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Government, which bore on the face of it that it
was accompanied with a representation from Count
Capo d'lstria, and a memorial from the Greek Se-
nate, which, however, were not prFaticed.
The Earl of ABERDEEN said, it was not in
, his power to produce the papers alluded to by the
Noble Earl. He had no authority to produce
papers and confidential letters addressed to Prince
Leopold by Count Capo d'lstria. They were
not official documents connected with the con-
ferences. He had produced to the last syllable
all that had been transacted at the conferences.—
The Noble Earl then repeated that he had
never denied having received from Prince Leo-
pold an announcement that he was likely to at-
, dicate; but that announcement was founded upon
the letters of Capo d'lstria, dated before the assent
, of the Greek Government. The assent entirely
changed the character of those letters, and that was
the reason which induced him to think that his Royal
Highness either would or ought (the Noble Earl re-
peated the word ought emphatically) to have changed
the intention which he had formed in consequence
of the letters.—(Hear.)
Earl GREY said, he did not complain that the
Noble Earl had not produced the papers to which
he had referred, but only that he had produced the
others without them. Why were not the papers
produced which accompanied the assent of the
Greek Government ?
The Earl of ABERDEEN said, he could not
have produced those papers, because Prince Leo-
pold had not thought proper to give them to him
until after he had sent in his resignation. It would,
perhaps, have been better not to have laid any por-
tion of the papers on the table until the whole could
have been produced, and it was only because he had
promised to have the papers ready on Monday that
he had done so.
Lord DURHAM said that the reason why
Prince Leopold did not send in the papers referred
to until after his resignation, was that lie did not
receive them from the French Ambassador till after
Friday.
Lord ELLENBOROUGH thought it was
impossible to read the papers, without coming to the
conclusion that the Greek Government, as a Go-
vernment dealing with another Government, and not
appealing to the universal suffrage of the people
which created them, but acting on their own re-
sponsibility, distinctly acquiesced in the proposals of
the Allies. He could not understand the whole of
these documents in any other light except that of
making Prince Leopold Sovereign of Greece, and
of showing that he acquiesced in that arrangement.
Noble Lords had discussed this question as if it was
one of personal consideration to Prince Leopold and
his Majesty's Government.
Earl GREY protested that there was no desire
on his part to make the personal conduct of Prince
Leopold the subject of discussion; but if it had
been made a subject, it «as entirely owing to the
Noble Lords opposite, who had brought forward
such a case against Prince Leopold as made it ne-
ccessary for his friends to remove it forthwith by
contrary declarations. Whatever inconvenience had
arisen upon this subject was owing to the incom-
plete manner in which these papers had been laid
upon the table.
The Duke of WELLINGTON entreated their
Lordships to suspend their judgments until they had
the other papers before diem, and had read those
which were already on the table. This discuasion had
arisen out of a recent practice—very irregular, by the
bye—of Noble Lords asking questions of his Majes-
ty's Ministers, and then making speeches upon them.
The speeches so made must be replied to, for if they
were left unanswered they might produce impres-
sions prejudicial to his Majesty's Government. He
contended that the line of conduct adopted by his
Noble Friend, on a former evening, was perfectly
justifiable. On Tuesday, the 18th, his Noble Friend
thought that he could lay these papers on the fol-
lowing Monday in a complete state before the House,
and having made a promise to that effect to their
Lordships, he had felt himself bound to perform it,
by placing them on the table upon that day. It
was on the intervening Friday that his Noble Friend
received Prince Leopold's letter of resignation. It
appeared from the papers already printed, that the
Prince had departed from a similar intention before;
and when his Noble Friend made his declaration in

that House, he did not know that the Prince might
not recede from it again. He had therefore laid the
papers on the table on Monday night, without
that letter. He could assure their Lordships that
this last transaction was completely distinct from all

the rest, as they would see • whe; they read the
papers. Indeed, from what had occurred that even-
ing, he much doubted whether any of their Lord-
ships had read the first set of these papers.
Lord HOLLAND admitted, that the practice of
asking questions of the Ministry might be incon-
venient to the Noble Lords who composed it; at
the same time he felt it necessary to remind them,
that it was an inconvenience to which all their
Noble predecessors had submitted. If he were called
upon to select any period when there had been an
uncommon forbearance of the practice of asking these
questions, he would say that it was during the ad-
ministration of the Noble Duke. Indeed, the Noble
Earl had thanked their Lordships for the forbearance
which they had displayed upon this very subject,
and had said that it had proved very conducive
to the settlement of the question. What he
complained of was, that the Noble Earl should
have laid papers enough upon the table to create
an unjust impression against Prince Leopold,
and should have withheld those which were cal-
culated to remove it. Those Noble Lords who
had such a horror of ex-parte statements when
made by Prince Leopold, appeared to have no hor-
ror of ex-parte statements when made against him.
It appeared to him (Lord Holland) to be essentially
necessary that the House should be put in posses-
sion of all these documents. He did not intend to
express any opinion upon those documents at pre-
sent,—indeed he had none,—for he had not even
read the voluminous papers already presented to
their Lordships. He must say that the Noble
Lord at the head of the Board of Controul was
much mistaken if he supposed that because this
conversation had occurred about the omission of
papers relating to Prince Leopold, the Noble Lords on
his (Lord Holland's) side of the House intended only
to discuss the personal objections of Prince Leopold,
and not the conduct of the Government, over which
the Noble Lord had hung a panoply which he con-
sidered spotless. He could assure the Noble Lord
that he was mistaken, if he supposed that the conduct
of Government was to pass off with such impu-
nity. He thought that there never was a Govern-
ment which had placed itself in a situation more lu-
dicrous to the world, and more injurious to the
country, than his Majesty's present Government, not
merely on this part, but on every part of their foreign
policy. He knew that the Noble Lord (Ellenborough)
was fond of discussion; and he could assure him,
that before the close of the Session he should
have abundant opportunities of showing his in-
genuity in defending the conduct of himself and his
colleagues upon this particular subject.
Lord ELLENBOROUGH observed that the
mere fact of the Noble Baron's having condemned
the conduct of Government without having read
the papers in explanation of it, was sufficient to
show the fairness with which he would form his
opinion upon it after he had perused them.
The conversation then dropped.
SUITS IN EQUITY BILL.

The LORD CHANCELLOR having moved
the order of the day for the third reading of the Suits
in Equity Bill,
Lord ELDON begged leave to trouble the House
with a few remarks on the subject. It appeared to
him that it was advisable to be more deliberate on

the present question, in consideration of the great
changes which it was understood were projected in
the administration of justice in England and Wales.
It appeared to be in contemplation to appoint an
additional Judge in the Court of King's Bench, an
additional Judge in the Court of Common Pleas,
and an additional Baron in the Court of Exchequer.