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Parliamentary Proceedings.
meeting of Parliament : but did not object to the proposition , though he thought that every exertion should be used to obtain a speedy , safe , and honourable peace . Mr . PiU replied to Mr . Fox : Two or three other Members said a few words , when the Oueslion was put , the Resolution carried , and the House adjourned . 24 . TJje House proceeded further ill the consideration of the Report of the Committee , on the Bill for raising men for the Navy in the several Counties .
Several alterations and amendments were proposed , and agreed to . 25 . ( Fast-day ) . The Speaker , accompanied by Mr . Pitt , Mr . Dundas , the Master of the Rolls , Mr . Windham , Mr . Ryder , and about twenty other Members , went to St . Margaret ' s Church , where a sermon was preached-by the Rev , Dr . Kingham . After they returned from church , adjourned . ' 26 . The Comity Quota Bill , for the better manning of the Navy , was read a third time and passed .
Mr . Wilberforce said , he had troubled the House so often on the subject of the Slave Trade , that he should not enteral present into any details on it . That House , in 1792 , had resolved that this infamous traffic should be abolished : he should , therefore , make that resolution the ground of his motion . Mr . Wilberforce then urged the expediency of abolishing this Trade , on the grounds of humanity , justice , and sound policy ; after which , he moved for leave to bring in a Bill for the Abolition of the Slave Trade . A debate rook place , in which Mr . Barbam moved , by way of amendment , '
that the debate be adjourned to that day sixmonths . Mr . Dundas and Sir W . Young spoke in favour of the-amendment , . Mr . Fox , JSrfr . Pitt , Mr . Grey , Mr . Whitbread , and others , spoke in favour of the original motion . Mr . Wiiberforce replied , and the House divided , for the amendment 78 , against it , 61 ; majority 17 . 27 . The Altomey-Gencral moved for leave to bring in a Bill to empower his Majesty ' s Postmaster-General to open and return letters made up the 13 th , 16 th , and 20 th of January for Holland , now remaining at the Post-Office . — Leave given .
Monthly Chronicle.
MONTHLY CHRONICLE .
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE . TTN the Sessions of ( he French National Convention of the 30 th of January , Jj . Boissy d'Anglas , in a very warm speech , took a cursory view of ihe exterior situation of France , explained the system of the powers leagued against her , and fixed the limits of the empire of France to the Ocean and tbe Rhine , as the means of guarding her for ages from all invasion . D'Anglas expatiated on the idea thrown out to mislead people , that the government of France was only provisionary , and therefore -could not be negociated with . " Our government , " said
he , " is the plenipotentiary named by all the people of France to put an end , in " their name , to the revolution and the war ; and I doubt whether ever an am-. " bassador was invested with a higher character . Our government is the will of " the nation ; our armies the force of the nation . Our forms are justice ; prin" ciples , humanity . Our Government may be appreciated by what it offers to " the world : it has opened the prisons , broke down the scaffolds , and restored * ' activity to commerce and the arts . Justice is the order of the day in the in-* ' ferior , and victory on the frontiers ; and yet an absurd system of policy doubts * ' whether a nation which knows how to conquer knows how to negoeiate . " This speech ( which contains more important developements than appear ai first ( reading ) ivas frequently interrupted by applauses , and a member proposed its ;
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Parliamentary Proceedings.
meeting of Parliament : but did not object to the proposition , though he thought that every exertion should be used to obtain a speedy , safe , and honourable peace . Mr . PiU replied to Mr . Fox : Two or three other Members said a few words , when the Oueslion was put , the Resolution carried , and the House adjourned . 24 . TJje House proceeded further ill the consideration of the Report of the Committee , on the Bill for raising men for the Navy in the several Counties .
Several alterations and amendments were proposed , and agreed to . 25 . ( Fast-day ) . The Speaker , accompanied by Mr . Pitt , Mr . Dundas , the Master of the Rolls , Mr . Windham , Mr . Ryder , and about twenty other Members , went to St . Margaret ' s Church , where a sermon was preached-by the Rev , Dr . Kingham . After they returned from church , adjourned . ' 26 . The Comity Quota Bill , for the better manning of the Navy , was read a third time and passed .
Mr . Wilberforce said , he had troubled the House so often on the subject of the Slave Trade , that he should not enteral present into any details on it . That House , in 1792 , had resolved that this infamous traffic should be abolished : he should , therefore , make that resolution the ground of his motion . Mr . Wilberforce then urged the expediency of abolishing this Trade , on the grounds of humanity , justice , and sound policy ; after which , he moved for leave to bring in a Bill for the Abolition of the Slave Trade . A debate rook place , in which Mr . Barbam moved , by way of amendment , '
that the debate be adjourned to that day sixmonths . Mr . Dundas and Sir W . Young spoke in favour of the-amendment , . Mr . Fox , JSrfr . Pitt , Mr . Grey , Mr . Whitbread , and others , spoke in favour of the original motion . Mr . Wiiberforce replied , and the House divided , for the amendment 78 , against it , 61 ; majority 17 . 27 . The Altomey-Gencral moved for leave to bring in a Bill to empower his Majesty ' s Postmaster-General to open and return letters made up the 13 th , 16 th , and 20 th of January for Holland , now remaining at the Post-Office . — Leave given .
Monthly Chronicle.
MONTHLY CHRONICLE .
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE . TTN the Sessions of ( he French National Convention of the 30 th of January , Jj . Boissy d'Anglas , in a very warm speech , took a cursory view of ihe exterior situation of France , explained the system of the powers leagued against her , and fixed the limits of the empire of France to the Ocean and tbe Rhine , as the means of guarding her for ages from all invasion . D'Anglas expatiated on the idea thrown out to mislead people , that the government of France was only provisionary , and therefore -could not be negociated with . " Our government , " said
he , " is the plenipotentiary named by all the people of France to put an end , in " their name , to the revolution and the war ; and I doubt whether ever an am-. " bassador was invested with a higher character . Our government is the will of " the nation ; our armies the force of the nation . Our forms are justice ; prin" ciples , humanity . Our Government may be appreciated by what it offers to " the world : it has opened the prisons , broke down the scaffolds , and restored * ' activity to commerce and the arts . Justice is the order of the day in the in-* ' ferior , and victory on the frontiers ; and yet an absurd system of policy doubts * ' whether a nation which knows how to conquer knows how to negoeiate . " This speech ( which contains more important developements than appear ai first ( reading ) ivas frequently interrupted by applauses , and a member proposed its ;