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vioxd^free accefs. If it meant intercourfe, we were interdi(fled 

 allacccf?, in thofe parts where the Spaniards had fettlements al- 

 ready ; and if there fhould remain any place fo much to the north 

 of the Spaniards as to admit of a fettlement on our part, the pro- 

 vifion made for free accefs to them muft be an eternal caufe of 

 difference and hoftility, which, whatever others may think, the 

 prefect Convention was more likely to accelerate than retard- 

 He again adverted to the third Article, and thought it fo ob- 

 fc'urely worded, and fo pregnant with future difputes, that iQ 

 comparifun he could not help admiring the Convention which 

 put the difputes refpe«fting Falklands IJlands in the fame condi- 

 tion which they were in before. After touching on the expen- 

 ces incurred, the great extent of the armament, andthe length 

 of the negociation, he concluded with moving, " That the 

 Houfe do now adjourn." 



Mr Dundas in reply contended, that if gentlemen had doubts 

 as to the ri^ht which Spain claimed, thefe ought to have been 

 flarted when the Ho ife unanimoufly addreflT'd his Majefty on 

 the fubjcdt of the infult by Spain. He then turned his atten- 

 tion " to the unparallelkd benefits which tlie commerce of this 

 country muft draw from the immenfe fifheries of the greateft 

 ocean in the univerfe, ano the boundlefs traffic of a new and 

 almolt unexplored world." He laid, " the explanation of the 

 Convention by Mr Grey was ridiculous ; and inlifted the mean- 

 ing was clear, that the reftoration was to be diredt and pofuive 

 where territory was in queftion, and the compenfation only to 

 apply to matters oi property, which might be injured or deftroy- 

 ed." He confeffed, that an additional burden of three millioni 

 of money was a very ferious fum to levy on the people of this 

 country, oppreflcdas they already are with debt. But he muft 

 remark, that all burdens are comparative 5 and though the com- 

 mercial benefits of this treaty could not be eftimated at fo low 

 a price as this fum, yet there were other advantages of ftill more 

 moment, which would rcfult from the vigour of thefe arma- 

 ments : " For when the aftonifhed univcrfc has beheld the fineft 

 fleet that ever the ocean bore, riding thus fuddenly upon its 

 bofom, each ftate will natur.illy feel that the force which gives 

 good treaties to this country, has given it at the fame time the 

 power to retain them." 



Mr Rolls declared himfclf a zealous advocate of adroiniftra- 

 tion, and was happy in fo doing, that he complied with the 

 wiihes of his conflitncnts, the freeholders of Devon/hire. 



Mr Ryder fpoke a few words in favour of adininiftration. 



Mr Fox condemned, as improper, the pradicc of introducing, 

 the opinion of conftitucnts into that Houl>, alledging that every 

 member there ought to ad as his own judgement diretSed, oe 

 ii the opinion of his conflitiients weighed witii liimfLdf, it was 

 not an objed for difciiffion in that Houfc. inileaJ of rifcrting , 



