Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1843-05-12

We do not believe there is a single reader
Of this paper-we hope at least there is not
one-who will. without emotions of pleasure,
peruse the passages which we give below
from speech of Lord Broughan,, delivered
in the House of Peers on the 9Th ult., on his
motion of thanks TO Lord Ashburton for ne
gotia,ing the Treaty Of Washington. We
confess our. own unaffected qualification at
sucl, sentiments from such source, and will
add our belief that language at once so
friendly and so complimentary, and at the
same time so glowingy expressed. would
hardly be as highly priced in this country
from any other source in England as from
this distinguished statesman from whom il
procecds.-National InteNigencer.
[EXTRACT.]
Then it was said (said Lord Brougham) that
Lord Ashburton had, at a public meeting. talk.
ed Of America as the cradle Of liberty. Lord
Campbell Boston, Yes, and this was said to
be compromising act. But this was after the
negotiating was over; this was "the song of
triumph" to use an expression Of his noble
friend opposite on former evening. At this
public meeting at Boston there was no business
to he transacted, but it was held for the purpose
of celebrating The alliance rc.made and the re-
concilement effected between these two great
kindred nations. lie marvelled to hear the
Wings object TO any such proceedings at pub.
lie meeting, but above all, to hear Wings or a
sort of Wings at least. Ia laugh object to any
thing that was said in favor of the cradle Of lib
erty. lie should have thought the very Ian
guage was so sweet ard dear to every friend Of
liberty that it might reconcile them to what
might otherwise have appeared breach of dig
nifty and decorum. Now there was one othe
authority, and il was the last to which he wish
, ed to rcfer-that of our revered monarch
George the ILL., lie did not consider tina, h
stopped from this high degree, that he adopted
) a trucking and unbecomng tone, when in HI
e reception Of the Il ct Amer can Minister VIII,
b represented his revolted subjects, and had there
fore most difficult task to periorm--who frs
represented these revolted subjects at the cour
e of their sovereign, whose allegiance they ha
I shaken of, and whose sovereign was known I
Il have kept fast hold of his American soveregnt
), until it was wres,ed from his royal grasp--h
= took the opportunity Of giving most cour,eou
e reception, and Of saying--which was unnecessa
/ ry, but needless though il was, he thought fit t
!, say--,hat although he mas the last man in hi
" OoHlhon6 mat consented 10 tue independence {
!. America, there was no nan in his dominion
IF that wished better to that independence, an
felt more anxious for the prosperity Of the ne'
10 world. This was al er the whole of the militia
81 ~ proceedings had closed as the speech of I.or
" Ashburton had been made after the negotiation
q had closed. Hear, hear
re My lords, lsaid the noble and learned lord,
s. breathe the same prayer which my late sovereg
a. expressed upon that memorable occasion.
~ ~ hope and trust for the sake of America first
n n for the sake Of England next--for the sake
is humanity, Of mankind at large--,hat the pro
Of peri'y and happiness of that greFt people wi
be perpetuated forever My lords, cam
" view with Indifference the magnificent empi
n, which Englishmen have erected in that land =
a, and my heart glows when reflect that to En-
it land is owing that which America never scr
ne Piles to confess she owes to England-,ho
~ laws, those institutions above all, that spirit
), liberty, Of religious as well as Of civil lber
ee which has made the American republic the grei
est democratic nation that ever held existen
he upon the face Of this earth. Contemplated
O. ITSELF there 10 enough TO fill one with admratlo
~ with hope, with exultation; but, in order to a
preciate its merits and 10 carry tboee jeeliues