Star. — London, England, 1817-05-07 00:00:00

PAR Pl/1 ME NiARrPROCEE DINGS. FOU:iE Or LORDS, MAY G. The further considera , ion of Bailey's p•vorce Bill being re g•tnsed, Counsel and evPence in support of the Bill appeared at the Bar. One wi•ness, John Paul, a private 'hi the 13th regi ment of foot. to which corps lieutenant Kelly (the paramour of Mrs. Bailey) belonged, was examined, with• a view of farther substantiating the a3ckcry of Mrs. &dry. He deposed to the Lady's frequently •ieiting lieutenant Kelly, MR only In hls lodg ings, hitt a• Barracks, in Taunton : and 00 two occasions be de scribed such circum , .:nces to have taken place, as strongly tend ed to extablith that conclusion which the Learned Counsel wish ed to Infer front his evidence. His statement was ordered to be printed fur the use of their Lordships, and the further considera tion of the subject was ordered to be postponed. On the Motion of the Earl of LAUDERDALE, Accounts of the number and description ut Offices and Pensions, the Salaries and Amounts of %Otitis were paid by the Exchequers of England; Ireland, and Scotland respectively, wete ordered to be laid before the House. The further proceedings in Committee on Owen's Divorce Bill, were ordered to take place to.morru . 'l'he Life Anouittes, and the Window Duty Amendment ' were read the third time and passed. 'I he whir BIN on the Table, chiefly private or local, being re-p. ctively lorwarded, an Adjouniiiis.tit took place. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Sir 1. SHAW presented a Petition limn the Inhabitants of London, complaining of the great increase of Female Prostitu tion. Read, and laid on the table. Mr. W RISITE::' I .EY moved for an Account of the number of Bills filed in Chancery front 'Siu to tat 7, dittinguishing the yeart, and ache Order. made and Causts tried in consequence. Ordered. Mr. ASHTON obtained leave to bring in a hill for compen sating petsons holding the Offices or High Cons:Ales its several Cowl ie. in England and Wales. The hill W 44 brought in and read a first time. Mr. HF.ATHCOTE presented a Petition from the Wool Growers of Hampshire, praying for relief. it I'. BARING wished to know whether any measures were to be adopted for the protection ut the Wool trade ? Mr. FRANKI.AND LEWIS did not imend to move for the appohstment of a new Committee on that subject during the pre sent Session, nor till the state of the public mind was inure tran quil than it stow was. The Petition was read, and ordered to lie on the table and to be primed. Mr. CAI.VERT moved fur an Account of the number of Gallons of .Spirits diddled in England and Scotland during the st year: Ordered. Mr F. suRDETT presented Petitions for Parliamentary Re form, front she Inhabitants of the Township of Lanend, in Staf fordshire, and of a District, in the Parish of Stoke-upon-Trent. Sir THOMAS ACI.AND presented a Petition fron► the Tan mrs of the Citunty of Devon, praying that the House might grant them a Return of the Duties vu the Stuck in baud. Read, and hid on the table. pittSoNs. Mr. BENNETT presented a Petition from a person at present in the Fleet Pri..on lur a contempt of the Court ti Chancery. It appeared, that this person had beta cuidined over since the month of November, 1814, mid might continue there for the whole course of his natural late, thou g h it appeased he had complied with the orders of the Court, and had made the Returns to the Lord Chancellor, the withholding of which was the imputed con. tempt for which he was confined; and he now remained a pri. sooner because he could not clear Lis contempt, that was, pay his fees. He unght probably uontinue there for he rest of his Gfe; since it appeared, 14%1111 the en q uiries which he (Mr. Bennett) made last year, that souse persons Lad been confined forty years fee Contempt ; the circumstance tad been mentioned to eke Lord Chancellor last year, who exclaimed, " Good GOD ! why did I pot know this before?" His Lordship had known it ever since that time, but nothing had been done • and be (Mr. Bennett) feared nothing would be done till the House interferes!. 'Eh: Petition wet. then reek and. it appeere4 the P et i t i oner ' s name was I. Hanututid. - Sir • F. IiUkDF.IT expressed. in strong terms, the indignation he felt at a person being thus, as it were, incarcerated for life.— lie thought if no other remedy could be found for this evil, these potions should be placed In tile situation of Insolvent D e b tors , tad eueltlid to aptly far their discharge after a certain period. Sir J. GIMEON was certain, if the Lord Chancellor had been informed any Leeson was co:fined, only because lie 'could not 'par his fees, his Lordship would have made every: exertion in his power to assist such a person In obtaining his liberation. It was** fault of the Prisoner that he would not apply by Petition. • Mr. BENNEII' said, it wei a mockery to talk to a man about Poidoning the Chancellor, who perhaps had not a farthing hi his pocket to assist liimselL . •'• Mr. W. Wrung and Mr. Laws thought a clause isiglit. be iirroduced into the Insolvent Debtors' Act, for the relief of r er tons In this situation. The Petidon was ordered to lie on the Table. IitISSION TO Mision. , Mr. LAMBTON ruse, in pursuance to his notice relative to the late Mission of the Right Honourable Gentleman opposite to Lisbon. It ever there had been a subject upon which the expression of the pub lic mind lad been almost- unanimous in reprobating, as calculated to excite distrust, indignatiOn, and dis gust, with the conduct of his Majesty's Ministers, it was the subject of that appointment. From the first namientliebad been acquainted with it, this had beet .his conviction of its tendency, a conviction which had since been still more deeply engraven upon the memory of the country, as well as his own, by 'the production df the last papers upon' the subject of the mission, which, alter so many ingenious delays, bad so tardily been ushered for the information of Parliament — (Hear). That delay in producing the copy of the dispatch of the Noble Lord (Castle reagh) to Mr. Sydenham, although unsuccessful, he could not help characterizing as disingenuous in the extreme, and .rendering the 'Administration, not as • individuals ' but as a body, the fit subjects of an im peachment by that House, if indeed that proceeding, by its disuse, bad sot become altogether obsolete, whenever justice and the public good loudly deman ded its-enforcement. With the motives of the Right Honourable Gentleman himself he had nothing to do; but the motives of the contrivers of this dis graceful job were sufficiently obvioui to the meanest capacity; and he should feel himself unworthy to be characterized as the free and independent Represen -. wive of a portion of the British people, it he were to suffer it to pass unmarked by every epithet of re probation and indignation. At this . particular crisis of unprecedented national calamity and distress, the public bad fixed its anxious eye on Parliament, to see whether all its professions of economy and vigilance over the proffigate expenditure of the Ministry, were not destitute of foundatiou. - -Should that irritated public see, as Goa knows baps they might see, t the scandalous delinquency" Ministers successful in propping up that corrupt aif fl ag itious system upon which they had acted for'yk4ke, now triumphantly s anctioned by a large major*Lpf that House, in the present case, he would leave" ft to the thinking few to determine what must be its 'app'alling effect upon the irritaturstate et the public mind ithroad (Heat, hear) Whatever might be the opinion if the hi*h talents of the Right Honourable Cattleman opposite, he must sa y they were not such as sanctioned his appointment to that mission, inasmuch as there was no ground for the mission itself. From the documents now be. fore the House, lie telt satisfied he should be able to prove the transaction ought in tairneu and candour to be considered as the offspring or mean of the lowest species of political intrigue. These discovered,, must explicitly, that the object of the mission was nut 1 • what it ought to be—the promotion of the honour and interests of Empire at large, but the p romotion the of the interest, considerarioo, and even commercial advantages (as would appear from the examination of that . night), of the individual ostensibly sent on a foreign mission, for the purposes of maintaining the character and interests of the nation alone. In order to prove this, he would submit. a statement to the House of the whOle course of the arrangement. Some time in the early part of true year 1814, a negociation s was set on foot, to procure the assistance of the Right Honourable Gentleman and his friends to the present Ministry ; and on the '29th of July the happy result was communicated to the world, that Mr. Canning had been appointed Ambassador Extraordinary to the Court of Lisbon, Mr. Huskisson Surveyor-General of the Woods and Forests, and Mr. Wellesley Pole Master of his Majesty's Mint. Immediately on this, a new Writ was ordered for Chichester, in consequence of Mr. Huskisson's acceptance of his office. He mentioned this to shew, that the arrangement had begun at that early period to be acted on. He then referred to two dispatchas that had been received from Lord Strangford, one received on the 24th of April, and the other on tie '26th of August, 1/51 I. In the first his Lordship said, " I should conceive that I had tailed in my duty did I not earnestly tecommend to the Prince Regent of Portugal the necessity of the speedy return of the Royal Family to Europe. Some degree of apprehensions may operate on the mind of his Royal Highness i he has apprised me, that should Great Britain conceive his return to Europe neces sary, he should willingly accede to it." This, coo, tinued Mr. Lambton, evinced no intention on the part of the Prince to return immediately to Europe, but merely stated the line of policy that Lard Strang ford had thought proper to adopt. The second dis patch, received on the 26th of August, stated,. that the late glorious events in Europe had revived in the mind of the Prince a desire of returning ; and that his Royal Highness had intimated to him tour or five times, that it Great Britain should send a squadron of ships of war for the purpose of escorting him, it would be particularly gratifying to his Royal High ness, that should be selected for this service. This blank was probably filled up by the name of Sir Sidney Smith. The British Government had, how. lever, never received any official communication to that effect from the Portuguese Ambassador in Lon don ; on the contrary, be declared himself ready to .prove at the Bar of the House, that it had :fever. been the intention of the Prince of the Brazils to return to Europe—(Hear, hear) It was remarkable, however, that neither of Lord Stratiglord's dispatches could have caused the appointment of the mission to Lis bon. The date of the dispatches, and of the appoint ment, precluded that supposition. It could not have been that received cn the 24th of April, for Mr. Sy denham's appointment took place in June, and on the 18th of July, six weeks after, the Noble Secre tary of. State wrote to Mr. Sydenham . " to confine his personal expenses within his ordinary allowan ces as Envoy Extraordinary, and stating, that he had directed Mr. Cassamajor to lose no time in removing the mission from the house of the Mar quis de Pomba': and that lie could not antici pate any public grounds for continuing the expen diture of his Majesty's servants at Lisbon on the same scale as during the war on the Peninsula."-:- It could: not have . been the dispatch received on the 26th of August, for the appointment of the Right Honourable Gentleman had been communicated on the 29th of July preceding—(Hear, hear, fromlhe (*- petition.). This appointment would, of course, be de fended on the propriety of ; having an embassy in Lis bon to receive the Royal Fainily on their arrival in Europe; but what necessity did there exist of the Right Honourable Gentleman's commencing his du ties for at least six months earlier? The squadron -ander Admiral Beresford, that was appointed to es cort the Prince &gent of Porttigal, did not sail can. Id the 29th of - Oetober, so that the arrival of his Royal Highness could not be expected before the May following. The economical sentiments con taii.ed in the Noble Lord's letter to Mr.'Sydenham were fated to have but a short-lived operation, tor in ten days atter that letter was written, requiring him to confine his expenses with* £5,200 a year, the Right Honourable Gentleman (Mr. Canning) was appointed by Lord Bathurst, in the absence of the Noble Secretary, who was then at Vienna, proposing his speculations and plans for the regulation of En tope, Ambassador to a country where there was no. Court, at an establishment of at least Fourteen Thor sand Point& a year—(Hear, Hear.) There appeared to him no possible grounds of a public nature that could have induced this sudden change in the policy of the Cabinet. The great expenses of Sir Charles Stuart's mission to Lisbon were caused by the war. The Ambassador held at that time in his hand the whole reins of the Portuguese Government; he was also a member, and indeed the only efficient member of the Regency. But the case in the last embassy was quite different—the war had ceased, and the Bri tish Ambassador's expenses, as well as power, had greatly diminished. The Right Honourable Gentle man, however, soon after his arrival in Lisbon, in dispatch to the Noble Lord, stated, that if the ex penses of the embassy were suddenly lowered, it would affect the diplomatic relations of the two coun tries. In this the Right Honourable Gentleman seemed to have practised a favourite maxim' of his Noble Friend's, familiarly called ‘ 4 having two strings to his bow ;" for in the case of Sir Charles Stuart the expenses of the embassy were necessai ily very great, because the Ambassador was a member of the Re gency, and in his own case they ought alio to be very great, to support his dignity, because the Anibassa dor was not a Member of the Regency--(Hear, hear, L awl a lassA.) The short state of the case, however, appeared to be this : it was necessary to provide a situation of emolument for the Right Honourable Gentleman, 'and for that purpose this mission . was devised. No Ambassador was necessary;iiut having superseded.a valuable officer, the Right Honourable Gentleman, useless as be was, was suffered to remain at Lisbon, for no 'apparent purpose but to amass money on an establialiment Whose expenses wire little shoat of £l9,Qink year, and of '.yrhicV ill the busi ness had, since been ientrusted,to.tbe hands of a.. Charge d'Affoirestiaflhorostitsr4 • He aeknoviledged that if the exertions of the Right Honourable Gen tleman, while at Lisbon, bad been effectual in indu cing the Portuguese Government to abolish or mode rate the infamous traffic in slaves, the appointment would have been of advantage ; but his labours en that head were confined to *speech to the Friday of Lisbon, in which he totally failed,,and the traffic of the Portuguese in human flesh had increased, in stead of being diminished— (Hear, hear, kear.)— The Honourable Member then called on the House i to put to the test their professions of economy, in condemning this appointment, for which no necessity had appeared, and in which every document must have convinced the House that the Ministers had wasted the public money and abused the trust re.l posed in them by their country. If the House felt I the advantage and necessity of acquiring a character of incorruptibility, and resolved to,retain within them selves the means of ensuring the esteem and conti dence of the people, they must evince their willing. ness to protect them from the scandalous profusion of tslitlisters—( Hear, hear.) The Hon. Member con cluded by moving o 1 hat it appears to this House that on the Ilth of July, I at 4, Lord Viscount Castlereagh addressed a dispatch to Thomas Sy. denhant, Esq. informing hint it was the command of the Prime Regent that he should confine his personal expenses within his ordinary allowances, being about £5200 a year ; that he had di rected Mr. Cassam ,jor to remove the mission from the Louse of the Marquis de Ponibal ; and that he did not anticipate any pub lic grounds for continuing the expense on the same scale as dur ing the war of the Peninsula. " That under the pretence of congratulating the Prince Regent of Portugal on his arrival in Europe, the Right lion. George Canning was appointed as Ambassador Extraordinary, with a lA. lary of £litouo a year, XtiroGits for s wam-Mil:a-its, and a .um of money for an outfit making a total of Xitt,s4o. " That such an anointment appears inconsirent with the dis yatch of bard Viscount Castlereagh to Thomas Itydenham, Esq. was uncalled for by the circumstances of the country, and was attended with an unnecessary expenditure of the public money." (Loud cries of Hear, hear! from the Oppos.iCon Benches.) Lord CASTLEREAGH began by admitting, that the Hon. Gentleman had fairly hated the grounds on which the motion should be decided to be, whether the appointment in question was conSis tent with the recommendation in the dispatch, taking also into considerations the peculiar circumstances under which that appointment was made: He was ready to meet the question fully, and was satisfied to bear his share of the responsibility and the censure, if the House should think proper to inflict it, after the subject had been thoroughly examined. He thought the Honourable Gentleman had acted a little un fairly in ascribing id him a wish to keep back the Papers- So far from that being the case, lie thanked the Honourable Gentleman for having moved for them, because it would very much facilitate his view of the question. He wished to separate what was considered the odium of the question, in relation to the expense, from the c,nsideratton of the propriety of the appointment itself. The lion. Member had told die House, that the salary which his Right Hon. Friend was to receive was £14.000, whereas, in fact, it was but £8,200, subject to all deductions, the sante as the salaries of other Ambassadors. If the Hon. Member would go a little lartlisr into the inquiry, he would find that the sum did not exceed what was con sidered allowable by theCounpittee of 1815, for the expenses of a Mitister — Of the second Order. This skewed the Hon.l4em her to We incorrect in his state ments, and unfair in his inferences on the subject.", He recommended that theirpenses of DiplumatFt Department should 13 kept within the sum stated, but he did this inl ignorance ethetOcil circumstances under which those expenses.were icspered, and he was not to be supposed to know wkat events might happen, nor how soon to render' further •expense in dispertsable. It'was a fact, that abOttt the period re ferred to, Mr. Sydenham was actually stating in his letters to him (Lord Castlereagh) that he was ruin ing himself by the necessary excess of his expenses, and this fact was attested by the Doke of Wellington —(Hear, Isear.)—Mr. Sydenham, too, was the accre dited agent of this country to the Regency only, but his Right Hon. Friend was the accredited agent to the Sovereign of Portugal, and it was right to calcu- late on a larger expense. He hoped, therefore, that it would appear no fair comparison existed between the two appointments, one of which was that of a Minister of the second order only. Having got rid of this part of the subject, he trusted satistactorily, he would next go to the consideration of the appoint. ment itself abstractedly. The return of the Prince of Portugal was frequently urged as a measure'which would tend very much to accelerate the plans in opt.; ration for the complete restoration of Europe to its rights and liberties. In the course of the campaigns in the Peninsula, many questions arose with the Doke of Wellington, which it was important should promptly decided, but which were obliged to be re ferred to the Brazils. Embarrassments arose fre quently from the circumstance of this Prince being ab sent from his European dominions, even alter the war. at the very period to which the' present motion rehated. It was felt most materially tube an incOnve• nience in the last cainpaign, when it was anxiously wished to bring forward the army of PortugaL to. as sist in the great battle of Waterloo. The Regency did not feel themselves competent to do this, and the House would not wonder that his Majesty's. Ministers sheuldpiess.fhe Sovereign of Portugal most earnestly, but respectfully, to resume his. authority: It was , true that when he wrote .his dispatch of the Itith of July, lie did not contemplate the probability i but the Ministers of Portugal seemed more anxious in that month for the return of their Sovereign, because they saw that the•great obstacle..was remirred, and that he might return without the. fear •c& circumstances rendering itidetirible for hint to go balk again. 'The peace hadbeen cotiCluded, 'and the prospect seemed to invite the measure whicWit tiadbeeh * to long Wished to accomplish. Did any:Gentleman,„he mould A sk, entertain a doubt as to the intendedreturn of the Prince Regent of Portugal ? • Would the Govern ment of England have sent but a *sqtradfon•to tiring him back to Europe, if such doubt had; L\een.epter tainedby them ? would . they' have made so many pre parations ? ..would they hafe . Ordered a nowise, of ships to sail across the Attlni4;* th4t:l4? the sake of courting an office..for an iodividual.;—lor„the sake of:tending his Right Hon. Friend out As Atr) baisadbr p 3. Lisbon? ( 4 The thing'was tau ludicrous and absurd M be imagined for h niotneni ; and it would be wasting the...time of .the House to argue ;toy - longer on that point. His Majesty's Go- vernment t believing that the Ptince was actually :911. his 'return,. diought'jt and felt a—ninst Lanzious desire.. to nark. suits - returitin.4lonost re spectful manner pdssible and-indebd been an unpardonable neglect in Ministers if they bad not advised the Crown to a step of that kind.— ' Had no other country in Europe thought tit to pay such a mark of respect, it was the duty of England to have dons so. Portugal lad been ist all times et nation, in the preservation of *ha Britain fat an intere st and a pride ; but particularly so at the termination o f a war, in which the existence of that nation had bee at stake, and in the salvation of winch, both her pen. ple and those of England had united their efforts.— Thcretore, in such . a . peculiar state of things, i t b e . came a nr:st important pan of our policy to p ay Sovereign of that country every honour in our pa What was the conduct of France at that particular time ? Although there was then already a FrencS . Mission in Port. the King of France set t one of the most important personages in his kirgdom a s Ambassador to I...stein—this was the Duke of Lee. ei.fficurg. But it was not France alone ttiat paid ;hie mark ut honour; the Emperor of ltu,s;a sent a pe:. son of some rank, as a Minister of tie second order, for the purpose of complimenting the Prince return. The House must be aware also, that th e Prince did send an Ambassador to England, to ex press the sense he entertained of our exertions in h:c favour; and .hat he was here two years tsithbut any* person of cern sponding rank being seat to Poiangal. As to the propriety of the appointment of his Righ t Hon. Friend, he had not heard any objection made, or any remark, that it was not consistent with the respect due to his Right Hon. Friend. Indeed, we could not have afforded the Prince Regent of Porte gal a more respectful mark of our attention, than sending such an individual to receive him. Wi t h respect to the delay in the circumstances that ob. strutted the coming of the Prince Regent, th a t w as a thing which necessarily protracted the embassy. It was not until the 26th of August that such certain intelligence was received as Induced the Government to send off a squadron to the Brazils; for it was not until then they had been positively informed as to the intended return of his Royal Highness. He thought he had now stated every thing that was sufficient is satisfy the House as to the reasons and motives of this mission ; but it could be proved, that this mission had been conducted on every principle of economy, The expense was that which was necessary, in c. the Prince arrived : but the Pritice did nut arrive As to his Right Hun. Friend not effecting any thing with the army, it was because there were no Authori ties in Portugal with whom he could negociate. it was impossible, then, to suppose that the mission was injected merely for the purpose of accommodating Iris Right Hon. Friend. The Government felt, that on the Prince Regent'. return, there should be the most respectful mission, and cr.e that would be com petent to carry on important negotiations. On the grounds he contended, that the Ilemoorahle Gen•le man had not stated any grounds sufficient to make out his case ; and, with that impressive on his mind, he should move the iosevious question. Sir FRANCIS BIYRDETT. —Distinguished. as the Noble Lori had eve been to possessing talents, eminently caiculated to involee questions in tibstn, City. • and nithoupli :hey had been exerted tin this cc. cation with the gieatest anxiety, yet never was there v. 'lncised A, more complete failure. The statemclt made by the Honourable Gentleman who broug!:: thi 'natter before theliouse, was too clearly made and strOportea by proofs too distinct, namely, Lcts and dates, to give a fair scope to the Noble Lord's Ingenuity. They could no rulre be controverted by theiNoble Lord, than he could deny his having writ ten the letter to Mr. Sydenham, or his having made the subsequent appointment, under pretence ut corn flimenting the Prince Regent of Portugal on his it turn to Europe, although it appeared that Clete was I no reason seriously to have expected his arrival— ' (Hear. hear.) It, however, any intimation had been given to Ministers of the Noce Regent's intention to return. it remained perfectly dtsiearded until it became convenient to procure an employment of emolument for the Right Honourable Gentleman (Mr. Canning), and in the ' defence of his Irked, which the Noble Lord had so generously undertaken, he appeared to act the part of a good Christian, Speaking well of him who had despightfully used him, returning good for evil," and evincing aforbee , ante and forgiveness seldom displayed, at least by Statesmen. ( //ear, hear, and a laugh.) The Noble Lord, however, kit himself on triun - .pitant ground, as com pared with his rival, and the consideration of that seemed almost to give a character of consistency:o his charity. The Right Honourable Gentlernn had, on a former occasion, stated to his constitu::.3 hew impossible it was for him to come into office wits the Noble Lord, consistently with his honour; bit circumstances appeared to hive subdued those hostile feelings, and even shed a veil over the Noble Lord . ; alleged incapacity—(!.rear,)—and the Right P. Gentleman yields, not to the desire cat place, to of doing good to his country, in junctiett even with tilt Noble Lord. The world had thus a surprising in stance of mutual forbearance ; one party forgiving injuries, and the other receiving benefits fr m a= hands he had despised—(Rear.) Complaints had been frequently made by the Right Honourable Gen tleman, that men in public situations had got so credit for their motives. But not content with cat' ing that, he proceeded to stigmatise all persons sentiments differei.t from his own, insinuating tli-t their characters, public and private, were of a scav• dafous nature—and almost adding, like the l'hartuf in the Temple, thank GOD that he Was not like aul of those men. It was, however, to be feared , tiu : ' after the conduct pursued by the Right lionourabe Gentleman, he would get no credit for his motivo , but that which he had already deprecated. This coe .11.'4, to use a favourite expression of the Noble Lori: two features—the fortunate and the unfortunate. Ili` fortunate features were, that the Noble Lord w 0 fortunate enough to have a lucrative place to give ~ . away, which the R'gtit Him. Gentleman was forito nate •encugh to wpitt—(A limp's.) But the miter' ,- mete features were, that the documents before 1::e 17ibbse.sliew; fi rst, that the necessity at such an 4: pointment was, not contemplated, but inimedwit. [ otter an 'Ambassador, at an immense expense, tv•-• dispatched to a country where there was no i-cle , . : . t. and Where a - Minister, of thefts, order, as the Nom LOrd had called it, toad not resided for upwards of a eetktury. ; But why was the appOintment made bet'lre the arrival of the Prince. or why was the Right . ll : .• Limitable Gentleman raid in advance for his service,. If, indeed, he had been sent to &azil, t ° induceii.e Prince, Regent to return to Europe, there m i.l. have-been some reason tor it, but in Lisbon he oa. • ._, altogether useless. It appealed impossible for hi t; to consider this affair in any other light than 0 i was regarded out of doors, namely, a grossjo s i scandalous pccnlation of the public money, 10. 1 " ~