The Sun.
London, England, 1807-06-27 00:00:00

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not only go to dtg,....st ,the Catholics, bai ,to, lay
the .foundation - of internal hostility 12661141.
Weakness, not for the sake of religion, ,"bit. from
tiaotives of, folly, imbecility; and in obedienct to the
dictates of every political vict. If any greatreverse•
should befall us from abroad, while conco-d and
unanimity 'prevailed within; a .nation' so areas could
easily recover the shock by the exertion of its
tural means of resources ; 'but-when one-part of 'the
nation was hostile to the other, nothing short of thin.
could be apprehended from. any serious external dis-
aster.—He contemplated• • the ,disposition, to- civil
union, which he described as the greatest public
blessing. With such an union,- •though ditfictilties _
may attend fOreign expeditions,. -we should be in,
vincible at home, and much was • already done-to-
wards making us happy. This union was -the bar-
rier upon which England rested •its. own -security),
and Europe with it. - The safety of the world was to
be effeCted only by our adopting the grand measures •
consistent with such. an union. Destruction would
be the consequence of recurring to the little mea-
sures that tended to undermine and divide: " All
lesser que4ions now passed away (said Mr. Grattan).
The grand question; whether Europe is to be saved,
is to be tried by you.:-Divide your: strength, . and
Europe, is lost, and you .are absorbed-in the abyss.
your own folly will have created. .I did not-.mean to
trespass on the attention of the House so long, but
I have been led away by the force of principles
:which have always an irresistible empire over me,
and by feelings -to whoSe impulse I am ever cool-
pelled to yield. In obedience to those principles
and those feelings -I vote for the Amendment, con-
vinced that- the .danger on which -the late Disio-;
elution of Parliament was: ostensibly. founded did'
-not exist.'.'

• Lord 41114T0N rose to express his sentiments in
favour of the amendment, not only for the satisfac-
tion of his private-o Pinion, but alsO because it Would
be an unpardonable &diction of his duty to the
great body of men who sen t him to Parliament,not to
bear his testimony its theit,sentiments (which .
tided with his owq car:the condu& ofhisMajesty's
IVlinisters. He denied that -the first moment. of IV-
laxation- &Om business .was made 'use- of to dissolve
the Parliament: ,The sense a the People was not
appealed 'to as soou as the present Ministers cane
into office. They Waited to
.try their strength in
that . Pariianient,-'andit was not till the trial faired
that they resorted to-theeXpedientof dissolving. His
constituents looking upon -this'as a most flagrant,
corrupt, and wicked stretch of polder, elected him to
mark their sense of which Coincided with his
own. lie could not help adverting to that part of
his Majesty's Speech which recommended the
newal of the economic inquiries of the late.Parlia-
meat. With what confidence could the nation look.
fior'the.execution of this pledge to a Ministry, whose
first ad was to fecall to the Councils of his Majesty,
the man who_ was declared by a Resolution of that
House to be a Violator of the law, and a betrayer of
the public trust reposed in him. It was true, that
individual was afterwards acquitted; but this was an
acquittal not from the Resolution; but from the
•peachment that followed ; and it was an. acquittal not
very glorious in its • nature or circumstances. If
another Minister had not prevented it try advising his
Majesty to dismiss this individual from his Councils,
there would have been an Address of the flouse
to that effeia entered upon the Journals, a:;.: the.
individual would have been now restored in
face of that Address.. The ahr4tness of the, asso-
lution was 'awkwardly excused by. the propriety
of making the -appeal, 'White the. events that rell-
dered -it necessary were, rs,'ceii-t.- :It was true there
was a policy iu pinfitihOy the delusivo cr'y that had-
been raised without -.41'.0 .ciag it time' to subsidef In
all the popular. eleatiting That been cielayeec•the
sense of the people was apinSt the present• Ministers.
He would vote for the Ainendinenti in ordex it)
skew his determination to 'oppose, fioin the.outset,.
a set of men, the acl or w nose gc;ernment %VHS
to recall to the King's COdncils declared prutli;-acy
and .cOrrUpiion.

Mr. DUNDAS- hoped the House would ex.cuse
him, if he was unwilling to suffer a rnotnent to
pass without replying to what had just fillet': frOtn
the Noble Lord. He contended that the acquittal
on the impeachment, _from - which Lord Melville
hgd not shrunk, left him., as clear of imputation
as if he had never been accused. If the .tribunal was
competent, if stile prosecution was not remiss; if
the verdict} was not incomplete," if there was any
thing in English
_;,astice, -•it was that an individual
so acquitted ..could not , again be arraigned. •He
looked upon the.. Resolution against Lord Melville
as virtually ammilvd by his .Lordship's-..acquittal, or
he should lung since.have Moved for its-erasure from
the Journals, •If theNolde ford thought otherwise,
let him name a day,,and, he would be ready to go into ,
the question with him. upon a Resolution of censure,
upon his Majesty'ii Ministers for' the recall. •
Mr. BATH Oil ST would-con-fine. himself entirely
to the consideration of 'what the present Ministers
had done; the question- of their appointment having
been already decided. He- would judge his Majesty's
Ministers by their.-ads, and the only ad of theirs that
could come now-under consideration was the Disso-
lution of Parliament. This ad'he thought justifiable
under the peculiar circonistances of the-caFe, and it
Was enough for him that' it was justifiable, to in-
duce him to vote in favonr of- the 'Address, and
_against the Amendment. • •

-Lord POLLINGToN, :Mr. W. SMITH, Lord TEM-
PLE, and Lord HENRY PETTY, supported the Arnend-
ittellt. - •

General 140 P E, .alludini to. LIM Melville's Trial,
and expressing his confidence that 't House of
Commons would rescind the Resolution that had
been pa;:krdagainst him, was called to.order,

li7I'LEY observed, that the'Noble Lord
opposity,(Lord Milton) was in error, in supposing that
he gained his Election on account of the popularity
'of his politics. - • •

Mr: CROKER and Mr. RYDER supported the Ad-
dress.

Mr. CANNING made a very animatcd speech,
which .our limits will not permit us tc give. He
was very severe on .the"frequeht Mention made by
Lord Milton °Phis constituents; as if no Member in
the House had constituents ,but his Lordship, and
shewed that his ele&ion had nothing to do with the
political sense of the County olYorg. •

Mr. T. GRENVILLE and M. WHITBREAD de-
fended Nord Milton,.and guppOrted the Amendment'.
The latter alluded to the case of Mr. Grogan, and
dpclared that from a paper ivhiOi had jug.heen put.