Holiness, a ready compliance will be manifested in relation to those expedients which may be adopted, for my provisional government at Rome to resign its present trust with dignity. Its officers have obtained a right to personal consideration by their zeal for the public good.

"I recommend to the generosity of your Holiness all Roman subjects who have acted with the Neapolitan government. I especially recommend those to whom I have granted particular honors; they have won them by signal talents and noble sentiments, or by services, which were of still more importance to your Holiness than to my own administrations.

"Whereupon we pray God to preserve you, most holy Father, during a length of days, for the direction and government of our holy Mother Church.

FROM

SIR PHILIP FRANCIS,

KNIGHT OF THE MOST HONORABLE ORDER OF THE BATH,

ΤΟ

EARL GREY,

On the Policy of Great Britain and the Allies towards Norway.

First published on the 5th of May, 1814.

THE THIRD EDITION.

HOUSE OF LORDS.

APRIL 29, 1814.

Lord Holland asked, whether Norway was or was not included in the convention for the suspension of hostilities?

Earl of Liverpool. Norway is not included in that convention.

Earl Grey asked whether, in consequence of this omission, hostilities were actually carried on against Norway?

Earl of Liverpool. Orders have been issued from the Admiralty to blockade the ports of Norway.

Earl Grey. Which blockade has for its object, to force the people of Norway to submit to a foreign yoke?

Earl of Liverpool. I shall not shrink from a consideration of the policy of the measure, which has been adopted.

30th April, 1814.

EARL GREY.

MACTE VIRTUTE.

THOUGH HOUGH my interest in the miserable transactions of the world abates every day and must soon be at an end, I will not now, or with my latest breath, consent to resign my share in the censorial control, which the public voice has or might have over the measures of Government. The pacific check of opinion against power is a jurisdiction inherent in the community, not to be wantonly or factiously applied, but never to be relinquished in silence or lost by disuse, and the more to be exercised and preserved, because, as far as it operates, the necessity of maintaining right against wrong, in a more resolute form of opposition, is in the same degree precluded. Not that I think there is the least danger of resistance in this country in any extremity; or that, if such a hazardous spirit should arise hereafter, it would not come too late. Quid mihi leges et inania jura narras armato? Still, however, though a nation may be bought and sold, deceived or betrayed, oppressed or beggared, and in every other sense undone, all is not lost, as long as a sense of national honor survives the general ruin. Even an individual cannot be irrecoverably crushed by events or overwhelmed by adversity