For when the day arrived which had been appointed for the discussion, and when the Lords Bathurst and Hawkesbury (afterwards Liverpool) had expressed their opinions, which were different, relative to the time when the bill should take place, he rose up and pronounced a bitter and vehement oration against it.

He said, among other things, that it was full of inconsistency and nonsense from the beginning to the end.

The French had lately offered large premiums for the encouragement of this trade.

They were a politic people, and the presumption was, that we were doing politically wrong by abandoning it.

The bill ought not to have been brought forward in this session.