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Parliamentary Proceedings.
PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS .
HOUSE OF LORDS , J . 21 . A S soon as the King had retired , ( see his Majesty's Specgh in our last , p . 77 . ) J fk _ and the new bishops had taken their seats , Lord Stair rose , and moved an Address of Thanks to his Majesty . Lord Aukland seconded the motion . Lprd Guildford then roseand after having spoken at considerable lengthmoved
, , , as an amendm . er . t to the address , " That his Majesty might be prayed graciously to take into consideration those modes which to him seemed most likely to obtain peace on such terms as appeared proper ; and that nothing in the existing circumstances of the French government might be any . obstacle to the furtherance of peace . " A long Debate then took place , in which the Duke pf Portland , Earl Spencer , the Earl of Mansfield , Lord Grcnville , and the Lord Chancellor , spoke in favour of the Address ; the Duke of Norfolk , Earl of Derby , Earl of Stanhope , Marquis of
LaRSjSpwn , and Earl of Lauderdale , for the amendment . The Earls of Carlisle , Kiunai ! , and Hard-wick , spoke against the amendment , and pledged themselves to support the Minister in the prosecution of the war . The question being called for , phe House divided , Contents for the original ' motion , 57—Non Contents 12 . 2 ; d . Lord Stanhope rose to moye the acknowledgment of the French Republic , a ^ a preliminary to a peace with France . There was r . pt one of their Lordships who did not desire a safe and honourable peace , and he would be the best subject who was most instrumental in bringing it abput . Ke would candidly appreciate pur means , and
those of the enemy , that our projects of success might be justly estimated . He then entered into a long detail of the delusion arising from the false hopes held put of destroying France , by preventing her being supplied Avith arms , artillery , money and provisions . AH these hopes had been disappointed . The French had arms enough , they had 700 , 000 musqutts in the ' dift ' erent'departments , and they continued to make icoo stand of arms a day , at Paris alone . They had gunpowder in store for five years bloody war , and saltpetre for five years wore , with the finest artillery iri the world ; and their army was well clothed .
It had been said that the French have r . o money;—the same was the case in the American war , and yet the Americans did without it . But the French do not wantmoney ; they have more gold , silver , and bullion , than all the rest of Europe ; this they had biought out by a forced loan , and by a voluntary contribution ; their assigpats since . December have risen 40 per cent and- their lands to six times the estimated value . With respect to discipline , his Lordship opposed the confusion of the allied troops in the sortie at 'i ' pulon tq the attacks made on tlie Duke of Brunswick and the Austrian generals . —Of provisionshis Lordship saidFrance was in no Avant . —It
, , was impossible for this country , the Prussians or Austrians , to iiqitate the French in the raising of troops ; there the soldiers being inlisted only for a term of years , the drill Serjeants and veteran soldiers have been dispersed through the country , and taught tiie ' peqple military discipline . "If , " said his Lordship , " tlie ri ing of the people in a mass be what the French call it , The Lever of Archimedes , the e'fiect iqust ha terrific "
His Lordship now proceeded to lriake some remarks on the object of the war . Lord Hood , he said , had engaged tp restore tlie Constitution of 1789 ; Dumourier had advised the Prince of Cpbourg to issue a proclamation in favour of trie Constitution pf 3791 : Wurmser had declared that things should be restored to the same fooling in which they were before the revolution ; and a proclamation , or declaration from his Majesty had recommended to the people of France a monarchical government , which might afterwards be modified . —From these different proclamations lie inferred , that the allies were not agreed in opinion upon th f nature of the government proper to be established in France . We had deceived the people of France , or the Koyaiists , ii ^ sjffering them that protection which we knew we could not give . Let those who had Yef .. \\ . ¦ ' ¦ ' ' " ' S ' " *'
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Parliamentary Proceedings.
PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS .
HOUSE OF LORDS , J . 21 . A S soon as the King had retired , ( see his Majesty's Specgh in our last , p . 77 . ) J fk _ and the new bishops had taken their seats , Lord Stair rose , and moved an Address of Thanks to his Majesty . Lord Aukland seconded the motion . Lprd Guildford then roseand after having spoken at considerable lengthmoved
, , , as an amendm . er . t to the address , " That his Majesty might be prayed graciously to take into consideration those modes which to him seemed most likely to obtain peace on such terms as appeared proper ; and that nothing in the existing circumstances of the French government might be any . obstacle to the furtherance of peace . " A long Debate then took place , in which the Duke pf Portland , Earl Spencer , the Earl of Mansfield , Lord Grcnville , and the Lord Chancellor , spoke in favour of the Address ; the Duke of Norfolk , Earl of Derby , Earl of Stanhope , Marquis of
LaRSjSpwn , and Earl of Lauderdale , for the amendment . The Earls of Carlisle , Kiunai ! , and Hard-wick , spoke against the amendment , and pledged themselves to support the Minister in the prosecution of the war . The question being called for , phe House divided , Contents for the original ' motion , 57—Non Contents 12 . 2 ; d . Lord Stanhope rose to moye the acknowledgment of the French Republic , a ^ a preliminary to a peace with France . There was r . pt one of their Lordships who did not desire a safe and honourable peace , and he would be the best subject who was most instrumental in bringing it abput . Ke would candidly appreciate pur means , and
those of the enemy , that our projects of success might be justly estimated . He then entered into a long detail of the delusion arising from the false hopes held put of destroying France , by preventing her being supplied Avith arms , artillery , money and provisions . AH these hopes had been disappointed . The French had arms enough , they had 700 , 000 musqutts in the ' dift ' erent'departments , and they continued to make icoo stand of arms a day , at Paris alone . They had gunpowder in store for five years bloody war , and saltpetre for five years wore , with the finest artillery iri the world ; and their army was well clothed .
It had been said that the French have r . o money;—the same was the case in the American war , and yet the Americans did without it . But the French do not wantmoney ; they have more gold , silver , and bullion , than all the rest of Europe ; this they had biought out by a forced loan , and by a voluntary contribution ; their assigpats since . December have risen 40 per cent and- their lands to six times the estimated value . With respect to discipline , his Lordship opposed the confusion of the allied troops in the sortie at 'i ' pulon tq the attacks made on tlie Duke of Brunswick and the Austrian generals . —Of provisionshis Lordship saidFrance was in no Avant . —It
, , was impossible for this country , the Prussians or Austrians , to iiqitate the French in the raising of troops ; there the soldiers being inlisted only for a term of years , the drill Serjeants and veteran soldiers have been dispersed through the country , and taught tiie ' peqple military discipline . "If , " said his Lordship , " tlie ri ing of the people in a mass be what the French call it , The Lever of Archimedes , the e'fiect iqust ha terrific "
His Lordship now proceeded to lriake some remarks on the object of the war . Lord Hood , he said , had engaged tp restore tlie Constitution of 1789 ; Dumourier had advised the Prince of Cpbourg to issue a proclamation in favour of trie Constitution pf 3791 : Wurmser had declared that things should be restored to the same fooling in which they were before the revolution ; and a proclamation , or declaration from his Majesty had recommended to the people of France a monarchical government , which might afterwards be modified . —From these different proclamations lie inferred , that the allies were not agreed in opinion upon th f nature of the government proper to be established in France . We had deceived the people of France , or the Koyaiists , ii ^ sjffering them that protection which we knew we could not give . Let those who had Yef .. \\ . ¦ ' ¦ ' ' " ' S ' " *'