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LON DO N, 1
March : In thedebate which aiofe in the Coni-;
mittec ot ppiy last Monday nighty on he estimate ;
of the', v cxn&onjnaries, th* death of the gallant I
Ger. MONTGOMERY was Lamented in ffiains,cf[
the r off pathetic el quince that ^ver were aeard inj
the Iloufa of Commons. Three of the principal
orators, Mr. Burke, Mr. Fox, and Colbnd'Bpe,
distinguished themfclves on the occasion, and vied
with each other in the panegyric of that hero. Ge
neral Burgoyne, though ne expressed a Strong zeal
againit the American cause, in a very hsndfpme mar.-
n<.i did justice to his merits; and laid, that all his
virtues were abundantly rewarded, when they w^re
thus “ praised, wept, and honored by the mule he
" loved."*,
"Lord North censured the unqualified liberality of
the praises bellowed on General MONTGOMERY,
by the gentlemen in 'oppofitibn, because they were
bellowed upon a REBEL; and said he c%ild not I
join in lamenting his death as a public lots. He
admitted, indeed, that he was brave ; he was able;
he was humane; he was generous; but Itill he whs
only a brave, able, humair, and generous' Rebel-, and
said, that the verse of the traced, of Cato might be
applied to him “ Curse on his Viftufsy they've
« un'dohe hrs country."
Mr. Fox rofc a Second time, and said the 'term of'
rebel, applied by the noble Lord to that excellent .
person, was no certain mark of difoace, and there-§
fore he was the lefs'earnifi tdchdr.him of tire iniyu-j
taiion ; for that all the great ailertors ciffiberty, the J
favioUrs of their country, the beorfiaors of mankind,i
jh all ages had be n caIIedREBELS; th rt they even,:
owed the confti ution, whici enabled them to fit in 1
that house, to a REBELLION., + |
Loro Irnham laid it was a grime to puniShthei
P >or voters of Hndon an 1 Ssaftclb uy for bribery, {
w die the names of lev rf.l members of parliament|
v+ere to be found in the lift of contra&ois, amafhng !
Anns t money out of the calamities of their country.|
H moved 'that the accounts 'on the table of all the !
articles of extras for the army at Boli&h, 'fbUr-trodt 1
and ill,, might be u billed. . .
M . Tuffual complained of ah extravfofh arfide $
fro pickles an! vinegar for 6:00 men at 'Bofton sorf
three months, and laid, that if they had lived tym |
nobhag ehert^ whole time, it could not have toire#
to rilf the m'oney.
Sir Joseph M:wbey objr&ed to the war, an! all §
the ch?re,of it ; he was bitter againA the Mirodry,j
and did f m.bod, mult answer in trie long run for ;
this deftiu&ive war. * 1
Lord N ''", Sir Grey Cockier, and Mr. Pown:l,|
spoke in support of the.mclur.es, the expences and.
the refo'lutions of ,e Committee of Coppty, and on }
putting -he quritons they w&e Carried.
Mr. Burketaeti made tre following motions'!l
Refolded, That it appears.to this hotre that the
fem of £.84.,,100 14s. 8 1. 1 4, changed as exna
ordinary rxpc # ces of the rr,y, was chiefly metered
for Cervices within the town of Bolton in North- ;
America. It palled m the negative.
Revived, That ample provihon for the comfortable
accommodation of bur troops at Both ithaving been /
nude by the publ c, there could be nopetence to call i
upon the nation for any farther Supply. P, ITed in ;
them drive.
It may be depended upon as an absolute fact, that }
the Prince of BamfGcK p fuively refuted to ler hisl
regiment go to America ; and on its beiog inlifted |
6:1, refigneo his commiirwa.immediately.l
HUVSE of LORDs,
'1 uesday, March 5.
0 ame ion for an ^urab: Andrejs to b:s M jeftv. paying,
thit te^c Ota it^rtLci^ufyfeldfed to couwermsod the n:wib
0/ the iioops of H,ffe, Hana I, a r d Bn Iwick ; ar.d
likewise give a:reotionsfo an immetrote fu^.c-for. of bo
fittrtes :n Arabica in order to Ry af uya ntora happy
and pr^a^ht reconciliation, between the divided fearti of
tbi oifafled Empire.
I"1 qllS was the object of the prop fed addreL; but
I the prayer was 1 itroduea with a seres of fa^s, rela
tive to tse treaties entered into with the Landgrave of 1
Flf, hr Dalce of B;unfwick, and the Hereditary Princel
el Hedd, in which they were censured in very direct .'
an .1p intel terms, as bcin,contrary to the germed intercity 1
ano derogatory to the honour and dignity.of thiscou irry. [
'lhi Duke of R^brnmd having firft delivered in his '
tn ri ri in writing : and the fame;being read by the C1.;%1
hi Grace enter d into a view of the several material ;
phih v, rm which h's motion and the general measures ,
repeating America were cot netted, particularly relative )
to the coadriftof the war, and the object' pur tied by 1
adodnifraonn, as &y rose in 'u-cyiliiri since is belt|
commencement. We cannot avoid giving this teftim- ray |
in the node Duke's favour, tha: we do not retoP-ct at 1
any rime to have heard a motion of rich extent and vast 1
importance mre abiy Supported, -or more fu'jftanrail, or ,
jiticiocfc enforced. Hs Grace opehed wih .in apology
to the ILute, tor the trouble h was going to "give them ; |
2r.< -spiffed a. con ci ufnefs of his own inabili y, and a
v. (11 .hat other's more rquaf to the talk had 'ft>od forth
at lo rrem nd us a crisis ; a crisis woco he feared would
decide the Wecf this great Empire fir ever. He la
nien'-d in a very oath ric manner, the absence of two
nolle Lindy, ri mhe was f.r,y not to fe, in their places.
Ore of them (Lmd C^athrin) a noble Earl, who, when
this nation vies on the brink of deriru&ion, refened it
from impe-riin^ um, and nt rating there, g & ve alu frre
te ow ^mri, and an efficacy and tteadinefs to our councils,
never b-<e known inthe annals o' this country. The
other of kemp a nhie Marquis (Marquis of.Rocking
ham) who in a feriw' o' public.ufraction, presided at
the head of their nati mH cone :ils, with honour to him
felf and fatirfaftion to the nation; and though his ad
ministration was but o' a short continuance, had the good
fortune to quit his ftatLn with a consciousness of having
healed thole unhappy difpotes, which threatened the
Efnpiie with thrniri serious and ahrrfrng consequences ;
but which have since broke out with redoubled vigour and
malignity. He was aware, be laid, how much he fli mid
fe:l the absence and conkquent Ripper. 01 the twonoble
Lord- -in pofecuting the business of this d~y ; but howe
ver unequal to the attempt himfelf, he deemed it a part
oi Is duty, and without coufidering minutely all the
coofc^ences, he. Iheuld, in difeharge of that duty,
abandon md renounce every collateral consideration what,
ever, arid do what he could, instead of effecting what he
might wi/h.
Mis Grace abfeved, that the justice of the American
war, the rchts ot the mother country, arid the claims of
America, had been so frequently and ft amply difeuffi'd,
that he fhuuld avoid, as much as poffinle, every f & and
a, urgent that could possibly tend to introduce those sub
j cfs into the prelent debate. He should endeavour to
confine himfelf to the terms of his motion re'pe&irg
the reaper, and only advert to such parts of the conduct
of adniniftratiea, and the means hitherto adopted in the 1
prolecutrin ot 1 e war, as directly applied to them. Thel
frft ground he took was, giving a short history ot the 1
Rvcral treaties entered int^ wi h .he Landgraves of Heffe,#
be in in with that made in the year 17 2, and ending 1
w.hihcH icvcra'lexplanations .and modifications of thatl
r ue at r&d commenceintent of the late, war, down so late
:h year I^6l, when his Serene Highroad was in
demnifiej tor tne loft fuftamrd in his Landgraviate, by
th : country's being frequently made by the enemy the
fear of war. Tn this hitirical detail his Grace flawed,
tiiat the uceffire Landgraves still from time to time re fe
in their demands, and kill as they continued to extort
Ibetter terms, they nev% failed tJ establish die former
I exertion as a precedent for trie balls of the fucceediog
;treaty, always taring care to make feme new demand on
I this country.. This he insisted was the case of the pre-
Ifent. I he preceding treaty to a fubfidyadded its continu
ance to a certain period. The one now under considera
tion doubled the subsidy. His Grace then entered into
several compulations on the different heads of pay, levy
money, fuofidy, victualling and ttanfport service for the
troops, which he affirmed would amount to 1,196,000!.
and that this, with transport fetvice sot the victuallers,
would make 1,230,060!. and if the other articles under
'the head of' contingencies &c. were included, the expence
of which could not now be ascertained, he had little
doubt that the whole, taken together, would he full hue
million, and an half. He contended that this was a moll:
enormous lam for the afliftwce of only 17 fee c^en, 30
sixpence, he would venture to maintain, c nlidering the
number to be employed, not known in the hibory of
mankind. Th, de matters, however furious in the pre
lent milergble Bale of our finances, and the enormous
io^d of public burdens we labour under, were not, he
said, what pruned so forcibly, on bis mind. It was the
tenor of the treaties, the ambiguous tei ms in which they
were worded, in foffie places, the dangerous precedents
they eflablilhed were grid din; that principally alarmed
his fears. He observed with grief and the belt founded
jealouly, that an over-ruling i fl rence had for feme years
pals pervaded our Council,; th.tthis influence had been
exeterfted ih e*e&irig?nealures of a moA dangerous and
dark compaction ; that it fometime§ made ite approaches
bi .fl :Jth, at other times made Lfeif vifibie in open day,
ana procerfded'to a&s of violence. Hanoverians had been
brought inhj the driminiuns of ?he Britiffi Crown without"
"fhe.tonfeni o Parl.ammt. An & tempt was trade to
introduce a body cf foreigners into Ireland), ?Liich mif
"carried. He laid he under ftdej that riie fartte attempt,
would be repeated, though he did not pretend * amhenti-\
cate it is a traitor of 1.& And if any doubt remained,
the prefect ^eatiqs afforded ample TOa:t& for great atid^
Unous'alarm. In the fill place hepbfAve& that they.•
'were formed on no found principle of ahiand or recipto-'
cat fu port. It is true, they were hid to bcUMgp&i on 1
the bulls<f mutual fuccour and Support, but thole el- 1
ptelliuns imported nothing, they were mere words t£j
cowrie. It was a downright mercenary bargain, for the 1
taking into pay a certain num be of hirelings, who were
bought and fold like so many beads lor 11 ughter. There }
Was ho'cemmon interest which mutually bound the|
pitting; and it there was the conduct of the foreign 1
Princes was the moll extraordinary that was ever known.
I hey were to be lubfujized. They were to have levy
.money. They were tohave double fobfidy. Their corps
were to be, kept up complete. They were to be paid till '
toe ttobpi + # efe returned to their refoetLve. countries ;{
'and the lu hdies were to be continued acroriirg to the'
teror of the respective treaties, one or two years afterl
the troops celled .to be of any service to bs. But taking
it Cntub \hhci'ground, that tie treaties were former on
the true basis ot alliance, what would be thetonfquence>
That if any of thole powers were atatked, or ffiould
wantonly provoke ary attack, firithe engagement w?s
left general and unconditional, that we should give th e rra
(fo.ntr) dll the luccour in our power, lbw, for the
atiiflane ot a tew thousand foreign mercerarid., we are
not only to pay double, but we are to enter into 2 f kmn
engagement to exert our whole fofce to give ^ru 'all the
IbccoCr in our power, if ihe Landgrave, or Duk> ffi.h
be attacked or difforbed id the puffe^irti of his dominions
His G^ace begged next to recall tv the memory <f thtir
Lorolhtpr, the Language held by the friends of the prifent
measures towards the ciofe-1 the Lite War. He, faida
very ingenious gentle %an (!&.; Maddit) at that period
wrote a pamprie;, entitled, " C°nfidcrati 's : on the
German war," in which he introduced Ifveral confuta
tions of the cog of every French fcalptc this alios ; one
made it amount to ten thouf-nd pounds per head. Ht
therefore recommended to the n< bir L rds who then
approved of that gentle,ntan's cHima-ty to renfider whit
an American scalp would cost, when, 17,000 foreigner '
would Band 11s in at the rate of one milE n and a half pci
annum. He observed-, he had many noble Lords in his
eye, who profelkd tnemfefvis of that opfoioh. O^
nole tor', now abl'ent from his place, (Lc rd Bis)
use ot the very argqmeo<v here adverted tv, i&debtfrJ
And a noble Duke now dccealed (the Duke us jkdfurd)
maintained the fame opinions. He nm^mbned a firth
aftei, when we were v a riox in every quarter of t e
globe, when ail we wanted wasmont^, rod all W # had
to contend with war climate, toprevern us from p ff fs
ing <#u leives of the whole ot Span th America, the fame -
two noble Lords, a:d their friends, juitJiri the fice on
no other ground but our it, ability to raffs new takes. They
avowed that conquest was certain, but that the national
debt was en&muus. Where then Was the' material, hange
of c revmdanees., after the cohdufi'n of the prefect
c mpaign, wh^n the debt which vvA^ after a thirteen
year s peace, not reduced above seven millions, where
th, conquer was not certain, and where if it Were, it
w. uld be a conquer? over our wn fiiSj&s, operating to
out own ruin, unaccompanied by eitho fam-, honour, or
reputation : would not we then, as at.the elofe of the late
war, bq tn a fixation, waen even to prolc<utc c-riain
onqueflwould be the height of folly and political
frenzy?-
His Grace then proceeded to printout f vera!exccp, ; -
onable ,afl'ages in the treaties. He remarked on the dan
ger of keeping a body of 12,000 'n±%iets together, un
der the absolute command of one of their own Generals ;
of the ppfiibilit) though he Ihauld content to fe ve under
a junior officer, of his arriving. to the Supreme cem
m^nd; arid of the confufwp^w uh might be created by
^'difference on this head, between the foreign General
and the Commander in Chief. He laid fefea't stress on
that passage in the H ffiin< treaty, in which it was pro
vie<\ article 9, that his Majefy &all make use of this
body of troops by land in Europe .whenever he shill think
pr^ per. He said, he could not fee what operations they
could be employed ih, uniefs it wererin this country, in
case of a rebellion, or a revolt, which none f refaw but
the advisers of the present measures. He observed, that
the roreign.tr> ps were to be doable officered, which was
another weighty (and useless expense; that is, every
company of too men were to have two Captains, two
Lieutenants, two second Lieutenants, and two Eafigns,
and so in proportion in servants, &c. So that out ot the
whole number, upwards of 30G0 men were not to be rank
and file; contrary to every rule of war, which, in a
given iiumber of men, endeavours to rentier; the rank
and file as numerous as the nature of the fer^fc: w ; fl pof
libly allow ; because it is on "them. ' that the weight of
attack or defence generally refis. It is so in oer own
troops, and has always been an eflablifhed uLge, never
to allow more than four officers to a corps of tec men.
H:s Grace made several pointed observations pn the fu
,perfeffion of the several officers in the naval and milita
ry departments, in which he maintained ithat nothing
like it had ever happened in the Bririih service, without
complaint or without enquiry. Great faults had been
found with General Gate and Admiral Greaves ; the
milcarriages which happened were imputed to their want
of conduct ; yet no charge is m de against them, but
they ae ^called. To keep up the farce, the former
is received coolly, but in a few days after a new commiffi n
is mace opt, appointing him Commander in Chief; .nd
in a few daysagam, without any cause even pretended,
for there could be none as he remained on the spot, he is
superseded, and General Hewe appointed in hit roo'm.
be" that is not the b ft of it ; Admiral Shuldham is
appointed to furceed Admiral Greaves; but betore he
could take pofleffion of thjs.Command he is superseded,
and Lord Howe appointed in his room. Such an extra
ordinary conduct was surely never kn^wn; that perhaps
the (uperfed'd .dmra) might think tiimfeff ^fy. un/er
this indignity, if whet was re or ed was true, tha? he
was to be created an Irfh Peer. For the honour, h>w
ever, of the noble Lo-d w^o presides at tie head of the
Admiralty, he hoped his Lor lhi, would rifeand explain
this Uft official riddle, arid fairly, and with his ulual
exposing one national weakness ; but if it was essen
tially neg ffuy, he presumed that objedfon would be
•emoted ; and if the objection could be removed, on
the ground, that France was perfectly acquainted
with the prelent Fate and condition of the national
force now within the kingdom, it would he another
good eifon, that nothing refpe&ing our means of
defence foould be concealed. He then laid, that
the whole of our military force, now within this
kingdom, confided of the foot-guards, compiled
of fix'y-four companies, amounting to 2500 men,
one thousand of which were defined for America ;
three regiments of horse and lx dy guards, of about
1500; four battalions returned from America, with
officers only, at about too each ; ten regiments cf
dragoons of 200 men each ; and three complete bat
talions of infantry, the whole amounting, allowing
for the [OOO men draughted from the guards, to
about 7003 men. Supposing, then, that 3000 of
those were put into the garrisons of Plymouth, Ports
mouth, and Chatham, the remainder fit to take the
field, after a fufficient number was left to guard
London, allowing 1000 for each place, would not
be above 3000 ; which, he - contended, would be
totally inadequate to any military operation, fin uld
France or Spain think proper to take any advantage
of our defencelefs Rare. He said, indeed, that a
militia was to be raised, in order to supply this defi
ciency : but however constitutional that mode of na
tional defence might be, he infilled that it would'
never answer any purpose of repelling a powerful
enemy, while it continu'd to be so disgracefully and
limproperlylimproperly condu&ed as it was at pfefent, when un
• qualified officers were admitted on one hand, hud
, substitutes on the other. Besides, though the militia
j had been officered and manned much better, it could
]not be expeHed that they could face a veteran army,
;fuperior in number and discipline. And as for the
I linvalids, every man among them almost, fit for real
I service, had been already draughted ; so that on the
Iwhole, the piaure which such a feene of internal
I weaknefe, joined with a few (hi, s not half manned,
; presented, was most dreadful. It was, however, ne
etltary to bring it forward, to fee if any thing could
ftimiilate our Governors to provide for our national
: fafety, and prevent us from falling a p.ey to our dan
' ,gerous and ambitious neighbours.
Lord Suffolk, defended the treaties. The obje&i-
onablc cl uses had been drawn up agreeable to usage.
High-founding words were to be found in every fo
reign treat) Groat Britain had negociated. It was
hot so much hu form as the SPIRIT of the treaties
to which the nation should advert.
As to the terms on which these treaties had been
negotiated, they were more reafonaljle than, circum
'ftances coniidered, could have been expeHed. It
was not {w priting-that we Should pay lo n ueh for
' the hire of troops, the miracle was that we were not
to pay more. The loan of a body of inland Ger
mans to be transported across the Atlantic, was a
measure for which a much larger sum might have
jbeen demanded.
rindour, inform the Hvufr, whether those arrangement, 1
'Originated from him, or whether he was really, as was 1
reported, over-ruled in the cabinet.
This chopping and changing, appointing and fuper
feuing, betides the instability it denoted, prefen,rd ano-1
tlier matter well worth ' their Lord/hip's confid'eratiuh.|
It shewed that the service was difagteeable ore one hand,|
or that the fupetior officers were puffed by and oegle&d.oa '
the other. He said, there were fume officers of long fer-'
vice and tried abilities present, as well as several others
0: high rank in the army. He would be glad to knovy
from them, what were the motives that inducted ad,ini-,
flration th pass by the senior ~ officers, and devolve the
command upon a very young Major General. He knew
that it mufi proceed from an aversion to the service, or a
total want of reject to their persons.
Much stress he underflow had been laid on the justice
and popularity.of the prelent meafuies. He ihould qpt.
derate that fobfra now. It wits said that the independent
part of the can n were for them ; but for his part he
questioned the assertion strongly in the extent it was con
tended ; for in tie other House, he was informed, that
the 'I rcafurer of the navy (Sir Gilbert Elliot) and the
Paymaster of the forces (Mr. Rigb,) the one deriving
his fuyport and confcquence from the cabinet, and the
oth-r from his party, and both deeply interested in mea
tuis, which, f pursu'd, rhtift shortly be the means,of
procuring for them princely fortunes, were those ftho
chill, supported coercive measures. Those gentlerhed,
and tririr connections with the whole ot money.jobbers,
c?ntr;&ois, &. he believed, formed no fmqll . part of
the independent maj.rifles which h d been so loudly ec=
chord both within and without doors, as fupporun^ and
precipitating thii country into a cruel, expensive, and 611-
matu al civil war..
He observed, that th^ war, if carried on, would
^ot only be a war of heavy expence and long ' con
tinuance, but wtibld be attended with cifcumftanc.es.
of cruelty, civil rage, and deitaftation hitherto un
pecedent in the annuls of mankind.. We were
not only to rob the Americans of their property,
and make them fl ves to fight our battle,;.But we
made war on them in a manner which would thick
the molt barbarous nations, by Hing thti towns,
ad turning the wieiched inhabitants to periffi in
in cold, want and nakedness, liven still more, this
barbaric rage was rot only dirtied agairft our
enemies, but agkinft bur warmdt ind molt zealous
friends. Thishein^anced id the late conflagration
of the loyal town of Norfolk in Virginia, as admi
niftiation had 1® frequently called it, which was
reduced to allies by the wanton and unproy ked a& of
.one of our naval Commanded ; .Stieli an ^&&s
equably inconsistent with every fen.timent of humani
ty, as contrary to eyety rule cf good policy. It
would turn the whole continent, as well friends as
foes, into the most implacable and inveterate enemi-
es. It would incente our friends, and render otir ene
mies at once fierce, desperate, cruel and unrelenting.
It difgpced our arms; it would render us d^fpifed
and abhorred, and would remain an indelible blot
onthy dignity and honour of the English nation,
Ilis Grace proceeded to date several psgages in
the Treaties, and commented on them very fully,
where they explained matters which might be pto
duaive of difagreerfierrts between the foreign and
native troops, and ttitll the omissions that had been
purposely or ignorantly made, particularly in regard
to a cartel for the exchange of niifouns. He laid
that matter hoi been trolly puff'd ever in filenoe ;
and if any punifhmeprs th mid be infl'dfed on titote
who, by the language of Parliament, were called
rebels, the consequences 'might be dreadful. He
alluded to the case of Ethan Alien, who being found
in arms, was brought home prifoper, yet admiriftra,
\tion dared not to bring him to trial, even under their
favourite aft of Henry the Eighth ; either because
they knew that he couid not be legally tried, or that
they feared an Eng Th jury could not be prevailed
.on to fiT him guiitr. Be that as it may ; the prfr
int T'eams .ere extremely defective in that point ;
and it admin'ftration were not obstinately determined'
to a& wrong in ev.ry particula , they w<uhd c^dek-
Vow to provide againd the numerous inconvenitocies
which mud arise from the want of a cartel.
He concluded a speech of upwards of two hours
'°{® by informing their Loreffhips, that what he
was now going to ftate,might be deemed improper, as
With regard so ,he mercenaries beirg double (fl
eered, the name Lord presumed that they wet'e om^
cered agreeable to tl.c usual arrangement. With
re(pe& to the command being veiled in an Enghfh
General, an appeal was made to the military Peers
whether the matter could not be adjured so asto leave
no pretence for disagreement ? For the treaties them
selves thej were defensible on the single principle of
neceility. We had engaged in a war, the prosecution
of which would require a number cf men ; recourse
therefoie had been had t® foreigners, rather than in
jure the mapufaaOring interest, by carrying off the
hands employed in the several branches of arts which
give riches tp a commercial country.
In reply to the Duke of Richmond's assertion con
cerning EI HAN ALLEN, the motive for fending
him buck to America had been mifated. It was not
that minilhy imagined an Engliff ijury would have
acquitted him. It was not that they were afraid to
hazard a trial, nor weie they averse to punilhing 10
attrocious an offender; but in point of policy it has
been judged expedient to return him to America, as
the rebels had tit that infant in their pofliffiun several
English prifoneis taken at Montreal ar.d St. John's.
Lord Caribe proftffed to have voted in favour of
coercive memufes. A&uated by the purest and bioft
coulcientious principles; he felt no private fcr^ples
which mi itated against his public concha. Satisfied
that iubdu&ion of America only could operate to
the interest of the mother country, the noble speaker
had joined a mimllry who were ffroggling to main
tain the legislative authority of Gre+tßritain.
As cocicive measures vycie neceff ry, the treaties
weie expedient. Should the map of Europe be ccn
luhed, how Lconfiderable a part did Britain form ?
Could luch a tyeck, even in a quarter of the glebe,
be luppoied to pom cut tbe thoufauds necHl'uy for
its defence against hirrr unding adversaries ? The
vanity of such an expectation was evident, and if
evident, the necessity of having recourse to foreign
aid was iudifpu'aGr.
Lord TowJtad fp ke for the treaties, and in fa
vour cf coercive mcadnes ; profeffing at the fame
tone the highett ven^taivftfor those ielpt&able per
lonages who, through conlcieoticus principles, en
tertained different opiino s; The ruble viscount had
formerly entertain ed doubts on the rtfje&. He had
however petufed the several American chattels; find
had fail lied him^lTihat Euglard was NOT the
aggrtffor. The B iif h parliament h?d a right to tax
America. But tie argument of right was now out
of the qmffion, flie voice of realon w^ not to be
heaid anddhthe din of arms. It was to be hoped
the emoing campaign, if.carried on with vigour,
would -decide the depute. If httbluies were pio
longed, rroiwitldf.mdirtg the pacific appearances,
France and Spain were net to be contited in. An
attempt why d fiaroly be in tide on Leland. The
tate ot I HURO I' was 'toutecent m remembrance.
Not,' but if the troopritent fiorn I.eland to America
bad been replaced, even with an equal number of
foreigners, the measure might have beta far fioia
inexpedient.
Lord Coventry deplored most. pathetically the ap
proaching rum of his country; even whilst he de
plpred it, he contidered the event as inevitable.
It was in the native of things that ftaies as'well a$
individuals should expire. Immortality was alike
denied to the body politic and the body natuial.
Longevity was all which c uld rationally be ex
pected. The concatenation of c«ufe and(ffu& formed
a kind of delhny, the est cis dt which human foie
fight coul'd not avert, nor human wisdom provide
agamlt. It Itemed of the very offence of things,
that colonies fh&uld prey on the vitals, and delboy
the parent from whom they iff.ed. They grew
up hom infancy to an .adult period,/ and when
matured by age, they natufallyGi claimed fubin fli
on. Long ,h.dthe noble fperku seen; as in the gl.uk
of futurity, that dreadful ©a which Iwas now has
tening. He had conlideied England and America as
two mighty states, floating like bubbles ; n a furfa.ee.
Whilrt separated each was fate ; the moment tie
shock of contention enlued, one or both was lure t@
expire.
Considered in- such a point of vielv, th? present
content was fraught with ruin to the pineut hate. In
iiead of transporting armies to America, we th uld
vote a thankigning. We fhuuld Separate from the
Colonies, and leave thenuto manage their own con
cerns. Greater benefit than that of commerce we
never could derive. If we grasped at en pile it would
end in ruin.
I hole who deemed the war either just or politic,
were as defedible tor obtaiMn;, auxiliaries, as these
who viewed the quarrel as unjust and impolitic, wue
to be applauded tor arraigning the measure. The
noble speaker would not embrace either party. He
would not give a vote because the measures 0:1 Le
tapis met net his Ideas. He was rot '0 much of die
philosopher, as to he inJiffeient to thc welmrett his
country. Nor was he that citizen of the woils, as
to have an equal relish for cveiy I^4. La, land was
' the place ot his nativity. T: England he was attach
ed. Itgave him unspeakable anxiety, theiefwe, t®
perceive a comHl commencing, which would end ia
a transfer pf power. No longer wculd England, I ut
America, be the feat ot empire. Had the portent
coined not began, the catastrophe nu hthave been
delayed ; as it was unhappily commenced, the down
fall of Great-Britain was theteby ace, (erased.
The Duke of CUMBERLAND.
“ My Lords,
“ I heartily concur in the proposed address. I
“ think the noble Duke by propefing it, give the
“ molt demonftable proof of duty to the King. I
“ tuft that the part I new take, may not be c n
“ tb ued into the fmalle't, difrJp;& for my brother.
“ It is the inconsiderate c neoft of his ministers I
“ arraign.-^ Alas I that I Should live to fee
" BRUNSWICKERS, formerly the Defei ders cf
“ Libe 1,, now employed to iubjugate the Colonists,
“ and destroy the conftitt tional rights of Ameiiea I
“ —but 1 feel myfeif grow warm ; I ih 11 theier
“ toie reiiain fiom faying ary thing mere on the
“ fu ! je&."
The Duke of Chanduis. The nolle Duke who
made the motion,, has charged the supporters of the
medures ielpt&ing America with favouring designs
fubveTie of the liberties cf their courtri. Ido al
lure his Grace, that if 1 thought the roeafures he
fp aks of bad any such tendency, neitbei bis Grace,
For any noble L rd in this H^ufe, would be further
than I fiom giving or affording them the lead coun
tenance or support. It is because I am fully fatisfied,
that those mea'w es are perfectly necessary and coufti
tutional, tha; I have uniformly given them my func
tion as a Member of this Houle ; and I will likewise
add, that lam no les convinced of the propriety of
the measures, than of the high integrity and abilities
of thote who have advised them. The noble Duke
has thrown out the most urfoft charges arid ill
!founded irfinuations against the whole body of the
militia. As a Lord Lieutenant of a very refpe&able
I county, I find mylelf included in the censure, and
look upon my honour very materially wounded. I
I am certain I can answer for the corps which I have