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see mildews of the norm .;
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obes of the abide tomtit, beside. Tie Noble 1.4.4 friends
could 'hew in black and white the grimed@ of that
*deuce (so boldly vaunted), and bow well it was fonsdeal.
So accurately was it valved and aseertaleed, that, if rumour
.spoke trolly, the Noble lard had • list 'prepared before.
band, which gave him easel infOrniation of the very de.
gree iu which that confidence canted. But if the Naito
Laid depended on the confidence reposed in him by the
country, in addition to that 'which he enjoyed from the
Crown sod the House, he was 'mistaken in the estimate. Is
so period of our history of the namedaratioss is the last via
mouths bad there ever been Half so needy Addreowro prelims-
*4 complaining of the Servants of the Crown; at noose .f
the politic meetings, allele discussion had been at all ad-
Mined, had Ministers failed to incur rebukes sad ieproaches.
It was Holy in Addresses which had been got tip secretly
that any favourable opinion of Ministers had been ex.
pressed. That the King should feel gratified at miteeh (spies.
souses of lordly, was matter of reasonable regret. But his
Majesty did nut lso, the mode and manner iu which they
were prepared. The selection of them aim fOr pablicatios
in ilea Gazelle, by shafreretary fir HuMe 'Affairs, was highly
objectionable. Those wire, of course chosen which was most
kindly expressed towards Ministers. This was on unworthy
mode of marecliag, had one that was most unfair to.
wards has Majesty, as it only showed bins to see our
set of opinion'. 'He was aatosishad at the inflamma-
tury Character of some of the Addresses which bad been
-published in the Gazer,. One of them contained capers.
sinus of such violence as would have called down the terrors
of the law, had they appeared in any of the journals on the
other side of Ihe (poem tun. It Caine from a body of charebenew.
(Lange/sr.) It contained expressions professing to deprecate
the violent sad seditious conduct of some of the Members
of the Oppositiou in Parliament, which was said to have a
tendency to excite disaffection and sedition throughout the
country ; suet more particularly did these reverend ad.
'timers deplore she behaviuur of some of the members of
that body at the close of the last Session of Parlianseut.
Such wise the language !add by these men towards the con.
Eitsited andeuritors of the land ; and thew they wets
to be told, truly perhape, by the wiry same persons,
of the dangerous jibe, sy and licesitiorsuess of the Press!
Beier oo ill g to the qesesteou, he professed to have wee partite.
lar objection to the Speech which hail been delivered from
the Throne. It hail bees ikeparrd arcurdieg to the usual
practice, to be as like milk and aistee a. possible, in order
to avoid opposition in deliberating on • haply to it. .He out
out like Ilse general urreneementa as to the delivery .f the
Royal Speech, and the Address of reply. Up to the reign of
Queeu Anse a mods more rational and manly coarse was
taken. The House instead of teplyitig instantly to a Speech,
which required time to consider the various matters contained
is it, took several days to del !mate. For some reason or of her,
he believed an acceunni of one of the Duke of Malibu.
rough's victories, the Hume h,uke through the custom, not
returned. an immediate reply to the Address from the
Throne, and that deviation bad been the precedent ever
since. He liked the old plan hest; it was better then send.
jag back instantly the mere echo of the Speech as • reply to
it. He complained of the great omission and affront dour to
Parloimeut by the failure to make soy acknowledgment at
the end of the last Session fur the lib dal allosancer of the
Civil List granted ire atoneofrxlremedißcultyandprivatiou
among the propte. Pao lament ought to have bettl prorogued
iu a different manlier. 111 mopeds should have advised the King
to have directed the Commissioners to make a speech on the
state of the country. '1 hey ought to have ixpresseil their
opinion of' the general difficultlys and ymbarrassmeiets, and
they ought not to have suhleued the Parliament to separate
without sometime, being dune to allay the (eminent, the
nineteen and turmoil Oulu which the country bad been thrown
almost ever since. The Speech had many faults of omission.
It took no outlet- of the distress of agriceltore, prevailing
from one end of the country to the oilier. It was strange
that no one besides the Nuhl Lord could detect that
increasing prosperity of which be had assured the House.
He felt rather Mobbed to doubt the atalemeut, Steiner last
year, sod several years age, the Noble Lord'sspeeches vaunt-
ed die prosperity of the country isi the same manner,
although a eery short time after the latter petted the ex•
istence of distress to a very great amount was admitted by
the Noble Lind, who endeavoured he account fur it by lay-
ing that it was occasioned by a sodden tranoilloa from war
to peace. Hopes were again held out (Jibe evils subsiding.
What hope could any reasonable man have of their teymina-
lion 1' Must nut all of them !perceive that the voyaging
course was from bad to worse? And this must couttune to
be the use soda a change of measures shohld take place,
and all the evils were eacasimared atfeadiug a rebore In
emit' payments. As to cash payments, he said now
as be said before, that the return was impossible,
without the gold standard were to be altered. Ile laud
been 'ridiculed for that opinion, but those alto dial so were
now compelled to agree with bum. A great part of the debts
of the country had been contracted whew the standard was
depreciated. It bad since risen considerably, sad it would
tole extreairly wijust to Moist un their being paid off when
the gold standard hail risen so materially in value. This
subj. et called for the attention of Ministers; so did
the Poor Laws, so had they fur a long time past, and
no attention hail been paid to them. There might to
have bees a promise in the Speech, at least, that some-
thing should be dune. If Ministers had soy plan for
alleviating the pressure of that evil, they ought to have so
slat. d it. Ile deprecated the state of angry excitemeed in
which the country had been left, with respect to the (Atwell,
fur the last few months. Hs Lordship concluded by ob-
serving, that, as there was little e'oulyt the Noble Lord (Cas-
tlereagh) would matinee to enjoy the supple' t of Hie House,
the prospect fur t lie country war most calunsiturs and dreary.
Mr. B. BATHURST and Mr. Woarnouse lose together.—
The House gave the preference to the latter geutktuau.
Mr.Woornowar, as one of those who had been engaged
iu briegini Goosed a Loyal Address, defended himself trona
the insputatiuns which hail been thrown on such proceed.
lugs. Theo, had been a declaration me one side that tyranny,
on the other that sedition existed is the country. Which
party was right he mould nos pretend to decide. Bet from
chum did this decoying of Loyal Addresses come? From
those who professed then zeal for freedom 0/opinion. They
had been called u D0e5"..... !dunghill eueks"—i'm Hide-and-
curner-men."—(Lowd lough/ er.)—lfules mid comers ! Any
bole for him, where he could re lire and enjoy she power of
expressiug his opinion in that say which timid show make
the right valuable, soliout thy hope or diced of disappro.
bath's) or applause.

Land rot.ltFront: eNplained. His objections were confined
lo he mode and Insular in which loyalty had uu many era.
envious been manifested. He had never made Mar of any of
thew epithets quoted by the table Member.
Mr.'''. BATHURST expressed a few sentences, the purport
of which. (mum she thstuelsaure which prevailed, was mu-
fined to the bud) of the House.
Mr. MUMS complained oldie inadequacy of the caplet-
elation given by the Hight Hues. Gentleman lab.. spoke last.
The Address was then unanimously agree:alto, and wafer-
'', to be presented to his Majesty.
Sir Junto NERPoRT mowed for an yeomen, of the
amount of Stock transferred from the English to she Irish
Funds, under the Act of 57 Geo. 3, cap 79. to the sth
January, 1821, specifying the quarterly «mounts during bat
per iod.
Also an account of all sums of money paid into the Fidel
Fends tureen in Ireland during the last ten years.
Also an account of the rumba, of evelraisatiral benefices
in Ireland, which lad not been sated or valued.
The Hon. Samuel prefaced his motion with some übser-
waterline, which the noise in the gallery from persons quitting
the Hone. prevented our hearing.
Ow the motion of Mr. I.WSNINGTOW, an alrirset of the
ansoust of the everaoliJated Fund, and the nett prinlece or ,
the Customs and Excise Deities to that sth Jamieney, 1641,
were ordered.
The House adjourned at Half-past Eight °Thick till to-
morrow.

The statameat respecting the Dnke of Wm-
LINGTON'S generosity. in assigning the salary of the
Uovertiorship of Plymouth to the widow of Ins friend.
the Doke of RICHMOND. is positively contradicted
by theorem I'al•er which first published the story.