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two Houses of Painitrilent.ewere the connitutio7,al
guardians of the public interest,' srld a►ionu compe.

tent to supply the deficiency. Having comment-
ed upon the necessity nftint cnntroang the Royal
functions, the Honourable and Learned Gentleman
next proceeded to take a view of the precedents c►s
to abuses of the power so intr►tsted. The first that
occurred was in, the reign. of. Philip and Mary, in
which reign it _;was supposed a •possible case might
arise in, which the. King ii►ight die long before thtN

issue (if any) would artive at ma.urity. Pin!linet)
provided tor that ease hyenticting, that in the even
ol the death of the King hie issue and the Cr,ivern

nicht should be under the coniroul of the Queen,
;The next ease wits in the retn of Queen Anne,
when it was imagined herinccessor might be out of
the re-altn, and therefore- the'Stiveession ACt was
p.isse 1, v hien provided 'a Council I.U.gency to
Jo. the atFairs of Government until his re-
T!,,, first. limitation in the SUCCCSsion was,
that It..geuey Sitptild the
61X. months aftrr his , tetUrit; nor '
re_
peal the Acts of U4iifortuily,or the ALI resi:ectint;
the iolvn,nion of Religion incoOant.i. It was then
tibooght, more ckpedient' that the whole .authrity
sialithl be so vested in the Council of Ilegency'''.r3-
thqr than- that ;the interests of ,the nation should
kull'ef. The n-kt.instanee vis in tlit reign Ot
GeOrge If. the ot that King, which Aet
provided fur the GJVCriItIICIII during the minority
of the s;,ee,:!;.;or, and (Ai Act it was provided
ih.at fie Acts of ; and that rioting to
►lnt li,.+ginn of Scot tan he
10A.. ce was of the plesentrciign :Already
to. The ;crions e,ul;, 4,1 his rFsearches bad
~ni,rtht,:ied his Mind that the Irani:flint's now sought to
be imposed .had neve! been 'ev.tri.ased hitherto: that
in the next•phice, the arguments in favoff of the
right of the House to imposo the limitations wery
repelled by all the pieccd,.‘uts he had adduced; and
that the expedieicy was altoe,ether unwise
;Ind xpedieut. tiii; !louse attempted to exei-
else the right of imposing finwations, they w ouhi
t:;10., a heavy resrottsibility nit iittqllivlvel, and
Ir:dye the Constitutton,of their eoutyry
meth-
tatt 1 and dam-up:Li.

t.. 010 C'Alat.,Eute,,A,Gri, in exelanation .with respect
to some part of his speech .alletlecl flon.
and Learned Gentleman, stated that he had said a
special act was passed in respect to the'Peerage toe-
lerred oe Sir J. Corti tall.
• Mr. W. SAII-ra expiessed his regret and repen-
-I,:thee of -the part he had taken in the year 1786,
ha% inggiven' his assent to the propositions. The.
Hoube wci<4, deL:eiving themsekes if they thought
that fit object was to secure the resumption
t,,f toe I•ceiii p 0 wer in the person of his Majesty. 'I Ire
phnial
object was, in tact, to rake care that they
were so rot) tested as to secure the happieess nod
welfare. of the country—next to that,. it lx,lhrwed the
House to provide for the resumptioe in the Ichig.
Mr. 8. liATitUttsT supported the Reso:tit ion t:on.
ceivitig tii.‘tihe Hoe: arid Learued Gent, and ilwie
who I'M argoed it the same side, had not stated nay
thing which could entrench upon the argumentSinfa.,
roar of toe Meastlre. 11 wit a hot not disputed aftt
the Tel .me ; Iht'll I he' trry-11CCeSStty thot
eitisie I for suPplying the deficseecy did not arise, os
11,0 be ~-.11 contended, 40111,1111 mode flointvid out by
the :veeticient, at the Revolution, our trom tf.e
,Stat'uo„,s, nor from the Common
tuent, theretnro, were booed to -exercise. this,te,
poWeee tested-in them ray the Constittitioo, of Pro.
viiling for the deficiency m the third estate,; anti he-
fore he could agree i it it the arguments lie haul
freer!, he tuns( be Jiatisficd that the Ileuse had the
power of delegating snore rights than he was 'pro-
pored to admit 'they possesed. They had no right-to
uelegine more time the inure necessity of the case.jus-
tuned. :With respect to analogies, the 'case of 1738
was the <ply precedent entitled to respect and reve-
rence. .ts t alley supposed decision in Courts of Law,
that coold not. be sepposed ,to have any influence
iii midertniiting that precedent. The ylestion
was tint one of 'a pettsonal 'nature,, bin that of pro-
viding for what eventually might' happen at any fu-
ture petied, supposing the., Royal , Person !inkling
that breech 01 the executive shoaid• be Inkier the
advice of Mioisters not advising hint constitutionally.
With respect "to what had been argued by the Right
Hon.Gentlemon as to cowards and pultishments, rhat
could not exactly apply, for ,punisomeas arose from
the sober operation of IoW, and therefore were not
In the fair line of argument, unless it:was intend.
ed be Butted that the Sovereign exercised hiS Royal
cleinetny with respect ,to punishments, which ex-
ercise meld not be affeoed 'by resttietions'. • The
Right., Hon. Geo; contended . that the resolutions •
etenraced;nll the power which, under the.pecullar
t ircumstances of the case, was necessary to be:placed
in the hands of the Regent, and consequently were
such as ought to meet with the concurrence: of or„
1:10use
Mr. CANNING,' in explanation, .observed, that,
the Both Gamlen-ion had seemed to think his con-
duct very inconsistent, in epproving, as he did, of
one part of the precedent of 1788, while unable' to
speak in favour of the whole.- His reason was
this..-the olio part possessed inji:sell more, weight
Ilion the other., having positively been acted upon,
—that to which he objected had no such support.
if, however; his conduct were inconsistent in that
resOect, he did not stand alone in that predicament,
as of all the Speakers on the other side Of the
question, front his Right Ftiend to the Gen-
tleman who had just sat down, not one had whit-
ted to profess • great devotion to the precedent of
170, at, the commencement of his spepeh, nor
failed to propose some deviation from it before

• A short conversation followed betwoen Mr.
BATHURST and' Mr. CANNING, in rut tiler explatm.
tion, after which

Mr. 'H. SNtln. x spoke for few minnteq, but in
,
4,0 low a tom; th.tt u won,. otiabio to cojlect nivsell-
ittnents With pr:cision. had acalcely resumed
his seat, when i!,e, question was loudly calieLL, Ior ;
snatigera were ordered in withdraw' and tile CUM-
divided, when the nuwhers were

For the Adant.milinent
Apinst it
Majority ,n lavuur ut the originai question ---- ai
Wi'ke not n,4ain Ave wider-
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stoi!!_f st C) mum 1)1,14,1;! atter Our
the Gllkry, otl !,lie :014 0;101 istvsulLitiims.

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