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-HISTORY OF EUROPE. 
The extraordinary expences of 
the land-forces, for the year 1794, 
were laid before the house, on 
the zoth of February, by Mr. 
Windham, who moved, that three 
millions and sixty-three thousand 
pounds should be granted to de- 
fray them. Mr. Fox and others 
objeéted to several of the charges, 
as.exorbitant and improper. But 
they were justified by Mr. Pirt, 
on the ground of expediency, in 
some cases, and of justice to in- 
dividuals in others. To the cen- 
sures, on the expences for the erec- 
tion of barracks, he answered, that 
they were of essential utility, for 
the health and good order of the 
soldiery, and relieved the publicans 
and inn-keepers from a heavy bur- 
den. Mr. Windham’s motion be- 
‘ing agreed to, he added another 
for four hundred and twenty-seven 
thousand pounds, in order to raise 
a corps of emigrants. 
But the principal subject of par- 
liamentary debate, in the month 
of February, was that which took 
place on the 4th, when Mr. Pitt 
brought a message to the house, 
from the king, signifying the ear- 
nest. inclination of the emperor, 
to make the most vigorous exer- 
_ tions, in the next campaign, against 
the common enemy, but intimat- 
ing, at the same time, the neces- 
sity of a loan of four millions, on 
the credit of the revenues arising 
from his hereditary dominions. 
Through such assistance, he pro. 
posed to bring two hundred thou. 
sand men into the field. Great 
as this force was, the king was 
still desirous to have it augment. 
ed, and had, for that reason, com- 
Missioned the British minister, at 
the imperial court, to signify this 
desire, and that he purposed to 
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apply to parliament for the pe- 
cuniary arrangements that would, 
in that case, be requisite. 
This message occasioned a dis. 
cussion on the subsidy granted in the 
preceding session to the king of 
Prussia, Mr. Sheridan explicitly 
complained, that theends, for which 
that subsidy had been put intd his 
hands, were not answered, and 
that he had employed the immense 
sums, entrusted to him, in ser. 
vices quite foreign to the intent 
of the treaty, by means of which 
he had obtained them. Yet, in 
the present circumstances, this 
ought not, he said, to obstruct a 
loan to the emperor, who might 
be expected to at with more 
punctuality in his engagements, 
as more deeply concerned in the 
present contest. Ministry ought, 
however, to be more cautious 
whom they trusted, and to frame 
such stipulations, as would com. 
pel the contracting parties. to a 
strict performance of the condi- 
tions to which they acceded. He 
blamed, as unconstitutional, the 
engagement entered into by the 
crown, to guarantee the imperial 
loan, without previously consulting 
parliament. This, he observed, 
was placing a confidence in the 
Austrian ministry, to which the 
fluétuation and insincerity of its 
conduct did not entitle it. The 
faithless behaviour of Prussia ought 
to operate as a warning to beware 
of continental engagements. Had 
the stipulated aid of sixty thousand 
men, promised by that court, been 
brought to a¢t with the forces of 
the coalition in the Netherlands, 
during the campaign of 1 it 
was hy decided Solatoh OF wy 
Austrian ministers, that Brabant 
and Flanders would have been effec. 
taally 
