The National Register. — London, England, 1816-02-11 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER. 93 3 h en made, nor was there any reversionary interest. It theretbre %vas fully competent for Parliament to bring in a Bill to authorise tits. Resolution of the House, which abolishes all Patent Offices t.f r the death of the holders, or reversionists. He had no diffi culty in assuring the House, tliat there were some regulations to bi• adopted in respect to 'the Office, on• which the Commissioners wi re employed, und, of course, those would create some delay ; no, in the interim, no appdintment would be made—Meat - , hear!) Mr. Buot.A.lLot wasp erfectly satisfied with the explanation. lie had, however, to.remind the Right Hon. Gentleman, that the Itosolution of the House did not provide for any regulations in the ()dice ; it went, on the contrary, to abolish it totally ; or in the event of the exercise of it by deputy, the whole of the profits were ..st go to the Consolidated Fund. Mr. Pur3. observed, that the Resolution was prefaced by leaving Crown at liberty to provide compensation for those public ser voats dispossessed of their places by such means. Mr. Huns EH said, that the public would not .he satisfied, until to -let of Parliament was brought iu to secure them against reno vation of the Office, s, SUPPLY. . . Ontringing up the Report of the Supply, TiEd N EY, before agreeing to the Report, veished to know when the estimates were to be produced. He had understood fr.t.n a NohkeLord not now in the House, that a general statement of ilte probable expenditure of the country would be laid before P•lrliament, • LUSHINGTON had stated, the preceding day, that his Right l!on. Friend would lay the Estimates before the House on the ate:iest day—this day se'nnight. All that was required now was to :14ree to the usual vote of a Supply. • Mr. TIDENEV.—The usual vote of a Supply is what I object to, until I know ho* the Estimates are. .The gallery was then cleared for a division—during our exeln t.lon, we understood, Mr. Bathurst, Mr. Preston, Mr. Tierney, Sir • Heathoote, Mr. Bourne, Lord Ossulstml , and Lord Binnin g , to nlc sorne•obaervations, and then, we understood, the Report was agrued to.—Adjourned. Tituasniy. TER. R. Sirß. HERON wished to learn frotu the Noble Lord (CssTLE itva6u) when it was the intention of his Majesty's Ministers to e sramenee that plan of economy, the mention of which in the Peitiee Regent's gracious Speech bad given such lively satisfac tion to his Royal Highness's faithful Commons —O4 laugh). Lord CASTLEREAGH replied, the Hon. Baronet could not be ig n•trant that Ministers were anxiously seeking for every opportu rim or retrenchment; that all which could be done hitherto, had b ! , .11 done ; and he could assure the Hon. Baronet, that no oppnr t•htitv of introducing the most rigid economy into the 'niblick ex -I::infiture would be neglected. . _'it. BROUGHAM moved for the production of a copy of the treaty tweon Austria, Russia, and Prussia, for the formation of a general Christian compact, to which all other States are invited to accede. suspected that more was meant by this than met the eye, and t;tat it was in truth no other than a combination against powers who d =tot profess the Christian religion. And also for the production i‘ : , :tother Treaty reported to have been concluded betwen Austria, atice, and another Power, for guaranteeing their respective tei” - itories against Russia. Lord CASTLEREAGH denied that the first treaty could in fairness • viewed in the light in which it was held by the lion. Gent. There %vas no reason to think that any hostility was meant towards any ; but, on the contrary, that it was framed in the same true it it of Christian charity and humanity towards the whole human •e, as was evinced by its language. On the latter treaty if papers • called for, they would be produced'; but it was not to be en il,:rtd that he should he thus questioned as to the manner in which i'oreign treaties might affect this country. Mr. BROCOIIi m gave notice he would tomorrow move for the two t i.).•ttioctits.—Adjourned. FRIDAY; FEB. ',. new Writ was ordered for Seaford, vice T. Leach, Esq. who • I I .: A ccepted the Chiltern Hundreds. The Bill to render Freehold Estates liable to simple Contract 4!s, the Bill to amend the Act for establishing a Bridge over 00'11;11;1es at Southwark, and the Naval Courts Martial Bill, were to ol a first. time. Lour e was given to bring in a Bill for Ugtaiug the City of Exeter 'with tias. ;qr. DAvios presented-a Petition from the Merchants, Traders, 4 totaers, of against the Insolvent Debtors'-Act. Laid v.; the tame. Mt'. western presented a Petition from, the flandred -of Boa- FEB. 11 ord, in Essex, consisting of the Gentry, Clergy, and 1.4 e •l-ow,,ers, complaining of the grievous burden of the Pnwerty t A x to Land owners, and upon Agriculture in general.- -Laid on the table. The Hon. Member then postponed his notice of motion, on the .4 üb ject of the distressed state of Agriculture, until Thursday sc - bnight. Mr. GRENEELL moved for the letter written by the Fast Lord of ' the 'Treasury and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on the 16th or January, 1816, to the Governor of the Bank of Engla: , d. Mr. LUSIIINGTON assured the Hon. Gentleman that th , • iPtter would be laid on the table on Monday. Mr. OnENFELL said. Monday would not do: it must he printed and in the hands of the Members before Monday.—The motion was agreed to. MARSHAL NEN'. Mr. BENNETT moved an Address to the Prince Regent, for a copy of the correspondence on the subject of the Convention, espe cially as it affected Marshal Ney. Lord CASTLEREAGH observed, there was no difficulty in pro ducing those parts of the Correspondence which were official. There was one of the documents which was not strictly ?o, which could not be produced. At the same time he had to obi r, e, .here was not a pretence for imputing had faith to the British ce Fri nets Governments 4and he wished such a declaration to b ar taken on the broadest faith as to Ney. He would vr gue the mat ter now; for he was prepared to do so, when it came regularly before the House.—The motion was agreed to. CHRISTIAN MONARCHS' fREAT V. Mr. BROUGHAM rose to move for a copy of the Treaty entered into between the three powers—Austria, Russia, and Prussia, on the 26th of September. He was not aware any oojeetion to the production of the Treaty. [Here Lord Castlereagh signified his dis sent.] —The Hon. Gentleman observed, that he was unwtii.ng to give rise to any discussion now, in order to anticipate the intented dis cussion ; but as the Noble Lord had given his dissent to the produc tion, he must, in justice to himself, say a word or two. lu moving for the Treaty, he did not wish Ministers to disclose any thing de trimental to the public service, or inconsistert with the delicacy of the situation of the noble Lord to foreign Powers. But the hare existence of a document, such as he alluded to, was a circit,osiance which was not to be passed over : the House was uound to see that good faith was kept by all the powers to this country. if the House found, in a very few weeks after concluding the Treaties, that at Treaty was concluded by the three powers, Austria, Russia, and Prussia, to the exclusion of England, some explanation was neces sary for this mode of deviation. It had been always understood, that when treaties were to be entered upon between Powers, re sponsible Ministers were uniformly the person? , who signed the Treaty ; but here the Monarchs were the actual diploolatists. He could not avoid noticing (without meaning any thing offensive) the simplicity with which the noble lord received the Treatyno last secular even ing., He had called it a just an d Christian Treaty, with , no temporal views. But he would ask, was there any occasion for these Monarchs to meet as defenders of the Christian religion ? Had any person called in question their religion ? Was there any reason for there describing themselves as an united Christian family ? There had been no parallel for such a Meeting since the date of the famous Crusades. The Hon. Gentleman then commented on the Treaty, observing, that it went beyond the incre defence of the Christian religion ; for it did not promise their subjects spiritual suc cour only, but it. promised to send them " armies.."fhis was, no doubt, in the spirit of fraternity with which they first sat down to frame the contract. 1 here armies were to lead them, when no attack was menaced, against justice or religion. There was a something alarming, in his opinion, in this, what a certain French writer would call " l'Abonehenzent des Roil." What had been the issue of the friendly compact formerly entered into between the same powers, who sent out a proclamation which sprung up war, and led to the partition of Poland? Did not late Empress Catha rine, at Warsaw, after she had plundered the Poles, shed oceans of blood ? In the course of a few days 30,000 Poles were massacred, and 30,000 more driven out of Warsaw, and she concluded her pro clamation (which, by-the-bye, was from the same Dictionary as the present Treaty) with expressing the cries of a tender mother for the happiness of her children. This solicitude she had shewn by chastening those whom she loved,"—(hear, hear,)—and calling upon the Polish people to shed their lest drop of blood, as they loved their God, and at the same time kissing the cross of their S#- viour, (hear, hear). After such6an example, it would be a pieceof un paralleled simplicity to say that the present Treaty meant nothing, when history had shewn that a previous and similar Treaty meant so much ; but it might be said, that this nation was not included in it, because it had not arranged itself under the banners of the Holy Cross. lie then prove d—" That an humble Address bQ rtesented r