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cumspection in their view of the 
interests of the country. 
Mr. Baring warmly condemned 
the whole conduct of the negocia- 
tion on the part of this country. 
He said that the American com- 
missioners seemed willing to have 
entered into the question rela- 
tive to the impressment of our 
seamen, but that ours refused to 
listen to the proposal, and had 
left the matter upon the worst 
possible footing. It was doubt- 
less a point of much difficulty, 
but for his own part he was con- 
vinced of the practicability of an 
arrangement. With respect to our 
allies (as they had been called) 
the Indians, he allowed that they 
ought not to be left at the mercy 
of the American government, but 
all which could be required from 
us was to leave them as they had 
been before the war. The bound- 
ary demanded for them would 
have given to savage tribes more 
than one half of the United 
States ; and would have been the 
worst possible policy for Great 
Britain, since, instead of spread- 
ing out the Americans in agricul- 
tural settlements, it would have 
compelled them to become manu- 
facturers and seamen. Mr. B. 
then adverted to the trial which 
government had chosen to enter 
into after the peace of Paris, how 
an impression could be made on 
the territory of the United States, 
the result of which had shewn 
that it could not be done with 
‘effect, either in the north or the 
‘south. He wished to hear a de- 
fence of the expedition to New 
Orleans; which, if it had succeed- 
‘ed, would only have produced the 
under of some cotton ware- 
ouses, and would infallibly, on 
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the arrival of warm weather, have 
rendered the greatest part of our 
men unfit for duty. 
After several other speakers 
had taken part in the discussion, 
in which the delay of the treaty 
appeared to be more forcibly at- 
tacked than satisfactorily defend- 
ed, the House divided upon the 
amendment, which was negatived 
by 128 to 37, and the address was 
then agreed to. 
The same topic was introduced 
to the House of Lords on April 
13th, by a speech of Marquis 
Wellesley, in which he took a 
wide view of the whole negocia~ 
tion with America. As in its 
main points it was entirely simi« 
lar to that of Mr. Ponsonby, it 
will not be necessary to repeat 
‘any of the arguments employed 
in censure of the conduct of mi- 
nisters on that occasion. His 
lordship concluded with moving 
an address to the Prince Regent 
for laying before the House copies, 
or extracts of the correspondence 
which took place between his 
majesty’s Plenipotentiaries and 
those of the United States of Ame- 
rica relative to the late negocia- 
tions for peace. 
Earl Bathurst began his reply 
‘with regarding it as a very ex- 
traordinary thing to move, at the 
conclusion of a negociation for 
peace, for making public the cor- 
respondence between the minis- 
tters who had conducted it, and 
shewed the objections to such a 
proceeding. His subsequent de- 
fence’ of the negociation, as far 
‘as he chose to. enter into-it, was 
founded on the same grounds as 
that in the other House. With 
respect to the charge of delay, he 
said he was convinced that if 
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