The Sun.
London, England, 1808-06-16 00:00:00

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Cm:eminent. rt was JIM irrat:on'al p.'"edge- of
thFat 10 which his 'tight

hat aLlvQrtet.l ; . and if the Gentlemen on the other
disposcd to conenr in' the 'feelings
rfittt -st.nti4 nem,: of:that flight Honourable Gentleman,
it troy felt-not disposition- a) assiii the Spanish
io, on this. openini;toC re3istane,::: 1t ate tyranny
they cei were.at liberty to pursue
what course they. tviglit dettu 1130;t expedient. But
on thiN, as on every former ocasion, they.seeined
in lani;u:l;e to h.ivedis,wned"the Itight-konourable

Gentle--Man, who had from such hiudable motives
brought forward this gitteSttoll. The House and the
Qotititry 'wOuld 'not fad 'to contrast the tone of that
Right Honourable -Gentleman's speech with the
language of the Hon. Genelenien on the
Bench with 'MM. He had lo regret the course of
observations pursued by the Rght Honourablegen-;
*Mall opposite, in the Wier part of his speech, by
bringing torwaid some topics leetween na•
tions, at a trots
ewhen the co-operation of both
necessary and desirable for the salvation of the world.
It was nota course which any true patriotism would
recommend at such a time, to remind that nation
that England was 'the Power to oppress it by the
phrinler of its frigates, and this too when the object
of the Right Hotiourable Getitleinan was to diSelaim
any pledge to support the contest. Tnen again the
Right Honourable Gentleman had adverted to all the
topics of the last fifteen 'years, and certainly it wes
not with a good grace that bun condetrination,came
front 'that -Right -Honourable Gentleman, who he'd
beeteso long 'during that period in offiee.. But no
Gentleman a'as inure ready to condemn any princi-
ples which he inigat have once entertained, and it
appeared.,that he was alwaysin opposition to all, the
Go‘ernmenis of which he'was nut a member, tho'
he generaqy retnaiuediin office7to fhe last. Surely..
when tha-Rigiit HotiourairleeGentlerhan stated that
uo BritiM objeets Were to be prosecuted in this .con-
test, he could not moan to contend that objects of
British interest; which may nut be conneded'with
Spanish objeets, should not be attended to; at any
Lad it was not for that Right. Honour-able Gentleman
to maintain such a doctrine;, he w ho had sent out a
force to Alexandria, who had diverted-a-consider-Able
part of the forces of
,the Ernph.e to 'Buenos Ayres,
and who had even dispatched an Expedition .to the
other side of. South • America, for the purpose of
supporting theeause of Europe by an attack upon the
back of Spanish America—lt was rarher .strauge
that•the Right Honourable Gentleman should be so
fond- of returning to the charge of ship stealing,.
when.he had himself sent' a 'fleet toCoLstantinapiti,
not, to support the Russiahse Init:to bring way the
TurkiSh fleet, whilst' the troops which were neces-
sary for the success of the Expedition had been sent
not to Constantinople,' but Alexandria. That Right,
Honourable Gentle Man. too' had dtspatebed-anthoer
expeditipntO lioboni the 'only force he had 'em-
ployed in Europe, tind'for the purpose of briheing
away the Portuguese fleet. He ,could assure the
Right Honeurable Gehtleman that the eresent Ad-
ministration, in the conduct they should adopt,wou.d
not follow his practical example, but act upon the
result of their best and soundest judgment, in
,adopting such measures as may; wider all the eir-
cuMstatices' of:the case, be Most' conducive to the
great and important object which they have in vieCv.
As to what had been bald respetting the question
as to the extent of the .assistance CO alronied,' ho
was aware of the justice of what had twin
the Right Honourable Gentleman who had brought
forward the thOtipti, audit the occasion should arise,
lie could assure that Right Honoutable Genfletnne
the country was in a situation' to utfoid etfeAteit as-
sistance. When he considered the contrast bet teen
the patriotic sentiments of that itighr Hon: Gentle-
man and the latigukge of these around him, who
ward diTosed to thrOw worse Man cold water upon
the hopes of -the retrieval el .Europee he was soriy
to see him sit arnotigsrthere,
.but he was coefideet
that the country wOUld do Justice to that Right Hon.
*Gentleman. _ °