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or procuring to be committed so 

 high an offence, and for prevent- 

 ing the repetition or continuance 

 of such publications." 



Lord Castlereagh, in the begin- 

 ning of his reply, having said that 

 the hon. gentleman, under the 

 mask of defending the princess of 

 Wales, had indulged himself in a 

 most persona], improper, illiberal, 

 unfair, and unparliamentary at- 

 tack on the Prince Regent, his 

 words were taken down, and an 

 altercation ensued, which was ter- 

 minated by an explanation. His 

 lordship then proceeded to make 

 remarks on the motion and the 

 speech of the mover, and repeated 

 his reasons lor not giving answers 

 to ihe questions put to him, and 

 for thinking that the House was 

 not called upon to interfere in 

 this matter. 



After several other members had 

 spoken in the debate, Mr.Tierney 

 moved as an amendment to Mr. 

 Whitbread's motion (with his ac- 

 quiescence), •' That the printer 

 and publisher of the Morning Post 

 and of the Morning Herald, do at- 

 tend at the bar of this House to- 

 morrow, to answer by whose au- 

 thority they had published the de- 

 positions before the privy-council, 

 and from whom they had received 

 them." 



Mr. Canning made a speech, 

 which, by its moderate tone, and 

 his declaration, that as far as he 

 was concerned, the minutes of the 

 council in 1807, were a perfect 

 acquittal of her royal highness, 

 seemed to give general satisfac- 

 tion. 



Mr. Whitbread concluded the 

 «lebate by his reply ; and the ques- 

 tion being put, the motion was 

 inegativud wUhout a division. 



The remarks which had been 

 made by Mr. Whitbread in conse- 

 quence of reading the professed 

 authentic copy of Mrs. Lisle's 

 examination, occasionedaremark- 

 able conversation in the House of 

 Lords on March 22nd, in which 

 house nothing had hitherto passed 

 relative to the subject of the prin- 

 cess of Wales. 



Lord Elknborough rose, and 

 after an introduction of great so- 

 lemnity said, that in the case al- 

 luded to, the persons intrusted 

 with the commission were charged 

 with having fabricated an unau- 

 thorised document, purporting to 

 relate what was not given in evi- 

 dence, and to suppress what was 

 given. " Thisaccusation, (said his 

 lordship, ) is as false as hell in every 

 part." He then proceeded to give 

 an account of the mode in which 

 every thing had been taken down 

 from the mouth of the witness, 

 and afterwards read over to, and 

 subscribed by her. He spoke of 

 the folly and ignorance of suppos- 

 ing that the testimony of witnesses 

 should be recorded in the way of 

 question and answer ; and con- 

 cluded a speech of great energy, 

 by again positively denying the 

 truth of the imputations thrown 

 upon the commissioners. 



He was followed by the other 

 noble lords who composed this 

 commission, Erskiue, Spencer.and 

 Grenville, each of whom, in strong 

 terms, asserted the fairness and 

 correctness with which the evi- 

 dence had been taken and record- 

 ed, and disclaimed every partial 

 feeling on the occasion. 



Lord Moira afterwards rose to 

 exculpate himself from the charge 

 of unfairness in the examination 

 of a female servant of the princess, 



