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VS. last ad of Peers • mast STATE OP HIS MAJESTY'S HEALTH. .. About five o'clock receive the sanction of the . The Earl of LIVERPOOL, rose, and stated, that I were all founded on mistake or misrepresentation. It must be in the recollection of their Lordships, when 1 He (Mr. Perceval) however, desired above all, that he last had the honour to address them, he had said, I no doubt should be entertained of the existence of the that unless some ,very material change should take i House of Commons. They were here the Represen place in the state of his Majesty's health, indicative ; tatives of the People, as much as if the King were in of a reasonable hope of a speedy restoration of his perfect health ; and as such, they must observe the Majesty to the personal exercise of his royal functions, regular mode of proceeding for filling up any vacua it was not his intention to propose on their next meet- , cy which might take place in their own body. ing (this day) a further adjournment for any length i The motion was then put and carried, there seem ed time. And though a considerable degree of pro- ing to be not more than one or two dissentient voices. F ressive amendment had since taken place, and the KING'S ILLNESS. same confident expectations of his Majesty's recovery j The CHANCELLOR Of the EXCHEQUER were still, of course, entertained by his physicians ; then addd the House. When he last hd the yet the immediate state of his Majesty's health was honour of resse meeting them this day fortnight, h a e had such, as that he could not hold out the prospect of occasion to refer to the communication made to the that most desirable event being likely to take place House from the Privy Council, and from reference in so short ri time, as that he thought could warrant to that Report, feeling himself justified in the pro him to propose, in the present instance, a farther ad- posal of delay for one fortnight more, he had sub journment. Under these circumstances, therefore, mined such a proposition to the House, in the hope and with a view to that course of proceeding which that in the mean time such a progress would have in the judgment of the House it might be proper and , been made in his Majesty's recovery as would have expedient to adopt, he begged leave to propose for held out to them the prospect, on their re-assembling the consideration of their Lordships, as was the course' to-day, of. a speedy reassumption by his Majesty of on the former occasion ; first, that a Committee his -Royal functions. At that time he entertained a should be chosen in the way of ballot, to examine I confident expectation that such would be the result, the Physicians attending his Majesty, as to the actual : i and he therefore expressed a confident expectation state of his Majesty's health, and to report such exa .3mination to the House. If this should be agreed to, • lie would move, that such Committee shall consist of that there would be no occasion for any farther ad / journment of Parliament on that account. He was now painfully placed in the situation of stating, that vhenty Lords, and that the House should adjourn his expectations in that respect had been disappointed. till to-morrow, for the purpose of choosing such Com- He l l had, on the former meeting, stated, that the in mince, The Noble Secretary then formally moved, terests of the 'country, and a regard to its vital con -1 hat a Committee should be chosen as above ; which, terns, would require, on its again meeting this day, pn the question being put, was ordered, Orel..din. that the House should proceed to supply the dr& His Lordship moved, secondly, that the said Corn- ciency, and to provide for the discharge of the kingly mittee of 20 Lords be balloted for to-morrow ; and functions ; and that he should not feel himself en that each Peer present should put into a glass a list, titled to propose any farther delay, unless the amend containing the names of 21 Lords, signed by himself. ment was such as to hold out hopes of a speedy reco- Ordered. very.—He still remained of that opinion. This being He then moved for the attendance of Drs. Rey - - - -- the nothing remained for the House, but to say Al. May 25. The project I. the substance of . I tch, Italians, and Neapolitan tained prisoners in England. 'Brazils, shall be indiscriminai France and her Allies shall bind, including Hanoverian prisoners of the above descri' mark shall do the same by be similarly treated. No. 111, May 2.5. Note ing, that as he was not prepared exchange of prisoners belongi- Powers, he therefore asks Government. No. IV. May 26. M. Dumonsti Mackenzie, that if England principle of general. and absoli prisoners of war of the two r authorised to propose the France and England as the No. V. June 23. A Note M. Durnoustier, announcing is arrived from London. It i All prisoners in the possession their Allies, shall be set a; posed by the Frenth prisoners shall be set at liberty being the utmost number those who capitulated under It also states the ranks of be deemed equivalent on with an offer to establish Comm Paris, to facilitate the exchange No. VII. In this note, M. Dumousticr discusses British Government. HI general liberation of the agreed upon, that was not adopting measures which most important consequences. went Is convinced that the cia, and other insurgent Governments sabmit or disappear from .. becomes evidently impossible the paragraphs 11 and counter project of the British the same time it may be ' refuse to liberate French in her power after the exchaa Thus the adoption of the tish will be no more than liberates the whule of the 91 . the French prisoners oral , pie of liberation, on whir' sis, will be found deficient. e only and incontestible • I pletely a concerted princir to convey to the road of _ ners, arid those of the powers are in England. To bring ners, with a number from ing together a number eqt or the allies of France, who and there make the ex& By this means, an es( on the will of the two Gm From Calais, the BritV port the Spanish prisoner, in a state of insurrection After this preamble, the ifficial papers : No. I. A Note from M. alone • that they should meet immediately in the Speaker's Chamber, and that five should be a quorum. Mr. PERCEVAL then moved, that the House at its rising to-night do adjourn till Monday. Ordered. Mr. PERCEVAL proposed, that for the purpose of ensuring as full an attendance as possible, a call of the House should be ordered. To give to this call the fullest possible effect, he should move that it do Attire place on Wednesday. He had proposed the ad hurnment only till Monday, as it was reasonable tO ope that the Report of the Select Committee would be ready to be presented that day. It would be ne cessary that the Report should be printed, and he pro. posed Wednesday for taking it into consideration. It would be proper, previous to this important disOws sion, that the House should be called over, and he accordingly now moved, that the House be called over on Wednesday next. Lord TEMPLE put a question to Mr. Perceval across the table, the purport of which it was i sible to collect ; but the answer seemed to imply at the precedent in 1788 would, as far as possible, adhered to. It. was then ordered that the House be called over on Wednesday next.—Adjourned till Monday. . . them as most .conven:ea without obstacle, becaul Governments. All the 1 of England, and all the power of France, being' 'surplus of the Spanish , .against. the French prisoners the British Government promised Ifar as circumstances rendered about the exchange. between In making an actual . be France and England, Report of the population is to one and the other a proportion prisoners of war ; consequently portion of wishes in France liberation, an equal proportion treatment which - they may power of making reprisals, render it necessary. But the English prisoners, diately dishiterated in much so, that the Frew will find themselves w; and without warranty . ppm. On this reasonii ,ple of a general exclianL venience. It is this argument policy, and in humanity !beaus tending direct), consequences. The undersi, which can be here rem' detail of the deplorable antlers in England, crow 4 deprived of all exercise. in the prison of D.irtmoor, ports which have reached unwholesome sp , ,t in all ,prison,.as in the :hulks, and corrupted air, they disorders which carry which terminates in di! least of them, while the derive.any advantage ti The Undersigned doe: of the French prisoners, by the English prisoner! citadels situated in the pire, they exercise them, places as freely and familiar , 1 and those among them - - 1 the reward which they industry. So far from they have fewer diseases iit they were perfectly f! The Undersigned wi on the number of Hano ter project, nor on the mark, which are to be France, in a treaty for . of war, France will attsa tions i when the laasis of , . (Ty h avativard• • . P f AtatatifrfrAtr P.ROCEEDIIO HOUSE Or LOItbA p PECEMBER Is. A meeting wok puree pirsuant to the journment, altd a very considerable number smut be stayed. Nothing eould.be mere tnisch,levols , and with the name of MT. Hiley.Asidinptasltio place , After in its effects than thefromulgation of such lio*ste. , lof liir: 1114thurst, were then put and *pad top as the official p It was consistent with the- sof and genuine nei.• i Membedeef the Select Committee. pies of the Constitution, thin die functions of every It vs ordered thaotbeyshoubilsanopower to send missary. department u n the State *me' now. entire. snsd must' i for physicians, to adjourn from titne•to time, and No. II go on to be exercised by those who had derlved•their i 60171 place to place at they should aee proper, and to in No. I. . authority froth the Legal Head, unimpaired by any i sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House ; Dutch, accidental circumstance of the King's illness. The i that no Member of the House should be present at tained p doubts which had gone abroad, and which seemed to i their sittings, but the Members of the Committee Brazils, receive the sanction of the Honourable aironet, alone ; that they should meet immediately in the France s s a I,o l94 ‘ d v o h mii ich i ne sa i s is, e4n w.n th:a t tr i n t . are renc : l.nP:rit i ' ,, L D i u i m tlth en t, sei . ee heo p ra :oject of th e cartel d, p arturai ' minately set at M; er cr t . 0 11 1 an pr i soners, toward 1 toningri r r i onnti to treat f 0? a M i l t j or i s t i . 4 1 : I lit bt r their prisoners, and Il uule cartelsvill not a ia7c rent :deLete.l. r s l bs ot n aßs l e u iin t l e i3s l ue ibera t i on of an 3 h t e e b f a ro si m s. 1111 : 11 a . m . et i t ta ri g ib: t h ratt a hy t e t i h nu e ti c : o ; s un : ter p tl session of either Powe r , er r 00 F W are is ) C a.l c enceeo the tmd says,hrmbe under rer m ) otpernif C ount i ro o s i li rs u sl i t t i a ' n 2 41®dtrnthaeai counter 'nenrrsnds annul 1 1 9: l ia' p a : c 11 4 lei d h7 t n o l c n e: u . tll ' 0 n . L l ll :hinge of prisoners in future. h de which is datel July 2, NI , two belligerent masscs ant done for the purpor t . Y 5 ences. The French " he Juntas of Gali c i a , V. Governments in Spain, ri n those quarters, therefor; o no ssible to execute with' T 1 12 of the article 4of ' .on British Government ; and e foreseen that England an :h prisoners who may rani cchasge of English pri s , he counter-project of the B .'n an a partial exchange, whit t e English prisoners, and p only, and the general pet ich both Governments an ' ficient. lible means of executing ciple of a general exchange, F Calais all the French , ,owers allied to France,w ing also all the English pr: ,tn the allies of England. , t equal to that of the Fret who are prisoners in Engl :hange. xchan'e, which only • 3overnments, will ke ef c tish Government could u ers to the ports of Spain it , n, where they inaf dispose at. This plan is simple use it suits well enough bo French prisoners in the the English prisoners in t g ; liberated by these means,. prisoners shall be excha. oners in Spain ; Ind to this • I , t promised its intervention, ~ ndered it practicable to hi l balance of prisoners of England, it is evident, from on of both nations, that • r a proportion nearly equal equently there is an via •• rance and in England for iroportion of warranty fir e may experience, and an eq ne isals, it circumstances tho But if we begin to deliver - ni England finds herself im this species of misfortune; ' :nehmen detained in Eng rithout win-ntty of CIC. of the treatment which , 1 ming is established the nge, and the principle of c: .gurnent which, in reason, i ry, admits not the executiel ly or indirectly to model : dersigned raises not a quest:. s emoved, in entering into t: e situation of the French , lwded in hulks, where they ise. Cooped up by thous. - aoor, described by all the hed us, as rituatel in the an r ill England, beaching in th . and, perhaps, worse', a ey have contracted cone: ' f iiseases incurable; to say th remain, i ' ey themof f by h Englandunrei:dls, al n tt from them. . 4 3es not oppose, to this s:tuario f. 5, the goo.] treatment receir e in France dtributed in larg • most healthy cities of the Co oselves in all the extent of the t familiarly as our own ; who are laborious often ob t deserve from their talents a having cosi tagious es ree: mong them, per r rhalst ill make no more observation overians described by the O D . : teindth o ta rn eke i et ss nox i cali o llai n anth o oge f esecon ß .oaf u sct s i.chj si tdeo7 l :satinai : .g D : :: if the negociation is k seatisired. • FRENCH PAPERS. PARIS, DECEMBER 5. After the celebration, on the 2d instant, of the an niversary of the Emperor Napoleon's coronation, an address was presented to his Imperial Majesty, in the name of the Senate, by their President Count Gar nier, thanking his Majesty for his most gracious com munication of the happy event of the pregnancy of the Empress. ....rECTING THE EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS WITII ENGLAND. Since the commencement of the present war, France and England have agreed upon no cartel for of The OFFICIAL -case, . ___ .... ...c a VJUSe, e— nolds, Halford, and Heberden, on the House to-iris- w hich has obstacle lin what manne r they shouldproceed exchange . prisoners. row, in order that they may be sworn at the Bar, the calamity which had takenplace. He was happy opposed itself to any understanding on this touching their evidence before the Committee, ancl, • • important object, has arisen from a discordance of to declare, that he still entertained the most sanguine further, that Drs. Willis and Baillie do attend for the opmion with regard to the following points : hopes of the ultimate and complete recovery of his same.purpose on Saturday next. England will not consent to consider as prisoners' Majesty, but still be could not recommend that any The Duke of NORFOLK said a few words in a only the native English ; she will not include in the farther delay should take place. On the contrary, low tone of voice, not in objection to the arrange- benefit of the exchange the Germans, Spaniards, Por be was of opinion that it was now come to this point, went proposed by the Noble Earl, but principally to tuguese, and others of her allies, who form part of that the House ought to appoint a Committee of inquire, why all the physicians could not attend on the Physiciansattending h . • her armies, or who constitute a part of the armies who their own, to examine on is ,the same day ? combine and co-operate with her's. Majesty, and to put on the records of their proceed- The Earl of LIVERPOOL, in answer, observed, in g s The second point of difference is the capitulation fact of his M • indi spos itio n.A s suffi the . d ajesty's . that the personal attendance of the Physicians men-of General Vnalmoden ; at the time of the conquest cient notice had _ ogre n y been . given o f the _ proceedings boned upon his Majesty, to-morrow, would render of Hanover, 17,000 men then surrendered as priso-, likely to be adopted, to didtlie event of n o favourable their attendance before Saturday impracticable.—Heners of war. England will not consent to consider symptoms occurring, he not see hat_ there was . 'likewise observed, that the proceeding of the ballotthem as such, although the greater part of these • may be so arranged, as that all the lists may be deli- a f ny_occasion to adjourn to another _ day m d r i t e ee namen h g t troops, officers as well as soldiers, have since been in wed into the Clerk against the meeting of the House o ow the b Committee , but e th s a i that the ld Comi e ro mig ose her service, in violation of the capitulation, and of n c . ppo . in e .. iou therefor , P P , tomorrow at four o'clock, when a Committee maythe law of nations, that a Committee be app ointed to examine the Physo be appointed for the purpose of examining the lists, During the space of ten years these questions have clans who had attended his Majesty during his illness, and reporting to the House the names of tits Lords of h is M ' ' h ea l t h , and furnished matter of protracted discussions. . . touching the state - . upon whom the choice should falL • • .In April, 1810, an Engltsh Commissary arrived at ' The attendance of his Majesty's Physicians, as mo- port the examination to the House . .He should ' 21 houlrLpro- Morlaix. In order to clear away these difficulties, pose that this Committee should consist o red for by the Earl of Liverpool, was then ordered; em " negociations were set 'on foot, and they lasted eight ,bers and should then propose the names ; but, that and on his Lordship's motion, t4eoliouse adjourned ''months without being brought to any successful con tillo e• • the House might be the better prepared to judge of the . to-morrow. . , e , , , . fitness of the Committee, he should at once reads. all elusion. . . e, -. .t . e France proposed two barns : the lost was, to - . eeees , ei „ the names of the Members whom he proposed should IiOrISE OF COMMONS, • - renew what had been done in 1780. By the cartel s Two Members took the oaths and their seats. • Mr. Secretary Ryder S. Whitbread, Esq. of 1780, the prisoners of the two nations were ex • • e NEW • WRIT troll. LIMERICK. 1 The Muter of the Rolls Right Hon. G. Ponsonby changed in gross, by making up for the difference bya sum of money. .., . Sir JOHN NEWPORT then moved—, i William Adam, Esq. W. Wilberforce, Esq. . That basis having been refused, France proposed ..., , .the Speaker do issue his warrant for a New Writ, for * 1 H on . H. L asce ll es ' Right Hon. R. B. Sheridan the total exchange of the whole of the prisoners of to serve in Parliament for the County of Limerick, in • ' Right H on. R.Dundas Right Hon. G. Tierney 1., 4 r OM Odd!, Esq. who since his election had been sp. ' the two belligerents, man for man, rank for rank, s rielehili Oithe Lords of the Treasury in Irelai.d. Lord Cattlereagh Right Hon. W. W. Pole Men who formed part of the same army, or of armies' " s on 'On the question being put, Lord Milton Right Hon. Sir John Newport who had combined their operations and co-operated '' Mr. DIDDULPH expressed a doubt whether it Lord G. Cavendish Right Hon. Sir W. Scott in their movements, were separated from each other. ' e•:eresis competent to the House to agree to such a Mo- Attorney-General Right Hon. C. Bathurst By proposing that second basis France went still - ' - n • The writ moved for was a King's Writ. The R. g ht Hon. G. Cannin g T. S. Gooch , Esq. . f art h er : s h e consente d to restore all the Spanish pri itse e. nt Session had never been opened by a Speech He then concluded by proposing the appointment soners which she had in surplus, that is, she was wil nn .. ' the King; and he thought it would be rather of a Committee. ling to give up more than 20,000 prisoners beyond ) nirer anomalous proceeding for that House to order Mr. WHITBREAD rose only to remark, that the the number that would have been exchanged. i a King's Writ to be issued, without any recognition Right Hon. Gentleman (Perceval) had now felt him- This basis alone was under discussion for eight) pf them on the part of the King. , sell compelled to resort to that measure, which, in months. England affected to be willing to adopt The-SPEAKER said, it mig ht b e p ro p er to in- t h e o pi n i on o f some Members of that House, should the principle ; it was imagined that the cartel had form the Honourable Gentleman, that on a former have been adopted one month before. He again beg- been resolved upon, but in her view of cartels, Log . • occas ie n the exercise of the right now called in ques- ged publicly to accuse the Right Hon. Gentleman of laud soon betrayed the tendency of he r real i nten ti ens o - r.ore had been considered a paramount and primary not having given intimation of the unlooked f o r as -1 It was discov ere d t h at w hil e s h e appeare d to a d opt - .. (ben by that House, and • that, in pursuance of this sembling of Parliament to all the Members, without ' the principle of the exchange, she was anxients only principle, the House had felt it to be their d u ty t o fill distinction, as had been rbsei•ved on a similar melan- to lay a snare. Under this pretence, she attempted i o Od l e seats which had , become vacant in their choly occasion by his predecessor. He had also fur- i to withdraw the prisoners she had in F rance , i n ex . ee • bey. It was also to be remarked, that this was titer to accuse him, that having it in his contempla- ' change for an equal number of F r ench p r i soners w ho! g en no application to the Crown ; and if the House had tion to propose certain Measures of importance, he were in England; and afterwards give rise to inci any right of their own authority to issue one warrant did not acqua i n t t h e w h o l e Membe r s o f the House, dents, in order to justify the detention of the 20,000 ' to this effect, they were entitled to fill every vacancy. without distinction, of the nature of the proposition to French prisoners who still remained to be exchanged, The question being ern - we:ere be submitted by him, bat confined the knowledge of and to lease in France the Spanish prisoners, about • Sir FRANCIS BURDETT rote, and said he it to those individuals whom he knew to be attached "whose fate she was unconcerned. The trick was too • • could not for his own part call the meeting now as- to his ow n party. He knew it h a d been common for I clumsy to impose upon any one—England accepted ' sembled a House-of Commons or a House of Pirlia. f e entlemen on both sides of the House to remind the proposal of a general exchange, and reserved to went; neither could he reconcile the i ss uing of such• their own f r iend s of the necessity of their attending on I herself, at the same time, the means of executing a warrant as that now moved for, which mast . ores - nenarticulOr occasions ; but, situated a 3 the country I only a p ar ti a l exchange, when she would have had irately a ffe c t a Writ issuable by the Crown,' to the. now was, and when so important, and at the same 1 all her prisoners at horre for most undoubtedly it is notions he entertained on this subject. So anomalous time so generally interesting a question was to Ise dis- • not the estimation in which she holds th e Sp an i s h a • p rac eedin& he was unwihing to entertain, and the cussed, he presumed to think that the intimation prisoners, that woo'd have inducted h er t o res p ect the . Impropriety of agreeing to the present motion struck ought to have been made to every Member without treaty, and to seed back to France the remainder of him most forcibly. distinction. He only begged to bring back the re- the French peeoners. The English Negocieters' Mr. inERCEVA.L did not think that it would have ; collection of the House to what was theiractual slam- called this ha monizing the principle of the exchange been necessary for him, after what had fallen from ition—tbat this was the third time on which they were of man for man, rank for rank, of the sum total of the Chair, to say :t single word on the subject now i thus assembled, without having yet taken any steps the two 'lasses, but not to be effected at the same under consideration. The objection to the issuing of to supply the deficiency which was known to have ex- time. And accordingly did t h e y throw otr the mask , ... 'the w arran t h a d t e nen not unnaturally from the Gen- ! toed, at least for the last six weeks. That he (Mr. and 3 reak off the negotiation when t h e con di t i ons of • '-' tleman under the gantry (Mr. Biddulph) ; but after i Whitbread) was proposed as one of the Committee, i a •artel were held out to them, w hi c h wou ld h ave n:refie infotmation Gentlemen bad received from the ' he unquestionably esteemed an honour. If appointed ' tarried bona jilt into effect the principle, that is, by • hair h e p resum ed to have thought that there would ihe should endeavour to discharge the duty entrusted establishing an exchange of 3000 F renc h an d a lli es • • . mot be a dissentient voice. : He coold not agree to :to him conscientiously i or if a more. proper mei of Prance against 3000 English and the allies. of the statem e n t of the Honourable Barinnet, that they should be propcteed in his room, he should sulenit , England, in the proportion whi c l, a pp eare d b etween were not a House of Commons. Nothing was mote with all deference to the opinion of the House. the pr soners in the ir tot a l num b ers ; o f 3000 French important than that the public should understand 1 ., The moti ons d for the appointment of a conenittee, amine IQOO E ng li s h an d 20 00 S pan i ards. The pro . that they were a House of Commons l e g all y and duly an d that it should consist of 21 Members, were then portico...6ln the mass of - elle prisoners was in this ratio. ' constituted ; and that, being so, they were now about put and agreed to. With Oispect to the capitulation of Walmoden, there to take those steps for the benefit of the country which . Mr- PERCEVAL, previous toproponng the names was 10;ooming to any understanding. England it 'was incumbent on theln to take without any farther in the list he had p re p are d, state d, t h at h e understood wouldgive up fo r th e 17,000 Hanovorian s o n ly 3000 delay. The argumeOt of th e Honourable Baronet , Mr. Bathurst was not in town , he s h ould therefore Freno.—France, in a spirit of conciliation, brought (if at all to be listened to,) would go much farther propose, in place of his name, that oldie Right Ho- down mr claim to a third, that is, to 600 P Ftench ; than he himself inten4ed, and would go indeed to nourable In, Addington. althou it was proved, that of the 17,000 Nano this—that no Write evert, in a Court of Law, could be; The names, with the addition s - of the Chancellor of veriann epee than s er ve d , $OOO bed • . , - or were as etly good v so that ail legal proceedings, of wail triad, the Exchequer himself, to make up the cumber 21 1 sereialek she Demu t h ra n e e , .4 4 ' J. t:e • . .