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fshook' stand alone. impeach your conduct. Now
can the country beer *wilt an abuse of office? Will-1
the Right Honourable Gentlemen order out some
: yo ith of enterprise, on the arduous undertaking of
, moving the Thanks of the House to the Minister's •
for their late noble condliet ? Are' there none
sec is of this• favouriblr-ornened distinction ? '
Yes, malty ; but the Right lionouroble Gentleman
would he the first to temper their honest enthu-
siasm, and cry out .101 w jam satin .0" We have,
though labouring under difficulties, done ifhat we
could to render the. affair 'distinct and clear.
• They, under all possible advantages, have succeed-
ed in making all obscure. Yet, under all
its disadvantages, I think there is little doubt
that the ease, as it now even stands, until to
the unprejudiced mind appear hopeless du their
side ; and whenever tlry shall acquire courageto.
give the grounds of ihmeactiment, to whiCh I now
dare them, in the face of the nation, I ant tile man
to bring the charge home aguinit them, in their
Very teeth, in this very House. God forbid that
Parbaatent, for its ownelninieter's sake, should re-
fuse to censure a set of men who had been at.
ce.ssary to the storming of a city in time of peace,
and the inhuman *laughter of' defeaceless men,
• women, and children ! Hel concluded with iniptir-
ing, who were the men, or who the man, to whom
the notion is so much indebted for its salvation,
as the Ministry termed it f. why bad they not,come
forward and demanded the applause of theikcoun-
try ? They had, tie heard. quarrelled amongst
themselves for the honour of the expedition, yet none
dared to clam it in public. The reason was too
apparent ; they dared not to trtio the public voice.
They feared it, and justify- If, however, they would
not tell the world, it rested a matter of conjecture.
• Perhaps, in the present state of things, Portland.
like Pitt, would arrogate the whole honour of the
enterprise ; he occupied the golden place, and
!.. should also tare glittering honours wont to be
leaped on the head of his illustrimis predecessor.
Ms feared the Right Hon. Gentlemen would In
the end throw out this motion ; hilt be wished to
' guard them agitiast the stigma which would un-
avoideity aaach it elf to the House? from permit-
ting it to be entered on their Journals, that an
, . application had been made to that House for pro-
f, eating information on the most important and ex-
'.! traor&nary subject that ever had been introduced
- into the Noose, yet that information, to the
. sternal disgrace of the flatiron' representation, had
1!, beau refumd it' the most imperious and ungracious
'!' impasier, through the anerference of the Ministers
IDS the day !"
Mr. idiCKHART thought it the duty of Minis-
ters oat to sit down quietly in hourly expectation of
tit.: death and interment of the British dominions,
by permittiog Denmark to co-operate with all her
powers with France against this country.
• Mr. Ht)RNER hoped, since the Right Hon.
. Secretary had admitted the letter alluded to as evi-
dence in his defence, he would produce it complete,
1 . to prove he had not made an improper use of it.—
fife was concerned to observe the dignified character
alluded to sn unjust!). calumniated by the Minis-
try, but most of a!I concerned to find our late
faithful allies contemptuously sneered at, and their
suffetiugs unfeelingly disregarded.
i The CII.tNCFLLOR of the EXCHEQUER
said, since he had heard Gentlemen call for a Par-
liamentary grotind for refusing the information de-
manded, he would suggest, that the strongest
Parliamentary ground for refusal, had ever been
weakness in the claim itself preferred to the House.
It would be extremely injoiltctoits to give such in-
formation, without an urgent necessity.- No such did
exist, and it had been over and over again stated,
0,, list such documents would be extremely impro-
- ter to make public, for the moot obvious reasons.
e avowed, that no such inference as had been
stated to have been drawn by his Right Honour-
able Friend, from Lord flovrick's letters, had ever
beet; attempted to he made by him, or could pos-
sibly be made by any one from those letters. His
Right Hon. Friend had only made use of them to
nr thew th .t the posibility of Denmark's yielding up
Zealand and her fleet to Frame, in consequence
of the capture of Holstein by that power. was not
without fo intletton. The assertion in the official
ni! note, that if 7.--eland became subjec. to the power
uPrance, its Br.tr.ini.. Majesty would never be
r sti!
I to ticquiescs• i i the arrangement. amounted
'the is:lo,e of what his Right Honourable
' nd had advanced nn a former -night. namely
aripreitensirii entertained. Such. conceptions
ever, h.. nou4lit, be attended with incoa-
, nee, a.ll only lee.l to others Neatly idle.
- Mr. \VINDIIAM professed himself tired of the
,tergiversatioti. all,' Changing:, of this Proteus Mi-
nistry. They h I thrif e, he observed, shifted their
ground of defi.iee alri..ely. If at length they
cou!,l be ream:cal to 5.1 palpable form, he wes
willing to jsis issue whim them, and proceed to
trial on the evidence they had even submitted to
the [loose. There was suffscieat to condemn them
in.the eyes of all honest men. The Minister* had
for along time urged in their defence the entlusion
of Denmark with the views of France; this they
hail now totally deserted, and die Right Honour-
able. Chancellor of the Exchequer had most unit,-
telligibly attempted to reconcile the asscitions of
his ftsght flononnible F need on a former occasion,
' with the admission he foetid necessary to make this
evening. Fl-im candid and (sir would it has been
to say, .. here are the letters, if we have ilaceiv-
ell )uu and.the country, we are annions to make
reptuntion, by giving pm all the infotmatmn in
our p0...q.” He was mations this conduct should
he pursued for the exculpation of the foul charge
of iacons.',stency throned annuls his Noble Friend.
by the introduction of garbled statements and
extracts, as public Jormutnii. If report was not a
great liar, the Right Hot:mutable Gentleman bad
already crept into ;glace by means of a similar ar-
tifice last year ; he eat therefore a proper object
of general suspicion, as lie might now be anxious
to stuntaiii, by a consistency of conduct, his ill-
gotten treasures.
Sir JOHN ORDE supported the arguments of
the Right Hon. Secretar..
Mr. LYTELETI )N iiiou.eht it hie duty to dis-
emit from the Ministry oa the production of the
mitten., though. he :and, on a former evening, he
Knit 'imported the A, conviction of the pro-
lricty of aleeilyilin amost remectable charm-eve,
ately iu that House, Gout soy inticetetion of de-