The Sun.
London, England, 1802-11-24 00:00:00

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v ..• in- the arrangement or those Indemnities.--
eeery t.4(l)i.„he**iiii'stire",-.musc wish lot the con- •
tb'n.ance of Peace; except those who thought that
b e Present Peace was so bad-a one, that it oughtfto
ae brOken at all eitents,• though it had received the •
01tProhation of a great- majority of that House, and
the People of this Country. Upon these grounds
he slould vote for the Address. - '
e Mr• CANNIIVG .Said, he rose to concur in the
ael'Proliation given to the Address by the MM.-Men-l:
uer who preceded him, bUt with some variation;
upon some points of opinion. The first objed was;
to know what line ofecoOdu6t he maybe' deemed::
t° suPpOrt in . the vote he was about to givee-eet, 1
Whatever some bold men 'may. think- proper to'-eaSF-',
sett in
mai: ntalning, that .War - Vl'as 'the. ret*d'ye,ftor
the
evils that surrounded us, all must concur,' or at,
-east a:
Wen-Majority, in approving .rhe sy.steerteot".
Preparation which Ministers Were it4OPtinge The
110 n. Gentlenian (Mi. Fox) seemed_to:doubt..the
exptd:ency and necessity of our increasing our Na:.
'l4 ..iti I Military Establishments. But whether the•
tiovse,..suas ultimately to sane-Ike them; he considered
s mat:cr for future discussion;' and that Gentlemen
were pledged,, by the Present Address, to support.
them no farther than the eircurnsrances of
.ti-j
re et,
seountry.maY require. fie' for, one gave .the;
nisiers credit for the Peace theyliad:concindede,,itio
by doing so, they had not' One eirei y - iliing7:Ati
vv-es not done, if everYthing was conciliation prom.
liart—All•Was not done -if-we" govt. our rival lonti-
eteri weta"d that 'were ieaely to submit to insult,
were. not cliTossi-•
ebullition to
-d
• in to take advantage of any
Stanclipa u e the Country ire favour -of
c , ~. .p for the Rights of other .N_ atioeis Ille
"Pee" from the Throne had not .-alinded to any . of.
' these nr)torious triinSaions, 'on the -Continent
which occupied ,0 greatea portion of • the,publife at.
!,entinti, and only exhorted ;Us to'-telposeCpafidence
i''
n the wisdom Of His , Majesty's' Co-ttnt'll• -if;
'''eYer,.ilie-interference'Ofthose Councils in some
foreign proceedings Were really such as-hadebeen-re:.
Presented,, they, -in his judgment; afforded no great
ground's of. confidence in. their future wisdom,--'•
There was no man, for ins.tuocee who did not Sytn:-
rathize in the sufferings of the People of. Switier-
st'nd, and rejoice in the gallant example of- spirit
•7,,t1 loYe of
_independence which they exhibiho knoted:+le-
ey must be peculiarly so to Eoglishirien,WW
nhow soon they may be called upon to cxer-
ile the same virtues. It was, however, to-be
__,
e°Pel, that our Government did not instigate_that
infortunate Country to resistance ; and if our i.riter-
cerence was such as public nntoriety proclaiFte.it,
liert',.einlY no remonstrance was ever so nowise.
•to ,Nght it of importance :to know by whdin -and
4 n'4,.'''°,_'r' that interference was made. It
,was
.evi-
c-. to at the feelings of all ranks of_People•• in ...this
be,,lntry were in uniion-With .those of the Swiss ;
-e' ' a wise Administration should not sufiltr.itstlf
."° 'be led or influenced by- such feeiingS tin every
occasion ; and f cur remonstrance was precipitate..
„.,i
4t did injory instead of good. The blow was then
""edy struck. We had no Alliance on the Conti.
.bent to back our interference—Austria was, quite
teprepated or :unequal to the attempt, and we could
not expect-to call Armies With the same facility that
then may
.calla coach. Our interference, therefore,
was ill-advised and unnecessary if it.("S' and- could
'Qt h:' attended Y.,;..,1i anyriforal or poli•ticalzoodi
wuatever. The' Swiss were already conquered,
411(1 the - business was done. ' Did the Ministers ac
Fc9rn. Patiy,•their remonstrance with a Declaration -that'.
h* should be iiieffeatial, a War • would be the al-'
t.toative ?. Upon this subject We had no official Corn.'
'T'urlication, Iti•some cases there Was nothing-more
Proper than secrecy, but he was not disposed to ap_
Fkr.,'ve of it as applied,- to the People- governed.
9ere should on all sucleocceSions be a corntntinion
of
Nvlser'Aiments he'rween His Majesty and -his• People.
aen the ,Preliminaries 'of the late Treaty with.
trance were -untierdiscussion, we were congratulat-,
td
---'l. rrsons in -high. situations, on the circum_
,:ance that our . intercourse with the -continent
Culd in future he 'relaxed, if not suspended ;
t but that at the same time, it was our determination
, ' longer to snlaniit ..to insult or . encroachment.
r''lcli was then the impression,. and 'now we
.had a
~
1,,,t bt to know upon what, system we were going..
Whether we were. to .interfere in the internal af-
fairs of
+:
othe Continent, 'or, whether, we stand alone,
111 indful only our own concerns; disseveted frotn
v 4 seof the other Powers ; or pay, like our 'ices"
tors - , - -
se, a (1.11 regard to the general interests of Europe..
e thought that we ought to stand or fall by our-
es ; others, that we were too honest for any kitid•of
Interference. For.l • .he could not mush ad-
his part,
Inire this qent. s superabundance of honesty which some
a_', Gentlemen were content to state in their places,
ianubothers, perhaps, for different purposes, in popu.
A r aran .
Is gues to Assemblies and their Constituents.
th7oe Addresses and Speeches, to which he alluded,.
td Nh, perhaps, they could not be regularly guot-
tioto that House, must have made a strong impres.
not on the Public Mind, -and the Country ought
Of ?en be suffered to run riot in the expectationw..l
h• aee, while a different system was pursuing,
ch
.Wiwit, must have a tendency to lead us into 'War.
rthrespectto the reliance to be placed in the ge-
selft measures of AdMinistration, he professed him-
p
4 friend to recruiting an exhausted Army, and a
dismantled Navy, in the face of an imposing ad-
N'ersar
eeedi Y ; although, 'unquestionably, some late pro-
kee ngs left us to retrieve and repair, instead of
nienP:ng what- we had. The incorporation of Pied-
,aee with France was 'accompanied by the' dis-
e "'ling of our Army ; and the allotments of Ger-
- 'II3Y was
our N , perhaps, the effect of the dismantling of
fact a.vy• All our Foreign'Acquisitions were, in
the giv" up at the time that we should have kept
andproportion with our adversary, of ship for ship,
j'?'" 1•61. . A '• "
`vas ackn '
man. An contest we could have now,
owleo
• for n • , .ged to be not so MUCII.I.Oi Power as
• nOtir,
latte • e , but the worst method of upholding the
•`r. must b
ide, fur" .- eto let down the National Spirit.---.
_him. lf" had - Al. • -
at Res_ ''e , no sposition to go to. War
cot ; but from some Speeches he- had heard
delivered
• that by persons in authority,' he -was to infer.
s tread decaofthe
of L. Y
,Spirit, wias the Clink:.
in , . .
--whielee g Peace. . _this, however, vas ;t position.
- lie was .
- 413inta- ready to deny, On the contrary, he
p rained that there the
' • eopie of
_„le never was a period when .
;nor,.
Cpl
able to
II United Kingdom were more ready or
• Hoe. Gen continue the War with vigour: The
. t' (Mr. Fox) seemed desirous*of tracing