The National Register. — London, England, 1815-02-19 00:00:00

116. -. /I'ritat.i, I. icriine f.r he support of that faith to the examples . One Conduct toward+ Potliwill, Spain. Sicily. and Holland. ,Bnl ho'w w:• this pompous -profession acted upon? HoW Was the word of protni-e kept to the Italians ? The Hon. Member then adverted to a Proclamation issned by Lord W. Beutinck, when he took pos sessiou Of Genoa. in April, 1814, in which, among other things, the Genoese were promised their ancient Constitution shouldbe restored to them. • It ever there was a declaration issued by one country, which pledged it to the maintenance of the independence of soother, it was that which he had now alltidedto. But what were the facts as they had actually °relined ? The sth of January, 1815, was the day fixed for restoring the Genoese to all those Cistitntional rights ond privileges of which they had so long beew deprived ; bat, a tew days previously to that date, they were informed by a special mes senger, who was sent from Congress with the black and iiilifltimo declaration, that they were not to be independent, that all the de claratioo• made by the Allied Powers at Paris were hollow and su perficial. and that they were to be the first victims at that shrine rifsp Within and dismemberment, which those Powers had erected. On the .28.11 of December General Dalrymple, who commanded at Centee announced the same .melastelsoly fate. No pretence, not even the shadow of one, was offered for these proceedings. Unlike. in that. the mein& of revolutionary France, whose principles the Allied Soyereigns.seemed to be emulous( of imitating. France. when she seized upon any State, at least endeavonred to palliate or justify her conduct, he telling the people she invaded, that their Govern ment was rorropt, that they posited beneath the yoke of tyranny, sad that she tame, in the spirit of fraternity, to liberate them from their thrsl,loni. There was certainly no fraternity in the conduct of the %hied Powers towards Genoa, but he supposed it might be thought not inconsistent with fraternity. In the Proclamation which General Dalrymple put forth, he did not attempt to tell tire Genoese .that their Government was a bad one, or that they were unhappy under it. No; on the contrary, he dwelt upon its excellence. and comm. sided the regular and correct behavi..ur of the inbahitan/s, mid yet, coupled with that admission, they were told that they had been consigned over to the Crown of Sardinia. Was there ever any melee, so di-graceful and unfeeling? And nailer what authority did General Dalrymple act? By the orders of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent He wished to sec the detestable mandate that thus empowered General Dalrymple ; he wished to know in what words it was couched; he wished to know by whom the Prime 1I gent had been advised. to issue an order for overthrowing the bode penitence of an ancient and a free •tate; and by wham' it watt' signed After the. disclosure of facts like those, Ministers might, if they pleased, continue in their threatened silence ; ,they might still wait till the return of Lord Castlereagh, and the Mime might be forced to wait for the same event, before it . cotild know whether there was such a document in the Foreign Ohre, hut he world yen tore to affirm that not ali the Powers onearthassembled in Congress had the leeitintate right to place Genoa under the tiornieinn of Sar. china; and he hop' d the people of the world would assert their rights' against a combination of usurping powers, as. they had lately soe• cetifelly done against a single p owe r which aimed at universal domi. ',lion. He ea. astonished how the word guaraittee could have found its way into such a Proclamation as General Dalrymple's. when it was, in itself, the grossest violation of a guarantee thot,had ever neetirred. Now, were those things which he had stated, true or false'? Would the Ministers deity theist ?• Would they spew the. order that had been sent out ; or world they t helter themselves in silence. and hot presume to offer a defence of a - transaction, which, , on the face of it, looked so odious; imaborninehle, and so disgusting'? Let them do so if they chose. Theirs'wonld be the shame; and perimps it 'was less shameless not to attempt a defenee; silence Would be their palliative. lint what was likely to be the elect of that 'cominC i tt Italy? .. The Genoese received the intdiligence of. their degredntion in that way which most strongly . mail ed tlitrir • feeihigh, acifording to ihoie who' best understeld the Itiet*Sk;staselkAer. No ekelaitifilmh; nO menaces; nro tirdiOn tit* • eteim Thetis ; they heard :there' Ate in silence—a sileAde - whieli . pitived • tliat . l l fieii only waitesk for alit opt• portenity of (mending' theinseivel, and he' sittertelT:hoj3ed *Mei I would be able tettosig The eantivet of Airetelit in Italy lisd been; most verso rdinery. .. Site .conk Ittilieseion of thaterinntry condition: , 1 oily, in • eminence of of etipnisfitia - entered' dirge Whir the fife ' Viceroy ro ter.4on now spoken of with enthusiti4e by'air dillies ofi Italians, as dne whose c'hat's tercet herons . ' ohd, i fititqty'wffiraitik . 4 he swayed by external cietentidencete They believed that he wintld ! not falsity iis promises,- though the Powers With vilitint he negO.' rioted bad.fatOreft theirs. General. Ilelleientsle took inmsesalon of ) Italy lull* Mtet-kt?polation, in the Obit 'or the Aloes not in. the , 11 K pf , ' 'AR lA* load bide d* ***esti* cqadpO'Of 4p% . i..,:i7At. •.,• ..,. ,--, ;. .- • - ...., i k.•. ,.., -, 1 1 .1. : :s ._ . • .7; ' 'v ~►~ ~ro of nod coun, co iis' Iu . en. protection , Genoa, was sei . that she could not resist it. c the Treaty of Paris. Austria was to be put in possession only of such territories as had belonged to her before that convulsion which shook the whole of Europe. But she ha'l seized on Venice, on Lucca, and on the Milanese before the proper. jime : and let it be remembered, that we were paying our contingent by supporting 75,000 troops on the Continent, for the protection and defence of States, not for their annihilation and dis membermetit. Austria had taken possession of those countries which never did nor never could rightfully belong to her. And what was her conduct its them? They were harassed by exactions, by imposts, and arrests. These were the first practical results of those fine words which the Allied Sovereigns had put forth at Paris : this was the fruit of that tree of salvation which was to replace the Tree of Liberty. Austria was detested throughout Italy ; she had always been .disliked; she was now hatred, because she was now more severe, arbitrary, and oppressive. She had attested persous vsliorn she had no power or authority to bring to trial ; and exercised a degree of jealous vigilance more odious than the Inquisition itself. Sues had been the conduct of Austria in Italy ; and he hoped, against such conduct, every power in Europe, where liberty of opi nion existed, as, thank God, it still did here, would protest. It was a most wicked and a most disgraceful policy ; and notwithstanding what had happened to Saxony, and to Genoa, he trusted there was still enough of British feeling in the Cabinet of Baia country, even constituted as it was, to' interpose in the behalf of those unhappy persons, a duty which lie earnestly implored them to perkirm. There' were other subjects also, connected with the proCeedings of Con gress to which he wished to allude. Before the recess, be bad asked some queitions respecting BelgiuM. Ministers now knew the stale of the fortresses and defences of that country. Were we to be at the expellee of putting them into repair ; as welt as of completing another absurd plan he had heard of, Mate erecting entrenched camps in the intermediate spaces ? In his opinion, the better way to swill* Belgium, would be to give the people something like a constitution and a government to Gest for, and there would then be no occasion for those fortiesses and camps. In all times, those de voted countries had been the arena iu which the great powers of the continent had contended ; but now was the moment, if they mete to be permanently Dutch. to make them strong by giving them a constitutional which would secure them better than dish defenees, and without which they would, in a few years,'beconie the scene of invasion. He knew not whethei what he had said, would call forth any reply from the Ministers; be did not anticipate that it Would ; but if what be had asserted, remained uncontradicted, he should continue to believe Isisinformation correct. and in the eyes of the world. they, themselves, would be considered as adopt ing it. bear, from the Ministerial Benches!) The CSIANCIII.LOOS of the EgelielatlEß said, that he should not presnme to determine with what degree of propriety or justice the How. Gentleman bad brought forward a charge against an individual who was absent : lie would leave that to the feelings of the 'House: all he should say upon it was, that he believed such a course to be utterly. unknown in Parliament (bear, hear !). The Him. Getitlemaii said, he did not anticipate an answer to his speech, and in that he certainly would not be disappointed, as he should abstain from making any reply whatever, satisfied that they were gni:alone which aright not now to be dh.eussed. . Mr. Postseatre contended that the Right Ron. Gentleman could not be ignorant about certain facts which had beets mentioned by his Hon. Friend, though he might net choose to say any thing upon them; and if so, would not every one conclude that lie could not contradict and could not jitstify them. tVas the paper issues! by General Dalrymple authentic or not? Was it true that the transfer of Genoa to Sardinia was' with the sattetion of this eoutitry ? -Mr. Speaker, continued the Right How 141entleittlyt, I wish you would east your eyes upon that * bench, and say if' there is a single person sitting there who dares contradict what has been asserted! and if you do cast your eyes upon them. I should be glad to know what your emotions are—whether yon most pity or condemn them?— 'otearcaad_latighter.).-fte bad uothisig more to say • (a langli)—the traosactiams beggared all tirseriptiee ; and he was sure there was not emus in the kiugdoSo that ever expected to see the name of England ito disgraced. • • - II Mt.Wwirttitiases. reply to the Chancellor of the Exche q uer, 'said that he had vliarees,l Lord Castlereagh as a Metniper ot the Go .herunient (hear, licali—Aisd the Goieisiment whd flint out such 'Vtirections to inns midst to be arraigned before the tribunal of the inn& Mt ass i gned them as sendin4 out contradictory iubtruc- 1.- IIE NATIONAL_ RWIST It; _ w F R. 10. the examples of Anittrii? She had seized upon the fortresses of that country, anti Holland. But ' slentandottfo- March .an army into Turin. Talk' Sardinia, use Was the word whom we hid entrusted the protection of Getc.a, was so weak, oer then adverted 1, that she could not resist it. By the Treaty of Paris. Austria was to