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Copy of a Letter from the Comptrolrer of the Navy to the
Lords. cum tin ssiollori of the Admiralty, d.beatha zzA of
April, tSoi, on the subject of the Evidonce printed in the
E:eve,lol t;epQrt of ut I%LP:A Inquiry :
Tuge t with•Cupie4o§untl,y ttwrcin referred to.

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Ai a t:), o.li7ce, April 22, 1605.

filving read the Eleventh l<Tort of the Commil.'
sinners of Na'‘ral intioiry, and thinking the Evidence
given by the Earl of St. Vir.c as stated in the
Appendin to that Report, was it:corm% and likely
to lead the rtiltlic int() an epinion prejudicial io my
Official Char.latr, that I kept his Lodship iti ig.
norance of material transattions in my Office ; I was
desirous of being again exaiiiincd, and for that pur-
pose I wrote to the Coimnisioncrs the following
Letter on the Ist of Aptil
• " GVNTLEMEN,

" I laving read your F2eVen-th Report to the-
" haute of Commons, kind observing (tons the
" concluding part of the Appendix to. that Report,
" that the Earl Sr. Vincent declared before you,,
" that he bad no knowledge of the transaction
it therein allnded to, in resped to which the
," sums of Money therein mentioned were scve-
" rally issued, 1 beg leave to be again examined
" before you upon that sobjett, in orkr that the
" te"stiai,ny_ I propose to give may be made a
" Suppletnentary Report. 1 have in my posses-
" sion such proofs as will convince you that his
" Lordship was acquainted with those transactions;
4, these proofs in justice to myself, I desire that
" may be allowed to
.14 before you."
I attended with the Letter myself on the day it
bears date, AO havinTtielivered it, I retired into
the next room to wait their pleawre upon the unb-
jeCt ; after waiting a short rime I was informed
that they would send me an answer ; and I received
in consequence, the following answer, dated the 17111
instant.
ti
_ _

We have received your Letter of the tst in.
" ttant, respeCting the Evidence given by the
" Earl St. Vincent:, entered in the Appendix
di to our Eleventh Report ; and proposing to us
" to re.exAmine the matters to which that Evi.
" acne relates.

" We hni,e very. lately had occasion t• decline
‘1 resuming an Inquiry after haring submitted our
" Report upon the suhjed of it to the Three
" Branches of the Legislature ; and we do- not
" see any thing in the circumstances communicated
" by you which requites us to adopt a different line
4,4 of conduct."

Feeling much disaprinted at rot .having the op.
portunity of giving the explanation which I wished
to the Commissioners,• anti being desirous that your
Lordihipi should not remain in ignorance on this
subjed, 1 take the liberty of tubmitting to your
Lordships the following Statement -and Declaration,
wlOch I shouhl at any time he ready to verify upon
my Oath before the Commissioners, or in any other
manner in which it might be thought desirable that
should swear it.

I have the honour to be,
My Lords,
Your Lordship's most obedient
Anti very humble Servant, .
(Sigtie.l) A. S. lIAMOND.
The lUght Honourable the I.4rds
Commissioner: of the Admiralty.

STATENIENT AND DEci,ARATioN,
Os reading the la,'leventh Revbri of the Commis.
stoners of Naval Inquiry, and particularly the evi.
demo given by the Earl of St. Vincent, as stated
iri the Appendix to thu Report, which appears to
me not fu be- corren ; 1 have judged it proper to
mike the following Declaration.

I declare, Ist. That I have written Documents
in my possession (Copies of whi,;l; are hereunto an.
flexed) which appear to me to prove that his Lad.
ship had a thorough knowledge of one of the trans•
anions; all kn •wledge of which he has denied;--And,
2,11 y. 1 declare, That although I have no written
testimony to prove that his Lordship was gladly
acquaintawida the other transactions set forth in
,that Report ; and , also stated in the Appendix by
his Lordship to have been unknown to him ; yet
that his Lordship was not unacquainted with its
having taken place; and the fad of his having de-
nied the one, which is capable of distina proof,
may tend to confirm my Declaration upon the other,
as the same degree of forgetfulness which occasioned
his denial of the one, might occasion a similar mis.
take in his denial oldie other. I therefore declare,
that feeling it to be my duty to take care that the
First Lord of the Admiralty should be informed
generally of the Iransadions of my Office, anti par.
ticularly of such as were out of the ordinary course
of prOceeding, I took occasion not long after the
Earl of St. Vincent came into Office as First Lord
of the Admiralty, to ask his Lordship if his prede-
cessor, Lord Spencer, had acquainted him with any
services going on ander the authority of hk appro..
bation or order, that still remained uncut:tried,
and' to which I might have occasion hereafter to call
upon his Lordship for his sandion ; and his answer
was, that Lord Si eneer had not mentioned any cir.
CIIITISIAIICC of the kind to him, or left any memo.
randum, having envied his drawers pro/iota to
his (Lord, St. Vincent) taking possession of his
Office-room. •

I then cold Lordship, that it became my duty
to inform him of various particulars that I con.
sidereal t►Usulutely necessary he should be acquitinted
with.

I mentioned to him the circumstances under
whichthe Merchant Builders were then going on
with the 74.. gun Ships contraded for in 1800 t, that
instead of having complied with their request to
increase the price they had engaged for, I had been
authorised by Lord Spencer to give them assu.
rances, that if they went on land built the Ships
according to Contra°, their case should be fully
considered, ana compensation matie them for their
Tosses, if the same should be 'mac app sr to the is.
risfadion of the N4vy Boar,t ; this, Lord St Vin.
cent fplly approved of at..that time.
I also informed his Lotalhip, that Mr. Lindegren
was employed a AVI Agent to progura Hemp for
the Navy through the Neutral Merchantl (the
Ittlssiati Porn being then Niout avfnat this Cuunir));
which his 14',-ittldu,p/tho 4i•prvved of, and continued,

stated likewise frt his all the Cireuiti.;
stances that had occurred in the change of the mud
of paying the Savy Bills ; shewing what an
mettle saving it had been to thc Public ; and the,
difficulties which arose in 1797, in first stetting Oct
ninety.day Bills Into circulation; aol,!.imfortned hiktr,
ail' the expedient the Tie.l,tay had been obliged' ed
resort to fur keeping up their eredir, when. there gm
nut happen ro be money in the ExcNevet tv clis.
charge them.
And I do, as ,confidently .assert, tipon the .4trse
principle, that either at the -same time, or shorrix
afterwards, informed flit Lordship of all flit:.
circumstances of the transahibn relative to the
issue of the too,aool. stated in pave of the
Commissioners' Report; and which is described
by me to be" of a nature nor fir as yet to
be made the subjett of a Public Report and I ad 4
now, that I nut only arts ready to give to your
Lordships the most complete explanation ,of the
transadion ; but I subjoin to this Statement trid
Dezlaration a Copy of a 'Letter, which, though
subsequent to my examination, yet, previous to
Their making their Report, I sent to the Co.M
Missioners of, Naval Inquiry, tendering to give
them also every infurgiat-ron upon that poinr, pro.
vided they would not make it the tibj.,-.41 of a
Public Report ; and which letter, if they had
added to their Appendix, would have shewn that
it was not a transaaion which I had any wish
to 'keep secret, except so far as Coe disclosure
of it would be detrimental to the Public Sees ice;
and I do declare, that I believe, if the, Commis.
sioners had entered into this examination, which I
tendered in that Letter, that they wids'. have had
no tiiikultY in stating, that the'reasons upon which
I was desirous to observe this secrecy were perfect.
ly satisfaaory and sufficient. And I do declare,
that with resort r to:the last issue of 30,0001. the
order for which is dated from the Treasury on
the i4th March igot, it was considered as form.
ing a parr of the above transJelion, anti took Once
before. Mr. Pitt quitted office, although the bills
were not actually passed until the gth April, and
therefore this particular issue tray nut distinguished
by me, when I related the circumstance ,to L.srd Sr,
Vincent.

(Signea)
Nal.i).o.ffice, April 22, 180 s.

A. S. 11.vmoND.

TUB Aitis.--,The'great Ci;:lle1ion of riflorel in
illustration of Sit mtst. EAR s,'s Wdrks, so bonnier
to the zealous and liberal spirit at BuyDELM,
has at length been brought to.public atkiloo,
we are sorry to say that the Pittures in Et,,,:tal
have been sold for much less than their tni,4nal
cast and intrinsic worth. sotne of iheso fabo4rs cE
British Genuis, however, have been dispose:l of to
more advantage than right reasonshty be expetftl
from the fate of the rest. A liberal ter was, we
understand, for the whole by Mr. A:dertnan
Bo Dr. LI. to the person who 01r—tined them by th.
Lottery, with a laudable view to reserve the col.
legion entire as a national ornament ; but the lat.
ter conceived that he should get more by a public
sale, and 'he has been most woefully dloisvointed.
The fallowing is a lien of some of the chief Pietureo,
and the prices at which they were sold
Puck, by Sir 2,•stma 1-cyr,old,r, Bought by Mr. Roger;--
210 gispeas,

Circill3l 13X",01" OR "r Sxme4rtirt, Bought by Latd.tgre, wtnont—'i.s guineas. • . ,
IVIAc f.T.N and the vs!: fCiii 5. Sant: 4,t14.-,373 K 11410,21:
AN T nov Y anti Ls-1.10(.111'a A. Tiet-Lutt. BOLIAIiI •by W.
Sinitli„ tisd. M.'P,--96 guineas.
KtNrl I. AR . ire/ t Bought by Mr. Felton--,taeguincia..
Hu aT bud ARTHUR .
.IVvribc•O/c.. nought by mis 4
wood-- tot guneas.
ENTRY pt Mon ait u II: and BOLINGRROKt. .Noithrar.
Botii;lit by the Company—toll guineas. •
DOCsii.AAY presidingin the Watch-house. Smii•ke. BoUght
by Mr. liryatt--.7i guineas.
The INrANT S.NANSPITARt. R‘Ntfity.
guineas.
The F ,•,st.T.ST Of A R 2N. f lodgei --r 75 guineas.
LION ras and I9ltamtoNl. --.-,.43 guineas.
The l'atilcas smothered in the Tower. Notteve
tc guinuits.
The SErENAC s s, Sordrhe. Bought by Mr. Bailey, the
West.lndia Merchant-2.10 guineas.

Mr. 1.4).411--Ce-

(11 Wert.. Boligifit by Mr. Feltqn t 25 guirteic
rstosrsxolliew.. Wright, of Derby. —6O ruirutas.
Comstou COUNCIL—The LORD Mot yes.
terday presented to the Court bits MAJESTY'S An.
ewer to their Address;, which was read, and ordered
to be entered on the journaht.
The Town Clcik laid before the Court a Letter
from SAMUEL WHITBREAD, Esq. signifying his
receipt of the ittsolution of Thanks at the ,Courr,
and expressing his high sense of the honour conferred
upon him; which Was read, and ordered to be entered
on the jousnals.
The. Court voted their Thanks to the Rev.'Mr.
M. WOOD, Chaplain to the LORD MA (OK, for his
excellent Sermon preached at St. Paul's
before the Loan MAYOR, the judges, Aiderrneo„
and Members
.of the Court, on the first Suodciy its
Easter Term.

A Petition from Wid. Axß, EA, 'Cicirm ona
Fishmonger, praying to be discharged from the no.
mination of him to be one of the Sheriffs of London
and Middlesex, was read, and rcfertvd to the Con,.
mitre for General 1'01.1)ot:es to exattine and repo:.
thereon,

Ti:ere being no Court of Mhrruen tir.thy the
Lotto MAYOR, alter insi:,ecling the Returns, or_
deted the price of Bread to rettl.►in the saute :11 la4c.
week.

The French Army encamped at lire at is cbrut.
mended by klarsital AUGgitEM/. it COlidiati of
three ailtiStOrlti, under the respedive cotmriancis.of
GTeneralt h
u4fTlThtlelGßeun'erja)lt 7.3roartn;is t.lo6rtsitlls;
had the Principal CurnaLtni in tipper Egypt° after
the departure of DrssAt4. This Army ills
.been
joined by a considerable number of Irish tetteg.,adneca
destined to aet as Ouides whenever the litildes laf
BONAPAKTR shall be'able to circ r tanditig„in that
part of the United kin.loitt.
SUICIDE..., Yesterday
.marning a littne)ll44
,jeweller, who realties at No. 3S, Staffott.inii, sVrnt
to his work at six o'clock, le,tving his w tic and two
infants in bed; on his return to breakt‘a,t, at halt
pot ebjht o'clock, the first ohjen tn.rt pre,ented
itielf on entering his room, was lei wife iyiny ex.
tended on the floor, weltering in her blood, wide
bar throat cut from ear to ear. A Surgeon being
sent for, declared that the mu;t hate been (14,0
oiniste an' hour. No cause ettm be assigned for this..
rastr aa, aisle and her huiband lived on the hest
tears, . •

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