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the Naas to decide *pen • question iii their
!Mitre commit,. which they might have to determine
subsegmenify an their kofircini Hear.)'""'
This point, as he millecite4 from
.the •rdinary
sources of iotelligerce. bad been strongly urged on.
the first night. bat their Lordship% had decided
•gaia.t It. Circumstances. however, have oe-
curved, which petty clearly prove that there would
have beep Mare wisdom displayed, and the dignity
of the Hon., bitter ahmerred. had that argument
been successful. 'Weld now say no more upon
this point. except to repress hi. sincere hope that
the Sec►et Committee might never sit.—(Hear.)
Lord Bt.t.s••onouena •aid. if he _could agree
with the Noble Earl or bis "leaf the Flouse (Lord
Grey). that the proceedings of their Lordships. in
so frequently postponing this subject, had involved
them in disgrace. he shatild not vole as that Noble
E•irl woo resolved to dry it% favour of a forthertatl-
Joaroenent ; yet taltaStoralsitargroed to tter...4.)..
'ion on precisely as hod me former
ocessicins squally 'prevailed. namely. thtt a hope
Full trivialised of a final ■od amicable adjustment.
He could not think that the conduct hithe►to intr.
rued by this House were calculated to involve it in
disgrace. The adjournments. hail not, in tuet.
taken place. became of aii!, circumstances Chet
had occurred elsewhere, but because the some
causes which operated elsewhere were found to he
equally effective upon their Lordships—(//eur,
hew/—olthough it lumpened, limn the different
circumstances of the I louse of Commons, that the
suggestion for attempting to conclude an sionicohle
arrangement 'bookd be first snide iii that Douse.—
He bad always entertained apprehensions that no
successful result could be expected from the late
negociation—nor did lie think that any attempt at
■n arrangement could be attended with compiete
success. unless it were made antler the inamediaie
sanction and direction of Parliament. The Le-
gislature should take into its own hands the ar-
bitration which the Queen was to lease
to individuals. lie could not but think that the
honour of Sovereigns depended •pots the opinion
of their people, and that Parliament was the fair
representative of 'lie ovialowl or the people of
England, and the guardian. of their Princes' cha-
racters. No disgrace. therefore, could happen to
any of the Itoyal Family, in pursuing a line of
luct conformable to the expressed opinion of
Parliament.

Lord Hotta on—The Noble Baron who spoke
last had sail that he estiessted to the present inotiou
la the reasons assigned by the Noble Earl noon.
site, yet he at the same time had acknowledged,
that he entertained no hope of any success from
negocietion. unless Parliament were to undertake
the direction of it. This, sin doubt, was a notable
reason for voting that Paliameut should further
postpone the consideration
of the subject. The
Noble Baron had also nisserverl, that their Lord.
ships had not hemi intim-need in any respect
by the proreeditir to the House of Com-
mons, hut by certain motives, which equally
operated opon both Hones. There undoubtedly
was something inget o i (((( * iii this view of the sub-
ject ; yet it happened somewhat stuothirly, that
those caritas should regulate orrate Upon the
House of Lords exictly tin the day after they had
spent their limiter lira the ot'.a I lotise.—(//ear,
bent, and a bore/a on the Opposition tide.)—It
might not he improper to remark to their Lot&
ships, that they were then assembled debating this
.abject by mere accident. The Marine Mutiny
Bill, which hail pasied without one word, was the
cantr of their having been summoned. Whets his
Noble Rslative (the Martinis of Lanolown) asked on
the previous earning why they were sumturnied, the
Noble Earl opposite (Lird Liverpool) told him
that the house were summoned for the Marine Mu.
tiny Bill. and that lie was not aware of any other
matter of importance. Ile did not object to the
present motion; lie should be glad stoked if the
meeting of the Committee were put oft altogether.
The Noble Earl this evening, in Is lolly toile, dis-
claimed soy improper motives on the ;hat of his
ilriajeriv'a Altot.trio, and declared that he found
himself iii a most painful situation ; hut the
greater part of this puss. consisted in lIIS not bong
able to state to the House the reasons of los past
conduct, mid of his present motiots. It watt too
much to ask the House to give up their discretion
to the will of Ministers. On whom were they
I about to repose this confidence ? On those who
i were shifting oft all responsibility from theinselv, a
, and throwing it upon the flouse. It was enough
1 for the Noble Lord to speak about analogous pro-
', reeding', for he could never spew that it -was usual
fur the Ministers who had advised the King to
,
i make • certain communication to Parliament, not
i
i to state to Parliament the nature of that criturnion...
I cation. and the object that they contemplated.—
' The evidence was no* thrown to the House in a
1i
very crude state, and withoot the expression of any
opinion moms the Ott of the Ministers. They who
I advised the Crown to submit these parrs to Por-
i 'lament, they who ore alone acquainted with their
! content?, they who advised these proceedings ego tilt
a High Personage, and who sinvi-ed the Kong to
erase the name of that I Itgli Personage from the
I Liturgy, sod who insist therefore have sufficient
i evidence against her conduct to warrant anch a pro.
I ceeding—they do not submit any proposition to
lParliament ; but they say, ‘t• We have here coi-
lected a great mass of documents and evideuce,
' but vie Can form no opinion upon the matter,
give it 4herefore" to your Committee, and throw
your shield over us for our oratectioti."—This
undoubtedly was not in owl:Loess tut uitpar-
liamemary vocreding, but it was not consistent
wills the dignity of the Crown or the lionioir of Par.
'lenient ; and no matter how high Lords may speak.
i and ingenious may he their argumeots, they could
• not disguise the lamentable difficulties of their pre-
isent situation, This Illittortarne atone from the
omit or candour Of of courage on die part of M. ..
Ileis to risk their personal responsibility, and give
proper advice to their Sovereign. Never did he
I knew a case iu which the advisees of the Crown op.
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