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•• , •1. t 11 - • 7% ,~. 2initala 5604. ~ , 4DM1114L77-01 , FICE, -Domeier 19, i 1106.. k is. VtiTICE ii hereby ghoul Mid a Sefton • .oyer and 4.1 Tlllllilitr ad Goal Lltiibery;lie the Trial of mieasii• Wattle HO Seal. 1144 4 tit 2_ , trifiseie• gibe- Aii d f g ar 6 ,4 az i• held at. 7gaitiee Hall, ho the Old Barre , on Thep* tie iti of Yassery wet, a t.Birla,eClesi in ebe iferselog. WILLIAM MAR3D2N. taw WRITS. New vstits.were ordered to be Blued for the Boroughs a stock bridge, lye, EnisOkUkn, and Dundalk, in the room of Members who badbeen limited to ferve tor other places . A MfdDge fsouythe Lords Informed the Houte that their Lord thips had agreed in the BM fur reculatlitg the Ttlate of Contro rated gledtionn. Mr.VANSITTART, in the Committee of Simply, moved the continuance of the Milt tax, and the Duties on Pendoos sad Oakes. The Refolutions were agreed to, and or.hred to be re ported tomorrow. Mr. VANSITTART,M the Committee of Ways and Meads, moved for the relfing of to,too,oCoL by Loans and Eschewr ter ate fereice of the caning year. This Refolution was alfo owed es, eat amend to be-reported to-morrow. ' meGOCiaTtom Willi FRANCS. • (in the • motion of Lord HOWICK, the Papers which had been laid upon the table, relative to the Negotiation with Preece, wen ordered to be taken into aonfideration., ). Lntd HOWICIE then enke to move an Addrefs to his licajelly. He Paid, that the papers whieli had ism laid before the Hook, anstwhich had now been Ass.a coAfftlerable time ender cooffiltration t lospored it-upon hies ; as a duty•to err ve, as was Whit upon ftmilar occafions, an Addrefoto his Majefty, convey in thole fent imeots which the Hoare could ant avoid feeling, of thanks -to bii Majefty for his paternal re gard for the welfare and prnfperity of his fubjtas, and for his anxious with to obtain for them the Wet fins of peace. if they zooid be obtained on terms tompatible with the honour and the ;mere% of the Empire. In Alin to perform this duty, it was ins. poffible for him not to experience many painful feelings. In the fir . ft place, he could not avoid feeling the molt poignant regret •at the failure of a negociation, which had for its objett, and which i at one time teemed to promife, the reftoration of the bleffings of peace, not only to this country, bats to all Europe. The pain that he felt at the com plete failure of fuch a negociation was, however, much aggravated by the additional obstacles which had Ism thrown in the way of the accomplithment of thrift objetts, by the rapid fucceffion of fatal and difailr..us events, which followed the failure of the nerciation. There was another fubjed alfo, which ' was fit conneBed with his perfonal feelings and af , fettions, as well as with the intereas of this_ country, that he could not avoid expreffing the painful feel ings which it excited in bitinind : he could not avoi.: laying a word or two on the great and irreparable lots which the country had fuftained, in the death of Mr. Fox. Although this was a. 101 l which the country muff long regret, there waa,hardly any indi vidual who had more perfonal motives to regret h theta be had. He no longer. had the benefit ! of the ad tic( of his great friend and iliffra - kr, and he felt how weak he was when deprived of fo powerful a Cup. port. It seas impofiible f:r him to avoid recolletting what that great totaaaeas.ssadtben %shot he was, and, in that view of the Catlett, it was equally impollible for him to avoid reeling his great iufulliciency. If, however, there was any thing to encourage him in undertaking the at duous duties of MS pi efei a Situation, it was the knowledge, that he was in complete polier floss of all the views which that great man had taken of the fubjett, even to the very WI moments, when he could think of thufe fubjetts which fo compleatly p_ofteffed his mind, refpetting the bell means of fem. ing the peace and permanent prosperity ofthis coun try. He Should not conceive bimfelf obliged tp tref pars long upon the attention of the Houle, if he was Pure to find the Caine feeling on the fobj‘a which was alma unanimoutly entertained out of that Houfe, both abroad and at home ; or, if he expected to meet there a vote as unanimous as was lately given by au other alterably upon that fuliett. He knew, however, full well the feverity of criticifin which the condo& 1 , of his Najeay's Minifters had to undergo in that Houle, and he Should therefore endeavour to give as I clear and detailed a Statement as he was able of thwi conduct, of MiniSters throughout the negociation ; an 3 be hoped to thew, that at the fame time that they entertained the molt Sincere and at dent defire for obtaining Such a peace as would give repofe to this country and fecuriry to Entope, yet that they were not difpofed to make any improper conceffions. or faetifices for the attainment of that object which they fo touch defired. They left no efforts untried for the accomplithmeut of that great object, but at the fame time they took care not to commit the ho nour of tit', country. He believed that it would hardly,be difputed, that at the rime of crtening the sate negociation, peace Was defirable. An honour able and fecure peace was then, as is at all times, the Only true and legitimate end of war—a fate and ho. nourable peace was then the aim of his Majelly's MiniSters, and it was to obtain it that the negotia tion was commenced. If it were recolletted at what time the negociation commenced; it would hardly be denied that after the failure of the third coalition I and the unfortunate battle of Aluiterlitz, any peacel that could have given Europe even a temporary re. pore, - or !bate fecuriry for the independence of what was left mit, be an (Ned much to be &fired. i, If then there could be no objettion to the time of the I negociation, the next quellion would be, what ob- jettion could be made to the principle of it ? The principles upon which the negotiation commenced were, that it was to be for a peace which thouli be hro Incurable to bath nations, and which Should provide as far as poffible, for the future Security of Europe. Thefe principles he hoped' would 'not be objetted to by anybody, and thefe principles were cunitandy kept in view by his Majetirs MiniSters throughout the whole of the negociation. In the commence ment of the negotiation, .they pofitively refuted to treat, except in re ijunetion with our ally the Em peror of Raffia. This principle was adhered to Stea dily, as being molt material to the honour of the country. The befit of actual poffeffion was alfo Om; fen as the - only one that was to be confidered ho.' °curable. In order that a peace Should be honour able between two great Nations, it was necetlary that it Should be equal ; and a peace could not be Paid to be equal, if either of the parties were obliged to purchafe it from the other by ceffions. An ho nourable peace timid, therefore, recognize no oaf. -~- ~ -.. si. .•• :. fatty of giving up peireffions, Without. eutdvaletWeS AP the price of A Right .Hon. Gentleman Mr. CO. _ping) on 'a ° former mght lead threatened Militate, with ait,invelligation of their tendon on three point, —l*. That the ovettureiiid not come from France, Idly, That the hafts propofed was not actual poffet• (loot and.3dly , Thit we had treated separately from ,Ituff4: As to the fiat point, he did not know how' the Hen. Gentleman could make it out—Me aeifiret of,Talleyrend to Mr. Fez was certainly the fir* thing which appeared at an overture to negocia Lion, and Gentlemen osi the *other fide had not allied Minikes to produce any thing prior to that which might look like an overture on their fide.-- That fetter certainly mull be confidered as the fir* overture to a negociatient which was made by France. It was true *t thole:ter it was ant the bath ao tuatpofeSo* which was Monti. 'wed, bat an- tther beat natstele, ;ha WOW Tilsit, of Amiens. Tn! this pro. Parath ifhliteellasely anfwespd. that the Treaty of • Aliffene Up IA %balls which cenkl poffitsly lead to filch a peace An heeh notions could defer.: foe it , truth, take a 4ery king negociation to 'fettle how mairrpirte of the Treaty of Amiens ought to be tinderfiond ;. it was, therefore, impoffible that any thing, fatisfad-ery could be coneluded on Amt. basis.M. Talleyranz.l, in his unfetkr," gave up the hafts of the Treaty of Amiens, and'bettiunly did, although - not in expeefs term, but in the fair emitted* 05. them imply, that actual wifelike' was to brute hafts of the negociation. &fides, the letter attach had , been publifhed; there was a rifest kttet front 11. Talleyrand, which repeated, 44 The Emmert wants nothing of what you poffefs; itU he wants is equality. ,France is a great power on land, and you are a great power at fea—and, as . France cannot undo thole treaties which fhe has made, neither can the ex. peel England to abandon 'the adiantages Ilse has gained." . The true conllruition of that letter, and the context of it, certainly (hewed that it was upon , the Rate of afloat polleflon that the negociation was propofed to be carried on, and juflified Mini. tiers, in Rating that the overrate for negociation had come frcm France, and that she had propofed the date of actual poffeffir es the balls of it. As this letter, however, cantained,the propofal for treating reparately from Ruffia, Mr. Foi could not for a :no meta think of acceding to the propofition, and be fenf . an aofwer on the aoth of April, po fi tively re .. fuling . to, treat, except in conjunason with our Ally. 'lffithope4l-the Honfe of Commons would not think it necellaty for him to go into the details of the fo 'phiftical quibbling of M. Tadleyrand—(tow be la boured lo prove that England and Ruffia were Allies only in fort refpeds, and that in other refpeas they Were not Allies i how thatwe neither affifted Auntie and Ruffia at lend,'nerilidthey stffilt us by lea; and that, in fad, we had nothing to do with the continen tal war. This indeed was a very different doctrine from what they bad neld fen merly, when they ufed to call England.the great ineigator and fopporter of the Continentil 'war. They teemed to have forptten alto the great and important via o ry gained by Lord Net. fon, and followe d by the viaory of Sir R. Strachan. That whole piece of fophiary was, however, com pletely anfwered and overturned by a (bort and man ly note of only a few lines, written by Mr. Fox on the eath of April. At that time it was thought that the negociation could lead to no ufefal refult, and'. Mr. Fox himfelf conceived it as being entirely at ep . end. It was a very long time before this note was ,1 etifwered by the French Government : he woold tc therefore, with to paufe for a moment at that pericill of the negociation, and alk Gentlemen on the oche!.,. ; fide, was there any thing in the - condos* of his Mi. /3 jelly's Minifiers, fo far. that could be complained nfo A Right Honourable Gentleman Lbli:Canning)idel,. however, taunted 74iniRers, witbiotifereitsg, that the country expelled from the prefent hfiniffese Rmpli. city, candour, talents, fuperior wifdoptend energy, and then allied, which of thole qttilakint were die- , coverable in the prefent nogociatiertl-1111.woald rat- • • I ply by laying, that whoever did expel thettliplomada concerns of the country to be minagedinith lltnpli city, with fianknefe, and with the molt Confuentuate genius; if he Were to look at the letters colldr. 'Fox he would difcover all thofe qualities. Ifstiff.aglifh Fox , i man wished to fee the charade; of his ceiling n the negociation, compared with that of Fritatefithe had :may to look to the letters of Mr. Fox atothf. Talc kyrand, and he would be proud of the compatifoa--• (loud (fin of Hmr; hew! from all parts of the No .). — He van happi:to witnefs loch an union of fentiment, at least upon that paint. This , letter, written by Mr. Fox on the aoth of April, was not anfwered by M. Talleyrand till the 4th of June, and aboutthe fame time a Noble Lord (Lord Yarmouth) arrived in England. That letter did either reject the propofal of treating in conjunction with Ruffia, nor did it Deny the balii of actual pacifier*. There was fome. thin; in the letter which pointed out a mode of re. moving the difficulty of treating in conjunction with Ruffia, by referring, to the precedent of the year 1782. This letter, however, in itfelf, was pot fatif. factory, but Lord Yarmouth came to London at the fame time, who exprefsly Rated to his Majelly's triflers, that he wis inftruded on the part of the French Government, to lay before them a propri a l cf peace, on the balls of aattal pale& n. This bra been, further corroborated by the gatemenmade by the Noble Lord in that Houle. M. Talleyrand was unwilling to fend Inch a fetter without accompanying it with a verbal :mirage, and there were many things that it might be more prudent to fend by a verbal mefage, than to commit to paper. For example, the intentions of the French Government with refpee to Hanover, might be declared more freely in converfa tion than they could he in the fir( instance by a writ ten paper, or official documents. If the Gentle. men, on the other fide ) however, difputed the tads, he mutt refer them to the affertion of LordYartiouth himfelf, corroborated (if his . . afflrtion req .- aired any co-roboration) by a variety of circumaimess. When Lord Yarmouth, on his return to Paris, feasted the hafts of anal poififfiosi s _which. was to torero the c .=. i ' . . :,! • .i a ..‘ /- -.. ..,,1.. ' 0 - 1 • , k.; • • 0. , . 1 • ni z.z-nr - . ITT: rk)trezpvicK - `~• :, _:q~`• . •' . , y . .. , . . .. • . ..,,• , Y- •i. .16. 4 4 • .., •.‘ • , • . • ' • . • --.., :•• 14( ... . ' 31 •••• . e .. . . I. ' .' j. . . . .... .• . , • i 1 p i 15 ~ „ ; ~ , . .. ; , . ... 1 ` .i * • 1 ' • i k . ... .. . f • U. .. . , S. , . ... ir - i i r ." 1 4,. : --. 2 . . , r:::: : :: -'‘, . , i t, t, •.:- ' 1 .• .- . 1.4 .. . • . . . .. • '', ••• '.. ./.. 4. •-•4* -- -...4.• r • • -....:" • ' . - • . ...?". • ! --- t. - . ... . . • .... • • ...; ._ .•* . : , 4if t . :: . 'TUESDA A , JANUARY 6, 18(yr. ' . • . •-, . . .• .... ~.. . gr AMIE/Oil -ilitiLL/GETiCE. • SULLIMN by t, CO.ARD. ARMY. Poeq s. a 1% following ore,the pal:tit-Wars of lotion of Fort. Coeliac:4w , • " Si: hawed ; inn the'esirtifoo li t pieces of cannon, MA Mule InapAnev, have : satb our hands. A teeakreitas been found, confining of a number of iskiWett which had ,been dedicated by the Poles to the Holy Virgin, as the tutelary guar dian of the country. This creature the Emperor has ordered to be given np to the original proprietors. " The part of the army at Waifaw. remains fully fatisfied with the pattiotifin of the people of that city. 66 ' This day the 4.4 of Pofen gave a ball in honour of his Majefly, who remained prefent an hour. Te berm was alto performed to-day, in confequence of its being the cnniverfary of bis Mkjefty's Coronation." sollatETH BULLETIN OE THE GRAND ARMY. " Eden, December 9. 16 Mahal Ney has Pined the Viftula, and entered Thorn on the ich. He bellows particulat encomiums upon Colonel Savary, who, at the head of the 14th regiment of infantry, and the grenadiers and volti. geurs of the 96th, and the 6th light infantry, was the firft to pafs that river. At Thorn he came to aftion with the Prufliana,, whom, after a trifling affair, he compelled to evacuate the place. Some were killed, and twenty made prifoners. 4 4 This affair gave occafion to a very fingular es ploit. The river, too rods in breadth, was covered with ice I the veffel occupied by our arlisanced guard flack faft and could not be moved, when a number, of Ponds teamen fratii the Other fide of the river evinced a difpoiltion to venture through a (Mower of balls,_in order to get the veffel afloat. In this inten• tion they were oppofed by fotne Pruffian tailors, and battle with fills enfued between them. The Poles fucereded in throwing the Pruflians into the water, and brought the French *ad to the other fi de. The sosperor enquired rerpelting the names of theft brave fellows, to reward them. N This day the Emperor received the Deputation from Watfaw, confining of M. Gutakouflci, Grand chamberlain of Lithuania, Knight of a Polith Order ; rsouzenfki, Lieut. General, and Lubenflci, Knights of the fame Order ; and Alesaader Potocki, Knight Hof the Orders of St. Staniflans and Lufwelki." HAGUE, DEC ss. . On the 2IR in R. the King was pleated to nominate 11. M. Verbeol and De Winter, Malink of the Kingdom ; M. M. Taraye, both of the Guards, Co lonels General ; M. Harting, Commandant of the Grenadiers of the Marine ; and Decade's, of the Ar tillery, &c. Martha' De inter is to unite with his own the poft of Colonel General of the Marine, dur. ing the abfence of Vice Admiral Harding. The rank and title of Martha's have been granted to the following old Lieutenant Genet • .h : M. M. Kingtberg,en, and Zuylen Van Nyweldt. Dec. 26.—We learn, through private letters, that upwards of 70,000 Poles have already taken up arms. Intelligence from Sweden Oates, that rumours are circulated in that country, of a change in the Ruffilus Minifiry. Orders have been iffued at Copenhagen to put all the batteries towards the tea in a Rate of defence, and alto to provide the works of Kronenburg with cannon. We are alrured, that the Duke of Saxe-Gotha, with the confent of the Emperor Nipoleon, is to take the title of Grand Duke, and to receive a very confidera ble enlargement of territory. From Florence, it aprears, that in confequence of the Qu een ' s late Proclamation, the Minitler of the Finances, and the Diretaor of the Cullom Houfe at Leghorn, have been removed. Almost all the former relive's, Saints' Days, &c. have been abolithed in the Republic of Liguria. FRANKFORT, DEC. 13. According to letters from SiLelia, the French Ge neral Hedouville is atßrefian. The advanced guard of the Bavarian troops has taken poffeffion of Brieg, aod was proceeding to Neiffa. The Fruffians that Rill remained in Silefia had taken the route for Schweidnitz. The Aultrians have withdrawn from Bohemia and Moravia, and only forma flight cordon upon the frontiers of Gallicia. Among other French troops that have lately paired through this city for the Grand Army, were a divifion of the Emprefs's guards. Tranfports of Pruffian troops continue to srrivs here on their way to France ;—and among ethers, Come of the corps belonging to General Von Mucha. HAMBURGH, DEC. IE9. The prefent circumftances having rendered frelh loans necetfary, feveral merchants have bad a meet. ing upon the fubjee, and have agreed to advance a million and a half in the courfe of text month upon goods hinted from fire. S. . ,*;l' fi x :.. ~Y .~... - C P4RLIIMEN I FART PROCSEDINGS. • • ROUSE OF 'LOADS, MONDAY, j• The farther bearing of the appeal Ow,/ • 1 ,4 11 1 Dun fany." which flood for this day, was d l'huriAar. The Controverted Ek-Itioss TrW was read a third dot and paffed.--Adjourned till salaam* (This day.) - HOUSE OF COMMONS. eOlOOOl. eV THETWofte. ' • Mr. WHITBREAD - moved for difchargiaß Ike Order fur taking the Petition into confideratida on the syth, for the novae of moving its cortfideratiofi on a future day. The grounds that he Rated foi thit motion were, that there was a number of perform Who Voted that were fuppored to have no legal right to vote% and that therefore it was advifeabie to try the legality of their votes In the dual manner, by mov ing a two . Warrinto in the Court of King's Bench.— There had not hitherto been fofficient time for try ills the validity of. thofe votes In that manner, Millie. •Elation was on the 4th of November, and .tbe kit Term was •eitcled-en the Ifith. The objeft of his Motion was, therefore, filch a delay as would allow time for the Tsai°a to he determinediegat eburt of Law. He•fhould therefore afterwards tare, That ere ionfideratithr of the Pendant* poltponed the tub of Fetsroary. Mr. MINGAY declared, that he rote tinder sow fiderable trepidation and alarm. If he were to fay that it was diffidence, at prefenting himfelf to a public !trembly, fueh a declaration from a man of his years, Ind of his former profeffional habits, would draw down ridicule ; but he felt ferinufly dittreffed, when he confulered that he was foperfonally and pointed ly attacked. Until yetleiday he had not the Oightett idea that any Member of that Houfe would bring forward fuels a petition. Although it was true, that the elation of Thetford was on the 4th of Novethber, yet the fad was, that the point now at Woe had been fettled five years ago, and bad been ever fince cc quiefeed in. It was not one Term alone that the Pe titioners had had to try the law of the quettion, but every Term fince the year ttiot they might have brought it forward, if they bad thought proper.— The quellionorent to nothing lets than tearing to pieces the corporate rights of that Borough, and dit folving the Corporation. This was a Petition that the Houfe would not thew peculiar favour to; and he hoped that they would not let it hang for ever over his head, as he believed the real objea of the Petitioners was to keep him as long in hot water as poffible. It was the death of an old Alderman (his Brother, whom he had the misfortune to ft/twice), that occaficated this Petition. There were complaints now of what a man, who was Alderman, and after wards Mayor of the town, bad done in titot, 11303, and 1803. A great pare of the voters that hadheen made dining that time were now fought to be dif franchifed. There was, however, no °Nation made to the vote of that Aldermaerin 18ot, and yet, atter Cu many years, the Petitioners, withed to disfranchife, on a fuppofed irregularity, fueli a number of voters, as would in fait change the Corporation itfelf. After dißinguifigwg this cafe from the cafes of Harwich and Ea& Retfottlo be hoped the Houfe would not now eftablifk filch a precedent for attacking corpo rate bodies. Mr. WHITBREAD was not confcions of hav ing Paid any thing which the Honourable Gentleman was jußified in confidering as a perfonal attack on himielf. The queftion was merely a legal queftion, whether a certain defcription of perlons had or had not the right of voting? If they bad, the Honoura ble Gentleman was fecure of his feat ; if they had not, he would t,f cotufe be removed from his feat. He could not fuppole the objea of the Petition was by any means to hatafs him, or to keep him (as he bad expreffed it) in hot water. Although it was poffible that for the lilt five years, illegar votes may have been received, yet, if the flaw was not dila,- covered until the laR &Moo, the Petitioners were in fufficient time. Mr. MINGAY again Rated, that it was not one term only that they had lain by4but it was five years and one term. He was, therefore, againft the Mo tion of Mr. Whitbread for difcharging the order. [There was then a great cry of 4 4 Q2ellios," and the Houle appeared likely to divide.] Mr. BRAGGE BATHURST confidered that the Houfe had hardly fufficient materials to decide on, having only two contradiaory Ratements. He thought, however, that as to this flaw, which had be e n only difeocered the other day, the Courts of Law would be sallow to lend themfelves to the over turning Corporate Rights as the Committees cf the Houk of Commons. The ATTORNEY GENERAL had no objee. don to the delay of a fortnight, which was all that was afked forin the.firlt inflance, buthe could not fee why the Petitioners (offered .all the left Term to pats over without moving for a Writ of tto Hrarrat to. This was all they could do in the courfe of the next Term, and that would be very far from decid ing the queßiert. Mr. WHTBREAD obferved that the delay 6f a fortnight was all he aced in the fiat initance, and if at the end of that period he could not lay fufficient ffroonds for poßpning it further, the Houfe of courfe would not confent to put it off longer. Mr. ROSE confidered that it was likely, that poll porting it upon the grounds that were Rated, woold make st neeerary that tt fhould be gpßponed fo long, that k could not he determined in The courfe of the prefent Seffion. Lord HOWICK obferved, that it would be incon venient that the Houfe should that night divide upon the queflion : he therefore propofed the debate thould be adjourned until tomorrow. This propofition was univerfally agreed to, but Mr. MINGAY oblerved, that until's the law had been altered . Race he left the Courts, the Petitioners would not find that after five years acquiefceitce, the Courts would be much difpofed to relieve them. The debate was then adjourned until to-morrow.. •• -- gu „ 1 •••• VIC7'TIALLING-014ICE, Dreamier 3r, THE COMMISSIONERS for VICTUALLING HIS MA711877", NA rr, bet* give Netige, That oo Wednefday next, the ytit Ja nuary, al An, they vriri be ready to naive Tenders in writing ( et'. up) and treat for fuch iantitks of Smarr made from Whole Meal as the refpedire Nfienufattuters of that Articles may think proper to offer ; to be Aelivered in a maonth, by *eekly proportions, into His Majtity's Vic:lulling Stift' at Deptford ; and to be paid for by Bills pay able with interelt ninety days after date. N. B. No Tear far a leis quantity than Three Hundred Bigi will be admitted. The Condidans of the Ceuta boy be teen at the Secretary's Oilles. • itr. a r/ will it ksi • ary,Towiss in wlisi Be piss fiall k kinied i low& di toßsi, er Ow Jkil mat is ifilleffel N 04 3•84 Wars so, ethyl's,. &MI Iniufiky wait, ter Yirmary,llo7, low us* At Allow who :miski Mr Trip. ea , floss IN& vier M kkiLou .......... .nefews. Fr, . 01 I