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till he sew. that they:were deserva .•Be concurred
feeling and principle with those who advocated a
junction with Spain; .but he had not information
enough to determine whether k was prudent for this
country, in its present state, to take such a part. He
{cased, however, that the conduct of our Government
bad not been such as would enable it to mark the in-
vasion of Spain as an act of atrocity. It.had been
incompatible with justice, or the freedom of the world,
and such as he feared had rather tended to give of
fees to the principles and conduct of the Holy Al-
liance, than to discountenance or check them. The
Noble Lord concluded by moving as an Amend
went, " That the House, at its rising, adjourn to
Monday, the 7th April."
Mr. MACDONALD, for one, could not acquiesce
is the proposed adjournment. On the contrary, he
*as on every ground disposed to object to it. In the
present state of Europe, when one Power had set in
motion 60,000 or 70,000 men to cut the throats of
those who were struggling for liberty, and when in
four-and-twenty hours questions of the most vital im-
portance might arise, calling for the exertion of the
united wisdom of Parliament, that was the moment
at which the Right Honourable Gentleman proposed
th is ex traor dinary adjournment, and would send Mem-
bers home to their repose; on what ground could this
unusually long recess be proposed ? It could not be
on account of the extraordinary exertions of the Ses-
sion. They had at present scarcely sat thirty days,
and as to busineses they had done little, except the
voting of money, and that every one knew was no
great matter of labour in that House. The Right
Honourable Gentleman, however, had said, you shall
have a long holiday, but the Right Honourable Gen-
tleman should also have given them their holiday
task; but not so—the Right Honourable Gentleman
bad said, go home, but I will keep my important pa-
pers in my pocket till you come back ; though, if
those papers should resemble those of his predcces-
mrs, a fortnight watild not have been more than suf-
ficient to understand them. It had formerly been
the custom to call this country the as bitress of Eu-
rope; but in what state, he would ask, were we now
placed, when a faction at the Court of a Bourbon, to
place whom on the Throne had cost us nearly
1,000,000,000/. that Bourbon being now infirm and
list sinking into the grav6, had, aided and urged on
by a Russian Corsican agent at Paris, set our advice
at naught, and our remonstrances at defiance, and
mated our opinion as not worth a flea-bite ? He
would not now occupy the time of the House in of-
fering speculations on the consequences likely to re-
sult from a war, which we had either not been
powerful or vigilant enough to prevent; a war which
is its effects might, however, again hurl from the
throne a Bow bon, placed there by our exertions, anti
by our blood and treasure; but, looking to our pre-
sent load of debt, he would join in the wish of his
Noble Friend, that we might be kept as long as pos-
sible out of an expensive contest. He would call on
the House to look at the situation of Portugal, our
ancient ally, 14 hose country was now made the source
of machisatims intended to disturb her peace ; but
here he felt he was entering on delicate and difficult
subject', ano therefore he would refrain; and he
would only observe on what had been said of existing
treaties by his Noble Friend. They were stated to
" be entered into, for the purpose of putting an end
to unjust invasion." He begged the House to attend
to this: those very treaties, the stipulations of which
were recently quoted as binding us to defend the
Bourbons, " were entered into to put an end to unjust
invasion." They were also entered into "to enforce
among Sovereigns a due respect to the rights of in-
dependent nations ;" and further, " to generate the
peace and happiness of mankind." These views, then,
were the basis of our treaties—these were our objects,
and to obtain these we had placed the Bourbons on
the. hrone. Lest these men were reminded of such
things, they were too often apt to forget what they
ought particularly to remember; and to remind them
of something more of the same kind, he would read
one or tee, passages from a note addressed by Lord
Castlereagh, in conjunction with the Ministers of
Austria, Prussia, and Russia, to the Duke of Riche-
lieu, dated Paris, the ?kith of November, 1815:
" The lively interest which they (the Allied Cabinets)
take in the satisfaction of his Most. Christian Majesty,
as well as in the tranquillity and prosperity of his
kingdom, makes them hope that the fatal chances
supposed in these engagements will never be realized.
The Allied Cabinets find the first guarantee of this
'hope in the clear principles, magnanimous sentiments,
and personal virtues of his Most Christian Majesty.
His Majesty acknowledges with them, that in a State
torn during a quarter of a century by revolutionary
convulsions, it is not by force alone that calm can be
restored to the mind, confidence to the heart, and
equilibrium to the different parts of the social body ;
but that wisdom should be united with vigour, and
moderation with firmness, for producing these happy
changes. Far from fearing that his Most Christian
Ilajeay will ever lend an ear to imprudent or im-
passioned counsels, tending to renew discontents and
alarms, to excite hatred and divisions, the Allied Ca-
binets are entirely relieved from that anxiety by the
Wise as well as generous disposition which the King
has evinced at every period of his reign, and espe-
cially at that of his return after the last criminal at-
tempt. They know that his Majesty will oppose to
all the enemies of the public good, and of the tran-
quillity of his kingdom, under whatever form they
may present themselves, his adherence to the Consti-
tutional laws promulgated under his own auspices—
his well-understood intention to be the father cf his
people—to efface front remembrance the evils which
they have suffered, and to preserve of times past only
the good which PROVIDENCE has brought forth even
from the bosom of public calamity. It is thus only
that the views formed by the Allied Cabinets for the
preservation of the Constitutional authority of his
Most Christian Majesty, for the happiness of his coun-
try, and for the maintenance of the peace.of the world,
Will be crowned withcomplete success, and that France,
established upon her ancientbasis, will resume theemi-
vent place towhichshe is called in theEttropean system."
if these, then, were the objects of our engagements,
:hey, are counteracted, not by Napoleon, not by his
44'4) not by his adherehts, but by the Bourbons,
and in despite of England. If then the power for
Whose security these engagements had been entered
Into, and which had gross n up out of the Holy Alli'
ce, aas the first to fire the torch which was to set ,
Z'un'ee in conflagration ; if it were the violation of all
c'ee principles which were propagated for the con-