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FRENCH PAPERS. compulsion places of worship different from their own, and their punishment for refusal, and declared the Commander in-Chief's disapprobation of such conduct and its vio lation of the general orders of the army. His second ground of facts was a circumstance that had recently occurred here in the Royal Artillery, so lately as the 6th of last January, when a man was immured in a dark room for twelve days for refusing in decent language to go to the protestant church service, he being an Irish Catholic. He was at length released by a non-commissioned officer. His Lordship said 'be had the names ; and would produce them, and his witnesses, too, if his facts were disputed. If the man -bad refused in language . not reckoned decent, still he should have called him innocent, because he had no right to be so treated. His third ground was a matter of this sort in Si cily, from which country two Irish Catholic Priests were driven away by what he supposed must be the act of the government : fir he could not think of ins. puting it to Sir John Stuart. No ! Cowards were cruel; but the brave loved mercy, and loved to save. There were many Irish Catholic soldiers in Sicily :1 there - was the Enniskillen regiment, commanded by that brave and noble man the Earl of Moira, which was mostly Catholics. The 58th and the 62d regi ments there, were also composed of the same descrip tion of our fellow subjects. The Sicilian Priests were, to be sure, Catholics ; but, then, they did not speak the same language as our Irish soldiers, and conse quently they were not fit for the administering of I those religious duties which the soldiers conscientious- • 17 considered as necessary. The Noble Earl here read a letter of considerable length, describing the whole of the business, and stating how indignant the Priests and people' of Sicily felt at the strange and unaccountable order for their departure. When they remonstrated with the Commander-in-Chief, they were informed by his Military Secretary, that there was no particular ground of complaint; but that the measure had proceeded on principles of a general nature ! What could those principles be which were thus to operate against his Majesty's sub jects ? Such conduct was an universal wrong. He called paiticularly the attention of the Most Reve rend the Metropolitan to those circumstances of in tolerance and oppression. When that odious, infa mous, and infernal traffic, the Slave trade, was oppos ed, not only the principles of humanity, but also of policy, were appealed to; and he should say a word or two on the policy of the conduct he was then dis cussing. Recollect, that half the army and navy, or more than that, was made up of dissenters from dip established Church. They had grown amazingly ni numbers of late years; Presbyterians, Catholics, and other sects. If they looked first at England, they would find that, in the first 15 years of the present reign, the number of places, licensed under what was called the Toleration Act, amounted to 1317. In the last 15 years, ending 1808, they amounted to 7,629. If they took in the intermediate period, it would be found, that from the beginning of the reign, their numbers were 12,161. So very popular, it ap peared, did the established Church grow among us ! If they looked at Scotland, they would find almost every body to be what was called here a dissenter from the church. In Ireland, see the great number of Catholic:, and then the number of Presbyte rians, and they would find the established Church outstripped ten to one ! He was glad of the increase of Dissenters, because it shewed a good deal of ho nesty and conscientious integrity in the land ; for what was the temptation that such men had to leave the Church ? He would not call, and he never did call, the Church what some Presbyterians had called it (a name that had been given to the RomishChurch) the whore of Babylon 1 Nor would he agree with some who said, that when a dish of meat was smook ed in the cooking, that it had had the bishop's foot in it I—(A Laez4).—But he was glad of the increase of Dissenters, for they were always, in all countries, the best friends of civil liberty. He should say so of Protestants in a Catholic country, such as France, tad parts of Germany, &c. and so here too. Now, where could, be the policy of irritating and offending such a numerous and important class of persons, by .Fusing them their just rights ? After various other observations, the Noble Earl concluded by moving a proviso, that nothing contained in the Act should be Construed to extend to the compelling any soldier to attend a place of worship he did net approve of, nor so prevent him from attending such divine service aa was according to-his profession, unless in cases wbeni his military duty required it. The Earl of LIVERPOOL declined going into Ilbe various topics in the Noble Earl's speech; but =k d ed, that it contained its own answer, as it • that the moment the complaint was made to Lord Harrington, the evil was removed, according to the girders issued in 1806. As to the case of Sicily, the letter read by the Noble Earl was formerly put into the hands of Mr. Grattan, a gentleman who, he must say, however he differed from him in matters of great political importance, always conducted him self in such questions with the greatest honotir and liberality. Mr. G. got it, previous to his motion re. specting the Catholic Claims, and shewed it to Go vernment, who made an enquiry into the subject, which produced an explanation of the transaction.— Mr.G. himself considered that\the account could only be viewed as a species of cx /torte evidence. The Earl of HARDWICKE thought the clause would be unnecessary. He was five years in Ireland, and never heard any complaint on this head. The Earl of CARLISLE thought it would be more hurtful to reject the clause than to receive it :—, certainly, grounds had been laid for Government task ing it into serious consideration. The Earl of CLANCARTY spoke against the Clause. The Earl of ROSSLYN was in favour of the clause IMPERIAL DiCREE. PALACS OF rue TRUILLEMS, MAiell 7. Napoleon, Emperor of the Freneh, King of Italy, Protector of the Cenfedetion of the Rhine, du. We have decreed, and do decree es hallows : Art. 1. Manufactures of cotton, cloth, stuffs, and other weeks len merchandise, manufactured in our empire, of which the ahtl. efts 7 and IS of our Decree of the leth Octobe r, 1310, authorises the introduction into our kingdom of Italy, by the French regw.l lesions of the customs of Veruil and Casatisma, and by the Italian regulations of the customs of Borge, Vacelli de Mezzassa Corti, may also be esported by the regulations of Plaisance, San-Pros srat, Pierre, Mala and Folligno—and maybe admitted into Italy the regulations eirrespendiag to the French customs, under tke conditions enjoined by the said Decree. I. Our Ministers of the Interior and of Finance are entrusted with the execution of the present Decree, which shall be inserted in the Bulletin of the Laws. (Signed) NAPOLEON. By the Emperor, The Minister Secretary of State, (Signed) H. B. Duke of BASSANO. PALACE or THE TRVILLINITS, MARCIE 7. Napoleon, Emperor of the French, King of Italy, Protectoref the Confederation of the Rhine, &c. With respect to owlet* seer of the Interior, we have decreed, and do decree as Mows : Art. I. According to the publication of the presebt Decree, the duty of 30 franks per metrical quintal, imposed on potashes by our Decrees of the 12th September and Sth November last, shall be reduced to IS franks per metrical quintal, for alkaline ashes, known under the distinctions of potashes, pearlashes, &c. coming from the ports of the Baltic and from the North. 2. The duty on potashes, pearlasbes, &c. shall not be eftneeted henceforth, including the tare of 12 per cent. but according to the net Weight. 3. Our Ministers of the Interior and of Finances are each en trusted, according to their different departments, with the execu tion of the present Decree. (Signed) , NAPOLEON. By the Emperor, The Minister Secretary of State. (Signed) I - I. B. Duke of BASSANO. PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, MARCH is. in the Appeal Case of Syme v. Kirkpatrick, Sir SAMUCL ROMILLT and Mr. A.RIRCROMBY, for the' appellants, were heard at considerable length, and Sir ARTHUR Pinor T in reply. MUTINY SILL. The Order of the Day being moved for the third reading of the Mutiny Bill, Earl STANHOPE rose, and observed, that the tMpoftiince of the present Bill was so great, that it -ought not to be passed in so thin a House ; particu =he Irish Peers, whom it especially concerned, peculiar reasons, were absent on account of a chititable celebration. The Secretary of State had agreed the other day to put off the Prince's Message, and he thought the same reason applied in the present instance. He, therefore, moved to adjourn the fur :ther consideration of it till Thursday next. The Earl of LIVERPOOL said, that if any Noble Lord had, on a former occasion, expressed his wish to postpone the present business, on the same grounds on which the present motion was made, he should not have opposed it ; but at present he saw no good rea son for any further delay. The motion of postponement was negatived, RELIOIOUS LIBERTY. Earl STANHOPE said, that he should now move the same proposition in substance, and nearly the same in words, which he had before moved. He Wad brought it forward originally on the grounds of • humanity, liberality, and equal justice. He had been told before, that he had laid no grounds for his mo tion. At that time he declared that he wished to say nothing that could exasperate or inflame, and there fore he abstained from mentioning any names. But the Noble Secretary of State having mentioned some circumstances of the case, he should now come for ward*Ad challenge enquiry into what he had stated ;1 for which he could bring persons to their Lordships' Bar, to prove the facts which Ire was authorised to state. He should now state three separate grounds ! ins which he might rest his motion. The first was 1 the affair he had already stated in Ireland. A letter was written frcni Enniskillen to a Gentleman at Dub- lin (a barrister), giving an account of the transaction. One man, a gunner, had been confined, on the 30th of January, in a black-hole, and several others corn. pelted to wear their coats turned, for refusing to at tend the service of the Established Church, they being . Irish Catholics. It was further added, that Captain Walsh, the Commanding Officer, had declared, that if there had been only one offender, he would have had him tried by a Court-martial, andifoged; but as there were so many, he should wait orders from head quarters. The man who was confined, remained in his durance at the time the letter was written • on the receipt of which, the Gentleman who receive d it did *Jot do any thing indirectly or privately, but lest it ! as a prospective measure. Earl STANHOPE replied briefly. He considered an instance of the sort universally wrong; as he did:, when John Wilkes was ill-treated, consider it an nig. I venal wrong to ,all the electors in the kingdom. He would not divide the House, as the Irish Peers were absent. The Bill was then read a third time, and passedl as was also the Marine Mutiny Bill.—Adjourned. a , • OP commomt. t ie wisest that, under all the circumstances, could he down to the Howse earner than anal. .: adopted—who thought the field for our exertio ns half put three o'clock, as be had signified well chosen—who considered the Peninsula as, of all ackount of the quantity of private business others, the portion of the Continent where the con. after issued for theelection of a Mem- test would be conducted with the greatest inconve. nience to the enemy, and with the least diffic u l ty us, rust be confirmed in their opini. ns, a s th e i r . it Parliament, for the University a to Zambridge, . . Easton, now called up to the House of Pears. f A Message was received from the Lords, stating that they had . expeetatiLns had in some degree been satisfactorily agreed to the Mutiny Bill without any amendment. realized ; for it was unfair to say that they cx. Alio requesting a Copy of the Second Report of the C ommit- petted a speedy or an easy victory. What they said tee on East India Affairs. To this latterMesiage an answer was was, that in fair probability the scene for the contest returned, stating that the House would return an answer by a . was the best that could be chosen, and that ther e Messenger of titer own Mr. DUNDAS postponed the motion for the Committee on the force of the enemy might be resisted, and nothi ng East India Affairs till Thursday. had since occurre,d'to make them think they had forts. Mr. LEECH moved the second reading of the Foreign Mini- e d • , a wrong juogment. Had they not on the coatr ar y stern' Bill, and contended that the public faith was pledged to al low those of the description mentioned in the Bill some cumin- i seen much to justify the iissertion, that their judg. meat in the intervals of their services. meta had been correct ? What bad they seen of the Mr. BANKES moved that the debate on this question be ad- exertions of the Portuguese themselves ? What had journed till Thursday.—Ordered. the enemy said of them ? Not only was there no of. The Surrey Canal Bill was committed ; the Great Snoring Inclosure Bill was also read a third time, and (after some re- ficial dispatch. but hardly a private communication, marks by Sir M. Foulkes, Mr. Creevey, Mr. Cartoon, and Sir in which the Portuguese army, disciplined and cons. lames Graham) passed. mantled by British Officers, was not represented at The Sheriffs of London appeared at the Bar, where they pre- worthy of being in the British service—worthy the sented a petition from the Corporation of London, against some private Bill. I example of British troops ? A most remarkable proof The Croydon Canal Bill was read a third time and passed. lof this, was the opinion of the French, that by way CAMBRIDGE CANAL. of a sure de guerre in the battle of Busaco, the veteran British troops had been dressed up in Portuguese tini - -Saone conversation ensued upon moving the second reading of ..tils above bill, in which Mr. Herbert, Colonel Ducker, Mr. , f orm . This was surely strong testimony in favour o f band, and other Members, took part; after which, strangers 1 the efficiency of the Portuguese troops. With respect being excluded, the House divided : Ayes so—Nees 34—Majority for a second reading 56. Ito the state of the campaign, what could be stronger The Bill was now nada second time, and directed to be corn- than the altered language of the enemy ? What mots wined. I 1 unequivocal than the different tone in which he spoke 1 . BRISTOL CANAL. ' of the duration of the contest ? There was now no big After some observations (thrown out by two or three Mem talk of driving the English at once :,fro the sea ; but ben) iq.on its being moved that the Bristol Canal Bill should be read a second time, the House again divided, when there appeared, fOrsstoth the war was to be protracted, and the English Ayes 75—Noes 46—Majority for a second reading 29, were to be ruined by the expellee. Such, by theson. The Bill was now read a second time, aud then ordered to be fession of the enemy, was the altered character of committed. I the contest. The enemy themselves had found that - ould not succeed in the Peninsula, without NOTICES DEFERRED. Re.entering the Gallery, we found the Cm.aucextoa of the , th e y. COL _ _ _ ..... .1.414, ‘...._ EICUZQUIR on bis legs, moving that all Notices standing, that ' driving the British out of Portugal—and they had day, for the second reading of Public Bills, should, nevertheless, boastingly said that this should be done immediately. stand over for toirnorrow. i They made the attempt, and now they.had discoyetol LIVERPOOL DOCKS BILL. ' that this was no such easy task But the conflict tv."scs be protracted. Was it then come to this ? Mr. DENT moved for an account of all such monies as had ' been raised as Dock Duties in Liverpool, by virtue of the Act of , "*-""' After it had been determined that the contest should his present Majesty for making two Wet Docks at Liverpool. . Gestalt GASCOIGNE observed, that the Liverpool Docks be finished in such a short time, wits it now confessed Bill was referred to a Committee, which would sit on Thursday that it must go en from campaign to campaign ?—. next ; and that the accounts inle tas well be called for by t h e A fter the blood that France had lavidied in this, on Committee as by the House . a Committee ha t ing power to her part, most unjust war, did her hopes centre iii The SPEAKER stated, that send for persons, papers, and records, was as competent as the , delay instead of rapidity ? Did the Insurgents, who House itself to order the accounts. In giving such power, the were spokenof with so much contemp t , and who were House conferred every necessary authority upon its Committee, to h ave b een crus hed in a moment, still continue to wed was not in the habit of interfering, unless it could be made resist ? Had the boasted victories over those Insor est that any unnecessary delay, or manifest want of faith, had Islawaplace in the Committee. If the powers granted were found gents produced none of the fruits of conquest ? Why less relent, the usual practice was to come back to the House Tor then, France might at last find her protracti farther powers, which were never refused. ' of as little avail, in this instance, as her rapidity—and ts system . It was then ordered that the Committee on the Bill have power 1 that even her victories would still be attended with se send for persons, papers and records. DEFENCE OP PORTUGAL. ; similar results. (Hear, hear, hear.) The spot had The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER,', been chosen where we would contend with the great in a Committee of Supply, to which the Prince Re- est advantage. (Hear, Hear, hear, from the opposite sent's message relative to the Portuguese Grant had ' benches.) When he said so, he wished that those two m it_ , i who cheered, as if they meant to deny the position, been referred, rose to propose the sum of eons for the defence of that kingdom this year. In i would tell where the effort could better have been rising, he said, to call the attention of the House to . made—where more resistance to the enemy could be the subject of Portugal, he could not forbear indel- 1 expected fr om the p eo p le —where more effectiv,• :b. ging the hope, that he would experience little or no sistance could be had from our Allies ? The French v opposition to the resolution which he intended to sub- victories is other places had been of a different kind, and attended with far different results. If that was mit to the Committeer although there had been some opposition in the coarse of the last Session, and though i the case—and if the contest must be carried on some the where, it was surely desirable to carry it on i'l that sum required for the assistance of the Portuguese was very materially increased, yet circumstances had 1 place where it could be done with least inconvenience so much altered,' that it was not likely a similar ob- ,to us, and with most to our enemy. He would tl'en , The should be urged, even to the larger sum.— i propose, that this money be granted to be applied nor The grounds upon which this advance had been de-. the defence of Portugal, in whatever way shootoi be fended last year, and the motives in which it engine- deemed most adviseable. This he thought wos the ted, had been so well confirmed and justified by best mode of proceeding, because Government could events, that they must now come with so much ad- then look to events as they came—and if any thing ditional weight, as to prevent opposition from any happened to make the cause desperate, - that assistance quarter. When 741 application was made last year I would be with-held from which no advantage could for a sum with a view to enable his Majesty to take be derived. He concluded by moving a Resolution, Portuguese troops into British pay, the idea of such which was in some measure an echo of the concluding a force, officered and disciplined by the British, was Part of the Regent's Message, " that two millions be new and untried, and there might fairly, perhaps, be ranted to the Regent acting in the name and on the some doubts as to the effect of the plan. Some even' behalf of his Majesty, to maintain 30,000 Portuguese thought the project so extravagant, that they ridi- in British pay, andoo be further applied to the oil culed those who expressed any confidence in it. It of Portugal in the present contest, in such a manner was also stated, that in taking so large a body of as circumstances should appear to require." • Portuguese troops into our pay, we were drawing the Mr. PONSONBY said that it was not so much on whole burthen of the war upon ourselves, and leav- I the ground of any alterations that had taken place ie Ing . nothing to call forth the energy of the Portuguese our views or situation in the Peninsula that he felt nation in its own defence. At that time, those who I himself called to disapprove of the Right Honourable approved the scheme had only hopes, but those hopes i Gentleman's Motion, as on account of the principle on the one side were as sanguine as the despair on I on which that motion was-founded, and the system the other was deep. Now, however, they stood in a which it was intended to support. His greatest aprre. very altered condition—they had events to appeal to, hensions of the consequences to which a persever ance and by these their arguments had been confirmed, in the present measures might lead, originated from aad their expectations rather exceeded than disappoin- t hat treat y b y which we bad blindly and impolitiir ted. Fortified then by what had already happened, they now came with the more confidence for this ad. become bound to wage war against France in he ditional sum. The assertion, that we had taken upon Peninsula, until Ferdinand should be restored to tle ourselves the burthen of defending, to the exclusion I throne of his ancestors. This we had engaged to ' ..1) of her own exertions, was as unfounded as the other , without reserve or exception. Could the Right Ho 'assertions on the same subject, advanced by nourable Gentleman bring forward any argument to who had formerly opposed a grant of this nature, for t h ose justify this rash and most improvident engagement? the amount of the Portuguese troops engaged in the While we were called on to maintain the war on suc h contest was vastly beyond the number in our a principle, he was unable to see when there could he They had not less than 45, 0 00 regular soldiers, pay .— i a limit to it. The Right Honourable Gentleman hal sides 49,000 militia, and it was most unreasonable b e- i stated, that the reason for asking a larger sum this therefore, to say that we bore the whole burthen of year than was voted in the last Session, was, that tke the defence of that country. We did indeed take contributions of the Portuguese were intercepted he supon us a large share of the burthen, but that was to the enemy—that the means tell 'into the hands of the enemy. The French had occupied, it seems, so lame make the exertions of the natives more effectual, and a portion of the Portuguese tenitory , that t h not to relax their efforts. But from the nature of the eir li nances could not be brought to the support war, from the extent of the country at present inac- of the common cause. How was this to be reconciled to eessible to the agents of Government, and from the ' those numerous statements in which the enem y had interception of the revenues, it could not be copse- I been described as occupying no more of the country ted that they should have the means of commanding a supply of money at all commensurate with the de-I than was covered by his armies — ((leer, hear.) — He appealed to the recollection of the H ouse how mends of the occasion. It then it was desirable that frequently this declaration had been repeated ? The these exertions should be continued, we must contri- 1 House was told too now, that we were co ntendin g buts largely to support them. Even those who dis- •on a c h o sen theatre of action—that the spot that had approved of the grant of last year might now, consi- been so chosen was peculiarly advantageou s to us. Bering how far we had one and what had happened , f Did the Right Honourable Gentleman mean to say, consistently vote for the increased sum of two wile .that selected scene was comprehended with in the dis lions. From the short view he had taken, he thought ' t ance of Lisbon and Cortex° ? Was an army seat there could be little doubt but we should keep alive into Spain to rescue it—and did it re - ente r Portu g al the exertions in Portugal, such as they had been, for the purpose of defending it, only to con centrate Those who differed from the Ministers, as to the piss' all its efforts in its present position ? The Right Ho licy of this expedition—those wbo imagined that a nourable Gentleman had stated , that our success different field for our efforts ought to have been ought to encourage us freel y to unite in the prosecits chosen, even they must confess that it would be most tion of the contest. It was far from his wish to un unwise to give up now, when so far embarked, either derrate the valour and achievements of ode army ; but the situation for the struggle, or the plan hi th erto he must declare , that he w as not aware on what oc acted on. They could - not think it politic that canons this success had been obtained. Was it in we should now retread our steps, or .relax our exer- the fall of Rodrigo, or the su b s e q uent reduction of tions. Those, again, who thought the whole phial Almeida ?—(Her, hear.) Was it to be evidenced by , . . . • _ . Ott once to a publie newspaper, addressieet tea.ord HOUSE n 01 the Hacrington, on the/el a January last. 7hat Noble Spasm came dow and took the oft t C o h d o e ir ou st hat ou pw and gallant Lord, like an honest man,took no of. fence at the mode of communication, bat immelii- that required dispatch. nt ately issued his orders, which stated the reports of the A new Writ was shortly aft ber, to serve in compulsion of the attendance of Catholic soldiers at the pretest Cambridge, instead of Lord E ,~ th W CI( C( 3% at a • •