The National Register.
London, England, 1813-03-28 00:00:00

MARCH 28.

THE NATIONA

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and 41. aflbrd to purchase any of the costly manufactures of this
country ? With respect to colonizstion, he would affirm, that the
indult of foreigners who ;right drive the trade to India would, if they
raet with a disappointment, endeavour to get into the vortex of the
IndianConrt.
Mr. PROTHEROE and Mr. Ticker( sported the rights of the
Co:npany. and contended that they should produce evilenee at the
bar of the. !louse, to prove the expediency of ci.ntisuing the whole
trade in ihrir hands.
Mr. CANNING was ge, erally,in favour ofi he proposition fir throw-
iog open the trade to a certain extent ; he thought this general
jar:n.6oo, whether' the trade should be opened or not, ought to be
first discussed.
Mr. WILBERFORCE complained that no attention had ever been
,;hewn by Ministers. or India Directors, to the propagation of Chris-
tianity in India; and he would now recommend the sending of
Chrietian Ministers to instruct the natives.
Th. Chairman th.li reported progress, and asked leave to sit again
on I uesday Next.—Adj:burned.
TUESDAY-, MARCH 22.
Mr. VCrittlittiAn rose to state the sevel of the application he hut
made to Mrs. Lisle, tut the putp-se of ascertaining whether the do-
corn nt of her evidence read b. hen last week Was authentic. He had,
tie said, never imouted to the Colimissiosit•rs that they had fabricated
deposition ; but he said, that if the paper put into his hand was to
be considered as authentic, the conduct of the Princess of Wales, as
to th= imputation of having acted in a manner unbecoming a rear tit d
wontati, was very much relieved. The Hon Gentleman then read
the fulLwing letter that he had addressed to Mrs Lisle.
(Core.)—LETTER TO MRS. LISLE. -
H-use of Commons, Ma:ch 22, 1813.
Dee& MADAM,—I am exceedingly sorry to be troublesome to you,
and especially 011 such an occasion : but when I have stated the cause
to you, I have no doubt you %ant acknowledge the necessity lam un-
der of addressing you.
On '.eednesda) last, before I went to the Heitse of Commons, a
paper was put into my hands, of which I send yeti a CO:yy enclosed.
1 was assured it contained an authentic account of your examit a-
tion before the Lords Commissioners, on the conduct of the Print:o;s
of Wales.
Believing in the integrity of the person who made the communi-
cation to me, I used (a, I was told I might (reek do) the paper in
the House of Comnions, as I thought that justice demanded I should
Lord Ellenberough has this evening declared in the House of Lords,
that.t he paper is a false fabrication, as I understand from those who
heard him; and that the other Commissioners have expressed their
opinions, although more mildly, to the same ettiEct.
So circumstanced, I am compelled to ask you, whether you agree
in the character a.cribstl to the paper by the Noble Lords. If you do,
1 shall have to lament, that I li :se been imposed upon, and to ac-
knowledge the imposition practised upon Inc.
I f the paper should ever b. fare have been seen by you, 1 shall be
extremely glad to receive all such informal on as you may have it in
)•our power to give respecting it, that I may trace the fabrication to
its author. I have the honour to be, clear Madam, your faithful ser-
vant, SAMUEL WHITBREAD.
WRITIIREAD said, he selected the softest words used by the
Learned Lord. There were other words used, which were banished
from the communications of the intermediate ranks of society : words
teitiell were not considered necessary for personal justificatiwe or even
for offence. In the lowest rinks, isideed, they had bunk into disregard;
end if they could find a place any where.• it must be wily in the sacred
person of the Lord Chief Justice of England.—(Hear, hear !) To this
letter he had received en answer front Mrs. I.is!e, which he also read.
(Core)—ANSWER
Catibury. March 23, 1813.
DEAR Stß—l received ild morning your letter, with the accompas
it ving ecernint of my examination when belitre the Lords Commissloteel,
in the year 1806; and having eampaied it with the original document,
I find them ex-mete similar. •
On my return twat the Lords Commissio :era, I, to the bet of my
recolleetimi. committed to paper the etteatious which had been put to
see, and my anawers ; and I transmitted a copy to the Princess of Wales,
Ravin.: previously.
.received her Iloyel l,te teas commands so to do.
It has never been tiny intention to set op them. recollections against any
deposition; and as little has it been my eisli that t .ey should be made
robfie.• Itideed, so scrupulous have I Kees in this respect, that, with
the exception tit the:copy sent to the Princess, ittimedietely after my
examination, the paper now iii question waehot, till very recently, semi
by my nearest connections ; even now it would ant have been seen hy
them, had nut the erroneous etatemeets, aid ,:;idled extracts fruni diy
depesition, appeared in pause of the public papers.
How-the paper has found its way into 'our hands, I euess not. As
leave already stated, it fias not been by any act Ur illtellleUt. of wine
but certainly the paper which you have sent Inc is a coned copy of the
olio that I had written. I am, dear Sir,
TINT faithful and obedient Servant,

lILSFER LISLE.

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Mr. Watt BREAD -said.' he hoped, that neither the House nor the
Public would now say that he had been iu►pitscd uporn: lie felt very
sorry to have done any thing which could give pain to Noble Lords and
Friends, fur whom he cutertain:id a high respect ; but he hail felt the
paramuutit importance oh a serve of justice to the pare he had taken hi
the bui+iness, and which 09. sinned his comments.
Lord Castlereagh, Sir A. Pigott, %Ir. Elliott, Sir S. Romilly, and Mr.
Poa'mby, all joined in considering Mr. Whitbread ai having acted
wrung in reading such a paper, while So F. Burdett defended him; the
subji ct then dropped.—Adjourned.