The Sun.
London, England, 1830-11-03 00:00:00

is bottomed en principles now for the first time in the
history of this country acted on and avowed by the Minister,:
rat the King....--(llear.)—l trust it is the Speech of the
Minister. I have the power to call it eo, and to carp at
it, and cavil at it, and tear at it, and rend, it to tatters at
my pleasure, because, although nominally the Speech
of the King, there is no 'principle of the Constitution
better established than that it is to be regarded as the
Speech of the Minister—of the Duke of Wellington—the
First Lord of the Treasury.—(Hear.)-1 claim it WI the
ancient right of the Members of this House to treat
the Speech as the language of the responsible Minister of
the Crown ; and as such I now proceed to consider
it. I say then, Sir, that the boasted declarations of
non-interference are by this Speech declared at an end ;
and that we are called on to pledge ourselves to examine
into the internal arrangements of Foreign States, to dis-
cuss the state of their affairs, and to give our assent, by
this Address, to a Speech of the Minister of this country
blaming ens Government and censuring another, and
making ourselves the Judges and the Censors of the con-
duct of Government/ and of nations as free and unfettered
as our own.--(Cheers.)—l do not undertake tire unpleas-
ant .task of criticising this performance from any spirit
of party, or for the gratification of any of its feelings. If
I was disposed to indulge in such a task, God wot I need
not have recourse to the operose proceeding of dissecting
the Speech they have put in the mouth of his Majesty on
this occasion. Looking to any part of the present Go-
vernment which assumes to itself the possession of the
talent and the experience requisite for the direction of the
affairs of the. Government in that which they proclaim a
. tremendous crisis of affairs, I could not be at a lose for
eubjeent of inconsistency on which I might dilate. But I
do not outeinne the critic for any party purpose. Idoit to
warn this House and the Government (the country needs
• no warning)—to warn them against the fatal canse-
queues,* of the path they are now .pursuing. Let us see
what is said I have witnessed with deep regret
the state of affairs in the Low Countries." Now, it
COMM4II to say in this Housea—You do nut
pledge yourself to anything by agreeing to the
.Address;, it is a mere form of compliment, and you may
vote against it the day after if you please with perfect
freedom. This is one of the solemn plausibilities which,
confess, somewhat puzzles my understanding. Not many
days ago I swore at that table the rankest nonsense which
the mind of man could conceive, for I took an oath in the
true intent and meaning of the words, that a roan who died
a century ago had no right to the throne of these realms,
and that I would resist to the utmost extent of my power
all attempts of his son, successor, or successors, to re-
cover that throne, there being no successors whose title is
to be resisted.—(llear, hear, and a laugh.)—That Statute
means, therefore, absolutely notbingealthough it is much
to be wished that the formality was rendered unneces-
sary; neither does the Address, you are told, mean any
thing, fur you may to-morrow. oppose all you have pledged
yourself tastily; but it is, therefore, that I feel it the more
necessary to arouse the attention of the house to the
acts of ter-morrow, by entering my protest against tire
Speech toolay. The Speech goes on to say, " I lament
that the enlightened administration of the King should
not have preserved his dominions from revolt." I
say that this is the very first time in the history of this
country that the King is made to express an opinion on
tire conduct of a foreign population, or of the power which
administers their affairs. Why, with our hands full at
home ; why, with Ireland, agitated and discontented ; and
Kent as we hoe howl to-night, is in a state of alarm
, which calls for the interference of the, legislature ; why,
with sonic places agitated, and all dissatisfied, we should
turn our attention from the state of our own population to
brand other nations with revolt, seems one of the strangest
contradictions which it is possible, to.conceive. I deny
that there is such paltry and impertinent intertneddling in
the Speech of the King of England. I rebut it as un-
worthy of the Sovereign in whore mouth it is put, and as
unworthy of the tribunal to which it is addreeeed.
Would to God, however, that this little mean piece of gos-
sipping-intermeddling had no wow end then being atig.
motional as it deserve*, but I fear me much it must lead
ineontestilily to a rupture of the terms of amity in which
we lived with the oatiorie to which it allude& I desire
you would attend to the maxim--s." Do unto others as you
would be done by." But lot me reverse the maim, anti
suppose that the King of the Netherlands should now
think it his dirty to reply in the same language to his sub-
iects that the King of Gout Britain is this day called on to
nee to us. Let us suppose his Majesty of the Netherlands
addreising his Swell-General in somewhat the following
words tee." 1 lament to ore the unhappy state of the peo-
ple of a initialers of the dominions of my ally the King of
Erightml." Ibis would do for Kent,—(Hear, and laugh-
ter.) 14 us take number part of the same subject :
" I lament that the wise and paternal Government of my
good friend the King of Great Braitein have been fru.
trawl in all the just and reasonable expectations they en-
tertained on the subject of the pacification of that part of
Iris dominions called Ireland."---(Hear, and laughter.)
Or, " I lenient that the, people of the empire of Great
Britain generally have bean so grieveuely disappointed on
the subject of a reduction of taxation, And I grieve much
diet an the plane iulopted for the relief of the enlightened
people of Ireland have been prohibited by the tyrannical
.—(you have called the people of Belgium rebellious, she
may call you tyrennieal)—have been prostrated by the
tyrannical conduct of the Ministers of the King ; but I
entertain a confident expectation that, in a little time, tire
lowistative Union between the two eountries, which all
good mint and true patriots deem to be a suns_.-(Cheers,
brad laugliter)e-ewill be totally dissolved, and Ireland
left to enjoy the advantages of her capital and her
skill."---(hear and laughter.) If we have a right to
intermeddle with the Dutch or Belgiena. they haves, I
Iranian!, the same right to interrueddle with us ; and
they may ray, ,as we say of, the litateroGeneral, that they
regret to find that the AntiTiJnion Association (or the
Volunteer ikasOCiatiall, or in whatever AMA they delight)
.....they may say they. regret to find that the eaertioue of
these worthy successors of the still more worthy defunct
Catholic Association, to accomplish a repeal of that un-
holy legislative Union, have led to no satisfactory result.
—4lltrar, anti leughter.) • Cientierocri might treat these
things with ridicule, but, it would be otherwise if they
cams from the mouth of a foreign Melanoma ; for I know
no people under heaven who would retitle more readiness
and with more severity--or he more ready to fly to arms
to resent the slightest attempt at a period.of any portion
of that Speech ,which we are now considering. I bald it
was reserved for the enlightened policy and knowledge of
precedent acemnpliehmenta which have been At all times
displayed by the present Cabinet, to advise their Master to
deliver the Speech on wiakh I run now commenting; but
I should be glad to know from whence they derive their
precedents on this occasion. Is it from the precedents of
fortner reigns ? If it be,. I ask, thee, if there: is in the his-
tory of the world an act more nefarious than the partition
of Mimi? But yet look to the Speech from the Throne
at the end of tine Session of 1774. Look to the Speech at
the opening gibe Session in 1774 and 1775, and mark the
studied silence which prevails throughout the whole of
these documents—not that the information of the Foreign
Minister of that day was not as good as that enjoyed by
the Minister ofahe present, for I believe thin information
of the Noble Earl (Aberdeen) stands recorded in the annals
diplornmy far the perfection of the must refound Ivo-
ranee which has river been known in that department of
paretic affairs. 'Why, who, is it that does not retnenther
that on the very last occasion whin iris Alejesty addressed
. this Hoese, dui Royal Spetteit Wee made to congratulate it
on the t!riummsi and probunnd peame and trarneuillity in which
every nation of the Continent was stintilJetulg. And when
was tide? On tire 28th of July-ea(llear, imat)--four. days
Wane the e.vploaion-e..fitur days before the traee' till of the
Ordinencee—.four deye hittere that revolution, toldcli no
rny. conscienee I believe to, be, tine roost glorious in Oak
annals of utankind-e-whether we regard the protninitude
with which the attachb of deepotient woe repelled. or
the yet algae glorious temperance whielt dietinguaed
the combutanta after the battle was overo--(llear.).-e
There is theta:fere. era eoutparison) of igneramo between
the case of Poland end that of Belgium or PrancPe. Best
let us .turn to another period, when Mr. itt, ne
,shattered remnants of whose lottotvere thestreeent slinis-
try potions to lee, wee at the head •en the Government..
Franee was then convulsed—the Pupil Family wet,* prh.
nottere—tine scaffolds flowed with blood.—scenes were
deity taking place, compared with Ouch all that bee hap-
, Mooed in Belejunt dwindles into a Mere speek. Burke lied
declared that Emma wee blotted out of the snap of rairupe.
Port and hie petty, on the ether band-, had Announced that
new. ight of If-hear Was about to spread aver l':daitlut.
All classes in the country were arraoted tin one side or the
other; and yet what was the eaennplery ,}:cation and
eisteetuanlike cowrie adopted bay Mr. Pitt? 41.U.04104 k)"
tine party ailed AntisJontehins, surrounded h 1 trten
potoi to French opinions, Atonally intrusted to ealopt
some thea,idetr mono to Mop the tiregtelis of Revolution,
what eouree did. Iris puttee! ?. lautitte the yens ties%
:1700. 1791, end 1711*--4u ring the whole ari 4h,..0 Yea,"
of neteettere and misrule 'to Fontein there it 1.10 n that
Royal Speechte to to, founit the *Widow of the 'irate Of
an alluoinn to the ree.dosil satin:eta t.f the French King;
sod it was trim tliktil LIM IVAl; fiavtelphpi., AlOtir., that t%
find ire short a deli .rC
of deos l4ollpnlibiled peeplato their tioeeieigi, ;
the ettfOnga tier enlighteued itholarch ;t4 tt.o
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