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the military forces of the kingdom, and 
for the fuppreflion of the mutiny. It 
recommended firmne(s and perfeverance 
in the meafures which had been'taken ; 
but ftated the iffue of the negociations 
for péace as vneertaim from what had 
then paffed. It concluded, however, 
with an-affurance on the part. of his 
Majefiy, that nothing fhould be omitted 
on his part, to bring the negociation to 
an honourable termination. 
IRELAND. 
The iron hand of terror, and a * yi- 
gour beyond the law,” ftill continue to 
throw a melancholy gloom over our iifter 
kingdom. Mr. Grattan and his ad- 
herents, weary with fruitlefs attempts to 
repel the torrent of corruption, have 
withdrawn from parliament, declaring, 
that fo long as the prefent ftate of re- 
prefentation i in the Commons’ Houfe con- 
tinues, fo long they retpedifully decline 
the honour of foliciting, at the hands of 
their fellow citizens, feats in that affem- 
bly. Mr. Grattan, in an addrefs to his 
conftituents, traces the origin of all the 
evils and difeontents of his « country from 
. an ill-ftarred and deftructive endeavour, 
on the part of the minifter of the crown, 
_to give to the monarch a power which 
the conftitution never intended—to 
render the king in parliament every 
thing, and the people nothing—and to 
work the people completely out of the 
Houtfe of Commons, and, in their place, _ 
to feat and eftablifh the chief magiftrate 
abfolute and irrefiftible. ‘* It appeared 
tous,’ fay thefe feceders, © that a mi- 
nifter, guilty of fuch a crime, is as much 
@ traitor to the conftitution, as the Ans 
would be to the king, if they thould ad- 
vance in arms, and place their leader on 
the throne ; more guilty of treafon in 
equity and juftice, becaufe in them it 
would be only a rebellion againtt their 
creature, the king; but in the other, it 
would be rebellion againft his creator, 
the people. It occurred to them, that 
in Ireland the offence would te ftill 
higher, becaufe, in that country, it would 
be the introduction not only of a defpo- 
tic, but of a foreign yoke, and the revival 
of that great queftion which, in 1782, 
agitated that kingdom, ‘and’ which, il 
its parliament fall be reformed, mutt 
agitate it for ever.’ 
On the 3d of July, the Lord ifleutes 
nant proceeded to the Houfe of Lords, 
and addrefled both houfes in a fpeech, 
ee = Sa that ke was commanded by 
the king to exprefs the juft fenfe which 
MonTuty Mac. No. XX, 
State of Public Affairse—Ireland.... France. 
65: 
he entertained of that firm ie and 
vigorous determination which they had 
uniformly manifefied, in fupporting og his 
majefty’s government, and protecting our 
happy conftitution from the attempts of, 
every forcign and domeftic enemy. He 
thanked them, in his majefty’s name, for 
their unanimity in voting the extraordi- 
nary fupplics which the public exigencies 
demanded. However thofe fupplies had 
been unprecedented in extent, and how- 
ever difficult they might have been ren- 
dered from the -ftate of public credit, 
they had wifely attended to the fuperior 
confideration of national fafety. His 
lordthip farther informed them, that the 
power with which they had ‘entrutted 
him, by the fufpenfion of the Habeas 
Corpus act, had enabled him to bring to 
light and. to difconcert the formidable 
and’ fecret confpiracy which had been 
formed for the total overthrow of the 
eftablifhment of the nation, the deftruc- 
tien of property, and the diffolution of 
Aa: ernment. His excellency concluded 
his ipeech, by proroguing the parliament 
to the roth of Avguft next. 
FRANCE. 
In the prefidpney of general PrcHE- 
GRU, on the 19th of June, a memorable 
and tumultuous debate took place in the 
Council of Five Hundred. On the pre- 
ceding day, the Council had adopted a 
plan of finance, produced .by DesMo+ 
LIERES, tending to take the power of 
the purfe out of the hands of the Direc« 
tory. LECLERC now demanded the re- 
peal of the refolution relative to the trea- 
fury. “ Itis difsraceful,” faid he, ‘‘fub- 
verfive of all principles, and was paffed 
ina thin affembly, without a divifion.’? 
For fome time, he obferved, there had ex- 
ifted a feandalous:contention between the 
Directory and the Committee of Finance. 
[Upon this affertion a great difturbance 
took place, infults and menaces’ were inter- 
changed. At length PicHEGRU put on 
his hat, and reftored tranquillity.] Sa- 
vary called the attention of the Coun- 
cil to a pretédent. Om the report of 
Vitiers, the Council had adopted a 
refolution relative to the police of the 
frontiers. Onthe next day, a member 
moved for the repeal of it ; attention 
was paid to the reafons which he urged : 
the refolution was recommiited, and 
VILLERS ordered to be. added to the 
Committee. This fpecch of Savary pro- 
duced violent murmurs ; but he perfever- 
ed in the midft of the tumu!r, and loudly 
infifted upon the impropriety of fuch 
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