{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1827/feb/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1827/feb/14/colonel-bradleys-case", "section": "colonel-bradleys-case", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Order, order.\"", "preceding_text": "d, he did not conceive that the noble lord was entitled to any courtesy from him; inasmuch as the noble lord had, on a former occasion, said he did not conceive himself bound to answer any question put by him, although he was ready to satisfy the House. The noble lord had no right, therefore, to expect any courtesy from him, after having on that occasion so notedly declined acting as a gentleman. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1827/jun/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1827/jun/22/east-retford-disfranchisement-bill", "section": "east-retford-disfranchisement-bill", "cue_text": "hear, hear, from sir C. Wetherell", "preceding_text": "berate sanction of the House. Manchester and Birmingham offered themselves as the most desirable cases for representation; and Manchester having been appropriated by a noble lord (J. Russell), he had adopted Birmingham; and having done so he could not and would not abandon it. The intelligence had been received at Birmingham with gratitude and satisfaction, and had created a great sensation there "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1827/jun/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1827/jun/22/east-retford-disfranchisement-bill", "section": "east-retford-disfranchisement-bill", "cue_text": "hear, hear", "preceding_text": "signed by almost all the intelligent and wealthy merchants and manufacturers, by five bankers, and generally by gentlemen of importance at Birmingham. The requisition was for a public meeting, from which, no doubt, a petition would emanate, and be presented to the House before the prorogation. After this he should think he acted most unfairly if he consented to the substitution of any other place "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "lords/1827/jun/25", "house": "lords", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1827/jun/25/warehoused-corn-bill", "section": "warehoused-corn-bill", "cue_text": "hear, hear! from lord Goderich", "preceding_text": "ment would have affixed the character of permanency. One reason for 1395 withdrawing the late bill it is alleged, was, that the amendment would be fatal to it in the other House of Parliament, and it was desirable that the privileges of the two Houses might not be brought into collision. The present is recommended to us, however, not from an apprehension of such a collision, but on its own merits "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1827/mar/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1827/mar/12/mutiny-bill-corporal-punishment", "section": "mutiny-bill-corporal-punishment", "cue_text": "An hon. member here raised a cry of \"Question.\"", "preceding_text": "er day; and he would mention it as a fact reflecting high honour upon the memory of his late royal highness, that when that gallant general resigned his station, unable longer to support the sight of so much human misery, the Commander-in-chief assured him, that he should not suffer in consequence of it. He contended, that the army had not arrived at any tiling like a state of perfect discipline. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1827/mar/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1827/mar/12/corn-laws", "section": "corn-laws", "cue_text": "hear, hear", "preceding_text": "upon this question, both in that Mouse and out of doors; but he could not think; as one hon. member had said, that they had been \"bullied\" into it. He should be sorry to see the Treasury bench filled by any men, who would be bullied out of any measure, which they thought would be fox the interest of the country; and he did not think that bench was now filled, by men who would be likely; so to act "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1827/may/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1827/may/01/new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "section": "new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "cue_text": "cries of no, no!", "preceding_text": "y did not actually come at once into office, had at least been very near coming in, and probably would soon form a part of the administration. The question must, therefore, now come before the House in a decided form; more particularly as the hon. baronet had said, that the being prepared to make the fullest concessions to the Catholics was a sine qua non qualification for a member of the cabinet "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1827/may/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1827/may/01/new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "section": "new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "cue_text": "a laugh", "preceding_text": " course corresponding to the progress of the public mind in England; and it was in that hope that he supported the present administration. § Mr. G. Dawson said, he was quite convinced that in the whole of this business the gentlemen who had formerly sat on the opposition benches, and who had now joined the ministry, had only done so from a wish to occupy the ministerial station and authority "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1827/may/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1827/may/01/new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "section": "new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "cue_text": "hear! and a laugh", "preceding_text": "the Catholic question would be carried by means of the present cabinet; and it was his duty, entertaining the opinions which he professed, and of those who along with him held those opinions, to insist that the cabinet should propose the granting of the Catholic claims as a government measure; otherwise the hon. baronet and his friends would be parties to the basest coalition that ever was formed "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1827/may/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1827/may/01/new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "section": "new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "cue_text": "another laugh", "preceding_text": "ould propose the granting of the Catholic claims as a government measure; otherwise the hon. baronet and his friends would be parties to the basest coalition that ever was formed [hear! and a laugh]. He repeated, that they would be parties to one of the basest, one of the most unnatural, coalitions that this country had ever wit- 419 nessed; and would exhibit the grossest abandonment of principle "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1827/may/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1827/may/01/new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "section": "new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "cue_text": "here there was a cry of order!", "preceding_text": "beth, that they understood from the king, that his opinions on the Catholic question were unchanged—stronger, in fact, than his father's opinions were when, in 1806, he gave that memorable answer to Mr. Fox. If this was not true, it could be contradicted by the right hon. gentleman. His majesty said to the archbishop of Canterbury, and the bishop of London, that before he took the coronation oath—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1827/may/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1827/may/01/new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "section": "new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "cue_text": "order! chair, chair!", "preceding_text": "hemselves his majesty's ministers. He was at a loss to know how he could in a more orderly manner have stated the fact, that the archbishop of Canterbury had declared, that the coronation oath stood in the way of any concession to the Catholics, on the part of a certain distinguished per- 421 sonage. Now, if that was the case, and the ministers knew that such was the opinion of their loyal master "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1827/may/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1827/may/01/new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "section": "new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "cue_text": "a laugh", "preceding_text": "l continued in unabated force, the right hon. gentleman was called upon to give some explanation to the House, not only respecting the stipulation on which he had accepted office, but as to his own intentions with regard to that great question, before the House could feel in a condition to support him. As to himself, it was a matter of little consequence whether he supported the government or not "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1827/may/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1827/may/01/new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "section": "new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "cue_text": "order, order!", "preceding_text": "nts, in the patronage and power of the right hon. gentleman below me, now at the head of the Treasury. To whomsoever that observation may be intended to apply, be it a sober theory of the hon. gentleman's, founded on a reason, according to his mode of reasoning; or a sarcasm, the first birth of wit in an ex-officer of the Crown, less accustomed heretofore to indulge in sneers than in silent votes "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1827/may/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1827/may/01/new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "section": "new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "cue_text": "cheers", "preceding_text": "e it a sober theory of the hon. gentleman's, founded on a reason, according to his mode of reasoning; or a sarcasm, the first birth of wit in an ex-officer of the Crown, less accustomed heretofore to indulge in sneers than in silent votes [order, order!]—there are, it appears, some gentlemen whose ideas of justice would be well satisfied to hear the charge, but who refuse to listen to the defence "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1827/may/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1827/may/01/new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "section": "new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "cue_text": "cheers", "preceding_text": "be well satisfied to hear the charge, but who refuse to listen to the defence [cheers]. Whatever may be my difference or agreement with the government of the right hon. gentleman, of which I am disposed to augur favourably, I trust at any rate, that his government will not be conducted in this House on principles that would sanction so grievous a departure from the justice due to every individual "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1827/may/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1827/may/01/new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "section": "new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "cue_text": "a 423 laugh", "preceding_text": "ice due to every individual [cheers]. I say, then, that to whatever member or part of the House the observation of the hon. gentleman may apply—to me, in my situation, application it can have none. I never dreamed of taking office under the present arrangement. I am much more certainly and inevitably out of office, and out of office am more likely to continue, than even the hon. gentleman himself "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1827/may/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1827/may/01/new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "section": "new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "cue_text": "cheers", "preceding_text": "ried into practice, by men more enlightened and of far more political weight than myself! An unnatural coalition, undoubtedly, because we have constantly differed from the right hon. gentleman, as to the internal policy of the empire; because we, forsooth, have ever disputed with him, as to that great corner stone, the mode fitting to be adopted for the government of the sister kingdom of Ireland "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1827/may/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1827/may/01/new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "section": "new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "cue_text": "cheers", "preceding_text": "]. Look over all the great political questions that divide some men, and approximate others at the present day. Travel with your eyes over the affairs of Europe, or across the Atlantic, and see the dawn of liberty in South America, where millions are blessing the grateful light, while the hearts of millions in this country are beating in unison with theirs, yet rejoicing in their new-born freedom "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1827/may/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1827/may/01/new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "section": "new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "cue_text": "a laugh", "preceding_text": "heir new-born freedom [cheers]. Whether we look, I say, to the east or the west, to America or to Europe, to our domestic policy, or questions of trade, or the improvement of our mercantile system, or to the agricultural interests of the country—the very last subject on which I gave the feeble aid of my voice to government, though the late Under Secretary was then silently voting on the same side "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1827/may/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1827/may/01/new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "section": "new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "cue_text": "cheers", "preceding_text": "animate conflicting parties and rival statesmen, I can conscientiously declare, that passing them all in review, I cannot discover one single tenet or sentiment, nay, one solitary feeling which, practically speaking, has influenced the councils of his majesty's government, during the last three or four years, and which did not find in my opinion, a firm support, and in my feelings a faithful echo "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1827/may/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1827/may/01/new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "section": "new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "cue_text": "cheers", "preceding_text": "in this state, I could not give it a more regular, constant, and therefore, valuable support. I was prevented from doing so,—barred out from the very attempt—because I could not lend my assistance to a government so constituted as to command respect from no thinking man; and in which, from its very construction, it was utterly impossible that the interests of the public service could be consulted "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1827/may/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1827/may/01/new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "section": "new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "cue_text": "cheers", "preceding_text": "y misfortune, certainly not his fault, to be opposed in a more personal manner than another, it was that right hon. gentleman. But candour, and truth, and justice, compel me to say, that the manner in which he conducted himself was not only at all times above all censure, but such as places him above the possibility of suspicion, even by the most ingenious malice of his worst enemy, if he had one "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1827/may/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1827/may/01/new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "section": "new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "cue_text": "hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "triumph of his principles, and more recently supported with surpassing eloquence and ability, by an hon. friend (sir J. Mackintosh), whom indisposition now keeps from his place in parliament I regard it as none of the least evils resulting from the unsettled state of the Catholic question, that that circumstance alone deprives the government and the country of that right hon. gentleman's services "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1827/may/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1827/may/01/new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "section": "new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "cue_text": "a laugh", "preceding_text": "and therefore to me, I confess, more palatable, because more intelligible, language, by the right hon. gentleman who spoke last. [Some friend whispered to Mr. Brougham]. Well: the hon. gentleman, then be it. Nobody will mistake me. My friends are afraid I that should seem to confound the late right hon. Secretary of State with the hon. Under Secretary. There is no danger of confusion in this case "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1827/may/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1827/may/01/new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "section": "new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "cue_text": "cheers", "preceding_text": "eling the sentiments which would give rise to that plain and honest language. But, Sir, I say there is no baseness in this coalition, if there be no fraud practised on the parties to this alliance. I, for one, do not look to see the Catholic question made 426 a cabinet measure. I have no such expectation. I look to its being served and advanced by the mode in which the cabinet has been remodelled "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1827/may/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1827/may/01/new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "section": "new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "cue_text": "cheers from the Opposition benches, echoed still louder from the Ministerial side", "preceding_text": "division, which postponed the hopes of the Irish Catholics for another year, a vast majority of the Irish members, who are all by law necessarily Protestants, voted for emancipation. But, let me at the same time give forth a warning to the Catholics themselves, an admonition to their advocates in this House, and this salutary advice to their friends generally: Let them not at this critical moment "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1827/may/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1827/may/01/new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "section": "new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "cue_text": "cheers", "preceding_text": "m the Ministerial side]—let them not, I repeat, at this critical moment, to please their bitter enemies, play the game of the party of the quadrant of this House, who, already in expectation of success of their shallow device, suffer it too plainly to appear, by those signs and gestures and articulate sounds, by which they make themselves understood, though they seldom deal in articulate language "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1827/may/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1827/may/01/new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "section": "new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "cue_text": "a laugh", "preceding_text": "tify the member for Somersetshire (sir Thomas Lethbridge), whose position is at this moment, I should say, but for the abundance of my respect for him, absolutely grotesque. Long may he occupy it! As the hon. member for Yorkshire wished the late right hon. Secretary of State, I wish the hon. baronet constant health and an uninterrupted enjoyment of that bench which he now so peculiarly 427 adorns "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1827/may/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1827/may/01/new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "section": "new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "cue_text": "a laugh", "preceding_text": "et him be cautious how he commits himself to the more arduous duty of talking. His position this evening struck me as pre-eminently ludicrous, and almost induced me to call it by the appellation that properly belongs to it. He was placed, it evidently appeared between two equal and opposite sets of motives, each of similar powers, attracted as it were, like a certain animal, by two bundles of hay "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1827/may/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1827/may/01/new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "section": "new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "cue_text": "a laugh", "preceding_text": "assured, when I tell him, that there is not in any question, in or out of the cabinet, the shadow of an intention, all at once to alter the policy that has been pursued for many years with regard to the Catholic claims, and now, for the first time, to make it a cabinet question. But, will nothing but the entire destruction of the new administration satisfy the hon. baronet? I speak as a bystander "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1827/may/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1827/may/01/new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "section": "new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "cue_text": "cheers and laughter.", "preceding_text": "tion of the new administration satisfy the hon. baronet? I speak as a bystander [a laugh]. If he is not satisfied with my relative, lord Bexley, is the new lord chancellor nothing? Is he no security? Did he not hear the speech of that noble and learned lord, on the last debate in this House, when I was sitting a humble member of that body of which the hon. baronet is now the distinguished leader? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1827/may/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1827/may/01/new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "section": "new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "cue_text": "cheers 428 and laughter", "preceding_text": "se of the House has already been declared against it, that man, I say, will not further the interests of Ireland or of the Catholics. Nor will he do his duty with regard to the tranquillity of Ireland, or the peace of her government; but he will shew himself the worst enemy of the momentous interests he pretends to uphold, and make himself a blind tool in the hands of the member for Somersetshire "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1827/may/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1827/may/01/new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "section": "new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "cue_text": "cheers", "preceding_text": "nfluence of opinion and feeling, was in the highest degree grateful to me; and in which I was surrounded and (if it may be permitted me to say so) supported, by one of the largest, the most important, the most honourable, and, now I may say it, for I was privy to all their councils, and my motives cannot be suspected, the most disinterested Opposition, that ever sat within the walls of this House "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1827/may/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1827/may/01/new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "section": "new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "cue_text": "cheers", "preceding_text": ", for I was privy to all their councils, and my motives cannot be suspected, the most disinterested Opposition, that ever sat within the walls of this House [cheers]; men who supported what they deemed right, though it kept them out of power; and confirmed their adversaries in office, and who persevered in that course year after year, without a possible hope of benefit ever accruing to themselves "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1827/may/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1827/may/01/new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "section": "new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "cue_text": "cheers", "preceding_text": "ht, though it kept them out of power; and confirmed their adversaries in office, and who persevered in that course year after year, without a possible hope of benefit ever accruing to themselves [cheers]. I have quitted that honourable and eminent situation, enough to gratify the ambition of the proudest of men, on an express stipulation, which utterly excludes the possibility of my taking office "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1827/may/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1827/may/01/new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "section": "new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "cue_text": "hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "eling of unallayed satisfaction.—From the beginning of these discussions, I foresaw—both of us foresaw—that they must terminate in a separation; which I hope to God may be only for a time! Had the question been merely between my right hon. friend and myself, and had it been to be decided by his retirement or by mine, I do most solemnly declare it should have been decided by the latter alternative "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1827/may/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1827/may/01/new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "section": "new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "cue_text": "hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "essity of such a course, and point out how difficulties might be surmounted or objections overcome. It was not for me, I say, to point out how it might be done; but I could 431 not disguise it from myself, as I had felt it my duty not to disguise it from my Sovereign, that although the formation of such a ministry was a work of very great difficulty, it was not a task of absolute impracticability "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1827/may/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1827/may/01/new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "section": "new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "cue_text": "hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "ght to be enforced, by the abortive motion of the hon. member for Somersetshire (sir T. Lethbridge). I mean not, however, to be guilty of any incivility; but I repeat, that I withdrew, in order to have that experiment fully and fairly tried; and I declare to God that there was nothing at that moment nearer to my heart, than that my stepping out of the way might remove every obstacle to that trial "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1827/may/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1827/may/01/new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "section": "new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "cue_text": "hear, hear", "preceding_text": "on. That the government should even consist of the very same individuals, I am sure I had no objection. But, what was proposed to me? That I, having his Majesty's commands to form a government upon the very same principles as those of my lamented predecessor, should place at the head of that government another person, holding upon the subject of the Roman Catholic claims lord Liverpool's opinions "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1827/may/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1827/may/01/new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "section": "new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "cue_text": "cheers", "preceding_text": "ct of the Roman Catholic claims lord Liverpool's opinions [hear, hear]? Now, what was it I was desired to sanction by the adoption of that course? What principle is it I was called upon to admit? Why, I was desired plainly to say, that I, holding the opinions I have repeatedly avowed myself to hold upon the Catholic question, am thereby disqualified from being placed at the head of the government "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1827/may/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1827/may/01/new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "section": "new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "cue_text": "cheers", "preceding_text": "stion, am thereby disqualified from being placed at the head of the government [cheers]. I was called upon to acknowledge, in the face of the country, that I, forming an administration upon the principles of lord Liverpool—that is, of divided opinions on the Catholic claims, was—from the very holding of a different and divided opinion—disqualified from taking the highest office in that government "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1827/may/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1827/may/01/new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "section": "new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "cue_text": "hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "altogether and for ever from public life; I will betake myself to the furthest boundary of the earth, and into perpetual banishment; I will resign any and every hope of office—for I care nothing for office—but I will not disgrace myself, by consenting to sanction a principle which could only bring degradation to those who must become the subject of such an exclusion upon account of their opinions "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1827/may/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1827/may/01/new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "section": "new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "cue_text": "cheers", "preceding_text": "ot submit. I would rather have quitted office a thousand times —I would rather be proscribed and persecuted by all who are disposed to proscribe and persecute for opinions—than live to be execrated to all futurity, for having, in my person, fixed such a blot upon the cause of those who thought that every man was free to hold opinions, although he might not be able to persuade others to adopt them "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1827/may/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1827/may/01/new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "section": "new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "cue_text": "hear, hear", "preceding_text": "otestant resignations. However, five Protestant resignations, at all events, came into the king's hands, within twenty-four hours; and thus, five of the members on whom I had reckoned for the new cabinet, were at once withdrawn; and, upon this statement, I again ask the House, whether it is fair to impute to me a wilful non-execution of the orders of my Sovereign, in the formation of that cabinet "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1827/may/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1827/may/01/new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "section": "new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "cue_text": "loud cheers", "preceding_text": " for if we wait until the holidays, without adopting any definitive steps, I see that it is quite hopeless for me to attempt to persevere in the objects I have undertaken.\" I cannot repeat to the House, the words in which my Sovereign graciously replied to this representation, but I may state that he was pleased to give me his hand to kiss, and confirmed me in the office to which I had been named "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1827/may/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1827/may/01/new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "section": "new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "cue_text": "loud cheers", "preceding_text": " myself, it is almost unnecessary for me to observe, that upon every subject, in every discussion I can call to mind, upon all great questions of foreign or domestic policy and legislation—this one unhappy question of Catholic emancipation excepted—there has been that sort of general agreement, that I do not believe there exists the individual with whom my opinions are in more complete accordance—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1827/may/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1827/may/01/new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "section": "new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "cue_text": "hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "y any measures of my own, produced intentionally any such change in those opinions as should have led to this unwillingness on their parts to continue to act with me. As I am resolved not to say any thing which may be called unkind, I have abstained, therefore, in what I have said, from stating any thing more than how I am situated with respect to my late col- 436 leagues, and how I came to be so "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1827/may/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1827/may/01/new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "section": "new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "cue_text": "cheers", "preceding_text": "the House, said, how was it possible not to perceive, that without my doing any thing active in the cause of the Catholics, without my moving even a finger in their support, my mere existence in my present position, and the absence of those others—for whose absence, be it recollected, I am not responsible—must be taken as a moral promotion of that question upon which we have been hitherto divided "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1827/may/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1827/may/01/new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "section": "new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "cue_text": "cries of hear!", "preceding_text": "y doing any thing active in the cause of the Catholics, without my moving even a finger in their support, my mere existence in my present position, and the absence of those others—for whose absence, be it recollected, I am not responsible—must be taken as a moral promotion of that question upon which we have been hitherto divided [cheers]. Sir, I cannot possibly deny the truth of that observation "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1827/may/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1827/may/01/new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "section": "new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "cue_text": "hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "eclared their intention to bestow upon the present administration. That opposition have declared their intention to support me. And why? Because they see the very same thing about to come to pass as the right hon. gentleman—that without stirring, as I have said, a single step in the advocacy of the cause they have espoused, my mere existence where I am is an unquestionable advance of their object "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1827/may/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1827/may/01/new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "section": "new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "cue_text": "cheers", "preceding_text": " prepared to contend, that a reason which has been good for him is bad for them. Surely he is not disposed to contend, that if he was justified in resigning his situation because he thought the Catholic cause, which he opposes, received an impulse by my advance, others are not equally justified in saying, that they will support me, because the question which they support has received that impulse "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1827/may/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1827/may/01/new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "section": "new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "cue_text": "hear, hear!", "preceding_text": " of an impulse created by my situation, surely I cannot help the consequences; and I 437 can only say, in reply to the taunts of the hon. gentleman (sir T. Lethbridge), upon the subject of the support of the Opposition, that I trust they will upon those subjects afford me the support which I may be found to deserve, tempered only by that degree of difference which may be found to exist between us "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1827/may/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1827/may/01/new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "section": "new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "cue_text": "loud cheers", "preceding_text": "forward the question beyond that point, and who hope to accomplish their object, by a premature exertion of power on the one hand; or if there be others who would not hesitate to stifle all just and natural expression of feeling or opinion, at the risk of a national convulsion, I can only say that I am not of their number, and that I am not prepared for the convulsion either in England or Ireland "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1827/may/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1827/may/01/new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "section": "new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "cue_text": "hear, hear", "preceding_text": "e Catholic claims, I reply, that I would venerate in that illustrious individual, as I did in Ins royal father, the 443 repugnant feelings which actuate him on this question. I would hurt no feelings, as I have already said, of that nature. But, if I am asked by that hon. gentleman, whether I think the Coronation oath is any obstacle in the way of concession on the part of the Crown, I answer, no "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1827/may/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1827/may/01/new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "section": "new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "cue_text": "loud cheers", "preceding_text": " the disdain and indignation with which I have more recently rejected their offer to serve under a Protestant cabinet (using this term Protestant in the familiar sense only in which we are accustomed to use it in discussions of this kind) to serve under the same men, in short, on a condition which I should regard as the badge of my Helotism, and as the indelible disgrace of my political existence "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1827/may/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1827/may/01/new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "section": "new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "cue_text": "a laugh", "preceding_text": "on is merely whether I must revoke an intention I had previously formed of tendering my resignation, or go on acting with a minister, who, upon that question, is most decidedly opposed to me.\" He further understood the lord Chancellor to say, that although he was thus desirous to resign, he was disposed to remain in office for some few weeks longer, with the intention of delivering some judgments "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1827/may/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1827/may/01/new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "section": "new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "cue_text": "hear, hear", "preceding_text": " on the 11th or 12th. Lord Westmoreland's letter was dated the 11th, and lords Bathurst's and Melville's on the 12th. These facts, Sir, I think, will shew that, however extraordinary the coincidence alluded to by my right hon. friend, the time was too short for concert. But, whether the coincidence was extraordinary or not, I pledge my word, as a man of honour, that the answers were not concerted "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1827/may/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1827/may/01/new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "section": "new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "cue_text": "hear, hear", "preceding_text": "e was extraordinary or not, I pledge my word, as a man of honour, that the answers were not concerted [hear, hear], and that on Thursday, the 12th, no one of my colleagues said to another \"my answer shall be the same as yours,\" or entered into any communication on the subject that could lead to a concerted arrangement, or imply the existence of any doubt 447 or contingency in the minds of parties "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1827/may/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1827/may/01/new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "section": "new-administration-mr-peels-exposition", "cue_text": "hear, hear", "preceding_text": "ndeed, have been expected. I have heard the sarcasms uttered in this House, that if Catholic emancipation were made a point in the formation of an administration, the lord Chancellor would accede to it rather than give up his place; and I do think it a little hard, now that he adheres to his principles, and refuses office rather than concede them, that he should be charged with joining in a cabal "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1827/may/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1827/may/08/borough-of-penryn", "section": "borough-of-penryn", "cue_text": "a laugh", "preceding_text": "on in the borough of Penryn. On the Monday preceding the election, so careful were the candidates to disclaim any notion of using any other than constitutional means to forward their respective interests, that they actually procured the town-crier to proclaim in the market-place, that the practice previously resorted to of making the electors \"comfortable\" would, on that occasion, be discontinued "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1827/may/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1827/may/08/borough-of-penryn", "section": "borough-of-penryn", "cue_text": "hear, and a laugh.", "preceding_text": "en them for half that sum which had been received. For this, Grampound was disfranchised; but had he had the honour of a seat in parliament on that occasion, he would have objected to the disfranchisement, though he would not have opposed the extension of the franchise to the neighbouring hundred.—The House ought to be cautious how they interfered to remove the franchise from independent boroughs "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1827/may/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1827/may/08/borough-of-penryn", "section": "borough-of-penryn", "cue_text": "hear, hear.", "preceding_text": " disfranchisement, though he would not have opposed the extension of the franchise to the neighbouring hundred.—The House ought to be cautious how they interfered to remove the franchise from independent boroughs [hear, and a laugh.] By independent boroughs he meant those in which noblemen and gentlemen did not actually appoint the members; which was well known to be the fact in several instances "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1827/may/08", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1827/may/08/borough-of-penryn", "section": "borough-of-penryn", "cue_text": "hear, hear", "preceding_text": "tting into what was called, in Penryn, a \"misfortune,\" and what was called, in the court of King's-bench, a misdemeanour; and Mr. Stanbury did all this, and moreover chose to lie and rot in gaol, rather than say a word about it, purely to secure the election of the hon. member for Penryn; he not being at all employed as the hon. member's agent, nor in any way indemnified by or connected with him! "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1827/may/25", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1827/may/25/new-administration-supply", "section": "new-administration-supply", "cue_text": "cries of \"order\"", "preceding_text": "red, ought any one to be surprised that suspicion filled the minds of many persons in the country? No; and he believed that there was but one feeling in the country, and that the present administration would continue to be an object of considerable distrust. There was another reason which must weigh with every body. If it was true that the illustrious individual who was at the head of the country "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1827/may/25", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1827/may/25/new-administration-supply", "section": "new-administration-supply", "cue_text": "laughter", "preceding_text": "he most shabby manner. He would say that this was not constitutional—it was not parliamentary—it was not like a prime minister; and he would tell those hon. gentlemen, that whatever their talents might be, if they were destitute of political integrity, their talents would weigh but as a feather in the estimation of the country. He was convinced that the time would come when the march of intellect "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1827/may/25", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1827/may/25/new-administration-supply", "section": "new-administration-supply", "cue_text": "laughter", "preceding_text": "er; and he would tell those hon. gentlemen, that whatever their talents might be, if they were destitute of political integrity, their talents would weigh but as a feather in the estimation of the country. He was convinced that the time would come when the march of intellect [laughter]—they had heard a great deal about the march of intellect, and it now turned out to be only a matter of merriment "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1827/may/25", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1827/may/25/new-administration-supply", "section": "new-administration-supply", "cue_text": "laughter.", "preceding_text": " not less than twelve for the Catholic question, and only three against it. Twelve to three were fearful odds; and yet it was not to be carried. The right hon. gentleman had allowed persons to slip a wedge into the cabinet, with the sharp end foremost. They had not begun to drive it yet; but when they did, the right hon. gentleman would find it difficult to prevent their driving it up to the hilt "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "lords/1827/may/25", "house": "lords", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1827/may/25/corn-bill", "section": "corn-bill", "cue_text": "Cries of \"No\"", "preceding_text": "had beheld with regret, on recent occasions, a greater degree of warmth and excitement than accorded with the dignity of their lordships' House. He trusted that such would not be the case on the present occasion—that their lordships would not treat the question as a party one. Their lordships might naturally be induced to consider themselves as the representatives of a particular class of persons "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1827/may/31", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1827/may/31/publication-of-libels-motion-for-repeal", "section": "publication-of-libels-motion-for-repeal", "cue_text": "a laugh", "preceding_text": "a perpetual law ought to be abrogated; and, by a felicitous mode of reasoning peculiar to himself, had argued that temporary and permanent acts were to be viewed precisely in the same light. Such logic, perhaps, it became the hon. gentleman to use, but would not become the House to adopt. It did not satisfy his understanding, although it might be quite convincing to the mind of the hon. gentleman "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1827/may/31", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1827/may/31/publication-of-libels-motion-for-repeal", "section": "publication-of-libels-motion-for-repeal", "cue_text": "hear, and a laugh", "preceding_text": "ge what that hon. member's feelings must be. For himself, he would not pursue that subject further, lest he should express himself towards the hon. member with too strong feelings of reprobation. He (sir R. Wilson) had come to the ministerial side of the House, not by that circuitous path which gentlemen generally followed in moving from one side to the other, but boldly and unblushingly, at once "}