The Sun.
London, England, 1810-05-24 00:00:00

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Mr. CACCR AFT rose, according to notice, on the
subject of theTwelfthilleport of Military inciuiry.
Before he proceeded, he wished to ifiform the
House, that yesterday evening be' received a letter
from Mr. Hunt; dated Lisbon, May 6. He wished
to know if it was•the pleasure of the House that it

should be read. ' He had shewn the letter since, in
the House, 'to a Member of the Board of Ordnance,

who proved the identity of the hond•writing.
The SPEAKER desired the Order of the Day tole
read pro forma, and then requested the Hon. Mem-
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ber to relieat his information.

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Mr. CALCIIAFT accordingly repeated his furmer
statements, and on the Speaker's inquiring respeat-
ini the hand-writing,
Mr. A. COOPER proved it to be, that of Mr.
Hunt.

The Clerk then proceeded to read the letter, the
substance of which was' as follows .

" It,commenced with Mr. Hopi's acknowit•dg-
mept of having received the 12t11 acpart of-Military
Tiniu,ry ; he was astonished at seeing so large a bal.

lance charged in it to• his account,—a
great part of -
which lie did not really owe. The Commissioners -
had omitted several explanations in their report,
which was very ipaixurate. It was to the amount

of 20,0001. were not rightly charged to him, who
left no .voluntary charge unaccounted for. He
stated that he left in his office 7000): and 20p01. in
the 831115,' and expressed much regret at withdraw-
ing himself, without an-e3zlanarign..From the
state of his health, he -was at present- incapable of
attending,• he therefore.hoped some time might be
allowed him. fie was actuated with a sincere de-
4re. for the public --welfare, and trusted he'would be
enabled to refute the prejudices which were against
him. Another'ground on which he wisi;edfor time.
was, that he unders(ood the Commissioners intend-
ed to make a-particularinquity-into the state-of the
Ordnance Office. He returned thanks to' Mr. dal..
craft for the del!cacy With which roc abed, yet con-
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ststent ikith his public duty. He hoped he would,
for the present, wave
,any further proceeding; -and,
in a postscript, emtressed his intention of shortly re-
turning to England." •
Mr. CALCRAFT then moved, that.the 12th report

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of Military Inquiry shotild be taken .into considera
(The report was entered as read.) He observed,
that notwithstanding the statements-in the letter
they did not rebut the violation of an Mt of
[Tien t for the regulation of Public Offices: Six weeks,
had elapsed since he first called the attention of the
House to this subjeet, in that time the intelligence
would have reached Lisbon, and •Mr. Hunt might
have returned.;,.it did not appear, in .faet, that he
,was in an state of ill health. During the• Easter Re-
cess he had a conversation with a YespeEtable relation
of his, who applied for an extension of time, to this
he replied he had no objealon; provided the atten- -
dance of Mr. Hunt was insured -bOore the Session
closed. It was of importance to the general welfare
to make an example of defaulters. •An Aa had
been passed-to rest via the Treasurer of the Ordnance
to draw on the Bank unless for the. Public; that law
had been carlied into efleil with the greatest.proifri-
ety by 'Mr. Davison, the former Treasurer. A short
time after Mr. Hunt came -into office, he b •gan .10
draw on the Baukin tide names of persons who were
conneEted with the Ordnance. In this irregular µay
he drew 100,000 i. a great part of which he owes to
the Public. " With, respeEt to the manner in which
he intended now aaing, he had looked over the
Journals and, found that the only mode the House
had ot procoeding when Ministers were gtilty (not
immediately of the present crime, but of perjury and
other flaN-ant misdemeanours) was by expulsion.
1111 Since Mr. Hunt had left the country, he should.
move for his expulsion ; if he had remained, he
Should rather have, proceeded tit indiament, and
then have used accordingly.' He did not believe
there were two Opinions on the subjeCt. He-Avas
sorry to say, that many similar occurrences. had not
been taken notice of by the House. He shonld
mention that of General De LanCey who was in-
debted to the Public one" hundred thousand pound4,.i
and yet possessed th'e rank"and pay of-a Generll in
the service. By such things the public feelings.
4vi;ere insulted. It was rather remarkable, th Acts
were passed for the very prevention of such c nduet
ithinediately previou,s to-its taking place. If they
were not now' enforced, .the vigilance- of public
offices woul be lilted asleep. In the Board. of Ord-

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