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td for refer to the teitcluiro, the Comptt ono of dle]
Navy in hisiofficial capacity, and when in a printedl
Report of a CommilGon of this Houfe, the fttongeft
language is employed refpeding fuch condda, will
any min deny, that the Hon. Baronet ought to hart
an npu.)rtunity given him to vindicate himfelf to the
utrunfl he is able,? or is the Comprroller of the Na-
vy ti;;10 Phut out from evidence. and the Houfe

of Commons from
.information ? As to the pa-
pers moved for, I can be fuppofed to know no-
thinrclf their contents, the Houfe illy having them
before it ; yet I will go fo far as to intimate, that I
believe that when the papers (hall be before us, they

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will turn out to be documents which do afford at

once a juflification and defence of the Honourable
Baronet, and thew that the Eleventh Report is not
cor.ea, as it ought to be, and should have been, if
the Cornmiffioners had not done very much what is
now attempted by the Hon. Gentleman- —fhut out
my Hon. Friend from giving that evidence which it
was fully in his power to give. In point of fall, Sir,
the lion. Bart. can only put the Houfe in poffeffion
of his cafe, by fnbmitting to its confideration the
papers moved for, fine they are thofe which were
offered to the Commiffloners, but which thole Gen-
tlemen thought proper to refute. Correaly (peaking,
the papers are official documents requifite to the elu-
cidation of this fubjeft ; and the Houle ought to be
in poffeffion of them preparatory to its coming to
any decifion whatever on the fubjeft of the Eleventh
Report. How unjult would it be, if, when the Re-
port came to be confidered, it was found the Hoare
had &at out the main evidence in the queflion, and
ttsat only becaufe it might reflea on 'he Noble Lord
who is fo folicitous for enquiry ? ( Wear! Hear !) I,
Sir, ant not defirous to undervalue the perfornd at-
tachments of the Hon. Gentleman corer againft me
to the Noble Lard. lam as little defirous to detraa
from the honours and fplendours of that attachment,
but, undoubtedly, Sit, I do think we are bound to
prosier% the feelings, and efpeatally the reputations,
of others, as well as Lord'St.• Vincent. If I enter-
tain the fame opinion I always had of the profeffion-
al (kill and gallantry of the Noble Lord—if I Would
be as ready as any man tb check any opinions I
might fee fpreading injurious to his charaaer as a
eommandet, am I, therefore, to approve of the con-
dua of his friende who have brought forward his
tame this night as an interference with the jollies of
Parliament, and` the charaaer of an important offi-
cer oldie Crown ? (Hear! Hear!)
Mr. GREY objefted to the mpde the Minifter
had argued the fubjea. The Minitter had Rated the
queßitan on his own grounds. The Minister Paid no-
thing as to the mode the queflion was brought for-
ward, but pallid over altoge her the circumaances
of the giving the notice, as well as bringing forward
the motion. The motion was inconfillent with the
jußice cluelo an individual, whole charafter it ma•
terially involved, and when that individual was Lord
St. Vincent. the interference of the Honfe was the
more neeeffary. On the other hand, fo far as the
Eleventh Report rakes on the Hon. Baronet, Mr.
Grey by no means swatted to deprive him of every
proper op?ortunity of defence. GOD forbid that he
&outd ohjeft to the produftion of the papers, it the
Houfe could he allured that they were really neeef
(.try to the defence of the Honourable Baronet. What
be complained of was the notice and (Mr. Grey's)
motion, both were filent as to the contents of the
papers. fo that the friends of Lord St. Vincent had
no means if knowing whether, and in what the pa-
pers were defeEtive, which, if they did know, they
would recommend alteration. No fimilar cafe had
occurred, excepting one or two lately on the Mini-
finial fide of ithe Honfe. He *Reapproved the mo-
tion, becaufe the Houle would be fubjefted, by cons
plying with it, to the odious fituation of being made
the medium of circulating any trafh whatever which
might be Rated in letters or other documents. Public
rumour Rates, that the papers contain an attack on
the Noble Lord, which, if the cafe, rendered it molt
particularly incumbent on the Honk to be jealous
of the motion. The Chancellor of the Exchequer
alks, whether we had not done the fame thing on
this fide the other night? to which the anfwer was
" No," for the papers were defcribed. But it was
objeaed, that the friends of Lord St. Vincent fay,
that his charaaer is above enquiry ; now no friend
of his lays but all thought it above calumny.
Sir ANDREW HAMMOND again rote. It was
impolfible, when the Comptroller of the Navy was
particularly refleaed on by the Comma:otters of
Naval Enquiry, for him to pafs over a great part of
the Eleventh Report. 4. Either the Noble Lord or
myfelf will Rand, after the inveßigation of the evi-
dence therein given, and after the perufal of the do-
cuments moved for, in a fituation in which no man
of honour could wifh to be." Sir Andrew proceed-
ed. •' The papers I wills to be laid before the
Houle, confill of my own letters to the Commit:
(loners, their anfwers, and thofe various documents,
wl.ich I deem necefeary to my defence. I wrote to
the Commiffioners to be re-examined, and was told
that they had made their report to the three branches
of the Legiflasure, and lhould abide by it as it Rood.
I am in an inferior fituation under the Lords Corn-
miffioners of the Admiralty, and cannot but with to
gland well with them. Accordingly when I found
that the Commit:Goners of Naval Enquiry would
not grant me a re examination, I wrote to the Ad-
miralty, and dellred the Lords Commiflioners to
look over the papers enclofed to them in my letter.
Thole papers I have moved for ; and if out of or-
der, I hope the Houfe will pardon my anxiety for
giving this explanation of my motion and conduit."
Here the dircueGon in the mean time ended, and
the Clerk proceeded to read the letter and the feveral
enclofurcs, viz.
Rama of a Letter from Sir Artoitzw SNAPS HAMMOND, to the
Lords of the Admiralty, dated nil April, zlics.

" My Lords—liaving read the Eleventh Report orthe Com-
milioners of Naval Enquiry, :Ind thinking the conduit of Lord
St. Vincent Inemreet in the cvid nee given in the Appent:ix to that
Report, and likely to mitlead the public, I wrote a letter in ex-
plahation to the Commiffioners of Naval Enquiry, which is here
encli,ted :
" Gentlemen, " lit April, 1805.
" a tld your Report, and learning that Earl 5:. Vincent
had therein Rated, that he had no knowledge of the toms of money
chat vt d to my account, I ;deg to he re-examined, in order that my
tettimuny m..y be made to fopply the ignorance he these profeiLs.
" I nttcr.ded the Board of Commillionera, with a letter, on that
day, and fad I would wait their pleallsre in the bulinefs. I was
informed that I th,,uld have an anfwer ou the fubjed, which 1 re•
cared the 17th instant- It is as follows:
" air—We have received your letter, propnGng a re-examina-
tion r. f ot that part of our Eleventh Report, which relates to your-
, fell; we have very lately bad oeeafion to retele a fimilar requelt
from st.otJaer quarter, and we do hot fee any thing In catalog eir-