Lords Sitting of 16 November 1830

MINUTES.
Petitions presented. By the Earl of HARDWICKE, from Lynn, for a repeal of the Duty on Coals borne Coastways. By the Duke of RICHMOND from, Tenterden and Goudhurst, for a Reduction of Taxes, and Reform in Parliament. For the abolition of Negro Slavery, from several parts of the country, by Earl SPENCER, the Duke of NORFOLK, the Earl of ESSEX, Lords WHARNCLIFFE, SUFFIELD, and CALTHORPE, the Earl of MELROS, Lord DACRE, the Duke of RICHMOND, the

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the Bishops of PETERBOROUGH and of BATH and WELLS, (1,671 in number) by the Duke of GLOUCESTER, and by Lord WYNFORD, from a place in Northumberland.

RESIGNATION or THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.
STATEMENT of the VOTES of the FORTY-FIVE REPRESENTATIVES of SCOTLAND, on the lath of November, 1830, on the Motion for the appointment of a Select Committee to take into consideration the Accounts relating to the Civil List, presented to the House by command of his Majesty.

Places.

For Ministers.

Against Ministers.

Absent.

Aberdeenshire

Hon. Wm. Gordon

Argyleshire

W. F. Campbell

Ayrshire

William Blair

Banffshire

John Morrison

Berwickshire

Hon. Capt. A. Maitland

Buteshire &c.

Right Hon. Sir W. Rae

Clackmannanshire, &c.

Hn. G. R. Abercromby

Dumbartonshire

Lord M. W. Graham

Dumfries-shire

J. J. Hope Johnston

Edinburghshire

Sir George Clerk

Elgin and Morayshires

F. W. Grant

Fifeshire

Captain James Wemyss

Forfarshire

Hon. Wm. Maule

Haddingtonshire

Lord John Hay

Inverness-shire

Rt. Hon. Chas. Grant

Kinkardineshire

Hon. H. Arbutbnot

Kirkcudbrightshire

R. C. Ferguson

Lanarkshire

Hon. Charles Douglas

Linlithgowshire

Hon. Sir A. Hope

Nairnshire

Hn. Cpt. G. P. Campbell

Orkneyshire

G. Trail

Peebles-shire

Sir J. Montgomery

Perthshire

Sir G. Murray, G. C. B.

Renfrewshire

Sir Michl. Shaw Stewart

Ross-shire

Sir J. W. Mackenzie

Roxburghshire

Henry F. Scott

Stirlingshire

H. H. Drummond

Sutherlandshire

Lord F. L. Gower

Selkirkshire

A. Pringle

Wigtonshire

Sir Andrew Agnew

ROYAL BURGHS.

Aberdeen, &c.

Sir Jas. Carnegie

Anstruther, &c.

J. Balfour

Ayr, Irvine, &c.

T. F. Kennedy

Dumfries. &c.

W. R. K. Douglas

Dysart, &c.

Lord Loughborough

Edinburgh

Rt. Hon. W. Dundas

Elgin, &c.

Hon. Gen. A. Duff

Glasgow, &c.

A. Campbell

Inverness, &c.

John Baillie

Jedburgh, &c.

Colonel A. Dalrymple

Linlithgow, &c.

Henry Monteith

Perth, &c.

Hon. S. Wortley

Stirling, &c.

James Johnston

Tain, &c.

James Loch

Wigton, &c.

J. H. Lowther

Total

29

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Of the forty-five Members from Scotland, twenty-nine voted with Ministers, against a Committee to inquire into the Civil List, and seven voted for the Committee; and of the nine absent Members, we believe only three would have voted for the Committee, and six against it—making the number of Scots Representatives thirty-five who support Ministers, i. e. nearly 6–7ths of the whole number.

The Duke of Wellingtonsaid:—"My Lords, I deem it my duty to inform your Lordships, that in consequence of what occurred last night in the other House of Parliament, I felt it right to wait this morning on the King, and tender his Majesty the resignation of the office which I hold; that his Majesty has been pleased to accept of my resignation,

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and that I continue in my present situation only till a successor shall have been appointed." The noble Duke immediately left the House.

CLERK OF THE COUNCIL.
Earl Grosvenorwished to know from the noble Earl opposite, whether it was true that he had bestowed the appointment of Clerk to the Privy Council, vacant by the sudden death of Mr. Buller, on any individual. If rightly informed, though he was unwilling to believe the report, the vacancy had been filled up by the noble Earl within twenty-four hours of its occurrence —a haste, he thought, not becoming with a patent office of so much emolument.
Earl Bathurst said, that no appointment had taken place.