Star.
London, England, 1802-11-25 00:00:00

It would not coninui that ft.lecies of machine it
had been 1 itivonhinorportliFtliattaltie7power
i*
t rdefenfive and bffenfive operation rthfcciatpro,
f t cliaraiteritvANWOVirklinewattesttpttchad been
, de td 4re'prefent Mils as no enemy' to the aggran''
lenient .of 'France i' the fait was, he Witvegcne..
abet() Whateiet Wits Contrary to reafors, pradente;
Andl•continon fence. The paffage quoted' from Maly
thisital wag pefealy jute Tirklubitably -there were
'Murts,..to'theterwieeimrvi which it. was Netter to
stuft `to time. : If eirer• thicobfervation was appli.
.ellriet, it wag peel:dimly fo with regard to Frarice.
'albeit wlllsltimething in the eiertiettlif its, Ifrength --
.wadi time was calstrinttd to ltffen if not defiroy:
It was ibppofeci ,ilisti-Mmethiag 'bad been done
tnce. the Nate, whith.cotiffitutect an akgreffiOn On
he part of France. 'Onenf the firft ofleftions had
been tlifelndemnitits-in•Germiny. He withed it to
b confidetedithetthetcrinciple of Indemnities was
not a newthitig, but AS old attire Treaty of Lune' •
',Me, ant bider All. It was ftipulated try that
''Meaty that `lndetnnities fhould ' be granted—fe- .
tutariiations Were to be tht means of providing
the Indemnities. This was perfe&ly well known.
It Was impoffible to have. read a newfpaper with;.
but feting that it watitttended to indeMnifythe Sc.
. &Aar Princes of Gtrmany.. It was adoptedby the
Treaty of'Luneviile, andAnowing the fa& we had
acceded to gnd ratified thedifinitive treaty of peace..

If this' s an liggreflon on the' part \of France -it
was' equally f 6 -.with' retard to theiCourt of Peterf.
finrish. Why did:not t Is Houfering with charges
agatnit the Coin' of Peterthargh for joining with.
France in fettling the indemnities ? We had been •
told thattheEleetorsof Hanover had been acafferet
hi the Intletunities-;-that`was a que(ion he would
pot dircurs. It was the policy of the .prefent repo •
that the affairs 'of 'Great Britain and Hanover

Ihodld be! cenildered as totally feparare ;he would
not then pay tort to the-Family on the Tbione,•-
by makingtilitinftion between Hanover and Great
Britain. 'lie *as perfutided the Elector of Hanoi.
eee did not Iva that any filch dittindiOn. fhodld •
•he made ; or that itfhould be fuppored an aggre
fipn again ft the 'Eleitor- of Hanover was an :aggrell-
gbh agaifift the King of Greet Britain. Hesaert
adverted-to the affairs otSvriteeilanct He lainentii

ed the fate-dthat tduntireven more thutilor did
the diiiatilis of the kingdowi -of Ir!oianct; The ion-
dutet of :France towards that country' wairabsi'
dAadfnl thantittAd been in any other refpeal may.
work than thofetrataaions to which he wanitknsit

alhicl4,6nt whieh more nearly elotteernetteurfelfttes;
He'bad feen the peat:44 SWitzeilatid; he had-wit.-
neffed their • happinefs, their regulavind. legal •
eqnalit y; had retnailted the refugtrtheraffortted:
to 'the oppreired, and the-noble indeperidenet they -
enjoyed ;, he lamented. Ater (bald bava been corn.
paled to fttbmit Os the yoke, Of 11ance,' but 'at the
famettlite, he infifted that Switterkind was fable&
to France at the time the Treaty- of Antiens Was
conchtied between Frante a#4 Greai,Britain.-..4.
He. argued that. the condu& of Ftance 'towards:
Switierbind was dot an aggrefflon agaitift. Great
Eritain. • Were we the guarantees of the ;whae
world, was • England to-hold forth the promife
cotttaitied tit the 'decree of the, loth of December,
by *Bich:Trance iortsmifed to protect all- who :re-
quired hid aSitance? The Indemnities in Gettnahy,
he maintained, were no aggreffion of Great Bri.
tain. He infifted we had, nothing 16 do, with
the ContlitntiOn of 'Switzerland, of whether it
was more or lets demottatical or At;iflocratical.
;He prOceedetV to 'isliferve, .that the .actio Aden
by, France- of 11.elgiam, the countries on the'
left Bank of the Rhitte—its influence in the
Cifalpine and Ligurian Republic were confidered
'of 'no importance,. merely becaule they had
been achieved before the War terminated '• • but
that the acquifition of Switzerland sand Pied.
mont, fince the interval of Peace, alone was cal-
culated to: create' alarm. He law nodanger in
the alteration of Piedmont from the 27th Depart.
ment of France into the Department of the Po.—
Referring to the independence of Sardinia, he ob.
ferved,that England had ttdt ftipulated for it. 'Mize
it was., the'Emperor of *Raja had.interfered with •
Aufttia in behalf of the King of Sardinia ; but
what had•Anftrin faid ? It had.told France that it •
was net tO attend to the elaims.of the King of Sari..
dinia, left it fheitild make its interference a pretenet,
for felting upon' Venice. gut it was laid this was
not a time'to go 16 war-41e was glad to hear ;
'yet .we were told we were to have fleets in the
Channel, the Mediterranean, and in every part.of
the wiurld.ifive 'Were. to maintain,• in time of
Peice,' a Beet
.tqtial to what we maintained in time
of War,.he deftted to know what would be the
[tate of mit finances if War 'fhould hereafter be-
cotne lieeeffary ? • But an Hon. Member had faid.,—
" 0 what fignifiesmon'ey-4e flare fo many mil.
lions ormoney more than our adverfaries ;" but we
hale ib tsiany tlioufands lefs of bayonets. In the
opinion of that Centleman it was not money that
woild defend usLii tWas the bayonet we mull truft to;
Ii was to chivalrous exertions' the Hon. Member
loOked forward,ind well might fay With the Poet—
' The gaudy heed, br;gbt arms be my ilaght ;
Thefe-arelhe riches of the adventious Knight.
He believed it was upon this fpirit, of chivalry the
war had ofiginallrcommenced. It had beeu laid
that-the French Revolution was a `mon fter which
had put an end to the experience of all former ages.
In the faze Manner the advocates for revolution.
ary principles rejected all the maxims laid. down
by the writers on Hiftory and the Laws of Na-
tient. It 'was aftonifhing how both extremes agreed.
One party was fo frightened. as to rejeCt experi-
ence as unconnected with the fubjed of their
alarm : the other patty would have burnt all the
books that had ever been written on the fubjeet. of
polities, or the Rights of Nations. But in oppoh-
tkOn to each of thefe parties, he would Will be an
advocate for the,benefits derived from experience.
It was Paid that Malta should not be furrendered.
He would alfo fay it ought not to be furrendtred
loilgs as there remained any doubt that
France would fulfil her engagements. But the
Moment Ilse fulfilledtthefe engagements, fo chi-
ivakvitai waa he, that he conceived we were boutid
in heiastre,togivet•up all.. thofe places whole fur.
tend& vise RipoUtect its, the Treaty of Peace.
...otiowever, ettent of territory procurg4 by
Nice,. end Sir &pais* gr_eatnefs, ',were tfro log .la.
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