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Show (42) [43] then, as they are now, called upon to make But is it really true, that Government is always to be firetigtheried with the infiruments gr~Veri.mc‘1nt flrong. They thought it a great deal better to make it wife and honef'c. at war, but never fiirnifhed with the means of peace? In former times minifiers, I allow, have been fometimes driven by the popular Voice to afl'ert by arms the national honour of all defcriptions did then exprefs a very againfi foreign powers. But the wifdom of the firong delire for peace, and no {light hopes of nation has been far more clear, when thofe attaining it from the commiflion tent out by minifiers have been compelled to conlhlt its interef'ts by treaty. We all knOw that the {enfe Oftlie nation obliged the COUrt of King Charles my lord Howe. the 2d, to abandon the Dutc/a war; a war next time earnel't in circulating an opinion of the to the prefeut the molt impolitic which we ever carried on. The good people of England Confidered Holland as a fort of dependency on this Kingdom; they dreaded to drive it to the proteélion,or tofubjeé'c it to the power ofFrance,by their own inconfiderate hofhlity. They paid but little relpeét to the court jargon of that day : They were not inflamed by the pretended extent of the fuppofed powers of that commillion. When I told them that lord Howe the lafi Summer Allizes, I remember that men And it is not a littleremark- able, that in proportion as every perlon fhewed facre at Amb'oy'na, aé‘ted on the [large to pro- forces, it mutt be oblerved, had at that time voke the public vengeance; nor by declam'a-f tions againfl the ingratitude of the United Provinces for the benefits England had conferred upon them in their infant (late. They were been obliged to evacuate Bolton. The {upe'riority of the former campaign refied wholly with the Colonifis. If fuch powers of treaty were to be wilhed, whill't fuccefs was very not moved from their evident intereft by all doubtful, how came they to be lefs f0, lince thele arts; nor was it enough to tell them, they ‘were at war; that they mull go throughwithit; and that the caufe of the difpute was loft in the ‘confequences. The people of England were his Majefly's arms have been crowned with thinking the (eaten of viétory not the time then, for 2 'many conliderable advantages? Have thefe fuccefl‘es induced us to alter our mind, as ~ we ;,_. faétion on any point whatfoever of the controverfy, I was hardly credited ; fo {trong and general was the defire of terminating this war by the method of accommodation. As far as I could difcover, this was the temper then prevalent through the kingdom. The king's t 11'. r; '- at???" -.,,\- ie-Wmfi‘ngrr had no powers to treat, or to promife fatis- A: a zeal for the court meafures, he was at that mm: {6 fiWWm-qyw .ew-sfn'vw‘ :‘2M4 u,»- ,1 rivalfhip of the Dutch in' trade; by their Maf- When I was amongft my confiituents at |