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tained as to the merits of the Officers, and they were
'banked accordingly. Upon that occasion the Minister
bad set his seal upop the transaction. When the news
arrived, the Pask and tower guns were fired, Lord,
Gambier, wee liortly afterwards made a Peer, and the'
Address subsequently voted' contained words,.of_ 'ltigh.,
congratulation.'•Again, deprecating the introduction of
party feelittg,he must observe,that in these respects Adm.
Codringtein had not been'so fortunate ; and he therefore
thought that it became an independent Member of that
House to propose that his gallant services should receive
the expression of the national gratitude. It would be re-
membered that the Foreign Minister at the time when
LotaKiainbier was rewarded for his exertions, was the
then.
put it out of his power to reward those who had carried
his high intentions into effect—(Hear). , But what
might or would have been the fate of those officers, of
Lord Gambier,and of Sir Arthur Wellesley, if the Minis-,
ter who had dispatched them had nut held his station
till they had accomplished his mission P Why, instead,
of receiving the thanks of that House, they might have
met with its censure. He was' sure that there was
nobody who heard him but must be convinced that
such might have been the case, and therefore he would
offer' it to the consideration of the • House as another
proof, that the proposing of votes of thanks should not
always be left to ;hose who filled the offices of power
and of influence ;Tor if such were to be the case, the
reputation and services of our best defenders must be-
come not merely the plaything of the Ministers, but ttfe
victim of political squabbles. He was afraid that if
such a trust had been implicitly reposed in the Ministry,
in the present instance, he could not feel quite secuie
that the Gallant Admiral who had commanded at Nava-
rin wquld.not have met with reproof instead of reWard,.
and instead cf being highly distinguished by his Sove-
reign, he would have met with punishment—(Hear).
Had Mr. Canning, who Of-tatted, as he always under-
stood, the Copenhagen Expedition, been still alive, and'
still at the head of the councils of his Sovereign, he
could not but believe that the results of the battle of
Navarin, as to the conduct of Government, would have
been.eztretnely .different in their effect. He did not
presume to know what Mr. Cannings feelings or
opinions were upon she Subject—he bad never been in a-
room with that ttight Hon. Gentleman—but judging
from what he had seen of his conduct in a ca,e of
a hundred times the complexity, danger, and diffi-
culty-.-ludging from the steady and unflinching firm-
ness with which he had supported those who executed ,
his mission at Copenhagen, be could not imagine,
for a single instant that those who had served
their country and humanity so gloriously as Sir Edward
Codrington aria) his associates had dune at Navarin,
would not likewise have met with his approval and his
advocacy. Yes, andhe Was confisnied in his belief by'
the remembrance, that even after the sun cf that Right
Honourable !Gentleman had set, and as long as any
faint rays of his feelings and his policy still fingered
upon the horizon, and influenced the conduct of Minis-
ters, something was done to reward the Gallant Admiral
who .bad achieved one of the brightest tribthphs
which adorned the history sal our country. fie would
heg leave to call the attention of the Huse to what
vies done, ter what notice - was taken of the action,
whew the intelligence of its occurrence was first an.
flounced— In the Goietfe of the 10th of November
the public were made, acquainted with the ttiumpli
which the Combined fleets bad achieved, and in that
very same Gazette. the 'dispatches of Sir Edward Cod-
rington were given entire, without the slightest curtail;
meat or alteration. That was a very high and not at all
usual distinction,' and which he was correct in making
the Statement be had no doubt, for he seceived his in-
formation from a Gentleman in whore accoracy abaci
every reason to confi !e. Ii the Gazette of the 10th 61
Nov. tuber then, a verbatim copy of the Admiral's dis-
patch was pablished,.and that act was in itself ass
ample proof that he had not only executed his instruc-
tions taithfully, but that his *conduct had been in strict
unison with the Wishes of those who empowered him.
and that this account of his proceedings was to them
folly satisfactory..Butthat was not all. What appeared,
in the. Gazette of dm IS* of-Nlvernber ? Why, in the
Gazette, at that day this official notice was published :
.4, Tbralrein' x has been pleased to nominate and appoint Vice Ads
tisiratSir FAlWard Codrington, Knight Commandeer. of the Most.
HotiOisrable Military Order of the Rath, to be a Knight Grand
Crime orthe said Most Honourable Military Order.
" The King has also been pleased to nominate and appoint the
undermentioned °Seers in the Royal Nayy, to bi Companions of
the said Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath," (naming
the different Captains, who sewed under the Gallant Admiral.)
Then be would like to al the House it it was possible
for any more satesfaciory testimony to be given of 'the
issrat met its of Sir E. Codrington- thin that, which it
tukbeerd?: He would ask that Rouse wheibier. any..
highCr,puthority could :be (wind, of Oaf mote, coupe :
tent to give opinion than that *hich had given the gel-
lent Admiral his inSttuctions?—tHeerhy, if these
had been anydoubts as. to .o.fasiinner in which those
instroctions weetrOrrieJ into elecation—rf it could be
supposed )or an instant that any osie Member of his
Majests"siGovernmtni had entertained suspicions in his
owp mind that the-Commander of. the Fleets had over-
*tepped 0* limits assigned
.to him, he should like to
know what such a Minister-ought to suffer ? If any Mi.
Distrito( the Crown
.had. any doubts.upon the subject,'
and set recommended to his Majesty to shower ho-
nours us the very person, the propriety of whoSe conduct
ke.querstiesie.d7, that branister ought to be impeached.--
(Hear, heir.llt was not a et_ue.tion-upon which there
eanild be allimetlitrtni Sir E. COdrington had either
dice his duty nobly, gloriously, and effectually, or he
he bad been .tbe unfortunate means of placing this'
c' unary in a mines, situation a situation *bleb
anlght lead to a war whose limits and consequence* no
ensitileatili4 &mei, ;Bitit when ;Ministers, who were
Posseple4 of Ole snstrnetions, of all the documents, and
of scatty isiletmarion upon the subject, found nothing
in the GeleaX,Atlmil.al's coaster but Inettc; for cow
lasedetietioules,, it not oater 4 for those who' did. not.
possewswgliAmple nie„ai knowing all ;he facts.c4
the case,timpla in the,rulailtgi and to bail with gratina
and honoui . services:l/11We cpaatryman ? Hew : .
*we that a indepeis!ent Member of that Hods
tl
;peaking, rtiF *Deg sa*timents of his heart—And tiluit
he said witheitit Ravi ig 4.4d,0U sligliest understandi.
upon the sobjett with in ow—he had we/valet* it
APPFe_irta b,.4.l_ta_ttrifonhs...,she support 4 no .party...r.butli I
wan we De "141 i Korrect .w bib tio
..:414 . ibist, any. inai4-
penitftt ,rvastarn.. r i f .i....at.„140uw Aye4iting_ sinceiel
would concur in the general,praise which ;lad. been -/P*!:',
stoned on the.GallaAt Admiral, But if ibpse.l4ini4ei. 4a4
who had conali4sictsiect gm Gsliam.,Officer, and ./liiiiat
all 607 kilo;ilCOge upon 641.6414 km had ecanmendetf
bit conduce and bil gallants", had not .
.now the poem{,
or did ant coos. to stand.. Or lito4 when sbair ,support
was no newwhy be
strop be di,.
gratce,d by not secetsing,thie tbAinks...of Parlianseht—'
Igrao No• 140st...**1441sile. POI • 4 . '
; all .he „would a 44,
that if the that* ot • that House wespßiluested to *
'oB4eig-AffiiiiO4 Ciitsc!e:ongha..orid sas.rai talisla‘i co.
Ulu, but 6a those who, after confessing the excellence.