The Sun.
London, England, 1809-02-16 00:00:00

plied I
-1 ke 50,flid 64-glvis, one answer, that no'
obstruai, slienid be 4iveti to inforpjaiion, but on ,
the contOry ery doinntooicstimn made. •In a.:
sfibse(inent pas
,of his pp*, 11,,,, Noble Lord had
minem
ine a little far-ler than he ought to have done,
when he stated,•"that. he knew instances where Mo-
mentous information was withheld, -mid -investiga-
tion —Go struClel, 75--y-a—re-tir of oifendingT perierii in
power. - Wquld he recolleet' for anti iiment (he did
not oall,upon him to hold it in everlasting remetn7,
brake), what an effect such an assertion would hate.
on the public mind ?
,Ile).v.ts not stAting one charge-
that could be e:oniined, but that a number existed`
which would' bihig infamy on the Puke of .York.'-'-.
WY;;: i' fair by any man ? Was it fair by the lowest
person whom the highest could bring to the Bar, to
cheat them of,ebaritter 'by, these vague and invisible
attacks ?--..-Was it fair by the Duke of York to say it
is no inlntef though heshould beacquitte.d of eVery
charge brought' against . hint 5 `these are nothing to
what :}ye {night produce, The Noble Lord had
fotibd 'tiy experierlee the result of Many 'of his
charges very d'ilferentTroin what heat first:Supposed
they would turn out to be. Might .he not, tea-
soning by analogy, be inclined to think that many
qt these concealed` crt,eS Wile of‘a, similar. nature ?
If so, he had dons general.mischief to the Duke of
York, mid, to Ihe 'cause.' or justice., .by mebtioning •
charges which be had'iio 'opportunity kof answering
or of knowing where they were .to be met.. ' lie
had said this much with= respect to•what bad fallen
frOm the Noble. Lord. As for the the particular in,
stance alluded to,lf the person whobeld the Papers
Could be hitind to:produce them at • the bar, then ;he
had no objection to their being• properly sele&ed by
a• Comniittee; or by -the Noble Lord himself, . to-
satkfy his mind that there were grounds fur his pro-
ceeding.
Lord FOLXSTONE explained.---He had complained'
of the hard manner in Which he and• his Honoura-,
ble Friend had last night been pressed, although it:
had 'then' been declared by them, that they were
nut prepared to bring .forward the circumstances to
which they' had alluded. As to what had been said.
by him on the subject of the infamy that the Gen- .
!Leman opposite had anticipated; G.s appealed to tbe:
reColleetion of the House, whether it :had hot been
dettinetly'deelared, that infamy must fall on the ac-
cuser
or the accused..- •.- , , • - i ,

The ChANCEO,OIt of the, EiCHEQUBII;:in
Con to whit e had just said, begged leave observe,
t the turtlier Cases which the Noble. Lord men-:.
really existed,. the Noble Lord had nothing •
to''Oo but to summon those.ollicers whom he de-:
scribed as 'reluctant to come forward to the .Bar of.
the House, that they might be examined:. --
Me. 'ADKSI said, that 'he was. not present at the
coMmencemenvofthe Noble Lord's speech, but he:
understood that the Noble Lord had stated that the
Hoti.•Gentlemen by whom the Charges were pre-
kried against the Drake -of York, had been driven
front the course of proceeding' which he was desirous
of ,adopting, by the professed adviser of his lluywi
Highness. He wished to know from the Noble Loa! .
whether he had been misinformed. • :

Lord F4KSTO:tiE replied; that what he had stated
was, that the line •of ptoceeding pursued by the
House was adopted at the sit •ggestiou of the protesied
advisers of the Duke of York. .

. .
Mr. ADAM proceeded.—lt was customary in the
House to give to the different Alembers the chow.
ter which belonged to them j• too Baronet the appt-q-
-latiou of" the Worthy Baronet"—to a Mernber of
the learned profession' that of "the Lear nertGentle.
nian..-7and to the unprofessional Members of the
House,' that of ," the, Hon. Gentleman." It was
most irregular and unjust to use any descriptive epi,
I het but such as hotrod' Mentioned. lie complained,
strongeSt manner at -the term" pro-
tes,,eitaldviser of the Duke of \lark," used towards
hini3ell by the
,Noble Lord. If the Noble Lord had
said, tiLit to the suggettwiti at "•a Learned Gesille-
man." the line- of 'condo& a iopted by the House
WaS owing; 'ilithould .13Ve had no .observati:Jo to
tnake.-; but when'it was to go forth to the - poblic
that be,' a M roar of Parliament, acted in a :Par,
liana-la:try proceeding,: as the: professed adviser of
the Duke of York; he had reason to complain ol.such
an expression, and endeavour, if possible, to dumb-
teraa its teudeeey.• Hei-begged the House: wguld
eictlehis calling their- attention to a subject (eh*
perional ; hotiVned ha -was atluated by -the, most Ao-
-rious feelings on this:subject. F He was antious,in
the Most sui-eMn 'manner toiiepel -the imputatien
which that 'appellation might cause. He-knew how
unpleasant it was to the -Hong& to listen to-personal
observations, bot it important to himethar.
whose Fite had bevn passed in the disch`argerof a
riety of- public duties, should endeavour to-preserve
the charader which he truite,tl he bad acquired with-
out tonch,;er Stain.- He was not aware thatmn any
occasion he had failed in the 'discharge of-the v.irious
obligations which had from time-to time been im-
posed upon him ; 'whether dm•ingihisParliamentary
life of above twenty-five years, or in the private
concerns:of-his fainily, ptpoSed as he has t been to
increasiog pressure, to the res au11:11(841441U ; by
which, htiivever,- lie -never be•bli tempted to
deviate from the stria line :of political:or Moral hi-
levity. Although the •Honourable Guinfeniao
whom those charges originated, had intimated that
the 'appointment Select Committee to investigate
them would accord • with ins opinion,• he had brit
thou ;ht proper to move for such a-Committee.. An.
Hon. (kialeinan opposite -had ,suggested proceeding
by a Parliamentary Comniission.; with those two
exceptions, he did not recoiled a 'dissenting voice
against the course ultimately adopted by the: House.
He' appealed -to the Home, whether there had been
the' least interruption to 'the most free and, mire-
strained • inituiry. With respect to himself, he
was hi the judgment of the House,- whether he had
ever said' or done any thieg-thaslavea colour- to the
appellation Of " the professed adviser of the Duke of-
York." 'hoped that the country would be BUJ
fled that this Matter, which had been introduced
publicly, had been concluded openly, and, in a man-
ner that was-in the highest degree honourable to'.the
House of CWIIIIIOIIB.

Lord FoocsroNi, in explanation, declared, that
he did not utean to impute to the Learned Gentle-
' man any improper feeling or conduct, whet) he be..
stowed upon him the appellation of: " the professed
advibler-effthe Doke .of York." lie had understood
-thbleattlettGetitlentan on the day when this.busi-
ness'WB3 first agitated, to state what he did on the
authority of his Royal Highness.
blatiled his Noble Friend for the