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Mr. Vansittart's Resolutions

The Catholic Claims ...

*Negociations for a Change in the Administration

Address respecting the War with America...

Committee on the Laws Affecting Roman Catholics

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• The reader is requested to notice, that the speech on the Change
in the Administration should have been inserted before the speech
on the Catholic Claims. Mr. Canning spoke on two occasions on
the subject of Ministerial changes at this period. One of his speeches
is not inserted here, as the principal passage of it will be found
introduced as a quotation in the summary that is given of Mr. Peel's
speech on Mr. Canning's appointment to the Premiership, in the
sixth volume of this work.-ED.

SPEECHES,

&c. &c.

VOTE OF CREDIT BILL.

JUNE 15th, 1810.

THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER Moved the order of the day for the third reading of the Vote of Credit Bill. The amount of the vote of credit was £3,000,000. the question being put―

On

MR. WHITBREAD took an extensive review of our internal and foreign relations, and dissented from so large a vote of credit, at the same time that he declined dividing the House upon the question. The principal points in his speech are brought so clearly into view in the following very eloquent speech of Mr. Canning, as to supersede the necessity of introducing here a summary of his arguments. The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mr. Canning rose at the same time. The Chancellor of the Exchequer gave way.

MR. CANNING then spoke to the following effect:-I should hesitate, Sir, to avail myself of the courtesy of my right honourable friend, espe

cially as there are some topics in the speech of the honourable gentleman (Mr. Whitbread), to which a person in my right honourable friend's situation, as one of His Majesty's Ministers, can alone be competent to afford a satisfactory answer, were it not that the honourable gentleman has done me the honour to address himself, in many parts of his speech, personally to me, and in a manner which naturally makes me anxious to reply to him. I trust, therefore, that I shall meet the indulgence of the House, while I state distinctly, but as shortly as I can, the reasons which induce me to give my most cordial assent to the measure which the honourable gentleman opposes.

As to the grounds which the honourable gentleman has laid for this opposition in the character which he ascribes to the present administration, and the distrust which he professes to feel in them, it is not my intention to follow the honourable gentleman through that part of his speech. I leave these topics to those who may hereafter take part in the debate. It is sufficient for me to say, that whatever might be my general opinion of any administration, yet, if they continued in office at the end of a session of Parliament, I know nothing that would justify me in leaving them, during the recess, unarmed with the means usually placed at the disposal of all administrations, to provide for unforeseen con