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London, England, 1809-02-08 00:00:00

has created in ' America, what mischief and

must tittiliund-frout it tO the most industriuusyart
of Ireland. -By thederChttion of Sweden, we are
shut ow (rum the 3altic ; by our in'ketuperat
wards Atuerka, we areexCludect froth all commerce_
With that country. How, and from. whence,
is the North. of Ireland to procure flax seed ;
without the Seed how.are tliey-to.exped.a free crop..?
Heuce the staple commodity 'of ;Ireland may be.
destroyed, and half a millioit of its most naive in-
habitafits reduced to the most desperate distress.
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.Equally obvious is the rniscondua of MiniSt6.s with
respea to Spain and Portelgal. Spain implores our
aid—we make every proinise to afford it to the ut-
most; yet, for font- months afterwards, when we;
had colleclM an army to assist them, what did
Ministers do ? They sent the army to Portugal where
it could be of no'service to Spain for, if Spain was
gone, how vain, would it be to attempt defending
;nal:claming Portugal? After driving the enemy from
Portugal, the British troops that were in Portugal
are sent to Spain, ani,l to where they bad only
difli-
cul{ies :.and dangers :to ptigounter," without the least
prospe& of doing honour tp,themselyes, or affording
assistance' to ;heir Allies. Another army is sent out
under Sir 1). Baird, taland at immense distance

.from that of Sir .1. Moore, with whom it was in-
tended to co-o; terate: It was sent out without any
plan of operation, or any arringement for its mains.
tenuous, and that toe, to a part 'of Spain the. least
able to atibrd any subsistence,-;the .most igborapt,
jealous, and higotted of any part of ,that country,
and therefore the most uplikely. to second m any,
reseed the wishes and he.viewis of a British army.
Thus did Mini4ers render useless the valoUr and
discipline of British soldiers. . Thus did they ex-
pose them to unavailing sufferings, to unprofitable
fatigues. Their conduet, in these respeAs, is ob-
viously and glaringly reprehensible. Thesesentis
metals he did not exptessi from any party. prejudice.
He was no party-man ; he belonged .ta no party.
lie highly esteemed many individuals of his Ma-
jesty's Gov,..trnment ; hut the aggregate of the too-
mares of Ministers he could not but condemn. It
most bring down ruin ,on the country. It was the.
country he looked to; it is for her interests and ho-
eour he felt anxious;. •and he must adiure their
Lordships, to stop Ministers in their wild career,
.which.perhaps could not, be better done than by ac-
ceding to the- motion of .his 'Noble Friend, for an
Inquiry into the State of the nation. Lord 1-haltowtaY could not
.wcp coticciv how
the speech ot.shaNeble , Boron who:spoke last;
. could be brought to bear on the' twestion before the
Hoese. When he heard the Noble . Baron inveigh
in such strong terms against the CotidUct of Miui-
stPrs—when he observed him hold out•I heir errors
auc.l incapacity in such glaring lights, 119., was pre,
pared to nod him conclude %volt moving.: a vote of
'censure against their conduct ; er an address to his
Majesty, praying he wotild'he.graciously pleased. to
remove them float his QOpricils„ If the Nobh.s.Ba-
jon bad no such intentions, such declamation might
liaVei the worst efletts ; it might,' tend to extingisisli
'the spirit, to unbrtice:the energies of the people, and
to dispose the nation to dist»av a 0 despondency.
Then, indeed, some Noblelsorris might be justified
• its describing us as a sipkiog 'nation ; .
Lord .Q4uplytto.s rose t, assure his Noble Friend,
that, it alluded to any expresSienseciade use of by
hiss ha had wholly misentlerstood th —he would
impute no suet; inteptiOtt to his Noble. Fitentl ; but
lie :MIS{ say, that it was Irois caliatuny to repr6tent
him as Itoldiog any language that could tend to dies
Iteasten and dismay the country. Ott the contrary,
he would duty any nein to ti:iy with Mph thin he.
had ever Opened his, mouth in Parliament to emit
any olio expression that could fairly be supposed to
have such a tendency. On the contrary; he had.
ever held out, that if our 10401treeS" were well ma.'
tirh,,ed arid applied, it our national energies were
wisely iiireeted, we might
,riet defiance tc the rest of
the world. We Were proud in the•enconquerable
valoet of. our Navy proud in the bravery and ipirit
of our ArrOy; and proild in the extent and variety
otour resources. But all •these sources of strength
arid independence must tail, if wisdom be.wanting
in our councils. It was in the intemperance: of his
M:ijesty's present Ministers we had ',every thing to
fear. They had already left ub Without any ally in
hurope, they would soon tome AntOca .into hosti,
hties aritth.t tit;. If such' intemptrake were long
to prevail, lie vac incice4 prepared 'to say that Mini-
tt:r6 Were hurrying the country to .ruin, and that if
n councils weree.long to predotninate, we must be
an entione country indeed.
Lord'HARROWBV declared that nothing could be
More-remote frotu his mind than ;,ov, intention to
niibinterpret the seniiments of his iend'; but
he certainly 'thought that such descript tons of the-si-
teation of our affairs Must tend to create .apajhe of
:despond, ucy througliont.the country. ; " "
Gets;Nvi cc again explained -,himself to the
same effeia as betaie; after which, the question Was
loudly called for, and Lord GeOSVCIIati motive was
Reorfatived without a division.—
Adjourned at. Ten u'Clu!k, •