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lowgh.)-11e perfectly agreed With an Hon.
Barbiist (the Membei for Weitininster) that 00
such power ws they now possessed should be left le
them. They ought never to have been trusted,
and particularly at • time when the Conqueror of
Europe was watching an opportunity to pour his
victorious legions on our shores. 11 hat was their
management under these circumstance.? They had
drained the comm.), of its di, fencer. There were
*to men in Eighth(' or Ireland to resist the enemy,
and the latter couutry was left completely corm to
the mercy of our inveterate adversary. Front the
experience of a fortnight, they knew hue to appre-
ciate the Chancellor of the Exchequer's assertton,
that the King's health had amended, and Mae in a
state of progressive amendment. Either this was
made in error, or wilfully to mislead the country
and the House of Commons. Knowing, as they
did, that the Third Estate Aits wanting, mod .hav-
ing no confidence in the assertion of Ministers, he
would vote, not only against the adjournment, but
fur the Prince of Wiles being appointed Regent,
when the time came that he should be called to
take upon him that office, with full regal power
doting the iiicapacity of his Royal Father, and no
loiter. Hr suliscrilied to the doctrine laid down
in 1788 by Mr. Pitt, that the Prince had no more
au inherent right to that station than soy other
Briton. But Upon whom could their choice fall but
on this excellent Prince, who would thereby be
raised to it by better means—the voice of his coun-
try, which well know that no one existed an ahle
and likely to reconcileall jars, especially of Ireland,
which looked to him with confidence to heal the ill-
juries she had received fro it the maladministration
of the faction now over them. S. mutt felt more
keenly for the riff. rings of his Sovereign than
he did; but with all this, it was a source of
happineos to him and to the country to know
that he had in his Soil aft wise tool experienced
• Prince to supply for the present any defect that
had arisen. fle rem monmeti.ledi to the Hotta.. to
follow the line of cnudnct pointed out by the Con-
stitution—to withdraw the power they enjoyed as
speedily as posdhle Irons Ministers, and appoint the
Prince of %Vol.-a to the Ite••ency, for which he was
destined by the Alinig;tty, 'from his situation and
qualifications. Ou these grounds he would i;ivide
agatust the motion.
Lord MILTON screed with the last Speaker as to the sate
he should give, but he was swayed in his minimums by different
grounds Gum those stated by him. He (Gen. Mathew)
seemed to test his opinion out a desire to have Ministers re-
stored This was not his reason for voting as hr 'Wald
this nizlit rote. It was nut the cumin-teary or Mem:nine-
tency of aliai•ters which Lad say thing to du with the dem
tibias, of this question, sloth which was our met the utmost
importance They were in a state of Republicanism—a
st.de in whirl% they °sight not to be permitted to Martin
any lunges. foe tu his opinion, founded on his best deli-
beration, be was decided that the furam ui Government ants.
blished by the Itritisti Constitntim was the fittest for HO
conutry ; and be theeefore rolled men the House to ematidete
in what state they would leave the country if they consented
to this adjournment. The Hight WM. Ge:Alentan ;the
Chancellor of the ESCheltitr) toiipttatte wished for other
/mitten days Won• he took any steps to repair their has,
which h' and would then become a necessary measure

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'I hey dod not know till now, how loot, in the opinion erf that
Right Hon. Gentleman, ilo.y could do without • Monarch;
but it now 'placated, Immo: missed owe month, and tiring re.
roiled tat postpone all pa kw another fortnight, that eke
weeks was the period fur which they could dispraise with that
putt of their Coostituttorril Government. Was this a dt
way to bleat the 11.1rNet.--Were they to be called mi to
meet there from fortnight In fortnight, and to do within.;
The Hight Honourable Gentlema's, a ithoot gdlowiss pee•
rodents, ear intim decoded 111,aasters, seemed to him to be
stet ries a middle COWS!, cud trusting to all or may chances that
might arm while he gained time. He seemed to be treat's.'
them with the Chapter of Aeridents; and what WWI the pa-
per im which he hounded the properiti in for another delay !
It woe nut the Repoli of the Privy Council, which rv'.n
though it had been, it mould have been susatlicient grooml
fie them to act upon. y had adnititiotered oath', to the
Phymitimit, •loch they had no tight to du, cm they
Were merely it turet:ag of tietitlemeo, pomesteal of nu
winch powers us they lied assumed to themselves as acting
wader the detiontiostion of Friel Cassell. But were they
(the House) to take those exwasioatmus fur the rule of their
action—exammotions pvinvethog (ruts a sourer unautho-
rised by sod unknown to the Coostitutioa r The P ivy ('oun-
cil had no suel• minority, amt was not, like them, of en-
equal authority with the other Estates of Ike Realm. The
Hight Hoe. Baronet %Sir E. iturdett) had rather matifiunded
matters, when he drilled that it W.lllllOl the duly of the
Home to provide for any debt-limey is the Third F.state.
It was indeed trite, that no written Iva could be shown,
saying, in surh a case you shall Ai. this Rut the *reseed
was a case of high tictemFity, against which it never einni
he expected that laws could he provided or devised.
The Honourable %rano reduced tb-rti to this dilemma
—a King won wanted, but he did not sty how they
were to simply one. On the either site, they seemed to
Hindi that they could Jo very writ without a king alto-
gether ! At pre sent they were to ns %caution-mine:* was
no King, and the Kingly Power lame ex. relied by a its of
Gentlemen who had !ova Climieellor of the ;:xchequer, Ste.
-.-for he comeodeil, that who al the pourer *hence their a c
m iinitittentit emanated had real...4i, all their %nem were at t
same time %%impended On nee.' grouoils i.e was most de-
cidedly Maude to the 31 osig tom which lit at id Cute,
and trit•ted that by its adoption the Home would not put
tea country tutu the situatiuit id* being cumber fortingla
without a ids'. _ .

Sir "'WM If TONTON objected to the Hon-e of
Commons acting upon the Report of an examina-
tion which they hail Dot hear.l-1 Itsjoirt whit h,
taken iu the most extensive point of view, went
only to state. that • great degree of prolaablity
existed of His Majesty's speedy *citron.. • The
Language made use of by Right flm. Gentles
man on the opposite sole of the House (Mr.
York.) he thought was very malt for such an oc-
casion. He had called oi on the House to "
His Majesty have fair play 1" es repression which,
io his mind. was highly improper on such a se.
rims and solemn .6.cm...i0n. The mode of press-
ing en adjournment on this occasion he thought.l
extremely precipitate—shy were not the Meinhers
of that House permuted to read the Report them.
selves ?—lt was contrary to precedent, it was con-
trary to the genre 3 usage of Parliament, to take
• report into consideration the very day on which
it was presen•eil. He hoped the MIMS Would mos
tur4y cou.ider whether they would themselves
ex.mune the king's Physician., or leave it to the
111SCretion of Ministers to act as they pleased. The
liowie were, in his opinion, imperiosisly called on
to ermine the facto of Ili* Majesty's illness. and,
if necessary, to providt for the eacar.cy in the Con-
stitution occasioned by that a10e... He con.
elided ter entering his protest against the pro-
posesl adeairi; men,. It was a measure which ought
not he totems:ire! in a pertud of soon unexampled
difficulty and da.igrr.
Mr. C. W. %Vett se. said, thirthe [loose, in dis-
charging its duty to the country at large, would
best execute its this) to His ; and, Imams
assured, noti,ing could g.ve greater pleasure to the