The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1815-07-29
ENGLAND.
HOUSE OF COMMONS.

| The address to the Prince r. gtG., assuring
| his Royal Highuess OF the coryiai support of
| the House in any measure he may take, iii
| oniunction with h S all es. against the Com
mon enemy, BoNA8ARTE was debated.
| Lord G. CANEHDISH, though he ConGid-
ed in that part of the Address which recon-
| mended CouCert and cooperation with oar
| allies, moved an amendment, that ~ thus do
! ing, their object WAS rot solely to- overturn
the power OF the present Ruler OF France
Mr.. SMITH seconded the motion.
Mr.. GRATTAN said, he had considered
! the amendment and the question, IN ali its
bearings. II entering upon the subject, he
would admit that they ought tos avoid, as
much as possible, the evils of war; but there
was another and greater evil 10 be guarded
| aganst--a peace without security and war
| without Allies Hear, hear With the
| immediate question of peace or war, they had
nothing to do that point was decided at Vi
emma but the plain fact which remains Tor
their consideration, was simply this-would
| they contend against the Ruler OF France.
with the allies i'll their van, or would they
wait until these powers were dsbanded, and
| meet the clash Single-hantled AS to the
present form of government in France, and
| the prospect of security afforded Europe, they
need only look to its composition for retuta-
| ton of any such chance. 1t was an e(ecttUe
StratOcracy composed of rapacous soldiely,
| fight The constitution Of France is war, and
the object Of that war was the conquest or
Europe. - Hear, hear! What reason
was there to suppose that Bonaparte would
| mo- gain attempt that to which his whslc
Ii d been firmly applied Were they
| blind to his character and forgettul OF his
! deeds I. 81 he not almost succeeded IN his
gigantic plan OF seizing'all Europe He ba-
nished the sovereign OF Spain and Portugal
| fnYD he NV hTNthGr-hiS
son became the King of Rome he controul-
| ed the power of Prussa--and he prepared
an arm" take the King of England. But
the grea, dent of Britain preserved her sta
ton, and s.i ~ his empire. The British Ma
w saved the LAND. Bonaparte cried out
Your maritime laws are tyranny ! but what
| he meant to say was, that this monument of
| our strength, a. Il n weakness, had preven-
ted Europe's being enslaye,l-( Hear He
then saw that to conquer England, he must
attack her marine, by piercing her commerce
| this he attempted in two ways; one was,
| to-snut her out from the Continental inter
| cours. by the force of lis arms. he attack on
| her commerce was great; 1t affected Yer
station exceedingly. This country. placed 10y
nature between the New and the Old Cont
nents, and formed to be the m -dum of com
! nunication between both, now stood between
! two fires. On the one side Continental E.u-
| rope was in blaze, from the force Of his
| arms-anh on the other the New World.
| from the influence of his intrigues. Between
! both this country was shaken, but she main
tanned her asCendaGcy. His ambition then
led him to pierce the frozen regions ct Russia.
! In his icy progress for northern rapine aud
desoiation, he encountered Austria and Prus-
STA. The orutor here deSc,7bedHe Ft3Sia'i
| cdmhdign and thc eUents which foLioTOe6 Il.
unit the arrival offhe .42cs in Paris =
Here. he said, they did an act, which in the
eyes of postcrity, will absolve them from
whatever errors they elsewhere committed.
In the noble generosity Of their views, they
gave TO fallen France liberty aud life to Boz
| naparte, life and Elba.-( Loud cheers. -
This was act as honorable to them rs it
was uudeServed by the object whom they shell
tered. The one gave to Fravce ruin and dis
aster. the other King and Constitution,
framed upon enlarge1 liberal AMI uneXclu
ding principles form OF charter well suit
ed to England, but not deserved by France
one far different from that which her weak,
muddy philosophers. in the hey-day OF their
greatness tried to balance inthe timsy machine
of their scattered Inventions better one. than
ever issued from the staring councils ot their
economists, when thew endeavored to estab-
lish that system which bad method IN IFS
! madness, and madness in its method. who IN
their political worship bowed to the goddess
of liberty, until their lamentations converted
her into the goddess or tuTy--Who SCI their
political machine in motion at one mo-
ment with the breath of liberty, at another
with the storm of anarchy, until its wheel at
length took fire from the force Of its own velo-
city Loud and continued cheers. The
events to which he (Mr. G. had referred, at
the walls of Paris, remodelled the fragments
Of this incongrifaus system, and caused them
to subside into a form of government not dis
similar to that Of England This system was
now usurped. What was to be done p
Were they to listen to the revival of Il new
system, or of any system from Bonaparte =
Was he who broke the treaty of Fontain-
beau, which gave him amnesty and station,
10 come forward and call upon them TO abide
by the Treaty Of Paris. which forOled the We
~ basis Of his own exclusion, Were they
sane to talk Of faith, and listen to such
propositions (Hear, hear y What was
the language he held to his army
-" We must establish a throne by new
conquests. It is true / signed an abdicntion,
but that is nothing without the consent of the
people. Without this my convention was in
valid" His Ministers and Court say the
samc--they re echo the mcnstrous abandon
ment Of principle and yet, IN tbs same breath
they call upon you to trust him. WIN you
take him now, who has violated the very
principle OF Alliance. IN preference to aCcep-
ting that compact Of five powers whose faith