Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1831-01-07

with which he had taken possession of that Office,
tha' even some technical difficulties in of order
had been set aside In order that he nigh show himse Il
In his and splendid cha racter, he had almost
domino ii would least hav" baAn bYt respectful to
that House, that they should have been put in pos
session OF the circumstance. as the II House
OF Parliament | state this TO show wha' Impression
has been made tine country ny this matter and TO
show that explanation is NIB Soluely necessary
The Impressions made on he cpuntrY were easily OBJ
servabe. BY hose means of cheap and extensive
diffusion of opinion, that opinion could be discovered
The Hon. Member then read IA paragraph from n
country newspaper. which appeared after the
declarations. the voluntary declarations mad, bv the
honored and learned Gentleman (Hear, hear y
What was the meaning of these declarations? Were
they menaces, had he been neglected or WORSE than
neglected, had he been offered something not worthy
ms talents and staion2 IF they were So fhcy we've
INTENDED as spur, stimulus to the law graft
tude OF tn" First Lord of the Treasury asked what
confidence could be placed in n Government which
was capable OF being influenced by such motives, If
these declarations were menaces-if they were
uttered IN sincerity, 1t imported much to the country
to know what it that had made so sudden so de-
cided a change in .he honorable and learned Mem
oers opinion. Till it was explained the character of
the aobe and learned Lord would be under a cloud
which it beloved those who were able tn do if anv
were able, to dispense.
Sir James Maclntosh rose-not for the purpose of
Offering any explanation, for to tho honour
able Member entitled. The character of tho noble
and learned Lord did not need vinicuton in an assem-
bly, Of which he had so long been the chief ornam
-of which indeed, it had often been the highest
had hea
tne number OF It's Members. Hear. hearl He left
the eloquence, the unweared industry the undoubt Cd
ABILITY, the wel-known and wel-recollccted power.
OF the honorable and learned Gentleman TO answer
tor him. and in what he should saw on this subj ect
ne should but give vent to those feelings which rose
within him at this-the most extravagant speech that
haa ever been heard in either House nf Parliament
since the very first existence of thai BODY (Uear
near The honorable member had said that this mat
Ter was probably capable of exclamation 1t was so
that explanation had not been properly required.
1t had been demanded in a violent and dsorderv
speecha speech unpa raeled in the annals of Parla-
ment composed of nothing but violations the orders
OF thar House. lie maln AIMED that if anv other Git
opportunity of asking for the explanation had been
likely to occur, occasion should not now have been
taken to make a speech full Of nsnuaons of a most
Serious kind coloured, indeed, with little paltrv adj
mission at the end of the sentence hat the time for
explanation R ght come. and that explanation MIGHT
possibly be capable of beng afforded IF the matter
was capable of explanation, that time was chosen in
manner to make any one believe tina it had been ex-
pressiy selected IN order defy any man ma knu
there From whom could come the explanation?-
From the colleagues of the noble and learned Lord
not one OF whom was now present IF the honora bic
Gentleman thought that these circumstances were
capable of explana'ion-fh he allowed that there were
tit opportunities for demanding it, how came he to
choose this most unfit of all opportunities in the alb
sence of all those who could possibly have given him
the explanation he required. He (Sir J. NJ denied
that the exclamation due could be due under
any circumstances. Was the House. he would ask.
prepared to call for the particulars of the negotiations
between the Gro n and the persons who formed
his MaJestys Government [hearl-of negotiations
which must necessarily be secret? The members OF
the late ministry-'hey who had resigned in conse-
quence or the expressed dispeasure of that House
you'd surely not be prepared to make sach call for
explanation. There might have been circumstances
which within less than week after the dpclara-
tons referred to, had made it for the noble
Lord 10 accept thar office, which he at first had not
contemplated undera taking. The assertion of the OK
istence of that necessity might have been made had
any of that noble Lords Colleagues been in the
House, though the details of it could not be evan
without an actual breach Of duty. But nobody was
there to make such assertion, and the time for de-
manding an explanation seemed to him expressly
chosen at the very moment when it wond be utterly
impossible to make any sort of explanation. Nothing
but very strong of inputation the character
OF the noble and learned Lord could ustifv speech
which the hon member had thus. in violation of all
order, made respecting him Phe words which that
non. member has quoted not those which had
been uttered by +he noble and learned Lord while a
member of that House. Those quoted by the hon
member were certainly the same, nor any thing
like the same, with the words recorded in the au-
thoftes from which the hon member had, with re-
ference to another been pleased make his quota
tons He did not believe they were the same as
those uttered-he would swear TO his understanding
of them to be very different. He called to
state what the defence OF the noble and learned
Lord against these imputations of the hon member;
but the hon. members conduct, tonight had shown
the expectancy of strictly observing that rule which
forbade the words of member in one debate being
afterwards quoted against him in another. II say
that the hon. members speech disOrderly was
saying but little; it a congerics Of relations of
erder The first violation Of order in quoting the
speech OF another member former debate; the
second was III bringing anonymous Yorkshire
newspaper authority for his statements and anonr
the rest, as authority for the gossip of the robng-
room; the third was that not content with his own
breach of order he quoted the words of the editor of
the paper, and his statement of words uttered bv an
hon. member in that House, statement that could
only have been made through breach of the orders
of that House. He was the last person in that House
who would wish to narrow the liberty. by the exer-
else of which the statement of those words had been
obtained; but he did object to making use of such
STATEMENT TO cast inpuations :he character Of the
Lord Chancellor of England; it practice that
ne never knew to have been adopted by any man. even
engaged in the hottest opposition. No explanation
was necessary to be given but If it required and
was really meant 10 be obtained tie hon member
ought to have waited till The proper time had come
for asking il, and ought not thus, irrpguary nd i'm
properly, to have made attach on the first Ma pis-
trate Of the kingdom the very day when he was n
bout to begin the discharge Of his most important du
ties. (IIeaF, bear,)
TUesiqy, Nor. n.
The Lord Chancellor Quilted the wool5ack and pro-