The National Register. — London, England, 1814-11-13 00:00:00

THE NAZIoNAL REGISTER._ ;fin kt eh tracter of the spte. I), the profuse and wat like character o 11 Adresc. 0.4 LIVERPOOL would mike an observation luit) the character ov the Noble Lord to the Speech trom the Throne, lotto ehe c ans comivcal 4)1111 the SlibieelS to vt . llich he had dray e the ant nt on f their the tlships. The speech eel taialy did not meet the exheseation of the Noble Lord, it he had expected what it wi'n'd l!C lllllMietiCable to perform ; if he expected a total (-ince :1- 11wet of al III? *copse's, still an exageethtion of all hem fit.. Put the teal she! (If the eiretenstaeces of the country was developed in thio sp• ech, aml if it alotained from Ithldieg out hopes which it he to a'ily. •he county 'hest feel rather obliged te. ol hi.appoiethl up en tl:c *'cent rent'(' of ally one xpected evert Which 'hoe eith I vhhoth or diheat. Ile would asset e4heir Lord• ehip • that the ino•t mom uothitt intiiin to be put neon the S:peech vya• that ah ell w:ts 'weed' d shoe' lie applied, nateel,, that pence W ott ei o il noo n. a ....peetley as posshble, riinhistently w its the character of the fliiitesh -ohm. anti that letrenehmeets would he mhde when.ver and whet:re, i• they could he made, consi.ttently with what wa expedient, under exi.ting circumstances. He did not think that tee Noble 1., rtl ((irim% ille) had given proof of that spirit to hies ieht .:laded, when he s;.id he would meet the qeestioh w tht mhht of a Judge. There never, perhaps, was a statement neoehatc•hintorh to the wind of every iedividnal than that to which his Noble Fite nil had ealcel the attention of their T,oril-hips, rela tive to onr naval a l in tn - 0 41 1 a i i on i n m 'AAerica, and the represeetation itt. meite wandd not, iu the opprehehsion of a Judge, have here in . s - eveeived, if it wa- considered vvith afar spii it to which pre- Odic." was a strareer With reveet to the state of the veghtiations, tt het th.en stathel from the 'flame that they were still pending, alid the lespe of a happy termiention was expressed in tines by no meahs equivocal. The Apeech from the Throne was intended to convey Whim -, less than the idea, that however wanton the attseks of the American Gevernment might be, however violent their at. teo,pts to iejnee the ieterests of Great Britain might he, there were eo .e o timents in the minds of this Gov crane:it which !need them tefise any opportuldtv of put title an end to she horrors of war, and si n 'c'e these %stet would desh ato !cc the retta(t of tratignillity, could have 110 objection to mitigate the horrots of whin hi the event of its co»th wince. The Noble Lord f Grenville) Lad called the at teethe) of their Lordships, to what lie chile() the iniestioe and in humeanity 01 visitieg the calamities of war upon the inhabitants. It wets a hhrdsliip which every body must lament, and which every leely wenid rsphohnte, but tliht pressure epoe the people was me• ees: , ar h h in eider to give them an idea of the vic es of their govern ment, and stimulate them to pursue the means of stopping those riaints nt hlehne sect: throrgh their cehntry, by firmress and tinani mity. !lilt the Noble Lerd (Grenville) had censured tho condnet of hut ariny in America, and as an evidence of the guilt of that army, came forward with the instahee of the demolition of the plehic buildinhs. Could ;my thing be more urgent P So far from tihniog our victortes ieto pethecutions, all the mildness of con yet ors ht , eueled the steps of the Brithb troops ; and never was a War more humanity than that. to the ferocity of which attention of thz:ir Lordships had been called by the noble Lord. 'Upon t ve;y oceaFien during the mar, the most (-ached re spi ri vtiN paid to pris tf.' p VOIICI y. 11 1 4111;Ipc, if the charge of cruelty had bete tn . :1)4(111:d frem the 'British to the American sot diet - , the war rei,eht deshqve the chataeter, for ruin marked the proo;h:ss ef the latter on inhtter -whether the property wait puddle or 1, ri v ate, teethe r the Ihtildiuhs were mild v Or ulutri'ita:: a geheral devastation toltowt7d close et the Lee Is of snecess. Towns were destroyed, families di iven out ralsed eel honselchs in the depth of wither, where they soon lich epee as cold as the snow that fell upon them. There was one stance wit . :t it might he vtlcy appropriately wentioned as a eoon t e r. talenue to the enormity of destroying the public bnildiegs iii Washington. The Americans got pocsehsion of York, the capital al Upper Canada. Ilad they any regard to the unntiiitary lent-dings, 01' did they rehpeet private properly ? In the first ease the town \VAR sparhd without evpitnlation, the hail 01 . the tsoldier was restre l ieed, ih the ether thece scenes of terror amid destruction often prcanted ti, the. °vet-dine...hi and unresisting were exhibited. The British en o unsentder was to retaliate. Ire el.:1 eio from that princi ple tul wtach, in ;IA similar eases of extremily, the inclinatien of the soldier most he subservient. Upon this occasion, Sir G. Prevost wrote to Sir A. Cochrane, represeeting the necessity of retaliatiee, teat who could say that in a‘herting this principle he was not justi tied? What, he would ask, could be supposed to be the keliogs of the Ameticans wider all the circumstances of the war, at fleeting in iv this disposition to retaliate, which their Governmeet had used melt want= diet(((s to prohnote? Titeix (Ming (auti it was it very NOV. 13. ;nowt oney, that the war was unjust, and that the British Gov( In. ment had acted, in the course of their nlilital y and naval proceed. lots, wWI as much temper and humanity as could be expected to. wards au ettLinv who had walked in the path of unprovoked With ropect to the state of the Continent, be had but a few wor . ds to say. lie would call upon the noble Lord to consider the events of the late war, the extraordinary occurrences that crowded tog. ther at that critical me:latent, when the liberty of the Continent was to he asserted, or to he lost. Sorely, if the Noble Lord reflected tipoo all this, his suipri•r at delay must cease, and he must allow, that thi: confusion from y ;deli the state cf continental affairs was ielieyed, and the arrangement of the ,systcm, which had hero so enibaira,aa end confounded, r quired more time for recovery from ordinary ei vulsion. The noble Lord (Grenvillv) had asked, why the ileitis!' arms should be upon the Continent in a time of peace, and was o f opinion that ale , nlation was inconsistent with any measm c 4,1* gaverironitid law. Bat atier such a ntiite *Wogs, as had note_ semblance in any transactions within the memory of 'Ham could it appear that any rc gulation was extraordinarl , %vine!' grew out of those wonderfol facts? Their Lordsh;ps udglit not perceive the in cessity of estaldi , liing such a force, but surely they :dirndd not com plain of an onii• , ion upon the part of Goverment with respect to a eeminonicatieln upon the subjeet. It might he remembe red that [lst year he moved a resolution for a large vote Of credit, and distinctly stated that it evonlil be expedient to keep a military tOrce upon the Contivent mad arrar,f,sements ora lasting nature should lie mad r , intimately connected Rs !Li; precautionary conduct sea,: a ir!, th e interests of the country, he did not anticipate any ohjection t‘; his vote, touch less did he expert at this totolant to hear the inew.nre, which was Of old standing repre.hated. As to the state ()four c h. culating medium, Lord L. had all along rev;s cited that slate, dimple he had uniformly ascribed it to the peculiar eirelinstanees of the war in which we mule en2:ao4.: and the events of the last !ix mantha of peace would sulliciently bear him cyst in this asst.' fief': fer during that short period Ye had witnessed the return of our com mercial exchanges to 114 - 11 iy their natural coi:rse, ev( n nadir these circumstances of contionsd war with AnWelU.l. Of large arrears of debts, and oohs itlestanding the expenditure created by a large army on the continent. Lone 611.F.Nv1T.1.r. explained. . The motion vi as then put and carried.—Adj;Airned. TIIT'PODAN, NOV, 10. The no of LIVrItrOPI moved An Address to the Prince Re gent, to collier 'one mark of his fivotir on Lord Woh-iol:liatti. the Ittte Chairman of the Cmotoittecs, tot Ids ion services, which was naced to.--The Lail of Shaftesbury was named as successor to Lu Wulsinghan. rtitnAT, NOV. 11. MILITI A !MGM lINTS. Earl ViTzwit,Ll sat rose pursuant to notice, and called the at tention of they. House to the present state of the Nlilitias. Lordship said, the Arts for regulating the Militia protidecl, that Militias were to remain embodied in case of insurrection, dair:,cr of invasion, actnal int ninon, nut! irlitiboa. Ai neither of these Cir.' crtnistances at picsent . justified the keeping of the Militias embodird, his Lordship considrted it contrary to law and the Constitution, 'w.f. to disembody them. !le concluded hv tnovink for a return of the immher of Militia regiments tlimenthoClied since the Perce, and also (1w number at previa embodied. Lord Sinsiougs, in a long speech 'Ton the question, said, it was the rrerogatise of the Crown to keep the Afilitias embodied (liaise.; the war, and intimated that Government would not siifler the politic to stiffer aIIV inconvenience on the subject lenger than DECCSPIIIN. Lt short, bis Majesty's Government had it in contemplation to make some allewanee to counties for the expellee of ini liii amen's it ivt I and fitmilies, occnsioneti by kcepina the reginutnts The Marquis of BUCKING TI AM supported the motion, %thicli sr a' pet and carried withatit a division. PRITISH TROOPS. The 11"farquis of LANspowNE gave miller, that he should wove, on Monday, for copies of any treaty with the Continental Powers • for supplying British troops to !erne on the Continent ) and ti6o moved that the House be sumnftmed.—Ordered. ERITISH FOACES ON THE LAKES. The Marquis of BucK NCH 5.1 moved for a return of the minutes of a Court-Alartiai on Captain Barclay, in consequence of the de struction of the fleet in Lake Erie. The Noble Alarquis said, both Captain Datchly tuidlia cm' had laciuQuiAbly acquitted, aug IP' 6