Star. — London, England, 1807-02-05 00:00:00

l the ide ice ,n• ;ed the Hon. and Learned Gentleman had made out no cafe to prove his afTertion, that thole who were en. trolled %ill the Adminiflratinn of hie Majefly's Go- 1 vernmetit had been remife in their duty, or that they had not adopted fuch meafures as were mrifl likely to be immediately felt by the enemy, as the embata ra fting confequences of his own flaerent injof. eie e .—He would beg leave to alk the Honourable ; Gentleman, who were the Neuttal Powers o f Europe againft whom he had called on Minillers to 2 8,in order to prove that the meafitre adopted by his Majefly's fervants, for cutting off ail communi cation between the enemy's perts, was neither fo weak ncr fo ineffieacious as he had aliened? 'vas ! it merely to interript the commercial intercenrfe be- twee n the ports on the coalt of France that the effeetsl of the meafure were to be confined ? Certainly not ; for the ports of Holland, Spain, Italy, and in faa, every weflern and fouthern port of the Continent, from the Elbe to Venice, with the tingle exception of Portugal, were now hotlile ports, in the aftuel pof fellion of the enemy, and the communication between w hich it was of the highelt importance to cut off, in order to embarrafs that enemy, and force him to re- Uncial the defperate and unjutt meafure to which We had retorted. On the other tide, were Rntlia and Great Britain joined in the war againft France ; fo that the only Neutral Powers in Europe then re maining, whore trade with the enemy it was cf any importance to embarrafs, were Denmark in the North, and Portugal is the South, with the additian of the port of Triette. Would it then be a detirable thing to embarrafs the commerce of the only States in Europe now open for the reception of Britith com modities ; or to prevent Denmark from fending her produftions to the South of Europe, to procure fuch neeefaries as the may want in return ; and Portugal from fending her produce to South America, and bringing home to the European market the produce of thole Cplonies ? From the Anti-American fpirit, fo pointedly avowed by his Honourable and Learned Friend, he defpaired of conciliating his forbearance towards the commercial privileges of that power.— But he would beg him to teflea whether, if we were to debar the (hips of all neutral powers from all commercial intercourfe with the enemies' 'lions, we foradd not thereby clofe the doors mere effetually againtl onrfelves ? It was obvioofly the interetr and hell policy of this country to encourage and advance the commercial interconrfe of Europe. which muff always promote the advantages of our own trade. Commerce was a conreaed chain, o f which, if a tingle link were broken, it injared all the interefls of the nations thus feparaied, and rendered them lefs able to purchafe our own cern. modities : and fuch would be the necetruy con fequence of precluding all neutral intereourte % ci t e France. Betides, the market for American pro duce was chiefly with the ports of the Continent ; while her return cargoes were principally computel of Btitilit goods : now, if we preclude Atnetica from the only markets in Europe the has for her cnmmodi iies, we eontequently deprive her of tie means of purchaling ours. Although France had hurled its menaces againß. all neutral veftels touch'ng at, or approaching, &kith ports, had the, he would a lic,a maritime force adequate to carry her threats info exe onsi,o' a 1 Or was it likely that the rowere of Emope sad America, who were well away e of the mar i time lituation of France, would be all detetred by her from vifiting Britifh ports. Before, however, we proceeded to retaliate upon neutrals for the aggref- Eon of France, we (hould wait to fee if they abitained from vifiting Brit& ports, in compliance with the edict; and it would fattier be time er.ough, when fuch a confequence should appear, to retort to furh vigorous meafures. One leading principle it was the obvious policy of this nation to adopt ; namely, to diflrefs the trade of neutrals as little as pollible. The truth was, that in every war, a very great (hare of the commerce of Eurrpe mull be carried on under the faktion of neutral flags. Of the commerce of the enemy, at this moment, a very great there was mafqued in this way. He did not think it wife to deny to neutrals this right, which they only exercifed during was ; for in peace, the marine of each nation was adequate to carry on its own trade. It was to the honour and liberality of this country to avoid embarraffing neutral nations, while France was di - ing them every injury the could ; beceuce it was through neutral commerce that a great ih,:re of our commodities found their way to ce,ntinental confump titm, and through which we eurfelves procured thele continental produaians necetfary to ourfelvec. With refpea to the argument that no injury would be tiot.e to the enemy by the interruption of his coaiting trade, after the wide extent of that trade alr;:atly &fel shed, and chiefly carried on by neutrals, he conterdcd that it was ptecifely the kind of warfare that would moil embarrafs him, and teach him to feel and ictecet our naval fuperintity. In ['ippon of this argument, h e quoted the opinion of Sir William Scott, Chief Judge of the Admiralty Court. With reference to the vigorous meafures for which his Hon. and Learned Friend teemed In a nxious i n this cafe, he would alto refer him to the condita adopted in ("miler circumflances under the Adminif tration of Mr. Pitt, of whole Adminiaratien, the want of vigorous meafures was by no means the charaeter ; tor, when France ifTued au edta, on the (Bth January, 1798, declaring that " the qnality of the cat go Mould decide the Nation of the (hip, and that a ll eeffeis laden with Br itith commodities 1110U1d I s ! co nridered as lawful prizes, although belonging • yet Mr. Pitt did rot think it fa to zeta ) ire upon neutral [hips, laden with French produce. I. would alt, appear, that the Prc.:idtnt oleic ,Al.lc tican Stales at that day, (Mr. Adttno.), when pub. holy adverting to this edia of the FrenchG ter lenient, hod declared it to be agair the rigins of notions that it flinulci be confidered as an utrequivocel acct of war, arid that it nughtas fuch to be retit'.ed. He Stuffed the Chief Magilirate of Amer ica . et the prefent day would be of the fame opinion, and be reedy to adapt a fimilar condua if France Ikould proceed to fuch etas of hoßility. For his own trait, he was eve& to the predawn of the enemy from receiving in neutral (hips the produce of their colonies, as even tually In our interefl, kiecenfe the recv i eloo of thole commodities very much it:created the means ifexport es ji France thould feize upon any olter ,of prefeirfneitealftiolis, rniefeelfeatrelly' tr. preclude titilh commerce from the Cortinenr, Ike would, arsdey:the-fyllens adopted by his Majeny's MiniAers, I 41 9 feel the effea of the meafure , as France Rood k much in need of the aid 'of aentral ports as this country could ; and 'he trotted, that when the eL&s , of this meatnre came to he fully (tied, France would! be loon glad to open many of the ports the had cloted againft us. He concloded by oblerving, that to ptoceed in 'the tint inilance to the utmost extent rigorous meatitre% ag.4nit neutrals, would be appa rently to jo!tify the charge of France againit this country, of heirs. the Tyrant of the teas ; but thc.uld events require Inch an alternative, he was convinced that his •Majefty' Minifiers tvottfti no: he found want ing in any treaentes vi t !our nec,ll . 4ry to affert and vindicate the commetcial rights and littered: of this country._ _ . - . Mr:JACOB confideted the bj:ets Gent!emen on the other tide, as tenditig, if rat tied into cffeft., to that which was contra: ytu their view , , the lienefiting of France, and the difidvant xge of this country. Lord CA F.II.EAGH was extremely flory to trouble the H'ufe at any l-nth on this occafion, hot could not avoid making fr.me Acervations on what had fallen in the cootie of the debate from the Hon. Members who had fp .ken. He mutt confider that the only qneßion before the Ht.ufe refolved itfelf into this point, namely, whether any fufficient Parliamen tary objeaion had been made againft the produaion of an Official Paper on the part of his Majelly's Mi niflers, which Paper was in itfelf no fectet His Learned and Hon. Friend, who made the Motion, withed to abide by the parliamentary principle of not dikuffing any quetlion without having the necelrary and proper materials laid before the Houle. It his Hon and Learned Friend oppotite (Sir Jabs Nielson) had not, with all his information nn this fubjed, and with the aid of his talents, been able to convince him, he did not fee where he could Ink for conviaion upon this important fubjeCt. His Learned and Hon. Friend (Mr. Perceval) had (hewn, in his mi d, with the greatelt fuccefs, that it was neceffary to obtain the prodation of the paper, in order to lay die foun dation of future difentlion on the general merits of the queition. He admitted that it would have been a light proceeding to call for the paper, milers it sere done in the view of grave and important deli beration. Yet, under all the circunulances, he de rived raw confolati on in lizating that this rico, on the pat of Govemnient, was. not intended as the laR and final Enc.:fine on their part against the attacks of the enemy ; brat that they v.ould, when eirconntances required it in their jadgments, proceed Dill farther to retht All the cmderpiences of the late violent and tinwai ranter:le decree of the French G.;vernment.— He viilied to ch:al I.:s Learned Friend from mit'. coneeption or untrir i:npuzat;ons. He had not raid that th,, meafure .a.i ,ieed l Government was a meafure which nculd pro:lnce rto good efreEts ; bat he had viewed is as it'a Leiog likely to produce all thole cenflquences which he considered ought to be the ohjea of the Britilli Govet urnent, arifing out .of a just and fair let:llia - Lien up..n the crmfrquenccs of the Frener decree. He had contended that the meafure of Guv: r ment either went too far, or that it did not go fo tar as circumflances warranted us in going. The N:.b:c Lord then alluded to the dd . . potion of the Government of Monies; and re marked upon the time that v...as wailed and ccnlorned by that Governrorn• in negotiation wi'h France,which wa. employed by Pr ance chictly in fcliettes and plots of car:option. Whatever were the principles ulna) which our Government had negotiated and con cluded a treaty with America, it was certain, in his view of the futjeEt, that it was by far to mica for us to exped, from any difpolition hitherto (hewn by that Government, that (he would in any refpett in. terfere, in a queflion of this fort, againtt the preten fions and interelts of the French Government. He Witted that, in what he had laid, he had relieved his Honourable Friend's argument from the mikon !fru/lions to which he had alluded. It was impartible% to judge whether Government had adopted wife and alequate meafures, without looking at the relent fituation of the counts y, with refpea to her maritime rights, it, a general point of view. But it was now particularly incumbent on us to confider how far the alfertion of two new codes of maritime rights might affeCt the bet interests of England. No quellion in our hillo , y had ever been followed up with more manlintfs and per feverar,:e, than that of cur mad., time rights. Several Members of the prefent Ad istinifltation bad maintained thole effential points in the midst of war. But if :hay would compare the ft), rner claims of Trance with thefe to which the now made preterti• ns, it wrotld be t. and that there neeler was a neceitity for fo thong a refinance. At two pe rinds, in awl in ISao. the carats of the Neu trality welt fat lhart of what was now aatnipted.— It was then contended, diet free bottoms Ihould m rite free ponds ; but now France, in fa& contend. ed, that French (hips of ail :dads, except war (hips, should airhout moleftati , m. If the claim had became clinch lA:ger, we ought to hefirate how I far we fed the French fy nem, and bow far our mea litres tendf.'d to coonteraCt it effednally, and to visit on th a : G , .yernmeirt the injolike it attempted to in fiiCi. Tire proceedings in the Adminitttation of his late Right Hon. Friend, did not relate to meafures parallel to thole of the prefent day. In 1798, the French had made great progrefs upon the Continent,l and endeavoured to turn their fuccefs againfi the trade of this country; but the Rate of Enrope was very dit ferent : France did not then plfefs all Gerrnany,Pruf lia, and tl:c Hart: Towns, with a limilar command of the North of r:utope, and all Italy, with the Adri atic added thereto; even Spain was not then com pletely lobjuga!ect, and Portugal was a fnbltan:ive power,and not a tributary and dependant. The decree of France, therefore, Bellowed tip by the recant fucceffes their at mire, rendered the quellion extremely dif -I:rent as to our delicacy towards neutrals. All the oforpatio.ns of France were ufelefs topic-, to move Airier ice to exprefs any fettle of her injoilice. France had from the bald,: to Turkey, in her prelent nate, in fpite of our viElorierus navy, the facility of export ing from port to port, almoft as well as in peace, and had eitablithed a complete monopoly of her own pto:duCli-ns, milers we, by fair retaliation, prevented her horn all cedoniAl importations, and all this even while fcarce a (hip of her's dared venture on the ocean to oppofe tic. The Hoare would form no mean idea of the (late of the commerce of France with America, when they eonfidereci what it brought to her at the expense of our maritime rights. Out of feventy 6ve millions of dollars impaled by Anierica, not Ids than twenty-eight millions were exported by tier *in produce or otheroife, the greater part of whiCh was feat to France, soul found its way to the FreaCh El ,,chequer. If the Rode looked to the quediva to to infiwance, they would find that at.thismnm ell. t they might infure a cargo from the enemy's colony to the Mother Country, as well as from Jamaica to the Mo. ther Country. The Noble Lord preired with earnefl nefi on the loloofe the confideration of the present date of our commerce; and efpediallv 'the flight hopes that could be entertained of auy aill dance from the political fyftem of America in fuch queitions. He trutted the fopineuefs of our own Government ' would form give place to more w:Ce ash.l eneszetie meaftit es I Earl TEMPLE confidered the motion as unconlii. tntional in its nbjeift, becaufe it went to interfere with Minifters pending a negoenvion, and in the view of meafuresupon which nothing fpecificapold yet apoear, and refpeeting which no d.'cuments caull he in the poffeflion of the Houk. He reminded the Hon. and Learned Mover of his own • oppolition in Lord Sid mou,h's Adminittration, to the produetion of Pipets; and contended, with coroiderable ability, that the . quelion was not on a renunciation of i ights,which h .d never been made, but on the policy of our puling our rights to a parti:ular extent. He then ll.wed, ' on a view of the exports and imports, the policy of the meaftire if Government. Lail year twenty four ,millions of Englilh commodities were exported to I Europe. To Atom Ica eleven millions. The uterolt i produce of the Frarich Wands was four or five millions , but on the calculations made by the Gentleman oppufite. feven millions were fent to I France. All the difference then was Englifh. The I meafures of the Honottrahle Member went to the flopping of the export of Britilh produce. Covet n• , ment had renounced on right poffeffed or claimed by this country, but would act according to circuni- ; i fiances, as good policy might direa. The object of 1 the enemy was eLelored to be the deftruelion of our trade, and we mutt refid him by every means in our : power, but not by rafts and impolitic matures. The ' Noble Lord made many other obfereations, and coa t eluded by declaring hirnfelf adverle to the motion. Sir THOMAS TURTON expreffed his furprife I at what fell from a Leariod Gentleman at the other isle of the Houle, that it was uot the duty of Parlia • ment to call for limb a paper. But he confer:dad, that the unparalleled dare of Europe, a date that i had no precedont till this period, canted many tit: .g , . to be done which "r. ad no other precedent than the neceffity of the cAfe ; to with terpeet to ibis motion, the neceffity of the cafe, mad that date of Europe, de- t =tided it. If the retaliation be injurious to neutrals, the cattle was with the enemy. If Bonaparte favoured Ametica, to as to permit her to connive with her in the ruin Of the trade of Great Britain, then would it not be prodent as well as political to prevent fuch a 1 circumstance This country hac yielded too much to I remonftrances, that fyllem of c.lamitfion fhould he I difcontinued. Miniftcrs feern ro be tertifizol into a i fubmiflii.n to America, and to have it.a..le a peace I I with her with a pidol to their breads. the decree of Bonaparte was infinitely mare to be drcadtd by the I no:m.l;4le ititerett of tlsi; Cost•ltt.y than that o: the : Government of France io :.,ja : the one only ....-.rtt to partial confikation, hot the r.thet to comple:e coil. ififcation and anoihdation. The trmtfttre hcfore tht i country was, in his opinion, ddieielo in enerno,o and ihe was hAppy, let Wile might be toe etfon of his : fiicod% motion in other repeat., that a: :al! events it I produced the aelolowled;.;rneitt tenor the other fide of l the Honk, that Mori:lets v..0t;.1d ore :trip sheet of this mea f loo , but would extend their exettioos beyond it, as the oceation might require. Lord HOWICK role, and replied, io fubflance, as follows :—" Sir, it is nc,t ace thing nhich has been laid on the other tide of ihn Hotti'a, which makes toe trefpafs on your attenti,n, at this stage of the debate, but feting no whet petrol) on this fide of the Hook , entering into the difctiffi• T. ; uncut . httaro:iog the very full, able, and fati,fillot y lIIIIMer in ~ thigh it ha• been already confidered by my Noble Friend (Earl Temple), and my Honourable and Learned Friend (Sir John Nicholl), I yet find it honed - 16:e to con tent invfelf with a tilent vete upon this occation.— The Hon. and Learned Baronet (Sir Thos Turtonj has dated the impropriety of arguing this cuedian 'Ton general merits, until the production uf the papers, moved for by the Right Honourable and Learned Gentleman (Mr. Paceval) and faid, that' tie timid content himfelf with conlidering the tingle queflion upon the production of there pa pers; ye: he had not finifhed one femence upon that point, when the remainder of his fpeech was occupied in difcuffing the general merits of the quedion.— This is all, perhaps, I (hall trouble myfelf to fay, in anfwer to the Learned Baronet's fpcech. The Learned Gentleman. (Mr. Peiceval) could not luppofe that any motion he thould make upon the principles he Rated, would be acted upon by Par liament as a matter of courfe, n r could it be fop. poled that it was for the purpok of coucealment that his Majelly's Minifters refilled the production of thofe papers, but that it was in compliance with that duty which was maintained on a great conftitu tional principle. Thefe papers could only be called for, for the purpofe of inttituting time Parliamen tary proceedings; it is the duty of the Houle to fee that thele proceedings are confident, and it is the duty of his /vlajelly's Minitten not to communicate 1 that which might Ire injurious to the interells of the • country. I know of no precedent which admits of the produEtion of papers, upon the principle laid down by the Right Honourable and Learned Gen demon ; and ankh he can thew that there is a Cite, similar to this, on which I have acted, he has ro grounds for his motion. But he has alr eady mirnit!td that' he knows of no precedent Mt the prothOSi:l of thole papers. Can he fay that there were TIM Orders of Church in the comic of lad )ear, which were never netore the Houk, amid could trot be before it. —But it is neither more nor lcfs than an attempt to fuperfede the fimelions of the Exectrive Govern ment ; and would it then be for this Houfe to aft without any information upon the fubjeet where the documents confidently could not be laid before i them'? I do not mean to contend, that any meaftoe of the Executive . Government is not under the toil• trout cif thilWe ; but I do maintain, that in any mediae peeatharTy exililog in the Esectniee Gm iernment, and ending the progrels of that MCA. I fore, this Fipilfe "will no: interfere. Now, what is I the date of the cafe, upon its general merits ? A Decree is "Med froin the French Government, the nature of which it is ton neceffary for me to go I into at any length, having been f. ably and fully I antwered by my Hon. and Learned Frter d. That I, Decree was a fete aft, built upon talk principles ) and/ ' fuel) as has its erifience bat in thit cnnntry, an. 3 I we pert:.it her to fall upon her own trap. In the v.:ry fil It meafure we, have taken in anfcer to that de: re: o f the French aleernmenr, the H in. and Learned Centlem.tn calls upon the li•ufe, contrary to all pre cedent, contrary to all principles hitherto ailed upcn, to adopt a mealure of retaliatEn. However vi Jent the order of the French Government, f r the Ponfif cation of Eaglith proprty, the H n. and Learned Gentleman, I :tm lure, will agree with me, that rata liat;rm, is the :yap praptAd by him, can give us nu a:lditional right .gainfl neutral powers, nor is it any reafon that we thould treat as enemies thife unfortu• nat2 and unh.ti)py c.)untries, who have been obliged to bcconie pAr:ea with France, or ate forced into that iititati lii:lead ttf cnmptilli nn and holtility, we, therefore, aft towards them with forbearance and ninieTation. It is then fail, we hive taken mearti , es 'hot t °fresh at ion, and fo the iionourable and' Learn- !Jentlernan lays, we have taken wrong mear.ure,.. Li it [ w in!ct alk. %ecaofe France has proceeded wish vi,A•nce and injuirce, is this cmntry to prrtne the f.trne meafure, by way of retaliai n ? 'ibis right, thereinre, berme() arcertained, 1 would all:, if 1o; is the FL , nnurable Gentleman prepared to recom tn this H rule, th It every perfon having pro perty la:I :npiug to French ftNers, in his hands, or. that Any pror.crzy !:dinging to French I..!)jels, in the Fonds, (hail c(rtfifcated ? I thould like to kiln'', how this 1-1, life would upon filch a re- commenlatioo. Raving Olen this induitah;e ri &ht relAliAtion, I do conceive it ought to be ut - cd u•itd expediency.—tut it the Executive G w:rn- ment cannot be relied upon, let not the Ffmoulabld . - and LeartudGemtlemin tnove for tilde papers,but let him at once move an Addrefs to his NlAjcay, to re mote from hi; Ciluncils thrift perfong in whom no con. fidrnce can be placed. One of the inconveoiencies at. tending this difcullion, is the impoffibility or going into it upon the %%hole of the metits, %itiormt ri(kiag fumething that might be important in its c ,, nle.t:tences, rendilg commercial ncgociaticns with Foreign Powers. The actitlion cannot be fairly entered on, witholt expofing fome of our m vu:nerable part►. and enabling the enemy to attempt that which he • iikly hoped so extcote.the Noble I..ord(CAileseagh) obj::Cis to this measure, becAufe the Decree of the French is fisnilar to that of 1793, although their powers were not 1' great then as at relent, but France and Spa'a , were then, as now, in dole alliance, IP.rWnce c nanCel the whole extent of coati round the Con tinent, to 11.,e Bay of Naples, With the exception only of the Elbe and the Wder, and that (mall track, the kingdom nt Porttigal. With refpea to the (hipping, we hate the farce advantages is we had in 1793. As a maritime ;rawer, France was greater than the is tore, tic battle of Trafalgar n't having then taken place. Toe forbearance, therefore, cf the Engin Gavemment, is en:hied to approbation, and I d not fe:, that, upon broad and general principles, it .-01;:d have been ntherwife. N Ailing could be more faoguinary and :'trocinus than the D:cree of the French G -versmenr, in 1798, decl iting, that no quit cr was to be given to the Britith foldiers ; but 1 ..cv.o heard any perfon blame this Houfe, for not ifrong a finnlar Decree. The deigns of our enc. in:es l•.,Le .;tren fruilrated, and will continue to be • fa, trO :fs home 'violent meafure, f. reit as the Lzarn,.,! Gentleman wifhes to recommend to the H o.fe, &11l the adopt-i. But what is the ohjeFt the prnin.led fjliem t f retaliation ? It reminets me of a ilory I h ire read fnmenlere, of a poor man, who was in great want of rime cc:v.4 nuts, which grew on the top of a tree, and he hnd no means of reacLiog, them. At lag, how.ever, he (pied a little monkey in the tree, and inimediately thought of an expedient to get at what I.e wanted ; he threw a quantity of tones and dirt at the monkey, which worked the little ieritabie animal into a Nihon, and by way nf rctali ition, the monkey flew back and threw at the man the fruit which it was his objcet to oh rain. Now, I cannot fee any other aka in the Learned Gentleman's propolal, than by way of retaliation for :he blockading fyllem of the French Government, which Bonaparte throws at us, in re venie for which we are told that we thankd throw our commerce at him. In (port, I take this to be a motion entirely unprecedented ; a motion, interfering with fame of the molt important ditties of the Exe cutive Government ; pending a meaftne which has not as yet had its full effeft ; and fuck a motion, a', I am lure, the Houfe will not countenance ; and whatever confidence the Honourable and Learned Gentleman may place in fuch a ptbeeeding, I, with much more confidence, rely upon that fyllenl of moderation and forbearance which has been adopt ed. lam the lack peifon who would ark the Houfe to yieli to any alfertions of mine: but if the Ho nourable and Learned Gentleman's affertions are true, if his m'.tian is well founded, and the inter ells of the country are at flake, he fhould not have moved for this paper, but for the difmilfal of his Majefty's prefent Minifters—l mult again re peat.that we have taken a meafure which we hope will be effectual ; if not, it ani lies in our power to relent to other meafures, but not as the Hon. and Learned Baronet Rated, a view to experiment only. I j do, therefore, contend, that it is a complete inter , ruption of the enemy's commerce. Spain and Italy can fend nothing to France, nor can France fend any thing to th.fe places. Upon all thefe grounds, there. fare, 1 trull the hi ,, ufe will he fatisfied that his Ma jen) 's Minifltrs have not been negligent of the true inteteas and honour of the country." Sir THOMAS TURTON and Lord HOWICK feverailf explained. Hr. PERCEVAL, in reply, erpreffed his difin dioation further to trelpafs on the ,ime of the Houle, were it not that he telt hitnfed imperioutly palled on to animadvert upon the extraordinary ftatements of the Nh e Lord who had jolt fat down. He was willing, ho ...ever, to give the Noble L or d cre di t f or the facetious manner In which he had endeavoured to refute his atgument refpeaing retaliation, but could not help thinking the ftyle of:the argument ; wens adopted merely for the purpofe of introducing ;he elegant and claflic limile of Sinbad the Sailor. The Noble Lord had then proceeded to demand, whetherhe would infift that the fame violence which France had reforted to in her condua towards Eng land, timid have been retorted, in the fame meafine, in our treatment of France ? The Noble Lord knew, the rta n p t p of reh h e e n r fi nroanl,igni left a , as ty, as well as he did, it was fa r f ro m hi s i ntent i on to ta e h ad o nF already ranc e France t: p ir f e n d l extent pcsfezer.uace in ouch a e mode retaliatiou r imight, in retaliate i