The National Register. — London, England, 1808-02-21 00:00:00

11.111■. - - - THE NATIONAL REGISTER. FEB. 21. : li. Si.ips of rite Aries or Neutral Powers, who may enter Piri: to avoid the danger of the sea, shall blare no contain ith the i.iterior of our Kingdoin.—They shall be sub jected to quantal hie, and be under the Inuit severe stiperinteud once. The Commandant of the Port shall make them put to sea as soon a: the weather shill permit. IV. Fil,!ting-boats ttre under the direct superintendance of the Civil and Military Authorities upon 'the coast. These Autho rirrs shall take care, on their respobsibility, that no communi c,mon take place, by means of the &berme'', w ith the cuesay's 61::ps aod other ships. To that rod, 'there shall he placed, as a a soldier on board each fishing-boat. On the return of tae boat, the tetttinel shall make his report of what has pas sea durin4 the fishery, contrary 'to the dispositious of the present Decree, and the owner of the boat and crew shall be prosecuted with all the rigour of the laws. Given at Utrecht, 23d Jan uary, LOUIS. r9itTUGAL DECREE OF GENERAL JUNOT. THE GOVERNOR OF YARtS, FIRST ♦IL-DE-CAMP OF lIIS Mk3ESAY TUE EMPEROR AND EINO, GLTIEItALIS ciitEr. IN 111 E NAME (►F HIS MAJESTY, THE EMPEROR Or THE FREN elf, KING OF ITALY. Considering, that under the pretext of hunting or shooting, RFso , sinat ions are daily committed ; and it being the Intention of ►.he General in Chief to cause the game to be destro . ved in a re cular manner, iu places where it can be hurtful, Decrees as follow s It is universally prohibited to carry fire-arms, or hunt or o tt ,„ t t h roug h ou t the u hole extent of Portugal, and in particu rin stick di►tricts as are reserved by the Crown. Every indi vidual. not in tl►c service, who shall be found armed with a gun or pistol, hunting or shooting, without having obtained leave t;eneral Iletaborde, Commandant of Lisbon, to do so, signed by hint and confirmed with his seal, shall bst considered as a samnt, and highway assassin, and tried as such by a Military committee, which shall be organised fur that purpose. The t'o t twil or Itezeucy, and the Commissary of the French Go vernment, as well as the Commandant Generai of Lisbon, and the Judges of all classes, arc charged with the Lxecutiou of the present Decree. (Avert in the Palace of the Ilead-Quarters in Lisbon, the 4th December, 1807. JUNOT. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS. no \DAV, FEB. 15, 1808. Ilse Bill for regulating the Issue of Exchequer Bills was read a first time. Loan .Ia:et:LAND, pursuant to notice, called the attention of the House to the Order in Council of the 1 lth of November, tt it h its subsequent comments and explanations. He contended, that they %ten., in their general principle, an infraction of the law of nations, and, in many of their provisions, a breach of the municipal law. War did not give either of the belligerent parties a right to remedy the evils inflicted by the other, by violating the lawful commerce of the innocent neutral. The Orders were equally objectionable in point of expediency and policy, in a general point of view, and at the particular season se lien they were adopted. His Lordship entered minutely into .arinus hearings of the Orders, arguing for the propriety adopting the motion with which he concluded, viz. " that tttey ,hould be taken into consideration in a Committee of the I, hole liouse." L ow) h ern tr asr contended, that the Orders were not only legal hut expedient and neee ,. sary; and under all the circumstances cf the ease, his Lordship argued, that this principle could :tot more effectually acted upon, than by the Orders in Council. Latta rat6Hl3ll? referred to the dicta of Sir Geo. Lee, Lord Mansfield, Sir W. Scott, •Sce. to prove, that the decisions of our Courts of Admiralty are to be regulated, not by the Orders of Gocernment, hut by the Law of Nations, and the enactments of the Legislature, founded upon an ell planittor of t hat law. lie entered at considerable length into the consideration of tie Order of January 1507, and contended, that it was strictly R :Jilin the limits of the Law of Nat' s, and the rule of 1756. THE Imre') rti (vet: LLo n argued, that a war measure, only 1 1;cl:tent:illy affecting questions of commerce, had never been he'd to be illegal. lie approved of the Order of January . , 1601, but • 117 thought it did not go far enough. Ile contended, however, thi,t Luis Order, and a previous one, placing the coast from Brest to the Llbc in a sotto of blockade, was foutyled precisely nn the same right of retaliation on which the Orders of November het proceeded. The motion was supported! by Lords King, Grenville, Lauder. dale, and Sidmouth, and opposOd by Lord ilawkesbury. A di % iion then took place, when the motion was negatived by 106 to :b, proxies iucluded.--Adjourued. Trr.SDAV, t•i:a. 16. Lord Onsluw• took the oaths and hi, seat.—Adjourned. THORSDA Y, Fi :u. Is. The Exchequer Bills issue Regulation Bill went through a Committee. The Malt Duty and Brazil Trade Bills were received from the Continuos. Lord Carlisle gave notice, that this day ce'nnight be should bring forward a motion relative to the late Order, in Council. The Bills brought np from the Commons were read a first time ; and the Brazil Trade Bill being ordered to be printed, Luny Garcx V ILLS requested that due notice might be given of its second reading. Lula. L4VDEEDALE gave notice, that he should, on Tuesday next, move the second reading of the Retersionary Cram. Pro hibition Bill. Loon GRENVILLE moved for a copy of the Instructions sent to the Commissioners of the Customs, for carrying into effect the Orders in Council of November last.—Ordered. Ills Lord snip then observed, that the Order of the II th of November professed to be immediately founded upon information received by Ministry, that the Decree of the French Emperor had' re. cently been executed with increased rigour. As this averment was at variance with the communication from the American Minister on the 18th of October, and with all the accounts which he had been able to collect from any quarter, respecting the execution of the Decree alluded to, he conceived it necessary to the satisfaction of Parliament and the justification of Minis ters, that the bubstante and dates of such information as they received upon this subject, should b e l a id o n th e t a bl e . Loan ILIWICEtIIVEN opposed the motion, and said, it could scarcely be supposed that, iu the present state of the Continent, Ministers had received information in an official shape; and it would be productive of the most serious injury, both to the public service and to individuals, were they to disclose the corn. munications of secret agents or of commercial houses, who might occasionally communicate to Government facts of im portance to the interests of their country. In the present in stance, there was the less cause for any such disclosure, as the answer of the French Emperor to M. Regnier was matter of no toriety in this country by the middle of Octsiber. Loup ALICACLAND argued in support of the motion. TM: DUKE nr 3foNTROSE hoped his Majesty's Ministgrs would not have the weakness to surer themselves to he provoked to make a disclosure of the nature required of them. A division took place, and the motion was carried by a ma jority of 17 to SS. LORD Si».vo urn addressed the House on the snhject of the Danish Navy. From the Proclamations and Stimmouses of our Commanders, their Declaration on leaving Zealand, the Ueda ! ration of War itself, and the admissions of bis 3la t jesty's Mini sters, he argued, that the seizure of that navy was justified only on the grounds of inevitable necessity, arising out of the law of self-preservation, and that Denmark, the victim of this unfortu nate urgency, was still regarded as a friendly and neutral Power. Il is Lordship concluded with proposing a Resolution for an Address to leis Alajesty, praying, that the ships taken at Copen hagen might be kept in such a state as not to preclude, or put to hazard, the possibility of their being restored, on the conclusion of a general peace. Lotto aoaiNunoN said, the only effect of such a Resolution, if acceded to, would be to fetter the hands of Ministers when the) came to negoeiate for a general peace. Lonn ELLENNOROURII contended, that, admitting the al ledged necessity of the seizure, it was incumbent on this country to restore the Danish fleet. Mr. Lotto en 4NcEr.Lon said, that if his Noble and Learned Friend really viewed the matter as he bad just stated it, he was fur doing justice only by halves. He ought to move for the in stant restitution of the Danish fleet. Lotto // . 4enowns• justified the ceizure of the Mulish shire upou general grounds, and pariicularly on the precedent of 1756. ''•••7T - •., . .7 1 11/ .._ ._.