166] ANNUAL REGISTER, 1814. 



would projjose the following clause 

 as an amendment to be inserted 

 in the address : " That, with re- 

 ference to the first additional arti- 

 cle, this House having, on the 21st 

 instant, humbly conveyed its sen- 

 timents to his Royal Highness, 

 we defer the expression of any 

 farther opinion until the whole 

 matter shall have been discussed 

 and settled at the approaching 

 <:ongress, to which it is stipulated 

 to be referred under the said arti- 

 cle ; relying on the known justice 

 and humanity of his Royal High- 

 ness, that no effort will be want- 

 ing on his part to give the fullest 

 and speediest effect which the cir- 

 cumstances of the uegociation 

 may allow, to the wishes so le- 

 peatedly declared by us, for the 

 total abolition of the slave trade." 



Lord Castlereagh had no objec- 

 tion to the amendment, and it was 

 ordered to stand as part of the mo- 

 tion, nem. con. 



Mr. Baring said, that instead of 

 being partial to the system of Mr. 

 Pitt, he could not but consider 

 the false policy pursued by this 

 country in his time, as the sole 

 cause of producing that military 

 monster which the united efforts 

 of the allied powers had at length 

 succeeded in crushing. He gave 

 credit to his majesty's ministers for 

 the wisdom which had directed 

 their co-operation on the late occa- 

 sions, and was ready to admit that 

 the country had nothing to com- 

 plain of in the commercial regula- 

 tions of the treatj'. He thought, 

 however, we had been somewhat 

 too liberal in whet we bad given 

 up ; and he made observations on 

 some particular points of the 

 treaty. 



Mr. Sltaut IVorttey entirely 

 concuned m the opinion that the 



war had the same object from the 

 beginning to the end ; for the 

 three distinct objects which had 

 been assigned to different periods 

 were in fact one and the same. 



Mr. J. P. Grant said, that he 

 differed from the last speaker. We 

 had not put down French prin- 

 ciples by our opposition to them, 

 but they had put themselves down 

 by being incompatible with hu- 

 man nature. We had procured no 

 indemnity for the past, though 

 we had procured security for the 

 future, which, indeed, was the 

 only security that a wise govern- 

 ment would look for. The over- 

 throw of Buonaparte was not 

 owing solely to this country or its 

 allies, but was owing more to 

 himself than to any resistance 

 which had been made to him. 

 The hon. gentleman then made 

 some strictures on the treaty, par- 

 ticularly the support given to the 

 claim of Sweden upon Norway, 

 and the acquiescence in the slave 

 trade. 



Mr. Canning defended the con- 

 duct of ministers with respect to 

 the last point, though he acknow- 

 ledged that he did not believe that 

 if the abolition had been insisted 

 upon, it would have been a ques- 

 tion of war or peace with France. 

 He entered at some length upon 

 other circumstances relative to 

 the war and the treaty, and em- 

 ployed his well-known eloquence 

 in high panegyric on the spirit 

 with which the war had been 

 carried on, and in exultation on 

 the manner in which it had ter- 

 minated. 



After various observations from 

 other members, Mr. Whilbread 

 rose, and began with some spi- 

 rited remarks upon the sjjeeches 

 of the mover and seconder of the 



