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France- the Nn an Monarch had been moll cruelly
*ad infultingly taunted with all thole comprontifes
and Atbatiffions, and faerifices, which he had made
to an unfeeling tyrant for the prefervation of his
Cyfiem of neutrality. In thole calamities., there was
4pwever Come confolation to be derived from reflec
bog on the coolie of the King of Sweden and the
truperor of duffia ; and he had no doubt his Majefly
would be inclined to give every degree of facility to
any farther clofenefs of intimacy between us and thole
courts. Ida then took a view of the internal flue of
affairs. Additional burthens might be reodesed ne-
cefTery by the peculiar events of-the times ; but it
was highly fatisfadory to think that an economical
ore would be made of the refources of the country,
and every man would rejoice in their frugal expendi•
jute, which he was convinced was a favourite *hied
of the Noble Lord below him (Lord H. Petty.) The
sourifhing (late of the revenue was highly fansfadory,
sod in his opinion was much owing to that great
4latelman whole 100 all deplored, and whole memory
would 'levet be forgotten, whole vigorous and able
ryltem the prefent Minifiers roald not reface to fol•
low. His Majefly had Plated, that the gteat tufts of
• the dringth of the counts, remained unimpaired,
atotwithflandiog the abfurd and infolent declaration
of the blockade pf there Wands by as enemy, who
dared hardly to fend oat a fltip to lea. or to interrupt
. our commerce in any.part of the world. He remade•
ea on the futility of expelling the complete exectuion
of the meafure, and appealed to the declaration of
the ',Aral Xing of Unhand, who eotifidered it as the
,nbrealeattollentli blew. to the expiring trade of that
.tctroistr,g, ,lic concluded by commending the (pith
,augldiraintaft•Of the country, and *fretting it, poser
losinutioLtato ice ream& and glory.
3,b Mr. .CANNING declared that he never felt more
nzicey in rifing in that Houle than at the prefent
it, from the deep convidion he felt at the un•
led impotence of the crifis—a difficulty that
could feel flill.more as he purfued the fubjeta, in
*ng his real and oodliketifed opinion of the prefent
illgilit
billite of our 111141,11 .Arliii:', IA Tech cieennstiances,
.opins the duty of gray Milieu of Parliament. At
Nsho out:et he IhnOloitlsegionve to Gay, what he was in.
‘tigtately perfuaded.r, tend what he thould fay with
f'ponfidence ; not with rafhnefs, but upon as much
,rfflezion as he could give to the fubjed, from cape-
:jaeoce of the pail, from conOderation of the prefent,
mr with * view to the Cottage—that there were refour-
rre amply fufficient in this country to meet and to
ave all difficulties, apd to avert all dangers. With
_...Vtis declaration he wifhed to qualify all he (hould
, . r„. If any thing .that kll from him appeared to
''lo
"uuTfetooci de
nnfiCPZertebnecthYe Brail9htadhebeen:udoind entreat
teoaut ought'
it '
op be done. It was not his object to thwart any of
otthit meafures of Government at this molt tremendous
-tier. Any man who thottld aft for
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,
-SO alarming crilw.
•bros,h putpoles mull (but his heart spina the interels
fish. conot►y. No man who looked back nn the

.41.
;mynas of the tall fifteen yeam,nad recolleeed the tyf.
j Jean of oppotiiinn from the bench on which he fat.
„qintrald fee that fuch a mode of-oppnfition was the road
,dpa pemularity, and the general good opinion of public
mnit. j-le withed his condua to be explained on prin-
ciples of fair and legitimate ambition. NO Member
heard that performance and promife of future excel-
lence, made by the Hon. Gentleman who propoled
the Addrefs, with greater plesfure thin himfelf.—
. Unanimity had been recommended by him and the
,lion, Seconder, but there were different forts of
.Appanimity. There was a blind unanimity, involving
,* furtander of opinion, and a contlant fupport in all
;,jitafe..s. There was another, and not lets valuable,
,aphicis Sill inflated on the right of comparing and
4.oipplideriog, and preferring our judgment, and yet
;mom prepared to fupport the government nt the coon
• fly in ar. proper modes and cafes, in fpite even of
Mae errors that they might commit. That was the
ibitaof unanimity that Gould obtain in &tree counts 7,
gemelefs it was dcGred to &limy all freedom. If ever
yAme was a period of importance to the country. it
„,,iza the prefent. which called upon os to nand, (irk
. .our own defence, and in the &mad place (though
s lic (wind in pride) to afford our help to other States.
„ 44 a Houfe was now about to review the alit of the
Atiilldatiniftration, certainly compofed of able men ;
~,they had entered into office not twelve month- ago.
~,,According to them, all that had preceded them was
wrong—every thing mull Ise conceited and amended.
'Nothing external or internal *as as it fhould he. We
llarere all in clubbed battalions' dilapidated t el...mimes,
train moteetion fexeurfelves orfor the world. What
Aid we hear now ?• Nn't that ihefe refonrees were re
.Apnblitheil, but that they remained unimpaired. It
was a fatisfailion indeed to hear Tech a tribute paid
~,Set tbefe whole repotatinn had been fo often attacked.
'Ala would not !peak of thole who ;vete in terms of in.
, acy with a late great Mititier, but he would fay fe
thould canal honour to him from whoever heard
b .
abi nanmge.
jot fwPitt e
lecticemet
de,d
wwaist hfotl
bad
ofas En::
our foreign
airs—confederacies ill put together, and falling to
ojalaces by their own iseaknefs. He flr.nld examine
t,. hat better had beendono by thole who negotiated
.44one, and then called it joint negotiation. On the
afril day of a new Parliament, in the tones of whole
.onailiewe the fate of:this country and the world might
omobably I), decided, by a Oruggle ending m total
livelion or permanent•fafety. Under Inch circom
an examination was proper. The Speech of
~E iKingand the Addreffes of rarliament were any
tncis
.Ming but mere forms. They went to pledge the
iTlitone, the Parliament, and the Country. The
4-.;,eech (tom the Throne had introduced the r,ibitn
cit the negriciatioo, anti exhorted us to (trunk liar
our liberty and honour ; and he could be content to
wave all objeNiont to the Addres, but that he felt
it in this citia to be hts-imptrious duty to ex profs his
‘antiraents diflittely. Every examination of the means
by which we had been brought to nor prefent (line.
Man ought net to be patted by. What might farther'
appear, be couldant precifely tell. It might (eon
that the negotiation was not fufficiently dexterous ; i
that thei e was too long delay, and too much !hitting
„Allowed ; and that the termination might have been
,forefeen by any man. Whatever were the conduq of
vtitiuificrs, as the attornies in this tranfaeinn with
,yrance, that was nothing to the enemy ; and the cattle
of the enemy had nothing to do with the matter when
we ihnuld come to chi-coifs the negotiation lie moil,
AV:Meyer. think that the condue of Mil :Uteri towards
, faullia was named Malty: but he owned he felt ltinifelf
„awkward in entering on this fubjee in the lamented
ipbfenet of that raga man whole departure none of talk

intimati friends deplored more titan him&lf—tohn
had always commanded hit admiration, and the loft
of whole trankenclant talents he confidered as a great
loft to this couture. He mull, however, in dating
tie fentiments. call upon Gentlemen to go: back in
the le confederacy, and confider, after its failure,
what was the obvious policy of France and Er g•
latad. No man would hefitate to agree that, no-
herstelitte as the confederacy was, when disjointed
Old broken, its lowered limbs yet retained life
and vigour. It was then the integer! of England
to keep them together, cr at lee to keep up an
open, conhant, and harmonious intercotMk. Of
France it was clearly the policy to complete their
difmemberment, or to effeht their apparent fepara-
tion. If the did the firß the accompliffied all the
wanted, if the le, flee tined greatly. We Ratted
with Pruflia at that tine, when the had ahlually
figoed a treaty, but which he *mid not fay the was
exa&ly bound to fulfil ; but the was certainly Co..
unwillingly. That there was guilt on the part of
Pruffia he would not attempt to deny ; but was the
Houfe apprized, when they were told Pruffia had
taken Hanover, that we were negotiating for it with
France? Had they been told Co, aould it not have
!truck every one, thit the war with Pruifia was fu.
perfluotts and anneceffiry ? There might have been
at kill Tome doubts. It was our interefl to preferve
Proffitt, but our great objelt was to limit the Dower
and dominion of France, to overlook (lighter offences,
to put up with Come things, even though a jug caufe
of war, when there was a more politic mode of get-
ting reparation elfewhere. See the labyrinth of errors
into which Min-Uteri had drawn themfelves : but
they would fee that too late They hand with a Mi.
oilier at Paris, negotiating for Hanoveo and at the
fame time demanding it of Proffitt, when a war arifes
between Pruffia and France—a war, in a great mea.
fore, ocesfioned by this very fubjeft. Undoubtedly.
Hanover was not the foie cattle of war between Franc e
and Proffia, but it is one main injury complained of.
Mintilest ought to have forefeen, that their own de-
mands might caufe hohilities ! -oween Nutria and
France, in which they ought to have had the alli.
ance of Prof:fie. They had their choice of Inch
jug caufe of offence as her condo° might give,
and could judge whether they Ihould leave her
untouched, as the yet remained untouclred, fir
Come great and Merl purpofe. To this policy they
at lag became converts, when they fent a milfion to
Pruffia, through they had been totally (hangers to the
policy of preforving her. He was exceedingly forty
to comment on this mition, on account of his Noble
Friend, than whom no than was better fitted for fuch
an embefry. Had Adminiaration only half, infleuti
of all the talents of the country, in fending a Nego-
ciator to Perlin, to whom doubtlefs they gave in-
&union fuited to different circumflancee, they would
liken ice perhaps have recolleOted, not only that the
war might be on the eve of commencement, but that
it might be aOloally begin' before the Negotiator ar
rived ; and if Minillers had only the common routine
of official intelligence, they ought to have been ac-
quainted with the circnnotances. When Minitters
health however, that the whole Prutliau army was
gone. they tent a military miffion I, and, when they
thould hear that the monarchy is defrayed, they
would probably fend p sat of en army. That was the
true fyliem of their meafures. Of all the weak mea-
Cures of their predeceffirs nothing was to be more
improved than our diplomacy; nothing was Co fhabhe
as our diplomacy. We had nobody to write a dd.
patch. and as every body knew it was a great feature
of a Whig Atiminifiration, we were to hare great
Ambaffadors in rotate, all AjiZes and Ulyffes's, and
Phoenixes. He had heard of but one removal and
appointment, that of Mr. Adair in the place of Sir
Arthur Paget. 'chic was a Phcenie, he fuppoftd.—
What other change of fyftern ? Per ions he fh ,ulol not
confider—the Om was the great matter. We
were to have a clear, fimple diplomacy, free from
all the tricks and cajoleries of former Minitters.--
Now fee the effect--Our Miniller at Paiis for peace,
and our Minifter at Berlin for war, are both eat.
pinyed to get Hanover back again. This might per.
haps be dexterous, but it was any thing hot open and
frank. Minifters might have accufed theadelves, if
theybad left the Continent as they found it ; and if
they bad not time nor power to make up a confede.'
mph could not be helped. Ilut by their tardy re-
cognttion of the policy of the Proffien alliance, they
had *two the error by which they had become aced•
Cary to the darts/limy of the only power in Europe
*Mooched Iv. French arms. Theyhad delayed war
by negodiatson ; but they Net filled bj lending a
hand to-inert-de the iilhculties of Pruffia ; and they,
indeed, intlioared France to one of thofe demands
that caufed the wat. Far from congratulating his Ma.
je fly that he had nn (hate kr the Council of Pruflia re-
I this war, hi: opinion was quite contrary. Had
Minitters (hewn that they endeieoured to keep back
Pruffia, it might have been Co far well ; but to fay that
the had nothing to do vrith to is an inconceivable per.
yedim-Of policy. They fhouid have taken care not i
too fuddenly to kindle the flame, left it flsould be too
loon emingoilhed. He admitted the jug ground of
Whew againli Proffia, but thought the war againl
her by os unadvifed and impolitic—and that by it
we hid thrown away one great chance fur the Cal
wation of the world. It was at the mitigation eel
Prance that Pruffia took Hanover, and her ennui.
vanee was evident in thus slanting the feeds of 44
onion with GrearPritain. He remembered the at la
' arid eloquent (peals of the lade Right Hon. Secretary
of State, in which it was nhferved, that Praia was
thus -reaping the reward of her perfidy, by the French
exaftions on Hanover. Might it not have bees these
viewed as an Mich of Trance to throw Hanover be-
tween yon ? Sbe found the two countries in the chance ,
of a onion. What was her obvious policy t Tn di-
vide them ; and then play the double game of the
negociatko at Paris, and the quarrel with Proffia,
both of which were decided at the fame memento.-
the departure from Paris, and the battle of Jena!
Our peace minifter from Paris, and our war miniher
from Germany, came home at the fame time. He
did not with to defeend too much into particulars, but
he confidered our declaration as Rating three things
tel which he was not convinced. Firß, that the
overture came from France. There might be fame
thing behind to he publiffied, for aught he knew.—
But he did nct find fault merely with making the
overture. If it was fit to make peace, it was fit to
'indite an overture; but the alfertion in the declara-
tion was not made out. Had he received the letter
publiated in France, inisetich a compliment is pail to

,tote Brian) Milliner, and had fucceeJed Lord Mal-
:grave or Lord Harrowby, or even Lord Grcn.
,uille, the writer of the drawer to Buonaparte. he
Lhould have rejected the compliment AS an affront to
The t•asat:y. The former Adminiaration were nr-t
ari Admirriaraticrn of affaff.r.s. The next point he
'erbjeaed to was the flatement retpefting the nri /*IA.
deris—it might, perhaps, be almoll as well called the
tropria gas nrarihra, or by any other words. He ob •
.teelerd. in the third place, In our Itateinent con-
cerning nor infiaing on negotiating jointly with our
Allies. Now as the Speech made mention of Sweden,
and made her equal with Ruflia, how happened it
that there was nothing about Sweden in the negocia.
tion ? But the great points were the making out the
bafis, and the fad of abfolately treating with our
Allies. There was a great difference indeed, be•
tween queflinning the right of the prerogative, and
the mode of making tire of it, particularly at times
when it tends to flir thofe perm's& which diamb the
peace of the country. So much the work if it
fhould be only with a view to triumph over ano-
ther let of men, that his Majefly fiwuld be advifed
to to d t fuch an aft, as a preface to a call for
unanimity. There was no quedion about Iris Ma.
Pea right to dark,. Parliament, but bow far it
might be right, and fair, and wile to do fo under
all cireumftances. The 'negate war needle's, and
ufelefs. and only tended to dig ert men's minds from
evernal tranfatlions to internal difputes. No doubt.
Minillers thought they had tome great pnhlic ad-
vantage in view. and could not mffibly be ado-
aced by the &fire of changing a few faces about
them ; the last is what no Minister would venture
to avow. But if this ffinuld be cnaneited with
unprecedented and inexcufahle interference in elec-
tions, will it be contended, that inch condnet does
not tend to prevent union, to impair unanimity, and
to deprive them of.:licir juft authority. It they could
have alledged any ether: nr corruption againa the late
Parliament, they would have had fosse jullifieetium
But on their own principles they could have little to
fay again'! a Parliament that had canted the religna-
tion of one Minifler, and that had impeached another
Miniffer. With retped to the war in which we are
engaged, no man who heard our debate, would know
that we were at war. There was not an aft of war
mentioned in the King's fpeech. As to our internal
defence, great part of latl &Mon war employed air a
molt laboured and complicated plan, which was
preffcd moll eaLeily on the Houle at a late period ;
and when it was sliced, whether it was fo hurried
from its being intended for immediate operation, it
was always anfwercd that it was to intended. Ore
part of the kingdom was exempted from its operation,
becaufe the machinery could not be got ready there
in time. Eut in what part of the kingdom had it
been executed ?Evcry thing was to be done, and no.
thing whatever had been done. A great Statelinan
had fpoken of defending the conntr y at dillant polls,
but bad the Right Hon. Gentleman at the head of
the War Department any tisiag to fay of near nr
remote achievements ? hate he conquered any dif
taut provinces nr fettletnents. There had been a
gond deal heard about fitting out expeditions, which
had ended only in orders, counter-orders, revocations
of counter.orderi, and counter•orders orevocations.
After failing aboot the Channel, they took Plymouth,
as they might any other place abroad, as ill pre-
pared to expel them as Plymouth. They made ex
cellent voyages. They Lit from the Downs, and go
to Plymouth to furprife the dockers. The Right H n.
Gentleman made birexperiments inexpeditions. They
fail fire nn a table, and afterwards venture upon the
lea. He had read fotnewhere, the Right Hon. Gen-
tleman might know where, about pitiful expeditions
to foreign fettlements ; but where were his expedi.
lions ? what had been done ? when Prulta went to
war, they bombarded their peace, and Lord Lauder-
dale was fent to Boulogne. What was the refult of
all their labours ? A fire work at Boulogne, ,asni an
,embarkation on the Paddington Canal: Happily the
°pelmets of the weather- had enabled them so died
the 101 l expedition ; but, had the winter fen in. tbef
Paddingtnn expedition might have been frozen up ail
Uxbridge I He had heard the fire work.: at Boulognali
Mentioned as a diverfion in favour of the King oil
Ptutlia ; an excellent diverfinn, indeed, to the King•
of l'ruffia to whom, that they, might be in all things
unlike their predeceffors, their affillancmconfilled of,
his Noble Friend (Lord Morpeth ), two Secretaries,.
and a Chaplain : wonderfully well calculated fur flop.'
ping the French army. Btu this was not the worth,
Had he not done more to difgrift the army, by Mit
, improper and irregular appointment, thampll he ca►
effeft by arranging 'boulder knots and cockade*? Let
him hear in that Houfe the fettle of the public on that;
'fubjea; and let him tell what had been the refult of;
that meafitre for giving animation and enthufiaftn tor
the army t to raile an officer, certainly rif hill, lee,
fituation for which his rank did not qualify him I—,
The (melt teemed to him, a tpecch fludioully pre',
pared to deprcfs, and not to elevate ; it made no melts
rusts of the deeds of war, or cf any of our fucceffes.-re
Was it that we were completely barren in that refpeal.
and that our naval and military limy had become
quite an unfruitful field ? No : there were inflames
even now to record of acquisitions and ambievemants
made by our arms by fee and land, and of he:oil-RI
difplayed, fufficiently to thew, that our army was
of that chars/ter, to which the Bight Hon. Gentle-
man Paid he eased to bring it—of a charafler worthy
its ancient glory. The Speecbes of the King. and the
Votes of Thanksof that Houfe, were recordeto which
future hiflorians would look to find what was great
and glorious, and received public honours. It was
a dilpiriting Minifiry that Milked to (prickle a few
(perks .4 light upon thefe gloomy times. They might
fay, "G I Mete great achievements are none of ours:
we fban't mention them." Ifataly light Hill beamed
ort them. it came from thofe yhe went before them.
Re could not think this the AOC to be fparing in thefe
rewards of the public fervice. On the grounds he had
now Hated, he proftged his want of concurrence in.
the Addicts; but he thought it his duty to embody
his ideas on this labile% and to prefent them to the
-Houle se an amendment. It was ufual for smend-
merits to confilt of a flight addition, alteratinn, or
omiffion ; but in this Addrefs no niche was left for
him into which to introduce his fentinnents. [The
Right Hon. Gentleman th,oi read an addrefs which he
had drawn up, and which was of uncommon length,
touching upon all the fuliketsteerated of in his tpeech,
and upon many others, and cerifuting the conduft of
Adminiaration in every particular.] After reading
it, the Righ) Hon. Member obfervsd, that all tbote

*lin were dirplred to he gloonsy,.and wRo apirVesTed
of the mon' as of our achievements in the &if .1
j Speech, w-uld vote againft him i hut thole of •
`teary opinion would fuppart his Addrefs. but t .
I he might no! he acciated i f ditlutliing unaniephy gn-
i needfarily, and to avoid mifierefentati..n, he anUld
1 sl-tilt from pr. fling his Amendment to a divifi in.....
(A loud larig6.) [ rite Speaker therefore de not read
'be Amendment propoted ]
Lord HO WICK role, and (poke to the follewhig
-port:tort : " I are tint forprifed, Sir, that the Right
Hon. Gentleman al mid be fo simian to difehtien the
intention of giving an nppolition to the met nt ad-
dict: for the porpofe of embartaffmg his Mai2lll'a
Knitters ; but I mutt own I am ex-timely firiprifed
that after loch a declaration.the Right Elm. Gentle-
man Amid have made fn long a fpeech, which he
has concluded by reading an amendment aliniia as
long as the fpeech itfelf, and both abound rig wi:h
Tacit a tiring of violent attacks and eh:trots, brat
upon a tfertions and alfumptiona, not foult.ted- 'ln
truth, agsinft the prefers! Government, that if the'y
, could be lupin-lied to be true. slight to have been
I brrioght forward as fa many regular airf..l.:s on which
1 to found an impeachment.. The Right Hon. Gentle.
man has had the ingenuity and addrefa In to inter-
weave and mix his arguments with loch a variety of
matter, that he has called on me to defend and vin-
dicate the conduct not only of the relent Govern-
ment, but alto that of a fifteen years oppofition. He
has told the Houle, that he dreads the idea if nppo-
anion, becaufe he has Peen the fad &eels which a
; fif ten years °planation has bad on the popularity of
) thi.fe who were engaged in it, and mull of wheal now
' formed a part of the prefent Adminiftration. Sir,
with refped to that oppotition, it is now paged away,
and it is for the pe-pie at la.ge to •determine what
were the effells and refults dist accrued from it ; it
remains with the country to fay whether they were
beneficial or the contrary, or whether they were
defervetity popular or otherwife. I will only Cry,
(peaking for myfelf AS a mere fnigle individual form-
ing one of that appfrion, dui itig die whole periods.
alluded to, that it was on my part, an oppnation
founded on the lb idea principle and the molt lively
anxiety for the welfare and profperity of the country,
againtt thole meaftiree which have been (without
meaning to attribute the faith to the Right H-an. Gen-
' dernan and the Hon. Gentlemen near hi m) followed
the defolate and dehrudive Sate in which we fee the
'Cornrow at the prefent moment. I can alfn' Sir,
with great truth a^.ll Wet y, anfseer for my Right Hon.
Friend, now, alas ! no more, and all thole who Jetted
with us during that eventful period, that they were
all guided by Chic fame contlitutional motive,, and
that none of its were ever aiftuated by the bale and
mifeliirvous defigo of forming an oppfuion for the
ungenerous and unworthy purport of embarraffment,
And of haraffing, diareffing, and impeding the effort.
and exetti ins of his Majefty's Miniaers ; and, Sir, I
am bold to fay this without the finalleh dread of in-
juring my own or their ppolarity, by now recalling
that oppaion to the recolletftion and remenstrraoye
of this Honfe, or of the country at large. I own.
Sir,l am hill farther furprifed the Right Hon. Gentle.
man Ilintild have entered into Cu broad and extenfive
an oppofition to the Addrers, becaufe T am lure the
very cautious manner in which it has been brought
forward. will In much eloquence, as to give the pro-
mite of future beneficial exertions for the ferrite of
the country, by nay Hon. Friend whammed it, gave
me every reafon to fuppofe it could not have given
rife to the wAe field of argument in which the Right
Hon. Gentleman has thought proper to indulge bim-
felf. And yet, Sir, after the very violent attack
which the Right Hon. Gegtleman has made on the
prelim Government of the country, is it not moo OE-
traordinary that he has admitted the amsndntentwich
be has produced and read, and which contihth the
greater part of thole unfounded charges, was'n7; In-
tended to be read from the Chair, lea it fhpuLl lag con-
firm., I into an attempt to embarraft.the sneafttres and
proceedings of the Government? This, Sir,is a very in-
genious method of preventing us from taking the kora
of the Uncle on it, and I am lorry we are depristed
of the opportunity of thawing to the Houk and to
the country, how new Members of this Hoare Would
Commit the Right Hon. Gentleman in fuch an amend-
. 1111 Mal. The word "unanimity," fo dearable to, all,
gems to have worked, iu a particular manner, on
the imaginatitm of the Right Hon.Gentlernan, and he
Ilboaflingly tells us that there are two kinds of unani-
mity : one which would forbid him from endeavour.
ing to divide the noufe, and on fuch occafinn to
4tarbarrafs the meafures of Government : another
.ananimity, which he could not join in, without ap-
proving their meafures, which it is ont in his power hi
aim . It is not my intention, Sir, to ctetain the Houfe
~at fa much length, as to enter into all die winos
points of the Right Hon. Gentleman's fpeech, lint
,;there are fume on which I with to make obfervations,
~t.s. which I mutt intreat the attention of the Houle.
. The fire part of the Right Hon. Gentleman'. fpeech.
~tn which I (ball beg leave to advert, is that refpeeling
'the Negotiation ; on this, he has ftated three point( t
,AR- Who made the firlt overture? ad. The .t, tcf-
.46'; and, 3d. Treating jointly with our Allies.—
, The Right HonOurable Gentleman has allowed, that
be cannot depend on the accuracy of the grounds on
erlskh he blames his Majefty's Mini Iters—tin theauthe-
rity of the Paper; publifbed by the French Govetn-
tatotT—attd yet ha bar argued on theta with alma as
much coafidstes u Wilkey had been laid on the table
of this Houle. lie has quoted the Declaration, as
bating tlifieted from thofe papecson the material het
—of who made the hint overture? Thu Declaration
of his Majely, he by,, avert, that the fire overture
came from the French Government ; but this, unlefs
there Ihould be Come confiderable chains, he cannot
admit, unlefs it can be hewn there was Come letter
or paper received by this Government on the fubjea
of pence, previous to Mr. Fox's letter refpeding the
affitifin. There, Sir, the Right Hon. Gentleman lake
(hewn how liable data& are to be milled or miflaken
who venture to found opinions on uncertain or un-
founded documents; and I conk nd, Sir, that a hint
overture might, come from the French Govern-
ment. and yet be fuhtequmt to the letter refpeft.
rag the alfaffin. That 'note of Mr. Fox, Sir, was
irt imp without any view to a negocition—it was
a mere private intimation of a p.. 1 ticuLtr fart to
M. Talleyrand. That Gentlemao, in his anfwer,
mentions his basing placed Mr. Foa's letter before
the eyes of the Emperor of the 'reach, who bid
that "Thu bad only confirnied the opionin be ha*
always entertained of the high and aim-frith el )21°