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London, England, 1829-02-10 00:00:00

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jetty's Ministers would iluitiseiedy,to produce thpt
paper, if it could be dime with propriety, and if its Ob.
'firAtiou,should net Re detflinsental. to the public service;
aUdittliey-utere coMpelfed ett ophose-the production of
an" Ow. they would be able to skte good reasons for.
soloing. With respect tO t(se bfkiaißties which she Noble
rbisizia
1:0-id haJ touched upon, iketaa • , duty to say, that,
no- Mk. id 'account having o.gs, Rorrament on.
the sob**, his Majesty's Mini-ten's not *pet in a
condition to lay say satisfactory i don- en the
subject before Parliament. He bad no reason, how-
corr. to 'doubt that the fact aplsfstipt us repotat doted
it- and. for any-thing he knew ttekecontrary, tt might
ha.. occurred in the way in whiett. it sera timed.—
Whikjhe precise circumstances were, however, which
had led to the transaction, his Majesty's Ministers had
De Mitaiscof knowing; but he thought it right to state,
that the instructions given to the °Seer in command
did contemplate that-'such an =urgent@ might take
place, and he, therefore, premised that what had tskeo
place was done consistently with the instructions which
bad been given. He was not at all prepared to admit
that any eberge. existed or could be sustained against
hi. Majesty'i Ministers with regard to the course pur-
sued with regard to Portugal.- He was most desirous
now fully to explain and justify the coutfuct of hie Ma-
jetty's Ministers on that subject. If the Noble Lord
moved for the production of papera; and the whole cir.
elimstatices came to be fully stated, he was much ask.
taken if obvile,.l,:rdships did not agree with him that his
M .jesiy's Ministers woe not only justified in what they
had dime. bet that, in point of fact, they had no other
coarse to punts', and, therefore, that the line of policy
they had aif..pted was not only justifiable but indis-
sable.

rd HOLLAND.iaid, it now appeared that there
was no chin ce of any information originating with hi,
Majesty's Ministers. During the last Session he had
been told, With great plauiibility, if not with great
seas n, that it would not be fait for him to select any
pittitular paper, and call for its Tadpoles, bat that
be was bqund to wait until hit Majesty's Ministers laid
some information before Parliament on this important
quAtion. Undo such circustistenco, in ordinary cases,
.hr would be inclined to name a • day for a motion on
that subject; hot he stilt hoped that Parliament would
institute an icquiry. F.,r his own part he would not at
Team give any notice, for several reasons, which,
though of a pa 'tic nature, it was not strictly Perlis•
mentaiy; pet haps. to allude to, but which he would
trouble the ll'u.e for a moment in eapla;ning. One
trait* Iris; oat he hoped the task would devolve on
rinse pi r,oits more conspetent to do justice to it than he
Wits; and another was. that just now, when Men's
minds were so entirely and so naturally absorbed in
another greet and important question, he (Lord Hol-
land) did not with to put himself into any thing which
might appear• like an attitude of 'hostility to a Govern-
ment which was now engaged in a work, which, in his
opinion, would conduce more to the welfare and hap-
piness of the people of this country than any which had
been effected for many years. Peeling,. however, as an
iiingli.hman, and as one who had taken a deep interest
in the affairs of Portugal and her relations with this
untra, he could not hear of the unfortunate and heart-
tending occurrence *hid) had taken place at the island
of Terceira, without earnestly calling on Parliament to
inritutr an immediate inquiry into the transaction.
• Lord rat KNII ANI gave cadet. that Gn a rumor day be would
Inoteilt a Petition twat Lord p.44lernanse against the ram of
Loni tion..ll, a. a It/presentative Peer for Ireland, In the room
of the P.ari of Arran. He per this notice, that the matter might
be beard at as early as period as would be convenient to their
ilattlitetriD CIIANCELLOR Said the matter mold oat be
beard midi the Petition was presented. Wben the Petition was
presestild, ft wu his intention to move that the nutter should be
taken into consideration.

The deputy Ckrk of the Crnwn for Ireland appeared at the
liar. and pre...KA a writ. stating the moire of Lord Dowdily as
a representative Peer of Ireland. in the room of the Earl of Arran.
dec. aced.--Tbe writ was ordered to 114 as the table.

The LORD CHA NCULLOR pm notice, that so an early
day be would stove fnr leave to being in a RR fee the mould,-
ration of their Lordbhips, relative to the practice of the Coon of
Chancery.
The LORD CHANCELLOR stated, that be had received a
sommoeication from Lord Combertitere, as Channunder-in-Chief
Ip India, **doming a letter from 0k Archibald Campbell, con.
mining his grateful ackoowledgnsents for the hewer conferred en
him, by their Lordships' direction, tor his condom daring the late
'war in lodia:—The 'inter having been' reed by the Lord Chan-
miltirons the Nadel of the Earl of Shaftesbery, it was ordered
so he Linn* the Journals of the Room • •
their Leandro ediounied at a QUART= MOM ilsmat ecuies.
HOUSE OF COMMONS.

Mt. HOBIIOUSR presented a Pedtion front the Inhabitants
Mahe Parish of Au James. Westnihnoter, eonspialabig of the ntis.
'appikation of the Rates by the Seim Vestry, and praying ter
tease to bring In a an for regulating the affairs of the Parish.
The Himourable Member at the same time moved for Returns of
the amount of the Rates, and the hems slowing their application
In the e: are.
The IWurns Were ordered, and the Petition was referred to a
Committee.
Mr. Alderman W A ITH MAN presented a Petition front the
Itilishkaws of Ask Panels of St. Dunstan, praying save to bring in
a VW for authe6ang the pulling down of the present Church and
the erection of a twee one. The Petitioners stated that the present
Parish Church web in a very bad and ruinous state; and they
pointed out the Oat improvement which might be elected in that
pan of the City by widening fleet street.
The Petition Mae referred to a Committee composed of the
Ide tubas for clie City et Lawton and others.

AIPVAIRSI tM PORTUGAL.
• SG:JAMES MACINTOSH felt it to be his doty
to sniveler" word. in addition to, and perhaps in-es-
plasatiani 'of, an observation which had dropped from
limos.. the first evening of the presentliession. He had,
on that occasion, preface I the few sentences he addressed
to :We House by declaring. that although there were
some matters alluded to in his Majesty's most graCious
Speech, which, in his °pinkie, required exiirnation,
he felt that :was not the time when they contd.:4
properly make them a subject of discussion. He
bad wished, indeed, to pass those mattes s over for
some short time in silence. in order chat he may here-
after have an appal tuait y f advocating theta with more
advantage—first, because he felt that the House, agi-
tated and absorbed as it was by the consideration of that
grandest of in questions—that most iMportar t of all
subjects—the concessiou promised to the claims of his
Majesty sCatholic subjects—'eras not in a fit simper to de-
liberate upon any other topic, however important. irr
the Mat plate, because he knew that full justice could
mt be dose to any question by pushing forward and
forcing it into premature discussion. And lastly, he-
eding whatever might be his sense of the importance of
that subject which pressed upon his al entior, he diJ
not wish at this moment to introduce any topic which
might le • d to any duff tense of opinion with a G 'refit-
ment who had just conferred upon their cottony the
greatest and the must important boon which- it could.
boat of since the passing of the Hill of Rights. The or
amen's, hoe ever, which had jifit taken place at the
Awes* wise of such saute, that it became impossible
heights, so follow the course he bad originally deter-
ithsi4 upon,-lest, by laying himself open to ti echarge '
having looked epos those occurrences in silence or with
indifference, he might prejudice the consider ati .n of
the subject upon a (astute oceasieh. He Tea% hov-
erer, still desirous to adhere, as much as it was in