te Addington, 
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SHISTORY!: OFSEURORE: 
investigate. In a parliamentary 
point of view, the debate was wor- 
thy of remark, as it afforded the 
first instance of Mr. Pitt’s coinci- 
dence in opinion, with those who 
_ disapproved of the measures of the 
Minister, at least so far as related . 
_ to the hostile system now about to 
be adopted; and which, though it 
Hos pe: urged with all that strength 
n 
d pertinacity, which on most oc- 
de casions, distinguished his public 
x conduct ; 
that there ‘existed no longer that 
-mnion of sentiment, 
yet it t sufficiently evinced 
and harmony 
of opinion, which prevailed during 
the early period of the present ad- 
ministration, between him and Mr. 
On this occasion too, 
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it is to be observed, that though 
Mr. Grenville, Mr. Windham, and 
the strength and talent of those 
who had always decried the defi- 
nitive treaty, and predicted its in- 
evitable consequences, were in the 
house; they took no part whatever 
upon this motion of Mr. Fox’s, 
w ‘hich itis probable they consider 
ed, as in itself inefficient or nuga? 
tory; or which, if adopted, would 
lead to that sluggish and temporiz- 
ing system, which ministers seemed 
for a moment to’‘have shaken off; 
a conduct, in which it was too much 
the interest of the empire, not* to 
wish them to persevere; and conse- 
quently net the object of the “ new 
Opposition” to retard gr embarrass, 
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