of the ( including Copies of all STATE PAPERS, TREATIES, CONVENTIONS & By: WILLIAM WOODFALL. shed Being the fourth Sesfion or Debates Written & Published by the REPORTER. IMPARTIAL REPORT OF THE DEBATES THAT OCCUR IN THE TWO HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT, In the Courfe of the Firft of the Eighteenth Parliament WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THE RESPECTIVE SPEAKERS, AND NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. INCLUDING COPIES OF ALL STATE PAPERS, TREATIES, CONVENTIONS, &c. By WILLIAM WOODFALL, AND ASSISTANTS. VOL. 1. LONDON: PUBLISHED BY T. CHAPMAN, No. 151, FLEET-STREET. 1796. TO THE PUBLICK. So eventfull has been the period fince the reporter had laft occafion to addrefs his readers, and such have been the changes in the afpect of public affairs, that it is scarcely poffible to predict what will be the iffue of the war, with any reasonable expectation of being likely to have the prediction fulfilled. The heavy burthens, which have neceffarily been imposed on the country in order to discharge the unavoidable expences the war has occafioned, have hitherto been born with chearfullness, from a consciousness that minifters maintained hoftilities in fupport, not only of the national honour, but for the prefervation of that palladium of liberty, the British Conftitution, which involves in it the religion, the morals, the property and all that is eftimable in the country. Within the last fix months a defire for peace and a wish to restore Europe to its repofe by rescuing it |