STATE PAPERS. 
Protest of Lord Stanhope against our 
interfering in the internal Affairs 
of France, Fan. 6, 1795- 
1st, BECAUSE the motion made 
for the house to adjourn, was 
professedly intended to get rid 
of the following resolution, viz. 
“* Resolved, that this country ought 
not, and will not, interfere in the 
internal affairs of France; and that 
it is expedient explicitly to declare 
the same.”’ _ 
2dly, Because I hold that ir is 
contrary both to equity and policy 
for any foreign country to interfere 
in the internal affairs or constitu- 
tion of the French republic, or of 
any other independent nation. 
3dly, Because the government of 
Great Britain (not having been 
elected by the citizens of France) 
can have no more right to give 
to France a monarchical, or other 
form of government whatever, than 
the crowned despots of Prussia and 
of Russia had to overturn the free 
constitution of now unhappy Poland. 
4thly, Because I heartily disap- 
prove and reprobate the doétrine 
advanced by ministers in the 
debate; namely, that to restore 
the ancient and hereditary mo- 
narchy of France, no expence 
should be spared. And I reprobate 
that pernicious and uncivic doc- 
trine the more strongly, from it 
not having been suddenly, hastily 
or inconsiderately started ; but from 
its having been taken up (as it was 
solemnly declared) upon the utmost 
deliberation. 
sthly, Because I deem it to be 
an injustice committed by ministers 
towards my fellow-citizens, to 
_adopt a principle which shall ren- 
der it necessary for the government 
of Great Britain to lay farther 
heavy burdens upon the people, 
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and to tax their houses, their 
windows, their beds, their candles, 
their shoes, and many other con- 
veniences, and the necessaries of 
life, in order to provide a fund to 
attempt the accomplishment of 
such a wicked purpose as afore- 
said. 
6thly, Because the proposed re- 
solution above stated was intended 
by me as a solemn pledge that the 
government of this nation would 
not interfere in the internal af- 
fairs of France; but the refusal 
of the house to give such a pledge, 
tends to shut the door to peace, 
and consequently tends to ensure 
the ruin of this manufacturing, 
commercial, and once happy coun- 
try; particularly considering the 
increased, and rapidly increasing, 
strength of the navy of the French 
republic, independently of the pros- 
pect there is of their having the 
navies of Holland and Spain under 
their immediate influence. 
ythly, Because the public funds, 
the paper currency, and the public 
and private credit of this country, 
will probably be unequal to stand 
against the tremendous shock to 
which ministers will now expose 
them. 
Sthly, Because I think that 
frankness, fairness, humanity, and 
the principles of honesty, and of 
justice, are always in the end, the 
best policy ; and I believe it to be 
true, in regard to nations (as well 
as with respe¢t to individuals), that 
“€ nothing that is not just can be 
wise, or likely to be ultimately 
prosperous.”’ 
gthly, Because I lament the 
more, that the house: should refuse 
to disclaim the interfering in the 
internal constitution of France, in. 
asmuch as by the new pomeeeaticn. 
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