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all the rent statesmen in the natioti otight to rally
react th: throne, and oifer their services to his Ma-
j.••sty,.; or ier to ferrn a combination of wisdom, ta-
n ea rgy, and vigour ; every distinguished poli-
tic c larader 'should dismiss his personal preju-
dices. his individual jealousies, and his party le:ling.
Ile wished not to see an Administration composed
of men of this or that particular party, but of men
of all parties—men known only by the extent of their.
abilities, the soundness of their judgment, and the
decision of their minds Hiving dwelt upon these
ideas for some time, the Earl concluded his speech,
with apologizing for having somewhat irregularly
taken up so mach of the time of the Committee.
Lord PELHAM said, he believed he must be-
gin with begging pardon of the Committee for
rising rather in a disorderly manner, to make a few
observations on what had fallen from the Noble
Bael, as it was impossible not to take some notice
o► part of the Noble Lord's speech. The Noble
Earl had taken upon him to censure his Majesty's
servants, for having introduced the present Bill,
when there were open to them two different courses
to have pursued, which, in the Noble Earl's opinion,
would have been, either of them, a preferable course
to have followed. Had the Noble Lord forgot
that the whole business of providing some relief for
his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, was
brought under cognizance of Parliament by a Mes-
sage froth the Crown ; that the object of that Mes-
sage had been closely followed up by the present
Bill, which provided by anticipation after four
years that was yet to run of the Bill of 1795, (which
vested a certain part of the income then allowed
and granted to his Royal Highness the Prince of
Wales, in certain commissioners or trustees for the
discharge of his debts), and to put the Prince in
possession of the whole of the income, which Par-
liament,llo 1795, thought proper to grant his Royal
Highness ? This appeared to him to be the regular,
natural, end dire course of proceeding that result-
ed from his Majesty's Message. Bid the Noble
Earl said, the Prince was extremely ill-treated by
the present Bill. From wham did the Noble Earl
learn this.? He was persuaded the Prince of Wales
did not either think, or feel himself to be at all
ill-treated. He had himself, Lord P.m.!' A M said,
.a rood share in the whole transadion, and he never
heard of any such complaint. He believed it was
an opinion peculiar to the Noble Earl. The Noble
Earl talked of other debts and incumbrances which
prevented his Royal Highness from re-assuming
his state and dignity he could only say, that no
such other debts as those alluded to by the Noble
were before the Committee, or now un-
cler the consideration of the House. Under the
plea of explaining an expression that had fallen
from the Noble Earl on the preceding day,
but which he confessed had escaped his notice,
the Noble Earl had thought proper to indulge
himself in a vehement attack upon his Majesty's
Ministers, and to call upon them to vacate their
situations, and make room for abler men. 'For his
part, as one of those Ministers, he tould only say
for himself, that he had not sought the situation he
had the honour to hold: it had been his Majesty's
royal pleasure to appoint him to it, and both when
in office before, and now, though he had never been
heard to make any pretensions to extraordinary or
superior talents or abilities, yet he would not yield
to any man in an honest endeavour to .discharge
the duties of his office with satisladion to his Mt-
ysty, and advantage to the public. 'The Noble
Earl had said, the present Administration did not
possess the confidence of the people, and that they
were incapable men. He was at a loss to imagine
by what part of their condu& they should haveior-
feited the confidence of the people, or in what their
incapacity had been so apparent. He had not
heard any complaint either in their administration
of affairs without doors, or in their parliamentary
condud. His Lordship having justified himself and
his Colleagues, and made a few other observations,
apologized for having been drawls in unintentionally
to say so much.

'f he Earl of CARLISLE rose again, and limi-
ted hisformer argument, part of which he rqeated.
From what had fallen from the Noble Secretary of
State, he said, one would be apt to imagine, that
the debts and incumbrances which rendered his

Royal Highness the Prince of Wales unable to set
up his state and dignity for a year and a half to
come, were new debts, debts never heard of before ;
•whereas, in fan, they were known to be in existence
3.1 1795; .known t,, the Commissioners at that time,
Int no provision had been made for them. With
resard to what the Noble Secretary of State had
said of his not having coveted his situation, he had
.not,the F.arl said, charged him, or his colleagues,
.v-ith any violent presumption in taking office, but he
would tell the Noble Secretary, that for Ministers
wit.) were deemed weak and incapable, to cling to
office whemthey had not been able to gain•the con-
;Hence of the people, and were univere,ally consi-
dered as a I.‘ierable, incapable Administralen, to
Abe ~exelusion of abler men, when we were on the
eve of an inv. ision, and the country was in danger.
was not men ly a violent presumption, but some-
thing worse, it was a criminal presumption, loading
Ministers with a deep responsibility. his Lordship
alluded to the .4.:x-Nlinister, and declared that in his
,or,:eion Mr. Pitt had saved the country. There
were no two rr.wn to be met who were, he said,
•of two opinions ,respecting the incapacity of the
present A dminislation, and it was no secret, that
'they did not po, sess the confidence of the people..
'With regard to the present bid, and the treatment
vvehieh the Prince of Wales had experienced, at the
'hands of the prese it Ministers, he had a right to
.littiatain his indiviittial Opinion as a Peer (If Parlia-
ment. He thougi. t the Prince had been ill-treated,
and that the bill veils a -miserable, inefficient mea-
sure.
The I.ORD C:1! !NCELLOR, in a 'speech of
,ronsiderable animati‘n and energy, reprehended the
Earl of.Carlisle for tile unwarrantable freedom with
whith•he had treated his Majesty's Ministers. The
'Noble Earl thinks pi oper to rise, when time House
is in a Committee on an important Bill, to set off
arith declaring., that h., !mans to take no part 'in that
•Committee, nor does I. r mean to move any Amend-
ment, and yet he think s proper to indulge himself in
pronouncing the 13i!1 avniserable, weak, inefficient
measure, perfealy incetrable, and -inapplicable. If
it Ile a miserable, int& ient measure, it,is a measure
ewhieh hi; Majesty's Mi sisters have, after due consi-
deration, thought it th it. duty to propose to Parlia.
a.-ad from which i;hey would not he driven by
any strong expression the Noble Earl should
make ; hi; Majesty's !S Enisters (thank God !) have
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illeVoble Earl may make upon theiN audit mother.
Lord will tell the Noble Earl, he would be t',;.e man
'to tell the Noble Earl, that when he used the word
is peril" the preceding night, he used a word which
he ought not to have used. much less if he really
meant it in the extraordinary sense in which he
had that day thought proper to explain it. The.
Noble Lord talked of Ministers haying lost the confi-
dence of the people ; what was that but adopting the
unnecessary cant taken up by some speaker or other
every day, which he had repeated again and again,
his Lordship saiii,from the first hour that he had ix seat
in Parliament ? With regard to the situation which
lie held, the Lord Chancellor declared it was well
known that was the last thing he was desirous of
obtaining ; hut he would tell the Noble Earl, that
he was conscious that he had done his duty in it
since he had held it ; and as to his colleagues and
himself havinj lost the confidence of the people,
they had received the best and most undeniable
proofs to the contrary—the constant, uniform, and
unvaried support of the Parliament of that pooplo—
the support of both Houses, and the countenance
and approbation of their Sovereign.
The Bill at length passed through the CGrumittee,
and was ordered to be reported.
IRISII MAIL BILL.

Lord AUCKLAND called the attention of the
House for a moment, to an inaccuracy in the Irish
Mail and Letter Bill, which he would more fully go
into in the Committee tomorrow.
A short conversation arose upon it between Lord
PELIIAM, the Duke of NORFOLK, Lord AUCKLAND,
and Lord LIMERICK.
BILL. TO PREVENT FRIVOLOUS AND VENATIOUS