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eviellanalet that Mould lead us to adopt a Siffereot line of coedit&
We have the honour to be, Sir. See. Ste.
0 Not having an opportunity to exculpate myna( upon oath, in
cooui
mfrerence of this refute!, and being unwilliug that the public
be left in ignorance on the fubjedt, 1 gavein the following
Statement and Declaratlotatirtich I am willing to Verify mum oath.
have the honour to be, my Lords, your Lordthips' obedient,
and molt humble fereartt (Signed) A. S. HAMMOND."
STATEMENT AND DECLARATION.
" On reading the Eleventh Report of the Commaruiners of Na-
val Enquiry, and more particularly the evidence given by my Lord
St. Vincent, I have Jaded proper to make this declaration in my
owndefence, and have enclofed copies of letters Which are herein
named, front Nat to to, and which -o to prove that his Lordthip
bad a knowledge of one part of the tranfaetion, which he has de-
nied; and though I have no means of proving it, yet there is
Itroog melon to fuppofe, from his Lordthip's forgetfulnefs in this,
that be was forgetful in retard to the part of the tranfadtion to
which his Lordthip was privy. As to his Lortahip's general know-
ledge of inch trailfadions„ there could be Fin doubt of his being
aware of their nature, for in order that the Admiralty might have
information en the fubjed, I took oecafion, loon after Lord St.
Vincent came into °lnce, to enquire of his Lordthip, If he was
acquainted with any fimilar traafadlions going forward under
Lord Spencer? Lord St. Vincent's anfwer was, that Lord
Spencer had not raid any thing to him upon the fubjedt, neither
had he left any memorandum of the kind in the office. I then
told him, that it was my duty to inferno him of feveral particu-
lan that reguarded the building of ea gun flaps by merchant
builders, and explained other caufes of the enormous expences
attending the building of veffds, which ought to be fully coofi.
tiered. Tbis his Lordiblp fully approved of I next informed
him of all the changes that had taken place, and of the probable
laving there would be to the panic. I afterwards lutormed him
of the expedients which the Treafurer relented to, when he
had nu money left under that heed of fervice. I acquainted
him of all the tranfadtlona that refpcdcd the application of
the 100,0001. In page 191. of the Eleventh Report, and de-
(crated ii as not fit to be made the fulled of a public report.
But I fubjoin a copy of a letter to the Commilhoecre of Naval
Inquiry, Sating that the tranfadion was of a nature that required
!Cerny, but if they would enter into a re-examination of my evi-
dence, I had no doubt but they would find my reafons good for
not giving an explicit anfwer upon the fahjed. With raped to
the 3o,ccel. charged the 14th of March, agog, that traufaation
occurred before Mr. Pitt quitted his office.
Dated and April. (Signed) " A. HAMMOND."
Copies of she Enclufures referred to in Sir Andrew Hammond's
Letter to the Board of Admiralty.
No. I.—From Sir A. Hammond to Lord St. Vincent.
My Lord, Navy Office, 9th March, Igoe.
0 I had not the honour of feting your Lordfhip when I called
this morning at the Admiralty. I meta& an order from hi. Ma-
jetty, and beg leave to acquaint you, that I have followed the in-
ttrudions therein given as far as it is in my power. I alto beg
leave to acquaint you, that I have avoided taking any additional
Rams from the dock yard, and on account of the extraordinary
dilpatch that is neeeldary, 1 have had recourfe to Chatham and
Woolwich yards (Signed) " A. HAMMOND."
No 11.--Copy of the Order (molt keret) from Lord HOBART to
Sir ANnaiw HAMMOND.
" SIR, Downing.ftrect, Feb. 9, 1804-
" It being thought advifable to carry into executiou a project'
for chocking up the harbour of Boulogne, and the fuccefs of the
mature depending upon the fecreey and difpatch with which it
is carried into effetft, I have the King's co-onands, that you take
the preparations for this purpofe tinder your controul, and com-
municate with fupplying hint with the neceffary funds,
and providing him with Roue and other materials which you may
judge neceffary to be embarked.
" The advances you may have oecafion to make, vnll hereafter
be replaced to you by the Treafury. As form as the wife:, hall
be laden, you will direet that they will proceed to the Downs
where farther orders will be given by Lord Keith refpeding theft:
(Signed) " HOBARL.'
No. 111.—From Lord Sr. VINCENT to Sir ANDREW HAMMOND.
" SIR, roth March, tgoa.
I lave received your letter, with an inftrudion regarding the
execution of the fecret fervice, and which will, I doubt not, be
well performed. But as the whole expense is to be defrayed by
tile .I.ITAry, I do not fee the neceffuy of fubmitting any part of
the glair to the confideratitin of the Admiralty.
(Signed) ST. VINCENT."
No. IV.—From J. Sueeuvaw,Efq. to Sir ANDIEW HAMMOND.
" MT DEAR SIR, " Downing-area, Feb. 045804.
" I hope you can report progrefs. I have not teen or heard front
Mr. fince 1 law you. Lord St. Vincent approves much of
the direction being given to you, and wii! write a Ivaer to Lord
Keith upon the fubjeeL (Signed) " J. SULLIVAN."
No. V.—From 1. SULLIVAN, Efq. to Slr ANDREW HAMMOND.
" Mr DEAR SIR, Downing-ftrcet, Feb. 21,1804.
" Lord Hobart hopes the verde taking ground was not in co n-
fequence of their drawing too much water. He is going to his bu-
[meth at the Treafury, and I am going to mine at the Cullom houfe.
(Signed) " J. SULLIVAN."
No. VI.--From J. SULLIVAN, Efq. to Sir ANDREW HAMMOND.
" MT DILA% SIR, Downing-fire:et, Feb. 23, Igoe.
Lord Hobart propores fending a letter to Lord Keith by the
next conveyance, and hopes you will fend your packet. Lord St.
Vincent's letter will alio go by it. Some fufpiclon is entertained
of fraudulent practices going forward, which, if it Dumb' prove
true, they will not be fent, unlefs all is cleared up. I will fee
he is Informed of the bounds. Send Mr.—a copy.
(Signed) " J. SULLIVAN.'
No. Vll.—Addreffed to Sir ANDREW Hem le oN O.
"MV DEAR SIR. Downing-ftreet.
" I have had comfort from what Mr. —.-- informs me of the
bufinefs. He lays the project will fucceed, and produce all the
effed dared. Send to Lord St. Vincent."
[While this letter was under reading, Oppontion
took notice of an apparent informality and incorradt
nefs in the collateral circumfiances el the document.
The. Clerk had not Paid, that the letter was fuper
fcribed to any one, which he had intimated in the cafe
of the refpedive letters by which it was preceded.—
Sir A. HAMMOND obferved acrofs the table, that the
letter bad been addreffed to him. This did not ap-
pear to remove the fcruples of Oppofstion. Mr. PITT
and all on his fide of the Hottfe, fignified, by geiture,
their entire approbation of the document being re•
ceived by the Houfe, the fame as if the fupe&rip-
don were not wanting to its formal regularity. Still
Oppofstion preffed on the notice of the Houle the ap-
parent informality, when the Clerk, in turning the
paper over, difcovered the fuperfcription in one of
the folds. The Minifter frniled].
No. VIII.—j.SULLIVAN to Sir ANDREW HAMMOND.
" MT DEAR SIR, Downing-ftreet, April it, ;13,-4.
" When you have looked over the enclofed papers, feud them
me back. If you take a copy of Captain Owen's letter, fend one
a copy of it. I have in co ofidence (cut you there papers.
(Signed) " J SULLIVAN."
N0.1X.--Sir ANDREW HAMMOND to the Earl of BUCKING.
NAMSIIIII.
" MT LORD, April t.
" As I find, upon reading the Eleventh Report, that Lord St.
Vincent does not teem to recoiled the fecret fervice your Lordlhip
committed to my care, of blocking up the entrance of Boulogne ;
you will remember that his Lordlhip thought that if the charge of
the prnjed was committed to the fmuggiers, it would be more
likely to infure fuccefs, than if executed by the Navy. Your Lord-
Snip directed use to take the whole affair under my controtil, and
to draw for the expellee that would be incurred by it. I find that
an impreMon is made, that I undertook and cendudcd ti.e i.ult-
nefs wallow the knowledge of the Hi it Lord of the Admiralty,
ar.tl theref ire pray that your Lordthip would furraili me with ne
celfary documents that I may exculpate mytctf.
(Signed) "A. S. HAMNIOND."
No. X.—From the Earl of BUCKINGHAMSHIRE to Sir ANDREW
HAMMOND.

"Sra, Grofvcuor•plare, 23 April, 18:5.
"1 avail myfelf of the firft okportunity of anfwering your let •
ter, which did not reach me till ydtcrday. You are to underitand
that, hcfure you knew of it, the projedt was fulimitted to Lord
St. Viuctut, who approved the plan of placing it under your e m.
trout; and I f.gnilied his Majdty's orders to give you the R.m•s
requifite, an,: to inform you that they should be &scarcer replaced.
`. I: i: be iireuiled to mii:.e a public document of this, 1 mutt,
for ohviuLs :cafons. rcqudt th.it the naa,e ot the individual, who
palled co..fulentially ix-twuoi ui, lie
(Signed) "

No. HAstmoNn to the C0M!..:5,13 LP 0,
Isidtv.‘l. kas(apgr.
" Gittrtztart4, N3sy ofhee.3
" Since my return to town, your prccept to the N..vy r
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has been put into my hands.; and i And that the ford. y‘.l,
to, were ailed by orders for lecret fervice. I IL.%e t:t, h.... :r
to acquaint you, that the (nuts ifrued, under the .I.4te th, ,
Odober, 1799, were iireed by order of the Trearury; :411-1 I
the fer,r4l fumsiffued up to the 9th April, 13or,

a like °Mgr to fervices of a dtlicate nature. And though it
bardlbip to tte perfon who performed the fcrvice, it eat dct;
entire fatisfadlion lam of opinion, that to mention r
by name, in any report before the public, would not only
ger the lots of money, but opportunities to the Country 0• ads-0•
tage from fecret fcrvice, and in this inftance prove 2 rre.t inn
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lenience to the individual. With refped ti the itrltroelions i r--
eeived for the application of the fuft fun*, I am willing to la). he.
fare you privately all the particulars, if f ant alTured that it is •ae
publicly reported. Bat with refped to thc feeond Ate, I bee
leave to aegtiaint you, that any Lord Holtsrt lifr.iti .1 to Inc Ins
Majelty's pleafure, that I thould take the projea under any COll.
trout. and that the money in the funde fhould 1..: lzted in thc
hands of a private banker. and it was acco7dinpla lt.l!nd ;ta
Lauds of Marrs. Harnmerney and Co. for the zrnatt.r eta:,ce: icnee
of drawing for fecret lervice. (Signed) A. Ii.I\IN,ONLI"

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Mr. TIERNEY obierved, that the Honourable
Baronet had made nothing short of a (tired charge
of perjury againft the Earl of St. Vincent. His Oa-
racer was far above any injury which loch an impu-
tation was calculated to effeet. That gallant officer
might, therefore, be perfealy at reit as to that point.
The quellion, however, which had been put to the
Noble Earl, he conceived to be with a view to afcer-
lain his knowledge of the application of public money,
and he could hear tellimony to the moll fair, molt
lltialy honourable and pure condo& of that Noble
Lord as a fervant of the public. He could bear tef-
timony that that Noble Lord had moil uniformly,
molt conllantly, and moll fcduloufly taken care that
no countenance thould be given by him, in any ac-
tion whatever that he did as a public man, to the ap-
plication of naval money to other purpofes. The
stone Expedition was to be conducted by other per-
f,ns not officers in his Majelty's Navy. No man
could deny that Lord' St. Vincent mutt have known
that loch an expedition was going forward ; but then
it was evident from the 4etter of Earl St. Vincent to
Sir A. S. Hammond, that he could not ooffibly have
any knowledge of the application of public money for
that purpufe, as it was there exprefsly dated that the
whole expence was to be paid by the Treafury. He
could not poffibly have more completely waffied his
hands of the bufinefs than lie there did He knew
nothing of the depofiting of 14,0001. in Meffrs. Ham-
malley's Bank. As a feaman he had given his opi-
nion of the prafticability of choaking op one of the
enemy's harbours ; but, as an honourable man, he
had taken care that the public money voted for the
fei vice of the Navy, fhould not be applied to a put--
pofe that was not in the kali conncded with that

ICrvice. He now thanked the Honourable Baronet

for having brought before Parliament and before the
public a paper which had ;o completely removed all
doubt upon that fobjea.
kr. CANNING &dared, that he underflood that

the lion. Baronet had moved for Papers, which he
thought were calculated to repel a charge Made
againit him to the application of public money in his
office. When thefe documents were controlled with
other evidence, the public would then judge bow far
he was right in that conjeatire.
Mr. FOX laid, that the Right Honourable Gen.
demon had thought proper to forget the other part
of the Honourable Baronet's defence, which Rated
that the evidence of Lord St. Vincent was incorreEt.

When the whole of the fubjed came to be explained.
he was well convinced that nothing that was the leaf
improper could be alledged to have exifled in any
part of the public conduit of that Noble Lord. It
would then be manifeft, that there was the utmolt
corrednefs in every thing he did as a public man ;
that there was the molt honourable corrednefs in
every thin he raid as to the tranfadion alluded to, as
well as throughout the whole of his Adminiftration.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCIIEQIJER
Paid, the language of hi. Lordiirip would bear this
conftrudion—..The tranfattion may occation expence,
but to the expence incur red he had no ohjedion ; but
he difapproved of tiro charge being defrayed out of
the Navy funds."
Mr. GREY admitted Lord St. Vincent was ap-
prifed of the airair by tome means, but he protelled
againft the- application of Naval money. None in
confequence was ilfued ter this purpole, and to this
particular the interrogatory dirediy applied. He
knew he never authorifed any fich payments, and
his Lortifhip Rood wholly clear in the tranfanion.
Mr. WALLACE—" The Honourable Baronet,
(Sir A. S Hammond) was to undertake the fervice,
and the Admiralty was to provide the resources."—
(A cry of No ! f o!)
Mr. G REY—" I'he reprelentation is precifely the'
reverfe."
Sir A. S. HAMMOND—" Were the funds to be
fupplied from my pocket' Lord St. Vincent writes
he is fatisfied that the fervice will be properly per-
formed—that he had read the enclofure refpe&ing
it, and that it has his entire approbate n."—(A cr.r of
Read! Read!)—on which the Speaker gave. diredien
to the Clerk to read No. 2 and No. 3, which wcre
read accordingly."
Mr.WALLACE—" I have, in no retpel,
miltat-
ed the matter as far as I underitand it. The funds,
his Lordthip acknowledges, were to be fupplied,
altho' they were to be aired from the Treasury."
Mr. TIERNEY—‘, I !villa Lord St. Vincent did
refute the funds."
Mr. GREY—" Lord St. Vincent dinindly flys,
the whole expences are to he detrayed firrin the Trek
fury ; he protetts agaiatt any application if Naval
money to loch a purpole ; and I have
authority for laying, he would have fioner
his office ; or, to use own expreffion, tic', :are
rather thrun his tight hind into the tire. t!,:n tee
confcnted to the due ct Naval money for any 'itch
obka."
WALLA C E— 4 What I (aid rod'. that !Ilcra
was nothing of that 100.1 on tt: face of thr P,ti.Cr'. I
could lay nothinc tc private communicat;,r,
made to the Hon. Gentleman."
Mr. SULLIVAN lair:, t'tat knowing Lord
Vincent to he an liono, ra •.e man, he n.alt
bitn ; but, it he had rot laid fo ;Jimick, he fbania
have though: that his Lordibip was .icquamted
the circumilances which had bee.. ailu,tr t to.
Mr. VANSITTART contekided r i•,
documents now before rte Houle ;::ov. .; :;1
A. S. Hammond had n.a. tilheal Navy I; ; • 1(11,1
fufficient authority.
The CHANCELLOR of the I:.
then atkeki, if this tioft the

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