Star.
London, England, 1805-06-13 00:00:00

is s c,oool. per ann. and the fat A um for foreilln.fe-
cret fervice motley, and the Treaftirer is gitairedthr
an oath as to the proper application of it ; but ,how
vain is it if nut aCted uparo! An Hon. Friend of his
I had thought this an imprOper time, when we are
threatened with invation, to proceed to jullice ; hut
lie thought no time fo proper. He depended for nor
deoence of the country upon the military and naval
flrenath which it poffeffed ; but above all, he de-
! ',ended upon the affeCtions of the people to a beloved
Monarch, to their veneration for the laws, wiling
frotn a fenfe of their impartial adminilltation, in not
fcreening the greateft and moll powerful criminal
(rem the hands of joilice.
Lord CroSTLEREAGH faid he felt himfelf pe-
t culiatly called upon to date to the Houle the gr'nunds
of his opinion and vote. In the condi of the difctif-
lion, he had been anxious to hear the opinion of the
perfons in high legal nations, fnr he had bee's per.'
loaded that the Houle was advifed to a courfe con
fiery to the principles of juflice as praelifed in this
country. He had heard his Learned Friend (the'
Mailer of the Rolls) with great pleafure. Still he
felt himfelf called upon to acquit his own confcience,
of any fhare of meafures that he could not confider
as continent with the happy-frame of fair jorifpru-
dence. He liad offered himfelf to the al-era:ohm of
the Houle laft night ; but now he found himfelf even
mote imperioutly called upon after having heard the
fpetch of his Friend who had jufl fat down.—
He was furpri:id to hear his Ron. Fr tend argue the
whole cafe as if it vete now fur the fivil time before
the Honfe, and every part of the proceedings were
hill to be &pored of. This he confidered as the main
end of the reafoning of that Hon. Member. He con-
fidered the Houfe as no longer at liberty to keep up
any proceedings, as if none had been already adopt-
ed. He had been at a Ids to comprehend the Hon.
Mover of the queflion yefterday, as to this point,
whether he propofed his motion of impeachment
aeainft Lord Melville as a fupplementary proceeding
or in fublliturion of the civil Nit. At lengths on his
Right. Hon. Friend behind him (Mr. N. Bond) mov-
ing his amendment, he underftood the Hon. Mover's
defign to be to propofe the furpenlion of the civil
fuit. Bo: he would tell the Hon. Gentleman, that
be mutt not merely fulpend, he mutt abandon 'the
civil lute unlefs the Houfe is willing to in4itute a
, third procefs from the evidence gained by the crimi-
nal proceeding. His lion. Friend (Mr. Wilberforce)
had Bated, that he had ailed upon a new cafe in con-
fentiog to the impeachment. He would not fay that
nn cafe could *rife, in which it might become the
Houle •o proceed to a criminal profecution after the
proceedings already adopted. But he contended that
nn fuch novelty was made out in this cafe. rind he
Witted that the Gentlemen oppolite had confidered
the petfonal proeeedings againft Lori Melville as
completely ended. A Right rlon. Gentleman (Mr.
Windham) had deflated that he tilt that to be the
cafe. But he would not Rand upon; individual au
thority. He appealed to the Houle, if they had
confidered the proceedings againfl Lord gelville as
being natut ally parts of a criminal and fubfequent pro-
fecutioa. They were felt as puniffiment in 'hemline;
thonali not meant to be expreffed as Inch—and the
civil tit was adopted on the principle that all idea
of a ctiatinal prifecurion was at an end. The con-
d..° of the Han. Mover (hewed, that criminal pro.
ceedings were ablent from his mind—for if their ex-
pediency had been forefeen, how could the civil Nit
have been ordered ? He %edited the Houk to attend !
to this, as it proved that all idea of a criminal prole.
cution had been abandoned. It would be necelfary,
therefore, for the Hon. Mover to make out a new
cafe. He had before thought the Houle afled with
precipitancy, arid almoll without evidence. They
may now aft with afire' icy—but that afperity will
work its own remedy. But be would call on them to
confider what they ate doing. He would ;A, what
matter is now before them that was not known before?
It was known bs the Tenth Report, that money Hilted
for naval pm-poles had been otherwife ~ppropriated.
Nay, mOre was fulpefled than the fart bore out. The
lion of 60,c001. appeared te be without explanation.
Afterwards 40,0001. is accounted for. But a crimi-
nal profecution is rejefted thew, and called for now.
The Houle is poffeffettof nothing new in aggravation
but femething in extenuation, at the very time ref
calling for impeachment. His Right Hon. Friend
( Mr. N. Bond) had declared himfelf a friend to a
criminal prof cntion of fume fort, becaufe he was
convinced that a participation of Lord Melville with
Mr. Trotter was
..proved ; but he declared, that no
appearance of futn participation had been made. out
to his fistisfaftion. The Noble Lord had been im.
rodeo( and unfortunate in the management of his
office. But he defied any man
.to produce a proof
of participation ; or any thing that might not be con-
fiftent with innocence, however ill judged. Lord
Melt ilk had flared that he employed to,oool. in con-
fidential public fervices, and, as he underftood his
Lordflap, ao,cool. was fo employed. It had been
laid, that Lord Melville was not of his Majefly's Pri-
vy Council when be to appropriated the firlt
But he would remind the Houfe, that his Lorelthip
was then confis/entially engaged in the management
r.f the internal affairs of Scotland. It could not he
doubted that oteations of public fervice might arile,
wh!ch would jollity' a loyal arid courageous fervent
of his Majefly in the application of money, of which
co account could he eiven to that Houfe. Any mo-
ney be could lay his (rands on, in fuch cireumftances,
it was his duty to appropriate in fuch manner. .And
where was the iticonventence of this? What extent
of conaitutional danger was in it ? He mull repay
the looney to I me perfon competent to receive it, for
the Htaile would not entertain much jeatettfy that
private fortunes would be fpent in the fecret fervice
of the country. V'Th refpeft to his Lot dfhip's hold-
ing this to,cosl. as a balance in his own hands, he
could not fee how an indiflment could be found that
could declare it to be illegal. No provilions of any
A& 1-Omitted the Treafurer of the Navy from keep-
ing the peniic money where he pleafed. Thete was
no legal offence in keeping it any where. And what
appearance was there that any fraud was ever defigned
as to this 10,0031. ? Lord M. paid his balances to Mr.
Trotter, declaring the deficiency of the 10,0001. and
generally flitting the caufe. But of all modes of
fraud, that of anticipation was the mina flupid, to
foppofe Lord Melville would haiatd the fhipwreck
of his fortuoes I:laced on the eminence he had attain-
ed, for to 03ct. Would he not have kept all the
balances in his own hands, infleact of a feeding,
and a fccding to mifcrable lions itt.Tiottet ? Hit