Star.
London, England, 1801-03-27 00:00:00

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i!ioairy. 'l-natrahle It.t.!
twa 01,,.!tr01a Roy .1 tile
of Vol:, an I one florn Sir ,
juilify the In ire of our expedi ions. H: wis callyd
a new l•Lmb.r, and Ile mutt indeed he new to the
preEnt firms of Or! Honk, for as an old Member
Ire knew that 'lac% Lat:rs would not Imo been
ruf-
i•_rc.l to b.: read. An inquiry was Moved for, and
inacad of agreeing to one the War Secretary was
permitted to fcica, and read partial and garbled
evidence. Even there letters, however, were con-
vincing proofs of the neceffity of inaiiiry, and Irons
efped to the chara•fkr of his Royal Highnefs, he
thought it was incumbent cn the Hook to gointo
,ne. By this letter, it appeared that though in the
faring of 1799, the arms, of fupplementary militia
was broken op to make his army for the location
Holland, it was wa till A tigull that they had
proceeded ; and they had failed, he would not fay
ia a difgraceful, hut at lean in a difcreditable way,
as they had yielded to an infsior force. The War
Secretary had talked much aboet the diverlion of
war, and he bad in this innance (hewn us the na-
ture of a divertion upon his principles. He had
fent his Royal Highnefs, and an army of 30,000
men, to the only neck of land'in the world, per-
haps, where a fifth part of their own number was
t.:111J1 to cope with them. A diverfinn then, az-
! cor,';ilg t t t:i7s War eceretary, was when a great
'tundra- of was made to yield to a very few.
To lit.. e .511 cue `t, VC lot Ce too—the filpplementary
ni:lnia were brol:er :gip, and fcvcn months alter-
! wards they were foolid to be unfit for aktual fervice.
G:aeloar, Goa, w:lat an life of the ben blood of
the eattary t 1-I'y Mak:4's fon, to nearly impli-
cared in the honour, and lb dear to the feelings of
• the country, is then to be extioted and devoted.
After 5..t,.n it teems, 'they not only could
hat be drilled and difciplined on account of the
iron, but thay could not be made acquainted
with their own offii ors !—They could do nothing
till the thaw. France, indeed, may be Paid to be
a little milder climate than England; bat the dif-
tisence of cliMate alone could not account for all
the diffence of exertion : that front which lobed
up our men warmed Bonaparte and his troops ; he
dit,egarded the frrills and fnows of the Alps, and
(hewed that no obiltacle was fuperior to the energy
of his example. And why not Ain Aultria after
all this delay ? Why ? be, aufe Auilria would have
nothing to do with our troops. They thought
ro,o,:an Britifh troops would do them no fervice.
They wilhed every thing belonging to us to keep
away, but our guineas.—And fo our Minifters con-
federated with and sinstidized a Pri•.:e that tt tated
with this contempt It 11 :tins army. Prince Eugene
did not view the Englillt underthe Duke ‘f Marlbo-
rough in this light—And yet, notwithaanding this
degrading treatment, we are to have no inquiry
Mr. Fox then came to fpcak of the memorable ar-
:- irlice of Hoheulinden, and the negociation which
f Cooke of the condula of Miniffers,cu
this cc...' ..us of indignation, and raid that
tibia was an ilia:ace to prove the old remark, that
eloquence was very diftinEt from wifilom. The
Honourable Gentleman gave his advice as a tpee-
tator to the Emperor, and refuted to negotiate
both conjointly and leparately. This country,
with a fottith Itupidity almolt unparalleled, ruder-
ed the favourable occafion to pals over.
Aftcr the difgrace and ditafter which has at-
tended this contea, we are told, forfooth, that the
war is drawing to a dole—but how ? Is it by nic-
e& ? "%That is our lituation ? Arc not all the great
obit:els of the war defeated ? Arc we not de-
ferred by our allies? And when it is found that
there is no profpea of fuccefs remains, negotiation
may beseforted to, and perhaps, as betbre, a ne-
gociation on the failure of which thole that condutSt
it. may rejoice, and which may lead to the &ob.
lithrnent of another folid fyltem of finance. What
mutt be the ignominy, however, of thole who par.
ticipated in the infolent anfwer given to the pro.
petals of Bonaparte, when they approach with
their tblicitations for that negociation whirl) they
have lo often refuted? How can they expel to
be r eccived ? He entertained the highdt opinion
of the magnanimity of that great man—bethought
that a mind like his would not be infenfible to the
glory of making a durable peace: but in order to
teparate from the difgrace which their rulers mutt
incur in making efforts of peace, the people of this
country ought to feparate themfelves from the Ad-
miniaration. They ought, through their Repre-
sentatives in Parliament, to difavow the principles
on which Milliners had acted, and flew that they'
were Sincerely defimus of peace. Minifters might
negotiate; but was it for the credit of the coun-
try that Parliament fhould be held forth to the
world as ready to littglion an infolent rejcaion of
an overture, or the humble application for peace ?
That the hlinificr who had carried with him the
votes oldie Houfc in favour of war, could, when
he pleated, whittle them back topeace ?—lt was by
Separating from Milliners, and exprang an in-
dependent fentiment that this ignominy could lie
avoided.. With refpecl to the confidence of the
country, the Right }lenourable Gentleman (Mr.
Pitt) had boafted that the confidence of the Houle •
of Commons was not even in proportion to that of
the country. It was rather angular indeed, if
with all the rapport of the country, the Miniller
after three fucceftive Parliaments thould not have
been able to obtain a Houfe of Commons to per-
Feely the Reprefentatives ref the Nat:on, as to be-
flow upon him a tioleicia (hare ofcontiilence I He
fay that no prayers were offered up di it the mem-
bers of Oppolition might be called on to fave the
country. But where arc tile fymptoms of national
regret or dtfpondency when he quits the helm?
—We were called upon to grant to the new M-
oine:6 that coidith.nce which the Constitution au-
thorizes. 1711(107:V:di), that confidence might be
due, but in a found interpretation he was nut die.
poled to think that filch a confidence was very ex-
tentive in its. nature. As to the new Minitters,
the pariegyricalpon the Fill Lord of the Treafury
had his full c.sucurrence ; but among the new Mi-
nift era he perceived many who were not unknown
in the old, and they had been the militant (up-
porters and advocates of that fyftcm which had
redtmed the country to i;s preen dithers. He ad-
mitted that the Gulf of the Hoofs 44 Commons