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any other IA) would be thought grossly indelicate.
He hoped a prudential, regard to the feelings of the
King would not prevent the House from recollecting
that there vas a Crown also; and when people talked
of the Kitig of Engl-and with reference to the Crown,

1( t them recollect," that he was never young, never
old, and his functions never inactive or suspended,—
AS to the precedent of 1788, which had been referred
to, in his opinion, it should be looked at only to be
avoided. The Right Honourable Gentlemen oppo-
site, however, only referred to it that they might pick
out what suited themselves. There was nothing in
their whole conduct that did not prove them actua-
ted by the interested motives attributed to them by
the right Honourable Gentleman who spoke last.—
Whi:cver the person ought to be to whom the kingly
functioiis should in the interim he confided, it was not
for him (Si: Fran :is Burden)" to dictate to the
House or to the nation at large: btit of this there
*e,:tild he no doubt, they could not go on in that miaow;
track thej were now in. In the year 1788, when the
former suspension of the functions of the Crowntook
*place, we were at peace, now we were at war. France
was. then weak, now it enjoyed an overwhelming
strength. Then our national debt was under :00nti1-
lions, now it exceeded 800 millions; at that time we
had profitable commercial alliances, now our corn-
interce was.exclit (led from every part of Europe ; then
we had sometliiii; besides paper currency, now we
had nothing else, and our paper was greatly .depre-
*eia:cd. Every thing was then qiiiet at home, and we
Fiti nothing to ;ippreliend from ab..oad ; now how
*chlferent the pictu. ein every respect Vet now, that
}louse was told, that after a month of anarchy, they
were. to go on a fectuight In:)ger is the same track.
Ge:a:rai MATHEW never voted with more real
sa- isfaction than on the former night against the
)r (t the Exchequer. He could not take
the cimple assurance of any man, as to the state of
health of !tit; bchved Monarch; but much less could
he take the assurance of an interested Minister;
more pm one of the present weak and con-
tonptible.Administra•tion. Evc•ry man knew them
t‘• be so, and they .hal pron.! the fact by their own
act.:, end by their argument:. He appealed not to
the public, but to every man who heard him ; he
asked 'them to look at that Treasury Bench, and to
say if they ever saw such a set of men in such a
situation. They were destitute of ability, of talent,
nay, even of• respectability. (Hear! and Order!
0,-der!) What Coanty Member, c.r what man of
landed property, IA as among them ? To say the
best of them, which he v...ihed to do, they were
a set of second-rate lawyers. They had no far-
ther care for the safety of the nation, nor any

• farther stake in it, than a desire to keep their
;places. He agreed with his Honourable Friend,
the MeMiser for Westminster, that the Government
could never safely be instrusted to such men. It
would be calamitous and ruinous to the country to do
so. They had left us without a force sufficient to
prevent an invading enemy from ditembarkingon our
• ihores. Or to meet him should he be able to effectuate
• a landing. By their bigotry too they paralized four
fifths of the population of Ireland ; from these cir-
cumstances he could not trust them: The Right
Hon. Gentleman (Mt. Perceval) too by his assurance
of the progressive state of improvement of his Ma-
jesty's health on a former night, had proved himself
either to have been in an error or to have imposed on
the House. As there was a want in the King, and
having no confidence in the assistance of Ministers,
he should not only vote against the adjournment, but
when they went to consider of their hither proceed.
ings, he should speedily move that the Prince be
called en, by an address of that House, to 'Like on
all tee kingly power daring the unfortunate
Malady of his father, and oo longer. But at the same
time he agreed in the -constitutional doctrine of Mr.
Pitt, that 'his RllOl Highness had no more right to
be Regent than any other subject of these Realms.
But in saying so; he must add, that the Prince would
have this meclebetter right to the dignity. being
called to it by the voice of the people; and besides, he
was the only • person calculated to call togethfe the
population of Ircl.md, distracted by the bigotted fac-
tion who now have the management of affairs. The
Honourable bfember proceeded to hope diet thealt-
'powerful DIVINITY, who had been pleased fot a time
'to deprive us of the care of our most gtazious Sove-
reign, would mercifully restore him speedily to the
wishes of his people. No religious man, he was
convinced, however, could doubt that the present
'melancholy affliction was intended for the best ; and
viewing the whole matter as he did, he ceeid not but
conceive it a warning to that House, and to the peo-
ple of this country, to get quit as speedily as possible
of that weak Adinnioretion which now governed
the country. This was a path clearly chalked- out for
us by Peovtoexce ; and we would be criminal if we
neglected tl:e warning.
• Lord Ml 1 TON was de,

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,y,is zt-c iy against the adjourn-
ment, bra ralt 1;1. the reasons adduced by the H Norrur-
a' lc Cener tl, C:e.present C,:oinet was not fit to
be tru.,,cd. The qacstion was most important, with-
out regard eh her to the.fitness or un fi mess of :Ministers.
This country was not now a Monarchy. He would
Venture to assert without Ore power of contradiction,
th it we were at this moment it Republic. He begged
tne House, therefore, to consider the State in which,
by the vote of this night, they would leave the coun-
try. He could not consent that the country should
continue longer without a Monarch, or that our Mo.
n irchy should be suspended, trusting to the Chapter
•of Accidents. He denied that the Report which had
• been laid galore the House could be considered the
Report of the Privy Council. It might be right for
• time Noblemen and Gentlemen to meet together, but
they, the Commons, were not to be guided by them
• —they were not to take what had been done by ano-
ther body—not co-ordinate, bat emanating from an-
. other pati of the Constitution, and that part, too,
whose functions were at present suspended, and which
biNly, therefore; had no right to administer an oath
,--as a rule for the c Induct of that House. His Lord-
- ship proceeded to answer the dilemma of Sir Francis
Burdett, stating the case which had now occurred to
.'be 'One extreme necepitatis, but frir which the two
' lionses were equal to provide. He also contended
that the Gentlemen on the Treasury Bench were not
'now to be considered as the Ministers of this country,
• bit only as the late servants of his Majesty, and con-
phidecr with declaring, that he must oppose the ad-
' journment,
pi; THOMAS TURTON Pi4i4tahle4 that the