The National Register. — London, England, 1814-11-13 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER. NOV. 13. 4 1Weet ill moving for the minutes was not is the least to impeach the bravery of titoe :raltint Officers, hut to slick that the force em by the Government was qnite unequal to the defence • ut' the Lakes.—Ordered. The liot4e adjourned to Motuliy. 741 moiled the injustice intended to be practised towards Saxony, whose only crime was that of beiv the last to des art the sante cause as Prussia, Austria, and Bavaria had been equal!y compelled to cm , brace. Ile considered the projected dismeinherineht of Saxony as unprincipled as that of Poland. The Hun. Gentleman also viewed with feelings of cp regret the erection of Hanover into a kingdom, and feared it would produce evil consequences, by tending to cm ;a -oil us still more in German polities.—He now draw the at tention of the House to another quarter of the world, lately the sceoe of so-izitinary struggle. After the treasure expended—the blood lavishci;, and the g:ory gained. in the cause of freedom. on the Peninsida, who could look towards Spain without feelings ot inclau eholy regret I Ti - ,ere the he-t and bravest men in the country were th'grerded aii d iatu dungeons, merely because they hail fi lled the situation of Dept' to the Cortes; w hilst those t. aitors, who had prostituted beonaparte and his brother Joseph, vvei e humoured anti rity suit • . lie had heard it asserted, that, un less Ferdinand was siapported h. :flottey from Great itain, it was imposOble for him to subjugate a.. 3 subjects; lie trusted he would never we thus armed with our treasure. One Spaniard, who had renderod his country signal benefits, was arrested in P.:6s ; lint greatly to the hoootir of the French Government they dirvezed Ilia' to be liberated ; the Court o °Spain also had the inimifie ice to demand the arrest of sumo Spittli pti k who had del to this cemitry. "!'fiat detuitird, as lie utolerstood. had bectrproinpt , y and i•miliaii!Ahly rejected. Ilut he had heard that a ditletent course was piiisued by the individual commanding in Gin.ralcar : two Spaniards, whose names were Cora° and Brad), had take., r. - nge tittle • -the elute of the one w 44, that he had written agaiast Inc kloisitton ; but the clime of the ()titer, who was a retired Crittaitt of was tin known to Irimsetr. These persons had been shamyfully risen up to t:oe agents of Ferdinand The Cir s r c Limn ot the INcur.Q (.71; It replied io I\l r. Whitbread's iipe• clt, and first adverting to :Nonii. (4overnment knew nothing of the circumstance stated to have ocesirreltat Oitrraitar. It be longed not to him either to defend or to arraivr the roeduel of Ferdinand ; lie should met elv state, that no ail hail been granted to lievon) the subsidy formerly voted.—With le...fleet to the burq tag the loathe buildiogs at Vtid•hingtotr the Aniciirans had rime• tho same a.; Vit, k 'him!, the c pltdl Of Lipper Caoada. and at Queen's town, had ei atilt destroyed pi iv ate property, driving the inhabitants from their dwelling's in the midst of the snow, and ;inanition:lg the nr to the horrors ofn Ca , :adian winter without foo 1 or vireilei• Having netctided the conduct of the British °dicers, he ftion:_dit it r r:iit to sti,te his disapprobation of such a mode of warlace,.wlivn it (-mild ::e avoided. lie trusted, that not only this, tint every kind or ho,tiiity with Amei kit, would speedily crase.—Mr. Vatisittatt then d the comlact of the Admiralty, Oil grounds simiirr tit thwe uigetl itt the Upper House by Lord Melville. but declined, front illieacy, to say any thing of the state of the nezociations at Ghent. Tor Eight Hon tipotlemair next proceeded to take a short view of the state of the revenue, from which it appeared, that the gross tereitits for the year coding the 14111 October, 1813. vra.4 61,8 )1,0!tot ; that eauling the I.lth of October last, 6:1,00 Otarl. beiei; as inert iiA! of (.2,77.:-; 00 AI. He then went throligh -oti the itene:, se) u'aich composoil the account, Customs, Excise, Post•oV.ice, Property-tax, Land-tax &r. and pointed out toe in crease in each depai tment. 'to she's that the trade of Great Britain haul progressively increased, he read an accomit of the exp:;rts I: oat the poi t of I .ondon, which was as follows : The exports from the said port, for the three mowers, endinz October, IP.lv, amounted to Ilitto—enditrz ()ember, 1813 Ditto—ending October, 1314 Lt t,14 ;ft:s oci ) beim: more than double the amount of 18 and upwards of oile-thisd wore than the amount of 1$1:3 —Notwithstan.ling this fivourable statement, he aeknow ledge(' supplies to be the obi ct of calling Parliament together. 'rise arrears 4ilie to scams !i ii!)cratiqj Crone French prisons, mete greater than G„verfulit," had , fort ,, ecii _ the naval department had therefoie • xoce.l.-.1 its ettinia!erl u:spen ditiiro. Tile lion. Gentleman (.m1(.111 , 1(11 1601 hoping the House wt.tild see the propriety of continuing the war with vienur, Mae tney were not contending merely for themselves, but in support of the est4hlislied laws of Europe. Mr. I...sr.Lts defended from the sarcastic retuaiks of Mr. %Whitbread, and said, hi: Friend nad determined on voyige to Lisbon, as the only weans of saving his child whb was ill, 14lig before the situation at that Court was 4)tlerf'd hint. Mr. TiEnNliy consideled Mr..Cannines appointment as a most `calldillous job, bortlienin:: tlie public with a sail' dot . 14,0f101. a ; when Mr. Sdeilliatu could Ita)e. done Alt the bwincss on his 5'.;001. a )' ear. HOUSE OP OMNONS. TUESDAY. NOV. ft. The Speaker entered the House it little before two, anti being rhorlly After summoned to the Lords to the qietti trom the Throne, repaired thither accordingly. On retist mite, the. Chair was . not rosmned till four o'clock, when the Speak •r informed the [louse he had issued several flew writs ; lie also stat.id that the recogni zance; had not been entered into to prosecute the petitions aeainst the r,•thin for Grainpotind—the same were therefOre diseharged. Tile Speech havine been read front the chair, Lord Bridport move.' the Address. ainl was .romided by Mr. Graham, whose speech. as well as 'hat of the Noble . Lovd, was nearly et* the sane , import as those of this Noble 111ove1' and Seconder in the other tlatise.—The question bent, put, Wn Until L %I) rose and said, he felt it imcumbent on 11i111 tO t 011•)!C %i some onservations on the Address just read. cv - . sea surprize that no Member of the f'iisv Connell had Plo t, (" !it itiistin fol . t hu s CariV catkin.' the Parliaosent Inge ti:er.-- t it" I lon a must he await how the tinanrial 'O s tretilltiOle4 Of the Gentleinan (Mr. N'ansittaci) had been oisanponited; filet the bunts had expel ienced a thpression in consequence; and that tins antleipatiOns or the fothre finhitee: of the eonotry were gloomy, the forclindin4s of the people stronely expressed.--from these etreninstaece• ire not sti peet that the want of nerery wa- tire reason for the eJriv etiiig. There %% er e oi. e •r eircainstanees leg incal 411+INCr, :11,11 %Mlle 'ollie', 111 the i s ;".;lee. The thin Gretleinan then referred to tae %%at. 'mot ‘nicilea, and wi•lied to know why the war was protracted? 14het;o:r it was tor boundary, for impiessin , of -canter, or tor mat ilia c I iglus; and if the last, whether, in the Congress at Vieflfla, tile! , e tight. would at last be defined? Because, if so, then other coinitties might make the maritime rights of Eogland a cause for quarrel. The Hon. Gentleman then alluded to the Corresptindence bet" the.GoVertilllelliS Of I'i:eh fe:)011lry at the time Mr. Canning xvits in office (whom lie was astonished not to see in Ins plat['.) No- I' tug was incredible in life—nathing ineredible ill politie•— ( He should not have be!ieveil, mute-s he had .een, last Finlay, the top.sails of the leviathan loosed, met blue. Peter flying at the mast•head ; that the ltieht lion. and Ex Secretiay would not ildVe been present. 'Erne it was that he hail anttle the most honoor emends for his former conduct, bv accepting a situation under tine very Ministers whom he did nor think tit servants to advise the rown.—(lLar, ) glint , however, such was the conduct of his l'Aeelleney the .laibassador to Portugal !--who had been sent to rutin:ol, where there was limiting to do, and conseqiivotly. where lie can do no liatni.--( A laugli!) to ‘vaiting the arrival of the Prioee Urgent front the Brazils, the new Ambassador might employ him wit in revising his early pro:lnetiots its the Anti-Jaeolint review, or in composing poems, %icing in point or ecohis with the celebrated l'ortug,tese Pout, rainoens. Tne lion. Geothanan went on to sa tit ite the appointment of Mr. Canning, and at length reverting to the teal questioa before the House, coincided in opinion with the two pi evious speaker , ,in lamentiog the loss of Gen. Ross, but said, that the fall of Col. l):amiltiond, and Capt. Parker or the Navy, were equally themes for regret. lie then proceeded to condemn the COO duct of the %Val' in Amelica, anti asked, from soine of the Members of the Adaliraity Board, how it came that no protection was afforded to the trade in that quarter? remoustiances had been made repeatedly upon the subject. and the answers returned In these re. monAtranees, was that stillicivitt protection had been already af forded. He noticed the charee against C:tpt. Barclay. on which a C'eirt llartial was field in February, at the instance of Sir J. Vet), and stated, that Capt. L. had been honottrahly acquitted, it b?ing ptnved that he had not that succour which he was entitled to. Was tiM inquiry into the conduct of Sir 3 Ivo in contemplation ? A strict iiiiptiry was necessary into the naval equipment on the Lakes. Ile ished the country to suspend their opinion on tile conduct 'of Sir G. Prevost, and to consider whether Sit (Icor e Prevost had not, Lire Captain Barelay, made every effort which it were possible for to command under the circumstances of his sitnatkin.. Mr. Whitbread tin n adverted to that part of the Regent's speech which spoke: of tile Congress at - Vienna, and to .k a review of the topics Under its discussion. fie expressed Isis astoni•lnnent, that All•tr.:1 WO, illiOvted to annex the ILdidu . stittes to her territory, and lie