proposition of the noble Lord, Members of the late Government, would prove that they were swayed in their conduct by no factious motives, but that they were directed alone by an attachment to those principles which they had formerly professed. The hon. Member for Oldham used the same arguments against any coalition on the part of those who differed in opinion, as those which were urged by the Gentlemen who occupied the Treasury Bench; but, he could assure the hon. Member, that, if he brought forward any question which he could honestly support, he should have his vote with as much readiness as he now gave it to a Government who, on the present occasion, pursued the only course which, upon every principle of justice and of duty to his country, he felt compelled to sanction. The only ground of alarm which the Ministry could reasonably apprehend referred to the pledges which had been given on the hustings. He believed, that these pledges might have been honestly given in some instances; it was possible that some of them also had been given in ignorance. [Loud cries of " Oh, oh!" and Laughter.] He repeated, that it was very possible some of these pledges had been given in ignorance; but this, he felt, was an excuse which could not be acquiesced in by the constituents of those who were now about to vote in the teeth of those pledges which they had given to their constituents on the hustings. Ignorance could not be an excuse. This was no new subject. Gentlemen who aspired to become Members of Parliament were bound to understand what the Malt-tax was; and when men of character, station, and independence came forward as Whig candidates, and refused to pledge themselves to a measure which they saw no possibility of being carried into execution, those who defeated them by taking an opposite course, had no right, consistently with an adherence to justice and political truth, after carrying their elections triumphantly by inscribing on their banners "No Malttax," when they came to vote in Parliament, to plead ignorance of the nature of the pledge by making which, they had succeeded in obtaining their seats. He could never approve of that deviation from principle which must be committed by those Gentlemen if they acted in the manner which was contemplated; he hoped that the truth might be conveyed to the public; he would certainly have the question put, and an answer-demanded and returned at the hustings hereafter, and that men should be made responsible for holding out expectations which as Representatives, they found it inexpedient to realize. The delusion on the subject of the Malt-tax was, previous to the last election, extended throughout the country. The Whigs-that party with which he had always the honour to actwere stigmatised as the enemies of the farmers, and their opponents lauded as their steady and faithful friends. Let the constituency of Derbyshire be taught that, as far as the Malt-tax was concerned, one of their Candidates was as true a friend to the farmer as the other. In noticing the delusion which prevailed upon this subject, he could not help referring to a circular which had been put forth by the supporters of the right hon. Baronet previous to the last election, and which claimed for the Tories the support of the farmers at the approaching election. The address to which he alluded, was in the following words :-" Farmers of England! look to your Representatives!Recollect, a Knatchbull for Kent, out of office, voted for the Repeal of the Malttax; a Baring, for Essex, out of office, voted for the Repeal of the Malt-tax; a Lincoln, for Notts, out of office, voted for the Repeal of the Malt-tax; an Ashley, for Dorset, out of office, voted for a Repeal of the Malt-tax; Murray, for Perthshire, out of office, voted for a Repeal of the Malt-tax! Farmers of England! look well to these official Gentlemen, and now that they are in office, take care they do not change their votes; but let them prove their consistency, as Lord Chandos has done, by voting with him, as they did before." He begged the House to understand, that he did not make any allusion to those points for the purpose of pinning hon. Members to the opinions which they might have expressed on the hustings. If these sentiments had been unwisely or ignorantly stated, Members were bound to adhere to that which would most promote the public interest, and secure the confidence of the public; but he hoped that never again would they venture to unfold the blazing oriflamme on which the words "No Malt-tax," were inscribed. He felt he could add but little to what had already been so powerfully, so eloquently, so conclusively urged, from the other side of the House; but, if amongst any hon. Gentle- | ed for creating an efficient sinking fund, man, misgivings still remained, he should hoping, at the same time, that "hon. refer them to the authority of a speech Members would not be led away by the made upon a subject not analogous to the present-it was a speech proceeding from what he had been accustomed to esteem a very high authority, a speech made upon a practical question-one involving principles of fair dealing, good faith, and public credit. He admitted that the authority to which he referred, went further than was necessary for the purposes of the present argument; it went beyond what he now contemplated; it required that a large surplus revenue should, if possible, be maintained, with a view to the purposes of a sinking fund. Though the general argument might not be precisely applicable to the present case, yet the particular observation was so closely analogous, as completely to serve the purposes of his argument. In 1830, a right hon. Gentleman, of great weight in commercial matters presented a petition from the city of London, he hoped that that petition still remained amongst the records of the Board of Trade. The right hon. Gentleman, at that time Member for Callington, entertained opinions which, it was to be hoped, still survived, and which he trusted to see displayed in the department over which he presided-those opinions were fully expressed on the occasion of presenting that petition; and the application of his authority to the present question would, he felt fully persuaded, be attended with an advantageous effect. The right -namely, that on this, and all other ochon. Gentleman considering it the duty of casions, they would all feel it as a paraParliament that measures should be adopt- | mount duty to maintain the national faith. cry for a reduction of taxation. If that were a cry raised in the market-place of Chelmsford, it might minister to the prejudices of some, but it did not come recommended by any maxim of political wisdom; such a cry might produce its effects upon Penenden-heath, but, if it were to be a rule for the government of the country, the honour, the interests, the power of the country, could not fail to be weakened by its operation; and he trusted that the House would listen to those considerations." Such was the language formerly held by the right hon. Gentleman. When during the late Administration the same Gentleman came down to discuss the question of finance in that House, bearing upon the Repeal of the tax in question, he hesitated not to designate the remission of taxation, as the subject of a general scramble for the advantage of individual interests in that House, in which scramble each class was justified in seeking to secure all to itself: those were views, the consistency of which he left the right hon. Gentleman to establish; but in even incidentally adverting to them, he could not help expressing a hope that his hon. Friends around him would never act in that House, upon the principle of a scramble; and, whether in the Government, or out of it, he could entertain but one opinion of the Members of that House END OF VOL. XXVI. THIRD SERIES, AND OF FIRST VOL. OF SESS. 1835. : GENERAL INDEXES TO VOL. XXVI., (THIRD SERIES) SESSION 1835. OF HANSARD'S PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES. (A.)-SUBJECTS OF DEBATES. No I. HOUSE OF LORDS.-N° II. HOUSE OF COMMONS. N°I. DEBATES-LORDS. ADDRESS in Answer to the King's Speech, Oaths, Unnecessary ones, xxvi. 415, 460 Corporation, Commission, (see also Debate on | Slavery, Effects of the Abolition of, xxvi. 416, 1059. Speaker, his Majesty's approval of the Com- mons' choice of, xxvi. 61 Speech, the King's, xxvi. 67 Universities, Oaths taken at, xxvi, 576 ADDRESS, in Answer to the King's Speech, | Magistracy, (Ireland), xxvi. 1135 xxvi. 151, 243, 325, 425 Agriculture, Distress of, xxvi. 1018 Malt Duties, xxvi. 737, 1233 Margaret's (Saint) Westminster, xxvi. 533 Answer, the King's to the Address, xxvi. Military in Ireland, xxvi. 510 468 Armagh, outrages in, xxvi. 589, 888 Bankrupts, Sequestration of (Scotland) xxvi. 871 Boroughs, the New, xxvi. 424 Business of the House, xxvi. 320, 850 Cabriolets, xxvi. 1118 Carlow, Magistrates of, xxvi. 590 Canada, xxvl. 660, 1013 Chatham Election, xxvi. 1193 Chester, Execution of Criminals at, xxvi. 555 Church of Ireland, xxvi. 937, 1016 Cinque Ports Pilots, xxvi. 902 Committees, Chairman of, xxvi. 485 Corn, illegal importation of, xxvi. 490 Debt, Abolition of Imprisonment for, (Eng- -- Scotland, xxvi. 574, 1169 -- Employed at Elections in Ireland, xxvi. East India Company's Maritime officers, xxvi. Regium Donum, xxvi. 528 Rathcormac, Affray at, xxvi. 486, 523 Registration, General (Scotland) xxvi. 886 Roman Catholic Marriages, xxvi. 1231 Russia, Ambassador to, xxvi. 938, 1018 Sabbath, Observance of, xxvi. 861 Seamen, Registration of, xxvi. 1120 Session, Court of Scotland, xxvi, 572, 1167 Sinecures, xxvi. 536 Smithfield Market, xxvi. 880 Speaker, Choice of, xxvi. 2 -- King's approval of, xxvi. 63 Supplies, xxvi. 471, 554, 602, 884, 990, 1047, Taxation, Revision of, xxvi. 734 Van Diemen's Land, Trial by Jury at, xxvi. 532 Weavers, Hand-loom, xxvi. 715 (B).-MEMBERS WHO HAVE SPOKEN IN DEBATE :- I.-HOUSE OF LORDS. ww ABERDEEN, the Earl of, xxvi. 419, 423, 1054, Llandaff, Bishop of, xxvi. 581, 586, 587 1132, 1134, 1189 Brougham, Lord, xxvi. 88, 98, 128, 137, 139, 320, 422, 489, 584, 586, 731, 732, 734, 930, Buckingham, Duke of, xxvi. 1011, 1012, 1055, Bute, the Marquess of, xxvi. 657, 658 Camden, Marquess of, xxvi. 731 313, 316, 930, 934, 1055, 1056 Ellenborough, Lord, xxvi. 305, 310, 319 Gage, Lord, xxvi. 68, Appendix, 1247 Hardwicke, the Earl of, xxvi. 67 Lansdowne, the Marquess of, xxvi. 305, 416, Londonderry, Marquess of, xxvi. 1004 Melbourne, Lord Viscount, xxvi. 75, 87 Plunkett, Lord, xxvi. 311 Radnor, Lord, xxvi. 313, 576, 586, 588, 935 II.-HOUSE OF COMMONS. ABERCROMBIE, Mr. xxvi. 26, 35, (See Speaker) | Baines, Mr. xxvi. 527, 723, 1097 Advocate, the Lord, xxvi. 572, 574, 575, 872, 888, 1168, 1169, 1170 Aglionby, Mr. xxvi. 558 Agnew, Sir Andrew, xxvi. 865 Ainsworth, Mr. xxvi. 424 Ashley, Lord, xxvi. 659, 808, 990, 1001, 1002, Attorney General, the, (the Hon. and Learned Attwood, Mr. Thomas, xxvi. 463, 716 Bagshaw, Mr. xxvi. 725, 729 Barclay, Mr. Charles, xxvi. 483 Barclay, Mr. David, xxvi. 1131 Baring, the Right. Hon. Mr. (President of the Barron, Mr. xxvi. 929 Barry, Mr. xxvi. 212 Bateson, Sir Robert, xxvi. 550, 896,928, 1238, Beresford, Sir John, xxvi. 1195 Berkeley, Mr. Grantley, xxvi. 335, 1041, 1048 |