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'Mr J could preserve his consistency if he gave any other vote than that which heoil.give. He knew it had been said in a certain ri*ter, that he might shelter his ennsis tency by urgingin the House that he did not yet know the fate of the Pentya Bills, and was, therefore, free to adopt the proposition of the Honourable Member for Hertfordshire. He (Mr. Huskisson) should consider such a subterfuge utterly unworthy of himself as a public man—unworthy of every Gentleman sitting in that House. The supporters of the Bill considered that it was virtually lost by the Amendment. If the fran chise of Penryn was transferred to the Hundred, his Right Honourable Friend (Mr. Secretary Peel) would have considered himself bound to vote for transferring the franchise of East Retford to Birmingham. The case of Penryn, however, not having been decided on, his Right Honourable Friend was perfectly at liberty to pursue the course he did with respect to Eist Ret ford. He (Mr. Huskisson) was differently situated: he was so placed that he could not, without manifest and gross inconsistency, support the amendment of the pre amble. Under these circumstances a division took place, and he voted as he thought he was bound in cots- 1 sistency to do. The House adjourned at rather a late hour, not, however, without his perceiving, by certain looks and a certain manner, what the impression was that his vote had produced. He went away from the House under the influence of an impression produced by these appearances. He looked at them, perhaps, through a magnifying medium, and not without some vague apprehension that his conduct might be represen ted in another quartet in a manner which might operate to his disadvantage before he had time for explanation. In such a state of mind and body, not very strong in health, after having been laboriously employed for fit - kelp or sixteen hours of that day, he on returning home did that which next morning he might, on reflec tion, have thought it better to have postponed. He did not, however, hesitate to say,. that he should hive thought himself bound in couttesy towards the Noble Duke to take, on the next day, the earliest oppor tunity of doing that which he had done on the pre vious night, and to inform him, that whatever might be the feelings or the circumstances under which he gave bis vote, he was quite ready to pay the penalty of it by resignation, if the occasion should be deerned.sufficiently important to call for such a step. He had now arrived at a point where he found himself placed under consi derable difficulty., If he merely stated the purport of the correspondence which he had with the Noble Duke, he might omit something which would expose him to the suspicion of not giving a favourable or correct re port. On the other hand, it might be obvious that it was extremely irksome to read publicly what was, strictly speaking, a confidential correspondence—(Cries of "Read"). He had already stated tha circumstances in which, as respected his own personal feelings, he was placed by the vote of that night. If from an over punctilious idea of what was due both to the Noble Duke and to himself, he wrote too soon after the occur rence took place, he regretted having done so. Had he waited some time longer he might have been able to express himself with more clearness and precision, and thus have prevented the misconception to which his Petter gave rise. His first letter bore date the 20th of May, at two o'clock in the morning, and was to the follow ipg effect: (No. 1.) Downing-street, Tuesday Morning. 2, Lat. May 20. Mt MAR Dues—After the vote which, in regard to my own transiency and personal character, I have found myself, from the coarse of this evening's debate. compelled to give on the Rat lletford question, I owe to you, as the head of the Administration, and to Mr. Peel, as the Leader of the House of Commons, to los: 1.. ..or n ekny you an opportunity of placing my office in other hands, as the arty means in my powes or urev« ,,, i.ir injury to the King's service which may ensue from the appearance of disunion in his Majesty's Councils, however unrounded in reality, or however unimportant in itself the question which bas given rise to that appearance. Regretting the necessity of troubling you with this communication, Believe me, my deas Duke, over truly yours, (Signed) W. HUSKISSO N. On this•he wrote private and confidential, and inclosed • and sealed it. The cover was also sealed, and he sent it in a cabinet box. He would not conceal lrcm the House that it was written hastily, and under the in fluence of strong feelings. If a member of the Govern ment could not, and was not at liberty to harve recourse to immediate communication of this kind, it he was not free- to substitute it for verbal communication. serious inconvenience might arise. 'To this he received the followtag answet (No. 2.) London, May 20, 1828. •My dna* lltnicnison—Your letter of two this morning, which I receisstsi 4f ten, has surpiiied me much, and has given me great concern. I have considered it my duty to lay it before the King. Ever yours, roost sincerely, • (Signed> WELLINGTON. The night lion. W. Iluskibion. He was once before placed in a similar situation. In the month of May, 182`2, Lord Londonderry moved a Re solution in that House, declaring it to be expedient that his Majesty should be emposeeted to ra=te the sum of one Milton by Exchequer bilk, to be given to Corn - nlisirioneis, and advar.ced by them on the security of Cernthen in bond. ennceiving such a measure as this to bill'hicria , istent with sound principle, and. being at vdrTHk selih all' his 'previous opinions on the subject, he nOposse.r. die Resolution, which was after words aban &Wird: Nest day he went to Lord Liverpool, then at due grad ite Administration, and did the same thing vitsith he dit upon this occasion, but with - a quite chi- Itieur —About ten o'clock`oejuesday, Lhict Ds4ley called upon him on a matter of business. After transactint the business, a conversation accursed vilrich led hint to say that be had beau guilty on the previntii high( Or a little indiscretions, and that he felt himself Stalled upon by sense of public dO4 to pay the price at iit l t s y plating his office at the disposal i•f the Doke rd Wellington, who had' accepted his resignation. Hit Noble Friend iminediately observed there must be some "mistake, god be would go over to the Duke of Wellington; stud there will be an end of the matter. Ldrd Matey went to the Date, and soon returned, saying the Duke declared he had made no mistake, and peisisted resoluicoo of laying the letter before the King. Ile' thin requested another Noble Friend to go to tie NOW Dirke with an explanation of the circum stances' ender Whi'ch the fetter was written. He did so, anCllrbug • Km Sack an , answer, that the Duke of Wellington cOnsisleredit a positive resignation. He then wrote to the Duke of . Wellingtou the following letter : L ~~~ ~- - (No. 3.) Doenl-nreei, Slay 1428, half-past six, p.m. Me nests Duna-- ' "'nig , indentood from Lord Dudley and Lord Palmerston, tint you had laid my letter of lase night before the Kkng, under a different impression from• that which it was in tended to convey, I feel it due, both to you and to myself to say, tharmy object in writing that letter was, not to express any inten tionv of my own, but to relieve you from any delicacy which you might fkel towards me, if you should think that the interests oftis Waigsty's service would be. prejudiced by my remaining in ofSce, after giving a vote, in respect to which , from the turn which the latter part of the debate hadtaken, a sense of personal honour left me ho alternative. • Believe me,my dear Duke, yours very sincerely, (Signed) . W. iIIeISKISSON. To this letter he received the following reply from the Noble Doke: 111.•14 (No. 4.) London. May 20, MS. My .vea Hessueow—l hate reteived yoto letter of this eveniafh I ortitainly did not understand your lever of two o'clock dill mooning, as offiting any option; nor do !understand the one of this evening as leaving me any, ex , epting that of submittin g m y self and his Majesty's Government to the necessity of soliciting you to remain in your office, or of incurring the loss of your valuable as• .istance to his Alajesty's service. However sensible I may be of this loss. I am convinced that in these times any loss is better than that of character, which is the foundation of public confidence. In this view of the case, I have put out of it altogether every consideration of the discredit resulting from the scene of last night ; of the extent of which you could nut but have been sensible when you thought proper, as a remedy for It, to send me the offer of " placing your office in -ether hands." Ever, my dear Huskisson, Yours most sincerely, (Signed) WELLINGTON. The Right Hon. W. Huskislon. He most deny the imputation contained in this litter, that he wished the Noble Duke to continue him in office at the loss of public character. Had he entertained an opinion contrary to his colleagues, and said to them, that if they would rot give up their opinions to his he would resign, then compliance, he would admit, might be loss of character. But the offence nt which he had been guilty seemed, at the utmost, to require no more than to tell him that he haJ done wrong, if, after his explanation should be heard, that could be thought to be the case. Instead of which it was treated as if he had laid a trap for hi, colleagues. He replied to this letter of the Noble Duke in the letter he should now read to the House : - - (No. 5.) Colonial Offioe, May 21, 1828. MY bean Duscr—ln j.tstice to myself, I cannot-acquiesce for a moment in the construction which your letter of last night puts upon my conduct. You cannot refuse to me the right of knowing the motives of my own actions, and I solemnly declare that, in both my letters, I was actuated Uy one and the same feeling. It was simply this—that it was not for tee, but for yeu, as the head of the Government, to decide bow far my vote made it expedient to remove me from his Ma. jesty's service. I felt that I bad no alternative, consistently with personal honour (in a difficulty not of my own seeking or creating), but to give that vote; that the question in itself was one of minor importance; that the disunion was more in appearance than in reality; but I also felt that, possibly, you might take a different view of it, and that, in case you should, I ought (as I had done on a similar OCCASitHI with Lord Liverpool) to relieve you front any difficulty arising out of personal consideration towards me, in de ciding upon a step to which you might find it your public duty to resort on the occasion. It was under this impression alone that I wrote to you imme diately upon my return from the House of Commons. If you bad not misconceived that impression, as well as the pur port of my second letter, I am persuaded that you could not sup pose me guilty of the arrogance of expecting " that you and his Majesry's Government should submit yourselves to the necessity of soliciting me to remain in my office," or do me the injustice of believing that I could be capable of placing you in the alternative of choosing between the continuance of my services (such as they are) and the loss to your administration of one particle of character which, I agree with you. is the foundation of public confidence. If, understandidg my communication as I intended it to be un derstood, you had, in any way, intimated to me, either that the occurrence, however unfortunate, was not one of sufficient moment to render it necessary for you, on public grounds, to act in the manner in which I had assunitd that you possibly might think it necessary, or that you were under that necessity, in either case there would have been an end of the matter. In the first supposi• lion, I shoyld have felt that I had done what, in honour and fair• nese towards you, I was bound to do; but it never could have es.' tried my imagination that I had claimed, or received any sacrifice whatever from you, or any Member of his Majesty's Government. On the other hand, nothing can be further from my intention than to express an opinion that the occasion was not eine in which you might fairly consider it your duty to advise his Majesty to withdraw from me the seals of office, on the ground of this vote. 1 do nor. therefore, complain ; but I cannot allow that my removal shall be placed on any otter ground—l cannot allow that it was my own act: still less can I admit, that when I had no otherinteution than to relieve the question on which you had to decide from any personal embarrassment, this step en my part should be ascribed to feelings the very reverse of those by which alone I was actilated, either towards you or his Majesty's Government. Believe me to be, my dear Duke, Yours ' very sincerely, (Sinned) W. DUSK ISSON. He soon after received the following letter from the Duke of Wellington: (No. 6.)' London, May gl, 1848. MY IMAR HUMISSON—In consequence of your last letter, I feel to be necessary to recal to your recollection the circumstances under which I received y,,ur letter of Tuesday morning. It is addressed to me at two o'clock in the morning, immediately after a debate and division in the House of Consmons. It informs me that you lose no time in affording me an opportunity of placing your office in other hands, as the only mears in your power of pre ventlit an injury to rite King's service, which you describe. It concludes by " regretting the necessity of troubling me with this communication." • Could I consider this in any other light than as a formal tender of the resignation of your office, or that I had any alternative but either to solicit you to r-tioitin in office contrary. tolvor loose of duty, or to submit y..ur letter to the King? If si , ,u had called me the next morning after you! vote, and had explained to me in conversation what hid passed ih the House of Commons, the character of the communication would have been quite different ; and I might have felt myself at liberty to disown the whole subject with t.lll, and freely to give an opinion upon any point connected with it. But I must still think that if I had not considered a letter, couched in the terms in which that letter is couched, and received under the circunistantei under which I re. ceived it, as a tender of resignation, and had nct laid it before the King, I should have exposed the King's Government and myself to very painful misconstructions. My answer to your letter will" i have informed you that it surpriwil me much, and that it gave Me peat concern. I must consider, therefore, the resignation of your other as your own act, and not as mine. Ever yours moat sincerely, (Signed) WELLINGTON. The Right Hon. W. Huskisson. When he received this letter, he considered the question of his remaining in office at an end; but he had one great object on his mind, for which he felt it his duty to ask an audience of the King. That he did on the Tuesday. On the Friday he communicated to the Noble Duke through a Noble Friend, that nothing could be further from his intention than to complain of the manner in which he had been removed from his ()Ace; but when he considered that in his letter which had been taken to the King, and which he could not 'doubt had been represented to his Majesty as a resig nation. of his office, there was not one expression of gratitude for the' many favours he hisd received ; not one expression of regret at withdrawing from his Majesty's service ; he did think he was bound to endeavour to procure an audience for the purpose of expressing his feelings towards his Majesty. The Noble Duke said to the Noble Friend who made this column nication for him, that he did not consider the matter at an end--drat he (Mr.-}luskissonj was a man of sense— (A laugh)—He thought , he was bound to state the No ble Duke's observation correctly—that he was a man of Hulse, and must know what was necessary to be done to settle the matter. On receiving this comntunitation through Isis Noble Friend, he stated to that Noble Friend that he was most anxious that there should be no misunderstanding ; but he could ant guess what it was expected he should do; whether it was expected that he should play a game of political blindman's buff, that the dress circles by which his Grace was sut rounded might laugh at his tumbles. On Sunday mo!ning, his Noble Friend called on him, and told hint it was not tended that he should have an audience of his Majesty.. His Noble Friend had also another communication to make from the Duke of Wellington, .which, however, he did not make, probably thinking it .savoated . too much• of military command- that eonitnenicotiort: was, that at two o'clock that day the, time wooickosigre for hit availing himself of the reeource stilllek open to bind. His Noble Friend did not communicate this message probably not thinking it in accordance with the ctrl ter r ier...(4km'.) He thin WON td the. bake of We lington the following Wavy.% (No: • • Downing street, 25th May, 1828. Mr ores Dtme—On Tuesday last I wrote to the King to solicit an audience. His Majesty has not yet been pleased to grant me this honour. In the e xpectation (not unnatural for me to entertain in the situation which I hold) of being afforded an opportunity of waiting upon his Majesty, I have deferred acknowledging your letter of the 21st. which, passing by altogether all that is stated in mine of the sante date. you conclude in the following words—" I must, therefore, consider the resignation of your office as your own act and not as mine." I will not revert to the full explanation which I have alreadf given you on this subject. No: denying that thy first letter might be capable of the construction which you put upon it, I would .ask you whether it would be usual, after a. construction has been from the first moment explicitly disavowed, to persist that it is tile right one? It being, however, the construction to which you adhere, I must assume, as you laid the letter before his Majetty, that you advised his Majesty Upon it. and that his Majesty is, there fore, under the same misapprehension as yourself of what I meant; the more especially, as I have no means of knowing whether any', subsequent letters have been laid before his Majesty: It was for the ptirpese of setting right any erroneous impression on the Royal mind that I sought to be admitted as soon as possible into his Mejesty's.preeence. I was then, as I am still, most anxious to assure his Majesty, that nothing could have been further front my intention, than that the letter in question should have beets at all submitted to hie Majesty—to make known to his Majesty the circumstances and l feelings under which it had been written—to point out to him that I had taken the precaution (usual between Ministers in matters of a delicate and confidential nature, when it is wished to keep the s ubject, as much as possible, confined to the respective parties) of marking the letter 0 private and confidential th it I utiderstooa that this letter so marked.specially to gbard its object, had been,' without previous communication of any sort with me, in respect to the transaction referred to, but not explained in the letter itself, laid before his Majesty, as conveying :o the lout of the Throne ray positive resignation. I should further have had to state to his Majesty the great pain and concern which I felt at finding that a paver should have been' submitted to his Majesty, and de'crihed to him as convoying my resignation of the &al+, in a ferns eis unusual, and with a reAttic tion su unbecoming towards my Sovereign, as is i iiii died in the words " private and confidential ;" that in a necessity no jEtiliftil (had I felt such a necessity) ait that of asking his al:•;,-ry's pormis -.ion to withdraw from his service, my first anxiety would have been to lay my reasons, in a respectful, but direct communicanon trom myself, at his Majesty's feet; but that, most certainly, in whatever mode conveyed the uppermost feeling of my heart would have been to have accompanied if with those expressions of dutiful attach- ment and respectful gratitude which I owe to his Majesty tor the many and uniform proofs of confidence and kindrnos with which he has been graciously pleased to honour me since I have held the Seals of the Colonial Department. If I had been afforded an opportuulty of thus relieving myself from the painful position in which I stand towards his Majesty. I should then have entreated of his Majesty's goodness and sett.e of justice to permit a letter, so improper for me to have written (it it could have been in my contemplation that it would have been Lid before his Majesty as an act of resignation) to be withdtawn.— Neither should I have concealed from his iMsjesty Jny r. gret, con. sidering the trouble which has unfortunately occurred, both to his Majesty and his Government, that I had not taken a different mode of doing what for the reasons fully stated in my letter of the 21st, I found myself hound in honour to do; so as to have pre. vented, perhaps, the misconception arising out of my letter, written immediately after the debate. I have now stated to you frankly, and without reserve, the sub stance of all that I was anxious to submit to the King. I have done so in the full confidence that you will do me the favour to lay this statement before his Majesty ; and that I may be allowed to implore of his Majesty that he will do me the justice to believe that, of.all who have a right to prefer a claim to be admitted to his Royal presence, I am the last who, in a matter relating to my self, would press that claim in a manner unpleasant to his Majesty s wishes or inclinations. I bow to them with respectful deference. still. retaining, however, a confidence, founded on the et-encode of my intentions, that in being removed from his Majesty's service, I may be allowed the consolation of knowing that I have not been debarred from the privilege of my office in consequence of my having incurred his 'Majesty's personal displeasure. Believe me, my dear Duke. Yours very sincerely, W. H USK TSSON. His Grace the Duke of Wellington, K. G. &c. &c. &c. This letter was carried to Apsley House at five o'clock on Stinday.'.,At half-past seven o'clock the same day, he received, the following letter from the Duke of Wellington T (No. 8.) Received at thirt r iive minutes past seven, p.m. .London, May 35. 1828. • Ms Dial► Httsnr‘son—lt is with great concern that I inform you that I have. at last attended his Majesty, and have received his instructions, respecting an arrangement to till your office. I sincerely regret the loss of your valuable assistance in the arduous t as* in which •1 am engaged. Believe, me, ever yours, most sincerely, WELLINGTON. (Signed) The Right Hcn. W. Huainan. He Mitzi): be Asked' if five ays were suffer4d!td,e/ip . se before taking any .step in the appointment of a tuccessor, wt;y such haste in taking his first letter to theXing ? Sion after he had received this letter, the letter he had written to -the Ndbk Doke was sent back unopened, through Lord Dudley, by whom it had been forwarded.. zo be accounted for by the message sent him by the Noble Duke, hut not delivered, allowing him till two o'clock on Sunday, to'do something that the Noble Duke thought a man of sense ought to do; and this letter probably being supposed a compliance, and not having come to.the time—the clock hiving struck— was returned unopened—(Hear). He immediately wrote to the Noble Duke the following letter— (No. 9). Downing-street, 91 r.w. 25th May, 11129. MY DIAZ Duct—Lord Dudley has just sent to me, unopened, my letter to you, which I forwarded to Apsley Mouse; above five o'clock this afternoon. • This letter was written as soon as I was given to understand by told Dudley, who called here after an interview with you this morning, that his Majesty had not signified any intention of grant ing cite the honour of an audience. No other mode, therefore, re maining open to me of conveying my sentiments to the King, I ad. dressed myself to you, for the purpose of bringing before his Ma jesty, in the shape of a written communication, what 1 am pre vented from stating to his Majesty in person. I feel confident that you will not deny me this favour, and you will be satisfied by the contents of my letter (which I now return), that in writing it, nothing was further from my intention-than to attempt to intrude myself between you and the arrangements which upon my removal from office (for'such I have considered the re sult of our correspondence since your letter of the you have received his Majesty's instructions to make. Your letter, communicating this fact, reached me about half-past seven this evening. I thank you for the information, and for the kind manner in which you advert to any feeble assistance which I have been able to give to your Administration, as well as for the ex pression of the concern with which you have advised his Majesty to place my office in other hands. Believe me to be, my dear Duke, Ever yours very sincerely, (Signed) • W. lIUSICISSON. He believer . that in consequence of this letter his former letter was the next dal laid before the King, and be.was admitted to the honour of an audience.. a aucerssOr to his othce having been previously appointed' • What passed at that audience it would he manifestly improper for him to state; but his Majesty's"kindness had made an impression on his feelings far beyond what it was in his power to expi'ess. The Noble Duke theu wrote him the following letter— • (No. 10.) • London, Nay 26, 1626. My Dims Husinumi—l have received your lettr of yester day, accompanied by ;nailer letter from you, dated aisirteaterday, which I had returned to Lord Dudley, uoder the impression that Lougtit sot to open it without your previous consent, under the circumstances that emitted at•tbe daft I-received it. • I have laid both tielomthe'King. In answer I halve only to re. peat, that I eontidetoil your letter of thii-Soth at a: tornfal tender*, the resignation of your Whin ;and that the circonsitanee at its besot worked " private and confidential,:' did.clut niter the chi:meter ot• Abe letter, or relieve hie froco.the *idol duty of aonduunicoting its contents to his Majesty, as I did an person. Your subsequent letters did not, according to my understai dirt) at them, convey any disavowal of your intention to tender yuut --••••••••••••,••••...r-- . Ititaignation. I laid them before his Majesty, and my insolvent, tiWor, and communicated to Lord Dudley that I had done 40. The King informed me, I think on Wednesday, the 21st .i t t h e et ly you had desired.to have an audience of his Majesty, and that he intended to receive you on the day but one after. I did not cna. hider it niy duty to advise his Majesty to receive you at an earlie r period. It is scarcely necessary for me to observe , that your letter to tn e of the 20th was entirely your own act, and wholly unexpected by me. If the letter was written hastily and inconsiderately the natural course was for you to withdraw it altogethet, and the, relieve me from the position in which, without any fault of od e; it had placed me—compelling me either to accept the resignation which it tenderedi t or to solicit yOu to continue to hold your offic e . This latter step was, in my opinion, calculated to du me per. tonally, and to the King's Government, great disservice; and k appeared to me that the only mode by which we could be extri cated from the difficulty in which your letter had placed vs wee, that the withdrawal of your letter should be your own spontaneoui act, and that it should be adopted without delay. The interference of his Majesty, pending our correspondeuce; would not only have placed his Majesty in a situation ha which be ought not to be placed in such a question, but it would have sub: jec*d me to the imputation that the interference had Men plare on my suggestion, or with my connivance. 1 did not consider it my duty to advise his Majesty to itatert n 4 in any manner whatever. His Majesty 'reformed me this day, that he had written toy this morning, appointing an audience in the course of the day. Believe me, ever yours, most sincerely. (Signed) • WELLINGTON. Right Hon. W. Huskisson. Perhaps it might be proper for him to state his having head various rumours that he had withdrawn w h it was called his resignation; perhaps it was tbouAt that he ought to have done so; but if he had any etch ititen• tion he would base taken another course. He was ac e dressing himself to an assembly & Gentlemen,- and he asked what would be the state of their reeling., w h at would have been his own feelings, if, afrrr gh at had passed, he could have acted us on such a se ggest eo If he had done so,what would have been saki ? U - .l lsthat when he was declared no longer fit to hold a I%lace in the Government, yet that he remained in office. He might have continued in office as a laborious smelt, but could he any longer have discharged its duties faithfully arid honourably, or with a due regard eitql to himself or to his country ? He might have attended at the Cabinet, but with st- fled :e&ings, and a strong sense•et his own degradation; aid it he even succeeded in repressing every struggle of honourable feeling, stilt he could read in the very looks of others what his state/ degradation was. Then, had ed, would he be fit tobe , peiled from every society where honour and selfarksieee were considered necessar yto the preservation of chemise ' Power, station, or the emoluments of office were cow all gone ;hut he still preserved his self-approbatime honour, his public character, his personal friendso, be could further state, that he would still alit* attend to the interests of all classes of his fellew, jeets—(Hear, hear). No confederacy of. power cold take from him his birthright—for, not being a Cather he had a birthright—(Shouts of hear, hear, from . Opposition Benches). And, in the manly.and :honest exercise of that birthright, he would continue to *tem the approbation of that House and the couhtf3c, was sorry to detain the House so long. He began stating that he did not resign', nor did he know de , lives for his dismissal. When the Administration fotmed by the • Noble Duke, he (Mr. Huskissiin) contrary to she judgment of many of his friends, sented to take a part its it. *He did tie entirely on pule grounds—and when he looked to the similarity opinions with those of his friends who also took °fit when he considered the places which were assigned them ; when he also had iezeived certain other even tions as to the line of pelicy to be adopted, he was beim. Ci) !villain in the King's service, and uphold that general policy to which he had been so long attached. Lei it not, however, be supposed that he was blind the influences which were opposed to these : let it not be supposed that he Was not aware of the difficulties with which he should have to contend. No such thing; he was fully alive to those difficulties— and he now asked, bad the influences to which he had just alluded, again become predominant over the Councils of this country ? It was not for him to giro - any answer to such a question, but when he looked at the manner a trifling incident had beets caught atiin order, he believed, to pacify, some parties, it became necessary to part with him and others—(Hear, hear.) He owned ' it would be much more satisfactory to him if he. had been plainly told that the time had how ar rived when a separation became necessary ; thaesuch was the dislike entertained towards his views—suchthe apprehensions felt. to his measures—that .in• order, to secure theaid of. those friends who enabled the Noble Duke fie carry on the Administration ; if such statements had been made to him, he repeated, he would havefelt much better pleased—for it would have .been an intel ligible and manly course of proceeding. When he compared the proceedings of the last Session with what had occuried during the last few days, he could not'help stating, that in his judgment some such views must have operated to his dismissal. If no change of policy was intended by the Noble Duke, he thought that his letter, written at two o'clock in the morn ing, would not have been so very eagerly acted on. It was stated by many of his friends, and the statement had reached the ears of the Noble Duke, that hi , letter was hasty—that his resignation was not meant, and yet the Noble Duke was pleased to interpret it as a formal act of resignation. It' that letter could be so interpreted, he had only to refer to the letter of the Noble Duke himself, when on a recent occakitin he had sent in las own resignation-.-(Hear, hear, hear). —If the removal of himself and his friends was the only apology Week could be offered to certain parties for ever having ca lled for their assistance, it would be but just to say so. He ,did not wish to notice the ebullitions of venerable met eiment, or he might say, venerable buffoonery—(Shouts of Hear, hear, horn the Opposition Benches) —at an nual dinners—but despite those ebullitions of joy in qu arters where only a day or two before all was wading at the encrease of civil and religious liberty—notwithstal , dig , he said, those ebullitions, and the untoward signs of the times, be did not think the triumph of that party was either so great or so complete as they anticipated. There never was any differencs of opinion between haw self and his Right Honourable Friend (Mr. Peel) except on the Catholic Question, and be (Mr. Hnskissen) did not think that the Right Honourable Secretary could by any strictness of discipline be made to alter or aban don the great principles on which they had both . s ° agreed and acted. The substantive power of the brate should never be placed in unknown, though hands; nor did he believe that his Right Hon. trend would ever consider any party superior to the Comment of England, or tbat the'first duty Ilegislater WAS to , check improvement, or to stop the spread of pee"' int:lligence in this o r any other country. He never cpuld believe that his Right Honourable Friend would : abaddon his duty to his country—to court tbeePin t ' ° ,, of any patty, be they whom they might. It wee"' ran onl;liesntin thattel lielirenwcro,ood th r ow n its (+firths; fifth or sixth station of the kingd oms Ili 4011d:- - br that he would sanction the , re-introdecril on—ter ,rut down a free Press—and stifle free ducusst the principles of the Holy Alliance —that he fir ,o back ua ancient tiatcs'and keep up a standing army ro c b lia i: nrgdicati'C t i e si a e*i • 'IW ca ca us servant, its duties 101 :and eiVer e attended I fr a strong 0 fr succeeded th , eling, still • ti his state of al 4fto bees- elf-irksiect bt Icherecter. Were AM obatior4is al riends, , and _fc I dill* fc fellow4dti- 1 .4 darer nand tl a Catholic, sr • from she .and -honest si e to *nem in u htti....• He st. ! began by th low demo. R itr ation was pl kissriri) had, re Tinsels, con. ly on . publie au his • took office; eh assigned to hi her expecta- • at e was bound ei that general A ached. Let it as blind to re measures— ti ware of the to intend. No lifficulties th hich he bad nit it over the him to give tk e looked at •• it auht at;'in s, it became mi Hear, heat.) ui tiny to him !ad now 2r- pr ; thit.such tir rs—i.ucb the tt irs • order, to it i the, Noble Ai h statements .4 alai have klt tl ten an Intel- c When he >ession with to ys, he could such views sa change ot q he thought b the morn- f tl acted on. It ie statement , a lat hi, letter 11 ant, and yet lE as a formal interpreted, -e• Noble Duke al I sent in his the removal it ()logy which rw aving called tl say so. He serable met- y—(Shouts tl )_at annual rin quarters tl ailing at the ritbstai,dir,g, 1 s i g pSof the at part,' was anticipated. a setween him ft - Peel) except is iskisson) did retry could AY titer or aban• ti had both. so h. ot the Stale • c! gli Co hoIIP:u l i m \udti he ig stator was la v,.. n 1` of general r • He never , 'demi would the cP ini `' Qg t. It would s character, )1/ Engtand dome to die i i:sc n ian d tut i rtis : d:egi dy: