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London, England, 1806-06-26 00:00:00

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'Amine& and agreed tn, and the T(pert oiderrsi to
he received to-morrow.
Mr. PAUL said, the Papers on hi. firrt Charge,
rel.frrve to Chide, being now ots the Table, he
ITlnirOd ctiAt the said Charge be printed."
Oc the qtreAion being pit
Si:. A. WELLESLEY ti,iii, thst es the House
had I revieusly agreed out to ptiitt the.Chargt, be-
cause then it was not Titer to be censidered for
smite time to come, and it was now agreed en all
hands, that this Charge could not be decided nth
during the present session, he thought the same
reason held, why it should net be printed now.
Not one of the papers he had moved for in defence
of Marquis Wellesley, was yet on the table. lie
hoped, therefore, the House would not agree to the
motion:
Lord A. HAMILTON 5a..4, the reason why the
House did not agree to printing the Charge, when
it was before moved for, was, that the Charge alone
was on the table, without any papers to support*:
but now the papers were on the tab:o, ael the
greater pail of ti em printed, ht saw no reason why
the Charge should not be printed al-o.
Mr. ROSE said, that, as the Charge could net
be proceeded in during the present Session, lie
thotyht it ought riot to hr printed, as the papers
were metely report, evidence.
Lord DOUGL tS sale, he had heard it re-
peatedly as it rted, a.td he believed it to be true, that
the Noble Margeis wished the fullest investigation
should take place in a cilarge in which the Nellie
Marquis's charade' w... so deeply implic.:ted. The
longer the opportunity given to consider it, there-
fore, the greater chance "ore was of the ..svestiga-
tinn tieing more full ; and he. therefore, thought,
it would be boner to print the Charge now, than to
deter it to a snort time before the subjea came on
for decision.

Mr. Secretary 'WINDHAM said, that son this
suhjeet they ought to look to the general reit:wile.
What was the use of tinting papers at all ? tie
had always ondet,tood it to be tot the intormati.sn
of the Me ?Inert ; if sn, that information would he
vie more e,mplet-, the longer time was granted.
An ohjetinn was made, that the printing tLe papers
was liable to give false irnpres ions; bin he did not
sse there could be much danger. in this case, of
false ..moressiens being ma le, because, wits: was
cadad the CT parte statement, had been some time on
the table, and much of it was printed If he un.l. r-
stood the matter rightly, there would be a great
deal of evi..!ence produced on both sides ; the sooner
it was pro :uced, thrrefore, tie locrer time there
o mild be to consi,kr it, .in.l he amid not agree with
Mr. lt,se, that hecnwe the charge could not be
proce..deal on :his Session, she House should
not b • put in vsse:sion of the evidence and the
charge ; he theretote thought the papers should be
printed.'
Lord Vitamin CASTLEREAGH said, the
House had before detcrntined that the charge should
not be printed, because the papers, in supper: of
the prosecittirri, were not on the tahle. l'he pa-
pers, in eacu!pasion of the defendant, were not one
of them en the table ; and he thought the charge
should net be printed till the papers oti both sides
were before the House, otherwise it would he A
mere ex parte statement, and, by getting abroad,
might raise unfair prejudices against the Noble
Islas quit._

Lciria H. PETTY said, the evidence had for
some time been on the table, and was artly
printed i-: though:, therefore, the charge should
b- printed also. As to the objection of es parts, it
might be extended to the prioing of all papers. and
he sat- no weight at all in it ; and as to thst, tecaute
the c}i irge cannot be decided this Session, he saw
it in a it•tis7;nt print .sf view ; tior,ir his opinion, the
recess would be a time of leisure, and every %lens-
ber would have an opportunity of giving Piot!' the
evidence and the charge a more en store considera-
tion, than if only printed a short time before the
subjcd came on for decision.
Mr. BANKS was very decidedly ag.iinst the
printing of the charge.
Mr. GR ANT said, that when this motion was
made on a former day, he was averse to it, before the
d icusnents were on the table. They were there
now, and, therefore, he should support the orintin4.
He thought he observed a dispositt in in some mem-
bers of the House to come to too hasty and preci-
pitate a decision upon these charges, though they
must all know well, that the eyes of al Ind:a were
on them and toeir proceedings. The gentlemen
who opposed this motion on the score of the pub-
licity it would give to the accusation, net;:efted to
infirm the House, that there was now in circulation
a defence of the Noble Marquis, against the
charges, which, thoottli it had not f .and its way into
public, was carefully distriouted in those quarters
where the most beneficial effs.s.cts were likely to be
produced by it. The proceeding, therefore, would
not be so much -r carte as bad been represented.
Mr. MARTIN (of Galway) thought it right
that the members of that House should be made ac-
quainted with every charg.• upon which they may
be called upon to decide. If it was proposed that
it should be copied in a Roe test hand for the use of
the members only, he should have no objection to
it ; though if it were published, no great mischief
could arid, as people out of House could have no
power to India any penalty upon the Noble Mar-
quis.

Mr. ALEXANDER was against the motion.
on the grcund that it vonlJ be improper to
hare this of pate charge. a-d the proceedings.
circulated in India, bet.,re the 2.1..;5e came to a de-
cision on it.

Donor LAWRENCE observed, that when the
former motion was made, Mr. Fox only wished it
to be deferred till some part of the 'evidence shoula
be on the table. Some of the charges against Mr.
Hastings w•rre printed I 8 mor.ths before the House
took them into consideration, and tie gentlemen
did not complain of it. It the friends and relatives
of tl,e accused were allowed to prescribe to the
House the course of their proceedings. no irquery
could go f-tward. Ceremetty of that Lind would
be like wh.t he Mead of a prosecmion for
sigh treason, in which a polite Attorney-Central
asked I)ettor Hensley, the defendant, at what time
it would be rt.lst agreaSle to h'n. to be brought up
for judgment? The 1)o&or ansercred. not ull the
next term; and the conseqsence was. that he never
was iirot., : up at all, at the raattrr ha.l t: en
a:staged in the ,n:etval.