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founder of this Inquiry: I thin'( we fhould alr, rej Mr. Fox, having. been previonfly thanked for his
turn thanks to that Hon. Member, Mr. Whitbreadvl patriotic conduit, m a brief but truly emphatic
for the able and judicious manner in which he con- fpeech, returned thanks for this warm espreffion of
duCted this bufinefs in Parliament: there are alio one the attachment of his Conflituents. For twenty-five
or two other Motions which I (hall firft read to you, years, during which he had been placed in the ho.
and conclude by moving the firft of them. nourable fituation of Reprefentative for Well:mintier
For thefe Refulutions we refer our Readers to the it had been his good fortune to have agreed with his
Advertifenent. Conftituents on every great conflitutional queftion ;
Mr. T. &Orr feconded the Motion, and to have, on every occafion, received their appro.
Major CARTWItrG NT highly approved of all the bation. He had often exprelred his feelings on thefe
Refolutions, but thought that they ought to have in- occafions, and he could not now employ new ian.
eluded a Declaration, that nothing but a Reform in guage, becaufe his feelings were not new. The fob-
the Reprefeitatinn of the People could be a radical jest of the Refolutions was one which mull now be
cure for thefe diforders. In deference, however, to fo familiar to the public, that it was unneceffary for
the opinion of high and illufiriocs perfons, who him to occupy the time of the Meeting by many ob•
thought that nothing fhould he mixed with the pre- fervations. On the Refolution thanking the Earl of
fent bufinefs, he forbore to offer any fpecific motion St. Vincent, he begged leave to make a few remarks.
to the Meeting on the fubjett. He had no hefitation then in declaring, that he con-
The Refolutions were then pilled, with tome very fidered the Noble Lord as one of the greatelt charac-
good Amendments, and all, except the Motion of tern which this country ever law. His naval ter.
Thanks to Sir Francis Burdett, paffed unanimouflv. vices were of a defcription in point of fplendour, un
On that motion Sir William Curtis faid, that his own equalled in our hiltory. But the Noble Lord did not
confiftency induced him to fay, that he could not confider his glory to be complete by his triumphs
concnr in voting an approbation of all the political over our foreign enemies. After difcomfiting our
conduit of the Honourable Baronet. Accordingly enemies abroad, he thought it his duty to defeat the
Sir Wm. Curtis and ten more Gentlemen held up machinations of our' domeflic foes, and in this he
their hands againft the Refolution of Thanks, and himfelf verily believed his ftruggle was molt difficult.
full tsoo hands were held up in favour of it. In fairnefs to the Spanifh and French Admirals, it.
Mr. BYNG made a moft animated and impreflive might be admitted that Earl St. Vincent did not
fpeech to his conftituents, in which he faid, that if overpower them till after a 'tout refillance. The
he had not voted againft the great delinquent who hardeft tufale, however, was with Lord Melville, be-
had been conviEled of violating the law in fo grofs a fore vietory was obtained. The flag fhip had now,
way, lie fhould have felt that he was not only unfit indeed, (truck, audit was to be hoped that the other
to fit in Parliament as the Reprefentative of that fubordinate (hips would alfo loon be compelled to
County, but unfit to be received in any company of ftrike —(Loud and lon: applaufe.) The Honourable
Gentlemen. He was alfo free to own, that the per- Gentleman who introduced the bufinefs had very pi o-
lons who defended the guilt of Lord Melville, were perly faid, that unlefs fome further proceedings
as !criminal as hirnfelf ; and it was a moft lerious againft Lord Melville were inftituted, the whole bu-
thing to the people of this country to fee the col. liners would be incomplete. He fully concurred in
leagues in office of the Treafurer of the Navy the this idea, and begged to warn the Meeting againft
abettors of his guilt. any hopes of reClifzing convieted abufes by future re-
The Addrefs to the King, and the Petition to the gulations, inflead of retrofpeCtive punifhment. Even
Floufe of Commons were unanimoutly adopted ; if a new law were introduced, what hope was there
and the thanks to Mr. Whitbread, to the Commit'. that it would be more fairly attcd upon than in the
fl,mers of Naval Inquiry, to Earl St. Vincent, to cafe of that law, for the violation of wl;ch the No
Mr. Byng, to Sir Francis Burdett, to Mr. Alder- ble Lord was conviCied ? When that law was brought
man Skinner, to the noble and retPeElable perfons who f award a [sledge was given that it would be implicitly
figned the Reqnifition, and to the Sheritfs, were all fralowed, and that pledge had been broken. What
paffed with the utmolt cordiality. ill-miry then had the Houle that any future pledges
would be beater obferved ? The only pledge they had
was, the intl;Etion of exemplary vengeance. It was
aid, however, that the Noble Lord was already ful
ticiently pi,n'thed. He utterly denied this, for inde•
pendent ofhi, relignation he bad experienced no pu-
itillmient for hia delinquencies. Mere refignation
could not be confidered as punifhment, for in many
cafes it was glorious, and was at leall always inno-
cent. There was another circum fiance too to be conli-
dered, that though the Houfeof Commons hadftrong-
ly cenfured Lord Melville, the Sovereign had not yet
been advifed to pals on him any mark of his dilplea.
fore. What was the inference from this backward
nets of Minitters to recommend to his Majefty to re-
move Lord Melville from all places of truft held dur.
ing plealure, and to banifh him from his councils for
ever ? He appealed to the meeting whether it bad
not very much the appearance of a confcioufnefs of-a
connexion with Lord Melville, which rendered it
very unfafe for them to break wish him at this crifis?,
Their conduit in attempting to fcreen him was a
flrong fymptom of fome participation in his proceed-
ings. He put it to the feelings of any man who had
an intimate friend conviCted of nefarious proceedings,
whether he nould nut be anxious to free himlelf from
the fulpicion cf all knowledge of their exiflence.—
\Vhy Minillers had not followed fo obvious a courfe,
was beft known to themfelves. He called on the
meeting not to flag in their exertions, to have all
this Winds lifted is the bottom, for if they were
not true to themfelves, how could they expea their
Reprelentatives to be anxious for the correction of
abufes? He united their example would be followed
through every part of the kingdom, and that the
people would inlift on the regular attendance of their
Reprefentatives when bufinefs of fo much confe-
quence was going fot ward in Parliament. This was
the snore neceffary, as out of 658 Members no more
than 438 could be colleCted. tie did not throw any
refleftion on his noble colleague, who was honourably
employed in the fervice of his country ; but many
others had no fuch excufe. He concluded by thank-
ing the meeting for their attachment, and allured
them of his conflant endeavours to lupport click
interells, as well as the general liberties of the coun-
try.
The thanks of the meeting were then voted to the
High Bailiff, and Mr. Wis Haar, who feverally made
(hurt fpeeclies of acknowledgment for the honour
conferred on them. The meeting then broke up, af-
ter the Refolutions were ordered to be inferted in the
public papers.

WESIMINsTER MEETING.

Yellerday, according to the appointment of the
High Bailiff of Weliminfier, one of the nil nume-
rous and refpedable meetings net- witneffed, took
place in Palace yard.
About one o'clock the High Bailiff took the Chair
and explained to the Eleetor, that the objet o' the
meeting was to come to tome refolutions relative to
the flagrant abufes in the expenditure and apri;ca-
lion of the public money, as difclofed by the C,m-
miffioners of Naval Inquiry. He had called the
Meeting at the reqoelt of a number of tefpedable
Elelors ; and he begged leave to afTure the Meeting
now convened, that at was the great objet of his
anxious ambition, to do every thing which could at
all promote the intereft of the Elclors, both collec-
tively and individually.
Mr. Vs'istrear then came forward, and in a fhort
but very able fpeech, prefaced the Refolutions which
he meant to ftibmit to the approbation of the Meet-
ing. He reminded the Eledors of the manner in
which the Commiffinners of Naval Inquiry had been
appointed ; the oppofition which their appointment
bad created in certain quarters, no doubt on very
Itrong grounds, and the nefarious tranfaCtions which
in all their Reports had been difcloled. It was, how-
ever, the Tenth Report which was at prefent the par-
ticular objell of inquiry, and on which the majority
of the Houfe of Commons had come to a decifion
fo honourable to themfelves, and fo gratifying to the
country. A Noble Lord, long bigh in office, had
been convided of grofs malverfation, not from igno-
rance, for he was principally concerned in framing
the precife law which he had violated. He had al-
lowed Trotter,hispaymafter,exprefsly to contravene
a law, palled for the better fecmity of the public
money, and for no lefs a period than fixteen years,
and thus, during all that time, the public money was
put in danger, for the purpofe of being applied to
private emolument. It was natural to fuppole, When
filch a tranfation via' brought to light, that the Firft
Minifler of the Crown would have come forward to
fee the matter fully explained and ins efligated. He,
however, followed a different courfe, and feemed de-
firous of fcreening the delinquent. It was not till
after a hard ftruggle, which the Speaker of the
Houle of Commons, with fo much honour to him-
felt; decided by his carting vote, that this attempt to
fcreen convited guilt, was defeated. But, it was
contended that this vote, and the confequent refig-
nation of Lord Melville, ought to be confidered
fufficient punifhment. This he utterly denied, and
contended it was contrary to all precedents in fimilar
cafes recorded in our hittory. In the cafe of Chan-
cam- Bacon,-convided of taking bribes, and con-
niving at the malverfations of htsfervants, the molt
exemplary punifhment was inflicted. That Noble-
man was fined 40,0001. was expelled from the Houle
of Lords, and forbid ever again to appear in the
prefcnce of his Sovereign. In 1720, the Chancellor
of the Excheeprer of that day, was found guilty of
certain infamous proceedings, connected with the
South Sea fcheme, and was compelled to refign his
official fituation. But, was that refignation held to
be at all adequate to the enormity of his guilt ; on
the contrary, he was committed to the Tower, and
was declared incapable of ever after holding any of-
ficial fituation, and was forced to difgorge his ill
gotten wealth. It woe neceffary that fimilar mea-
lures Ihould be pui rued againtt Lord Melville, that
great example fhould be made of him, to deter fit-
tore offenders, and to Phew the whole world, that in
11 this country no public delinquent, however exalted
his Ration, or extenfive his influence, could hope to
efcape the itrong arm of the law.
Mr. Wifhart then requelled the indulgence of the
Meeting for Mr. Richards to read the Refolutions
(for which fee another part of our Paper.)
They were all paffed unanimonfly, and embraced
the fame topics as thole brought forward at the City,
Borough of Southwark, and Middlefex Meetings.
On the Refolution being carried with extraordi-
nary acclamation, that Mr. Fox Mould prefent the
Addrefs to his Majtay and the Petition to the Houfe
of Commoas,

We are happy to inform the public, that Mr.
SULLY, the Medical Galvanilt, is again arrived at his
refidence, No. 31, Newman-(trees, Orford-lb-rec.
A reprefentation which keeps the mind alive to
the fame of fo many illußrious heroes who have
adorned the annals of this country, mutt prove high-
ly gratifying to every fpeElator. This is moll effec-
tually done in The Knielt of tk: Garmr, at the Royal
Circus, by its correet and animated difplay of that
magnificence which attended the late Inliallation at
Wiutlfor : the whole is admirably aided by the in-
trodudion of feveral highly comic Charaaers, toge-
ther with a very pleating Duerr, feveral appropriate
Songs, which are well executed, and the truly fuperior
dancing of the Giroux's—the Scenery alto, which is
finely executed, deferves to be particularly noticed.

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