HISTOR YoOOF EUR OME 
in future, notwithstanding the au- 
spicious consequences with which 
it was now attended, He would, 
with this view, propose a resolution 
to the house, the object of which 
would be to guard, on the one 
hand, the privileges of the house, 
and, on the other, to pay a due re- 
spect to the services performed by 
ministers, whom he could not help 
admiring for their magnanimity and 
services to their country, He wonld, 
therefore, moye, as an amendment 
to the motion made by the right 
honourable gentleman, to leave out 
from the first word, ‘ That,’’ and 
to.insert, “ the measure of advancing 
the several sums of money, which 
appear, from the accounts presented 
to the house in the session of parlia- 
ment, to have been issued, for the 
service of the emperor, though not 
to be drawn into precedent, but 
upon occasion of special necessity, 
was, under the peculiar circum- 
stances of the case, a justifiable and 
proper exercise of the discretion 
vested in his majesty’s ministers, by 
the vote of credit, and calculated 
to produce consequences, which 
have proved highly advantageous to 
the common cause, and to the ge- 
neral interests of Europe.” : 
Mr, alderman Lushington , ob 
served that there was so close an 
unity of connection and interest be- 
tween Great Britain and his Im- 
perial majesty, that whatever affected 
the one, equally aftected the other. 
The one could not feel. distress 
without the other suftering a share, 
Respecting the exportation of spe- 
cie, which for a time had disagreea- 
ble consequences; au increased 
mass of property required an in- 
crease in the circulating medium; 
but as this did not increase in an 
equal proportion, the withdrawing 
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any partof it was a cause of embar- 
rassment, but that only temporary, 
Mr. alderman Anderson said, that, 
at the meeting of the livery of Lon- 
don, in which only about a tenth 
part were present, a flaming speech, 
by a member of that house (Mr. W. 
Smith) had determined them to give 
the instructions that had been stated 
by his colleague. But he himself 
had plainly told them that he would 
not vote against the minister. | 
Col. Markwood (late in the East- 
India company’s service, in Bengal) 
said, that if the ministerof thiscoun- 
try, with avote of credit, between 
two and three millions at his com- 
mand, had hesitated to give some pe- 
cuniary aid towards the encourage. 
ment of those glorious exertions, 
which not oniy saved Germany, but 
England, from a very critical situa- 
tion, he would have well deserved to 
becursed. He was not one of those 
who-considered the invasion of Eng- 
land merely as a bugbear. Whoever 
argued in this manner, he would ven- 
ture to assert, was totally ignorant of 
the subject. He was decidedly of opi- 
nion, ashe had said before, that, had - 
not the ministers assisted his Imperial 
majesty, they would have richly des 
served to be cursed. ‘lhe colonel’s 
eursing zeal, by relaxing the muscles 
of the house, relieved, for a moment, 
the tedium of this long debate. 
Colonel Gascoigne, who had 
come down to the house, with a 
determined resolution to vote in fa- 
vour of the motion for censuring 
ministers, was now convinced, from 
what he had heard, that the trans- 
action, which had been made a 
ground of charge against him, had 
been the established practice of go- 
vernment since the revolution. 
Mr. Sheridan thought that the 
principle on which the measure in 
question 
