repared to throw the whole of the go-tended strongly for the question, as a meaernment of this country into the hands sure which the House ought to adopt f the opposition? Were they prepared without further delay. They must do it do this? If they were, they would sooner or later. It was impossible that ote for the present question; for to so the nation could go on in its present state. uch the present question went. But if, With distracted councils, and a ministry 1 the contrary, they wished for an ad- unpopular, without the confidence either inistration made up of all the ability, all of the parliament or the people, we could é weight, and all the interest of the em- not go on; something must immediately re, for such an administration as they be done to restore vigour and stability to escribed by the term coalition, they the cabinet, and confidential security, if ould then resist the present question, as not a peace, to the nation. nding to retard, if not totally prevent, Mr. William Pitt made a most spirited at desirable end. The manner in which speech. He took up in particular the arcould be best accomplished, was by pre-gument of the Lord Advocate, and exrving the present ministry in their places posed, in the most forcible and pointed til the coalition could be formed. The manner, the reasoning which he had ble lord in the blue ribbon had declared assumed. The learned lord had very ; readiness and desire to see such a conscientiously owned that the present alition take place, and that he should ministry had not the confidence of the t himself stand in the way of it; this, people. The necessity of a coalition he en, was the way which the House ought had strongly enforced on the ministry pursue in order to accomplish their having lost the confidence of the people; shes. Suffer the present ministry to re- and he gravely argued, that they ought to ain, and frame the coalition. Turn them be continued in power, for the purpose of t, and there is no coalition, but the forming this new administration: so that ntlemen on the other side succeed in the ministry, who were generally acknoweir room. He put the case of a ship ledged to be unfit for the purpose of gossed in a violent storm, and asked, if the vernment, were yet to be entrusted with ouse thought the best way to secure the this most important trust of forming a fety of the vessel, and bring her into new administration, which was to conduct rt, was to throw all the crew overboard? this nation from its present dreadful emhe present motion was exactly such a barrassments to a more prosperous state. oposition; it went immediately to the He said, if he knew the meaning of the H moval of all the ministers without dis- word coalition, it was the collecting and action; therefore, it was directly throw- combining all the abilities, integrity, and g the whole of the government into the judgment that were to be found, and turninds of the other side of the House. ing the united exertions of such a coaliLord John Cavendish said, that by tion to the service and salvation of the greeing to the present motion, the House country. Was that a work fit to be enno means placed the opposition in trusted to the noble lord, and to be setower, and thereby prevented the coali- tled by him in his closet? Surely the on so ardently desired. They did no House would agree with him, that a ore than take the executive government proposition of that kind was a gross om the present hands, and leave it to insult to parliament, and ought not to is Majesty to frame such a new adminis- be listened to for a moment. The admiration as his Majesty should think most nistration of the noble lord in the blue roper. This was not a new practice, for, ribbon, had been an administration of om the records of that House he could influence and of intrigue; he thanked rove, that it had been often done very God, an end was likely to be put to that uch to the advantage of the nation, as administration, but he trusted the House me of the best and greatest administra- would not contaminate their own purpose, ons had been formed in this manner. by suffering the present ministers to mahe noble lord stated several instances of nage the appointment of their successors. is sort, in which, after the nation had As little was it proper for that House to r years laboured under the calamity of be enquiring what was the system of meaeak and bad government, they had by a sures likely to be pursued by a new admirtunate change, brought about in this nistration? It neither became them to anner, restored themselves to credit, settle the men that were to come in, nor onour, and success. The noble lord con- to adjust or investigate the measures they

So it passed in the negative. When Hon. W. Tollemache.

Dartmouth.

Lord viscount Howe.

William Masterman. Art. Holdsworth.

Hon. Rich. Fitzpatrick, Rt. hon. Rich. Rigby.