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make Bank-note 4 a legal tender. On the subjea of

the war in the Penmsaa, he would not come away

from it in a dishonourable manner. On the princi-
pie of doing harm to the enemy, at the least possi-
ble expence to the country, he should be inclined
to carry it on, guided by those principles of economy
so necessary to be preserved in the present means of
this country. He was inclined to look with jealousy
at the operations on the Continent, and disposed to
pursue the war, if a certainty of support and proba-
bility of success was apparent. At the same time, he
was teady to pay his tribute of applause to the con-
duet of the brave nation,, who had struggled long
against the tyranny of France. Nothing could
give him greater satisVtion than the separation
of Spain from France. As principals in the
War, unless supported by the Spanish Government,
he hail no hopes of ultimate success, not withstand-
ing he might estimate high the opinion of the gal-
lant Commander in Chief in the Peninsula. The
Amendment proposed, spoke of the successes of
our armies, and the Noble Lord who brought it for-
ward bad expatiated on the advantages which had
been gained over the enemy in the Peninsula. This
led him.to take a view of what bad taken place
there, and of the many disasters which were to.be
placed in opposition to those successes. Of what
had we to boast, when against what we had gained,
the advantages obtained. by, the enemy over our
Allies, were stated ? After the fall of- Tarragona,
and Valencia, and after the capture of Gen. Blake,
and nearly the whole of his army, what grounds for
exultation could be found in the situation in which
things stood there ? There was_nothing that could
reconcile them to the present system. Lord Wel-
lington there had been at the head of nt.t fewer
than 62;000 men, of the best troops that any nation
could command ; at the head of an army consider—
ably greater than that which was under the com-
mand of the Duke of Marlborough, when he car-
ried the glory of this country to the highest pitch it
could attain ; yet, with such an, army, what had
Lord Welliegton accomplished ) He had been
obliged only to ael oh the defensive ; and when this
was stated, what more Could" be wanted to shew the
folly of the present system, what more to shew that
we could not eifeCtually retard the operations of the
French ? Under these circumstances, to combine
with men in resisting the just claims of the Catho-
lics, with a view to benefit the empire at large, was
impossible. The necessity of granting them relief
he again enforced in strong terms, and concluded
protesting against that secret Court influence which
was felt, and felt by hill, to be incompatible to the
welfare of the country, and' defending those princi-
ples which had been avowed in the letter which had
been sent to the Prince
_by himself and his Noble

Friend. •
Lord MULGRAVE admitted that the Noble Earl
Lad a rigid-to call for the removal of Ministers, but
not to expect the House.fo agree to such a motion,
without bringing forward strong grounds to justify
such a call. He denied that such had been shewn
to exist, and proceeded to shew how little could be
booed from the-proposed address. He noticed what
had fallen from the last speaker, with respea to the
war in the Peninsula, and asked, if taking such a
view of the sobje& as he might take, and with-
drawirw our aid from our Allies altogether, would
be likely to he satisfaaory to the Country ? The
Noble Lord had said he was not for doing any thing
rash-; but if with the vie* he took of the Bullion
.
question, a material change were made in the present
sywern, was it certain that such a line of policy would
he .sati,faaory to the Country ? If, to avoid doing
any thing rash, the Noble Lord way not disposed to
make changes like those he anticipated, to what pur-
yose should they address the Prince, if they called up-
on him io change his Administration, but to continue
the same-measures? The alts of the present Adminis-
tration had received the support of Parliament, and
were therefore entitled to the confidence of the courf7
try. The Noble Lord then took a view of what had
been advanced on the subjea of the Catholic Claims.
Since the Concessions made to the Catholics in 1 70,
it was stated that they had increased in wealth and
importance. It was the wish of those who made the
concessions alluded to, that such should be their ef-
Ira. With these concessions the Catholics had
promised to be content, but had since come forward,
an-d in a - lone of - the most haughty overbear-
ing insolence, claimed the command of our Army

and Navy as their right, and also their ability to sit
on the Bench in our Courts of Law. It was said
that the Catholics were four millions in number ;
snd it was lurther said, that they were greatly irri-
tated. They were greatly irritated, and therefore
they ought not to be trusted too much. It was now
sad, give them the command of the Army and
Nsvy, and they will be sati,fied. But was it cer-
t,.in they would be so? They had promised to be
cor.tent with the concessions made them in 1793,
hut they had forgotten, or at least, they had not ob-
ter% ed their promise. He could never be persuaded
that au illustrious Friend of his, now no more, had
intended pro,) j osing to concede them what -they re-
q ired, ivithou-t having some guards in his Mind
against the rob..ble effeas of their claims being
_gr:nted. He proceeded at considerable length to
speak on the 5ubk....81 of those claims, and on their:l-
- roper manner in which they had been urged, -and
at the same time stroegly deprecated the practice -of
Ut inging them into every discussion, to keep up that
'ferment in one pair of the empire which had al-
wady teen excited. Their Lordships, he was con-
fident, could not agree to the Address, as to carry
up such a one under existing circumstances would
be it.sulting to the Prince. Satisfied as- he was
-with the support of Parliament on former occasions,
and with the approbation, he would have been con-
tent v•;th putting a single negative to the question, if
the amendment had not been moved by his Noble
Friend.

The Earl of MOIRA thanked the last Speaker for
thE hank and fair manner in which he 'expressed
himcelf with respell to the Catholic claims, and
dountme-, before in what way to aB, the arguments
of the Noble Lord had the effed of determining him
to vote for the original motion. The Noble Lord,
not satisfied with the broad exclusion of the Catho-
lics trom a participation in the blessings of the Con•
stitution, had preferred several charges against them,
in which he was not borne out by fads. He bad
accused them of assuming an haughty overbearing
demeanour, and of claiming those beriefitsjto which
they conceived themselves to be entitled in an im-