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voice*. But what wouldhave been the advantage of a
broad AdMiniaration, in which there would be no
concetrion, and itt which no two individuals would
agree ? The Right Hon. Gentleman then vindicated
the changes which had been made in Adminiflratinn.
It w--uld be abfurd in him to argue that Lord Mel-
ville was a better leaman than Lori St. Vincent I
but there was nothing ridiculous in his aliening that
be would prove a better Lord of the Admiralty.—
The Noble Lord who was at the head of the Foreign
I Department had not been degraded, as was contend.
- ed, by being removed to the Home Department.—
Such an infinuation, had it not come from a quarter
which he could not fufisea of fitch an intention, he
fhottld fuppoft was only meant to produce variance
between thole who had always aced together with
cordiality.
Mr. FOXtook a general view of every thing which
bad been advanced in the courfe of the debate by the
chief fupplorters of the Bill. From the latenefs of the
boor at which he role, and the great range of contii.
tutional arguments which be•advanced agaitill the
-Bill, as well as the variety of other political obferva-
dons which he thought it neceltary to anfwer, it is
inspoffible fur us to give any thing but a mere im-
pede& outline of tome parts of his fpeech. He ob-
fereed the readinefs which had been difplayed by the
new Minifter to throw down the gauntlet and enter
the lifts of political contention. It was far from
being his intention to contend for prowets with that
Right Hon. Gentleman: but this he felt himfelf
bound to fay, in anfwer to Come infinuations that had
been thrown out, and in juftice to himfelf, in juftice
to the Hon. Friends on the bench below him, ( Marrs.
Grenville, Windham, &c.) and in juftice to what he
believed to be the univerfal prevailing opinion anions
all thinking men throughout the country, that if
ever there was a time at which'more than another it
vas required that the patlions of all men Omuta be
Rifled, not irritated, that their minds and tempers
Mould be reconciled, not thwarted and provoked;
and, in Wort, that the Government of the country
&add confia of a Raid, ftrong, and highly retped-
edfet amen, it was the relent moment. The right
of his Majeßy to chute his own Minillers, no per-
fin, he believed, entertained the lean doubt of; but
it was a maxim equally recognifed in the conflitutional
pradice of the country, that, whenever the Houk of
Commons found that a Minitler was either weak and
inefficient, or that he was corrupt andproffigate, they
had an undoubted right to exprefs their ditapproba.
lion of his condo& and that if his Majelly did not
think pollee immediately In difplace hits, yet that he
hould take the hint himklf, and give in his religna-
tion. The Right Hon. Gentleman bad acknowledg-
ed that more than in words—be had acknowledged it
in action. Now be sank obferve, that notwithßanding
the extraordinary totems of the Right Hon. Gentle- j
man oppoble him (Mr Pitt), it mull ba confeffed,
• that the country has at pretent an inefficient Admi-
lsiftration. To every accusation that was brought
forward againll the prelent Adminiaration, the Right
Iftmentrable Gentleman teemed only to enterer by a-
inference to himfelf: he-teemed to be as much de-
lighted with the vanity of his return into office as be
was at his &ft entry in his youthful days, and Paid
with peculiar complacency to a Gentleman on the
bench below him, " Yuu mud confider, Sir, that this
fa not the Cause as the late Adminiaration." He
even repeated the (entente alma in' the fame breath,
with only a different modification of the terms of the
. phrafe. He bad afterwards rene,:ed the fubjed of
the change of Admiroiaration, and was very kvere
upon tome of the Honourable and Right Honoura-
ble Gentlemen who fit upon this fide of the Houfe
for their not haviagconceded to his propofali, and
by that means coming into power directly, as the
offer was made to them. Their refufal on that twee
of attachment to a political principle which was ge-
*trolly admitted to be founded in inflict, was highly
honourable to their charafters as pol:tical men ; no-
thing could poffibly be more to. Some of tie Gen.
Omen on the other fide, however, were glad to
find that they had two firings to their bow, and as
(nem as they found that one was cracked. they home-
aliately faced upon the other. But then tie Cave
etfons of different dekriptions on the bench op.
pane to him at prsfent t one officer immediately
under the ?distiller loimfelf had been changed, be-
Faure be was a bad one; the head of the Admi-
ralty (in old relevance:l Admiral) was changed,
becaufe be was a bad one, and nnt fo capable of coon-
'fading maritime affairs as my Lord Melville ; but
then there was noodle: officer, for whole removal be
could not fo well account t he
.was in one office, which
no doubt required ability in the pert on who was to
perform the duties of the fituation ; he was removed
from that he could not fill, becaufe he was not fit
for it, and he was immediately put into another that
was equally ordinate- Yet all thefe difficulties were
e*tsly to be fitratoonted, and the Gentlemen on this
fide were to Witold of there being fuch a variety in the
cotapnfition of their body. For his part, he was fur.
piked to find that any let of Gentlemen could pollibly
a& fo pettedly in unifon without any fy :tem of co-
operation either expreffed or underarm.' having ever
been laid down or agreed upon between them. The
notionrable Member then took a Feneral view of lie
different provilions of the Bill, taste I V Illg particularly
the new cl4ufe with which thc framer of ir had ch...t)tbt
fit torrindift his meafore at that advanced pc. i•td. The
confutittnthat it would create in the country to have a
Fort of Nl•litia, as :t was called, as time of peace re.
turning t 'their h ~,,, esfor the illOtt part G. W.. 17. he
ridiculed in the ft trerefl manner. The n 1 I Nii:i,l4-
Men Could he found, the Yorkthire in York. the Mo.!
clinks in Mi.'dletex. ront trooni do: .-
of many of there bein;; rat d by 1,N„,11 b. tunas,
and by the tecro4ing fur; mit, it .1.111•1 /`C almntt
I,2ipOifi ble to rolled them togc;her.
no hem pwat in the Bin !PIA could
man into a Corinth and ) t ,t v..,. I .4: Ili it
the Execntive Clovernme• r w.. 111.! .te p tit
of the BM which fa' .1, t !hail
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