Star. — London, England, 1803-05-25 00:00:00

' • 'r f~ I ' w u r~ t 1: i 111 ' 1 3, 1 tai commerce. her veirels would be as tangible at ur t:h•mths hence as at the prefent moment. Why . . .I. , refit we bully for the purpofe of gaining a prornite :hat we should retain that which we already pollef r,d ? In all the instances which he had quoted. he law nothing like a fufficient cattle for War. But it was laid that donap.ute had ufed infolent tan go .ge : he knew not nhere this was to be found. Wh:n talking to Lnid Whitworth, and hinting at an invafion, he raid," 'fliat the chances were too to one against him, and that molt probably he and his troops Mould be tent to the bottom of the lea." This corn ilaitit on our part reminded him of the language of Dryden, who makes his extravagant Hero Almanza, o,' r Drav,-canfrr, lay to his rival, when fpeaking of '' hlittrefs, Thou (halt not have her. Nay, thou auk not dare To be fo impudent as to delpair Ile would now fuppofe for the moment all danger to his Wand and its dependencies entirely out of the location in cafe of war, but he mull at the fame time • equeft that Gentlemen would look back on what was I,e internal flotation of this country during the latter period of the late war, when every man, from the villager up to the man of landed elate, felt the bur -lens of inexorable taxation. The prefent, we were old from higb authority (Mr. Pitt) was to be a war exertion beyond all precedent, and its burdens null of courfe be proportionately great. This was :he language not of a novice, but of an mail ; of one who, having drawn the teeth and bled the veins of its country, now confoled it by the affurance that it . mull be put under the hands of a Rurdier praaitioner, o undergo a more fevere operation. A fum equal " :o the expences of the war was to be direly railed ; he Income Tax was to be immediately railed, from s tenth to a fifth probably of each man's gains or eceipts. Every guinea was to be divided, and every !rawer infpeited for this purpofe. And what were he people to expels in return for this puristic ? Only a number of fine fpeeches in that Houfe. There things were fine, indeed, but he feared that they were To dearly purchafed as to have loft all their relifh. This fplendid difplay was limiter to that of the Emperor of Morocco, who never put on his fine clothes but when be was going to an execution ! And for what was all this hazard to be incurred—for Malta ? What imprefflon could we hope to make on France without the aid of Continental Alliances ? The more we dif-, trefied her finances, the more we diverted her im- 1 menfe population from internal concerns, the more dangerous we rendered her as a military power. He hoped that the Houle, by adopting the Amendment, and leaving open the door to Mediation and Negoti ation, would avoid the miferable alternative of War, with all the calamities which it entailed upon mankind. TheCo AN ceLLot ofthe Excntiayae raid thatmuch as he admired the talents of the Hon. Gentleman, it filled him with the utmoß regret to find that at fo momentous I crifis the powers of his exalted mind were employed to unhinge the country, and to excite feelings in the people inconfiftent with their fituation and the difficulties they had to encounter. It filled him with regret to find that the elicit of the Hon. Gentleman's exertions mutt be to deprefs that fpirit and to difappoint that unanimity which were fo much required. What elfe could be the effea of the Hon. Gentleman's fpeech which had jug been delivered ? What could be the confequence of direaing the at• tention of the nation to thofe fufferings which operate on the infinitive feelings of mankind, but to deaden 1 , their fenfe of national wrongs, and to difincline them from the facrifices which a great Itruggle mutt in volve? But he relied upon the good fenfe and forti tude of the people of this country, that they would not be car vied away by fuch delnfive arguments and reprefentations. Hearn tied that they would feel the injuries, the provocations they had fuffered, and the. dangers, to which they were expofed ; that they would tinderland the real caufes and the real objea of the war. Although Minifters were not difpofed to fhrink from any iaveßigation of their conduit, they had framed the Addrefs in fuels a manner as they hoped would procure an unanimous vote, becaufe the Ad drefs pledged the Houfe to fitpport his Majefty, with out betraying them in the molt dittant manner to ap prove the conduit of Minilters and their management of the Negotiation. All they wifhed was,that a una nimous declaration might be obtained that the coun try at teal was right. In this hope, fo well founded, he was lorry to find himfelf difappointed. He was furprifed to hear tome of the reafons which were given for preventing that unanimity. Lail night and to-night lie found that Minifters were accufed of in fincerity in their endeavours to accommodate the dif ferences which had arifen with the French Govern ment. He was, indeed, much furprifed at this accu cation, becaufe it was altogether tine:paled. Unfor tunate!y there was a dais osf men, and among thefe unfortunately fome for whom he entertained the h ighe ft refpea, who thought Minilters were more fincere than wife in their endeavours to maintain peace,confidering how much they had endured with the hope of pre (crying and firengthening the peace which had been concluded. Aware that this charge would be made, te little thought, on the other hand, that any charge could he made that Minifters had not been fincere and uniform in their efforts to avoid the extremity of war. The Right Honourable Gentleman then pro ceeded to comment at fome length on the different joints which had been touched upon in the courfe rf the Negotiation. He laid he was f u rprifed to hear it laid, that Knitters had not taken tiers to a ffil Holland, which was fit milerably oppreffed by France, and that no remonttrances had been made againft the treatment inthaed by the French Go. vet nment. It was true, that in the correfpondence with the French Government, in the first instance, the behaviour of the latter to Holland was not fo much infilted upon. But, Miniflers were not infen fbie to what rated in Holland. They had com munications on the fuhjea with Mr. Litton, and the reafon of their forbeating to remonitrare poi fibly was, that it a as the opinion of Mr. Litton, as well as the pet tens in high hit:anons in that country, that in the circuriftances in which Holland was placed, any remontlrance to the French Government would rather tend to render the opprellions of the Dutch more fevere, inftead of obtaining them any re li e f. With refire& to Switzerland, he contended, t h a t we had a flrong interelt in preventing the Swifs . doted under the power of France. Switzer , • . Jilfgthjelt, in which Auftria was materially , 41 4 i)ke of that country mutt, in • a 7 • 4 - - greatea influence on the tlhaag~a prcicr.: Aufbia .p-• 1 . 1 1 .; i i 1 t„. P , • I r 11 1 ; 1 ' .... ; i • i ,' n t ; i n . i 1 n . 1' f . I . ' I si 1 : . ' ii .! i ' , L r. , ~ i 4 1 i ' . 1 . 1 , i *. I .. .. i i Pi. r ; ' ti I ,r 1 , . . , 4 :1 ' , 1: , ~. 1 ; • r ' r t .1 , ; i , • "; I k . 'I lli • i R .. . ' • 1 . n 1 ,4 i. . 111 ' ill " 11 , - 1 f ' t i. I t - ... 1. :, . • was not prepared to refift the etteroachnsents of France, he hoped a day would come. when Auftria would be in a ntuation to oppofe the encroachments of France, which, if (offered to proceed, mull ter minate in the utter fubjugation of all Europe. While Austria, our natural ally, had fo great an intereft in the prefervation of Switzerland from the dominion of France, it could not be confidered an objeft foreign to our concerns to purfue that end. In was at leaft the duty of his Majefty's Government to try what effeft might be produced by interfering in favour of Switzerland. Nor had their interference been nfelefs. He had the fatisfaftion of raying that fome of the 1 , moll refpeetable perfons in Switzerland'hactexpreffed their opinion, that to the interference of this country they were indebted for every thing they had avoided ofdegradation and ruin ; tothatinterference were they indebted fora voiding being incorporated with France, or being, under Come title or denomidation, placed direaly under the dominion of the perfon who was Firtt Conful of France, and Prefident of the Ita lian Republic. The Right Honourable Gentleman next adverted to the arrogant demands which had been brought forward by the Firft Conful refpeaing the Prefs of this Country—that demand had, howe ver, been rejefted with becoming dignity; but, when fuch a difpofition had been (hewn in an affair of that nature, it enabled us to anticipate what would be the temper with which other objeas of difeuffion would be taken up. He then proceeded to read and copment upon various paffages of the correfpon dence, tending to (hew the (pith of infult with which the French Government had edited, and the temper ance and forbearance with which every objea of com plaint had been difcuffed by this country. Alluding to Malta, he (hewed from the papers the [hong defire expreffed on different occafipns by this Government, foon after the ratification of the Definitive Treaty, to carry into effeft its provifions. Our Minifters at Pe terthurgh, Berlin, Vienna, had been inftrufted to ap ply for the guarantee of thofe powers, while the French Government treated it as a matter not worth notice. He next mentioned Sebaftiani's repent; upon the hof tile tendency and dangers which it manifelled,,he would not enlarge. But not only by that evidence of hoftile mind. but by other circumftances were Mini tiers juftified in diltrufting the views of France, and in taking meafures of precaution at the time the Mef Page from the Throne upon the fubjeft was refolved upon. It appeared upon a comparifon of the ex pence: of the French, naval and military, for the laft three years, that the expence of the prefent year was confiderably the moll expenfive. The eftimate of that expence was given out by the French Govern ment the 4th Feb. fo that this alone formed a fufficiene jollification of our arming. In a word, Sebaftiani's re poet was a plain, &Rine, barefaced declaration of the Fait Conful of his contempt for the treaty of Amiens, and warned us of his intention to break it the firft opportunity. The language which the Firit Conful held in the interview which Lord Whitworth had with him on the 25 ft of February added freffi confirmation to all former fufpicions. In thefe circumftances it was obvious that no fatisfaaion was obtained, that if the Britilh troops fhould evacuate Malta, it would be fafe ' and independent. But nererthelefs, in refuting to evacuate the ifland, we only anted for additional fe curities. We offered to concur in any other fatisfac tory arrangement which might have been propnfed. —lt was the bufinefs of the French Government, by whole means the treaty relative to Malta could not be executed, to make fome offer in which we could have agreed to withdraw our forces. Nay, he was fore that there was not a fingle individual in his Ma jetty's Councils who would not be ready Hill to ac cept any propofal which could fatisfy the national ht Hour, fecure our juft interefts, and afford a rea fonable profpea, not of permanent, but of solid peace. Bnt fence no (itch propofal had been made, we ought to prepare for the only alternative that remained.— We ought to fortify and firengthen our minds for the arduous contefk; and if the Houfe (offered themfelves to be unnerved by fuch topics as thole on which the Hon. Gentleman had expatiated, and to be deluded by the hopes of peace to which he Rill direfted them, they would not decide wifely for the public cattle, nor difcharge the duty with which they were entrulled. He was defirous at the fame time of irnpreffing upon the Houfe that he could afic for the fuppott of no man who was not prepared for great ef forts.—As it had yefterday been fo eloquently en forced, we mull make provifion for our domeftic fecurity. Many would be obliged to (ohmic to great facrifices, and perhaps to contribute their perfonal exertions, in order that they might at laft obtain fecurity for the bleffings we enjoyed and a chance of obtaining the advantages of unditlurbed peace.— For this purpofe it was necetfary to look our fituation fairly in the face. As a means of railing the country to that temper and fpirit fo effential to the fupport of the caufe, he eras extremely anxious that the vote fhould be unanimous. He (till indulged a hope that the Hon. Gentleman who made, and thole who fup ported the Amendment, would Rill make a facrifice for the ca untry The difference between the Addrefs and the Amed Intent was fo flight, that to read them to ten intcllig lit perfons out of doors, they could fcarce find ou where they dilligrced. At any rate the difference was nothing, compared with the im• portance of unanimity. There was nothing that implied approbation of Nlinitiers. Then what could be the motive for depriving the country of the bene fit of a unanimous vote when enteting upon fo ardu ous a struggle. Sir Last/Ai NCI. PARSONS cenfitred the conduit of the Fitts Conful in vet y ftrong terms, and approved of the motion fur the Addtefs. Thc ATTORNEY GENERAL followed in a very ani mated and able fpeech. Mr. WINDHAM (poke at confiderable length in fa vour of the motion. He took occafion in the cootie of his fpeech to make a variety of intemperate rake- Lions on the fpeech of the Honourable Gentleman (Mr. Fox) which he condemned as one of the moll mirchievous ever delivered within the walls of this Houfe. The allufions which the Right Honourable Member made were confidered of fo perfonal a na ture that they called up Mr. W. Sutra. who vindicated the charaaer of his Honourable Friend from the foul afperGons of the Right Honourable Gentleman. This produced an acknowledgment from Mr. Willows' of his error. who attributed it to the heat of debate, and *lured Mr. Fox he meant nothing perfonal. Mr. Fox. with great candour, expelled his mug- Ws to accept of the apology. Mr. CUT prnpofed to withdraw his amendment if the obje&ionable paris of the Addrefs could be in any manner modified, To as to be confiftent with his fenfe of duty. The quellion was, however, called for and put ; when there appeared—For theAddrefs,39B--Againil it, 67.—Adjourned. before France, and before all Europe, its flat relations with the Britilh Miniftry, the negoelations which were terminated by the Treaty of Amiens, and the new dircuffions wLich font to termi nate by en abfolute rupture. The prefent age and polterity wi'l there fee what it has done to put an end to the calamities of war, with what moderation and with what patience it hat laboured to prevent the return of them. Nothing could break the courfe of the proieds formed for whindling the dames of dlfcord between the two nations. The Treaty of Amiens was negotiated amidß the clamours of a party hoftile to Peace. Scarcely was it concluded, when it became an °Ned of the bitter& endure. It was reprefented as fatal to England. beeaufe it was not difgraceful to France. The feeds of aneafinets were loon town and dangers were fuppofed, on which , was &added the neeeffity d fuels a Rate of peace, that it war - a permanent Amid for new hoftllities. Thofe bate mitcreants who had torn the Wan of their country, and who are Rill deftined Ito War it, were kept in referee and in pay. Vain calculations hatred ! The °Wet of it Is no longer France divided by fadions and agitated by Rona It Is Prance mitored to Internal tranquil dry, regenerated in her adminiftration sod laws, ready to fall with her whole weight on the foreign nation which hall dare to attack her, and to unite with the brigands which atrocious policy might pour into her territories, to cresols. to it pillage and affaffination. " At IMO an unexploded Maisie fuddenly alarmed England with imaginary armaments in France and in Batavia, and fuppofed imparmast difeuffions which divided the two Governments, while no ditendon of the kind was known to the French Government. " Formidable preparations for arodew were then begun on all ' the mils and In the ports of Great Britt's. The fa was covered with Ines of war. and it was ansidit this preparation that the Ca binet of London remdred of Frame to abrogate a fundamental article In the Treaty of Arnim. " They wided, they hid, for new guarantees, and they difowned the facrednets of Treaties: the execution of which is the lint of guarantees that nations canine to each other. " In vain did France invoke that faith, which they bad fwont to maintain; lo vain did the coot= to wink at the actual non-exo cation or the Article of the Treaty of Amiens, which England pretended co pats over; in vain did de defer taking a definitive part until the moment when Spain and Batavia, both contrading parties, fhould have modelled their will ; in vain did Ike call for the mediation of the Powers which bad been invited to mlarantce., and who, indeed, have guaranteed the !limitation, the abroga.. tion of which was demanded. An het propofah were rejeded, and the demands of England became mare imperious and more abfolute. " It was not confdtent with the principles of Government to yield to threats; it was not in its power to make the Majefty of the French people bend under laws prefer-Abed to it with forms to haughty and to novel; had It done fo, it would have confeerated to England the right of snuffing by its will alone all the NORM,* by which it Is bound towards France. " It would have authorized it to require from Frame new ma. rantees on the legit alarm which it might be pleated to Imp*, and hence two new principles which would have been plated to the public right of Great Britain, along with that by which It has dr. inherh -a other nations of the emanate toverelvtry of the teas, and fubjeded to its laws and regulations the iodependaire of their Sag, Government has Rapped at that Mae traced out to It by its principles and its duty. The ntimiems have been Waken ed, we are ready to combat if attack ed At any rate, wetland combat to nuilmin the faith of Trades, and for the honour of the heath name. " Had we yielded to vain tarot, it would have been neneihry to combat in order to repel new pretenlions; bat we arauhl have combatekallsonoured by weaknefs, degraded in our own eyes, and vilified In the eyes of ad enemy, who woad have mode Men yield to their milt* pretenions. • The nation will made in a Unladen of its own drengdt a whatever may be the wounds which the enemy may Mad when we can neither pretest Dig reads these. The reildt of this conted will be Bach to we ham* eight to aped from the juftsce of our eau* and from the mange of ear warriors. The Fled Confui. (ftiMeti) w Bonaltamt. By tbe PK Contd. nelectetary at Slate. (sped) •H. ft,pdaarr.* LONDON. WEDNESDAY, MAY ss. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK I 3 par Cent. COleolll, mom, 3 71.—for sec- sill A Mail arrived this day from Hamburgh. Our Correpondent in that city, in a letter cf the soth, informs ns, that it is currently reported there that in the event of a war the French will take pofreffion of that city and of the whole of the Lower Elbe. A letter from a commercial houfe in Berlin, to one of the firft houfes in Hambutgh, affirms, that the Kum of Paussta has promifed a free pairage through his (laces to the French army deffined for that purpofe. Lail night we received Paris Journals to the 2oth, and this morning thole of the aiR infant. The Monitors- contains a long account of the Nego tiations between this Country and France, fince the firft moment of Bosareare's acceffion to power. It fills a whole Monitors. and fix fupplemeatary fheets. It begins with BONAPAKTI'S Letter to the KING; the Anfwer of Lord Ge rms.' ; the Papers relative to a Naval Armiftice in fummer atoo; the Negotiation of the Preliminaries, of the Definitive Treaty, and every thing fince up to the prefent moment. After the Treaty, are infected Complaints of the War Fac tion, Encouragement of the Emigrants and refrac tory Clergy, on which Mr. Orro's Note about thefe topics is founded. It is Rated that loon after the Treaty, Minifters affumed a language which (hewed they willred and waited only for a favourable oppor tunity and co-operation on the Continent to go to war. All the correfpondence previous to the Kimo's Meffage is given. The Meffage is inferred.• One of the new papers we there find is a Note from TALLIYIAND. dated 4th Germinal (March 25), mak ing feveral complaints of the conduB of this country. Among other things, it is Rated (and a categorical anfwer is demanded,) that Engli(h Couriers had landed 8o brigands between Dunkirk and Oftend. It is laid that an Engli(h brig had call anchor in the port of Offend, which forced a French veffel to land 16 perfons who had ferved in the Englifh army; that feveral Englifh frigates, which bad taken their @a• lion off Helvoetfluys, had given out that they had orders to flop the failing of French veffels. It is likewife made the fubjea of complaint, that a pre tended letter had been circulated in England from ft'INAPAILTI to the KING; that news were circulated of the fhipwreck of feveral French veffels with arms and flags for the United Irifh. The note concludes with Rating that thefe clamours bad in view to irri ate the French nation, and oblige them to repel The Maim alfb patrons the following curious letter. The object of the publication is obvious:—. Aortas, Aran. 25...+" On the sift an Officer of the Regency, accompanied by guards, prefenred (elf at the houfe of Mr. FALCON, the fagliffi Conful. and furamoned him, to open one of the lower apart. mans of his houfe. Two of the domeltics fled. and, as the key was sniffing. the )cuarda broke open the door and found twu Torii& women . The Englilh Conful declared that they could have been introduced only by his domellics.--.. The horde was immediately furrounded by a great mob. and Mr. Toccoa was (spored to the greatelk danger. The women being conveyed to the Re gency, were at firft condemned to be drowned, but received each Soo blows with a Rick. One of the dorneftic (laves having made a confeffilin at the Ma rine-office, which criminated the Engli(h Conful and his Secretary, the Dry caufed to be fignified to them that they mu ft quit Algiers in three days. Tho Prince remained all night at the Marine-office, to infpea the re paration of the vette l dellined for their embarka tion. On the sad, the Conful re prefented to the Regency that being fent to Algier, by his Sovereign, he could not leave it but by his or ders. The Der, without giving him time to cora -1 municate with any one, caufed him to be immediate)} (cued by fix tchaotn, who conveyed him on board at noon, and the rail immediately failed. force by force. It boafts of the moderation of the Flew CONSUL, under every irritation and provoca tion, for the preceding fifteen days. Lord WHirwoar m in his an fwer denies knowledge of the fatis, as to the violation of French territory.— Confeffes that frigates are off Holvoetiluys ; but that if officers had held any hoftile language or condua, they had aofted contrary to their inftrudtions. He con- . eludes that the Englilh Government is only refponfi ble for what appears in the Gazette. The whole is communicated to the Legiflative Bo dies, with a letter from TAL ITRAND, including a note to Lord WutTWOaTN, recapitulating the princi pal points of the Negotiation. We mutt confine onr felves to what is moil important. The offer of the Mediation of Ruflia is mentioned. A Courier, it is fisted, reached Paris at the moment when Lord WHIT WORTH prefented his laft note.—" Th e Emp toi of RUSSIA manifefts, with peculiar energy, the pain he had felt on hearing the tefolution of his Barran NIC MAJESTY to keep Malta ; and gave to underfiand that he would accept the propofal of his Mediation, if the two Powers would have recourfe to it." This Note to Lord WHIT MORTH concludes with Paying—" In a word, the underfigned repeats his propofal for placing Malta in the hands of one of the thrie guaranteeing Powers; and with refpeano every objea foreign to the Treaty of Amiens, he renews the declaration that the French Government is ready to open a negociatios concerning them•" There is no mention of France getting Otranto or Tercets, while we retained Malta for a limited time. The third paragraph from the end lays, that "nothing can oblige the French Government to difpofe countries that do not belong to theltn ; and that fhe will never concede to England the right of t!i,olating, in any point whatever, Treaties fhe ntay have con cluded with them." Mr. Ds BRITT means to publifir the whole of the French Official Papers by Saturday next. The French General, AMOIROISY, arrived at Paris on Friday LA. Mr. TALBOT, it is Aged, was to leave Park 00 the 2I f. —French Funds so f. toe. The Monitor of the sift contains the following Meffage delivered by the Orators of Government to the Senate, the Legiflative Body, and the Tribunate, on the preceding day : FALMOUTH, MAT 22.--AITITed a French pilot boat, taken by the Rtsoturroa cotter. PLYMOUTH, Mar 23. —Lift night and this morn. ing arrived ;here a Dutch Chip of about soo tons burthen, called the Orion. Captain C. Drina smug. from Surinam, bound to Amfterdam, laden pith a very valuable cargo of fugar, coffee, end cotton, de tained by his Malay's (hip Ausitans, of 32 guns. Captain HARDT ; the Dutch galliot Windhond, apt. litas Balm las r, from Bourdeaux, laden with wine. wood, and feeds, bound to Rotterdam, detained off the Edylione by the RiVOLUTIOMIIIIII, of 44 duns, Captain Loca, the tpth inflant ; the French flup of 0o tens burthen, called the Centaurarom Havre de ea, bound to Brett, laden with coo calks pro vifinns, mot, (hells, and other warlike Bores, taken by the bummer gun brig, of 14 guns, Lieutenant I SMITH ; —the French brig Alexander, Captain neat Baouracs . , front St. Martin's to Dunkirk, with fah, taken by the RLTOLUTION•1111, of +4 guns, Captain Loca, and the Nastiest', of 28 guns, Captain Soutar:l4s ; a French lugger. in Wall, taken by the Aussie,. of 44 guns, - Captain Lord NAST I and the Ramose, of t 4 guns, Capt. lasts, from a cruise. POITSMOUTH, May 24..—This morning arrived the Aar fchooner, (tender to Lord Gaunt is) Lieu. tenant CARPENTER, from a cruise, with a Dutch galliot, laden with iron, and a (hip from Bremen. name unknown, which (he captured yelterday in the Channel. Six P.M. A (hip, two brie, and a cutter. are now (landing into Spirhead, with the jEnglifir colours flying over that of the French, prises tis Come of our Channel cruisers. yAllalOtTlf ' Mar a+ --Arrived the ST*OOlllO2O. houfe cutter of Rye with the the De Jonge William. Jacos Maims mailer, of and from Atnkrdato. • bound to Rouen, laden with wines, bale goods. asabo • Saha Cloud, May so, ito3. gang, elephants' teeth. bad on bo.rd four Swans " MESSAGE. as a rtkent for the Gowns—captured off Goree. • TM EasSIS Matalbdor bribe= roc .11cd ; compelled by ebb eloooftuaca. Moe AoHniimierofthe Itcpubbe •a• quitted • cams- LONDON : pilled so d p a ima l y by LEVEL KENT. (of Calm say where be could ao longer hear tat la iguage of peace. taburrptaec, Laanbada) at abs STA a,Orrata,, No LOlfsr• •la Ibis &afire ilableat Geretament by Wort you, will lay Wm, Publlbed the Sra+Orsccs, Tub& bd. , l i I • 1 i ri I,s t ~~~ !~ .L