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ground of impeachment. The violation of the
treaty for the evacuation of Egypt, fo wifely
made, was another ground. And all our feries
of military expeditious was another. Upon all
thtle he iliould certainly think it his duty to call
Knitters to account.

The Duke of A rnor. fepported the original mo-
tion: Hy rejoiced in the Union, which he doubted
not would produce all the benefits which a Noble
Duke had foretold. He could not fay that his
.ancellors hid fupported the Union- with Scotland
and England r but he wits fure, if they were alive
now, they would coda's that they had been mif-
talccn as to its operation.• He objeaed to the
Amendment, becanfe it tended to reprefs the
energies and enervate the firength of the nation,
at a moment when we ought to be unanimous in
our exertion.

Lord Ros•nav was alto of opinion that Mini.
Ras ought to be fupported. It was his opinion
that Bonaparte was not &were in his offer to treat
for peace ; and that our Minitlers had efted wifely
and vigorotdly in the courfe they bad taken. The
prefent profpeet, he owned, was gloomy; but he
would not encourage a defponding idea. We
mull maintain an indcpendance, and our maritime
power depended on the principle which the Nor-
thern Cpnfederacy threatened to overturn.

The -Earl of asaritty faid that he could no
longer give his fupport to Knitters. They had
(hewn themfelves utterly unworthy of the confi-
dence which they had received. It was the duty
Of that Houfe, as the hereditary Counfellors of the
Icin to enquire into the ufc of the powers that
had%een given to Mini fters. In his mind the pre-
fent difpute might have been avoided. They had
brought it on by their mircondud. They had
reverted the principle of par ere fu,srltis, &barn.
fuperbor. Their tondo & was percere fujserbir, Jebel.
lcre !dialer.
Lord ROMNEY, in explanation, laid, that he
certainly, at a proper time, fhould be for enquiry
into ti:veral trantiraions that were pall, but he Was
not for withholding fupport.
EarPtirsecte contended flrennoufly, that en-
quiry would during the continuance of the war
feriontly cripple our exertions and impede the fer-
vice. He had confidence that whenever the ex-
peditions to Holland, to Ferrol, and Cadiz, lhould
be inquired Into,they would redound to the honour
of the King's Minilkers, as well as of the officers
and troops employed ; but this was not the time
for fuch enquiry. He was flattered by the praifes
given to the naval fervice. They were all due to ,
the merits of the Admirals, Officers, and Seamen
employed. For himfelf, he could not be toothed
by any compliment paid to himfelf feyrarately from
the Tell of his Majetty's Minifters. As to the new
confli& it was nut poffible to avoid it. Our ma-
ritime power to effeutially dermded oo the right
wt had always maintained, that be confidered it
as a combat for our national existence. We could
not temporife on the queftion. We had perhaps
temporifed too much ; and he was bold to fay
that arduous as the conteft was, we had ilrength
and ability to coadal it to a happy aim
The Earl of CAERNARVON faid, he could not ac-
quiefee in the doEtrine of the noble Earl, that we
could not enquire into failure during the continu-
ance of the war. His mind revolted from that
idea. It was our duty and our policy to enquire
and to call Minitters to a rigorous account for the
exercile of the powers with which they were liber-
ally entrufted. It was a fingular thing that no
account Was; given to Parliament of the caufe of
this new war into which we were-to be plunged—
not a paper was laid on the tabk. It ww, not even
laid what were the terms of this new confederacy.
In this profound ignorance of the caufe of war,
he could not pledge himfelf to fupport it ; neither
could he for the tame reafon adopt the Amend-
ment, much as he loved and confided in the noble
Earl who moved it. He thought that the Ad-
drefs ought to be confined to a pure and Pimple
upreffiou of loyalty to his Majelly. He begged
to know if we had not conceded the point to one
power with whom a convention had been entered
into. It was a point, which if granted to one, was
,in fae granted to all.
Lord Gass mos entered into a reply to all the
arguments which had been rated in favour of the
addre,fs ; the ground taken for the confederacy, he
in part admitted, arote from fearching their ref-
fels, which he intifted was a right arihng out of
the law of nations, and fo effential to the pre-
fervation of the toperiority, if not the e'tiftence of
the Britith navy, that if that right was once given
up, he Ihould be alkarned to fupport a motion for
any fupplies for that navy,. convinced any hip-
plies muff neceffarily become nugatory. This
confederacy, he laid, was doubly reprehcnfible.
as not only having been entered into againit
crafting treaties, but even agaitill treaties that
had been entered into during the pr'efelit conteft,
and which in fact was a revival of the armed neu-
trality entered into in the year n 7So the cit.
cumftance of its being the fecond time of having
this right difputed, was an additional real.=
why we (hoofd have it decided, and the more
efpecially, as its his opinion, we fhould never be
better enabled to enter into the cornett than we
were at the prefent moment. A noble Lord
had Enid he was quite igoorant of the caufe of
our difpute with RulEa ; hut if that Noble Lord
would refle.l a moment, that not long finer, his
Majefiy, in a Speech from the Throne-, had Rated,
that the Emperor had feized fomc of our fellow-
tubjeds and their property, and tllat he had ap-
plied to the Emperor for reparation; and in the
Speech of this day. ha informs the Houfe, that
his applications had been treated with si frefpee ;
this furely was a futhoient ground to call upon
them for their fupport, mad tkey acre called upo7