The National Register.
London, England, 1815-04-09 00:00:00

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parte mote powi•rtiel than ever he had been lisfore. With regard to
Inc drealifol mite of preparation which the Noble Lord had /winded
in the ears of the House on the meson occasion. it was plain to sett
thronehout the whole of that Noble Lord's speech what he meant.
He had said it is necessary we should be prepared, that in the • Te'l
of the Pnwereot the'Contiinnt determining on war, we may be in
a situation to act in concert with them. In other words, the Poweis
nts the Continent were to he goaded on into another war, whether
they wished it or not ; and this country was to be burthen, d with
the expenT of the etinte4. The N. ble Load had talked of the title
of Bo liamtiste to the Throne of France. Baunaparte hail beets
called to the Throne by the voice of the People; and he would ask
what better title couldhe have. Was it not by that title lltA the
pi Nein family sat on the Throne of Great Britain; and was it not a
title far superior to that of the nom bons, who Inal been I estored to
that Throne after a contest of upwards of YO years coot ineauce, and
which had forst this country torreets of bloom!,
onvOttand upwardeof 800
ndlli
treasure--a
%vitt. into which we had been tricked by va-
roms pretence., but which as Mr. Berke had justly said, was under-
' taken for Inc purpose of restoring the Rom-bons to the .1%10.0C ; anti
for that purpose the Noble Lord now inged another war, against
which he fin one must enter his solemn plain st. When the Noble
Lord talked of the little faith which cet:::1 he placel in Buonaparte,
he could not help railing to mind what had recently taken phice -
speetine the Slave Trade. The Noble lord had been negotiating
for months with the Potentates of the Continent, and with the 1.1,1 tr•
boos, to obtain the abolition of this abominable traffic ; tootis Lod
been given by this country to France, yet nothing eutild be obtained
but a promise of its abolition at a distant peried. The icesue
stetted was, that the Bourbons were afraid of the French people-,
yet back comes this detested Napoleon Buonaparte, aril not at ail
fratiog the French people, by whom he was said to be so bated,
aholishes this traffic al tri,•ellter. This was said to be hypocrisy on
hi. part ; it might be so, but if.it was7,,.he wished to God Le could tee
the Mioistere of this county guilty of hypocrisy so vie thous.tlumen might describe litionaparte as beingimpopidar ; lint facts
proved that he was not so. Had he been so, it wen have been
impossible for him to have marched through tlie country with
hariltid of men, fur several hundred miles, and nut a single Imed be
lifted up against him ; on the contrary, all these who were sent to
oppose him. joined his standatd, and accompanied hint in triumphs
to the Capital. The Noble Lord had deprecated a prematnre
cushion ou this subject. He, for one, did not wish to introduce any
such; he had "oily wished to state the reasons Which wotild totally
pievetit his joining in the Address, and those reasons were a per-
suasion, that the preparations i 4 going on were intended merely
to sow the seeds of another war; to which the House would give
its sanction, by sanctioning the Addres..
Mr, PoNsoNny supported the address, considering, however, that
he only thereby approved the measures of precaution resorted to by
the Prince Regent.
Mr. AVtirrunKßD could not view the Address iii so narrow a point
as Isis Right Hon. Friend. On the contrary, he coin(' oily coesider
it av a prelude to another war. With re'pect to the Treaty. of
Pal 1-, he could see. no reason why we should not preserve
Treaty wbicla we had entered into with France neuter a Milli-ban,
and with France under Boonaparte. It was said vie could not
it, because the terms of the Treaty with Louis vs ere more advan-
tageous than we cod(' have granted to Butoraparte. But toi (1
the. tionse had only the Noble Lord's assertion. Why did not the
Noble Lord lay the Treaty of Chatillon before the House? velairli,
though not signed, was in readiness to be so, and then the House
would know the terms which the Allies had off( red to linonaparte,
and would be able to judge for themselves. He hal heard that
by that Treaty Moo:parte was to have. enjoyed a larger portion of
!territoiy than any King of Fiance ever to eft. Similar offers were
I 'also held out to Bininaparti• in the Declaratihn of Frankfort, issued
; ,on the Ist of December, 181 S ; and he should e,' glad to he Wormed
' 'what onarantee wait demanded ot France at that time. What was
I the nature of the Noble Lord's sin reit t++-night ? Was' not the
whole drift alit neither more nor less than that this country and the
, Allies leaving pat themselves in a state tit
pnparatiu„ should pre.
serve the peatce only till an opportunity
oceurte'i uhcu they might
Itake France at a disadvantage, and ranee .iown ult'n) •r—( .ries
of no, 110 I)—tie was glad to find that the
Noble Lord diselai.nett
mitt throm.la
this
whole ot iris speech. limn:ay:ate let a.re
, netarson4 plan, hell appeared to him to letiveastihyom
oKlein
'world a history ot his alien his arnica! tie Buy of St.
I ..bian, and the Noble Lord had ta-meht..oe en the Home a harra.tiee
an account of the srndiu„ eel monapa re to the island of Obi, and
1 the koala Lord) had at out:matte
Noble
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ut opposition which he
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