If, on the contrary, bodies to the amount of 20,000, or 70,000, he cared not which, but to an amount beyond the means of the civil power to deal with, had marched in regular columns, and in military array, with seditious banners, into the heart of one of the most populous and most inflammable towns in the empire; if these men had been previously drilled to military exercises;—if they had been shortly before convened for a treasonable purpose;—if they resisted the authority of the peace-officers executing the warrant of the magistrates;—if, in short, the case stated by the noble lord, and by the honourable member for Dover, was correct, then he had no hesitation in saying, that his majesty's ministers were not only justified in returning thanks to the magistrates, but that it was their bounden duty to do so; and that those gentlemen, acting in the discharge of a most important duty, in a Crisis of Public Peril, and undertaking an awful responsibility for the public service, were entitled to have the sense of the executive government on their conduct.