1797-] 
can be fairly and honourably brought 
~ about, in concurrence and junétion with 
our allies”? Upon Mr. Pollen fignify- 
ing that he fhould take the fenfe of the 
Houfe upon his motion, Mr. Addington 
arofe, and faid that he hoped the honour- 
able gentleman would have withdrawn 
Mis motion, after what had been ftated 
by Mr. Pitt; but being difappointed in 
that hope, he urged feveral arguments 
againft the motion, and defended what 
had fallen from the Chancellor of the 
Exchequer, in reply to Mr. Pollen. 
The raotion being read, and the quef- 
tion being put on the order of the day, 
Mr. Fox rofe, and faid, that it would be 
inconfiftent with his duty, to give a fi- 
Jent vote upon the queftion of this ex- 
traordinary day. He faid the Chancel- 
lor of the Exchequer, though he had 
many fhapes, had but one mode of aét- 
ing. Whenever the country was in a 
condition in which the interference of 
the Houfe of Commons was called for, 
then he always came with fome attempt 
to evade, and with fome promife whicn 
he never intended to perform. The 
Houfe was told what was announced by 
letter, in the city, that morning, that 
fome gentleman was going to Vienna. 
Mr. Fox ftrongly urged the want of 
fincerity in minifters upon former occa- 
fions, and contended that the Houfe had 
moO new ground to place their confidence 
upon. He entered into a long recapi- 
tulation ‘of the difafters brought upon 
this country by the ignorance of minil- 
ters—The war was begun, he faid, 
under the pretence that the moment 
was ‘a fortunate one, becaufe England 
had all Europe for her ally. But has 
fhe the fame reafon for cqntinuing it? 
France has acquired the alliance -of 
Spain ; the poffeffes all the powers of 
Italy, and all Belgium; and fhe has fuch 
a fpecies of neutrality in Pruffia, as 
fome have thought to be tantamount to 
an aétual alliance. ‘‘ But-whether (faid 
Mr. Fox) the keep thefe alliances or not, 
the has, in any cafe, one grand ally, that 
never fails her—I mean the xational debt 
of Great Britain; and this is an ally 
which goes on from day to day, which 
is always active, which will never fail, 
and which will ‘go on even in time of 
peace.” 
_ Mr. Pirt replied, and ftrongly urged 
his accuftomed arguments, in detence of 
the meafures purfued by minifters dur- 
ing the prefent war, and in the late ne- 
gociation for peace. 
Sir WILLIAM PULTENEY, and Mr. 
Public Affairs—Eritify Parliament.—Bauk. 313 
Jouns {poke in favour of the order of 
the day. 
Sir Joun MacpuHerson, and Mr. 
WeEsTERN were for the original mo- 
tion. At length, the houfe divided; 
for the order of the day, 291; againft 
iis Oe 
On the 21ft of April, Mr. BraGce, 
brought up the third report of the 
committee of fecrecy, appointed to en- 
quire into the caufes which produced 
the order in council, prohibiting ‘the 
Bank from iffuing fpecie in payment of 
their notes, which was ordered to be 
printed. 
The fame day, Mr. ABBoT brought 
up the fecond report of the committee of 
public finances, which was ordered to be 
printed. i 
It does not come within our limits, to 
difcufs the fubject-of the grievances of 
the feamen, who were fo lately in a ftate 
mutiny off Portfmouth. The matter 1s 
too important, to be loofely difcuffed— 
A reprefentative government actually ef- 
tablifhed on board the Britifh fleet ; and 
the Lords Commiffioners of the Admiralty 
proceeding to treat with a convention of 
delegates, is an era inthe annals of our 
navy, which no man who originally gave 
his fwffrage for the prefent war of dif- 
organization, ever expected to fee ! 

Authentic Documents, relative to the Siop- 
page of Payment at the Bank. ~ 
The refufal of the Bank of England 
to return fpecie for their notes, when 
prefented for payment, being an event 
of almoft univerfal concern, and general 
converfation, we have thought neceflary 
to lay before our readers fome incontro- 
vert'ble evidence relative to that fubjedt, 
drawn from the ccpies of the communi- 
cations between the Direétors of the 
“Bank, and thé Chancellor of the Ex- 
chequer, refpecting advances to go- 
vernment, fince the 1ft of November, 
1794, which the Houfe of Commons or- 
dered to be printed, on the 7th of April, 
1797, for the ufe of the members. 
Hence will appear the fallacy of the af- 
fertion, ‘‘that the {carcity of fpecie and 
bullion was not attributable to imperial 
loans, or to the remittances which go- 
vernment had made to the Continent; 
and that the prefent deranged ftate of 
public’credit is the effeét of a momentary 
alarm.” 
So early as 15th of January, 1795, the 
Court of Dire@ors refolved to inform 
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, that, 
at the prefent period, when a loan un- 
der 
