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PARLI.4MENTARr PROCEEDINGS. IfHOUSE OF LORDS, TIIeSDAY, JAN. at. The Senn of Parliament was opened this day, by cotnmiflion ; the Commiffioners were, the LORD Cli *tic sc. Loa, the Arthbifhop of CAMTIRSU Iv, Lord Eacemsototross (Chief Jolliet), the Earl of WRY. notrrst i the Lord Chamberlain), and Lord HAWR Is. stray, Priacipal Secretary of state for the Home Department. A. little after three, the Lords CommHlinners took their feats on the Woulfack, and the Commons, our fuant to Meltage,havingottended, with their Speaker, • at the Bar, the Loa. CH ANC / LLCM informed them, -• 'that his Majety had been pleafed to dirett hic coin.' million to certain Lords, therein named, to open the Sellion, which Commiffion they fLoold hear read, and afterwards his Majeay's Moft Gracious Speech. The CommiUlon was then read by the Clerk at the table ; and the LORD Citeerstame then read the Speech, (a literal copy of which was inferted yellerday's STA R ) The Commons having retired, the Lords Commit- Goners withdrew to unrobe, and, fhortly after, Loud Es.cswaos.ooon took the feat on the Wuolfack, Chairman of the Lords, the Loa's CH ANClLina's flare of health not permitting him to fit out the ens. pedad Debate. At four o'clock Earl Nelfon, (the elder Brother at the late Noble and Illuarious Viicount) preceded by Sir 'Caste Heard (Garter King at Arms) the Duke nf Norfolk (Earl Marthal), and Lord Auckland, and fupported by the Earls of Macclesfield and Brillol, was Introduced to the Houle. His Majely's Royal Lettere Patent were delivered in at the table by Gaw ter. and read by the Clerk. It contained a par ticular' fpecification of the extraordinary merits of the late Lord, Horatio. Vifcount Nelfon, whit, in the words of the Patent, after a moll glorious feries of traufcen dant achievements, had died at the moment of vic tory. A ferions copfideration of thefe exploits was aligned as the reafon why fuch an extraordinary . 1 mark of royal favour was given to the family of that Notsjs Lord. The Patent then Rates, as nfual, the manner In which. his Majefty has been pleafed to or der the titles and honours to defcend hereafter—it is dated on the soth of November. After the Noble i Earl had taken the oaths, and fubferibed his name, as Peers always do on their firft promotion to a feat is the houfe, be was concluded to his feat on the third Bench on the left fide of the Houle. Then having made his obeifance to the Throne, he was introduced to Lord Ellenboroufb, who then fat as Speaker, in confequenee, as has already been (Wed. of the Lord Chancellor having found hiersfelf fo indifpofed that he was unable to endure the fatigue of a long debate,' which it was at grit experled would have taken place. The Marquis of Leafdowne, Marquis Wdlelley,, and Lord St. John, alto took the oaths and their (eats. • This beiag the firft time of their appearing in their place in Parliament fiats their acceffioo to their patient tides. ' A Bill was then brought in by Lord Walfingham, and read a firft time, according to the efiablithed I ufage of the Hook, previous to the Speeck being tjtken into confideration. His Majelly's moo gracious Speech was diets read by Lord Ellenborough fecal the Weolfaek, and alter wardsby the Clerk at the table. TAB ADDISISS. * The Earl of ESSEX rofe to move an seldrefs to His Majefty, oil the occafion of his late ;ammonite dim to both Honks of Parliament. He obferved. that the Addrefs which he fhould have the honour to propofe to their Lordliiips. would include no points, butlfuch as, in his mind, the fenfe of that Houle ought ananimoufly to concur in. The communication from His Majefty was fraught with wifdom and moderation, and fuch as (hoold, with fincerity, be echoed by every man, not only in that Houle, but in the country at large. The prominent confsdera lion in the Speech, viz. our late glorious naval Cue celfes. was Nell, as mull obvioufty draw correfpond• ing fentiments of exultation and applaufe from every man in the kingdom. The great and Mut*. trinus charaifter, to whom thole unparalleled Inc fetes were principally to be afcribed, has ellablifh ad his fame to late& pofterity, and challenged the • gratitude atd admiration of his country, in fuch a way, as nothing, which fuch an individual as him.' Pelf could advance, would in the leall add to i:s luftre. or to its renown. Indeed, when he took a view of the various topics adverted to in the Speech, he fhould have very near as little occation to tref pals on their Lordfhips, as he obvioufly had, with Telma to its prominent confideration. The nature qnd tendency of that Speech was fuch as fully war ranted him in urging fuch an Addrefs tp. their Lordfhips' adoption, as he lhould have the honour tdtcropofe. With refpea to the great and, impor cant vie pry of Trafalgar, he could riot avoid again touching upon it ; as, in his opinion, it was, in all its circumtlances, the moll brilliant recorded in the annals of the Arid% Navy. With yelped to the other important cendiderations adverted to in the Royal Speech, he thought that the meafures to which they referred, were calculated for the well.' being and fecurity of His Majelly's dominions ; and the line of conduit prefcribed, that which found policy didated as moil conducive to the honour of His Ma jeity's Crown, and the profperity and intereft of his fuhjefts at large. With retina to their Lordfhips' concurrence, in enabling His Majelly to bellow ade quate marks of his Royal bounty on the family of the late heroic end illullrious Lord Vifcount Nel. fon, he could nut harbour a thought of its being any other than freely and unanimoully accorded. (Hear, hear.) He then generally adverted to the conduel of His Majelly's bliaillers, with refpcia to the late important traniatlions on the Continent ; this, in his opinion, when the necefTa.ry information, as referred to in His Ma - jelly's Speech, Ihould be laid before the Houfl, and the fubjett thoroughly invefligated and difcared, would he found fuch as was confident with the diElates of prudence and firefight. The danger, which in fome pninti of view menaced the country, may be fuels as to call for its vigilance and molt vigorous exertions ; hot let thtt danger be met by a united people, and its iil confcquences would be averted.—He deprecated all ideas of an Addrefs to the Throne, or ;any lan. riage }lel , : in that (hape. which fhoold wear an ap , It Al`f e of alarm, derpol,ltl•Cy , lli CrIS!CCIZ(.r....—. L S.st It, Le 0.0'1,0, would not only be dangerous in .t' I '...Li le coadetiences, but evidently Wad in, point of policy. He hoped noth'.og or that fort would be per:irked in ; or that unanimity, which, he flattered himfelf, would eventually prevail among their Lordftups, be diflurbed by filch a propolitinn. Let the line of wife and vigorous policy, recommend. ed in his Majefty's fpeeeh, be idled upon, and pertift ed in ; and h doubted not, the country would ex tricate herfelf from the apparent difficulties or her prefent fituation, with honour and with advantage. There was an additional topic, which he felt it in• eumbent on him, not only from refpra to our mntl gracious Sovereign, but from feelings of refpatful concern for the very amiable and praife.worthy elm railer in queftion, to • introduce into the addrefs, namely. expreffions of their Lordfltipe fympathy and regret of his Islajefty's revere domellic lots, in the death of Isis Royal Brother, the late Duke of Gloucellev ; on this, of courfe, he mull anticipate the unanimous concurrence of their Lordilipi. The Noble Earl made a few farther obfervations, and con. eluded by moving the Addrefs, which, as Wind on loch occarions, was a faithful echo of his Majetty's Speech, with the addition of their Lordfltips compli ments of condolence on the death of his Royal High nets the Duke of Gloucetter. Lord Vircount CARLE I'ON role to fecond the motion for the Addrefs. He obferved, it went not to pledge their LorWhips to any Ipccific line of pro. ceeding, but went to leave thofe points on which dif ferenees of opinion-might obvioofly arife, as matter of fuhrequent difetiffion. He could not avoid advert ing, in the Sill inllance, to that prominent confide ration in the Royal Speech, which had been fo ably touched upon by the Noble Earl who had preceded him. Without meaning to depreciate the glory ac quired by Bridal failors in other Naval *aim, or to undervalue in the lean, the hill and bravery of thofe gallant men, be thought the aaion in queftion edit. fed all the other navalvittlories he had heard of, how ever brilliant. Whether he confidered the profeffional (kill, or the ardent bravery with which the Combined Fleets of France and Spain were attacked, and the glorious manner in which every (hip in the radon had diftinguithed herrelf—in there, and in every point of view, he thought the viaory merited fuch a chime ter, and, as fuch, called for the applaufe, the grad, rude. and the admiration of every man in the Houle and in the Country. Above all, the unparalleled (kill and herioc bravery of the illuftrious Commander. late a Noble Member of that Houle. was deferring of the warmeß eulogium ; whether he confidered the promptitude. the vigilance, or the activity of that great man, on that memorable and important occa. lion, •it was beyond all praife and eulogy; and the illufkrions Nelfon had the glory of dying, as he wiled. an heroic charatter. On all that part of the Speech, and the correfponding Addict's, which related to this Mita, he was confident there could be no difference of opinion ; neither could there be the leaft thadow of oblation to the paragraph referring to the death of that worthy and amiable Prince, the late Duke of Glqueefier. With rerpea to the allursous in the Speech to the fituation of the country, and the unfa• Towable NW of the war in Germany, whatever dif ference of opinion there might arife in certain points of view, his own fentiment was clearly. that his Ma. jelly, as Rated in the Speech, bad rated in aria con formity to thole principles he had uniformly laid down as the rule of his condua, and which, in point of wifdorn, jultiee, and policy, had regularly been recognifed by Parliament. In regard to other confi derations, be thought it would be found, when the proper time for difeuffion fhould arrive, and the ne ceffary Information be laid before the Houle, that every thing had been done by Miniften, with refer ence to a doe execution of the trait repored is them. He could not but Admire and applaud, not only the maranimous fpirit, but the enlightened and ftrong policy which satiated the condua of the Emperor of RAGA. in his willingncfs to join his force with that of this country, in the wife and glorious endeavour to reftore tranquillity and independence to Europe, and to which ends, the moll prompt and vigorous exertions were necefrary. With thefe convidlions, and feeling upon the occafion as he did, he molt cordially fupported the motion for the Addrefs.' The Addrefs being read, and die queflion put, Lord COWPER laid. that he did not rife to offer any oppofition to the motion now before their Lord Mips. He was anxious, however. that it fhottld be underftood, that his own conduit, and that of other Noble Lords, in abflaining from expretling their lenriments on this oceafion, fhould not be attributed to an entire concurrence in all the obfervations which had been made by the Noble Mover and Seconder. The fa& was, that he had come down to the Him& with a determination to move an Amendment upon the motion for the Addrefs ; but he was induced to pollpone it, from the confideration, folely, of the indifpofition of a Right Hon Gentleman at the head of his Majefly's Councils. He felt that, as the Ad. drefs did not in itfelf pledge Noble Lords to any thing, upon which there could be any great difference of opinion, it was rather a point of delicacy to offer any propolition, under the prefent circumflances, leading to a difcisigon, in which mutt necelTarily be involved the conduet of the Right Hon. Gentleman alluded to. Having Paid tints much, he would fa tisfy himfelf, for • the prefint, with reading the Amendment, which he had drawn up. His Lord. fhip then read over the Amendment. The purport tended to exprefb the deep concern which the Houfe felt, at the difaflers recently fuflained by his Majef. ty's Allies on the Coatinent a and to afTure his Majef ty, that the Houfe would take the earlieft opportu• nity of enquiring into the c2lliti of thefe difaliers, fo far as they migLt be connected with the condu& of his Majelly's Mmihers ; and to fuggetl fuch meafures as fbould appear to be neceffary for averting the dan gers which threatened this country. His Lordfhip concluded with giving notice, that, nn Monday neat, he fhould fubmit a motion, embracing the fubftance of the Amendment which he had . 0111 read. •' Lord GRENVILLE.—I perfettly concur, my Lord., in what hay just bitten from the Noble Earl. I hart' intended to have dircuffed at fume length the prefent lunation of the country, and not to have (offer ed this day to pals without feriou fly colifidering what has been the refult of meafures hitherto adopted—in what fituation we are now placed by the operation of fuch meafures—and what ought to be done for the interells and the honour of the country. A cir cumltance, however, which has been alluded to, the indifpofition of a Right Honourable Gentleman, in• duces me to forego this &Inc, and to poflpone, for the prefent, Meting into fuch a difcuon, which mull, under fuch eirctriflances, be painful to all of us, to me more particularly fo, With the fectiments which I feel towards that Right Honourible Gentle man. At the fame time it mull not be' forgotten, that lhe fituation of the country imperioutly calls for inveßigation. lam perfectly ready, however, to al fent to any pledge to be given to his Majelly, by which we agree to thank him for his gracious inten tion of communicating to Parliament the treaties and documents upon which we are hereafter to found an opinion refpeeting the meafures which thole &tit 'meets involve. lam alfo ready to concur in an ad drefs, which pledges no man to any opinion on tub jeds which mull remain to be difculfed hereafter, when the papers which relate to them are before the Houle t I have not the flightell with to drag fuch a fubjed into difeuffion, previous to the documents al laded to being laid before the Houle. When they are prefented to our confideration, I frail then be enabled to judge of their value and importance, of the weight which ought to be attached to them, of the different bearings which they have upon the fob. jell to which they refer, and of the general refults which they preterit, forming my opinion accordingly. With refped to that part of his Majefty's fpeech, which refers to the Cervices of the late Lord Nelfon, we can have but one opinion, and in the paragraph of the addrefs, which refers to that fubjed, I molt cordially concur. Upon the principal topic of his Maießy's limb, I have already raid I will to avoid giving any opinion." Lord HAWKESBURY--. 4 My Lords, the ob rervatioos which have fallen from the two Noble Lords who fpoke laft give me very great fatisfattios. They vary properly confider an event which many of us timer* lament. as an additional inducement' why they &mild not enter into the difeutEoo of cer tain parts of the Addrefs now before the Route. I I give the -Noble Lord who fpoke lag full credit for thole perfonal feelings which fo honourably actuate his mind towards an individual, who, unfortunately for the public, is prevented by indifpofition from attending his duty in Parliament. There are few perfons who mull not feel for the prefent fituation of man who has been the admiration of his country and of the whole world. It gives me pleafure there fore to find that this circumdance carries the poll ponement of a difeulfion which would have been very improperly brought forward now. It is unlac ed:try for me to trouble your Lordfhips on any topic in his Malay's Speech, nor in the Addrefs which has been Co ably moved and fecianded. That Addrefs does not commit Parliament on any one topic what ever. Your Lordfhips may concur in every part of it, without precluding a fubfequent difeulton. I am happy to find that there eras but one opinion on the Cubjeet of the great and brilliant Cervices which the late naval victory produced, and that there is only one opinion alto on 'the manner in which it is pro. pofed there Cervices thould be rewarded. I feel it neceffary to make tome obfervations on the totaled of the Amendment which the Noble Earl Paid it was his intention to make. That Amendment refers to a certain part of the Addrefs on which information is to be laid before the Honk, without which we &all not be able to form an opinion. His Majelly has ex prefred his gracious intention to communicate to us this information. I conceive the general pradice to be this—Wheoever his Majelly rays he will caufe certain Paper; to be laid before Parliament, it is unnfual to enter into any difeuffion of the fubjeet to d which fuch Papers relate until they are aually laid before the Houle. Let us wait and fee what is the information contained in thole Papers, before we give an opinion : and when we fee the documents, it will be time enough for us to come to Come determi nation %mon them. This is the general practice of Parliament ; and if, when the documents are laid be fore the Houfe, they Mould be found defective, fur ther information may 'then be moved for. We are now, my Lords, only called on to thahk bits Majelly for the gracious intention he has expreffed of laying the copies of certain Treaties before or r and when thole Treaties come. then will be the proper time to difcufa them. 1 agree entirely with the Noble 4aron, that the prefent is a time when the whole Rate qf the country ought to be taken into confideration. His Majeßy's Government willies it, and I am confident his Majeßy's Minifters will not &rink from the moll fcrupulous examination into the Bate Of public at fairs. lam Cure they will be able to 'unify the meafures they have porfued. We are not now about to pledge the Houfe in any thing on which there can be the flighteft difference of opinion ; a proper time will come for clifeuffion, and his Majefty's Govern. ment will be prepared to meet it." Lord MULGRAVE paid Come compliments to Lords Cowper and Grenville, on the motives which induced them to abliain from then difcuffing the con duet of Minifters. He, however, expreffed his con vidion that that conduit. when the requifite infor mation was before the Houfe, would meet their unanimous approbation. It would be found fuch 'ae would place in the molt .confpicuous point of view, the character of the Government_ and of the country. Notwithßanding the unfortunate refult of the effortsof °or allies on the Continent, he pledged himfelf, that the iffue of the molt ample invelliga tion, upon the documents which it would be his duty to lay before their Lordthips, would be a general concurrence in his opinion, that there was not a (Ingle meafure which could have been profpeltively fuggefted, that had been omitted t- nos owe adopted, which, upon the moll deliberate review of all the events that had occurred, it would have been defir able to tetrad. Having given this pledge to their Lordlbips, and adverting to the defile expreffed by his Noble friend (Lord Grenville) that• the. Houfe Ihotild be fully in poffefflon of every thing which re- Wed to thole meafures, before their Lordlisips thould proceed to the ditculfion of them, he would fuggett to the Noble Lord, who gave notice of a motion for Monday next, whether it would not be advifable to poßpone it for a few days longer ? He was not certain, that it would be in his power, by that day, to lay be fore the Houfe all the documents which it might be deemed advifable to fubmit to its confideration ; at any rate, it was impollihle that the Houfe fhonld then be fo folly in pageffion of their contents, as to enable it to proceed to a ditentlion of them. Lord GRENViLLE—.IAsI Rated it to have been my with not to defer beyond this day an important difi:oilion on the fitt.ation of the country ; but that I was induced to dcfsr that intention in confequence of a eircumflance which mull AO every man of liberal fentimeot and generous feeling, I Am anxious, my Lord►, that I,nrould not be mifundcrllocd. There are many points refpeeting the lunation of the coun try which have no connation with foreign treaties, • or with thole papers which may fall within the dc. partment of the Noble Lord. Some of thole points are of the higheß importance, and demand, in my opinion, an early difzulSon—a difeuXon which I do not think ought to be deferred beyond the day mcn. tinned by the Noble Earl (Cowper.)" The draft of the Addre(s was then referred to a Committee, reported, agreed to, and ordered to be preanted to his Moja y in the ultra' form. JUROR VOL The Marquis of ABERCORN rofe for the pnr. pnfe of calling the attention of their Lord!hips to the cafe of Mr. Juftice For. He mud leave it, he laid, to the Houle to adopt Inch meafures in this cafe as they fhould deem it expedient ; he only withed to fogged tbat.it would be highly advifable to avoid delay, both for the fake of the Learned Judge, and the witnefes, many of whom had avocations to at tend to, from which they could ill (pare much time to attend the Houle. Lord Vilcount CARLETON Paid that the Learned Judxe was anxious that as little fleay as poffible fhould take place in the invelligation of the charges againit him. • MI LA TB VICTORY. Lord HAWICESBURY gave notice, that he fhould move on Friday, for a Vote of Thanks to Lord Collingwood, and the Officers and Bennett employed under him, to whom the enuntry were indebted for the late glorious vidory off Trafalgar. • ADDITION•L VORCI ACT. The Earl of DARNLEY gave notice, that b; Bionid talie an early opportunity of moving fto an account of the number of men railed under the addi. tional force aft. MOUT/112 Dualism Oome routine ba4mfs ufoal at the eotnusgsmitteut of a Salon among* w.h 6 .-11 was , the rityppolot. molt of Laid Walfingimin, to be Chairman of the Committees, was rpm through, after which th. Houle adjourned till to-morrow, OW ray) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER came down to the Hoeft at Ores o'clock, end loon after, on the Deputy Miter of ch. Black Rod knocking for admiffion, took the Chair, Mr. Q2arm, Depnty Uglier of the Black Rod having obtained adasiffsna, informed the Houfe, that the Lords, by virtue of his Majelly's Committal,. defired the immediate attendance of that Honourable Houfe in the Houfe of Peers to beer the COONISK6O4 read. The SPEAKER accordingly, steetespotled the Members prefew, went up to the Lords, and having returned in about half an hour, the Speaker, after .0 interval of nearly the fame length, acquainted the Honk, that during the Recefs he had granted warrants to the Clerk of the Crown to iffue writs foe the Elation of Members for the folloteing olacest ceded For ciss City at clisoositer is die roost .0 John Pitt, Eft Soo . For die aoroolbs of Fodor. Demise, and At. Amigos's. Com Ace in Scodsod, Iu room of David Stott, Efi. doototoi. For the COUNT of MOOlllOl4ll, io the room of J. &Wks *NAIL • For the Borousit at Botoostibridge, b the soon at join Suety &seated. -- For Waterford, In the room of the Right goo. jolta detested. On the motion of Mr. BALDWIN' a sew writ wail ordered fee Dunwich. In Suffolk, in the room or Ssovrdon Horne. who Ma accepted attic oboe of annembrancer of hie illajettea Coon 4 Exchequer. On the motion of Lord TEMPLE a DWI MU via ordered for Qoeen's,Coontr, Ireland, la the room of Sr Eyre Como, Olt boa been appointed Lieutenant Governor of jamolea. On the motion of the SECRETARY at WAIL a new inkwell alto ordeal for Duribattonatre, In the roost of air James 0113 pillow), who had acceptal of the Ogee of bla 34.44fe Mom Healrods. A new writ alio wee ordered for Bedford, In the roam of St. Andrew St. John, new Lord St. Joba, wiled up to the Houle of Peen. Os the ins*" of is HURST, a sew writ was ordered for Leotallefter.le do ram of 0,10. sew Lord Kinnard. A Dew lii atiwei se he lied Ke th; elaitiee Burge% to Swag la hamlet tee Tures* bibs Ille 4 Wight, in thg zoom et Illr Mate reibanoehe had maysed the Chtlt,a Hundred& Lord CASTLEREAGH, Colonel MEAD, and feveral otheeMembers took the oaths and their feats. The Bill for the more effeeually preventing Clan. define Outlawry was perform, as ufnal at the begin. fling of the Section, read a firlt time, and ordered for a fecondiee Jo. The SPEAKER then acquainted the Houk, that the Houk had been at the Houfe of Lords, and that the Lord Chancellor, as one of the Commiffioners 'printed by bit Majefty, had made a Speech to Parliament, in the name of his Majefly, of which, to prevent millaker , he had obtained a copy--(for which fa the Sits IVierdat.) The SPEAKER having read his Majelly's Speech from the chair, Lord FRANCIS SPENCER rare, for thg purpofe of moving an humble Addrefs to his /Ma. jelly, in anfwer to his gracious Meffaga, in which Addrefs he would hope for the unanimous con currence of the Houfe. For thofe brilliant fuccelfes of his Majeffy's arms by lea, which had Co eminently diftinguifhed the naval hillory of the pall year, he was confident the Houle would fully coincide in the fentiments expreffed by his Majefly's Menge; but, above all, in what rerpetted the glorious and ever memorable victory off Trafalgar, under the gallant and jelly regretted hero who achieved that proud triumph for his country before he had nobly fallen in her caufe, and left her to deplore a loft, in which, he was convinced. every man who heard him, fin cerely participated the concern expreffed by his Ma jelly ; and he felt the ftrongeft reliance that the Houfe In its liberality, and juluice to the memo, y of that great and gallant Commander,would cheerfully meet the Royal willies, and enable his Majefly to add to the honours already conferred upon his family fuch fignal rewards as would mark the public gratitude for the important viAnries, and the public fecurity which the nation Co eminently owed to his prowefs. But while the country had loch proud and diflin guifhed caufe of triumph in her naval fucceffes during the bat year, and more particularly in that of the vitiory off Trafalgar, he was confident the Houle mutt deeply participate in thole feeling, of regret expreffed by his Malta'', for the reveries fullained by our Allies on tie Continent, and the melancholy iliac of the late campaign. At the rame tune, the Houfe and the Coutitry TA feel high confolation in the manly conduit, and the ualhaken attachment roardeftcrl by our faithful Ally, the Emperor of an' Ira an Tao Ipe liai am Pi Po ill thi Co pri 101 h! cto fo in ib