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ation to-night is certainly very different from that
advanced in the courfe of the debate. !diced of
entering into particular points, in order to warrant
us in giving thanks, as the Nubia Lord wifhes„ to
the Righalon. Gentleman, we are called upon to
take into our view the Hate of the Country as it
was in r 79a, at the beginning of the war, and as
it was left at the moment when Mr. Pitt and his
colleagues were &miffed from their offices. In
reviewing this condua we find inconfiSencies and
ahfurdities which cannot be palliated. Valenci-
ennes was taken for the Emperor, and Dunkirk
was to be taken for Great Britain. Was it the
Englifh arms that deftroyed Rebdie ? Was
it the Engliffi arms that deßrdyed the fucceeding
Governments ? Was it the Englifli arms that ef-
fefted thofe changes which have led to the prefent
order of things in France ? Certaialy not. All
thefe things lave been produced by to fpirit
of the French themfelves, and every interfer-
ence of ours has only evinced the impotence of
our condu&. With ref'peft to Bonaparte, what
will his language be ? He is certainly a very ex-
traordinary man, and above all a moft fortunate
',an. He may indeed highly rank, according to'
the language of the ancients, among the favourites
of the Gods. He will be juffified in laying to the
Britilh nation, “ You have had a feven years' war;
you have incurred a ',aft mafs of debt; you have
esprofed yourfelves to the greateft dangers; and all
for the end of raifing me to Ay prefent fituation."
Such language he is authorifed to ufe in confi-
quence of the rafh meafures of the late Minifters,
and upon that refts the whole force of the Noble
Lord's argument in fupport of his amendment. It
is in faa under every point of view to the ill-timed
and unwarrantable interference of his Majefty's late
Miniften in the affairs of France, that (he is at this
moment indebted for that monfirous aggrandize-
ment which threatens the exiftence of the great
Powers of Europe. An Hon. Gentleman under the
gallery (Mr. Pole) Paid that Peace has extinguifind
the Jacobin principles which prevailed in Ireland.
Here, Sir, is a confeffion, the truth and force of
which cannot be too powerfully impreffed. In that
country Peace is the core for Jacobin principles,
the remedy,, the fpecific, for the vidonary fames
—the wild doarines of anarchy and confufion ;
but in this country it is war alone which can core
this worn of all difeafis. Why this moll ma-
terial difference in the nature and application of a
remedy for the fame malady fhould take place, it
would be extremely difficult to account. But there
is at lull an appearance of explanation, which
may fatisfy Tome minds not altogether fo nice and
fcrupulons as that of the Noble Lord. The decla-
mations fo often ufed in this Houle and elfewhere,

aguinD Jacobinifm, it was neeeffary to fet a high
value on; they were not to be turned to no ac-
• count, though, to fay the bell of them, they were
worth very little, and the Gentlemen who ufed
them, among whom /eras the late Mr. Burke, de-
termined to declaim again(! Jacobinifm at all
events. Whether their declamations coil the coon-'
try fume hundred milliOns, and kept it in a Date
of•warfare, was to them a matter of perfea indif-
fes once, provided they gratified their favourite pro-
pentity and paffion. It was indeed a happy oppor-
tunity. and they refolved to snake the moD of it.
The Noble Lord oppofite has dwelt with peculiar
fatisfaaion on the refignatlon of the people during
the late contell, and I mull fay, that their refigna-
tion cannot be too highly or too warmly praded,
for they refigned thernfelves with complete indif-
ference to the calamities and (offerings caufed by
the profecution of hoftilities, as they did to the im-
menfe load of tales with which they were burthen-
ed. Their efifintereftednefs has alto been the ftt,b-

;eat of the Noble Lord's panegyric, but the only
fenfe I can affix to the wore is, their abfolute want
of all intereft in the war, for which, without the
Ina eatifc, they gave up every thing and reduced
themfelves to difirels and penury. And all this, Sir,
has been done to prevent them from being infected
by the contagion of Jacobinical Doctrines! The
ambition of Lewis the XIV. has been i eprefent-
ettas a mere phantom, when confidered with the
horrid and dreadful evils of Jacobinifm, which
exceeds, in tht imagination of tome perfons,
every fpecies of evil, and is even more to be dread-
ed than death itfelf. With refpea to chore who
have acted upon French principles, I think, for
any own part, that there have been none ; [Here
Come cap, effions of diffent were heard from the
Treafttry Bench] none certainly that were to be
fecionfl7 feared : yet I will, for the fake of
argument, fay, that there have been ten thou-
fond. But then we have been repeatedly told
by Minifters of the zeal, the loyalty, the patrio-
Win, the unanimity of the great mars of the people,
and if we are to give credit to there declar
ations, what danger, I may Eddy alit, had we
to apprehend from the friends and fupporters
of Jacobinifm ? In former infurreaioas, we have
feen men of character and property take an aaive
part ; but among the Jacobins we can difcover
none of this Jefcription, which is of all others the
mon formidable to every Government. We find
indeed a Mr. Jones, a Mr. P.onney, and tome others,
with whole names I am not well acquainted, but
who were 311 taken up, :and now we are called
upon to vote a civic crown to Mr. Pitt, for having
defended the State againfi thefe Catahnes. A fcore
or two of there horrible confpirators are appre-
hended oy the extraordinary wifdom and vigilance
of the I.tte Minifter ; and we are told, in a firain
of triumph and exultation, that we may fleep fe-
c teely, for the country is fared! Of the mires
of change and innovation in a State, the power
and influence attendant upon property are fume
of the greatest. Look to the Revolutions of al-
molt every euthaty, and you wilt find this after-
tion ;unified by experience; even in France the
Revolution was accelerated by the influence and
impulfe which the Duke of Orleans derived from
• his property. Bot here bli:Aters fay, the cham-
pions of Jacobinifm have no property, and taking
their affurancts for ttuths, I fay.that they are there-
fore the lefs dangerous. They confidently tell us
that we have refilled with fuccefs that torrent of ja-
.cobinifus that has borne down all before it in ano-
ther country. I ftrongly forma they will find the;
It was 1144 Jacobinifm, but the French arms which