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SHIRE HALL, HERTFORD, May IS, 1805.
-1-11. T a MEETING of the FREEHOLDERS df
the County of HERTFORD, held this day in coofequenee
of requifitions ngned by a large body of the Freeholders of the kid
County, for the comae of taking into confideration the propriety
of pit-tenting a Petition to the Houk of Commons, in confeatence
of the Votes of that Houk on the Bth and loth of April laft, upon
the motions of Mr. Whitbread repeding the abufes in the ex-
penditure of the public monies, as difelofed by the Com:lnflow*
of Naval Inquiry. It was unanintoufly refolved,
tit, That the Votes of the Houk of Commons on the Bth and
loth days of April left, on the motions of Samuel Whitbread, Efq.
founded on the Tenth Report of the Commiffiocers of Naval In-
quiry, declaring Lord Vikount Melville to have committal agroGl
violation ot the law and a high breach of his public duty, have
been received by the whole nation with a fatisfaddon at the upright
conduct of that Houle as general as have been their aftoniftsment.
indignation, and farrow, at the flagrant fyftem of negligence aod
peculation which has been diklofed by the Commlffionai of Naval
Inquiry.
ad, That in the pietist fituation of the Country nothing can fa
much contribute to the immediate advantage of the people and to
the ultimate nieces of the conteft in which we are engaged, as a.
fyftem of economy. planned with caution, concluded with dili-
gence and integrity, adhered to with 6mincla, and guarded by the
vigilance of an attentive Parliament.
3d, That, irnprehd as we arc with this conviction, it is our
duty humbly to exprefs to the Houk of Commons thejoy and pa.
titude which we feel at the inquiries which it has already in Its
wifdom thought proper to inftitute.
4th, That in eonfequmee of the meafures which have already
been adopted, we feel a further molt aufpicious hope that Portia.
merit will in its wifdom think fit to inflitute, and perfevere in a
general fyftem of enquiry, which ball be co-extenfive with the
many abacs w' la we have too much reafon to fear eat in the
expenditure of the public money.
stn, That a Petition be prefented to the Houle of Commons*
founded upon the principles of the preceding aefolutions.
6th,Tbat the Thanks of this Meeting be given to Samuel Whit-
bread, Efq. for the great ability and &mods with which he con.
duded the whole of the proceedings referred to.
7th, That the thanks of this Meeting be given to William Plu.
mer and William Baker, Efqrs. the Metnipers for this County, far
the fupport which they gave to Mr. Whitbread's maims upon the
above-mentioned occanorts.
Bth, That the thanks of this Meeting be given to the Honoura-
ble Edward Spence:. Cowper, and Nieholfon Calvert, Efq. the
Members for the Borough of Hertford, for the &import which they
gave to Mr. Whitbread's motions upon the above-meadow:4 oe•
cahoot'.

9th, That the thanks of this Meeting be given to the Bonaire.
bit Walter Grim (ton, and William Poyntz , Efq. the Members for
the Borough of St. Alban's, for the fupport which they gave to Mr.
Whitbread's motions upon the above-mentioned °cations.
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Loth, That the laid c'er.ition be now figned by the Sheriff. and
alto by the Freeholders prefent, and that it be prdented to the
Houle of Commons by the Members for the County vrithaU (peed.
xt th, That the thanks of this Meeting be given to the High
Sheriff for his readinefs lu calling the prefent Meeting.
I:th. That the foregoing Refolutions flared by the Sheriff he
infertcd in the Newfpapers.
r3th, That the tanks of this Meeting be given to the Noble
Lord and the other Freeholders who lived the tiequifidans.
EhIILIUS li t NAY D ELM E RADCLIFFE, Sheriff

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