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Naval Inquiry, he asses as a reafon for not being
ebO- to prothice any vouchers, that he oc. afionally
employed his leifioe hours in louning his papers.—
Now I conlefeit se. old have been far mote fatisfac-
tory to me, if, inftead of liying that be had bcen in
the habit of burning his papers, he had then explain.
ed the exiffence art this releafi, and had Paid that he
was forty for tile Ore, but in confequence of Inch
a reiraft between him and Mr. Trotter which con-
eained a dank, of the import of which lie was not I
at the time r f figning it aware, but which he had
found hirnfelf called on to r hey, he had burnt the
vouchers. This explanation, it is to be regreted, the
Noble Lord did not mak:, if he could have made it.
It would have done away great part of the fulpicion
which at prefent hangs over that intl.-omen:. 800
the topic on which 1 feel the moll lenfiole is that an
which the Noble Lord fpoke r.; one, or rather two
firms of !camel. of the application of which be frid
he would give no account. to this Houk. There is
fomethiog fo truly extrarnatioa.y in the declaration,
that I ;on alloniffied it thoold too r proceeded from
any perfm, nit-re partieniarly from the Noble Lard,
a perfon who can be no Granger to the importance of
what lie has laid, one who has filled the firft offices
in the country, who was iiimfelf a profeflional man,
and accußomed to conduit the defence of others, I
could almoll fay it is nothing but the infatuation of
guilt itfell. If it be admitted as a doCirine to be re..
cognized in this cottony, the": is an end to every
thing we have been ACClllinined to regard as valuable;
there is an end to the grandeur of our laws, the gran-
deur of our confiitrition. Of what avail will it be that
our Sovereign at his coronation, take an oath to go-
vern agreeably to law, if this Noble Lord be entitled
to come and fay, " Hee is or e fum of tc,cool. and
another fum of to,oool. which I have expended, but
I will not tell y, ip—the•Parliatnem of the country—
in what manner iv We cannot, however, be left In
&Rime as Rill tel be able to provide againft loch an
attempt. It is in vain to fay that pubiic interelt re-
quires loch a princ;ple to be laid down—a principle
obvioufly in opporoion to the plan Law and contritu•
lion of the count y. Such a &aline is n *congenial
to the meridian of this country. Even in the days of
King Charles 11. it was never thought of. Had that
monarch had Inch cadets to make, lie would not have
required to have thin up the Exchequer. Ail that,
would have been necelfary for him to hale dorm,
would have been to bring forward his Minifter to-tell
that he had fpent 30 or 40,0001. which he had receiv-
ed, but that no power fhould induce him to tell in
what manner he had laid it out.—Neither is it tree
that the recognition of fuch a principle would contri-
bute any thing to the fafety of the State. The obfer-
vation made by a good judge of the Britifh Coottitto
lion, who had long tludied it, to the monarch already
alluded to, is not unworthy of remark. It was to this
tired : 6. I have leen fomethine of the Conllitution of
this country. If the King with to rule according to
law, lie may be; one of the moll powerful monarchs
in tire world. But, if he purfues a contrary line
of conduit, he is one of the wcakett." This v:as
reprefented by Sir William Temple to Charles the
Second, and if thet Monarch had ailed nponit, he
might have prevented much atifebief in the country.
When he confidercd the declaration of the Noble
Lord, he could not help thinking it big with danger
that was karcely to be imagined. With regard to
the main quettion, whether the Noble Lord had
been fufficiently puniffied, this brought us to the
nature of the crime charged upon the Noble Lord ;
and when he confidered its aggravotinz, cir cum-
fiances, he mull confider it a crime of great magni-
tude. The Noble l'erfon was one who molt be per- '
fatly acquainted with the laws of hi; country, and
did not aft from patron or the emergency of the
moment, but perfevered in the fame line for years,
VII it became a habit. Its intenfity and continuity,
therefore, were arguments for further punifhment.
—He thought the Noble Lord had endured le-
vere punilhment ; but all he bad f ,Rained from
that Houk was the erafure of his name from Isis
Majelly's Councils. The Refoluthrns were no part
of the punifhtnint, but a neceffary meafure prior to
an Impeachment ; and if the Honourable Gentle-
man had moved it the fame night, he m;ght have
taken the fenfe of the Houk upon the fubjell. His
Right Honourable Friend (Mr. Pitt), in withdraw-
ing the Noble Lord from the Brio). Cotmcil, fliould
have given us the choice, and not have Paid,—" Aye,
I will- take him away from you, and flop your
g .ing any further." The main and clear defence
of the former proceedings of the noufe, was, oret
they proceeded according to the light they bad
on the 111. jell ;—but did not preclude ti oorelves
from receivreg additional inforniatioo, and afling
upon it. iVith regard to the rude of pr. erecting,
his mind went wilt hi, Rieht Hon. l-tknd (Mr.
Bond), but as unanimity was deli, able, lie thought
he would do well not to pref his amendment, letin.a
they were agreed that force feta of ctiminal proecis
woe necefiary ; and if Gentlemen made up their
minis in favour of impeachmnt, he could vote for
the impeachment. To reply to the atgoments et the
Right lion. and Learned Gentleman (the Mailer of
the Rolls,) he could not hut thin!: that Lc had ar
gued rather with relation to the forms r f law, than
the teal ends of justice. he :tight Honnorable and.
Learned Gentlemen did not differ piton priociple,
but the. degrees or jnliicc ; and he acknowledges,
that if the ro,oocl. Lad Scot been reteroed, he fhould
have voted for the impeachment. tin Honourable
Gentleman bad flid the: the public had not Lift a
tingle finning. He would Rate one lots, and that
%vas the locol. per antrum, became it was given the
Noble Lord exprelsly to prevent an improper rue of
money drawn from the Bank. but the great lots was
not to be meaftired by the turn of money, but be-
cattle it touches thofe tiered principles of the contti
tution, and the prevalence of Inch a praflice would
tend greatly to alienate the minds of the people from
their love to the contlitution, their confidence in their
repiefentatives, and the pore adminifiration of pus.
lie jultice. He would all: whether it was not natural
for Lord Melville to fay to Mr. Trotter, take care
how you employ the money, and that you do not
fnffer Inch praftices ? Was it not natural for the No-
ble Lord to have precluded and guatJed him front
an improper application of the public money ? On
this orcation lie could have no option as to what pro-
ceeding thould be adopted. With regard particu-
larly to the to,oool. that VC3S a pout upon v. !rich v. e
aright yet have linne proof from Mr. l'icoter. The
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