The Statesman. — London, England, 1823-02-07 00:00:00

~~:~ itesoeustotr or Teti ,01torrir ox ttvaenir'sysxtwh: 31r. PEEL is • ea sneakers, vote. whit:hit was sure diecoootitiatitioat spirit Of dirt Speech; 1 while the fang ria boob leased order; trod& out ' fail to command. test would be' Blether secured he the ability of bit Elentiorable Prised; (IfeAllillde).` Ire was the friltheut Cootileced of dill feline the toile of tile' Han: aneLetweed Gentlemen (ifs : fikougban). As that Gentleinitthed confined his obie4etibmi to the' foreign policy of the coast'', he (Me. P.) wituld not go lied any explatiethin on the points Mating to domestic polio!. Fis world postpone those topics till a future period, at which he toold enter Open them in a more saridectory manner. The Speech of hie Majeeee woes° wordeitthat ao matt - would staid pledge& to any detail; he was therefore relieved front the neeessitesof going , idto any explanation on the details.' Still; however, die Ifonoitrable and ' leartird Gentlemen . 'had touched . epee' selojecnt which cencerned the allies of His Mir jetty's Government. NOW the principle upon Which our formic policy bed haw regulated especially in 1793 stied thde,every state whiels it swiereige and leilepentimd, should be the sole judge of its own ;ster nal policy and admissistration g should judge of what reforms are necessity, and of the. iwerkieh these reforms may be brought tebent.• gthoweber, as the riehts of states were in this respect,like the rights onto I idtviduale they Were like them also in ME other, that they should make so re t relatiritr whibi should • he hurtful to tither free states; that if they were so hoetful, then the other 'Kites bad a right to inter fere. Hut still the greeedi of interference ehoold be clear and distinct. attd the danger that would result from them should he clear to alb Every state must alio judge .f this for Itself.—There is notisiog in the eliding Con- . ititutien of S)pabsaebleh this cotintef Wild gamed with. and be thlr. Peel) did npt satin the 'ennds of complaiet stated in .the Speech hf the King of ranee, Boys:retie of interference with the Cenetitetion of Spain. On the line of policy to be observed by this country, he would speak with caution ; but be would at the same gate say that the object of it waeolesieree possible, to preserve I tear y...tease would betiimie for that purpose; j efitheurnding that the '&6one:this Mid- Leaved. G:netle: Man bed tOnsiderei Wile as ineeitabte, be (Mt. Peel) still hoped that war :night be avoided. It Wee said that un less Ferdinand totted be made to impreielapon the people Of Spain, a Constitutton dictated to him by the other Sovereigns, war would ineeitahlyentue ; but the Speech was ambiguous in itself, and toll tuheli. stress ought not to be laid upon the. iteperfect tiandaditml Which - 1M appeeted, .Whateree c:onstioction. holier 4„io might bee . paten th ft eipression I>Rthe Speech ofilteVnienfritianivj he (Mr. p.y heged ctrl to he understood si latiog.doewl any pitiheiple as to the eireurnstaitens which might wee. rant interferenee on the part of a foreigo power. It hell already been mated on the part of his Majesty's' Ministers, that they were no parties to sot principles. direct or indirect, Whiih might have been adopted at Verona; with reitentter the right of litterfaresee With Spain. Ha wee eurethe Ham would excuse him from entetintinto Mir forfeit* observitioas ea dirs .- topic; not May because his Right Hone Friend, who presided over the Foreign Deparnnent, was ibient, :bit because, while there wee a chance Of maintalniegpeacewhile an Horning remitted for allayiakthe allfetescee *hick un fortunately subsisted between the toto ..iodetries.. he should repent to the latest hour of his life--.--tlieuttering of a-single word which might lessee, that chance. It was the firm contrition of his owe mind that the polley of Europe demanded that a general mice should be maintained. After •the inffering and devastation pro duced by a war of thirty- years duration; it was of the *rteMet importance that the nations of Europe should hive an oppoteduity of directing their attention to their 'eternal concerns. If this were the interest of Europe geeeralty, It was more especially the interest of this r fittetry ; peel tf - it Wire iespassilde fee the rest of Bu rope to prime it pulley. lie was still sitlsßed Merit biaa QM' biretta* to multitude a strict neutrality. Tido country Might at the pretient juncture take a proud and dignified position. Alive to our true interests, we were to far from viewing the growing prosperity of other countries with jealousy and alarm, that-we reeogniacti the sounder and more liberal doctrine that their interests were perfectly compatible with our own; .that the benefits of increased consumption and demand must be reciprocal ; and that we might freely mud ciotte with other nations the blessings which Preei dence has showered• dawn npoa ourselves. The most di onified position which this country could take was that of a Mediator, he would not say between contending, but between angry powers. The greatest and most im portant duty we had to perforin was that of preventing :soother war, the termination of which no human being could foresee, and which every well wisher to the court tie must deprecate. He could not hut regret the Ho nourable and Learned Gentleman (Mr. Brougham) had permitted himself, in the heat of argument, to use some very strong, and he thought unwarrantable expressions in respect to the personal character of the Allies of this c'etintry. Admitting the right of the Hon. and Learned Centleman to protest against any principles which our Allies had proclaimed, he could not but think that in his cooler moments lie would repent of the expressions which ht.kad applied to their personal character and conduct. Filien the Hon. and Lsorned Gentleman agein attacked the character of our Allies, and spoke of the g reat and resplendent c haracter who seemed to be so much the object of his . admiration ;' let him" remember als o the chinmen exertions which we bad 'made with those Allies iteainit the atrocious viotence of that individual. Was ..it possible, when the Honourable and Learned Gentle omen - was adverting to and Spanish transactions, and to the interference of Foreign Powers, that lie could fhrget the atrocious dupliiity with which that great and resplendent character-had acted with regard to Simi'.: Canid he forget.that thefts was not a single crime, which he had attempted to Unfits upon the character of our •Allies, with wid t h this Aieut• and resplendent character Wri"elit'lnedeliberireellle? Broken premises ! M r dltrell• Prtnetil'fitoitwojtut aggress i ons—above all , 'lloftt ferions enmity' Sirelnst this country, the cause of 'bie,doirtifall, which Was effected by the efforts of this coon trY. fri co opeleitlen with those Allies. It was not bis intention to follow the H o n o urable and' Learned Gentleman in all tiii-obiervations, nor Indeed teas it ne cossary toelo so, as there was no part of the Speech or • the Address in which the liononourable and Learned . te-ntlemen haul not arquieeced. There was one °hair - 'veitionotiotrever, to which he wished shortly to culvert. 'The Honouroble and Learned lientleutan had argued as if the whole deliberations of the Congress of Verona trete confined to the affairs of Spain. There were many other subjects, howeeer, to which their attention was iiirecte I ; •the ahcirs of Italy. the Slave Trade, and the relations hetweenTurkey and Itiissia haul occupied their attentiun. Toe conduct of Russia hid been inAisr onitely arraigned for he could truly aArtil, that in all the trails-tenons which related to Turkey; the conduct,of . the* Power had been marked by the greatest forbearance, Viet a' desire to ay. id all topics which uh,:lit tend to in erease ulisseation. With regard to the con luct of • Au • • s . lira, her avowed object in taking possession of the•ltehan . sestes. wee out that of territorial aglraodiseinent;but to prevent the tlartier with which her own dominions were threatened. II 14ilier the occupation of . Niples by the Austrian troops were or were not jastifiable in his hqr. feirl'4• opanion it:clearly was j ustifiable.—(blear. ear.) The comimo of this country, as regarded N a ples led Spain. Was perfectly condition; the sauce principles ball mg-dated our policy io both cases. lie had left to Misters her ritettt of determining the•propriety. of inter lerence. d uncreationieb ly this tight .con ,net be dolled to p er .' Austria L.l exercised that rigikt,sed ~- ~ ' 3 thE •1 ottiiPiWlNior RAGA Sitlfda: tie tial 4 fiffirAt 4 te r t e pretend Bed bigir WiriPe Ofie dOeitbrlbirlia“ , *4 OtrposionerdrosibfarteMsdhignstase. L Odeinftlifi l o b j etefe oithe VerotteinteSs fill moth! , the *V Wheirthe temitlb4et Antal 'be teasaitted Rig , Alsatian troupe' The fleet mid Lighted Ist made observadossehtliwitteruat effete**. eileedutettl• reserving hlosselt be' pretested, tor moo findes‘oise casks. when .he might eater spore' theft ' mode at large. The' coninsunication from' the 'Thermo; that's , reduction had been made in the estinurteSforthirseeitiesi, of the Year and the recernmendatiow . f sod !Sege remi ssion of telethon, ceesistent leitli the maint l tinliance of public credlUmust have been highlyantiefie- Wert° the House. He (Mr. Peel) woulduew • Omagh •perhaps somewhat irregularly; give rodeo of the den of his Right Honourable Frimsd (Mr. F. Robi lien) et the earliest day' after his returt, to •enfor into a 'general explawation of the state of the corniteyi• and*, before the House the detail of a system of reduction and retrenchment, which the House amid net fail to' heir 'with satisfaction. He (Mr. Peel) weal& forth*" take this opportunity of informing the How, that a consi derable part of the reduction would be applied to the remission of the Assextd Taxes. He could net cosine, however, with the Honourable and Leased thatiensaus that meek was Whit expected from the reesimioo of tax ation. It was in the eacreasieg prosperity - of the epa• nuts - flaring and commercial interests of tills mote,. that he (Mr. P.) looked for the relief of the agrieelteral interest from its present depression. Anxious tells felt that the House should come to an immediate decides on the Address proposed to his Majesty, be would refrain• from makingany farther observations. lie greeted that nothing had fallen from iris Honourable Fries& or from himself which• could provoke diecessietit sad that deferring the consideration of all other saispota, the House would, at least on this night, agree it offering. their unanimous thanks to his Majesty for the Speech which had bees delivered to them through hie Commit., dotter". Sic J. MACKINTOSH said, he did not rise to occupy the attention of the Horse for any eonsiderable time. He was willing indeed to rest his own opinions on the excellent speech of the Honourable Mover of the Address, for that Spero!' exptassed the sentiments and principles he (SIT J.) entertained, in terms, which it would be impossible for bins, oe any- man to improve. He should hare been content wititthatSpeeeh, enforced as it hail been by the eloquent and irr e sistible speak of his Honourable and Learned Fried, in which be bad animadverted with sarcastic justice, be would not say ieveritr, the character of those who claimed a monopoly of the principles of honour and equity, but whose viaduct exhibited a gross violation of all those principles; if he had not felt himself called upon to deliver an opinion, however shortly and fseblye at a crisis which he could not but consider as one of the most awful in the history of mankind—at a moment when the despots of the Continent avowed principle*, subversive of the Law of Nations, destructive of lbw rights of independent states, involving Zurope In hosti lities so greatly to be deprecated, affecting the , security of his Majesty's dominions and the bootee of his Crown, and levelled directly against the glory, liberty and safety of Great Britain. In one point, bow. vet, he differed from his Han. and Learned Friend. His Hon. and Learned Friend bad said that his Akin Chris tian Majesty, who hail been most unfortunately advised to undertake this war, had carried the monarchical prio ciple even further titan the Holy Allies at Verona. Now. the monarchical principle, broached from the very com mencement °film Holy Alliance, and which be (Sir J.) deemed to be the most sarcastic reflection ever cast on Monarchy, was this—that no ethendment in the instil... tions of absolute Monarchs could be legitimate , enlist they flosii•il from the alitiolute Monarchs thrmsetteenis was the principle on which his. Most Christian Majesty relied, and if Ws principtek be admitted the Kisigisof these realms is an usurper. It arraig n s •to the - Crown--it brands King William as a conspiseter, and our ancestors who seated him on the throne as a gang of banditti—it brands our ancestors who extorted Magna Charts as conspirators--the ost solemn acts on which our constitution rests, become null and invalid—every privilege of this house is annihilated, and his Majesty's occupation of the throne is nothing but a continued usurpation, and a violation of that pretended monarchical principle, which is applied ti the affairs of Spain by those whom lie was sorry to hear called the allies of this country.—(Hear.) He could not conceive how an alliance could mist between a Government, which had advised the Speech they had heard this day, and the Governments who had is sued the Circulars, introducing a new law of nations, inconsistent with any doctrine of international law which had been ever before promulgated. They ilis tinctly laid it down as a principle, that three or four great states of Europe had a right to treat every amend ment in monarchical institutions. not flowing from the trill of the Sovereigns, as an usurpation, and to make war upon any people who adopted such ameadments.— A government adopting this principle was, in point of fact, at open war with all independent states, and it be. came a mere question of policy and prudence, when such states should chute the time and opportunity of asserting their rights, in defiance of a boilyof conspirators against the rights of all nations. He did not know when thee the Hon. Member for Bossiney were In his place, but he believed lie laid it down as a principle, is the debate on the transactions in Naples, that certain declarations might be considered as overt acts of hostility. Thus the Declaration of the National Convention, in November 1792, was considered by the Allies at furnishing a le gitimate ground for the resistance of other nations to the encroachments of France. The Right Honourable Gentleman opposite had misstated .the aground_ upon which Austria maintained her right of interfering with Naples. Austria did not jostify the right of interfer, ence on the score of vicinage—she did not . justify . it on the ground of danger, to her own doMinions, but be- cause she claimed the Lordship paramount over Eu• rope. The vAllied Sovereigns then declared that they had the power, and consequently the right, to strike other•states, bat that they would confine tbeloselves for the present to Naples and Piedmont. They might have marched their troopregain into what, according to the new system of Muscovite Geography, is tertneo the Western territory of Europe ; it arose solely from the moderation of the Allie•I P owers, that they did not then advance their Cannock' and Croaks into France and Stain. It arose entirely from their tender mercy and moderation that they adjourned for a year or two their operations .gains the Western territory of Europe. Spain and Portugul were graciously respited. Spaiq anti Portugal - had the privilege of beitig last devoured. The writers of the Ultra Royalist faction in France had appealed to the authority of Louis xty. ; the object of the present war being' to subject Sp do again •to the power of Frame. If this faction appealed to the con teloptible anthority of Louis XlV.—tlistOotaae would respect —Eorope. would, listen to the , dying. words of William 111. ['rear:]. In his last speech front dethrone, the Champion of the imieoentlence of Europe explained the policy of Louis XIV. the terror of his neighbours, the oppreabor of l'orope, who, daring his whole life, was engaged in endeavouring to establish a system of universal conqn-st. He begged to call the attention of the House to the words delivered by Wilily). 111. on this subject in his hot Speed from the throne, anal within..tive months of his demise. They were most itnportaw!,• and: wonted eltsost prophefie,. far they applied tastily very-situation in 'chick we now stood with regard to f rant* anal. Spoils :—!‘ by the, French King . / plaein . ghlrgratnitot N thmthemoe of Spojor l f 'I • • a( , .Dm * • * ti -- ~%~ _v _ 14 tbrigillello-: oppeweitilifirfse &Yolk': 1040 ", i speedy end effectual mesearimr-be take*. Under !his 'pretence be is become elieemeismetereff the whole Spite. anA"Ate eatettprba bar made% it satire/ &look! r ow Fran* . tdiepOaeo• et it 4* of h do militias: anti; by'. that meet» he bar. suesoanded 'his issighboars in such a manner, that though the name' of poor may be- said to • continuo. reit dpj aro pit ttrthe-seeprecesand itaresetraimmies of afar. This mast affect &mimed in tie euseetrat asof moot sentithlst saannervia:respect tomer Made; which will.soon betake precarious -alit he-variable breeches of it ;in mpeet to our pOUCO and safety home, which we tassel hope'shouldiougccintintse; lad , in respect to that part which. litigtaad ought to take i o the- preservation el the liberty of Ea rope:" Such .was• the dying declaration of the deliverer of Hafer, in whittle he places the prefer: vatlbn of the liberte of Europe at the head of the climax as Resole pitted tatseliosei aud• calumny at the head of berg: The UllAillitlOUS Addresses both-h ousee ofParlia- I sent adopted therseesiessent• of the deliveret of Europe, cad gaveled *Pk them the sentiments and feelings of the people of England. Front the Peace of Utrecht to tie, Pettily Compact, the evil of &each ialluenee is Spells extended over a period of 40 or 50 years, and as soon re the Family Compact was concluded, Spiral berates., for all military porposee, a province of France, The Ultra' Royalists ceeld scarcely seek for precedents is the reign' of Louie XIV. with any consistency. The Governroeut of the Soothers bad been restored on the expeess princi le of their moderate and pacific c haracter, and their disposition to &Kris the military spirit uitieh prevailed throagli Puttee; vet the first retomethey made to luristse was lobster.' a most perilues experiment, to anemia whether they might nut gain a new basis for utility" aegraudisentent. The only restraint or limitation whistle coatille applied to French influence in Spain, was' the. eetablishinent of a national legiskitare, and a' free ems, sttutiou: this was the only balance to the Bone bon ialineace in Spain: In April, ISI2, wises overtures were made by Franc* for peace, as for as' regarded Spain, Lord Londond -fry made it ei,e Titer conflict the legitimacy of the Cortes of Spain, then exercising the powers of government. Ferdiaand being at that time a prisoner in France, should be distinctly recognised. Why then did they bear of the perjured soldiers of tre2lll—(flear, bear.) Why of a Revco lotion, when It aegis' to he called the restoration of a got wernment which had brentsoknowledged legitimatehy this country. acknowledged as legitimate by Bemis, and by all Europe, except Napoleon? lie would sot tretparis on the atteution of the House further titan by deekit4hg Wilmot conscientious conviction that the ag gteellion ageing Spaisi and Portugal —for tfwse coun tries in a Alit. a military, or a geerraphicol view were perfectly identical—teas thomost unrighteous, unpro voked, wairioir stud bailees. aback ever mode by oar people optima anothter.—(Heir, hear.) The people of Spain had hithertaishown the most singular forbear ing!: and he prayed to tiorl that they might continue to exhibit that forh aaaaa ce which had done them so much honour, and reflected so much credit di. the natiesal character, and that they might not he provoked- by wrinton aggression lobs any act of violence, which could hoer no other effect than that of serving their implacable enemies. He.felt a national iurerest in the isms of this struggle. It was not merely-au attack on the liberty of Spain which was meditated—it was as attack on the glory of England—it was an attempt to gain back the trophies won by English valour in light ing &raids lodependesee of Spain—it was in attempt to , steal from the laurels of Vittoria and Salamanca—it was in attempt; after they bad berg worsted in the drill, to steal bac# the trophies foOf -bit,' wrested from them at the • point -of the hayouet.-10Ilear, bear !) Whatever the event of the contesearight bejf ferries aggression shmild prevail ever right aatrjustitier he (Sir J.) should feel no shame forthe part he bid taken in their behalf. What ever the Newts! of arras might be, Ito shonlikaamen Oh: pelt? •estiostrittg that- lipporetuulty of expressing his cow. victiun in the face of the Howse sad the country, that so nation hail ever deserted to inspire more unmixed 'yen pithy than Spain.' These sentiments were, he reit s e. tithed, the-sentiments of the people of England. There was not an Impartial mss in the ceentry by whom-they were not re-echoed. His Honourable and let-or:led Friend (Mr. Brougham) had truly said, that there was nut a ilea or enlightened man in E u rope, oat of the councils of the Sovereigns, wiser assented to the princi-' pled which they had promulgated. His lien. and Learned Prietel had quoted a beautiful passage from Cicero's Tract de Republica. lie (Sir J.) would quote another passage; applicable to the - subject, from the same author. Coming from this writer, the ',aliment would not he suspected of *ding a very dentocratical one, especially a. it was placed in the mouth of. Scipio A fri. sinus; and the beend of flits beautiful dialogue from which it was taken was laid at the time of the Gracchine Sedition, when Scipio was the leader of the Senatorial, party. That great philosopher, speaking of the unhappy I 'objects of absolute Monarchies. bat this remarkable passage El popolo, qui sub lege est, malts decant; imprimisque birettas, qua non in eo est ut junto domino utamur, see natio." Liberty, then, according to this authority, did not consist in having even a just and moderate master; bat in having none at all. Such was the sentiment ascribed with strict historical propriety to Scipio Africanus, at a time, too, when his temper might be supposed to be iullatned against popular privileges. As the Allied Powers• had given a respite before.fur two years to Spain and Portugal; they might now give• another respite to Portugal they might pretend to sax, that they did not attack Portugal, although the crime of Portugal was precisely the same as that of the Spanish nation. And when Portugal was destroyed, what re mained behind? 'fhey would then see the three Powers of the North ready to pour their myriads into the Western territory of Europe, and if the French armies should be insoffscieot to of the subjugation of Spain, or if disronteut' or convulsion should arise in Frame, they would sea . * AltmeOtitto army lining theakoreirsif the Continenifioniqiuteterdiat to Cadiz. This would be the last reedit otthe stuck on the liberties of Spain. [The Honourable and Learned Gentleman sat down "midst land and general cheering.] Mi. DENMAN said, that if peace could he main tained consistently with the honour and security of the country, II God', name let it be preserved ; but if not, though it wasesough to break the heart of any moan to reflect that the horrors and calamities of war were likely to be renewed,‘ we had but one course left—that of manly and U3IIAMOUIP exertion. They had been as sured in the Speech from the Throne, that his Majesty's Government had declined / to interfere with Spain ; .bat he could have wished for further assurances, that they hid solemnly protested against the conduct of the Allied Powers, and that every effort, remonstrance, and threat lead becu used -to deter France from issuing that mani. festo, the irrport of which it was impossible for any ingenuity to misconstrue. Could the kite's:ions of the French Government be donbted, when they declared they hid 1110,000 men ready to take the field ? He was unwilling to enter into any topic which might provoke discussion, yet he could not help thinking that the House ought to be informed under what instruc:ions his Majesty's Plenipotentiary had acted at Verona. lVhat countenance could that Plenipotentiary have rimmed when he was told that the AUted Powers were about to rieeerna Spain with arms, because the Spa hiarde haVeztorted from their Monarch those insti tutions whiek tonld only-be obtained brextortion ? He could not help thinking that such remonstrances ought to have beetrmaiie as would have prevented the appear :ince of that Allowing So. ech which had.issued from .Ibe MOStit of the King of Frances if the Vongress 1.30 its fact hew theltedine--of temwestletrisee on -the pail of England, the aggression of France against Spain, in the tease of .shabremonstrassess, was of itself an art o p twilit, Atolls. laird. He lib/ Est•th . H. war tniglsti m he *staid, Si s hi did .aut • wish'itd welt' atonned o : the *opted of tiatio priistiptel ' open • %tick • the ishparioetw aid seettrlttief the - epertlytleprndee Hi. tileugifi this tliii was the single questititrwkilth` oeghtt pew to wooly their attentiow=all the der l's of poi *deal mammy, even this considersli•on of the -saw, 140 of ihe errata , / had been postponed, and•the -Mae Of Commons bad' properly &oared • HOU on the Mg t . 4i of its useetirig- to tha t sitteetion, on - which her mill i•a•peutienee and thit °C her nearest and hest fllly . da. 'waded. Mae would have been the effect with regard to Spain, had we adopted doubtful or a wavering teener at this usonientops crisis? Mutt it not operate as . 4 discouragement to the patriotic efforts of the. Spatsialf astion? Was it not therefore one slaty to make at so 4j II hold and explicit avowal of our hostility to the like . istion of the confederated Sovereigns ?—for d e . Mend upon it, the language that noprfncipled „Alliance held this . day to Spain, thq would 111 the rafter of Hatters hold eventually td Great Bri tain (bear, hear !). There was little ifiteht entertained by the people of this country, that if the aggreurvius of .France should lead to the slisterhance of the peace of &trope, that sooner or later we should be litaggerl insp. the contest. What he deprecated—what the peopl e of this country deprecated, was, that If Great fintain was to be embarked in hostilities, it should not he on nay miserable little manoeuvre, any little diplomatic trick, at a time too when perhaps inconsequence of a fluctuatiag policy our Ally had snifered:sonse reverses, anti the pre tensions of her enemies were strengthened by same*. (hear, hear!). In place of any sues evasive of our du -1 ties and our interests, if that unit-Wowed ageresion ve t o . to proceed, let El:gland speak out at once with all -hat . energy which became the character of her I:uttermost and thefree institutions of her constitution (hear, heir), There were no needier, which the people of this kili,• (lout were nut ready to m Are is reaistance to accis a %vs. tens of oppression. And overlooking for a moment the obligationa that the principles of jnatice impeded; must certain he was, that in the view of economy alone, the frank, the bold, and the explicit course, avowed at %las woman, - warthe - eafer, as it •wils the more di•gai. tied policy. He had wished to have sail lions touch in the exercise of that discretion which lwlonze.l to event Member of that House-, in commenting on the Spree!. from the Throne. In giving ilia mere? to the Address, he conturred with his Honourable Friends nom- him, bet lie should have given his assent. m ire cordially if that House had been made w-rinainted by his al-,i,,,1 i c., Ministers with the precise etfiras a hici, were mine for the 'British Represenr..tive - at Verona, in sustaining ttit great and vital principle of free governments, against tibial the confederate Potentates on r:e man. A n d throat!: he subjected himself to the rebuke *skids fell frees- the-Right flee. Secretary opposite (fir. Peri), in consevence of the application of the terms .• great 411-1 resplendent character" to that illustrioes man, latele deceased, and who once presided over the'ilestinies of France, he still armed distinguivir between that char se. ter of aggression which emanated from . the attire im pulse of a warlike instinc - ,and that whirls was the remit of a cold, celcsdatingand selfish policy, utae !twined he my one quality entitled to respect, and which cimid proceed from no other feeling but an inneteracy to freedom and a couacionsnrss of their combined %trees:ln —(Hear.) The princii.le of interferen, e with in,!,-. pendent States was, is any extent, mischievous—hut there was a eery marked distinction between the inter ference Which warted the conduct of tise French Governs Men% and the unprincipled pre-ensions altich the COW tineutal Potosi:dos now arrogated. If we did not at once openly avow oar Iv.s ility to snub preter.sione, berms• success emboldened pe rSr r prance, a eriris wuntd moat osobahry minis> Amapa* beta _w ealsoold in vain regret the we hail starred. the moment of energetic and suc cessful-reef/tease tar's... aseapad..."(ihrar,) • , , The Rioht lion. C. Arbuthnot. who is to be reroovert from the Treasury, and to take Mr. Iluskiesotes °M. e. of Clerk of the Bloods sad Forests, is, it is stated, to be created a Baronet. Frrax ACCIDENT ON TIM Ica.--On the 'alt. a ntelanehely occurrence took place. on t h e Like of Coati... strange. in the demesne of Thomas Mitchell, Esq..itt the roomy of Itoarommon. A man of the name of Casey, in crossing an arm of the lake, had not proceeded totny yards upon the ice, when it gave way, and he 'atilt ioi mediptely ; but haying accidentally found footing on a rock, be was not perfectly overwhelmed. Hit eneono raged the hope of being saved by the arrival of flat — brothers of the name of Kilroy, who, with true lei courage and humanity, ron to his assistance.. Owe of the a had sororeiled in fastening a row* elm thl his wa;st, When the ice giving way again, he also snag. iii , tlv• brother!. anxiously, but inconsioeratt Iv, !won't, towards him at the same moment, to snare, alas! with a' friend and brother, their rremature and watery 'rotor"! b , four bodies were found in a hew hones atter. the- hallos of each clinging todhe rope. One has kit e widow, awl another a widow and child to suffer by their loss. The father of the three Kilroes is an object of- great pitv: old, feeble, and infirm, he little thought that in one fatal hour, his three fine lads, the props of his declinine years, were to be cut off in the Spring of their days. It is fortunate that the famnilirs resided on rho property of a benevolent landlord. A fifth lad, of the MIMI' Of • Keegan, in entlearotring to save the rest. erctivext by the let breaking where the outer was not so tleep.—(Vtd liot Evening Mail.) Tuesday morning, about 10 o'clock, an alarming fire *mkt out at Mr. Cole's, Bridge-place, Paddittr. ton, caused by a boom projecting over the copper,tl e having caaght five and communicated with the rafters in the parlour flooring, where it horst throogh. sinus apprehensions sere entertained for tin safety o` Mrs. Cole,. relic was np stairs, confined only _a t • days; and preparations were immediately resorted to to remove -her, when, by very great exertions, and .a plen tiful supply of water from the canal, it was happi'y g.t under witlsont the engines. Much damage to do tr to the loser part of the boost., and also to zoo, fortiori , . Had it happeoed• at night,in all probability theinselies Ind 'family of seven children might have fallen a suit _ MARBIbTh. Oa IVedneiday, ?lie sth init. it Bt. Clements, Strand. Mr. A. Barltrap, of .the Borough, to Ann, daughter of Mr. John Andrews, or Dover. On Thursday, the oth inst. at St. Panerna church, the Rev. 11. West. rector of Rem ick. and vicar of Latightoo, in the county ortiussex, to Louisa, daughter of the late Sir Barker, Bart, DIED. • On the 16th of December, Mrs.:Mary Bannister. sued 63, wife of Mr. J. Bannister; end on 23th Jan. Mt. J. Bemis ter, aged 62. many years manager of a respectable Eques trian Company. On the sth inst. Mi. Thomas Slade, of Barnard's-1M aged 73. On Monda y , Feb: 3, at the President's Incising', C. C. C. fkford, in the Nth veer of his age, J. Cooke. nearly 40 y ears Presbleht of COrpos Christi Cape*, rector of Wo‘ ct eaton and Begbrctoke, and for aboet 50 years an andrailba giatrade for the county orOxtord. London : Edited, Printed, and Published, at tee Oleo at " The STATZSMAN" N.:. 297, Strand, by R. VIrItEDELI., J.L.B, to wheat: all . cottenanicatlone, Prddis; M. 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