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but the party —opplited to the Stockholder, atat de-
firoyed Holland. But, Sir, I will live you up
both Belgium and Holland ; I will give you Swit-
zerland, and then let us fee what calamities have'
bun produced by Jacolsinifm, particularly in the
dominions of thofe Princes who were fo cornett
and zealous in oppofing thistorrent. When ! look
at Pruffia, what has happened there ? I can difco-
Ter in no part of that kingdom the dire effects of
jacobinifm ; I can fee no Republic at Berlin, and
Silefia enjoys the mon profound tranquillity. In
Vienna the greateft order is preferred, and every
part of the Emperor's dominions is at reft. Let
us then not idly boaft that we are the only coun-
try which has refilled with energy and friccefs, the
uertiont and machinations ofjacobinifm ? And
Curtly we are entitled to hold a rank among the
greater Powers of Europe. Ia the revolution,
which took place in the reign. of Charles the Fir%
we are at no lots to find among the leaders of that
revolution men of property and character. We find
the names of Mr. Pym, Mr. Hampden, the Earls
of Manchefter' Bedford, and Edit, and it is from
fuch men only that real danger can proceed. Anar-
chy was at length produced, until Cromwell, a great
man certainly, whatever may be Paid of him, fiized
upon the reins of Government. The other Powers
could then have faid, as you did in the cafe of
France, " let us go to war with England, beratufe
England has no legal Government, and is in a
Rate of confufion." They did not all, however,
purfue fo abfurd a conduit, and thofe which did
made juft fuch a peace with Cromwell as you t
have done with Bonaparte. I with to know on
what rational grounds a peace might not at any
former period of the war have been made on terms
more honourable and more fecure than now
Above all, Sir, the language ufed to encourage the
people in the profecution of the war cannot,l think,
and I fpcak feelingly, be too feverely reprobated. It
was maintained that we were fighting in the carafe
of Goa. Fighting in the caufe of Goa ! language
that WAS impious in the extreme, and downright
blafphcmy. We were incited to perfevere in the
conceit in the conic of religion, of morality, of good
order, of civilized fociety, and this language was
irreverently and fhamefully ufed in order to get a
better loan, or to lay on more uses. This, Sir,
was going on badly, it was hypocritical and truly
contemptible. Had thefe been the real objees of
the war, it is, I contend, imponible that Minifters
could have purfued it Co ignorantly, fo abfurdly
as they did. It is now undeniable that peace
could have been made by the late Adminiftration,
fince we know from daily experience that their
ideas on that fubjeß are fo very different.—
When I come to the year !Soo, we have an
additional inftance of the (hallow underltanding
of thole intrufted with the diredion of public af-
fairs, I mean the letter written by Lord Grenville
to Bonaparte. No one, lam happy to find, has
attempted to jullify that letter. It was equally
infolent, foolifh, and abfurd, and was accordingly
read with difguft by every one in Europe. At
the fame time it was the fubjeft of alarm that the
French had got poffeffion of Egypt, and though
your apprehenfions upon that head were very great,
yet you wifely determined not to let them go out.
Sir Sidney Smith, an officer of dittinguinied merit,
and who, in his negotiation with the French Com-
mander in Chief, &relay ed uncommon addrefs and
prudence,had ftipulated for the evacuation of that
1 country ; but you preferred a conduit direely
contrary, and you Paid—" The French have got
poffettion of Egypt, and they (hall keep it." At
one time you raid to Bonaparte—" You are pot
powerful enough yet to conclude Peace, you muff
become fo ;" and when he did attain that power
which enabled him to dieate the terms, to whom,
let me alit, did he owe it ? Why, he was indebted
fur it to you • and for this we are called upon to
thank Mr. Pitt. Why not thank Lord Spencer ?
Why not thank Lord Chatham? Yet the late
Lord Chatham had no thanks, for he did not
want them. He had no faults to- cover, no
gloomy incontinencies to reconcile, no defeUs
to bottler up. Mr. Fox next went into vari-
ous confederations arifing from the war; among
which, Finance, the Connitution, the State of Ire-
land, and the relation of this country to the Con- 1
tinent held a diftinguifhed rank. and in all of
which lie advanced many arguments againft the i
late Milliners. He concluded nearly in the fol-
lowing manner :•••41 Upon the whole, Sir, I con-
fider the amendment made by the Noble Lord as
one of the moo degrading, infulting, and con-
temptible propolitions ever lubmitted to the Houk
of Commons. With all my objections to the
Peace, and certainly I have many, I think it a
great and good work, and I feel myfelf obliged
to thofe' who have made it ; but to thank thofe
Milliners who have reduced the country to the
neceffity of making the Peace, would be a meafure
fo extraordinary,' lei ill advifed, that I truft the
Houfe will not accede to it. Out of fix Minifters
who had a diftingniflied :hare in his Majefty's Coma-
ens, four of them are decidedly againft it. Lord
Grenville, Lord *Stientet,ihe Secretary at War:
and the late Chancellor, have etprefed theft dif-
approbation of the Articles t the Secretary for
the War Department has madeiio &flotation re-
fpeiting the Definitive Treaty, and Mr: Pitt is the
only one who praifes it. I think the imendinent,
under every poffible view, difgraeeful to the cowl-
try and I lhall vote againft it."
The CHANCSLLOR of the Excii coy i* rote at
half pall two in the morning. The latends of the
hour prevents usfrom entering fully into his.fpeech,
which was principally intended as a reply to Mi.
Fox, and to clear up tome points under which he
appeared to be in an error. In rcfped to Mr!
Pitt's ton out of office, the fait was, he had re-
figned, and from motives which, though not ne-
ceflary to be explained, were influenced by a deep
and honourable fenfe of public duty, fuel: as had
ever adnated his lion. Friend. He was perfonally
witnefs, that no aa of his life ever occafioned filch
remorfe and keen regret as the neceflity he found
himfelf under to refign. The Motion now brought
forward was not the original intention of hisßight
Hon. Friend, but arofe from the repeated attacks
male on the late Adminiftration from the other
tide of the Houfe. The motion did not require