The National Register. — London, England, 1814-12-04 00:00:00

99 IMPERIAL PAR I.L-131E2VT. HOUSE OF LORDS. tInNDAY, NOV. 1:8. The Trish Race Preservation, and several Irish Excise Bills were read a second time. TUESDAY, NOV. 2P. • Lord Dosrovoitmont; rose on the order for the third reading of the Peace of Irti u o i Preservation Bill, and eon:tittered it his duty to state a few obst•rrations before the Bill passed. He had ex es.ed his opinion en the subject he awl had only to add On this occasion, that fte Bill was not calculatrd to promote the peace of Ireland. It .vas more a measn,r calculated to extend the p tronat..e of tlw Clown. His Lords! tn , iid not wish to picveat the Bill from passing, but he could not entertain the least hope of be• nail from it. The Bill was then read a third time and paned. WEDNESDAY, NOV. SO. The Bills on the table were advaucei. in their various stages with- out discussion.—Adjuurned. THURSDAY, DEC. -1. The Royal Assent was given by commission to the 12,300,0001. Exchequer, the Exchequer in Aids, the Irish Peace Preservation Amendment, the Promissory Notes Suspension, the Neutral Ship ping, the Foreign Colonial Ships, the East India goods, the Trish Glass Duties, the Irish Woollen Importation, and the Irish Spirits Warehousing Bilk The Loins CHANCEELnR presented a Bill for introducing into the Laws of Scollasid Trial by Jury in civil cases; read a first time, acid ordered•to be printed. The rail of FGRESIONT gave notice, that be should move, after the recess, for the minutes. of the Naval Court Martial on Captain Brous: ; also for the minutes of that on Colonel Quentin. His ob ject Was to propose some regulation with respect to Courts-Martial in gt neral. Lord Dowounitmottr, in consequence of the thin attendance of Peers, withdrew his intended motion on the negoeiations now car rying on at Vici:na, but intimated that lie should renew the subject some future opportunity. • THE NA noNAL REGISTER. ADJULT RN MENT. The FAH of LIVERPOOL having moved an adjournment till the nth of February, Lovil GRENVILLE protested against it in the present state of the country, when legislative delibefation was more than usually nerea sary. .1 hough the grand difficulties under which we had btrog led so loo!: had hem removed, yet this was a Session of more urgent basiness than any that the oldest among their Lordships could re member. They were now called upon to review the state of the country idler a series of tremendous efforts, such as had never before been made by any eeatiwn, which had closed the struggle itkont the logs of its political existence. They were called upon to consider how they could best repair the damage-that had been done,—how they could best apply a remedy to the evils which the magnitude of our etlbrts had necessarily produced. If it were jpstiftable to throw a veil over the transactions going on abroad—transactions which Ice grieved to say did not appear to bode well for the peace•of Fu tope—vet our internal affairs required immediate attention. There was indeed hardly a branch of the public administration that Aid not require the naatnrest deliberation, on the part of the legislature— the state of our agriculture—our currency--our linamees —and the American war—all pressed for the immediate consideralion of their Lordships. Our demands on America the Noble Lord considered both rdwird and impolitic ; it was now a war of aggrandizement, and violated all the principles on which the world had beep' called to congratulate a new era in legislation. The Earl of lAvEnpooL replied, that as Parliament did riot usu ally meet till January, no inconvenience could result from 7:111- went. From the position of public affairs at this moment, gica: ad vintages in debate must be obtained by delay. The internal con cerns of the empire were too closely connected with the external to DEC. 4. be disposed of Hilhont reference to each other, and further informa tion must transpire of foreign interests, before those could be ade quately before their Lordships. The Duke of Su sex and Earl Dononghmore delivered their sen timents, which were totiehtn unison with those of Lord Grenville. The motion was then carried fur adjourn:relit till the 9th of Fe bruary. HOUSE OF COMMONS. MONDAY, NOV. 28. SAXONY. On the qaestion that the Resolutions of the Committee of S ply be tweed to, Mr. AVIIITBREAD enquired of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether/ Saxony was ii revocably ceded to Pries-ia ?—The Hon. Gentleman inveighed in the strongest terms again, the Sovereigns at Vienna, and said, this act of robbery had been perpetrated in the very spirit of Buonaparte, lilongll without his masterliand of execution. It was the duty of. the Howe to reflect upon the conse quences of such a proceeding ; for another scene of blood, of re volution, and of anarchy upon the Continent would be the herein-a ble result. It was also rumoured that the Emperor Alexander strenuously contended for the independence of Poland, and that he was opposed in his benevolent views by the British Minister, shin argued in favour of its subjugation. Ile requested Ministers would put off their mysterious air of secrecy, and give a little intelligence on these important topics now that the House was to be adjonrned for a long recess; for at the re-assembling of Parliament, after every thing had been fixed, and all the 'spoliation had been com mitted, it would be of little use then to have them answered. Mr. VA NSITTART replied, 11 With regard •to Saxony, I believe the fate of that kingdom has not, and cannot have yet Levu deci ded, because the Congress by which the decisicii is to he made, has not yet met ; I cannot therefore believe, that the fate of Saxony is yet fixed ; much less do I believe ihat any Briti!h Minister would be a ray to any such decision as is supposed to have been made. As little do I believe (and the Hon. Gentleman wilt have reason tom collect my assertion), that any British Minister will be a party to the subjugation of Poland." • Mr. WIII2 BREAD then repeated as nearly as possible, what he understod the Chaneelkr to' state ; on which Mr. Vansittart ill explanation replied, " What I said was, that the fate of Saxony was not, 1 believe, and could nut be decided, because by the last accounts the Congress had not.yet met, whose duty , it is to decide; therefore, I presume that any occupation of Saxony, which has ta ken place according to the public accounts, can only be provisional, ' merely a military occupation of the country, such as was before maiutaived by the Russians. This was all I meant to state with re gard to Saxony ; and the British Minister, therefore, was not a party to the transaction. As to Poland, what I said was, that it would not be found, that a British Minister had been THE AUTHOR of the sub. jugatlon of that country. Mr. PONSONDY and Mr. Tierney solemnly protested agaihst England joining in the measures pursued towards `Saxony. Mr. BairteutsT said, ministers had received no information wile then Lord Castlereagh had or had not consented to the ultimate pos. session of it by Prussia. IMr. LITTLETON said, he had resided for some time in Saxon y , ! and he knew that from one end of the country to the other, flow ii t he noble to the peasant, there was scarcely a man who, d id not de test the tes t the transfer that was about to . he made. — The reso lutions I we re then agreed to. • DISEMBODYING OF THE MILITIA. Sir S. ROMILLY brought forward his motion on the subject of keeping pail of the Militia embodied; he bad read over the Militia Acts, and taken all p:oper steps to Point a correct judgment, and lie had not the least doubt, that in continuing the Militia embodied after the concluSion of a . peacc with all the powers of Europe, the Government had :\eted in an U 111151131 and unconstitutional manner: whilst he enter-tained such an opinion, however, he was far Iwo thinking that the members of that corps were no t bound to pay obedience t• the orders received from their superiors. The Act of Parliament stated four occasions which would justify his; MajetY in embodying the Militia s viz. invasion or danger of invasion, le-