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rnnk affected to treat the Rights of their gr.-atness would cease, as h- 



Man. It was, he said, to the spirit berty, its only foundation, would 



with which those rights had been be uo more. The debate now 



maintained in tliis cou.itry, that came to a termination, by a division 



thosepersons owed tlieir exaltation, of .51' for the bill, and of 7 only 



Whenever that spirit was departed, against it. 





CHAP. XIII. 



■Trtatle.t corirli/dcd hetwcen the BrUlskMuiister andthe several Memheu of 

 the Coalition. . Motion againstit in the House of Commons. Debates there- 

 on. Motion hi Lord Stanhope in the Houje of Peers, for abstaining ' 

 from farther Interference in the Domestic Concerns of France. Motion b>f 

 Lord Hawhesbimj, for the Employment of Britbh Seamen discharged 

 from the Navy in Time of Peace Motion bif Mr. Grey, relative to the 

 Failure of the British Arms at Dnnkirk and Toulon. Debates thereon. 

 Finances of India. A Message from the Kingio Parliament, concerning' 

 a Pecuniarif Subsidy to Pr//ss'ia. Debates thereon. Discontents and Jea- 

 lousies entertained i-i/ the North- American Provinces of Great Britain. 

 Moderate and ivise Councils of the' Americans. Differences between those 

 Powers settled. Motions anil Debates respecting tlu-scin both Houses of 

 Parliament. Motion in the House of Peers, by the- Duke of Bedford,' 

 for terminaling the IVar with France Motion to the same Effect, 



1-1/ Mr. Fox, in the Hous 



Houses 



of Commois. Debates thereon in both 



^E these various matters 



in a<^itatiou, divers 



WHILE 



V \ were 

 treaties concluded by administra- 

 tion, with'the sevcralprinceg form- 

 ing the Coalition, the expences • 

 which these occasioned, and the' 

 obligations contracted, were objects 

 <)'.' so mntb niajjnitiide, that gn-at 

 ;''arin nt their consequences to thi^ 

 country, had filled the miiicls of 

 multitudes, not otlicrwise un- 

 friendly to tiie ineasures of govern- 

 ment, than as they thougiii it too 

 precipitate in listening tq the dcr 

 maiids of its alli'.-s , who iiud o!-jects 

 to accomplish, wliich, however be- 

 neficial to themselves, did not in- 

 terest Great Britain so deeply as to 

 authorise tlic degr-c oi exertion 

 wliich ihey expected from the Eri- 

 ticii ministiy. Tlic cor-iplairits to 

 which these delnaiiJs gave ocoasior\ 



induced opposition to make them Jt 

 su'oiect of parli'imentary debate. 

 An address to the King was moved . 

 in tjie Hou.;e of Commons, on the 

 Gtii of March, by Mr. Grey, for 

 the purpose of expressingtheircon- 

 c.rn liiat he should have formed a 

 union with power?, whose apparent 

 aim was to regulatea country, where- 

 in tiiey had no right to interfere. 

 Tiie Ki'.?"" of Prussia had not taken 

 up arms against France in conse- 

 quence or thi defensive treaty 

 by which he was boi'.nd to assist 

 Great Britain, in- case of an ^ggns- 

 sion ui.in tiiat power ; but a coali- 

 tion had bct-n formed with him and 

 others against the French, who were 

 not the aggvcssoi-s in this war ; by 

 wiiich this country was involved in 

 eiitc/prizes injurious to its interest, 

 and to the lib^rlies of Europe. He 

 n 3 sup- 



