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and had aanally contracted for a large quantity of
timber from the coaft of Dalmatia. The latter would
have appeared in the Houle had the late Minifter
tented to the produetion of a paper moved for by his
Honourable Friend in thecourfe of the lag Seftions.
Bat .liat palter was refuted. But the enemy became
acquainted with the objeft. That enemy, however,
had now got poem°n of the provineg. and wi:h it
1.0,000 tree., which had hem aftually cut down
ready to be carried to this country. As to the pro-
ceedings of Lord St. Vincent reipating foreign tim-
her, his jtth;r;cation would be Sound in the Sixth
Report of the Commit]; mers of Naval Inquiry, in
the hiflory of the emitiatt with Mr. L.irkin, and
in the obferva:i..iis t f the Na' y Board on the Ap-
pendix of the Sixth Report above alltni.d to ; al
thnngli that Board had thought proper on a par-
ticular oeciatinn to Hate, that the mode of receiv-.
log timber at the deck yard , previoufly to the
eniercement of Lord Spencer's regniaikn was, "on
the whole, .beneficial." What was to be Paid of fuck
a Board 1 but C =thing mutt be done. Had Lord
St. Vincent remained ionic time longer at the Admi-
ralty, the probability was that the evils complained
of would have been remedied—that their root would
have been cut up. The Honourable Mover was per-
teBly right in laying that he (Lord Howick) had
undertaken a great refpoafibility. He felt it, and
!tumid execute the duty aligned to him to the beg
of his ability. He was aware that the prefent (late
of our Navy was by no means fuch as could be
cleared, but he trolled to the refources of the coun-
try for fupplying its wants, and for upholding the
flrength, the rank, and the unparalleled character
whichit had fo long maintained. To do that, how-
ever, he felt that the moft advilable c-urfe to purfue
would be that chalked out by Earl St. Vincent,
namely, to root out abufes and to infufe that energy
into the feveral offices, of which he was lorry, from
his own experience, they were very much in want....-
This deficiency had been. particularly obrerved upon
in a late Report from the Comrniffion of Inquiry, at
the head of which was a Noble Lord (Barham), and
that Report ftated the belt mode of removing the
evil to be the appointment of vigorous and softies
officers in the department of the Navy Board It
were much to be regretted that that Noble Lord
himfelf did not aft upon this recommendation—est
in two appointments made by his Lordlhip in the
department alluded to, he did not appear to have
had any filch thing in contemplation. The Noble Vif.
COO* di(claimed any inclination to excite the leaf!
&cord. between departments which ought to aft
cordially together for the public fervice. He could,
indeed, appeal to the late Comptroller of the Navy
Baud, to prove that his dirpofition was quite of a
contrary nature. The oblervations he had made re-
fpeEling individualsohe Houle would feel to have
been forced upon him. The Noble Vifccunt con-
cluded with expreffing conviaion, that DO blame
could attach to Lord- St. Vincent opon any of the
grounds ltated by the Hon. Mover, nor upon any
other tbit the molt active of his enemies could ima-
gine, and of courfc that there was no reafon for
going into the foropofed Committee.
Colonel BASTARD replied to the flatement, that
many of our west kmen were now in the Service of
the enemy, by Rating that fo fyflematic was the re.
Mines of there people to every thing that came
from the Admiralty Board, that they dilcuffed every
meafure that was propofed to be adopted by that
Board, recorded their proceedings on what was cal-
led the tree of liberty, and even bad delegates itt
town for the purpofe of treating with the Admi-
ralty as to the regulations which they might approve
ot. Such men as thole were of a dirpolition which
Might p oticularly fuit the charafter of the French
at that moment, but which would induce a delibe-
rate body of Englifismen to think very little of the
tors of fervice fo alloyed.
Mr. TYRWHITT maintained, that the only fyf•
tem of terror of the Noble Lord was, that which he
aCted on againft the enemies of his country, cn the
tath of February, for initance.
Mr. OSBORNE MARKHAM, from a compara-
tive view of the Qatements on the table, declared that
we had a greater fupply of large timber particularly,
than at almolt any other period.
Mr. BANKES thought, that as there was not any
grave or fetious foundation laid for the charge which
was intended to be brouoht forward, nothing but a
difference as to fpeculative matter of opinion having
been proved to the Rode, be fhould, in the words of
the Seconder of the motion, with to have the quef-
tion s. entirely let at reit," but in a very different
manner from that in which the Honourable Gentle-
man propofed to do it—he thould vote tor the total
dirmilivi of the motion, or any further procers on the
fubjeet of it. The Admiralty, however, fhould have
correfled the conduit of the Navy Board. But the
Noble Earl had let about the work of reform with a
moft laudable degree of fpirir, which he trufted his
Lordlhip's fuccelfor in office would continue to ins.
glove upon.
Mr. FOX agreed with the Hon. Member who
(poke lad, lo far as to declare, that the Admiralty
had the pov:er and the light which he fpoke of,
namely, to controul the Navy Board. But, where
there tam not any evidence of criminal neglaft, the
natqral jultice of mot men's minds would induce
them not to bring lot ward any pubic acenration, but
this might be carried too far, and would have a per-
nicious tentlency to the interetts of the country.
Mr, JEFFERY, in explanation of hie former Sate.
meats, replied to many of the arguments width had
been advanced againft him, and infifted on every pa
fition he had before laid down.

He was called to order by the Speaker, who Aiked
the Houk if the pradlice of reading fpecches Was to
prevail ?
Mr. CANNING compared the aft to the reading
of the Statements in opening a Budget.
The SPEAKER declared, that what the Honour-
able Member mas reading, arratcil to him to be a
train of conceived argumel.r, tint a numer;cal Date.
meet, merely calculated to ofiiit the memory.
Mr. FOX raid, how could he know that what the
Honourable r•lrtmber was reading, as his arguments,
might not polObly have been the writing and concep—
tion of force other perfoa, who was not a Member
of rite Hoerr+

The quedion was then put and carried without a
dieilion.

A Vole, expreffive of the approbation of the Houk
of Lord, Sr. Vincent'. conduit during Ma adniniltra-
tirn, was moved by Mr. foa, (Tara min