sey ANNUAL REGISTER, 1800. 



these sentiments were new with 

 him. Not a word was said of that 

 matter after the failure of the nego- 

 ciation at Paris and Lisle. We 

 had now taken up the principle so 

 much objected to the jacobins, of 

 distinguishing a people from their 

 government. What, on the con- 

 trary, was the conduct of the 

 French ? In the letter to the Icing, 

 Buonaparte distinctly renounces this 

 principle, and acknowledges the 

 title and character of his majesty's 

 government. On our part, the note 

 of ministers was a manifesto to the 

 royalists. It spoke of the miseries 

 of France : but the miseries of 

 France were not the cause of the 

 war. They might interest huma- 

 nity, but they were not fit to be 

 noticed in diplomatic papers. We 

 had as little to do with the internal 

 miseries of the republic, as Talley- 

 rand would have to retaliate, by 

 reproaching us with the test-acts, 

 the want of parliamentary reform, 

 the income, or assessed tax-acts, or 

 any other public measure that might 

 be considered as a grievance. If 

 it should afterwards clearly appear 

 that Buonaparte had been sincere, 

 how would their lordships reconcile 

 it to their consciences, to have 

 given their implicit sanction to 

 measures that prolonged the cala- 

 mities of war for so long a period, 

 without any motive of honour, 

 interest, or security ? 



The earl of Carnarvon did not 

 consider the answer given to Buo- 

 naparte as a refusal to treat for 

 peace, or a declaration of eternal 

 war, but only as a call on the house 

 and country to pause, before they 

 suffered themselves rashly to en- 

 ter into negociation with a go- 

 vernment, of the principles and 



probable stability of which iV 

 was absolutely necessary, that 

 they should be enabled to judge 

 from experience and the evidence 

 of facts. 



The earl of Liverpool concurred 

 so entirely with the noble secretary, 

 in the topics he had urged, on the 

 present occasion, that he needed 

 not to go over them again, but 

 merely to express his assent. He 

 did, however, go over several of 

 them ; and added the following ar- 

 gument of his own : All the com- 

 merce of the world was now 

 brought into our harbours. Should 

 we depart from a system that had 

 brought us into such a situation, 

 without the least chance for securi- 

 ty for its continuance, but, on the 

 contrary, almost the certainty of 

 its destruction,by following another 

 course ? 



The earl of Carlisle asked, to 

 what we were indebted for the 

 commerce of the world ? No doubt 

 to the war. Peace, therefore, must 

 deprive us of a part, and return it 

 to its former sources. This argu- 

 ment, then, was not only against 

 entering into a negociation with 

 France, now, but at any future 

 time, and under any circumstances 

 whatever ; and he put it to the no- 

 ble lord, whether it was arguing 

 like a philosopher or a statesman, 

 to insist that Avar mustbe continued 

 in, in order that all the ships of the 

 world should come into the ports 

 of London ? 



On a division of the house the 

 address was carried by 79 against 6. 

 Hismajesty'smessage respectingthe 

 Russian troops was also approved, 

 and assented to. 



On the third of July, the order of 

 l?he day, for taking into considera* 



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