Star.
London, England, 1823-04-29 00:00:00

that the French Arai)! of Obseevatlisis should be
drawn
off a single league from the frontiers.—
Such had been our good offices to France, but where
our good offices to Spain ? Was it in promising
France that we would observe a strict neutrality ?
He had now done with these Papers, and he would
to Goo they were not to remain in our archives, the
perpetual disgrace of our foreign diplomacy. He
would pot tine question. Supposing an Administra-
tion hostile tb liberty, and secretly and in their hearts
friendly to the cause of Spain, he wished to ask how
the ingenuity of man could have devised better means
of aiding France in her nefarious-projects, than those
wh;ch the B itish Gave, nment had adopted ? (Hear,
'
kao— Whatever the French Ministry had in con-
templation, he could not accuse them of duplicity to
can Government. As regarded Portugal, unques-
*maid), they had manifested the greatest duplicity.
k was impossible not to see the spirit of quizzing, of
enibge, which pervaded all the " assurances" of
frAnce on that subject. The French Government,
too, " disavowed," it seemed, " all views of ambi-
tion and aggtandisement." They declared that, if
they succeeded in their purpose, the Government of i
Spain should be administered in the name of Ferdi-
nand the Seventh. Everybody recollected, however,
that not long ago, Joseph Bonaparte not Napoleon I
Bolaparte--was King of Spain; nevertheless, Napo.
lion, in virtue of his consanguinity, took upon himself
the ,eoeral superintendance of the affairs of that coon-
try, whose fleets and armies were placed at his disposal.
Who did net foresee that if France were successful
in her present attempt, a similar result must ensue?
And wnat, he begged to ask, might not be the con-
sequence, were the French possessed of the whole line
of coast from Holland to Gibraltar, and thence up
the Straights to Genoa? It was but a few night :‘,go
that the Hon. Member for Fermanagh made the bor.
ribie declaration, that there were in-Ireland five mil-
lions of people ready to exterminate the small &no-
sily, and to unite themselves to a foreign l'o4er if an
opportunity were affore :d them. What an opportu-
sity would such an event as that to which he had al-
le-ded present! And what, did any Hon. Gentleman
think, %%child prevent these political crusaders from
setting us right also—but the impracticability of the
task? Be our coquetry with those foreign despots what
it may, the:r hatred of this Monarchy full anti im-
placable. The law, of the moriarchieal principle were
dear and intellrgi'Jle. Might they not then say to
ut—., Wait until we can close in germany the doors
of these Lf:,;;islative Assemblies which the people in
some of the German States have had the impudence
to denrand—wait till Austria shall have finally united
Italy to her dominions.:—wait till the Russian flag
shall wave over the whole of the Noma- -and then,
proud Flanders, your turn comes neat"--(Cheer.s).
He begged par don of the House for having occupied
it at such length. Whatever might be the issue of
the question that night, and that question was, whe-
ther all Europe should become the prey.of one vast
wilier y despotism ? the result will have been pro-
duced by our conduct. It might be, that that which
Bona;:aite in the plenitude of his power was unable
to effect, a Bourbon, supported by bigotry, shall be
able to achieve. If so, on our heath fall the con-
sequences—.

Mod
Ormmittunt eadem diverse crimint fate
Illy etucem veil= ►eeleris tulit eie-diadenta I"
(Ckeers).—Whatever be the issue, he celled upon the
House t, do its duty, by stating to the King that his
hhje,ty's Ministers had not dune their duty to him
(Hear, hear).—lle should conclude by moving,

"That an humbl: iddress be presented to his Majesty, to in•
fins his Majesty that the llousehas taken into i;s most serious
consideration the lispers relating to the late negoclatinn, which
ias been laid h.lore inein by his' Alajesty's gracious command.
• To represent to his '-lajesty, that the disappointment of
Is Majesty's benevolent solicitude to preserve general peace;
appears to this !louse to have in a great measure arisen from the
Ltrc of hie Ministers to make most earnest, rigorous, and
solemn protest against the pretended right of the Sovereigns,
tumbled at Verona, to make war on Spain on account of her
politicll institutions; as well as against the subsequent firetea,
ion of the krrnch Government to deny that nations can
lar►-
fully enjoy any civil privileges but from the spontaneous grant
if their Kini,s; principle' destructive of the tighti of all inde-
pendent States, which strike at the root of the British Con.
aitUtioll, and are subversive of his Majesty's legitimate title to
*Throne.

" Farther, to dec:are to his Majesty, the surprise and sorrow
•ithwhich this House has observed that his Majesty's Ministers
geoid have advised the Spanish Government, while so unwar-
Finibly menaced, to alter their Constitution, in the hope of
awning invasion ; a concession which alone would have involved
lie total sacrifice of rational independence; and which was not
even palliated by an assurance, from France, that, on receiving
so dishonourable a submission, she would desist from her un-
torovelted aggression.
"-Finally, to represent to his• Majesty, that, in the judgment
If this House, stone of more dignified remonstrance would hare
been better calculated to preserve the peace of the Continent,
.21,1 thereby to secure the nation more effectually from the ha-
said of being invnlved by the calamities of war."

Mr. S. WORTLEY was so cenfident that the gene-
ral feeling of the country Was in unison with his own
upon the late negociations,litat he should be ashamed
of himselt if he were not ready to take the first op-
portunity of bi inging the question to a simple and
plain issue. With respect to all which the Hon.
Gentleman had said of the conduct of the Foreign
Powers towards Spain, he (Mr. S. Wortley) suspected
there was a perfect agreement throughout this coun-
ts. For himself, he telt as strongly and warmly as
the Hon. Gentleman could, do, that the conduct of
the Allied Soverei4ns struck at all the principles on ,
which our Constitution was founded, and attempted
16 shut the door to the admission into any State of any
thing like rational liberty—(hear, hear). Ifurther,'
he would say, that as to the conduct cf Viance, it
seemed to hint to he perfectly incomprehensible. In
his opinion, the French Government' had nianikted(
'degree ot folly, greater than had ever' been ee-
hibited by any other Government on the face of the
earth. He had himself very little doubt that that,
folly would meet with its reward ; and that the prc-
ireis of France would ultimately fail. Pelievingthat,
tie was satisfied that all the Uonourable Movers
Ptehelhions of danger to this country from the poo-H
session ot Spain by France were visionary. With
respect to the conduct of his Majesty's Government
Verona, he co..teuded, that unless we had de-
_L_lerrnined to back our remonarances by force, we
m°ol4, had we used stronger langua:;e, haver-placed
lllPtiva* u,e Use esisressioss of the Duke of,
welan,4,on, the H 4 ;rahle gave( had at-
itrieP:ci In ridicule) 4. in ad entirely false
ti""-iOl4 for his Ma,e.ty's Government to decide
wLetLer to preserve i.euti Any, or, in the
(+resit tit weir seinuastrances being una.tended toutg
iiirport them by a swoons to wan? That being