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latticed alas must took for, 'Goner or later, the
throats ()revery one of throe horses would, inevi-
tably. be cut. His motion (lid nut tend to 1.!;.•
production of papers useiul to th. enemy, or de-
trimental to the country. The athat,
the country had been di 1 1 ait.e.u.iy a;:niiinster.d,
and he thought it right the uat;o
how thmie who had, in t.O nr.nv foriner ros.
exhausted its means, had hiiliNetiLenily eipci.:it• l-
ilted the military strength of the countr)---1e
therefore, moven for en account of the fircis rev t
abroad, t,iiice the return of our 'Tina:mug trovs
from Walcheren. •

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The LOUD CHANCELLOR then put the rptet.t),
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On being re-admitted, we tannol Lord Hot.-
LAND on his legs, speaking in support of his pot-
mired motion, relative to the itemisation inaa'.a. lay
France against this Government, of a relusal to
uegociate upon the subject of en eXelleat4e (if
prisoners. His Lordship said, that be bud, main
a former occasion, put it question upon that subject
to His Majesty's Ministers, cud that it was, in cot.-
sequence of the unsattsfactory manner in which that
question had been answered, that he came forward
again, with a proposition of at stronger Lind. It
was in consequence of that mitaitisfactory manner,
and of the dignified %deuce o hicii they observed on
such points, as it was essential that the House and
the country should be informed of, that he came It
ward as he now did. He hoped tine their lal d-
ships would agree in the motion wile ii he sheath!
propose to them. Ile hoped sn, that the honour and
character of the country might be rescued from au
imputation which had been cast upon it—an impu-
tation which.. bud as his opinion was of the ',resent
Ministers, lie could not believe, until further in-
quiry should oblige hint to acquiesce ; or, as lie
hoped would be the ease, enable hint to contradia t
it. There was no quality mate to be deprecated iti
menin powers thou that callous indilf.!rence to the
happiness or inasery of those in inferior situations,
which they were but ton frequently proved to en-
tertain. He ass far from pia in implicit be-
lief in all those charges which the nailer of From e
thought proper to advisor e against Mounters; hint
when any charge of a heinous nature len made
against them, whiten appearances might give some
countennuce to, was it to) match to expect that Go-
vernment would be prompt and explicit to deny
such charge, and, if necessary, to disprove it ?
It might Ire thought that the charge to which be
alluded, was a mere newspaper attack, without any
official authority to give it weight or importance;
bur, when they rellcc..eil upon the restrictions un-
der which the press of France laboured, they must
see that the 411cuiteur would not dare to utter •
sentiment unapprovt•d of by, the French Emperor;
so that the bare circumstance of its appearing in a
newspaper of that country, gave it intiaitely mote
weight, than our free notions of the press iu Eng-
land, might at filet incline us to form. In that
paper it was stated, that G-,v. raiment had refus-ci
to send Comrninioners to Morten, to treat upon
an exchange of prisoners, r an ripprelieustest
that it might le 11l to an accommodation; here were
two charges, the one, as to the fact ; the other, as to
the motive. He should aptly himself to the fact;
for the motive, though they snlght impute it, they
could out prove; at the saline fuse, he must say,
that it was It heavy iminitatiini, and one which they
could not be too ready, or too anxious to contr..-
diet. Even aupposiug that it was political to avoid
peiu:e, a duet, Me which he should always he
jealous in consideriaig, and slow ill adni arta og ;
hut supposing it fur tlie sake of argument, shill they
should facilitate, as much us possible, the exchange
of 'prisoners, •in order that well might be stripped
of as much of its horror as possitile, and refinal
and softened down iuto suinetithig like u contcation
between human bring,. It was the black cherac-
teristic of the present war, to he distinguished uliove
all minas for nu unaccommodating spi a it in the point
to he a:holed. Ile would ado 3', that he hail
always understood, before urns, that the difficulty of
exchasigiog pr t ttt iers was ultaga thee owing to the
unreason:stile .I.minuis of Frame ; had uwat,.d
upon prineiplea which gligli.end cored no holonit.
heratiae the, were coatraty to the known its ig. s of
nation+, and to jais!..ce, u, genetaily understo.al uml
adrnin•et,•iol allealg4 anatiLioal. Oitc point In-
sisted upon hi Fealiee Nes, that several English
trove:l4as, WilLb had I) eat arrested before the break-
Mg out of the war, shoidal be considered es lawful
valioneta, anal reketi mu exchange. Another was,
that semileit, tialc,n voider similar circumstances,
should remilirly considered; end a thsrd, that
I ta...•p., taken to the same manner,
shookd he admitted prisoners by the law- of nations,
soot as sueli• winded in the exclsaige. Hitherto
the pretensions of the French were certainly inad-
missible ; and it was incumbent upon Government
to writs...lllA they were at, at pftll,lll,ll. they would
justdy the aoseli.sslll she amid, ug,tialtst an coed-
tints of the most off-it-lye and repreliensitrla velum.
The couse.:tiences of roll- it LIN oeilitmhis of Lit;;,
description, were so intioilcd, that he need not
dwell upon them ; they were so najorioue, and .0
Creel, that he need not attempt to aggravute them,
tl.ey must come home to the uoderstandimes and the
hearts of every ore who heard luau. Indeed lie could
out picture to himself a more melacielsoly at Cebu le,
thau that of a number of pane; int Is, with all the
ardour of military audition, confined, aitho a any
hope of advance-snout air honour, aliens from then
country. and front their friends. Ile would not at-
tempt to describe what they must feel, and what
their families must feel, in ramteuiplating such anis-
fortunes; but he would say. that if Ministers we.e
ant culpable, they would do well to relax a little in
that dignified ~deuce, whir h, however it might pre-
vent coafsssion, (mild not hide error. lie could
declare to their Lordships, that, some he gss%e to-
tire of that motion, he had three or four lett, rs
each day, upon the subject, acquiescing in the pro-
priety of the motion, amt shallow, that, though they
concurred in lactation' g the rib-ruction of suet,
iregoriatiotts to Fissure. before l-ist Novesidwr,
they felt themselves under the veers-ity of aserob-
iog it to lii,. Majesty's Missi•sere s lice that rod.
If it w now no log to the French, let them she*
that it wit, ; let theta sliew that it was not or.ang
their Ilan government that thee were sulfaing aii
imprisonment so protraided. If it was established
that iiiimisuoinent rr,a to be of an raped ti4th