The Sun.
London, England, 1805-06-13 00:00:00

Man who 10:;7.,,,at such a tune as the present, \kn.
Most sincerely, Mbe deplored ? Feeling, therere,
that he might be-considered as Morally, guilty, under
the Mask of legal guilt i 'and that cf:he :I,vere pro-
Claimed innocent, he could not recover_ the advanr
taps of innocence; was, it wonder:fill:that the Noble
Lord was desirous to avoid, the .fruitless ordeal
What mode of precedure then was left for the House
to pursue ? That ,on which. they formerly decided;
a decision„which nothing new had .-oCcurred to j.
Change. A civil suit was the bust Adapted to the
ends of Pu'olie justice. In a civil suit the Judges
7,voukl, not be prevented from availing themselves of
the. testimony Of the 'Noble Lord himself. The
:proceedings. in, a civil .suit would be more likely to
attended with fairness and, impartiality than a
Criminal Prosecution. Should.. the guilt. of the
Noble Lord,be found as great as it was described. to
be by his accusers, would the Country think the
transaction badly or . incompletely.wound up by
compelling him:to ,refund his .pecuniary' gains, after
the.,other severe punishment which had'alreadybeen
iufli&ed on him'?—a punishment the Most bitter to
the feelings of man, in consideration of the dis-
grace and ignorniny that must attend 'him through
the remainder of .116 existence. Under 411 these
circumstances, he felt that the 'l-lOttse.hadiarrived at
a:point .at Which to` it was indispensible • the, eXecu-
tion of their public, duty to preSs no 'further the pu-
nishment of the accused. Would'any map say that
the punishment ',Lord Melville llacl aireadyundergone
*asinia sufficient to Make'eVery Member of Govern-
tnent.latik .With.the utmost Striaties.s.to The execu-
tion of the 'laws with which, they, were separately
entrusted ? Public justice was appeased, sod' it might
surely be now allowed. to look, back on
,the public
life of the Noble 1.441; •andto examine: Whether or
not that life had beeri devoted,'to the service of the
country, theresentment Ofwloch had been.so Strons-
ly excited against him.—FroM his earliest acitaint-
awe. with Lord Melville lie had watched his
fiat's' With the utmot attention, and he had ever
fS)4II,CI filth discharging, the various and important
duties in. which he was engaged with the utmost in-
tegr.ity. 110i-ought mantidly by
side in. the defence of Constitution; at a
wllOll it ;was surrou 1)(1e(1 by the 'Most pelY,
lous Circumstances'. In the. peculiar department in
'tvltielf he 4.3c1 so unworthily succeeded t4at Not*:
.he had daily opportunities of W;inessilla the
effects of his brilliant talents indanigabre as,
siduity. Feeling most strongly the sentiments which'
he had endeavoured to Convey to the Limn.; he was
firmly eonvincednot only that he should bestfuhil
his duty to the Hotise and to the Poblic by,oppoSing
the Motion (if the Bon,...Gehtleman', „hut that he
'shonld be guilty of:infringing' the most valuable pri-
vileges of the. Etylisli. Constitution, zind the: Most
sacred principles of justice, if he could indneed to
Accede' to tha t Mod on. • • • •

Mr. GREY could nOt .allew the' 'question to go
to a decision, after the Speech of the Noble Lord,
without expressing opinion on the attack that
had made ,l?y hitri' oh Isis Hong he might
say,. on the Souse.itself, , ahe'lNoble Lorct accused
his Hen: Friend of having- rriisled the HouSe, into .
proceeding; ,-discreditable to ':diem. HoW was ,it
that, his ..J:lonouralqe Frien,d enjoyed so much in.-
,'lluenee with the House !, That he possessed:great
abilities acid great industry
.was true,. but would
that industry or those gbilities, have
,prevailed on
the House toadopt any unjust arid ins roper
sure ? Besides, What share liattliis _HOnourabl.
Friend in the proceedings complained ~01?—The
only .one proposed by him was the censure con-
tained. in, the IttiseltitionS, of the Bth. of April.-
-He afterwards, moved for an unlimited Crirmnittee
on thd othef parts of the Tenth 'Report, particularly
on tho4e.Whia.h, regarded 'the question of ',Lord
vine's participation in the profits ari'singliOni the,
use of the public money; brit wittrall'the influence
with which he was supposed to be invested, did he
persuade the House to agree with Him ? No. And
becanse, a Committee of limited authority having'
been appointed, on the Motion of .the Chancellor
of the Exchequer, hi, Hon. Friend' had abandoned
his intended 'proposition for instituting a Civil Suit,
now rendered nugatory; he had been accused of in-
decision.— It Was afterwards proposed, and carried,
not by his Hon. Friend, but by an, Hon. Gentleman
opposite,. who had voted- in favour of Lord Mel-
ville-on apreeeding occasion, and who had never
since.voted against him. He put, it to, the House
• therefore to say,„ whether .or not it was commonly
fair, or conimenly 'decent, to.accuse hii Hon. Friend
of having been the cause of the embarrassment in
which the House was said to be involved by.the
adoption of the proposal for instituting a
,Ciyijl Suit
against Lord Melville? By seine sintulatperVer-
sion of reasoning', the, .ReSolutious• passed by that
'House, expressive of their sentiments on the
du& of the Noble Delinquent, had been considered
by many; and among The rest 'by the Noble
Lord' Who had preceded him,. ,as pun It ent.7—
That they operated severely on the feelings of
Lord Melville he had no doubt; but he denied
'that, they produced any substantial punishmen—
t.
It his generally the. practice to originate Imp:melt-
Ments sin Resolutionl a similar
.nature. As to
thp objection that the Resolutions had.been voted
without -inquiry, he must.repeat what had been' so
frequently said, that , they were founded on filets,
they rested on they acknowledgments of Lord Mel-
ville and Mr. Trotter themselves, which to the,House
seemed to require no further inquiry. But then,
sayi'.the Noble Lord, a measure of punishment was
afkrwards taken: 'What ? The resignation by Lord,
Melville of his seat at the head of the Admiralty
Board; followed up by a Motion in the House for
'an Address to His Majesty ;to expel him from hiS
Conneils,'whisch•- was tint, agreed to. Was this pu-
nishment? Was this. retributive justice? Would
a false steward •he :considered' as sufficiently punish-
ed by being ciiimissed fiem his situation ? For his
part lie thought the, House had done right ': in
vothig.for the -Resolutions of the eth of April, the
neecsoa,rj consequences of which was,, the retiring of
Lord Melville from office; and he thought they had
done right in laying-those Resolutions before she
apprise His Majesty, that, he had a per-
-606 service unfit for' any place of trust
and Ont. In the event 1-lis I'vlajesty order-
e4, PAYUIP' maze to be erased from the
tiet CouneillWo: If the k.,:oble- Lord
thought this putiitinsinkl.utterly disproportionate to
the offence (which lielild4,asserted), lie should al-
ledge this against the Right Hon: Chancellor of the
Etchvquet, Who had recommended his Reyal.Mager
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