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Bank was occafioned by fending money 
to foreign powers. He declared it as 
his opinion, that withbolding farther 
fupplies from our ally, would be un- 
wife and impolitic. He afflerted, that 
the want of pecuniary means, prevent- 
ed his fmperial majetty from bringing 
his whole military power into aéiion; 
and contended, that denying him aid, 
would be. to compel him to make a fe- 
parate peace. Mr. Fox {poke in fa- 
vour of the motion; and when | the 
houfe divided, there appeared, for the 
motion, 37; agalnit it, 266 
On the 10th of April, Mr. PoLtLen 
made a motion in the Houtfe af Com- 
mons, refpecting peace. He enforced 
the necefiity of a {peedy peace. He 
obferved, that if his majefty’s minifters 
had really been fincere and anxious in 
their defire for peace, at the time they 
propofed the negociation, and during the 
continuance of Lord Maimetoury’s em- 
baffy, it was evident the D-yreétory, as 
well as many other perfons, had mifcon- 
ceived and mifapprehended their inten- 
tion. ‘Three days after the departure 
of Lord Ma!lmefbury, there were pub- 
lifhed zm the Redadteur, *« Obfervations 
upon the Difmiffai of ord Maimefbury;” 
an extract from.which he held in his 
hand, and which he had taken from M. 
Peltier’s pamphlet, in which it had been 
introduced. This paper was regarded 
as official from the Directory; and fiat- 
ed, ‘* that the Directory were eager for 
peace, but the fame anxiety was not 
thown on the part of Lord Malmefbury ; 
—-that the treaties which the republic 
had made wita the greater part of the 
princes of Germany, were in no efteem 
in the eyes of England.—That the Bri- 
tifh minifter required the republie to 
abandon Italy, Savoy, and the country of 
Nice. France was. defired alfo to ufe 
the fame perfidy towards the Belgians.— 
That. the pretenfions of the Britifh mi- 
nifter, when his negociator fpoke of Hol- 
Jand, appeared to border upon madnefs : 
according to him, the French republic 
ought totraffic with Batavian liberty, and 
the ftadtholder was to be reftored.—That 
England announced her intention of 
holding the Cape and Ceylon, in order 
to preferve the balance of Hurope, which, 
according to her fenfe of it, confilted in 
her having every thing, and the other 
powers nothing, &c2” 
Mr. Pollen did not deliver any opt- 
nion upon the contents of this paper. 
Tf the allegations it contained were true, 
then the negociations cught to be refum- 
Public Affairs. —Britifh Parliament. 
t 
[ April, 
ed on fair and candid principles; and if 
they .were falfe, the beit mede of dif- 
playing the juftice of the Englifh go- 
vernment to Europe, and of expofing 
the’ unjuft pretenfions of the enemy, 
would be to publifh a counter-declara- 
tion, ftating the grounds upon which the 
War was carried on. Mr. Pollen 
concluded his fpeech, with a motion 
to the following purport :—-‘* That 
an humble eddreis be prefented to, his 
majefty, reprefenting, that, upon mature _ 
deliberation, his faithful commons were 
of opinion, that his gracious endeavours 
to reftore peace to Europe, failed of 
their effeét, either trom mifconception 
on the part of the Fren 
; ench government, 
or from the terms propoied having been 
ill explained to the people of that coun- 
Ch ye co eaee 
Sir John MACPHERSON feconded the 
motion, and the Chancellor of the Ex- 
chequer oppofed ir. He faid, it was in- 
definite, and embraced no conclufion or 
object whatever. It only called upon 
his majefty to do fomething, the nature 
ef which was not in any degree exe 
prefled. Itfuppofed that his majeiiy’s 
minifters, were unwilling to do that 
which was neceuiary to be done, without 
giving one fingle reafon for fuch a fup- 
pohtion. He next alluded to the paper 
from which Mr. Polien had read the 
extract. The intention of his majefty’s 
minifters, he faid, had been grofsly mif- 
reprefented in that paper. Mr. Pitt 
next obferved, that he had, a few nights 
ago, intimated to the houfe, that offers 
for a feparate peace had been lately 
made to his Imperial majefty, our good 
and faithful ally ; that his Imperial ma- 
jefty had immediately acquainted this 
goverment with the nature and extent 
of thofe offers; and had accompanied 
that information with the ftrongett affu- 
rances, that nothing fhould induce him 
to make peace, except in concert with 
England. . In confequence of this in- 
formation, his Majefty’s minifters had 
determined to feize the prefent occafion 
to try if any frefh negociation could ho- 
nourably, and fairly be opened towards 
the attainment of peace—And, faid Mr.. 
Pitt, I am happy in being able to in- 
form the houfe, ‘¢ that his majefty, ime 
preffed with a moft ardent and anxious 
defire to procure, if poifible, an honour- 
able and permanent peace, has actually 
appointed a perfon, in confidence, to pro- 
ceed immediately to Vienna, with full 
authority, then and there to enter upon 
@ negociation for peace, if fucha meafure 
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