The Sun.
London, England, 1801-03-27 00:00:00

naturei As.to the new .Ministers, the panegyric
upon the, First Lord of. the 'Treasury had his full
concurrence; but attiring the new Ministers he per-
ceived many Who were not utiknown in the old, and
,they had been the constant supporters and adVticates
of that syStem which had reduced the Country' to its
present distress. He 'admitted" that the Chair of the
House of Comtrions was the first place which a Com-
moiler could fill ; but it seemed a strange
and a singular want of ambition, that had induced
two Gentlemen successively to descend, for the pub-
lic good no doubt, to stations of less digdity. Sen-
sible as he was of the merit of these Gentlemen in
ttte Chair, he could not think that it was for the
credit of the House that the Chair should be the
road to other employments. As to the change of
Administration, he did not consider it in itself
as an unfortunate occurrence for the Country:—
Somel indeed, might suspet, from the panegyric
of the Right Honourable Gentleman, that the
new Ministers were only the less gaudy Puppets
direded by those who had quitted their stations.
It the new Ministers aced from their own motives,
they would.be So much the more unworthy of con-
fidence, if they had adopted the system of their pre-
decessots, with the additional blame of being hostile
to the Catholic claims: With respe& to the Catho-
lic Claims, he had.understood that a pledge had been
,given them. Was it not a refledion on the House, for
a Member of Parliament to say, as had been, by the
Rt. Hon. Gentleman, that he could not bring for-
ward a MOtion of which he approved ?- If the Rt.
Hon. Gentleman had the recipe for restoring tran-
quillity to any part of the Empire, why did he not
produce it ? The Catholics have rights, as well as the
Protestants, and he thought that no man should be.
deprived of his rights because he worships God ac-
cording to the didates of his own conscience. The
Right Honourable Gentleman seemed to decline
bringing fOrward the question upon some supposi-
tion of obstacles in a particular quarter of the Con-
stitution. He was convinced, however, that no ob-
stacles of that nature could be supposed to exist,
because it was a case that was not justified by the
'legal Prerogatives of the Crown. , The Right Hon.
Gentleman, indeed, might wish to retire for a sea-
son, till overtures of Peace, which he . could not
make without feelings of mortification to the man
he but lately so much insulted ; and, the confession
of the Right Hon. Gentleman, that Office was not
at the present moment an obje& of ambition, was
a proof that he did nor credit his own statements
respeding the success of the War and the prosperity
of our Finances. Mr. Fox then justified himself
_from the charge of retiring from Parliament. He
thought, that the truth should be told, ,It was
not by concealing the exhausted state of France, that
BONAPARTE had been able to create Armies, to ani-
mate enthusiasm, and to perform such prodigies, as
the last Campaigo had exhibited. He then proceed:
ed to consider the state of Ireland ; he said, that the
recall of Lord FITZW ILL SAM had been attended with
the most fatal consequences ; for then the Rebels
had first began their•corr6pondence with France, de-
spairing of any mild and conciliating Government.
He represented the state of our relations with Fo-
reign Powers, the decay of our Manufaftures, and
the miseries of our Labourers 'of every kind, many
of whom were unable to supply themselves with the
Necessaries of Life. Every day, therefore, in our
external and internal situation, called loudly for In-
quiry.

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{We must reserve till To-morrow. the Speech of Mr. A n-
.DINGTON, whkh our limits do not allow t 4 to Insert th:i
day.]

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