The National Register. — London, England, 1819-01-25 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIANI ENT. HOUSE OF LORDS. THURSDAY, J. 21. The forte met et 2 o'clock, wbe.l the Lori? Chancellor lark the li• wed his teat. Hi. Royal Niemen Cie Prince Regent did 0411 s come down I. tar l Lot.t., hot five cumnsi.simirell werr a e poosic•l In read a " . K 1;...' die wiS. the !Aril Ctnnrslui, Ike clatoishop of C. .tra .t‘tay, Nla , ryok Cant-lest, the EAligi of Itts . towlty lin 1 W itoottut At 4 1111.11frr be we 5 o'clock mir Tht.s. )1 vt it.ti, Mee Uaker of We n s 141:111 it/ Ike 1"(41iil• ut C0 , .1 .1.11,, 11l 111113111(1d 1114 Heine to ti.le IlnuPee of Pt as. Toe (Wino/ . !sp. crls war, taws re... 1 Jay the Lon.i Clauslurn.:r trots the ,n,,..14.41 6 : I.OEDS AND GENTLEMEN. We a:: commanded by his ltoril Highness the rrince Regent to ecpresi to you the deep regret wuieli he feels in the con:inmates of Etls Majcity's lamcntell in aiuuui.teotig U yoo.thc s: sere calamity with whin it has pleased Minn: l'asvidatv: to visit the Prince Regent, the Royal Eamily. atrl the nation, by tie death of Iler Majesty the Queen of the United iiisgdout. uis ►goys! 11'1;011v:es has cominaode.l its to direct your at- . tntion to Che arIALLIT4I.IO , I of suet msures es this nielaricholy event has retutazd n:cessary and exliedieut, with respect to the cart of His ,Majesty's seesv l person. We &centre:tail to iritollll you, that the negotiations which have talzen plisfa at Atx-la-Chapelle have led •to the evacuation of the freach territory by the allied armies. The Prince Regent has given orders, that the convention conclucl• ad for this }impose, as well as tae other documents connected with this arranvaient, shall ue laid oiifore you : sad he is persist:led, that you will view with peculiar satisfaction the intimate union which so happily subsists anwagst the Powers who were pieties to these trans actions, aid tie unvaned disposition which has been manifested in all their inirandings for the preset ration of the peace and tranquil lity of Europe. The Prince Regent has commanded us Anther to acquaint you, Tut a treaty has been concluded b:tween his Royal lli.thtiess and t Government of the United 'States of America, tar the renewal, for a Fortier term of yoars. of the co:nawrein! conrention 1111 W sub duing between the two nations, and for the amicable a 3 list ..ent of several points ot• mutual importance to the interests of b h ii coun tries : and, as woo as the ratifications shall nave been escoanged, hie Royal Rigliness will give directions that a copy of this treaty shall bc laid before you. GENTLEMEN Or TUE HOUSE or COSINOYS, Ihe Pria:e Urgent has directed that the estimates for the current year ski all tie hod o:fore you. Its Rom' Highness feels assured, that you will learn with satis faction the „titian of :CALL:J.3I tie present situation of Europe. and the cire ionunszei of tne Etats) Empire, have eaahled his Royal Highness to eifect in the naval and nulita:y estaidishisients of the country. Ills Royal Ilig'ineu has alb the gratification of ationoneing to you, a cossidemine and progressive improvement of tile revenue, in its most lIIIVO taut Oslo ues. 2d Luaus sin tileatirtmucer, Tli;l"Jti.;;TtlienMnis --- uire.:.etiuibe laid before you, such papers as are oszessdry w 6,1{).% t.te or4tn aad reilLit of the war in Me Post fits 'Wyo.! Highness commands us to inform you, that the opera aeons unlatakeu by rue Governor-Gm:sal in Council, against the l'intiarrees, ware dictated uy t.te strictest principles of self defence . ; and the, in tut extended hostilities which followed upon those opera tions, sae Aid:status Pitiless were, in .very instance, ClP..ggressors. Under the pioritlent and sinful tupsrantendsoice of the Marquis of Hosting, tier ca,npaigo was marked. in evcry point, by brilliant achievemeisui and suce.uses ; and His alajecy's forces, and those of the Bast-Lulu Company (Native as well as European), rivalled each other in sustaining the aepctution of the h anus. The l'ruice Regent has the grestest pleasure in bring able to in form you, test VIC trade, commerce, and manuiectures of the coun try are in a most flourishing condition. The favourable change winch has so rapidly taken place in the in ternal oueunattanors oi the Cameo Kingdom, Affords t:ae strongest proof of cote solidity of itali re.ources. To cultivate an 1 improve the advantagef of our present s i tuation will be the object of your dclinerations; and his Royal Ill.:in:cis has commanded us to waive you oi Ins disposition to concur and ett-oper.ste in whatever may be best cokulated to secure to his Ma testy 's std( . .ects the full benefits of that state of peace, which, by the blessiog rit . Providence, has been so happily re-established through. out liuret. The Lotto 'CIIANCILLOR having read the royal sprecli,.. • The East of Wanwice lose to move the addrrss. Hoi lordship expressed has incompetence to undertake so at &toes task as that which had been p.tieed in Ins hands. He felt considerable reluctance detaining their lordships any length of time, whet' lie knew there were so massy present souls Inure able thau himself to address thrill upon so norm. Last ~subject. At the same time, he hoped that it would not (quire a rely able advocate to induce their lordships to coucor in the address be was now about to propose. 'flue (Alt topic which claimed the attention of their lordships was the:coutinued indisposition of His Majesty. Thisiwas mitred a *abject of uniseisal regret ; bin the House was at the same time called upon to condole his Royal Iligliness upon the uselanchuly death of her late Majesty the Queen. II wa s a must mournful duty to perform ; and whale the House was called upon to , :press its sense of the pious and filial duty displayed by his Royal Wetness during a long illness, it could Out forget the wavy vtrtucs which were combined .her late most excellent ‘tajesty. Tue House would show how sensible it was of the many advantages to be derived . . irons acanduct su exempoary. By her exa - myle of affection wear& an aged 510aArch, and by her naoderatien, she had become the object of love and admitation; and the euunity .u.ight exult in haviug lis4 such a Queen ou the throne of t'agiand—autdt a pittleiu to the whole world. He next Lliuded to the tither points adverted to in the Speech, and observed, that on winch ver side their lordships might tutu their attention, whether foreign •,r domestic, the whole acetic •presegted a most cheerio& prospect. He concluded with unman; on 'Wares, to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, which was an echo Vt thee e r ect:h. Lord tiaitous conga ululated the House upon the prosper en state of the manufartmes and tontine-Ice of the country, and upon the important rednetions which had been tirade in the tniliury and naval establishuretits, and concluded with emending the address. TMe mat gins tit LANtLIQWN did not feel Lionel( called aro to oder aoj o pposi t i on to the addr, ss, which had lieu at supported with gr.at tuoptiety try biv noble relation who mooed it, .ais ut.l, b. the it .Ole lord nhu seconded it. It was with gr..; t YYi,il -1 . 10' 4 his iiittle llu.. dtclat4lsoll. bee:A.ll4r, paint ksi Aso *a- at all ti •.•• lO o,ipos. au 341, ei • t^ the All, o ,e: it would Iwve Ure torahs, ,t,ot e p•iiii:oll to have tr•••• t.., 4 to ▪ 1 . 0111%1 Oil "i'4'11,11•11, wbrn part of b • pro page laddo CA , C. , 11•1.•1111.11 . 0,1111.11VICIlee f.r an eitut, with res,ieet to wltieu tliet r eoald Ue Uui our sesitinfrot, and our t "quer ,ion of sentiment, It lii4t 110,8,e. Jo givin a liviseial Cue. • -tit nee lu atittreit, lie, however • twriled buns , If booed iut mete litot le Mete otett -IA hit:ll the Coln 'Mr NATIONAL REGISTER eitimeatton filet. the talo- presented to hi- mind, not as I objections to the motion now math . . lute a‘ havitig refetenee 4 to topics which bail been u n til ert• Tin •t a ere mime ems: but as the framers of th.• cunun nnie.mnn hail , l sie the various allhjeCts hi• ls piesented theinselses, selected only Mho! On" thollOot ilie mom inipartatil, sit he might hr permitted to follow the saint. rani se in calitita then lot dships' alien; ion It. the iimiastioir He most, liooever, per viously elite rye, in referrers- to diet part of the address which otVera emterattilattims on the iliaisitettotice of iteace and trainpoilkity of Europe, that lie pai ;itipatra in all the seali• Mehl , esares•rd by the tita% tor mill seconder. He rejoiced to see Fronde restos eit to her proper rank in the gastrin of El rope: fur hr ass tale of Those oho arse of opinion. that it W .111111111.1•*11111F to rely on the routine :nee iit peace if coutifey reassinell long in the stele in which it was left by the late treaty of P•tis. lie tens happy to lied that the prin ciple of rendering Freer.. a member of the get at Emilie:in cuafetlerary w as 4.1..p11 , 11; that was a rout Nr of policy which the State of Forty, riot oire.l. It was Mdse with emelt nice sere :that lie perceived - what hand been done i,y treaty, well seconded in France by the .1 , 10010 is of a systrin of internal policy best calculated to give popularity •to the gorertinfret which wisely sought Its preaervotion and seem my by the testa- Wisliment of those free institution% on which Use happiness mad proaperity of the reentry ma" , ultiotately depend. For these ie;soits he relied for the (matinee:ire at peace, far more on the state of Fs nave itself thus re. reattions .1:6,4411,1g he. tweet' this and other count. ie.. The stole of the revenue formed mother topic of the message; Had what Was seed on that sithje, I afforded was happy Iu lied that the sa.teol thittes Welt he MO leipaled In.' year on. I ea lized, and that then-d'art been a revival ofeommei ce amt indus try, which WAS tieees•ari!y .I,mompattiell by an improve tr lit tif the re. emit'. The Moore. e neat of th e enasoliiialt d feta, wimp teed with farmer years, 113.1 here muted at 3,011%00111.; bat Ille actual sorplits wes soy tietweea 230,:1a0 , . as 1 313.0901., and this was e rhan rat up by pi ecciltita deli ciencies. 'their hardships must to sides recolit et, th a t even calcialeting the loop, o , ritt,ott of the revenue to its fullest ex tend, it refloat no: exceed 53 or at ntiot 61.,0.10,0A11., while the eapetimitire amoneted to GO,tamaraat. Toes, note itl.- ataiiiling the tillprnweitletit whit h now formed a subject or their lar.lships enittuatnlatiois, there would remain a fitfl. i CiMaCy of this we. a sato soptal to the amount I of the income of the sinking fool, if the allpilealt;ed lit that Iliad to slimily the deficieneies of the revenite shoeld ever be At. to whet might he door in the way of re.laction, he eolithd at present form no certain opinion; but he did not anticipate that ministers would carry them beyond 4,000,0001. 'floe stale of the finance Wall, however, ' ouch as to call fur the immediate and earnest atten t i o n of their lordships. It witiold be their dirty to take a catefel review td the whole the expenditure, in order to &seri lain what reductions timid be made, and how far it may lie practicable to id • Ish the harden of that debt whirls so powerfully comiteraets industry, and the evil of which a earl he so strongly felt, were another war to call on the country fur the exercise orate energies, and the fall developeaseut of its resources. Having slow 'soder.' what appeared to luau to be the principal topics introduced into the speech, he should ' nut detain their lordships snitch longer, lest he could not sit down without advs.' to the reference made in the speech ' and the adds ess to the relations animist lag between this calm . try and the United St•tes of Arnetica—a nation, of which . he always wished toapeak with that respect and esteem which he sincerely felt. He learned with great satisfaction, that the treaty with these Slates hod been renewed ; but in no tieing this topic at all, it was impos•ible lust to recollect trensactions which had lately ecenrred, in the course of yet tein military operations of the troops of the United Stites, and which it Reelections were of a nature to produce no slight sensation io this country, is they involved the sactifice of the lives of two icdividitall who were British subjects. He alluded to transactions which had taken place in the course ' of hostilities between the United States and site Imitates, within the Spanish settlements. Until, however, the govern recut of the [lnitial States avowed or attempted to justify these traimactions, lie should withhold any positive opinion. He . could at presesit only speak frost what had been published as the proceedings of die military commission, •r couta.inat tial, as.it styled itself, by which these persona were tiled. The principle ou which that court-martial proceeded, if conies ' 'tent with military law, 'was one which could scercely he expected to be enforced •by such a government as the United States. There Might lie a pretence for applying such a law to Ausbrister, who was-taken with arms in his bands; but . with rsgard to Arbuthnot, there appeared no pretext what ever. It appeared to be one of those staked acts of violence which disgraced those by whom it ensvcomiuitterl. .He had no doubt, however, that a distinct rep:amnion would be re ceived from thr United Stales, as the nature of On se traosac tious wistrinconsistent with the genie,' stud free iustitutiosis of that Government. He hoped the proceedings of the court martial would be formally disavowed. With respect to the i war is India, as lir as lie could at present ferns au opinion, it appeared nut to be undertaken from a spirit of conquest, but in resistance to aggression ; and the Inauner in which it had been cuoducted and brought to a conclusion, he was , happy to acknowledge, did honour to his Majesty's arms. -He lied thought it necessary to make these general observe , thins: but should not take up the lime of their lordships farther ,He gave Isis concurrence to the address, butt could Oat help regretting that some impot taut points of internal policy, which must necessarily soon come smiler thc conside. ratiun oftheir lordships' had been omitted in the speech. The Earl of LtVERPOOL, had hearth with great Patisfaelioll what had Pallets ft um the noble 3lai gide. He was happy to Misery,. the liberal view which the noble Marquis haul, its a manner so creditable to himself, taken of the speech and the address. The House, he was litre, would participate in the satisfaction lie experienced on perceiving that nothing was likely to occur to disturb that unanimity which on sock an ue• casino as the present was particularly desirable. Before ad , vetting to the topics which the noble 11Iarquis had join) swell to he such as must &mond the early cuusidera ton of Heir Liaokiiiiis, hr st eleierre that it was 1151tIrally the desire of his Majesty's Ministers to avoid 'objects on %shall a difference of *potion 'night arise. 'lbis was a cause which lie was confident their Lordships would Approve, at a hum when they were called upon to express sentiments of coml.- 'hence for the loss of a aovertign who had reigned near!, sixty rears-in the hearts of the ait oide. Unanimity on such an tic cation was a mark of respect which th..ir %%mild doubtless wish to situ* to him to *born the address was It) be pi esentrd, while it also was a tribute aurae her who ea* the subj.-et of it. It was not an act or mere ceremony then Lord. 414 p, had twpei ham. It was suit a mere act of titivate of respect to private virtues, but an important public duly. They lived at a period of histor y whew the private-Or. loos of postal in hitkitatioas f their example, the JAN 2.5 best security for gond morali and public vii toe. With refer voice to this topie th en, Mil. ;milieent of nay "fie,. eun , ntrrailin, i , Omit Lot (Wily. would be plea•eil to Mid. that in. ei r„, di ! . ference ofopution hoil I cen ;Ali (led. Übe noble Al•iiiiiin bad enitinereted se%4 ril oilier Itirir , into which the speech might have entered, in addition to drove In which it hail alluded ; but the house imi,l to. aware. that many of i hem er.old not h a y, been ititiodoced provoking that kind of di , enrsion which it is desirable at all lilies to avoid in a.riliessea 6 011 , Throne. Alining these topics was the 1.111e114l;oll of France by the allied troops, a haematite on which iii m od, looked with aupirshation. He (Lot d Liv:i po t partook in the feeling* whet hid heel' express". I. 'l4r ri:lrliatiurs of rimier, coupled with III( rirrwutt.w. e. in wlorh ii look and the Manner hi which the resolution regarding it ani o lez he Allied Powers wall adopted, offered limner of run. giatidatiou to every ohm in this coma ry and in Em opt% I n the lifil place, it was desirable that Friliorr should utter no ground , on which the military occupation of her !urinary cou ld l ie any loo:grr eisfareed. It was stipulated by tient,. that that military occupation shonlil cease at the end of three yeas, if • j:e111111illallera were sack at that period an to resider a contionone.• of it for live years woad , isalrie, when it wits atipnlated that at *ll eyelets it should he at an mod. itu the must speedy ivinsiturrien slit, *err fore. the Allies showed t*.rat it was nut their owl. to emit iiiii e it so long at th e y o d z ; it have done, and that consequently the Mr/Mlle oppeai e t ' to them orighialts one of ilecessity, anti 441 Or rhailP. :tie time that I he military oecopaliuu ut Ft Wire 14:11 1 determined ,in, hid always lillakt d forsvitrill to :lie et nenution as a wea rrtlifil. to be aTtmetogeons and agreeable to lion country ttsell, most appear velionory and cotilial un the part of the atlies. The noble Nisi quit, in alieflorig to the conduct tit nor G.iseillilleill, in its relation , with the Ali ed Powers, ur other respect , , said lie would not pi Orliillnee au Dint t i tttt and h e I,lair.l L.serpool ;sown% col of his for heti railer. rutile , .. op. piss ;male., woof' aunt in whirls a Jtsrnssinn of one foreign pAiey would %soh .*rail prow lilt fuller information, f:.he place. He (Lod Liverpool) telt. however, bound in e•lisrlr.ler to del-Idle, that lob Cif us he kiwis, there n•ser was 4 11,1104 in the history of the world when so general an amt. lett, pi evaded to preserve the peace, win 0 the causes or di•- tisrbisure were so.completelv removed. when nalioes nod So vereigns weie nioie ilisested of ambition and undue bilivenee, and when the necessity of repose soil the tit of conciliation were more thurouzlily acknowledged or meted upon aver the European community. He (Lotil Liverpool) votigrorulated gm House on the improvement in the revelisie, %stitch hail 111e1 progressive, and which li.J taken place principally in seek articles as, while they rantrit ured to the necessities of - the State, atm ded, by their consiutiption, the means of estimating the amelioration of the eireninstances it the people. Into such detail , it sees not now the proper time to mitt r. lie a.!. Milted Unit it was the ditty of the Ailluintstraibin to endeavour to effect such redoctions in the public establishment as would phice the cull otry on a solid foundation an nova of revenue, by hi ingine its expentlttore within its income. This was an object which ought never to be lost sight of, and which had never been isit of the view of klinisters. The redactions whieli had taken place since the peat e were go rat and miprc• eedi med. It was not common fur any taxer to be abolished during tile first year of a peace; but since the last peace lii less than 17.500,00)1. had beau remitted. Whether such a re duction of taxes at a tin e that the public debt sits so great, indicated a wise policy or otherwise, was a question on which he would set now enter, but the fact Wala sack as he hod *tilted. The question of wir finances was one that ought to ue looked ter with anxiety, nut only with a view to the inquest, merit of our revernie, but the reduction of our expenditure. fie (Lord Lives pool) hoped that it would appear !nu l l the papers to on the table, that no unimportant beginning had been made ill liiis great uoik. It would then be seen that the country was 11 so lllCalla ill as unsatisfactory condition regarding its finances. The noble Marquis hod alluded to the execution of our comitiymen, Arbuthnot and Amin ; and the nation Mai aware, Irons the public prints, of the cii• Camslahces in which that execution took place. When the proper period arrived for dasostsiug this *object, he would enter into the fullest explahationa. At present he felt the impropriety of producing detailit which could not be delilies ately examined. to quiet the mina' of their Lordsitips, however, lie did not hesitate to state dirt the execution took plat ewithont the authority of Alio American tioverometit ; that the set was done withum their•cuessent, and even without their • knowledge. The Earl of LAUDERDALE could not feel the eatremesatis. faction proposed to be expressed in the Addy's., at the Nourishing state of the conntry. There had not, in his (Onion : been mach pains taken to reduce our expcnnitiire which :t was the duty of goyeininent to hare taken. We hail now 30,003,0001. unities, without including those war taxes which had been rendered permanent. How was it possible IC imagine the continuance of such a !owl of taxation iltiring peace? in the course of the American war add:nand taxes had 'teen land on to the amount at 5,00o,000l.; but so far one e the ministers or the parliament of Hist time from eon • sidering such an increase at the politic istrrdesis as a matter of cause, that the most rigid iii tries were instituted by cats unit tee', of the house into the necessity and expediency ()Ebert' an ifierease. The consider.:tiou of the commerce of the country naturally led hum to another subjevi Intimately con nected wiils it—he meant the paper currency of the main try. lie recollected submitting to the house the propriety of an inquiry into the slate of it during th , .. last Session of Par. hanietit, and lie should feel it his duty to ri new such a motion In the present. He recollected also, that the noble lord opposite had then said. that the Bank Restriction Act would expire on the btu oiJitly,and lie held out expectations to the noose and to the count' y that be was serious in making such a,ptutiiiss. Indeed we had now dealt ass long in paper mum,. that we had almost tiorgotten every thing relating tea installte carreacy. The Batik had, indeed, in April last, put 1,400,000 sayeicigus and linif-soveieigus into C 111.1111111,11 ; lilt? it had shire s\ Wield the circulation of them, beemise it hid dim. covered that each of theta could he disposed in in she market at sixpence profit. His Lordship theu quitted tin , subject for a slttir, and to the disturbances which Wail lately rakes, pl.ice in the manufacturing a.tricts, regarding the . te aimed state of m,ogr%, Mid t:XIIICSOE it his satisfaction that tluy writ how over. hi his oviition the wages tit the nianufactinrer were stithciehtly team - ell .dleAti).4 dud with a view to thew vantage, and the advantage of the different branches ul the had iiropesed, alui should again propose, that they should be paid in tau oturr coin s adept tin taro .if the realist. /1 tine of peace was a fit time fin - cacti a ilnicussieti; anti he should theretior cull the attention of slit' Iludse 4I Au early pis toil of the Session to the prase mt mode of pay ing the navy in hills, winch sometimes tendered the recur yr of Itabte to a toss of :35 per cent. tie trusted that Ministers would go fully and fairly along with bun w bUcli to him appeared of the highest insPisrsaattic. 110 c A4/hOO4 *kw thou put, and carded without* divisiou.—.Adjourned. :~ T