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row the general inteffereliee of the Allied Powers,
forewent a sort of European Pohie from interfering
with the affairs of independent States. I disclaim
all alliance with such views ; and I do so in strict ac-
cordance with the views of my late predecessor in
toffee (the late Marquis of Londonderry). I know
that my Honourable Friend (Mr. WiilierEirce) whom
I altogether distinguish from others, did not think,
that to conciliate these Powers we should call them
despots, tyrants, haters of freedom, and charge them
with a wish to put down the rising liberties of the
world. He could hardly expect that, like Skyldck in
splay, it we said to them •••
Fair Sir, you spat on me on Wednesday last,
you spred me on such a day, another time
You call'd me dog

And for these courtesies...... ..I'll yield to you"—
'at such an appeal would do nothing. You, Gen-
niernen, to whom I address myself, would despise the
Ise of such language, and still more perhaps decry
the policy of those who could so speak. (Hear, hear.)
The principles of morality were not the less enforced,
if enforced by rhetoric and ornament, rather than by
flowers of Billingsgate sown deep,
Mcdio de fonte lepornin
&alit stnari aliquid quad in ipsis floribus angst.
Bach was not our language at the Congress of Ve-
rona; if we had used it, our object would have been
altogether defeated. But here I must make some
subsidiary objections. In the first place, lam asked
why our Plenipotentiary went to Verona at all ? It
was said that the affairs of Spain did not occupy a
prominent part of the deliberations of that Congress;
and here what I formerly omitted, I may now take
Inge E say, that we never intended they should oc-
copy a prominent part. We never intended our
Plenipotentiary should go to the Congress of Ye.
tana at all with legate' to the Spanish question.—
The Congress of Verona was assembled particularly
sew the affairs of Italy; and so far back as two;
years ago England said she would not pal ticipw.e in
them, in the same terms as had been said at a pre-
'toes Congress at. Vienna. I. have no difficulty in
saying, that when I took the Seals of the Foreign
03ce one object was, the arrangement of a peace, or
rather the prevention of hostilities, between Russia
rid the Sablime forte—(Hear; hear). Such was the
mutual confidence of those Puss el s in the Govern-
ment of Great In itain, that the 11, nisi) Ambassador
to the Sublime Porte (acting the chief part in the tie-
gociations between them) was summoned to the Con-
gress at Verona for the special purme of stating the
manner in sshich he had left the complicated nego-
tiations. So little we; it expected by. us that Spain
could come under the notize of the Cong ressahat it was
only °biter and by the way her condition could be
considered; and our Anibassa.dor's attention was
merely called to the relations between Russia and the
Porte—England being the only Power in whose hands
were left the chance of a happy issue, England's being
the only interference by which peace had a chance of
king restored between two great Powers, was suffi-
cieet reason for our sending to the Congress of Verona.
But it has been asked why, when we found Snain the
subject of negotiation at Verona, we did not call
upoa that Power to send an agent there ? I can only
.answer as to us, that our object was not to counte-
mance any discussion of her affairs at all ; and that if
we did so, it was morally certain that Spain, being
so called upon, would altogether in a great degree
destroy the efforts we had previously made in her fa•
lour—(Hear, hear).—The British Government was
glad to avoid all discussions upon the difficulties in
which Spain was entangled—a King, Constitution,
and people divided against each other ; and wai
at the same time anxious not to lead the Allied
Powers into that assumption with regard to an inter-
ference with Spain, which the sshole of our policy
vent to deny. The Congress of Verona ended. by
teplacieg in British hands the charge of reconciling
two of the greatest empires in the world,Russia and the
iblime Porte ; a charge which evidently shewed
there was nothing in our conduct at Verona to lower
ow tharacter, to weaken our power, or to lessen the
political influence of Great Britain—( Hear, hear).—
The fullest powers were given to our Minister, granted
by the one and acceded to by the, other great State.
Our Minister was not the agent of a crippled and a
weakened Power, not the organ of a helpless and de-
pendent State; but the agent of a Power, dispensing
justice and equity, and possessing the ,means of en-
forcing them—(Hear, hear). Thus ended the Con-
gnu of Verona in tegard to the affairs of the East.—
With respect to Italy, havin,g no business witli its of
fairs, we did not interfere. With eespect to Spain, we
"nosed a joint declaration of the Allied Powers—a ;
corporate act of force or menace against her. It was
in reference to this principle, that While England did
sl she could to allay the itritatlons caused by the
dispatches of the Allied Powers and of France, she
'said not stilt be guilty of any dereliction of her
character and duty, and that the Government of
England exerted every office of friendship to pre-
lent matters coming to the worst—(Hear, hear)
What the impressions made by our interference were
ei Spain, will be best seen by the dispatches of Sir
IY. A'Court, with which I will not now trouble the
House. From the dissolution of the Congress at Ve-
rona, I am naturally led to Paris. There the French
Government was found, having brought back the
cosatenance of the Anied Powers in certain hypo-
thetical cases, which had not then, and which have
lot since occurred—and hence France, now at War
with Spain, is not at war upheld by the countenance'
tithe Allied Powers. The cases foreseen at Verona,
*ere, in the first place, any attack by Spain on
family--or
violence to King Ferdinand or his
"atily--or any forcible change in the reigning eire
*Y. Such were the cases provided for; and lam
not here to argue whether interference we; e neces-
sary on nor part if a.sy such occurred—l merely
"ate then], and state diens the more to sheer that
they have not occurred—(Cries of Hear, hear).—
Prance is now, therefore, not at war upon a Verona
case, and, so far as I know, no subsequent Euru.
Kos Conference has assembled for the purpose of
o
Hoeing other cases within the right of France to
Proceed to a war with Spain—(Hear, hear, heat).
Neither do I know that the Allies are its such a new,
and to me unknown situation, as that they are pledged
to assist France. A question was started at Verona,
as to whether Eint'and would mediate with Spain;
and the Duke of Wellington reporting home whether
such 411 intelieietice would be offered, received a
Most di coutaain,, ans wet. Ile was particularly de-
sired hiut to undertake it, if the Powers of the Holy
Alliance shewed any disposition to move towards.