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Second Session Of The Eighteenth Parliament.
- My ¦ Lords and Gentlemen , ' After the experience I have had of your loyalty and attachment to me , and of your anxious regard for the interests of my subjects , I have only to recommend to you a perseverance in the same principles and conduct . ' The events of every day must more and more impress you with a just sense of the blessings which we derive from our civil and religious establishments , and . which have so long distinguished us among all the nations of Europe . These blessings can only be preserved by inculcating and enforcing a due reverence and
obedience to the laws ; by repressing with promptitude every attempt to disturb our interna ! tranquillity , and by maintaining inviolate that happy constitution which we inherit from our ancestors , on which the security and happiness of every class of my subjects essentially depend . ' As soon as his Majesty had retired , and the speech was read by the Lord Chancellor , and afterwards by the Clerk of the House , Lord Glasgow rose , and declaring his intention to move an Address of Thanks to his Majestywent through
, the various parts of the speech , contending that the insidious conduct ofthe French forced us into the war , and denying that we could with honour submit to their dictatorial demands , at a moment when our fleets were triumphant , our commerce more flourishing than ever , and our resources , and the spirit of the people , adequate to the contest . After some other observations , he moved an Address , as usual .
Lord Gwidyr seconded the motion . He said that he had supported the- war from the beginning , because convinced of the ambition of the French ; that he , did not hope much from the failure of their finances ; but that he thought this king-. < lom was not to be laid at the feet of France . Lord Fitzwilliam agreed in the propriety of continuing the war ; he attempted to prove , in a long speech , that no peace should be made with the French unless monarchy were restored . . The Marquis of Lansdowne declared ,. that nothing but the present crisis could
have made him quit his proposed retirement . He looked in vain for those noble Lords with whom he sometimes agreed in sentiments . He admitted the inveteracy ofthe French Directory towards this country : but he considered it as a produced by the con-. ' ujt of our Minister . Were 1 a moderate member of that Di-. rectory , said he , 1 should feel resentment against the government to which the combination of Europe had been owing ; and if a violent one , I might talk of revenge for abuse , retaliation for duplicity , and might entertain suspicions of its aiding plots and fomenting civil wars . —He did not think our West India conquests , Ceylon , and . the Cape , could be worth the expenditure of thirty millions ( sixty millions of capital ) per annum ; and concluded by expressing his conviction , that we could only be extricated from our difficulties by a spirit of economy and a
gradual reform . The Address , after a few words in support of it by Lords Grenville and Mulgrave , and against it by the Duke of Norfolk , passed without a division . The next morning it was presented to his Majesty , and an answer was received . Friday , 3 . Lord Spencer rose to move the Thanks of the House to the Right Hon . Admiral Lord Duncan , Admiral Onslow , and the Officers of his Majesty ' s Fleet , who were instrumental in the late brilliant . victory . As also to the Seamen and Marines of the different ships concerned in that happy event .
Lord Grenville presented the various papers relative to ; he late negociation alluded to in the declaration , which were ordered to be printed . Wednesday , 8 . Lord Duncan look the oaths and his seat . His Lordship was introduced by Lords Hood and Newark . The Lord Chancellor left the woolsack , and , addressing himself to Lord Duncan , said that the House , sensible , in- common with the country , of his important services , had resolved not on ' y to _ render him their unanimous thanks for his late brilliant victory , but to order the House to be summoned , a distincticn which , though without , a precedent , was due to his uncommon merit ; nor did he believe that there was an indhidnal of the nation who did not think
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Second Session Of The Eighteenth Parliament.
- My ¦ Lords and Gentlemen , ' After the experience I have had of your loyalty and attachment to me , and of your anxious regard for the interests of my subjects , I have only to recommend to you a perseverance in the same principles and conduct . ' The events of every day must more and more impress you with a just sense of the blessings which we derive from our civil and religious establishments , and . which have so long distinguished us among all the nations of Europe . These blessings can only be preserved by inculcating and enforcing a due reverence and
obedience to the laws ; by repressing with promptitude every attempt to disturb our interna ! tranquillity , and by maintaining inviolate that happy constitution which we inherit from our ancestors , on which the security and happiness of every class of my subjects essentially depend . ' As soon as his Majesty had retired , and the speech was read by the Lord Chancellor , and afterwards by the Clerk of the House , Lord Glasgow rose , and declaring his intention to move an Address of Thanks to his Majestywent through
, the various parts of the speech , contending that the insidious conduct ofthe French forced us into the war , and denying that we could with honour submit to their dictatorial demands , at a moment when our fleets were triumphant , our commerce more flourishing than ever , and our resources , and the spirit of the people , adequate to the contest . After some other observations , he moved an Address , as usual .
Lord Gwidyr seconded the motion . He said that he had supported the- war from the beginning , because convinced of the ambition of the French ; that he , did not hope much from the failure of their finances ; but that he thought this king-. < lom was not to be laid at the feet of France . Lord Fitzwilliam agreed in the propriety of continuing the war ; he attempted to prove , in a long speech , that no peace should be made with the French unless monarchy were restored . . The Marquis of Lansdowne declared ,. that nothing but the present crisis could
have made him quit his proposed retirement . He looked in vain for those noble Lords with whom he sometimes agreed in sentiments . He admitted the inveteracy ofthe French Directory towards this country : but he considered it as a produced by the con-. ' ujt of our Minister . Were 1 a moderate member of that Di-. rectory , said he , 1 should feel resentment against the government to which the combination of Europe had been owing ; and if a violent one , I might talk of revenge for abuse , retaliation for duplicity , and might entertain suspicions of its aiding plots and fomenting civil wars . —He did not think our West India conquests , Ceylon , and . the Cape , could be worth the expenditure of thirty millions ( sixty millions of capital ) per annum ; and concluded by expressing his conviction , that we could only be extricated from our difficulties by a spirit of economy and a
gradual reform . The Address , after a few words in support of it by Lords Grenville and Mulgrave , and against it by the Duke of Norfolk , passed without a division . The next morning it was presented to his Majesty , and an answer was received . Friday , 3 . Lord Spencer rose to move the Thanks of the House to the Right Hon . Admiral Lord Duncan , Admiral Onslow , and the Officers of his Majesty ' s Fleet , who were instrumental in the late brilliant . victory . As also to the Seamen and Marines of the different ships concerned in that happy event .
Lord Grenville presented the various papers relative to ; he late negociation alluded to in the declaration , which were ordered to be printed . Wednesday , 8 . Lord Duncan look the oaths and his seat . His Lordship was introduced by Lords Hood and Newark . The Lord Chancellor left the woolsack , and , addressing himself to Lord Duncan , said that the House , sensible , in- common with the country , of his important services , had resolved not on ' y to _ render him their unanimous thanks for his late brilliant victory , but to order the House to be summoned , a distincticn which , though without , a precedent , was due to his uncommon merit ; nor did he believe that there was an indhidnal of the nation who did not think