HISTORY OF EUROPE, 
| and energy of the laws,” an allusion 
was intended to be made to two 
| extraordinary bills which had been 
| passed in the last session of the last 
arliament, he believed the allusion 
ould be, indeed, unfounded ; it 
was (ranquillity, in.his opinion, not 
at all to be attributed to such a 
ause ; he was convinced it was 
Quite the contrary: those bills were 
eld in abhorrence by the people, 
But who, at the same time, held in 
the highest respect the wisdom and 
energy of the known constitutional 
‘common law of the land. ‘The 
noble earl then said, that, conceiv~ 
ing a peace to be the greatest 
essing this country could at pre- 
t wish, he had readily and'cor- 
fially come forward in support of 
the present address ; but he begged 
‘their lordships would understand, 
that, by so doing, he did not mean 
) preclude himself from the right 
¢ had to enquire, at any future 
jod; inta the causes. which had 
sen the original occasion of the 
present calamitous contest, and the 
duct of those who had been the 
means of pluuging us into it. These 
were the subjects of the first mag- 
nitude, and would hereafter demand 
- strictest and most minute in- 
sstigation ; and, having thus made 
nese observations and reservations, 
would no longer trespass on the 
e of the house, but immediately 
surrence to the motion for the ad- 
| ~ Lord Grenville forbore to enter 
at Jarge into any argument on all 
ord had expressed a difference of 
bpinion; on two only hewould make 
” 
a very few observations. 
lo what had fallen from his lordship 
roncerning that part ef the speech 
7 , 
oe 
conc ude, by giving his hearty con-~ 
epoints on which theearlof Guild- . 
Alluding ° 
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from the throne, which ascribed ¢he 
internal tranquillity of the kingdom 
to “ the wisdom and energy of the 
laws,” he said, that, partial or con= 
ditional agreement was a tribute 
which he was as, little accustomed 
.as desirous to receive from any man 5 
yet certainly every person was at 
liberty to. indulge and express: his 
own opinion. For his own -part, 
he was clearly of opition, ‘that the 
bills, passed Jastsession, had con- 
“tributed very greatly to repress the 
Spirit of anarchy, and had, »there- 
fore, tended highly towards the pré- . 
servation of the public and internal 
tranquillity. * He retained all the. 
opinions hehad formerly entertained 
on the subjects and experience had 
only served to-confirm theit pro 
“priety and justice. As for the 
threatened inquiry into the causes 
of the war, and the conduct of those 
who had the management of it, he, 
for one, was ready to meet the trial, 
and to take his full share of respon- 
sibility for all its consequences. 
A noble earl had stated it as in- 
consistent with the principles’ on 
which the war. was undertaken, to 
tréat with any other government in 
Francethanamonarchy. That the 
existence of a republic in France 
was an insufferable bar to negocia- 
tion, and that monarchy was indis- 
pensible, was a calumny which his 
majesty’3 ministers had every season 
found it necessary~to contradict. 
They had expressed, what they still 
believed, that the best issue to the 
contest would be, the re-establish- 
ment of monarchy in Trance, yet 
they: had never pledged themselves, 
much less the parliament, to an 
opinion so wild and extravagant, 
as that, without the attainment of 
this object, there was no hope or 
possibility of peace. It was some- 
what 
