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advantages may arise, trade must eventually suffer
by the war, and be inevitably followed by a propor-
tionate diminution of credit and of the finances. It
was an error to suppose that England could in the
end be gainers by war. The advantages we possess-
ed in point of trade, had arose from the destruc-
tion of the produce of St. Domingo, and some of the
other French colonies, and the total stagnation of most
or all of its manufactures. The next view heehould take,
would be of the state of oar own finances, and in what
manner they were calculated to support the pressure
of a long and expensive war, sock :Is we should
have reason to exped. The Minister expected to be
able to carry on the war this year at the expense of
26,0n0,0001. out of which he calculated in a sue.
plus of e,e00,0001. in contradietion to which, he
would maintain, that in this year when we had
five months of peace and seven months of war,
the expenditure was not less than 3,390,0001
which, with other expenses since voted, would '
amount at least to 32,000,0001. and upon the whole,
when all the calcuLe! and estimates were wound
up, he maintained that it would be 44,000,0001.
In proof of these different positions, he took a re-
view of all the fimmeial statements of the Supply.
and Ways and Means of the year, in which we
could not follow him without a repetition of a con-
siderable part of the Minietes last budget, a task
we must beg leave to decline. He asked if it was
possible for a numbee of years to continue such a
course in so hoH.e, a cause ? What was then to be
done ? After a length of years spent in laboripus
exertions, we must return again upon the people in
a worse situation than we were in a: the conclusion
of the Treaty of Amione.
Mr. PITT here interrupted the Hon. Member.
He wished, he said, to know, wlit:::er upon a ques-
tion confined to the formation of an Army of Re-
serve, it was competent in the Hon. Gentleman to
go into a range of observations, embracing the
whole policy of the country, and discuss such ques-
tion's as whether we ought to have negotiated for
peace, and whether we were now able to resist the
enemy ? That surely was not the question of this
day.
Mr. JOHNSTONE on such a question thought
himself at liberty to discuss whether it was the
most advisable for us to have war or peace.
The SPEAKER acquainted him, that he ap-
peared to him for some time past to Le taking a
greater latitude than the question would warrant
him in doing.
Mr. JOHNSTONE then said, that after hearing
such high authority against him, he should not par-
sue that train of argument any further. While he
exhorted the Government to avail itself of the me-
diation of the Emperor of Russia, he was far from
recommeoding any pusillanimous measures, and only
wished to reserve our strength till the powers of the
Continent have so far retrived their affairs as to feel
emboldened to afford us their assistance. As to
the measure izself, all he had to say was, to express
his hearty approbation of it [This declaration seemed
at first to ot:ite surfir:ze, which was soon converted into
a zeal of laughter.] He, however, maintained,
that there was no inconsistency in what he said ; for
though he approved of this as a defensive measure,
he did not see how it would enable us to break the
power of Fiance.
Thi Hon. C. HUTCHINSON mentioned the
present state of Ireland to be such, that in the day
of danger this country might rely on a cordial co-
operation from it. He said that the hostile mind
manifested by the despot of France, was sufficient
to reconcile him to this or a much stronger mea-

sure.
Mr. ARCHDALE declared that he should be
very unwilling to undertake so arduous a task as to
follow the Hon. Gentleman who spoke last but
one, through all the circuitous routes he had thought
proper to traverse ; he should not, therefore, say a
single word about Malta, or respeCting the late
negotiation. The Hon. Gentleman to whom he 1
before alluded, had said, that we lost the affedions
of one part of the people of Ireland, without con-
ciliating the other • but he believed that Hon. Mem- ,
ber did not stand there as the Representative of the
affeetions of the people of Ireland—nor was he pos-
sessed of the best information on that subject. He
fancied, that if he had taken the trouble to institute
a scrutiny into the votes of the inhabitants, he would
soon find himself very much mistaken. The oppo-
nents of His Majesty's Ministers represented the
country as not safe under the management of the
present administration, though now and then they
found occasion to say something uncomfortably well
of them. In his opinion, the Government did as
much as a Government could do—the conr.try itself
must do the rest ; as all the necessary plans, or the
greatest part of the plans, were already befork;. it.
They endeavoured to keep peace, as long as it could
be maintained—and ware not disposed, like their
oppOlaClll4--
" Wooer helium, bellalidi quererc causas "
Much approbation of this plan was not indeed to be
expeaed from those Gentlemen who represent the
Militia as children going to be, breeched, as useless,
unless supported by double the number of Regulars---
that all was apathy in the nation—that when spirit
and energy were most there was a pub-
lic abandonment of them, an. This language, to
a person who talked in that manner of the failure of
public spirit, would be— •
• -laid rides ?
" ncti fibula narriiti ."
He would ask them, would not a levy raised hi this
way be as good as one raise.'_ in my other ? In what-
ever manner troops may be levied, they must be
trained, brightened and sharpened for use, before
they could le-brought into service ; and it must be
acknowledged to the credit of the authors of this
plan, that •they put the new levies under a descrip-
tion of officers capable of irstruaing and training
them to discipline with the greatest expedition.—
Now that I..ngland and Trcland were united, he
hoped that there would 1,,.• no distinCtion in their
lines of service, but that taey would be extended
to the whole United Kingdom, and all parts of it in-
discriminately; and as to the present vote, he trusted
that it would be passed with that sort of unanimity,
that the general and indignant voice of England
should reach the most implacable of our enemies
whether in the recesses of the Thuilleries, or where-
ever else he may be, so as to convince him that it
was the voice of the people, and not that of a war
tafition.
Lord DE BLAQUIRE complained of some
speeches being delivered in that House, seemingly
calculated to induce this country to surrender every
thing worth cuLlieratioa at the feet of the Inv--

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