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sof 90, bribe a* isehniesl
Joel, wipe sere otarisks
vase which:emit'. jtrlify'
01 a Bill et- Pail sod
trait Aim were *owes
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ee vaitiedirsadirtirs•
• **Me ;tbal they
. tie OilaileffligkeAreeme twanifirit. violation
• sotbpoof: b's.** the Croon elad YoisPle.
,was ose-mtpresaly pelscrilea bgainst by the positive
tense 0 atsy4ats. pa ephikt bad been flit. Fatiids.
. files el the **Seedier lb thispitvent case I Was
Arm bay neterisob itet f pebt4 delnig(leney ? No ;
• 11114butive *bre foliar* oStrinsoctitios of a private
• mit; tlwy were ll ottki ra secret, itud from what
..tae had ifsisasett Ist;akthii.tha masa of the inquiry in
the Atier-ltilidno, heik 11Ht sieau4d of their having
origiiniteil *in. it 'Conspiracy ; and if, as he hoped
'mold be the eiriw, ow inquiry were instituted, lie
had no *doubt it Might even yet be proved. /.. me
• ',me sok of the ameba of those who thought that
the Minitreiw were • ....dies to it, or that they were
: ens kegisaisited with it; bat some inference ay lit
tligt motives which led to the injury might be driWw-
. ,4000:.,..„-ilmist the tim: when the Milan Commission watt in=
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',Ruled, +hie,' was immediately after the death or'
11* /evinces) Charlotte. He would not say thht
• 7311ibisterb atede choke if thin I/raiment fir 'the este-
• Mashing of that Coniiirsion(Heart, hecir,lrde•
• lard Castlereagh I—bit that was, iii"fact, the date
•of its origin. He believed it to have been the natu.
rah result of the darker workings of the grind Hanoi
wises immisiracy, the exploits of Ike Omptedas
witsilliallee worthies of that description. He did not
obriblete to Mitiiiters the nefarious deeds which
eillo`lbeve been committed by the Commission
Ilitlyouto; he would not attribute to them the
• hiviiiiNibre bribery, and the subornation of each
t witnesses int had been examined ut she bar of the
• other House; nor did lie think it could be exacted
* of them to dissect with the greatest legal nicety the
• evidence with which they *ere furnished. • But
he did think, that when that evidence am in their
lionisation, it vr.te a duty incumbent on them, be-
fore they made it the foundation of a public pro-
, a.eediog, to ascertain the chatucter of the wit-
' helloes, and whether they wise corroborated by
other credible testimony. Now he thought that
• topple proof hod been exhibited of their flatfeet of
oil this. It was stated by the Noble Lord at the mit-
' set, and be ft It terrified for the fateuf the illustrious
• end unfortunate Lady, when he observed the manner
its which the declaration was made, that the depo-i-
-tlons contained in the bug which had been laid
upon the sable, were not from persons of low or
disreputable diameter, but f,oin persons of a de-
: seription to command belief. But in proportion
to the apperheesion which that statement of the
• Noble Lord 'had excited, was his surprise when
he saw in the other House the perilous from
whom thole elepostiosis had been token, and *btu
he learned the little pains that had been taken
• to make inquiry of other persons who must have
been able to 'speak to most parts of the case.
• If. did not refer only to pessons in the donits,ie
• service of the Princess of Wales, but to others
..hr, were as independent us any man in either
/loose of P.ithsoo,ot, of whom inquiry might have
I.t on made. Molly of the tronsiectioos to which the
evidence referred, might have beets proved or dis-
proved hr men who could have no motive whatever
for *perking any thing but the truth respecting
them. He bothaleeedy Mentioned to the House a
corivensation whit•ft lie bad with the Neapolitan
Ambassador, relative to cetheiti circumatissices
which were said to have (lectured at Naples, but
• which his Excellency had positively contradicted,
• Any person, who was at the Court of Naples at the
gate of those supposed occurrences. might have
-.striken to their troth or falsehood ; and there
were ma iy English Noblemen and Gentlemen
these et the time, of when correct informs.
tnni might easily have been obtained. It might
be asked, why persons had not been produced
1...-rint that Court to disprove the charges on the part
• sat the defence ? Application lad been made to
ars< rat persons, hut in the brat instance the Go-
eeritusent did nut like to give them leave of ab-
sienee, and they had therefore sent over their deposi-
intus, supposing dean to be adsoissible in evidence.
, fist aftcrwaids learnieg that they were nut so, marry
..1 them hall lamented leave of abreact ; hut it was
thee too late, as Ibeprocrtdinga were closed. The
41.4positiutis of those persons he now lurid its Ilia hand,
lied he begged the etteotten of the House while he
bead a few extracts. The first was from the Bishop
mil Priam, a kith was 001, as maiiy persons had been
led to imagine, a chateau, hut a city of some con-
Retie:nice ; the next was from a person whose
high rank at the Court to which lie belonged
lateen:led hint from coming liver to this country
to One evidesiee, the Cardinal Albano; the next
was from Count Aketender IValter ; and the Deal
lion Prolessar Tole tinni. The gunned General
teed au estr.act fount each of the.. tieposmons,
winch all caricuerril in smirking in term* of the
highest praise sod resi•ect of site virtues, the eh.-
tarter, and the correct cuinloct of the. Princess of
Wile.: The Isetseareed person, from the maitre of
his office, v., a undies, pram intoner, was able to
sink of touts of her- conduct which conk' not
nave fallen under the Police of other persons ; and
be spoke with notch adonis& of her graciuns amid
ofrible deportment, and her kind 111111 tep.fier rub i.
sada for the comfmta nf all wile were about lire',
metatiosiing in lenticular her atientioes to fur
dosseretics when eick, nod her admintsteiing toe.
theme" to them with her own hands. An
elleKatiau had lieen made, that upon the :well-
tails,' of the 'filiiicess of tales to be admitted a
member of the Casino, or vlll4lBll of Nobles, at
she was: excluded. or as it was commonly
termed, black-bolled. Particular pair* laid hero
taken for the procuring of evidence to rebut this
charge. and after. much diffirulty itceritticate had
here übtowed from the Governor, which stated that
her Itoyal Ilightieea never applied to lie adinitted.
With .aspect to the tiametetiona *holt hint been
&Tooted to. as having occurred at Trirote. it was
tit proof that her Majesty aas hardly as litany hums
ni that ',Lice a. she had been sworn to hart• irmained
dip in Hear, Aeur,fiton Lord Cuetlereoffh.l
—He braid the Notify Loid eltery lbat h airinene;
Loot he rosa/d auk bon wheeler there was Dot a Brt-
Cemsul 'reaniesit at Trieste. and whether that
littlish Cues's' had out hero in England during the
tiguiry l Wiry bad tie Cut been examined ? Ile

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tartitiling 4 a
the Qiieen...,The next topic to which he referred
was the wee *heels it had been attempted to snake
'of the prometion tied 'Mice *hewn to Bernie;,
a cireldoshetice, he cemented, not at all likely to
,excite that degree of obeervetion, or to he viewed
airs the NMI light in other countries, as its most
.ate ice it would hi this; and he related an instence
1410 occurred within his own hutterledge, of the
lost cerdiiiland reeoguitiou by an tor&
.iridoss/ in an exalted station at the Coon of Bee lin,
of a paws who was serving at the time in • very
capacity. and was immediately raised and
distinguished by the most nattering notice. He
she strummed a case which occurred when Immo..
with a Noble Lord (Cathcart, we premim), A.
hassador from the King arias country to a foreign
Court, of a King's messenger Whig admitted for
twenty days together to breakfast and dine :it the
slime table with his Lordship, not from any superie,
airily dine rash by birth to the situation he then held,•
but because his couduct waisconsidered as reodering
him deserving of such notice, and as doing honour
to dime who beetowed it upon him. The Hon.
Member them, proceeded to argue, that the general
chersclrr of her Maje.ty fur kindness and affability
to all, that the fact elf her attention to her dome,-
tics in every situation, but portictilarty in Macs's,
and tweet hi the case of the mats supposed to be
ailitcted with the plague, should have rendered
Ministers slow to believe site scandalous tales which
were fabricated on this subject. He thought the
censure which had beru bestowed en some of the
itiowers of her Majesty to Achill-lases was immette
Durably severe, particularly when it was considered
that she hail, with unexampled orsguauituity, for-
borne to have recourse to recrimination, which was
tee her power. The Hon. Member for Oxford (Mr.
Peel) had asked whether it was to be 'Oremd that
adultery and high imams should he installed in the
throne of this country, and whether the crime were
not the satire if committed in the Mediterraneau as
in this memory ; but he must be permitted to ask,
whether Ministers themselves had not recognised its
the offer which they made to her Majesty while un-
der the imputation, el the means of continuing the
saute career which site was charged to have so long
pursued lie was now celled on to inns a
rote of censitre on Minister', and he had
touch rather that they would du something which
'mold enable hint to join in au approval of
their conderct. He had rather arsist in raising the
temple of concord than in prolonging maim.
b!illy. The Member for Oxford (11r. Peel) had
Ltebarged the people, not certainly to a harsh sprit,
'that he had said that the people Were changeful and
t teacilisting in their opinions; but he (Sir It: Wilson}
thought. that in nY instances out of 100, if the caper
Pierre accurately inquired into, it would be found
'that the great body of the ireople were firm and
unchatiging in principle. whatever might be the
, east with their leaders. This was his firm movie-
-4km; and he held it to be his duty, as ■ Hepresen-
Nitre of the people, to comply with their wishes,
and to defer to their opinion's when clearly mid proa
perly defined. Whenever he found those opinions
to be irreconcilable with his own, he should ark
his constituents not to withdraw their confidenre
from him, but to put segue other man in his plaie.
If they found any other better suited to their
wishes he should be happy to resign; and lie *Mild
always lie ready to retire for ever from public life,
if his doing so should be found to facilitate any
arratigement for the benefit of his country.
Mr. Minis:Am prayed the indulgence of the
Noun while 1w offered a few übservatious on the
question before them. Before be proceeded to the
onmeiliate subject snider discussion. he might be
allowed' to advert to some of those topics which had
been touched on by those Honourable Gentlemen'
who had preceded him. Among oilier things
which he felt called upon to notice was, the mis-
conception of the Hon. Member for Li nureshotough
tier J. Mecktistosli), of what hued fallen from the
e•Hon. Member for Cork Castle (Mr. Bankes),
-the toms> particularly. as he observed that the Gal-
lant General hail haiku into the same mistake.—
In commenting upon the speech of the Honour:Ale
Member for Cork Castle, they took him to say,
that lie disapproved of the beginning, of the cola-
irtuat and of the cud of the proceedings; but
he I:nd listened to that Honourable Member's
speech, as he always did to esery thing which came
frosts hon. with the utmost attention which it was
iii his power to give. and he thought he heard him
most dietinctly etutes, that, although did eiot alto-
gether approve of the proceedings, either in their
commencement, in Ihtir continuation. nor cress at
their termination, yet he was at a loss to discover what
other course could have been pursued —( Hear, front
Lord Custlereagh. echoed by the Ministerial benches.)
on this expression of the Most. Member's they
founded am attack agninst him fur iticoosietrairy, in
put voting for the mutton of the Noble Lord oppo-
site; whereas he alas perfect') mosso:et in olio.-
ing that motion, otter having declared that tat knew
loot what Mint:stria could have dime better than
they had. The Right Hou. Gentleman proceeded
to notice the olocreations of Sir J. Altiekoitiisli
upon the peace of 1814, which, lie eiinteoded, was
lolly deservisig of 'lir terns of commendatiou in
which he had been spoken of. The Hon. Gentle-
man hail dearribed the Billy which were poised hist
Session as soellictent. After' having been told eight
alter eight, during the di-cuseiona ',pun those Bills.
that they were arbitrary, oppressive, and utterly
subversive of the Constotoll-11. was it to be expected
that they alionld now hear them taunted as itioprea•
list! nod isstfficient ? The (entle-I:set, eppswite, lest.,
lit:Wort y slit• aisle acroodrr of the ftdoVu.s, iu •d•
dressing public m.ctitog., had hi Id sip Mose lulls
as thirto which unglit out so be toler..ied its a tree
country. and wheels (tory should neser rest until.,
Illry saw repealed ; and now they said that those,
vet). measisses or re lotpertiltVe and 'li:efficient. But'
be would say shut tlory were In-niter toe Oise nor
' the oilier. lint that to thew eras on log the prase.
aide sod orderly conduct of Isle mettisons. The
(,ut 'erten opposite every tight spoke of the
• shun which. they raid, prirNilril its every !Alt
of the country. sad which they 'pi:dined them-
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if he isi.ht iiresegie so 40 us i fact, to die.
ical hoorledge of the web. •
ion that there was but one arils
r each a proatedingps that os. *. 4,i;flta: lit 11, saw
re-
Penalties. }lrk sr& aware. '
,1 . . ir 4-Jowei lbw civ-
i of their intricluctiou en cilaistalier • taut General cwatittlil that it
were pprreccc tits which he was evident that Ministers had not amakrilhoie pee.
*. 11Rbodyase is whit* Mahon, ingvviries which it wee their duty to small
ey went tesfillable was, far previous to impiitatilis a public proceeding urinal
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