Star. — London, England, 1815-04-14 00:00:00

.1 7 ..0 ry • • • • American Commissioners to prevent the future in terference of these p;ople had not been attended to. He contended, that considering the relation in which the Indians stood to the United States, that the de mand which we made for a distinct boundary for these nations, it was ebserd to suppose that the Arne- ' ricans would set up a boundary within their own ter ritory, against themselves. The land too was pledged to the public creditor in America, for the payment of the national debt. A demand of such a boundary for thegmlians, therefore, betrayed an igno rance not within the reach of ordinary inattention. — His Lordship went on to argue, at considerable length, the propriety of insisting upon a new bouts dery for the ledians, and upon a provision that nei ther England nor the United States should be allowed to . purchase the territory so marked out, but that a third party—France for iestance—might interpose estehlish herself by obtaining this land from the Indiens. Such was the wise policy that had dictated • thia 'l'ieaty. Lord BATHURST denied that any such provhe sian rreardine a thin d petty was introduced. M isquie WELLESLEY thanked the Noble Lord fee atTeitiiiig him a still stronger ground for enquiry, sins no as i eugenicist appealed to have been conclnd eti tie-oo a matter of such essential importance. He went on to notice the consequence of the transmis son to rite first propositions for peace by this coun try, which had tended to alienate our ft iends in the Uniirel States, and to knit all parties there in one reseiusion to resist such unprecedented encroach ments. If those proposals were made insincerely by our Government, no terms of reprobation could be ton strung ; it sincerely, it remained for the Noble Lord to explain.why they had been abandoned, and bow the i,iterests of the country were secured with out teose. guards that were then deemed indispensa lithe I t ct ensured very severely the predatory system. ui wail Ate carei..l on against America, and particu lerly the attack upon Washington, although he ap platteed the enntinet of Admiral Cockburn. It might be wise to th so oy the arsenals, but it was almost impious to di stioy the noble monuments of art. It was justified as a measure of retaliation ; defensive retaliation his laerdellip perfectly understood, but of fensive retaha rites eves a modern system of vengeance, little bevelling civilization; it was defying the or dinances of Gun and the laws of man ; setting at notteht that nehle maxim of doing unto others as we would they should do unto us a and adopting in its stead the horrible system a doing unto °diets as they Lid done unto us.—(h'ez:r !) If we justified ourselves by the exatnple of our enemies, why had we tee scaled the President as they had scalped the Giivernor at Y .::k Town ? His Lordship then jus tified the Govereenent of the United States from the charges bretieht against it of a seirit of rapacity and averamlizemeist is the first phsee, in the attack upon Canada. He contended, that they had made that ettaek not for tee sake of obtaittine and mann -111: but because they were une'lle to cope wit!, tis by sea, enfoi eine, their nittiiiime tight.: by ope ranieis on laud, inhere the Noble Eel (Bedell si ) had a Insiried e were weakest. The next accus Ithte re. gardeti Laeisiatta, which, it era: said, had been un fairly obi eined ; his Lordship went through the reir• ticulers astending the cession of Louisiana by Botta pile to the United States, in 11103, contending that they had purchased it to relieve themselves from a pressing and en in)entousdAnger whichthreatened their trade on the Mississippi, of which they gave Englaiic! due notit e, at the same time assuring her of a dispoti ti.,n to continue the harmony at that time subsisting. He also noticed the protest issued by Spain upon that occasion, which afterwards was withdrawn, when a proper exptanation was 'given ; at least the period of approaching pacification was not the time for bring. ing forward a charge resting upon a transaction that 'took place ten years ago. The next charge regarded West Florida, in taking possession of which the Anse. ricans were charged with new rapacity. The fact, however, was, that that territory had only been taken possession of provisionally. It so happe.ied, that at the moment when we were making this charge against the Americans, we were ourselves in the oc cupation of West Florida for the purpose of availing ourselves of it in making war against the United States. Was this temporary occupation to be held as a proof of our desire of aggrandizement ? Could any imprudence be so monstrous, as during a nego elation to produce such articles of charge as these were ? He would now turn to the last period of the negotiation, after the withdrawing of our demands. That arose then all ofd Spdden, like a flash from heaven, a point which no•one would have antieieat ed ; and if the bringing forward this point had not been attended with such dreadful consequences, be should have thought it a matter of amusement. He meant the point of the Nei possidetis, by. which we hoped to obtain the Pen bszot territory. In the cot respondence which had been published, these was the anest astenis!!ing superiority in point of talent on the part of the Americans. He did not mean to throw' the slightest in-7,lsta at on the Con.missionere ; for he believed all °Kir papers were dr.twn up in Eng land. They bore few milks of the collective wirelem of the Cabinet. That Genth man, Mr. Saes Lien, vase had so often deligleted another. House; of which lie was one of the most bruliaut ornaments, and who stilt delighted al: those who had the happiness of knowing him, said of the Treesto y Bills, they were Summer Bills, So these proceedings must heve beets ilrawn up in summer at a country villa ; and one might safely say of them, " Emma precel vittarum cornice finnane" As late as the 31st October last the negotiation was again closed ; and the result of the delay was the dreadful sacrifice at New Orleans. It was not till the 21st Novemhtt that matters assumed a shape which was likely .o be attended with favourable results.— The very circumstance c; the chasm, of any cause to: which he was not aware, justified the motion for the correspondence. With regard to the Treaty itself, t h er e was nothing contained in it but the cessation of War, and en engagea.ent relative to the Slave trade. A machit cry of the most furious kind was created lot the purpose tif determinieg the bound , triesbetWeeh out ictritories and those of the Americans. Teo'. commissioners .were appointed who could hardly b. supposed to cetne to any agreement on that subjeuc and if It. y disagreed, the Emperor of Russia was t. deterniine t, hich wilf the middle of Lake Outario, where the esth deg. of latitude struck Iroquois tie(' Diet what cha the l'irfaty omit I It not only wittr, • • •• " - • ' all the pretensions which had been advanced. but there was not one word in it respecting the original cause of the war, nr the question of public law. - This he understood was deemed, on the part of Ministry, an effort of extraordinary wisdom, tt being, it was said, better to leave these claims on the general foun dation of the public law, than to make them the sub ject of a separate convention. To leave these ques tions on the foundation of public law, was to leave them to the appeal of the sword. It might be well to leave this matter on the foundation of public law, were the two nations agreed as to the application of that public law, but this was what he had never heard. If the Americans disputed the existence of the right of search, by leaving that question undecided, would they avoid a future war? Would it not have been Imore wise, instead of wasting the time of negociation in setting up untenable pretensions, and in bringing forward imprudent charges, to have made some ar rangement which would have secured them from the danger likely to arise on the renewal of war; for every war in Europe would inevitably lead to war with America. The Noble Marquis then concluded by moving an Address for copies or extracts of the COll cspondence between his Majesty'. M nisters and the Plenipotentiaries of the United States, relative to the late negociation. Earl BATHURST said, this was a motion of a very extraordinary nature; and it it was understood that at the conclusion of a peace, the proceedings dar ing the negociation were to be published, no one cir cumstance would be more likely to prevent a peace. All arguments used by a negotiator in the course of the negociation, might be a matter of reproach to him if he thought proper to relax in his denunds, and this might be a cause of the prolongation of war. Ano ther objection to such w practice was, that it had a tendency to revive many questions which ought for ever to be buried in oblivion. He entered on this question with reluctance ; and he hoped he should not in the course of debate make use of any expri s sion which would oe construed into a wish on Lis part to hurt the feelings of America. He was the more afraid of this, as there was unfortunately in America a strong party adverse to this country, and in this ccuu• try there was also a strong party adverse to America. —lt was said that it was the bounden_ duty of this country to embrace the earliest oppertunity of termi nating the war with honour. In this ke was ready to agree with the Noble Marquis. The Nsble Mar quis had termed the instructians given to the Ameri can Commissioners moderate. To shew that they were not so, he would state the instructions given to theeie Commissioners at the tiine that they die.ired the mediation of Russia. The first was, that the /lig should protect the crew, in other words, tlett the Bri tish should have no tight ef sear& ; the second, that the of bloc kad., shonid lie defieed, that was, that a neutral seould allowed to made between the colenics and the p trent star:. el a helli,;:rent, and to catty on the coasting trade of a belliget tit ; the List was to demand an iiidente:,y for he,s, by requiring :rom Great Britain paynteet tor all American veekele condenirtcd under the Orders in Council. le Tine foilewing the Anictican Commisf:oners t.ceived an oti:er instruction, stating, that notwitleeariL:iiig the Alva) then rdcrs in Council, it was highly unite: tent that ,!le cent.eversy el blockade •,heu:d sea:.: iU the 111411:1Zr as tlett of tile ieliresicientte se Ar.: , ffl. .niet e Was an .idd!tional insatiction, That should t*.e restitution of tetritoi y a , !iced then o:at rite boundaries of both countiies should be mete ;leen lately defined. This last eh ctinisteece r.dtititted ciaistruction *out that the Atneficatt Gavel ement had contemplated the probability that a treaty ut peace might be Cone:mks; wit h out any restittnien of terri tory, although at that time they expected the cue. quest of a part of licpr Canada. We &cancel the mediation of the Emperor of Russia, on the ground that it was unfit to Allow any foreign power to inter meddle ss ith our mai itime t ights. The American Government received our detertnination in January 1814. 'They immediately instructed the Commis sioners at Ghent in the same manaer as the Ameri can Comme.sioneis had been before instructed. The Noble Marquis had charged his Majesty's Govern. ment with delay in the conclusion of the Treaty. The circumstance which influenced his Majesty's Go. vernment to delay the commencement of the nego. ciat;on which issued in that Treaty, was their wish that the intelligence of the recent events in Europe erould reach the American Government, and induce them to commence that negotiation in a sp:tit calcu lated to produce a happy result: Adverting to the last point—the terms of the Treaty itself, he con tended that we had obtained important objects both in the settlement of the boundary line, and in the provisions stipulated for in favour of the Indians, and in opposition to the Noble Marquis's assertion, main , mined, that at the outset of the negotiation the Commissioners were nut prepared to give up that which they conceded at the close. The time occupied in the trugocirtion, after the pat tial publicatioa of the ploctedings by tl.e American Government,was taken up by the discussion of the i'r.tocol of the American Commissioners, but al though the partial publication by America, to which' :ie had juit alluded, was evidently for the purpose( o. exciting hostility is the United States against Geat Britain, he would not, by any detailed statement uf the contents of the American Protocol, endeavour to xcite hostility in Gfieit Britain against the United States. The Noble Elrl concluded by defemiine the conduct of our brave army and their gallant Com mander at Washington. At the moment that our victorious army was entering that city, an attempt was made to assassinate their leader, who was at the very moment exhorting them to respect the lives and property of the iolubitents. In the first ebullition of resentment, the house, from which- the attempt pro ceeded, was destroyed ; but the voice of our brave Conimander restraining jhe fury of his troops, was soon listened to, and no private property wa pbse qeently injured by the British army. . Lola STANHOPE said, that as he thought it de.irable to obt.du the fullest inform4tion upon the causes which had originally led to till: . American war, he should.certainly support the motion of the N:c.ble. Marquis tor paper! which might comnituticate , nat informatiop. TI-e Howie then divi4lecl, when the numbers were —Contents . 3Q—Non-contents 88.--Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMON& There being only•twenty•nine Members previat at .our sicluck ) the House arijottined till this day! OFFICIAL NARRATIVE OF EVENTS FROM THE LANDING of BONAPARTE TO THE DEPARTURE OF HO MOST CHRISTIAN MAJESTY LOUIS XVIII. FROM THE PILENciI TERRITORIES. A catastrophe equally disastrous and unexpected, has struck Europe with the greatest astonishment. — A King, who was surrounded by die confidence and the love of his people, has been compelled to aban don hit capital and soon atter his States, which had been invaded by that man whose name emits only calamities and crimes ; and France has, in less than three weeks, been replunged, from the state of pro found peace and progressive prosperity to which she had been restored, into that abysspf evils which was believed to have been for ever cl.sid.—lt is impor tant to make known by what progression of irresisti ble causes treason has, under such circumstances, been enabled to enchain the public force, and the na tional will. On the .sth of March, the King . received informa tion, by a telegraphic dispatch, of the landing of Bo naparte on the French territory, at the head of lItDU men. This enterprise was to•be considered in two different views. It was either the result of a plot, supported by extensive communications, or the act of a madman whosrantbition and violence of character prevented „him from longer supporting a retirement which could afford to him only the agitations of re morse. In this double supposition, it was neeessery to adopt every measure suggested by prudence, and which the most imminent peril would have dictated. No precaution • was neghicted. Orders were issued with the greatest dispatch for the assembling of troops et Lyons. Satisfactory accounts were received from the Commandant of Grenoble, and the conduct of the garrison of Antihes caused it to be conjectured slat Bonaparte had been deceived in his hopes of bt i ig joined by the King's trcops. lf, however, he hard brined any communications, they might be expected to favour his first prowess, but it was hoped that a corps which had been stationed at Lyons would, at alt events, stop him. Monsieur departed on the to take the command of that corps, and was followed I the next day by the Duke of Orleans. All the Marshals and Generals empl:iyed in the departments, received orders to proceed to there re spective commands, and immediately departed. Marshal Ney, who commarded at Desane re and who might effectually hart secended the operations of Monsieur, took leave of the King, and on kissing the hand of his Mejesty, slid, with a trine of affec tion, and an eixtgy which serried to proceed from the frat.kne,s of a soldier. that if he should i.uhtlue the enemy of the King and ui France • c would bring hint piiv , ner in an iron cage." Tile event s oc a - lett hese dissimulation he had been in• spice:.!. was dis. lewd Ow project of a traitor, which every soldier in Eutope wi:l learn will. !warm. MAlS'ear was received with elithtt•Oastu at Liters. All was prepared fur the most vigorous resistance, but unfortunately no ammunitio • w..s to be precored It was soon made known t-at the . 4 orison of Gre noblc bad opened the gates of the tow.' to the enemy, told LI:A: a re ;invent wilich had departed from Lb .11.- bet!, wider the orders of M. de I t licdoyete, had the rebels ; only a small Isllllll/CI of troois I !iad as yet arrived at Lyon;. but \loasiew., e.ll • had been eagerly pilled by Marshal M tcdonald, slid doe: to maintain himself he• tali:.! works, which had been hastily constructed. iloacvix, on the approach of the first dragoot.s, preceded Bonaparte, a general disaffection ap. iaared among the troops of Mensnur. All ttei vie nee:sit leers of the Duke of Tatentien were vane ; and then, as afterwards, the forces collected to resist the torrent, only served to increase it, and to Add to its violence. It was learned on the 10th, by a tel, graphic dis patch, and consequently without any details, that Iso. naparte had entered Lyons that day. T:ie te:tun of the Duke of Orleans, who arrived at earls ire the 12th. and that of Monsieur, were qinekly followed by act:omits which can led to the highest •pitcts ttst alarm which so rapid a continuation a dtb.tsters could not jail to create. Mean while opinion, agitated by alarm and dis- I trust, sought to discover otherwise than iu the fatal ascendancy of a detested man the cause of his de-1 plorable success. No one would believe ilea the mere seduction of his presence could produce such an effect on the troops. The Marshal Duke of Dal matia, Minister of wae; had been the last o sup port in France, by force of arms, the Arcady lost cause of Napoleon. Some pretended to inter from this former mark of attachment, :t roof of treason. —The public voice was raised treiiirst the Marshal, and he himself came and delivered into the hands et the King his resignation and his sword. His Majesty with that confidence which has never abandoned him even in the midst of the basest perkieies, ordered into his presence the Duke of Feltre, whom the pribiie estimation pointed out to his choice, and deliver.ri to him the port-folio of the Wee Deter? uncut, with winch he had been charged tinier i 5 emporia up to the time of the restoration. This deteradiration of the King has been fully justified by the fidelity of the Duke of Feltre. No other course could now be adopted but that of retrograding the troops, as, in advert:Mg towards the enemy, they furnished him almost every where with auxiliaries. It was aereed to it): ::t a corps d'artne,. before Paris, by collecting to l rther a, greet a twat ber as possible of the Netionel Guards and Volun teers. From the 11th, the Duke de Beni had been appointed General of this army. Marshal Niacdoreild, on his arripia, was charged with the command el it under that Prince. The orders issued for the organisation of Or.• ye lunteers and the movable columns of tee Netioeel and gdea t n e o vr t et er b ya e dmv c oa a mi r i r ce i en e d d t Guards, could not however arrive at their dr bt nation, r. brought e i r t il a e w C t h i () i t : tr tt e r sh sd'ttinut pidity of which In telt all the adventagei and several regiments, whi.e sivierni ; m e unavoidably even ywoneark7 his line of nam e, hisse Trial w h t , o joi ned n i Burgundy, and two of them advanced to Auserre. Still a light hope was entertained of bettig able to retain in their duty the troops of the first mattery I vision, and those which formed the garrison of Paris. An imminent peril s which the conduct of the Core sander 'vt . La Fel bad averted, and the arrest the traitors D'Erlon and Lallemands, afforded 'some security as to what might bit expeeted to take place is the I)eparpnemas of the Notai. The Duke of Reggio, though abandoned by the Old Guard, had succeeded in retaining in their duty the other 'mop e which he commanded. It was resolved to form at army of reserve at Peronne, where the troops being concentrated would be less exposed to seduction, and where they would be under the observation of th e Duke of Treviso, to whom the cemin:nd of thi s army was given. The Duke of Orleans set off soon after to repair thither. The King, fully convinced of the magnitude of the existing peril, and equally sensible of the extent of the duties which the circumstances is which he was placed imposed upon him, now appeared in the. midst of the representatives of the nation, with 1 woon t he had wished to surround himself on the first ap. pearance of danger. His speech to the two Come bets made a great impression in the capital, the bitants of which evinced an unanimous sentiment tie attachment to their King and century. I;ut the National Guard, composed in a great measure o heads of families, could not el' ird a nute!eir of so. luuteers sufficient to insure any hop: of resistance and Count Dessoles, who comman led the Gu trd, explained himself in this respect in well a manner as to remove all itt.!.i of doing any thin! ni-te, than 0 intermix the citizens with the trity.es of :be 1 . ;- 2 , in such a mariner as might be expected to te!.tin t h e . latter in their duty. livery °the: p! in at dc . .:T.ce way. impracticable. Thus was the Covernmei leiuced to rcgard, as the principal means ut resistance, t i 0 .. 0; whose more than duuhtful fidelity was to be centi: . .e.. ed only by a small number of brave and loyal robin. (Nes , t o w hom were to be joined the cavalry of the King's house)). Id. On the 17th, a disastrous piece of intelfigence rendered the reliance to be placed on these repent. 110115 still kss certain. Marshal Ney, who was be. lieved to be in pt rsuit of tl a rebels, Lad joined them, and Irid pulahle•at a i.roclaniation cute: tted sti:l mote to piornote the defection. This news tpreiid terror through the departments nearest the capital. The town 14 Seos, which was to have stop. ped the progress of Napoleon, declared itull ineq a . ble of making any resistance. The enemy seas .ib tut to arrive at Font:6l4)lo9i , and the tri tips in l'aiis, on whom every means caiculated to excite their pe. triotism had been exhausted, remained ,iknt, or be. trayed only the desire of abandoning then cohniri. Mcarcely had they commenced their march to pro. teed to the Ilona of rendezvous assigecd to them when these bad dispositions degenerated into pee mutiny. In the morning et the Itnli it wa; learned that theie was nut a single regiment assembietl before VAR is woialt war liot iniected with this con!ap,ious e ls . loyalty, and the only cc u:se wit.cli the Kiog could now pursue, 1.-as to retire with the troops o f his household, the only corps on which he could ma im th rely. lits Majesty, who hail tent the D:iite of Ilitith-o to the weitrrn deparun tits, and iced trans , mitt d to the Duke at illigcultm: :he pt:w;:t. sary for aiming the soutle.in j.toeinlees, tt o;Ot i. advieibh: to repair in pi elerence to &pat-meats .4 the with, to endear:An to pieserse the lei:l:lse.. that quieter, and to make i.iiese Ltrette serve as of slippy! t to any as,,ernbev,;., of :ai sui t jects which might there be :ot med. l'i.e KinE Lit is on the 19.11 at tniiiriii;ht, and was toie.iwec oee ireur 4itcr by his military Ituesehold, conductee by ivions:eur the Duke or bent. On Cie.::J:h, at live in .he evening, the icing ar tired .t Abbeville, where, expectiai; his hnii),:litC troops, he remained on the following day ;'out Mar. seal lkilacdwiald, who rejoined his Mal:!..ty tin tha its at ono::, proved to the K 9 the necessity or rernieenj farmer, tied in coo.equente of his ref ort nis resolved to sli..t 11;insell up in Lille, a• d sent an. orris: to has househel 1 to repair to Ltm there by the wee. cit . Amiens. On the 22d, at one in the afternoon, the Kir.; preceded by the Duke of Tarentuin, exacted where he was received by the innabi!anrs wiii. strongest demonstrations of affection and fah iity The Duke is Orleans and the Doke of Tresiic who had arrived at Lille before the Kin.t, had, lic.v ever, thought proper to call in the garrison. This circumstance, of which the King was nc aware, was calculated to disconcert the plan of resit tenet which had been formed. Had not the um). :seen brought in, tile Nil iiirial Guards and the Iloast• held, aided by the patriotism of the people of trtglit have secured for the King this last asylani o the Fieneli tevitory. Wida 4 numerous and ill di: posed garrison, this design appeared most difficult c. execution. His Majesty, however, persisted making the attempt. kiss presence had ahead, raised the enthusiasm of the people to its higlies pitch. A multittide, full of zeal, accompanied hie. at every step, exerting every effort to interest tl:e sol diets, and constantly repeating the endearing cry e Live h. Rai ! Bat the troops, reserved and coltl maintained a gltov my silence, an alarming presage:: t h e ir Approaching defection. In tine, MArslial Mot r aleciared to t!:e Krug that tie coed nut attire for the garrison. Beiu 4 - questioned as to the lug in peilient which rhight pissiuly be resorted to, he 4 1, declared that it was out in tiis power to 111.tke ro ps march out of ill:. tortress. Me...awhile the D:ciar.i.i .11 promulgated et Vienir on the ldtli of March, in ite name of ..11 Lire p. an Powers atsembied in C4ollglcsS, re.i.;l4'd 1,41 s rhe. King caused it-to be immediately distrileitia Ind pl.ac.adt.l, but in vain, to eitligliien tli trnopi tespect to tit: dreadful conseque.w, ‘r;t. iv!: c.ll th it tie 'son was abotit 14 be f01i0v....J, an l :Aid inevitable mastortunes it would draw upon V"' coiiiitr). On the his Majesty learned that the Duke.. issano, appointed Minister of the interior, i:•• sent the Pretest of Lille orders In the name el ro"• parte.—On the same day Islarshal Metier state: I, the Minister of the King's Household, that in on sequence ot the report that tire Duke ot Breit v' 'omit to arrive with the horiseliold troops dill I"‘' Swiss regiments, all the g.tr; t.ori WAS IVA,Ir Lo 1 3 . 1 slaty than he would cooljnie the King to leave 1:11 ,last, in order to avoid the most drealilfill lei mis' ,l tunes; that, by escorting his Majesty himself w t;3 l gates of the town he still hoped to cernmind srum the soldiers, but shat would nu lunge' lie it the departure was for a moment delayed. 'rho King then Judged it necessary to order • 'Lary household to march on Dunkirk, but f order unfortunately was not received. With respa Ito itintieirheing unable to go directly that wts.; . _s .e went to Ostend His Ma jesty At Lille at thl.alr. o'clock, accc, • rnpanied by Mat alai Monier, u r