Chateaubriand might overhear if the words have any meaning at him. Quite ready for war, if an all. And, then, how stands the adequate occasion should arise; fact? Why, that the nation is but, God forbid that occasion sinking under its present weight should arise!" Bravo! of taxes, and must have some re

Let us, however, hear the rea-lief from them. How, then, are sons for this "God forbid." They we to save money to hire more fightare these: "That we have recent-ers, whether German or others? ly been at war for nearly a quar- And, besides (I must repeat it) ter of a century."So has how comes it that our rival, our France. That we, sometimes, antagonist, our great and constant were at war single handed and natural foe; how is it, that against all Europe."- So was he wants no repose, no period of France. That, at other times, tranquillity, no rest, no sleep, no "all Europe was on our side."- time to save money in? So it was with France.-Well, The remainder of this speech spouter, come; get on. What, is almost a cry. "LONG may then, you can get no further; and we be enabled to improve the upon these reasons, all which" blessings of peace: the blessings will do for France as well as for" of our present situation:”—and you, you conclude, that " England at last comes what one would imaneeds a period of tranquillity." gine could not have come from Why, then, does not France need sober lips: namely, a hope, that the same? Answer me that, man, this Dock-yard town, will" Lay aside your rhetorical flou-ceive an ample share of the blessrishes; cast off, for a little, the ings of peace"! And, to cap the Captain of Eton; and tell me in whole, that the "gigantic barplain English, why France does rier" (the break-water that has not need a period of tranquillity cost the nation millions) "will as well as England. Tell me protect a commercial marine." that. I will tell you because This conclusion would seem to France has no Boroughmongers; imply, that the other marine will because France has no Tithes; not be wanted any more! because France has no Dead- short, any thing more miserable, weight Debt and Pauper Debt; more cowardly, more crawling to and because France has no Jew the French, than this speech, it is and Jobber Debt worth speaking impossible to imagine. The man of, when compared with ours.

This flashy gentleman talks of the nation "needing a period of tranquillity," which he, in another place, calls "repose." What, does he really imagine, then, that, a nation, like a man, wants rest and sleep? The French nation wants, it seems, neither. But, this is downright nonsense: it is really unmeaning trash; or, it means, that the country wants time, in order to save money to pay for more war. That is the meaning,

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sending a ship or two out to carry | place, if the envoys be authorized troops to keep down the black to acknowledge; or, which is most slaves, causes their Debt to fall likely, these agents will slide home in value. They know, or, at least, again, nobody will know when or they can hardly be such fools as how, and we shall hear our gallant not to know, that war with France break-water gentleman, bragging would bring what they call Con-away again, that England is only sols" down to 10 or 20, in a few reposing, and that, like the" mighty days. They would be glad to get masses," she is ready to shake rid of the stuff, I dare say; but, her feathers" (I believe that was then, they themselves would be got it); no," ruffle her swelling rid of by the same blow. How plumage," and put forth," if the mad must that man be, who ima- occasion should arise, all her gines, that this system of sway beauty and her bravery; but could be upheld while the Debt" GOD FORBID that occasion was blown up; and how much should He will brag madder than mere mad must he just as m as ever and the

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be, who can suppose, that war French will go on as fast as ever; could be even begun without and stop they never will, till they blowing up the Debt! The very have made this a very little nafirst step would be an attempt to tion. go back to a forced paper-money;" that would immediately cause two prices; and those two prices would blow the whole up.

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Therefore, the Ministers cannot go to war, and will not attempt it. I repeat, that the DEBT says to the King of England, Thou shalt “not go to war, while I am in ex"istence." This poor driveller, at Plymouth; this heir to the inkstand, as the French royalist newspapers call him, has, under his own hand, sent envoys and consuls out to South America. What could induce him to do that, unless he were really to acknowledge the States to be independent? Madman," as the French paper calls him, he never could think of sending envoys and consuls to the COLONIES of another nation! Oh, no! He wished to be beforehand with the French; but, what will the world say, if he should be compelled to call home his envoys, and to refuse to acknowledge, or, to unsay his acknowledging of the States in question This is what will take sneb and mo7 u9d2 dol

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This is the opportunity for France; and, indeed, for the whole of the family of Bourbon. England was a good deal pulled down in the year 1780; but her Debt was then trifling, and the internal state of France was lamentable. This brought on the French Revolution, which.. was produced by the Debts of France, and by a vain attempt to pay those Debts in full. Our Government made use of the confusion in France to strip that kingdom of a great deal of territory in colonies; and we know well what it did in 1815. It is impossible that France should not wish to get back what she lost. And, now is her time! This she knows full as well as I do. I can clearly see by the language of the French, and, indeed, by their measures, that they have begun upon us, and that they will keep on until they have done their work. We shall see them proceed, step by step; not in haste, but steadily; and even the affair of South America, though a very grand affair, will

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be but a prelude to strokes that me show you, that, if our pretty will touch us more closely. fellows at Whitehall did wrong in However, the affair of South 1817, they did it with their eyes America is a touchstone. It will open. I was then in Long Island; try our Government. We shall but, I did not fail to point out to hear what the two wrangling po-them what they ought to do. This litical factions will say. They was done in the form of a petition cannot, at any rate, say, that the to the Prince Regent; and this Radicals brought them into the petition I will here insert, first, difficulty. The thing is their own, because it contains so much useful and of their own seeking. They matter, connected with the subject have brought it upon themselves before us; and, next, because it by their hostility to Reform, and may serve to show Daddies Coke by that alone. At every stage of and Suffield and the Hickory one their progress, the question with Quaker, that, if you did agree to them has been: "What shall we a petition of mine without know"do now to keep down the Re-ing its contents, you were justified "formers?" This was the ques- in so doing, for, it is, I think, imtion they asked themselves, when, possible to read the following pein 1817, the subject of South Ame-tition, and to look, at the same rica first came before them. They time, at our present situation, did, not what the interest of the without being convinced, that I country demanded; but what the possess more knowledge relative interests of the enemies of Reform to the interests of the country than demanded. Not only would the the pretty gentlemen and the two Government not acknowledge the sets of lawgivers all put together. South American States, at that time, when it might have been done with such safety, and with such great and manifest advantage, but, it passed a law to punish the king's subjects for going into the service of those States at their own risk! In short, it declared against the independence of those very States, which it is now so anxious to acknowledge, but which it dares not acknowledge for fear of those very French whom it said it had just then" conquered," and of whose country it then (in 1817) held military occupation!

I have, Gentlemen, addressed myself to you upon this occasion, because the stupid hacks of the London press have affected to ridicule you for having approved of a paper which you had not heard read. You were, in fact censured for relying on my judgment. Hold, then, the following petition up to the revilers; and ask them, whether it would not have been happy for the nation, if my judgment had been relied on by the Government in 1817. This Petition came forth in one of those papers, which Corruption called Two - penny If the English Government had Trash." Look at it well, Gentleacknowledged the independence men; at the knowledge it conof these States in 1817, instead of veys, at the distribution of the passing a "Foreign Enlistment matter, at its reasoning, at its Bill" to prevent Englishmen to style and manner. Compare it, assist those States in securing Gentlemen, with any public paper, their independence, how different written by Mr. CANNING, or by the state of would now have any one who is, or has been, in been from what it is! But, before office. And, when you have done I go into remarks of this sort, let these, tell Daddies Coke and Suf

field, and the Hickory Quaker, with the unfading glory of having that, when either of them shall given freedom to twenty millions of have written a paper like this, people, who now groan out their you will approve of a petition of lives under the double-thonged his drawing up without hearing scourge of Civil and Religious such petition read. 1 tyranny. ** !!

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2. Such being the opinion of His Royal Highness the PRINCE, your Petitioner, it is impossible Regent of the United Kingdom for him to refrain from soliciting of Great Britain and Ireland. most humbly, though most earThe Petition of WILLIAM COB-nestly, the attention of your Royal BETT of Botley in the County Highness to this important matof Southampton, now resid-ter. And, he begs leave here to ing at North Hampstead, in be permitted to represent to your the State of New York, this Royal Highness, that, while ta17th day of October 1817, king this step, he forgets not the injuries at this time unjustly in

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bears in mind those sacred obligations of law and of nature, which bind him to the land of his birth, and which bid him upon this occasion, as upon all other occasions, to make every exertion, within the compass of his humble means, to promote the welfare and advance the honour of England.

1. THAT, next after the present flicted on his fellow subjects in situation of England herself, the general, and on himself in partiobject the most interesting to every cular; but, that, bearing these in well-informed and patriotic Eng-mind, as he trusts he shall, to the lishman must, as your Petitioner last moment of his life, he also humbly presumes to believe, be the present situation of the Spanish Colonies in America, in whose immense and fertile regions there are preparing, and, indeed, there are now in progress, such changes as will, in all human probability, produce a new distribution of wealth and of power amongst the most considerable of 3. To the mind of your Royal the nations of the world; and, as Highness the bare fact of a Revowill, at the very least, materially lution being in existence and agiaffect many of those nations, not tating the breasts of the whole of only in a Commercial, but also in the population of a country, which a Naval and Military point of reaches from the 10th degree of view. Of all those nations no one North Latitude to the 50th degree is, as it appears to your humble of South Latitude; a country which Petitioner, nearly so deeply inte- thus extends four thousand miles rested as England in this grand in length, which, in breadth, at Revolution, which, if your Royal some points, extends three thouHighness's Councillors be wise, sand miles, and which is unbroken prompt, and faithful to their King except by the comparatively triand his People, may greatly tend fling possessions of the Portuguese to restore her to prosperity, may and the Dutch; a country which secure to her an undisputed mari- borders, at one extremity, on the time predominance for ages not to part of the United States, at once be numbered, and may, at the the most fertile and the" most imsame time, and from the use of portant as to all probable future the very same means, crown her military and naval operations; a

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greater than is possessed by your Petitioner, but greater than can, at this time, possibly be possessed by any one man. But, the information which your Petitioner has acquired, not from mere rumour or from published accounts, but from a personal communication with men of high character, coming directly from the spot, enables him confidently to state to

country, which has numerous of the Revolution in Spanish Ameports on the side of the Pacific, rica; to lay before your Royal as well as on that of the Atlantic, Highness in detail the number of ocean; a country, which, to all the men in arms in the several Pro articles of European produce adds vinces and Viceroyalties; to many articles that are refused by state the precise situation of the nature even to the most favoured hostile armies and armaments; to part of the United States; a coun- say what are the exact means, try, which, while it is cheered by which, in the several warlike scenes, a continual summer on the surface the parties possess, or may speedof the earth, has mines beneath ily expect: these would demand inexhaustible in silver and in a mass of information not only gold; a country which abounds in, or is capable of producing, almost all the commodities, greatly useful, as imports, to England, and which, at the same time, offers to England the surest, the most extensive, and the best of all possible markets; a country, which, if independent, nature would forbid to become, in any respect, the rival of England, and which from necessity must seek her friend-your Royal Highness, that, in the ship, and rely, in a great measure, Viceroyalty of Mexico, which is on her power: to the mind of your the most Northern part of the Royal Highness the bare fact of a Spanish Dominions on the Main, t Revolution being in actual exist- and which borders on the United ence in such a country; to the States, the people are wholly dismind of every one who feels for affected to the government; that the interest and honour of Eng- they have a Junta, or Assembly land, this bare fact, as your Peti- of Representatives, in the Protioner humbly presumes to believe, vince of Validolid; that they have must suggest the strongest desire leaders of great enterprise and to know the true state of that Re-talent, and that arms only are volution and to see clearly deve-wanted to decide, at once, the loped the probable consequences struggle in their favour; that the of its ultimate success, Viceroy, indeed, raises troops, but that even these are disaffected towards him ; that, on the Atlantic side, the only considerable seaport of this Viceroyalty, La Vera. Cruz, is, as yet, in the hands of the Spanish government, but that, to drive the present possessors from that port, and to afford every necessary assistance to the oppressed people, one single English frigate, with twenty thousand stand of arms, sent to the Gulf of Mexico, would be sufficient; that ~;

4. Deep is the sorrow of your Petitioner when he reflects on his incapacity to perform this task in a manner worthy of the magnitude and importance of the subject; but, urged thereunto by a sense of imperious duty towards your Royal Highness and his Country, no conviction, however perfect, of his inability can be sufficient to restrain him from making the attempt.

5. Minutely to describe the state