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London, England, 1814-11-09 00:00:00

ide last year was certainly made in contemplation
u! meats which must .happen, and which any child
niit;ht Service s bat nothing of the kind was noticed.
He had heard that there had been blunders in &Ilan-

vat c.JcuL►tions; and there had been great depres.
siuns or the funds, from expectations, as he was told,
of a loin to be made this Session ; but up to this mo-
rn ,at no kind of explanation had been given, nor
could he suppose that he shoald be able to wring any
from Ministers. The calling of Parliament had
made the anticipations of the public foreboding and
gloomy. Hellelseved it would appear, after all, that
they were only called together for more money. He
hoped before they parted, that a just sense of public
decorous would prevail, and that they would be told
whether that was thecase; and, if it were not so, for

'what other particular reasons they were assembled.
Let the Chancellor of the Exchequer say manfully that
he had been mistaken, or else say why, to the dismay
'of their constituents, they were all brought together.
One topic of the speech, notwithstanding the mode-
ration of the Noble Mover, was touched upon so as
to make it impossible for him to agree to it. They
were called back tv ancient questions respecting the
provocations our war with America, and were
again called do to vote, that the whole blame ldy
upon America, and that we were perfectly free from
all that pressed upon our interests, upon the rights
of humanity, on the hearts of those who loved free-
dom, and who hated the sight of two free natioits
committed together in war. He would not weary
the House by restating his former arguments • but his
opinion on the subject was quite unchanged. He
wished to reassert his original opinions, that be might
be excluded from the number of those who threw the
whsle blame of hostilities uptat America. He be.
Leved the war mainly to arise from our own weak
councils; but the great point was, what was our pre-
sera situation ? The Noble Lord, in his opening speech,
said, that he knew that nothing had been omitted by
u, to preserve peace. How did he know that? Would
hetell what the rase was now—what we were fight-
ing for now ? Before we paid the price of the pre-'
sent contest, let us know for what it is continued.—
Were we now at war on a question of a boundary, or
of impressment, or -of our maritime rights ? .11 for
the lass,,let us knowinhethei it is a matter to be con-
sidered in Congress, and whether we require of Ame-
rica no more than we require of any other nation ?
The Noble Lord referred to the whsle correspondence
between Great Britain and America for evidence of

nor pacific disposition. If so, he supposed he must
refer,- of course, to that part of it carried, oa on our
side by a Right Honourable Gentleman (Mrs Can-
ning)-whom he was really astonished not to see there
AU night. He (Mr. Whitbread) had often told that
Right Hon. Gentleman to his fact in that House, that
his part•of thetorrapondence bore any other appear.
ante than that of pacific sad conciliatory. He re-
peated, he was real!) astonished at that Gentleman's
absence on such a discustion. • There was certainly
nothing incredible in hothan We ; and it might be
still more positively asserted that there was nothing
so in political life ; yet he mutt confess, after all he
had heard, that to him it req aire,f tie positive evi-
dence of the London Gazette befrre he. could believe
what he had been toid. Nay, even that was sce..-.c,ly
enough. Had he not seen his Majesty's ship thz .Le-
viathan, with the blue-peter ffyiag on Friday, to take
oust the Ambassador to Lisbon, tit mold w't +eve
-believed it possible that the Riot Honourable
Gentleman would have been away that day on a
discussion so very interesting. He. must say, bow.
ever, that the Right Honourable Gentleman had
made the Most ample and honcurable amen& to
bir Rimier colleagues in Office. (Hear.) He had
accepted a situation under those, who, on a former
occasion, he had not deemed fit persons for him to
advise with...(Hear ) •If he admired the amends,
which his Excellency the Ambassador to Portugal
had now made, he could not the less admire the se-
lection of the situation which ,e had chosen, or to
which he had been appoitted. When he first heard
of what was going fi rward, he thought it was possi-
ble that he (Mr. Canning) might be going to take the
place of my Lord Castlereagh at the Congress at
Vienna, who, it was rumoured in some quarters, was
td return, to attend business in Parliament. He (Mr.
W.) should have deprecated such an appointment,
thinking, as he did, that the-Right Hon. Gentleman
vas disqualified for concerns of difficult diplomacy.
HE might have been deputed to Ghent to arrange
matters with the Commissioners from America ; but
to that appointment he. should also have felt serious
objections. But to send the Right Hon. Gentleman
where he was now sent, he could not see what impot-
tut services he could render. It might, however; be
said, that where he was going he could do no harm.
Certainly, in this view of it, the appointment was one
of the happiest ever made. He could not have gone
out to receive the Prince Regent of Portugal, if it
were true that his Royal Highness did not intend to
return to Lisbon for some months hence. Yet the
Right Honourable Gentleman, now Ambassador at
Lisbon, might find out the means of amusing him-
self there. He mitt employ his leisure hours in re-
vising the pages of the Anti-jacobin, or in writing a
poem to emulate Camoens, or as it was said of Bona,
parte , and like Mr. Bubb Doddington, in writing
imarnoirs of the great things of his own times—(las/h.)
But-after all, why send an ambassador to Portugal,
where no such a personage had been sent for more than
a century past He (Mr. W.) had been told, that
- once, when such an appointment was proposed to the
Right Hon. Gentleman, then Minister for Foreign
Affairs. he said, in his official character, that such an
appointment would be improper. On another occa-
sion, too, he had heard that a similar proposition was
made to him; and in a similar way refused—(Hear.)
That the Right Hoe. Gentleman went there was not
liana! ter at which he was displeased, -were it not at
the public expense. Let him have all the powers
:mil honours, and stikiend, attached to it from his for-
mer colleagues; and let him, as it was rumoured, on
t.ed Prince Regent's arrival from the Brazils, be de-
corated with the red ribband, to receive his Royal
Highness with grace ; but not so much at the public
4.:spotice—(Jaugh.) Government would have the full
benefit of his correspondence; but then he went out,
leaving all the great questions he had borne a part in,
en the hands of others. The bullion question, for
stance, he now left, not, it must be supposed with
Jim Right Hon. Friend opposite (Mr. Huskisson),
444 naturally with the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
rho question of the Catholics of Ireland he must be
41figed to have in the hands of the Earl of Liver.