HISTORY OF EUROPE. 109 
CHAP. VI. 
Trial of Henry Viscount Melville.—Managers ordered to proceed in the Im- 
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peachment.—-Answer of Lord Melville to the Articles of Impeachment.— 
_ Additional Article.—Trotter —Answer to the Additional Article.—Re- 
plication of the Commons.—Commons resolve tu attend the Trial as a 
Commitiee of the whole House. ~Measures taken by the Lords to prevent 
Ynnecessary Delay in the Trial:—Order to prohibit any Publication of the 
Proceedings during the pendency of the Trial.— Summary of the Proceed- 
_ tags on the Trial.—Analysis of the Articles of Impeachment.—Charges 
reducible in Substance to three.—Analysis of the Evidence on the first, 
second, and third.—Legal Defence on the first Charge.—Answer to 
it.—Legul Defence on the second Charge.—Answer to it.—Defence on 
. the third Charge.—Lords adjourn for some Days the Considera- 
tion of the Charges.—Vote of Thanks to the Managers by the Com- 
mons.— Discussions in the Lords on the Form of Proceeding.—On dividing 
the first Article. —On the first Article. —Questions to the Judges, and 
their Answers.— Discussion of the remaining Articles.—Further Question 
to the Judges, and their Answer.—Proceedings, during the last Day of 
' the Trial, in Westminster Hall.—Viscount Melville declared not guilty 
by a Majority of Lords.—Nunbers for and against him on each Article. 
N the day after the meeting of chester, lord Arch. Hamilton, Mr. 
parliament, the house of com- 
mons, on the motion of Mr. Whit- 
bread ordered the committee of im- 
peachment against Lord Melville to 
resume their functions, and proceed 
without delay in the business re- 
ferred to them. J.ord Robert Spen- 
cer was, at the same time, added to 
oo committee, in place of Mr, Kin- 
‘Baird become ford Kinnaird by 
the death of his father. The managers 
. consisted of Mr. Whitbread, 
. Fox, Mr, Grey, afterwards 
Tord Howick, Mr. Sheridan, lord 
enry Petty, lord Marsham, Mr. 
Giles, lord Folkstone, Mr. Raine, - 
Dr. Laurence, Mr. Creevy, | Mr. 
Hand, Mr. Calcraft, lord Por. 
Williams Wynne, Mr. Jekyll, Mr. 
Morris, lord Temple, serjeant Best, 
and lerd RobertSpencer; to whom 
were afterwards added sir Arthur 
Piggott (attorney-general), and sir 
Samuel Romilly (solicitor-general). 
On the same day lord Melville 
presented at the table of the house 
of lords his answer to the articles of 
impeachment exhibited against him 
by the commons. The averment 
stated in substance, ‘* that he was 
not guilty of all or any of the arti. 
cles of impeachment exhibited a- 
gainst him, and that he.was ready 
to prove the same, on a proper op- 
portunity being ‘afforded him by 
their lordships.”* A copy of this 
reply 
