The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-05-26 00:00:00

v. as istonting;#ll whole question. Our efforts
• wade' SlOpeptsett tic-Military Chief, and converted
Frantic listw's wrest Military Power ; and to make
him less anti the country less hostile,
we dere detertaiued to gn to war. Was that the
way to curb mad reduce that military spirit of
which so much apprehension was entertained
contrived it must have an effect entirely oppo.'
site. As to the abstract subject of peace or war, he
wet not how called on to debate it—since the Noble
• Lord had told them, that the country was actually
in a state of hostility. The question merely was,!
" whether the House would eIrIvP/111 en opinion in t
favour of what hell been execoteti at Congress !"';
—At no time could that Hoist he parties to a
Treaty. They might impeach Ministers for ad. I
airing that which was wrong—or they might re.
fuse to stets an *pillion on that which was not
folly eapieitted to them, with reference to a Treaty, !
etid that was all his Noble Friend intended to do.
He felt that the Horse could not agree to the Ad.;
• dress, since they were not cognisant of all the stipii.
%done with *Mai the Treaty was connected—and,
therefore, he had proposed the Amendment. The '
• Right Honourable Oesitleman then went into a •
*louts review of the Treaty, and contended, in a
Very foreibleargument, that, however it might he
'denied, it rest object of the war was, not merely !
• to dethrone Bonaparte, bat to replace the House of
• Bourbon et 'the head of the French Government...,
TM, Wow*. eoetract **tell the Allied Powers had 1
:eirrinedaliti to falfils dad-he cenceired it to bee royal
• uerlableillid lova* else. •Titty were told, however, •
' that Miteeoerable a thee fur attacking Bonaparte
Weald anew-occur again.since France was not in
-a atita,te -offer teeth resistance. His Right Hon.l
'Friend had described the French Ruler es being •
'irltlteat cardry—wititoet money—without credit—
andkrithoot tide. If he were in this deplorable
state, why had net our army marched into France,
nod driven kW from the Throne ? Why do we wait !
'fee Austria, Ressia, and Prussia, when we might ob. -
tato all the glory ourselves ?—[ Hear, hear !) —He
elks droll that the ardour of his Right lion. Friend's
iesiginalini had Weakened the strength of his judg- I
• ',tent, and. together with his hatred of Bonaparte, !
bad caused him to overtook many difficulties which
were plainly seen by others. It was argued, that the
•people of France were averse to Bonaparte. Ile
-knew it sus at all times difficult to collect the mud.
'meats of a nation ; but there were here very strong
indications that a great portion of the French people
were favourable-to him. Of this he was convinced,
that, if they were not attached to Bonaparte, no bet.
ter mode could he devised, for the purpose of creating
that attachment, than carrying on the war its the manner I
intended. This fact was of great importance, in viewing
this pert of the sahl,:ct, that though Louis XVIII. I
Iced filled the Threns'of France for -a year, not an
'silk was raised in his defence, not a drop of !
*rood nu sited in the protection of his rights, when
liboaparte landed its France, and he was obliged to
itelt She capital of his dominions, without a single j
lien being being made to support his claim to the
Throne. bevy moment of Bonaparte's life, they •
'wow told, skewed the falseness of his nature. And
tits Noble Lord, to prose this, bad referred to a Francis
-11FeeitPaper, an extract from which he had read to
pane persons in a coffin-hoot* in France, who ion.,
ieediately declared there was no troth in the differ.
lint statements. But this was net a very happy
illustration of the Noble Lord's position, for when
•Ihe Newspapers were under the indsence of the
french litenarchical Government, they were by no
*tans backward in the propagation of falsehooth.--e.
The Noble Gerd must recollect the numerous fa.t
Voider* which appeared in those Papers from the
brae lituraparto landed until be arrived in Paris. It
was *trod that we were now in a better, and France.
in:a WOO steal, for proceeding to war, than was the
Twee lest year. This he did not believe to be the fact.
*erWe had recently lost great numbers of excellent
*Mears and soldiers; and, he believed, Ministers
had sot yet made up the deficiency. While, on
the other hand, Bonaparte having got back all his
prisoners, and having made great exertions to levy
additional troops, would stand in a mach better
situation than he did at thee close of the last war,
whets his forces did not amount to more than 70 or
80,000 men. The Right lion. Gentleman then ad-
verted to that part of the Treaty by which the par-
ties contracted never to ley down their arms till
the oltiectwf the war was obtailled." This stipula-
tion be strongly objected to. flowerer firm the Coa-
lition now was, we might be again deserted by our
Allies, as we before had been. What then would
be the consequence? Why, this country would be
undated to the humiliating situation of entering into
tiegociations with that Power which was now con-
teetried. The war sarely might have been com-
mence d without this country being called on to enter
into luh a Wipulation. He was one of those, how-
ever, who thought that this country, in conjunction
with her -Ailies,--zentsimake a peace more sure and
favourable than aver could-6a frideaTett Irjr-wattese..
He did not mean to rely on the character of Bona-
parte. He acknowledged hit abilities, but he re-
spected not his character. Still he thought that his
situation might be so mach altered, as to compel him
to agree to such an tirrangenient as woold give per-
manent security to Eueope. The Right Hen.. Gent.
concluded by expreasiug his determination to vote
for the Amendment.
• hlr. PLUNKETT, ;ma speech. of great ability,
supported the Address. Her argued, that we had a
just cause of war against Bonaparte..-that the gene-
ral principle of interference with - foreign Govern-
ments, when -their Constitution threatened their
neighbours with danger, was freqeently acted on,
and was perfectly justifiable—and that the whole
termer of Bonaparte's life, from his first assump-
tion of power to the present time, proved that no
peace, sonsistent with the honour and mkt, of the
country, could be concluded with him:.
- Mr. PONSONBY explained. •
• Mr. TIIMUIr/ thought it omost unwise thing,
end esprereedented in the history of the world, to
common* a war for the are purpose of getting rid
of sae use. When •tite Allies last year talked of
giving better terms to -France is consequence of the
restoration of the Bourbons, they by that very let.
'guar implied, that setae terms would have been
ranted to Bonaparte, lied certainly did not 'atte-
stors the Idea that there could be no peace with that
iaditldual. • -Bonaparte had conraitted 110 new