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menteres of such severity, aid if they further
thought Fran. circunsmaaces detailed in thin deco.
swots, shat the Qeseu ougsles:iestoto eland at the
heed of female society its t try. it war foe
thesis to pet the 'fair in • train of judicial proce.
dine, that rhino, and disgrace might publicly fell
where shame and dissolve were merited_oposs the
false accusers, if their felsehowil was elleisa, ass
upsets the (Jaren heeself, if the cttergee. were sup.
ported by sufficient evidence, TOW vote the duty
of Ministers, hat from this they. 'sterna', 'east' they
have in the event involVed theosseves,in us Leave
a disgrace as ever betel any set of Ministers is this
couple,.; bet the misfortune of it ia.ory Lords,
that this disgrace does not rest with them. . It has
uuhappily fallen also upon the Crown, and ems your
Lordellips'House hos net been site from its influence.
This I cannot avoid rapreastsig, in the hope of res.
cuing myself at least from the strong ileum of pal,.
he *Moo winch hoe been rooted upon this pro.
cresting, sod which wishesitatisigly declass that
Your Lordships' conduct hoe not been free from
iXeura. I shall have some more favourable op.
portunity of expressing my opinion upon the whale
question. for I deeply feel the shame that hos fi11.,,
ou the House. When lint lbw bag we. laid upon the
table it was understood to contain minters of sorb
deep nod dark crinsisuility as would " fright the
isle from bee propriety!" yet we have since the in.
'Relegation of it adjourned Irons day to day, nut
however in consequence of any doing that has hip.
peuedsin this Home, but froM what hos occurred
in another place, and this House now stands in
such n situation, as that it resigns its discretioos
into the hands of Ministers, without knowing shy
thee% of the circumstances which govern their
conduct. Adjournment and adjournment has
thus " crept on in petty space" from week to
week, and now we ire again required to consent to
further delay. This course sit proceeding is most
objectionable. Still 1 do not now oppose the
postponement, though l protest against the course
altogether. We have hearth touch of the "dignity"
of this House, and that the proceedings of this
House should not depend upon the measures put-
vied by others; yet we are stow governed by the
acts of the House of Commons, and must mould
our proceediug* by their discretion. Some pipets
respecting the recent negionatioii have been laid
upoo, your bade, and a more curios,. specimen of
domestic diplomacy was never exhibited to the
world—(Heer, hear)—and it has been since un-
derstood that • motion is to be made on these
papers in the House of Commons, and this House
must await its result. Such conduct cosoloot tend
to your Lordships' diguity, and to this state we
have been reduced by the conduct of Isis Majesty's
Ministers, whose indecisive conduct has involved
themselves and your Lord.loi ps in disgrace."--(1/,:sure)
The Earl of ILIVERPOOt..--" Alter w hut has fades,
from the Noble Earl, 1 feel it, my Lords, impossi.
hie net to say a few words in justification of the
conduct pursued by myself and those with chum 1
have the honour to act. It is one of the painful
peculiarities of our prreent stale that I am not as
yet able to enter nom a full explanalino of the.
nature or these 'woo-toting", or of the advice whibli
the Ministers or the Crows, hove given to their
Sovereign ; but I trust to your Lordships' can-
dour, that until the hour of explanntioti
arrive you will give one credit when I assure you
that I and the other Ministers of the Crows, have
not vlorinik from our duty,' or from giving such ad,
vice to his Majesty as sue conceived to be necessary
for maintaining the honour of the Crown and the
interests of the country. 1 can lay my hood upon
my heart and declare, if it were the hat hour of
my life. that aid l glo no Moeniers in which, I ever
was reigned was so personally ',anoint to any feel.
ingit, yet there never was a carat us, winch I could
look bark with more pride end salklaction to the
conduct of the confidential advisers of the Crow,,,
with regard both to their duty to their Sovereign and
to the country, than she case now pending. I shall
he ever ready at the proper time to explain the con-
duct of his Majesty's Ministers ; but if I now :oh-
stein froth entering into it, it in not from any ap.
prehensions of the ophtthlt which Parliament and
the country would entoriain upon the subject. As
little ground is there for imputing disgrace to !Isis
House. True it is that the Mum: did, on revels-
mg e commuoications from the Crown, eousent, as is
customary is, all such cases, to refer the papers to
• Cnounotttee ; and no less toile is it, that the
House luss postponed the immediate examinotion
of these papers upon the recommendation of the
Ministers of the Crown; who alone in thos House
are acquainted with the contents of those papers.—
Eon 1 will Otrl it to your Lordships as ass abstract
question, if the Ministers of the Crown were noon
any subject to ask for the delay of a few days,
it was ever of would ever be refused ? The Noble
Earl has said, that if the proceeding has hot
been disgraceful to the House, it has, however,
toren disgraceful to the Ministers of the Crown.
Upon this point, I can do nothing more than to
repel the iniputaton. The grounds upon which
the Ministers of the Crown have acted are great
political priocilliee, and until the hour of explana-
tion conies. I will not ask of the Noble Earl the
jostler which 1 know he will not grant me, but I
do -ask it from your Lordships in geoeral, and tliot
you will suspend your judgment until it can be
formed upon a full knowledge of all the circuits.
stances."—(Hear, hear.)
Earl SoescEst said, be would not object to this
motion for the further postponernent of the niquiry,
but had he been present iu the Houma in the coati..
try when the proposition was fleet made for Ilse
oppoiutnerut of a Secret Committee, lie should
have dune ell' in his power to doposuide their laird-
ships from iedoptioog so uswese and meagre • we-
sore.—(Cris qf 44. Hear, hew," jiosis the Opposi-
tion Besehes.)—He should new of course hospoto
the decision of the House, yet he might be per-
mimed is repress his opiumo opposes the subject..
Tilt Measure brio% in his mind originally wrong,
' he should eat tilattelore oppose the postpeureseutr
Of it." ZeeteteieWwes wrong. &vault is bowed