Parliamentary Proceedings.

. conducted by his illustrious father , such language might have becomehim ; but / after a course of military operations so disastrous and disgraceful , lie should have thought that a tone of humiliation and contrition should be substituted for that of confidence and pride . He considered it as an insult arid an aggravation of " the sufferings of the nation , that it should be addressed by thc Minister in sucH terms as if he had won what he had . lost , when every operation was an argument of ignorance and stupidity . With a view to shew the incapacity of Ministers to conduct the affairs of the

nation at this crisis , Mr . Fox traversed the range of our military operations , and argued , that they were as unsuccessfully executed } as they were injudiciously concerted . He dwelt at large . upon the affairs of Holland , which he considered as a sacrifice to the fatal friendship of Great Britain . He drew a very lamentable picture o'f the loss sustained by the British army in the campaign , and arraigned the policy of suffering theni to remain and be slaughtered in that country , after it ivas publicly notified that the Dutch were suing for a peace . He accused

administration of neglecting the opportunity of assisting the Royalists when they ' were in force in La Vendee , and thought the country had little to expect from the future measures of men , who had hitherto shewn no talents , but what served for the ruin of their country . Such was , he said , the situation in which men presumed to call for confidence . The House must remember , that when the financial situation of the country had for some time been discussed , one great argument of Mr . Pitt , savoring equally of pride and humiliationwasthat there could be no flagrant

miscon-, , duct in the Ministry while the national affairs were so prosperous . Let him iow lake the reverse of that reasoning , and shew how the wisdom of his administration is manifested in its effects . The ill success of Lord Sandwich , as also that of Lord Sackville , were found sufficient grounds for removing them in the American war ; but surely if their rnanes could be heard , or if they had any friends still existing in this country ,

they must exclaim against the injustice of having been the victims of ill success in one war , while their successors , still more unfortunate , call for confidence and applause . Mr . Pitt said , the House must have observed in the Speech now delivered a gross and manifest perversion of his meaning , which was extremely unworthy of Ihe Right Hon . Gentleman who employed it . In the first place , he by no means called for any particular confidence to be placed in the members of the Administration ; though he ivas conscious of no reason why any confidence which they

liad h . retofore possessed should now be diminished . If Mr . Fox could convince the House and the Country , that his Majesty ' s Ministers were ignorant , stupid , and incapable of conducting the affairs of the country , his most proper mode would be an Address to the Throne to remove them , which Address , under such circumstances , would no doubt be heard . and attended , to . But in thus displacing tlle Members of Administration , he would find himself deceived if he thought that he and his friends would be appointed to succeed them , unless he could first shew that the condition of Great Britain was such as placed it at th ' e mercy of

its enemies . The confidence of which he ( Mr . Pitt ) spoke , was that which should be placed in the spirit and fortitude of the people , which , undismayed by reverses , stili felt the means of opposing the general enemy of Europe , and was resolved to employ them . Another instance of misrepresentation was , that he had treated with levity the disasters of the campaign . But it was in the recollection of every one , that he liad acknowledged as well as lamented those calamities , though he could not but remark the tone of exultation in which Mr . Fox seemed so happy to recount

them . In thc midst of all that disgrace in which Mr . Fox attempted to involve the military operations of this country , he would ever contend that its history could not present a period more honourable to its arms . That some of the forces of our allies had not acted to tlie extent , or in the manner , that we had reason to expect , he never attempted to conceal . As to one in particular ( Holland ) , ft may appear ungenerous , at the presunt moment , to say any thing in the way