The Statesman. — London, England, 1819-01-22 00:00:00

S•I'ATECMA.N M r Fret ed irately by ortablialsinx a well-rargolated right of maarch. The Noble Earl then briefly allarloal, ro th. Commercial Convention with the United \tate; of America, and to the improvement of oar commerema. With respect In our I , he 'Jetliner! O'er, 4.linit should b► m•d' to r►nil►r • isrple. t.• Ihe eveluction of the National DPhil That veal I i.el on shier the sefoty of Ih• country •nd its f. /.8/e poster in war depended. stlish' never he lost sleht rsf, •lid Le 1,.1141.4 they had if finish ti+rlti~d tit a 1).1‘041 when they wrield be enabl►d te make a very imporierst beginning. It should ens, however, be lineatt►e, that while on the conelesine of all ether •ars, them had woolly been an ivories's of sates, a o ti n ,l oo li on o f n o t iris than sevent►en millions and • hell had befit made since the termination of the late 0e this subject he would not be jeoll fied la saying sty thing niece at present, as the sub ,ecs would et a more convenient tame be brought be. fere the consideration of the blouse. Although he differed from the Noble Marquis be tome of his views respecting thegesiteral certency the cooretry, yet he did not mean t. ender-rite the impeittsece of the subject. It, however, was not usual to iiierodece such matters into the Speech et the cemme•cement of the Session—they were left In the spontaneous censideration Peflient.a..— There was not, he fissured the House, a man in the count', more ancious then he was to retarn to a whol►sr.see and secure currency. of paper con vertible et pl into coin ; but be had al ways Nit, and had so espre•sed himself on various occasions, that the greatest which less to be dreaded from the Rank Restriction was the difficulty of potting snood to the system. Belied, on Ow termination of war, crest hopes that the period ntiiht have hems then defined when this sys tem ervald be cloard with safety. Three sears since kb had, in that hong, proposed that a Bill should be passed into a law, empowering the Bank to pest pone timeline for returning to rash payments•for two yaws farther. Bet last Session the Rouse had nit tat three days, when he informed them that the greet pecuniary transactions in which certain foreign tiovernments wore likely to be engaged, would pre. tent the safe MVO to cash payments. These still cuntieued to operate, and it might not be im possible that they should prevent the termination of thus present system on this bib .f July next ; bat 'ghouls' each be the case, it wield be the part of ineliammat to props.* as short a apses of time es possible for the condiment* of that restriction. so that Perliameat might be enabled to take the subject Into its curraidoratioe at an early period to the gass ing bossism. It was a considerable gratification to him to be stabled to Worm the How. that the subject of Ilso repeated forgeries on the Bank of Estglaod had bees referred to a Commission, composed of men of eel. coca end great practical eapetietare, and 11 , at shop had en , ertained the warmest hopes of Mee enaMed to devise some means, if not of preventing forgeries altogether, at least of removing the preterit great ha. eility. " To-morrow I, or my Notts Friend, shell prevent In the House the first Report of that Cole. mission." The Noble Earl then alluded britly ter the case of Messrs. Arbuthnot and Ambriater, and said that he shield at the present moment consider It premature to apprise the House of the steps adopted with respect to that treasection by his Majesty's Mi. roisters. But whatever might be the character of that eel, it wee emiathorised by the Government of the Usaieed States. and done without its knowledge.— i lig", hear !) • The Earl of LAUDERDALE said, he did not feel that eitremo witisfection at the Speech, and the Address now proposed, as had been repressor' by atm', Nubia Lords opposite. Ile rejoiced as ninon as any sow in the improvement of the revenue, !Pit its asiteebuted that improvement to the industry and oaertioos of the People.—(llear, hoar!)—But no exertions had been made on the part of the Govern newt to new model or ameliorate the system of tax .atioo, es had byes, done nn the termination of all former oars. Why bad nut the war mum, which the ,/ktople had been taught by tvonse who had imposed them would be removed on the return of peace— .wity have they not been submitted to the vinyl*. elation end 'evasion of Parliament ? fillnisters have ,preferred taking their miters into their more cope .clel protection, aid the mere constitutional merest of Parliamentary iovestigotion has been poupoised to their convenience.—(llear, hear, hear.—lie .remarked on general plitociples of political is.. toasty. that the commerce of this country could sot improve if that of otlwr colloids.' was urnhibitaal, end he thought the time bail now aerived when we should reduce the sin we have imposed open she imports- Sion of foreign prodeotions. Ile approved of the principle of the American Commercial Convention, and observed, that no negotiator, however skilful. could conclude a Commercial Treaty, by which Ise ,could secure all the advantages to his country, and yield *wee in Wean. The Noble Earl then took a .review of Ike currency of eke coostry, and gave it es his opielon, that as long as the present Mint re. :gelatioos sere starred to sabot, so long woold Mi nisters And it impossible to revert with safety to a cursency. • .Tbe question was then pet and carried osearke laiestratieate. • .Attu CARS or THE RING'S PIIRSOPI. While the House was in a state of oleoresins after Jieclsiton of the former question, the Earl of ' LIVERPOOL, as well as we comb, collect, gyve Ise 7#Ser, that on Monday neat be should bring down a ICosamealcatiuts to the noose relative to that pert of she Lords Commissioners' Speech, in which it is re cominendrdto Parliament to devise measures for the safe of his Majesty's sacred Persia. The noose then adjourned. .• • • 110116 g OF CONIIION!‘ At simmer after Iwo u'elnek,tbegreket leek the ('Pair. A few Members Wet the oaths, end their woe. At a roaster Wore three the Usher of the Meek ILA appeaser, et the bar in summon she House of erritnoese to the Ike , * of 1 . 01,11 - The Speaker egad the Commons haring w im p() • MIMI she Clones of sheet three o'clock, the eweeting in sit the Petern , iris was preceedecl in till tio(flosit four. Clartl , itine Otaile.sty was thtu read a Lit sr.. A •ri i uJ l:c e. The usual onal Orders jet the appt=e: Ceittaittrt flin.A.SiCiat,dit Our' y slit, fete_iee @initial/Sutra. ,,.; ..,TltetiPXA R. then ,tatei, that the ni,... le been in the /Nese of twits, vlb•ti the loved II ith Chancellor of (' { real Britain, as one of the Commits 46.414 . IT VC it ifir frOXifir i Fri Pilla r .ft-,t'ir, had delivered • specie to botitoeseetat Parliament,' of which he had, for gresirfr convenience, tiVocoret i ropy i.sail inies *ink IN Mae of the finosi, hi woold then raid to therm. (Ile read Ow Speech, which me *or report of the proceedings ix the lioxix of Lords.) - The Speech Irthi • na has riled by the SPEAKER, . . _ MG BROW 41.0* (grasber for Aflutter) rose ID wove an Adttress se the Prises Regent. Ile PAC that he rose ender considerable eetba sssss meat. The noose, however, he hoped, would bh inclined, fun consideration of his inesperience, to heir Msa with patient, if net with 'outpace. Thevith dif. 6deot sod enberrneed. he coold not ovoid the dot, which be bed ondertaken, ow accoont of his sung attachment to that respected authority, from •hie# the communications, made in his Majesty's Speech, bad emanated. lie was sorry, that the first topic touched open in that Speech should be one of • painful and melancholy rehire. The sefferings of the great and good, particularly when placed iu high shalom', were, at all times, sabjecta of deep regret, and called set merely for Individual, or pri vate sympathy, bet for general sorrow—for natiosal commiseratiew. It was painful for his Royal High noes the Pelage Regent to be obliged, now for se many years, at the opening of so many Sessions 61 Parliament, to inform them, that tint the slightest •I. leviation had taken place of the lamented illness of his Royal Father; and how much mere painful meet it be for his Royal Highness to make the same me lancholy communication on the present omelets, when it must he accompanied with this additional circumstance of affliction, that oar beloved Monarch had been, in the midst of his regretted calamities, deprived of her, who bad been, for so many years, the ornament of his prosperity, us well as the part ner of his ploughs and enj.syments ; and, more re cently, the kind and amiable geardian of his feeble ness sod infirmities. Nor was it his Majesty and the Royal Family alone that were sufferers by the demise of the Cloven. Her death, from the parity la her morals and the invaluable trample of her religious fifes and character, could not be, in the present times, contemplated in any ether light than that of • great national calamity and pub tic misfortune.—[!/tor, hear !j—lie regretted that he was bet little competent, though no onetweld i be better disputed than he was, to do justice to her merits aid character. But incompetent as he hoe, himself to be, ha timid not pass ever in silence sue noble feature of her character; he meant that Chris tian benevolence, which always induced her to deity nothing to misery bet her name.—pcor, Not•ithstaadisa the i Wilco and misfortune* or such a low in the ;smut painful and infirm etorsill. lion of his Majesty, he was confident that •egery measure, consistent with economy. would be taken for the comfort end happiness of the Yin. The neat topic mentiesed in the Speech, to whisk he should allude, was that distinguished meeting d So vereigns and S4atesmee erbkh led to the encomia's of the French territory by the troops of the Allied Powers. There was no wirers on record es illes trines an 'sample oft he mutual benetroles“, or albs happy concord of oat' —Ulcer, hear q-lt was not a meeting for purposes of rapine or spoliation, or for sowing the seeds of future animosities and discord : botone,which had no other purposes in view, lint the peace of Europe, and the propagatioa justice sod benevolence among nation'. OL this he wan sole tl.e House would he fully convinced whoever the papers, mentioned in the Speech of his Royal hig h ness the Prince Regent, relative to the important affairs discussed and arranged at AssAa- Chapelle, should be laid before them. With respect to the People of France, be trusted, now that the restless 'abides by which they were to long misled and deluded use Incapable of agitating them any longer, that they would be heartily disputed to con.. cur with the other great motions of Eurnite, in pro moting every ththg that was calculated to render the peace eatensive and lasting. Ile hoped that they would be disposed to profit dell the advattteges that were •ffered to them under the patriotic sod mild government of the restored Home of !turbos. ' alleding to the lion of the French territory, he could not avoid espressing his admiration of the conduct and bravery of oar own heroes, who were .enw returned by that event to their native shores. Ile could not but consider this event, at well es all the other proceedings of the Congress of Aia-la•Cha. pall, ' es strongly marked with the characteristics .of peace : and he was sere that thou opinions would hereafter meet with the epproballea of the Mouse. He neat adverted to the notice its the Speech, relative to the affairs of oar po 'nos in ladle, where the oxalates, of the Government had been as prosperous as they had been in Great Britain and in Europe. Under the able end wise administration of the Most Noble the Masotti' of Hastings, all the operations in India had been es seccestfel as they were well planned. The I Plndarries had been completely estereninated ; and he was happy to learn, that the war against them was entirely a war of self-defence, and that the hiehraties use, in every case, the aggressors. The brilliant secceeau and achievements, wbirh were every where conspicuous during the war in India, afforded the best proofs of the able and wise g o vern. anent of the Marquis of Hastings. It mutt afford se. tisfaction to the House, and the nation at large, le field that the rerelts of our negotiations weir art kW prosperous than the socr eeeee of our arma. He Ilan alluded to the recent renewal of a Comnieicial Timmy between this country and the Government of the, United States of Ame►ira. This event was the more derir..hle, as he understood that the former Tflally was within a fee mouths of •apiring. The present Treaty was In continue for • I years, and afford. eel the prospect of great advantages not only ha the commrice, but to the manufactures and industry of I this country. But though 11111 was su iesportaut evert. and hithly coimuling, from the inguence it was likely in have on our commercial end standee indite welfare, yet he was happy to find, that it was I not necessary for him to wander so far from home .for the rtoofi of out COllll.ef tl3 i prosperit). This . ems linty went from the activity of our sea.ports i sled minetieturing towns O,IM dillefkl at sit' well ayfrom the acknowledged increase of the revenue imeall its most important isseeches. These were certainly great blessings—end, for his pert, be did not well know how to impress seliclent ae irstowledgMetiss to that Administration, to whose ',mite Ind' ptudyet measurer we were indebted for /UM". He Ives glad to Cid, that economy ass Tilly kept in slete, and that the Army and Navy were restated et much es was consistent with domestic tranquillity end security, and with the safe. ty of *or Colonies. Ile wet doubly glad, as these ye. dections afforded the happiest proofs of the peace able dispotitioss of all the great European Powers, and of the leternal concord of the B ' h Empire.— lie hopes, that the Meuse wield saint themselves to improve still further the various blessings which we eujeyed, mud to confer edditional advantages and blessings ea this happy country. Ile hoped that the Address, which he was about to reed, would meet with the unanimous assent of the Boom; end con. -..... ---......_ , efeded with an apology for tresponing so long on their patient*, 'gyring them that he felt very grate- fel for their indulgence. The Address was, as @seal; an echo of the 'speech from the Throne. Mr. WM. PEEL rose to serond the Address to his Royal Highs, the Prince Regent; bet from the 100 tone of voice is which he spoke, very Hula of what he said was audible in the Gallery. He was OW of trying the pedant of the House, as, from the netere of the subject, be was anticipated already by the Hon. Mover. He was desirous that the Ad. dress sheild be carried with the greatest unanimity, end he was sere that they all felt alike with regard to the melancholy events mentioned its the beginning of the Speech—he alluded to the contiosance of the King's illness, and the meat death of the Queen. — It because the Representatives of the People to sympathise with the Prince Regent on the loss sus tained on this oecteloo, mot only by his Royal High. ness sod the Royal Family, but by the British Empire. As be was gaits incapable, be should not attempt to do justice to her late Majesty's virtuous and amiable qualificetions. Whatever differences of opinion 'night 'list on the sobject, he was sere that the sew arrangements for the comforts of the Kis' would be tech as would merit the approbation of that Hoes' and of the country. lie thee made some te. marks en the affairs of India, adding, that every sec ceding arrival from that amenity brought us nothing bet tidings of seams. After some romplimeutary tributes to the Marquis of Hastings for there sue. tosses, he added, that the Allied fieverelges, is ap pointing . the Duke Wellington Generalissimo of their armies Ih France, had paid the most splendid compliment I. the genies and the character of this coantry. The use made by that great Commander of the powers bestowed upon him, afforded the best proof of his having deserted it. Fortenately fee Europe it was not necessary to have bias any longer contiseed in that 'salted station, there was net any logger a steamily for those preatetlowary meg. sures, which required the maraca of a foreign army on the French territory. Ile hoped that great coun try, after the siensl act of justice performed towards her at Ala.la•Chepelle, wield now snits with the other nations of Europe in cultivatiog the arts of peace mad the resources of intents' prosperity. If was sorely happy for France, after Wring been leased abort by so many revolutions, to witness se genial a change is her condition, and to enjoy at length the certaiety of long repose under a free Governuteet, end a constitutional Monarchy. Leith* French Pee. ply, therefore, easel themselves, end show that they are desirous of esjoying the blessings, which such • Government is ealestated to afford them. They es. suredly ought et length to forget their absurd and "Hid schemes of theoretical improvement. Ile was happy to find that the superiority of British talents, and the wisdom of British usesteerrs, were as ronspi. cones in India as they were le Kornpe. He con cluded with returning thanks to the Hone for its fa. vourable attention. The Address having been read from the Chair, Mr. MACDONALD said, he did not mean, in the obserrations he had to offer, to follow the ewe pin of thelast speakers, anddiscuss the several topics of the Address; and for this reason, that he hoped it would pass unanimously, without prejedice to any matter spun which it touched ; and he wan the more analogs for this, as it was in some maroons an Ad dress of Condolence, upon which all mast be of the anus opinion. It did not, however, by any means fellow, that he should be precluded from making a few remarks upon it ; and indeed he confessed, that the eatraordinary and extraesoant nature, as well of the Address itself as of the speeches which accomps. sled It, were calculated to call for more remarks 1 alien he was then disposed to wake. Ile woold, l however, offer a few. The Speech from the Throne, and the Address in answer, with cemmeats of the two lion. Gentlemen opposite,drow, in his opi. mien, a meat estravegant and exaggerated picture of the prosperity of the coantry. They had touched upon every thing which could heighten the rulotering (and it wield be lamentable iadeed if at the present moment some Koch materials did tint olio), but they omitted In introduce any matter which, though it I might tint mke the whole so pleasing, would have rendered it more correct. The House were told that some r. &actions hail bees end were to be made in the story and army. Those redactions, whirl, some time ago were said to he wholly impracticable, were now alluded to as ostlers of necessary economy, but which ice should contend, if not made to a consider. able event, in the present sate of Europe anal of this country, would roomier his Majesty Slinivers &SM. in; of impeachment.—[lfertr, hear!] —If this was thought Wet. on the ether side, he could not help it; but satisfied with the act as far as it benefited the Public, he should give no further credit to the merit of the intention, than that it was forced by the itsetitatite neceratty of the case. Ile was, however, sleet's glad to hear any mention of a disposition to economy come tram the other side. It showed at least come respect to the prin. aisle ; but he vintrl.l rather, instead of those general and sweeping promises of retrenchment, (which, by the way, were not al all new to the Rouse,) hear some particular mention of what had actonlly been dose, or what it was really meant to do. It boil like sincerity when, after th• promise, some to I was g-nr into; f:r institute, he should wish to itt.J.l of 800.. improved modification iu Its cAllecrion of taxes, of some telrencholent ollthor east sum* abo sorbed by it of fuer millions and half yearly, was about half of their total amount at the coo. mencenient of the war. In the ray* of t!.e duly upo n scampi, that lenity infliction upon the People, which one might suppose would collect itself, there mss fly system of patronage followed by one of wastefel ea pendo ore, o hide bespoke me Jed! iaclinatiou , to eco. nosey in these who soffermi it to cuadeue. wen• in I ports of the country distributers ap. pointed, oho were petted strangers to the districts to which they were attached, het oho received large seems of Ilse profit—sums •loch wereemermees when compered with the net amount of the tas itself. n• would admit that improvements la this way might properly to come from the Fetecutive; bet with all their economical professions, boiled not my that they wriest all disposed to carry them into effect in those iris stances where any of the chieftmerces reftheir patron. ego and influence were likely to be cut on.—Frost their own voluntary acts in tech , be espreeedl nothing; bat he did hope and @spec, that they might be made to see sod to fee! the necessity of compel.' anal even in these where they were vernally most teluctent to yield The keret, had ta'ked id glnwieg terms of the greet bier f the V: lie did mot mean to lessen any favourable impression which shat might make. It was well to hirer, thee this year there was more ;mid into the public trealuri than in the preceding ; but it would be mach better to leans, that there was less paid out of It.—(llser, hewn—lt wand be eat mottle satisfactory to Loos, that in proportion as our resources hemmed, the disposition of Ministers to use them economically increased also—to know that reductions not reo trenchments were the result, not of compulsion, bat of inclination. But from the experience *hick the House had of their (Mioistmel dicresitione in this respect, little kept was to he entertained nn this heed.. All the reductions which had been so much vaunted of, when eseeeteri, were produced after every struggle had beta made to •vaile !hem. —They were the result of a disagnmehly alterna tive to which Waling , had been foreed—" that or go;"--[lieer, hear !] —so alternatire, which, by the way, they never hesitated to comply wills, to the preservation of their places.—[liter, heor!)— They lied thus acted in the la.t Partiathont. It fee wined to be seen how much they could make of the dispositions of the present. After whet he is iw the preesut state of the country, taking. into condo aeration the very many important facts which this Spies\ bad omitted, as well as the few which it em braced, he did not think there was such tropee grimed for congratulation ss the Address set fortt: ; and the House could not be too guarded iu their rereptioo of these very pleasing accounts of the general prosprelly of the country. They were always talculated to lull (.that vigilant attention to economy in 'he public el -1 peediture, ohich a less latteriec prospect rendered I more conspicuous, though not less necessary. It I might be true, that the ;mink sevens. use last yew greater by three millions and a half than lo rem pet. noes one ; hut it was equally tree, that it was less by two chilliest§ and a half thew that of the) vv 1803; and peen with a Sinking Fond of fifteen ton. nous nominal ineemet, there *mild Mill be a 41. ,county to be provided fee. But elludelio. so.mh . I street to be favourable, yet, while be sew it 'ernes peuiesl with sorh evils as roister' in it still depressed Mateo( some branches of nun otannficturrilei ile be intimated such a dreadful incresse of crime le every part of the country. ne s t each a conaequ.st ~leer in the jails—whilst he perceived *hat call a legitimation of pooperoree, Ilea misery which it produced in ever, part elf the country, he cooed not bat think eters might find something hotter to do than roe. gratulating the House at.d esrh other on the pro. sped!) , of the country.— ( /Icor. Agar!)—lf as geoid, in the present moment of peace, and with the Word asereass of our resources, go bet a snot; way, 1 if, indeed, we at al: advanced, in laying I h • founds. tine el a system which ought mitigate toe public burdens-1r at present we mid do no more tears flitter ourselves wish the prospect of their becoming less heavy, how would it he in time of war—he would not say a war of aggression, bet retie iif self. defence against those nations whom oar own absurd and false policy should excite against es? Th,t such a war could only be contemplated as a remote possi bility, he was by no 111P3114 inclined to believe; an t e if it did occur, haw could we be prepared for it, lc we ereg!ected in time of peace sad comparative pros purity, that prudent economy which would reader e . better able to support its burdens? The Adds's . had spoken of the " intimate' union which sebeiste: between this country and its Allies; bet the wor d was 100 smat.ry to make a strong impression no lh British Public. They looked for that sobstentia7 kind of profession which, within , treating of the in timacy which subsisted between this country and A nther Powers, might lead them to sweet some sub Menial benefit to them, something like real amid radical economy and retrenchment in the public ese penditore; and for the "intimacy" with foreign Powers, they wished it to he of that kind which world 'mead eqsal justice to all, whether they acts strong or weak. — [Meer, hear!) —Of the British Public. that gave themselves the trouble to esquire into the details of those national crieferenc.s which were said to be undertaken for the bewelit of all, but where it would seem only the interests of a few one consulted—on this subject he shoold be disposed to say a little more if a Noble Lord (Castlereagh), whose shsence from Isis piece he regretted (panics. lady from its cause), had been present. Ile might be disposed to enquire, whether, in considering the interests of that chaos of minor States, whine nom ;nicotine seemed to deprecate discussion, a whirl., People had not been suffered nitre annihilated by those high professors of religion and jostle.? He mielet ask, whether a Member of that Illy Association—she head of a Christian country, and a Mast Christine King—had not evaded the en-cation of that principle in which almost every poser in Euro p e contnual— that the fridge is human flesh should cram. ? 11",, then he bad the decency to take Muse ute.sures fire I•C effectual abolition, or to disavow and put an end to those practices by which lb. arcompli.hrocirt of 1.44 object had been evaded? Wbother h.i.t had dots. that in Franco labial Smile hessell wirier Feediriand himself had I.?ere hru:ieli so no.•e'v Treketrd using the I Ater, for i* ass .• .• i '. !),11..1 V' 1W - qui VI re . ./111 Mi