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London, England, 1802-04-13 00:00:00

CORDIAL BALM OF GILEAD.

THE Preserver and Restorer. of Health to the
weak, the sickly, and the infirm, is that truly valuable
Medicine the Cordial Balm of Gilead. Its warm and reno.
vating quality, indisputably renders it the best medicine "for
relaxations, debility, lassitude, tremors, sinking of the spi-
rits, and all those nervous affections, which harrass and op=
press the weak, sedentary, and. delicate ; for in all these
cases, it is calculated to warm and steady the cold tremuloits
nerves; to sheath and invigorate the Muscular system; td
animate the spirits, and renovate the whole man by which
-means the chill watery fluids become rich and baksainiei and
the circulation resumes its healthful- state.

A great number of Ladies and Gentler-den a the first re-
spedability in 'this Kingdom, have taken and recommended
tne COrdial Halos of Gilead in a variety of cases, and never
found one single instance of its inefficacy t on the contrary,'
cases are extant where the parties had •previously been bereft
bf every other hope of relict.
It is'a sure remedy for debilitimafter long feversi nervous
diSorders, and weakness- peculiar to the temale sex, colic;
flatulence, sickness, vomiting; loss of appetite, gouty spasms
of the stomach, hysterical and hypoLliondrkical affectionS,
lowness of spirits, and the various direful complaints usually
stiled Nervous Disorders..

Extra& of a Letter from W. Greenshields, Esq. One of
Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of Dublin,
to Dr. Solomon, in Liverpool.
Mrs. Greenshields has tried your Cordial Bairn of Gilead,
and although she has had the advice-of many Of the most
eminent of the Faculty in Ireland, to prescribe for a bilious
complaint that has attacked her these ten years, she found
the most wonderful ben nit from your medicine alone.
.• WM. GREENSHIELDS.

Dublin, No. 7, Montague,sireet, 01.9,'1800

The Cordial Balm of C ilead is earnestly rccuthtnended to
the young, and to the aged and infirm it will assuredly furnish
great relief and comfort, by gently and safely invigorating the
System. '
Lieutenant-Colonel Colcluhoun, of Ross-lodge; Dunbarton,
was cured by the Cordial halm of Gilead, of a Nervous Com-
plaint, attended by many alarming sythpfoms.
*** Robert Raikes, F,sq. (founder of the Sunday Schools)
of Gloucester, unites his testimony to the great success and
wonderful efficacy of the Cordial Balm of Gilead, in a vafiety
Of cases.

Affidavit of J. Broom, Esq.. Downend, near Bristol.'
I-swear, that I Was long troubled with a Nervous Com-
plaint, accompanied with great trembling, Weaknes-, debility,
lowness of spirits, bad cough and head-ach ; ,I Was rendered
incapable of tloing any thing.—l entered upon a course of the
Cordial Balm of Gilead, and found immediate relict; threz
bottles perfectly restored use to m) usual state of health.
DOwnend„ near BriStol, Jan; 23, 1799. . J. BROOM,:
Sworn before me, ode of His Majesty's Justiees• of the
Peace for the County of Gloucester. 'J.C.i IA R FORD.
E ktrad -of a Letter from Beverley, in the County of York.
A young Lady in the neighbourhood of Beverley, was for
fifteen' years afflided With a NerVous Complaint; attended
with lOwness of spirits, pains in her back ancneft breast, for'
which numerous remedies were tried in vain, obtained a cora..
plete cure, by two bottles of the Coidial Balm of Gilead.
Witness M. TURNER.
•
Beverley, Dec. zo, 1799.

A Saving of rl. 6s. The Cordial laltn of Circ.:ad, is sold
in bottles, price I-Jail-a-Guinea each ; there are also cases 'at
sl. containing equal to twelve bottles at ros. 6d. by which
the Patient saves 11. 6s. which May be had of Dr. SOloinon,
Liverpbal ; orj. Mathews, No. ig, Strand.
(r....#-^ In order to prevent unavoidable delays, and consequea
disappointments,Agents are required to Sellgi their orders ue.:,
fore their stock is quite exhausted,

IMPERIdL PARLI/IMENT.

HOUSE OF PELRS.

MONDAY, APRIL 12.

COUNSEL were heard in continuation relative to the Scotci
Appeal, Sir ROBERT PRESTON v. the Earl of DuNnoN ALI),
—To proceed again to-iorrow.
. _

A' riumberaf:Bil ls, chiefly private, were brought up trom
the Commohl by Mr. ALEXANDER, Mr. LASCELLES and
other Ckkuktinliti—Amongst them were the New Loan Bill,
and the Grenada Merchants' Loan Bill. These were severally
read a fitSt t
Permission has granted to Lord Viscotint, BULK EL E on
his own Mutibil, to attend a private ComMittee of the House
of Commons.
• •

The Order of the Day'Niii which their Lordships were
summoned, was read, for tang into consideration a Petition.
from Lord Viscount Dit.iox, relative to an Appeal in which
hb Lordship is one of the Parties.
Aftera few trvords from Lord Viscount CARLETON, ex-
planatory of the nature of the case, and a short examination
of the Agents at 'the Bar, by Lord ALVANLEY, as Speaker,
the said Petition was ordered to be received in the usual way.

The Marquis of SLI co, atter a tew observations in refer-
ence, as_ we understood, to the Resolutions which were re-
cently made Standing Orders, presented 'a Petition from
BARRY, Earl of FAR Nn Am, an Irish Peer, conformable to
the mode prescribed by one of the said Orders, Scc. praying
that his claim may be allowed.

This circumstance, as well as a notification from
Lord REDDESDALE Of an intended proposition to be
submitted by his Lordship to a Committee of Pri-
vileges on Wednesday, gave rise to a long desul-
tory, and in some points of view, rather irregular
conversation, in which the Marquis of SLico,
Lords REDDESDALE, THURLOW, ALVANL EY,
AUCKLAND, and the Earl Of SUFFOLK took a part.
The intended proposition of Lord REDDESDALE is,
as we could collect, relative to that part of the
Mt of Union, and that part of the Irish At incor-
porated therewith, which relates to the mode of re-
' turning, &c. the Irish Representative Peers ; to
this he was induced by the case of the return of
Lord CHARLEVILLE as .one of the twenty.eight
Peers in the room of the late 1.46 rd ROSSNIORE, re-
speding the corredness of which some doubts
seemed to be entertained. His Lordship noticed the
praftice of signing the return by the Deputy Clerk
of the Crown instead of the Principal ; this and
other points be propesed to submit to the consi-
deration of the Committee of Privileges, with a
view of rendering the mode more in conformity
with the Aft of Union. The conversation above
alluded to, turned on certain points of formal quali-
fication or eligibility of Irish Peers, under the pro-
vision of the Afis in question, to cleft or to return
Representative Peers—and also on. the requisite
steps, previously to their claims being allowed :
on these heads much serious difference of opinion
between their Lordships did not seem to obtain.
One prominent point was, the mode Or description
of evidence which was requisite to establish the
fad of the decease of any Peer, and that the Claim-
ant petitioning is the eldest son or other legal
heir to the title ; whether the assurance of one or
more Noble Lords in the House should be ,sufficient,
or whether; as was sometimes the mode, it should
be established by oath at the Bar.—These and the
_other points adverted to, in the course of the con-
yersation, were, as we understood, referred for
subsequent discussion in the Committee of Privi-
leges, into which it was ordered, on' the Motion of
Lord REDDESDALE, that the House should resolve
itself on Wednesday next, and their Lordships to
be summoned accordingly.

The'farther consideration of the Petition of the
-Earl of FAatizzAm was ,postponed to the same day,
in consequence of which' the Marquis of., SLIGO
presented Petitions from Lords CLONBROC,
ASHTOUN, and another Peer, whose title we could
not coilea.—These were ordered to be taken into
consideration the same day.
. The Earl of CARLISLE'rose to call the atten-
•tion of their Lordships to some points which he
conceived were of the last importance, not only
to that House, but to the country in general.—His
Lordship first adverted to the recent transaetions in
the way of Negotiation at Amiens, and particu_
larly to the very, extraordinary proceeding which
took place relative to the compensations to be made
to the Prince of Orange. We understood the
Noble Earl to call the transaCtion a shameful one ;
and after describing the general purpose for which
the National Plenipotentiaries had assembled, by
whom a Definitive Treaty was recently signed, and
in the 18th Article of which it was solemnly
agreed upon, that the branch of the House of Nas-
sau, established in the ci-devant Republic of the
United Provinces, on account of its having expe-
rienced some losses, as well with respett to private
property, as by a change of Constitution adapted in
these Countries, a compensati,on .shall he procured
for them, equivalent to such losses. He stated that
the-Ainisters of two of these Contracting Powers,
Holland and France, retired to a corner, and there,
without the knowledge of the Minister from Great
Britain, executed a separate Treaty, by,which the
former Power was 'to be exonerated from any part
of the charge of the Indemnities or compensation
in question, and expressly stating that such provi-
sion, was guaranteed by the Republic. of France.
On this proceeding the Noble Earl expressed him-
self in strong and decisive 'language : the docu,'
ment adverted to, was, to every appearance, official
and regular, and was. sanctioned by the quarter
where, in such a case as that,. the power and effi-
dent authority lay, namely, by Bonaparte ; he
thought it extremely unjustifiable, that the country
by which those Illustrious Personages Were plunder-
ed of property to the amount of nearly zoo,oool.
year, and driven into distress,' should not at least
contribute towards the compensations. It was, he
believed, in his te-colletflion, that a Noble Secretary
of State had said, it was judged better to make, no
mention of the compensation to the Prince of
-Orange in the Preliminaries ; but that especial care
should be taken of his interests in the
was
Treaty. The proceeding alluded to a trot
serious consideration in every point of view. Ii
became an important question, from what quarter
the indemnifications were to be furnished, whether
by Great Britain, which was just emerging from
embarrassment and difficulty, or by what other,'
Country. His Lordship then proceeded to 'make
some general observations upon the Definitive
Treaty itself, which he considered as an' objed 'of
the most serious importance,; as by its opera-
tion other Treaties, advantageous • and honour-
able to this country, Nen to expire. The Dutch'.

had particular matter for self.congratulatiol. It
was, in laß, a triumph to them. We could no
longer navigate to the Spice Islands in our own
bottoms. The favourable regulations which were.
obtained by the advantageous Treaty negotiated by
a Noble Friend of his, were to exist no more.—
That Convention was highly to the interest and se-
curity of this Country, not only by the extension
of her Commerce, but as. it tended to the preserva-
tion of our possessions in India. In that quarter
we were to look for nothing ; by, the 'abrogation of
the Treaty he alluded to, the seeds of fresh Wars were
sown in chose countries.. Another beneficial Treaty
was also done away—we could no longer cut Log_
wood. The Methuen Treaty too was gone, and our
commercial interests with Portugal essentially injut -
ed. He again adverted to the consideration of the In-
demnities to the Prince of Orange, to which he felt
it his duty to call the particular attention of the
House, and which was an additional reason forallow-
ing a longer interval for• the discussion of the De-
finitive Treaty, and may be aground fur the pro-
duaion of additional documents.

The Earl of SUFFOLK expressed his hope, that
some explanation would be given, relative to sub_
jets of such importance to the Country at large ;
and seemed to wish, that the Noble Lord would
bling forward a Motion on the subjed.

Lord PELHAM observed shortly, upon what
fell from the Noble Earl who had spoken before the
last, and 'seemed to-think, that under all the cir-
cumstances of the case, and as affairs at present
stood, no specific answer was necessary, nor indeed,
that any was called for ; as he conceived,the ob-
jed of the Noble -Earl to be, to press to the atten-
tion of the House, the great importance of the topics
to which he had generally alluded, as. well as to
a consideration to which he had • particularly ad-
verted : and we understood 'the Noble Secretary to
say, that he would not- -then observe upon the au-
thenticity of the sources of the Noble Earl's observa-
tions, nor follow him in adverting to points, which
were by no means regularly before the House. '
Lord (7: RENVILLE observed, it would not only
be advantageous, but easy to frame a Motion upon
the present occasion; it was with radiance he
came forward, but he was impelled by the para-
mount considerations of duty, and he had -no hesi-
tation in saying, that under. the present circum-
stances, the most saltitary step the House could take,
would be humbly to address His Majesty, beseech-
ing him to suspend all Ratification until solid satin_
faction was rendered to the country on all those
great, inestimable and incalculable objets to which
he had the honour to draw their Lordships' atten-
tion •on a former evening, and to some of which
the Noble Earl had so properly adverted. Not
one of these points, great as their importance
individually were, nor were -any of the VII.,
-riot's concessions which had been matle—of equal
magnitude, pregnant with events—or indeed to
weigh a feather in the scale, compared with the
omission of renewing, either expressly, or other-
wise, the Convention of /787, and negleding to
place the Country, in that resped, in the situation
she was in before the War. In consequence of the
non-renewal of that Treaty, it was impossible our
Governments in India could subsist-; by its falling
to the gound, an opportunity would be afforded to
the French, to spread themselves over all our Indian
Territories, and the residence of immense numbers
would thereby be 'tolerated, who were not sUbjed
to the control of our judicature or police. This sale_
• tary and advantageous Convention, if not renewed,
must, by the general custom, and the unquestionable
principle of the Law of Nations, fail to. the ground.
If any doubt pievailed as to this result, what had
happened within the last five years, would- de-
cide it. He alluded to the negotiation at Lisle,
on which occasion the renewal of the Treaty was
stipulated on our part, but the French refused to
renew it, as by that means it would, as was their
wish, fall to the ground : another consideration r.:-
speding our interests in India was, that we-should
in one article of Commerce alone, lose about half a
Million of Revenue, in the permission which would
be afforded to the FrenCh, to supply the Bengal
provinces with the article of -Salt. On these and
other grounds he., thought the House would be
justified in voting an Address to the Throne, to
suspend the Ratification of the Treaty. His Lord-
ship seemed to agree with what had-fallen from the
Noble Earl, respeding the compensations, to the
Prince of Orange, and on that point, he believ-
ed, they were told by Noble Lords on the other
side, that it would not be for the advantage
of that Prince to have his claims discussed in the
Preliminaries, but reserved for subsequent discus-
sion ; and not only this, but they were understood
to say, that the Prince of Orange was hithself de-
sirous that no mention should he made of his claims
in the Preliminaries.; however, his opinion was,.
that the Prince's interests Were, now in a worse
state than they would have been if touched upon in
the first instance, and left to the effeds of after:le-
gotiation. What he had urged on these various
topics was purely in a conscientious discharge of
his duty-. He had forborne till within these few
days, when the consideration of-events impelled him
to come forward ; and he would observe, that nu- '
merous events had occurred since the passing of-the
Preliminaries, all of Which afforded a strong ground
to Ministers—and called upon them to form a strong-
er and more advantageous Definitive Treaty than
would otherwise be necessary.— He hoped that
every proyer, degrice of information would be called
for by the House, and the necessary papers produced ;
he trusted - that this last remaining stay would not
be lelinquished, but that their Lordships would
take every pradicable step, at least, for the security
of the Country.
The various Bills before the HouSe-Were then
forwarded in their
„respedive stages, and some pri-
vate business disposed of.—After which -the House
adjourned till to.morrow.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.,

MONDAY, APRIL IL.

THE SPEAKER read a letter from His Royal Highness the
DUKE of YORK, in answer to the Tit nks of the (louse voted
to the Army.
The Loan Bill was read a third time and passed.
Mr. STEELE brought up the Report of the Militia Esti•
nun*, which were ordered to Le on the

Ors the Order of the Day for the third reading of the 13ill
for an additional Duty on Windows and Hous;:a oz:n;
moved,

Jonas Mr. conjured the House to postpone the passing of
this Bill tier some time: It was la6ng a heavy burden on
the poor, from which they were exempted even by. the In-
come Tax.. If he had known' this consequence was to fol-
low, he should never have moved for the Repeal of that Tax.
He concluded by Moving that- " Wednesday nett" be sub-
stituted for " now."

• On the question bzing put on Mr. Jos' ES'S Motion) it was
negatived without a Division.
The Bill was then real a third time and passed: •
The Bill &r the Repeal of the Income Tax was read a se-
cond time, and ordered to be committed to-morrow.

The hill for the better regulation of the' Linen,Manufao.-
tures in lreland, WAS read, a second time, and ordered to be
committed on Wednesday. •

The Bank Restrietion Bill was read a first tune, and or-
dered to be read a second time to-inorrow:

The Bill for allowing His Majesty certain Dnties on Ser-
vants, was read a second time, and ordered to be committed
tc-morrow.

The House to go into, a Committee on the Clergy Non-re-
sidence Bill to-morrow.

Sir FRANCIS BURDETT rose, in consequence
of an intimation he had given on a former day, and
spoke nearly as follows " The time is at length
arrived when the Inquiry which I am about to move
for can be instituted on solid and known grounds..
Conjedstre and speculation may now be
_laid' aside;
we.are now enabled, from fads, to form an opinion
of the principles and intentions of those Ministers
who were lately in power. We have now the
means of making up our accounts, :and of ascer-
taining what we hove received for all the blood and
treasure expended in this ruinous War, all the, sa-
crifices made of our constitution and
• When these Ministers have performed their part
• and retired from the scene, it is now our duty to
take a retrosped of their coodud, arid obsers--e how
their lofty promises have been fulfilled ; but above
all, it is our duty particularly to advert -to the
mischievous alterations which have been introduced
into our laws, and the monstrous, -the ruinous at-
tacks which have been made on our Constitution.
It is our duty to, advert to the attacks which; have
been made on the personal liberty and the domestic
security of the 'People. In- entering, upon the in-
vestigation of the condud of the late Ministry,
the first topic that strikes our attention is the late
War. ,Though this subjed has Often been discussed
in this House, though Ministers and their notorious
and corrupted adherents have graced- it 'with re-
peated votes of approbation, yet now that' the real
views and principles of these Ministers have been
brought to light by the constant tutor of their
condud,. we- may venture to appeal to, .the ..sound
sense 'of the House on this subject. There is now
before' the Public sufficient ground for 'an inquiry
into the condud of those impostors, who covered
their pernicious' views with the most specious -pre.:
texts. These Ministers deldded former Parliaments
into a prosecution of .obleds which were at length
abandoned by a Treaty of Peace. They deluded
these Parliaments intd a sacrifice of the Constitu-
tion; and Laws, Liberties—all have been subverted
under the strange pretext of Security. Every rank,
every condition of people have felt their d.estrudive
influence. There .is no situation of life, from the
highest to the lowest, that has ~not been materially
altered: The Prince of Wisnes, as well as the
meanest subject, has felt obstacles opposed to the
acquisition of his just rights. The Parliament, the
Bank of England, the East India Company, the
People at large, have all undergone a change. To
accomplish this change was, Lbelieve, the real and
ultimate objeEt of • the War—s-(A cry of Hear,
hear." shall not enter ar present into:a detail of
all the Foreign Failures which have arisen from the
miscondat of Ministers, because these are already
known to all the world, and because 1 wish ra-
titer to call your attention to the triumphs which
they gained over the Constitution at home. In the
latter they have succeeded as 'completely as they
failed the former. Liberty-has been completely
conquered, The treason laws have entirely done
away the freedom of speech ; nay,, the very deaf
and dumb may' be guilty of Treason, and sign-posts
and scare-crows May be construed into Libels, Star
Chamber sentences have been issued against the most
trivial offences., When any one was so unfortunate
as to incur the displeasure of Ministers, a sen-
tence was kept suspended over his head for years,
to the disgrace of all justice. He was brought op,
remanded, again brought up, and again sent back
to his prison. All meetings of the- People were
suppressed. If more than fifty persons assembled
together, they were liable to be put to death by
military execution. An inquisitorial power of the
worst kind was introduced; an inquisition into the
private. and domestic concerns of individuals; and
every one was obliged to disclose his affairs, and
the amount of his property, to the Inquisitors, under
a' severe penalty The repeal sof the duty. on In-
come, the tax to which this 'Odious inquisitorial
power was attached, is not sufficient. Property has
been confiscated to a large amount. One Land Tax
has been sold to the Proprietor, only to make way
for a new one ; and if this system be continued,
and one Land Tax thus accumulated on another,
the Proprietor will soon have nothing left hut. his
title-deeds. The. whole protedion of the laws is
now withdrawn. Suspected persons are removed'at
pleasure from one custody to anOther, and carried to
distant prisons, in oppositioit to all the fundamental
principles of the Constitution. Treason laws have
been multiplied without number. The antient laws
were too plain, too easily comprehended, for the
purposes of Ministers. Laws have, therefore, now
been introduced so complicated, that no, one can
know what they are, nor what is Treason. The
abominable system of Construdive Treason has been
introduced, which prevents alike all complaints of
grievances, and all measures for salutary reform;
nd even all conversation on the subjed. The laws
are purposely written in such small charaders, and
hung so high, that no one can read them. Barracks
have been raised in different quarters of the Coun-
try. The Military Power has, 'on all occasions;
been called forth, while the Civil Power has been
studiously degraded. But these Ministers have not
only triumphed over English Liberty, they have
also triumphed over English Honour, and'English
sense of shame. They. niak.e no scruple to recount
their promises of ref;)rtn, and to avow their breach
of them. When-private and public principle are
thus lost, things must soon hasten to final destruc-
tion.- These Ministers were not content with de-
stroying the old laws—they even aded, as they them-
selves expressed it, with a rigour that went beyond 1

' beell
the letter of their own laws. Ever)" step 1135 'r
taken to vilify the Constitution, ard to ten
!er 019.
own power supreme.' They to: k care to have mat
strat es chosen from amongst the meanest of the peop
4te eci
They filled the murderous dungeons with susPeilei.
n !tierce:
sent money abroad, and introduced foreign r
persons. Without the consent of this House,
naries into the kingdom, as more proper instrume_no
to e)tecute their designs than British soldiers• itisY
their own authOrity they issued general watranetil '
and apprehended, not only accused persons,' but ev_j
such a4,were..only suspeCted. 'heir fears betray
them into those measures. They were conscious
they deserved universal hatred, and they.therefoi:
believed every one to be their eneK. this sYstete
magistra
of oppression was carried so far, that one
than give the prisoner a copy
declared he Would rather submit to. the penalty
commitment. Various cruelties were inflieted Wu,
the prisoners : some of them were for a time we ,
fed andlodged,' with a view to make them diseluh%
their accOmpliCes, while the horrors of Cold-hatio
• fields were continually presented to their eYes'rd,
ace() 0
Case 'of refuSal. Every art was .employed'
ing to the cant phrase of the Magistrates, t° Vag,
the Prisoner sing out. The wretched Prisoner "iler
of, the warrant un
ing no discovery'io make; and being willing raho
to undergo the
.miseries. of cold and faminekt,tb,
falsely accuse the innocent„was sent to Clder.„
fields, and delivered_over into the hands of G°:_if
nor Aris. The part he aEted in these
the true reasons why' that monster W 3.5 PirClti,enisli.
and an increase of salary, instead ofdeseive" P: a..
ment, awarded him. In the cells of this Pos°- de,.
posed to cold, hunger, and brutal insolenceue4
barred even from the wretched consolation 015 e by
their wives and. children, men have been shut tip of
order of Ministers, and denied the Ptivi'e°hese
being brought to trial. After a confinement in ;yen
dungeons, prolonged to two, three, and ,eve'' seven
to
year's, they have at last perhaps been perMitti;aieJ
return to their ruined families. They wete,,`",:siefs
even the privilege, of complaining ; for N"A°.-arrer
at once got rid of their petitions, anal the ",:ss
of punishment, by inducing the House t° ,F-httov
tne:oureeted,
Bill of Indemnity. Thit was the most fa t 3 I b Cel‘
of all, as it at once took away the 0013 cheep
which the nation has on Ministers, by dc)iingh 3 r;
their responsibility—(Cv. of " Heez;•." )----;- veoP;
sent Minister, in obtaining this aft to u'i'.,t ise
for his predecessor and patron, discovers vi`:l` CO'
are to expeft from, himself. Indemnity wncces*
tinue to be' multiplied 'On Indemnity,
and a',.' - clio
'to legal 'redress against Ministers will thus, u,e,d the
punishment of their crimes, even upon
up. But Ministers were too strong io ute:6-tio•
It was the fear that the' horridcony', i he
publicly, told, 'that made them call for this 13;5 are
Indemnity. No man's life isl safe, if Min,iestp°;rli3'
allowed thus to go an with'iMpunitv. 11 *,re3'
ment can thus be prevailed upon,' without tre is
son assigned, to pass Bills of Indemnity, ti`i jos'
an end of all personal security. The con-rs,oo.occi,,ll
tice has here been turned aside, in order r°;,- 10'
the crimes of Ministers. I did not indeed' "Ice" tr'
ofstood forward,
that *such men as the late Ministers would Col°l oil.
tale sho°;'Lli of
us begging for pardon through the medium ai;oltilf,
of Indemnity. I thought they would have "roan°
Necessity. But they have not deigned t° ecti-
and rested their defence on the g'6,00
.any appeal to law. The injustice of their ifd co
‘tvuirtlht
otluterseatrimngid,t,
ings is proved, by their being at length ohlig.tietri
oblebprilongttertshealguaint.(l)outsreinain.....„:A:clit:;oll,
has been said by Ministers of the Coo9!'-`; hot
and the means _ employed to 'preserve '',,t 'cis 0°
our 500,000,0001. of Public Debt,
they have
.not dwelt with 'equal ea11''.,23,-stile9
0,1 the P-0 the
t at have been ereded, the powers given ft„, Lb;
Army,'the Inquisition established into proPer';'an°
restraints imposed on opinions, a shackled Presil'oos)
Countryband a
Wl in
has,is t r yi
nidnet
el edm,
a beggared People—a confiding House of (-;°,:f this
, .ut when we turn our eyes to Ireland, to the ',cop,
tism exercised in that wretched Count ry,,ire ba:trairl'
nbifieeend.ren'dfehreedsi rclueaptli:cniilecsl):-:w
soni to congratulate ourselves on not having Ye'"" etli)Y
et the same pitch of misery. The measures aßPtod •
inisters, in Ireland, are too glaring t 0 be P,ftlie
o.ver. To enable the House to form an opjuiTl iisly'
situation of that country, a subjea to which
i 14llgr:tr,i
men have paid too little attention, or w-th r.c:lo#
• to. which they have been misled by false rerres.,ioat
tions, it is necessary to go back to the (Irtrio3rM
causes of the troubles in that Country. i:% 00a
the close of the American War, 10 or, ;0' 0'
troops stationed in Ireland were remove" ', coo'
theatre of war. In their absence, Ireland wra-uncler
filed to. its own national troops, who were le'' this
no restraint but that of opinion.' I ruenAriiferefir
last circumstance particularly, to skew 11°?: -,-, Ive"
their conduet was then when left to thee'
from what it was lately ; and if it was ' :soles
it was in consequence of the bad Ine. rid,
adopted by Ministers.. At that s former ,P:osed
assemblies of armed men heard and als,tacles
their grievances with moderation. I`.° °b ctings"
were at that time' opposed to public rae,ol.olo
there were . no' murders, no military ~,riuncei
no free:quarters, no bills of indemnity• net° itv
was that France, at 'that time, did not dare, „5 clel
vide Ireland, as' she knew that a country til,", .."
aote.
fended
by Citiien-Soldiers, was unconquer' f the
But Iceland soon found herself the prey of
intrigues of British Ministers. That :Indere 09
• • d
Parliament ,in which she at first rejoice 'e no-
soonthe discovered to be nugatory. he a
toriously sold in it. The efoquenee of t ha
Prime Minister, before he was Mir,isterieforio,
tended much to increase their desire of r stir
was t
But - •
tas soon as he became Minister, an' . be ,
ported by the troops returned from Anler'ca'd, 101
once changed his principles. But his w°r Cr
be
gone too deepinto the minds of the Irish toherone
sily.effaced, and the necessity of a reform iri
i that
day ' It • - fou'' t ne'
every more apparent: was 05
order, to accomplish this desirable objea, it s en
I
cessary to avoid all religious controversie9' inutO,
arose the United Irishmen. UnanimitY aria Zits
afiettion appeared' in all their p oceedings'to die
union of Irishmen stung_ the Ministerable dis
soul.
heardlnsteaf promoting. sycll rentable
position, ' osed to be. passed. theiro '
ur t hic°
"
and aboMinable -Cdnvention Bill. This '''' O
was intended to *suppress, ' ga-v° 'llgtvf ,vjg

•
. .
the national spirit. Meetings, _ formerly public,
Were now held in private, and they became nu-
merous in proportion to the obstacles they had
-to encounter. The Catholic iehebitantse were
attacked by the Fanatics of an opposite persuasion ;
hand-bills were affixed to their doors, ordering them,
by a ee-tain day, to leave their houses ; -and in case
'of a refusal they were burnt- to the ground. A Com-
mission was sent .to try these rioters, but they were
all acquitted, except one, and he was pardoned.—
This roused the Catholics to seek that proteaion
from 'turns which they could not obtain from Law
and in. their turn they committed ontrages and
disorders. Government, however, did not punish
these dis Orders, as they had done the former.. Mi-
litary Tribunals were introduced, who condemned
whole Tribes at once.' The Military were indem-
nified for all their outrages, thus adding legal sane_
tioeto illegal enormities. The 'people were deli-
Yered over to an - enraged Army ; whole Provinces
Were proclaimed, and Military Execution closed the
scene. Abercrotriby, indeed, was a Soldier, train-
e in the School of Honour,
and the' discipline
lied observed softened the horrors of War ; but
hewas soon removed from the command.—Still
people did not rise ; a more aaive stimulus
was necessary ; the torture was introduced, even.
into the
Court-Yard of the Viceroy's Palace,.
that his ears might be regaled with • the cries
of the vielims. The people then rose to groan
tr,Le,ely• Ministers had cheriShed the hatred Ve-.
aided
thethe PeOple and the parliament; they now in-
el,-;, army against the Parliament. The Parlia-
Dni,...,-is ,tvas branded by those who had formerly
inse" it, as tainted by local prejudice, and unfit
lee govern It waS at last forced to commit that po-
itieal suicide on itself, which has been dignified by
PUnion
nairie of Union. It has been said, that the Irish.
nion and Reform took itsttsror
model from France ; but
Irety attests, that public meetings took place in
laudlot purposes • of reform ten years before the
vii.rench Revolution. It was the universal cot reption of
eirParliament that pointed cut to them the necessity
reform. Ministers A well as the people of Ireland
'aw a reform necessaey, but they differed about the
''ode The People thought that a Parliament chosen
by themselves, and bound to them by conneetions and
ennterest, would be most likely to redress their grieve
with, Ministers thought that a foreign Parliament,
wants t sYmpathy or attachment, ignorant of their
To edit I.ki prejudices, could afford the best remedy.
~. y this
-uelieve scheme into execution, (a scheme, 1
dill) }: ProjeOed at' the period of the Regency
velt,
~t e Minister has waded through blood, and in.
14. '',e`-' a hatioti in indescribable calamities. If the
sece'ter has failed in foreign wars, he has completely
La—eeded ie destroying English liberty, Nay, he
nes stalud.uP in this House, and justified the use
_. the, torture ! Robespierre, who only infliaed
41("13)e death, was in comparison with him an angel
~,l'ercy (cey of hear,.hear I) 'The twelve Cxsars
lic
et exceeded this cruelty; and shall such condua
'tePa'.sed over ? this
the British Nation be, with
l'rentty disgraced abroad, and oppressed at home
11The Country is now 'Much in the same state as it
43 at the end of the American War. The Right
e'i". Gentleman (Mr: `Pert) 'then thought the, leli-
stets who conducted that Wet. ought to be censue-
ed . io
Iva' he foretold the consequences if this -measure
iti-,"t adopted. His counsel was wise, and-should
a _t'le present circumstance's be followed, to prevent
of the of the same (Arils. I now, in -the name
for,te,P,e. °Pie, call for the same measure he called
now ,' nave done my duty—and the Country may
lib, te;'use, Whether to submit to the ruin of their
ttillreS and the universal empire of France, or
nowto maintain its freedom and independence. I
~,,boiceolinclude with Moving for " a Committee of the
Admi • "se, to inquire into the condutt of the late ministration,.,
.
Mr. ST_
Lot
.77' KT seconded the Motion. •
Pardon „f
L.III7PLE rose to answer. He begged
replyin2, ,
.House for taking up their- time in
ten atiele.:` 'eugth to a charge thatehal been so of-
of the -te`-'!ed, and so often. refutedee The decision
but it- "(ntse had. been distina and unequivOcal ;
erten wa's necessary to reply to these- arguments as
that trs they. Were repeated. -He thought it strange
to re le' Hon. Baronet should' call upon the House
other verse :its decision, before he produced any
leou rr(ltinds than those which had been so often
Thett forward, and as Often rejeCted.by the House.
th'e\°hle Lord then entered into a detailed reply
th Hon. Baronet's arguments :he sheaved that
e !le__
s.
both
heessity of the War had been acknowledged
clearly the House and the Public ; and it had been.
ieto
t, demonstrated that Ministers had been forced
the late
War. He then adverted to the efforts of,
sttece:_te Ministry to save their Cciuntry, to the
of ou'r'eeTS6/ our Army, and the glorious triumphs
preciateANavy, which no one could deny or de_
the fr •
_As to the Constitution, he said, that,
tile Heed°4l of speech that night employed by
that
it still
Baronet, was a convincing proof
Was ti:'
,_still remained in all its integrity. .It
0,1,4 the
Of of our,Constitution . that it could •
altered,°' repairs without the original fabric being,
fercirNoble Lord then slimed, that the:
With 1 of tile Irish required vigorons measurese
War regard to whether or not thee object of the:
restr was atrained, that was nothing to the Mir`'
'36' Y. We were only to inquire, whether the
AO of
Ivithriot rite War could have been better attained
elore., our assistance. Would Austria have done
sepport`l"aed rnore wisely without our counsel and
i,i fault the If the precautions of the Minister were
f4,,,1a.,1 tiley were a fault on the safe side. When
ern first proposed io treat., it *was prudent in
I.,;LtSt to ascertain the stability and duration
the "„t_. Government.—ln short, the* condua of
3,,a wl,4,:i_itliters had been approved of both within
Iteerneltii,ut the House. As to the Duty on
tellu,lzhitedt.hought. the principle ought never to be
isli to
s_ . Ac it was a War Tax, he did not.
!liettee_ see ,t continued in time of Peace; but he
14 ee6-11: 1 should be reserved as our grand resource
tiler 'y Y future War. It was the City, the Corn-
;aeWMen that art hei_
to , lac called for the -Fax, and Ministers,
ro_ r w quest,u brought it before Parliament. Par_
o ttc_n. 1
VIA," c°rldua °nth Ni 1 •• 1 P vir'g -
L Le), it 0) e Relation, (Lord Git EN-
t3 coti would not become him to an thine. •:
4oh 44 was submitted say y b ,
to his Country. As to
44 her
k'ght Ilone Gentleman,
Min.
Istration (M 11° ' high in the late
• r. , ITT), he considered the sal- '

vation of the Country as due to his talents, and the
confidence with which he inspired the People.—
Without his efforts, we should have bee,n at this
moment smarting. under the lash of a- Foreign
Usurper. The Noble Lord concluded by giving his
•. unequivocal dissent to the Motion.
Mr. ARCHD ALL said, after the melancholy
information from the Hon. Baronet, that the late
Ministry had levied war against the Irish as a people,
he naturally wished to rise early in the Debate, if it
were only to ascertain his own existence. How_.
ever, beford he spoke to 'that point, and to others,*
which were all the Noble Lord had left to be noti-
ced in the Hon. Baronet's speech, namely, that the
same Ministry had committed monstrous. aggres-
sions against the Constitution .of England, and had
.degraded the, charafter of Englishinen,- both abroad
and at home, he begged leave to acknowledge the
complinients which the Hon. Baronet had paid to
the Parliament of Ireland, as,a cruel, and even as, a
suicidal body of men as one of them, whose grati-
tude was always among, the readiest
.of,their feel-
ings, he would in his own name, and in that of
many Gentlemen. near him, assure the Hon. Baro-
net, that they received all his 'compliments with the
most sovereign acquiescence. As to this -Ministerial:
warfare levied against Ireland, it consisted in aOs
of
,concession from the commencement •of. the War,
to the Union of the Pa rl ;amen of, repeated
concession, and disappointedconciliation. • He then
'mentioned the different popular Ads passed there;
particularly the Militia. Bill, to which he said Ire_
land chiefly owed its preservation at this moment ;
bUt which was not what the Hon. Baronet had-re.
commended, a debating army ; and the Rolnan Ca-
. tholic Bill, of which the Catholics had-expressed an
opinion, by publishing, that they should for ever
remember with the Most lively gratitude the bene-
fits which they had received during the Earl of
Westmorland's administration; all this war ,of Mi.
nistry, the Irish people had happily survived, and
found. they were, existing very well with them ;
yet Lord Westmorland was one. of that Ministry,
under Whose government, he said, more good law:;
had been made for Ireland, and that Country was
left in better circumstances, than in all the govern-
ments all the Lord Lieutenants, from Lord Went-
worth down to Lord Wentworth Fitzwilliam 'who
succeeded him. After mentioning this last Noble.
man with great respea, he said, the next govern-
ment was ;,1. government Of self-defence .; it was as_
sailed by ,Rebellion and Civil War, and was obliged
to repel force by force;—Could the Hon. Baronet
say, that commotion. should go- so far, and no far-
ther, and that the hand which might raise a storm
could be sure to allay it ? As to thelre--quartering
of the Army, which he had reprobated, he should
not defend, nor blame it. All he should say was,
that it was not an at of the late Ministry, but of
the great and regretted character, who was then the
Commander in Chief, Sir Ralph Abercromby. -He
said, as to the other points he recolleded of the
Hon. Baronet's Speech, the House would determine
what aggressions the late Ministry, had committed
against the Constitution, when they considered the
Union., with Ireland, a measure which was not

only an improvement, but a security
,of the
,on-
-stitution,. which appeared to be welcome to
both sides of the House, and which, he trusted,
would transmit to the latest posterity, unless the
Honourable Baronet prevented it—their names
As the best -protectors of an United Empire.--
Let other nations, when they look up to this and
see a people, amid 'various and complicated difficul-
ties of their own adverse circumstances, and even
adverse seasons, still hOwever able and ready- to
stretch forth a hand of protection and bounty to
the ruins Of a Crown and Religion, which the
storm of Revokition had thrown on their hospita-
lity ; and at the Same time their own Religion, and
their overt Crown presei-ved with untarnished purity
and-splermiatir,---objetts at least of envy, if 'not of
imitation, to a suffering world.. Let other nations,
when they think
,of tell. the Hon. Baronet,
what .is now
,the English charaaer abroad. And
let this United Nation, when it looks back to the
contrast on the one hand, their Ministry calling
forth the virtues of the Country, and placing them
in unison with thoSe of the Sovereign ; on the other,
a selfish and disafFeaedParty,in their Jacobin uniform,
of thread-bare: sophistry. and patch-work declama-
tion ; who once were troublesome, and might have
become formidable, unless in the course of this .war

of PrinciPles, as Power, they had not been
defeated by arguments as well as by faas, and at
last driven into- obscurity with ifie indignation of
the Public. Let this be recolleeted, and the Hon.
Baronet have the pleasure and the pride to tell what ,
is now. the English charaaer at • home. He had
moved the question, and ought to have the satia...
faCtion of the answer.

After this he would close what he had said with
adverting for a moment to the Right Hon. Gentle-
man who had been at the head of that Ministry,
who did not shrink from the responsibility of every
department in it, and towards whom the Motion and
Debate were particularly directed; he adverted to
that Gentleman with those•sensations which inferior
minds must feel, when they contemplate an objeft
so far above them—but if after a long Ministerial
life of difficulties, which could only be exceeded,
by the spirit which surmounted them —if after

years of unceasing exertions and undiminished popu-
larity, he chose to rest from the services of a Crown
which he had asserted, and of a Country which he
had saved, rich at least in the consciousness of his
vharafter, and the patriotism of his labours—if after
•

this, some one should come forward to criminate
his merits in the Parliament which had witnessed
them, even he ,would presume to speak what the
Right Hon. Gentleman need not condescend to
speak for himself, that to this House it would be

enough to sax, as his illustrious father said before
him, "Yon know these bands are clean," and to his
accuser it would not be too much to say, •

Disce, peer, virtutem ex me, verumque laborem,
" Fortunam ex aliis-"
He begged pardon for interrupting the House so
long, bet on a Motion- tending to, impeach such
charaters, if he had not declared his opposition to
it, he must in his own conscience have impaclied
himself.

Mr. 701VES thought no argument had been ad-
vanced against the Motion of the Hon. Baronet,
which he conceived it his duty to support.

ITPLGRAPE said, he thought it proper
:that the Motion of the Hon. Baronet should be con_
verted into a praaical compliment to His Majesty's
late MinisterS. He' should. say little with respeft
to the argument of the Hon. Baronet, but it appeared
to him that, with thOse sentiments which appeared
,to actuate his mind, he ought to have proposed
certain Resolutions one by one, for the purpose of
grounding .on them an Impeachment. The Hon.
Baronet had not, however, been contented with
.censuring the conduEt of the late Ministers, but the
present Ministers, the Parliament, tht Judges, the
Police Magistrates, the Governor of Cold-bath
Fields Prison, as well as other persons, had come
:in for a share of the censure. was very proper
that the Speech of the Honourable Baronet should
be made in that House ; ' had it been made elsewhere,
at least so faras it regarded the judges, it must ei-
. ther have been treated with contempt, or considet-
ed.and prosecuted as a libel. There was one point
which he could never hear mentioned without.de-
' siring immediately to cootradita it, and thatwas rela-
tive to the systematic cruelty. whiCh it was alledged
was.exercised in the Cold Bath-fields Prison : he
was one of the Committee that examined that Pri-
son,•and he averred that no irregularity was com.
mitted there, ..to which a remedy was not immedi-
' ately applied. The Hon. BarOnet had adverted to`
the expenditure of Public Money ; but was it to be
wondered at, when every article had increased in
price, that the whole expenditure of Public Money
shoUld also increase The Hon. Baronet had Cort-
i demned, in the'strOngest terms, the Suspension of the
Habeas Corpus At but had the Hon. Baronet so
soon forgot th.e.cclntest in which we had lately been
. engaged ? Had he forgot the Treasons and Conspi-
racies which existed in the Country ? Had he for-
got the Meeting at 'Copenhagen House, the Con--
vention in Scotland, or the violences committed by.
the Rebels:in Ireland ? Had he forgot that one of
those Rebels .had so far concealed his. dangerous
principles, as rb induce many respeaable Gentle-
men to declare that they believed tiis-charafter to be
perfectly virtuous ? He was astonished that the,
Hun. Baronet, knowing all this, -should so make
up his mind•as he appeared to haVe done. • Had the
Hon. Baro-net ::imply proposed the Motion,
..he
would not have proposed any Amendment ;' but
as the Honourable Baronet had coupled it with
a Speech containing the setrongest censure that
had ever been' expressed in -that House, he
thought, therefOre, that the House should express
its strong reprobation of then Motion, and at the
same time give. a decided opinion relative to the
comluft ,Of the late Ministers. He proposed, as an
Amendment, to leave out all the words after; the
word -" That," and to insert the words, " That
the Thanks of the House shoal; be voted to thelate
Administration, for their condtift 'during the late
War." [A loud err of " Move, Move,l
The SPE AICE4 said, that such an Amendment

was certainly consistent with the forms of the Pdr-
liathent, but ex-remelv unusual; he therefore left it
to the Noble Lord to chuse the: manner in which he
would proceed. •
Lord.•BELoaAVi said, he would withdraw his
Amendme•it, and bring 'it forward as a Motion at
another opportunity.
• Mr. PITT said, he was aware the House would
see it Nviitr9ll4 the peculiar, regard he must have for
some of the topics which had been brought forward
to night, .he was induced, ibr a moment only; to
call its. attention, in the exercise of a privilege,
which, he hoped, no personal consideration would
render difficult to .him, but in which, he had, at
present, no more to do than to state, what he con-
ceived to be the right ,mode of proceeding, in the
matter now before the House, and which he did
with a feeling that ought naturally to belong to
him, he being personally concerned in the event.
What would, or should be the event of the Motion,
,he was nor going to say, nor would he venture to
conjedure,, after what had passed ; nor would he
say one word on the argument for or against the
original Motion ; but he hoped he might be allow_
ed to suggest, that the Amendment proposed by his
Noble Friend, though certainly within the letter
,of the Order of the House, leaving only a single
word of the original Motion, and changirg the
Whole sense, was tertainly against the genet al course
of proceeding in the House, and, therefore, it ap-
peared to him better, not to prOCeed on the Amend-
ment of his Noble Friend,
.who; indeed, he could
not help saying,- had intended it kindly to him,.and
those who composed His Majesty's late Government:

:hat, however, was a snhjeZt which he did not wish

. _ i
to dwell upon, nor was t,a subjea proper for him
to. consider : What he would humbly suggeit to his
Noble Friend and the House, was a consideration

of the matter which was before it, The House

met to.:day, with only a vague and imOerfedi notice
of some Motion to be levelled against the late Ad-
ministration, with no knowledge, forthe.Honour-

able Mover gave the House none, of the particular
points of that Motion,_ which manifested, as he
thought, a want of. that accommodation which the
Houseatleast (whatever might have been due. to

individuals) might have expeded. But he hoped his
Noble Friend would have the goodness to recolle&
that, whether the House ought to assent to, or rejea
the original Motion, whether the notice of it had

been deficient or ample, yet, that as to the Amend-
ment proposed by his Noble' Friend, there was no

notice whatever; it would therefore be not indeed

an unprecedented, but an unusual course to pursue
this. Amendment, which his Noble Friend was

inclined to propose he hoped, therefore, for
the sake of the House, and if hi; Noble Friend

would allow him to add, of those to whom the
Amendment related, he would not now bring it
forward. He begged pardon of the House for pre,.
suming to speak on this subjea, hut the recom-'
tnendation he had taken the liberty to make, ap-
peared to him not altogether unworthy of its
acceptance.

Lord BELGRAVE said, he should not have
moved the Amendment, had it not been for the
Speech of the Hon. Baronet, as it appeared to him,
that after such a violent Speech, it was necessary
for him, in a manly and proper manner, to express,
his opinion. He would, however, withdraw the
Amendment.

The SPEAKER having put the Question tor with.
drawing the Amendment,
Mr. BUYVERIE objected to it.

The SPrAkr.tt observed, that the -Amendment
having never been stated from the Chair, no ()ices:
tion was necessary upon it.
Mr.- FOX spoke to order, and observed, that the
SP EAK E R having put the Question that the Amend.
meat should be withdrawn, it was of course the pri.
vilegc of any Hon. MetnUet to speak to, that Ques-
tion. It was not altogether ttousual to move
Amendments similar to the present.
The discussion of the Main Question was then
proceeded on.
Mr. Alderman COM B E said a few words in a low
tone of voice, the purport of which we could not condi.
Mr. ELL/SOYsaid he had given his approbation
to the conduct of the late Ministers with the ut.
most satisfaCtion, and in common with a great ma-
jority of that House and of the Nation. He was
convinced that House was not to be led astray by
Sound a!ld Fury signifying nothing. No Eft had
been brought forward in support of the Motion,
which could induce any Grand jury to put a man on
his trial, and if he was sitting as a Grand Jury.
man, he could not conscientiously, upon hearing
what had been alledged by the supporters of
.the
Motion, consent to put any man upon his trial. He
had heard much of Bastiles and Cold Bath Fields,
but he could not discover that any abuse of power
existed. This Motion appeared to him to be more
•direded against the. Majority of that House, than
against Ministers; but he had always understood
that the Majority ought to govern the Minority
He could not help congratulating the House, that
the Motion was broughtlorward at the very' mo.
ment of Peace, when, whilst the Hon. Baronet wits
asserting the Country to be ruined, the People
were displaying. the greatest confidence in its re.
sources. He should-decidedly oppose the Motion.
Mr. BOUI7ERIE said, that much had been pro-
mised during the War, but little had been per-
formed. He thought this was a Motion which
called upon the house, without reference to any
Adm;nistration, to inquire how the War haul been
COnduaed. He could not, therefore, conscientiously
give his negative to the present Motion.
• Sir 80 .11 ERT BUXTON tv,:ig; decidedly hostile
to the Motion. He thought that, instead of gain-
ing nothing by the War, we had gained our objet}.
It 'had been-alledked.that Bills had been passed ini-
mical to the Liberty of the SubjeCt ; he admitted
that;ihe Suspension of the Habeas Corpus An was
in.,'some degree an infringement of 'that Liberty
but the question then was, whether' that Liberty
was not to give way for a time to the Safety of the
Country ?...The Habeas Corpus .An was now, how,.
ever, restored, aned the Seditious Assemblies Bill was
suffered to expire ; but he Would venture to assert,
that there never was a War'accompanied by Rebel-
lion, in which so few persons suffered ; and it was
surely better to pass a feu temporary Ass, as- a
preventative, than. to bring a number of persons to
condign punishment. With respett to Cold Bath,
fieldS Prison, he was on two Committees relative
to that Prison; and he was-convinced:that no-cruelty
existed there..
Mr. ALEXANDER
.said, that the Speech of the
Hon. Baronet went to nothing but a charge of
unqualified corruption upon Parlianient 'a4 a 1
on the late Ministers as the Agents of this
corruption. There was nothing thrown Out •
against • those Ministers which did not embrace the
Legislature and the Government, and whicth did
not equally tend to cast contempt upon 'all those
persons by wriom the Government must be admini.
stered. He was much surpaii,jd that so many great
and able men should sit; silent, and not attempt to
support the assertions of the Hon: Baronet by fads.
He concluded by expressing, in .strong.terms, his 're:.
probation of the Motion.'
Sir WILLIAM ELFORD said, that he would:-
detain the Hotte a few moments only, but he wished
not to give a silent vote on a Motion which,
though not in express terms, yet in its tendency,
and coupled with the speech which preceded it, did
certainly convey a criminal. charge 'against men to
whom he thought this Country owed its prosperity,
and almost its existence. He had attended to the
speech of the Hon. Baronet, and found not one
syllable in it which appeared to him to apply to the
late Administration ;•—the strictures were all cen-
sures on that House, and indeed on the Parliament,
for enacting those Laws, of which the Hon. Baronet
had complained, and for supporting the War, . and
the other measures of that Administration ; and the
latter part of his speech was a gross Libel on the
late Irish Parliament, and a tender Apology for the
'lrish Rebels.—He was so fully convinced of the •
merits of those Right Hon. Gentlemen who were
die objects of the Motion, that 'he wished the forms
of the House, or rather the usual practice- of it,
would admit of the Motion of Thanks proposed by
the Noble' Lord being now made. He said his

feelings on. the subjea went still farther, for he
had long thought, that considering the unparalleled
obligations which this Country owed to His Majes- ,
ty's late Ministers, some aflive proof of its grad-
tude ought long ago to have been manifested. When
he saw those Right Hon. en tlemeri retiring from
office, not with what used to be called emphatically,
Ministerial Fortunes, not with that Independence
which their ,great talents would have procured for
them, ,had they been. exercised in any other way
than in the service of their Country, he ever should
consider it as an eternal disgrace to the Country,
' and to the House in 'particular, that no one had
before this time, moved for an humble Address
to His Majesty, to implore that His Majesty would
be pleased to bestow some great and signal mark of
his koyal Bounty on those Gentlemen,. which that
House would make good. He was sensible of the
delicacy .of the subjeCt in their presence, but meant
to eZpress his real feelings of their transcendent
merits, and, of the unceasing:gratitude which was
due to them from .their Country. Such were' the
sentiments he had always expressed bath in and out
of that House ; he doubted not he should retain.
them to his latest hOur, and he •most, heartily and
decidedly, gave his negative to the Motion.
The Gallery was then ordered to be cleared, and
shortly afterwards the Hotise divided.

For the Motiop
Against it

39
246.

Majority 207
Strangers were not re-admitted, but we ttndec.
stand that
Lord BELGRAvE gave notice, that soon after

t'r,e ?loess he would bring forwatd a Mestloa, in
r,ull.tance die same with that he had propesed this

evening.
MT. SHERIDAN asked if the Noble° Lard was
really in earnest ? Should such a Motion he carried,
he should certainly feel it his duty to follow it up
ho lnoving, That an Address be presented to His
MAJESTY, praying that His MAJESTY would be
graciously pleased to inform the House by whose
advice he had dismissed those meritorious Ministers,
or what circumstances had occurred to render it im-
Fossible to retain their places.
Lord BELGRAVE said, he most certainly should
bring forward the Motion, and he was convinced
that the House and the Country would be very much
disappointed if he were not.
There was then a loud cry from the Opposition
Bench of " merue, move !"—but
The CHANCELLOR Of the EXCHEQUER moved,
that the Orders of the Day be now read, which
Motion being carried, the Commit tees of Ways and
Means were deferred till Wednesday,
Adjourned at a quarter past eight till to-morrow.

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6OLEM QUIS DIOERE FALSONI AUDEAT ?

LONDON, APRIL 13, iBoz.

\VE yesterday stated the arrival at Portsmouth
of the Raven Sloop of War
.ftom Jamaica. Some
loose accounts were brought by her, of advantages
gained by the French over TOUSSAINT, who was
stated to have been obliged to retire to the interior
of the Liana. He wi:l there, however, wage the
kind of warfare which we have already described,
14nd which will prove 'fatal to 4 great number of the
French,

WE hope to-morrow to present our Readers with
some Remarks on the Report of FoaT4Lis, on the
übjea of the Concordat.

By referring to our Parliamentary Debates, our
Readers will see that the long threatened Motion of
Sir F. BI;RDETT against the late Administration, a
Motion, which Mr. Fox and Mr. SHERIDAN (if
we may judge from their silence) thought incapable
of support, And which Mr. PITT and the other
Members of the late Administration thought un-
worthy of answer, was last -night negatived by a
very large Majority,

The SPEAKER'S Saturday Evening Levees arc
ended for the present Session of Parliament.
Yesterday Sir EDWARD LAW was sworn in
King's Sergeant, as a preliminary step to his being
appointed Chief justice.
Five ComFinies of the 24th Regiment from
Egypt, landed yesterday afternoon at Portsmouth,
from on hoard the Fella' Frigate, and were wel-
comed cm shore by a concourse of spthators. This
Corps has experienced the banehil effeas of an
Egyptian climate, :nore than any. •other Regiment
of that gallant .I,l.rmy ; having, since their embarka.
;ion from fortMloutit in May last, lost nearly one.
third of their mcn.

It is said, that an Officer who has borne an un,
Votnisiked reputation during the War, and has till
within these tew days commanded one of the finest,
Frigates in our Navy, has been superseded in conse-
quence .of a lettershaving, been written by the ship's
.crew, in the natux of what is termed a Round Ro-
bin, which they caused to be sent to the Admiralty,
charging the Commander with embezzling the King's
stores. The heinousness of the offence induced the
-Admiralty to "'investigate the business; another
'Frigate was ordered lon the station, the Officer of
-which had orders to go on board to ascertain the
supposed delinquency. All hands, were ordered
on deck, and challenged, as to the letter, which
was then produced, -When two of them came for.
ward and avowed their signing it. The conse-
quence was, . that the Frigate was ordered from her
station round to Portsmouth, and a Court Martial
will immediately take place
.to develop; this unplea-
,
sant business.

- Upwards of moo French Prisoners were yester-
day morning liberated from the depbt at Norman
;Cross, and escorted by detachments of the East
Essex, Militia, and 3d Dragoon Guards, to Lyon,
in Norfolk, 'from whence they are to be conveyed
'to Dunkirk.

On the voyage of the Herales Transport, bound
to Botany Bay, there was a general insurrection
'among' the Irish Convias, who rose on the ship's
company, and at one time were masters of the ship.
`They were, however, at length overcome, many of
them killed, and the Transport is safe arrived at Rio
St. Janerro,

. .
A meetin& took place at Rathdrum, in the county
of Wicklow, on Saturday se'nnight, between Cap-
'tains F. and Q. both of the Somerset Regiment ;
and a e are sorry to add, that the latter has been
Mortally Wolinded.
. • On Wednesday accounts were received from the
Mediterranean, of the death of Captain BUCHANAN,
Of His Majesty's
,Ship //aedem, Capt. 'E. was
bringing home troops from Egypt, when he had the
misfortune to fall from the skip's side into the ship's
I.puat, and to fraftufe two of his ribs. A bilious
fever succeeded, and put an end to his existence.
Mrs. BILL iNc-ro.rl spends the present week at
Bulstrode-: the seat of the Duke of PORTLAND.
At the I'Llmpsitire Hunt Meeting, on Tuesday, the
punters' Ctip.ol 501: for all ages., was run for over
' the Winchester'Race-ground; the best of three four-
_ pile ats, which 'Was won 'by Mr, VI LLEZO
7,41;e1ic, tleVrp; tivo others,

THE DEFINITIVE TREATY.

MANY opportunities will be afforded to us of
discussing the died of this Treaty, we shall not,

therefore, enter at large into it upon the present
occasion. It was hoped by those who have op-
posed the Pe,ice with France, that the Definitive

Treaty would have varied so much from the Pre-
liMinaries, and that that variation would have been
so much more disadvantageous to this Country than
the Preliminaries promised, that they might, upon

hat ground, have founded strong arguments of ob-
eaion to it. This, however, is not -the case.

The present confirms and explains the Preliminaries,

and there is no variation which can be fairly re-

presented as injurious to our Interests. As far as

respeas Portugal, it will now be admitted that we
have stipulated advantageously for our Ally. The
Treaty of Badajos is con4rmed, and that of Madrid
annulled.

But though the first objeEtions that i.vere•ad-
vanced against the Preliminaries are done away,
there are others urged against the Tieaty as it now
stands, and which, we hear, are to be pressed with
a good deal of earnestness, whenever the subjea
comes to be discussed in Parliament. It is to be
argued, that as there is in the present no reference

to any other Treaty, of course all former Treaties
are abrogated. Whether this position can be main-
tained upon the simple ground that it has been cus-'
tomary to make such reference, we have much
doubt ; but the next, and the more material point
to consider is, whether we gain or lose most by
this omission.—lf, an the one hand; it be con.
tended that we lose the security of every thing we
possessed, which was confirmed to us by Treaty,
and that, for this reason, we are.more likely to be

involved in future Wars on our own account—on
•
the other, hand, it must be admitted, that we are so
much the less likely to be involved in War on ac-
count of our Allies—for if there is any thing in
this argument, our• obligations to others must be
annulled, as well as theirs
.to us—and the question
which Ministers must have had to determine is
this, Whether, as things now stand, the Treaty of
Westphalia, or any other Treaty, which might
have been formerly snpposed to secure the ba-
lance of Power in Europe, was applicable to the
new state of things, and whether it were not
better to trust our security to our own in-
dividual exertions, than to depend upon any ac-
knowledgment or guarantee which even the party
with whom we were contraEing might have been
willing to offer us ?—Besides which, it must always
be recolleaed, that if even it would have been ad-
vantageous to us to have had the benefit of the
acknowledgment of our Rights, and the Ratifica-
tion of former Treaties, we could not haveexpeaed
this to have been made without being called upon to
acknowledge rights, and confirm Treaties on the
part of France, which would have involved us in
Continental Politics in a manner which might here-
' after have proved
,highly injurious- io our interests.
Thecircurnstances.of Europe are totally changed,
and a. wise Statesman will always secure the in.
terests of his Country, by accommodating himself
to the aaual state of things—We think Lord
HAWKESDURY has displayed much ability on this
occasion—he has shewn a manly firmness joined to
a conciliatory disposition, throughout the whole
Negotiation—and
,we think those who are so
forward to objea to the terms of the Treaty, prove
only, by the nature of their objeaions, (if they are
sincere) that if they had been the Negotiators, they
would have thrown so many obstacles in the way
of Negotiation, that they would have ruined the
Country, instead of giving us Peace.

The following General Order has been issued
from the War Office to the Colonels of Militia Re-
giments, preparatory to the intended reduction,
which is to take place on the 24. th instant ;

NAVAL NEWS.

PORTSMOUTH, Aram

ARRIVED the Norfohk Transport, WOODIIOVSE,
from Gibraltar, and several other Transports, names
unknown, all of which are put under Quarantine at
the Motherbank.

Arrived the Eleanor, PRIOR, from Cherinztgb,
whither she had carried French Prisoners.