Star.
London, England, 1803-06-03 00:00:00

Ir3P, he dreaded tc fee a people fo near him who
o • • 1 I w t!) fuch vaivattie c.olitotion i vile-
t • .it's Nation ivt:oges, .libel ntal
e- i...ce his traany in an (1,11.1,1, view. lIC h. 13
lo extravagant efforts were to be
c ' ; : 1,1‘7:1 eff,tts he by no me ins .tppr Ned,
b ot:c. when they lad hen reforted to by
bean proved to be rinfehievons in their t ffeds.
• •d, h••,‘-ever, that every pt taper and vigor nut
ex •: tit n wondl h • made to rescue Europe from the
thttahicro sshielt the is placed in to doing, this
Canntry would not tail to promo e her own intereas,
and to rl ice her fectirity on the &melt balls.
E its Gems:. E HOS faid, he lhould not take up much
of th.ir Lordships' time ; he thought they would do,,
well to negative fume of the refs lotions ; and tin the
Li • c !houll move the previous gitellion. He beg
ged -Lett Lordships not to confine thernfelves to .t
Harrow view I,t' the lubjeti. They mutt know, that if
th• rpteflion be carried, an impeachment will, of
course, follow. He defiled their Lordfhips to keep
in mind the time When Miniffers were called to their
prefent Rations was a critic of great danger; to re•
coiled the Not.hern Confederacy, which they, by
their prompt and vigorous meafures, had broken ;
and alto, that they have, more than once, given their
approbation of the condo& of Minifters on the adital
Date of affairs. He agreed with the Noble Earl,
that Minillers ought not to continue in office, if they
had 101 l the confidence of the People ; but this was
a point which the Noble Earl had by no means made
apparent. He aim agreed with him, that Miniders
might have found a jultification for going to war, in
the annexation of Rama and Placentia, of Piedmont,
and all the other separate aggrelfions, but he could
nor fay they would have been right in doing fo.—
The second Resolution dated the chief mifcondud of
Ivltmaers to be, in their not having made earlier com-
munications ; but as their Lordilips had determined
that it was right to continue at peace, if poffible, he
mull fay, that pofitir n of the Noble Earl was not
founded. In hi: opinion, the condud of Miniaers,
both for fpirit, firmnefs, and temper, formed a hap.
py contrak to the mad conduet of Bonaparte. He
hoped the French nation will, on the prefent occa•
lion, open their eyes to the tyranny by which they
are fubjngated, and throw off the yoke that galls
them. In Inch an event we fhould at lean have one ,

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ii chance more of preferving the petce of mankind.—
il., His Lordfhip contended that, during the time of our
h lying been at peace, we have laved what we fhould
I .. have (pent had we been at war. Some, indeed, might
argue, that the fooner the war began, the fooner it
• would be over, and fo balance the matter as nearly
• equal ; but from that; he differed in opinion. His
, I Lordthip concluded, by moving the previous queftion
on the firft Refolution.
Lord DARNLEY concurred in opinion with the
Noble Lord who had juR fat down, and thought that
the more the French Government were reprebenfible,
fo much the more were the Minifters liable to Tome
cenfure, becaufe by proving a great deal againft the
one, ton much might be proved againft the other.—
Some of the propufitions which had been read this
night were, he laid, entirely new to him, In that he
was not at all prepared entirely to agree to them.—
The find appeared to him to be grounded upon the
affections made by the Minifters themfelves in his Ma-
jelly's declaration. In the fecond his Noble Friend
had Rated, that his Majefty's Minillers had, either di-
reedy or indireAly,„oiven Parliament realm to believe
that we were in Inch a Rate in regard to France, as
to be enabled to Secure the continuance of Peace, and
that filch a conduit in them was a pofitive at of de-
ceiving Parliament. There were, no doubt, a va-
riety of occalions in which they might come to Par-
-1 ment and give it and the country tome idea of the
reel foliation in which they Rood. They mutt cer
Lindy have felt their Situation at the time of his Ma
je ty's Mefrage, but they knew the country had a
ili nog defile for peace, and they therefore chafe the
lead of two evils, and he had no diffi.ulty in thinking
t`tey did right, though perhaps they did not hold
lac
,{cage firing enough with the Court of France,
when the Firlt Cooled firft took poST ffii in of the lea.
Lao Repuhfic, at the time of the ceffion of Lortifia-
na, between the Signing of the Preliminaries anti the
Defiiiitive Treaty. No man could doubt of the pro.
pricty of bringing the matter to a decifion at that
time, ere we had diminiffied our refources. On there
g unds he could not help following the example of
the Noble Lord, in imagining
.himfelf called on to
carers, without any hefitation in his opinion of the
condo& of Minifters. As to the behaviour of France,
he Rootlet confine himfelf to the confifeation of ref-
tels, which had been Rated as no ground for war.—
lie begged leave to differ from that opinion ; and
=tuft traintain, that if there was any one particular
snearov• of hoilility on the part of France, worthy
of caiiing forth the vigorous interpofition of this
country, it was that point of procedure ; one in
which the national honour was materially involved.
Would any man tell him that they were entitled to
confiscate Phis and cargoes, a meafure fo completely
Abaci five of the laws of I:ofpitality ? Could it be i
laid. that if we ourfelves had afted in fuel' a man-
ner, we would not be acing holliley ? He contended, ,
that. Gni:oat/tent would have been entitled to exalt
jolt reparation. As to Switzerland, it would have
been mild, more laudable in Miniflers to have left it
' or its fate, than to aft as they have dome in that par-
Ocular ; but alter all, the grand point in difpute
fcerned to be Malta. This was a point which the
French Government firlt took up with great eager-
refs :titer the Negotiation had ladled not lels than
three m.inths. It was a place which he thought
Manlius Should either have confidered of lets conic-
venee to this country, or it was 'one upon which,
without !milt 'don, they ought firlt to have gone to
war. lie did not like the principles of French Negro
tiatrons. With ref; ato the va: iety of infults which
Lave been (laced in /as Majelly's Dee 'ration, filch
as England not 1•.:u,1 able to maintain a war with
Flatlet ; a proporal to irif: huge on the liberty of the
pick; and due givisig lip of the tintiuttinate Princes
who were exiled into shit Coontry, he dinualo that
all there had been treatod by Mitiiiiers a ith jolt con-
tempt. and thettfore he would rrt lay much birth
upon them. l'p n the oh. le. [lyre .ere, uith refpeA
t t the propofitior.. t cliffs i:1:. g hi, 7,(.,jelly's Minister*,
he could not Itch, it al i.A. th.t• ii:: Lid brarel no
weighty Cii,:i3i.0..11'..i!l them to.; oloy li4r.h a soca-
Int t. ; lAA %Veil lie I 4'e, tip( 11 lii hie • t tic 11,111eTS
Filiels were :relate the 11.•tife, that I. •t condun in
tc ate particulars has nor been sib it :t ( .?:,Ilt to have
It .r., he thought he ••vould not be 4.1ii0, 'tit candour,
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