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PARLIAMENTARY' PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, FEB. 18. The Earl of ORMON o took the oaths. A person from the Commissioners of the Thames Navigation presented an account of the disbursement% for 1507. A Billfor continuing to his Majesty the dudes on malt, to aectaekr- anate!uons, brought aSret time. The . EUI fat regulating tlz payment f ir Bills, went throtighAbllleemnifftet: • 'flee . Brasil Trade iatlae Bill .for . the better .naming the Office of Treasons' at diElgavy, were brought up and road's Ara time. ' Loyd GRENVtLLE elbowed, that when the Brazil bill stupid be read a second dins. hawmidaddress their Lordsliips at sante length on it. The twO Wintat6 which he Montt° :peak Wee, the effect which the importation of sugars from the Brazih would have 0117aut . .Wat Untie Colottib and the 'miner in which that great nspasare; the Abolition pi the Slave Trade, was d likely to be affected by ie changes in the POrtuguese co l on i es. • The second fialpti Oflhe.Debtor and Creditor Bill was froaillabWa.rat to March 4, ones, Motion pith* -Earl etMoira.i. • NOTICE. ~.gAR.LISLE 'give 'notice, that he should. on submit a - motion to the House, re eg of the Orders in Council. !, • ; maces IN REVERSION. • ' Lord LAUDERDALE gave notice that he could on Monday next, move the second reading of Reversion Place Bill. LORD GRENVILLE'S MOTION. Lord GRENVILLE moved, agreeably to his for - notice, for certain documents udatingt# the Or . Council. A short triscnssioil toOrplite, 'on totion for laying before the Heise such informa might have been transmitted to Government respecting the execution of the French Decree; which Hawkesbury objected to, on•the ground that immuniCations of private persOns were not such :uments as could be laid here Parliament. After some conversation betweenterdsGaaNyttte, ERSICINE, the Dad 'of Mcisrritose, and the CHANCELLOR, the House divided, Contenu 27 • Non-Contents 23 Proxies *O-41 Praries IS-11 Majority fir Lord Grenville', motion-9 DANISH NAVY. The Order for summoning the Lords having been iscount SIDMOUTH desired that the Clerk Id read the Proclamation issued by two Noble prior to the attackupon Copenhagen, and his rosty's Declaration: Both documents having been read short, Ord SIDMOUTH said, that he rose to submit to Lordships the motion of which he had already a notice. The purport of that motion referred the eventual restoration to Denmark of the vessels iptured at Copenhages ; he would say, the eventual toration, for it was poSsible that circumstances might arise which would render such an arrangement nracticable. It was not impossible but that Den .- might fall as much under the power of F r ance ty of the Continental State's, in which case no one td think of advising the restoration of the Danish ; for to restore it to Denmark would be to it at the disposal of France. In the proposi which he had to make, it was far from his inten to interfere with th at incontrovertible prero. „ative of his Majesty whieh . pl . aced at his cliiposal captures ; neither was it kis intention to contravene - expressed opinion . of that_ Their Lord dips, by their votes on the first day of the session, had recognized the justice of the measure which placed navy of Denmark in the possession of this coun and they had sanctioned and corroborated that ision by their subsequent vote that no further pa , were necessary. He was not, he would repeat, ;posed to contravene these determinations • and in resolution which he would propose, n othing to effect would be found. It was so far from being insistent with them, that he voted in favour of both ; he should, notwithstanding, be of opinion that - was not precluded, on the score of consistency, from aging forward the motion with which he meant to (elude. Ilse was or.ly acting on the principles of Majesty's declaration—on the principles of the proclamation issued by the two Noble Lords who imanded the expedition against Copenhagen--and . the principles upon which Ministers justified that expedition, when he endeavoured to persuade their Lordships that the honour, the character, and the in terests of this country were invOlfed in the eventual -toration of the Danish navy. Necessity and self protection were the grounds upon which the seizure of the fleet of Denmark was justified. The rejection an inadmissible offer was assigned as the reason destroying the capital of a neutral state. We offered to take the fleet in deposit—an arrangement which the' Court of Denmark could not posSibly Isten, with Out compromising its Isonour,and eposing itself to the resentment of France. To this principle, conceived, we were in honour bound to adhere--7. The offer of restoring the Danish navy upon the re e4tablishment of peace, was even made a fortnight. after the declaration or war by die Crown-Prince. — 'lt it might be argued, that that Prince refused to atify the capitulation acid that by so doing . he had precluded himself from any advantages -derivable from tip proclarnatiol of orn; Coullpngultri, Or the summons previous to the coManenceszient of the bom bardment. It was certainly true, at that high minded personage refuteato 004 the capitulation ; :it did it appear tip; .be acted in any manner- tO tpede it ? We were, be. world contend, bound to :t upon that principle up* which we lad set out, tmely, that of taking theTinish navy in deposit.— .'o this . idlesabounsibili-onotsi and policy, than by the s tri ctest interpretation of the law of na tions. He would, with the permissionOf their Lord ships,.read to them an extract from the ablest writer on that important subject, and which, thou „ gh an ex tract, hid tiothing he could assure then; in it which, was not warranted by the cower= (His Lord Skip here. read several passages front C rotius , De jsfre be/li • pads, tending to Suppor t . his argument.) 'A'ke con duct of the - Coutfalpetunark l he contended, could not be considered as ho'stile. .The war began from us. We lett the Crown Prince no alternative but that of war. —There was another reason which . made him anxious that their Lordships shOuld'adopt his motion it pre sent. Ile, had learned that the Danish ships were or dered to be fitted out for the service of this country.— lie was anxious to prevent so precipitate and impolitic a measure. The ships, by what he had heard, were quite unqualified, or at least not. qualified in the man tier our ships are, for the wear and tear of our sex , Tice. To render them so. would require an expence the Office 0 first time. Loyd GP be read a Se length on i the effect would bar which that likely to be The sect Hoed frau et Moira. 1 3 this yi specting • 7 Lord should r o the Rev Lord finer not ders in the mot tion as respect:lh Lord I the corn docume After GPI; LORD ( The read, Vise should Lords Majest Botl Lor their I given , to the $ captul re stor might inipra mark as an) would navy puce non tion rain captu any e . ships, recog the n try, decisi Pers dispo the that incor both he w. brief cone his 1N prod] come on tl expe Lor( teres rest , : Prot, of ti of a • for t offer tog Este itsel he c The eta afte 'But rad; • pro' frot sun . bar. mit but imi act A at . To tha • tioi chi • uit Ira W 2 At du be lei th se de a 4 1 1 no the conduct of Ministers towards . which could be .7 .,,,, v f * ... ~,,,,.. , the Noble Lard, when he me t to the "rasters '._. s :212 , r , g, the Old Bailer, would bete ,pitir je Our,"11 t ( His Noble ind Learned ' ships were ifi e se ‘ at ' e7L7prietted .c expedition was a sacrifice ihe 'Would still' test affaiitettle* chiracterrand yet had entered There as but one cireeilleeance, 1 t - what was the cheapest the igreaf.pait 'of the nivy of England , e atslhits..obeeiteed• The Noble indece him to copeset tour enalieg a ehothby thelaw of precedent ai Danish Navy, withouteptesed maritime I constitution, the present motion n.ukt k We did not want ships. We had enough _ Ant - ships 2reisad-taken:from -Holland had with the witted navies of the world. He could perceive, therefore, the policy 9f fitting out this new selected terrnsebad complaised, " elueterseDanish Idi- i red—the ships wehadeakett from.f ' accession to our ,maritime strength ; but he could an- nister appeared in all things .to exclese or palliate all restored—the ships we .hed takers ticipate some probable advantages from following i nto- the inieries received from FrAce, but to eaggertate i beenlestoreat Ssi.fai precedent ther course : he could devise no system 4 policy in the highest degree every complaint which Den- I tion; but the constitution of the country more likely to conciliate the Danes, and to draw mark could have against this cotmtry:" Wes this . upon this point. The ships so captured them, by de , into that close and friendly connec. the conduct of a Power really and - sincerely neutral, 1 property of the Crown, and he contended section -. us in which they were formerly enited. or was it to be supposed that a feeble .nation, which ! motion went directly .to tie the hands It would else tend to bring back the Emperor i f had such dispositions towardsthe two countries, seoeld the- He should certainly feel it h Russia to his natural connection with this country— resist the demands of France after the treaty of Tilsit, ', the resolution proposed.b,y the Noble a connection which was dissolved tie less by imperious and that its fleet would •be safe under its own protec- I att en ti on OLLAND thought it - necessity,. than the rash and unwarrantable attec,k don ?If the danger was then imtninerit,.the necessity , th e, of killable Lours to m ien the Danish capital. He else looked, he con- of guarding against it was apparent ; and if the meet- . true question before the House. --ed, with great expectations, to the impression sures of preeateudi which were necessarily taken led i derably misrepresented and mistated. which a resolution of such magnanim ity, justice, and to hostilities, England was notto be blamed. It was • did not, as had been eppiehended consistencywould make upon the nations 9f the Con- to those Posed's, and -to those circumstances which I Learned Lord upon the - Wool sack, ._ tined. Ire could not antecipate any act pf ours produced the necessity, that what happened was .to qr in any degree affett,the i prerogative which could be more likely to shake that enormous be attributed. Be therefore most decidedly objected ,It was, whether that:Huse wouU rev influence which France had acquired over the rest of ; to the resolution proposed ; first, because he thougbn espedierit that the Goterrunent shoe' Europe.. It was by arming all the nations of the Con- it would be achnoridedging that we had done wrong, 1 the power of resuining, eventually, tinent against us, by placing them in array, by exci-, 1 when in fact we had done no wrong; and, idly. Jae 1 its at Copenhagen, to the Dimes. tin their feelings against what was called our tyranny stead of leading to a peace, he thought it would shut , swerved from is question,and end injustice, matt hat man, who now wielded all the the door to peace, by engaging oueselves, as a preli- . the justification of the expedition force of those nations, expected to prevail against us. urinary, to give lip that which neither justice required,' did think stillcould not be ,as he had alarranted vray. _ The destruction of this country w as the g reat ob j ect nor security permitted to be given up. I expedition w of his ambition : compared with this, his victories at Lord gial.N.l3OltOUG.ll differed entirely from ground of necessity, and no came' Lodi, Austerlitz, Friedland, end Auerstadt, were the sentiments of the Noble Lord who last spoke, and yet made out ; that House, at leas, nothing in his estimation : to accomplish this, all his ' found himself called upon to ssupport the motion.— I of no evidence whatever to ware , great talents, his genius, and his policy, were nit- I As to the cases referred to by the Noble Lord, sat ' that expedition to have been the ceasingly directed. What more effectual mode could ; hearing a near analogy to the present, he must say I sity. He was not inclined at present there be of counteracting this design, than to render : that he did not see that analogy. He had oftenheard exposition of the shifting, prev-e the instruments by which be proposed to effect it un- 1 it said, that there was nothing More dissimilar than a I which had been resorted to in availing in his-liands ? As long as England shoeld , sietile, and he thoueit the Noble Lord had given an , sure ; one time Denmark was represented preserve her antient honour, magnanimity, and disin- instance of the truth of that saying, by the caseswhich I her professions of neutrality, but terestednees, 'it was not to be credited that the nations !he quoted. The case of the Spanish frigates, taken at Ito her intentions ;at another, Of the Continent would zealously co-operate in anybeginning of the war, was as unlike aas any case las her sincerity was unquestionale plan to destroy her. . He would no longer detain their I could he, for we had against Spain at that time at annoyanee were to be feared are Teeliershiris: - It eves nit, if he stated at the coin- . least reasonable ground of war. He, for another roes- again, it was pretended that men man e s of his speech, his intention to interfere in ! son, never approved of the seizure . of these frigates. expedition were the secret arran the smallest degree with the exercise of the Royal This country had so much encouraged that particular of Tilsit, and when it was atr Prerogative, or to suggest any thing calculated to sort of trade by licences, that he thought it unjust to i alledged information to any a, lower the ceuntry in the estimation of foreign Powers . seize upon as a, prey, that property which was probe- gal was at one period brought His wish was, not tolind the Government to any 1 bly coming home on the faith of our implied permis- . mer and at another the disaffected Irish. 'Men Measure inconsistent with the dignity of the nation, sion. As to the ships taken at Toulon, they were taken lof shifting naturally created suspicion intim nisei but simply that the Danish navy should be kept in from a' nation with whom we were at war ; and al- : every impartial man. The Noble Lord then pro. *alga custodia. His Lordship concluded with moving though we were assisted in the capture by Frenchmen, I ceeded to consider the present motion in referees 1 resolution, the substance of which was—That it was who were adverse to the Government then subsisting, I the question of peace, and appealed to the Wesel important to the honour of the country that the ships yet there could be no pretence for requiring those 1 Noble Lords, if it would not be more for the haze captured at Copenhagen should be kept in a state ships to be given back again to France, except that we of the countzy, if they could f which might not prevent their eventual restoration to - entered into en agreement with Frenchmen in op- after a voluntary concession .., Denmark, upon the establishment of peace, or under . position to the then subsisting GoVernment, by than the subsequent degradation other circumstances. I which we engaged to restore the ships to Louis the exacted by the stipulations Lord BORINGDON could not suppress the anti- ; XVIII. when he should be restored to the throne of Lord HARROWBY den, ety he felt to enter his protest as early as possible, France. It could hardly be contended, that such an any inconsistency or citric.. against the resolution submitted to the House by the agreement, either by its letter or its spirit, bound us to . ledged by Ministers, as justifi, Noble Viscount He concaved, that a proposition' give back th e shi p s to other persons besides those for I gen expedition ;as to the vele more novel in its principles, more unsuitable to the 1 whom we took them in trust. The case of the capture ; a Noble and Learned Lord circumstances of the case, or the interest of the coun- iof the Danish fleet was totally different, as it- was ' sured that expedition, and try, amid hardly be submitted to the cou ntr y; taken, not from enemies, but from neutrals. In con- Noble Lord need not have of die Honse: The external enemies of the sidering the propriety of adopting the present resolution of coquetry :he was i had pledged themselves to obtain a restitution of i doe, he should argue on the ground of the nec ess i t y sive, and as to the energy . those sliiift; but he now, for the first time , had the I being completely acknowledged, al ed, though his own Lord had given vent to mortification of seeing within those walls , a Noble opinion of a was very different. If he were to decline, that subject, perhaps the lines Peer rise up and support the arguments they had used, however, stating what his opinion was of the justice ,to a coquet,were not in the' and in this respect aid their designs. It certainly and policy of the measure, he feared he would be applicable, was not within the walls of Parliament that he had thought to be in some measure coquetting with the Perhaps It was right to .. expectect to have heard such arguments defended. It House. He should therefore declare, that, in his But why did you kick me was not doing justice to the motion itself, to discuss opinion, there was no act that ever he had heard of The Noble Lord then proceeded it as if it were to be construed altogether literally, or being committed by the Government of this country, • the expedition, and recapitulated t . as if the spirit of it would not go to the actual restora- which so much disgraced its character and stained its have been urged in its defence, tion of the Danish fleet ; far if the House were to honour ; and, as an Englishman, be felt dishonoured stating, that if the expedition agree to such a resolution, it would be considered by whenever the national honour was_ tarnished. He sequent capture of the Danish all the world as an acknowledgment that we had acted could not avoid reprobating in severe terms the expe- ! capture as far as related to unjustly, and a pledge that we would make a restitu- dition to Copenhagen : it reminded him of and should be attended wit tion as soon as it was compatible with our security. " Tb' ill-oinened bark, Lord ERSKINE in reel; If we were now to give such an acknowledgment, it " Built in th' eclipse, and rimed with curse dark." the Noble Lord who had je could not be supposed that foreign nations would not He thought the object it had in view was most unjus- , virtuous energy with which ;take advantage of it at the moment of negociation for tifiable, and that even in the success of that object it ,Friend had spoken of what • a general peace, and it would then appear as i f we had would bring great calamity upon the country. When lation of the rights of nations. .no.eight to refuse it. T .Noble Viscount had con- it was attempted . to be justified on the plea of nem- immortal orations, remarked , lidded • se end thit there was no- sity, it shotdd be recollected, that by that word was phlegmatic character,thather thing like it in our history. lie might, however, have meant an urgent necessity, and not a mere predomi- ' cities with such a frigid am temembered the case of the ships taken at Toulon last nating convenience. It appeared to him that many him almost an accomplice war, which mere surrendered to us by Frenchmen in persons considered a justification enough to say, that it arraign—not so his Noble ; trust only, and which were promised to be restored to was very convenient for the country, in this instance, thought of the measure in the King of 'France. The French Government gave to appropriate to itself that property which another ful outrage, and a laudable every harsh epithet to this transaction ; they called it who hadthe right, was possessed 'of. This was a sort' prompted him to speak with perfidy, treachery, and pirat' ; and at the commence- of doctrine which he was so much in the habit of re- • But as. to the quotation merit of the negotiation for a peace, required that probating at the Old Bailey and other places, that he ing one observation, that those ships should be restored to them. The British could not avoid expressing himself • with some kicked them down stairs,' Government, however, would never listen to such a warmth when be heard, that principle urged as an their gl&rious expedition _ proposal; and the French ceased to insist upon it. If, ample justification to the nation, which never could the bottom. But with regard however, a resolution similar to that which was now be admitted among individuals. As to what was ' diately before their Lordshi proposed had been adopted 9* that occasion in Par- stated of hostilities afterwards taking place with Den- 'it had been widely departed liament, the FrencliGovernment would never have re: mark, he thought that circtunstence made no differ- ' justice or injustice of the I ceded from its claim, and those ships must have been ence. If he were to refer to the case se often quoted, , thing to say to the subject ; restored to France. The Noble Viscount, however, of a person being justified, by necessity, for pushing' He was, for instance, will Hider whose auspices the treaty of Amiens was con- another. off a plank into the sea, it must still be al- required (nothing of whir eluded (a treaty which, whatever might be now said lowed that the other is equally justified in retaining of that expedition, adaai against a, he always thought, and still did think, was nOssession of the plank if he can, and that his enclea. various pleas of necessity proper under the circurnitances in which it was. vouring to retain it is no act of hestility against u p .-- latent hostility, avowed macie)—that Noble Lord himself did not think at It appeared to him, that the right of Denmark to a I the mode of capture of that tune that . there sr . 4s any thing in justice, morali- restitution of the property so taken was by no means ; there was na previous hostilit ty, or the law a. nations, which required that the altered by any subsequent hostilities—and that thie! ground of hostility, no ma Toulon fleet 'should be restored to France. There right was so clear, that we might make up our eninds . , was true or false. It might was anther case somewhat similar, which occurred to the restitution , being demanded at the conclusion minated a seizure previous in the beginning of the. present war with Seim- When of peace. He therefore thought that we should' keep j vious ton declaration of \ the four Spanish frigates were taken'to any hemhem in such a state , as that the restitution might be in an amicable character, previous declaration of war, the Frell Inveighed bitterly made with as little expiate or inconvenience as pus- 'an amicable footing. Had. sible. He was prepared for doing justice ; but he intention of open hostile againir thie act of piracy (as, th ey called it) ; and yet thcY nevee thought nrmaking It a condition of peace,. would wish in some degree to exercise a penurious tired the case ;_ but we that we should restore the shills and dollars taken justice . , so that the restitution should not be more bur- they were lulled into sect upon thee occesicei •: but if, in either of those eases, a thensometo the country than was absolutely necessary. they should purchase the ratit hafil,jbecii paised in the British Parliament For these reasonehe ;direly coincided in the motion reign power,by the serre similar that which was now proPosed,' thew could .eftis Noble.Friepd, . ninon for ever. Thecomi The LORD CHANCELLOR said, that from the conditions of that cor 'Rhea doubt hut they would have detnandect it, and in- - fisted . upon it. B e sides, .ill consequences would fol- the high respect he felt for his Noble and Learned A great deal had been . low froippledging tee et emeryto res t o re ** . ships to ' Friend. (Lord Ellerdeortsugh), and from the weight self defence. He. would H e. ew e 'his opinions always carried' he felt anziqus to remove way of illestretien, to Derlitigk, or in otbez wi rds. to twiace. contend that the act of kiting them was not an act of . the impression which his Noble and Learned Friend fence was tortured. into the character _ that had been ifisCribed, but that it was had . made. The Noble and Learned Lord had ap- question : he sees a an act of necessity j u itifiedliy , all the cirepingantes ie.ared. to disPos'e in_ a very. summary manner, both some weapon of offence, of the tan. Denmark had for a considerablen4‘ g thcin.slJee. _and. meraii#,y . Of the Cep . en. expo' which he knew- that per . ber of years 'hewn- a hostile disposition tovrards-Great he; ane,ot the Cases. cited. ley his Noble Friend tin his destruction---" Britain, and at the same erne a sort of predilection (lA4 Psorisagdon). kle expressed his surprize that the fled him in anticipating for France, or at least an absolute aequieicenc e with Noble and Learned Judge should impute injustice the fowling piece from .. with • or jos broug duty Noble Lo greater ad .'ng which that Poweriiid. This w„atn- ho p the cc -• 4.41. • :ting,. ~. th ,...... 4 . their making no remoastranairiiten a ed c c even . 7,7 1 '' 4 ,, 1 was ta/pn risoner;,oss- their art, case at t rl upon .. .7 7 .11- ' a , „.. . y their with) their troupe frtan . the port it., x being ,Ip b r 4 . 'IT?. of Holstein, i abe&enpa toCthe tlesirt of ,that the the destru • - ' l k - 7- .ce—by their submission to ilha.Decree ci . Bona- ,and cha land, which wam.., • rte, and in various other ways. •If this tion of ing any use of .the for France could.beiloatesi-br : a. IIY tatitime superiority. shoutyl *refer bliii to the very.able alspatch e of a Nate' that [ enough to contend Earl (Earl G r e y in answer to M. Rist, the Danish constitu hi. He could not Minister. That Noblaarl, in the strongest sad best ships 2rl - . ____l-:--i ~ thse rheDanishl4l- .re4—th • Ls Denmark, >tnd, met with ••• • 71 ng evid enc e to tam , ,7, ;... d Friend h a d of national hpy' lle • runway ' d into the conside ral s - lode of dealing oi t t ;le Lord contsrad. t and by that of • . 4dl .u.it be tesistee, I had not been- testo , lbws& gl i n.Spain hnd-notle at Toulo n had A ,taas.against die t* country was decisik lisqlolA**" captured bxam e t it tots o ', l ontended the pre set t? lands of thei ntrou. • on it his duty to on g q i th noble Viscount. : fiat it necessary to te 4 o.llloB‘ . what sully etas* *O4" . lt irad beetle,* • Mated. the p et * ledby. the Noble la Lek, at all try im Irl ogati4e of the(4l, . uU resolve, dm ki t conslinoll shouldre4erve to • wi dola the aut" sh bl ip izi s toble sei te dli iii.; isgvvran t twi ce. base an itself. He chti v A l rays thought, that i x ; 3 ' 05 '0 ranted but upoe tadeinP se of necesssity had bee t e essity least, was inposy:ti e tiL 1- 4 irr.utt them in decith as w le result of hard m at , irged t present to go iota s w yak, 1 rvaricating unarms milling n defence of that va. rpresented as sincetth j i I but too weak to act, ry rra r, they were told, *Ty at ionable, her means =l . and provided against,. the sole ground of ter antral angements of the treaty the ant tempted to trace the / ten tior authentic. source, Pao. t he •ser at forward as the kit. mitia ia.gxdtcoibeonmamme°arenfcoef:rn but li are arts, negociaiei d *e surres64 ll" ynade n upon their pea ltd of l treatyenied,tat ? there hates joeence idiction in the reasons t. ( c Ls tificatory of the .. r ve hement manner in 1 t . 4 d (Ellenborough) had li on those who advised it, .Mar, e apprehended the • take more than sufficiently tactic y with which the - anus cis virtuous indignation and lines that had been ap. present instance wholly *Di aria o dissemble Tourisme, shot me down stairs ? • ,:roceeded to a vindication tulated the arguments Weds ifici iefence, and concluded by .4 4 . 4 ion was justifiable , the an - c mish fleet was like any add o the question of forfeiter, ith thelike consequeotes. 1 ply to theludicrousquastiond acv just sat down, defended de b y ich his Noble and ... at he thought a flagrant ions. Mr. Burke, in one • •ked, upon• a person of • :414 it he spoke ofoatrages and, ii sensate apathy as ... al ce in the crimes he affected V le and Learned Friend. tk in question as of a dig, si ble impulse of manly -- • ,u with the sincerity he ?.• itself, he could not help . t his Learned Friend had f..r he haidfound them e had already placed regard to the question.... •dships, he was of opinion dis rted from; theclifistion,t) i 1 he Danish eipedition ect now befure theirLosdsbi' ;Ming to concede all that jell was proved) jus Bitting' for a moment all ty, self-defence, secret - • I weakness, &c. &c. Ete, • • f the Danish fleet was lostility, there was no al . matter whether that , night have been absost -ions to a war, certainly of war—we wet* to their ter, and treated with these ia.d.we set out with an as' litYiitwouldhave snaterially e 'took them by surpriee , :clarity, and then proposed :he temporary protection of si rc nder of their i ndepock'nc e Dmpact was n .t esiterediumi :unipact were not gone throe t said upon the plausible ples ald take a very, simple case • chew. how the plea of set any. application to' the P r person forcing from t.. ' nce, a sword- or fowling et. person meant to use in e l '. -well, the law of eattise tine his enemy, by' ma the weak- by-stianele I ''' I