Parliamentary Proceedings.

loaded the table , and which bound the people of England to pay every farthing of that immense sum ! The individuals of the National Convention were hereto-day and gone to-morrow ; these were not objccls deserving the attention of their Lordships , at a moment when they were called upon to encounter and provide for another campaign , after the blood that had been spilled , and the treasure which had been exhausted during the last ; and in which , considering the little progress that was made , the House could not feel satisfied in contemplating the consequences of another . All the great writers who have turned their thoughts to military tactics , from the earliest period

down to that oi the intelligent General Lloyd , have uniformly stated the folly of attempting to make any impression on the frontiers of France . This , by all writers on the subject , was deemed impregnable . He concluded , therefore , by moving their Lordships " to implore his Majefty to declare without delay his disposition to make peace upon such disinterested and liberal terms as are best ' calculated to render the peace between any two nations lasting , and to communicate such declarations to his allies , that an immediate end may be put to that daily effusion of human blood which , if suffered to proceed , must change the character of the nations of Europe , and in the place of that improving spirit of humanity which has till lately distinguished modern times , substitute a degree of savage ferocity unexampled in the annals of mankind . "

Earl Fitziuilliam said , that consistent with the Address presented to his Majelty from that House , their Lordships could not agree with the present motion . If their . Lordships regarded their families , their poilerity , ancl their country , they muft concur in a strenuous opposition of that destructive anarchy which has overrun France . The safety of the country , the preservation of the constitution , of every thing dear to Englishmen , and to their posterity , depended upon the preventing the introduction of French principles , and the new-fangled doctrine of the Rights of Man ; and that this could only be effected by the establishment of some regular form of government in that

country , upon which some reliance might be placed . ' The Duke of Grafton agreed with ' - -very part of the motion . Addresses , he said , had come from every part of the country during the Americ-. n war , to make peace . The Americans had been stigmatised with epithets similarly opprobrious with those which we now applied to France ; but the result of al ! of it was , that we had treated with America . Peace , he said , was almost universally desired in this country ; it was the only remedy for the ravages of war . France , if she had been left to herself , would never have endangered the peace of this country ; and I shall ever object , said the

uoble Duke , to this country interfering in the internal regulations of any other . The Duke of Leeds approved the principle , and defended the prosecution , of the war . A compliance with the noble Marquis's motion he urged , would be a dishonourable desertion of our allies , and an unjustifiable infringement of treaties . Lord Lauderdale supported the motion of the Honourable Marquis ; he deprecated the conduct of ministers in the commencement and execution of the war . It had not been attended , he said , with that vaunted success which had been so loudly trumpeted

abroad . When the historian ihould record it , posterity would see nothing that could tinge the cheek of a Briton with the glow of satisfaction . He replied to most oi the arguments against him -. he vindicated the French from the charge of atheism ; he did not believe , he said , that an atheist could exist any where . Lord Grcnville said , the more this point was discussed , " he was convinced they would find still firmer conviction of the necessity of still continuing the war with unremitting energy . Cur laws , our liberty , our religion ; our constitution , depended upon the issue of the present contest . The French character was essentially hostile to all the governments

cf Europe . The war had been entered into with the full consent of Parliament—they had gone up to the throne requesting his Majesty to pursue the most vigorous hostilities—they had gone up to the throne with an address promising to co-operate with his Majesty in pursuing the war with vigour ; and within three weeks , £ aid Lord Grenvilie , shall we change our opinion , relaxin our operations , and dishonourably abandon our Allies ? The Marquis of Lansdotur . e replied at length to all the arguments used againft his motion . At two o ' clock this morning the House divided , wiien there appeared— . For the motion 13 Against it 103 . . 19 th . The Duke of Norfolk rose to say , he wished it might be given in instruction to the committee to whom ths Mutiny Bill was referred , that a clause should be int . ro-