88 



ANNUAL REGISTER, 1805. 



In a committee 

 of supply on the 

 same day, the 

 house of com- 

 mons voted the fol- 

 lowing sums to 

 make good the 

 excess of the ex- 

 traordinary ser- 

 vices of the army, 

 over the estimates 

 of last year, ^£668,803 13 3 



Extraordinary 

 services for the 

 present year, 3,000,000 00 



To complete the 

 sum of five mil- 

 lions granted out 

 of the monies that 

 should aiise from 

 the consolidated 

 fund of Great 

 Britain for the 

 year 1804, 3,049,488 15 3 



To defray the 

 expences of the vo- 

 lunteers of Great 

 Britain and Ire- 

 land, 1,600,000 00 



On the 6th Mr. Whitbrcad rose 

 to move, " that his majesty's an- 

 <' swer to the communication made 

 " to him, of the resolutions of that 

 " house, be now taken into cou- 

 " sideration," when he was inter- 

 rupted by the chancellor of the 

 exchequer, who said, he had a 

 communication to make, %vhich 

 would supercede the necessity of 

 the honourable gentleman's mo- 

 tion. 



Mr. Whitbrcad however persist- 

 ed ia his motion, observing, that 



he meant afterward* to move an 

 address to his majesty, praying that 

 he would order ihe name of lord 

 Melville to be erased from the list 

 of the privy council. 



Tlie chancellor of the exchequer 

 said the object which the honourable 

 gentleman had in view, was already 

 accomplished. He had felt it his 

 duty to advise the erasure of lord 

 Melville's name from the list of the 

 privy council, to which his majesty 

 had acceded. He was not ashamed 

 to confess, that however anxious he 

 might be to accede to the wishes of' 

 the house of commons, he felt a deep 

 4nd bitter pang, in being compelled 

 fo be the instrument of rendering 

 more severe the punishment of the 

 noble lord. After having stated 

 thus much, he hoped the honour- 

 able gentleman would see the neces- 

 sity of withdrawing liis motion. 



Mr. Fox hoped the house would 

 follow up the public opinion, by 

 inflicting proper punishment where 

 it was deserved; for he could per- 

 ceive symptoms of the country's be- 

 ing seriously agitated, and that i^: 

 would not readily jjlace much con- 

 fulence in those who endeavoured to 

 screen a delinquent, though they 

 M'cre at last obliged to give him up. 



'J'he Secretary at War observed, 

 that nothing appeared before the 

 house that lord Melville had ever 

 participated in public money or 

 plunder. Ife then nr.ide some allu- 

 sions to the balances duo by the 

 late lord Holland, which drew a 

 short reply from Mr. Fox, and, 

 after some further conv(;rsation, Mr. 

 Whitbrcad withdrew his motion. 



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