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some present aid, but not to pay 
his entire stipend, until a satis- 
factory explanation were given of 
some suspicious points of his 
conduct. If, however, he had 
any ground of complaint in this 
matter, it should have been made 
to the allies, who were parties in 
the treaty. After some remarks 
on the precautionary measures 
now proper to be pursued, he 
concluded with moving an ad- 
dress corresponding to the Re- 
gent’s message. 
Sir F. Burdett then rose to de- 
clare his reasons for refusing to 
concur in the proposed address, 
which turned upon his conviction 
that Buonaparte was the choice 
of the French nation, and that 
any attempt to re-establish the 
Bourbons by force would be 
equally unjust, and hopeless. He 
regarded the address as the first 
step towards a war of which no 
man could foresee the termina- 
tion. 
Mr. Ponsonby said, he should 
support the address, not consi- 
dering it in the same light as the 
hon. baronet, since it did not 
bind the House by a single ex- 
pression on the question of peace 
or war. With respect to what 
was said of the contravention of 
the peace of Paris, he interpreted 
it (aslord Grey did in the House 
of Lords) as referring to the cir- 
cumstance, that more favourable 
terms having by that treaty been 
granted to France on the ground 
that she was to return to what 
was called her legitimate govern- 
ment, that condition no longer 
subsisting now that the govern- 
ment had reverted to Buonaparte, 
the allied powers stood in the 
same relation to France that they 
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did before the treaty. He said he 
should never givea vote on the 
principle of imposing a specific 
government on any nation; and 
that he would to the last moment 
cherish the hope that peace might 
be continued, especially when he 
recollected that the noble lord 
himself had been engaged in the 
negociations at Chatillon, when 
France was not under the govern- 
ment of the Bourbons, but of 
Buonaparte. 
Mr. Whitbread began a long 
and warm speech with saying, 
that they who should vote for the 
address unamended, would fall 
into the trap into which the mi- 
nisters were desirous of betray- 
ing the country; and that he 
could not Jet the occasion pass 
without contending with all his 
force against any of the grounds 
hypothetically stated by the noble 
lord for commencing a new cru- 
sade for the purpose of determi- 
ning who should fill the throne 
of France. He would maintain 
that it was the clear interest of 
this country, and its allies, to 
fufil the treaty which they had 
made with France when under. 
the Bourbons. After a variety of 
observations on this point, among 
which he introduced some very 
severe animadversions on the un- 
authorised concurrence of the 
British minister at Vienna in the 
declaration of the allies on the 
landing of Buonaparte in France 
(see State Papers ), he concluded 
with moving the following a- 
mendment to the address: ** And 
that at the same time we earnest- 
ly implore his Royal Highness 
the Prince Regent that he would 
be graciously pleased to exert his 
most strenuous endeavours to se= 
