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cussion of the subject. He f. It it highly important that such docuo
meats should be laid before Parliament to come to such resolutions
n this case, as it nfeht stem to requite.
Lord CA ST 1.11 tACH said he WAS not shaken by what had fallen
from the Hon. Gentleu.e. if there was ant itolvi,lual Member,
who .felt what was already known, to he of sufficient importance to
make it the foundation of a motion, he was quite ::t liberty to make it.
For his own part, he must observe, that he should not make airy : he
contrived that his duty anti obligations, as a Piiyy Counsellor, turbal
' such a proceeding from him. He had elven no ad tit;ce in this business
which he should not be ready to justify eviienever ire might be called
upon to do so by Parliamentary authority. The present I<eport was
n-t a revival or a former investigation The question was net one of
charge or no charge; but whether the intercourse between her Royal
Highness the Princess ot Wales, and the Princess Charlotte of Wales,
st mild or should riot be subject to regulations and restraints.
Mr. Wnirsekoso roe again, and after a few observations, read the
Report of the Privy Council, from a newspaper which had come into
his hand that evening. He remarked. that the public, though they had
now the Report, were yet unapprised of the circumstances which had
;minced the Privy Council to toter their Resolution. It appeared to
him to be of material importance to the understanding of the subject.
that time documents should be laid l•efore the House. He thought it
was hard to throw a slur on the proceedings of the Princess of Wales.
who came before that House a• a Petitioner ; and who had no Privy
Council to advise her, and to frame Reports in her vindication. It
was certainly the duty of the Noble Lord to move for the proouction
cif this Report, which, if that Noble Lord, or sonic other Member dol
not move ior. he (Mr W ) intended to do ; and indeed he should have
t;nne it alre dv. had the motion of the Hon. Member (Mr. Cechrone
Johnstone) been withdrawn.
Lord CASTI„LREASH could not stiffer the House to separate on this
business, with an imputation on the conduct of the Privy Coundi
which did not attach to it. The crivainoiity of her R oyai Highness
the P:incess of Wales was not the at before the Privy Council. In
the case of the criminality of her Royal Highness, the intercourse
butwean hef and the Princess Charlotte of Wales, woul.l nut have
been an intercourse subjected to regulations and restraints ; but would
have been prohibited altoeet her.
Lord STA NI. SY wished to know, whether His Majesty's Ministers
intended to take any other notice of the letter received by the Speaker
from her Royal highness the Princess of Wales ?
Load Cosrtiot e /sett said, lie should give the accustomed notice.
whenever he should have any intention of submitting atilt motion upon
the subject.
Lord M r eraN said, that as the Hon. Mover of the original motion
had abandoned, or more strictly speaking, had postponed his motion sine
die, he was desirous of knowing whether the Noble Lord also in-
tended to postpotie all proceedings on the subject of the letter siee diet'
, He considered the present as a very grave subject, and nit of that
trivial importance whit 11 the Noble Loid affected to repiesent it,
Mr. BEN N trr intimated his intention, whenever the Gatlery woe
cleared, to persist in his motion of adjournmuut. He should repeat
his motion, that '• the House do now adjourn."
Mr. YORKE expressed his regret that the Hon. Memb r should per-
sist in his resolution, which would tend to impede the progress of the
public business. He thought that the Utilise ought to mark their
sense of such conduct. He had once been himself a marked man, and
had been nearly in danger of having his house pulled down. for clearing
the gallery,—ior doing his ditty. He would not hesitate to say, that
unless the House maintained that ancient and indisputable right, Gen-
, tlemen had all better go home to their respective counties and places
of residence.
Sir JOHN Newroar trusted that the Hon. Member (Mr. Bennett)
would exercise the power he held of moving an adjournment ; and
that he would not be deterred by the threats of any man, however high
in authority. He' begged to remind Gentlemen of a period when a
late Right Honourable Friend of his (Mr. Fox) was exhausted by his
application to his public duties, some of those Gentlemen, who on
thus occasion exclaimed against the question of adjournment, had
themselves repeated that question perhaps fourteen or fifteen times in
the same evening. I f strangers were to be excluded frolll the gallery.
the consequence would be, that the public would consider the House
of Commons as a sort of Secret Tribunal, sheltering itself from pub-
lic opinion.
Mr. YORK explained, that the reason assigned for the motion of
Adjournment, and not the motion of Adjournment itself, was the
foundation of his Col4lplaint.
Mr. CANNING observed, that he had already shewn that he dicapa
proved of the motion of adjournment, by voting against it ; which
he should agnin do, whenever it should he pressed to a divis: :n. The
motion for clearing the gallery, a:,d excluding straNcrs,—with what
propriety now m:.de, he should not decide,--was founded on a privi-
lege, the exercise ot which most ever be maintained, without any
qualification, or question upon it ; or it to•tild, in tact, lose its whole
essence. The present motion of adjournment he considered highly
impolitic under all the circumstances : though he
h had himself again and again roved it, to the ni,
of the progress of public business He had done si
intention of marking his sense or the impropriety of ,
particular business of the Mouse, without due time

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