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The Daily Dispatch: May 13, 1863., [Electronic resource], The late debate in the British Parliament . (search)
The late debate in the British Parliament.
a charge on the Yankee race by Mr. Roeback--they are Uncivilized, and unfit to Receive International Court sales.
In the House of Commons, on the — thault., Mr. Roebuck said he wished to ask a question of great importance.
[Hear, hear] He alluded to the proceedings of an Admiral in the United States service, with respect to an English merchant ship going from an English port to a neutral port.
[Hear, hear,] He wished to preface his question with one or two observations.
Mr. Knightly rose, amid some confusion, to put it to the speaker, whether the honorable and learned member was not infringing the rules of the House.
[Cries of "good" addressed to Mr. Roebuck, followed this interruption.]
Lord Palmerston interposed. He said, "May I be just allowed to answer my honorable and learned friend's question?" [Loud laughter.]
Speech of Mr. Roebuck.
I know the noble Lord is an older man than I am; but still, ol
France and recognition.
The explanation of the Paris Moniteur, the official journal of France, of the conversation between the Emperor Napoleon and Messrs. Roebuck and Lindsay, shows that Mr. Roeback was too strong in his representation of the tenor of that conversation.
Mr. R.'s speech was not at ail discreet, and was well calculated to damage his own motion.
No one who properly estimates the sagacity and caution of the French Emperor could suppose, for instance, that he would make a grave charge of breach of ministerial and international courtesy against the British Government to a British member of Parliament, with authority, or rather request, that he would reject it on the floor of Parliament.
He is hardly the man to do that.
When he wanted to make a charge or a complaint of the kind public he would likely take some other course more consistent with his own dignity as well as with common propriety.
It is probable that, in reporting the remarks of the Emperor touchi