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London, England, 1805-04-30 00:00:00

PARIAMEATART PROCEEDINGS.

ROME OF COMMONS. MONDAY. APRIL s 9.

Mr. CALCRArf prefanted a Petition, (toed by out *naiad
and ninety Houlelkepors. &pipit the Patter's Poor Rill. He
tbooebt be Oiaiki not bare beard of the Dill any more this ficilloor
or fat timid bait-taken the frac of the Houk upod it beforepa
Ordeal to ue• ok the table.

Mr. WILLIAMS, from the (Mee of the Contrails/re of
Racal togniry.gretemed the Corttfpoqdeoct of the Treefarer of
the Navy with the Onairedioncrs, of the loth and t yth Pity, t So*
Ordered to he printed.
Mr. JOHNSON gradated an Aeeoein of the Calile of Dub-
Iln Fortification Cootrad...-Ordered to he printed.
Mr H HORNTON gave notice. that he Omuta to-morrow
niove,that the Petition *Anti.] tai the Houfe attaina the return
of Mr. Mainwaring: be &charged, Sir Frania Bunicu having
bcas feat&

SIR ANDREW HAMMOND.

Sir ANDREW HAMMOND moved for the Pa-
pers he had given nonce of on Thurfday, relative to
the Eleventh Report of the Commiffioners of Naval
Enquiry.
Mr. GR LY obferved, that the Honourable Ba-
roner's motion was irregular, as he bad not Rated
the nature of the papers for which he moved. He
had come down to the Houle, on the day of ballot-
ting, before the ballot had taken place, and was fur.
priced to find thai the Honourable Baronet had dif-
pofed of his notice at that early hour of the day,
which was before public bufinds commenced. The
Honourable Baronet, and any Member, had certainly
A right to move for any papers they thought proper ;
but it was rather too much that he fhould move for

a private letter, written by himfelf, and not -explain
the nature of it. Thus not only the notice the Ho-
nourable Baronet gave of his motion, but the time
and circtinillances under which the motion was
brought forward, were unjullifiable The motion was
of an extraordinary nature. If then were defeas in
the evidence reported in the Eleventh Report, the
Honourable Baronet could have Rated that in his
place as a Member of Parliament, but, to move for
• his own letter, and the documents encloftd by him
to the Admiralty Board, was both a novel and un
becoming procedure. Neither Lord St. Vincent,
nor the friends of Lord St. Vincent, could meet the
flateusents of the Honourable Baronet, before what-
ever impreffion they were calculated to make fhould
reach the public—a circumita,nce which increafed, in
his mind, the objections to the line of condo& the
Honourable Baronet had thought proper to purfue.
Since, therefore, the motion was fo extraordinary. and
to his mind fo unwarrantable, he thought it ought to
be expunged from the Journals.
Sir A. HAMMOND entered on his own vinclica
tioo, both in point of the time he gave his notice, and
of the manner in which he gave it, and moved-the
nonce in conformity to it.
,lie gave the notice io a
fall Houfe. and defcribed his motion to be one which
Scald call for the produaion of certain papers, in-
• bladed to. elucidate his condo& as Comptroller of the
Navy, and to obviate the effeas of the millatement.
of the Eleventh Report.. He was unaware, there-
fore. of having either offended againa propriety, or
juftly incurred the reproaches or centures of the
,Honourable Gentleman.
Mr. TIERNEY profeffed himfelf anxious as any
Man. that the Honourable Baronet, or whoever
mould be placed in a painful fituation by the reports
of the CommiLlioners of Naval Enquiry, fhould have
an opportunity to defend himfelf as far as he was
able. It was not to tile wills to make his defence, fo
very natural to the Honourable Baronet, that Mr.
Tierney in the leall objeaed, but to the manner in
which that defence was now inflituted. Not only
the Houfe knew nothing, either from the notice, or
the motion, of the purport of the papers the Honour-
able Baronet wilbed to be produced, but not even a
title could be found to lead to the remota conjeaure
as to their llatemcntsf or tendency. But here a mo-
tion was made by the Honourable Baronet, for the
predation of a letter from himfclf, as Comptroller of
the Navy, to the Admiralty, with its ench)fures,
mid the Houfe could not be at all aware of their,
contents. _

The Honourable SPEAKER here drew the at.
tuition of the Hook to the point of order. There
being no queftion before the Houfe, whatever length
the eonverfistion might go into, there could be no Wire.
Mr. TIERNEY refonsed.—He obferved, that it
*u the duty of Sir A. Hammond to have Paid why
be moved for the papers in queflion. However, he
was, for one, happy that the papers were brought
forward, being convinced that the more the fubse
of the condo& and charafter of Lord St. Vincent
were inveftigated, the more the nation would feel
that the Noble Lord could not be injured in his re•
potation by any calumny.
Sir ANDREW HAMMOND was furprifed at the
language of the Hon. Member who had jull fat
down, and at that of Mr. Grey. Sir Andrew en-
forced his lot mer ftatements by an appeal to the can-
dour of the Houk, where the reputation of a ter
vast of the Crown, holding no low office in the Go-
vernment, loch as hinafelf, was traduced.
Mr. GREY was by no means convinced of the fit.
nets of the reafoning or affertions of the Hon. Ba-
ronet. What was the fae ? Why, that the Hon.
Baronet had given notice of his motion before the
bnfinefs of the cla! commenced ; and in no nage of
the proceeding did he give the Houle that informa-
tion, refpeeing the nature of the papers, which the
}kat had a right to tepee. A moll unwarrantable
and unjell attack was commenced on the character
of Lord St. Vincent, in the abfence of thole Members
who interefled themfelves in the reputation of the
Noble Lord, and now it is complained of that inch a
procedure is denounced as unwarrantable. The Mi.
tiller did not do fo in the cafes of his own friends.—
If any of the friends of the Miniller were made the
fubjeft of notice or motion, then the Minifter took
umbrage, and di• eely complained. of Oppofition.—
The other night the Houfe had an example of this
when an Honourable Friend of Mr. (Ley, (a Lear-
a-d Serjeant behind him,) moved for certain papers
relative to Mr. C. Scott, the Minitler took fire, and
charged upon Oppolition a want of due regard to the
. feelings of in.:.voluals, although Mr. Belt had, in his
n.aice.diftinely apprifed the Houfe of the fuhjea of
the motion he was to make. Under all thole circum-
fiances, Mr. Grey waked the motion of Sir A. Ham.
mond to be exposited.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
—" The motion, Sir, is for a Copy of a Letter
from the Comptroller of the Navy to the Com-
miffioners of the Admiralty, together with its en-
eloiures. Now, when we know that the papers naov.