The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-03-23 00:00:00

• r ir , 1 h°, 1, • I • 1 i I . 14 1 $ THE STATESMAN. B' ;fish subjects should be requested to conform to not to have taken place without the warrant or. Par• thi , regulation, of applying for a passport previous Helmut. to sailing from any foreign port. This extraordinary Lerti CASTLEREAGH negated et soli leagtiii letter, the lion. Baronet observed, appeared to hare to show that if the principlesmaintalned bythe Um* undergone very little deliberation at the Foreign l'Harottet.were adopted, they would boson injetiotte! Office before it was acted upon, for printed copies of than beneficial to aliens. it, dated the 6th of May, were circulated among our L Sir J. MACKINTOSH contended, that the winds Ministers and Consuls; yet no communication upon system of the Alien Laws never supposed any won the subject of tisk letter was ever made to Feriae. 1 lion of them out of the territories or Great iiritatu;- ment, nor was it even made knowu or alluded to by and referred to the wain which they tad been me any of his Majesty's Ministers, in the course or the 1 soled within this realm.. According to Blackstone, discussion which took place since it was issued upon , we had a right to send away alien friends, but not to the Bill for renewing the Alien Act. In this lull, : refuse entrance to. them. Adverting to former pe too, he observed, that a provision was made directly I nods, he enquired what would have been thought, negativing the right to delegate its powers, especially 1 bad the unfortunate beings who lied from the tyranny in the way stated in the letter alluded to—namely, I of Robespierre been refused an asylum, and been sent ! that no foreigner should be allowed to land iu this , back to the scaffold? In proportion to thesevefity of country without having a description of his person l a law, should be the lenity with which it was ender and character communicated to the proper office.— I stood and put in force. And more particularly From this provision he concluded that passports, , should a suspension of a law, founded on one of the , such as Lord Sidmoutt.'s letter referred to, were , most important clauses of Magna Charts, be guarded i never contemplated in the law ; because if they were, ! from a loose and undefined construction. The whole ' it was obvious that such passport would suffice to , body of Consuls and Vice-Consuls amounted to 23 render the required description unnecessary. After ;in number. It was not fitting that they should be en-' forcibly remarking upon this clandestine and illegal I trusted with the power that had been vested ig them. 1 delegation, and particularly the injustice of granting Five or six of them were natives of the countries in i it to Consuls, who were thus enabled to prevent any which they acted ; and it was highly improper that I man from coming to this country who might have they should be empowered to shut the doors of British complaints to prefer against their own misconduct, or I humanity and hospitality on all those who requested who might interfere with their views in any commer. I admi s s io n . cial speculation, the Hon. Baronet maintained that it M r. 1 1. ADDINGTO N explained. I vas a great dereliction of duty in the Minister to de. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL maintained that legtte the powers of the Alien Act at all, and con- there was no doubt as to the general power of the., eluded with proposing a Resolution descriptive of the Crown to decide whether aliens should remain in this proceeding to which he felt it his duty to call the at- country or not; and that the particular circumstance tention of the House. The Right Hon. Baronet's in question would not bear the construction which it Resolution was read, containing in substance a re- had been attempted to put on it. Oat of the preceding statement. Mr. BENNETT mentioned the case of a Member Mr. H. ADDINGTON contended that his letter, of the Cortes, who had taken refuge in a merchant which had been commented upon by the Right Hon. ship in Cadiz, which being known, all the British Baronet, was perfectly unobjectionable, as it recem- ships in the harbour were searched, and the person mended nothing more than a mere measureof vigilant in question only escaped being delivered up to the precaution. In consequence of numerous applica- Spaniards by the houourable conduct of a Captain tions which were made to the Secretary of State for who concealed him. the Home Department, expressive of the apprehen. After a few words from Mr. W. WYNNE, the shuts which were entertained from the number 'of House divided— Aliens then in this country (amounting to more thirn For the previous question 20,000), every effort was used to prevent, as far as Agosawt it possible, the entrance of others, unless they were of. Majority agviast Sir J. Newport's motion 47 unexceptionable character. It was, therefore, perfect- Mr. WHITBREAD then again briefly stated the ly obvious that the persons best fitted to accomplish circumstances under u hich he was informed M. Cor reja was sent out of the country, and concluded by those precautionary measures, by enquiry and cor rect information, were the accredited agents at those moving— ports from which Aliens were likely to embark for " That an humble Address be presented to the Prince Regent, pray . ing . him to communicate to the House Copies of all Com this country. A great error pervaded the whole of munications between the Secretary of State for the Hume De the Right lion. Baronet's speech, who seemed to sup- purtment and his Excellency the Portuguese Ambassador, re pose that what had taken place had been done under sting Don Anselmo Cerneja, a Portuguese. Also the Copy the Alien Act; on the contrary, as the proceeding in of a Remonstrance from M. Curreja to the Secretary of State , question was founded upon the law of nations and and the answers, if any, thereto and the date of his departure the admitted prerogative of the Crown, accredited from this country. k agents at foreign ports were justified under the for- Mr. 11. ADDINGTON opposed the motion on the seer in refusing passports to Aliens suspected of ground that nu prima ground was made out for the hostility towards the country they represented; and, 4 production of the papers, as the fact which the Hon. by the (suer, the Crown was empowered to send any . Member (Mr. Whitbread) had stated as the ground person out of the realm under similar suspicion.— on which M. Correja was sent out of the country, With respect to this letter, it merely left the Alien was not correct.--[Mr. Whitbread asked across the where he was before that letter was written v as he table, what were the grounds?]—He did not wish to rei. , , , t still come to this country without a passport, state what were the grounds, but they appeared to it he chose to run that risk ; and, iu point of fact, him sufficient to justify the Secretary of State at the , nut one Mien who had so entered the country with. time in sending him out of the country. • nut a passport, since the regulation was made, Sir J. NEWPORT asked why, if the grounds lia.l heed either refused admission, or sent out of it. were sufficient, would not the Right Hon. Gentleman Ile contende,l further that the letter could not be , consent to show to them to the House? Cs :21 considered as applying to any Aliens, but such as were .uspe-ted of hostility towards Great Britain or her tlepe.oletteies ; and that it was utterly impossible cnu!d hate a reference to Aliens taking refuge bete from prosecutions of any kind under their own G„, erttotent• Mr. 11. ADDINGTON said there was no ground shown to justify their production. Mr. WIIITBREAD explained. Mr. GOULBURN contended that the assertion of his Right lion. Friend (Mr. Addington) was at least equal to that of the lion. Gent. (Mr. Whit ... Mr. 11 lIIIBREAD said, that he should not en ter into nay discussion as to the prerogative which belonged, or might still belong, to the Crown, with r.s;ect to sending Aliens out of the country or re refu.ing them admission into it ; but he would just ob:erre, that the law which passed in 17E/3 defined that power, and at all evetits, that that law was the rule• by which the conduct of the Secretary of State for the Home Department could alone be justified.— lf, however, no Alien had been either refused admis sion into this country, or sent out . of it, in conse quence of the regulations recommended by the Hight Hun. Gentleman's letter, then the regulations them selves were nugatory. Ile should now proceed to mention the case of Anselmo Cot reja, in which a most unjustifiable transfer of power hail been made by the Secretary of State for the Home Department, to M. de Souza, the Portuguese Minister. Because Cor reja had written some lampoons which annoyed M. de Souza, he applied to Mr. Itydnr, who was then Secretary of State, by whom he wns sent to Lisbon, a place which seemed to be peculiarly selected for the reception of persons guilty of political lampoons. laughl—Surely, however, it could not be said th a t these was any thing in such an offence which bread), so that there was no ground for calling for the Papers, unless the House went into all the cases which bad occurred under the Alien Act. He was himself in the Home Departinent at the time, and could corroborate the statement that the cause of M. Correja being sent out of the country was not his having written a libel on the Portuguese Resident, .though it was true that he had written such a libel.— Wear, hear !] Sir S. ROMILLY thought, that as abuse had .been imputed, there was a distinction between this and the other cases under the Alien Act. The pow. .ers given by the Act were so extensive, that they required some interference of the House. In the case of De Beringer papers had been seized, for which there was uo authority either is the Alien Act or the common law. The Motion was then put, and negatived without a division. PAPERS RELATING TO THE. CONGRESq. Mr. PONSONBY wished to know whether the Papers respecting the Negociations at the Congress world be laid before the House after the recess. He wished to know whether among those Papers would be the instructions to Lord W. Bentinck justified the exptcise of such a power. There was nothing seditious in it, nothing which tended to ex cite mutiny or diiitlection in the army or navy ; it was contained in a Portuguese pamphlet, which, in fact, had never been translated into English. The Hon. Member neat read a letter from Mr. Reeves to a Porta. gnese Gentleman, informing him that it was necessary to have a certificate from the Portuguese %Master, bep fore ne could receive a licence for remaining herb; and contended that such a regulation was transferring the powers of the Alien Act, so far as they related to the Portuguese, to the Ataba,sador of that nation resident here. lie had been informed that the prac tice still continued. Lord CASTLEILEA.GH said he was afraid the papers could not be produced before the recess, but ,be would take care that they sboutd bt►laid before the House immediately after. There would be in cluded in these papers as much of the instructions of Loki W. Bentinck as related te Genoa : it would be in the power of any Member, who thought such parts as were produced insudifieut, to ,call for fur. ther information. Mr. PONSONBY said it was therefore impossible that he could fix a precise day, for a ,Motion which he intended to bring forward respecting those Pi pers. lie shoukl, therefore, give notice generally, that after the recess•ba sheold bring forward a Me- Mr. If. A DDINGTON observed, that when 4e Honourable Member on a former occasion adverted to the present case, he stated that Curreja had been sent out of the country because he bad not been re• gularly provided with a passport from the Portuguese Minister: Now, he had found out a different cause; but he would tell the Honourable Member he was now quite as mistaken as he always had been, in the grounds Odell he had mentioned. Ile trusted the House would not consent to lay the papers on the table for which the Honourable Member intended to more, without a stronger case being made out for their prorltulion. Before he sat down he should beg leave to move the previous question upon the motion of the Ziight Bon. Baronet. • 'Sir J. N V.WPOILT made a short, but anitnated reply, in which he contended that the delegation ought • • tioq on that subject.. • •, WIIITIII3.Ii.AD said a Declaration had .been publisheii porporting to be ,a. Declaration of the Congress, by•wbioh.the Proceedings. of *hat body were stated to have terminated. lie wiallari to know whether that Paper was authentic ' assti whether tbs. hlinisters and Sovereigns assembled Pere . now pro seeding to their respective homes tq ginera•pagler the principles there determined on ? . • , t Lord ,c4TLt.,Ii.EAGLi said, ant thip..pressult was a specimen of . the West to Member's system of ttasetiellis was cmrgied• • ) 110 ; (Lord ) had recently declared. time 4wetsed-: lugs of the 4ougress had not yet leesnintsed ) -sad the state in which they chess wet**. its.4.olowAhli lion. Member wished to know whethe r thit Con gress bad issued another Declaration.—Lis It anthem. tic T—feen t Allr9. Whitbread.) The Dectitralfer in , rquestionundlet to a state of tiiitigs whirls did not mest- 7 thebreaking up of the Congress. Mr. WHITBREAD wished - to -andel-Rend Ad* tber or no the Deilaration was authentic? Lord CASTLEREAGH saki, if the Ron. Montt, ter wished to krill* *Wiwi wmanated Wosa As &agree at Viasialiolkilretinif had sot , • Oftma OR, TIM SATE. . C. MONCK, IRA** to bring forward bit Motion respecting the Order of ,the Bath, observed that it was not his hitentibn eMbr it attempt to curl tail the prerogatives of tire Crewe, nor to derogate from the merit of those who had beeo rewarded with its honours. He merely thought that to confine ass, order of honour to any particular class of persons, was an improper limitation of the King's prerogas tire. The Hon. Bart. then entered into a detailed account of the creation of the Order, and the modi: ficatien of it by the serious statutes; and be cow. tended that the Crown had not the power to extead the number beyond 343. He concluded with mollig for copies of allietters patent issued by King Geo. I. for the creation and erection of the. Order of the Bath into a regulAttnilitary order ; of all letters pa tent issued sines up to the present times, and of the papers by whirl that Order fiat) been lately modi fied. MARVELLOUS DISOOVERkES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE STATESMAN. Sift,—The last twelvemonth may be considered es equal to an age of discoveries. Projects which here been on the anvil for W years, have been suddenly brought to maturity, and the real views end designs of the projectors exhibited to the •wiitid. Pretensions set up to Intirpureendirtnlittilestotlvesis the lore ti justice, the emancipation of ossoltinA frote..tyo utoy and oppression, the extension of a free goeernment on the model of the English Constitution to the de s . potic States of Europe, with various other Idiotic ( professions for ameliorating theconditinn ofmankind, have been brought to the test, and discovered t o b e hollow and deceitful :—whilst, on the other hand, the virtuous indignation which some.great persons hareaf. fected to feel at the sacrifices made by a bold ti nd adve o , to roux leader to gratify his ambition, has been discover. ed to be only a pretence for seising those very !Toile and making a partition of them amongst tfiemsrive s . But among all these marvellous discoveries, which, indeed, some folks, whose politiell faith 'was very staunch, can scarcely bring themselves to acknoe. ledge, though they übw stare them in the face, there is one more hnpertant than all the rest, enlithat is, the discovery just made of the real sentiments and disposition of the French Nattiest: 1 have called this discovery, Mr. Retro", the most importaat of all ; because it was in consequence of the doubt arainin. certainty with which this point was artfully enveloped that means were found to prolong the lair so *ay long, that it has sent thousands, yee, hundreds of thonsands, of our countrymen to their Isla home, and accumulated such a weight of tamelkik s i!Cei se shoulders of the survivors, that those 'pedals ''ss are left to groan under the intolerable load, .Nly le .as much to he pitied as they who 4111 pas t swas particular classes only excepted, This, Sir; went. ing to my construction, and I think it maybe called la charitable construction, hair been the fruits of • that uncertainty which preVelled her* respecting the real Sentiments of the French. ~Is it to be stoppaged that a nation so generous in their • principles as the English ' s nation that holds every species • in horror and detestation,* =thesis* wham of freedom has been hereditary for to be supposed, I ask,thata Nation se high so brave, so honourable, abould become I degenerate, and corrupt, ii ha become ' 1 sten of on oppression spot ethers which'. I not bear tisemselvese--the cowardly instruments setting op a despotic force to overawe sad in others that free will and independence value In ourselves beyond life itself? can never believe that the British nation , intentionally guilty of so atrocious so degrading ! act. I can never believe that knollikeyeiy ' folly they have hired the swords atwisio of Mercenary foreigners, and used their . and their own bayonets for the base and purpose of over-bearing the fro voice Intim' of the French nation ik, foveae Leon ; I say;Sir, they have never dens , shame, this, outrage against the will of Law ef,,Platwl* an4...t4-sek_nowiedcil ' Independent nation s.- T No ; I tney quer di POLEON; they never set up Lunis at the I bgyobet with a conscious kaosukji thit the object of the people's choice, and I their aversion and detestation; bat no , knowledge is revealed ; this important made, there can therefore be ne,tOssger at hesitation upon the subject; end it wow ..burial insult, a disgraceful reflection honour and generosity, to suppose Engle! 'or undertaking another war; mind, sir, war,—not egaitast Neroeses,§pt egadusett Nation, to compel them to change Arm Dinatity a second time. I • casino help that such, a war would not be a war 6 ! French nation themselves, indeed it weed against the independence of all nations, is still more, it would be a war against the that set the house of Branstrick on Me l i Yes, Mr. EDITOR, now this important , , sided in favour of NAPOLEON,. beyead. I sibility of dispute'. er.,lcOutradiction, , • and evident that. *lkuiiirAtera reigns . , Iby the *same title that the . House of reigns in England • and the Englishman, I may be, that sees force to deskrty the ail. I must, I conceive, by a natural coyeequeoce, }to the other. What fair can diere then 1 other war, for the purpose of dethroning N Where it the man to be found who w 7 sword in such a cause? Where the Itepresern that mill vote soppliet for a war to overture principles of the Revolution of 1688, and ' • the independence of all free nations ? For r Mr. EDITOR, I cannel conceive it possible persons can exist ha this country. But disgrace of the nation, .a few such indlsidut be found to exist in it, I trust that all par tions will be laid aside ' and that the Whigs, formers, the Country Gentlemen, &c. wil' defeat their criminal designs. I remain, ' • TIMOTHY TR. P. S. This letter was written in consequence Intelligence that BONAPARTE had been received I open arms by the French nation. that he l' entered Paris, and that Louts XVIII. ha, the Throne. As I was folding the letter telligence was received, by which these fai tradicted; Louts, it seems, has nut abk capital, and hopes are entertained , by Mr party of making a stand against his rival. tete may, perhaps, be sanguinary ; but wil reign assistance which Louts will resort I not be said, whatever may be the issue, el • ' N • . -, , s ii '. ' . . c ' 0 . 1 Tithib.who - cisive of the free will of the nation. It ' no vertu THE _witiFts_--......._ are hi ,**lll be more just to compare it to one of 311tEllirof pod; maybe iii4ilet/ ;rails Thousands at thins not unknown in our Parliamentat lailu's,.4, Csiakill, it 9,. Clsaring..Cross, by pur.. : where one Member has hien known to hay Challing Title* or• Shares before thi Ath of April, whole Ueigltupf the Treasury to support hit Tlicv g f tee Five 404Cseloillatriams most be the ether I heloprobation of the unlnfieenr &intik* aid will be paid in Gold as wren Ars Ore- pendent 'oars only. Such &decision is t clalused.—N. B. All the Three SO 3 0004 Nags may i tiiied-ro the name of a free election, as . be drawn oa the aims Day. - iAt this moment is passing in France ; will .Lord CASTLEREAGHsiId, daft the lest war it had been feii that this country was peculiarly do . titute of those honours by which the Crown could reward splendid military services. The rights of Esquires would have been equally affected by creat ing the different individuals rewarded with the ho. noon in question, Knights or Baronets. Some ho nour of this kind was in .the contemplation of Mr. 1 Pitt towards the close of his life. He was. willing to allow that these honours had been pushed too far on the - Continent. By extending them too much they lost their value. Every person knew hew eagerly in Austria the Order of Marla Theresa, and in Russia the Order of St. George were desired by the armies of these countries. ' He saw nothing in the manner in which the Crowe had exercised its 1 prerogative on the occasion, to invite Parliament to consider it as an abuse. As the other Orders were disposed of, he should conclude with moving an Ad.. journmeut. Mr. GORDON ~Seeded that to a time of peace 1 it was the duty of the Legislature of this country to repress rather than to encourage any attempt-ft/flee too great a military character to this country. They had at present an instance in a neighbouring country lof a military despotism traumas/ on the wishes of I • the people of that country. He complained of the attempt to separate the citizen fromthe toldier ; and • objected to the measure as an imitation of foreign manners, of foreign frippery and frivolity. It was I only such a constitution of mind as bad contrived the late exhibitions in the Parks, that could Imagine this 1 piece of frivolity. Mr. WM. BATHURST said, if other nations had found out that soldiers were pleased with thise 1 honours, why should we refuse to avail ourselves of such a mode of rewarding an army merely as that account ? Mr. W. WYNNE thought that in Austria and Russia where the Soiereigns vested entirety on their army, such a mode of rewarding it might be proper. In Russia all honours were military • and Maids of Honour in that country, ranked as dajor.Generalti. —[Laugh.]—This measure might ultimately be at. tended with moat dangerous condequenees to oul. li berties. It was the first attempt to establish min sive military honours. He complained of the In. equality with which they had been distributed be tween the two services. Out of 180 Knights, only 49 belonged to the navy. He instanced Capt. Philli. more as a person who ought to have received such um honour. Mr. B. B.A.THURST denied that undue preference had been given to the army. Mr. WHITBREAD said, these new honours had dissatisfied every body, arid pleased nobody; they had disgusted those who before belonged to the Or. der of the Bath, and those who had since entered were ashamed to show their honours!—The mea -1 sure had revived the jealousy between the two set.. vices. Government had been more than just to the army, and done less than justice to the naCy. He ' participated in the feeling of jealousy it the attempt to make this a military country. Was the Duke of Wellington bred at a military college? or Lord Lynedock, or Sir John Moore ?—There was not oise•who had received medals who would net rather continue to wear them, than be adorned with this distinction, which had been diluted almost to no thing. Before the French Revolution, the Cross of St. Loois being it every button-bole, was not worth 2a. 6d.; and in Portugal the same distinction was worn by upper servants.' When we talked of the splendid iervices of our army, we ought not to forget thoselhen who had 'Wept the seas to make room for that army. The navy Was now congenial to the Constitution of this country. The army were contented with their medals, and discontented with their badges, and rather ashamed of them. Mr. GOULBURN observed, that it was not the fact that the army had been honoured more than the navy; the distribution to both services was made with strict reference to their respective numerical strength; and on this principle the army bad only 20 Knights more than the navy. Mr. WHITBREAD explained. Mr. I'ONSONBY contended that for some time there had been a marked partiality shown to the army over the navy. Mr. W. POLE contended, that the distribution had been made on the fairest principles, and if the Gentlemen opposite did not think so, they ought to bring forward a charge against Ministers. The Adjournment itai then wiled withoo • di oue o'clock. lapel as the el l es of tyranay bent the lets ages, is k yi high minded, 11 " nne se haw, ire tke Mini. 1 1 11 ge'they would t o Iktrgtoents et taM ,U centred wee middies NB ' No, Sir, j Ire ott hare bat tint degrading u by Old 14 ' tom 4be bayonets oisn swords I Ind deetardly imi • and appro. Cur .or of NAPO. 101 l • this deed el n h e of' Goo ? the a riglits °Lail I " deposed NA• BO' e point of ths and thus intent Met the latter of bi n , ow. lir, this nov t discovery it any doubt or m g iold be a ne• 6 10 on British 4411 hand aphis mia sit, another st.theFrfnch Ite frijol!!! Ip repo*, rt r aloha the *SI old be a war Awl • and what Cm the principles hi s r Thrown,— t t point, it 11. per , star, led ttil tt ear Twi 114 France Itcel of Hanover thin , whoever be bets, le of the oat, will e, be &traitor ere be of w NAPOLEON! hill drew epresentatio A overtire itr sip and destroy terp For my put, boss ble that sock it it, to the a tai ideals +bola vain 'arty distinc• t is hits, the Re• will (mite to !blip &e. 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