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112 No. 10,810. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, MAY 2. At three o'clock the House met, when the Lord Chancellor was introduced, as Lord Lyndhurst, by Lords King and Howard de Walden, and took the oaths and his su.t on the Woolsack. Viscount Goderich (late Mr. Robinson), was introduced by Viscounts Dudley, and Melville; —Lord Plunket (late Mr. Plunket) was intro duced by Lcrds Clanricarde and Seaford ; and Lord Tenterden (late Sir Chas. Abbott) by Lords Bex ley and Kenyon. The new Peers were then severally sworn at the table, and took their seats. The Attorney-General, and several of the lead ing Counsel, attended below the Bar, to witness the elevation of the Lord Chief Justice to a Peerage, and to mark their high respect for that eminent in dividual. The Duke of CLARENCE came down to the House at an early hour. —After some Private Bills had :ead a third time, the House adjourned during pleasure. At half-past four o'clock we 'were again admitted, when we found nearly the entire space below the bar occupied by Members of the Lower House, and others who had been permitted to enter during our . exclusion. Among them we observed Mr. Wynn, Mr.Hobhouse, and Sir John Burke. The space immediately around the Throne was &so cro,s, ded to excess by Members of the House of Commons, and other persons of distinction. There were a greater number of Peers present in the House than we ever remember to have seen before. Lord Eldon entered the House, shortly after, and took his seat on one of the cross benches. His Lordship appeared to be in excellent spirits.— The Duke of Wellington, Lord Melville, and also, we believe, the Earl of Westmoreland, took their seats on the cross benches near the Earl of Eldon. On the Treasury benches we observed Lord Gode rich and Lord Dudley; and on the Treasury side of the House his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, Lord Plunkett, the Marquis of Lansdown, Lord Holland, and Lord Auckland. Earl Grey and Earl Fitzwilliam occupied their usual seats on the Oppo sition side of the House. In general there seemed a great change of places, and all the Peers most deci dedly hostile to the Catholic Claims were seated on the Opposition benches. [The want of accommodation below the bar of the House of Lords, and the difficulty of hearing in the best place which can be got there, renders it at all times more difficult to report the proceedings of that House than those of any other public body. Unfortunately, this difficulty , which is infinitely in creased on important occasions, in consequence of the pressure of the crowd then collected, was this day greatly aggravated by a circumstance which might be so easily prevented, that we apprehend the bare mention of it will be sufficient to induce the superior officers of the House to give such orders as mayobviate its recurrence. It is usual when a crowd is expected, to anit the Reporters in a way which gives them the opportunity of taking places close to the bar; but this day, after the new Peers had been intro duced, as above stated, the space below the bar and all the lobbies were cleared, and when the Reporters were re-admitted, they found the whole of the bar occupied chiefly by Members of the House of Com- MOM. Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt attencksd with . great politeness to a complaint made to him on this ex clusion, but he could not remedy the evil. It is, however, on public grounds, not on account of the inconvenience ;experienced by ourselves, that we notice this subject. If it be desirable that Parlia mentary reports should at all times be given with ac curacy, it is extremely mortifying to find that on such an occasion as that of to-day, when the whole 1 country takes a•deep interest in what is passing, cir cumstances should occur to render the attainment of that accuracy more than usually difficult.] At five o'clock their Lordships resumed for the despatch of public business. Lord LYNDHURST took his seat on theWool sack, as Chancellor. Lord GROSVENOR was sorry again to have to bring before the House the Catholic Question. There was now an Administration, almost en tirely favourable to the Question, and the Members of the last, were almost wholly against it. He felt confident that from the changes that had lately taken place some great benefits would result to the public. And notwithstanding the opinion of the present Administration on the Catholic Ques tion, yet he believed that it was the earnest wish of some of the Catholics themselves, that the House should not proceed hastily to le gislate on the subject. He himself thought it would be better to pause on the question till next spring; and he was confident that until the existing Catholic laws were repealed, capital would never circulate' in that country; but that when the change took place, capital would be more plentiful there, and pros perity would be the happy result. Lord ELLENBOROUGH was perfectly con vinced that ere long the disappointed hopes of the Noble Earl on the other side would be thrown to the contrary side of the House. Since the House had last separated, the whole of the Government of the country had been re constructed ; on what principles, or whether in the total absence of all principles, that Govern ment had been reconstructed, he was entirely igno rant. That it had been constructed as it was with a view to benefit the nation, looking at the opposite benches, no one could suppose. Since that House last separated, many individuals who had held the highest offices under his Majesty had thought it fit and proper to resign those offices; in consequence, their characters had been abused, and they had been accused of, the highly improper feeling of wishing to dic tate to the Crown. It. seemed to him there fore to be as essential to the maintenance of their own yet unblemished characters as to the honour of that House that they should take the first and ear liest opportunity of explaining the circumstances at tending their resignations.—(Loud" applause.) The Earl of ELDON went from the cross benches where he was sitting, to the Ministerial side of the table, and from thence addressed their Lordships. Having learned that they who had resigned their offi ces had been charged, and unmercifully charged, with concert in resigning those offices, and with the unpar donable offence of dictating to their Sovereign ; he hoped that he might be permitted, after having been so long a Member of that House, and after having so long advocated principles contrary to such uncon stitutional principles, to take the first opportunity of standing up before them to state that such a charge was of the most base and most infamous calumny.— As far as it applied to himself, and he believed as far as any man dared to apply it to any of those Right Honourable Personages who had resigned the offices they held, it was most base and calumnious. That he himself should be sup posed to have been guilty, after having sustained all the principles he had so undeviatingly Sustained, through ill and through , good report, of yielding to a principle so unconstitutional as to affect to dictate to his Sovereign, who should have the Government of the country subject to that controul which belonged to the two Houses of Parliament, constituted as the Parliament of this country was, was a thing that he would never hear stated as far as regarded himself, without declarins that it was a base and scandalous falsehood—(Hear , On the other hand he would take the liberty of saying that he had a right for the sake of THURSDAY EVEN! his Sovereign's safety whom be had so long served, in dutiful attention to him, and in dutiful attention to the memory of his father, whom he had so long served, to state in that House, and to his Majesty, that he , never disguised any opinion he ever entertained on any subject submitted to his consideration. Whether it was a correct notion entertained by the Noble Earl who had first addressed the House that Catholicism and con version went hand in hand he knew not ; but if capital, conversion, and religion would go together, for God's sake let that Noble Earl be at the head of anairs.—(Great applause and laughter.)—He did not mean to say that religion and capital in some instances did go together; he had seen too much to allow him to say so. What he had to say of himself, was this, and he spoke in the pre sence of those who knew the fact—who knew that in what he was about to state, he stated the truth, that his notion of resigning was a thought not new to him. He spoke in the presence of many who knew that for years past it had been a question with him whether he ought to resign or not; and if he had retained office he had now to declare before that House and the public, that he had retained it because he had been desired to do so, because he had been urged to do so. And when the circumstance of this change took place, the question with him was, not whether he should maintain a purpose of resignation, but whether he should dis miss that purpose of resignation which. for some years past he had expressed. Cueld ke continue holding office under the circumstances which had taken place of late ? He desired to have it dis tinctly understood that he had no personal feeling with respect to any man, or dared to suppose that his Majesty had not a constitutional inviolable right to name whom he should choose to be his Minister. On the other hand, he felt that no man could do his duty under such circum stances, without stating whether he could usefully serve him. What he had to say on the subject was this ; he might be perfectly right, or he might be perfectly wrong, and he wished to reason it on the supposition that he was perfectly wrong, that with respect to the great and important ques tion of the Catholic claims, that it had a degree of importance attached to it, which called upon the House not to postpone a decision upon it any longer. The House ought to have it decided. He had been one of those who had been as instru mental as anybody in having had a decision upon it postponed, but he now • thought the time was come when it ought to be decided.—(Laughter.)— He begged to know how it was possible for any body in his situation to have done any thing but what he had done ? Meaning to resign, if an Ad ministration of perfectly different principles had been made, could it be supposed that he ought not to have resigned when an Administration had been formed, as they had been told, though he did not know whether it had or not,.--of perfectly dif ferent principles.,? Thee -House would allow him to say, that with his- principles, an d look ing at the principles' of the Right Honour able Member who had got into office, without say ing that he did not.as ZettiOusir and as anxiously maintain the principles he, fostered, as he (Lord Eldon) did his, he had egaiii and again considered whether he ought not to,have Changed his opinions, and he had found it impossible ; consequently, though - he had found - - ii - lpiatitertO say he could serve an individual Member Oh Government, having at the head of it such a Member as the „Earl of Liverpool was, yet- spe.aking with all the regard and respect he felt for the Prime Minister of the present day, he did ~eestly wish, him to under stand, giving him , firlLcredis for as much sin cerity in his principles as any man could pos sibly have, that he could not help saying, that if the question now was what it was not—namely, whether if he . had had no prior view of resigning, he ought now to have remained in office, his opinion was that he ought not. He knew that there -were Members in the House who entertained a di rectly contrary opinion, but his decided .opinion with respect to the question of the Catholic Claims was, that if those claims were carried, there was an end to the religious liberties of this country, and that with the end of those religions liberties, the civil liberties of the country would likewise indisputably cease. This being his opinion, he would to his dying day, in whatever situation of life lie might be placed, support the opinions he had hitherto maintained.—(Cheers.)—lt was as silly as it was calumniou s to charge with conspiracy individuals so long tried, and so well known, and perhaps it was equally silly in him to repel such a charge, and for the truth of this he appealed to their Lordships' common sense; if they were brought to trial for a conspiracy in a Court of Justice, the case would have blown out of Court before the party accused was even called on for his defence.—(Cheers.) —He had looked attentively and anxiously to the progress and the consummation of the recent ar rangements, and his honest conviction was, that the present Administration was not and could not be formed upon the same basis as Lord Liverpool's. Lord Liverpool was an honest r.nd zealous opponent of the claims of the Catholics, whilst Mr. Canning was as zealous, and he believed as honest, an advocate of their claims. His Lordship had experience enough to know that a person who had been a mere component part of an Administration possessed much more power when he was appointed to the situation of Prime Mini ster.—(Cheers.)—This observation was intended as an answer to those who thought that Mr. Canning's eleVation would still allow matters to remain as they were. His Lordship denied most solemnly before his God that he had acted in concert with any man, and that he had not even seen their communi cations. There was no censure too harsh to be applied to that man who should dare to dictate to his Majesty the choice of his Ministers. But if a man were asked his 'advice on such an occasion by his Majesty, there would be no censure too harsh, if he refused or hesitated to give his conscientious counsel, and whilst he did so, he was actis is in accordance with the truest principles of the Constitution. His Lordship had ueen long, perhaps too long, in the service of the public, and he hoped their Lordships would give him credit for sincerity, and believe him, when he assured them, that nothing—NO NOTHING— couId ever prevent him, during the continuance of his life, from upholding the Constitution of his country, as established by the Revolution. By the maintenance of that Constitution only could we hope to preserve our civil liberty, and his experience, strengthened by the opinions of great men, told him that we should lay aside the benefits of that consti tution if we permitted the encroachments which it was the object of some individuals to intro duce. This was his honest conviction—his whole life had been devoted to the support of the Constitution, and he would continue to oppoe such alterations as lie felt must introduce Ecclesiastical tyranny, feeling as he did that ecclesiastical must produce civil tyranny. After some further remarks his Lordship said that perhaps these, his sentiments, were erro neously conceived, he might err, but it was only right that his own notion"' should influence his own conduct. I have now done (said his Lord ship) and may I be allowed to express the most sincere declaration of the obligation I am under to you all for the patience and support which you have invariably given me in the arduous discharge of my duties. I beg again to assure you of my eternal gratitude to you for bearing with my imperfections during the long, long period I had the honour of presiding in this House.—( Loud cheers.) His Lord- G AD MIRALTY -OFFICE, MAY 1, 1827. WIDOWS' PENSIONS. 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He felt that the House had no right to inquire into the causes of the recent changes of Adminis tration ; but I also, said his Grace, (with consider able emphasis) feel that I have been most unjustly and calumniously treated.—(Loud cheers.)—l have been charged with crimes of the grossest nature ; I have been abused day after day by the Press.—(Loud cheers.)—skPrees which I rather believe to bounder the influence of Government.—(Continued cheers.) When lam thus grossly calumniated, must not I possess more than the feelings of a man if I sate still without vindicating myself ? Ido so the more readily because whilst defending myself I shall have no occasion to reveal any thing of a private or con fidential nature. His Grace then proceeded to read a letter which he had received from Mr. Canning on the 10th of April, which was nearly to the follow ing effect : " My dear Wellington—The King, in an au dience from , which I have just returned, has been graciously pleased to direct that I should lay before him, with as little delay as pos sible, a plan for the reconstruction of an admi nistration. It is his Majesty's wish, and my own, that we should adhere to the principles of Lord Li verpool.”—This letter, continued his Grace, con tianed not one word of explanation as to the per sons of whom the Cabinet was to be formed. He was not desired by the Right Hon. Gentleman to come to him and receive any explanation respecting that evident omission. Neither did the Right Hon. Gentleman come or send to him ; but his Grace had since understood, upon authority not to be questioned, that those explanations which were denied to him had been given to the remainder of his colleagues.—(Loud cheers.)—All his col leagues had been invited to go to the Right Hon. Gentleman, to receive all necessary explanations, or else the Right Hon. Gentleman himself went to give them. In some instances his personal friends had been sent for for that purpose ; but to me, said his Grace, no explanation was given, nor was I referred to any oth er p erson for the purpose of getting it. Having been for a considerable length of time upon the most friendly terms with the Right Hon. Gent. his Grace was ra ther astonished that in this instance, he should depart from the observance of those forms of intimacy which had hitherto regulated their intercourse. He was, however, determined that nothing should Prevent him from communicating in the most friendly and open manner with the Right Hon. Gentleman, and therefore he wrote to him on the 11th of April a letter, dictated by these sentiments. His Grace then proceeded to read the letter in question, in which before his Grace could give a final answer he wished 'to know from Mr. Canning whO th'e -in dividual was whom he intended to propose to his Majesty as fit to be at the head of the Government. In answer to this letter- his grace received another from Mr. Canning, in which the Right Honourable Gentleman said that it was generally understood that his Majesty entrusted the formation of an Administration to that indivi dual who was to be placed at its head, and he had no reason to believe his Majesty intended in his case to depart from the usual practice. This letter (ob served his Grace) does not express a very serious wish that I should continue in the Government.—(Loud cheirs.)—His Grace, on the same day, wrote a letter to Mr. Canning, in which he stated that he had previously understood from Mr. C. that a diffe rent arrangement was contemplated. His Grace was not aware that the practice to which Mr. C. alluded was so invariable, that he should gather from his communication that the Right Hon. Gentleman himself was to be at the head of the Government. After looking, but in vain, for a probability that the new Administration could be conducted on the princi ples with that of Lord Liverpool, or, that it could be conducted with satisfaction to the country, he express ed his regret that he was obliged to withdraw from it. Again, with regard to his resignation, his Grace was accused of having abandoned his station. He considered the prerogativb of choosing those Ministers on whom he could rely for advice, &lel for conducting the policy of the coun try, the most valuable that his Majesty is intrusted with by the Constitution. While under this conviction, his Grace begged the House to judge his conduct. He would suppose that if a Minister might unfortunately differ from his Majesty on any important subject, it must then be evident that that Minister could not give that cordial assist ance which he would, give, if of the same opinion with his Sovereign. Now, let this principle be applied to his Grace's case. He differed from his Majesty's Prime Mi nister on a moat important subject, and he felt that lie could not, when called upon, give that cordial support which the Prime Minister was well entitled to ask and expect. Then what could his Grace do in a Cabinet which was composed on principles dia metrically opposed to his ? It was no answer to say that the present Administration was coe.ducted on the same principle as that of Lord Liverpool. He would say that they materially differed, and the difference was that Lord Liverpool's Administration was founded on the principle of supporting the present laws, as they arc, while that of Mr. Canning is founded on the principle of subverting those laws. It was well known that Lord Liverpool was opposed to the Catholic cause, while Mr. Canning was the most zealous partizan in that cause. His Grace would then ask, did be abandon his Majesty in re signing, when he could not conscientiously support Mr. Canning? His Grace was also accused of dictating to his Sovereign. Those who said so, did not know his Majesty. --(Loud cheering.)—lt had been also said, that he had withdrawn from his Majesty's service because he wanted to be Prime Minister himself. But he could never forget that profession in which his whole life had been passed ; nor could he forget that he had raised himself by that pro fession to some honour—he said, raise himself, not from forgetting the emine - at services of many of those Noble Friends he saw around—not from forgetting the exertions of the gallant officers and soldiers whom he had the honour to command—not even from forgetting that his Majesty': gracious favour had conferred on him more than he me rited ; but recollecting that favour, and the great exer tions of his brother officers and soldiers ; he said he had raised himself, because his Majesty would not have placed him in the situation be had lately held, and would not have conferred such favours on him, if he had not rendered him and the country some services of which he approved. Would any man believe that he was anxious to give up a situation which placed him again in conntiand of that army with which be had been so long connected ; which gave him an opportunity of bringing forward those who had served with him, or of recommen ding them to his Majesty : that he should he willing to give up this high and honourable station, which he held with pride, to take a situation which lie felt he could not fill with honour and satisfaction, for lie could not address their Lordships on the numerous subjects lie would then have had to bring under their consideration in the manner in which they ought to he addressed.—(Hear.) He had stated his views as to the formation of a new Ministry ; but as to. time charge of conspiracy, or whatever else Gen tlemen might please to call it, he was totally ignorant of and unconnected with it.—(Hear, hear.) If any person whatever presumed to say that he had communicated no tions or opinions as to the new Administration, or his intentions upon the subject to his colleagues who had left office with him, previous to his resignation, he called upon him to come boldly forward and state that fact. He PRICE 7D. denied that there ever had been any such conspiracy as that alluded to, and any person .stating such to have been the case was guilty of a base and a foul falsehood.—(Hear, hear, hear.)—The Noble Duke here read the letter which accompanied the tender of his resignation of office to his Majesty, and proceeded to observe, that when he felt it necessary to withdraw himself from his Majesty's Coun cils, he had determined also to retire from the great public offices which he held. The office of Comman der-in-Chief was one which necessarily brought the per son who held it into immediate and frequent contact with the head of the Administration. It was impossible to move the Army of Portugal, or any portion of our armies stationed in the three Kingdoms, without such direct and immediate personal communication. He was happy upon all occasions to follow the example of his illustrious predecessor, and he was quite sure, that were his Royal Highness (the late Duke of York) now alive, he would have acted as he (the Duke of Wellington) had done, under similar circumstances. He had resigned, be cause he considered, from the tenor of the last letter he received, announcing his Majesty') instructions to the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Canning) to form a new Administration, that it was impossible for him (the Duke of Wellington) longer to hold office either with advantage to his Majesty's service, or with honour to himself. This it was which induced him to retire from the high and im portant duties with which the King had been graciously pleased to intrust him.—(Applause.)—But he understood it to have been said, that the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Canning) had tlken offence at the letter in which he (the Duke of Wellington) had inquired who was to be at the head of the Administration. Now he wished that the nature and manner of that inquiry might he minutely exa mined. that their Lordships might see what ground oi offence it contained. He had had a conversation with the Right Hon. Gentleman previously to the writing of that letter, in which he (Mr. Canning) stated, that his Ma jeety had directed him to reconstruct the Government, and that one of his (Mr. Canning's) plans was, to send Mr. Robinson to the House of Peers as First Lord of the Trea sury, as the best means of securing unity in the Admini stration. From this it was clear, that he could not con template that Mr. Canning was. to be the Prime Minister ; and, therefore, he was justified, upon a subsequent com munication, in inquiring who was to fill that office, which question was, in fact produced by the Right Hon. Gentleman's own statement. But he would go further, and spew that the question he asked was a' fair one, and was founded upon general practice in negocia tious of this description. At one time a Noble Relative of his, now holding the office of Lord Lieutenant of Ire land, waited, by command of the Prince Regent, upon a Noble Earl, and a Noble Lord, not now in their places, requesting them to consider the formation of, a new Ad ministration ; and it appeared, upon inquiry, that his Noble Relative had only a Commission to that effect, and did not mean or wish to occupy any place himself.— (Hear, hear !)—There was another instance, one in which Lord Moira had received a similar commission. to certain Noble Lords (Grenville and Gray), which failed; but the Noble Lord (Moira) upon being questioned, declared that lie did not know how a single seat in the Cabinet was to be filled up, or who was to be at the head of the Adrni 7 nistration.—(Hear.)--But there was yet another and a stronger case in point, to which he begged shortly to call the attention of their Lordships. Shortly after the death of Mr. Percival, the Earl of Liverpool applied to the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Canning) to form part of the Administration, and from a memorandum which he held in his hand, it appeared, that Mr. Canning's first question was, " Who is to be First Lord of the Trea sury ?"—(Hear, hear, bear!)—Now he thought that the question which the Right Hon. Gentleman felt it necessary to put to Lord Liverpool in 1512, he (the Duke of Wel lington) might, without impropriety, put to the Right Hon. Gentleman in I 827—(Cheers.)—The case, however, did not vest here. The Right lion. Gentleman had stated, that his Majesty did not intend to depart from the principles or policy of my Lord Liverpool. He believed the Right Hon. Gentleman to be as incapable of misrepresensation as lie himself war, and therefore lie felt bound to give implicit credence to his statements. If, then, - it was the policy of hii Majesty and of the Right Honourable Gentleman to form an Administration upon such principles, he (the Duke of Wellington) had no right to suppose that the Right Honourable Gentleman was to be at its head. With this impression upon his mind, he surely was not guilty of any thing like rudeness, in wishing to know upon the 10th April who,was to be at the head of the Administra tion—(Hear, hear.)—He asked only the single fact, and the Right Hon. Gentleman might have informed him who was or who was not to fill that office ; but he returned no direct answer—on the contrary, he felt it necessary to ap ply to his Majesty before he gave a reply.--(Hear, hear, hear.)—lt was clear, then, in his opinion, that the Right Hon. Gentleman was not at the head of the Administration either on the 10th or on the 1 1 th, and that in fact the matter was not decided until he (Mr. Canning) repre- sented to the King on the 12th that it would be impos sible for him to carry on his negotiations during the holi days, unless his Writ was moved for, and his appointment announced in the House of Commons on that day. Now really he mightbe charged with peevishness, with ill temper and with having acted hastily, in retiring from the service of his Majesty ; but he did so. not from any such feelings. He resigned because he was not satisfied with the answer he re ceived as to the chief appointment in the Administration. He had now been in the Administration several years, and during that time had had the good fortune to enjoy the good-will of his Colleagues, including the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Canning). And he appealed to the Noble Lord (Bexley) opposite, whether any person could have tried more than lie did to keep men together, and to prevent the separation of the Ministry? He appealed also to the same Noble Personage as to whether any warmth or petulance had been manifested by him upon the occasion —(Hear, hear.) ?—Notwithstanding this, however, he had been ac cused openly of being a conepirater—of having acted with levity—and of having left his Majesty's service without cause ! 'Whether he had or had not so acted, he left it to their Lordships to judge from this explanation—(Hear, hear.)—He had now come to a conclusion, and thanking their Lordships for the patient attention with which they had listened to him, be left it to that House and the country to decide whether he had or had net been accused without cause—(Applause.) Lord BEXLEY next addressed the House, but in a tone which rendered it impossible to collect below the bar even the substance of his speech. In the few sentences which were audible, we understood his Lordship to say, that after having tendered his resignation, de was induced again to resume office by the assurance be had received that the line of policy adopted in the Administration of Lord Liverpool would not be abandoned. As to the question of making one of a divided Administration, the Noble Lord observed, that in rti'espectliere was no d eparture f rom t h e pr i nc i p l e of Liverpool's Ad m i n i s t rat i on . T he N o bl e D u ke (We Lol lling ton) had appeal e d t o hi m o n th e su bj e ct of the this charges which had been made against those members of the Cabket who had resigned. After what had been stated by the Noble Duke himsgf on that head, their Lordships would feel that any confirmation on his part was unneces sary ; but as the appeal bad been made to him, he must say, that the charge of concert in the resignation of their offices by the late members of the Cabinet was a gross calumny.—(Hear, hear.) The Earl of MANSFIELD said, that highly as he va lued the feelings of those distinguished individuals who had retired from office, he much doubted whether the course they had pursued was judicious, or tended to assist the Protestant cause, which, no doubt, they intended to aid. If they had kept open the communication with his Majesty, they might have recommended the formation of a Mi niE,iry on Protestant principles, backed by the assur ance.that such a Government would meet with the warm support of a large majority in that House and in the country. If the Ministry were even to be divided into two parties, that decided preponderance might have been g iven to the Protestant cause in it, which would ensure its continued superiority. Htiwever well those noble indi viduals had meant, they had not taken that course; and one consequence was, that the country had to regret the retire ment of so many individuals by whom it bad been so long and so ably served—bad to regret the lass of the eminent services of the Noble Duke, of the Noble and Learned Lord (Eldial) near him, and of a Right Hon. Gentleman whose talents and unwearied zeal in the public service had ren dered him so deservedly popular in the country. He (Lord Mansfield) would fain express his opinion of the great me rits and important services of those distinguished indivi duals, and he might do so without apprehension of having his motives questioned, for the general vice was to hail the rising and not the setting sun ; but he did not wish to cripple their fair need of praise by uttering it in their presence,— It would, however, be ungrateful in the country to pass over their great merits. To the brilliant achievements of one of them (the Noble Duke) the country was indebted for that high pre-eminence which it had obtained among nations. Of the talents of the Noble Earl (Eldon) in the court over which he had so long presided—of his un wearied assiduity and extraordinary discrimination as a judge, it was unnecessary for him to speak.— They were well known to the public; but it might he added, that during the time he had ably and faithfully discharged his duty to the public, lie was made the constant object of the most unre lenting calumny. But when the feelings of party should have passed away, posterity, that rigid censor, would do him certain though tardy justice. As to the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr: Peel), he had clearly and manfully explained the reasons which had induced him to retire from office, and the publicity given to the debates in Parliament had already sent his explanation through. the country. In the course of the discussion elsewhere, a hope had been expressed by the Right Hon. Gentleman at the ,head of the Government, that the retirement ofbis Right Hon. Friend (Mr. Peel) would be only temporary. In that hope he was certain the country most fully concurred, but whether he continued in voluntary retirement, cr again accepted office, on his zeal - and honourable consistency in the cause of his country every reliance might be places]. He had his fault, but it was that of diffidence of his own great talent, and of the high consideration in which he was so justly held by the country. This led to the loss which the country had sustained in his retirement. • To the ad auiration which his great talents so justly called forth, !night be added the sincere respect for the total absence if selfishness, and his unassuming manner—qualities so rarely found in a person so highly gifted.—(llear, bear. ) But enough of resignations. He would now say a word 11.4 to the new Administration. According to the accounts which had gone before the public, it appeared that in the first in itance Mr. Canning .had suggested the forination of an Ad etinistration purely Protestant; but why lie had propsae el such an Administration, lie (Lord Mansfield) could not say, except that, like nine pins, he had set them ap for the purpose of knocking them downy.—(Hear, hear.) —That suggestion not having been successful, he made mother, and then he expressed his surprise and regret at the resignation of his colleagues ; but considering what had since passed, and what had been stated by the Noble Duke, their Lordships must see What Was the nature of his sur prise, and what were the grounds of his regret. It had been said that Mr. Canning did not know by whom 'the recommendation of the recent changes had been made.— He (Lord Mansfield) would be very unwilling to ask the Right Hon. Gentleman to tell that which he did not know; , nut he should like extremely to have his guess or. the , object. He should like to learn who it was that "in :he porches of the Royal ear, did pour out the lepe mus distilment," poisoning it against those who had be - rime enjoyed the confidence of their Sovereign. He :lad heard much of what had recently been done ; and , s far as what had taken place arose from the words .nd acts of his Majesty, it was not a subject of in auiry ; but it might be inquired whether the words and acts of his Majesty were not the words and acts of his ministers. In a constitutional point of view, of course, the King could not do that which should be made the sub iect of blame ; but he might be made accessary to that ,which was blameable in others, and of which he himself vas to be the victini. During the life of the Sovereign tits acts were constitutionally exempted from censure ; tut when once the tomb closed upon men, their character 'tecame the property of history. The public knew their laracter, and would often judge from what they had done, :hat which they would be likely to do under particular cir aimstances. Applying this to the character of his late ‘lajesty, lie would suppose that it had been proposed to him au form an Administration, it would not be difficult to sup- Awe that lie objected to a divided Cabinet, on one impor t tnt subject ; but it would be difficult to suppose that he could give his assent to the formation of such a Cabinet, unless the preponderance was decidedly Protestant. Yet if even that were the case, and it was proposed to his Ma jesty to place at the head of such a Cabinet the Right Hen. Gentleman (Mr. Canning), who had been the constant, zealous, and most able advocate 6f a principle to which his Niajesty was hostile, was there any man who could doubt ,hat such a proposition would have been instantly rejected ? Bad it been at the sams time proposed to his Majesty to place at the head of the Government of lreland,—to place is Secretary for the Home Department,—individuals dis , inguished for the constant support of the question of -tmancipation, to which 'His Majesty had declared his amscientious hostility, was there any repots to. doubt hat those propositions would not have been refused ? ;oppose, again, it were proposed to his late Majesty to elevate to noble rank, and to place as Lord Chancellor of !reland, the brilliant advocate - of that measure to which he tad so strong an objection, could his 'Majesty's refusal of !lie proposition be doubted for an instant? Those who 'tnew his Majesty's ellarasseriandisentiments, could have no tesitation in stating what his determination would be in 'hose cases. Still less could they doubt_it, after they had !earned that his Majesty had had an interview with the Archbishop of Canterbury, and bad authorized bins to con vey to his Right Rev. Brethren his determination to ex, dude from a preponderance in his councils those who pro.. nosed a measure which he could not conscientiously ap arove, and that that impression had gone abroad through the country, and was hailed with unmixed satisfaction. If, however, after such opinions had been expressed, st was found that his Majesty had been advised, and 'tad acted on the advice, to take a different course in all those points, it would no doubt be an object )f interesting and important inquiry to know by whom that advice had been given, and on what ground. He would now say a word as to who were the ministers. Upon this point, the House was a good deal governed by vport, and was indebted for its information to the Press —that Press which they all calumniated, and upon which they all were obliged to depend. Their Lordships were told that some of the present holders of place were not so be permanent, - that they were merely like the double of tl 40 trench theatres. The rapidity with which the Right Hon. Gentleman who firmed the Cabinet when disap pointed in one quarter turned to another, his junction with .he Whigs at the very Moment that he parted from his lon , friends, must have reminded them of the quotation in the Anti-Jacobin, for the Right HOD. Gentleman was :amiliar with quotations--" A sudden thought strikes use : et us swear eternal friendship."—(Laughter.)--The coali tion thus formed had been described as " unnatural ard. unprecedented." Unprecedented it might be in some respects ; but for his (Lord Mansfield's) part, he thought :t was very natural and justifiable; but he had his doubts whether it was quite sudden.—(A laugh.)—Those wile had marked the progress of circumstances for some time past must have looked upon this coalition as very na tural. Its approach might have been perceived in many .)f the recent measures, where the opinions of one side of the House were patronised and glopted by the other, and where `tom day to day the approaches in one quarter were very :avourably received by the other. The coalition, then, vhatever might be thought of it in other respects, could sot be said to be unnatural. But, leaving this junction to work its way, there was one great point to which he was inxious, before he concluded, to call their Lordships' atten tion : i:liat was the Catholic question. It would be recol- Lvted, that that measure had been proposed and carried in ' the other House, though it was rejected by their Lordships. It was, he believed, understood, that it was not the inten tion of the Right Hon. Gentleman at .the head of the Go aernment to introduce it at preient. The Catholics of Ireland were advised, and their priests would repeat the idvice, to observe for the present a morbid and lethar. tic stillness,—" to seem like the flower but .to be .he serpent under it." But their Lordships would net )e deceived by that course. They must not wait until this plan had produced its effect.. They could not, how- Ter, wait until Members of his (Mr. Canning's) opinions had been introduced into that House; and he should, therefore, on the 4th of June, submit a motion to their Lordships. It was not necessary to mention the precise words if that motion at present ; but its effect would be to rnovo their Lordships to adopt resolutions in favour of Catholic emancipation--emancipation in the fullest sense in which the word was ever applied ; or to elicit a declaration tt the contrary, such as became a Protestant House of Parlia.. :vent, and such as he believed no King, since the time of James 11., had been advised to refuse. 1 Viscount GODERICH said, that it was with no small anxiety that he felt himself compelled to address their Lord, ;hips; anxiety arising, partly from his being so lately ;ailed to that House, and partly from the undisguised dis .nay which he felt at having to contend with individuals, old to differ from persons, for whom he must be allowed to say, he felt as much respect as any Noble Lord in that House. He had not witnessed the separation which bad .occurred in the King's Councils without, he could assure their Lordships, feelings of regret, which all honourable ,ninds could understand and appreciate. He was sorry that iris Noble Friends had felt it their duty to withdraw their• services at a moment when it was peculiarly to be wished that they should continue them. - ~ A Right Honourable Friend of his, not a member. of that House, lead withdrawn uis services because he was of opinion he could not form a part of a Cabinet with a friend to Catholic Exuan. zipation at its head ; but .he could not ,conceive that his other Noble Friends had witheliaain from a : simi lar opinion, because the GovernMent of 'Lord* LiVer. pool did not exclude persons who entertained sentiments favourable to Catholic emancipation. 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