The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-02-24 00:00:00

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that noble person, from all those who knew him,
sent who knew how to appreciate the exalted qua,
lities of his late illuatrious relative.... Lord Chatham
was a Cabinet blitiisler, Which- was resolvable
into this, that ho was a Privy Counsellor, en.
trusted with a high and reaponsible.place in. hik
Majesty's Councils and Government, ; ill such he
did '1,4 tneao to invade his official prero,gative, or
• question iiis high privileges ; but, if lie. mistook
not, lie was right in sayin4 that after L•ird
Chatham had accepted the coagulant/ of the army
and the conduct of the Expedition; bet from that
dine, became as responsible to his Majesty's Go.
moment and Oh: Cuaotry, as any soldier taken
from the army, and .eletated to that important
trust. [llcar, hear!] Theo, if this vi as, as
he took it to be, utideetiable; he could not sec up-
on what principle that Noble Lord, or any other
person entrusted with such a command, had a
right to cut Out fur himself and his peculiar repro.
sentations, a Royal road to the King's audience,
Hear !] 110 was, no doubt, responsible to The
King ; but that responsibility ought to here been
addressed through the regular and ordinary 'than.
tied. • [Hear!] The Right llenourahle Gentle.
-mail next adverted to the Sign Manual. lie said
that it had been alleged that Lord Chatham, by
virtue of tin', Sign Manual, had been invested with
certain extraordinary privileges; this was a mis.
take : the Sign Manual was made rise of in granting
Conimissimis to Foreign MiOistere; ancl:Governors
of Colonies ; but it was always directed, as in the
case of Lord Chatham, nest those
.occoviiis of their
ewspect.Oe d Mies should bcifor (Ili Majesty
throngh the customary [Alioor 6f one of tits t"rtnet-
palSeeretaries. But it aptioareti that nonarratisehad
been calledlor,-and thattord Chatham without be.
ing asked had volutitarily'given itr one. Another
point for cousidengtion that- which arose out
of this principle:: The King- did nothing without
an Agfristft.' Rut it appeared that the paper
.con.
taining Lord Chatham's narrative, being. in its coi-
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giWal form unofficial; was SUbSegllelltly magle!offi.
ciat,. his Majesty, having required, that it 'Wald
be handed trreriu hil Principalriocretaty,of.Stare.,
—Here' then the douse e might. tot,-who aitrispi
tire King to snake' that paper Offitiiil.
necessarily must have advised it, and the Chief ^kid
of this observati • I, if it had any, . was, Ant the
person who advised the King to make the former
paper official, might also make that other, if there
nal any such other, official. And ',this brought,
him to that other part of the question., that
of the etistenee •of the piper ii. question.—
Ile confdssed that in this vie* he was not at all
influenced as, to the vole lie Should gl6e ; far, as
he had already stitti;4l, he thought that whether the
paper was idexisteoce or .Igot .leaivinunaterk4,to
the question. of the; nectssity the 11.961°. stns
'ialwird uttego 4f cAlrirttlipiri citcu:n.
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Learned t..
,c44l4.canqpie
which were apr
&loaning to
speech, .thera
afford no argum
sitiun he submit
(erect priaci,
laid down, not _ .
but by others, who came to km opposite
sion, from which he could not accept atC,arg.
meat in favour of his motion, although be mice,
be glal of any Gentleman's vote, whatever grousdi
he selected. Now, as to the speech of the EtiOt-
lionourable Gentleman on the floor (Mr. .Can..,
nine), he confessed that he heard it with &light',
not only because it was the first time that he had
ever happened to experience the support of ttfit.
Right Honourable Gentleman, but also becauie •
the speech itself was Marked by all that pc.
cut* character of. reasoning and ability of
statement which belonged to that Right Ho,
oottrable Gentleman. It was, however, five ,
from those sallies of wit and humour which were
wont to excite such pleasure among the Gentlemen
who occupied the Ministerial Benches, But the
Right Honourable Gentleman had no reason to
regret the silence with which his spet ch was heard'.
ile was not so loudly and liberally cheered to-
night ; but sure he was, the. Right lion. Gentleman
had never deliverell a speech which his old ft ienrls
so st rongly, perhaps so severely,felt. With the doc-
trines which the Right nom Gentletrian had laid
down asthe basis of his proposed.yote,hc conylete.
ly cutlets. reed ; and as the .Right Hun. .Gentlemp
would lie soon called tintwto answer:for litetiselcit.
....to to ho wiLlied thatsfor would be 'Ole to,recon.
rile his conduct. to lose ductripes..• There. srtkro
many subtleties sophistniadvanend by Gentle.
men on the otidr side, which le did nut think it
nreessary ta-iimice' as they bad been already. o
ably expty6d and refuted by the Right Honouretve
Gwr-iondon non the lower beech:.(-Mr! *Bathurst),
folly competent Oahe task.
...But
had fallen from the Hon. Officer an the other
s' c (Genes! Loftus),. awn). which he could not
:forbear to remark'... ,Thst .illonourahle Officer,
the professed •advocate, the
„acknowledged friend
4,f Lord chiathaoh, bad stated, that
,the Neale .
Lord's narrative fiat, prevented in p)ntegtocited
of the letter written by !Sir R. Striebitls on tea
r47th of August laSt • What the% LoW4,,liiith-tirt
had so lobe fosteted his auger:44o's° many
months, the spirit. -of , temp veukaii!edi vdtts
mode repeftnra, and suddenly I seat, forth upon
its object. Although the latcr it Richard
Straelttn contained such saternot. as demanded•
; ttithuttg4 it .sonenseilkatql_..,l6oll4"nos
don as would hs'ypiottomptidody-ldiniipa's intent-
tion immediateli,to initeire, Loyd,chatham was M ,
'Ali and Ciotti tribe Minister, ; •bistpt litissuisetthje
it eath)'and kik it warm uhtil.6irliterl.llltrachan
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Kt•Genticni49. whit..ape, .e.,1eit;•0,1%1 :"? :s . ' 1
kere, .:unfeigued .reveot for: that ~ • : •-•
he. woeld'paps him orirvery:l* 1i1ty.... ;••••6, • ,--.!'
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tvie generis,/4ut .those.sui, gesterifv : , ~..e ! :;..:, •
pplicatkie to his niotione. liek.frorni a • •,..,......-%,.. -:-.
the end of the Learned Gentlemen ; ' "::..:. ..i.
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lament. either foc or against thtproi)e.. ' . '..e•fr, •-•
mittcd) width rested upent *kite slif.:: • :..:..,
inks. Theretweret indoid, grpneqe. ' • ...:•,,,,7
et only by the I:earned Gentlemen, ,-•-• • ',. . .