The Sun.
London, England, 1802-01-20 00:00:00

Gentleman called on. Ministers to make
0.4 t disclosure now—tit:it was to say, he called
u!-°n Ministers to disclose that, up,:n which, in its
.1
present state; it was their duty to be silent, and
winch it was the real interest of the Country should
1101 he now disclosed. That was the pradical
inference to be drawn from the speech of the Learn-
ed Gentleman.—ln a word, the drift plainly was,
to prevent the success of the present Negotiation
for a Definitive Treaty of Peace. So much for
the speech, and the object of the speech, of the
Learned Gentleman who spoke last. How had
the other Honourable Gentleman who preceded
him, aimed in this case ? • He had spoken in a man-
ner which he must take leave to say, was not decent
in a case like this; for there was a decency Of lan-
guage, and a decorum of manner to be observed on
such important occasions, which might be dispensed
with in cases of inferior magnitude and solemnity.
To impute fraudulent pradices, and base artifice
to a Power with which we were treating for perma-
nent Tranquillity, was not the way to condua with
propriety, the Proceedings of such 'a place as the
House of Commons : the general spirit of the House
of Commons vas too liberal to approve of this sort
of insinuation, and its condud had been more tole-
rant until the present moment. He humbly submitted
to the House, that the whole of this condud, which
was professed not to be an interruption of the work
of Peace, could have no other rational object (and he
could not impute to such persons as the Learned
and 'Hon. Members who had spoken on the other
aide, any irrational objea) than to interrupt the
progress of the present depending Treaty of Peace,
which (speaking the language of these Gentlemen)
wasio be feared, that is to be feared by them, as
being too near a conclusion. The motives of the
lion. and Leal-fled Gentleinan who spoke last were
rational, his objefts were rational, and there could
be no other (for no other was rational as applicable
to his speech) than that of throwing as much ob-
strut:lion as he was able, in the way of a Negotia-
riot' set on foot under the sandion of the House of
Comrrions, and the success of Which was wished for
by almoSt the total mass of the inhabitants of this
Country. Such a motive he apprehended, would
tcit receive the assent of that House.
Me. /ONES said, he was extremely happy to
hear the Learned Gentleman who spoke last. He
believed he spoke the language of the great ma.
jority'rif the People of this-Coun- try.
dent that they had the He was con.
eace most sanguine hopes of
and there was
.not one man who more sin.
eetely wished for it ..than himself. But he could
'not approve of our haviii sufferecLthis great Ar-
mament to sail before- the Definitive Treaty was
signed. To chew, howeyer, what he thought of the
great work of Peace, he said, he regarded this, in
en_nyatison with Peace itself as a speck in the Sun.
-nits Armament had been already produElive of some
e to this. Country:, but it had been removed,
thank GA by that vigilance and ability which had
distinguished the great Officer who Was now at the
be of the Admiralty: He should, however, not
stave said any thing this day, but from some wards
which fell. from a Noble Lord opposite to him.—
411, e Noble Lord said that the Fleet sailed with,
the knowledge of His Majesty's Ministers ; but
the Noble Lord stated what he did not think he
:as Prepared to prove. He said, this subjet of
hoe sailing ailing of the Fleet would give a tone, and a
relytone, and a vigour, to the Noble Lord who
presented
His MUTAIMIC. MAJESTY at Amiens.
3oL No, No," came from the other side, and Mt.
b, _ RS proceeded.]--He said, he understood the No-
le Lord to say, that Lord COaNWALLIS, whose
tharafter w
njed atiyas'to,o well known throughout the world
hi panegyric now, would be able to hold
&ler Treaty. language than at the beginning ,of the
in the N
ow he could not help observing, than
language of common sense, the French ap._
geared to h..
their hand,
treatingand with us with. the sword in
France of the theyWestw-ttnted St. Domingo to be the
wished Indies.he Under this impression,
ow/td he
, with -the Learned Gentleman,
for some information ; nor did he lie these shore
Adjournments from.time to to mode of hold-
ing Petty Sessions. , He thought it would be better
at once for the Mibitier:to
inake sonic communica_
tion to the Housed IQ,. enable it to come to some
guess at the state -of,‘tihaind-g ns, and call
_for a liberal
confidence, which. _tit_h o doubt, Administration,
would have. That he
thought would be better than,
the present state of anxiety in which the Public were
placed, for there were rumours_ cf the most disa greable kind=--rumours of Wars. One other cir:
curnstlince he could not pass over:and that wcas, the
txpence which this Country must have to defray,
If w
e were to keep up a Fleet equal to that which
France had sent ; if. there was a Fleet from Brest
and a Fleet from Toulon, there must be also a
Fleet from Portsmouth and another from Plymouth ;
and if that should be the case, he should not be an
admirer even of .what was called Peace and Plenty;
for what bad we now / Peace surrounded by a
Warlike Force, and P
Fle rlenty without Bread ?
Captaii: NlARKlidlif said. .
tat on of the sailing of the et, winchhthe subjecl
had
to this evenin t been alluded
g, he Learned
Gentleman appeared.
to be extremely aiarnied for the fate of Jamaica,
because the 'French Force might come from Cuba
and at t.• I.- •
to tac.,tikit pace before our Fleet could arrive
Proteet it.' The Leariied Gentleman's solicitude
old be relieved, on recolleEting that Jamaica was
to *tae v4indward of the Ilavinnah, and it would
take several weeks sail to come to Jamaica.
TY RikflYrr Said,. that the coounercial
Pit 'of the Public talltht. to have no apprehension
batever, supposing' ,any doubt to exist as to the
lineation of parr,* for an* part of the
West In.
dies ; for no blow
enuhrbe struck before the British
Fleet would conic up.
Mr. Et.t.tur explained what he had said on that
aiabjett. .

The Question was pat on the Amendment of
Ooetor LAW RENC E, and negatived; and then the
original Motion was put, and carried without a
division.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER then
11"°ved, That there be laid before the House an Ac-
count, sheaving how the Money given for the Ser.
;ice of I Sot had been disposed of, distinguishing
the different parts under their several heads, 84c.—
°rdereti,