10 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1803, 
CHAP, XIII. 
‘Dehates in both Houses of Parliament on the conduct of Ministers—In the 
Lards,—Speeches of Earl Fitzilliam—Limerick—Grosoenor — Lord 
Miulgrave— Earl of Caernarvon.— Lord Ellenborough — Melville— 
Hoburt-— Grenville.—Resoilutions for the censure of Ministers nega- 
tived by a great Majority.—Debates the following day in the Commons, 
‘on similar resolutions, moved by Colonel Patten Colonel Bastard, and 
Mr, Hawkins Browne, vindicate the conduct of Ministers.—Lord Ken- 
sington—Earl Temple—Mr. Hobhouse—Mr. C. W. Wynne— Mr, 
Courtenay—Mr. T. Grenville—Chancellor of the Eachequer—Mr. 
Pitt—Lord Hawkesbury—Mr. Canning.—Resolutions negatived by a 
great Majority —In the Lords,—Earl Fitzwilliam moves for censure 
on the Ministers.—Supported by Lord Minto, and Lord Grenoilde.— 
Opposed by the Duke of Clarence,—The Lord Chancellor, and Lord 
Flobart.— Motion lost. —Obscrvations, 
FEXHE country having been, by 
his majesty’s declaration; by 
the rejection of Russian inter- 
ference; and the irretrievable er- 
rors of administration; fully com- 
mitted in warfare with France and 
her dependencies, Holland and the 
ftalian republic; it was not to be 
supposed, that that portion of the 
legislature, whose exposition of the 
weakness and misconduct of minis- 
ters had been as unceasing, as their 
predictions of their calamitous con- 
sequences were prophetic, could 
look on with acquiescence and 
complacency, at the conduct of 
public affairs being committed to 
the identical hands of those, who 
had first signed and sealed to the 
dishonor of their country ; and who 
still aspired to the task of extricating 
her from the difficulties and dan- 
gers incurred solely by their want 
of experience, political science, 
and steadiness of principle. Ac- 
cordingly, in both the chambers of 
parliament, resolutions of the 
strongest and most decided ten- 
dency towards the inculpation of 
ministers, were brought forward, by 
personages of the most distin- 
guished integrity, rank in society, 
and temperance in political dis- 
cussion, 
In consequence, on the second 
day of June, 
‘arl Fitzwilliam, in the house of 
lords, brought forward certain reso- 
lutions, condemning the general 
conduct of ministers, in having 
held forward to the nation a confi- 
dent expectation of a permanent 
peace, during the time that France 
was pursuing a hostile system to- 
wards this country. His lordship 
prefaced his motion by a long on 
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