The National Register. — London, England, 1808-02-15 00:00:00

[5. II TILE NATIONAL REGISTER. THVIRSIVIY,, trCe. 11. The Thirty-third Report of the Commissioners of Accounts for Ireland was presented and ordered to be printed. Loan Si ',woven gave notice. that on Thursday next he should move for an Address to his Majesty, praying him to pre serve the Danish navy in such a state, as should not preclude or put to hazard the possibility of it , restitution on the conclusion of peace. The House was ordered to be suuunoued for the day above stated. Lona 11.41rICKSIWRI' laid on the table. a copy of Mr. Jefer- Soll'i late !Message to the American Congress; and also copies of certain communications from the British Minister in America. They were ordered to he printed. AMERICAN TREATY. CORI, GRENVIGLI said, that nest to the union of all classes of tilt r ing's subjects in the defence of the country, the most impurtant . interest he could figure to his own mind, wns that of preserving a good understanding with the United States. He did not understand that it was intended by the American Govern ment, to deny the validity of the right of searching merchant ves sels for seamen; if it was, he would say it was better to perish in a contest for maintaining them ; for otherwise we should not less certainly, but more ignominiously, accelerate the destruction of our maritime superiority, and with that our national inde pendence. The Noble Lord concluded with moving for an Address to his Majesty, praying that be would be graciously pleased to give orders for laying before the House, a Copy of the late Treaty concluded with the American Plenipotentiaries. _ • . Limo IlAiricEntln'y stated his readiness to accede to the motion just made, on the chief grounds laid by the Noble Mover. The arrangement suggested was not agreed to. _ _ On the mation of Immo H4witsfou RE, there was ordered to be laid before the Rouse a Copy of certain Comniunientions with Mr. list, the Danish Minister, regarding the Order in Council of the 7th of January, 1807. LORD MotoA nave notice, that on the ffd inst. he should move the second reading of the Debtor and Creditor Bill. &fin Gut , v then rose to move, pursuant I to notice,' for a va riety of papers. The first which he called for related to the Austrian and Russian ofers of mediation. ibis lordahip con tended that ars engagement had been violated by them, and that they ht td never given other ground of hope than a general as surance of their readiness to co-operate in any practicable way hich Russia could point out, on such a scale as was proportioned to the military m..ans of the country, and the necessary drain upon those means for the colonial establishments. The Swedes had engaged to furnish a force of 25,000 men for an additional sub sidy, but this stipulation had not been executed. The late. Mi nistry had not thrown any obstacle in the way of the proposed loan to Russia ; but when it was considered that the sum de snanded was six millions, it would not scent surprising that with r;se experience of the Austrian loan before them, they had de clined to guarantee the re-payment of such a sum; and without such guarantee the money could not be raised. His Lordship, not having yet an opportunity of consulting the papers in the l'uhlic Offices, would not, at present, enter into any discussion of the merits of the expedition to Constantinople. lie con . 'tided with moving for the production of the several documents. Loon IlAwuESlirnr vindicated the conduct of Ministers, in not entering, in their Declaration against Russia, into the details of the complaints which she brought forward in her Declaration, any further than to chew chat they formed no valid justification for her conduct. The que,tion was put on the different motions, some of which were agreed to, and otherc negatived.—Adjounicd. HOUSL OF COMMONS. moNnt v, vEn. R. A person from the Commissioners for investigating the Claimc made on the late Nabob of Arcot, presented the Third Report Irma the Commissioners, which was ordered to be printed. An Account wa:4 presented from the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, for one year, ending January 1. 1808. New Writs were ordered for Ennis, in the room of J. Fitz gerald, Esq. now Eseheator of Munster; and for Tralee, in the room of the Sitting Member, who has accepted the Stewardship of the Hundred of East Hendred. GlMArrta.z wished to say a few words on the sub ject of a Notice liven by an Hon. tr,;entleotan behind bin (Mr. Tavlor) respecting the Papers relative to the Expedition against Constantinople. lle said, he wished to learn what Papers Mi nisters intended to produce, as the late Alitiisters were out of FFR, 15,. eke before the Expedition to Constantinople was carried into efeet. He alluded to Papers of some importance; these were Sir T. Louis's remarks, transmitted to Lord Collingwood, on the state of the Turkish batteries, dated the sth of Decemiwr. —There was another letter, respecting Alexandria and the Dar danelles, which he imagined 3Nlinisters had received from I,ord Collingwood, and which, he supposed, they would readily pro duce. CANytyo said a few words in reply, in which we under stood him to refuse the Papers requested. MR. Witirsue4o said, he heard, with surprise, the Right Hon. Gentleman refuse the communication requested by his Right lion. Friend. lie had never known that such communi cations had been withheld, and he should therefore proceed t.) move fur certain Papers, in obedience to his Notice. The light Hon. Secretary (Canning) had on Wednesday disregarded all de licacy and reserve, and had read a garbled extract of a letter from Earl Grey, then Lord liowick, to Mr. Garlick. En.oy at Copenhagen. lie did not mean to charge the Secreta- . ./ of State with having forged what he had read, but he charL , 'ti him with having wilfully omitted whole sentences, highly tut tcrial, giving, ia: - ,tead of facts and trot' statements, a lone jointed chaos. He concluded by moving for a Copy of the D;s 7 patch by Lord llowick to >lr. fiarliek, dated the 3d of Dreetr ber, ISM, to:tether with a Copy of the Note delivered by Mr. [fist to Lori Howielt. MR. (7.4syrrxr; stated, that he stooi, like all men in office, be was unwilling to give information where it was not neiTssary, and he ne%er yet refused it, Ivhere it was properly and regularly required, and where it consisted with hi , duty to accord it. After some further explanation of minor importance, Mr. Canning con cluded by agreeing to the first part of the lion. (;enOman's mo tion butt in expres,ing his dissent to Mr. Rist's Note, as there .was no occasion fur its production. and as no case had been mat:e shewing why it ought to he laid before the Howe. After s:•veral Members had spoken, the House became cla morous for the question, when a division took place-- For the Motion, 73 Against it, Is7—Majority 37. Mr. SIIARP gave Notice, that on an early day he would name one, to move for certain Resolutions, expressive of the disappro bation of the house, on the conduct of His Majesty's Ministers, with respect to the Expedition to Copenhagen. A message was brought from the Lords, stating that their Lordships had agreed to the Curates Suspension Bill. The Reports of the Committees of Supply and Ways and Means were put and agreed to. The ilintse resolved it,elf into a Committee of the Whole, to consider the Ex traordinaries of the Navy. Mn. tY.rrrn stated, that the Extraordinaries of this year amounted to considerably more than the last. I ,142,9591. 19,1.10 d. would be wanted for the lixt mord inaries of the Navy ; 235,1001: for building and repairing ; 175,100/. for wear and tear of transports ; 281,4G01. for sick and wounded ; 55,500/. for pri soners of war ; and 50,000/. for sick prisoners. A new Writ was issued fur the county of Westmeath, in the room of Richard Smyth, F. , q. who has, since his election, ac cepted the office of Escheator of Munster. The American Intercourse Bill was read a third time and passed.—Adjourned. TITESDA FP.B, 9. Ma /IreKtgeolc moved for copies of certain Letters, which passed bet ueen the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Go vernor, &c. of the Bank, respecting the unclaimed Di% ideuds.— Ordered. Sin Kr/renter moved, that a Copy of the Charter of the Bank of Ireland; also an Account of the Balances in that Bank, from the sth December, to the hth January, 1805, belong ing to the ditferent Public Offices, be laid before the Ilouse. Sim P. Br ROFTT said, he wished to Al; the Chancellor of the Exchequer a question, respecting tho grant lately made by his Majesty to the Duke of York, of '20,000!. All he wanted to know was, by what authority his Majesty could dispose of so much property at pleasure ? E en.4.‘car.r.ou OF TB g EXCHE(WER replied, that the pro. perty belonged to his Majesty, which accrued to him from Droits of the Admiralty, Ste. Such grants %%ere usual. Sir F. Burdett siguified his intention of bringing forward, 011 an early day, a motion respecting these Grants. Mr. Ifusitkson presented the Correspondence between the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Bank of England, respect ing the Unclaimed Di% idends. Mr. Canning laid before the House a Paper, purporting to be the .Speech of the PreOdeut of the United Mates to both Houses 102 r, k L . II '. a~ I