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assist perfectly supply the defeat which baa aches
Ise' the Executive Pover. It was on weighing
three two points that he was decidedly iu favour
of the stuendisieut of his Noble Friend. If
they referred to the letter of the Commission they
were about to Moue. they would be convinced that
it was totally impostiLle if they wished to lay a
precedent fur future usurpations. to &lit more ef-
fectually thud by issuiog it. It wee to open and
hold Par!lemma. mid to do all therein that could
be doue hy the Crown. Witt not this assuining •
general power, by which every Act, no matter
whether necessary or legal. might be done? But
it was net merely by a reference to analogies that
he was decided in his opinion upon this ituportent
question. Ile war also swayed touch by a consider.
mien of the exigeucee of the preseut case. They (the
Ilona, of Louts) stood thus—ou their l.t Itesohition
they had recognised the incapacity of the Executive
Authority—ill their gd, the right and duty of the
Lords and C 041110114 to provide leer the defiesency,
in which they were to be governed by the exigency
of the cites. Were they then to abandon this light.
tied neglect this duty—to et:oodoo their right by
applying to another pd.er to complete their um,
lend to oeglect their duty ou an exigency like the
peleint, pressing, peremptory. and vitally itupor-
QM. by leaving the Country in • state of inter-
regnsin ? it was impositibi in discussing this mo.
morotmis question, to exclude • reference to the
presets( state of the Country and of Europe.—lf
they recurred to the evieuts of the last six weeks,
end the possibilities that had arisen during that pe-
riod. sod looking forward to the future, judged of
what might happen front a comparison with
whet had happened, was it ant the inevitable
couclueicos. (lest the united exertion of the
whole powers of the Coostituttoo was calle I for
They had to pursue a dangerous, uucertam. and ad-
vesturouv course. in times the most perilous..and
ell their lobours were necessary to provide for the
safety of the country—

Jacet loom Wee trances.
Aratlmmitio Immense-spot. et sine amine etteria

it was is this state the Amendment of his Noble
♦Friend would reineily impending evils, and the
Resolutions adopted by Minivters would go to keep
them. The happiness of the people depended on
their decision ; and he had never before heard of
Monarchy in commission, and power divided among
e set of persons unknown to the Constitution,
without authority, and destitute of the most re.
taste claim to the station they had usurped. And he
would again assert, the two Houses bad no right to
assume the power of the Third Estate and* there

wes little reason to regret this. since there existed
en individual to whom diet right might be intrust-
s+d. Us wove therefore. decidedly in favour of the
A aiendatinit, as founded on the basis of tlw Con-
.. .•

__ it secured the rights of the Crowu—
*a it did spot excluJe furoher regulations. if they
wont tlorsog4t necessary—ind is the A I.lress won:d
contain • prayer to the Prince of %Vales, nut to
exercise any of the powers on which a difference of
opiuion ought prevail, till such time as they un-
derwent a l'ailiaatenisry discussion. On such
principles as he had conteoded for. the Throne
had hitherto fleets preserved; but if the course pro.
on the other side was adopted, it would, iu
riropiaion, tend to its utter subversion.
The Claris again read the 3d Resolutiol.

Lord 011 ItlIS LLZ Mae, after a conoidenible pease.
acid espresved his astonishinens that the Noble
lard (Eldon). who was the law-adviser of the mea-
sures now proposed, should not have deemed it
proper to have deliverA his *pinions on the pre-
met discussion. Thungh be was aware that Noble
Lords might choose their own time to deliver their
sentiments, yet. from the 1111.14t1011 iu %Web (lest
NOLL Lord particularly stood. he most c“iisitkr
bier as highly censurable in having refrained 'rum
stating the grounds on which he had di trreninrd on
the course wow recommended by him and his col-
leagues to office. He (Lord Grenville) did not use
t. supply thoi deficiency. but he rose in great diffi-
cultpe-iso drscul y, because he was compelled to
goefeinst all his Noble Friends who had spoken
ou ibis side of the Howie. If he rose to defend
Ministers. that indeed would be a task beyond the
power of any man living—if to soy that they had
acted consistently with their ditty to the nation.
whco, knowing the calamity that existed. they
bad used language to delude the Parliament into a
desertion of their duty, aced to turn their backs on
their Sovereign awl their country ; if he ruse to
seinutaio. with the Noble Zarl (Buckinghamshire)
that protrectioe was meritorious. no task could
be es desperate es to convince the Parlisineot,
the cloudy. end Europe. that iu the existing
state of the world, that position could be de-
feuded. U. as they were told. the world looked
to Britain as the last bulwark of retreating li-
berty. and, as the only cottony which yet main-
mined the appearance of a struggle for jade-
peodence. trutteJ to bet as to he• firmed reliance.
whit thew could be more undeniable than that a

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day or a wet k of the absence of Ciovernment was
one of the 'mutest calamities that could befil the
nation? Therefore. it was, that if he supported the
motion of Ministers, he was not to be 'apposed to
be is fannir of their conduct, which he could not
view without feeling the deepest indignation end
urirubseett. At • future time hr would conceive it
to be his did y to cell theirt.oralshtpt. attention to the
ussunsptioil of then ereogant wen of the exerciee of
Reset peger,(fatir, hew.) He would now state,
in answer to wird.* Noble Earl (Iluckilghanishire)
hail sup' need he would hew* dome in • situtihin
es-
tniler to Ministers. the course he would !rive pur-
sued. Notsitbstatirling all the piNsuasire
quence of his liable Friesda, he wa. obliged to ad-
here is the estenantw he had formerly m untamed.—
These el • 'inn. had beets tried in silence soil re-
tireileiit. and were now again brought to the test
after no light investigation into the principles of
the British Coustitution ; marl this wee briefly his
ririonuent. •• that the proceeding by Bill was far
psi.feroble to proceeding by Address." Tim this,
weighing well the emboirassmenrs on all aid.., to
*oust adhere. The gnomon', their I.ordships had this
▪ to rovettiew wet one of tile utmost importance;
but vet the real p&ost for their de, i.ina lay to a very
ugenso He could sot egret with those
who thought thi' t!le trent .ow, whether entire
Kingly power. Athenians should not lie given to the
itetzeut, twui ugly isteuenee upon their d‘citio,is Oft
th«guretitni before them. T^ia subject won't! at
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