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their condition lasi &en at all improve) by
the counter-revolution which hid been brought
about bv the mass of Austria. •Woold the Noble
Lord affirm that the happiness of the Neapolitans
us, better promoted. that their moral condition
was more perfect under the arit ee i:: istration of an
Austrian military force, then under the rule of a
coustitutional government ? There troops were in
possession not of Naples wily. but of Piedmont sod
of Modena. But. the doustious effects of those
hostile aggressions upon constitutional liberty were
not confined to Italy. What mischief had they
not produced in Spain? The horrible transac-
tions which had lately taken place in that country
',rose entirely froth the publication of the prin-
ciples contained in the State Papers issued
from Lit bach. By those Papers the Spaniards had
been taught tuespect an titlark on their independence
from withoNit ; they had been assured of the intens
'lion of the Russians to march through France, and
in that expectation *lose was it• owing that the ill•
disposed in Spain had been able to recite disaffection
In others. and had dared to avow their designs, and
!Promulgate their hmtility to the Constitution.
'Could the -Noble Lord be satisfied quietly and
pensively to view the ruinous operation of these
papers upon the happiness and tranquillity of in-
dependent but unprotected States ? The Noble
Lord owed it to Europe, he owed it to Isis own
'honour, be coned it to the honour of this country,
tar longer to submit to the imputation of being a
party to schemes and declarations which had been
an tyrannically promulgated, tin I so mischievously
acted upon. The Noble Lord and his Friends
commenced the war in 1793, upon the same policy
us that now acted upuu by die Allied Powers, of
interference in the internal concerns and domestic
policy of tadepenilesit nations. Instead of manfully
seconding the efforts, of France to resist foreign
eggrrasion, undertaken with a view of crushing her
endeavours to reforinher government. and to rege-
nerate her political condition, they joined in the
attack upon her liberties and her iiidependetme,
and persevered in a long, destructive. and expen-
sive war, for no eithet end than that of crippling
her energiesonal reducing her agMP beneath theyoke
which she had successfully. shaken off. And what,
after all, had been the result of their exertions ?
Would the Noble Lord say that he would not pre-
fer the state of the country ot-thut time to its pre-
Pent condition? Was he satisfied with the change
in the comparative elate of the two countr les ? France
was theu plunged in an ebyssofewil and of apparent
tone, but was now in d state of unexampled liras-
verily ; while this country, in 1793, one of the
most influential Powers of Europe, and the fore-
most to interfere in all question* of continental
policy, was at present so reduced. that either she
was unable to interfere with any effect in the Coun-
cils of Europe, or she bad become degraded
into a party to the inquitous system of policy
now pursuing on the Continent. Either the
Government of this country was afraid to re-
monstrate with the Continental Powers, from inability
to do so with effect, or it was a party to the prin-
ciples by which they were avowedly actuated. If
we any longer had a voice in European affairs, he
called upon the Noble Lord and his Colleagues
now, is in 1793, to interfere in behalf of the endan-
gered liberties of the entailer States of Europe. in
protecting the liberties of other natious we were
protecting our own, for he was sure that if ibis
country did not step in to shield other countries
spout the operation of those piinciples upon which
the Allied Powers had declared themselves prepared
• • to act, we should, sooner or later, be dragged into a
war which we were confessedly not in a condition
to support. The Hon. Member concluded by
moving the following Resolutions:—
That Ibis HOuse, the Hememotetive of free aad es-
lightesed people, has witnemed with the greatest cloacae
mid alarm, the events which have lately taken place on the
Coalinga' of Europe, and also the open sod hushing
avowal of pretessions, as Novel as they are dangerous, sad
which are to direct oppositise to the principles of our own
Itevolution, and to the indepeademe of all other nations.
That an humble Address be therefore presented to his
Majesty, reqaesting hint to use kis influence sad authority
to seems to the minor emirs of Europe their nothintsted,
sad till new sever disputed right, to choose their own form
of gewarooteut, sod aka to remonstrate with his Allies ou
the assumption of powers never before claimed, which is.
nudism sew principles lute the Laws of Nations, in direct
apposition to all former practice and precedeut, sad which
if persevered in and acted two, world not unify prevent
the establishment of all rational liberty, bet teed to reader
perpetual despotisms of the worst kind.
The Marquis of Lots DONDItanY said lie had lis-
tened with the greatest attention to the hinn. Mem-
ber, and if he dad not follow hint through the whole
course of his speech, it was not from any waist of
respect to the Hon. Member. !Int his speech
embracing the whole range of topics which entered
Unto the consideration of the foreign policy of this
and foreign commie', fur the last thirty years, the
House must feel that die limits laid down were so
extensive that it was impossible for him so to addiess
himself in reply as that the House should
be. able to come to any rational decoioo, or to
form any defined opinion on the various topic.
which had been introduced into the discusvion. It
was certainly quite open to the Hon. Member. or
any otber Getitlerean, to protest against the line of
conduct which had been pursued by the Ministers
of this country for so many years, but the lion.
Member had attributed to the humble individual
who then had the honour of addressing the House
a much more important share in the transactions of
that period than lie was entitled to claim. The
Hon. Member, no donlet, would derive much sstkee
faction to his nen mind from having his protest
against the vets of the Allies on record. but he
(Marquis L ) looked at the papers he had alluded to
a very different point of view born that taken by
the Hon. &leather. He was as attached to notional
liberty as any other mini; and the declarations of the
Allied Powers assembled at Layboch did not, as
fir es he suss able to uuderstend them. pmceenfruss•
any love of tyranny. and if it were roberiresse he
was On aware that it was for the Government of
this country to interfere. We Were the go:ocher.*
and peesetvera of our own liberties, and certainty
us friends of humanity in some degree interested its
those bf other naiiow. But if at was mount to he
urged that when any of the Powers of •Europe puts,
forth and statelniper coutainieig declarations of prin-
ciples for regulating t heir conduct in which that (louse
aright not feel disposed to agree. the Government
of this country was therefore to be called upon to
declare against it. that would be to make themselves
arbiters of the liberties and conduct of other nations,
au office which he certainly was not prepared te