The National Register.
London, England, 1809-04-16 00:00:00

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Cd 1.0 CL OGLE.

Lord FOLKSTON E represented him as not only guilty of fraud
in his accounts, at a period when he obtained a letter of service
for the raising of a levy, but also of forgery in the receipts w high
he gave on that business. To there charges officially filed against
him by the Attornev,(ieneral in 1801, he had pleaded not guilty,
but afterwards w ithdrevr that plea, and consequently stood upon
the footing of full copy iction. Not withstanding this the pending
proceedings against hint were unaccountably stopped, and it was
with the view of astertaining the reasons for so doing that the
Noble Lord made his present motion, naniels, " That there he
laid before the House a cop of the information filed in his Ma-
jesty's Court of King's Bench by the Attorney-General, against
John Ogle, Esq. in the year 1540 a or ISOI, together with an ac-
count of the consequent legal proceedings therein.''
Mr. Yon at; and the Cit.t N CELLO k of the Eicra-.QvEtt had
net objection to the Noble Lord's motion for the Papers. '['hey
contended that the bond of MAIM. which Col. Ogle had en-
tered into for the reimbursement of the public Money, and which
at present existed at the War Mire, was a reasonable ground
whetena Id test a suspension of further proceetlings. This bond
was equivalent to any tine which the Court of King's Bench
may impose, and would be cimverted to other purpuse3 than
would the fine- imposed by that Court.
The Noble Lord's motion Was then put ;tad agreed to:
Lord FOI:Kr.s-roNy: then further moved for the produCtion Of
such letter. from Colonel Ogle to the War Office as related to
his apptiention for a settlement of his accounts and the answers
thereto.:

Air. Yon x r!, proposed, as an 6mendent to thls, to add,
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and also all the proceedings of the War Office; with reference
to Col. Ogle's ar counts."

Sit J. Neu port moved ror a copy of the %vafrant appointing
Beach:tuft Hill, Esq. to tle office of inspector General of Excise,
for that part of the United kingdom tailed Ireland: The lion.
ltonet wished to know what could entitle a man who was no-
tot iou4y gdilty cif trral-practices in an Wainr oflice, to promo-
tion of .so extraordinary a kind.
Mr. Foster and Mr, Croker both horse* testimony to the abi-
lity and dist i7ignis:ied activity of that Officer. If he took freF,
ft was not at a time %%hell it was a general practice to do so ; for
though contrary to the Act, it WaS warranted by the extreme
poverty of the salaries. Tree had been since raised, and no
further excuse could now ist, but there Was certainly an ex-
cise at a former prriod.

Si'r J. Newport offered some otrervations in rep/3'; after
*hitt) the motion was pot, and agreed to.----Adjoutnetfi

Thu rsl .4pril
Lunt, I STLEttIIAGII.

tort! AlitC7/11/41.1) 11AN:111'0N mse to give notice, that in
enosequence of the dick tyre. that had heti) made in the Report
of the East India Committee, he should, On toamorrow se'n-
bight, submit to the !louse a motion respecting the same; and,
as the disclosures were of so valurninnu:, a nature, he thought it
necessary distinetry to state, that on that day he should call the
attention of the to that part exclusively relating to the
conduct of Lord Castlereagh.
Lord OSsulstim moved for an Address to his Majesty, praying
that there he laid before the House a rot urn of all Places, Posts,
And Offices held itnitTediattly from the Criwn, whether during
pleasure or good behaviour, or by reversion, or any other
tenure, and what, whether in the !finite I)epartment or the
Colonies, together with the nature, dutv, and salaries of the re-
spective Offices, and the duties of .their several institutions.—
Ordered.

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CIIIMSE rtostsynt:..—coLovr,r, cottooN,
,ir FRANCIS Ilr, aorrr, t,eeisaz a Noble Lord in his 'Anse,
expressed. a wiih to know from that Noble Lord, if «hat he
had heard with resport to the disposal of the public property to
an individual was founded in fact.- The circomstance he allnd-
eil to was this : he had understood that a portion of the gronod
belonging to Chelsea Hospital,. !yin ,* along the hank of the
niver.Thames, and partkuturly calculated for the air and exer-
eise of the pensioners, had been lately consigned over to the use
and posseisito,9f..WonV Gordon,
jr tiotATT7slid, that he stotild to-morrow submit
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