Foreign Intelligence. LONDON, July u. PARLIAMENTARY INTEL- LfOENCE. ■ . • lIOUSE OF COMMONS. Thurfdny, July 10. THE WAR. (Continued.) 1 Mr. Grey in reply, declared, thst he was by no means disappointed at th„- attempt he had jtifl vyitnr-fTcd, at palli ating those misfortunes which this coun- tty had futtained, and had to deplore in the course of this campaign. It was jloW the lecond year since we had involv ed oin-lcivss in thp piefcnt calamitous hofti'ities, and how were we liluated ? After an expence of about 20 millions, and an ufelele watte of blood, we were precifel;- just where we were, having loft, in the present ca . '"gn, the Ne therlands', which hid I .en our hoall so much to have recovered during the last, and yet these vveie the events which the .right hod. gentleman chose to dignify vvjth t)i- epnliet of accidental. He was perfeSSy ready to admit, that the object of the war had been well dated by the tight hon. gentleman 5 nor had he any fault to find with it. Indeed upon the flighted infpei&lon, it woulcl be found there exifttd live,'flightelt, if any, dif ference between this object, as avowed on the one fide, and changed againfl them by his hon. frilnd.—Was it not as he (M-. Sheridan) said, to exter minate the Jacobin government of France I The right hon. geiltleman said, no! it was not the extermination but deftruftion of that system, and that to the attainment of that object, he was determined to persevere. For his own part, lie was not inclined to jqtlarrel s biiut terms, more especially, when he could fee but little difference or advan tage in the adoption of either the bneor the other. There was a terifi, which on the commencement of hollilities, had been made use of, but which, Ministers accused opposition of having introduced —Helium inttmcciondtn :—lt was true it had been used as a term of reproach at that period, by a gentleman who dis played his abilities in expofmg the con dutt of adminiltration, but whq had since thought proper to join in their me?fures and their lit nation. This term he looked upon as mod ominous; f r lie dreaded that the principle as well as the expreffiun, would be transferred with that gentleman (Mr. Wyndham) into the councils of the country, and that hereafter such would be puiftied. The right horn gentleman affe&ed to fay, their object was not to destroy, but to reflore—-then he would ask, how it W;:s propofedthis (liould be done ? Was it by affixing them agaiiul each other ? Will not two campaigns, waded in fruitlefs, ineffectual, and difgraceful ef forts, evince the fallacy of such an at tempt ? Will not the dismal train of e vents which occurred at Toulon, prove to us, how little the French people themselves are inclined to benefit bv the affittifiee we proffer to them ? Were the events at fending the attempts of two campaigns inefficient to convince lis that the people at large shewed no dif polition to accept of our proffered inter ference ? If in the course of lalt year's campaign, we were unable to make any imprefiion upon them, under all the dis advantages of a rebellion raging in their country —what was now to be hdped for, when their government became e nergetic, their refoiiices regular, and th..'ir armies increased in number and ac commodation ? Some of those miscreant papers, wbo in behalf of ministers were incefTautly laboring to mislead and de lude the public mind, had lately made life of this curious argument, to recon cile u» to our present misfortunes. That now that all danger from without was lilcely to cease, the French government mutt of course -crumble to pieces by in ternal divisions. Happy profpeft this, where defeat is victory, and where the only hope of advantage mutt be derived from a continuance of loss and disap pointment ! How much longer were we to persist in such absurdity ! What greater and more difaftious lofTes were we to endure, before we could be in duced to relinquish ah object so unattain able ! What watte of blood and treasure was this miserable country fated to con tinue to deplore, ere we fliould be induc ed to acknowledge that Republic, which he openly and boldly avowed it as his opinion, we should sooner or later be ne cessitated to do. He reminded the house that the present were not the only or firft ministry who had held the fame lofty language, and had been obliged to recant it. in the American war, the then adminiftratiori had equally ef fected to despise, and deny the newly \ erected government, and, as he agaui repeated, would be the event in the pre sent unhappy conteit, where in the end they would be obliged to treat with those very persons they had so underva lued. It would, perhaps, be aiked, lhall we treat in the present moment ? The right hon. gentleman affiimed it to be pufilbnimity to file for peace.—He no such thing as suing to them, or any other people in the world. He wilfied for peace, but he wished for it upon no other terms, than such as were coiu.ftent with the interests of the na tion. He had therefore no hesitation to repeat his proposition, and again ear nestly exhoited the house, to do that in the present instance, which they would be'bound to do in the end, acknowledge the Republic upon terms reciprocal, fair and honorable to both countries. Such a proposition he had made at the break ing out of hostilities, had repeated it during their progrets, and now moll se riously and earneitly piffled it again for their confederation and acceptance. The right hon. gentleman avowed himfelf of an opinion diametrically op posite.' However foi ry he might be for this in other refpefts, in one sense he was pleased at his declared determinati on to persist in his plan of hostility ; for he hoped and trulted it would rotife the country to an interference so necessary for their salvation. He had no doubt but that numbers, judging from the past readiness with which the right lion, gentleman had relinquifhed'former assertions, had indulged the hope he would have done so on the present occa lion, and so they had acquiesced ; his conduit upon the present occhfion ex tinguirtied such hope, and he', trutted they would aft accordingly. The next point to which the right hen. gentle man had adverted, was the Prufitati treaty. He had upon this, as upon former oeca'fions of alike nature, avail ed himfelf of the Stale Trick, State Secrets, &c ! Upon this occasion he could not help wishing for the afiiftance of a right hon. gentleman (Mr. Wynd ham) who had vacated his feat, and who upon a former occasion had so success fully and ably combated and exposed the fallacy of such a defence. The hon. gentleman dffefted to fay why he could not explain why the troops promised un der the treaty had never made their ap pearance. The motion of his honora ble friend went not to investigate into c:iufes or cftcfts, but merely to ascer tain a matter of fact ; namely, whether the money had been paid, and whether the troops itipulated for were employed; This was to be answered with the word «\'hich pofTefled such a charm iB it—se cret ! He was ready to admit, indeed, that the whole was a secret—a secret why the treaty was entered into at all -—a secret why such a sum of money was granted—and a secret where the troops so paid for were now to be found. With refpeft to the next point alluded to by the right hun. gentleman which was, our fituatio'n with America. Andhert too, he was obliged to have recourse to his old excuse—State Secrecy, upon this he (hould only observe, that the rpotion, with regard to this part of it, was only offered in order to afford Par liament an opportunity of timely inter fering for the purpose of preventing that war, which the obitinacy of Adminiltra tioli would give them cause to repent of hereafter.' The last charge urged by the right hon gentleman was, that those with whom he had,been in the habits of acting, had roitinnally opposed those measures adopted as necessary for the conduct of the war. He was ready to avow the whole of his conduct upon the occasion, and could not fairly be accuf eri of throwing impediments in the way of government: On the contrary, their conduct during the war was founded up 011 truly constitutional principles, unlets it were laid down as a fundamental pro position, that the moment miniiters chufe to plunge the nation into the mile ries of war, all oppolition to their mea sures and schemes mull become unconfli tutional. But what was the fact upon this | charge against what was termed the op position ? In the firft place, with -ref peft to the proposition for increasing the internal force of the kingdom. Did they oppose the measure itfelf ? On the contraty, did they not endeavor to pro mote the arming, only endeavoring to 1 render the mode constitutional, by le- I galizing with fanftion ot parliament, | those fuhferiptions, which without such i previous consent, they contended and justly, were perfectly illegal and uncon ttitutional ? In the next place, did they oppose the grant of the supplies ? If they opposed the Prufiian subsidy, they were ready to grant the sum to be ap plied to other purposes; and opposed the application of it in that particular way, because they considered it aS an immenle sum, disposed of for very iria j dequate purposes. Whether they in 1 their conjecture* were right or wrong, : let tlie evert (icclarr. Upon the Eitu ! grant force bill too ! what was done in ! this measure so highly vaunted of at the 1 time of its proposal, or what force was raised of thole five hundred thousand men, which were to'flock to our ltarid ard the moment the measure was adopt ed ? Upon all these grounds, therefore, of oppolitionj in {lead of reproach, they had a claim to praise for their forefignt, and he conftSed himfelf proud in the part he had taken upon the fcveml ocea fions- The lalt topic treated on by the right honorable gentleman, was the con nection recently formed between him ar>d some who had been heretofore hos tile to every measure of his adminiflra tion. Upon this topic he had little to fay. The right hon. gentleman, had labored to state their having palled over many points of difference wnich had hitherto exifled between thein ; but he had fttidioufly avoided the grand point which had beeu.detrrved the iiifurmoimt al>!e obfiacle to a coalition, namely, the ejiutence of an administration, which both by its commencement and continu ance, was Held to be equally difgraceful to the Commons, and dangerous to the conflitutioi) ; and which could not be forgiven without full and ample atone ment firil made for its pad mifcouduft. With those who so thought, and hither to so acted, was the right hon. gentle man now connected Without any such aton-mejit infilled on or made. He was equally .glad with the right hon. gentleman on the difcufiion the ptefcnt evening had given birth to, asanording him an opportunity of slating facts to the country at large, on which he would leave thereto make their own comment. At all events, he prayed to God, that the country might not radically fufler by an event he could not but deem most difaflrous and ominous to her future ial vation. Mr. Sheridan, ill reply," exprefled his thanks to Mr. Pitt, for having explicitly avowed that the ol>j<c! of the war was the deftrUiSion of the government of Frahce at the iamr t*m'e he deeply lamented determination of minirters. • Had not the experience of the two campaigns (hewn tlvem the impracticability of the attempt ? ■would not the disgraces and disasters we have fufiered, within the last fix wptks, convinre every man of the dangivons (ittia tiort into which counti'y had been, plimjrcd by the rzfc n esfuifs of adminif tratton proceeding on this principle, that we had in lecr.rity for r •vee, in treating with the present grvor:.. -nt of France; whicbiniaft was the only government, I I hat had kept its faith; net indeed wi'.h j their i'.Uips, for Trance had none, but the > rulers of France had pledged themselves to the people that they would re-conquer Toulon, anil they kept their word ; they . hadpromifed to invade Flanders, anu they j had totally over-run it, so that it should < feera, that the Republican government of i France was the only one in Europe which ! appeared to be true to its engagements ; ! for, had not the king of Pruflia basely vio i Lated his engagm :its to this country ? Was ! it not the fadl, that infiead of lending the troops for which he had been paid by us, and which were to have co-operated with the British in Flanders, and who in confe quente of his breach of faith, had been ex posed to a situation in which their valur was unavailing, he had employed them in the deteflable occupatiofi of plundering the diftrefled Poles, in conjuiuf;ion with' theEmprefsof Ruflia, who had likqwife failed in pertormiilf; her engagements; for Ihe had not furnifhed a man hur a rouble towards the obje<sl of the war, al though we had stipulated not to make peace without her concurrence. At the time that the Britilh fleet with inferior force, for which mimfters deserved repro bation, were gloriously combating the ene my, li*d not the Spaniards refufed to fend out a fleet to capture, or to make the at tempt on the American fleet, which the French regarded astheirgrandrefource, the failing of which for France, had been known almost a year. Was it not true that the Dutch, who were so proudly fliled one of the great Maritime Powers, had not a single (hip at lea to assist us.— The Emperor had failed in his engage ment of keeping up the number of troops, he promised, as l ad the kiag of Sardinia. This country had also violated its faith to the Toulontfe, by infringing the terms on which they had surrendered their town: and also with regard to the hopes held out to the royalists in Normandy of afliftance from us, when we had contented ourfe'ves with keeping a body of troops on the coast of Hamplhire. Thus is appeared, that the French government was the only one that appeared to have n6 priviledge to break its faith, which all the allies had done a, they found occafton. It appeared to him, that ministers had a Patent for mis-stating fails; on a former occafiqn, the hon. gentleman (Mr. Pitt) had, with that pompous de clamation whicl; he could aflume when it answered his purpose, descanted on the great importance of the Netherlands to the general cause, but now that the French had polTeiTioii of those Provinces, the lan guage of that gentleman was, that we ought not to be discouraged at a trifling check, or any accidental advantage gain ed by the Enemy. He always had an high idea of \he courage of that hon. gen tleman ; he was so valiant that he would not do well to be p'aced to defend a forti j fication, for that he would not be able to f confine himfeif within the ramparts. He 5 (Mr. Pitt) had that night made an unpio voked attack upon him, by faying he had always opp«fed any mcafures that ministers had brought forward for a prolecution of the war, "and had instanced the opposition he had given to the Prulfian l'ubjidy, the fubferiptions, and the French emi grant Bill.' As to the Prufhan iubiidy, it was rather unfortunate for the hon. gen tleman's attack, that he had opposed it on the ground that no dependance could be placed on his Prufiian Majesty, and that he had warned rmnifteri of the pro bability of the troops bargained for being employed against the Poles, instead of the French, but he had vote, for the money being raised; his < nty chjerftion was to I the mode of expenditure, and the event jultifyed his conduct. In like manner, when lie opposed the meafme of iubferip tions, it was only on a Confijutional ground, biit he had' exprefTly said that he had no objection thereto, when it should have received the faiiiftion of Parhament. The French Emigrant Bill he op posed on the ground of its impraftica billty, for he couid hot think it poflible for Mtntllers to fern' into France those unfortunate men, who were certain of being executed if taken by their coun trymen ; and it appeared, that notwith ftandir.g tire pompous declaration of the Secretary of .State (Mr. Dundas) that he expected Five Hundred Thousand Emigrants would be embodied—One Hundred were not in arms. On the fiibjeft of the Ptnfiian troops, the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Pitt) had enveloped himfelf in myllery. The teims of the Treaty with his Prufiian Majefly were, that by the 24th of May last they were to have been at the place of' their dellination, to co-operate with the British; this place mufl of course be Flanders; but now it stems it is a Statp Secret where those troops are, or rather a feeret to all the world. He had always opposed the doctrine of placing confidence in Ministers ; and, oil a former occaiion, he had been flip ported in his opinion by Mr. Wynd ham, whose absence he regretted on this occasion, as he would have expedited his coincidence as formerly 011 this im portant point, that no Mindler had a right to infer, that there exilied a spi rit of difaffeftion fn those who would not give implicit confidence to Government in any means which they chose to adopt in carrying their meajutes into effect. He trufled, that when the Gentlemen whio were coming into Adminiflration, (liould have considered the state of ref poniibility in which they were to Hand, 1 they Would relax fomcwhat with regard to the extremity to which Mr. Pitt had said the War was to be carried, that we in 11 ft exterminate the French ; for however the Right Hon. Gentleman* might quibble in his expressions, that was the pvecife meaning of them. It had not appeared that the French had afced us to inteifere in their concerns, as they seemed well fatisikd'with their present Government ; we had no right to interfere with it.' He lamented the dereliction of principle 'in the Duke of Portland and Mr. Wyiidlr m, who had uniformly declared that they could not aft with the present Adminiflration, on account of the manner they had come into Office, in contempt of the House of Commons and the measures they af terwards pursued. As the day of ac count mufi at length arrive, he trufled these Gentlemen would conlider the pe rilous lituation in which they flood in uniting themselves with Mr. Pitt, and adopt timely measures for the* reft ora tion of peace, before it should be too late, while we poffefli d the means of making it on equitable term«. His ob jest was unequivocally to acknowledge the French Republic. He was persuaded, with his Friend (M'% Grey) that we Ihould he compel led to do as we had in the cafe of the American War ; it was then ohje&ed that we could not treat with the infa mous C-ongrefs, but eventually we were obliged to submit to this humiliation. Now it was said \ye cannot treat with the Government of France, which yet we mull certainly do in the end, for it cannot be supposed that we are to car ry on War while there is a man or a guinea in the country. The Right Hon. Gentleman had objected to his using the word Despot as one adopted by the Members of the French Convention ; but uo insinuation of that kind Ihould have any effect on him : if by the word Monarch was meant tlie firft magiiliate of any well-governed State, he would not apply it to the despot of Peterf burgh, or the despot of Berlin, who had been guilty, of such attrocious breach of Faith, such plunder and murder in Poland ; for, in speaking of such nefa rious actions, lie could not be very njee in the felefh'on of his words. The Right Hon. Gentleman, in speaking of these our woithy Allies, had used the phrafc " Regular governments," not a very elegant one, in his opinion ; he had, however, no objection, to the life of it, and thought, that of the French he much entitled to it as any other, if we wets to judge from the regularity and '_-- " '•* "ffS -\ -. s^S|ps? difcipltne of tlieir Armies, by which they had conquered the moil rencv. Ned troops in the world : they fliould also adopt it, and then they would be qua lified to break their faith, and commit. every species of atrocity, as our Al!ie» had done. He rcjoiced, that the Pub lic at Targe would, by that day's debate, have a just view of the grounds and state of the War ; on which fuhiect he contended, that four fifths of that Koufc had changed their opinion, and ninety nine out of au hundred of the Ptopie at large. M. Robinson said a few words. The queltion was put, and carried without a Division. Mr. Sheridan said, that as Mr. Pitt had refufed to give any account of the Pruflian Troops, how, or where they were employed, or whether Prufiia had received any part of the Sublidy or not-, he thought it unnecefiary to trouble the House with any further motion. NATIONAL CONVENTION. Barrere.—"Sirica our lall intelligence from the armies, several fnccelTe* have taken place, which I am now to recount to' you. From the South to the North, and from the Sambre to the Rhine, the troops of the Republic are {till viflori- A few days ago the ptide of the {4oufe of Aultrja paired tinder the yoke: :it prtfent, the vanity of the Spar.ifh hcufe of Capet is doomed tp share the fair., fate The army of Ihi Ealteru Pyrenees continue their march into Spa nish Ceidagne. Rich magazines, m.li tary ttorcs, amn unuion, ami cartridge, themufkets depoited in their armouries have fallen into our hands. Their ma gazines have been destroyed and laid in ruins, in older that the Spaniards may not employ them in fuaire the e iufeof freed m. Ap;Liufe. The poll of I'Etoile has bren tabni with 300 tents, mules loaded with am munition, and some prifouers. Sevcal standards and silver faints, the treasure of monkiih avarice, have been brought to the French camp. New applauits. Still new victories against the proud Cifti! bns : the aimy commanded by Dugommier has given a fatal blow to these (laves: lix hundred of them have fallen, four hundred are taken prisoners* Ansidft thete fucreffe, the volunteers have given frefh proofs their courage and warlike activity. You cannot hear the recital, without decreeing honorable mention to be made of them in the Pro ces Verbal. Vcau, in the name of the committee of Dilpa tches. "V\ hile the English are proclaiming to all Eutope the iuc ctfles which the Royal Junto, accord ing to the harangues of Pitt, t!ie re veties of , the chimeras of Fre derick, the nianiftftoes of York, the prayers of Carlos, and the bulls o£ Pius, have obtained from Oneglia to O'lend ; —while they aie thus employ ed, let us declare that the courage and virtue of the Freuch hold out to the universe a bright example of the Ma jelly of a Sovereign and independent Nation : let us convince that libetty, combating against the combined efforts of tyrants and of ilavcs, ex polls treach ery, corruption, trenfon and daggers : M us afTure them, that the representa tives of the people daily receive the warmell adc'rclfes of Congratulation from the Popular Societies and Confh tuted Authorities, partly on acconnt of the energy with which they have attack ed and difcomhtted the hydra ot fac tion, partly on account of their good fortune in escaping the daggers of af fafiins, and partly on account of the success which has attended their mea iures and the arms of the Republic. The catalogue, which contains the produce of the National Domains,, ex hibits another irrefragable proof of the National prosperity, of the magnitude of its resources and the confidence of the people in the exiting government, that is to fay, in their own energy and exertions. During the third Decade of Prairial, the ilatements transmitted to the coinmiffioners of the Revenue, refpefting the eltimates made in the ninety-fix diftri&s amounted to 14,717,424 livres! The grand total produce was thirty-three millions, eight hundred and seventy-one thousand, nine hundred and thirty livres. Thus the sale hasexceeded the e (limat e 19, 15 4,4 J 3 livres. Oil recurring to the above statements, it appears, that in the month of Prairial, the fnles have pro duced more than 97 millions, with a reserve of 53 millions upon the eih matesj and that the total of the eib mates amount to 460,483,55 a i |vref > with a refeive of 241,824,759 ' ivre f - Another guarantee of the eternal dei'li ny of the Republic coriilts in the mul tiplied proofs of an universal attach ment of the citizens of the Republic. : ft, •'. T — .»j* » • a,"- Wednesday, July 9. V *•
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