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that quarter. He deprecated war. He 
next noticed the conduét of that party, who 
confefled that they would not go to war 
for Italy or Swifferland, but that they 
wifhed for the places of the prefent minif- 
ters. Like the old courtiers they feemed 
to quarrel with the prefent minifter for 
the cut of his beard. The head of the 
war party in the Houfe (Mr. Windham) 
had avowedly profecuted the war for the 
extermination of Jacobinifm; the power 
of France was indeed augmented, but {till 
the object of that minifter had been. ac- 
complifhed, for the fpirit of Jacobinifm 
was completely extinguifhed. Bonaparte, 
like another Hercules, had ftifled this An- 
tzeus in his fraternal embrace—the rights 
of man were forgotten—the very term 
equality was obfolete. He lamented that 
a noble Lord (Hawkefbury) had intimated 
fomething like diftruft of our national 
{pirit, and could afcribe it only to the joy 
univerfally diffufed by the reftoration of 
peace. It was to be remembered that the 
Jate war had always been deemed by thofe 
who had no intereft in promoting it, a war 
of falfe pretences ; religion had ferved fora 
pretext whilft the fugar iflands formed 
the real objec of hoftilities. He had, how- 
ever, no doubt that this country eer be 
ready to Tepe Linfult, even though it had to 
faftain the force of France unfupported. 
He was forry there fhould be even a fhade 
of difference in his opinions from thofe of 
M>. Fox. At the prefent crifis, when the 
fate of Switzerland evinced that no nation, 
not even an ally, was facred from the all- 
devouring ambition of Bonaparte ; when 
every one who had returned from France 
feerned to have obtained emancipation, it 
was the duty of every one to bear tefti- 
mony to the manly fentiment of liberty 
which had been, and would continue to be, 
the pailadium of Britain, had fhe had to 
contend with a world inarms. 
Mr. Canning after complimenting the 
eloquence and patriotifm of the lait {peaker, 
vindicated Mr. Pitt from the imputation of 
interference. Mr. Fox faid that he feared 
Jefs for our fatety than our finances—he 
approved of a limited peace eftablifhment, 
and thought it better that our debt fhould 
be reduced twenty-five millions than that 
our army fhould be augmented by tweaty 
thoufand men. The Chancellor of the 
Exchequer maintained that the peace efta- 
blifhment propoied, was no more than was 
requifiie to render peace permanent.— 
The refolution was agreed to. 
' On the roth of December Mr, Adding- 
Staie of Public Affairs in December, 1802. 
{Jani 4, 
ton laid before the Committee of Ways and 
Means the ftate of the finances; he called 
the attention of the Houle to the produce 
of the finking fund, 4,000,0001. which go 
vernment could not appropriate to ule 
without the authority of parliament—he 
ftated, that the taxes which had been laid 
on to defray the intereit of the Joan of 
1802,though calculated at only 3,100 ‘cool. 
had fallen little fhort of 4,000,000). that by 
the arrangements which had been thea 
made, there was a reduction of the unfunds 
ed debt of 18,009,0a0l. for the current 
year. The extra expences incurred by 
the augmentation of our peace eftablif- 
ment would produce an excefs in addition, 
to the excefs, of 1000,0001. But he was 
affured that the demands of the preflent 
year would not exceed the half of the pre- 
ceding. The following are the particu- 
lars of the fupply : 
The Committee had voted 50,000 feamen 
for the fervice of the year. 
Incurring’an expence of £44500,000 
Ordinaries and Extraordinaries 1,218,230 
Building of Ships — 901,043 
Total of the Navy £56,619,273 
Whole amount of Army Extras ~ 2,000,0c0 
Ordnance eae dy 
6,700,0c0 
Mifcellaneous Services, England ; ‘ 
and Ireland —_ 1,000,000 
Trifh Grants — — "336,006 
Army — _ 5,981,000 
Total expence of both Countries £22, nel 
After deduéting the 2-17tbs,to be ————-—_—- 
provided for Ireland, there . 
remains for England £20,703,022 
The Chancellor then noticed the.plea- 
fure he would have found in reducing the 
public expences, but, fince it was impoffi- 
ble to reduce the expenditure, it became 
the part of wifdom to augment the revenue 
—he had however the pleafing confidera- 
tion that no new taxes werenowneceflary, he 
concluded by an. affurance that our com- 
merce was undiminifhed, and our relourcesy 
inftead of being exhautted, multiplied, in 
a degree unequalled at any formney period. 
His refolutions were moved and agreed to. 
On the 13th Capt. ‘Markham moved 
for leave to bring in a Bill for appointing — 
Commiffioners to enquire into and. correé 
the Abufes pratctifed by Prize Agents on 
the Officers and Seamen of his Majeliy § 
Navy. . 
And on the rth the Secretary at War 
announced his intention of bringing ina 
Bill for regulating the Pay and Cloathing 
of the Militia, AF. F 
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