The National Register. — London, England, 1808-02-14 00:00:00

71;KT , - • ' TIME NATIONAL REGISTER. TFIVItsDAY, FEB. 11. The Thirty-third. Itepsrt of the Commissioners of Accounts far Irclund vvnt prc6entect and ordered to he printed. LORD Sinmovra gave notice. that on Thursday next he Should move for au Address to his Majesty, praying kiln to pie- Ilene the Danish navy in such a state, as should not preclude or put to hazard the possibility of its restitution on the conclusion .4JI peace. The House ivas ordered to be summoned for the da:. above stated. LORD 1141FRESR rizyjaid on the table, a copy of Mr. JeSer- Message to the American Congress nho copies Ad certain communications frorn't Ile Sails] Mini:ter in 'America. They „etc ordered to be pri►itcd. Fl office before the Expedition to Constantinople was carried late etrect. He alluded to Papers of some importance* these were :•ir T. Louis's remarks:, transmitted to Lord Collinrwood, or& the state of the 'Turkish batteries, dated the sth of December. —There was another letter, respecting Alexandria and the Dar i4anelles, which he imagined Ministers had received from Lord Collingwood, and which, he supposed, t'aey would readily pro, duce. Mni r.I.VNINO said a few words in reply, in which we under. stood ;Ina to refuse the Papers requested. Me. W IIJIRE.11) paid, he heard, iv ith surprise, the Right (gentleman refuse the commuuication requested by his :tight Hon. Friend. lie had never known that such communi cations had been withheld, and he shodd therefore proceed to move for certain rapers, in obedience to his Notice. The Right don. Secretary (Canning) had on Wedoesdav disregarded all de. licacy and reserve, Ylud had read a garbled extract of a letter from Earl Grey, then Lord How ick, to Mr. Garlick. our Envoy at Copenhagen. He did not mean to charg e the Secretary of State with hating forged w hat had read, but he charged him with having wilfully omitted whale sentences, highly ma tf,rial, giving, instead of facts and true statements, a loose dis. jointed chaos. 11c concluded by movin- for a ( op; of the Dis patch by lord llowick to Mr. Garlick,clatod the ;id of Decent. her, 1506, to;ether with a Copy of the Note delivered by Mr. gist to 1..0r,1 Ijowick. Ma. C4poityn stated, that he stood, like all men in office, he was unwilling. to give information m here it was not necessary, and he never yet refused it, where it was properly and regularly required, and where it consisted with his duty to accord it. After some further ex planation of minor importance, Mr. Canning con cluded by agreeing to the first part of the nom Gentleman's mo. tiny' ; but in expressing his dissent to Mr. Rist's Note, as there was no occasion fur its production, and as no case bad been made shelving why it ought to be laid before the House. A fter sveral lembers had spoken, the Mouse became clad. morons for the qurotinn, when a division took 'dice — For the Motion, 73---Agnin6t it, 157—Majority 81. Mr. SIIAni. gave Notice, that on an early day he would name ow., to move f:,r certain Resolutions, expressive of the disappro, hation of the House, on the conduct of His Majesty's Minister!, with respect to the Litpctlitiou to Copenhagen. A niessage 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 me a n s were put and agreed to. The House resolved itself lido a Committee of the Whole, to entv•ider the Extraortlinartes of the Navy. .1/n. stated, that the Extraordiwies of this year ;:r.lounted to considerably more than the last. 1.142 ; 950/. would be wanted for the I.: xtraordinaries of the Navy; 235,10;. for building and repairing; 175,100/. for wear aijd tear of transports ; t 2141,100% T4r sick and sounded ; 55,500/. for pri soners of war; and 50,000 t. for sick prisoners. A new Writ was issued for the county of Westmeath, f i n iii!t room of fir hard Smyth, Esq. who has, since his elcctiva, repted the office of Escheator of Munster. The American' Intercourse Bill was read a third time. and passed.—Adjourned. AMPRICAN Tar. 4TY. Loon Gor.vrtiLic said, that next to the union of all classes Of the King's subjects in the defence of. the country, .the most important interest he could figure to his own mind, was that of preserving n good uoderstataling with the United States. He did not understand that it was intended by the American Govern- WO ) to deny the validity of the right of searching merchant ves sels for seantenl if it was, he would say it was better to perish in a contest for maintainihg them ; for otherwise we should not less certainly, hot more ignominiously, accelerate the destruction of our maritime superiority, and with that our national inde pendence. The.N obi e Lord concluded w ith moving for an Address les his Majesty, pray in 4 that he would be graciously pleaed to rive , order for laying hefece the House,. a Comy of the late treat %• cinicluled n ith time. Alas-dean Plenipotentiaries. •Lotto //4tea ED une stated his readiness to accede to the Inutionjust made, on the chisfgroundi laid by the N oblellovcr: The arrangement suggested was not agreed to. On the mrtioa of f ! o/tO HiliiiK 4 l3l;l4r,' there -was ordered to bc laid before'the !louse a Copy of certain Communications with Mr, Rist, the Danish Mitiister, regarding the Order in Council of the 7th of January, 1801. Loon Moio4 gave notice, that on the 22d iaFt. he should move the siTtni.l readiog of the Debtor and Creditor Bill. EARL. Go4v then rose to move, pursuaot to notice, for a va riety of papers. The first yr hich he called for related to the AuQtrian and Raisiau ofers of mediation, His Lordship con tended that no enga!aarent had hen violated by them, acid that they hart never gives) oilier ground of hope than a general as- Surance of them readiuess to co-operate in any practicable way , which Russia cott!d poinfo'ai, On such n scale'as was proportioned • t', the military - means of the count;:, and the recess:lry diatii • upo., meats; for the colonial e• :hlish merits. The Swedes had engaged .0 foraish a force of 25,0C9 met, for art additional Ft/1)- pidy, but this stipulation 'it'd not been e %rented. The late M;- nistry had not thrown any obstacle in the way of the proposed loan to Russia; but when it %vas considered that the aura de manded was six millions, it would not seem surprising that w ith the experience of the Austrian load before them, they had de clined to guarantee the re-payment of 'kith a stun ; and wit such guarantee the money 'could tint he raised. His Lordship. no: itriu4 yet au opportonity of consultit‘g . the papers in the Public -Offices, would not, at present, enter onto any dis‘-ussion of the merits of the ex peditifm to Constantinople. He coo aided with moving for th:- production of the ‘eyeeal doetiments. LORD.ll4wKr.iffrier Njudiratec!•the conduct of Ministers, in pot entering, in their Declaration against Russia, into the detail- Of the complaints which she brought forward in her Declaration, any further than to chew that they formed ao valid justification for her conduct. The goestioa was put on the difrerent motions, some of which (were agreed to, and others negat iced.-- 4djouruccf, U011:51, OF UOMNONS. movDi v, S. A person from the Commishioncrs^for investignting the Claims rtrole on the late Nnloth of Arcot, presented the T:iird Report from the CommiGtitoners., which was ordered to he printed, An Account way presented from the Co m missioners for the Reduction of the Nuttoual Debt, fur one year,. ending Jammu I, I SOS. New Writ: were ordered for Ernie, in the room of J, Fiti .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 Flendred. MR. r. tianNrat cr wished to Fay a few words on the sub ject of a Notice given by an Hon. (lentleman behind him (Mr. Ta . oor) remiectin- r the Papers relative to the Expedition against co,i‘tantinople. He snit', he wished to learn what Papers Mi nisters intended to produce, as the late Ministers were out of TPrSD.II", rr.n. 9. MR firm rsqe v moved for enpies of certain Letters, whelt passed between the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Go vernor, &e. of the Bank, respecting the uuclairned Di videuds.-- Ordered. _ _ _ Sin .1. NEWPORT moved, that a Copy of the Charter of the Bank of Tre ; also no Account of the Balances in that Batik, from the. sth December, 1607. to the sth January, llglB, belong ing to the difrerent Public Offices, be laid before the House. Sin F. Br /MET?' said, he wished to Ak the Chancellor of the Exchequer a question, respecting the grant lately made by his *Majesty to the Duke of 1 ark, of `lO,OOO/. AII he scanted to know was, by what authority his Majesty could dispose of so much property at ploas•ure ? r Cif 4NCEirm a 0 Tire ExcnrQuEtt replied, that the pro perty belonged to his Mesty, which accrued to him from Droits of th Admiralty, &c. Such grants were usual. Sir F. Burdett signified his intention of bringing forward, na an early day, a motion respecting these Grants. Mr. Huskissan presented the Correspondence between the Chancellor of the Exchi-quer and the Bank of England, respect ing the Unchained Dividends. Mt. Canning had before the House a Paper, purporting to be the Specc'h of the Presideut of the United States to both Hottsea Jos :y . i ~.