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.rfMm wTm mat Tf.- iW'faccefi. !a cowninir hi. efforts for dies to their malter. ; you . - - "t "f Pf Waf W A IIMV w - y V th public good, would render him perfectly happy and content. In difdofing the objects of this motion, I would willingly dif- .i r..: nm thpir nanus, niicr iui,' wnac nave .r fected. Nothing, my Lords, but forced the colonies to declare ffi to SSffi-S: f tKmfrlvp; intlCDenaeui. ,1J-AUltu mem to aA -it, .it isindifpenfably neceflary to recur to the origin or mistor- . -e and fe fbull , tunes, which now threaten us. . . , unl0! ) ?" a. ,7 rhev are inftamed ,;tK By vour votes, my Lords, you have taken away the pro- , are nnea wit u$" M -. -----rr c wt. oy jour vuiw, . wu-. w hum with ardour to revenge the miuries which have done them, ana : iu icium ivu auiciwu upon their cruel and mercilefs oppreflbrs. ,-: ' .,J j I es. my Lords, 1 lay. it ; three minions ot freemen will ; to a decree wnicn actually tnreatens mis coun- try a jortc. i ltk.um.-.r- r- 'v.; w . America is loft, tngland, 1 tear, is rumea ger this unnappy wdi i wuuuuvu, iw""" V"" , wuf UDe j.orus ! xou nave reaucea to terminate, mm nv '""'i."."'! : . i i nertv of the Americans w ithout their confent : Kr rnmnlaints before vou. vou would not hearken to them: You have treated them as factious, feditious and rebellious : You yourfelves quarrelled with your fubjedts beyond the Atlantic, fer a pitiful tax upon tea, and you have expended millions in en-deavourinp- to eftablifh that tax by force. ' The "war, my Lords, i now come to fuch a height, that no perfon can forefce the confequences try with ruin for ever. What have you done, my Great-Britain to the condition of a dependent ftate, trufhng to the precarious fricndfliip, or to the ilill more precarious neutra lity of France. What can you expeft to do, my Lords ?. You have condemned a whole province without a hearing, without even demanding fatisfadlion for the wrong that you had fuffered:: You hive crofcribed it: You have ihut up its ports and harbours: You have taken away its chartered rights: You have itripped i: or its mofl precious privilege, of the unalienable birth-right of every Englifliman, 'the right of bring tried by a jury of the vicinage, by judges who know the parties, the crime, the pro-, vocation,- and the adequate punifhment. What has been the confcqucncc of it niy Lords? Three millions of people refufed t3 be lubjcft to yoar arbitrary cditts 1 alk pardon, my Lords. It was the Miniftry who deceived therafclves. It was Knglifli men whom they wanted to fubjeft and reduce to flavery. They have refufed it, my Lords. The experience, the valour of your npverlrubmit to 20,ooo mercenaries. The idea is ablurd ; the attempt is ridiculous.. ' As well might I promife to conquer them- th this crutch, as to iuppoie you can luDjeCt tiiem with'fopaU I. l1 I'll . ! - -i IF Wl advantage. After havine coniidered the American war by itlelfl te point ed but the dangers to be apprehended from, the rivals pf Great Britain. " The Miniitry," faid he, " as. they have committed blunder upon blunder from the beginning,! are ftill in a fatal er ror; repefting our natural enemies the French. They imagine nothihg;is to be feared from that quarter; becaufe France has hot direttly interpofed in favour of America. But, my Lords, wfienfthey build fuch fine hopes upon this circumftante, do they refledt, that they reaion a$ it irance were mad? Do tkey think fhe would expofe herfelf : to the rifk or hazard of a freih war, when! Great-Britain; was doing every thing that powerjcould wilh or 'defire ? It is tHe groffsil folly to fuppoie that France has ever one "moment thought of giving. diredt fuccours to the Colonies J fhe njiver dreamed of interrupting this country in its mad career, nor to interpofe betwixt it and the Colonies. . No, jmy Lords, Ihe has taken care, by her conduct, to cherim the foolifl ideas theirj dutiful petitions and ardent prayers : their decent and con- flitutional remofiftrances you have treated a treafonablei and re-; belli IOUS, Gensrals. the bravery of vour troops, even your fleet, theitrength and glory of the nation, formerly fo powerful, is found ineffee- of cohquelt and; dominion ; and' Ihe has been equally attentive tual. To what are you rtdaced ? You are not able to procure to give that degree of fuppdrt arrd protection', which has ferved men lumciLPt among yourieives. jngninmen aengnc not in for tne preienj to maintain tne civil war, iio overturn your de fabjecting Lnglimmen to the yoke of llavcry, nor to, trample figns. and caufe youifelves to confume your own ftrength. nndcr foot the rights of their fellow-citizens. What did you 1 fear, , my Lords, I fear this war, as 'criiel as it! is iunnatij tnen r iou nires 20,000 ucrraan pcaiauis : x uur miniuers, rai, will dc a iatai war in me ena. iou nave mut your ears to mail 1 iay, mrca inciu 10 tut uic wuuais vi y uur lnnotcnt wo lonifts. j TKefe Colon iHs, my Lords,, we now: call rebels : We brand them with all the injurious and vile epithets that our language into can furniih. However, my Lords, I remember when this coun try was engaged in a war with the united powers of France aiid Spain, when there was a rebellion, a Scotch rebellion, in the heart of this kingdom; when ouf fleets were become ufclefs, and our armies defeated : I remember that then thofe very men whom wc now call moll vile and deteilablc rebels thole men, do I fay ? -yes, that very colony, which jwe reprefent as the bed whence the fedition end treafon fprung, and have been nouriih c.d ;h&t eoleny, againft which, the molt dreadful thunders of government nave teen denounced , and poweriully hurled I t rememoer, You have loft America; you have turned her richet the lap of the Houfe of Bourbon. Could France foi far for. get her real in tereft as to think of war ? To what purpofe, my Lords ? Would it be to elFedt what this, country will jofitfelf ember, I fay, ,it was -that fame colony that lent four regi- ments c: unailciplinea militia, who trave the nrit check to rrance in her haughty career and planted the the walls tt Louu'nurg. Bat 1: is no; neceflary, my Lords, Itandard cf conqucll on for me to adduce parti- ia pcopic: x annaisui inc lait war wiiimiorm tnoie amonglt . cept a ft you.whq' arc not old enough to remember ir, how they fought; price thej bring about, , at the annual expence of twenty millions fterlin?: Ffanjce kn6ws her i'nterefts better : She' fills her arfenals with naval fiores ; !he procures vent for her marchandize, arid flje a- malTes in her warehoufes the produce cf America.: By theft ' means, yhile fhe prepares for .warL Ihe cultivates and; extends' her commerce ; Ihe wifely ' opens new lources of riches within an prom without; whilit we continue ufeleisiy to JLaVilh oar reioiirces, and whilft purcomrnerce languifhes 'f r I j ' We have already made attempts, my Lords, but without fuccufs. Ts there the moll diftant profpecl of matters being ia a mere profpercus fituation at the end of this yejaf than the JafjE ? We have exerted all our force,' jn itsNgreateft extent,! with' little or no effect We have talked of-eonouerin J America t (Have T. . . . I . . cu.ar ia.is m projr or ine oravery, zeal, ncieucy ana alrcCtion ot we done it ? No !. my Lords, we have nothing to boaflof, ex :w:. trifling advantages, and whicii, it we ccnfider the r have been bought at, are in fact defeats. We eonti- now tney mca-tncir o.ooa intneir country s.cauic; they will uue to fend out more troops, and we have! voted millions'; and tell thcm with wha: generoflty they rkn to its defence; with' after all what are we told ? That with all the reinforcements. vhat fraternal afwrdtion they partcck of the burden and common - our canger. 1 heie, my L.ords, are the unfortunate men you have fed devoted to deduction, whole cities you wou!d raze, whofe com- wu oum Aiiiuuiiaic, v.'noic iiDerties.yoa wouia uetuoy, ' atJ whofeeltates you would confifcate, , end whefc perfons you wou'd ' lidi enily-'c? This is the people, whom yoir Miuiiters wilh to ex tirpate! ' I ' 4 j ' VVhat has beciithc fyilem adopted by Adminiftration, and vrhat have been the meal ares tak;n to execute it? Your fyftem has b?en a government built on the ruins cf the cor.ftitution,. founded upon the right of ccqjcli; and in order to effect it, you have colleaed all the rcfafe of Germauy. There is not a petty 'Prince, however dcljpicable, in that country," to whom you have not applied for fuccour : You are become humble fuit ors in every court in Germany: . Your miniflers are there put up. on the chancery records as private contraftors, in.thena'mc of this empire, no longer great or glorious, j The laurels of 5reat Bri tain arc faded, her arms are dishonoured, her negociations rejected with difdain, her councils fallen into difrepute. i You have in vain attempted, my Lords, to conquer America by the alliance of foreign mercenaries by the; arms of 20,00.0 undif ciplincd German peafants, gleaned and fcraped together from every obfeure corner cf their ccuntryv Youhavegranted fubfi- rmy will be juft'equal to what it was laft vear. iwHeri it ef- d; nothing, or at Icaft very little to the DurDoleJ" f 1 his obfervatioh ucon the lmlp rlTpA th ;mmpnii wcni. ns of lall year, led his Lordfhip to (ho the 'abfurdity of con- g in the force of arms alone ; he then ursed. in the moS. pathetic terms, the necefiity of a fpeedv reconciliation. ! " We are,R faid he, 4 upon the brink of a precipice, upon Uhe very borders of dcltructicn : Seize, my Lords, the prefent moment; perhaps the laft, in which you may have an oppir t unity of lav ing the nation. , A few weeks, even a dav's deiav. ! and it may oc too late. We havp. tnpri a r ; ..rv :r ua., IT Ui IV. L. LI M lilJW ICC I I r 1 we can una tic&I aits. ojt the means of conciliation ; let us keep in mind cur? critic; fi tuition ; let us confider the inevitable alternative which awaii us;, il we.perfift in the lame mad, ruinous and bppreflive fyta. - lo.re Amcrica, in effect America will be added to the em pirof France. . If we have even the better in this difpute, weak ened,, weaned,, impoveriihed, as we will bej we lhall in that caft have conquered America for France, "r If fuppofing neither one nor the other of thefe eventshaDDenin. Fr'-nr rhrs W prefent fyftem, (which I cannot much pervade myfelf Ihr would do, unlefs fome alteration happened in her Councils) then A- i I 1 v V ; 7 XiiLUitl to lainK) win oe loit tor evei: & uis kingdom. If the laft cafe fhould happen i and: tfiat psvr I
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