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Till LARI. OT ST. ♦INCINT.

Lord AUCKLAND, in ensfequenee of a IVlefrage from the
Commons, rtquelted their LatelOsips pcaniflion for Earl Sr.
VI tICZNT to attend. if he thought fit, before the Selea. Commit-
tee of Naval Enquiry, in order to be examined, moved, that a
McKay be fcut to the Commons to enquire as to what points it
was intended to eaandne Earl Sr. VINCI arr.--Ordered.
Jusnca VON.
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Lord CARIATON role, and obfaved, that this being the day
appointed for the Houfe to refolve itfelt into a Committee to en-
quire into the Charges againft Mr. Juitice Fox, it became nocef-
lazy from partite' eircumftances, to requeft of the Houk the
indulgence of poltponing this erlisiry a few days longer. Nut at
all from any ttowillingricfs or impromptitude on the part of the
Learned Judge to meet the charges againft him ; for he begged so
remind the Houk, that from the &ft moment that Learned judge
bad heard of dude charges, be rofeffed not only h:s readinefs, but
his molt anxious wills to inert enquiry, and to be put upon the
vindkatien of his charader and coodudt. It was bis wins to have
been beard by Comfy] at the Bar of that Houk, and nothing was
farther front hi, delire than the f•ghteft delay or merlon. Buten
account ef the min-arrival of Tome Papers material to his defence,
it became nroeffary to requeft their Lordihipt to pullpone, for a
few days longer, the proceedings in this bufinefs. The Noble and
Learned Lord coneludiAl by moving to difeharge the Order of the
Day, and to appoint the Committee for Thurfday neat; which,
after Come converfatiou on the ft bJedt by Lord Howe (sty air, the
Duke of CLAit an and fume other Peen, was agreed to.

e••• t. encapar.
Lord DA KNLEY role to bring forward his pro.
mifed motion, in confequence of the notice he had
given on a former day : that motion he felt it neeef-
fary to preface by Come obfervations on the fubjeCt
of the enquiry it was his object to propofe for their
Lordthips adoption; and he apprized their Lordthips
that the tenor of his motion would be direted to the
appointment of a Seleta Committee to enquire into
the abufes which had obtained in the Naval Depart.
anent. It was particularly worthy of remark, that
the long Lift of Papers for which he had moved in
the month of M trch la, and which had been refuted
to him by his Majelly's Minifters, had been fince
sranted, upon the motion of an Honourable Member
m the other Hoare of Parliament. In order to en
able their Lordthips to enter into a full enquiry upon
this &Ned, it would not only be neceffary for them
to inveltigate thole papers, brit leveret others, for
which it was his intention to move, should the Houle
think fit to adopt his motion for the Committee.—
In the invelligation, to which he had no doubt
their Lordlhips would readily be induced to accede,
he defired exprefsly to ditclaim all views of perfonal
afperity towards any Officer of his Majeßy's govern-
ment. Public juaice was his Pole motive ; nor had
be any other oleic& than to render jußice to thofe
who Would be found to have deferved well of their
country, and to dill-over and bring to account thole
whole cOnduß had been of the contrary tendency.
—The palters for which he had already, and might
hereafter Move upon this fubjeet, were for the ile-
t& of enibling the Houfe to form a comp.-ri-
berowerea the econdnet of the late and formes
Board of Admiralty, and to idiertaid which had
sifted Moll ateritorioutly for the public fervice.—
Whether that Board bad aced moll wifely and
efficiently for the public defence, who had difmilled
fermi the publit fervice a number of ureters flips
which crowded, without arengthening our Navy ;
which declined the giving contrads for Ships to the
merchant builders, and preferred the building of our
'grads of war in the King's Yards—which difmilfed
ureters and ineffedive officers and artifans, and em-
ployed only thole that wete aetive and efficient—
which &retied inveltigation into abufes and pecu-
lation, in the various departments of his Majelly's
Dock yards, and put a flop to the moil flagi ious
and profligate fytlem of profution and watlp of the
public money : or that Board of Admiralty, which
reverfed this fyflem, and by giving contraas for
thips to the Merchant Builder, increafed the num-
ber,
but moll materially impaired the firmer of
our Navy, by crowding it with thips at an enormous
expence, but abfolutely ufelefs to the fervice. The
Papers now on their Lordfhips' table, confining of
the Report, of Commiffioners appointed by the other
Houfe of Parliament, abounded with Qrong inßancer,
and laid before their Lordthips fufficient Parliamen-
tary ground to thew the neceffity of going into the
Enquiry. In looking over thofe Papers, one of the
fiat objeds that !truck his mind was the purchafe of
fome (hips of war from the Merchant Builders at
the enormous rate of 341. per ton; fome of which,
neverthelefs, fo far from being fervicsable to the na-
vy, or adding to its Rrength, were abfolutely ufelefs.
He would fele& two for the prefent, and the Houfe
would be bell able to judge, from the report of the
Officersappointed to command them, whether or not
they were of u& to the fervice. Theme was called
the HindoGan, and was attached to Admiral Rai-
nier's fquadron.and he would read from the report a
letter from the Captain commanding that veffel—
his opinion of her fitnefs and efficiency : the other
was called the Mediator, of which the Houfe would
alto be enabled to judge from the letter of her Cap.
tail). The Noble Lot d read the letters from the Cap-
tains of both flops, from which it appeared that both
were fo ill built, In utterly difproportioned in their
mails, rudders, ropes, Jigging, and guns, and fo high
above the water, as to be totally unmanageable
And unfit for fervice. They were both under fifty
guns, and yet they colt the Government as much as
;.}.gun [hips built in his 7.lajely 's Dock-yards ; and,
wltat was Itill wade, lone. thips of the line were ac-
tually arippcd of a principal part of their crews to
man thole ufelefs veils ; and thus the means of
our defence, inßead of being Rrengthened, was con&
derably weakened, and our Navy reduced to a Rate
much below what it was at the time when a Noble
Lord who fat at the head of that department had re-
tired from office, and whohad been, by certain pezfons,
to whole proceedings he was not friendly, cenfured for
his condat in directing the affairs of the Nary,
which, in his (the Noble Speaker's) mind, merited
tee univerfal approbation and gratitude of the coun-
try. What he would with was, to contrail the Rate
cf the Navy at preient with that in which it flood
under the diteditat cf his noble and gallant Friend.
It might indeed have a greater number of thips, but
were they fo well manned, appointed, or prepared
to meet that adivc and enterprifing enemy with

whom we have to contend, and AO has net* relaxed '
one moment in his exertions to inereafe his Rtength,
and facilitate the aceemplifhtnent of his views agiunft '
this country t He would afk his Lordfhip, whether,
when his noble, gallant, and venerable Friend, was
at the head of the Admiralty, any fuch event had
occurred as two formidable fleets of the enemy tri-
umphantly proceeding to lea, and roaming no one
knew whither, in defpite of otir boafted navy and
blockading fyllem ; while our Weft India Mandl
were attacked and ravaged by another of the enemy's
fquactrons (Near! Hear! Near!) Let their Lord-
Ihips judge, from this -eircumflance, to which praife
or cenfure was moll due, the late or the prefent
Boat dof Admiralty. Another ground of condem-
Illation was, the fyftem of taking fillips from the Mer.
chant Contraaors, inflead of building them in the
King's Dock-yards, by which means a number of
competitors, encouraged by thole contraas, were
brought into the market to out-bid the Government
in the prices of labour, timber, and every material
for building and Rom. Thus the expeoces of build-
ing in the King's yards was increafed almolt in a
double ratio. If their Lordfltips would be at the
trouble of examining the papers npon their table,
they would perceive a molt ftriking inflance of this
kind relishing from the contraaing fyftem, where, in
the fpace of a few weeks, no lets than 173 able fhip-1
wrigl:ts, is the prime of life, quitted the fervice of the
King's Dock-yards, for the purpofe of being em-
ployed at much higher wages in thofe of the Mer-
chant contraaors, to build thole very fhips, which, he
would contend, but for this fyllem, could be built
molt confiderably cheaper, as well as infinitely better
in the King's yards; and he would aver that chore
175 men were competent to build three feventy•four
gun !hips at 361. per ton. Could any cafe be flronger
than this to prove the badnefs of the fyftem on which
the bufinefs of fhip-building was conduEted ? But if
flagrant caufe for cenfure crated in that department,
it was Hill worfe in the contralts for repairing, for
it appeared that the repairs of the Magicierme, the
Andromache, the Flora, and another vac!, which
he named, coil, in 1793, the enormous fum of
63,0001. by contra t, the building of which, in his
Majefly's Dock-yards, would be completed for little
more than 40,0001. Here then was another palpa-
ble ;finance of the ruinous principle of proceeding
by contralti.. It was Paid, that in the King's yards
there was not room for laying down firft-rates. He
denied the affirtion, and Rated that there were in
each yard twenty flips large enough for firft.rates,
which, fuppofing each to require two years in com-
pletion, would he competent within that time to in
creafe the number and ftrength of our Navy greatly
beyond any necefliry. But was the number of hand,
now engaged in our Dock-yards greatly reduced. on
account, as was alledged, of the numbers difmitfed
by the late Fiat Lord of the Admiralty t No; but
on the contrary, much greater than on any former
occafion ; and yet from the bad fupply of timber,
and the fharneful mifmanagement of mixing hands,
all forts, good and bad, and paying all equal wages,
iuliead of Rriking the men into clalfis, and employ.
ing each upon the work to which he was moll
competent, the bufinefs of the yards was molt tardily
condufted, and at an enormous expeoce. The per-
fons who proceeded in this fliarneful manner teemed
to have forgotten the voluminous report on their
Lordllsips' table, or to fuppofe at lean that they
were deterred by its magnitude from looking into its
contents. Not intimidated by this confederation, he
had looked into it minutely, and felt himfelf every
where appalled by the enormity of the peculation,
and alto the profufion which it exhibited. Not wifh-
ing to go into particular detail at this moment, he
would jolt advert to the Sixth Report, which exhi-
bited inch fcenes of perverfenefi, mifmanagement.
and criminal proftifion, as he did not think it poffi-
ble could have exilled in any fyftem, and more ef-
pecially under the eye of a Navy Board, appointed
to condufl the bufinefs of a great nation, and formed
of men profzaing charaaer and competence for their
poll. Among other inflances which this Report pre-
tented, was one, where a charge had been made for
certain repairs and additions to a alp at res. per
inch ; and in another place, for work executed pre-
cifely in the fame manner tol. per inch ; and yet both
charges were figned by the Navy Board. How it
was poflible fo grofs and fhameful an inllance of ex-
tortion upon the country, as thatof charging pounds
in lieu of (billings, could have palled the vigilance of
any public board, unexamined, was to him utterly
inconceivable.

The Noble. Lord then proceeded to examine many
other parts of the Report, and upon the whole con-
demned, in the flrongelt terms, the criminal and atro-
cious instances of negligence, profnfion, wale, and
peculation, it exhibited. Again, the Noble Lord
difclaimed all perfonal views in this enquiry, yet he
could not but feel that the Noble Earl behind him
(Lord St. Vincent) was very deeply interefted. He
thould neither advert tithe malicious rumours which
had been indufirioufly circulated, nor the virulent
pamphlets, and other flanderous libels that had been
directed againft that Noble Earl.. The Noble Earl
had been termed, by tone authority too, the greaten
enemy his country ever faw. But Rending there as'
the friend of that Noble Earl, he could not fit down
without giving (however unneceffary it might be),
the molt decided contradiction to fuch !lenders.—
(Hear ! Hear !) That Noble Earl had been one of
the bell friends his country ever law ; for, after hair-'
ing ianquifhed her enemies abroad, and crowned her
Itandards with trophies in every quarter of the globe,
he returned to vanqnifh her dill worfe enemies at
home. That Noble Lord was not the patron of pe.
culators, but the detector of abufes. He did not,
however, call their Lorellhips' attention to the fitua-I
tion of the Noble Earl upon any ecnfideration of his
public fervices, brilliant and invaluable as they had
been to his country ; he merely befought for him
jullice at their Lordfhips' hands, againft the bate
and unfounded imputations rumoured by thofe who,
in revenge for his detection of their mifdeeds, had
endeavoured to injure his charaEler. Inftead of be-
log the worn enemy of his country, he would aver
him to have been her bell friend. By him it was
that the enquiry was fet on four, which led to the
detetlion of fo many and fuch enormous frauds up-
on the country. He had fet his [boulders to the
wheels, and in spite of art, influence, and evafion,
undaunted by the number as well as the magnitude of
thofe impediments he had to encounter, he pufbed
thatsnquiry to the utmolt, and let an example to
that Houk, which his country bad uaiverfalry op.

pbruded, and Which the Noble Lord hoped their
Lerdfhips would adopt. Lord Darnley concluded
by moving, "That a Self& Committee of their Lord•
Mips be appointed, to comfift of the Duke of Clarence,
the Marquis of Bock/metros, Lord Winchelfea,
Lord Albemarle, Lord Ducie, Lord Auckland, Lord
King. and four or five other Peers, to take into con-
fideration the teem! papers on the table, refpating
the State of the Navy."
Lord MELVILLE addreited the Hours at great
length, commenting mach in detail on the matters
of calculation adverted to by the Noble Lord who
had kill concluded. He (aid that Noble Lord had
wick great candour, at the commencement of his
(peach, explained the objet of his motion, which was
to lead to a minute compariton between the condua
of the late and former Board of the Admiralty.—lt
was aferted that many idelefs vefels were built that
were of no fervice to the fleet, and which were in-
competent to any duty whatever. Thefe abufes were
admitted by the plan of coat-sifting (hips of war in
the Merchants' yards. Thefe wtre Come of the many
grievances complained of, and at leak the Noble
Lord would do him the jullice to allow, that in or-
der that he might complete his catalogue. he (Lord
Melville) granted. with a tingle enemies, every pa-
per and document far which application was made.
With thefe inftruments, compofing three ponderous
volumes, the table of their Lordfirips was burthened,
and the fubjelts alluded to immediately by the Noble
Lord, comprifed one of thefe volumes. The prefent
motion was much more extenfive in its operation
than the Noble Lord was at all aware. It was not
only referable to the late Admiralty, but to all the
Boards of that department for a long (cries of years.
It was not fufficient to draw the attention of this
Houfe to this prodigious mars of recent matter. but
the Noble Lord mull alto comprehend in his review
the 6th Report upon the table, which had long re-
mained there without entailing obfervation. He
(Lord Melville) was not wholly unprepared to meet
this part of the examination, but he would defer that
enquiry until he confidered, under two principal di-
vili•ms, the variety of accefation which the Noble
Lord had thought fit to apply. z. The purchafe of
(mall (hips for the public defence. a. The employ-
ment of the Merchants' yards for the conftrutftion of
(hips of the line. Both thefe citcumftances of mill
management, the Noble Lord teems to confine to the
period when he (Lord Melville) had the honour to
prelide at the Admiralty. With regard to die fiat,,
the engagement of (mall (hipping for the national fe
curity, if that were a crime, he, with great readi-
nefs, pleaded guilty to the charge ; but the quellion
might deferve tome regard, whether, under the cir-
cumitances of the country, this expedient was or was
not politic ? It would be remembered, that this was
not a new enquiry, nor was his a fanciful opinion
confined to his own circle ; a Noble Marquis had
propofed to bring forward a Motion, the exprefs ob-
jet of which was to inflitute a complaint, that
veffels of this defcription were not procured to meet
a fimilar force collated by the enemy ; and the
foundation of the proceedings in another place was
of the fame kind. He did not aver that the cla.l
moor on that fubjeft was properly dire&ed ;he
would, however, declare, that he thought it his duty
to enquire, and craft of this fort was obtained.-1
The meafure, however, was not commenced in his
time; before that period. thirty-nine (hips had been
controded for ; but a much longer period than
teemed to be neetftary was allowed for their pre-
paration. The acquifition of thefe, he had the good
fortnne to accelerate; one hundred and thirty one
additional were procured, and the total force of this
nature then attended to one hundred and feventy•fix
veftels. In the precipitation with which thefe means
for the public fafety were retorted to, it was not far-
m-Xing if many of them were not in a competent (Late
to meet the violence of the boifterous element. But
whatever might be its condition, the general feeling
of both Hooks of Parliament. and the voice of the
nation, teemed to call for this fpecies of defence;
and let Noble Lords candidly admit, if. in filch a
predicament, it were proper to addnee this meafure
as a fubje& of ferious complaint. But he would Rate
more particularly the number of thefe (hips, their
condition, and value. When he came to the Board,
he found a report, Rating the time the vetch were
adapted to ferve; fame were eftimated for (even,
tome for five, and tome for only four years employ-
ment. The material enquiry was, if there. fuch as
they were, would enable the Admiralty to referve
the regular navy to meet the tame dJcription of
force of the enemy. What was the number of (hips
of the line ? We had 81 at that time, and France
and Holland, in all their ports, could with difficulty
collat 70 (hips of equal rank. He would not fay
our force to this extent was ready ;he would grant,
that after an arduous fervice of to years, they were,
in many retpelts, in point of condition, inferior to
the (hips of the enemy, which had remained unin-
jured in their own ports. During ten months the
naval ftrength was preferved to this extent, but it
was conflantly liable to diminution, and means
were recurred to, to re(Lore the lots incident to an
:alive and dangerous fervice. In the examination
of the documents, No. 98, Noble Lords would find,
that in the month of May, 1804, fix (hips of the
line were building ; two of thefe had been laid down
in rltoz' and one in each of the years 1802, tßc 3, and
aro+. One was laid down at a much earlier date.
—The Deptford, the Woolwich, and another, were
expated to be ready in 18os, a fourth in 18c6,
and a fifth in 1807. Such was the force prepar-
ing in the King's yards, and fuch was the addi-
tional force expelled from this exertion. Fairing
over that laid down as early as 1782, which was
not finifhed, if Noble Lords would look to page 78,
they would difcover that between February, tBOI,
and May, 1804, the Bombay, and five others, were
expated to be fupplied from the King's yards. But
what was the return, when enquiry was made at the
latter date ? Not one of them had been laid down ;
and the reafon affigned was, that the want both of
hands and materials had precluded the poffibility of
completing the orders. Befidcs there, five (hips had
been contrated for in the Merchants' yards, in 180 t,
but of thefe in 1804., two had not been laid down.—
Thefe fats (poke fo plainly, that it teemed quite un-
neceffary to make any remarks. Noble Loses would
fee the Rate to which the Navy was battening,, by
bare recital. With this melancholy papal before
him, he confidered it his firft duty to endeavour his
utmoft for the reßoration of our Naval force—the
glory, the fafcty, the caiftence of the country de-

pended upon it. He looked round to a:retro %sit
he could acquire the molt prompt and ea :all .
ante ; the Merchants' yards appeared to hint r.
nifli the only immediate refource ; it was c
with great anxiety he found, in the mon'h of Few L-
ary ;803, a peremptory order not to refort to the
Merchants' yards for affidance in the corillrudi-.n of
!Lips of the line. At that time we had 6. !hips in
ordinary, and a Purvey was made, that, under this'
new difficulty, they might be repaired. The enquiry
was fucceeded by an adivity correfponding with the
occafion—and of that number, fifty (hips, before
wholly out of employment, were given for the de.
fence of the country; and this was another promi-
nent faa which would receive the attention of their
Lordlliips. At this time, what was the !tate of the
Royal dock-yards? In May 1804, only twenty five
nips and as many docks were vacant. With tli;-
ficiency of fpace and accommodation, it would
been infanity to have devoted thefe to the building of
(hips of war. But though the means we had wiry'
not negleaed day after day, the (Sips on duty were
requiring repair; and in the courfe of so months, in
the years 1804. and ISoS, there had been refitted, in
the King's yards, one hundred and fixty one veffels;
one hundred and eight of which had been received
into the docks. But was this recourfe to the Mer-
chants' yards a romantic fchetne of his own ? Was
it not adopted by every board fine the year t 774?
If he took a wrong courfe, he did but follow in the
wake of Lords Sandwich, Howe, Chatham, and
Spencer. There were at this moment no lefs than
120 (hips in the Britilh Navy, which at different pe-
riods had been built in the Merchants' yards. Were
Noble Lords difpofed to tefign this acceffion of
Ilrength, in which he computed- no Ids than thirty-
five (hips of the line ? if fuch were the meaning of
this interruption, he Ihould be glad to linen to their
explanation. He was ready to (hew. that from the
period Rated (1771), there never was a time ofgreat
naval exertion, in which the Merchants' yards were
not the principal refouree. When Lord Sandwich
was at the head of the Admiralty for a term of tea
years. the greateft aaiviry prevailed That ever had
been known in that department. (Hear! hear!)—
Be fides the repairs made to an incalculable extent,
36 (hips of the line were built, no lets than 34 of
which were from the Merchants' yards. During the
time of profound tranquillity, which fucceeded from
the year 1783 to 1788, no affiflance was derived from
that quarter, but fix flips of the line were con-
ftruCted in the Royal docks. Advancing farther.
the fame principle was adhered to, and from 1794 to
1831, the proportion of (Sips from the Merchants'
compared with the King's yards, was as 17 to 5.
So corred was the affection, that to the time of the
Adminillration of the Noble Lard who preceded him
(Lord Melville) in the office, in all times of revere
preffure, the merchants' yards were the principal re-
fource. But he could proceed even to a later period
without danger of contradidion. It appeared from
the papers on the table, that there had been kite
correfpondence between the Noble Earl, to whom he
had jolt alluded, and Sir Andrew Snape Hammond
the Comptroller of the Navy. The letters he bad in
view referred to Tome coneerfation which had paffed
on the fubjed he was now fpeakiag to, the employ-
ment of the merchants' yards. Among other matters.
it feemed that the molt perfed good humour had not
prevailed between the Merchants and the Board.
and Sir Andrew hoped that harmony would be re-
vived by the intervention of his Lordlhip. The
Comptroller of the Navy had tko perfonal commu-
nication with the Noble Earl, on account of the in-
difpofition of the latter at his country flat ; this Offi-
cer of the Board therefore wrote to the Firft Lord,
expreffing his furprife at not having heard on the
fubjea oldie merchants' yards, and his anxiety to
have fame information or order regarding it from
his Lordfhip. The anfwer to this was dated gth Jab
nuary, 18ca, and the Noble Earl thus imparted his
fentiments : a It mull be frefh in your recoll:dion
that I feldom converted with you without entailing
to you the neceffity of building as many 74 gun (hips
as we can, and therefore I am much furprifed at your
letter." From the whole tenor of this letter he was
jnitified in affurning that at lea& to this date he had
the authority of Lord St. Vincent for building in the
Imerchants' yards wherever contradors for the or-
pole could be found. So Sir. Andrew S. Hammond
underltood it, and in confequence of this letter he
ladvertifed for fuch contrads with the builders.—
Thefe advertifements had fcarce appeared in the pub-
lic prints before (on the 2oth of January) Sir An-
drew was furprifed by a letter of a very different taro.
dency from his Lardlhip. Having laid (laid he)
before the Commitlioners of the Admiralty the public
notice given, I am defired to inform you that no
tenders are to be accepted, and that no line of bat.
the (hip is to be built in the merchants' yards." He
was totally at a lofs to conjedure what could pro-
duce this fudden alteration in his Lordfhip's mind.
but the opportunity was now given which he trufted
the Noble Earl would not negleit, of removing the
uncertainty to which all mutt heexpofed on the view
of the papers on the table. He con(ldered it highly
important that all ambiguity fhould be removed ;
becaufe, if he were at all correct in the hillory he
' had given of the progrefn of the navy for the left
thirty or forty years, this new plan would be a dc•
flruftive blow, and prevent its future fuperiority.—
Some perfonal feeling feemed unfortunately to save
blended Will with this intercourfe, for in his letter.
the Noble Earl added, " To prevent any further
mifunderflanding, I &dire your next communication
may be with the Board." Thus was the Comp-
' troller deprived of any dire& connexion with the
Fa Lord of the Admiralty. If the Noble Lail
were incapable of holding any intercoutfe with Sir
Andrew Snape Hammond, why was not the latter
fuperfeded ? of this he (Lord Melville) at leaft was
convinced, that it was impoffible that the affairs of
the Navy could be managed with any regularity or
fucccfs, without a perfonal. intimate, couttant, and
familiar communication between the Firft Lord of
the Admiralty and the Comptroller of the Navy.—
With regard to the expence, halted little to add to
what appeared on the papers before the Houfe. In
them their Lordfhips would difcern his anxious en-
deavours to reduce this as much as poffible : there
was no option : either the facrifice was to be made,
or the (hips were not to be obtained. If :mooch
were added to the public burthens from this caufe, it
may, perhaps, be juftly attributed to the indifcrcer
confidence in the pacific appearance prefented by the
enemy, and the cooferent inattention to our marine

perfons had indulged in very free comments oti
the fyikm of blockade which had been for fome time
adhered to, but which had not been completely ef-
foqual, on fome recent occafions to prevent the
escape of the enemy. The ryttem of blockade which
had been adopted, might be proper or improper, ac-
cording to contingent circumflances. Probably it
would 1.-.• politic at the commencement of a war, when
it was almve all things =diary to our future opera-
tions to preferve confidence at home, and to protea
the commerce of the country at that time pouring its
wealth into the harbours of the ifland. Buz when the
internal fafety is provided for, when the trade has
hadrinie enough to Shelter itfelf from injury, then it
may be very unvrife to perfevcre in the fame projea
of defence. The attempt was unwire, becaufe the
blockade was impollible to be permanent, unlefs we
...tub] command the winds and the waves, and tub.
.eft the fublime meet:lllons of nature to our controul.
'nut were it practicable, it would be imprudent.—
This country depends for its glory and bappinefs up-
' •ii the fecurity of its remote connexions. Our fleets
midi fail over the ocean, to the eatiern and weßern
extremity of the globe, to prelate them from dan-
ger ; and alders a force is preferred in thefe impor-
tant fiontions, it is in vain that we triumph in the
contrafted teas of Europe. At the opening of hof-
tilities, the principal objea was the fafety of the
feat of empire ; in a more advanced period, the fe-
curity of the diftant poffeffions could alone infpire
that confidence which was fo effential to fuccefsful
hoßility. It would be naturally enquired, under
this head, is the Britiih fleet at this moment in a con-
dition to conduce to our home and foreign proteftion?
It would be teen, by the documents on the table,
that fo lately as the month of Pebruary a furvey was
made of all the fbips in ordinary, in order to after.
lain to w hat extent, and with what degree of promp.
titude the (hips in that clefs could be repaired; and
the intention was to bring the line of battle hips to
the force at which they Road at the conclufion of
the 'aft war. The country had now to expert three
(hips prepared for this year, nine more which were
in the Merchant's yards, twenty-fix from the Rock
to which he had jolt alluded, in all he believed
thirty-eight (hips of the line, and many more were in
an advanced Rate of repair. Thus would 115 or
120 Ships of the line be at the difporal of the Exe-
cutive Government, which would be adequate to
every purpofe wherever the honour and happinefs of
the Rate required that her arms Should be refpea-
cd. The dignity and felicity of the empire were ne-
ceffarily combined ; the moment we 101 l that emi-
nence, we (hould gradually fink into contempt and
wretchednefs. Among the moll advantageous
means of preferving our naval glory, he could not
avoid confidcring a conciliatory fpirit with regard
to the gallant defenders of the country; and the moll
iticceisful way of gaining the affeeions of the kamen,
was through the medium of the commander, under
whom his duties were to be performed. Before the
Noble Lord who made this motion could convince
him ( Lor d Melville) of the juflice of the ob(ervations
by which it was preceded, be mull (hew how the va-
cant flips in the Royal yards could be more benefi-
cially occupied; he mutt point out how the deficiency
in the artifans could be fupplied; how the dißribution
of thole which remained couldhave been more advan.
tageous : but whatever might be his opinion was of lit-
tle moment ; yet before the Noble Lords around him
would be latisfied of the accuracy of the propofitions,
the Noble Mover had a much more difficult talk
than he expated to perform. The tall particular to
which he Should call the attention of the Houle, was
the want of the neceffary gores. Upon this, how-
ever, he would enter into no controverfy with the
Noble Lord. It appeared to him (Lord Melville)
to be right always to referee a fupply equal to the
demand of three years, but if this was not procured,
he was not perfonally to blame. The exertions of
the fait ten months had been abundantly fuccefsful,
but it was material that in an affair fo important
we Should not rely upon occafional aCtivity. It
would be recollefted on this fubjea, that the re.
port of the Commiffioners of the Land Revenue
had been before the public many years, yet no-
thing was done in confequenee of their feafonable
admonitions. It was true that prodigious im-
provements had been made in the agriculture of
s.' country, and the attention of men of fortune and
elates had been particularly drawn to a very valu-
able branch of that purfuit, the amelioration of the
timber, and the increafe of plantations ; but thole
who engaged in the produaire occupations, were
more dilpofed to provide for the prefent than for fu-
ture generations, and the patriotic feeling had not
always triumphed over the mercenary principle. He
tincerele apologired to the Route for having engaged
to much time on this occafion ; Noble Lords would
however difcern how nearly his fenfibility mull be af.
fated, and would grant him their indulgence. The
reform propofed wt,uld perhaps not be produced by
the means now fuggefled ; a new Comniißion had
been instituted, under another authority, to enquire
into objefts nearly conneded with thole to which the
labours of the Selea Committees of their Lordflrips
would be applied. The Members of the p4mmittee
to which he alluded were feleCted with great judg-
ment, and with a peculiar view to the duties they
had to perform. Whether with a view to private
convenience or public benefit, he did not perceive
any effential good that would refult from the adop-
tion of the meafure ; mach more he was confident
I. would conduce to the ecconomy and regularity of
tie Dock-yards, if a digeft were formed of chg. or-
d:rs and inftruttions of official duty, by which the
•would no longer be fubjed to the changes to which
they tad been expofed.
The Earl of ST. VINCENT maintained, that the
building (hips of war in the Merchants' Yards, was a
fyßem equally *afield and prejudicial to the Navy.
He Rated chafe (hips to be inadequate to the fervice,
and even dangerous to bc employed. One of them,
for inflance, drew her bolts, which, inflead of being
from 18 to zo inches long, were only to. The (hip
was in the utmoß peril of finking, without firers of
weather. His Majetly's Yards were fufficient to build
ten (hips of the line per year, betides executing all the
fervice of repair;. The Noble Lord had called upon
him to account for his not perfonally communicating
with the Comptroller of the Natty. He took a courts
more confident with the refpnnfibility of that of9cer.
if the Firfi Lord of the Admiralty, and not the board,
is to communicate with other officers, how is it to
appear what inßruaions are given ? There was, in
fait, no rcfponfibility, no competency is the preterit

• Navy Board. Not one at them, with the exception of
Mr. Ofborne Markham, who is fufpended, is compe-
tent to his duty. It will come out to be fo. He knew
it mot' affuredly. As to the Noble Vifcount's charges
again(' him, he treated them with the temper they
deferved from him ; but their Loirdfltips would not
aft juftly toward him, if they did not go into the
inquiry.
His Royal Highnefs the Duke of CLARENCE
was fatis6ed from his earlieft acquaintance with the
naval fervice, that the greatell abufes prevailed in
the dock-yards. Of sOOO fhipwrights, which was the
whole number in the kingdom, half was in the King's
yards. In the merchant's yards, 40 men could build
a 74 gun (hip in 312 days. It was owing to want of
proper regulations that proportionate difpatch was
not ufed in the King's yards. The deficiency of tim-
ber had been complained of ever fince 1785. His
Royal Highoefs even went through the hiftory of the
naval confirudions fince the adminiftration of Lord
Sam%vich ; he approved of the condo& of Earl St.
Vincent in every part, particularly in his exertions
for reform. He would vote for the Committee.
Lord SIDMOUTH declared himfelf hoftile to the
motion, as it appeared to him that it relied on no
Parliamentary grounds. There did exift no dire&
charge again(' his Noble Friend (Earl St. Vincent)
though there were differences of opinion as to certain
parts of the adminiftration of the navy, while he pre-
tided at the Admiralty Board. When the motinn for
the produftion of the papers was fir(' brought for-
ward, he entertained ftrong doubts as to the neceffity
or expediency of making them the ground of any
fpecific inquiry. Thefe doubts, from more mature
confideration, were removed, and he was clearly of
opinion, that to go into the Committee propofed
could promote no ufeful purpofe. This being his
decided fentiment, it was not his intention long to
occupy the attention of the Houfe. He had rifen
chiefly for the purpofe of laying a few words on two
points which had fallen out in the courfe of the de-
bate. The one of there related to the fuppofed in
congruity is the opinions of his Noble Friend, on the
fuhjed of building (hips of war in the private dock
yards ; and on this matter he felt it his duty to
make a lhort explanation to the Wore. In the fum-
mer of ttlo3, his Noble Friend had felt it to be his
duty to examine in perfon the flare of all our naval
arfenals ; the impreflion on his mind, on his return
from this tour, was firongly, that very large fup•
plies of (toms, but efpecially of (hip timber, ought
to be, without delay, procured. In effec9ing this
moll deferable objet, his Noble Friend had two grand
points in view. He was anxious for a vail addition
' of (hip timber for the Navy, and he was equally de
&Gus for this purpofe, that the mor.opoly in the
hands of the private builders (hookd be deitroyed.—
On a more mature confideration, however, he found
that the monopoly c uld not at once be got rid of,
and that the fupply could not be procured to the ex-
tent required, if the private timber contrattors were
altogether excluded. The plan, then, of confining
the building .f flaps to the King's yards, was need-
rarity given up ; but that w.:s no proof that the opi-
nion of his Noble Friend sr as cha, geable with incnn
latency. He himfelf could tettify to the induftry
and anxiety of the Noble Lord to procure a large
fupply of timber for the Navy, though it was impof
table tor him, on the prefent riccafion, to enumerate
the proofs of his affiduity. He might, however, Rate
one circumllancc, and that was, the application of
the Noble Lord to a great commercial ellablilhment
on the fubjea. Tht refult of this application was,
the diredors of the eflablifhment did agree to build
no new (hip for two years, and to accomplifh this
they were to permit their (hips to go two extra voy-
ages. So much he felt himfelf called on to Rate on
the fir(' of the two points on which lie conceived ex-
planation neceffary. The fecond point to which he
wished to refer ova., the mifunderflanding which filo-
, filled betwixt his Noble Friend and the Comptroller
' of the Navy. He agreed with the Noble Vifcount
who fpoke fecund in the debate, as to the expediency
of union and confidence betwixt two perfons holding
fuch high firuations in the country. He lamented
that fuch mifanderitanding had exi fled, and had done
every thing in his power to remove it, thong!) unhap-
pily, without fuceefs. In juflice to his Noble Friend
be mull five, that he never (poke of the other perfon
but in terms of the greatell liberality. Returning to
the fubjed before the Houfe, he Rill argued that no
parliamentary ground had been advanced for the
Committee. He knew that there cabled a firm de-
termination to enter into a liria examination of all
abut-es in whatever department they cabled. He was
,confcious that whatever was negligent and corrupt
would be amended, and ifhe were not confcious that
fuch was the difpolition of the Right Honourable
Gentleman at the head of affairs end his colleagues,
he fhould never have confetateel to become a meutber
of the fame Adminifiration.
Lord HOLLAND fopported the motion for the
Committee. He was anonifhed ot the condo& of the
Noble Vikonnt, who had given the Noble Earl fuch
praife for his public conduer, and Rill refuted to vote
for a Committee, in which every opportunity would
be afforded him of fully clearing his charaaer from
every afperfion. He was equally furprifed to hear
it afferted, that there was no Parliamentary ground
for inquiry. Was there no ground of inquiry when
oppofite charges were brought forward ?—Was it of
no confequence to afcertain whether the prefent Ad-
miniftrationewhich had promifed fo much, had done
fo little to redeem there protnifes?—Was it of no mo-
ment to inquire whether the Rate of the national de-
fence was improved under the naval adminiftration of
the Noble Vifcount who fpoke fecond im the debate ?
Thefe were unquellionably all matters of the highell
moment—and they were precifely the matters to be
conlidered in the Committee. Two feparate fyflems
of defence have been tried, and it was continent with
the belt Parliamentary ufage to inftitute an
invelti-
gation which of the two was beft fitted to the circum-
fiances of the empire? There was much too in the
papers on the table to juftify the moll rigid inquiry.
It was Rated that in 18o3,,contraas could have been
a
formed at the rate of 261. ton for a (hip of 74 guns
Ito be iiniflred in three years ; and a 32 goo frigate at
ithe rate of 201. a ton, and to be &tithed in two years.
In another paper, however, it was Rated, that no
Icontraa Could be obtained fo: lefs than 361. per ton.
This was a molt extraordinary difference in the (pace
of lets than two years, and it was highly 6t that the
Winds fhould go before the Committee to report whe-
ther the fyttem of building in Merchants' yards bad
not been
.carried to a molt unwarrantable len; th; and

whether coritraCts had not been formed on very dif-
, advantageous terms ? His Lordlhip next animad-
verted, in very fevere terms', on the efcape of the
French fleets. If the fyllem of blockade was impo-
litic, the Noble Vifcount had made ample amends by
totally departing from it. A French fqaadron had
been full fix weeks in the Weft Indies, at full liberty
to tear and wear the (hips to pieces, as the Noble
Vifcount had emphatically erpreffed it. Surely when
all our colonies in the Weft Indies were left to the
protedion of one fhip of the line, if the French were
not triumphant the Noble Vifcount could boar no (hare
in the blame. His LordThip, after ftrongly urging
the neceffity of inquiry on all thefe interelting points,
fat down by giving his hearty vote for the motion.
Lord HAWKESBURY profelfed Iris difinclina-
lion to follow the Noble Lord, who bad made the
motion, into all the derails which in the courfe of his
fpeeeh he had thought it neceffary to fubmit to their
Lordfhips. The quetlion, in his opinion, was nei-
ther more nor lefs, than hether the Naval Papets
moved for by the Noble Lord and the Noble Vifcount
who was lately at the head of the Admiralty, should
be referred to a Seleft Committee? Under any fatua•
lion he fbould have confidered that as a delicate quef-
don, but particularly fo when he had that impreilion
upon his mind, that it involved confiderations of
much greater importance and peculiar delicacy.—
Were a Committee of the kind appointed, it could
never proceed to the length of making a fatisladory
report, without difclofing information which might
be moll prejudicial to the naval department. He
was perfuaded that Noble Lords would agree with
him in the propriety of not making public certain
details, which it was at prefent prudent to keep, not
only from the knowledge of Foreign Powers, but
even from thofe who were bell affeded to the Go-1
vernment of the Country. Before their Lordfhips
Ihould confent to any imprudent difclofure of that
nature, it would be requifite that very flrong grounds
indeed &mild be laid down to jultify fo improvident
a departure from the ufual principles upon which their
Lordfhips had hitherto abed. It was made a quel
tion, whether it was better to build in the King's or
the sferchants'-yards ?he did not think it neceffary to
difcufs an abllrad point of that nature. He would
look to'pradical utility, and he would fay, the more
that was done in the King's yards the better; but
at the fame time he felt himfelf compelled to avow,
that it never had been found pradicable to fully
provide for die lupport of the Navy by an exelu-
five employment of the advantages afforded by the
Royal Yards. The having recourfe to the Mer-
chants' Yards, was, he would admit, attended with
confiderable expense ;—but ht thought it snore pru-
dent, more wife, and, upon the whole, more ad-
vantageous to the country, to facrifice fomething in
point of economy, than to rifk a dangerous dimi-
nution in our Naval Force, by rellriaing the con-
flrudion of fhipi of war to the Royal Yards. That
was a point upon which he had much reflected, and
the more he confidered the fubjed, the more he
was convinced, that in time of war it was utterly
impollible to keep up a fufficient number of Ibips
upon the flocks, and at the fame time provide foi
the neeeffary repair*, of the &ilia employed, without
having recourfe to the Merchants' yards. He omit •
dered the Committee moved for by the Noble Lord
as wholly rtnneceffary. A Commiffion to enquire
into naval abufes had been appointed three years.
ago ; they had exercifed the duties entrulledro them
with zeal, accuracy, and fidelity. His Majefly's
Government were not infenfible to the merits of that
Commiffinn, and in confequenee of the reports which
proceeded from it, they advifed his Majelly to in-'
Ilitute another Commiflion, for the precife purpofe'
of carrying the falutary improvements fuggefled by
it into effect. Both chore Commiffions were in full
adivity at prefent, and therefore he did not think it
neceffitry, while all the important fubjeds connec-
ted with the Navy were under their confideration, to
refer the voluminous papers which had been laid on
the table to a Committee of their Lordfhips. :What-
ever advantages in point of reform were attainable,
he thought they were more likely to be derived from
the labours of thole two boards, and from the hada-
try and knowledge a the very meritorious men who
compofed them, than from fubmitting, at this late
period of the Sefton, all the complicated details of
the Navy to a SeledCommittee of that Houk. He.
mutt therefore oppofe the motion for the appointment
of any fuel; Committee.
The Earl of BUCKINGHAMSHIRE laid, that
upon the fame grounds en which he oppofed a fimi-
lar motion refpeding the Noble Earl on the curls
bench, in a former inflance, whichenotion that Noble
Earl thought thofe molt his friends who refilled, he
ffinuld feel it his duty to vote against the prnprifition
before the Houk. The principle which' influenced
him on that occafion, was this, that he and his col-
leagues in office, thought that to accede to that mo-
tion, would be to induce an inference unfavourable
to the charader of the N 'ble Earl; and, he trolled,
in purfuing a like courfe, with regard to the prefent
motion, he ffinuld not be fuppofed to feel a friend-
fhi p lefs warm for the Noble Lord, than afluated his
former conduft towards him. As to the infinuatinns
which had been throe n out, that, if the propofed in-
quiry was inflituted, blame would eventually attach
to the Noble Vifcount (Melville) for not having fla-
tioned a fleet in the Welt Indies, he mull lay, in
juftice to the Noble Vifcount, that the nmiffion com-
plained of was by no means culpable. A Noble Lord
on the other fide had obferved, that when the Roche
fort fquadron arrived at the Weft Indies, we had
only one flip at the Leeward Iflands. Granted ;
and he would alert, that to have had more there
would have been extremely wrong. We had our
fleets in Europe to meet the enemy's fleas where
they were, and to have lent them to the Weft Indies,
where no holt& fleet was then to be found, would,
he maintained, be a molt injudicious, nay criminal
diftribution of our naval force. For the juflice of
this nbfervaticn he would confidently appeal to the
opinion of the Noble Earl on the crofs bench (Lord
Si. Vincent sledded cleat).
Earl SUFFOLK bore teflimony to the meritorious
fervices of tart St. Vincent, particularly in inulitu-
ting that highly ufeful Board, the Naval Commit.-
fion, and vindicated the Noble Earl from the charge
of not having fufficientlyattended to the condruttion
of fmaller fixed veffels. The Noble Lord animad-
verted on the comparifon that was made between the
Noble Vifcount (Melville), and the Noble Earl on
the crofs bench, with refpett to the building of (hips
ip she mychaots' lards; and übktrjrsd that this

'Terence was kept in the fhade, that although both
Noble Lords reforted to the merchants' yards, they
did not do fo on the fame terms, or any thin
like it. For the Noble Vifcount contraded for build-
ing fuch fhips at one third more per ton, than the
Noble Earl would have accepted, or could have had
them built for. The Noble Lord complained of the
delay that had taken place before any of our naval
force was difpatched to the Weft Indies after the
Rochefort fquadron had failed, and alfo commented
upon fome appointment of a relation, which turnout
Hated the Noble Vifcount to have made under im- -
proper circumflances.
Lord MELVILLE fair?, jle could not vote for
this motion without a breath of public duty. ‘Vith
regard to fending out a fleet to follow the Rochefort
Squadron, there was no delay whatever on the part
of the Government of this Country. On points of
this nature, their Lord(hips mull be aware, that he
could not enter upon a detail, without giving im-
proper information; but he was glad that this parti•
cular and fpecific point was capable of being ltated
without public inconvenience. There are near me,
(laid his Lord!hip) thofe who know the inftrudions
under which the Channel Fleet were to aft. If the
enemy's Fleet fhould fail from Rochefort, or any
other port, the inarudions to our Fleet were pointed
rn that object. Thcfe inflrudions were, to lofe no
time in fending a detachment after them. Thefe in-
firudions were not late inflrudions ; theyswere given
fo far back as the month of Augult lad. The
Rochefort fquadron failed twelve days before it was
known to any Admiral in the Channel Fleet. The
14th day after it failed was the first time I beard cf
it ; the next morning I fent the order, without other
information, for a detachment of our fleet to follow
them, and it did follow them to the lirelt Indies; and
therefore there was no delay on my part—and the
Noble Earl mull forgive me, if I tell him he fhuuld
fpeak out much more plainly, or infinuate much Ids.
—Againft the former I can meet him; againft the
latter no man can. I have given him diftind proof
of the inaccuracy of the rumour he alluded to ; and
as he heard thefe rumours without any thing to con-
vince his underflanding of their truth, he flsould not
have given them the fandion of his name by repeat-
ing them. Does he think that under fuch furmifes as
there he is entitled to !tatter his poifoned arrows at
his will I—Let him learn a lelfon from this event, not
to deal too haftily in rumour to the prejudice of the
reputation of a Minifter who has great and 4rduous
duties to perform. It is not becoming in that Noble
Earl, nor fuitable to the rob': blood which' tuns in
his veins, to circulate under the fandion of his name,
injurious rumours without foundation, when they
may be inslufirioufly propagated by malevolent men
where I have no opportunity of refuting them."—
( Year! bear! hear! rifountird from dyfteent parts of the
Nov!.
The Earl of SUFFOLK explained, and avowed,
that he did not believe the charge which had fo pro-
perly excited the warmth of the Noble Vifcount.
The Earl of DARNLEY replied to the arguments
which had been urged againa the adoption of his
motion referring the papers to a Committee. For
the first time be had that night heard an unqualified
cenfure thrown upon the pratice of blockade. Had
that excellent (ram been maintained with the fame
dauntlefs perfcverance that it had been under the na-
val administration of his Noble Friend, a French
fquadron would not now be rayag;rig and laying on.
der contribution our poffeffions in the Weft Indies.
A Noble Vifcount (Lord Sidmouth) had profeffed a
great friendfbip for his Noble Friend, and pronounced
a high panegyric upon his meritorious fervices and
brillidnt talents, whether employed in the civil or ac-
tive department of the Navy ; but would all thofe
great and defervect encomiums fhelter his Noble
Friend from the effeit of thole charges which had
been preferred againfl him in another place 1 His
Noble Friend had been accufed of being the greateft
enemy which the country ever had, a Itaitt of the
fouleit kind had been caR upon his great charader,
and when he required it, when he earnellly entreated
it, he thought it repugnant to every principle of juf,
tice, that an opportnnity lhouid be withheld front
him to inveftigate and refute thofe heavy and (evert
imputations upon his condud and cherader- He
thought their 'Lortithips could pot, without being
guilty of great iurjuttics, refute to fend the Papers to
a Committee.

The Houk then divided on the original Tullio%
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Contents 33,-Non-enntents 88.--;Majority ss.
Adjourned till Monday.

HOUSE OF COMMOWS.
Colonel WOOD gave notice that he would this day week tistwO
that there be laid before the Houle tin Minato:sof the Fumantile
of the Court Martial which was held on Rest Admiral Si! John
Duckworth.

It was ordered con the Motion of Mr. Tierney, that the Setedt
Committee to which the fabled of the Lambeth Water Works
was referred, do meet again,saud report thereon to the Houle.
The Itt:turn of the spences inestrred by Lriminal Profeention
in Inland. which Was ordered to Me laid before the Howe Aiout
fin weeks thee, was, on the Motion of Sir J. Newport, ordered
to be prefented forthwith.

A gleffage was delivered from the Lords, informing this Hoofs
that they had agreed to the Land Tat Commit:goners Nomination
Bill, and the Slate Duty Bill.
Another Meliage Rated their Lordfhips' de4re to be informed
by this Houle upon what grounds, and for what purp..te it was.
that the attendance oldie hail of St. Vincent wet required before
the Seket Committee appointed to examine into the fulled of the
repairs of the Romney and Is Senfible, and other copies connethd
therewith. The Houk refolved that they would fend an =Ewer
by Meciengers of their own.
The Route then proceeded to ballot for a Sete& Committee n!
at Members, to confider of the mover contained iu the FLventh
Report of the Comirifli mers of Naval Inquiry. When the staff,'
were doted, Mr. Hufkiffon, Mr. Sturges Bourne, Lord Fitzhar.
ris, Mr. Boyd Alexander, Mr. Ornefliy, and a few other Mem-
bers were appointed to examine the Lilt,, and report to the Route
On what at Gentlemen the choice of the. Houle appeared to fall.
The Poft Horfe Duty Farming Liii was read a fird time, and
ordered to be read ; fecond time.

The Auditor's Office Regulation Bill was read a (mood time,
and ordered to be r..1-.Tred to a Comminee on Monday.
Mr. ROSE reported from the Committee to which th Free
Penis Ad was referred. The Relolutions were read and agreed
to, and a Bill ordered purfitlnt to the fpirit tlig.reof.
A new Writ was ordered to beiffued for the eledlion of a Mem-
ber for the Borough of Newton, in Hatur.lhin, in the room of
Charles Chapman, Efq. who has accepted of the CLiitern Hun-
dreds.

The ATTORNEY GENERAL gave notice, that on Monday
next, he would move for leave to bring in a Biii to amchd the laws
refpedting the apprehenfion of Public Offenders who may dope
from one part of the United Kingdom to the other.
On the motion of Mr. Dennis Browne, it was ordered that the
Report be taken into farther conllderation this day fix months :—.
the Bali: taerefore loft for the pretest &Mon.
Lord A. HAMILTON gave notice that on Monday he wou'd
make a motion rettivs to the powers of the Cern Committer.
The Irf>a Small D want poncg, Irgwa off.