The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1812-06-02

we're now out Of employment, and that tenser thou-
sands working at reduced wages, which
scarcely suihccd to procure them subsistence. Was
he, when he declared this, telling the hungry
that he had bread2 He knew that an unrefor-
med House OF Commons had approved of all the
proceedingsof the Right 0onorablc Gentleman, aud
OF all his Orders IN Council but he knew too, that
the people aud the merchants out of the House
were. in every part Of the Kingdom, of very differ
cut opinions. Was not this table already covered
with petitions that daily multiplied ard he indeed
abandoned all his patriotism when he stated this
As TO what he had sail with respect to peace,
how Eas it possible for him 10 speak positively as 70
the fitness of the present moment I. but how could
any time he found appropriate unless the expert
inent were made Would the Right Honorable
Gentleman, looking back to that history in which
he was so well read, pronouncest to be his opinion
that we were hereafter, likely TO obtain such de-
srable conditions of peace as might have been
obtained at many former periodsl fhedr, hear.)
The Right Honorable Gentleman boasts OF
being the great and only barrier to Buonaparte's
desire of universal dominion. On this point there
could be no dispute; aad why were so because
it was the policy of the authors OF this and the pre-
ceding war had made ir so; had first made Buo-
naparte Consul fer Afe and afterwards IL, alliance
with ms ozra talents, had made him E7beror s.
enabled himro rannpLe spon every hostile state
The same errors and fallaees still circulated,
and still believed. One day Prussia was said to lie
ern'ing against France; another, she wasdescri-
bed uniting her force to that of France to as
ing on the Continent 1t his duty then to ask
the people to be msed no longer by the fatal policy
OF Ministers and he-wouid ask the Right Honora-
BILE Gentleman himself not to become the victim of
his own infatuation, by bringing the country to the
end Of its resources. He believed the period must
soon arrive when thswould be the case. He should
he sorry II any thing had fallen from him that might
bear Interpretation 70, eign to his intentions but
ne had deemed 1t an imperative duty to enter into
this avowal Of his sentiments.
The Chancellor of the Eachc9uer declared, that
every offensive impression which the honorable gen.
teinan had made more ON the feelings of his honor
abe friends than on his own, completely remov-
ed He had certainly not attributed to the honora-
bic gentleman that which he imagined him to have
dome As to the question Immediately before the
house. he held it to be desirable that in populous
towns the sodery ought rather be kept apart than
tobe quartered on the people. The honorable gentle
MAJ had again alluded the Orders in Councils but
could they be said prevent the importation of corn
when 1t was generally known that, notwithstanding
their operation eight millions had been paid last year
for foreign corn importedl The fact was, that the
scarcity was felt severely in France at present as
i'm England.
MIR. Whi,6rcd9 explained.
Mr.. Stephen held in his hand paper addressed to
member of that house, purporting to be signed by
StaRordshire Potter, in which he attributed
the present scarcity to the Orders in Council Would
the house or the country be deceived by these mis-
representations of ignorant manufacturers but that
they were countenanced by the conduct Of the ho-
norable gentlemen opposite !! He, therefore, did a.
gree with those who thought the public should be set
right IN point OF act-that the public should know
that those who carried on war against the Orders in
Council could not argue them when they came TO be
discussed-that it was French spirit and French ar.
gument which encouraged the propagation of those
unparalleled publications with which the newspapers
teeme'', and which were fatal to the peace of Eng
lishmen and privileges of mankind, and the forerun-
ners OF tumut and ,nsurrecton. In defending tn.
Orders in Council, the honorable gentleman adverted
70 the predictions Of the honorable gentleman (Mr
WhtDreadl has services might be beneficial TO the
Editor CT Moore's Almanac he might foretel that
there might be fall of snow in December or sultry
weather in Autumn, for there he might chance to be
right; but In his Mr.. Stephen's) experience, he
WAS the most unfortunate of all false prophets-He
congratulated the country the happy event of his
right honorable friends (the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer) retaining his situation, the difficulties and
iabors OF which his political enemies had declared
their disinclination 10 share with him but which hi.
Emperor talent and ability enabled him to fill tina,
srttuous situation with advantage to his country.
Mr.. POnsOn6y agreed with the honorable gentle
man, that 1t was happy elevation for of the
people when the right honorable gentleman succeed
ed to office, for If that event had not occurred, the
honorable and learned gentleman would not have
iiied the Office which he now holds. With respect
to what had fallen from his honorable friend MIR
Whitbread,) he entirely agreed with him, notwith-
standing the honorable and learned gentleman had
beeC pleased to recommend his honorable friend to
give his assistance to the compiler of Moore Alma
nae. What were the proofs of national prosperity
or OF national adversty Wasi it proof of the form
er that when two years ago. the Chan. of the Exche
raised loan, the three per cents were taken at 20
was proof OF prosperity, that last year they
on the same occasion at 64 And was it a proof of
prosperity, that in the present year, when he
proposes loan they should not be higher than 50 !
The honorable and learned gentleman, when talking
OF the Orders in Council, spoke of them with sort
oil parental warmth but his honorable friend had ne
yer charged the Orders in Council az being the oc-
casion of bad harvest. He had said that the effect
OF the war was to place foreign relations in such
state that in the event of dearth in this country
we could not go to any ports the Continent find
relief Was not the state of our relations with A.
mer1ca affected most materially by these Orders /!
Was the authority of America good authority when
she demands, as the price of restoration to good
understanding, the repeal of these Orders! The
right honorable gentleman then went to the more
Immediate question before the House, which was,
whether the immense sum of 1872 000l. necessa-
ry to be voted for the maintenance in barracks of
$50 men and horses or whether it was expedent,
under the present circumstances of the country to
compel the administration to go with a limited
scale OF expenditure for some years What was the
state of the expenditure Every year it increased.
When the honorable gentleman who had spoken
lately Mr.. Huskisson FLIED the Office of secretary,
the expenditure vase millions more than the pre-
ceding years, and this year the excess would be 80
millions. Was his honorable friend to be blamed for
desiring the house not to increase the burthens Of
the country! What effect wer. these cavalry stables
to produce on the enemy! Would Bonaparte be
terrified Into subsection by them! Would the troop
ers be better disciplined and become better soldiers
because they had expensive stable for their horses
With respect to the circulation of inflammatory pa.
pers to which the honorable gentleman had alluded
the gentleman opposite would not circulate infam.
matory papers, No, no, from the ministerial side ]
nj. al