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of starchy and confusion. Whets
ie -heard it said,' that the conduct. of Covens-
nreitt on th.'t occasion was in opposition to the
inclinations and wishes of the people of E:.g.
fand, he could not but call to mind the &scrip.
..tion of such • proceeding which had been be;vers
nn a former evening by the Honourable Member
for Iferiford•hire (%Ir. Lamb), in which he roust
cordially concarred, and say that it was degrading
the character of the people of England to confound
'them with the persons by whom those excesses sere
tecrintnittesl. When such outrages were committed
in open and daring violation of the law, it was the
duty of the Government to repress them ; and if
' the resistance opposed to the execution of the laws,
led to the shedding of blood, the fault was not in
the Government but in the permits who violate the
laws. The law must be asserted and inoisstained rat
all hazards, and it was not from any want of feeling,
nor from any waist of abhorrence of the unnecessary
effusion of blood, but as a friend of humanity, that
he would say, that in such cases no good could.
ever come of concession to the people, that any
yielding on the part of Government, any relaxa-
tion of the law at such a moment, could ouly.leail
to the more extensive effusion of blood. With
resl.ect, therefore, to the dismissal of the officer
who had neglected on that occasion to enforce
the execution of the law, according to his duty,
and she orders he had received, although he
wws chilly disconnected with that act, yet he dill
aloof heartily concur in the necessity of his dismissal,
in order to assert the dignity of the Govern iteot,
and to uphold the authority of the law.—(Hear,
hear.)—The nest point to which he should advert,
war the charge of indecent haste in the conducting
of the funeral after it had left London. He would
°illy beg the House to call to mind, that orders had
been given to have every thing in readiness along
the rood by which the funeral was 'to pan. and the
delay which had been created by the illegal ob-
structions thrown in the way in its wheat stages,
and then he would ark whether the officer who wits
charged with the conduct of tbe funeral had any
alternative, but to, make up by al: passible haste
afterwards for the loss of time occasioned by the
obstacles which he hid encountered. With respect
to the alteration of the coffin plate, it would be re-
membered that Government had mistimed all the
responsibility of the management of the Norse.
that the executors had expressly declined to inh4.:
fere, and had renounced any authority which flur
_might he suppose.) to have its the business, and laid
Wt it•tio she officer appointed by Government' to
'allertllsisrraagrsnent. for the funeral into ex.:cu-
lts* mid ladtwithstanding all that, it was attempted
tarsfrein the coffin an inscription in these
:—" To the memory of the injured Quet n
of &gland." Now he would ask, whether the
could have allowed such an inscription to re.
Mire on the coffin If the Hon. and Learned
Gliglemon had been charged with the arrangement
ionise funeral, if he bad retained the control of
ttla paocredinga connected with It, it might base
pawl with him in his discretion to cease that in-

Manion to be affixed to the coffia if he thought
loriaper ; bees under the actual circumstance's
of the case, ste they had hero Hated, how
copld any allicer of the Government, con-
sistently with hie duty. have permitted it ?
These remained but one other point for him to no-
I lice, which was the emission of the Niters! service
'fat Brunswick. the only answer he had to make
• that bead was. that the officer charged !aids the
,auperiatendence of the funeraloa the .part alibis
Government, on inquiring as to the course which it
was intended to pursue, was told that the practice
of the country would be strictly observed ; and it
had ,been admitted bg the Ham Gentleman himself
that no funeral melee had been performed in the
case of the Duke of Brunswick ; and it turned
set, iu point of fact. that the colossi of the coon-
its all simile+ caves. was precisely follow.
ed to this instance. ?hiving. he trained. *hewn
that Astatine pursued ia respect of this funeral
was the sense which had been followed in the in-
stances of the other members of the Hovel Family ;
and having. as he conceived, fairly auswered the
several points which had been dwelt on. and in so
doing confined himself strictly within the narrow
limits which be bud persctibed to himself; agree-
ably to what he conceived to be the wishes of the
House. he should now sit down, hoping that the
House would reject the proposition of the Hon.
Member for Shrawobary.
De.-Lusulacrtot4 insured the House that it was
with feelings of the deepest regret that he Kee to
make those observations tin this occasion which he
' felt Rte be his bouudeu duty to offer on the gate-
lion before the House, its explanation of his own
condwelaeuetaf hi. opinion ou some of those points,
arising out of the subject on which he differed with
the Right Hon. G,tideman. It bad been his mi.-
fortune in this business to have incurred blame on
all hands; he bad been blamed by Government for
the line of conduct which lie had adopted; and he
had been blamed by others for not having tone far
enough in his opposiitou ou those points on which he
had found occasion to complain of the course which
the Government had prescribed. He bed had a diffi-
cult tusk to perform ; he had been placed in circum-
stances of a peculiar nature as to the choice of the
course which he should pursue, sad the Howie would
pardon him if he went into detail as to what lied
occurred. 'fhe moment the decease of the Queeu
took place. he dispatched an express with Weill-
geuce of the event to the head of his Majesty's Go-
vernment, sod spent the whole night in makupg such
arrangements as appeared to him to be requisite.
About twelve o'clock the next thy he had ten tote.-
view with the First Lord of the Treiwitry. Alms et
the first words which the Noble Lord &Willem d to
him were these :—H I have no hesitation in inform-
log you, that it is the littentiou of his M..jesty's
Government to bear the expel ses of the fuorial."
'f hat was in substance ull that passed 011 that ucca•
lion. and so ignorant was he of the practice in those
matters, that he dill not know whether that was the
custom or not in such case+. Lcrd Liverpool dt-

they were the first movement. There wilt no in the annuls of
evidence _adduced to shear that they were pelted more &agreed',
until they ow* the Ara. attach. *ow yhnt mew- we had heard of
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not sayt ii-1, we :re gttilty, lust dilly had been disputed,
they not been put on their trials as the law requira procession had b
ltd, after Iwo suebeerthetir?-41;rertilieuredigence the proceosion el
had been vainly unit to decry the jporid prove I 'drawn the cone!
that they were partially influmiced. Wore respect- i the utmost stele
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