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should know what cause of complaint ,
igainst that Officer, that, it necessary, they
institute a Court Martial to iugaire into his
duct.— G ranted.

stiNunis OF LORI) GAMBIER'S TRIAL
Lord COCII RA NE, iu a speech of ot‘
length, colored into a detail of the eircueoilint
attendott, the attack on the enemy's fleet • 4
Basque ltu:tils. Lord Gambier had neglect,
signals, and failed to support him in a fk
egicicut manlier. The object in view, the th
tioti of the etiony's fleet, he thought not t
cntly accomplished, when more might have
done. According to his own account, Lorti,
bier had delayed to sapped him for more
four hours ; but according to his (Lord C.,
•had done so for more than six, and when
he took up that position which it would ha\
1 advisable for him to have taken earlier, th,
! my's shii:s were out of our reach. He ,
himself by all that was valuable to hiai as
to prove that the conduct of the Court-11m
Lord Gambier's trial, was such as they nail
blush for. He contended, that to give the
of the House to an Otlic:-r, who hail been tri.
' his life, who had not gone in to the CUM,
who had been out of sight during the oliij
two, "Him ho doitig that for u Nth no prernleat
„could be foetid. lie ca lied' upon the House
sist on the production of the,stinutes of the
l.Titostrproduceti, he pledged himself to she,
;the Court Martial had proved itself path:
manner unworthy of a Court of Law. Ili
prove that the charge and the evidence wert.
trary to law ; that contradictions hod heel,
on °tilt by the saints evidence ;Jet they wrl
matted by the Judge Adiocaie. The House
in be on their guard against giviug its to moti
thithstrrt, as by those means Government
screen,•themplves from merited reprobation,
gain for a man whose parliamentary ino
they wanted, the highest henna,' they cot
I stow, however unworthy the object. It
screen-themselves fr.um-tho Immo) they tic
for appointing an Aker to a station the dui
I which he was • iiicioupoteot to discharge.
1,41 id nut grave all he had undertaken to ,
I when (hey, acceded to his motion, he would
the honours ,his Majesty had bestowed upot
-arid consign hisiself to the contempt and el
he should in that case deserve. Ile uishtul
, vets would give such a pledge to prove their
owls.- The Niikle. Lord cool:Poled by nio,
" That a Copy of the Minutes on the T:
Admiral Lord Gambier, on hoard his 'hi:
ship* the (4/die/or, iu. Portsmouth harlsoi
'the 211 of July, 1809, be laid before the a
The motion was seconded by tiii• F. Bunt
Captain BER EiFORD said he was one.
Members of the Court Martial. l'ersous of
unittopeatliable veracity :Pato •those who .
that Court, he 461 not :I*lleve were in existetice,
The evidence given `in that Court, he belies,
jhe strictly' true. • He himself was an evident
a strung one too. ' lie ;:vault! Rtit go, as the
,ble Lord thought he, might hare gone, without
crifieing. his ~ ip. ' Asserting this, be aserteil
!Inch, and hii hoped Age *bole of the "11,1"
adhered to the truth as be. did. lie thought ••
eanduct of Admiral Lord Gum bier inch as
# British Officer. :list le octed differently
would have disgracetl himself. He-would not him
been able to have got his ships off atter the •
'sod our sailors would now have been in the
sons of _Fra.occ. He would not give tip the,
ri•oce and knowledge of Admiral StOpford
the other taros who approved of the condt
Lord Gambier for the opinion of the Noble
The Noble Lord,.when accusing titlieTs of
lily, set:lnes, to forget his own conduct in form
the chart, and even thenitemy's fleet, for the
-pose of his evidence. , .
Sir. JOHN OltDr. said, the services- of
-Gaitibier might be meritorious, yet they 4gl
tbe entitled to the Thanks of that Mate.- Ma
against the production of the Minutes:
General LOFTUS wished lb. Jlouse to ,
der Well Ow they tEd, dud thu eutteeqto.lices
their interfering with the decisions of a
Martial. Such a procedure would affect th,
iugs of the army in a very sensible monist
the decisions of these Courts would never I
sidered as secure. . .
Mr. LYTTLETON proved they had a
dent for interfering with the decisions of a
Martial. • Ile did not see that,. because the Mir
mutes were produced, they were bound to interi
fere with the decisions of
.a Court Martial ; hat
they might see grounds to withhold the Thanks of
j the House.
Mr. NIARRY.AT thought the Minutes oudtt
to be-produced before the Thanks o ere ergoirek
The CHANCELLOR of the F:XCHEQUER
did nut rise easedy tW oppOse, but to amend the
motion. That House was the sully tribunal rum.
IM—to lteetttellart/IR roltereif the Expeditkos
to theScheldi ; but that.tase differed materially .
from the present. If the minutes of the trial
were to beprodoned, it mast, be to resister she,
conduct of the Court, and not to revise the sew— •
.4ot.
tone. Lord Gam bier had beets accused, and hail
been honourably acquitted. What now did the,
Noble Lord du ? He advanced 'similar charges.,
Thit email the House technically fulfoiv him, so
as tort:verse:the opinion of the Admirals and Cap—
tahm composing the Cuurt-AlartiJl t The Nobk
Lord had asserted that the House should be care.
lid how they acceded to motions• of thanks, as •
Government, to strengthen themselves, would ee-
l! duly compliment a man who had Parliamentary
its/thence.. He never heard of auy such 4ollaeoce
possessed by Lord Gambier. The reflection
thrown out she First 'Lord of the Admiralty. was
hojust. Nothing can place the integrity of his
conduct in a ware luminous view, than the ap.
pointincitruf the Noble Lord to. the.command as- •
signed to him umlor Lord Gambier. It WAS a
wise elwiee ; the NubleLord hod weltjustified it;
although there certainly were others, who would
have been equally successful in the entcrpuizc. It ,
was, therefore, an unhappy .reatai Ito to Who:foto
that Noble Lord in the manner that the Noble
P.ord opposite had dune, The Noble Lord had
tsserted that there was no prosecutor. Why?
Why did not the Noble. Lord assuale that charm:.

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