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ported the motion. • •
Colonel Gossere explsined.
General GABCOTNE had never seen a case more
completely fly!. Ile ridiculed the vigilance of the
Hon. Member, which lord taken into view the warty-
ful expenditure of Administration, 'Teti when sup-
, porting the character of grief aml solemnity be-
apaming in one who hail such a loss as the Hon.
• Member must have had in the 'litttgaren• The
'Hon. Member blamed the military Air acting with-
hit orders to fire. Din he allow •nothing to the
Amen for self-defence ? Were they to be only
pageants in the business of preserving the peace?
Whatever view of the subject the Honourable
Gentleman might have, he believed that there was
only one general view and opinion in the country of
the disgraceful dragging out of its appointed course
the holy of her who had been raised es the tool of
political faction in her life. The Hon. Member had
complained of personal allusions 011 a previous reev-
ing. He regretted having made any such allusions ;
hut the Hon. Member had much relieved his mind
when he had, without the heat of the moment to
urge him, made use of those allusions.
Mr. DENMAN spoke to order. As the allusions
referred to a former debate, and from their charac-
ter promised to he inconv'enient to the House, he
put it to the Chair if they were net better avoided.
General GASCOYNE was about to reply ; but
was restrumed by cries of .1 Chair. chair 1"
The SPIAKIII said, that having been appealed
to, he must declare that there could sot he two
opinions on the subject. It wire &Ricoh for him
to interfere on every breach of the rules of the
House, though the more the House departed
from these rules the greater would be the degree
of inconvenience found. He would not justify
himself for not having berme interfered, and
haring suffered the breach of rule in the lormer
instances, he must now put it to the [-louse if they
Would allow hint to interfere at this point. At the
-same time he pronounced the course the Hon;
and Gallant Member was taking to be contrary
i• to the rules of the House.

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General Gascovms only meant to say, that as he
had made one personal allusion to the Hon. Mem-
ber. the Hoe. Member had ooade one still stronger
regarding him. It was too frequent* practice with
the Gentlemen on his right to affect a monopoly of
independence—a virtue no more likely to belong
to the opponents of every measlier and opinion of
Munster's, than to those who occasionally differed
from both sides. He would conclude in the words
of the fable, s. Oh 1 heather. brothe4 eit ate both
the wrong !" .
s Mr. Pear. regretted tip yeinstiors of this ques-
tion ; he h.d hoped the Hon. Member would not
have brought it forward, without " very sufficient
tense; his discretion was of course absolute in
exercise, but it was for him (Mr. Peel) to ex.
pliniu the grounds of his dissent. From the most
careful perusal of all the papers which had come
to his hands, he had a settled eonvictiosi that it was
the earnest purpose of Ministers to observe the dy.
iog wishes of her late Majesty, and to 'hew her
remains those humors due to her rank. He apa
proached the discussion with a determination to
narrow the limits of it as much as possible ; 114
would colifine hi. remarks to the proceeding's no
her funeral ; he would rest his case on the speeche•
of the Members fur Montrose end Shrewsbury, us
they were left by the Hon. sod Gallant Members
who were coacerned in the conduct 'of the funeral.
Was it possible for the House to drew any other
inference than the proof of a sincere wish on the
part of Govetnotent to chew the funeral of her
Majesty the utmost respect. One Gentleman had
,spoken who was connected with she department of
the Lord Chamberlain; another gallant and Ho.
nourshie Member had related the arrangements at
they regarded the army; the gallant and Honour.
able Admiral behind him had stated what related
to the 'meal arrangements. The Members fur
Shrewsbury and Montrose admitted that in these
' various departments the Gentlemen had behaved
with propriety. Surely it ought not to be a ground
, of charge that in one particular instance or two a
,fitelare had occurred. Would any man believe it
passible that soy mind but that of* tailor would have
been occupied during the solemnity of a funeral
with a consideration of the waste of superfine black
cloth used as a meal* of testifying respect to the
remains of the departed ? He thought the attempt
'gamily poor to set op a case on what was called a
mockery of respect iu the presence of the military.
' when one ground of the coutpliciat wss,thist the
military were all withdrawn at a certain point.
He considered the proper question left for the
House. after trying off the effect of the speeches
011 both sides, to be narrowed to the consideration
of the conduct of the funeral from Colchester to
The tepidity of the removal arose from
the desire of Ministers to comply with the reque.t
of her Majesty to be removed out of she country
lin three days from that of her death. That wish
had beep, us nearly its circumstances would allow,
complied with. One of the chief complaints was,
that the body had not been removed, according to
custom. by the yeomen of the guard ; but the
6 thing happened on the fuoerals of the Giber branches
of the Royal family, among whom were the
Duke of Gloucester and the Duchess of York.
He (Mr Peel) had been informed by a competent.
and, as he conceived, the first authonty on the sub.
jet'. that in the iustances of the Duchess of York
, and the Duke of Kent, the body was not removed
but by the orders of Government, through the
medium of the persons in the Lord Chamberlain's
department. The Noble Lord at the head of his
Majesty's Government having communicated to the
Hon. and Learned Gentleman the intention of
Government to take on itself the charge of the fu-
neral. and to defray the espeoses, and no objection
being then made by him to that arrangement.
no impediment was or could have toren auticipated.
With respect to the obstruction thrown in the way
of the Nomal proceeds/a, he did nut believe that,