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London, England, 1803-06-21 00:00:00

(PRICE RIX PP.NCE.

b,rate-ercutfi,,n of Pariimoent ! Ida tint shea ti to gn
ihto. the details of the plan, which is fubmitted inr
4difcullion this 'fight; neither (hall I give any tefillanct
to the plan now offered t but it Noble Lords knew fo
well at I do, that •oest to thekourge of an enemy's
army marching through a Country, is that or a
friendly force, they would ice that our be • fecurity
would, be in Waging offinieve rather th in in main.
taining defenfive wit...in attacking the enemy. in
wrening from his gape shore Con&ries that ni oas
'tinder his tyvinny, Without being_ able t•i rink*:
•htimfelves. ••My L•irds, lance I had la l the bntritir
to &hirers you no this topic, circum•lances -hare oc-
curred nyon the Continent which every min who
poetics English feelings mil dephiie ; I mean the
IA of Hanover—a hots which every Engliniman who
loves his Sovereign mull lament, b-caisfe it is the
tamilv inheritance of that gracious S wereign. The
readin4s with ',kith his Majetly has -Iy, fat ill.-d
every thing which belongti to his own , •-•1
I.
in Aire every an tin., p••ffetfes a • •.• v. oh
the ardent defire of reaming to th.i; H!iti•
ritance thus wrefted from it by the corm,: I.:1 e
was a time when leisure of that territory by
would not have been viewed wi:ri :nee
' by thofe Powers over whom the broad Nikki of Bri,ilh
pmteelion was fo oftenlpread alga in it Gait: ncr (melt.
ment ; but the times are changed,and in ih -I•)fs of that
territory at thismoment, the I:4lofcreditani advantage
to this country is not to be fo much 'lamented, as the
dreadful leffun it has taught the minor Pourers of the
Continent, that any conneetion with this eon it: y is
certain ruin. When you look at the map of Emope.
and behold thole countries which in former wars were
your allies, now Gccopied by rrench troops. and not '
onlyclofed againß you,but become the medium of me.
nace and attack upon nr, is it one to be lamented that •
before things came to fuck extremity fume endeavors
were not made to form aliiances upon the Continent,
or at kali to obtain the interference of fame G iemily
Power, if (itch there are to be found, to prevent tiiat
war for which, if you had not been better prepared,
you ought not to have commenced it. I agree with
the illulirious Duke who fpoke early in this debate,
that Malta was not the true caufe of war with this
country. For although it was the ollenfible and
avowed ground of the rupture, the tidecarie of war,
which impreffes the mind of every Englifliman, is
the implacable enmity of France to this country, and
the infatiable fpidt of aggrandifement that marked
her conduct through Europe. But it was the Pitoti.
DE*CII of Hsayss which perverted the mind of that
man who rijles France, to reje& the conditions ot.
fered to him on the fubje& of negotiation, his aecep.
tance of which would have led to the ruin of pour
country. My Lords, in the falfe fecurity for Peace,
which has called ever fence the conclufion of the
Treaty of Amiens, this country has been reprifing be.
• neatlinhe baleful umbrage of the poifoned tree. I
am glad that its drippings have bli tiered her feelings,
and roofed her attention from the flumber of death.
My Lord, awakened as we are, at length. to a fenfe
of our danger, we mutt every motnent behold the
folly of delaying the preparations for our defence,
and feel that we have not a moment to loft. My
Lords, when you talk of a mere defenfive war, you
talk of defeat and ruin. The mereft bungler that
ever handled a foil, if you nand merely upon the
defenfive, and let him thruft at yoe, he will ecr.
tainly hit you at tall. So, my Lord, will it be with
any enemy againft whom you merely nand on the
defenfive ; and the one with whom you have to con. _
tend is no bungler in the ufe of his weapons. lf you
wait for cold and tardy forms ; if the bufinefs is to be
done in-the nightgown and flippers of official ran.
tine. in vain will he your refinance, and hopeleflt
your fecurity. ' What was the cafe of'Aunria She
was one of the moll formidable nations in Europe,
but by oppofing cold forms to active vigour, by
fitting mathematical taaics againa hearts fwoln
with enthufiafm, the was conquered. It is not then,
my Load, by the cold forms of official routine, or
by the ufual proceedings of former times, we are to
prepare ourfelves for encountering the attacks of
that fort of enemy with whom we have now to
contend. I would exclaim to the Britith Nation—.
Rik, rife, my Cmmtry !
" Yw menhir you win portib r
Yon mull call up the whole force, the whole re•
fources, and the whole effedive vigour of your coon•
try to furmouot your danger, or you eat fink ender
its and better it were to fink in theglortous Anvils
of refinance, than crouch under the humiliation of
an inglorious defeat, which mull be the inevitable coo.
fequenee of a feeble and inadequate efost to repel the
foe. The whole difference between a manly arid fpi.
riled 'menial and a timid and fpiritleh canine. is
the fafety, or the total ruin of this countryse.Bot
juflified as you are in the eyes of the realm, and of
+ Europe, in the reaitude of your quarrel. you have
the hearts of the country with you s call upon them,
then, and they will anfwer to your Cutworms. It is
your. to give them the fire ot energy, and the tone of
vigour. Yon have the fame Drift& buttons that have
in all ages glowed with ardour in their country's
caufe s the faint &Wilt blood that lowed is die veins
of your gallant encellors at Agincourt, till animates
Britons. will again vibrate at your mall and ark
proudly flow eft the fame hoeourable eauft. As so
the refources of the country, in point of property,
on luck to o*alon, they are minor eonlideredusist
and be &threes not the name of Engliflunan who
would complain of theft. Nothiwg but an union of
the whole nation can femme we spinet the danger;
and, foe my owe part, I repeat rt. -I !hall as cheer&ily
draw my fword as a private in any rank for the de.
fence of my Country, as at the hood of aft army.—
My Lords, this is perhsrps the INA time I may haws
the opportunity of addretrang you, mid I wiSsto ufo
it in warn;ng my country ofirest danger font the fps.
cies of enemy to which Are as oppohd I the is obi.
retina under the (had* of a Cologne 'Ow keeps you
from else light of the fen : you molt neertern
or he will overwhelm you. It is lo elle so depend
upon Au& in et Nam ; they are both of naisd.—..