he exhibited that
feeling, by animadverting, in severe terms, on the high Tory doctrines
maintained by Dr. Markham, Archbishop of York. The pernicious doctrines
advanced by that prelate, he said, were the doctrines of Atterbury and
Sacheverel; and as a Whig, he abjured and detested them, and hoped to
see the day, not only when they should be deemed libels, but when
the authors of such doctrines should be liable to punishment. Chatham
concluded, by moving for the papers relative to the instructions given
to Burgoyne, which was lost by a majority of forty to nineteen. But
though the motion was negatived, the noble lord returned to the charge,
by moving for copies of all instructions relative to the employment of
Indians in conjunction with the British troops. In this, however,
he made a whip for his own back. In opposing the motion, Lord Gower
asserted, that the noble lord had himself employed, and acknowledged
that he had employed, savages in the operation of the last war. This
charge Chatham denied. Indians, he said, had crept into the service
during that war; but he challenged ministers to produce any document of
his sanctioning their employment. He appealed to Lord Amherst, who had
commanded the troops in Canada, for a declaration of the truth, and that
noble lord had the honesty to declare the truth. The Indians, he said,
had been employed on both sides: the French engaged their services
first, and we had followed their example: but most certainly he should
not have ventured to have done so if he had not received orders to that
effect. Lord Shelburne suggested, that the orders might have proceeded
from the Board of Trade: but Lord Denbigh, who called Chatham "the great
oracle with a short memory," said, that this was impossible, as Chatham,
when in office under George II., had monopolised functions which did not
belong to him, and had guided and directed everything relative to the
war. In reply, Chatham said, that he was sure the order had not passed
through his office, and that the humanity of his late majesty would not
have permitted him to sanction so satanic a measure. But Chatham was
now floundering in the mire, and the more he endeavoured to extricate
himself, the deeper he got into it. The fallacy of this pretence was
exposed by Lord Suffolk, who said, that all instructions to governors
and commanders-in-chief necessarily passed through the office of
the secretary-of-state, which office Chatham then held, and we