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Omnium Annuit. 1778, shut Lottery Tickets, Exchequer Bills difc. thut For the YEAR 1781. Illustrated with an exact Delineation of Commodore JOHNSTONE'S Action near Port Praya; and of a remarkable Natural Production in Stone. And enlarged with Eight Pages of Letter-Prefs extraordinary, containing (Befides copious and accurate INDEXES, a GENERAL TITLE, and PREFACE) Continuation of the Debate on Mr. Fox's Not might come. The hon, Commodore had fpoken a great deal of the bravery of the V. A. on the 27th, and, among other things, that he had fought like a lion. He had never impeached his bravery. What he had to complain of was, his neglect of fignals after the action; A for if the lion gets into his den, and will not come out, there is an end of the lion. As to his [the A's] letter writ ten immediately after the action, and that written afterwards from Plymouth, the Houfe was already acquainted with all he had to fay on that head. dreaming that his friendship for a man, with whom he lived on terms of the greatest intimacy, would be fo ill repaid, he had overlooked the V. A's neglect of duty, as owing to inadvertence; and hav ing once made up his mind on that matter, he had never harboured a hoftile fentiment against him, much lefs could he have acted fuch a double part as to have praifed in one letter, and cenfured him in another. The hon. Officer was, however, miftaken in fuppofing that he took no ftep to prevent a fimilar neglect, when he failed again. He in fact delivered out an order, which, though it was done in a manner the moft gentle, was well underflood by the V. A.; and would, he was perfuaded, have had its effect, if occafion had offered, and would have ftrengthened his force by at least five fhips of the line, The noble Lord in DM. K-pp- rofe, and though, he own ed, he had formed a refolution never to have spoken in that Houfe again on fo infignificant a fubject as himfelf, there were fome things which had fallen from the laft fpeaker, and from the noble Lord in the blue ribbon, that rendered it ab- B folutely neceffary for him to fay a few words by way of reply. The doctrine advanced by the noble Lord, and fupported by the Commodore, that courts martial had no right to pronounce upon the motives of the accufer, he confidered, he faid, as ftriking at the very being of the fervice, without which all honour, confidence, and fecurity would be annihilated. The hon. gentleman who fpoke laft had ufed fome very ftrong expreflions refpecting the 27th of July. God knew, he liked as little to hear of that day as the Commodore; but he had the comfort of an unanimous acquittal, and the thanks of that Houfe; and what was fill more, the confcioufnefs of having done his duty. He was therefore callous as to the oblique imputations thrown out gainst him, from whatever quarter they the B laft, had paid him fome very highftrained compliments. He did not, he faid, feel himfelf much beholden to him; for though he was proud of every man's good opinion, he wifhed no adoration from any. Neither his cenfure nor his A applaufe gave him any concern. That the 27th of July was an unfortunate day for England he freely admitted; and as the hon. gentleman was fo much better a judge of the caufe than thofe worthy members of the court-martial who were prefent in the action, and who had pronounced him [the Admiral] blameless, the hon. Officer might have fpared his exclamation, in pity to his friends; and for his farcafms he thanked him, as they gave him an opportunity of fatisfying the Houfe how ill they were founded. The hon. Officer faid, the Houfe had thanked him for fending home fleets which were in port before he failed. far was this from being a fair account of the events of his command, that it was an incontrovertible truth, that there ne, ver was a year of war in which a naval commander was more fuccefsful in the protection of trade. It was his aim, and his boast. He had fent in three several fleets of immenfe value fafe, in order to which he had once turned back with his whole fleet, and did not alter his courfe till he had feen the convoys up the chan nel, and left them in perfect fafety. E The Admiral concluded with thanking the Houfe for their indulgence and patient attention, and faid, he had come down with his pockets full of papers, had it been neceffary to produce them. the blue ribbon had admitted, that the F So Sir H. P-lif-r rofe, and in a very animated fpeech replied to all that had been faid against him. He charged the hon. gentleman, who made the motion, with partiality and injuftice, in quoting that part of the record (as he called it) which condemned him, and fuppreffing at the fame time (what he knew to be true) that he was neither upon trial, nor Gheard in his defence. The hon. gentleman had claimed a right to quote that criminating part of the fentence of the court-martial which tried the V. A. under the fanction of its being a public record; and, as he faid, for the true information of his conftituents. In that light, Sir H. P. faid, he knew not how far he was to confider it as perfonal; but this he knew, that whenever the hon. gentleman fhould think fit to quote that part of the fentence in the partial manner he had done, he fhould rife and reproach. him for want of candour. The hon. gentleman gentleman attended the trial of Adm. K. ralty, where they forced the gates, and was privy to every tranfaction relating had not the guards feasonably come to to it, and knew that he [Sir H. P.] was his relief, would moit probably have torn repeatedly refufed being heard in fup- him to pieces. It was then, when his port of the charges which were legally life was in danger; when he found himbrought before the court, and that he felf under the neceflity of abfconding in was criminated by that court without difguife, when he did not dare to walk being upon trial, or admitted to fay aAthe freets of London, much lefs apword in his defence. Knowing this, Sir proach that Houfe, without imminent H. P. faid, the hon. gentleman was the danger of his life-it was then, he faid, more open to reproach; and the rather, and under thefe circumfiances, that he as the hon. gentleman did not quote this was afraid; and as a means of restoring public record for the purpofe of convey the public tranquillity, and averting the ing true information, but for the pur- popular rage, that he wrote his letter of pofe of confounding all truth, and efta- Brelignation, which bere no marks either blishing thofe prejudices which the ran- of guilt or of disgust, and which his Macour of party had raifed againft him. jefty was graciously pleafed to accept. That he was denied a hearing, he did Sir H. P. read the letter alluded to, which not impute to the ill-intention of any of was in fubftance, "That, having long the members of the court wilfully to in- obferved a fpirit of envy and jealouiy jure him. It originated with the Ad- drawn upon him by the favours he had miral; and perhaps not wholly with received from the Crown for long and him, but with the party who fupported faithful labours in the fervice of his him, and who undoubtedly made the ob country, he had judged it beft, in order jection, from an apprehension that if he to abate the rage and prejudice raifed ahad been heard, the court could not. per- gainit him, humbly to beg his Majefty's haps, have totally acquitted Mr. K. or permition to refign, profelling at the have patled a fentence of malice upon fame time his lovalty, duty, and zeal Sir H. P. But this, he faid, was not towards his Majefty, which should end the only mifreprefentation for which the only with his life, &c." He then ap hon. gentleman was reproachable. In pealed to the Houfe, whether that letter accounting for the motives which led betrayed any marks of guilt? The hon. him [Sir H. P.] to refign his employ- gentleman, he faid, in a former debate ments, he had endeavoured to perfuade the ad infinuated, that he was led on and Houfe, that it was from fear of his [Mr. __ influenced to what he had done by thofe F's] threats in parliament, and from a con- E who were fuppofed to be enemies to sciousness of guilt. He affured the hon. Adm. K.; but in this too, as well as in gentleman he never was more mistaken every fuppofition that affected him, the in his life. Fear was not among the hon. gentleman was egregiously mifnumber of his foibles. It was a tax taken; for no man had intereft or influ which confcience pays to guilt; and, he ence enough to prompt him to act an thanked God, he was equally free from unjuft part even by his greateft enemy. both. The rebuke which the hon. gen. F What he did was in juftification of his tleman had lately met with from a re- own injured honour, and to bring on a fpectable nobleman [Ld H-we], for af fair and open enquiry. He had folicited cribing motives to his Lordship, without no minilter nor officer to take part in it, knowing them from himfelf, might have neither had he applied to any flag-officer taught him caution in again attempting to interfere by memorial to the King, to impole upon the Houle the fuggel-though two flags and fome captains had tions of his own perverted mind, for the Aleliberate refult of other men's thoughts. It was for those who wantonly and wickedly take pride in blafting the characters of others, and who fhrink at the idea of the truth being told, to ftart at the thoughts of conscious guilt. For himfeif, he never but once knew fear; and that was, when a furious mob, enraged by the malignant arts of a difappointed faction, forcibly broke into his houfe, and, not finding him there, deftroyed his property, and puifued him to the admir been thameless enough to fign an addicts intended to be prefented to the King hefore his trial caine on, praying, that ins [Sir H. P's] flag might be taken from him, and that he might not be allowed the benefit of trial. Much, he faid, had Hbeen infinuated to depreciate the part he had taken in the action. He was unwilling to lay any thing on that head that had the femblance of founding bis own praife, but it had been proved, that he went fingly into the middle of the French fleet, had fought his way to the Cown defence; and that commanders in end of their line, and had turned his flip nuating that he had disobeyed his orders, The noble ble Lord and the hon. Gov, of G. H. tered |