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Lancashire. — Mr. 



James the Seco?!1)! ! — What else have 

 you done? Yoii liavc wi'-cocdntl, indcfiil, 

 in detinouing Napoleon, and yon have de- 

 throned a inonai'cli, who, with all his im- 

 puted ci imes aud vice*, shed a splendour 

 around royalty, too powerful for the feeble 

 Tisioii ©f IcgitiiHwcy even in hear. He had 

 many faults ; I do not seek to pjDiate them. 

 H<! descried his praieipies; I rejoice that 

 he h:is sufili^d. Biit.itill let iis be gene- 

 rous even in our enniilies. How grand was 

 his march ! Mow magnificent his destiny ! 

 Say what we will, Sir, he will be the land- 

 mark of our limes hi the eye of posterity. 

 The ;;oal of wtuer mrn's speed was his start- 

 ing-post — crowns were his piay-ihings — 

 thrones hij footstool— he strode from vic- 

 tory to victory — his path v. as " a jilane of 

 continued elevations." Siirpassina; the 

 boast of the too confident Roman, he but 

 stamped upon the earlii, and not only 

 arned men, bat states and dynasties, anil 

 •»(> uiid sciences, all that minJ coidd iuia- 

 giue, 0, indiisfry produce, started up, the 

 crealiot of encha.itmciit. He is fallen — as 

 the late Mr. \yhitlnjsd said, "yon made 

 Lin), and he ishihadi? liiis'.-flf';" — his own 

 aujbition was his gloi'i'ms eoixjurror. He 

 attempted, with a sii!)jtme audacity:, to 

 grasp the fires of Heaven, and his heathen 

 retnhntion has |)ei'n the vulture and the 

 vock ! ! I do not afk wh;it you have ':ained 

 by it, breau' e, m place of uainin;; any lhin§, 

 jou are hifinitely worst tiian when yon 

 comnii nceJ tlie eoutest : but what have 

 you done for Kuropr? what have yon 

 achieved for man < Have morals been 

 ameliorated? has liberty be<i» strenjijih- 

 ened i ha« any one iuiproveiiK-ut in politics 

 or ])htlosopiiy been proihiced ? Let us see 

 Im>w. Vou have ie.«tor>d to Portui,'al a 

 Prince of whoio we know iiotliin», except 

 thai when his dominions were invaded, his 

 peoi)le distracted, his crown in danger, and 

 all that could interest the highest energies 

 of man at issue, he left his cause to be com- 

 bated by for(.'^<;n bayonets, and tied \(itha 

 dajtavd precipitation to the shameful secu- 

 rity of a disliuit hemisphere! You have 

 restored to Spain a wretch of evro worse 

 tljan proverbial pi incely ingratitude; who 

 filled his dungeons, ajid fed his rack with 

 the heroic leniuant that bad braved war, 

 and famine, and niassacre, beneath his baH- 

 ners; who rewarded patriotism with the 

 piisoi; — fidelity wlib the torture— heroism 

 vrith the scaf;'oid— and pie;y with tlie In- 

 (juisiiioa; whose royally was published by 

 the signature ot his duath-warrauts, and 

 ■wtbose religion evaporated in the tmhroider- 

 ivg of fieltici^uts for the Wcssed Virgin J 

 '—You have foicc<l upon France a family 

 to, whom inisfortuao could not teach 

 mercy, or experience wisdom; vindictive 

 ill pi:osperity — servile in itelieat — tinud in 

 the field — vacillating in the cabinet — sus- 

 picious among themselves — discontented 

 among their ftllgweis-^Uieir meinori«f te* 



Phillips's Speech. [Dec. I, 



nacious bm of the punishments they had 

 provoked, their piety active bat in nob- 

 serviency tn their priesthood, and tlieir 

 power passive but in the subjugation of 

 their people! Snch are the dynasties yon 

 have covfcrred on Europe. In the very 

 act, that of enthroninis; three individuals of 

 the same family, yon have committed in. 

 politics a capital error; but Providence 

 lias countermined the ruin you were pre- 

 paring, and, whilst their impolicy prevents 

 the chance, their impotency precludes the 

 dandier of a coalition. As to the rest of 

 Europe, how has if been ameliorated? 

 what solitary benefit have the '' Derivcrers" 

 conferred ? They have partitioned the 

 States of the feirbie to feed the rapacity of 

 the powerful ; and, after having alteriiatelf 

 adored ami deserted Napoleon, they have 

 wreaked their vengeance on the noble but 

 nufortunate fidelity tliat spurned their 

 example ? Do you want jiroofs — look to 

 Saxony — look to Genoa — look to Norway 

 — but, above all, to Poland ! that speakin» 

 mrnnment of regal murder and legitimate 

 robbery. 

 Oil! bloodiest picture in the book o^ 



Time — 

 Sarmatia tell— unwept — without a crime ! 

 — Here was an opportunity to recompence 

 that brave, heroic, generous, martyred, and 

 devoted people— here was an opportunity 

 to convince Jacobinism that crowns ant) 

 crimes were not, of course, co-existent ; 

 and that the highway rapacity of one gene- 

 ration might be atoned by tin) penitential 

 retribution of another!— Look to Italy i 

 parceled out to temporiising Austria — the 

 land of the Muse, the historian, and the 

 hero— the scene of every classic recollec- 

 tion—the sacred fane of antiquity, where 

 the renins of the world weeps and worships, 

 and the spiiits of the past start into life at 

 the inspiring pilgrimage of some kindred 

 Roscoe. ( AitplaHse.)—\o\\ do yourselves 

 honour by this noble, this natural enthusi- 

 asm. I-ong may you enjoy the pleasure of 

 possessing, mner can you lo«e the pride 

 of having produced, the Scholar, without 

 pedantry — the Piilriot, without reproach 

 — the Clirialian. without superstition — the 

 Mm, without blemish. It is a subject I 

 eoiild dwell on with delight fur ever. Hovr 

 painful our transition to t/te dimgusting jtath 

 f>f the ' Deliverers: Lo'^kto Prussia, after 

 fruitless toil and wrcaihless triumphs, 

 mocked with the prom^ of a vLsionary 

 Constitution. Look to France, chained, 

 and pimideied, weeping over ll.c tomb of 

 her hopes aud her heroes. Look to En- 

 gland, eaten by the cancer of an incurable 

 debt— exhausted by Poor Rates— sup. 

 porting a Civil List olncar a million aud a 

 half, annual amount— gu an ded by a Stand, 

 jng Army of l49-()0-t> men— niisrepresenled • 

 by a House of Comim.pns, ninety of whose - 

 Members, iii places and pensioris, derive 

 200,0001, in yearly emoluments from the 

 Minister 



