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enter, this perfon was removed from his fitustion on the 
acceflion to the fee of London of the prefent bilhop. He 
had fubfequently been removed from his office in the other 
epifcopacies ; and had lince openly avowed that, “having 
done with the bifhops, he would attack the clergy.” The 
greater proportion of thefe actions (he faid) were founded 
on the mere omiffion of the returns.—As to the real (late 
of refidence and non-refidence, and whether the clergy de- 
ierve to be attacked or not, fee the lilt at p. 316, 17. 
Lord Caftlereagh, on the fame day, fpoke at full length 
upon the engagements his majelty had entered into with 
foreign powers in the courfe of the year ; and obferved, that 
it would be ufeful that fuch a lfatement fhould be made, 
in order that foreign powers might themfelves fee the ex¬ 
tent of the exertions made by this country; for it had fal¬ 
len to the lot of government to refute many applications 
for affiltance, which it was impoiTible for it to give. A 
confiderabie aid had been afforded to the armies of Spain 
and Portugal, independently of the fubfidies furnilhed to 
thofe governments. In the field, it had been found that 
the public fervice could not be allowed to (land Hill; to 
prevent which, they had been in many inftances fupplied 
from our commiflariat. The direct aid to Spain was two 
millions as a fubfidy ; and quantities of military ftores, 
which had been left by parliament to the diferetion of the 
government, had been given on a principle of liberality. 
The aCtual provifion,' therefore, made by parliament, was 
tu’o millions for Spain and Portugal ; for Sicily 400,0001. 
and for Sweden one million. The houfe would feel the 
extent of the fupport which we had offered to the caufe 
of the world, when he (fated, belides the wafle of our own 
army, w’e had furnilhed half a million of ftand of arms to 
Spain and Portugal, and 400,000 ftand of arms to various 
parts of the continent. He admitted that the efforts made 
by this country, in fupport of the allies, were Come of the 
greateft that this country had ever made. The fubfidy, 
and the credit granted by this country to Ruffia, would 
amount to not lefs than five millions. The general ground 
on which the government had thought it right to ftretch 
the fum to five millions, was, becaufe the falvation of 
Europe, at the time of figning the treaty, feerned to de¬ 
pend mainly on the exertions of Ruffia and Pruftia. Every 
delicacy had been fhown by the emperor of Ruffia to this 
country and to the allies; and he acceded to the armiftice 
from a wi(h to fatisfy Anltria whether the French ruler 
ferioufly wiftied for a peace or not; bur, at the fame time, 
be was training his referves, and by the 17th of Auguft 
be had the full amount of his ftipulated force in the field. 
The exertions of Pruflia, in point of numbers, had been 
of a lower character. But it was pleafing to fee, that that 
country, which was fuppofed to have been the moft de- 
preffed and plundered by tbe enemy, had now (hovvn the 
greatnefs of its mind, and had made the moft extraordi-' 
nary exertions. Befides its garrifons, Pruftia had brought 
into the field 200,000 men; and this exertion had been 
mainly owing to that great man, Gen. Schaloft, who fell 
in the battle of Lutzen. He hoped that, in confequence 
of thele exertions made for peace, the houfe would not 
think minifters had aCted improvidently. Having given 
this general view as to the negotiation with Sweden, Ruf¬ 
fia, and Pruftia, he now wiftied to (fate w hat had been the 
tranfaefions of his majefty’s minifters with the court of 
Auftria. Much as Auftria had at (take in the prefent 
ftruggle, he was fatisfied that that power would never have 
joined the combination, but from the conviction that 
France was indifpofed towards a pacific fettlement of Eu¬ 
rope. There was not fufficient information before the 
houfe to juftify him in going into any details of Aultria’s 
efforts towards a pacification ; but he was defirous to fay 
fomething, in order to correCt an apparent mifconception 
of the member for Bedford. That gentleman had faid, 
that whatever conditions had in a former ftage been pro- 
pofed to France, (bould now be adopted. Such a l'uppo- 
(ition put the government into a dilemma, into which 
■ihey ought not to be thruft; as it implied, either that our 
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propofals were then not of a nature to be accepted, or that 
now, in confequence of fucceffes, our demands would be 
(till more exalted. In point of faff, no plan had been of¬ 
fered: Auftria never went farther than an attempt to me¬ 
diate, which was met by France by a variety of evafions* 
which left Auftria no alternative, except at once to take 
arms, or to date the grounds on which (he was difpofed 
to mediate. Thefe grounds did not pledge the conti¬ 
nental allies or this country : they were merely a bafi.% 
fcarcely affeCting the interelts of the other countries, by 
which Auftria wfiftied to afeertaiu whether her attempts at 
peace would be hopelefs. The reply of France at onc-e 
fhowed that all thefe endeavours were fruitlefs. The bat¬ 
tle of Leipfic, if followed up with diferetion and ability, 
w'ould, he trufted, produce fuch refults as would (how, 
that minifters had not forgotten their duty. He had the 
fatisfadion to fay, that the language now' adopted was the 
very fame which they had uled in a time of comparative 
deprefiion. The fum to be advanced to Auftria was one 
million, and 100,000 ftand of arms, with military ftores. 
It appeared, then, that the fubfidies amounted to the fuia 
of 10,000,000!. four of which were devoted to the penin- 
fula, the reft to the continental fyftem. It was now ne- 
ceffary for him to fay, that he muff call upon the houfe 
to vote a provifion on account, and to enable his majefty’s 
minifters to make good their engagements. He (houid 
move, therefore, firft, that a provifion of three millions 
fhould be voted to his majefty on account; and fecondly, 
that leave be given to bring in a bill to recognize the en¬ 
gagements of two millions and a half, already entered into 
in the fubfidiary treaties. His lordfiiip then moved the 
firft refolution. 
Mr. Canning, in a brilliant fpeech, contrafted the paft 
and prefent ftate of the war, with the military glory ac¬ 
quired by our troops in the peninfula; and gave his cor¬ 
dial affent to the motion. He charaCteriled the arrogance, 
tyranny, and unbounded ambition, of Bonaparte, in the 
moft appropriate terms; and deprecated the fickly fenfi- 
bility which induced many to blame the advance of lord 
Wellington into France. For his part, he rejoiced at the 
eftablifnment of the Britilh, Spanifli, and Portuguefe, forces 
in the enemy’s country. 
Sir Gilbert Heathcote objected to the grant of fuch vaft 
fubfidies to foreign powers, at a time when the annual 
taxes bore fo heavy on the community. 
Mr. Whitbread faid, that unlefs fome broad and defi¬ 
nite outline of the demands of the allies, and of the con- 
ceifions of Bonaparte, were previoudy laid down and firm¬ 
ly adhered to, we fhould foon hear of Come of our allies 
making a feparate peace. The great courfe of events held 
out to us a moft important leflon. If vve did not take 
warning from it, but attempted blindly to pufti our ad¬ 
vantages too far, he feared that we (houid only raife the 
fame irrefiftible power in France, which, in 1793, had re¬ 
pelled the combined attacks of Europe.—The relolutions 
were then paffed. 
On the 19th of November, the fum of 3059I. was voted 
for the repairs of St. Margaret’s church. 
An official account was laid before the houfe of com¬ 
mons, and ordered to be printed, w hich fiates the amount 
of the net produce of the permanent taxes in Great Bri¬ 
tain, for the year ending the a5th of October, 1812, at 
38,743.428k 16s. 8£d. and for the year ending the 15th of 
OCtober, 1813, at 37,833,3661. 12s. i£d.-being a defici¬ 
ency of about 900,0001. The fame account ftates the to¬ 
tal amount of the net produce of the war-taxes, for the year 
endingthe 25th of January, 1812, 8121,822,532]. 14s. io^d. 
and for the year ending the 25th of OCtober, 1813, at 
22,740,568k 4s. o|d. being an increafe of about the 
amount of the deficiency in the permanent taxes. Thus 
the net produce of the whole of the taxes in Great Bri¬ 
tain, for the year ending the 25th of OCtober, 1813, ex¬ 
ceeded fixty millions. 
The abolition of the (lave-trade, that hydra which the 
herculean labours of ourTenate thought to have entirely 
deftroyed. 
