have
stained their legislators--crimes in every stage rising above another in
enormity--but I object to the consequences of that character, and to
the effect of those crimes. They are such as to render a negociation
useless, and must entirely deprive of stability any peace which could
be concluded in such circumstances. Where is our security for the
performance of a treaty, where we have neither the good faith of a
nation, nor the responsibility of a monarch? The moment that the mob of
Parrs comes under the influence of a new leader, mature deliberations
are reversed, the most solemn engagements are retracted, or free will is
altogether controlled by force. In every one of their stages of repeated
revolutions, we have said, 'Now we have seen the worst, the measure of
iniquity is complete, we shall no longer bo shocked by added crimes
and increasing enormities.' The next mail gave us reason to reproach
ourselves with our credulity, and by presenting us with fresh crimes,
and enormities still more dreadful, excited impressions of new
astonishment and accumulated horror. All the crimes which disgrace
history have occured in one country, in a space so short, and
with circumstances so aggravated, as to outrun thought and exceed
imagination." Fox replied; but his motion was lost by one hundred and
eighty-seven against forty-seven.

MR. GREY'S MEASURE OF PARLIAMENTARY REFORM.

During this session Mr. Grey brought forward a motion for parliamentary
reform. He observed, in reply to the objection, that this was not the
proper time for reform, that it would be equally rational in times
of prosperity and adversity, in times of peace and war. He
remarked:--"Whatever evils did, or might threaten the nation, there was
no preventive so certain, no safeguard so powerful, as an uninterrupted
house of commons, emanating fairly and freely from the people. To the
want of this we owed the American war, and the vast accumulation of
national debt; and if this had been done last year, it would probably
have saved us from our present distresses. No set of Britons, unless
bereft of their senses, could, after recent events, propose the French
revolution as a model for our imitation. But were such principles
even likely to threaten danger, the surest way of preventing it was
to promote the happiness and comfort of the people, to gratify their
reasonable wishes, and to grant that reform which was so earnestly
desired." Grey's arguments were