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not to,have selected Denmark fer our attack. To
this question, which bed been.se often pnt,- the an-,
saver Ins so obitious,' that he wa'.s surprised to hear .
ter.s*Nis 'lf they -had-had 'certain information of
the hoiatils 'hiterttleass of Russia, • and-the ebjeet
whieh.therhad in view were not attainable by tiny,•.
other means, he agreed that 'Russia should have:-
been attacked. -It had been shewn, that the'objettt
sought from Denmark could not have been 'obtain-
ed without a prompt and peremptory force, and that
that objea.was`of the highest nunnent-to the secu—
rity of this Country. Au attack upon Cronstadt'
might'have been produ&ive of glory, but would not'
have diminished the maritime means that could -ba;
employ,ed against 'us, and which constituted Our clan-'
ger. Would it then have been wise, or politic, oe•
safe, to have passed the harbeur of Copenlingety
which contained twenty Sail of the Line, that would
instantly become the instruments of the Enemy'e'
vengeance against us, in order toexcente a barren'
bravado against Cronstadt; Where we-could -obtain
but three or four rotten hulks.- It-Was true, he ad.'.
mitted, that there were Russian .Ships of the Line
had passed through our Fleet's, and we had thtscheiee
of attacking them , but aware of the circurnatentee ,
by which the Emperor bad been rendered the frienk
of France, of the &crusting humiliations, to which
be had bilk-, subjeaetrat the eonferences of Tilsit;
and heping that his magnanimous spirit might stilt ./
be driven to resistance and aggression., his Mifiesty'a.
Ministers' hadstill cherished the hope that' the Em- •
pro eri Alm it would retracehis steps, not for the
purpose ofe renewal bf war with France; God turbid,
put in order to consult the*trtie interests of his Em-
pire. In the present circumstanees of the*wqrPc a
war with France would behopelesa ; butateli64
hopeless that the spirit and disposition of lii., prrilil~
might bring hini back to better councili. They had
strong groends. to know that the intentions of -Rus-
sia were hostile, but, in'the most hiaucpicions mo-
ment, they, were net without expeaations of altering
theni., The lie Ct. Gentleman had contended, that
this prespea wisnot improved by calling upun Rub-
sia to' s'anaion the buSiness of Copenhagen ; befit
was somewhat strange that sue+ an opinion shoal.
be tintertaued -by those who held that it was Of tki
consequence whether a Medialor was frieedly ter
not. He could assure the Right Hon. Gentlettian
that the Note of Baron Budberg, which he impated
to some French intellige!tce respeaing the ttansic-
tions at Cupenhagen, was not produced by any ducts
cause. The business of Copenhagen had been.
- known at St. Petersburgh on the 22d July, a week
before that -Note was written.; and if, Gentlemen •
refleaed that General Savary (Belated to the Em-
peror Of RuSsia in' his capital, they might easily ac-
count for the asperity ,of any note which might
have been submitted to his inspe&ion. - AU accounts
agreed in representing that the mind of the Coins of ,
--Russia was alienated from. this Country, and one
might easily conceive a reason for that alienation.
The expeaation Of assistance frdin this Country, (to
matter whether well or ill founded, was the cause,
not of the peace of Tilsit, but of the temper in
which it was conclu led, when-the 'military disasters
had rendered that peice eecessary. Out of twenty
Dispatches received froM our Ambassador with the
Emperor, there was not one' in- which he. did not
say, " Send assistance, or Russia will fail you ; make
_a diversion, which „will take part of the weight
of the war off Russia, or she will withdraw front
it." As, to tl,O charge, that the Expedition to Co-
penhagen was the cause of the hostility of -Russia,
he contended, on the authority of Our Ambassador
at Sr. Petersburgh, that the fad was not so ;- but he
could also' refer to. the authority of another Noble •
Person, who had an ample opportunity of knowing,
in support of what he .here advanced ; and 'he
should 'do this with the more satisfaction, because of
'some runiours he had heard that that Noble Person
(Lad Hutchinson) -had declared an' opinion sieca
his return to this country, that the Expedition to'
Copenhagen vela the cause of the hostility of Rus-
sia. (The 'Right HOn. Secretary here read an gx -
treat froM a•Dispatch- from Lord Hutchinson, dated
Memel, 9.6 th ofJtily,d stating
'antha there were
, ,
many Secret Articles in the Treaty of Tilsit—that
the predominant party in the Russian Court wes
French,' but that the rational' part of the nation was
against a war with' England—that it,was probable
the 'Secret 'Artieles' related' to Turkey, and to the
shutting of the Russian Ports against England, in 'the
event of the failnre of a Negotiation within a limited
time.) This ektraa would be sutlicient to doltway
any impression' that the runiours to Which heelluda •
ed- might. have 'Made, is if the Noble Wrttcr isif. the
Dispatch really attributed' the hostility of Russia to
the business 'at' Copenhagen. Hoping for a change
.of circumstances, they had-thought it better tOetford
to 'the Russian Gevernment an opportunity "of re-
' leasingitselt from the embarrassing engaaerrientainto
which it had unfortunately entered -at Tilsit ; and
when be considered the nature of the policy and
praolice of -thifrOeuet, when be contemplated the
anxiety which' it had -always manifested to maintain
its rank as 'Protestor of the North of Europe, and
the 'tenacity with which it still fondly wished to
cling to that charaaer, he could not suppose a case
in which every: feeling of its pride and atnbition
could be ao completely gratified, as in the sithiniss
siert of our differences with Denmark to the media-
. tien of Russia as Arbitress of the North. :She
could, thus say to berself,-,Aksea of- which I am
PrOteatesa has been violateth but those who have
'Violated it are.'o.laeed in my hands, snbjea to my
rnediatiOn. This Was' the light in which he was
Obefideet 'the 11011660 n to Ru4sia to mediate would
be considered by @very person who was a friend to
.'the true interests 'of -Russia, and it was so` consider-
:o 'until' the overbearing influence of Gen. SAVary
!altered the tone of the Russian Cabinet. But it had
,wlty net attack. Cronin-Mt, sand insult the
:Ernptio(in his own-Capital ? There was a great
li co,'-'4ty, or rather the mejority of the bettertficart peu-
ie Russia were anxious for-British eetmealon ;
but whatever might be the partialities of leAch!per-
gins, they must all feel for the horwur and glory of
their Conotry therefore it could not bedesits:
able to destroy, by an tutprofitable aitaek upon the
natiottal feelings, the nascent populartty of this
Country: We had the-right tatquestaanab4—Out it
was rt ditTerept question, whether, under the circum-
stances of the case, we ought to exercise it ?, Be-
sides; the obje& was not worth the cost and pain of
the undertaking- and the execution of it would in-
fallibly disgust rbese who would he likely to bring
back Raissia to let real interests. Those G-entlemen
who 'admitted .thit a • knowledge of the 'designs of