150 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1810. 



eluded a speech of extraordinary 

 length with a series of resolutions 

 which might serve as a pretty co- 

 pious, as well as faithful abridg- 

 ment of his speech, if even these 

 could be brought with propriety 

 within the limits, or were in any 

 tolerable degree proportioned to 

 the scale of our narrative. But 

 of these resolutions themselves, 

 forming two close printed pages 

 of double columns, let it suffice 

 to give the substance or spirit — 

 That the House were convinced 

 that peace, so anxiously desired 

 by his majesty's loyal people, 

 would be best promoted by prov- 

 ing to the world that we possessed 

 the means of permanently sup- 

 porting the honour and independ- 

 ence of our country against every 

 species of attack by which the 

 enemy might hope to assail them ; 

 that for this purpose it was neces- 

 sary that his majesty's govern- 

 nuent should henceforth adopt a 

 wise and systematical system of 

 policy, regulated not only by a 

 just estimate of our present diffi- 

 culties, but by a prudent fore- 

 sight of the probable exigencies 

 of a protracted warfare ; that the 

 House entreated his majesty to 

 see* the necessity of adopting 

 such measures as might deprive 

 the enemy of all hope of success 

 from a failure of our national re- 

 sources ; that he will therefore ac- 

 tually concur with his parliament 

 in giving effect to economic and 

 systematic arrangements for the 

 conduct of the war, in providing 

 for a recurrence to the true prin- 

 ciples of a free commerce and cir- 



culation both at home and abroad; 

 in endeavouring, by a wise and 

 liberal policy, to unite in the 

 bonds of a common interest all 

 classes of his majesty's subjects, 

 of whatever religious persuasions; 

 and, lastl}', that he will be gra- 

 ciously pleased to countenance the 

 temperate consideration, and deli- 

 berate adoption of such timely re- 

 formations, both economical and 

 political, as might satisfy his loyal 

 people, that thesacrifices required 

 of them were strictly limited, and 

 faithfully applied to the real inter- 

 ests and safety of the public; 

 and that, both for preventing the 

 growth of any dangerous abuses, 

 and for controlling the conduct of 

 his majesty's advisers, they (the 

 public) continue effectually to pos- 

 sess those securities which had 

 been the boast of the British go- 

 vernment, and were essentially in- 

 herent in every free constitution." 

 In short, the substance of both 

 the speech and the resolutions 

 might be summed up in one short 

 proposition, that measures ought 

 to be adopted in ail respects of 

 importance the very reverse of 

 what had been pursued by the 

 present administration. 



The Earl of Liverpool contend- 

 ed, that a favourable change had 

 taken place in the posture of our 

 affairs. Our commerce and reve- 

 nue, he said, had increased in a 

 most unexampled manner; the 

 number of vessels taken from the 

 enemy, and those of our allies 

 rescued from their grasp, was im- 

 mense ; the numbers of our array 

 weregreaily increased; the French 



• Cobbett's Parliamentary Debates, June 13, 1810 ; in which lord Grey's speech, 

 authenticated, it is presumed, by the author, is given in the first person, at full 

 ength. 



