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BRITISH VARLIAMENf.
HOU^E OF COMMONS.
DEC. 30.
SPEECH OF MR. PUT.
[CONCLUDEDJ
BUT were we 10 m^ke prace,
'caving the:Au'lricn Nether
lands in the pofteflio^ of France ?
What would be the confeqiencc ?
Within a very few months, they
would likewise be in peffeSon of Holland,
and after a then interval, we Should again
be obliged to draw the (word upon terras
of much greater disadvantage, than we
had now to encounter in ^carrying an the
war. He, would assert, paradoxical as it
might appear, that the only security for
Holland at present in making a peace with
France, was derived from the circam
ftar.ee of our Hill continuing to carry on
the war. Who that looked to the proceed
ings of the Convention, did not ice that
it was their policy on every occasion, to
keep up their arrogant and menacing fyf
lem, and to hold a high toac of Superiority
with rcfp:B to til other nations ? By tbefe
mean# they had contrived to ti^rim that
spirit of enthufaffi ataneg fc People,
which had enabled them to make such ex
traordinary exertions, and on which they
depended for the continuance of their pow
er, It would be impossible to piopofe
peace, without an implied adraiffion of
this boasted French fyeriority ; to adept
the language of pacification, would at
once be an acknowledgement of thrir
claims, and a confe^on of cur own dis.
C"5 .th<v jofuch a puzyon ^
of equal
ity, or must net you be contented to ac
cept of fitch terms as they should be in
clined to offer ? The Hen. Baronet (Sir
Richard Hill,) whom he highly refoa.
nd, had alluded to a Decree cf:he French
Convention, mentioned by Lin* in the?
course of last Session, and had argued
that Decree as a reason, why he then vorf
led for the war. This waythe Decree of §
the 13th of April, 1793, in which it had
been declared Treawn for any bran to
propose peace with the powers at war, ex
cept upon a recognition of the French
Republic, on the principles of liberty and
equality, founded on the unalienable and
imprefcriptible Rights of Man. They
were not limply content with a recogni
tion of their Republic, exctffrurft: %£;
kaowled^don their @rf r , c ^b§, prin
jtytarchMK^^
(toent, and which he concerned could not
be adopted by this country, without i^n
jog the depefitiun of the Kingland the an
nihilation of the ParlLment. /But even if
2 peace were to be made onthe Jiatus „o,
it could not be done without a restitution
on your part of the conquered Wed-India
Islands, on retaining which, depend pot
only all your hopes es indemnification
for the expences of the war, and of the
future security of four own possessions in
that quarter. Would you in any other war
be difp^d to make tech a concef
and will fa be induced the pres
ent, tamely to Submit to such a facrifice ?
The feene of misery and horror, that mull
ensue, was indeed inconceivable ; the sur
render of those Iff mds, fold be to give
up toihe'fury of their ancient tyrants,
the miserable inhabitants who had fought
your proteaion, and at once to violate
every principle of good faith and humani
'ty. Before too you made such a surren
der, there was another question to be con
sidered, no left than whether you would
afford to the French an unrefitted opportu-
Xity of working upon the unfortunate fyl-
Um, that now prevailed in that country ;
&A introducing their government of an
\ar<;hy, the horrors of which were even
<more dreadful than those of slivery ? To
ofafe who had in common deplored the
iteafuhof the unfortunate Negroes, it
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must appear astonishing, that any pro,%
Zuon likely to be attended with such coo
equences, could ever enter into the roind
of his Honourable Friend, (Mr. W. Wal.
derfotec.) Besides, it was impofiible to
afeertain what a wide f;>read circle of ca
lamity, the adoption of this proportion
might produce.——ls once the principles of
Jacobinifm, ffiouid obtain a footing in the
French Weft India IShndr, could we hope,
that ouro&n would be fafe from the uon
tigicn ? If lx bad been found fcare!y pos
sible to (hut out the infection of those ,r: <-
ciples from the well tempered, and ^ri.
ouflv blended orders of Society, which sub
sisted in»this country, where 3 principle
of fubordiaation,ran through all the ranks
of society, and all were uni.rd by a re
ciprocity of connexion and interest, what
might be expt&ed co be their everts, >p
crating upon the deplorable fyffem, sub-
Gfting in 'that quarter? it would % _iv
ing up your own colcn.es fptcdtly to be
denoted to all the Lerrer: of ar.an% and
devastation.
Such is the Bate to which you would
ireduce yourselves by rm/ proportion ter
peace in the present n,orient. Any such
prepetition mod B^oe&til, tog^ .1 eon
feffion of yjur own wcihrrfc. You'Mu^
4& for peace, ret mdec* in la-irfi'geAat
in the pollurt of ^opheaunn. He had
not yet hoard our own difnculcbd flirtd in
such terrnu, as IL:%t aryb.tiute ntcei
iity cf iitnrT^tJf having frt : surfe to
peacw. Winded chinny U„„ io^fd -n,
was t'.c uufoicunula /-eh:6: ;.!& Jalccim
paign. I.fr4Tv:t oif^cc ^ summer
the expertl or acr calwiu&fo.or ;,jid Cut
a&itu:% frc%^ of ih^fc^^cf our!
~fyNU^.^ Toe Speech, of his ^f,>j
feution.x; th, ^verfes sr-, effr punt-|
.tents whicu h-d atwe^e^ I'^ ,:l-&' s "'1
4-, arms. Bu^od this A i^c^t ^rc^,•
I^hy we foal! &.lat ei~a be i-.J^ced □/
hrandon the %<.., acd to fc> for pe^ce ^
IWas the tnemer^-jn chhi had ue^n 1
Imade of the checks and defeats in tee
Icourfe of the lal ©%ai,, to be ,^fid #
, eted oat all CGficlukee ? Had net hrn:!ar
I checks & defects cxcurzcd io former w^ra,
where the object v t :s ciuca Lfa ff^us,
and whor«, after all, the event '.! Laeu
fuceefif^l r Wecid any man then from iln
experience of ^r...^ wars pretend to fay,|
that the bare check or &htary oparatwus,
cr the transfer cf territ,, f^-; 0„ fewer
to another, were .'efficient ground: of Jrf-,
ccuragemcr.t, or formed the ultimas c#t:
Turton of fescefe. No rago ^jld pretend |
to fay such was the case :— Aul if such ;
was cut the fa 3, with refyea 9 wars if
general, much less nuu;u it held wita
reipce 6 the present war, as carc&J on
by this country.' Al! modern w^rs bed
been remarked to depend u^ a conpar,
ifon of the mea^s by which the, were to
be carried. Tb-t ^tr which poffcried
the fuperierky of resources,had been found
finally to be faccefstul. The grea^quef
tion between Great-Britata hud brence,
in the present conceit, was, which Aooid
be able to hold oat lobgeft in paint cf pe
cuniary resources? At rrefent both the^bal
ance of territorial acquisitions, and of pe
cuniary rcfcarees,waß on the fide oi Great-
Britain. Nay, he should go farther, and
venture to assert, that if all that had been
loft by Austria, Pruflia, and the States of
Italy, were to be put together, it l 1
not amount to the extent of the toft which
bad been sustained by France alone. With
refpea to the resources of France, they
hid existed, and they had ceased. These
jefourees had originated from a rigorous
fiftem, pervading every department of
life, and every quarter of the country.—
They had been founded on a system of
terror. That system, it was contended,
had now ceased. But the present, so far
from deferring the name of a system of
moderation, was to be confided so, only
as it diminilhed the mean# by which the
great engine of delpetifm, which former
± exited, had been enabled co produce
rack prodigious eftdi. His honorable
Ifriend ('#r. Gaining) had Bated the cx-1
;pm wia w 5 r.l the French government
I hH^n Stendal, ti%ce the commence-1
[ttxt if the revolutba. As to entering;
li,x ^t^u :•. 'this fcr, re willed to ob-|
i/tt, that if any mexhtr was defircu# to
life itr^ated with the authorities upon
twhich ha pTCceeded, he «r.s ready to ea
/tj hi 0 toy p^rii+^lar gvc :'=o% nxd point
'3^ tu^ fourrs frem which he had derived 1
hi* T forrn::ua.
The Ck&ncer.or of the E^ng^ h er ,
er.lr#d iotJ a detail of the kite 01 Flinch
fia-b?^, fi..:. rhe repw.# .. Lawoo^, &p.
Hrf^ud Cc ^ic ^.; er.ee us the gcQ
client, lr.re the trvi .uim, to h^ca
rocuaud to 4^3 iritikns Ketnig, cf which
aoto Oxi. 320 h.id bes» expended fi^ce
ti,o comwce^tf.it ci the w^ with this
*eein,r". Tu'f' cue ^1&&3 lam h:. oxen
&d as J proof of the i^murfe referees
X:^Z : *3'!°*i7• ^^» >t wh*t price had It
bfo decora? At the expen.- of wux
ifc fa-athe poleis of tae pr:,m, of
^ ouutr>, ^r.d a c^tag in a flatt of
f e^T.?.:.;.! C^.7 ncc.fr, ytick: of con.
fpm rtUiL 1 h'^> had usi.iw bra cohg
^J L^^ rre^ an illuminated pa
psr Wedic, r/hich fufy ATI all tacufe-'
tie:., and .0 which no b.^ads hd been
fen '1: ^ even ^en frurd t;yheir owr
!e*&r that it ad iN.vb^ tzuied to that
710 s- . cy"no nM^h st cjuia no: ce extend
elrw^ut r^u co the ccu&!<y. In fur
!vC, f.-™^ the whole circui. .cut f France
lluri fy flared only to nmo^t to ninety
o\ cf wh ; &rii may nxtu
^^tyJmJ^*?; I;^9,N 'CTri^
jin^L De -fentb^ ".nil, in orati to
I tb.^ he.7fir the fcafe of their expenditure
lexceed whit bright be fsppoied to be
Use let 3L i .! ^fource# cf toe fenatry. He
ithen expired int.lthe detail of the depre
jclarion cf the F^F r moicy, and of the for
cible means to which they bed been ebli
|god A3 kava r^war&bia order to introducej
it into currency. Hu particularly men-1
ticked therev« '.uijn#;, commit tee?,which|
had been appointed in every uißrich and,
wore reported at fie immense expenfei
of 26 oiikc^ annually, and concluded
jwith quoting the opinion of Tallica, —
'that it was .nly by diminilbing the num
ber @f their farerNhu: they could be able
to reduce the fcalo $f public expenditure,
and to pr^fem the credit of the coun
-lUy. It was this unlimited power which
ItheFrenchCoavention had afilmed to par
;chafe or to seize all property, as suited to
their purposes, which accounted for the
ftapeedcas feale of operations which they
had been enabled to pursue. This cir
cemfance completely revived the pi oc
ucmooD, and was adequate to all those
miraculous eft'e^s which had attended the
progress of the French revolution, and
which seemed to baffle ail reafening, at
much as they had exceeded all human ex
peaarion? In all these circumflances, he
would hy that we had Efficient induce
ments to carry on the war, if not with the
certainty of faith, yet at Icaft with the con
fidence of expectation. A war, the im
mediate termination cf which would be
attended with certain evil, and the prefe
cetion of which under the present circum-
Banco, was at least not without great
probable hope. If we locked to the situ-
I ^ion of France, they were now attempt
ling to have recourse to a milder and more
moderate fyftem,which would only deprive
them of those prodigious energies which
they had hitherto exerted wiWuch afton
: itching effit&: They no longer, indeed pos
sessed the fame means, and could not there
fore be expeded to display the fame exer
tions. Would it be possible for them all
at once to restore the farmer to the occu
f pations of agriculture, and the merchant
'to the parfaits of commerce, and to re
-Iplace, in an instant, the devastation cf war
.land plunder by the arts of peace, and the,
exertions of indaftry. It weald require
years of tranquility to restore them even
to the enjoyment of those ordinary re
foorces which they had peffeffed previous
'to the commencement of t h e present de
;ftruftive war, refoorces which they could
Ino longer employ. For even could it be
supposed that Roberfpiene were railed
from thedeatf,thcf would no longer bt qu.,
ifed to display the fame energies, which,
under his acntiniftraiioq, had been celled
Iforth by the influence of # f yl!e.% of,trr
!ror ; the mean# by which veie ex?fliers
had been fupplted were now ex^rAzed. 4
The question then was-h\d ^, und?r
the prefect circumllances, thernfreg of
being able to bring as g^cat a or^i «%u
the field,## would require from the French
r^ fame eeg:ce cf exertion which had
berhaxtfary in the former campa^s ?
—E'en let it be fupF&fed that 11 ila^d
thunk! fa\ aid that circernftances fhculd
ce such um.we could no longer lock for
aflidance from the court of Berlin, yet he
could fee no reai n, why the augmentation
cf the Brkiffi force might no: fully fopply
the lot's, and even do fomathing more val.
aedte in point of effect, with refpettto the
operations of the war. He could fee no
season, if we gave to Aufria the pecun
iary aid which it required at its owe ex
f-oce, why we might not be able, in
conjunction with the augmented force,
vhich from the affiftaace of our credit, it
would be enabled to bring forward, along
too with the powers of Spain ard the
State# of Italy, to effea a powerful diver
sion, and accomplish the important pur
pose on which depended the permanent in
uraft of this enjpgerv, and the ,e- eral fefe.
l, ofLurepc.
Mr. Fox followed Mr. Pitt in a very
able Speech, but at this late hour we can
but just teach upon it. He compliment
ed Mr. Wilberforce upon his candid
and upright condu&, and examined the
policy of our treating with France. He
'inlifted we ought in found policy to treat
Iwteh any power with whom it was the in
,tereft cf the country to be at peace. He
I therefore objected to ene part of the Hen.
Gentleman's amendment, which fated a#
a reason for difeontinuing the war. " Th<
change of circumdances in Fiance." He
maintained, that whatever persons held
the government cf a country, with them
we ought to treat, and their personal
charade,-# was a matter quite foreign 10
those who might have political conneaions
with them. He ridiculed the ideas of our
constitution being in danger from an in
terccurfe with France. Denmark, Sire
-Iden, and America, were all fife, and yet
America was a government formed upon
the Rights of Man.
Mr. Fox next adverted to Mr. Pitt's
financial arrangements. He remembered
when the fame arguments were used with
refpea to America, their paper credit war
far below what the French affignats now
are. They were said to be on the pointof
ruin ; in fa&, all arguments now used were
tranferipts of those used during the Amer
ican war, and before he di'miffid this part
of the fubjed, he would fay that he believed
both the American war, and the present,
were begun and fapportad by a Court
Party, who hatedlhe ve # y name of liberty.
He condemned the treaties with the conti
nental powers, and.he prediaed, that cur
treaty with the emperor, would turn out
as non-effeaive as that with the king of
Prussia. The acquisition of Corsica, he
said, must either comt by. election or cen
queft; if it had-kecn acquired the latter
way,, he presumed we Should have heard
of it in the afutl course. His Msjefty was
therefore eleded, and it was Singular, that
both the accidents so vehemently depreca
ted by Mr. Burke, the oleaion and cash
iering of kings, Should have fallen to his
present Majesty's scare. He was easier
led in North America; and ciefted in Cor-