4. And this man imputes the guilt of such measures to those who had all along foretold the consequences; who had prayed, entreated, and supplicated, not only for America, but for the credit of the nation and its eventual welfare, to arrest the hand of power, meditating slaughter, and directed by injustice!

5. What was the consequence of the sanguinary measures recommended in those bloody, inflammatory speeches? Though Boston was to be starved, though Hancock and Adams were proscribed, yet at the feet of these very men the Parliament of Great Britain was obliged to kneel, flatter, and cringe; and, as it had the cruelty at one time to denounce vengeance against these men, so it had the meanness afterwards to implore their forgiveness.

6. Shall he who called the Americans "Hancock and his crew,”—shall he presume to reprehend any set of men for inflammatory speeches? It is this accursed American war that has led us, step by step, into all our present misfortunes and national disgraces.

7. What was the cause of our wasting forty millions of money, and sixty thousand lives? The American war! What was it that produced the French rescript and a French war? The American war! What was it that produced the Spanish manifesto and Spanish war? The American war! What was it that armed forty-two thousand men in Ireland with the arguments carried on the points of forty thousand bayonets? The American war! For what are we about to incur an additional debt of twelve or fourteen millions? cruel, diabolical American war!

This accursed,

Fox

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23. THE FOREIGN POLICY OF WASHINGTON.

OW infinitely superior must appear the spirit and princi ples of General Washington, in his late address to Congress, compared with the policy of modern European courts!

Illustrious man !-deriving honor less from the splendor of his situation than from the dignity of his mind! Grateful to France for the assistance received from her, in that great contest which secured the independence of America, he yet did not choose to give up the system of neutrality in her favor.

2. Having once laid down the line of conduct most proper to be pursued, not all the insults and provocations of the French minister, Genet, could at all put him out of his way, or bend him from his purpose. It must, indeed, create astonishment, that, placed in circumstances so critical, and filling a station so conspicuous, the character of Washington should never once have been called in question;—that he should, in no one instance, have been accused either of improper insolence, or of mean submission, in his transactions with foreign nations.

3. It has been reserved for him to run the race of glory without experiencing the smallest interruption to the brilliancy of his career. The breath of censure has not dared to inpeach the purity of his conduct, nor the eye of envy to raise its malignant glance to the elevation of his virtues. Such has been the transcendent merit and the unparalleled fate of this illustrious man!

4. How did he act when insulted by Genet? Did he consider it as necessary to avenge himself for the misconduct or madness of an individual, by involving a whole continent in the horrors of war? No; he contented himself with pro curing satisfaction for the insult, by causing Genet to be recalled; and thus, at once, consulted his own dignity and the interests of his country.

5. Happy Americans! while the whirlwind flies over one quarter of the globe, and spreads everywhere desolation, you remain protected from its baneful effects by your own virtues, and the wisdom of your government. Separated from Europe by an immense ocean, you feel not the effect of those preju dices and passions which convert the boasted seats of civilization into scenes of horror and bloodshed. You profit by the

folly and madness of the contending nations, and afford, in your more congenial clime, an asylum to those blessings and virtues which they wantonly contemn, or wickedly exclude from their bosom !

6. Cultivating the arts of peace under the influence of freedom, yon advance, by rapid strides, to opulence and distinc tion; and if, by any accident, you should be compelled to take part in the present unhappy contest,-if you should find it necessary to avenge insult, or repel injury, the world will bear witness to the equity of your sentiments and the modera tion of your views; and the success of your arms will, no doubt, be proportioned to the justice of your cause!

Fox.

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24. "A POLITICAL PAUSE."

AYS the honorable gentleman: "But we must pause !" What must the bowels of Great Britain be torn outher best blood be spilt-her treasures wasted-that you may make an experiment? Put yourselves, O! that you would put yourselves on the field of battle, and learn to judge of the sort of horrors that you excite.

2. In former wars a man might, at least, have some feeling, some interest, that served to balance in his mind the impressions which a scene of carnage and of death must inflict. But if a man were present now at the field of slaughter, and were to inquire for what they were fighting,-" Fighting!" would be the answer; "they are not fighting; they are pausing."

3. "Why is that man expiring? Why is that other writhing with agony? What means this implacable fury?" The answer must be,-"You are quite wrong, sir; you deceive yourself they are not fighting-do not disturb them-they are merely pausing! This man is not expiring with agonythat man is not dead-he is only pausing!

4. "Lord help you, sir! they are not angry with one an other they have now no cause of quarrel; but their country

thinks that there should be a pause. All that you see, sir, is nothing like fighting-there is no harm, nor cruelty, nor bloodshed in it, whatever; it is nothing more than a political pause ! It is merely to try an experiment to see whether Bonaparte will not behave himself better than heretofore; and in the mean time we have agreed to a pause, in pure friendship!"

5. And is this the way, sir, that you are to show yourselves the advocates of order? You take up a system calculated to uncivilize the world-to destroy order to trample on religion-to stifle in the heart, not merely the generosity of noble sentiment, but the affections of social nature; and in the prosecution of this system, you spread terror and devastation all around you.

FOL

25. THE AMERICAN WAR DENOUNCED.

[Mr. Pitt was the second son of the great Lord Chatham. He entered Parliament at the age of twenty-two, and became virtually leader of the House and Prime Minister at twenty-four. As a debater, his speeches are logical and argumentative. They are stamped with the strongest marks of originality. His eloquence, occasionally rapid, electric, and vehement, was always chaste, winning, and persuasive-not awing into acquiescence, but arguing into conviction. Unallured by dissipation and unswayed by pleasure, he never sacrificed the national treasure to one, nor the national interest to the other. With Chatham, Burke, and Fox, Pitt stands, by universal consent, at the head of British eloquence.]

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ENTLEMEN have passed the highest eulogiums on the American war. Its justice has been defended in the most fervent manner. A noble lord, in the heat of his zeal, has called it a holy war. For my part, although the honorable gentleman who made this motion, and some other gentlemen, have been, more than once, in the course of the debate, severely reprehended for calling it a wicked and accursed war, I am persuaded, and would affirm, that it was a most accursed, wicked, barbarous, cruel, unnatural, unjust, and diabolical war!

2. It was conceived in injustice; it was nurtured and

brought forth in folly; its footsteps were marked with blood, slaughter, persecution, and devastation ;-in truth, every thing which went to constitute moral depravity and human turpitude were to be found in it. It was pregnant with misery of every kind.

3. The mischief, however, recoiled on the unhappy people ot this country, who were made the instruments by which the wicked purposes of the authors of the war were effected. The nation was drained of its best blood, and of its vital resources of men and money. The expense of the war was enormous, much beyond any former experience.

4. And yet, what has the British nation received in return? Nothing but a series of ineffective victories, or severe defeats ;-victories celebrated only by a temporary triumph over our brethren, whom we would trample down and destroy; victories, which filled the land with mourning for the loss of dear and valued relatives, slain in the impious cause of enforcing unconditional submission, or with narratives of the glorious exertions of men struggling in the holy cause of liberty, though struggling in the absence of all the facilities and advantages which are in general deemed the necessary concomitants of victory and success.

5. Where was the Englishman, who, on reading the narratives of those bloody and well-fought contests, could refrain from lamenting the loss of so much British blood spilt in such a cause; or from weeping, on whatever side victory might be declared?

WILLIAM PITT.

26. ON AN ATTEMPT TO COERCE HIM TO RESIGN. [Certain resolutions were passed by the House of Commons, in 1784, for the removal of his Majesty's ministers, at the head of whom was Mr. Pitt. These resolutions, however, his Majesty had not thought proper to comply with. A reference having been made to them, Mr. Pitt spoke as follows, in reply to Mr. Fox:]

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YAN any thing that I have said, Mr. Speaker, subject me to be branded with the imputation of preferring my per