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Parliamentary Proceedings.
-been guillotined at Lyons , or put to death at La Vendee , or shot at Toulon , say what protection we had afforded them 1 It had liten supposed we could not treat with Atheists ; but he denied they were so , and read some accounts of the proceedings of the Jacobin club , in which they acknowledge ; i Supreme Being . The Aristocrats and Clergy , indeed , were Atheists ; lor at some meetings at which he was present , Atheism was boldly professed . His Lordship proceeded to such lengths in this account , that he was called to order
by The Bishop of Durham , whp said he had heard with patience , as long as possible , the farrago his Lordship had uttered , which had no relation to the subject , and could no longer be tome : he ' would not hear religion insulted , or tlie expressions of French or other Athicsts repeated . Lord Stanhope apologized . The French , he said , had 150 millions sterling in their hands for carrying on the next campaignbesides the large contributions they had
le-, vied ; and that they had converted the bells of their churches into cannon , which he thought was putting them to a much better use . Tliey have also made the gold and silver saints descend from the altars , and have sent them to the mint , the crucible , and the melting-pot ! But do I deduce the wealth of the Republic from these things ? TCp—Jf 1 am asked where the treasury of the French is , 1 say , that it exists in the hearts of the people . " If Ministers be yet to knowwhy they cannot imitate the example of the French
, in carrying on the Avar , I will tell them .-r—1 have been in the west—1 live in the south . ¦—and I have heard from the north—and Ministers may be assured I speak correctly , ¦ when 1 say that the people are neither ready to spend their last guinea , nor to sacrifige their iqst man in support of the % var . " . ' The present government of France , he alledged , was a strong provisional gOA'ernment , made solely fpr the moment , like a R . omati dictator , but which would be abolished when peace was restored ; and such , he said , was the enthusiasm of the French ,
that women had desired the death of their sons for having fled before the enemy ; and lipm hence he inferred , the impossibility of conquering that country . His Lprdship next noticed the truth of the reports made by the French Ministers , which , with the guillotine at their back , they durst not garble or falsify . He concluded with proposing the following motion : That this House having seen , that the French nation , by the 1 i 3 th and 119 th clauses of their new constitution , has renounced every idea of interfering in the internal affairs of other states , and has declared herself the ally of every free people , most humbly beseech his Majesty to recognize the . Republic of France , that thereby a foundation may belaid for a lasting peace between the two nations .
Lord Abingdon was of opinion , that the only answer which the last speech deserv 7 ed , was what it had already received—a loud horse-laugh . Lord Darnley and Lord Warwick , spoke againsit the motion , which was negatived without a division . 31 st . Lord Stanhope introduced a motion , relative to tlie recent trials in Scotland , by observing , that he felt himself warranted in this mode ' of proceeding by the precedents which stood on the Journals , in the cases pf Lord Russell , Algernon Sidney ,
Alderman Cornish , & c . The House of Lords , some time after the executions of thosa persons , considering the judgments of the courts upon them to have been too violent , liad ' therefore took off their attainders . His Lordship then adverted to the rules which had been decided upon in law points during the trial of Mr . Hastings , and contended , that a contrary mode had been followed in Scotland , in the trials of Mr . Muir , Mi > . Palmer , Mr . Skirving , and Mr . Margaret ; having pointed put several particular instances , he cpncluded by moving , " That an humble address be presented to his Majestypraying hm to suspend the sentence pf Mr . Muiruntil their Lordshishpuid
, , ps have examined the circumstances attending the trial , and which the House pledged itr self to dp . " —The same was repeated as to the other three persons . Lord Mansfield denied the precedents being in point , and considered the motioa tended to throw a reflection upon the character of the judges Avhich they by no mean deserved . * " " .
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Parliamentary Proceedings.
-been guillotined at Lyons , or put to death at La Vendee , or shot at Toulon , say what protection we had afforded them 1 It had liten supposed we could not treat with Atheists ; but he denied they were so , and read some accounts of the proceedings of the Jacobin club , in which they acknowledge ; i Supreme Being . The Aristocrats and Clergy , indeed , were Atheists ; lor at some meetings at which he was present , Atheism was boldly professed . His Lordship proceeded to such lengths in this account , that he was called to order
by The Bishop of Durham , whp said he had heard with patience , as long as possible , the farrago his Lordship had uttered , which had no relation to the subject , and could no longer be tome : he ' would not hear religion insulted , or tlie expressions of French or other Athicsts repeated . Lord Stanhope apologized . The French , he said , had 150 millions sterling in their hands for carrying on the next campaignbesides the large contributions they had
le-, vied ; and that they had converted the bells of their churches into cannon , which he thought was putting them to a much better use . Tliey have also made the gold and silver saints descend from the altars , and have sent them to the mint , the crucible , and the melting-pot ! But do I deduce the wealth of the Republic from these things ? TCp—Jf 1 am asked where the treasury of the French is , 1 say , that it exists in the hearts of the people . " If Ministers be yet to knowwhy they cannot imitate the example of the French
, in carrying on the Avar , I will tell them .-r—1 have been in the west—1 live in the south . ¦—and I have heard from the north—and Ministers may be assured I speak correctly , ¦ when 1 say that the people are neither ready to spend their last guinea , nor to sacrifige their iqst man in support of the % var . " . ' The present government of France , he alledged , was a strong provisional gOA'ernment , made solely fpr the moment , like a R . omati dictator , but which would be abolished when peace was restored ; and such , he said , was the enthusiasm of the French ,
that women had desired the death of their sons for having fled before the enemy ; and lipm hence he inferred , the impossibility of conquering that country . His Lprdship next noticed the truth of the reports made by the French Ministers , which , with the guillotine at their back , they durst not garble or falsify . He concluded with proposing the following motion : That this House having seen , that the French nation , by the 1 i 3 th and 119 th clauses of their new constitution , has renounced every idea of interfering in the internal affairs of other states , and has declared herself the ally of every free people , most humbly beseech his Majesty to recognize the . Republic of France , that thereby a foundation may belaid for a lasting peace between the two nations .
Lord Abingdon was of opinion , that the only answer which the last speech deserv 7 ed , was what it had already received—a loud horse-laugh . Lord Darnley and Lord Warwick , spoke againsit the motion , which was negatived without a division . 31 st . Lord Stanhope introduced a motion , relative to tlie recent trials in Scotland , by observing , that he felt himself warranted in this mode ' of proceeding by the precedents which stood on the Journals , in the cases pf Lord Russell , Algernon Sidney ,
Alderman Cornish , & c . The House of Lords , some time after the executions of thosa persons , considering the judgments of the courts upon them to have been too violent , liad ' therefore took off their attainders . His Lordship then adverted to the rules which had been decided upon in law points during the trial of Mr . Hastings , and contended , that a contrary mode had been followed in Scotland , in the trials of Mr . Muir , Mi > . Palmer , Mr . Skirving , and Mr . Margaret ; having pointed put several particular instances , he cpncluded by moving , " That an humble address be presented to his Majestypraying hm to suspend the sentence pf Mr . Muiruntil their Lordshishpuid
, , ps have examined the circumstances attending the trial , and which the House pledged itr self to dp . " —The same was repeated as to the other three persons . Lord Mansfield denied the precedents being in point , and considered the motioa tended to throw a reflection upon the character of the judges Avhich they by no mean deserved . * " " .