The National Register. — London, England, 1815-05-28 00:00:00

AIAT . twroty Hr was reads to admit that the treaties were more ecr mica' rim, many thers. But besides the five millions, two millions and a half were required for our deficiency in troops, and he admit. w hilst also to be economic, though to pay in money and not in men was n. t a dapted to increase our strength. His Noble Friend thought the war would be a short one, and if he (Mr. B.) were of the same opittin, Ii should not oppose the vote of a subsuly. If the Conti nental Powers required a subsidy in the first year of the war, they w ould want another subsidy next year. If that were to be e ff ected by loans, the ban consequences of such a practice would be progres sive Had the Continental Powers been so fully impressed with those woral feelings which his Noble Friend seemed to suppose, they would not have deserted the cause for want of pecuniary aid, pant. cularly as we might justly have pleaded the expences of a lon g w ar . Hs had not the sante fears with the Noble Lord on the subject of the Allies treating with Buonaparte; and if they were able to furnish a trillion of men, they could not be in such want of assistance from us. Buonaparte might, from the altered state of his affairs, have been found more capable of -maintaining the relations of peace th an w h en w e treated wirli,him at Chatillor. The invasion of a foreign Power owt increase the power of any sovereign, be he who he might ; every confederacy contain e a peinciple Of dissolution, and in former periods our Allies had frequently turned against us. If we had now fur our ally the magnanimous Alexander, we had formerly the magna- Informs Paul (Hear heat 1) Almost all our Allies had been pane. gyr•Fed in their turn, and almost all . of them had deceived us ; for at tree close t the year. in the commencement of which his magnani. sorer had been so highly moiled, Paul had been charged with treachery for detaiaing our ships. It would appear that Great Bri tain was to pay for every thing, and he had no doubt that the subsidies would last as long as the alliance, and therefore could not agree to the vote. Mr. Beattie protested himself feiendly to the general measure of a subsidy Mr. $ HINNIT7 arraigned, in strong terms, the different procla• man , ns that had been addressed at different times to different nations, and L haracterised the confederacy as a conspiracy against a particular country. and of the governor against the governed. Mr. F DOUGLAS stated the country to be in a state of war, not from Any fault of our own, but from that of the enemy, as France had r nets to demand a re-construction of a treaty to which she had formerly acceded. No rational hope of peace could be entertained till the ext.rparion r t the military system of France. Mr. W HITIREAD (who rose amid load calls far the question) should detain the House but a very short • ime He thought two Hon. Gen. tlemen •1) , old have voted with the minority of last night ; one of whom was she Hon. Member who had opened the debate that even ing NI onkeS). It was plainly the intention of the war to embark all the powers of Europe in a contest against Buonaparte, and to pay all, in pfc.portion as they concurred in that attempt. For himself he coui not have given his vote for the war last night, and withhold it from ttie part of - a subsidy to-night. (Hear, hear !) The subsidy he thought a moderate or e, and the bargain about r he Dutch fortresses was not i.ew. However it might be disguised, the restoration of the House. of Bourbon was the real object of the war ; and, it was dis guised probably from an apprehension that the country would not go along with Ministers , orauch an object.,though it might against Boo esparto. The Noble Lord had produced .on paper a million and eleven thousand :pep, and if Buonaparte had no men. Austria, Rus sia, and Prussia had neither money nor credit. It had been said that Wt ha,d been going to strike a sudden blow f , r the last two months, and it now appeared that we were to wait two months longer. Should the attack on France fail, would there not be a necessity fay a grant of an additive! subsidy, and he thought the Chancellor of the Ex chequer somewhat too sanguine ill limiting the duration of the war to a sin t gle tam , aiii. If kuonapArte fell in battle, would all the soldiers be disbanded ? Subsidies mu,st be voted much larger than those now proposed. :old he was surprised' that the Hon. Gentleman who had voted for the war 'should refuW his assent to the subsidy; Austria had, at a former period, borrowed a loan which she had never repaid, and the country must now be 'saddled with a Dutch loan because Russia refuses to pay it. It was by means of that loan that the Em press Catherine had moved her armies when she took possession of Politic!, and this country must pay the interest of that money with which she h a d wrested-Okzacov.. from the Ottoman Porte, arxl which had led to such scenes of horror. The Hon. Gentleman continued to argue agAinst the resolution. Against the madness of the approaching war he would not only protest, but he would divide the committee, in order to vote against the grant. Mr. C. Garin? strenuously supported the resolution. It had been said that we had recently expended 26 millions in subsidies, but it had not b sen state d , as i t ought to have been, what results theist sub sidies had produced ; he felt sure the present exertions in the common " tasus FW"sci ''p4Pproved by the House and the country. • Sir J NEWPORT spoke against the subsidy • 'and on the point of in teffs'ic.ce, Arew'a pa ra ll e l b etween the cond uct of Louis XIV. with regard to 1\• ilium 111. and this couptry, as related to Btionaparte. Yr• STLwitaT WOitTptY denied that the case of King William sate upon the prnetit subject. He had doubted how he should vote this question up to aWe pstioci ; but whfa p.e Ur furor, 01. 345 one mind, cr , uld he say that E inland ought ro stop the whole alliance ; he would vote most cordially for the resolution. Mr W. Ssturu declared he must pose th. subsidy. Mr. P Moos: rose, amidst cries of question, so loud and s l on g continued, at to precinde us from hearing him. The Cotninittee.then divided :—For the Resolution, 160 ; against it, h.—Majority, 143. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the House Adjourned. TRAGICAL CATASTROPHE. COUNCIL OF WAR. PA pig, MAY 19 1815 —The deliberations on the attar of Captain Serres de St. Claire were continued this day, and terminated by a catastrophe which the numerous slier-aims were far from expecting. The President opened the sitting by addressing sonic re flections to the accused, on the improbability of his decla rations; afterwards the Recorder expressing how painful was the task which he had to per form, en.ered firmly into an examination of the charges laid to the account of the accused. He skilfully seized eve'y suspicion, indication. comparing ail presumptive evidence, and con( !tided that the accused was guilty of the homicide committee on the courtesan Kersemaker, otherwise called the hand ,sme Dutch girl, and that he had committed it wilfully and with premeditation. Mr. Bet ryer, Jun immediately commenced his defence with a degree of emotion, which seemed equally to affect the soul of his client. Relying on this principle, that every crime must have a motive, he enquired whA ady.sn. age the accused.could derive from the death of Kessemaker. Was it hatred, reveace, or jealousy ? But how could those passions animate St Claire, against a woman whom he only saw for the second time? Vas it cupidity, but wha+ could he take from a person in the situation of the hAnd. some Dutch girl ? St. Claire 11.:d experienced. was true, considerable losses at play, but those losses had been core t d by several receipts. No, gentlemen, added his advocate, you cannot assign ant, reastnable motive to this host. c;de. Even theifirst judges themselves could not alledge fss. From thence, Mr. Bert yer considered the question of re meditation, and most satisfactorily proved, that i• could not exist in the accused, even supposing he had been guilty. It is true, that it was proved in the first trial that Si. ('fat e had not remained more than twenty minutes with Kersetua::er that it was by chance he had met her in the Palais Royal. and that in the whole course of the day, which preceded the crime, he had made no preparatit ns ; besides. if hr. hail the intention of killing her, would he not have selected acother weapon, than a very small knife ? In this part of the defence the advocate seemed to us triumphant, but he was not so successful' in that which followed; he should have destroyed that series of presump tions, that chain of circumstances, .vhich had struck t on viction into the first judges, and which the Recorder had just revived. Mr. Iltrryer dividing, in otder t weaken. endeavoured to destroy the one, and to extenuate t' rotb ers. but in general with more art, than effect. As last, ad ic,s!og the Council, he said : " You will now enter, t;entlein , , he chamber of your deliberations; St Claire hiii self, fir Irons dreading your verdict, calls you there; you will see whe ther it is possible that a French officer, educated among camp., raised by his courage to a distinguished rank. and associated top legion of Knights, whose device is honor, should have been guilty of sn horrible a crime." Ele then •aflded with an agitated accent,which came from the heart. • as to you, Bt. Claire, you base told me, even to the last moment, 1 i I P P t { A• 4