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air diredion, be sheet tote his employment ;
and upon that eireas:cm there wee nut one of t: e
servants of the Government who did not exert
themselves against him. He next adverted to SOTt-
cocurteress of a similar nature in the dock yards
where one person ior is deprived of a large contrast
for beer. In conclusion, hr protested, solemnly, he
never put any man to any difficulty in giving his
vote, he never put the least constraint upon any
vres's inclination, he never relented th• se who
voted against trim, Ire never made any complaint,
nor ever wounded the feeliegs of auy man open
such occasions.
M. CALCRATr rebutted the charges of the
Right Hon. Gentleman who spoke last, with re-
sp.. a to his inratitude in private, and tyranny in
public. As to ih. letter already alluded te, he con•
tented birnself with declaring, on his honour, Its
never disclosed the contents of that letter, but
it wes lotted mon after he had left the Tre,umry.
Wish +Med to the qeestien itself, from ell
that hart hitherto eAs.ed, he eonsi,lered it the
most frivol, ns cheege thst ever was brought before
that House. The Itiyht iloneur.d.le Geetls man
had stated, on the Hustings, at Chrirc'nurell, that
he should bring him (Sir. Calcraft.) before the
Wise, but this, like neaey other threats of the
Right Hon. Gentleman, went f ir nothing.
The SOLICITOR.GENERAL expressed mneh
terprise At I earing tear {tight Hon. Gentleman (Mr.
Pose) say. that it was not his intention to have
trinshled t•e HOU 4 upon this snbjsek. He must
either feel yen hide interest in so very important a
'natter, or he must give ie. y hale credit'to those
feels, wh;ch be had stated to the Horse. He
thought the hest way to heve exculpated We era.
railer, was to veer commenced a criminal pl NeCa
lion against the Printer, upon which be tisi:eitt.,
upon his. {lath, deny the feels charged ag:enei
Mr. GEORGE. KO*ll, jen. sod a ted words in
favour of the Petition being retetrec: to a Cominitee.
After come short tsylAnatica by Mr. R.ose, Lord
Howick, and Mr. Herbert.
Mr. ASHTON t. At i'H made a short reply, bet
in so low a tote we ceuli scarcely heer h:m ; solar.
he • ever, we eelleelet!.lher he disclaimed all p‘ lyre
or 'v motives, an e W4ll only wan ited, in t'ais
11111tasure, Irons a motive of public justice.
The question being loudly called for, the House
divided. when there appeared, for vire; into Com-
mittee Si, against it 1641 majority against the ori-
ginel qurrion. 11?7.
The other Orders of the day were then disrosed
of, and at ONE O'CLOCK the House adjourned
Mpliesy.

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SATURDAY. fizeku.Lav 14.

The Oar msition have, at length, mustered eon-
s-me to r;ek a division. Mr. Asnvon SstITN. la6t
tight, made his promised minion, for referting
a Committ:e of Plivilegel, the Petition complain-
ing of undue inflocnce in the la•e Elettion of Mem-
bers fn. liarrpsnire. Th:s mition produced an
animated Dehire,after which the House ci•tded.--
Ayes 37, Noes 184. M.ij-nity in favour of the
Minister 127.

It is muter of surprise. that we should he at, long
w thout any intell,gence from 1.0r,c1 Iltircuirssom.
--We rated in a firmer Pape-, that Mr. &moor)
is hourly expeaed with dispatc'.es from his Lord-
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no amount of the force to be employed in the
Ispeditims now preparing, is not yet aseert.ined.
The 19tb and 69th, the latter commanded Fy Lord
ISLA reay. are mentioned as two of the regiments
destined to form a pan of it. The Bch. or King's
pins, commanded by Calc:.el Holmstrom, is also
mentioned.

General CS AU d dispatches to Government
state, that the whole of his voyage has hitherto been
an favourable, that, throughout all the traniprts of
which this Expedition is composed, there were but
ten men on the sick list. As he had received some
Luther instructions from the government since his
departure froils England, it had become a matter of
some don ,t vhether the original destination of his
Expedition Las not been changed. The most gene-
ral opinion now is, that it had originally been in-
tended against the Ciracc4s ; but th it it has been
since ordered to reinforce Su c Porttax is tne
river Plata.

The Court Istirrial rn Capt. Hawk;r.s, late Corn..
mender of Ili' Ni..jesty's ship Dispatch. (from whit's
ship he setts prnm.,ted for hts bt every, in contribut-
ing to the eoptu: n 1 the Presilai Freres frigate,)
closed rn We tineidae, at Perttmouth. The Ccurt
fully acquitted CaiL. i! .n*Lins of every pert of the
charges alltgal att. him. The trial excited en
amount ieterest, fr. no the many {ishe and exagge-
rated they Pawed') ,reports is c
We ftel pleasure in haring it in E:l7 power. to
rontradift the rep ,rt of the centure of Lord COCII•
RAH c. His L. r.-,.'s!rip arrived in his frigate, the
Imperiia.s, at Plymouth., En Wcd,,esday. The
report or,ginat:d iTOIII a i,st. in the Fret •th
Papers, stating the c.., • ~t •• a frigate, name
unknown, seoposed to tre c..mnanded by a nephew
Of Admiral Coc lie. • ft E."
A considerahle Stet of outward bound veseels
a .iledfrom tLe Tail of the Bank, Greenock, on Satur-
saay last, but they 11:1,1 Lot proceeded much farther
than the Cntnltraes when ti,e wind veered to the
U.athward, blowing a very heavy gale, with tl ick
showers of sleet and c.nw, when.they put about
again for the Tail of the Bank ; but I am sorry to
say, that, owing to the darkness of the night, three
of the Janzaita snips, the A 1i5.,444, Galt; Rattsvell.
Csenbsiege ; and Mari.n, Ewing ; ran en shore un
the point of Towart; they are all, however, off
again, the former with the loss of her rudder, and
pot over to Weems Bay, where she is at anchor.
• . Gtwaton,lic haibour

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