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of every Member of 654 1-loom, an 4 of every
„eieet of the I.uu.ary. to Arnie saying or doing
any thing that cal presibly look like a deo
sire to demo the spint of its inhabitants, or
in any measure to roconrage the enemy. Give
me leave. Sir, :o .1 Ite to you, that the candoue
of the House will ...nos this in their reeolleaion;
that what I am ab ut to state is perfeedy consistent
with a sincere confidence in the rescarces et the
country, that I partake of every feeling which be.
longs to an DlglitbmAn, that it it a confidence
founded on my experience of the past, and an anti.
cipation of the future, in the Mast favourable light
which it is possible for human wisdom and toresight
to corjeaure. There are, lam convinced, in this
couatiy, resources amply sufficient to meet all the
dangers that can possibly present themselves in the
present increasing exigency of one affairs. Let it
be undesetood, that, with this previous declaration
qualify what I may say, if any eapreesion savouring
of despondency should escape me, I eutteet you and
the House not Ito misundessund me. There is no
one who has turned his attention tonur past condutt
in political awaits, who may not he capable of
throwing out useful hints. Au hurnhle individual,
Ike myself, may be able to throw out sugges-
tions not occurring to Ministers; or if (sectoring,
not well weighed; or perhaps, iejeaed. This,
I apprehend, any one Member in the House may
do, without incurring the imputation of mean.
ing, in any degree, to thwart the measures of
sisters, or of caroming any periwader lieetiiity so
their pence's, No, Sir, no hosolity can ever exist
Is my nand. I feel that if it were possible to ima-
gine, that if, at such a crisis of affairs, any man
could feel himself justified either to his friends
or to society, in setting himself up in mist to
thwart the effee s of Government, he must be
thought not only to he insensible to the state of
affairs, but blind indeed to all that has passed
%soder his eels observation. The experience of
leo en years past, would teach every ore, that
that is not ttai road to popularity. However
muds it may gratify, for a short time, the popu-
lar ieeling, en some occasions, it Is noothe way. in
tt a. d. to exalt favour. 1 ask enly for common
se • to teach any man to pursue ambit•on in a
t- open, and honourable way Both of
tli ouieble Gentlemen, who have moved and
le.ctooke this Address, have, in so doing, dement-
ed, who faiderable fullness. on the flourishing si-
ta moo of sew country, and the judicious application
0 our resources ; I can assure them, that no man
heard them talk of what (night be done. and of
the unanimity prevailing, write more pleasure than I
ed. Undoubtecly, our :evokers and one unanimity
me calculated to establish our greatness; but there
are various kinds of unanimity. It may be that Idled
• ar irony which is to prevent men from examining
emery thieg that is laid before therm or of exercising
titrir own judgment, which is, in short, to remake
them become the cants of those who have the me-
aagetnent of public affairs, without questioaing their
e~rdud or their motives for their maims. Thera is
el.° that unanimity, which is prepared to give a
em salmon to every measure of Government, ant
because individuals arelliad to the existing errors,
but he-cense they wish to pass these errors over m
silence. The unanimity, however. which is so be
wined at, if ILA: Whith is paleiced by a inettss
communication of unties:mots, and a general reelifi.
maim of error. This a the unanimity which should
slime m 64 the Government of every (tee country,
unless it be a Government which seen to desto y
that freed. set. ,It it be allowable to mite that coulee,
before wenciarring in any measure proposed, MK
endeavouring to arrive at the highest posisblebufnan
perfeelion. there never was a period in which it was I
mere necessary to observe it than at present. The ut-
most consideration of iloo actual state of our sissies.
and of the world in grovel, becomes necessity; and
it is almost impossible to give a more lest or a more
eloquent description of .some particulars upon this
suheci, them that of the Hon. Gentlemen who have
spoken. They hare told you, that we, es a nation,
miss; stand up, its the first place, for our own exist-
sure; and. secondly, that we ought to endeavour
to afford refuge for those minim; which may yet
require it. But there is also t: .s peculiar feature in
the present stete of our affairs ; we a.e now, for the
first time, about to review the transactions of an
Asteniaisaation, composed. AS was generally send. of
the most able men in the country. They have this
peculiar circumstance attending them too, that they
entered into office about ten months ago, with a
thorough conviction impressed 'you their minds.
that all that was done by their predecessors was
wtosg. There was no measure, tuber external or
iaternal. that met with their aparohation. "They
were convinced, that the whole naticn was as it
were clubbed hke a battalion, and the physical
strength. et it perfectly indisposcable. %Cc now
meet these Gentlemen at the end of ten months,
and vie are told, not that our resources and meant of
defeent have bee* repaired, but remain unimpaired
We have thus the set:sea:lion •tt learning, that matters
continue just in the sense state in which they found
them. It was cut alone our intense' mean; or re.
1101trtlei that were to be improved and reformed ;
our foreign coooeftson, tin, was to undergo great
and important chimp's. The Continent had bren
lost by means of the conduit. of England; Cnnfede-
racks had been foolishly put together ; and, in
short. every tnitag hal been most egregiously wets.
managed by totally belinistere ; and now I shall
have Oi• I.Stiefaalrolll of examining Vrilr the present
ones had arc.hieved. acd what is the beautiful sys-
tem they have reared, w'th their united dexterity
what system have they then substituted in the
room of that, which they alleged teoded to send
far away 'vet e. Ally who could possibly be the
means of averting any of one dangers ? It is
necessary to tract the principles on which their
system hat been emceed, rod on wig day. I mould
ask. is it more necessary to enter into such a coati-
derat:or., than on the first day of a Session. of ,Par-
Lament, of a new Pentinaent, Of a Prelearimot, dur-
ing toe continuance rf which it :s likely that the fate
of some of the greatest nations of the Waild eta y be
determined, either to cnd in their safety or their
total a etteuftioa ? There ate two views in which the
assembling of Parliament, in presence of our Sove-
reign, are calculated to strike admiration, and to
show that, In spite of all adverse circumstances, the
British Constitution has preserved the means of be-
ing tran.mitted to po.terity in its utmost 'snaky.
The Speech which is delivered from the Throne, al-