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and steady courage. He might be asked 'what
was the (nto: of this War, to which he would
answer the cause was this, that the system
o: France had produced a thousand breaches of faith
since the Treaty of Peace and Amity was signed ;
that their aggrandizement in Europe was already'
Much too great fur any thing except the imagina.
tinn of its rulers; that of itself hadalways been
considered by all eiviliied Europe as good ground
of War ; it had been so considered often during
the. Monarchy of France, of which he could give
many instances to their Lordships ; matters of inter.
Terence with our, In terrod Policy was another ground
of War: That the French had done so.was manifested
abundantly by aheafocumencs tit W on-their Lord.
ships' Table; ,heawould ask, what more, could have
been dune to oblige France than had been done
They Complained of a publication called, " L'Am.
bigoe," of. which; there Were, but three numbers
published ; they, complaieed, of it,, and it was no-
ticed and instantly stopped by means of legal pro.
secution ;; but • France was dissatisfied with this
legal coursta„ andooliserved, that, the author was sUb-
jed to the Alien. Law, and therefOre: they expetted
that. he should ,be,:seot out
.of the kingdoin imme.
diately to oblige the Government of France ; did
they know so little of the Constitution of England
and of the course of administration Of, its 'laws, as
not .to know that
,none of its Ministers make use of
the power ~they have except upon information
given to them for the •porpot,e of putting the Law
in motion,
,and that when a Law is made for
one purpose it, is never in Eegland applied to
another. The Alien Law.wac :a Certain discre-
tionary power given to the Officers of State, for
the purpose of removing those who. may be sus.
peded to, entlangero its safety, and
..not to re_
move anybody who may attack any other State ;
and that there must odways -be a case stated, con.
taming an assurance of the existence of the evil
which the Law was tritended to remedy, before any
thing was done in the name of such Law. The
Author of this Pnbiioation, which had been so, much
coriplained of, could have had no Habeas Corpus
to be eonfronted with his Accuser, if he had been
ordered w be removed, but Government could not
at against that individual more than any other, unless
complaint had been made upon the ground that he
was a person plotting some mischief to our State, so
that this complaint against us by the Government of
France, was made by those who did not at all un.
derstand our Laws : but the impudent Manifesto
now on their Lordships' Table, called a State Paper,
was a complaint amounting to this, that-the Law of
England which proteets the Liberty of the Press,
was an abuse,of the Law of Nations, and they had
the audacity to accuse us 'for obeying our own laws :
this was.. ;mother just cause of War. A further
cause of War was, that 'of menaces to us. They had
eptleavoored to alarm us, as appeared in the poet]_
ments on the fable : their LordThips had before them
such conversations as never were allowed to be held
to the Representative of any civilized Power in
amity with another. 2lc alluded to the Report of
Sebastiaoi ; it. was more coarse than any, thing
which came from a l3assa off' Acre ; his Letters were
more than the, language 0( Bonaparte--.-" Sire I have
459,900 men ; L,will try them, with myself at their
head, to malee a descent on your Coastr-4 may pc.
rtsh by the vay, but we will trya—number after.
nomber, you shall.never .have any. quiet, nor shall
you be free of apprehension of a descent upon your
Coast."—Anothet. cause of War was, the manner
its which our .ambassador was addressed in the fare
,of the world; it was repugnant to tho principles
which governed the conduit of ;.111 polished Nations.
What ! would they have its stand. before the world

as slaves,to them, for so we should deserve to be
called if we .stihmitted,
_to their 'indignity !—Swit.
zerland was forbidden,: to have any eorrespondence
with us, and tltiu was another ground of War so
tr);.it it. wilt; must manifest titre were grounds
enough for War.; indeed it wasinst And neces-
sAry ; ;nor was that all, for it was. extremely urgent.
J.lete the Noble Earl gave a history ()Invent! Wars in
which we liad been cngaged,- none of which had
been more. urgent than the present. ; for which res.
son he would not assent to the amendment, but he
would support the address, He wished that nobody
would thit,k of this as a short 'war, without con..
sidering the nature of it, and the grounds which
he had stated. lt was matter. of urgent necessity
;hat we should persevere in it ; for all our property,
and even our lives, might be essentially concerned
in it, and therefore those who made calculations on
the value of either, especially those who had much
weave to their posterity, would 'do well to sup..
loft it with all their might.
Lord WAttwick said a few words in explana-
• 'ion, as did also the Duke of Nottro,Lx.-