during the recess; and he should confine himself now to a notice, that if no such steps should be taken, he would bring the matter before parliament early next

session.

No reply was made to Mr. Windham. The unfortunate object of his compassion soon afterwards suffered death in the Temple at Paris; it is not precisely known by what means; but he had previously assured his friends that no pressure of calamity should ever drive him to commit suicide, whatever might be reported of him to that effect.

ADDRESS ON THE KING'S SPEECH.

January 21, 1806.

THE speech of the Lords Commissioners having been read,

an address was moved by Lord Francis Spencer, and seconded by Mr. Ainslie. Lord Henry Petty read an Amendment which he had prepared, disapproving of the part which the ministers had taken in promoting the recent unsuccessful confederacy of our allies against France. This amendment, however, he forbore to move, on account of Mr. Pitt's alarming illness, but proposed to bring the subject forward for discussion at an early day. Mr. Fox, approving of the sentiments expressed in the amendment, concurred in the propriety of a short delay. Lord Castlereagh expressed his confidence that His Majesty's ministers would be able to justify most completely their conduct and measures; after which,

MR. WINDHAM said, he did not mean to enter into the consideration of topics, which had been for the same cause avoided on both sides of the house. In the few words he had to say, he meant to confine himself solely to stating his entire concurrence with the sentiments expressed by his Honourable Friend who had spoken last but one, and by his Noble Friend who had preceded. He agreed, that to enter into the discussion at present, would not be possible, conformably to the feelings which must prevail uni

versally both in the House and in the country. It was impossible even for those, who had never known what it was to live in any habits of friendly or social intercourse with the Right Honourable Gentleman alluded to, not to feel that it would be one of the most painful tasks that could be imposed upon them, to enter into an adverse discussion on the merits of measures in which he was so deeply concerned, at a moment when he was lying on a bed of sickness, not without good grounds, he trusted, for hoping his recovery, but with the danger necessarily incident to such a situation. It was not however what must be the feelings of any one on such an occasion, that was to be considered: men must perpetually be compelled to do, at the call of duty, what was in the highest degree unpleasant and painful to them. But it happened here, that what made the task painful, did, in the same degree, disqualify them for the performance of it. Even this consideration however could not long delay the discussion in question. The moment must be at hand, should the Right Honourable Gentleman's illness be prolonged, when the public interests could no longer wait, and when this task must be performed, with whatever pain or at whatever disadvantage. But the pressure of public affairs, great as it was, would still, it was hoped, allow of a short respite, such as was now proposed; and if so, every one must wish, that such respite should be given. Let us hope, in the mean while, that some favourable change may take place, which, if it cannot remove that part of our embarrassments which arise from the

absence of the Right Honourable Gentleman, may free us at least from that gloom and depression which the apprehended extinction of great and transcendent talent and high qualifications, in the midst of the most splendid fortune, cannot fail to produce even in the minds of those who may have been most opposed to the political system of which they made part.

The motion for the address was carried without a division.

MR. PITT'S FUNERAL.

January 27, 1806.

MR. H. Lascelles moved an address to His Majesty that he would be pleased to give directions that the remains of the Right Honourable William Pitt be interred at the public charge, and a monument be erected to his memory in Westminster Abbey. This motion having been seconded by the Marquis of Titchfield, supported by Mr. J. H. Browne, Lord Louvaine, Mr. Hiley Addington, Sir R. Buxton, General Tarlton and Earl Temple, and opposed by Lord Folkstone, Mr. William Smith, and the Marquis of Douglas,

MR. WINDHAM rose and spoke as follows:However painful I may feel the situation in which I stand, I feel that there is a duty imposed upon me that I am bound to discharge. Nothing can be more easy and satisfactory, than to comply with that advice which has been given to all parties, not to let their political hostilities be carried to the grave, and that on such an occasion as this, they should bury all animosities. For my part, the only difficulty I should find in complying with this advice is, that I have no political animosities to bury. Although I join sincerely in admiration of the great talents of the Right Honourable Gentleman who is now no more, yet I think that