The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-02-19 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1820.

" The Cause fur which HAMPDEN fell it the Field, and SYDNEY died on the Seofold !"

THE OBSERVER NEWSPAPER.
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place upon the 'element of his late Majesty will be
Riven to detail in the ()maven of Seaday, the Mb of
February•.
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able, es the two Papers will oontain all the official Amos
and documents necessary for preervation and Muse ►e-
fereme upon this much lamented occasion.

This, therefore, rendered the present case different from
those that had preceded it, and left it to the operation
'ef those eirciimsteoces which specially attached to it.
With regard to the question of dissolving the Perlis-
, nient, it should be recollected, that according to the
common law of the land, the Parliament ceased its
I functions on the demise of the Crown, and the Act whit*
passed for enabling the Parliament to sit for six months
afterwards, might be called an exception to that law.—
' With regard to the motive for passing that Art, as far
as he had been able to ascertain, it appeared to have
been intended to provide against a disputed succession.
lint undoubtedly the Art did not fetter the Monarch, in
the exercise of Is prerogative, who might, at once, if
he pleased, exercise that prerogative by dissolving the
Parliament; it was merely a question as to the public
taints* or convenience. It was true, that with regard
Wilke Uvil List, it had been usual in the Parliament sit-
. on the demise oldie Crown, to pass a measure for
Uvil
tog the ist; but this, which was &proper
Wimp issat to the Crown, there was so necessity to
bring forward, when the Crown itself, as in the present
instance, waived the immediate consider 'ion of it.—
This, therefore, being put aside for the present, at the
instance of the Crown itself, it must be obvious to evecy
one, that there were circumstances connected with the
knowledge that a new Parliament must be called within
a certain period, that rendered it inconvenient to pro-
ceed to any public business that was not absolutris ne-
cessary. 'these circumstances were matter of notoriety
and it was evident that it would he much more fin the
public interest and convenience that the measures neves-
eery to be brought forward, should be presented to a
Parliament uninfluenced by such circumstances, and
with their attention not distracted by considerations
arising out of the contemplation of the near approach
of the summoning a new Parliament, and the prepara-
tions and arrangements necessarily consequent upon it.
His Lordship concluded, by moving an Address to his
?Ilajesty, stating the disposition of the House to concur
in disposing of the business that might he necessary for
the pelilic service in the interval between the dissolu-
tion of the present Parliament and the meeting of a new
ne.

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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

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The House met a little before five o'clock.
The Marquis of CHOLMONDELEY reported the
.Inswer of the King to the Address of the Rouse voted
yesterday, and which was afterwards read by the Lord
Chancellor, stating his Majesty's thanks fur the condo-
lence of the Douse, and declaring his own wish and de-
sire to imitate the Anise& of the late King, his Wiser.
as tit* mine, west condurive to the dignity of the
Throne, and the welfare of the people.
On the motion of the Earl of LIVERPOOL, his Ma-
jesty's most gracious Ansoer was ordered to be printed
and published.
Mr. itighain presented the Annual Report of the Com-
missioners for the reduction of the National Debt.—Or-
dered to lie upon the table.
On the motion of the Earl of LAUDERDALE. several
accounts were ordered respecting Bank of England notes
in circulation, silrer coins issued from the Mint, the pro-
deco of the l'onsolidated Fund, Ste.

THE LATE DIME or KENT.

THE DUCHEU or KENT.

On the motion of the Earl of LIVERPOOL. an Ad-
dress was ordered to be presented to the King, condoling
with his Majesty on the melancholy and untimely death
of his late Royal brother, the Duke of Kent.
His Lordship then moved a Message of Condolence to
her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, on the same
melancholy event, observing, that as her Royal High-
ness, from not having been long in this country, was
but little known to the people, he thought it nght to
state, which he did from the infonuation of those who
personally knew the facts, that time conduct of her Royal
Highness had been in every respect most exemplary,
sod more particularly in that trying and melancholy
situation in which her attentions were called to the late
Duke, and in which she bad manifested a tenderness
and affection that could net fail to raise her high in the
estimation of all those who had witnessed or became ac-
quainted with it.
Lord ROLLH rose to confirm, from his own personal
knowledge, vhat hail been stated by the Noble Earl. the
late Duke of Kent and the Duchess being, when tls• • re-
sided at Sitintouth• (where they endeared themselves to
all ranks and descriptions of people), but a abort dis-
tance from his (Lord Rolle's) house. The conduct of
the Dnchess had indeed been most exemplary. Nothing
could exceed her attention to her illustrious consort in
his illness; for five nights she had not undressed. That
attention was acknowledged by the Duke, in a look
which spoke more than could possibly have been ex-
pressed. The tenderness and affection manifested by
the Duchess upon this melancholy occasion, was, indeed,
most honourable to her feelings, and he felt it his ditty
to make this statement in justice to her Royal Highness.
The Message of Condolence was agreed to new. die.,
and ordered to be presented to her Itoval Highness by
the Marquis Cornwallis and Lord Walsinglians.

The Slaequis of LANSDOWN expressed his surprise
at the general way in which the subject had been treated
by the Noble Emil, who had not afforded any replana-
tion as to the reasons or the motives fur the sudden dis-
*Motion of the Parliament, which the Noble Earl him-
self admitted to be unpreredessted. He (the Marquis of
own) would be as little disposed as any one In
de by were forms, hut in this case it was sodoubtedly
not a were question of form. but one involving the en-
retie' practice of the Constitution. He believed it In
le conirery to all precedent for the Crown to put to the
oopaideration of Parliament the question as to its OW.
dissolution; such had been ever held to be a mast kw
=ivory', Parliament bring considered the MSS.
to judge of the propriety of its own dissolutima.
It wp undoubtedly true that the King, in the exercise'
elfin prerogative, might dissolve the Parliament at the
of its meeting on his accession; but when the
n of a dissolution was put to Parliauseat itself,
with perfect propriety, consider what had
e practice upon former similar occasions ; and
whew it was urged as a reason for now dis-oleing the
Parliament, that it would be for the public interest and
convenience, it might be fairly answered. and this too
on the authority of the Noble Earl himself, that the pre-
sent was the most convenient period for enit.ing upon
the consideration of public business. For this was the
period to which the Noble Earl himself bad moved to
adjourn the House, as that which was the most COIVI.
mem for entering upon that consideration. When, how-
ever, this plea of conveuience was urged, it would be
found, upon looking hack to the periods of the accession
of our Sovereigns, since the reign of William 111., When
the Act was passed, authorising the Parliament to cot -
tinue sitting six months after the demise of the Crown,
that at periods much more inconvenient than the pre.
sent, Parliament had continued sitting, anti had, before
their separation, •formly passed the Civil List Bill.
Thus, on the accession of Queen Anne, in March, on
that of George i. in August, of George 11. in June, and
the late King in October, the Parliameat in each
case continued sitting, and passed the Civil List Bill
within a short period of their meeting. Why these
precedruta were in this instance to he departed from,
and the Civil List Bill to be postponed to a new
Parliament, the Noble Earl had not explained.—
Neither had he explained, and which was certainly most
insamstial, how the public service was to be provided for
high. interval, or bow the dignity of the Frown was to
be provided for, the Civil List Bill having now expired.
There was another consideration also of great import-
ance; he alluded to the increase of the military force of
the country, to the amount of 111,11011 men, to which he
was certainly friendly, considering, as lie did, that there
was a spirit of disaffection in certain districts, operating
upon the distress of a numerous class of the community,
,which required an addition to be 'Mattel° the military
fora of the country. But agreeing, as he did, in the
necessity for this addition to our military force.' hr con-
;siderite' it of the greatest importance, in a constitutional
point of view, that the Parliament should have an oppor-
lenity of taking into consideration such increase. Was
it intended by the Noble Earl that no opportunity should
be given to Site present Parliament to express an opinion
upon so important a measure? Was it intended that
mile a short Mutiny Bill should be hronght in, which
would not afford any opportunity of considering the
Amount of the force? There were other considerations
whirls called for attention when !Oohing' to this subject,
and he could not but observe, that the tutor in which tike
Noble Earl spoke of measures intended to he proposed
to a new Parliament, which it was not thought expedient
to introduce into a Parliament so near its dissolution,
was calculated to excite an anxiety, if not a suspicion,
on the part of the public, as to the character of the Inca-
eures so to be proposed. As he had been linable to discover
any reason why the precedent in former cases Aosta hr
is this instance departed from, and as he could not unc-
tion an opinion that there were any circumstances exist-
ing that rendered the present Parliament, in comparison
with a new one, incompetent to enter npon the consi-
deration of the requisite measures, he could not give his
vote for the Address now proposed.
The Earl of HARROWBY observed, that the arp .
anent of his Noble Friend who had just Int down, as to,
the present measure being unprecedenteff had been coven
pletely answered by anticipation by his Noble Friend eili
the head of his Majesty's Councils. It mask be, •in 14
spinion, obvious, that with all the preparatidas-AS alr-
ilsogentesta that were making, as apreared is all the
with a view to a dissolution of the present
which it was known must take place. within
awl that by no means a distant one, it.
the Members of the other House to
1416411111.1 the which was requisite to the measures
otior
be prepeesi to them. This consideration applied

INTIINDED DIS•OLUTION OF PARLIAIIINT.
The Earl of LIVERPOOL mend the Order of the
Day, for taking into consideration his ,Majesty's most
gracious M
The Kings having hoes read by the Reading
Clerk at the table,
The Earl of LIVERPOOL said, if he had had any
doubt on the preceding day as to the propriety of sepo.
rating the question as to the railing a new Parliament
without delay, from the subject of addressing the King
in condolence on the death of the late Sovereigu, that
doubt would have been entirely removed by the remark
made by the Noble Marquis (Lansdown), that such an
intimation was entirely unprecedented. It was undoubt-
edly true that It was unprecedented, but it should, at
the same time be recollected, that the circuanstaaces of
the nitration in which they were placed, were also in a
great degree unprecedented. It was not the case of the
transfer of the Crown and all the AdministrAtion of the
Government at once to a successor, but here the me,.
trims individual now on the Throne had adnsinistered
the Government for a considerable time, and sow, by
the death of his Sovereign, he .was ealtedzeo to do.
it
that in his own name and behalf, which be hitherto
done in the same and on the behalf of the late King.—'

PRICE 7D•

egiatly te measures like the Civil List, which perished of
tfiestieetree, and. to measures which formed part of a
aeries, with a view to improvement in our system of laws.
With regird to the Civil List, the Crown having waived
its immediate consideration, there was, of coarse, en end
of all impropriety in postponing it. With respect to
other measures, forming part of a series of improvements
in our lams, it mast he evident that they could be much
better carried into effect by those who had * chance of
remaining to overlook their operation, and maintain the
System which it was proposed to carry into operation,
than by those who at all events could remain bat a short
tltue, and whose attention in the interval must be dis-
tracted Ile the arrangements rendered necessary to them
by the e4eetation of a speedy dissolution of Parliament.
As to any dithculty in providing for the public service is
the interim. the course to be pursued was intended to be
the same as in Iso7 and la 17'64, when &dissolution took
place about the sune period ; and with regard to pro-
riditig fur the dignity of the Crowi., though there might
perheps he some slight disculty, yet it might readily be
Hone by a vote of credit oat of the remaining hereditary
revenues of the Crown. As to the measures to be pro-
posed when the new Parliament met, their Lordships
would, *hen that period arrived, be enabled so judge of
them. He(Lord Harrowbv) was confident he might an-
swer for his colleagues, that nothing was inteodeJ to he
proposed which was inconsistent with the utmost fair-
ness and propriety.

E'

Earl IiktiSVENOR contended, that there was time
eraough.to complete any 'measures that might he neces-
sary, witholo dissolving the Parliament, and objected
strongly to the continuance of so large a standing army
iu time of peace. Why, be would ask, was such an
army to be kept up i Was it to support the arbitrary
liovernatent of Spain—was it to support any of the.des
potic Powers or the Continent, who, having promised
free Censtitutioas to their subjects while in adversity.
riolated those promises under circumstances more fa-
reurable-,or was it to keep down the disaffected in our
own country? They had heard it repeated, even to
nausea, that the disaffection was put down long ago,
by the wise and vigorous measures for which the Mini,
tens took credit to themselves; it therefore could not br
for that purpose. Was it then for a purpose which they
could not avow—was it to support themselves in achn.-
nistration, that ibis extraordinary burthen should be
continued in the present distressed condition of the
country ? He, for one, could never give his vote for suc;i
measures.
The Earl of LAUDERDALE thought that great in•
convenience would be found to attend the immediate dis-
solution of Parliament. The Noble Earl (Herron bv)
had observed, that if Parliament was not dissolved fur
six moods% the Members would have so tench of theim
own business is attend to, that the business of the public
would be neglected. But, if there was any thing in
that argument, be would ask, did it not apply equally
to all the other cases? Yet this was the very twat case
in which the argument was urged. The public busi-
ness would be as well attended to in the present in-
stance, as it was in other instances when the anew op-
psehreston might. with at mach propriety, haveheen
wepesemni— what -aheiwbeennse et diV.NoberlArd% se*
orpiment ?—With reilpeet its the coesideration of the
Civil List, he thought it would lave been better that it
should be arranged by Parliament, instead of being sub-
mitted to the Public—as it was, in effect, by being
pocked until the Keglersl election bad taken place. The
House would recollect. that there was such things as
instructions from coostituents to their represeutatiies.
and that he thought should have suggested itself to the
Noble Lords as see of the incoevenienees attendant
upon the course which they recommended. It had been
said, that the Civil List was to be provided For out ut
the hereditary 'see. But they should consider how
the hereditary revenues were applied already, and they
would find, by the 48th, and some succeeding classes of
the Consolidated Fund Act, that the hereditary menses
were appropriated to make up the deficiencies of the
Consolidated Fund, in the event of the King's demise.
If these deficiencies could be made up in the mean,
time, he should have no objection to the plan, but until
he was assured of that he could not say that he was Sa•
tistied.

The Earl of CARNARI'ON said, he bad waited with
great anxiety, itsthe expectation that omething inure
would he offered •jii favour of the course adopted by
Ministers, than the meagre information already hefere
the House. The Noble Earl who spoke first, had alluded
to some things that were notorious, and others that
were less so, but he had not made out one stronkground
of justification. The Noble Earl, who followed him, had
admitted that that was the first instance In which the
propriety of dissolving Parliament was submitted to the
eonsiderstitNn of Parliament itself; be bad followed sip
the expression, however (as if conscious of some incon-
sistency), hr stating that Parliament was not called upon
to advise his Majesty to dissolve it, but to consider whe-
ther it would adopt those measures, which were to carry
the dissolution into effect. How then bad they got rid
of his Noble Friend's constitutional objection :. His
Noble ?Fiend had shown, that if it was convenient at
any time to continue the sitting of Parliament, it was
convenient noir. Hut then it was objected, that Mem-
bers of Parliatailit would have so much of their own bu-
siness to attend to, they would neglect the business of
theipconstitifents. For his own part, he should have
drawn the viry contrary conclusion. If there was any
period when Members of Parliament attended more ar-
ticularlv to the loisi nese of their constituents than another,
iit,oss;;;ss
13th:en:I:ma: re
edaboi
no t
assigni he
ng even a plausible
reason fur their dep urture from precedent, and resort to
temporary exponents. It rested with them to !thew.
that these setairsolvie difference in the circumstances of
the present day, a, compared with the circumstances of
former days, that rendered a different mode of proceeding
necessary.; and if they neglected to do so, the inference
was that they Lad some reason or other, which they
were unwilling to stale. In the present condition of tlie
country, a strong gronnd should be made out to justify
an immediate dissolution ; and he had no hesitation in
saying, that thine who could give sack advice witt t
such a grisuod,:lipd not doge their duty either to the
Kipper tro*einttntry. liqUiries bad taken place in
*se
the other .lion • respecting the condom% of certain
Boonigharao which gore held to be unfit to ever.
the eldbisv . bind, 'Sant an arranger's's' amid
be made. .gaMtrigsfe of one Borough, le Ivo was given
bring in a:fililli trassfiti. the right of Aeolian to
e other pas, by vgspolving Parliament before
thole measure, play,
beetight •to a !omission, the
Boroughs es osistrifird of *wag the right, would he
sent again to exercise it contrary to the intention of at
Last one branch et Ike Legislature. It was J
that Ministeratlielleaslves admitted the stieseeltr of a
change In one of the Boroughs,
~yet they nap cams for-
ward to reconsuiend a course, which mast defeat their
own admission. The consequence of a dissolutios mow

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1# WSW l VIPIAIIISVIAS gra- MIA ••• •••- '
at nothing was intend e 2 to be
isistent with the utmost fair- I
stended, that there was time I
measures that might he seers-
t
he Parliament, and objected i ..1.
:e of so large a standing army 4
be would ask, was such an
I it to support the arbitrary
1 'O.
is it to support any of the.des- •
moat, who, having promised 1
r subjects while in adversity.
ender circumstances more L.-
is down the disaffected In our
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el heard it repeated, even to
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ion was pot down long ago, 1 L.
measures for which the Mina, 401.
Ives; it therefore could not br ,
then for a purpose which they
o support themselves in achy.-
.aordinary burthen should ho ..
t distressed condition of the .{ .
lid never give his vote for sue.' i 1
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DALE thought that great in. . .
sd to attend the Immediate die- . i
The Noble Earl (Herron lei.) • •
rliament was not dissolved fur i
i would have so tench of t/irit i 4 •
that the business of the public I re
It, if there was any thing in
ask, dill It not apply equally ,-
it this was the very fwst rase
was urged. The public torsi- •
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ttended to in the present in-
T instances when the same at ..
at mach propriety, have-been I
mum of dierWobliMboed's adel .
K es Wes consideration of the ,
would lam been better that it
srllament,inateod of being sub- •
it was, in effect, by being poN:- .
election bad taken place. ller • 4
drat there was such things as 1
T
tuents to their represeutatiirs,
aid have suggested itself to the 1 .
the incoaveniences attendant / ti
ey recommended. It had been
was to be provided for out of
Rut they should consider how
were applied already, and they
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and some succeeding clauses of
et, that the hereditary revenues
ake up the defieienele• of the
he event of the King's deader. I' .
ild be made up in the mean,
objection to the plan, but until
le could not say that he was %a. ;
I. 1
.I'ON said, he bad waited with I
peetation that something enure ' ..,
our of the course adopted by
gre information already before ( !
ad who spoke first, had alluded
,e notorious, and others that 11* i
not made out one strongground
ble Earl, who followed him, had .
hr first instance In which the -
'ornament was submitted to the 1 4 ,
ent itself; be bad followed up e
(as if conscious of some incon. . ...
Parliament was not called upon
dissolve it, but to consider why- •
! measures, which were to carry
ct. How then had they got rid
constitutional objection :. His .
n, that if it was convenient at
sitting of Parliament, it was
ten it was objected, that Mein-
! have so much of their own bit.
would neglect the business of 4, 4
•
his own part, he should have
conclusion. If there was any
r Parliament attended more par- ' 1
(their constituents than another,
oat to he dissolved. The Noble
in assigning even a plausible
e fnsus precedent, and revert to
It rested with them to "hew.
Team in the circumstances of
ared with the circumstances of
d a different mode of proceeding
e•glected to do so, the iaference
reason or other, which diet-
In the present condition; of tlie
d sinstad be made out to justify
1; and he had no hesitation in
:oold give each advice will t
doge their duty either to the
liqniries bad taken place in 1
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'f.
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cling the conduct. of certain
is seee_lseanli
ato be unfit to is,elkir-
ek twit
one liorourit, lel!, was given
usfiti.the right of Amnion to
r gariving Parliament before
hemight•to a cateission, the
of aimmusts the right, would lee
contrary to the intention of at
Lesisiature. It was J
,urcilouseqeseeig,lllll::w!htoftthhne:ndSsi."l::sirleufFiJhrer:jer •
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