The National Register. — London, England, 1815-04-16 00:00:00

Tiff: -, ~. .._... ~„nv Y_w_; FRIDAY, APRIL 14. No business of importance this day. HOUSE OF COMMONS. . MONDAY, APRIL 10. recently hrminoted, the aggression was unquestionably from the United itah'St that out cause was just. But the war was of a nature and character 'hat the greatest success on our parts could be attended but with a small degree of glory, while the smallest degr ee of defeat could he attended mils , with bitteruess and disgrace. The Ira hen of his Lordship's speech referred to the condeerl;f the negocintions, which lie characterised as impnlitie, absurd, and it judicious, and in many points of view disgraceful on the part of this country. The principle of ss Inch a great part of the negociation on our part proceeded, he' censured as aggressive and unjustifiable, and as directly in the teeth of those prin. oiples, which, for the last 2.5 rears, we had been contending for in other ' quarters, lie more particularly censured the propositirm made for a 'sew line of demnrcation south of the Lakes, as a new boundary for Canada, and which was termed by the British Diplomatists, accurdiug to the principle of Anacharsis Clorox. the orator of the human race, the " natural boundary of Canada" The Noble Marquis condemned the I destruction of the public buildings at Washington, and declaimed against the inflictimi or all retaliation, except on a defensive principle. fir the conclusion of his rldres., the Noble Marquis asserted, that by the Treaty we had en'ored nbsolutely nothing hut the•discominuance of sv'r, and the abolition of the Slave Trude. No tine pine.t in dispute had been settled, and therefore the Treaty was no more titi.n • simple cessation of hostilities. Ile concluded by moving au Address to the Prince Regent, praying him to direct copies or extracts of alt the Lei respondence between his Majesty's Itlinisters and the United States of America, relative to the late Treaty of Peace, to be laid before the 11 , ause. Earl Ifsvntrnmr said, the effect of this motion, if acceded to, would be that of reviving feeling of animosity in this country agaiest the people of America, now we were at peace with them, and when all that had passed ought to be forgotten and burtert in oblivion. His Lord. ship tea: a retrospective vier, of the late American war, tracing it (rain `.ls commencement to its correlosion, sou} defended Aliiiisters ors the points ob j ected to by the Nlorquis' Wellesley. He then alluded to the capture of Washington, which haft br , •ketethe tinhornl prime of the America's, and pissed the hieliest etiktdorn on Ole bravery and disciplino of our troops; whe by sill the !rises of war, might have beets justified iii destroying and plundering the eiry, its consequence of the iefasnous at tempt 'to assassinate our gallant Commander, after the place laid sur rendered. lint except the destruction of the !louse from which the shot was fired, no excess whatever was cominitted. Lord Sr.s Nrropn said a few words support of the motion, which on a division was lost — Contents SO—Non-Contents 83—Majority .59. 11fr. Wnyrnereo cnmplained of the defic-: - ncy of papers err-great public transactions and enquired of Lord Castlereagh, it a State l'apef in the Morning Chronicle of that day, which purported to he (ruin his Lordship to Ilardenherg, coniicruing to the strengthening or Pros•ia at the expertce of sacriiieing the tertitorlts of Saxony, were authentic Lord CASTI ERF, AGIT replied, that the letter. as far as a g arble d translation of a translation could go, wits h/3; but he was bound to say, it was a very iinnrrCect represtowition of what lie had said in the origi nal, lie objected to the itregularity of midi questions, insisted that the mode adopted was injin tuns to the public, and particularly censured Mr. W. for continuity , on every occasion, to calimmia:e Alinistets and the Allies. Sir J. MA CKTNTOSII gave notice, that lie should to-morrow sermight submit a motion to the House on the subject of the DeLlaration issued at Vienna hs the Allies. The Cu.oact.t..con of the Exertr Qv re movf d, in a Committee of Supply, fur som , or 3,983,435/. Corium'', with :he gum of 9,000k03/. voted in the la‘t, and of 7,009,000 i. voted iii die present Session, a ti tat of nearly 10.010,0001. being the amnion f the Army Extraortli naries for the year 1714.—A long conversation arose relative to several of the items of the espeuditure, and particularly that of the Commissariat 4PRIL IE. - THE NATIONAL REGISTRII - .. 247 IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. - . . zitZ4TY WITH 43i.E81C.A. s' . The Afsrquis Wsirirst.er roar; , e ,At ic forwar i his Motion for the HOUSE OF LORDS. . production of taribe r d o c u ments iti' ... . their Lordship to fo rm a ptoper jud gment o f t h e mer i ts o f t h e liii , aly with America. The Noble _ Marquis prefaced his motion by a speech which occupied thiee yours Neither on MONDAY nor TuEsnAv was there any business of in- and a hair; in t h e course bf which he observed, it was certainly some !mot transacted by thei r L ord,lii p s. cotiqatati,.n to re fl ect , t h a t i n the warfare with America which had been WF DN ES DAY. The Margnia of lVetems!.ev, loir'snant to notice given, made a o union relative to the eseape c,f Buonaparie from Elba. The Noble margins, in Invite; before their Lordships the grounds of his 'notion, s.:itl, it were to he wiseed that the work so gloriously begun and emaied on had been completed in a mato.er equally noble and glo -1,,m„ bs the eflectual and permanent exclusion from power of the person ho had so long been the instilment of such extensive de -11 . 1.01:01011 in Europe As to the character of the person to whom he he hail always staled en:e uniform unvaricd opinion on that pint ; mat lie was a man who, of all others that had ever appeared inning the period of the French Revolution, or in the would, was the main-springy nt his own system, who Corned the ereatest part of that ss dem, awl was in sonic respects nest qualified to bring it into action; but at the same time one who, of all othei s, from certain poiati in his character, was most likely to endanger it and expose it to destrnetion, whenever the proper concert of the European powers should enilde them to take advantage of his errors. But why') he stated that, he might also have said that are was likewise the fittest instrument in the world to cause the resurrection of rli t r s ystem, and to revive all those mischiefs and calamities to Europe with which it had before been attended. These must hie been not only his sentiments, but those Of Ministers ; and it was hence natural to be expected, that to provide a perma bent and complete security auainst this person's return to power would have been an object of the last importance. Instead of that, althongli the Allies had repeatedly declared Bonaparte a man mini maim no peace could be made, one who disregarded all trea• 1 ", and IV " 6011114 - 1 by no pi iuciple, they made a treaty the feint datiou and seru>vty of which alone rested an the faith of this very per-on himself. England had taken the lead in the glorious struggle, Set the Treaty of rontainidean, on which rested the secure enjoy meat of the traits of our exertions, was made without our ides-, and he had nothing to do but to accede to it. He considered this circumstance most disgraceful to Ministers and to the country. His Lordship then animadverted on the arrangements of the treat) . itself, %bide he said, smoothed his wav to the Crown of France ; he censured that part which gave rip Parma to the younger Boona, parte, as culinary to the principles on which he had entered into the war. There was a heir to the ginehy of Parma, who had as g ood a right to his dominions, as any of the restored Sovereigns; but for his own part, he could never recognise the right which. had grown up with our statesmen of the day, the right of doing injustice to the weak. To revert to Bnonaparie, and the great question of his se- Rarity—all considerations sunk before them all. His Lordship con cluded an able speech by moving for papers to bring the subject more clearly before the House. The Earl olLtvenenot. vindicated Ministers against the attacks of the Noble Marquis; lie said that the real question was, n he ftier blame. waa iminitable to the Allies in nut insisting upon the persermal restraint of Buonaparte ; he maintained that it would not have been possible to effect this, as he still his(' armies under his conalmuld, arid the Marshals lied stipulated fox preserving his liberty. At Elba lie was an independent Sovereign, and it was impossible to prevent his escape thence, or from any other place that might'llave been selected. sifter a long debate, in which the Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord' Glenville, the Marquis of Itnekiugham, and Lord Grey, supported th e motion with great ability, mid the Earls Bathurst, Aberdeen, ,1 6 )1 . 1 Melville, ably opposed it-The House divided C•intent,‘:l—Nou-Coutents, &J-Majority 32 against the motion. A,ljourucd. TIITIRSDAY, APRIL 13. OVERTVIUS FROM BUONAPARTr. The Doke of No nror..tc enquired. whether a propu•itinn bad not been tende to Mini&ters by the Kesent. Government 01 France ? The Earl of Li vaitroot. replied, that certainly n proposition had b , to received. awl which had .been transmitted to 'Vistula, but no sh•we r had been returned to Prance. M " ( I'Lis .of 13 veto No.tiAzi fixed is motion , OA the subject of 6 411 , 4.110 r l'uesdiy se'nniglc. -6 - -JO rlvat4 ~~w ,Ollia , V