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he acted administered it. He denied that the
NM.. Lied' who hail beets ailutiriti-to bad stied
that he was .diaminird hoe hie °Gee on ireeeeet
of the irate winch he had given its that House; he
heard tk Noble Lon' declare, that he had re-
ceieed aQ intimation 'het his' services were no

longer required, mid he afterwards entered into a
hypothetical statement of his duties as a Member of
Parliament. Though tie (Load Castlereagh) de-
nied the right of the Honourable Mesuber to call
upon him in his situation of Minister to state why
the Crown appointed or dismissed its ',tryouts, yet
he should conter.d that it was not unju•ttfiable in
those who administered the Government to expect
that those who were in office with them should con-
cur in mea►ures of great public importance, and
afte► it bad been declared that hi* Mitjeovy's tier-
visits could nut administer the affair, of the country
if this means were denied of sustaining public ere-
(Sit. A vote given 'Oast so important a tax us the
one on malt, was nothing else than • vote for the
dismission of his Majesty's Ministers.
Mr. CALSZAFT did nOt deity the right of the
Crown t• dismiss its own screams-, he only contend-
ed that the reason assigned was unconstitutional. •
Mr. TICINLY said he was taken by surprise itl
the ',resent motion; he had come down exsecriiig
the army estimates to be brought before the How;
instead of ►hat they were prevented with a incillonni
containing a great variety of different subjects. ihr
felt some embarrassment on the subject, because tae
would Jut wish to be held up as oppossng any,of
the topics of the motion, if brought separately and
distinctly before the House, but without previous
consideration to call upon him to vote on ►hem all
at once he felt to be impossible. The first part of
the motion he imagined might be agreed to. That
every practicable reotionly ought to be pursued,
there was no inan in the House or out of it snore
ready than himself to allow, sod there was no ad-
ministration that ought to possess the confidence of
the couutiy fo► ea hour, unless it were prepared to
make great reductions. The case of Lord Fife, I►e
considered an insuperable objection to his concur-
ring in the motion. He was not in the House at the
Base the Noble Lord spoke, and the Votes gave him
uo iiiformation, es the words were not taken down.

It stood thus, has Hon. Friend said the Noble
Lord stated une thing, which the Noble Lord (Cootie-
Ranch) denied. It was imposible, therefore, that he
should consent to the motion. He agreed with the
lion. Member for %Vestminster, that if the facts
were as stated, the Ministers who advised it ought to
be impeached. But how was the truth of the facts
to be got at ? there woo only assertion against masers
tion. The whole gist of the question was, whether
the Noble Lord was removed, no reason being as.
signed, or removed for a reason highly disgrace-
ful. The Noble Lord had, lie thought, gone out
of his way to make en attack on that side of the
House, as if the cases alluded to were not quite
distinct. If in the formation of an Administration
the Ministers had not the appointment of the
household officers, there would be two jarring
authorities in that House ; but it we never
contended by any of his friends that they ought
to have the power of dismissing his Majesty's
personal servants on account of their votes in that
House. The Noble Lord attacked the Honour-
able Gentleman (Mr. Creevey) because he did
not object, whilst he was in office, to the super-
Bout offices of which he now complained; but did
the Noble Lord mean to argue that he could not
now, in time of peace.object to that which he, in time
of war, might have thought it necessary to measure
by • different scale? What he would ask of his
Hon. Friend was, not to press his present motion,
hut to bling the different items forward in detail.
If hr did not it would be impossible for him to
give the motion his support, particularly under the
circumstance of the fact being disputed as to Lord
Fife.
Mr. Ban ezrr said, that as to the Earl of Fife,
the Noble Lord (Castlereagh) admitted the fact,
and justified it. The Earl of Fife had stated in
the House that he bad had it from the highest au.
thority, that hie loss of office was a punishment on
him for the vote which he had given, and as an ex-
ample to others. He (Mr. Bennett) regretted that
the words had not been taken down. He agreed
with every particle of his Hon. Friend's motion, and
therefore he would beg of him to permit in it.
Lord A. Hauturow said, he was not sure that
if Lord Fife were present he would admit the words
afiich had been stated to have been his. As far
as lie (Lord Archibald Hamilton) recollected, be
(Lord Fife) stated it as his impression that he was
so dismissed. Agreeing as he did with great
part of the motion, he could not vote for it,
uncertain us he was if the whole were true. The
Admiuisiration had expected that Lord Fife
would disgrace himself, for they could have no
expectation else of his voting with them, as he had
voted against them last year. IVlty was not it
then resented ? The Noble Lord had beet 'in-
structed by his constituents to vote against the
tax, and he had performed his duty. He shisti/d
like to ask if Loud Fife owed his appoiubuctit'lo
the Noble Lord or his colleagues, whetheettiley
had approved or recommended it ? If they•:lied
not, they had no ground to expect that subser-
viency to their wishes which they seemed
to have claimed. lie would be glad to know whet
credit would be thought to attach to the vote or
Lord Fife's successor? Would it not be con-
sidered by the country that the tenure by which he
held his appointment was complete subserviency to
those by whom lie was appointed ?
Mr. Cassese explained; after which the House
divided, whet. there spiteared—..
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Majority B4
On our return to the gallery we found Mr.
HUME on his legs. Ile declared that he should
follow the example of his lion. Friend (Mr.
Creeves), and should lie proud to move in the
Salute lung as he (volumed to exert him-
self a. lie lisd done hitherto. lie 'everted ex-
tremely the debate Kull subsequent division which
had taken place, particularly as Hun. Member.,
though they differed as to words, yet all agreed la
thee fact, lie begged to uoorre the Noble Lord
that though he was now g g ou wish the
farce, lie had no euntrauniodam with his Hon.
Friend, and hewer asked him to speak the prologue,
His Hou. Friend bad compared the Noble Lord
to a trustee, but he rather ought t 9 hOOO