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only way in winch 'the torrent coeld lee stemmed.
as,. however, we at length stood singly in the con.
test, and as-there was no probability of the further
exertions of this. Country producing any good effed, '
or, procuring any advantage to this Country, he,
was
.of opinioe . that Peace was highly desirable.—
With respell to the Terms of the Treaty& it was to
be remembered that this was not a %),:!r of aggran.,
dizententNi&a War undertake or and. fie '
had,,nolleaitaiW io saying he thought the Terms
.ofthe..Treatteglorious tothes 4i& not,
however, suppose that . all fearof danger. was to be
anoihNtedliy the Treaty:o:r the contrarytAe trust-
ed to His Majesty's*Ministers for the further exer-
tion of that : vigilancetwhich '-they.;'had hitherto •
shewn, to guard. against anYdaoger which this
Country might have to'apprehend.
/U r. IV NDHA.g said, ghat-after what fie had
.
/ten and heard.' on the preceding- e .de.
Oak of the state of the Country had becoio'deeper.,
Notwithstanding the liighasounding langoege.which
Ind been . used of firmness and vigour,- it. appeared
to him, that aceordi-pg, to• the argumeets.,whielehad
been .set up relative to the Treaty, that we de.:
pended- upon the will of France, and not upon her
. want of power ; it seemed as if we were. under the
paw Of the lion, and only depended upon his :for-
bearance that we were not torn' to. pieces. There
was a deadness and flatness in the House, upon the
4isCussion of the Treaty, , which only caused in his
mind, the sensation ofdespair. We were certainly.
not, driven to the last extremity, for that was
-Claitned ; setined; as if in the absence ofhope,:
. we h4eapitnlited with arms in our hands. It seemed
as if we were acotintry convered, that had given 1114%,
to the Enemy
_all the objets he had Coneendedfor:,
Some Gentlemen seemed 4depts itt advising or ap-
t proving a Capitulation, 'but only- thought-the tenets
were nor so good as • might have been obtaineel.'
The Treaty had been. 'compared with that of Lisle,
.but he could not see . with what fairness..or justice ;
e.verY, Treaty stood_ by itSelr, and: ought to be
judged alone, by the cireutostances attending
In discussing the propriety. Of continuing a War,
it wits not merely the positive ad l'ariiages' that'in all
probability Would resat from it :that were to be:
considered, but the chances-of what'inight happen
were alsOto be taken into coosideratior. .Thus in'
discussing the propriety AprOlonging the 'War with
. France, it should be recolleeled there' was a chalice of
a change in the Government ; of thecleath of theper_
son who was now at; the head of that Government;, of.
a successful Insbriedion ;' or of a division of -the
EMpire.' Bueit.seemedi aocordingto the dodtioes of
'those Hon. Gentlemen who supported the Peace, there
were no Chintes in War.-alt were in Peace. The fair
question however to be discussed was, whether we
should be better 'off-by ciontinaing the War—whe-
ther we shouhigo farther and fare-worse? It seemed
to be considered by the supporters of :the Peace as ,
Merely a balanee of gain or' Loss was ::the cla-
raeter of a-Country tolofor nothing ? true
the charader 'cif -Country was nor tangible, nor
. was it to-be seen, .but_he thought some little atten-
tion might as well be paid to it. IhereAVere7lalso:
some little points of honour,. which, however Jrnz;!..'
giniry. they might seem
,to some, hadirequeetly.be-
come the legitimateobjeds of War. He was sorry
that these- should be treated' with indifferende, -Cr
thrown inioth-ishade. Like-Women, who, when
they once stepped out of the path of Virtue, run
headlong in the career orVice—so, •wherr-60un-
cils were once • accustorned ,submission; every
step accelerated their disgrace.- When, he
came to consider the T51m5,,..0f the Treaty,; he
found that France' lisad ..given .up
we had yielded every. thing we had taken from
France ; for it
.would be remeMbered what was
ceded to us by the Treaty never belonged to France.
Thus the uti ',midi/is had been ,takenonithe part
of France, a 4 the.s.tatus Imp on the part Of:Britain,
as the basis of the Peace. Was it possible that.any
Politician couldconteniplate the enormous power of
France without trembling ? Could.out Statesnien of
formetdays take a view of it, they:would turn in,
their graves at the sight. The Power. of, France,.
would enclose' us, it would swallow us up,, we •
should become rooted within it, like
one of;the,,Me-
itunorphoses of Ovid.
~.We should look some thorn-
ing for .our. independeece and find it gone. Let it
be, observed what cite power of France had.effeded
in other States. Spain %%els- an indePeodent Srate
.
as well as
.otitselyes, but' the Kingof„ Spain held
.only, by the wilt of France,.,and.
execute her decrees. Prussia dial no more :than;
execute the will of France ; and Was it to be silt.
posed than France,- having arrived within a point of
universal dominion, was con tent-tregive up her expec-
tations,: and divide the empire-of the world with us.?
The. French: had 'been for ever working their, ay to
universal empire; ,they now tetionbled their eget.'
tions, forahey a iined :at; the deuble-ernPire of opinion
and of
,power, and made their opinions *subservient
to. their. power. .Bonapartehekl:ihe dominion over
opinions in One. hand, and !propagated:them. with the
other; and- though .the'heromf. the disaffetted, yet if
those who thus made. 'him. their idol,. were to pro-
ceed to, France and -endeavour so propagate there
those opinions 'of which, they stiled him the chief,-.
they would stand a fair chance ofbeingpl2ced inthe
situation ef,the good woman withouta head. Could'
the supporters of the.- Peace think; without shudder.;
ing, of the dangers to which the 'Pet. pie of this
Country already, particularly in the Metrtrpolis,
prone to dissipation,- and. lax in their. morals,
wouldbe exposed to, when Frenchmen should come
over who-had set aside all Religion and endeavour_
ed to tear it up' by the'roots,.l.and who had laughed
to scorn the 'institution of marrolge; bringing with
• then* wives whom they .had titkeri like furnished
lodgingS'? Could they `contemplate the dangers
likely ta. arise from this second falr of man, froin
the habits and manners which must result from this
Intercourse, without the most serials aPpreltensiona
Their opinions and morals -would corrupt society,
*lnd, like, a sable stream, pollute the land. It might
beasked, Were we to go on in eternal War ? This
tested with France, and we had no alternative. It
was the settled purpose of France to acquire the
dominion over this Country, and a War would be
continually carried on against us i'Whether we were
tidally engaged in' War or at Peace,- their purposes
-would still be tarried into execution. Had Gentle.
izien never heard of a People called the Romans ?
They had engaged ia three Wata with Carthage,

•
arid- in_ every \fiar gained fiitter step towards.,
the camplete conqitest o(Carthme4 which had in- .
variably liten their objed, anti rich atfletigth
they • 1461110. Thus „it wodlfr be with
Cgoritti at itt France, every War::would ray 'ttle
foundation for a Peace, and every Peace watild.•
lay the foundation of a new War, until, at
length,. France would attain irscobjea, and make a
ciimPlete conquest vof the Conntry. He -thought •
Peace would destroy ns ;' that lie shOoki,-find •our. •
,selyes
,froni year to year. less able to resist. , Gen- .
tlemen_seenied to be not sUfficientlfaware of the,
dangeti of'lt:. was easy tes of our
wealth ; but of what use would our wealth he against. •
the danger which threatened..lis should only be
placed in thesituation of Midas. Some Gentlenien
seemes.l to estimate the liondur'of- a .Cdurirry so
lightly in the balance, that he. supposed lit:should
by. and by. be _told that the price of a Crown of
Laurel was tivo-pence; being its worth to the Green
.GeoCer.:. Let.. France be contemplated, and let Ji be'
seep .how she, acted till.all. the councils, of other na.
Boris looked lirtle in comparison, :look at the great-
ness of theirplansind the vigour.of then' execution,
and it must. he confessed they were a people born for
empire, Would the duerence of evil be grea t between,
War and Peace • .been allowed 'that a large
Peilee'Establishnlerit muss be
,kept up, and he saw no
difference but in name',- between.,sueli a Peace and' an
Armed Truce. He thought an. Armed Truce. prefer..
able to PeaCei because all those restrictions; so. neces-
sary to guard against the dangers toolikely to arise'
from the manners and opinions of France, might then
be guarded against,and the Country kepi in a sufficient
state of defence. That this would be.more expensive
than 'sUctla Peace he denied. • The example of the
: King offrussiet, he did not mean the person who
calls himself by that title, bit a real King of PruS-
' sia;) a 'Frederic the Great,
,shewed that an Army
could bermaintained at a comparatively Small eicpence

in time of Peace. We might then retain'all- our eon_
quests instead of giving them up, when it was prO.
bable'a War might ensue in a- few` months, and
Nve must then be at the experice of reconquering
theni. With an Armed Truce. we should he in a
continual state of- defence, whilst -with a Peace we
• should be.-defenceless. He concluded by express-
ing his earnest hope, that the. dangers .uthich- he had
proplieSied would not be realized, and that all those
benefits. would arise from the Peace which its Ad-
vocates so-fondly hoped. " • •
Mr. IVILRERFORCE began by observing; that
himself and his Friends had much reason tá complain
Of the. Hon. Gent. (Mr. WINDHAM); not but what
he gave that Hon. Gentlenian every credit for
sincerity, but. he still thou ht' hitself" and his
FtiendS had a considerable: ground of co,ntplaint.
That Honourable Gentleman . had publiely, declated,
that he considered the Peace as the .dektli4arrant
of the Country:When it -was known that' Peke was
, concluded, a general joy ensued hi (M?. WI L_
B E F 0 .c E) equally rejoiced, .entertaining a confi-
;dence- in-His Majesty's 'Ministers-- that the terms
„.would .be consistent With -the..dignity and honour
of the Country. When those terns lwere- published,
:he found that ciMfidence normisplacA, and the ge-
neral joy still. continued. . But he wished partien-
latly to observe, that the-Administration of which
that :Hon, Gentletnan was a .Member :had tfliLe
:treated with the. Enemy: fle.and: his :Friends
,had -supported. thiir Administration.; and;'. placing
~ •
.a confidence in.'. the 4gnoui, of that Honourable
Gentleman--:had supposed those overtures 'for-Peace
'had been- made in the ' true spirit 'of sincerity.
Surcly,_then,, they had reason to. complains, when
the sash argementryvhich the. Hc.o. Gentleman had
-adduced would. operate against. the .13reaty at Lisk,._
akl against any, Peace whateverwith the Enemy..
.He Was ready 'acknowledge, that he too..sai,v-dan.
:ger arising from the Peacut• but if he .was sure that
the War would be renewed even in -a.. few mOnths,!
he would still give his .consent -to the .Peace;.::-IFor
by,tnaking the Peace, we shotild,shevi. to all ,Eprope,
that we .were: guided by 'Dignity. and' Moderation,
.by Magnanitirity` and`Good Faith, and shoiclif,gain
the Confidenc'e anti -Esteem of.the.,Continent. Was
'it pds-sible the Hon. -Gentleman .could suppose that
England. could conquer Yranceby..atms ? We were
never.fengage4 in a, Continental War wi.d qut being
aided' by a powerful -Confetteracy. . Bur ivhateyer
might be the dangers arising from the :I',.;tee,.lie.did
not see how thoS'e dangers could be lessened bylteep..
ing our conquests in the Weslt-Indies'or elseghere.
13e always -considered the War to hi:titia4nien
against a jaetkinGovernment,who, it was presumed,
held the People in sobje4ion, and prevented than-ft-4m
declaring their real sentiments, but he rieyerAteed
corificience in Ministers, under the idea .that
War.. was to.'be• carried on the pgitise
thronfot a. King at Paris, and thairitaining hs,ni it
his power liy,force r ol'arms. Was there anehltriee--
of success, or Of making any impresSion.Upon France
by means Of continuing- the:War? He thought riot, artil
if that Wasnot,the ease, it =was the duty'of the Coun-
try to make Peace' more particulady when.the
vernment,of.Friltice.ptomised. stability, was .sppport
icl-11 the People; and capable of giving a pledge of
confidence. to surrounding Nations. The Hon.
Gentleman had Objeded to the terms of the Treaty,
but in:his opinion, they'Were wide and just.' -Eng-
land had been :stigmatised by, the States- of "Europe
as endeavouring-- to monopolize the :Commerce of
the World, and -surely-it was wiie.in her to give a
prong' of moderation in -oppposition to the charge,
and to shew to those States'illg she could be:Mo.
Berate. even in the. midst of Success. When the'
future --Historian, came, to delineate the situation
of,this,,Country; deserted - by all her Allies, and
visited by' Providence,. by the 'dreadful calamity of
Scarcity, yet-Maintaining, single handed, a Contest
against France, and finally concluding a Peace, in
which she not-only gave up rio part of Territory,
acquired additional guards and securities fdt
her possessions, bow high an ot;inion must be
formed (if the energies, and the-- resources
Great Britain ? There was one artiele of the
Treaty.on which he wished to make an observa-
tion.;--he' 'alluded to the fifth Article,- -which re-
lated to the guarantee of the dominions of the Otto-
man Porte. This article had been' construed to
mean, that - England and France should 'unitedly
defend the -territories of tls..Potte against all
attacks. To this he must obje& as it would
bind England to do. that which must -depend
upon a tkpuiiguit citc4awitalaces, arid alight even.

tnialy become highly inexpedient and hil roper.'
rfp; .enly wished .that. Eng4nd should lo._ - 'lt
..,,
,option to ad jrccording te ciniUpastatireti , • e
ir
,irptikf only trot* le H047-ftlither.wit nob_
sfirVation relative the ,-1 "uisn of tl Bland
... ~."-,-. .1.... '
..i, Trinidad, as it inT.olved n obi, the ato mon
4 which he had much at heart, namely, the Slave
Trade, which his riot bringing.... forward sooner was to
„be ascribe i to hi.s7TelT7r .44-1.43417g1ite-Z 7iii-treF.
- Pccipitancy.- Tito. Isla4 off Trinidad would,
, according . to the best ilior.thationf-requirsAot--nti6-
'"lion of Slaves to Cultiyate7iii;:andTthe employment
of .14o,000,pool,jar.!! 5cp.,.5.60,b001: of Capital. -He
• trusted it would not be made the men's of ..up,
pOrting the Slave:Tradei'buOither ip...aiiisy jri its
a_bplition., He concluded- by.:exhorting_theuperiott
Classes of Society. 'to set the example of morality
and virtue in their condo d, ,thit others might-nut
be led,to imitate. those manners which had already
become too prevalent, ,and. the increase of which he
feared. 1 , - . . .

'LAWRENCE disapproved. entirely of the
present. Preliminaries df Peace ; he considered the Pre-
-I:reary _as thekmost vague and indecisive in
its language that had been seen in Europe for the last
t wo ream rtes, and he considered it also•as highly dan.
gerous upon the Terms, as well as most-humiliating
to this Country,. Upon all .which 'topics he expa-
tiated at very consideraSfe length.
,4
l Mr. WELBFkrOIiCE expained,
_ _

Mr. *ELIOT said, he, ti'aS desirous last night to
haVe delivered his sentiments on the subjea. now be-
lore the' House, and had, he had an. opportunity of.
doing so, he should perhaps have: -gone into the:
,queSt:on_mofe .at length _than he should. Attempt at
present. •Ile shouldi. howe.ver,. now`-be short in
What he offered to the House, beciiuse"he was'aWare
that'-any•attempt from .him to .offer an additional
argument, would not only be superfluous but almOst
presumption, after the able manner in which the.
subjea had
,been diseussed already :, however, he
could , not- reconcile it to himself to„give a silent
vote---He felt in common ,with,many other persons,
'gloomy And desponding apprehenSionS---The 'View
he had ,of This'subjeCt,' led to differ 'widely
opinion froth those who_approved of the Prelianrna
ries of :P.eace now before
.the - House. He trusted--;
antl hoped, tha(..a period would-6me, when Gen."
• tlemen in Administration,would adopt iisystem full
of vigour, .fithiness, anti,vigilance; not only as fai'
as regarded. the Internal. GoVernment of the COUri_
try, but • also would be guided by that wise- and
well-directed jealousy of the overreaching - spirit
of...thatPower, with whieh we had just agreedupon
'Preliminaries of Peace. • Having said" this,. ;is to
his hope of the future Conduft of Government,
;he must now, in a feW _words, give his opinion,of
the Peace, and he protested for one,: he conceived
the.meastree to' be -altnost absolute and unTialified
ruin to this Country. fle.knew that Providence had
frequently, 'had often favoured' mankind, when it
:was least expeCted, and sometimes snatched a whole
.'Nation from 'seemingly inevitable-ruin; we there-
fore might pray, that Trovidence may rescue us in
this case, from 'the destrut`Jion, which be thought
we were threatened with. The Preliminaries now
before the House, pact over in a cautious 'and care-
'ill oblivion, ,all the. objeds of the War, after a
struggle t'or almost nine yours, and into which we
were forced. -zvery thing that could he esteemed
valutible.rc, an irdependent Nation. After.all, the
struggle ; had .-leen• stopped,t and concluded by
a -mere_ Colonel Arrangetnefit,' and :in'.vhich we
had left Pranee. greate.r. COlOnial, Resources than she •
had before .1 at arty-. time posseSsel We had left
her Maritime'Resonrees as would furnish
.her with the means of Arriving, at that 'pre-emi-
nent Strength,. by which this Country ,had hi-
therto not only tifaintained. her own independence
-and power, ttit by which she,-;had .been enabled. to
assist Fd protein ;much of the; liberty ,of Europe.ThiS"'Preaty had pnocecded upon a principle that
was.,most. alarming, for had abrogated almost,power of the States:of'Earbpe,. and by. Which
most of thesis held their, Crowns, and by which
we also had lost' all the Securities :which we had
'acquired in 'flit, Course of 'Me- War. He confessed,
that in whateverlight heviett-ed this subject, it ap.;
?eared to him-highly objectionable. He protested
:the danger -settled to him. to increase upon
consideration, of it. By :this' Treaty we recog;
nized 'ourselves- as• a subordinate Nation- in
Europc---,-ap6Wer secondary to France, that alone
would be sufficient matter Of:.serious apprehension to
him; and did any Gentleman believe that we could
long. stand in that situation I ;4 This was a great,
powerftd; aridr rich Ctimitry : it( was too treat,. too
pool rful,
too:rich,. too much hated, ,and too Much
coy iect to find- any, safety in humiliation. We had
surrendered Malta. slid abandoned the Mediterra:....
nean7;',and by relinquishing the Mediterranean, we
1. act akandoned three quarters Of the globe, .so
Irani-le:Lied 'by that.;crotral. sea. 'He knew not what
-freSlvAiirees of confttlente,- Wheie Clentlemen'found.
they could repose More tress in the power they could
hot trust a few months ago. He saw no mitigation;
in ,the...ambition, ofr...ia..tlie audacity of enterpriie,.
or Malignity of-intrigrie.!! Was .ie in, Holl.aint;: ifi
the new.Constitution,of Holland, thar this 'source of.
eon-fideri:e Frencli integrity %vas to be fennd-?
Or :was it .Switzerland?' Or in the tragi4Omic:
scene of the kingdom -of •Etruria—brwhich a new
• King was' to bring into. contempt Monarchy.
itsclf-L-but ho should keep faith with, the House,
he should...mit go mush further into this part of the
• Subjed but„in whatever Way he could see this mea-
sure,inwhatever -point of view he looked at it, he
could set.i.in'it nothing but an imprudeer, a wasteftd,
a wanton,.. end unnecessary
,sacrifice of the honour
and of-the ia'sterests of this CoUntry;:in order to ac_
quire 'A delusive-- And transient repose withoursecu-
rity,-6ueat the of the permanent safety and
prosperity of the Nation.
The' :SEC RET APY at WAR said 'the. Stabled
before the House 'was riow nearly exhausted; Which
was a reason why he should say but little on it,;
but in delivering that little, he should endeavour to
confine himself to a few leadingpoints, for he Was
very anxious.: not to waite,the,time of the House.
He could not, however, help congratulating the
House 'upon the acquisition of the abilities it had just
witnessed, from the Honorable 'Gentleman who had
just sat down- He could not but regret that he
disagreed from so many 'Gentlemeti*:in that. House
Lyon' the subjed nowlciOre Gentlemen, for whose

. . . .
Opinions he itattalWays entertained a high 'esteeill•
They had taken a gloomy view., and had spoken 01..1'
the state of this country in a tone of despondenelt
which circumstances, as they appeared to him, bY
no-means warranted ; against which despondency he
must enter'his protest. Feeling, as he did, for the
Honour of the Nation, he trusted he should obtaia
credit when he declared, that if he were not full,'
_
convtnc. ed. ,that ilss
Peace was
.Wisely concluded)
and was the best measure that could be adopted nO.
Aler-alLthe_ciecumstances at the present moment,
.4.here:was.-no consideration upon earth that should
haye induced, him to stipport it. .He thought this
was one' of' the most important subjects on which
the House ~had beerf. called UpOn to deliberate since
the Revoltitioii. He did.not -disguise the great clan'
ger to which this Country is' now exposed : it was
for that reavAt:that Ile-Wished to take notice of
what 114 been said by ,some Gentlemen ,Who .0 •
oppoSed -the "measure now before the Houserj
pafticularly. by''
a'tßight. Hon. • Gelliieman
WINDHAM,,as we apprehend); whose zeal, although,
he thought it carried him too far, wo-ukl yet be ot
. considerable service to .thiS COuntry. He had
taken notice' -Of- the great, shew...Of joy which had
been made on the subject of 'Peace ; that shew of
joy was extremely .na4tral.- in the People on such al)
event but they were not to.consider this Peace. as
a thing without its dangers ; and -althouet he could
not agree with his Right Honourable Friend upo°
this subject, .yet he did think his obsirvarions,
good in many respects. He conceived this, to be a'
queStion of-difficulty and' much nicety; and one 00
' Which men of the best intentions might diEr ; 'apa
it was on a.babince of difficulties and dangers that-it
was to be decided. The-first point undoubtediY-
Was, *liether any Peace was, admissible with the
Republic of France ? And he must conkss,
thought the greater
_part - of the argnment of his
'Right Friend went dirctily to that pointy
though he did not agree to that argument. 'Those
thought that a' Peace with the preSent Govern'
meat- of France -was not admisible, to them oo-
'doubtedly this Peace could not be justified. As to •
the question of Terms., in one view' of the subjett)
that was oldie lesser consequence. The present si-
•toatinn of France brought the, question of War oc
,Peaceto a nicer poize than at any former period l°
the History of the World, as far as we were a' '•
quainted with it, and upon that poize we Wcr'
'bound to form our judgment• as well as we could'
land the first thing we were to take into view was
the Safety.ofthe State. He had heard of a War of
Extermination, that is,' a War cartied on until ooe
of the contending 01-604' had totally destroyed till
other ;he apprehended there was no man who would
contend for that extremity. Indeed, t hat was a euh-
jed which be apprehended had- been determined IV'
on by that House. He apprehended that in Ebel
year 1795, when the House by its vote, declared
that this Country should treat with Fiance when-
ever there should be there established a Government
capable of maintaining 'the accustomed relations of
Peace and'Amity with other Powers, the house de-
cided that this Country might treat with the Re=
pUblic of France,—This. had been so understood
and acknowledged by several subsequent Negotia-
,tions'—by, the Propositions of Mr. WicKHAm,
1796—by the Negotiation at Lisle, and at Paris,
and afterwards by the Negotiation with M. O'T"'
which produced the Preliminaries in question. :S"v;'
with respea to minor points, he should pass theft'
by refer them, and ,raced many of the leadi•ng. 002'1
to what had' been said alseady.----.The'first
should now take notice of, was the-danger to whit'',
this Country-was s7tid 'to :be exposed -by 'the l'eacc•
now before the House.,, That danger arose froni
Geographical situation of. France, and its' re:ative
condition with respeka to this Country._ The 00'
graphical situation of France was certainly matter
of just apprehension' to this Country; ;but, • the
question to. be considered as arising out of th'j
apprehension. was, whether there- was *.any.
sonable hope, by a, continuation of the War, 6
reducing .the power of France ? If there- W. 15
any hope of our being able to do so by a°°'•
ther Campaign, or by. a number of ,Campaigns;)
or that bf them we could obtain security agaWst
the power of grance, he shoUld_ have thought •
prudent to try the effeCt-of such Campaigns : 1)I
met
however ‘'vel.l:,we might be convinced of the dill'o.,
to us from the situation of ,Fianc9, if it wiiS not !"1
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the power .of this Country to affl:6l that Power I
any material-degree by.a. continuation of the W""
then the,-continuation' WCyuldbe useless. As I°l
as we-were to. have the Alliance of the gre34
I'ON .the.,CO3(ine,rit to ad cordially, for 01
purpoie,tif.ceducing.the power of France, he hiPi
'always been-of opinion, it was for the interet'o)c.
[his Country to act in to-operation that Coti'
federacy, to . make a Co/nu-ion C:ILISC :against,. the
power of; France. That Confederacy, howevie.rir;
could not poy, be
rfortned,;4t2Wasi impossibleT
. any one, to regret ii more:than • he. 'did 1)
-,ut
could we do if the Coalition Could torine",
The lastCattsPaign had been as brilliant 'onOut ,
as'any that had ever taken place (the particutus
which he recited), but still:he- did not see what `";
Were to gain by continuing the War Indeed. "g
did not see that we could do better. thao.to2d°l),t
the course' held out yesterday by his Noble.-Ftier'
(Lord HAWKESBURY) who had forcibly and
pily conveyed his meaning by, saying we SW
adopt a system of mixt conciliation and firmness ;
• policy-, without which. he apprehended. this Cow-it°
.henot long preserve its present prosperity. .cbc--
haps the National system best adapted for t
welfare .of this. Country, had never hitherto hea
'considered with. the attention which the stih.l:ecii.
merited, he meant the Military advantages of whi
this Country might avail itself in the way of s 4
preservation from attack, for which purPo,e
would, in his opinion, be proper in us to take 'se
advice of experteked Soldiers, and others who
knowledge qualified them to givt). it. He was aP.i
prehensive it was possible -for this Coen: ry, Gr.en,.;
Britain and Ireland, as well as• other
to the British Empire, to be put into a better
fie
of dcftnce than it had ever hitherto been•
thought that if such measures as these- be ta.v tc,
and the higher circles of Society were to she'ecii
the other ranks proper examples of 1110als, Mani •
• Coo"'
temperance and fortitude,. there was in this lonia
try a .spirit which would soon appear, in. aln of
'axis belong(ll,3Pe.
whatever
that would dissipate ail aprrehensi9fl wma--