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1.., where be pow sat, had left little room for doubt
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- the' subreil;'ktbeo-;he-he- d.Phcrit'll the Cathuite
Qtte;Doe as this-WM Iwo au question. I pot - ), lt was, acciiid- '
the
F
.w. to be- 'fleeted-that the Right Hon. Gentleman, ,
'b bolt (It-abiTreasury, would soon some down
on ...
0 the Hauge anti proposesurr at least, support some-
;„„ d vet Some final decision ought to take place
elhhtlerech "e
interest of Ireland or'
of England Was cisn-
;
tidereil? The Elonsßarnoevhad stated, that this queStion
s n3w becoming a Ministerial sine pia nog-((hies of
nes).-w-He might be under a ntis-
ilest, hear, nnal.No,
lake, but he had apprehended that the expression of
rise gun non, used by the Honourable Baronet, referred
to the Catholic Question, and, to no other; and be did
helot-, that his ninon, and justification, and induce-
westt' •O
'occupy the position in which he *as now
gee, was the opinion that Ibis measure Wad to be ogered
o the opport ottlie House under the auspices of Ad•
ministration. For his own part, he would rather see
th4tplestion receive the decided support of His 'Mejest y's
Government, than as it had' been leer since 1817—
oughter).—he nverrmt to-say, for. many years past. He
would now trespass no further upon the time of the
filoasethati ttadeciare Mt deteribtOthrh to-rippose this
qion under whatever atttPiOi -It, ,Mightle-ought
tuit -
forward; and he called upon the Members or %Ilia Mo.
jostes Govesiment in that House.to let, these know
what they lure to expect—whether they were them-
selvesect, ihrd Prepared to di:rpt a
united upon the subject,
determined course, or whether the question was still to
be pared down upon the principle of expediency ? This
was but lair to an, parties concerned in it. He could!
only say further, that be, foe one,was deter mined always
to set his lace against it.
Sir F. BURDRTT explained.—lie had employed the wdrds,
taufwlAwl with reference not to the Catholic Question in pard-
•
*cube, hot to suits a geiteral course of policy is might best pro,n6te,
the peace, happiness, and.tranquillity of Ireland. He had said thatt
it was branticipating the progress of .English mind, under the in.,
hence of a liberal and enlightened Administration, that be saw hope.
'sod only hope of Riding this question.
. Mr. G. DAWSON (late Under Secretary for the
Home D.partment) acknowledged that in the entire
affair, namely, the sudden support which the Right
Hon. Gentleman. at the head of the Treasury had re !
ceived trom'the'Gentlemen who were (heti to sit on that,
Aber side.vf the .House, he could see nothing but a
desire to participate in that Right Hon. 'Gentleman's
• station and duthuritY.Thit.was the right iny to look at
the maw, Foiehimset4belibdetasedlo be 'member of
the Government, and .was not sorry fee it i and he
agreed with his Right Hon. Friend, Mr. Peel, that he
telt more pleasure „en standing where he did, in conse-
quence of his aditetence to his,principles,than hold place
wider the Might Hpit-Centleman at the beast of the
Treasury. 'The • Hon. Baronet had said, that he took
his portion by the side of that Right Hon. Gemlernan,
with a view to.effeCt the ultimate success of the Catholic
Qiestion.. Nowt- if *that. Hon. Member's friends did
. not participate in his- motive; their present junction
. with thi Right Hon. Gentleman was one of the basest
coalitions that' ever occurred.—(Cheering). lie Wald
repeat, if Theylail hot that object in view, their coali-
tion was the basest, the most unnatural, and unpreter
dented, he hud,,ever witnesSed-.-(Deafening clamouri;
and continned mut mars). Be would not be put 4ownbyl
clamour in t4at House. if Gentlemen wanted to put him
down by laughing, hesrusted the Braker would use his
author icy to preserve eider;--(Alaugh). BUt he would re-
peat, it the Hon. Gentlemen changed their aide throesh
my other motive, they had made it ashen unpreeedenomt
mention. On that 'subject he would not say more,. but.
would ask, vos it Understoodthit the Catholic Qnestios
Iva to. be made a Cabinet measure? if not, these Gen-
demo (the Whigs) as honest men, could not support the
Right HonsemintlemsusiMr. Canning), But the strangest
thing in the affair Arras, that the astire prop, by some
extriordinaty fatality of ,gpneurrenep,.. was unanimous
-• of the change of the Ministry-z-(Lood cheering.) The
fact was, that the entire prop was corrupted—corrupted
. to its very core—corruption had stifled the public voice,
. and revealed the expression of the public opinion;
but thought the prop was stlenttbe voice of individuals
was not. He,
.as au individual, would raise his voice
to state facts which had come to his knowledge, and
which, it true, w-uld place the Right Hoek Gentleman
at the head of the Treatuty in an embarrassing situa-
tion—circumstances on which the Right Hon. Gentle.
man was bound•tcigive the Houseu clear explanation.
It had been stated:by 'Vie highest airthority in the coutia
try, that the nets Cabinet would not change tbe.dourse
of policy porsueil:by tile late oneond that the nialutit
• of that Cabinet would he ad-versa to the Catholic Ques-
tion. Bat now it appeared that • was not the case.
What, then, would the country dunk of such conduct?
What would the'Dgtb:dlies ofil eland think, but that
Emancipation would be instantly, conceded when
• they saw Able Members out of twelve in favour
of the measure? If this should be the feeling of
the Catholms of frelrmsP, what would be the feeling of
the Protestanti -of' rie.tatict; Who. bad learned' that the
najority of -the, Cabinet was to; tin Protestant—when
they werlinfoimathai the ooly. sideocate for Protes-
tant princikbirt in the-Cabinet woold-he Lord-Bexley,
who had givens up place, and taken it back again, atid
id Who* lie thltr.*-D.I. as a Protestant, had no trust P—
.Would.tba .Prinestants of Ireland depend on Lord
•-- Lyndharst, who,-after having the other day Amadei a
: . Itetich from• the- pamphlet of Dn Philpot, afterwards
gate his aid to it 'Cabinet in which the principles of that
•• . speech must be -outvoted? ;its, the-Prmeatsapts in Ire-
-land had no confidence izeicliex of mem, apd 11044 01,4
would they elitist thetorelees sander tlindsannoreof Lord
Lyndhurst. What would.Ahe &their-skits of "Fdiglind
. • ;11.414, when they heard ke ttate4,4 authoilty,"that the.
• -• 'Archbishop of Canterbuly, and .the Bishop- of 14nd°84
Ina informed the assembled Bishops at Lumbedh
they understood'from the King that big opinions on the-
... Catholic Question were unchanged:--stronger, 'in fact,
• • tha% hisfatber's opinions were, when, in 1806, he game
that memorable answer to Mr.i Fox. If this were not
true, it could be contradicted by the Right Honourable
Gentleman. ;.414 Majesty said '•tti ...thil Aribbishop of
Canterbury and ,uhf Bishop of London, that before be
t.,ok the coronation Oatb—[Here there was a Cheer,
and Order, forseeet.alseconds, to as completely to drown
the Honograbli i‘fetbbre.s voice.]
The.SPEAKLIIO-1 am sure the House will feel that
I have at present mote reasons than one in steering m 7
cause aright in the interruption given to the speech of
the Honourable Gentleman. I trust the Honourable
Gentleman will recollect that fundamental principle in;
Out rules, which forbids -an attempts to influence our
debate by allusion to the S..vereign. ,
L:t. DAWSON, in continuation said, that was an imponanst
rirtipte in the Constitution ; yet in connection witha change of
ttorerument, he would assert, that U the conduct of Ministers was
IC iftizce with the declaration- to whidi he alluded, he had a righi.
il2 demand an explanation of them, before be could allow say sat at
m'o to be King's .Ministers—(Great coniusloal). He would repoirj•
tilt bad been said by the Archblebepor Cgistabwri at 11AmWiii

to give not ly an explanation
but an expositison of hill own personal intentions, and of the mind-
, pies on which the Gentlemen now seated beside him intended to
give theirsupport to his Majesty's Government. For himself, he
did not value their support ; but if be were influenced by it eitbcr
way, it would rather excite him to a more decided oppottion. The
House ought not to separate without asking the Prime Minister
what was his intended course of policy as to the question of Catholic
Emancipation?—lf the Catholics of Ireland, irritated by a diap.
pointment of their hopes, should allow themselves to be mislbd
into acts of popular ♦iolence, the present Ministers, and the party
in that- House that supported the Ministry, would be responsible'
'for ail the•calantities that world follow.
' Mr. BROUGHAM had the greatest anxiety to ad-
dress the House and the country upon this occasion. He
should have addrease4 the House immediately after the
Hon, Member for Westminster, in the apprehension that
same part of his speech might have been misunder-
stood. But after hearing the speech of the Honourable
Baronet, the Member for Somerset. and, with increased

astonishment, that of the Right Hon. late Under Se-
creutty for the Home Department, he should feel him-
self guilty of a positive dereliction of duty if be. did not
reply to their observations. The Right Hon. Gentleman
44,.ailuded prticularly to him, and could see no
earthly motive for the new situation in which he and
his Mends had placed themselves, but that of a desire
totsharb•the hottours and the emoluments of office. Re

did not know whether the Right lion. Gentleman had
used the word etnpluments, but if not, mere sordid matures would
uhderstand it. They 'had been attacked by the Hon. Ltironet,
reasoning according to his means of reasoning, and by the first
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burst of wit frays a Bight Don. Ez.Officeiof the Crown.—
He did not believe that the imputations cast upon his Hon. Friends
weremented in any single case; but to himself thee imputations
could have no application whatever. Office was mucks more inevi-
tably removed from him, and placed out of his contemplation much
further than out of the contemplation of the Right Hon. Gentleman ,
himself. But he supported the Administration of the Right 11°0.1
C,errtisamau, In the hope that it would eventually lead to the removais
of great difficulties which beset the most important question of,
diiiiible•pidicy. The Right Honourable Gentleman called this et 1
itiniffittslue and unnatural coalition-4 juoction .of men opposed tot
el* other in principle, at Variance open all the detail, of affairs„;
hid all the /ceding principles of national policy. How; be would;
pek, had this exuenie difference of opinion been manifested? It
was no doubt because they had hitherto opposed and obstructed
the irately& Pohey of the Right Honourable Gentleman now at the
bead of his Majesty', Council. Because they bad been unwilling
to permit him to disengage from the wheels of the Holy Alliance,
the triuMphint 'chariot of British policy.' Or perhaps the coali-
tleo was, unnatural, because he and . she Honourable, Friends
around him bad opposed and obstructed the lil.eral and enlightened
Principles of commercial policy adopted by the Right Hon. Presi-
dent of the Hoard of Trade. Or was this coalition unnatural, be-
cause they had always professed opinions se different front the Right
Hon. Gentleman as to the best means of giving tranquillity to the
Sister Kingdom? Look over all the greet questions of foreign or
domestic pulicy,.whetber io relation to the Governments of Europe,
or whether piercing across the •Ailantie,-they beheld together the
dawn of new-born liberty; whether they were connected with the
freedom of trade, or the fair and reasonable protection of agricul.
tare—where wad the disagreement to be seen which rendered their
pratentsuppoit of the Right Hon. Gentleman so monstrous. Upon
the Agricultural Qtestioo be had voted with the Right Hon. Gen-
tleman' now First Lord of the Treasury, although the Right Mom
.i.iliderSecretaty then sat by hie shim He would ask that Right Hmq,
Gentleman to point out a single practical .question for the last
three or four years, in which Government did not find in his vok
,s aupport--in bis feelings &faithful eche. Bee there was one goes•
tiotkin which he could not go Who the Right HOD. Gentlettain.—
*hen he knew that the opinions of Ministers were not may dim
eordent, Out wide is the Wm asooder--when one Secretary of
State was op posed to mother—as the Right Hon. Gentleman (?Jr.
IPM.I) had heath*, caodidly, and omit hortoundely to lsinwelf it.
passed, sod on ascoont of which difference he had, ewe oe three
putts ago, been desirous to retiro-7knowing this, he felt himself
restrained from'supportieg the Government upon many occasions,
.when he was most desirous of doing so, because be felt that a Go.'
vernment so constituted was not worthy of the confidence of any
thinking man. That impedimenr bad now been removed, by the re.
,cirement of those who constituted the opposidan in bit Majesty**
Connell& Of those Right Hon. Gentlemen and Noble Lords be
wished to speak with great respect—of the Right Hon. Gentleman,,
l the late Secretary of State foe the Home Department particularly.
He could not be suspected of any intention to flatter that Right
Honourable Gentleman, for it would be recolketed that they bad
on some occasions been particularly opposed to each, other;
because any events in the life of aperson so obscure as hi
could be worthy of memory, but as forming part of the brighter
annals of the Eight Honourable Gentleman. Now he must,
justice to that Right Honourable Gentleman, declare that the gem.
ral tenour of his official conduct bad been not merely honour
to him, but suck as to place him beyond the utmost refinement Of
ingenious malice, if (which be could not suppose) the Right He.
pourable Gentleman had so much as a siogle enemy to exerebi
such ingenuity. He was grateful for the Militia services the
'Right Honourable Gentleman had rendered to the country, and
he, for one felt that It was not one of the least of the evils of the
Catholic Question not yet being carried, that it deprived the
country of them services. And now one word upon that question—
they bad bees (barged with base conduct, with an unnatural coali-
tion. Now there mold be no baseness if there was no fraud upon
the parties; and for his own port be declared, that he did not look
to the Catholic Question being Made a Cabinet measure. He ex-
pected so more than a gradual *advance to that question, and great
immediate advantage to the peace and prosperity of Ireland. The
object of Catholic emancipation was one to be pursued firmly but
cautiously. He counseled the Catholics not to urge their claims
at the present moment-'(loud laughter sad citeers)—topiease their
bitterest enemies—chat quadrant of the House, some of whom were
skilled in the use of inarticulate signs, mid seldom therefore, re-
sorted to the employment of articulate language. Tim Honourable
Baronet accepted a pointer's which but for his respect for him he
Would denominate grotesqut. He was now on the other side of
the House, apparently the leader, he wished him lung to remain
there. Then, the Hon. Member fur Ifotksbire—between his regard
Partite pierogative and his enmity to the Catholic claim*—ht was
in a most tantalizing situation. He was ,quite puzzled by opposite
temptations, and drawn alteinately to this side and to that by bun-
dies of coollicting anotisies=(Hear and laughter).—Speaking 'merely
as a by-stander, he would say, that he had no idea that the claims of
itheCadeolies w‘re all at once to be made a Cabinet question--The
presence of Lord Bexley and the Lord Chancellor its the Cabinet
was surely a sufficient pledge that no such thing was intended. The
Hon. end LearnedDentleinan, after proceeding in the same strain
nr, amasiderable length,, observed, that as it .was.oonsiarzocy to
talk of sacrifices, he might, perhaps, be .permitted to speak of his
In, withdrawing from the other side of the House, he bad left a
situation in Which he had been surrounded, and, perhaps, he might
say, in some degree followed, by a diningoislsed body of mep, who
muntitated if not the most powerful, be would venture to say the
Itionet disinterested opposition wbkh had ever
f sat, in that House.—
ra4 quitted that side of the House under m arrangement,
otterly precludes the possibility of his becoming a servant tb
dlie (town. He had determined to support the present Government
10,14ess eimmustances, and whir from anxiety to prontote.tholle
of various kinds which such an Administratim pro-
to the country and the settlement of the Irish Question
g them. He bad proinoted the coalition entirely with this
opeeeemente
ablect • and as he knew that his being open to accept office would
base been an obstacle to the arrangement, be had annoupced his
determiaatiao to remain mantel), unconoected with the Adrninis-
.tratlam—(Hear, bear).
Mr. CANNING rose, and said, it would be uncour-
' [epos to the House, it• would be oncourteous to his
'flight Hon. Friend, if he let this opportunity o with-
out expressing, in as few words as possible, how
entireff the sentiments contained in his speech coinciiied
with the character of his conduct in all iti 'parts. Tor
begin, he said, with .the more agreeable part, his Righl.
,iinn, Friend had made an appeal to his Opinions for
confirmation of his own. He could bear,testimi.ny
to his i'onduct; which, during 'a continualintercoUrse,'
ne had found distinguished by that jusr feeling and
'th peiriplis so sttongly portrayedia his speech. The
• wouid si•atly mistake. his 4hitsGaiusestit)aitio;l

ation if they believed that it was one of gratified anb.
bition. From the beginning of the discussions on the
'object of the Catholic cl Sims he had felt that their sepal
iation was inevitable, and not far remote. Would to Gas
that he could now persuade himself that his retirement
onld be but for a short time I Had the necessity
faee
hich had made the resignation of one of them inevitable
leftr of ihnishoiswhuanrdess,ighoiusrdioefic.isaionud would have
that of bonahaee in
lit
y:u
Right,Hon. Friend. The courtesy of his Right Hon.
'Friend had induced him to acquaint him (Mr. Can.
ping) with his Intention of speaking to-night. He had
thereupon consulted the will of-his Royal Master, from
whom he had obtained permissionto publish such parts
of the late negotiations as were necessary for his vindi-
cation. True it was,—and why should he deny it ?
He had been called upon by his Majesty for his advice,
or rather he ought to say, for his opinion, on the occa-
sion alluded to. He did, then, if he might presume
to say it, give his council to the King, that his
Majesty ought, under the circumstances to which he
felt himself placed, to make a Government conform-
able to that lately conducted by the Earl of Liverpool.
He_ was free to admit that the a (vice he bad so given
the King was not what he should have wished to offer,
,were he, allowed to be guided altogether by his own
opinion; it. was counsel, which in fact necessarily in.
volved his own retirement from office. That result lk
Ad not conceal, but at the same time laid his resigns*,
tion at the feet of his Sovereign, with mush more cas-'
fidence relpecting his future position, apart fronstiii
Government{ than any which be knew he cants! occupy
•shbsequently, with the question differently sculled.—
When he had thus presumed to give his Majesty a
solicited opinion, and to withdraw himself into re-
tirement, lest he should be deemed any obstacle to
future arrangement, it was net for him to recommend
to his Majesty the individuals who were to form a
Government opposed to his own opinion ; therefore all
that remained for him was, to a-k leave to retire, and
make way, so far as he was concerned, for its formation.
Ile had always defended, and he still delended, unre-
stricted freedom of opinion upon the Catholic question;
that was the opinion and the wish of his oldest col-
leagues in the late Administration ;-it was the opinion of,
the Earl of Liverpool, and expressed in a manner which
he would just relate. Not many months ago, from a
source which he should not name, a recommendation
had been given to his Majesty to place his Government
upon a tooting of uniformity upon the Catholic Ques-
tion; and Lord Liverpool, to whom that advice was
communicated at the same time as to the King, imme-
diately wrote a letter to his Majesty declining his concur-
rence in such advice ; stating also, that being himself ill
some tespects the author of the principle of the divided
Cabinet upon it, he would never be a member of a Go-
vernment which excluded it.—(Loud cries of Hear)ij
He (Mr. Canning) therefore, in delivering his opinion to
his Majesty, did not conceal from the King, that the diffi-
culties would be great in forming an exclusive Cabinet
upon that question; and he repeated, that it was no part
of his duty to suggest who should be the Royal counsel-
lon, when he had intimated his intention of withdraw-
ing from the Government. He did not disguise the diffi-
culties which must attend the formation of such a Go-
vernment as he had alluded to, but he did not pronounce
it to be a won k of impracticability: It was not for him
^tosay by whose advice, or for what reasons, it was the
King's determination not to act upon the suggestion
which he had ptesumed to offer; but from the period
'when 'he fret saw his Majesty upon this business,
until the King afterwards came to town, he (Mr. Can-
ning) had had no certainty that the plan of forming
a different sort of administration would not have been
followed. So far, therefore, from seeking to possess
power under the circumstances in which Lord Liven'
pool's secession had placed him, his first act was a
direct expression of his wish to withdraw from it.—,
Was that like seeking to exclude any person? Was that,
like seeming to impede the formation of a Government,
which was sought to be promoted by the abortive mo-
tion (he did not mean the word in an invidious sense)
of the Honourable Baronet opposite ? (Sir l': Leth-
bridge.) Why, the experiment of forming it had been
fairly tried at the very time, and nothing done to that
hour had been done by him to impede it, unless offering
to step out of the way for the purpose of promoting it
could be construed into such an impediment. But when
he was afterwards told that such a Government could
not be formed, and when he, like Lord Liverpool, had'
recorded his declaration that he would not be a member
of any Administration which inflexibly excluded the
Catholic qaestion, nothing remained for him but to'
assist, as far as he could, in -the reconstruction pf
the divided Government upon Lord Liverpool's plan,
with, of course, the necessary consequence that that
question was not to be made a Cabinet measure. Then
there arose a totally different state of things, not one
involving the question whether he should himself be in
the Government or not,•but whether that Government
would be discredited upon receiving horn him that
assistance which, not his own wishes, but the situation
of circumstances—perhaps a mislot tune to the country
—had cast upon him? What then had been proposed
to him? Why, to reconstruct the Government, all the
old• Members retaining office, ' but placing at its head
some Peer who was known 'to entertain anti-Catholic
sentiments. Then what was the principle which, by
such an arrangement, he was called upon to sanction
in his own person? Why it was plainly this,—tbat,
holding the opinions which he did, was necessarily. a
disqualification for his filling (he highest office in the-
Aciministrat on.:-(Loud cries, of bear). Office he Would
quit-for ever, for office he cared not, retirement be would'
seek at the extremity of the earth ; but to possess it be
terms' so degrading, was the last stigma which be
could suffer in his own person,. and only next to that,
of bearing a part in the Adminis: ration ostensibly form-
ed for excluding the Catholic questiontondeheert.),
He would emigre his being proscribed for ever from
the councils of his Sovereign, rather than, any (tante-
Statesman should, have the power to blast his memory'
by recording -his submission to such disgrace, and hold-
inglial up to execration, for entertaining ail cptnion-
which, up to that moment, he thought he was tate to
bold without any violation of compact with his col-.
lengues—(ltennved cheers). He threw himself upis,
that House and his.country for a candid construction
of his conduct.: His first object was to quit office, Ms,
'next to remain in it with all his old colleagues, exactly'
,upon the same terms as he and they had,' hithetto
well towards each other upon this Very Catholic
iftiii-stion-11-1-eare hear, bear). _ It was for this that he
tad been arraigned, not .indeed by his Right Honour.
able Friend (Mr. Peel), who had Ludy stated his opi-
nions to him, but in coarser 'terms by another Hon.
Gerft, (Mr. Dawson), who had charged him with forming
a Gniernment.whichtas he had described it, wnschisfly
. - • .--* 'hILS reproaching him for not havir.g advised,

the King to do that which he had in the first place
counselled his Majesty to attempt. foe not pursuing a
course from wbioh, as the facts prcisyro,.,he.had never
deviated. Again, he would only stsmsnon the Hon.
Member's recollection to these facts.,,When on the 12th
April, he went to the chamber of theliihg, intending
to propose a plan of atranginsentifor a Government
composed of all the members of the old Government,
with a divided, or ra hera preponderating anti-Catholic
Cabinet, for such it was, was it his fault (as the insi.
nuatinn conveyed) that he received in the closet of his
Sovereign, the resignatiod of six Protestant Members
of the late Cabinet?—(Loud cries of u Hear"). Not
by concert or pte-arrangettlent, es his Right Hon. FL iend
(Mr. Peel) had declared, and he (Mr. Canning) believed,
but by a coincident movement. This was a tact which
the late Hon. Under Secretary (Mr. Dawson) had
thought proper to sink--(Hear, heal ).—Eilere Mr. Peel
&Ai something in a low tone of voice to Mr. Cunt. g,
which we understood was to explain tl.at five and not
six of the Members of the late Cabinet had resigned in
the manner statedl —Mr.Canning resumed,and thanked
his Right Hon. Friend fur the correction. There were
only five resignations sent into his Majesty at deminse
to which he alluded, for Lnrd Melville's was not ten.

deLed till the following d.y. Still the suppressed fact
was this—that when he was charged with bringing in
an undue p. °portion of Members of the Cebinet favour-
able to the Catholic question, the Honourable Member

had to gotten to state that the Protestant half of tie
Cabinet had voluntarily thought proper to resign—(A
laugh, and cries of Hear I) By this coincident move-
ment be was placed in clone a new situation : within
hours five of the anti-Catholic members of the late
babinet, upon %hose support he had firmly Tattooed,
ad resig ed. Was it after that act of his late colleagues,
that any Hon. Members acquainted, too, with what had
occurred, could fairly imßute to bim a wilful non.
execution'of the orders of his Sovereign ? (Cheers). But
did his conduct end there? It was about the middle
of Thursday, and two hours before the meeting of that
Hoare, when he had given direction for violin the new
writ 'for himself, that he bad received these un-
expected resignations; and in consequence, he re-
paired, to the King with them in his hand, and said,
—" Sire, Isere see what disables me from executing
your Majesty's will. It is 'quite open for you still
to take a new course of policy respecting the formation
or your Government ; nothing has been yet done which
commits your Majesty to any particular line of con-
duct ; but I must fairly crave permission to state to you,
that if I ant to go on in the formation of a new Admi-
nistration, my new writ must be moved for this night,
for I cannot move on through the recess (Ka:ter) with-
out endeavouring to finish the business." I will not pre.
sume to repeat the words which the King was graciously
pleased to address to me on that occasion sidfice it to
say, his Majesty gave me his hand to kiss, and.my writ
• was instantly made out to be used on that eveningio-
i (Cheers). As to the conduct pursued by his Right Hon.
i Friend (Mr. Peel), he had throughout expressed his un-
qualified approbation of its candour and manliness.—
He had deplored his Right Honourable Friend's deci-
sion, as well as that of his other colleagues. Theirs was,
indeed, as unexpected as it was . painful to him.
He knew not in what way he had sinned against them,
So as tti have provoked their late refusal to act with
him. lie was utterly.at. a loss .to know how he had
,excited their angry feelings against him. On every
subject which he could call to mind, whether of foreign
or domestic policy, this one unhappy question excepted
(the Catholic). be had received apparently their most
cordial, support. With . respect to his Right Ht;n.
Friend (Mr. Peel), be could unfeignedly declare that
he did not know a greater calamity, than that the
country should, at this moment, be deprived of his
ser-
vices,not alone in the office, the duties of which he had
discharged with so much ability, and such signal id-
vantages tothepoblic, but in the general Councils- of
the 'Griverrirnene: they would, nevertheless, he hoped,
thotigls'„4eprived at this moment in the administration
of his aid, have the benefit of it, in his. in the ge-
neral share of the legislative business re:the kingdom,
Reit Member of Parliament—(Hear, heir). • He repeat-
ed, thm'either in private or in public; ?it his seat in
the Cabinet, or in his place in that House, he .could not
charge himself with having. offered .a.single individual
of the late Government the smallest inteut.onal offence.
—He was unaware that he had giverrthe least cause
for their estrangement by 'any. act of unkindness or
ill feeling on his part—(Heer, In giving this
explanation, be had, he hoped, carefully abstained
from making any severe or reprehensible observation,
save to place the real facts that had occurred in their
true coder, and how he had been brought into the
situation which he now filled. There were, however,
one or two topics to ohich, with the permission of
the House, he would just allude, as growing out of
his Right Honourable Friend's speech. and arising, as
he believed, from mistake and misconception, rather
than the least desire to misrepresent what he (Mr. Can-
ning) had done. His Right Hon. Friend had said,
6, How should it be possible, when I have been advanced
to tt.e high situation which I now fill, that without any
active promotion on my part, and in the absence of any
direct personal effort of mine, the CatOlic question can
„fail to progress, and acquire a mural approach to its
consummation, even without my incurring any official
responsibility in assisting such a reault." He could not,
beltorgi avowed, deny the general truth of his Right
-Honout able Friend's observation; and in, the admission
of that tits he believed) identical fact, Would be found
the'complete and obvious answer to the. taunts of the
Honourable Baronet opposite, (Sir Thorisae Lethbridge),
AL the support which the present Government were
now receiving from the Gentlemen of the Opposition.
Why had these Gentlemen supported him ? because they saw in
the aspect of the present state of things exactly the same tendency
which his Right Hon. Friend had seen towards the moral advance.
meta of that great question, namely—that without his official inter.
femme, indeed with his perfect inaction' they beheld'a considerable
"prospect of improveman In a question far which they felt a corn-
mottlaterest. so,"it was a good reason why he should have their
support, and equally so for his Right Hon. Friend to oppose him ;
bet It was a little too much for any Hon. Member to say that the
reason was good at one side and bad at the other, while built par-
tici concurred in antidpating the same result—(Hear, bear). If
Ms Right Hon. Friend were justified in reacting, because even
with his 01r. Carmine's) passive existence in office. that question
must thrive,' surely the same justification held for his receiving the
suppoit of other Gentlemen who contemplated, in the success
of inch a question, the tranquility and consolidation of the empire
(Cheers.) His Right Honourable Friend's defence of his
own retreat must therefore be taken as a complete and cooclu-
sive answer to alt these taunts which were levelled at the support
which was held out to him fermi other; quarters at the House.
That support, he felt confident, would be continued to him by
tbroe Geaderuen, as long as they respected and approved the
measures which be should introduce; and in the same relative
feeling, and in we other, be was persuaded he should have to re-
tfelieSor aboanter the support er opposition of his Right Honour-
able•Friend—(Hear.bear.) Was it the Catholic question, then,
which -had Mashed his late colleagues from his stile?
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nth,,,steesj cutely,. as It had done since the year isl 2, 155.1

that his Minty considered the Coronation Oath to stand in the,
way o[ the a gOliadOO: HOW, theo,• could the present Ca-
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and chair)--4 we fact lanai It had been stated—if it were
knoifttibit a diwided,objertinnothe Catholic Question' existed in
the nsintiof thtlainiskpereasiOss the country, as the Archbishop
of Canterbury and the Bi,bop of Lotkion had declared to thesother
Bishops? He therefore would. Contend, that the flight Hon. Gen-
tleman was • bound to give not only an eiplanation of that matter,