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of the universe ;- this was the great source of •
his apprehensions, the true cause of his wishing to
degrade us. He also called upon tts to expel the
Princes of the House of Bourbon, as illustrious for
their mistiirrunes as their descent, toether with
their Noble Adherents, who, after forfeiting every
thing but their honour, by an adherence to the prin-
ciples of loyalty and duty, and who fought for the
rights of hospitality amongst us ; as also these su:-
fering clergy, who resisted all' thA allurements of
emoluments and grandeur, from an attachment to
their vows and their religion. And while he did
this, what was the description of persons to whom
he himself afforded his countenance and pro-
te.ftion ? To a set of villainous traitors, who had
stained their hands with the innocent blood
of their countrymen, and made Ireland a scene of
civil war, and consequently of misery and devasta.
don ; men who confessed their 'treasons and villai-
ny to serve themselves, and concert more plans for •
scenes of future havoc ! But he Legged pardon if
the warmth of his feelings had betrayed him into
expressions whicli may appuar to some persons too
harsh or severe to be applied to gentlemen who in
former times might have been entitled to a better
chara.Fter :and description. lie heard of their bar-
. ing been spoken of in another' place as men who
',Might have been innocently lea or betrayed into
,at.(l4 of sedition, and. that any severity towards them
might he hooting some of the be of men from the
face of the earth. He also reit:leathered to have
read in the report of a trial which took • place
in sonic county, (Maidstone) that some of them • • --- -
were described as persons entertaining' the meet
liberal ideas Of true constitutional liberty, dm=
their psiamipkeinforthe present Sources, and
the .bistoey of Allialoiat -whoa the sevolutiott
here ennspietect difltssehlialunent ei the British
Coostitotion, lard the-happy statrof freedom. •onme
of which we still retained. 4 0 sweet and glorious
iiinqconce," exclaimed his lordship, " hose auinstl7
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y. We did not choose to interfere three points of view, which would still leave tl-44
anion, though in other times the an- field sufficiently extensive. Ist. Their condha in
r one of them would have been deemed agreeing to the Preliminaries of Peace : 2ndly. That
use of war; even the seizing upon the of Concluding the Treaty of Amiens :and 3dlv. 'fine • iii,
a, however inconsiderable in extent, progress and resialt of the late Negotiations. It had
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een considered as a fair ground of never been contended that His Majesty's Ministers
ring this before their eyes, and being had not come constitutionally and honourably into
a unable to prevent it without the co- office at a most important crisis, when their sane, '
her powers supposed to be more near- tine could not be deemed the most desirable. They
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DX' Ministers acquiesced, and conclu- found the nation, in addition to its foimer enemies, 4
T, after which they gave up most of involved in a contest with the Northern Powers, and ,
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st conquests made by British valour their first display of spirit was in the manly men- -
if the war—conquests important not sures they took to bring that contest to a speedy .
r intrinsic value in their productions and honourable issue, by a convention which could • :
sof commerce they must afford to not but be highly approved of by every well-wisher " ,
,untry, but also from the strong and to this country. After this, they found a strong ; 1
positions they would give us in time desire forptace pervading, with few exceptions; the '
i the Ministers must have thought was whole mass of the people. Through great and in- . 1 •
I speedily approaching. To those numerable difficulties they made that peace, on
ession which they saw exercising over which was founded the great popularity thCy en-
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though once happy inhabitants of joyed in the cation, for they undoubtedly made 11 • and the extension of the same con- it on the best • terms it was then possible to be
hand, our Ministers did not appear obtained. That they made it with since-ity, a.
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er so insensible ; they made represen- and in the 'spirit of peace, seas manifest frOm the !
:to the French Government, and sent great sacrifices they made to obtain, and all the I
s Switzerland. AU they obtained, efforts they subsequently and irreffeaually employed P.,;)
his interposition, was a promise never to preserve it. Finding, however, that it would
filled, that the French troops should be done without humiliation on account of the nut. i
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evacuate the territories of the Bata- rages, insults, and violences, exercised by the First • A
Previously to this their alarm, hos- Consul, they made an appeal to arms ; and on call- .
great, and so fully were they con- ing for the best efforts of the country, they laid
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aggressions and violations of treaty before it such a clear representation of aggressions;
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I complained of, that they could not the most atrocious, which rendered that appeal itte- 4.
re further cessions virtually to France, sistible. If they did not at an earlier period corn-'
illy to its allies, in that state of things, municate all the alts of aggression to Parliament, ,
rs that the Cape of Good Hope and it was but fair to infer, that they refrained front ' IN' • i .1
daces should be retained. But no doing so, in the hope of satisfaftion being made for •
. ley • obtain the bare promise that the them, until Bonaparte's increasing insolence forced
evacuate the Batavian territories, than thert to extremities, when they had no other ho- . t . I
raaktiess and inconsistency to send out nourable resource remaining. It did not appear, -
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s, dircOing that the Cape of Good whether they took any measures in the annexation i
ibably Malta also, should be surren- of Italy, but there were documints to prove, that ' •
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e meantime the Parliament was as- they had done every thing but go to war for the • .
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he Ministers, concealing all those vio- relief of Switzerland. They sent a confidential •
cious aggressions, made his Majesty agent into that country, not to encourage its mi-
( union, in his speech from the throne, serably oppressed inhabitants to an unavailing re-
n s ,
was in a state of profound peace, sistance, but to examine first, whether there •
=selves declared afterwards to have was such a general disposition in the Cantons -
once of being permanent, thus calling to try the chalice of arms ; and secondly, whe- -
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Iv a dangerous confidence and hope ther in the latter case they had the means of d
lithe Bth of March, when the coun- probable success ; because, if so, this country was ;
ern into a sudden and unexpeaed disposed to afford emit' all the assistance in- its -
: Message delivered from his Ma- power. On inquiry, he found that the people there,
i Houses of Parliament. It was with every disposition, had not the means of effec- . 1 (
ation to ask at what time and on tually resisting. When Bonaparte convoked an ir-
did the Ministers begin to make a regular kind of Swiss Diet.in Paris, it was not ac-
till
they were called upon to execute knowledged by a single Minister from any Power in i al
eof the Treaty of Amiens by the sur- Europe, and yet the Envoy sent by the suffering Af )
ta, which ties cabal/Et of the First Swiss to implore the assistance or interference of.
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f rendered it impraaicable to fulfil. other Powers, knocked in vain at the doors of all the
fter that time the Report of Colonel Ministers, many of whom would not even conic-
officially
published by the authority of scend to see him, Under these circumstances, Eng. . li •
ivernment, in which the First Consul, land alone, and ansupparted, did not think it Ord- i
lisguising his hostile views against dent to lose all the benefits expeded from peace by . •
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nit thought proper to give circulation a war for a hopeless, and probably unattainable oh-
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tending openly to insult this United jea, for •which reason the prudence cf Ministers t
ito degrade its charaaer and its Go- avoided running into araextreme so opposite to their
re eyes of all Europe. After all this, peaceful system. Contrasting this forbearance and
sters were weak and pusillanimous moderation, blended with becarung firmness, with
compromise the honour and dignity the violence and outrages of the Consular Govern- .
gn.and the nation, by meanly conti- meet, lie adverted to the new 'and extravagant de-
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totiate till numberless other ag- mends made upon us by Bonaparte, and dwel: with
an open insult offered to his Ma- much force on the unprecedented arrogance of his
:ntative at the Court cf the Thu- presaming to didate laws to the Legislature .of the V ' 1
t necessary to recall him. His Lord- United Kingdom—such an inroad on our free Con-
ipitulated all these insults, together stitution as to desire us to destroy the Freedom of
in outrages and confiscations of the the Press—the palladium of our liberties. But the
itish subjeas, and the aggression and faa was, that the deeparooted and indelible ha-
nding 1 .1
military spies into this country, trod which Bonaparte had, and would ever retain
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eof Commercial Agents, whose real towards England, did not proceed from its viao-
i take plans and soundings of our dif- ries and trioraphs during the war, on his own in- 1
s, for the purpose of facilitating the glorious discomfiture in Syria, so much as from ,
1 descent upon our shores. He his unwillingness and dread of exhibiting to the t
it constitutionally the Parliament had wretched slaves of his ambition suffering under
ea a communication Of all or any of his usurpation, the enviable spectacle of a free. 1.,
sted aas of aggression, as soon as they happy, wealthy and united people, in the full
nowledge of GovernmEnt ; and that enjoyment of the blessings of that glorious Con-
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al a right on every such occasion, stitution, so long their own pride, and the envy
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