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vow which AlteT nm. ell; and, therefore, hy,
she nseafnre which they propofed. the late Miniftera\
NI the confidence of the King, and, as it immediately
appeared, forfeited the approbation of the Hrnjfe.
04 usjafiy bee (nee had reeourfe to the abilities-of,
dimfe woo had'been. intimately ennaefted with tit
rest Statefman, whom he could not but confide, as
'the only pilot to other Minifters ; that man. wit,. i
amidft all the dangers by which he was fun otioded,
mfe in firmer; in pinportion to the exigencies of
the times. and left that eonftitution which he loved
01 prosefterl. nnimpaired by the attacks of either
fcaeigtt-oe domellic foes. Tothofe who long fnnght
under his banners, the country moll now look for
dire; on. They had advifed his Majefly to refer to
the general fence of the people. in order that they
might prefent thenilelves to the enemy as poffeffing
the confidence 41 a brave nation, and to the Allies
of Great Britain. as ready to afford them the need.-
f try fopport. By the promptitude of their meafures
toey tad already (hewn themfelves adequate to the
ditty in which they had been engaged. By loch
tneafores alone could effeft be given to any negocia.
firm which might lead to a foceefsfol termination of
the prefent contetl. Yet, notwithftanding all that he
had afferted, the sliffolution of the left Patliament
bad been attributed to the earneft define of his Ma-
jetty's late Minitters, to (mother the labours of the
Committee of Finance; but Hs Majetty's Speech
proved th;t they were as much interelled in the con-
tinuance of that Committee, as the Gentlemen oppo
file. So far from witting to (mother it. they advifed
his Majelly to applaud the inflituti on of it by the left
Parliament, and to recommend that k &geld be re-
newed by the prefent. Under all thefe circunglances,
be was not bigotted enough to (spelt that this Ad.
dtefs would be onanimoully acceded to, bnt he called
on the Gentlemen oppofite who had quitted the helm
If State, to feel for the flotation 0 the country.
The people were duly (torah's of the Mice of the
cattle in which the country was engaged, and he
had no doubt that they would cheerfully (ohmic to
the factifices that would be neceffary for the prole-
cution. He Ironed their efforts might be effeaually
diteited to kerne the advantages which we already
poffeffed, and to enable us fucceisfully to am& that
fylleen of aggreffion which threatened the downfal
of every independent State in Europe. In this objeft
all parties' were equally 'nitrated. Our country was
st rake ; and he trotted that but one opinion could
*lilt with regard to the exertions neceffary fat its
defence.
The SPEAKER having read the Addiers,
1... rd HOWICK raft. and Paid he was exceedingly
glad to have at length heard, from thofs who now
enjoyed the confidence of his Mainly, fomething of
a eommet on the infinuations which bad been fo
abundantly poured forth againft his Majeay's late.
Knitters, though, he was proud to fay, there had
been nothing adduced in what had been laid, thr
conveyed ally thing like proof of the truth of thole
*nations which had been Co indultrionfly propaga
ted on the* fubjeit. There were, however, in the
speech Olaf. as well as in the fpeeches of the Noble
Mover and the Honourable Seconder of the Ad.
drefs, many patfages which obliged him to rife, and
to Wilt, as he had an undoubted eight to do, that.
if any acenfations erre to be made againft his Ma.
kW. 1-ate Minillers, they ought immediately to be
brought forward. and an opportunity afforded them ,
of making that defence, which he was fully convin-
ced it was in their power to do; to the molt perfect
fatisfaftion (if that Houfe, and of the people at large.
In (peaking of his Majetty's molt gracious fpeech. he
would beg leave to erretnife, that he mutt, in all its
parts, confider it as the fpeech of his Majesty's Miai
tiers, for Which they alone, he conceived, were refpon•
fible ; and he &mild, therefore, treat it with that de-
gree of freedom, which, as a Member of Parliament,
be had an undoubted right to do : and, however fe-
vere he might chance to be, in any ezpreffiuns he
might tire refpeaing it, he begged the Houle would
confider him as referring only to the fpeech of Mini
hers, and in no refpe& meaning t gat
ederoe from
that high and feared rept& which he a eer en-
tertained, and Mould ever owe to the King. Con-
Mleiing the Speech, therefore, as he had before fail.
as (solely the aft of Minifters, he hoped he &mold be
steeled a free commentary on it. It was, be raid,
fronewhat extraordinary. that, in allufion to this
SL.etch, both thrikloble Mover and the Hou.Seconder
1 bad iltenuoufty called for unanimity in the Metro
hers of that Houle, whilst at the fame time the lan-
guage of the Speech ant-. as well as of the Mover
and Seconder, was couched in loch terms, as alto-
gether to preclude and prevent that unanimity they
(vented fo annoutly to with for. There was only
one point in the many they had touched upon, in
which he could agree with them, and in that he did
molt cordially. viz. that there never was a period of
time more awful ; that there never was a erifis in the
affairs of this nation, which more loudly and imp&
outly called for that bletfiog. unanimity, if it were to
I be obtained, but at the very moment wheu that feint
♦ word ' unanimioe iffned fo fluently from their lips.
they adopted a line of conduit, and introduced topics
which rendered it abfolutely impoffible. The Noble
Mover and the Hon. Seconder of the Addrefs had
boils molt pointedly called the attention of the Houle
Au the late difolotion of Parliament ; they had both
talked of the juft prerogative of the Crown, and of
Ate undoubted right vetted in his Majetly of exec-
citing it according to his bell judgment and difcre.
lion; but they had both omitted to fay that this
VaeregatiAA (for which no Man could have a greater
4tefftat* dna hitofell) was at the fame time-made, by
.Our excellent Connitution, liable to be inveftigated
by an in.dependent Houle of Commons. -The Noble
loud bad fisted, that the =afore was introduced.
• ant for the purpole of creating divilson, but that his
Majetlybast lowa called on to hood forward is de-
fence Of. the Conaitution. Neither of them had.
Ulnas'', &own, by the fmalleft atadow of argument,
um had at all alerted that Inch a Rate of thing.
elided as in any manner to call tor the exercite of
- abet prerogative. He dodos& that he could not at
that eammeat recover from *lie altonintment which
ihat.aseatfore had produced on his miud when it firtt
tot& piece, as applied to the welfare of the country;
hat.eitaming4tom the quarter whichit did, he mutt
wet ii had farpoitad him *ill mote. It waeont long
before that event took place. that Patti:meat had
hese thtfoLvect by the late Adtainiftration,; and .a se-
turn of Members had been made, which teems& to
give the molt eneral fatibfarftioa to the eu*loll at
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prefent ii maestro% had hoer+ very loud in raifing
ohjettirros, and in roundly condemning that difoln-,
vi .n, by k variety of argumentsi, which• here of a
nature to invite the Houfe, and the public to lappefel
that they would nor form be the advifers of a limiter 1
forteafure to that againft which they then inveighed fo
bitterly. They cenhered. in the hitrfheft and rooft
levere terms, the diffointion of a Parliament which..
had lifted nnlv leer years. and they now came forward•
to jultify the diff ilution of one that had only laftedfiaro
etwolt. They ribiated. particularly and emphatically,'
to the time when the late Adminiftratinn had dif
f Ind the Parliament. which every marring remern.
her was at the latter end of a long recefs, when the•
harvefi was over, and the conntry enjoying die
notion degree of quiet—fn that no part of the cows.
muniry c.mld (Offer any particular inconvenience
from the meafrire ; and yet. in a few (hoot weeks.
they diffolved that very Parliament in the very mid-
dle of a &Moo, when the greatztt part of the private
bufinefs was brought neatly to a conclufirm. by the
arrangements which had been previnufly adopted for.
the purprie of expediting the bufinefs of the Houk I
when Come very impro tent public Bilis, relative to the
revenue, were not paffeJ, and thereby interrupted or .
put an end to feveral very momentous inquiries.
which had been inftituted, and let on font for the
public welfare. At the time the late Parliament‘was
diffuleed, he believed there was as little objeftion to
be made to it as poffible, 'inlet's by thofe very men
who now compofed the prefent Adminittratinn. It
was at the end of a Negociation which had been
i broken off, after every effort had been ufed to pro-
cure a fafe and honourable peace, and when it teemed,
as an Honourable Member of that Houle had very
forcibly expreffed it, as if the war was to be carried
on for the salvation or deftrufrion of the independence
of Europe. The King and the People were joined
in the warmeft wifhes and endeavours to do every
thing that lhould tend to unite the whole Empire to.
aether, id order to oppofe the common enemy ; and,
for that ptirpofe, it was thought neceffery to have as
long a Parliament as poffible, whole meafures might
as conftantly and uniformly as pollble be applied to-
wards that deferable end. But what had the prefent
Minifters done to counteraft thofe deferable aims ?
They had diffolved the Parliament in the midft of a
Sedan—they had done every thing in their power
to difunite the people of the Empire—they had der.
tended to the lowell firatagems and the bafeft whim
introduce religious animofities, and left no flone un-
turned to divide the people of the two countries of
England and Ireland, thereby rendering both un-
happy. and weakening the firength and energies of
the whole empire. This was, at any time, bad enough,
but mutt be much worfe at the prefent moment, from
the dice it might produce on our Allies, who could
not avoid teeing the great difadvantages which might
inevitably accrue to their interells, in having to fight
the common enemy in conjunBion with a country
divided againft itfelf. Added to thofe he had already
enumerated. there were many more (biking injulies
which retulted from the late diffplutions In the
preceding Pailiament, there were far more private
bills than had ever been known before, which, from
' the regulation he had before alluded to. were in a
great date of forwardnefs. On the 27111 of April
the Parliament was dill rived ; on the 27th of May the
terns on all private bills were to have been made,' 1
and shore bills being now all to begin over again mull
be attended with the greateft inconvenience to the
public. And what remedy could be applied ? Hz
confsffed lie (both', for his own part, be glad to ap
:ply a remedy ; but they ought ferioutly to confider
114* any loth thing could be done, and in how very
important a degree ir might affat the future pro.
ceedings of the Houfe. It behoved them to be very
cautious in the nicalures to which they retorted on
this (Oita, lett they night give an opening to other
Minifters to pin fue the fame Ueps, and thus enable
them to diffolve Parliament whenever their own ea.
prices, or particular pirate intetells, might lead or
induce them to adopt fo unconititutional a meafure
as that. of &Giving Parliament in the midst of a
Seffion. With refpat to the public bawls, there
were. he faid., many meafures of great importance
which had been very much impeded, and fame of
them entirely done away The Finance Committee
had been alluded to by the Hon. fcconder of the ad
chefs. He was afraid it would be impoffible to re•
pair the 'Utility faitaiued by the public in the lots of
that Meafuse. It had been laid that a Committee
of Inquiry was to be maimed. He hoped it would
be In, and that it Ihould be compiled, as nearly as
polfible. of the fame Members. He hoped it would,
as the latt was, be appointed by open nomination,
and not by ballot ; and then it might be rendered bf
public utility, Mid the grcateft benefits fault from
its labours. But even admitting it fhould be fo
very neceffary and important, inquiry had been great-
ly interrupted 4—and however itidultrioully they
might proceed, it would be impoffible to bring the
inquitiet to perfation fo f..ou as could be wonted.
or as mutt have been done, had not the late diffulu-
lion taken place. Iu this tefpat alto, the Report
of the Commitlionets of Military Inquiry, he Ihould
conceive, would make a great alteration. 'Chem wet
alto. he laid. in great fr.rwardnefs. a Reports giving
a very alarming account of the prefent state of the
Eaft India Company. What remedy the Commit-
tee had propofed, he did not know ; but it was highly
import gist that a metier of that moment fhould not
be tuffered to fleep. His Majefty's late Millilitre in-
tended rir have brought forward the Inquiry in the
courfe of that tedion. If. previous to the 27th April,
fuch inquiry had been made, there wunlithave beau
time to have gone through with it, but it wauld.now
be impoffible, from the time of the year. and all how
of it were 11(01/ at an end. Betides whet his bad al.
ready mark/lied, Parliament had been .difulved
without having palled the Ira Cufitoms Bill; and
notvrithttanding the new Parliament bad been called
es loon as potfible. they could not now pars it in
time, by which confiderable injury would accrue to
the revenue, 'or elle the (Ojeda of this country in
Ireland mull be taxed, mad money mull be collated
in a moll unconititistional way without the fruition
or authority of Parliament, a matter which it highly
'behoved that Houfe, in particular to guard again''.The Parliament was diffolved before the at of ap-
propriation of the 'applies granted by this country
had paled, by which the application of all chile
tuna which had beta granted could not be conflicts-
Alone' or Vegal. lie would nit fay that there might
*at be many cafes in which *staters might be under
the acceffity of attplliag MOW which had got re-

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reived the fanttion of an aft of anprrtriation ; but
then it behoved them to thew that inevitable 'weer-
fity and the general Serie& of the fetvice required.,
it; and it remained to be confiaered whether they,i
had wilfully, and with their eyes open, placed them•
(elves in that 4tnation, and ufed theprerogative at •
particular period of time in loch a manner, that they
ought to be called noon to anfwer f'.r hefting done
fo. 'The H inonrahle Seconder of the Addrefs had
Rated. that an attempt had been made to force If-e
ennfeience of the King ; 'bnt he would undertake to
fay, that this hatement was unfounded and injurious
to the charadters of his Majellv'a late Minifiers. who
were as far above fetch an attempt. and as abhorrent
tint, at the tion.,Menther.or.any other in theHonfe.
‘-...He hid alto affetted, that there were &nations in
which the King might ufe and aR upon his own
private judgment. He wits futprifed to hear the
Hon. and Learned Gentleman advance fetch an or.
gnment. lie thought he mutt have known the
Confutation better. If they were now to be told.
that by an individual AR of the King. the Hanle was
to be flopped in its proceedings, and no parlors to be
relponfible for the meafures adopted by hit Majefiy,
it was certainly the moll dangerous and uttermaitti
tional he had ever beard broached, and Inch
as that Houfe ought by eso means to countenance. It
remained then to be alked, what necelfity could at
that time trill to jtißify a diffolution in the misfit of
a region of Parliament. In looking into thisfuhjeß,
and particularly into the limner proceeding in the
year t 784, the opinion of Lord Somers was then
glinted. which maintained that the King could not
diffislre Parliament in the midll of a fetfion. He
(Lord Howick) for hit own oar', did not (zany go
the whole length with Lord ;art,
for he thought a
cafe of neceffity might a iii, where a diffolution dur
ing a feffion would be ufeful ; as. for inhance, where a
quarrel (build take place between the two Houfts, fo
that no bufinefs could be conic.' on; but it malt he
Come Inch Ail of inevitable necefEty which could
hand again( the high authority of that defervedly
celebrated and enlittlitened Statefman. What necef
fity was there for it in this cafe ? It bad been pre.
tended. that a BM had been brought in that was dan
germs to the Protenant interell. Admitting, for the
fake of argument. that it was fo,_Minifters had been
turned outs he allowed it to be fo ; but the Wind's
of Government and of Parliament was going on
without intertuption; there was no oppofition to any
of their meafures; and therefore no necelfity for a
diffelution. Why then did they do it ? It had, he
laid, been avowed in his hlajeßy's Speech, that this
appeal might be made, while recent events were in
the recolleftion of the people ; that is, while the cry
of " No popery," let tip from the bafeß motives,
might have effeet. The Honourable Seconder has
alto fated, that the Proteftaot eßablithment was
threatened, and in danger ; wit!. in the King's
Speech, the Haute was called on to fupport him in
every ewe& of his prerogative, which might be
thought neceffary for the good of the kingdom.—
This part of the Speech was peculiarly calculated to
incite the people to party difptites, and could have
no other effeEt than that of dividing them one agaiuß
another. When we reconciled what bad been Paid
of the Coronation Oath, might it not be Paid that
an attempt was made to do this ? For his own
part, he could not imagine any thing had been
done that could have alarmed any man with • mind
above that of a child. Did the Honourable and
Learned Gentleman pretend to fay. that any thipg
done in favour of the Roman Catholics would be a
breach of the Coronation Oath ? If in, what is to ben
come of the rations indulgencies which have been
gtnnted to that body durincthe prefent teign ? It
was impoffible loch abfurdities could be ferioufiy
thought of. It was only urged for the bare purpofe
ef giving effe& to that deteßable cry which they had
fo mdultrioutly railed, but for which they were folly
fenfible there was not the (walla occafion. Had
the late Minifters carried their bill againft the King's
content, fuch an argument might have been alledged
with fame colour of pretext; but when it was with.
drawn and all proceedings on it dropt, Cutely it was
impoffible filch a hideous cry could have any founda.
tiun. Then they let up a further cry, that the power
of the (word, which was in the Proteltants, was to
be train from them and given to the Catholics. He
was at a lots to know what they meant; the power of
the flatfrd he had always underitood to be in the
Kin alone; and how the admitting a part of his Ma-
jelly's fubjelts to the power of faring him cnly, if
he thought proper to employ them, was giving them
the power of the (word. he was altogether at a lofts to
conceive. He would be glad of information on• this
fubjeit, and waited the Right Honourable Secretary,
who fucceeded him its the foreign department
(Mr Canning) would fay whether granting an indul•
genre to the Roman Catholics was an infringenient
of the prerogative, or in any manner tended .tee de.
fir°, the Contlitution. He was convinced it did not
—the various indulgencies granted doting the prefent
reign to the Roman Catholics of. Ireland in particular
was the Ilrongeft proof it was not fo ; and in this
opinion thole three eminent hotelmen, Mr. Pitt, Mr.
But ke, and •Mr. Fox, however they might differ on
other political fubjellts. always arced. This had
uniformly been the opinion of Ift%Pitt, when the Hon.
Seconder and the prefent Minittets, who had been de-
Ictibed as his followers, had aced with him, and al.
ways fuccuolbed to his meafures. Such area lions
could not. he believed, come ,from any others than
thole whole countenances had long been proof spina
being blanched with flume. Mr. Pitt. when be pre-
pared Bills in 'Sot in favour of the Roman Catholics
of Ireland, and in do+ in favour of Roman Cathilic
fm signers, could not have conceived that danger with
which his followers are now fo tremblingly alive, and
which they have fo lately held up as piegnatit with
danger to the coottiintira and State. He, for his own
part. hadeonfidered it as a =afore neceffary totran•
quilize lieland, to giveadditionel firength and power
to this country, by uniting the people of that part of
the empire in the Rriltell and doled Wads of union
and friendlhip ; and be was the more confirmed in
the Phice of this opinion, when he recolleited the
promifes made by the Noble Lord oPpofite (Lord
Caltlereagh) Who had coddled that it was•the only
aeons by which he could be able to con.luit the Go.
trethaseut of that country, and who had carried the
oneßioa of the Union of the two Countries, folely by
the fulcra° pledges he had giiin on that fubjeit, o
the Roman Catholics of Ireland. If this were to, what
would have been the eifee, bat to make England an
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that they can never mei any hdrefeof their tier.
ances. but nand ever remain liable to thole ditthitities
which gave the fo mods difoniet. and preientlheM
from being cordially molted with this part albedo..
pine t It bad net only been dated In that Hook that
an attempt had been made to force the coacienst ot
she Kingibitt it bad atirof.ten inrinarioufly and gene.
-rally fee forth.and propegaird inittfttdbills, and t ,
partcohleat North' mpt. ri,wheye thelpeople hotbeds
called upon to judge, bet ween the King and hit Mi.
oilier,. He objetied to it as uncordlittitiooat inc.
'trine to fey, that the King can legally art w•honi
*deicers • but it had been further alftrted and for • f
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abroad, that whoever Ibould vote aguinttohnaddrefs,
would vote attaind the perfetast fenoments of tris Ma.
jetty. He objefled en it more particularly as it wastho
fir it inhance in which Milliners had ever piefuined
make an appeal to the people. on the etereife of Owe.
Royal Prerogative. If any thing ennlstforpafe •,-
it woidd be the further Ilep which Minittec s hatiltaltees :
in whichohey had dared to pot Mtn the King'sSpetcb
that they had take* an opportunity of die lying Per;
liament at a period of time when it would produce the •
fmalled inconvenience to the country; when it was
apparent. as he had already the mt. that hy difoleing
it in the mall of a feffi ro. the greeted inconvenitnct
had been experienced by all thrde concerned in the
priva.e Bills. which had been fo long delayed. and
by the onconditutional application. of the public MO*
nev without the atittorti v of Parliament, in conk.
glance the Appropriation Aft not having pared
prior to fuch a &lulu Miniders might make
thofe *Ceram. and repeat them till they fancied.
they were true ; but he had heard fuch opinions,
efpecially from the floor country, on the fobjelt of
Miniliers dating to dative Parliament. coder tench ,
circumftrasces. and for loch reafons as he about 4 al.
moll be afraid to mention. He then adverted to the
means which had been urged by the pi efent Minitters
to influence the late Elections in Ireland. and men.
tinned an inductee •,f a candidate thererwho bad
voted with—the late Minitteis, and whAl on being
dked on which fide he was on the prefent [scallion
he laid, 6, With Miniders " •N Why." replied the
Eleaors, rc you were with the late Minifters." Yes."
laid he. " but at the laft elation, every Government
vote was' againd me ; but let me fee any one of them
that dare vote avian me at this." There was
another inflance it. the county of Wexford, where the
Crown Solicitor had written to a Mr. Grogan. that if
he did 'not vote himfelf, and influence all his tenants
to vote agaion the popular candidate, he would lofe
all bi, forfeited Oates. In addition to all thole eir-
cumftances he had mentioned, be noticed the letter
of Lord Hawkeflotty, of the who( April lad, re-
lative to the Volunteers. in which he notes that
Lep/fling Field Officers would immediately be re-
appointed. When he Rata this. it was a mediae
to be fubmitted to Parliament ; yet, in two days
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fur w rds, he pined in advifing a dilfolution ; and
it was for the Hoofs to confider whether it was der
cent in a Secretary ot State to dare to fet afide a
meafure adopted after repeated deliberations of Par-
liament, and pated by them into a law, merely from
his own authority. But the molt audacious thing
of all was the re-ellabliflunent of Infpeuing Field
Officers. Every Volunteer Officer that he had rou-
nded with, had always mentioned them with con-
tempt and derifion ; they had no command : they
were act even empowered to order the Volunteers to
pope to be isxrp,rted, . From the large Staff which
was attached to the &high army, confiding of Ad-
jutants. (Larter•Mailers. Brigade-Majors, &c. furely
itome better lapertors might be related; aye, bat
Ilthen this was an obinft of great patronage I Juft at
the time of the General Eleaion a hundred new of-
fices were to he difttibuted, and thefe Infpeaors of
elation', for fo they were in fact. were each to hen
pay and all.,wances, making the whole expenfe to
the nation between 37 and ao,cool. a year, for no
advantage whatever 1 This was the little beginning
of theta mighty enemies to patronage, more pure and
unadulterated jobs never exiled than thefe appoint-
ments. There were other parts of hie hiajefty's
fpeech on the exalt purport of which be entertained
foam doubts, and of which he wilhed for a few
words of explanation. The Houfe was told, " that
his Majefly's endeavours had been mod auxioufly
employed for the parpofe of drawing dofer the ties
by which his Majelly is conneaed with the Powers of
the Continent ; of eliding the effott, of thole powers
againft the ambition and nppreffion of France ; of
forming fuch engagements as may infure their conti-
nued co operation; and of enabliffiing that mutualcon-
fidence and concert. fo dentist under any courfe of
dents to the ieltot at ion of affolisi and permanent peace
in.Eoropc." Certainly he, in common with there( of
his Majedy's late Minifierr, felt the neceffity of cul-
tivating the counettito,,anddritwing cider the ties
by which hia Majelty was bound to the Powers of the
Continent. as far as was confident with the fecurity
of Great Britain. But he withed to a& whether, by
this pelage in the Speech, it was meant to inlinuate,
that the late Government bad neglected to do their
duty on this fulled ? He' was more defitous to know
this, as the fubjea had been Publicly agitated. and
that not very ableminufly.• For his part, he declar-
ed, that he Would be moll glad that every thing
which the late tdiailers had done, in aid of •the
Powers of the Continent., fhould be fubmitted to the
confederation of the Houk and the public. It would
then be found, that no rational effort had been omit.
ted to draw elder the lies of connexion. and more ef.
pecially between this country and Ruffia. He would
boldly and broadly Rate this, in anfwer to any aten
tinns that mighrbe hazarded of an oppufite tendency.
If Minilers countenanced any infinuation of this na-
ture, be hoped they would have the maolinefs openly
to avow it. With regard to fubfidies to Fording
Powers, he thought that there were occafions is
which fubfidies.lies, and even large fubfidies might be
advaatageouly employed but he alto thought that
it was most impolitic to give fubfidies to Foreign
Powers, for the put pore of drawing them into a war,
into which their own iodination. and interels would
not induce them to enter. While, therefore, he Rata
that the late Governmem had neglefted no prudent
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Would be taken that any affillanee which might be
afforded to foreign Powers, Ihould not be afforded
to thofe by whom it could not be tiled at all,
or to thole by whom, it would be mifapplied. It
was iudifpeutably incumbent on us to weaken as
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