§ MR. DARBY GRIFFITHasked the Government, Whether it is the intention of the Government to advise the Crown to confer a title of dignity on a gentleman who was for a short time a Member of this House for the Borough of Andover, 536 on account of his having vacated his seat in order to provide a seat for one of the Law Officers of the Crown?
LORD STANLEYIt is not the intention of the Government to advise the Crown to confer a title upon any gentleman on account of his having vacated his seat in order to provide one for a Law Officer of the Crown. Such a use of the patronage of the Crown we should consider improper, not to say corrupt.