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have been mistaken (though I think we vreeeneit) k
In what may he tie real interests of our country ;
but let us, my Lords, stand clear of the foulest
imputation, that the foulest calumny can impure to
any puhlic men, when they are unjustly accused of
being capable of exercising towards their Sove-
feign, a species of deception, which, even if prac-
tised in the common intercourse of life, from one
should. on every principle of
;city, consign them to indelible
,eprobation. I have now, my
a part of my statement. wl ich
painful. I have to touch upon
'1 the first appearance of a settled
opinion and determination of
enifested to Lis late Servants ; and
my duty to stare the line of con-
ile rtiend and Colleague of mine
immediately to adopt. When I
my Lord Howie'', it is Imre-
comment on the high, disinterea-
-6 sense of honrur. which has
the private conduit and the
that respeded charader.7
disapprobation of this Catholic me ,
soli
mind of that Illustrious Perso
cited an audience With his
unii, that a difference of inspems
eetween the person of whom it mos.
person by whom it was asked. Bit
he came away from that conference, fully con&
'dent that he had the actual consent of His Majesty
for submitting the Bill for the Relief of the Catho-
lics to the ornsideration of the Legislature. I my-
self had anrously waived at the door. where this
conference was held, for the purp •set of ascertain-
ing the limit, as upon that result would depend
'the Hie of duty which my judgment and feel-
ings would have alone warranted Die to pursue,
In the audience. ta which I was to have the
?moue of beiog immediately afterwards ad-
- emitted. When informed by that Noble Lord
' (Howick), of the result. I difedly ahstamed from
• introducing a eubjed, which, I am free to ado it.
wag always repugeata to the conscientious fe hogs
of His Majesty ; at the same time I can assure your
Lor,b,hips, that in place of any objection either to
the principle 4.r petey of the measure about to be
submitted to Parliament, His Majesty evinced an
equal forbearance, and a determined silence on ilia
snbjed. lids assurance lam induced to impress
upon your Lordships, not in the language of idle
complim.nt, or in the vain hope of exciting a trio-
' meow) impression. was not that impression autho-
rised by the fang which I hare plainly, and, I trust,
perspicuously stated. Tee next stage of the trans.
&diem to which I trquest the attention of your Lord-
ships, was, when, in alt Cher place, my Noble
Friend and Celle-v.4c, in his wonted eloquent
and ;repressive reanit •r, submitted the Repeal of
those Catholic restridions to that branch of the I.e.
March.
It occurred on either the 3d or 4th of
March. It is well known to the House, that the
• debates of Parleaneent. by some means or other.
fad their wee to the public; and yet, until
Thursday, the 11th of March, no symptom of
disapprobalien was manifested to the adoption
of that ineeeure of legislative milky. It was
then, for the filet time, that His ltlepsty's late
Ministers distinftly knew that the proposition was
positively disapproved by the Crown. We knew
that there existed te that concession a repugnance
frosts the hegi-sriog, but we also knew that a con-
seat was given by His Majesty, and that consent
never ass, at any prior period, recalled. (Hear!
Fn. 1.1 And, here, my Lords, I have to request
the aueniiort of your Loicishlps to the coodutt
which the late Servants of the Crcwn thought it
their immediate duty to adopt—a condtid which
should have, at least, protefted them from the gross
and un`crandlld calumny of baying first deceived
the Royal judgment, and then attempted to insult
the dignity, and force the conscience of our Snve-
eeign. With such a charge circulated tbmugh the
country, with all the means which calumny could
invent, and misrepresentation could devise, it was
natural for those who were so unjustly calumni-
ated, to seek the most immediate opportunity for
entering lain that explanetien which wit due to their
own characters—due to the. Parliament with whose
support they were so peculiarly honoured—and,
above all, to the feelings of that Sovereign,
whose name and interest acre so unwarrantably
made the pretext of attack on the integrity
sod attachment of his late Ministers. It was
the mere necessary to seek tint, as men, appa
r4roly ading tender his most gracious ceunte-
nence and support. had charged us with 4,ff•nces,
from which we bore been by him most posi.
tively acquitted. for, my Lords. wish the feel-
ings of the most fervent gratitude. and conscious
interi"l. I do assort* this Hume-, th it our am.
reign, in contradielion to the numeteris false-homes
citetileted to di ceive and d.-hide the public opinion,
• Old state, nn the streeerneerfer Me- remedive dates;
with the sentiments of his char aftoistic goodness
aid justice, that the difference between him and his
law servants, was a dlffercTlC,.• on principle, and a
difference perfeetly honourable to both parties.—
Such an expressian of the Royal opinion is at all
• times valriAtrle, but particularly at a moment
when it comes to assist aspersed and libelled in-
tegrity, in silencing the base and unfounded sug
restions of oersooal and interested virulence.—.
( Sear ! AMP .1) l': this state of the qiiestion, Mi-
oiseers found it itnpoaeihle to emarece all that goods
which, in theo- view of the sublet?, as connetted
with the interests of the Empire, they were berme

ilicliaed to anticipat:. They perched that it was
impaaihla to coanh:ne ilul respea for the
sine la feelings of their S•ivere,grt, with their own
individual 4i.ici:74 en the pr.licy of the Catholic
c)nestion ; or.if the hich was deeortd most
aiiiisahle to take, .v.is to 'educe the carrot of 11:e con-
• cession, to the on,visior.s of the AR ni the
Irisli Parliament. in the yca: 1793. And here, my
Lnrds, if Lietc a.ts atiy part otLhe cunJul of the

late S.:I-wants of the Cr:;%;ll,.which, ttpon the stet n

and rigid prie:iples (if' moral and political consist.
*my, ought to be condemned, it certainly was this
-itneessioa inns the convini•.n of their own it:4v
virtu, end from the strung And condos:yr %Anion
they emervinted of the great And ultimate al-
vautAge the empit• would Arrive from the ndlptioh.
oF what they conceived 2 most saletszy aQ et
te-
sultive uisdnm ati : pul!:•. lint, my Lords, when
((. ree4 insnorrAbto ob'etlitedsliht, impeding.'

individual to another,
rellitude and iittegcii
abXrne and tep
Lot di, to advert tr. a
to me iS out a little pi
that period, at which t
afiseatisfaeloo in the
eal.!sty was manil
- ;Sim I conceive it my
dust which a Noble
bad determined imni
mention the name of
cessary for me to con
e-. 1 and puaailious
tintormly marked tl
pub is exertions of
Finding Oat a disapp
Sure existed in the rn
Iw immeliater solicit
taign. Ile then four.
Won did exist, betivs
asked, and the person