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v. rely irritation, but even a difference rf o i-
ni..n. Tne Amendm-nt regretted the Di•sold an
PittNrneNt ; hut, in hts opinion, to dissnlve Par-
t amen.' was the prerogative of the xn. ac-
cording .0 tt.t. Constitution.. It had Ns of said.
;list smthratt some strong cause it should sit its full
tne. b years ens the ,estal sinra.ion of Par..
4toent ; a number whicii it Levet lived, and really
he me 1i f any specific t• —her of years, with-
in that. winch was most prnpt. , whether five years
were vete:able to four, or four to one year, or any
oth-r ',umber. A premature dissolation .4 ;• •de I
entire.* upon the - •.••. • ; aid if this wai. a •to . in-
dple, the d:sst.lut;on :tt the lat. r ~ was not
More uncorislo :•. th. a th. . • preceding.
goduid- in whic., two du. • • ions respec-
tively stood. supp • e staterner .—The late
Ministers rented the 4: of the pledge. which
caused t: ••ir removal heti) %Ace, and .. -dined the
anomaly of tl e ring and hip. Ministers, entertain-.
iog different ryititrea ; His Majesty's conduct was
arraigned. ani an appeal to the people became
necessary, an order to micertain bow far the ripiss
would support the Kit:g's prerogative Noble
Lords had srrainged the King's conduß at the tine
cs! the late- dissoletion No impel:niter cause for
dissolotion existed in O'toher last, when it was dis-
solved by the late Ministers. Neither e choice
of His Majesty's Moll-stets, the prerogative Of per-
sonal condatd of the King, were then arraigned, as
upon tl,e late occasion. On the clattery, the rinse
was marked by the alas: ace of all three, and was
the 171,.0 favoinabl,- that could be wished, for the
continua-ce of the then ..xisting Parliament. It
had been said, that the motors of tlie negociation
with Fiance, m ide the dissolution necessary, if
th rupture of a nerescimion were to work such an
• oien, in the lest seventeen years, we mast
have had nine Parliaments instead of three, fo. tnat
was the number of negociatin s broken al
within that time. The Noble Lord, wi.o spoke
last, had adverted to tint cry of No Popery."
The cry of No Popery;' I admit, said Lewd
Boringdon, unfortunately existed among the
people, Hear! heir but that Ministers tit
up that odious cry, se would be aboard to sup-
pose. The fag was, no math cry had bees vet up by
Ministets, and the best proof of it was, the small
easel to which it prevailed; frit, if the influence
of Ministers bed been exercisel, it is not pr -
sumed that it would have been limited to the tv o
towns of Bristol and Liverpool. A confident ea-
peEtation had .-eett held out, that the Address would
be opposed. Upon the fairness of such cambia he
gave no opinion. It was the nature of all pursuits, but
of politics particularly, to inflame the minds of thane
devoted to them, and to make them regard what
is passing of the greatest ini;sortance. So much he
would admit in favour of those who opposed the
Address. The last twenty-five years, however,
were as important and pregnant of events, as ter
that occurred in our history. They were s distin-
guished by violence as by variety of opinions, and
the whole of, the time was as calculated to excite
irritation of mind as any that ever preceded it; and
yet, in that space of twenty-five years, there were
only two instances in that House of an ame idment
wowed to an Addrds, one of seventeen Peers in
ta'.t, and another of twelve Peers in 1793. He
had no wish to enter into the late affairs in Egypt
and st Constantinople, nr discuss to whose fault
these disasters were to be imputed. He should only
express a hope, dr the assistance of Russia should
enable His Majesty to effort a recenciliatira with
Turkey. upon honourable terms. !laving touched
apon these several topics, he should nay/ only add,
that if Noble Liras gave a liberal confidence to
Miniaters, they might do much good ; but if they
did not, they would be doing nothing more not less,
however contrary to their intentions, than promot-
ing the wieies and aiding the views of that Potts-
tate, whose heart was Bud upon the destradion of
this realm, and the greatest obstacles to whose am-
bition were to be found in the strength, the anion,
and vigour of the country.
Lord HOLLAND said, he never heard a speech
of more pleasantry mid ridicule, upon so grave a
subject, and in so grave a place, nor one more cal-
culated to induce an opposite cone usion from the
one intended. An argument mere whimsical he
had never heard, than that it was unusual in that
Hoot, to express a dissent from the Address. Was
the House then in such a state that it must echo the
Speech, and have no opinion of its own ? lie never
entertained such an absurd opinion of that House,
and he was confident it would be found that the
precedents of amendment were mere numerous than
the Noble Lord had stated. If words were put it -
to His Majesty's mouth, which excited the just in-
dignation of. the House, why the House should he
precluded item expressing their feeling, he could
not conceive. He remembered the nte,strons
amendment proposed by a Right Hon. Gentleman
(Mr. Canning) to the Speech, at the commencement
of the last hessian, and though it never saw the
light, nor was put to the vote, yet the very znecl.a-
meal part of that huge cumbrous amendment must
have occupied a great deal of time, and yet he had
never heard the trainer of it censured, because he
bad not conceited it upon the spur of the moment,
and set *Mon the work before he had heard the
Speech. But it has been said that the Speech is coo.
ciliatory and tsznporate. Was it temperate and enn
eiliatory to introduce into the Speech a topic for
which there were no precedents I he meant a decided
disapprobation of the ads of His Majesty's own Ge-
vernment—for such was the disapprobation of the
late events in Egypt iad at Constantinople. Wm
Noble Lords to be told by blininers, that if
did not ad as they desired, they were at s
with the King, that they were embittering the
moments of their Sovereign. and was such
guage to be borne in that Honer? Where wat
King's will to be known, but in the ads of his

verainent f It was represented as ea anootely..
the King should think one way, and the Minister
another. Were. then. the Miaiallut OW to be free

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