The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-03-06 00:00:00

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sponsiiile servants.
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.truzeled against-this bidden
()Mitl situotion, because, as It.
could An lowr he responsille for meats ---, -- -
Mut no coorlhal." If wait's) this Vaud. serdistiectly stated
by Oat great man, that be (Mr. Imeggliant) stigmatized
the contact which took away front tho tare who ouebt
to be responsible their esittreal over the ,incesurep of the
Sovereign. If it were to be tolerated that each Mialster
should offer to the Sovereign his individual and secret advice,-
the most serious evils might ensue.—ffoppose AO ex-
dition planned, and that nee Noble or (tight Honourable
person gay* the preference to the employment of cavalry.
'tattered to his Majesty secret advice to employ that descrip-
of force ;that another *one dillitervit opinion
ontVeti,
secretly reenuuncoded the of the infantry alone ;
Oat a third secretly advinal attack sa be. stole by a
'amp* main; all remade( Net their lultlot be
dielleeed i could any thing bit eameened Imre raw?
C(Calt ennfusiois he worse eunfeataind thaw would be t pro-
bable malt uf such conduct?, 'nee lAscordl Ideinleinap had
limed this ACciputioo of Lord Chathhat alkeithoer. Farago-
el that the act of secretly atksts his Majesty was ra-
y distinct from the expediting, and was a whale et
f. If the Suhle Lord's conduct is AU tarok, proved
by his own admission, nod by his Majesty's answer to the
to
„address, were not pronounced by the Irma of Coommou 10
uneoostitutinutsi, there would be in en' at once to the
responsibility of Ministers, for how, lu faintones conk' mi-
di:ens be rendered responsible fur advice which they had not
1
no/ In defirars, therefore, of the present, and of ftrurc
dministrationst 111 de.citre even of the Crown itself, u hose
crests acre intitnatt.ly c.innected with the decision of the
'Nest ion. hi called upon the Ilonse.to agree to toe resolutions
.6( ttis Hoe:. Frieed.
. Mr. 11AIIKIN destined the preacnt a gpestion
At treat moment. It had occurred to him, even
herons Aso entered the .firiese, that he ought to
pause before he gave his opinion, and to consider
del)beristely whether the Noble*Lurd, whose con.
Hatt was condemned in the resolutions Lefore the
Wiese, load hems guilty or any . practice' which
justified the tern) unconstitutional-, at applied to
thascooduet. He h.:4 lis,tened very attentively to
the Learned Gentleman who hid just:isat down,
.and who, he presutned,• had collected 311 .that
courdhe laid in support of the argument he had'
Mentioned: T.-what dick' that all amount ? The

k. tooi r twAl Gentleman was Of opinion; that the con.
.inet NT Lard-Chatham heti been unconstitutional,
isrd this opinion he dpciered *he had deduced from
-all the known principles of the Constitution. The
Gentleman had stated it as one of thoid
' ktin peinciples, thaw. the Members of the CO-,
ir'
banal 'Coastal! should act .in concert. Now. the
face Wet, dot the existeeee of a Cabinet Council
was Immo-to the Contlitution'. in old times
the Pr Y. Coiansellurs were dip Constitutional ad-
, visors of Ms Majesty, altifough fives tree. (hit in
t waders tines, •nwinglo an oceorrence originating
in i cabal,. 3 rertein somber of those Privy -Conti.
sellers went neually formed into a body, and cal-
leirtitirCisbidfit Colleen. And bete he would re.
tasrk, lian3ethsta be *greed-, en a recent evening,
,to stio.4 thiren felt deo to the production of any
farther tiarratitesof Lord Chatham, it tins not on
the general troonsis of constitutional Necessity
stated by the mover of that. Address. Ills reason
for: concurring in the motion for the Aildrc,is•
etas, that the House baring thought fit to require
fin:redaction u( one narrative, end there appear-
ing a suspicion,thet a. pilot narrative was in exist,
vice, he could see no cause, as the second neut.
410. been produced, why the first ought not to
be detiaanded. lie leeld by no means understand
';.,isw slim principle of Ilve.Cianstitution the Learnede
IrosBAl.Taiglidisgl Ilk dectillic, chat *Neer the
esrolldential advisers of his klejesty, r..cognizeti,
as such, ought gut to have accost to his Sovereign
to fouler any advice that lie might think proper.
if Intik an individual were to take this step with.
udt the knowledge of his colleagues, to them 'it
as ght be 'an offence,. bet certainly none to the
Ceaglitptilse. After the expedition had tcrminat.
'..etf, and Lord Chatham's functions as. a Cointnan.
de r had cessedt, had soot the. Noble Lord a right,
as a Coesdtadorml adviser of his Majesty,
.and
hgilding the high idieation which he did in the go-
, ferment of the eointry, to demand an audience
of his Severely, tar tips purpose of rendering to
him en account of his proceedings ? Wueld .not
the Noble Lord barrelled a right to dull& by,
word of mouth? Not only had he a right to do
I so,• bet he would have .been culpable had Ire Not
'dune so. If, then, he had a right to give his Ma.
-jesty advice and information by word of mouth,
what was thereie the character of a written, and
therefore of a more detailed and accurate state.
start, by which moth a right was abrogated 1—
' With respect to thd motives which induced the
La* Lord to withdraw his Ant statement, for
'from porpole of returning it in an amended forint_
Ai Bow heti not the means of judging. It was
.peobabla ghat obey would have koown more ou
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this lisibleit'imed it not been for the interruption
whiell hed oetamactl in the examination of the No..
Ma Lord; bet even were those motives criminal,
the crime was not Against the Constitution. It
:might be a very heinoos moral crime, but no such
brume was charged in the resolutions before the
House. Nothing could he more dartgeroes than
'lttrehargelltt linTividual with a c?iiiii.,Athe eared of
which was not distinctly and decisively described,
but which was left to be interpreted as eircurnstan.
ces might require. lie did nut utter this opinion
because the Noble Lord was descended from one
4 the west illustrious Statesmen, or because he
was the brother of one'of the best friends that the
!Gentry had ever enjoyed., if .the individual
whose cooduct was tinder considtWation was 'one
of the meanest subjects
.111 the realm, he vandal
still contend, that it wee an intolerable grievance'
to charge him as the Resolutions charged the No.
b 1 Lord. The Resolutions, if agreed to, would
threw on the Noble Laud's character a stigma
most injuriotti to him. If agreed to, bow ought
they to be followed up 2 Unquestionably the
Vouseought to address his Majesty to remove from
his Councils a man whom they hid previously de-,
=to have abused the Royal oar, awl. vio-
he Constitution. The Constkotiee. was a
time batik, which every man read in Ids. own way..
...In what state would the coaotry brit tea ism.,,
tairpretatioi of its contents were perinittedto eel,
:itaphtted by party feeling ? If such **practice
were to prevail, be sitopld indeed tremble for the
Likte of the coisotry. lie could nut eonceive a
:vire deogertnts illieallOh of things, than that the
`noise of Ceiturseille should theme the peeler. of
eaprkiewsly doolatiog that to be law which they
sight shoe so to.daclare es as lastuediata view r

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reams. The life a the Masai
Subic. Lord had spnsug, bad been
of his country, and mental NAM tZ
tore which, larking behind the tor.
;ctl as greater then the Throat itself. geeing kaillt
gaion this hidden power, lie lad rebigord"
',ion, because, as he tilnisalf aggressed it; " he
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