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

J.k.-N.E 27, 1807.

AddresS Wes proposed, and the Honourable Gentle-
man, by, whoill it waa seconded, had .coticluded.
their s'peeCh.es in the saint. way in which his Majesty's.
Speech corn:hided—and here, once for all, he bagged
to be cousideredu as deeming_ his Majesty's Speech
.the Speech of the Minisiers by whoM it was advised,
• and Who alone were.responsible,for its contents e and
however severe the expressions Which he might find
it his-duty to use on. this subject, he trusted they
Would not be misconstrued to meanatly thing .dero-
'gatpry from that respe&l Whichr as a faithfulSubjea
of the.ing, and which as possessing a Perfe& Cone
fidence in his virtues, he was always ready to Pay.
plet, the Noble Lord and the Hon.-Secoudei had con:-
eluded their speeches es. his Majesty's Speech cone
eluded, by calling for unanimity-In one point alone
he feared that he ceuldagree With them. .He agreed
With them that there never was amore.aWfulicriSis;
'that the Country was never in greater danget ;. and.
that there never was a greater demand fur
mitt' and co-operation, it onanirti4 and co-operation
could be obtains :le but at the time when-they calie4
for Wianimity,_they follo'xed closelythe exa,nple of
the Speech, or tastier of the. ICliniSters by -whom
'that SpeeCh was advieel. \-.rhile the word '4 Lunt-
nheity" was on tie.,ir lie e they introduced topic.'s
which must neeeseuile produce diVisibn. They
had'calle&the attention Of the House to: the Tate:
DiSsolution of P..irliament, end both had contended
that the power of dissolving nirliament -was an in-
disputable preengative the: Crowti, given for the
advantage of „the Subjeete;l bet neither of these
Gentleneett feed stated th,u this, every oteee.
prerogative, ,was subjea in it's eXcecee; to he
shiered 'by,Perfiatuene The Nyiile Lord hed coin-
Meneed by saying, .that he woeld not allude to the
vircumstancesehat led to else lair: Dissolution of Per-
Ihitnetif-; but in the course. of his speech he forgot
tl...h;cleterneinaliort:; he stated, that the measure's whit h
prodeced the Dissolution had imperiously Called
his Majesty to step forward defehce of the Pro-
eetaot Eetableilenent. The Floe. SeConder had gone
neve et,length in this part of tilt: stilijeet. Accolding
to him,' not the intrude4ion alehe of the measure,
Which had
.been all Oded to, but us intrOduieti and
subsequent abandonment, had necessarily demtided
the exerese_ of toe prerogative, as. eXernelified in
the•DifoOltition. Forehinisell, he. confessed, that,
ihe had scarcely as yet recovered from the :astonish-,
went Which that.rneasure had ocekiSioned. Had it.
been adopted: by any other- Achninistration 'than!
thepres'ent, he could not hive accounted.' ne- it
on any principle' of public security, or - nationals,
welfare; bite coming from the Gerelemeh oppo7
see, it was indeed eetreordieary 1,
,Not a long
time had elapsed since Parliament was before dis-
solved. Qu that oecesion the 'House had heard .tt'
.great deal of observatioh frien the G.:lnk:Merl 410.7
site. If lininae imagitettiou had beeii tortured to,
devise a Cembination.of circuMStanees,which should
expoSe this prerOgative of- the 6!-Own to ell,, ifie„
objeaions that had been then nrged against
it,could not have been rteee seecessfel thao in that
instapee. The Honoarahle Gentlemen repivheifd-
cc,' the Dissolution of a
.P.e'liament after it had been'
sitting four years; they.themselees dissniVed a Par,.
liawent after it had beetesitting only 1.14ur months.
The HetieGentlemen opposite censured theDissOlu-
tion which took place at the end ofthe session; they
'themselves dissolved Parliarne- eut 10 the middleof the
Session. The- Hon., Gentilemen opposite. had cotn-
.,
pleinql of undue influence having been exerted
against them ; they thernsulveS.had exercised an in-
fluence not in the detail, but in Whole Sale, aticisuch.
as they ought to have been ashamed,o( Unless Par-
lianaerit were to say et once, that the prerogatives of
the Crown ought to be curtailed, and that Parliament
should be rendeeed.permanent, it could never be con- .
,tended that
.any Dissolution was better timed than
that which took_ plaee under His Majesty's late Mi-
nisters. At the, end of a Negotiation which left"little
hope of a peae, it was surely advisable sliew the
enemy and the 'allies, of the country thgt the King,
the Parliament, and the People, were determined to
unite in withstaning all the eaorts of an,uprelentitig
enemy. Neve.r did gneater tmanimity,prevail there
;On that occasion, interrupted only by these personal
and local differences, which_ every General
must necessarily prodoce.eßut the Hon. Gentleinen,
by the Dissolutiou which they, advised, had created
an:intinity,.of public ~Pnd .private inconvehieheies ;
they had produced the utmost disunion, and instead
of uniting the people, they hadeastlir as in them lay,
~kindled religious animoshiesefset man against inane
and brother against brother : they had set the people
Of Ireland. agaiest•the people of England, by shewiog,
the great body of Irish that the English were unfa-
vourable to thelh,claims: Such conduct would. be at'
any time criminal ; but when it was. considered with
referetice to the necessity than existed for making a
due impression on our allies, itbeceme still more„ so.
". Could this ,be denied ? Let the HouSe fook at .the
:state 'of the business whets Parliament was dissolved.
In. the, first place, there
,was in the last Session a.
,sreater number'of private bills, tending to. improve
'the agriculture,' increase, the manufa&ure, and extend
.the commerce of the country, .than in, any former
' Parliament. Those Bills, by the regulations which
he had had the bonoui to p,roptse, udder stleadVice
of the highest authority, bad been brought almost to
the last stage. ,On. the 27th April the Dissolution took
Place ; on the I tile May, the reports, of those Bills
wOuld have been received; the consequence"was, that
the greater part of the expanses attending them had
been paid, and that they then had fallen to the ground.
What expedient was to be resorted to he knew not e
he 'lhould be glad to find that individuals were reliev
eci -from inconveniencies occasioned by.the tniscoo-
duet of his,Majesty's. Ministers.- The House must
be careful that in remedyinga private evil they do not
open a door to public evil, and atford facilities to sub-
. sequent Ministers to dissolve "a.Parliament without
haying a seronger necessitipe for the Dissolution than
N% hat had been,. described by the Noble Lord and
Hun.- Gentleman opposite. 80 aluch -for,,private