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in justificativin the etpedieocy of the emainne ,
which this evil was merely I courrequence. He wile
ceived, that to deprecate this intamie ites is
trench on the prerogative of the Crowe. The meg
power wheel lutd, on a former occasion, blockaded
the ports of the North of Europe, could, wit,
equal justice, extend that blockade to Fiance end
those Allies who were compelled, from their ea,
servient state, to acquiesce an excluding all British
imports. It had fallen to his lot to defend tee
Noble Lord and his measures against himself, A,
to the policy of the measure, in the prisent state of
the investigation, he fouud it necessary to observe,
that from the advantages winch bird been giveo te.
the trade of Neutrals, France Lad ne eivee able.
dant supplies from every Neutral rate, which hae
ultimately produced the utmost adrac.txy to de
enemy's trade and reooerceo, whiie it etteeeeeer.
debarred England from the usual vete :or her
duce and manufacture., and thus aimed a eve
blow at her existence. The laws of Nationr, it
had been said, had been tre:ir led on by !lie thee,
of Council, but the Laws of Nations fhemeelve
should not be observed to that comes', which 1:4,.
profited by their violation. The Decree had be.
said to be a dead letter. till we had given it etee;
'by our retaliation ; its provisions Ines toen evaded,
it is true, by obtaining certificated of origin ; wheel
had been obtained by forgery, peewee sod
every species of fraud. That such had bes
the disgraceful means by which this trade had
been carried on, could be proved by indisput-
able evidence. He was sorry to have heard
the use the, Noble Lord and others bad a.
tempted to make of the petitions which had been
presented to this House by the manufacturers is
the different parts of the kingdom. The manu-
facturers were not now complaining of the evils
consequent upon the Orders of Council, but of
those resulting from the measures entered into by
the French Government, previous either to our
Decree or that of Bonaparte. If it were true
that we must now resort to the rest of the world
for the disposal of our merchandize, it was alto as
true, we had monopolised the whole world for the
consumption of our own produce, and had cer-
tainly prohibited France, Germany,
and all the other appendages of that portentously
accumulating empire, from carrying on, in any
shape whatever, the least possible commercial in-
tetcoutie. The Right Honourable the Chancellor
of the Exchequer concluded with these most
remarkable wards : " I an anxious, extremely
aneious, to quiet the apprehensious of those
who conceive these Orders of Council will
be productive of war with America. I trate they
will not—l am convinced they will not. Fire,
from the conviction this country mutt ever eok:-
tain, that the loss Amezioewould sustain, the pe-
ril* and calamities of war in which she might lie
plunged, would be as severely felt by us as by he-.
Her sufferings are ours—.her prosperity assist also be
ours. Nei am I less convinced of the reasonableness
of my expectations, in reflecting ;ripen the prudence,
the honour, the principle, which has, on various or-
carnotite, displayed itself in the atasesioeri female,
They must see, also, with what tare and eantien we
have uniformly conducted ourselves in every maritime
regulation, with respect to America, and must be
convinced, that the exceptions we have so repeat.
edly made in her favour, have arisen from our firm
and decided conviction, that our prosperity must be
mutual. Let me, at the same trete, warn the Yoliie
Lord, lest the violence and heat with which he h
declaimed against our enirdnet towards America,
should tend to arouse a feeling of resentment in
that country, whose cause he has, this eveuirre,
warmly affected to espouse, hut whose cause he
must inevitably betray, should be suceeee in
strengthening an opinion already unfortunately pre-
valent, that, in defence of her independence and
national honour, she-should enter into hostile mta-
, SIMS against this country."
;;litiator LAWRENCE said, he conceived it
extraordinary to propose the sending these
Orders of Council to a Committee, previous ti)
their discussion in this House, awl to the produc-
tion of the evidence on which they were issuete
Me had read them with soma atteution, and talked
them over with many persons, *bole he knew to
be rely minverssat on this subjeet. He confessed,
however, that they appeared to him, and those
whose opinions he obtained upon theta, so unin-
telligible, so complicated. and so coatredictory,
that they were at a loss to understand thetn.
They, be thought, carried the stamp of illegality
, • i the face of teem. They were, he contended.
-traiy; to fbitater acid epitit of fflitgreettheeter
ef. our liberty, Magog (Agree, which Provides se
.ywely for our entereou:se with neutrals, and se
incelcates the protection of foreign nice
Ali* their trade with those countries. Tee
Alight Hon. Gentleman had, in his
Ills
'reedy misapplied the Act of the sad of Ills pre-
vent Majesty to thereseet case. That Act vetted
discretionary power in His Ifsiesty's Privy Coun-
cil, to admit, en cases of absolute necemity, the
importation of certain articles, in neutral bottoms.
into this ermine,. The preeent Orders of Coute
allied evidently outatepped the provision of this
&et, and are mark (in the teeth of the Nnviga-
':tion Laws of this country) to admit the importa-
tion of every article, without exception. He wen
;riot one of those who defended this or that /lame
imistratiou, nor was he inclined to condemn v. me:i-
nure, because it came from a party with who-e
sentiments he did not coincide. No, he viewed
what came before bins with impartiality, and •
the beet of his judgment; and looking at these O.
eters of Council in this wnv. he could not help say-
ing, that he considered them Mee:tete. end inicoe-
stitntiorial. It was end by the Riget 11.,n. t ientl--
roan opposite him, that these were in. amerce of iete-
liation. He was entry to hear the Right Hon. Ger—
and his colleagues pleading the acts of Bonaparte
for the jnetifieatioa of these measures. If retie -
parte was Troll; in his blockade.; &tree, whit
it was eoutended wet frangb. with evil and itepse

tn the commere?la '
his steps, nor lAch
We ought not to
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Bonaparte,
su hi.lc
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ara
to he adopted ; bul
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of others were at
no instance of *sit
known in the 11f4t4
fore difficult to red
fortuity with law.
he could • not do
d'Affaires had coin
this country, that]
to extend the bla
trade between De
the first alTearanc
ever, Amencs, ne
rsquired, through
of that Decree.
jr.e .ch Minister, I
not intended by th
muds, merely fo
we to extend to ti
tim,s which the LI
inloy. If the.lti
at the commumen
Arm;trong and t
have seeTr; that
rant • the ennfise
merely coming fn
that it declared
France; from Er
should be cOnfisci
wns not an inst
forfeited (or tout
from the issuing
o rember, Isot
not au adviicate I
honorfr of the cc
with prudent
rice. It was, 11
prcrit one too, V
upon the high si
that America iv)
ur t•: thiA way.
Mini.iteria would
Con • red, remiss
America by the
cultivate an am
tween the two e
House of Coast
evidence they
toward* Ameriei
of their garble
of letters, VIOUII
try of•tli
they so short-si
the.eves of Eon
lookid to for a
that our condue
unwise. If we
the cause of V.
and not, by fo
Franc!. do*
eves of 'Europe
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even allowing
by his Learne
these Orders c

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