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114 d 111. 41) all
.f•he powers of kuroee a declaration.' theerorld. With respect to what nazi taken plant,i
i he would dissolise nothing ; and as nitich as coal
eiaditeen °braitied that this was la
trade which
, to exist , ,
be r.iisciosed in, the pre :it state of things,. I`'.lri!
er' the 1.0 •longer than from the situation -
several States was ahsoletely necessary due regard to the public service, be tvould state
w for the information of the Howse. The Hon.
caaga"::(l against . general distil) bailees. The n" . . . , a
aaa a owei•s who had signed the Treaty of Paris) Gentleman had called (doubtless troll) his hat leg
oiacimliced in :an- Address to Europe, 'in •• been misinfereied on various topics) 4:or inlet-era-
leaaa' this teatle was described as beine stointo- tion at a period, when, iii his opinion, such inter-
ii e', that it ong•ht to be at an ei;el; and wile terance was highly injurious to the genteel! hit •-
41-44v:scut time could be saffered to eliipse before-
aa,eat,al abolition to vests It was impossible Celt the Ministets of
l so.
prevent disturbances it) their many Sovereigns could meet in a Congress weere•
to
its colianies, They had pledged the„,,,o,•es no differences should exist. To aS3llllle this
Vie i„ S ea.ilY 'U6014101), and the House would see would be not only to suppose what could not
the
~9ortariee of this general condeinnation of ' occur in the ordinary co it of human events,
aliiir Ade, which could not tail to procure its •cer-. hot to suppose that spirit of independence did
liei.jo4l" -final destruction, With resPect to the not-exist ashich it was most important should
.(iiaa' 't vYbich it was to cease, he wished he be found to animate all over these assembled.—
air Bich
that' it would be as early as they . There was certainly a conflict of opinions,
ase? a.natural and laudable impatience must de- ,
: but the question ou which it would. be for the
.10'11.41.1_,t had formerly been considered e. great step : House, for Europe, and for posterity, to Sit
thtai_qs the accomplishment of the great Filen to ia judgement was this, whether their labours
tae
t.' -froln Denmark an acknowledemeut, that had been honestly directed to frame a system nue
taa,“lde ought to terminate, and an eneagement, der tehirh Europe might live at peace. This he
islaas. far as depended upon her, it should cease contended had been their object. The differences
\soar), Years from that time. He trusted then it j whichhad existed among them ought not to be
''',l '`; satisfactory to the House to hear, that suffered to impeach their old proceedings. If in the
" . .
.traite bathe Powers principally concerned in the I)resent instance, Arbat they had done, like all
esa, engaged finally to abolish it in eight tile works of human beiogs, fell short of peace-
. tio, and he did nut despair of diminishing even tion. This, which it had been found impossible
to t,P.eriod, hy ultimate negociation.With respect to avoid, in cases where the negociations had
t0,."4.11ee, he did not despair' of prevailiug on the been continued for years, it was not to be ex-
-6F tivlitlient of that country to abridge the period pected could he, in every instance, effectually
%ilea le' Years, . ;i :
wit.)»i which , they engaged it guarded against ill A Congress, the decisions of
Lis
run` terminate; as he found the Ministers of 1 wbicb_were tieessarilY B°'newhat hurriedi Boni.
tea
o.st Christian Illaiests'i-iiere-s-incerely ilesii.. the peculiar situation of Europe. It was tapon
he dot, P4trina an end to it, as soOti as this could these principles he would defend the proceedings.
the a 'ee with due regard to the interests, a rid: of the Congress at Vienna, and he could not help
CeiaVeindices of his subjects:. limed). in the ' complaining that under these circumstances the
tiver!iess lie had not been able -to proctbire a post- 'Hon. Gentlemen should have littered those cilium -
1' tl ax•ation of the period previously agreed upon tries '(as he thought them) against the Allied So-
ti le treaty t•'i - ' • - • vereignsi which had fillet) from him. That on any
110. hai ~ i•lt 1 trance, he bad received dis-
t() do , 'nation that there would be a disposition proclamation which had been issued by the Allies,
o,a I!'s, if it shoal ' .with_
the lion. Gentleman should have supposed it was
gi . d appear practicable, tel'etts-villg too great a shock to those whose in- their ohject to revive every ancieht Governmeut
faii,,rt it directly concerned. He should have of Europe in its original form, without entice vour-
t6.l4o 4 d() his dilly, if he had not endeavoured ino to find some safeguard against the recurrence
Iletts cure an immediate partial abolition to the of those dangers which had in the present 1.-
,kt a"f, the rolee,
stance been happily escaped, was to him, lie must
Thedisciissions on this sub- ' . gtiese ,a,,(1. not terminated at Vienna. The Portal- ' Pro-
acknowledge, a matter of surprise. If any .
treeatNielstee
clamation that had been issued by any the Allies
had not been able to receive in-
c Ins frl) ~1
• .
0(1,414 . 11l nis Goverement, in answer to the he should have been
was Sc)so to he unt.lerstoo.e, - , ._ _ ,
eoealemearions he felt it necessary to make, and ashamed of. its being said, that !tea gland had bc-
elhilde,,G ,delay had Occurred in the corn:- come a party to a declaration founded oft such a
ai4•c-ee between the. Spanish Minister and system of imbecility.—(Hear, bear, hear I)—The
,t,Niael,,• The subject was, therefore, not , question was, and the Hon. Ge I taxman was too
,le oaae ‘' to have • been finally settled in fact much of a statesman not to meet him i upon t
J'alreeagress was considered to have been ad• whether the Congress in its decisions had been
l'ltirtt. .Witil resqv
actuated by those base and sordid motives which
t at to the slave Trade, and a
straitAl)i,is had .1)- of had been imputed to its 'Members. Whether the
atiu stsl. een appointed, consisting .. , ,
~
out
were
sound
. h 1°"1 all th G• • Powersand be hop- principles on which they "au set
, ythea, , e i eat
elleraa,, Influence on the feelingse- of Europe or unsound, and whether, such as they were,
era, ,s, the ow • : b
be
the `,IA(I. I Ject in view would greatly
1; Peri, ) In agteeinw, to its abolition within
they had departed from them, and betrayed
which Europe had reposed in them the trust ?—
M t '''s be had r•
of (Hear, hear, hear !)-00 these grounds he
Ilie t'ervee
eto named, some the Powers
elseY s h o 4,
~ themselves to determine, whether t)),
u;"e.e(lntlinn to obtain their colonial pro- (Hear,
.'
~,,t wiitrrie! of the labour of slaves, or pro:. would meet, and 1 refute the Hon. Gentleroma—
hear, hear .)—Opn the se Ta.oiunntolst I.ie woulddeparted
aontentt,l,ethatth
it,,,73riatt,,, it was raised in a different way.— from principles.
trizilii,i44Pt bad been made to mitigate the evils
e'reawthicohvethrsey h(ad laid down
for the guidance of their coninet. He appre-
-141()Ilbf ,by procurim.; the immediate abo- betided it was perfectly understood in oegociating
ae Q tile alaee Trade - .• 6f Africa. for' peace, that the intention of the Allies was to
Ate. ''Yera a in some parts
• •ra ef eaesic () France
re-establish and to re-orw-anize those two great
tii tlli-,, had not opposed the . ,
611- 1 ---t-----11 practical
. COill , COuntr p•.. 1 ,
~ cct ; but, on iNit,narchies in r.tteape, wlc 1, o a
itttr,4 t4r,. . . ).. m t ).at reap
been destroyed in the course of the
'bot ti elid tti .i J. . , • toee 'lle trade immediately, Spain at
ti erre i • h I war.; he meant Austria and Prussia. It was in-
tall'led to '• In the same arrangement. She con- tended to re-establish those two great Powers,
;'. the Li„Pl.6,core us slaves within 10 degrees north' which were to form the bulwark of Europe, with
,e, naluce-ie' but from this he had lives she would better securities on their tlenks. It was their plan
4v,rlocipon
tyres.to recede. Portunal, the country to form a power between the North of Germany
6ed . eSted in" this trade,b had actually and France, charged with the security of Europe,
tf tl a Treat
r le L' `Y to abolishit immediately north
4) ill,. , . and to erect a barrier between Italy and France,
t`Lelate , and if Government should be so to prevent those Powers from ever conung iii con-
P•N'il uponst° get Spain to do the same, and to tact. Their object was also to establsii the in-
s, le„
•eor --ence to adopt the scale of the dependence of Switzerland, to form Germ auy
,Ish“(t. ' "6st lin
would he accom- . again into a Confederacy, under some approved
aeoa`, ale
a,. portant point
system, w
;Ica 'lied is, 0.'341. Ye Trade would then be totally
E • Such were the principles upon
li.. ' had 'ose parts of Africa, where civilize- s West of mope.
eve , 'neck as
which the Congress bad been assembled. The
isa. :tires+,
s_ appearaece, and they would
be •dt. s, 1 teas, how far the [matt
ke4j te,•tel,,,esened from this odious traffic half 'question to consh 7'c as, y
taed which ' thtinent. if ill had not been ef- been acted up to, and whether aey country had asili di)/ irci"lad haV'e been desired, much had been utoltdy aggrandized ? All(i iiere he wished
i''i-i4.-4't'ije4. - °utain• i I. w, ' 'to protest agamst the use whica had been matte
Ja .1-, front 1 mg a general (ec citation
til. .enlar, ad the p-owers if Europe. - The of a.-letter produCed as' written by the French
no (-- perrial at e • -• (. , i . Miuister, in which it was stated, that
guff. of ~,,. • w )o.itioil of it, anti the appo.no- a ,
fis,.' thet t°l"rnission to •
further the object in France had not understood that all the con-
ils*e'l wot I'e subject aSit m'eht otherwise be tittered territories were' to be thrown, as it were,
,tt,t.. 'd he the case' '''
. . •
eat alla t,• . ) should not tall into n fund,thence to be issued in new por-
e- into one
a te,os " continue permaliently the deli- dons and new divisions. He did not deny that
wtoe on ti •-• :
t,i sh„,da b os. Interesting que.stion till the such a letter might he ve. been written, and he.
t,it.ec -I.s ttume 'wliOqy annihilated and extinnish- bad concurred in the opinion, that the arguinent
Iles l'ttai,e, ' l'arr been (lone as under all the of it tViti conclusive against the annexation of the
lice, "ais :s e9"hl 'have been expected ; butl whole of Saxony to Prussia, but if -he admitted
1() resets ii "e'tion On which he did not
,that the amount of population was not only to
I()t.' 4'04, • 't! 1-o
use to decide• Ile ' intended decide the arrangements to be wade, lie still con-
la an . Ada - .
his in discussina the subject, was an
ea ,'Pers • .rtss to the Prince Regent tended that t , a, .
a tic , givin s. , (ail Je„
~n , . the derails (a.• what - had important consideration. .....e Fl knew not ho%v time
4-te „,(she ft, "Hi "b.:jar:it, mad these produced, it possession of territory could be secured, but by
,•%.91`'''0111,1 i‘ tit. flouse to judge for theiuselVes. the numbers of men capable of al ming in its de-
t'eqf lin'y proee 1 judge
1 fence. Ile denied that the good faiths of Great
iiioiaa tlie
ar , et to follow the genera
l, I,a al, autnenis of the Errant Gentlenian. Britain had been compromised by any of the ter-
i,, ifiiit --,-.1?... t ....,;.0 i...".....an5. -f .-- 1.i.:-. not (.0 rit(iii,a ,c5510:13 WitiCil had taken place. 'rbe
l'"e'e. (4..-6.!eat j",lustice miel information of the Hon. Gentleman was-founded
1- PQ ' thiS . . bit he clone to the ot t.,,, by th
..Quirt•y, anti to the cause of Eu- : partly on fi!cts, but from the ardour and impatience
t.ii,..4 the ~, "nPeafect 'nature of his defence ; which belonged to his character, they were so
i!„ 'la asy(oulpatien of the did ie.' 'of (Hs ri;ised, thorn they could hardly be recognised in
cji
,sta... s taa soil,
)..o._
which
, oe 'Qs , , laic e(.) I letea
e'this night, he hoped , tle di apery
1 bst mid upon tOem.—(A.-
0,11 wiii, .. -.2 •. - • • •
1 edhoning in the present state 1 laugh.)—He then went into a general description
, ,t
,?i. would , - . ,
'11)...`,' lai,„i bi considerecl; and that if any on the state of Italy previous to the occupation
,:,,:),: t,i,,
triortm...ice, which inn] been touched ep- , of Genoa. .A disposition had existed to throw
i,. '!, it n• 4•7t.ltleinan slni II b • lofftime li'• Iyoke, an c! an insurrection had
1,, •ii,„i.) would I . -
1 elk! Ory. ~.e aSCI Ibed to the infirmity of been contemplated, to which the assistance
~)i . Ilie.„ , 'le wished his to
1 1 lof E w-l• 1 had been promised ;. but this had
'cm c nt, ant
cli:le thio '"ea"s of cat; d , •
distinct form—had never been
41i et.o. WI) ou
.i., 5 :.;_; an unjust ostputatioa never taken any .
ally I re) imam this country, or cm those brave carried into effect on the part of the Italians,. and
aiaa laoa 1 carried Its iroutily and. triton I • ' the corps formed in Sicily had
w' tii, go the ~ p - in consequence
01,4, g,ttged.•,,,aleat contest in which we had been employed in Spain. Down to the moment
)I', tlio I/ ''''''verlln'T to the Coneress at -at which the Fre
I'' (Ne - otie • 0 r 5
I'. . nch were-driven out of Italy, the
14 ili, ctssen i 1 - would he aei,are, iliac it was i people of that country, it disgusted with
. ~, s„, , ''ed to earl. • into ff. the Tract'
41,.. tat, d '4'reatv ++; carry
made nopositive effort to
y t Let
Ij I t,. ''t tinkle". eb, with the single excep- throw off the yoke. (Hear, hear !) Under these
iiitt'llk 101- the lesPecting the Slave Trade; hail circumstances, it was impossible to think ot se-
, To. enanimous iipprobation of that curing the.independence of Italy to the exclusion
*ilio ''t 41111 i. therm, (1 1
'Nat 11iil Or the c ' the Treaty of Paris as of Austria. When Austria was induced to join
'I. tit t() eni„• Cost., the question to be the Allies, the fate of the North of Italy mast
ik, cup , -nnerin ion
'• • m
w.i I.ws . `lGli, teas, whet her under all have been considered as decided. Lotel 11 I Ilia
4 'it i ~, tiwt • • •
It,•
ta ii„a fl, . : it had with respect to that Bentinck had not given those asst:rances which
'4itio , 'l'lY. and lice ~..•1 c 10 I Ithe "I G l' '
ell t,i, it. , . . w
'•lt ' 'Luau yAIC( . the si- on. ept amen seemed
'. • 'll6 wee the question to Proclamation contained. He was not only. not

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set':.,,' te do eo, hot Le e•es pesitieely Pro- the thet rseseee might oe strol'ledy
Ilielted from doing it—he could not do it. He flanked in the North by die aegmematiOn of the
did not do it. He could -not .coneeiee that be e Dutch territory, and in the South by It The
had done it ; and the inhabitants and government King of Sardinia was, thertf, the
of Genoa could not suppose he had had the poWer instrumeet of the generaltoo
sefetyore . Un only
lesse et
it the
was
to restore permanently their ancient form of Go- asserted, that, uudeo circumstances whatever,
eernment. h, proof of this, he read a corres- should the union of Genoa take place, the. Hon,
poudenee which bad passed between Lord 'flier. Gentleman himself must owe that the manner' in
Beutinek and himself, on the subject, immediately which it had , been execute,] had seetired to the
after the occupation of Genoa, •ie ed:ieh it was ! Genoese a mine free d ppuler Govrn--
distinctly stated to Lord Wm. Bentinek, that the i meet than the old. Hean complmoreainedo that the Right
ancient form of Government could not be restor- j Hon. Gentleman had attempted to run down the
ed to the Genoese and
; from a communication ", Government of the Country on mere . afiSUMp-
Mode to him by the Plenipotentiary of that cowl-- dons. These inffreltU'ljiory and premature discus-.
try, lie prose(' that it had not been sepposed this slums were Only calculated to create disturbances
had been done, as all that was requested of Eng it, Europe, by imputing every crime to those w
land was the interposition of our good offices to were to settle its interests. The Cacauseof thecouutrhoy
obtain that object for then:, to which it appeared had been injured in the eyes of the world by the
the people, with the exception Of the, inhabitants inability of the House to suspend any angry discus-
of SavOna,
.attached great importance. He de- 1 slim. He lamented the absence of that cool tem-
fended theennexation of Genera to Piedmont.— I per, instances of which, in Parliamentary transece
jlle contended` it was wise in politics and morelly tines, were now less frequent than formerly.. The
ustifiable: On the subject of the Treety of Paris, House would not expect him te: enter into any
in ausweeto the questions of the. Hon. Gentle- particulars of the points that were not .yet cmns
man, he admitted, that when that Treety ass con.- plFtelss settled. The Hon. Gentleman had in •
chided there were secret understandings on cer- quiredi why he had gone to-Vienna, and where-
tain points ; but .as the grounds of those aps fore be had come back before every transaction -•
geared in the ostensible Treaty, he' denied of the Congress was closed ? He had gone there,
that the approbation of Parliament had been I because he had been so ordered, and he was here,
fraudulently obtained. On the subject of thel because he had received directions to return. The
territory to he given to Hoiland there had been a general arrangement of • the matters before the
secret •tinderstanding ; and he should have thought . Congress might have attained a considerable point
himself criminally negligent, had he consented to of perfection, :vithout being yet' in sect: a shape
the' restoration of the neve!: colonies (closely as :is to come under the s-e:s• (If Parliament.—
the French Government had adhered to good The fact was, that except one branch of &-
faith) till • t bat point was secure. The Hon. I ropeen affairs, the settlement of Italy- southern
Gentleman had -redeemednuch of his speech by of the Po, and of some differences bete een
the manner in which he had spoken of Louis Austria and . Bavaria, all other matters were
Xv Ifl. but such confidence he.could place in no arranged, the conditions signed by the Powers
Sovereign, however exalted his character, as to considered binding upon them, and only re-
give tip possessions so important, till the object maiming to he executed in the shape of Tree-
foe whichehey were to be given up had betnesecured. ties. He had been asked whether Freuee had
The coeduct of the Hon. Gentleman had in some i consented to those measures ? She was a coil-
respects reminded him of a certain disciple of a i seating party to them all. She had honestly con-
school in France, who had considered himself the suited -the interests of Europe in the Cone
ambessadorof the human race—(.l laugh.)—The and honestly done her duty, lie vindicated the
lions Gentleman added to
.the duty of criticising- propriety of natios being als ave to own
the measures own of his GoVertiment, which he interests. With gill its ndefecto s,li Ile had thnoeir hesi-
should have thought sufficient "for one man, that tattoo in saying, that he would refer the
of opposition to all the Governments of Europe. arrangetneet,
.supported bye thep one:lie:oursexisti voice
And his observations were directed—much more of Europe, and maintained by the influence of
against those:l:meet:some in alliance With us, than I her councils or the power of her arms, against any
they had formerly been against the Tyrant of „one who should break loose through ambition—he
France.. In reverting to the ease-of Genoa, he would prefer, he repeated, a peace in which the
desired to know what was that ancient- Govern- amour propre and the interests of eations had been
tent of the:country tt b cli was now spoken of as consulted, to the fondest idea of having realised
one so peoper. to be-re-established. Had such a a preponderance of power in favour of this come-
Incest:re:been-decided upon, he thought the Hon. try, which would only have excited the jealousy
Gentleman would have been disposed to condeme of other kingdoms. "He then considered the
the pokey of reviving the old and detestehle oli- I mode in which the Prussian and Austrian Moe
garehy of Genoa, and ots better ground, than he wirelike lied been reconstructed. Europe did not
had at present for censuring the condaet of hook like itself without those two Powers, end op-
sters, and that of their Allies.' lie 'protested posed no harrier to the as, et:chancy of France.—
against the assertion, that any part-of Lord W. The principle o their reconstruction had been to
Bentinck's success against Genoa was owing to •i restore them to the sante extent of power they
the inhabitants. The question therefore with re- possessed in 1805. There was nothing in this
spect to that country was merely a dry question of which, could call their moderation into question,
conquest. On this subject he had been most explicit
as by selecting the period of 1805, Austria took
with the person aho lied been sent to him as the Gc- a time, when, although Venice was in her power, .
noese Plenipoteatiary •; and whatever claims had she had lost the Netherlands, and with them a
since been set up to independence, the inhabitants population of about 2,000,0000, whilst Prussia
themselves had never been deceived, 'Tice Hein. was merely in that state e Ilia preceded the spo-
Gentleman would find by a note delivered on the -• liations of the French. Instead of addling largely
18th of. May, by the same persons in-reply to the to their dominions, neither had obtained any ace
arguments urged in favour of the annexation of quisition beyond the operation of that principle.
Genoa to Piedmont, that the subjeC't had been The population of Prussia would not now exceed
fully discessed in every point of view. It was by more than 40 or 50,000 tvhat. it was at that
impossible not to sacrifice either Genoa to Savona, ..period. With respect to Saxony, he had strong-
or Savona to Genoe. elt was doe to that most lv opposed the annexation of the whole of
respectable individualsto state, that although he that country to Prussia, although he contend-
never gave his sanction to the union of Genoa,: ed that the right of conquest, and e -
and entered his protest, as' itwas his duty, against th
lion in which the Saxon 'Monarch bad suf.
this mei:Si:ET, he had acknowledged, that if the pro- fered himself to he 'placed, would have justi-
eeeted minion took place, it was impossible the jute- fled such a measure. As to the Proclamation of
rests of Genoa, unconnected with us national ex- Prince Repnin, he had only heard of it on receive
istence,• should' have been more jealously con- ing a copy of it from the place- where it had been
suited thah they had been by the Allied Powers. Op issued. An application had been made on the
the margin of the. Protocol of the Congress would part of Prussia to be allowed to occupy Saxony
he seen the approbation. expressed by the Marquis provisionally ; and - s had given s cil-,
deßregeolet of the conditions on which Genoa had
sent with the other to
Ministerthis e;h but whenhi he saw
been annexed to the dominions of the- King of. Prince flepnin's Proclamation he applied to the "
Sardinia. He 'objected to the manner in which Prussian, and afterwards to the Russiat, Ministers.,
the priare'ssiorii• of the. Etiropean Monerchs -had who both expressed their total ignorance of it, •
been understood. They had Lot placed them- and gave hint a must a'uneuiv of
selves in' se a state- by their Declaration as to
-its having been 'unauthorised by them. With rq ocal declaration e-
be unable of providing for the safety of Europe, spot to Poland, the House would be glad to hear • •
without committing a breach of faith. He pro- tested against the use of the word con uest in its .that the pe w ople ould he governed as d
mm Poles, and from he difficulties wch thing.
cooe -application. The Allies had not made, under differenttmasters hitherto hi
createired.liv He
war to conquer, but to preserve. There were so- then alluded! to the union of Belgium with
lid reasons arising front ,the situation of Genoa, Holland, which was coesidered by. all the Powers
consistent with the safety of Europe and the prim- as one of the greatest improvements effected in MO
ciple. of the Treaty of Paris, which rendered the dern times. He pointed out the advantages which
incorporation of Genoa with Piedmont necessary. Hanover had deservedly obtained by an addition
The state of that Republic had at a former period i of 150 miles, with the port of &Oder: to its ter-.
contributed to the weakness and overthrow of ritot'y. Without the Hanoverian Legion, we
the King of Sardinia. An insurrection amongst
should not have been able to effect all we had
the Genoese bad led to a querrel with Piedmont, done during die war. He then recapitulated the
which, according to the system of the French subjects of which he had-treated : stated that Gds-
Revolution, bad afforded a pretence for at- yen:meet had used all its influence to
,prevent
jtacking lien. It was one of the first oh- British arms front being employed against- the
ests of the 'nnion to 'strengthen Piedmont and South Americans, at the same time that he repro-
GenOa agaiost foreign attack. Genoa was a most bated any foreign interference between the
important militates position in the North of Italy, country and its colonies. The Hon. Gentleman
which, if it were held by a commercial Repoblie, had called the attention of the House to the course
might he dangerous to the common safety. There of policy which: this country should adopt in the .
was no measure which could afford less ground midst• of events which lately occurred. He had
for an imputation of improper motives than the already stated, that he conceived it inconsistent
present. Genoa had yielded tie every facility for with his duty to enter into any such explanation.
our Navy, and had we established it as an insulat- On the issue of this new contest, an favour.-
ell Commercial Republic, the Continent might have able result to the Bourbons, much: ofd thitsose bless-
thought that we had dune it on our own account, ings and advantageS, which we hoped to enjoy,
fur Nations were always ready to impute to its depended. What man would he found to say, thet •
motives whiCh we had never entertained. Had 1 if the power of Buoneeiarte.was restored in France,
we been led by self-interested vieWs, it would those blessings would remain within our reach—.
have been a British object to keep Genoa separate. (Hear.)—'frise should then be 'obliged to return to
It could not be fancied that the King of Satelinia. a :nititat'y syageo:, for that alone could re-establish
had it in his power to render such services to the his power in Prance, and the example must be foie
Allies as to impose upon then: the necessity of be- lowed by other countries. ;He•trusted that Pro_
stowing Genoa upon bin: as a Compensation.— vidence 'which had brought ui Where we were,.
France alone might have wished it toremain a cepa- would lead us through•the• remaindter with equal
rate and feeble state; but she haul acted otherwise, i success. He passed au el:con:icon on the Coustie
and this wes another proof of her sincerity. All the t tution given to Hanover, and thought that it
Powers had felt it necessary to raise a strong bar- would not have been proper for us to seek to
rier between •France mid It:dye:m(l be trusted the establish new Constitutions in every country where
House would take ae enlarged view of the mili- our arms had been. He concluded by once more
(any expediency of the transfer of Genoa. It had referring to that piece which all the Allied Powers
:Mt been an arbitrary arrangement. It had been . had pledged themselves to maintain against the
taken up in execution of the grand principle of ambition of any pet son. If Buonuparte .wa9 hot