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its authority and independence were built, being
crier, taken away, the Constitution itself must tumble
to the, ground, and an order of things arise; the'bare
contemplat;on- of which made him shudder. He-
broaChed 1:6 new opinion; the simple doctrine
which. he here laid down was the doctrine cherished,
and acted upon by the best and (wisest men th4t ever
adorned thiS country. • It was the doctfine of-the
great and enlightened men with- whom_ he had the
good fortune to he associated thronghout the whole
of his political lite, -a doctrine and,a" practice from
which he should never depart. He,, must there-
fore feel it incumbent upon • him To, ~resist the
-.present clamour against. the character, and the
present ',encroachments- on the privileges of the
: Parliament; - and by resisting them, he felt him-
self satisfied he was aaing- the part best caleu-
culated to uphold the Conitilution, and preserve all
the blessings-which were knoWn chiefly to flow from
the ‘eicellence of that Constitution.. On the dan-
gers that now • threatened it, he had bestowed the.
most serious reflection ; and -though' the reSult- of
that tefiedion might not enable him (indeed he lit--
- -tie expeded It) to devise a remedy for the'many
evliS- Which now afllided the Nation, yet it might in
some degree avert cit.' mitigate them. With that
objed in view, he should endeavour to trace the
Which he'foresal.v and deprecated to their real
source, and then 'submit them in a detailed form to the
consideration of his Majesty. That-detail-be should
couch in the shape of -an Address, which he now-
gave notice he should move to his Majesty this day
three weeks. He did 1 not propose an earlier day,,
because many other motions of importance hid been
, .
_given notice, of for the intermediate time, and which,
agreeably to custom, should consequently have the
precedence.
The Earl of Lis/M.OOl, would not now aIIOW his
attention to be diverted from the greatobject-which
the Noble Lord • seemed to -have in view, -; by the.
abuse and. invectives in far hick the Noble Lord had
.thought proper tO•indulge against his Majesty's Go- -
Nernment. --Whenever the Noble Lord should bring
forward any charge -against Ministers, he should be
ready to meet that charge. At -presept he would
assure the Noble Earl, that hepertectly coincided
in the opinions and the feelings,he had expressed, re-
lative to the.attempts that were now made* to vilify
the character and question the privileges of Parlia-
ment, and in resisting such attempts he Should re-
ceive with thankfulness the support of any Noble
• Lord, but particularly of. the Noble Lord who just
sat down, Awhose opinions were -entitled to so much
weight from his long experience, his enlightened
wisdom, and his known integrity. He saw in the
same light ./h the Noble.. Loid did, the spirit and the
machinations that were now at 'work', and he would
cordially co-operate with the Noble Lord in crushing
and defeating them. When the time came he-should-
also be prepared to meet whatever- accUsa;ions-- it
Might be the intention, of the Noble Earl to institute
against the conduct of his Majesty's Ministers. He
al at present only to wish that Noble_Earl would
more minutely explain. the object. of his promised'
mo ion, or at least that on'some failure day previous
to his bringing it on, he would . have the' goodness
more .o'aq to intim-me the general tenor of histnO-
t

rd C;RF:NVIL'IIi.s9i,i, that fihe Noble 'Se-cretaiy
ate &-oileeicd f he, general drift rif the
,not :•n
,N-ble Friend, from, the
clear, 6,,,tinct, , m n,rer in which he
had laid' dovt n the gtoutyls of hisinotion in the pic-
ture he had'so ably drawn of the present clingers of
the country: To every ~e;iti mem. uttered by his
Noble Friend- he ieO t ewidially subscribed.; and
abOve all,
_he agreed with him in implying the pre-
sent dangers and difficoltiei of the country to the
'misconduct of his Majt!sty's Nlinistyrs.- It was not
found such an Administration that he 'would -ever
peopose to r4lly. "-He was for supporting the. Co-
nstitution, which the present-Ministers bad violated
in their corning into office. He was for supporting a
Constitution which every aet•of theirs tended to i.n-
pair. He was for supporting a Constitutidn to which
we owed every thirg that was good or great in the
country, and therefore he 'would -rally, not round
`Ministers, by whoSe weakness it was_ daily endan-
gered, but round Parliament, upon -the independ•
ence of which the liberties of the country must,
ultimately rest. We had only' to look to the history
of Parliament to he cdnvinced of this truth:. 'Should
'the people be deluded into an attempt to take away
the privileges of ParliaMent, they would take away
the great prop and- security of all the blessings they
enjoy; and-they would compel 'Parliament to fly fOr
prote&ion to the Throne, on Which alone would af-_
terwards depend the protection of the people.- Those,
then, were the beit friends 'of the people who would
open their eyes, to the precipice into which they
- were running, and rescue .them from the insidious
promptings of thoselll,aesigning, men 'who would
. hurry them to their rain.'
Lordtasmtli gave eVery credit to.his Noble Viends
for the reaitude of their intentions. He could not,
however, entirely adopt the opinions on which they
seemed prepared to. ad. 'They were bordering on
• the discussion of a grave and most momentous ques,.
• Con,- which,was likely; arnd diStant day, to come
ilire&ly before their Lordships. He thought highly
ef the privileges of Parlialuent ; but he' should rte-
. tier regard those privileges as of force to set aside, or
• supersede the jurridiCtion of the Courts of Justice.
Those Courts fa-ere the authorities which expound-
ed the law of 'the land the tribunals from which- '
justice was-dispensed.; and he concurred in opinion
'with the great lights of. the law; who asserted that
no power or privilege avat'.aboveit. Such was the
opinion he had Cheriihed froth the time his.judg-
ment was mature, and he Shotild never, by de-
, Fining from it, deny the 'tenor of his public life..
What was the 'autlidritY upon Which the House had
lately acted, in fofcibly entering the house of Sir
F. Burdett ? It was the Opinion of his Majesty's At-
torney General, resting, as he hithself confessed,
upon no preced&dt, upon no law, but merely loose
-analogy, Such grounds were not 'sufficient in his
eyes .to justify sucks proceeding. He should never,
in the support of ParliaMentary privilege,. fly -in the
f ice of a Statute ;
.much k•ss wquld lie think of sup-
p .irting that privilege by calling in the aid of the
bayonets of the king.,. , .
The conversation here ended, mid their Lordships
were ordered to be summoned for this day three
' -weeks.

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