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43444 ter tette Itt'tive- rturill ear, and siltich
retched same tithes. *AA beadly called for by those
torho Mt for the injustire dour to their rountry by
• oseasitre as unconstitutional, sail an iutention
vs depraved ? lie beg;cil leave to ask, whether, if
latch tiarrattee had been before the Administra-
tient, they would ant give Sir Richard Strachan au
opportouity of ettelpatitig himself .The Lord.,
tiff the Admiralty thought it a duty imperious
tEptin thole to do se. The Noble Earl then depre-
cated the conduct of a man who would mad him-
self of the confidence reposed in him by his Sove-
reign, and said, that such an abuse was a high po-
litical misdetneauour. No person could quesitou
the right of Governraeut to inquire into the cir-
carnstaoces which produced the late failure; dis-
patches, and volumes of papers had been pro:lured;
yet, still, more had lurked behind, bud they
were at length produced, but under circumstances
of
such peculiar aggravation as called for a most
eraphatical iuquiry. The Noble Earl concluded
by observing. that there never was a more serious
subject before their Lordships, and urged the ne-
cessity of such information as the motiou would de-
mead.

LOrd MVLSItvs said, that he conceived it new
cowry to state to His 'Majesty, that no necessity
oxistea foe instituting an inquiry into the conduct
of the late Expedition. He was inclined to con-
yeive, from the dispatches he had received concern-
ing the Commanders, that such inquiry would be
superfluous. If the narrative had been before him,
he would have advised a different mode of conduct.
He bad no conception that attacks should have been
levelled at the navy, for the purpose of screening
the military from imputation. After many other
observational he concluded by assuring their Lord-
ships, that he did oet know any thing. respecting
the narrative of Lord Chatham, until it had been
produced before the House of Commons.
The Earl of DARN Lay—Shall Ministers come
forward and tell us, that His Majesty's Ministers
bad so little confidence iu each other, although eon•
ferringdailr. that one of them should have kept from
his colleagues the tact of his having delivered a
narrative to the Sovereign? Could their Lord-
chips believe the fact, that the Noble. Lord, at the
head of the Admiralty, did not know there was a
difference existing between the military and navel
Coolinanders, on the late unfortunate expetlitioo to
the Scheldt ? It was his rest anti sinc,re opinion,
there never was such a disgraceful one sent out of
elm country. 'Whatever brought shout the re-.
moral of His Majesty's peeseat weak, imbecile, in-
competent, and rich adminietration. was justifiable;
they had fattened them elves upon reversions •tatl
siescores, and were perfcctly incapable of dirt cling
His Majesty's mopeds; and, being without strength
et foremicht, ought to be done away with. It was
his positive °manna, that if their Lordship, hod
any regard for the prosperity of the country,
the untiea of the Noble Marquis should be :w-
-eeded to.
Lord Gamiest., to-sr" Me Lords, you sill not be
eta rrised that I should differ in opinion from the
Holds Lard at the head of the Admiralty. That
Iloilo Lord use called forward to state, in a manly
1111•11111.06 that he was not the person that advised
Hie Illifeaty to give the answer which was returned
tote City of London; yet he avowed it was done
with his knowledge, approbation, and advice,
But, my Leeds, he has avowed, if lie had known of
the seutiments expressed in his colleague, Lord
Chatham's Narrative, which was delivered by him
to His nlajesty in secret, he would not have ad-
vised the &tower. I rejuice, toy Lords, in the con-
Maki 11 but the arguments of the Noble Secretary
. of State (Earl of Liverpool), are quite different;
he, although now is full possession of the facts of
the Noble Earl of Chadian% still asserts that the an-
swer was such as the first city in the empire
ought to bare received..--( Hear !—Althongh it had
beers a paper which threw an odium on the nury,

at lewd" on the naval Coinmauder, the head of
that department bad not thought proper to no-
tice it- But Lord Gambier was brought to a
Court-Martial, on the dissent of an inferior officer.
I cautrot sap if the conduct of His Majesty's
Ministers is justifiable, but his Lordship has been
ill need ; for a narrative has been delivered to the
King fikr his private periossl, and is now before the
World, accusing Sir R. Strachan of misconduct,
on the late melancholy Expedition, yit lie has not
been brought to a Court-Martial. I have lint a
doubt but he will demand one; for. 1 um confident,
there is not ass Officer in the military or !rival ser-
vice that, where a doubt arose of their conduct,
that would 'kit demand it. But even Lord Gam-

bier has brut ill-used ; for he via not allowed the
choice of demanding it. What apology could the
Nobly Lord rt the head of the Admiralty have
fot not proceeding in the same way, in the
present internee ? Hr acknowledged that he was
in habits of conversing with the Noble Earl, who
trunnoanded the military pitt of the Expedition,
daily, and had made every inquiry into the Expedi-
tion; yet hr advised Ilia Majesty to answer, there
was t►ut r cause for inquiry. My Lords, 1 contrud
there is blame to be attached somewhere ; and, if
the Noble Lord at the head of the Admiralty lead
that tolo►nsation which he ought to hive had, he
would not have given the advice he did; yet, when.
knowing that the department which he was attached
to was attacked and censured, he did not call upon
Sir Richard Strrehan for his narrative. What I com-
plain of, my I.nrJs, iv, that His Majesty's Ministers
acknowledge their perfect ignorance, whether there
was Maine to he attached or not, when they pre-
stimptuorisly and unwisely advised the answer. In
the dry dispatches it appeared that some blame
was attached to the Commander-in-Chief of the ex-
pedition—slHear 0--My Lords, I will repeat my
words, for there appeared more larastie, dry,
or gua►ded dispatches in any Gazette ever pabli-had
in this kingdom, than tl►ose of the Ertl of Chat-
ham—/Hear! heir!) Ile wits allowei after-
ward, to remain, by the aeknowl olgthent of the
Nohle Secretary, after his arrival in this country,

during the inuoit•hs of September, October, nod even
likreisolser, before his Noble colleagues in °thee
thought it proper to inquire even into the rouse of
the Lawrie of this nufortunatt• Expedition, which
hail exhausted more lives and money than any that
had ever sailed ;;um its shores. A mouth was taken
up dui,l:: that "II the opinion of every
tart own, tut.,!:6l not liav• rxrr,(l.4l three data ;
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1:.11 th- 411, down I,v tie;

Cabinet were deputed from in the first itistavice,
yet their Lordships and u.e city of London
were gravely tohl there was no cause for in-
quiry. I congratulate the Noble Secretary of
State on the martial air which he a•sumed on his
first risirtz, and ou the pride with which he con-
fe-sed he advised Hi, Majesty to give the answer,
followed with a dry sarcasm, that it was not the
practice of his Lordship, or those he acted with, to
sacrifice a Commander of an army, to throw the
responsibility from off themselves, I say. my
Lords. the reverse has been the case ; for if I
take into any contemplation the whole powers and
administrations of Europe, I cannot find an in-
stance of the kind except that practised by them-
selves, in the case of the gallant, much-lamented,
and ill-used Sir J.Moore.—(Hear ,'—This is an in-
controvertible fact, thst ne persou can refute. Did
they not try to remove the weight oW their own shoul-
dera.by slandering the memory of him who fell glori-
ously at the battle of Corrumia, defeuiling to the lust
the glory of his couutry, entrapped and ensnared as
he was by their ill-digested plans? If belied survived,
to have reached the shores of his native country,
they who have so much calumniated him would have
appeared the culprits.—(Hear ! hear 'l—l do not
believe there is LI man of common understanding out-
side of your Lordships' walls. that does not believe
that he and the chief pact of the army which he
so ably commanded, fell as martyrs to the ill-
digested plans of His Majesty's then Administra-
tion. This subject requires more animadversion,
my Lords, than at this hour of the night I am in-
clined to- give; but I cannot pass over some re-
marls of the Noble Lords opposite. The one at
the Admiralty says, this motion hes given him
great inconvenience; his inconvenience SS !LS liglit,
indeed t but the shock the constitution bad received,
was dreadffil ; 'the vital roots of it were struck, and
had received en injury, which nothing but the vote
of their Lordships could redeem. Did the Noble
Lord consider that the poisonous narrative not
only brought charges against Naval Commanders,
who every dry risked their lives in the service of
the country, but against himself, as being at the
heed of that department ? (Hear !) We have only
the verbal answer of His Majesty's Ministers, that
they were all privy to the answer given to the city of
London. is that sufficient ? Will your Lordships
be satisfied. wilthont an official answer ? (Hear !J
Is it necessary this paper should have been deliver-
ed and continued in His Majesty's possession a
whole month, with the knowledge of the responsi-
ble part of the Administration ? Good God, my
Lords, is it nothing, that the ear of the Sovereign
should be poisqeed against that force, which,
from -ti:e natural situation of this kingdom, is
nor best defence ? (Hear ! hear!) Is it not
dangerous, in Pact, re 'At set of 'ten could, nay,
wosl.l in ike thew elves ri-ponsihle for the acts
of Governmeet, to ii there were another set behind
the curtail', emlet.ering the royal mind against
their measures ? My Lords, it is the first time such
a proceeding liar been dien:lmed to Parliament, al-
though the practice has lung existed ; let your
Lurd,lrips prove your detestation or it, by voting
fur the address prope.ed be the Noble Marquis."
Their Lordships then divided, when there ap-
peared,

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Majority against it.. Addrtaa 46
Adjuurned, at liAl.l-P4ST rwct.va, till Moodily.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

Upon the motion of Sir RooEnT P►ot., the report •f
the Glangurt Cuounitter, declaring Alexa•der Holman,
FAq duly elected, was brought up, and uriltred to lie oo
table.

A new writ was issued for the Borough of New Wood-
stock. in the roots of t►e Honourable Williams Elliot Etleu,
deceasrd

Sir THOMAS TURTON nutted (w leave to bring in a Bill
to eua►le the Managers of the Royal Circus to give cat-
talo numerical fteprtmeulations.—Leave given
Lord Cot . moved for copies of the oaths adminis-
tered to the ilesslacts of Courts-Martial, and to lb. Lurd-
Adrueute.

After sum, obeeeratioes from Mr. Pereeval, Mr. Crokrr,
Mr. Harvey, and Mr. Ruse, the motiou was segativeit with-
out

Mr Enwnear Kgsecutot.r. resented • petition ficin
the Inubuldtra of the county of Krut, requesting (miller
allowance fur the soldiers quartered %liana thent.—Otdeted to
lieoar the taste.

AN account of the duties oo apirita in Irelattd, was brought
up, and ord. led to lie oil the Sable.

Mr. ['mann mowed, •• That a Committee be appointed
to inquire into the slate of the roods between Shrewsbury
■nd Holyhead, and also between Chester and Hoiyheod."--
Ibe motion was agreed to, and the Committee appointed.
General Feue.usi.no presented a petition from the Linen
an., Onto* ilianufsetureis of the county of Fife, praying for
a drawback of the duty us brimstone. The Hon. Slernber
assured the House, that, in preteuting this petition, he was
influenced I. 1141 **a field tehaideration.—.4he petition was
ordeal to lie on the lade.

Mr. Gill ATT A v moved for Irate In bring In a Dill to re-
lieve the lowly...sit Debtors to Ireland —.Leave giv►n.
Mr. Tlt.av EY moved fur a ktter front the Inepector of
Howdah' to the Secretary at War, dated July is, taw) -•
Ordered.