The Sun.
London, England, 1803-06-07 00:00:00

measure it would be nzeewtry to have recourse to at
last, arid in his opinion it would be better to adopt •
it, at fiiSt ; at the, same time he would' adopt every
means of recruiting the Army, because we must
not only have a. large 'Army now, but 'always,'
at least.: until some very material change • took
place: -upon the Continent. For, the purposes, of mere
defence, therefore, thiS was .a bad force ;. but lie
trusted that one objet was not confined merely to
defence. The cause which drew us into, the present
War was the <slestrut ion of the balance of power in
Europe, and in consequence thereof the great ac-
quisition of power by one State. Now when the
balance was destroyed, he knew but two ways of
replacing it, either to take some weight out of one
Scale, or to prat some into the othei ; or indeed you
might forcibly hold both scales, even by means' of
eorernal force, such as a powerful Mediator or
Guatontee. But generally speaking, the only
means we had to adopt was either td strengthen
ourselves, or to .weaken the Enemy, or we could
tut exist as an independent Nation. This being
the case, it teitained to consider the order in which
these objects were to be taken, and their relative
importance. In order to consider , thii point
iaitly, he wished to refer for a. Moment-to the
events of last War. In that War it appeared to him
that theplan of weakening the Enemy was not only
the most proper and the most effedualo but the
shortest, and most praCtieuble mode of proceeding.
He thought it would be more easy to kill the revo:
lutionary tiger, than it would he to chain Or to cage.
him, To tllat ol)jfqt, therefore, almost the whole
force of this Country oaotlt to have been directed,
though certainty the other objeCt should not have
been lost sight of. The same objetts • that-existed
at that time, exi it at present, but certainly the pro-
gress of time might have changed die relations of
,these objeds, and altered their relative value. That
which before was praeticable might no'w be hopeless;
if that was the case our situation would tertainlybe
deplorable ; but even that would not be so bad as
a system of defensive War; He did not mean to say
that the mode he had .suggested of conduaing the
War, would inevitably be the most successful, but ;
under all the circumstances, he thought they would
be the best to adopt. • He, recolleded that in one of
Foott's Farces, Mrs. Cole gave as a reason for being
of the Roman Catholic religion, that it was so coin,
fortable to persons of her profession. Now the
• -plan which he had suggeated of offering some means
of shorteoing.the duration of the contest, certainly
must be very comfortable to persons in our situation.
If some means of this kind were not adopted, the
,presped before us would be gloomy indeed, in spite
even of that Mediation of which Gentlemen had
" talked to much, but from which he hoped, no good,
• but foresaw most dangerous consequences, and at
"which he felt great shame. We had, indeed, much
to
,doorwe had for a. long time been falling,te lee_
ward, and we hail now the difficult task of beating
to:windward against a head sea, before we could
regain out fowler situation. If he were asked,
Whether he looked for any prospect of doing any
thing in France itself, or on the Continent, though
indeed he hardly knew where to look for the Powers
of the Continent—llia answer would be, that he saw
no great hope at present, thanks to the Treaty. of
Amiens, which had given away the Powers and the
inied of the Continent from us, .and had' made the
whole Coast of Europe an iron.buund Coast to us,
slot alfortliog an inlet or a creek, into which we
-could run a • Cutter. It might be said, that the
Powers of the 'Continent detested France ; lte ad_
trained they did, but it was a 111.1XiM with Tyrants,
thrist duo natuant. It was perfedly true that the
-Powers of the Continent hated I+ ranee, but then
they had another feeling With respell roller, which
Gentlemen seemed to • fe'rget, and that was, that
they •leated her. I.le however could not abArolOo
the hope 'which he had placed. in the exertions
which the Continent would make for itself, and
.therefore he was the more host de against the scheme
Of policy which was now proposed, because if it
• was adopted, it would render us incapable of taking
advantage of any favourable disposition that
might shew 'itself on the Continent. He was not
only dissatlsfied with the policy which Ministers
seemed- inclined to adopt, but with the language
sahiCh they held. It was with peculiar regret,
that he, read the language at the end Of His Ma.
jesty's Declaration, which was calculated JO prove
to the Continent, that we looked merely
objefte, and that we should be ready, if those
ohjeds were attained, to &ire them-t0:1...as we had
done before. He knew very well what a kind of
general clamour would be raised against the prin.
costes for which he was contending. It would he
said, " you are fighting for the Bourbons, • for the
'Royalists,' for Monarchy, &c." Stilt however he
retained his opinion ; if he was wrong, it could
not be said that he was an obstinate sinner, because
his .pian, had never been fairly tried ; his opinions
had never beets contratlided he experience.. The
Right Han. Gentleman had however made an expe-
riment in the Treaty of Amiens, but his predic-
tions upon that subject had bean pretty well con,
tradided. ,did not expel that the Right Hon.
Gentleman would acknowledge that he Wiis guilty
ttf •a gross error in making- the ".1" teary of Amiens ;
;that perhaps would be too much to exped even from
lilt candour, bk he ~might very fairly admit that
she event had not exactly answered his expectations.
When Mr. Wlit5TON pieditited, that on a certain
(lay a Cornet would appear which would destroy, all
mankind, and when the day came, and no Comet
appeared, Jie believed • that though
,Mr. WittSTON
did not acknowledge that big prediction Was foUtided,
in folly, he had 7ito •objection • When the day was.
over, and all mankind perfedly safe from the Comet,
to own that he had been mistaken in his calculations..
ao he thought that whatever wisdom the Right lions -
Gentleman-might think he had displayed in making
the Treaty of Amiens', he could now have no great lie.
citation in admitting that it had not answered his esto
Pettations. He did not know what might be the
Italic Of the experiments. he recommended, abut he
'retested against a declaration that thershbuld not
be tried at adl; It was his opinion that if England
• • would make an'epen, grand declaration, in the face
of Europa; other views and objeds; he did not mean
aannatitie,' chivalrous declaration, tuft .one that
would draw with et the sympathy and leCling of
Europe, it would have the best effd.t. Much was
-4t.l.ways avid of the. great power of the Freach Kt.