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happy thing for France and all Europe, 
and he thought fo fill. He fought not to 
dilguife from all the-world his regret at 
the difappointment of his hopes. Happy 
would he have been to have put together 
the fragments of a venerable edifice fo 
cruelly fcattered. We had, however, 
fucceeded in the demolition of Jacobinifim; 
at leatt we fee it ftripped of the deélufive 
olour, which gave it its chief power of 
diftinGtion. Mr..Pitt then enumerated 
the advantages we had gained. in the 
Union-with Ireland, by our naval and mi- 
litary reputation, and the confolidation of 
our Indian Empire; and after predicting 
to the country, if it was true to itfelf, a 
long train of profperity and happinefs, 
concluded by giving his hearty aflent to 
the motion. : 
Mr. Fox faid he never in his life gave 
a vote more cordially than he did m favour 
of the treaty of peace. It was an honour- 
able peace; if it was not glorious it was 
no wonder; no peace could be glorious 
unlefs founded on a glorious war, which 
was by no means an epithet that could be 
given to the lateone. If Minifters could,* 
without rifk, have obtained better terms, 
they were certainly blameable in not doing 
- fo; but was this the cafe? No. In con- 
tinuing the war we incurred a certain ex- 
pence, and every day our fituation was 
rendered worfe. Ceylon and ‘Trinidad 
were both valuable acquifitions. The 
fituation in which the Cape was placed in 
the preliminaries was better for this coun- 
try than if we ourfelves retained it; we 
fhould have all the advantages without the 
expence.* The lofs of Malta was rather 
to be regretted. The Minifters had ated 
with dignity in acceding to a peace, while 
they were ftill able to carry on the war. 
Let the gentlemen confider not merely the 
financial lofs, the lives facrificed, but the 
mifery to which, for two years, the people 
of this country had been reduced. The 
fallin the price of the neceflaries of life 
fince the peace, unexpected as it was, had 
fhown the effeét which the war had in en- 
hancing the price of every article of ‘con- 
fumption. Some regretted that the peace 
was glorious to France. If peace could be 
glorious to the French Republic without 
being difhonourable to this country, it 
would not give him any concern that it 
fhould be fo. The objeé of the war was 
the reftoration of the accurfed Houfe of 
Bourbon, and to him it was a recommen- 
dation of the peace that this objeét had 
* This our readers will recolleét was exe 
actly ovr own fentiment, 
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failed. Had that projett fucceeded, -it 
mult have been attended with the. moft 
fatal effeéts to the general liberties of 
mankind, ‘To the people of this country 
it muft have been attended by the mot 
deplorable confequences. It was true that 
Egypt had been recovered. by the unex- 
ampled gallantry of our. troops, but who 
was fo fond of military glory as to with to 
purchafe it without neceffity >? Egypt 
might have been our’s by the capitulation 
of El-Arith. But it was faid at that mo- 
ment that we were to paufe!. We did 
paufe, and the paufe coft us feventy-three 
millions of money, befides the lives of 
thoufands. The noble Lord faid, that 
the danger of French principles were ex- 
tinct, and that we had only to dread the 
power of the Republic. Undoubtedly: no 
man felt more ftrongly than he did» the 
misfortune to England and Europe, from 
the unfatisfactory ftate of the Continent ; 
but it was not the peace, but the war, 
that had produced fo fatal an aggrandize~ 
ment. It was the meafures of the Right 
Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Pitt) which had 
excited an irrefiftible {pirit in France—a 
fpirit of proud independence. All men 
were fired with devotion to their country, 
and the thoughts of independence infpired 
an energy which nothing could fubdue. 
“With refpeét to the future, he was. of 
Opinion, that to enjoy the bleflings of 
peace {mall eftablifhments were neceflary. 
It was in commercial refources that we 
were to counterbalance the aggrandizement 
of France. The French Revolution was 
calculated to divert mén’s attentions more 
eagerly to the quettion of liberty. But 
was that to be oppofed by the {word ? 
Mr. Fox then made fome remarks on the 
Government of France, and commented, 
with fome feverity, on the obfervations of 
Lord Caftlereagh, who had faid, that Ire- 
land had been treated with a delicate 
hand: Mr, Fox contended, that the con« 
flagrations, whippings, &c. in the year 
1797, deferved a very different charaéter. 
He concluded by faying, that if the com- 
mon-law was reftored in the room of 
~martial-law, in Ireland; if the Habeas 
Corpus A& was put in force, he fhould 
rejoice. 
Lord Folkftone faid a few words ; and 
Mr. Windham rofe and faid, he fill re- 
tained his former opinions. The quetion 
was then put and carried without a divi- 
fion. ; . t) 
The Chancellor of the Exchequer on 
the next day moved the order. of the day 
for the Houfe to go into a Committée of 
Supply. The Houfe went into a Com- 
. mittee, 
