The Sun. — London, England, 1807-01-03 00:00:00

t. 4 . • . . , . . , . .it *inflexion, we have the proof offrom the very DeClaratiOn. It the Context were looked to, •it 4onduct of the enemy, iodependeet of our Own opi- i would al pc • that the words .of M: TalleySsind niotoof the matter. The suspicion soon rose that the referre, not. generally, . but to a, snecitic e be Treaty would net be . ratified, and then a different jet—to Sicily. Bet even had theise words not • language was held oy the French Gat'eroment. Then applied .to ~: a .specific - object, G;:eterritnent t etc •.. tney %,‘ oold give its still better terms.; and though not 'warranted in _aAing on - the words of • a before they contended for separate Negotiations, they Minister in conversation s of which 'no - retort wouid„ vow accede, to •n joint offer of terins.. Equi- had _at the time been made, slid whiche 'as bad valentsoare.offesed for Sicily e several ofthe. points. I been since: evinced, that Minister was very' capable Which Russia: considered essential to her ioterests I of denying. It Was important ta'recollea, irtappli--; would have been granted---but then we were to ne- ,cation.to tins and any other Negotiatnm, that a real. get'ette .again'ot. the es.pc.snce of Ora Clonesioo with and legitimate Negotiation could only be curried on • Russia. Better teettlS are oli[ered to Ressia ,but I re- leyee • pi written or signed be Mioisters, or by , jetted. If then, after those nesgininimons . preots of confetences svnitten clown at the time:, and also thennost faithful attachmetit, we hed desertedour , signed by those Who were engaged inethem.— ' Ally, w'tn,t, ~ vould have beech cur disgrace l what our It . was true, that tbr the purnaSe Oln - emoying mi degradation l• :• hot we. anticip..th,a the result of the oor difficulties, it hael - bteeu . sometimes the preiaice" Empercir ,`ale; resoltitien, and instructed the to publi . h subseqUent accopnts of conversations; but British. ,Niiiiister, to onite our interests' still Mont still they were ex' parte assertions; and, howeYer closely with those of Risssia.• I will not enumerate the true, pever could cotistittite an official document. If tillers held Cant as the:price ()four disgSace : for had we there WaS any part of a Negotiation to Wlsieh this re incorred.it it could.not be conipeat&tted by all We ,or niark applied, it was to the basis of a Negotiation; France heve,,ceniquered.: : We were lett, howeyer, for unq nia uestioblye if the establishment. "of a basis in possession of what vrance, without obtawung a bad any object, it was tcs fix something definite, freni . ,can.never naval dislodgesupenority us from; . Mil- _which neither party could 'afterwards 'reeede with • ta, the ye, Hatiover, Tobago, SS:c. but we Intve honour, and Which . would serve as a criterioo by escaped. he indelible ,disgrace of retaining - then on Which the World Might be enabled to jOdge of the see-hetet - Ins. , We:are hour tnore than ever bound to . ,good, failh of the negotiating - Powers. Fle 'oy; nq IlliS , ,il, not onise a lnY the'nobleness.of her recent con- : Means intended to say, that it was not tbe •full. belief dud, bat be the 'Moderate terms on which she would have .made ,Peace, and given us her consent i to Cie BritiSh GOverrithent, that the•Prench GoVern- , to [I OW peace. also.. She only demon-led from 'Men t meant to negotiate' on . the basis of the uti Pr.,lnce to aritlivlraw from that territory which had j pessi . dstis e This belief might have been very good• no . connexion w ith • France, but wai• held by her' ground for fUrther nroceedipg, , but:surely it was tie"- for the purpose of fatore atiunance and attack; . and ' cesiiiry,. _as it had always' been done on simiar in-• - agg - randisernent, and therefore indicated 'a spirit , stances, to'demand a categorical eXplanationin writ s% hear • incompatible :with Peace. The. wish on . ' inn, of the real intentions or France, as a prelithinaty . the. part of linisla - that Fratice svotild relinquish .step to Cater into - any details, or tit furnishing a Mi it, did not:arise froM a desire to occupy ii; her- : tli:i'ter With ample powers to treat. ; This was a self, bit that it Might senTas,a barrier to AnStria `i point on which precision. was . more necessary and . Hangs -y„, - and' i n set , no room tor ethe coati= . than on any other. It beeanie, more , necessary, • - pilaf alan.o which by its possessien Fk'iince• s' as able - and . Was 'more material, .after the "'Declaration to:IAA-el:over both Countries : Stich vss.tlhe liberal . : put into his M4estv's motifb,•iind which Was and enfightened. , policy by which the , COlidua of '• by no means boine out by the evidence, for 111-iSia, was guided.. on .that ocesision.HNO hope' : all that .Could ,be stated was, that LordYarinouth nnw remained of aceonrilistaeog e aoy tiring byNc- beliered the uti piassidiiis to: be the basis pro t gOtiation.---elodeed, _ill thy. opinion, the fate of the 0;0. by the French GOvernnient; bat of this no Negotiati(4l;is as decided the dity the Chief of the po41;:i-0 ;Airman= had been made . . Those parts of Reach Goisratnent left Paris—eit.wasimpessible the the Address which approved the general result of flab tWO works he is i-u engaged in tout go on together. 'Negotiation, and gave His Majesty assurance's of It w as impesiible that Peziee cte,ta be nit* withthe ' I suppor,t, received . his hearty concurrence. • On . the Al s en \v iol s he wa ekteuding his conquests pier l rupture of the Nregoti2ition, lie• Would. say .4 foist GermanY, aild I - edits - Mg - the last Power with Whorn, Words. No man would be more anxious titan him, h badn enut before hternengeeed-•T .e-h isteas not pur- self to, grasp at Peace, if Peace could be obtained .I Going. Peace lit the spirit' of Peace ; for Unless lie,'se- .1 with satety e and without dishonour: -If he thought,. riounied his preje4s, .what hopes could remain of sncha Peace could he obtained, he would not balanee its attainment -?.. : .1t was in Oin to - sign any Treaty', for a distant and contingent evil - against the immediate laewould.notremain'oniet, even•if it had been signed. ' . and positive goods He would not be excessively soli , Otietexpressiop second indeed, to hint that the,C;ser- chops what conquests should be• Preserved, and What man Contederacy -\+-as net, yet signed, and that it ~ restored, though certaitily that questiehmust 'depend would not lit signed Of •pUblislied, it we acceded to t on eircoinstanees and though there werepoints which • the terins Tar °sett. ', But before any (Urines pro- ; undoubtedly must be insisted on ; yet he Wasniet grey- could balls' been made in the Negetiatitna, or 1 one of noose svho nhought it the interest of this any answer obtained to ,111 last -offer, his promiFe . country intiefiohely to extend her colonies aod pose would have, been already forsaken, acrd the ro ,Geran . sessions. To a country like .Great Britain 'some Confederation: established., I; hope uow; my. 4oras, foreign and colonial poOessiotis 'acre certainly in havz,-,.established the principle which, in,common i dispeesible ; i - ,..antliey ought not to be extended be with- the other Mioisters, I advised to be held mu, yo:na . cav government, . We must always love in . at the opening of the Session, .when it was note vie•.v our military establishinent. .By iattempting wit - died..to pledge the. House to any opinion on the - to extend our possessions beyetid what we could de- Negotioresn, but which the Papers 'since, laidbefdre. i fend with facility, tie migbt 'Sow the seeds of con the House•wiil, I trust, induce theth now to adopt. . Siderable inure to the eeentry. •• Tileno-'&at son s ion I still now concinde, nil . I.sirds, by the an , was, Could Peace' be ohnlined ? In the aSpent and Address, embodying that ce-enion, to the foliowill ' disposition of the Enemy, in the, circumstances of effed ie---To assure His Majesty that eve. Bove 5e , ..41, the times, was there any rational pis - apect'of it ?-e -with :gratitude the endeavours. employed by His _Adverting to theeients of 1801, he oi - aserved, - that hfajcsty. for the restoration Of 'gen : ea - al tranquillity, thesituation.orthe - Continent at that period-present cm tenor: consistent with the interests and honour .ed a .VerY different Piahre twin the present. At of hi K ople, and with th a t ipViolable goOd faith i that time Holland and Switzerland, though certain towards our Allies by which the ' Co . nduCt of this ly . in some ilege,e influenced by France, were hide comoey has always been e distinguished ; that while pendetionatiOns; it any faith could be reposed in welament .that,these .endeavOu'rs .11*e been tinfore Treaties. • Naples ‘;‘%ts also an independent Power. tunately frostrkited by the s mb:sien and injustice of Austria, altho' it had lost' soMeWhat of its glory and the Enemy we assure His :‘ .;i. i . esty - , th a t the most its weight in Europe, was yet, in point of popnla ffe t . -ew edual means In our per „ Willbe supplied to ens lion and territory, nearly as poWierful •as ever. At . . . : able His Majesty, Suntil . such terms of ' 'peace are that period .Peace was conclceled, with a view to the -- obtained. as we haVe already s deScriked, to maintain . Salvatien of Europe ; and 'yet, - Wrhile the Admini unimPaired the dignity of His Crown, and the in SstratiOn •of that day contemplated with just pride depeoclencearad interests .of thei People. I, the naval superiority of England, they could not Lord HAWKE'S BURY, howe‘Fer he might differ avoid Contemplating the • military .superiority of in scathe points .from the Noble . 'Baron, perfectly France, arising not from the greater physical streng - th agreed with biM in the iMportance of upholding the - • .:off the people, but merely the etleds of theiVrench .confidenee.Of the Country and giving to-His Majesty 1 'Revolntion ; which, having called forth the psssions • the:Most - cordial and unequivocal assurances ofsupport of ' Men, they 'afterwards took a military 'direetion. its thevar in is hieli use were engaged. • There was This was an artihcial, not a natural advantage. It one phrase; however, in the provssed'Addres3, which i would be found, in the history ofall centuries. that appeared to be liable to an zunblguous ihtertoctatio : . -they were never so to:-minable as at the close of some In assenting - to foe Addresse*.he . Wis)aed to be•under- internal. convulsion. .Under those eircunistances, it :stood as completely Approving, the eotuliiEt of the • was thought, if peace could be ' obtained, that the Bt'itiSh . Giavernineitt, in, theintrenitig, 'through' the Causes of the existing Superiority of France t.vould de ' w bele course of the Negotiation, inviolable good faith - 'dine, and that the causes which enervated the towards Our Aliies. He . thilyconcurred in opinionwith - - Powers on the Continent' Hostile to French policy, the •Nable Bardb respeCting nits points on which the 'Wenld•bereMOved. Unfortunately, the present situae, I\tegorlation W , aSbroken off. The refusal, •Oh the part titan of the Continent did not shesv the result that :vas Of the Frencli,....t to .evacuate - Dalniatia, would have expecried. At the conelusion of the Peace to which le al been is Ith hith a StittiCll)t justification for that rup- I litcled, there were ts.- 0 distinei vit-ws of policy in Ftance. ' tore ; for he :i.:a:;'opi - fvinced, that if there eras anyone oie reirtythought that'asFritnee hadacquired sotnuch, • point wl,i(7..h.dUght to he insisted on more strongly . in order to conseilidete her possessions tit:it:confidence . . than any - Other, it Awns the . e vaenation of DalMatia ' at horne and abroad . was wanted, which was only to 2nd Istria by the French - arms. As llir, therefore, -`be acTlired' by moderation. The other party, - on the • asthe niaintenance of good 'faith, and the justice of contrary, were of opinion, that a power growing out the grounds on which. the Negotiation had' keen of the turbtilerite of a Revolution, could find no se broken'Otf; .he thought Goyernment entitled' to the Cushy but in 'thecontitination of aggression.. • Un decided mail uriequiVocal supopet, of every Man; but happily, this latter system was pu . rsued e atid from the in stating this as his opinion, he begged that lie might IPeace of Athiensno the present moment,: not three • lint be considered as approving every thing that had I montlis had elapsed without seine, violent. act •of en . 'passed during the Negotiation. He was aware, at the croabitMent or annexation, against the most positive same time, that in the copsideration of a prziaieal r and solemn stipulations. With reSpeatto continerce, question, there ought not to be too iiaucTh refinement .if eertainly did•nut follbw that commercial, hostility or too much enquiry. into :detail; but - the point on •between countries roust necessarily lead to war; but which he us is going to .touch was,one of some mag- it was probable that in• the present dispOsition . of rntude, and iissilrectly required explanation. In his "Fsauce, situated as France and England were, Majesty's Declaration, issued in C) sober last, it was and Coming into contait as • they would . in .every distinctly stated, that .the Negotiation originated in pin of the glebe, were Peace concluded, con-Inter im offer trom the. French Governthent to negotiate cial hostility of course springing 'up,' private com e . - on the basis of aolual possession. ' Now, on the plaint wolild cause putlic irritation, and ultimately, closest examination of the Papers on the table of ' •be produaive Of war; He Could not review all.these, the HouSe, he could perceive no evidence which and many other eonsiderations, in his mind,;without bore out• the Declaration in. this assertion. In the •thitiling that, until the dispbsition of Prance should early stage of the Negotiation,' before the arrival 'of . change - , and she shoUld'aet upon' a different sys- Lord Yarmouth, there us as no yelerence ..vhatever ' tetn,• a Peace would be precarious, and would. to such a basis.- The only reference td `any basis . risk, more to the Country than any- advantages . was hi M. Talleyrand's Letter to Mr. Fox, in which, i• that could possibly be derived - f ro m it. While we a basis' was stated •which had • nothing to do with_ the i were at wain with France, we had this security, basis of actual possession. Nor in the.written state , i that Whatever views she might have on the Con inent tiy Lord Yaintouth of the conversation be- tinetat, to the Continent, during the War, with Eng ! lween his Lordship and- M. Talleyrand, 'was. there -.land; she must be confined; but Peace opened to.her 2 - Emy thing ' which warranted the assertion in the ambition •Asia, Africa, and America. While Gieat Britain .was at war. with France, she preserved her equality.. Her naval .superiority would be as great as the French military superiority ;' but Peace, under the present circumstances, would not diminish the military strength of: France,. white it would enable her to increase{ her naval strength. .The Country Was g , :ticrally impressed with the opinion, that if a Peace could be made with . Franee,it. would have no duration.., - This was of great- weight. Ano titer inducement to -us to' carry on the contest, was the flourishing state of the Finances. The pre sent system. of Finance s if justice 2wewe done to ,it, was suer asno Country had ever before arrived at, and if any one had some yearS ago predieted thew:- istence of that system; .it would-have been thought an impossibility. •This was to be ; ascribed to two causes. The first, for WhiCh the Country was indebted tci hiS . late illustrious Friend, was the. Sinking 'Fund,. the greatest financial, meagure ever proposed, acted upon, or persevered in.: The next, founded on this, was the praaiee of raisin the SupplieS within the . year, a prailice restored and improved by a - Noble Vis Count opposite to him '(Lord Sidmouth)., He here entered into - a Variety of calculations and compara tive numerical statements, to • prove the rapid, in crease.ot the Sinking Fund, and the produce of the War Taxes, the former of which bow amounted to eight millions'. and an half Ein ually; the, latter to eighteen millions, and contended that if the systein was steadily persevered in; and attended With dtie etAionly, 'the COuntry in •a: few years would find: that the Sinking Fund weilld 2 be equal to the loan required, and this during , War time ;' so that in War. the National Debt would be stationary, in Peace it would be rapidly liqUidating: , 'This. was far from 6e ing an 'ar g ument to continue War for: a :month, a week, a day ; nay, an hour longer than* , What - was indispensably necessary; but when we were forced: to remain at war, the flourishing state' of ova' re ' sources afforded a pleasing stibjea of . cOntern- - . platiori. In the sano2 ,point of view, our oorn-, coerce, the •foundation of our revenue, was not less prosperous, nor insPired -less confidence. In I 7§, - which Was:: then cohsicte'red as a most flourish ing year, the excess of our exports over the average: of font preceding years; was six millions and a half;' in 1805, ti ef.cess . of our exports over the exports of 1798, was fifty-three millions 1: These v.'ere real groUndS of confidence and hope. Reverting- to the . Negotiation,' he observed, 'that the Noble Lord had not slated theterMS on which the 'British' Govern- meta wvtzld have consented to make Peace With France. Of this; he did not:complain ; as he was well aware . of the inconvenieneeS attendant upon a' disclosure of such. a nature; which - woUld teach the . enemy what were the objects desired by. us,' and which- would enable them at - the commencement of a new Negotiation,' althoUgh. - circumstances might have completelY chang,ed, to state our Ida.: maium as the ground=work Of such a Negotiation. • The Case of the country had, 'he thought, been com pletely proeci. It -had been completely prOVed, that the enemy attenlpted to detach ts from our Allies,: but that We had resisted the attempt, It had been completely proved that the enemy -had not futtilled that which they had staled their readiness to country was'in the right. 'We had Made very treat efforts to prOcutv - Peacc.:—more," perhaps, than we ought. Peae - was not to be obtained ; and it was thet.:_fijre incUrnbent onus to give His Majesty' the most Unequiroc•ral assurances of suppo: - t. A! he lamented was, that the case stated in His 111:-..j,?.,1:::t DeciarAtion ?was .not.rnade out. It was-not necessary . lo‘nitike it olit tint why state it_? It was an injury to our ott , ll',cause; hilt' this Was 'a -minor. considera- Con ;• in all the 'stibstantial- points we were jn4frded. After what -.had - passed we had no option but to go On- with vigbur vi'd energy; mid he was convinced that this was the generalleeling from one cc of the island tOthe other._ • Lord SIDMOUTH declared, that it was with great pain he found his Noble 'Friend wonldinot Jaw the MotiOn to pass' without expressing a degree of dissent,. which, hoWever it might :be qualitied, was eerrainlY considerable. His Noble Friend as serted, thatan attempt had beem made by his IVlttjes ty,'s Ministers to maketheir cause better than it was; that his Majesty's - DeclaratiOn contained an affirtria tion-that- was not borne out, for that itif.-document on the table did not establish the fay that the gotiation commended in . consequence of au Offer from France to treat on the basis of the He readily allowed, that in'the doctiments specific statement to this eifea: existed; Mitt it was. ,amply established by a consideration of the whole of them. In the letter of the Ist of April, from_ -Tallerand , to Mr. ~1 distin6ilystated, that France desired nothing of the 'possessions of England. It was impossible that -be, could mean the autient possessions of the Bri 7 • tish CroWn ; he must, therefore,. have meant the . recent :acquisitions. Within 'five - or six, weeks afterwards, Lord Yarmouth returned from France with a coMmunication 'from' M. Talleyrand. This coinamniCation had since been written down, The French Minister expressed a , sincere desirefor• the restoration of Peace. . ":We demand," said he,', not this subjeCt, or that subjeel, but " we demand no-. _thing. , " Previously to the 20th July, the, day on which M.D'Oubril signed the Treaty between Rua-. .sit - and France, there did not 'exist the, slightest con- . tradietion of the, assertion nide by Lord Yarmouth,' that he had . been . authorised 'by the French GOvern ment to propose a ; N - cgotiation on_ the basis of ('he uti po.4ldetis. The only attempt at a qualifica tion of this basis was, in consequence of an al teration Of 'circumstances: M. Talleyrand assert .ed, that in, consequence of the alteration of cir cumstances; as France could not keep Naples with out -repining Sicily, she wolild retain Sicily; but this was stated in a way that. sheaved it was deemed a -deviatibn . from the original basis. This was all before the 20th 'of July. After the 20th of ,July the language of the French Governinent imme diately elianged. , On the July, Gen. Clarke, in a conference. with Lord :Yarmouth, made claims which were utterly inconsistent with the uti posside tis and in the answer of the. French Government on the alb -of August,•to Len' Lauderdale's. Note of the Ttb," general Clarke distin[tly stated that the litsis of the uti prissidetis never entered into their .minds. They would not even give up Tobago. On the 2.9 th, General Clarke declared, in conversation with Lord Lauderdale, ,that the Emperor would.ne ver abandon territories, the integrity of which he had s.vorw to maintain; but even then, when, pressed face to face.by Lord Yarmouth, 311th:reminded:by' him of . the former basis of the uti possicletis., General ,icla-ke was Compelled to allow that it had beee ,mentioned, but added, that . kt was in loose cony versation. Again, on the teth September, Lord Yarmouth - renewed his assertion before the French Plenipotentiaries ; and Lord LaudOrdale in his Dis patch declares,' that they did not deny the faCt.--- , But what was the event ? Had it turned out that .. F . 'yeurce ..dourer not' resian.tenitories, the integrity of Which she had declardshe would. sustain, it might 'have been supposed that the 14ti pcssidetis bad never :been in thew serious contemplation. But on the intelligence arriving in - Paris, of the refusal .of the 12 1 rpteerer Alexaeder ratify M. D'Oubrii's Treaty, were these . declarations adhered to ? No. In a few days it was stated that the French Govern ment were -willing to surrender Tobago, Pony dicherry, ,C,Len.dernagore, &c. in perpetual sove reignty to*Great Britain.. If this was not a proof, at least it was a strong presumption,,thet the original averment of Lord Yarmouth' Was well founded e and it . certainly did ,afford a proof of , the 'little dependence that could be placed on declarations ; such as thoAe to which he had alluded,; - for aftet these solerim declerations came a distinasecknqwy, ledgment that the French Government were ready to seri - ender' even some of. the ancient "pcisessions of France - If, therefore,' the - that in no ore"' instance previously to the ,20th lielY lied Lord Yarreouth'e assertion ht:en eon- . traditled: that even during „the inteival between tho Qoth of - idly and the receipt of the ieteiligettee, • thafehe tuiperor of leussia had refused to rat'ity ; the Treaty, toe _only uetice taken 9ttwo. roped times of,the assertions lied been, ie the one in nonce, • a shi'atlling and Heee.ricatitig obF,ervation, in this": 'other; no attempt whateVer at a denial ; if, see§e o,ntly, the tiffers!of the -French Gevernineet ed thee tle.y: N:v ere disieiscd to deviate from the one Of con they lied pretended to preSeribe for themselves . ; .if all this was the .fact, surely' it *as impo tide riot to ,gi\Ji itnplicit crec!it to accuracy of Lord liartiloiith!s stetermee, t Ittl pveit!elic .beela the .original basis But," said' his Noble Priced, "Wi y die tee Frenclr GoVernmefit 'Make this dist i)let prop.):,l; in wilting'?" Unquestionably, that tee,' tnight be allowed 'greater latitilde CaVil and equivoe.itien. But.heeeiuse the proposition was not reduce d ; to writing, did that furnish a reaort.for hat negotiat ing on the proposed basis ? He 'coetentled' and asserted that ,through the.whole of the Papers - , with the. few exceptions that he had mentioned, there ap peared a clear admission on rhe T part vt t r. rr,o'cic GoVertirnent, of the truth of ,Lord Yarmou.th's tion, that he was authorised by eheth to propose the etc lhis statemeneMightbe stronely for tified by a reference to the ol.)....irvations anil lan guage Of the French Government kier the disavee , al of IYOuhril's act by the , Courr ofTe ei sLeugh. He 'eeefessed that he 41-ttle expeeled that his No= hle Friend would . have, pursued the line bf con dha v%liich l,e had 'done ; he had• lereked. to him net for.qtedified, but for ungtia:iti,!:l s oble Friend had declared, that he approved; of the principles;' on, 'Whia the ....'egotiation had been broken offs he eNpressed • 1:1 tee& Satisfied with what' he ,had termed the substantial poiets 11 the tr;i!isa.ition„ Del his J-e -coUeit .the time Nehen, :umber place, Which it would be irregular to went - ern in teat he had earnestly pressed those who wci over; .t accede en the cookle6t of the Ueverement of 'that day to look at-the result, and not to deVl ep e e e..e nute-points with the severity of criticism's - true thilt it ‘.vas not a light• cleiree wnich his I.gebie. Fniend preferred agetinst.his -I ,V.ajc§ty's Minditers. if they liacl advised His Majesty to issue a Deelaratioe, not borne out by the faCt, they were cleerey tespon sible; hut was it:possible that any won ceettleleravely assert that this was thecase? The sense of the i,eopla of England, ,he wasthoroughly convin6cd, had alrea dy proneunced on the docuteents before the If history were tot,e searched fur the purpose, tiler the history of this, or 'the history of any other conntry, it WoUld be iMpossible to tied an instance FeK"hiUiOne , such st - one proofs of self-denial tt,udscru pok;us adherence to good Gilt as were tpstfifested by the British G-x.crifirient in, the recent IVio.ni.iticin. They ba(l slime in several' parts of that Negotettien ageeteitoes attention to the interests of et her . Powers that was unparalleled. word or .two en _the. sub jeet of Hanover. It was . certainly a part of the Aa of Settlement that Great Britain Shoeld'nofetigoge iii Nra`r for the defence of any domie - ion or territory belonging to the person on the British threne, which kigniipion: or territory connected is i,ll Br train, -:except by consent of Parliament ; bet it %%as 11(4 :11kOnt by :this' proi, , ision to put the King of Great li; - itein in a woese -situat',On, as Ele .6.10 r of Hallo - - . Ver, than if he had not worn the .''Crown of Greet Britain ? The French attacked and seizci Hanoyer, andsaid .they'NL'ould evacuate it when Malta Should be evacuated by the British troties. .What .passed at- a later period ? It, was, ii point ,of honeue felt by us, and even acknowleted theFreneh,..that whaehad been lo seized be're'stored. .This acting not On pr,in ciple of policy alone, but on a principle of eesiiee. 4n-el2,s, : when the Emperor and the .K.ieg o.: 'Spain made a separxe Peace, and entered into all the Emperor intimated kettle licyug of Great Britain, unless he would accede to that would withdraw his protettion from hiSEledoral dominions: What followed ? .Addres,es from both Houses of Parliament, to his Ddajesty,promising support in the defence ofliturpver; on the principle, that the dan- . ger to which it was, eriyosed originated (rein hi becoming regard to the interests of . Breish Subjeels. This was a case, in point. ..4*,eveit ing to the state of the Continent, he allowed, that owe had nothing on which to relyfOr Ce-eperetieh in e'er future contests with France,, but that singlo, that inagi . ianimous Power whicirwas,s6 deeply i w p res icki with a just fe,cling on this subjea. It was certa'}z - dy :therefore, impeesihie tp look at the ,Centieeet with out alarm; but he. Could by an means allow, that. there _was any cause for despendency Or . criSrtia;•.:-- - --- While the connexion hut ween that great Power: and this couittry exi , ted,, hope woul.i exist. , Altutlr.r source of consoLatory react=lion was, that we knew by a reference to all: History, that ement of deteiniyi 6 acid extent di' power were out converti-to yeern. To.ver founded on injustice was, eat strength. The power which France eow possessed vas.ChititlY, !,a 'be ascribed to the military.genius of her chief. With hi;; death it would decreese, if net terminmt, 21.1 1,1 _van during. .his' life it Ceuhl - by'nn means be cen'A deted as permaneet. - The manner Whiola Ll-44# an rei qf t h E~ w, cu