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satisfied; when, thoroughly invesfigate4/ peeve
highly creditable and honotuabteto the projectors
ont.. The Hight Hon. SecTetari, in.lits wind,
introduced a practice into this House extremely
alarming,. .and• had carried it to greater lengths
fhuft he had ever heard of. lie Meant the practice
of suppressing err holding from this lions! any Of
the information ceceiridlbyHis hlsieetis Ministers
respecting the important emuerits of the count/7.
This wits* completely
.exeinplitied by, the Hight
HoMiurable Herretery to the manner he has thought
proper to deal‘willi.thili 'louse, it) the production
of toe. pipe:sand letters relative to the expedition
to eiipenhageti. Ile (the Hight Hon-Secretary) had
not, in hisopinioo, dealt faitly with those frol.n whim
he received those letters, extracts from which he
thongl.t proper to read. These letters, by being
read „by piecemeal, may be made to codrey a
Meaning totally different from the meaning of the
writer. Mr. Gatlicke, he conceived, might tel
himself consider:Oily-injured by the use the Hight
Honourable Secretary had made of iris letters; mid
41itellid believe that he had not - been dealt with in
the mot fair way iu this respect. There is a We)
of reading a letter, • gesticulation, manner. and
emphasis, which wive it it meaning. He did not

min is assert that the Right Honourable Sects,-
tiny had forged any part of MeGarlicke's letters, or
that by leavb-g out a parenthesis, by stopping
where he should not, or by reading ont Anti' sea-
tences, he had rendere 1 their meaning totally dif-
ferent from that intended. Ile never had the plea-
sure of seeing Mr. Garlicke ; he was a persou, he
understood, employed by Government, who was
in the habit of
-giving his opinion on the state of
politics at Copenhnren. If the Right Ilauonrable
Se.reeny was to have the privilege of reading ex-
tracts from Mr. Garlicke's correspoodeuce with him,
without being obliged to produce the whole of it,
it was very apparent that he could wake that Gen-
tleman say just whet suited his (the Right
Holiourable Secretary's) purpose, and no more.
For his owa part, he was satiated that the iusinu-
aeons throwa out against the Crown Prince of
Denmark, by the Right Honourable Secretary,
were caluunnee. He ass convinced, that it was
the determinutionef that gallaat Prince, to waist-
tain, with every effort of his niture, his independ-
ence and neutrality. He would suppose a case for
a moment, which he thouisht would place Mr.
Garlic ke in a very distressing predicament suppose
that Mr. Garlicke had aentnimicated to the Right
Honourable Secretary, that. Ite believed it to be
the inter.tion of the Crown Prince of Denmark,
to use every eiTort to maintain his neutrality; and
in the event of hi not ben able to do so, he was
determined to call upon England for her &inst-
ance and protection. He would ask, it Mr. Gar-
licke had cominitnicated this information to Mr.
Secretary Canning, and that that Itigiit Honour-
, able Gantleinati bad not read such cousingnieetion
to this House, would it not be placing Mr.
Garlicke, in the eye, of Denmark, in a light highly
discreditable to a man of honour or character ?
From all be could learn, he believed Mr. Garlicke
had made such communication ; and be could not
but say, that iu his opinion the Right Houourable
i Gentleman had not dealt fairly with bias. There
! were other reasons, he believed, which prevented
the Right Honourable Gentleman from producing
these letters ; it was not. be feared, convenient to
give the House of Cominoos every information
they afforded. They! may have the tendency of
producing a change of sentiment in the minds of
many Honourable Gentlemen, who were now tho-
roughly persuaded of the uecesiity of our expedia
tion to Copenhagen. Ile had heard a good deal
of time dexterity and managemeut of the Right
Honourable Gentleman and his colleagues, but
much as he admired it, lie trusted it would soon
be at an end. A laugh). A good deal of threat
had been held out with respect to the espeditiou to
Constantinople. The trial of that expedition, he was
proud to find, was at hand, and he felt pleased that
it was. That of the Copenhagen Expedition, he
would inform the Right Honourable Gentleman,
bad not yet arrived. He would, however, abstain
from all recrimination, which only tended to mislaid,
and can never answer any valuable purpose. The
Right Hon. Gentleman produced three letters from
Lord Granville Lrveson Gower, same date, extract*
from which he read ; hut it is clear, that, without
we had heard them read throughout, it remained
with the Right Honourable Gentleman to make
them blow hot or sold, as it suited best his par-
pose. When the Right Honourable Gentleinan
has done what the country, he asserts, deems one
of the most glorious acbie:einents recorded in our
history, one could be inclined to thiuk he could
have no hesitation in producing the information
that led to it. If the information he so strong as
the Right Honourable Secretary would have us be-
lieve it is, as to the intentinn of the Crown Prince
of Denmark attaching himself to France, why not
produce it, and satisfy the country of the expe-
diency of the measures adopted by him and his col-
leagues ? If the Right Hen. Seermary has given us
a false statement of the iotentiou of Denmark, or
at least one not warranted by Mr. Garlicke's let-
ters, he eertainly has horn dealing with the feelings
of Mr. Garlicke rather harshly, That there might
possibly be letters which it would not he prudent
topenance, he wss ready to admit ; and such as
may have the most remote tendency to injure
the public service. he wonlil lie the last mats to
prim for. There were other letter), however,
which hare not been pwithiced, sad the eisclorure
of which. be had every reason to believe, could
I not be hurtful. He iambi therefore call upon
the Right rionontahle Centleman to produce
them. 'The Right Honounible Gentleman eon-
' chided by lancing fin a copy of Lord Howick's
- letter to Mr. Garlicke, dated September 3, 1806,
f with Mr. Gerlii Ise's answer thereto ;—also a espy
- of the note font the Danish Charge d'Affaires,
(Mr. Heist) ts Mr. Seeretary Canning.
I Mr. Sec:vary CAI'S NING and, he felt consi-

derably astonished at the observatems which fell
from the Honourable Gentleman who 'had just sat
down. He was the more surprised at thieve ob-
servations, which he conceived be did talk ia' the
slightest degree merit. If beifing every diiiptee
sition to render all the accornioodattou in his power
to those Right Ilea. Geutletneu composinle the tate
Administration—if a wish, to coinumnieate with
them for the purpose of rendering them assistance
in the selection of such papeeit is they sheik'
think necessary to produce for the invesiOgatinn of
tine Expedition ni*Constnutioeple ; if that Wits fair
ground for the harsh observations of the lion.
Gentleman, he certainly did plead guilty to theth.
He trusted, however, the House would feel, that
his conduct did not merit such rebuke, nor such
observations. With respect to the letters from
which he read eittnicts, they were not included nor
comprised in the motion made by the ItjAht Hon.
Gentleman opposite (M 7. Pousonby). Hs had
read the 'extract of the letter alluded to by the
Hon. Gentlemase,. few Ye purpose atlitti4mil
himself in an anainent made use of re 're to
the dirpositiou of Denmark. It was contended,
that the Danish army at 'Holstein might, in the
event of their being obliged to stimuli/It that
place, transport themselves with facility to 'Len-
lend. He did, on a forffier occasion, contend,
that it would be very difficult for them to do so.
—ln this situation there were strong 'apprehen-
sions entertained, that Denmark might be iuduecd
to compromise with France, end abandon her Riot
to the enemy. Denmark was accordiugly apprised,
that if she was seduced to make such compro-
tnise, she would lacer the resenlineut of Great
Britain. How the use that was made of *Lord
1-lowick's letter, to support the opinion of the wa- '
verity.; disposition of Denmark, can be a recrimina-
tion or imputation cm that Noble Lord, he was at
a loss to conceive. Another nee made of Loni.•
Howick's letter was to spew that Den Mark had re-
fused an offer of 25.009 Inca froth Sweden Which
was deemed necessary to keep Holstein. fie tinst-
ed, that the reference nthde to this letter 'could not '
be deemed, in the most reueste depute-an:dealing:l
unfairly with Lord flowiellii? The other letter of
Lord Ilowick, frodi which, he :cad an extract, was
corroborative of the diem-iliac of Denmark.. On •(
the appearance of the French Decree of the east
November, there .'bas en evident istelstnut
shewn on the pert' of f ratice tai deal-lie-10y with
Desulark with reseict to restricting Lee trade. He
had a cocemuureation about that thee' from the
then Secretary of State (Lord Ilowick) and Le was
willing to give every information he obtained, sa-
tisfied, that when it was produced, it would be
scan that he and his colleagues walked in the foot-
steps of the late Ministers, whose opinions were
fullymade ty as to the wavering, it' not hostile des-
poliation of Dealuark at that time. The lion.
GetatitutliP bon &laded to Wm-bitten whit 4 fee
far to particular facts, and go to shew, teat after
the battle of Jena, the Datnsh Neutrality was vio-
lated, and that it was the evident intentiou of
France to possess halal of the Danish fleet. It
was alio well known, that p.saole in the highest
offices in Demerit' had a bias towards Frteice.
Her deferring to snake preparations for defence
against France, whether arising from terror, or
alarm, or from neglect, er hostile disposition, was
equally theureroui ; tad there was every reason to
believe, from this wavering and inactive state,
she would have become an easy conquest to
France. Such then was the disposition or situation
of Denmark, and to the proof of this, he had read
qt extract from Mr. Gavlicke's letter. The Right
Honwerable Gentleman has said that a quotation
cannot be fair, if it be partial ; hut, according to
that ride, there would be an end to all prudence
and reserve. He did humbly conceive that those
with whom these letters weredeposited, ought to be
the best judges of what should be produced, and
what not. This rule with the klo.rourable Gentle-
MM. he was sure would not be admitted ; but he
was satisfied the House would feel the reasonable-
ness of it. The Right Honourable Gentleman
alluded to three dispatches received from l,erd
Grauvide Leveson Gower, dated same day. He
thought it net-emery to explain, that from the dis-
tance and precariousness of the passage from Rue.
sin to this country, it was found necessary, and
indeed unavoidable, to send dispatches, different in
- point of date, on the same day. If the Right Ho-
nourable Gentleman mold find no other objections
than such paltry and frivolous ones as those, he
very much feared that nothing short of putting
him and his colleagues in oaire will satisfy pie'.
This be would, hoverer, Imre to the observation
of the House. He trusted, that, ae the Honour-
able Cleotlentan was not satisfied with the discus-
sion that had already taken place 'seem the 'no-
tion for the production of papers relative to the
expedition to Capenimeen, he would so shape
the beet motion to be submitted to the [louse, as
that it would produce every paper relating to that
Expedition.
Es 1 TE3IPLE expressed his astneishment and
surmise at the member in which the Rieht Ito-
, nwurable See,etary had chesen to retrit the sent-
' ments of the l'ig'ht Honnien'ile Gest:emu:l :Aar
him. He has thought preeer to make an
to the insqliness of my Honourable Friend,
in order to dissuade him from !brevet-et for
papers, the production of which the Rieht Hon.
Secretory woribi have ns believe would prove hurt-
, fel to the public service. The Right Ilouourai,le
fieeretary did not think it improper to real( such
I ectnirts from those letter'', as soiled his purpose,
sail to suppress such did not. Ile was 111111niat!ti
ri the Right Hon. Secretary was not asiiarned of the
conduct he hat pursued in the justificet:on of
Himself. Could he think that this House would be
, satisfied with the evidence of scraps of. letters se-
leeterl by himself, in proof of the hoetile disposition
, of Denmark torrents this country ? Did he not
feel, that by readiue hut e-treets from those let-
- tern, and by refusing to produce the letters them-

(PRICE SINI'ENCE.

selves, he was liable to the charr of simpreipijag
their true meaning. The Noble Lord concluaell,
by expressing his regret at being under the faeces.
sity of chauging his. opinion of the candour Of the
Right Hon. Secretary, who had certainly tostrayed
a great want 4f it iu the present instance.
Mr. HERCERT rose to express his conviction
Of the impropriety of refusing to Farhat:Rout, et
any time, papers resting to Important affairs of
date, when there was no danger to he appreheoded
from their production. He considered Ministers
as now brought to the bar of public opinion, their
character was m 'tithe, the intosprobandi lay on them
imperatively and exclusively. They had endea-
voured to prove the 'necessity they were under of
actingois they had done ; but this plea, like that of
an blibi in law, was either the beat or the worst...-.
If lu any essential part it failed, it involved the
person who resorted to it in the suspiciou of rubor-
notioa or deceit. The Ministers had failed iu tube
standating their case lay domixneots ; it was not then
!wit to aspire frets the Heisetietrofoond reverence
to the opinion of Ministers,
•St.ssakiserviest so.
quiescence in the acknowled%mant of a proposition,
as yet destitute of any argument to support it, but
that drawn from the expedieucy of confiding. in
those at the head of affairs.
The SECRETARY at WAR thought. no men
of common sense would insist .on- the.ptOduction
44: the papers in question being requisite to foci*
an opinion on the necessity of the conduct of His
Majeety's Ministers. -That .necessity was evident
from the avowal of France's designs on Denmark,
and from her inability to defend herself against
France, should not Itussia co-operate in effecting
the inteatiotts of the enemy.
Mr.•TIERNEY lamented that the brilliant sirs
fence his Right Honourable Friend had, on a for-
mer evening, made for himself end Lis colleagues,
derived its chief strength from a boldness Hamer.
lion peculiar to himself, suit en itiusindid garbled
statement of official letters; of which, while he pro-
duced those parts he conceived be might wrest to
his Own justification, he frankly and unblushingly
denied any farther use to the public. For his past
he had never felt more surprise than on hearing the
Right Honourable Secretary appeal in justifies.
firm of the late conduct of the Ministers, to the
letter of his late predecessor ip office, whose aver-
sion to the outrage ou Copenhagen was ever doe
cided and publicly avowed. The Right Hoe. Se- .
cretary's admission of the papers iu his own defence
was certainly very injudkions, when he bad already
determined to refuse them in any other shape
than that wretched state iu which they had been
exhibited to the House. Rut this inconsistency
to him wee not difficult to eurittount ; he was a
man of ingenuity and resources far above vulgar
conception ; his reply was, of course, suited to tfor
emergence Yes, you shall haitthe,4esperaethaa.....
is, the sutsrterie6, at far' issties to prove a certaia
point, bat not one jot further. You shall never
obtain them to answer the foul intentimu your
minds are now fraught with. I only wish to esta-
blish a particular fact, and that once effected, I
care tittle for satisfying the public anxiety, or the
wishes of my in Parliament." In all this,
he observed, opposers
was no mention of the only
defence lie had, in his experience of Parliamentary
usage, ever heard made against the production of
important officatl papers—the danger to be appre-
hended from a developeuient of the secrets of Go-
vernment.' Rut it had not even been urged that
the public service might be injured by any each
Conduct. He had boldly called on the house to
give implicit confidence to the servants of the
Cro*n, and thought it meet to hinder the Holum
from being so aise as himsehl The fact was. there
was nothing contained in any part of the carrels..
pondence submitted or concealed from the House,
which could warrant Ministers in the proposition
they had at first set out with in their defeme, awl
they had, therefore, wisely shifted their ground.
They had first , led the country to suppose they
were in possession of cerbsiu information on the
head of the secret arranlements of the iiatiow of
the Continent. Since then they had denied *hat
they had before as directly asserted. The Right

Hojnoorabledentleinan, hejstat.4l, finding biotite- If
thus reduced to desperation, had resolved to lois-
represent utt authority, which he well knew would
hate its dn. weight with the lionise Ifeuce, the
disingenuous, disgraceful use, winch had been
made of Lord Howick's letter. If this letter, and
the reply of Mr. Garlick:., were produced to the
House, Ise maintained they wovild inataittly falsify
the inference drawn, and assertions made, in so
vaunting a tone, by the Right Hon. Secretary. if
these papers and so ca-efitlly secured
within the dark bostunv of the Right 11-mournble
Gentleman and his friends, were protinced, and
read publicly, at High Cress, there could thence
result nn injury to the public service. Nor could
the 'light Honourable Gentleman have kept his
counteuanee. (even admitting his talents in that
way to be conspicuous end surprisitig-,) had he
been compelled to resort to such a defence. If
even the Right Honourable Secretary did, he cer.
tainly should not. 'The Right Honourable Secre-
tary had said, its aturst of triumph, to doubt oc.
cnsioned by the successful speech he had made a
few evenings ago, (a triumph which, liocever it
might he overlook NI fora night of
.two, ccttaiuly
did not reflect much credit ou the Right llonouni.
able Gentleman who was so eminently tilled on to
act a clignided and exalted part, in eenseepsence of
his situation at the bead of the Foreign Devitt t-
ment,) " Who will, with all their complaints,
pledge themselves to more a censure on the
King's ?" He felt it his doty, and
was proud of the present occasion of avowing
his intention to move that vote of censure on the
Ministry. " You challenge us," said he, "to
move s censure', Yet you conceal all the et idence
you safely can, and eat which the possili'lity
of luta/Intl • censors princivally rests. Yes.
f let ton have we information. and I will, tbolseth