The National Register. — London, England, 1812-04-19 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER. -A WTI, 19. to meet him as a private person, in the hope that the interval of , ime necessary to know the ultimate deter minatton of the Executive Council to the answer of Lord GRENVILLE, a channel of communication being kept open, a negotiation, which seems to have been unfortu nately interrup'ed for the moment, may be the more ea,ily resumed." These were the exact expressions 'used • by Mr. CIIAUVELIN ; but the application was rendered abortive, throuph the inanence of Lord GRENVII.LE. No ansv..er was returned to the letter ( f the French Minister, and hostilities commenced shortly after this between the two Powers. When BUONAPARTE was elevated to -the first dignity in France, as First Consul, it' was-41 - its same Lord 6 , aFAvti.r.E who adv•sed - his MAJESTY tO reject a propog9l made by the French • Itulei to . open negotia tions to: peace. Yet we soon afterwards find this Nohle wi',en the SONTERriG/4 saw' meet to: dismiss - him from his Councils, attaching himself to the =pi,'r.ty-w - iifi had all along declared against the • war, •and • crying , out :101ider thin Pay of them, that peace alone could .save the country. from perdition ! These facts . speak volumes, and will enable the nati , ll to decide wh'ether his Lordship•is a pro. per poison to have any share in the Executive Govern ment. It cannot be denied that, the. war has Occasioned innumer.ible difficulties. A . great portion of .these must be ascribed to the man_ who so strenuously opposed all terms of peace with the enemy ; and it is something wcr'e than insolence in him to take part in our public debates, or to appear before the .Public in any other. manner than as a corn ri:e sinner, suing for pardon to a nation whose inte rests he has sacrificed, and whose best laws he has disre spected. The very return of such a man to power 'Would be tantamount to a decl iration to all the world, .that Bri tain wily never again enjoy the blessipgs of peace., From these pn-mises it is obvious, that the object of his Lordship in willing again ro resume the reins of Government, is not the peace, and of c ,, tirse not the prosperity of the'country. Neither need we go very far in search of a motive for his con.'nct, when we find, that during his administration he increased sinecures for himself and family from 6,0001. to 30,0001. per annum. Let the nation, before they censure the PRINCE R EGENT for refusing to commit the helm* of the State to Lord GRENVI LLE, duly consider the facts which we have stated, and we are persuaded they will be inclined rather to applaud than to blame his ROYAL HIGHNESS'S determin.,tion. IMPERIA L PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS. MONDAY, APRIL IS. Lord Wellington's Annuity i3ill was read a third time and passed.— The rest of the Bills on tiu! Table were forwarded, p..!lteir respective Edges, and the House adjourned. TUESDAY, APRIL 14. The Innkeepers' Allowance, and several other Bills, were brought up from •he Commons. Gk tY moved for the return of the amount of the notes offered and refused - t the I •aok during each year since 1797 ; and, by a second Mou,ln, for the number of foreeries. The increase of the crime was ore of the c .insequ,!tices of the paper system, for no notes under 51. r• re issued unit t!1 rectri, tions in 1797. The number of instances in' l , e , m committed, had continually increased, and one could n 19r,?: into vie tit:wspapers; without horror at the frequency of caPj'alpunihmclit f r ti fsCrinte. LIVER pool. obj...Lted to the second motion, as unnecessary, and RS tend.vg to show wh , i , rotes might be most easily forged.. Lnl - (1 J LAN n..: t: beneved it to be perfectly possible to prevent t 1 •~ ,,. g eri es; and the complete evention in this country might he • ccoinp!ish e d by the Bank Directors on his plan. It had been v• July said to him, w.rhin a few days, ;lai- the hest way of preventing tja , e forgeries, wou.d zit!, nut to hang the forgers, but to hang up the ,kink birectors, fur having notes so slovenly made, that any engraver's 241 apprentice, Who had been two years at the business, can imitate them. —The House then divided—For Lord Grey's motion, 12; against it, 2.7. _ _ Lord LAUDERDALE moved for an inquiry into the causes why the sank Directors, after having continued the system of indemnifying &ma fide holders of forgeries up to 1800, had since dropped the prac tice. Lord LIVERPOOL objected to the motion, and after some conversa tion, the sane was withdrawn.—Adjourned. • WEDNFSDAY, APRIL 15. The Custom-house Bill, and some Local and Private Bills were brought up from the Commons, and read a -firit time. The Marquis of STAFFORD presented a Petition front the Manufac turerF engaged in the Potteries in Staffordshire, which, after being read, was ordered to lie on the Table.—Adjourned. THURSDAY, APRIL 16. Lad STAN HOPE addressed their Lordships in a pathetic speech, on the hardships to 'which the tenantry of Inland were at present subject, front r the !ystetit of . letting farms to what are c a lled middle-men ; or, in other words, those who rent lands between che landowner- and the tenant ivho tills the soil. His Lordship comm“titt d on the abuse of right and justice by-whith this system was supported, att.:. pointed out instances i where the same land was often raised six times beyond its originally de nominated value. Wile case he mentioned, where the.ori•ginal landlcrd ltt a faith - year, .which, by process of. time, and the interven e tion.of middle-men was brought to 7501. a year !. All this while the ori ginal findliird was receiving no more thaii.his 901. a year. The griev ance did .not cud here, however,'fur the'unfortunate man who tills the lantls !fable to a distress, not only .to. his own immediate landlord, but to all the 14ndiord's middle-men over him, so that he was every day liable to four . times . therent that he originally contracted for. This lat t ter grievance his Lordship wished to remedy,. and he therefore moved, f'" For le :Ye to bring in a Bill to better the condition of the British and Irish Peasantry ; For," said his Lordship, •` the measure ought to extend `to both pi.rts of the United Kingdom." The Ime ti CHANCELLOR ob-erved, that the question was certainly one which was entitled to the utmost attention; and accordingly the Bill waS rt ceiyed and read a first rime. The Insolvent Debtors' Bill was read a second time.—Adjourned. F RID AT , APRIL 17. ' Lord SIDMOUTII presented a Counter Petition to the Catholics, and moved that it should lit on the Table. Earl S rANHoPIi seconded that motion, and hoped that it would lie there for elder.—Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. . MONDAY, APRIL 13. Mr. CURWE II withdrew a notice he had given for this evening, of a motion for a Committee, to take into consideration the high price of grain. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, in reply to a question from Lord Archibald Hamilton, stated, that he shouki, the week after next, bring iorw;rd the subject of the East lndfa Charter. The House having resolved itself into a Committee of Supply, Mr. 1 Wileirros moved that 554,4411. be granted for the expences of the Barrack Department for the current year. Mr. FR E EMA N 1 LE expressed his objections strongly against varkus items in the estimates, and made :natty observations on the estimate of the new barrack projected to he built in what was called the Re -1 gent's Park. This barrack, which was only intended for the second regiment of Life Guards, was to cost 158,N,01.; this was an enormous sum to call for in the present times for the lodging of a single regiment of horse. At Liverpool it was also propos. dto build a barrack for ltex) men, at the expense of 82.0001. A new stable at Brighton was to coat e ‘ei, 0001• 9 • and a new barrack at Bristol for 800 men, was estimated at , C - 69,Ce01. These were Very laro items, and required explanation. I _,.. Mr. WHARTON explained the necessity there was for the several buildings objected to by Mr. Freeniantle, mod rsserted that brewer economy, or, or more diligent superintendence, could not used with respect to the expence. Mr. HUSKISSO ' said, that the expense of the barrack for the Life Guards, would be near 4501. for each horse, which was extravagantly 1 beyond any thing that could really be necessary. At I.iverpool many warehouses might be now got on easy terms, which would 'mike very good temporary barracks. Every expense which could be spared ought ; in the present times to be spared, and if the present times to be spared, and even if the Government were determined that the expences should 1 amount to an hundred tadhoos a year, there were other ways of spend ing the money, which would be of more use in the prosecution of the present war. The CHANCICI.LOR of the EXCHEQUER defended the propriety of erecting the b...rraeks in qnestion. i•hose in King -street, occuped by the Lite Gliarck, enlv accommodated the horses ; aril the men were dispersed ill over !he metroi•ole=. Now, he believed, that all those Gentlemen who remembered the last dis• - _url•ances in the Londoe, w,:uld think that it was a thing very much to he desired, that the men should be accurnmodafzel in the neiihbourhood where their horses I