very delicate matter for me to state my only at my own suggestion. Having thus respect and veneration for one so near prepared my way, I shall only offer a few and dear to me, without requiring too words upon the Address, with which I much of the patience of the House -- shall conclude; as there are few topics in Leaving, therefore, personal questions, 1 the Speech from the Throne which will may observe, after being perfectly pos- not meet with the full concurrence of the sessed of every circumstance, I am con- House. As to the struggle in Greece and vinced that lord Liverpool concurs in the in the Greek Islands, it must be evident to formation of that Administration, the new all who consider the subject, that it was imwrits for various members of which have possible such violations of the laws of hubeen moved this very day. He is satisfied manity and neutrality could be allowed to with the principles on which it is founded, continue, without an interference. But the and is persuaded that it embodies all the period for examination into all the circuminterest to which he was so long and stances of the case has not yet arrived. The so dearly attached. He approves it as opinion which the House shall form must, containing many of, if not all, the distin- of course, depend upon what may appear guished persons with whom he was him- in the papers which his majesty has signiself closely connected; but, if there be fied his intention of laying before the one circumstance of satisfaction more pro- House. The Address which I shall have minent than another, it is that which I the honour of moving, will pledge the may fitly notice ; namely, the re-admission House to nothing but a grateful expression of the right hon, the late member of the of feeling towards his majesty, for the University of Oxford. A near and dear promised production of the papers, without connection long subsisted between that in- giving the slightest measure of approbation. dividual and my noble brother, and his The mention in the Speech of the battle services will be particularly acceptable to of Navarin evidently calls for the expresthe country, as Secretary of State forsion of no opinion on the part of the the Home Department. That right hon. House. If discussion arise upon it, it gentleman was introduced into public life should follow an inquiry into all the cir: by lord Liverpool, and was, in the first cumstances of the case; and, until the instance, Under Secretary in the very office papers are laid upon the table, it would over which he now presides. From the com- be premature and fruitless to debate the mencement of their acquaintance the most question. My personal regard for the unbounded confidence and concurrence gallant officer who commanded the British upon every political question bave existed squadron makes me wish to say a few between them. With this feeling, and words in his praise; and having myself, under this persuasion, I am not wrong, I early in life, belonged to the same noble think, in supposing, in the general sense, profession, no man feels more strongly that lord Liverpool highly approves of the than I do the gallant manner in which Administration just formed ; and I beg that important service was executed. Upon distinetly to state, that in making my that point there can be no dispute, and; appearance before the House on the therefore, no discussion ; indeed, if there present occasion, I am warranted by the were any danger of the kind, I should be approbation and authority of my noble the last man to provoke it. With regard brother. I wish it, nevertheless, to be to the conduct of this country towards clearly understood, that my own inclina- Portugal, there will, I apprehend, be as tion has solely prompted me to come little difference of opinion. The sending forward. It was my own proposition that out of the troops was debated before they I should move the Address; and if in what were despatched; and I was one of those I have said, I have let fall any thing who had the pleasure of hearing the eloobjectionable, or that may be unpleasant quent personage I have before mentioned or ungrateful to the feelings of any hon. more than once in defence of that measure. member, I beg leave to express my regret It now appears that the troops are about at the circumstance. I hope I have to be recalled ; and to this arrangement, guarded myself, and that I have not been certainly, no man is likely to object. The guilty of any presumptuousness in what I Treaties with Brazil and Mexico must be have offered respecting my brother or my- considered as the earnest of future adself. I introduce myself, at the present vantage to this country: the extent of that moment, from a sense of public duty, and advantage trust, of course, depend upon

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circumstances; but, at all events, the fame of that great man was the circumdocuments are evidence of the efforts of stance of his having restored the finances the British government to extend the trade of this country, after the great depression and augment the commercial prosperity of produced in them by the American war, the country.--Another, and an important, to a state of the highest prosperity. There topic in the Speech relates to the exami- are many circumstances, at present, which nation of the receipts and expenditure of weigh heavily upon the national prosperity; the empire; and upon it I beg to be and, amongst them, there are none, in my allowed to say only a few words. In ad- opinion, more formidable than the many verting to the momentous subject in the changes which have taken place in the value trifling and imperfect way in which I must of property. When I talk of the pressure do it, I beg to state my perfect and firm arising out of the late war, I know perfectly conviction, that this country, in itself, well that it is now fourteen or fifteen years possesses resources which—if administered since peace was concluded ; but the variawith wisdom, and assisted and improved tion in the value of property has been baneby that unbounded confidence which is fully operating during the whole of that due by a nation to a government vested period. I am aware that I may in the hands of persons who have been rantly upon a subject of this sort; but long tried and are known to be worthy | what I advance is my honest conviction, of such confidence-are capable of extri- and that is the best excuse I can make for cating it from any difficulties, however for- offering it to the House. In the variations midable. Let the House look back at the in the value of property, we must look for circumstances which have occurred in the the cause of the depression; and, until past history of the country. Let them those variations are adjudicated, it is look to the period of the war of the Suc- vain to expect prosperity in the financial cession. Do they not prove that there is condition of the country. I know well in the nation a power of revivification, or that, in time, that happy result will be obof internal restoration, from the most de- tained, and that the growing resources of pressing circumstances. I will not insist the country will not alone extricate it from upon these details, since they are, no its present difficulties, but, looking at those doubt, much more familiar to the House resources, I confidently predict, that still than to myself. But I will say, that the greater prosperity is in store for us. On greatest glory which could mark the career this subject it is my most anxious and ardent of any ministry would be, to accomplish wish, that the various interests should feel such a restoration of national prosperity the necessity of conciliating and co-operatand strength. That glory belonged, in a ing with each other. Each has an essential peculiar degree, to sir Robert Walpole, dependence upon the others, and none can who restored the finances of the country subsist opposed to or detached from the to a state of prosperity, after the depress- rest. For my own part, I have, for many ing effects of the wars of king William years, been connected with, and wholly deand of the Succession. The debts which pendant upon, the agricultural interest ; were then incurred undoubtedly cannot be and am firmly assured, that nothing but a compared with the debt incurred at a more complete fraternity of feeling between the recent period; but, in a certain degree, commercial and manufacturing interests, they are comparable, and the circumstance can possibly effect any of those purposes

, fully warrants the conclusion, that this which the most sanguine may contemplate. country, through the elasticity of its re- I, therefore, exhort the House, as the

represources, will again rise to a prosperous sentative of those different interests, and and happy condition. Such an achieve combining in itself the elements of which ment, I repeat, would confer the greatest each is composed, to adopt those conciliglory upon any ministry. I am not the atory and comprehensive measures by which man who would under-rate the glories the joint benefit of all classes can be achievwhich encircle the name of Pitt. I am ed, and the distress of each, as far as posnot the person to undervalue the result of sible, alleviated; and to endeavour to acthat illustrious statesman's exertions in complish these most desirable objects, not preserving this country from the effects of by any false and partial view, not by any the revolutionary mania which then threat- niggardly catching at what may appear to ened desolation to Europe : but I conceive be the separate interest of any one particuthat the brightest glory which crowned the lar body whom they may individually repre

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sent, but by the consolidation of the joint “Humbly to thank his Majesty for the and only true interests of all.—These, Sir, communication which he has made to us, are the views which I have formed of the that his Majesty having been earnestly enline of policy that ought to be adopted. I treated by the Greeks to interpose his good fear that, in the few observations with which offices, with a view to effect a reconciliation I have troubled the House, something may between them and the Ottoman Porte, had have escaped me which may expose me to concerted measures for that purpose in the ridicule, or perhaps contempt. But I am first instance with the emperor of Russia, conscious of the rectitude of my sentiments. and subsequently with his Imperial Majesty I have, therefore, given expression to them, and the king of France. feeling it a duty to lend my humble and “ And also for the directions which his feeble aid to second the voice of the House, Majesty has been pleased to give, that there and, as I confidently trust, of the country, should be laid before us copies of a Protoin pronouncing the present administration col, signed at St. Petersburgh by the Pleworthy of public confidence. Having de- nipotentiaries of his Majesty and of his scribed, as shortly as possible, and as well Imperial Majesty the emperor of Russia, as I am able, the feelings which I enter- on the 4th of April, 1826, and of the tain, and the motives by which I am ac- Treaty entered into between his Majesty tuated, I shall conclude with moving, and the Courts of the Tuileries and of st.

“ That an humble Address be presented Petersburgh, on the 6th of July, 1827. to his Majesty—to return his Majesty our “ To thank his Majesty, for having inhumble thanks for the gracious Speech formed us, that in the course of the meawhich his Majesty has directed to be de- sures adopted with a view to carry into livered by the Lords Commissioners. effect the object of the Treaty, a collision,

“ To assure his Majesty, that we feel the wholly unexpected by his Majesty, took greatest satisfaction in learning that his place in the Port of Navarin, between the Majesty continues to receive from all foreign Heets of the contracting powers and that princes and states, assurances of their de- of the Ottoman Porte. sire to maintain the relations of amity with “ To assure his Majesty, that we partithis country; and that the great powers of cipate in the regret expressed by his MaEurope participate in the earnest wish of jesty, notwithstanding the valour displayed his Majesty, to cultivate a good understand by the combined fleet, that a conflict should ing upon áll points which may conduce to have occurred with the naval force of an the preservation of peace. .

ancient ally, and that we rejoice to learn “To express to his Majesty our deep that his Majesty still entertains a confident regret that the state of affairs in the East hope that this untoward event will not be of Europe should have been the subject of followed by further hostilities, and will not great concern to his Majesty; and that a impede that amicable adjustment of the contest should have been so long carried on existing differences between the Porte and between the Ottoman Porte and the inha- the Greeks, to which it is so manifestly bitants of the Greek Provinces and Islands, their common interest to accede. which has been marked on each side by “ To express to his Majesty our sincere excesses revolting to humanity.

satisfaction in learning that it is his Ma“To assure his Majesty, that our regret jesty's determination in maintaining the is increased by learning, that in the pro- national faith, by adhering to the engagegress of that contest, the rights of neutral ments into which his Majesty has entered, states, and the laws which regulate the in- never to lose sight of the great objects to tercourse of civilized nations, have been re- which all his Majesty's efforts have been peatedly violated, and the peaceful com- directed—the termination of the contest merce of his Majesty's subjects has been ex- between the hostile parties—the permanent posed to frequent interruption, and to de- settlement of their future relations to each predations, too often aggravated by acts of other-and the maintenance of the repose violence and atrocity.

of Europe upon the basis on which it has “ To assure his Majesty, that we partici-rested since the last general Treaty of pate in the deep anxiety felt by his Majesty, Peace. to terminate the calamities, and avert the “To assure his Majesty that we are dangers, inseparable from hostilities, which highly gratified by learning that the purconstitute the only exception to the general poses for which his Majesty, upon the retranquillity of Europe.

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a Military Force to Portugal, have been which, as a matter of expediency, it may accomplished, and that the obligations of not be proper, at this moment, to advert. good faith having been fulfilled, and the The absence of most of the principal memsafety and independence of Portugal se-bers of his majesty's government, certainly, cured, his Majesty has given orders that by no means takes from the House the the forces now in that country should be right, or abridges the right, of free disimmediately withdrawn.

cussion ; but, at the same time, it would “To thank his Majesty for having di- be inconvenient and unsatisfactory to atrected to be laid before us copies of the tempt to enter upon questions intimately Treaties of Amity and Commerce which connected with disputable measures, in the his Majesty has concluded with the em- absence of those whose duty it is to sustain peror of Brazil, and with the United States those measures. For this reason, therefore, of Mexico.

without imputing the slightest degree of “To return our acknowledgments to his blame to the hon, mover, I shall pass over Majesty, for having ordered the Estimates some of the points to which he has advertfor the current year to be laid before us, ed. I am perfectly ready to acquiesce in and for the assurance that they have been the doctrine, that no ministry ought to preprepared with every regard to economy sume on the confidence of the Crown, or consistent with the exigency of the Public on the confidence of parliament and the Service.

country, which is not prepared to face all “ To assure his Majesty, that we will, the topics introduced by the hon. gentlein pursuance of his Majesty's recommend man.

man. But the period of the absence of the ation, institute an early inquiry into the chief members of that ministry does not state of the Revenue and Expenditure of seem to me precisely the time for entering the country.

upon such a discussion. I do not thus “ To express to his Majesty our satis- mean at all to question the individual act faction in learning that, notwithstanding of the hon. mover. He has a perfect right the diminution which has taken place in to state the grounds on which he thinks fit some branches of the Revenue, the total to support this or that government; and, amount of receipt during the last year has if it were possible for criticism to attack not disappointed the expectations which any speech, sure I am that criticism would were entertained at the commencement of be disarmed by the diffidence with which it, and that a considerable increase has that speech was delivered, and the amiable taken place in the export of the principal effusions of fraternal love and affection articles of British manufacture.

which it displayed. The most gracious “ To assure his Majesty, that this im- Speech of his majesty dwells, at some provement of our foreign trade is peculiarly length, on the pacific state of Europe, and gratifying to us, on account of its having represents it as being, in the main, in a led to a more general employment of the state of perfect and continued tranquillity; population, and because it is a satisfactory at the same time it points out two excepindication of the continued abatement of tions to this picture of unrelieved repose. those commercial difficulties which recently One is a case undoubtedly of the deepest affected so severely the national industry interest; but, from the terms of the Speech,

. “ To return to his Majesty our grateful we gather that it has become a source only acknowledgments for the confidence which of joyful recollection. In the other, we he has been pleased to express in our con- are still kept in a state of anxious, but I tinued desire to improve the condition of trust neither painful nor fearful suspense: all classes of his Majesty's subjects, and to the one affects the Western, the other the recognize the paternal goodness of his Ma- Eastern side of Europe : the one directs jesty in recommending to our care, as the our view to Portugal; the other to Greece. first object of his Majesty's solicitude, the About twelve months have now elapsed prosperity and happiness of his people." since our troops disembarked on the shores

Mr. Robert Grant said: I rise, Sir, for of the Peninsula, for the defence of a porthe purpose of seconding the Address. I tion of it, and in fulfilment of solemn treaties know not whether I am expected to notice with Portugal, the ancient and faithful ally all the topics treated of in the Speech of Great Britain. Such were the motives from the Throne, but I certainly do not feel which dictated the expedition. Upon the it necessary at this time, point by point, to faith of treaties, Great Britain was called go over them. There are, indeed, some, to on to preserve the national independence

of that kingdom, with which her interests, measure, and inscribe it upon the column had always been closely connected. Ob erected to attest national glory. Quitting jections to the expedition did, however, the topic of Portugal, there are some others exist; not on the score of injustice or im- to which I must be allowed to refer. In propriety, but that it was calculated to the first place, I must beg leave to remark throw additional burthens on the partially on that part of his majesty's Speech which exhausted resources of this country. I see refers to the present contest between Greece one hon. member now in his place who en- and the Ottoman Porte. It has, no doubt, forced this point with much effect. He been observed by the House, that his maurged, that, although the enterprise was jesty's Speech is, on this subject, confined indispensable, there was some danger lest to certain facts which are already before us. it should lead to disagreeable results. It In the exposition of the views of governwas possible that it might kindle a war of ment on this question there are certain opinion, the consequences of which might points on which I entertain little doubt be incalculably disastrous. But I find in that we shall all be unanimous. There can the king's Speech that which must at once be no question that the quarrel between allay all apprehension. We are told that the two states has given rise to a most sanour troops are on the point of returning to guinary contest between the parties interour shores : having achieved the object for ested, and that it has been carried to such which they were despatched by the influence an extent, as to involve almost all the shores of their presence, they are about to revisit of the Mediterranean in the consequences, their native land, crowned with victory, and to disturb the peace of the countries neither the less grateful, nor the less glo- more immediately in the vicinity of the seat rious, because it has been bloodless. What- of war. I am most willing to believe, that ever might be the difference of opinion at the allied powers, who have interfered in the outset of the expedition-some support this question, are impelled by an anxiety ing, because it was recommended by justice to establish a system of affairs on a just and policy, and others resisting it, because and equitable foundation ; and, as far as it might tend to disastrous results—assur- these points go, I think that the House edly, the conclusion of the enterprise must will not hesitate in agreeing with me. But lead to a united opinion in its favour. Not further than this, we can scarcely, with a syllable was even breathed against its safety, proceed : for, as we have no aujustice; and all classes may now join in thentic documents relative to the last proone feeling of hearty congratulation. The ceedings which have taken place before us, soil of Portugal has been protected from I do not see how we can well enter into the invasion ; the treasury of Great Britain has question of what has been proper, and of been, in a great degree, undrained; and the what has been improper, in the course pursword of Great Britain has been returned | sued. The House will, no doubt, observe, unstained into its scabbard. It was, Ithat the Address which I have the honour think, impossible to touch upon the circum- to second, follows the same line as that stances connected with the Portuguese ex- which I have been laying down. It pedition without having the mind forcibly contents itself with thanking his majesty recalled to the memory of the distinguished for the communication which he has made individual by whom that movement was us; but it in no way pledges the House to planned and executed; of whose policy any opinion. There is one point conit may be truly said to be the dying effort; nected with this question, however, on and respecting whom, whatever difference which I wish to add a word; though I am may have prevailed upon particular events, ready to admit that silence, generally there will, I am sure, remain but one feel- speaking, would at present be preferable. ing of affectionate regret and regard, for The point on which I would speak, certhe memory of a statesman, who was for tainly presents to me a degree of difficulty so many years, the delight and ornament which 'I cannot help feeling-little as it of this assembly. Providence fortunately appears to affect others. If it be asked, preserved him for that last achievement; it generally, whether, under any circumhad reserved it for one who had the wisdom stances it is either proper or consistent, to project, and the power to execute it: for foreign nations to interfere—and not and, though now removed from the control merely to interfere, but to interfere coerof human events, history will inseparably cively — between two states at war with associate his name with the renown of the each other, I am free to confess that the