The Peers on Monday heard the Marquis of ANGLESEY'S exposition
of the reasons which he supposed led to his dismissal from the Government of Ireland. The Marquis expounded with characteristic frankness, that as his Majesty's representative, he was not negligent of the Protestant interest, or accessory to the ascendancy which the Catholics had acquired. The letters which passed between the Marquis, the Duke of Wellington, and Mr. Peel,—read to the House by the sanction of he King, as the Marquis declared,— are deprived of their political interest by the passing of the hill which is now in operation. Their amount is this—the Prime Minister and the King's Lieutenant, with the same object in mind, had different modes of prosecuting it ; the Marquis was ignorant of the Duke's intentions ; and the Premier feared that the openness of the Viceroy might alarm the King. Lord Anglesey's letter to Dr. Curtis, though placed by Mr. Peel in, his formal letter of recall, in the foreground, seems to have had little influence on that "foregone conclusion."
The Duke of WELLINGTON founded the defence of Ministers on the unquestioned right of the Crown to dismiss its servants without assigning any reason. No other -peer spoke. The discussion seemed to be painful to both noblemen; and the motion of form for papers was negatived without a division.
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