The Sun.
London, England, 1848-02-23 00:00:00

BILL.

The second reading of this Bill was postponed til
this day week, on the motion of Mr. C. ANSTEY.

SUPPLY.

On the motion of Sir G. GREY, it wai ordered
that the House should go into a Committee of Supply
on Friday next.
WAYS AND MEANS.

The Committee of Ways and Means was also
postponed until Friday next.
CONSOLIDATED FUND (8,000,000 l) BILL.

This Bill was read a second time.
IMPEACHMENT OF LORD PALMERSTON.
Mr. C. ANSTEY then rose to move for a return
of papers and documents upon which it was his in-
tention to found his charges against the Noble Lord
at the head of the Foreign Department. The ex-
istence of the present defenceless and exposed condi-
tion of this country and its apprehended consequences
were entirely chargeable on the Noble Lord. In the
year 183.5 he allowed the Czar of Russia to maintain
in the Baltic a fleet of twenty-eight ships of the line.
The silence of the Noble Lord with respect to Russia
was to him as significant as the plainness of his
speech upon other occasions with respect to France.
This motion had been called a " monster motion,"
hut the great neglect which had made that motion
necessary was in his opinion far snore monstrous still.
The Noble Lord had made it his business to deceive
the Howe of Commons, to misleal the Crown and its
advisers with false statements, by the suppression of
papers, the mutilation of d'opatches, the entire per-
version of truth, and the entire substitution
of falsehood.—(l-tear, hear.) These were the ma-
terial charges which he brought against the Noble
Lord, and which he called upon the House to
cause an inquiry to be made into. The Honourable
Member then proceeded to review the history of the
Polish nation, end the guarantees which were given
to it by the treaty of Vienna, that it should be pre-
served from Russian influence, and that a regular
system of representative government should be esta-
blished, before which the " budget" should be annually
brought under consideration, and other measures
providing for the liberty of the Poles. All these
promises had, however, been disregarded, and the
Noble Lord (Lord Palmerston) was mainly charge-
able for the present disastrous state of the Polish
nation. The Noble Lord, during the period of the
usurpation of Poland by Russia, refused to join in the
proposal made by France to remonstrate with Russia
on the subject, and in Isis communications to the
Court of the Tuileries, stated that if France took
any steps in the matter the good understanding be-
tween the two countries would be destroyed. Under
invectives from the Noble Lord, Sweden discontinued
the armament of her navy, which she intended to
employ as a diversion in favour of Poland. Persia
was also prepared to attack Russia, but was prevented
from doing so by the threat of war made by the
Noble Lord. Turkey was prepared to send 200,000
horse into Russia for the purpose of assisting Poland
in the struggle, but through the representations of
the Noble Lord, Turkey disbanded her troops. Such
was the interference of the Noble Lord against
Poland, and what did he do in answer to ap-
plications for assistance from the Poles ? He
refused to do anything in the matter. There
could be no doubt that deception had been
practiced at the Foreign-office, and he hand a right to
have the Committee he asked for. The fall of Poland
was assisted by the English Foreign-office, while the
freedom of Cracow was prominently violated without
the Noble Lord at the head of that department doing
anything more than protest against the proceeding.
That was the course the Noble Lord took with
regard to the aggressions of Russia, and he
should be prepared to show that the Noble
Lord entertained precisely the same views of
nis. duty in 1831, when Austria was pur•
suing an aggressive policy towards this country.
Austria
was, however, ready at a subsequent period
to act with the Noble Lord in re-establishing the
freedom and independence of Poland ; but the Noble
Lord again wilfully neglected his duty, heeding not
a
the representations of Austria; in process of
time, Austria was compelled toaband abandon the cause of
Poland, and became a party to the unholy league
promoted by Prussia and Russia. Over and over again
was the fate and condition of Poland brought under
the consideration of the British Parliament by
private Members, but the Noble Lord invariably
succeeded in throwing such obstacles in the way of
their movements as entirely to defeat their object.
When the Noble Lord was in office before, lir.
Patrick Stewart moved that a British Consul should
be sent to Cracow, but upon a promise that a Consul
should be sent out the motion was withdrawn. That
promise had never been fulfilled; and he would ven-
ture to assert that the Noble Lord never in-
tended to fulfill it. Oss the 22d of March
1837, the Hon. Member for Marylebone reminded
the Noble Lord of his promise, when the Noble Lord
told the House that he had not sent a Consul, because
his views and opinions had been changed upon the
subject. Subsequently the Noble Lord, the present
Member for Marylebone, after informing the Noble
Lord at the head of they Foreign Department that he
intended to make a motion affecting the Noble Lord's
character—

Lord PALMERSTON—No such thing.
Mr. ANSTEY would wave that part of his state-
ment relating to the Noble Lord's character, and
come at once to what the Noble Lord, the Member
for Marylebone, did do on the occasion to which he
was referring. The Noble Lord brought forward
his motion, but the Noble Lord the Foreign Secre-
tary took care not to be present; and ulti-
mately, by aid of his friends, the Noble Lord
at the head of the Foreign-office defeated the motion
by securing a "count out" of the House. In the
sime year the Noble Lord the Member for Mary-
lebone lost his seat in that House, and since then the
Noble Lord had not found an opportunity of bringing
the matter again before the House. He
the subject at this
Anstey), however,
_had. taken up