The National Register. — London, England, 1813-11-21 00:00:00

7'42 Gentleman concluded by moving tor leave to brine in a Hill, " to stay, for a time to be limited, ail action 4 and prosecutions under the Act i" and leave w.r.ls given accordingly. FOREIGN SUBSIDIES. The House having. pursuant to the'Order of the Dav, gone into a.' ammittee on the subject , of Foreign Sithsidies, Lord Cssrttavac ie and stated to the House the geoeral outlines of the Tirades 'eh this Country had entered into for subsidising the Continental 'ers, to enable them to 'continue their exertions in the preset.' sus contest. His Lordship first proceeded to acute the amount sums voted for the st rvice ut Spain and Portugal, laud the other in which had received the sanction of the H 'use last year. To e said 2,000,0001, had beet voted in uoneyand stores. The , rovision to Portugal' was `,000,0.0. the subsidy to Sicily and to Sweden 1,000.0001. He trusted that the vote of Cre- Session fur ir.000,0001. would cover these engagements of for the present year. The mode of distribution would ught in a regular shape before the Howe, A great part ~ ady remitted to the Conlin, ut ; and other sums were to go rents which had advanced lutist:try stores to be sent to He had also to state, that in the mere article of mos ms, independent of the waste of half a million for our vin, 400.000 stand of arms had been sent to the Con ear !)—ll.tving thus stated generally the sums last ' , he service of foreign powers, he now came to the :at it was twee-bury to do in this respect in the course 'ear. Sweden first called for the attention of the i the policy of coAinuing this supply to Sweden, luntsiances, lie apprehended there could be to The experience of last year proved that she had she had engaged to have in readiness fur the er exertions and those of Count Wahooden, an raised, w ith which the Crown Prince said he y separate army of the French which it was Placcd in a situation of peculiar difficulty, 'I of people of a great mony nations, in the Trc.sed she vigour of his genius, and up cc, with a r,iptdity, nvavery, and Skill. s than 40,000 men before he crossed the r engagements with Russia and Prussia, it a oo n a tion. T:te etr•rts which were ireateat that hail ever been fatale, and s would sttike every one as the most 'tev were the great hope of the sal ‘le forces they could btiog into the on with regard to the enrols ; oni of the Emperor otoitti-sia towards n o..cislon of the armistice, was The number of men which vas 160,003 niter, and these she Campaip ; but besides these slisi,..ose of with such facility ay by another, a capability the enemy. The Emperor ntry from the ravages and ienevolenee, which was Si' bout him who were bleed rated his men with them, 'se wbo contra:nide(' the ad in WI 111SlitaCe Was a p i u ss i a N eft also of a from h, r almost ex vel, in point of Ittih ad victorious nasion. to - above 200,000 by Russia, and a '11.1•41411 strength. not look without 'he contetteutry tea to any real hing the tom vrat to meal the interests. that t grouts(' vral.ee struggles ' efforts. Li ate' lances 'lye', THE NATIONAL . REGISTER. . . . •• • 1 • •. i France and England, the dynasty of Spain was reqbired by Fiance, ' 1 and England would hot agree to it. After the bone of Vittoria, France c-osented to let the qUestilmi be es question of discussion, and lowered her tones. England would not accede to the proposition, and the ev e nt had proved that she was justified, but that she never shewed a disin clination to peace ; on the contrary, that was the great and most desira ble ohjoct of ; the present eigagements. At the same time t h at he spoke of the blessings of pence, sod the prospect of I', he deprecated any idle discussion upon the subject, as only cal. Waited s to chill the exertions of the Allies, .and to strengthen the hopes of the (mew'. The aggregate amount of the pecuniary assistance to he afforded by this country. his Lordship estimated at eleven millions four hu 'fired thou sand pounds. ineludieg our previous engagemenis to the l'eninsula and Sicily. The folloaine was the distiibution : To Russia and Prussia d . :).000.0()0 Austria - - - . I,oor Mt) • •Sweden - . . 1,0.0.0;)0 Spain , ." - - LOOl,OOO Portugal . - . - em(10 01K) Sicily . - - . • 4tu0,000 Total . .. - di ),400,(,(0 . Lord Castlereagh concluded with moving Revolulions consonant to the tenor of his speech. . . Mr. t;ANNiNG, in a speech of great length and spirit, concurred in the motion, and is ,all the principles which had fallen from the • Noble Lord. He spoke with great approbation of the conduct of the ( onfederated Pow ersi, a n d rejoiced in the prospect which now presented itself of an honourable peace. It was impofe ible now to look back at those periods which many had siippo , ed the most f::• vonrable for making peace, without returning thanks to Almighty Providence, that at those times we had the coorao , to resist the temptation that was thrown in our way. (hear beer.) W',tm oo,ice should now he concluded. it would he a peace, presu uti.,;.! itseif to us tinder very different features from that which might ).,sorely have been conteirplated. It would he a peace, not write): no the terms, or bedring the character of multi( etitni : it wool.l be a pe,:ce worthy of this country—the Onions fruit of o'ir lo.ir . csertions— the chili of victory : not bearing upon it th , s•anop tit I..f:riority, nut the character of our national honour : rot as a Tans in to troy off danger, but as the elryct of J rcat nationnl exertion to drive back danger. Wt' must, however, still c.noit niplate agi cat struggle on the part of our e..emy; and it could not he slim., ed, • that he would consent to relinquish any thing he now po-sesstd. witkont using the most vehement exertions to defend the t . The great chanees which bad lately taken place in the c;n titian of affairs, might reasonably lie e!.pect.ll to at It f thy terms of a place, but not the principle upon ts hich this •cometr, was disposed to make pence. that principle must , till be to secure our own nations,' honour and interests, withoor see h to destroy si nter the mitional humour of .nir enemy, or those interes:s winch as a nation she wits entitled to claim and bound to del-sal. In the next place, he should consider the fate ef the crerit emit int:Moil system, by able:' our enemy had looped to destroy the et; mmerce of this country. Tile effee ts ofthat system when first adopted, wery apprehended as much more tremendous than the country found them to he upon the trial Titatireat system hail, how ever, now receive•ta blow from which it was impossible that it could ever recover. It had toren f u nnel that there was something incom pressible in the nature and principle of our commerce that it was able to resist the utmost pressure of tyranny, and had now risen with tenfolu vigour from that pressure. This grand experiment, of the continental system, had been tried to the utmost, and failed. It never cou'd again be revived The next grand experiment was, the great confederation in which litionaparte had moulded almost all the states of Europe, so as to make them act as satellites to France, and take whatever direction or impulse she was pleased' to eive. This experiment had also completely failed. It was possi ble, to be sure (considering the vicissitudes of war), that he might again burst forth from behind his iron frontier, and carry desols lion in his train through some of those countries from which IT had been 'ately driven ; but was it possible that he ever could again unite those countries to his empire; or snake them the instmments of his lounge projects? Was it possible, even if he should _conquer those countries, that any confidence could subsist in future be tween him and leis vassal states ? If lie were again to appear as a . eonqweror, he might go forth like the mighty idol, of which so I much had been said last year, (in the debates on the Podium ques tion), crushing his victims andel. his chariot-wheels, but he would never be able again to yoke them to [Oscar. Was it possible that the same confidence should ag4in esiist between him. and Austria, and the other great powers? Was jt.no object of rejoicing, that durng Our pressure o f b ong war, i this l , the military character of. this country had grown up to the hvigkt 4't whicb i; uo* - wns? This oi.