{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1828/feb/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1828/feb/14/vote-of-thanks-to-sir-e-codrington", "section": "vote-of-thanks-to-sir-e-codrington", "cue_text": "hear, hear!", "preceding_text": " the Crown who called for their services. Their honour may be the plaything, perhaps the victim, of a courtier. Nothing can be more unfair—nothing more unjust—nothing more detrimental—to the public service. A practice involving such consequences should be abandoned; and it appears to me that the late achievement at Navarin, affords an opportunity which should not be suffered to pass by unimproved "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1828/feb/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1828/feb/14/vote-of-thanks-to-sir-e-codrington", "section": "vote-of-thanks-to-sir-e-codrington", "cue_text": "hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "s House, he flattered himself that no difference would exist on the proposition he was about to submit. It had always been the 364 custom to consider the services rendered by his majesty's army and navy, in carrying into effect the orders with which they were intrusted, distinctly and separately from the merits of the policy, by which his majesty's ministers were actuated in issuing those orders \""}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1828/feb/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1828/feb/14/vote-of-thanks-to-sir-e-codrington", "section": "vote-of-thanks-to-sir-e-codrington", "cue_text": "hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "n the present. Lord Castlereagh went on to remark, that the Vote of Thanks \"was a justice due to the army and the navy, who were never called upon to decide as to the propriety or impropriety, nor to mix their conduct with that of those by whose impulse they acted, and who alone were responsible for the prudence, justice, wisdom, and policy of the plans they directed to be carried into execution\" "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1828/feb/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1828/feb/14/vote-of-thanks-to-sir-e-codrington", "section": "vote-of-thanks-to-sir-e-codrington", "cue_text": "cheers", "preceding_text": "ajesty's ministers as to the propriety of the plans that might be carried into effect.—These gentlemen would naturally wish to bear testimony as warmly as any other, to the meritorious conduct of his majesty's army and navy; but they would find difficulty in so doing, with satisfaction, if the merits of the army and, navy were not submitted in a shape wholly distinct from the conduct of ministers "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1828/feb/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1828/feb/14/vote-of-thanks-to-sir-e-codrington", "section": "vote-of-thanks-to-sir-e-codrington", "cue_text": "cheers", "preceding_text": "his great deed of arms! I find no congratulation in the Royal Speech on this extraordinary achievement—Anachievement which, as far as relates to the glory of the British arms, and to the interests of civilization and humanity, is far more calculated than the expedition to Copenhagen to warrant the expression of national congratulation, and to call forth the expression of national gratitude "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1828/feb/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1828/feb/14/vote-of-thanks-to-sir-e-codrington", "section": "vote-of-thanks-to-sir-e-codrington", "cue_text": "hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "nt admiral's exemption from all blame, I have the additional fact, that he is still retained in the chief command of the Mediterranean. The noble duke at the head of the Administration is an excellent judge in what consists the carrying of military orders into effect; and sure I am, that if this gallant admiral exceeded his strict orders, the noble duke would not retain him in his present command "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1828/feb/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1828/feb/14/vote-of-thanks-to-sir-e-codrington", "section": "vote-of-thanks-to-sir-e-codrington", "cue_text": "hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "duct was such, that they placed the most implicit confidence in him, and allowed him to lead them on to victory. I should feel myself unworthy of the situation which I hold in his majesty's councils, if I thought myself capable of uttering a single syllable against that gallant admiral—admiring as I do the intrepid bravery with which he conducted himself in a moment of much difficulty and danger\" "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1828/feb/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1828/feb/14/vote-of-thanks-to-sir-e-codrington", "section": "vote-of-thanks-to-sir-e-codrington", "cue_text": "hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "a single syllable against that gallant admiral—admiring as I do the intrepid bravery with which he conducted himself in a moment of much difficulty and danger\" [hear, hear!]. Such is the testimony of the first minister of the Crown—a minister, too, it should be recollected, than whom there is no man living who better knows how far an officer may go in intrepidity with safety to his country "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1828/feb/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1828/feb/14/vote-of-thanks-to-sir-e-codrington", "section": "vote-of-thanks-to-sir-e-codrington", "cue_text": "cheers", "preceding_text": "entured to come forward on this trying occasion—unconnected with government—acting as an independent member of parliament, without concert with any party, I might almost add, uncertain of the support of any member in the House, and throwing myself, for whatever support my motion may receive, on the just principles and generous feelings which dwell in the bosoms of an assembly of English gentlemen "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1828/feb/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1828/feb/14/vote-of-thanks-to-sir-e-codrington", "section": "vote-of-thanks-to-sir-e-codrington", "cue_text": "hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "t, and commanded by the gallant British admiral, almost with her own broadsides destroyed two of the hostile line-of-battle ships. And here I beg leave to mention, on undoubted testimony, a fact which I believe has already appeared in the public prints—that twice during the action the quarter deck of the Asia was cleared, with the exception of sir E. Codrington himself, who was left upon it alone "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1828/feb/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1828/feb/14/vote-of-thanks-to-sir-e-codrington", "section": "vote-of-thanks-to-sir-e-codrington", "cue_text": "cries of \"hear, hear, hear!\" from all parts of the House.", "preceding_text": " Turkish vessels, which he soon captured. What I wish to add to these well-known facts is this: when captain Hugon pulled down the Turkish flag, such were the generosity and delicacy of the gallant Frenchman, that he did not hoist the French flag alone, but hoisted the French and British flags united; thereby intimating, that he had only terminated the contest which our brave countrymen had begun "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1828/feb/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1828/feb/14/vote-of-thanks-to-sir-e-codrington", "section": "vote-of-thanks-to-sir-e-codrington", "cue_text": "hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "r, only one frigate and fifteen smaller vessels are in a condition which will ever allow them again to go to sea.\" I repeat, that I am perfectly justified in contending that, considering the amount of force engaged, there is no naval action in our annals, the result of which was so completely decisive, and on the merits of which it is utterly impossible that there can be any difference of opinion "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1828/feb/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1828/feb/14/vote-of-thanks-to-sir-e-codrington", "section": "vote-of-thanks-to-sir-e-codrington", "cue_text": "hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "here but recently nothing but piracy and the most flagrant acts of violence were perpetrated, the state of affairs is such, both on land and at sea, as to afford every prospect, that no serious obstacle will interpose itself to the complete execution of the treaty of London, to the pacification of the Greeks, and to the settlement of those questions by which that country has been so long agitated "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1828/feb/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1828/feb/14/vote-of-thanks-to-sir-e-codrington", "section": "vote-of-thanks-to-sir-e-codrington", "cue_text": "a laugh", "preceding_text": "n this passage of lord Castlereagh's speech, as applied to the foe with whom sir Edward Codrington had to contend? The motion made by lord Castlereagh was seconded by an ingenious young gentleman of great talent and eloquence, Mr. Law. What has since become of that young gentleman, whether in his maturer years he has realised the promise of his more youthful days, it does not become me to inquire "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1828/feb/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1828/feb/14/vote-of-thanks-to-sir-e-codrington", "section": "vote-of-thanks-to-sir-e-codrington", "cue_text": "hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "ur upon those by whom it was performed; I say, that after the high testimony which has been borne to that fact, parliament cannot refuse to express its gratitude, unless something hitherto unknown can be brought forward to justify us in passing over what, I repeat, in the words of that ingenious and eloquent young gentleman, Mr. Law, was \"a noble enterprise, brilliantly achieved, in a good cause\" "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1828/feb/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1828/feb/14/vote-of-thanks-to-sir-e-codrington", "section": "vote-of-thanks-to-sir-e-codrington", "cue_text": "a laugh", "preceding_text": "be unaffected by the loss of their navy, but that they would be urged into all the fury of a desperate revenge by a vote of the English House of Commons. Sir, in my younger days I spent some time in Turkey; and if the apprehension of these worthy persons be true, then the \"march of intellect\" has made a greater progress in that country than it ever did at any period in any other part of the world "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1828/feb/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1828/feb/14/vote-of-thanks-to-sir-e-codrington", "section": "vote-of-thanks-to-sir-e-codrington", "cue_text": "a laugh", "preceding_text": "in Turkey; and if the apprehension of these worthy persons be true, then the \"march of intellect\" has made a greater progress in that country than it ever did at any period in any other part of the world [a laugh]. Why, Sir, while I was in habits of intercourse with a number, of very respectable Mussulmans, I never met with more than one man who had even ever heard of the English House of Commons "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1828/feb/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1828/feb/14/vote-of-thanks-to-sir-e-codrington", "section": "vote-of-thanks-to-sir-e-codrington", "cue_text": "hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "be under any apprehension, that the negotiation will be broken off by the House of Commons passing a vote of thanks to sir Edward Codrington. There is only one thing of which we have reason to be afraid;—not of exasperating the Grand Signior, but of giving to prince Metternich and the Austrian cabinet any reason to hope or expect, that we are disposed in the least to flinch from our determination "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1828/feb/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1828/feb/14/vote-of-thanks-to-sir-e-codrington", "section": "vote-of-thanks-to-sir-e-codrington", "cue_text": "hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "n to be afraid;—not of exasperating the Grand Signior, but of giving to prince Metternich and the Austrian cabinet any reason to hope or expect, that we are disposed in the least to flinch from our determination [hear, hear!]. If there be the least danger of our negotiation being disturbed, that danger will proceed not from a vote of the House of Commons, but from a courier from Vienna 385 "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1828/feb/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1828/feb/14/vote-of-thanks-to-sir-e-codrington", "section": "vote-of-thanks-to-sir-e-codrington", "cue_text": "hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "posite and their colleagues concur in opinion, that there is only one way of carrying the policy hitherto pursued by this country into effect; namely, by determined perseverance, I have no doubt that they will be able fully to accomplish the desirable object in view. Sir, I shall take the liberty of including, in my proposed Vote of Thanks, the admirals commanding the French and Russian squadrons "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1828/feb/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1828/feb/14/vote-of-thanks-to-sir-e-codrington", "section": "vote-of-thanks-to-sir-e-codrington", "cue_text": "loud cheers from both sides of the House", "preceding_text": "merits were acknowledged by his own sovereign, foreign potentates made haste to honour him, rival nations conspired to praise him, but his fellow-subjects were unmindful of his prowess, and would contribute nothing to his fame, domestic jealousies had mastered their better feelings; they gloried in the triumph of a party; they forgot the interests of Christendom, and the champion of civilization\" "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1828/feb/18", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1828/feb/18/ministerial-explanations", "section": "ministerial-explanations", "cue_text": "a laugh", "preceding_text": "entleman. P.S. — I take it for granted Mr. Brougham will have some comments to make on the transaction; but that, on this point, he may not proceed on wrong grounds, I wish you to communicate the contents of this letter to him. I am quite ready to obey the reverend writer's injunctions in this respect. Mr. Brougham ,.—It is quite unnecessary. I accept the right hon. gentleman's personal guarantee "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1828/feb/18", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1828/feb/18/ministerial-explanations", "section": "ministerial-explanations", "cue_text": "hear, hear", "preceding_text": "s account of the causes of that dissolution, omitted to make any mention. I say that circumstances were known before the 21st, to those connected with the government, which made them foresee the dissolution that was about to take place. I further say, that this letter and proceeding of mine was taken advantage of, as a convenient opportunity for doing that which sooner or later must have happened "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1828/feb/18", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1828/feb/18/ministerial-explanations", "section": "ministerial-explanations", "cue_text": "hear, hear", "preceding_text": "ich made them foresee the dissolution that was about to take place. I further say, that this letter and proceeding of mine was taken advantage of, as a convenient opportunity for doing that which sooner or later must have happened [hear, hear]. I say that I know it was so taken advantage of. I say that I know it was discussed, whether my letter should not be made use of in the manner it has been, "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1828/feb/18", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1828/feb/18/ministerial-explanations", "section": "ministerial-explanations", "cue_text": "cheering", "preceding_text": "nour in question, defend myself in the best manner my situation will allow me. I say then that no minister could take such a trifling fact as this—such a paltry subject of difficulty as this—to the foot of the throne, and leave it there as a difficulty and embarrassment, unaccompanied by any advice as to the removal of it, without virtually giving in his own resignation of office at the same time "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1828/feb/18", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1828/feb/18/ministerial-explanations", "section": "ministerial-explanations", "cue_text": "loud cheers", "preceding_text": "stances were known there until they were made known by my noble friend. That I believe; but with respect to myself, I can solemnly affirm, that there exists not the shadow of a reason for the insinuation, that has been 505 thrown out against me on that point. I have now nothing more to trouble the House with—nothing but to thank it for the patience and kindness with which they have listened to me "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1828/feb/18", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1828/feb/18/ministerial-explanations", "section": "ministerial-explanations", "cue_text": "A laugh", "preceding_text": "t was at an end. Indeed, the last determination of his right hon. friend which he had heard of was, that though apprehensive that the government could not go on, he would rather die on the field than abandon the service of his king. Now this was exactly his (Mr. Tierney's) opinion. He thought so too. And, by-the-by, he did not abandon the service, but was killed the other day in \"a chance-medley\" "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1828/feb/18", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1828/feb/18/ministerial-explanations", "section": "ministerial-explanations", "cue_text": "a laugh.", "preceding_text": " Mr. Canning readily agreed with him that he should do 515 so, and, knowing probably, as well as he did, how little chance the question had of being carried, merely added, with a smile, that he hoped he would not fight for parliamentary reform, on the Treasury bench, and he (Mr. T.) promised that he would not; but that he would go up a bench or two higher whenever he had occasion to speak upon it "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1828/feb/18", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1828/feb/18/ministerial-explanations", "section": "ministerial-explanations", "cue_text": "a laugh", "preceding_text": " to be apprehended, that any material retrogradation would arise when those principles were firmly fixed—if his right hon. friend had felt the conviction, that he could assist in carrying those principles into execution, and if he had shrunk through cowardice from joining those with whom he had formerly acted, he would have stood immeasurably lower in the estimation of the country than he now did "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1828/feb/18", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1828/feb/18/ministerial-explanations", "section": "ministerial-explanations", "cue_text": "a laugh", "preceding_text": "unce them and their agents as unknown to the British constitution, and derogatory to the honour of the Crown. He trusted that the duke of Wellington, and the right hon. Secretary for the Home Department, would not allow the finances of this great country to be controlled any longer by a Jew, or the distribution of the patronage 543 of the Grown be operated upon by the prescriptions of a physician "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1828/jun/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1828/jun/02/east-retford-disfranchisement-bill-mr", "section": "east-retford-disfranchisement-bill-mr", "cue_text": "hear, hear", "preceding_text": "however unimportant in itself the question which has given rise to that appearance. Regretting the necessity of troubling you with this communication, believe me my dear duke ever truly yours, (Signed) \"W. HUSKISSON. Now, Sir, I ask any man at all acquainted with political affairs, and the usages of public men, whether the expressions in this letter do not amount to a formal tender of resignation "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1828/jun/02", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1828/jun/02/east-retford-disfranchisement-bill-mr", "section": "east-retford-disfranchisement-bill-mr", "cue_text": "loud cheers", "preceding_text": "idence and the timidity of despair.—I shall give my best services to my sovereign, so long as he shall be pleased to command them. Whatever difficulties I may have to encounter, or however exposed I may be to the calumnies by which public men are assailed from all sides, I shall devote to the last hour every energy I may possess, to the maintenance of that post in which my sovereign has placed me "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1828/may/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1828/may/16/navy-estimates", "section": "navy-estimates", "cue_text": "a laugh", "preceding_text": " At the same time, too, the military force continued the same, and therefore they could easily spare two or three thousand marines. He was sorry that his hon. friend had not proposed this reduction as well as the other. He would contend that they were now leaving it to ministers to 766 decide what force should be kept; and, if this were to be the case, the sooner that House was shut up the better "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1828/may/30", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1828/may/30/miscellaneous-estimates", "section": "miscellaneous-estimates", "cue_text": "a laugh", "preceding_text": "that when the treaty was signed, the Mexican government thought proper to make a present of 1,000 l. and it was usual, in diplomacy, to return it: but, whether that was, or was not, consistent with the law of Mexico, he could not say. § Mr. Hume said, that a stop should be put to this exchange of presents with foreign ministers, which he looked upon as nothing else but bribery and corruption "}