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London, England, 1817-05-07 00:00:00

PAR Pl/1 ME NiARrPROCEE DINGS.

FOU:iE Or LORDS, MAY G.
The further considera, ion of Bailey's p•vorce Bill being re-
g•tnsed, Counsel and evPence in support of the Bill appeared at
the Bar. One wi•ness, John Paul, a private 'hi the 13th regi-
ment of foot. to which corps lieutenant Kelly (the paramour of
Mrs. Bailey) belonged, was examined, with• a view of farther
substantiating the a3ckcry of Mrs. &dry. He deposed to the
Lady's frequently •ieiting lieutenant Kelly, MR only In hls lodg-
ings, hitt a• Barracks, in Taunton : and 00 two occasions be de-
scribed such circum, .:nces to have taken place, as strongly tend-
ed to extablith that conclusion which the Learned Counsel wish-
ed to Infer front his evidence. His statement was ordered to be
printed fur the use of their Lordships, and the further considera-
tion of the subject was ordered to be postponed.
On the Motion of the Earl of LAUDERDALE, Accounts of
the number and description ut Offices and Pensions, the Salaries
and Amounts of %Otitis were paid by the Exchequers of England;
Ireland, and Scotland respectively, wete ordered to be laid before
the House.
The further proceedings in Committee on Owen's Divorce
Bill, were ordered to take place to.morru .
'l'he Life Anouittes, and the Window Duty Amendment '
were read the third time and passed.
'I he whir BIN on the Table, chiefly private or local, being
re-p. ctively lorwarded, an Adjouniiiis.tit took place.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
Sir 1. SHAW presented a Petition limn the Inhabitants of
London, complaining of the great increase of Female Prostitu-
tion. Read, and laid on the table.
Mr. W RISITE::' I .EY moved for an Account of the number
of Bills filed in Chancery front 'Siu to tat 7, dittinguishing the
yeart, and ache Order. made and Causts tried in consequence.
Ordered.
Mr. ASHTON obtained leave to bring in a hill for compen-
sating petsons holding the Offices or High Cons:Ales its several
Cowl ie. in England and Wales. The hill W 44 brought in and
read a first time.
Mr. HF.ATHCOTE presented a Petition from the Wool
Growers of Hampshire, praying for relief.
it I'. BARING wished to know whether any measures were
to be adopted for the protection ut the Wool trade ?
Mr. FRANKI.AND LEWIS did not imend to move for the
appohstment of a new Committee on that subject during the pre-
sent Session, nor till the state of the public mind was inure tran-
quil than it stow was.
The Petition was read, and ordered to lie on the table and
to be primed.
Mr. CAI.VERT moved fur an Account of the number of
Gallons of .Spirits diddled in England and Scotland during the
st year: Ordered.
Mr F. suRDETT presented Petitions for Parliamentary Re-
form, front she Inhabitants of the Township of Lanend, in Staf-
fordshire, and of a District, in the Parish of Stoke-upon-Trent.
Sir THOMAS ACI.AND presented a Petition fron► the Tan-
mrs of the Citunty of Devon, praying that the House might
grant them a Return of the Duties vu the Stuck in baud. Read,
and hid on the table.

pittSoNs.
Mr. BENNETT presented a Petition from a person at present
in the Fleet Pri..on lur a contempt of the Court ti Chancery. It
appeared, that this person had beta cuidined over since the month
of November, 1814, mid might continue there for the whole
course of his natural late, though it appeased he had complied
with the orders of the Court, and had made the Returns to the
Lord Chancellor, the withholding of which was the imputed con.
tempt for which he was confined; and he now remained a pri.
sooner because he could not clear Lis contempt, that was, pay his
fees. He unght probably uontinue there for he rest of his Gfe;
since it appeared, 14%1111 the enquiries which he (Mr. Bennett)
made last year, that souse persons Lad been confined forty years
fee Contempt ; the circumstance tad been mentioned to eke Lord
Chancellor last year, who exclaimed, " Good GOD ! why did I
pot know this before?" His Lordship had known it ever since
that time, but nothing had been done • and be (Mr. Bennett)
feared nothing would be done till the House interferes!.
'Eh: Petition wet. then reek and. it appeere4 the Petitioner's
name was I. Hanututid. -
Sir • F. IiUkDF.IT expressed. in strong terms, the indignation
he felt at a person being thus, as it were, incarcerated for life.—
lie thought if no other remedy could be found for this evil, these
potions should be placed In tile situation of Insolvent Debtors,
tad eueltlid to aptly far their discharge after a certain period.
Sir J. GIMEON was certain, if the Lord Chancellor had been
informed any Leeson was co:fined, only because lie 'could not
'par his fees, his Lordship would have made every: exertion in
his power to assist such a person In obtaining his liberation. It
was** fault of the Prisoner that he would not apply by Petition.
• Mr. BENNEII' said, it wei a mockery to talk to a man
about Poidoning the Chancellor, who perhaps had not a farthing
hi his pocket to assist liimselL .
•'• Mr. W. Wrung and Mr. Laws thought a clause isiglit. be
iirroduced into the Insolvent Debtors' Act, for the relief of r er-
tons In this situation.
The Petidon was ordered to lie on the Table.
IitISSION TO Mision.
, Mr. LAMBTON ruse, in pursuance to his notice
relative to the late Mission of the Right Honourable
Gentleman opposite to Lisbon. It ever there had
been a subject upon which the expression of the pub-
lic mind lad been almost- unanimous in reprobating,
as calculated to excite distrust, indignatiOn, and dis-
gust, with the conduct of his Majesty's Ministers, it
was the subject of that appointment. From the first
namientliebad been acquainted with it, this had
beet .his conviction of its tendency, a conviction
which had since been still more deeply engraven upon
the memory of the country, as well as his own, by
'the production df the last papers upon' the subject of
the mission, which, alter so many ingenious delays,
bad so tardily been ushered for the information of
Parliament—(Hear). That delay in producing the
copy of the dispatch of the Noble Lord (Castle-
reagh) to Mr. Sydenham, although unsuccessful, he
could not help characterizing as disingenuous in the
extreme, and .rendering the 'Administration, not as
• individuals' but as a body, the fit subjects of an im-
peachment by that House, if indeed that proceeding,
by its disuse, bad sot become altogether obsolete,
whenever justice and the public good loudly deman-
ded its-enforcement. With the motives of the Right
Honourable Gentleman himself he had nothing to
do; but the motives of the contrivers of this dis-
graceful job were sufficiently obvioui to the meanest
capacity; and he should feel himself unworthy to be
characterized as the free and independent Represen-
-. wive of a portion of the British people, it he were
to suffer it to pass unmarked by every epithet of re-
probation and indignation. At this . particular crisis
of unprecedented national calamity and distress, the
public bad fixed its anxious eye on Parliament, to see
whether all its professions of economy and vigilance
over the proffigate expenditure of the Ministry, were
not destitute of foundatiou. - -Should that irritated
public see, as Goa knows baps they might see,
t
the scandalous delinquency" Ministers successful in
propping up that corrupt aif flagitious system upon
which they had acted for'yk4ke, now triumphantly
sanctioned by a large major*Lpf that House, in the
present case, he would leave" ft to the thinking few to
determine what must be its 'app'alling effect upon the
irritaturstate et the public mind ithroad (Heat, hear)
Whatever might be the opinion if the hi*h talents of
the Right Honourable Cattleman opposite, he must
say they were not such as sanctioned his appointment
to that mission, inasmuch as there was no ground
for the mission itself. From the documents now be.
fore the House, lie telt satisfied he should be able to
prove the transaction ought in tairneu and candour
to be considered as the offspring or mean of the
lowest species of political intrigue. These discovered,,
must explicitly, that the object of the mission was nut 1

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what it ought to be—the
promotion of the honour and
interests of Empire at large, but the promotion the
of the interest, considerarioo, and even commercial
advantages (as would appear from the examination
of that.night), of the individual ostensibly sent on a
foreign mission, for the purposes of maintaining the
character and interests of the nation alone. In order
to prove this, he would submit. a statement to the
House of the whOle course of the arrangement. Some
time in the early part of true year 1814, a negociations
was set on foot, to procure the assistance of the Right
Honourable Gentleman and his friends to the present
Ministry ; and on the '29th of July the happy result
was communicated to the world, that Mr. Canning
had been appointed Ambassador Extraordinary to the
Court of Lisbon, Mr. Huskisson Surveyor-General
of the Woods and Forests, and Mr. Wellesley Pole
Master of his Majesty's Mint. Immediately on this,
a new Writ was ordered for Chichester, in consequence
of Mr. Huskisson's acceptance of his office. He
mentioned this to shew, that the arrangement had
begun at that early period to be acted on. He then
referred to two dispatchas that had been received from
Lord Strangford, one received on the 24th of April,
and the other on tie '26th of August, 1/51 I. In the
first his Lordship said, " I should conceive that I
had tailed in my duty did I not earnestly tecommend
to the Prince Regent of Portugal the necessity of the
speedy return of the Royal Family to Europe. Some
degree of apprehensions may operate on the mind of
his Royal Highness i he has apprised me, that should
Great Britain conceive his return to Europe neces-
sary, he should willingly accede to it." This, coo,
tinued Mr. Lambton, evinced no intention on the
part of the Prince to return immediately to Europe,
but merely stated the line of policy that Lard Strang-
ford had thought proper to adopt. The second dis-
patch, received on the 26th of August, stated,. that
the late glorious events in Europe had revived in the
mind of the Prince a desire of returning ; and that
his Royal Highness had intimated to him tour or five
times, that it Great Britain should send a squadron
of ships of war for the purpose of escorting him, it
would be particularly gratifying to his Royal High-
ness, that should be selected for this service.
This blank was probably filled up by the name of Sir
Sidney Smith. The British Government had, how.
lever, never received any official communication to
that effect from the Portuguese Ambassador in Lon-
don ; on the contrary, be declared himself ready to
.prove at the Bar of the House, that it had :fever. been
the intention of the Prince of the Brazils to return to
Europe—(Hear, hear) It was remarkable, however,
that neither of Lord Stratiglord's dispatches could
have caused the appointment of the mission to Lis-
bon. The date of the dispatches, and of the appoint-
ment, precluded that supposition. It could not have
been that received cn the 24th of April, for Mr. Sy-
denham's appointment took place in June, and on
the 18th of July, six weeks after, the Noble Secre-
tary of. State wrote to Mr. Sydenham. " to confine
his personal expenses within his ordinary allowan-
ces as Envoy Extraordinary, and stating, that he
had directed Mr. Cassamajor to lose no time in
removing the mission from the house of the Mar-
quis de Pomba': and that lie could not antici-
pate any public grounds for continuing the expen-
diture of his Majesty's servants at Lisbon on the
same scale as during the war on the Peninsula."-:-
It could: not have . been the dispatch received on
the 26th of August, for the appointment of the Right
Honourable Gentleman had been communicated on
the 29th of July preceding—(Hear, hear, fromlhe (*-
petition.). This appointment would, of course, be de-
fended on the propriety of ;having an embassy in Lis-
bon to receive the Royal Fainily on their arrival in
Europe; but what necessity did there exist of the
Right Honourable Gentleman's commencing his du-
ties for at least six months earlier? The squadron
-ander Admiral Beresford, that was appointed to es-
cort the Prince &gent of Porttigal, did not sail can.
Id the 29th of - Oetober, so that the arrival of his
Royal Highness could not be expected before the
May following. The economical sentiments con-
taii.ed in the Noble Lord's letter to Mr.'Sydenham
were fated to have but a short-lived operation, tor in
ten days atter that letter was written, requiring him
to confine his expenses with* £5,200 a year, the
Right Honourable Gentleman (Mr. Canning) was
appointed by Lord Bathurst, in the absence of the
Noble Secretary, who was then at Vienna, proposing
his speculations and plans for the regulation of En-
tope, Ambassador to a country where there was no.
Court, at an establishment of at least Fourteen Thor-
sand Point& a year—(Hear, Hear.) There appeared
to him no possible grounds of a public nature that
could have induced this sudden change in the policy
of the Cabinet. The great expenses of Sir Charles
Stuart's mission to Lisbon were caused by the war.
The Ambassador held at that time in his hand the
whole reins of the Portuguese Government; he was
also a member, and indeed the only efficient member
of the Regency. But the case in the last embassy
was quite different—the war had ceased, and the Bri-
tish Ambassador's expenses, as well as power, had
greatly diminished. The Right Honourable Gentle-
man, however, soon after his arrival in Lisbon, in
dispatch to the Noble Lord, stated, that if the ex-
penses of the embassy were suddenly lowered, it
would affect the diplomatic relations of the two coun-
tries. In this the Right Honourable Gentleman
seemed to have practised a favourite maxim' of his
Noble Friend's, familiarly called ‘4 having two strings
to his bow ;" for in the case of Sir Charles Stuart the
expenses of the embassy were necessai ily very great,
because the Ambassador was a member of the Re-
gency, and in his own case they ought alio to be very
great, to support his dignity, because the Anibassa-
dor was not a Member of the Regency--(Hear, hear,
L awl a lassA.) The short state of the case, however,
appeared to be this : it was necessary to provide a
situation of emolument for the Right Honourable
Gentleman, 'and for that purpose this mission .was
devised. No Ambassador was necessary;iiut having
superseded.a valuable officer, the Right Honourable
Gentleman, useless as be was, was suffered to remain
at Lisbon, for no 'apparent purpose but to amass
money on an establialiment Whose expenses wire little
shoat of £l9,Qink year, and of '.yrhicV ill the busi-
ness had, since been ientrusted,to.tbe hands of a..
Charge d'Affoirestiaflhorostitsr4 • He aeknoviledged
that if the exertions of the Right Honourable Gen-
tleman, while at Lisbon, bad been effectual in indu-
cing the Portuguese Government to abolish or mode-
rate the infamous traffic in slaves, the appointment
would have been of advantage ; but his labours en

that head were confined to *speech to the Friday
of Lisbon, in which he totally failed,,and the traffic
of the Portuguese in human flesh had increased, in-
stead of being diminished—(Hear, hear, kear.)—
The Honourable Member then called on the House i
to put to the test their professions of economy, in
condemning this appointment, for which no necessity
had appeared, and in which every document must
have convinced the House that the Ministers had
wasted the public money and abused the trust re.l
posed in them by their country. If the House felt I
the advantage and necessity of acquiring a character
of incorruptibility, and resolved to,retain within them-
selves the means of ensuring the esteem and conti-
dence of the people, they must evince their willing.
ness to protect them from the scandalous profusion of
tslitlisters—( Hear, hear.) The Hon. Member con-
cluded by moving
o 1 hat it appears to this House that on the Ilth of July, I at 4,
Lord Viscount Castlereagh addressed a dispatch to Thomas Sy.
denhant, Esq. informing hint it was the command of the Prime
Regent that he should confine his personal expenses within his
ordinary allowances, being about £5200 a year ; that he had di-
rected Mr. Cassam ,jor to remove the mission from the Louse of
the Marquis de Ponibal ; and that he did not anticipate any pub-
lic grounds for continuing the expense on the same scale as dur-
ing the war of the Peninsula.
" That under the pretence of congratulating the Prince Regent
of Portugal on his arrival in Europe, the Right lion. George
Canning was appointed as Ambassador Extraordinary, with a lA.
lary of £litouo a year, XtiroGits for swam-Mil:a-its, and a .um of
money for an outfit making a total of Xitt,s4o.
" That such an anointment appears inconsirent with the dis-
yatch of bard Viscount Castlereagh to Thomas Itydenham, Esq.
was uncalled for by the circumstances of the country, and was
attended with an unnecessary expenditure of the public money."
(Loud cries of Hear, hear! from the Oppos.iCon Benches.)
Lord CASTLEREAGH began by admitting,
that the Hon. Gentleman had fairly hated the
grounds on which the motion should be decided to
be, whether the appointment in question was conSis-
tent with the recommendation in the dispatch, taking
also into considerations the peculiar circumstances
under which that appointment was made: He was
ready to meet the question fully, and was satisfied to
bear his share of the responsibility and the censure, if
the House should think proper to inflict it, after the
subject had been thoroughly examined. He thought
the Honourable Gentleman had acted a little un-
fairly in ascribing id him a wish to keep back the
Papers- So far from that being the case, lie thanked
the Honourable Gentleman for having moved for
them, because it would very much facilitate his view
of the question. He wished to separate what was
considered the odium of the question, in relation to
the expense, from the c,nsideratton of the propriety
of the appointment itself. The lion. Member had
told die House, that the salary which his Right Hon.
Friend was to receive was £14.000, whereas, in fact,
it was but £8,200, subject to all deductions, the sante
as the salaries of other Ambassadors. If the Hon.
Member would go a little lartlisr into the inquiry, he
would find that the sum did not exceed what was con-
sidered allowable by theCounpittee of 1815, for the
expenses of a Mitister —Of the second Order. This
skewed the Hon.l4em her to We incorrect in his state-
ments, and unfair in his inferences on the subject.",
He recommended that theirpenses of DiplumatFt
Department should 13 kept within the sum stated,
but he did this inl ignorance ethetOcil circumstances
under which those expenses.were icspered, and he
was not to be supposed to know wkat events might
happen, nor how soon to render' further •expense in-
dispertsable. It'was a fact, that abOttt the period re-
ferred to, Mr. Sydenham was actually stating in his
letters to him (Lord Castlereagh) that he was ruin-
ing himself by the necessary excess of his expenses,
and this fact was attested by the Doke of Wellington

—(Hear, Isear.)—Mr. Sydenham, too, was the accre-
dited agent of this country to the Regency only, but
his Right Hon. Friend was the accredited agent to
the Sovereign of Portugal, and it was right to calcu-
late on a larger expense. He hoped, therefore, that
it would appear no fair comparison existed between
the two appointments, one of which was that of a
Minister of the second order only. Having got rid
of this part of the subject, he trusted satistactorily,
he would next go to the consideration of the appoint.
ment itself abstractedly. The return of the Prince of
Portugal was frequently urged as a measure'which
would tend very much to accelerate the plans in opt.;
ration for the complete restoration of Europe to its
rights and liberties. In the course of the campaigns
in the Peninsula, many questions arose with the Doke
of Wellington, which it was important should
promptly decided, but which were obliged to be re-
ferred to the Brazils. Embarrassments arose fre-
quently from the circumstance of this Prince being ab-
sent from his European dominions, even alter the
war. at the very period to which the' present motion
rehated. It was felt most materially tube an incOnve•
nience in the last cainpaign, when it was anxiously
wished to bring forward the army of PortugaL to. as-
sist in the great battle of Waterloo. The Regency
did not feel themselves competent to do this, and the
House would not wonder that his Majesty's. Ministers
sheuldpiess.fhe Sovereign of Portugal most earnestly,
but respectfully, to resume his. authority: It was ,
true that when he wrote .his dispatch of the Itith of
July, lie did not contemplate the probability i but the
Ministers of Portugal seemed more anxious in that
month for the return of their Sovereign, because they
saw that the•great obstacle..was remirred, and that
he might return without the. fear •c& circumstances
rendering itidetirible for hint to go balk again. 'The
peace hadbeen cotiCluded, 'and the prospect seemed
to invite the measure whicWit tiadbeeh *to long Wished
to accomplish. Did any:Gentleman,„he mould Ask,
entertain a doubt as to the intendedreturn of the
Prince Regent of Portugal ? • Would the Govern-
ment of England have sent but a *sqtradfon•to tiring
him back to Europe, if such doubt had; L\een.epter-
tainedby them ? would. they' have made so many pre-
parations ? ..would they hafe. Ordered a nowise, of
ships to sail across the Attlni4;* th4t:l4? the
sake of courting an office..for an iodividual.;—lor„the
sake of:tending his Right Hon. Friend out As Atr)
baisadbr p 3. Lisbon? ( 4 The thing'was tau
ludicrous and absurd M be imagined for h niotneni ;
and it would be wasting the...time of .the House to
argue ;toy-longer on that point. His Majesty's Go-
vernmentt believing that the Ptince was actually :911.
his 'return,. diought'jt and felt a—ninst
Lanzious desire.. to nark. suits- returitin.4lonost re-
spectful manner pdssible and-indebd
been an unpardonable neglect in Ministers if they
bad not advised the Crown to a step of that kind.—
' Had no other country in Europe thought tit to pay
such a mark of respect, it was the duty of England to
have dons so. Portugal lad been ist all times et nation,

in the preservation of *ha Britain fat an interest
and a pride ; but particularly so at the termination of
a war, in which the existence of that nation had bee
at stake, and in the salvation of winch, both her pen.
ple and those of England had united their efforts.—
Thcretore, in such.a. peculiar state of things, it be.
came a nr:st important pan of our policy to pay
Sovereign of that country every honour in our pa
What was the conduct of France at that particular
time ? Although there was then already a FrencS.
Mission in Port. the King of France set t one of
the most important personages in his kirgdom as
Ambassador to I...stein—this was the Duke of Lee.
ei.fficurg. But it was not France alone ttiat paid ;hie
mark ut honour; the Emperor of ltu,s;a sent a pe:.
son of some rank, as a Minister of tie second order,
for the purpose of complimenting the Prince
return. The House must be aware also, that the
Prince did send an Ambassador to England, to ex-
press the sense he entertained of our exertions in h:c
favour; and .hat he was here two years tsithbut any*
person of cern sponding rank being seat to Poiangal.
As to the propriety of the appointment of his Right
Hon. Friend, he had not heard any objection made,
or any remark, that it was not consistent with the
respect due to his Right Hon. Friend. Indeed, we
could not have afforded the Prince Regent of Porte-
gal a more respectful mark of our attention, than
sending such an individual to receive him. With
respect to the delay in the circumstances that ob.
strutted the coming of the Prince Regent, that was
a thing which necessarily protracted the embassy. It
was not until the 26th of August that such certain
intelligence was received as Induced the Government
to send off a squadron to the Brazils; for it was not
until then they had been positively informed as to the
intended return of his Royal Highness. He thought
he had now stated every thing that was sufficient is
satisfy the House as to the reasons and motives of
this mission ; but it could be proved, that this mission
had been conducted on every principle of economy,
The expense was that which was necessary, in c.
the Prince arrived : but the Pritice did nut arrive
As to his Right Hun. Friend not effecting any thing
with the army, it was because there were no Authori-
ties in Portugal with whom he could negociate. it
was impossible, then, to suppose that the mission was
injected merely for the purpose of accommodating
Iris Right Hon. Friend. The Government felt, that
on the Prince Regent'. return, there should be the
most respectful mission, and cr.e that would be com-
petent to carry on important negotiations. On the
grounds he contended, that the Ilemoorahle Gen•le-
man had not stated any grounds sufficient to make
out his case ; and, with that impressive on his mind,
he should move the iosevious question.

Sir FRANCIS BIYRDETT. —Distinguished. as
the Noble Lori had eve been to possessing talents,
eminently caiculated to involee questions in tibstn,
City. • and nithoupli :hey had been exerted tin this cc.
cation with the gieatest anxiety, yet never was there
v. 'lncised A, more complete failure. The statemclt
made by the Honourable Gentleman who broug!::
thi 'natter before theliouse, was too clearly made
and strOportea by proofs too distinct, namely, Lcts
and dates, to give a fair scope to the Noble Lord's
Ingenuity. They could no rulre be controverted by
theiNoble Lord, than he could deny his having writ-
ten the letter to Mr. Sydenham, or his having made
the subsequent appointment, under pretence ut corn-
flimenting the Prince Regent of Portugal on his it-
turn to Europe, although it appeared that Clete was
I no reason seriously to have expected his arrival—
' (Hear. hear.) It, however, any intimation had been
given to Ministers of the Noce Regent's intention
to return. it remained perfectly dtsiearded until it
became convenient to procure an employment of
emolument for the Right Honourable Gentleman
(Mr. Canning), and in the ' defence of his Irked,
which the Noble Lord had so generously undertaken,
he appeared to act the part of a good Christian,
Speaking well of him who had despightfully used
him, returning good for evil," and evincing aforbee,
ante and forgiveness seldom displayed, at least by
Statesmen. ( //ear, hear, and a laugh.) The Noble Lord,
however, kit himself on triun-.pitant ground, as com-
pared with his rival, and the consideration of that
seemed almost to give a character of consistency:o
his charity. The Right Honourable Gentlernn
had, on a former occasion, stated to his constitu::.3
hew impossible it was for him to come into office wits
the Noble Lord, consistently with his honour; bit
circumstances appeared to hive subdued those hostile
feelings, and even shed a veil over the Noble Lord.;
alleged incapacity—(!.rear,)—and the Right P.
Gentleman yields, not to the desire cat place, to of
doing good to his country, in junctiett even with tilt
Noble Lord. The world had thus a surprising in-
stance of mutual forbearance ; one party forgiving
injuries, and the other receiving benefits fr m a=
hands he had despised—(Rear.) Complaints had
been frequently made by the Right Honourable Gen-
tleman, that men in public situations had got so
credit for their motives. But not content with cat'
ing that, he proceeded to stigmatise all persons
sentiments differei.t from his own, insinuating tli-t
their characters, public and private, were of a scav•
dafous nature—and almost adding, like the l'hartuf
in the Temple, thank GOD that he Was not like aul
of those men. It was, however, to be feared, tiu:'
after the conduct pursued by the Right lionourabe
Gentleman, he would get no credit for his motivo,
but that which he had already deprecated. This coe
.11.'4, to use a favourite expression of the Noble Lori:
two features—the fortunate and the unfortunate. Ili`
fortunate features were, that the Noble Lord w 0
fortunate enough to have a lucrative place to give
~
. away, which the R'gtit Him. Gentleman was forito
nate •encugh to wpitt—(A limp's.) But the miter',-
mete features were, that the documents before 1::e
17ibbse.sliew; first, that the necessity at such an 4:
pointment was, not contemplated, but inimedwit.
[
otter an 'Ambassador, at an immense expense, tv•-•
dispatched to a country where there was no i-cle,
.:.t.
and Where a- Minister, of thefts, order, as the Nom
LOrd had called it, toad not resided for upwards of a
eetktury.; But why was the appOintment made bet'lre
the arrival of the Prince. or why was the Right.ll:.•
Limitable Gentleman raid in advance for his service,.
If, indeed, he had been sent to &azil, t° induceii.e
Prince, Regent to return to Europe, there mi.l.
have-been some reason tor it, but in Lisbon he oa.
•
._,
altogether useless. It appealed impossible for hit;
to consider this affair in any other light than 0 i
was regarded out of doors, namely,
a grossjos i
scandalous pccnlation of the public money, 10. 1"
~

. •
,whose of procuring the assistance of the Right
Geodeman and his friends for the Ministry. I(
were varnished over an inchttbick—and there
-o where a better varnisher than the Noble Lord
Ant :'iil be considered a disgusting job. Sir
let Walpole had said in that House that every
'tad his price. Great practice in .the purchase
lecioces had enabled him to give this opinion ;
rr,:thia he nor the Noble Lord, who, though a
man, had even more experience than Wet-
a :10.e.,a1e dealing, never before could tell the
gate price of any man—but here, the price of the
11 Win. Gentleman st as set down in figures—
cif, and a Zulh.) If ever there was a time when
of Government ought to be directed
len the smallest sum, it was when this ids was
It would, however, afford him an answer
(try tLing that would ever fall from the Right
Gentleman, whether in the way of grave ad-
as, or copious declamations, or
Merry desesets on a nation's woe,"
ihich lie occasionally -indulged, to all of them he
Id reply by one word, 64 iseedasien." He hoped
the whole of this transaction would awaken the
iple, and have the effect of making them put an
m that system which was involving the nation in
4,evable ruin.—(Near, Hear.)
Sir JOHN BERESFORI) felt it necessary to
'ewe facts, in answer to the assertions which
ken made, that it was not the intention of
Prince Regent of Portugal to visit Europe.—
la been ordered to go out with the aqua-
to ti,t Brazils, where lie arrived in the month
Sepitinbei. The Prince Regent then told him,
he ii,:etided to come to Eutope. He had had
;end convex sations with his Royal Highness on the
-t, and in every conversation he declared it to
.is intention to return to Europe ; and it was not
wail the middle of April following that he had the
'answer of the Prince, which was, that lie should
turn at all. Then he (Sir J. Beresford) came
with the squadron under his command. Had
',ince given him that answer at the time of his
in the Brazils, he would not have remained
.e five days.
Mr. CANNING hoped it would not appear that
a question in which.he felt so deep an interest in
with others, and also with the Honourable
2t, who had directed his speech personally and
-dually against himself, he had :hewn any blame-
reluctance in offering himself to the House. The
why he had not risen sooner was that he
ished to h^ it the whole of the accusations intended
be urged against him. He was satisfied that if
i.lemen had any more accusations to offer, they
wuld have allowed him the advantage that was
-.7ited to the meanest criminal at the bar of a Court
Jutricc, that of hearing the whole of the indict-
meat read —(ia'earatear, hear.) If it stmt.! slow ap-
re.,7 that alter one entire year of menace, his ac-
tasers could advance no more than what they had
stated, he was under no apprehension respecting
re,ult of the present discussion. But if there were
Condemn who still held themselves in reserve—
(lfor, /rear,)—Gentlemen whose speeches were still
Jobbing in their bosoms, and who intended to utter
them as :,onn as he should be in a situation in which
could make no reply. In such a case he should
throw himself upon the candour of the House, which
perceive that he was precluded from an-
meting them not from inability, but the order of the
louse. He hoped now to be able to give a satisfactory
explanation to the House as to every thing that had
been laid to his charge, and which be should meet
with the same fearlessness lie had always observed.
The first charge was, that Ministers pretended to be-
:re, that the Royal Family of Portugal intended to
Mini to Europe, and availed themselves of that im-
pression on the public, cot ruptly to offer him a place,
which he' as corruptly accepted. Now, if Ministers
Were guilty, he must be guilty, as he was instrumen-
tal in, and cognizant of then fraud. The first charge
then, was, that there had existed no belief on the part
Ig the Government that the Royal Family of Portu-
would return, and the next was, that the Mission
bad been one of unexampled prodigality. He now
pleaded to both these charges, and be begged that
the House would keep each et them separate and
distinct. If there was no expectation or belief that
the Family would return, then there was room
enough for impeachment ; but if there was such a
probable expectation and belief, the question of ex-
pense was then a fair question for Parliamentary en-
luirY. In order to prove that the expectation did
exist, hi should refer to one paper as amply sufficient
for his justification. Here Mr. Canning read an ex-
tract from a letter written by Lord Strangford,
stating, that the Prince Regent of Portugal had sig-
nified his desire' to return to Portugal. This letter
had been sent to Lord Liverpool, who sent him (Mr.
Canning) an account of it, which he received at
'Manchester. Now, he would ask, if it was likely that
such a letter as this could have been written for the
Purpose of playing off a fraud on the public Was it
Possible to suppose that two men would play such a
deceit as this on each other (Loud cries of Near, hear.)
So convinced was he of the truth of the statement,
that he did not desire to see Lord Strangford's let-
ter, until after his return from Portugal. Here the
Prince Regent not only desired to return, but he re-
quested that a British squadron should be sent to the
Brazils to convey him home. For his own part, he
not only believed, hut he anxiously wished for the re-
turn of the Prince Regent ; because he telt it to be a
measure necessary for the benefit of Europe atlarge ;
and that it was an object which our Government
should have promoted as far as lay in their power.—
It was his opinion that the Prince Regent was re-
strained from coming away by a party in his coun-
sels. He believed that his Royal Highness wished
to return, and would have returned, had not such a
party surrounded him. He rested these statements
on the authority of Lord Strangford, whose sources
of information and statements he had found to be ex-
tremely correct. Such then, was his belief on this
Point. The British Minister with the Prince Re-
gent of Portugal had declared, that the Royal Fa-
IllaY was coming away ; and his Majesty's Govern-
ment took the necessary steps on such an occason.—
Yet he was represented, in various publications, as
acting under quite a different impression. He
respected the press of the 'country, but he would
never plead at its bar. (Load cries of Hop, hear.)—
lie had been attacked by an anonymous writer, but
ht should defend himself only before that House.—
He was not to plead to an accusation of having as

cepted an office, or, in other words, having gifen his
aid to a Government whose etistence he wished to see
preserved. He never did nor ever would subscribe
to that doctrine of parties, that all men were to he
proscribed who did not belong to their party. He
did not fear looking these proud combinations in the
face. A combination of circumstances required that
he should go to Portugal. Before the office was of-
fered to him, he had determined to go to that coon.
try ; and with that determination, he had been a sup-
pliant at the Admiralty for the use of a ship of war,
to convey him and his family t) Lisbon. So far WAS
he then from intending to go at first in a public cha-
racter, that there was a private house taken for him
at Lisbon. This did not loak like any conni-
vance or design, as had been asserted--,(Hear, bear.)
The assertion was false. As soon as lie heard suspi-
cions thrown out against his mission, he sent in his re-
signation of the office conferred on him. Now sup-
posing it was well known that the Prince Regent did
intend to return, the next question was, whether that
circumstance made an Embassy necessary? We had
an Ambassador at the Court of the 'Prince Regent,
and we required an embaisy in return. This reci-
procity was constantly claimed. When the embassy
was offered to him, Mr. Sydenham was at Portsmouth;
and then it was said to him, 4, there is an embassy for
you, you are fixed on, and you may take it it you
chose." When he took that situation in a foreign
Count, in which be was to have a precedency over
other Ministers, and where he should have personal
intercourse with the Sovereign, lie believed he would
have been able to do a great deal of good. When
be went from the country, the instructions he carried
with him about the Slave Trade, were four to one as
numerous as any other ; and in that question alone
be believed he should have been able to do some good.
He assured the House, he did not accept the office
with half the pleasure with which he resigned it. It
was exultingly said that he bad failed ; true. in a
great measure he did, because the sovereign was not
present. Now,' as to the pecuniary question, if there
was no call for our embassy, the expenditure of six-
pence was too much. H the embassy was wanted,
the next question was,what ought tohave been its cost?
11 It was impossible to fix the particular cost of any
'swell thing. Would •any Man have taken such an
office without the means? He might surprise the
House when he told them he applied for a limitation
of his salary. Here the Right •Honourable Gentle-
man read an extract of a letter from him to Lord Li-
verpool, entreating that a limitation of his expenses I
might be fixed and settled—(Hew., hear.) Then be
looked at the expense of other missions, and particu-
larly that of Sir -Charles Stewart, which, in the year
ending ApriL 1813, was sr26,O(X), and the next year
it was .1834000. • Mr.'Cassamajor succeeded Sir C.
Stewart, and lived there without any suite as a pri-
vate Gentlemin—Lind notwithstanding this 'retired
lite, his expenses vier& seloo a week. When he went
to Lisbon as Ambaisador, Mr. Cassaniajor•lived in
his house, and he had betides another Gentleman
who acted as Portuguese Secretary : so if Mr. Cass*.
major's allowance was a fair one, each of these was
entitled io five thousand pounds a year ; there was
then an expense that might be estimated at £lO,OOO
a year saddled on him at once—(Hear, hear, hear.)—
When it was considered that the total expense of the
mission in the time of Sir Charles Stewart was thirty-
two thousand a year, and of his own nine thousand
some hundreds, whatever else might be imputed to
him, he hoped it would be admitted that the argu-
ment of. comparative . expense made out •notliing
against him. It had !sten stated that he superseded
Mr. Sydenham, but 4)) was nut.. the fact. That
Gentleman• was notable to perform his duties any,
longer. He was subsequently appointed to the disn
charge of diplomatic functions taf, high importance,
but he was not in a state of health to serve 'tl)e public
again. The two thousand pounds allowed Mr.
Sydenham, as a compensation for hisses incurred on
being suddenly obliged tar relinquish hie Mission on
account of the dangerous state of his health, made up
his emoluments senOtt for six months; but, before
he proceeded further, he must just notice, •by the
way, it might perhaps be objected to hiin that be
was the cause of this expense, by removing Mi.
Sydenham. This he had, in substance; answered
already ; but be could give it a more direct 'refuta-
tion, by referring to the letter of his Noble Friend
(Lord Castlereagh) on ' the subject, It was sheen
by the papers before the House, which he had quoted,
what was the expense of the mission in a petiod,
whose economy was to shame him—(Hear, hear).—
He most close *hat he had to say on this bead by
observing, that be knew nothing of Mr. Sydenham
until lie was examined as a witness before a Com-1
mittee of that House some years ago; but'he believ-
ed that a person of more capacity, of more know:l
ledge,and information, of more fitness for the great.,
business of nations, was not often if ever to be found.
If he (Mr. Canning) had been obliged to soil this
great man's name, by bringing it into contact with
considerations of money, the fault was not on hls.(Mr.
Canning's) head.' What he had stated too in 'compa-
rison between the expense of Sir Charlet Stewart's
mission and his own, had been forced upon hiM by the
discussion. He had two other points non which lie
now felt himself bound eternal& an'observation.—
He did not expect, when lie accepted the embassy,
the sort of scrutiny which h.id taken place, but he did
expect that he should'be watched to see it he could be
found tripping on the score of extravagance. He went
to Lisbon, knowing no more what it would cost him
to support his establishment there than in Turkey,
but he inferred that the nett salary of the appointment
would be adequate to its necessary expense, and he
therefore determined to draw no more in the shape of
Estraordinaries, than would make up for the detalcin
tions of the amount occasioned by charges and deduc-
tions here, and the loss in the contse of exchange, which
determination he kept and acted upon to the letter ;
and be should be excused mentioning when it went in
answer to a charge of pecuniiiy rapacity, that he re-
turned the last quarter's salary to the Treasury, with-
out ever supposing that any person but his Noble
Friend, whose authority was necessary fer the pur-
pose, knew or ever would kodw of the fact—(llear.)
When.he received the Report of the Committee on,
the Civil List amongst other things, fixing the sum,
which should not be exceeded by the Lisbon mission,,
he could not but plume hinsself upon because it
agreed with the principle which'he had laid down for
himself, and fixed for the future the ationni*hich
he had not exceeded in the pain (Hear, hear.) He
might be open to the charge of Accepting oaken's-

det his Nohle Friend. hut in pecuniary matters he

stood eon a rock. Yes, he must repeat, the very sum
for which he was hunted thinugh the•country as a
pillager of the Eschequer, the very sum which he re-
ceived, taking into the account the d-ductions to
which it was liable and the course of.Erchange in
'that yesr, was the very suni which the Committee
had determined 'should belong to the appointment of A
diplomatist of the sec-n.l tank. (Load crier of Hear,
hear, hear.) And the. use to Mike of this
statement was t.) put those' who were &faded by
figures of nominal amount right as to tite actual fact.
But it was said he assumed tl.e miisi )n too soon ; that

the Prince Regent of Porng,l amid not be expected
in Europe in less time titan six months, if be really
meant to come at di. T:lat the i'Liace did mean to

come, he ( Mr. Can 'ling) really believed, and not only
in but he had no sospicien that his Royal Highness
WAS not even ready to embark : and 'Sir J.lin 11.:res-
ford might have landed him in JailuAry or February.
Sir John told the Prince that he would undertake t.

land him in five or six weeks, as he (Sir John) had
reached Rio Janeiro in seven weeks with the impedi-
ment of a convoy. It was in the beginning :of April
that he (:Mr. Canning) I:ad the first loose informa-
tion, hut nothing official, that the Prince was not
likely to return to Europe, and on the next 'day after,
he wrote home, and expressed an opinion, that if
the Prince had not already set 'cut, he would not
do so when he heard of the return of Bonaparte
to France, arid, in that event, he begged to resign.
This offer of resignatioh was not accepted; but
from that time he felt himself on a different footing.
The country was at war, he was actively engaged in
its service, and he had to promote its interests to the
hest of his ability, for which he was entitled to receive
the salary of a second•rate Minister. The battle of
Waterloo was no sooner fought than his Noble Friend
(Lord Castlereagh) wrote he would relieve him from
the burthen of the mission. He lost no time in wri-
ting a private letter to Earl Bathurst to say, if. the
Noble Lord's (Castlereagh) absence on the Continent
rendered Government unable to find a successor at

Lisbon, he could recommend a Gentleman who was
introduced to his political acquaintance by the Noble
Lord himself, and who would, he was satisfied, dis-
charge the duties of the office to the satisfaction of
the Government and the advantage of the country.
He had been accused of clinging to this mission i he
answered the accusation by stating these indisputable
facts—(Hear, /rear.) He shouk! have no recollection
of dis taunts of the Honourable Baronet (Sir Francis
Burdett). and the eliminatory h u_servations of the
Honourable Gentleman (Mr. Lambton), but in the
consciousness that he ought not to sink in his own
esteem for wanting theirs;—(lltar, hear,
The Honourable Baronet's taunts should never pre-
vent him from opposing himself to those prjects of
which he (Sir F. lhachai) was the champion Lilear.)
As to the charge that had been made pessonally
against him, on the score of the reconciliation with
his Noble Friend ( Los d Castlereagh) he trust I.ie al-
lowed to say, he did not trace any Mo. neighbours on
the opposite side who had riot differed snore than he
and his Noble Friend had done—(t/ear, and a laugh).
—Since which period, he would ask, had it been the
practice of that House to debate upon events which
in private no Gentleman would eco.use os direct hisj
attention to I It was a practice that would go to de-
grade the society of that House as low as that of -the
patriots of Spa.tields— (Hear, hear).—He and his
Noble Friend never had such a -cliff:fence as to pre-
vent him taking office with him, and he thought the
reconciliation of private friends was not a.marter Of
'taunt for two such mouths—(Hear, hear).—It had,
however. been said, that he consented to take office
under his Noble Ft iend I but when Lord Pembroke
went to Vienna. and Lord Wellesley to Cadiz, in
his administration. he never for a moment hid the
vanity to suppose they were acting under him.—
It was in the very natlire of our mixed Constitution
that persons of different ranks, different connections,
different qualifications, should be called into Office,
but if the man could not dignify the office, the office
could not dignity the man. He had now drawn to
a close ; he had been led to intrude a good deal upon
•the House, but they would not perhaps think he had
troubled them too long, when they considered that
he had to defend himself from charges which, if he
could not satisfactorily meet, be must trouble them
then for the last time—( Loud cheering.
1* • Mr. BROUGHAM said, the Right Hon. Gentle-
man 'lad rather unfairly complained of a waist of
candour on his side of the House, in not all speaking
in their turns, before it came to him to offer a reply.
He (Mr. Brougham) did not then act as accuser,
but in another capacity, as a judge, in' common
wiih other Members, to sit and determine whether
the chirges that had been made had been'answered ;
and the course which had been pursued was jut
the same that had been followed on former occa-
sions. The accuser made his charges, and the de-
fendant made Isis defence, leaving the House to give
their opinion and their votes upon the metits.--
The Houle would not allow their judgments to be
*wept away by a torrent or Ueda i
but attend
• • •
to a 'few plain facts, which Were stubborn 'things,
'and d'ates, the most stubborn of all facts ; .and they
would ileteinfine that there was not 'a shadow of de-
fence for this political jab, the blame of which 'Aiwa-
pally belonged to Government, though he could not
acquit him for whom it up. He '(Mr.
Brougham) and his friends'on that side the House
did nut say the idea of the Psiuce Regent of Porto-.
gal coming. from the Brazils was a fiction ;—they
could not eater tails so monstrous a supposition as that
any Mao, or set of men, would dare to commit diem,
selves to that extent—but. what they say is, that Mi-
nisters appointed, and the Right Hon. Centime.) :4C
cepta. in Embassy, at a tune, and in a manner they
ought not to have done, and that they. managed 'this
mistake so as to snake it burdensome.tal the publie.—
Lord Striusglord writes,, in, a, .dispatch which is re-
,ceisedhere on the 24.ih of April, that the Prince
Regent of Portugal has stated. that as soon as ever
Great Britain declares Isis return to Portugal neces-1
sari, he. will accede to any intimation to that effect."
Yet though the Bourhons had been replaced on the
Throne .of France, and the systeni of foreign policy
114 'been developedin the altered 'circumstances of
kalrape, no letter was sent to Lord Strangford until
the Xthsof.Auly. Lord Strangtord's letter had been
received three months, and how did ithappen teat he
was not written to, till then, and that he was written
*to, just at that time 1 Why, the Lisbon MisSion
was wanted then for Cabinet and party purposes, and

'herefore the letter was dispatched to the Brazils.— .
There was one little circumstance that would thr.,w
light on the disgraceful business. The pretence for •
sending out :he Right Hon. Gentleman, was an
anxiety to comeliment the Prince Regent of Portu-
gal, and te gratify his wishes in the pomp of :deb an
embassy. But how was it that this anxiety was not
unifOrm and consistent? We tbak great care to give
the 'Regent an ambassador, but whet he a.ks four er
five times for a particular commar der to convey him,
as a matter of pestrinal gratification to himself, diere
is an end ni Otis eoxitty„ and he is inswe:ed that en
officer had elreedy been appointed I but this is no
answer at all, inasmuch as the officer had not sailed,
and the arratseement. Was still wi bin the perfect con-
troul of the eoveroment. Sir Sidney Smith had been
stated to be the officer •-•(NO, a,. ficut the ilLaisterial.
Beach;) whoever was the officer, it there %Id been
bona fide all that anxiety to get into the go •d erects.
of the Prince kegent of Portugal, this was .1.1 occa-
sion upon which they cilkild not but have been glad to
maniies' it. The'question do which the complexien
of the transaction attpended was, Whether the mission
was made for the man, or the man was found
for the mission ?—(`!leer, hear, hear) • The .dates'
would decide this. if there was a doubt as to the
return of the Prince RegOit to Portugal, the
country ought to have had the benefit of that daub!.
It the mission had not been appointed until the re-
turn was certain] the eapensiin.duld have teen saved..
It had been argued as if it lied'hiletf iadispensebly
necessary that an Ambassador shinfld be at Lishen -
to receive the' Prince, but there had been nothing said
to convince him that a Charge d'Affaires ',vela not
have done as well, and that die Portu'gu'ese Govern-
ment, when set down in Europe, Mighenot diem have
been complimented with an Ainbessedny sent out to it.
lei that case nothing would ever have been heard 'of
this disgraceful job. The expenses of Mr. Syden-
ham, of whom he must add the testimony of his
'knowledge to his intellectual and mural excellence,
were £5200 a year, and no more, and £1.500 outfit,
which Was to be compared with set b,200, the expense
of -the Right Honourable Gentleman ( Mr. Canning):'
He must refer to dates again, and be found that the.
Prince Regent of Portugel was ready to come by
Lord Strenglord's dispatch received on the 21th of
April. %Viten did Mr. Sydenham teceive his appoint-
ment ? Why en the 6th of June, with a knowledge
on the part of the Ministers, according to their own
account, that on the Prince's return to Europe there
must be an Ambassador appointed-;--(1./ear, heat.)
It was on the IStli r f Juty that the Mktg Lord (Chea-
tlereegh) wrote to Mr. Sydenham. laying down the
necessity of ecenhnly in ihe mission, and what did be
know on the 25th that he tiid not know on the 18tii
Why he knew nothing More of the Prince Regent of
Portugal, bin a good deal more ot the Right Hon.
Geutleman ; for iii that time their poiaical differences
were made up, and there was to be no mote talk
about economy in the mission, but of an expensive
embassy. No person amid read the letter to Mr.
Sycleithans of the 18th of July, and Lord Bathurst'S
tenet some months situ, without seeing the whole
jobs the fornierrequiriog a reduction in the expense
—the latter intimating that the expense might be
gradually reduced-fibril the scale of Sir C. Ste earee
(Meow, he or). He spoke from facts and dates, and
they gave a plain and conviticing account that thit
•greangement WAS to answer private purposes, and
'that, in the words of the. Hon. Boone!, it WAS no-
thing butt a profitable patty pecuniary job.
Lord MILTON eeid, he did not pretend to affect
he could divest himself ut all party feeling ; but he
could say, he had read 11-tlie'papers, be had heard
'all that had been stated in the House, and he was
anxious to draw a lair conclusion. lie was free to
say, he could norageee with his friends in passing
censure on the Rielit Hon. Gentles:lAM though. he
thought the transaction; 'as tar' as the Government
was concerned, not tyre from the imputation of poll-
.
tical convenience.
Mr. GORDON thought the Right Hon. Gentle-
man had cleared himself in a pecuniary point'of view.
Mr. ABERCItOMBIE said; the ground on Which
he should vole was, that on case had been &tide out
to strew the necessity for an Ambassador at that time,
however proper it might have beal at a lateeperiod.
Mr. 511 ARP tees disposed to thick the 'ahieres-
mem guilty, and the Right Hon. Gentlestiah mit tuilty.
Mr. TIE RNEf disclaimed every thing.perstinal,
because it was, in fact, the business Of -the Geier&
ment and nut of the ittelividual. After all ilre gloss
of speech that had been thrown oat, he •viiisit 'opi-
nion it there had been a vacancy is the CabiUet; no
Ambassador would'have been sent out. •Tlierehrid
been; in his political esperienee, taelittOns,
some ativanthgeous, others not wi'adVentageotneto
the country, but there never was sitoalitturierf. More
suspicious cliarereer than" thiit between 'the Right
Honourable Geotletnen and the Noble Lord. The
Right Million able • Gentleman iliOnght the
Lord Wanted Valente, and the Nbblelland tholight
the Riglielloriuhrable 'Gentleman was noftlee"tight
.kind of 01..111. 'ThegrOuntroie which' he shotild give
his vote was, that the *public money been thine-
eessat ily expended. Tire late PoitutplSe Aniteissa-
dor, at 'the time';:of lips departure, told 1' (Mr.
'Perrney) thateilehis ltiiejestee. Unistei s had ever
asked Lon, he . would haves told them, teateliese was
no chance of the Mace Itikent's return to Europe.
He must meat most impress it upon the House,
that dining six nihmlis which must have elapsed hr.
lore tire-return of the:Pritice Regent of Poi tkel, the
country was saddled with Liu?. WAlSSollexpenseed this
embassy. Had any steps belt tektite() ascertain the
tact of the Primer's return.b4re she expense was in-
cutied ? Upun the bere.essection utast Secretary of
Stele for Foreign A &tits, a stint ofuo lessithen eleven
thousand pouadi, ut teliath;three shhusand-epounds
went to diet: slit lion. Gehtleman fer•pht:e a: Am-
beseedore was added ,to the public expenditure. Fie
denied- that the: deductiotsixontendedefor could be
made on the gtoenti!hf foreign exchange.. He had
011.3 intoeilietesty, Creaseertain *fiat had been the'eate
of efchange aid-41)00in' Liendoi during the 6 mouths
in question, and be found it nearly at, par, 64
. He would repeat; :that the country bad been saddled
with an expense of £ll,OOO tiering six months; And
it he were Ifisnosed unfairly to infierne the :public
mind, he niteuld say eet,an annted.oxpense r,f 422,e0u
-butt he wouild not say so—(2l loush.)—Thisewas a
tact which could peter' he overthrown by.the 'do-
piest flourishes of the Righr.fion.Uent letnen;'for it
was only with eloquent del:ashes that the Right
Hon. Gentleman
had favoured the House, which,

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Goat
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,ease were
,s:.o when
most viii
:tett AVni I
had his
con,cicnce
• swam It
edger rust:
;n w'abh
tote prig
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flat, and ea
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• even the *
erd,..d. It
goy thin
al. Gentle
o
is which be
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ttst the who
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ad that s
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sir JOLT
state wine
bid been 11
Prince
he Lac! be
eron 10 tl,t,
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oat he iti:e
uveral cony
subject, anc
be Lis intent
until the mi
WI answer
sst return a
hue with t
' hince
aniral in ti
there fire d:
!W. CM
is a questit
ummon wi
Burma, wl
a!,!: relucta
reason wit)
cs!lesl to 1
to be nrgc
Gen.:emets
would haw
tr.nted to
d Jutticc,
Meat read•
re.,, that
tssers caul
row stated
the re,ult
Gentlenven
lieu
throbbing
them as
he could r
throw him
must then
Awning th
House. E
explanatin
been laid
with the s
Toe first
litre, that
kiwi to
pression o
which he
.were guile
tal in, ant
then, vial
rg the Cc
*al wools
had been
' pleaded
the How
• • distinct.
the Fan]
enough
probable
pence wa
quiry.
exist, hi
for his ju
tract tic
stating, t
reified hit
had bee:
Canning
'Manche'
such a I
purpose
possible
deceit as
so cone
that he
• ter, anti
Prince I
quested
Brazils
not mil;
turn of
measure
and tin
should
It was
strainer
sels. I
to retni
party a
• on the
of info]
tremel:
point.
gent of
/Dent t
. Yet hv
acting

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