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Lord DUDLEY thought the Noble Marquis had
pursued a most extraordinary course. He had called
for papers which were laid on the table, and he then
went at considerable length into desultory remarks,
inculpating a particular branch of his Majesty's
Government without any public notice, and end-
ing without making any specific proposition.--
(Hear, hear, hear.)—He (Lord Dudley) theugliz
he would be perfectly justified in giving no
answer to what he must say, though he did
mean any thing offensive to the Noble Marquis, but
according to the usual practice of Parliament might
be considered' unfair remarks. Their Lordships
would recollect that the returns to which
the Noble Marquis alluded had been asked for
with considerable pomp, as if they were intended
as a preface to some great discovery. The Noble
Marquis said he wished to place before Parliament
an account of the vast patronage in the gift of the
Foreign Office, and to contrast the expences
in the administration of that particular branch
of the Government in the years 1823 and 1826,
or in other and plainer words, to contrast the Admi-
nistration of the late Marquis of Londonderry and of
Mr. Canning. Well, the papers which the Noble
Maiquis called for was produced, and what was the
result ? It appeared that there was not any
increase of the expenditure of the Foreign
Office, and that increase had arisen chiefly from
increased expence in the Consular Depart-
partnient, in consequence of an arrangement sanc-
tioned by the late Marquis of Londonderry,
though not carried into effect in his administration,
and the principle of which was, that salaries should
be FuhstiLuted for f,les. This anangeme.it, he re-
peated, was sanctioned by the late Marquis of Lon-
-Thcre w4s_anotlier,

reason for the trilling increases in the-TO-reign
Department, at which, he thought, all parties
should rejoice; beCause it had arisen from
our extended commercial connections—he meant
the expense of missions to South America. Those
were the two items upon which any increase
of expense had arisen in the. Foreign. Depart-
ment. But • the . Noble Marquis had adverted to
the expense of the house in Downing-street.
Sir R. Preston's house in. Downing-street was pur-
chased for the Foreign Secretary, titian expellee Of
18,0001., a large sutra of motley he would admit, but
if Secretaries' of State must have'Offieial residenees;
they should be somewhat suitable
.to the situation he d'
by those with lived in them'; 'and, as to the House to,
which the Noble Marquis alluded, he (LorclDudley and
Ward) had no - hesitation in asserting that it was
worse than the houses Occupied , by Secretaries
of State, and even of Foreign Ambassadors,
and that it were. not be compared with the Palace
in which the : Noble Martinis lived, in Vienna.-:
There was one other topic to w.. lich the Noble Mar-
quis hadadVerted,and challenged hint • (Lord Dudley
Ward) to lay the particulars bef ire their Lordships.
The Noble Marquis allnded to 'he correspondence
which had taken place on the subject . of a
pension; to- which the Noble Marquis conceived
he was .entitled for' his diplomatic services abroad:
The Noble Marquis addressed a letter on this sub-
ject to' the Under-Secretary of State, in which he
stated the ground which, in his own opinion;
entitled him to a pension ; and the letter thus
written, was of course handed b) the Under-Secre-
tary to the Secretary for Fore ign Affairs; but
Mr. Canning, not wishing to tak, upon himself 'to
judge of the value of the N0b1,.-! Marquis's ser-
vices; or to give any answer on the subject of his
letter, transmitted it to Lord Liverpool who was
then First Lord of the Treasury. Lard Liverpoo.
shortly after returned the application to the Foreign
Office, and on it was written in pencil an observation
which had been communicated to the public through
the medium of the Newspaper.
The Marquis cf LONDONDERRY—The Noble
Lord had .better say through the medium of the
Foreign Office. • ,
Lord DUDLEY admitted that the observation df
Dord Liverpool must have come to the public
through some person connected with the Foreign
0&e.
The Marquis of LONDONDE.PRY._It
was a
breach of confidence in the oreign Office.
Lord DUDLEY.—The Noble Marquis had seid
'
that he received information of the cecret -service
money through the Foreign 0 ffice, which woyldindeed
have been a shameful and scandalous breach of trust
and of duty on the part of that peison from whom the
'Noble Marquis derived his information. But where was
the breach of trust in the communication to yvhich
the Noble Marquis alluded? Lord ,Liverpool had
written ;.on the Noble Marquis's application
,for'u
pension the words " This-is too bad." The words
were written in pencil, and he (Lord Dudley) had
seenas
them himself.—(Hear, and laughter.)--There
w
breach of confidence in communicating
this to the public. For the Noble Marquis had ad-
dressed
a letter to the Under-Secretary, desiring
that hi application 'might be laid' before the
Secretary of State, with whom the Noble
Marquis was not on that intimate footing that he
would have confided to him any very important secret
He (Lord D.) protested that he did not know by what
means, or through what channels the transaction had

got to the Newspapers. But he was sure
their Lordships would not consider it in'
the same light as the Noble Marquis
He (Lord Dudley) had no motive in stating
these transsactions, but he could Not allow the,.
assertions made to-night to be repeated ; lest
the Noble Lord should carry away the impression
that the Noble Marquis had been ill-treated, or
that there was any breach of confidence in the
conduct of Government towards hiii.--He
did not mean to follow the Noble Lord through
all the details into which he had enterel He
must, however, say, that the motion for the ?roduc-
don of the papers was blended with the obj !ct (he
would not add the intention, for it wis not
parliamentary to imputemotives), but the motion was
made with a tendency to cast censure on th. Right
Hon. Gentleman, whose great and only crime was,
that he filled the chief seat in his M ijesty's
Government. When the motion was made, if
not with the defined hope, at least with the
vague idea of bringing on the Right Honourable
Gentleman the charge of being a prodigal public
servant, it occurred to him (Lord Dudley) to inquire
a little minutely into the question. Now, during the
30 years that Mr. Canning had been in the service
of his country, to which he had brought tolerable
abilities, and industry, he had received the
public money a sum of between 60 and 70,0001.
Whilst, on the other hand, the Noble Lcrd (Lon-
donderry) dining the ten years that he had been
engaged in the service of his country, got from it
no less than 160,000/.—(A laugh and cries of hear.)
He (Lord Dudley) did mean to say, that these
services had been overpaid. He was no judge, and
therefore, did not pretend to say that they were not
cheap for the money ; but when an attempt was
made to affix by indirect means, a charge of prcdega'
lity on Mr. Canning, he thought it right to explain,
Thus much, and then leave it to the public to judge
between the Right Hon. Gentleman ar..l the' Noble
Lord to say, whose services were most valuable, in
proportion to the remuneration which.they had re-
ceived.—Cheers and laughter.
The Marquis of LONDONDERRY, in reply,
proceeded to read the correspondence which took
place between hirn and the Noble Lord, respecting
the remark written by Lord Liverpool on the back
of the Noble Marquis's application for a pension.
The Noble Marquis complained strongly in his let-
ter of the breach of confidence wco.nmitted by
giving publicity to the remark in question, which
was done for the purpose of making a wanton per-
sonal attack on him.

Lord ELLENBOROUGH observed, that the
rate of remuneration given to Mr. Canning whilst
Ambassador at Lisbon, was just as extravagant to
that the Noble Lord received, whilst filling the
same office at Vienna.

[Left Speaking.]

EXECUTION OF MARGARET WISHART•

• •
This unfortunate woman, who was convicted at
the Perth Circuit in April, of poisonii.g her sister,
Jean Wishart, a blind woman, who real, ied with her
in Arbroath,. suffered the awful sentence of
,the hoe,
at Forfar, on Saturday last. It will. be remembered
that she, was also accused of the murder of a nat°'
ral child, of which her sister had just been deli'
vered; but the Jury found this part of the charge
not proven. When she arrived at For'ar, she en'
tertained sanguine expectations of mere:, and these
were fostered by well meant but injudijous comm°-
nications which she subsequently received. A rely,
tion- haxinz pokeiv_de_eidedlY...as__ to the fallacy °!
these nopen, she became sullen and thoughtful, deb
rium succeeded, and her situation havini, bees re-
ported to the Crown Counsel, a respite for fourteen
days was granted, but before it arrived sh, had bee°
restored to reason, and afterwards continued sole'
It was not until within eight days of the tiros
fixed for her execution that she began seriouslf,
to prepare for death. The gibbet and drop ha'
for some time been in preparation, the the
public manifestation of what was going on was 41°
appearance of a number of labourers, who, °I:
Friday evening, proceeded to rail in a Large
in front of the Town-house; and, by one o'el°1";
in the morning, all was completed. Ir the 433'
time the unhappy object of these preparations 'C64
engaged in devotion; attended by Mr. Clugst°°'
and the Rev. Mr. Ede. She evinced ti.e gresteg
self-controul, and indeed never lOst her e
omposufe
of mind, except for an instant when it was conn°ll'
nicated to her that her arms must be pinioned. "-ii
The unhappy woman was brought from her ce
pinioned, and as she passed the door of. an adPil:
ing apartment/ she .shook hands with its innotre
and warned them to repent. She walked 4;long „'
passages of the jail, and up stairs to 11 e
Hall, without faultering,. leaning on theiarn of
Clugston. In the' Town-hall, the Town Couflo,
and some other gentlemen were alssinibled,
here she joined in singing part of a psdin, at
which an impressive prayer was offered II:, by the
Rev. Mr. Ranken, of Inverarity.
slow she shook hands with the magistrete; and RI
..At its Condo.
nisters, and, after thanking: them warmly .or their,
Mr. say iwiltshether she was r silty °I
attentions, intimated that' she was really tc proceed
ton Tio! begged her, po_
itto
dyingth e scaffold.wom a
n to
I am not' guilty, lnd
not. She- answered,
She 'then stepped the
will plead my cans •on
platform, leaning on Mr.' Clugston, preceded by
the magistrates, and was now,' for the first time,.
presented to the view of the assembled multitude'
She was neatly dressed in black, with a white alit°,l7
and appeared, to be about 40 years of age. A v"..e
cap covered. her face, the fatal cord surround;
ed her neck, and the handkerchief, with whihet
sne was to'gire the signal, was in .her hand.
was placed on the drop, and remainedin that, situ!'
tioti 25' minutes, fervently engaged in prayer.!
She repeatedly shifted the handkerchief from the
as she concluded her prayer;
one hand to the other
the fats'
nature Atruggled hard,
.reluetant,.to give r
it ryas necessary to inform he
signal. At length
that the time fixed by the sentence was fast ex1)1,...
ing : she faintly answered, " Two inintr.-es ano
after a solemn pause,
lifting up her face to heave,
she gave the signal—the drop fell, and in a moment,
after one or two convulsive motions, she' was °
corpse.--'rhe body, after having hung for three
quarters. of an hour, was cut down, put into'a b°s'
'and sent off to Edinburgh, .'to Dr. Munro, for djs.
section.--Caledonian M
ercury.

• ,
A man named Ali'Lchell, an, itinerant shoW,
man, has been committed to the county ga-n i
- •,
Westmoreland, upon a charge of murdering'
wife, by droWning her in the canal at Kendab

IRTH•
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On the 23d instant, at.. GilstonS . Rectory, }l,,rt,, the 18 I`..
of the
On e 25th instant, th Rev. W. H. WiEsatinson, of a eon.
Ihro,4on 4assett, the lady of 014
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Rev. Thomas Hyde Ripley, ,of a son.
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On Monday, the 25t Mh
inst.,ARRIE at D.
St. George's Chore
the very Rev. the Dean-of Carlisle, Gibbs Crawford
trobus, Esq., of Eaton Hall, Congleton, Ap., to J3°-
second daughter of Sir Coutts Trotter, Bart.
On the 12th inst., at Barnton House, the Hon. M,':;
ga,usay's, of Barnton), Archibald Dunly! Esq.' elueie
hon. of Sir. Archibald Dunbar,- of Northn '
eld, Bart''
Keith Alps, daughter of t

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