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London, England, 1802-12-09 00:00:00

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Stint& the *dor teems difaireeable to the:pa,
tient, the latter does not like them/ of his *ord—
.. Non unto tc, Zeblde, net pofum dieere quare ;
" Sed hos poll'unrdiecre..-uon amo
Cr as the pafage of Martial has been put in an
Englifh drefs—
u I do not like you, Dodor Fell,
" The :vision why, I cannot tell ;
" But this, I'm Pure, I know full weft....
I do not, like you, Dodtor Fell."
[This rave birth to a burit oflaughter for fome mi-
nutes, in which Mr. Addington himfelf was the firft
to join) They afk what right Mini tiers have to our
confidence ? I afk by what is it they have forfeited
it He did not fee that the time they fucceeded to
the Adminiftration was the mo(t inviting. The
fuccefs of the Baltic and Egyptian expeditions was
more than doubtful, and it was only an aet of
chance and (kill that gave• the firft a favourable
iffue, and certainly the gratitude of England would
not have been too much evinced on the occalion, if
even the meaneft of the Tailors were to be crowned
with laurels. In the arrangement of Peace, Mini.
fters had alto to deal with a man who would be
fonfid to retort upon them the infolent language
of Lord Grenville': letter, and call for 1, expe
rience and the evidence of fails." I will be

.that they did.ilot ipprpye the men. His
Friend had faid that he wifhed he bad continued
in Office : he would return the compliment by
faying, that he wilhed the fpeech he had made
had been the !beech of a Miniffer. Had his
words come from the mouthof one of his Majefty's
Minifters, he would have been fatisfied. He had
Rated on a former n;ght, that the honour of the
country had fuffered indignity in confequence of
the conduct of Minifters with refpeet to Switzer-
land. We bad conceded without conciliating, and
interfered without prevailing. Such was the prima
facie fituation of the country. His confidence in
Minifters was fhaken, and being fhaken, he fhould
be dimmed not to avow it. He had been accufed
of mifreprefenting the circumaances under which
the prefent Minifters came into office. He had
not need, that fuccefs was certain in the expedi.
tions to the Baltic and Egypt. All that he had
contended for was, that if there expeditions failed,
i they were free from refponfibility. Their fituation
was therefore favourable. He avowed his with to
fee his Right Hon. Friend (Mr. Pitt) in the place
which he 'thought him belt able to fill. He de-
fpifed the cant of " Give us meafures, not men."
If the hate of France was looked at it would eafily

be Peen what ww the influence of genius. What
had made France what fhe is? A man. His Right
Hon. Friend (Mr. Pitt) courted oblcurity, and
!tidied to transfer the friendfhip of thole attached
to himfelf to others ; but, however he might fe-
queftrate himfelf, however he might (lady to indi-
vidualize himfelf, he never would be able to with-
draw himfelf from the gratitude of people he had
Paved.
Mr. WI LIERFORCE fupported the meaftires at
prefent adopted by his Majefty's Government, and
declared himfelf decidedly againft entering into
continental conneaions; at the time time we ought
not to abftain altogether from interfering in the
concerns of foreign Rates. He could not teflea
without confiderable anxiety, that we had been the
dupes of feveral foreign Rates, whore co operation
we could not, in cafe of a future war, depend upon.
The Eftablifhment now propofed by the Minifter
he. would fupport, becaufe by that means we fhould
be able to prefent to the enemy a powerful and
united people, againft whom he should not be able
to prevail ; and confequently, the power of France
might be looked at without alarm or danger. In
his opinion the Members of that Houfe ought to
abandon their petty differences, and confult the
public good alone. He readily agreed in the cu.
logium that had been pronounced on the late Mi•
filter he confidered him as a man fent by l'arys t•
DEN c e to rave his country, and one in whore hands
the affairs of a great nation might be rarely trufted.
Mr. Fox rote a little before twelve o'clock, and
at two concluded afpeech of extraordinary arength
and variety of argument. At fo late an hour, laid
he, when the attention of the Houfe is fo much
exhaufted, though they mutt have been equally
delighted by what they lately heard from my Hon.
Friend, I mould not have offered myrelf, were it
not for the turn the debate has taken ; and I there-
fore feel it a duty I owe not only to myfelf but r
my conftituents and my country, to fay a few
words. The Hon. Gentleman oppofite (Mr. Can-
ning) has attempted to anfwer Tome part of what I
Paid on a former occafion, by totally mifreprefent
ing ; and that part of it which he does not mifre-
prefent, he does not attempt to anfwer at all. Now
this is rather wonderful, confidering that the Right
Hon. Gentleman is not deficient in abilities, and
certainly not in readinefs. He need not there-.
fore have waited for the affiftance of newfpaper
maatements, or any other fpecies of affittance,
fence he might have replied on the fpot to that
which he cenfures. He begins with faying that
the power cf France is now " Con, by me.—
" Confeffed" by me ! And was it neceffary that
the Right Hon. Gentleman thould now, for the
firft time, find out that this was " conk fled ?"
Did the Hon. Gentleman never hear me mutt dif-
daily charge it upon his friends, the late Mini-
(try, that by their mifcondua they contributed fo
much to the aggrandizement of France ? But he
complains that I have not propofed a remedy for
Br II the It Ge-

bold to fay, that, every thing confidered, the
Peace was as advantageous as could be ob-
tained. The Loan was afterwards made upon
terms perhaps ton favburable to the public ; and
in the lalt General Eledion it was known,
that never did any Adminiftration interfere
lefs with the choice of the people, though one of
the Ex Mini(ters (Mr. Dundas)_was careful in the
North to take all the Eledioneering Winer's upon
himfelf. The Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Ad-
dington) in the fituation of Speaker, had certainly,
and I fpeak it with great refpeCt, much perfonal ad-
vantage in point of dignity and appearance over his
Succelfor ; but it was not to be expeded that he
fhould carry with him into the Cabinets of Europe
the qualities and language of Speaker of the Houle
of Commons. He was not every where to have his,
Trident borne before hith like his iWace. He was not
to fay to the exiled and difperfed Kings and Princes'
of other countries " Gentlemen, take your places;"
and fay to chore who obtruded themfelves into their
fituations, " Strayers nue withdraw." When the
French and Garmans were contending for both
fideslof the Rhine, it would have been ufelefs for
him to pro'claim " the Ayer nusfi go forth," or "Ayes
to the right, and Noes to the left."—Thefe things
he could not do, but he effected every thing
that could have been expeded from a reafonable
man. Is Mr. Pitt to come to this Houle now,
and attempt to fuperfede his own nominees ? For
none of us forget the encomiums he paired upon
them in preference to all others, and only with a
finale exception, I believe, in favour of my Hon.
Friend (Mr. Fox). The Miniffers however have
been called a naufeous mixtu e, but I dare fay the
Ex-Minitter thinks the contrary. I believe he is
one who has no objedidn to a glafs of wine ; and
in that I mean refledion on him ; bin he malt
certainly think, that the prefent Miniffers are like
a bottle of 'okay, when drained to the laft
and grounds, by filling :he bottle with white wine,
has only to Rand a little, and then 'cis as good as
the former. Even after this recommendation,
fome of ihefe Gentlemen voted the thanks of the
Houfe to him, inaead of a Statue, which, had it
been erected, would be as well decorated with the
Olive Branch which he defended, as by the Lau-
rels of War. I, for one, think too much of his
dignity to fuppofe him playing fuch a double
game, as openly to fupport and fecretly to under-
mine the Miniaers. I have heard of great chefs-
players direding at the fame time two games in
different rooms, but it would be as much folly to
be playing from one band into another, as it would
be to attempt on a chefs board to cheek a King, as
the late Minifter did his Majeay, by holding him out
to the kith as the enemy of the• Roman Catholics."
—He then proceeded to comment on the conduit
of chore who continued to perfevere in the War,
againft Mr. Fox's warning voice, that it would
only make France arong. They would make no
peace with a Jacobin Republic, but Paid,

" Approach me like the rugged Ruffian Bear, the evil that is confefred. .tut has ..ie Hon. , 2n.
The armid Rhinoceros, or Hyreanean Tiger— tleman himfelf pi opofed any remedy ? Some fay,
Take any &ape but that"—
but Bonaparte has done every thing for them.— and that but few, go to war. The Hon. Gentle-
but
was thought to be an Anteus, always man does not fay 10. Yet what remedy has been
riling with redoubled firength, but he crufhed it propofedt except the high tone and fine words in
riling
which fo much reliance feems to be placed, I
at once, by giving it the true fraternal hug. The have not yet heard. It is not faid that the
two parties in oppofition, he compared to two men
condua of France to Switzerland, in the Ger-
man Indemnities, and other articles of complaint
in the boat of a balloon, who could afcend or de-
fcend with pleafure, but neither floor to the right
or left. Mr. Windham was following the machine againft France, are tingly grounds of a new war,
nor is it faid that taken together they amount to a
with gas, while Mr. Dundas was opening the valve caufe of war, for if they do, in the opinion of the
to let it out, and make the anchor drop upon Come J Right Hon. Gentleman, why does he not (late it
fugar ifland. He reprefented Bonaparte as an in- las a fpecific charge againft Minifters, that they do
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ftrument in the hands of ov:peace, not only for
not advife his Majefty to declare war ? If he does
mifchief, but , for the better purpofe of making
teveryio . Es
nrig
d icionincall:iddeidrilhrs ahnumloovuerhoiussown Conftitu•
and elegant ,
Speech, by declaring his opinion, that this great I
country had no retreat in infignificance; and that
if we were reluftantly compelled into a War, we
fhould purfue it with vigour and effea, or refolve
to perifh in the facred flame, with glory and with ,
honour.
Mvr. CANNING rejoiced to coincide in molt of the not think we (hould go to war, where does he and
I differ but in the efficacy of fine words, and the
high tone ? If he does think war the remedy, I am
I ready to join again with him on that gr_ound of ar-
t gument. But let him fpeak out. Onellon.Gentle-
-1 man faid, that if there was a perfon in this country,
:, the agent' of France, he could not do better than by
1 holding fuch and fuch language. He Teemed to fay,
I that he might have fuppofed that thole who held
that language muft be the agents of France, if he
fentiments Rated by Mr. Sheridan. It would be I did not find that language ufed by Mr. Banks,
recolleCted that he had frequently exerted himfelf whom he cannot fufpeft of being an agent of
to mull the Country to a fenfe of its danger. What France. The fpeech of that Hon. Gentlemen I cer-
he had faid mull have delighted all, by its variety, tainly did very much approve. Indeed lam under
and what he could only be the firft to applaud, be- confiderable obligation to that Gentleman for being
caufe he was the firft to rife up after him. He 1 obe. i in fome fort my compurgator in this charge of be-
the Houfe would hear no more fpeeches rely tag jag an agent of France, and on this account the
on the Chapter of Accidents, but that the tone of fstisfataion his rpeech afforded, may be thought
his Hon. Friend would be afrumed by all. He nova not altogether difinterefted. I with Gentlemen
proceeded to (fate in what he differed front his would (peak out 1 Do they believe that I (land
Hon. Friend. If he and thefe whit thought with up here as the agent of France ? Do they think
him were apprehenfive' of the faille dangers his me satiated by hatred againft my own country, or
Hon. Friend had fo eloquently defcribed, was it bribed to betray Its interefts ?—I have been in
unreafonable that they fhould alk his Majefty, s Paris lately, on purfuits fereign to the Houfe,
Minitters what was the plan upon which they in. though much connefted with my private occupa-
. tended to ad ? When there is no dire& communi- dons. Would it be ftrange, think they, if go-
cation ft 0:n the Throne, when there is no explana. Ing to Paris,. to read sßarillon's Difpatches, and
rion given t the only means left of penetrating the find out who *ere the penfioners of France in
conduit of Minitters is to watch their Speeches in Charlestand Jame.% reigns : Odfo 1 no bad oppor-
that Houfe. In fnch a &nation was it to be won- trinity to get a penfion for myfelf 1 If any body
dered that it thould Inlaid by any perfonstirat the: ithinks ft', 1 (hall not take the trouble to unde-
bee
i approved till matures which wg;F Frill 4 .. script titaifq b. atif the y ilo fo, it is a more rational.
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