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night Hon. Gentleman and his colleagues, The
light Hon. Gentleman called himself the country ;
and then openly dcctared that thoSe whoopposed his
measures, opposed- the country !—So it had been
with all bad Administrations. So it had been in the
time of Charles 11. 5o it had been in the time of
the commencement of the fatal American -war.—
The present Administration, which were originally
tornied upon a wretched ptinctple, was afterwards
broken, then put together again, and endured, and
now; as the House had that night been told, se-
lected. He had,no ditticultv in saying that Ame-
rica h,td been most unjustly treated by both
the Belligerent Powers, By which the worse he
could not determine. But this he knew t ha: France_
had been the first to recede from her oppression.—
On the Ames lean B li, infotmatton respetting which
had so recently Len received in this country, an
Hon. Gentleman - had accused . of laying too
great- a -stress. All that he had paid was that it af-
forded a slight opening for the possibility of concili-
ation. Great events sometimes occurred from little
causes, and it was not impossible that France might
take,umbrage at the measure, and that conciliation
.-on the part of Great Britain might improve the im-
pression which that umbrage was calculated to make
in America. BA with respect.' to the present disi_to-
Sition and feelings of the American country, he had
no hesitation in expressing his decided Opinion that
they were beside to this country and -that,' consi-
dered without the references.to which he had just
alluded, the late measure still more strongly titan
any other manifested their inclination to
.war. The
origin of the present system had been attributed to
those with wlPtm he had been in the habit of ge-

nerally according in political opinion. But,.he clis-'
claimed on the part:' of Mr. Fox.--he disclaimed on
the part of Lord Ho,.vick and the Administration
connected with him, any share in the formationr of
the existing system. Their blockade Wati not a pa-
per one, it was a blockade which the law of nations
justified, and for which they did nr:t issue orders
until they had ascertained the possession of naval
means by which it, aright be enforced. He'-con-
fessed be had been much surprised to hear an Hon.
Gentlenian behind, of great learning • and research
and experience, (Mr. EL Thornton) who, when
the Orders of Council were first poi:irrigated, op-
posed them ; now, that they were unisersally al-
lowed to ineffectual, say that possibly some goad
might have been derived from them, and that good
should, in the estimation of the country, balance the
ev,l which they hal occasion% d. Toe es it ti as un-
mixed. It way impossible to conceive a more pre-
posterous demand than that Made by Great Britain'
to America, that. the
.latter should . obtain from
France a
.restoration of the state in wtectr
exis•ed before the Berlin and Milan
Decrees. TO ask this was to ask an impossi-
bility. The Americans might as well have
been - required to transfer their immense Con-
tinent to another part of the globe. And this
would be still more evident, when it was consi-
dered how much the fatal policy pursued by Great
Britain in Europe had aggrandized the power of
France since the coactiman of those decrees. The

Papers foe which he had moved were divisible into
two series; the correspondence between Marqu6
NVellesley and Mr. Pinckney, and the correspon-
dence between Mr. Monroe and Mr. Foster

the negocialion with Mr. Pinckney allowed to. be
at an end ? If So, what objection could there be to
the production of the first seties? Even the pro-
du6tion of that would wear something of ap

pearance of conciliation towards America, as it
wouli imply the wish of the House to consider the
conduct of the Foreign Minister to tie Atnetican
Ambassador. Should, the result, be an opinion
expressed by the House that Lord Wellesley
had miscoodu&ed himself on the occasion, woold
not that declaration be conciliatory towards
America ? It the reverse should be the judg-
ment of the House, was it not 'fitting that
the Marquis . Wellesley should be so exculpated ?
In any case, the production of that particular cor-
respondence could be productive of no evil, and
might occasion much benefit ; and he should, there-
fore, haye no objection, if it were permitted him to
do so by the usage of the House, to divide his.ino-
tion, and to move ►wo addresses, the first for the
Correspondence between Lord Weilesley and I\l‘.
Pinkney ; and the second (or the Correspondence
between Mr. Monroe and Mr. Foster ; always
guarding lAirnself by this remark—that he wished
for no paver that had not already been published by
the American Government. In tl►e. then state of
the House, he would not press lonoer on theirat-
tention. He anticipated that l►is motion would
be unsuccessful. This he should very much d:plure.
But he had the pc;:uli,,r consolation of having done
his duty ; and of having, on the eve of what he
feared was an inevitable war with America, advised
such measures to be adopted by the British 113 use
of Commons as would at least evince a conciliatory
disposition on their past.
Mr.' WILBERFORCE explained.
The House them divided—
For the motion -
Against it
Majority

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[Mr. LOCKHART'S motion respetiing the claims
of - American Merchants foikiwed. 71;46.repillt. is
given in a preceding part of our Paper.": •

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