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it was proposed k o take further proceedings on this Bill, and on that day it was perfectly well known to every Member of this House, that the Penryn e Rill • wee .in ~ _that . state • the • other , _House •of Parliament in which it was probable, indeed it was cer tain, either that the elective franchise would be transferred to the adjoining hundred, and not to Manchester, or that the Bill would be rejected , altogether. I feel, Sir,, all the difficulties in which I am placed in mak king this part of my statement, as I cannot allude to what passed in another place where I have ceased to he • a member ; but I may say this without impropriety that my,Right Ilori. Friend was well aware, when lie came down to the Hottse on the !9th May, to what extent and in what degree, • and in- what.vards, I committed myself, by my declarations ou a former occasion.. ,I may.also say that it was then well known —to all those whom I, had then the happiness to call any colleagues, that the , discussion upon that Bill was one of this nature—that every Member, of the Governueent felt at liberty to take such a course, as.to him A ppeared best, hut—(Hear, hear)—further than this, Sir, I am not at liberty to. state. Upon the ,House" going into Committee .rny Hon. Friend, the, Member for: Hertford, - moved an amendment to the preamble of the Bill (which amendment was not according to any previons,prece• dent), net for admitting the hundred of Bassetlaw to participate in the, elective franchise ef East Retford, hut to establish that Hundred in the exclusive right of re turning the Iwo Membees..peetiouely 'returned by Retford. Now I Stated at that time, and I state now, that that was au entire anomaly in the history of the dealing of this House with its Hon. Members. My lion. Friend I don't believe a:rag prepared, nor do I conceive lie is so now, to s h ow h ow is envie machinery would work. How many people are there id this town rated at 20/. a-year, and bow was this Mayor oi ret2uning officer to be elected by the Aldermen—how, were t ,,,st to be sure that he was rated gc 40/. a . yeas ? The whole thing presented such an anomaly, as to he ore of the most extraordinary circumstances that was ever preserved: to t riarliament, • as the mode pf creating a new little county in the hundred of Nottingham,. and erecting in that county a right such as existed in no other town, annihilating all existing franchise in that town. The lion. Gentleman went on to say that, as soon as this proposal had been made by his Right Honourable Friend, his Right Hon. Friend observed, upon' the. differences tiret Appeared ; the arguments, however, of his Right Hon. Friend, adopted cc' er to establish his own ceosistency, actually destroyed nil possibility of -his (Mr. IL's) voting upon the same vend he had occupied. Every circiernetanre by which the Right Honourable Member was thus eon: Winded, slier the admission that the Penryn Bill was lost in the House of Lord?, kft his (Mr. Hitskisson's) position un tenable. A Noble Friend, ,c,ertainly without any personal or political hostility, said, " I claim, the vote of the Secretary of State for the Colonial Department, end 1 claim.it upon the very ground of his own consistency." Thus called upon to redeem a pledge, and the 'demand haVing beery rnatle by the Honourable 'genitive in that House, what altetwa:ia'e had be but to rise up in his place and acknowledge the pledge--(Hear, hear). He acknowledged the pledge, and h a ving gated that he had made use a-the words which his Noble Friend had adopted, be etterepael to show that the measure prop fir ed b y the Hon. Member Cue Hert fordshire was entirely novel in its charact, and deserved more mature coniideration. He wiehed _therefore the House to give time, if it should be the term of the H ouse, to consider whether it was possible to carry execution the machinery proposed by the Hon. Member. llis Right Hon. Friend ;a rising to make this short address, said—' 4 Jie sure You mark the difference between that I have said ono former ,occasion and the declaration now." The lienoureNe Gant. did not want this specific declaration 'made ; be theft and still felt -that the course adopted by kis Hon. Friend had .been straight-forward and consistent; but e v e ry Hon. Gentleman, would see that -in proportion as he upheld that consistency by any thing he could say, lie necessarily. Adopted the course of Voting in the Line adopted by his Right Hon. Friend. Therefore lit was to avoid the difficulty and pain of the situation in witich he was placed, more than in consequence of any importable.? attached to his conduct, that he proposed not to proreed to any vote upon the Rill. And he hoped he might he allowed to say, that if the course so natural for him to have adopted, and- to him so obvious for the Howie to have adopted under such rirteenestAncee, bad been adopted, whenever the. House came to a further discussion on this measure, no passible difference of opinion, as far as his character in the Executive.. Government was concerned, could have aritem whatever Kni he had taken. He pressed hie Honourable Friend tai give hie oeontenance, so delay hot he said .it was isnpossikle, and he could not ,withhold his support to -the Bill..• in consequence the Ho'` Se proeseded to a division, und. regarding his consistency' he cnu:. 4 nut do otherwise than give the vote he gave. — He knew bed been said by persons whose judgment and discretion he pa' id the greatest deference to, that he might. have sheltered his coneisteney under the plea that lie could not know the fate Of the ?tortla Bell'-e(Heer.)--But after all he had heird,lliA would have Iwo a subterfuge unworthy of hiinself.-e(CheerS.)—Almtni every Gent. had stated without any contradiction from any ,quarter contradiction being impossible, that the Bill was sirtilally, Wt. He had heard it from all—he had heard it from 4 13 Right Vim. Frierid, that he• coraddered as-no longer in existence.' The division took place, and the House ad *riled. He retired, but not without observieg the !oohs of , some, or without hearing, in theordinary whispe.re,expres. sinus respecting the course he had taken. He might ouster the impression 'of exaggerated fechuge, and scrutinizing his own' pretensions with a magnifying glass of too large power% have done that which, perhaps, 'otherwise be would not have done in the genie -manner. After having been engaged from fifteen to sixteen hours\ in the , discharge of public duty in Downing-street and in that ' House, lie went home aegl wrote that letter which he was new bound to say it would hove been better, in all probability, to have postponed. Respecting the cor respondence that had taken place, he felt a eteliracy in eome respects 'in attempting 'to read it, lest he elitailel lay open *to suspicione--(Cries of " read") --then he , would read it. In addressing the letter he should first read ' •to the Noble Duke at the head of his Majesty's Govern ment,: lie fill himself discharging nduty suck 0 was ins posed upon lanai in point of honour, and if he ;lid it with out Mature consideration, he had greatly to balletic the misfortune, • confessing thtt if he had -omitted writing that letter until the next rnort4og it certainly would ' have expressed More clearly and more captiously than it slid his feeliugs and sentiments; The litter waifs follows :-- (No. I.) Downing-street, Tuesday morning, 2 a.rei, - Mey gO. ray clear Duke,-`-After the vote which , in regard t o na y o wn consistency and personal character, I have found my self, from the course of this evt;ning's 'Ohne, Compelled to give on • the Fast Retford question, I owe it to you as the head of the Administration, and 'to Mr. Peel as the leader lase no tithe in afford-hag you , of the House of Ce immons, ay opportunity of plsicng my rove hi other bands, AS he) only means in my powe; of png the injury to the Kin Yes sea - v i ce Ivhic.b piny ensue • from appearance of disunion in his Majeety'! Coancils, however unfounded in reality, or however unimportant itf itself the question which has given rise to thit appeOatice.' Regretting the oeceetrity of troubling yen With thi s come tranication, Believe. me, my dent Poke, ever truly host' s , sine • W. HUSKISSON. (gd) • f writin This letter h e took the peecautiort Og upon " private and confidential," 'which he &la. He then inclosed it' in, a cove r, and wrote th e same Trott upon • that cover, , Addressing it to the Duke cf a nd sending itsealed up in a eebiriet box Apsley 'Renee. It was, as he said before, wr itten hastily, arid under strong feelinga that no act of his should for aznornent he thOu hound ght -intended to embarrass the' Government, hitt he was in honour to make the' communication; and XeatUl if it were not lett to the members of anyGovertimatt t 9 have personfil communication between each °thee unreeenvedly,by letters, to b e c onstrued with as little of minute verhal cOti-; eisne as if the message were eueeeyed verbally, it w,as:quite impossible that a Session could pass without the frequent oc currence of circumstances of this kind. had happened to him to have made cosnmunications of this eeitore before, unattended by any consemeesce calculated to imizede the pablic business. He reznembereli when in May, 1822, the late Lord Londonderry moved the following resolu time; —" That his Majesty Ise enabled to rigreet exchequer bills, to an amount not exceeding t,000,000/., to be, issued to cominissioaers in Great. 1117440 3 to he by them ad . vanced under certain regulations and restricaloos,whenever she average price of wheat shall he under ,60s. D er quarter, u p,;n such corn the gr owth of flee united 4ngdom, as. s h a ll ,be deposited in fit and proper warehooa e se , ; Upon that noes; ion he had opposed his Noble Friend'. resolution, which wee subseq uentl y abandoned; bet on the next morning, afte.r Le had so given it hie stroncst oppo sition, he did then what lie had done ou the late oc casino, hut without being exposed to . a similar re- , a alt.—(Hear, hear, hear, and laughter.)—About one o'clock on the TueSday, when lie had at two o'clock of the' same morning written the letter which lie had just read to the Duke of Wellington, his Noble Friend Lord Dudley had called upon him .0A official business at the Colonial Office, which was materially connected with his department. Something occurred at this inter View which induced liim.to say to his Noble Friend, that on the night before he had been guilty of a little act of insubor elivation, and Led wtitten upon the subject to the Duke ~_~~ of Wellington. During this interview it so happened that tke answer of the Duke arrived, couched in the following terms :—.- (No. 2.) London, May 20, 1828. My dear Huskisson..—Your letter of two this morning, which I received at ten, has surprised me nine!), and has given rue great concern. - I have considered it. my duty to lay it before the King. Ever your's, most sincerely, (Signed) WELiINGTON. The Right Hon. W. Huskiison. Upon Earl Dudley's reading this letter, he said the Duke must have mistaken Mr. Hnskisson's in tenthni,_and that he (Ea& Dudley) would go instantly to the Duke,: and explain the mistake. Earl Dudley ac cordingly Waited on the Duke, and on his return stated that he had not met with the success that he had anti c i.; pated, and .that the Nike said, in reference to Mr. Hue-' kisson's letter, " there is not, there cannot be a mistake, and (we understood Mr. Huskisson to say, for he dropped his voice just-atk this instant) there shall not be a mis take."—(Loud laughter. )=He (Mr: Ildiskisson) was not aware that the Duke of Wellington knew what had pawl! -in the.. House of "Commons !on the preceding evening, and having sent for his Honourablo Friend- the` Secretary for War --(Lord Palmerston), he asked him to wait on the 'Noble Duke, and, if he was not al. ready aware, to apprise him of what hail taken place in the House of Commons, and of the course he Huakissoid) felt himself positively called upon to pursue. Lord Palmerston waited on the Doke of Wellington accordingly, but the Duke appeared to view his (Mr. H.'s) letter of Tuesday morning as an absolute and positive resignation; and thought it impossible that it could be received! otherwise.—(Hear ! and laughter. ) Thus, in a few hours after receiving the letter, without asking whether that letter was- private and confidential, the Noble Duke laid it before his Majesls; as a positive and abso lute resignation. !Ittuline, this course had been adopted, by the Noble-Duke, he (Mr. H.) thought it necessary to write this explanatory letter (No. 3.) . Downing;street, May 20, I S2B, half-past 6 p.m. My dear Duke ---having understood from Lord'lludley and Lord Palmerston, that you had laid my letter of last night before the King under a different impression from that which it was intended to convey,. I feel it dne both to you and to myself to say, that my object in - writing-that letter was, not to expres4 any intentions - of'my own, but to relieve you from any delicacy - which you might feel to wards me, if you should think that the interests of his Ma jesty's service would be prejudiced , by my remaining in of6e, after giving a vote,• in respect to which, from the tutu whio-the latter part - of the debate had taken, a sense of persOnal honour left me no alternative. Believe rue, my dear Duke, your's very sincerely, (Signed) W. HUSKISSON. When he wrote this letter, he was actuated by the same in tention as that which had dictated his first -letter, not to throw any obstruction in the way of the Administration, buf to do away with any difficulty which might oppose his (Mr. Huskisson's) removal from ihe Cabinet, if that should seem fit to the head of his Msjesty's ,'Government. To this•second letter the following reply was written by the Duke of Wellington; It was dated Tuesday evening, his wag not received by bins (Mr.' Huskisson) until the follow ing mosnin (No. 4.) London, May 20, 18213. My dear Huskisson,—l have received your letter of this evening, I certainly did not understand your letter of two o'clock this morning as 'offering me any option; nor do I ;:ederstand the one of this evening as leaving me any, ex cepting* that of submitting myself and his Majeety'st Go vernment to' the necessity of soliciting you to remain in your office, or of incurring the loss of your valuable as sist:llWe to his Majesty's service. However sensible I may b e of thi s lay, I eta convinced that in these times any loss is better than that of elieraCter, 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 Acene of last night:, of the extent of which you could not but hive lu'vii eeneible when you' thought proper, as a remedy for it, to send me the eller of ", placing your office in other hinds." Ever, my dear Huskisson, Your's most sincerely,' (Signed) . WELLINCITON, The Right Hon. W. Huskisson. When he received this letter from his Grace, taking it to be an answer to that which had been sent by him (Mr. 1-lu.kisson) to retrve a poviblp misunderstanding, which he then thongtit, a nd which he must say he still•thought, exited in the mind of the Noble Dole with regard to his (Mr. licsl;isson's) first letter, it was rather a strange pyre. —Meer, hear.;., —His Grace appeared, in the first inf.-lance, to have acted upon th,e understanding that he '(Mr. Hus kisron) had left him no opthin; and, in the next instance, he sea* to have taken up the idea that he (Mr. Huskis eon).had- copteMplated that which would have been un worthy in the highest degree,—that he; in fact, solicited to be•allowed to remain in office, with a loss of public . character, which, as his Grace truly observed, was the foundation of public confidence. How was it possible for the ;fable Duke to arrive at this conclusion ?'. ( fond Fries of " h..Kr, bear.") He ,(Mr.Huskisson) could perfectly well underatapAl ouch conduct, if he had :said to his cal leagues and" to the Otilce of Wellington, " I have sustained a grievance from ,you, arid unless yen redress it, I shall 'si gn ," and ,if such a grievanee were made the ground .of h.i.4 removal ft ow office by those same eolle;gues. He could pereegtly understand the impression which was gonyey ed in the secorol4,stter of the Noble Duke, if he (%lr. Huse hisson) had beppenerlio have entertained a difference of opi. Ilion with the other membeo,of hie Majesty's Cabinet upon some important subject. and if he. hj.d said; " Unless you come over to iey opinion, I will resige/' ;,?..nd that upon. their refusing to make the concession, he should still con sent to remain in offi c e..,,,,(llear.) But what was . it he said to the Noble Duke ? " i adioaii :hat I have done that at which you may take offence ; and if you do, Jam ready to pay the price." What he (Me..HuSkiseuo) bed done m ight h ‘ e ponsidenAl as a wrong by the Noble Duke, hitt. not such a ttrrg.W: as to induce him to require the reaigna'. don of the individnel w.kp had so acted.—(Hear, hear.) — His (Mr. Hutkissoles) first let+.er was written contiden. tially to the Noble Duke, and for r4owg instructions under tleeriecuinstancee. .It was couched in those kip' s of re spect av4e3.e.h. he should always evince towards One whe 4 4 1 rendered sugb :49port,ant services to the country, and whose character had in to k.-'Fame public property ; and what ever might have been the ,toe of his Grace's reply, and though he (Mr. Haskisson) eoris.Wered himself injured by that reply, lie trusted the House would .ipe;) ,tpet in his an ; swot., Which be should now read, lie hid avoiel4 Oiiy.;.)ljni ve)aieb eaott,l he construed into an angry or an improper tone towards tili, - ; Noble Duke at the head of his Majesty's Government,-,(Hear, hp 4 .1. .) . On Wednesday morning he received the Noble Dalcis let,ter, and returned to it :th e 4. Wowing sue we : (No. 5.) I Colonial Office, May 21, 182f4. My dear Vie:,--Iti justice to myself, I cannot acquiesce for a moment in-thocestruction which your letter of last night puts upon my conduct., You cannot-refuse to me the rigid of knowing the mo tives of my. own actions, and I solemnly 4,eclare that; in hcib joy letters, I was actuated by one and the same fee s ling. It was stilly. this :—That it was not for me, but Gw yox, as the head a he Government, to decide how far my vote Made it expedient to .I:cmove me from his Majesty's service. I felt that I had no alternaktyp, consistently with personal honour (in a difficulty not of my oW,ki ,seeking or creating), hul to give that vot e ; that the question je"?;ite.elif w as one of minor impaytance ; that the disunion was iwoor.e in ap pearance than k. ,reality; but I also felt that, possibly, ybn , might take a 'different le* 'of it; 'and that, in case you should, I ought Lor4Liverpooi) (a I tos relieve d i t eee 'ungf i l a a s 4 im y il d a i r ffi o ci c i c l a ty si , o a n ei s s v i i ii th g out ofyersoir.;;,4l consideration towards me, :fnciccWiag upon a, step .to whin you might find it your - publiZ: duty to rectal on the occilsiqp. , _.. I t was wilier this Onpres4o# Sops that I wrote to yoll persuaded g9 l M I ; retwu from the House pf Commons. immediately upon my If you hsd not u s i e i , : o ci n in d. ce l i e v t e re ti r t , i 4t t e, ; :p, , :ess i 9 ' n , 0 well' us arrogance of expecting the purpOrfof my his Majesty's Government should subu e it c : :;/•,Pasity of soliciting me to remain in my , 04. 1 . 4 n ot stippose me guilty of the y " o t u h rie at h co: t p:i t d he office." or do 'me thet*,,;!:', of believing that I could be c of placing you in 0 ,. .e alt.iviative of choosing be..: "Paiii is the foundation of 'pub. it°iiininsitYratsieornno7en(ep'articlteheol: are) and the ritit y i: 4:: tian A e d e and the loss to raater, which, : I agree : V,i,t r l) rib sic C'o,4d.f.nge• • intimate' tp me, . If, understan.ding my coinnlP:PiVOon 441 intended it to be understood, you had, in any liqty, either that the:occurrence, however unfertunate, was scot sue of sufficient moment to renl Which I bad der It necessary Inc you, on public oTounds to act in the manner in ci.ii , , ., . as sumed that yon possibly might think it necessary, or that you were tinder that necessity, in either caselhere would have been en end of the matter. In the first supposition, I should have felt that ihaddrifi:e what, in honour and fair ness towards you, I was bound to do; but it never could have entered my imagination that I had claimed or received any sacrifice whatever front you, or any member of bid Majesty's Government. On the other hand, nothing can be further from my 41- tention than to eitptEir4 an opinion that the occasion was not one,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. Ido not, therefore, complain; but I cannot allow that ray removal shall he placed on any . other ground. I cannot allow that it was my own act ; still less can I admit, that when I had no otherintention than to relieve the question on which yon had to decide from any personal embarrassment, this step, on my part, should be ascribed to feelings the very reverse of those by which alone I was actuated, either towards you or his Majesty's Government. _ . Believe me to be, my dear Duke, Your's very sincerely, (Signed) W. HUSKISSON. It was in that spirit that he Appealed to the candour of the Noble Duke—it was with such feelings he was actu ated in addresaing nis Grace; and to the foregoing letter he received a ciunmunication . ctiukhed in the following words : (No. 6.) Louden, Aloy 21, 1828. . _ My &Ili Musltisson.--In consequence of your last letter, 1 feel it to he aecessary to recall to your receection the circumstances under which I received your letter of Tues ilay morning: . , It is addressed to me at two o'clock in tne morning, im mediately after a debate:lnd divlsitni in thellouse of CoMmons. It informs me that you lose no time in affording me an Op portunity of placing your office in other hands, as the only' means in your power of preventing atl injury to the King's service, which you describe. It concludes by " regretting the necessity for troubling me with this communication." Could I consider this in airy other light than as a formal . tender of the resignation of your office, or that I had any altermitiiie but either to solicit you to remain in office con trary to your s:Jtse of duty, or to submit your letter to the King? If you had called on me the next morning afteryour vote and had explained to me in conversation . what bad pas*d in the House of Commons, the character of the communi cation would Lave been quite different —( Hear, hear, awl laugliter.)--Might not the Noble Duke have sent for him (Mr. lauskis , on)?=--(Loud cheers, and cries of hear, licar.)-alle did not know what reference that had to the meaning of his letter, nor could he see what difference there was between a written communica tion marked' " private and confidential,'" and stich a con versation as the • Noble Duke alluded to.—(Loud cheers ) —But to proceed with his Grace's letter a-- and I might have felt myself at liberty to discuss itaawhole subject with you, and freely to give an opinion upon any point connected' with it. But I inust still think that if I had •not considered a letter, couched in the terms in which that letter is• couched, and received 'tinder the circumstances under which I a'eceived it, as . a•tiniler of tesignation, and had not laid it before the King, I should have expoied' the King'i Government anil`myself to very painful misconstruc tions. My answer to your letter will' ave informed you that it surprised me much, and that it gave rile great eon-. cern. I must:consider, therefore, the resignation of your office as your own act, and not as mine. Ever youras most sincerely, (Signed) ' • WELLINGTON. The Right Hon. W. Huskisson. He did not know.what further step there remained far him (Mr. thiskisson) to take, after the Noble puke had stated that he had felt himself bound lay a sense of duty to lay hie resignation before the Kirig. The House would bear in mind that all this had arisen from a misconstruction of his (Mr. Huskisson's) first letter-Ltliat against such rniscon struetion he (Mr. Pluskie.son) had again and again remon strated ; but that, in spite of all, the, Noble Duke still ad hered to his original misunderstanding on the subject—" I will bold him fast to - it," said his. Grace, " he sha'nt escape=-and I will bind hits down to the resignation"— (Cheers.) —He (Mr. Huskisson) received this letter 'from his Grace early on Thursday morning, the 22d, and seeing that his Grace used the words " I must consider the resig nation of your office as your own act, and not as mine," and that be appeared to consider his (Mr. Huskisson's) let ter as a final and complete resignation, he (Mr. Huskisson) considered that the Whole proceeding Was at an end.— (Hear, hear.)- Under that impression, he only waited to deliver up the credentials of his office to those hands frotn which he had received them. lie had, however, one great object of solicitude ; as soon as he knew that the 4rst letter had been considered as a resignation, and hav ing reason to know that his Majesty had been advis ed so to receive it, and having received po commands on the Thursday, he thought it necessary to take steps to show to his Majesty that be had not acted in : any manner unbecoming the good faith which he was bound to preserve to 1111 colleagues.—(hear, hear, hear.)_-. As soon as he knew front the communications_of a few of his, Noble Friends, and from what occurred on Tuesday, his first letter was cOrisidr, i - rd by the Duke of Wellington as A • a final resignaCion, 449 1441r.1Pg roason to know besides, that in laying it before, the King, his,,Qrace advised hie Majesty to consider it in the same point of view, he (Mr. Huskis son) felt it his duty, as one of his Majesty's servants, to so licitan audience of the King.--(Hear,.hear.). That he did on 'rttestlay t and on the Thursday following he had recei ved no commands from his ,Majesty to wait upon him-- Neither on the Thursday nor, Friday had he : received any snail commapds, He was still conscious that in the stepwhich lie 44 Wien he liarl.been actuated by no desire to put his advice upon hit Majesty, or to make au unworthy ap peal to the King against the advice which 41 been given to bias. These were not the naetit'as which induCci him to solicit that audience ; but lie felt that when it had been stated to his Majesty that he had written a letter on Tues day containing his complete resignation, and when he athild tell his Sovereign that it Inftl been written with no such in.- tention,aaawben he weala have informed the King that that letter was marked.private and confidential, and thatthe sup posed resignation. of hie office was not accompanied by those expressions of gratitude for the favours which he laid received at his Majesty's hands,—that the lettee in question . did nut contains-tangle exaresaion of regret at withdrawing front the service of his Sovereigra—that, in fact, there was nothing in it of those genuine feelings which it became a Minister upon such an occasion, and towards such a King, attewhe should have stated suclicircurnstances, he (Mr. Huskisson) helieved that he•should have set the Royal mired right upon the subject,. and that lie should have made his Majesty conscious that •he (Mr- Huskissual) was not forgetful of the confidence with which he had been honoured while in his Majesty's service.—(Hear.) — c ' tin Friday J was informed (continued the Right Honourable Gentleman) by icy Noble Friend late at the bead of the Foreign Department, that the Duke of Wellington did not consider the matter at ap awl a a -that lie said I was a man of sense.'—(Loud cheers aud laughter,) —I am obliged to reprat the plirase—(Laughter);._, 4 and that as such, I well knew what must be done in p i Aer to settle the whole matter and brin4 it to an e a.? '!_...(kmgliter.)—The Noble- Duke might have i given some nstructiaaa 9T hints to that effect; but he contented himself with ethiveyiaig : aim (Mr, Huskis son) that be was a roan of . sense, and oifered not a single Alfggestion. AS, then, he (Mr. Iliaskisaan) could not count Atporit ad:,lF:e. front that quarter, lie was' thrown back upon that quality for wlaiall it appeared the Noble Duke gave him credit, and, puttiag iatp rauisition what little sense he might possess, it struck Imo - that thoagb he was still ready, to explain, he had exhatisted all the niraes aa sit- planation iii trying to set the Noble Duke right. (Cheers apd laughter.) Froth the first the Noble Duke' would not be 34 Fight-,throughout he persevered ,in interpreting what hi nieitay griutiffteif from all anxiety on his (Mr. Huakieson's) part not t.a I>e wiNt4ep i - tgp.q, ipt9 a positive 'and absolute resignetion ; and in the entire aoraeapaadepaa not a step seemed to be Made towitrils 'bringing the I MP Duke's tnind to a right understanding On the matter. der these circumstances, what further ptoceedings.,could be e gonqived necessary to complete his (Mr. Huskisson 'a) retirement foal e Noble Duke suppose that 'ate (Ma fluskissen) was intened • to 0,7.7 r, volitietl laindanan'a buff for the•amusement of the deta r ialcircaeta aid that be groped his . way in the dark, those arountribti Noble Dttt pight he indulged with a laugh at his awkward tumhies?•:-.4-dreaa.e:) As he did not wish to exhibit hiineelf in sue; a character, he let .tie r ; matter stand as it was. -- faritaal atke Foreign 50- r:, C ,e h ta e rT ers ) . ) cail O ed n kw tjiat I was 11 . 4 te,nde4 4.141 t ha should have the honour of an a,t'."ltetacc BfajeistY, - 04 e ;tasileea j excluded from his Majesty during the five days which Laid 4apci - d - {corn the comMeneement of this transaction. He was sure that Li k e opior A zi,f the canna try would be with him, .in thinking there was, updeF such circumstances, no other way for lain (Mr. Hus kisson) to act, than that milli& lie had adopted.--(Hear.) During the interval which had elapsed since he had received the'aeatee dated the 2 1 st, from the Duke of Wel lington, in which Ilia Grata; daTI. declared his (Mr. Hua kisson's) resignation as final:and compleae, lie had had no communication with his Grace. ''During those.two days no atria was taken to fill hie place, from relish it seemed ex pedient to remove him ; and it was then conveyed to hiin that the proceeding was . not as yet at an end. But hisVoide Friend, the foreign secretary, would not draw him into the t cir ow te r . ds_ W him liat ( e A v i e r r . m u i t g is h k t i. b 6 e r t i h ), Might,of the conduct purs ued be considered as confortnah!e tab ,11 % ,, va l s 1,4 s a t g ir e e s o tl f iat ti i i t e c c ou i4il al s n e o r_ t Bear, hear, and. cheers.) Being thus eyented from laying his reasons in person before his sovereign, lie was driven to the alternative of addressing the Duke of Weliinbrton himself such a letter as he wished to lay before Ids Sovereign ; lie accordingly atlar,F,sed to 11111•Graee following letter : (No. 7.) Downing-street, 25th May, 1828. My dear Duke,—On Tuesilay last I wrote to the King to solicit an audience. His Majesty has not yet been pleAsed to grant use this honour. In the expectation (not unnatural for me to entertain in the situation which 1 hold) of being afforded an opportu nity of waiting upon his Majesty, I have deferred acknow ledging your letter of the . 21st, which passing by altogether all that is stated in Mine of the same 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 alreadi given you on this 'subject. Not denying that my first •letter might be capable of the construction . whieh you put upon it, I would ask you whether it t he usual, after a construction has been from the.first moment explicitly dis avowed, to persist that it is the right one? It being, how ever, the construction to which you adhere, I must assume, as youlaid the letter before his Majesty, that you advised his Majesty upon . ' it, and that his i%lajesty is, therefore, under the same,:' Miiiipprehensibn n 'as yourself of what I meant ; the mere especially, as I have no means of know ing, whether any subsequent letters have been laid before his Majesty. It was for the purpose of setting right any 'erroneous impression on the Royal' mind that I sought to be ad:nit tett, as soon as possible, into his Majesty's presence. I was then, and am still, most anxious to assure his Ma jesty, that nothing could have been further from my inten tion, than that the'letter in question should have been at all submitted to his Majesty,—to make known to his Ma jesty the circumstances and 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 deli cate and confidential nature, when it is wished to keep the subject as much as possible confined to the respective par ties) of marking the letter "private and confidential :" that I understood that this letter, an marked Specialty to guard its object, had been, without previous communica tion of any sort With me, in respect to the transaction re ferred to, _but not explained in the letter itself, laid before his Majesty, as conveying to the foot of the Throne my po sitive resignation. I should further' have td'iltate to his Majesty the great, pain and concern which I felt at finding that a paper should have been submitted to his Majesty, and described to Lim as conveying mrresignation of the Seals, in a form so unusual, and .with a restriction so unbecoining to wards my Sovereign at is Implied in the''words " private and confidential ;" that in a necessity so painful (had I felt Such a necessity) as that of asking his Majesty's permission to withdraw from his service,' my first anxiety 'would have been to lay my reasons, in a respectful, but direct, commu nication from' myself at hie'Majosty's feet; but that,* most certinly, in whatever mode conveyed, the uppermnst'feel.. ing of my heart would have been to have accompanied it with those expressions of dutiful attachment and respectful gratitude which I owe his Majesty for the many and uni forin proofs of confidence and kindness with which he has been graciously pleased to honour me since I have helttihe Seals' of the Colonial Department " If I had been afforded an opportunity of thus reljeving myself from the painful position in which I stand towards his Majesty, I Should then have entreated of his Majesty's goodness and sense of justice US permit a letter, 'so impro per for toe to have written (if it could have been in my contemplation that it would have been laid before his Ma jesty as. an act of resignation) to be withdraws. Neither should I have concealed from his Majesty my regret, con sidering the trouble Which has unfortunately occurred, both to his Majesty and his Govefnment, that I had not taken a different'thOde of doing what, for the reasons fully stated in nsy letter of the 21st, I: found myself bound iii honour to do, so as to have prevented, perhaps, the misconception arising out of my letter, written immediately after the debate. I have now stated to you frankly, and without reserve, the substance 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 w'ho have a right to prefer a Claim to be admitted to his Royal presence, I am the last who, in a matter• relating to myself, would press that claim in a manner unpleasant to his Majesty's wishes or inclinations. I bow to them with respectful de ference, still retaining; however, a confidence, founded on, the rectitude 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 pf my office in consequence of my having incurred his Ma jesty's personal displeasure. Believe me, my dear Duke, your's very sincerely. (Signed) W. HUSKISSON. His Grace the Duke of Wellington, K.G., &C. &c. &c. That . letter was carried to Apsley House at five o'clock I Sunday afternoon. .At half-past seven o'clock ou the same evening, he received the following letter from.the Duke of Wellington :,7••• (No. 8.) London, May 25, 1828.. 11Iy,dear Huskisson,—lt is with great concern that I in form you that , I have at last attended his Majesty, and have received his instructions respecting an arrangement to fill your office. I sincerely, regret the lois of your . valuable assistance in the arduous task in which lam engaged: - Believe me ever your's most sincerely, (Signed) WELLINGTON. The Right Hon. W. unskisson. (Loud laughter.) This letter, as he had stated, was received on Sunday even ing. • His (Mr. Huskisson's) letter, written at two o'clock on Tuesday morning, had been taken up hastily, and on the moment had been construed into an actual resignation. No explanation was asked for, but the letter was forthwith transmitted to his Majesty. -The explanation afterwards offered would not be received, "and yet five clays were suf fered. to elapse before au arrangement was entered upon for the purpose of filling . .the office which he lied occupied. Where was the courtesy in all this proceeding ?—(Cheers.) —Why such breathless haste incatching at his letter, when five days are let to pass over before his successor is thought of?—(Cheers.)--Such Were the facts. After his letter had keen so hastily seized upon as an actual resignation, he was not a little surprised, at the end of five days, to receive this letter from the Duke of Wellington. With respect to the letter which he (Mr. .Huskisson) addressed to the Duke, for the purpose of being laid before the King, he forwarded it by his Noble Friend, the Foreign Secretary :h.it was left at Aspley-house at five o'clock : it. was. subsequently sent back to him unopened, and so returned to Mtn (Mr. Hoskisson,) His (Mr. Itluskisson's) name was on, the, back of it, and he had sent it to Lord Dudley, as the proper channel for conveying it to the Noble Duke. It was re ceived at Apsley-house at five o'clock. It had .been al ready intimated to him (Mr. Huskisson) by his Noble Friend, the Foreign Secretary, that .up to two o'clock on Sunday was allo:yed whim to make whatever communica tUm he had to mike to the Government. It appeared, then, that the Noitle Duke, feeling that th.s communica tion bad not come within the time prescribed - and intended, conceived that he could not answer it, and accordingly re turned it unopened. It had come too late ; the clock had 04)4 !...(Cheers.)-- . -On obtaining the information, he (Mr, IWkissort) wrote to, the Duke of Wellington, begging that he wool(' do him the boiloqr to open his letter, which he forwarded to his Grace throogh Lord Dudley. The following was the note with which he accompauied the letter . . , . • (No. 9- ) P9Wo l ,4loitreet. ft p. 25th May, 1828. ly dear puke,--I t orti pndiey has just sent to nR, un opened, my letter to you, which j forwarded to Apsley house about five .',clock this afternoon.. This letter was written as soon as I was given to under stand by Lord Dudley, who called here after an interview with you this morning, that his Majesty had not signified ai.-4 intention of granting me the honour of an audience. No Other mole, Aprefore, remaining open to me of enn 4eying 'iny sentiments . td the ad4ress myielf to you, for the purpo , e of bringing beinie his Majesty, in the shape of a written conimunicathin, what I am prevented from stating to his Majesty in person. Y feel con den; that you will not deny me this favour, L inii P. 41 Wig IN aatifli.dl;ylllB eor4ata of my letter (which I now return), that in writing it, nothing WO further from my intention than to Intrude myself beteen you and the syrangements which, upon my'removal from Office (for siach f 4a,ve considered xlie yesultof our correspondence since your letter of 41,01'4 4), you have received his ISlaiesty!S in structions to make. " Your letter, communicating this fact, reached me about half-past seven this evening. I thank you for the inlorma tion, and fur the kind manner in which you advert to any feeble asJistance which I may have been able to give to your Administration, as well as for the expression of the concern With which you have advised his Majesty to place my office in other hands.—Believe me to be, my dear puke, Ever your's very sincerely, (Signed) W. HusmssoN. The letterf was 'thus returned to the . Duke o Wellington, opened by him, and laid before the ring. The next day his (Mr. Huskiasim's)SuccesSOr was appointed,'—the bat ries. was now removed,—and on Monday be was admitted to the audienee.—(Hear, hear.) —He could only say that he. was received on that occasion by his Majesty with the most gracious condescension and kindness : in such a manner indeed, as afforded a gratifying -and consoling proof to him that his poor services were most favourably regarded by his Sovereign. So much personal kindness was then exhibit ed to him, that he could. only. now express his sorrow that it was no longer in his power to give the aid of his feeble talents and exertions to the service of his Majesty. He, should always feel proud of •the reception which his Ma,.. 'jest) , had given him upon that occasion. After he returned, from the audience, he received the following letter from the Duke of Wellington : (No. 10 ) London, May 26, 1828. My dear Huskisson—l have received your letter of yes terday, accompanied by another letter r from you dated also yesterday, which I had returned to Lord Dudley, under the impression that ought not to open it without your previous consent, upder . the circumstances that existed at ; the time tliat I received it. I have laid both before the King. In answer I have, only to repeat that I considered your letter of the 20th as a, formal tender of the resignation of your office; and that .the_cirentostance of its Leing marked " priVilte and con- . fidentiql," ,did not alter the character of the letter, or re lieve niri frOm the painful duty, of communicating its con tents to his Majesty, as I did in person. You:'' subsequent letters did not, according, to my under.. standing of them, convey any disavowal of your intention to tender your resignation. I laid• them before his Ma jesty, and my answers • to thetn;andcommunicated to Lord Dudley that I had done so. The King informed me, I think on Wednesday the 21st, that you bad desired to have, an audience of his Majesty ; and that he intended to receive you on the day but one 'after. I did not consider it My duty to advise his Majesty to receive you at an earlier period. It is scarcely necessary for me to observe, that your letter to me of the 20th was entirely your own act, and wholly unexpected by me. If the letter was written hastily and inconsiderately, surely the natural' course was for you to withdraw it altogether, and thus relieve me from the posi tion iu which, without any fault , of mine, it had placed me--compelling me either to accept the resignation which. it tendered, or to solicit you to icoutinue to hold your office. This latter step was, in my opinion, calculated to do me personally,and to the King's Government, great disservice ; and it appeared to me that the only mode by which we 'could be extrieated from the difficulty in which your letter had plaeed us, was that the withdrawal of your letter should be your spontaneous act, and • that it should be adopted without delay. The interference of his Majesty, pending our correspon dence, would not only have placed his Majesty in a situa- tion in which he ought not to be placed in such a question, tut it - Wilithiliae subjected me to the imputation that that interference had taken place on my suggestion, or with my connivance. . , _ I (lid not consider it my duty to advise his Majesty to interfere in any manner whatever. His Illajesty informed me this day that he had written to you this morning, appointing au audience in the course of the day. Believe me, ever your's, most sincerely. (Signed) WELLINGTON. Right Hon. W. Husasson. . . Now, as he had already stated, he only wanted justness and a fair representation. Ile was considered to have made a formal resignation, though be had never intended any such thing;. and he received an acceptance just as formal as his resignation was supposed to be. He ought, perhaps, to state, that he had certainly heard rumours that be had with drawn what had been called his resignation ; and, hearing this rumour from so many quarters, it came aersss his Mind, that lie was expected (which was never told him) that he should dO 'what he had not done—recall what was called his resignation. Now, if it were ever intended that he should recall a resignation which he bad never made, — that he should admit of a misconstruction which he not only never did admit, but which he had protested,—it was.l intended that lie, should adant that: his explanation was totally unfounded, and lay open his character and conduct to the most injurious suspicions. Such conduct .could, pot have been expeeted of him in that place; but the underAand ing would have been, that he had tendered his resigna tion, and then recalled it. He was addressing a society of gentlemen, - and he appealed to them, i f it were possible that he could have taken these steps, what would have been said of him if he bad? What would have been said of him but that he was no longer a fit prison to hold a place. in his Majesty's councils? Could he, under such. circumstances, • have discharged. the duties of his office faithfully to the country, and with a due regard to his own character? . He might have continued to attend the Cabinet, but could he have concealed from himself the nate of abject degradation into which he had fallen? No, fur lie should have been constantly reminded of it ; be must have read it in the looks of those around situ as clearly as if it had been expressed in the strongest characters, and conveyed in the most powerful language.--(Cheers.) If such bad been his . conduct, be should have deserved to be expelled for ever from any honour able . post. Nay, he should have been compelled to re linquish at last what had now been taken away. from him— the power, the rank, and ,the emoluments of office. These were gone; but he had preserved his self approbation, he had preserved his personal honour, lie bad preserved his pub • liccharacter, and he. bad not forfeited his claim to the support of his personal and political friends.--(Cheets.) Would this have been the case if he had adopted the other line of conduct? Should he then have retained, what he did now retain, the power of still continuing, with untarnished character, to bestow zealous attention on the public interests of the country :—(Cheers.)—To win and to wear this power was, fortunately, in this country, not the exclusive privilege of any particular class of per sons, however powerful. It was his birthright as an Englishman—not being a Catholic—(Loud and continued cheering)—and in the exercise of that birthright he would continue to deservethe approbation of his fellow-country men.—(Cheeri.)--He began by stating,—he was really sorry to detain. the House at so great length.--(Hear, hear) —he began by stating that it was not for him to account for the motives which induced his expulsion from office. When the present Administration was formed by the Noble Duke, he . (Mc. ; Huskisson), contrary to the advice of several of .his Mends; consenter,. to take+ a share in that Administration. He did so exclusively on public grounds. When he considered that the offer which was made to him was made jointly to others who had formed a part of the late Administration,—when he reflected that the policy which he adopted was perfectly similar to that of his friends who were to be associated with hips,—when he considered what important departments of the state were committed to their charge, when,, also, he had himself received certain conditions, —he did think that, as a public man, he was bound to remain in the ,King's, service, and he did also think that by so continuing in the anxious. mighty ous. nfluence of i King's service, he should find the bes t c hance of forward ing and upholding those measure s and principles i ti 3 f ut p l u e b t li i c t policy to_ which he was known to b e attached , —for the eh etwtas known blind t i to th l to be Let it not , b e sup be posed that with the experien ce of the last 12 months he was o f lVi o which opposed supposed l tit lieh: was blind to this. - And, lie ivould ask, had these in fluences, powerful as he knewthem to be, again become pre dominant hear. )_-Had it been given distinctly to be understood, that the time was now come when it was no lotiger possible to obtain the assistance of those who joined the Noble Duke during the struggles of the last sea sion, if he (Mr. Huskisson) still formed a part,of this Ad-. ministration ?—(1-lear, hear,) When he looked at the transactions of the last and present Session,.-,-when he saw ji,ow this incideht, which regarded himself had been caught hold of,---he was bound to say, that it appeared to him that,, in order to obtain the co-operation Of those who had so sup ported the Ntkle Duke it was necessary that he (Mr. H.), should he removed.:,;(llear, hear,). this were neces sary, he must say . that • it would have been much more sa-* tisfactory to him to have been told that it was 'necessary— ; to haVe been told . " Such is the dislike to your principles, and measures,--such the apprehension of . the views you espouse, , --such the consequence. of them to the, friends on whom I relied for carrying on my 4drninistration, that in order to obtain their cordial support J must get rid of you." If his removal had become necessary,' he shoUld have preferred 04 mode of conimunidittini the 'fact 'tr . , Lim . ; and When lie looked at the proceedings of the last Session,—when he compared them with what bad taken place since,—he could not help thinking that some such time had arrived, a nd that some such view had been" taken as that which he bad de,. scribed.—(Cries of " Ifear.")—When his letter IY33before the Noble Duke, it might ' have occurred to the recollec (Mr. Hilskisso t o 149 of oue person at least, that he haie entertained such vent.nirnts as ttn'Ae incoming . to tl • o r the decision was, founded hasty its . a. founded in error, I or.ght to have beeo '.' 4l° l'Pe (l . I, had always been on the best terms of g d oothwill and deuce with all my colleagues. I wool appeal to the Mi nisters present whether I ever made difficulties, or ever acted otherwise than with a view to accommodate differ ences of opinion. Then, if I took a hasty or intemperate view of thii. ease, I Its!: them why they did not .coine for : ward and'rentler Me the se 'vicWWlikh bad; more than one, rendered to others, by r•Preseriting . tliat I was Wrong 'llhey were all'eubject.to the i t up,r(eutions tti human nature, and be might have been wrong. But, when a person went to the Noble Duke and said, " You misconceive and mistake this letter, and I tell yon of it be. fore it reaches Mr. Tlitskisson," if the Noble Duke ° I I ,, said, " I ant happy to hear it is a mistake," as he (Mr. knew, that persori expected the Noble Dyke would have then these sentiments, which (hal ; the person who O a f tamed them the greatest honour, could never have quoted by him (Mr. 11.) But 'the Noble-Duke laid it 1' a formal and absolute resignation. Now these,sentind, which he quoted in. May,. 1828, were the. :Very %v" . which were used by the Prime Minister,. the Duke of lington, in May, 1827, when that Noble Duke was plaining the grounds of his resignation, and regretting his resignation had been misunderstood: —(Plieereil low, notwithstanding the congratu l at i ons o f t h e . Kier' Mr. Capping on the removal of Mr. Canning's friena v notwithstanding the ebullitions of these good ge ntled and the overstepping of prudence .which had been wand in some pf them, who thought that the removal of hire D .•' his friends was onlyan apology on the part of the Noble 1: 0 for ever haying connected himself ,with them, who thoag o it a good mode of doing honour to the. Noble Dukr}t r suppose that he thought it necessar y th a t th ey s h ou ld in the Government j us t a t first—notwithstanding t1'61,4. boisterous fits of mirth (for he could • call them no tll e l se )—th ese venera bl e e ff us i ons of merriment—VF cheers)—in a vompany• which congregated tilerniklvee f i i ge.ther, once a year, for the purpose, as it woukl Bo 4, o , committing a fraud up on th e i gnorance o f th e living', (Chcers);--and of pronouncing libel s on the illostrie dead—(Loud cheers)—notwithstanding, he ; would Oil these noisy exultation from quarters in which bur: few days before all had been deep and bitter wailing 1. 4 the progress of civil liberty in this country, and as an ir• dicationef a wish on the part of that House .to trauquilll? Ireland--(4oud cheers)—notwithstanding all these:Olt' ward signs of the times, he, fo r one , (lid not think that , ' triumph of this party was quite as great and quite i t :, certain as _they anticipated .-..( Lauri .cheers.) He CO o ) , not think that his Right Honourable _Friend, the .Se , IS tary of State, who, as far as he knew, had never differ' from him, except upon the unfortunate Catholic question, he could not b e li eve th a t hi s Right- Honourable Friend abandoned any of the principles he used t• profeav i He did not think that his Right Honourable Friend he' lieved, or than: he ever could believe, th a t thi s po,c „ ' could be more powerful than the Hope of Conunp u s, ed by the people ! his Right lion. Friend ©quid, 1 0 " `think that the first act of the Legislature , ebeilld be te o re o ' strict the progress, of int e llig ence , or ,th a t could I t y with alarm at tolerance, or that interchang e . of*Oa and of feeling which o u ght to p reva il a mong .1. 1 0 different nations of the earth.—(H e ar, h ear , he'at.) 7„, .Right hlon.; Friend could not think it a cheap price, P vided he put down publi c o pi n i on t o s ee thi s coun try r'; dared to a fifth or sixth rank in civilized society, in league with the Holy Alliance.—(Loud cheering.) / 0 If such were the views or policy of any•party, he ' 4 l sure that his Right Hon. Friend would be the fireeto 0 0 '; them, and trusted th a t i n th a t ar d uous t as k h e would OA°- with the support o f th e H ouse an d th e peop l e . F or his 67 part, lie (Mr. H.) wou ld cont i nue i n sp it e ofabuse An"' moor, to stand the friendof 'the Institutions of the oonnr r i t ;• satisfied that in spite o f th e sp i r it o f pas t ages t h ey wo uld the best supporters of its greatness. Looking after thee and revising' them from time to time, and' suitinglhet o ' l , the change of the times, he believed th e y were s till*CaPat'o of- temperate and cautious improvement, carried on the spirit in which these Institutions were first es tabliihe i to neglect_ that improvement would be to risk h et ruin, and not secure their existence. He had now ri dressed the House at great length; he had trespassed tbem for the greater part of the time, on a subj e ct w4;" 4. most of all others was painful : lie trusted he had prove . ; .that if he were removed front office, it was not by Nei of resignation. He regretted he . had so been. re move); he would not deny it, for why should he not r eg ret lo‘ h the situation whi c h lie.held ? not from any p erson al ee ° .; sideration of advantages, but from the hope that by b rt , exertions he might have contributed te• improve the 11317 ,, distant parts of the empi re w hi c h came more ituinedia t ' l ; ,under hia.care : he hoped that he would have been able „ improve the condition of .the Colonies, and to. s t r ength e e ; the bond of mutual connexiorthetween them and theinorb country. He hoped that he would have been, able o . , bring.forward, extend, and improve our commercial pol.irlo; and the internal wealth of the-country. • In the eeliPse . , .these hopes—in the loss that power—and iu the 0 : which he hail made of it,—he had the satisfaction of fe el ing that he had not lost his self-approbation, and had diminished that character which he -Itoped he had su't &v ed in that House.—(The Right Hon. G ent l eman sat.dolr s p i amid loud cheers from, all parts of the Muse. We reg, r • e „ to say that during the last half hour he' wa s very ine'r , tinctly heard in the Galleries.) 114i 3 1 1 ) i. t.IILEnE. PEEL — rie T od he w re lii i c s h n s o 4l,pr t e h v a e t nt hasfa me from ln le p f fa the observations which I shall make to the ,House the expression of my deep and sincere regret .the circumstances which have rendered these explanatio.., necessary. In the, early part of this year, when I was ge' called, without any act or suggestion of mine, io l ° public affairs, I did all thee I caul& to promote the union e' those with whom I hatiso.operitted. at a former period ' and duripg the period that has elapsed since, I can ass , '" my Right Hon. Friend that I have always acted. with ' l l desire, of streogthening cud co: Aiming. that union. (He ar 'i i These having been my real feelings, and the .ohject I was desirous of seeing acconiplished, the. House le', easily, believe me when I tell them, how much I reg . '', the necessity for explanations•—(Cheers.) I am sPea u : of these matters in no tone of animosity, and I wish fr' ° : r carefully to avoid any observation which may b e r ," the slightest appearance of acrimony. My Right 11° "' Friend's speech referred to two different periods, and to 0;1 descriptions of circumstances perfectly distinct frolliS if „ other. '. The one period alluded to in my Right or b ' Friend's speech referred solely to the occurrences ' 1 " 111c took place previous to the vote which he felt himself self bound to give upon the question for the disfranc hise :, went of the Borough of East Retford ; and the ot ' e ", period included the transactions which took place suhsccl ue° , to that vote, and to the correspondence which became " o f of its consequences. In the first part of this divisiop; periods he referred to me personally, and to she part Wh'ci I had taken upon the question of the disfranchisement 4'i the borough. To that period, then, I elialleake tbe h he , e rl of first eddressingenYself. , The Right Honourable u e r l i denten, i n fluenced, very probably, by delica c y tool . ; et M qhvu e eee , rs,t :hovea}:to.hloieeiror circumstancesai lnnayi t h is isbefore question,t heH o o ru connecteds e in i d n we ei4 h t ! ii nt e t x i ea p p l ; d u i s a o r ..::: _ n r chisement of East Retford. It is impossible, other impertauce, to come to any ige r : judgment of its merits, or of the conduct of those `;; gaged in it, unless with a full and fair explanation. of ev e e n part of the circumstances connected with such que 9 '" - e. I feel that my Right Hon. Friend has left those esP y i t Cops incomplete; and although at onetime I little th° 4 that such a course would ever be necessary, I have ucl sv i o regret to say, no alternative left to me, after what bee from my Right Honourable Friend, but to eupplY defects in the narrative of these transactions which .t l . e d delicacy of my Right . Honourable Friend has , reoj el necessary, anti state at once all that has taken plea b ' s the Councils ,of the Government upon the subject (co transfer of the Suffrages of the Boroughsof Pentr a 3 c i a or i. Retford. Of course, in doing so, relieve my Right N ov o Friend Friend from all secrecy - as to any thing which he loaf "',l, hitherto thought it necessary, from delicacy, to , cci pet ,i i . and reserving to hint the full right of correcting apli to representation of circumstances in which may chap fall. In the first place, however , must begin by c a .. ip the attention of the House to the very peculiar situa tie. -which a Minister acting iu my capacity stands. A i. " )) ,. r ia ing to the established practice . of thi s H ouse , a IkliniO` ra .. my situation is supposed to speak the sen ti men t s of GO Ve r y meat; and in that situatio n he is called upon to answer ede. a question proposed to him in this House , not mill l ' } ':t s u t n ahp d e r n tnaheatattetresn,tiioini o ti f ie th a e b L st e r g a i e s t l , atu p r e e r . bap :::: the subjects connected with his own peculiar deosi ° be the House, is more painful than the Situ s . t e l lei but upon every other subject which may haPP e° t e lj 'eg , broug thus frequently placed. Almost every 1 ,1 10 I can iu very were placed before Fe hi* 'S .IrSr first idte goes n,tl,4luii amimportance,e of simple questions, .occasionally to tte 'extent of tweov thirty an , g ; and 'those questioner involving e ° be dere , ions of principle, upon which, if time seers t° to 80,1 Government ought not - to come e°nel miun, ,without exercising the most judgmeut: .1 defy, however, any man who ever O' this louse tceapply to the ettbjects brought under its , sideration all that deliberate attention which they desfr:je, It was Rot merely the details of these questions cvlsicei el served consideration, the priociplee which they ja".rvei were frequently of the very last importance, and reet!lii the utmost attention of the Government. Having ssi r te much upon this subject, I may observe diet amongf many other discussions of this nature in tho,coursc °0'„,.4 pr e sent Session, came the question teettecting tine to e o° .4 to be taken with respect to the transfer of the. suffra,i)a of Penryn .and East Retford. It toes my tos:s no step with regard to these Boroughs, nor. to givtt 3 A 10 to any measure which shool4 eti ti considE r 7e , having the epncurrence of th . e.dovernment. I the! tlie et a Vey early peiical, suhuiitted to my colleagues la, 61i; dovernthent the propriety' of coming to some (I!'Cig, nation upon the subject of those herowelis, cheerer s , the same time, that feeling the immense importao,/: the 'principles they involved, even amongst other clu etz of far more pressing importance, I considered it rie` ld be e to bl t ;ts b v} t oa. t i f nooibpra t foLo h Is o i;o u :yi Goe srament lute ear disfr na rised to state t meat.' I was vv. some judi c i a l con ; verartlent as to tl P ""ue; 'but 7asi in Zerent' and to *tat plii / any step " 1 4, 1 he del at a de a l t i j rl4,l , that wit' ' l5 opinions c ' l Pressed, fron last, Session tha. t i „,* the evulei „ -- ; - ",..ught to a ter - :`eration of th the same time,.t , ‘ e° ,tisent to adopt Li rta : yti e 7 ll ;o.l: tv laarn i o t pc h ro, .s G isa 1 : p a r nj a r t induced ,to • uodreda of ( t "ue, and I e should give its .a i t (4 , rd J. Russel "mtneheste " e At open to e ' l leagues ; but 4 "lb as the ks 'oellt to such 'elf the right, relit upon tl Ore me to ,R 1 Ret ford. • tl ean the ei.ideJ vittio n of its va r e• ~a., the orgai rill of ascertain Itpon. F ink it consit th e. ' 4 Governineu 1..°41,1 t o satisfi, 24 a1 in the othei t 5 the Members ground In c 5t solemnly, t i. °Posal as to t ' s 'ng only one th e 13nrottgl `louse ; three sevet 'otte; ani I I 4 ' 5,1 8, as a brat ) ▪ Inkrely as it of hriliery ',tertnined to is il ' l lb)ect, to refe t 4 the choice rn of L'enrys—,a o one -- cert th e Bill bein t b kad now that: :Tr!. Gentletna 4* tc, ( l.. )l f fugl ) e, o t e4 t t : " • td , edeo borough pl°`4 tioob• ouuvaats:egt Govern ,„ 11° ' 4 44 of ;,,and I styfeelings while t - `Jectetl, not to tit !lied for tl 'easnres for th , the questioi a Sunday, that day.l.r t he House at th , Pity t o declare °1 : 1 Monday, tl. division tool: pl has held, to r, ' , as not autho 4 t that rneetin my consent to F 4 if I had I , end observe 44 - ,.: ll :*rent line of ich I adopte Mr. HUSK Idverteotiv. Mr. PEEL 11 44 thi s o ba e t 1 he had a t he heat of ari ' 1 he had only ant to give if i'wn, and he : u rn what I s "Pillio ns to col I , h e very first -14 to be, draw really must 4 en place of l och infet once 'le from any a ti t events, t ,t h. ;Uen`thers of thi .Cl!`"e:kn•ttsineginn ibjea t ( ot 't ,kw o F fi L l4 rt from the my Right I 'lttt upon the t irlharrass von taa t'W ry ~ad h e we h u ;gei• Vo s rvi nir views teet aN • ve (fibytPnein a lth n rsraiNdio d elorliiry4ynif.ereff t rmi l .:ll)ll , Gentlemanto the lod wi : 4 tne to a deci 'a adhere to tl Srf Nertfordsh Peet me if I as . 1 11 10 n. Gentle!' e tt u e e, I d t b pei l i. e ed t a ta t e r h e g ße d e t e - de i el coo che shad 411 zw ie . a t impre Ere ss after I In that hill would be io o fser t lih t i o ' ll • l d e• talle t Ca y :i'ne i 'M'Gt(4 at c t rbegun fe nr• vtilliol l o a rt o lligl.tavt t l°; l llvtalul u d l d:t t ~ a trY ch s n i s s ote Boroug th: t e rcpressec: • gave a r 4, 4 ' 1 _ 4 ask, in : th e e yes at a. to l ,4 l Uestilu F t o , r the cirt me e 4 u v „,,, my eti l: on that gallsYaNii trap I I* .tr of t h e w ould u_ L-: i ;h ; o l t o * 4 , 1 1 4 d :wge e, i t( ' t l dr ei i pet ( n he e lo h u , ei ,s :0 1 : 1 he w_ .