1801.] 
Our faithful ally the Prince of Orange was 
not even named in the treaty. In vain 
did we look for the obje@s of the war— 
indemnity for the paft and fecurity for the 
future.—The only indemnity was the fet- 
tlements of Ceylon and Trinidad ; ¢er- 
tainly altogether inadequate. In India 
‘we had, by the gallantry and enterprifé of 
our armies, reduced Tippoo Sab, and 
‘extinguifhed the danger of the enemy. 
But look at this treaty. By ceding the 
Cape of Good Hope and part’ of Cochin, 
you give an opening again to the coatt of 
Malabar, while in South America by the 
treaty with Portugal the enemy was. to have 
a mihtary poft at the mouth of the River 
of Amazons, which would be fatal to our 
poffzffions in the-eaft. We had furren. - 
dered the valuable ifland of Martinique. 
In the Mediterranean we had furrendered 
everything. Infhort, ina peace founequal, 
he could only feea fhort truce. By fuch 
a peace the French had been able to give 
eclat to thofe dangerous principles upen 
“which he and the other noble lords had _ 
been ridiculed. It .was faid that it was 
the intereft‘of France to preferve peace ; 
‘how do we know.that ? Who can fee what 
vwill'be the intereft of an ufurper ? 
‘The Duke of Clarence expreffed his en- 
tire approbation of the peace, as fafe, ho- 
-norable and becoming. . 
Lord Peiham entered into a detailed juf- 
tification of the terms of peace, anda 
comparifon between it and the projet given 
‘in by the late minifters.in 1797. 
Lord Grenville faid it would have co- 
ewered his heart with joy had the great cb- 
jects for which we had been ftruggling, 
rand towwwhich ‘the beft part of is life had 
‘been devoted, been obtained. His lord- 
fhip then defcribed the firuation of France 
and Great Britain at the time of peace he- 
“ing figned. We were in a fituation of 
‘the highét profperity. In the Weft In- 
dies we had every thing except St. Do- 
mingo. In the Eat we had an abfolute 
deminion. © France, on the other, hand, 
had attained inordinate power onthe con- 
tinent of Europe; but the Britith con- 
«quefts in the other parts of the world were 
furely fuch as to enable us to command 
equivalents ‘for the facrifices we made, 
His lordfhip then followed carly the ar- 
guments of Esil Spencer. 
_ ‘Bord Grenville-was followed by the Lord 
‘Chancellor, Lord Rawdon, ‘Lord: War- 
wick, Lord Mulgrave, the Bifhop of Lon- 
«don, the-Bifhop-of Rochetter (who, though 
a Minitter of the Gofpel of Peace, voted 
‘againit the -peace) and Earl Fitzwilliam. 
‘ After this Lord-Str,' Vincent role to take 
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State of Public Affairs in November, 1801. 
for approving the .Preliminaries. 
aT 
notice of an expreffion which had fallen 
from a noble lord for whom he had the 
hicheft refpe&t and elteem. ‘That noble 
lord (Earl Spencer) had faid that the Preli- 
minaries on the table'were attended with cir- 
cumftances of humiliation and difgrace to 
this-country. His lordfhip denied that any 
thing like either attached to them. The 
prelininaries he was convinced,were'equal- 
ly honorable and advantageous tothis coun- 
try; and the thare he had the honour to 
have had in advifing: their bene acceded 
to, he fhould ever confider as the pride of 
his life. 
Lord Nelfon rofe to fpeak a few words 
refpecting a point, in regard to which no 
one of their lordfhips could, perhaps, 
fpeak with more information than himfelf, 
With regard to Malta, that ifland, when 
the noble earl fent him down the Medi- 
terranean, was in the hands of the French, 
and on his return from the battle of 
Aboukir he thought it his fir object to 
blockade it, becaufe he deemed it an in- 
valuable piece of fervice during the then 
ftate of affairs in Egypt, to reicue it from 
the hands of the French. In any other 
point.of view, he could affure their lord- 
fhips, that Malta was of no fort of confe- 
quence to this ¢country; it lay at two 
great a diftance from Toulon, to ferve as 
a ftation to watch the fleets of the French 
that put to fea from. that port. 
The Marguis of Buckingham expreffed 
the pain he felt at being obliged not to 
give a filent vote, butat that late hour to 
have occafion to rife. He lamented fin- 
cerely that he could not give his confent to 
the Preliminaries. on-the table, becaufe he 
thought them highly humiliating and dif 
graceful to this country. 
The Earl of Carnarvon affigned his 
reafons for not concurring in the motion 
His 
lordfhip declared he. fhouid vote againtt 
the motion, : 
‘The queftion being then put from the 
woollack, the houle divided —Contents 94. 
Proxies 20. Non-contents 10.’ Proxies:o. 
In the Houfe of Commons, onthe fame 
day, Sir Edmund Hartop moved, and Mr. ° 
Leigh feconded, an addrefs to his Majefty. 
Lord Hawkefbury, after fome prefatory 
remarks, expatiated on the benefits. re- 
fuliing to the nation from the reftoration 
of peace. He then went more particu- 
larly into the fubject, calling the atten- 
tion of the Houle to the-peculiar circum- 
{tances under which his Majefty’s. Mi- 
nifters had brought about the treaty. 
‘The government -of the French Republic 
kad. been fo changed, that Jacobinifm was 
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