it himself, acid hide a much
larger price than was offered by Sir 'llionois's agent..
The-mcoey thus sold ont heing thus rendered use-
less, Sir Thomas gave direflion to hi: agent to invest
.the money *guilt, which was accbrdinglo done. .11e
at the same time @elect his agent to sell out again,
whenever Ise should have reason to think that the
ftuids were likely to be depressed. The agent, in
• ptirsuaree of the instruftions accordingly, and find-
ing the storks to fall 'on Saturday se'nnight, and to
have experienced a still greater depression on •Mon-
day, sold out the same stock lie had before invested
when the purchase of the estate was no longer in
question. He then read a copy of the affidavit of
the agent, in which he stated that he :Vied in porno.
since of instroftions given him several months pre.
viously to his selling oat the money—that he would
convert it, into cash whenever he *hand the funds
sinkiug, or to hi; apprehension likely to tall. That
Capt. Frowlosidge knew nothing of his having done
Sc', till he himself communicated it to him, and that
he had always power to do the same, and aft in a
similar mariner, at his own discretion, Capt. Matta.
nast then remaiked, that lie was not himself very
conversant w:thtiae buiintsi of the Stock Exchange,
but he could not conceive any other method there was
for stock-holders giving instruetion to their agents.
Were Sir 'l'. Trowbridge disposed to abuse his (uncial
advantages, lie needed not confine himself to the sum
sold out, as Ise had a great deal more money in the
funds, and considerable sums in rolit of his chil-
dren. What was a further proof of the innocence
of his gallant and 1 lonuourable Friend was,
that Mr. Cook, the broker, himself, must naturally
have made the most advantage of any confidential
'communication, and have sold out to a considera-
ble amount ; whereas, the stock he disposed of, on his
own account, did not exceed SOOOI. From the long
and intineite knowledge he had of Sir T. Trow-
bridge's charaslor, he could not sit easy whilst that
excellent and nuritorioos officer lay under any im-
putation. Every one in the country was acquainted
with his merits and services, :ls an useful officer, and
every one who knew him must be convincci of his
honor, his disinterestedness, ancl his purity. He, for
one, was so well satisfied with his Hon. Colleague's
possessing all these qualities, in the highest perl4-
tion, that he was as certain of them as of his then
standing in the 'presence of his Creator. Under„
these impressions, conceiving that the least insinua ,
tion against such a man should have the most tho-
rough investigation, he should conclude, with
moving " that a Conunittee be appointed to enquire
into the Conduit of Capt. Sir Tho. Trowbridge, on
the occasion alluded to, and to report their opinion
thereon to the House." .
No :Ilember rose to second thus Motion.
Mr. DENT hoped, the Hon. Gentleman who
spoke last would do him the justice to acknowledge,'
that he had detlared to him, in a private conversa-.
tion on thii suhjed, that in what fell from him in a
hutidebate,lie had no intention of making the slight-
est alias-len to Sir Thomas Trowbridge_ 'llie state-
ment he Made was obviously of a general nature,
without the least reference to any individual, and no
one had a higher opinion than he himself entertain-
ed of the honour and purity of Sir Thomas Trow-
bridge. He said this with reference to the charac-
ter he always hem d of him, without having the ho-
nour of any personal acquaintance with that Hono
and gallant Gentleman. But the remarks he on a
former night made, were occasioned by his surprise ','
at the conduft of the Ministers, rho after having
gaisted so much credit, and merited applause from
the secrecy and caution observed in communicating .
the signature or the Preliminaries of Peace, had in
thcsc resoefts been so deficient upon the late occa- '
sion, What he nvationed of the secret of his Ma-
jesty's Message having transpired, iv is notorious to
every 1114!) Wila had Any transaftions in the city.:
But in saving what he did, he spoke generally, and,
without any particular' application ; and unques-
ticoahly ;;il. T. Trowbridgtis char:oer stood too.
high to be in any way implicated in any thing he as-
*tiled. The transaqions of the Stock Exchange at
the time he referred to, were certainly suspicious, „
and indicated some previoua intimation from autho-
rity. He was cootikhnit, that every evil- would have
been prevrated, if the Government had suit word
at nine o'clock in the morning that press-warrants ,
were to be issued, instead qt the Late hour which the'
communication was made.
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The CHANCELLOR of the EXCPXQUER •
said, he was perfeely aware of .the irregularity of
trespassing on the time of the Hottse• , when there
was no question before it, but trusted that he shottl4
be excused, frog tho pet-mbar circumstances of the
case. He was read? to enafess that the assertion of
the Hoe. Gentleman, on a former debate, was
,Ine.rt:ly general; tint it was at the same time
riow„ that it famished. ch.: su_hjed of conversation in
every quarter of the town: The imputation agAinst
Sir 'Thomas '1 rowbridge had placed that gallant
man in such a situationof mental agitation
that he was now an of jen of conmosseration to ail
those who had a sensibility to the feelings of wound-
ed hollow. The Agent's tip davit proved to de-
roonstratioN drat Sir Thomas l'uo,vlisidge bad no
coaneaion with his.ogent, .br tho funds, for •many
weeks before the coinnsu Med tion that press-wasrants
were tube 'Ward; and to irapikate act officer of stich
high charter, after a Wit of brilliimt service, pre.:
serving thtorlhnot 'the .roputation unblemished
honour, uairst eached.and unsullied, and istsepisi in-
semis_ wirald he a degree.of ttaalP.•taadbarttgrity •
'which did sot corre.pond with the inaltitss and:
dicrositions of the pe,pie of ;his mangy. It•WaS •
title that. the assertion of tho Non.Centas-wa•-.
.roade genitally, hao of that. be had also to com-
plain.; -and if Gentlemen lad any
&e to. the . House, .they hell. better t spas*
OUt
4! Hon. Geatlem4u #aCcibect "Me a epi•e- of
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