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PARLIAMBX t;IRr PRCCEEDINGS.
HOUSE OF COMMONS. tVISONESDAY, MAY 14.

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The Houle refolved itfrif into a Committee en the Malloy Bill,
am: on the dare of the SECRETARY at WAR, the Report was
then brought up, and the Bill ordered to be read a third time to-
morrow.
Lord HOWICIC brassie ap the Report of the Committee on
400100.
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Mr. ALEXANDER fp the Report on the iris Loan
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W( loth a Committee of Supply. I
Sk j. ANDERSON moved, that the Report of the Committee,
to whom the Petition frosn'the Govenion of Bethietn Hofpital was
referred. be laid before the Committee. The Governors of the
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capable of astable, etro soo of whom it &mild be hi
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Mr. VA NSITTAIT cooArosid OW Ilatement of Sir J. An• •'
derka.
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• time on Friday.
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The Additional Farce AA Repeal Bill was read aOM he.
petted, sod ordered to the Lords. -. '
LORD ST. rummer. 1
Mr. JEFFERY role, plufuant to notice, to call
the attention of the Honfe to the papers nciw oh the
Table, relative to the Naval Adrninifiration of Lord
St. Vincent, whom he Rood pledged to the Houle
to prove guilty of culpable !Weed and grofs mircon-
due, during the dine he was at the head of the Ad- I
• miralty. .He flattered htmfelf that the Hoefc would
believe him, when he laid, that he undertook till's
difficult talk, without any previous confutration With{
any body, but certainly not without having the
firongefkgrounds for doing ro. Whether he should
have thought it neceffary to bring the queflion this
length, was at one time doubtful. But he was fo alto-1
nillsed, and even offended, at the extraVagent cubs-
giums, and ill-placed praifes of his zealous but mit*•
taken friend., that when he felt that the Inttreßs of
the country were at Bake, and the exiltence of the
nation threatened, he refolved to undertake this talk)
although be was then not aware of its magnitude.—
He had no reafon to repent of that determination,
and only regretted time this great fubjeft had not
fallen into more competent hands. As he advanced
In his inquiry into the documents and proofk now on
the table, be had been more and ;tore convinced
that his fiat opinion had been well founded, and he
eequefled the patient attention of the Houle, while
he went through thefe documents. Before, however,
be entered upon his charges againft Lord St. Vin-
cent, for unprecedented negleft and mifconduft in
tie building and repairing of (hips, during the time
of his adminißration, he thought at neceffary to ad-
vert to the meafures that had been taken by his pre-
&carers for keeping op the Navy. Having done
this, he would inquire what Reps had been taken by
that Noble Lord for the fame purpofe i whether he
bad followed the example of his predeceffors, and
tiled thole exertions which the fituation of our af-
fairs at that time required? It would be found
limn the accounts on the table that between the
fears 1783 and 1793 forty-two (hips of the line and
orty-fire frigates had been provided for the Navy.
Out of the forty-two (hips of the line 3o were built in
the Merchant's Yards, and out of 45 frigates ao were
built there. All this was done in the time of peace,
though the neceffity was much lefs than it was during.
the adminiftration of Lord St. Vincent. It was no-
torious that great exertions had then been made,
when, at the commencement of the late war, in 1793,
too (hips of the line, with a proportional number of
(mailer veffels, were ready to be put in commiffion.
Another part of the account chewed what means had
been used to uphold the Navy. It appeared that by
building, capture, Ste. between the periods of 1793
and 1 flot, 66 (hips of the line and mss frigates had
been added to the Navy, which was at the rate of
eight fail of the line and 15 frigates annually, for the
(pace of eight years. But it might be Paid that a part of
there had been captured and purchafed. He allowed
them that argument, and would on account of it
make a dedilei,in of one-third, which he confidered
as liberal, and more than could be claimed on the
ground of the papers on the table—and Rill there
was an addition of about fix fail of the line and
twelve frigates annually added to the Navy. It mull
be allowed, however, that great as thefe exertions
were, the Navy had not been left by that Naval Ad-
miniltratiou in fo high a Rate as st had been left
them by their predeceffors. This was molt alarm-
ingly proved in the year 1801, when, out of t 30 fri-
gates, 115 Rood in need of repairs, and out of 114
ships of the line a proportionate number likewife Rood
in need of repair. From thin it appeared that the
annual addhinn of fix (hips of the line and twelve
frigates to the Navy, was not fufficient to keep it up
at its wonted Randard. Now it was proved that a
thin would run no more than 15 year. before the re-
quired repairs, and therefore ailowing that we had
lio (hips of the line at the commencement of the
late war, no lefs than fevers fail of the line and twelve
frigates annually would be neceffary to keep it up at
its original eßablilliment. But even this was only
reckoning on the time that a fhip would run, without
Liking into account the numerous accidents and ca-
inilties to which vale's were expofed. Now he would
proceed to inquire whether Lord St. Vincent had
followed the Reps of his predeceffors, or exertell him•
Pelf fo far as to add fix fail of the line and twelve fri-
gates annually to the Navy. From the papers on
the table it appeared that on the 18th of June, 18ot,
fifteen (hips of the line were on the Rocks, fix of which
were in the King's Yards, and the ref in the Mer-
chants. There, wills the captures that might have
been made, might have added the above-mentioned
number to the Navy, if the exertions of the former
Navel Adminifiration had been followed op by the
Noble Loid. Inflead of this his head had been oc•
copied with whimfical projeets to add fifty (hips an-
nually to the Navy from the King's Yards. He rather
wilbed, however, than hoped, that•thrs could be dune.
It appeared that ten apps out 9f theft, viz. (even out
of at merchants' yards, and three out of the King's
Yards, had been completed in the three years in which

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the Noble Lord had been at the bead of the Adifir
ratty, but all without any great exertion on hilt ntratif
bectufe the contrails Lad been made before he 411111
into office. Two were launched before his' renal-
nefs had commenced. But he never put in elem.
tion the means for building (hips, and in fad lied
only built one folitary rif the line between 113crt
and 184, and yet he bad forbid all recourfe to the
merchants' yards. Though it might at firft appear
that he had built three (hips, he had really built only
one, for the others were alaudt ready before he came
into office. Now, though he had received is fail of
the line on the flocks, he only left his predeceffori
nine, five of which had been on the Rocks when he
came in, and the tea would not be ready till 1807,
being three years frotn the period at which he had ,
quitted office. Thule were the means which Lord '
St. Vincent p.,ffeffed, with which he had done almA
nothing. With twenty-one fail of the line captured,
he would not add to the Navy in fix years more than
one halt of what his predeceffors had added, though
he had an inlet :al of peace in his favour s and yet
the whole number which they had added would not
equal the amount required. Now, with regard to
the frigates, he had been equally negligent. He had
ample means to have equalled his predeceffors in this
point, if he had thought proper to employ theM,
and yet the total number of fri,,,ates which he added
to the navy, during the time of his Adminiftration,.
dednding ten frigates captured, amounted only to
nineteen. He trifled he had already convinced the
Hoare, that the average somber of twelve frigates
annually, for eight years, added by his predeceffirts,
were not equal to the wale in the navy. In what '
point of view, then, could the undue of Lord St.
Vincent be cenfidered, who, at a period when much
greater exertions were neceffirry, had literally not
added to the navy half the number that they did ?
He only added nineteen frigates, when he ought to
have added thirty-nine, even upon the lowed' compu.
tation. His Lordfhip did not Teem to hare been
aware of the neceffity of tome exertion till a Runt
time before he quitted office; when tome orders were
given, but thefe had not been aged upon till he *as
really out. EvEn there orders he attributed to the
diffatisfaition which began to appear in that Houk,
and the clamours which had been raifed.out of it.—
When he refigned his office, he left only one frigate
upon the Rocks ; nine bad been contracted fort but
far only had been actually begun,before the country
wax happily relieved, by his refignation, from the
alarming fituation in which it was placed by his re•
miffnefs and neglect. The Houfe, therefore, would
do him the jut-lice to believe that he had good imds
for the invettigation of this bnfinefs. Havingiui
out all this, he was naturally led to look into the
mks of this great failure ; to inquire whether we
bad been more than ufually fuccefsfid in our cap-
tures ; whether the political fituation of the country
was more than commonly Life and advantageous, fo
as to :ender exertion on our part lets necelfary ?
Whether our enemies had been lazy and negligent in
their preparations; and were only employed in build.
ing what the Honourable Admiral over the way,
(Markham) had called cockle (hells, things too con-
temptible for a Britifh navy to engage—or whether
the fituation of the country was not fuch as required
much greater exertions (ban had been made at any
former period ? He found, that between 1793 and
1831, lizty-fix (hips of the line had been provided for
the navy by his predecefTors, and that twenty-one had
been taken from it—(he requefted the particular at-
tention of the Houk to this, that it might be Peen
how the navy was dwindling into nothing) fo that
the clear addition was 45 (hips in eight years. He
found that I>tl frigates had been provided by them,
and that 53 had been taken away, leaving the clear
addition of 68 ; whereas; under the Adminidration
. of Lord St. Vincent, fourteen had been added, and
eleven taken away, leaving a clear addition of three
fh;p in three years and two months; and as to the
gates, twenty-two had been added and thirty taken
away, fo that the decreafe was eight frigates. Now he
appealed to the Houfe, whether the Noble Lord had
any grounds to fuppofe that exertion was left necef-
fary at the time he was in office, than it was during
the adminiftration of his predeceffors ? Was not the
conduct of the Noble Lord criminal ? He was not
ignorant of the necellity which exifted for great ex-
ertions, for he himfelf had dated, in his letter to the
Comptroller of the Navy, that there was the mod
urgent necellity ; and if he had been ignorant of
it, his ignorance would have been criminal.—
So much was he convinced of the neceffity of adding
by every poffible means, to the Iftrength of the navy,
that he himfelf laid, that he fcarcely ever converted
with the Comptroller of the Navy without introduc-
ing this fajta ; and when he wrote in a few days
after, he accompanied this declaration with a (harp re-
buke to the Comptroller, for fome fuppofed rerniff-
nefs on his part. He would read this correipon-
dence, in order that the Houle might be in full pot
feflion tithe fad. (Here he read fome letters which
puffed between Lord St. Vincent and Sir Andrew
Hammond, refpeding the building of 7+ gun (hips
by contrail, which clofed with a ref ufal to accept
the tenders that had been made to build at e6l. per
ton.) This was what paired during fourteen days
between the 29th of December, iBoz, and 13th of
January, 1803. After all this, would it not altonifh
the Houle to find, that during a year and a half tub.
fervent to thin period, and about three months be-
fore the war began, no reafon had been given for
rejecting the tenders, and no one (hip procured ?
This was indeed very unaccountable. He would leave
to the friends of the Noble Lord to make his defence,
and to date the reafons and circumltances that ren-
dered exertion unneceffary when he was in office.—
Bin it might be raid, that there were objections to
building drips in the merchants' yards. This certain-
ly, as appeared by the correfpondence which he had
read, had not been objected to at firft. If the Noble
Lord had changed his mind, it fcemed to be in a
great meafure owing to caprice and whim. When
his acmes of adding fifty fail of the line annually,
to the navy, (bould he dated to the Houk, he had no
doubt they would prove a grofs fallacy and imrrofi-
tion, like the calculation of the Honourable Gentle-
man, who put rupees for pounds Reding, with a view
to depreciate the character of a gallant officer (Sir
Home Popham) but while he was employed in his
whims and caprices, he had taken no Reps to procure
(hips—not for want of flips to lay them down, for at
the time of his quitting office, 13 out of zo were un
occupied. He had wantonly difcharged the work.
men, and forced that to leek another fervice, and

even to go ever to one enemies. Thf illiberality of
his conduit had difgtdied every one, when the navy
was going to deßrudion. In order to prove the mi.
Citable Rate in which the navy was, he bad only to
read the letters from the officers at Plymouth, now
on the table, relative to the neceffity of procuring
timber within a month of the time when preCs war-
rants were ;fitted. (He here read Come letters to
Lord St. Vincent, from the officers at Plymouth,
Rating the necafity of a fupply of timber.) He I
afked, whether this was the mode in which our na•
val works were to be carried on ? Having thus
proved the culpable and fltameful mice • of Lord
St. 'Vincent, lie would now Rate the effefts that
had refulred from it. In conrequenee ,of the ten-
ders of the merchant blades at 261. per ton, being
related, the country had •IoR zoo,oool. ; for bit Cue-
calor had been obliged to give 361. per ton for ten
74 gun (hips. This had been the effe& of his ill.
judged economy. He highly cornmended Lord Mel-
ville and Lord Barham, who had preferred the navy
from ruin. Had the contracted fyßem of Lord St.
Vincent been perfißed in, we fhould not now have to
boat of the battle of Trafalgar, and of the victo-
ries of Sir Richard Strachan, of Admiral Duck.
worth, and Sir John BorlafeWarren. !Mind of this,
our inferier. blockading fquadrons would have had to
fly befee the combined fleets, who might have ra-
vaged our defencelas colonies at their erie without
fear of oppofition. As an Englithman lie thuddered
at the rifle which we had tun. We might have been
reduced to the molt degraded Rate, and forced so
accept of any terms of peace which the ambitious and
unprincipled tyrant of the Continent• might have
thought proper to grant or impure. He meant not
to fay any thing againtt the corralion of abufes
which the Noble Lord had projated; but he thought
him criminal in not meeting the exigencies of the
times in the manner he ought to have done. His
fcbemes and alterations had not been approved of.—
The Commiffioners of the Navy had declared their
readineth to adopt any plan lie might propofe ; but
the Noble Lord took care not to illne any pofitive
orders that might bring refpo'nfibility on birnfelf.—
Inflead of ;o fail of the line annually. he had only
provided three (hips in three years. What then be-
came of their boating of what *as intended to be
done ? There was no grciund foi boating where no-
thing had been done. The prefent date of the Navy
deferved the rejoin confideration of the country, and
more particularly of the Noble Lord who was now
at the head of the Admiralty. He thought he had
now fully jutlified the eiprellion which he had for-
merly made ore of, that Lord St. Vincent was not
intentionally, but eventually, one of the greateft ene-
mies this country ever had. He requefled the at-
tention of the Houfc for fume time longer, while he
Rated the nature of the repairs which had been mach.
In &Sot there were fifteen (hip. in ordinary, ten.of
which required repairs; and in 1803 no lefs than
one hundred and twenty fail required repairs. There
were feven claffes of repairs, in a Peale down from
very large to very fmall. Fourteen required very
large repairs, and of thcfe the Noble Lord had not
repaired one—of the middling clafres he had repaired
but few—and of thole which required but very Cmall
repairs he had repaired the whole. Altogether be
bad only repaired twenty-fix fail out of one hundred
and twenty which Rood in need of repairs. But the
proportion of the work done was far Mort of the pro-
portion this twenty-fix fail bore to the one hundred
and twenty, on account of his having taken princi-
pally thofe which Rood in need of the kali repair.'
This would be teen from the proportion of the ex
pence. The whole expence had been 1t13,0001.
whereat, if the one hundred and twenty vellels had
been repaired, the expence would have been 918,0001.
fo that the proportion was one to eight, and at the
rate at which the Noble Lord was proceeding, 20
years would be neceffary to complete the repairs of
all thefe veffels. The Noble Lord had not been
awakenid from his lethargy till within a month of
the breaking nut of the war, and by his parfimonious
meafures he had thrown every impediment in the
way of the navy that could in the event of heltilities,
render it adequate to anfwer its purpofes. He had
fent away our gallant (cameo into other Cervices, and
compelled them to man the fleets of our enemies.—
In 18oz he had advertifed the fele of (even hundred
tons of hemp, which had probably gone to the fleets
of our enemies, merely in order to avoid the paltry
expence of a Rote houfe, and in confequence of this,
in a Ilion time after, it was found neceffary to pur-
chafe 552 tons of hemp, at a very advanced price.
The papers moved for by the Honourable Admiral
over the way, made his cafe ftronger, for there it
appeared that there were twenty chips more than he
reckoned upon in the fervice at the time when the
Noble Lord came into office. There were provided
when it was necefrary to refill the formidable confe-
deracy of the Northern Powers. This, however, we
owed to Lord Spencer. It appeared when Lord Sr.
Vincent came into office, the number of (hips was !to,
with an additional twenty that might be put in corn-
'nation upon an emergency. But when he quitted
office. he left only eighty-eight fail of the line, though
he certainly was not very particular as to the Rate of
the (hips ; for though his fucceffors, by great exer-
tions, added t z (hips to the Nary, they had the mor•
tification to find that they only replaced 12 other
which it was necefrary to repair. The Navy, how.
ever, had been highly improved under that merito-
rious Nobleman, Lord Barham, and he hoped the
Noble Lord who was at prefent at the head of the
Admiralty would follow his example. The Hon.
Gentleman then proceeded to confider the fupply of
timber for the Navy, dining the time when Lord St.
Vincent was in office. Inftead of 32,000 loads which
had been nfually fupplied, only tsuooo had been
fupplied, food after the Noble Lord had come to
pre tide at the Admiralty, and at lag only 4000 loads
were annually furnifhed, at a time when the con-
fumption was 30,000. He underflood that it was
intended to attribute the failure of the fqpply to the
Navy Board ; but the fame Navy Board had exifled
before and trace, and, in fa&, he had no doubt that
it was owing to the Admiralty Board. The regula
tions refpaling the timber to be received into the
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He contended that though inferior timber had been
before received, it had only been paid for as fuch, •
and that it anfwered various purpoles equally as well •
alt timber of a better defcription,and at the fame time %,
leffiened the confumption of prime timber. In .1804
no timber could be purchafed, and this was a date
in which the Noble Lord had left the Admiralty
when he quitted office, an event which he was per.
fuaded had laved the Navy of this country. He
I truded he had fully proved the,charges which he had
brought forward againa Lord Sr. Vincent, and
though he hadbitherto ilated fads without any cont.
menu, he trufted he woold be indulged in a few rib. •
fervations. The Naval Hillory 'of this country did ~
nowt any time nor in any lunation, much lets in
Poch a fituation as the Noble Loid found the country

in, ever record fuch an initance of criminal negleti.
If it had continued much longer, the Navy of this ,
country wool/ have been ruined. It ought not then
to be admitted that the Noble f.r,rd bad laid the
foundation of any of our naval vidories, yet th.tr
Noble Lord had been now appointed iodic greatell
command that had ever been given to a Naval Offi-
cer. Ve might dcferve this, but certainly not on .
account of any thing which he had done while at the
head of the Admiralty. He did not quake his
merits as a naval officer ; but theft our not to be
!et off againfl the mifchievous greets o bit civil ad-
, mininration. He miffed, then, that he Ibould not
,be accufed of calumniating the Noble Lord. If
the Noble Lord's charafter was blafted, it was not

blafted by him •, he had only Rated fads ; and if the
Noble Lord fell, be was precipitated by himfelf.—
He concluded by reading a thing of motions, form. •
ing a fort of luminary of the matters contained in
his fpeechoirhich clofed with one accufing Lord St,
Vincent with profs mircondult and a derelidion
of his duty. His objeCt in bringing forward tbefe
motions was, to fhew that what he hamlet( had faid of
Earl St Vincent had not been Paid rattily, and that the
eulogiums bellowed upon him by hit ntifharn friends
were unfounded. He was ready to proceed in any
way the Houle might direct. He moved, that the
Houle do refolvc itfelf into a Committee to confider
there charges.
Mr. DENT role to fecond the motion, not that he
agreed with the Honourable Mover in the accufations
which he had laid againft the Noble Lord, and not
pledging hitnfelf to go on a angle dep further with
him in the bufinefs, but limply for the purport of
haring the matter fet at reft. • J,
A dila:rutty here arofe 26 to. iho ftieiti of the mo.
tionthe SPEAKER at the fame time remarking
the unprecedented cite Om fiance of a Gentleman read-
ing his fpeech in that Houle, and begged that the
ez .nple of the Honourable Member might mot bit
regarded as a precedent. .4.. .
Lord HOWICK wifhed to kilo* hot, the Roil.

Gendenian meant to proceed, if the Houle fhould gd
into the Committee
Mr. JEFFERY laid, he bad no with of his own oq .
the fubjeft. He had only done his duty in bringing
the matter forward, and he left it to the Heide to
proceed as it thould incline.
Lord HOW ECK faid, it was not fufficient for the
Honourable Gentleman to 4t he had done his duty,
and left it to the Hattie. He had come there with a
written fpeecli which he had read, and whith. for
any thing he knew, he might get printed, and which
might convey an impreffion prejudicial to the cha..
tatter of the Noble Lord. The Ratements in the
Honourable hlember's fpeech were perfeilly contra•
vertible, and he knew could very loon be controverts&
The queftion was then pia, that the Hoofs do
folve into a Committee, to confider the papers on thi
table relative to the conduit of the Earl St. Vincent,
Admiral MARKHAM confidered the therms
now attempted to be fattened on the Noble Earl, 101
be the molt unfounded ever exhibited. Not only had
the Honourable Member come with a written attack
againli the Noble Lsrd, but he had ftudionfly avoid-
ed to tell in what the charge confißed. If the Hon.
Admiral had known what he only knew this morning,
he would not have troubled the Houle with that great
mars of papers now lying on their table. which he
bad moved for. The &(t part of the Hon. Gentle-
man's charge went to the general building of flaps
and, to Phew that the Noble Earl had not built in a
proportion equal to that of former Admiralty
'he referred to the period from 1793 to 181otuda
doing fo he had Rated the number added to the Bri-
an, Navy daring that period of eight years to be 66.
This he confelfed to be the fad ; but, at the fame
time he could not help noticing, that it was unfair
to Rate all thefe under the head building i or that
they could at all ente, into confederation, where the
queftion only was, as to building in the King's or in
Merchant's yards. During the three years the Noblll
Earl was at the head of the Admiralty Board, thee)
was an interval of 18 month: of peace. fo that it was
but fair, in treating on this Cubit& to take the (hips
actually built during there two periods. In this view
of the cafe it would be found, that during eight years
which the Honourable Gentleman had pitched on,
there were built twenty-four fall, and during the three
years of Lord St. Vincent's Naval Adminiftration,
there were built ten fail. So the Houle might fee
if there was any deficiency during Lord St. Vincent's
three years. Tina Lord St. Vincent was not liable
for any delay in finifhing (hips after they were or-
dered to he laid dna n ; and that the province of the
Admiralty Board was ooly to order the fize and di-
mentions, and to trial to the Navy Board for the execu-
tion, he illultrated by refers :ng to many cafes in point,
as appearing on the face of the papers on the table.
Betides the (hips which were building, he (hewed that
the frigates had encreafeel from 182 to 195, and tl'e
Noble Earl had alto contrived to man 20 fail of el..
line more than during the pet iod alluded to. Yet the
was called no exertion. Alter an expentive war, Ow
number of flaps requiring repairs mutt naturally be
immenfe ; and that it was fo in the prefent cafe was
apparent. from ss hat the. Hon. Member himfelf had
Rated, namely, that there were but is fail in ordinary,
all the rent requiting to be repaired. It was com-
plained by the Hon. Member, that a confiderable
numhei at flaps had been broken up, and others fold.
Was it, however, to be differed as Li objeitioa to the
conduct of a Fi=g Lord of the Admita!ty, that he
had done fo ? The deltas, as is uf la', in (itch cafes,
molt have been made, out and tranfmitted to the
Navy Board ; and, when broken up, the materials
would be employed in the repair of other's. If there
(hips had not been broken ep and fold, what would
have been faid when only rabbilh w • friend r Would'
not that have bren $ matter of .:siasination ;

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