HC Deb 03 May 1811 vol 19 cc787-8
Mr. Horner

rose, and stated, that in consequence of the postponement of the debate on the Bullion Report, he had availed himself of the interval to examine the Propositions of his right hon. friend (Mr. Vansittart), particularly so far as they related to facts, wherein they seemed to him to beat Variance with the evidence before the House. He had paid this attention to them, in order, that if House should come to a question upon them, he might be enabled to move some Amendments, to correct what he conceived the variance they contained from the evidence. With this view, he had reduced what appeared to him to be necessary to correct the misstatements of facts, into a plain statement, though he had not yet formed it into the technical shape of Resolutions to be submitted by way of Amendments. It might be for the convenience of gentlemen to be put this day in possession of the substance of his Amendments, and it was with that view he had risen to read the statements he had prepared to the House. He should only premise, that he had confined himself in this instance solely to facts; and where facts and doctrine were intermixed, he had taken care studiously to separate the facts from the doctrines. The hon. and learned member then proceeded to read the substance of the Amendments he had to propose, beginning with the fourth, and ending with the tenth of Mr. Vansittart's series of Resolutions. The hon. and learned gentleman then gave in his statement at the table, in order that it might be printed for the convenience of gentlemen. [For the said Amendments, see the Debate of the 15th instant.]