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tided over the Admiralty ; thanks to our gallant
Naval Officers and Sailors, we were now in a situa-
tion, not only to refill all inch unjullifiabk pro-
ceedings, but had it in our power to oppofe the
. whole world, if it fhould be united againft us.—
fOur right to (earth neutrals was nut to depend on
the win of Rnflia ; and if this right was telin.
quill*, the maritime ftrength of the country was.
gone for ever, and the fun of Britith glory was.fet.
As to the violent condua of the Emperor of Rttifia,
he Rill hoped that that magnanimous Prince would
Make ample reparation to this country for the in-
jury he had done us; but if he &odd refire to do
1 fo, and Wthe other powers joined him in there UTI.
Ijolt pretentious, he was furs - that every .man in this
country would be ready to Ifitpport his Majefty's
Councils, by. a determination to tefilititch aurei.
fion, His Grace then copandesi by Moving As
Achirefs, which was as ufual an cam .of the
Speech.
Earl . .
The of Lucaw, in s fhort .anit twat ad--
dreth feconded the motion, and faide.tbn the
very able manner in which the N.hle glnke labd ,
moved the Addrell, v.-oulci more powerfully im- '
, prefs on their minds the propriety of adopting it, 11
' than any thing be could urge. The Union was
lan event, in vlsich every pun who defired the
ltrength and happinefs of the Empire at large,
I. mull rejoice ; and it *Asa happy thing. that at a
moment when the cow& of events Winked all
' our exertion, we had thus fecured the co-operation
of the fitter kingdom.
Earl FITZWILLIAM lamented that the ;ogee of
events had made fo momentous a change in the
afpea of Europe, and in the affairs of this king-
dom. He lamented that he could not this day
rife to join in an unanimous Vote of Thanks to
'his Majelly for his molt gracious Speech front the
; 'throne on the occation of the Union with Ireladd,
an event upon which his ideas were fitfficicntly
known. As the event was now pail, he would
exert himfelf to fupprefs nll the emotions he felt ;
and would fincerely hope that the very fanguine
expectations of the noble Deice would be fulfilled.
Ile could not withhold his aftoniflinient that, on
a• crifis tb awful, when we were about to be
plunged into a new war, his Majelly's Minifters,
tnftead of giving information to the Houle, had
I called upon them for new confidence and new Pup-
port. He had not the kart hefitation in laying,
that he thought it the duty of that Houle to
panfe, and to inquire why we were to go to war
before they pledged themfelves to fupport his Ma-
jell) 's Minilters in it ? He thought that, from a
decent regard to the honour of his Majefty, as
well as from a fettle of duty to their country, they
ought to inftitute an inquiry into the caufes of this
calamitous as well as dangerous predicament. It
had been his lot, perhaps more than any other
individual, _to u e that Houk to the mainte-
nance of the principles upon which the war
againft the Revolution had been founded. He had
deeply Int the confequences of the fpirit that bad
broken out in France, and the deftruaion to which
it led. He cnnfeffed that his hopes had been dif-
appointed. The people of France had been called
upon to rally round the llandard of order, and to
reinflate the ancient family of their kings. The
nations of Europe had feltjt their juft and wife
policy to join this caufe ; and no man, he Paid
again, had gone further than himfelf in maintain:
ing the propriety and wifdom of this efforrt, to op-
posi: the anarchy and diforder of the new datrines.
No man would go further than hinifelf, even yet,
in combating for the caule ; but he mull own that
the thing was hopcicfs. The anarchy, however,
to a great degree was gone. France was flow, in
fact, eltablifhed into a monarchy. under republican
forms, and under a new ruler. It did not depend
on the opinion of an individual, and he feared it
no longer depended on the power and energies of
the nation, to withfiand the ellabliffiment and or-
ganization of the ncw order of things in France.
The die was all---He mutt fubmit. But he could
not think it pollible for that Houk, eonfiftent 1
with their duty to their King and Country, to
emit inquiring into the caufes of the failure of our
efforts, when. fuch large and almoft unlimited
powers had been entrusted to Minifters, and
when they had all Europe in friendthip with
them in the common cattle. It was furely incum- '
befit on them to inquire how, inftead of fuccecd-
ing in this great objetl, they had all at once
plunged us into a contefl with our own allies. 1
plunged us into a contefl with our own allies.
Ihe war into which we were now to be plunged.
was a war of our own feeking—fur, if he Gould
coiled the &rife of his Majefty's Minifters from the
words of the Noble Duke, the war was entirely of
our own feeking, as far as Sweden and Denmark
were concerned. We had it in our power to ful-
l' mil the difeutlion of the fubjea. of the neutral
code ; tor the Noble Duke owns it was furpeuthal
in the year 5780, when cutely this country was
not in the very difficult thuation in which the
stands at present. What evils relished from fuf-
pending the diteuffion of this quettion in the year
1780 ? It was acknowledged. none. The con-
federacy died away—lt did nut revive again on
the breaking oot of a new war—and this country
(uttered nothing from the circumitanee. Why,
then, with this experience of a wife and prudent
leourfe before our eyes, we did not. again avoid
the difeutfion of a fubjea leading t 6 litigation, he
could not comprehend ;—it was in his opinion the
height of impolicy.—We had by this tunnies's
icoofolidated the powers of Sweden and Denmark
Iwith that Of Ruftia. Nothing could be more dlr.
cilia than the aggreffion of Rasa, and the quef-
tion of the Northern Confederacy. The violence
' oldie Emperor Paul, the fel zure of our fhips and
I feamen,the difrefpea to his Matfty'sreprefentation,
a r
were all separate and diftinom the confederacy
1 fur the magi code; and, Purely policy denvad-

TVESD:jr,FEBRUARr Not.

ed that we Mould have ,kept them &hitt& But
we had thrown into the arms of Paul: the powers
of Sweden and Denmark. Surely, Wit was Las-
ki(' in- Italia to feize and detain our Ihips and
property, it was equally )tnjult in us to kin and
&lids the hips and property of Sweden and Den-
mark. It had not been thought.fiecen'ary to our
honour or dignity to go to rat aith them before
fur the neutral code; and we hall fuirered nothing
bjc„itar moderation.' It timely then was important
that- they should inquire into the cirountllanar of
this mail calamitous and `talk tirocarding on the
part of filinifters before they pledged themfelves
tofniter into. Olis wat. It was. incumbent on the
Ho 'alto to inquire into the life which they had•
mark of the powers entruited tothem before .tltcy
gave. them more. In the years ;sin and 180.,
the extrordinary powers which had been given to
them, and the encroachments made, on "the pro-
pertfand freedom of the fubjeft, in orderto arm
thept with poker, had been unexampled and yet,
what had they done with this power ? Every
°NIA of the war had been truftrated. Every
I expedition they had undertaken had been attended
with difearnature. The expedition to Holland
had been marked by imbecility in the contrivance
at well as crininal delay in the execution. It
it had been aftvd where fifty thoufand men en-
malted to Min (leis, ecnild b placed molt for
the advantage and „bearfir of the enemy, it
would have been aaihrefed.—lnßead of attacking
trance in her own territerj, which the 'dreads,
fend them to Holland, otfOrne otheedepentlancri
431c1 fritter them away, in an unhealthy climate, at
a fcafon unfavourable to !Military operations! Juft
fo had they acted, and yet die fame perfons called
again for confidence. Evert Stheref their expe-
ditions had keen of the fame ?did, and had ended
in difappointment and difmay. It was melancholy
to think that our brave troops were now fent, after
being eight months toad about in traufports,
on an expedition which might have been unneecf-
far'', if a treaty Moll wifely concluded had been
honourably fulfilled.-The Noble Earl, after de-
claring that he could not bring his mind to give
fupport to men who had proven thernfelves fo unfit'
for the lituations that they filled, concluded with
Moving an amer.dment, to come in after the sth pa.
ragraph, in the motion for an Addrefs to his Ma-
jelly. The Amendment was:-- .

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And that this Houle will proceed with all poffible &Oat&
to make Inch enquiriei into the general State of the Nation, but
more efpecially into the conduct of the War, and into our re-
!Wins with foreign Powers, as mall enable us to offer to his
Majefty lush advice as we may think mod conducive to the
honour of his Crown and the general int erects of his People.
And further, to affure his Majafty, That if, owing to any
indult and unrearematile pmtcrdions on the part of the enemy,
Peace cannot be obtained on fuch terms as are confident with
tenuity ; if the reprcfcntations which his Majelly has directed
to be maik to die Court of Petariburgh, In coniequence of .be 1
outrages colansideal againft the naps, property, and peons of
his fubjeeds, have not received that n paration which the na-
ture
of the tale requires; and if the differences which appear
unhappily to have Arden between his Majefty and the utber
Northern Powers are of a nature which prcffes fur immediate
tiocifiun, and the impoffiliility of any equitable adjultment I
renders new and more extended Wars inevitable, we will give 1
his hisjelly every rapport which the means of the Country
can afford, in the jolt hope and confidence that his Mairftra
paternal care for the welfare of his People will induce him to
take Inch madams as (hall prevent henceforward a calamitoUs
smite of their remaining itrength and refouttes either by im-
provident and ineireftual projects, or by general negligen,e
and profulion ; and than caftan a wife and vigorous adminittre.
ticut of their affair, under the unexampled difficulties in which
they are now involved.
The Earl of Sofro:A feeonded the motion of
Amendment. Hc delired to know of the Noble
Secretary of State, why the papers of the reruns
of killed and wounded in the Expedition to Hol-
land had not been laid on the table, agreeable to
the order of the Houle ?.
Lord Gar vv itst laid it was again(' order for
any No* Lord to addrefs a queition to an indivi-
dual Peer. It did not cell with him why the papers
bad not been laid upon die table. The hellion in
which they were ordered Was now chiles!, and a
new order mull be made for than.
The Earl of SUFFOLK aid, that a grofs itutten-
lion had been &two to an order of that Houle
made wo months ago and he thought himfelf
eridded to demand of his Majelly's Minitten why
it had been fo? The Noble Earl (hewed by the
London Gazette that infield of woo men (*aced
by Mr. Dundas to have been loft in Holland),
there had been aaually killed and wounded, be-
tween is anti 13,000 Britilh and Ruttians. Hc
went over all our late expeditions, toad arraigned
them as deficient in wifdom, vigour and prempti-
tude, by which the (kill and courage ofour troops
had been walled, and our arms diigraced. He
accufed Minitlers of having artfully determined not
to employ a Noble Earl in an expedition (though
they profefred an intention of doing lb), for the
fame reafon that Thugut had not employed the
1 Archduke Charles, becaufe they were afraid that
by his eminent talents be fhouli have given peace,
to the nation. The Noble Earl laid dm it was ;
onderflood that moll important topics of difcuf- 1
lion were coming on with refpeet to the eftablilli-
ments of thefe kingdoms ; and it was believed that
there were nub diteutlions in another place refpeet- ,
ing his Majeßy's foreign dominions, in all which '
the Heir Apparent was• molt deeply concerned.
Was his =fent obtained ? Was he called to the Ca-
binet on thefe fubjeets ? He fhould feel' h his dray
to impeach Minitters if they proceeded in there 1
things without the confent of his Royal Highnefs.
There were other moll important points on which,
in the event of failure, he fhould think it his duty
to impeach them—the fending 30,000 men to ,
Egypt, and elfewhere, and leaving this emmn-y
without a proper and adequate deft nee. The rc-
fufal
of Winners to negoeiate, and the unfortn- {
nate letter of a Noble Secretary, which would'
have difgraced a fchool-boy, way another ftrong