The Sun.
London, England, 1813-03-18 00:00:00

„tw oral?) AlnVer, And: had 44.gkied .w it Ir soine s
(if 'reason. fie Would not •e,.t•cr 'Mt° that -Soil.
Gentlentan''s attatk—tiptin :the .four :Peer:4, but
merely notice that the Whole course of hisi.speexh
led to aconclusion to which in a parlianientary
:View that speech, had not the slightest tefereace,
When the Honourable Gentleman. talked of a
crisis, his motion had little inure connexion ;with
it than the motion for t(ljostrine..ent. For
would he the result of the ;prosecutions he pro
posed to institute liow could they accomplish
his avowed-. object.?. BeSides what were they
for—nom
t fur calumny,. as the Newspapers .were
not the IsithOrs ofthe documents. offence,
.it seemed, in the eves of the 110 q. Gentle-
man, that they had pub.kshed the- whOle
and not partial extracts., to prejudice the public lit
any way.. Their "cinly 'offence was that of: presunt-
ing to publish all the evidence, ltud, if Convictod
of this, wisat could it do towards justifying the
yrincess c,c 'Wales ? These documents were, not the
inVentions of the Printeis ; they might 9.!tee lit 4e
been published by. the rrin of cess Wales berse4;
and if they had beets sO isa4lished in her defence,
the anthor would then have: be to cipoilly lia,f4e
with those it was now Wished ;is. punish. These
papers too, were tnatters •of • history, and not
productions il-girte;i for party or of /PAN
poses', 10.gratify.filacipity, • or coavey mischier7
ous impressions.''*Tice Lit st door to these iinbl,ca-
tions was opened by those who printed .ttie
• •.‘ a4eb• ,
step, it was not tosh-:.!. wondered at that persons
po:.sesion Of the whole should fitel.themselves at,
liberty to inake it known to the public, upon
,s ham a false impression ni,glit belt-lade, by the
pr;»unlgution of partial extr4tcts. Under an the*
circumstances of the case, he consid,:Ted laying
the whole IKfore the public 'to be 'no,,offence.•

.
Lord i\lit.Tox took{ the same line of argument
widt t IR, last spcake,e, but one. Ile con4fiercd ene
high situation of the parties of eeted by th.ese pub-'
lications to be a sufficient ground for their prose-
ctrtiOtk i
~and 01.2,;,0“ an illexample would. be .4t(o
‘vere they.; anti,ered to . escape with inintmity,
;iftt.,r committing so grow a breach. of
corliat. . .

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".\:r. CA,tyrwßio nT conceived that nd good tould
remit, in this instance, from Parliament.ary in-
tererefice, Ile lamented the nature of these pub-
lications,. hut. hlattked thow.e whose first pUblica-
tion of the Priiniss'sletter had tiece:isirity led, to
.them. • I-le.. linveu. these would be the last, dc. it
,it i irnpossilife, to see that any goydeould,Fesult
from tlJem.

t r.:::yritr.ift.s.:arlinowledged that he had read
these_ papers not-only-with pain hnt with grief ;
hal. he had read documents equally disgusting in
other. papers, . and in some' of them before iast
i*-..;aturday. lint he rose to speak to another point.
He ro,e in consequence of an attack on the me-
nory of an illestrioterifriend of his, the revered
and lamented Pert;eval..
.When the
Mover took . merit to Itiniself :for not doing ju:.;.7
Tice on memory of that virtuous
'hen he talked of /..nirinz his character by not
drawing a comparison between leis conduct
on a,. tanner occasion, and that of the Ho-
minable, • Gentleman himself- now, it mtas oarlev
possibh to listen to
,him with patience and
inotieratiim. Mr. Parceval had undertaken to su,
perinteral a Bonk containing the evidence in the
-caseof the Princess of AVales, for her
nes*,ond it as her advocate• he had omitted. any
passages, to what would he have exposed her and ,
I—to the charge of hating omitted and
withheld parts,of the testithony, mid thereby in-
Ai-dictated the wwhole.. He believed that this was
We first time the mention of iunnorality had ever ,
been connected with the ,:qtame of Percevai, or
that he had been accused of disregard .to the
Cencies of • life, Who had been so'emilieut an eit-
ample of respect to .theta all. liat.did the 1-10.
nourilbk Gentleman mean to say, that as the Ain--
cess-of Wales's Courisei,in an
-,appeal she was abut t
to Make to the public, he had any ennicein entering
- or abt ridging the evidence on which that appeal was
founded ? And what was the letter Which had -been
called tbreatepiagi" It was written upon%
the- supposition that by. ,bets exclusion fiwit
'Court :being enforced, sanction would ht.
conferred not only ulion the charge of levity, but -
-upon the More serious accusations which been
brought against the Princess—that she ought not
to-acquii;see,in this ignominy, but awllurd the pub, •
lka an opportunity of judging Of her conduct.—,
Ought Mr. Perceyal in this ease to have garbled
the evidence? Even the lion. Gentleman, with
all' his predilection for garbling,. woald scarcely
say that ought to have been 'done.. It a li,ne .had,
• been suppresSed,: the argument would have -been
against the Princess. He . deeply deplored that
her itoyal. Highness had not. such ativThers now as
she had at that time, ,It would have bectr..werl,
for her sad tiir the 10)4 ; and her defence would, ,i
not have fallen into such injudicions hands as into
those of the Hon... Gentleman this night., :it Was
,trkAly said,

An open foe may prove a curse,
imprudent friend is woit.e.'
• • (4 laugh 'from the Oppoqiiipn
.bench ' i
w as
glad to iwe nom.,
,c,„ientleinan so jocose now. . •
He had tried to be.,..yery,pathetic hi 4, speech,
,
almost tpupting..him (1.1;r.5,) to take out his,
handkerchief,- anti beguile himself v ith the,..
idea that there .1.6 s really. a tearin the Honour-
able Gentleinait's • ;le. His present Met
proved this to he a, mistake, .Not. being rithetic„
he might by alloweWfo the 1'1:d:1111W-1
torr argument of the Ilonountlde
hat turned entirely on this, that: the
of Waie' list not now ix
,aetplittal. 1k
ridiculed the kni ;lit-Crrrtntrr of
evidence to he rev 5% i‘aporateil..in all
tetchoupon two Eilicors. As for thitt
Lielonged to the lr,ttit.elillvail.writ-;
teat tot the Prinveti.,s; anti rend to the I.lfAile., Ite,
(Ih% ,s,) did not see,. all„ tha,t,ctmeiliiivory fentKr.
hi if. To him it looked niore like a..triumpil,,trx‘
Nv,lllt. fixed passed in-that House. Jlnt hitt fthielly ;-
relinquished the subject, 'havingftllttll4l the ob.
jeet tar which be rose, •to Vinditte frwii the as-
persion of waut.of a reeoncillatory spiy,it,fn,:t‘tixtt
wait and in Mr. I.'erceval, 110,44,.„.
•self ornament to titrgoikitigal -
iii SANIUEL ROMILLY 'ant,. that he understood
.thatrigniccirtmiristatti-x4 which had occilyred since
he hid let)-the House,. rendered explanation on