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disclaim all knowledge of the Expedition to Egypt--Their perfidy and duplicity exposed in their communications with the Porte---Contradiction between their declarations and those of Rufin, their Ambassador, at Constantinople---Ruffin produces a Letter, avowing the object of the Expedition to Egypt to be the punishment of the Beys for injuries committed on Frenchmen--Talleyrand denies this to the Turkish Ambassador, at Paris, and declares the conquest of Malta to be the sole object of the Expedition --- Falsehoods contained in the French Manifesto proved by the intercepted letters from the French army in Egypt--- The Military conscription extended to the conquered countries---Partial insurrections in the Netherlands---Insolence of Garat, the French Envoy at Naples---Demands the release of all Traitors, imprisoned for their crimes---The King of Naples prepares for war--Enters the Roman Territory--- Is defeated at Porto Fornio--- Concludes an armistice with the French--Leaves his Capital, and retires to Sicily---Popular tumults excited by the French at 'Naples---A revolution effected on French principles--- The Neapolitan Republic proclaimed--- Meeting of Parliament---The King's Speech--Thanks voted to Nelson and his followers---The Admiral is created BARON NELSON OF THE NILE--- Committee of Supply--- Mr. Pitt details the expences of the coming year, and the means of providing for them---Flourishing state of Commerce--- Large increase of Exports and Imports---Mr. Pitt adverts to the frauds which had been practised to defeat the project of the Triple Assessment--Proposes a new scheme of Finance--- The Tax upon Income--- Measures proposed for rendering it effective--Powers of Commissioners under the Act--- Reflections on the multiplication of Oaths occasioned by the Revenue Laws. Estimated amount of the Tax, ten millions--Grounds of that Estimate--- Advantages of raising a large

portion of the Supplies within the year--- The energy of the Parliament the cause of National prosperity--- Mr. Pitt confutes the notion that a Commercial people cannot be a Warlike people--- Pronounces an eulogy on the British Constitution--- Mr. Tierney opposes the Tax--Resolutions proposed by Mr. Pitt carried without a division- Remarks on the unequal operation of the Tax upon Income---Farther debates on the subject---The Bill opposed by Sir John Sinclair, Sir Francis Baring, and Mr. William Smith---The fallacy of Sir John Sinclair's arguments exposed--- Mr. Pitt justifies the Tax---Comments on the inconsistency of Mr. Smith in admitting the justice and principle, and opposing every measare for carrying it into effect---Corrects his mistatements on the distinctions of society---Reprobates all new-fangled notions respecting Equality--- Proves Mr. Smith's arguments to extend to an equal distribution of property--Defends the Bill from the imputation of establishing a Tithe Explains the difference between Tithe and the contribution of a Tenth part of Income to be levied by the Act---Argument examined relative to the different effects of the Tax on permanent and on temporary estates--The Bill passes the Commons---Is opposed in the Lords by the Duke of Bedford, and Lords Suffolk and Holland--Manly conduct of Lord Grenville---Mistaken position of Lord Holland--- Assertion of the Duke of Bedford respecting Tithes contradicted by the Chancellor--- Bill passed into a Law--- Farther Supplies---New Taxes--Subsidy to Russia---Opposed by Mr. Tierney---Mr. Pitt repels the conclusions drawn by Mr. Tierney regarding the object of the war, and the intentions of the Cabinet---" Reflections on the evil tendency of the writings of the French Economists and Philosophists---The inconsistency of Mr. Tierney's arguments detected, and the confusion of his ideas exposed, by Mr. Pitt---Mr. Pitt draws a just

character of the French Republic---Seditious Societies--Papers respecting them referred to a Secret Committee--Report of that Committee---It unfolds a complicated scene of sedition and treason---Plan, and object, of the Societies, to establish a Democratic Republic in Great Britain with the assistance of France---Their Address to the French Directory---The London Corresponding Society abandon the project of annual Parliaments, and universal suffrage, for still more Revolutionary schemes---United Irishmen form Societies in England---Administer unlawful Oaths--Many of them enter the Naval service---Plans for murdering their officers, and for carrying their ships into an enemy's port---Swear to murder the Protestants---Plan for exciting an insurrection in London--- and for seizing, at the same moment, the two Houses of Parliament, the Tower, and the Bank---Mr. Pitt introduces two Bills, one for renewing the Bill to enable the King to detain persons suspected of Treason, and another for the suppression of Seditious Societies---Proposes to empower the King to imprison such persons in any one of his Gaols--Members of Secret Societies rendered liable to fine, imprisonment, or transportation, according to the nature of their offence--- Proprietors of houses at which such Societies are held subjected to a fine---All lectures and discussions at which money is taken for admission prohibited--- Printers compelled to affix their names to handbills--- All presses to be registered---These Bills passed into Laws.

[1798-1799.] The victory of the Nile, and the success which had generally attended his Majesty's arms, as well in the annoyance of his enemies abroad, as in the suppression of a most

dangerous rebellion at home, had, while they raised our reputation, and increased our influence with the cabinets of the Continent, induced the nation to repose great confidence in the Minister. After the rebels of Ireland had been subdued, the system of lenity which the Viceroy had been led to believe would effectually restore permanent tranquillity to that distracted country, was not only adopted with zeal, but carried to such an excess, that rebel-chiefs were seen strutting about the streets of the capital, and insulting those loyal subjects whose blood had been shed in resisting their treasonable attempts, or who had lost their nearest relatives, and dearest friends, in the sanguinary conflict. Notwithstanding, however, the display of this spirit of conciliation, the peace of the country, and the security of its inhabitants, were still subject to frequent interruptions from the depredations of rebels, who, more formidable for their audacity, than their numbers, contrived to elude the active vigilance of the troops. Meanwhile, the members of that party which had uniformly opposed every attempt to suppress the rebellion, or to punish the rebels, encouraged, no doubt, by the liberal indulgence of the government, procured an address to be presented to the Viceroy, by one of the companies of Dublin, in which his Excellency was complimented, at the expence of

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on those lenient measures which Lord Cornwallis had deemed it expedient to pursue, it was evidently meant to condemn the vigorous policy of Lord Camden. But the insidious attempt failed to produce the desired effect, for the Viceroy, in his answer, with equal truth and judgment, ascribed his ability to adopt those measures, which were now so loudly praised, to the firm and resolute proceedings to which recourse had been previously had for bringing the rebellion to a speedy termination. The same judgment was displayed by the Lord-Lieutenant, in his speech on the prorogation of Parliament, on the 6th of October, when, adverting to the late situation of the kingdom, he observed, "The foulest and darkest conspiracy was formed, and long carried on by the implacable enemy of these realms, for the total extinction of the constitution, and for the separation of his Majesty's kingdom of Ireland from Great Britain. By the unremitting vigilance of my predecessor in this government, the treason had been detected; the apprehension of the principal conspirators, and the salutary measures wisely adopted, checked its progress; and, through your sagacious diligence, it has been developed in all its parts, and traced to all its sources. A dangerous and wicked rebellion, the consequence of that conspiracy, has been, in a great measure, subdued.

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