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THE REPUBLIC TIMES
DULWICH CONFERENCE QUESTIONS
LADY CHANCELLOR, ON THE PARLIAMENTARY QUESTIONS. From the Library of the Engellexian Republic Senate’s entries of yesterday we derive a summary of Lady Rosamund Cavendish, Duchess of Kew’s address on the Parliamentary Questions put to her on notable matters relating to companies interest and foreign policy, delivered at the sitting of the Engellexian Republic Senate on the 1st August.
After some formal business, the Lady Chancellor rose to answer a question by Lord Archibald Spencer relating to the Dulwich Conference of next week. The conference, of great importance but rarely reported on, will have assembled in the capital the highest representations from the Council of State, including the Lady Chancellor; the directors of thirteen companies of the greatest influence and importance in the Engellexian Republic – including the Lord Guarantors of the Engellexic Thaumantic Company, and the Engell-Himyar Trading Company; and also senior political representation from the Engell States of Himyar. The founding matters of the Dulwich Conference are the human commodity market, and the greater integration of democratic practices and institutions in the Engell States.
Lord Archibald Spencer questioned the Lady Chancellor on her adherence to the founding agenda, and whether the Dulwich Conference was restricted to a limited calendar. Lady Rosamund Cavendish said, she thought it was desirable that, before they separated, the representations should exchange their ideas upon various subjects which called for solution, and which it might be useful to take into consideration, with a view to prevent future complications. Although we will have had assembled for the special purpose of arranging the questions on the human commodity market and system, the Conference might, in her opinion, have to reproach itself if it were not to take advantage of the circumstances which had brought together so many representatives of the principal forces within, and belonging to the Engellexian Republic, to elucidate certain questions, lay down certain principles, and give utterance to certain sentiments - all with the sole object of assuring the continued social stability and economic prosperity of the Engellexian Republic by dispelling, while yet they were not too threatening, the clouds which might already be seen lowering in our horizon.
The question was followed by others pertaining to the potential crisis in Gallia, between Serenierre and Burgundy. It could not, she said, be denied, that Serenierre was in an abnormal situation. The brutal imposition of order to which that country had been subjected – notably the province of Arriere – had all the possibilities to compel the Grand Duchy of Burgundy to respond militarily in the foreseeable future, and at a time when their armies had no lack of employment elsewhere. The Conference is fully aware what was the state of Gallia at that moment. Moreover, the Conference could not be ignorant that the condition of that country, Serenierre, was far from satisfactory at the present time. It would not therefore be a proceeding without its utility if the forces represented in the Conference were to manifest a desire to see the Engellexian Republic Senate take into their mature consideration the deplorable situation of Gallia, and authorise the means to appropriate a responsible authority in the way of electing a Lord or Lady Protector of the Engellexian Republic. The Duchess of Kew did not doubt that the Duchess of Hammersmith, the Secretary of State of Foreign Departments, would concur with her in declaring that the Council of State was most anxiously looking forward to the moment when it might safely see an end to their occupation of the potential Gallian Crisis; but this they felt they could not do, so long as serious modifications were not made in the present state of things in Serenierre.
The Earl of Nomerset, Lord George Beckett, afterwards reminded the Engellexian Republic Senate that the Engell States were also in an abnormal situation. The necessity of not leaving those States a prey to anarchy should determine the Council of State to respond to the request of the Governor of Elephant and Castle in occupying the Engell State of Camden with Engellexic troops allowing the governor time to occupy the political process of the situation without concern of security. The Council of State, he said, had a double motive in deferring without hesitation to the requests of the Governor of Elephant and Castle, firstly, as an insurance against developing unrest; and second, the Engell State of Camden contained the greatest share of plantations and agricultural estates throughout the Engellexian Republic. The Lady Chancellor rose and responded, as the eldest of the Engell States, a title of which the Governor was most proud, the Council of State had made it a duty to give aid to the Governor of Elephant and Castle. But, further, the social stability of Camden, upon which depended the stability of all of the Engell States, was much too closely connected with the maintenance of economic order in the Engellexian Republic for the Council of State not to consider the Engell-Himyar Trading Company and the Engellexic Thaumantic Company as having an interest of the highest kind to assist, by all the means in their power, in the preservation of order in the Engell States. She fully saw how much, there was that was abnormal in the situation which had need of the support of Engellexic troops in order to maintain its authority.
The Duchess of Kew did not hesitate to declare, and she hoped that the Earl of Nomerset would say as much on the part of those within the senate who were concerned that he could understand, that the Council of State was not only ready to deploy Engellexic troops to Camden, but she desired that the time when it might do so without compromising the economic interests of the Engellexian Republic, in which the Council of State took so keenly an interest, might not be indefinitely postponed. It was most favourable, in the interest of the social stability of the Engellexian Republic, that the Engellexic forces should be enabled safely to reinforce the security of the Engell State of Camden. The Earl of Nomerset did not doubt that the frank expression of these sentiments on the part of her Grace, the Lady Chancellor would do good, and produce a favourable impression.
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