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Geo. Matthews, High-Holborn,horfedealer Edw. Stubbe, Audlem, Cheth. merchant. Wm. Gunfton and Wm. Williams, Cheapfide, Lond. haberdashers.

Cha. Harborne, Stratford upon Avon, money-fcrivener.

Auth. Smith, Edmonton, Midd. mercer. Rich. Woods, Southampton-ftr. Cuventgarden, woollen-draper.

John Yapp, Whitbourne, Heref. dealer. Jof. Capper, of Liverpool, grocer. Ri.Tomlinson, Darfingham, Norf, butcher. Rich. Lowe, Aftley, Worc. hop merch. Tho. Roberts, Balla, Merionethih. dealer. Jn.Smith, Weft-Smithfield, Lond. oilman. Wm. Eaton, Enfield, Midd. victualler. Tho. Price, Holborn, Lond. tinman. John Middleton, Salford, Lancath, dyer. Wm. Caley the Younger, and John Hart, Kingston upon Hull, grocers.

James Darke, of Gloucefter, fifhmonger. John Cheney, Warrington, Lanc. fuitianmanufacturer.

Cha. Ferguffon and Jas. Murdoch, Coleman-ftreet Buildings, merchauts.

Cha. Ferguffon and Wm. Shepherd, Coleman-ftreet Buildings, merchants.

Jarvis Whitehead, Coleman-fr.ironmonger Sam. Ruffell, Crown-court, Threadneedlefireet, taylor.

Tho. Shermandine, Manchester, worstedmanufacturer.

John Fincham, Shadwell, Midd. cheefemon, Wm. Key, Leek, Staffordih. button-merch. Andr. Vezian, Crutched-Friars, merchant. Rob. Crofts, Margate, Kent, carpenter. Wm. Key and Jas. Lueas, Leck, Staffordshire, button-merchants.

John Lawfon and Caleb Lawfon, Tottenham-court-road, cheesemongers.

John Finlay, Whitehaven, Cumb. merch. Wm.Trickey, Wokingham, Berkfh.draper. Featherstone Molloy, Oxf.-ftr. rag-merch. Jas.Chater, Alderfgate-ftr. Lond. watchma. Ralph Nicklin, of Warwick, broker. Step. Pearfon, Thrapfton, Northamptonfh. hopkeeper.

Jas.Macgowan, Pater-nofter-row, book fell. John Haworth and Edm. Haworth, Blackburn, Lancash. callico printers.

John Lee, Bridgnorth, Salop, fhoemaker. Rich. Wilks, of Narrow-ftr. Limehouse, brandy-merchant.

Wm. Antrobus Sydebotham, Stockport, Chethire, button-manufacturer. Jof.Grammar, of the Minories, Lond. hofier. Tho. Baxter, Bristol, tavern-keeper. Hen. Foord, Portsmouth Com. linen-draper. Win. Webb, Sutton Coldfield, Warwickire, dealer in horfes.

Jas. Drummond, Ruffel-court, St. Martin's in the Fields, cabinet maker.

Step.Smith, Darlafon, Staff gunlock-maker
Wm. Martyn, Bradninch, Devon, tanner.
John Plant, of Birmingham, money deriv.

Jn.Simpfon,Fenchurch-ftr. Lond.perfumer. Eben.Coker, Clerkenwell-gr.Midd. goldim. Ifaac Walton, Ickles, Yorkfh. oil-drawer. Rich. Wilfon, Pontefract, Yorksh. mońcyfcrivener.

Nat. Hewitt, Whitefriars, Lond. wharfinger Rich. Monk, Wilhelmina Harriot Weft, and Tho, Baughan, Ruffell-ftr. Covent-gard. button-makers.

Tho. Hadley, of Birmingham, gunfmith. Jas. Twifs, Giffing, Norfolk, shopkeeper. Wm. Coxeter, of Oxford, upholsterer. John Smith, Cholefley, Berks, linen-draper. Tho. Brown, Peckham, Surrey, apothecary. Wm. Golling, Welbeck-ftr. St. Mary-lebone, carpenter.

John Neale, Otley, Yorkshire, dealer. Tho. Halle de le Mayne and Tho. Creafer, Carlifle-Houfe, Soho, dealers.

John Johnfon, Athbarn, Derbyth. grocer. Wm.Stevens,Croxton Kerria), Leic.grazier. Mich.Wainhouse, Halifax, Yorkih. merch. Hen. Phillips, of Bath, innholder.

John Jaques, Portman-freet, Marybone, coachmaker.

John Kay, Manchester, money-fcrivener. Wm. Peddle, of Southwark, dealer. Tho. Mitchell, Three-tun-court, Cannonftrest, dryfalter.

Jas. Baskerville, Llanvareth, Radnorshire, carpenter.

Geo. Walker, Rode, Somerfetih. clothier.
Andr. Murcott, of Coventry, auctioneer.
Jas. Dowdall, New-court, Coleman-street,

Lond. merchant.

Jof. Lovekin, Oxf.-ftr. Midd. bridlecutter. Tho. Lawrence, Devizes, Wilts, innholder. Rich. Stocks, Bradford, Yerkfh. grocer.

Commiffion of Bankri, tcy superseded.
John Lee, Bridgnorth, Salop, brewer.

PRICES of STOCKS.
Dec. 15.

Bank Stock, III
India ditto, -
South Sea ditto,
Ditto Old Ann. 56
Ditto New Ann.

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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)

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Continuation of the Debate on Mr. Fox's
Motion relative to the Appointment of
Sir Hugh Pallifer to the Government
of Greenwich Hofpital.

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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

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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
man who tells another, who firft charges
him with a crime, If you do pot with-
draw your charge, I will charge you with
another crime,' is a criminal recrimina
tor; he would then, he faid, ftate the
facts, and leave the iffue to the decifion
of the House. On his arrival in
town early in the feflion of 1778, he
received a letter from Sir H. P. com-
plaining that a paragraph had appeared
against him in the Gen, Advertifer, and
defiring him to fign a paper, by way of
contradiction, which he could not com-
ply with without fubfcribing to fome of
the groffeft falfehoods that ever were
committed to paper. Shortly after Sir
H. P. called upon him in perfon to fign
this paper, when he endeavoured to con-
vince him of the impropriety of a com-C
mander in chief's putting his name to a
paper by way of contradiction to an ano-
nymous paragraph, of which he was ut-
terly ignorant; and, at length, in the
course of converfation, he told the V. A.
that he had no right to expect it. On
which he grew warm, and with fomed
vehemence faid, I'll tell all! I'll tell all!'
In answer to which the Admiral faid, he
dared him to do his worst; and having
made this reply, quitted the room. He
added, that fortunately a gentleman was
prefent at the converfation, who, if the
Houfe fhould think proper to call him,
was ready to atteft the truth of what he
had now related. How far this agreed
with the noble Lord's defcription of a
criminal recriminator, he left it to the
candour of the Houfe to decide. As to
courts-martial, he thought it, he said,
highly unbecoming to talk of officers
fitting as judges in fo loofe a manner as
fome who spoke before him had done,
If the Houfe was diffatisfied with the
fentence of that court-martial by which
he was honourably acquitted, abfolve the
members from their oaths, and inftitute
a new enquiry; and though he was
happy under the first fentence, he had
no reafon to dread the event of a fecond.
The trials, he faid, had furnished him
with a more perfect knowledge of the
nature of the V. A's neglect than he
was aware of before; and had he but
fufpected what his own witneffes had
proved, he would not have fuffered the
fate of the Formidable to havé prevented
the renewal of the engagement. Though
he did not mean to impeach his bravery,
the V. A. would have done him more
fervice had he paffed the French line a
little fafter. The hon. Officer who spoke

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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.

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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

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Cown defence; and that commanders in
chief might at any time fet afide thofe
next in rank to themfelves with a
fillip. Think, faid he, of this prece-
dent, if it should govern future courts-
martial.

end of their line, and had turned his flip nuating that he had disobeyed his orders,
to renew the action. He little fufpected yet refufing to bring him to a court-
at the time, that his doing his duty in martial. He therefore thought it his
a diftinguished manner would excite duty, in juftice to himself and to the
fo powerful a combination to effect his public, to apply for courts-martial on
ruin; and that his commander in chief both. The hon. Admiral had faid, that
would join in the confederacy. He Ahe had, to rebuke the captains, and pre-
was glad, he faid to fee an hon. gen- vent the like error in future, iffued an
tleman [Mr. B-ke] in his feat, who, order for better explaining the method
when he was driven to a ftate of defpair of forming the line. But how ungene
and defpondency, had the meanness to rous to rebuke officers, and mention it in
propofe a penfion to be given him to that Houfe, for errors or mistakes, occa-
maintain him in obfcurity. This he con- fioned by a deficiency in his own orders;
fidered as the moft indignant infult that B and the rather, as he never knew the or-
one gentleman could offer to another. der omitted by any commanding officer
What! though he knew himfelf inno- under whom he had failed before. He
cent, to bribe him to avoid a trial, and concluded with lamenting the ftate of
thereby conceal from the public truths the navy, if the new doctrine should ob-
which they had a right to know; to fub- tain, that officers might be condemned
fcribe to his own guilt; to facrifice his_without a trial, or being heard in their
honour, and live in infamy! His nature
revolted at the thought! He, however,
thanked the hon. gentleman for one
thing he faid, "That if Sir H. P. would
have a trial, he would wash his hands of
his blood; but he would take care it
fhould not be a fham one." He thanked, Mr. B-ke, in answer, was ingenious,
him moft heartily for that declaration, as fpirited, and mafterly. He began by la-
it added luftre to his acquittal. The menting his own infignificance in that
hon. Admiral [Keppel] had taken occa Houfe, that, however pure his intention,
fion to mention his [Sir H's] application however great his zeal to ferve his coun-
to him by letter to contradict the fcanda- try, he could rarely make the Houfe a-
lous reports propagated against him by mends for the attention paid him. On
his [the Adiniral's] relations, depen-E the prefent occafion, he said, he flood
dents, and officers of the Victory, and fingularly circumftanced.
had repeated part of what paffed at a Lord in the blue ribbon profeffing to
fubfequent interview relative to the fame defend the V. A. had held up his fup-
fubject. He had firft to obferve, he pofed words as a proof of that gentle-
faid, refpecting the letter, that it did not man's merit and claim to reward. The
confine the Admiral to any precife form V. A. himself had pointed out the felf-
of words, but that any thing more agree fame words as the most indignant infult
able to the Admiral would do; yet he F that one gentleman could offer to ano-
refufed even this fatisfaction. And when ther; and had in the warmth of his re-
atterwards he waited upon him, the Ad- fentment declared, that he would fooner
miral muft well remember this exclama- be reduced to the neceffity of begging
tion: "Is it poffible, Sir, that you can his bread at his door than accept his
countenance fuch injurious reports a- bribe, and would die in a ditch rather than
gainst me? I know not to this hour why he would receive his [Mr. B's] charity,
the battle was difcontinued, or not againHe was forry, he faid, that both the no-
immediately renewed. I cannot let the
matter reft on this footing; my reputa-
tion is wounded; the nation is diffatis-
fied. They have a right to know, if
there was any fault, where it lies." He
added, that they were difcuffing the mat-
ter difpaffionately till a third perfon came,
in, and then every thing that patied
was with warmth and anger, which fo
highly incenfed the Admiral, that he
came down to the Houfe, and to fix a
ftigma on him [Sir H. P.], declared he
would never ferve with him again, infi

The noble

ble Lord and the hon. Gov, of G. H.
had miftaken his meaning. Whenever
he intended to act in the manner the hon.
Gov. had conceived, he would take care
that both his bribes and his charity
fhould be offered in private. He would
neither propofe the one in a popular af
H
fembly, nor adminifter the other in the
public street. As little did he mean to
give the Houfe to underftand, as the no-
ble Lord had chofen to interpret, that he
thought Sir H. P. worthy of reward,
The firft idea, he faid, had never en-

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