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ti ee illegal and unconstitntional. Had it not been Arm (ley of the Session in the Speech front theThronee
as illegal and unceestitirtionel as it was illiberal And his Majesty declared that he would direct all the -a-
oPpressive, the Ho,sse of
.Cominons would not have;,_ persiltst would be necessary for the satisfaction of the
' been resorted to for redress; but, circumstanced. as House on thesobjed of the Walcheren, Expedition ,
the Society of the-Benchers of Lincoln'S'lnn were,, to be laid on their oil*. In the papers however
' there could be no redress for the petitioner but by ! Which were in consequence laid on the table, Lord •
an appeal to the House of Commons. Had thet Chatham's Narrative rap not included. 'ln point of
Society been ;a COrporate Body, relief might have faet it did not then exist, and in point of farts his
been sought in the Conrt of Kieg's.-Bench, or in ' Majesty's Ministers did :not know the cootents Of
the Otit.-r C,11131S of 1.,a,..". It the principle upon 1 that Narrative
.until after it. had been presented". by
"welch the Benchers of Lincoln's Inn now professed Led Chatleten to the King..The4motion which had
to 36-t bad elseafe been a6ted upon, many of the • been made by & Gallant 'Officer for the production
gieatest.ornaments of the-taw
.watild have been ea-'1 of thitS Narrative saved him (Mr. 'Whitbread) a great
eluded-from 'that- profession, and.esiteet some of the deal of trouble on the present. occasion. It .whs not
most resethable Meinlore. of time House -of Com:. necessary now to discuss whether such a paper ought
mons would not now . ecetso the seats which they i or'ought not to be produced ; for the thing hid ac-
row held. There had been
_a series of letters, first tu;hy been done. - of ling could N.' more , objec-
ahserted in a ,Morning Print, - and afterward, pub- tionable than the, general
,peinciple upon wh'cli a
' lislied in the form of a pamphlet, addressed to the person placed in the situation-of Lor4Chathain hay-
... Lord Chancellor upon this subjea: He Was per- ing been in the command of an Expedition,, and hav-
Shadedibowever, that the authoit of those letters-'• leo, recess to the King as 'a Privy Coencillor, used
"Vas Mistaken in supposing-it' possibte that so high , s'.<l privil:ege for the purpose of putting -into the ,
and respectable a character as the Lord Chancellor King's hand a paper refletiing on the conduct of the
could entertain opinions. consonant to those of the : Officers associated with him in that enterpriSe. The
Benchrs of -Lincoln's Inn on this -question. In L theory of the British Government did not e arrant
fact, do such rule had hken established by the So- i such a proceeding; the praaice, Of. the British Go-
, ciety of which the I,Ord.Chancellor was a Meteber e i vernment could not go on, if such a proceeding was
-but on the contrary, .that .Society -had refused to I. allowed. He called upOn the House to consider the
ac'qu'oeee it; .a siteilar pi °position when neide to 4 circumstances upon which Lord Cheehain. stood:—
them. :He moved -tor leave to. bring up the ee- The Noble. Lord having tided in coniunetion with
1
titlon. . ,
e
i Sir RiChard Strachan in the command of the Expe-
Leave
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was riven; and the-petition, after having 1 moon, arrived in England before the tertnination of
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been reed by the Clerk was ordered to lie on tile •i 'the Expetition, and on which arrival his distina.rni-
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. table. - , I' litary command of course ceased. lit all the public
. '
- Mr. Siittin'A.T• gave' notice; that on •Fri6ay ht :I dispatchjshfrom the Noble Lord, not a stegle in' stem.
iwouid call the attention of • the -House to this I anon was to be found against the navy, on the eon-
. subject. , , ' .. 1 troy, LorchChatliarn had in those dispatches ex.
, : Mr. MARTIN stated, that as a Bencher of Lin--, pressed his most unsiAified approbatiou of ttheir
ilitin's Inn, he hecl objeeteS to the bye-law.ageinst ,i conelaa. In -flu: journal which had been preented.
.which the netiCon was direhted. He did not 'coil- to the House, ' adverse winds and euntavenr .ble .
ceive that the Society were. ..justified in the %este- weather lead been distinctly stated as the cause that
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Mishit-tent. ot.any resirietion ~t- the nature, 'alluded,. - parts of the nava servile hadenot been perfortned
to, ',unless nuon. the. disiirtei ground of immoral with the Cele,: ity wished for by the Noble Lord:--
. clzaraBere The 'regulation 'adopted by 'Liucolit'se 'But iti the Noble:Loy:Fs Narrative, in. contradiction
inn had been seet,round, to all the lather Inns of .to theeerruS of approbation in which, in 11;s die
court, but without success ; they having refused to - patches he had character teed the etforts of the Navy;
concur in it. e , , incontradiction to the causes distinctly stated in the
A person from the Army Medical Board pre- journal es having produced the'delayo.the Noble
seated i return of the sick iu tbeOffernt.regitnents ‘Lord had, thrown imputations on the Navy, such,as
Which had been employed in the Expedition
,to the put the two services at ~ssne. In the short- part which -
Scheldt. , - ', , . O . he (Mr. W.)' had taken in. the ineestigation before
_ A Message from the Isords announced' their the House. he
,had asked rib questions by.which the
Lordship assent "to the Incleenniey, Bill, the Priem two services,could becommittedr ;Up- to the period
of -Wales's Lefeitig Bill, and the two Ecliequve of the deli Very of Lord Chathain's Narrative, the pos.
Bills' Bills.- . ...
. sibility of their being so committed was unknown.-
FINANCIAL RFSOLUTION.,
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...., if -they:should now be committed,(which he prayed
-After a short _conversation between Mr. Whit- God to forbid), to,Lord Chatham alone would that
bread, Mr.-H. Martin, the Chancellor of 'the' Exe diSagreernent be attributable. AS in private life,
chequer, and .Sir J.. Anstruther, Mr. H. Martin many inferior traits tnust.necessarily he passed over,
agreed to postpone the discussion of his restolutions when the great and leading. feathres of a character
. lentil Monday fortnight. , • were-estimablA, so in an enterprite, such, as the Ex-
• On. the modem of Mr. Rose, a Message was sent pedition to Waliheren, tninor.circumstatices in the
'to the Loas,- signifying the acquiescence -of the proeeediligs of the officers, resulting :sometimes • from
• House of Commons in the request of their Lord- inevitable . causes, and sometimes even froM. the
ships.to :be-put ine;ossession of the report. of the clashine of contending zeal for the. service; if the
m Comittee on the Distillation -AEC • - - . conu ,uee s were exemplary,...
general it ought to be' bit-
Mr. Secretary AY /AR wished to know whether reed in obliviOn, and ought n'ot to prevent the e -
a worthy -Alderman (Alderman Combe) intended, .pressiOn of 'unqualified' praise. But when a Corn-
, 'under the present circumstances, to perseVere io mender in Chief of an Eipedition 'bestowed tin-
bringing forward on Tuesday the notion of which hull fled. approbation ottlhe Officers connected-.with
be had given eetice ? ' • . e t o - nim in that Expedition, he betiared tne trust roposed
. - Mr. Wner'fineefs replied; that in the absence of in him' by doing so, with the consciousness.- that
his Hon. Friend, he could only. say, that as the im- that anProbation would be 'succeeded. by iMputa,
portaen business (the Walcheren Inquiry.) stood for - tions _which it was, impossible that-any Officer could
_ • Tuesdays he and 110 •doubt dial he would siensent to . "hear unmoved. - What happened after the return
postpent his motion.
. . - • . of Lord Chatham to England? Did 'the House recol-
- 1,01-114 GALE IONES. 'lea; that in the Answer %licit his Majesty had been
Sir-F. Burn give notice,. .that on Thursday etheSed to make to' the Address of the City of Lon-
_ • next he should call ille attention, of the House to don on the failure of the Expedition to the Scheldt,
the case_ ofMr. John Gale Jones..
. • e . the Noble Lord being present in' London, and doubt-
Mr.
Caot.Eit prjsCnted Minutes of 'the .Court less in habits of daily intercourse with the . other
, Martial- on ' Captain ' Warwick Lake, which ..were Members of his Majesty's Government, his Majesty_
ordered to be printed. , . - , declared that -he did not think fit to institute any in
CITY. OF I.ONDON. - quiry into-the Naval or Military service of that Ex-
- Lord TEMPLE gaVe notice, that it was his,intens pedition.? If Lord•Cbatharn's Narrative had been
lion to move an huMble Address to his Majesty, presented before this period, be defied any man to
requesting that he Would- be gracioutly pleased to say that his Majesty. ought not to. have been advis-e
communicate to the House by whose educe he had ed to'instittee an Inquiry into the Naval service of -
been pleased to give the answer which had been the Expedition. Now as the lh,T,oble Lord ed not
given to the Addres of. the City of London, on the denied that the Narrative, which had been produced
failure of the-Expedition to the Scheldt. He would in the House, . was not the only paper**. a similar,
• not at
,present name a day for his motion, becanse description which he bad presented to,his Majesty,
it-wassetesirable that the important buswess of 'the he (Mr. W.) had .a right to a•sstftne that 'beibie the
. Inquiry shoOld net be interruped. •- . - ' • --- h . .cohnstruaion of that Narrative, some. other 'report
ROMAN CATHOLIC PETI;CIONS. • ' had been made by. Lord Chathap- to. the., King on
-W. Wienlesm, after some prefatory obsetva- the subject. He did not. mean to say-that the Right
;ions, presented two Petitions. from the Roman ca-• Honourable Gentlemen opposite coold give a satis•••• •
tholies of Ireland, which were ordered to lie on the factory answer. to these observations. 'lhey might -
table, be as ignorant as he was
,on the subject. 'Aware
as he was of the state of relations which subsist-
ed between the various _Members of-.his Majesty's-
Government, it -appeared- toshirn-yes'y Prohable• that
Lord Chatham might' have. declined answering the
same question 'by his Colleagees, as that whiCh
he had decli6ed answering when put by tile House of
CoMmons. ' 'How then-was the Heuseoce-proceed ?
Taking it forgranted that the Noble-Lord had pre-
sented to 'his Majesty some narrative-ter te,pert:plior
to that oh the table (and if this were denied.by any
, Hon. Friend of the 'iToble,LOrd,, he .would sit 'do %n
and say• not another. word .on the subject), taking
r this Isis granted, nothing could. be wore - evident,
titan that in- justice to the charaaer ,of the
~ in .
,Nary, and maintenance of the principles, of:the
Cons th utionse-principles which ought-to be practised
as much as _they had been
.preached—the House .
• should determine to Address, his Majesty forehe-pros
duction of that prior doeuffient. In what a situetiOn
would the gallant Adinital,t who Was at the:head of
the navaldepat tment of the expedition, and the Navy-
itself, have stood, if the Inquiry had never been 'te-
Stituted by the 'House of Commons. • The pacers
laid on the table of the House would have mani-
fested an apparent Batista lion at their .honduel,
while there evo-uld • have lurked behind in the
King's closet, unseen and unknotivp-by the world,
in a form that could., nit be „gainsaid, a direCt
accusation by the. Commander in Chief of the
.expedition against Sir Richard Strachan and all his
Officers. The system of favouritism not only must
be abhorred by a British House of COmmons, but
ought to be wholly unknown in a limited._ Mo-
narchy. • • It• geve an oppotteeity for those who
maintained eleniteeralic opinions to insist, that truth
tetver approact!ed a Moearch's ears, and that the
best set ants of the2Country were misrepre-
sented because they' had notothe easy- access tit
the Throne enjoyed. by the Ministers of a Court.

LORI) CHA.THAM's NARRATIVE.
Mr. Warri....l4,ahn observed, that as many' more.
Wernbers-were then present than were in the House
wheii Lord Chatham's. examination_ closed on the
preceling evening, he -would State Some circum-'
stAotes which occurred at that period. Those Hon.
7,;,-Cabers who ivere present Last night would re-
culled, t trit Lord
;Chat hani; had . been
.questioned
rela!ive to the riarratiie. which he had thought pro.
per to present to his Majesty,,and.which had, sub-
s-vinrutly been ro‘luced the House of Commons.
They WoU'id recolleo, that the Noble Lord bad
also ti,-en asked; wltether he had on any•prior'occa-.
siop prysented to his. Majesty any other narrative,
niercori=n,ikiin, or memorial, relatiVe to the,
Expedition to the Scheldt, They would recolied.
that: alter the Noble-Lord had been repeatedli ques-
:,tio!ied onthis stibje'Ll, he at length declined to give
au-auticver to the. inquiry. 'Puts certainly.was A
e'lLanlF,tance whiCh induced a.strong suspicion that
die Noble Lord liad pr'esi-nted to 'his Majesty some
flotiii-roent upon the Subject-:bcfore the delivery of
nal which' was on the 'fable of the House. • ' Lord
tl-lam standing at the bar as Peer of the Realm,
# ride COrn•rrittec7 could not press :4 queslion which
- he ~.id not choose 'to answer; hut it was in the
power of the House to address his'iViajosty for the
prodntion.ot such,a paper, if it existed:- He did not'
thit".k it necessary to trouble-the House at-any great
ic-ngth on this question, which appeared to him to lie
stra!l co,ipass, and to which he could not Con-
e the ity of Obje(iion.• Oil the 27th of
.11,111itut Hbu‘ie resolved- to institute ail-Inquiry
into Ite pohq.andcondud of the Expedition to the
5:1!..t1.,t.. On the I 6:h of FebruAry; a gAlant'Officer,
otim •h e not then s-e - in his place, a private
'nil cat Lora Chat ham's-(Ge,neral Loft!:s), proposed
toe A.tisc... ti) address his Majestj. for the protinc.,:.
on 'A narrative by‘L'ordehathiiht-, which that g,41-
,f.:lolficer stated Le .1-tely te On the.