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kt eh tracter of the spte. I), the profuse and wat like character

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0.4 LIVERPOOL would mike an observation luit) the character
ov the Noble Lord to the Speech trom the Throne, lotto ehe
c ans comivcal 4)1111 the SlibieelS to vt.llich he had dray e the
ant nt on f their the tlships. The speech eel taialy did not meet
the exheseation of the Noble Lord, it he had expected what it
wi'n'd l!C lllllMietiCable to perform ; if he expected a total (-ince :1-
11wet of al III? *copse's, still an exageethtion of all hem fit.. Put
the teal she! (If the eiretenstaeces of the country was developed
in thio sp• ech, aml if it alotained from Ithldieg out hopes which it
he to a'ily. •he county 'hest feel rather obliged
te.ol hi.appoiethl up en tl:c *'cent rent'(' of ally one xpected evert
Which 'hoe eith I vhhoth or diheat. Ile would asset e4heir Lord•
ehip • that the ino•t mom uothitt intiiin to be put neon the S:peech
vya• that ah ell w:ts 'weed' d shoe' lie applied, nateel,, that pence
W ottei oil noon. a....peetley as posshble, riinhistently w its the character
of the fliiitesh -ohm. anti that letrenehmeets would he mhde
when.ver and whet:re, i• they could he made, consi.ttently with what
wa expedient, under exi.ting circumstances. He did not think
that tee Noble 1., rtl ((irim% ille) had given proof of that spirit to
hies ieht .:laded, when he s;.id he would meet the qeestioh
w tht mhht of a Judge. There never, perhaps, was a statement
neoehatc•hintorh to the wind of every iedividnal than that to which
his Noble Fite nil had ealcel the attention of their T,oril-hips, rela-
tive to onr naval alintn-0411 ai ion in
m 'AAerica, and the represeetation
itt. meite wandd not, iu the opprehehsion of a Judge, have here
in.s-eveeived, if it wa- considered vvith afar spii it to which pre-
Odic." was a strareer With reveet to the state of the veghtiations,
tt het th.en stathel from the 'flame that they were still pending,
alid the lespe of a happy termiention was expressed in tines by no
meahs equivocal. The Apeech from the Throne was intended to
convey Whim-, less than the idea, that however wanton the attseks
of the American Gevernment might be, however violent their at.
teo,pts to iejnee the ieterests of Great Britain might he, there were
eo .eotiments in the minds of this Gov crane:it which !need them
tefise any opportuldtv of put title an end to she horrors of war,
and sin'c'e these %stet would desh ato !cc the retta(t of tratignillity,
could have 110 objection to mitigate the horrots of whin hi the event
of its co»th wince. The Noble Lord f Grenville) Lad called the at
teethe) of their Lordships, to what lie chile() the iniestioe and in-
humeanity 01 visitieg the calamities of war upon the inhabitants. It
wets a hhrdsliip which every body must lament, and which every
leely wenid rsphohnte, but tliht pressure epoe the people was me•
ees:,arhh in eider to give them an idea of the vices of their govern-
ment, and stimulate them to pursue the means of stopping those
riaints nt hlehne sect: throrgh their cehntry, by firmress and tinani-
mity. !lilt the Noble Lerd (Grenville) had censured tho condnet
of hut ariny in America, and as an evidence of the guilt of that
army, came forward with the instahee of the demolition of the
plehic buildinhs. Could ;my thing be more urgent P So far from
tihniog our victortes ieto pethecutions, all the mildness of con-
yet ors ht,eueled the steps of the Brithb troops ; and never was a
War more humanity than that. to the ferocity of
which attention of thz:ir Lordships had been called by the noble
Lord. 'Upon t ve;y oceaFien during the mar, the most (-ached re-
spi ri vtiN paid to pris tf.' p VOIICI y. 1114111;Ipc, if the charge of
cruelty had bete tn.:1)4(111:d frem the 'British to the American sot
diet-, the war rei,eht deshqve the chataeter, for ruin marked
the proo;h:ss ef the latter on inhtter -whether the property
wait puddle or 1, ri v ate, teethe r the Ihtildiuhs were mild v
Or ulutri'ita:: a geheral devastation toltowt7d close et the
Lee Is of snecess. Towns were destroyed, families di iven out
ralsed eel honselchs in the depth of wither, where they soon lich
epee as cold as the snow that fell upon them. There was one
stance wit.:t it might he vtlcy appropriately wentioned as a eoonter.
talenue to the enormity of destroying the public bnildiegs iii
Washington. The Americans got pocsehsion of York, the capital
al Upper Canada. Ilad they any regard to the unntiiitary lent-dings,
01' did they rehpeet private properly ? In the first ease the town \VAR
sparhd without evpitnlation, the hail 01. the tsoldier was restrelieed,
ih the ether thece scenes of terror amid destruction often prcanted
ti, the. °vet-dine...hi and unresisting were exhibited. The British
enounsentder was to retaliate. Ire el.:1 eio from that princi-
ple tul wtach, in ;IA similar eases of extremily, the inclinatien of
the soldier most he subservient. Upon this occasion, Sir G. Prevost
wrote to Sir A. Cochrane, represeeting the necessity of retaliatiee,
teat who could say that in a‘herting this principle he was not justi-
tied? What, he would ask, could be supposed to be the keliogs of
the Ameticans wider all the circumstances of the war, at fleeting in
iv this disposition to retaliate, which their Governmeet had used
melt want= diet(((s to prohnote? Titeix (Ming (auti it was it very

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;nowt oney, that the war was unjust, and that the British Gov( In.
ment had acted, in the course of their nlilitaly and naval proceed.
lots, wWI as much temper and humanity as could be expected to.
wards au ettLinv who had walked in the path of unprovoked
With ropect to the state of the Continent, be had but a few wor.ds
to say. lie would call upon the noble Lord to consider the events
of the late war, the extraordinary occurrences that crowded tog. ther
at that critical me:latent, when the liberty of the Continent was to he
asserted, or to he lost. Sorely, if the Noble Lord reflected tipoo
all this, his suipri•r at delay must cease, and he must allow, that thi:
confusion from y ;deli the state cf continental affairs was ielieyed,
and the arrangement of the ,systcm, which had hero so enibaira,aa
end confounded, r quired more time for recovery from ordinary ei
vulsion. The noble Lord (Grenvillv) had asked, why the ileitis!'
arms should be upon the Continent in a time of peace, and was of
opinion that ale ,nlation was inconsistent with any measm c 4,1*
gaverironitid law. Bat atier such a ntiite *Wogs, as had note_
semblance in any transactions within the memory of 'Ham could it
appear that any rc gulation was extraordinarl, %vine!' grew out
of
those wonderfol facts? Their Lordsh;ps udglit not perceive the in-
cessity of estaldi,liing such a force, but surely they :dirndd not com-
plain of an onii•,ion upon the part of Goverment with respect to a
eeminonicatieln upon the subjeet. It might he remembe red that [lst
year he moved a resolution for a large vote Of credit, and distinctly
stated that it evonlil be expedient to keep a military tOrce upon the
Contivent mad arrar,f,sements ora lasting nature should lie madr,
intimately connected Rs !Li; precautionary conduct sea,: air!, the
interests of the country, he did not anticipate any ohjection t‘; his
vote, touch less did he expert at this totolant to hear the inew.nre,
which was Of old standing repre.hated. As to the state ()four ch.
culating medium, Lord L. had all along rev;s cited that slate, dimple
he had uniformly ascribed it to the peculiar eirelinstanees of the
war in which we mule en2:ao4.: and the events of the last !ix mantha
of peace would sulliciently bear him cyst in this asst.' fief': fer
during that short period Ye had witnessed the return of our com-
mercial exchanges to 114-11 iy their natural coi:rse, ev( n nadir these
circumstances of contionsd war with AnWelU.l. Of large arrears of
debts, and oohs itlestanding the expenditure created by a large army
on the continent.
Lone 611.F.Nv1T.1.r. explained. .
The motion vi as then put and carried.—Adj;Airned.