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I I .. . • .. , - „ . . ,_ . . .:XeasitAlse flop H ios. e hoWevcr hilted he sholild, so-morrow, be Able to hay them on the table. Adjourned. --..—......- HOUSE OF tAISeMO,I9. ' .:-. 1 Several petitions were peesented frenit deittors cons Sited in different gaols, but the places from which they came we could nor hihr. They were severnili ordered to he on the. table. . . . Mr. JEFFERY . (Plunk) gave notice, th.it hr would, to-mormw, move. that the order made on the 201 of this month, for the peoduuiun of certain Naval Papers, be discharged Mr. PAUL moved, that the papers laid nn the table relatife to the Nabob of OuJe, 1w printed, which was ord-red accordingly. The Him. ticio%er then said,that he had moved, nn former occasions, the printing of several papers, i espeding the condutt of the Marquis Wellesley ; and, that as soon as the slid papers were printed, be should. on the earliest day in his power. bring I,n-ward his charges against that Noble I.os J. He the* snored for copies of a long string of naitnres and tenets which had passed heist een the VI u•qais Wellesley. Alarquis Corawallis. and the b •ar .1 iif Confront. Mr. WHITIIHXD KEENE, ins short speech. sv• onsied the amino. Mr. P AUL said, that as the sullied was now be fon the Hooey. be would take the opportunity of shady westinsing his reasons far bringing for ward these charges. lie dada amen the }loon., that he had no comedian wnateeet with the :abob of Oude. nor with any nelson who was at all COSI. cursed is his affairs. The several ninttetswilich he ;bought it necessary to nring before the House. fee its eoesiderminn. had tome to his knowle !g! daring It residssee of souse years in India ; s old. to bring ing forward the chat gas he should ground upon them. he was solely adnated by a seam of public duty, and an other motive wb i , . , ver. Sir T. hISTCALFE expressed himself entry to ' be *Wiped, at nay time, to oppose the prodaeien of peposes. He canto not. &twofer. refrain howl ap on the present necessitate. Them motions, . he had of late Weems very eomenon. .- witisset deiag . say service ; and the Papers atoned ht. tad bowmen many instances, so multifarious and . voiesisess, that their produttion had become ex tremely iaconvenieet to the regular and necessary business of the Court of Diteflors. and a very heavy impasse. indeed, to the public. lie miner eased. that assay ver y important Papers teLttive to our stairs is ladia. had, since they were printed. • fallen into the bands of Bonaparte, who deemed " them of the highest to wequence to the forwarding - and assistiog his views on that country ; And these papers were, by his orders, translatiag into the rench language, in order tto give them as much . publicity as possible. He hoped. therefore, the .„ House would pause before they so readily acqui i need to motions for Papers. There were a great ' many of the Papers now moved tor, which related l ,op I. to treaties formed e ith the native powers of India. Reports had gone abroad, that such treaties as had • been entered into between the late Governor Ge kwneral and such native powers, were to be annulled, which might produce the most mischievous conse quences. He had no doubt, but if the Marquis i - Wellesley had, daring his appointment as Governor General et India. condoned himself in any man. I fter which might incur the disapprobation of that Home, be was amenable to them, and might be, by the House, very properly called on to accoint for the same; but this, in his opinian, was not the period; and he. therefore, thneght it his duty to oppose the presume asetina, and to take the sense of the Hosea isa k. Mr. FRANCIS expressed himself very much sur prised at the oppos;tious of the Hon. Baronet to the prodftdion of these Papers, a-'J room particularly ses. et the resume he had adduced for sn doing. 'rhe Hon. Baronet had objeaed that much mischief had arisen is coimeepteace of the numerous Papers which had formerly Imo moved for sod printed. As to his own part, he bad moved lot several, which he thnught necessary, and which his duty called imperiously ran him to dot and he eestld not conceive how any mischief could accrue to the Company, cr to the country, from the production and printiug of these Papers, as the Board at Coo troul was certainly the most competent judge. and they had bees consulted on every Paper moved, and sot one had been gutted, but %hat met with their full and entire approbation. 'flue lion. Batts ; set had also ohjedell to the great espence of the copying and printing these Papers. this was an '., objelliew which had frequently been brought for ward against hien and his friends, whenever they weaved MT Papers ; brit he begged the House to re c.:Le, hew foray such an argument must he; and e •• - sore they .sever could hear to be told, that its rs.,t;eis .if the highest and most material national impair:, they :hnuld be deterred from granting Papers recess,, y For a doe investigation of 'lnkjet% of the utmost moment to the interests ot the coo-try, from a fear of a few thousand pounds ex pence. With regard to the c-ndui.4 of the Marquis Wellesley, he ne-er, at any peri..d, had said any thing relating to hiss, which he did not think. lie had repo-wed his disapprobation as to several parts of that condlia ; and in movir.g for the Papers he had done, be was :satiated by no other motive, then that of wishing to have the matter fairly ill vestlg.rect, and of giving the Noble Lord a Lair oc casion aild opportunity of justifying that conduff to that I ious.., and to the I °mary at large; anl no roan would he more satisSed than himself, to find the Noble Marquis *tile to clear himself from any ood.every degree of blame that had been imputed to Mtn. The Hutt. Baronet had alluded to mischiefs which he roman-E.-1 to have arisen, in consequence of t h ese p r i nte d ft.yi•rs havirg fallen into the hands of Bonaparte. 11•.• begged leave, however, to differ with him on that brad; for, if any mischief had accrued to this country, or the East India Com pany; hams Paperr relative to India having fallen into tie /stunts i f the French Government, it was not from an, ot those which had been primed, but from the intercepted c.irrespoodence which the blarquis Wel!esley had sent home by a circuitries and ia• sisfe conveyance. add which hal thus fallen iirri the has•d, , f Baniaparte. The Hon. Baronet had said, that many of these I'..pet.t were Wesel, and from that cirt trytts,an; , .. would be serviceable to lionispaete Ile k :.w ,d nu secret of the kind; if there were a:.y, he was certain the Board of Con- r - , troul Would not lssie permitted titeet to he prts dyced ind, as midi, he should support the pissed Motion. Mr; PAUL said, the reward r.f Controul had been applied and made acquainted with all the Papth intended to be moved fur, and had given their con sent to die of the whale. Mr. WALLACE, said, that his Noble Esiend. Lord Castlereagh , had not the smallest objc:tion tr: the produdionsul the rapes moved for, nor had he himself, they seers b..th desttnus nt the greatest uttblicity, whenever the subject should come to an Mvestigation. After a few words between the Ffcmourable Gen tleman and Mr. Patti, as to a few verbal altera tions in one of the Motions, the gallery was ahi.tit to he cleared Mr a di vision, but on a pretty general murmur of .Agree, agree., Sir T. Metcalfe withdrew his ohjeaion ; and the questions was put on the several Motions, and all agreed to , Lord CASTLEREAGH gave notice, that he wnuld, tomorrow, move a vote of thanks to Lord Collingwood, and the officers, seamen, and ma rines, .erving under him, at the glorious viaory of Trafalgar; and to Sir R. Strachaa, the officers, seam:-n, and marines, ”rving under him, in the capture of tour of the nemy's ships of the line ; and that he would, in pursuance of ilis Majesty's commands, then lay before the H o use copies of the treaties entered into with the several powers on the Continent. A new Writ was ordered tot* issued for the Uni• vanity of C.:nt'iridge, in the room of the Right Honourable William Pitt, deceased. FUNERAL HONOURS ANn MuSUNIENT TO .PITT. _ Mr. LASCELLES rote. in consequence of the nod to he had given. He said he had, in bringing forward the melancholy subjeß of which he had given notice, been extremely anxious to avoid revisal of the political differences which might exist in the minds of the several Nlembers of that I louse ; and had. on the present occasion, only allowed himself permission to disturb the ashes ,f that great and exalted e.liaratter, so lately deceased, !iy biing ia fora and his name, in older to express a f e eli ng , which, he believed, existed ;It the breasts of a ma jority of that House, and of the country, in COM mon with himself, as to the very distinguished and brilliant talents which that great man bad, for a series of years, uniformly and attively exerted in the service of his country. He had purposely de termined to abstain from any observations on the general tendency of his aaminictration, during the whole or any part of that time, in order to avoid the objettion of anticipating any opinion or judgment of the House, on the question relative to the present Administration, of which notice had been given of a Motion to be brought before the House; and from a wish to avoid every thing that might tend to create a difference of opinion or semiment in the mind of any Member in the House. He had no doubt but one general sentiment prevailed throughout the House, as to the brilliant and transeendant talents of that illustrious character, now no more, of whom lie W 24 then speaking ; and he could not bat flatter himself, that all would agree in the propriety of expressing some mark of respeti and regard to the m-mory of one who had so lately held the most 1 exalted shition in that House, as well as in the esti. motion of its Members and of the whole country, by granting to his wears those funeral and other ho nours. which might, at once, evince the reaped of the Honer and the country, and their feelings for so great a loss. In his attempt to induce the House to agree with him in the °Nett of the Motion he should hare the honour to submit to their considera tion, he should propose to them to take the prece. dent of what had been formerly done in honour of his great and illustrious father; and, in order to acquire as much unanimity of sentiment as pomible, he had adopted the very words in which the seise of Parliament had been conveyed on that memcrra ble occasion. Before he made his Motion, how ever, be would beg leave just to say one word as to what had fallen from an Honourable Gentleman opposite to him (Mr. Fox), in answer to a question asked by the Noble Lord (Castlereagh), on the sob jai of the propriety of delaying his Motion, as he was not in the House w hen the Honourable Gentle man said it. To this he had only one word of an swer, that if he looked to his administration during the period of twenty years, there was only one ground on which he could be asked to delay his Motion ; and that was, not to anticipate by it any opinion of the Home as to the condult of the pre sent administration during the last six months. This he had endeavoured, in the wording it, entirely to avoid, and to make it only the expression of the re spell and regard of that House, and of the country, for the departed talents of that distinguished and exalted charalter ; the loss of whom, as a man, and a Member of that House, he was sure every one present must equally, with himself, feel and deplore. He therefore moved— That an humble Aildrem he presented to His Majesty, pray ing that His Mininti etas be graciously ?leased to give dime tem., th.it the remain. of the Right Honourable %Volum' Pitt be interred at the pub:, charge, and that a monument be , iert_ . ad in liifcstininster, with as imicriparsit thorerrii, 'ceiling the great talents and abilities of that distinguished and ex,edicat statesman, and to mine H s Mainly that this House will make goou.l the ceponces of the min, The Marquis of TITCHFIELD rose to second the Motion. He sail, that, though he had Inc many rears been in the habit of a&ing with the great and distinguished charafter, to commemorate whose me mory the present Motion was made, in his public capacity, and to support the measures of his Admi nistration, vet he never had, in any manner. been a pirtaket of his private friendship. Such, however, was the high opinion he bad always entertained fir the splendid talents of that great man, and for the zeal, atlivity, and energy. with which they had been so long and so eminently exerted in the public ser vice. that he could not content himself with giving a silent vote on the occasion, and would, therefore, sec.ind the .slot;on. Lord FOLKS roN E said, Ile miich admired the condua of CA. Ger.tlem4n opposite to him, far the very candid and moderate manner in he had brought forward the present Petition, and he would endeavour to follow, as nearly as pos sible, his example, in the mode he should adopt. of resisting it. No man had a higher seise of the great tale:s and extensive powers of the Right 1-lo setarable Gcctlsman, deceased ; nos mute lamented 1 ` his Lis, .IS a trleol . t an In (La ;Inn, ai, Le thought hose talents hltitt been exerted aud"eirlo`yed for *e a:lva:it:ix?, :red towards the success of tilt colos tral, he cools! nut, in duty to himself, do Otherwise than give iris negative to the motion. Lnd LOUVAINE said, he had, dining the whole p a ioj of his attendance In Parliament, been I warm:,:: impressed with sentiments the must favour able to the brilliant talents of the Right Honourable Gentleman, now no mote, whose lon he could not but deeply lament; as such, he mold not bring: himself td give a silent vote on the occasion, and should, therefore, support the motion. Mt. 3. H. BROWNE said, he prided himself no: a hole in having been one of those who had trot. formly supported the measures of the Right Hon. Gentleman, whose loss, the House, and the country at large, had so much reason to deplore. The rare and splendid talents he possessed, and the real end activity with which he had uniformly and unremit tingly exerted them in the service of his country, de manded from all its inhabitants the warmest return of gratitude. He had commenced his political ea.•eer, and first came into power, at a period when the country was greatly exhausted, and her finances nearly ruined by the excessite drains of the Ameri can war ; he had since gradually itAproved the con- . dition of it, in such a manner, as to gain the appro bation of all who loved its dearest interests and we.- fares and through his extraordinary abilities and itt defatigable zeal and alliviry, had brought it to the present high pitch of greatness. Whatever might be alleged against him by his political opponents, he, for one, would always think and speak with gra titude of his superior merits; and such was the proud state of the country at the present mom.int, he would say of him, as the Romans said of Augus tus Ce,ar—He foetid Rome wood s and left it marble. The motion had, therefore, his warm ap probation and support. Mr. .1. H. ADDINGI'ON spoke shortly in fa von: of the motion ; but, in so low a tone, that we could not distinaly hear what he said. Mr. W. SMI Ili said, he was perfectly sensible of the disagreeable situation a man places himself in, who opposes a motion like the present ; but, however unpieas.tnt such a step might be, when duty imperiously imposed the task, he must comply with its didates. No man more sincerely than ' himself regretted the loss of the great and distin guished talents of the Right Hon. Gentleman, note no more—no man, he believed, held them in higher ' admiration ; he had attended Parliament during the greatest part of the ti:ne that Right Hon. 1 Gentleman bad been in office, and he had frequent ly attended to the display of his extraordinary abili ties, he might almost say, with awe and venera tion. He could not, however, agree to the present motion, hkause it was not in his power either to say or think, that these extraordinary talents had ulti mately been exerted for the benefit and advantage of the Country. He thought, that when that House was called upon to return thanks, or to vote honours to any particular individual, or to the memory I of any individual, for services performed, it was always understood, that those service, hail been attended with CICCetS, and thereby had contributed to the prosperity and welfare of the country; and this he could not bring himself to say, when speak ing of the services of the Right Hon. Gentleman, now no more. But, besidesohis, there is one word in the motion, that would make ilia oppose it, bad he no other ebjeflion to it. In one part of the mo tion, the Right Hon. Gentleman, deceased, is called " aa excellent statesman." If the House be called upon to address His Majesty to confer thanks of honour on the memory of the Right Hon. Gentle man, as " an excellent statesman," he knew of no other criterion, by which they could, with justice, form their judgment, but from steadily looking to the system which be had pus sued; and to col lect, fairly and impartially, what had been the consequences resulting from it. To take a re view of the state of the country, at the period when he came into power, and what it is at I the presert moment, would require much more time than the House could now possibly spare ; he must, therefore, on that subject, leave every Honourable Member to draw his own inferences, and his own i conclusions, and he mast adopt the same rule for himself. He then stood in that I louse as the repre sentative of a number of constituents, who had vo- Wismar, and without solicitation, called on him to aa in that capacity, from the uniform opposition he had always given to the system and measures of the Right Hon. Gentleman, and because thee did no think him " an excellent Statesman." 1-iow ' then could he loolc his constituents in the face, if be voted for a Motion so worded ? He gave the Hon. Gentleman, who brought forward the Motion, every possible credit for the honourable feelings by which he was aftuated, and for the very candid manner in which he had introduced it. He believed, be nay thinks the Right Hon. Gentleman " an excellent Statesman;" differing, however,with him, as it was his misfortune to do, he could no more give up his opinion to the HosaiiGentleman, than he could ask the Hon. Gentleman to acquiesce in his ; and, thus situated, he could not do otherwise than give his negative to the Motion. Mr. PITCHES spoke very shortly against the Motion. Sir It. BUY CON said, that . when he heard his Hon. Friend give notice of his intention to bring forward the present Motion, l,e thought were could be but one sentiment o n t h e su bject,' on either side, or in any part of the House, or of the country. He expeßed from the other side of the I louse. Via %rhea that great man was gone, oppositioo would be gone also. He had, however, been grievously disappointed ; and, to his great surprise, grind that the same system followed him beyond his mor tal existence. Lie was sorry to find, that so many Hon. Members in dust House refused to pay the tri bute of gratitude to that illustrious character, whose magnificent talents, while they retießed the highest honour on the country which produced them, had contributed so essentially to its interests and prosy, rity. That great man had strenuously and unre mittingly exerted himself in the we vice of his country, and it was an infinite consolation to him to reflea, that notv.iirlistanding every opposition, the immortal name of Pitt will live in it for ever. The Margins of DOUGLAS very much la mented that the present discussion had taken place ; because he could not agree to the motion, roar p re . viui on himself to tee upon it a silent negative. It was not stiFficient tei eiv. that rope!, m on e y. un,l even splen lid Wiens, atteched to Vie Sto r k se m. Gentleman, wow no more; the l los-e a.: loie o l to coot:der, at the same time, -ii hesher sho e tom., with all their dozeliog brioleneso had proved s er . viceaSla to. and promoted the devote interests 10 4 welfare of, the count's.. He eoeld not .agree, b e said, to the same honours belngdue to the memory .if the Right lion. Gentleman, as l'erliameot tvd r e, hen pleased to ai to that of hie illostr,ous !oth er . Fie would ask t , reeve c6.citsisider t!.e iiT 1.141:14.4 of the country S , 1 6 (lid Wilk t.., e n y e ok v „,„ , ort„ comparing that with what it i, now, t o s ae , whether the same honours were due to the son, as had been poid to the fatliere Whenever hoover, hail been voted by Parliament, for any services pro foe med, it was always coneiseered by there, andiold to be oar of the first grounds of their part ceedie z that such servic'es Oritild save heel snceessfao Would the immense crowds of people here loo o d to London, from Almost every corner of the United Empire. to vaitness the funeral °Oki - riles of the ith moreol naval he ro , who hail been so lately intetied, if he had lost the bottle of Ts ololieor, and there with a Ilri,ish fire- ? No man can suppose such on incomistency. No ; it was his cocoas which had added to the innionerable liturels he had anteco drostly and pies; i: oily acquired, whit-la hod stomprd an additional lustre on the courage otid charoat: of the naval defenders of the coutury ; and which ha I, at the same time, gives a deadly blow to the prOle and power of cur enterprising and implacable Joe. lie would not, at the present moment, advert to any topics which might tend to throw the siightest era sure on any port of the condo& of the Rigiit Ho. rtourable Gentleman whose memory was the ohjoo of the Motion. lie knew the sentiments of fat own constitueres, and he had sliewn his dory to them, by uniformly opposing those measures which the Right lion. Gentleman had so long and so unceasingly pursued ; and should he now fly in the face of all those, by voting for the present mo. ion, he would be very inconsistent indeed. He wished not to disturb the ashes be would walk over with reve. rence; and would not, therefore, advert to portice lar measures, but content himself with what hi; duty imperiously diaoted, and give his negative to the motion. Col. TA aLETON said, that he had frequently ailed in opposition to the measures of the Rotbt lion. Gentleman, who was the objea of the pre. sent motion, and cc hose loss he very much deplored; but as the chief objeaion so the motion seemed to be, that these honours snould be wi:bheld till the judg ment of the !louse was known, on the snbjea of b:s condu.l for the last six months—be, for one, was of opinion. that the last six months of his administra tion were the most brilliant of his life, and therefore he would vote for the motion. Lord TEMPLE said, be would trouble the House with very few wards indeed ; and, perhaps, if he reflea en the near relationship whi c h h a ; existed bet _n the Right Hornurable G e ntlem ao , now no mo . sad himself, it might be thought.!.: would have ailed a mute prudent part, by obsertre a profound silence ; but he could not prev:sl It :sit himself to adopt that line of conduct . It win well known to the House, that he had frequently opposed the measures of hi, Right Honourable Relation , nd particularly during the l at t er part of his Adulio tration ; but, nomitheronding that. he was alwaks truly sensible of his very superior abilities, 49101 CO4O not suffer the present motion to pass, without of a few words, in order to pay his poor, but sincere tribute of applause to three brilliant talents, with which the Right Honour able GenOeman deceased had been so abundantly endowed ; which, from the first moment of his entrance into puOlic lite. had been so zealously and atlively exerted for the service of his country ; the thorough cavil lion of which. induced him to give his vote is favour of the motion. Mr. WINDHAM spoke at considerable length against the motion. He took a teview of the se veral arguments urged in its support, as being only a tribune to departed talents of the greatest mag aitude, and of these which had urged the necessity. on such an occasion, of burying all animosities in a generous oblivion. If, he said, this were a question merely to pay tribute to splendid ta lents, he should be one of the last who would object to it. If there were any thing which could make him sot agree to the injunc tion or desire of burying animosities, it would only be, that he had no animosities to bury. This was, in his view of it, a question of feeling, and, even allowing it to be so, it behoved the House to consider, whether, at the time they were than consulting their feelings, they were not doing so at the expence of their public duty ? They were now engaged on a subject of the utmost impert ance, no less than that of an adjudication of the highest honours the country can pay to, or bestow on departed worth. H e w i s h e d, t h ere f ore , t l, e House to consider a little the nature of the. pre ceeding in which they were engage:l. What were they about to do ! To posy a tribute of opplatoe to, and to confer honours on, talents of the most splendid ki .d ; he would allow, employed for many you; in the service of the country. eithet in or out of office. Why, and on what ground is it, that this tribute was asked to be paid ?.--- He supposed the Ho s . Merrittere who supporte . . the motion meant to say, that these great ta lents had been exerted in such a was as to low proved essentially serviceoble, and, of a !van tage to the country. If so, it leads to the noose point as that of rewards voted to sbew the country's panto*, and to compensate those naval and mi litary heroes, whose valorous exploits, and whose pre-eminent genius and skill in their several professions, have achieved actions. which rerlossn'f ed to the glory, and increased the welfare of their country. This is a remuneration whice may be made; this is a measme which may've safely and wisely adopted ; because it corm t any one be austeken ; because it goes hi ne to the hearts of all. He who routs an enemy's army, or destroys his Rotes, deserves to he revetrd• ci, and there can be no hesitaticn in allot:Mr, bier the meed he has so elm Musly slow, ved, beotaer 0 ., one wiil be found to doubt either its propriety or its justice ; the circumstance itself is known to M. no one can be d eceive d by i t . I t i s not a t hi n g : 1 which teen could d,ffer ; on which one would oar one thing. and one anothee. Such actions lest to, and gratify, the general feekng ; as bo,' ! 4 0 tie gm; !q 1 iz th. thi th. , spl ep Pe lie asl nil to T st tr th be 3] , 1! Pr m G th lo