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ancestors. But when he spoke of examining the motives, hemust be understood to mean only the open and avowed motives;there might be secret ones of more weight and authority than anywhich he had heard spoken of; and when he considered the en-larged views, the profound policy, the retrospective wisdom, andthe prospective sagacity which always ought, and usually did per-vade the conduct of princes, and which, he trusted, had on thisoccasion actuated the cabinet of His Majesty, he was persuadedthat there were such ; he was disposed to think that the framersof this treaty had a moral certainty, that the French in consider-ation of it would never more, either directly or indirectly, disturbus in our possessions in Asia ; that they would not by underhandnegotiation, attempt to rob us of every commercial advantage,every political alliance we had in Europe ; that they would not,either secretly or openly, foment dissensions in Ireland . Hetrusted that His Majesty’s ministers had a clear foresight, that inconsequence of this treaty our navy would not only not be dimi-nished, that was not enough, but that it would be increased ; norwas that enough, but that it would be increased in an higher pro-portion than the navy of France would be increased by ourbecoming the carriers, in a great measure, of the produce andmanufactures of both countries; could this point be proved to hissatisfaction, it would go a great way towards lessening his appre-hensions of the treaty. He trusted that the persons concernedin forming the treaty, had the strongest expectations, that theintroduction of our manufactures into France at this criticalperiod, would be so far from becoming an incentive to French industry, that it would immediately check, and in a short timeannihilate their rising manufactures of cotton, cutlery, hardware,