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THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

Lon Don :
MONDAY, FEBRUARY IS.

In the House of Commons on Wednesday last
Sir Robert Wilson brought forward his promised
motion, with a view to promote an enquiry into his
conduct on the Rth of August and the days pre-
ceding it—he did this in a style of candour and

ftiraess that attracted the admiration even of those

who, to retain their seats, were unhappily in so
debaced a situation as to be obliged to pronounce the
monysyllable " No" with their mouths, while their
hearts would willingly have vociferated "Ate,”—
anti with a degree of coolness and ability that has
placed him higher than he before stood in the esti-
mation of all these who have read his speech atten-
tively; it was of extreme length, and our limits have
obliged us to curtail it, but we have preserved the
points, and all who do not belong to the majority
which voted against his motion will agree with us,
that a grosser case of cruelty and oppression was
never made out—that he was dismissed either with-
out any evidence at all, or upon that which was
confessedly fuuided in falsehood and perjury—that
the parties giving that evidence were shielded by
Government from the visitation due to so &m-
-ercies an offence against the laws of God, of Eng,-
gland, and of Alorality—and they will probably be
inclined to think with us, that Sir Robert Wilson,
was punished in truth and reality fine the double
crime of having opposed a lavish, bad, extravagant
government, and having commiserated and endea-
voured to alleviate the sufferings of a persecuted,
injured, calumniated and deserted Wife, who was
his Queen. Lord Palmerston, and Lord London-
derry, took post behind the phantom of Puerto-
OLTIVE. We know not if it extend so far, but we
are sure if Fuel be the cas.y, it ought to be lessened
as affording a most dangerous infinence, while mi-
litary and naval officers, are allowed seats in the
House of Common:, :—by this arbitrary, unjust ex-
ercise of this right, if it be a right, Ministers have
drawn down upon his Majesty a degree of odium he
ought not to labour under—some persons dare to
think it was the result of petty, personal revenge on
the part of the King, for the part Sir Robert Wilson
toek in the Queen's aflisir, but this we do not, we
cannot, we will not believe ; and even if such had
Len the case the evident duty of Ministers was to
have resisted so degrading a sacrifice of the dignity
of a King of England, and if their resistance had
been ineffectual the alternative presented to them
was resignation of those pla,ies they could no longer
hold with propriety. For six months past all the
hirelings of Government, the Morning Peal, the New
Times, the Courier, and last, though not least in
the Man Bull, have been dealing in myste-
rious grandeur on the subject—" We could an if we
wce.ld"—" Au if WE list to speak," with a :ong list
et* similar ambiguities— whico, if' stripped of all their
vii:anous clothing, come to an assertion that Sir R.
Wilson had been guilty of high-treason, and that if
he were not executed for it, he would have to thank
the loving mercy of his Majesty's Ministers—no N,