The National Register. — London, England, 1814-11-27 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER. IMPERIAL PAR LIAMEA MOUSE OF LORDS. MONDAY. NOV. 21. The Marquis of LAPISDOWNi enquired if Ministers intended to loy the correspondence between the British and American imp. ciators at Ghent before the House. lie agreed with Earl Liver• p;o1 that the war was to be attributed to the conduct of America. the Noble Marquis did not approve of the terms asked by a 4 the price of peace. Ent LivEßP•►ot. could not agree to follow the extraordinary conduct of the meriean Government in publishing parts of a ne goeiation wh;ell was still going on. At the proper period he should be read; to explain his own conduct, and that of his Dlajes• ty's Government. TUESDAY, NOV. 22. Nothing of interest transacted. WEDNESDAY, NOV. '23. The F rl of LITEnPoor. laid on the table a Mersage from the Print 0 Regent, recommending the House to concur in a measure for giving L •rd Walsingham an annuity of 'PAHA. as a reward for his in thistly and attention to Parliamentary duties, during twenty years, in the office of Cuairmau of Committcs.--To be considered to morrow. THURSDAY, DIM .14. Earl DONOUGIIMOR moved for various papers on naval affairs, with a view of showing 'here existed in the country an impression that the naval department of the country had been improperly eon duc•ted.--Tae motion was supported by Earl Darnley, and after a few words from Lord Melville agreed to. FRIDAY, NOV. 25. No Business of Importance occurred this day. SATURDAY, NOV. 26. The Royal Assent xvag given by Commission to the Petty Officers, seamen, and Mai hoes Encouragement Bill 2 . and to Mrs. Reynolds's Leoary Bill. The Commissioners were the LOR 1.) CHAN CELLOE, the Drike IfosirttosE, and Lord Sit A FTES 13U It Y. _ _ - Lor.l DosouGit MORE gave notice of his intention of bringing for %La, d a motion on Thursday next. winch had for its object to di aW from their Lordships a declaration which lie considered it was ::'cum bent on them to wake—namely, a specific declaration of the senti rnerts ntertined by that House on the System of Spoliation and •Vzzran:!•zement which appeared to govern the conduct of all the 'Tat Piwt rs of the Continent at present assembled iu Congress at \Mit 1. iv.. Peace I'rescurat ion Bill, the Irish Excise and thy W o ol. Ito Ch.th Import and Export Bills, were read a first : and ordeicd to be lead a second tune on Monday.—Adjourned. HOUSE OF (011310Ns. NOV. 27. . • •• • • ;%lessrs. Ponsonliv, Tierney, Horner, and Whitbread, and Messrs. Bathurst. Wellesley Pole, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in which the tinnier complained of the state of ignorance in which Parliament was kept on the most important transactions. Mr. BATHURsT Mild it would be impossible now to enter into the details, without committing the impropriety of prematurely discus. sing in that House, what was then pending at ,Vienna, where they had a confidential Representative. The House then went into a Committee on the Army 'La. mates, and Lord PALMERSTON moved a resolution, that 204,386 men he. vo. ted for the land service of the year ensuing, which was agreed to. On moving a sum of 245,0001. to pay the tuillitia still remaining embodied, Mr. WHITBREAD said, the keeping of any of the militia now embodied was directly contrary to law. It was a very great hard. ship on the regiments which were thus selected; and it was desira ble that both the officers and men should receive some information on the subject. Mr. BATHURST acknowledged the hardship, but the necessity of the case was a sufficient justification The conduct of Govern ment in keeping up a portion of the militia was perfectly consistent with the Act of l'arliament. Mr. %Vim BREAD still persisted that it was not legal ; the resolu tion was however agreed to. Various (Alum sinus were moved, among which one of 1000091. to defray the charge of Volunteer Corps, was opposed by Mr. Whitbread aid Sir M. W. Ridley, who objected to continuing this force, %Olen the country was neither threatened with invasion, nor disgraced by internal commotion.—The resolution was withdrawn for the present.—Adjuurned. TUESDAY, NOV. 22 On bringing up the report of the Committee of Supply on the At my Estimates, Mr. WHITBREAD adverted to the conduct of our Government towards Naples, and read a document, signed by Lord *William Bentinck, in %%hid, it appeared, that the Government con sented to, and confirmed the Treaty eutere.t into by Austria wiih Naples; and insisted that if the Court of Sicily doss not agree to the terms proposed, the British Government were pledged to Sup port the Neapolitan Government. The CitarseELLon of the . EXCIIEQUER could not agree to this conclu , ion being drawn, but he felt confident, that it would he, found no engagement hati been made which it would be expedient to abandon. Mr. Scijeant ON;LOW obtained leave to bring in a bill to anleod the Habeas Corpus Act. His object was, in addition to the pow ers already. poksessed by the Judges, to enable them to issue Acts of Corpus as well in vacation as in term ; to enforce the re turn's by the parties to whom they were directed; and to decide upon the grounds of legality on which such returns were withheld; to discharge the parties on recognizance, if they thought proper; and to punish the pets ais refusing the return if: the ground of refu sal should appear to he illegal or oppressive. Col. PALMz•:tc said, that in consequence of a statement in tile Courier new: paper, published by authority, contradicting certain assertions lie had made in that House, with respect to the trial of Col. Quentin, he should, after the recess, again bring forward a motion on the saject. SPANISH PATRIOTS. moNutv, Noi. Mr. littzsT gave notice of a motion shortly after the recess. for leave to brin4 in a bill to authorise the Quarter Sessions to increase the salaries of Chaplains to Country Gaols. • Sir S. ROMILLY gave notice of a motion for Mo►ulav next, on the continuance of certain parts of the militia embodied after the expiration of the Ivar„ Sir J. C. lIIPPESLEY moved for various papers on the Catholic question. winch were ordered. Lord PALMERSTON having moved that the Army Estimates be re ferred to a Committee of Supply, Mr. WHITBREAD put a variety of questions, wishing among other matters, to know what was the state of our engagemeuts with Murat, King of Naples? and whether the unjust annexation of Saxony, and the system of spoilation now carrying into effect at Vienna, where sanctioned by our government? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER expressed his conviction that Government would soon have it in its power to give the fullest explanation of its measures and views; at present he should say, with reference to Naples, that he was unaware of the existence of any other engagement beyond a mere convention for the suspension of aostilities.—A long desUltory conversation took place between Mr. WittlennyAn moved, that an Address be presented to the Prince Regent, praying his Royal Highness to direct to be laid be fore the House Copies of all correspondence between Sir Jas. Duff, the l ritisli Consul at Cadiz, and Gem ral Smith, the Deputy: Go vernor of Gibraltar, and the : British Government, respecting cer tain Spaniards, supposed to have been delivered np by General Smith to the Spanish Authorities, agreeably to their reque,t.— He had ascertained that there . was an understanding between the two Governments, as to delivering lip those ho might fly to the British for protection, but it only extended to traitors, murderers, and deserters ; and even this engagement had not been closely ad hered to, for in 1801, the British Government refused to give pp a Spaniard who had stabbed a Judge while on the bench administering justice. The two Spaniards (Lopez and Carriell) whom General Smith had delivered over to the vengeance of the Spanish 'Govern ment, were, by. the Chancellor of the Exchequer, called libel lers;" but all that he had been able to ascertain of their offence was, that one was the Editor of a Journal which had contained some slander on the conduct of the British at St. Sebastian, and that the other was a man of great study, the author of a Hebrew Grammar, and a Treatise against the Inquisition (hear). He I