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London, England, 1818-01-28 00:00:00

THE rurtNCE REGENT'S Sl'Elf.(ll.

His Rov al flightless the Prince Regent's Spteclo
was then read from the IVoolsock, atte r which,
The Earl of A Y1.68E0111) rose to move the Address.
There could, he said, lie but one opinion upon the
melancholy o-verots a ith which the Speech had com-
menced. Who was there that wool(' not sympathise
in the sufferings of our venerable K log ; or who that
would not Illibtlfll Urt.f the untimely 1,/,'; of the
Prirtess Charlotte, whose amiable winth, hiah
virtues, and excellent molt istandinv, had endear'
her to the nation w genervl. 0;1 heir dr-cease, ail.
drepses of condoleirce pours d irs to the Throne from
every part of the country, evisicitoz the deep sym-
pathy of the people; end their Lordski,ss could
now, by their expression of sorrow. complete the
picture of oat • I grief. The state of the c,;uli.
try, however, ull'orded topics of proud congratula-
tion, and particularly as compared with its former
contliiiots. The revenue had Imen constantly im-
proving, 4onlmerce had revived, and the lone of
public feeling hail propottionably ainelOmited. It
was but fair to attribute some part of this ham V
change to the wise intasurem of Parliament, whir It
had counteracted the schemes of the disaffects 41.
In reviewing our relations with Foreign l'u* erg,
there were Ili) VII stances of greater
the •rucaties couclu led with Spoil' and hortugrl,
for the prevem into of the Slave Trade. The ever-
times of this countty with rospect to that plant hail
been exemplary ; hut the interests of Inosnonity re.
quired their completion, which the present Treaties
were likely to effect.
The only topic which remained fa biro to
notice, was the lastientoble deficiency of places of
worship in the country, composed with the increase
of impulation. To this subject it iwcarne -the
Ilouse to 611.1 their attention. In fa; ;tier reigns
money had been voted by Parliament far the erre-
lion of churches; and when the importance of tho
subject is considered, he felt confirleirt that Parlia-
ment would nut, in the present day, be found less
willing to contribute to such a wink than on any
former occasion. The Noble Lord concluded by
unbent); an Address to the Throne—which was, us
moral, an echo to the Speech.

Lord SELSEA, in rising to second the Adeirese,
said, that he should occupy the attention of the
(louse but for u short period—feeling that, after
the Speech they had just heard, lie should have
the less occasion for dwelling on the topics before
the I louse. Upon the late melancholy event stated
in the Speech, there could be nu did; rence of op
nion—so deplorable an event demanded all their
warmest sympathies. Only a few weeks had rolled
by since all classes of society had looked forwent
ith hope and joy to the birth of a Prince, who
would perpetrate the line of the Illustrious Family
which now swayed the destinies of the empire.
This hope and this joy Iced suddenly given way
to the deepest affliction ; and who !liar cietastelrreil
the merits, the emineet virtues of that amiable
Princess, did not feel that as lung as virtue conti-
nues to hold a place in the estimation of mankind,
the loss of the Princess Chadotte would be deeply,
warmly, and sincerely I:unrested ; and he felt a s al
and solemn satisfaction iii thus publicly off.a leg op
au humble tribute of sorrow at the ineLit.clialv
event that blighted the fair muse of the State, and
untimely withettil tie hest hopes of the country.
Turielog from this distiessing subject, the country
pest-Wed abundant cause of congratu!ation, and
partietilaily in the corttrastimig its present cotidithete
with what it had been when their Lordship% hail
last been called together. The count.
_v had at
that Wile been tiltrotor(' with anarchy UIIII
rebel-
Ilr,u ; commerce had become stagnant m.m all its
chainirl%; and a deep and settled gloom and cor.-
stertiation hail brooded over the country, of a darker
character than ally they had experienced during
the lung course of the pre ceding hostilities. To
this, however, a triumph haul succeeded, a triumph
taut tadeeel illustrated by all the " pride, pomp,
aural rite iiiii 141141.1 :e of war," but rue whereto Witillolll
tied modes% blast CO racist! the desolating
spied of revolsitsusi—bad (rushed the seeds at
essarchy—aiel had te-rstabbilted peace, collll4:eine,
awl ttasiiptillity.
The Noble Lord then alluded to the iiierease in
the feyelitle, OS msnriourd ill Ihk! Pttuer (regent's
Speech, wail attributed jar happy ciiitutge ran every
part of the country to the wise and precautionary
enteistsres 3111.1110 lIV the Government. But if the
state of domestic itildlfN was thus C0119101:ItUry, thieve
was no less cause for exultation in reviewing our ru-
-I,itions ill' Foreign States. Alluding to tie
Treaties for the suppression of the Slate Traile,
laded aids Slauei and Portugal, the Noble
Lord co-untended the prison:el eseallllll% made by
the k'cu at the head of the Geit.rll.
ment in attaining that Itsititi.3li!ig
traffic alike iviolting tit the feellog% of limn .
and disgraceful lie au) Stair professiog the pared...
trines of Clit Wl.lllfly. Wttli respect to the lit ii-
cerury in the 1111Mher of places for public worship,
tier fart was Wu 1101.1110U4 to Ulllllll' titplatvitiusi,
Mid ill the argent necessity •
eUtreelltig that dr&
cleticy, there was tau necessity to urge ally ergo-
wrists. Many verbs of the Isingd 00000 , he I ourself il
to say. were epode devoid of ally means ci acquit-
jug moral instruction, which, as had be-en well ale.
served in the Speech, was the only sure latioudation
of m* al ptusprtny.
Earl SfAfillOPl.—'e in tilting to express toy set .
timents on tier present state of the country sealing;

is further from my mind titan to ol.ji et in the 1,1-
(Imes; but us the Speech from Biel-bourse is 11•11,11'
understood to he au exporituns of the slate of jll.-
hc atfaire, the debate oat it naturally all rile a 104.1
of entering ale opie.ion on the politic;
ciinditiots of rite empire.. I base not enlisted °side e
the banners of ally party. nor 01211 I imPliciitY
to the dictates of any inchtridoal: My role of Jet t
is the good or the people. I Mart aver Cord-111.1
au 11111111ra obedience to. ministerial pleasure. how.
tsar distill:pulled the Minialets may be by their
talents ; mid equally must I censure a eys-
teinai le opine' tiou, by whomever it may be
coridoctr d, bttt mote particularly she old I
condemn it against the present f. r
let us be guided by the experielice of leistor!.
by the events that have passed within our oletervs.
tion, tied we must acknowledge that ander the pro .
sent Administration more has been achieved than
the meet liiipea could have imagined.
They hare hewed dile:yrs that seemed almost ie,-
surmountable; they have steered the ve.sel of the
State through a tenspeet unequalled : but still the
pre sent slide of Eisione is calculated to itispit-i
anxiety and alarm. Were Ito k what d
(amid re.tilt front the liberation of the State Pri-
soner at St. !lel, 'la, wt le he even to land in Flatlet,
could such an event endanger the .talitlity of the
present Goverient nt of that country ? The rensweie
I fear, world be a tacit confession that the Goveres.
meat of France del not rest on at•y solid founds.
lion. The Kane of that country had turn twice
placed upon the throne by la hail been
twice enabled to enter his palace with the assistance
of a foreign force ; mini to the same force does iu
at this moineut owe not only Isie political jeowet,
but even his persoual exietence.—fileor, hear./--
This toter of thiligs w. calculated to excite alarui,
and jertitied the most active exertions on the part
of this country. To Fraoce our attention might t,e
be earnestly directed'. That coevetry hell bee I
twice conquered, compirrvil as ell, etnally as M.:*
1146011 that had ever submitted to the iron yoke 4.f
submission. compiret br larigs the right of de-
cidie g the destinies of the nanny, and rile victor.,
had been perfectly justified if they Ir•il proceeded
even to time partition of France ; however, fi e
the purpose of neeratel.sine log nations,
already too powerful, for a n, ul (lee county!
int 9 distinct and separate Govern isle ;rte. To my
mind, the best form of Governante., :Or France
would be such as it bad its the time e fJulstis
sar, when it was divided into three parts. But hey-
ing conquered the craintry, there could he MI dot.bt
of the right of imposing on the people any timers:-
meat the cotiquerors pleased, such as.
suage their malice and confound their lit-Vlt
'flit object of the All ed Powers is the parse ic.tiuu
of the tranquillity of Europe ; and it must be felt,
that the Government of Lutes XVII I. could net
be overthrown in France without Leen' Imre th
political system 4 f all Europe. 1., t us act Mae.
gine that a rtvolueon in France ecuitl br as It
was in this roust y, a tnere I
ceange of familSes;
should it take idae , it would be impossible foe
this country to r main at peace. We have hail
the tepee ieoce d f history to teach us this leteinie
that whoever by force or fraud should Ilmiertak.t
to disturb the eicsl.ng goveromeot of Fit,. ce,
must destroy the geueral peace ; th.it ese
again see the monies of France as b-l Ore, marchine•
forth to violate the rig! is of tithe r wheal; r
under the limper al Eagle, or the entl.letu, •
liberty. In estimating. this paint, we shoul.l
cider the character of tl'e French peolee; sloe
are the most impose spied nation In Europe; ti-.t
they had cuentiseoced their Revo!iitimi in host,' ly
La the rights of others, had coutmnmuii it to the
subversion of general liberty, and had team mated
it, if indeed it is terruitiated, in us most utik et lir it-
in r, artt r having tilled the aortal with misery. Fe:.
what purpose tiara acme they twice conquered
wilt avail the laurels that have been bravely Co,.
to what end has the battle of IVseterloo beers Futrell!,
nukes the po,ter thus acquired be exercised for the
repression of similar rails? On this ;molt I do in.t
express use own crude notions only, but those of
other persons better informed than 1 can im:l4-1,(1 1.•
be; in psitictilar I speak on the awl:in:iv of e.i
whose eagle eye had searched from our.
end of France to the other, anal knew the Overwrite
of society within it—l mean the Due d'Otraide,
better known under the mime of Fouche ; and this
mate said that the peace of Europe could not exist
a monwrit if the Bomb:ens were resumed hum the
throue of Fraser. I shs.ll here probably, be caked.
What ! dual this country ugein encounter all the
dangers and difliculsies of a war fur the sake of the
Boutbous ? To which I answer, that the Gov, re-
ment of Louis XVI 11. is but a therms, the *remit,.
of Europe the end. 11.1tli this feeling. I canto t
view without alum any isetention of removing Veer
Army of Occupation. 'Phis event should be de-
ferred as long u poseible. Every treaty ehould
construed by the spirit as well as the letter, are'
therefore France should not be evacuated I e"n
the coutnbutiusis be fully paid, before starer' •
time he snowed to the neiglab jig
erect a barrier Greene Fiance in the Low Cots --
tries and ass the Rhine ; amid lially, lbefore lt suit...
vent gunnel e had been gives to Eurol
fhr renewal of her former Thee a:-
vantages rass be obtained only by continuo% tile
Army of Os:colonial, und bum this I trust les ills-
Jest)** Abattoirs will not be drier-ed ley are
clamour fur economy or reform. These were the
principal topics of domestic colophon.. but they
were alf;;MI only by pervious to wheal) economy
'resoled soy elective of reteetschment, soul reform
any berries of change. ‘V hen the hitter comer!. re-
tom comes twinge the Douse, I shall lie peepere.4l t •
eitniesto the causes or my dissent f the citiniergi
lists are Reform "

The Moulins of Labs3orti--•• Nly Lords, in
Or Adair...jolt 1111bIllirLA to your Lori 4145 p., thine
are roue toint.s atotterri which 1 cato•ut atilft-r
pa.. tetttiout oloervstautt. while on ot;ter. I 4',.9 Ika
.„, sissy tittlerettt eof rottiow.t. Vihout
.toputittg a..y tdstitt: to the IS utilv Lords w;1.) hate