The Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1818-1824, 1820-08-29
HOUSE OF COMMONS, July 6, 1920.
THE GREEN BAG.

The GREEN Blu.
Sir X. FEgGusoS moved for copy OF the
co nmissi1n sent 10 Milan, to obtain The depo
-ilions deposited in the Green Bag. The sum,
they cost, and by whose order issued. He
remarked, that the Queens grea, crime wa.
her having landed in England, as had she kept
abroad, the green bag would never have been
produced. This green bag, he said, originated
" It'll the Vice Chancellor Of England, [Sn
JOHN LEACH who sent out practising atlor-
ney 10 take dispositions, whose principal rec
ommendaIion was, tha, he understood no Ian
guase but his own This Milan commission,
he SAID cost 33 ,00Cl.-oi which li00Ol was
expended the FIST five monlbs-a sum sufh
Gent 10 have destroyed the character OF any
mao or woman in Italy.
Lord CAsTLEREAGH said, when proper
period arrived, The information asked would
not be denied. AT present h. should move
the previous question. The Commission had
been sent out on Information which Ministers
could not pass over without inquiry. lie de
Tended The Vice Chancellor, and the Gentle
man sent cut; and complimented the purity
Of his manners. A laugh
Mr.. CREEvy said the Wee Chancellor ought
to be biough, before them, as dislurber OF
the peace as but tor his in,ermeddling ,he
whole differences would have been settled -
Ii vas his officiousness, and the vindictive spir-
II Of he King, which kept these unhappy
differences alive. The gentleman uas here
loudly called to order The question, he
continued, between the King and Qp?en was a
private one, and the King III order 10 be enli-
tied to remedy, ought TO come into Court
with clean hands lie could rot. he said
help applying to his M.jesty, the words OF
sacred writ, ;" Let him who is without sin cast
the first stone"
The previous question was then put, and
carried without division.
Lord CAsTLEREAH expressed his deep and
sincere regret and surprise at the personal al.
tack on the Sovereign, made by the bonora-
Die gentleman. Such ep'ihets no man was
entitled TO apply to the King; for 10 no one
could they be less applicable. Nothing could
be less vindicti,e than the conduct Of bis Maj.
esty. His Lordshp then moved that the
order Of tomorrow on The Kings message be
postponed until the 18th August. Though the
House of Lords, he said. would probably send
down the bill to the House, yet, by possibility,
the bill might be thrown out there.
Sir NJ. w. Ridley asked, il j, was consist
ent with justice to keep second Court Of To-
quiry hanging over the Queen, should she be
acquitted on the first9 He moved, tina, the
first order be discharged.
Lord CAsTLEREAGH stated, that no criminal
proceeding could be founded on the evidence
in the green bag.
Mr.. Bennett said the country were united
in sentiment with his honorable friend Mr.. c.
and ministers were bound TO stand up for their
Master, for they were his advsers.-He ex-
empted, however, Mr. CANNING, from the
remark, as he bad declared his attachment t.
the Queen was still undated; but he could
net but recollect, tina, it was by the sdsire of
that Ri. Hon. Gentleman, that the Queen had
quilted The country which was the cause Of
all that had taken place. The King. he said.
was the Queens opponent, aid he had di
rect Influence in the other House. by means Of
ribbons and carriers. Lord CAsrLEnEAoH
called The Hon. Gentleman 10 order, as IL ,ras
contrary 10 The rules Of tat House 10 introduce
The name Of the Sovereign IN the debate. Mr..
B..resumed The people looked TO the fear.
ful odds against The Queen. and they had uni
versalfy taken her part. The order was al
length discharged.