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London, England, 1801-02-24 00:00:00

NATION.

The Order of the Day for the Houfe to be fum-
moned having been read,
Lord AUCKLAND rofe, to exprefs his hopes that
the Noble Earl might be prevailed on not to per-
lift in making his motion under filch peculiar cir-
cumftances as the country and that Houle flood
in, with a new Adminifiration but half formed,
and no refpontible perfons ready to (land forward
to anfwer the arguments that might be advanced.
His Lordfbip Paid, if he underflood the objea of
the Noble Earl's intended motion, it mutt necef-
rarity turn upon one or two points: the Cenfure
of Minifters, or an Enquiry into the Situation of
the Country ; upon which, was it likely that any
Noble Lord, capable of affording fatisfaaory ex-
planation, would be in the Houfe till the arrange-
ments ihould be completed ? He hoped, therefore,
the Noble Earl would fee that no good end what-
ever would be anfwered by his perfifting in his
Motion on that day ; but if he would content to
difcharging the Order, and make a new one, either
for fome day at the end of the week, or at the be-
ginning of the next, there in all probability would
not arife an objection that could be Rated for the
Noble Earl's intended motion being longer with.
held.

The Earl of DARNLHYrofeimmeu ately, and faid
he fhould be at all times willing to comply with the
wifhes of the Noble Lord who had jail fat down,
and of any other Noble Peer, where his doing fo
would not interfere with confiderations of greater
moment. But he thought, when the Country was
placed in a Rate of unparalleled difficulty and dan-
ger, it became the indifpenfible duty of their Lord-
fhips to all in a manner fuiting their high fituation,
to proceed at fuch a critical moment with vigi-
lance and energy, and by their conduit, to teach
the People to look up to that Houle with due
refped, and confider them as the Hereditary
Aridocracy of the Country, and the Conflitu-
tional Counfellors of the Crown. His Motion
(his Lordthip Paid) was a Motion of the utmod
importance: and he did not conceive that it de-
pended in the lead on the arrangement of a new
Minillry, nor was likely to be affected by the cir-
cumaance of whether this Minificr had gone out,
or that Minifter had come in, but was that day, as
it had been when he find gave notice of it, fuch as
the fafety ofthe country depended on, and the fooner
itwas under difcraffion the better. He mud there-
fore fay, that he felt it extremely au kward to be thus
called on from time to time by one Noble Lord or
another, to put it off from one day to another ;
and that he did not think the reafons affigned by
the Noble Lord were fufficiently ftrong to induce
their Lordfhips to do fo. He would, however, on
this occalion, as he had on a former, fubmit him.
Pelf entirely to the wills and pleafure of the Houfe.
His own idea had been, if the Motion was re-
quelled to be again deferred, to have named Fri-
day, and, after moving to difcharge the Order for
the Day, to have moved for a new one for Friday ;
but, fince he came into the Houfe, it had been in-
timated to him that Monday next would be more
convenient : he wifhed therefore to know from
other Noble Lords when the inconvenience Rated
would be at an end, and to take the day that would
be the lea& liable to objedion.
The Duke of Bemoan (aid, it appeared to him
that the Houfe was proceeding improperly, by
putting off a Motion of fo much importance from
day to day, without having any fufficientlj-good
reafon aligned for fuch delay. The Duke con.
tended that the prefent delay in the formation of a
new Minidry was of itfelf an additional reafon for
the enquiry being brought forward as boon as pof-
flble: He fhould be as ready as any one of their
Lordfhips to comply with the wifhes of individual
Peers; but, where the nature of the cafe called
loudly for an immediate enquiry, matters of mere
perfonal accommodation mull be confidered as fe-
condary and fubordinate. He trufled, therefore,
that the Noble Earl who had Paid that he conceived
the fafety of the Country depended on the enquiry
beitT gone into as early as pollible (and, as be
himlelf hoped and imagined, that, at fuch an im-
portant crifis, the Committee would be gone into,
and expelled much advantage to refult from it),
would feel it his duty to same the althea day to
which he had alluded, unlefs flronger reafons could
be aligned for its going over to next week.
The Earl of DAR s Lry role, and again preffed
former argument of the importance of the Motion
and the neeefEty of its being entered into as loon a
poffible. It was, he repeated it, extremely irifome
to him, when he had, now a fortnight fume, given
notice of a day for his motion, to be reduced to the
unpleafaut ncccffity of difchaaging the order, and

be obliged to fummon the Mute, and give their
Lordthips the trouble to come down to the Houle
again and again, to no other purpofe than coming
and returning ; he had already &id, his own idea
was to content to move to ditcharge the Order and
make a new Order for Friday. He therefore really
wiffied that Come Noble Lord would name another
day, if he thought it might then really come on.
The Earl of Deasy laid, he really %tithed that
fome end might be put to the difficulty, and that
the Houfe might be allowed to underhand when
the motion was likely to come on. The Noble
Lord who had &ft began the converfation, and
requefted the Noble Earl to put off his motion,
feemed to be the only Noble Lord at all in the IC-
cret as to the hate of the arrangement of the new
Adminiftration, fine he had told the Houle that
the New Miniftry was but half formed. Might he
be permitted to requeft the Noble Lord, who feem.
ed to know fo much of the matter, to Hate to the
Houfe, when the Adminiftration would be wholly
formed t It was to be recolleded, that on the first
day on which the Houfe was fummoned to attend
the Noble Earl's motion, a Noble Lord (not
then in hi; place), late his Majefty's Secretary of
State, had affirm! as a reafon for not bringing on
the motion on that day, that he, as well as feveral
others of his Majefty's fervants, were no longer
Minifters, but that they had contented to continue
in office a few days longer, while the new arrange-
ment was forming, in order that public nffaus
might fuller no inconvenience. That fame Noble
Lord had on a future day again requelled that the
motion fhonld be IEII further pollponed. As that
Noble Lord was abfent, and the Noble Lord near
him had flood forward in the fame manner, and
on nearly the fame grounds, it was reafonable to
prefume that he Ipoke from authority, and there-
fore he flattered himfelf that the Hoafe w.-suld hear
when the new Adminillration was likely to be
wholly formed and completely arranged ; bccaufe
if, as the Noble Earl who had given the notice and
fummoned the Houfe, had well laid, that in; time
of fuch fingular calamity and danger, it behoved
their Lordfhips to teach the people to look up to
them for a proof that they were properly attentive
to their interefts, and that the fafcty of the coun-
try in forne meafure depended cut the motion's
ing put, as loon as poffihle, and theenquiry gone
into, it was neceffary that the Houfe fhould know
when they really might expea it to come on.
• Lord AUCKLAND laid, that what had fallen from
the Noble Earl had made it ablolutely neieffairy
for him to inter into force explanation, which was
certainly irkfeune to his feelings. He could afore
the Noble Earl that he knew no more than he did
why the new Miaiitry was but half formed, on
when it would be wholly fiAmed, nor did be dc.
fire to know any thing about it ; he had feoken
from no authority whatever, but merelyon the gene-
rally known fituation of affairs.' fie had under-
flood. as that Houfe and the other had been given to
underftand, from the belt authority, that of fome
of his Majefty's late Milliners themfelyes, that they
had refigued their fituations, but that the Right
Honourable Gentleman who was at their head
(though he was no longer to be confidered as a
Minifter), had. from the generofity of his own
mind, and from a laudable dew* to prevent the
public intere(t from injury, contented to continue
in office till he had difcharged the important duty
of propofing the Ways and Means, and catrying
through die Bills of Supply. That bufinefs was
now in progrefs, but not yet concluded, and thence
he concluded that he was not erroneous in Rating
that the Miniftry was but half fOrmed, and that the
bringing forward a motion like that propofed by
the Noble Lord, wheel neither the late Minihers
nor the new ones were likely to be prefent in the
Houk, could anfwer no purpofe. It was for this
reafon that he had mentioned the commencement
of next week as a more probable time, when all
objedion to the entertaining the motion would be
at an end. To prevent further premature difcuf-
fion of the fubjetl, howeVer, he would move, that
the Houle be fummoned for Monday next. '
The Duke of NORFOLK thought it was of the
utnaoft importance that the motion fkould be
brought forward as foon as poffible ; and he could
not conceive why the prefent Rate of Adminiftra-
tion, which, one fhould have fuppofed, might
have been finally fettled before this time, could
be a juft ground for putting it off. Perhaps there
might be another reafon which the Noble Lord
(Auckland) did not think proper to mention—an
account of much more importance, and more ge-
neral concern, than the embarraffintnt of the
Cabinet, and which might perhaps prevent the
motion from coming on this day or for tome time.
What he meant was this—he .underflood that his
Majefty was at prefent very much indifpofed. hi
a loyal fubjee he lamented, in common with every
other perfon in there kingdoms—from the higheft
rank to the loweft—an event fo unfortunate as the
indifpofition of his Sovereign; and if that fhould
continue, he would facrifice his duty in Parlia-
ment to the duty he owed his Majefty, and there-
fore would not prefs any furh difeuffiun as, was
then called for. Whatever day fhould be fixed
for this motion, he willed that it might politively
be brought forward on that day, unlefs fomething
of more confequence than the arrangement of a
new Adminiffration fhould occur to prevent it.
The Earl of HARDWICKI Paid, that what had
juft fallen from the Noble Duke was in his mind
a fuflicient reafon for deferring the difcuffion of
the Motion. His Lordtbip otherwife fhould have
wifhed that a day fhould be fixed as early as the
Houfe was likely to be fully attended.
Lord CATHCART laid, as in the courfe of the
converfAtion different reafons had been aligned
for not fuffering the Motion to be delayed
longer than the prefent week, by fome Noble
Lords, and by others for delaying it till the be-
ginning of the next, without meaning to fay any
thing that might be conftrued into a with to have
the Motion withheld longer than fhould be abfo.
lutely neccffary, it occurred to him that the better
mode would be to confine the bufinefs of that day to
the mere difcharge of the order, and without mak.
in a new one to leave it to the Noble Baron to
bring on his Motion on whatever day he fhould
himfelf think molt proper, of which he might take
an opportunity of giving a politive notice.

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The Earl °Malmsey niciVed that the Order be
,litcharged.---It was difeharged accordingly.
After fpeaking fome Noble Lords near him,'
Lordthip faiJ, be would name a day, beyond
that named by any other Noble Lord, on which
I.c would pledge himfelf to bring it forward at all
clients; he therefote moved, That the Houfe be
loomed on to-morrow fe'nnight, (Tuefday the
of March.)
The Report of the Judges en the Duke of Nor-
filk's Eftate Bill was brought in anclread.—Ad.
'maned till to-morrow at half after Three.