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Mar stilt France—Prussia struggling, aid anxious
to dismay/le herself front the thraldrom of the latter
power; at this particular moment to involve her in
a new war, however under the particular case it may
be reconcikable with justice, was by no means con-
kstent with the principles of a wise and liberal po-
licy. But let the House bear in its recollection rfie
motives which have aduated Ministers on similar
and aualogona occasions. Have we rot submitted
so the exclusion of our shipping front the Neapolitan
ports, and were we not inllurroceed to yield ro that
eaclusion, es weir tale rei ? W sit not natural to
conclude, that when Prussia was committed against
France, views of a more general and beneficial ten-
dency, suited to the nature of the crisis, and calcu-
lated to advance the predominant objed of the
country. would have engaged the attention of. His
Majesty's Government ? Indeed, pidgin, from the
observation ir. the fast note of Lord Lauderdale, tee'
the .Frettch Diplomatic Minister, wherein, that Noble
Lord enforces the advantage of a peaces:oh Eng-
land, by the strong incentive of Lining the 'lowers of
the Continent into security; it may not be nnreason-
able se assume, that with the feelings of Prussia,
strong against France; the forto.er Power was ac-
celerated into *as of hostility, ie order to lorevent
drat pacific conclusion. whids seems to be the g0..4
vernlag pair tiple of Plielitejeetv•l Monsters, and,
• winch, if artiestitittr.itett, 119n11,'grprk.,21;-
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strtiffive to* friulLoilibekets or Pettish": Pols Sir,
in theproiresi..ol, Nerciation, one (a& hat ie
no orsary degree iMprisid me. I allude to the
coerespeodence of elle 14th of Jane, when, on one
and ilium* dal, two letters were written to-the
French Goiernment ; 'the one official, the other ra-
ther in the shape of a private communication. In the
Official letter, there was not a hope of any thing like
an amicable arrangement; whilst the spirit of the pri-
vate communication was truly pacific, expressive of
the greatest satisfanion at the strong probability of i
a speedy adjustment of the Causes of hostility be-
tween the two nations. This, Sir, is with me another
very powerful wish tohavcthe official docume.ntspro-
duced, and though I offer, in this stage of the qua*.
tion, uothing in the shape of a charge against Hie Ma-
jesty's Ministers, yet I must appeal to the feelings
of the House, whether there exists not sufficient
ground for serious anxiety and apprehension ? I '
have now to request the attention of the House to '
the obvious and natural effeds of this protraded
Negociation: and here I confess, that there are
evils, in themselves unavoidable, and intirely loci-
dental to the circumstances of the case; when a
commercial country, whether commencing war, or
negotiating for peace, is either kept in a state of
encertainty. by the fhtSuation of the public cowl- ,
coun-
cils. Of suddenly impeded in its speculation by a '
diversion of the ordinary channels. But consider-
. in; it id its relation between the etontry and the I
public servants, it bombes • queue's,* of neeessem I
importance, strialy to inquire, whiehee, in the pro.
geese Which has heft made, any this bits been
done rashly for whether the various interests of the ,
coutitty Ifave Pot suffered from an unaccountable '
pintraiiliin of public credit, m peculiarly necessary
to the existence of is commercial country, which iiitn.•
variably iojered by this awe of &attacks' and on.
certaipty ? and never Iles this state of suapense to
generally prevailed, as in the progress of the... Aide
din-unions. I will not dwell on the evils 'Nish
protraßiNi is so calculated to produce upon. the
public prind ; f.w happily in this count:7, the coal
of the British people has never given in, hat neier
yielded to the most trying and severe difficulties.
Et, therefore, becomes Ministers to 11.11,W, that the
delay which has taken place, the uncertainty which
has prevailed, the protreition which has been so in-
jurious, are not the natural effeins of mismanage-
most or indeciiion. Former Governmerte have
been induced to enter into negotiations of peace, out
from any w.int of reliance on the power and re-
sources of the country to persevere in the airiest,
not from any fr;ar of the menaces of a boasting
enemy, hut merely hien the natural result of A
popular Constitution, which made it necessary to
convince the country, even from the prctcusions of
en inveterate foe, that there was no other ii.terna-
tive, hut the prolongation of war. Bat His Ma-
lestes present Ministers have ro such neer:sky. to
gland in justification. Nicer was the nation more
unanimous td prosecute the war,—cever was duet
ss impatience eiewened by the
.ptoplo at she comi ,
eithce of lineilifies. 'The 4octation for Peace
' i iritiiio their.inen-meisme, . therefore are they
leireoll exclusively revisit!' le. Indeed. 40-
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Ftater been iffeii it/spec:sums in favour of No-
jewel. due thit item to have formed a semi- •
soul. Sr rether a romantic affeEliou for its eo.loY-
4ent. Doped by their own hopes, they have to-
tally prepared themselves for that result, without
spy view to those measures and peepitatlons which I
were tbp eons= and iiisepiyilde Ole& of kheir
i:t•esieelosie: AU their fatosetife projeas have
. Mined ideV, les tib: ar all *pelican to site or-
illiellis IN fbrentsil. The Training AEI was for.
pellella ' AB the powerfel end efficient means of re.
oeusillot the fibular force bad intinly dissipated ;
Lauderdale
ensM fortj.eight-hoins after the arrival of Lord
Lauderdale in this country, were the instruelions
. commenicatel tie the kingdom.
Look at the, niche
cyst. in of their ioternal defence, and you will tind
one tissue "I insiolesce, indecision. and inaelion. In
their condoet on foreign policy, the same inattivitys
store prominent, presents itself. Was it eten en
armistice that had mien coorluded between the two
countries, a greater inaditity could not have pre-
veiled 1 Were the teems of that armistice the most 0
nrialy guardA, or as it, in ifs eanstrudtion, the
dim Ontatourable to any thing like a hostile move •
Monte the military opetaitions of the Ministers,
led the campaign of Plymouth, would, under every
`llithlasstance, bettlly tolerated. It es true, Gene.
rallßeade was sent with three feoknents to the
Mediterranean, but he did not sail till the 15th of
May, and did not, of course, arrive at his destina-
tion until the wretched Calabrians were totally
routed, vii%ms to the delinive hopes we had held
oat to them, and to the confidence which they
found so fatally misplaced. When the Ministers
thought it almost time to all, their aftions were
equally reprehensible. At Plymouth, Me great
theatre of their military °oneness+, the expedition
was detained, to the detriosent of the service, and
to the extreme injury of the health and comforts of,
the army. At length foe Expedition, under Gene.
. eel-Crawford& sailed, aid the esiww &if -wont for '
Sicily—to Sicily, where they were not wanted ;
and *hen in the South there was no probable hope.
of any exertion against the common enemy. Austria
was neutral, and any support front that power pre.
carious and contingent. In the North, Prussia was
the only power capible of a struggle against the.
domination of the French Emperor ; and a! such a
time to lock up the best part of your dispOseable
farce, on a service where its exertions could not be
:useful. and where its presence was unnecessary—.
M view whatever to the Continent of Europe, not 1
elm the German Legion ordered off till the return
of Lord Laoderdale from France. The Noble
Lend has said, that His Majesty's Ministers had
'so intimation of ant kind, with resped to the
.determination of the Prussian Court, until the 19th
of September ; although on the loth of Au-
gust a Military Council sat at Beilin, and con-
'eluded on twin measures which preceded the fatal
battle of Auersiadt. Compare this system of policy,
or rather this absence of all system, with the nature,
.irigio, and deugn of that confederacy which juste.
6:d every rational premise of success. until the
treason at Ulm led to tie unfortunate battle of
Austolitz. Ac home we had a large siisposeabic
farce. and St the very period had ao army of 40,000
inen, composed of hoglish, German, and Swedish
troops en the North of ~rmany, upon the very flank
of Prissia, with the Prussian kink on the Danube.
• lea, the rasisiat Ministers seem to have been

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nalelY itighged in effetisike aperattei; against each
other, and when, the vielory is decided, these is no
apology for the protradion wfdelt has taken piaci., or
the opportunities which have been suffered to pals
by. As to that transadion which my Him Friend
stated as having created some irritatioa in the army,
I ;post premise, that for Brigadier-General Cm:.
furl I feel great personal reseed, but when i tee
command, spiced to the rank of a Lii:atenan:-Cete.
ral, given to the sixth youngest Colonel io the B-i.
tish army, I am not at all surprised at the indigna-
tion which such a measure must nanwelly excite.
Were any unforeseen or unpleasant circumstance
to happen to the Officer alluded to, the command
of so serious an expedition wool! devolve on a
very youag Lieutenant-Celonel ; a cireemstance is
itself peculiarly obidtionables not t mention the
difficulty experienced in Ending ril,•imente •where
the Commanding Officer, were junior in rank to
that gallant officer, and in semi eases where the
officers were afleally withdrawn. From what has
fallen from the Noble Lord, relative to those prat
mei gallant nil:ls:en Sir David Baird and Sir Dome
Popham, I have only tp appeal to the feelings of the
House, aid most earnestly entreat them ant to sef-
ler the charaSers of men, who have r. nderecf le
their country such sign 4 services, to be w..iis-
pered away, whilst engaged in the duties of
their' profession they are • not here to defend
themselves.—There remains one other topic to
which I request the attention of the House; I
mean the reason advanced by de ?fable hoed
for the nteestire of the Genera/ Eledioa. That
Nohlt Lord has told us, that it was determined,
in case of a rupture of the negociation, to appeal
to the sense of the country, by a dissolution of Par-
liament. How comes it then. that the letter to the
Lord Mayor. advising him of the rapture, is dated
the Bth of October, whilst the Proclamation. cols.:.
minding the last- Parliament to commence a mint
Session: wan dated two days anent:ads. The rnp.:
titre of the Neenciation, and the expelled return of
Lord Lauderdale, were known twos's-Lys previous
to the date of the Proclamation. Hence, I assume,
that there elisted no Oeblie ground for the dissolu-
tion. and that if appeain deeeptica had been used Le
the furtherance c,f some cleat:meeting convenience.
The measure has no ;recede,* sines tae Septennial.
AS I foe that of 1784. as the pentllemen opposite
dell know, stands on different and distiu grounds,
1 have ;hiss fliought it In incase:hem duty to sup-
port the candid exposition of tny, Right lior.oorahi•
Priced. near me ; and I am e\frifidene, the Hense
must perceive the stsiking answer leerwel, such an
exposition of fads. and the general intitries of an
Deposition. which was never latlitsed tO commit it,
self to pap...."
Lord HOWICK explained—With tesped to the
preparations to reinforce, in cote ti[ mecca. it
Bones Ayres, they were alitually seat forward in
the Sawa* traosport. lie. ; if successful, io step t
otherwise, so proceed ;it without Inn of time but
the reinforeeeihot of troops, it wag thee ueltst ado
visitable to delay, till the fall was ilitaTmotto.
The Address niscmyied witbeng a die'
Lord flO‘Wicli stemma sad Isla. sly lOS tree*. sv
• Wady yrs% rape?. omens

Monthly or , the tiverat to toe
late Segocistioso *Sib flume; mock .be misty to ha kid woe
eve table wore elm M a consWesuble state of tiammolo
nee. ; and as h mot tidied to 'direst the sub*t ate emits*
opportune*, be an woke' of &Amman to mkt Home ripen
iHe oatiddvistimi for .IVideseitdeo the Slit hilt.
Ms. Prlteffettgartatede thotAtia caudal •loittlerre with
1-41ns Cheiemaisli aortas! Heethemen. wee to
Sflisetle upont diareetinei arsethl he got of tint.- Ho
ihnught it rnaid not he attettlad with. au; vs!. gloat
venimace if we %able bard thou d poitpotso Jia motion • fine
days loogps . • •
Lard WICO: replied, t hat I t oar hiatellklllablititnianiste
bie Home, as ter et ho tiesid, eons:nest midi dl,OlllOl dvles
ut thought be eon* not defer tie F^'6l'
the Sel el Airman for whieft day KA Lon pti notice.
Mr Secretary WINDHAM gave notice lb* he Ansi.% n.)
Monday net, memo the Think. aI die Wawa, to Gathial Ste
Jams Start, ma the Were Oaten and Some* Nadu b*
command.
The Hands Chid vilissilie at lialf pea /level **Clad,
until Momsiefote, (this
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SATURDAY, Decimate 20, ''
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Ilk Royal Highness the Prince of WALES eat
tie I louse of Peers daring the whole of the debate,
last night. Ile appeared.in good health and spirits.
'The attendance of the Lords was numerous. •

I*. . lintlitt*To li•vveff, of the tetft
'giment of Font, wee brought by M LLCR, horn
Chelmsford. chateed with sending a challenge to
Fow tee HICK,, Leg. of Margarrt.street, Caven-
dish-square. Mr. GRAMay and Mr. RLAD, the
Sitting Magistrates, ordered the Prisoner to find
1,0001. hail ; himself in 6001. and two sureties in
2001 each, to keep the peace inwards Mr. limas.
. Mr. Ge AM A received information eta lA* hour.
no Thursday evening, that Mr. Pants and Colonel
Etsto re, were to fight a duel. yesterday morning.
io flydepark ; they were taken into custody, and
obliged to give bail in the sum of 2,0001. to keep
the peace

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