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we had could be retained at a lets ex•
pcnec of hicirA and treaftire we had bitter
cr' hr them. The Cape of Gond hope,
no-
doubtuiit, fliould France re•citallifb her Ma
:inr, might be of confeciticnee ; lyit, under pre-
feat c..rctimflitiices, he had doubts. Ceylon
infinite importance on account of its
h as was the Ifl.tnd of Trinidad, in the
Weft Indies, for the fame reafcn. Under all cir-
cumtlancies, lie felt Infiniti.: obligations to his
Majefly's Minillers for putting an end to the
war ; and particularly to his Right Honourable
Friend the prefent Minicier, who in an hour of
cl:W:cel.y and danger, charged himfclf with the
helm r.f the State, and has for the prefent brought
lafely into port.
M. EL.Lisos obferved, that though he had from
principle fupported the war, as deeming it aggref-
five on the pall of France, he was friendly in the
1:•;;1:::f1 degree to the Peace atchieved by his Ma-
jt. prefent Ntinifters, who, he thought, had
ailed wifely, and particularly on the prefent occa-
flon—l-le repelled the idea, that the country was ,
in a Rate of hutriliation,on the contrary,he thought
her recent conduEl pe:uliarly glorious to her.—
She was tine to her Allies, and had adequately
afferted her own hc.:our and Intel-efts. He thank-
ed Minifters for what they had done: his bell fup-
port and influence was at their fervice. The
Peace, he trulted, would unite every heart and
hand in the country in fupport of its Government,
and render Britain in arc& as impregnable as
Malta itfelf ; and he trtifled the bleflings of Peace
would be co:am:arm ate to the willies of a patrio.
tic Mini:lec.

Mr. Ntcool.t.s hipprated the Peace.
Mr. B•UHINCTON tpoke in favour of the Peace,
and advcrted to the Article baween France and
England, rcfpc'ling the guarantee of integrity to
tlic Turt.illi territories, which principle he treated
as 1471,1 y impolitic And dangerous.
Lord HAWICESBURY denied that any fuch prin-
cip x:11.!,: it: the article alluded to.
Mr. R. TI RN TON cpCke i❑ favour of the Peace,
and gav, the highell credit to the Minillers who
hadnbtaincd it.

M:. OGLE (Member for the County of Wexford )
fail, he had approved the war, upon principle,
and he could allure the Houti: that, in the county
whence Le came, every loyal man received the
tidings of peace with joy and exultation; while to
every rebel and difaffeeted man, it was confufion
and difappointment. This circumfiance alone, ac
it pit an end to all the Vintner hopes of the difal-
Idled, and recut-cal the fifety of Ireland, 'was fuf-
ficient to juftify the peace. He warned Milliners
againt any coalition with the difaffeeted in that
country, and enjoined them to place theirreliame
upon the loyal Pioteflant men of Ireland, who
would rally around the Britifh throne, and die at
the foot of it; and, orange as he might bethought
for giving fuch couniel, he would !peak from the
neeeffity he knew to exit, that, if Government
wiffied to preferve Ireland, they mull convert it
into a garrifon !
the CHANCILLLOIR of the Excirsotisa felieited
the indulgence of the Houfe, in order to reply to a
few points which had been much dwelt upon in the
comic of the debate, by thole rho dilapproyed of
the Preliminary Articles. He, however, felt the
highell gratification in the honourable, and almoll
general approbation which the condo& of his Ma-
jefly's Mini liers had experienced, under the trying
and difficult circumflances in which they were
placed. It would ferve to make them alive, vi-
gilant, and zealous in the difeharge of their duty,
in the hope of deferving a continuance of that flat-
tering approbation. There was yet a qualification
in the terms of fome who had honoured them with
their good opinion ;—they were adverfe to the
Peace, becaufe it was grateful to the Jacobins, and
would tend to encourage their machinations. But
what faid the Hon. Gentleman who had laft fpoken
(and who could doubt his authority) ? why, that
the news WAS received by the United Irifhmen as
a fevere affidling flroke. How would that: Gentle-
men, whooppofe the Peace—particularly his Right
Hon. Friend (Mr. Windham) feel—when they
found themfelves in fellowfhip with the Jacobinc,
and there was little doubt that the fentiments of
the Luglilh Jacobins were in unifon with thole of
the United Ii ilh. Some Right Honourable Gentle-
men had thewn, that when rcleafed from the re-
ftraitr.s of office, they could hold a language not
ciadiltent with their former condo& Hi,
1414 Hon. Friend had maintained, in all the
flowing 1 tnsuage of fincerity, that Peace with
France was impeffible untilthemorals of the French
%vete imiloved. Then the war was not for fyltems
of Gov tiiiment, or for territotial acquirements,
hut fer the reformation of morals. Surely the
Parliament could not give their fanlion to fuch
fentiments, however benevolent the fource. He
regretted the abfcnce of his Right Hon. Friend
when he was adverting to his opinions. He had
argued as if our refources were inexhaunible, but
be rated them rather too high, in order to juftify
the continuance of the war. It was in order to pre-
ferve them in the Rate in which they were, capable
of vigorous refinance in cafe of future war,that Mi.
nifters advifed his Ma jelly to fign the Articles of
Peace ; and that Parliament approved of them. He
begged the Houfe to recolleet that thole who ap-
proved of the negotiation at Lille, could not con-
lißcntly
refufe their fupport to the Preliminaries,
on the grounds generally Rated by thole who con-
demned them. He meant to adJrefs this older-
vation to thole then in office, who advifed and con-
dtdted that negotiation. If it was true, that to
make Peace with France, without overturning the
Republican Government, was culpable—and that
t!, prefcnt Minißers defervcd the imputation of
idarne, the charge fhould not come from the Nc.
ciatisrs at Lille. It was not becoming in them
pot it forward. There remarks he did not in.
r• i.d to apply fo much to his Right lion. iend as
"-et c. It was abfurd to look for the abridge-
!' the Cradinental Power of Frarce. but by
„tall aid, and that we had not. On: t

•11 that nation M uIJ r, be it
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,nd in the profr. R I,:fore • . I.c I.:w
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—lt was not true, that becaufe France had
made conquefts, Great Britain could not raife
her head. Let the Houfe look to the fubliantial
refources cf the country, and contemplate all the
acquirements of France, allowing all that is due
to the indullry and ingenuity of its inhabitants.
—Do but the fame jullice to the people of Eng-
land, and what could be feen from the compa-
rifon to diflui be the itatefman, or damp the mull
a:dent patriot? Such were his fettled impreffions, I
and he had every reliance on the effels of a recon-
ciliation with France. He meant not a reconci
liation in fentiment, but on juft and magnani-
mous grounds, which, with the proteßion of
a free Conftitution, and the exertions of a free
people, the Britith Empire will continue to be
great, powerful, refpeßahle, and happy.
The Report was agreed to without a divifion.
Adjourned at half paft Twelve o'Clock, till One
o'clock on Friday.

(In the preceding Columns we have laid before our Readers
the Speech delivered by Mr. Prur on Tuefday evening, omit-
ted yellerdsy for want of room. We have alto to requelt our
Readers to eorretft a miftake in our IA page, yefterday, tsfth
line from the bottom of the ad column. The Gentleman who.
delivered the Speech that begins there was Mr.T. Gas NVI L LI
Mr. WINONA sa was indirpoted, and referred Unita( for lilt
night's debate)