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fordships, proceeded to make a 
comment in illustration and com- 
m_ ndation of the speech from the 
throne, and concluded with moving 
av address, assenting entirely to the 
sentiments expressed by his majes- 
ty, and returning thanks for his 
gracious communications. 
The earl of Upper Ossory, who 
econded the address, commented, 
also. with much commendation, on 
tie speech from the throne. He 
expressed a hope that a peace, if it 
could be obtained, would not be 
prtial, but comprehend in it the 
honour and security of our allies. 
If it could not be obtained, this 
he conceived would be owing ra- 
ther to the haughtiness of the ene- 
my than to any want of modera- 
tion on our part; and the failure of 
the negociation would, atleast, have 
the good effect of uniting us all in 
one effort to compel them, by force 
of arms, to submit to reasonable 
terms. “His lordship was full and 
animated in his praise of the arch- 
duke Charles. On the conduct of 
another power (Spain) he was not 
able to pronounce a panegyric; 
but as he hardly knew the relation 
in which we stood to that power, 
he deemed it prudent, at present, 
to be silent. - 
The earl. Fitzwilliam recalled’ 
to their lordships mind bow warm 
an advocate he had been for the 
war from its commencement, from 
an opinion of its necessity ; an opi- 
nion in which he was now, by a 
long series of events, more aad 
more confirmed. ‘The original de- 
signs of the enemy, tended to 
the destruction of every species 
of government, and the total sub- 
version of society. 
that he should not have heard a 
word of negociation, like that which 
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had been mentioned, and was sur-. 
prized to find such expressions used 
as were common at the end of an | 
ordinary war. Finding the address 
proposed by the noble earl re- 
echoed to the crown, only vague 
and loose expressions concerning 
that negociation, without the least 
attention to the grand principle on 
which the war was begun,,he was 
constrained to declare that he should 
stand in oppesition to it, for he felt — 
it impossible to give it his concur- 
rence. The great object of the war 
was the restoration of order, not 
with regard to the internal mode 
of government, which the enemy 
might chuse to adopt, but with re- 
gard to the influence of their exter- 
nal designs; for, at the commences 
ment of the war, their internal 
system of government. was not 
more dangerous than the present, 
but the influence of their opinions. 
and deigns, externally, was terrific. 
To restore order, to defend the ci- 
vilized states of Europe against 
the dangers that threatened them, 
to protect persons and property 
from a fatal devastation, and snp=- 
press the tendency of innovating: 
and pernicious doctrines, were the 
osiensible objects of the war. Upon 
these principles their lordsbips had_ 
engaged in the war, and upon these 
principles, they had supported it. 
What then was the nature and the 
purport of the proposed address ? 
Why, it was neither more nor less 
than a recommendation to his ma- 
jesty to acknowledge and approve 
that system he bad formerly repro 
‘bated and opposed. If there were 
any wisdom in negociating now, 
the same wisdom should have been 
manifested four years ago, for he 
defied any man to look back and 
say, that the same causes which 
existed 
