Star.
London, England, 1828-02-19 00:00:00

' .ious occasion?. He thought it quite impossible;iedieill
' that those Gentlemen who with such el•ti-ictrdinatt
talent. and its 'fat as he had bleu able to observe,- with
the 'most inlet /egad to their dbties, repotted pubrC
proceeliegs, *should conspire to tix an en:ire polittcAt
creed upon the Right Hon. Gentleman. He should
not here allude to the circumstance were it twit that a

report of the Right Hon..Gentheman's speech, frotri the
Liverpool .Courier, had be, n put intp. his hands last
nigt:,, and he believed there was now a person in town
who stwed that the Right Hon. Gentleman himself
corrected the teport in tt.at paper.— (Mr. At/21(mo';
expressed dissent across the t.ble).—Whethsr such was
the case or not, he should not undertake to say;' but
certain he was, that the Liverpool Courier was ;wit ent,-
rect. It seemed more like a garbled tx'ract than a
correct report. Thete were some omissions which ap-
-I:eared rather extraottlinary. The fitlit omission was of
the following passage, which appeared' is the London
papers. The passageitnlnclistelr. that part
'n which allu%ion illiaPmede us the reftml Of' Lord
Narrowly:•
•
" Notwithwandiag, bolrevel, these nnf:Voirahle cositingeniiiss
which were observable in the beginning of December, it was soy
anxious wish to see the AdMinistration continued by the lame Mtn
anti on the same principles. I whited to have upheld the Govern-
ment in its then state ; and so dear were the principles It espoOsed
to my own feelings, that I should rather have fallen ill the attempt
to re-construct its organization than have withheld my poor set-
vices, or have kept back on'such an occasion."
1111 next omission was of the following passage:
" I steak to facts within my own certain knowledge, when I de-
clare that his Majesty felt the greatest relottatice in.changiug the
hlembers of his Government.

t, It so happened that the Duke of Wellington, after eonstilting
only with one other individual, Dlr. Peel, who pbowssed talents
and integrity for the public tierviee—(Hear, hear)---I believe,eame
next to myself, I will not ths-ui-e from my Cobstituents that when
this communication was made to me, it was in most general terns.
_ _ _

k was, in fact, merely asked if I felt any individual objection, or
laboured under any particular motive or influence, to preclude me
from taking any part in the Ministry wlich the Dube of Wellington
was commissioned to form. To an application so geperal, I could
only give a general reply. .1" could only strte, that I Was not pre-
cludes! by party, or party connexions, to forego any attention to
what I believed in my own mind and judgment to be due to the
interests of my country ; and that, provided the new Administration
wire formed upon the principles which I bad espcu'ed, and which
I thought indispensable to the welfare of the community, and pro.
vided also I could see a pledge for the guarantee of the due operation
of my principles, I was nut deprived by any pledge of party or en-
gagement with others from participating in their promotion."
The latter part was nearly the same in the Liver pool
Courger. There was another on,ilsion of the follow ng
passage, towards the end—.
s. I did pot look to the right or the left, I prepared for the best
I could accomplish, and think I acted judiciously. Let tuft the
puNiii,be misled by the slander of individuals who talk of conspi-
racy. Whatever they may think of me, I thall only ask of them
to look to the conduct of others who acted with me in Mr. Catannes
Government."

He regretted to say, that ore part Which he read
with peculiar pleasure, had been contradicted. by a
Noble Duke (Wellington) in another place.. He should
not enter into that part of the Noble Duke's speech, in
which he stated there was no necessity for guarantris
among public men, who wee aware upon what. prin-
ciples they came together. Towards the close tuff it the
followieg passage occurred--
" He (the Duke of Wellington) had given his assent to &eery One
of those measures as well as the night Hon. Gentleman and his
Noble Friend;' and was it to be believed that, although Winle nix
occupying a prominent station in his 31ijegry's criveroniint, he
had supported such measures with cordiality and &fitness, he should
not support them with more cordiality and .geta:er firmness:, now
that he Was placed at the head of that Govt.' nment ?' The flight
Hon. Gentleman has been made to say that ::e rt edited guarantees
that certain measures shall he carried on and promoted as lir as
possible, in the same manner as in the last Session of Parliament.
If he (the Duke of Wellington) had supported these, measures.
what reason was there to suppose that he would noW depart front
his principles, and what necessity, therefore, did there exist feri any
such guarantee? He was certain that his Right Hon. Friend
never said that be had received any guarantee other than that lie
should possess the most perfect freedom to state and to maintain his
principles."
Tire only inference be (Lord N.) could draw. from all
this was, that the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Hos-
kisson) placed his reliance on three or lour Members of
the Cabinet whom he looked upon AS friesidly to his
own view of things, and disposed to support the same
principles. It was on this, perhaps, lie founded his
assertion of guarantees; but then it must he tecoliected
that the Noble Duke had seven or eight counter-gua-
rantees. The Noble Duke, as appeared from tl e fort-
going extract. having denied that any guarantees were
given, and being himselt convincennat he could have
said nothing of the kind, it being notorous that srme
Members of the Cabinet were opposed to him on two
most important creations, he was most anxious to know
what the R:ght Honourable Geut!eman really Slid say.
He trusted he should be allo,sed to sta'e the reasons
why he wished for an explanation on three subljects of
the deepest interest—naively, the Catholic .Q.ie.ttior,
the Commerii.l Po:icy of the Country, and, thirdly,
the Foreign Policy. It. did appear .to him that the cot •
mimics,' of the present Government was mire unfavour-
able to the Citholic Claims than that of the last. Hold-
ing di:: opinion% which the Right flintourable ii=grte-
mar, opposite (Mr. Secretary Peel) did, upon that
question, and being convinced that the situating of M:.
Canning, as head of the Government, did give that
(;4verninent a preponderance favourable to the eatl-A-
lies, he thought the lUght 11,norirable Gentlersiativer y
naturally refused to jean it. The preponderance was
now in the opposite direction. They were bad that the
Cabinet was to remain neutral. He did n,:t Mean, to
deny that a piinciple of neutrality would be supported
as far as that was possible; but influence na- to).
lowed patronage, and it was equally na ural that pa.
tronage should flow in the same direction as principle.
He had heard it stated that an Anti-Catholic Cabinet
wits the mast likely to forward the real interests of the
Catholic Body. He could not . see how 'that could
rhappen ; but if there was avy truth in
.the, observa-
tion, they should charge sides, and give the ben eft
of their opposition to th.ise whom they wished:swell to,
He was willing to.. allow that their Colonial interests
were likely to derive advantage from the Right lion.
Gentlealair being placed in his'present situation. ‘V.th
_respect, however, to, their trading and commercial
interest, he could not petceive how they were
likely to be benefited by the late changes. The Right
Hon..Gentlenian deknowledged last year that. he de-
rived great at:ippon from that side-of the (louse on which
he (Lord $4, 4t, Ins carrying intoßfiect hiacutThsperciat
.policy generally, but pattienligly with 4e:0aq...t0 the
111,1).. As.q.A mend nrimii ist hich.the..Bill had been
defeated wAscitiser import**, or it. was not.. It.unin -
poitant, he could not see how the Noble Duke (af Wel-
lington), by..wborct it had been. introduced, could well
avoid the imputation of an oppositiOn which some had
helical factious:. 'lf jrnportant, the Noble Dare must
stilt adhere 'to it ; and. how • w.fs'.it to besexpected that