Page:Substance of the speech of His Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence, in the House of Lords.djvu/5



MY LORDS,

HEN contemplating the vast importance of the present question, I feel concerned and perplexed that it should fall to my lot to open a discussion of such magnitude. It would have been fortunate indeed for those materially interested, had some of your Lordships undertaken the arduous task—Some of your Lordships who are much older than myself, consequently from years, knowledge, and experience,