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SPEECH, &c.
MR. SPEAKER,
I THANK you for pointing to me. I really wished much to engage your attention in an early stage of the debate. I have been long very deeply, though perhaps ineffectually, en∣gaged in the preliminary enquiries, which have continued without intermission for some years. Though I have felt, with some degree of sensibility, the natural and inevitable impres∣sions of the several matters of fact, as they have been successively disclosed, I have not at any time attempted to trouble you on the merits of the subject; and very little on any of the points which incidentally arose in the course of our pro∣ceedings. But I should be sorry to be found to∣tally silent upon this day. Our enquiries are now come to their final issue:—It is now to be deter∣mined whether the three years of laborious par∣liamentary research, whether the twenty years