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•*.ich his Majefly's Minlkers'were forced, had been
to the iiiiiat lc') in which the count: y been
let hy tliji lit cdecetpirs, and that it was eutiiily
I wine" OWII eXeltlutlS th.lt the C.,tonti y was
c(incl,id: a prace. 1.3!:t he defiled to ap
,•• the of the country, and 1.0 the
1./1 'o,lge of eve's wan who braid Lint, wi•cliet.
t the Conredetacy of die Ni 7:tl'ya.
tits ~1 the lute Anminittiati•m, th it tine,: seas
11.4 !,,,:p.treti an4l lir e pedif i.• 11 d, it•:iier di:
his NI .;eels'. late Minitlers,
" • nof wh'i't that Confederacy w.ts elree
to ills broken 11;1? Ile sins l appeal to ,i:e fame
and the lcdAe, wliethei Iliv
tif tint. arms iii Egypt, for which
the pi el:Lnt Adriiiniflrittin took In ninth ci edit.
Ns I, tif aid by thole very ittrnie• prepared, and
it eves (clic litinn projeCled by thi it predecel-
fors ? This bang the Cale, he thought it rather
hard, that the conduit of his Maielty's late Mini (lets
flusuld be ii IC} darlv and iirelevantly introduced for
the ritirpiile of centime, when nn quellion a, to them
was 1),I0re the llotife. The Hon. Member, whole:it
fat down, had faid, the ref. httion now propofed, car-
ried a too droop, becatife an unfounded, cenfore on
Minia4rs ; but if he would only advert to the Ipecific
lanKiivs of his Majelli's late Marilfeflo, he would
there And the wind. of the refoltiritin,alrnott verbatim
itiferted The declaration emphatically dated the
condo& oldie French Government, from the moment
of the Inznatme rf the Treaty of Amiens, to that of
the iecal of the By ifith Andialfadiir, to be one conti-
nued lei its it !greffion and infult. This, then, be-
ing avowedly the earl., would it now be ooltelided,
that the condutt of his Majetly's Minillers was fuch
as became their duty. in maintaining the tights, the',
honour, and the di;...rity if this main, tar of his Mx.
jelly's Clown ? or o•onloi it he contended, that their'
final refolutionlo break off the Negociation, .and to
tefume hohliiies, was induced by the occurrence' of
any new aggro ffion, or the knowledge of any fait of
which they we, e not in poffelfion for months before?
The lion. Member had defired to know the date on
which the first ditcutlicm refreeing Malta took place
in that Houle. He wciuld now inform him it was
on the t4th of May 11102, 'that" the debate took
place in that Honk upon the Treaty of Peace, which
included tne doeuffna on the fiipulations reipaling
Malta. His Majesty's Minitlers then knew that the
Spanilh Langue had been aboliflued in Malta, and its
revenues withdrawn; they even knew this to have
been the cafe pre fly to their ligning the Definitive
Treaty, of which it VMS a breach ; and yet they
vied into circa. Nor did they, in the cootie of the
diseuffinn which took place no that 'Meaty, think fit
to give Parliament any intimation of the circum.
fiance. Under all the accumulated feries of aggtef-
fions upon the part of France, ilia did his Majelly's
Ministers continue uniformly to amufe the Houk
with alforarices of their ritrfe& reliance upon the per.
Manence Peace, and their firm convittion that no
apPrelienlions fOr loolility were to blentertained : an
iminiation was at length given in his Majefly's Mef
Sage at the beginning of the prefent Safions, that
fame AtFAIlhAd occulted on the Continent which he
did not like, and that it was neceffary to be prepared
for rc,ulte Still, even then, the Right Hon. Gen.
tlemho, in anfwer to the onellion of an Hon. Friend
of iris, declared the fame pacific fentiments, and
(cited there was within; to so-air:4ot the apprehertfton
ofhisfliliiies ttp..it the whole, front the month of No. i
verilbar Olio:, wild March lad ; not one tingle jot
had occurred of novelty in the aggrefliou of France
towards this chtmery. except the report of Selia Cant ;
and would hi, Majesty's Minitters fay, this developeo
any thing new to which they were not before ap.
prized ? It es as; iii tad, nothing which co Wei add in
the iof aasati a winch Minillers already•hati, and
menfideied of itself, ought only to be relented as an
infuh ; but as to the tanks of war, upon this as well
as upon eve, y other head of aggreikoa they were al-
ready well known to his Majefly's it/hatters ; and
avowedly, as appeared by the papers on 'the table,
the fubjell of a tame., patlive. and hddliliating degos
Ciation, in which, he would not Waste to fay, the
honour of this country was in a mil} rtprehenfible
degree abandoned. •
Lord Tireree verrealy coincided with the Noble
Lord who had just Ipoke upon the fubjett of the fire
Refolution•propoled by the Hon. Menthe• who open-
ed this debated It was Wily avowed, and. acknow.
!edged in his Majesty's late dcclaratofy Manifesto.— !
Theft the Houle had the candid aiowal of his Ma:l
jelly's Mibitters as to what had been the Cando& of
France. (In the part of that Government, every
principle f hostility was obvioufly in full force tas
wards this country, from the moment of figning the
i
Treaty of Amiens to the Mein% hair ; and the int-
. plac Ode malice of that abominable homicide who
now ),retitled over that Government, who, after fa-
sragillg Europe, had infinuated his way into Egypt
by the profcflion of his infidelity, and efeSed his
erear.slan of is by the cold blooded murder of bis
plitimeis, and the treacherous poilutring of his own
41, ii aid wrainJed fildiers. But knowing, as bis
hia;ell)% Mithillcrc avowedly did, the uninterrupted
s, and linilile aggretlions of that man towards
thi, c..untry, low they eoold, day after day, come
to Rii liart.enr, t tel .411 communication, afro ting
a paciSe. fcciirlty, and at Lull cotr.e down to thk
Howe avowing their progreilive Inowledge of all
thole eaufes f wat, no which they before profeffed"
ignioance, was for tnenifelves to explain. On the
23.1 f Neven:her. at the opening .1 the prcicnt
Majc 's Mini ikrs declaro dto the tlnufe,
they had no ground to Infix& hollility ~n he ran of
Ftance ; hut, ,::.twith!ttnehing this affurance,
Lord.l,;p wnul.l 114,W take esuon hire les adert, ibat
they wric at that moment potietlt of of the knew-1
ledge of es-cry f‘ et which they now dated as jiiinfia-
ble gr.atrufs of n at which wruld be readily proved,
by atis'eltnle a Brae to dater; nlnch (hew that the
Inticr.o.;cht
.01 Pat ma to France had taken place on
the std .1 Wither ; that the Commercial Agents,
who (Inca- I,een tiiliotered to be military Spies,
received their order f(ir this con-try on the 17th of
Novemb:r ; that the violence done to the Brnith Orr'
in the Freurni hal boors, by kiame and e. I,Mca.
ti ti, to atilt- a c.:ofe t•I vial., had taken ph, i.n the
23,1 t.I 0:10ber ; in a word, that CVO), (Ingle aft.
Pave one, is! which the Minitlers now complain, as
caufes of war, had exifled before the runiniettrement
af the prelim &lion of Parliament. Get the aj hof
oariber, 'he Ploptietor of the flip George wrote
litalle to his Guyer: meat, ccollaining of UK unpre

relented violence and teverity offered to him by else.
tc.tore and confircation of his Blip and cargo, trprns
I...eiter pretence than that the knives and forks which
!le urea at his meals. in his own cabin, were of Eog-
;jot manufacture. The meet grottnd of complaint,
on the Nit of Minitlers, was the occupation of 'Hui-
am' by French troops: Mr. LiGn's firil difpateh
upon t:.is fohjea was dated the isth ..f Orlober. , A
I,o.hytietit di:patch, after a remontirance macii upon 1
iii, Itt;.j.a, is dated on the 2911 of the fame month.;
ott did that Rate that thwie troops had evactiotetd
Holland ? No fuck thing : it Rated only, that they
had marched to the frontiers, occiip;ed Bergen-op-
Zoom, and Come other of the arongcli Im trcifesupon
the hordes of the Dutch territniy. Did it appear
. hat his Majefty's Minifiers had made any effeanal
1 emonfirao.ce upon this tobjea, in Welt' another in.
Irarlion of the Treaty, and legitimate ground of
war? No : But when further explanation is prelred
for, a Noble Lord, upon duly (earthing, produces
a paper from one of the pidgtor.holes oh his ',mean,
wiOch !laces, indeed, that a very able letter \lad been
written to lionapatte on the fohjert, and t) conse-
quence was, that he had agreed to march 1 s troops
from the hcatt of Holland to the frontiers that it
as not thought expedient hy his Islajelly'sMi ifters to
ic
pi cf. the matter farther, but rather to acquict in the
In 'nue of leaving a French army in poifeili of the
ft matter towns of Holland, than tretpars on the difcre-
It. .n of Bonaparte.' With refpea to Malta, his Ma
' jetty's Menillers knew that they ligned a Treaty which
was violated on the part of at leall one of- the gua
ranteeing Powers, even before it was ratified ; and
which, if enlace, they knew they could not fulfil.—
H:, however, agreed with the principle pleaded by
Minitiers, that the great change of circumthances, on
tie part of one of the parties to the l'itaty, namely,
France, before the fur render of Malta, amnanted to
a full juilific'ation of the refilfal to furrender the place.
It -was on the 27th of April, 18oz, that the King
of Spain st adrew the Spanifh Langue with the Re'
v. nues attached Cr. it ; and bitinglys knew, before
they fignetithe Definitive Treaty:that it was imPaSble
to keine the independence of Malta, alter tbofe re-
fources were withdrawn, which were to•fir,,nort that
independence; yet knowing this, his Majeity's Mi.
'tillers were worrying all the Courts of Eniope with
their applications to guarantee the independence of
'Malta, which they knew could not be ratified accord-
ing to the fpirit of the Treaty. AU there circum
(lances were prior to the 23. d April, i Sox. The next
i iliance of aggiandifement or the conduit of France,
wag in the care of Switzerland, and every circum-
Rance which could render the interference bf this
'country necelfary, if it was necrffary at all, bad csc7
cutred reWoully to the 23d of November, as ,n
that day Mt. Moore was negotiating at Conllance
t'pon circonillances which, if they, had been Rated at
tile moment, would prove to have been an inevitable
colic for war. Yet dill his Majefly's Miniders gave
alfurances;that no'groands of hoiliiity was irrise aps.
pethended. The nest WAS the cafe of Caytaind'Au-
vergne. already too.-recent in the memory .51 lid !
H aide to require chenment i 'and this too. as call is
the preceding chew/Silences. had occurred prewinuily
.to the 23d of Novesnber. But not only at th.it pe-
rind, but even fro low dawn as the 23d et Febetsiary
Jat, Minitless continued to give the tame ptsitie at-
formes', notwithltanding what had fines appeared
to have occurred in the interim, which' rendered the
Milli of *At palpably inevitable. On the cul...t• Fe.
he nary 'order, were forwarded to Lord Whitworth
t., make remonßranccon the report of Schailiatilt
On the s 7ih of February he made that retrmartnce;
and 0.1 the nil Of the fameenonth occurred that al
t,rcatinn between Lord Whitworth and Bonaparte.
in t, h,c_h the latter avowed his defigns upon Egypt.
upon- Turkey. upon our 'polleffions in India ; and
yet on the twent•-• third of February &tenth'', pet.
tailed in their stiiiirances of peace. But on the
twenty fecond of March, his Mar ii y's Mini tier‘, after
re long, and fo repeatedly refuting all communication
to the Houk. at length threw c.ff the mate, and intl.'
-mated their apprehenfion., that the country might be
forced into war. The eggreffinn fence difclored,,joiti—
i fied,"indeed, the adoption of that meafure ;—thts in-
; fulted country was ready for the war land every map
I mon- feel with indienation the condud that provoked
it ; thrift Minillery who fo repeatedly called on that
! Houle for iinplkh confidence e and he Rill eon clued
'to the lag that there was no danger of nothiities, On.
Itil the moment they were forced to allow that !Alt.
Utica were inevitable. The qaellion now to be raked
was, not only hoW far his Majefty's Mtnitker were ,
informed of the real fitnation of the country, view:thee
by their ftthmition to the infolts of 'France they had
IBM drawn this country into a hdiniliating and de-
graded lituation t? but to enquire whether they had
done that which was their duty to this great coon-',
try, in Making thole interferences which they had
th.ought necetiary in relation' to the affairs of the
Continent, with that becomilg firmnefs and 'cirgoitYe
. heft calculated to render their itterfetence effeetuall
On this fuNett he felt
in
warranted to withhold
his tonfitlenct.; and this doubt be was *fully judi-
fied, as well by the whole of their eondial, as from
the documents now lying on the table. In the whole
of ;bort documents he could find bat one fingle pa.
ragra ph is, Which the fubjea of trade was mentioned ;
1 and even in the renionfirancts Rated to have been
made by Mr. Merry, relpelting the 'hip George,-not
even one anfwer of any tort appeareetto have been
given. Next came the tubjell of the Commercial
Arius; or as they had been more properly termed,
privileged Airs, of France, feat in refute .in this coun-
try, under the direfii,in of Bonaparte. Did it appear
there had been a tingle remonitrance made or the'
i ground of this daring aggrellion ? 'The.only thing,
whi. it appeared in palliation to the laffitede of his
Majeti y's Mini tiers, on thi. ground was. that oat only 1
of thole agents a as fent out of the Btitilb dominions
• from Gnernfey ; but the reit were noly told they
would ire font away, if they proceeded to the towns of
their r. ,pectire deliinations. Still, however. they were
WE rcJ to ieniain in Lonclett, %%Myna let or macaw
ti-st, on: i. the very moment of Andreoffes departure.
The next li'Jjc..l to which he would emu, was the
testa At`.lllot llolland by the French. troops, indite.%
violation of the treaty ; hot after the rerriontirance
if Mr. Liton on the itibiefl. when he (Lacs that.the
only arr:tigerns.nt he er-.11.1 at& was Ihe march of
thole tr. tsp, to the frontiers, and their occupation of
the it r,m;,..e; waits of the whole sounirr. The nest
rnealure is.froted by his Majedee.hlitiOlers was to
‘..a.a•ar.± :htia order. fur the furreticler 14 the Cape t
lie c,...1J ~ here believed the eircurnilarice, if he

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.had not estate it avowed by art'aoß. gerriber MAL
thy Gallery, that no further, remonllrance whatever
had hien made upon this decided cattle of war....eet
The nest filijeCt was' Siviteeriand. Hatt Milliners
..rtnire iliterfered in a manner becotning..the.digniu.
,of this nation, or bad-the. refult-of-their-httesfe!
rerwe prov:ed that it was received with attention Oil;
fpeCt ? 0.1 the ; 2th of July the Swifs remonstrated
to this country. On the 1 xtliorgpremlierThi=r;
Patriots were in arrn. They looked to this c,,,,et.,y,
as the only one in Europe wbiclocould make effeetual
rernonftrance with France nth their behalf. On the.
toth of October following, a remonnrance was made •
to Mr. Otto ; to that it is aliened no anfwee
.was!
ever given, his Majefty's Minidees bell knew thefaiatt 1
but public rumour laid an answer was given, and that
of the moil offentive kind ; for Mirtitters were, thid,,
on that occafion, to be referred for an aufwer to
the Treaty. of Amiens.• which: precluded this court-
: try from all pretenflans to interfere :with the eau-
' terns of the Continent; and although here wa,s an•
other WWI, which would ~notify our immediate re-1
courfe to arms,. yes his blajelty's Miuiners deny
having ever received any aufwer to the owly re-
monftrance on the Cultic& which they had the
cottrage.to make. On the 25ili of Novkalb4, Mr.
Moore was fent out with. directions to reach 'cur.;
land by ear), joornies s•witerea on his itrtival,; when
alighting from his carriage, he was told the Diet of
g.chwitz had furrendered. Fie had received.intieuc,
tions to look abont him, andlee if there were a force
of Swill, Aullrian, or Ruffian troops.in tesdinefe tol
thpport the objeaof his mitilots..; but it appeared that
ht faft no arrangement whatever had. been made to
fultain his remnryilrante. On i11e.2541i of November
the Minifter writes alto to Mr. Merry, but too late;
and then all Europe hears of the interference of this
Government on behalf of Switzerland.. Mr. Moore.
remains on the Continent, try/tiling from. Court to
Court, teceived.hat lonic, rejefted,by others, fetkingi
in vain for (import to his mann; and. on the twenty
arch of December, he retains ro England, and 1
the unfortunate Sails nation to its tate., Yet. after
all there aggrelLons, and jull caufes of war, Minillera
at tail make their Rand, uson the avowed Hews of
the french Conful upon Egypt. and upou Malta. as
the key to Egypt; and Lord Whitsinoth is initrutied
to fay, noilting but the perpetual poffeffion.of Malta
will fati.ty the Br ;nth Government. But Talleyrand
goes hill further, for he declares, that the rental of
Great Britain to furrender Mattis, will be erlolide
as an unequivocal declaration of war. Alter this
comes a new offer from his Maleny's Milliners,
who lower their tone, and tender Women= after ni-
timatitm, and projet after wrier; they little in theim,
demand, to humour the-pride of the Fetid Gonfal,
and then comes the lait ultimatom, which, inflead of
I in on.Maita in perpetuity, btu-kips only foe its
temps racy putidlion, a ith the fovereiguty of the de-
fart barren rock of Lampetintit s.a...poit,, which.%
render it tenable or utiritil, goad' Ont Ai s country, to
the expence of p mutating, c ttiti vat ing, tletiflog, and
making an }whom., bore it mild give.illeitcr Ur
' a Brhith dill,, and thus, 1.,r the (*treader tif•Kilte.,
1 the key of Egypt.—the polfetiron of Italy•a7 the on-
! bunt of Germany Eitgland.,was to receive..!, an
erode dent. Lampedota. es a V,n. (et, if.r.fritalloo ald .
nut freest. The neat intuiting proposition of Bona.
pane was. his demand to tontroul the liberty of the
BritiilePrcfs,,a demand the molt abominable and in-
tuiting that could poilibly be hfferedto the foihit,of.'
Engiithmen, on one (.1 the mutt valued of their pre.
vileges. nut, though lie applauded the tejeClion of.
tucks demand, what was the fprieiesuf remon (trance?
one equally tame and degrading with alt the reft. The
netts demand was with refixed to the banithment of
the French Emigrants who took refnge in this coun-
try. The demand rdbatlithing the French Princes to,
Poland;and the demand, p7%' deporter, the French
Eeclefiallics who had received the pinteCtion of this
country to Canada ; an idea admirably airwiating
with the French deportatious to Cayenne, BLit hero
again. he contended, that the cooduEt of his Majef-
ty's Ministers was equally tame, fpiritlefs, fubn'tilEve,
And degrading; but their anfwcr to the demand of
depleting the French Clergy, that they would take the
titbit& into contemplation, wee on: which precluded
all further neeenity for comment. The (tory itfelf 1
was enough to (Liggett the reprobation it ought to
meet. Baying gone through the whole of his objec.
tines, the Noble Lord in a Ihort peroration recapitu-
lated the leading points, and concluded by °blasting.
that if there were men in that Houle, who, titer, what
he bad laid, corroborated as it was by the printed
I Ilatements upon their table, and what had been ex-
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perienced in the two years of peace, could fity. that
his Majefty's prelim blinitiers merited the further
imandente of this country, fur the maintenance of its
dignity and fecurity. or its interells, let them vote
avian the Refolutions ; ntherwite they were bound
to vote with him, and thole with whom he had the
honour to be cnnneaed, and who were not prepared to
• feerifice the honour and the interefts of this country
1 at the Ovine of Mil:Mere. who had eleven dummy,*
,to utterly incompetent to condo& it. •
Mr. lissaitouss role to defend the conduet of his
Majelty's Milliners. Wile Noble Lord, and others
sehn preceded him, had charged thole Ministers with
• unconnitutional condo& in' neglecting to communi.
leats to Parliament, from time to time, the leveret
1 topics io difcuffion between them and the government
l of France, and the fucceffire hues and final refults
lof their reanonitrartees upon the points in difpute.—
For his own part, little as he pretended to be verfed
in the minutia of Government. vet he would venture
to afferi, that his Majelly's Miniliers did precitely .
what they ought to bare done, In the cafe alluded to; •
for had they done otherwife, had they come down
to Parliament, day after day, and communicated
every circurntlanee of difpute and difcciliinn, every
?riga and Cermet PP*I that might base been-fuppufed
•in the cootie of a Diplomatic Negotiation, wish the
reafons upon which Inch Pr:,,,ate were maintained
so rejelled, the contemsence would be, to excite
irritation between the Commies, and to propel
thole very hollilities which it was the ohjeCt of net
gotiation to avert. If Knitters had adopted the I
very condo.% which they were now charged with
having unconliitutionally and criminally omitted.,
they would have incurred encore for their weak.
nets, folly, and imprudence. in obtruding theft
1 difputes upon the notice of Parliament before they
were oonclnded, which Parliament would very
rproperly h.sor told them it was their bufinefs to dn.-
cafe and bring to Km, a iih• en expOting the fob.
Rages of thefe Argus:seats which alight be maintain-