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Counsel and witnesses were heard in support of the Allardice Divorce Bill, and, on the motion of the Lord Chancellor, the evidence was ordered to be printed. The. Bishop of OXFORD presented petitions from the Dean and Chapter of Windsor and from the City of Bath, against the Catholic Claims.—Laid on the table. 1 4 nrd SA I,To 7N presented a petition. from the Island of Nevis, praying for an equalilation bf Duties.—Laid on the table. • _ The Innkeepers Allowance and the Grants in Aid Bills were read a third time and passed. Earl STAN HOPE. wished that a petition presented yester day by a Noble Illarquis.; v and'read short, be now read at full length, as it related to tlierhiportant topicaof the Currency and Agricultural Distress. . The LORD CHANCELLOR said, that the petition having been read yesterday, when it was presented, the motion of the Noble Earl could not be acceded to. The house knew of no such words as "read ihott.".:LAdjourned. ROUSE OF CONIMONS. MISCELLANEOUS. A petition was pre4entid from an individual‘named Robert Stephens against the Division of Counties Bill.— uaid on the table.' Mr...CRAWLEY' presented a petition from Honiton against the Insolvent Debtors' Bill.—Ordered to be printed. Sir H. PARNELL; asked a question as to the intention of the Hon. Member with regard to a motion which had been given notice of, for Zi repeal of the Union. Mr. ELLIS was understood to say, that the lamented death of the Hon. Member who gave The notice left the question where it was before. Sir W. GUISE presented a petition from the Clothiers of the County of Gloucester, against the Warehousing Bill.--Ordered to be ►rinted. Petitions were presented from the towns of Wellingborough and Wollason, hi` Northamptonshire, pray;ng tbr the insti tution of a Court for the Recovery of Small Debts.—Laid on the table. Mr. I)AWSON presented a Report of the state of the Mill. bank Penitentiary.-10rdered to be printed. CATHOLIC CLAIMS. Colonel LESLIE presented a petition from the County of Monaghan against the Catholic Clahm—Ordered to be printed. Colonel O'NEIL presented a petition from the County of Antrim, signed by 18,700 inhabitants, against any further con cessions to the Roman Catholics. Ordered to be printed. Mr. ELLIS presented several similar petitions from West meath and Dublin. Ordered to be printed. Mr. AGAR ELIAS presented a petition from the County of Kilkenny, in favour of removing the disabilities of the Roman Catholics. Ordered to' be printed. Mr. B. COOPER presented a petition from the Dean and Chapter of Gloucester, against any further concessions to the Roman Catholics. Ile stated that the petition expressed the exact sentiments which he had always entertained. Mr. GRENFELIA said that he slniuld take this opportunity of expressing his opinion upon this subect, because he should not think of troubling the House-On Thursday. Ile had uni formly voted in favour of the restoration of the right:4 of the Catholics, and the longer he lived the more satisded he was with that vote. Be expressed his surprise at the qUarter from Which the petition had come. Sir T. LETHBRIDGE said, that holding just as strong an opinion as his HOn.. Friend, and just the Other way, he 'could never heir such opinions warmly expressed without as warmly opposing them. With re,, ,, ard‘tO the quarter from whence this petition came, he should be very much • surprised if the Clergy did not to a man come forward to resist this inroad upon the -British Constitution. -- Mr. B. COOPER said he did not think it necessary to offer any observations upon what bad fallen from the Honourable Member as to the conduct of the petitioners.—Ordered to be printed. Mr. EGERTON presented a petition from the Dean and Chapter of Chester, against any .ffirther concessions to the Ro man Catholics.—Ordered to be printed. Lord HOTHAM presented a petition from Beverly against any further concessions to the Roman Catholics.--Ordered to be printed. Lou] CORRY presented two similar - petitions from the :County of Fermanagh.—Ordered to be printed. Ltird C. MANNERS presented a petition from the Clergy and Archdeaconry of Ely against any furthei concessions to the Catholics.--Ordered to be printed. Colonel BARRY preiented a similar petition from Ennis corthEto the same efibet. MC. BUTTERWORTH presented similar petitions from three places, the names of which we could not learn. Mr. Secretary PEEL presented similar petitions from the Synod of Glasgow ; from the Inhabitants of the City of Ok ford ; from the Parish of Bodworth t from the Archdeacon and Clergy of the Archdeaconry of York ; and from the Inhabit 'ants of the Town of Stowe, in the County of Warwick. Th ese petitions were severally ordered to be printed. Lord PALMERSTON presented a similar petition from the University of Cambridge. Mr. w ODEHOUSE presented apotition to the same effect, from the Dean and Ch a pt e r of Norwich. They were severally ordered Co be printed. FREE-THINKERS. Mr. HUME presented a petition from twenty ealling themselves Free-Thinkers, of the City of Edinburgh. 'they stated that they had been in the habit of meeting on Sun itay evenings, for the literal purpose of discussing theolo gical questions, and that the doors were open •to any body who chose to enter. They took no money at the doors, and they had a library, consisting of books which treated of the matters they met to discuss. They complained, that on the 17th of November last, the Sheriff and his Officers entered and seized their books, and took three of them into custody. Upon inquiry they found that the law of Scotland authons ed this act, and 'that accordin to an unrepealed Act of Charles the Second, they miglt all be hanged upon the charge of blasphemy. They prayed that the House would take their case into consideration, and adopt such measures as would affiird them protection. lie fully agreed with the petitioners that their inquiries were entitled to the protection of the law. The LORD ADVOCATE said, that in offering a few ob servations upon the petition, he should not enter into the ques tion of the enactment of new laws upon the subject. If the lion. ...limber would come down and propose to remove those laws which were the protection of the Christian Religion in Scotland, he should be fully prepared to meet him.—(Rear 1 ) Re should now only remark upon the acts of this §ociety and upon the measures which had bee n ta k en w i t h regard to it. He had received information that those persons met on Sundays in a house in the suburbs of Edinburgh, for thepurpose not only of denying the divine character of t h e Christian religion, but the existence of God himself. Thes e m eet i ngs were held with open doors, and children were brought by The members to hear the blasphemous doctrines which were inculcated. Finding this to be the case, he had applied to the Clergy of the pa rish, in the hope of dissolving the meetings without force. As this proved to be ineffectual, he had thought it due to the pre servation of the morals of the metropolis of the country, that such a school' for blasphemy should be put down. The persons who were taken into custody, had afterwards expressed a sense of their improper conduct, anti he had therefore not pmceetied, and did not intend to proceed against them. In consequence of what they had done, a Corresponding Society at Glasgow, had given up their meeting. After a few observations from Mr. Morrex, anti Mr. liv3lE in reply, the petition was laid on the table. SCOTCII SPIRITS. Mr. CAMPBELL wished to ask a question of the Chan celor of the Exchequer, as to his intention with regard to the Scotch Spirits, on hand, at the time of lowering the duties.— We understood the lion. Member to say that a drawback ought to be allowed. The CIIANCELLOR of the EXCHINUER said, that he had stated on a former occasion his intention that the change in the duties should not take place until the 11th of October, in the hope that the stock on hand no w wou ld b e c hi e fly con stoned. liThen the whole measure was •completed, he hoped to be able to provide for the difficulties complained of, to the satisfaction of the parties. IRISH TYTIIES. M. GOULDURN presented a petition from the Vicar-tie- neral and twelve of the Clergy of the diocese of Eltin, against the Tythe to the Committee. AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS. Sir T. LETHBRIDGE rose to present a petition from the County of Somerset, upon the subject of Agricultural Distress, which had been put into his hands by a person of the name of Hunt. The contents of the petition, by no means met his view of the question of Agricultural Mistress; and he had hoped that the County -of Somerset would have expressed a very dif ferent opinion upon that question. However, the Person he had mentioned was possessed of stomach insinuation of manner as to prevail upon them to adopt his petition, audit was, there fore, the petition of the county. At the same time lie knew that a large and most respectable body ' of that interest which was most -suffering : -in the County, did not approve of its contents. • Mr. HODHOUSE wished to call the attention of the House to the factthat the Sheriff had refused to sign this petition on behalf of the Meeting, and in consequence of this, its presen tation hatt.been delayed for several months until the signatures could be obtained. He thought it the duty of the Sheiiff to.?ct on behalf of the people on such occasions. Mr. C.,WYN x and Mr. IlawKEs expressed their opinion that the High Sheriff was not 4outt. to sign apetition. Lord J.. RUSSELL made an.ol34mation which we could not hear. . rt- After a few observations from Sir T. LETIIIIIIIDOEI the pe tition was ordered to be printed. Lord MILTON presented petitions from DoncaSter and another place, against the General Turnpike Act. Ordered to be printed. The Noble Lord presented petitions against any further con cessions to the Catholics, front the Archdeaconries of the West and North Ridings of York. MESSAGE. A Message from the Lords announced that their Lordships had agreed to several Bills. FOREIGN AFFAIRS. _ _ _ Col. DAVIES wished to put a question to the Right lion. Secretary of State for Foreign - Affairs, relative to the papers which he had communicated to the House. In statingsehe de termination to preserve neutrality, the Right Hon Gentleman seemed to consider that there were two cases in which that neutrality was to be strictly observed. That of submitting to the laws which we ourselves had imposed, and of respect ing the Spanish Colonies. Front the manner in which this last pint was stated in the note of the Right Honourable Gentleman, it appeared that he had some understanding that the french Government .meant to do the same; and what he wished to ask was, whether there was any engagement of that nature; and if not, whether he had demanded to know if any attempt was intended upon Cuba by the hostile armament now in the West Indies. Mr. Secretary CANNING replied in a tone of voice, that was sometimes inaudible in the Gallery.; that he'was sur prised-at being asked whether they had required from the Go vernment, of France any assurance as to possible future con.: tingenties of such a nature. lie 'took the liberty of stating the other night, that with respect to the Colonies which had thrown off their allegiance to the mother country, the time was come when it was necessary for this Government to state its opinion of the relation in which they stood towards Spain, and of the , claim which she had upon them. Because other Powers might allege a misunderstanding upon those points; and,to prevent the occurrenceolisuch a case, they had thought it necessary to make a declaration of the nature contained in the Paper. But that they should have required any assurance from other Powers upon the question, it was most extraordi nary to expect. After a remark, in explanation, from Colonel DAVIES, the conversation dropped. Mr. GRENFELL moved for a series of returns relative to the amount of balances in the hands of the Bank of Ireland, and of the number of Irish Bank Notes in circulation.— Ordered. FOREIGN ENLISTMENT ACT. . Lord A LTHORPE rose, pursuant to s notice, to bring on his motion for the repeal of the Foreign Enlistment Act. lie as sured -the Rouse that be would trespass very little upon their time. The subject was one which did not require much debate, either for or against it, and the arguments which he intended to produce might be narrowed into a very little compass indeed. It, however, he did not give some explanation. he might lay himself open to th e m is co n s tr uct i on o f some w h o would sup pose that his object was to involve the country in war. He wished, in the first instance, unequivocally to declare that he was a strong advocate for peace.-. 4 Hear, hear !)-- And having made that declaration, he was also willing to avow, that he was far from being indifferent to the success of the Spanish cause, or how strongly, he felt against the violent and atrocious out. rage against the liberties of man. It was necessary for him to trespass for a few minutes on the House on matters not quite relevant to the subject before the House. In the first place, he did not think that any train who really look. ed at the circumstances of the country, could say that they could justify a war.• His Majesty% Ministers have declared, however, that the country was Competent to enter into a war, it' the necessity of the case left that alternative to it alone. But evtry man must admit that war 'would be at present to Britain the greatest evil that could be inflicted upon it. lie would even go further, and say, though great a calamity it would be to Britain, that a war un dertalen now would be of little service to'Spain. On the con. teary, he feared that it would be rather detrunental, and unite t lie French more strongly than they were.—(Hear I) In making the motion which he then did, he was satisfied he could show that a repeal of the Foreign Enlistment Bill was consistent with the strictest principles of neutrality. It might have been wire to have spoken of war at an earlier period, on the first expresaion of hostile sentiments at Verona. The country might have expressed its horror at an aggression of the liberties of Spain, or even gone the length of declaring an intention to support her in case of an. attack. At that time a declaration of war might have been proba bly prevented, and he felt .compelled to declare that his Ma. jesty's Ministers did not consult the honour and dignity of this country or the tranquility, of Europe. They certainly knew better than he could the feelings of the Allied Sovereigns, but his Majesty's Ministers should not have confined them selves to mere representations of the interests of. Spain.— They should have put forward higher grounds. They should have appealed to the honour and dignity of their stations to the infamy which would ever attach to their names, and to the disgrace with which they would be handed down to posterity. That language Atonic' have been used if the Sove reigns were indifferent to other suggestions, and higher prin ciples ought to have been appealed to, than appear by the pa pas to have been introduced, Wear, hear !}—lf it were ne cessary for him to prevent a friend in private life from commit ting any crime, he would not appeal only to the interest of the parties oppressed, but he would attack him on strong ,grounds of principle—.of the loss of honour and eternal istfamy., His Majesty's Ministers sent forward nothing but the interests of the allies, and neglected to appeal to public law, to justice or to morality. It was quite clear that the only duty which a neutral state lirsi to perform, was to act with perfect unpartiality.be tween the belligerent powers. If permission to one was given to enlist troops in this country, it would be a violation of neutrality, to the other. But if we give to bash parties equal right i w n r° dis ng se w nt s ei b th u er ahe principle which ( to mr d e o C tl in i t es n a i m ng e ) , swheeocooliims i head tno The Hon. Gent. he advanced was that to be found in all the books of the Jurists. It was to be found in Grotius, in his Chapter on Neutral States ; and all the illustrations of those a u t h ors were taken from ancient history; that particular case was founded on a complaint made that the Corinthians alone were allowed to enlist troops in the t erritories of Athena, by which the neutrality of that state was violated. If France became displeased at the repeal of the Bill, and went so far as to declare war against the country, it ,would be a war of oven ggression ; and he trusted, however wise it would be for hangland not wan t on ly t o engage in any contest, it was not yet sunk se low in spirit or resources as to fear or aubmitto waonuludniluies unjust glad agr re t s o inquire uir l e how was I c l: o n u l n is t u ry ne w n a t s A n c lo t n ue-eerevualectime: tie measure by which the neutrality of the was neutrality shown from the Norman Conquest to the year 1819? He would be glad of .an answer from those who main: tained that the continuance of the Act was at this day necessary to - eliow the preservation of a strict neutrality. If, then, the re. peal of this could' not be strained into a violation of neutrality, he would next inquire was there any thing of a d omest i c nature to prevent it ? When the Bill was first passed, it was staked would you allow soldiers enlisted fora Foreign Power to be paraded in your streets? That objection could hive no force at present, as one of the Six Acts rendered any military train ing illegal without the license of Government. The repeal of that. Act was perfectly consistent with the true principles of li berty in the country ; for it was one of the definitions of free doat that every man should have a right to do that which was not inimical to the cenimunity.--(llearly Th e H o u se would recollect that by the 9th and .12d George . If. it was made felony for a British subject to serve in a foreign state. The penalties were so severe as to render it a mere dead letter on the statute book. In 1819 it was intended by the last Act to mitigate the penalties of the former, and the fact was changed from a felony to a misdemeanour. In moving for the repeal of the Act of 1819, ha was of course not be considered as renewing the fore mer and severer Act. The motion he had to make was, for leave to bring in a Bill for a repeal of all the clauses in the Foreign Enlistment Bill, with the exception of the first. Lord 'FOLKESTONE rose to second the motion. He was anxious to take the earliest opportunity atibrded him of declar ing his opinions on the speech of the flight Hon. Secretary for Foreign A.ffairs on a late night, and en the papers which be submitted to the House: lie never addressed the House on any occasion without deploring that language failed him to ex press his sentiments. But if there ever was an occasion where he was at a loss for terms to express his feelings, it was then, when he had to declare hie indignation at the utter degradation which the papers refiectiel upon the country and that House; and how much the charttoter of the nation was compromised by all that passed at Verona. If be differed in any respect with the sentiments of his Noble Friend (Lord Althorpe) on the ex pediency of war, he hoped that it would not appear a want of courtesy when he seconded his motion. If the House would allow him to refer to the speech of the Right Hon. Gentleman - oppitite (,Mr. Canning), there were some parts of it to which his cordia assent was given. He found in that part where it was said, if this country was to be neutral at all, it should pre serve the strictest and most honourable neutrality. Every feel ing of justice sanctioned the propriety of that conduct. When the Right Hon. Gentleman spoke of the ties between England and Portugal, and stated that we were bound to it by treaties of defensive alliance, but not of offensive—that we were not bound to support it in any quarrel of its own seeking, he con. sidered it unfair to make that public declaration—to go out of die way almost to do so,. for the, purpose of telling the world and France of the weakness of Portugal. That feeling had pervaded . the whole of the transaction—a feeling not of strict +neutrality, but of an evident leaning anti patiality to the interests of one side. That feeling was displayed by the two passages which the Right Hon. Gentleman read on the former eveeing with so much confidence. From the 'first there could be no ambiguity as to the part which France meant to take._ It was stated openly that there were other views for the Army of Observation besides the cordon sanitaire. But if the Eng lish Minister had not been duped by the French diplomatists, he would have construed the first establishment of this force into a declaration of hostilities. Times were when the posi tion of this army on the frontiers of Spain would have called forth a British annathent into the Bay of Biscay to watch its motions. The fact was, the Right Honourable Gentle Man and his colleagues were duped, but if that was so, for what purpose were so many thousands a-year paid to the British Mi. sister ut Paris ?—(dear!)—Were our statesmen so little versed in the arts of Courts, that they , expected the French would send us notice of their intention to invade Spain ? Does the robber who means to pillage and murder the passenger on the highway, give forewarning to his victim of his intentions ? —(Cheers.)—The Right Honourable Gentleman piqued him self on his'" round unvarnished tale." Unfortunately the want of foresight and political wisdom was too nakedly exposed.- 81tch conduct he (Lord F.) could not consider otherwise than as disgraceful to the country, and he wished there Was spirit enough in this House to remove a nun who would act so, from the directiea of the Councils of the country.--: He had been hitherto alluding to 'the first dispatch sent by the Right Hon. Gent to the British Minister abroad, in which the line of policy which this country meant to pursue was disclosed. From that he would pass to the last of the Right Hon. Gentle man's productions, in which he stated, " That confiding in the declarations of France that sheelfad no views of aggrandizement, or of keeping Spain by military occupation, his Majesty's Go venivaent had determined" upon acting so and so. In this de claration he was sincere, or he was not. If he was sincere, he was made the dupe of the Trench Minister; if he was not, he was making a dupe of our Ministers abroad and of this House. Could he'doubt that France had views of aggrandizement when Chateattbriand avowed that the object of the war with Spain waseuplere the. House of Bourbon in that commanding posi tion which was first aimed at by Louis the Fourteenth.— (Hear, hear, hear !), and to give them such a controul over Spain as would enable them to influence the affairs of Europe. -e-(Hear, hear, hear !)—But the Frenchman was too keen to speak his mind so freely to this country—at least if he did so, that paper was not laid upon the table. The declaration was made to France, and with a view of making the quarrel a l popular one. For however unpalatable a war undertaken with such views might be to the English Nation, the placing it on grounds of national aggrandisement was the best mode of gaining the support of all Frenchmen. But what would be said of the British Minister, who, in the teeth of all these de clarations, still suffered hiMself to be duped; and shutting his eyes, contented hiinself with expressing his hopes that the renchman had neither views of conquest towards Spain nor Portugal, or of carrying . his interference too far in the relations between the King of Spain and the people.—(Heer !)—and this, too, as a time when he might have known that such views were entertained as might be seen from perusing the papers on the table? Could the Right Honourable Gentleman be ignorant of die real views of the French Government then, or was he deceiving the House by feigning an acquaintance with them ? There were passages in these papers which made one's blood boil, and when he (Lord F.) read them 'at home last night, he let them drop from his hand twenty times in indignation. It was clear from the very first dispatch to the Spanish Ambassador, that Ministers had no intention of tak ing a manly part in die contest, but that, humbled and de. seceded, they bent, crouched, and bowed down before the House of Bourbon, and that too in the cause Of . liberty—a* cause in which England had ever made it its boast and glory to bleed.--(Cheers.)—Was not this enough to make one asham ed of their country, which was brought thus low by the con duct of Ministers ?—Throughout the whole of this affair there was shown a succumbing to France which was humiliating. The Duke of Wellington was sent to Verona to lay before' Congrss all the negotiations which had passed with France, and the answers of Spain respectin,g them, but France, on her part, was never called eipon to state what steps she had taken. Thus, it would be seen, that the Court of London was interfer in between the two Pewees, whilst it was not ashamed to tell the world that France refused to make it the confidant of the terms she was asking. Why did we not insist on France being more explicit ?---It was clear that we were afraid to do so. It was a question which a child, who had received any nbtions of diplomacy, would have asked.. He (Lord F.) would not advert more particularly to these papers, as he hail not had time to Make - himself master of them.. Neither was he prepared to say that this country should have hastily hung out the show of war. He was no advoeate for bullying, and did not approve of throW ing out a menace when there was no poWer to inflict the blow. But why was this country reduced to smelt a pass as to be un• able, on such an occasion, to take a becoming part ? There was a time when Lord Chatham said," he would be glad to see the Power in Europe that dared to fire a cannon." This was also the cant of Mhusters of the present day to a very late period. That Noble Lord was still 'at the head of Government, who was invested with the illustrious Order of the Garter, " far having raised the country to unexampled greatness and power." —Wear, hear and a laugh.)—lti eight years after th a t sa m e country, through b the fault of those who directed its councils,—for they alone were responsible to Gon and the country for the de gree of goad or evil which it possessed, found itself obliged to sub. mit to dishonottr and disgrace, by crouching before the House of Bourbon, and promoting the aggrandizement of that HOuse, in direct opposition to the policy of our ancestors,—that sys tem which was acted upon in the reign of Queen Anne; which induced the wail of Marlborough, and was the great principle of action since the days of Louis XlV.—(Hear.)--It was also in opposition to the efforts that we had ourselves made, and by which that very debt was contracted, which was now the greatest obstacle to our exertions. For what was that which prevented us from going to war, to vindicate the liberties of, Europe and preserve the safety of England? It w a s never d en i e d t h at t h e independence of Spain upon France was essential to the balance of power in Europe. The Hum had heard much last night of the miserable state of Ireland ; but it was still of great import ance to this country. The conqu es t o f Sp a i n b y France would afford facilities for fitting out armaments for the invasion of Ireland, and the subjection of the West Indies. It was theie. fore absolutely essential to the safety of England that Spain should be independent of France. This consideration placed the Right lion, Gentleman's conduct, in suffering himself to be duped, in a worse light. It was alleged in the other House that the state of the debt prevented this country from going to war. Let it be recollected, however, that this debt was contracted in order to restore the family of Bourbon to the throne of France. —Wear, hear !)—Unless measUres were taken to get rid or some part of this incubus, the French must be allowed to controul all the west of Europe. He (Lord Folkestone) luut been charged with bronchi systems of spoliation, but he wouP p - eseVere in arguing that this debt world end in overturning all the establishments mid liberty of the country at home; and neutralize the powers of resisting enemies from abroad: Two years ago he gave notice of a motion on this subject, and he should continue to impress upon the-House, that paying the full interest of the debt was inconsistent with all capabilities of - • natirmal defence. The Noble Lord then alluded to the hopes which had been held out to Spain that this country would adopt its cause. He condemned the festival of the City of Landon Tavern as a mockery of 'the distreis of Spain. He din not charge Ministers with this, because they were no parties to it, but he blamed those Gentlemen who made mere professions of , sympathy there, and did no more. Such conduct was uncon— genial to the spirit of Christian charity. But thinigh the Raght lion. Gentleman did not make open professions of sympathy, yet he was to' blame for leading the house astray, and induc ing them to vote establishments nuder the impreteion of war, which they otherwise would not grant. And if Ministers had not determined upon going to - war, they should redgee the heavy establishments of the country. Since 1815 the army had been - kept up on a war footing, and the existence of so large a force was justified by the alleged necessity .of enabling -th is countr y to take an imposing pmk in the politics of Europe. Now, how ever, when a case presented itself which. demanded their inter fermi, the British Government where wholly unable to, take any part.---(Hear !)—The Noble Lord' eonekelea by aga i n ea . pres.sing his reprobation of the negociations which had been carried on with France, in which he contended that the honour of this country had been committed and its importance comproa mis al by too much succumbing to the French Government. Mr. W. LAM B begged to remind the House, that the Noble Lord who had just sat down, and who expressed himself "i'a anxious for a war with the Bourbons, was the very same Nobleman who had formerly outrun all his friends in zeal for their restoration. The Noble Lord was eager now for a war against the reigning family of France; but not more eager than he had formerly been for a war in their favour; and, as regard ed the debt of which the Noble Lord spoke in terms of such deprecation, if there was a man in the country peculiarly re sponsible for that debt, and bound in fact to pay it, it was most decidedly the Noble Lord himself; who had been most promi nent in advocating that great measure of the war, out of which a main portion of the debt had arisen. It was nothing for the Noble Lord to say that he had opposed the later measures of the war-=that only event to prove that he had retracted at one time the opinions he had entertained at another: in voting for hits. tilities, the Noble Lord voted for all the consequences attend ant upon them. For his own part, he (Mr. L.) confessed that he had not read the documents lately published with sufficient attention to have made up his mind upon them ; but, will respect to the Bill which was in question before the House, upon no one principle could he vote for the repeal of Certainly, in former times, it had not b een unusua l for British subjects, in a chivalrous spirit, to - enter into the service of fo. reign states, r. and even to raise forces in thi s country f or t h e se vice of such powers • but the political state of Europe was now totally changed. lie objected to the repeal of the Bill, because he thought the prerogative of war or peace stood vested Tao perly in the Crown, and because he wished that it should rest there. If there was any department of the state in which it was improper for the House or for the country to take the reins out of the hands of Government, it was in the department of foreign affairs, because upon such points Ministets must .of ne. cessity have superior knowledge. The repeal of the Fo reign Enlistment Bill at the present moment could only be viewed, as he took it, as un act of decisive hostility. As such it was a proceeding unworthy of the frankness and honesty of England t if the country was to interfere, let it interfere t but let it interfere openly and boldly, not co; vertreia It was well to talk of demonstrations of public feeling, and of debt incurred contrary to the wishes of the people; but let it be recollected that our thirty millions of debt had not arisen out of the acts'of the present unreformed Parliament, but out ela those of a house which had sympathized too much with the wishes of the people. The Hon. Member proceeded to depre cate the principle of acting upon the public feeling. Cove=• meats had no right to act upon feeling; it was the duty of a Government to look to the interest of' the country which it re gulated. The impulse of feeling—the impulse produced by eleqaence—was almost always dangerous. Some of the most troublesome contests in which this country had ever been in volved, had arisen out of very eloquent and popular speeches. There were Members in the House now, old enough to recollect the vehement applause, the flinging up of caps, which had at tended the celebrated pidlippic announced by Mr. Wedaerhurne against Franklin in the Privy Council,previons to the first Ame rican war. It was matter of curious remark, that when Mr. Franklin come over to this country, at the conclusion of that„ contest, he wore the same suit of clothes in which he had stood betbre the Council to listen to that invective. Fortunate was it far a nation; when its interest and its feelings were in unison. The task of a 6hyvernment was easy then. Such had been ths task of the English Government when tl.e former Revolu. thin had burst forth in Spain ; when it had. been as dearly to the advantage as to the wish of England to Unite in the contest. But there were times in which the duty of a Goverment stood opposed to its inclination. Governmenee, he repeated, were bound not to act upon feeling,' but 'to - look to the interests of te nation, and to sustain them frankly, steadily, and impartially.' In approving the course choaen by England of neutrality, he still believed that there was spirit enough in the country to un. dertake a war ' if a war was necessary, an d m e ans (notwith standing the debt) sufficient to carry it on. If France suc ceeded in her present object, he was far from believing that she would derive any advantage from her success ; that euccess, . such as it was, she must take with all the obloquy which would be attached to it; and so far from her power as a nation being in any way increased by it, it would serve only to weaken her present strength, and to cripple her resources. Lord FOLKESTONE said, that he could not possibly con ceive to what act of his life the Hon. Member for Hertfordshire referred, which had rendered him responsible for the late war with France. or must be peculiarly liable to pay the debt which had accrued out of it. Mr. WM. LAMB had merely alluded to a speech of the Noble Lord's (as we understood him) in the year 1803, upon a question of Army Estimates, in which the Noble Lord had pro. posed, that the restoration of the house of Bourbon should be { made a rine qua non in the war. Lord 'FOLKESTONE believed that the Hon. Member was mistaken. He had said, certainly, at the time referred to, that as the country was at war, it would be advantageous for the house to set up the interest of the Bourbons against the inte rest of Buonaparte. Whether the expression of that opinion made him peculiarly responsible for the consequences of the war, or liable to pay the national debt, was a question which he was content to leave to the House. Dr. LUSHINGTON said that if it were blameable in a man to abandon principles which he had once energt,tically maintained, there was no one against whom the imputation could be made with more justice than the Honourable Gen. tleinan who just sat . down. - He did not accuse the Honour. able Gentleman, but he must say that he was the first in stance in his knowledge of a person of great abilities and tried integrity, who had completely forsaken the sentiments which he once so strenuously advocated and become a convert to the opinions of his bitterest antagonists. What must be thought of him who would discourage dentonstratione of public opinion because he supposed they placed a responsibility on those who were parties to sach a dclaration ? What must be thought of him who would advance such a slavish doctrine as tins—that when all the atrocities and abotnina , turns of French policy were laid open, the people of Eng land were not to express their cimununion with the sentiments of the oppressed, and their indignation against the op pressor ? Good Got ! were we now to couch and truckle to a Bourbon ? NVlutt ! had Chateaubriand reduced usSo low a this ? Were the mouths of the people of England to be stopped, and were they to go in mourning for the sins of other coun tries ? But the lion. Gentle:nail wished to eontroul the expres sions of indignation in that House. This was the ' first time it was ever boldly asserted th a t th e re p rese ntatives of the people should be silent lest their, opinions should give offence. It was, perhaps, expedient that Ministers, in the course of diplomatic business, should use the language of courtesy, but in that House he trusted, he should never see any attempt successful to check the honest declaration of feeling, though all the despots of I.:Acme were leagued together to vent their rage upon the country. With respect to the measure before the House, he con. eared with the Noble Lord in opinion that the Dill mirth t be re peak** without violating our neutrality. 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