Star. — London, England, 1806-12-20 00:00:00

: It : 3.4 France- the Nn an Monarch had been moll cruelly *ad infultingly taunted with all thole comprontifes and Atbatiffions, and faerifices, which he had made to an unfeeling tyrant for the prefervation of his Cyfiem of neutrality. In thole calamities., there was 4pwever Come confolation to be derived from reflec bog on the coolie of the King of Sweden and the truperor of duffia ; and he had no doubt his Majefly would be inclined to give every degree of facility to any farther clofenefs of intimacy between us and thole courts. Ida then took a view of the internal flue of affairs. Additional burthens might be reodesed ne cefTery by the peculiar events of - the times ; but it was highly fatisfadory to think that an economical ore would be made of the refources of the country, and every man would rejoice in their frugal expendi• jute, which he was convinced was a favourite *hied of the Noble Lord below him (Lord H. Petty.) The sourifhing (late of the revenue was highly fansfadory, sod in his opinion was much owing to that great 4latelman whole 100 all deplored, and whole memory would 'levet be forgotten, whole vigorous and able ryltem the prefent Minifiers roald not reface to fol• low. His Majefly had Plated, that the gteat tufts of • the dringth of the counts, remained unimpaired, atotwithflandiog the abfurd and infolent declaration of the blockade pf there Wands by as enemy, who dared hardly to fend oat a fltip to lea. or to interrupt . our commerce in any.part of the world. He remade• ea on the futility of expelling the complete exectuion of the meafure, and appealed to the declaration of the ',Aral Xing of Unhand, who eotifidered it as the ,nbrealeattollentli blew. to the expiring trade of that . t c t roistr,g, ,lic concluded by commending the (pith ,augldiraintaft•Of the country, and *fretting it, poser l os i nutio L tato ice ream& and glory. 3 ,b Mr. .CANNING declared that he never felt more nzicey in rifing in that Houle than at the prefent it, from the deep convidion he felt at the un• led impotence of the crifis—a difficulty that could feel flill.more as he purfued the fubjeta, in *ng his real and oodliketifed opinion of the prefent i llg i lit b illite of our 111141 , 11 . Arliii:', IA Tech cieennstiances, .opins the duty of gray Milieu of Parliament. At N sho out:et he IhnOloi t lsegionve to Gay, what he was in. ‘ tigtately perfuaded.r, tend what he thould fay with f 'ponfidence ; not with rafhnefs, but upon as much ,rfflezion as he could give to the fubjed, from cape :jaeoce of the pail, from conOderation of the prefent, mr with * view to the Cottage—that there were refour rre amply fufficient in this country to meet and to ave all difficulties, apd to avert all dangers. With _...Vtis declaration he wifhed to qualify all he (hould , . r „. If any thing .that kll from him appeared to '' l o "uuTfetooci de nnfi CP Zert e b n e c th Y e Brail9htadhebeen:udoind entreat t e o a u t ought' it ' op be done. It was not his object to thwart any of o tthit meafures of Government at this molt tremendous - tier. Any man who thottld aft for .. .. , -SO alarming crilw. •bros,h putpoles mull (but his heart spina the interels f i sh. conot►y. No man who looked back nn the .41. ;mynas of the tall fifteen yeam,nad recolleeed the tyf. j Jean of oppotiiinn from the bench on which he fat. „qintrald fee that fuch a mode of-oppnfition was the road ,dpa pemularity, and the general good opinion of public mnit. j-le withed his condua to be explained on prin ciples of fair and legitimate ambition. NO Member heard that performance and promife of future excel lence, made by the Hon. Gentleman who propoled the Addrefs, with greater plesfure thin himfelf.— . Unanimity had been recommended by him and the ,lion, Seconder, but there were different forts of .Appanimity. There was a blind unanimity, involving ,* furtander of opinion, and a contlant fupport in all ;,jitafe..s. There was another, and not lets valuable, ,aphicis Sill inflated on the right of comparing and 4.oipplideriog, and preferring our judgment, and yet ; mom prepared to fupport the government nt the coon • fly in ar. proper modes and cafes, in fpite even of Mae errors that they might commit. That was the ibitaof unanimity that Gould obtain in &tree counts 7, gemelefs it was dcGred to &limy all freedom. If ever y Ame was a period of importance to the country. it „,,iza the prefent. which called upon os to nand, (irk . .our own defence, and in the &mad place (though s lic (wind in pride) to a ff ord our help to other States. „ 44 a Houfe was now about to review the alit of the Atiilldatiniftration, certainly compofed of able men ; ~,they had entered into office not twelve month- ago. ~,,According to them, all that had preceded them was wrong—every thing mull Ise conceited and amended. 'Nothing external or internal *as as it fhould he. We l larere all in clubbed battalions ' dilapidated t el . ..mimes, train moteetion fexeurfelves orfor the world. What Aid we hear now ?• Nn't that ihefe refonrees were re .Apnblitheil, but that they remained unimpaired. It was a fatisfailion indeed to hear Tech a tribute paid ~,Set tbefe whole repotatinn had been fo often attacked. ' Ala would not !peak of thole who ;vete in terms of in. , acy with a late great Mititier, but he would fay f e thould canal honour to him from whoever heard b . abi na n m g e . j o t f w Pitt e l e c tice m e t d e , d w w a i s t hfotl bad of as En:: our foreign airs—confederacies ill put together, and falling to o jalaces by their own iseaknefs. He flr.nld examine t ,. hat better had beendono by thole who negotiated .44one, and then called it joint negotiation. On the afril day of a new Parliament, in the tones of whole .onailiewe the fate of:this country and the world might omobably I), decided, by a Oruggle ending m total livelion or permanent•fafety. Under Inch circom an examination was proper. The Speech of ~E iKingand the Addre ff es of rarliament were any t ncis .Ming but mere forms. They went to pledge the iTlitone, the Parliament, and the Country. The 4 - . ; , eech (tom the Throne had introduced the r,ibitn cit the negriciatioo, anti exhorted us to (trunk liar our liberty and honour ; and he could be content to wave all objeNiont to the Addres, but that he felt it in this citia to be hts-imptrious duty to ex profs his ‘antiraents diflittely. Every examination of the means by which we had been brought to nor prefent (line. Man ought net to be patted by. What might farther' appear, be couldant precifely tell. It might (eon that the negotiation was not fufficiently dexterous ; i that thei e was too long delay, and too much !hitting „Allowed ; and that the termination might have been ,forefeen by any man. Whatever were the conduq of v titiuificrs, as the attornies in this tranfaeinn with ,yrance, that was nothing to the enemy ; and the cattle of the enemy had nothing to do with the matter when we ihnuld come to chi - coifs the negotiation lie moil, AV:Meyer. think that the condue of Mil :Uteri towards , faullia was named Malty: but he owned he felt ltinifelf „awkward in entering on this fubjee in the lamented ipbfenet of that raga man whole departure none of talk intimati friends deplored more titan him&lf—tohn had always commanded hit admiration, and the loft of whole trankenclant talents he confidered as a great loft to this couture. He mull, however, in dating tie fentiments. call upon Gentlemen to go: back in the le confederacy, and confider, after its failure, what was the obvious policy of France and Er g• latad. No man would hefitate to agree that, no herstelitte as the confederacy was, when disjointed Old broken, its lowered limbs yet retained life and vigour. It was then the integer! of England to keep them together, cr at lee to keep up an open, conhant, and harmonious intercotMk. Of France it was clearly the policy to complete their difmemberment, or to effeht their apparent fepara tion. If the did the firß the accompliffied all the wanted, if the le, flee tined greatly. We Ratted with Pruflia at that tine, when the had ahlually figoed a treaty, but which he *mid not fay the was exa&ly bound to fulfil ; but the was certainly Co.. unwillingly. That there was guilt on the part of Pruffia he would not attempt to deny ; but was the Houfe apprized, when they were told Pruffia had taken Hanover, that we were negotiating for it with France? Had they been told Co, aould it not have !truck every one, thit the war with Pruifia was fu. perfluotts and anneceffiry ? There might have been at kill Tome doubts. It was our interefl to preferve Proffitt, but our great objelt was to limit the Dower and dominion of France, to overlook (lighter offences, to put up with Come things, even though a jug caufe of war, when there was a more politic mode of get ting reparation elfewhere. See the labyrinth of errors into which Min-Uteri had drawn themfelves : but they would fee that too late They hand with a Mi. oilier at Paris, negotiating for Hanoveo and at the fame time demanding it of Proffitt, when a war arifes between Pruffia and France—a war, in a great mea. fore, ocesfioned by this very fubjeft. Undoubtedly. Hanover was not the foie cattle of war between Franc e and Proffia, but it is one main injury complained of. Mintilest ought to have forefeen, that their own de mands might caufe hohilities ! -oween Nutria and France, in which they ought to have had the alli. ance of Prof:fie. They had their choice of Inch jug caufe of offence as her condo° might give, and could judge whether they Ihould leave her untouched, as the yet remained untouclred, fir Come great and Merl purpofe. To this policy they at lag became converts, when they fent a milfion to Pruffia, through they had been totally (hangers to the policy of preforving her. He was exceedingly forty to comment on this mition, on account of his Noble Friend, than whom no than was better fitted for fuch an embefry. Had Adminiaration only half, infleuti of all the talents of the country, in fending a Nego ciator to Perlin, to whom doubtlefs they gave in &union fuited to different circumflancee, they would liken ice perhaps have recolleOted, not only that the war might be on the eve of commencement, but that it might be aOloally begin' before the Negotiator ar rived ; and if Minillers had only the common routine of official intelligence, they ought to have been ac quainted with the circnnotances. When Minitters health however, that the whole Prutliau army was gone. they tent a military miffion I, and, when they thould hear that the monarchy is defrayed, they would probably fend p sat of en army. That was the true fyliem of their meafures. Of all the weak mea- Cures of their predeceffirs nothing was to be more improved than our diplomacy; nothing was Co fhabhe as our diplomacy. We had nobody to write a dd. patch. and as every body knew it was a great feature of a Whig Atiminifiration, we were to hare great Ambaffadors in rotate, all AjiZes and Ulyffes's, and Phoenixes. He had heard of but one removal and appointment, that of Mr. Adair in the place of Sir Arthur Paget. 'chic was a Phcenie, he fuppof t d.— What other change of fyftern ? Per ions he fh , ulol not confider—the Om was the great matter. We were to have a clear, fimple diplomacy, free from all the tricks and cajoleries of former Minitters.-- Now fee the effect--Our Miniller at Paiis for peace, and our Minifter at Berlin for war, are both eat. pinyed to get Hanover back again. This might per. haps be dexterous, but it was any thing hot open and frank. Minifters might have accufed theadelves, if theybad left the Continent as they found it ; and if they bad not time nor power to make up a confede.' mph could not be helped. Ilut by their tardy re cognttion of the policy of the Proffien alliance, they had *two the error by which they had become aced• Cary to the darts/limy of the only power in Europe *Mooched Iv. French arms. Theyhad delayed war by negodiatson ; but they Net filled bj lending a hand to - inert-de the iilhculties of Pruffia ; and they, indeed, intlioared France to one of thofe demands that caufed the wat. Far from congratulating his Ma. je fly that he had nn (hate kr the Council of Pruflia re- I this war, hi: opinion was quite contrary. Had Minitters (hewn that they endeieoured to keep back Pruffia, it might have been Co far well ; but to fay that the had nothing to do vrith to is an inconceivable per. yedim - Of policy. They fhouid have taken care not i too fuddenly to kindle the flame, left it flsould be too loon emingoilhed. He admitted the jug ground of Whew againli Proffia, but thought the war againl her by os unadvifed and impolitic—and that by it we hid thrown away one great chance fur the Cal wation of the world. It was at the mitigation eel Prance that Pruffia took Hanover, and her ennui. vanee was evident in thus slanting the feeds of 44 onion with GrearPritain. He remembered the at la ' arid eloquent (peals of the lade Right Hon. Secretary of State, in which it was nhferved, that Praia was thus -reaping the reward of her perfidy, by the French exaftions on Hanover. Might it not have bees these viewed as an Mich of Trance to throw Hanover be tween yon ? Sbe found the two countries in the chance , of a onion. What was her obvious policy t Tn di vide them ; and then play the double game of the negociatko at Paris, and the quarrel with Proffia, both of which were decided at the fame memento.- the departure from Paris, and the battle of Jena! Our peace minifter from Paris, and our war miniher from Germany, came home at the fame time. He did not with to defeend too much into particulars, but he confidered our declaration as Rating three things tel which he was not convinced. Firß, that the overture came from France. There might be fame thing behind to he publiffied, for aught he knew.— But he did nct find fault merely with making the overture. If it was fit to make peace, it was fit to 'indite an overture; but the alfertion in the declara tion was not made out. Had he received the letter publiated in France, inisetich a compliment is pail to ,tote Brian) Milliner, and had fucceeJed Lord Mal :grave or Lord Harrowby, or even Lord Grcn. , uille, the writer of the drawer to Buonaparte. he L hould have rejected the compliment AS an affront to The t•asat:y. The former Adminiaration were nr-t ari Admirriaraticrn of affaff.r.s. The next point he 'erbjeaed to was the flatement retpefting the nri /*IA. deris—it might, perhaps, be almoll as well called the tropria gas nrarihra, or by any other words. He ob • .teelerd. in the third place, In our Itateinent con cerning nor infiaing on negotiating jointly with our Allies. Now as the Speech made mention of Sweden, and made her equal with Ruflia, how happened it that there was nothing about Sweden in the negocia. tion ? But the great points were the making out the bafis, and the fad of abfolately treating with our Allies. There was a great difference indeed, be• tween queflinning the right of the prerogative, and the mode of making tire of it, particularly at times when it tends to flir thofe perm's& which diamb the peace of the country. So much the work if it fhould be only with a view to triumph over ano ther let of men, that his Majefly fiwuld be advifed to to d t fuch an aft, as a preface to a call for unanimity. There was no quedion about Iris Ma. Pea right to dark,. Parliament, but bow far it might be right, and fair, and wile to do fo under all cireumftances. The 'negate war needle's, and ufelefs. and only tended to dig ert men's minds from evernal tranfatlions to internal difputes. No doubt. Minillers thought they had tome great pnhlic ad vantage in view. and could not mffibly be ado aced by the &fire of changing a few faces about them ; the last is what no Minister would venture to avow. But if this ffinuld be cnaneited with unprecedented and inexcufahle interference in elec tions, will it be contended, that inch condnet does not tend to prevent union, to impair unanimity, and to deprive them of.:licir juft authority. It they could have alledged any ether: nr corruption againa the late Parliament, they would have had fosse jullifieetium But on their own principles they could have little to fay again'! a Parliament that had canted the religna tion of one Minifler, and that had impeached another Miniffer. With retped to the war in which we are engaged, no man who heard our debate, would know that we were at war. There was not an aft of war mentioned in the King's fpeech. As to our internal defence, great part of latl &Mon war employed air a molt laboured and complicated plan, which was preffcd moll eaLeily on the Houle at a late period ; and when it was sliced, whether it was fo hurried from its being intended for immediate operation, it was always anfwercd that it was to intended. Ore part of the kingdom was exempted from its operation, becaufe the machinery could not be got ready there in time. Eut in what part of the kingdom had it been executed ?Evcry thing was to be done, and no. thing whatever had been done. A great Statelinan had fpoken of defending the conntr y at dillant polls, but bad the Right Hon. Gentleman at the head of the War Department any tisiag to fay of near nr remote achievements ? hate he conquered any dif taut provinces nr fettletnents. There had been a gond deal heard about fitting out expeditions, which had ended only in orders, counter-orders, revocations of counter.orderi, and counter•orders orevocations. After failing aboot the Channel, they took Plymouth, as they might any other place abroad, as ill pre pared to expel them as Plymouth. They made ex cellent voyages. They Lit from the Downs, and go to Plymouth to furprife the dockers. The Right H n. Gentleman made birexperiments inexpeditions. They fail fire nn a table, and afterwards venture upon the lea. He had read fotnewhere, the Right Hon. Gen tleman might know where, about pitiful expeditions to foreign fettlements ; but where were his expedi. lions ? what had been done ? when Prulta went to war, they bombarded their peace, and Lord Lauder dale was fent to Boulogne. What was the refult of all their labours ? A fire work at Boulogne, , asni an ,embarkation on the Paddington Canal: Happily the °pelmets of the weather- had enabled them so died the 101 l expedition ; but, had the winter fen in. tbef Paddingtnn expedition might have been frozen up ail Uxbridge I He had heard the fire work.: at Boulognali Mentioned as a diverfion in favour of the King oi l Ptutlia ; an excellent diverfinn, indeed, to the King • of l'ruffia to whom, that they, might be in all things unlike th eir predeceffors, their affillancmconfilled of, his Noble Friend (Lord Morpeth ), two Secretaries,. and a Chaplain : wonderfully well calculated fur flop.' ping the French army. Btu this was not the worth, Had he not done more to difgrift the army, by Mit , improper and irregular appointment, thampll he ca► effeft by arranging 'boulder knots and cockade*? Let him hear in that Houfe the fettle of the public on that ; 'fubjea; and let him tell what had been the refult of; that meafitre for giving animation and enthufiaftn tor the army t to raile an officer, certainly rif hill , lee, fituation for which his rank did not qualify him I—, The (melt teemed to him, a tpecch fludioully pre ' , pared to deprcfs, and not to elevate ; it made no melts rusts of the deeds of war, or cf any of our fucceffes.-re Was it that we were completely barren in that refpeal. and that our naval and military limy had become quite an unfruitful field ? No : there were inflames even now to record of acquisitions and ambievemants made by our arms by fee and land, and of he:oil - RI difplayed, fufficiently to thew, that our army was of that chars/ter, to which the Bight Hon. Gentle man Paid he eased to bring it—of a charafler worthy its ancient glory. The Speecbes of the King. and the Votes of Thanksof that Houfe, were recordeto which future hiflorians would look to find what was great and glorious, and received public honours. It was a dilpiriting Minifiry that Milked to (prickle a few (perks .4 light upon thefe gloomy times. They might fay, "G I Mete great achievements are none of ours: we fban't mention them." Ifataly light Hill beamed ort them. it came from thofe yhe went before them. Re could not think this the AOC to be fparing in thefe rewards of the public fervice. On the grounds he had now Hated, he proftged his want of concurrence in. the Addicts; but he thought it his duty to embody his ideas on this labile% and to prefent them to the -Houle se an amendment. It was ufual for smend merits to confilt of a flight addition, alteratinn, or omiffion ; but in this Addrefs no niche was left for him into which to introduce his fentinnents. [The Right Hon. Gentleman th , oi read an addrefs which he had drawn up, and which was of uncommon length, touching upon all the fuliketsteerated of in his tpeech, and upon many others, and cerifuting the conduft of Adminiaration in every particular.] After reading it, the Righ) Hon. Member obfervsd, that all tbote *lin were dirplred to he gloonsy,.and wRo apirVesTed of the mon' as of our achievements in the &if . 1 j Speech, w-uld vote againft him i hut thole of • `teary opinion would fuppart his Addrefs. but t . I he might no! he acciated i f ditlutliing unaniephy gn i needfarily, and to avoid mifierefentati..n , he anUld 1 sl-tilt from pr. fling his Amendment to a divifi in..... (A loud larig6.) [ rite Speaker therefore de not read 'be Amendment propoted ] Lord HO WICK role, and (poke to the follewhig -port:tort : " I are tint forprifed, Sir, that the Right Hon. Gentleman al mid be fo simian to difehtien the intention of giving an nppolition to the met nt ad dict: for the porpofe of embartaffmg his Mai2lll'a Knitters ; but I mutt own I am ex-timely firiprifed that after loch a declaration.the Right Elm. Gentle man Amid have made fn long a fpeech, which he has concluded by reading an amendment aliniia as long as the fpeech itfelf, and both abound rig wi:h Tacit a tiring of violent attacks and eh:trots, brat upon a tfertions and alfumptiona, not foult.ted - 'ln truth, agsinft the prefers! Government, that if the'y , could be lupin-lied to be true. slight to have been I brrioght forward as fa many regular airf..l.:s on which 1 to found an impeachment.. The Right Hon. Gentle. man has had the ingenuity and addrefa In to inter weave and mix his arguments with loch a variety of matter, that he has called on me to defend and vin dicate the conduct not only of the relent Govern ment, but alto that of a fifteen years oppofition. He has told the Houle, that he dreads the idea if nppo anion, becaufe he has Peen the fad &eels which a ; fif ten years °planation has bad on the popularity of ) thi.fe who were engaged in it, and mull of wheal now ' formed a part of the prefent Adminiftration. Sir, with refped to that oppotition, it is now paged away, and it is for the pe-pie at la.ge to •determine what were the effells and refults dist accrued from it ; it remains with the country to fay whether they were beneficial or the contrary, or whether they were defervetity popular or otherwife. I will only Cry, (peaking for myfelf AS a mere fnigle individual form ing one of that appfrion, dui itig die whole period s. alluded to, that it was on my part, an oppnation founded on the lb idea principle and the molt lively anxiety for the welfare and profperity of the country, againtt thole meaftiree which have been (without meaning to attribute the faith to the Right H-an. Gen ' dernan and the Hon. Gentlemen near hi m) followed the defolate and dehrudive Sate in which we fee the 'Cornrow at the prefent moment. I can alfn ' Sir, with great truth a^.l l Wet y, anfseer for my Right Hon. Friend, now, alas ! no more, and all thole who Jetted with us during that eventful period, that they were all guided by Chic fame contlitutional motive , , and that none of its were ever aiftuated by the bale and mifeliirvous defigo of forming an oppfuion for the ungenerous and unworthy purport of embarraffment, And of haraffing, diareffing, and impeding the effort. and exetti ins of his Majefty's Miniaers ; and, Sir, I am bold to fay this without the finalleh dread of in juring my own or their ppolarity, by now recalling that oppaion to the recolletftion and remenstrraoye o f this Honfe, or of the country at large. I own. Sir,l am hill farther furprifed the Right Hon. Gentle. man Ilintild have entered into Cu broad and extenfive an oppofition to the Addrers, becaufe T am lu re the very cautious manner in which it has been brought forward. will In much eloquence, as to give the pro mite of future beneficial exertions for the ferrite of the country, by nay Hon. Friend whammed it, gave me every reafon to fuppofe it could not have given rife to the wAe field of argument in which the Right Hon. Gentleman has thought proper to indulge bim felf. And yet, Sir, after the very violent attack which the Right Hon. Gegtleman has made on the prelim Government of the country, is it not moo OE traordinary that he has admitted the amsndntentwich be has produced and read, and which contihth the greater part of thole unfounded charges, was'n7; In tended to be read from the Chair, lea it fhpuLl lag con firm., I into an attempt to embarraft.the sneafttres and proceedings of the Government? This, Sir,is a very in genious method of preventing us from taking the kora of the Uncle on it, and I am lorry we are depri s ted of the opportunity of thawing to the Houk and to the country, how new Members of this Hoare Would Commit the Right Hon. Gentleman in fuch an amend . 1111 Mal. The word "unanimity," fo dearable to, all, gems to have worked, iu a particular manner, on the imaginatitm of the Right Hon.Gentlernan, and he Ilboaflingly tells us that there are two kinds of unani mity : one which would forbid him from endeavour. ing to divide the noufe, and on fuch occafinn to 4tarbarrafs the meafures of Government : another .ananimity, which he could not join in, without ap proving their meafures, which it is ont in his power hi aim . It is not my intention, Sir, to ctetain the Houfe ~at fa much length, as to enter into all die winos points of the Right Hon. Gentleman's fpeech, lint ,;there are fume on which I with to make obfervations, ~t.s. which I mutt intreat the attention of the Houle. . The fire part of the Right Hon. Gentleman'. fpeech. ~tn which I (ball beg leave to advert, is that refpeeling 'the Negotiation ; on this, he has ftated three point( t ,AR- Who made the firlt overture? ad. The .t, tcf .46'; and, 3d. Treating jointly with our Allies.— , The Right HonOurable Gentleman has allowed, that be cannot depend on the accuracy of the grounds on erlskh he blames his Majefty's Mini Iters—tin theauthe rity of the Paper; publifbed by the French Govetn tatotT—attd yet ha bar argued on theta with alma as much coafidstes u Wilkey had been laid on the table of this Houle. lie has quoted the Declaration, as bating tlifieted from thofe papecson the material het —of who made the hint overture? Thu Declaration of his Majely, he by,, avert, that the fire overture came from the French Government ; but this, unlefs there Ihould be Come confiderable chains, he cannot admit, unlefs it can be hewn there was Come letter or paper received by this Government on the fubjea of pence, previous to Mr. Fox's letter refpeding the affitifin. There, Sir, the Right Hon. Gentleman lake (hewn how liable data& are to be milled or miflaken who venture to found opinions on uncertain or un founded documents; and I conk nd, Sir, that a hint overture might, come from the French Govern ment. and yet be fuhtequmt to the letter refpeft. rag the alfaffin. That 'note of Mr. Fox, Sir, was irt imp without any view to a negocition—it was a mere private intimation of a p.. 1 ticuLtr fart to M. Talleyrand. That Gentlemao, in his anfwer, mentions his basing placed Mr. Foa's letter before the eyes of the Emperor of the 'reach, who bid that "Thu bad only confirnied the opionin be ha* always entertained of the high and aim - frith el )21° Cr. 1 I 4 4 •