The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-08-23 00:00:00

" In his opinion, the foundation of the political power a

this country was its moderation and its justice; and, in his
opinion also, if moderation and justice were banished from
the diplomacy and acts of all the councils in the world, that
vessels engaged in commerce (as we understood) ought to
find an asylum in the councils of the British Government ;
and, instead of passing this bill to put down that traffic,
which most certainly was infamous, if the Government had
taken the more manly course of declaring that they would
go to war with those powers who refused or neglected to
perform their treaties with this country, there could be no
doubt but that by return of post they would learn that they
had effected the object which noble lords opposite had in
view. (Hear.) Looking back to the probability of the
exercise of the right of search being extended to many powers
with whom this country had no treaties whatever, and re-
membering that the greatest judge who had ever presided in
the Court of Admiralty had held that search to be illegal in

ime of peace, he thought their lordships ought to be most
cautious on this subject—a subject which he earnestly re-
commended noble lords opposite well to consider before they
proceeded to carry this bill into execution. He would not
make any professions of an anxiety to put down the slave-
trade. He had passed a long life of honour in the service of
her Majesty's predecessors. He had served her Majesty's
predecessors in diplomatic situations, and in their councils
as well as in arms, and he believed people could not accuse
him of saying one thing and meaning another (hear, hear);
but thus much he would say, that on, this subject of the
slave-trade there was no person, excepting one illustrious
individual under whose directions he had acted, and whose
loss, whose melancholy loss, he had never ceased to deplore
—with the exception of that one individual, there was no
person now living, or who was lost to the public service,
who had written more, or negotiated with one-tenth the
zeal, than himself, on this very subject, with which he was
now told he was not conversant. (Hear, hear.) He should
certainly say " not content" to the passing of this bill.
(Hear, hear.)
But many words are needful for Lord Palmerston,
and nothing is done after all. A few from the Duke i
carry meaning with them to the ends of the world.
We trust, however, that an useful lesson may be
learned from the Debates on this subject. The nations
of the world will know that Great Britain has taken
this question seriously in hand. With her own hands
pure, she demands the extinction of the nefarious
traffic. Rather than that the faintest suspicion should
go forth of her want of earnestness, this Bill (bad as it
is) is suffered to pass the House of Lords ; and what
is of infinitely more consequence than the impression
to be produced in Portugal, greater and more powerful
nations will learn that the Duke is ready to declare,
and the nation is anxious to sanction, WAR, INTER-
MINABI WAR, against these worst of Pirates, com-
mon ene._;ies of our common kind. Let them look to
r- it.

The dainty-feathered springald of Ipswich has a
mind, it seems, to be plucked at Cambridge. There
seems to be no end whatever to his absurd fatuity.
Notorious for his excessive zeal as an ultra Tory, (no
good sign of wisdom mixed with honesty,) impatient of
the 'wholesome restraints laid upon his soaring arnbi-