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Military Officers. He certainly must himself
feel that he was out of order, and.ought to confuiti
hitnseff to the question. •
The Earl of. :51..;17F0LK contended, that ii,;;
was not out of order; and proceeded to 01):;ez.vii
upon the various. Expeditious w censure the Mi.,
rusteriid. condutt, With resped, to than. He •ad..
verted generally to the pre,ent 'suite:of the Colin.:
try; as critical and dangerous in the extreine--
seemed to say that. the measures now pursuing
ought to have the sanefion of an- Illustrious ,Per 4
sonage;—second,, only to the kiiig
that Ministers should he held'closely recponsible
for the State of the Country, with re,spea to,
its.defencein the present moment of peril; am
talked of making the Uwe of Ministers, mittlt
resped to some of the, paints he stated, grouhds,
for their impeachment.. •„. •
The Duke f ATIIOL, in a very sensible and
spirited Seeeeliveeifsdred such a• departure froth.
the Question regularly before the
..HOuse, He
then spoke in support of the original Address7::-'•
followed up with much etlet't the arguments'Of.
the Noble Mover of the Addiess, anti stated-hi:
disapprobation of the Amendment.
.Lord ROMNEY followed, on nea.rly similar',
grounds, in' reply to what had fallen from the
Noble Earl who oppu,sed thei Address. He ob-,
served, that the Court of Denmark had very late.,
ly attempted to treat us- in the ,satne way the
three Coale rd Powers. were about ncr.v.,-;•a dif
ference only- in iome pattleular4 with respect to
Sweden :-.but Mien three Powers, united as they,
have done, we should .tonider them as embarked, 2'
in an cause. With a Noble. Duke lie, agre&l;
in • blaming - the insincerity of 'l3oc e:swrci
and that somethisig should he done to bring. hirii
to the test; 'and-to evince to the, people of
,both
Countries where the fault lies. The Documents
which ho read were mach to the credit of Mini.;
sters, who• very ably parried- tile Artful attempts
of the French Chieftain to over,.reach them.

- The End of DA RArOY spoke at some length.'
His ofThrgatMent appeared to be favour-
,of.
the:Arrtenarnent) and-he contended for the pro.
priety of institutingi an Inquiry: Ile particu.:
larly dwelt upon •the Anirs.of.Egyptil whither;
he
sheendsai •of
Curgai 1:
ill at
:Ad err:milt;
thated c!. e 3.
strong reason
confidence hitherto reposed :iii ‘Ministers. '
Ltird Romtitt explained.' •
Earl SPENCER roses and, adverting'in'ilte
first 4Dia*Ce to that
which, alluded to the Union, he exlaressed "
satiSfaetion the measure,'
which', 'he trusted,
would becOme more and more the subjett of Con
gratulation every day. On- 'this- snbjeet be was
glad to find no dissentient I'OiCC ' with rope to
the Amendment the Noble Lord w hahati Moved its
appeared: to think'that before the- strength of; the
Country was exerted, it would-• be proper to go
into an inquiry ; that, front- the• nature of it
must go,back 'through the events of a•lcing period,
and'involve tfittch dtfFtcmltys and ;Ms.-before any
decision was come to.epon a point which the
Noble Mover of the Arnsndmint himself ad_
mitred it was both right tthoOld be done, and
which it wai the ditty of the House to do'. n`T'hi's
proper. 0, aitd-thiS duty were however -t‘ be
postponed to an inquiry which must thwart and
be injurious to the safety of the Country. His,
Majesty's Ministers had indeed, as .had beets
stated, enjoyed the confidence of the' Country, a,
confidence for which they were, as they ought ,
to be, grateful: Was the present' however
the time, when the difficulties of -their situation •
and Of the Country had evidently increased, when
it Wasaahvions• from the cOnduet of certainPower.s7
in -Europe, that they entertained that opinion, to
withdraw - from Minister's- the' confidence which
had hitherto been reposed in theni I- Was the
conunencement of the United
_Parliament the pro.
per moment to chuse for such a measure, when..
the impression it initst.occasion was so evident
What were the niotives.orged -for scf doing
cause; - according to the Noble Mayer of the
Amendment, the Expeditions, which Administra.
'don had. thought necessary to fit out, every ono;
chat had been fitted out during the hist iwo scars,
had failed. He denied the truth of this assertion,.
and particularly 'as far as it relates to the Expe—
dition to Holland: if an inqUiry Could ron such
a subjcft be fairly ginie into, he. was 'confident,,
that it, would turn out highly .creditable to .1i: a
NIA jsu 's Government: Their Loidshipa 'would;
he was satisfied, pause , before they- pronounecti
such a censure, and before they. declared- such- a
mode-of carrying on. the Wars a, Misdemeanour.
They Would recoiled, that it was impossible to
carry on an.offensivc war without many such Ex.. •
peclitionsOf the Expedition against Ferrol,' even
those Who held that it had failed of success, had not
ventured to say shat it had produced any dhaster.
With respell to the
.Cadiz one, he believed it
cotild hatdly'be deemed blameable in Admini:
stration, that they were ignorant of the' Plague
prevailing in that particular pastty,as the Expetti:,
don had been undertaken long before the fact was
known: He should be very happy to meet any
inquiry on . these heads ; but he felt confident
that •the impression occasioned by their Lad.
ships coining to such a sesolution,. wohld pro:
duct worse effects than could be compensated by
any advantage that he could sec.likel'y to be tie.
rived. from it: -The Noble Mover of the Amend;
meat thought Ministers had It6ied, wrong with
respeft to the advice which they were stipposed
to have given to .our Allies. According to this
principle, it was wrong to have advised those
who had themselves the means olkidging cif the
• propriety of•the 'advice to make any attack, Le.