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    the country . > Lord Grenville reprobated the- sending of a large army into the interior of Spain , arid deprecated a rupture between this country andAmerica . He reprobated in strong language the principle ot retaliation laid down by Mr- Canning , and feared that we should be reduced to the state of Prussia , if we

    sent more troops into Spain . Lord Liverpool vindicated Ministers in their Spanish arrangements , and justified the expedition to Portugal . Lord Moira thought that a large army ought to have been sent to Spain to secure the

    Pyrennean frontiers ; laid the fault of the Convention of Cintra on the Ministers ; and reprobated their conduct towards the city of London . The Chancellor disclaimed ) on the ^ part of Ministers , all hostile intentions against America , and declared it to be their most anxious wish to live in peace and friendship with all nations . Several other lords spoke , and the Address passed without a

    divi-. " * In the Commons , an Address was moved and seconded in the usual manner . Mr . Ponsonby led the opposition ,

    and was vehement in his censures of Ministry , particularly ridiculing their conduct in sending a general to Sweden who was * obliged to escape from bur ally in disguise , and reprobating their conduct iri the answer to the Citv of

    London , void ' of that digaity which the occasion required . Lord Castlereagh vindicated the Ministers , and , to use an © Id proverb , gave the * last speaker as good as he brought , retorting ' upon him as much ridicule on the late ministry . He exculpated Sir J . Moore from blame in Sweden 5 exclaimed that in the commercial world France was left without

    the shadow of a name , fstrange foolish vaunt !) and declared his readiness to meet hi 9 opponents on the propriety of the expeditions to Spain and Portugal . He justified the King ' s speech to the city of

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    Sari of Liverpool *

    December , 1808 , died at his house in Hertford-Street , May-Fair , London , at the age of eighty , thV Right Hon . CHARLES JENK 1 N 3 ON , Jbl rl of Liverpool * Though the first JL ) ul ^ e of

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    London , as necessary to check , in tlmine * addresses , which might be perverted to factious purposes . Mr . Whitbread en ^ deavoured to impress the House with the awful state of the country , and the disasters attending the Spanish expedition . From the beginning of the Spanish business he entertained fears of an

    unhappy result , as the Ju ntas ^ mitted , and Buonaparte seized on , those motives which could urge a people to take a decided part . Mr . Canning declared that Ministers felt that they had don ^ e their best , and were conscious that the failures , whatever they might be , were not owing to any want of diligence , activity

    and zeal on their part . He contrasted together the different opinions held by opposition on the proper conduct of the war , and he declared that his Majesty ' s Government had not now , nor had for

    some time , any objection that Sweden should make a separate peace as soon as it was found compatible with its own interests . Other speeches followed , which did not create much interest , and the Address in this House was carried

    also without a division . The parliamentary campaign has ' thus opened without affording any criterion of the relative strength of the two contending parties . Many objects 6 f inquiry will be brought before the House , eagerly pursued and strenuously defended ; and the documents produced on these occasions ' will be interesting ^ to the politician *

    We shall notice the chief points as the'J occur , without any bias to' either side ^ and endeavouring to state only the main strength 'in an argfunient , without regard to the quarter from which it comes ' . It may be amusing ' to see ho ^ the

    speeches are directed by the views of the speaker , but it is of more consequence that' the judgment should be rightly informed . Measures , not men , must ever "be of the greatest importance ta the country .

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    50 Obituary . Earl of Liverpool .

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    Leeds and the firs t Duke of JMTontague , bojth rose from private gentJemen commoners , " yet few individuals in the history of this country have been elevated from a private station and a harrow fori

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1809, page 50, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1732/page/50/