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frayed into some ()ribose feelings which Jid so much
credit to his Hon. Friend (Mr. Bennett), mid
which were, in his opinion, fir more honourable to
him than the temperance, calmness, and coldness
with which a proposition opening ►uch prospects to
the Hurd Personage, where character, honour,
awl happiness were now put at stake, and affecting,
so nearly as it did, the tranquillity of the country,
lid been disclo-rd to the House by one of the ad-
. sisters of the Crown.—(Hear, hear, hear.)-1-le
should endeavour to preserve himself from the iuflu-
rove of similar feelingr—but he thought he might,
► thourh unauthorised, ask one question of the No-
ble Livid opposite, for the purpose of makiog the
earlirat conitnuisication to the flop,' Personage
so vitally interested in the question, namely, What
was the exact nature of the proceediog intend-
ed to be pursued—what was the character or
the inquiry that was to be (minded ow papers,
and not on the testimony of teltnetses—(llear
which was not to be c holed before the o►diaary
tr►bunals, but a Secret Conentitteef--(Hear,hear.)—
Therrfote, when the Noble Lord should come down
to bring imolai' his motion to-morrow, he should
require from I►im a distinct account of the course of
proceeding contemplated by ham and his colleague..
Ile was itliatithurised to give this notice, but he
thought th 41 the circumstances which had occurred
had rendered it a duty to one standing in the rela-
tion to the Queen iii %staid, he did.—(t/gar, hear.)
The question having been again put—
Mr. BROUGHAM rose, and after some prelimi-
nary reemok which escaped a., observed, that it
appeared the resolution had at length unfortnnately
been come to, to make the hurt of the Queen
the subject, of a regular used formal investigation.
He said unfortunate, tint for the illustrious person-
age the most nearly interested in the inquiry, but
for Parliament, for the House, and for the country.
—(Hear.)--The resolution, he repeated, had been
taken, and the time unfortunately dot approach,
when all men would be called noon to make up
their minds on this most momentous question, and
when his lips should be unsealed from that silence
which prnittote, delicacy, and confidence, had
hitherto imposed on him. —( Hear, hear, hear.)—
At present lie should only say, stud it was but fair
to give his Majesty's Ministers a warning of it,
that the Giver ttttt ern, to justify the course they had
pursued, had nut only to perform the to,k, if they
could succeed in it, of 'hewing a strong case
against her Majesty, but another task to go
through, prior its paint of time, and paramount in
importance, us bearing on the question of the pru-
dence or imprudence of their conduct, which was
that of clearly and satisfactorily convincing the
House and the country that there was no longer
a possibility of postponing or suppressing this
impsiry. Whatever view might be formed of
the merits of the case was immaterial to this
questiou ; because the first point which they
wvie hound to establish before the House was, the
conclusion that the landing of the Queen in &pg.
land rendered all further forbearance impoasible.—
(near, hear.)—Bat he took it for granted, that the
.Noble Lord. and his colleagues had addressed
themselves to the considerasson of that point, be-
fore venturing to proceed oo far as they had done.
He had only to add, in reference to the question
put by his Hon. Friend (Mr. Bennett)—(and he
felt that the explanation was necessary fur the justi-
fication of his Ilms. Friend, who was absent, as well
as that of himself ), that ►ince he had come into the
House lie had put into his hands one of the public
pupots, in which, to his great surprise, he saw a
long statement of the circumstances which had oc-
curred between her Majesty, Lord Hutchinson, and
himself, at St. Ounce's, %shuck was in many par-
ticulars incorrect, and presented a garbled ac-
count of the transactions which had occurred there.
Ile felt it due to himself and his lion. Friend now
absent, to declare, that this statement was an incor-
rect end gut bled one. 11'1111 respect to the letter
alluded to, he had no knowledge whatever of the
manner in which it had matte its way into print, or
of the channel through which it had been commu-
ssicoted. To what Inadvertence, indiscretion, or
breach of confidence this letter owed its premature
public rli,clieiure lie was at a loss to imagine. Ile
lied been entirely ignorant of its publication till
after entering the House.—(/fear, hear, hear.)
The question was then put and carried.
Lord CASTLEREAGH tl►en► moved, that the pa.
pers delivered iii at the table be committed to the
custody of the Clerk of this House.—Agrees to.
Lord A. !Nutt:rote postponed a notice (on
what subject we could not collect) till to-morrow
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