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PARLMALtNTAR2 - PROCEEDMGS. 140 USE OF COMMONi, TIT3DAY, NOV. 3, 1711 CONTINUATION FROM oUlt TAPER OF *ESTIRDAY. Coinnel FuLLA). low gave notice. Coat it was his intention, early in the prof,nt Si awn, to bring in a Bill for du: of the condition of the Poor in Scotland. A new Writ was ordered iu be iirucd for a Member :n ferve In PartLinisi.t fur Nottingham, in the room of Evelyn Pierre point. Ely. dcceafi.l. A new Writ was alto ordered for Higham ravers, in the room of Edcy, Efq. ileceafcd. rsTIMATEg. Tht eilA%cu.r.on of the Exc ere ut moved, that there he 1 ant before thr Houle an Eftimatc of the Charge of Prifoners of War for one year, ending Jal,,lary 24th, I—Rt - tt ;—an EfUrnate of tic Nlifatibneou. Services for one year, ending the 24th of Mareh —•;o1 I ttimate of the Debt nt . the Navy up to the gd of Scpt nth,r, Oat ; and that an humble Adam& be pet-feared to Majelty, tly fuch of the Mcnibers of the Houle u arc of t.i• 70... lefty's Privy Council. praying that he order the fame to be laid before Parliament ; which motions were agreed to. terpnife for dlietsfetherlands, ti d e queßion was *lsere fight to bc foetid? k wan, in his opinion, bad policy to go to war or to continue the war for a little more wealth or a little mori territory, as the expense was fore to exceed the value of the purebafe. We now retired with uudred ftrength and with folid , refunrees. But it was Rill to be mmembered, that the war • had tailed for nine years, and that our eefources were to be ! (pared and chcrifited, to defend, if required, the honour and Independence of our country. We were no longer pledged to adt in a confederacy, and it was therefore but fair to aft what 'SVC thotild gain by carrying on the war fingle-hamded ? We could not call France to account for what the had gained from other Powers ; the queltion was, bow the balance Rood bc ' tween us and France refpedively France had not retained all her conquelts, and we could not expedt to keep potiettion , of the whole of ours. It was faid that the acquilitions of France . from the war were greatly portentous, but the gloomy inferen- CCA which be had beard were certainly :trained beyond the fa& But admitting, for the fake of argument, that France had • • pined fuch Strength, was this a reafon why we Mould aped her to accede to difadvantageous terms. In point of fait, the cob' I d y °frame which we bad acquired were greater in value than thole which we had reftored. The French fettlements were in fuch a Rate of ruin and defolation that we mutt, for a long time, retain our decided fuperiority, and with it nearly the whole of the carrying trade. The French navy was in I fuch a wretched Rate, that it could not be reftorcd, even in a tolerable degree, within a period far exceeding the molt fanguinr calculations refpedting the duration of Peace. With • refuedt to the language which he had formerly ufed refpedling the fueccffive Governments in France, he Rill retained the fame opinion of individuals; but he thought that the forbearance of neon,: angnage was a duty whenever the Executive Power had formed a 'Ert aty of Peace with any Government, however compofed. The jultice of this War, in the firft inflame, be ! oblerved, WS , fixed and determined. We had laved ourfelves, iu the • e.ult, from the attack which was meditated and deter j wined upon agalnit all regular Governments, but moil para . eularly and malignantly againft our own. lie had wiibed to 1 dettroy a Government founded on Revolutionary Principles. , and he bad only to regret that the efforts of others did not prove adequate to our own for this purptde. It was the N vourite with of his heart to relines the ancient Goventinent of France with certain modifications, rather than to fubmit to the mad experiments on legiflation which codas, ;cud the fafet y of 41 Europe. If this °hiect was found to he unattainable, we had at leaft the fadsfaetion of knowing that thefe principles Ind affumed a left dangerous charadier, and that it was now (trim of every pretence to Liberty. It would be =dads, therefore, to look obßinately to one object, and is refute the next belt means which prefented thensfelves. When he had objeded to treat with the man who now held the dellinies of France, he did nut fay but that circumstances might arife to render fuch a proceeding expedient. He denied France had been aggrandized in filch a degree as was Rated by Conte of his Honourable Friends. The lodes which the bad fultained by the Revolutionary whirlwind were fuch as no territorial acquifition could compenfate. We had, on the contrary, obtained a juR and natural aecctlon of power and wealth, the more valuable, as it was Rabic and fola Our naval and our military tamales, particularly in the late inflance of Egypt, had riven to us a decided fuperiority, and exalted the national charatter. Since • the Treaty of Lille we had confolidated our power in India. We had averted the imminent danger which threatened India. The Union of the Sitter Kingdom gave us more fond fireogth than was derived from all the Incorporations of France. We I had repelled the Invafion which threatened our coati, and I would have brought off the Tenets, if they had not been moored to the Chore. He hoped that the new lituation of France might I beget new and more pacific difpofitions on her part. He did I not approve, however, of layius ilde our precautions. He would , ad with France as if he thought her fincere; but he would, at the lame time, be prepared as if he believed her to be dan gerous. PRCLIMINAttitS Or rtiArE• N: r. Pt T T , on this fulled, declared himfelf extremely anxious to have an oppe• t unity of ftating explicitly the views he enter tensed of the lubjeal of Peace. and the grounds on whirls theft: views reIIIc3. He confidered, that for no fmall len g th of tinier...ft, whatever mi e dn have bean the different fhades and gradations of .pinion at other period of the War, at the prefent moment all thinkin g men were convinced that the event of War or Pcace was now become a quellion of mere temis, and no odier. Af ter the conelufion of Peace between France and the Great Con tinental Allies, after the total diffolution of the Confederacy aloft France, he was free to avow, that the quellion of War or Peace became a meta- queflinn of vine ; and that, tru. sin cumftanced. he wait more anxious about the character of the Peace, as a/eating r'tinnal chances. than for any thing elf.. It was the bounden duty or every Government to endeavour to obtain the bed terms the. nollibly could ; but in his view oldie hufinea he fhould prefer, in a cafe like the present. indeed of labourin g a. thatch a point, and to carry it with a lordly hand, to dole upon terms even then of what the fair pretenfions of the country might warrant, provided they were compatible with its charadter and honour. On this ground, as lon g as he eon , tiau t .l salient the honour of .7. feat in his Majcity's Councils, Mould not feruble to give it as his opinion, that in a canted, weer.. the whole face and view af thin g s were completely re veered the retention of all the conquelts we had made would Dot ieftify the continuance of the War. The meat polut for temilderation was, what defcription of terms we had a right to tape& and to which we ought to accede ? He had already dat ed, that it was not wife nor expedient, in fuels cafes, to drive for the retention of acquifitinns which were of no folid acre to us--which we did not materially want ; but satires to confine our views to the true lourreof our legitimate and ancientftrength. The next que fti o n would involve, to what particular quarter of the worldwe ought to direct our principal attention ? fn an fwer to this he fhould reply, that our principal actpdritions re lated either to the Mediterranean, or to the Eall or Welt in dhas. Now, in his opinion, whatever appertained to the Me diterranean ought to be regarded as matter of mere fecondary ffnport, if planed" in contrail with our poifeffions in the Lilt or Weft Indies. The main point to which our thou g ht anti mod iffiduout tare ought to he diretted, regarded the commerce of Great Britain, its internal and its foreign trade ,and confequent ly mull eminently embrace our ratt and Wen India poffeffions. Thee, in Left, canftittited the saelafprin g s of our ftrength.— It was with hint a grand and leading niaxim,neither to mortify the pride, nor excite the pardon of an enemy. Ou this ground, the reftitution of Malta to Its original owners appeared to him a wife and falutary meafore. We were no lon g . r borne nut by jußice in taking Malia.hut beeaufe It was unjuftly wrefted front its ri g htful inheritors, and taken poffeffion of by the French. With refpeal to hlMriera, that hand had for four Lac:live wins, in the comic of the prefent century, fallen uniformly with the commencement of each war, Into the hands of which rect. Power harqweed to eoffefs the marina furirriority. Durin g the continuance 01 Peace, Minorca se tan oSji.ift of (mall ins portanca ; on the ether hand, dining chewer, it can neither hc feeured, nor tiled to any paramoant advanta e e. He acknowledg ed that it g ave him eonlidcrable regret that eireundlanc, v of an imperious ne-ire preventel our read:axe poi effion of Malta. Hut as this conk: not he done, it was net:mall eaufe of exultation, that, in parting wait it, Great Britain rellored it, not to the enemy.. not to any dubious rower, but to the rightful claimants the Knights of Maka. lie was further free to admit, that the retention of the Cape of Good Hope was a defirahle °Ned but, however dehr.. 'le in itfelf, it formed an objefft of compa raive value. When placed in the balance with Ceylon, its claims armed a very differen. anted ; the one was a pollen - ton of converience ; the othe- of abfo'nte n •.cealty and indifpenfa ble requifiiion to the fccuri•e of BMtith India. Cochin eat the next point on which lie thould atumadvert. He was ready to admit that fume clverfity of opinion obtained vresn this point. Th,re were two Mods of authorities upon this fubjedt the Mercantile and the Military uttered lager was he to pay, he weedd not fay the relish., but the kb! due to the molt confuin mate ofranbLa g e, aiding in roncert with the molt confummate exertion of talent. Tie Mar juts Corn es name r tp. ct rl and paid homage to by every dais of the Community. from the hiaheft to the lowest—was juftly confidered and acknow kdred as the Saviour of India, a title which had heeti juftly re- duplicated to him for his tratifeaidant miseries in the Viceroy thip of !retard After paying homage to the charade• of this illoariou! Nobleman, ht. fel: It the miller to xprefs his differ ence of fentintent on a mere point of opinion ; be mud, there fore, (taint the privac a e of raying, that the ftreft and hart-t -enee placed upon Cochin wire over-rated front coialeaeucim. Whin: we Cad a tot mioablu foe to caeountar in the perfon of the late Timm bultausi-o-whiUL our hatft India poreffians were •DDRIS S. ft.oe of bein g 'tuna:AA, the poffellion of Cochin might he Sir WI eLI ANIMA RTOP brought up then port of an objedt of extreme importance. Set fusee the defaat of Tip the Committee on th e Addrefs. pen, fr•re the total difeomfiture of the plans erg ndered by 1 rereh Polities. and adopted by Mimic Craft, the importance Lord Ti at rt.! fail, l ie w ou ld trou bl e t h e H ou l e o. Cochin no !anger retained that:leo:la:ley wych i t•rmerly with only a few words. The Noble Secretary of did. The value of Cochin might be belt Illuftrated by comps- State had told the Houfe, that the Treaty figned rifon. He would place it liv wa' of elucidation, on a par with Ee no toe 29th of Setember, between France and wick-upm-Tweed. WhiUt 'En g land and Scotland Were at p variance, whilst the formed dinereet kingdoms 1, and wetht rortu.gail, was to he relinquiffied altogether, and , different int, tells maintained the Town of Berwick-upon- that the Treaty of Badajos was that which the 1 weed as a trontier town, it was u, objedt of the utmoft French Republic was to abide by, yet a paragraph por:anee. But when the two kingdoms became united under , appeared lately the rirorilleur, a paper allowed Otleconimcaaticf, its political importance dwindled away.— was to be the official journal of the l• Ira Conful, which Prerifely the fame was it with Cochin. Whilft Tippoo able to maintain the difpute, to tope with the Englifie and ham. Rated, that the ratification of that very Treaty raft the Company. Cochin was doubdefs an °bled of ma a ni- figned on the 29111 of September, had arm rived. mar. but after the death of Tippoo, after the incorporation I Lord HAWlttilittle laid, his M a ell of loch a large additional track of country to the Brine, fettle- y mand ?lasi no notification of an y f uc h rat ifi cat i on having meo, Cochin no loo t er maintained its original importance • or our wen I n dia ac q uitttoni. he was gl.:d to finals taken place ; but if what the Noble Lord had Rated : is pr aid terms. The idand of Traiidad. as a naval (talon, I was really the cafe, it could make no alteration in I wa, toperior to any Other, even than Manitique hide Was ! the Preliminaries figned between this country and I b• at liberty to have his own choice of the fourlOand-, of Mar • , 1 timmque. St. Lucia. Guadeloupe, and Trinidad, the latter thoidd France, by which , as l ie b a d b e f ore R ate d to t h e be his choice. Thus tar, then, he was perfcetly raddled with I Houfe, the fituation of Portugal was to remain as the terms. With terra to the Ottoman Porte, be was happy I fettled by the Treaty of Badajos. to fay. that this country and trot only fulfilled its eineztem.r.:s Sir H. LASCILLPS flirt, he wifficd it to be under wit h the molt f:: urn omelet haiasit eve doze: mere than floodthat be haft night v o t e d f or the Addrcfs, OM i• hero , 1 w•a • it weatbonne to p. 'rims. Ihe recovery of 1 , apt had certainly lt • • ,a nion n e th e Ta , aia; b ,„ his opinion t h at l' eace wou ld b e b ene fi c i a l to the it was I siglith val nie, itaciplin ia i,:ijia l • country I yet he could not rejoice at the Prelim?. e n.r e y. ciar not toil) , late the 'rani, bet fully aceomplithed the naries—he confeffed he felt a degree of anxiet work. Thi.e r :4W a fls rious prom of the re g ard y and apprehenlion, and he t i ti ll e d Minifters would whirl, w p..i :•nth.- perform se. c tit taeal faith, which paean irterrty iionitil init. lit the fi.ranatica, ia t h e r -a k e f uck Rcpt as would prevent the growth of fuch leer • f.•• • v n 'ri • I'. e ,a.it r iven an midi principles as were inimical to the Conßitution of n : •r• cbr ut,crrr P^r , • pr. riudinp a ' - nnnere ' this Country and the happinefi of the People. ts• •: y• I r.bi. • . ha..., been priduetive ul the Ni r.t y , „ HA m. • w . ilh, Sir; at prefent to fayonly ..1 t o , IVish to es, , ‘,„ '" o, iaaa e .,, a • ev, etaaa ant. howev, r, meke , a Wnl des which appear to me the more afc^ha g t eifary firm what pallid in thedebatc of lafk night. -i• y • ••,• ) .••••to•i•--i•.fitt. the 0.0 t., of the l'on- }' rem every siiin L , that I then heard and Caw. I lie .; we i•_.,-.lw'a, dir lined lilarAde I dill greater reaton than I had pi evintifly conceit , . :•••• . 4.! On• ae, it tiouler:oaul, a „ If it s „ ed ,to elifapprovc of the terms of th e P eace .— ' b.:...„ :,.:,w I.ottt al, 'landing the ten; of dignity and vigour ••1 • • 'h Fr star at: the tf a Right Honourable Friend of mine (Mr. Pitt) ;„,„..„ , 1,. , •' . ""red, 1 1 .1 if '3 s .. n het:, the only inferen ce th at cou ld b e d rawn S. r . - •4r 0 ' • • this w',"".l ..j h f,om !lis arguments was this. th it we are com a, • • • • lien. nista Iv t: -* paff. I•itiea in Vic power of the enemy, and depend „ ,„ f. Z . 01•11: :el}4.. • 8 . 1 c fvt daddy son the di.poftsion be ma eiture to p..' (..1.~ 1. 4 . tct.s , h lIVEDNESDAY, NOTPSIIIIR 4. Mr. MAI terra riser prefentcdapetition from the Propritton of the Wet Docks, at the We of Dogs. Received, and referred to a Committer. The CUA NCELLOR of the F.itc me oti t a informed the Hook, that his Majeity had ordered to be Lid before them the eiti mates of the Army and Navy moved foe. Mr. Bannon brought up the n-purt of the Committee on the Salt Duty NU, and the 8.11 for continuing for a time to be limited, the importation of Foreign Starch, free of Duty, which was received, and a Bill ordered, purfuant to the Paid " Sir WILLIAM ELL/OT brought up the eftimates of the Army and Navy, for three months, from the 3d of January. atm Mr. CORRY moved for a new writ for Dungannon, in the room of General John Knox, deceafed. The charge of the Office of Ordnance, for the month of Ja nuary, February, and March, sBoa, was laid upon the table. The CMANCELLOR of the F.:cut:gm moved the order of. the day for the Houf, to ;..-o into a Committee of Supply. The Node went into a Committee; Sir W it. F.. tio r moved, " That 130poo Men be granted for the Sea Service for three months, commencing from the 3d of January, :Sot, and ending on the 3d of March, in which number was included gopoo Marines. " That 740,0c0L be granted for Vie - Waiting the fame, at the rate of 11. tila per man per month, for the lame Period " That 721,3e50L be grimed Inc Wages for the fame, at the rate of IL 173. prf man per 111 , 141 th, (Or the laid period. " That 210,604 be granted fur the Ordinaries of the Navy for the laid period. " That 97,3ce1. be granted for the Ordinaries of the Service, for the raid period. at the rate of Se. per month per man. " That t,tio,occL be granted for the Lune period, for wear and tear, at the rate of 3L per month per man."—Agreed to. The Chairman aced heavy to report progrcfs, and fit again on Friday.—a Agreed to. . . &plat. We are under the paw of the Bin, but infteae of turning round to tear us to pieces, be mo feel a defire for a while to treat us with kind nefs, with forbearance, and with mereyi This, Sir, was pretty much what I think might be cot letted from what paired iu the debate of laft night ; this was on the whole the refolt of what I could infer from the arguments in Favour of the Peace. This apathy to the dangers in which the country is placed, this coldnefs of regard for the national dignity and charafter, ferves only to encreafe my defpair of the future condition of this empire.— Certainly we are not yet by any means come to the Taft extremity; but I fee nothing to flop the fpeedy approach of out final deftruflion. If any man is under the power of another to fuch a de grec that he can go on without controul only for a certain period, and when that other has the power of arrefting his career whenever he feels fo difpofed, that man is to all intents and purpofes his mailer. To me, by the terms of this peace, this country appears to be preeifely in fuch a fitu ation. As long as France chafes to forbear we may be fafe, but we have no adequate means of refilling any attack the might be difpofed to make againft us. We are in reality in a Rate as bad as that of General Menou when Phut up within the walls of Alexandria. In confidering this mullion, the negociation at Line has been more than once alluded to, and in my opinion without the leaf degree of propriety. The queftion has in fad no thing more to do with the negociation of L4le, or any other negociation, than it has with the , Peace of ta6. The Peace ought to be confidered merely as it is good or bad, without the fmalleft reference to the termsof other treaties. This mode of confidering the fubjeft, kems however ilefigned as an argil:wawa ad Imminent, in particular to me, and to the opinions I have on the fubjeft of the prefent Peace thought it my duty to exprefs. I am willing to admit, then, that I did give my confent to the Treaty of Lille, and if any incon fiftency exits betwixt the opinion I then held, and that which I naw fupport, let Gentlemen, if they are difpofed, enjoy all the advantages of fuch incon tinency. In forming an opinion of this Peace it be hoves os now to reflea, not merely what was the profped we have of concluding Peace upon better terra, but what chance we had of gaining this oh jcil from the changes infeparable from a (late of war. We ought to confider whether there was not a chance of a change of the preterit Govern ment, a chance that the life of the Chief Conful might be attempted, a chance of a fuccefsful in furreftion againft his authority, all of which cir ctunflances might have produced a mot impor tant alteration in the flotation of this country and of Europe. Ido not think, nor do I mean now' now to alien, that the death of Bonaparte would produce any change in chore views of aggrandife ment which France at prefent entertains, or any alteration in thofa opinions from which danger to this country may be reafonably apprehended; but I do fay, that if filch an event did happen, France would in all probability fall into piece.., and infur rations might break out in other countries now fubjett to her power. I do fay that the enormous power which we have now to dread might be weakened, and the immenfe empire of Bonaparte, like the empire of Alexander, might be torn in pieces by inferior mailers. Prom the manner, however, in which this queftion has been argued,it teems that we are to hope nothing from the chances of War, but every thing that is good we are to ex pel from the chances of Peace. We are to conclude Peace on the chance that France will maintain every relation of peace and amity in a peaceable manner; we are to make the greateft ceflions on the chance that the French Government will dif- ' tinguifh itfelf by the moderation and the juftice of its conduit ; but we are to build nothing what ever on the chances of War, though neceflarily tub jell to conftant viciffitude. We are to truft all to the chance of Peace, but we are to be pre cluded from trailing in the fmalleit degree to the revolution of a conceit liable to be affeeted by fo many contingent eircumftances. The manner in which the Peace has hitherto been viewed does not teem to me to be at all a fair flatement of the queftion. The queftioa now before the Houle is not, whether the peace is good or bad, honourable or difhonourable, adequate or inadequate? Thefe art undoubtedly parts, and I allow very important parts, of the queftion ; but the tote queilion is this, whether the Peace you have-concluded is pre ferable to a continuance of the war; whether by prolonging the conceit, you had a chance of faring work or better than you do at the pretiatt mo ment ? fo be entitled to give a derided opinion on this quenion thus Rated, you are to take into your confidcration, not merely the ettlions which have been made by die Peace, but the cad which it has had on the national charader. If I were merely to confider the chances of our fituation by a prolongation of the War. I might perhaps admit that it was better to ftop than to go on with the contell ; at lead I will fo Rate the cafe now fur the fake of argument. Bat if a Peace has been concluded which lowers the charther of this great nation—if in concluding it we have betrayed any tymptoms of weaknefs—if we have been fern to ad on the idea of any difafFeffion in our internal kite, a is, Sir, I do contend, might very fairly induce The to change my opinion. It has been often flared, Sir, and perhaps it was Rated with truth that the fupport of national honour was almoft :he only legitimate caufe for one nation to go to war with another. The polfeffion of the Falkland Mends, formerly the ground of a molt ferious difpute be tween this country and Spain, was a thing of it felf unworthy of any national interference. The fpot in contention was fit only for a contention be twi t fcals and fea-gutls. Estt coninfted with theho nour of the national charafter, the difpute afTtimed a much more important afpeft, and became a le gitimate fubjeft of diplomatic interference. Na tional charade?. Sir, is fomething of a moll deli. cats nature. The lealt touch of violence injures its form, and the flighteft attack on it becomes a eagle of complaint and a ground of refentwient. —[Here the Honourable Member alluded to the view which Junius entertained of this fobjeft, and quoted a very beautiful paffrge, in which that cc writes compares the punt - tattoos delicacy 'of national honour to the polity of female r . to. and aliens that the nati on , w hi c h in unr fiazle trl • - n " Rance yields this point, accelerates, tic, li s. t ‘ z ," its approach to infamy and difgrace til now go on, Sir, to fp ca k more diredly • terms of this Peace. What, Sir, is the Rate of t h e h- Continent at this time ? Does it prefent to u s thing like a counterpoif e t o t h e inordinate p 4n ,f, v . of France t Auftria, Sir, i s h um bl e d by th-e',"%i-- queror : the has 101 l her rank in the fc.de ; raptors Powers. France may, in a moment, tack her, while (he poffeffes nu adequate means refittanee, and in a few (lays the armies it, public may take their Ration at the g i s'. capital. Such is the humiliating and of Auftria at the time wh e n we h ave coeci , t,i. • ~- Peace with France. In the Eaft, Franc e !1,; tained .z reftitution of Cochin and Pon.iit:i e ,} and in the Welt Indies (he has procure,' large and valuable !Rands which we had ivreo4 from her by commit. The potfiAlions of Sp a i n t ,„ may fairly be Paid to be het 's; the has thole i. n her eontroul to whom they nominaliy Thefe potlelEons the may occupy with impuniir, nay the may occupy them without in the lin a t:4 degree violating any of the au tides of tit: pre. fent Preliminaries. This, Sir, is wh a t a ., done by this Peace; this is what we have ur e a up to France, ago) antli7ll a.. the is .);v0... I id example on the Continent of 1- - , nr op e . we d one a thin ; ; altogether 1111kruo.vn in the 1 of this couatry ; a thing which wouid hav z all former politicians ; a thing which, if .our old Whig politicians we' e now to he., r, day uid 'ti n , in their graves. If we have mad: Peace v iti! Ft ante, thus mere:lied in power, we ung`tt to inquire what are likely to be the conleuptc ices of . 11,th a meafure. What France can du, lo•fiefied a. the is of fuch extended power, is evident; anti t:.e quellion is, in what manner the is likely icy this power? The grand ols;eCt of the Frets!: Gn. vernment, I am firmly convinced, is to dirnit.alt the greatnea, and finally 'o annihilate, the pose r of this country. In purfuance of this object, at:l poiretfed of there /mans of fuccefsfully protecute it, the French will furround us, Sir, by tir.; foreign poffeftions. They will bury as ; they wa grow over us as effesßually as in any of the Nat. morphofes of Ovid. We have taken root, Sir,and we thall Come morning awake and fearch in vain for our freedom and independence. The arga aunts did by foam Gentlemen in favour of the conclufion of the Peace, appear to me to proceed on the fiippoliticin of our inability to pmfecute the war; but I would silk thofc whir hold fuch lan. guage, Whether this inability is likely to gray lefi than it is at this time ? So far am I from thinking that this will be the cafe, that I do verily believe that the difparity of powerbetwixt the twocountries will conaantly cncreate. The enemy will furrnund us by fettlements in all parts of the world. Ira, indeed, now flops in her career of cceltsell, bat the flops within one Rep of univerfal that can be hoped for, by the terms of this Peace, that the may not at this time think it ex; ediert to exert the power the has obtained in ende teat:rag to accomplith our deftrudtion; but it is never to be forgotten that univerlal dominion has ever been the grand aim of all her exertions. This, Sir, was the pinatas nsolik of the Revolution; this was the obje& to which the French Ruler, have ever made their dettruttive principles fubfervient. They with. ed the extinDion of religion and morality, as the means of accelerating the fubverfinn of neighbour ing Rates. They had two empires, the one the empire of opinion, and the other the empire of power. The empire of the one was, however, at all times, fubfervient to the empire of the other. At one time the principles open& the road to the power, and at another the power prepared a place for the reception of the principles. In France it is true that thefe principles were at preterit difece raged at home, bust it is wrong , to Imagine that they will not receive fitpr-rt in foreign nations. At prefent they were articles not employed in home confumption, but deftgned for exportation. The Jacobins in France, it mull be allowed, have no great obligations to the protedion and patronage of Bonaparte; on the contrary, they had fuffered every fpecies of abnfe, infult, And difgrace. Bat Bonaparte knows well enough how to he the ! porter of Defpotitin in Trance, and the Friend of Jacobinifm in Holland. He knows how to h .1.1 down Jacobinical principles with one hand, and to raife them up with the other. If any of thole also talk here fo freely of caihiering Kings, were ao indulge in fuch language at the Court of the Chief Conrail, they woul4 probably Ilion exhibit the firs of the good WOM.III without the head! What, Sir, I would an:, (hall we think of clonng in the bonds of peace and fricndthip with a peo ple dettitute of religion, and the foes of moraine! What, (ball we think of holding intercourfe with a nation among whom the ficred inftionion 4 marriage. the Foundation of all dorneftic tumidity, has been abolillied ; for. if the decree to this ct feCt Ins been refcinded, I confer.. lam ignorant of the circumftance : a nation among whom wises are held on a lei tecure tenure than a ready fur nithed lodging. The French,Sir,arediftinguithedby their infinuatung manners and their arts of addrefs. In their fyßem of profelytifin it was laid down by the French illuminati that their end was 10 lie •Ic complithed through the medium of tl.e lotto ti.t~ of morality, and that their fcheme lhould be addretfed, above all, to the of the creation. This, Sir, was at one:. .t the ingenuity and the dang:r m ultg for as the female part of fusi,tv is its ornament when dittinguithed by a Clla purity and delicacy of manners, wizen it. ;Ff." of . there ornaments, they were frequently made bit: bun:lents adze molt slaogerou, deigns. t.aa.,: ..111;- aneolirrliarititfvose,fi.. Agl Nadde•l itai6 been laid on tile change —Nth has taken plain in the prefent French char t"ser, or-I the 14; 1111 ed tindinn of Jacobinical But it out,;!:: to 'At recolloaed that at differeir times there viiss-. has.: been more or lets prominent. At one tunic the appear in the form of principles. and at they accomplifk their actign by the force o f art;:s. At prefem principles appear to li ive lets is and arms have rained the ali-et:•I incy. Btu I is; no change in thiote deigns which the int.:retl