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STAIR PAPER. possoisAT, OF FAUN VON NAVA 6. INININTI4 ITATI TO TON ;IMO 011 Fll7l$lA, TO Walt , ' dos. r .15. My Lord—Conformably to the anfwer nave id reedy had the honour to trantenit to your Excellency, to the queßion which you ad4reffed to me. relative to the fceurity of the troops of I% Britannic Majefly, in the North of Germany, I batten to lay before you the pfitive ajurances which I have the pleafure to be Ole to communicate to you. Your Excellency is acquainted with the prelim Rate of affairs. You will bra perceive that. at the point to which matters have now come, fince the . Unfortunate battle of Außerlite, between Auftria and France, in confcquence of the return of the' great Ruffian army, and the total uncertainty is which we ate with regard to the intention of Napo- Icon towards Pruffia, the utmofi caution is abfolutely neceffary. The brave( army cannot always reckon upon rum& ; and it is, undoubtedly, the littera of Proffitt, and the intereft of the world, to prevent any attack upon her at the prefent moment, when the would have to bear the whole burden of the war ; and no confederacy adapted to circtutallances has been formed ; for, in cafe her armies &mild . prove unfitecefsful, the lafi ray of hope, to maintain the fecority and independence of the Continent, would' be gado/milked. The King fill animated by the fame with to ells- WI; a general Peace on a permanent footing, and. if polGUe, to the fatisfaeion of all parties. mutt eonfequently have been ardently defiroos that his mediation, Stipulated in the convention figned on the sd of November, at Potfdarn, amid have been ac cepted by Frame*. In en interview which Count Wit Haugwits had with Napoleon on the znth No vember, that Monarch manifeßed a difpofition to ac. eept of thia mediation, on the two following condi tions t— t. That during the Negociatimi no troops of his ititannic Majetly, nor any Ruffians or Swedes &mild advance into Holland to commence warlike opera tions there, after their departure from the North of Germany. . a. That a more extenfive circuit thould be allowed to the fortrefs of Hameln, in order to relieve the dif *refs of the pram; for pi ovifions. The King could not accept there propofitions under the circanatiances of the moment in which they were wade i bat thefe have totally changed, and in the t conjtinfture his Majetly has not only judged admilible—upon condition that the Emperor on his fide, not to fend'any troops CUs r N:1 111 r Germany, as long as the negocia. time Sall continue. and that he (hall not undertake metkopg wit* Hanover during the fame interval even favourable, es time will thus be gained to tabs more deliberate meafures, and to prepare for every mottingency ; either in cafe a war thould break out, or this intermediate Rate of things thould lead to a definitive negotiation. That no time may be log, his Mojay has fent Major Von Pfubl to the French head quarters, that this arrangement may be cart ied into effed. At the Rime time, Count Haugwitz has received the ne• ceffary infirueions, bearing date the ;nth infant, and the King has given France to underhand, that he thall confider the occupation of Hanover by French troops, as an aa of hoffility. Agreeably to what I have jug Rated, his Mojelly has authotifed me to inform your Lordthip, that, in conformity with the affitronces already given, in cafe the troops of his Britannic Majell y and the Ruffians !Maid prove unfortunate, the King engages for the fecority of the troops of his Britannic Majefty, in Hanover, and grants them petted liberty, in cafe of neceffity, to retreat to the Prilffian army, and to the Oates of the King, but with the following modifica tions, which circumfiances render neceffary— r. That they take their pofitions in the rear of the Proffian troops. and alottain, during the period of the intermediate negociation, from every movement and Rep of a provoking nature towards Holland. a. That in cafe the Proffian troops (ball be at tacked by the French, his Majetly may rely with Turfed confidence on the fupport and co-operation of the troops of his Britannic Ma)jefly, as long as they (ball continue in the north of Germany. His Majet ty has given orders for a refpe&able corps to acl wince into %hipbone, and will adopt every need*• fory meafore for fecurity and defence. The Ruffian troops, under the command of General Count Tol. Roy. are already at the entire difpofal of his Majelly, as the Emperor Alexander has folly sothorifed him to difpofe of them at pleaftire ; and likewife of thofe which are under Gen. Bennigfen, in Silelia. I therefore requeft your Excellency to write at fpeedily as poffible to Lord Cathcart, the Comman der in Chief of the troops of his Britannic Majefiy, and to prevail upon him to take. without delay, fuch Reps as are neceffory for tilde different purple., and in particular to comply with the invitation which will be tranfinitted to him by the order of the King, through Count Kalkieuth, to confult perfonally with him and Count Tolfloy, on the pofitions which the troops of his Britannic Majetly, the Ruffians, and Prutlians. will have to take, in confequence Of the als•Nve mentioned arrangements. As the Swedifla troops are in the fame predica ment with the troops of his Britannic Majetly and the Ruffians, it would be extremely defirable to pre vail upon his Swedith Majeßy to conform to this ar rangement. 1 ht.pe that, to this end, your Lordthip will ae in. concert with Piinee Dolgorucky, whom his Imperial Majehly of all the Roffias has charged with every thing relative to the deßination of the Ruffian army. In cafe his Swedills Mojefly will reign the condo& of hi. troops to Count Toltioy, the King is ready to give them the fame F tiarantee which lie offers to the troops of his Britannic Majetly, during their continu ance in the north of Get many. 3. With regard to the prorifinning of the forted, of Hameln, it is conceived that the pant of a certain difiriel, from which the garrifon might themfeltes • procure provillons, would be attended with great in conveniences. both in refpedt to the fubjees of hie Bratinnic.idajelly, and on account of the co llifio n , which might thence entur between the troopk . It, i het 7 efbre,•appearli prat, atelc, to lurnifh oetelfaries win the fiMaoverian territory, through an interme c ate pilots's-act whom Genital Bat him mull fend a t -1 Defies Dec: Ratement of what he waste for daily cenfumption, and on whefe rtquifitioa the Hanoverian Miniftry will take care that It be delivered at the Aim a. -- pointed fft that plitpore. But General BArbou ma , on his fide, engage to rennin quiet within the town of Hameln. Conformably to there ideas, the King has cent M. Von Krulemark, Lieutenant Colonel of the Girt la Caps, and Adjutant to Field MITII3II Von Mol lendorf, to Hanover. I have given him, for my part, a letter to the Minikr: ot his Britannic MAOIty, at Hanover, and another for General Barbuu, that the neeelfary arrangements for providing, inftanta neonfly, to the fubfiltence of the garrifon of Hameln, may be made, and put into execution without delay. I bate now nothing left, my Lord, but to refer to the verbal communication I had the honour to make to you, and to entreat you to take in general fuch ' Reps as you (ball think expedient for carrying into execution the whole arrangement which I have had the honour to fubmit to you. 1 requeß yod to have the goodnefs to inform the. Commander in )Chief of the troops of his Britannic Majeßy, that it is only in cafe he Sall think proper to accede to this arrange ment, and to adopt loch meafures as (hall depend upon him for carrying it into execution, his Pruf Gan bhjeßy can pofitively engage to guarantee the fecu rity of the troops of his Britannic Majefty. • In cafe of an attack on the part of the French, it Will, how ever, be neceffary, tbst the condo& of the whole fhould centre in one point, and it appears natural that the °Weil in rank Ibould then affurne the chief com . mend. It would conferptently devolve upon General Count Kalkrenth, both for 'the above reafon, ■nd likewife becaufe he, being in the Vicinity of the ene my, would be beR able to judge what meafures to adopt. . I repeat to your Excellency the affluence of the high confederation with which I have the honour to . be, my Lord, your Excellency's, &c. (-Signed) 11.1113111111510. BRUNzWICK. The following is given in a German Journal, as a noble monument of patsiotifm, doing equal honour to a brave Prince and his fubjeits u The PETITION of the BRUNSWICSERS to their DUKE. " MOST tewsiasous DORI. MOST OR•CILVI Mal Ntt AND LORD, • To your children, and all good Brualwkkere, a mat anat. countable rumour is in eircalatlon It is fald-.--but may the All bountiful PROVIDRNCI prevent its ever being reollacc&-that the deftly? which is now fpreacUng over Europe, threatens us ago They fay, what norm of us can hear without trembling, and what noes of us can exprofa without turning pub. that dm ihristening dein) , we eluded to before, is feeling to repaints as honied people on earth from its all-bonoured, aU.admlred, and eil-bdisvoi Father; that It would give him other fubjefle who me not his children, and give us another Prince who is not our Father. They fay too, that we Hall ceafe to be the favourites of fortune, and the happleft of all people, matted with wilt:leen, satinets, sod real , tide. If this dreadful fate dould be bought off with oar blood, eh! bow wiltinoly, how joyfully, would we Hied it to the left drop, to suture to our children that enviable rituation whieli we have hitherto enjoyed 1 But aloes, what can oar hull mother effort %mina the iron bead of that defile, ' width bewhablepted people an lomdred times grata then ourehoe, and which rooms to area en as if it would tors about all Btatee Ike a inititecock t We can dfat nothing by our acme; bet only through Goo and pour Or me our great and good Fiches., can we pallid, be raved. Before Coo therefore, we (ball probate coercive% malourly crying4refave! oh, preferve! what then halt gives us—the belt, ells .'colt gra date, the enter! of all Princes. To yea we fttetch ear we bung arms and pray—Have mercy opao year diadem I Prefeit've mu ftif the themes lenges Peovuance, mend by our pratme,.ftell prolong a life fo valuable to the world and el. TWINE do it, greet and good Father! for where is the country when the dune and high repetadon of your governing virtues Mora extendidi Who la InfenGlite to the very fulmar quisileadomfa% of your per united with all the rare properties of your limn sad Wed t Who does not love and admire them t Whore la ft that the noes ex petitions of your will would not be maned with that diem end ottrequioufnefs due to the very Owls ftfryt One word from you. and even that fate which now decides upon at lot of nations Gail pay homage to your wilt ! One wind front yes, end your children, your happy, grateful children, &all be raved! Oh, (peak this word, and (peek it Co clearly and intigligbly, that even the threatening Delliny iffelf *tall bear, and thr would and parte. rity pay you that deference already due to the may nuts 11•181100 you have gime, to which you will add the real masa id others—that of a Prince who has no Midi to extend ble terrhery or luau& his cliental greatn cfs, but only &fires to paha, the baffled' of his legitimate fuhjedtii. • TIN& traits of true princely greatnefs, Uteri will mime for yes, as the moll beautiful and cottly of ail diadems- Adenoid by year virtues, !Mary will reprefent theft to poßerity as aroma of admiration, and an example, which wife Legillators and Tu tors will anxiouily recommend to their pupils, and by virtue of which, they may, like your Highnsfs, attain to the high& degree of magnanimity. You, they wiH be emulous to imitate. Hum ility, which OVIt3 you fo many thanks, will be laid under peculiar obligations, for an example fo neceffery to our times; and your reign will, by nide means, become the faireß, the mat Aced. ous, and enviable of all others; being the dominion of the mind, the bean, and the moral world: not mend, immortal in Waif; but it will diffeminate, all over the habitable globe, the gamin% though unobtrufive, reputation of a Prince, in oppofitioa to the childith and contemptible fieg-tong of Battery; and (hew bow to diftingulfb true gunners from the vanity of mere ambldon. " To us, to whom PIIOIIIDINCa ins been fo gracious as to give rub a Prince, may our great and good Father Rill remain our all—our jell pride—our benefadtor; the beautifier and the aug menter of our ameliorating fituation, and Seedling commerce ; our inerealing intelligence; our emulative arts and fciences; our improved (yftem of infantine educadont our well-regulated public feminaries ; our religious belief, and the freedom of the prep; our wife laws, and their fatherly application.—All Ode are thy works, dear Father of the country! And for their prefereation for our chil dren, we Sall again thank you, while Intoxicated with delight, and with weeping eyes, thanking Coo alto from the bottom of our hearts, with our uplifted arm, trembling with joy, we offer you the molt free and unfullied homage ever yet offered by man—that of hearts deeply abided and Randy able te contain their happi res. For It is our higheß pride, our molt anxious with, that fo i rg as we oee.—yes, and if poffible, beyond the grave, in our children and their latch dercendants, to pay no allegiance but to you and your princely pofterity, and molt fenfibly to continue to fubfcribe our elves, with molt unfeigned devotion, the molt happy, grateful, and obedient children of our great and good Father. (Signed) ALLIS/ lIIIUNSWICICILL " Brunfwick, February ie." F IT.4Lr. a ie Gime Pea. i 2 .—According . 4* reports frosts filegas, Englah frigate which had under her caster a et of traullsorts with Ruffian:troops on boar 7 44jbas been wrecked• on the Coati of Sinai—one 'of the tranfports is Paid *have !hated the fame fate alftn N!,..' -. . • ' • .....a , Laft t ight two (hocks of in enidninnksleere dif tinetly felt here. - • - - ' _. .. . PR E/3514. ... Beams, MAICH I.—AConvention has been con eluded between Pruffia and France, by which our Sovereign cedes to France Neufchatel and Valingene to Bavaria Anfpach ; and to the Archduke Ferdinand Cleves. The Marquis Locchefini will fat out on his return to Paris the day after to•morrow. GERM4XT. Nasal. Fra 22.—Count ST AD lOM 0V84181158, for Foreign Affairs, has freqoent conferences with the Ruffian and Englith Ministers. It has been notified to the writhes of this city that his Majefiy has refolved to place it, et the end of this month, entirely on the peice.eflablifbment. • We learn that the Imperial army is about to be diminifhed by the difmiffion of the 6th battalion of every regiment of infantry, and of the 4th &villein of every regiment of cavalry. Nye astaaao, Fes. al.—The French troops have now entered the principality of Anfpach, to take poffeffion of it for the King of Bavaria. To•day, 1830 med. moll of them light infantry, and 150 of the fa coact regiment of holears under the command of the General of Davifion Drouet, arrived at Forth. and to morrow tOOO men will be quartered in the neighbour ing villages. General Dumoulin, with a divition of troops, is at Langenfen. Yefterday afternoon a French regiment of infantry, from the army of Ge neral Bernadotte, entered Schwabach, and in the evening Tome waggons, with convalefcents, arrived at the fuburbs of Goftenrof.. Oa the entrance of thefe troops, Marfhal Bernadotte publifhed the proclama tion infected in our paper of yefterday. FRANK FORT, Fasauaev 22.—The Hungarian GB2- zettes Rate, that a war has broken out in Bofnia t all the Chriftians ellablifhed in that province have re. volted againll the Turks. Their neighbours, the Montenegrins and Herzogovins, have followed the example, and have joined the Bofnians to fuccnur the Seririans. According to , the left accounts, a confi dirable body of Montenegrins and Herzngnvins had entered Banns and made a great (laughter among the Turks polled upon the Drina, whofe numbers increafe daily. There is no more Paid of an incurfinn by Pafwan Oglu : this is generally funiofed to have been a report fpread by the garden's of Belgrade,' The Pasha of that place and his Lieutenant have been teL at large. but under the expels condition of taking no part in the prefent difturbanees. The city of Semlin is perfealy fecured againft the Turks : three companies of Burghers, being organized, do duty with the military. For the better fecurity of the place, a battalion of the regiment of Jellachich is' expelled. Similar meafures have been taken for the fecurity of the Danube and the Save. Three gallies defend there two rivers.—According to the news from Turkey reported in the Vienna Gazette of February is. the Porte is collating a confiderable body of troops in the environs of Saint Sophia, who are to render the expedition against the Scientist a deeifive meafure. Confiderable numbers are alto affembling in the vicinity of Bender and Ilinail.—.-Moakeur. - There hue been new comfit in Egypt, between the Beys and the Turkifh troops fent againft them by the Kaimaean. A large body of Albanians, not having received any pay for tome time, have afro gone over to the Beys. Sims the taking of Medina, the Wababis have made further progrefs; they excite alarm sit Mecca, and have made themfelves mailers of Gedda.--Ibid. FIB& UMW 45.....-The war deparalleallas ordered all the regiments to be filled up. " A great number of recruits are to lie maid in Bofnia and the tax Gallicias, thefe provinces having (offered little by the war. The Hungarian corps are atfo to be completed in that country and in Tranfylvania.--:bid. Lowe& Etas, Fe satiate is remarked. that the colleges of adminifiration its Hanover fill ftyle themfelves Eleeoral, and ufk the fame fell as during the period the French were in poffelfion of the Elec torate. We are tamed that Bremen is in the hands of the Pruffians. The troops that have entered that city cnnfift of the regiment of Prince Ferdinand, and an unknown battalion commanded by General Tfcham mer.—Haorkai Coward. PRLUMENTART PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, TUESDAY, MARCH tr. too's B. Their Lordthipt, purfuant to the Order of the Day, refd►tid into a Committecof Privileges, Lord Willingham in the Char. The condderadon of the claim of Lady H. Eitagerakl to the above Barony, was refutned, and Mr. Adam, leading Caudell for the Claimant, was heard at rune length in reply. The Committee then deferred the farther conlideration of the cafe till "fhurfday, and the Houferefumed. After prayers were read, Lord AUCKLAND moved, That the Report of tbe Committees, appointed to fearch for precedents, relative to 'the pradice of the Haire, in cafes of Impeachment for High Crimes and Mlldemeanors, made to the Hoare on the 17th of April, a 79t, be rc-printed ;" which was ordered accordingly. The Bills upon the Table were forwarded iu their repettive Rages. LIABILITT OF WITNISSIS. The Order of the Day being read, for their Lord (hips going into a Committee on the Bill to declare the law with refpea to witnefres being liable to an (wet-, the Houle accordingly refolved into the fame, Lord WaHingham in the Chair. The enafting Claufe being arrived at, The LORD CHANCELLOR propofed one or two (port amendments ; the fird was, to omit, after the words " to accurc himfelf, or to expofe him to," the word "any," and to infer', after the words " penalty or forfeiture," the words " of. any nature whatfoever." On the qiieftion being put— Earl STANHOPE rofe, and expreffed his till-ap probation of the Bill befare the Committee, as a de• claratory AFt. He exprefred his hope that, by fob fequeut Legiflative provifions, (hould the prefent Bill be ?Aid, his Noble Friend would guard againft the Id corn• Rood s .chdivek anifchieft. which might atilt from fuch a . On this ground, however, he could not a\ inF forward and objelting to the Bill as it du ancr endeavouring to induce their Lordfhips it of its declaratory charaCter. He was !rade principle of Bills of that defcription, whicr thought, fhould never be palled by the Leginat except in very extreme cafes. The occation wh, he alluded to was, for inftance, a violation df principle of the Conditution, fuch a cafe as was re lured to in the preamble of the Bbl of Rights, &c. and fuch was the cafe of the excellent Bill declara. ) the ;, Iu _.._ ... tory of the law refpeeting libels. propofed by a Right Honourable Member of the other Houfe of Parlia. ment. On that occasion; hi. Noble and Learned Frieod near, him (the Chancellor),• deferved the thanks of the country . he did not mean for his con duet with refpea to the Bill alluded to, but for what he had fo nobly done to affect sad to uphold the Conflitutional power of Juries. Except on fomr great occasion of the kind, he never approved of a 1 declaratory Bill. It was an engine by which a great deal of irnifchief might be done ; through it the law of the land might he overturned, by its declaring that to be law, which was not law. The Noble Earl in adverting, as an hypothetical cafe, to the return of Members of Parliament, through the influence of wealthy or powerful individuals, recited the anecdote of a late Noble Lord, who obtained, the place he wilhed for, from the then Prime Minifler (we believe the late Vifeount Falmouth, and the late Right Ho nourable Henry Pelham), by threatening - him, in cafe of a refufal, with the defedlion of his own fop. port in one Houfe, and that of his friends in the other. His brief and pithy anfwers to the arguments and reprefentations of the Minifler, were. " There are feven of us ! There are feven of us I Remember there are fevers of us !" Continuing hi. obfervations againft a declaratory Bill, he hated, that an *dual majority of the great lawyers of the country were of fuch an opinion as to explode the neceffity of fuch a Bill as the prefent. He adverted to Come opinions given by the late Lord Mansfield. and one of. theft. , the cafe which gave rife to that recorded obfervation i i i of his Lordthip to the then Mr. Dunning—" If that be law, I'll burn my books."' He adierted to the ellablifhed compellability of pawnbrokers to give evidence. and addoied Tome reafions why hurfe deal. ers thould be confidered in the fame light. He liked not the idea of the prefent Bill pang, to the immi nent rifk of that which he propofed ; but, with a view of In far obviating the inconvenience to be ap prehended, it would be better to pars his Bill in the firft inftance Ta kersd). He adverted to fame fur ther cafes. which, be conceived, tended to Chew the • probable inconveniences of pahEng fuch a Bill as the prefent. He was, he obferved, very flout in his °Fir nions upon thole points ; he bad read more AEU of Parliament than perhaps molt lawyers, having pew rufed all thole from Magna Charts down to lbws* • fifteen years back.' HisLora:hip, towards the cob: clefion of his addrefs, adverted to fume farther cafsea, one of which, hating it hypothetically, from the contingency of technical incorreanefs in his *rawer, an individual might be deftituted of his means ssc fupport. He repeated his hope, that the inrotunr niences which may wrife from filch a conlirolhoskits the law, would be guarded againft by ideqtrabrk. giflative Provifiousi " The' LORD CHAbicI'ALLOR .iltcpned e it, wouldbe,better, bad his N.Frited.puepo the 'difcuffion of bis own Bill. idltietie gees 9 0, heaf fore the Honk, as se that *outtived . . - eider td part of his, oblervations what !pitied. 4 14 altojedier Arove. on fuch asi j eWariciis eteAWA/tei fent, of his Noble *hod referring to the, antbanbee of dead Judges, as well astbeliving.• •A% in all edge' of the kind,•the lam mall •be decided bt the ailed Judges of the time. There were' cafes In !ore:oc. pradlice, in which it Cattail may, allomiblyaderary his opinions by a reference to wow of former leis's* but, on fuch an oceafion a poll ifdeforta, es well Sr living lumhserim of elm fier,iiTlie I% distribmbet fltitek of the living, who may be' of ii filkstlery ',isles, ;ins a tioftrlise to which be could wilt, 6 80alibIlla ceedings would tend evestenallp ce &eerier* withal* , judicial font:lions of that•ffbefei•• lb proppfition, time the law was fo taken frorn the very )(going of jhe' Br WU% conftitist ion, to die incrut* "mnparfas, well Adis • the hid neysfailcqiud of. Tmt.hter MIAMI bitaktn WEL the mauls if ehofe"apprrinted -to deileer it; but ippelk iin the way his Noble Friend eppeeted Inclined W . iadopi, would be as tibjettiOnahle ae a. poll ef. departs Peers, with rapigi",tia deCiftons in that Houre—eks leash). Adverting to the objeltiotts 'galled the Bill Weir, he obferved, that in fuch a cafe as it applied to. a declaratory alt wilt more peculiarly nec.effary. that is, where doubts caviled; as, if fuch did not cilia, there would be no neceffity of declaring what the law was t Earl STANHOPE fhortly ?poke in explanation. He then adverted to the language of the Bill, with, refpeft to the term " Lords Spiritual and Temporal.". Thefe defcriptions, his Loral? teemed to think. ought to be reverfed, not only in the prefent, but in future Bills, inafmuch as Lord. Temporal, meaning (as we underftood the Noble Earl) Princes of tha• Blood,. Members of that Houfe, had precedence of the very foremoft of the Spiritual Peers, namely, the Archbilhop of Canterbury. Lord AUCKLAND deprecated any alteration of the kind, without the Julien and moll mature con fide ration ; deeming it far preferable to abide by the uniform pradice of Parliament, and to follow the ex ample of our anceftors in fuch cafes. The queftion was then put, on an amendment as propofed by Earl Stanhope, tending to do away the area of the declaratory part of the Bill, but which was negatived by the Committee. Their Lordfhips then agreed to the amendments propofed by the Lord Chancellor, after which the Houle refumed, and ordered the Report to be received to-morrow. Earl STANHOPE moved, " that the Bill for the spore effatual Difeovery of Truth (and apparently; as if through inadvertence, proceeded no farther with the title of his Bill, which created a laugh), be lead a fecond time to-morrow." On the quellion being put, that the Bill for the more effectual Dilcovery of Truth from Witneffes, be read a fecond time to-morrow, it was ordered accor• dingly; and an adjournment immediately took place. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Alderman COMBE prefented a Petition from the Commit . - fionrra for improving the Yon of Loudon —Acfctred to a COCCI- Watt.