Star. — London, England, 1815-04-08 00:00:00

t . ‘ " 4 ---- \ ll l - .. " a. • • . .4, 30 4 • s' lid.lffieTa • UR • SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1815. N U MBER 8767. Nick SixPsweE-}tAr.ol-ENiY. CONTRACT FOR TAR. N.elbT-OFFICit, MartA 50, )81 S. THE PRINCIPAL OFFICERS and COMMIS -510 IRS Obis MAJE3Trs NA PT, do leerebygive Notice, nut on TIIIIRSDAY, the 13th of April next,at (Xte &Clock, win he reo dy to treat with such Persons all may be willing Contract f o r supplying his Majesty's several Dock-yards, or uy our or more of them, with S I'OCKHOLM or ARCHAN. Ok.L. TAR. Di vibutixt of the Tar, and a Arms of the Trader, may be seen at ate r will 4: re:rived after ow :clod ON the flay of Treaty,l po Jet} nate:d IlAhll the Party, or an Agent for him, atteneh. j to y Tender must be accompanied by a letter, addressed to the Navy 542 , 4 Ja i J igned by tut reeponeilde Perim:, engaging to &wale Saved with Me Pt 'JON tendering, in the Sam e .C5O per 100 Bar telsjor Me due P!rfin mance of t s Contract. • were ill calculated to answer that end. Among oth.i oNectiorloble considerations was the calling itiadu France to lbeep within her ancient limits, *Windt ap plying that prinCiple to the other Powers of Etsr-Pe —the same tule sh ,old in justice and sounai policy be applied to All—the effect was to establish general discontent, initead of a system f general fttstite.— rrance, notwithstanding all ti,a , was said, tilt:night and felt bee borlour and dignity tune's invaited.— The misfortune sdas, that a prirciple cf halt or me dium policy prevailed, when every tl:ing should have been open, manly, and d..cisive. The Tree.) , of was such as to be (homed by the French, hot only dishonourable, but unjust to that nation ; and it %vat his opinion, 'liar nothing mote fatally affected the power of the House of Bourbon in that country than its being viewed by the peop;e cf Frattice 36 the in strument of their degradatinn. Neieter did he ,sp prove of what the /4ble I.crd Nail resraing tf.e Treaty of Fontainbleau, the fulfilment of tt.at !teary remained a serious questizia. Was complete Fistt‘e done in the spirit of the stipulation tesp•ctiog e Annuity? Was justice to be withheld to the cod cf the year, and in the mean time leave the subject ot it 'destitute ? IVere the stipulations respecting the Duchy ot Parma, and the setth ments on his wife and his son, duly carried into effect ? On a future day, when those subjects would come regularly under discussion, Ministers would have to accoutit for Oleo! as well as many other points, and the Noble Lord would have to fulfil his promise of explaittirg to the House all the circumstances of these arrangement,. Recurring again to the topics ot the Address, l u re garded as matter of satisfaction, that spirit of unani mity as well as magnanimity which seemed to prevail throughout the country, and he hoped entleav-tirs would be made to draw the Allies together open such a principle as may enable them to stem the wt. rent which now sets so unfavourably ; and it the dreadful alternative of war should become necessit y, that efforts should be made to animate their spirit and stimulate their exertions to the necessary and effectual pitch. CON - FRAC r FOR COAI.S. NAY! -OFFICE, March so, Isis. THE PRINCIPAL OFFICERS and COMMIS. srolvEß s of His MAJES7r: NA YT, do here4y give Notice That on WEVNESDAY, the lgth of April next; at One o'Cl. , (k, they will be ready to treat with such Persons as may be wiSlit,; to Contract for supplying his Majesty's several Dock I ado, or any one or mote of them, and also this °lice, with COALS. A Dirlriirtim o f du Cw J ,, and a Fern eas r ee ky may k mr. 01 this Ogee. N.) Tendir will he waived after oar ielsei, as the day of treaty, s. any Naiad, Vile!' the party, or ea egret for hies, &tads. q Trader snot be sciontotaied iy a Lite", atibusa Ito Ilse Nagy' Err,l,and 4ml by two rettonsilde Person:, engaziaz to &festive banal with Me Perim ten!, rill:, se Me sue 1425 per 100 Chaldruns, for •hr terfcrosix.e ,f the Contrest. P,MLLIMANTARr INTBLLIGENCE. HOUSE OF LORDS, APRIL 7. Cnumel were heard relative to the Scots causes of Bayne v. Campbell, and Lord Keith .. Taylors. Judgment in the former taw was indefinitely postponed; and in the latter until Monday. The Earl of LIVERPOOL laid some further official docu nrut4 upon the table, amongst which was a copy of the Treaty r. For.ainebleau. On the Motion of Lord MONTFORT, the further considera ion of Leigh'. Ilvtirce Bill was deferred from Tuesday until :::.dAy neat. ;!ome zoliversation took place relative to the farther proceed m the use of the Hehton Election SW, In which Lords !itt%i ILIA and De DVNSTANVILLE were the principal speakers. I oe rend: seen - ard to be, that similar orders to those of last Sc,- ion, la the saint case, were tnailc with respect to the hearing of sou sal and Ecieeoce on both side;, for and against the lid. iew Private Bilis were brought up fr.•nt the Commons by 1:r. Lt not, Mr. Cowiassies, and other Members, and read tir:t tune. Those on the table were forwarded in their re- 1 rec,iesiays. MONIED DETENTION OF FRENCH VESSELS. The Nl.:rquis of LANSDOWNE said, that betore their Lord -141 en:ereu upon the principal Order of the Day, he had to re- Just bum some Noble Lordoprisite, Information respecting a ..trt taut a ail fact. which was said to have, occurred slime the oleo lug of the HOUsi. He alluded to the alleged fact of the or capture of certain French vessel* by his Majesty's rakers. And on this head he would beg !cave to put two ques- Icns to these Noble Lords:—First, to know whether these ships wet detained previous to any instructions of his Majesty's Go kJ/ smelt and, secondly, if it was not dane in Consequence of instructions from Government, whether it *as not the itt • ''JLI of tiovarnment to take steps fur the restitution of the :4:lb detained, sf sock seise she ewe? Viecount MELVILLE, to answer to the queries of the Noble karqiiie, stated, that no instructions svhatestr to the effect al .Jed to bad been issued by his Majesty's Government. That a we, where one ship appeared to have been detained, insnie ?.ate ord ers were given for the restoration of the vessel: —( Hear !, With respect to another alleged ease, it merely depended 4on white report; no lnformadoo having reached Goveruovent leudi a fact. PRESENT STATE OF AFFAIRS. The Order for taking into consideration the Prince Regent's Message of yesterday, upon this subject, oeing moved, that document was accordingly read; The tail of LIVERPOOL rose, for the purpose :if moving a correspondent Address to his Royal Highness on the subject of his most gracious Message. In doing this, he said he telt it his duty to offer some observations to the House relative to some points connected wilt those circumstances, which led to the present momentous situation of this country and of Europe. He cnuld, however, assure their Lordships, tat he particularly wished in this instance, as it was his gzneral disposition at all times, to be as sparing of their Lordships' time, as he consistently could, end nrre especially on the present important occa. sion, when be was more particularly anxious that theta should be as little difference of opinion as pos sible. He therefore should abstain most carefully from all topics, which were not materially connected with the subject bef ,re the House. With respect to the great and eventful changes which have taken place is the course of the last 25 years in Europe, in whichi t nkht even be said that a moral convulsion I'rd Liken place in its system throughout a great part it, it could scarcely be expected that Europe could settle into a state of regular or permanent 1 1.mq:oiler, without a degree of danger of some con ',Aston occuiring that may tender it the duty of tvery prudent Government to against, as to coure and consequences. guard respect the a to the important events which occurteJ in the beginning St March last, events which, during the greater part of that long interval, could not have been in con temPl4!joll ; the prominent consideration was the great leierality shewn by the Allied Powers with re. 'pert t• the kingalon i o f F rance, i n the pinclusion of at Treaty which had taken Vie nice apparent, place. This would be when they contemplated the great Katt and resources of that country—its immense clic:1 1 1 141 ml, the mean s w h ic h i t a l ways h a d at i ts ut , d with reference either to future wars or i n quests. It a diff erent l ine of pol i cy had been :_ 4 . o s eted by the Alli es , t h en might some excuse have ted ; "le Palliation for the conduct et that coon. tty ! might exit ; but t h e po li cy of the Allies was a , 7 1: nd becoming one ; it wa s d e em e d, u po n t he and under all the. circumstances, both ripe adviseable. that as far as circumstances al toe Mi • ce should be made honourable to to the othe r b e hi gete t Powers. t tht '6 " C` ) : 1 ( , Aed whi c h mi g h t b e sat isfactory al and to the feelings of the loyal and good 3ttu;e4eic,';se::t...tvihat. country. Such was the character of dany respect respect to France, and more espe ‘,,,hicli ;": Peet to that done at Fontainbleau, of es were now upon their Lordships' table. lecztus that Treats! 4 great deal of misconception prevailed, • and that consideration induced him to trouble their Lordships with a few words bpon the subject. On that account, the Government of each country was placed in a situation in which they could have no alternative. They were anxious to enter into such an arrangement as might lead to a speedy and satisfactory termination of a most critical and impor tant state of things ; and in justification of their con duct, the statement of a few prominent facts may be necessary. On the entry of the allied armies into Paris towards the end of March, a declaration was made by Russia and Prussia, that they would not treat with the person who was then the Ruler of France. In consequence of this step, what may be regarded as a species of revolution in Fiance took place. What was called the Conservative Senate as sembled, and, deposing the then Ruler, a provisional Government was adopted. Under these circum stances, the treaty with the person who bad been the Ruler of France was entered upon, as the only chance 'of averting 'a civil War in that country, especially when the power and disposition 'of almost every Mar shal in France was well known. Besides at that time there was a formidable army in Italy which in all its circumstances, numbers and appointments, was superior to the one opposed to it, and there was no doubt of that army proving faithful to the late Go vernment of France. In addition to this, the situa tion in which the Allied Sovereigns were placed, in respect to nearly all the fortified places in France, Italy, Holland, and on the Rhine, being all inclined to side with, or support the authority of the Chief of the army. Under all these circumstances, of which their Lordships would appreciate the importance, the Allied Sovereigns were induced to accede to an ar rangement, which went to terminate hostilities, and save any further effusion of blood in France ;—and under that arrangement, the Isle of Elba waa referred in sovereignty to Bonaparte. The claim was made by him, by one backed by such a powerful military support, and under circumstances which gave him, in some degree, an option upon the question, and he had chosen that arrangement, to which upon every principle of honour and good faith among men, he was bound to adhere. He did not mean to say but what the Isle of Elba was a peculiarly improper place, not particularly with a view to any facilities it might afford with respect to France, but in otl:er points of view, and particularly its contiguity to Italy. But under such an arrangement as had been framed, he defied any man to point nut (if it was not to be considered as a prison, and it the consi. queues of the arrangement wet e not to be loss of personal liberty), any spot from which he could not have escaped. And with tespezt to ivy me .ins of guarding against his escape from on isle so situated and circumstanced as Elba, lie believed there was no person acquainted with the Meditei tamale that vas slid not say the whole fleet of England could not blockade that island so as to have prevented his egress at some time, were he in the determined disposition to escape. All he ci ul el say on that point was, that as far as was consistent with the spitit of the Treaty, an understan ding prevailed betaern Ws Noble Friend and the Officer on that station to take all fair and practicable measures to prevent that which had since unfortu nately occurred. Another consideration connected with this part of the subject was the resistance which any person so circumstanced could have opposed to an attempt of the kind made by one who had the so vereignty, the military power, and the police of the island, at his disposal and command. Two indivi duals, whom he had suspected of an inclination to resist his attempt ; these he had put under testraint, as he could have done any other person, who in such A way should attempt to oppose him ; and under such circumstances he would leave their Lordships to judge how far an escape could be guarded against. With respect to a supposed breach of the treaty or. the part of the Allies, he must deny that any such thing existed. Their Lordships would see by the Treaty that an annual payment of a certain revenue was to be made to him ;—and until the expiration of the year no breach of Treaty could be complai ned of. Besides, with a view to redress, it any were needed, he should have called upon the Allied Powers, who were parties to it, for the ful. filmeat of the stipulations, and then not until redress was withheld could he be justified in any contra. vention on his part ; —but the Proclamations pub lished by himself, en landing is France, were the best answers. He complained of no breach, but declared almost in terms, that when he had made that Treaty, he intended to break it upon the first op portunity. By that Treaty, he had absolutely re nounced the Throne of France both for himself and his descendants ; therefore his landing in France to take a forcible military possession of that throne, was A direct vitiation of that treaty, and all its engage-, ments and conditions. He was not recalled by the nation, or any part of it, which may have furnished some shadow of pretence ; but he . eted in defiance of the treaty, and of all the legitimate and recognized authorities of the country, and the whole was a re sumption of the throne by military power. It could not be necessary, therefore, to insist that the condi tions had been violated, and that the country, conse quently, had a just cause of war against him who held the Government of France at this moment.— But though the justice of the cause of war may be established, he admitted that it was another and a most important consideration, what WAS the cuutse which it would be wise, prudent, or politic, under the present circumstances, for the country to adopt. It was impossible to conceal the dangers which menaced the country from the present state of things, or those which menaced Europe in general, when the conduct f the Ruler of France, tor the last 15 years, was coo-' sidered, his unprincipled and unjustifiable invasion of almost every country in Europe within that period. The nature of the recent events rendered the case more critical and momentous. His coming under the protection of the military power, and one of his rust prolesilo is !wing, th at liewouldredeeln the ill glory of the Fren ch arms. Upon thewhollnei,shlehde. country was how plated in a state in which on'y these two alternatives presented themtelves—either a state of armed preparation for defence, or a state of active %Var.—(fieer, hear). —H. did not request their lordships to decide upon the latter at. present ; he Merely stated it as the alternative. He pressed for no decision upon that, because the question was in volved in many circumstances they could not then have before them.—(Hear, hear). —The question of war was not only a British but an European question —(Hear. hear) b —and must depend upon the concert ketween Great Britain and hi s M a jesty' s Alli es . H e should act improperly if he called for any other opi nion than what the Message from the Throne regu. laxly called for. The principles to be acted on were those of national sicu ii, and he trusted an intimate union and concert in that view, would be established between this country and its Allies. There could be no wish on the part of the British Government to drive the Allies to a more expensive line of policy. than their own sense of the general security of Ell rope may demand—their feelings, and their just views of what may be most conducive to the general inte rests would be properly attended to. On these grounds, he trusted their Lordships would feel no difficulty in agreeing to the Address. The alterna tive certainly was, a s:ate of armed preparation for defence, or of active warfare; but the latter was not then to be decided upon. They had every thing to hope froth that spirit and disposition to good under standing which he believed prevailed among the Al lied Powers, and he equally trusted that the country and Parliament had every disposition to consider the question in the way that would most conduce to the general interests of all. The Noble Earl then moved an Address to the Prince Regent, couched in the usual terms—echoing the principal points of the Message, and assuring him of their Lordships con. currence in all measures that may be necessary for the accomplishment of the objects stated in his Royal Highness's Message. Lord G RENVIL LE expressed his regret, "that any thing which fell from the Noble Earl, should call upon him to say more than those few words, he meant to say in approbation of the Address, as arising merely out of the Message from the Throne. He deprecated that any rdcrence should he made to points not es sentially connected with those under consizieration, un the conduct and stipulations of preceding treaties. and he was sorry to hear front so authoritative a quarter, that a circumstance of so much importance to the repose and security not only of this 'country, but of Europe, should have been left t depend upon an understandi n g suppo se d to ex i st bet *een an officer and an individual, not then in an official capacity, but employed in a foreign mission in a foreign coun try. Opportunities would come, when • the proper information was before the House, of duly contider ing thew points, as well. as Waite related to ilk.- Mirk, Wiese and conduct of the treaties referred to. As to the Important subject regularly before the House, he cordially agreed in much of what had been ad vanced by the Noble Earl. He agreed as to the dan. gerous situation in which the country was placed, and he trusted that danger would be considered in its true light, as by Englishmen who were not to b e appalled by its magnitude, and whose immediate in quiry would be, nut how we came into it, but the best way in which it could he repelled ? (Hear, hear). —He agreed with the Noble Earl as to the alterna: titre he had put—a state of armed and formidable preparation, or that state, which, though it would for the present preclude all hope of those salutary re trenclintents which were so necessary to the exhausted state of the nation, and even in a constitutional point of view, yet he trusted would eventually place the country in that state in which they may yet effectually be made. He approved of what was said of esta blishing a concert with the European Powers ; the question was certainly an European, as well as a British question: but its being an European question would, of itself, render it a British one. Such was the only cause from which their hopes of safety could be derived—what contributed to the calamities of ' Europe for the last twenty-five years, but a principle of disunion prevailing among its powers ? As soon as that was done away, and its nations brought to act in cordial concert, the most salutary, even the wished-for consequence followed. What was pro posed by the Address had his decided and cordial ap probatibr. All decision upon the great and difficult alternative was properly suspended : the day when they shbold have to decide upon it they would not be 'found lis abandon their duty; but the House, he trusted, would found its opinion according to those light, w . ch should be furnished to Parliament on the sub Deeming as he did of the measures re ferred • thy &Wee% it should have his support. The Marquis WELLESLEY cordially approved of the (hie of policy laid down in the Regent's Mes sage, ithich he trusted would be followed up in a way colinneasenate to the spirit of the people, the valour lif its armies, and to those principles under which country a ff orded 'a noble example to sur roun ' nation*, of the way in which they should effect • their own deliverance. At the same time he waif . dto ptrceive that no disposition ;Totalled to lau ' the Nation into violent or precipitate mea sures. His Majesty's Ministers, in this view, had li ra shewst 'semen creditable firmness , as well as a degree Of fa' in what they now called the House to de cide u . . • But there were certain passages in the speec his Noble Friend opposite which lie thought 3 w0...k upon him to state, he could not cOnsist entlystri llis duty or his feelings pass over without even' ' - diming some observations. He had to disappiobe of much of what the Noble Earl had said respecting thy consequences to be expected from that state in which Europe was plated for so many years. By the stliggestions of a wise aad adequate polar, he thought Ice rtopbse might have bead established and evrertheird ; %hope he 'trusted tisk opportunizy for a conj re, so greedy - to be'desired, was not Irmo. vetatif lest. The prraCiples• which guided the tor. ha - lir lth:Trcatiet which led to the late peace :i v , ' • 4, .. ': • . ' • Earl GREY made a variety of ohserwttions upon sew2ral of the points which had elici•ed in the moue of the discussion. He repeated the sentiments lie delivered on a former evening, respecting the mea sures referred to in the Royal Message, which were not only these of approval, but of cerr nit iidAtion.— In a great deal of what fell from his Noble Friends, in animadversion upon certain points of the N:hle Earl's speech opposite, he perfectly agreed. Hit Lordship rather more pointedly referred t, the pro ceedings of the Congress atVienita, which he thought ill calculated to settle the agitations that pt.( vaied. But these he also thought were points upon which his Majesty's Ministers would hereafter have to ex• plain and acenusst fur. And if he WAS not much' *HAWN -it 4 .011 kl Ise proved that a gtati d. rev nt ignorance, with respect to the real interests of Europe .as well as of those of th's country, prevailed in those discussions. it was also to the absence of t.und policy and an inattention to the pi inciples of political justice, that the French people were induced to -reject their own S .vereign as the instiument 01 t! eta IIA• tional degradation. Even the '!'teary of Footaine bleau was a topic on which it would be incumbent on Ministers to sliew that the infraction of it 14y it the other side. The assertion of the right of war he could not but deem impolitic and iojud:cious under the present circumstances of the country, for it it wese not acted upon alter being asserted in such a way, it would be attributed either to fear, or weakness, or both. He regretted that the Noble Earl rEd mit confine himself to the broad and general statements on the face of the Message. He admitted tie present state of things was such as to call for the most lop midable preparations for defence ; but still the infer. tion of the right of war was decidedly impolitic; and at best, if such sere proved (which lie did not mean to contradict), it was but proving halt the case. The right of making war on a defensive principle was a very different considera:ion from an interference with the internal concerns of another country. But suffi cient certainly existed to warrant what was called for by his Royal Highness's Message, and as the House was called upon for no premature decision upon the momentous question of peace or war, he had nu hesi tation in voting for the Address. The question was then put — The Address was voted near. fir.—Ordered to be presented to the Prince Regent by the Lords with white staves—and the House immediately adjourned till Monday. HOUSE OF COMMONS. • Lord GEORGE BERESFORD appeared at the. Bar, and ta nounced that, pursue" to the Aafdress of the Hoes,! Ins !toys! Highness the P/Rice &Vint bad been pleased to order cat of the Treaty el Parisostsued the I tilt April, and the 3 - Ls' et tt e Papers, comprised in the,Address, should be pro Weed Mr. Items, flan the CustOos House, presented ti e annual Accounts of Imports and Exports. Tie Tobacco Importation Bill was read a third time and pair& UNION TANAL. Mr. Ftntate presented petitions from Greenock and Port. Glasgow, in favour or the. Union Canal.—Ordered t , , hr r i tt table. lie then moved the led reading of ti.e Union Canal bill. Mr. WU. DUSIDAS 1110 1 / 1 11 al an amendment, that the hill be read this day six months. Alter a long cciversatton between Sir Alexander Hope. Sir John Marjoribanks, who vutiported the amendment, and I ord A. Hamilton, wise defended the Bill, Mr. Finlay replica, and the House divided. for Its second reading now, bo—Aga.iust it ea. Majority mutat ills BHI, 33. 1401C11 JURY BILL. On being re-admitted, we found Mr. %VII.ISERFORCJI presenting a Petition from the inhabi tants of Edinburgh spinet that dame in the Scotch Jury bill, *bleb required unanhaky in the verdict of a Jury. After some commotion between Mr. Wm. floods. sod Mr. Abercrombie, win wished that the people of bcci• isod should have an opportunity of stating, year by year, u they would have it In their power to do, the grievances resulting from the preecut kf4ll, when once enacted, rather than those which were fouteled on rear. 'Ube Peddler was ordered to lie on the table. Mr. BARHAM gave necks that, on Wedneway neat, be should move for leave to bring in a Bill for the bltter preventing British subjects iron entering the seniors of foreign Powers. ITATI PAPERS. Lord CASTLERIAOH, pursuant to the order of the House, protested his Mosta to Last Sodium of the lath Isyrd, tot 4, . . 1