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latn►e sirkc!i th-y fill expressed a desire most
anxiously to in4intaiii. Ile next took a review of
preceding precedents. which, he coutensltd, were

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Dot nose to be thrown oust of their consoles-416ms ;

■nd argued, that. upnn the whole. they were favour-
able to the Moe proceeding he NH itportrd. viz.

by A.itlrrku. Ile Coutendtd: shut the methud

which the advantage of hrevily, was, at
this critieal miiinentuus period, the best fur
them to :i•lnpt. The Address alai. pwaesarti sou-
ther adva.ilage uver the Bill, as it slid nut embrace
a direct fallacy in contradiction to their Own Ole
assumption. The King's Great Seal
incapable of giving the assent to an Act of
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the Honiel of Conimon; and of Lord*. The Chan-

eellor, whose duty it was to apply it. was not
the Chanccllor of the Lords amt CWIIIIIOII/, but

of the King ; and he would suppose, for ergo.
mem'. 'fake, that he (the would not
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apply the Seal to the Aot at the d•rire of the
Houses of Parlistneut. Wh.t then were they to
do ? Were they to like the Seal from hint ? If
so, the person who used it was ■ new Ciiancrllur
appointed by them ; and he begged of them to ob-
serve by this means how • precedent might grow.
aid become destructive of the Constitution. The

Right Honourable Getttlrman then treat at enttie
I...gth mho an argument upon the luw on the sub-

jest; and, by cOMparisons with private life. drew
cionclusious iii favour of the side isl the cptestion he
espoused. He was hostile to the idea of re.toic.
boos on the Retreat, which, he rontetirkd, might
be carried to siieh an extent, as to create a Kingly
power root secured against the aspiriug einbitMii
of a House of Cowls, should it ever happen that
they wished to encroach on the prerogattve. He
lastly consider, dill!. second question as •uperflooes.,
but he wool I not vote zigaiiirt it, though if be were
•ii the Ilona- when the previouagorstion was taken
noon it, hr would give his vote for that.
Mr. H. A DineueoN rose to make a kw °Loma.
tinns on whit had fallen from a Bight.lion. Wirt.
(Sir J Newport). That Right HOO• Bort. had
eitutendetl that floe difference of the times between
the present prriiid wild i7vie rendered it nee,. ,aory
for them now to pulsar a dttlerent course from that
which the I..,trislai ure in their witidont then adopted.
It was the. very course of argument that wotold in-
duce hen to be decidedly in favour of following the
example set to them. He would be anxious to
seal that precedent. if it were only to shew that
they did not legislate fur the present times. what-
ever might be their circumstances, but for poste.
rity. Were they to adopt the principle laid down
he the Richt Hon. Baronet. it would be to open
the door for endless changes and alterations the
most dangerous to the country —it would tender
every thing fluctuating, and the times would be-
come the excuse lier departures from the most firiti-
It -estahlished rules and the wiliest determinations.
The Right lion. Bart. had also indulged in a Mt
fieeti 111 l , in his opinion not very strongly recom-
mended. as to the age of the Monarch. To this
one very obvious observation occurred, rather
different from the coticlusion drawn by the Right
Honourable Baronet. If they were reminded of the
addition of 514 years to the age of their Sovereign,
it was ooly to remind them of orililitional resume
they had to be grateful for other proofs of the bles-
sings of his mild and paternal reign.—(hear, hear.)
The Right Honourable Baronet had also spoke of
the Prince of Wales as more mature wow them at
the iserirelalluded to. lie conceived this observation
to he Altogether superfluous, for it. was not then
doubted by any Oise, our did any our now mistrust
the fimess of His Royal Highness for the assump-
tion of the Executive Government. there was
'mother riot welched on by the Right- limner-
able Baronet wtstch excited his surprise ; he e-
luded to the refiectaions made on se Hotiourahle
G„,itkin,,,, Ne. ti,,,eens). for the very feeling enco-
mium he Inid ill justly pant to the King.— is for the
impreaston made on the House by that Address, it
seemed to hits to he fair and constitutional ; for
the allusion to the kill's malady was combined
• with the argnmenta, an I naturally introduced the
mention of the cause of that malady. It also led
to the consoling recollection, that it vise unit'''.
inously stated by every Physician, as an additional !
grontsd for the hope of a speedy recovery.—
(Hear,
bear, hear).—The Right Honourahle
Gentleman who preceded him (Mr.Elltot) had de-
clared himself in favour of the Address. because
that courte would be Opp ine to what was pur-
sued iii Use. He for his part had been a Mem-
ber of the Huse ut that time; he had sedulously
attended to every debate, and was • witness of all
the wonderful display of the talents of the great
man (Ur. Pitt) who took so distinguished
• part in the discussions of those days. He
had al-co heard the unanswered, and. in his
opinion, the unanswerable, arguments delivered
in fierier of the course then adopted. by a
distingondird Statesmen, not now • Member of
the House, who at that period filled their Chair.
The impression made on his mind by these argu-
ments were couelusive, and such as no time could
ever change. He was convinc ed that there was no
other wise course; and if the occasion was a
calamity most deeply to be deplored. yet it had at
least, produced true and a greet advantago-i-that ef
establishiug in peaceful times a precedent so truly
excelleet. So far was he from thinking it ought to
he contradicted, that he looked at it with the high-
est approhatiose.—The Right lion. (lend:man (the
Chime. llor of the Excherpter) hail, in Ivis•opinion,
in the course of the debate been most unjustly
'1 taunted hons the other side of the House, for coot.
Me the precedent of 1788. He would rather be
paned with him to these expressions of scorn, than
be muted with those who could • speak contempte•
misty of what was so good. As for the other pre.
cedents which these Gentlemen wish to supersede
it, they bare a resemblance to the case before them
in hardly one single point. At the Revolution, fur
instance, the Throne was vacant, a material differ.
ence from its present state when it was full and en-
tire. But against these Geotlemen who despised
the authority which he and those of the same way of
thinking so highly prized, he wooed quote an autho-
rity winch he was sure they must bow to with rave.
rence—it was the authority of Mr. Fox himself. He
perfectly rec illectiel that able Statesman to have,
in Mg, wepressed the same sentiment which he
(Mr. Addington) now expressed ; and on referring
to the accounts of theme slays. he Annul the strong
impression on his mind corroborated and confirmed
in Viis matter. Mr. Fox, though for the purpose