The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1806-12-16 00:00:00

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requisite for a doe discharge of this duty, ate of no
ordinary deserintion ; an impartiality that secures.
competency at.% ability that command,- respe& ;
affability of temper, that disarms contention.; are
only a few of the most promhtent additions to, or
concomitants ot, that sound judgment, and that
knowledge in.Paaliatstaltary foejns. He must sho
be intimately acmtainted with tisankind, and be pos-
sessed of a thor.aigh knowledge of the world. On
these, and sach like qualifications, is the authority
of the Speaker to be founded. Possessed of them,
the House will he disposed to intrust him with the
full exercise of their powers, convinced that he
• will exercise thejn for the general good, and with-
out infringing their orders, aft with that confi-
dence which will be consistent with their, dig-
nity. Thus, Sir, hriing described, however
• • I'mperfeilly, some of the leading qualifications of
the 'person whom we ought to call upon to fill
the Chair, I should scarcely venture to propose any
one as being fully adequate for such an arduous un-
dertaking. trom any impression which he may have
made upon any own judgment; but I am sure the
/louse will have gone before me in acquitting me
of that presumption. They will be disposed to look
to their own experience of the past, rather than
any recommendation which may be made to
thorn by any single individual. lam sure,
Worsts:. that what I have already said, most
'lave called to the recolleftion, of the House
dignified manner. the ability, and the learning,
• it Itich that Chair has been formerly filled.
he, lacukiea under which I labour at the
.o'''• potent moment, do not so much arise from any
apprehenaion as to the sense of the House, collettive-
tr. Opfan what I am about to propose, as from my
*the first, individual taking the liberty of at,
ng so detail the many and 'riotous qualifier.
''-- sionetiasat most important duty, and of propos-
• iftlyc notice, as I mean to do, Mr. At as
' pecker (Ileac I heirLlS ! frets ail ficerlert of
aa.) My c,nfidence of 'opt approbation
opt consist so much in the universal opinion of
tea ii6use. as in her manner that Itipt llonoui able
Coalman has .been supported by triaids through-
out the whole empira. I console myself in the re-
lation, that as time and experience have ttlideil to
esteldish this public chisrafter, not only in the
mists of bbcoe who were formerly Members cf the
house, but \4'' those now met, oho were not Mein.
bore Oche foomet Parliament, my motion will, with out
the smallest iliffiztiity meet with unanimous appro.
bat i ism ,otethasateeoutit the.dreastilichous to en-
ter fay,ifito dc soil, and less anrous to guard against
tholooupisforty. of Which I m sir base happened to
Ve *saw,
.4Kt.r114 pram* occasion 1 for, Sir, besides
lb. IAPP4er in which 1 hare stated the gent: al duties
Ai the nitration to which I allude, I ,have .rely to
refer die Nlemoers of this. House to a contemplation
sett recolltition of that respetable charafter's aevo•
ial important qoalifictions. I must, uncloahtedly,
acknowledge, that I have paned by many topics, on
'which he has a just claim to the public takeout.
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wooly recupyiog that Clair, nit only fully justified
any rologium I could pass upon him, but, of itself,
exhibited a more just idea of the qualifications re•
quisoe tor that {sigh and important etalinn, than any
whieh I would attempt to d.lineate. •• Resides those
points upon which I have tour' ad, there are Act
topics, to which 1 might•have alluded. ia: illupatine
those valuahls 'endowments, which entitled that
Right Son. Gentleman to a just claim for paislic
favour. In speaking of the, -general they .which
devolves not, die person who occupies the office ni
Speak-r in this•Hoese, !lave not at all adverted to
that facility of private intercohrest, upoo mattersoo
bitsine4e, which has, on all occasions, peculiarly
eignalised him f to that dignified hospitality, which
ennforms itself wa much to the wit- munificence cu
Prliament, whtch has twin, we all occasions, ob.
'Koos to every one who has bad access to Lim; hi!
onwassied attentiroie and indiefinigable industry, it
etrrydeje into effed• an inquiry into the state of du
• Reeordt of the House; an *stoney which originates
. from his owo suggestion, whicb has occupied at
much of his valotihte time, and by which the puhiii
Et* planed in a situation to preserve the benefit o
those records, for the purpose of public research.—
Toeia, beaperin• ire'r,,rics which are not unknowi
to many nf. you,' who have been called on to witnes
than, now arelthey foreign to the husinees at presen
in ipeastiont. because the same application, and fir
mute ehrhoions of great talents, are peculiarly nice,
site? for thepesfiemance of a great past of that duo
et eh he his here to discharge. Without de:aininl
you Apy Luger, ell further eulogiums upon th,
*coal, respeztabfe. and able cliaraetcr, I have pro
petard to your notice, I shall alone upon these con
ids-ratio, s, conclude with moving, o That do
L.,•ht I Ito. Cl•atles Abbot: do take the Chair o
ti.i, liouse."`---(1. aid testis of appooketios, end reit
i?'iir.r 160. i b.•-,r hies! pm all Walt of the Hcart.)
• Mr. Wit BE RFORt:E=26- Sir, in tieing to se
fond tie airmen which has jest been made by m;
It ieht honourable Friend, I cannot help feeling
astriderably impressed with the manrer in whicl
the House has been just new ;oared in manifest it
, high sense of gratitude for the fernier exertion,
and 'the cotrplate adequacy of 'the iii;,-ht Hon
Orstkelaan who is the sabjet of :he Motion. From
the marks of esteem arct gratitude already evince,
'by the House, as wet as from a consciousness of hi
competence for the task to be imposed. I can en
certain no douht, that the Motien which I am nos
secon.'ing, will ultimately meet with your entire ap
probation. It is almost onr.ecessary, after what ha
been mist by the Eieht t ton. Mover, forme to ad.
=nem rising to second Lis suggestion. I canno
however refrain from making a tow observations or
this occasion, both in justice to the importance o
the stiiii-R itself, and to the more complete illastra
tom ottne able and reipeakable careillar ailudod to
It ILA often horraned, that a Speaker of this Hotly
of Parliament /1:411 many and vari•are duties to dd
charge, hevona what he is required to perform it
pabitc. This is sometimes also the case with Ott
• totter Memhers of f arliament. A great sacrifice u
inmate aroceions becomes necessat7 upon Va!1,11
0CC.46011% I have nor: ti.e &distortion to perforn
a-tiaty which is not only gratifying to my own per
• &oral feehrot;, hot also most comietent with nt:
tleow of a roolic tiff. Impressed with a just can
*id:ion-of toe high importance of that tisk' wi.icl
we uto stow io cloasootriog atleioately to fill, fl 2:
Right ii4WAIT4I):4 rricod tun with great prom iet;
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