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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT,

HOUSE OF PEERS.

-.WEDNESDAY, JULY 29.
Counsel were further heard in the Appeal Whar-
ton v, Maw. To be heard again on Friday,
- Several Bills were brought up from the Cottoriartij
and read a first time; . and 'the.Bilis already' on th 4
table were forwarded in their respetive staged.

HIS MA I ESTY's MESSAGES.
- Lord'HAWKESBURY then moved the Order
the Day; for taking intolconsideration the graeicttS
Communications which he had yester,lay the honour
of delivering to the House. In moving an Addresi
of Thanks to his Kijestylor these r.:ommunicationii,
he only followed in form the` usual proceeding of the
House; and as to the objeat and matter.of the first
of them.; he ;did not anticipate any,Material-objee-
tiori. It simply announced, that a Treaty had been --
entered into with his Swedish Majesty to subsidize .
a certain 'number of Swedish troops to be employed
on a particular service, and which Treaty rested on
the basis of the former one ; the only-diElence •
being, that .instead of 14,000 men for which the
former Treaty,stipulated, the present Treaty made
an addition of 4000 'men to the former, snaking in
the whole 18,000 men, :the addition 'to be on the
same terms as the number of troops originally. stipu-
lated. With respect to what regarded PruSgia, there
could scarcely be any difference' of 'opinion : as the
urgency of his Prussian Majesty's affairs appeared
to require it,. some advances of -money had 'been
made. to relieve him. In addition to the 80,0001.
advanced by the late Administration, his Maje:.ty's
present. Government had made a fuilher. addii Of
100,0001. the other asSistance in arms,. ammunition,
&e. amounted to 200,0001. These Were the sums
to be, made good ; and the object of the Address he
was about- to, move was, that their Lordships do'
concur in making good these sums. His Lordship
'concluded with moving and
.reading an Address tO
that effeet.• f •
Lord HOLLAND -would not obje6l to the Ad-
dress; but, at the.same time, he could not help ob-
serving, that he was at a loss to conceive the grounds
upon which the Ministers proceeded in making
this second treaty, if they saw that
,his• Swedish .
Majesty was unable to carry the first` into execution.'
No doubt . his Swedish Majesty would have 'done
• every thing in his power to fulfil his engagement's.
.„. . _

Lord L.IUDER-DA-LE felt very anxious to be in-
formed if the Papers upon the table contained every
thing which his Majesty's,' Ministers had done to-
wards procuring continental co-operation, and more
intimately cementing our continental connexions and'
alliances. If they had 'done no more, hoW could
they justify the language which they put into his
Meesty's;Speech at the close of the last Session
A pompous paragraph was there introdueek which -
held forth to the cotintry the.assurance, that Mini;'-
ters,had been employed in drawing closer the ties
that connected us with- our allies, and in preparing
the means sof co-operation and cencert,,l by which
alone .a rational hope could be entertained of resisting
the ambition of the enemy, and of finally. prOcuring
.a solid and safe peace. Surely. 'what appealed from-
the Papers now upon the table, could contribute lit-
tle or nothing towards the accomplishment of that.
object. With what views, th,n,, could Ministers
heve introduced into the King's Speeeh this big
promise of doing a great deal, while in effea they
had done nothieg, except with the invidions.one of
endeavouring insidiously to contrast their own con-
;duck with that oftheir predecessors in office ?
Aord 1-1411/I.i.ESBUlif thanked the Noble Lord
for having afforded hini this opportunity of explana-
tion. The passage in the speech to which the
Noble Lord had alluded, proinise&no more thin his
Majesty's Ministers bad been prepared to perform.
_Their propositions to the Continental Powers were
not confined to what appeared in. the, Papers now
,before their Lordships, but embraced' offers of much
.greater magnitude in case of farther and more eX•
tensive co-eperation.L But they still kept pace with
.the efforts which those Powers were likely to Make,
and: with the degree of effed with which it was
probable they... Might be attended. 'Unfortunately,
hOwever, the hopes of this more effedual.and sue-
. cessful co-pperatiOn were now at an end nu
more pecuniary Advances have been made to our
Allies .than those r*rred to in. his MzijeSty's Mes-
sage. .

Lord HOLLAND. here took occasion to'inveioh
against the principle of' holding out to Foreign.
Powers the temptation of Subsidici, in order to ex-
cite them. to take a part in the war. }-I.e. himself
had witnessed and observed the mischievous eGC:ts
of that principle, and it was one which he Should
ever .reprobate and resist, as influencing the conduCt
of this Country with respe& to its continental eon.
-flexions. The attempt prematurely to plunge other
Powers into hostilities had made the most favotir-
able impression abroad. Such allurements QII
part seemed to make the subjeas of the Sovereigns
in alliance with us imagine that their. Goverflineets
bartered their blood tor British gold ; and so far
that idea went to destroy the moral energy by whiCh
they,taight wield the physical strength Which we
were so ready to purchase from them. He Should
ever set his face, therefore, against the throwing out;
of such enticements, and he had seriously to regret
that we bad,too: long and too often attekUpOn th..t
principle., •
Lord.MULGRAYE was astonished to hear the
Noble Lord indulge in such observations: an:i
itiy-
pute to his Majesty's Government motives and views
which had /lever guided their conduCt. Where, was
the proof thathis Majesty's present Ministers ever
held out Subsidies as allurements and enticements to
draw other Powers into the war i and, what opinion
must the Noble Lord entertain of those Powers of
the Continent, who, while their crowns, their domi.
nions, their honour, their independence, every thing
dear and sacred to such personages, were threatened
with utter ruin, could still remain unalarmed awl