The National Register.
London, England, 1814-11-13 00:00:00

make race, I think I i
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to convey a desire tor peace, as that ire the sv.eerb. It is 3..sleg
when an.ooportinney offers, we will make au ion' ural.le pe tee,
no light is LoYCH us to judge of the causes 4,4 'Lich eauic,id I peace.
I did think it was important to the interest of tile country teat 41 tie.
claration should be mad! to Parliament,stating the amend on 'elicit
we are to continue this American war. The war %%4% and is, I dill
decidedly of opinion, a war of ageravation on the part of the enemy.
From the moment our unjust Orders in Council were repealed, and
America declared war, it was a war of injustice on her vett ; but I
hope we are carrying on e war for the object of peace; net a war of
resentment; not, as I have heard it is, Out Gotf forbid that men
should tel such animosity) a war of punishment—that is not the
:retina which a government should entertain in conducting war. I
am the more induced to mention this, from the unhappy circum-
stance I before mentioned, namely, that the war has ehauged its
Ammeter. There is in the Speech a sentence in which I cannot con-
sen',
became it expresses satisfaction and pleasure at the state of
the war. What I meat is this :—ti has been for a century the ci-
vilized practice to make the pressure of war fall on government.,
and as liglicas possible on the unotlending inhabitants, who are not
'evoked in measures of govarnments. I say there are two distinct
instances of a departure from the system of civilised warfare. One
occurred at the occupation of Washington. No man can admire
more than i do, the courage of the army ; none can regret more
than me that the victory in Nmerica should be damped by the re-
Election that the brave man who :aired it, did not live to partici-
pate in the honours and rewards of his country, which he was euti-
tied to share. Having Tendered a
.0,1 Wante to our 4allatit amid
distiuguished officer, he was induced, by a regard for the saered
principlcof humanity, to compli,in of the conduct of the trerph in
Washington, ire destroying the pubic buildings. They destroyed
the palace of the President, and other eitil buildings, weieli his
Lordship considered barbel ons w arfare. never adopted uy the fero-
cious troops on the continent, exe,pt in the instaere of burning the
Kremlin at Moscow. It was with extreme regret he couttarplated
the destruction of the military was an act which
nothing hut a principle of retaliation could have justified, and if
that cause had existed, why had not proclamatinn been made, for
the purpose of showing OM a terrible punishment was not inflicted
without ground? He called :you the !loose to reflect open the eon.
secinencee of resorting to lieu modes of carrying on war in au ene-
inv's country ; and if the ieioelien of any system at' 4iPtAteiti di&
ferret, and appaiently inconsistent, with those Lty which war had
hitherto beee regulated. should be deemed necessary, it must be
seen by ..vary Member of that House, that Parliament should 'te• put
in paw •se.s.,)n t f the Cd'euinstaLees which rendered it expe•
With respect to the contiaent. and the delay of tre I;egutt
he le.d a fi w words to say.—Vtriiarecrit had assembl, d, a dt:111.
tion had here given in a Speech trom the "'lrene, of the state of
our alLine in regard to Ametlea, and the gratil'Ang prole:et,
which the trairpdlity of the sarromuling aati, e- esented, hae, not
one word was said of the British army, kept up in British pay, twou
the Continent. He beeged to know %vile:her Ministie.s meant to
neinuate, that such a fact was a matter of no importuner.? Whe-
ther the maietenatice of .10.P60 men was a matter so trivial a‘ to
&set ve in notive? Py what authority had such; a dispositioa of
the military force and money of Great 13i itaio been maO'-, and uy
what train of argument could 'Jite power of the Eli .g be asserted to
keep up a steriler army in time of peace with. ut the aueaaity of
Parliament? What could be n.-cessier main'aining such an
army and so numerous in a time of fell er ? At a pei lad ehen
the people had a rigid to expect a mates ial diminution of public
ex;,,,tista, was it pu.liic to add to that exprwe bitch extraordi-
,ry means? The NaLde Lot d did not know unt preseot
„lances night require the meestiie of w Niel. he spoke Nat such
e,tabh-Innent sloop{ exist. Iltit cc: the ititentiun sinvlJ
have been comanoticateJ to Parlianolit ; so stupendous and a•;o-
-nishing a fact 4iculd not have been court shed toi: a whole year
Lordthip here took the opportuni:y athertingto the ilti;!es
o!1 the importltion of foreign corn. he abhorred the Idea ot taxing
that article which gave innuediate support to the pi:or it t 4 as, he
said o , an act of tn 4 ni;oiitest impohcv, as •Nsdl as et inhumanity,
for it struck at the interests it was intehdc! protcel. LI the
landholder it would prove grolually injurious, ,thil'• to al.. tee pint
of his Majesty their 's subjects who lived by labour lt
ots • elute:
no less an evil than sudden beggary. The true root of the evil was
in the present state of the eirenlation of the cout.try, and the only
remedy Was the manly resolution to inet-t the salucet with rti•mitePs.
Re concluded by stating. that thoogii there were some pomti'M
to
the speech frame the throne to which he had irreconedeaule .• c.
tious, that to which he felt must repugnitacc was the profuse eud