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hring.the ease, it ;rat not to he wondered at, 0, in
the first nistatice, the mtasureshotild have been very
considerably modified. No case of necessity line-
. leg been Made outs and it appearing to him
proper that they should attempt to do that by ad-
dress, which they could not effOt in • legislative
,initinier, lie should oppose the motion. When he
said this, he did not mean to question the general
propriety of inqiiiry—but, he conceived, that, in
the present Session, hissing failed to carry • legis-
'Attie einictintsit, introduced for the purpose of ef-
fecting the object 'be Learned Gentleinan boil in
view, they ought not, by a. proceriliti.g of the kiiut
now 'toiler tlietission, Iniend a dispute wjth the
other House of Parliament. He, therefore, begged
kave 10 mire •' the previous ipiestion."
Mr. Bsounitsst (who had entered site House
before Lord Castlereagh est down), assured the
the Noble Lord, that he m‘iiit in disrespect to
him, in le 'sing the body of the H 1111.14.. He went
merely in tike some refreshment—end no part of
the Noble Lord's speech was lost or) him.
Lo►d CAsTIARE•OII and Mr. BROtiGRAJI ei-
plained.

Ste S. Rost" 1.1.1' expressed his firm conviction,
that it was utmost impossible, by a suit iu the
Court of Chancery, to find a remedy for the oval-
versatton of the funds of a charitable institution.
He said this advisedly, having been long connected
with that Court. A suit of that Itnid was very
different from an ordinary one. When a suitor,
having a property at stake, applied to a Solicitor,
to commence a suit, the latter being sure of his
costs, immediately proceeded. But, in the case
of a charitable Olios, the suit must he intro-
duced by some person who had no personal interest
in its decitaisip —and he insist make up his mind to
expend a large Patin of money, and to suffer all the
obloquy which generally attended those who busied
thvanselves in Noels matters—or he need not hope
for 'lamas. 111, Learned Friend hail heels accused
with having made unjust observations on the Court
of Chances—now he must ray, that, as bUblllelli
Was at present conducted there, it was next to im-
possible, in cases of the description alluded to, to
arrive at a fortunate issue. He was, however, of
opinion, that, without applying for legislative in-
terference at all, the evils might be corrected which
retarded the course of justice.
Mr. BATHURST argued that there was no neces-
sity whatever, looking at the enactments in the
Bill introduced to the House by the Learned Gen-
tleman, to call fur a Commission to inquire merely
into the education of the poor; without any refer-
ence to the funds appropriated to that purpose—
because, as it appeared to him, it was quite evi-
dent, from what had fallen from the Learned Gen-
tleman himself (whet laboured through his speech to
show, that the House having taken up the subject,
the poor could no longer be defrauded), that there
would be simple resources for the porpoiwa of educa-
tion. With respect to the mode of coippelliog the
attendance of witnesses, of which so much had beets
said, it was not surprionig that it should he opposed,
when it was recollected, that many individuals of
high honour were discharging, voluntarily, labo-
rious duties, with respect to charities, moil could
not brook the Weis of being compelled, under pain
of imprisonment, to come forward, whenever they
might he capriciously called on. This, he belies.-
ed, was the great objection advanced in another
place against that particular chsnae of the Learned
Gentleman's Bill. The course now taken by the
Learned Gentleman 'Maid. and probably wools!,
if it were aanctioned, occasion the adoption of 11/1•:1-
sures to which, on similar occasions, recourse had
been had, in order to defeat his object, and thus a
most serious altercation might he created between
the two Houses of Parliament. He was sorry the
motion had been introduced, hecisuse it betrayed
an angry feeling.--(Hear, hear.)—This was the
fact, notwithstanding the compliment* which the
Learned Gentleman had paid to the exalted
to whom he had alluded. Feeling aith his
Noble Friend, that the proceeding now req. 11111 l nen&
ed would be likely to 'produce discord between the
two branches of the Legislature—and conceiving
that a little delay would not create any evil re-
sult—lie should oppose the 'notion.

Colonel ELLISON was favourable to the proposi-
tion. He wished them to skew to she country. an
they had done last night, that tlory were moo efficient
House or Commons. They st.mil between She
loving and the olead, in opposing onquiry—belween
those benevolent individuals who had 141 property for Ilte
relief of the poor. and those who ought to derive benefit
from their bequests. It MU said, that such a measure would
provoke too much inquiry. But what honourable man
would shrink from inquiry? He mooted investigation in
its fullest extent. He thought the inquiry ought to be wide
and general—and, feeling that it should, he was out pleased
with the mutilated slate in which the Bill on their table had
been returned to tin in.

Mr. AIIIRCIROMIIT said, he should certainly vote for his
Learued Friend's motion. The Commission that would be
appuiutesl under the Bill, which we* now almost certain to
pass into a law, would be authorized to inquire into abuser
in the appropriation of charitable fonds—and that which
would be formed, if the Address were carried, would be
called un to examine into the education of the pour, gene-
rally. He conceived they were two uteely counseled parts
of the same system. The inquiry of the first body would
putt the country iu possession of the amount f funds, appli-
cable to the purposes of education—and the investigation
of the seethed, would, ►y shewiug the general slate of edu-
cation, enable the country to jailer of the best means of
spplying those funds. He did not think that the measure
seem proposed would entangle the House of CWII9IOIIII in broils
with the other branu•b of the Legislature. The proceeding was
neither disrespectful nor uorimatitutional—and if, as was
creamily believed, the investigati )))) would disclose abuses
of a most shameful stature, they would not be performing
their dusty to the country, and particularly to thew whom
they were especially hound to protect, if they did out afford
every facility is. their power for the discovery and cure of
those malversations which were so diabouoursble to au dame
connected with throe.

Mr. LOCKHART stipported the 11K1111111 of his HOW and
Learned Frieml. Few endowments for public elliteatiou,
were not connected with charitable endowments for the edu-
cation of the poor. These charities, had naturally n pro-
pensity to lose their appointed protectors ; for the trustees,
however properly appointed in the first instance, naturally
were changed in course of time, fur others, lets honourable
and holiest, and it would he Wand, that the evil now solicht
to be remedied, was too often owing to the cupidity of those
to whom these funds had been intrusted. Ont of to. ty or
Ilifty thousand charities established over the surface of this
country, slot more than Bve ur sia hundred had been re-
turned into the enrolment office. Could any thing more
effeetmally eatabli'h the misconduct of Irwin., than this
*reed ? Ile could not conscientionsly avoid voting for she
The CHANCELLOR of the Eactivritura thought it far
more parliamentary 11l negative the amendments, than
vote in favour of the Aild.ess. There were but ahru
cum sn to toltow--one was to introduce a it..w Val, the