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1 the meta er preventing die eamerineatioe
. ,of the plan, without any compromise of the
ehankter of our Ally, or any breach of public 1
faith cm the part of this errantry. We sent a si4rti-
• droll under the command of au attire officer to be t I
eat:rally on the spot—not to he guided by email - ,
• and univapported surioists--snot to proceed to
i extremity until the intention of France • was
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i not only manifested, but likely to he earned )
ir.to execution. There was this essontial champs- . .
I teristic between the two eleastines, that we went . ,
- determined not to marry ' the ohjoet •into effect, • I
t mail it wait evident totiii: world and to the Pore
• tuguese theueselves,( klort,there'era, no alternative
, between our temporaty:poareasion cif rho Ships or
their seizure by France.'
.41 'ether words, that ' ,
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I though compelled to the exeeutitur the means of
a justification were as nowifest *ab. the manure. I 1
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r observe, oo the part of the /lon. deolleliten opposite ,
a disposition to treatwith rithmile any observations •
i repugnatit to the monstrous principle on which they
, have acted, a contradictory to the gross misre-
I presentations in which their leidee has indulged.
t Those who sspport them meet every remark on •4 •
✓ this subject with derision. They, resemble those
s rustic auditors at our County Assizes, who gene-
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rally laugh at the very subject to which they wish
- well. They are not satisfied with their violatien of 1 i
admitted right, but feel gratified at the recollection
- of the atrocity. To such men I eigrasy with the - •
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Y " ca. sadist bot Mar owe rameedi „.,
Serve as a mom so thole ease r
A To return to the,main subject: I have never COD.
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o tended that it might not happen that a Belligerent
is has a right tuedopt ineaserea_against a neutral,
o where the weakness of that neutral is attended
with dangers to the former; but I have arid will
e iusist, that the measure adopted against the nen.
ie tral should carry, prima/air, its foil and uncles
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a viable justification. Bat these converts to the14 '
t, new morality are not satisfied with their new
s- schemes of policy against foreign states; they die • ' I
is trodue.e their new creed within the malls of this li
le Hoose, totally careless: either of the authentiritjr. of I:
g their facts, or of the mode of commumeaturg
I- them to Parliament. They conceive themselves
re neither bound to state the transactions to *Melt •• i
se they refer; nor hesitate to contradict the infer-
ar epee of this.moment, in five minutes to etimeoli- .k
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,te ' " Shall I ibe told," says the Right Honourable
he Secretary, oof tied iejostice,lbe outrage, and the i !
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ra irepolicy .of the attack on the Danish natittn, by c !
he -the heroes of Alexandria, and the:torooderom of • .
ds Constantinople ?" Whit,. I touw.tot'„'4ilt the Hones
cy think of a disctierion, wherpthic§-Aetlis of the irs. 17'1
Sly guments employeduee of 0 nettle "similible Ain/ f !
to? Discs the Right Wee. Secretary dike! net tb itnal*. 4•:
ip- that the attack on Alexandria intl..' II the Ourdweeeile
set were not attempted without 44 previom deelaratitie •
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ak- of war ? That the ofileers who commanded gn
. - those occasions bad miner orders to wait for mallet • ' •
sir from the Minister resident at the 'Ottoman Cal* :'
Is it thee another part of this new wisdom to,
hat accumulate statements and hazard aseertiom, •
t a which they must know, iii• a few miii*Ser,,,it will .• :. . .
be the duty of others to repeL After this .. . .
the species of digression, I will proceed to -titer -;, .•
the real merits of tins question ; wad Was I beg * ~.
ono attention Of the Home to • ,
ion brilliant speech of the Right , - , !'
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cud a speech which, notwithstanding-Ibn 4qpit, . e ..
My liaised, and epigrammatic prim* teriebiti CM
ado pawn of miumeng it inetailail, ban hos S.,
ins- mpted from the three been It liallitlifiddits - .
, to livery, to the small space of a slobber at ths.lll.ll.
ex- and might be reduced from the lofty velvets tribe
was contracted deciimoseirto ; for, thee all die ...
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em ; he had taken, alterall his working asitirant "
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and a headoma, at this point and at ea Was
tally arrive, that the attack on Copeobimen were Ebro •
Tribe sure of neceisity, but of the grows& of that zero
ight sity it was improper to make say comarmiceiliiitte
sing Parliament. He hie asserted that Bonaparte Tad • r i
rime determined on the seizure of the Dalai& navy, bid
1 that Denmark was unable to defied itselL Yet, t:
:eful from the information before that House, the fai-
t rids; sumptioos went all the contrary rttay. The Crown
3euts Primo proved himself determined to preseree hls
meat strict neutrality, or to die in the loot dyke,
little sooner than reiikuish his resolution. But was it
light even certain that. Denmark 'was unable to provide .
iript, against such intentions, I fay it wmsld have beets
t this better to have peemitted Prance to have had those
that • sixteen ships, rather than hive rerpeepata:d this act
, and of injustice, coupled, as it must be, with the
most execration and hostility of the whole population of
a has' • Denmark—(a loagifeari the Miritterial Besiel.es). A
latter The Gentlemen understand me not. It is itepos-
mself Bible for them to appreciate the strength of my rea-
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s de- eons for that preference. I repeat, it is impossibte
testify for them to estimate the vales of my motives, be-
lie in cause they themselves semis deed to any &cling for ,
ion at. national character and edictal honour. If we con-
sasure eider it in its two points, either on the right or the
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'twiner policy, it. is indispensable for Mimosas' defence
iciple, to establish the necessity. The moral character of 1
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ied, if the transaction dopes& upon that proof. lb en-
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to the minality rested mot on any of the aggravated
son of operations by which it was selected. It was net; ills
luded, bombardment of the capital, or the butitisery,
mpted that constituted the detieruss of this inesiiistit—
aist he, It was as an ofesce against civilised society,
libitum as a violation of that public law of Mitions,.
in had which, thoueh adverse on occasion% to the taro •
session ticular views of communities, was still .eitsdli-
lees of cive to the general interest: of mankind, that its I
C594...A.. ruinous efferti were to be considered. Wia it nos
e sent thing to inflame the resentment of a wise& peo .
he las- . to eafine into their breasts ao iaeec6e6liLis
d 'sari hostility, for no benefit, but the *wider eta teir
? We ships, purchased at the expense of national banosis
e since acid by the disregard of every honourable Fin&
imues. plc ? And fordhet object were we to make Maui-
" trot,ficPs ? "To prevent,' says the Bight Honourable
against Gentleman, .e the immense of !relied id the newt .
against spring." Wirt' betide the country that can
iin the yield to such influeour, sod risk. for tempo-
lie att. nary safety, the tootidationinf its exi-tense, and
attack the permanency of its ,clitgovrok lam not one
iforma- of those who are i foal of clamoring too
ou the gloomily tivon the dangers of deli countri, hut
t aide: I feel that ewe aporeiseosions for 'lrelaud are the
a army result of the ore:ions antiCinsam• system of policy
ne, for by which that part of thus imitair has taeti ',greened.
if il'or- 'ln that policy we wounds tee coocateration of evil
it. In to which one oi igireally hod measure gists bieh.
e took As one falsehood for ib ova support depends on
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