Excerpt from The Parliamentary Register, or History of the Proceedings and Debates of the House of Lords, 1802, Vol. 13: Containing an Account of the Most Interesting Speeches, Motions, Protests, Petitions, &C., During the Fifth Session of the Fourteenth Parliament of Great Britain

He observed, that although the vigorous e¿'orts made in the course of the last campaign were not correspondent to the public expectation our commerce had been protected, and very considerable reprisals had been made on the enemy in sight of their own coasts, by which they were sorely dis tressed, and the captors and the nation proportionably enriched.

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