Foreign Department. 1793. Feb. 13. Sir John Mitford, knt., afterwards Lord Redesdale. X. INDEX OF THE NAMES OF THE SEVERAL SPEAKERS IN BOTH Abbot, Charles [In 1817 created Baron Col-| Adair, Mr. Serjeant, 611, 625, 650, 749, 865, Addington, Right Hon. Henry [The Speaker. In 1805 created Viscount Sidmouth], 118, Addington, John Hiley, 394, 761, 864. Anderson, Alderman, 304, 1334. Bankes, Henry, 99, 112, 687, 1561. Barham, John Foster, 54, 617, 761, 864, 926. Basset, Sir Francis [In 1796 created Baron Bastard, John P. 97, 1034, 1037, 1545. Bathurst, Earl, 1177. Bedford [Francis Russell] Duke of, 128, 190, Berkeley, Captain, 847. Bird, Wilberforce, 1541, 1549. Boringdon [John Parker] Lord, 533, Brandling, Charles, 616. Bragge, Charles, 1332. Browne, Isaac Hawkins, 507, 1870. 488, 512, 568, 586, 611, 616, 617, 618, Francis, Philip, 98, 696, 793, 840, 852, 869, Buckingham [George Grenville Nugent Tem- Gascoyne, Isaac, 1335. ple] Marquis of, 131. Burdon, Rowland, 713. Burton, Francis, 1516. Grafton [Augustus Henry Fitzroy], Duke of, Grant, William, 121, 397. Buxton, Robert John, 649, 712, 743, 839, Grenville, Lord [William Wyndham Gren- 848, 865, 919, 997. East, Edward Hyde, 72, 991. Fergusson, Sir Adam, 1037. ville] 52, 126, 131, 144, 193, 200, 207, Grey, Charles [Afterwards Earl Grey] 61, 94, Guilford [George Augustus North], Earl of, Lambton, William Henry, 98, 114, 116, 300, Lansdown [William Petty] Marquis of, 154, Liverpool [Charles Jenkinson] Earl of, 1499. Lushington, William, 72, 291, 303, 1334. Macleod, Norman, 922, 929, 1019. Mansfield, [David Murray] Earl of, 199, 253. Milbank, Ralph, 322, 864. Milner, Sir William, 304, 378, 1524. Montagu, Matthew, 95, 431, 873, 915. Morpeth, Viscount, 1190. Mulgrave, [Henry Phipps] Lord, 53, 539, Newnham, Alderman, 506, 1026, 1031, 1034. Penton, Henry, 1003. Pitt, Right Hon. William [Chancellor of the 1020, 1025, 1030, 1031, 1033, 1035, 1072, 1522, 1525, 1542, 1543, 1548, 1552. Scott, Sir John [Attorney General. In 1799, Scott, Sir William, 69, 1508. Sinclair, Sir John, 1539. Smith, William, 41, 98, 381, 443, 566, 651, Smith, General, 114, 123, 422, 613, 868, 929, Solicitor General, see Sir John Mitford. 686, 1504. Stanley, John Thomas, 283, 305, 617, 649. Stewart, Robert [afterwards Viscount Castle- Sumner, George, 99, 115. Tarleton, Banastre, 43, 163, 506, 740, 863, Wallace, Thomas, 390. Walsingham, [Thomas De Grey] Lord, 190. Radnor, [Jacob Pleydell Bouverie] Earl of, Westmorland, [John Fane] Earl of, 532. 247. Rashleigh, Philip, 1027, 1032. Richards, Richard, 1515. Ridley, Sir Matthew White, 114. Robinson, Maurice, 44, 290, 302, 508, 577, Whitbread, Samuel, 97, 116, 391, 700, 70S, 714. Wigley, Edmund, 1018. Wilberforce, William, 1, 36, 99, 292, 304, Rochester, Bishop of [Dr. Samuel Horsley], Wood, Mark, 72, 1335. 256,257, 265. Rose, George, 123, 889. Russell, Lord William, 305. Wycombe, Earl of, 1541. Yorke, Charles, 1283, 1541. Ryder, Dudley [Afterwards Earl of Harrowby], Young, Sir William, 71, 101, 677, 741, 866, 699, 845, 1251. 988. Parliamentary History. 35 GEORGE THE THIRD, A. D. 1795. FIFTH SESSION OF THE SEVENTEENTH PARLIAMENT OF GREAT BRITAIN. opinion of a people should be superseded by nothing but circumstances of a very extraordinary nature, such as did not appear in the present case against it, and was entitled to a degree of respect that would have induced him, independent of his own unalterable opinion, to have made his present motion. He thought it [Continued from Vol. XXXI.] a very important duty in every war, not only to take care that in the commenceDEBATE on Mr. Wilberforce's Motion ment it was just and necessary, but to respecting Peace with France.] May 27. look out also from time to time, for every 1795. Mr. Wilberforce rose to make his opening which might be given for the conpromised motion. He began by observ-clusion of it; to see whether the original ing that the subject which he was about to bring before the House, was one which he had deeply considered; that he had revolved it again and again, and that he had even been somewhat confirmed in his opinion upon it, by what appeared to him to be evidently the general sentiment of the public; for there had certainly prevailed an opinion almost every where of late, that ministers were either actually negociating a peace, or were purposing to negociate. This expectation of peace had arisen, not from any terms in the resolutions of administration, or in their language in that House; for in these they had plainly intimated that they had no thought of making peace with France at present; but from the general posture of affairs, which had naturally led men to imagine that this was a time when pacific measures might be taken. Much joy had been infused into the public mind in consequence; and it certainly, therefore, became administra tion to show why, at such a period as this, they should not treat. He was not one of those who went the length of saying, Vox populi vox Dei; but he would nevertheless maintain, that the general [VOL. XXXII.] motives for it continued-whether our own country, whether that of the enemy, whether the state of other powers, and the general circumstances of the times, made it needful still to pursue the path we were treading. He had done so in his own mind in this case, and he would now state to the House that train of reasoning, which, in consequence of his doing so, he had naturally been led into in his closet.-The general subject of the effect of the war on our finances, population, and commerce, had been so lately discussed, that he should dwell little on those points: he would only observe, that there seemed to have been a mistake in taking so much credit for the present magnitude of our export of manufactures, when that very export was probably to be ascribed in part to the war itself; in proof of which, he quoted an observation from Smith on the Wealth of Nations, noticing the mistake which had arisen in a former war on this point. He spoke next of the navy; which, though certainly at present much superior on the whole, was not to be depended on as being always superior in every part; the French, by leaving themselves quite weak, [B] |