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ask • wilitileste ' mei' assentilas . Mould., have hem eadoeil
in floe ease of Sir. Hestinga, • who was impeached by a
vote of that Howse, and afterwards acepiltted 7 Would out
many persons be found, and among them perhaps an
Honourable Friend of hisohe Member for Dertmosith (Mr.
Ricketts), whom be did not now see in hi. piece, to rise np
aid resist such an assertion? And if any similar observe-
lion were thrown out open tie ease of the tote Lord Mel-
- ville„ as doubt many among bid countrymen in that
House would rise up to rivet it ; and yet, day after
day, ',Wittier after hoer, did he•hear similar assertione• is „
that House respecting the Gowen. He should toil troula,lg
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the House with •ny observations on the legal gar-stark:
He had come to that resolution, not because lie entertained
soy doubts of the illegality of the erasure of the name,
but because it wee not possible that lie mold with propriety
purse, such an •rgnment. He should, therefore, leave that
Or open fur other", who he hoped would follow him,
more competent in the matter,among whom he trusted would
be room! one (ruin whom they had all heard, on • former
occasion,• • most clear and luminous argainent on the Iced
slew of do! sob.j.ri. In bringing forward thr motion, he
woe actuated by the most earnest desire to put an end to the
disturbance of ilie country. He had beard with ristowish-
mewl many Geollensen on the other •sille of the House s:-
press their doubts of the exietence of any strong feeling
in the country eIIOTI the subject. To those Gentlemen
nothing that he could offer would bring conviction ; hot
sure he lilili, that it was only necessary for any man to use
his own ears, and he could not go into any owe, in tuwil,
or into any port of the conntry, without having the most
unequivocal evidence of the deep ieterest ahieb the while
eassiatry felt its Ibis (oration. flut what greater proof of this
could be required than bad lately heel. given its that House,
by • circumstance which had never occured in hie tame be-
fore; he meant its the immense multitude of Petitions fount
all parts of the country, all uniting in one common prayer
for the lasertion. of her Majesty's Heine in. th..l Litusey ?
Rut if any additiouel proof were needed, he would refer to
the processiou of her Majesty to St. Paul's Never, uti long
as he had life, should he ferret it. He saw crane. sl tote-
ther • countless multitude of persona of all ranke.- a hole
deniesauur was perfectly fete (ruin any, even the small: st
degree of disturbance. That vast asormlilage no, 11C1111),
impressed with the conviction lilll any disorderly act On
their part would but be prejtirlici.l to their rause, and ill-
itarious to the orbjeet of their anxious volititoile, Lind so
powerful was the influence of that feeling over their minds,
that it operated as the most decisive check upon every i nth os.
lion to disquiet. %Viten he be1..1.1 that assemblage, *hen
be witnessed their aspect and their i:etecantitir, it gave
him • strong impression indeed of the intensity of the
feeling of the enoritty on this ankiect. Tie endless list
of Petitions which had beets .presented to Ilse House on
this subject proceeded not merely (rum those place* .which
were iu the eotistant habit of mending up Petitions on most
public otrelioos, but also trot,, many places, where
heretofore' Petitions to l'arlia mei' t had never been
thought of. He could mid therefore help again expreusitig
his astooishmeat shut Gentlemen Oil the odor side
could entertaire•ny doubt, such as bad heel. expressed, of
the real state of piddle feeling with regard to this oilestion.
Ife had also heard in that House, what was indeed ilnite-i., w
to bine' as retatiag to the opinions of the public at later.
It ball been sometimes hair paled, mid was at length directly
slated, that thoogh a great portion of the people expressed
gone 'billets* Is the affair, yet that they were stet p..(1411'1%
• of respectabiltly, but only the law said dimffeeted among
the reformerst to Oboe- be-moollt not apply the term by
which they were freqiently:ilesjenaied, It was also 1111111;
that. the varimis.tweetines sthirh had take's place libreneir-
tbe country, wens got sit( by desieniug persenas; and
Gentile's us his side of. th;, Goalie were ell3reell,
Moadly and distinctly charged, with' areii,h mid interested
helium; on ibis question.' for himself :IA a few of those
who sat near him, there was but lirCe iiirelililo.i of tin it
geltiferg iota ethce moiler unit Ministrf; no' views ia Oi.it
sort could well be Welertainea by them, bat they novel he
content to reap In Use bumble mediocrity of their
presesit stalling. :. e was glad, howmer, that there
were those so that tide of the Howie who bad stick hopm,
sad who aspired after such honours; for bad indeed for
floe cinforittyabenebillsethinkei if item were wit some to bri
ifooad•od 'haled' gitileeliottee why, .to tire talents which
.rywalUied dem te.611.41e relic facts of the Slate,militett.
-Ow bonammi: adibition attaining to them—(/wear,)
)..4nek ' ate - to whom lee wasprond of ties
"Ili ache ~ 14-:4eellfb
t but reeser with feelings
initiation,' It.
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in port's, therdardoleavonr to do
;lea) That fouls; snafus higui,-, which bad crossed so
much blood lo flow in the world. They lest their places by
their endeavours to carry the measure to wi,?di lie •1113'1" i
but they could never lose the respect, the est( NW, sad the
aralltorleof every friend of religions toleration. Rut ;..rettirn
so the subject of the late mertiregi—he would say nothing of
that iv the City—but he was sine Slant the county mectinrs
had been of the moat respectable cloareceer, and that they
spoke the sentiment's of • bilge insjurity of the people...
(Load cheers) —Dtesnioz, therefore, th.rt unless Govern•
mint acceded' to the motion he Wig about to make, there
could be no prospect of peace to the country, he hoped
they wash' trite it into their most serious coustrieration.
He had hero told that the Noble Lor•I opposite had said
that he could nut ifeek of Irol,tore t.ice tor an instant 1.
after the Mari lion of her Majesty's name in the Liturgy.
He did sot ere any necessary connexion between the tau
events; but even if ii were so, Oat ors4lit to form Ho pert
of the cospaideratiou of that House. Ile, however, thought, '
that so far (ruin the Wirt-melt i of the Noble Lord and los
colleagues following of uses-coolly front such an ocertrieitee,
nothing could lend more to slit nethett them in their pie..
session of other, than yielilitie Sup the rediritations of the i
periple,.by causing the insertion. Presuming to. he had a
light to alt, and (reline as lie certitude did, that the public
feeling was strung in favour ofdiis siod"on, lie would sek 1
whether it was adv limbic for: the Nimble Lot il sett hie
friend., lay despising that f. pilule, to ar!'l to its irritatien ? :
Looking to the gm:dation or our heerieulture, grist and ee. I
neval as was the distress of those engaged in it, yet the feel- ,
lug of that distress was not near so crucial as. was th at which
this question hail excited. Tilt agricultutel part of !be rem. I
1 moony were weighed down with the distr.'ss which pressed
upou them; was it then, lie would a-k, worth the stele of ,
Government to ismult the Mello' of people ,m, initiated ?---
Wills respect to commerce, he WI% 1101 mimic of Illiife whu '
' feared that it would were serive; bet he (fail know that greet
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difficulties were now psesving urn whose oho pursued n; •
sold were lire ['milieus of nun its those circumstances to i
be lightly treated' A. to our itorrnal polity, WE•11.1 WV
there reposing on • bed bf rose.' He omit" only remind
the House of the grinditig, the oppressive imeratiuto of the !
Pour law., wi)Clt wcte shortly to tortoise the subjecepf ibeir
reveal consideration ; boa how runtil lacy hope fur any sa.
tisfactoey result to their deliberations, a bile the ferineet in ;
the public mind was kept alive by the ciiillillited nv.,l.iliuil
of ibis questiou? Aid a. fir extrema politic", he knew ant
with what fittings they were wrier', at this moment
by the Noble Lord, but sure lie vies that their aspect I
was nut the must auspicious to Ilse interests of thine...unity. t
Three were too greal priticiplev einitru'llog for mastri y 111 I
Europe—a good pi inmple, and an evil 11111' ; the po inci pie of
liberty, and that of d, swim i Ire doubted • nut, that the
good would ulliormiely pea demonise, but who wotild on-
- dertake to,say that this country would mot .offer deeply in
many morels r will the conflict that us. fora boiled ? ;The :
Noble Lord had. loitimplied in the stirrers whirls hail I
crowned the contest in which this country had beru en- I
.gaged against the atuivereal itominetion of one man • lint
was the Noble Lord quite secure from any 'sew danger of
-that ultseriplisso ? Was these no Monarch utrw rentaMing ;
wi is s army of 600,000 or 700,e-01) siren at his command, I
prepared to menace &Sit Iloilo's to the fiber lien sell inde• 1
piessience of lesser 14111, ? Whenever this °interval, or
rhusilal have occasion far ail the void hismoil.r which it I
was possible to• bring to the subject; it; therefore, was
met good polies, to plat the people out of immune by me- l
teplatill rejection of thee comphitirts. Ile—wes of tritioion, I
that She art .t. , the turmoil, mid the meetings would in. 1
c eeeee , Nutria the erbiliiii of the people were lied"eoli with, -,
and her Majraty's name restored lb the Lillorgylliat
course of promedirig would pour oil opus He wounds, the ,
tempest would be bushed, 81111 i the rotator) wolelletle,restored i
to its fuerner•peare mid .r risiiiiiklity. He there- frole,psvrill, I
That ags humble Addistras be pia:muted to his Vajrstr, slat. " I
lug it to be the opinion of (hat House, 'that, tiodir Aiming
cirdumatturee, it was bight, expel. ut lift her Illajtskc's '

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