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towees tVerestillconbidetable, I trust a systern
of stria economy will ihke -Once of a lavish ex;-
pendituret and that the true prin,:iples of the
C;mistituttcn•may becbme the sok ground broui..
proeeedin:ss. • Sir, the spirit of the .fioliTe 4
not extinguished, ;.ind 1 trust thl't our cow-

rage will be raised proportion to our
danger.. What. colificien-re may we- nit" place ill
the efforts and industqofa great People, extrt-

ing thethseives aullices of
wisdom, justice, and rtoorl c<indoet lint I call
. .
upon the House to check the' career of IVlmAters:,

,
who,
_althatsll etitiasteci kviih every means., have

brought nothing but tliskraci., and' paved them-
seivri incapable of retrieving, tlw -alf.drs of the
Nation ; and, I trust, •that rig) (i_ntlentan

any longer continue to giie his assent to_rvlinil

stets, who, at the some time, he secretly dish
approves of. Ir had been seen in former instances,
that the Minority in that Hattie had spoken the
language of, the Majority of the People ; and 1
trust that, in the vote of this night, Gentlemen;
lamenting what has been lost, and considering

ivhat may yet be regained, will iti6ke the public
interest Oleic. sole motive to guide their determi.

'nation."

Mr. GitEv then concluded with moving at
Amendment, in substance, to assure His MAj Om-

" that theliouse would proceezl with all possible
dispatch to inquire into the State of the Nation,
and the Connedion subsisting with Foreign
Powers ; and to assure His IVll:ntsry, that if the

representations which His 1141;tEsTy had direfted
to be laid before Foreign Courts, should be una.
vaiiing to promote, an accommodation, and that
the impossibility of an amicable adjustment should
redder a Contest unavoidable-, that HiS Majesty's
faithful Commons would give everysupport to main-
tain his just Rights, tee. in the just hope, from
His Majesty's paternal care of his People, that he
will be graciously pleased to 'give orders to pre_
vent an improvident waste of the Public Trea.
_ure, anti to promote a provident Administration
of Public Affairs.."
The Motion being seconded by Mr. WHIT.
BREAD,
Mr. Plif----7" Sir, in rising to make some
observations upon whatlias fallen from the Hon.
Gentleman, I cannot avoid noticing a curious pro.
position which he Advanced in the early part of
his Speech, and which he repeated towards the
conclusion of it, but with less confidence,
that the Minority, in point of faa, speak the
sene of the Majot:ity. Upon what ground the
Hon.' Gentieman has made that assertion, I am
utterly incapable of guessing ; but if it is true,
every one of these great ;ind honourable efforts
by which, in the course of nine years, we have
secured the Independence and exalted the Cha.:
r.aaer of this Country ; which have enabled us to
withstand the dangers and vicissitudes of this
most arduous Contest which have a'frorded the

neat's of security to Europe, at the same' time
hat they h.lve hitherto saved this Country from
heir LaiJmitieg which have visited aitiwit all
he rest of the Globe—if, I say, the Hon. Gen.

. _
tlenian's proposition is true, then all these noble
efforts have been made fur nine years, 'not only
without the consent, hut against' the opinion of
a majority o( this House and of this Country.
Before the Hon. Gentleman can establish that

pinkasition he must convince the Majority that
they ought now, to tip in dire& opposition to
every `principle upon which their conde&has 'hi.
therto been founded ; and I confess I do not ex.
pe4 that he will - succeed in such an attempt.
do not believe there are any alli'.)ll,fr ,Us' who
sat in this House in 'the last 'Session ofParlia..
Meta, who do not reeollea the diseussions which
took 'place upon every subjeo whiCh the Hon,
Gentleman has commented iyob in his SpeeCh (6x.
Cept one. which forms the more immediate question
before the Hnuse, and :to which I shall come by
and by); I do not believe, I say, that any of
these Gentlemen can lightly forget the opiniOnt
which 'they formed, and the principles upon
which they kied. 'l do not believe, Sir, being
one of those %Oho think as highly as my Hon.
Friends who moved and seconded' the Motion for
the Address, of
,that important measure which
has consolidated the strength O the .Fopire, that.
these Hon. Gentlemen whom we' havelhis day,
for the first time, the'happiness of seeing among
us, will disappoint the sanguine expelations that
we formed of the benefits to result from that
im-
eot event. lam sure they hive brought
Nv ith thern the saute zeal, and the same prinetptn
which have supported us against an host of 'F;ne- •
mies. These Gentlemen have had,. in another
place, the severe duty imposed. 'upon 'them of
contending with Jacobinism on their own soil,
and I am sure they 'would not wish to infuse that
timidity into us, the least mixtureof whiehyould
have been certain ruin to rhos. Wha"tever may
be the confident language which the Hon. Gentle.
man may think peoper to use upon this occasion,
I cannot tut believe that' the present is a ,PrOper
time for the discussion of that great and impur.
rant question whieh is prepared for us by events,
which we could not controul, btit which we must
meet. The Hon.. Gentleman has, in the course
of his speech, introduced several topics which,
sayS,
.have been frequently discussed before,
and which he eitpreasei his hope will again to
investigated. Upon both these grotmds, lam
not dispoed to trouble the House at any length,
upon any of these snbjeds, at present. There is,
Indeed .but 'one new question before the House,
• I mean that. which has been announced to us in•
His Majesty's most gracious Speech from the
Throne, respeaing ;our differences with the
Northern Powers. Sir, 'I confess, that the
manner which the Hon. Gentleman, has treated
every part of this subjed, has really filled rilewith astonishment, both when I consider the
I general plan Of his speech, and,the particularstatements into which he, went in support of his
argument. The Hon. Gentleman thought it
tight, in the first place, to eicpresS his doubts of
the justice of our, claim With. respat to Neutral
Vessel ittiaikt, the next place (which appeared
to me full as„Sittilular) to question the importance
the poitit now at issue. - But theine the Hon.
7Gentleman seemed 'disposed 'l6 ittertaiii doubts
epon points upon. whitrlt 1e believed there was