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the House but must have perceived that the ministerial notice at once and effectually suspended for the present any further proceedings ? “ But,” says the Right Honourable gentleman, “ who could have thought that a Committee appointed to inquire into the Education of the Poor in the metropolis would call before them and examine the masters of Eton and Westminster?” The master of Eton School had been, prior to last session, called before the Committee. 1 much doubt— Mr PEEL—“ I said the master of the Charter-house School.” Mr BROUGHAM—Well, then, the Right Honourable gentleman expresses his surprise that the masters of Westminster and the Charter-house have been examined. Did not he know this from the Report of the Committee in 1816 ? Had he not there the evidence of his senses that their examination had been entered upon, which now strikes him with amazement ? I in my turn have a right to marvel,—to lift up my hands and my eyes in wonder at the conduct of the Right Honourable member. Is it not food for astonishment to those who, after what they have heard to-night, can wonder at any thing, to perceive that the Right Honourable gentleman, with all the evidence before him of the offences committed in 1816, should have waited until 1819, before he made one single remark on the manner in which the Committee overstepped the bounds of its instructions in 1816? The natural time for complaint against the inquiries of 1816, was when the result of these inquiries was laid upon that table by me, and discussed and animadverted upon by others. The Right Honourable member, it is true, was not then installed in his present academical situation,* and was only * Representative of Oxford.