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IN - P4RLIiIMENT-11tr PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS. MARCH s. LIVERPOOL, PETITION. Lord DERBY said, that a Petition from the Merchants, &e. of Liverpool, had been transmitted to him, to be presented against the Orders in Council. He was anxious to know when the Peti tion might be psesented in due form, the more so, as it was drawn up in manner and matter to which lie did not conceive there could be any objt;ction. Lord HAWKESBURY observed, that as the Bill to which the Petition objected was not yet before the House, the Petition of course could be presented—but he could assure the Noble Earl, that it was not the intention of his Majesty's Government to hurry the Bill through the House, and that therefore the Noble Earl would have abundant time to present the petition. Lord DERBY professed himself satisfied with the explanation. ORDERS IN COUNCIL. - Lord ERSKINE said, It was intended that their Lordships should be summoned to-morrow on a subject of great importance, affecting, as be conceived, the highest interests of this Nation. — He alluded to certain Resolutions, which he designed to recom mend to the support of the House, reprobating the late Orders in Council. For reasons which were sufficiently obvious, he should now propose, that the order for the summons to-morrow should be discharged, and that the same order should be entered toff ues day next. This proposition being assented to, his Lordship again rose, and said, that on a matter of such magnitude, he wished the House to be apprized of the meaning and extent of the Resolutions he de signed to move ; and he should therefore read them over reriatine, informing their Lordships that if any of them should be desirous of having copies of them, they should be delivered to their order. His Lordship then read a string of eight Resolutions, declaring, that the law of Nations was a part of the law of this Realm—that the Orders in Council were inconsistent with the municipal law recognized in this country • that they were an encroachment on the rights of neutral and in dependent States; and generally stating the positive and contingent evils with which they were attended, whether operating on therights of this kingdom, or on the privile ges of other States. Lord LAUDERDALE wished that the motion, of which he had given notice, might follow that of his Noble and Learned Friend. With that view he should move, that the order for Mon day next be discharged, and that a new Order be made out for Friday next. He also wished to give notice he should move that the Reversionary Grants Bill be committed on Thursday next. Lord IVIOIRA observed, that the second shading of the Debtor and Creditor Bill stood for Friday se'nnight—be had already con sented at least three times to postpone that motion ; but be did not feel himself authorised to defer it any further. Lord LAUDERDALE would not attempt to bring forward hie motion on that d.ty, until the motion of the Noble Earl should hav , . , been disposed of. 7 his explanation appeared satisfactory, and Lord Lauderdale's motion was agreed to. THE COPENHAGEN EXPEDITION. The Order of the Day was then read, and Lord DARNLEY ruse to make his promised motion respecting the justice and morality of the attack on Copenhagen. The Noble Lord cor.terded that the attack on Copenhagen and the seizure of the Danish fleet; was a flagrant act of injustice and immorality, an open violation of the Law of Nations, a dereliction of the prin ciples upon which Great Britain had hitherto acted, and which gave her a proud consciousness in the justice of our cause, a con ciousness of which that act must now deprive her, • while it se-'' cured to her no advantages to counterbalance the injurious con sequences by which such an unparalleled ::nd unjustifiable attack on the capital of an independent nation must necessarily ist at tended. '1 he Noble Lord concluded with moving an address to his Majesty, setting forth the injurious tendency of that measure, to prove the necetsity of which the documents laid on the table were wholly imperfect and unsatisfactory. I.crd ELLIOT rose to oppose the address. So far from any fair ground existing in support of such an address, to him it ap peared that there was abundant cause to commend, instead of cen surirg the conduct of Ministers in that respect. Their Lordships would recollect that this was a topic which had already been fre quently discussed, and that the question had been repeatedly sanc tioned by the decisions of that House. They would not now incur the charge of inconsistency, and withdraw the approbation they had already so often bestowed upon that measure, the design and exe cution of which had argued so much sagacity, foresight, promp titude, and decision on the part of his Majesty's Government. The Noble Lord then took a survey of all the cireanr.stances which had masked the transaction, and concluded with reading a Resolution of approbation, which it was his intention to move, if the address movedby the Noble Earl should be negatived. Lord HOLLAND spoke at great length in support of the Ad dress. In all the papers that had been laid on the table to justify the attack upon Copenhagen, he could only discover symptoms of prevarication, weakness aad inconsistency, in the defence that was set up fork. It was impossible that a knowledge of what was Felled the Secret Engagements contracted at Tilsit could have been the ground of that expedition. That information was said to have, beerf circuitously obtained from Denmark, through Portugal and Jreland. The Treaty of Task was concluded on the 7th of June, and the Baltic expedition sailed from this country about the 18th of July. Could then the alledged information have reached us in that period through the channels to which it had keen ascribed ? Absurd..--Equally ungrounded were all the arguments used to prove the hostile mind of Denmark against this country.— Denmark was represented as the instigator of the maritime con federacy of 1760; yet it was now well known that the Courts of Berlin and of Spain had been the real Instruments in bringing about that confederacy ; a fact which was clearly shewn by the defence of Ids conduct laid before his Spanish Majesty, by his Mi nister, Count Florida Blanca, wherein the fact of the Court of Madrid having instigated the Danish Government to enter into that confederacy, was satisfactorily proved. The Noble Lord also contended, that instead of being gainers, we should be losers by the Baltic expedition; that the ships we had brought home were unfit for British service ; or that to adapt them to that ser vice will prove more expensive than preparing for sea as many British ships; while we had left Copenhagen with all her usual facilities for constructing ships, collecting nayal stores, &e. toge ther with a population whose hearts and hands would for ever be turned against us. In every view he could take of the measure, there was nothing to prove its necessity, or to atone for its vio lence and Injustice. He must, therefore, vote fur the address of his Noble Friend. Lord BORINGDON expressed his intention to support the Resolution proposed by Lord Elliot, and controverted and refu ted the assertions of Lord Holland. Lord HOLLAND shortly explained--after which the question was put, and the House divided on Lord Darnley's motion. • Contents, - - present 26—Proxies 25 51 Non-Contents, present 56—Proxies 54-110 Majority - - —59 Strangers were not re-admitted after the first division ; hut we understood that a short debate took place on Lord Elliot's Resolu tion, upon which the House again divided, Contents, - present 64—Proxies 61-125 Non-Contents, present 29—Proxies 28— 57 Majority - -—6 B Adjourued at Half-past Ten o'Clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The Pilots' Regutation Bill went through a Committee. Report to be received to-morrow. The Royal Marine Mutiny 33111 was brought up by Mr. BUI.- LER, read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time to morrow. •An Account of the Coal and Culm brought coastwise to the Port of London, was presented, and laid on the table of the House. On the motion of Mr. HUSKISSON,Ieave wasgranted tobring in a Bill to enable the Commissioners for liquidating American Claims, to withdraw the money placed in their hands, from the sank, and vest it in Exchequer Bills. Mr. HORNER gave notice of a motion for to-morrow, on the whites of licences for trade. On the motion of Mr. FITZGERALD, there was ordered to be laid before the House an Account of all mollies levied by the Grand Juries in Ireland, from the period of thr last returns. Mr. HUSKISSON brought up the Sugar Drawback Bilk and %be Sugar Esportation Bounty Bill, which were both read a ffrsa luxe, and ordered to be read a second time to-morrow. • GItetAtPoLIND ELECTION COMMITTEE. J. Jeffery, Esq. • T. 'ohne*, Esq. lames Shaw, F. Si R. Wigram • *r J. 1). King . 4 Sir C. Price Richard Benyon7E.sq. H. Alex, Macnaughton, Es* tad Duilerin r Wm. Smith, Esq. C. Moore, Esq. NOMINEM • •• * Davis Giddy, i n 'Six James Ituntgomery - - z ~: I , PAL? DlTtt *TM The CHANCELLOR. of the EXCHEQUER moved that the Order of the Day for the second reading of the Salt Exportadott Duty Bill be now read—whiek being done, he observed, the from various representations which had come to hint from diffe rent quarters, on the nature and tendency of th i s Bill, it a pp eared to him that it would not be advisable to push the measure at pre sent. (Hear! hear I from the Opposition Benches). He should I therefore move that this Bill be read a second time this day three ntomhs.—The Bill is therefore dropped. • MR. 301124 GIFFARD. Sir JOHN NEWPORT, pursuant to his notice of yesterday, rose to move for certain documents relat ing to the appointment of John Gifford, Esck to the office of Accountant-General. As Mr. Gifford had been dismissed from an inferior situation in the Irish Revenue by Lord Hardwicke, and as he had been raised by the present Government of Ireland to a higher situation, it was desirable to know what were the grounds of procedure in both cases, in order that the House might judge of both transactions. The Honotlrable Baronet, therefore, moved for a copy of the patent which appointed Mr. Gifford to his present situation, and for sonic account how the said situ ation became vacant, and also for copies of such letters and papers as. related to the dismissal of Mr. Giffard by Lord Hardwicke. Sir ARTHUR WELLESLEY said, the Honour able Baronet had assigned no grounds for the produc tion of those Papers • he had not stated any -miscon duct on the part of Mr. Gifford,nor any circumstance that could render him ineligible to fill his situation ; nor any impropriety in the conduct of the Lord Lieu tenant of Ireland, to render that appointment a fit subject for Parliamentary discussion. Sir JOHN NEWPORT replied, that as the dis missal of Mr. Giffard by Lord Hardwicke was in consequence of his constant and jealous endeavours to excite variance and discord between the Protestants and Roman Catholics of Ireland, his present higher appointment by the present Chief Governor of Ire land, rendered it necessary to enquire whether it was the principle of the Noble Duke's government to re . rive that discord which it had been the endeavour of Lord Hardwice to remove, by cherishing and re storing to favour the persons who were the chief Fo moters of such discords. Sir ARTHUR WELLESLEY said, Ile knew not that Mr. Gifford was the kind of agitator de-. scribed by the Honourable Baronet. When he him self was appointed to his present office, applicatisn was made to him le Mr. Giffard, who stated his dis missal by Lord Hardwicke, and complained of the injury he had sustained as very oppressive: The No ble Lord, he doubted not, had such motives for his conduct as he conceived to justify the proceeding but knowing, as he himself had long done, Mr. ad fard to be an old and faithful servant to the Govern. ment of the country ' • and never having heard any thing objectionable in his official conduct, he did not consider that it was a bar to his being employed in an active situation, merely because his private opinions ' were opposed to those of the Right Hon. Baronet, upon a subject on which there were very strong dif ferences of opinion in that country. He, therefore, when the situation in qiiestion became vacant, did not hesitate to recommend Mr. Giffard to his:Excellency for the appointment ; and he did not think it very usual for the House to interfere with his Majesty's Government, in appointing its own Civil Oilicers, upon such grounds as those stated by the Honourable Baronet. _ _ • Mr. CROKER rose to explain the transaction which led to the dismis.:.t': if Mr. Gifford, and which he thought ':remelt' harsh and oppressive, although he diffcre -ntirely from Mr. Guard's opinion upon the poli,cal subject to which allusion had been made. Mi. Gifford, who held an office tinder the Board of Customs in Dublin, was also a Member of the Com mon Council of that city, and in that capacity he did, as he conceived he had a right to do, speak against what is called the Catholic Emancipation, then about to be brought before Parliament, and did exert himself in promoting a petition from the Corporation against it. This was .4 the very head and front of his of fending," and for this he was avowedly dismissed from his employment; but he hoped that no friend to the right of petitioning would say that such a proceeding was not unjust. 4 1 - le had authority to assert, that ; the late Mr. Fox had spoken of this transaction as extremely harsh and oppressive, and expressed his decided opinion that Mr. Gifford merited a compen sation. _ - Mr. GEORGE PONSONBY vras convinced, that the dismission of Mr. Giffard was by no means in consequence of his exercise of any right he possessed as a member of the Corporation of Dublin, but for his unceasing exertions every where to sow dissention and discord between the two great classes of his Ma jesty's Irish subjects. He (Mr. Ponsonby) had scarcely any intercourse with his Lordship, (Lord Hardwicke) although formerly honoured with his in timacy ; but from what he knew of the Noble Lord's character, he was convinced there was no man l ess likely to do an 'oppressive act. But if no ground had been established, the very speech of the Hon. Gentle. man who had last spoke stated ample reasons for the proposed enquiry. Begging the Honourable Gentle man s pardon, he had committed a sort of bull in this business ; for his own speech stated the very gronru3s ' for producing the papers, for the alledged want of which he. gave his vote aga:ist the motion, for he had termed the conduct of Lord Hardwicke rash, inconsi derate, and oppressive. The fact was, that the for mer Irish Government, reasonably apprehending that they might be considered countenancing the conduct I of this man, as influencing animosities and discus ! :ions between the Protestants and Catholics of Ireland, dismissed him. 'He would not pretend to say whether the restoration of Mr. Giffard was meant to be consi ' deied as an example of a new system of Governinent directly the reverse of that under Lord Hardwicke : bat if it were so, they *could scarcely have done any thing more offensive ; o the great majority of the people.— With respect to what had been stated of Mr. Fox's I opinion, he had been •bOnoured with the confidence of that great man npon ths subject of Ireland, and every thing' rich relatect.tctits Government, and he never heart:lQ/a utter a Single tittle of what had been stated: ' and he also knew it to be his opinion, that the con duck of LOrd Hardwicke,.in Ireland, had been conci- Eatery and iMPartial, • • Mr. MAURICE VITZGERALD vindicated the. I conduct of Lord Ilardwicke's Govornment in this in stance: He; rose; Merely to state what he knew of his Lcciship'sGovecnincrit,wkiCh was uniformly 1 tory and impart4l. The di scii siion iu question proceeded from no wish to interfere with the exercise of corpo rate rights, but from a desire to vindicate the Govern ment against the suspicion of countenancing the out 1-ageous conduct of a man constantly pretending to !the confidence of the Government. He therefore thought the production of the papers necessary to Yin , dicate Lord Hardwicke's conduct, and to ascertain the principles of the present Administration. Sir ARTHUR WELLESLEY explained, that the salary of Mr. Giffard's former effice was seven bandred pounds a year, and of his present appoint ment about 1001. less. Dr. DUIGENAN maintained, that it was the part taken by his respectable friend, Mr. Giffard, in the Corporation of Dublin, in support of a petition in fa vour of the Protestant Constitution, which occasioned his dismission. On the morning of the assembly, a person from the Castle called at Mr. Giffard's house, to let him know, that if he brought forward his inten ded motion that day, Government would act with se verity towards him. He was already gone to the assembly ; and the person who received the message followed him hither, but too late, for the motion was made. The very next day he received his dismissal, and he had it himself from a man named Macdonald, a Romish merchant, and one of the principal agita tors in promoting the Catholic petition, that, when Lord Hardwicke had told him the next day of Mr. Giffard's dismissal, his observation to the Noble Lord was, that the transaction would do great mischief to the cause, and that the act was rash, and ought to be retracted. The Learned Doctor then reverted to the petition, stating it to be in fvour of the whole -pro perty a/Ireland, at least the property of in ifty of the wealth and respectability of the land. Is a Protestant subject of the King to be cruelly dismissed his employment ; to be sacrificed to a Romi ;11 mob ; to have the beggarhood of the country hallooed at , him, for promoting a petition to Parliamcn in support of the Protestant Constitution of his country ? He contended it was no more than common justice to restore this injured and persecuted man to his former place, or a better ' • and he stated, that but for Mr. Pitt's death, and the consequent change of Admini stration, it would have been done since. • Dr. LAWRENCE said, lie knew nothing per sonally of Mr. Giffard, but hoped he was entitled to a hearing as well as the Learned Doctor. He con demned, in strong terms, the language of that Learned Doctor, in applying the phrase of " hallooing the • heggarhood of the ceuntry" to three millions of his Majesty's subjects in Ireland, of all ranks and condi tions, from the Peer to the peasant ; while it was ex pected, that not a word was to be said against the job of the Learned Gentleman, for he had avowed the appointment to be the result of his interference. • Mr. G RATTAN said, he cor..3idered the motion to be with a view to censure the conduct of the present Irish Government, which he, for one, did most de cidedly condemn. As to the private character of the person in question, he would say nothing ; but in his public character, he had been very zealous in the ex citement of religious rancour and animosity, and was in every way, and not without some ability, a partizan. The excitement of religious discord in Ireland was at all times mischievous, but at this time particularly, dangerous. The great feature of Lord Hardwicke's Government was conciliation ; and it was that which influenced him in the dismission. He thought that it should be a fundamental maxim in the Government of Ireland, to discourage religious animosity, and to dis countenance its promoters • for, if such men were clip ported and paid by the Government, this c )liduct would be charged upon the Government itself. He considered, therefore, the re-appointment of), I r. Gi Ward to a lucrative situation an act of great imprudence, if not of extreme folly. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, in reply, said, that, though he might not approve of all the expressions that had been ned by his Learned Friend, he should never be deterred from supporting, to the best.of his abilities, the interests of our esta blishments, by any cry raised against him of bigotry and fanaticism ; and on this point he should leave his character to be judged of by his country at large, sa tisfied in his own mind that he had no wish to origi nate religious animosities. He wished, however, to deprecate as much as possible the introduction of sub jects which had no necessary connection with the point before the House, and which generally gave rise to such violence and altercation. With regard to the question, he thought thatthe grounds of Mr. Giffard's dismissal and re-appointment were sufficiently before the House, in consequence of the discussion which had taken place, and even more completely than would be manifested by the production of the papers, which in all probability contained merely the simple facts, and not the grounds on which they took place. In that point of view, he thought the motion ought to be resisted, and more particularly as there was no charge of corruption, or of mal-administration. All that was alledged against him was, that being a mem ber. of a Protestant Corporation, he had moveik; counter petition, in opposition to a measure which he considered as a pernicious innovation. Dr. LAWRENCE, in explanation, said, that he respected the Right Honourable Gentleman , the more for boldly avowing his opinions, although they were opinions in which he could not coincide. Lord H. PETTY thought that it was laying suffi cient grounds for the discussion of this question, to say, that it was brought forward for the purpose of criminating the Duke of Richmond, who had thought proper to act in this respect in opposition to the con duct of Lord Hardwicke. The Government of Lord Hardwicke in Ireland - was a Government re markable for its justice, its mildness, and its libera lity ; and in that spirit of mildness and liberality it had thought proper to remove from an office under the Crown, a man who had been a great fomenter of religious discord, and who had always used the most opprobrious and insulting language towards the Ca tholics of Ireland. It was not for a single vote upon . one occasion that he lost his place, but because he had adopted a uniform system of strife, both in the Corporation of which he was a member, and in every situation in which he could act, to vilify and irritate a considefable proportion of the population of 'Marc/. ' For this it appeared to Lore Hardwicke that it was improper that such a man should be held out to the country as holding an office under Government ; but as the Duke of Richmond had decided otherwise, and thought this man, ileserving of reward, it be ' came an important question, because it seemed as if a newMr.stem Was now to ke pursued. system ROSE believed that this was the very first time that the removal of a Revenue Officer was condd ov A subject fit for parliamentary di scuss i on. Mr. W. SMITH conceived, that as the Rigls t ß nourable Gentleman (the Ch ance ll or of the pm!' quer) had expressed so great a desire of h av i ng - 7. 4 subject discussed with temper , h e must have had mite pleasure and delight in hearing the tem per which it had been discussed by an Hon ontA i e "" Learned Friend who sat behind him (Dr. D o i a4 li The calling three-fourths of the popula t i on of N “ th e beggary of the country," was a p h rase 4 4 liarly conciliating. He under stoo d, t h at it wasPera not merely in his corporate situation that Mr. Giffardh oj fomented religious discord, but much more in hi s 4 . pacity as editor of a newspaper. Sir JOHN NEWPORT replied at some hu m ], and condemned severely that irritating and offer s; language which Mr. Girard had constantly nsad to , wards the Catholics, both in the Corporation of D. lin, and in the newspaper which he conducted. thought that such a man was ar. improper per to hold an office under Government. A division then took place. For tlia motion,s7 ; againt it, 103. Majority, 46. ROCHYFORT EIIt:ADRON. Mr. CALCRAFT considered that he should b e neglecting his duty to his country, if he did n o t eo , dearour to institute a public enquiry into the circu ra stances connected with the escape o f t h e French squa: dron horn Rochefort. He considered that the inabili t y of Sir R. Strachan to pursue them was owi nz to th ; neglect of the Board of Admiralty ; and he could expect nothing but failures from that Board as Ilya ; now constituted. At the head of the Admi-alty he Saw a Nobleman (Lord Mulgrave), whom he conside re d as inexperienced and as unfit a man to be at the be a d of that Board, as any person that could be found h i the whole country. From the man who thoughtpr o . Vet, in 1805, to exeose to the whole w or ld the m olt confidential communications between the Gov enu of this (*entry and of Austria, he could note/p ea a sounder judgment in any thing than he had she ll in the selection of Admiral Gambier, and in rnaaj • other points connected with the Copenhagen m i d i . tion. From such a First Lord of the Admiralty, he could expect no better attention to our bl squadrons than that which the fleet under Sirli a4 A Strachan had experienced. The circumstances ofib e case, according to general report, and the inform. tion that he had received was this : Sir Richard Sea. chap was obliged to leave the anchorage he had take' in Basques Roads, for want of provisions, ed t id t ought to have been furnished to him from the Maui. rally. He was obliged to take a considerable offmg, and cruize for those ships which he expected to arrive with provisions. At length they did meet with d e Superb, the Colossus, and the Mediator, but, be., they could supply themselves with provisiom, the French squadron had sailed, and they were not stir ciently victualled to be able to pursue them. He us. derstood, that even the supply which thelastreceival from the Mediator, was not sufficient, and that ha was obliged to look for the Ferrol fleet, and take from them any thing which they could spare, before he was in a condition to pursue the enemy. It app peared to him, that in this neglect of the squadron blockading Rochefort, the common routine of the Admiralty had been lost sight of, for the regular re. lievaig our blockading squadrons was a matter al. most of routine, and only required that common vi. gilance which was to be expected in every board of Admiralty. He could not conceive an excuse for the Admiralty, as he knew that the wind had been fait for a considerable part of the time. There was as service more, fatiguing and less encouraging, that that of blockading an enemy's port; but it must be ti heart-breaking.reflection, indeed, to our gallant cow.' trymen employed upon this irksome duty, to thinkl that they were neglected by the Admiralty, Antis duty it was to supply their wants. Sir Rides* Strachan had taken his position within three or miles of the Rochefort squadron; It must have a heart breaking thing to him, to be obliged to lea so advantageous a situation, merely through want provisions. If he had been supplied as he ought have been, it was highly probable that he would h added another laurel to his fame. Why he had been r...) supplied, was a subject which he thou it was absolutely necessary for Parliament to inqu into ; and in bringing forward a motion for such inquiry, he hoped it would not be said that he merely bringing forward motions to harass M . Unless Ministers apprehended some danger from production of these papers, he did not see on libat pretence they could be refused. He underst however, that -some of the papers were to be grameas and others not. In moving for extracts of the of Lord Gardner and Sir Richard Strachan,4is not wish any ether disclosure but that which to the object of his motion, the state of that fleet ass° provisions and water. He concluded by moving, Fora list of the ships that were under the orders of Rear Asi• miral Sir Richard Straehan on the ist of December, Ist lanwltTo and Ist February last stating against each the time when he last walla from port, and time for which he was then victualled For Copies of all the Accounts, commonly called WcekllA°' counts, received from Sir Richard Strachau, between the Ist No eemher and Slit January. For copies or extracts of all letters received by the AdrAndia_ , or Lord Gardner, from Sir Richard Strachan, between the Ng November and 31st January, relative to the state of provide* andsertite , on board the ships under his orders, or which 111414 stollats.actual or probablenecessity he might be under (drill.' the crews oh . short allowance. iccount, chewing'the time during which the tifehkeir.. or aliy of the ships under Rear Admiral Sir Richard Seadell. were at'short allawancii, and of what species of provisions. For copies or extracts of all letters received by the Admirskll or Lord Gardner, from Sir Richard Strachan, stating any ram. which had compelled him to leave the port of Rochefort Oil' et the escape of the French fleet on the 18th of January last : and eg any letters which might state the necessity he had been under of cabin provisions or water from the ships off Ferrol Mr. WELLESLEY POLE was ready to give every information the House could desire upon Ng subject, for the purpose of exhibiting at once a f un and clear view of the -conduct of •the Admiralty on this occasion. That is, every thing concerning the state and condition of the squadron under the com mand of Sir R. 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