Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1831-01-07

with which he had taken possession of that Office,
tina even some technical difficulties in of order
Ind been set asid in order th1t he IN oh show hmse
IN his and spcndd cha rlcicr ha had alnos, IN I'd
domino it wn"d least have boon bu, respectful to
that House, that they should have been p,t in pos
sss'on ut the crcumstHncr soon a. the o. h,r House
of Parliament state this 10 SHOW. "a o, immersion
has been made on the country by this matter and to
snow that some cXDlanator Is absolutely necessary
The Impressions made on he ,untry wore silly OBJ
servhbe by hose m.-ns If cheap and extensive
dh'iSon vi opinion. that opinion could b. discovered
ihe Hon. Member the" read paragraph from
country newspaper. which appeared after he
declarations the voluntary declarations, mad bv the
honored and learned Gentleman (IInar, hear y
What was the meaning of these declarations: Were
they menaces, had he been neglected worsn than
neglected had he been offered something worthy
his talents and station II they were So ifthcy were
intended Us spur a stimulus, to the law graft
Jude of the First Lord of the Treasury h asked wq,
confidence could be- placed in Governman, which
was capable of beng influenced by such motives, If
these declarations not menaces If they were
uttered III sincerity, IL imported much To he country
TO know what it was that hnd made so sudden de-
cided n change in he honorable and learned Mem
ber's opinion. Till it was explained. The character of
the noble and learned Lord would be under cloud
which It beloved those who were able tn do, if any
were able, 10 dispense
Sir James MacIgtosh rosc--not for the purpose of
oitering any explanation, for was tho honour
able M"mber entitled. The character OF th, noble
aud learned Lord did not need vindcaton i'm an nss.u
by OF which he had so long been the chicf ornament
-ot which indeed, it had often been tn. highest
boast and the grentest honor that he had been amono
the number of it's Members. fHear. hnarl Ic left
the eoquence, the unEearied industry The undnub I'd
ability. the wel-known and we-rccoli"cted mower
OF the honorable and learned Gentleman tn answer
ior him. and IN what he should this snb rc'
he should but give those feelings which rosn
within him AZ this-the most eXtrnvaqan, speech TINT
had ever been heard IN either House If P,rlrnmrn,
since inc very first existence of thai body (Hrar
near The honorable member had said hat this mat
ter was probably capable Of explanation II was so
But that explanation had been properly required
1t had been demanded in n violent and dsordor'v
speecl-a speech unparalleled in the annals OF Parla-
ment composed of nothing but violations of The orders
OF that House. He mani AIMED that if any other fit
opportunity of asking for the explanation had been
likely to occur, occasion should now have been
taken to make n speech full Of Insnua lions of n most
serious kind. coloured, indeed with little pal,r nd
mission at the end of thesentence hat the time for
explanation might come. and that explanation ,ninht
possibly be capable of BE- ng afforded If the matter
was capaoe OF explanation that time chosen in
manner to make any one believe tina it had been cX-
pressly selected in order 10 defy any man making 1t
there From whom could come the expnnaton3-
From the colleagues of the noble and learned Lord
not one OF whom was now present. If the honorable
gentleman thought that these circumstances were
capable OF eXplana'lop h" allowed that there were
III opportunities for demanding it, how came he tn
choose TINS most unfit of all opportunities in tho alb
sence OF all those who could possibly have given him
the explanation he required. He tSlrJ VI denied
tnat the exclamation was due could be due under
any circumstances. Was the House. he would ask
prepared to call for the particulars of the
between the Gro n and the persons who now formed
his MoJestys Government thearl--of negotiations
which must necessarily be secret. The mombcrs nj
the late ministry-'hey who had resigned in conse-
quence of the expressed dspeasure of that House
would surely no. b. prepared to make sHch call for
explanation. There might have been circumstances
winch within less than week afer the dcclara-
tons referred to- had maze n.r,-s-a,y for t Ut
Lord 10 accept thai office, which he first had not
contempat' d under aking. 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 given
without an actual breach Of duty. But nobOdv was
there tn make such assertion. and the tine for d.
mandlng explanation. seemed to him expressly
chosen al the very moment when il would be utterly
impossible to make any sort of EXPLANATION Nothing
but strong case of mputaiIon The character
of the noble and lea nrd Lord could lust the speech
which the hon member had thus in violation of all
order, made respecting him The words which that |
hon. member has quoted not those which had
been uttered by the noble and learned Lord while
member of that House. Those quoted nv the hon.
member were certainly not the same, any hrg |
like the same with the word. recorded in the au-
thortles from which he hon menb"r had, with re-
ference to another been pleased make his quota
tons He did not believe they were the SINE as
those uttered-he would swear 20 his understanding
ofthem to be very different. IT called on to
sta what the defence nf the noble and learned
Lord against these mputatons Of the hon member;
but the hon. members conduct. tonight had shown
the eXpediencv of strictly nbservng that rur which
forbade the words of n member III debate being
that The hon. m mhcrs speech dsorderly. was
saying but little; it conGcrl s Of violations of
order The frs violation of order in quoting the
speech OF ann her member on former debate; the
second was IN bringing Anonymous Yorkshire
newspaper authority for his statements, and among
the rest authority for the gossip Of the rohing-
room; the thIrd was, TINT not content with hi own
breach of order he quoted tho words Of the editor of
the paper. and his statement of words uttered by an
hon. member IN that House; a statement that could
only have been mnde through breach Ut the orders
of that House. He the last person in that House
who would wish to narrow the liberty. by the cxor-|
else Of which the statement of those words had been
obtained; but he did object tn making of such
statement 10 inputntirns ;he character Of the
Lord Chancellor Of Engand it was practice that
lie knew to have been adopted by any man even
engaged IN the hottest opposition. No explanation
was necessary to be given but # it was required, and
was really meaNb to be- obtained the hon member
ought TO have waited till The proper time had come
for asking u, and ought not Thus, irrrgulav and i'm
properly. TO have made attack on The first W1gis-
trac of the kingdom on the yprv gy WHOM he vos q