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fed , that the l&Sg fcppeared not to havel been perfectly well since i ? $ 8 : the people had he ^ n deceived on this Subject For his otvri part , he thought tha * the King ought to be a grent and an efficient magistrate , 37 > d it v , a > not fit that go- Ternment sher&td £ ©^ onvacit ! atmcr from
time to time , f * nm&rersT ^ sometimes concealing the facts from the ipeojple and at other times unable to do it . tie objected to ail the resolutions eicept the fi ^ t , vvhi £ h contained a ^ p ropositio n lamentably too true ; the Second contained an assumption on the character of the House * which could not fee grantpd ; the third was contrary to > the principles of the constitution . The second
resolution was then read and passed , Sir Francis Bundert dissenting , but without a division of the House . On the third being read , Mr . Pon ^ onby objected to it , arguing against the fiction used with respect to the great seal , and proposing an address to the
Prince of Wales to take upon himself the royal functions * as regent , during the king ' s illness Mr , Canning argued in favour of the precedent of 1788 , and Lord Tempte xyas for a bill ; in which Lord Jocelyn concurred , but opposed the limitations intended . Sir S . Rom ill v
could not look oft the precedent in 1788 in any other light thao thar < 5 f a fratrdu i ent trick , altogether inconsistent w ? th the open and manly ma finer , in whi h every act of legislation should be performed . What would be * aid in common life of
a set of men making 9 contract for another in a state of insanity , and employing a person as his solicitor to affix his signature to the deed ? There -was not the least necessity for a bill , as all the restrictions in it might be conveyed in the address . The Solicitor General
thought that bill or address were sub stan tial ty the same - tiling , and differed only in the mode of eUVctmg the same object . Mr . Whitbread animadverted very pointedly on the illegal and unconstitutional proceedings that had taken place during former , ma lad ie $ : he preferred the proceeding by address on
account of its- freedom from the delays and difficulties of the other process , and there was no possibility of making royal authority by that -which is not royal authority . The ttouie divided , when there appeared for the address one hundred atod fifty-seren , against h two hundred and sixty-nine . On . the n « Xt < i * y the rc | K > rt was
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brought lip , when i . o ? d ; "Vy . Ru ^ sel ^ ^ Fter paying sotne conipliitfents to ^ ir F , Burdett , ag ^ eed wit h him In tfe f PrQpriety of rejecting" " t ^ e ' st ' cqri ^ re ^ ptutipn , atid mov 6 d the' previous ^ ( iuefstibn ^ Sir F , Btird'ett Vr t-y ably sxi ^ o ^ tect hfs " position on the last evening of CnePrince ' a so to
claims bein ^ mtichsiipcfibr those of the Hoti ^ e , afid stretigtliened it by forcible appeals td history 1 He then congratakted Mr . Cannin gs oh tTie recovery of his facetibus powe / s , which had so long heen dormant , 6 ^ yiti g no doubt to his contemplations attjong the tombs of the unhappy victim ^ of Ji is
Walcheren expedition . ^ But his jests , he adds , on the Lord Maydr airid Atdefmen of London were out of pfece , for in the trying- times of our history , thiy always had , and deservedly had , . great weight , and hoWever Mr . Canning
might now talk of citizens , he did riot , when Secretary of State , thihk it bdneath his dignity to meet a set 6 F jabbers and contractors at a city tavern , and to vary their conviviality by sage speeches on ' matters 'oK state . iVfr *
Ijambe allowed that tnere were defects in the representation , bat till they were corrected the House was the legal representation . Several members * V 6 nt over the beaten track of the preceding everiin ^ , and Mr . Wilberforce declared himself to be-for the bill , but was not prepared to state his opinion on the limitations intended . Mr . Elliott aske « £ , if the Chancellor should refuse to affix
the great seal in conformity to the directions of the two houses * Wnat power they h : id of punishing him , or of remedy ing the difficulty ? Vsf . Perceyat felt he said , the responsibility of ftis situation from which he should never shrink , and wh ^ n the tim e for taking ' the ' retro * sp ^ ct oc curred , he would hot Conceal the motives for his cond&ct . As "to the
exertions of the executive goVernmen ^ he wished ifc cfc ^ rj ' y to be uilderstood , that where a necessity for the public service justified theif exercise , he ' would hot sufier the intereitJ of the public to be injured , and wouJd JF ^ i ^ riy pur himself before Parfiafeenr for his justification . Mr- Whitbread reproiiateid iti the
strcmg ' cst manner this u-ufparion on the roy ^ l dutnonty , and' assured the last speaker , that when the day of inquiry comes , and come it must , his tone oa that nhj ht" tvotiid compel Aim to inevr hist'Oticmct With a rnore Wr ^ atinjsin ^ eye . The teisc divid «< f on the " prcviouj
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1810, page 617, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2411/page/45/
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