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thing, about it, for very ignOratst indeed were our
enemies of all these things; but, he said, them
must be such a disposal, of our force :led strength
as may shew them how much they have been mis-
taken of this Country; but it was not a vote' for a
large sum of money that would raise a large dis.
posable force, that would depend much more on. the
nature of the measures to' be adopted for raising such
force, than upon the vote for paying them; and he
flattered himself that the measures abaut to be pro- '
posed for that purpose would be efficacious.; that the
Men
,would be furnished as they should be found to
be necessary, and they should be proposed to be.
under the command of Officers of the regular,
Troops, and aMilitia force was intended to be as
a supplement to the regular Army ; and after this
plan was completed, then there would remain to be
done that which it would he in this country more
easy perhaps to do than the rest of it, namely, to
find the money. The first and the main objea was
to, have an effectual control of the men, and then
it would not be difficult to raise the money. Voting
a number of men however great, and voting a Sum
of money,' however large, to.pey them, did not ap-
pear to him to' be, witte,• until the plan for raising-
the men shall have been matured, because until that
was done it was only raising men upon paper,
which was not what we wanted ;,, neither did large
votes, without method of carrying them into eficata
prove very useful, Having' said thus much gene.
he would now take on a few of the, points
brought forward byt the Right lion. Gentleman
opposite to him, but not all of them, for atf some
he could not help saying, that althaugh they were
like every, thing delivered by that Right Honour.
able Gentleman, very sensible, yet in ahis case,
they did not' appear to him to have an immediate
reference to the question now before the Commit-
tee. Such, therefore, he should take site liberty, Of
passing over for the present, professing a readiness.
to enter.
,on their discussion when occasion might
require. 'He could not help thioking that the
Right'Hon. Gentleman had given way a little too
much to a tone of despondency, as applicable either
to the manner in which we were, now preparing for
War, or to the manner in which we concluded
Peace. He agreed however with the Right Ho-
nottrable Gentleman, it was right to state the
situation of this Country flirty, to state .even
the chance of an Invasion, but he
,thought be might ,
be permitted to say that the Right Honourable
Gentleman had considered that suljeet, a little too
broadly. No man would say that the great
wry Foice and ninaterous Troops of FrAtiee had not
great power.; that was a matter of which we must
be all aware, and the ineasut es which we adopt
mtist be with refe'rence not only to this idea, or for
the defence:and security of the Realm, but also to
aa against the koierrtY occattion. may occur. He
thought that the tietistion between the two• Go.
vernments was now broOght to this point, arid it
was high time that we should shew, riot-by words,
but aCtiorts, we'are not to be insulted by France—
that we" are • not to 'be 'intimidated by any menace
they may tlii-oW oute—that it is riot their shoeing
themselvei in large' numbers opposite :to our roasts-,
is to throw us into a panice,-(i That they may
throw a body of men into our Country is praalea.
ble," said he,,--" may be done certainly under
favourable circumatances, that is,' if they be not
sunk in the attempt ;. but really I think it would
not be long before they would be made prisoners ;
neither do I think that any of them would return.
I think it is time to shew that we are not to be
taunted in this way with Invasion, or intimidated
with the threat of it." There was another part of
the Speech of the Right Hon. Gentleman, which he
shOuld now shortly notice : he seemed to. suppose
that by the Treaty of Amiens, we,had relimeaished
for-ever all right to consider of the affairs of the
,1
Contioept ; and. he said, that for the' last ten years
we had gone very much to leeward : that was not
so. As to•the Treaty of Amiens, he approVed of
it at the time, under all the circumstance; in which
it was concluded. He was setisfied, even now, of
the propriety, of this Country having entered into
that Treaty ; but it was mit Correa to say, that
by that Treaty we had giVen op the Continent ;
we had done no such thing ; nor was it our incline-.
tion to do. any thing like it.' If there had been any
chance of any Continental co.operation with us---if
'we had had the continuance of any Continental Alli-
ance, then, the Peace of Amiens wits a Peace
which he should not have aeiproaed ; but as we had
Cominental Alliance lett fur carrying' on the
War, he-thought that no advantage was to liave.,
been gained by the prosecution of the War ; .nor
did he ace how any one, however sanguine, Could
expect any advantage to us by that continuance, un-
der such circumstances. We therefore had agreed
to the Pe'ace, anti, in hit opinion, we ti ltd wisely
by so doing. But the Right Honourable Gentle.
man hartasked, whether the. last Peaav was hot
merely an experiment ? Yes, it was ; and whe-
ther it lord•not Ctiled ? Why, yes it had failed,
as was evinced -by our being now• at War;
brit we closed a discussion, the continuance of
which would. only ' have 'fomented the People'
,of -this 'Country-the publication of which had
-roused their indignation to a pitch which he con.
ceived to have decided the charaaer of the cause
in which we are engaged, for that it has united the
People ci this Coutitay, and made thetn,aas it were,'
one mare against France, and a full determination
•of'the People of this Country upon tliat subje4), a
stedfast deterthination to regard France- as- the
oppressor of 'Europe in general, and ore :who
wished to be' the oppreasor of this CoCntry..
have this.sentiment thoroughly rooted.in the hearts
of EugliShMent was, to speak in the language of
another 'Gentleman
.on. another occasion, thing
worth Iten or twenty West India Islands : this was
an expression which he hail no hesitation in deliver.
ing. But.the Right tinn. Gentletnan had said, that
the hopes of this Country were gone. He did not
think so. He did,not think that. we were a People
likely to give up our hopes. He found nothing in
the .History of this Country to' justify that idea;
nor'did he think there was any thing in the conduct
-of this Country to warrant the expression that we
had given up all ciaticern•in the .units of the Conti-
nent., On the contrary, the History of this Coun.
try proved that our objed had always, since the.
Revolution, most.rernarkAily beim to preserve the
i• Balance of Power. on the Contineut ; syg had made.