The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-04-30 00:00:00

'had beiia Witty tlitsaidoed;. &ire Was litresposta fet,
Mithraest Oh the•gthrattolv.• • Thi Hoe. tlentWidirseivei
`Aide tie usOtad baaiiide i sbudd *aliment, 'atattbisitti
•so mach had been said; it Would ill become bidet°. gd
ever Whale again.' He sltobld' meld otie.bitinielf to a
dew epliseivitians On the topics dr,the liigghYtlonpisYable
Bendel:had who bed just sal down.' On' that which to ik
,:pliteit at Verona; h 2 should meet the Right. Hon; 4.10ni1e.:
man re lioniis'e, and say there dyes in that transaction rmieti
thus enough to all on the head of a Minister
the deniers of thtt House; The Minieter Way *eked *he-
tieY the ginF of Enelabil would eithdraer hl Anibas
'Cador, 'acid give up to Fan& the adept of hertivoral
authority. They_ asked. ;him. what Orem* -lopport he
we:Ada give to Fratiesillt the • great intretition• of her •
nieistires." If AMU' tiestiose hail.leen answered;'
beeline as EngUidi 'Midair" to iittetet. the Ur/paws
would havi ;Merril tbe*reelinge ofindignitiod *doer:
Mined by die country uponledli proportitfoniC He kfalw.
not whether it was prudent to inakeriterhe restik
iiceitalialy was Shit Ahla' ditty oflifiellteri 'abandon
the high spirit of tbireditnfil. lAtif nOttanetd•ild
With the quistiob. 'ft 'pled have 'been lad • Etifand
never ten givi consent to proPridtlein"hf Net' It
is nut possible England can give her motal asp art iii
Such a nteditat, d act of laggiettsion, and so N' WO her
thriving any ehutal "oppairt Irma England; still *urriet
herself hound so turd v her moral Weight Lott tliVsattief
agile; Third Wet a line of proceeding sflort of war,
which would have saved the (fleetly ancituoial character
of the country from being pat into the mate in wet h it
'then stood: They shotild have: said, "we must take
these steps witliOut.trasisg ress;eig the strict line of ueo-
trail ty which May cnnineract your design", and wiciltfyou
are deter Mined on this 0410113 purpose we mast Withdrew
our Amba'isatine We will do all that is not a breirch.of
neutrality." litech a line of proceeding Violla have been'
more cousistent with the character of England, IX
Would have town a check to the detestable protect of
Wellington,Fran e,;,ficipireciiihOl en
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taking on herself. unnecessary responsibility. The Pa-
' pees made the Ministers appear particle:retie of Bourbon
injustice, and seducers of Spanish honour, because they
wide propositions 'Which Spain maid not give op;witie
Outteeerreeder of brinour. It was to attempt t•in 1 nee
Spain to give up her t 'onstitetion, not foe advdr:tag...,
because there was no k roof that the Carldnet of the Toil-
lents would alter their polity. The English uteirat• r
Dever give them any reason to ,repose that if Spaiiegave •
up leer Constitution, sheasould leicure' herself aisles' the
dart Beer which threatened her; The Dake of Wellington
Might see well in the firld.'but lee *is blinder thin a
mule to the faults of tleiiee he called leis Mends. Wei
there nothing in the conduct of Perdituted the Seeterb
to excite suspicion? De who ebsgraCed his mother, h, -
trayed his father, and when lee came back to the Theme,
murdered his defenders. It was spite impossible scot to
see there was not hope of fair dealing with that party.—
It Was difficult to believe the Ministers of thb (mute?
had act, al eith good Nth. If they lead been the accom-
plices and not the dupes of the French, they could not
have teen greater enemies to the'Spanierds. Fogiand
never was in. More danger than •Wbett the Bourbon's Ir.;
railed Spain. rtlic act of atrocity could succeed, *Civil-
ised Europe might bow to oppeestien. All would lie lose,
add gnglaud become
" A wilderness again—
: Peopled by wolves—its old inhabitant.."
Never was the indc penitence of Europe menared.en sin-
lenly. If France should suceeeil in.the siihjugletiou of
Spain, would this country remain in peace? It would
not he possible to avoid a scar of the worst character.
France in possession of Spain and Funnel, would in-
crease the influence of Despots in holy ethane', whit
would be West' anxious to surround and subdue our
ielanil. France lead no right to keep an army sill the
frontier to menace Spain, and the English 'Minister
should have been the last to justify the existence of such
an tinny. England, however, appeared to have ne voice
upon the subject. The great Lord Chat hata once said,
sword should not be drawn in Europe without the know-
ledge of England. The Ministers of the present day did
not wish to have any cootroul over a State in Abe very
act of employing hostile forces to strike insidiously at
her best and dearest interests. War was unquestionably
an evil of the greatest magnitude; but there was such a
tthiog as oatiorialhonour, which ought M be upheld at
all events. He considered national honour lebe sacri-
ficed by the course pursued by Ministers. Never before,
since England was England, would this country have
tamely looked on whilst France ever-ran Spain. But the
Right floe tient. had said a maritimewar would Malfc.the
war popular In France. This was new to his ears ; for he
had the authority of many of thee great commercial interests
in France, expressed in their Petition:, for supposing the
contrary, as be was led to believe teat the apprehensions
, of the evils which would result from a nitride*. war, made
the present contest unpopular, es they looked to its bring-
ing on eventually a naval contest. lle did not eonStdei. that
a war now declared by this country would be a war Nearest
• Fraace. It would he a war merely with the Bourtnihs; who
tyrannised over France. To shriek • from. each* contest
was, in his opinion, dishonourable and:cowardly, nod could
not but tend to the Injury of the oeutary. • bath Wes'itnt I re
policy which had been pursitedin former times. lie remem-
bered the words which had been used by One great
.ntan in
praise of another great man. • Taey Caine to thit, til*Lorn
Chatham an governed the country, thst• while with one hand
he wielded the Sovereignty or England. wide the edger he
streak down thee Bourboosof France.—Cheoge the position,
and to Aldan nurrator, as the present Goternment,
with one hand, kept, down the democrecy. of Breglaild,
while the other sustained the Bourhons in France, 'ran
course taken by this country ii, tile late negotiatioas,
ought to have been wholly different. England ought to
leave said to the Bourbons—" Yeti-I:Dow we seed your
friends—you know how much we leaee'doni for you.
,We wish you well, and are anxious to see you remain
where you are X but if you persevere in actions like these
England must of necessity become your adoeithery."
This was the language, which, in his jadgmentoltight
to leave been held. A strong lire of condoctirould as
well be taken *i a the suariter in mod°, As in any
other way, and hail this been done, tee was saiislied th.it
the'peace of Europe might have been preserved. No-
thinz coal.' have, been snore tinf.tattnapt—tiu.
could have been morecomplete than that of the F.oglisit
Ministers in the late negotiation. Ile contended that
Spain had been unfairly treated by Breland, and tar
from thinking the honour and dignity 4.4 this Cinntry
had been properly upheld, he was of opiltion that tee
part he had taken was dishonourable to our nation.il
character, and he aniieipated it would after • ell plunge
the Cimentry. in a war under more unfavourable icircet:o•
ihtlarei. than those under which we should, hare Avierect
WO the contest, if we had at once made eornmau cause
With Spain.
• Mr:WYNN rose, end, amidst loud cries of " speeder' I
withdraw !" moved that the debate be sdjonrned to to-mor-
row.
Thh question.having been put, loud cries of " go on, go
on!" Np, .`• t 1 Wu:rale r • Ear, bar r."` lattes-
lion, question !" lasted for some minutes.
Mr. REOUGII3M said, much as he disapproved of the
motion of eilieurnineut, he knew well that a motion of this
sort was sere never to • fall, as the Member who elms- to
propose It could enforce division after ditition. eat
Iletiee would receive with great humility the opinion he had
kathered from his experience, they would adjourn at one
(J'Plo, no 'I" Go on, -goon !"), lei teed ofteking the trouhie
Of dividing two or olive times, only protesting as he did
against the motion. He was extremely averse to the ad-
journment, as pie question tail' undergone two long distils-
-40,113, He was willing to affer..wheeit came to his tern; a
fewobWvotiivos, sad be only yielded to the motion Incense
the Member who had made alma the power of enforcing it
( rest of " tiro on !")
Mr, WYNN Wei he ha! pr _rinsed Lite adjournment be-

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