The Sun.
London, England, 1805-04-26 00:00:00

ing out this pretended security, laid the Worst trap
for men that'had ever been known. It wart no dis.
nbettiet,ce to the House of Comm that
Wilson lied not been displaced ; and his Right,
Hon; Friend would have been far more deserving of
the censure of the House, if on the,bare report,
without inquiry or explanation, he 'had dismissed
Mr. ROU called the attention of the House to
a•Orueeeding which 'had taken place. 30 years ago,
when •two persons (Messrs. •Powel and 13,..mh"ridae)'
were dismissed frail-rate office of the PiyoLis ter G.
'neral„ ie consequence of an investigation of the
Tieasury Board, of which he was then a servant.
It appeared these persons were guilty of a deliberate
fraud, of which they wereafterwards judicially eon.,
• aided in the King's Bench, :and one of them (the
.other having died) fined and .imprisOned. The
Treasury Board informed the'Paymaster of their
delinquency ; they themselves 'confessed it ; and
the Paymaster
,dismissed them. Anew Paymaster
came in, and he thought it right to restore them.--,
This was the case of Messrs. Powel and Ilembridge.
He stated fads,• and on this case, tinder these cir.
cumstaneel, tho Hon. Gentleman opposittexelaimed,
'' Gracious God I will you punish; without inquiry;
will you condemn unheard ?" The Hon. Gentle..
Man was most anxious to preserve these • men in
their places and now he was so angry with. his
Ban. Friend because he had not punished (for dia-
missal war a punishment) this man ageinst.whom no.
criminality appeared.,
Mr. FOX begged the Right Hon. Gentleman,
when he quoted ;his speeches, not to impute to him
what he•had not Said. - He knew not on what au.
thorny the Right Hon. Gentleman quoted hint ;
hut eo far as hie memory served him, he had not
spoken in the terms the Right Hon. Gentleman at-
yawed to When the proper time should`:
come, he would be, ready to defend his conduit' on
that occasion. The prosecution :by Jaw had coin.
meneed, and the affair was: rub ludic,. He would
not say whether Mr. Bare or Mr. Burke had
stiffed
most 'properly ; but, he contended it was improper
to give employment to these who refused to account.
s;r• C. POLE took .blame to himself for not
rising the other day, when a Right Hon. Gentle.
man (Mr, CAtiNtwc), stated that the Cotnniissinners
of Naval Inquiry were satisfied with the- con.
dint of' Mr. Wilson on subseiluent explanation,—
So far was the fait different from that, that the
Commi;:sioners considered it an at of mistaken
lenity that they had not committed Mr. Wilson.
to prison. He was a public servant, and he thought
himiell called upon to reptesent,that Inquiry was of
little•use, &front the first in any office 'refusing to.
answer any thing that may possibly criminate him.
self,. the second refused also, 'on the ground that he
may he implicated; and the. same principle passing
from one to another, secured them in carrying on
their abuses. How in this case was justice to be
done to the FIQUIIC or to the Country Some mea.
sure should be taken to obviate this difficulty. He
had also
,to complain that lir the correspondence with
the Treasurer of the Navy, difficulties' had been
:thrown in the way of the Inquiry. When papers
were wanted, they should be given in the best way;
and a line of condud was not to he adopted that re-
quired all the ingenuity and abilities' of the Hun.
Gentleman to reconcile it.
Mr. CANNING, hoped he would be justified in
nain offering himself-to the House, from the attack
that had been made upon him. - 'With respect to
1111 r. Wilson, he did not say. the Commissioners
were Satisfied, but that leave had been given for
exislanation, which, from what he knew, was likely
14) ptitve vatisfadory, anti the Commissioners had
:not thought proper to report the whole. He would
ask, whether they had, aye opt° ?: Theanswer was
no. The Commissioners had reported enough of
the Answers of the Treastiter of the Navy to shew,
that impediments had been ,thrown in their way—,-
• • had the whole Of these letters been reported ?
Mr.. PL.ut.tr e, to order, represented the . impro.•
. priety of putting direa categorical questions _in
this way. .
Mr. C.iNNING, thought hiMself entitled to ask,
whether the whole 'of the letters from the Treasurer
of Le Navy were reported ? 'He thought it slue to
himself to give notke, that he would to morrow
Move for the *hole of the correspondence between

thcm.
Sir C. POLE said, he meant nothing personal
either to the Treasurer of the Navy, or to ,the
clerk. He had no obj:Aten ro the produdion of
The: whhle of the cow:spinier:tee, There was no
reason for :omitting any part, but to avoid loading
the Report with or:necessary matter.
Dr. I,4IYREVCE said, this was nut a question
between one man or tine set of men and another ;
it was-a 'point decided by the 'House, ,with the
strati authority of the impartial head of the
,Hoo.e
far 'F4 sans' neither was it Competent to those
who were examined before the 'Commissioners to
Itetiae, whether the questions put to them were.
tioest ions, of guilt or nut. They were not in truth
questiens ilf> guilt, hot merely, yiestions,: of f..n ;
tuiisriperit questions may arise that would involve
condemned the direst goestinnss and re-
quiting to bt answered by aye or no,
Mr. C 44VN4VG maintained ttit right to,put the
question with respect to M.r. Wilson, by the in.
turmation he had : he defended the questions be had
put, with respeet to himself, by what he knew at
his , own knowledge. He begged, his Hon. ;and
Learned Friend to suspend,' his ItiAgMent till he
should have seen the whole of the correspondence,
which he would .not have wished to bring forAvad,
if he did not think it would clear his coodutt.
Dahif LAWN. C and Mr. Rose ;::plainer.
SOLICITDR GENR,4I.. 4kt-ended his
„Right „ Friend (Mr. GI for paving put
the questions With which he hal been reproached,.
an the ground that he hail been sharply attacked.
The Correspondence, when the wh lie of It was he.
T.,re (ht., House, would !thew that every facility had
been giVeti to the Commission of levity, except
to en great inconvenience would arise to the other
public duties of the Treasurer of,t,he Navy. He was
p
sort that when the Hoo.flaronet spoke of cutomit ling
hecathe he iefuse4 to give ans era tend•
to his own criminatibn, he evoke ot ditreriol
Act itc,illl thMt eonstitutiog the Board of Itiquir;
gas,4 no loch rivrtr. it person were obliged
lay stair the iaoi to 41itt1/4, bow ctitninal they nail