his own benevolent mind, had already been blotted out for eyer. Let it also be recollected, that Mr. Pitt was the son of the great Earl of Chatham, who had a right to expect to be still living in the feelings of this country.

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When the amount of this vote is at the same time taken into consideration, and that it was the unanimous vote of Parliament, let it be decided by the public, whether it was spleen, or public spirit, which dictated the expression, when you charged Mr. Fox and the Opposition with treacherously and basely belying their own assertions, and with an inhuman extortion of the substance of the people, budig oor died subYou charge us with having made Lord Grenville the auditor of his own accounts as if it had been a corrupt contrivance to enable him to defraud the revenue which you know to be totally unfounded. Lord Grenville, had been the Anditor of the Exchequer, as the reward of public service, very long before the period of the Administration in question. When it was thought advantageous to the government of the country, that he should be placed at the head of the Treasury, was it either fair or reasonable, that he should be deprived of an office held for life, when his emoluments, taken together, after his appointment to the Treasury, were not greater than ought to belong to the Prime Minister of the British Empire? An arrangement was therefore made for the substitution of an equally secure and responsible audit for the public accounts, subject in no munner to his coutrol.

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Clamors of such descriptions, may pass at the moment, and, perhaps, have their uses in a free country, though set on foot without due knowledge or consideration, by awakening public attention to government, and reminding those who govern, that it is a trust-But to keep, up, and much more to renew such a prejudice, when all the facts are known, and the false reports extinguished, is what I would rather have to impute to you, than to answer for myself.

-The admission of Lord Ellenborough into the Cabinet (if blame can be attached to it), applies so much more to myself than to any member of the Administration, that I ought not to pass it over in silence; as, of all others, I ought certainly to have been the most jealous of any departure from that sacred principle of judicial independence, which is the greatest security to the public freedom. Such an appointment, therefore, it was your privilege to question; but your objection would have come with more force, if you had discussed it with decency and temper; because, however I may be considered responsible in my character for my share in this transaction, you could not surely expect, after my past life, to convict me

But however the appointment may be completely justified dur I wish, for my own part, that Judges could have been always kept at a distance from every thing connected with the Court,tis or with any council of the King an exclusion, however,ulli which could not well have been adopted, since eminent Judges.dt had been often raised to the peerage in the best times of the sq Constitution; and although objections might, perhaps,beds

This observation applies so obviously to the continuance of the Bank Restriction, which you also complain of, that it would be a tiresome repetition to notice it. We opposed the original measure, as a dangerous departure from the principles of public credit; but after its adoption by Parliament for so long a period, it could not, for the reason I have just given you, and which is now universally acknowledged, besputant end ton at once by an immediate repeal of the act; and you seems constantly to forget the short continuance of our power, and how it was almost reduced to nothing, by the fatal illness of Mr. Fox. It could not have been fit, during that unhappy period unless under the most pressing necessities, to alter what we found established, and have resorted to immediate untried substitutions, merely for the support of our original objections, whilst we were deprived of the assistance of that able states! man, who we were in anxious hope would be restored to usi butowhich it pleased the Divine Providence to disappoint. Y gdThe same answer so manifestly applies to several of your other charges, that I shall take them out of their order on that accounts How, for instance, when foreign troops had been intro duced by our predecessors for the defence of the country, though against our opinions, could we forbear to legalize them, and to apportion their numbers to the exigencies of our defence at so criticaba period of the war? Could we have suddenly disbanded them, without the time necessary for a more constitutional sube stitution of force? Common sense mustrevoltat such an accusa! tion; and it is almost an useless repetition to give the same answeD to your complaint against the Barrack System. to Wesgbjected to it when first proposed in Parliament; but the mea sure having been carried before webcame into office, the barracks having been built or purchased, and the troopą throughout England stationed in them, could wey at the very time when the enemy might have invaded us, and during, our short continuance in office, or with the interruptions just stated, have changed the whole system of military arrangement, how evoro we might originally disapprove it? Nor can I see how our having been placed, for a seasonjoin the situation have described, ought to have had the effect of altering our original opinions, when circumstances were entirely alteredt vino asw of You assert, that we commenced the Orders sin Council," which so deeply affected our commerce and manufactures, and refer for proof to the Parliamentary Debates refer to the same to disprove it. I speak with confidence, because I myself brought the whole subject before the House of Lords, after the administration was dissolved-I might be mistaken in my reasons for condemning them; and the Minister, who made

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then, might be in the rights but I am not afraid of being successfully stultified as having been one of the authors of a measure quite notorious, and, in only a few months afterwards, of having spoken publicly, for two hours and upwards, in its distinct and unqualified reprobation. du to asWith regard to Lord Wellesley's administration in India, from the very nature of so distant and extensive a government at all times a complicated question, it might have been most conscientiously considered by Mr. Fox, and some who acted with him, as a proper subject of inquiry; but when the cons sequences of his system were afterwards developed and under stood, I feel no difficulty in declaring my opinion, that he deserved the warmest thanks of his country and even at the tiane then we were in office, had there been any proposition for an inquiry, I should have firmly and strenuously opposed itan of b9101291 od blvon sqod enotas OE 9999

Your complaint against Sinecures is made in such indecent language, that I decline to reply to it otherwise than by telling you, that myselflam one of those who think, or rather who know that a sinecure office, until abolished by Parliament, is alg nach a man's property as his freehold, and I farther think thab his Majesty's present Ministers mistook a little the chas acter of courb monarchy, when they lately gave way on that subject, and consented that several of them, and of very old standing, should be abolished. I said so, and voted against the measure in the House of Lords. As part of a system of counomy, the abolition was just nothing; and an ancient prest rogative of the crown, for the occasional support of rank, and to reward public service, ought not, in my opinion, to have been touched. You do not say that these offices were multiplied in our time; and if they were not multiplied, they must, of course, whilst they existed, have been filled up. Is it not, then, most contemptible to apply the odious terms of "rave Housness and bloodsucking," to the mere preference› given, from immemorial time, by all Ministers, to those by whom the Government is supported. You extend this charge to other offices, and refer to your Appendix to prove, that "hungry sycophants were crammed with the public money," although it was only the addition to an office, which from its duties required enlargement; and the principal persons, who are to bes found in your own printed copy of the members, are amongst the most respectable men that, in my large acquaintance, I ever knew.

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