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thin, it *no evident we could not go on Witlimit
very considerable expenve, and though it was to lie
regretted that that expense was not likely to be
diminished, yet it was no small cotwirhation to
learn, that it was likely to he supported without
material addition to the present existing
burdens. He was also glad to hem-stated, the pros-
perous situation of our r...9viine; lie had never
supliused that Bonaparte had goy chance of suc-
ceeding in his attempts against uuryommerce; but
fie colifesaaid he did not expect to Bud that oar re.;
VelllW, instead of being at a stanil, was actually
Mc:caring, awl he considered this as the.stroasnst
proof of our-ability to re.iet to the uttermost. file
lost topic to which he shoold advert, was that of our
military arrangements. He was happy to find that
the plea of. the Loctl Militia had turued• out so
well ; he had always approved of the measure.—
He repeated his opinion, that we most look to
'offensive measures as the must effectual mode of
carrying on defensive war; and, although our dis.
•raisolili•Torce was now found to be greater than ever,
it it could he still fartlwt increased, we *tumid
lie better enabled to sustain the contest in

:veil we were engaged ; or how else could we rea-
*amiably hope fur r safe, honourable, or lasting
peace. Impressed with these setitinients, he con-
cluded with moving an lismil•le Adelrese to. His
Majesty; which, us usual. was an echo of the
Speech.
Mr. LtisttINGTON. in a low tone of voice, which
reudereil hint not to lie heard very distinctly, se-
courted the motion. After expressing his satisfax-
tient at the eloquence displa)ed by the Hotionrahle
litlover, he chained the courtesy of the. House iu
shortly delivering his setittineids on the rice4sion.—
&het iug; as he did, that no former period +tian eves
more momentous than the present. he could not
bat feel the necessity of a vigorous tutd active co-
operation. Amidst Cie gelerst desolation' slue('
had overspread the civilised world, Ereglitial alone
remained unhurt, oral tnerefore she ins he more
firmly bound to. pledge her faith to support the
cause she had engaged in. Reflecting Oil .0 hit was
passer:, and seeing how many natives had Leo sue.
cessively alienated from us, be consitiere.l
ter* as bound to adhere to such as mutated
united with as for the comn:on preserrati,in, red
he felt Government was untitled to the highest
approbation for haviug resisted the laic insiJious
attempt at Negoeiatime, convinced there did out
exist one who would advise %brit treating uwler
such eircuinstannsi ; sad this approlostion, woe
convinced, irss equally general., both is and out of
that House. 'rite topic, which, oral'
hided to by the lion. Mover, he einisiticreel us the
strongest and most conseliog, was the flourishing
state (*four amulet." ; while they continued thus to
improve, we had not' gto apprehend. Ile alms
recommended to the House to •coasider the best
means to increase our military strength, sr a mea-
sure essentially necessary to a successful resist:Meth
and a prosiwrous termination of the lirerett ardu-
ous contest in which we were engaged. Without
detaining the house further, he begged limes to sed
aond the motion for the Addruw.

Mr. PONSONIV—" The awful circumstanees,
Mr. Speaker, nuder which the present Stersion of
Parliament commences, would in the,a,selvvs, withs
out can His Majesty'e direction, hare called our
attention to them, mad reduced, I tun sere, in trio
mind of every Man, a wish to offer to the lloum
such opinioas and counsels its are likely to Iced to
the honour and security of the country. Ills Ma-
jesty in his Sperseh intimates to us, that the contest
in which we are engaged has ad likelihood of being
Bros; ht to a coucluston favourable to the interees
of this country, or of oar allies, without a Vigerons
and persevenug continuation of the eCiets of the
mitten. I do believe that His :*.lajesty may
have torment a very just e.stisoute of tke situation
of this country, and of the rest of tiirepe, iu ers
fraying ; but I cannot but lament haer deeply he is
likely to feel the disappointment which nava pro-
bably ensue from the conduct of those to whliu he
has entrusted the councils of the nation, If Ili.
Mejtity think that a vigorous perieveraitee,in war
exertions is the only means or bringing the present
contest to a favourable' coiniusion, 1 do imagine
that we can Ina form a fceltte hope, that the same
seen who hitherto have so feebly tsegoeimed, and
who have so iiieffeetnetly ebadttcWd the face of
this nation, will gratitythc wishes of the countryt
then future efforts, either its our own behalf, or
in that or our tithes ; for nerer,. 1 believe, has oaf
public force bean directed with so little skill, fore-
sight, use, or success. (near I hear ! Ara r !f—
-ills Majesty last year concluded II treaty 10th-the
King of Sweden, by which the country sitin,ht
pledged to pay to that Monarch die *suns of .eter
hundred thrissend pounds, widely stipidatint. the
country haw port; weed with fidelity ; for'' I believe
that in promises *lnch relate. to the Riving,' sate
the public mewl*, there are none who will thiuk of
accusing those of His Majesti's Cdisneil tails' deer
having been wanting. akar ! hear ! dad land
lout !ling.) by that treaty it is etiestateri, that if
the King of Sweden he attacked by
this country shall .coricert with that Siivereikit as to
sending out an auxiliary fbree to his'aid ; how far
there has been any thing of enneert—how far there
has been any thing of coansid —.how far these bah
been say mutual communication, or common its.-
deritsadirrg between the Government of thii coun-
try nod His Swedish Majesty, in conformity with
the treaty, we can form some judgnieuf by the
e(pettition of Sir John Moore and hi. army, sent
last slimmer, (Mar I hear ! hear !) Upon-
that 9cel.inni an army is brought tVom the south
of. , s, • at the very Ismailia when Spain was
avateel, and 'Via army is sent to the assistance of
Sweden ; as after the ridiculous termination of
inch an expedition, the seine Officer is entrusted
with the matiagement of the array .sent into the
south of Kum re, thus entrusting into his hands
the welfare of this country, and the fate of Europe.
13 not this a failure of ass expedition on the part of
the Contmander-in-Chief, and whet was the result
of it ? Sir John Moore, who proceeded, its eon-
fortuity, I suppose, with a separate article of the
treaty, after waning a consider:dila time in Sae-
(lilt, and without seeing it innate musket tired, cc
,y number of soldiers in array against him, re-
-1.. es to England, having escaped as it were in dis-
•ies.. This i I presume, to be deemed a proof
nes valour and foresight of His Majesty's Mi-
l. .•e r.. This is a proof of what is to be expected
the polder: force, when placed under the di-

icebox of *loch hands. When they undertook that
hateful expedition 'wriest ll.kiniark—when they
waged those hostifitier which have caused the g00..1
faith and character of the English nition to he
called in question. more than ever any act did
before, they ouglitto have secured, one would me-
luridly suppose, mime great and permanent benefit
from it ; but yet, it this inatant, the Danish navv
are snore active against tile Eng.lish commerce,
than any couutry iu the world. In point of fad,
this country I believe hits suffered ~tore since the
capture of their fleet, than we could have stir-
freed if the. Danish ships of war had remained
autiougst themselves ; for if Denmark inn) applied
her hostile fleet to meet yon in open battle, there
is an man that doubts what the result would have
been. If she had kept her Beet, her pride might
hare induced her to acts of bottility which might
have enabled us to do MOO, LIMO Whit we •inave as
yet accomplished; but having lekeii, ber fleet
without depnviag her of her meativ, she •employs
her renutiumg force agaiust our commerce, which
she never could have done so successfsillv. These
are institute...tint the vigour of the cum Alli of His
Majesty's Ministers. Not only has this conduct
produced much tido:bier to the iutereste of the
country, hut ions materially affetted its rt•putatiou ;•
fur I know not what that part of Europe, which
Junk* oil at the coined betwixt Franca and Esig.
laud, can thick of the expedition of Sir John
Moore being *rut to Sweden, rem • g as it did.
and returuing disgrarefully, not certimilehin
to the commander or the eoliiierv—.‘ir if they haul
remained, I have no doubt their gallantry would
have been displayed ; lint the Ministers who plan-
ned that kind ofp.ant • ad movement, bye which
the &dame, anuses of the reunify are conveyed
from one eml of Europe to the other, without any
hittait in view. After this expedition to !-.Medeii,
the ull'airs of Spein twat eneweed the attention of
the poll:it-4i world ; the eve•iit:tif the Gov,riiiiieitt
of Fraiiee noshing the attack it did mein the ex.
king Onsertiment of Spain, (whieh Imo deserreil
all that •he lion. Mover oh the Address Inc, said of
it, itesmuudi that I 'nut sore it is untieciasary for
me to describe it,) did certainly give this country
an opportunity, Web aS never occurred sieve
the commeareuient of the Kevolutino in Eni.. •
iu -,
Pyep ; I mean au opportunity of co-orvereinig
with the powers ou the confluent. This .vas an
event of the weatest importance, an event big withe
the. greatest consequeaves, and e -etch demanded
the greatest attention of ti:e Tlingit Miatetere ;
• they, and they only, mete capable of forming a
jigs( opinion concerning it. it took plate very
shmtly IsrlOre the fe.ing of the last Sc. nt-Par.-
, busman ; nothing was comiiiiiiiieeted to Parfait-
went; ill that WAS known, and all that was dune,
Was by Mmisters alone; they were the sole adviaere•
upon that tarasiou, V. hen the Spanish nation tilt.
denooji to resist the power of Fratier,it surely be-
came ma-emery fee these directing His Maje-ty'si
.Ceuncils to consider well whit.. !alio war the most
proper to be eilopted. I suppose the, nobody tv:11
say. that the deterinimed resistanee of such a power
tee Vreglet war not an event that required the mast .
matured consideration. before this eouinry at ail in.
Mermaid ; because, if the resnontice of Spain were
succewful, nut only was Staid, thrfehy Treed frown
the contronl of a hostile pow.r, but the rel.ete
power of France in Europe was to lie proprwitoti.
ally ilimilieheel. If Spain was at all friendly to
this meaty. I say that from hie moused alle see.
evaded in her resistaile_!,e the designs of France
againstthe continent of Europa, elineet•eirtirely
va-
uishte..l. la all countries vitiated as Spain was, it
must, I presinoe, sever he matter requiring the
deepest enitsideraf of tire stinist•cotapetent judger,
what newle Of warfare should aw. adopted; whether
it should be by sending armies into the field, to
meet the eAleM;i by regale', cainpitigns, or whether
it shottid be by supplying the population of such
. a couutry, with arms and ammimition. over the
, whole auditor of it„thereby eticom aging its iiihabit-
Hants to constainy and perseverance; or shelving'
them whether they should desist from the contest.
Which of these Haire was the most proper it was
solely for Miaisters to judge ; but in fact they seen.
to have formed no plan at all, lint to huve revisited
occasionally either to one or other of them, jrist as
the event of the moment sugeested. If any reliance
Ceti be placed upon what has been stated in the news.
papers as to the itroceedings of the Board of Inquiry.
it appears that Sir A. 'Wellesley, who was the first
matt sent to assist Spain, went front this country
without any thing like saceitie instructions as to
the best (node of. carryingain the wan he having,
• as it were, a roving commission, to der whatever ht
pleased for the interest of Simi% New, Sir, I con-
ceive that nothitig could have been inttehlers likely
to ware the Spanish cause than that coOrse of pro.
gemtag. Tar- army which Sir Arthur Wellialey
carried wth bite wits not large eiourgh to cope
with the French antic, nor le-IS it like Mat which
could be jawed by the specieti of three the' Spa.
Merle had eu faot. Sir Arthur tVelkaley, we are
in nnauttd, and, if I speak erroneously I ion perdnii-
*hie. as Government has published iinthing 1190:1
the NI/bit:et, what we learn Iteieg from the public
prints, consulted with the Junta of Gallieir, and
they were of opinion that he should not at St.
Andero, but go to Portugal, to expel the French
from that quarter, and _then to use his army as
a point of itilien or conpectinii between the
• Northern and Southern Army of Spain. That
the Junta of Grille-is might wish to get rid
of the Featch situated just behind their province,
may be true; bat how the Government of this
crenate could think that the best means of get.
riJ of the enemy in Spaiii, is what I catmint
uu.ler.taisd, and the reason is obvious. Even if
we were in possemiou of Portugal, Spain iniulit leer
lost ; but if We first possessed Spain, Portugal might
have followed; for it is easier to occupy the smaller
after possessing the greater country, than to get hold
of the greater after first possessing the smaller. This
has already beeu completely verified ; you have
expelled the French from Portugal, and notiviih.
standing that event, the French are at this moment
['waters of the capital of Spain, have dispersed the
Spanish army, and are now, as we understand,
in pursuit of oars. Such has been the benefit re-
sulting to Spain front the expedition to Portugal.
The Speech tells us, that the campaign in Pm,
fugal, although glorious to our Pries. bias neverthe-
less been sullied by a Convention, of which,
'nine of its parts. His klajestv has expri•ssed a
formal disapprobation. What! has the Couveutiou

met with the /brweal divepprobathw of Hie Ma-
jesty? This was to ties very rno•aeat a secret ,to
the country. (Hear! hear! Gear') I never heard
of it, HOC I believe has any'other person ; on ties
contrary, it was presumed, from the proceeding* of
the board of Inquiry, we were to hear no more df
the subject; no mark of disapprobation was ex-
on the part of the Crown, and therefore'''.
am at a less to cuactive bow the cenutry were to
know of this formal disapprobation, fltutile tint
yet to what that formal disapprobation refers, for
it dote not appear whether it relates to the tetrue. I
granted to the French army, or to the t tongue; of
our Generals towards the Due tr.ibrautea; hut 11
when we have the authority Of I his 'Majesty for
considering this Convention as improper in sue.:
parts, and not being inrormed of whet they
are, I do not think it is surprising is any man
to endeavour to get a knowledge of that inysteriuus
subject, so as to set the matter ri4bt throughout
the country. The vigour of His Mejesty's Minis-
ter+ was eminent in regard to Portugal, also by the
equiumeet of the army seat to that country. In
eeuditig the um:muds given by the tictieruls them-
selves, awl all the dm:warring drat have yet Irma-
Mred, one of the principal reasons Ibr giving the
French advantageous term, in that Coileeutimaii,
wreathe 'red equipment of the army, the wont Of
artillery, slid, alrove all, the defect and neeitiness,
in piney of number, of the cavalry. Such is time
una ii i iii OUA account of the Generals employed, and.
yrt we are to pre...lame that His Majesty's Ministers,.
who sent that expedition from tine country (ourl
who had nuthieg else to do at the time, except the
sending tieat other notable our to Sweden) hare dies
played wisdom and energy ha their Conduct.—
. IViei the 'Noble Lord opposite (Lord Castlereagh)
so stinted of force in this country, or was he ao
ablated in time means of conveyance, its that he
could not pressibly have sent a more arlequtite equip-
inent ? I well remember when that Noble Lord
used to get up and state to the ;Wow, with tears
iii Isis eyes, the wretched situation and condition of
the military department, when uuder time manage-
memo of. Ritlit Hommnimmble Friend of mine, (Mr.
imußmain) not now in hts pisce, ridiculing the
saving of expense that Mel been observed in
•reetard to transients. Now, could any Mir have i
supposed that be • could have been 'Weep all this
• time upon that very siilject, the sato of which he
hied so much dechemed against, and that too at a I
time when traliseensi were most- easy to be g0t...-. I
Tlicse declamatory speeches of his were. uttered
niue or tea mouths previdus to sending oat
.his est ped.tion. Ile might .have heard of
transports in aliesdatee, for, thank Cod ! this coun
try can, above all when., satiety thrum ; sod yet
we find him senditie out this force mu such a wretch-
ed state us is represented by the officers. Is this
the anode by which we ore to riles, to the world the
wirdorn and vigour of our councils, mid time excel-
lence of our onliterrsystens? The amseounte given of
the. state of the (ovally if it were not for its melan-
choly etreets, would he truly ludienrut. One of them
says, thut mote of the horses were blind and lease,
• stn of old age.....ealeegio—tind yet these a ere
the anisette sent by the Nettle Lord into Portugal,
to every en the wur against France. But. Sir, this
is not 1111; when the terms trete grunted to the
French army, how did our force bear upon the
affairs of Spain? The secoad great reason assign-
ed for granting the Convention ens, that time hail
then become aim object of the greatest itueortance,
'mold that it w<+ isetevery to disengage these troops
from Portugal, in order that they aught he em-
ployed in Spain. 'Phis are the second reason as-
signed by all the Officers, and leirtieularly by the
lest one who returned ; and it these Officer* be
wrong, 1 hope 1w will not blame them ; us, by his
Inane qemilnt, the Commanders-in-Chief were made
to supersede each other in such quick succession,
that it was impassible they could be acqviainted
with the movements that Were going forward.--
Altisnuelm that Convention was signed upon the
soth or Ang.htt. none of those, troops were ready
for action mu Spain for more than two months after-
wards, and indeed many of them I believe did
Lint qnit Portugal for utter tea weeks afterwards.
What then could Me the object of granting such
terms to the French army ? It could not be in
era:l' to get expeditiously into Spain, for the
French army were most probably us Spain before
oars. It• is 'minty then for the puTt.iv of trans-
porting the French army, that the Nohlc Lord is
anxious to pmvidetritesports, when he finds they
never could have,4ritlitel into Spain without such
.. assistant., and 'Ottr own army his to march
five hu lathed miles litecerlithey eau much the French
army, to beat %thefts 'y'eni the object of unirching.
Mtn Strain. in Amite cireurnstance moteed-
Mg this Convention cerhes with it an ignominy
vmhich- it is almost impossible to overlook. We are
now told, -His Mate Sty 'ex(mresses his formal disaps
probation; intl.yettis %Masters thoughtpropretie
Are the Testes:6.point' in approbation of •ite--rifeeer
Arse; hear!) It thtis appears, His Majesty has a
ditfereet notion of the honettir of an Englisharniy
than his MiniAters havelby his redeeining his own
elmracter, freeing himself from being a partner in
such tninsectionti, and formally declaring his dis.
approliatioe. Early in the month of July, or
the end of Jane, there appeared a paper, pub-
lished in the public priats, perportiug to pro-
ceed from the Spanish Junta, 'older the title
rmf " Precautions,". and to be the grand plan
of warfare to he carried on by Spain against
France ; •sm kind of instruction to the Spaniards
how they shomild in general conduct them-
selves; aewinet their enemy. After distributing their
- anus, under font t7oinmanders, it describes the
Northern command as being the most important ;
the great object being to guard the pa-sages Tutu
Spain ortr the Pyrenees. Now, if His Majesty's
(Ministers had erondeseended to hold a little inter •
comerseevith theSupreine Junta, or have al-.owed the
truly to-remsiii in England till they actiialii kuew
P soffietiting of the state of•Seaim. oi, if Sir Ar-
thurhad- even corresponded with the Junta. they
tend we ton would learned, that time most im-
portant duty to he perforneri was the defeace of
the North of Spain, mid the pe.sage of time Pyre.
nets ; and then, instead of ',elite wonsted.the army
so sent might have been wised far the most henefietel
immirpoeee, so as to make the French retire into the
frontiers of France. I am certain that was the
plan of warfare which would hate been month essen-
tial to the safety of Simiu. The Convention of
l'oesigal hariez taken place. amid Ilia Majr•sty's

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Midisters having thought proper to fin theoriter
guns in token of their autisfactioe, it did is tutu
out 'that almost a!! Nis Majesty's inshjects
Iwere of MO opinion directly contrary to slot of
Ministers, arid the first city its Btitaiu, the, city
of boson, ripproached the throL.e. with ele it
sentiments, awl a "met etwowe eye/diva they '
did leret withindecd.—( Jeer .' kear ! !star!—
They seem to lave i,ltentled to overthrew this /Lord
• ghat or sod whole Court of Cotonou-Counciliiien
of the City of London. That corporation tell :lit
ltliefeety that they think the Comeution dispute-
fel, diellocourable to the Drab!' atimenind kfortfel
• to His Majony's iuterents ; they call for en In.VArtitt
gation, and the piiiiishiaent of the guilty.—ln An- t.
swer to this
,application. • Ilia Majeete's Militates . ^.4t*
advise Ilia Majesty to tell the City of enindoil that :a
it is toot consonant with the principles of British
justice to pronounce judgment befere invesnig:,
tion. A very wise • and consistent clechinitiou ! • .
It is not consonant with English justice ! I
should be glad to know with what kind of jun.
tin, or with what country, it is comonaut !
I should wish to know the distinetine between
British justice and that of any ether coon-
hy ! I thought that all justice was alike. hunt
such an answer one should have eupprieed that the • .
City of London had respeired that half a drizeii ie.
diticluals should be hoard up, merely because the ' •
Convention hod been eseeriel into. They were
OfNi told, that it was not requisite that the et) of
Leek° should state %hitt should he done in a ori-
lure of such a nature, as past experier.ce meet hate
sliewn how retehly such inquiries lied been inset.
toted. 'tenger, Sir, with the prOftmudest respeet„
Wrevery case wherein His Mujeety eppenni to act,
I must say, that Hit Maijestis Ainivitcra have been
guilt] of putting into his mouth an summer se Settle
congenial with the spirit of the British Cousaitu-
tine, as cats possibly be conceived—(tinr ! Hear !
Hear !/—aid as little suitable to the-majesty and
dignity of the Throne.. There iii a deities of -Sipe
plumy in it. wind' may suit •Ministers to use its roue
vereitinie but which must be contemptible sport
such an occasion. The Noble Lewd, avid the Fight
Hon. Orig. opposite, may pin, epigniassisatiee.
they may sneer; 'or they may rematch, but it is not
cols...mutt, I7think, to any kind of justice, to hear
language limn our Soveieigis, unworthy of the
Throne. If, unfortunately,. the Kilig ef this
country shall lie at any time under the nect'.sity of
hinting his displeasure to bis people, or rebuking
their measures, the returnieg such an answer, upon
soy oecusion, mutt tend to disturb that dignity, or
decorum, e hich become* that situation, and !nukes
the displeasure of the Throne more.felt by those
who unluckily may. have faiien tiudUr it. -if Hui
Majesty thought it proper or neciesary to •telnike
his city of London, words could have been chosen
of it ..very different .nature: from those which
hliniiters.pleatted to use upon eat oceas.ori. for
the purpose of • 'conveying riti4 diepleositte.—
Bet, Sit, I meyweleNtand .wet ll that Miiiiatcrs
i might be a little rrueitile and tint pleased with the
Cite or Loinlon for nicking such remonstrance.
When I consider the great complaisencygeurielly
therm by that city no their measures, I must say,
that they have forgotten a little what is due to the
Majesty of the Throiw, when they accuse the
City of London efeoodeuming before investigation.
The most material consideration, however, is the
employment of the force in Spain ; the dilatorint se
of those 'directing it, and their total want of lit;lA-
city. If it Were wise at all toured the British army
into Spain, we have lost that opportunity.whicit
appears to hare been the roily favourable One that
presented itself. In giving assistance to the
Spaniards, there were, as I hate stated, two
modes of proceeding. 11 hat the op- ' us of
the Spaniards themselves are, I profess w 1 self
totally ignorain. The fact • is, this ignoruece dots
not proceed from any vomit of diligence on my
part in snaking iugairees; but for want of an
authentic source from which it could be procured.
Did the Spaniards make application for a regular
force to be sent into their country, or for 11110.
:my, arum, ammunition, or clothing, and all other
articles, to enable a maiva in their situation to
kt-ip up the warfare neunist such armies us Fiance
had the power of pouring into their country ? I
Ask this, because, if Spain could not, with your as-
'listener, carry this point, of keeping out fresh re.
inforeementa from France, there was lithe probe-
Laity of preventing their country from being over-
run. 'ln investigating this meter, we should have
considered what was the mount of the ibeisceable
force of France. To guide us its regard to tLUI we
hove a recent piece of information, In papers
which were laid before the 'louse in the beginning
of•the year Inoti, just after the tiniure of the
Third Coalition, there appears to be a Moronic
from the Court of 1 ienna to that of St. Peter -
burgh, stating the urnousit of knee winch t raukv
could probably bring aguiust the Allied Poa.-ii.
Front that document it appears the Fri eels force
is estimated at 400,000 men, exclusive of the Im-
perial Guarde, estirdated at 16.000. This is the
opinicin of Vienne itself previous to France over.
running GertuanY and Poland, and 11011161 of the
other countries of Etnope, and before her connexioa
with Russia. What then, I would ask, must he
the force which France cite new einpley in the
Spanish conquest ? It must evidently be greatly
increased; and it was, therefore, most material fur
this country, before adopting any measure what.
ever, to consi.ler well the propriety of emploving
leer force in Spain, where there was a lilelinoud of
such immense numbers being brought against
them. Never, I Relieve, was sympathy so strong,
its that evinced in 'England in favour of tlw Span-
ish cause. Yet, although such was the esitlita
lemon of the nation at large, and however anlerit
the prueie might foe its lending assistance to sate
eiet such a glorious struggle, it belonged to those
who were entrusted with the management of the
national force, to consider, in every point of view,
the propriety or impropriety of oottplying with
the popular feeling. That was, perhaps, the feel-
ing of the moment, but it was the duty of Mi.
nisters to consider well %lot was the most cafe
to do far the permanent interest of the public ;
awl therefor* they were, by every mode, to Imes:
tiger whether they ought to rick eta English
army at all in Spite or confine their assistance to
the supplies I have metitioneel ? •I do mot wish to
bison' theinsfor sending a force to Spann. if die
Spaiiierds themselves applied for it, lied if it teem
.4hasepinion oft:inept:tent judges there was a ,e true

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