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Report Of The Proceedings Of The British Parliament.
REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT .
¦ THE FIRST SESSION OF TIIE EIGHTEENTH PARLIAMENT .
HOUSE OF LORDS . THURSDAT , MARCH 22 , 179 S . LORD MINTO said , that an article having appeared in the Morning Chroniclereflecting on the honour of that houseas ' being merely the regiV
, , try of the edicts of the Minister , ' he should move that Mr . Perry , the Proprietor , and Mr . Lambert , the Printer , should be fined each in the sum of fifty pounds , and confined in Newgate for three months . After some opposition from the Marquis of Lansdowne , who conceived the paragraph merely an attempt at wit ; and from the Duke of Bedford and Lord Derby , on the ground that the punishment was too severe , the motion was carried .
DISMISSION OF MINISTERS . The Duke of Bedford moved an address to his Majesty for the dismission of his Ministers for their gross misconduct in the war . His Grace took a comprehensive but rapid review of all the measures which those who were averse to the war had proposed , as well as of the condu 6 t of Ministers , whose plans , he asserted , had been universally and uniformly unsuccessful and that after all their vain-glorious gasconading , after all their boasts of conquest , condition of merel the de
we were reduced to the humiliating acting y upon - fensive . They had dissolved one of tbemost powerful political alliances ever formed ; and even when they were compelled to sue for peaee , they had evinced no sincerity in their propositions , but seemed determined to pursue a war that was daily plunging us into deeper distress and misery . The subject of finance he would not dwell upon , as being of too painful a nature for their Lordships to listen to ; but would merely observe , that the present Minister had , since his entrance into office , loaded the country with a debt of 9 , 500 , 000 ! . a year a greater sum than what had been incurred from the first establishment of the fundins * system .
His Grace concluded a long and eloquent speech with this declaration : — ' My Lords , determined as I am never by any aft of mine to contribute to the continuance of the present war , I will be among the foremost to maintain the liberties of my country against all oppressors , tyrants , and invaders . If the French should appear upon the coast in force , I shall be proud and eager to receive the commands of his Majesty , only anxious to be placed where it is the hottest . I never will fight for the present Ministers , for I know of no than
more decided enemies to their Country and their King they are . I may for the moment suspend my opposition to them , but it will only be for a moment . When I return , I return as decided a foe to them as ever . I abhor their conduct , I detest their principles , and against the systems upon which thev have afted I vow eternal enmity . It" ever an unmanly timidity should make me enter into an alliance with them , if ever base fear should in . uuce me to join with them in oppressing my country , may the just indig-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Report Of The Proceedings Of The British Parliament.
REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT .
¦ THE FIRST SESSION OF TIIE EIGHTEENTH PARLIAMENT .
HOUSE OF LORDS . THURSDAT , MARCH 22 , 179 S . LORD MINTO said , that an article having appeared in the Morning Chroniclereflecting on the honour of that houseas ' being merely the regiV
, , try of the edicts of the Minister , ' he should move that Mr . Perry , the Proprietor , and Mr . Lambert , the Printer , should be fined each in the sum of fifty pounds , and confined in Newgate for three months . After some opposition from the Marquis of Lansdowne , who conceived the paragraph merely an attempt at wit ; and from the Duke of Bedford and Lord Derby , on the ground that the punishment was too severe , the motion was carried .
DISMISSION OF MINISTERS . The Duke of Bedford moved an address to his Majesty for the dismission of his Ministers for their gross misconduct in the war . His Grace took a comprehensive but rapid review of all the measures which those who were averse to the war had proposed , as well as of the condu 6 t of Ministers , whose plans , he asserted , had been universally and uniformly unsuccessful and that after all their vain-glorious gasconading , after all their boasts of conquest , condition of merel the de
we were reduced to the humiliating acting y upon - fensive . They had dissolved one of tbemost powerful political alliances ever formed ; and even when they were compelled to sue for peaee , they had evinced no sincerity in their propositions , but seemed determined to pursue a war that was daily plunging us into deeper distress and misery . The subject of finance he would not dwell upon , as being of too painful a nature for their Lordships to listen to ; but would merely observe , that the present Minister had , since his entrance into office , loaded the country with a debt of 9 , 500 , 000 ! . a year a greater sum than what had been incurred from the first establishment of the fundins * system .
His Grace concluded a long and eloquent speech with this declaration : — ' My Lords , determined as I am never by any aft of mine to contribute to the continuance of the present war , I will be among the foremost to maintain the liberties of my country against all oppressors , tyrants , and invaders . If the French should appear upon the coast in force , I shall be proud and eager to receive the commands of his Majesty , only anxious to be placed where it is the hottest . I never will fight for the present Ministers , for I know of no than
more decided enemies to their Country and their King they are . I may for the moment suspend my opposition to them , but it will only be for a moment . When I return , I return as decided a foe to them as ever . I abhor their conduct , I detest their principles , and against the systems upon which thev have afted I vow eternal enmity . It" ever an unmanly timidity should make me enter into an alliance with them , if ever base fear should in . uuce me to join with them in oppressing my country , may the just indig-