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London, England, 1819-01-24 00:00:00

hest security tor good morals and public virtue. With refer.
core to tams topic indepencleet of may other moisideratiori,
Lentil:iris would be pleased to find, that le. ground ICI dii;
ference of opinieu had 1 ere idiot led. flue le•Isle a tons had
etllllll4 rated several ether topics. into Which to" speech might
beer entered, ia granites° In I hose to which it brit alluded ;
but the humor mast be useare, them could-not hare
been isitiodneed without provoking that kierl of dismission
virllcit it is desirable at all times to riv oil fir atldie...es from the
Tannic.. Among these topics was the evacnation of Frame
by the allied ti 'voila, a meamirc on which the nettle Marquis
wished with apprelmtiam Hr (Lord Livcrettel) partook in
the it-thugs which had been expressed. Tee evornistion of
France, collided Nith the cirrudistames in whirls it took
place, mail the milliner in which the resoltition i•earding it
:II; the Allied Powers was adopted, nfiierrd :motor of col..
grAmation to every man in this country and in rerepe• Isl
the first place, it was iteairable that France should otter no
grittilidS on %%111(11 Ilie military occupation of her tr., oory
V.Olllll be nay looker coot; e.t. It was sNpdiatrd ht meads,
alai that military oCe:iimt MI should ream tit the end ef
years, if eirministancea wee,• sash tit ter: period as ter reader
4 continuance of it for tive years moods isaide, when it ass
Stipulated that at aircrews it should he at au f lid. Ey the
tuost *pretty termination of it, therefere, the Allies showed
era it wit. nut their wish to Comtisne it so long as they might
have dime, and that consequently the ineuaire appeared in
them originally one of tic-easstf.s, aud not of chore e.first.(
tholitue that the military occupation in Fr aare WIIS del ertUillril
oil, he had always tooked forward to the evacuation its a „,„.
more which, to be advantageous and agreeable to tam country
itself, must appear voluntary and ecrillift uti the part sit the
allies. The noble Ilas gide, in dateline to the ronditet of our
Grvertenent, ill its relations with the Allied Possess, in other
respeche said be si until not ',impotence an opittium ami be
(Lord Liverpool) approved of Iris forbearance. Falun. op.
;romantics woad acetic in which a &attention of cur foreign
policy worild with owe proprielyeind with fuller information,
t;,,ee pato.. ill (Lord Liverpool) felt, however. Immod iu
conscience to declare, that so far as he knew, tile: r never %yes
pet in the history of the wool tit when so general an one.
iety pl even( d la preserve the peace, when the causes of dis-
turbance were 1,(.1 c. pletely removed, when notifies and So-
vereigus were more divested of ainbitiou and marble lull !ews,
and when the neceseity of repose and the spirit of coneiliatii.e
were more thoroughly aek nom :edged or mem! neon over the
Eui (wean eimminnity. He (Lord Li fereool) rimgratelatcd
the House ou the improvement iu the revenue, n 1.01 had lit en
iirogre3sivr, and which bad te.'aest place pi.iiicipWle in stirli
arriclea as, white they contrit.mted to the iteetbsiliev of the
Stele, Mies ded,by their consumption, the means of estimating
the anielithation of the eircumetatices of the liceptc. Into
inch details it was not now the proper time to enter. Hr ad-
mitted that it was the day or. the Adiuites ti at inn to rittle.tvour
to eb'ect such reductions in the public eetaideMment as would
place the country nn a yodel foundation in point of rev Cline,
by its expcmhture within eta income. Tilts was so
object which ought never to be lost sight of, and elect, had
never been omit of the view of Miiiistets. The rednetimis
which hail taken place since the peace is et.e great and utopia.
cedeeted. It was not euiD4UUis for any taxed to be Abolished
dieing the first year of a peace; but since the last prate no
less titan 17,509,0001. hail been remitted. Whether such a r.-
diction of taxes at a tisoe that the poli:ic debt was so great,
indicated a in ise policy or otherwise, was a enestion out which
lie would sot now enter, but the fact was stteh as lie had
stated. The question of our finances wait one that ought to
be looked to with anxiety, not only with it view to the ittiptort •
meat of our revenue, but the reduction of our expenditure.
He (Lord Liverpool) hoped that it would appear Irons the
papers to be laid on the table, that no unimportant beginning
had been made ill this great work. It would then be seen
that the cuuntry was by no Ilie4lls its an uneatrafactoty condition
regarding its finances. The liable Marquis had alluded to
the ryeetWUls of our eollitirytneu, Arbuthnot and Ambrister ;
and the nation was :Swine, from the public prints, of Ilse
cunistatices in which that execution took place. Wheu the
proper period at rived for discussing this subject, lie would
cuter into the fullest explanations. At present lie felt the
impropriety of producing detail* which could not he delibe.
rattly examined. To quiet the minds of their Lordships,
however, he did nut hesitate to state that the executiun tre,k
plat e without the authority of the American Government ; that
the act was done without their consent, lied even without the.r
knowledge.
The Earl of LAUDERDALE could net feel the extremesati*.
faction proposed to be repressed in the Addreet, at the
flourishing state of the country. There had not, in his opinion,
been such pains taken to reduce our expenditote which :t
was the day of .goyernment t• halm taken. We had now
31),000,000l. of taxes, without including those war lasseewhich
had been rendered permanent. Huw was it possible to
imagilie the continuance of high a load of taxation riming
grace ? lo the course of tile American war additiosial taxes
had been laid on to the amount 0f.5,00J,0401.; het so far
were the otin4tea a or the pal Ilament of that time front con •
eidering such an increase of the politic burdens as a matter of
course, that the most rigid inquiries were institutcd be nom-
. illittece of the house into the necessity and-expedieney of such
no increase. The consideration of the commerce of the
country naturally led hint to another subject intimately cue-
fleeted with it—he meant Ile) paper curie lief of the corm try.
Ile recolkcted aubinittieg to the house the propriety of an
luquiry into the state of It during the last Session of Per.
liainent, and he should feel it Isis duty to renew such a Motion
in the prevent. He recollected also, that the noble lord
opposite had then said, that the Bank Restrietion Arewutild
expire on the sth ofJnly,and he held out es pectatietta to the
house and to the countly that he was Bethany in making epee
a promise. Indeed we had now dealt so loog in paper inotteys
that we had nlirtost forgotten every thing let:fling to • metallic
crirrency. The Bank. had, indeed, in April last, pin 3,300,00
sovereigns sod Ifulfruvereigns into circa:slims ; but it had
since vi Wield tee circulation of them, beeause it had tbs.
covered that each oldie's could be (lisps:end Of in the anal wet
, at sixpence profit. His Lordship then (milted this subject
fur 'labile, and abided to the disturtottsees which had lately
taken place in toe manutacturing districts, regarding the re-
Aimed state Id ti :Age!, aild erlpietimAlliit yet ipeiction that they
were now over. lii his opiiiiou the wages oh the mantifitetuter
were antficie: tly reduced ; aud with a view to Kett
.e-lfentotte, and tiro advarstime of this iiiffercist breaches of lilt
ii4vy, tie had proposed, Illid should 41(4111 pioruse, Oita they
should be pant lii Ito other coin except the coin of the realm.
A Lille of peace was a fit time for suck a discussion ; sod he
abould theretore coil the attention of the Utilise at au early
,ierirot of tire Seasiun to the present mode of payirig the navy
in bails, whieh aotortimes rendered the ,censer of them liable
to Si dosil 0E35 Iles eral. He tili,letl Mat Ministers wunitlso
fully and fairly along well blur in such an investigatiote which
td lihn appeared Of the higuest imperiaticc. The Address was
Abet! pub and carried without a division.—Adjoulacd.