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London, England, 1810-03-06 00:00:00

to the he had!in t. ft was not right to give
its he rad done, .unow:vii to Ifle, Commander Of
the 'mai part, of the Expedition: What did,Lord
Chatham say nn that suhitial ? HZ had prepare'd it
•on tive,tsth ;of .Ckqiber, ,but lie did riot _think it-
trtlit to give it btrtbre.the i 4-th of February;' he ~tid
riot-11141k it prop 4.-..-r-to dAiver it at the time whet: it
_was firA drawn up, it. was therefore, not delivered,
of course, till the 34th of I!'?hrinry. It was his de..
.fence,7-and as such to be produced on a or
Inliuity: That was wl,at ho ha state.don
the 22d of Februaty, ti!ter having &livered in,his
Narrative on the, istfi of Janualy, requ, sting se--
crecy: If it .wai why should he wiiii sccrecy ;
it was not ri6.ht, they oughl tohaxe.evidenec.s.
5f what he had done: -. There was

thing iery extraordinary in his eondutl,:aq in 11:.s
Oemory.. On the 15th. of Jiinuary.,,l.;if'd C atham
preknted his Narrative;. on the•7AlCol February -he,
reques!vd it back to expung. a paragraph ; and on
the i 4th, ha% ing h:td it returned to•-hint on' the

loth, 116 gave•it tbe'Secretay of Stare, h:wing
expunged the paragraph :het thcalght- inconsi9ent
with the,other part of the N3l:l",ttiVe. 7011. the .27th
of February, when interrogated as to th substAneLt
of the paragraph Ile Ilia expunged, he could' not
fetuernber what i was; yet trod.] .111.! t z;t11,- of:, Jar..

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rniaty to.the 7th, of F',.,nrualy, /could. hear-it-in
his mind surficienfly welt- w reine:nber• ask-for it .
ao'ltin, that the vissaffe. might be omitted. This:be.
• b
thought a vroot of a •tety •extraordinary nientory.--4*
His conduct was .unC(institutionaL and as such .
inanded; nay, it chai,lengect. the censure cif the
House. The ecnstituiion of the country had beca'
very ablitaid down,by a Learned Gentibman near

him.: he had never heard ►t defined with gre;:tet-
t*.)ility. "With mspea. to the court doe: trout
one Minister to another, he -did 4iot ltoo.w where
they Were to,be•tound. It w.ts the dqty of iNeliltis-
ters• to consult together before they wznrto the
_King 'lt was rtght, on proper giound-s, ,for them
to ask the dismissal of a Ale.ubev.or the edlo-tiet,
but it was not for one to ask rke distoissal:of all the

oth r$ without assigning a ,emu e, or Wishing:that
cause,to be Rept a Secret, ivithout-his b•coming re-
sponsible w a proportionate degree. He ought to
,havc-seht his Narrative to the ,K.'ing by the •
tap, of State. This was the fbrin laid down at the
Revolution: Till that period, the Constitution was
'very differeot to what if now is. 'To the saluia,y'
6lizeige efFeeted at that period, he atitibuted the
superiority of othi . national charahter; and. be • sin- •
cerely. believed that the morals of the peop:e of
this counrre; (or the i:st century, were-b itet than
those of any :oti.ier-trathin in the world. This was
owing to `the (..;ohishaution itself, to th,..manter ail -
which it was gained, and above-all, to . the way in
which, ii had been exerci,ed. The people-of this
couotry, like those:of:other nations,, w-ee not se •
ChaplClC:ised by duplicity. as to std'o they
smiled. But this noble .ilational,charar, if such
breaches ill:the COnStittll ioo.*ere -permitted tn.,lle
made with iiripuoil;•; would:shortla. sink -to a level
wit that-of the a1y....0t slaves olthe Contineot He
trusted that the House would have tbo high a
for that spirit to sacrifice it li,htly, that.they would
not throw it away by. giving a base and a degenerate:-
'vote, to seffir such: a violation -to pass with-irti-
punity. , • , ' .
CANNINti lamented-that he'must'-vOte. as Jae
should that night. Be: fully acquitted Lord Ch,t,
barn of any mean Or. nr4lignant de,sign against a:o-;.
titer Other; but highly as he respected him, • foe,
his per-onal qualities andfor his.cciniieetion4, wirich`
reflected:such dazzling lustre on hitn, he coild not-,
consent to make a splendid anornaly to the Consti-
tution, by voting for the preyious que,tion,
vote would -nt,t be very. acceptable io.thosewith."
whom he shoeld, side. He-could assure Ilia Bon.- ~
Gentleman who brought forward the ,subiect, that
among all,the motives that. influenced-him in giving
his vote as he should, the pleasure of -voting
-him was not one at them, nor would Oat- Hot).
Gentleiman receive. it with greater cOoluers than lie
should-give it With reluctance. He should consider
solely -the broad constitutional part at the question.
He regretted that the que4tion had been brought be- •
fore the Hons.:. ; in the first place, because it tended-
to strip' the Royal mime of due inviolability, and'it
was not the interest. of that House that such discus-
sions should frequently place; and in the next
place, because-- tile Comilla .of 'Lord Chatham-was
• premsterely -discussed. The Hon. Gentleman
the first resolution had detAed with cindour ,and_
preeNon the action for :which Lord Chatham was
then called in question as it had taken place.. The
second resolution chsrarised it as an uncousOta- •
tional abuse of the privileges of access to the/King.
He was astonished at the Course taken 1.3 y those who,
-spoke in.belialf of the Noble Lord. He should have.
expeaed that they. would have endeavoured ,to vin-
dicate him instead at trying .to get rid of ihe'soh-
je6t- by the previous 'question. Their recent, pro-
dings ought -not to be followed by a deierainia-
to take no further notice of thecircuerktanee.,
hoe the interest of Lord Chatham he thought-they'
, (asd.hey did not contend his concha& had been per-.
fedtly correta) should feel solicitous-to award a-,4,r0-per
-per degree. of blame, as should not the extetu of the
censure be defined it would go tbitti,- and in
,all
probability be magnified to an unheatai of; deree,----:
He conA haVe wished that those Who-spoke in pai4-:
liation of; his conduct, instead of checking the tp---
siness by moving theprevichas qnustion, .
into their 9wn hands the task of arrtendiog!,(he
-coed resolution; by 'apportioning words to the de
greeolerror which marked his condua, and 1-i:Oishe4l
the debate at once.. To -the -fi:rstresolution he had
some objettitns.. The unconstitutional part of thh
question should have beetOnade tis clear'and.es
find as possible, that posterity might not be abhto
doubt the sense,. of the. 1-101.1 i-e: on the suhj.:/.-.l.)as
might be the case from its being Ixlixed with 'Vie,
-detail. Though he took -the liberty'- of, pakilrg
those remarks, he should certainly vote • for -tha::re:,
solution, as he-could-nut give the previous ques.LiQo
his • support.- For the,second resolution he.was itot.
prepared to go the • lengths that went.:- He co ;h1
-not consent to •-includini, -bs :StiTgenerid- an./
comprehensive a . vote -of censtsre: Heohoaght
too severe, and Would 'not apply:. so indai'n-iteoi-
term lie thought Lo'rd Chatharh'lhOot a'if-ked
well, but he could not •consenttbat2he Shoni,l be t‘i-7-.
s; ted with such ox'cesSiv&-severity., kv
-all. his triends owned, he ',:eas smri,.:
p that swq,,-thing 11:(11,*)een.cione to .oichko
oiticely, the w.hich atoleot.
his coi4dai.A. it.w.osnot.tkr him -to

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