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Lord BORINGDON differed from the, Noble
Lord who had (puke la, and confidered that the
fundions of Lord Chief Mice, and of a hlinifter of
State, ought not to be difcharged by the fame per-
fon. He was a little furptifed at hearing the Noble
Lord charge that fide or the Houle with Milling to
introduce innovations, and with poffelling a furious
seal for reformation. They only wanted the Con.
Ritution to be maintained and preferved, as it is at
precast. In fpeaking of the Conflitution, he did not
*ran to go back to Edward the Firft, of to time. of
great antiquity. However long the theory of the
CConftitution might. have remained unchanged, yet
there was no doubt but that it had been pradically
much changed in modern times. Nothing was more
eflabliased in the orallice of the Contlitution, than
that the Cabinet Minißers were, 'to all intents and
purpufes, to be confidered the refponfible advifers of
the Crown. It might therefore happen, that a Chief
Plaice, who fhould difcharge his fundions in the
King's Bench with the molt unblemilbed purity and
reputation. might Rill be impeakhed for his conduit
as a Minder, and take away from that attendance
which was due from him to the public in the fitua-
tion of a Judge. Although he had the higheft opi-
nion of Lord Ellenborough, and did not think it
likely that that Judge would Coffer his political con-
nations to influence him in the adminiftration of
jutlice. ytt it was not probable purity that was ftsffi-
eient for the public. The adminiftration of jufitee
thould be abfolutely free from fufpicion. On there
ground, be thought it improper that a Chief Jake
(tumid have alfo a feat in the Cabinet.
Lord ---- - agreed with the Noble Lord
• and Learned Lord
the debate, that
. importance in a
agreed with the fame
' it was neceffary that
•his country fhould
v the Crown, bat
4 beyond the reach of
ant intlanee it could be
reafonableground of NC-
- pre are of circus)**
Toper for the Med.
-e to reply to the
but had been pre-
•t• ; he was happy
authority of the
e appointment la
it was not °neon.
Lord had faid,that
and had been of-
` not have objected
he had accepted
. , more full and ma.
inexpediency of his retaining
(Lord Eldon) had declared
'h charader of the Lord
d that it war from- mo•
ft' ipdfltip fur h
to him, that
Lent
. , liceHemttiße .
yield to any man;'
In that induced him
• was a fetch of duty
neceffary for him to de.
efty's confidential advifers
appointment. For his poet, 1
Zeal doubt of the appoint-
-4 conformable to the
pradice, he thould
it, although he was
inflance, it would be a
deprive his Majef.
Ls and affiftance of
Councils on public affairs.
4 Chief Jultice tuna
regret at the pub-
.l. had produced.—
doubts thould have
or that thofe doubts
is to give rife to a &A
Come useatinefs and
as thofe doubts had
worthy of difeuffion
neceffary that the
appeared to him,
oblations which had been
- legitimate prerogatives
oere of public duty, and
/ poffelfed of calling for
Illinguilhed ability, in his
would tend to withdraw
great abilities of the
_ Juts._ , _deplore as a public ca-
:y—but it Rill would be a facrifice that mutt be
made, if the Law and, the Conititution required it.—
The Learned Lord (Lord Eldon) had, however,
given up the point, fo far as to confefs, that it Was
not illegal or uncontlitutional, but confidered, that
it was fo highly inexpedient, that he hoped Lord i
Ellenborough would, upon confideratiol, refign his
fituation at the Cabinet. The fubjed had been for
Come weeks wider the confideration of Lord Ellen-
borough, and that Noble and Learned Lord then at-
tended in his place, to Rica, that it was not his inten-
tion to plead 'Guilty' to the charge of having accep-
ted a fituation which it was not proper for him to
fill ; and that it WAS not his intention to allow, that
the refponfible Minifters and advifers of the Crown
AO -zd wrong in recommending to his Majelly to call
his Lortillip to his Council upon the great affairs of
the nation. The cafe of Lord Mansfield was by no
means a folitary cafe, as had been Rated. Lord Hard-
wicke had for fix months united the offices of Chief
Jutlice and Chancellor, and during that time fat in
the Cabinet. There were numerous inflances of
judges being Pt ivy Councillors ; there were alfo in-
Stances of Lord Chief J uttices executing much higher
offices than that of Cabinet Miniller, although, cer-
tainly, it was not to be expelled that many ancient
precedents could be found for their having a feat
among that !elation of Privy Councillors which have
been lately termed " the Cabinet." In the sth of
(teen Anne a Bill was palicd, for regulating the
fucceflion of the Crown, by which Lords of Regen-
cy were appointed to exercife all regal funftions for
the term of fix months, or until George the Fiat, or
the heirs of the lioufe of Hanover &odd come over
to this Country. A mute, thefe Lords Regents was
the Chief Ju!tice. This WAG ter-airily a much more
executive office than that tt CAinet Minifter. A
L.llot loch importance did 11, I pafs without the molt ,

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feliout dircuffion,4n3 great difference of dpinion, hot
an one ever thought of objeaing to the Lord Chief,
Janice being one of the Regents. Again, in the year
1751, there was a Council of Regency appointed by
an All of Parliament, which was much difcuffed in
'every Rage, and in the difcuffion of which there
were feveral conferences between the two Hossfes.—
The then'Lord Chief Plaice was in this inftance alto
appointed one of the Regents, without the II ighteft
objedlion having been made on account of his office.
There appeared to him to be very ftrong precedents in-
deed. There had been two inflances of Lords Chief
Junices having been as regents appointed to eiercife
the fsinaions of Royalty : there were the precedents
of Lord Mansfield and Lord Hardwicke, who aftually
did fit in the Cabinet when they held the offices of
Chief Juftice, and.ehere were innumerable inflances
of Judges havinglmen alto Privy Councillors. There
, bad been in modern times fome change in the Privy
Council. Their proceedings were now of a more
public nature, and not contented Co much as they
ad been in former times with the 0 Arcane" of
Government. He believed it would be very hard
for an Noble Lord to point out by the Conftitution,
soy erence between a Privy Councillor and a
themr of the Cabinet. The oath of a Privy Coon-
calor went to every thing which now concerns prin.
cipally the Members of the Cabinet [His Lordfhip
then read the Privy Councillor's oath, which it " to ,
schrift for the King's honour and for the good of the I
people, to keep fecret his Majelty's Counfels, and to
help, firengthen, and affilt every mature that
lbesuld be therein refolved, to enquire into all of-
fences againft the Crown and the Government, and
to commit the offenders to prifon, in order that they .
might be brought to trial."] This, which was the
oath of the Privy Councillor, differed fearce any
thing from what is now the office of that feled num-
ber of the Privy Council, called the Cabinet. What
'is now done by the Cabinet, was formerly done in
the Privy Council, and the many Judges who had
been of the Privy Council were therefore then tstisti.
to commit offenders to prifon, who afterwards',,,,,i,
haps were brought to trial before theenfelves, 7"
Learned Lord (Eldbn) had Paid, that although isS
the cafes where he recommended profecuttons there
was a confpiracy, not only againft the Mining go-
vernment, but againa all government, yet that be
could conceive a cafe wherein.the Cabinet might ()e-
-dge a profecotion for a libel againft the Miniflers,
and in fuch cafe it would come to be tried before a
Chief Juftice, who was hiss felf one of them. It
would lie as natural a cafe to fuppofe a libel againft
the Privy Council, which might be deemed a proper
fabled for profecution. The fame reafon then whieh
mroald prevent a Judge from having a feat in the Ca-
binet, fhould alto prevent him from being a Privy
Councillor, but he would venture to fay, that the ob-
lation had never been made before the prefent day.
it was allowed, 'however, that the appointment was
not illegal, and therefore it did appear to him that
merely to fay it was inexpedient appeared fomething
like a perfonel objection. If the thing was improper
in principle, a Ball fhoold be brought in to prevent
it for the future, but for his own jpart he taw no in-
expediency, and could perceive no other confequence
likely to follow from the adoption of the motion but,
she loft of the great *talents of the Noble and Learned
Lord whore appointment was the fubje& of the pre-
.Teet difeuffion. He was not, however, much afraid of
the public mind being much agitated or alarmed,
with refpeet to the determination of the prefent
gelation. The country was very lately in confider*.
Me alarm refpeding its molt important interefts, but
that alarm had confiderably diminifhed, and in a very
far days he was fore would difappear, and give
place to the confidence that *as due to that affem.
blage of talents and virtue which his Majefty had
united in Adminiliration. The people of this country
were not attached to new theories and innovations,
but were contented to preferve their excellent Con-
Ration in the (late they found it before the prefent
quenion : he was convinced the general feeling was
fade:onion at finding a man of loch great abilities
as Lord Ellenborough called to his Majefty's Coun-
cils. The Learned Lord (Eldon) had Paid, that he
was pettedly convinced that the poffiffing a feat in
the Cabinet would not at all influence the judicial
conduit of the Chief Juftice: he felt convinced that
the people at large were of the fame opinion, and
that the adminifiration of juftice under him would
not only be pure, but above all fufpicion. The
people knew well, that a Judge exercifes his func-
tions under the eye of public obfervation. He could
not lift up his eyes and look in the face of the Jury and
, the refpedable and eminent men in the profeffion of
the law, if he was not confcious of the molt perfal
parity in his motives. This public obfervation was a
molt wholefome and falutary check and controul ,
over the Judges and all the Maginrates of the land.
Although the Chief Juftice might have many politi-
cal adverfaries, he did not believe there were any who
could reafonably entertain a doubt or fufpicion of his
being influenced in his funCtions as a Judge, by his
political fituation or conttations. Of the many great
men who had prefided in the Court of Chancery,
Lord Somers, Lord Hardwicke, Lord Thurlow, and
the Learned Lord (Eldon) he never had heard the
!lighten fufpicion thrown out that their condo& in
their legal capacity was at all influenced by their po-
litical connections. And yet it appeared to him, that
the fituation of Lord Chancellor was much more de-
I pendent upon the Crown than that of Lord Chief
Juflice. •I'lle Lord Chancellor could be removed at
pleafure. The fituation of Lord Chief Juftice was
for life. Betides, that the Lord Chief Juke decided
innantly the cafes that came before him, there was
no opporomity for private communications being
made to influence his determination. He was bound
to determine by a precife rule, the lex fcript2 ; where-
as the Lord Chancellor mull determine, in a great
meafure, by the general principles of equity which
were in his own breaft. If, therefore, it were to be
put entrely as a queflion of expedience, lie could fee
no reafon why it was more inexpedient, generally
(peaking, that a Lord Chief Jullice Noold have a
feat in the Cabinet, than that the Lord Chancellor
fhoold fit there. For thefe reafons he felt a per fait
conviction in his mind, that the motion could produce
no beneficial arca ; but that it wonid only tend to
preclude his Majefly from calling to his Council,
many men of great abilities, and to diminilh the
number of thofe who might naturally be looked to
for advice and affitlance. He then concluded by de-
claring, that, under there imprefflons, he felt it Isis
duty to give his negative to the motion.

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Lord MULGRAVE profeffed to feel * high re-
pet for the cherafter of Lord Ellenborough in his
judicial capacity, but difapproved of the idea of unit-
Mg in the fame perfon the very different charafters of
Minifter of State and a Judge in a Criminal Court.
He would by no means with to agitate this or any
other que!lion wilh a view of diminifhing the confi-
dence that he thought it neceffary that the prefent
Government should have in, the afloat circumnances
of affairs. For his part he Felt no want of confidence
or jealoufy of the prefent Government, when he faw
the Noble Lord (Grenville) at the head of it. There
were parts of the Adminiftration which, if they flood
alone, would not have obtained his confidenc*, btu.'
united as they were, he faw no reafonable ground
for jealoufy or diftrufl. As to the word o Cabinet"
although it might have been but lately introduced,
hill it was• a term that was generally nnderftood,
not only in this country but all over Ectope.—
The Members of the Cabinet were confidered the
refponfible advifers of the Crown, and the Lbrd
Chief Jullice. in that capacity, might be brought
to that bar and impeached, when his pretence
might be neceffary in the King's Bench in his ju
dicial capacity. As a P.initler, his Majefty might
be addreffed to remove him from hie pretence and
Councils for ever, and yet, as Lord Chief juniee, his
Majefty could not remove him, as long as in his ju-
dicial capacity he should conduct himfelf without re-
proach. It was for theft reafons that it appeared to
him generally inexpedient that a Lord Chief Jolliet
Mould be called to a feat in the Cabinet. As to Lord
Ellenborough, perfonally, he had a great refped for
his character as a Judge, but he did not know what
great fervice Was to be expected from him in the Ca.
binet. As to his knowledge or experience as to mat-
ters in law (great as it undoubtedly was), yet the
Government did not appear particularly to be in need
of that level advice, when they had a Lord Chan-
cellor who had loch extenfive experience of the law,
and *hen they could be ailed by the advice of the
Attorney General and of Mr. Romilly, who bad
perhaps as much experience in equity as the Lord
Chancellor had in the Courts of Law. As to general
politics, it could not be fuppofed that Lord Ellen-
borough had more knowledge on the tubjeft than
any other man in the-kingdom of a cultivated mind:
His profeffional habits mutt have prevented him from
giving as much attention to thefe fubjeds as other
perfons ; and, in point of fad, while he had been in
Parliament, whether ais Attorney General in the
Lower Houle, or as IPeer in that Houfe, he had
taken very little &are in queftione of general politics.
He therefore could not fee what neceffity there was
for giving him a place in the Cabinet.
Lord CAERNARVON replied to Lord Mulgrave.
He thought it molt unreafonable to appear to fufpea
any ill confequences from Lord Ellenborough hav-
ing a feat in the Cabinet, when even thole who ob.
jeaed to it declared there was no ground of fol.
picion. It had been admitted, that there was no-
thing illegal or unconftitutional in the appointment
his Majefty had been •advifed to make; nor could he
perceive any inexpediency. He was lure the public
felt none of thofe apprehenlions or alarms which it
was Slated that they might feel. He therefore op-
poled the motion.
Lord AUCKLAND examined the praflice of the
Connitution with telpea to the introduction of. Law
Lords into the Privy Council, from an early period
of our hinoter. The gift of the Noble Earl's mo-
tion, as we underlie:o it, was that they fbould not
be of that Committee of the Council which was com-
monly called the Cabinet. So far from there being
only a folitary precedent, ;cord Hardwiche was both
Chief Judice and a Cabinet Minifter for lix months.
Lord Mansfield held both &nations for fax or fever'
years, in fpite of all the clamour that was railed
againll him. In the remote periods of the Contlitu.
tion, in the year 1300, Sir Hubert de Burgh was ac-
tually Chief Jufficiary and Minder at the Fame time.
Many others, and among the ref, that eminent law-
yer Chief Plaice Hoh, were in the habit of attend-
ing the Council and giving their advice, even upon
&Nab which afterwards came judicially before
them. Inillsort, fince the reign of Henry VIII. loch
had been the practice of the Conflitution, and he was
at a lots to conceive why it thould be thought fu
pregnant with danger at the prefent time as thole who,
fupported the very extraordinary motion of the No.
ble Lord matnieined it to be.
Lord ELDON, in explanation, Rated that he did
not fay that he would have advifed the Noble and
Learned Lord to have declined the appointment to
a fituation in the Cabinet. but that he would have
recommended him to reconfider the propontion.
Lord HAWKESBURY Paid that the importance
of the fubjeft compelled him to obtrude himfelf
upon their Lordfhips. No queftion more interell-
ing could have been offered to their Lordthips, not
merely on account of its connection with the lives
and liberties of the people 'of this Country, but it
was important alto in another point of view. It was
one which vitally touched the very offence of the
Conflitution. Before he addreffed himfelf to the
queftion, he would take an opportunity of declaring,
that he did not yield to any one in that Houfe in
perfonal refped towards the Noble Lord, spina the
expediency of whofe appointment the Motion of his
Noble Friend was directed. Looking at the quef-
tion, as a queftion applying to Lord Ellenborough,
he would fay, that nothing would afford him more
pleafure than to fee Lord Ellenborough, as Lord
Ellenborough, a Member of the Cabinet, though
he could not bring himfelf to approve of his being
there as Chief Junice of the King's Bench. He had
the honour and happinefs of knowing that Noble and
Learned Lord well : on many great points he knew
that their opinions concurred. In the prefent Ad-
miniftration, to which whatever might be thought,
he had no bonne difpnfition, there were many of
the appointments which he approved, and into
which lie flionid have confidered the introduction
of Lord Lilenhorough, were it not for his fitua-
tioo, ac an arrangement highly deferable. He was
perfuaded, that while that Noble and Learned
Lord made part of the Adminifiratiou, that he
would never allow the principles for which they had
jointly contended to be beaten down. The quellion
to his underilanding might be confidered :n three
points of view; either as relating, to the Conflitu-
ton, as it reipened the particular inhance; or as
the arguments drawn from analogy, applied to it.—
He would not look for any foreign writer for the
principles of the Arita Constitution, but upon ;he
general principles of liberty ; he could hare no ob-

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jalion to toilful: Co eminent a writer as B rto
Monte(quiet!. What was his opinion upon the diti-
lion of political power in a State ? It was this, that
ft was more addable that the judicial power thould
be feparated from the executive, than that the legi-
native authority thpuld be difliat from the execu-
tive. Such ton was the opinion of that admirable
garaift\othnee.orinF.our
prin-
ciples beyond pradical utility. The courfe which
fwerlieranjuedxgtreavßilt thoilnwriefhli.tohpeuwtha was not
wife legiclator would adopt, would be to make the
exceptions to his general principle, not as numerous.
but as few as poffible. In this conception, there could
be no union more dangerous, than that of a Judge
I and a Unifier of State ; and fuch, to all inttnti
1 and purpcfes, was the prefent Chief junta of the
King's Beech. He was, and of necality mutt be,
identified with thole who conclituted 'What war
called the Government, in danger of becoming
party to al their palfions and prejudices, and giv•
log him, as he did, full credit for the atmisft pit.
rity, it was impoffible, that, in queltions between
Government and individuals, he could be confidered
as an nnbia&d Judge. Suppofe the cafe of a libel
pnblithed again a the Adminiftration of the country,
of which he made a part, was brought before hlmi
in what an awkward fituation would be he placed;
'fitting in judgment upon an offence gamily corn-
mitred againft himfelft •In cafes of riot too, arifing
from the dearnefs of provifions, and to fupprefs which
Government might poffibly have recourfe to Rrong
meafures of authority, was it advifeable that one of
the Cabinet Minifters &odd be fitting as Judge to
try the perfons who thould be found offtmding agrlinft;
the laws applicable to loch contravention ? His Nob
Friend had Rated, and truly fisted, that there wars
but one inclance fence the revolution of a Commom •
Law Judge ailing as a Cabinet Minicler. Why dl4l
he begin his refearches front the revolution, hot for.
this reefon, that it was Only from that period that t
iridependence of the judges commenced. In t
period there was only the lathery inflame of Lo
Mansfield, for he could not confider Lord liar -
wicke's cafe as a fair precedent, filling as he' did. for
certain reafons of weight at the time the •eflices OF
Chancellor and Chief Juftice together. With refloat
to the particular cafe, if there had exi fled any circum-
fiances which made it neceffary, and fuch he wool/
admit might exift, to call Lord Ellenborough
the Cabinet, their Lordfhips would not have heat
of the precast motion. The cafe of a Lord Chancellor
having a feat in the Cabinet bore no analogy what-
ever to that of a Chief Jullice, for the jtrifdietion of
the fthoner in no degree applied to Criminal Law.—
The Chancellor was removably at pleafure, becauk
he was a Cabinet Miniller; neither the Judges not the
Muller of the Rolls were, becaufe it was not intended
that they Ihould ever become refponfsble advifere of
the Crown. With regard to the argunients drawn
from the two Regencies, he would obferve, that one
of them was never died upon, and the others onll
for a thort time. A Noble and Learned Friend of
his who fpoke early in the debate, allowed that it was
*either illegal nor unconflitational. He knew how,
difficult it was, when once you admitted that a thing
was not illegal, to prove that it was unconttitutional ;
bathe would contend, that the appointment of the
Chief Jake of the King's Bench, of a Common Lair
jddge to a feat in the Cabinet, *as not congenial with
the pare principles and predict of the Coaclitution.
He fhould be forty to fee that refpat which was doe
to (acted charafter of a Judge, diminifhed by tuck
an innovation upon the Conftitution. Whateveenktfit
,he the deeiflon of that Houle. it could not be tot.
coaled that the general feeling of the country was
tagainft the appointment. .
Lord HOLLAND thought much of the reafoning
lof the IA Noble Speaker founded upon falfe and
erroneous affumptions. In the praflice of the.Britillt
&tenons, the Wield and legiclative powers wee*
Often sneakily united. Did not writs of error florin
the King's Bench lay before that Houfe ? Were they
not, though le, branch of the Legitimate, the judges
in cafes of impeachment ? His Lnrdfhip adverted
to the precedents which nad been quoted, and coo-
tended that they were all, as well as Vie Regency,
cafes completely in favour of the 'principle and lega-
lity of the appointment. It was Aced why the Noble
and Learned Lord had a feat in the Cabinet 1 Ha
would anfwer, becaufe the Elate of the country re-
quired it. Never had the Empire before been placed
in fo perilous a fituation. Look to its fituation in the
Eaft Indies, at the other fide of the Atlantic, on the
Continent of Europe. and all owing to the rathnefs.
the weaknefs, or the intemperance of thole Councils
by which his Majefly had been direded for fo many
yeari. He felt no little fatisfadion at feeing a perfon
of integrity and ability introduced into the Cabinet.
He could only confider the prefent motion as tending
to harsh the Adminifiration which had been juik
formed.
Lord MULGRAVE, in allulion to an obfervation
of the lag Speaker's, ref-peeing the publication of the
treaties with foreign Powers, faid that. he Ihould
confider it as the happiell day, of his life, wilco he
could meet him on that fubjed„ and challenged hits
to bring forward a fpecific motion on the fuhjea.
Lewd HOLEANTI (aid. he neither g.tv e, nor
would give any pledge of bringing forward any fuch
pinpofition.
Lord MULGRAVE offered a few words in reply,
when
Lord GRENVILLE rote to order, and appealed
to their Lordfhips if the Noble Lord was not offering
a new fubjeet of debate.—[Lord Mulgrave appearing
to stfent]—his Lordfhip fpoke to the quettion.—
He CA, that perfon mutt be very confident in his
abilities, who could hope to add to the arguments
which had been advanced in fupport of the appoint-
ment againft which the motion of the Noble 11.....tl
was dirated. That appointment was no object of
trite refponl;bility. If there was any illegality to be
difcovered in it, if it was found to be unconftilutional,
if it threw lefpicion upon the pure adminiflration of
juftiee, it wan upon the perfon who addrelled their
Lordlhips, that the guilt, if guilt there was attached
to it, foiely and exclulively reacd. It was he who
counfelled it, it was he who fuggefled it, it was he
who had git en his written advice to his Majefty to
that erLa. lie was glad that the fubjed had been
tuhmitted to t!:c conficicration of Parliannitst. He had
always tuned, in the courfe of no (bort official life,
that whet:eccr any qleflion excited apprelienflon in
the public n•::td, the molt advifeable coutfe was to
bring it ilito fpecdy thauflion. Much pain; had
been taken u; t of that Houtz to imprefs a convidion

Lord SIDMOUTH agreed with t
who (poke Isil, and with a Noble and
(tidoti) who bad fpoken earlier in t
this was a quefilun of very great i
conflitdtional view. He alfu agreed
Noble and Learned Lord, that rt wi
the adminiftration of
.jußice in this
not only be free and unfettered by i
that '‘he purity of it should be beym
forpicion-.-and if in the prefent infix
'urged that there was any reafonable
pi ion, he 'would admit that no peel
fiends would make the time improp
ROA. He had felt a Arong defire i
Noble and Learned Lord loaner, bt
vented by the riling of anothersPeer
however, to have heard from the i
Noble and Learned Lord, that the
goeltibn was not illegal, and that it
Aitutional—neverthelefs the Noble L
If he had batn Lord Chief Juftice, a
feted a feat in the Cabinet, he Mould i
ni
to it in the fit 4 infla e, but that if
it. be lboidd have rend open mo
tore whfuteration oft e inexpedient
that Anti. His Lordfhip (Lord Eldt
bit gteit refpea for the high chant]
Clalif Jullice, and had flitted that i
tires of clonal regard and Maid
be had i day attended in his ft
ahts, that npea ft
coat regard and
Lora oger lattice, he could not yle
inttAnt'init not the conlideration t
tb .fftitthipon this oceafion. It wi
tb his want', that made it necetar
fend the eondna of his Majefty's cm
whit rettiminended that appointmen
if 'he had entertained the leaß donb
pmatt being ftrittly legal, and cot
CbtiAitution, and to eflablifhed pr
notlave attempted to fupport it, t
Ittieiviticed that, in the prefent intim
hiking Nary to the country to to d
tfttil the nation of the abilities
tbi'd Ellenborough at the Councils
ISCWite'Vbitvinced that the Lord C
a 4tflinall feel great uneafinefs and
!I'd diit ' ' bit that this appointment. I
lifF felt furry that any do
ltieep' tutettained on the fubjett, or
thotnd he confidered fo ferious as to
etilSon which might octailon fort
ilarrnto the public mind—but as t
teen Rated, and were confidered wt
at the prefent moment, it was no
quaint' fhould be let at reft. It i
that the tendency of the objeltions
made would be to fetter the feed'
of the Crown, to limit the fphere of
the means which his Majefty polfelli
the advice of perform of dillinguiß
Privy Council. Whatever would
from the public Service the pea
Lord Chief Jake, he thoulddeplc
fatuity—but it 11111 would be a facr