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tent passed on it as before ; still every efilirt was
made to draw up the latent justice of the thing,.and
a case was draw n up by himself (Mr. Ward), which
was laid before the Attorney and Soliciter-Genetal.
The day on wl:ich'the Hen. Bart. gave notice of his •
natation, ‘4 as before the.-opinitin was returned from
tho.e lawyers; nod lie (Mr. Ward) had taken it
upon him only to advise hiS postponing it ; in this
he was wrong, fir his. plain course would have-en
to let the motion be made, and then state to' the
House, that the papers were still beforeCOutiSel.—
•It was but two days‘ago, that the opinion- of Coun-
sel was given in .favour,of Mr. Montague's claim ;
and at that time Lord Mulgrave took occasion to
say; that he would have great pleasure in allowing
him to be examined with a priority of date, corres-
ponding to the time at which his examination should
have taken place: Some cases had been mentioned
of others, to whom no delay had occurred, From
the tenor of,the Honourable Baronet's language, he
was convinced that there was an idea of imputing
the dill-I:l:epee to malice or partiality 3 but, t heypass-
ed, Merely because the rules had been better known
at home titan abroad; and if Mr. Montague's claim
had been disallowed finally, they should at once
have,returned to their original rank. An officer of
the name of Jenkinson had passed, and since got a
Lieutenancy, but this was merely because at the
Navy Office they had not the same scruples as in
the Mediterranean. He hoped that now the state-
ment bad been laid plainly before the House, no
misconception could exist upon the stihjeet.
Admiral MARKHAM thought that there must be
some strange carelessness in the conduCt of the Ad-

.rniralry, when one-oificer could be thrown back as
Mr. Montague had been, and another, like Mr.
Jenkinson, pas3ed on the 3d of December, and
made a Lientenapt on the t t th. The conduCt of

Lord Mulgrave to Admiral Montague looked point-
ed, after what had_passed between them, and it had
been—niade the topic of much conversation out of
doors. When Lord Barham was going out, lie es-
.tablished Ithe new code. What was then the mean-
ing of saying that it was not in force till 1808 ?
Was it not known, that in this instance, Lord
Mulgrae, not a prOfessional man, differed from
the whole:Board of Admiralty ? Some reparation
to Mr. Montague was nveessary ; but the recourse
of antedating his commission was a most danger:-

ous precedent. Cases bad- occurred where, this
was the proposed remedy; but Sir Philip StephenS,
a high authority in such matters, always resisted it.
- Mr., R. WARD said, that if the motion were press-
ed,' he must move the previous question.
Mr. CROKER made some observations on -the

want of candour in the gallant Admiral's (Mark-,
ham's) expressions. It was not to be Concived
that there was any personal .feeling of Lard Mul-
grave's canneded with the delay of Mr. Montague's
promotion. It began and ended with the thre ex,
;arnining Captains in the Mediterranean. Lord Mul-
grate' had made every exertion to forward his ob.-
~ le6t, so far as it uas consistent with the advice of

Counsel.
Mr. WHITBREAD was rather surprised at the live-
liness with which_ the Hon. Secretary to the Adini:.
salty took up the speech of his Hon. Friend '(ticf-
miral Markham). He expetted it to have Warmed
him into a vigorou4 opposition ; but could trot ex-
press his pleasure at finding him gradually subsiding
Iwo a meek and most complying suavity. In the
course 'of his peroration against the Admiral, he
(Mr. Croker) had sli,ped out the pleasa..t confes-
sion, that Captains were nut Lawyers.—"No, Sir,"
said Mr.-Whitbread, " thank Heaven, we ate not
so badly off yet; •we hate our Statesmen, our
Orators, all' Lawyers; nay, our Admiralty Secre-
tary must be a Lawyer too ; yet he has his merits ;
he will not overlook living merit ; for he manufac-
tured my old friend, Major Cartwright, into Post
Captain, of er he had give.. up his trade forty years.
The Secretary does honour to even the dead ; to
whom; in the spirit or his posthumous promotions,
lie has given a new rank—he, Sir, I say, for the
whole weight of the 'Admiralty seems, by his own
account, to rest on the shoulders of this bustling
personage, who couples himself' with its Members
by the monosyllable we, with ridiculous familiarity;
and then comes down to tell us, in the dialed with
which he has the perpetual art of raising a laugh,
that his mighty movements are too deep for parsons
who are no,t professional men."
Admiral MARKHAM would only recommend it to
the Secretary of the Admiralty not io put himself,
into too violent a pas:-ion.
After 3 iOng conversation between Sir C. Pole,
Mr. Ward, Captain Parker, the Attorney-General,
and other Members, , the motion was withdrawn, on
an understanding that instrottions should be sent,
that the allowance of time to those educated in the
neW school should be prospeZ.;tive, and not retro-
spe6tive.