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that such a.course would.. beadvisable, :but he was
astonished that his Right Hon. -Friend, who. had
• this so much at-heart, could not See that the only
way to render this Country • able to give, vigour
and ent:•igy to such a principle was, to preserve
the Resources of this Country from waste, and that
nothing was capable ofdoing so, in an effectual man-
. nee, but Peace. To a, mind less capable:of seeing.
the hearing of things uptin one another, .than that.
13.ignt Ron.' Friend,' it might have appeared
that Peace was -the only means by which we could
become able to accomplish what he desired. He
should rejoice to see the resources of this -Country
economized, as he hoped they; would by Peace.--
• " God grant,P said Mr. ArADYNoTorst, " that-Peace
may be preserved; it is not only my wish, but it is
my earnest prayer, that, we may long enjoy the
blessings of Peace, and "that the caudal of France
may-be such, and that she may not use her power
in such a way as to .compel us to arm against her ;
but if War should again take place in two or-three
years, and I hate to state the supposition, I would
-say, however,• that it will even then be matter of,:
, great' consolation to every-man in this House who
has done .every thing in his power to avert the cala-
mity of War, that he had done so, lam well per-
suaded, however, . that whatever may happen, it is
the wisest course for us to preserve our resources at
• present, as much as possible, that We may the bet.'
ter be prepared, if that should be our lot, ..to exert
ourselves with energy and effect : but I will go
further=—l do not know whether it will'be'satisfac- •
tory- to my Right -Hon. Friend or not;--I-will say,
that if War be his objea, we are -pursuing the best
course for it, by preserving our resources at a pe-
riod when we hpe the opportunity of doing so ;
and, what is better with me, and- which I own is
•my objel, I know of nothing so likely to prevent
a War, as that-of being prepared to meet it; nothing
is so likely to keep other Powers from molesting us,
as' the knowledge that we possess the means of yin-
.clicating our rights. I think,
.therefore, that we
should take care that we should not exhaust our re-
sources when there is nothing to be gained by it. I
think it would be very unwise to go on with a con- -
test,when there is nothing to contend for that wduld,
be worth the gaining, and where there is much to be
kst."ll..et it oot be Supposed, that because I say this,
I atti Of opinion. that I think the resources of this
Countty have-been improvidently employed—l am
s‘i far from thinking so, that I believe the very
Means by which we have obtained/Peace, have
'arisen from the vigour with which we prosecuted
the War. On this subjea I should -.have been
sorry to have been misunderstood, and therefore
'have said this Ant) t NoTcpr
then Proceeded. to• observe, that neither himself
nor any of Iris Colleagues had any plea of -inad. •
' verteney, for an. e%cuse, if any part of the- Defi-
nitive Treaty was defedive in its provisions. He
shotild think it highly unworthy to urge such a
plea if he had•it ' • but -he said- there was no such
plea, for they had been guided in drawing the
Treaty, and all the•proVisiohs of it, on our part, by
My Lord ELDON, whose knowledge, diligence,
,talents; and other excellent qualities, .were too
well :known to render an enumeration of them
necessary in that House. The Treaty therefore on our
part, had all the advantages which belong to consum-
Mate understanding and •the habits of ',professional
accuracy in the construdion of written instruments.
was thbroughly persuaded also, that-,in another

branch ()Übe Negotiation he should be without excuse
if the Treaty was defective, for there never was a
• period when the business of the Office in Downing-
Street was more ably condudad than at the present
momenta He knew that some insinuations had
gone forth upon the subjed•of the condud of the
Negotiation. He knew there were some who
had doubted the propriety of that seledion ;
to whom lie would say, that the able person
here alluded. to, not only conctuded himielf ,in a
inanner' which conciliated affedion, and: attached.
persOnal reseed, but shelved great wisdom, and
exhibited a fresh and additional claim to the
many he had before exhibited, for the affeetion
ar.d gratitude of the Public. He said, he felt great
anxiety to he spared the necessity of dwelling long
on any topics before the House, for which reason he
'referred to what had been said by his Friends
on various topics connected with the subjet before
the Ho, se : as-ode' of these, he begged to consider
the point of the slipposed growing power. of France
• by way of'Commerce, and its becoming our rival in
the way of Trade. Upon this he could not do
ibetter than to rely on what had been said to-4tig;it by.
ts Noble Friend behind him (Lord Castlereagh).
He should observe, however, in general, that Gentle-
men Who had spoken against the Treaty, had taken,
the parts of -it which appeared to deem to be objec-
tionable, without touching those which •they theih-
-selvei must .admit we beheld with satisfadion.—
They had forgotten that the Preliminary Articles
were the result of the Negotiation before the fate
of •Egypt was'known, and, therefore, it bad so much
the moreinerit—[Herebeentered op.thetmlbjea-of.
Negotiation, and pasSed. over thc-st.rhjeft Ceylon,
Trinidad, &c.]
He then proceeded to say, he was not disposed to
enter, at present into a 'comparison of power, and
the probable result of it, as between Great'Britain
'and lt.rance ; but he could not help saving, it cit_
cited his astonishment that Gentlemen, in-discussing
these topics, made no difference between the prci
bible eficed of power acquired by violence, and that
which was the'efFed of virtuous exertion. He knew,
that language had been held, the effeCtof which (al.:
though notintended), was to create in the minds, of:
the people, sentiments that were very different from
what they felt. Some Gentlemen affeded to say,
they,believed the People of this Country had alter-
' ed their opinion in a great degree on the subject of.
this Peace. -He believed that the Speeches and
Coudot of Gentlemen in that House had affected the
Inhabitants of the Metropolis in some degree, and
that this had appeared at both ends of the Town,
St. James-street, and at the -Stock Exchange. He
did not make.. it a matter of charge. against these
Gentlerne:, te.i, this was certainly the effed,: of -the
manner in which they bad 'treated this' subj'ed„ He
- did not believe, b,wevei; that any -effeCt was tirci-
duced on•the mass ofthe People of ;his:Country.; he
believed they. hailed the Peace as a Blessing ; and he
doubted very much if the arguments of his Right
‘`. Hon.*Friend (Mr: WiNrniAm), were unclerstop4