Excerpt from The Debate at the General Quarterly Court: Held at the East India House, on Wednesday, June 19, 1799, to Take Into Consideration the Papers Respecting Illicit Trade William Mfiington rofe to fecond the motion; he wifhed, in common, with every other Proprietor, to contribute to retrieve an highly honourable and refpeetable charaeter from the unjuf'c imputations to which it had been fubjeeted. He did not mean to arraign the fenfe of duty which had brought forward the charges, but highly as he refpeeted the author of them, and much as be ap proved of his general conduct, he could not help exprefiing, on this oecafion, his afionifhment that he fhould have entertained and brought forward fufpicions fi) unwarranted and unjuft. His only objeetion to the motion which had been made by his honourable Friend was, that it did not go far enough he had rifen to fecond it, becaufe fo far as it did proceed, ' be entirely approved of it, but he regretted that it had not gone farther, for in his opinion, there was not only no grounds of fufpicion againft Mr. Scott, but that there was no foundation for a Bill of Difcovery againft any of the parties implicated in the accufation. The charges, fo far as the honourable Direetor was concerned in them, prefente'd three principal and firiking points, and he had attentively gone through the mafs of papers on which they were founded, without having been able to difcover any folid grounds by which any one of them could be fupported. The firft charge was ofa moft ferions nature, that of making public the fecrets of the Company and the State. Mr. Scott and his friends mutt n'eceflhrily be anxious to have fo ferions an imputation done away. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.