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Ms who might fettle with their eaves on the Maud. The reafon was obvious, and it was, that the plantations there might loot be cultivated by toegroes, but that other methods of allege fliarld he tried. This esrlotion likewile offered an opportunity to there who were motife to the employnos oi elves, to eflablifh them felves in I ri:•idad After the place r unterous qusftions were agitated in Parfam•ut, and addrelLs foamed to his Majtiti.,! that diredtions fh oould he g'ven troat no imported negroes Ihoull be employed in that Mao d ; and the affair was concluded by an ofh vial ailuraree, tit:3 it then was the defign of Goverment nt t to authority the grant of lands. excepting on condi:ion that they &could not lie cultivated by blacks It ex a, plain that lob IViajelly 'a Alinifterto at that tint . intended to diresuragc the African trade Ile Duke of CLARI-NrjE underllood, that notwithßanding there injuno.tims a great number of Chinefe had been conveyed into the iflatosl of Trinidad. Ity what authority this bad been dune his Royal Highnefs was tto• aware. Lord GRENVILLE believed the fate to be, that confiderahle importations had been male, hut his Lordfhip did not know if that had been done under the fandlion of Government. The Earl of BUCKINGHAMSHIRE obferve.l. that the im portations mentioned took place under bis dirtdtion. dories the period his Lordfhip was in 'office. Lord GRENVILLE moved. that the Order of the Day for the 1. eon d reading of the Bill be dircharged, aol that it thouiti he read a fecund time to morrow, as his Lordfilip particularly witheti that voe debate mould come on, and that the fettle of the Houk fauuld be taken. The Duke of CLAR ENCE did not rife to oppofe the motion of the Noble Lord, but lie nulled that ty to morrow his 'Arad!) would be in a fituation to give the Houk fume hitcher inforeta i. n relpedling the importation of Chinefc into the ifland of Ttiridad; indeed, every (genies tot I P atormation cn fo important a pointihoutd be laid on the table. _ _ - The utotion for the Peon(' reading of the Bill to-morrow, was thou put and carried —Adjourned at rine o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMON'S. THETFoRn FLkcTIoN. • Mr FANE retorted fc.rrn the Committee appointed to try tbe ]Merits of the Thetford Peti.i-n. that Fines Ming4y,l4l4. wart rot duly returned ; aid that Goma. 0 - Levey, Efq. ought to have bunt returned for the laid borough. The Deputy Clerk of the Crown was accordingly ordered to attend to-morrow, and amend the Rtturn,hy erafing the name FE' James Mingay,Efq. and inferring that of Thomas Creevey, Efq. MALDEN PETITION. Sir GILBERT FIE XI lICOTE reported from the Committee appointed to try the Mateyo Petition, that Benjamin Galled!, EN. was not drily thdled for that Borough; and that Charle.Weftern, Efq. ought to have been returned. The Deputy Clerk on the Crown was ordered to attend to-mor row, for tire purpofe of amending the return accordingly. PENKYIIIt ELECTinN, Mr. ATKINS WRIGHT reported from the Comni:ttee ap p.:ir red to tty the merit. of thi. Petition, :ft. That Henry Swan, Efq. was duly deffied ; 2dly, That Sir Chriftopher Hawkins, Hart was not duly tidied, and that John Trevanion, Efq. ought to b:)ve been returned; and, idly, That Sir Cbriftopher had, by pollen: and his agents, beer; ;uilty of bribety and :or ruption to fc:ure his eledtion. The Deputy Clerk of the Crowatiwas ordered to attend, for the purpofe of amending the Return tottnorrow ; and the (unlit r con- Oderation of the Report was poftponed till Monday frierviet. '1 he Report was ordered to he printed for the ufe of the Members. The LORD ADVOCATh of SCOTLAND prftponed hi, Medoo refpcdtirg the Clergy of Scotland till Tuefday next. IRISH ELECTIONS. Mr. PARNELL moved the pollponement of the this , for the confideration of the County of Mayo Petition, which hood fird for the a4th. He moved it principally on the ground of the gr eat diftance of that County, which made it difficult to bring the Wit neffes in time. lie ecnildt red the (hellion of the Houle upon the Petitions of Aberdeen Dublin, and . Downpatrick, were fufficient precedent's in frpport of kis Motion. Mr. LORRY argued on the other f.de, that there was no eec; .lion for p ,ftponement, as both parties bad agreed that the wit acres ihould be examined in Ireland In this cafe, the PL bad only about one thoufand votes, white the fitting-members had four thoufand. The gallery was cleared for a divition. but we underftand that the Monte did not divide, but opted to the pottpunement. The gallery etas again dca:cd for a divifion, upon the queftion, whether tbe order appointing an early day fur the confidcratinn of the Downoatrick Medlin) fuould be difcharged. 1:i this cafe alto the Houle did not divide, but agreed to the difebarge of the order. Upon tt,e gallery hi log again opened, Mr. RO .E was prefacing, in a thort fpeeeh, the followirg Refolutions aft. That there be laid before the Houle an Account of the Tonnage of Brit iha Velfels trading with China, from the 1 ear 1773 to the prt fent time. 2. The Value •rf Broil) Manufactures exported to China during the fame time, dirt inguifhing each year, and alto diftinguithing the official value from the real value. 3. The quantity of Tobacco imported into this country from the year a bon to the prefent time, diftinguiftting each year. 4. The quantity of 'lra imported into this country from the year-1774 to the year 1783, and nom the year ILL to the prefent line. 'the sth and sth R r folutions were for an account of the quantity of Rum and Brandy ire ported during the laid period: Thefe feveral Refolutions were unanirnoufly agreed.to. . The SECRETARY at WAR moved, that a Return fhould • t•e made of the Numhtr of Men reported in the Monthly F e g i mental Rvunis, as having entered front :handed to unlinuttd ler-- vice in the courfe of the your aboo Ordered. THE LATE °aura OF COUNCIL. Mr. PERCEVA I. role, purfuant to notice, to move for the projitelion of the Order in Council, dated the 7th of January. Having given a (',!night's notice of tiliA motion, which appeared to him of the greatell importance, he thought, that, although the t i tteflion appeared to hint ut great magnitud:, yct that many Gentlemen would almoll think that Le owed an apoiogy ;o the antic for introducing with Inch ferioutheis and foleirinity a moticn of that na ture, which tiled formerly to he confidered as almott a motion rf courfe. When it fir uld be clearly un derflood tha; the ohjeect of his motion was no t hi ng more thatito have laid upon the table of that firule a paper which had been laid on the tables of every c flee houfe . in the kingdom for more than a month, and which had been already teen by every perton who reads newfpap-rs, it might appear at firft fight furprifirg that he thould attach to much importance to the prelim motion: and when it was confidered that it was not milpublithed generally in the newfpapers, but alfu for greater authenticity to the publication, inferted in the London Gazette, it would teem as furptiting that he fhauld confider it of great impor tance to have it lain upon the table, as that the No- Lord on tl e ether fide of the Houle and his friends, ihouid think it DeCtinity to re fill the produc tion. It was thci elm e nectffary for him, in his own jollification, to (late what wete the grounds which 'made his prefent mo!i In appear to him of the moll ferious importance. N,i'Leti he came down to the Houle about a lortnn,ht ago, to give notice of the motion for an early day, tie Noble Lord at the other tide of the Honk (Lord Howick) accotted him kind ly and handlomely, and told him that it was a mo tion velikh he felt it his dory, as a Merubtr of PZI:;:t. ment, to refill. He could net at fl -fl imagine what were the grounds of the oppolitimi lie was to meet with from the Noble Lord—lie fuppoled that it was merely trom the notoriety of the fat which would . make the document appear lets neceffary. In anfwer to that ()Nation. he t.tld his Lordlhip that he con ceived, that as this was a meature of Government, it was therefore the moll regular, authentic, and Par liamentary courfe, to have the document fult laid upon the table, in outer to ground the motion which fhould afterwards bring forward ; but the Noble Lord gave him to underltarid, that his ground of op p 'Won would be very different, ithi merely this, that As he could not anticipate.any motion which couldbe groundea on that paper, to which he could give his fopport, therefore he felt it contrary to I i. duty as a. Memacr of Pettier:lent, to give that appear a nce of countenance to the trite, inn motion of which he mull difapprore. It was bectule the Noble Ltd had taken this ground of refiliing the prodisainn of the paper that he thought his moti m became of the moll le. I rietit importance. When he was fore of being op ! poftd by the whole weight of the talents of the Noble Lord, as well as by /its influence, anti by that pro ; per authority which he bore in 'that Houle, he thought it neceffery to give a long notice, cyder that the fubjeft thould meet the molt grave and ferious (NI - coition. As to the motion, there was no initance in the proceedings of Parliament of a fimilar motion being refitted on loch wounds. When the Noble Lord and his friends wet e at that fide of the Houle (the Oppelition Benchet) their motions for Papers had never been refilled on fuch pretences, and now that they had crolfed the Houk, and were become . Minillers, it teemed that they had adopted a doarine very different from their former prattice, and now contend, that no papers fhould be granted,. unlets his Ma jelly's Minillets were pl.afed with the reafons for wtoch chef.: P.oters were moved (loud cries of bear, Ave ! fi-o.te the Omfitiots Benches.) He could not, however, bring hiantelf to believe, that the Houfe would admit thofe new principles, or fandion fuch a doettine. He really had expeatd, that the Noble Lord would have anticipated his motion this day, by withdrawing his oppt I ion. The principal ground on which the produaion of Papers hitherto had been re filled in t h at Houfe was, that it might occation fume dile-10111:e which would be injurious to the public ter vice; but there vr.ts no prefer ce for fuch an objetaion in the prefent inairoce, for the queflion was not, whether any document !hoold be made public or nor, but oatether a document, which had already been pub. tithed in the molt authentic manner, not only to this kingdom, but to all Europe, thould be denied to the Houle of Commons ? Whether the Reprefeptatives of the Nation were to be the only perfons to whom this document thould not be made known in the regular and proper way ? lie trolled the Houfe would feel, that an oppofition to the produaion of the Paper, on no other grounds but what had been Hated, wtiali be unprecedented and unprincipled ; and that if the Houfe lhould be perluaded to refute Lis Motion, they wr uld be abandoning almolt every ptinciple upon which the conduct of I ',is tvlajefty's Minifters could ever be brought into difieuffion is that H rule. The ordinaty grounds for oppofing the produaion of papers moved for, could not on the prefent occalion be (fated. It could not be f..id, that any inconveniencies could arife to the Public from its produaion ; nor that it was moved ter merely to fatily an idle curiolity : the Paper was of loch notoriety, that there was no curiofity to be gratified by 4ceding to the Motion ; and it was dc mended only for toe purpofe of laying a reguler Parliamentary ground for the confederation of tl:c meafure itfa, which his Majelly had been advifed to ! adopt. If a meafure, put porting to be a meafure of I wifdom and efficiency, was fuppofed by many Islem• bens of that Houle to be unwire and inefficient, what other means was there of confidering of the conduet of his Ma jelly's Mini.iets in that retpeft, if they re futed to produce thole Papers upon which alone the difenßion could regularly be grounded ? Did it fol low that, if the Paper was produced, the Houfe mutt difapprove of the condua of his Majelly's in recommending fuch a meafure ? It was, however, admitted by the Noble Lord and his Friends, that the tiffeullion of the wifdom and efficiency of that meafure could not regularly take piece without the procludion of that Paper, and yet they refute to produce it: They argued in a circle : they LAW, " for want of this Paper there can be no foundation far a regular difetiffion upon it, and we will not give you this Paper, for tear you fhould have a foundation for the dilcut :ion." The whole conchtlion which was to be drawn from this kind of argument was, that Mini tiers wifhed as much as poffible to prevent the Houk from exa mining and dill-offing their condo& upon a very hope tent meafure, affeaing equally the commercial inteleits and the honour of the country. It was not aliedged that there was any probable or poffible in ! convenience from the produaion of the Paper; and it was only to be kept beck, in order that the Houle I might be prevented from exercifing their conflitutio ; nel right of cagniting into the condo& of his Ma jetty's s. It teemed, that the Noble Lord and his f iend: were fo perfectly correct and firm in their proceedings and in their countels, that the time of the Houle mutt not he employed in examining their con doe. If the meafure w hich they recommended was a wife and eflici:Gt meafute, it would bear dilcuffion and fitting ; but if it was an unwife and inefficient meafine, then the ditcuffion might be produative of good effete, as the wifdom of Pediment would be able to fupply w hat was defedive, and cornea what ever was wrung. The Noble Lord had, however, on ly aligned, as is ground of oppofing the production of the paper, that it would appear like countenan eit.g the &tether motion which was to be grounded open it. There was, however, no neceffity for the Noble Lord refuting the paper itfelf on this account : h would have learn tufficient for him to have rifen in his place, and exprefsly Rated, that in nqt oppofing the produftion of the paper, he did not by any means pledge himfelf to tupport the motion that was to he groucdcd upon io his would have complete. ly ant Wei ed the purpofe of not appearing to give any countenance to the mat' he had intended after ' wards to bring forward. It was hard to conceive any rational general ground upon which the Noble Lord could refill his prefent motion. On other grounds, perhaps, it might be wife and prudent for the Noble Lord to afcerrain to what extent his powers of perfuafion could prevail in that Houle : it might be wile for him to alto tarn to what a degree he could command the faith and the confeieoces of his friends. It might be an Meted toihew to his friends who followed him from the a other fide of the Houle, the great extent of his influence and authority, the volatility of his talents, and his complete. departure , from that coolie. wt ich he and his friends had thought proper to purfue when they were in oppofition.— (e.ord cries of bear, bear !) The Noble Lord had only now to call upon them to retread all their for mer fleps, abandon all their former principlea, and be content with (imply following the fame flandard they had been ufed to follow, and voting ~with the. fame men, LiUWCTIN their meal - tires or their coo du& might change norm getting into Adminiftra. Lion. (cric of liar ! tear, from the Optofition Bench. ) He however did not fear much permanent mifchief from the abufe of the -authority Of Government. — He was convinced that it was not in that Houfe that the ahtik of authority would tend to confirm it or increefe its duration, and that the Members of that Houk vionld not tafily be led to fanetion any filch abufe of authority. If the Minifters coull but ellablilh this new principle as a precedent, shat would become of the contiitutional power of the re prefentatives of the people, in watching over the con du& of hie Majefly's Miuiders ? If it L once elta bliffiel that papers fheuld be refilled, merely hecaufe Minifters do not choofe to g ive filch information as might bring the' , conduit under Parliamentary did coition, they might in future refute all information refpeaing treatiee; negociations, or any other of thole matters, in which the interefts of the country are the moll mate:idly' affected. He did not mean to taunt:the Noble Lord with having himlelt ['relight forward limiter mot;ons for ce•tainly the Noble Lord and his friends could not he taunted with hav ing brought forward any thing ptecifely limiter, neither fhould he now teem- to the principles or condo& of the Noble Lord and his friends when they were in oppofition, but merely to their conflant pro feffions fiece their acceflion to rower. They had always profeffed that, their conduit was loch as would bear the &WWI examination, and that they wiffied that every part of it fhould be firiely examined; and yet, when a motion was brought forward to examine their conduct io a particular inflance o they, in a manner moft unprecedented, refilled the paper which was the cnly regular foundation upon which fuch an examination could he originated. He fhould a& the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether this conduit was like that of the Roman Phil)fopher, who wifhed that his houfe was made of glair, that every body ' might witaefs all his actions. The piefent Isliniflers might indeed, now and then let themfelves be looked at in their glafs houfe, hut then it muff be at a dif tance, and they would not let any body come too near them (a lough). Having fufficiently fhewn the Houk that his mutien did not originate from any idle curinfity, he &dd next call their attention to the Order itfelf. The Order Lean by (lazing, that whereas the French Government had ilfued orders, in violation of the ufage of war, to prohibit the commerce of neutral nations with his Majefly'r dominions, fuch attempti on the part of the enemy gave to his Majef,y an toootredionable ri;lo. of reta• liation ; but that, however unwilling to iollow their example in this ii i ; L snce, yet he felt it incumbent upon him to take fume Reps to renrhin this violence, ancl to retort upon them the evils el . their own initt.i Such were the motives Rated in the Order ,;f Coun. cil lOr the meafures that were adopted, As fhr the right of retaliation which was then offered; he thought notW7 could he more clear or indlfrutable.. It would he t' rnaddell t!Arg upon earth to lappoli that we tette tied and hotrod by the laws of ration; to any certain conduct with an enemy '.o utterir difowned and renounced thole lows with refract us, or to fopoofe chat we were not at lil.etty to tera hate thtle injuries which we had received from thcrr. ' The French decree gave rife to thi. Order be gan with Rating- " that whereas Ergland had ceded to refpee the eltabli:lied law of nations, and lwd ex tended the right of conquell to the property of indi siduals taken at fea, with a view to aggrandize the commerce of England at the expence of that of the other European nations, and that therefore, from the natural tight of retaliation, France was obliged to adopt a fitnilar conduit ; and therefore until Eng land confented to acknowledge the fame rule at lea as at land, fo long the provifions of that decree Ihould remain among the fixed and fundamental laws of the French empire " The °Ned of France was to force this country to give up a maritime tight which had been fanetioned by the eftablifhed law of nations. It therefore could nor be made a matter of argument in that Houfe, whether the country did or did not peers the right of retaliatioa—the only qnef tion was about the policy and expediency of the manner in which Minifters had recommended to his Mejelly to exercik that right. In confidering this fubjee, it would he neceffary to obferve,, what were the objects for which retaliation was to be made. The firft object-was, to retaliate in fuch a manner as would give the bell probability of coun teracting the fchemes of the enemy againft our commerce, and next to make them feel the effects of their own violence and injultice. It did not appear to him that his Majelly's &Unifiers had wilily fe leifted that part of the enemy's trade in which they meant to retaliate for the injuries that would be done to our ccrumerce. It could hardly be Paid that this meafure would in the leaf; c , unteraft the evils which the execution sit the French decree might bring upon our commerce. No man could doubt but that anti des of Englifh growth and manufacture would Hill find their way into the markets of the Continent. hut ' the price of them would he much enhanced by 44iiin. created premium of infurance. and by the many ob. !lades which this decree would throw in the way of• their introduCtion. Tilde circum fiances would favotir the, competition of the mina:tam-es of the enemy. Now the belt way to retaliate thi. attack uprn our commerce appeared to him to he, not ch. attack of the coalling trade of the enemy, hut of their direct trade. The crafting trade of the enemy was alio harder to be interrupted titan their di! c6l trade, as fmali veffels might carry it on, which c mid run under the protec ti m of land batteries, or ions force creel(' where our veffels could not follow them. He thought it would have been much better to have prevented neutrals from bringing to Frarce ;he produce of the enemies colonies. This would have ciikefred France mote, and would have been caller to do. lf, from the in• creafe of price, that the enemy woe obliged to pay for colonial produce, tire articles of French and Spanilh produce were to be dearer, this woord.be ler viceab:•_ to us in the competition. We were told by Minifters that in the Treaty with America, there was an ex. prefs refervatinn of the right of adopting. fuch mea- Aires as might be neceffar) in retalistiou. If this re. fervation, however, was in no cafe to be ailed upon, he did not know what was the rife of it ? He hopeo that Government were not deter red from aay jull principle, merely from the fear of offending neutrals —but, after what he had feen—after the country had fabmitted to the difgrace of continuing a negoeiation with America when Minitters had heat,' of the Non Iraportation Act—when a Treaty was Signed while the Aft was in force—he could not but be a little afraid q'at "iriflers did flop in neceffary mutfurzs retaliation rom ihe fea; Of offending n eutra l,. u t * could not fu .pofe t? it America, or any other ueutr 4 l nation, could feel tile lean refentment againit this country, t r a;loptino filch mcatur es nfj u lt retaliatiot as loce her to. Th e i r anger muik be only at;ainft that power that comp e l s th i s country to her take kfucke would have trightsl.:etwio carry t t n retaliation fo far as to fay, that if F ra nce will not permit oc utr a i. ct.ilte Britith r perra;t any net:;r.;:s tA 70 to France but thole t h at have totahed at Britifh port. He conceiv e d, that the rociforcs t -ken by Governmem were not a d equate to t he 4111 . ; , :ai which they ought to have i n view, and which they prof-died to hive. Alt er a variety of argornews in happart of this opi n i on, he cnncluded by tnlvio.T, "‘ That an loth!ble Atidrefibt ptek.nteel to hi,. Nl:ply, praying hito to order, that; 7th of Ja nuary, ba eci o a p i Jr 0 01 ril s e t r i , : , f il e ,.. ;:u r, ncil of the Si' NEIN .NICHOI. (she King's Pi i.ivocat e ) that, is tiring to antwer the Honour .hi, and LeA•., ed Gentleman, he wilhed to avoid • tf!y thing e perfonal artimadverlion, and wifhed to apply hir t edy principally to the (hope -and ohjedt of the motion p:op:fed, whicti was one of a nature that had not tiiitally met a favourable reception (rem thee Houle. The motion called for the Order of Lis Mas jeßy in Council, dated the 7th January, direeting the courfe which his Majelly's !hips of war and mutters were to take With refpea to neutral veffels trading with the enemy's port., in confequence of the late Edift of the French Government pmfcribirg all commerce of neutrals with this country; but did his Honourable and Learned Friend, adduce any precedent of filch a call having been made upon his Majetly's Minißers, pending a treaty with a Foreign Power not yet ratified ? If his Hon. and Learned Friend knew of any fuch precedent, he was bound to produce it, in order to thew that his claim was en- titled to countenance from the Houfe. The Hors. and Learned Gentleman himftlf acknowledged that the fubßance of the order in quellion had already ap. peared in the GA zette, and therefore he was already in poffedion of every information he could really want upon the general topic. It was not for the purpnle af refilling any claim for neceffary inform& tion to the Houle that he role, neither was it to op. pole the right which the Houle had to call for mei. far) , information, or to prevent any difccflian the Hoof! might think proper to entertain upon the fob. jest ; but the document was avowedly called tor by lit Hon. an.: Learned Friend, with a vievitO induce the Ilotrie to t r mind come further proceeding thereto., he was h arrid to futtain the propriety nib's demand torrn I:me precedent under fuoilar circum; Eut le. ving all further argument upon this part of the Ehjea, he fhould now .pr. - .ceell to are 11,e merits of tne cafe. as if the document required svere really before the Wofe, confident,- as he was; that whenever it ihonld be expedient to produce+that document, the rti.:.ifure would not he found likeTiro produce thole eftets which his Honourable. Awl Leair.ed Friend had been pleafed to attribute to The condun of the French Government, itt" the e6idt allnded to by his Hon. and Learned Friend, was allowed cn all hands to be in direa violation of the law of nations and of the rights of neutral powes, with a view friely to deftroy, •if poflible, the con. melee of this coutitt y for what was its tenour and purport ? Whv to declare, forfooth, all the ports of the Eritifh Hies in a (late of blockade (although F r ao e e was not al:le to fend a fingle (hip to the mouth of any unc of them, to fupport the manifello), and to announce her deiermination to capture and cora cate every neutral (hip, with its cargo, that (hall have touched at any of thofe ports on its way to a Conti nental port, or than be found approaching thereto, until Great Britain (hall have renounced the right of capturing the private (hips of any nation with which the may be at war, and to confine the exercife of the right of capture merely to the (hips and vetrels longing to the Government of the belligerent nation. But this was a principle as novel in the ufages of war between Belligerent Powers, as the edidt nfelf was contra! y to the law of nations. The ufage of captnr• ing the commercial Mips and cargoes of an enemy at war was, he contended, as old as war itfelf ; it was an ufage afferted by every nation, and a right Rill more important than that of capturing an enemy's (hip of war—becaufe the commercial velfels of an enemy contributed fo greatly to increafe his re• venues and refources for carrying on and protraaing war—and yet this was the Pole ground of pretence upon which the French Government proceeded.to declare the ports of thefe iflands in a Rate of I blockade ! His HonourAble and Learned Friend did not venture to fullain . the Condna of France on this nccatirn ; he wa' of Opinion that neutral nations bad full right to retaliate, and that thole nations would allow the. like right to this country, and of having recoutfe to timilar means for dlftr.iling an enemy, who has f flagrantly outraged the Law of Nation!. —The question then to be conlidered was merely to what extent, it would be politic and advifable to esti cite that right, without Ft IF giving due notice thole nations ? NU doubt, this country had, in thf fill inttance, a right to proceed to !'nine Reps hut wont!: it be argued, that in the very firft itraance it would be r ight to carry the principle of retaliation to i.s tomtit rigour and extent, indifcriminately to wards ail neutr.4 powers, whtfe commerce mutt be equally ernharraffed with our own, by the conena of Fiance ? believed his Hon. and Learned Friend would a:low, that this country atonic; !•eit own intereils, and the dignity of i s eLtraetsr, proceedi , g at the outlet with modera. eat, hberalr; and forbearance, towards nations inv ;teal under 0 ,. pr , :icrptit-e Edict of France. Some coniideration vat due to the amicable relationinip exuding between ourfelues and rations not involved in the war, before we proceed to adopt agaiott them the rigorous Often fo wantonly declared :,y France, and which- it would be time enough to ad.-pt when circumflancers thould appear to tender it iodifvenfable tat tl.e vindication of our own commercial rights, Hi- Honourable Friend, although in the early part of his (vetch be had in tintained, that see ..ught at once to proceed wi:li the molt indifcriminare rigour, teemed to adroit, towards his coriclufinn, ;oat our rroceedtc , gs in the first inflance fliould be chidly directed .to preclude the home conveyance, in central-Nu, of lie produ ce of the French and Spud]) Col , nies ; andy et he con tended, that his Majelly's Mintftets had:.; r adopted the meafures molt eligible under exiflir.:: I X igaties. He (Sir John Nichol!), however, ct, "Jed that