¥s06.] 
New Adminifiration. Old Adminifiration. 
Solicitor General. 
Mr. Romilly, Sir V. Gibbs. 
Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall. 
Mr. Adam, Lord Erfkine. 
Attorney-General to bis Royal Highnefs the Prince 
of Wales. 
Mr. Garrow, Mr. Adam. 
To Lord St. Vincent is given the com- 
mand of the channel Fleet ! and it is faid 
that his Royal Highnefs the Duke of Cla- 
rence will have acommand inthe fame Fleet. 
Nothing of importance in the great Na- 
tional concerns can, at prefent, have been 
brought forward under the aulpices of 
the New Adminifration, from whofe 
united wifdom as much will be expected 
as the deplorable ftate of” affairs will 
admit, Since the meeting of Parliament, 
Lord Melville has delivered in.at the table 
of the Houle of Lords, an anfwer to 
the Articles of Impeachment exhibited 
againtt him curing the Jaft teflion, which 
was ordered to be printed. The drift of 
this anfwer is as follows: ‘that he re- 
ferves to himfeif all benefit and advan- 
tage that may be taken in forms of the 
law, and all rights and privileges to which 
he is or may be entitled as a peer cf Par- 
liament: but that with refpect to the 
charges exhibited againft him by the 
Houfe of Commons, for high crimes and 
mifdemeanors, he the faid Vifcount Mel- 
ville doth anfwer that he is in no wife 
guilty of all or any of the fuppofed high 
crimes and mildemeanors charged upon 
him; and this he is ready to prove in 
fuch manner and ferm as the Hovfe ‘hall 
determine. He therefore fubmits and 
prays that he may henceforth be dif- . 
charged from all matters contained in the | 
aforefaid prernifes.”” 
This anfwer was, on the motion of 
Mr. Whitbread, referred to the committee 
already appoisted to draw up the articles 
of impeachment; and the fame gentle- 
man brought in a bill, on the roth int. 
to indemnify all perfons ferving under 
Lord Melville in the Navy Pay Office, 
during the time his Lordfhip was trea- 
furer of the Navy, from civil procefs, in 
confequence of giving evidence before the 
committee appointed to manage the im- 
peachment. This bill was carried through 
the Commons; in the Houfe of Lords it 
has met with fome obfiacles, and is now 
referred to the Judges for their opinion 
refpeéting doubts entertained of fome of 
' the principles therein contained. 
State of Public Affairs in February, 1805. 
171 
Mr. Lafcelles, member for the county 
‘of York, moved “An addrefs to his 
“Majefly, praying him to direé&t the fe- 
mains of the late Right Hon. William 
Pitt to be interred at the public charge, 
and that a monument be erected in Wett- 
minfter Abbey, expreffive of the national 
regret for the lofs of that excellent ftatef-, 
man:”? this addrefs, after a debate of 
fome length, was carried by a majority 
of 169 ; the numbers for the addrefs be- 
ing 258, and thofe againft it 89. The 
principal fpeakers were Mr. Lafcelles, 
the Marquis of Titchfield, Sir R. Bux- 
ton, Earl Temple, Mr. Ryder, Mr. Rofe, 
Lord Cattlereagh, and Mr. Wilberforce, 
for the motion; againft it, Lord Folk- 
ftone, Lord Douglas, Mr. Windham, and 
Mr. Fox. Ona fubfequent day, a mo- 
tion was made by Mr. Cartwright, and 
carried without a divifion, to entreat hus 
Majelty to advance a {um not exceeding 
4.0,c0o0l. for the purpofe of difcharging 
Mr. Pitt’s debts. Mr. W. Smith, mem- 
ber for Norwich, and Lord Douglas, op- 
pofed this meafure ; but as it was de- 
fended by many of the new minifters, as 
well as by the friends of Mr. Pitt, the 
Houfe was not divided upon the quetiion. 
On the motion of Mr. Fox, a_ bill 
has been brought isto Parliament to 
enable Lord Grenville, who was ale 
ready an auditor of the Exchequer, te 
hold the office of firft Lord of the Trea- 
fury. Thefe offices were regarded by 
fome perions as incompatible, and of 
courfe the meafure met wih oppofition ; 
fome amendments were propofed by the 
crown lawyers, which were acceded to; 
and the bili was paffed both Houfes, and 
has received his Majefty’s fanétion. 
Other aéts of Parliament have been una- 
nimoofly carried, granting penfions to 
Lady Nelfon, and Admirals Lord Col- 
lingwood and Sir R. Strachan. By the 
vote of the Houle of Commons, alfo, me- 
numents are to be ereéted in the cathedral 
church of St. Paul’s, to the memory of 
Lord Nelfon, Captains Duff and Cooke, 
WEST: INDIES: : 
A very formidable confpiracy among 
the Negiocs in Trinidad was difcovered 
about the middle of December, and fup- 
prefied. The governor conceived the 
danger of fuch importance and magnitude 
as to induce him to put the whole. sand 
under martial law, ye 
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