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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, FEBRUARY 5.

At twenty minutes after five o'clock the LORD CH ANCRL-
LOR rose, and read over his blajesty's Speech. which was after-
. Wards read the Clerk at the table, in accordance with the forms
.•"111 the Honsearat which se. the &ran of yntettiiiy.
• The Marquis of SALISBURY then advanced to the
table to move an humble Address to his Majesty, in
answer to his most gracious Majesty's Speech. He
col.menced by stating how fully sensible he was of the
nece.sity. there was for claiming their Lhrdships' indul-
• gene in offrring himself to their notice on this occasi..n,
and that this indulgence was made the mote necessary
. as the Speech on which he was about to move an Ad-
. e'ress referred to such an extended variety of subjects.
. The embarrassment which he felt in addressing their
. Lordships on this occasion was still further increased
by the reference made in the latter part of his AO
jesty's Speech to a question involving such impor-
tant considerations, and on which these was such a
• diversi, y of opinions, and so many shades of difference
. even between persons who appatently agreed on the
, principles on which the question ought to be sr-
i sued; that he teased that, even if he touched on it
ever so ligl•ty, he must produce irritation of feel-
ing, and give rise to angry discussions, which he was
most anxious to prevent. He sincerely deprecated any
premature discussion on this subject ; fur he conceived
that nothing could tend more to excite angry passions,
. and to throw obstacles in the way of the final settlement
Of the question, than angry discussion within the walls
.of Parliament. In the observations which he should
find i! necessity to offer to their Lordships, he assured
them be stould endeavour to confine him-elf as much
as possible to the immediate subject of discussion—
namely, the Speech of his Majesty. In looking to our
foreign :elation', it was true that his Majesty was net
able, as on many former occasions, to congratulate
their Lot dships on lily signal success achieved by our
arms; but he was enabled to do what was much bout r
and more advantageous to the real interests of the
country—to congratulate his Parliament on the con-
tinuance of peace, and on the cordiel unanimity
wh ch existed between his Majesty and his Allies.—
.The tears entertained by many of their Lord,hips,
. and, indeed, amongst others, by himself, that the Go
vernment would not be able to maintain the she
cos/boon which had been formed to preserve the
peace of Europe, had happily proved unfounded; and
the country not eel, continued to enjny peace, but to
mijoy it in a manner which afferdyd the best reasons
f•r concluding that it was tint likely to be disturbed.
He could not fatigue their Lordships by travelli g
over all the topics comprehended in his Majesty's

Speech; but there was one subject connected with our
foreign relations which he could not forbear advetting
to. Whatever opinion Noble Lords might an. rtain as
.to the wisdom or patty of the Treaty of the 6th July,
it could nit but be gratifying to their Lordships to
le urn th it the allied forces, without any further exertion
of hostile power, bad cleared the Morea of the Egyp-
tian and Turkish fleets. By the Convention entered
into between the Allied Powers and the Pacha of
Egypt, and by the services of the French forces acting
.on behalf of the Allies, the pacification of Greece had
been accomplished. t .e Tut kid) army had abandoned
the Morea, and Greece was now of peace; but it le-
/trained for Greece to show itself worthy of the name
she bore, by preserving that peace by her own efforts.
Ilfs Majesty', Speech adverted, to the continuance of
hostilities between the Emperor of Rossi* and the 0 •
t .man Porte. in terms with which it was imposs.ble that
.their Lordships should not concur. His tights as a
belligeient rendered it necessary fir his Imperial Ma-
j. sty the Emperor of Russia to establish a blockade of
the Dardanelles, which certainly produced effects on
our commerce in the Nlediterrancan much to he te-
;petted ; hu . with respect t u the step taken by the Erb.
peror of Russia, allowances should be made for his
rights as a belligerent; and his Majesty had been gra.;
cr.pusly ple used to comiuunicve that our Government
had Wren those steps which in duly it was bound to
.take to protect his M je,ty's subjects who had en-
.gaged in commercial enteiprtzes on the I.ith of the
previous declaration made to Pa,liament from the
:4n.tration of the blockade, net.sithstanding the con-
.tineance of hostilities between the Porte and the Ens.
per& of ku,sial In taking a view of our foreign
relati-es. the only subjects which did not offer mat
ter for congratnia ten wee the unlortunate hostili-
ties between Itirsva and the 0 t man Porte, and
the unsettled state. of Portugal. In alluding to the
latter countr), die:disl not think it necessary. or that
it ',cold become him, t' speak in terms of repeobation
of the pet son now at the head of the Government of
Portugal. The conduct of the persons at the head of
Goserneneil Hirst be al svaysgoverned by the pat titular
circumstances of the country to be governed; and their
Lordships had only to hope that the negotiations en
tered it,t . between his Majesty and the be id of the
House 01 Braglll.Z4 wouW lead to an adjustment of
differences, anti promote the permanent tranquillitrand
p:o,pesitV of a count, y with which England had been
so long and so closely allied. In reverting to it is sub.
legit these was one subject which he thought might
fairly be urged as matter Gf congratulation, which was(
that we were bound by no treaty to interfere with the
ibternal a,raugements of Portugal. Without referring
sm,e n detail to our foreign relations, he might con-
clude what he had to say on that subject by observing,
that we were now at peace, and that there was every
prospect of the continuance of that blessing, as hi,
Majesty continued to receive from all fareign Powers
a:surances of amity, and of their desire to cultivate the
worst friendly relations wish him. Before he took leave
of this branch of the subject, be had one other observa-
tion to make. which was, to congratulate their Lind
ships and-the country that the animosity which existed
in fornser time. between us and a powerful neighbour
was now entirely at an end. We were now in the en-