The National Register. — London, England, 1812-06-21 00:00:00

371 their patriotic exaggerations. They relied also greatly on the additional taxes irhich were to be laid on the Nation, as equal to an act of suicide on the part of the restored Ministers ; and thus prepared for a renewal of the con test, although broken and divided, felt their hopes re vive, when the late conduct of the Administration dashed them anew for ever. Scarcely had the eximination of witnesses on the Orders in Coencil been concluded, when Mr. BitouottAm, eager for the fray, hastened to place them as a stumbling block in the way of Ministers, at the very entrance of their career. Great expectations, and sanguine hopes were entertained that Government would resist their repeal ; the necessity of which, the Honourable Mover exerted all the powers of his eloquence to establish. But how confounded and dis.: mailed were the hearts of the Opposition, when it ap peared that Ministers themselves had resolved to try the experiment of abrogating the Orders, provided the Ame rican Executive should annul their Non-Importation Act. The whole plan of their parliamenta7T campaign was dis arranged by this unfortunate acquiescence with their pre ten led wishes, and they began to dread least they should cease to be the Opposition, for want of ground on which to oppose, without sharing the emoluments and influence of men in office. Their sword thus broken at the onset of the conflict, they next bad recourse to the Estimates of the year, and what was their confusion when they found that even here they had no cause of complaint, no objec tion to make I The erection of Barracks, which they intended so stout• ly to resist, was announced to be. suspended, if not aban doned, during the pressure of the times. 'i'h•ey hung their heads in mortification, and their terrors increased. The Budget of the year still left them some hopes, that they should at last obtain some grounds for conten tion ; but even then, it was so well drawn, the new taxes so judiciously applied, and in such slender proportions, as to be scarcely felt by the laborious, or indeed any class of the community, that their conscience smote them, and instead of opposing, they were compelled to acknowledge that this was the least objectionable Budget they had ever known. The Catholic Question still remained ; but fearful least they should also meet with some concession from Government on that point, and should lose at once all their importance in the estimation of the public, which arose solely from their forming a distinct and boisterous party in the State, they prudently abstained from attending on the day it was to be discussed, and for was compelled to adjourn ttrnent, the Opposition have vification of having no fault It is not astonishing that rrel amongst themselves.— the cause of the country ef .eal views and patriotism of whose grasping rapaciousness Rrovidentielly rescued. JUNE 21 IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. IiOUSE OF LORDS. Monday and Tuesday no business of importance. WFDNESDAY, JUNE 17. Lord Moittrk briefly gave notice, that . he should on Friday call the attention of the I-louse to the lute negociations. The Order of the Pay being read for going into a Committee on the Insolvent Debtors' Bill. The Earl of Morn A moved a clause, "That it should be lawful for the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench, the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, and the Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, to appoint a Barrister to consider the claims of all per. sons under the provisions of this Bill, to any limited sum." The claivie was agreed to ltet7E. dis. As was anotlicr from the Earl of LAeurs- DALE, " That the provisions of this Bill should extend to our Indian Colonies,"—The Bill was ordered to be printed with the amend ments. The Curates' Bill went through a Committee, and received several amendments.—Adjourned. THURSDAY, JUNE 18. The Marquis of LANSDOWN enquired of Earl Bathurst, if there was to be a total revocation of the Orders in Council; and if so, at what period it would commence they were only to be suspended, to what period that suspension was to extend; and if conditionally re voked, what conditions were to be required by Government from America ? Earl BAT nee sr replied, that the revocation would be conditional, and would take place at a certain date, about a month or six weeks, that being the earliest time in which information could be received m America, upon condition that the American Non-Intercourse Act king repealed. If America refused to receive our ships of war into her hat , blurs, in the same way as tke ships of war of other countries ; or, if she would not allow a free trade between the two countries, then the Orders in Council would be revived. Earls Grey, Rosalyn, Lauderdale, and Fitzwilliam, condemned the arrangement, as leaving things in an uncertain state, and thought the most liberal policy would be to revoke them altogether. if this was net done, bur merchants and manufacturers would be at a loss how to act, and some months would thus be lost ere they could derive any benefit front the measure. There being no question before the House, the conversation dropped. On the motion of the Earl of HAR ROWDY, the House went iota a Committee on the Curates Allowance Bill. His Lordship entered into a detail of the resident and non-resident incumbents in England in , l Wales, by which he proved, that in one half the parishes the duty v..as. either not done at all, or done by Curates. He, therefore, should plc pose by this Bill, that for every parish of 400 persons the minimuinof the Curate's stipend should be 801. a year; for 300 persons, 1001.; for NC) persons, 1501.; and in cases where the value of the living was above 4001. and the number of the parishioners above 1000, that the Cura te's stipend should be 2001. Some considerable objections were urged against the Bill, but on the motion of the Earl of Harrowby, it was ordered to be re-committed on Monday next.—Adjourned. TRIDAT, JUNE 19. Lord EallItINT made some observations, which we could not distinct• ly hear, relative to the Banbury Peerage, and moved t hat the farther consideration of that cause be resumed in the Committee of Priviledges on Thursday nett. THE MINISTERIAL NEGOCIATIONS. The Earl of MoIRA just at this moment came into the House, 3 was about taking his place. His Lordship had a bundle of papers in his hand, and had at the moment placed them on the bench by h is side, with the intent (as we presume) of calling the attention of the Houtv to their contents, as applicable to his promised e n unciation respecting the tate Ministerial negotiations, the part which his Lordship took in them, and the failure thereof; when The Duke of A - 111ot. instantly rose, and expressed a wish to attcertana If the intention of the Noble Lord (Moira) was to proceed upon the tx• planation relative to the negotiations for the Cabinet of the Sovereign, and the circumstances of their failure , as p romised u p on a former night The Earl of MOIRA was about to proceed (and as far as we coal judge) to enter immediately into the subject ; but Lord ELLENUOROUGII presented himself to their Lordships' notice, and moved That strangers do withdraw." This was a motion imperative upon the House, and strangers were in. stantly excluded. The motion of the Noble and I .earned Lord may, for ought we knot, have been very expedient ; but it certainly created considerable chagrio among the Members of the other House, many of whom were prescr 3 o and who were, of course, obliged to submit to the general exclutiou• SATIRDAY, JUNZ At half-_past three o'clock their Lordships suet, when s the Control, with the SPXAXSIt at their kead, Wog io attendance at thc Stir, the f•l' I& want of Members the House and the motion to be put off. To their original disappoint therefore now to add, the mot to find with their opponents. they • otithimi t i.nte to qual The s' •rve feetu- - ri • - le- 11 5,7*V-V - 4 her.pra.„ 7" Its • i.) ;id: 8 u ot„._;•1/4';" THE NATIONAMECISTER. P