The National Register. — London, England, 1808-02-07 00:00:00

FEI3 • 1. • %iew of more etlectually preventina the undue application of the balances in hit hands. Leave grantee'. if le. j/rxtomionv brought up accounts, shelving Ilse amount of Exchegaer Bills for the last year, outstanding, and unprovideil for, which were laid on the table. On the (notion of Ma. Ilusrcissos,leare was granted to bring in a Bill fur regulatinli . the Paytnentof Exchequer Bills. "TIMNSTIONAL NE Giant. a CUANCILLua or rat EXCIMQVin denied the arguments And assertions of the Noble Lord, that there was any Wag Jae. gal in the Orders of - Council issued by Ministers. Thejurisdie. tion of the Privy Council was a.dapteil to the prerogative of the • Cron n, and the effect depended entirely no the car prerogative of the Sovereign. it had no eonerrn with the peace Farago live, which was a 'matter essentially different, as it went td warding off dangers, such as famine, or any other domestic ea lanAty. The only and sole jubtitication, therefore, of his Ma- • jests in issaing these Orders of Council was his self prerogative, and that only. If that was so, then he would mown, that Par liament had no more authority to alter the Law of Nations, than the Noble Lord had, which was a tt.ing he wild not do. Ile contended, that Ministers were justified ie. issuing t o e Orders is Council, and in retorting the hlueitade on France and her dependencies, and all neutrals. The Noble Lord t °aid out con trovert 4 position so clear. The Preach, say you (England) shall have no trade. We reply that we w ill, in defiance of them, and we adopt measures of direct retaliatiou, hieh fro as their nature must ensure snc kali effect. Dn. I,,treittNot contended, that the Orders in Council were known to be Halal at the time his Majesty's Minkters advised teem, well aware that Bunapurte rever intended to carry his Decree to extremity towards neutral,. .....-- - Sin W. GIZA vr, 'master of the Rolls, contended, that his Ma jesty had a right to make a declaration with respect to the law of nations, but had no right whatever imposed on him to suit Parliament, any more than ik .I.ad in declaring war or making peace; and said, it was absurd in Parliament to iper fere in a case of absolute necessity, for the greatest betelit had already resulted from it. SIN .1. Prtworr defended the arguments of Ler:l Petty, and contended, that the Ministen; had acted in %cry r hnsty and ircrt precipitate ways in issuing the Orders in Council. Jie coo. eluded by opposing the motion. 'the quest 1011 ‘1 ac carried tt ithoat a dit ition, and the noun re!:t into the Committee. In the Commitree, Air. Pereeval submitted tv string of Res;►- lutions, itopioing varioug duties on artielel, the produce or ltri. tisk Colonies, or the 7 :r exportation front Creht Britain. The Reports were ordered to be received on Nionday, to which day the House adjourned. STATE PAPERS RELATIVE TU PRCSUNTED TO BOTH HOUSES Or PA ItLIIMENT ON TersnAT CI4IIIT . --•riiim•-•-.. No. I.— Iliqpalch from the ll.i.Tht Honourable Lord (la tNvir. T. I. 1:V Cif) N IT CIL, to Mo. Scertlarg C C datrd Suit Petersburgh, September 2d, INO7 Igth. SI. P,•terAborgl , Sept .9.1?, ISO 7. _ . . SIR--I have the honour to inform you, t h•Jt on Saturd.iv even ing 29th August, L received by Sir Siephen Shanp, who left the fleet off Copenhagen upon the 24th August, oor dispatches No:. 32 and SS, and on Sunday the Messenger Itter delivered to me those from No. 26 to SI inclusive. Being thus completely pat in possessioo of the sentiments of His Majesty's Government, upon all the points which coulticome into discussion between this country nod Great Britain, I lost no time in requesting a conference with General Budberg, who, though extremely unwell, invited me to call upon him last night. 1 !wean the conference by observing, that his Excellency Ic ing already apprised by the Answer given to II is Mtkiesty's Si.. crrtary of State, to if. .Gapes, of the conditionul arcup:ance by the Court or Lonion, of the profered mediation of had to sate to him, that I was instructed in the first in.tattare to request the communication of the -ecret Articles of the Treaty of Tilsit. and a frank disclo,ure or the eeneral iiews and in tention: of the I:0mq of !Watt Peter-burgh, That impartiality was the first requisite in the character of a mediator, and that before the British Government agreed to avail itself of the meditation f this Court, it was essentinlly necessary that England should tie placed, with regard to the meditating Power, on au equal footing ith France: that the confidential intercour,e which had takca place between the Emperor and, Bonaparte at Tilsit, and by which his Imperial Majesty became acquainted with the prin. cioles upon which the French Government proposed negoriating tt ith the Coort of London, had on turd Is excited un uneusitw,t in England, tt Rich could only he removed by an unreserved courvi nication: that I could not com•cal from him, that the purio:l remptoril v prescribed to Hi , Majesty, for the accept:n-4.e of aifiiin medi d itioa. /::vk ere:v.ed in Lonion a ter. UllraVool. ti ~\rr.r STATE or IRELAND. Mn. .Sr►rrt7D is rose for the purpose of postponing his motior on thi: ;ohjeet, n hich at present stood for Monday next. Mc it`3 , 111. , o ere, that a number of aentlern materially interel'.! in the tine , tion could trbt then attend, and because a number or l'etition from Ireland, on the bilhject of tv t hes, were likely soon to be presented to the flotve. On Monday next he hoped to b.. able to truae a day for his intended motion. FRIDAY, I ELS. Tar lltuoric or TiTCHririo, from the Committee to deter mine the meritA of the Election for the Borough of Chippen h;:m, pre , :ented its report to the House, when James Hankins, wa declared dui) elected. . Mr. from the Hank of England, presented at the Bar tot' the House, the Papers moved for by Mr. Haskissoo, respect in„ the National Deht, Sinking, Fond, Unclaimed Divideods, and 1 ottery Prizes, n hich were ordered to be printed. 31n, Rolm tiron:;iit in a Ilill to amend a Bill for Regulaiinz the Office oi*Trcasor:T of hiA i:kiesty 5 Navy, which wai rend a first flow, ;Mt orden•4l he MO a second tine on Monday. Th, Imerican Intercourse Bill was ordered to be read a third time on Monday. takinz the Penrhyn Election PetalOß into consi (tor:oLn' wa , po-tpord till the tlith of :.larch. 1/ re, !Jr •Kisiov brought in a nil!, continuing to hig 3lajcgt• the MAL ~.rear, awl (Wier Duties !'or the service of the current .!ar. ft r. as r,..ad a fic-t time, and ordered to he read again or. .1011.1 a. The Ilan. Nleiniser also brought in another Bill to :sable his Niaje,t% to pay oirtiie Exchequer Hills outstanding Foy the last %ear, which was read a tint time, and orderedto he I.•ail araiii on Monday. etln the m-stion 'ilf. //rgi(tssox, it wag ordered that there laid bet iire the House aceount of the Three per Cent. .In nuities, appoiloed fur pu) hip,* oir intere4t of the Eighteen Loyalty Loan; also an account of the Interest paid on fur the last three ears. The llouie then re;olved itielf into :t Committee of the whole consitior of the ! , ;.'itppliei for the current year. The Report KA: ordered for Montly. .11n. r:r inured, That there he laid befure the Hume, .lecoiit of the N avid awl Military Storer taken at Cupeulta .ya, Tecif)iug the , quantity, and value. onnrits I\ cot NuIL. ruE INCE I.t.iP OF 711 NC:EU:QUI: a moved, That the lloase do re:ol%e it•elf into a Committee of Ways and Means, to 1‘ 114'11 the.e Order, were referred. Ou the que , tiuu I :eing put, that the Speaker do now leave the ettair-- Loan Purri• said, he was not so fully qualified to form a opinion upon the propriety of these Orders as the Learned alicleman cner the sa ; hot the I louq, was competent to de cide how far the i'rivv Council wai.jitstitied in advising his Ma je,ty to issue Orders contrary to the law of nations, and the mu nicipal law - of England. As these Orders emanated from his :Majesty, the non-,• had a right to examine how far the lire rogati►e of the Crow n ought to he carried before the turcs-ity of a Parliament was entirely superseded. The Noble Lord would take it upon himself to convince the House, from the first legal Authorities, that these Orders were illegal ; and quoted the Mae of New castle's Letter respecting the seizure of the Prtissian ships contrary to the opinion of several celebrated Civilians ; and the then Attorney, and tioliciior Generals. and Lord Hdon's opi nion, in au appeal case last war, when his Lird-hip did not by aav means consider Orders in Council legal, as they formed no Fart of the law of the land, therefore no nece;sity whatever could be pleaded in assuming what was absolutely the prix liege ut' Parliament. Under all these circumrtances, he thought ti big of Indemnity advi , eable, to exonerate Ministers from the consequence of bay- ing onduly.adriiett his Majesty tc isi ()goers repein-nant to Ow laws of Er. nand. ~.,~~~~i~i~ ~~ ~ 4~~ r ~' t , _+s ~ ~ .y—'-may'' y J\il- J