tanding the vehemence with which
the right honourable gentleman has argued against the address, he is
ready to vote for it. I hope he will continue the same line of conduct
throughout the session; for, if he makes a practice of voting in direct
opposition to his own speeches and arguments, we may look for a greater
degree of unanimity than could otherwise be expected."

DEBATE ON THE TREATY OF COMMERCE BETWEEN ENGLAND AND FRANCE.

In his speech his majesty promised that a copy of the treaty of commerce
between England and France should be laid before the two houses; and
recommended the members to take measures for carrying it into effect. In
accordance with this promise and recommendation, on the 5th of February,
Pitt moved that the house should resolve itself into a committee, to
take into consideration that part of his majesty's speech which related
to this treaty. This motion was carried; and on the 12th Pitt brought
the subject before the house, and moved these three resolutions:--That
all articles not enumerated and specified in the tariff should be
importable into this country, on terms as favourable to France as to the
most favoured of all other nations; that if any future treaty should be
made with any other foreign power, in any articles either mentioned or
not mentioned in the present treaty, France should be permitted to enjoy
the same terms as that power; and that all the articles specified in the
tariff should be admitted into this country on payment of the duties,
and with the stipulations stated in the treaty. In moving these
resolutions Pitt entered into an eloquent vindication of the measure,
enforcing its object, spirit, and provisions. He expressed his
abhorrence of the maxim, that any nation was destined to be the natural
and unalterable enemy of the other; it was a libel on the constitution
of political societies, and supposed the existence of infernal malignity
in human nature. In most of our wars, he said, France had been the
aggressor; but her assurances and frankness in the present negociations
were such as to entitle her to a return of confidence. Even from the
recent American war Pitt deduced arguments in favour of the treaty with
France; reflecting that though she had gained her object in dismembering
our empire, she had done it at an expense which had sunk herself in
extreme embarrassment, he thought that she was sincere in her wish for
the benefits of a mutual connexion. These benefit