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chief Clerks named in the Report, were the only)
perfons anthotifed fo to drew hitherto ; and this
morning the Bank had received an order in writing,
from the prefent Treafurer (Mr. Canning) in futute
to ray no drat s that were ton figned with his nitric.
As to the vote he gave the other night, he did con
Lot in it, becaufe he law great negligence in the con-
dna of Lord Melville ; but having confidered that
soae, he was Hot one to go farther. He did not
h, Neve that Lord Melville had any cot rupt motives ;
was a long. meritorious, and alive fervant of the
pii lit ; and, din ing the twenty years he ( Mr. Thorn-
ton) had been in Parliament, he had never, until
hlondsy night, given a vote againft him.
Mr. BARHAM was of opinion that the allufion
made by the Right Honourable Gentleman (Mr.
Cam ing) to the two Honourable perfons whole na-
val .aid military c,indirel had been the fubjea of en-
quiry in that Houk the heginning of latt war, was
eery injudicious, and could ferve no ufeful purpofe.
The rail which he himfelf had taken in that &kid-
fion he had been pr Impted to by what he had at
that time conceived to be a fenfe of duty, however
painful he had felt the talk. The two Noble Lords,
however, had been amply acquitted by a vote of
the lloufe, and had lince jultified the good c,pi-
ri• nof the public. In regard to the queflion now
before the Houfe, he thought it a flep moved by the'
Honourable Gentleman abfolutely neceffary to carry
into effeet the refolutions formerly voted. It was by
loch a meafure only they could tell his Majelly that
fuch perfons were improper to hold any office of troll
or confidence. This opinion, he maintained,originated
in ou 'waives of perfonal animolity to the Noble Lord.
Hardly any, he believed, had fewer enemies than that
Noble Lord, and tar Ilmold he be from fupporting any
=nitric that he thought had its origin in the fmal.
led degree from a rancorout or perfecuting fpirit.—
On the contrary, this he maintained, was a meafure
of juirice, and effe.ntial to the honour and dignity
of the Houle. He hoped, therefore, the motion
would be perfifted in.
Mr. BANKS difavowed any political tonne/Mons
that could warp his judgment on any great quellion
of justice or policy. The vote he had given on Mon-
day night had been purely difinterefled, and had not
atiten from the influence of any party. He difap-
proved of the abafes that had taken place, and had
voted accordingly. He would take the liberty,
however, though unconnected with any party, to
recommend to the Hun. Gentleman not to perlin in
his prefent motion. Was the Hon. Gentleman cer-
tain that the circumQances of the cafe, taken in the
whole, would warrant fuch a meafure ? At any
rate, he thought it extremely ill-timed; and the fame
fence of duty-that had prompted him to vote with
the Honourable Gentleman on Monday night would
alto induce him to refill the prefent motion. The
defign of the adjournment on the former night was
avowedly to decline any meafure on the part of the
Houle till they fhould fee if his Majefty would, from
the fuggellinns of his own Royal brtall, take any
!Lep that might fuperfede the necefilty of any fur
thcr operations on the part of the Monte. The
refult had been favourable to the willies of the
Houfe, and bad rendered, in his opinion, this meafure
unneccffary. But why, he :liked, fuch eagernefs to fol-
low up the blow that had been already given; for this,
be undenllot.d,was but a 133114 the mealures that were
intended to be adopt rd, and that other inquiries were
alto to be inhit tired? :it fhould be told that it was to
prevent the Noble Lord from ever again returning to
his Majefly's C'aincils; but there was no probability in
his opinion that he would again be reflored. Indeed, he
hid, it might not be imponible, but farther enquiry
snightleadtoadifeavery that might render animpeach-
ment neceffary. He did not by any means fay that
fuch would be the effect of farther enquiry, but that
loch might be the effea was not impoffible. Should
fuch, however, be the area, it would then be time
enough to have recourfe to loch meafures, for at pre-
fent he deemed them premature. It had been raid,
that the refolutions of the former night would prove
ineffectual—would he attended with no material ad-
vantage, unlefs followed up by a meafure of the de-
feriptionof that propofed by the Hon. Gentleman ;1
but it was generally underflood that night, he conten-
ded, when thofe refulutions paired, that no farther
meafures were to be adopted. Had this motion im-
mediately followed the refolutions, it might have
been confidered as a neceffary corollary to thole refo-
lutions, and might, as fuch, have met his fupport—
but the neceffity of tl meafure no longer ezifted.—
The lisp propofed to the Houfe was befides contrary
to all the precedents with which he was acquainted.
So far as his knowledge or experience extended, it
never had been the triage of the Houfe to addrefs his
Majelly againn perfons out of office. Such was the
cafe hi refrat to Sir Robert Walpole, Lord Rane-
lagh, and others whom the lion. Gentleman men-
tioned, against schnm no a ddrefs of removal had been
prefented to hi, Najd's., though previoufly perhaps
in the contemplation of Parliament, when no longer
in office. Indeed, the very idea was fulliciently ab-
fund, becaufe it was not poflible to remove from office
thole who were in no office. At all events, if the
matter was to under g o a full difcullion, as intimated
by the Honourable Gentleman, he would much ra-
ther delay any farther proceedings till the refult of
th.Ae inquiries fhould be afcei taincd. When the
Houle fhould have the whole before them, they could
then moreptly climate the degree of odium that was
to be attached to a condo& which, though irregular
and in violation of Parliament, might yet admit of
many circumltances of mitigation. In fuch a dif-
covery, he declared lie would have much more plea-
fore than he experieneed on Monday night in the vote
lie gave in favour of the refolutions.
Mr. WINDHA wilhed before he entered upon
the quettion to make a few obfervations upon what
had fallen from an Honourable Gentleman (Mr.
Banks) who, althon,,h he was always on the fame
leach with him, was iddom nn the fame fide of the
rafli9n. That Honourable Gentleman had tiled a
molt fingular kind of argument ; he would have fup-
ported the Refolutien propofed by his Right Ho.
pourable Friend on the pi eceding debate, as a jun
inference from the refolutions which the Houfe had
agreed to, hot he had lince found it neceffary or con-
venient to alter his opinion. If this refolution was
then to he confidered as a fair corollary from the pre
miles laid down, he walled to know upon what prin.
eiples of confilleney it could be confidered in another
light at prefent? The queflion was not that Lord Mel-
ville fhould be excluded from a high official fituat ion
now, but fur ever. He could fee only one reafon upon