The Sun.
London, England, 1806-06-13 00:00:00

!viee;-and.the service rwr whi*:lt it was wanted was to be ex-
pressly stated.-and that the course pursued by the Noble
Defendant and his PayinaSter was an evasion of the Act was
moil clear and manifest. In: deciding these points he was
sure their-Lordships -vvould- consult the dignity of their own
character, and -decide as was bzliting them,

Mr. W itl r n coincided perfedly in the-law as stated
by his Learned Colleague, and thought it -sufficiently an-
swered the Leamed Gentleman on the -other 'side. Mr:
Whitbread commented on the conlud of the Noble De,
fendanf, as to his al tedged inaccuracy in accounts. He was
accurate enUugh to make up his own salary 40001. a year, and
in his statement of the India Budgets, he was always stall?
ciently lucid and unembarrassed, to repel the idea that he,
was not capable of accuracy in- accounts. It was argued,
that it was itnpossit.de-to disprove all the Objedions to the
conduit of a man whO had been 24 years in office. Mr. Doug.:
las was dead; he could have explained all during his time, it
was said. They then came to a later period,—Then all the
Papers were burnt which could tt.trow any light on the
transaction.. Could' Douglas have been called-Could the
destroyed Papers' have be,n- produced = Flow much might
they not susped they would have been'able to have proved,
judging front what they had been able to prove. The Learned
Counsel had attempted to ridicule the fad of tracing • the
Bank Notes, but if
_the history of all the Bank Notes could
have been unravelled, whil a history might it not have dis-
closed. They had ail heard 61- a book called Ghrysal, or,
The Adventures rf a Guinea. Suppose some such commu-
nicative,guinea could now •be found. It--might tell them it
found its way lints the Exchequer into Mr. Swaffield's iron
chest, at the. Navy Office —front thence it might say, " I
expeded t 6 be transported to the pocket of some .brave sea-
man or Seaman's • widow ; but judge of my surprise, when
I was taken out to_pay a bill of the Treasurer of-the Navy.
Soon afterwards I found myself in the House of (.-:,otrunons,
and to my astonishment heard Lord. Melville. say, that he
applied me) and to-,0,0 others to public purposes, which
he would never name-. Subsequent to that, when I had
made a few more transactions, I found myself in. Westmin-
ster Hall, in the poeket of -a Counsellor, who was pleading
the cause of Lord Melville, who was most stridly endea-
vouring tocoutrovert both the law and the fid—but what
surprized me most, Was, to hear another Counsellor, who
professed to be on the same side, contradict his Colleague
point blank." Here the guinea tale must, end. The books,
about which the Learned Gentlemen . differed,.it was
possible to open. No more than the spirit. Glyhlyn could
open the book of the Abbot of Melrose. The-Honourable
Manager contended,. as he went along, that the evidence was
conclusive of the guilt of the Noble Defendant, and eon-
chided his speech this day With declaring he had no feel--
, ings of personal animosity .—His cluty•done, he should re-
tire, and he trust I, his name, in going down to posterity
along With.tbe cause. would not be dishonnwred. But that
which was' honourable in itself would derive some lustre
from the etfidgence of the glory of that Court.