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I' I' r . F ~, = - • I , et. psesealae Ma. He did we my what be geoid thee do, bat 'Ail M__ ra ild gto act semen the Catholics, en account of their own amide and dangerous proceedings, be could not hesitate to give Ms anent to the third reading of the present Bill. Lord DUDLEY and WARD should vote with con siderable regret fdr the Bill. He thought that the Ca tholic Question ought to be carried for the interest of all, and he would make the greatest allowances far the situation in which the Catholics stood, as far as safety and honour permitted. But there was a point at which indulgence must end. It was that where danger and violence began, and it could not be denied that in set ting up Government against Government, Parliament against Parliament, and Revenue against Revenue, the Catholics had lately adopted a system, the natural course of which was to defy. He would not say that the Association had been rebellious in its acts, but in its tendency. h was the machine of rebellion, setting up for the time when an opportunity for action should arise, and, were the Government so timid or so imprudent as to allow itself to be surprised, it would deserve to be over powered. The leaders of the Catholics, able and intre pid as they were, might perhaps hate the Government for what it was ding now, but they could not de spite it. As a friend to Catholic Emancipation be wished the As sociation to be put down. There were two ways in which the Catholics could obtain their object—by force er by persuasion. If by force, they could not be surprised that Protestant Peers should oppose them. If by persuasion, he wished that the Catholic Asso elation should not only be put down, but that its very name should be annibilated.as k would always be used as an argument against them: He wished them to be admitted into Parliament, but not to look for it by betting up a Government of their own, or to seek to procure redress for their grievances, by proceedings inconsistent with the Constinstios, and with the existence of all Governments whatever. Lord RODEN said, that the Bill introduced for the purpose of putting down the Catholic Association in Ireland, was highly requisite for the present state of that country, and he was sorry to perceive that it had met with many difficulties. The Catholic Association had erected a forum which was spreading its baleful influ ence all over the country, giving laws and raising tales, and that, too, not as the Noble Lord opposite (Earl Grosvenor) had told them on a former night, by spontaneous contributions. No, this Catholic Rent, as it was called, was obtained by fear from those who did not present it from affection. It was known that the poor peasant, from the fear of displeasing his landlord. paid that "which his spontaneous feelings would have caused him to withhold. This was one effect of its influence over the minds and pockets of the King's subjects. But they did not stop here r instead of allaying animosity, and putting an end tn dissention, they nurtured the elements of everlasting discord. Their Lordships could riot have forgotten the Address of this Catholic Associatioo,imitioring the people not to join in Whim-boy outrages, but carefully instilling at the same time irto their minds the grievances, real or imaginary, of which they had to complain; openly telling them, that they were born to be slaves, and in stigating them to the hatred of their fellow-subjects. What must be the effect of such inflammatory produc tions upon the minds of people like the !ill; and if left to their own honest and grateful feelings and intelligent minds, what might not be expected, from the present wise and mild Government of that part of the empire? He spoke it with warmth, wben_ he declared that there was no people under the sun mote predisposed to ap preciate, or more ready to acknowledge the real benefits which they had received from that Rouse during the last few years. As a warm well-wisher to the country, he felt that lie was doing his duty in thus stating his candid opinion. The evils of inflammatory speeches were not confined to the assembly in which they were uttered. Their influence extended to those who read, as well as those who beard them. They had been told, that if the Association sere let alone, it would fall to the ground. This pre diction had proved false; it had been let alone, and therein be thought the Government culpable, for it had employed its leisure to ;pubes strength. He, for one, wished to see all Associations put down. The system of Associations bad too long nourished in that unhappy country, the tenor of the innocent, disturbing its peace, and affrighting prosperity front its shores. To this Bill, therefore, whether directed against Orange or Catholic Aatociations, he gave • his most hearty concurrence. The Earl of DARNLEY expressed his surprise at the assurance which the Noble Lord had jusegiven them of the gratitude and satisfaction of the peasantry of Ireland. Did the Noble Lord mean to say, that the Catholic * inhabitants of that country, down to the lowest peasant, did not feel their political degra dation? He (Lord D.) did believe that they did feel it deeply. He was ready to that a body like the Catholic Asscciation could not be allowed to go on long. But then there were other means of putting it down than by a penal statute. The Catholics already glowed with hope at the prospect which a late vote held out to them. The Catholics had held out their hands in the way of reconciliation, and be was convinced that if it were met with a corresponding feeling of beetberhood And good will, they would return the grasp with a warmth indicative of true Irish hearts. The claims of the Catholics were reasonable, for they were backed by justice. It had been asserted, how true the assertion was he left to the Hones to cessider,that if an Administntiost favourable to the Catkolk Claims were formed, the question could not be car ried because it was against the same of the English nation. He was awe that there was not a Noble Lord in the House, who could put his band on his heart and ay that Ireland could matins, long in its present state. The general situation of Ireland was not such as to make its inhabitants feel satisfied. He should certainly vote against the third reading of the RD, as he bad already dune against the two former readings. Lord RODEN explained, that by his assertion ra liaise to the satisfaction of the peasantry. he meant that the pos- - - ant enjoyed as much as his Political influence could allow him. , Earl GROSVENOR said, that he did not see how it was possible for the peasant of Ireland to be satisfied with his present condition. His political influence was necessarily circumscribed, from his station within nar row limits, but he bore the mark of degradation upon him. He wished their Lordships to pause and consider, that at this moment they were about to pass a Bill whic Arsitild be fatal, not only to the peace and wel fayclof Ireland, but of England also. They bad departed this case from those leading principles of justice,which ought ever to guide a body exercising judicial functions. They had not heard one word front the mouth of this maligned Catholic Association. They had listened to everything that could be urged against it, without granting the usual privilege of an accused party, viz. being beard in its defence. When they were thus excluded evidence in refutations of the charge, they would not forget that the Noble Earl , at the head of his Majesty's Government had himself been totally misinformed upon the subject which he had avansunicated to the Hour, relative to the distraining for rest. Their Lordships, therefore, were reduced to, the necessity of boglsladng upon a subject under very inauspicious circumstances: He was happy to say that be kid heard a now ear. hew fir rive bs knew net. due Übe Omit* party but caromed i with te ease le semi acceasawlatiea with tea Catheilsa. He \seed it was es. The Atheraey-ileascal et Weal lad eatellat-1s daft Clergy la die winiest tame et tie must have done ho from astual experissee, sad 2re e r i e gi6 booed to missive his alchemy. BM was the. read a third dm and passed. Hr. Ammo presented an Account of the Resetpts and Die bersemeets of the London Dock Company, from the 30th No vember, 1893, to 30th Nove.bet, 1894. Mr. *ors presented the Report of the Committee appointed to Inquire into the state and situation of the Penitentiary, Milbiuk.— Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMON& Mr. Jonsson presented an Account of the Receipts and Dis bursements of the London .Dock Company, from the 30th No vember, 1823, to the 30th November, 1824. Sir F. OMMANNEY presented a Petition from Barnstaple in favour of the St. Catharine's Dock Bill.—Lsid on the table. Mr. JOHN SMITH presented ayetidoe from Motastereven, in favour of the Catholic Associatioo. hi. S. RICE presented a Petition from the Protestant and Ca tholic Inhabitants of Gott, County of Galway, in favour of the Catholic Claims. The Bon. Member presented a similar Petition from Galway.— Ordered to be printed. Mr. CUBTEIS presented a Petition from Brighton, praying for a Repeal of the Assessed Tapes. Mr. LASCBLLES presented a Petition from Nortballerton, in favour of the County Courts Bill. A similar Petition was presented from Wellingborough. These Petitions were severally read, and laid on the table. , il . e FITIMI ,~ ~~. q. PRIVATZ •ILLS. Mr. STUART WORTLEY moved that it should be a Resolu tion of the House, that no Petitions should be received on Private Bills, referring solely to a compliance or non-compliance with the Standing Orders of the House, after the first reading of the Bil 6 to which they respectively referred. The Hon. Member observed, that a regulation of this hind bad been found absolutely necessary to save undue expense and delay to the parties concerned.. Mr. CORIVJOI and Mr. Sven supported the motion. Mr. DAVENPORT thought the rule would be a very good one. Lord MILTON considered that this regulation would hold out fatilitiei to the too speedy passage of measures affecting private interests through the House. After a few words from Mr. Carta* Fr, Mr. Lyrrs.fion, and Mr. Cumuli, the motion was agreed to. Mr. GRATTAN presented Petitions from Mullingar and New town, in favour of the Catholic Association.—Ordered to Ile on the table. A Petition was presented from New Ross, in favour of the Ca thcitic Clalms.—Ordered to lie on the table. A Bin for the Recovery of Small Debts was brought in and read a brat time, and ordered to be read a second time on Friday next. Mr. LINDSAY presented a Petition from the Magistrates of Perth, praying for a Repeal of the Assessed Taxes.—Ordered to lie on the table. The Weights and Measures' Act Postponement Bill was read a third time and passed. OASIS LAWS. The Order of the Pay for the Second reading of the Game Laws Bill baying been read, Mr. STUART WORTLEY begged that, in the dis cussion of this measure, Honourable Men.bers would dismiss from their minds any prejudices that they might have in favour of the ancient custom of the country upon the subject of game. He wished them, with minds unbiased, to conic to the examination of the question—Whether it was possible for Country Gen tlemen to retain their amusements, without being guilty of injustice towards a certain portion of their fellow-subjects ? Another opportunity would offer for the examination cf the clauses of the Bill, so that their present business was sinerel y with the princit4es. They would first have to look at the inconveniences of the existing law, and then consider of a remedy. What, then, was the evil in this case? It was the existence of penal laws, the operation and nature of which was such, that the offence against which they were directed was not considered an offence in any part of the country.... (Hear). Was it not a fact, that scarcely any one who then heard him could :ay that lie had never partaken' of game which had been illegally obtained ?—(Hear). The effect of this state of things upon the lower orders was truly lamentable ; it led to the loci t dreadful scenes. All this was notorious, and this was the evil now in question. Next, they had to consider of a le-- tnedy. Penal laws they had seen bad totally failed ; poaching had become more extensive than ever, and nothing but a change in the feeling of the nation would put it down. To the difficulties which lay in their course, arising out of the habits of sportsmen, he should not pay much attention. He alluded to the mere childish habit which in latter days had gained ground, of Gentlemen loving to hear their guns go off. To - this was sporting in some danger of being debased—if a sportsman's gun did not go off once in every minute, it was thought bad sport. Their ancestors thought other wise upon this subject, they kept up the proverbial hos pitality of the country, but in pursuing the manly sports of the field, they did not look for this sort of amusement— (Rear, hear). If, then, the measure should have the effect of diminishing the quantity of; game, he saw no great harm in it on that account.— The first thing it would be necessary to disturb in re- + moving the present monopoly in game, was the absurd system of qualificaioni. The House knew very well that no man was personally qualified, unless- he had an estate in inheritance, either himself or his wife, of 10W. per annum, or an estate on lease fur ninety years, of 15W. It was a mistake to suppose that a certificate gave any qualification to shoot: The House also knew that the eldest sons of Esquires, or persons of higher degrees, of Doctors of Law, Bar risters, Captains in the Army or Navy, were allowed to shoot, although their fathers, from whom they derived the title, bad no such license. To such an absurd extent was this carried that the younger sons of hardly any one Nobleman in the country were qualified to shoot. His own (Mr. S. Wortley's) youngest son was not qualified to shoot upon his father's estate—(Hear). Gentlemen from Ireland and Scotland were not aware of the situa tion they were in in this country. Country Gentlemen strewed them all the hospitality in their power, and helped them t. as much sport as they could upon their lands; but they could not save them from the liability to a penalty for shooting at all. These exclusions were all well enough in times when there was only one class of aristo i cracy in the country ; bat the case was now altered, and it was useless for them to insist upon a monopoly which was really not tenable. He knew that there were a number of Members who had come down with a determination to take a shot at him, but he really , did not think.they would take effect. He had been asked why he interfered with ancient rights, and amongst others withtherigbts of the Lord of the Ma nor? He really knew of no rights that the Lord of the Manor bad worth retaining. He was allowed to appoint a gamekeeper by the Act of Charles 11. but he could not go himself to shoot. The best he could do was to bring an action against say one whom he discovered shooting without a qualification, and if he was so for tunate as to recover a verdict, he would have a great deal more to pay than the defendant. Then what was the use of keeping up a monopoly for the sake of a right which was of no value? It only tended to create bad blood. The rational right in this case was that every man should shoot on his own land, and have power to keep others off. He was asked as would you make game property ?"—Why not ? they made fish property.— They did not need to protect it by penal laws, any more than many other species of property which were duly protected without.' The Game in France. he knew was scarce, but then they did not there take the same pains to preserve it. An argetnent was retail' against - this measure on account of .the difficulty of identifying game._ Bat sc . , long as they found means to identify carrots and turnips, and indeed all the pro duce of gardens, he should not despair of identifying game. His Right Honourable Friend the Secretary of State for the Home Department was apprehensive that the effect of a measure of this kind would be to increase, the number of shooters. He thought, however, that this was not to be feared, so long as it remained the law that a trespass was committed where an individual pursued game upon land where be had not the owner's permission. As to the objection made en the part of fox hunters, be really flid think that that should be over-ruled. He bad not the slightest wish to do anything which tended to the suppression of that most manly and truly English sport. The task of at. tempting to change these laws was by no means an enviable one. There was no subject more worthy the attention of Government, and he would gladly relinquish the task ,to the Secretary for the Home Department. He concluded by moving the second reading of the Bill. Sir J. BRYDGES opposed the Bill, on the ground of the punishment attached to a second offence, which was nothing less than transportation. This was adding another severe punish ment to a penal code already too full. He should therefore move as an amendment, that the Bill be read a second time this day six months. Mr. LOCKH ART contended, that so far from having the effect of preserving the game, the Bill before the House must necessarily lead to the destruction of it in tow. He saw no:hing like an amelioration of the laws in the present Bill. The Hon. Gentleman said, " let game be property;" but what sort of property could the poor man have in game, who bad neither the means of !ceding nor preserving it ? At the same time, as, by the Bill, every person had the right to sell game who had the land, however poor, and were therefore excluded from the right of search, they would be conseqdently open to the temptation of making their houses the receptacles of the game illegally killed by those who were Nab', to the right of search, and to punishment for the possessiou. For thew reasons he should give his most strenuous opposition to the Bill, as long as it professed to build upon an abstract principle, which he knew to be impracticable. Mr. Secretary PEEL said he should make some ob servations on this Bull. When he looked beck to the antiquity of the preservation of game in England, and when he considered the present state of the Game Laws, and the many and great changes that had taken place in society, he thought there was a pressing ne cessity for sonic change or amelioration in the state of the present laws. It was not in the same manner in uhich they treated and killed game at present that their ancestors treated game. He had seen himself 1000 pheasants the produce of three day's shooting. It wad his opinion that something,should be done in these laws, for the many changes that had taken place during some years, and the present state of society,demanded it. Game was now fashionable, and certain classes of society by any means would have it; in fact, they should have it. He thought some atttmpt should be made to ameliorate the present system, and he thought these was sufficient ground for the Bill now before the House to be read a , second time—Wear ' hear). The Right Honourable Gentleman then alluded to the clause of making game property. They might make game property without the power of killing and selling. If that were done it would be quite a different question ; suppose it were donfined to that, he thought it would be sufficient, and answer every purpose required. The Honourable Gen tleman opposite had said that the proprietor of two or three acres could receive no benefit from this Bill, but that he would only annoy his richer neighbour; he thought there would be no annoyances or squabbles be times) them, they would come to a just compromise; the poor man would give the r ich proprietor the privi lege of the game on his land, and he is ould allow the poor man five pounds annually for it; thus the pbor man would waive his right, the right acquired by this Bill, to his richer neighbour and to his own benefit. In less than three or four years he had no doubt that these compro mises would take place and become general. The Right Honourable Secretary then described the manner in which game was preserved. There were generally five or sit keepers, waited on by chitty or forty attend ant:, always in a state of readiness to repel force by force. There could be no doubt that such a state of things caused a vast deal of ill-blood. There were other modes also of preservation—traps, and spring . - guns; but such barbarous and destructive means to preserve game, which might take away that life that man could not give, and should not meddle with, were ill-suited to the feeling and spirit of the present time. He thought, therefore, from many other reasons as well as from the immense changes in society, that the present state of the Game Laws was not satisfactory. He then alluded to the inconveniences of qualification.— A Gentleman who had carefully preserved his game, could not qualify his own sons to shoot it. If there wete a thousand pheasants on his lands, his sons, after coming home from the University, or elsewhere, could not shoot one. He deemed this a grievous and into lerable hardship. There was a system very analogous to what was intended by this Bill in Scotland. In that country there was no law of qualification; every man there shot the game cn his own lands, and qualified others, as many as he pleased, to shoot on his grounds. However, be was afraid the Bill would not entirely answer all the ends proposed. He thought no altera tion would put an end to poaching ; the man who loved to kill his pheasant, from true and mere love of sport, would kill that pheasant at some hour, in spite of all hindrances. But they should allow Gentlemen to sell their game. All the great markets were supplied by-illegally obtained game. Gentlemen thought nothing of disposing of their rabbits, but would shrink back from selling a hate. However, let a law be made to allow hares to be sold, and in some time no Gentleman would refuse to sell his hares any more than his rabbits ; thus would the profits of the illegal vender entirely cease. Of all the animals of the winged tribe, the wood. cock was most prized and sought after by sportsmen; they would fly from ten pheasants, twenty brace of partridges, and run after the unfhrtunate woodcock ; and yet this woodcock could be bought in any market. When he had the honour of first holding the office which he now did, he found these laws in the hands of a Noble Lord now in the other House, who thought some modification and amelioration of hem necessary, and he gave bin his support on the occasion. All he asked on the present occasion was, that the legal vender' of game should have his property respected ; that those who were at present entitled to make presents of their game, should have the power of selling it if they thought . proper. Still, however, that would be only an expedient, but as it was 111108 t likely that More could not be done at present, be should gladly seise even so much good u the Bill of his ilenetwable !Ansi was cakulated to pro duce ; and approving of t h e principle, bet by no means pi= himself to the 'detail., be should giTt the measure his support—{Hear. hear). Mr. S. WORTLEY 'vistaed. Mr. C..WILSON supported the 8111. . Mr. J. DOUG LAS would vote for the assendnunt, because be thought the Ball wooki tends° increase the demand for game be yond the of predation. VWe the all to tars, every "Ty';. 7 r' tab toint of oatord-street sin Pleeaddiy wout4 took as rstalarty for his brace ofpheasants on each ilret of October, as for his pale on M sy—(Lowl laughter). Bir OUP H YORK BMW there could be ne danger of a *ant of pme limn the operation of the BilL Two poulterers had stated before the Committee, that they &old supply the tables of all the Members of it'd Haile of Comtism with game twice a week, aid that, he 0.. a es of the sale of pure not being legal, thee welt frecta sse ted to threw it into the Thameri-(Hear). divided, when the ftembers were, Ayes, Mt I Noes, 56 MajWity for the Bill, db. The BIN was then read a modnd time * and Ordered to be to& mined out Friday. SIMPLY. On the re-admission of strangers to the Gallery ; die Order of the Day was moved for receiving the Repoli of the tomndttee of SoFillY• Mr. HUME rose to oppose the motion; and cons tended at some length that instead of increasing Cie army, the Government ought to have reduced it, in order to comply with the wishes of the people in the lot they remission of taxes. The Hon. Member took a review of the numerical strength of the Army at different peg nods during the peace, compared with the present, and argued that it was greater than necessary. The fince left at the disposal of Ministers in Leland was a temp tation to them for continuing the present system in that country. He should be glad to know front the Noble Lord why the increase was required in the Colonies— Mach reliance had been placed upoh the opinion of his Him. Friend (Sir It. Wilson) that the garrison of Gib raltar was too weak. But it was known that Gibraltar was the place of all others capable of being defended by a handful of men ; and by the retains it appeared that thete were between three and 4,000 men there. in all the other Colonies he found sufficient strength, excepting Sierra Leone, of which he complained that that House knew nothing. This increase in the force would have enabled them to reduce the Window Tax, and to save three millions of taxation, in compliance with the call made from every town, however ia.ge, and every village, however small, throughout the country. In tfe lonian Islands and the Cape of Good Hope our Milt • tary e-tablishments were only used to keep down and oppress the inhabitants, mil the Governors .11 l nothing but compel the most useful and ineistotioub indivi duals to leave the Colonies; and that House could not interfere, because the Government protected such acts. The only way, therefote, was not to give them the means; and he, for one, would not grant a man for keeping down the inhabitants of the lonian Island , . He felt that he should not be doing his duty unless he opposed the increase. lie knew that some of his lion. Faiends differed with him in opinion, and he h.td no doubt that they were perfectly conscientious i:i doing so. But he was not convinced that there existed any reason for so large an augmentation of our military es tablishments. lie, at all events, ia as deter mined to discharge his duty, and should therefore have the gra , tification of putting his opinions upon the tecurd in the Resolution he should move : " Resolved, That in the opinion of this Home, it is not necessary, in a time of profound peace, to maintain, for the service of the current year, the number of 86,438 regular land forces, exclusive of those for India, and also exclusive of 9,C00 Royal Marines; of about 7,800 of Royal Artillery and Rogineers, of 53,253 enrolled Militia, Yeomanry, and Volunteers in Ireland ; and of 53,000 Militia, and 45,000 Yeomanry and Volunteers in Roglauti, and of 3,000 Veterans; making, in the %%hole, 257,496 men actually in alms, or ready to be called out, if necessary, exclusive also of Colo. nial troops at Ceylon, the Cape of Good Hope, and in Africa, : amounting to about 4,000 men, not included in the above number." Colonel JOHNSTON seconded the Resolution, and . expressed his astonishment at such an unexplained ; augmentation of the Army.—A Message irons the , Lords (h interrupted the discussion) announced that their Lordships , had passed the Irish unlawful Societies' Bill. Mr. WILMOT-HORTON expressed his regret that the Hon. Member for Aberdeen was not in hii place when his Noble Friend (Lord Palmerston) had submitted the reasons, which the House felt to be perfectly s factory, for the proposed increase of tI e Arm y. But he would put it to the Hon. Member whetlitr he was prepared to say that the postures of our military force stationed in the Colonies were not to be relieved from those most harassing duties to which, fn in tl e want of adequate and seasonable relief, they were eti (heti ? It was a question of actual notoriety, that our Colonies made the addition of force necessary; and no man who at all adverted to the state of things for some time past in the West Indies, but must be satisfied that an aug mentation there was called for by the pressure of cir cumstances. Indeed, he could say, that there was not a Colonial Gentleman who had not made a special ap plication for a more effectual military force in those garrisons. In the growing State of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, with the population increasing in such 'a variety of ways, it was impossible to expect that the local police could altogether preserve the good order and tranquillity of colonies thus circumstanced. The Hon. Member for Aberdeen had, as heretofore, alluded to the numerical military force of 1792; but he overlooked the great change that had since taken place. not alone in the number of our colonies, in the increase of the population, and in the comparative military strength of other countries (Hear, hear). These were considera tions which the House was b ound to bear in mind, and not the mete abstract question of the numerical difference between the establishments of 1792, and that called for by circumstances at this period ( Hear, (sear). Mr. BRIGHT could hardly believe that such suf ferings existed in the Colonies as had been stated. If the case was so, Ministers were deeply to blame for not having sooner applied a remedy. There were no disturbances in the Colonies, and no fears felt - of aggression from foreign Powers. It was the duty of Government to levy the smallest sums in the way of taxation on the pedple. The war in In dia hid arisen in the wantonness of power, about a few worthier acres of land. He should vote with the Honourable Member for Aberdeen. _ _ _ Sir R. WILSON, felt it necessary to state what he of his own knowledge knew of the state of one of the Colonies, in answer to what had fallen from his Ho nourable Friend (Mr. Hume) relative to the garrison of Gibraltar. From what he knew both of the place and the number of French troops that were now in its neigh bourhood, he felt it would be anything but prudent to leave it to the faith of treaties, as his Hon. Friend had imagined—( Hear, hear). Nor whilst France was in possession of the fortresses of Spain, would it be politic to depend on the natural strength of that for tress. His Hon. Friend, in making this assertion, could not certainly have looked at the condition or defences of Gibraltar with a soldier's much less an engineer's eye. For his part, he thought the augmentation of force was necessary, for though as great an economist as his Hon. Friend, he was a provident economist, and would not run the risk of having to lay out hereafter a million of motley to repair a loss which might have been rendered impossible by the timely application of a trifling sum—( Hear). S.r C. FOItBES said, that we had been the aggres sors in the case of the Burmese, by protecting their subjects. Were the British forces in posses sion of the Burmese capital the war would not be at an .end. Both Lord Wellesley. and Lord !fasting. hid