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he was inclined to hope Ee 'fluid not sn rein have
become the warm and pager advocate of the pre.
seat men in power. Ills conversion had beets sn
very extraordinary, that it evended even to his
mode of arguing ; for he was convinced his Noble
FrirnJ would never have asserted, that a want

of experience in the grand concern, of the nation,
was a fair argtrn nt to in..!.uce the country to e,.-
trust the G.;vtrment to their hands; were it not

that even his ingenuity could not furnish one single
argument of greater plausibility. In !ev.i, it showed
how wretched must be the cause, which required
such a delence, it defence it might he termed. But
wnald it be asserted, that the NAle Lord, at :he

head of the. Treasury, had not hem tried, and found
wanting? Had not another Noble Lord (Hawke'.
bury) been in office, before, and aft or being shuffled
from the for..ign to the home depotmeno been
frtttaUy rej.-ited as unfit for either ? Had not
the country experienced to its cost. tare foal
effeßs of his diplomatic prudence? &furrier N
Lord, not in th it H use, had also been
discovered, when its office, is to be that pure
unsullied patriot and state-man, which early
pro-
fessions hat taught the wood to exp et. Some
had asked what this Mi istry of all the gal nts had
effrfted ; had they rot detteted and ezoosed cars
rupion and bribery ? Had the former Mi asters any
jos' right to tax the late with any .+ ant of promp
d tion nr success in their ei roar), expedrions? or,
was it far to impute hat s went of statesman-like
' prudence. eu.icts cam d be cdrisieter d as a
mete abstinent from :net career of mad enter-
prise w.deh ceariderised digit administration?—
Is not any recent -ue,oas in Perkey, or atoote Vi-
deo, to be attributed to their expeditions ? Why
have the tiimds of tills Ministry roused the feelings
of the inoh,aod enroll:red to storm the sanduaries
of science well the vulgar sensieis ci y of Popery
(Near I hear 1J to answer their own private vita's,
and let t:e country appreciate their crinclud-
i• SIDAOUTii rated, that brisling it
impuaible to agree to the motion, he rose to give it
his net Mire. l'n this he was induced, by motives
of aprrslic and not of a personal na:ure, as weal as
by the late proceed.nt; in another place upon the
ANA. It appeared to him, that the motioit nt
ad) Jurnment was the proper mode of meeting the
Ineftione, because it implies that it is one upon which
the Houss w slues to give no opinion. Any discus.
aion n ly i :ream 1 his regret; yet he owed is to his
Nook Friend•, to declare, than no men were ever
placed in a More difficult situation, exposed as they
wer - to usnapiy and cen-ure, in the circulation of
which cilantdy had est •m gone so tar a. to publish
mutilated morales from the minutes of the Privy
Council, in do- puolic prints. That Ministers, feeling
they had only done their duty, should ask leave to
repel tots obiolity, ought not to excite wondrr ;
bat .hat task being dioffiarg -a, he hoped the whale
!Armies' %I/mild br forgotten the ground triton
by a Noble Baron (Harrowhy) appeared to
him perfectly Parltamentar‘, in stating that
there was not even a basis for the most ordinary
_
proceeding ; loose paragraphs is-•d reports bring the
principal matter brought into view. Ile stated this
mei ely as the gooier it ground of his objetion to the
motion. The Naiuful part of his duty now rermsia-
eJ for him to dist:ll4.Ae. He regretted that such a
docussion should have taken place ; but MOM-
sun .es of moment berme teen introinced into it,
it bee one iiecessary the they should b- understood
correftly. Toese eir.sienstances he shnuil lay be•
fore the House, solar as they came within his know-
ledge.
Here His Lordship was called to on by the
Earl of RAD'sfOlt., who ofsservei, that circum-
stances which came to the knowledge of a Noble
Peer, as a Privy Crillillelf/t, and might affect the
public interest, wee- not fit to be disclos-01.
Viscnion SI DNIOUTH then entered into a long
and minute d -tail of the proceedings on the Catholic
Question between the C4h6rt and His Majesty, in
woich hi declared his convietion that Lord Di curdle
and Viso not Howick cenceived that His Majesty
had Asse..ted to the wh .k measure, but that neither
His Majesty nor himself had ever meant it should
extend beyond the lido Ad of 1793. His Lord-
s; ip appreved of the motion of Adjournment, as
shewmg that the House declined to give Any opi-
nion whatever upon the subject.
The Earl of LAUDERDALE—" My Lords,
io the course of my public life, I never heard a
proposition more calmly, ably, and decisively ar-
gued, than the proposition which was this night
submitted by my Noble Friend, to the consideration
of this House. And never, tray Lords, was a made of
' answer suhsrituted, I will not only say, more unfair,
but calculated to excite unfounded prejudices, to
ptnpagate throughout the Country a doctrine
Which must inevitably tend to produce improper
feelings, and to mislead the general decision. Some
Noble Lords have talked a great deal of consci-
entious scruples, and under the pretext of those
scruples, they would call upon your Lordships to
judge of a constitutional question. Next the Noble
Viscount (Sidmouth), apprehends, and, therefor.,
concludes, that the resolution of my Noble i'riend
• is &reds./ against the character of my Soveirign ;
but I do centered, that a question, involving the
tondun of the Executive Goverment. was never,
in the history of this country, submitted to the de-
cision of the Legislature, in which the principle of
responsibility was more clearly and accurately is-
cettaiaed. The Noble Viscount has argued, that in
order to make valid the charge against secret ad-
eiders, it must be proved, that the advore was
given previous to the adoption of the measure.
To this deariae I cannot subsztibe, because I am
convinced that constitutional responsibility embraces
not oniy advice given previous to the measure taken,
but goes as wilt to a passive acquiescence in delibe-
rating, as an :alive assistance in carrying them into
effect Suppose, for instance, that .t dispatch was
sent to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and that
the Noble Secretary for the Home Department was
ignorant of i:s contents ; if he afterwards contributed
in the slightest degree to give efficacy and extent to
that ship:itch, then I do athirm that he would be, in
the spirit of the Constitution, fully responsible to
this House end to the country, tot the conse-
Tierces art that measure, whatever they might be.
but let us view the circumstances of this it:souse-
tion. Let us, my Lords, conoder the various links
by which the appointment of the New Ministry is
conneded with the causes which led to the chaugc
is His Majesty's Councils. The Noble Lords oa