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rsc’.ccs and inoperative as to outproduce than to succumb to any na
enemies, but also insusceptible ol ex
ecution. hat thi» government has
no energy, no strength, has long been
the cry' ol its enemies, and it is now
become quite fashionable to hear the
same doctrine from those who pro
less to be its advocates. For one 1
deny it. The laws of no country are
better executed than the laws of this
country. They for the most pan
are executed from choice, and the
violation of them is confined to an
unprincipled class ol society, perfect
ly insignificant in number. It is hy
the profligate part of the merchants
alone that your commercial regulati
ons have been violated or evaded,
and these practices could be readily
prevented. If you ill consult the
head of the Treasury Department,
he will tell you, that if the mfeans be
furnished the laws can be executed.
It is because you did not give au
thority to the executive for the pur
pose, that the law has not been com
pletely enforced.
Rut the gentleman (Mr. Taylor)
says that the very circumstance of
employing the navy to aid in the ex
ecution of the law would be sufficient
to disgust him with my amendment. £ r r|j C following is the speech of Lord
non.— They would rather do wha
gentlemen formerly said they woul.
do, what the gentleman from South
Carolina would have done two years
ago ; they would make a great bon
fire of all the surplus produce oftht
United States—It is only through
the newspapers, the very touch ol
which is contamination, on this floor,
and in the other wing of the Capitol,
so help me God, that I have seer or
heard any thing of this disposition
to submit to the belligerent edicts
for the .sake of gain, or upon any o-
ther consideration. We have sworn
that we could not submit to the de
crees and orders without a sacrifice
of their rights, honor and indepen
dence. You hold your seats by that
solemn vow, and yet you are about
to submit. You are about to do
more—-to inscribe on your statute
book the most abject submission.
You withdraw what you have and
oppose no other resistance. I de
mand of gentlemen how they are ab
solved from their vow ? I call upon
their candor to explain what has hap
pened to change their course.
the same manner that subject which
is trea.cii oi in his majesty’s speech.
I mean the topic of our difference*
with America, there will come a dav
when you must examine what is and
has been the conduct of the govern
ment of this country towards Ameri-
There will come a dav when it
The principal cause of the embargo’s
not effecting its full purpose was that
the House would not agree to em
ploy the navy in executing it. Not
only the navy but the military force
also should have contributed to the
execution. Whatever your laws
may be, let them be faithfully com
plied with. It is better to have a
mild law well executed than to have
a rigorous one partially enforced.
The gentleman is certainly mista
ken in saving that Mr. Erskine’s ar-
ialignment was made under a provi
sion similar to that contained in this
bill. It was made under the provisi
on giving the President power to
suspend a law, not to enact it. No
thing was in that case offered to one
nation to induce her to do us justice
except the repeal of our own restric
tions. It was not said either to
France or Great Britain, that if they
ceased to violate our rights wc would
join with either against the other.
The gentleman put a case in private
life, and told you that if he was to
meet two bullies there would be no
thing degrading in saying to one,
“ Hands off whilst I fight the other.”
This case was not fairly stated, sir.
Suppose he was to meet two ad
versaries, would he propose to one
that if he would be so mercifiul as
not to ..trike him he would join him
to whip his enemy? I have too much
confidence in the gentleman’s cou
rage to suppose he would take such
a course
The gentleman was so obliging as
to remind me of the fate ol the bill
which passed this House some time
ago. I would only observe in reply,
that l voted for that bill ; and I be
lieve it contained all the features of
Grenville, moving for an enquiry
into the conduct of the British Mi
nisters. A speech, couched in
such elegant language—exposing,
even at the foot of the throne, the
infamous conduct of the British
Cabinet ; cannot fail to be inte
resting, to every friend of humani
ty. The sympathetic bosom must
burn with indignation, against
those scourges of the human race;
while it is dissolved in pitv, for thi
distresses of mankind. The mis
tress of the ocean, has attempted,
also to rule the continent of Eu
rope. Every effort, to effect this
purpose has been crowned with
disaster. Ami although she has
participated, in the common cala
mitics of the continent ; yet her
sufferings will not bear a com
parison, with those of other nati
ons. Lord Grenville’s remarks,
concerning the “ garbled, mutila
ted, and misrepresented docu
ments” presented to the House,
are, we presume, made in re
ference to Mr.Erskine’s instructi
ons. If England is not dead to
all sense of shame, she must cer
tainly blush, to have her perfidy-
exposed to the world. And this,
not by her enemies, but by those
who are most interested in her vvel»
fare.]—Ed. Geo. 'journal.
My Lords—It is with very great
my amendment except the absolute'gratification to myself, I gave wav to
prohibition of importations from the no |,i e car ^ | M . causo the s i iarc ' t hc
France and Britain.
I can see that we are about to con
fess to the people of the U. S. that we
have been holding a false light to them;
noble earl lias had in the glorious tri
umphs of his country, entitled him to]
be heard with reverence and respect,
when speaking of the calamities
that the embargo and non-intercourse which have befallen it. Not only did
were engendered in weakness andj I give way most willingly to him but
have been continued through ohstina-it would have been infinitely more
cy ; to say to this nation that while we gratifying to me, to have left to men
have been treacherous the opposition of younger and of more active minds,
have always been in the right ; that,the task of offering an amendment to
they' have been the exclusive friendsjthe address which has just been pro
of the people. Notwithstanding thisiposed to your lordships. But that,
general confession of sins, I for onijanxiety is not to be resisted, which
shall ever maintain (and I challengejinduces me to offer myself at this
gentlemen to meet me upon the issue)|carlv period of the discussion. I am
that this nation has been well governed anxious to anticipate the probability
—that there has been no just ground of jof any circumstance which may di-
compluiMwthat in the great body of Me vert the course of the debate from
community therein fact is no complaint, that which is of the first considerati-
Sir, the people of the tJ. States would'on, and the only feature to which it is
rather persist in the peaceful system!possible for me to give my attention
which has been pursued for the last on the present occasion. For others,
three years, than launch into any un
tried system. 1 am supported in this
declaration bv nine-tenths of the A-
nierican people. Before we act we
mould look about us ; we are now go
ing to pass a censure on every thing
which has been done by our predeces-
I cannot presume to judge ; but for
myselt, my heart is lull, and I must
give vent to those feelings by which
my mind is impressed. There an
in the king's speech many topics that
ought to engage and must, on future
days, engage the attention of this
e aboutjhouse. On iuture days you must
: ov5 for several years. We are
to brand two administrations withjexamine, not only the effect, but the
weakness ami imbecility. We are a- foundation of those calamities which
bout ourselves to cease to exist as a are adverted to in the speech. You
partly. If this Congress shall be found
capable, alter its loud vaporing at the
mini iici mint of the session, of do-
i.:g nothing—of doing worse than no
thing, ol going home and leaving the
nation in disgrace, we shall only meet
the scorn amt contempt of the peo
ple ! if they were consulted the\
had rather get no prices for then
will be impossible to lie borne in a
country, which calls itself Iree, that
there should be laid before such an
assembly as this, garbled, mutilated,
and misrepresented documents ; not
to keep back information, but to give
information directly contrary to the
fact. That is a question you will
have one day to examine. There is
also another question, a pretty seri
ous question, whether you have in
this country any government at all ?
Whether there be any thing which
any man believes in the present
dreadful situation of society, to be ca
pable of maintaining the authority,
or supporting the necessary power
of government ? That is a question
you must one day examine, unless
you can make up your minds to sur
render all thought and regard for the
public interest and safety of the coun
try. But even these questions great
and momentuous as they’ are, suffici
ent, any one of them, to have occu
pied the care and attention of a
whole session of parl iament, greater
God knows, each of them, than any
of the questions which have at any
former period occupied the attention
of parliament ; all these, in my mind,
sink to nothing in comparison with
the duty' which you are this day cal
led upon to discharge. I say, this
day, because I mean to contend and
I shall shew you before I sit down,
that this duty is not a duty' you can
put off under any specious pretences
whatever. You are called upon now,
at this very moment to do justice to
your country and yourselves, to do
justice to the memory of those
who have fallen in your country’s
cause.
You are called upon to do justice
to the memory of those who have
perished ingloriottsly, in enterprizes
the utmost success of which could
have produced nothing likely' to be
attended with advantage. Enter
prizes, which, instead of succeeding,
or even partially succeeding, have
utterly and completely failed ; for
that is the true character ; that is the
true description of those campaigns
planned by his majesty’s ministers^
which have wasted the strength of the
Country. Every one of the military
operations, in which our armies have
been engaged, have completely, to
tally, and irretrievably failed. And
y ou, forsooth, my lords, are this dav
to hear from the throne, aye, and to
be satisfied, not as the noble lord
said, who seconded the address, with
an assurance, that his majesty will be
pleased to lay all the papers upon the
subjects referred to belore you, for
there is no such assurance in the
speech of the king’s commissioners,
but you are to be satisfied with the
assurance of the king’s commission
ers, that his majesty’s ministers will
be graciously pleased to lay before
you those papers which they trust
will prove satisfactory I have no
doubt they mean, in this session as
in the last, literally to verify the as
sertion—they will lay belore you,
such papers, and parts of papers, and
extracts of papers, as will be satis
factory to themselves, and they may-
trust will be satisfactory to you ; and
those, my lords, be assured, are the
only papers you will have. I trust
you are not to be so deluded. I was
prepared to have stated, but the king’s
speech anticipated me, that there was
not one man in the country who was
not convinced that the disasters of
the last campaign had not been made
the object of vigorous, immediate
and effectual inquiry.—I am glafl to
see, that, by a sense of their own si
tuation,and by a conviction ot their
failures, those ministers who had ad
vised his majesty to tell his corpora
tion of London, that no enquiry was
necessary, have advised his majesty
not to wait till his parliament infor
med him what the circumstances con
nected with those failures are, but
merely, that he has directed the pa
pers to be laid before us. It is not
single word to the effect, that we wil’ 1
proceed to the consideration of thos.
papers. There is no pledge in the
address, of our sense of that duty wi
owe to the country. No pledge that
we will discharge our duty in a differ-
ent tone from that in which we dis
charged it last year. None of these
things are mentioned in the address,
but it is a mere complimentary ad
dress of thanks to his majesty, for
panish campaigns, I entreat you to
wait till vou an* satisfied, whether the
causes which have now prevented
the success of our armies in Spain,
are not precisely the same as those
of which we before had the experi
ence. The conduct and achieve
ments of our troops in the field, arc
to be attributed to their valor and
the conduct of their general. The
disastrous consequences even ol their
ordering those papers to be laid be-'victories, are attributed to their want
f n n- n<t |of supplies—to the want of support,
those circum-
all
fore us. supplie
My Lords—I beg leave to statejeombination—to
that I consider vou will ill dischargeistances which compel an army to
your duty to vour country and your-|retreat even after a battle, in which
selves, if vou suffer this day to passiit has been victorious. It is to be
without making to his majesty’s min-'attributed to the mistaken instructi-
isters, the broad and plain distinctions of his majesty’s ministers, cou-
on, which no man can be ignorant of, pled with the complete deficiency of
who adverts to the considerations, the means by which they were to be
which arise out of the facts withkxecuted. I have stated thus much ;
which we are so fatally acquainted.'but when I have stated my decided o-.
I sav, that not with regard to Wal-j pinion, that with respect to both these
cheren—not merely with regard toilailures,inquiriesoughtto take place,*
this boasted attack on dock-yards and! I am persuaded the result ol those
ships, but I say with respect to thejirtquiries will be satisfactory as to the
campaign in Spain ; with respect tojeonduct of the officers—I mean to *
every part of the campaign, there isjeontend, that it is not to the couduct *
an absolute necessity for immediate, of the officers the failure our arms
vigorous, persevering, and effectuallhave experienced are to be attribu- *
inquiry. I say if you mean to main
tain your own character—if you
mean to be handed down to posteri
ty as men sensible of your country’s
wrong—and if you mean to prevent
the recurencc of calamities, similar
to those which have been already en
dured, you will give to your country
a direct, distinct, not insinuated or
implied, but a direct, distinct, posi
ted, but that the plans of these expe
ditions have been attended with -cir- *
cumstances on the part of his majes- ‘
tv’s ministers, of such manifest, no
torious, uncontrovertable miscon
duct, as would make it the basest
dereliction of your duty, if you was
not on this day, when you are, for
the first time, assembled to express
a general opinion of condemnation.
tive and unequivocal pledge, that you I will shew you that it is probable,
will enter upon those enquiries with-jb om what I have heard, the result
out delay, and that you will prosecute further inquiry will greatly aggr?«
them with effect. Something has vatethe impression of the misconduct
been said with reference to the cha-P^his majesty’s ministers.—What I
racter of ihe officers. I do assert; 1 * 1 " calling upon your lordships to
that the failures of our armamentsj ex P ress an opinion upon it with re-
have been of the greatest magnitude, g ar d to those points which are public
that our losses hare been unparalel- anc * notorious, which are obvious to
led, and that the circumstances un- a ** world, and no inquiry can
der which all our military enterpri-! ma ^ e your lordships better acquain--
zes have been conducted, are of such tet * with, even if you had here ou
a description as to render inquiry in-iyour table all the orders and counter
dispensable ; But, having said that, orc *ers of all the contending depart-
I desire those who may advert to a-] mcnts i belonging to what is called
ny thing which may fall from me,jibe existing government. I do this
will be assured, that I am persuaded, j not solely for the purpose of censure,-
that every thing has been done by though I do distinctly avow, that, to
the officers that could be achieved by shrink from the duty of censuring
them. That with regard to some of Iministers, would be to abandon the
the officeis, more has been done than
the public has admitted ; and, with
respect to others, what the public
may seem to have cause to lament
in their conduct, is to be attributed
only to the orders of ministers, to
their deficiencies, and not, as I trust
in God, to any ot the officers or com
manders. I say this, because a ru
mour w’ent abroad, in the case of
gen. Moore, to the effect, that all the
responsibility of the operations of his
army belonged to him, and not to his
majesty’s ministers. I was told, and
the public were spuriously told, that
whatever ill success had attended the
military operations ot the army un
der gen. Moore, the cause was only
to be found in the discretion exercis
ed by the officers commanding the
army, which discretion, we were also
told had been absolutely entrusted to
him. I own I did not believe the as
sertion at the time it was made.
must consider not only the effect aiui
foundation of those calamities, bu
the consequences they are likelv ti
produce on the state and condition ol
tlie country and the spirit of the peo
pie. You cannot shut your eyes u
those questions. It is in vain vou at
tempt o shut them ; they wiii fori
themselves upon your attention. 1:
most sacred trust reposed in us. I
do it for the more important purposed
of prevention ; for to my astonish
ment, if any thing could create it, af- 1
ter what I have heard, the principle
is this day avowfd—the intention do- '
dared—aye, and you are called upon
to make yourselv es parties to the con- *
tinuation of these destructive wan
ton, and fruitless expeditions. There
fore, the amendment I have to state,'»
does not merely go to the condemna
tion of ministers—It will make it im
possible you can suffer that part of
the address to pass, which if you do,
will make you individual partakefs,
and the sharers in the consequences
which must follow from the mad de
termination expressed in the address,
which has been moved. Consequen
ces, which I shew Ihte spirit of pre
diction when I stae, will be much
more calamitous than those which
have preceded them—The noble
But since it was made, how has itjkaron, who seconded the address, ad-
been contradicted ?—I hope no man verted to opinions and suggestions
who hears me has failed to read thej°f policy, which, had they been pas-
interesting history of the campaign se <* over in silence by others, I should
of the army under general Moore, have thought it my bounden duty
published bv that gallant officer’s re-j ol, ce more to have brought before
lative. If there is a man who has;>’ ou * I did not shrink from the du-
not read it, he is incapable of judging' 1 )’ °f stating them when they were
what is the true character of the unpopular. It I predicted the con-
government under which he lives. sequences of the measures of his raa-
YVhoever has read it if he has the jesty’s ministers when those conse-
leelings of a Briton in his heart, what <l uences were doubtful and uncertain,
must be his indignation when he con-| ccrla inly I am not to shrink from
templates such a general as general! 1 * 10 " 1 now, when all I have said has
Moore going upon an expedition, the'* 500 " confirmed by melancholy expe-
verv plan and object of which was! rience , and when the great majority
foreign from his own better judg- °f l * 1e country perceive the delusions
ment. Going to the South, when
he knew he ought to be in the North
—Going to meet co-operation, where
he knew he had no ground to expect
co-operation. Figure to yourselves
the situation of that gallant soldier,
subject not to the orders of a superi
or officer, but the orders of a dij Li-
matic agent, ol whom I must say
nothing else than desire 3 011 to re
possible that Parliament can meet co ** cct * n what manner it was he ex
without going into an enquiry on this
subject. Let not any argument be
raised upon that part of the speech ;
or though we may thank his majesty
>r laying those papers before us,
hich neither are nor can be expect
'd to be to our satisfaction, yet there
s !'£t contained in the address om
ecuted the powers entrusted to him.
It the injured spirit of that gallant ge
neral could hover over us, how would
tt reproach us tor attributing the ca
lamities of that campaign, in which
ne lell, to any other cause than tin
power by which he was controulec'.
It there are points upon which it 1
possible to doubt with respect to the
under which they have labored, the.
artifices by which they have been de
ceived, and the dreadful result of the
errors into which they have been
led. I do repeat the opinion I have
before expressed, that, from the mo
ment of the renewal of the present
war, the policy of this country ought
to have been decidedly different from
that which was pursued in the last
war. (To be concluded in our ncxt.J
By arrival of the Juno from Eng-,
land, London dates to 12th March*
have been received. We learn by the
newspapers, that Turkey was about
joining the continental policy against
Great britain, and Adair the British
imbassador had already left Constan
tinople.