478 
of corn grown in England in the year 
1801. 
In both Houfes of Parliament the Defi- 
nitive Treaty has laid the foundation of 
feveral debates; and if much conteft have 
not taken place, much harangue has at 
leatt been employed. The partizans who 
conftitute the new Oppofition are deter- 
mined to fpin out the difeuffion to as great 
a length as poffible, and Mr. Windham 
has been the champion appointed to dif- 
play the errors of the Miniltry in the late 
negociation. ) 
It is impoffible to give even the analy- 
fis of the ajourned debate that took place 
the 13th and 14th of May, on the Defini- 
tive Treaty, in the Houie of Commons. 
All we can pretend to do is, to offer a 
brief fketch of the general impreffion which 
the different arguments have made upon 
our own mind, and the effect they appear 
to have had upon the public. And here 
the moft prominent fact that has ftruck us, 
is the weaknefs of the Miniftry as to the 
talents of good f{peaking, and efpecially 
of reply. In the Lower Houfe the tafk 
has fallen, almolt exclufively, upon Lord 
Hawke(fbury ; while inthe Upper, nothing 
worthy of a reply has occurred to us; for 
a few disjointed cbfervations which have 
¥allen from the Lords Pelnam and Hobart, 
are fcarcely entitled to {uch an appellation. 
_ ‘The next thing we have to notice is, the 
virtual or voluntary refignation of every 
commendatory epithet which was applied 
to the Peace, by the Miniltry themtelves, 
on its firlt reltcration, 
The attack was chiefly conducted by 
Mr. Windbam—Lord Hawkeibury fpoke 
at great length and with much ability.. 
He maintained that the peace confulted all 
the beft interefts of the country, and was 
fuch as it was wife in us to conclude. 
We cannot follow the Right Hon. Mem- 
ber through his particular arguments in 
favour of the treaty, which he defended 
wich his ufual ability. He concluded by 
propofing as an amendment, another ad- 
dreis different from Mr. Windham’s, 
ftating, “* that his faithiul Commons hav- 
ing approved of the preliminaries of peace 
which had been Jaid before the Houfe, and 
being fatisfied of his Majefty’s paternal 
care for his people, had alfo approved of 
the Definitive Treaty; that they hopéd 
the fame would be preferved inviolably, 
and that as far in them lay, they would 
enieavour to fupport the faime, and to 
preferve the bleflings of peace, and culti- 
vate friendfhip with all foreign powers; 
and that they would, in the profecution of 
thefe principles, fupport with loyalty and 
afe&tion the dignity of his Majefy’s 
crown and facred ==" ** The Hovfe 
State of Public Affairs in May, 1802. 
[June i, 
then propofed to divide on the two diffe- 
rent addrefles, when there appeared for 
the addreis of Mr. Windham, Ayes 20, 
Noes, 276; majority, 256. The queftion 
was then put onLordHawkefbury’s amend- 
ment, which was carried without a divi- 
fion. 
Mr. Addington, on the 17th of Mays 
rofe to confider of the feveral aéts for 
eftablifhing the Sinking Fund. | He 
had on a former occafion ftated the ten- 
dency of the refojutions, and they had 
received the general approbation of the 
Houfe, and of the country; and if the 
Committee would allow him to bring 
in a Bill founded thereon, they would in 
its ftages through the Houfe have an op- 
portunity of fully difcufling the plan pro- 
pofed for liquidating the National Debt. 
He then moved ‘* That it was the opinion 
of the Committee, that the feveral fums 
granted to his Majefty, under the Aét for 
the Reduction of the National Debt, fhould 
be confolidated under one Aét; which was 
agreed to. He then moved, that a fum 
not exceeding 200,000l. per annum, bear- 
ing compound intereft, be granted to his 
Majefty from and after the 25th of Janu- 
ary, 1803, to be applied by the Commif- 
fioners for the Redution of the National 
Debt, &c. 
- Mr. W. Boyd entered into a variety of 
complicated ftatements, and obferved that 
14. 0r 15 years would at leatt elapfe before 
the country would feel any benefit from 
the meafure, but then it would have a 
moft rapid effe&t. He fubmitted it to the 
Houfe whether the plan might not be fo 
changed as to afford immediate TYelief. 
Mr. Pitt obferved, if the old Sinking 
Fund was to accumulate with the new, at 
compound intereft, in about z5 years the 
effect would be prodigious. Mr. Tierney 
was of opinion that the relief to the coun- 
try fhould not be deferred to 14 or 15 
years, but take place fooner. 
A fubfcription has been opened at 
Lloyd’s Coffee Houte, for erecting a flatue 
to the Right Hon. William Pitt, late 
firt Lord of the Treafury and Chancellor 
of the Exchequer, for the diiinguifhed 
and valuable fervices which he rendered 
to his country during the courfe of his able 
and upright Adminiiiration. There is no 
doubt but every fupporter of the late 
é<juft and necefla:y war” will gladly con- 
tribute ** his laf guinea”? to do honour to 
the heaven-born Minifler ; and the Right 
Hon. Gentleman hunfelf muft receive this 
mark of public approbation with particu- 
lar fatisfaction, from a con{cioufnels of ifs 
being jultly merited. ‘Io the country at 
large, indeed, no monument is necefiary 
fo perpetuate the memory of Mr. Pitt’s 
Admi- 
