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HOUSE OF L 0 R-D S. THURSDAY. The Marqnis of Clanricarde, after many e^pressieQii of personal regard and,admiration for Lord Kllenborough, paljed the attention of their Lordsbipa to hip celebwated prgclaiaar, tions on the tcrmioatipD oC thc war in AffgliaaitUao, and tt»«. restoration of the gates of Sqiiinnyth'. I H-a dectiped to entpr at all upon the, question of the poticy of whtch thomedoca-i menta professed to be the expositiop, but contended that under no possible circumntancfts should a Governor-General have publicly canvassed, and criticised, the act:4 of his prede- cessor as Lord Elleobor^ugh had done. Lord Cornwallis and the Marqnis Wallooley had felt strongly the evils of the policy which they found in operation upon their arrival in India; but their disapprobation had been addressed, not to the ludian nation, but to the secret committee of the directors. The affairs of India had been constantly a subject of party conflict at hojue, but until now party politics had never been imparted to that country. No example could have a worse effect either upon our. native subjects or upon the Indian army. An undue laxity of disciptine had been imputed to the latter, but what could be conceived more cal- culated to encourage such a spirit than to find a Governor- General publicly condemning the conduct of him whom he had but just supplanted ? He ridiculed the terms in which the Somnauth proclamation was conceived, and especially the sending of such a present to a temple which had long ceased to exist. If the gates had been intended merely as a military trophy, they should either have been set up in Calcutta or transmitted to this country but, bestowed as they had been, their application appeared to be a gross and detestible idolatry. The noble Marquis concluded by moving the reso- lutions of which he had given notice, and which practically amounted to a vote of censure upon Lord Ellenborough. The Duke of Wellington said he should have been better satisfied with the resolution of tbe noble Marquis, had be not combined in that resolution two papers relating to totally distinct subjects. The noble. Marquis, had not proved the existence of any similarity of character between the two documents; and therefore was not justified in -making his own resolution of a cumulative character. With regard to the first of these papers, it appeared to his Grace that the precedent referred to as having occurred inthtt ime of Lord Cornwallis was not in point. The proclamation issued by his noble, friend the Governor-General was not intended merely for the information of the Court of Directors, but for the India world and the world at Urge. Under the circumstances in. which his noble friend found himself placed, it was perfectly natural and necessary. It was, moreover, strictly in accord- ance with the truth. There was not one word in it that was not strictly.true. His Grace acquited the noble Lord, the late Governor-General, of att btame, but could not extend uis verdict to those who had acted under him. He attributed much of the error to the gentleman who first lell a victim to his own want of judgement. The army was partly English and partly Hindoo, und upon it devolved the maintenance of the whole system of Government, including, the collection of the revenue. It had cllnllequentlybeoome necessary to support the army with some of the Company's troops, and in so doing to violate a rule of the utmost importance in (head- ministration of India affairs--titat the Company's European troops should never beemploy-etl in the collection of revenue. The next error was the manner in which the coantry had been occupied. No practicable communications had been kept up with Shikurpore, Candabar, and Ghnznee, and the passes h;-d been left in the hands of butidicti. Neither the Kojuck Pass in the south, nor the Bolao in the north, had u been kept open. But for this such disasters oould never have occurred. But Lord Auckland bad nothinst to do with this. Again, Sir W. Macnaugbten was not an officer, and that was another error. But the late Governor-General, he; thought, was totally mistaken in the arrangements lie made with respect to the resident. His Grace bad himself held a similar situation, and knew in what relation he ought to stand to the troops. His business was to see that the troops were provided ,a ith necessary resources, but not to command them. Th is, then,' was one of the errors to which he believed Lord Elleubordugh adverted. With regard to the policy of evac- uating the country, lie thought there existed no difference of opinion between the present and the late Gorernor-Genersl. His Grace concluded by stigmatizing the resolutions as "unfair," and pressing their Lordships to rejrat them. Lord Auckland exculpated Sir W. Macunghten from any blame which might attach to the military operations, of the campaign. ,{ Lord Colchester denied that the proclamation of the 1st. of October was intended to bring Lord Auckland into disrepute, and defended even the style, of its composition, in considera- tion of its being addressed to a people accustomed to high- flown hyperbolical expressions. The feuds of the Hindoos and Mahoiumedans Iliad subsided, and the restoration of the gates was regarded,' not as a religious, but as a national triumph. The Bishop of Ltandaff »aid, that he was surprised w-hen lie beard, on a former occasion, his right rev. brethren take a view of this; question different from that which he himselt was disposed to entertain. He begged to assure their lordships and his right rev. brethren tear him, that he should not have been induced lb support the motion of the noble and illustrious duke for a vote of thanks to the Governor-Geneial of India, for the signal services which he had rendered to his country during tbe late was id India, if he had for a single instant supposed that it had been the intention of that noble lord to cast any vluror reflection upon Christianity. Such a construction he did not think the noble lord the Governor- General of India's conduct at all justified. He should have arrived at that inference from an examination of the facts connected with the dase itself, which facts the noble duke had brought so ably under their lordships' attention. He also should have' arrived at the same conclusion from the knowledge which he had of tbe character of the Goternor- General of India. He again would stale, that it was not the intention of the noble lord, in removing the gates of the temple of Somnauth, to encourage idolatry, or to weaken the hold which Christianity ought to have on the human mind. Should the noble maiquis press the house to a division, he (the Bishop of Llanpufi) should vote most cordially against the resolution; < The Bishop of Norwich supported the motion solely on the ground of the effect the proclamation would produce on the interest of relig-on. The Bishop ol Chichester, however, treated the issue of tbe proclamation as an error of judgement only, and would oppose the resolution. The E.rI of Clarendon thought it indispensible that their Lordships should prove to the people of India that neither was any mortification of the Mahommedaus contemplated, nor any single triumph of Hindooisui. They bad been led to believe that the recovery of these gates of Somnauth had been the great object of war; and it was. important that this iw. pression should be removed by the adoption of the proposed resolution. Lord Fitzgerald energetically repudiated the cooperation thus offered, and denied that Lord Clarendon had any right to assume that tbe opinion expressed by the Government upon Lord Ellenborough's conduct amounted to a reproof. The noble Lord entered fully into the discussion of all the topir. which had been advanced in support of the motion. Lord Brougham followed also in Vehement opposition to the motion; and after a short speech from the Marquis of Lansdowne in support of the resolution, their Lordships pro- ceeded to a division* rejecting the motion by a majority ot 58.

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