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from the idea of its practicability. 

 He then made a number of remarks 

 relative to the expediency of an 

 inquiry on the present occasion, 

 not only on account of our naval 

 disasters, but the whole manage- 

 ment of the American war. He 

 dwelt particularly on the neglect 

 in protecting the trade of the West 

 Indies and of the coast of South 

 America, and on the superiority of 

 force which the Americans had 

 been suffered to construct on the 

 Canadian lakes. 



Earl Bathurst defended the con- 

 duct of ministers upon similar 

 grounds with those taken by lord 

 Melville. 



Lord Grenville said, that the doc- 

 trine advanced by lord Galloway, 

 that inquiry implied censure, 

 would lead to the abdication of all 

 the functions of parliament ; for 

 no inquiry could be instituted, in 

 that case, without incurring the 

 guilt of condemning the parties 

 unheard. He recapitulated some 

 of the charges against ministry 

 which had been already urged by 

 the supporters of the motion. 



After the earl of Liverpool had 

 spoken in defence of the ministers, 

 and the noble mover had briefly 

 replied, the House divided, for the 

 motion, 59; against it, 125. Ma- 

 jority, 66. 



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