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of-. Lord Chatham's Narrative until Feb. 24,' but that
he had never conceived the- Possibility. of (he exist-
• •
ence of such a document He would adblit, that had
he:s*nr• the-Norrative before the Address of the City •
of London was presepttki; he might have advised his
Majesty to give so far a different answer, alto dedare
the result of the Expedition was,in a state of
quiry ; fur although he conceived that in tie original
dispateh4s wold-be found: a complete-atiswer to the,
imputations (for they did' not amount to charges),
contained in the Narrative, fet he thought it
would have been but justice withe
.gallapt
miral to require from ))ini a Cotinter -statement,
It 7. as this sense of justice to Sir R.. Strachan vt bich
had induced horn, iiniiiediately on his having' been
ma-de:-acquainte'dw,ith the'existenee of Lord ChM- :I
ham's Narrative (even belbre he had' himself:. read
it)'to-apprise Sir R. Strachan,..of the citcurnst:i rice,
although The rapidity. -Wit li Nk filch the.Narrative,was =
,moved tor,-and ptodtkui in the. House of CommonS
' would not.permit hint to send a copy of it.to the
gallant Admiral. Adverting to Sir Richard. Stra-
chan's letter 04 the Qitli August, he declared that irk
his opinion, it by no means hOre the .character of
-accusation of the military. dePartment of the,expe-
diiidn With which it had been:,chargt:d. It 7situpiy
declared the readiness of the navy to proceed ;. at the
same. time allowing that the question of procedure
. was purely a military one. He ..vtould repeat what
he had_ sa.tl on the first day of- the sei,iloti; that in
• his opinion the want of success was not attributahl?
to any, one; It chiefly_arose from.the adverse winds
• and unfavourable
_weather ; causes over which it
Was impossible to maintain any controul, He de-
clar&l the anxiety which he always.felt to maintain
the charaaer of the gallant offii:ers in that depart-.
ment the service dyer which he had the honour
to preside, and he confessed. that the Narrative of
Lord Chatham '(the presentation of which to his
Majesty was certainly au irregular. proce:ding) had
created t0:114,i a personal inconvenience, by putting
him on his
.defence to the brave and distinguished
. • Whew.- who had the command of the naval braneh,,
of the expedition, and by putting: him on his, de-._
fence to that House. Not conceiving, however;
that the Nuble Marquis-had urged any just,grounds
for his motion, he should give it his. decided negative.

•
The .EArl of DA,RNiEY—declared 'he could :never
speali. of -the disgraceful .Expedition to the Scheldt
but «ith indignation,. sorrow, and disgust ; and
thoug)it -that 'nothing short of tho.reauival.of the
pre,ent Miniswrs coUld 'rescue the country front
die-
grace and disaster, or save it from eventual tiestrub-
tion.

'Lord GRENVILLB Was glad to hear the able de= i
fence made by the Noble Lord (i lulgraVe). in
half of that gallant Admiral Sir Richard Sirachan,.
upon 'Whorn so much blame _had been cast by the
Noble General. Certainly in that defence' the No-
ble Lord acted but rightly;' acid iodeed it would
have been itnpostsible for any man, filling •a
situalionas he did, not to be anxious that the lidnour
and the unsullied, charaoer of the Navy should es-
cape unjust imputation. Np. man, he -believed,
could possibly eptertain .anydonbt upon the subject,';
•t".hat, with this Narrative communicated to'. hirn,,
it was not necessary to go into some inquiry, in or-
der
to ascertain whether
,pr not the charges of sharpie
imputed to the Gallant Admiral and the Navy were
.well founded., In this opinion the Noble Lord
seemed to concur, in direct opposition,tolhe Noble
Secretary of State. Sure he was that rt would be
.quite- impossible for. the Noble Secretary of State fo
recommend his Majesty to give the answer the did
to the City of" London; if' he had been aware of the
contents of the Noble GSneralgs Issiarrativet' He
blanied.Ministers for having. deter mined -against in,
quiry before they were acquainted with the real me-1
-rits of the casae-3 and as-Lord Chatham o had thoght..
ro .pper to, accuse the gallant Admiral in-his 'Narra-
tive, the latter ought /at least to have been called
upon to give in a Narrative Z -his proceedings
.also. His Lordship then adverted. to 'some of
the circumstances of the Expedition, and observed,
that if blame attached not ,to the Officers,' the-re-
sponsibility must of course -lay at the door of the
Ministers. Leaving this part of the subject, there
remained. one Of still greater importance to the
country; in a constituional point or-wieNv, than any
that had yet been 'considered. He alluded.to-the
illegal and unconstitutional conduct of Lora Chatham
in poisoiting,the Royal ear against those who were
conjointly employed with him in the public service.
This was acondu6l he execrated as subversive of the
best attributes of the 'Constitution—as tending .to
introduce a system of. double Government in the
country, by'which one set Of men would be put
forward as the ostensible Ministers of the King,
whilst another set really possessed the confidence of
the,Throne, were in, possession- of the-Royal ear,
and infaa were greater than the Throne itself. His
Lordship.coneltided by expressing . h wish to have
some official communicat ion_ how hippeped , hat
-the King had been advised to giVe an answer to the
City of London
..diredly contrary to that he Must
have given, had the existence of the paper now be-
fore the House been known to his advisers: ,
The question V.,as. then put, when a, division- took
Place, anti the number stood thus':—

Contents, 41.—Froxies, 2g—Total,. go
Non-Cw.tents,.7o:— .roxies, 136
Majority-againit-the motion 46
Adjourned at Twelve o'CIO9I.
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HOUSE QF COMMONS.
FRIDAY; , MARCH, 2.
Sir, ROBERT PEELE -reported froth the Committee
'appointed to try the merits of the Glasgow Pe-
tition, that 'Alexander'flouston was duly, elected,
and that none' of the Petitions, were frivoiout or
vexatious. • - ' •
A new Writ was ordered for a Burgess to serve in
Parliament for Woodstock„in the room of the Hon.
F. W. Eden, deceased. •
Sir W. CURTIs obtained leave to bring in a Bill
for erecting a new Stock of Funds Market.
Sir T. TuaTorr obtained leave to bring in a Bill
to enable certain performances to be exhibited at
the Circus.
Lord COCHRANE moved, that the ,oatlks ,admipi-
stered to Members of Naval Courts Martial, and to
' the Judge-Advocate, should Ile' printed.
The SgEAKER called the attention ofthe House
to the novelly of the motion; as, the oths were in-.
serted in the Statutes, and therefore it was not usual
to call for the re-printing of that wl-ich could be al-
ready laid oil the table.
Alter a few observations to the 'same effect from