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London, England, 1808-12-08 00:00:00

beneLially fe'r tire tuUc, and to have a&ed
great energy, and o..rrormed every thing with tide•
lity that was required of him. He 'conceived hiM
to, have ailed. very fairly towards the Public. This
was his opinion of Mr. D. at that tithe, and it Was
his opinion of him now. He never had any reason
to believe that Mr. D. had in any instance whatever
anted fraudulently towards the Public, neither had
he any reason to suspea that he did. He was so far
from thinking Mr. D. a person likely to commit a
fraud, that it he were to be replaced in the situation
of Barrack-Master-General, and had his choice, he
would have zppitipted Mr. D. to the same situation
auain • for he 17d seen no reason whatever to alter
the confidence reposed in him. He considered Mr.
D.'s condua as having been highly beneficial to the
Public service t if he had not thought so, he would
not have appointed him.

General Delancey, cross-examined by the ATTOR-
NEY-GENERAL, said—That the accounts which he
signed were general acci)unts, which Were made up
from other accounts, containing particulars; and
these accounts, which were brought to himg had
been made up of others, which had been inspeaed
by other Officers in the Barrack Department ; and
those Officers had reported to him, that the pre-
vious accounts had been examined by them, and that
they were all confbrmable to the rules and.regula-
tions of the Barrack Department ; and he signed the
accounts presented to him on the faith and confi-
dence which he had in the Officers, who reported
that every thing was collect. In the accounts
,which
he signed no mention was made of any-commission
whatever. He knew nothing whatever of those
servants of Mr. Davison, in whose names the busi-
ness of this sale was carried on ; nor should he have
signed any account,' had he known it, in which
.there was- a charge by Mr. Davison for commission
of two and a half per cent. upon goods furnished by
himself, that being inconsistent with the spirit of his
agreement. • _

John Bowring gave a long account of the connec-
tion between him and Mr. Davison, and admitted
the fictitious manner in which Mr. Davison's vouch-
ers had been made out ; but thought it a mere mat-
ter of form, tic. • Had advised Mr. Davison not
to charge the two and a half per cent, on goods sold"
by himself; and it was agreed that he shbuld call on
Mr. Stanbank, to recall an account given in, in the
year 1803, on account of an error in it, in :order to
alter it and strike out that charge, &c. but Mr.
Sranbank would not give him the account, because
it had been passed and signed by the Barrack-Mas-
ter-General.

Mr. Stanbank said, this application had been
made to him, and that he refused to deliver up the
accounts, but nothing was said to him on the sub-
je& of dedueling this charge of commission for goods
sold by the Defendant himself.
It appeared further, that on his examination be-
fore the Committee of Military Inquiry, Mr. Davi-
son being asked, whether he had any other agree-
ment with General Delancey, or any thing in the na-
ture of an. agreement, except that which arose front
this letter of General Delancey to him, and his an-
swer to that letter, said he had no other engage-
ment. And further, that Mr. Davison had sold a few
articles out of his own warehouse, upon which the
commission was charged •

After this, a vast number of witnesses were called
to the charaaer of the Defendant ; and first,
The Earl of Moira ; who stated, that he had so
high' an opinion of the Defendant, that in the course
of tht2 war he had applied-to Mr. Pitt, for leave to
make-Mr. Davison Commissary to the Artily which
-he was appointed to command; and that, he would
not have appointed him to that office, if he had had
the least suspicion of his integrity. He found him
remarkably delicate in all pecuniary concerns, and he
had omitted to take many emoluments to which he
was entitled ; and in consequence of such his Lord-.
ship's opinion, he had appointed 'Mr, Davison I'rea7
surer of the Ordnance, and to which Mr. Davison
assented, and that from pure principles of publiC
spirit, for he did not gain 701. a year by that ap-
pointment. His Lordship had no idea that Mr.
Davison would be guilty of any thing that was
fraudulent.

Sir Evan Nepead bad known Mr. Davison-ever
since the year 1782. Was recommended to him by
Sir F. Haldimand, from NoVa Scotia; by a Letter of
introduation, and his cenduCt afterwards, in the ser7
vice of the public, was, as far as the Hon. Baronet
had an opportunity of observing it (and he was em-
ployed in various situations under the Secretary of
State) perfedly satisfactory. He Certainly transa&-
ed all public business entrusted to his care with
punctuality and dispatch.

Sir Andrew Hamoud bad known Mr. Davison
from the year 1793 or 17g4, and had an opportuni-
ty of observing how much service_ he had rendered,
and how much satisfaction lie bad given to the Board
of Admiralty.

Sir William Broom had known the Defendant'
fifteen years, and thought hi►u incapable of a fraudu-
lent adion.

The Honourable Wellesley Pole had known Mr.
Davison since the year 1804 ; knew hirn only as a
public man, when he aCled tinder Lord Chatham in
Ike Ordnance. He remembered an instance in which
Mr. Davison had supplied the Ordnance with a stand
of arms for 14,000 men, at fhe price Athich the ma-
nufaauter bad charged him, which he looked upon
as an act of great public spirit.
John Martin Leek, Esq. gave Mr. Davison a very
high charaacr in several particulars.
The Right Honourable Charles Long gave Mr.
Davison a good character, having had an opportu-
nity of knowing a great deal about him,- while Se-
cretary to the Treasury.
Mr. Hunter, a merchant in the city, knew Mr.
Davison. eight and thirty years ago ; he came to the
Counting-house of this Gentleman when he first
came to town—was recniumended by hint to Canada,
where he conduct ed himself so well,- that on his re-
turn, Mr. Hunter renewed his acquaintance with
him, and they had transacted a good deal- of business
together.
Mr. John Cowley had known MT. Davison for
much the same length of time as Mr. Hunter had,
and formed the same opinion as that Gentleman did
of his charaaer.
Mr. William SMart had known' Mr, Davison 40
years; was acquaioiod with him particularly in the