s 
200] 
order of the day, which wascarried 
by 209 against 86. 
The earl of Lauderdale made a 
sim'Jar motion to that of Mr. Wil- 
berforce, in the house of lords, on 
the sth of June, and supported it 
with much the same reasonings. 
Spain, he observed, was the only 
ally that was not in thepay of Great 
Britain. The loss of Holland ren- 
dered an augmentation of the mili. 
tary strength of the coalitionimprac. 
ticable. Every power in Europe, 
‘even those hostile to France, had 
virtually if not formally, acknow~. 
Jedged the French republic. It was 
indecent in government to arrogate 
the exclusive privileges of deciding 
on the propriety of negotiation : 
in so weighty a case as the present, 
parliament had a right to interfere ; 
he would therefore move, that an 
address should be presented to the 
king, requesting him to enter intoa 
negotiation with France fora speedy 
and honourable peace. 
Lord Grenville opposed this mo. 
tion, chiefly on the ground that the 
French would construe a negotiation, 
thus recommended by the voice of 
parliament, as proceeding from des- 
pair of success. The hands of mi- 
nisters would be tied down, and 
freedom of a¢tion would be taken 
from them in the most essential ex- 
ecution of their office. Such, in the 
mean time, were the preparations 
for the ensuing campaign, on the part 
of the emperor, aided by the power- 
ful subsidies of Great Britain, that 
a force would be brought into the 
field fully competent to meet that 
of the enemy. A vigorous resistance 
to the ambition of France was ne- 
cessary for the security of Europe. 
To speak of the empire as disposed 
to a pacification, without recover- 
ing the provinces seized by the 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1795, 
French, betrayed a total want of 
insight into its indispensable, inte- 
rests. The presumed willingness of 
the French to negotiate was 4 mani- 
fest error, as they had even refused 
to treat for sousual a thing in war, 
as an exchange of prisoners. After 
a few other observations from both 
sides, lord Lauderdale’s motion was 
negatived by 53 against 8. 
The Imperial loan was the next 
subject that engaged the attention 
of the house: it was brought for- 
ward, on the 28thofMay, by Mr. 
Pitt, who observed, that every se- 
curity had been provided for pay- 
ment of both the interest and prin. 
cipal to the lenders, -and moved 
that the whole should be guaran- 
teed. Mr. Fox objected to the 
agreement made by government 
with the emperor, as placing our- 
selves in-his power, without any. 
certainty that he would perform the 
stipulations agreed upon. From 
four to six millions were to be ad- 
vanced him, proportionably to the 
augmentation of the force to be em- 
ployed against France, beyond the 
original stipulation of twa hundred 
thousand men. But nothing precise 
had ‘been decided, and we. were 
totally uninformed of the exact pro- 
portion intended. ‘The conduét of 
the emperor in the military tran. 
sactions that had taken place, did, 
by no means, entitle him to such 
implicit faith from thiscountry. It 
had been asserted, and not contra- 
dicted by ministers, that, ina situa. 
tion of the most imminent danger, 
he had refused the assistance de. 
manded of him, and evidently need. 
ed by. the British troops. Notwith- 
standing this ungenerous and in. 
equitable treatment, we still con- 
tinued to pay him one hundred 
thousand pounds amonth, and this 
too 
