The Sun.
London, England, 1807-03-03 00:00:00

For himself he n--,l•:eci no oun:ic;, bit ire
jsist ice an(l-r(ft3ittide-ti(tll;.4l-fori. I tblv.e. \Vbn't the
Petitioners Connejted• with itcpy wish for 'he
knew not.
The IS'PEf4K.E.l6tated, that parties otnit,ting:io '
pray forsCounsel in:their PetitiOns Wonld, not be o'n‘..•
titled In that bt.-,etit without presenting a .supple-
mentary- POOlOl.l. ,
_ On the' VtiggestioTi (if Ligd HOWICi,..,Who thought
it would nieet'the wishes-15f all parties;-` • •
The SPEAKER WarlTStrilaed to acquaint the
Counsel '‘t-lien. "tti the Bar;: that itNeas%the

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":. -pleasure of the House,that he should,con4ne himself
*to the inatter3 of faEralleged ill the Petition to which
• b,emeant-to adduce
- Mr.:Warren, Counsel. 'for Mr. Paull, was then
`calledlo, and being instru4ed by the Speaker to
this etioa, he proceeded to state the matter. of the
-Petition; 'the' charges Contained therein, and the na-
ture.ancl;charaeter of (lie evidence by which they
were:to be*SupPorted..: The first Witnes3, Mr: Drake,
. vas a, Lieutenant in the: Navy, and had had a share
' in. thosegloriousaitions which had attached so much
glory to-that . service. The second witness, \Yea-
therhead,, was al-so-in the Navy. The remaining
nesses were: men of low- and .humble stations. But
it was only, persons of low station that any. one
'would.-attetupt,tb.iamper with; and the • evidence
of guilt should 'be Sought from the scenes wliere
if had been committed. • The story Mr. Drake
would tell would perhaps strike the House with so
much asionishtnent, as almost to appear incredible.
But hevciuld'heie again represent to the House, that
the etfe& should be taken in the mass, and that each
Part ()tight to be regarded is. COntirmatory of the
rest. With reSpeB to the object of these,charges,
he was a man of very high talents and 6araater,
unstained in the present instance as such, Mr.-Paull,
as well as himself, were willing to describe the Right
Hon.Gentleuian; and they wished the present-trans-
ataion may not be found of 'a nature to'give an opi-
nion of him different from what had been enter-
tained. When the whole ofthe evidence should be
before the House, he was sure it would not seem
too much to ark for the interposition of the House.
Mr. Paull asked the House to take his Witnesses un-
.cler its.proteEtion till the trjal of his Petition. With-
„ :Out:that it would be vain to expeajustice. It was
in,vOiti,, if tampering with Witnesses were allowed,
to hope that the House would be fairly constituted,
or the People fairly represented.
Here the Counsel was ordered to withdraw, and
the Speaker said,' he .wished4o know if it was the
sense of the House, that Counsel should be heard
on the matter, he had now goneinto,Couttary to the
instructions of the House, what the House itself
should do in vindication of its privileges. When
the Counsel proceeded from the statement of the
fa&s to Which he was to adduce evidence, to a de-
scription of his witnesses, he did not interfere; but
when .be had come_ to state what the, House ought
to do in ,vindication of its privileges, he thought it
right to take the general opinion as to the propriety
of, hearing him further on that topic.
Lord 40MIGIC felt the. propriety of interposing
to check the deviation of the Counsel from the in-
-, strudions communicated to him, but thought it right
to wait for the interposition of the Speaker. He
moved, that the Counsel be now agairucalled in, and
told to-proceed to the examination of his witnesses.
. This being agreed to, Mr. Warren was again called
in, and told,' if he .had -sufficiently- explained the
• fads he wished to establish, and the -nature of the
, evidence he Meant to, produce, io.call his witnesses,
and proceed to- examine theM, with Out interfering,
as'it did not beconie him IO presume to say what
may be the future determination of the House with
a view to the maintenance of its Privileges.
• . ,EXAMINATION OF-WITNESSES.

The first witness called was William Drake,-whose
.evidence was in substance as follows:
• .-. Willianz Drake was by profession an Officer in the
'Royal ISTavy, Ading Lieutenant. Ha had entered the
-service 'in the-year 179-5; 'and quitted in the year
Ili; first acquaintance with the Right Hon.
-itchardtgrinstey Sheridan arose from his haying
Married hit;- naluraldaughter. This happened about
fotir or five years since. -He had been concerned in
• the late Ele6tion, in - which' he had suppOrted Mr.
Sheridan, carrying up four or .five Voters everyday,
tvhose` names he regularly setit'in to the Committee.
His c--iccinaititatice. with Mr.' Paul! did. not COMMetice
till after the Eleaftin. Air:Sheridan had-mide
many 'promises during the:._Ele6tioli, but alter the
EleCtion he could not Obtait.l'adinittance to hint,' tho'
• he had called several times house, and had ac-
tually been- insulted by his' Porter. He went, by
appointment, to -meet Air: Sheridan at Mr.'l-lornitn's.,
in Frith-street; but Mr.Sh9ridan did not come there.
Several bottles of wine Were drank whilSt he waited
at Mr. Homan's. He-afterwards went in a -tickney
coach, with Messrs. Janson and Edwards, td
Edwards's •housp, as he supposed, where he saW
Mr. Sheridan. He sat in a parlour on the left-hand
side of the house. He told Mr: Sheridan that he had
been summoned, by a warrant from the Speaker of
the House of Commons, at the desire of Mr. Paull,
to attend the Committee appointed to try the West-
minster Ele&ion. Mr. Sheridan desired him to get
out of the way offered money to him to procure a
letter from one'.Emanuel Harris, a Jew, in Holy-
well-street; which letter had been signed by Mr.
Sheridan during the Ele6tion, and promised to pro-
vide for him and his father: He. bad other con-
versations with Mr: Sheridan on the subjekt,
on the 9th, toth, and loth of February, and last
. Friday. week. The letter that had ben sent to Ema-
miel Harris, . had' been taken by him to Mr. Sheri-
dan, to whom .he bad stated that Mr. Harris had a
number of votes to bring up, which he would not do
unless' Mr. Sheridan should sign the letter giving
him authority to do so. The letter had been signed,
by Mr. Sheridan in his own house, three or four
days after the commencement of the Eleaion, but
not in prpsence of any person but the witness. The
letter had been signed between eleven and one o'clock
in the. day, but .he could not exaaly say on what
day of tile month. He had delivered no other letter,
either during or since the Elektion, to Ernannel Har-
ris, from Mr. Sheridan, but had delivered one to
'him previous to the EleEtion, which had been signed
also by Mr. Sheridan. Emanuel Harris had offered
him a sum of money to procure-a letter for bun
to Sir Peter Parker, or to Sir Samuel Hood.—
Yit the interview he had with Mr. Sheridan at Mr.
Id wards's, Mr. Sheridan told him that lie had kited
improperly, in having gone out of town during the
I..:e6tion, though he bad constantly attended, and