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rthat there meditated Oppofitioiss and prepared 1
Amendments, were un novelties. The Noble Lord
had inlifted a gond deal upon the terepepsyce and
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moderation of tbe Speech from the bit if •
ever there was a Speech calculated to pr dig*.
cuffion, it was this. He might have char AI it
as a debating Speech, as a Speech affording food for
difeuffion, as any thing in thou but a temperate and
coneilrating Speech. Was it temperate or conciliat-
ing to introduce fubjefts pelfealy irrelevant to the
general matter of the Speech ? to intrixlacv n
marked cenfure of the unfortunate events which had.
taken place in Egypt. and before Coultantinople? He
mull alla condemn the I:vs:pent introduction of his ,
Majelly's name in the courle of the debate. Was it
dec .roes or parliamentary to fay in that Houle, that
the lee Minifters bad endeavoured to embitter the
lan years of the life of the King ? He could by no
means accede to the Noble Lord's extraordinary to
doCtrine repeding Amendments.. The Noble Lori
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might as well have laid, (peaking of any meafure, it ,
is his Majeny's with, and mutt not be criticifed -...
Another 14,,b1e Lord had alfo laid, that any differ . •
once in opinion between the King and his Miniders,
was to be regarded as an anomaly in the Contlittition.
What, is it to be confidered as an anomat! in the
Conflitution, that a Minitier claims the privilege of
being free, and of thinking for Itimfelf ? With regard
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to the expeditions to Egypt, or Conttantinople, he
would never refufe to take his full there of the re. -
fironfibility attaching to thefe matures. Thole with
whom he ailed, waked that an enquiry &odd take
place. They would not, he would dire the Noble
Load, (brink from the difeuffi .n. As to the diffoltt-
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tion, he canfidered it a ralh, imprudent, and arhi.rat y - 't
meafure. and thinking In, was he to be precluded 1'
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from expreffing an opinion to that effect ? WAS not ii
the diffolution alluded to and panegyrifed in the • '1
Speech and the Addrefs ? How could the late Go•
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vernment do otherwife than tefufe to concur in it ?
The Noble Lord, in faEt, Paid nothing in favour of dif
'Motion, but that the lad diffirlution was as god 'is that
which preceded it ? What, did it make no difference.
whether you deprived a man of his !cafe, when it had
five years to run, or only one ? When the Parliament
was diffolved laft year. it had fat upwards of four
years. The recent Parliament had fcarcely corn- 4
pleted In many months. The Noble Lord had him-
felf furninted the Rrongen reafons for the diffolution
lad Autumn. The country waineither agitated by • 1
religious dininflions or political feuds. The time, in
fact, could nut have been more favourable. But was . •
that the cafe of the late diffAution ? They who ad.
riled it well know it was not. In a coonitutiotorl
point of view, he mutt ever condemn the late difrolu. ,
tine. He would n. tgo the length of (eying, with
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the great Lord Somers, that a difolusion in the midi t
of a fell; .n was illegal, but he would contend that it
was both unadvifable and imprudent. There was
nn privilege appertaining to the Sovereign, which .
ought to be More fparingly and cautioully exercifed
than that of diffulving Parliament. There was a time
when, to de an expreffion of the great Mr. Btoke.
the Ministers, whoever they might be, "Rood in awe • 1
of the Commons," but there times were pall. In
thole days, no Secretary of State had the confidence - •..
to rife and threaten Parliament with a dilfolution if
Minifters were not fupported. If any thing could di-
mini& his refpett for the lad Parliament, it was that
they did not proceed upon that daring and uncontli•
tutional menace in the mallner they Ihould have .
done. In anfwer to the arguments againft the late
diffolution, it was Paid that the frequency of there
appeals mull add greatly to the weight of the popn•
lar part of the Cunflitution. He was ready to admit,
that if elections were properly conducted, they would
have that tendency. For his part, intlead of fepten-
nial, he could with they were triennial, or even an-
nual. But when the quenion was, whether by your
vote this day, you are to continue to fit for five years
or only for as many months, he could never be recon-
ciled
to a dill rlution effected under fuch circumrian-
ces. Before he fat down, he could art avoid allud-
ing to the Speech which preceded the late dill...lotion
—a fpeech abounding with more incontinencies than
any ever pronounced in Parliament. It began with
Rating, that no inconveniesse could ante from the
diffoluti nu, andatrix at v. time when no' Approptia... '
doe Aerfiad been patetl. What contronthad they '
over the public purfe, if a Minilter was this to airtime -
the power of difpofing of millions without any fpecific
authority for the purpofe ? As that was a tubjeft
which would hereafter come under difeenion, he
would not now go into the argument in det Ail, and . .
confider whether the public money could be legally
applied without an Appropriation A. He wortl.l
not fay, that under the prefent reign the want of it
thould pillify the flopping of the fropplies, though it
would have been a goad argument for fuch a drong
proceeding in the days of Charles the Second. IF ,
money was to be expended without the authority of
Parliament, what fecurity, he would ark, was there
fir the Connitution ? The Noble Lord condemned
the cry of et No Papery," but maintained that it had
never been encouraged by Minitters. He gave the
Noble Lord full credit for believing fn—but had I C
never read the addrefs to the electors of Northatup.
lion ? Had lie never read that barbarous and bigots
ted expreffion in one of the public journals devoted
to Milliner,, and obvioutly encouraged by them ?—.
The cry was attempted to be fet up, but to the cred e
of the county it had not produced the effect( that Was
erpcocd. In tome places it unfortunately had. Was
this the mode in which harmony was to be dinuted t
What, by throwing a firebtand among the petrol- ?
'mi. mode of condlia ing the cutting y put him in
mind of a limy he heard of tw. men in a Imp-
h:wring part of the empire. On their return from a
fair, where, contraiy to the ufual praitiee every
thing had palled with extiaordiussy quits; ;hey le.l,
auto a c•onsertition upon the Itopidit y 4.1 the fame
,hey had left. They both agreed that it had beih
exceedingly dull. One of thins pr,,p14,1 that they
thould return. and by way cf haviog tome fu.,;:pe.
ceed to Aiei up a row. His cosopaurou intraratiaa'.-01.