the ground of the resolutions was again travelled over, but much new inflammatory matter was introduced.  In particular, a charge was made, that Great Britain had not interposed to prevent the last partition of Poland.  On this head the party dwelt very largely and very vehemently.  Mr. Fox’s intention, in the choice of this extraordinary topic, was evident enough.  He well knows two things:  first, that no wise or honest man can approve of that partition, or can contemplate it without prognosticating great mischief from it to all countries at some future time; secondly, he knows quite as well, that, let our opinions on that partition be what they will, England, by itself, is not in a situation to afford to Poland any assistance whatsoever.  The purpose of the introduction of Polish politics into this discussion was not for the sake of Poland; it was to throw an odium upon those who are obliged to decline the cause of justice from their impossibility of supporting a cause which they approve:  as if we, who think more strongly on this subject than he does, were of a party against Poland, because we are obliged to act with some of the authors of that injustice against our common enemy, France.  But the great and leading purpose of this introduction of Poland into the debates on the French war was to divert the public attention from what was in our power, that is, from a steady cooeperation against France, to a quarrel with the allies for the sake of a Polish war, which, for any useful purpose to Poland, he knew it was out of our power to make.  If England can touch Poland ever so remotely, it must be through the medium of alliances.  But by attacking all the combined powers together for their supposed unjust aggression upon France, he bound them by a now common interest not separately to join England for the rescue of Poland.  The proposition could only mean to do what all the writers of his party in the Morning Chronicle have aimed at persuading the public to, through the whole of the last autumn and winter, and to this hour:  that is, to an alliance with the Jacobins of France, for the pretended purpose of succoring Poland.  This curious project would leave to Great Britain no other ally in all Europe except its old enemy, France.

22.  Mr. Fox, after the first day’s discussion on the question for the address, was at length driven to admit (to admit rather than to urge, and that very faintly) that France had discovered ambitious views, which none of his partisans, that I recollect, (Mr. Sheridan excepted,) did, however, either urge or admit.  What is remarkable enough, all the points admitted against the Jacobins were brought to bear in their favor as much as those in which they were defended.  For when Mr. Fox admitted that the conduct of the Jacobins did discover ambition, he always ended his admission of their ambitious views by an apology for them, insisting that the universally hostile disposition shown to them rendered their ambition a sort of defensive