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woila 'new ere, wohld august hi. 1 1 'on der
the ',Millet ureessity of passing his maim to the
House, which was--
that se liaostate lairs* be presolteed to 'WU*. may.
tug that he will be groeissisly pleased to order that them he
laid before dies noose Copies of all ()eclat Papers relative
to s Swains of Pius priesated is the yam VW tol No in"
Majesty to the Oates dews Priaosss of Wales, mut turd
by her from Ilesr period up to her deportare from &Vass*
is the year 1614."
Mr. Hoenouie seconded the motion.
On the tirmon bring pet from the Chair-.
Lard CAAtLERRAOH rose, and regretted very
much that be happened to have been absent on
Saturday when the Hon. and Learned Gentleman
Brat mitoduced his motion to the attention of the
House, and still more regretted the manner in
which he understood the subject had been brought
forward. and that too its his absence.—( tfror.)—
I t was true that the Queen's Solicitor-General (Mr.
Drumm') had sent him an. 'ciliation that he meant
to make • motion upon this subject in the Hoene
of Commons. But he would a%lc, was it usual to
take such an immediate proceeding in matters le-
leering to the interior economy of the Royal Fs-
mily—was it usual to make such Applications here
without previously ascertaining elsewhere if it was
possible to avoid them ?—(blear.)—lt would not
have been very extravagant courtesy if the Hon. sod
Learned Gentleman had brat consulted him upon
the occasion. He meant by no means to impure
any improper motives to the Hon. and Learned
Gentleman respecting the course he had thought
proper to take. After the liberal manlier its which
the Hon. and Learned Gentleman had spoken of
his (Lord Castleresgh'h) manners, it would be
highly improper for him to insinuate any im-
propriety agoimit the Honourable and Learned Gen-
tleman on this occasion ; but lie must say, that
with all Isis desire to interpret both lilserally sod
charitably the Hon. mot Learned Gentleman's
motives, he could not reconcile them to any idea
which he could conceive of purity or impartiality.
If he had been in the ilooourable and Learned
Gentleman's situation he certainly should nut have
acted as he had doue. His Right Hon. Friend (the
Chancellor of the Exchequer) had told him on
Saturday that he knew nothing of the subject, it
would have beets but candid then for the Hon. arid
Learned Gentleman to have withheld his motion in
the absence of coy Minister of the Crown who was
cognisant of the tratoraction.—(Herie.j—He was,
however, bouud tee consider that the Hon. and
Learned Gentleman felt he was trebly purstat the
pails of his duty and obeying his iustractioos when
he introduced the subject in the instiller he had
done. When he gave him this credit he could not
at the same time but lenient that the Hon. and
Learned Gentleman had indulged in so mods acri-
mony of remark, particularly when he found there
was no Miuister of the Crown present who could
meet hie assertions. The lion. and Learned
Gentleman's intentions were no doubt pore,
but if it were possible. they could have been
(which he knew they were not) otherwise,
if the object were to inflame the public weird, to
reinforce,tisat worst appeal already made to the
worst pataions of the lowest in society, even to
aid that part of the 'population of the metropolis
who are Seen hurrying her Majesty through the
streeta,' even to insult the palace of leer Sovereign
and Imsbasad, which he (Lord Calttlereagh) had him-
self the misfortune of witriesaing—(Hear, hear)--
it was impoorible to have taken a course inure likely
to Ite*Pliiiie that base spirit of trill susinatiou which
muse be d'ePlOied as well as reprobated by every
good and honest man in the cominanity.—(lferse.)
If the Hun, and Learned Gelid .ernan hod meant in
lend himself to such an unworthy spirit, he could
not have come down this night more grossly igno-
rant of every part of that transaction upon which
he had-already ventured to proimunce so decided
an opinion. He repeated that if it were intended
to throw • firebrand. if nut into that House, at
least through that House upon the feelings of the
et-lowly, Do better course could have been Witco
to have prepared it than 'list of uot probing suds
a case as tins to the bottom before the Hon. and
Learned Gentleman had made himself the vehicle
of such a mihtatement as liad gone forth to the
world, and more eapecially to have made that nsi.-
state:nem in the absence of the Minister also could
have corrected it. Surely the lion. and Learned
Gent. might, on such a subject, have waited at least
-one day before he launched down into so extraor-
dinary •a statement as he had thought proper to
make. lie (Lord C.) thought he could not say
less than this upon the manner iu•which the sub-
ject had been introduced without compromising
the station be held in the Government, and the
honour and dignity of the Crown, which it was hie
duty in that House to protect.—(Hear.)—He
would now come to the circumstances connected
with the transaction front which this motion orgi-
noted, anti respecting which he must again say, the
feelings of the country had been disturbed arid tor-
tured so as (it ii 11l entionstly, be believed, on the part
of the Hon. and Learned Gentleman) to follow up
that system of coarse and violent inflain matioliof the
public mind which it was their mialortune to see
deliberately carried on out of dours.--( flear.)—
It was at least novel to call the attention of the
!louse to interfere in the domestic arrangements of
the Royal Family without a previous reference to
every source from which an explanation could
be had, and exhausting every attempt to avoid
public discussion.--(Firer, hear, hear.)--1-le
would now owe all he knew of this ironies!.
tton ; and though it was not in his deoartment, yet
lie saw perfsctly ready to coMidir himself reapon-
hade for the coarse pursued by the Lord Chain-
betlaiii, according to the way in which it had been
communicated to him. lie had uoderstood- that
about three weeks ago, and lie begged the (louse
to tie its recollection upon the rime; 5s it formed
cut important feature in this consideration; for it
•shewed that three weeks could elapse since written
gloom-neut., preceded, too, by verbal commas&
y ations, had posited bete:fess-the parties, though
Wedgy coutd• not he buffered to intervene be-
fore the Honourable and Learned Gentleman's
notice and Ins speech.—(Hear, hear, hear.)--m
Almon three weeks ago (the wrstieu etonniunication,
he believed, wars trationnttrot on the £.t Jolt) the
Depute- Chantiotrlatie arplird to his Noble Friend
fate Earl. of Liverpool). WI the sul.jrct of this
plate ; and what was the answer given to this applis
catiori ?- It was hardy. thro--that the Montent her
Majesty, procured for liettory.• suitable residence,
titer no difficulty &tumid mite in taking cure !list

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that hoiden* shoed be imittedietely furuish-d
with a imitable service of plate, of: course, fur
the temporary 'convenience of the Qoems. Ila
was not @wire that any thing iolioeqoent,y
paned reapectiog thja obaervationof Lord I !ver.
pool. We Merely mererjoned this ;Igo* Ilbew • that
00 event of ifribilte latesectidon could be sup:
posed to lurk where such Mt immediate sigssifico.
kmn wee giveu of every desire to MillaktivtiOt nr.ehe
convenience of the Queen. If the flwr.awj Learned
Gentleman inmost to insinuate shot dos spoaa,„e
persetution had been shewn in not forchog her his.
jest), upon the King for a suitable resideoce in sole
of the royal palaces, he should meet iii, ju ritsu.s.
tiou by saying, that, situated as her Majesfy 11404/11,
he should not hesitate upon his responsibility to
say that he did mot think her entitled to these Op!.
cies of residence in het present state. If she fool
indeed been advised to conduct herself with skit
becoming sense of her own dignity and swish,.
theft was, be believed, no mats of settee or feeliog
who would not have been ready to afford her eveiv
cunvoletion of which her titivation admitted, to hat,
rendered her generously and liberally every aseistai,s
which she was capable of receiving. Hut ha.l tier
Majesty convoked her station and dignity since sh.
returned to this country, when she could, day after
day, move in the pukka Stonds, surrounded by the
barest of the populace, who manifested every dent-,
as they passed, to offer every ins,lt derogatory iu
the honour and dignity of the Crown.de—Thaar.l--
He should be unworthy of the station lie filled ;rr
his Majesty's councils if he did not, in defiance
of the taunts thrown out both in this House mid
elsewhere, advise the King not to be the slope
of inch shallow artifices.—(lleor, hear.)—What
he had already stated of Lord Liverpool's offer wow
u proof of the desire that existed to consult her
Majesty's domestic convenience. If the Hots. sad
Learned Gentlein•ii was aware of the existettee of
this feeling, how could lie have stated the goblet(
facts of which his ,perch way composed ? . lfe
would call upon the House to guars, itself at the
outset against this mode of being drawn iota distao.
sion upon the private affairs of the Royal Fstuil. ;
there would be no end to Ow evil and dracredit of
loch discutsion% if they suffered them.elve. hi he
dragged Into them in this manner. lit now liegge.l
to call their atieution to the real frets of the case,
supported by official docuwertite. A great deal
had been insinuated on this ea on former uccierions,
with a view of embarking the character,
and authority of their late venerable Monaich,
as to heir down every question petitfing
which her Majesty was cuticerued. It ouglit
to be a sufficient warning to those olio
resorted to such a course, to tell them that they
depended upon astiertioos, and might he met by
assertions of a different knot, if those who could
make them felt themselves driven to such a curare.
On the subject of the ownerabiparf tins plate, to fey
from it being conferred spas the Queen by his
late Majesty, the tranosteism, as it really occurred,
was of a very different description. In the first
place hr beggvA to say, that so far from the subject
being how started its a harry, trod for the first
it had long been a topic of Treasary correspoa.
deuce. The late Kill. so far from coulerrnig
unqualified ownership of thus plate upon the Ft-
sent Queen, had just as little nitration of !raus•
boring to her as her private property, as he bad of
presenting her with Hampton Court Paloce. Ile
'sever alienated the Crown toxaemia* of the plate
in question, nor could he, of his own penitent an-
thonty, legally do ii.—(l/our.)—The facts were
simply these : His late Majesty consented to appro-
priate a part of Kensingtou Palace for the residence
of the present Queen, then Princess of Watts,
and gave the usual orders to have it fitted with every
thing suitable for her reception. By this order
property to the amount of about 25,0001. was ap-
propriated far the use of the Royal Perronage at
Kensington Palace. In this property the plate was
included, and. so little was it a fact that it was
made up by order of the King, and after the taste
and fashion of her Majesty, that a port of it was
plate of King Williton'a—(Hear. /tear. heart--
which was sought for out of the royal Mate. for the
purpose of being appropriated to the Princes* of
Watts's use while she resided to Kensington Pa.
lace. The very entry at the time iii the L kid
Chamberlain's books, from whose department, and
not from the privy purse, the plate and other arti-
cles were furnished, was conclusive upon the man-
ner in which the plate was sent to die Royal
Per-
sonage ; for the entry of doe inventory of the plate
was prefaced in the books in this manlier :—" Lot
of his Majesty's !dale in loan to her Royal High.
ness the Princess of W oleo,ni Kensington Palace."—
(Hear.)—(Dr. L1861)111)001, : " %Viola is the date ?"I
He believed the slate was in !Sta. If the Queen,
therefore, ever Carried this plate from Kensington
Palace to ally other residence, she exeicised a dis.
cretion in which she was tint warranted by the terms
of pinsession she held of it. It was the practice of
the members of the Royal Faintly, who resided iii
the royal palaces, to have plate out of the Crown
collection furnished them for their use while they
so resisted, and what was dune in the Princess of
Wales's case at Ketteington,wii. merely what was
dour in similar case. in al! the Oilier Palaces. lint
as the lion and Leerued Gentleman bad b.eus
pleased to allude to die probable view .whichlue
late Majesty would take, if lie were now alive, of
this traumas:knit, it was fair for him to state. whirl)
he could do horn undoubted auttiority. the v.rw
that the late King slid actually take of the matter
at the very time 01 its occurrence. The Lord Ay It s.
ford had hail an oudience with the King ti; cit
this very propene, and had t•ati,fird him that :ie
had no more power to cutlery away this plate
than lie had the Crown bolds, without the so.
lemnity of a fusilier iiistrument.—(Hear, heat.)—
How the subject could be revived now, he was tit-.
terly at a loss to esitij.rture.. It must have requir.
ed all the dettetity (Sher Majeaty'• Learned Coun-
sel to have hrougia the subject lee the coussa
deration of Parliament.—(.4 laugh )—That it came
forward under the advice of the Lammed Gentlemen
was to lie known by the fruits which the agitation
of the questing' was ,o aril calculated to produce.
If any artist:sooty inquiry had been their object,
why out have smutted to tidier Lord Liverpool or
the ',mil Cliambernon, who woolal have explained
the real state of the cabe, and afforded every ac-
commodation which her Militia} 's otuationtequirod.
lurked. however, of tskss.g this 'castor; they took
that winch was Ivor 'dirty oo.leed to a'oilent
Their-first legal ellort in her Majesty's cause, their