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UtLIAMEIVTARr ,P RO CEEDI N G S . HOUSE OF LORDS, FEBRUARY S. GLAATON BURY MO HUTCHINSON took the oaths. rchbishop. of YORK ' who was introduced by the B i s ho p s • and Bristol, took the oaths and his seat. NATIONAL DEBT. Hate, from the Bank, presented an account of the co. of nine millions last year, under the authority of the !unnissioners for redeeming the na tional debt. ROXBUIZUH PEERAGE. AUCKLAND moyed, that the consideration of the pes ' Sir G. Ker lnnes, relative to the Roxburgh Peerage, postponed until Monday next.--Ordezed. CURATES' BILL. House, on tho motion of the Bishop of BANC:OIt, went Committee on the Bill for repealing the act of last se_lion, suspending the Curates Act. The Bal was reported without amendments, and orderott to be engrbesetl: 'WWI APPEAL. Irish Appeal Cause, Goold v. Langley, was finally decided. ...runoel appeared' for the Appellant. Mr. Stevens was for Respondent. The length of the tittle 'whiCh the Appeal was 'ing, and the great expellee his Client was put to, was stated Counsel; on which, after a few remarks from Lord Rt.- .11 . lORD CHANCELLOR moved as thejudgment of the House, Decree of the ]risk Court of Chancery b.: affirmed, with costs. His Lordillip took occasion to express his satisfaction been instrumental in procuring the late Order of the by which costs so high as 4001. might be allowed, and operate as a great check upon improper aud unju%tifiable llisT.ord.hips propo ;Mon as above was agreed to, and the judgment of the Irish Court was accordingly affirmed, with 2001. ,djourned till Monday, when their Lordships stand sum ,tpon the Duke of Norfolk's motion for certain Papers re the Expedition to the Baltic. HOUSE OP COMMONS. ettIPPENIIAM ELECTION'. M i arquis of 'f ITCHFIELD brought up the Report of the ttee on th,: Chippenbain election, which was a double re tnd the Committee determined that John Maitland, Esq. duly elected, and that James Dawkins, .Esq. was duly on which the Deputy Clerk Of the CroWn orders to and amend the return, by inserting the am* of Mr. Daw rhich he did accordingly. Hase, from the Bank, brought to th e Bar in account of receipt. and expenditure of nine milli ons and upwards, by the nissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, from Ja. l nO7, to January, isOn • and of 2,492,0001. between let try and May, 1808.—Or dered to lie on the table. Dawes, front the Accountant General's Office, presented Bar an account of balances in the Bank on dividends due last three years; and also on dividends due the ensuing 7 ; and an account of unclaimed prizes in the Lottery drawn co the lsa January, 1805.--Ordered to be printed. ROSE brought up a bill to amend the act to regulate the 'reasurer of the Navy, which was read a first, and ordered read a second time on Monday, and to be printed. • third reading of the American Treaty Bill was deferred to LAND AND MALT BILL. HUSKISSOI! brought up the Land and Malt Duty Bill, ,a was read a first, and ordered to be read a second time on inlay, and to be printed. Also, a Bill for regulating the issue noney to pay; OtExchequer Bills, which was read a fir st, and k-red •ob :-read isecond time On Monday, and to be printed. dr. BUS USSON ntoOed for an account of all Balances due on LOyaby Loan.-:—Ordered. Also, an account of the Interest 14n all E.xchetieter Bills during the three last years, distinguish each year.--ordered. DOCUMENTS. 4r. witrrmuun asked the Right Hon. Secretary (Mr. :anping) whether he had any objection to put the House into pos tssion of ihose letters of hls Majesty's late Secretary of State, omwhieb he read , nstracte in the course of the last debate, which jostiet to the Noble Lord he conceived he ought to do : as also, "es of the letters from Mr. Garlike, from which he had also v read extracts ? Ir. CANNING observed. that if the Hoonourable Member thought proper to put such a question to him privately, he Id have answered him ; but surely it was not a regular prac to ask such questions in that House. If the Honourable Mem had it in contemplation to move for the production of certain :is, his regular course wculd be to give notice to that effect. 'r. WHITBREAD said, that he had no desire for a private \ unication with the Right Honourable Secretary. He had . his intention on a former night; but, as a matter of coin , 1 on account of theahsence of that Gentleman, he abataiued . entering a formal notice on the Journal of the House. • was afterwar6 understood that the production of the papers fixed for Monday. 'r. ABERCROMBIE gave notice . that he would, onThurulay move for a Copy of the Instructions sent to Earl St. Via , relative to the Expedition to PortugaL CO.:I 1 / 4 1ITT:11; ON SUPPLY. The House resolved itself into a Committee of Supply, in which 10,800,000 L were voted for War Taxes,' and 9,000,0001. for paying off Exchequer Bills. The Report was ordered to be received on Monday. `er.'fIER'NEY moved for an Account of the Naval and Mill . f St'res taken at Copenhagen, sad ibe quantity, quality, and c ondition at the sane .— Ordered. • O . COMMITTEE lik WAYS AVID' MEANS. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER wed, that the House do resolve itself into a Com ittee of Ways and Means, and that copies of the se veral Orders of Council lately issued be referred to said Committee. Lord H. PE'T'TY said, that from the lapse of time hich had taken place, from the day on which the iglit Honourable Gentleman had given notice of intention to bring these Orders before the House, .e. had formed some hopes that the Right Hon. Gen tleman would have previously favoured the House ith some communications relative to those Orders, .nd particularly on the question of their legality. If there were any doubts whatever on that point, the noble la , rd thought they ought to be removed, before House should he called upon to enter on the ques.. ton of giving its approbation and sanction to those rders. If the House were at all dubious on this head, td there Was a serious objection on the score of le lity, that objection . ought to be made as the first :ep which shotild. be given in the business, and ante !dent to any thing which could -at all be construed ,to or taken as an approval by that* House of the !dell in question. , For his own part, he felt than he ,-.0 juct in the same predjeatrient with a majority! e l f that Hou c te, and fotrnd himselfunqualified to ' dge decidedly on: a case which reqviiied a ' thorou e si u and pprfect knowledge of . the law of scitions as w -at of A municipal law of the land. • H. therefore hoped '',,r the ipaidgence ..of the House, as being very utt tcit:4l l 4 Opposed to . .the Right liatict ,Learned gen tleman, and th ose great legal authorities, who had;•no doubt, been .consulted on the subject previous to the • ,rdcrs having been issued. -* But nottvidistandingt the great weight and authority which:Wascertainly due to such opinions, hi could not still submit t o p o;:Aen tirely bound-by them. However.great his. for them m i g ht be, he• had a . dM' to exectite:iiti .hat House which -required hint 0 41.. m. a judgpraq for iiinself on that mcvt itrportant meataire ;-and from the most serious and delsbeauteessnaidesation•he had been able to . ie to it; he confdttOtrettbiltit implicitly u: toboto su et authority, and to give his countenance to measu • re .which IA thought to be illegal. The or ders he well knew emanated from.the K in g in Coun cil, and (aimed a part of the Royal Prerogative; but still it WAS only such a part of the prerogative 2.5 WaS • ._ liable to many restriction s, both by the and the municipal law of the land • Council, like the Court of Admirali. Courts, had:no paramount jurisdiction, decrees binding, except in cases which fermitp with the law of nations, or had t sanction and authority of an ACt of ParEa support of this doctrine, he would refer the the Duke of Newcastle's letter respecting the Prussian ships, and to the opinions of Sir Dudley *Ryder, and , Mr. Murray, who were the then Attorney-aad Solici tor Generals in this country. There was also another legal opinion of great weight and consequence on the same point ; he meant that of thcyreeent Lord Chan.; celior, (Eldon), who, speaking on the inlbject of the authority of Arty of the Privy CeunCil,eXpressly says,. that no order of Council should be considered in any otheilight than in conformity to the law of nations, and that• it was contrary to the Prerogative to seize the ships and goods of Neutral Powers on the high seas, or to detain them in ports or on .shore, unless they could be proved to be contraband or forbidden by the law of nations, or by the municipal law of the land. These orders in council, he said, as well as that of a similar nature issued in January last pear, were issued in consequence of the Decree stating it to be the determination of France to place England in a state of blockade-eor,ein and empty beast--:and were meant as an act a 'retaliation. " It ha3, -- however, been held by the highest authority, that any mea sure of that kind, ,not acted upon, became .thereby null and void, and the sante as if never made at all. He was clearly of this opinion, and he founded himself on .it with the greater confidence, because he would shew. the House that it was supported by the authority of a learned civilian, who • was allowed to be one of the first and most en lightened judges of matititme law that ever lived. He meant the present Sir'W. Scott, - the-Sur eme-itidge of the Admiralty- Court. This opinion, was recorded in Robinson's Reports of Cases adjudged in that Conrt--ea'book whicals Was allowed to be most remarkably flAtleill and correct, and which as such, was the more valua ble, as it might be supposed to give .those tiljudica 4 . tions in all the.elegant and c lassical lan gn a g ein which they were delivered. In this book, it is laid down by Sir W. Scott, 6 , that no blockade is sufficient without a fact to support it," and he(the Noble Lord) ins sistcd, that up to the 11th of November, there never -had occurred a single instance in which that decree of France had been acted upon. Nay,. an explana tion had been given by M. Decret to General Arm- strong, the American Ambassador, disavowing theit intention of carrying it into effect, and of capturing ships at sea, or in any other respect infringing upon the rights of neutrals, In th_ orders issued on the 7th January last year, the species and. character of the 1 retaliation were prescribei, and. in such a way as to shew that it was calculated to produce effect on the enemy ; for the principle of the order was not open to the objection of neutrals--for hrthe usage of the year 17. 6, country . had uniformly limited - ill} trade of neutrals in many instances, and continued 4 do so during the whole of that war. In that order there, was also a power ,reserved, in case of France not acting on the decree, .to permit neutrals - to trade. In consequence of the explanation of Monsieur De cret to General Armstrong, nothing short of confis cation of goods could be deemed acting on the Decree, and not that it could not be done by a detention and taking vessels at sea. This was strongly exemplified by what subsequently took place ; for after the order of the 1 lthNovember,issued by his Majesty's present Ministers, a new Decree was published in Italy, de. nationalizing, as Bonaparte called it, alF.ships which had been in an English nort, and rendered the goods they carried liable to inlinediate confiscation, which shelved that the former Decrees had not been.acted on, and that it was necessary to frame a new one, which should counteract as _Tech as possible the prin ciples and effects of the order of the 1 lth November. He was further of opinion those orders .of Council were illegal, because the Privy Coancil had thereby undertaken to issue licences, and to give powers to ships which by the law of the lartd . they were not . en titled to. They also, empowered his 'Majesty's ships of war to compel neutral vessels to come into English ports, and being arrived there, they afterwards pre vented such vessels from taking away again many kinds of goods, which they had otherwise, as neutrals, a right to do. In this, he was decidedly of opinion, they had exceeded the bounds prescribed by the best.• ! k ik and. moss imp. ,nt laws of this country., Thisprin ciple was exp laid down in grfaCitit. which lied radio- e House. • - his Lo - ip read. • • S age inimatin, the p ' - which was. that ► ill ips of this country shoal, 'ACK ~ „, s pipt the goodk.' olke# ngers on the seas, unless they. 46.•• as were expressly prohibited by Ape of,Par , ...k; and Ale commentary and exposition of theAtininini . and' in-,* lightened Lord Coke on that passarnf hingrus Char ta, was to the same effect ; and thatlearried. Lord carried his doctrine on thet subject stiftratther, and said that this protection, of the law was meant to apply to the body as well as goods of foreign strangers, and to apply to them on shore as well as on the seas, in order that all foreigners might be enconragedui tiring their goods to this country, by being sure of freedom and protection for the same, and for their permits, and that if they could not dispose of them here; they Might freely and unmolested take themselves and their to such other places and countries, Where they ds thought they might find better market. '.'*Par part of Ada a Charta had been confirmed by the .Dth and 14th Edward HI. and the 18th Edward 111. ex pressly provided, that the seas should beopen to mer chants, strangers, and their goods, and .they should be allowed to convey them into and out of the ports 431 this country. He asked die Right Honourable and. learned Chancellor of the Exchequer if that Act of 'lB Edward 'III. had - been repealed ?If not, these Orders of Council were directly in the. teeth •of it, and, as such, were illegal. Again, the 28th Edward HI. expressly said, that no ship having goods on board, not prohibited by any laws of this country, should be compelled to come int ) any of the ports of this kingdom, against the will and consent of the master or owner of such ship or goods. Nothing could be more.plain , than this language—and he would be glad.to know if anT one could say that Act had not been infringedby., the Orders of Council then alluded to , and most par ticalarly by that of the 11th of November. He was , the more - surprised such incase es should have been: resorted to,' as • Ministers could not be ignorant c.f the explanations Which had been given as to the French Dacreas, against which they were to. ope- • retaliation ; and„helhought they should waited' tiN thily.'cs. what effect. -- . America, in cipsequence of the concei in the alf;0 .of the ,Chesapeake, before orted to, and adopted measures which ~.aitated against the eights of rieutrale t .. - . infringed the most positive - Pitts orlriffiam, ...full force, and which we re directly. etintrary to an absolute treaty. This treaty. it- .was not in his power at peesent to lay before the House k but was that entered into bet Wee n. Lord' Gtiffrfille` and - Mr. Jay ; and he quoted a pafsap from it wliiclr said, that in consequence of Antenein -ships not being ac- , qua'aned with What partlenlar ports of France here blockaded, and what were not,euch.shipi should not be compelled to enter into British ports ; that was one very striking and important article in the treaty, not long before enteeed into ,• and though it had been said by many that the• President of the United States of America had refused to ratify that treaty, he did not see it in that light ; and, for aught he knew to the contrary, that treaty might even now be ratified.— (.4 cry of hear, hear, from the Treanay Becch)--the or der larthe Ilth November -was . certainty 'ln - 9pett, downrightinfraction of that treaty. 'There was only • one more high legal autheriti with .wliktrbe Fuld at present trouble 6* Honk by referring to,and that was the opinion of . Lord Hale, who was allowed la be • one of the most learned and en li g htene d Judges *that .ever graced the annals of this country.. On.this sub ject the learned-Judge observed, that several acts of Parliament having provided for and made it not only lawful, but advantageous for foreign stranger's to bring their ships and goods into the ports of this kingdom, unless an act .of Parliament should afterwards be made to shut them out, no other power in the coun• try can do k • and having wider such sanction and audiority entered info tht ports of this kingdom, no power exists' in it.of preventing their. going out of tten , port again, but an act of Parliament. et In the prestmt zuccimas , -the PrivrCeamcil had &rot , . , -Ore—Olel Which nWthing btit..P4liarbent amid do, . • le 4 licence theybed giveit.a poster to dispense ditt; which the(-Awn order was meant to effea, In the event of any such. cases, it was allowed that 14k:old only be suffered inparticuiar points, such a5 . ..16f im portation-of provisione r arid similar acts of great no' cessity ; but by ate theans.did the law ev'en count( nance, much less. tolerate, The receiving si-enneserkls the obtainment of licences. - If the Orders of Counci were against the hi, of natiiint, or•the municipal law of the ranil;nci Conte of Admiralty or Prize Court, • could- give judgment on any ship or . goods.hrou s eht ; and detained, till they had the ;tenon and authorii l of an 'act et Parli ix 11 ainent, or ' of . indemnity,- . 1 Ministers chose to. ask for it ; a nd in t his doctrine l 1 Was positively and directly supported by the apini. of the late learned. Sapreme itictge of - the Adfnikelt Sir lames. Marriott, who had laid it down, that : Court of AdMiralty was hound. to give judgment 'any &der not alioited 'or sanctionedby an acrof Pa lia*mcat Leaving oft • therefore all eotsidera#6 ,and. opinion as to thi policy of the case for the p. sent., until the Right Honourable Gent email hat. convinced the Honse that the Orders were conform- - able to law, it was 'the duty of Parliament to 'atresi • the course of the Rig e ht.Horiouratilc Gen,tlernan, ' least till he should 1d for a bill of indemnity... The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER - swered the Noble . Lord. He most readily coineidtd with the Noble Lord in his assertion, that the Oydr issued by his-Majesty, and now so :nuch . cansiettir by the Noble Lord, were a violation bolt : of: the; of nations, and of the municipal law of this connt, as applied to a period Of peace ; and the Noble Lord opposition was-perfectly consistent with his professi' on a 'former ,night.• He had no difficUlty in ' proposing, that part of those Orders which seeme4 1 most obnoxious to the Noble Lord, should pass nine in the shape of resolutions of a fitiancialetettrre, in order that they might receive the sanction of, ewithout however feeling, as the Noble Lord we lesersuade the House, that his Majesty's Governmeo . under the circumstances which imperiously eitlled • -those Orders, had committed one-furaordiaary. yi lotion. of eit'ler national -or municipal law. The was, in fact, no argument which the Noble Lor4l: urged against thOse Orders, now that they . werete• brnuen, forward for the sanction of Peril-an-tent. sel. would-not :equally apply a i ga_nst the pulley under which they were issued. But having fully adini the 'Noble Lord's argument, that his Majesty had legatintheaity to controul the rights- ornett_trith amity witlt 'this country, oCto rdttse them.. frer '' trance and :departure .to aid frim.our Parisee 4 fit the speeittVeki of an Aet of Parliament ; yet he ze 4 jto inform the Noble Lord, that the Order's' referred terkietti.o - i . iiirrely, 9n, bas IrkiertY'Vulr rerogi j itive t and not on anyyreirsiptivegeercisid. bl hir...Dlaesty in time of peace, such ae; on an ernerger -the:retaining from' export the prodace a the sot' ordef to prevent the approachei famine. • It was ther a Tacna-me intended tcreitertetch earths privil of commerce or the rights oftionztal, trade.' nor -any impost for the purposes of reVenne ;lent nu 'related to the King's war prerogatives' a waste retaliative enaoyance. upon the enetny.., :The ' Lord had said; ttiose- orders were contrary to thA of nations : he admitted tha ficf,s s antrliit :eat objection to lay, that neither the King ret.the R ment itself had any right to alter that-law of net But still the House, in coesieletimit liiiw far it was led on to sanction web- a • proeee:h4, would ade what had been done upoi former occasions;. ant tainly, if ever there was an in stance in which such ceeding was iustifiable, it was so in the present and therefore every Mien/nett Of th 6 Noble Lord the proposed mode• of tainging the entestire- to for the sanction of F . 'arWirtite would equffllf against a Bill of Indeinnity. - .H..a maintained, what- *mold 'become an independent nation under ciecems&iiiiertif filch imperious urgenc, be determined by the actual state of thingsr---as and circemstancesthernselverwpd aPtlnereljt.by - abstract principlit of the last ,of nations. Thue be thought it 'necesstiy to vtemise in general, actually done : an ,AJala point he proceeded to the consideration d what Ir. it must be evident :House:ail& ta•011- Europe, thatthe'measures ineliseisisehly necessary by his Majesty's Govern resulted entirely rts3iti`the proceedings Of the .Government, and were measures of defence protectiod of the rights and interestseef •tho and t Cte-of retaliation against the r s who had issued a similar decree ' • and that the sates Were not intended to insure the rights of PARL) HO I.ords GLASI the.A.rchbiX if Bangor and Mc. IL Han penal/bre of n Commissioners Lord AUCI tirloa of Sir should be postp The House, into a Commit for suspending amendments, a The Irish Al No Counsel ap the Responder; pending, and t by the COMM DRSDALL, The LORD That the Deer stool. costs. at having been Ifousr, by wh hich operate appeals. 111514 judgment of tl costs. Adjourned m-ittod upon t Laing to the I Inftrqu Committee or • turn; and th was not duly elected;ort wl attend, and ar /sins; which 1 Mr. Hase, the receipt. an Commission weary, Islo7, February ant Mr. Dawc at the Bar an L. the last t quarter ; and prirsr to the Mr. ROS) office of Trea to be read a The third Monday. Mr. HUII . winch was r Monday, an of money to ordered 'oh Mr. BUS • she Lriyaky Pliid 811 in: etch yea Canning) w session of .t 1 from•which in join* to copies of th then read el Mr. CA] bad thought should hays tice to ask t Lzr had it i papers, his Mr. columunica stated his it tesy, on ac from eateri It was af: was fixed ( . 1 Mr. AR • nest, move cent, relati The Ho which i 0,4 for paling received ca Mr. TIE tarn St'ret condition The moved, mittee veral the said Lord which h Right I his inter he had tleman with sot and pat there w Noble ] the Ho tion of or the • step w. cedent into a (*dell sva.4 jti that fiticidt mfec A\ern • free rat e 514 4 1. tiema denh • order great to so rarely them hims .-TrloyJ . the t been ' to* -to n • • 4 6, till f 1 6 1 l a a n - . 440e . v . t,... ave f Icy ancr i the • ?: in ion, nor 4 0 " s Made it lid' were in*- • !fir ey had reso had the positive strongly milk ParTatinent. directly infrir efer the House to Atilt iatfull fa . . - • . hould nations. This tact he would maintain, in 0p 00 ,4 ..t was the assertion of the Noble Lord, or any o ther Conc ittettt aneesc. cate, in v . ir.dieetimmof the French Goverran eat „ 'TA *nen' , a n b e for e of no, rl5, from the jVtontion benches.) ", I con Lich so the Right Hon. Gentleman, , g that the Nobl e t„,,' 4 -gn to in.o which at.: Linens this night have been urged in def .wti ~ tied sca • •- - , ' Addleilterseeen t " il Lcetl _the t . 7ary to criminate that of his Majesty : for the Noblel, o 7. ),,_ " ll • vi in his stianachlabat4hc..X.“4l;G i nf o kbe.British r " 11 - d • se ly the T t was die pr:rt.;", - TrEriet; itirthihe f the c oor i mi°. l3l V om it id - Mr. to her sway, ill mile mauer,of internal regul at i n 7 4 M ,It *SC", , Ir said, that a psiblio•snahifetito, iiinedty the kni t . a e e 'l s ! olor-a,,,__,,f rag ac- ..-•cilitaitlng not teriirall dal. ports of the - S t ig l i s iZ • F'm • tend,f,4,fn involved it _ . e where i,n a state ofblockade; and haired againq the app le .41 At . act not Oritetitol4lj,sobut that British produc e a n i nlat " 9,... t-' was one fiiCtore wits.iceer found, eVen an board neutral vessei. ~. 41 60 ty, not and on any . ir tit o f thelligh was, shall be l aw f u , , '' *ld :en said to the cruiser yrauce and' her allies —was reL.relit, ates of vans, erapty, .. . practicablz threat, is filch q, ~. ... .' 4 • • .041 b 1 . . did not wholly disregarded as beneath notice, ana . • ' to the aced by a similar decree am the part of thi s G, v -, 4ithei r ': . , ified. ,_ ma i s ; o .. Was this I' l ketre to be considered ratti; c o . . ' ' i ~the or- matter Of internal, reguation, the operations a•t• - .' eras st‘ie, w ith tha n- (Ten, so far from being confined to French ports, erteaL , as only not only so 1W the ports under the controul of p m : so Ps would i i i c i u dijog nearly all those of continental Etnepe:C, t statut e nesled send hat even e xtending to the high seas in every quarter-0Z 'lur - • e d L obe globe, and to.uoutralS of every nation. 'lz be A '6; .at provia g e s 'that nistration, of K .-- "frich the Noble Lord was 'a i. ••• ce, am . • his sub- in ast Mentlser, did not h es i tate -to take notice o f - i. i m Z ' ' 4% . I acts of decree; and •to adoirt: upon it more stroll . i . g Tie. in p not only sures . of rettliatione•iikk•sdieh they held it s ea . . rm ,, n . - ix ; to b r ing sary to apply foillthbanction of Parliament, * • - .„., - : t .i . l' s in although they did -net. deem k expedient toe el,: ire ,' y ar ds be the .principle, of retaltatiOn quite to the extra; e , 4 , __,a ;he coun-, she enleinee.s. _Decree ~ yet he would be glad ,c' ~ aw''' tion and know wharckinag e hats taken place in thecireunista4 : ink pro ' p: dm, no of Emtiope, or-in. the eondoct of France toward s ti the st i ; out of country froth that time to the present, which 41 0:11 war ; re present render hi s . Majesty'S present Ministers lees sensible . 9 _ exei 2.4AVAIet thetiostile decrees of the-Frevielt-rstlerrtlitaue46, ll ;. by decessors had been ? He *as so far from eondenzi, she y r o L Aft OW! 'the conduct of: these. Ministers at - that time, thai ould ha , In the blamed them only frar not goingfar tank/ gut tht,s . and : 4 14ctuld who issuedthe orders of the "Ala pfl l anuary;aw a , 1 . t hose im- same timiteepecieally avowed the righttfeetaliaii a , _ their ca great ne- and Itsirince atainit the aggressionsti France, h tea, or n counte- the fullestexteift, should subsequent eirentr.star 4 , was, hoN 1111111*,for -fleastter-it-neeessarys eanie witb-24todisaesawassii, as far of .. . 3f Council -orders founded on pateciselystrailar.principles,nadio. the He icipal law ed on de lt•tis of-November. His Majesty's Gen, a ny na ze Court, ment did not, in fact; point thte orders more sot • a rid ens brought in the'`Ships of America , dills Against those of any 4 act i ng .„, l authority neutralstate. 1-loweverobc order of the -7dulta. would 1 enmity, - if nuary 'was obnoxious to the same object* ino • n on-he i x maine he notperhap,iti the full extent, without fmesthei geared, he apinion irnpute hlanteki the late Ministers, he meant tole, tilted° kiltuiralty, their tonductind been the' same. Ai to . the pad retaliat a, that no dedimpracticahility, -and consequent fatality of de unjust. Igment:eri decree of-Bonaparte, he tufted the }louse would - sort o f ae r o f P al i thence. infer that this country. had. no right to reed.. Arend asideratton -uptir Prance, -It wan said, thei4lis-deeree- •• • . Ir k e d • .. . )r the pre, subsequently explained to Mean only, that ;; ; going 'omen b a d commodities should he excluded from French h o k e y t i conform.- lours ; hut he siould refer to the devee.. itself i. ' • lave 1 tto 'arrest true meaning. 'llla,t decree charges this country sir rea dy ttlernan, at' having twit violated the lair of nations, bY preclaim• v i o la iaky. .. ing tho blockade of-ports where we . had not lase legali QUER n. suffitient to carry the blockade - into execution; ni po ti e . I coincided it hence justifies proclaiming . a similar blockade a di c t a , the Orders this country. • Not only •theu does the French Go . woul condemned vernmeut proclaim she blockade of all the Brae • d a y. i-01: the law ports in these sands, n ithout a single ship to supper li aomi his country„ at,lalit k declares ill neutral ships, with British pr, st:, bees oble Lord's 'duce on board, lawful prize... Would the Noble La ' B e . : s professions . is-a measure of mere_internal r,Yulation ?Pe u s b• thy in now sides, at the same time, a similar decree was put 4 ionic Lich seemed force at Hamburgh, as a place likely to. give reap en e i uld pass the tion to British commodities. It was said, thetth the ncialnattre, decree wt's to operate only' n produce at sea appal, plie :don of .la*, ing these islands. Outsehat was the explanami el al e Lord would M. Beurienne, the.. French Militster, in answer to .• fact ;oversiment, remons&•ance of the Hamburgh merchants comp ... tun ly dffied for ing of the seizure of goods their property ? Why - s out ardinary.siO- declared that any 'nation harhotiring British . • sa fi law. There. should be treated as cowatir'...s in the interest of El; 'it v Ile Lor4.had heid, and that all British manufactures were to , tie, rywerelo he seized wherever they might be found. He ' .'' V 2 Liftenl., Which 41, persons possessed of British _ goods to deir era policy under Within forty-eight hours, inventories of the ,s 4, PT' illy adinitte , d, despertalty of being punished, by analhaFite• '' ea aj . --.1 , had s? haperte also, in answer to theses's . tonnahrellee •:+no f eetetr*t the jiaddaturgh merchants; dtielait_4 . ; - - . •.. *an_ ftW - - leave a - Means unemployed to - aettrer Or ..." -tie ortseivitliont tierce ..ancl-ha a.vcoared..lais. wish to ..destiey ;'" .. s eti ries :le beg- .burghotsone of the best meanato effect his p. •, .. now flonaparte haste's, obliged the nations under - #s w rrieltyrs - war- - -fluence,..viz• the Coon :of -Spain, Scc. to adopti.• . • ~es :tzercisscl by French: slew, and with the same virulent sign c. ' . .-/ in ernergeady, .aetive.sevesky. This was pry sudicient of the. tie . f the soil, !in tendons of France. These, then, being the • • .;e! r. •it was nei- not governinent k tight to retaliate Soto:m*lTel .. ,t t the privileges blockade, he 'believed. was . never attempted, ezei L A Klei nor to lay that dec lared by the. lateGivemment, that gunk 1 a- hut merely, from the Elbe to Breit, which, bowever, he. los I s a measure of ready to allow, was founded upon just grounds- 421 , 44 ••, -The Noble 'Comparing the present measure, and- those :dor are to the likw by the late Ministers on th e 7th 'of January, 11 2 11 0 :,lid-'-even no the House would-think that the Noble Lord sat' ntit.the Parlia- former colleaguestould not refuse him their s' , „ note of nations. without condemning the, own conduct. The* . . s, far it, was cal-. Lord was equally unstaken;With regard tea the, P ut. " !dull advert to lice in 1756 ; for it was. never allowed that nears 4 ons ; and, cer- vessels should coast between any two p e rtsuffor -, 4 licit such a pro- AN thus give the 'enemy the advantage of at:01 il 4 e present c: e ;trade between.their,own, ports in time of war,, '' ' ; A .leLord a st they would not admit a neutral to supplrin - _:, c unite f rd peace—but a neutral was not prevented lion% c,f o '.l g equfali% ' tk 41g between the poets of' France, and those of b?"' j It ;lint:lined, at or Portugal' not being at war with this corm*, ' t nation to: do. .IP:a bcieutiaid, that the Orders in question hid urgency, Must offence to nentrahnations, so had those issued ay: , hings'—as facts Administratinn of the Noble Lord—for lknrt he In mere)tc.lsy - seme not onlf. etpressed' much dissatisfacti on, but u . . , r s. Thus much lieved-threattened to resist - them ; and th e Prenasi t . • general, •before the American States, in his" late Message to Co what had been referred to therti with much acrimony , ana C l ,` w . ie evident ttothe plained of them as violating the right s of neutr_o neasures judged .ttons; but it was impossible to admit France , rg y's Government that commerce with neutrals which the detne4.t?_ l 7 s of the French- ~ . ' , • ; nor was it to be expected that .fraPee 0° defence_ fpr; the he alloWed the advantage ofelse n eutral flag' t00w i ,,, 1 P- ,, , -• 411* ebustry,,-her - portS the produce of her coloniestwhile , moors efErance, I vented all British commerce, and declared Oess, ',.; • 1 that these men. l in a state of blockade. If the Noble LA?" rights of neutral • colleagues, decreed the h10.. - -.ltadc. , of a ;teat river • .. . ' . . - . . . • . ... . •