The Sun.
London, England, 1804-04-24 00:00:00

!';UMBER 3620.]

THE SUN.

SOLEM QUIS DICERI.PALSUM AUDZAT

LONDON, APRIL 24, 1804.

Wz Congratulate the
ommons last night, C
itountry upon the event of the
Debate in the House of C
immediately lead to the removal of His Nfairtty
sent Ministers; indeed we Understand, trent: •• atithoritY upon which we place the _greatest reliance, that itontrteroN, in an audience which he had of tsr y on Saturday, after laying hethre Hts MA J-s Ir.), the
difficulties under which he and his Colle.agues bboured,
and
their being able any longer .to.,
the utter impossibility of ,
coudua the affairs of the Empire .against .the formidable
opposition ttey had to encounter,' desired to reetive-
His
Majesty's direCtions to form a New Administration, of which
we have no doubt but that Mr. !)yr, p, in compliance with the
almost unanimous wishes of the Country, will be placed at
the head.

IMPERLIL PARLIAMENT.

H)USE OF COMAtUNS.
MONDAY,- APRIL .23.
4
DEFENCE -OF THE--COUNTRY.
Mr. FOX being called upon by the Speaker, rose,
and spoke to the following -efrea :—" Sir I am
afraid I shall find it necessary, to ,
make Many preli-
Ininary observations before I come to the Motion
which i shall have the honour of submitting to you,
or to- those topics to which I wish particularly to
Call the attention of the House. ose pnar
Observations appear to me Peculiarly necessaryrelimi in they present instance, .on account of the ccrnttruclion
which has taken place both in and out of the HOuse,
of the spirit and ken/ (as His Majesty's Ministers
are pleaSed to call it), for the Defence of the Country
which animates all elttises of people, under the err.
sent circumstance -ef the 'Ceuntry. . As to the zeal
which they state is feit by all classes of people for the
Defence of the C.ountry, this I fully agree with
them, must at the present moment be the
.ge-
neral reeling "91 the People of this
O COuntry ;but
1 mest make a geese distirtftioll, which they apPeitr
to. Overlook ; I must distinguish that aaal._.,wilich I
trust that I feel a gly a; any of His Majesty's
subjads 14 the-Defencestron Of the Country against 113
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for eignEnemies fur the tupport of its honour -and
the maintenance of its glory-a—fro that zeal w
Ilia Mit'sty's Ministers wish to Constnle i"hirl "
approbation of the War, and of rheir`method of
and
tonduiling it. The zeal that I feel foe "the interests
in hnnnur of the Country,; involved .as it now is
a War of the most serious and alarming na,
Oture, is . not at all allied tti any approbation
the conduCt of Governeriene in bringing on
the W. or the. means. they have taken to eon.
CA it ; the zeal which I feel upon the preffent
occasion is that, which I trust animates the great
mass of the Nation : it is a zeal not fur those causes
which induced Ministers to enter into the War,
but a zeal for self-defence on the part of the Coun-
try--for the defence of themselves, their families;
and every thing which is dear to them. It is
with this feeling, that I too declare m
ferior to any of I:-Ii,,Majest }self not in.
O übjetis in zeal for
the Defence of the Country ; butS I pioteat against
this feeling being su far misconstrued, as to be stip-
posed to imply any approbation of the War;of the
causes which Ministers have alledged for.entering
into it—of the time that they has, chosen for the
War, or of the mcasur'ett thee-have
management in the
12 must of it. jai be pursued
recolleded, that the
esent War was, almost trona its commencement, a
w, a in which this Country was threatened with
Invasion•in such a sase, it was not extraordinary
that ever; y man should feel a zeal:to defend his home, .
his country, his friends, hissamily, and himself from
the impending danger,. It was on- that account that
the Nation appeared so tmanirrrons ; but I.sliall beg
leave to ask to what is this Seeming unanimity
atscribable ? Surely it is only to the danger which
now threatens, more than at any former period,
the existence of the Country, and the welfare of
all its Inhabitants. Are Ministers then to take
credit to thcanselves for producieg unanimity in .
this manner if so, the Ministers who shall in.
the Countty in the greatest of dangers (unne-
cessarily), may always claim the praise ut being the
best Ministers ; for certainly. when the Country is
once involved in. War, and pliinged in danger, every
body must be unanimous in wishing the War to end
successfully, and the danger to be surmounted. if
this sort of unanimity were lobe the test of a good
Administration, it would then follow, that they
were the hest Ministers who should be the most
forward to plunge the Country into such a situation
that every person must be unanimous, in wishing to
extricate it from ; but if we take the pains of
examining this unanimity, which Governmentboasts
:that it has produced, we shall find - that in this
Howie, notwith't al'
,S an ing the 'large tnajortty ' which
.supported the Address. at the commencement of the
.
,•, Present at.. yet. that many parts dr the conduEt of
.2
~ W.
which
. . His vilajeaty'a Ministers, both- in the causes
.., • they assigned for the War, the time they had chosen
for it, but principally in the crintluft of the Negotia-
tions which preceded it, it, {iv tit) means met the
gneral approbation of the Members of this House.
Several Members had expressed their disap.ornha,
than of the conduft, of Ministers on those points,
yet they did not oppose the Address which was then
• .. voted; I therefore deprecate on t
Hun he part of my. Friends, as well as
m' struEtion of the unanimityyself, that unfair con-
then expressed by the
Vote of the House, and that zeal, which I profess to
D
feel as warmly .as any mania the Country for its
etetice, by whichit might be. implied that we ever
sanctionel the caudal, of Ministers-, either ii the

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