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The securi•y of a very extensive distafg ICAS
Confided, my Lo, d, into your bands by the Sove-
reign, whose gepresentative you there stood ;

guardian of his peace, and the de!egate of his au-
thorir y. You were not the Officer of the People :
your Constitutioilal function was derived from
the King; and every other duty Aryls impliedly,
and even directly, postponed to that appointment,
which placed upon you its especial obligations.
As a Peer you might still have advised the Sove-
reign as a Privy Counsellor, you 'night •still have
expressed before hint your opinions : but let
your advice and your opinion have been what they
may, you were bound, as Lis Lieutenant, to dis-
charge his executory functions. As a Legislator,
too, you bad your privileges, and the proper
.sphere of their exercise ; but neither as Senator,
'Noble, or Counsellor, had you any business on
the York Hustings. The King's Lieutenant
might have attempted there to preserve 'the
King's Peace ; but not as a popular Requisi-
tionist, to censure its preservers, or the authority
which had commended them.

The Sovereign did, through his Constitutional
Organ, express his approbation of the conduct of
the Magistrates at Manchester. Your Lordship
was perfectly entitled, as a Peer, to advise him
against giving that approbation ; and, if you can
think the admonition decorous, you may still
advise him to retract it. ' As a Legislator, you'
may recommend any inquiry, and propound any
censure ; not perhaps very consistenly, but cer-
tainly not improperly. Though 1 can never admit
the propriety of your Lordship's presence at a
popular Meeting, 1 will concede that you are still
free to chose between your personal rights and
your vicarial duties. .1 must, however, be suf-
fered to add, that you could not consistently re-
tain incompatible functions ; that, holding
such opinions as you sanctioned in the York Re-
qnisition, you should have disembarrassed your-
self from the duties of the King's Delegate, be-
fore you exercised those of a private Englishman.

Nevertheless, the time which your Lordship
selected, and the place, for censuring those Acts
which the Sovereign had approved, are all that I
question. Your right of censure is wily admitted ;
and I only expect yotir Lordship to admit the
Sovereign's equal right of dismissing the servant
whose censure be has incurred, and on whose
ready obedience, therefore, he cannot rely. If
'pia Stormier did not precede his dismission, if
a Lord Lieutenant could sanction, and- even call
a County Meeting, to censure what the Sovereign
had approved, we might well have expectcd•him
to resign, unmurmuringly, the Office which was
30 adverse to his principleV.
lout Lordship, however, did not sake the
choice. Whether you deemed their variance com—
patible, or disregarded its incompatibility, I shall
ot detain you by enquiring. The Sovereign has
now made the choice for you and your Lordship
is graciously relieved from an Office, which must
have embarrastied your exertions in the popular
Cause, while the Regal Cause retains in your

si-,:ht any portion of its value.
I could almost fancy, that in your Lordship's
history every distinction of time was- effaced.—
The past and the present arc as similar as identity
itself; and while your Lordship is spared 'to be
the Champion of the People, they enable its
to judge with equal accuracy of the future. In
1793, you joined in approving the conduct of Mr.
Fox, and in censuring his Censurers. Then, as
now, you operated yourself with all the acts and
all the principles which yuu approved. ileac; a

slight anti inrmil variation of name; our modern
Radicals “re but the Jacobin. of thtit writ:

Mr.''Fox sent to l'e,ersburgh tis own private
Representative, for the putpos-e of in►peding the
accredited Minister of Englona. Your Lordship
approved his interference.
Mr. Ft's recommended every possible measure
by which the English Jacobins might be encou-
raged, end out national hostility against the French
Jacobins might be prevented. Your Lordship
aNtroved his recommendation,

It is but art odd coincidence—and I call it no-
thing niQue—that so very near ihe time of these
interferences and tcottnnendations, *lie Corre-
sponding Sociedes of England, and the
'ten of It viand, should have sent their Ilttpiesenta-
lives also to a foreign Government, in opposition
to thrir own lirge country. I do not press the
par.liel, I do not even observe that one of
thwe treasonable &mbassies proceeded from-Man-
chester.

limber than ascribe to Earl FITZWILLIA.M the
opinions which he approved in Air. Fox, I would
extract a lesson, which at no period-of life is too
late to be learned—of .the danger we run in ap-
proving meaSures before we, are assured of their
roricurreoce with our own
.judgment. To the
ti!iefit of this saviog clause 1 willingly remit your
LoFdshir.

But, my Lord, we trust move forward in your
biography, whoSe every page seems embarrassed
with incompatible functions and feelings. Two
years afterwards. when you were the Ici'sre:G's
Lieutenant in Ireland, you had his MA.lrtsTv's in-
structions to keep bark the Roman Catholic Ques-
tion ; and you accordingly engaged to " imme-
diately use every effort to keep the question
back." At that very time, your 'Minister, Mr.
(;aATTAN, whose movementa you neither forbade
nor disclaimed, was pushing it actively forward
with the Roman Catholic Leaders. To the re-
iterated instructions which yOur Lordship receiv-
ed of keeping back that mischievous question,
your reply was, a direct refusal. Of course, you
were, as now, (lisembat rassed of an Office, which
kept your duties and your opinions at a variance
so vexatious.

Illy Lord, you have been singularly unfortu-
nate. I know not a Nobleman who, through a
long life, has claimed more commiseration. What
you were bound to do, and what you were dis-
posed to do, could never be brought into coali-
tion. As the King's Lieutenant, your principles
would not let you fulfil his directions ; and your
feelings would not let you conceal them'''. You
will urge, perhaps, that these ware not given to
you as a Privy Councillor, but as a Lord Lietue-
nant ; and that, in the retrospectiveness of the
latter capacity, you detailed them to the Public
through Lord CARLISLE. I by no means ques-
tion the correctness, or even the conscience, of.a
distinction almost too nice for my understanding ;
but k adds to the proofs of your Lordship's un-
luckiness.

Radical Reform has been so connected with
Ramisll Emancipation,--each bas been so con-
vertibly employed as the means or the end of the
other,—that I cannot forbear tracking them in
the long history of your Lordship's political life.
They bring into one point your measures of 1795,
and of 1819, with that discrepancy of opinions
and obligations, so intolerable to a liberal spirit;
they spew that twenty-five years have not abated
the difficolties of the " venerated Nobleman ;"
that his predicaments encreace with his pa-
triotism ; and that, as it is impossible to serve
two Masters, the Servant of the Multitude could
at no period be the Officer of she Crown.

My Lord, you have passed that maturity which
endure the conflict of opposing principles.
Event in the n►eridian of strength, few men have
-vigour enough to perform one duty more than
sufficiently: but to discharge two duties, not only
of equal weight, but of contrarious impulse, is
beyond septuagenary exertion. In your privilege
as his Hereditary Adviser, your Lordship probably
has long since said to the REGENT—

Solve senescentem, malure saints;

and you now gladly retire from the fatigues of the
Royal Set vice, to those single duties which are
nut too difficult for your conscienee.—l have the
honour to be, my Lord,
Your Lordship's most obedient Servant,
TEN as.

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