The National Register. — London, England, 1815-04-30 00:00:00

..m...4 1 MII•.••••••••• THE NATIONAL REGISTER.' the purpose of carrying into further effect` the 7th article of the Union, it o as expedient to extend the Property Tax to Ireland." Mr. fiIZGERALD replied to the statements of Mr. Bankes, and I , i,isted that Ireland had, during the two lavt years, made greater ft.oncial exertions than any country, its its circumstances had done before. A great deal of Irish property had in tact paid the Income Tex, namely, that 'emitted to absentees resident here, as well as the dividends on Irish debt paid in this country. Before the lion. Gen ileum' proposed she extension of the Income Tax to Ireland, he was bound to shew how it was practicable to carry it into execution. Un• fortunately, Ireland wanted that great class' of resident gentry who were the main strength of this country. Who, then, were to be the executers of the law, or the efficient assessors of the tax, in a country where so many jealousies existed, iorising from religious awd ther causes 'rite motion was further opposed by several other Irish Members, and log on a division, by 78 to s.—Adjourned. IVEDNESDAY, APRIL 9G. Mr Huswtssorg obtained leave to bring in a Bill to enable the Sur. veyor of his Majesty's Woods to sell or let certain of the Crown Lands. Mr. (iriENrEt.t., understanding the Chancellor of the Exchequer rihaptisited his opposition to the production of p..pers, regarding the 1, , r0e profits made by the Bank of Englund from balances of the I ,,b!ii; money in their hands, intood for certain documents, whicb %sere ordered. 1 new writ was ordered for the Borough of Aldborough in York shire. Tile Pillory Abolition Bill and the CopyVold Eitates Bill went through Connuitters.—Adjourned. THURSDAY, A PAIL 27. • The Alien Bill was read a third time and passed. S;r J.►MEs MACKINGTOSUI made his proniked motion respecting tic conduct of thi• country towards Genoa, which he characterised a• a viclation of every principle of policy, honour, and justice. 'ne motion gave rise to a debate, in which from the subject hav ir before discussed in other shapes, but little novelty of argii h.: t e a di- covetable. division, there appeared for the motion, of Sir J. blacking• tosh, o—Against it, 171— Majority 111.--Adjorned. • FRIDAY, APRIL 28. The CnaNFELLon of the ExcHrou Ea was anxious to have the con sideration of the Property Tax brought ou soon, because there were some material alterations in the measure, which he wished to propose at as early a period as possible. Mr. Vi r HITIR LAD replied, that his motion on the question of Peace or War.was most intimately connected with that measure, and he was therefore of course sot a little anxious to have it disposed ot previous ly to that measure going through another stage, especially after the bravado of a' Noble Lord about Members shrinking front those 1110.• nos' respecting which inquiries had wready been made. On being in- Mimed whether the Orders were intended to be passed before Notices, Le should detern.roe the course which he should pursue in conse quence. The CNANCELLOR of the E x CHF.QUER, or. this, agreed to give pre cedenceto the Hon. Member, hoping That, shoul d sllch motion occu py to a late hour, the House would not press niscussion afterwards on the measure tor the renewal of the Property Tax. (Hear, hear.) Most of the Orders of the Day were then postponed to Monday; alionot the rest the second reading of the Bill tor amending the In selvt.lit Debtors' Act. " 279 tions of the Noble Lord; but when such Treaty was in fact in the Noble Lord's possession, when he wet telling them that an alternative still existed, how were the House to consider that t hey had been treat ed by the Noble Lord?—;Hear.) It, however, proved the melancholy fact, that no alternative existed. But it remairied to be ascertained twhhAtthhey a lso t wereertlatHouse would sanction the proceeding of Mini-ters, whe prepared to allow this country to he Involved in another war. To enable the House to express such an opinion, he had deemed it his duty to bring forward the present motet,' ; anti lie intended to move an Address to the Prince Regent, per% rig his Royal Highness not to engage this country in any war with France, on the ground of any particular individual that might till the Throne or head the Government of that nation. That war was contemplated eo man could now doubt, and that it was to be personally against Bonaparte seemed to be no longer a question ; but the measures and proceed ngs which had been adopted preparatory to such a war were niwo unwor thy of a great nation. It had been denied that the Declaratic.s of the Allies of the 13th of March, to which unfortunately. was at r. chic the name of the Duke of Wellington, as well as to the 1 rears, avowed and promulgated the doctrine of assassination agiinst Bonaparte ; but who, that had read such document, could admit such denial. It breathed nothing but the spirit of murder anti assassination, and the Treaty was in perfect accordance with the Declaration which preceded it. But the Treaty, at the same time that it avowed never ending war with Napoleon Bouaparte, declared that the Allies did not pretend, nor did they wish , to interfere with the internal afttits • f hence ! Why, how ridieulnns was such language ! Englatel, actor ling to the Noble Lord, together with its Allies, disavowed inlet fet mg with th internal concerns of France, with any oac who might he ;.t the 11:ed of the Government, simply because an individual was at the helm of affairs; and yet, avhen France declared that Napoleon Bonaparte should he the Emperor, England and its Allies were to turn round and say, " No, but we will not agree that its shall be your Empetor—hut "we wiH not interfere with your internal concerns !" Such IN as the consistent language of the parties to the Tteetty. But, however dis gusting such proceedings might be, he dishked still more the eeteist cal falseness of certenn great personages ; for after all that the worid knew of the labours of Congress—after what had taken place respect ing Genoa, Saxony, and Poland—and after Italy had been driven to arms, the parties to this Treaty ventured to talk of combinine to maintain the freedom of States threatened with war or oppression, of deliv-ring Europe from thraldom, and restoring liberty to all I The priuci pie, on which the justice of going to war rested being so !extremely narrow, he would beteleave to suggest the cnnsinerat ion whe ther the blessings of peace were not deserving of being maintain eel, be fore; thefatal blow was struck, and it was too late to recede. He be lieved that whatever might have been the feeling when Buonaoarte first e janded at Frejus, the fervour for war had very much inserted. When Buonap:trte first landed, he was talked ut b, the courtiers aeout the Boutban family as a monster and a villain, who W.1111:1 hot tali 10 be ' hanged, but in the whole of his march to Paris, awl for the purpose of his restoration, not one crop of blood has been shed ; ;Ate west, when he appeared firmly seated, were we to open the flood gales of blood and slaughter, and Say that no peace was to he held with him ? Where were finanical means, lie would ask, for carrying on this colossal war fare ? Was Russia, or Austria, or Prussia, in such a financial situation that any one of them cook rely on its oevn SOLIfiLS ! I Ito .tau was, they were all of them in a state approaching to cemplete exhaustion, and must be renovated by supplies from this country. What, Bien, was the situation of our own !leaflet's ! On this point it was sutlitient to state, that no man, kowever sanguine his views, ceuld say that Lite contest could be a long one without their total ruin. Then it shoolti be well considered what was the probability of the allies continuing united for any length of time. In the new treaty of Vienna, there: was re ference to the treaty of Chaumont, in which he understood it was stipu lated, that the allies should !wheal') a deleteive league fin a periun of `.:O years. This ru . glit be very proper ; but let the' house look beck to the last 20 years, and Pee the political changes which had taken piece ; that those powers we naw acted with had not lung since been partners to the hostile exclusion of our commerce from the continent ; and Oat all rhea powers in the progress of the contest would each have his meta particular interest to serve. Even supposing, also, that the event was as successful as the most sanguine could hope, and that the allies were again able to march their armies under the walls of Paris, what would be the result ? They would must likely maintain the government they imposed by their confederated arms, and the event might be fatal to the liberties of mankind. It was now, however, obvious that the allies could not take Buonaparte by surprise, because they could nut take Franceghy a c mpeeonain. lie hurt been preparing vdrioui memo , tor defence ; t h e white (1 ig 110 where waved in any Frt of Frauce ; awl the ieteeripertate manifesto of the Allies must ha ve consolidated the strength of that cullitry in his favour. Every day the chances of success became weaker and his means of resi•tance stronger. On all these grounds he moved an address to the nince Regent. praying that he would be pleased to take such measures as might he Ileet`tiSl‘fy to pre yen.t this country trot being involved in war, on the ground that the executive power of France was vel , teti ill the hands of any particular S r. M. W. RIDLEY seconded the inution. WAR ore rE4rE. Mr. WHITBREAD, pursuant to notice, proceeded to call the atten tion of the House to the present state of alLirs in Europe, particularly as they .illected this country', for the purpose of ascertaining the pro priety of addressing the Paine Regent on this momentous crisis. The time had arrived, notwithstanding all that they had heard of the al tetnative of peace or war yet being left to the Ministers, when they might consider themselves on the eve of embarking in a new war with France. The illicit publication of documents, particularly of the Treaty of the 25th of March—a publication that was so unfortunate fir the Noble Lord in the blue ribbon (Lord Castlereagh,), because it pl iccdalEtirs in their true point of view, now no longer left the House . and the counts, ipdoubt. The language or that Tr .!aty, a$ well as of the Declaration of the h Allie s o f t h e 13 t h o f March, which was i ts forerunner, was war. But how had the Noble Lord dealt with the House respecting th os e documents ? When the Address to the Prince Regent was v.ted, which was on the 6th inst. the Noble Lord said l'ot!!ing of the Treaty of the 25th of March, although that Treaty was n ! his possession the day before, that was, the sth of April ; but the hfe Lord told the House that war had nut been determined upon; i!hit the alternative of peace or war still exist.ed. ;Hear.) I t certainly %%as not intended that the Treaty should have come to light quite so 50011, and st.li publication must have deranged no littl •Xccalcula- APRIL 30.