The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-06-18 00:00:00

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even by me on Monday last, availing myself of the t 17771 at 4or Like could not accept thei"itipuar‘it:::
patent for life
►•tndelgenee which the Chancellor of the Exchmpfer when he was absent from this co
line mow afforded me,'though lam well aware how then proposed that I shoruel:lurtialk:eanitiirdty.::cnodrdiit:
eor ,n that,
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agreed
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the
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gporatitirin
gn i ( .dcliebjtn to the House, about the Prince
.g was pleased to give a
ut?ok it, I should immediately
clocanfroonhatrat,toin ccoomniminu
ssttsteenttliitelsede
tnan
thel '-'".vi
an Inut-egb, I rather felt something like an In., to. me, tit the same manner as it had been g' , 1
ita r
.sntatement of my
auspicious omen at my entrance. How it came to to Lordlalkieig.hnesl
ttidwithigicthhiist
fair
in
he reported,. that I ,was. taken :desperately Ws I his Royal
tt awciht Z.; an
cannot in any way conjecturer but I certainly and illtheNtot things, to !ACM eta,
tiled feel' net a little sitrpriled when my Honour- display.
able Friends began to condole with my situation own independent principle% wer to
in a most alarming tone, andlitillifiniil lengthened ,clntinued tilt be .tald , .1 , s
that I have joined • • i • perhaps,
; e
countenances. I Was lately, and I am yet far .613'44,10i dire purpose in in.rigiitis
of po•
front being remarkably Well; but I must have been. 'Waifs ear.", Non I have to" isoning his Royal High.
state that I have spoken lai:oaring under 'a most severe indisposition, indeed/ Jae his Royal Highness only
if I had 'allisiveti myself to neglect the vindication •nienths,'whicts I did ll' .n 1 y once Within the last No
his own permission. 1 had
of my, own character, and •to be guilty of 'sueli a ,only one aodienne.i'
nu I m came back from Stafford,
disrespect to the House, as not to redeem the pledge'. which I wished for'th
e purpose of explaining my mo
which I had so solemnly given—Peer, hear . l]— , tires for.golag to Otranto', d. I then gave hem ••
In rising on the present occasion, the house may be ; nion ; mud I most devoutly wish
that that • •
assured that I shall be as brief as possible in what I !could be published to the world that opium
might sei re
have to say, and that I shall consume but a small Ito shame those whnnow belle '
it
me. M 'tit respect to
portion of their time. I hereto confess that I shall i the cabal which has been stated to exist, I wish to
solicit the attention of the House very much, to the i say a few words. I have little or no acquanitaocu
consideration of circumstances connected with my I. with the Marquis of Hertf
ord ; and I have beei ..y
own political life. This is a course which I entreat ' twice in his house in the whole course of ~
"'"
my life.—
the Hone to believe I most unwillingly pursue. So ! One of the times the
was period of Mr. Fox's tle:,,li •
long as I have had the honour to have a seat in this : and the other time was on the occasi•
on rf the Mar:
House, I think I may safely say this much of my. rcitioiresileliasfY: Had I been intimate' at N•canch .s
self, that I have always had good -Sense enough not I ter-square, I should not have been • ' - shy of at once
to be an egotist within these walls.—Wear, hear, ; openty avowing it. But with
respect to die Vice.
hear !]—And lam therefore the more induced to en- : Chamberlain, I have b •
bean is the continual habit of
tertain a hope that the House will bear with me ou . meeting with him ; but I believe no two men el
the present oecasion.—[Loud cheering.]—ln the , have been so often together, ever conversed less to
course of what I have to state I mean to bring nal piSlitical subjects than my Noble Friend 'on
and myself.
charge or crimination forwardagainst any individual, I And now having shovelled away a great part of that
hut merely to confine myself to refute the calumnies i rubbish of secret influence, about which so much
which have appeared in a certain publication, which, i bas been said, I shall advert to what has been said in
• except for certain reasons, I should now scorn to this House on _a late occasion. My Noble friewl
I hold in my hands. If these calumnies, which are ' opposite has described me as a princi • '
pal person in
evidently levelled at me, had appeared in an ordinary ; carrying on this negociation. I will
i at once state to
paper, I would not now say any thing on the sub. , the House how fat I merit the character of a nego-
ject,, or be disposed to take the smallest notice of , ciator, which has been thus bestowed on me. If I
them ; for never was any man more a friend to the I had put on a grave reserve, and pretended an igno.
liberty, nay, I will even say, to the licence of the I ranee of all that was.going on, I should have been
press, than myself. But when I have seen these ca. guilty of the most coacomical affectation. Bat how
lumnies in a publication well known 'to be closely did I come to knoW it ? Did I know it from Carl-
connected with those persons - who call themselves toq House? By no means. But I knew it from the
my political friends, I cannot bring myself to coll.& Marquis WeileJley, who called in his carriage on me
der them as the ordinary libels of the day.—ln this at my own house, in the face of day, for time put-
publication I have been stated to be the chief actor, pose of shewing-me the written terms which he
• pro.
the notable promoter of all that secret and underhand , posed to offer. I knew by the Noble Marquis coring
influence which it is said prevented theformation of a : again to me about an hour afterwards, °Kering me a
new Ministry, and I am held up as the creator and I situation in his arrangements, when he received from
framer of the present Administration. In complaining I me a most disinterested denial of accepting of Aly
of such language, Ido not mean to impute it to my ;official situation. I knew afterwards from a Nob'e
lion. Friends ; but I will venture to say they are little Earl whom I shall always love and honour for his
aware how much they really owe to me for the pert I worth, his greatness of mind, his uobleness of dis-
I have acted. Had my counsels prevailed not one of ! position, for every thing which is the boast and ;wide
the Right Hight Honourable or llonourable Gentle- lof men, I mean the Earl of Moira. The publics-
men now sitting opposite to me, would have been I tion charges me with artful and insidious attmapri,
this day in office.—[A laugh.] In order to chew which the writer, however, very sillily arid weekly
my Ilouourable Friends and the House, that lam supports. Ido assert that the whole is not only a
not one of a cabal who have had recourse to artful most gross and audacious falsehood, but I say mint
means to procure the re-appointment of the present my conduct has been directly the contrary of what is
Ministry, I shall proceed to mention the nature of I here imputed to me. No man ever laboured more to
the influence which lam stated to have with the great I remove prejudices which were entertained. and to
and exalted personage, the calumnies which are per- conciliate goodwill to the illustrious Gentleman than
petually vented against whom wound me deeper than myself. I appeal for the truth of what I assert, to
any which are levelled against myself.—[Hear!]— what consists 'ol' theknowledgeormy worthy trier t,
I will not attempt to disguise to the House, the ho- , the IlieGt. who now sits beside noe(we believe Mr.W.)
nour I feel in the uninterrupted confidence reposed ; I shall now," continued the Right Hon. Member,
in me by that exalted personage, and the continual I " pass to that which had been most dwelt upon as
intercourse between us. But I will say this, that if ; the grand charge against me, that of a supposed con-
at any Moment I should have attempted to take ad-' versation between me and a Noble Lord—a comer-
vantage of that confidence, and that intercourse, for ! Wien presumed to be confirmed by the 5000 guinea
the purpose of advisinghim, when I knew that he had ! het of my Right'Hon. Friend, to which I shall pay
responsible advisers to whom that office belonged, II my respects by and bye.—[A laugh.]—ln adverting
am persuaded I should have met with the severest to this subject, I mean to abstain wholly from the
reprobation from that illustrious person himself.—iquestion of the merits or the demerits of my Lords
[hear, hear I—l will not attempt to disguise, that I Grey and Grenville, in the stand which they thought
no man living has had more opportunities of.knowing it necessary to make against the Household. That
most intimately that illustrious person than myself ; will be discussed in another place ; but I could not
but it is only known' to him, and to the Omniscient help thinking, like every other man forming an
Searcher of hearts, whether he had merited or opinion upon it, and that opinion was decidedly
preserved that confidence by acts of sycophancy., this—that at a moment like the present, when all
I[Near!] I know well, however, and I Will boldlytt the great points were conceded to them, when they
assert, that if ever there was a Prince who wished to had an opportunity of saving the country perhaps,
be surrounded with advisers possessed of I
sincerity, when the greet point of all, and that whitto must
the Illustrious Person in question was' the Mans, I !,ever be ueareit to my heart-1 mean the Catholics
wish the House, I wish the country knew his heart i of Ireland, was at their disposal—when they might
las well as myself ; for then I am sure the unmenner- probably have rescued us from a war with Ansel ILI—.
1 ly, the base, and most ungenerous scurrility which i when they might have pursued successfully the object
we hare so often witnessed would never hare been I of economical reform, and when, too, they would have
uttered, or if, uttered, would have been universally bad an opportunity of quieting the differences that
I received with the scorn which it merited. [Hcor,,, now distract the country, I did net.think it possible
' hear 1 I have differed from him at times in opi. I they could set up against such opportunities of public
nion, and I have differed from the party with which good, and incalculable service,that they wanted three
lam connected, because I loved what I conceived to white sticks -removed !—[Laugleer.] Such was my
be time welfare of my country, better than the appro.. opinion—and was my opinion concealed. No! I
1 balion of either. If I have differed from him, I understood that it was likely such a stand would be
I found a reward in the confidence reposed in me b knade by the Noble Lords, and I had my opinions con-
imy country. If I had lost his confidence for ezer-'7eleyed to them through the only channel by which I
! c'sing what I considered to be my duty, I would eve was sure they would 'be temperately and, candidly
el
have tisked•it. If I had lost it, I should have loot ,Meraolunicated, I moo. by I Lore Kinnaird. There
! what f•shonhialwayi have deeply lamented •and h'' was this distinction too •tliowa by
, e . some parsons;
, o
I
i would have lost, what I pray God he might loon re:4. that there were man ,* a migtit -regret the pledge
I pair, a marl devoted with his whole heart and soul . given by the Noble OW that being given, it
to himself, and, not to his station. [Hear, hear, was impossible they could act otherwise than they
f hear /.] In thui iltuding to my intercourse with the did. On that subject I:wilt not say a word. Lord
Prince, I .ant• perfectly aware how unparliamentary ! Grey is, and ought to be the guardian of his OWII
to the
it is to make any direct allusion to the Conduct or; honour, and must best know what belongs
P such
character of that .Personage in Parliament. Ido preservation of that tumour.. I was sorry that
t might be oh-
tot throw out the slightest suspicion that those of, a pledge had been givear;:yet I hoped i
my .own patty were the persons who attacked, or , vented. I always tliough(lnde.ed, that the report of
; but it has been since re-
r'veetat emissary to: the attacks which have been made 'it had been exaggerated i
me no room for
, ups,* Mb, 'iThie might easily have happened without hated to me in a way, that leaves ._
the
;
theilltriiititeldge or approbation, and might have ori- doubt upon the subject. I should be sorry of
litioated in a desire of the writer to enter into what ! question were put to me, whether a friend of mine,
li etasild Iterreetnistaken to be the views of his party. I having given a pledge of that description, couldl
should Wheral Wait to Stagordshire lately, to see my old ..evade it, but were I pressed upon it,
great difficulty,
per-
'friends of ail years' standing, they might then have ; tainly say that he could not, without
• easily thought that I was not likely to act the part of ; maintain his honour and not redeem his pledge.--
a sycophant for the sake of a seat in the House. The ! Such were my opinion%
.and I certainly did say to
that If err-
. •
income which I derive from the bounty of the Prince, 1 an old friend of ministwisall I had heard, .
which is the only. thing I have---Here Mr. Sheri- I min persons came they should
int. Administration .
it
bat I disliked, g
rides' appeared somewhat agltatedJ—l shall explain feel themselves bound 4o resign;
upon the
to the House how I came to receive. On the death I mach the idea of the Household resigning
'Of' Lord Elliot, whenthe Office Offi of Receiver Gene. formation of *new Cabinet, as I did that of a new
' n of the House.
Tel of the Duchy of Cornwall became vacs*, the Cabinet oonditioning•for the exclusion ...
14‘rtiii#Peral, Mr, Adam, and a number of other hold. I had notkiu to do, but to express in! (1.1,
4a.ru * suentlemen,_ saino,of whom are now in the, anProbadeui° the able toril, and there it enstitie.ll..
use who-were then canutdtaft
----, agreed in thinking [During the latter pirt of his speech Mr. e i