^6 PAR.LTAMENTARy PROCEEDINGS, Sept. 21, 



Convention with Spain. 



HOUSE OF LORDS. 



Monday', December 13. 1790. 



Lord KJNNOUL, after a fliort preface, moved, «' That an 

 " humble addrcfs be prefcnted to his Majefty, praying him to 

 " order copies of the memorials, &c, that had pafled between 

 <' our miniflcrs and thofe of Spain in the late dilpute, to be laid 

 «' before their Lnrdfliips." 



The Duke nf Montrofe oppofed the motion as being in his opi- 

 nion unnecetTavy ; he beftdes complained that the noble Lord 

 had taken the Houfe by lurprife. 



iori/A7;/«oK/ explained. After a few words, thequeftion was 

 put, and the motion negatived without a divilion. 



The Duke nf Mo)itrofe then rofe again ; faid he felt no doubt, 

 but their Lordfhips would agree with him in prefenting an 

 humble addrefs to his Majeftv, for the happy termination of 

 our difftrtnces with Spain, and the pcculiaradvantages we have 

 gained by the Convention, which he confidered as a ftrnng 

 proof of the wifdom and capability of thofe who had condudted 

 the Convention. He had heard infinuations without doors 

 thrown out againll the expf nccs that had been incurred by the 

 armaments to wliich fo m':ch.was owing. If any were of that 

 opinion in that Houfe, he invited them to come forward and 

 ftate their objections, — he himfelf being convinced in his own 

 mind, the public would think them very moderate. — His Lord- 

 Ihip now produced the addreft, and moved accordingly. 



Lord Glafgozu, in a few words, feconded the motion. 



Lord Coventry iA\d the wifdom of adminiftration had been 

 above all praife, for they had fccured us peace upon the moft 

 folid grounds, much ftronger than by parchment. Treaties, 

 he faid, might be broken, but our minifters had fliewed them 

 a fleet of feventy fail of the line, an argument of too powerful 

 a nature to be trifled with ; and therefore, if they had put the 

 nation to the expente of a million or two, it was more than 

 probable they had faved us from a war that miglit have coft us 

 an hundred. 



Lord Raqvdon profeffed great affedtion to the Sovereign. 

 The addrtfs, in as far as it concerned his Majefty* did not come 

 up to his Vv-ilhcp; at the fame time it went infinitely beyond tnem 



