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backwardnefs in time of action abroad, by the certainty of being difgraced for fuch conduct at home.

Proceedings in the firft Seffion of the prefent Parliament, continued from p. 251. ORD Ngnt fpoke to order, and Ld N-g-nt protested, that the onwished, for the ho- ly motive that induced him to internour and dignity of Apofe, arofe from an ardent defire to the Houfe, that e- preferve peace and good-humour bevery matter of an- tween the members, which alone could gry difcuffion might give weight and dignity to the delibebe avoided. He rations of that Houfe; that no gentlebegged gentlemen' to recollect, that man held the extraordinary talents of whatever was faid within thefe walls B the hon. gentleman in higher esteem was carried abroad, tranflated, and than himself; and that it was from the read by every foreigner who had ac- painful remembrance of what had hapcefs to a common news-paper. It was, pened on fome former occafions, and he faid, from the perfonal abufe fo from the hazard that the House ran in freely indulged during the laft parlia- lofing fome of its moft valuable memment, that the Houfe had fallen in thebers, that he hoped to God what he eftimation of all Europe; and if fuch had faid might meet with attention. conduct was to be encouraged, the Mr. F- rofe, and frankly confefwhole fyftem of political education in fed that in the ardour of debate he had this country must be changed; inftead frequently been carried beyond what of studying the works of Cicero and the strict rules of the Houfe might Demofthenes, to form the orator, the warrant, or his own fober judgement only qualifications neceflary for a mem-Dapprove; but, if any thing had now falber of this Houfe must be learnt at len from him, that in a cool and delithe fencing-school.

Sir Rb-t Sm-th called Lord N-g-nt to order in turn, for interrupting his hon. friend when he was perfectly in the line of his duty. When a question refpecting the navy of Great Britain was in difcuffion, he faid, the equal distribution of rewards and punishments was furely a topic of no fall concern. It was not, he faid, merely the hulks and guns of fhips that conftituted the length of the British navy; it was the fpirit and bravery of the officers and men, animated to gallant actions by the hope of fame and fuitable preferiment; and deterred rom

berate fenfe of what he faid could add to its enormity, he in defiance of that interpretation was free to repeat what he had faid before. Aud why? Be E caufe he was confcious that nothing he had fpoken, relative to the question now before the Houfe, was diforderly, or could be interpreted to to be. As well might the noble Lord in the blue ribbon fay, when he was arraigning his public conduct as a minifter, that F he was affronting him as a man as Sir Hugh Pallifer complain of being told that he had preferred a malicious and ill-founded accufation against his fuperior officer. He had, he faid,

The reafon was obvious, they could not ferve with fafety under an administration convicted of f-th-d, and guilty not merely of n--s, but of r-d-d tr-h-y. There were certainly in A the fervice feveral very worthy and very refpectable officers; they had his applaufe and his thanks for ferving. But ftill no man, who wished well to his country, could help lamenting that it was impoffible for thofe great and diftinguished characters already alluded to, at this time of exigency, to serve their country. It was therefore the with of his heart to remove that only bar to the national fervice; for which he hoped, after the holidays, that the fentence of the fecond court-martial C would be called for, when he would move a question for an enquiry into the conduct of the E. of Sandwich.

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avowed, and he begged leave again to repeat the avowal, that he never in that House meant any thing perfonal; but at the fame time he begged leave to add, that he never would be deterred from fpeaking, his fentiments fully and freely in that Houfe from any dread of confequences perfonal to himfelf. It was, therefore, in ftrictnefs of duty, as a member of the great council of the nation, that he recurred to what he had before faid, and for this good reafon which the hon. gentleman who fat near him had fuggeited, that it was not fails and mafts, rigging and hulks, that made the navy of England; it was the fpirit and high fenfe of honour of its officers; a fpirit and fenfe of honour that could not exift but under a proper diftribution of rewards and pu nifhments. How then was the navy of England to be expected to flourish, Ld N-th affured the hon. gentlewhen the perfon convicted of having man, that whenever the day of enqui preferred a falfe and malicious accufa ry fhould come, he was ready to meet tion against his fuperior officer, and Dit. With refpect to the fentence of the who was barely acquitted when tried court-martial which the hon. gentleby a court-martial upon charges exhi- man had laid fo much stress upon, all bited against himself, was preferred to he fhould fay now (having already dea poft of diftinction, of honour, and clared his fentiments more at large, of profit? But here he begged leave and fhould again perhaps if called upto fay, he did not fo much blame that on) was, that the court-martial was perfon; it was the first Ld of the Ad-convened for the purpofe of trying miralty who was alone to blame. What Mr. Keppel and not Sir Hugh Pallihad been faid formerly, it was now no- fer; in pronouncing therefore fentence forious was the truth, that the accufer upon the motives of the accufer, they was only the inftrument, the Admiralty had exceeded the line of their jurifdic were the principals. This was at the tion, and had condemned a man untime attempted to be denied; but what F heard, who had no opportunity of will men fay now, when they fee the making his defence. With regard to accufer not only not difcountenanced, the main ground of the hon. gentlebut rewarded? promoted to a poft of man's grievance, that of giving Sir diftinguished honour, and fupported, H. Pallifer the government of Greenand brought forth in oppofition to the wich Hofpital, he was ready, he laid, confcious fenfe of his own lapfe? Did to avow his fhare in it, and to defend he not abdicate his feat in parliament?and fupport it. The hon. gentleman Did he not refign his feat at the Admiralty Board? Had he not, to borrow the phrafe of an hon. gentleman, hid himfelf from public notice, by making a difcreet retreat? An hon. gentleman had afked, Why were Adm. Keppel, Ld Hoxe, and others unemployed and furely it was from a lapfe of memory that another great admiral, Sir Robert Harland, was not named.

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had principally dwelt on the words of the former court-martial, and had termed the words of the court-martial, that tried Sir H. Pallifer, a bare acquittal; his lordship begged to underHftand them in a different fenfe. What were the words of the former part of it: "That the court, having taken the whole of the evidence into confideration, both on the part of the pro

fecution,

fecution, as well as in favour of the and of recorded treachery." These prifoner, were of opinion, fo far from words, his lordship faid, were indeed the conduct of Sir H. Pallifer, Vice very founding, but in what do they Admiral of the Blue, being reprehen- apply? An hon. gentleman had said fible on the 27th and 28th of July, that Adm. Keppel, and other officers that in many parts thereof it appeared A whofe names had been mentioned, exemplary and highly meritorious."- would be thought fit for Bedlam if they If then the conduct of Sir H. Pallifer ferved under the present ministry: now was highly meritorious, and fuch as if it were poffible that the prefent miwas exemplary, and fit for other offi- niftry food guilty of convicted falfecers to follow, Sir H. Pallifer was then hood and recorded treachery in the an object of reward, and adminiftra- Beyes of thofe gentlemen, it was furely tion would have been criminally neg. equally right for him to fay, that the lectful not to have promoted him. prefent miniftry would be fit for BedLet gentlemen recollect the peculiar lam if they employed thofe admirals; circuinitances that made Sir H. Palli- and if they did, knowing their want fer's acquittal more than commonly of confidence in adininiration, they honourable to him. Let them call to ought all to be fent to Bedlam together. mind the arts that were used to fet the C Sir H- P-l-r rofe, and obpublic in a flame; to run him down; ferved that the hon. member then in to render him the object of univerfal in his eye [Mr. F-x] had given him dignation; and what also had been said abundant caufe for calling him to or at the time by a gentleman not now in ds, but that he rather chose to fit a the House, a gentleman of great elo- patient auditor, to fhew the Houfe quence, and of more than ordinary, he was not afraid of what any man humanity and benevolence of heart, could fay of him. Such attacks, he Don't fend Sir Hugh Pallifer to his trial! understood, had been frequent in that for God's fake have mercy! mens minds Houte when he was not prefent to deare inflamed. Let him be innocent or fend himself. Of the manliness of such guilty, you fend him to certain death! condu&t he left every man of honour When this is remembered, every dif- to judge. He was aware, he faid, of paffionate man muft allow that his ac- E his own incapacity to fpeak in public; quittal did him the highest honour. and expecting that the virulence which And with regard to the reward itself, dictated former attacks would still oche was attonithed to hear gentlemen cafion a renewal of them that day, he object to that, after calling to mind the had committed a few thoughts to pa recommendation of the fame hon. gen- per, which he hoped the House would tleman, for minifters to apply to his indulge him to read, though that inF Majesty to below upon Sir H. Pallifer, dulgence had been refufed him by the for his long and meritorious fervices court-martial who tried Adm. Keppel. previous to the 27th of July, an am- He had, he faid, in juftification to his ple annuity or penfion; and this re- injured character, explained the moqueft he had preffed with all the force tives upon which he acted, and had of that eloquence of which he was fo tendered that explanation in perfon to much matter. How comes it then, G the court-martial, which the court was that the tone is now fo much changed, inclined to accept till Adm. Keppel when, i he is rightly informed, all objected against it, and faid he would the emoluments of Greenwich Hofpi- oppofe it to the last minute. He waittal do not exceed 700l. a year? ed, he faid, till Adm. Keppel declared his evidence clofed, and then attempted again to addrefs the court; but was again refifted, though one of its own members [Adm. Montague] had promifed he thould be heard; and thus, contrary to all justice, the accuted was acquitted,

The words of the hon. gentleman were certainly very trons, when, in fpeaking of thofe officers who had refuted to ferve, he gave for reafon, that they had no confidence in an aminiftration guilty of "convicted faltehood,