The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-02-27 00:00:00

THE ADDRESS,

The Speaker then read his Majesty's speech from the throne
(for' which see Lords' report.)
Lord SA Ntitorg then rose to move the address. The noble lord
said, that if on ordinary occasions he never rose to address the
house without the deepest feeling of his own inadequacy to attain
the object he had in view—namely, to get its attention and to
influence its decision—if on any-common occasion he felt this
impression, how much more deeply did be feel the weight of the
duty he had undertaken (a duty- which almost pressed him to
the ground) when he rose on the present occasion to endeavour
to induce the house to agree to an address in accordance with
the speech this day delivered by his Majesty, and which had
just been read. He felt that the present was no ordinary occa-
sion either as respected the circumstances of the country or of
the house itself, and it was this feeling which induced hint to
ask for more than an usual share of attention whilst he at-
tempted to fulfil the task which he had undertaken. However
painful and onerous that ta,k night be—however filen to and
inconsistent with his previous parliamentary habits—habits
which had never led him to trespass at length upon the atten-
tion of the house, or to take a prominent part in its discussions
—vet when the question was put to him as to whether he would
undertake the task, he did not hesitate one moment as to the
answer. He had felt that it was his duty to show, that having
on all occasions supported the extension of religious liberty in
every shape, and to every class of his fellow subjects, he was vet
not prepared to identify himself with those who were the avowed
and open enemies of the church—he was anxious to show, that
having supported in ail its main stages the reform bill, he,was
not inclined to put•upon that great act the construction which
lately it had been the fashion to force upon it—namely, that it.
was not so much intended to give to public opinion an useful
control over the ministers of the countty as to decide who should
be those ministers. ( Hear, hear.) This doctrine was moat
convenient to certain parties, hut was not convenient to the
public service, and he for one could not join in the construction
put upon the reform act,-to whom this doctrine owed its birth.
(Hear, hear.) In undertaking the duty he was about now to
discharge, he was anxious to support the claim which Ow right
hon. baronet at the head of his Majesty's government had made
upon.his country—namely, that at least it should give hint a fair
trial and an impartial hearing. (Cheers.) He had also felt
that the prerogative or the crown was involved—a prerogative
which► he held to be as essential to the liberties of the people as
it was to the dignity of the crown, and which by the domination
of a faction would be extinguished, if without a cause that fair
trial was not given, and that impartial hearing afforded. (Hear.)
He had never professed, neither had he ever entertained, any
confidence in the Melbourne administration, and he, therefore,
was nut curious to iuquirtZiutu the causes by which that govern-