the talents of that youg man; he had done no such thing; he had merely expressed the hope that he would inherit not only the name, but the eminent qualifications of his father.

Mr. Martin, of Galway, rose amid loud cries of Question, question! He did not wish the present discussion to be Conducted by the impulse of feeling, but by the abstract principles of equity. For his own part, in giving his vote in favour of the additional sum, he believed he should only be performing a cold blooded act of justice. At the same time he wished distinctly to state, that if the vote was supposed to involve any approbation of the political measures of the right honourable gentleman deceased, he, for one, should protest against it. From that right honourable gentleman, during his life time, he had often differed, and indeed he did not believe he ever had the honour of pulling his hat off twice to him in his life; but the present question he conceived to be one which implied the performance of merely an act of duty.

After some conversation between Mr. Whitbread and the Speaker, it was agreed that the Resolution should be re-committed in a Committee of the whole House to

morrow.

ORDERS IN COUNCIL.

The House then resolved itself into a Committee to examine witnesses upon the Petitions against the Orders in Council; after which examination the other Orders of of the Day were disposed of, when the House adjourned.

HOUSE OF LORDS.

FRIDAY, MAY 15,

The House proceeded in the examination of witnesses on the subject of the Orders in Council, when Mr. Ryder, of Birmingham, and Mr. Finlay, of Glasgow, were examined. Adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

FRIDAY, MAY 15.

Lord Castlereagh moved, that the House do, on its rising, adjourn to Wednesday next.-Ordered,

ORDERS IN COUNCIL.

Mr. Brougham stated, that if the Committee for the examination of witnesses on the Orders in Council would sit, after the business of this day was disposed of, till one or two o'clock in the morning, he thought he could get through all the witnesses whose calls were most pressing to return to their business and homes; and if the House would agree to dedicate the whole of Wednesday next, he had no doubt but he should be able to conclude the examination so far as related to that part of the case which he had to bring forward for the consideration of the House. He supposed, that between next Thursday and next Tuesday fortnight, the 2d of June, the witnesses on the other side would be done with; and if that should be the case, it was his intention to bring forward his motion on the subject, which he was rather inclined to think would be an Address to the Prince Regent than in the form of Resolutions.

Mr. Rose had no objection to the mode of proceeding pointed out by the hon. gentleman.

MONUMENT TO MR. PERCEVAL.

Lord Clive rose to make the motion of which he had given notice yesterday. He said he was now, for the first and last time, about to speak of his departed friend, of whose private and public virtues it was impossible any one could think higher. He was aware that in bringing forward a proposition of this kind, it would be liable to objection from the hon. gentlemen on the opposite side, on the same ground on which they had opposed the third Resolution; but he had endeavoured to avoid every thing which appeared in the least as a political pledge. All he had in view was to commemorate the virtues of a worthy individual who bad fallen the victim of an atrocious crime, and to place on their journals their abhorrence of the act. He did not bring this forward as a supporter of Mr. Perceval's mea

sures, but as his warm and admiring friend, zealously attached to him on account of his numerous private and public virtues; and he could assure the honourable gentlemen opposite, with whom he had differed in political opinion, that if any of them, in coming into the House to do their public duty, had unfortunately met with the same fate, he would most cheerfully have given his vote for a similar mark of respect, moved by any of their friends to commemorate their public and private virtues. He concluded by moving "an Address to the Prince Regent, praying that he would be graciously pleased to give directions that a Monument be erected in the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster, to the memory of the Right Honourable Spencer Perceval, late First Commissioner of the Treasury, and Chancellor of the Exchequer, who was assassinated within the walls of that House, in coming to perform his public duty, as a mark of respect to his private and public virtues, and to record the horror and indignation entertained by the House of the atrocity of the crime."

Admiral Harvey seconded the motion; and thought it well became the gratitude of the country to mark their horror of the transaction which had deprived it of the private virtues and public services of the right honourable gentle

man.

Mr. Lambe said, that with respect to the Resolutions which had been proposed and voted, he had hitherto given no opposition, nor should he give any to what was to follow on them; but as to the vote proposed for a monument, he could not agree to it, because it could not appear to the public at the present period, or to posterity, that such could be intended for any other purpose than an expression of gratitude for public services. He had acquiesced in the votes before proposed, for the purpose of marking the just abhorrence that House entertained of the atrocious act by which Mr. Perceval had been deprived of life, and to make a provision for his numerous and afflicted family. He had no idea that granting these objects would have led to a profuse and lavish expenditure of the public money, which he conceived they would do; and he could see no reason for paying a tribute to the memory of Mr. Perceval, which had not been paid to Lord Godolphin, to Sir Robert Walpole, to Mr. Pelham, to Mr. Fox, or to Mr. Windham.

Mr. Fuller said, if those gentlemen just enumerated by the honourable gentleman who spoke last, had any of them

been taken off in the same way as Mr. Perceval was, within the walls of this House, in the way to do their public duty, he had no doubt on his mind that no Parliament in which such person then sat would have hesitated to vote a monument to his memory. He was sorry to see this motion opposed, on a ground so very trifling in itself, as such a saving would be to the public purse. He was sure that a plain and elegant monument, every way suitable to the occasion, would be executed even by Mr. Nollekens, a most eminent artist, for 4 or 5000l. and what was such a sum to the public, compared with the occasion? For his own part he did not speak as a friend to Mr. Perceval, for, as a man, he was not acquainted with him he had indeed generally sup ported his Administration, because he approved his mea sures. He spoke on the present question entirely under the impulse of his feelings: his was an unlettered eloquence, the sole merit of which lay in coming warm from the heart. He wished the House to mark particularly their horror and detestation of the horrid act which had deprived the House and the country of so valuable a man; he wished to pay a tribute to his numerous and splendid virtues; and he declared that if any of the honourable gentlemen opposite, whose measures he had seldom supported but often opposed, had so fallen within the walls of the House in their way to perform their public duty, he would be one of the first to vote for a similar monument. He owned, that in seeing this motion pass unanimously, his feelings would be highly gratified, and he believed the feelings of the whole country would be in unison with his own.

Lord Castlereagh declared, that if the motion included any political opinion, he should think it a most injudicious proposition. He should be very sorry it were to go to the vote, if it were supposed that he and his political friends were to derive any triumph from its adoption. He should deprecate the motion in that case as turning the House and the country aside from the consideration of all the moral circumstances attendant on the transaction. It was, however, precisely the same proposition as that contained in the original address. It merely testified the abhorrence which the House felt for the crime, and the respect which they entertained (a respect in which his political adversaries had been most forward to join) for the virtues of his lamented friend. He should only vote as a memorial of the horrid act, and of the public and private virtues of the individual

who was the object of it, without the slightest reference to any political consideration. The circumstances of the transaction demanded a permanent record. Those circumstances were, that a public servant of the Crown perished in the service of the State, and as in the service of the State not less in the service of Parliament, at the very entrance into that assembly. He thought they would be most negligent of their duty, if they failed to leave as durable a record as the art of man could produce, to impress itself upon the eyes of the commiserating generation by which they were to be followed. The hon. gentlemen opposite would not abandon a tittle of their political principles, by acceding to the motion. If he thought they would, whatever might be his private feeling on the subject, his respect for them would induce him not to support it.

Mr. Whitbread shortly stated his reasons for not being able to concur in the motion. He acquitted the noble mover and noble lord of any intention to entrap into an approbation of Mr. Perceval's politics, those who had been Mr. Perceval's political enemies. Indeed he knew that it had been the anxious wish of the noble mover so to reduce the meed of praise which the motion involved, as to concentrate all parties in the House; but this was impossible. To concur in an unanimous vote for this monument, would be to concur in an unanimous approbation of Mr. Perceval's public services (A cry of No, no!) It could not be otherwise. Even the gallant admiral had scarcely commenced his speech before he talked of the public services of Mr. Perceval. The interpretation which he (Mr. W.) had given to the vote, would be put upon it after the present fleeting debate was long over. If the monument was erected in consequence of an unanimous vote of the House, it would be said by posterity, that those who arraigned all Mr. Perceval's public measures had suddenly abandoned their political opinions, and had concurred in granting to his memory a marked distinction due only to the hero who feil in the cause of his country, or to the statesman who conducted his country to prosperity. He would not trouble the House much longer, for indeed while the grave of Mr. Perceval remained unclosed, he did not feel disposed to enter into any thing like political dispute. The House had already recorded their abhorrence of Mr. Perceval's assassination; they had agreed in the eminence of his public and private virtues; and notwithstanding the durability of VOL. III.-1819. N