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rtl ; yet he was new made the defendant ; and Ate
acting ill the legitimate line of his pretension, has
been almost ruined ; whilst Sir Home Popham has
grown rich by a direct violation of the law. (Hear!
Hsu,. It ceased to bee question of a particular
nature. The general evil of it was this, that whilst
petty offences to the revenue laws acre punished to
the extreme of rigour, nay of it native, other men,
who happened to be protected by great party con-
nexions, not alone violated the laws with intiounity,
but were actually remunerated out of the funds
of the country fror the violation. (Hear! Hear!)
With respect to the general merits of the Him.
Captain, those upon which the Learned Advocate
commented were subsequent to this grant, and,
therefore, could not be comprehended within the
siew of its propriety or impropriety. At all events,
were the merits of a deserviug Officer, such as Ad-
miral Robinson, to be totally overlooked ? or ra-
ther, were the antecedent services of that gentle-
man to be entirely removed out of view, whilst the
subsequent conduct of Sir Home Popham was to
be pleaded as a set off to his violatiou of the law ?
What was the fact? It was this, that the guilty
person received '28,0001. at the same time that
the correct otficert who had properly performed his
duty, scarcely received sufficient to defray the ex-
reuses of the long and protracted litigation in the
Prize Courts. There was some object in the
uppeul made, with respect to the allowance
which ought to be made to a person to situated as
the Honourable Captain was when this smuggling
tniesaction originally took place. The Learned
Advocate was rather guilty of an anachronism in his
descriptiou, inacimucli as he believed the Hon.
Captain had no children at that period. The
Right Hon. Gentleman denied that the claims of
Sir Home Popham were of a nature to compensate
for such an offence. With respect to naval services,
he had never performed any. In Holland, he
was, perhaps, useful in a variety of ways, naval,
military, and commercial, particularly from his
contiguity to Oiteittl. (A iatigA .') He contended,
that in the legitimate meaning of the English lan-
guage, this grata 'Gas a misapplication of the fund,
be it in the Crown or not ; and if there was an ex-
ample wanting to prove the impropriety of vesting
such a fund as the Druits of the Admiralty ii) the
bawls of the Executive, it wus the shameful misap-

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plication then under the consideration of the House.
Tlwa CartscaLLoa of the EICIIEQUKR defended the
grant, and the general rondurt of Sir Heine Popham, end
orgard that the present lion solely originated Sow party
slew. He did not however expect to hear aucti an attack
es the adminiatratiou of Mr. Pitt, es he had beard from the
lest Speaker.
W1N011.411 spoke in explanatian.
Mr. Will was astonished at the lion. Secretary stat-
ing:that therm bestowed of it,oool.wasperfectlyjusttiiable,
attest the Home were voting sissy sums of mosey to persona
who were not entitled to it by either service or ability. He
might to recollect, that the Hon. Baronet set forth with his
appointment to the Meet against Copenhagen, end does not
deny, that the subject of the complaint was illicit. He ap-
proved of the resolution, hirsute he thought Sir Notate Pop-
lam was undeserving of the grant he seceived He acknow-
ledged that he was employed in an illicit trade, and that was
all his foes could charge him with, and hi. apology was,
that when he went to the lisst linlies,be found several vessels
employed in a similar trade, and he followed their example.
lli:s apology would be equally justifiable in a person going
to IV nolsor who was caught in a shower of ruin, and
unit into a horse for shelter, sad found persons determined
to commit a robbery, sod they might say they were obliged
to join them. He concluded, by ohserving, that he did not
mou.ider it as a party ipiestioa, hot he would support the 'e-
volutions of his Honourable Friend, as be thi.agiit there had
been a misapplication ut public money.
Sir. Lusa' SirTivii replied at length, and the !TOW, divided
in the resolution, when tbere appeared for the rcsolo;i0o
Ayes, ai—Noes' &roust it, 69.
Ito. several orders of the day we-e then disposed of; and
the House adjourued at Two o'Ci.nCK.

.` The pressure of temporary matter obliges us to de-
fer oar t'utalogne until to-morrow.
$44 A euerespomlent a Letter, smrgesting a general sub-
scription fur the relief of the moinuarturin clas•ea, has bean
received A letttr from 3!ainhester, iu uur List page, fur-
nishes s strong orpiment in its Eleour.

THE BRITISH PRESS.

An interesting ilebate took place last nig; t in
the !louse of Commons, ■poo Mr. LI7SIIIIIGTON'S
llietloo, respecting the Emcees. and Sir Hosea