The National Register. — London, England, 1816-02-25 00:00:00

our language must be plain, and adapted to the taste and capacities of the young, for whom our remarks are pri marily designed. We shall, therefore, avoid all prolixity, studied phraseology, and formal expression ; not raising the young reader to the formidable elevation of the pul pit, nor investing him with the gown and bands of the parson. Let not readers of a more secular cast dread any invasion of their privileges, or anticipate any at tempt at the formation of an Evangelical magazine. We shall take from them a very small portion of the space which would otherwise be devoted to them. Amid the bustle of politics, amid the details of foreign and domes tic news, amid gazettes, theatrical criticisms, trials, acci dents and offences, which will be given at as great a ltngth as formerly, we only claim one small corner for our religious lucubrations: a corner where, as in Roman Catholic countries, we may raise our cross or religious image for the benefit of the devout, without disturbing the careless passenger. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, MONDAY, FF.N. 19. The Earl of LIMFRICK presented a petition from the Free holders of Limerick ; complaining of the ili,tres ,, e% of the Trading and Agi 'cultural denantmeuts, and representing that unlevs some ster are taken to relieve them, the greater part of the inhabitant , : of that dial ie' will be thrown totally out of employ. Ordered to lie nn the table. TREATIES. The Earl of LIVER rno - CroseCithe order of the day, to call the attention of the House to the Treaties laid on the table. He first adverted to the gloomy prognostics of the 21st of May last, when an Address was moved to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent. Three weeks after, the British army was successful in, the field of Waterloo; and, subsequently, all the great results had taken place. Hating commented on the generous dispo-ition mauifested towards France by the Allies in 1614, his Lordship detailed all the proceedings which had led to the Treaties of Vienna, and the restoration of the legiti. mate Government of France. He defetuled the views, policy, anti measures of Gos eminent, as justified by the new order of things whiell had sprung tip in France since the Revolution of 1793, and finally described the several arrangements as highly beneficial to the interests, not only of the country, but Europe at large. His Lordship concluded a powerful statement, by moving an humble Address to " his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, thanking, His Royal Highness for the important com munication on the Treaties made with his Most Christian Ma jesty, and other allies, and to assure his Royal Highness that the 'House considered the policy adopted by his Majesty's Go vernment, in concert with the Allies, most effectual to secure the peare and tranquillity of Europe. They were also fully persuaded that the alliance his Royal l{ighncss had en tered into would long be productive ()fermi] effects:—To assure Ms Royal Highness that be might depend on the invariable snp of this House in giving effect to the engagomnts with his Ma jesty's Allies, &c." Lord Gut EPivute. opposed the leading topics of the Noble Earl's Speech, contending that the policy was in many respects calculated to injure the interests of the country. He repro bated the large standing armies and peace establishment of the Sovereigns of Europe, under which their thrones are t ow tottering. If they were united among themselves ;if they bad any confidence in this Peace being lasting; or if they loved their people, they would pnt down, by mutual consent, their immense standing armies. The Roman Empire fell by a standing army; the system was revived by Louis XIV.; and that army by hindering Louis XVI. from giving a Constitution to his people, Inst him his Throne, his liberty, and his life. Vas this a time to perpetuate all the feelings and sacrifices of war, after the signinu a Treaty falsely called, of general pacifi cation. Ile concluded by musing an Amendment, compre hending the whole of the topics in his speech. The Earl of HARROWS V supported the original motion. . . . . Lord HOLLAND contended, that it was in vain to think that a peace with the King of France, was a peace with that country. He considered that the treatment of Buonaparte was harsh and ungenernns, u hen it was recollected the manner in which he fell into the hands of this country. He (Lord H.) really believed Buonaparte was sent to St. Ileleua for the want of a splendid pcdigive. lie contrasted the conduct of the Black Prince to John King of France, after he had taken him prisoner at the battle of Poictiers,is related by Hume,with oar treatment of linonaparte. Tile engagements we had eat( red into wire microns to our finances, the hardens of which the people could no longer hear; and, considering them to be hostile to the Constitution, he lutist vote for the Amend ment. _ _ The Earl of BLESSING TON (late Lord Monntjoy) contended, that it was necessary, for the repose of Europe, that the legiti mate family should be on the throne of France. The iIA,tQI is OF LtssnownE said, there mot no view of public piaiey in which lie agreed inure cordially with his Nobly Friend, than with that contained in his Amendment. He h med the House would pause bt.fore they cave their assent to the d ingerous and unconstitutional measures recommended by the Treaties belOre them. Earl livrimarr contended, that we con!d not have de . mantled more xicrificcs from France than those we had exacted from her, without a breach of our declarations before the battle of Waterloo. The 31.1RQCOI OF BICIIINGIIAM supported the Amendment. The House then divided—Fur the oriainal Address 101j — Again; t it, 40—Majority 64.—Ailjourried at bail past two. Tt ESDA%, FEB. 20. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' ACT. Lori! ROLLE presented a Paine° against the Insolvent Debtors' Act. Lord REDESO ILE, with reference to the Petition, consider ed a permanent Act better than an Act from year to year. lie was aware that inconveniences had arisen from the proceed ings of the Magistrates acting under the Act at the Quarter Sessions, as they were governed too much by the pi:retire which had prevailed under former Insolvent Acts; bovvever,. he understood that a Bill nue to be introduced in another House to remedy the Act. Petition mac then laid on the table. 'air S. Row,'.r.v , and other Members from the Commons, brought up the Freehold Estates Liability Bid, the Cochineal ill, awl Lord Gower's Indemnity Bill, which were read the time.—Adjourned. Wrinvesnalr, Fen. e in the cause Sprott v. Scott and others, t h e judgment of the courts beu•m was affirmed. In the cause H..) v. Scott and others, the Judgment of the court below was utlii medowille 1001. gists. The cause Ivory and others Gout lay was heard, mud THE NATIONAL REGISTER. judgaittnt iiti-,tpanece In tUchan v. Stave, the le a •at. low was affirmed, with aOl. casts. Lord :Vim.% mar stated that there were several objection able chinvs in the •Naval Court-martial hill, and immetlietely moved that it he read a third time this day six 1110110iS t_tbrowu out which was ordered. The Glass duty bill wits read a third time and passed. THL RAO AA, FEM. '22. Lord L. Gower's Indemnity Bill was read a third time and passed. The Indigo and Coehineal Bill was committed and reported. STATE OF THE NATION. The Duke of Beueon 0 s t ave notice, that in consequence of the large proposed peace military ettablishment. the heavy pressure of taaation, the general distress of the country, and particularly the state of Ireland, he thought it his duty to sub mit to their Lordship's a motion on the state of the nation on this day fortnight, and moved that the Lords be summoned for that day. Ordered accordingly.—Affiourned. Fe tv , PER. 23. THE LATE TREATIES. The Marquis of Leesnowee rose to move, pursuant to notice, for certain accounts connected with the late Treaties. He had before stated. when addressing himself to the general mature and objects of the Treaties, that it would he necessary to have some explanation on certain minor &tints connected with these 'Treaties. Their Lordships would recollect that Par hatnent was informed, when it was proposed to vote a sum for the purpose of bringing the subjects of some minor Ger man states into the field for the si rider. of the last year, that these men were to he supplied tons at the moderate expellee of 111 2s. a year per man. Upon that statement, and in that con fidence, Parliameut had been induced to vote the sum requisite for the purpose. After the session had terminated,aed even atter the sees ice had been completed, two most extraordinary Treaties were made in the course of August last ; in which, by an ex post facto arrangement, it was Reeved that this country should pay, for the troops of Hanover and Brunswick, the whole of the expense ouch hail been incurred by these troops, or which they chose to say they had incurred, during this tie- • rind of service ; and, lest there should be any outlet from the performance of this agreemeat is its fullest extent, it was sti pulate d that the drums anti kettles should be paid fur. This re quired explanation; and, in order to :Mimi an opportunity fur giving it at nnother time, he should now move for an account of such arrangements as had been made on the subject to which he referred, with Hanover and Brunswick, in the month of August, thei. He was desirous also that an account should be produced of the Minis received from France under the head of Indemnity, and whether any and what issues had been made out of thew sums, and by what authority. 'I his latter motion was intended to bring be fore their Lordships a matter to %%Inch he had before called their attention. The object was to show whether situ h issues had been made in such a way as hi might them tinder the eontronl of Parliament. He voucluded by Inuring accordingly.—Agreed to.—Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS, Mosinev, Fre. 19. Lord Lowritee, moved for a new writ for Cod:criminal', in the room of Foster, Esq. who had accepted the Chiltern Hundreds.----Ordered. Mr. Bent:Guam gave notice, that to-morrow stoneight he should nurse for leave to bring in a Bill more etieetually to se cure the Liberty of the Press. (Hear, hear.) SINECURE PLACE'S. Mr. Bnocciteat asked whether it was true that the Chief Baron of Ireland had sworn in his own sou to fill the vacant office of Clerk of the Pleas? Mr. PEEL believed such was the fact. Mr. Bnotc.llAM expressed, what he believed was also the astonishment of the Honse and the Country, his surprise at the extreme readiness to fill the place ; it being at the time the subject of discussion before Parliament. ( Hear.) Mr. Peat, said, the House had still the power to regulate the office; and the delay which had taken place in laying the information before the House bad been occasioned in con sequence of waiting for the Commissiouers' account of the legal fees of the office. ( Hear ! ) Mr. Lam irrox, after expressing his wonder that the Minis tera should have put into the mouth of their Royal Master sentiments of economy which should be thus early so liberally falsified, moved for Returns of all Offices, civil and military, filled up by the Crown or other Authorities, in Malta, Isle of France, am—Ordered. RENEWAL OF THE INCOME TAX. On the presenting of a Petition against the Renewal of the Tax on Incomes and Property, from what place we could not bear; Mr. BARING asked, whether there was any trnth in a report, which had been tolerably prevalent, that the Chancellor of the Exchequer had abauduned the idea of renewing the Income and Property Tax? (Hear.) The CHANCELLOR of HIC EXCHEQUER was glad of the oppor tunity to set the House anti the country right respecting a report which had thus, for the first time, reached his cars ; butt he could assure the Hon. Member that such report was ut terly unfounded. (Loud cries of hear.) Mr. Raoul:nem moved for an account of the number of per sons in the City of London assessed under the Income 'lax Act, the number of surcharges and appeals, distinguishing those • which had been successful, fur the year ending April 1815, and the succeeding three quarters. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER feared it could not be made, especially of those now under consideration, and object ed to the expressions, " Income Tax." Mr. BROUGHAM, of course, did not wish for returns of cases other than those actually decided upon, anti as to the language of the motion, he used it because the tax was one on Incomes. —Motion agreed to. TREATIES OF PEACE. _ _ Lard CASTLEREMTIIIO;2:pIII;IIaIIii4;;;ike, to call the at tention of the House to the Treaties recently laid before the House by command of the Prince Regent; a task which he should have left to sonic other member if it could hove been light to call for an opinion of PArliament, without previously cominnoirating to the House all possible information respecting the course which the Crown and the Ministers had pursued in the negotiations. The vote which he should propose would take in the proceedings at the Congress of Vienna; but out so far nod binding as to preclude any other proposition on those proceedings, so far as they were perfected, which others might deem it right to propose ; but had not the events of lei, unfortunately occurred, his -Majesty's Ministers never would have deemed it their duty, acting on precedent, to call on Parliament to express an opinion oa the Treaty of Vienna —Those who might approve recent arraugemeuts, although they disapproved of the labours of the Congress, would not tie pledged as approving the Treaty of Congress, by supporting the motion with which he should conclude; on the contrary, he should deeuu that question open to any Member who disapprove of such a measure. Nor did he consider this u; Mon altered by the fact of the Treaty of Vienna being taken FEB. 23. Nellie bask of that of Pa is, because similar bases lu.ul been taken for the Treaties of Westphalia, Utrecht. and other pac•itic ineasnres, all proceeding on fornser documents. In the diplomatic knurl' alone, the great difference of opinion was to be expected ; their sentiments respecting the military and financial measures, he thought, would not excite much my°. *Rion on the present occasion. lie hail all along felt assured, considering the character of the war, and the man against whom they had to contend, that restrictive schemes and inea surev would have been unw:se, extravagant, and impolitic. Such measures would not have been very ecumenical; for this country could nut have afforded to carry on restrictive warfare against such :t into us the one who had been destroyed. A co: prdiensive plan of confederation and warfare presented this only hope; that had been adopted, and with astonishing and brilliant success. As to the acquisitions of dale' eel Potters, they were not very considerable. Regarding the financial division of the question. extensive subsidies became necessary; particularly towards the minor States, this country havitug brit from 60 to 80,003 men in the field ; but so early liad the war keen concluded, that the whole of the millions subsidy, granted by Parliament, lindnotpieen es petaled. That crisis, how ever, had arrived, that Enalandand Europe could not afford to be foiled, and the decisive battle of Waterloo kiwi ffunbt what it was that brought the strong arm of Europe upon France —it was to resist that military inundation which threatened the liberties of Europe, and the repose of the world. Unhappily. the generosity of 181.1 had no avail—a disposihiou toot to out rage national feelings wire attributed to want of means.—( Hear) That opinion was to be destroyed, and it was destroyed by the great contest of Waterloo—a contest which wits decided with peculiar ecergy, , nail so aroused was Europe against the mon strous aggressions of France. that 1011,010 men bad ap proached the French soil, and 100,000 Austrian reserve stay ap proaching, and 150,000 additional Russian three had arrived on the Elbe.--.( Hear, hear.)—Thui had corresponding ex ertions been made ; and had the war gone on two months longer, he hesitated not to say that one million and a half of men would have appeared on the soil of France to defend and avenge the cause of Europe.—(liter, hear.)—Russia was nobly forward to fulfil all her engagements; but he thought it was nut very creditable to some individuals iu this country to throw out suspicions against Russia, against the motives which brought her into the field, because of her means to bring forces into the field, in pursuance of her engagements, and to resist aggression, especially as this country was situated towards Rnssia, and after the spirited and magnanimous conduct of his Imperial Majesty.--1 Hear.)--As to the Treat• of Hitt, how ever, he never should condemn the generous principles ou attic!' it proceeded ; and had there been a eapru•twls opposi tion at that period towards the person of Bonaparte, anima' doubt it would have clouded the splendid horizon a hich opened upon the wa4id at that time, and a mild possibly have produced civil war. Such generous principles ought to guide all great confederacies; and that of 1814 could not charge itself with having endeavoured to make France feel the horrors of that system of spoliation with a Inch slue had visited other nations ; and when there appeared a species of electric movement throughout all France towards their King, the hope of conti nued repose recommended such generous principle still tutor. strongly. As to any interference in the internal at tirs and policy of Peanut, he denied that this country had in Ally way bee guilty of breach of faith. The sentiment by a hich the Eoglish Government and the Allied Sovereigns had been guided, was no peace on any terms with Bonaparte; but the declara tion was never made that France should have Louis NA 111. or any particular Government named by the Confedration or Eng. land. True it was, that Louis restoration met a itk approbation, because Prince: seemed to desire it, and because it was thought that unthrtunate Monarch afforded the certain hope of treaties being kept, and terms of amity preserved; and the declaration of his Majesty developed the principle which guided the Cabinets on that qnestion ; that the restora tion of the Bourbons was desired, but that such object would not be made a sine qua non of war. Neither the Government of this country, nor the rulers of other nations, could be indifferent to the character of the perem placed upon a throne in Europe —it would be an abandonment of duty to be so indiflereut ; but, on the contrary, it always had been an object with Eu rope, as was proved in many instances, particularly respecting successions. —{Hear.) The Noble Lord t:arthe•r observed, that the Whigs themselves, and surely the gentlemen opposite would admit that Whig documents contained the purest principles of policy.—( Hear, haw, and laughter.) Whigs themselves had ac quiesced in arrangements not very dissimilar fri m those respect ing France, particularly in the ease of the triple alliance, and to secure a protestant succession to our throne. The object then was, to support the triple alliance and the protestant suc cession M this country—and the recenteaertion a as to destroy " military Jacobinism," and to support that choice a Mon should afford the prospect of continued tranquillity. After an extended detail of the several Treaties, his Lot dship concluded with moving an Address similar to that proposed by Lord Li verpool in the House of Lords. (See Lords.) Lord MILTON moved an Amendment, complaining of the security taken tiom France, the• vast peace establishment, and the efforts to make this a military country. Mr. Fazakerly, Mr. Littleton, Sir J. Wintosh, and Lord Nugent billowed. On the wotien of Mr. Tierra y, the question was adjourned. TUE‘DAY, FEB. 20. Lord Lowiltrn moved for a tit'W Writ for a citizen for Ca'. lisle, in the room of Mr. Fawea tt deceased. Ordered. The Freehold Estates Bill %. as read 11 third time. and passed, and Sir S. @o►uilly tinkly(' to carry the same to the Lord:, Mr. LUSIIIINGTON 4oultglll it the S Millions Bauk LO/1D Bill. Read a first time. On the motion that the Kennet Canal Bill be read a second time, . . Mr. LOCKHART spoke against the measure, moving as an amendment, that it be read a Second time this day six month.. Mr. Dregrxson seconded the amendment. Mr. Gore Langton, 'Mr. Peel, Mr. Prutheroe, Mr. Gordon, and Mr. Preston having opposed the Bill, and Mr. C. Dunelas spoken in favour of it, the House divided on the question; when the Bill was thrown out by a considerable majority. Lord JOHN ltussw. asked, whether any advance on the sala ries of the Cuentirissionet s of Customs and Excise in London had taken place, or was intended? His Lordship then moved for an account of any such advance since January 1, 1515.—Ordered. Mr. Bnotratam nude mane remarks on the patronage of the revenue. cutters ; and desired to know under whose appoints ment the: officers were. The t. ii,viseuxi.ou of the I.:UHF:QUER intimated his wish that the lion. Member would make a motion, if he desired infor mation on that subje ct. Mr. Brougham moved accordingly.—Ordered. He ULF° moved for a copy of correspondence between the 'treasury and Navy Board.--Ordered. Sir C. Muscu observed, that though Ministers had declined to answer questions put by other gentlemen, the Right Hon. lieuticutan opposite might, perhaps, indulge him with an au.