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meets &setae. I do net think it weary to fay
much tut the fubjea. There is fartbetinfortnation from
Cadiz, and though Capt. White rays •nothing of the
preparations there, becaufe his communicatians were
prier to the armament at Ferrol, yet Capt- Gore of the
Meath notices preparations at Cadiz in Sept. which
correfpond to thofe commenced at Ferrol, and liens to
have been defined (or the fame objett ; and the ar-
mament of the packets. as in time of war, though a
minute tircusaltence, &only tends to thew that ba-
ttle defies were at that time entertained. That ar-
maments emitted at Ferrol is proved, not only by Ad-
miral Cochran'; difpatches but alto by the Spaniards
thanfelves. The Governor of Gallicia fays that he
had received orders for difarming the valets in the
which sews that an arming had taken place.
Bat the difarmament was merely nominal, as Admi
nil Cochrane Rates exprefily that they might again
be armed in four and twenty hours. I cannot, there-
fore, fee how any doubt can be entertained that thefe '
armaments were of a hoftile nature. It was clearly
undallood by the Spanifb Government that their
neutrality could ant even be connived at, unlefs all
armaments were abandoned, yet in a port the 010 a
adapted for attempting any defign hoftile to this
country, in that port where there was a French and
Dutch fquadron, an armament was begun, of which
no e: nation whatever was given till it was requir.
ed g days and weeks elapfed before any notice was
given of it, and no intimation to Mr. There till the
rebound reached him from Ferrol, when the anfwers
to him were vague and general, and the Governor of
Gallicia's explanation to Admiral Cochrane fated
that the armament was for a ferret expedition. Could
the Brit& Government have been juhified in over.
looking naval preparations amid& circumtlances of
filch Arm f picas ? What then was the cnndua of
Minters. I think we are entitled to credit for what
we did. It reams to be contended by thole who have
laboured to blacken us, that we did too little. Had
we idled up to the principle of unqualified war, I ap-
prehend it cannot be difputed that it would have been
jell, according to the heft writers of s the law of na-
tions. A conditional declaration of war had been
given, and it is agreeable to the bell opinions, that if
the cafe arrives to which the condition applies, it is
lawful and juhifiable to proceed to aaual
without any farther notice. We however did not go
fo far. If we could prevent France obtaining the
(mews of war by intercepting the treafure fhips • if
we could prevent the junaion of the French and SPA-
M& Beets, and their hoftile co-operation anft us,
we winged to allow Spain an opportunity for repen-
tance and for returning to her true intereft. And
when we were more lenient than the frig law would
have juhified, it is hard to charge ni with eatraordi-
- rigour and violence.—We narrowed the piaci-
hofillity—we were contented to prevent dan-
' than feek revenge—to prevent accumula-
.nofe means and rerources of which France
expeeed the poffeffion in order to turn them
\ the vital intereas of the Britith nation. Un-
circumflances we flatsd two propnfitions,
am, to any farther connivance in the nee-
Spain, and thefe were the reduaion of the
dewy to what it was not at any period of
negociation, but before the war with France
••• . and, fecondly, a communication of the
with the latter. As to the firft. it was
smeary to render the neutrality of Spain
tolerable or fare, and after what bad taken place,
time been weaknefs indeed to have been &-
Ads. As to the (econd, it was unquef-
f the right of this country to have comma.
,on of a convention by which a war tubfidy to
indefinite amount was paid to France, and the
was a refumption that it contained hi.
incompatible with oar intereft and fecurity.
to there points, when urged by Mr. Frere,
d'Alfames, a general denial was given of
exiftence of arntansents, and the communication
• treaty refuted. This unfatistaillory =twee
too after Mr. Frere had three times de-
pairs-mend before any intelligence of
of the frigates reached the Spanills Go-
. That point therefore 'makes no part of
and we ihonld equally have been at war
taken place. I do not fay this to exte-
. proceeding, of which I Una I have alrea•
enough completely to juftify, deplorable as
arcumftances were with which it was at-
indeed bloodibed, though flied even in
), mull always be regretted, yet that oc-
certainly had no influence on the final de-
la queSon of peace or war. I mat, there-
' have falkieady proved that, even in the
,ement of the megoaations we had a jolt
war, which never was abandoned ; that dur-
_:caid period dbr forbearance, while Spain
bound, and aitually paid a war fubfidy of 3
fterling to France, was conditional ; and that
condition being violated, we were again poffeffed
be right of war provifionally declared ; and all
demands of fatisfaftion and fecurity being rejea.
io cookquence at open war. In thefe cir-
I entertain a fall confidence that the vote
Honk will recognife the jullice of our carafe,
&maim the e of the Government, and lay
, of the arm the profetfions of a dutiful
people, determined to make every facirfice
vindication of their rights, and in the defence
:ir country. He conelndea with moving an ad-
ramble to the foregding fentiments.
-AMY then rote for the purpofe of moving
suendment to the propofed Addrefs. Differing
•:4 totally from the view of the fubjett, which
Hon. Gentleman had taken of it, and cal-
he felt himfelf, to expode the numerous
rhich he had introduced with the view of
the Honfe, he was aloof afraid that he
e occafion to trefpafr on the indulgence of
for the time it would be neceltary to oc-
difeuffion. For the fake, however, of
his arguments within as Sort a (pace as
fhould lay ottt,pftiew-eiery circumftance
immediately sectary' to enable the Houk to
- fair decifion. The fir& queftion he was
having refolved was, what Reps bad been
/ the late Mallen to liftman how far there
likelihood of Span, is cafe of a rupture be.
• country-waft France, fulfilling the terms of
of Ildefonfo ? He did not mean to deny
might have been an arrangement formed,
Spain could, to a certain extent, have torn-
the terms of the Treaty without shoge.
teiting her neutrality. It was, however, the

duty of Minifters to have inquired, whether. she
Treaty was to be eonfidered and sided on by Spain
as merely defenfive, and not an offenfiee compam..
It might be a queftioewhether it could not have been
underflood with fuch limits as might have altered its
original charaaer, and it became a matter of policy
to determine, how far a fyftem of neutrality, confet
edly imperfea, was not preferable to &anal warfare.
He witted to know, whether the late. Minifters had in
the fiat inftance clearly defined what was the policy by
which their conduit to Spain was to be regulated ?
They had not, in his opinion, though profeffedly de=
firous of allowing Spain to remain neutral, defined the
principle on which they were to a& He could not
find, from the papers on the table, that they had,
previous to the ad of Jane, tBo3, prefented any in-
Itruitions to our Minifter at the Court of Madrid, on
the grounds of Spina neutrality. Now, as early as
the Bth of March, when his Majefty's Meffagf was
delivered to Parliament, a rupture with France
might have been anticipated, and that Spann neu-
trality was in great danger of being difturbed by the
renewal of holtilities. Under thefe circumftances it
was natural to fuppofe that no time would be loft in
coming to the earlieft poffible explanation on the
fubjelt, and that the Secretary for the Foreign De-
partment would give our Ambaffador at Madrid
filch diftina and ample direaions for procuring filth
explanation as would lead to a proper underftandiog
on the fabjea. Before he had perufed the Papers he
certainly did fuppofe that furl inftrultions exifted,
bin his furprife was not trifling when he raw the in-
arations of Lord Hawkelbury on this mote impor-
tant fubjea. Mr. Frere was indeed jangled to de-
mand from the Spani(h Court an explanation whe-
ther they would carry into effea the treaty of Ilde-
fonfo, or whether they had any view of an arrange-
ment more confident with the continuance of neutra-
lity ? He was, not, however, inaruaed to proteft
againft the fulfilment of the treaty, but was to re.
main contented with a fimple anfwer of whatever
defcription it might be, and this imfwer he was to
tranfmit to his Court. Thus arofe a cafe which might
have been eafily forefeen, for the inftruaions given to
Mr. Frere were fuch as were totally inadequate to
enable him to explain in what way Spain's neutra-
lity could be admitted, and what grounds would be
confidered by this country as the neceffary fource of
the renewal of holtilitiesi At the very outfet no.
thing was fettled, nothing defined fo as to prepare
the way for fubfequent negotiation, and thus inau
fpicioufly was the difcuirion betwixt the two countries
commenced. Mr. Frere feemed from his own lan-
guage to have been fenfible of the inadequacy of his
original inftrnaions, and though afterwards feveral
communications took place on the fubjefl, yet from
the time that be received bib firlf inatuaions in June,
he had no powers to come to any arrangement till
the :4th of December. It was not till after this in.
terval that Knitters had made op their minds in what
mode Spanifh neutrality was to have even a chance
of continuing. During the intetval, they were ap-
prized that a fubfidiary treaty was concluded be-
twixt France and Spain. As early as the aoth of
September Minifters had received fonse intimation
that loch a treaty was in eontemplatioa I and was it
not moft extraordinary if they meant to confider it
as a ground of war, or to faffer it to pafs as a tem.
porary means of neutrality, that it was not till De-
cember that they received certain intelligence of the
propofed treaty, or took any fteps in confiquence of it?
Though Lord Hawkefbury waft have been wellaware
that Inch an arrangement was on the eve of being con-
cluded,he, by a molt unpardonable and unaccountable
negligence and remiffnefs, leaves Mr. Frere totally
without the means of aging in a manner fuitable to
the new Rate of the relations betwixt the two coun-
tries. What he next objeaed to Minifters was, that
they never came to any fatisfaaory explanation with
the Spanifh Government as to the terms on which
they were willing that neutrality fhould be for a cer-
tain period maintained. They complained that
French troops were marched through the Spanifh
territories, and that Enna prizes were fold io the
Spanifh ports. They remotiftrated againft -there as
eels inconfillent,with neutrality, and an amicable ex-
planation enfued. But though they knew that a
fubfidiary treaty exifted, they did not rota againft
that treaty as inconfifteot with the continuance of our
forbearance. The language of Wainer. was not,
that they would &attar declare war on account of
the exiftence of the treaty. On the contrary, they
(offered it to be aged on, as they thenffelves de-
firibed, as a means of temporary neutrality. It was
quite clear, that early in January t 804, there was
fuch an widertianding as that he had jolt alluded to.
There was an underftanding that no armaments
lhould take place in the Spanifh ports, and that
henceforth no prizes Should be fold in the Spanifh
ports; but the fubfidiary treaty was, if not direaly
admitted, at lealt to a certain degree tolerated. If
filch an anderftanding did trill, was it, he talked,
confiftent with good faith or common juftice to turn
Sort on the Spenifh Government, and have recourfe
to an aft of the lama atrocity, and contrary to
every principle of the law of cations? Was it at
all confonant to the charaiter of a wife or great
Government to allow Spain to labour under the
impreflion that her, neutrality would be xerpeaed
on certain conditions ? Was it fair that an alledged
caufe of complaint Should be treafured up merely
with the view of being produced at a more conve-
nient period, when an undue advantage could be
taken ? but this was precife.ly the light in which be
confidered the renewal of hoftilines with Spain.
The Right Hon. Gent. who opened the bean& had
compared the grounds of our difpute with Spain,
to the manner in which an And would be pat to a
truce. As loon as the terms of it were broken, a.
renewal of holtilities was the natural and neeeffary
confequen:e. Though be could not, for his put,
allow the fairnefs of the consparifoo, fill he thought
it neceffary to fay, that even with refpea to a trace
the Rig:lt:grout:Me Gentleman's clothing could
not be ed. Before the expiration of a truce
there was a (Mall underftandiag of the renewal of
holtilities. Witt he objeaed to in the charaler of
the renewal of the spanith war was, that the Spa-
nifh Government were taken wholly unpreparad, and
during the continence of an implied proud., that
their neutrality woold.continne to be refpreed- In the
firft infianee, st oras a quefthm whether the fulfil-
ment of the treaty of Ildefonfo was compatible with
neutrality. That qbeltion had been refolved by an
implied arrangement that it Should be,carried into
effea under henitatiotts• That implied ananiemeBt

Mr. Trent ntaintained it, Merest parts of hie dif-
patches, and there was so queßion that the Spasith
Government ailed under the impreffioa of its being
in exilkoet. The queaion then came to be, had any
other fonts been paid to France betides thofe to which
the urangement alluded to referred ? Had Frenchtroops, after rensonftrarkee were made on the fub-
jet, beea (offered to pots through the Sputa ter-
ritories, or had the fide of Englills prizes been
continued ? If this was not pretended, therefore,
the Spaniards were attacked completely off their
guard. A defire was ezprefed to know the amount
of the fuecour furnithed to France; the Spanifh Go-
vernment had p difpefition to give this information,
but they Rated that General Bournonville would not
allow this information to be difclofed. If Minifters.
after receiving this information. were not fatisfied.
why did it happen that they did not infift on a per-
emptory anfwer. and order Mr. Frere to infill on
the communication required ? They had not done
this, and therefore it was fair to prefume that they
were willing to furter Spanifh neutrality to continue,
according to the terms contained in the implied agree-
ment. Under the exillence of fuch an agreement.
good faith called on us to warn the Spaniards that
our Minifters were determined to put an end to the
imperfed neutrality that exifted, and then the Spani&
Government could have no reafonable ground of
complaint. The condo- of Minifters to Spain was
fimdar to that of a perfon who agreed to compound
a bitfinefs to decided by a lawfuit, and who, after
inducing his adverfary to difcbarge his counfel and
witneffes, afterwards unexpeftedly renewed the pro-
cefs, and obtained a verdict bythefe fraudulent means.
He begged leave to elk why, if there was no fuch
agreement as that to which he Co often referred, Lord
wefbury never from January, when it was fop-
pored to have taken place, down to the day when he
was deprived of the office of Secretary for the Fo-
reign Department, never denied its exiftence. The
amended Adminiftration was patched up pretty much
in the fame way as the Houfe were accußomed to
patch up Bills. Another patch had lately been ad-
ded, and he hoped there was the usual clan's provi-
ding fur altering and amending during 'the precut
Seffion. But it was curious to think of the Noble
Lord's refigning the Peals of office without explain-
ing a bufinefs of Co much importance. It was literally
true, however, that the Noble Lord died, and gave no
fign. It might be contended, indeed, that though
Lord Hawkefbury had been filets on the ruble°, this
was no proof that any fuch agreement exitled. To
this he had a plain anfwer, that it was fair to pre-
fume that fibs ice gave conknt. He had now to ad-
vert to the condo& of Lord Harrowby after his ele-
vation to power. It could not Purely be imagined
that he was fo occupied on his entrance into office,
that he had no time to attend to the Rate of our fo-
reign relations, and unquellionably the Rate of our
relations with Spain was none of the kali confidera-
ble. Though his Lordthip came into power in May,
yet we hear nothing on the fubjcd till July, and he
was not Curtly faxing too much to fay that fuck an
interval was not eerily accounted for. In May. 1804,
it was Rated dißindly that money was paid to Francct
in May, and alfa in July, Rill not a word of inftruc-
tion is given on the fubjed. Not a fusee obfervation
is madeito thew a define of annulling the fubfldiary
treaty. On the contrary, there was every appearance
of its being continued to be acquieked in. But bete
Minifters Rood up and contended that even foppof-
, ing the agreement to have taken place, it was re-
fcinded by the accounts received of the Rate of the pre
parations in the Spanith ports. The orders for the
feizure of the Spanifh frigates were founded on infor-
mation which Adntital Cochrane had furaithed.—
Now he fliould feel himfelf gratified by learning whe-
ther the Spaniards did not give the molt fatisfaftory
references AS to the armaments in their ports. They
affirmed, in the tuft place, that the armaments were
not intended to be employed againtt this country,
and to other remonlirances that they had no longer
any exillence. As this explanation was given, why
was the difcuffion on the other points fo abruptly ter-
minated ? If an accredited Minister was to be fent
to Madrid, why could not Minitlers have waited till
his arrival at Mad/id, infield of giving thofe preci-
pitate orders which bad produced fuch lamentable
etre& ? It could not be ferioufly urged that Spain
meant any thing hollik to this country. Her in-
ternal and political- fituation refuted the idea. Spain,
Abort verging to political diffolution, waned by peril-
!enc., and fcourjed by a devouring famine, could en-
, certain nn idea of bortility agatnft a country with
which it has fo many powerful ties of interell. The
very ports where the preparations were Rated to be,
tended to thew that no hollilities on a great kale
were intended. Was it credible that at Carthagena,
where thoufands were expiring of a peßilential and
loathfome difeafe, there were any views of a hollik
nature entertained ? Mr. Dug's reports in July and
Augur! lewife 'hewed that there were at Cadiz no
preparations of a formidable dekription. The !hips
were in general old and crazy, and the stfenale were
deßiture of Rores-of all forts. There was no wood
but the country pine, and no contrail bad been
formed for procuring fupplies from the Baltic. With-
out attaching any blame to Admiral Cochrane, for
whom he thought the highel refped ought to be en-
tertained, be could not help (eying, that too much
firers had been, without inquiry,laid on his Rate:nuns.
The feelings of nature, as well as the habits of his pro-
feffion, "night have led him to give too highly co-
loured a picture of the Rate of the naval preparations
in Spain. There was an officer, the Captain of the ,
Malta, whofe opinion he fbouli have wished pro-
duced on the prefeot occafion. That officer bad been
on the Ferrol Ration, and could give very important
information to the Honk. At all events the matter
was one very fit to be inquired into. But bad Mini-
s made fuch inquiry previous to the Wiling of
orders for fazing the Spina frigates ? They cer- I
tainly had not ; nay, be was not quite Cure that even
a Cabinet Council was convened on the bufinefs.—
He was almort inclined to think that Lord Melville
had taken on hinsfelf the refponfibility of Uri:ins the
orders in insertion. Was this, he anted, a decent,
honourable mode of proceeding I Was it fair treat-
ment to a nation, anxious for our friendship, and
compelled to imp:ander the rod of an unfeeling def.
pot ? It was in vain that explanations were offered,
and that aguranees of neutrality were given by the
Oevereinsat. t. Wood. Owe vac, and' erdis appearance
tii esaw so a mare. Tie gent aa4 preelpitaus de-
parture et Mr. Prue had very awl et dot. It
eataisly wee M coined axe et the wbo,
wits read tee em II to the base of I "ltd.

(Ilered. tha2the gourd was a very pretty goorryl already, and
would only be fpoilt by explanation. la defame of the fdzure of
the Span* frigates, It was sicieribed as a mature of precaution.
—This be denied. for it was a dpi mature of war. While
a difpute was pending betwixt the two countries, they bad
both a right to take meafores of precaution. ff one nation or-
tiered their army so be augmented, the other had a right to order
a Smiler tweak in his military eitablidussent. If the one in-
cresfed Ids Davy, the other might be bound In prudence and
policy to place his naval forr.ems a more enlarged footing. If the
Spaniards bad preperations in their ports, we huh fair right to
watch the asethas cithdr Stipa, but we have no right to feise their
dim their pedals, sad their goods, without even an appearance
of a decimation of war. It was an ad unprincipled and omelettes
in the higkelt degree, and calculated to degrade the chandler of
the country at a time when It was folespormat to *and high is
the opinion of Europa as the &hosiers of Its iderdes alpha law -
Ids dominion. Mr. Gay aoudads' his (pee& by roespitolutlog
his principal argiuneots, mod dies owed the following Amend-
west to the original Added':
To recurs his Majcity the *eats Odds Haute for the comina-
illations made to us Madre to the !mitre with

--7 To my et our entire convidirm that the eititmies of an Wan.
eve Treaty between France and Spats would have amidst bee
Moiety to confider Spain as a principal in the prefent war, valet
the obliptioos of that Treaty were amomneed, or their exceeds&
difclaimed ; and to effuse his Moiety that we That at all dam be
ready to fupport him in giving effeA, fo far as the isterets of his
dominions may require, to this jolt and medifputed peindple.
That we dime. however, that his Moiety arm to
wave the mac& of this right, in order m negotiate wigs paint
for the maintraancs of her neutrality. And thy. 'admit Wet
upon oarfdves in the prefent moment to decide • polities of po-
Lky depending fo mach as tine anus of width we are MI a..
Informed, we asinowledge with gratitude this proofs/ it Wet-
tea paternal dare to have prevented the farther estenfiam of that
calamities of war.

Oat that we beg kare humbly to forefeet to bis Maleßy, that
the emotion of there his benevolent willies indirpenilitay required
from his Minittere the adoption of tome kat, and
uniform prisdples of oegotiatios. declared in the outfit with frank-
sera, sad Readily pureed to its conclude° i bowed up by as
unremitting attention so every new eireonsitases Mktg is the
prayers of fo important a difaiSon ; sok aseseepasied by the
molt rentysloos tare that all ova telskig hem k ilseadd,
to the pan of Great Mtgs. he Mimi with pledgee. asd pee.
foamed with unqueftlesalis good tiddi.modoredoe mod bitqpitr.
That we have, on the contrary. fees with regret 14 the whole
condo& of this trade:non. the elaildeg dab d smisebiel,
• and contradidtory policy. That the eddies iszlzprotor.
fed in the outlet by his Majerty's Mbstnees, have bass
counteradted by their Roams endeavours's keep Are hash she
conk and the memo of wet I a Purlrefe7hall
juitice and with wifdom. deitruetive of steeldsess es the pare
of the power with whom they treated, mei beempdhis with as
*eft foe which they were mgodating. Thatdudes the whole
mune of theta &Amadeu. While they were felleideg
hots Spain *wretched eassmonetathei se pokes of sested lets.
reit. their owe indecillos prevents 4 them* return Ross t
a Mated itatessent of the teems es which Greet Britsie=
content to reespife the neutrality of !bat 'ewer. That their
pound of gigabit* wee repesedly edited. their 4simeM ruled
sod their reeceilloos gedelined ; se4 that *he* ilex agre
ment a pears at bit to have beenlotiog, muddier Igs date, sot
Its s were areertaleed withprodllse ; yet, both ere IST
pestedly referred to by the Beitith as we/ as she Ypeula Mi*Asts,
and the breach of More very conditions it alledged muse apothems
the part of Great Britain, for We vitae cotruseneteneet 41 beak

That the cotillions and deo& 'lath diltiognifb &Ore tradolls
dons, u well as the fatal coofecpiatem to which it has led, an
only be afcribed to the wawa rimapleoo which la was snood.
e 4, and to the erlanittal and alum* *wields negligence with
which it hubs:en condotted. That k y ear duty to
reveals to his Maleftg, that in • ter peace or war be-
tween Great Britain and Spin, phodpally at Madrid.
no iarastions were fast to hie ladder t that Coasts
from the ad alone to the oath of , in the year sing
from Menet to the sat jallOarT, to tkil year fonowint oar Walla
from that date to the aoth of September. That to the firit of tido
intaeats, helot little Ids than de months, the negotiation foe
Treaty of *totality between Prance and Spin was hem, con•
dosed, and concluded; yet not the CmalleSt intimation woe, In that
long time, glom to Mr. Pies, of the light in which that smock.
doo was uoMered here ; of the language it was proper for hint to
hold; or of the madams it might he oettrary for him to take;
although frown* oonommicatioss were made to him an the bib.
jolt, by the Spas* Govtrognint. who appear to hue km Op*
ed to pay great attestionin this Lofton* to any reprefentation from
Great us, _ _ _ _ _

That dieirig the lift eit the abovementlooed periods, the fan*
Monter, though left spin toe mossy months without any inert!,
dons whatever, sepciated and concluded row sow:ad* with
lipain cm this molt important Culp& of which agreement Doc*
Mon was ever rarefied to him (nimbi:nee, either before or ages
its tondullon; nor does it even now appear, from any official dor
I MUM. whether the fame was meant to be aftowethre difalloweds
ridded or rejeded, by the BMA Government.
That we feel osafelves compelled to exprefs to his brajefty,
that in the ferther provers of there eranfadions, the indedffon
and ogled of his Government were fiseceeded by precipitate Re-
fob:dons and ads of violence dray injurious to the honour and
lotereft of his kingdom.
That we thookl have applauded any eockarocr by firm and tem-
perate reprefesection to extriew.e our rattiest. with Spain from
the coofaton in which they had been bivalved, sad to Wing them
to a &Mod Slue of acknowledged neutrality or decided war, bat
that we find no tray of any inch attempt. And that In the
middle of September, on the deft intimation of rappelled mom-
mans in the Spacial ports, eta of !teenier were decided on by
his Majefty's Government previons to ail complaint, and executed
without notjee dude; a period of amicabk negotiation.
That the dirpoiltiona of Spain appear, from the informatien of
his Mak:firs Minifter at Madrid, to have continued up to that
moment friendly to Great Britain, and that the condad of his
Majefty 's Minden in having, under Melt eireumilaneu, antici-
pated all explanation by concealed orders for an attack on Splutillt
kips, property and fubjecia, cannot be jailed on any ground of
public law, muds le recoodled to there principles of moderation
and liberality which belong to the arida charader, and will& In
the prefent &nation of Europe, it is peculiarly the ditty of this
Country to Maintain inviolate.
That on reviewing the difeaffsens which immediately preceded
the Ferenc War, we cannot but reprefern to his Majtity the &co-
da difference between the condud of the pedal left in charge of
his Majeity's affairs at Madrid, and the tenor of the only inftnre-
dons under which he appears to have &dad. 1 bat the raises.
dons given to that Gentleman by the Spin& Government, though
not in all points adequate to the jolt ezpodatiens of this country,
were yet inch as o f maniteffly (according to thole loftrodiess)
to have determined him to wait at Madrid for the arrival of an ere-
credited handier authorifed by his Majefty to arrange with that
Court all points of difference. And that we have therefore fern
with egad furprifc and indignation the final &aka of bis Ma-
jefty's Minifters, not only to adopt the inconederate Refolution
taken by the King's Reprefentative in withdrawing bleared from
Madrid ; but alto to treat with utter difregard the fubfequent offer
from the Smith Malta at this Court to padre the fame Wed-
Sons oaf.-an offer which, if accepted, might probably have
led to a radsfadore conclufion on matters upon width the two
Courts were Co nearly agreed. That while we have thus thought
it our duty to re reran to his Majefty the errors of his Miniftera
in the conded of this important tranfsetion, and the fatal more-
quenees which have Welted from them, we beg kaveto repeat our
humble absence that we are ready to (uppers his Majetactutt
utinoft in every module neediary to affect the rights and
the honour of bis Crowo—objedts which can new be faceefsfelly
ruined by negligent and undecided Commas, nor attained by the
violation of mgogenteots on which thole with whom we treat have
rifted their fecurity.
Lord CASTLIILIAGS (poke in ankra to Mr. Grey, and
Jl,ord TIIMPL S &laded the Amendment.'
. .

Mr. WINDHAM rote and moved, that the Debate Osould be
adjourned dB te4llOllOW. Tat Mod= created a violent clamour
awes the Members, tome calling out, " Ns ! no ! Go on ! Go
on r and others " Adjourn ! adjourn!"
The CHANCELLOR of the tXi.:HECTER, howevert appraf-
el the umiak by Ostia', ..hat much as he winked the fubjea to be
dikeired and decided in one night, be now perceived that it would
be 'eke lapse* to do fo. Conflating, therefore, the eafe and
cenvenienceed Geodemen, be had noobjedlion to an adjournment
tlr emoserrovr.

Tbs 'sake for adjourning the debate until to-morrow, was
pip put and curial—Adjourned at near two in the morning.

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