The National Register.
London, England, 1808-01-24 00:00:00

PPOT EST.
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n►r rzwirnts, '2l, JAN. NW.
A motion was made to omit the fourth paragraph in the
time for an Address to the Throne (viz, the paragraph respect-
ing the Seizure of the Danish Fleet), and the question being put,
" That the said paragraph do stand part of the motion,' the
same was carried in the affirmative.
" DISSENTIENT,
" Because no proof of hostile intention on the part of Den-
mar!. has been adduced, nor any case of necessity made out, to
,ustify the attack upon Copenhagen, without which the mea-
sure is, in our conception, discreditable to the character and in-
jurious to the interest• of this country."

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on FOLK.
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W. FREOCRICK
A Wile
LAUDER DA Lll.
Gat:v.
DISSENTIENT, for the above reasons, and fur those that
!ow : •
Because, it has only been through the slow and painful pro-
gression °foamy ages, that civilised nations have emerged tro►l
a state of continual insecurity and violence, by the establishment
ot• an universal public law, whose maxims mid precedents have
been long acknowledged to be of the same force and obligation,
as the mussicipal constitutions of particular states. A system
a kith has graduirily ripened with the advancemeat, of learning
mid the extension of commerce, and which ought to be held
sacred and inviolate by all governments, as binding the whole
civilised World under one politic and moral dominion.
Because,. Alleged dePartures from the principles and autho-
rity of this public law in the :earliest stages of the French Re-
volution were: incid 'out, by the Parliaineat of Great Britain, as
the origin hudflistificatifiWor •the first war with Revolutionary
France, anil•becaasein'allits siabseqnent ?tars, the cmainuance
of hostilities was uniformly vindicated in various acts of state,
as being necessary for the support of the moral and political
order of the world, against the avnweddisregard and subversion •
of it by the dittertait governments of France, in their groand-
less and unprovoked attacks upon the independence of unotlend-
ing nut
Because, The people of Great Britain, on being r^peatedly
called upon by the King and Parliament to support the rublie
thus alleged to ha►e been violated, and to exhibit ;to ex.
ample to the must distant ages, of Wile s ible notional virtue, Ash-
mi ued to the heaviest barbells, and sacrificed the most essential •
advantages, rather than con-ent to any peace, is hick IS ac con-
sidered by their Gover►unent as an ahandonment of their Alija',
or as an inadequate security fur the rights and privileges of
other natious: And Because, it appears in malty state papers
during the progress of the v.ars with the different Governments
of France, that it was the duty and tine interest of Great Bri-
tain, and her pledge to the world, to maintain iuviolate the ac-
knowledged principles of public law, as the only foundations
upon which the relations of peace and amity between nations
could be supported.
Because, it is the first and most indispensible maxim of pith-
lic law, founded iudeed upon the immutable principles of Jus-
tice, that no violence should be offered by one State to aunt her,
nor any iutrusiou made upon the rights, p►nperty, independence
or security of its inhabitants, except upon an aggression by sac!,
State, and the refusal of adequate sasisfactioa t or in the rare
instance of lndispensible necessity, involving national destn,►-
tion, such as in the ease of an inch% idual tsould,justify homi-
cide, or destruction of property for self preservation: and be-
cause the observance of this rule should, if possible, be held
'mire sacred by great and powerful nations, it being time ♦ery
end and object of universal la►s to give pet ti•c ,security to the
►realest communities. Mater the Ithadeve 01 an impartial justices

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