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qttali4cations telongta . eammon to all its Mein.
hers. If the House should be pleased to give its
indulgent support to any Member in that office, he
might accomplish much, but, without that support,
every'effort would be.unavailiug. He had only to
add, that his humble services were at the disposal
of the House, and whether accepted or rejected,
no event could..weaken the respect, and deferense
he must always feel for the decisions of the House.
Mr. C If ARLES DUND AS said, he felt conscious
of his own inability to encounterthe duties of the ar.
duous situation to which he had been proposed. His
previous habits rendered him disinclined to take upon
himself the duties. of such a -situation ; his only
ambition was, as it had been since he entered that
House, to continue a private Member. He rather
wised to call the attention of the House to the
Rib Honourable Gentleman (Mr. ABBOT) of
whose ability to fill the Chair with dignity and
propriety he had no doubt. He should be justified
in declaring his own inability, and he did not in
this declaration speak the language which had fre-
quently been used by Gentlemen who were pro-
posed to that Chair, and which was perfedly under-
stood on such an occasion, big he had made this
declaration in the sincerity of his heart. He en-
treated that the Honourable Gentleman 'and the
Noble Lord would. withdraw the Motion they had
made and seconded, as he did not for a moment pre-
sume upon his own ability to exercise the duties of
such a situation.

Mr. ORMSBY said, that, as a Member for that
part of the United Kingdom called Ireland, he
could not avoid expressing how gratifying it must
be to him, and to the Gentlemen who tepresented
that part of the Empire, to see, by every at of
the United Parliament, the bonds of affedion be.
tween the two Countries drawn closer, never, he
hoped, to be broken asunder. Nothing could be a•
more gratifying proof 9f the harmony that subsisted
between the two Countries, than to see that a man. •
could find a reward for the greatest and most
eminent services performed in this Country, in:
an appointment to an office of the highest rank
and confidence in the other. The nomination
which had been made of the Right Honourable
Gentleman who had lately filled that Chair, to the
important office of Chancellor of Ireland, was the
strongest proof of the cordial interest which was
taken in'this part of the Empire for the welfare of the
other, by parting with such great and distinguished
talents, for the benefit of that Country. There
was something equally gratifying to the pride of
that Country, in the Motion which had been made
for a successor to that Right Hon. Gentleman, but
he must be allowed to say, that they paid dearly
for that gratification ; because, by the promotion
of the Right Hon. Gentleman now proposed to the
Chair, Ireland would lose the assistance of as per.
severing, as diligent, and as unbiassed a Friend, as
ever administered the affairs of that Country. This
was not his opinion only, but the universal voice,
and he spoke without the hazard of being cont,ta:.
dieted. Every inttivisluak stiblea, every affive,
faithful, and diligent Servant of the Public, found
in him an unsolicited friend and patron. If there
were any of a different opinion, they could only
circulate their calumny in whispers, for the univer-
sal voice of the Country was in his favour. In his
choice, between the two Gentlemen who had been
proposed, he was ashamed to say, that he could only
give his vote from a positive knowledge of the merits
of the one, because he was not sufficiently acquainted
with the other Gentleman who had been proposed, to
enter into a comparison between them. He had not
the smallest doubt of the qualifications of the Gen.
tleman who had been proposed on the other side of
the House, but he had not the materials to form a
comparison. In supporting the Right Honourable
Gentleman who had been first proposed, he knew that
he 'vas borne out by the opinion entertained by the
,People of this Country of his abilities, for he was
sure that there was hardly a part of the Country
that was not aware of the efficient talents of his
Right Hon. Friend. He was sorry to say that a
Right Hon. Friend of his (Mr. CoRRY) who was at
the head of the Financial Department in Ireland,
was unavoidably absent from illness. If he had
been present, he would have borne ample testi-
mony to the exertions of the Right Hon. Gentle-
man (Mr. ABBOT), in Ireland, and "no testimony
could be drawn from a more pure and honourable
source. He begged pardon for having taken up so
much of the time of the House, but the uniform in.
dulgence which Gentlemen from the other part of
the United Kingdom always experienced in that
House, and the constant attention that was paid to
the Interests of that'Country, had emboldened him
upon this occasion to trespass so long upon their
time.

Mr. ARCHDALg ;Aid, he rose merely in con-
sequence of an observation of an Hon. Gentleman,
that the talents of the Gentleman who had bein
proposed we—, unknown. If they were unknown
to that Gentleman (Mr. COURTENAYI), he could
only say, that they might be easily known to any
man of common observation ; and, he would venture
to say, that if the Right Hon. Gentleman brought
to the Chair those talents, which he displayed while
in Ireland, he would bring with him four most es-
sential and invaluable qualities, viz. Impartiality,
Vigilance, Knowledge, and Decision.

Mr. I. 11. BROWNE said, he was sure the Hon.
Gentleman on the other side of the House would
not have expressed a doubt of the talents of his
Right Hon. Friend, if he himself had not been for
some years but very little conversant with the
business of the House.—That Right Hon. Gentle.
man had been placed in the Chair of the Committee
of Finance, and in that situation no man ever gave
stronger proofs of vigour and independence than he
had done—The abilities of that Right Hon. Gentle..
man were so well known, that he had been almost
always chosen Chairman ofevery Committee to which
he belonged—the Committee on Records, the Corn.
mittee on the Promulgation of the Statutes, the
Committee for the Improvement of the Port of Lon-
don, &c. His condutt upon these occasions, had
given strong proofs of his qualifications for the
Chair of that House, independent of his legal
knowledge.
Mr. Coo RTENAY
The House was then cleared, and we understood
that Mi. As isor was chosen without a Division...-.