Happily, however, the English fleet, this nation's best hope in every Crisis of Her Affairs, appeared in the roads of fort St. David, and dispelled the gathering destruction.

He (Mr. Attwood) had indeed expected, from a great statesman taking on himself the power and the destiny of the country in this Crisis of Her Affairs, acting up to the difficulties of that crisis, and looking the dangers of his situation fairly in the face, that after explaining to Parliament the existing condition in which he found the resources of the empire, he would have proceeded to contrast this weakened condition of all but frustrate power, with that high state of all but boundless resources, from which we have sunk; that he would have explained to Parliament step by step the history of this decadence of national strength, have traced the hidden causes to which he ascribed this fearful change, and have founded the measures of his future policy on this experience.