The Sun.
London, England, 1812-05-22 00:00:00

Anal tnost manly line of coudua to ptitsurae to op-
p ,se the formation of an Adrnnitstration of which
he could not approve; rather :han to let it be form-
ed, and then. strike at its measures. He thought
the voice of the people; expressed through that
Hotee, might have the effect of inducing the Prince
Regent to snake a new effort at forming a strong
and efficient Administration. By the motion which
he intended to inake, he did not mean to pledge
himself td'support any Governmeot than might suc-
ceed•the present, nor did he mean to pledge him-
self to oppose all the acts of the present Ministers ;
still ..ess did lie mean to oppose the Constitutional
tight of the Crown to choose its own servants ;
that which he 'wished to do was to, induce the
House to exercise its good old constitutional pralice
of addressing the Sovereign, and praying him to
adopt such measures as would enable him to form a
strong Administration—implying,. by such an Ad-
dress, that the present Ministers had-not the con-
fi.lence of the House andof the country.' He would
now proceed to state the grounds on which he
brought forward this' motion; and he wished every
man vt ho heard him to put to his conscience the
questions which naturally. arose from them.—There
were three CideStiQns which they ought to put to
themselves--ist, If in the present situation of the
country, it was not necessary that an Administra-
tion should manage its affairs, which possessed the
confidence of Me people-2dly, If the present Ad-
ministration possessed the confidence of the peo-
ple ; and, idly, Whether all- had been done that
could be done towards forming such an Admini-
stration as might be looked up. to by the na-
tion with confidence ? On these three points
he asked the deliberate judgment of the' House,
and to that he confidently appealed. On the first
question he would not take up their time by dis-
cussing it at any-length. That an Administration
p-ossessing the Confidence of the nation was neces-
sary, could not be denied. Every man must admit
that at no former period were the troubles to which
we ware exposed so great and so difficult to meet
as those which at present'pressed on our attention;
and therefore that a Government was necessary, to
which we could look up with confidence and re-
sped, must also be admitted. On the second ques-
tion which he had suggested, he was also well a-
ware that it was not necessary for 'him to take up
much of their time. That it did not possess the.
confiderce of the people, was not less clear, than it
was certain, that the Government ought to possess
that confidence. He must believe that the present
Adminietration did not possess the confidence of
the people.. How could it, under existing circum-
stances r That it should do so 'Am almost impossi-
ble'. Standing as-he did, closely uni ed .in friend-
ship with some members of that Administration, it
wauld ill become him to use language that might
cause personal irritation, but it became him 16 say
'(standing there in his Place) that though he had
been one of the warmest supporters of Mr. Perce-
val's Administration, be 'had never thought it a
strong Administration. He had not thought it so
strong nor so efficient as an Administtation.at a crisis
like the present ought to be; but when, above all,
that charader was taken away from it, who, of all
he had seen in that House, was most fitted to take
the lead,when so eminently possessed the talent of
winning those who heard him, and of confirming
tho-e he won in his political views, when such
a Charatier was taken from the Administration,
be could not but think it far from • being
efficitait, far from being such as_ the country
ceuld cotifj,dein. The present Administration had
already. been tried, with another person at
scti•ete ad, and found not to• possess the con-
fidecce of tl,e nation ; he referred to the year law,
when 'they were in office under Mr. Addington. It
might be said, when he thus expressed hiinself of
that Administratiec that the Administration of Mr.
Perceaal was composed of the same materials, and
lightly as he spoke of them under Mr. Addington,
be had voted with therm when they formed the Ad-
mieiatration of Mr. Perceval. It was true he did
s' but Mr. Perceval was there himsdf. If Mr.
l'ereeval were still with them, he would still give
them his warmest support ; hut when he (Mr. Per-
cesal) was taken away, their great, if not their
whole.sUppost was gone. On the' third question
a iii. b he wished them to consider, namely, had
every thing been done that could be done to form
a strong Adminiviation ? He had to say, that, in
liis opinion,' all bad not been done that might have
been done. It was true that an unsuccessful attempt
,d been Made to induce a Noble Marquis, and a
Right Hon. Gentled an of great and acknowledged
tatents, to give their abilities to the present Go-
arrnment ; but that they could do so, from the
terms of the communication made to them, he con-
fessed appeared to him to be quite impossible. He
()ever scrupled to arraign parts of that Right
Hon. Gentleman's charater to his friends, where
he could not approve of his conduct ; • but; in the
present instance, he thought his conductprecisely
what it' ought io be—and considered his letter to
Lord Liverpool as equally honourable to his head
'ant heart. He thought it was in vain to hope to
forth a strong Administration,,unless Government
resuived to try to do sotr.ething to conciliate the
Catholics. He bad voted against their cleirns, but
if might be well to consider it a something to con-
ciliate them could not be effeded. He looked with
weal' anxiety to-the result of this motion. If" suc-
cessful, it. would afford him the highest satistaation;
but he would tell Gentlemen opposite, that -in or-
der to make it so, it would be better to refrain from
that language which on former occasions bad been
used, as it u ould only tend to excite irritation in a
ceraip quarter, to provoke personalities, and to
call forth the abuse of the low and vulgar. For
himself he would say, that in, the line of condudt
which he had felt it his duty to take that night, he
sae d alone., He had taken care not to employ any
body, or any party, to suppott him. 4 ,He had con-
sulted nobody, and even then, while speaking, tie
Was ignorant whether or'not any one would second
_els (potion. Having been one of thelate Minis-
ter's warmest friends, he had thought it right to
shale' ti e, present G'overnment thus eat ly that they
could not expect' the support of all Mr. Perceval's
friends. Bound to the NuY'le Lord, now air the head
of Govertitoent by the ties of relationship, and still
snore by those of attachment and respect, he re-
gretted the nee,-Ssity of the step be Was about to
take; but it . was a tr.eeint with him, that private
feelings ought not to i —acre with political consi-
derations, or bate any tele on political' differences.
He was unwilling to intuLt a pang any where, but