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troops. We were indeed to subsi- 

 dize and employ German troops in- 

 stead of Russians ; but were Ger- 

 man troops ready to contend for the 

 same objects ? Did the cabinet of 

 Vienna cordially approve of all the 

 principles laid down by the noble 

 secretary of state in his answers to 

 Buonaparte ? Did the emperor of 

 Germany really think, and, if he did 

 so, where had he declared it, that 

 the speediest and surest means of 

 restoring peace would be the resto- 

 ration of the Bourbons ? Lord Hol- 

 land did not know but that monarch 

 might rather imagine that the sacri- 

 fice of the territories of his fellow- 

 hireling, the elector of Bavaria, to 

 his ambitious projects, would be 

 the speediest and surest means of re- 

 storing tranquillity. His lordship 

 proceeded to speak at great length 

 of the different views entertained, 

 or that might be entertained in the 

 progress of events, by Austria and 

 England, the power and the advan- 

 tages enjoyed by the French go- 

 vernment, among which he enume- 

 rated the haughty and irritating an- 

 swer of lord Grenville to Buona- 

 parte, the improbability of success 

 on the part of the allies, and the 

 improbability also, that even vic- 

 tory and success in arms would lead 

 to peace. In a word, he expa- 

 tiated over all the wide and beaten 

 field of the policy or impolicy of the 

 war, and of our mode of treating, 

 and treating with the French. He 

 also reverted to the debate on the 

 answers that had been given to the 

 French overtures, and to certain 

 maxims and considerations whicli 

 he had endeavoured to impress 

 on their lordships minds, and he 

 had reason to think, he said, not 

 without success. He conjured the 

 house, since they had that night 



learnt, that one of their chief hopes 

 was to be a reliance on the cabinet 

 of Vienna, to reflect again, and not 

 to engage in an undertaking so des- 

 perate in its appearance, in which 

 success itself seemed only to lead to 

 new wars, new expenses, and new 

 embarrassments, and in which fai- 

 lure (which seemed but too pro- 

 bable,) was disgrace and ruin. 



The duke of Montrose said, that 

 it was not his intention logo through 

 the variety of topics touched on by 

 the noble lord who had spoken last, 

 but to advert merely to the single 

 question, which appeared to him to 

 arise out of the proper consideration 

 of his majesty's message and the ad- 

 dress now moved ; namely, whether, 

 during a war with France, under 

 singular and unprecedented circum- 

 stances, it was wise in this country 

 to subsidize the princes of the con- 

 tinent, and purchase the aid of aux- 

 iliary troops, in order to harass the 

 enemy near their native country ; 

 or let them have an opportunity, 

 for want of a politic diversion, to 

 bring the war into the British chan- 

 nel, and on the coasts of this king- 

 dom ? The History of England pro- 

 ved, by a variety of precedents, 

 that it had always been the policy 

 of Great Britain, when engaged in 

 a foreign war, to avail itself of the 

 assistance of auxiliary troops. — On 

 a division of the house, the address 

 was carried by 28 against 3. — The 

 order of the day, for taking his ma- 

 jesty's message into consideration, 

 being, at the same time, read in the 

 house of commons. 



Mr. Pitt rose, and said, that he 

 had stated yesterday the general 

 ground on which he flattered him- 

 self that this message was likely 

 to be received without opposition. 

 The ground was this, that the ob.. 



