The Sun.
London, England, 1804-02-28 00:00:00

-.44...10, i‘c•Ei tt i
ve upon' the
itte!a siitie
rtie
the
..--.
that time? the Report o( yesterday precluded
hope of a rapid
amendment. -The Country was
therefore in a most alarming
state,aod upon the
principle now laid down, they
might
The Hou
continue to
that state fol. a month, or 16Finegyer.
might dissemble its feelings; 1 might dissemble
the call of duty ; but could the. .
House
they had the autNottlY 0
way when
Men, 'that His Majesty's f4Poroofnesicsionth
aisl
likely to be attended tvith rapid amendmentindispositionwais .rict.i:
rorit out
certainly hoped that the Physicians mighti
that
op,.
toot mistaken in their opinion,
. could 4 I
nion was the only authority the House;
but still .
ti
upon. He did not know what period those.d ParreaSeisi
sional Gentlemen looked to, when- they sat:, p
recovery was not to be expeeled; but they certain_
y meant to acquaint-the Public that they were
..
expel a prOlo.ngation of His Majesty's present
.5!
tuation. .Could.;Parliarnent then go on proceedlnAi
upon business ;is if nothing had happened.? C'uLd.
they with propriety ko• on at all ? - At all even"'
be thought.that all husiness.ought to be suspended,
With
but that, which asinatn,ed.iately..necessary.
regard to the- Bill
.now before the House, no man
,could that- was immediately necessary, though,
• be agreed‘Wiih his: Right Hai Friend, that,the dis,
cussions .cootie .e with it ,w ere bathe utmostimpOrt-
se.r.-• • With the opinions he entertained upon o'l6
'subjea, he certainly did not wish. to have the disems-
li
oon -postponed.; but' it• -was singular that Ministers
Shuld now be M.) anxibus'to press forward the dis-
, oeussion after they had P°stpond all public -bpsioesi.
_ . fla ear fortnight.; It Was rather' iingular to observe,
- . iti!e at tiililjli they.now called upon the.
to proceed. tip4ll2:tisiness ; it was • exaftly the dal'
'House'
after the
,PhlsictiansAtail
,ieclared.- that .they did n't
entertain h9Pe5..0,,,(1 rapid arnetidtnent in His i\dlN-•
aesty'S health: . lie begg.ed again to lepeal the
t-,, ._ •
question, at' !liar pitiotl-did.• Ministers think - that
the House ought to interfereveti4as itoneant that
Parliament should,to on blind-fdlded until those
• who ~ had .. been chosen .4.5. -}iiS Nate l qt..% ebtfider) -..•
tial Ministers thought -fit tn- make a
cation ? He could not reconcile this to
,rly i'til'"'•
.C,?,,muni-
•
cipie of -the •Constitution to the-
pta.......ce
......f P.
rest of.the
• liattient, or to any real regard, to, the inte
Sovereign himself, There was in what
,fell froin.tlie
bpon whichLO h
, •CH ANC EL k of-ohe.E.xcHtzr.r E It-
.0 word S!iPt in,
sery
• e
could. no avoiCtnaking 3""''')
atkns ;,.that Right Hon. Gentleman hacl'PA.ell
of the indeceney.of these disCussions. He hcgiell.
leave to say that he, felt -as:much sincere attachment
and veneration fur our beloved Monarch as:any man
in that House; whether Ile, ~vas a Conft-dential Mini-
- ster o'r nat. In C.,ristittnional attachment 'to the
'Sovereign all loyal men %sere equal, but there might
be something more of personal attachment on -the
Part of those who had 'personal opportunkties of
viewing and knowing the i
pr,vate virtues and
arniAie and
of His Majesty,. who had the
being admitted to his pre.
lunQur of isametimes
sei,c, in his private
_hours, and who had partaken--
of 'his favour and his bounty----on no one of these
would he
. give up to' any of His Ma-
%rounds
j„tro Confidential Servants. But it was highly
indecent in Ministers to insinuate that any aucasltte.
proposed tu be adopted for the benefit of the State,.
and be
for the service of His MAjestyr
.*.- ~ Was iodecent. Upon the whole, he was clearly of
opinion that if Parliament did not, in the eircum-
, • .
stances in which we wert placed, call for further
information, after so long a period had elapsed after
. , the infoitriation they' had received from the Physi,
•. cians, it Would in his qinion abandon its duty, and
disgrace its charaaer ;.. aril he should have retired.
this night from the House with a mind dejeCied and,
sorrowful, if no Member had -made this Inquirj,
anti it this discussion had not take.hplace.
The CIiANCELLOR of the. E.XCiIEQUER, in.
. -
explailation,
,said, there were tw,o points to which
be must to the attetitidn Of the' House. He rose
•• for the purpose of denying that he
,6,er broaqed
_ ~thetinfarirre..wliith the Hon. Gentleman vvho spOke'
•• last had staled. Ile, had said that the argurneO ..I-
. the--Hon:.Gentletnan opposite toi him (Mr. For )
t.
s . seemed to imply that there Ought to, be" akeayi an
interference in that House whenever there was any.
, suppos.ed •;ipterruption
.in the'_'reihmal, exetc4e of.
• the.
Authot,ity; bitehe never,. stated that, if
there was any delay on the part part_ o{ His
• Ministers, ihe nowe-.was: at all 'feitered in Its di•,-
•' • etetion, or that the. House might not, without an -''
•
Otunniunieation -on their.- pit, instivote
.atty. pro- .
eteding which- the Holuse thoughr fit. The
Gentleman had -.also-stated that he.. fat,
Z 011) had set op• liiii,owa,opinicuk-i9. oppositiOn tO'
'llls,. Majesty's Phy.sicia,h•'s. --All, he;could
.sey ,on :
1..ha,.t part of the ace-usation.ag4n?.t Jilin- itas, that he.
. trio
stated-nothing as matter of „ipeculation or ori-
. tl,l°ll tiflhis own, but on the authority of the Physi,
Cia".• He also stated, it had been admitted that
at this time there was a susPerisiOn of- the. personal
eXereise of the. Royal Author itY. lie Wished to be
disc of
understood here to restate, that there is
not, at this time, any necessary suspension of such
Royal this
as it may be necessary for His Ma-
jesty to disclearge at the preSent moment.
Mr CANNING, said, he was sincerelv glad
that the Hoo. Baronet had, by hit Motion iu it
proc c
this discussitin,. because he was convinced thar it
had produced' aS good an effea as if the Motion was •
carried. It had produced from the CHAtacateoa
of the EXCHEQUEII a declaration Whith, if he un-
tlerstood it right, amounted to this, that in Lase
of any sudden emergency arising, there was no
reason why the Royal FunCtions should nor be
exercised: • this declaration tva's certainly more
eonsoling to - every loyal mind, than could haVe
been expe.aed. Whether it was founded or nor;
it. did not become the House to doubt. With
the attention of Parliament now called to the
teat of
the warnings which Ministers had
received that night, the' only praCtical question
leetned tia. be,: whether, after the favourable in-
fortuatiOrt they- had received, ' they should., by
Proceeding with the discussion on the Bill IYefore
the Howe, advance' so Much the more forward to
rneet His Majesty when he recovered, or whether
they should now adjourn ? It did seem to him that.
t'Y Pressing the Motion of Adjournment to a diva_Li", it might he attended with bad consequence!.
"e (hought the Hang Baronet ix' Healy ht in
4106-
' l'g that Motion, but if it was cattier), the only
ton.
sequences would be, that no progress would