prefent war, and what will probably be its termination? I would ask farther, Will those profufe declarations of loyalty, which have been made by the affociators, either leffen the public burthens, improve our conftitution, or eventually promote national profperity, and national tranquillity?

Mr. GRANTLEY. Sir, upon duly confidering all that you have faid, I am fenfible, that I have entered into the affociation, in which I have engaged, without fufficiently confidering its nature, or its confequences; and of the evils and dangers of the war, in which we are unhappily involved, I have now the fulleft conviction.

Mr. MORDAUNT. I am glad, Sir, that have been in you are convinced you the wrong; and I honour you for the candour of your acknowledgement. Many others will foon be convinced of their error. They will be inftructed by reflection,

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and by the progress of events. The people of this country have been under a temporary delufion. But the delufion cannot laft long. The nation will recover, I hope, its antient energies. The people will remember, that the princes of the houfe of Stuart were expelled this country, and deservedly expelled, because Englishmen would not submit to a tyrannical administration. They will remember, that the professed object of the elevation of the princes of the houfe of Hanover to the throne of Great Britain, was, the confirmation and establishment of the rights of the people and, if they have any just sense of what they owe to the honour of their country, to themselves, and to their posterity, they will refolve to maintain, at whatever hazard, the FREEDOM OF CONVERSATION, the FREEDOM OF DEBATE, and the FREEDOM OF THE PRESS.

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PESSIME VEL NATURA VEL LEGIBUS COMPARATUM FORET, SI ARGUTA SERVITUS, LIBERTAS MUTA ESSET. MILTON.

[FIRST PUBLISHED IN THE YEAR 1793.]