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tits, would now presume to maiutAin. Brwareof con.
tammating thr inoruls of thuse its the lower ohi‹rs,
by the vices cherished and permitted iu tietiovernurs,
gut this lies not been in their mouths cud comokt
alone. They have uss.lle fulse principles and

tiouh proceed from the fountain of hooour. hey
hob e corrupted the King's Speech from the 'throat.
They have denied there exists any rule of rio,t.
may sacred iustitution of nations and mankind.—
They have accomplished the desiKus of i rimer,
closed the Sound, shut out our trade from all Es.
rope, reduced our last ally to despair, exitsperatid
beyond the possibility of recoutiltatioa,
wounded the pride of Russia, and j ust Med all the

atrocities committed by France in this sae 141 I ...I'
And shall this Rouse, in a few minutes, saneuen

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the Ministers who hare thus degraded, woui.diai.
and atHicted this nation and her allies ? Shad eta.;
nut be taught to feel there yet exists hi Broil',
hearts a noble feeling of indignation against fiik.
hood, perfidy, injustice, and cruelty ? I trust thy
shall experience oar resentment by the House tat;_
scribing to the following Resolutions :
That an bumble Address be presented to Ili* Majests,
submitting to His Majesty, bee attentively
dered all the information as reaper Wig the late it,osit
on Copenhagen, and the war is which we hare comeseeetty
been invoked ; sod that we deeply lenient to hare found it
imperfect, eontradactory, and tinsistivEktory iu all its pans
That respecting a traosectlou in which both the utw
and the inte,reste of our cottony arc so deeply °ascertain, ess
bad hoped fur the. fullest **elevation. That the prir,eiples
Osier Constitutiou,aad the uniform practice of His llejeme,
ousel the dialiereigres at His Illustrious House, regidee. that
Parliament *Mudd be distinctly apprised of the true grounds
of entering Tutu rev wars add, especially, in a 'quinine if
the country, so extraandisvy and unprecedented as the pre
sent.. That had Deusuark bees a party to 'ay hostile cvs.
federacy, either for menacing His Majesty's territories'
invading hie Maritime rights, our resistance would have bee
neerbeary-, aid oar warfare legitimate ; and that, 1104.11. suet
circumstance!, this House would only have had to revs,
that Him Midasty should have been advised so lightly is
ahead**. thraffnros and erscuals of that country; ter, that
had tire alleged danger been real, the possemion admit
pet* oariag Ow war wonid bare etended the but sectuas
wriest that danger • 'tastes the abandonmeut of them Ls
WI, left us snore than etre exposed to it.
Mat that we cue entertain no Mudd, that instead of et.
gaging is hastOCkagats, Dematut wished only to eai.atas
her neutrality.-4hat this act is proved even by the 11,,p0.
feet documents whlchliave been laud before us; and is
tiortly ar knowledged to the proelametion issued by ills U.
-jesty's cuunnauders, row diakly Leto.. the attach.
•••••111hat not only waurHenciaoh no pail. to etch a kn.%
hat we see no ground to !,,dirve that she *as pricy to it;
sod "the vary fact of as no m& is, to say the least, is the
bkvbeet degree questimiehle.
conclaskiii of say secret articles at Tilsit, IL
feeling the rights or interests of tb's esiu..iry, appdin
havc beeapmforwilr'deisied, both by RUSAIA aud hearts
and that The con eapoiseience of 14 ma Al %jest, 's Secretary o'
State, and the daisy, of the trainsactiOna, prove, that ear
tile; hits Wursty's Miuirters tscre anti,
moiroession, eat them when the attach. was ordered apes
petilitigen. •
That His• 510 a-sty's Ambassador at St. Petn•shurg, is a
odielel vote, rested the ilefeece of that measure, ~,,t us th
hostile purposes either of lleamarL, or of HUSAIN 111:t oiled
se *Mee which it was said tl.e Pre nth simeraineot ha
long bees known to eutestein.
And that Ilia Majesty's Ministers not only advised Hi
Majesty to abstain from those measures of hostility seam
Russia, ohich it um their tduty to have recosonienskil, ha
they madly :believed is the existence of such eaglagemems
but th 4 actually solicited her mediation to extinpaieh tee%
war, and her penalise t.i4frat they: projects, is Anti ii
is mpg pretended ahe was Wren to have been a prime:id
'fwd f,ustrocting patty•
flat allsgations thus inconsistent with therm .:ses, ant
aontsary to admitted facts, wakes instead of slaport Usi
. ease to which they me applied.
That. with reaps et to the pretended necessity of the en..
we beg leave reapeelfally to assure His Majesty, that
.cannot thick so measly of the pewee sad resuorrts of .Nn
• empbc, of the spirit of his people, or of the valour
disciplole Of Ids netts and armies, aa to admit that seth
as
act ematd have been requited fur any purpose oi
.cites a
WI
ration.
dud that, whatever temporary advantages the pcsas,as
of the *bile. *IA iltvie .1 lath at 4:ol.eliimltelr Mr! a 11...
heave Leto more than count. &alarmed by the increased aar
ger* arisiug from the menace .ia which they have h. to
adenoid.
That this me:our., so highly objectimisbie bath Is put,/
and to prineph rued the alga her of um ammo,
tree anirasted ag:.inat Us the. passions of whole avhone, o;
brim.: were hanicatily diepmed towards ris, sad has, .1..0
all, shalt u out' own Ecmume to. the javhce of cur t;-1140 •
the only sentiment a 6ie,b has hitherto upiuld us ia
didkulties ; tutinuanding the respect 0. 061 I 1.1.41111.1.,
limekiln; our us U people will I CUUII.I. nt expectation,
the I..!essitig of l'esividetice, of a 1W0:56d tenntaatiotiof
keg and ardtmos coolest.
Thai we sue tier auwilliag to pronounce definitively on
measure, the whole grounds of which ate not 10,100 at
but that, io a case winch shoot all others requirtil
clearest proof, we have the deep moo tancatiuu
of hii•
compelled to acknowledge, that C.rry prilmnaplioa
agaiust its; and that no particle of evi,tr. cc has )tt h..,
adduced, us which we can safely rest the defence of
country, from accasatiuus the most injurious to our ue
timid rheracter. -
Mr. Wntrit.gY STUART said, that the view I.e
took of the question was, that we had a right t•
take away from a neutral thistle means of Wis:, e
which we were convinced would be used agai.,4
us. Such was the real foundation for the wkle
transaction, and not that we had a right to is k
a neutral under all circumstances, although or
He certainly should agree with the 110.1,
Mott r, that if tin re could be a flagrant case
nlntle
out against Ministers, it Wits the tlut:- of l'arlisunnt
to Lfrug them to trial for it, but in the prevent de
Manor, nothing that had been stated had had voy
etlect in making nil unfavourable impression mod
les mini]. I.prott the contrary, the *hole of their
conduct tended to mitke a different itapreia6o.l
iisomitch. that if the presci.t unniou was triec•"-tl
,
he should take the liberty of proposing a U.*
solution for the purpose of approving of what
they had done. llonnierrte had told us that tie
blockade, v.ll,ch he hall ordered. w ould lio
ImtiCr
pre stash as l'oll,ll be &toned, rate, n excluding • •
from tin. Ccntinent ; and s, hat C. ::',l ;IC 111141. e ,)
by till*, hitt that he would also .•,.‘ hide tie tr.'s
Denmark. and the other northern Forts of i-•
roPe ? The 'Treaty or '1..1-it was ;alluded to 13
some of the letters diatoil the l.ith of Ju:
and it on:: evident k :ow u at Kan
1111,11 thi• 21:II of that month. Our fleet saa.4
upon the 1!)1...1 of July, so that it URA Clear n,
Ministers intiet hare liven Jt!tilltalittli With
Treaty limit 1K fore tin. attack upon Courni
(treat stress had hero laid upon the eirt11111•••••
of Russia and rii ere both d.•u,t that
were tirer.•l in that •rteiity ; 0,
inset to 111' it tlltt they Utotll.l .1.1.. '
Secret rto lea of that •1 Ow, „t. ti„..
tiules A
relate.! to tl r ,144.vortag up of the i, i-e
Ivlatids. Thee seer al..,livel to at the me, -

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