The National Register. — London, England, 1815-05-21 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER. . a ereinnioary to inat investigation, he should move an Address fur C pies of 41 Letter from M. Blacas, tientimitting three letters to L rd Cas.l.reagh, respecting Murat ; and of one ft oni the Duke of W• i , ingion. our Anilia,,satlur iu Knis, in consequence of documents cuttomi.:;eateil to h im. Lc: d t AsTi.un Fs° who had jost entered the Howe, said, that the leiter atarlite , i to thy Doke of Wellington ss•, authentic, but It related to dociiments en to ely dit:Crent Irmo those meant by the Ft h Of that krter be feateil no ropy could be immediately ob tain(' t, hot lie had no obj , ction to admit its anthenticity for the pur pats d,f o mo:I. %Vita respect to the other letters, which were eight itimi:ier, five of them were indisputably authentic, the en i Viog to the possession of P. lure Cask !calve), and lie had again 4.0 ( h tnt shorty' before he came down to the flon, , e; and the re• sti•lining three (litionoparte's letter.. to Murat's wife) were found in tI e auchic‘vs of France by M. Met's in the only state in which they could he expected to ne found, the original dianglibi or memo of them. 'the ,hole should be laid before the }home next wick, together with other papers, and he theretOre thought there sea• no occasion to ;tress the mot:on. He, however, could not but . lament that the Hon. at.d Learned 0:I'll:loco should appear so ready to Ore credence to what issued from the opposite side of the ssa!er, especially when all mii•t see that these statements and ch:;tgt.i constituted only a pat tof that system of filo icating sorts of doetiment4— proclamations for Lor:1 Wellington (hear !)—for the Prussian Govei meta, &c.; resorted to at the present moment to *onport the di sperate plaii4 of that desperate Mall now at the head of the t tiling pat ty iu France— (Hear, hear.) Mr. HORNER, relying on his chrracter beim; truly, and too well known in that Home to be affec ted by the Noble Lord's insinua . Lion, should treat it with pee feet inditierenee.—(Hear.) AO( r sonic Inrther remaiks from Mr. Tierney, Sir J. ninths!), STr. llut uer, and Lord Crstlereagh, the conversation dropped, Mr. Horner withdrawing his motion, on the uuderstanding that all the Correspondence should be produced on an early The other Orders of the Day being di , posed of, the East India Shipping Bill having been read a second time without bearing Cuun. ael, Oal. the House aitintirned to Monday. MEETINGS AT WESTMINSTER AND THE BOROUGH. Wednesday there was a meeting in Palace-yard of the i i nhabitant Householders of Westminster to con.thler of the jus tice or polity of going to war with France. The High Bailin' opened the proceedings, and read the requisition in consequence of which he had convened them. Major Cartwright began by observing, that when we heard of any of the abandoned wretches breaking into the dwellings of innocent and peaceable persons, plundering their property, stud ill treating their persons, we naturally felt the most lively indignation. That indignation should be felt winch stronger, when an unoffending nation is wantonly invaded in tlisir dwellings, and made 5 ant. all the miseries which an unjust war can bring down on their heads. lie could conceive only two just grounds for war. The one was, if any nation threatened to invade us, and overturn our laws and liberties ; and the other was if any weak nation, oppressed, by despotic power, shall call upon this country for succour and support, The country, however, did not stand in either of those two situations. As to Bonaparte, although he had faults, as all other kings had, yet he was not threatening this country. Ministers wanted the French nation to drive from their thrown the Sovereign whom they had chosen, and to give hint up to the fury of his enemies who were thirsting after his blond. He thought the impolicy of this war was equal to its injustice. The French were now peace ably occupied in foi tning a constitution on tl . e basis of an *final representation of the people, and they had adopted the good old English principle of putting arms into the Lands of the people. Ile was convinced than when two or jj three millions of their people should he armed, the Aliies would never he able to penetrate much beyond the threshold of France, and that every step they would take would bring theta so much ntaret their desti uction. Alter sevcial obstr- ' vations on the weight of our taxes, and .the cot wa. , shewn by Ministers to the feelings and wis pe.)ple, he concluded by reading a petitioo, cone! s , reng terms, which lie moved to be adopted Fs i•f the citizens of Westminster. Mr. Walker seconded the petition, which was t mousty agreed to.—A resolution was also passe, should be presented to the House of kT,01111110115 b ! re esentative, Sir Francis Burdett. Sir Frwieisßurdett said, he should have much in presenting their petition to that budv w hi c h called tl,e House of Commons of Great Britain a At the sane time he thought it his duty to state to he did not sec the slightest prospect of its being al They all had seen with what contempt a peCtitin been treated that came flora the Livery of Lo prayed fur that reform in Parliament which was Intely necessary. But he hoped tlett the time wi when the voice of the people would ex pi ess itself s , that Ministers could not affect to doubt ar dis' There were some things which it was impossible to and we read in holy writ " that the devils 'also be tremble." Ile thou2,ht that it must be a belie' strong, and of the same nature, which could alo, any efrect upon Ministers. Ministers appealed n mined td plunge the country again into war, or rat' tinue the old war originally intended to restore the to the throne of France. Although in the comm of it, the object was professed to be the relief of the Dutch, vet there could be no doubt but that t: I tion of the Bourbon family was the real object o broke the treaty of Amiens by refusing . to give which we had agreed to give up; and that war di, the restoration of the Bourbons. It was now a! the character of Bonaparte made it necessary for war with him, as he was a man that would % iolat, Nov, in tiiis reaper-t, he could not have a chara , than our allies. What treaties did our allies e' either with us or vvith one another, that they did as soon as it suited any object of their ambition? ask. what treaty did Buonnparte ever break with even if he was a common breaker of treaties, he only on a par in this respect with the Emperors of Austria. Ire therefore thought that his personal was no ground of war. He thought that the r , why Ministers were so anxious for war, was, that th, monger faction was alarmed at the idea of the ex France was about to set to this country, of a tol, constitution, founded upon the basis of equal repro After a variety of other observations, he conclude !Dicing, to present the petition. Thanks were then voted to the High BalliffTtir b' in the chair, and various resolutions were agreed tr On Wednegdav, a meeting took place in the To the Borough of Southwark, in consequence of a R signed by forty individuals, directed to Sir W. I. High Bailiff, for the purpose of taking into conside war with France—the Property Tax—and Far!lame form.—At one o'clock Sir W. Lewes took the c' there being but about thirty persons present, he that the meeting should adjourn, not conceiving ti' dividuals in attendance were stl fficicnth numerm berate upon such important objects as tbo'e which t i.ition embraced. This being, however, objected to sines,: proceeded, and Mr. \V addington, atter expr sentiments strongly on the impropriety of goin moved a petition to the Price Clarlutte of Wale MAY !I. Ilkat .sties of th e •hed in very the retition then unani- co, that it by their re- satisfaction was falsely iud Iceland. ) then), that Ittendud to, ) had. lately undo!), and s now ahso- vould come so strongly, sbelieve it. )disbelieve, Jelieve and !f* nearly as the produce now deter. Iher to con- ic Bourbons mencernent I our allies the re•hra- of it. We up Malta, id end wilt lieged, that us to go to .te tiewies. aster worse giver make, l not bleak, Ele might us ? But, e would he Russia and 1 character real reason le bor0ur:0 ) . :ample that lerably flee esenfati,n„ lcd by pro. !cis cnnduet to. Iwn 1101 of Lewes, the et at ion the entaty chair, and p,oposed Nit the fin- is to the le: ; ni- o, the bu- re , sing his 1.. to war, ray ins II