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relative to the' tobtionloos then dihdtilled.

HIS MA/EV*l% CORONATION.
The Order of the Day hating been read for the
iouw to resolve itself into• a Committee of Supply,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
moved, that.the House shoold then vesolvritself into
I,:e Committee.

Mr. CREEVEY took the opportunity of making a
observations on one 'of the Estimates, namely,
that of the Coronation expenses. His opinion was,.
tint no such Estimate ought to be, proposed ; and
that under all the circumstances of the present
times, no Coronation ought to take plaie at. present.
I.ot the House consider for a moment what these cir-
t amstances were. lathe other House of Parliament,
• the proposition of a Minister of the Crown, apro-
',ceding was on foot, the issue of which, if.rumour
• to be at all believed, would be a measure ex-
oosing the Queen to shame and disgrace, in- conse-
•-vience of the information contained in the Green
.;;ag. Was it decent, that while such an event was
:.',;prehended, another Minister should comedown to
toe House of Commons, and propose the expenditure
of a large grant of the public money in a great na-
tional festival? Under such circumstances, a great
itional gala would be most hostile to the feelings of
the people. There was no reason for such a step.—
It the Constitution, or the Lass, prescnled that the
ceremony should take place within # certain period,
however unpleasant to the feelings of the country, it
ought to proceed. But as no such ordinance existed,
as it was not prescribettliy law when the Coronation
should Lifce place, he thought the proposition ex-
tremely improper, and that his Majesty had been
most injuriously advised not to postpone it until
some more expedient period. In acountries there
existed a strong feeling, but he believed that if there
was one country in the world in which, More
than in another, men *ere djstingaished for their
honourable feeling towards women, It was ours.—.
lie had never seen an instance in which a man had
intonly exposed a female to shame and infamy.
How disgusting, therefore, must it beto the Nation,
1: a moment 4 ken their Queen (for so she was) was,
sir bje.ted to a criminal prosecution, to see his Majesty
preparing for a Jubilee, to be paid for out of the
pockets of the People! This was the more to be de-
precated, as the inquiry to which he alluded had been
declared by the House to be derogatory to the dig-
nity of the Crown, and injurious to the interests of
the People. It was because he thought it so that he
hoped means might be found to arrest its pret-
gross. But sure he was,. that if it were proceeded
with, the fete in question, and the grant of the enor-
mous sum required for it, ought not to be agreed to
by the House.
Lord CASTLEREAGH said, that he was really
not prepared for any opposition to the proposed vote.
The Honourable Gentleman would find the nun
which it was intended to apply no the-purpose in
question considerably lest thaifi lie was perhaps aware
of. He was at a loss to-conceive -whY his Majesty's
sights as a Sovereign should. be impaired by the-prow
ceoding alluded to by the- Honourable Member. it
wculd, in his opinion, hatelseett veil itideteitt in any
Minister to advise his Sovereigniiineesiarlly to de-:
lay one of the most o solemn.c.eroiuoiiinilit wn to oar
Constitution. Fur the advice dins giSen hi:Majestys
'Ministers were certainly responsible. They bad Con-
sidered that a sufficient interval had elapsed slice
the demise of the Crown, and that considerable in-
convenience would be occasioned-to intEviduals )fit
s•.-ere postponed to a later period in the year. If the
event should be painful to her Majesty'S feelings, he
should regret it; but he mint beg leave to observe,
that her Majesty's presence was not the seeking of
Ministers. Her Majesty's being here, and the painful
discussions which her arrival in this country bad oc.,
casioued, ought not, in his opinion, to arrest the pro-
gress cu that which was a great Constitutional duty
on the Sovereign—namely, to enter inio`e-evienant
with his people. The estimated expense of the pro-
sceeding would be only 1:105,000.

• De. LUSHINGT(iN confessed that at the present
-time, and under circumstances so peculiar, as respect-
ing both the -Royal Consort of tbelCigg and die pub-
lic feeling, he thought Ministers would have better
done their duty by advising ibis Majesty to postpone
the ceremony in question. it was admitted on all
'hands that them was no necessity for an immediate
Coronation. Many of our Kings had reigned with:'
•out having been crowned at all. A Coronation avail
therefore, not necessary ; and if not necessary, it be-
yanic simply a question whether or not it was expe
client? it appeared to him that when that inquisitioni
was fining to take place, to which his Hon. IFriend
::ear him had alluded, it Was highly improper for a
great public festival to be solemnized; in which her
Mtjesty could take no part, and that at a period
-oihen the public feeling was so strongly roused on
the question of her Majesty's -guilt or Innocence.—
The Noble Lord would, he thought, agree with him,
that it was most imprudent to provoke the feelings
cf the People at a time when -they were in a high state
cf susceptibility, when Addresses were pouring in
from all quarters complaining of the treatment which
her Majesty had received, and the Noble Lord must
knave (if Keever looked into futurity.) that asthe critical
t;:ne advanced the popular irritation would increase.
under such circumstances the proposed festival was,
in his opinion, not 'nerdy inexpedient, but extremely
indecent and impolitio. This was only one reason
why it met with his opposition. Another, and one.
which weighed much more with' him, was, -the state
universal distress Which pervaded the country
hens one end of it to the other. • While that distress

coutinucd, he would not consent to vote a single
shilling for any perpose-but one of sibrolute, strict,
immediate, and. urgent necessity. Let the 'House cast
back their eyes on the transactions of the present Ses-
sion, and judge if he had exaggerated. the public ca-
lamity. Let them look at their table, they would see
it covered with -Petitions •frorn the Agriculturists.
Let-diem look at it again, they would lie it covered
with the complaints of the Manufacturers—Glasgow
in ruins, Leeds suffering extreme distress, Birming-
ham hardly able to support itself. Lett -them con-
tinplate the aid which, contrary to eVely_prineiple
of political economy, had been afforded to -thivstsrier
country in consequence of die failure in :•thst-couir-
try of eleven Buks cut of fourteen—(Hearamar),-.
The Noble Lord said, that the sum required *at
cm3ll. It might be small compared with the extra.
;nonce that pervaded all the prectsttliup of his bin-