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to t),,nrtiaci bees so long ;
bud as we were well acquainted with the value of
those, blessings ourselves, our guilt was still
greater in disappointing the ho-pes which we had
excited. As to the effect which it had been said
the speeches of Members of Parliament had pro-
duced, he cared little. It was their duty, to ex-
press _their real sentiments without regarding ef-
'feet, which must proceed, not from the speaker,
but from the intrinsic weight and justice. of his
arguments.

Mi. STEPHENS stated, the Gentlemen opposite

were wrong in supposing any one on the belich
.1)clow him even glanced at the idea that the ques-
tion 4vas one:of mixed good faith,and policy. Had
be _understood that the Ministers intended to rest
their defence on that foundatiOn, the very-state-
ment would. have satisfied 'him of it futility. If
the case was really as it had been represen tejl one
in which the national faith had been pledged and
btoken, he would be ready to subscribe to all that
Lad been said against the infamy of the Act, and
to consider all motives of policy as mere dust in
the balance. The principle on which he hoped
to form one of the majority this evening,' was
that the question ought not to be 'pre judged
before it was possible to produce the documents
necessary for its illustration. Did any one.be-
lieve that the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and
the other Members of Government, x‘otild have
got up, and stated distinctly that no breach of na-
tional faith and honour -bad been committed—
( Hear !)—had it not been in their power to prove
thjir assertion ? There was nothing in their con-
duct which would justify their being pre-judged as
guilty; and when he found it stated, that in the
recesses of the Alps the high honour and public
spirit of the country were extolled, he considered
-trifit the tiler/ at the head of affairs were those who
had raised her. to that pinnacle of fame. There
Tva:4'-nothing before the House on which it could
collie to a decision whether a breach of honour
had been committed, anti to attempt it would be
an injustice.

Mr. PoNsoNBN thought, that 'unless Ministers
should represent the ProelamatiOns which formed
the. subject of the motion as forgeries, a course
which he did not think they would adopt, they
could have no defence. From the tenour ot their
arguments, he thought they meant to allow their
anthenticity, but to insinuate, that the Officers
from whom they proceeded had exceeded their
powers in issuing them. . \WMId this be the
groun► .of their -defence If so, he hoped some
relative or friend of that Noble- Lord would let
him know the charge against .him. But he who
was acquainted with him declared, that it -was-
impOssible he should sign .sur7ll a Proclamation,
without the authority otGovevnment to perform
the, promises he had. made. He maintained, that
unless Ministers should deny th,e authenticity of
the Proclamations of • Lord Wm. Bentinck and
Gelieral Dalrymple, and the protest ot the Senate
of Genoa, at being obligedto give up the Go-
vernment to the Piedmontese, every necessary
document was laid berm* the House, and there
was no cause .for delay. Should Ministers, lire-
tend that they had been reluctantly compelled to
give up thiS point, in order to secure some ad-
vantage. for England, he, would consider them
guilty of having entered into the basest compact.
Li-NIBTON in reply, stated, that to see whe-
ther there remained a spark of ancient English
spirit in the breasts of the F..e.pees.eneatives of the
Nation, he should call for a A divisicut
then took place—
For the. previous quest.iod
Against it

Majority • —49
IRISH FREEHOLDEP-i. •

' Mr. BIIOWN moved for returns of the number of
registered Freeholders rated at the value a forty
shillings, in each county of Ireland, distitiguish-
ing baronies, from February 7„1807, to the same
date, 1815.

Lord G. BERESFORD inquired whether it was
tire lion. Gentleman's intention-to bring in a Bill
to t:►ke away fro►n those Freeholders the elective
franchise

Mr. BROWN replied, that his object was to find
the amount of Freeholders, in order to judge of
the ►►umber of days necessary for polling. Or-

Mr. TIIEEMAYNE obtained leave to bring in a
Bill to amend the Act concerning LnnatiaPaurers.

FINANCE.

On Mr. BROGDEN'S appearing- at the Bar with
the Report of the Committee of Ways and Means,
Mr. TIERNEY hoped that at this late hour the
Chancellor of the Exchequer .would not think of
pressing his Resolutions through the House.
The CHAkCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER proposed
that the Report of the Assessed Taxes should be
postponed till Monday, but did not see any rea-
son why the other Taxes, which were not, likely
to meet with any objection, should not be teat!
to-night. •

Mr. TIERNEY did not intend to object to the
ASsessed Taxes in particular, bnt to the whole
plan of Finance proposed, and especially to the
continuance of the War Taxes. He • thought,.
therefore, it would be preferable 'to postpone all
the Resolutions at once to any day which- the
Chavellor of the Exchequer noght please..
After some further conversation, it was agreed
that the War lad Assessed Taxes shOuld be
ho ;tom
paned till Monday; and that the Resolutions re-
- specting the new Taxes on Licences under the
Excise on Tobacco, and on Newspapers, should
be read to-night. They were read accordingly,
the others postponed, and the Report was order
cal to be taken into further consideration 'to-
.
marcow.

RoßtNsoN brought the Malta and Co-
lonial Trade Bill, which was 'read a first- time.
• The Other orders of the clay Were then disposed
of, ?Ind the House 'adjourned at half-past Eleven.

REsultimmoN I‘4:s —Those who have lain
buried, as ic were, for years past, have note risen
to a new life of Adventure, in their •eagerness to
purefase Tickets and Shares for the Three Thirty
Thousand P9und Prizes, and the Five Thousand
Guinea efizes to he paid in Gold us soon as'drawn,
declaring they had no inducement in the common
insipid Schemes 'of late years, and
:only buried
themselves until the present enlivening Scheme
reanimated them, and which seems to please all
classes of Adventureis.---7Te Drawing begins sth
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