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Adjourned.
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HOUSE OF tAISeMO,I9. '
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Several petitions were peesented frenit deittors cons
Sited in different gaols, but the places from which
they came we could nor hihr. They were severnili
ordered to he on the. table. . . .
Mr. JEFFERY .(Plunk) gave notice, th.it hr
would, to-mormw, move. that the order made on
the 201 of this month, for the peoduuiun of certain
Naval Papers, be discharged
Mr. PAUL moved, that the papers laid nn the
table relatife to the Nabob of OuJe, 1w printed,
which was ord-red accordingly.
The Him. ticio%er then said,that he had moved,
nn former occasions, the printing of several papers,
i espeding the condutt of the Marquis Wellesley ;
and, that as soon as the slid papers were printed,
be should. on the earliest day in his power. bring
I,n-ward his charges against that Noble I.os J.
He the* snored for copies of a long string of
naitnres and tenets which had passed heist een the
VI u•qais Wellesley. Alarquis Corawallis. and the
b •ar .1 iif Confront.
Mr. WHITIIHXD KEENE, ins short speech.
sv• onsied the amino.
Mr. P AUL said, that as the sullied was now be-
fon the Hooey. be would take the opportunity of
shady westinsing his reasons far bringing for-
ward these charges. lie dada amen the }loon.,
that he had no comedian wnateeet with the :abob
of Oude. nor with any nelson who was at all COSI.
cursed is his affairs. The several ninttetswilich he
;bought it necessary to nring before the House. fee
its eoesiderminn. had tome to his knowle !g! daring
It residssee of souse years in India ;sold. to bring-
ing forward the chat gas he should ground upon
them. he was solely adnated by a seam of public
duty, and an other motive wb i,.,ver.
Sir T. hISTCALFE expressed himself entry to
' be *Wiped, at nay time, to oppose the prodaeien
of peposes. He canto not. &twofer. refrain howl
ap on the present necessitate. Them motions,
. he had of late Weems very eomenon.
.- witisset deiag.say service ; and the Papers atoned
ht. tad bowmen many instances, so multifarious and
. voiesisess, that their produttion had become ex-
tremely iaconvenieet to the regular and necessary
business of the Court of Diteflors. and a very
heavy impasse. indeed, to the public. lie miner-
eased. that assay ver y important Papers teLttive to
our stairs is ladia. had, since they were printed.
• fallen into the bands of Bonaparte, who deemed
" them of the highest towequence to the forwarding
- and assistiog his views on that country ; And these
papers were, by his orders, translatiag into the
rench language, in order tto give them as much
. publicity as possible. He hoped. therefore, the
.„ House would pause before they so readily acqui-
i need to motions for Papers. There were a great
' many of the Papers now moved tor, which related
l,op
I. to treaties formed e ith the native powers of India.
Reports had gone abroad, that such treaties as had
• been entered into between the late Governor Ge-
kwneral and such native powers, were to be annulled,
which might produce the most mischievous conse-
quences. He had no doubt, but if the Marquis
i - Wellesley had, daring his appointment as Governor
General et India. condoned himself in any man.
I fter which might incur the disapprobation of that
Home, be was amenable to them, and might be, by
the House, very properly called on to accoint
for the same; but this, in his opinian, was not the
period; and he. therefore, thneght it his duty to
oppose the presume asetina, and to take the sense of
the Hosea isa k.
Mr. FRANCIS expressed himself very much sur-
prised at the oppos;tious of the Hon. Baronet to the
prodftdion of these Papers, a-'J room particularly
ses. et the resume he had adduced for sn doing.
'rhe Hon. Baronet had objeaed that much mischief
had arisen is coimeepteace of the numerous Papers
which had formerly Imo moved for sod printed.
As to his own part, he bad moved lot several,
which he thnught necessary, and which his duty
called imperiously ran him to dot and he eestld not
conceive how any mischief could accrue to the
Company, cr to the country, from the production
and printiug of these Papers, as the Board at Coo-
troul was certainly the most competent judge. and
they had bees consulted on every Paper moved,
and sot one had been gutted, but %hat met with
their full and entire approbation. 'flue lion. Batts-
; set had also ohjedell to the great espence of the
copying and printing these Papers. this was an
'., objelliew which had frequently been brought for-
ward against hien and his friends, whenever they
weaved MT Papers ; brit he begged the House to re-
c.:Le, hew foray such an argument must he; and
e •• - sore they .sever could hear to be told, that its
rs.,t;eis .if the highest and most material national
impair:, they :hnuld be deterred from granting
Papers recess,, y For a doe investigation of 'lnkjet%
of the utmost moment to the interests ot the
coo-try, from a fear of a few thousand pounds ex-
pence. With regard to the c-ndui.4 of the Marquis
Wellesley, he ne-er, at any peri..d, had said any
thing relating to hiss, which he did not think. lie
had repo-wed his disapprobation as to several parts
of that condlia ; and in movir.g for the Papers he
had done, be was :satiated by no other motive,
then that of wishing to have the matter fairly ill-
vestlg.rect, and of giving the Noble Lord a Lair oc-
casion aild opportunity of justifying that conduff to
that I ious.., and to the I °mary at large; anl no
roan would he more satisSed than himself, to find
the Noble Marquis *tile to clear himself from any
ood.every degree of blame that had been imputed to
Mtn. The Hutt. Baronet had alluded to mischiefs
which he roman-E.-1 to have arisen, in consequence of
these printed ft.yi•rs havirg fallen into the hands of
Bonaparte. 11•.• begged leave, however, to differ
with him on that brad; for, if any mischief had
accrued to this country, or the East India Com-
pany; hams Paperr relative to India having fallen
into tie /stunts i f the French Government, it was
not from an, ot those which had been primed, but
from the intercepted c.irrespoodence which the
blarquis Wel!esley had sent home by a circuitries
and ia• sisfe conveyance. add which hal thus fallen
iirri the has•d, , f Baniaparte. The Hon. Baronet
had said, that many of these I'..pet.t were Wesel,
and from that cirt trytts,an;,.. would be serviceable to
lionispaete Ile k :.w ,d nu secret of the kind; if
there were a:.y, he was certain the Board of Con-

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troul Would not lssie permitted titeet to he prts-
dyced ind, as midi, he should support the pissed
Motion.
Mr; PAUL said, the reward r.f Controul had been
applied and made acquainted with all the Papth
intended to be moved fur, and had given their con-
sent to die of the whale.
Mr. WALLACE, said, that his Noble Esiend.
Lord Castlereagh, had not the smallest objc:tion tr:
the produdionsul the rapes moved for, nor had
he himself, they seers b..th desttnus nt the greatest
uttblicity, whenever the subject should come to an
Mvestigation.
After a few words between the Ffcmourable Gen-
tleman and Mr. Patti, as to a few verbal altera-
tions in one of the Motions, the gallery was ahi.tit
to he cleared Mr a di vision, but on a pretty general
murmur of .Agree, agree.,
Sir T. Metcalfe withdrew his ohjeaion ; and the
questions was put on the several Motions, and all
agreed to ,

Lord CASTLEREAGH gave notice, that he
wnuld, tomorrow, move a vote of thanks to Lord
Collingwood, and the officers, seamen, and ma-
rines, .erving under him, at the glorious viaory of
Trafalgar; and to Sir R. Strachaa, the officers,
seam:-n, and marines, ”rving under him, in the
capture of tour of the nemy's ships of the line ;
and that he would, in pursuance of ilis Majesty's
commands, then lay before the House copies of the
treaties entered into with the several powers on the
Continent.
A new Writ was ordered tot* issued for the Uni•
vanity of C.:nt'iridge, in the room of the Right
Honourable William Pitt, deceased.

FUNERAL HONOURS ANn MuSUNIENT TO

.PITT. _
Mr. LASCELLES rote. in consequence of the
nod to he had given. He said he had, in bringing
forward the melancholy subjeß of which he had
given notice, been extremely anxious to avoid
revisal of the political differences which might exist
in the minds of the several Nlembers of that I louse ;
and had. on the present occasion, only allowed
himself permission to disturb the ashes ,f that great
and exalted e.liaratter, so lately deceased, !iy biing-
ia fora and his name, in older to express a feeling,
which, he believed, existed ;It the breasts of a ma-
jority of that House, and of the country, in COM-
mon with himself, as to the very distinguished and
brilliant talents which that great man bad, for
a series of years, uniformly and attively exerted in
the service of his country. He had purposely de-
termined to abstain from any observations on the
general tendency of his aaminictration, during the
whole or any part of that time, in order to avoid the
objettion of anticipating any opinion or judgment
of the House, on the question relative to the present
Administration, of which notice had been given of
a Motion to be brought before the House; and from
a wish to avoid every thing that might tend to create
a difference of opinion or semiment in the mind of
any Member in the House. He had no doubt but
one general sentiment prevailed throughout the
House, as to the brilliant and transeendant talents of
that illustrious character, now no more, of whom
lie W 24 then speaking ; and he could not bat flatter
himself, that all would agree in the propriety of
expressing some mark of respeti and regard to the
m-mory of one who had so lately held the most 1
exalted shition in that House, as well as in the esti.
motion of its Members and of the whole country,
by granting to his wears those funeral and other ho-
nours. which might, at once, evince the reaped of
the Honer and the country, and their feelings for
so great a loss. In his attempt to induce the House
to agree with him in the °Nett of the Motion he
should hare the honour to submit to their considera-
tion, he should propose to them to take the prece.
dent of what had been formerly done in honour of
his great and illustrious father; and, in order to
acquire as much unanimity of sentiment as pomible,
he had adopted the very words in which the seise
of Parliament had been conveyed on that memcrra-
ble occasion. Before he made his Motion, how-
ever, be would beg leave just to say one word as to
what had fallen from an Honourable Gentleman
opposite to him (Mr. Fox), in answer to a question
asked by the Noble Lord (Castlereagh), on the sob-
jai of the propriety of delaying his Motion, as he
was not in the House when the Honourable Gentle-
man said it. To this he had only one word of an-
swer, that if he looked to his administration during
the period of twenty years, there was only one
ground on which he could be asked to delay his
Motion ; and that was, not to anticipate by it any
opinion of the Home as to the condult of the pre-
sent administration during the last six months. This
he had endeavoured, in the wording it, entirely to
avoid, and to make it only the expression of the re-
spell and regard of that House, and of the country,
for the departed talents of that distinguished and
exalted charalter ; the loss of whom, as a man, and
a Member of that House, he was sure every one
present must equally, with himself, feel and deplore.
He therefore moved—
That an humble Aildrem he presented to His Majesty, pray-
ing that His Mininti etas be graciously ?leased to give dime-
tem., th.it the remain. of the Right Honourable %Volum' Pitt
be interred at the pub:, charge, and that a monument be ,iert_.
ad in liifcstininster, with as imicriparsit thorerrii, 'ceiling the
great talents and abilities of that distinguished and ex,edicat
statesman, and to mine H s Mainly that this House will
make goou.l the ceponces of the min,

The Marquis of TITCHFIELD rose to second
the Motion. He sail, that, though he had Inc many
rears been in the habit of a&ing with the great and
distinguished charafter, to commemorate whose me-
mory the present Motion was made, in his public
capacity, and to support the measures of his Admi-
nistration, vet he never had, in any manner. been a
pirtaket of his private friendship. Such, however,
was the high opinion he bad always entertained fir
the splendid talents of that great man, and for the
zeal, atlivity, and energy. with which they had been
so long and so eminently exerted in the public ser-
vice. that he could not content himself with giving
a silent vote on the occasion, and would, therefore,
sec.ind the .slot;on.

Lord FOLKS roN E said, Ile miich admired the
condua of CA. Ger.tlem4n opposite to
him, far the very candid and moderate manner in
he had brought forward the present Petition,
and he would endeavour to follow, as nearly as pos-
sible, his example, in the mode he should adopt. of
resisting it. No man had a higher seise of the
great tale:s and extensive powers of the Right 1-lo-
setarable Gcctlsman, deceased ; nos mute lamented

1 `his Lis, .IS a trleol. tan In (La ;Inn, ai, Le thought
hose talents hltitt been exerted aud"eirlo`yed for
*e a:lva:it:ix?, :red towards the success of tilt colos-
tral, he cools! nut, in duty to himself, do Otherwise
than give iris negative to the motion.
Lnd LOUVAINE said, he had, dining the
whole p a ioj of his attendance In Parliament, been
I warm:,:: impressed with sentiments the must favour-
able to the brilliant talents of the Right Honourable
Gentleman, now no mote, whose lon he could not
but deeply lament; as such, he mold not bring:
himself tdgive a silent vote on the occasion, and
should, therefore, support the motion.
Mt. 3. H. BROWNE said, he prided himself no:
a hole in having been one of those who had trot.
formly supported the measures of the Right Hon.
Gentleman, whose loss, the House, and the country
at large, had so much reason to deplore. The rare
and splendid talents he possessed, and the real end
activity with which he had uniformly and unremit-
tingly exerted them in the service of his country, de-
manded from all its inhabitants the warmest return
of gratitude. He had commenced his political
ea.•eer, and first came into power, at a period when
the country was greatly exhausted, and her finances
nearly ruined by the excessite drains of the Ameri-
can war ; he had since gradually itAproved the con-.
dition of it, in such a manner, as to gain the appro-
bation of all who loved its dearest interests and we.-
fares and through his extraordinary abilities and itt-
defatigable zeal and alliviry, had brought it to the
present high pitch of greatness. Whatever might
be alleged against him by his political opponents,
he, for one, would always think and speak with gra-
titude of his superior merits; and such was the
proud state of the country at the present mom.int,
he would say of him, as the Romans said of Augus-
tus Ce,ar—He foetid Rome woods and left it
marble. The motion had, therefore, his warm ap-
probation and support.
Mr. .1. H. ADDINGI'ON spoke shortly in fa-
von: of the motion ; but, in so low a tone, that we
could not distinaly hear what he said.
Mr. W. SMI Ili said, he was perfectly sensible
of the disagreeable situation a man places himself
in, who opposes a motion like the present ; but,
however unpieas.tnt such a step might be, when duty
imperiously imposed the task, he must comply
with its didates. No man more sincerely than '
himself regretted the loss of the great and distin-
guished talents of the Right Hon. Gentleman, note
no more—no man, he believed, held them in higher '
admiration ; he had attended Parliament during
the greatest part of the ti:ne that Right Hon.
1 Gentleman bad been in office, and he had frequent-
ly attended to the display of his extraordinary abili-
ties, he might almost say, with awe and venera-
tion. He could not, however, agree to the present
motion, hkause it was not in his power either to say
or think, that these extraordinary talents had ulti-
mately been exerted for the benefit and advantage
of the Country. He thought, that when that House
was called upon to return thanks, or to vote honours
to any particular individual, or to the memory
I of any individual, for services performed, it was
always understood, that those service, hail been
attended with CICCetS, and thereby had contributed
to the prosperity and welfare of the country; and
this he could not bring himself to say, when speak-
ing of the services of the Right Hon. Gentleman,
now no more. But, besidesohis, there is one word
in the motion, that would make ilia oppose it, bad
he no other ebjeflion to it. In one part of the mo-
tion, the Right Hon. Gentleman, deceased, is called
" aa excellent statesman." If the House be called
upon to address His Majesty to confer thanks of
honour on the memory of the Right Hon. Gentle-
man, as " an excellent statesman," he knew of no
other criterion, by which they could, with justice,
form their judgment, but from steadily looking to
the system which be had pus sued; and to col-
lect, fairly and impartially, what had been the
consequences resulting from it. To take a re-
view of the state of the country, at the period
when he came into power, and what it is at
I the presert moment, would require much more time
than the House could now possibly spare ; he must,
therefore, on that subject, leave every Honourable
Member to draw his own inferences, and his own
i conclusions, and he mast adopt the same rule for
himself. He then stood in that I louse as the repre-
sentative of a number of constituents, who had vo-
Wismar, and without solicitation, called on him
to aa in that capacity, from the uniform opposition
he had always given to the system and measures of
the Right Hon. Gentleman, and because thee did
no think him " an excellent Statesman." 1-iow
' then could he loolc his constituents in the face, if
be voted for a Motion so worded ? He gave the
Hon. Gentleman, who brought forward the Motion,
every possible credit for the honourable feelings by
which he was aftuated, and for the very candid
manner in which he had introduced it. He believed,
be nay thinks the Right Hon. Gentleman " an
excellent Statesman;" differing, however,with him,
as it was his misfortune to do, he could no more
give up his opinion to the HosaiiGentleman, than he
could ask the Hon. Gentleman to acquiesce in his ;
and, thus situated, he could not do otherwise than
give his negative to the Motion.
Mr. PITCHES spoke very shortly against the
Motion.
Sir It. BUY CON said, that.when he heard his
Hon. Friend give notice of his intention to bring
forward the present Motion, l,e thought were
could be but one sentiment on the subject,' on either
side, or in any part of the House, or of the country.
He expeßed from the other side of the I louse. Via
%rhea that great man was gone, oppositioo would
be gone also. He had, however, been grievously
disappointed ; and, to his great surprise, grind
that the same system followed him beyond his mor-
tal existence. Lie was sorry to find, that so many
Hon. Members in dust House refused to pay the tri-
bute of gratitude to that illustrious character, whose
magnificent talents, while they retießed the highest
honour on the country which produced them, had
contributed so essentially to its interests and prosy,
rity. That great man had strenuously and unre-
mittingly exerted himself in the we vice of his
country, and it was an infinite consolation to him to
reflea, that notv.iirlistanding every opposition, the
immortal name of Pitt will live in it for ever.
The Margins of DOUGLAS very much la-
mented that the present discussion had taken place ;
because he could not agree to the motion, roar pre.
viui on himself to tee upon it a silent negative. It

was not stiFficient tei eiv. that rope!, money. un,l
even splen lid Wiens, atteched to Vie Stork sem.
Gentleman, wow no more; the l los-e a.: loieol
to coot:der, at the same time, -ii hesher sho e tom.,
with all their dozeliog brioleneso had proved ser.
viceaSla to. and promoted the devote interests 104
welfare of, the count's.. He eoeld not .agree, be
said, to the same honours belngdue to the memory
.if the Right lion. Gentleman, as l'erliameot tvd
re, hen pleased to ai to that of hie illostr,ous !other.
Fie would ask t , reeve c6.citsisider t!.e iiT 1.141:14.4
of the country S, 1 6 (lid Wilk t.., en yeok v„,„,
ort„ comparing that with what it i, now, to sae,
whether the same honours were due to the son, as
had been poid to the fatliere Whenever hoover,
hail been voted by Parliament, for any services pro
foe med, it was always coneiseered by there, andiold
to be oar of the first grounds of their part ceediez
that such servic'es Oritild save heel snceessfao
Would the immense crowds of people here loood
to London, from Almost every corner of the United
Empire. to vaitness the funeral °Oki-riles of the ith-
moreol naval hero, who hail been so lately intetied,
if he had lost the bottle of Ts ololieor, and there-
with a Ilri,ish fire- ? No man can suppose such on
incomistency. No ; it was his cocoas which had
added to the innionerable liturels he had anteco
drostly and pies; i: oily acquired, whit-la hod stomprd
an additional lustre on the courage otid charoat: of
the naval defenders of the coutury ; and which ha I,
at the same time, gives a deadly blow to the prOle
and power of cur enterprising and implacable Joe.
lie would not, at the present moment, advert to any
topics which might tend to throw the siightest era-
sure on any port of the condo& of the Rigiit Ho.
rtourable Gentleman whose memory was the ohjoo
of the Motion. lie knew the sentiments of fat
own constitueres, and he had sliewn his dory to
them, by uniformly opposing those measures which
the Right lion. Gentleman had so long and so
unceasingly pursued ; and should he now fly in the
face of all those, by voting for the present mo. ion, he
would be very inconsistent indeed. He wished not
to disturb the ashes be would walk over with reve.
rence; and would not, therefore, advert to portice-
lar measures, but content himself with what hi; duty
imperiously diaoted, and give his negative to the
motion.
Col. TA aLETON said, that he had frequently
ailed in opposition to the measures of the Rotbt
lion. Gentleman, who was the objea of the pre.
sent motion, and cc hose loss he very much deplored;
but as the chief objeaion so the motion seemed to be,
that these honours snould be wi:bheld till the judg-
ment of the !louse was known, on the snbjea of b:s
condu.l for the last six months—be, for one, was of
opinion. that the last six months of his administra-
tion were the most brilliant of his life, and therefore
he would vote for the motion.
Lord TEMPLE said, be would trouble the
House with very few wards indeed ; and, perhaps,
if he reflea en the near relationship which ha;
existed bet _n the Right Hornurable Gentlemao,
now no mo . sad himself, it might be thought.!.:
would have ailed a mute prudent part, by obsertre
a profound silence ; but he could not prev:sl It :sit
himself to adopt that line of conduct . It win well
known to the House, that he had frequently opposed
the measures of hi, Right Honourable Relation , nd
particularly during the latter part of his Adulio
tration ; but, nomitheronding that. he was alwaks
truly sensible of his very superior abilities, 49101 CO4O
not suffer the present motion to pass, without of
a few words, in order to pay his poor, but sincere
tribute of applause to three brilliant talents, with
which the Right Honour able GenOeman deceased
had been so abundantly endowed ; which, from the
first moment of his entrance into puOlic lite. had
been so zealously and atlively exerted for the service
of his country ; the thorough cavil lion of which.
induced him to give his vote is favour of the
motion.
Mr. WINDHAM spoke at considerable length
against the motion. He took a teview of the se-
veral arguments urged in its support, as being only
a tribune to departed talents of the greatest mag-
aitude, and of these which had urged the necessity.
on such an occasion, of burying all animosities in a
generous oblivion. If, he said, this were a
question merely to pay tribute to splendid ta-
lents, he should be one of the last who
would object to it. If there were any thing
which could make him sot agree to the injunc-
tion or desire of burying animosities, it would only
be, that he had no animosities to bury. This
was, in his view of it, a question of feeling, and,
even allowing it to be so, it behoved the House
to consider, whether, at the time they were than
consulting their feelings, they were not doing
so at the expence of their public duty ? They were
now engaged on a subject of the utmost impert-
ance, no less than that of an adjudication of the
highest honours the country can pay to, or bestow
on departed worth. He wished, therefore, tl,e
House to consider a little the nature of the. pre-
ceeding in which they were engage:l. What were
they about to do ! To posy a tribute of opplatoe
to, and to confer honours on, talents of the most
splendid ki .d ; he would allow, employed for
many you; in the service of the country. eithet
in or out of office. Why, and on what ground is
it, that this tribute was asked to be paid ?.---
He supposed the Hos. Merrittere who supporte-
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the motion meant to say, that these great ta-
lents had been exerted in such a was as to low
proved essentially serviceoble, and, of a !van-
tage to the country. If so, it leads to the noose
point as that of rewards voted to sbew the country's
panto*, and to compensate those naval and mi-
litary heroes, whose valorous exploits, and whose
pre-eminent genius and skill in their several
professions, have achieved actions. which rerlossn'f-
ed to the glory, and increased the welfare of
their country. This is a remuneration whice
may be made; this is a measme which may've
safely and wisely adopted ; because it corm t
any one be austeken ; because it goes hi ne
to the hearts of all. He who routs an enemy's
army, or destroys his Rotes, deserves to he revetrd•
ci, and there can be no hesitaticn in allot:Mr, bier
the meed he has so elm Musly slow, ved, beotaer 0.,
one wiil be found to doubt either its propriety or
its justice ; the circumstance itself is known to M.
no one can be deceived by it. It is not a thing :1
which teen could d,ffer ; on which one would oar
one thing. and one anothee. Such actions lest
to, and gratify, the general feekng ; as bo,'