The National Register. — London, England, 1808-01-24 00:00:00

JAN. 9.4.' penham, on Thursday. the 4th of Febitutry. at three; Saltrish Right of Election, on Tuesday, the 9th of Fehrnary, at three: tito for Horsham, saute day, at half past three! Lvesham, at. Thursdai.. the 1 lth of Febritar . at three; Counts of Sussex, Oh Tuesilav, the 16th of FebruarN . at three ; Dublin Univer t mty, /hole dAN, at hail rem three ; care.% shi re, on Thursday, thelgth of March, at three ; County of Nottingham, on Thurs day, the 18th of February, at half pa=t three; and Penrhyti, on Tuesday, the ‘i:ld of Februars, at three. Low) rot ..4,ro.vi: ga% e notice, that hew mild on Tuesday next name a certain day to take into consideration the nude Papers. • Me. tiastts likewise g:i•e notice, that he would on Tuesday next submit a motion, th • intention of which is to prevent the disposal of plate!' and pen,iow. in re ven• The Hon. 0. • PONsOY 111' MT notice, that he would on Tuesday next move for the prodaetion of certain papers relati‘e to the Expeditioaagait at Copeithagen. The SPEAKICR Rave notice that on Private Bill would be re ceived after the With of February, nor so Report after the 28th of March next. 0.1 the Report of the Address to his Majesty, voted yesterday, being Winton up, Ma. J.' M'DomAto rose and sail, that after having heard his Ma esty's Speech read from the Chair, and the debate which e ~ be wasnatoniabed that Ministers should, for their own sake, refuse to give, not only Parliament, but the Public, explicit information reqtecting the al fair of Copen haTen, which in the pre-cut nista owe he, sad every other person Who t houttht independently, considet ed mysterious and d Trace fol. He then contended, that silence was a proof o f their hav ing sr informatinn of the Serrot Articles of the Treaty of Tilsit ; and that Denmark was tacrified to the chimerical dreams of fatal anticipation, fur it was impossible, if an eagle had down with the intelligence of tbe Treaty of Tilsit, it could pwsiblv he in Downing-street before Admiral Gambier appeared off Copenhagen. tin. PuLLen, in a few words, defended the policy of crip pling Denmark, and wished that " all the birds vs hirh had been at the Treaty of Tilsit, had been caught by his llajesty's able aad distinguished Ministers." II o cxr highly applauded the conduct of the Clothiers of V orkshire, for petitioning his Nlajesty for peace, as the sen timents their petition contained were absolutely wrung from them by their sullerings. Ma. M. .1, 'l.4t , r.uN very forcibly censured the conduct of Ministers in the alfair of Copenhagen. lie then said, that the Committee nt heeds applied to hint for his advice, but he told them, in the first installer, be would not harrztss the Govern ment of the country. They then applied to him 13 be Chair, man of their Nleetings, which he declined ; but, notes ithsiand-• ing, the Clothiers were certainly justified in their proceedims, they were actuated by direful necessity; they were, he la mented to say, starving ; and hute , er will, according to the proverb, break through a stone wall The late Orders of his Majesty in Council were lamentably the cause of that calamity which they now endured, for the Clothiers were indisputably convinced, that had it nut been for those Orders, their maim factures would, its spite of every other obstacle, Mid their way into every part of the Continent of Europe. lie then very fbrcibly called upon the Public in general to be unanimous in petitioning the ing, to dismiss his presersi disgraceful Mini sters, who, by their weakness and .wickeduess, invoked this ceuntry in rain. 'lin. It% S urrtr stated, that there never, in the annals e,f the world, had occurred such a case as that of Denmark. With re gard to Petitions for Peace, he represented a large and populous city, that of N urss ich, the trade of which had suffered materially by the war. The citizens of Norwich had consulted himon the propriety of petitioning the King for Peace, but he had set his tare against any thing of the kind at present, from an idea that Ministers were well disposed to negociate, and that they were as eager for peace as the poor starving manufacturers of that city. If, how ever, it turned out, that Ministers had rejected any proposition--;any means of uegociatiou--eor any thing like an overture, his objections to petition fur peace would be done ;may, and he should, without any scruple, lend his aid and as sistakce to his constituents iu addressing his Majesty in the %%a% recognized by the Constitution, as the ioherent right at' the sub •je'et. SEenar.ene eavvrvo, in explanation of w hat he' had stated last night, said that Ministers received a copy of the Treaty of Tilsit on the Bth Of August last, but they had infor mation of its nature 'owe time before. There was nothing in tbe public Treatv which adverted to the measures sillnd.4l to in the Speech deliviired by the Lords Commissioners. Ministers .%. , +r - r• -•.... w,,••••••....••••-i-• • •THE NATIONAL. REGISTER. MI had not cot the secret Articles of the Treaty, bnt only the su stince of them. These articles were known before the projected expedition, destined to soother quarter, sailed. Tkc armament had been prepared fur Stralsund, but after !Ministers had attain ed a know ledge of the private stipulations in the Treaty of Til sit, it was applied to another purpose. A large portion of the irmatnent destiued for Stralsund had actually sailed, when Its destinat' was changed, and it was sent against Copenhagen. The question was then put and carried, and the Report of the Committee appointed to frame the Address vi as brought up, read, and agreed to. it was ordered to he presented to his Ma jesty by such Members as w cre of his Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council.—Adjourned Nlonday. PPOT EST. -..w n►r rzwirnts, '2l, JAN. NW. A motion was made to omit the fourth paragraph in the time for an Address to the Throne (viz, the paragraph respect ing the Seizure of the Danish Fleet), and the question being put, " That the said paragraph do stand part of the motion,' the same was carried in the affirmative. " DISSENTIENT, " Because no proof of hostile intention on the part of Den mar!. has been adduced, nor any case of necessity made out, to ,ustify the attack upon Copenhagen, without which the mea sure is, in our conception, discreditable to the character and in jurious to the interest• of this country." V 4611 A L HOLLAND. on FOLK. 811)3,10117U. W. FREOCRICK A Wile LAUDER DA Lll. Gat:v. DISSENTIENT, for the above reasons, and fur those that !ow : • Because, it has only been through the slow and painful pro gression °foamy ages, that civilised nations have emerged tro►l a state of continual insecurity and violence, by the establishment ot• an universal public law, whose maxims mid precedents have been long acknowledged to be of the same force and obligation, as the mussicipal constitutions of particular states. A system a kith has graduirily ripened with the advancemeat, of learning mid the extension of commerce, and which ought to be held sacred and inviolate by all governments, as binding the whole civilised World under one politic and moral dominion. Because,. Alleged dePartures from the principles and autho rity of this public law in the :earliest stages of the French Re volution were: incid 'out, by the Parliaineat of Great Britain, as the origin hudflistificatifiWor •the first war with Revolutionary France, anil•becaasein'allits siabseqnent ?tars, the cmainuance of hostilities was uniformly vindicated in various acts of state, as being necessary for the support of the moral and political order of the world, against the avnweddisregard and subversion • of it by the dittertait governments of France, in their groand less and unprovoked attacks upon the independence of unotlend ing nut Because, The people of Great Britain, on being r^peatedly called upon by the King and Parliament to support the rublie thus alleged to ha►e been violated, and to exhibit ;to ex. ample to the must distant ages, of Wile s ible notional virtue, Ash mi ued to the heaviest barbells, and sacrificed the most essential • advantages, rather than con-ent to any peace, is hick IS ac con sidered by their Gover► u nent as an ahandonment of their Alija', or as an inadequate security fur the rights and privileges of other natious: And Because, it appears in malty state papers during the progress of the v.ars with the different Governments of France, that it was the duty and tine interest of Great Bri tain, and her pledge to the world, to maintain iuviolate the ac knowledged principles of public law, as the only foundations upon which the relations of peace and amity between nations could be supported. Because, it is the first and most indispensible maxim of pith lic law, founded iudeed upon the immutable principles of Jus tice, that no violence should be offered by one State to aunt her, nor any iutrusiou made upon the rights, p►nperty, independence or security of its inhabitants, except upon an aggression by sac!, State, and the refusal of adequate sasisfactioa t or in the rare instance of lndispensible necessity, involving national destn,►- tion, such as in the ease of an inch% idual tsould,justify homi cide, or destruction of property for self preservation: and be cause the observance of this rule should, if possible, be held 'mire sacred by great and powerful nations, it being time ♦ery end and object of universal la►s to give pet t i •c , security to the ►realest communities. Mater the Ithadeve 01 an impartial justices ... ~~: