The National Register. — London, England, 1809-01-22 00:00:00

SAN. 22. ' • v 1 ~ TILE NATIONAL REGISTER. meritorious Officers, whose honour and zeal for his Muje&t service were undisputed. The Right Hon. Gentleman concludt•it by congratulating the Rouse on the newly acquired ninderatio. of the Gentlemen opposite, and hoped they would persevere i:• so laudable a system, so different from last Ses,inn, and so agreeable to every honourable feeling, when it was discovered that Ministers made every exertion in their power for the ad vantage of the country. After some general . observations and explanations the Spen ker put the question on the Address, which was carried in the affiro,- ;give without a division. Pie 'louse adjourned at half past eleven o'clock, FRIDAY, JANUARY 20. Mr, GRANT, from the Committee of Military Enquiry, pre sented the 7th and Bth Reports of the Committee, which were ordered to be printed. PRIVATE 131 LLS. The CHANCELLOR of the Ex ell EQU ER proposed as standing orders of the House, That no Petitions for Private Bills he re ceived after the 24th of February ; that no Private Bill he re ceived after the 27th of March ; and no report of a Private Bill after the Bth of May. DUKE OF YORK. Mr. WAttorta. gave notice of a motion on the conduct of his Royal Highness the Duke of York, in granting Commis sions, and in a variety of other military detail* conuected with the basiaess of his oflice.—Adjourned. STATE PAPERS. —yaw— con ESPON DEx cg WITH THE RUSSIAN AND TRENCH GOVERNMENTS RELATIVE TO VALE OVERTURES RECEIVED FROM ERFURTII. Count Nicolas de Romanzoff to Mr. Secretary Canning, • dated Erfurtb, Oct. 12, IRK Received Oct. 21st. (Translation.) * • • send to your Ekcellency a letter which the Emperors 'ef Russia and France write to his Majesty the King of e,ngland. The Emperor offßussia flatters himself that Englan d will feel the grandeur and sincerity of this step. She will there find the most natural and the most simple answer to the overture w hich has been made by Admiral Saumarez: The union of the two Em pires is beyond the reach of all change, and the two Emperors have formed it for peace as well as for war. His Majesty has Comnianded me to make known to your Excellency that he has nominated Plenipotentiaries who will repair to Paris, where they will Wait the answer which your Excellency may he pleased to make to me. I request . you to addre , s it to the Rus sian Ambassador at Paris. The Plenipotentiaries named h.% the Empernr of Russia will repair to that City ( f t the Continent to whielt the Plenipotentiaries of his Britannic Majesty and his Allies shall hayb been sent, In respect to the basis of the ',ego elation, their . Imperial:Majesties see no difficulty in adopting all those formerly proposed by l'ngland, namely, ,tlie (Ili Possidetis, and eiery other basis founded upon the reciprocity and equality whieu ought to prevail between rili great Nations. I have the honour to be, with seattmeuis of the bighest•consideration, &c. (Signed) Count NICOLA S DE ROMA NZOFF. Letter from his Mkjesty the Emperor of all the RUS)iAS, and Bonaparte, to his Majesty, dated Erfurth, Oct. 12, 1808. — Received Oct. 21. (Translation.) SIRE,-- The present circumstances of Europe have hronett us• together at Erfurth. Our first thought is to yield to the wish and the wants of every people, and to seek, in a speedy pacifi cutiou with your Majesty, the most efficacious remedy for the miseries which oppress all nations. We make known to your Majesty our sincere desire itt this respect by the present letter. The long and bloody war which has toru the Continent is at an end, without the possibility of being renewed. Many changes have taken place in Europe; many states have heeu overthrown. The cause is to be found in the state of agitation and misery in which the stagnation of maritime commerce has placed the great est. nations. ; Still greater changes may yet take place, and all of them contrary to the policy of the English nation. Peace, then, Isis( once the interest of the people of the Continent, as it is ti e istereit of the people of Ureat Britain. We unite ip counting 55 your Aldiesty to listeu to the voice of humanity, silencing shot Of he passions; to seek, with the intention of arriving at that ob ,i..ct, to conciliate all interests, and by that means to preserve al the powers which exist, and to insure the happiness of urope and of this generation, at the bead of which Providence uas placed us. (Signed) ALEXA NDER—NA POLEO PI . Letter from Mr. Secretary Canning to the Russian Autbassador, at Paris, dated Foreign Office, 28th October, ISOS. (Translation.) SlR,—lfaving laid before the Kin; my Master the two letters which his Excellency the Count Nicholas de Rionanzotf has , ransmitted to me from Erfurth, l have received his Majests's emninands in reply to that which is addressed to him, by the of ficial Note which I have the honour to enclose to your Excel lency. Howeser desirous his Majesty might be to reply directly to his Majesty the Emperor of Russia, you cannot but feel, Sir, that from the unusual manner in which the letters signed by his Imperial .3.laje•ty were drawn up, and which has entirely de prived them of the character of a private and personal communis cation, his Majesty has found it impo-sible to adopt that mark of respect towards the Emperor of Itu-sia, without at the same time acknowledging titles which his Majesty never bus acknow ledged. I am commanded to ad to the conteats of the official Note, that his Majesty will hasten to commpoicate to his Majesty the - King of Sweden, and to the existing Government of Spain, the proposals which have been made to him. Your f,,xcillency will perceive that it is absolutely necessary that his Majesty should receive an immediate assurance that France acknowledges the Government of Spain as party to any negociation. That such is the intention of the Emperor of Russia his Majesty can not doubt. His Majesty recollects with satisfaction the lively interest o hich his Imperial 111;kjesty has always manifestad for the welfare and dignity of the Spanish snoluirchy, and be wants no other assurance that his IMperial Majesty cannot have been • induced to sanction by his concurrence, or by his approbation, usurpations, the principle of which is not less unjust than their example is dangerous to all legitimate Sovereigns. As soon - as the answers on this point shallAsve OP received, and as soon as his Majesty shall have learnt *the sentiments orthe King of Sweden, and those of the Governraent of Spain, I shall not fail to receive the 'commands of his Majesty for such cons oiunications as it may be necessary to make upon the ulterior objects of the letter of Count Romanzoff.—l have the honour to be, di:c. • . (Signed) _GEORGE CANNING. OFFICIAL NOTE. .The King has uniformly declared his readiness and desire to enter into negotiations for• a general peace on terms consistent with the honour of hi- Majesty's crown, with fidelity to his en gagmen's, and with the permanent repose and security of Eu rope. His Majesty repeats that declaration.—lf the condition of the Continent be one of agitatiOn and of wretchedness; it ,nano states have been overihrown; and more are sill) menaced with subversion, it is a consolation to the King to reflect, that no part of the convulsions w Inch have already been experienced, or of those which are threatened for the future, can be in any legree imputable to his Majesty. The King, is most willing to acknowledge that all such dreadful ciainges are indeed contrary to the policy of Great Brit;:ia. If the caire,ofsu much misery is to be fining! in the stagnation of commercial intercourse,—al tsaufz,h his M jesty cannot be - expected to hear, with unquali :fied, regret, t3.4t the s.-lens devised for the destruction of the :com erre of .his.subjeets has recoiled upon its authors, or its ins.ru dentsy—yet it it neither in the disposition of his Majesty, 'a, •v.iathe character of the people over whom 'he reigns, to re ,),e in the privations and unhappiness even of the nations which are combined ;pinist him. His Majesty anxiously de sir s the termination o f the sufferings of the Continent. Tne. war in which his Majesty is engaged, was etrtered itite by his Majesty for the immediate object of national safety. it has been prolonged only because *no secure and honourable laeans of terminating it have been afforded by his enemies. But in the progress of a war, begun for self-defence, new obliga tions have been imposed.upon his Majesty, in behalf of powers whom the aggressions of a common enemy have compeliel to make common cause witfi his Majesty; or who haw* solicited his Majesty's assistance and support in the vindication of tocir national independence The interests of the Crowe of Portu„ol, and of his Sicilian Majesty are confided to his Majesty's ship and protection. With the King of Sweden his Majesty i I