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became vacant, my holding the Catholic opinion wis to be
a bar and a disqualification to "my acceptance of it—l
would have flung back the offer of office with the same.
disdain which I now profess, and with which I would feel
the acceptance of it, under such circumstances, to be a
badge of my helotism.—(Cheers.)
Mr. PEEL explained. He begged to assure his Right
Hon. Friend that he meant to bring no charge of incon-
sistency against him, nor did he make any ground of com-
plaint against him for any part of his conduct. As to his
own conduct on the late occasion, it was regulated by the
same principles on which his Right Hon. Friend (Mr.
Canning) had declared himself to have acted at the period
of the Administration of Lord Liverpool in 1812. He
could not forbear from remarking, that from the tone
and the manner in which his Right Hon. Friend spoke of
the strange coincidence of six resignations on the same day,
although the imputation of concerted agreement was dis-
claimed ; yet more was conveyed by the allusion to a
strange coincidence than the language precisely meant. The
resignations were not, in fact, all sent in on the 11th of
April. For his own part, he did not send in his resigna-
tion on the 11th of April ; but in a conversation which he
had with his Right Hon. Friend pn the 10th of April,
he intimated to him that he would not continue to hold
office. His Noble Friend (Lord Eldon) had also acted
in a manly and candid manner. He had, indeed, been for
some time previously seeking for an opportunity to retire,
from his advanced time of life, and from various other con-
siderations, although he was willing to give judgment in
the cases in which he had been partly engaged. Yet he
was anxious for an opportunity of retirement, and the readi-
ness with which lie gladly availed himself of retiring was
in every respect a contrast to the anticipations of those who
threw out intimations in that House, that rather than part
with office he would have even altered his opinions upon the
Catholic question. His Noble Friend had put that long
previously formed intent'on into effect, and communicated
it to his Right Hon. Friend (Mr. C.) as early as he (Mr.
P.) himself had done. -
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that
he did not understand from the Lord Chancellor, on the
evening of the 10th of April, that it was his intention to
resign ; and he assured his Hon. Friend (Mr. Peel) that
he bad received the resignation of that Noble Lord in the
chamber of his Sovereign ou the 11th of April, along with
the other resignations to which he had alluded.—(Hear.)
Mr. PEEL repeated his assurance to the House that
there was no concert in the resignations—he owed it in
justice to his own character, and to that of his Noble
Colleagues, to state, that nothing that was done was the
result of cabal against their Sovereign, or intended as a
disrespect to the Throne. He had not known of the resig-
nation of others until after they were sent. He had not
consulted Lord Eldon, or his other Noble Friends, nor had
he been consulted by them ; and he believed that each
Member of the present Administration acted separately,
conscientiously, and independently for himself.—(Hear.)
The new Writ was then ordered. After which, the
other Orders of the Day were disposed of, and the House
Adjourned at a Quarter-past Nine o'Clock.

PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
NOTICES 01' MOTIONS FOIL THIS DAY

1. Lord John Russell—Select Committee to inquire into
the cause of the increase of crime in England.
2. Mr. Littleton—Select Committee to consider the best
means of reducing the various charges on the renewal
of Turnpike Trusts Acts, and the procuring of cer-
tain other Bills.
3. Mr. Hume—Return of the number of Majors on Half-
pay who have received increased allowances for Rank,
in consequence of the King's War"nt of Bth August,
1814.

SECOND EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, Six o' Clock•

M PE RI AL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF LORDS.

At three o'clock the House met, when the Lord
Chancellor was introduced, as Lord Lyndhurst, by
Lords King and Howard de Walden, and took the
oaths and his seat on the Woolsack.
Viscount Goderich (late Mr. Robinson), was in-
troduced by Viscounts Dudley and Ward, andl‘lel-
vine ;—Lord Plunket (late Mr. Plunket) was intro-
duced by Lords Clanricarde and Seaford; and Lord
Tenterden (late Sir Chas. Abbott) by Lords Bex-
ley and Kenyon.
The new Peers were then severally sworn at the
table, and took their seats.
The Attorney-General, and several of the lead!
ing Counsel, attended below the Bar, to witness
the elevation of the Lord Chief Justice to a Peerage,
and to mark their high respect for that eminent.m-
dividual.
The Duke of CLARENCE came down to the House
at an early hour.
After some Private Bills had been read a third
time, the House adjourned during pleasure.
At half-past four o'clock we were again admitted,
when we found nearly the entire space below the bar
occupied by Members of the Lower House, and
others who had been permitAd to enter during
our exclusion. Among them we observed Mr.
Wynn, Mr.Hobhouse, and Sir John Burke. The space
immediately around the Throne was also crowded
to excess by Members of the House of Commons,
and other persons of distinction. Lord Eldon en-
tered the House, shortly after, and took his
seat on one of the cross benches. His Lordship
appeared to be in excellent spirits.
At five o'clock their Lordships resumed for the
despatch of public business.
Lord LYNDHURST took his seat on theWool-
sack, as Chancellor.
Lord GROSVENOR was sorry again to have
to bring before the House the Catholic Question.
There was now an Administration, almost en-
tirely favourable to the Question, and the Members
of the last, were almost wholly against it. He
felt confident that from the changes that had lately
taken place some great benefits would result to the
public. And notwithstanding the opinion of the
present Administration on the Catholic Ques-
tion, yet he believed that it was the earnest
wish of some of the Catholics themselves,
that the House should not proceed hastily to le-
gislate on the subject. He himself thought it would
be better to pause on the question till next spring;
and he was confident that until the existing Catholic
laws were repealed, capital would never circulate in
that country ; but that when the change took place,
capital would be more plentiful there, and pros-
perity would be the happy result.
Lord ELLENBOROUGH was perfectly con
vinced that ere long the disappointed hopes of the
Noble Earl on the other side would be thrown
to the contrary side of the House. Since
the House had last separated, the whole of
the Government of the country had been re-
constructed ; on what principles, or whether
in the total absence of all principles, that Govern-
ment bad been reconstructed, he was entirely igno-
rant. That it had been constructed as it. was with
a view to benefit the nation, looking at the opposite
benches, no one could suppose. Since that House
last separated, many individuals who had held
the highest offices under his Majesty had
thought it fit and proper to resign those
offices ; in consequence, their characters had
been abused, and they had been accused of
the highly improper feeling of wishing to dic-
tate to the Crown. It seemed to him there-
fore to be as essential to the maintenance of their
own yet unblemished characters as to the honour of
that House that they should take the first and ear-
liest opportunity of explaining the circumstances at-
tending their resignations.--(Loud applause.)
The Earl of ELDON then rose and said, that hav-
ing now learned for the first moment that they
who had resigned their offices had been charged,
and unmercifully charged, with concert in re-
signing those offices, and with the unpardonable
offence of dictating to their Sovereign ; he hoped
that he might be permitted, after having been so
long a Member of that House, and after having so
long advocated principles contrary to such uncon-
stitutional principles, to take the first opportunity of
standing up before them to state that such a charge
was of the most base and most infamous calumny.—
(Hear.)
ITho ramaintler will be eiven in a Third Edition.]