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come to any criminating resolutions. 

 In order, however, to express this 

 opinion more clearly in the present 

 case, he would rather wish that 

 instead of a vote for passing to the 

 other orders of the day, a resolu- 

 tion should be substituted, de- 

 claring that the house saw no rea- 

 son for a criminating resolution. 

 When therefore the question be- 

 fore them should be disposed of, 

 he should submit to the house the 

 following resolution : " That it 

 is the duty of this house to main- 

 tain a jealous guard over the pu- 

 rity and independence of parlia- 

 ment ; but that this house duly 

 weighing the evidence before it, 

 and all the circumstances of the 

 case, and considering that the in- 

 tention referred to in ti)at evi- 



dence was never carried into ef- 

 fect, this house does not think it 

 necessary to come to a criminat- 

 ing resolution on the same." On 

 a division of the House there ap- 

 peared for the original motion 

 167 ; against it 216. After this 

 Mr. C. Wynne proposed that there 

 should be added to Mr. Canning's 

 resolution words to this effect, 

 " That the house was confirmed 

 in its opinion that it was unneces- 

 sary to proceed farther in the 

 case from the openness which the 

 noble lord had displayed, and the 

 regret he had expressed for his 

 conduct." This motion was ne- 

 gatived without a division. The 

 house adjourned about three 

 o'clock on Wednesday morning. 



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