The Express.
London, England, 1850-06-26 00:00:00

ORIICIL-ADJOURNED DRBATE.

Mr. B OSBORNE, oa rising to reopen the debate, Raid :
&r,—ln n.y mind this ie not a discussion to be conducted
ea :petty details. The point, as it occurs to me, for our
eassiderstica is how far the iattroatioad principles of our
bre* polity are to be regula!ed aeeordisg to the este-
bliahed mode of aatioss, and how far British commerce and
British sabierts ars to be protected by the government of this
innuttry. We have to consider, sir, whether the foreign
assristagy of this country is to merge into a placid and com-
pliant tool—a mere meomaton whine band is directed, and
wham moves are mad.., by the wily and unites th-
iamin of • foreign prompter. (Hear, hear.) We
are not merely raid upon to give a vote of confidence
Is her Majesty's ministers ; we are called upon to maintain
the honour and ladependenee, aid, I will adi, the glory of
Great Britain. (Chian.) And, sir, before I advert to
other subjeme ia debits, 1 must take the liberty of expressing
my surprise that this question has bees al:owed to be
brought forward in its present shape by as independent
member of porlisment, who, so far from having any sub-
stantial daisys upon the government, as has been insinuated
by an bon. gentleman of hie own profession, has alwsys
sated en independent, and, SO I think, a merit.-
1401111 pert in this hoots. (Cheers.) Sir, I liatened
with anus anent to the sentiments uttered by en
boa. and leaned gentleman, *whom I suppose I
'boll live to me a judge in this land; I refer
to the hen. and learned member for Abingdon (Sir
F. Thesiver). What did that hoe, and learned member
tel: the hots'? H- surd that for yearn he had disliked the
foreign policy of the government, and that he thought it not
only eel-elated to embroil as with foreign notions but to
imperil the peace of the world. He told us this lost night ;
but whet nee been the eonluet of the hon. and 1 d
gentleman ? I'T four yearn he Ikea been content to sit upon
thee+ benches without ever minis, his voice against the
foreign policy of via government ; and we saw last night
that he is a gentleman who has fed upoo blue-hooks till they
have become a part of his gyres". TM right hon.
member for Kira* (Sir I Graham) presented himself to nor
er.tioa loot night. as he told us, with greet reluctance; but I
must own the' I could not dimmer either from the mane.,
or the molter of hie speech that he pommeled any reluctance
(lerauhter.) I think I sin justified in sae* that that speech
woo characterised by a quality which is seedbed to lAdy
Soetrerel! in "The fithve tor Scandal," by that "delimit"
of tint and mellowest' of sneer" which is the distinguishing
mark of the political scandal of the right bee. Iffliti•-
mut. (Cheers.) And, sir, I culd not help being reminded
when tie preluded hie speech with compliments, cod with
she eepee.oion of his feelings of friendship for the noble
lord, I amid not h.lp brio" reminded of some se those
en. rim .tni and migiity eni-hats of the deserts of South
Ata..r:ca, those large repents which ere said to embroider
their vi, vine with their snliv• b dere they mike • meal upon
their tewii, ((heat laughter,) The right hos. baronet
of hie frien.lnhip for tee noble lord, hut I own it
yrs, k Inc, and it occurred to stony people near me, that he
woo Reinp!itrinet the truth of the remark of Rouctiefoueslt,
here ie ',earthing ogrerebin to us, or lot disagreeable, is
the mistiattanes of cur heat friends." (Mach laughter.)
I had ways torn in the habit of supposing thet the tight
ono?, parched on the tried brach titer, (alluding to
th.otiriaiti in ionettea), was looked arta am • a art of guardian
at.gel of her Majesty's ministers ; that be was, in fact,

The aweet I ',Penh that elta Waft
To take wee of the hh. of a we rasa.
(RAI* I.,uebter.) But, air, .bat bas been the eluded
of the tight boa. baronet ? Nit watent with aritieisiag the

dusk affair it appears that he has always dissented
from the policy tithe 'ebbs lord the Secretary for Fxert
Affairs. Well, if se, be has pressed rather am hel
nay wane is this house. (Hems XF.Jaa. elinerur
been for went of‘elipartuaity. The (Me, got •
always as hit pe ;he was in the eves trlls.
hoe. gentles= to whom, though I des pea aliN. Ve
I give the fullest credit fur k entalitour,
—I mean the has member ;oliltrteiford—mo er
impeachment The right hatienenble, gee slam
taken a great part of his • speich • from ‘-that of
the honourable member; the mambo of Mr. Urquhart
has fallen on the boa, member for Ripon t bat en that
esenehmi he was anneiogly 'Seat Bet, sir, he ainesstalbsst
the Spanish policy date noble lord. His eoadnet ha geheimose
to that question km been equally es•nordinary. In Jaw,
1849, the boa. member be Demeashin, who le an era sal
candid foe—(eame)—and wife dm not support people for
four years to hick Ohm MAN ifth--(reaewed einers)—
brought forward a Mew in this house deprecating the
whole town Meer pillisplaftalla, especially as rwgarded the
Interference whisk less Owed Me by the right boa. gentle.
men the member far )apes. Meet was the eons of the
right boa. baroaet ea last assinien ? Why, though another
right has baronet, whthva=ltaive always bees, I think,
at best et • esenaw a oglater)—l refer to the
right hos. baronet the member hr Tageworth—though that
right his. basest "demismi with faint praise" ea that cc •
wise, sad said that he wail pats to the "'Boleti an before
the bouts, that eacedlent sepparter of her Majesty's govern.
meat, the right has. baronet the member for Rips
wee silently contest. (Laughter.) But I will go
farther. The right boa. baronet while pining is
review the foreign policy which has been peened all over the
world, said, " See what you have done by your foreign'policy
in Portugal ; Costa Cabral is emanated in authority at
Lisbon." Why did sot the right hon. baronet see that is
the year 18413 1 (Hear, hear.) Oa the 11th of June, 1849,
the hos. member for Montrose brought forward a distinct
motion deprecating oar inarterence in Portugal. I lop-
ported that motion ; but am I, bean I supported that
motion two years ago, to come down to the house now, and,
raking up the put, to tell the 'obis lord that
I have always been his supporter, sad that now
I will damn him for hie virtues, which the
right bon. gentleman refused to do for his vices ? (Hear,
hear, and cheers.) I am no slavish admirer of the noble lord;
there are several plants in his policy of which I disapprove;
but, on the whole, I think he is a great and noble foreign
minister, sad one who, under all circumstances, is an honour
to England. (Loud cheers.) Bust what was the course pur-
sued en the °cession in question by the right hon. baronet
lb. member for Ripon ; fee I will not run away from that
question. (Claws.) Oa that occasion, I well remember,
there were three nights' debate is this house on the expedi-
tion to Portugal. is. gentlemen opposite were, as they bare
always been, direst and open toes of the government; they are
honorable opponents, anal as eneb I respect them. But what
did the right hon. baronet do 1 There were, se I said, three
nights' debate. By some misfortane Dr. Bowling, of whom
I would speak with great respect, happened to &darns the
house. The night was hot; the papers which Dr. Bowring
brought with him were voluminous; Dr. Bowring spoke in
the style in which the hon. and lensed member for Abing-
don addressed the house last night; and the house was
counted out. (Laughter.) But • most remarkable debate
ensued. The right hon. member for Wpm was accused of
having connived st the counting out. (Laughter.) Well, sir,
he defended himself in terms very similar to those which ! have
bcost used ; but he added—and this was remarkable—as if
y way of giving a finishing stroke to the discussion, "As re.
garde the Porturuese question, I conscientiously, thoroughly,
and entirely approve of the policy of her Majesty's govern.
ment—(" hear, hear." cheers, and laughter) —and had I
bun peanut .0 my flea I should have gives my honest
vote m support of her Majesty's ministen.'. (Loud cheer.)
And yet, Sir, we find the right hon. gentleman, two years
after, coming down to the hou-e, of course with great 'elec-
tive"; (laughter) thee! things are always done with
great reluctance, spinet oar particular friends—
(loud laughter) and I must say the right hon.
gentleman has load both • gnat many friends and • great
many eoileagues —(•• hear, hear," :alai laughter)—we Row
find him, I say, coming down to the house, and saying at
the elev. nth hour, " I think you, lord Palmerston, an ex-
anent man and a hied friend, and a good Chririan, but
you area dangerous foreign minister, arid must be got rid
of." (Hear, hear) Well, sir, I say nothing with regard to
the candour of the right hon. baronet in pursuing sack a
course. I leave that to • discriminating public. (Cheers.) The
public will sea in this the jesuileal evasions of Hewn.%
chicanery rather than open, honest, candid conflict in Regr-
ind political warfare. (Loud cheers) Now the
right bon. baronet west into vanities points; and mandarin,/
his groat reluctance—(lsnghter)—l am surprised that he
should have quoted the pamphlet that be did. I shoust
have thought teat his particular friendithip for the noble
lord would hare led him to inquire whether she alleged facts I
were true before footing them (Cheers.) He quoted •
pamphlet of the Doke of Broglie's son-is-law w.th regard to
the Swiss intervention. Well, now, we all know that that
pamphlet contains not only one untruth but m .ny I
untruths. He also referred to other suSjae a, to the
shim of weather under which the fleet in the Dar-
&Luella was compelled to go into Dinka Bay, and
he adverted to • despatch of Prince Metternich.
I am content to leave these two facts to be answerod by
the noble lord the Secretary of Foreign Affair", an 1 if he do
not Capon of them as easily as 1 think the conduct of the
risht hon. member for Ripon is to be disposed of, I should
a'most be content in this division to go into the same lobby
with the right hon. baronet. (Hear.) I say that if this roan
try is to permit • man to remain silent for four years, end
then to come down in the eleventh hour and denounce tie
minister whom be had been all that time aupportiug, there
is no man more fitted to be at the head of its affairs than the
right hoe. member for Wpm. I have said thus mach, be-
, cause it is rumoured abroad that like Cole's. the right bon.
baronet Is at this moment in search of a party
(Laughter.) I am not about to disinter • whole Lost i
Mee books, going ovcr the last four years,
bat 1 must say with regard to this contemptible discussion
with the pinchbeck monarchy of Oren*, that in my opinion
the oritioal sin lay in ever setting up such a monarchy.
(Hear. hear.) I entirely dissent from that act,—it was not
the act of the noble lord —from the policy of setting up •
Russ:an puppet is the bunt. ( lieu. hear.) Idoso on
other grounds than its being merely a puppet of Russia. 1
lir.k upon that act as a breath of our aboolate engagements
with Turkey. (liar, hear.) Because it ought te h e revb
lasted that at the congress of Verona they not only rc'esod
to receive the Oreek deputies, but Lord Strangtord, our
ambassador at Constantinople, was di puled to make the
following communication to the Turkish government, and
this is important and worthy the attention of the house
because I believe in such a thing as retributive justice. Lord
Strangford said, "The congress of Verona recognise. the
Greek question a. one belonging to the internal affairs of the
Porte, in which no foreign power ought to intermeddle."
(Hear, bear.) M hat did the foreign powers do after ? They
directly violated the assurance given at congress, and hast-
ened to indulge in • Quixotic attempt to improvise • free
constitution in a country which was totally unfit either to
work or appreciate it. What has bane the consequence ?
We are now obliged to correct the spoiled child of our
adoption ; and what has happened ? We gave the character
of injured innocence to this contemptible sovereignty of
Oren*. We have actually given a character to her rulers,
to that minister who almost reeks .1 the description of
Ingenism Teo; audaela perdita, sermo
Proaaphn
to those ministers whose whole ptiociple and motto seem
to be—

Rue la the state that pays.
—(Cheen and laughter.) Surely there is no gain to civili-
sation in such • state of things. (Hear, hear.) Now, lam
very hir hose attempting to deny, in contemplatiog the
transactions whioh have given rise to this nation, that it was
Mr. Finlay's own fault that he settled in the Piraeus, or that
Sonnebi was tortured with a refinement of cruelty which
the noble lord the Secretary for Foreign Affairs had properly
characterised, but that does not alter the argument.
It is in vain to quote Vett or to cite ire agir.ary cues. I
want to know what the house would recommend a foreign
minister to do, when British subject. ere plundered, im-
prisoned, and tortured, when redress is first postponed, then
refused, and at last put off to that imaginary period the
Greek Kalends. (Hear, hear.) It is very well for • noble
lord in another place to rain• paltrlcugh at the invntory,:
of the plundered man's effects. (Rear, hear.) But how
would the noble lord himself like, if his own house kad t'een
ransacked, to have the inventory of his daughter's wardrobe
shown up before the public to raise • laugh at tib'expense
(Loud cries of " Hear, bear.") It is true that the noble
hoed voted against the Jews' Bill, and ie
• Jew, but although he is a Jew I am not
'ware that there is any law shutting bins out from
potation for his person and property. (Cheer.) What
tithe real fact about Pacifico? It ii carefully kept out of
the Mae books; bat the truth is, that Pacifico had sold land
to Hiatt Otho, for whi:h he only received at first part pay-
, meat. His having pressed for the remainder was the great
ground of offence. Pacifico is • p ior 02111 and must suffer.
I do not know that Otho is a rich man, but he is a king, and
there are great allowances mide, especially in another place,
fw great men. (A laugh.) But it has been endeavoured to
prove, in connexion with this case, that Pacifico had no
house at all, but • mud cabin; and several ingenious
arguments have been founded on the structure at
his house, u if the outrageous violation of • maa's
house was to be palliated by the craziness of its
liqueurs " Such, however, is no: the fact as regards Pa-
' Mica's house. The house which has been represented as a
mad cabin was a wow] three story house. (" No, no," from
an ben. member.) The hr.n. member will excuse me, he
has been in Greece, in.! is aware that it is built in Con-
stantinople style, and that it is the house in which the chief
of the councils of regency, Count Armiuisperg, lived, and
moreover that King Otho, when he came first to Greece,
did not tbiak it beneath his dignity to perform in it the part
fit which he is best qualified by dancing in It at afire given
by C nut Arenmspenr. (Cheers and leug'tter.) It has also
heensaid, why did not Mr. Finley apply to the
Greek courts, and the boo. and learned mem-
ber for Abingdon shook his head, and that other
hen. member, the great reformer of the day (Mr. Gladstone )
also Jo-k his head, aa if Mr. Finlay had committed • fetal
error by Lot applying to the Greek wort. Is the right
hoes. gentleman aware what these Greek courts are T--is he
aware that the judges are removable at the King's caprice ?
(Hear, hear) Is he aware that the president of the
Ares-
pegu, the highest court in that mistrable kingdom, was
dkosissed by the King in 1847, and that the gentlem in so
dismissed was a man distinguished fur hi, ability and ue-
blemished honour? Talk of going to Gre-k courts for
redr es! The hun. gentleman must have forgotten his
Greek—flaughter I—he must be totally ignorant of the con-
stitution and practices of the so called Ore k govern.
meet. I am not going to drag the house through
a waste of blue books with regard to Finley's ease,
or to treat it as • case at nisi prism, a danger
which I think the right hon. baronets the member /or