Star.
London, England, 1802-04-13 00:00:00

onboard tenders--EnglifhPenciblesAntient Ili i-
tall Fencibles, and Hanoverian Fancibles, were
1 tent over, and fuch a fcenc of anion and malfacre
er.filec!, that the whale na Tort groaned.—What lit-
tle law remained it was ii.und necell'ary to take
away, and Ads were palled empowering Miniflers
to commit by law what they had cotio,litted con-
trary to law. Upon the mifroprefentation of
Martial Magiarates that ditirias were in a Hate of
diaurbance, the law was pulled down ; every abo-
mination was ailed ; all Ireland was proferibed.—
General Abercromby was a foldier of honour, and
'thinking it a [lain to the country toftiffer its laws
to be violated, and difdaining to he the tool of Mi-
nillers, he inftruEled the army under him to avoid
committing any cruelties; but the troops flulhcd
with blood, found free quarters allover the land ;
torture was introdn:ed, and the Court-yard of
the Viceroy's palace was a 1: riled by the groans and
cries of the vietims. At length the people role ;
thouftnds 101 l their lives in battle, and thoufands
were afterwards dcaroyed—for it was after the
battles the horrors of war began. Thus was engen•
dered a cordial hatred between the Parliament and
the People ; and now was the time for the Englilli
Miniaer to put the finifhing firoke to the dcfign he
had been fo long fecretly carrying on. Having
confpired with the Parliament againft the People,
he now confpircd with the Army againft the Par-
' liament ; and to effea his ()Ned, the Parliament
was to be fligmatired as fo full of low ignorance
that it was incapable and unfit to govern a nation,
and Ireland, as the only means of Terming her
from the danger with which the was threatened,
was called into Union with this country. The
Hon. Baronet haying dwelt further upon the fob.
jeCt of the affairs of Ireland, laid, that the Mini-
(ler who had vindicated the ptaCtice of torture
was worfe than Robefpierre, who iiglided death
on his viCtims. In his opinion, that ferocious mon-
tier was an engine of mercy compared to fuch a
„,man. He mulled that the cruelties committed in
Ireland, and fan&ioned by the Britith Govern-
' ment, had never been equalled in the reigns of any
of the twelve Crfars ; they were cruelties which
had covered that country with blood, and this with
infamy. The Hon. Baronet then proceeded to in-
fer the neeeflity of inquiring into the relative fitu-
ation in which this country flood with regard to
' France by the Peace ; and in conclufion, obferved
that our next war with France might be in Great
Btitain, and we mill excite a Aunt of patriotifm
by giving the People feettrity cor their rights and
liberties in future, by a fair reprefentation in this
Houfe ; then we may bid defiance to the ?ower
of France and to the whole world, if united in one
giant arm againft us. What the advice of the
Right Hon. Gentleman was at the end of the
American War is now my advice to the Houle—
' I demand, in the name of the People, againft him,
that.julliee which he called for againli the Mini.
tiers of that day. If, however, after all this, the
i People are not entitled to an Enquiry, I !hall be-
: lieve that the deflinies of France do lead to univer-
• fal empire, and that it is the fate of this country
: to be detlroyed by a let of as rah and wicked men
as ever difgraced it." Sir Francis concluded with
I moving, " That the Houfe thould refolve itfelt
into a Committee to enquire into the conduct of
the late Adminiaration at home and abroad during
• the war."

Mr. &roar feconded the motion,
Lord Tian., faid, he felt the neceffity of apo.
logizing to the Houfe for occupying its time in
anfwering a fpeech, perhaps the moff extraordi-
nary one ever delivered within the walls of the
Houfe ; a fpeech with more affertion and lefs ar-
gument never was brought forward by any Mem
ber. Repeatedly as the Hon. Baronet and his
friends had introduced the fubjed, there were
fume arguments and topics, which, however
hacknied, muff be anfwered ; and firft, the Hon.
Baronet had endeavoured to involve the conduit
of the late and prefent Minifters. He conceived
that all the Houfe had to do with the fubjea was,
whether the Minifters, who went out in i 8o t, were
culpable or not? The Hon. Baronet had not men-
tioned a tingle new ground to induce the Houfe
Ito adopt the enquiry he recommended, and to
recall every vote it had come to in the courfe of
the laft five years. It was too much to exped the
1 Haute to come to an opinion diredly contrary to
i the one it had fo often given, without force addi-
tional reafotis being (fated. If he underftood the
I
, Hon. Baronet, he meant that the late Miniflers
had forced the country into the war, in order to
reftore the Monarchy of France. He had fallen
, into the fame miflake that had been fo often made:
I we did not begin the war, but were forced into it;
.
, and if France had not declared war, her ads of
I aggreffion would have obliged us to have done
i fa. The other queftion was, whether the object
of the war had been obtained ? Its real objcet was
to repel the fyftem of Jacobin philoibphy which
threatened to overturn every Government in En-
rope, as well as our own ; and to prcfcrve our
1 Conaitution from deftniaion. Thefe objeas, he
maintained, fiacl been aGhieved ; and, however in
, the courfe of the conteft a part of the Constitution
. , might appear to have been infringed by the fufpen-
fion of the Habeas Corpus Ad, its principles were
unimpaired. He referred to the rebellion in Ire-
land, and juftified the condua of Government.
He then maintained that the late Minifters had
.._r ufed every exertion in their power to obtain peace
7tvith France: and in order to prove it, lie reviewed
i the circumftances of the negociations at Paris and
. Lille, and the nature of the overture made by Bo-
naparte upon his being inverted with the office of
Firft Conful after his return from Egypt. He ar-
gued
that Minifters were perfealy juftified in
I waiting till they were enabled to afcertain by the
!experience of faits, whether the Government of
I Bonaparte was likely to be permanent. With re-
fired to the fobjed of the Income Tar, he con-
tended it had been the falvation of the country, by
calling forth its energy. He, was happy it was
repealed, but he looked forward to it as one of
1 the refources of the country upon any future ex-
traordinary occafion. He hoped it would always
Ibe confidered as a War Tax. It had been given
up at a period when thofe in lien of it would fall
' rth the leak prefrure. •He recolleeted jt was a
' 'Tat which had ban called far by the City of Lon.