The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-02-22 00:00:00

rniz sTATEsmAr: • !Castlereagh had la.- , u so angry with his Colleagues : papers ; but he might alio say, the mischief was at . for their manner of answering questions, that he had ; ready done,—that the Emperor Alexander had sent them positise instructions not to expose them- ; 500,000 men in Poland ; that Austria had Italy in selves in that way for the future; and that in coma). ! thraldrom ; and that, in short, the matter could not queriee of thisiiistructiou, they now preserved the most Ibe mended,—it was in vain to protest. Such might profound silence—[losid laughter from the Mipiste- I be the sort of defence set up, when it was too late : rial-Benches]. If this shouldbethe case, Minisrs would but he wo uld call u p on the House to bring those to be exercising that virtue they so recommended, — justice who had dis g raced the country by assenting patience upon compulsion. They really appear to ,to so gross and infamous en act. The Chancellor of have carried their patience to the utmost length, and I the Exchequer had last night mentioned an exhorta to have stood rather too long in the white sheet. In I lion of Mr. Burke while cor , templating the probe. the early part of the Session they answered all man- ; ble dura t i on of the late war, durate et rosmetre ner of questions upon their responsibility. Their ' bus senate secundis ;" but had that great man been responsibility had now changed its nature, and as now alive, he would have reprobated this transaction bows is derived aeon lucendo, so their responsibility with a strength of language which no other man at present is to prevent them from answering any i could employ, as a complication at once of folly and questions. The Right Honourable Gentleman had, I profligacy. however, perhaps without being aware of it, Mr. B. BATHURST contended, that the time spoken words this night which were of great import. had not arrived when the papers necessary to elu ance. He had pledged both himself and his col. l cidate the whole of the case could be produced. The leagues, that, at some time or another, every paper ! statements of the Hon. Gentleman opposite were with would be furnished which could be desired, both ; out foundati on. He seemed to sa y , that the business ebont Genoa, Saxony, Poland, and the proceedings lof the House should be to interrupt the proceedings, of the Congress at Vienna. That was a pledge for l of the Congress. But if instead of peace, this inter. which tie should hold him responsible. Although.it !roption should produce war, which would not . been. was not the Chancellor of the Exchequer who had : likely, ho w would the countr y be benefited by made this promise, yet another of his Majesty's Mi - I follo w i n g the Hon. Gentleman's advice ? His Hon. misters, the Master of the Mint, had pledged him- 1 Friend (Mr. W. Pole) had indeed mentioned the self that the llousn chnuld have on those papers.—; production of papers relative to Genoa, but he had Notwithstanding the avidity of Ministers for their I never spoken a word about Poland or Saxony - * 'trial, yet when it was proposed to obtain evidence , [L o u d a nd re p eated shouts of Hear, hear ! froth the ter the purpose, they refused it. They said that : 9pposition.]—at least nothing of that subject had they were as auzious for the trial as their accusers . caught his ear. Every kind of intelligence would be could be: the only difference was, that their at- ; laid before the llouse ; it was impossible to say how toseerwished to go to the trial, but they would not. ; long it would be necessary to wait, but he hoped • The Chancellor of the Exchequer, in answer to the that the time would be short. Ilan. Mover, had made a reasonable moderate speech, Mr. W. POLE explained. ifter his manner, in which he called for some delay. *Mr. HORNER, after comparing the conduct of The Right Hon. Gentleman who followed him said, the Allied Sovereigns, who belied their professions, that It was the grossest injustice to arraign men with thtt of the French Republicans, , who ravaged who could give an explanation if they thought it the world with the sacred name of philanthropy on proper. For his part, be should be much more their lips, drew a picture of the effect Which Lord pleased to have it in his power to praise Ministers W. Bentinck's Proclamation, inviting the Italians to for delivering Europe (as they said.they had done), assert their own independence, had produced on the than to be obliged to condemn them as parties in one Genoese. It was that, and not the bayonet which of the foulest acts which ever disgraced the page of had opened the gates of Genoa to his army, and history. He considered that, in those cases, policy caused the French garrison to retire. He expatiated end justice were inseparable; and in the same pro- on the importauce of the possession of that city, which poi-lion that he condemned the injustice and immo. commanded the North of Lombardy :on the pro. I rality of this transaction, in exactly the same pro..! vett which we had offered its citizens of being freed ' portion did he conceive it one of the greatest acts of ;of foreign tyrants and soldiers, and on the hopes • political folly that ever was committed. The Right ! which they must have formed of becoming the head I lion. Gentleman had not ventured to deny the Pro. ! of that confederacy, which sooner or later would re-; elamation of the Ring of Sardinia any more than ' deem the independence of Italy. He hoped the that of (surd William Bentinck. When his Sac- • struggle should come to drive away the Austrian dinian Majesty, however, chose to publish that I tyrants who desolated that, fine country. But how had he took possession of the Genoese States, he the prospect of being aided in the struggle by England was happy to say that lie had been mistaken, faded away? 'To the latest day of their servitude, and never had been able to take possession of them. I the Genoese could not forget that the perfidy of lie trusted that he never would he able to take pos-1 England was the cause of' their bondage. session of them, but that lie and the other Sovereigns ;This might throw them into the hands of France, who, would find themselves arrested in their unjust career las the strongest part of Italy had been transferred to by the public feeling all over Europe. He hoped,the weakest Power in Europe, might obtain the sur that the discussions in I that House, and the senti- render of Genoa, whenever they pleased, from the melds there delivered, would have a powerful effect Ki ng of Sardinia, who would sign its transfer in or in arresting those proceedings. Supposing that Lord der to preserve his Crown. We had promised the Castlereagh was returned, did Ministers expect that : Genoese liberty and the Constitution to which they any papers could be found in his portfolio which ; had been so long attached ; and as we were well ac s mild justify the violence offered to Genoa ? When i quainted wtth the value of those blessings ourselves, Lord NV. Bantitick was sent out to Italy by the Mar -' our guilt was still greater in disappointing thwismaes quis Wellesley., he understood that he had express I which we had excited. As to the effect which it had instructions to give every encouragement to the r'b - ' been said the speeches of Members of Parliament had jet 4 effecting a revolution there. Italian pri_ I produced, he cared little. It was their duty to ex sonere were enrolled in our army, with the express press their real sentiments without regarding effect, promise that they would have to contend for the in- which must proceed, not from the speaker, but from dependence of Italy. All manner of secret so- the intrinsic weight and justice of his arguments. cieties, Freemasons and others, were encouraged to Mr. STEPHENS said the principle on which he co-operite in effecting a revolution to secure the in. hoped to form one of the majority this evening, was dependence of Italy. Even the particular man was that the question ought not to be pre judged before slanted, who was to be placed at the head of Italy, it was possible to produce the documents necessary as an independent nation. After those instructions, for its illustration. Did any one Believe that the be had a right to address the Proclamation he had • Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the other Mem done to them, and the G enoese could have no doubt bars of Government, would have get up, and stated of this language being the sincere disposition of our distinctly that no breach of national faith and honour Govertusieo. Ile should have much rather been in a had been comm i tte d—w eer; h ear , hear!] —had it situation to cantle:se the praises which, in the early not been in their power to prove their assertion ? past of last year lie had bestowed on the magnanimity There was nothing in their conduct which wonld of our Allies, than be now obliged to accuse them for • . and when he osh their eing pre-juageu as guilty, descending from their high eminence as liberators of foun dit stated that in the recesses of the Alps the high Eater*, amid trickling about territories to which they honour and public spirit of the country were extolled , had sin title. The Hon. Member proceeded to state, he considered that the men at the head of affairs that Lord W. Bentinck, in his proclamation remind- were those who had - raised her to that pinnacle of jug the Genoese of the ancient glories of their Dories, fame. There was nothing before the House on which promised them the restoration of their ancient consti- it could come to a decision whether a breach of ho., tution : but before the Ist of Jemmy their hopes 'mar had been committed,. and to attempt it would were disappointed, and th- protocol of their annexe be an injustice. Lion to Piedmont al rived from Vienna. That di cu. Mr. I'ONSONBY thought, that unless Minister, meld stated what was not true, namely, that the deed should represent the Proclamations which formed the was assented to by the Genoese Envoy at the Coo. subject of the motion, as forgeries, a course which gress; whereaslhe fact was, that he protested against he aid not think they would adopt, they cook] have r..• it in the strongest terms. There had also appeared was placed, and regretting that such should hare been the result. There appeared, therefore, somet truth in the remark, that republics were not its h no defence. From the tenour of their argumentrbe in the public prints a letter from Lord Castlereagh thought they meant to allow their authenticity, tat en the subject, lamenting the difficulties in which he to insinuate , that the O ffi cers from whom they pro ceeded had exceeded their powers in issuing - them. Would this be the ground of their defence? If so, e hoped some Relative or Friend of that Noble Lord fashion with the Sovereigns assembled in Congress. would let him know the charge against him. But be Then came Victor Emanuel with his proclamation to who was acquainted with him declared that it was the Genoese, iii which he tells them be would make j impossible he should sign such a proclamation, with them all very happy wider his government f but so out the author i ty , very different were the feelings of the Genoese, of Government to perform the pro mises he had made. He maintained that unless Mini that to that hour his Sardinian Majesty had stern should deny the authenticity of the proclama. sent no troops to take possession of his newly ac- tion sof Lor d W. Bentinck and Gen. Dalrymple, and quired city, from the fear of their being assassinated. theorotestof the Senate of Genoa, at being obliged So strong were the hostile sentiments of the inliabi- to give up the government to the Piedmontese, every tants, that not one soldier had been admitted into this necessary document was before the House, and there place that was to prove the ark of Sardinian safety ; was no cause for delay. Should Ministers pretend and he hoped to God that Sardinian troops never that they had been reluctantly compelled to give up would get possession of it. Thus this miserable, un- t hi s happy Court of Sardinia, while exposed to the wan-s point, to secure some advantage for England, he would consider them guilty of having toil injustice and rapacity of the House of Austria, entered into the basest compact. which endeavoured to lay hold of the very citadel of Mr. JL 1 A IiToN, in reply, stated that to see M Turin, was compelled to receive that as a boon, whether there rema i ned a spark of ancient English which, instead of contributing to its strength, would spirit in the breasts of the Representatives of the prove a vital source of weakness. All this had been nation, he should call fur a division. A division done ; and yet we were intreated to wait till all the then took place— transactions of Congress were finished. He would rather say; if this be a sample of them, what would For the previous question Against it • the full harvest be ? He should judge of the H Majority in favour of er. . Ministers . cules by his foot ; and it was not yet perhaps too lit ISII FREEHO LDERS. late for a public expression of opinion to have some Mr. BROWN moved for Returns of the number beneficial effect on the Continent, where none could of registered Freeholders, rated at the value of 40s, speak of this transaction, if they dared speak at all, in each county of Ireland, distinguishing Baronies, without indignation and abhorrence. True, the from Feb. 8, 1807, to the same date, 1815. His Noble 'Viscount on his arrival would produce his object was to find the amount of Freeholders, in or. 115 66 -49 der to judge of the number of days necessary for pulling.—Ordered. Mr. TREEMAYNE.obtained leave to bring in a Bill to amend the Act concerning Lunatic Paupers. t After some conversation on the Report of the Ways and Means, it was agreed that the War and Assessed Taxes should be postponed till Monday, and that the Resolutions respecting the new Taxes on Licences under the Excise on Tobacco, and on Newspapers, should be read to-night. They were read accordingly, the others postponed, and the Re port was ordered to be taken into further considera lion to-morrow. ROBINSON-morro w brought op the Malta and Co lonial Trade Bill, which was read a first time, and the House adjourned. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS Rank 9 per Cent. Red. 641}. 9 per Gent. Cnn. 61.4, 4 per Cents. SI 5 per Cent. has) 911; DAY At OKII O'CLOCK t.oug. Ann. 16} 3.16 India Bonds 167 p Exchequer Bills par 1 d Ornnitain 9 d Consols for Ace. 6111 THE STATESMAN. WNDON: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1815. Two days French Papers (of the 18th and 19th), and Brussels and Frankfort Journals to the same dates, were received this forenoon. The most in teresting article thus received is one which will be perused with the most poignant anguish by all who respect the rights of humanity, and take de light iu seeing the energies of the human mind rescuing nature from the most dreadful of thraldom. We hope the statement is untrue—for the partitions and transfers of which we have yet heard as the work of " the most just and humane Congress" that ever sat down to fit men's destinies, would be nothing to it. It is contained in the Journal de la Belgique, is dated Brussels the 17th, and is as follows : " News,.arritting from a good source, affirm that, at the Congrest of Vienna, all the Powers have co• venanted that the possession of St. Domingo should be guaranteed by a solemn act to Loutsi VIII.; that in consequence, England itself, and the other mari• time Powers, if necessary, would contribute to Me ar. moment and the expedition. In this manner the conquest of ►bat vast colony, %Lich is of such inesti mable value to France, would be easily effected, and the occupation of it would leave no room for future fears." It would appear that the Court of Naples has formed some last projects, and that Jo %cum has formally taken possession of the Marches. His Excellency Baron CARASCO!A has published in his name a Proclamation to the Italians inhabiting the Marches of Ancona and the Legations, calling upon them to rally round the 66 invincible Captain, whose arm was so powerfully exerted in the late war to protect these provinces;" and, in short, quite in the style of Prince Coxseawytnes Address to the Poles. The inhabitants of the Marches do not know what to make of it; and his Holiness is talk ing of holding a Consistory, for the purpose of 46 opening the eyes of the people" and the 66 door of repentance," sans doubt, to every body but him self. Accounts from Rome, of the Ist inst. say, 44 we are still afflicted by the presence of the Nea politan troops, who are dispersed over the country, and commit great ravages." The French Papers have advices from Vienna to the 7th, but they communicate nothing of interest as to the deliberations of the Congress. Au article from Madrid, of the 6th inst. says— " Our expedition at Cadiz has returned to port— it is understood now to be counter-ordered--some persons state that the English. squadron off this har bour would not allow it to proceed ; others say, that the men mutinied ; a third set declare that the patriots have so completely conquered - America, that there was no possible good to be expected from it." The Debates in both Houses of Parliament last night were again extremely interesting. In the Lords, the Earl of DARNLEY, in moving for Papers connected with the conduct of - the Naval Administra tion in the prosecution of the American war, took oc casion to notice the leading points in which the incom petency of Ministers was apparent ; and Lord G avg. vutz, in moving for an Account of the Effective Force employed in different parts of Europe, and of the Staff Establishments at home and abroad, brought the subject of oar continuing to maintain an immense army on the Continent in a time of peace, and in the present difficult situation of the country, under discussion. The speeches of both the Noble Movers, as well as that of the Marquis of LA xsnowst, we need scarcely say, were able and eloquent. They were replied to by the Official Lords, in the best way they could ; but words make but a poor defence • against such serious charges. The motions were ac ' ceded to, and the questions which they embrace will come come again under consideration. In the Commons, the flagrant and palpably esta blished. violation of our pledges to the people of Genoa was, in a most able manner, called into re view by Mr. LAsts - rox, Sir JAMES MACKINTOSH, Mr. WurrantAn, Mr. P6NSONRY, &c. Mr. LANIB cos moved for copies of Lord W. BENTINCK'S PrOCiallla• lions, calling on the Genoese to support their inde pendence, and promising them freedom and the re storation of their ancient Constitution ; also for other documents regarding the transfer of Genoa to the King of SARDINIA. But though these papers have already been publicly circulated throughout Eu rope, Ministers resisted their production upon the old evasive plea, as tending to prejudge a measure connected with the general proceedings of Congress. Never were Ministers more at a loss to justify them ' selves than in this particular, which, whether the cession in question is politic or •iropelkic, hs a pa. tional point of ♦iew, deeply involves the (kith and honour of the country. Never was an observation more creditable (and uttered with redeeming ell►pet an d propriety), to the independent Members of the British Parliament—to the nation itself, than the observation made by Sir J. MAKINTOIRAS to the sentiments of the people on the Continent, from which Sir James has lately returned, and of Europe in general, in regard to the attempts made by the Minorities in the British Parliament to support the cause of . freedom and human right in all countries, and to preserve invio late our character for probity and justice. " The sentiments," he observed, 44 delivered by the Mino. city of that House, although they were despised by Ministers, were not despised by Europe. They were considered as speaking the sense of every honest man in Europe—they were known and venerated even in the recesses of the Alps. When he last vi. • sited the Continent he was proud of the praises that he every where heard bestowed upon England, —and so must every Englishman feel; hat if the source of this feeling is to be disregarded or wantonly destroyed, farewell to this pleasing, this high gra. tification—farewell to national character and ho. twur." Ministers, however, had their mijorkt. The motion was lost on a division of 66 to 115. There will be another important discussion in the House to-night on- the Corn JAWS. Mr. BARING does not mean to propose Counter-Resolutions, as he first intended, but to submit an Amendment, the object .of which will be, in the first instance, to make the measure temporary, and secondly, to intro duce some gradation of. prices. By proceeding thus he expects that -those who agreed with hint~ in the principle, that any interference with the Coro Laws ought to be temporary, may support'his Amendment, although they could not concur with his elements, had they been submitted to the Hope, its the form of Resolutions. We are prevented by the length _of, the, Debates from going into any thing like is replar irk* , of , Mr. VANCITTART'S new plan of. tawniest; bet we cannot refrain from saying, never wos meth a la. mentable deficiency of intellect and of proper means of supplying th e wants of the State exhibite d by the contents of any Budget, as that brought foroard oe Monday night. Not one. of the Taxes or Duties therein specified nil! yield any thing like the returns expected from them. The addition to the tax cm wines will render the vintage countries, which we are now holding iu military possession at an enormous expence, still more useless to es ; that oa shops and warehouses was attempted ibpets ago M r. Pitt, and after one year's experience, redirtquished, as it operated upon an unfit class in society to bear it ; and the. addition to the postage on Newspapers is still more injudicious, and ignorantly laid ; for it will fall chiefly on one class of pipers, unfortunately for us the Evening ones. The principal circulation of the London Morning Papers lies within the Bills of Mortality, and this is carried into effect without the aid of the Post-Office.—The Provincial Papers are also chiefly circulated by their own servants and agents. The London Bening Newspapers are, therefore, the class of the public Pratt upon which the tax will almost exclusively fall. To the 'inequality of the tax, then, we are to add the ha policy of depressing a declining. trade. Jr the ex tinction of the Eveping.Papers were the object of the Minister, he would.be „right Oa/at that, is net the case. lie propoarts it, in a source of revenue, and here he is obviously wr'ow The whol produce of the tax he estimates at:V*ool4 bat the two or three principal Evening. Papers produce that n)tich to Go. vernment•from theStautp Doti alone. Mr. Nam VALiin the heyday of the war,.the very nvidst of the harvest of Newspapers, considered them. entitled to relief, and granted them an advance of one halfpenny upon the price.. It is strange, then, that The present moment of peace should be considered tt fevourable time for subjecting them to new hardens. If, however, the Minister is determined to have resort.* them for assistance, there is an in finitely preferable mode. — Do not confine their circulation, as at present, to Great Britqin and Ireland ; -anew them to be el ported freely to the Continent. This licence all in crease their sate, and with it the profits. to Govern ment, to 10 times the amountof the propesedl• tai— aud with this further recommendation, it Will not he a sum of money extorted from ourselves, but +ohm. tarily contributed by foreign natiops. 141 * ) .KITY4. • ON R. LAMBTON'S NOTION ii ii mom Gros. Wharton Ponionby - Scodassore MonA Fremrwtre . • Oahe, Ridley Mackintosh P. ht nage Lord U. Cavendish Baring Martin Dundas Rowley ' - N4ilkinS C. Wynne . litanviden Bedlam floatlicote ' North Gerry t hilhps Ferguson Walpole Lytttleton Milton Anson I 1 brner Bennet T. Baring Gordon • Campbell C. CalrErt Langton Carew }totality .f. P. Grant W. Smith J. Ilmiilt Howorth 11Iorpeth • Daly . Tierney Pym W. Prtissonby Greacrell Neville Leader Greetthiil Fitzroy Western A. Hamilton 6. Langton Proby Elliot Heron Mucha H. Martin Power Prittie Abercromby • Bernard Acland Shelley Newport Oitsubtone Talbot W bithread Hurst On the 16th instant, the wife of Mr. Metter, a farmer, of IVhitchurch, was murdered try her servant man, whilst Mr. Metters was attending the Plyinory h market. The wretch struck her on the heod with a round hook, and afterwards conveyed the body into the outhouse, and 'covered it with loose straw ; he then plundered the house of money, and some silver spoons, with which he absconded. lie was,soon ap• pretended at a public house at Dartmoor. CORN-EXCHANCII, FEB. 22.—We had but fed ankrhh of Wheat this Morning ; line qn .lity maim:lllld Mon prier.. —Barley and 0 N , l*. per quarter ebeaper.—lu Peas, p.m.% and oflrr amen there ib uo alteratl,m. '.ON 00N Primed Petliaised 17 D. Lovil.t., as kte STaieligal DIPIPSOIN 87 9 11.1i4trtit