In the Present Eventful Crisis, a good understanding between the two countries must be important, not only to themselves, but to all independent nations, and this the enlightened government of the United States could not but perceive.

Henceforth, therefore, I filled, (whether worthily or not, is another question), a situation of business, at a not insignificant post, and at a most Eventful Crisis.

He would advise his noble friend at the head of his Majesty's Government, and their Lordships, not to refrain, through the fear of going too far, from doing that which was necessary to satisfy the public mind in This Eventful Crisis.

I am aware that there is not one of his noble or right hon. colleagues who has not risen to inform us of that which we knew to be a grievous truth, namely, that the present is a most Eventful Crisis.

The only course of proceeding at This Eventful Crisis worthy of the men with whom I have the honour to be connected was, to advise his Majesty—to counsel his Majesty—to resist the advice which had been given him, if he could find means of carrying on the Government of the country without acceding to it.

He should, therefore, only at present express his conviction, that the House of Peers never stood higher in the estimation of the religious, intelligent, and educated portions of the community, than at the Present Eventful Crisis, when by their wisdom, their firmness, their moderation, and their consistency, they had entitled themselves to the gratitude of the Church, the approval of the nation, and the admiration of the latest ages—they had shown that they would neither be intimidated by ministerial menaces, nor crouch to pressure from without.

Nor should he say anything of their expenditure in Canada or elsewhere; but to come more home to the question, how had they used the national credit for their own purposes at an Eventful Crisis?

The people would rejoice that any man, 544 whether belonging to the governing classes or not, should be brought into office who can assist the Government at This Eventful Crisis, or any other.