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PAPERS, CONS F R VATIVE SENATE. SITTING QS THE 13TH DI:CY.MIML The Sett.ee'me: at three in the afternoon; his Se rene Highness the Prince ArcloChancellor presiding. The Count de Sernonville, in the name Qf a Select Cernmittee, consisting besides of the Reporter, of the Counts Gamier, Colchen, Lapparent, and Gnuvion, presented the following detail on the projet of the Se eatui Coesnlum, containing the annesauon of Hol land, the Hense-towns, and the Simplon ; 44 Senators—The Committee tq whom you referred the projet of a Senatus Consultum,relative to the an vexation of Holland and the Hanse-towns to the French territory, -have charged me to lay before you the motives which call for the adoption of measures of so great an interest. 46 During the course of the labnnrs of t.l). Cont. niittee, one leading idea principally impressed our minds-we have not ceased to feelastenislied, that i events commanded by so many diZeient circum.sten e l ces, had been so long deferred. .. I n rea lity, Senatots, from the period when our victorious armies snatched Holland front the three fold oppression of the coalesced Powers, she lost dust j existence which Frederic had designated with sa energy and truth- she ceased soba-bari, by ta 1 tow of the !eve ireat dip: of war—,Franceoind I:egimai. her crew, to continue the comparison, were wail , over to our ship- 7 Brabant formed a part of oar tare ritory, and Holland was irrecoverably conquered.... Tnere has not passed, since, a single day when her union with the French empire would not have been a oeneoe—and we Say ft with confidence; an lite:linable benefit, since she -would have been spared a long se ries of privations, losses and misfortunes. 64 But such is the empire of habits and of self-love over nations as well as individuals ; the changes which strike their eye in all that surrounds them, in vain. remind them of their own.decline ; they both repel the secret conviction which pursues them. A blind sentiment averts their eyes from the lessons ofj experience, ar.d they make their close more fatal-by their (Eons to ward. it off. I 44 Our colours were floating over the whole Bata- Tian territory ; the partizans of England fled in the i ,nip s which they basely sold to the enemy. Its in creporatien with Francs, the association of the Bata efans with their brothers in Belgium, ought to have bier, the first of their wishes, the most pressing of their wants. • 4 4 The public debt, which had not then received that immense increase to which it latterly arrived, might have been entirely sayed.from shipwreck; vast ;communications of commerce might have been opened with France ; enormous charges would not, for 15 years, have weighed down these interesting countries; and for what ? to obtain the barren honour of a Go yernment pretendedly national, as if a nation could exist where there was neither independence, nor army, nor territory susceptible of .defence. 46 Those times are passed, when the conceptions of some Statesmen save authority, in the public opi nion, to the system of balances, of guarantees, of counterpoise of political equilibrium. Pompous illu sions cif cabinets Of the second ordesh visions of im becility! which all disappear before necessity, that power which regulates the duration and the mutual relations of empires. 44 Would not the successive Governments of Hol land, in a thousand iestances, have been subservient so internal agitatiens, to the efforts of England, had not the force of the French empire been constantly acting upon them to maintain and to defend them ? And when Engl•ald affronted France by supposing that this force was absent, because the Emperor was meditating victory and peace on the banks of the Da- nube ; was it Holland that could have repell e d th e fleet, and th e British legions assembled to recommence the,oppression.and disgrace of the Heider '? Certainly. . not,: truths so manifest require neither proof nor ex.: 71.'n„ Ile, . Holland, like trim klanse Towns, would re stitie the prey of uncert4otz, of danger, of revolts.' dons, of oppresslbns of eta rk kind, if the genius who ...:doi the destinies *Europe did not cove r h er w ith his invincible segis. The Emperor has resolved in his wisdom, to incorporate them with the immense family rifiwhich he is the head. In adopting this grand re solution, perhaps he himself obeys, more than he is aware oi, the law ofelecessity. If he commands the glory of the times present, the events which preceded his coming command those of his reign —that unin littzuetted succession of causes and effects, which form the history of nations and the destiny of their chiefs: That of the Napoleons was to reign and to-conquer ; victory belongs to him, war to his age. • , 66 Among the wars recorded in our history, there is not one duri.ig which the jealous rivalry of Evg land has not been the direct ause' of our troubles, qur misfortunee. our denim r—of bur ebergY; our .Combats, our conquests. , - 46 Lu the fetrdaltimeeanglanddivided,onr Prikes, kept' our vassals in pay, ravaged our fields; she fore. , staw that the throne of their Sovereigns wo u ld one ay bithe first in the Universe : cloven back to lee} Weeds, she every where sought for avengers of her quarrel ; .Germany, Italy, the SP airs, uumber but few cities where combats have not been maintained - duriog SOQ years fqr the cause of England. .. To hear her, our Kings made pretensions to tnliversal l inonarchy after tl e siege of itochelk,. the Works of Toulon, and the surrender of Courtray.— Tlic most pusillanimous reigns could not impose si. i tnee co; her accusations, nor lull asleep her harred.• In her eyes the French; 'people.werc always the rime; they unly w-nted circumstances and a chief, to re time tht n.une of great. . . " A total subversion was necessary to the project iptE ng t A nd i she wished for a bloody revolution, be. capia her own had heen cruel. and hecor..e, amidst ourAiiieords, it struck at. with the same sword, both Our 'Winery and on, insdintions ; bath the conque roes apd the conquered;. both the people and the dynasty. All Europe was summoned to this work of destruction : svery whCre repulsed--every where. threatenedz—trcmMing for Ilerself—s!o sts;pped abort in presence-of the confl4gration lighted up by the fire Wands of the British Cabinet. At last, after 'en Tears of a Struggle glorious for France, the must ex. traorctnary genius me fortned by maitre in her mat . nificcoce, enmity is; No. : triumphant hands the scat-, sort ef tragenents of the'seePtre c f Clia:letriagnc:. TbC Minx* iii rratice are a vented ; frontiers ... FROM THE FRENCH PARIS, DECEMBER CONSFRVATIVE SEN " 1 .. _,_ &impacted by moderatiint and traced out by HEM, are the trophies raised to the happiness of her people; to the tranquillity of Europe. 48: The Emperor proposes peace. ,Vain hope of a great soul 1 Thrice the cry of alarm was raised on all sides—thrice one victory led only to others; and peace, always offered, always demanded, and as it were pursned, retired before our eagles to the ems mities of Europe. 44 In those shocks of which human prudence can not moderate, the effects, empires of the, first rink l ire overthrown front their foundations ; small States disappear ; we have seen the gothic supports of the European edike nimble down of themselves, without. the possibility of their being rebuilt en the same plan; and had not the:genitts of orderadvanced with a step equal to that of.arques, it would no longer bare been war, but anarchy and death which the 18th century had bequeathed to,its eutcesecirs. " Does the conqueror perceive from the height Of his car, nations united by ancient habit& ; be seeks eat faithful princes, he creates for them comnsonintemats, rite entrusts to them the destinies of those regenerated States of whic.h he has.declared himself the protector. But where all forms of government have been frill in vain; where the aggregations are too small, hr destitute of sufficient prin,ciples of adhesion to form masses, where localities would infallibly subject men and things to the direct action of avarice, of the at tacks or intrigues of the eternal enemies of France; there the interests of the empire command the union I to the victorious nation of those portions of its con, quests, to prevent their inevitable dissolution. And in the deliberation iii which you are occupied, "the question should be put thus Holland and the Hanse Towns being incapable' of existing by themselves, ought they to belong to England or France ? We shall search in vain for a third alternatiye.—That in, heritance of rivalry, always increasing by the impor tance cf the interests, as well as by that of the masses, our generation, Senators, has succeeded to, withoutl being able to reject a single portion of ii. It is no longer two armies who combat on the plains of Fon tonoy ; it is the empire of the seas which still resists 'that of the Continent :, a memorable, a terrible strug gle, and of which the eitaatrophe, perhaps, not far distant, will long "betty/ the attention of future generations. "Let us listen to the political writers of England ; their alarms confirm this truth, still less, however. than the desperate measures of its government : it it were not led on by the imminence of its danger, would it have dared, in the presence of civilized Europe, to tear the compact of honour and of eternal justice which connected neutral powers with the Belligerents? One would believe, in reading the acts of the English Ministry, that the law of nations exists no longer ; and who, then, has substituted for its immutable prin ciples the excesses and the violence of barbarism England. " So early as 1756, her first attempts upon the im prescriptible rights of nations compelled Sweden and Denmark to defend them by tl.e dcvelopement of an ermed neutrality. Some years; later, the 28th Fe bruary, 1780, England pushing her endeavours still farther, Russia saw no safety for the honour of na tions and Vhat of Sovereigns but in a public exposition of the maxims acknowledged by all civilized people ; she proclaimed the conditions on which her neutrality was to depend : " That crust al aliips shoo,: navigate freely, from port to port, and on the coans of nailous at wac. • 14 'I hat property belonging ti the subjects of Powers at war, should be fret on board neutral ships, with the exception of con traband. hat to determine whit characterises a blockaded port, that designation should only be given to suds into which there was an evident danger of entering, in consequence of the ships of the at tacking Power being stationary and sufficiently near." " Such were literally the deliberations in which the Cabinet of St. Petetsburgra laid down the rights :o( all Sovereigns. England replied by throwing !off the mask, and signified to the States of Holland, ithat the flag does not cover thi property. From that • period she tlibught herself able. without danger .as withour obstacle, to give full swing to her usurpa. tinns. It was necessary to wait for a period wheel powerful reprisals would compel her to returnio justice. The cley is arrived ; the Decrees of Berlin and Milan are the reply to her Orders in Council... The British Cabinet has; so to speak, dictated them. to France. Europe receives them for her code ; and that code be the palladium of the seas. 66 Let England abjure her madness ; let her rein state neutrals in their rights ; justice has never ceased to demand this of her. If she .had not rejected the conasels and ilfers of moderation, what dreadful con sequences might she not have avoided ! And to con fine ourselves to the subject of our present deli4era tion, she would nut have forced France to enrich her. self by the ports and the arsenals of Holland ; the Ems, the Weser, and the Elbe, would not have flowed under our dominion • and we should not have seen the first country of t he Gauls washed by rivers united -by an internal navigation to seas which were r.nkoown a, them. Niv here still are the boundaries of possibility i Let England answer it. Let her meditate on the past. —let her learn the future. France and Napoleon will never change. Vow. •Committee unanirontislr propose that the Senates Constiltuat'be adopted." • The Conservative Senate, assembled' 'number of members prescribed by Article XC: oldie Act el. :he Constitution of 1799, having taken -into its con sideration the Message of his Majesty the Emperor and King, of the 10th of December, and the Report of their Special Commission thereon, decrees, that the fnllowing address be presented to his Majesty by the President and Serrctitrics: " Bite—The depth and extent ofryour plans, the candour and generolii.y of your. policy, and your' constant anxiety 'for as prosperity of your subjects, mart never been nianit . ested morn strongly than in ycur Imperial and Royal Majesty's message to the ::..enate. The orders of the Lash Council nave not only rent in pieces the public I.lw of Europe, but bare' also violated those natutil laws, vilich are as old and ass eternal as. the globe. Nature herself has pl.iced-the seas beyond the dotnioion of man—he may pass over but he cannot maintain possession of them': and to .af:et to rule an element which surrounds the hiibita ble globe on every side, is nothing lest than a daring ktettipt to Loll the old and •tho ,new world in cap. . ticsy, and to& a disgracefal mark of slavay on all mankind. 66 Such is the sacrilegious attempt against which your Majesty unites all the efforts of your power.— Justly indignant Europe applan4s and Keough rat. • .- _ .. • . • .... et Alnotary Goes trtto restless one tortnuesi‘...tarent- 1110111 S• pent, which had exited five successive coalition* I Tire I.O2ISCOIANCELLOIt-.- 44 Ti oneeeqeesee atilt ,istainsttrance, destroyed in a moment by your Vic:. Notice given by the Noble Earl, it would not he, t ,tiorious arms, see all the nations of the Cootinent '. think, convenient that another motion, of which 1 leagued against her, and her vessels repelled farm I gave notice or Thursday, should be discussed on t h e every port. It can no longer keep up its internal ; same day—l mean the subject relative to the recap. !circulation but by a 6Ctitkalt medium, or its foreign i tion of Proxies : I shall on that account now move, ,'That the order be discharged, with the intention of 'trade but by smuggling. The only allies which it has Fos earth are fanaticism and sedition. again giving notice of a day more favourable for the .re Persevere, Sire, in this sacred war, undertaken discussion of that subject than to.morrow, which for the honour of the French name and the indepen. must call your Lordships' attention to the motion ' dente of nations. The day on which this war ends announced by the Noble Earl." will be the era of the peace of the world, I I'he order of the day regarding Proxies was acccr. fe The measures proposed by your Majesty will , dingly discharged. eftelerate that Period ; since your only enemies are to ' Upos the motion of the Earl of laveneoot., the be found as the ocean, it is necessary for you to ren. House adjourned• till to-morrow:. clir yourself master of all the ports by which the oceat - has communication with the interior provinces of TOW . HOtfsE OF COMMONS. empire. The House met, pursuant to adjournment, at tea " In the midst of these military and political opo. O'clock. rations, your.benevolent solicitude hu inspired you I As soots as the SPEAK'S& took the Chair, • with the idea of reviving that northern trade, which . 'lle CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER has been for so long a time the fruitful source of en- moved, That a Committee be appointed to- manage couragemeut and prosperity to French industry. The a conference with the Lords in the Pa.lnted Chamber, productions of the South of the Empire will be con. on the subject of the Address to his Royal Highness . veyed by safe **d easy routes into the ports of the the Prince of Wales; which was agreed to. Baltic, and the knots of the treaty of Tilsit will be : A Message fmm the Lords was then announces, . drawn closer by this new tie of nations. j signifying that their Lordships desired a couferecce " The conscripts of 1811, under the impute, of with a Committee of this House on the subject of ti.: honour, of affection, and of gratitude, will, with a said Address. Iproud satisfaction, range themselves around your tri. t The Committee was then appointed, and they re. omphant eagles, and esteem themselves honoured in paired forthwith to the Painted Chamber. paying the glorious tribute which every Frenchman On their return, Lord 1,01;V&INS reported that th e I owes to his Sovereign and to his country. said conference had been held with a Committee of . " It is evident that your Majesty's paternal heart the House of Lords, and that they had agreed to the feels regret in demanding this tribute, but you have Resolutions respecting the said Address, which, scat wherewith to console yourself in the reflection that the , the motion of the Cu oscsor.ou of the Excar.onza, not to -prosperreqiiire any sacrificous situation of y es ou from your peopler finances will w you 1 Houose I was rdered to be entered oat the Journals of the al,lo . .- - - " The Senate, Sire, in offering you the homage of 1 Another conference - mos agreed to relative to the -their devotedness, love, and unshaken fidelity, only : Address to her Majesty, and managed by the same express to you sentiments which are felt by all your 1 Members; and Lord LOUVAINK reported that the subjects. (Signed) i same was agreed to. " The President and Secretaries, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER 6 ' CAM BACERES, Prince Arse-Chancellor of the trnplre. , moved, that the same be entered on the Journals; 1, CORNET, F. JAUCOURT." which being agreed to, he next moved to adjourn till half past thee o'clock.. DUTCH PAPERS. New WRIT FOR GLOKGESTERSHIEIkI Mr. HOWARD referred to what wassa i l* in a book well known to them all - in whichitistes said by a former Speaker of that House, (Mr.. Onslow) that in the case of a Member succession to the Peer- . age, it was not necessary to. wait till the Chancellor should order a summons for his attendance in the House of Peers ; but that, from the moment of the succession, his seas became immediately vacant, whe ther a writ was issued to snmm'.a him or not. This was agreeable bate to reason and analogy. The Scots Peerage was precisely an an alogy in point. In the case of a Member et the House of Courtesans succeed ing to the Scots Peerage, his. seat became .immedi ately vacant, though, no writ could be issued by the Chancellor for his attendance in the House of Peers. The other House might adopt such a mode of pro reeding as.. it might think fit with regard to its. own Members ; but this House had nothing to do with the proceedings of the House of Lords, and was bound immediately to supply any vacancy that might occur. This course was necessarily demanded for the public convenience. He therefore thought the County of 'Gloucester should no longer reauen unrepresented. The SPEAKER stated, that .he believed it woula be fosind throughout the Journals, that the grounds were laid before the House, by which it was proved, that a Member succeeding to a Peerage was called to the Howe of Peers, before a writ WAS issued for a, new election. He mentioned the case of Lord Car hereon in 1744, Lord Camden in 1763,, and more re cently that of Lord Petersham. The Clerk was ordered by the Speaker to read an retract from the Journals rf the 14th awl 15th of February, 1809, relative to the case of the Earl of Lint:say. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER. gated, that the precedent of 1809 did not apply to the present case. He said, that if there was any im proper delay in issuing the writ, the House might very properly take this subject into their considera tion. It was enough, however, to state that one of the Members for the County of Gloucester was now Earl Berkeley; it was necessary to lay some grounds before the House by which the fact might be ascer tained. Would the House proceed, without any such information, to make the Coenty of Gloucester elect t Member in place of the person who may afterwards turn out to be its legitimate Representative; The feet ot the succession to a Peerage ought to be ascer tained by some competent tribunal. Be had no doubt that the House of Lords would proceed without any delay to the consid:Tatirm of that cause, whenever it HOUSE OF LORDS, THURSDAY, lAN. 20. possibly could The case of the Scots Peerage did Their Lordship assembled .t ten o'clock this alerting, In par- ' net apply, as no writ could then be issued. He should ,uanee ottke adjournment of Tuesday, and soon attsrwards the L o rd Chancellor took his seat on the Woolsack. therefore move the previous queeien. In the absence oldie Deputy Usher of the Mack Rod, the Sets ± Mr. WHITBREAD stated, that this was one of Imo! at Arras (Mr. Watson) ansiounced at the Bar a Menage , the cases to which no precedent could apply. The tram the House ot Cesemsea It was ordered tilos the M.ssen- question was, whether thy county of .Gloucester_ was geesbe called itt. to •have a Representative in Parliamentser Whether it . MESSAGE PROM rue COMMONS. 1 WAS to be deprived of one for a length of time • Lord Lamm:se-and several Members of the House .Whether Lord Durstcy had or had not succeeded to. COMMIS brought up a Message, acquainting their . . the Earldom of Bet keley, be was no longer to be cons Lordships that the Commons had appointed the' sidered a Member ot that House. It was verrpro- Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Secretary Ryder, perly asked by the Honourable Gentleman, • who Mr. Robert Dundes, and the Master of the Roils, to brought forward the present Motion, if the county of go with the Lords mentioned in a former Mesiesee, Gloucester, on. of the richest Antics in England, (the Lord President and the lied Privy Seal), to , was to be totally :end entirely without a Representa, wait upon his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales l i ve at a period like the present, when the most lin. with the Resolutions and Address of both Houses for portant interests of the coencry are under discussein ? supplying the defect in the personal exeseise of the Were they to be told that on account of a certaie Royal Power; and also that they bad appointed Lord question pending before the House of Lords, the J. Thynne, Lord Viscount Palmerston, Lord Cl;ve, county of Gloucester was to be dep. red of one of its and Colonel Desbrow, to go with the Lord 3 (Rarls Representatives? In the case when the Pteitiop for of Harcourt and Morton), to wait upon her Majesty the county of Gloucester was . refused, Lord Dursley came forward, and stated in a manly meaner to the with the Resolution and Address. of both Houses re - came that he claimed to set in it u Member for dative to the direction of such part of his Majesty's ga Household as may be requisite for the comfort of his Gloucestershire, and that herave in no claim as eldest son df the Earl of Berkeley to the Peerage s Majesty and the maintenance of his Royal dignity.— Ordered to be laid cm the table. -- The case was now altered, and it became the • elfe OPENING OF PARLIAMENT. 1 , House to adopt a new mode of proceeding. It The Earl of LIVERPOOL—" My Lords , I rise to might so happen that Glcutestershise should not be give netice, that if'the answer from her Majestv,and represented at all during the present Perliameat ; from his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, shall for I have been told that a Writ of Summons is arrive in the time I contemplate, I shall to s morrow ; never issued by the Chancellor but at the request of propose, for your Lordships' consideration a Resolus ; a Peer, to that purpe n e. The House wasnie test wait don, similar to the one agreed to on the 3111 nf la- for any such wilt ; from the momerit of a pet son's nuary, 1789, respecting the opening of Parliament by claiming the Peerage, he ceased to be a Member t‘t . Commission." the Hoare. He referred to what had been stated by • FROM THE MAYNE, DECEMBER 25. : _ A Decree has been published in the Duchy of Nas. sau, under date of the 941, forbidding the trAnsmis sion of gold to tl.e soldiers ofthe Duchy now in Spain. Accounts from Bayonne mention, that large trans ports had pissed through there,' the arrival of which had never been acknowledged. :t • FPANISII FRONTIERS, DEC. IL Letters from Madrid contain no news of import.! ance. A detachment of the Royal- Guard had set out for Valladolid, but they 'only consisted of 5000. men. They were sent with the view of keeping up the line of communication between Marshal Massena and the capital. No advices have been received from the East dated ilater that the end of Novegrber. The insurgents had been several times defeated, and dispersed by Gene ral *Donald. According to some letters, Cadiz is likely soon to surrender, since the exertions of our army has enabled I them effectually to bombard the city. • MILAN, DECEMBER 14. _ His Royal Highness the Viceroy, as we are inform. ed, will shortly visit the Emperor at Paris. Their Majesties have changed their res►dences for the winter . to Naples, where the Empress Josephine also remains. The Grand Duke Constantine of Russia, under the name of Count Rdrnanzo, has arrived in Florence. Fnn►s PARlL—Flis*Hhness the Prince of Bene vento (ralleyrand), set out yesterday from Brussels, commissioned by his Majesty the Emperor, to preside over the Prefecturate of this Department, until all the Decrees against British Manufactures have been tarried into execution. Baron Durand, formerly Minister at Stutgard, is to proceed on an important mission to Naples. VIENNA, DECEMBER Its. Nerciations of ikortance, we have reason to be lieve, are. afloat. COPENHAGEN, DECEMBER so. The appearance of an order from our Court to re duce the strength of our standing army is daily ex. petted. On the 15th M. Comnine arrived on a mission frnm Stockholm, and on the 16th M. Brune on a mission from Paris. PARLIAMeNTART PIt9CEE DINGS. • . - at ig er a tt Ot • se . 1 I I r p p s. 6 6 t. d r. is is 1. A 1 r- -0- Lit of of R. to bt a. of lw ds