Star. — London, England, 1827-06-20 00:00:00

" 'The VCe. - Piesident, la atietiiptlng to rf, made ao g ° ,7 re lion of the toast, which excited considerable 'Nattier. H .• The People—the only legitimate source of all power." • We CNAIIOI.OI, then requested bumpers of te company foe filli . The t ,„,, b e was about to propose. He would giv e hhe health of e Mud h e ardent friend of national education, who was the e, e cep , r n i ' n t s t o t yranny and slavery in every corner of the globe, the stant alsocate of civil and religious liberty, and „ w eirs' and c °n - h. I is--4 'a liberal r t i e ~,,i„ a dvocate —lace ems to own stens esifeatened administration. tie propos ed the health of their dis *so• b e d visiter, " Mr. Brougham. "—T he toast was received w i l t, loud and long continued cheering. As soon as Mr. Baounstase rose to return thanks, the c ompany rose as one man, and gave him three times s ee cheers. When they had subsided, there was a tall for Kr: Brougham to mount the table, but he good in his place. and a ddressed the elating to the fnllowing effect r—He assnted them that he used no or dinary nor common-Place form of expression, when he told them, as he no w d id, with the utmost sincerit y , that he felt completely overpowered by the very great kindness which they had just evinced towards him.— (Here his emotions caused the Learned Gentleman to punt .) When he came to their meeting of that day, it was impossible for him not to recollect that the present was far from the first time of his appearing among them. In truth it so chanced that hit public life was begun in connexion with the town of Liverpool, and that he had the high honour of recollecting that the first time he erir appeared to support the interests and maintain the righta,of any portion of his fellon-cOun trymen, was in connexion with the interests and the rights of their greatincl populous, and consent:rail city. (Cheers.) Ile afterviards had the singular fitieity of being enabled to return in a small degree the favour which he, then in the outset of his public and profes sional life, received at their hands, when in the year 1812, leading on their forcer to the attack; he hid the satisfaction of defeating: what they then teckqned, and which experience bad since proved to be, to say the least of it, for he Wished not to revive onpleisant recollec tioos of by-gone events, an unhappy specimen if Mis taken policy,—(ilear.) The consequence of , that con. onion led to one of the most interesting events in his public life—he nieant the oftener( on which et their call he had cane forward as a candidate for the (finite . guished honour of representing thins in the m m in of Parliament; and it was one of the most sin. gular fortunes which ever befel any man, that he should now for the first time, except professionally that day in Court, since the year 1812, when they had fought the good fight together is many gallant fields that he should now, after the lapse of fifteen years, so long a portion of human etistence, meet them again in that place that diY, bat under cirOnriatatides so vety ingulAr—so, he would not say, opposite, in, a per sonal point of view, though they certainly were dif ferent, much less oeeosite in. respect to public prin. Oples,—that he really did not knOw where he should commence the deseraptiOn of them; Or, when* had oncecommenced it, where he should stop. (Here con- Utterable interruption was given to Mr. Bitioghern by the noi.e made by some norktnen in opening the win dows to ventilate the room, which was excessively hot from the numbers collected in it. The audience loudly tainted on their desisting . ; but they went on, regardless *fall noise,s ave that of thea r own creation. Mr. Brougham proceeded.) He was sure that nothing which he could tell them would be half so easeful - as what those persons up stairs were doing for theitn--(A laugh.) They were then assembled under eiredmstances so diffikrent as to persons, though not in the smallest degree, he would venture to assert, different as to public principles, thaton so fruitful a topic he was incapable of decidingswhae he should begin, and—what was, perhaps, equally impor tant—where he should end. It was then, as most of them would recollect,—:such of them as were too young to recollect .would have heard' the fact from their friends,—it was then his. lot to be a competitor of their votes along with a very dis tinguished statesniart of the present day; and it did so fortune, that from that time td the present; be had never once been in their good town till now," and that, as on the last Aii he was in it, he hid' betin occur pled in speaking, not again i 4 that Right Hod. Gentle. ots individually ,, but aga i nst the ' side dint' rititrned him; so on the present day,'Wlien hi onie'shore raised his voice among them, it was to avow openly and Men. folly, and without the slightest diegisiVe,ihat the 'Right lion. Gentlensan and himself were tihyrstetsk rioltiil rally togither,:the an d lion: GinitiniA iif ate; he Ott of it—(Lotad,etwering)—the Right /lots: GOilen‘an in power and in place-tie snp . pOrling'hi'm in t at Oilier, Id helping . him wig; his hum 'le but honest iiiito of el; elefWee to presser c''tb'it slek a (1, 4 600 tbeeti tig); beCanin he cooscientioinly Iselsevid u tliat 01 could nit raliaiii a greater service to hie CanOth A th'o 14 ; hutilbY t biti Clis ioterestedly. tendert% t°..M!il% ( ' r : Canning ) ' such his opport . — . ausinease cheer i ingi.-1; c i t o tiOrby_nO means have . es,fam 1 , the antiee 51', such qf iMA is ' hid' paßttr, , l%**; Ntsiitio4 fa e cho "eVeili dr tl* lilt rout or five . yer t +ope . 4,i0,14 11 ? ..itelio'fitidif& hick, Wit it l. pßttered itqs oF, hpp #iii'Medt—: s ili all ? 8 Was by no means a %W i dener #444l,ecilittitil r iti el 161 8 •1 With respect tk Ar t CiAniympeTsciaally; Viii ' d'onff, ta. remind thOsewpo:vrete watnessye 9( the' e ection in! 1812, that than, was oat a' single tostinee, elthr:on thf. pert of the Rightllbnottrable Gentleman as, himself, of the is g smallest . persolfailibitilityL-Clitar).—That heftier.' inily called up.:n eibietislir 'pelcilliketallie even of th a t p er i o d to &ay e U. c . ~. it ai iit io i hm . , .: the most m i nute i nvest igtodt ince, the deals of . election, to say whet - ger atirthiottevehersh,ieit untie% or less'uncourteous,, ad Car is,ifidfiiffis t alfeietWeriiite ever WAS in th e s h ape or tracTer tlie taWejor 0 dq6.44.11 ri ection—(eheets).—He spoke Dot now of any animosity" on account of thelr plitteigletVbeeadse it wesquiteevident that if at a time "wrintliey`ifere rinsairdifttftent in party, and most direckly'pitteif aping each other, no such animosity` efeianl4, it was still le4 likely to /fan prevailed mace, vineti' for ii4clilis;',4ii.. mutuani' approximating to each other. What lie no* wished to oil i to their attention, because it was far more import a e n or their' consideration was th'e Rivet but radua chan ge Whi c h f or some years pasilan been tib i a' s plate,H ti tie, but still not the less certainly and eirectuallT, in whet he would term the casting and moulding of the Peat political parties in Parliament. On ill's subject be would, with their permission, take the opportunity 01l 'ating a fe w words. They ' had all of the m known in; "Incei of coalition some of them so equivocal in their c d lf ett ot ras tlo to t n . ce s , as to have occasioned no little popular others of them so extraordinary in the ir natur e , a l l s d to . hare excited disapprobation anion good and r th et ultimate! Inking Ten, and as . to have had the effec t i on 'ruel, Of f latinguag the thing and name of coali ow citireptit He wished to speik with all prope i t7lidetnes s and respect of those who had departed fro e at u s u t t a e ge o f . public life before them. ~ 4 ny poli ! th e e which bad teeeived the t ‘ 4nption of Mr 1"-Any political step which formed put of the 'public ? I conduct bf that . illisstrious Statesman,--any poi... arrangement which had been approved of by that great and enlightened and immortal English patriot—(Great cheering)—any thing even of which he could not see the reason, or could only half see it, and that dimly. and as it were in a glass darkly, and which from not seeing to its foundations he might be disposed not to condemn, brit to question,—all and every thing, if it had received authority from him, by his giving it the sanction of his glorious name, be whom he (Mr. B.) venerated, emery thing but worshipped,—to whose memory he tendeied all that risen Could tender to Ills telloW creature—the veneration dile to the belt, the most enlightened, and the most unshrhiting friend of the people—(Cheers)—any measure, he repeated, approved and authorized by such a mathwintld,where he could not see the reasm_of it, obtain his silent but respectful ac- quiescence. Nevertheless, the difteuffy which he con feised himself to etperienie on that subject, was ex perienced by the country also in 1784, when it saw Mr. Fox and his friends, on the very morrow after the day on which they had been engaged in a long and bitter party and personal contest with Lord North and his friends, suddenly desist from their operations of attack, adopt a different course, and coalesce with the very liaise Minister on whose head they had not. indeed, heaped coals of fire as the common phrase runs, but on whose head they, had poured out all the vials of their *wrath. until they had made the whole country as one on detest and abhor him —(Flearl. When, under such ntrAtantes, the country suddenly, and without witnessing any addition to, or subtraction Pram, the Members of either side, except that the Duke of Portland was made Prime Minister, and had a seat given him in the Cabinet over the heads of North and Fox—when the country, he said, saw a coalition suddenly struck up between the Parliamentary gladiators of each party without any adequate cause alleged for it, it was a coalition, of which, as it could not understand the mo tives which had given rise to it, it thoroughly and heartily disapproved. He confessed for his own part, that if he had then had a seat in Parliament. though he should have given his vote with Mr. Fox, he should have given it more as a tribute to that great man's authority, than as the result of his own private and unbiassed judgment—(Cheers). But what possible comparison could there be instituted between the circumstances which gave rise to the coalition of 1784 and those which gave rise to the coalition of 1827 ?—(Hear). There was in the latter case no personal animosity between the parties to it, splitting the country and Parlia ment itself for years: on the contrary, there was as interchange of courtesies rather than of hostilities prevailing. Every one great public question, save , one_perhaps the greatest of them all, but still not the only questiol—eveiy one public measure of importance, whether involving our foreign, or colonial, or domestic policy, the state of our relations with other countries, or with our own people, and the policy we should pursue as to peace and war—all the great commercial ques tions relative to our intercourse with the new States of Anserica, the great questions of reform at home, into all our institutions, save that of Parliament—each and all of these various important questions, instead of se parating, only brought the two parties nearer together; and they had not even thought of coalescing, they had not even thought of taking one step towards a junction, they had not even meditated on the ordinary and neces sary means to promote an union, till each of them, in their own respective spheres, and in bothC h a mbers of Par liament, had been acting for some time hand and heart together, to defeat, to discomfit, and utterly to destroy the coasmun enemy of national independence —(Loud cheers): Be believed, that before the events happened which to the elevation of Mr. Canning to the high place in the Government at home, which he had now filled for some ydars, it must have been known to them all. that so uncomfortable did be feel himself among his late colleagnes,—so little could he unite with those who were, considered the leading Members among them,— t io entirely did he differ fro asLord f o i verpool on that greatest of all great home questions, the question of religious liberty—(Lmad cheers),—so utterly. did he differ, from the other Noble Lord who was the leader of the Mi. . - natty in the }rouse of Parliament to which be (Mr. Canning) belonged, on that most important of all questions, in which, either as Englishmen or as men. we all engage our feelings and our princ iples, he meant the gauss of civil liberty all over the world— (Cheers)—so utterly was be at variance with one Noble Lord on all great questions of domestic policy, and with the other Noble Lord, his own immediate superior in the House of Commons, on all great goes tiont of foreign policy, that he thought —for he , knew it not, and in making his thoughts known, he betrayed no secrets; he violated no confidence—he thought it required no great ingenuity, no egregious winard to discover,, that Mr. Canning's design of going to India, for the government of which he was destined at the time of Lotd Londonderry's death, and where„he in tended to have passed, if not the residue of his life, the better past of those years which still remained to him in the, ordinary course of nature, was mainly, if not, entirely, owing to that radical, deeply-rooted, and irrecencileable,differeoce,of principle which existed, and maslikely to continue to exist.‘ between him apd them. (Loud.andlongtheerinik) But ble..Ceiniqg differed. namoch.frourthose two Noble Lord/, int- the home. Per licy of the country, as fa; as resat As ye* land ilp Applup s a ► lie 4o4lloiCatbolic ettion,and on the; c r Holy,Allinfe.÷l9sl cheers.) Ile ifferq ,, afso,Sficiely, from them tih the, subject Of 4i/sir:taint ' int' in its internal administratithi—.lre dreier from them mil glactrnst . im . ,ant , subject, the improvement of ita civil ? na cort at 4 erns)* kir iiiiidence ; tpr white they wpaid'sdffer t no afiiiiitie. rase ? 'Nannies. Itifing; 'to stir from the 'pride 'Of pla"Ce - in' wh ich the ignor ante Of centuries ha d . eoshiinedli,-Zwisile tli,ei would not hear a word of our liiiii a •Whitlifileilhan our Mickitors in the savage days' of thl rudoii" and' Plintaginnts,—while they would: %be* . nothing or impyoveUint, Salve iiipiovernent in the revenue, which meant iMProveMent in their sakiries, and impoverishment to the people, by the increase o 4 taxation—(L oy d clieeiej 7 while they would know nq. thing of improvement, save improvement of their powea to crush the pebple, aid to iiiiignish the *pieta voices—(Cheering continued), he (Mr. Canning) viaet4 advocate. not wigs them but , against them, of %bpi improvements which were wrested from their.grasp for the country ,e 94 .pr nsaiikin4—cCheer4i and, he as his then colleagues ? who gave a rielictant thiangh, consent to the ; general : tneasgrev . ,pt , 4doppilstF4ttri giving up their opposition on minotpeints, bu pressing it upon others of greater importance—be and ;bey Ail, maintained their former adherence to the principles of im. pro v e men t, and otiupied'a leading place is his Majesty's Cbiincils. Herelet him ask thelteeting to re fl ecthovr iher niiinbers . of of late' Adinfaittaiintr, 'emsfidered . as An entirety (if an entirety it ever was) stonrialirirtaid to; otienfothex? ft was notor.ons to all the woria t hat they differed,widely among themselves—tbacthei op posed individually measures that ought to have had the undivided support of the Cabinet's—that they repeatedly stared to vote and speak against each other; that they did this will; various success—and that Mr. Canning and his iends were sometimes defeated, and someiknes carried important victories for the amelioration of their country and mankind--(Cheers).—Now let the Meeting redect how far Mr. Canning and his friends differed from the Whigs collectively, or from,him (Mr. Brougham) as an individual member of that body, opposing the Admi. ' nistration as he did generally, and yet yielding to some of thek measures a partial, and when he' could, not a reluctant assent. Did they differ at all? No such thing. On the contray, on all those mighty occasions, for the cause of the country, for the cause of liberty, and for the general cause of mankind, the , / and he 'tam seen fighting side by side—(Cheers.) And was shwa awy thing so very extraordinary in a little time having.been taken, after an hidividuat had acceded to the Govern ment under the peculiar circumstances under whith Vs. Canning acceded en it —was there any thing , so very extraordinary that Mr., Canning did not begin all at once ?—it would have been better if he had begun all at once, as he had, taken the liberty of telling him .at ,the time in his place in Parliament, box so tong as meAmtege men, there would be feelings in their bosoms as to persons with whom they had been tong and intimately associated;, nor were those feelings to be reprobated as unamiable in their foundation, provided that .they were nQt carried ton far by indulgence,—was there, be would again ask, any thing so very extraordinary in his not breaking squares all at once upon every great national question with those very men whom accident alone, had , made his colleagues ? Accordingly, it was not in the first year after the Marquis of Londonderry's death, though even in th it time sufficient evidence transpired of an inten tion to effect a change in the foreign policy of the country, but in the second or third year after it, that the nation felt itself re-invigorated by the knowledge iliac it was under the guidance of new men reinforced by the old—" we being the old men," said Mr. Brougham, " and Mr. Canning and his friends thr new ;" --and that they were letting it free from the de grading, the disgraceful, and, he would add, the disgust ing captivity to the despots of the Continent, in which, udder a former dynasty—for he must use that word—it had been chained fast to the car of the Holy Alliance, (Immense cheering). Was there, he would ask, any one question more interesting to the country since the ter mination of the war than this? Perhaps it was one as important as could be imagined to mankind in general, and it was gifted with a peculiarly touching interest to this country—he meant the great'question of the recog nition of the colonial independence of the late Spanish, Settlements in America—(Hear). if he were to go over the history of that question, he thought that he could prove beyond all dispute, that had the former men and the former principles been suffered to predominate to the present time, they would have had this country, if sot in alliance with Spain to restore her colonies by force of our fleets and armies to her yoke, than which nothing Vould be more unjust andoppressive—if not engaged in war on the side of Spain and its legitimate Monarch. at least the reluctant witness of an independence `she would not acknowledge; and if at the eleventh lboar the cries of the country had compelled it rulers reluctantly to acknowledge the independence of those colonies from Spain, it would have been at so late a period in her history as to have been of .no service to her interests—(Hear, hear). Our children's children might have reaped the fruits of it, but it would not have been till all the other nations of the world had first re cognised the independence of Spanish America, and had entered into treaties of alliance with its different States, whereby British interests would have been compromised, if not absolutely destroyed—(Cheers). Instead of this, England, under new auspices, and a be:ter and a more enlightened system, had obtained the proud and im mortal:glory of being the first to acknowledge their freedom and independence—(Great cheering). He could not help adverting on this occasion to another important public question, which, though it was of a very delicate nature, and one on which he should not say a word to an unenlightened multitude, be felt that he m;ght safely notice there. There was Abe same difference of policy observable in V e conduct of the former men and of the present, with respect to the laws affecting corn—laws which affect not only the trade of the country, but also the interest and the subsistence, and the sacred rights of every individual among the poorer classes in it—laws, which involve in their eery first principle the great and important question, whether the poor man shall have bread for his sustenance at a reasonably cheap price, and whether he shall be allowed, to lice on the bounty of P4OVIDENCt, without paying more for it in the sweat of his brow than either his. strength vrou'd endure, or his patience permit him to pay ?—(cirestt cheering.) He could pot help feeling that those statesmen who wished to act liberally by England and by Europe , and who had freely acknowledged the independence of Spanish America, rejoicing and parti cipating in the felicity which they dispensed around them—he could not help feeling that those very states men mosvhave, been, the men who had introduced the present measure to amend the Corn Laws. He shrewdly suspected that *rise Of their former colleagees, who, now that they were out of office, would not lend their support to the Bill which, they had .pledged themsejses,i whim in office to cam, through Parliament, were not' the authors of it—(Hear, hear.) He Msought that the, members of the late Administration now in office were, alone the parents di' ;'for if their late colleagues shared, 'the pOtentaib of it, they' could not be considered al l thing that kind lion to• it which parents generally sheaved to their own offspria,g,—(4. laugh).. He was now speaking on the anniversary of a day when it, became him to tape's the utmost gratitude which he felt to the illustrious'Warrior, who, twelve years ago., had led the military relations of the poorer classes to the most glorious victory recorded in our annals.--(Grest cheering.) He wished to express the sincere gratitude] which he felt towards that distinguishedcaptain for all the manifold Iryices which he had rendered to,his country, and for which, though it had paid him largely, it could never pay hini too well—(Hear, hear). Still he could not help, feeling as he did for the NE:risk Dukes fame and character, which he now.lpoked upon as public property. be could not help, he. said, expre.sing a wish, but with of,kjodnrssi'and respect, that his Grace had ? found some other an t agonist than the one he had been contending' with, for he teemed to have determined, au !the recent discussions on. the Coro Bill, that none bull himself should he his conquespr,-(,Laughter and cheers) ,Gallant.Captaiosoloril e fi e a terbAg.E; Secretaries " Virtu' Sciti i adra sa*Otla Lar—(A laggli)•••• ail we're : vombrne(to oveiilikow it. The gallantry of tliaigteat CaPtaiti'sfionfcdn'sOiceous in ticketing that which nothing but Mins& coMdlitell defeated, namely, his own project, and the mildness .f the ECS. , cre:ary 'n complacently acquiescing in the rejection of this vel y measure which he ha/ himself proposed in "Parlia ment—(Hear, hear, hear.) He could have wished that they had in their profound wisdom disco vered a more useful exercise of their many and rare endowments than that which they had recently displayed before their astonished countrymen. At all events, those of their former colleagues who continues' in the Go vernment, whether they gave up the Boil for the present in despair, or whether they pursued the wiser and the more philosophical part, to take what they could get, even to the frustration of their own darling object, keep ing it as they could, so as not to lsse that little mite which the Lords of the S!cession, in their infinite bounty, were willing to grant to their poorer countrymen—. whichever course they took, he thought the Meeting must admit, that those statesmen were the best and steadiest friends of their country who first advocated, and then strenuously persisted in supporting, • in spite of all opposition, a sounder system for the regulation of the trade in corn---(Cheers).--Now, would the Meeting permit him. after the long state neat which 'he had already made 'to them, to ask whether, if upon all questions of foreign, domestic, and colo nial policy, and upon the grand question of improv ing the civil and criminal jurisprudence-of England,— to say nothing of an infinite variety •of minor pointy, on which, after the multitude of figures which he had already ventured to introduce upon the can vass, he was unwilling to say a word,—woulki the Meeting permit him to ask any man of common candour, whether the mambo, upon all the great goer tions to which he had been just :Wading, had been vot ing together for the last four or five years:a..who had been night after night fighting on the saint side, end against the same political enemies, the old Mini-stets-- who had known no firmer allies than the present new Ministers, and known no ether enemies•than the old Ministers—who had given to, and received from, she new Ministers efficient assistance and support--would the Meeting allots , him,he said, to ask.whether any thing could be more natural than that there should at length be made, between those two parties, that coalition which had astonished none but the most inattentive observers of the events of the last three or four years P—(Ch- ers). He called on the Meeting to observe the situation into which his Majesty and - Mr. Canning, with the few cola leagues who adhered to him, were recently thrown. A secession took place; all the Lords of the secession, being six or seven in number, simultaneously, by tome acct. dent or other, threw up their offices in disgust. What was the reason of their conduct it became him not, neither was it necessary for his argument, to inquire. They had left office—the Ministry was thus half vacant — it was, in point of fact, broken up, and it became necessary to re-model and re-construct it: The question then was— how should it be re-modelled and reconstructed ? Now, he was not one of those who ventured to abuse those Noblemen who had quitted their places. He was glad that they had done so, and would not question the eight of shy man to act in a similar manner, if he so thought fit. He had had the great and singular satisfaction of heating in the two Houses of Parliament to which the illustrious individuals respectively belonged, the expla nation of their motives for resigning office, which had been given by the two most distinguished members ef the late Administration—he alluded to the late Right Hon. Secretary for the Home Department and to the Most Noble the late Master-General of the Ordnance and the Commander-in-Chief of his Majesty's forces. Ht never in his life,—and he spoke it not merely as a poli a titian but as a critic—as a person who had now had some slight experience in public speaking—who had heard most of the great masers of eloquence to modern tittles, and read and studied the great masters of it ip former times, and who had attended not a brie to what constituted eFcellence in orators and oratory—he never iii his life heard a more plain, manly, frank, and sol dierly explanation of public conduct than he had had the satisfaction of hearing from the Duke of Wel lington—(Great cheers). He completely dispersed all the cloud which had hung over his resignation—he took away at once and for ever the film which appeared to dim the splendour of his public character—he satisfied every impartial and unprejudiced man that he had a right to act as he did, and that he was above employing any mean. paltry. And unjustifiable excuse to defend him self-s4Cheers.) He.did not agree with his Grace in the view which he took of our foreign policy, neither did he agree pith him upon the question on which he weng out-,-..he meant the Catholic Question. He teroiced that he bad gone out,. because be believed thit it would be for the good of the country ; but as to theanotives which he had stated for resigning his posts, and the colour which .he had given to the transaction, he (Mr Brougham) had never heard anything more satisf at tory—(Cheers.) He would make the same decimation with respect to the explanation that was given in the House of Commons by the late Secretary for ti e Home Department, with whom, he did not differ in op Mon on one question in fifty; a Gentleman who had already con. ferred great benefit on his country; who, if he were in error on one particular point, had kept a steady, and con. sistent, and conscientious course in adhering to it. and who had never Aincbea from the duty of his si nation, difficult alit was for him co pet form it, being as he was the champion of the High Church Tory party, and the chosen representative of the University of Oafotd.— (Great cheering.) He thought that that Right. Hon. Gentleman had already rendered great and important services to. his country; on the jurisprudence of the country, he was an improver,—he had almost said a reformer.—(Hear, hear.) if he bad been longer in office, he believed that he would •have become even more so. He hoped that he (Mi. Peel) would live long enough to come back to office, improved by being out of office ; for, as some precious liquors gained in value by being exposed to the sun of an Indian voyage, so other liquors, of equal price, of which there was.sifte slight knowledge entertained in Liverpool, were sat gain in flavour by the bleak exposure of an Arctic regiono-(A laugh).—He trusted that the Right Hon. Gentleman would not have visited the Polar regions of Opposition in vain, and that be would come back to office the determined improver of our domestic system of jurisprudence. His explanation was as satisfactory is that of the other Noble Personage whoiti he had al luded to, and he had pleasure in making that public avowal of his opinion—(Cheers).—With respect to the • ,her Noble Personages of the Secession, they had not condescended to make any explanation at all; lie was, • wever, ready to pardon them the rash act they had toed, in consequence of Ale results which had ems- Led from it. Übe might he considered as a jui r sit )itsg on their inquest,.and as speaking with such charity 4jstinguislmf jhrors on such occasions air would ,say that there was no felonious intetition on their I. I 11 i l iii li d . i' 6 1' i l I c:; • • 1 1 1. 1 c li i i 1 1 1 Ii i .41 t , i . I 1 { , i lll I • '• . 1 1. 1 i • ?:', i ll 1111 HI t. 1- 1. iI III ~ :. If 1 r • 1 I , i . i ~ I , , i 1I i, 1 . 1 I