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pore' the Motion; but I nitil raT, that lionpars n:
filch as is now propofed, might not to be gis,so
haaily, from any momentary feeling, but, they
. are given, it fhould hilly he -confidered, whether the
Adminiaration of Mr. Pitt was, upon the whole lo
• ferviceable to the country as had been reprefented
The dangers of the country bad, in thy latter part of
it, appeared to increafe ;mmenfely. Until the fleet
of Admiral Villenetive had received that nneriiorible
defeat, the fituation•of the country had been extreme-
ly alarming, and the danger appeared very near. My
great objeClion to granting the honours now ,e.
i manded, is this : t has not been the ufage if thia
country, or of mankind in general, to Irani the
highea rewards, wads in cafes where merithealgits
crowned with fuceefs. l)( the Many Ad:nil:4s jviao
have been rewarded with the peerage, in nay *
ir fiance there was a certain (hare of lands as well at
'of merit. If Lord St. Vincent had loft half his flret
in the affirm with the Spaninds, or Lord Nelfon
been defeated, either at the battle of the Nile, or off
Trafalgar, although the. highsa exertion of coaragt
and talents had been prove4;the fame rewards Would
not have been given. Lord Nelfon difplayed as much
I Mirage and enterprire at the unfaccefsful attack of
Tenerlffe as in chef: glorious victories ; but if be had
'Y his life at Tenerdik, it can hardly be•fuppofed.
that he would have been honoured with fucb a NA
' literal as was given to him when.he fell in the arms
gf vieoay.- Now, as to thi fuccefs. of Mr. Pitt.
mull be allowed that thrill tnoft &don dif.
sailers have occurred during bit Adminiaratiom
Arlo the merit or the dement of his 00,4 ',bit is
teally a queftion which otight ant to he harried in";
'limner of perfonal feeling, but if it wirier* he difc4-
ad at all, ought to receive the fallea and molt ferlotts
tonfideration. The honours whieb were now pro•
fatted, are filch as the whole halory of our erottitty
does not afford sparallel intlance of, except in the
4afe ()ibis illuarious father. The fervices, however,
, that the great Lord Clutha/et had rendered to the
leiantry, and the foccifs of his meafores, wereTucla
evert never denied by any body, and therefore the
Refolution which might be aridly applicable to the
Father, and which in that cafe was carried enani•
aloofly, might not apply In well to the adminillia.
tion of his inn, whicli,in the opinion of aloft perfoes•
was eminently unfuccefsfo4 and which very mar
confiaered as meriting their difapprobatioo. For
there reafons, I think we" &sold esereife the great
and folennt privilege we poffefi with the Mott mato&
! deliberation, and that we Ihould n6P,'etintrary to the
ufual praelice of this and every other country, give
the highell hotrours of the State to mark the aleatory
of a Isfiniaer who, though• poffeffing great Wenn.
and great zeal for the intereat of his country, was
unfucceftful in the refult, if not in the combination'
of the meafures which formed the (yam of hit itt4
miniltration."
Mr RYI)ER faid, the fpeeeh of the Right Ho-
nourable Gentleman, who jua fat down, had Mehl
on his mind fo deep an impreflom that he could not
refrain from expreffing his-adunilhmeat.. The Right
Hos. Gentleman had made tacit "Rations to the ca.
!ideal lifer and condo& of an illutitious Statelinan.
now no more, as could not fail of calling to the re.
colleCtion of the Houk, the political conduct of that
Right Honourable Gentleman himfelf, when, at the
molt critical period ever experienced in the hiaory of
this country, he had feparated himfelf from his °ldea
and moll. intimate political connellions in that Houfe.
taken a feat in the fame Cabinet, and fought the
fame battles, for a feries of years, with that aluari-
ous Statefrnan, by whom the Conftitution of this
country was preferved, whom he this night had rifen
in his place to condemn and whore meafurn.
throughout the courfe of his political life, be now
reproved with fo much afperity. He called upon
the Houfe, after din arenuous part that Right Hon.
Gentleman had borne fo long in the chiermeafunts
of the late lamented Chancellor of the Exchequer, to
witnefs the part he had taken this night. It was,
indeed, an inaance of Spartan virtue, which mull be
regarded at a flriking fpecimen of heroic contempt
for every focial, and every friendly—he had almollfaid
every mot al regard, of public and private connedtion.
which be this night facrificed to the fuperior invoice
of political feelings: and, he trolled, it would ope-
rate as a cautioa, or rather as a warning, to thole
partizans, to whom the Right Hon. Gentleman had
transferred his political friendthip. The Right Hon.
Gentlerdan, as well as another Hon. Friend of his,
who (poke earlier in the debate (Mr. W. Smith), ap-
peared totally to have mifiniderftood; or mocon.
aimed the objett of the motion ; for it waa emphati.
Bally impreffed by the Hon. Member, who had this
night brought it forward, and exprefsly &fired to be
undo-flood, as not binding any man who ()mold nee
on this queftion, to any opinion whatever up* any
other topic that had been heretofore, or might be
hereafter, the intik& of difcuffion. But forely, no
man in that Horde, however different his polititl
principles might be, to thofe of the illuarious Statcf-
man now no more, could fairly feel his principles
implicated, in acceding to a fignal mark of publie
refpedt to the memory of that Great Man, the puritg
of whole moral charaCter, the fplendour of whole
talents, the airway of whore zeal, and the import-
ance of whore fervices to his country, every man in,
and nut of that Houle mutt acknOwiedge. The
queflion was not, whether loch a mark of public re.
Iped fhould he paid to his memory, becaufe he had
held the con6stencsof his Sovereign longer than any
former Miniller had done ; not for the importapt
fpace he filled in the eyes of Europe, but for the
great charafter which. upon the whole, he had for
tained--a charader as honourable to the age in which
he lived, as it was ornamental to his comitry—and
tht lofs of whole talents, in the event of his death,
prefented one of the moil durable caufes ut furrow
in every part of the empirT.
Mr. GEORGE PONSONBY.—" I feel moa fen.
fibly an high degree of reluelance in tiling to oppoCe
the motion now before the Houle ; and, I am per.
loaded, it isehe with of every liberal mind, that how.
ever men may have differed in political opinions from
the, Right Hon. Gentleman, who' is the lubjed of
(his difcnilion. all animofities that have heretofore
elided, fhould now ceafe: and if the motion of the
Hon. Member had been merely to exprels fentiments,
on the part of this Houle, favourable to the moral
ch arafter and good intentions of that Right lion.Ges-
tleman, I fhould moll cheerfully have acceded to the
motion. But the queftion really goes, to my mule!.
itanding, to pledge every man, who votes lot
tion, to approve the meafutes which that Minkaer per..