The Statesman. — London, England, 1823-02-12 00:00:00

F ,el!e‘o • MA LLB. DUB. ♦RR. I Dublin - 0 1 Holland • I Waterford 0 0 Raisin° . 0 G. & Jersey • 0 0 France 0 Llabon I ' 0 Flanders nottenburs - t 0 Bnsfl - Ass Waufsaassair.r Holiday at the Public Offices. Mot .26tatesman. WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 12, 1823. BIiURBOPI WAR. As was to be expected, and as we have always said wonl.l he the case, the Paris Journals have set up a Baud laugh at the blesterint speech of Mr. Brougham, and that of his clap trap rival, Anacharsis Clootz. Every thing indicates a fulfilment of our predictions to the 'Very letter. We always said that the French beift a : polite people, would pull off their hats, make us a very low bow, and walk into Spain to merry music in the month of March. Let the farmers keep a look out and reutemberjuot when they see the first primrose about to peep, for it is just at that time the French will be in Spain,in spite of the Speech of Mr. Brougham and the bleatinc and the bawling of the beasts of the London • sewspakrs. There is one thing to be paid attention _ ..sist putiog Jo this war; and that is, whether we be to have a hand in it. We ought to prevent Spain from be ing pnt into the hands of France ; for if they subdue it , it will be no other than a province of the latter country. But, we cannot prevent it without reducing and largely reducing the interest of the debt; and that cannot be done critbotit a sale of Church Property and of Crown L a nds, and without a reform of the Parliament. To call, es Mr. Brougham does, for a naval armament, without • railing' for these other measures, is to call for the abate. lute destruction of all the landlords and all the farmers in P. ag land. He would have a naval amsment, and yet be bawls out for keeping faith as he calls it with the public creditor; that is to say, for continuing to pay him three for one. This is down•right nonsense. The Courier of last night intimates to us that we are likely to bare an enemy in another quarter. The future destiny of the island of Cuba. occasions •• tout h !peculation le the United States. It is easy to see, • we think, that American politicians cherish a strong hope • of its annexation to their Republic: bet; if the appropria • lion be attempted, they will probably hare to discuss •• some perpleringlecations with Englund. 'lt is rumour • ed and believed,' says a New York pi.per 'that a strong • desire Gast* fit Ohba to declare itself independent under •` the auspices of the UniLed Stales. It is further added, " that 'oterfares to this effects , ill in all probability be soon " admitted to our Government.' This is very much the " way in which Illsonaparte used to preface his projected • argraaeizements, by assuring the world, before hand, • that what he secretly intended to seize, was already spon •• taneously offered to him." There is a fool for you! Does not this fool think that the American government knows our situation as net• as we do? Does he think that nobody sees the millstone bat ourselris?--We tobilltis pretty government ofour's, .Ipss age, tisit they:would lose the West Indies if they did eat Anet rid of the debt. Let them keep that debt a Lew years longer, and they oil! Seed to give themselvt i ~,amerawg. Utah anoctrlo about the lave - Trade. Let Weis have a war, even now, with France ; and let them even shake of the debt, and they will find their hands full; for Am, r:cs and Russia n ill join France against them ; and the Americans Hill now, in all manner of ways that they arc able, assist France in her endeavours to subdue Spain. We are in a pretty state, therefore, with this • debt ahont our necks, to make what Mr. Brougham calls a naval artnament! In short, reduction of deli, or solute submission. is our lot.—The howling. of the London press opon the subject of this war, are truly di verting. We lore to hear the vile thing Foul. That which is bad for it ionst• be good for the world, and for England in particular. Let not thecountry be inveigled into an approbation of one single act of hostility on our mt. This sanguinary and greedy press wants war, that it may have its second editions, its horn men blow. ing about the streets, and the cramming of its maw with what It extracts from public credulity. It wants again to be ',Mug its forgeries. The Jews that own it want to Imayraio sucking the blood of the country. We trust •their• toloOd-thirs!y desires will be frustrated.—We are • '4l 4ir k. iNRrm lily; that is to say, for not laying out • t twit - MO patsy, or for a reduction of the interest of • tG04.1r.--I'ke Morning Chronicle of to-day has a ter rible :philippic against Monsieur de Villele ; and, lents to hist that there is a secret understanding between hist) and our Minister. There need be no secrets here ; for, our Ministers and the French minister also know very well that we cannot go to war and tare off taxes, too ; sad they know that we must take off taxes or that the Landlords must lose their estates,. PROCE,tiIINCS lti PARLIANIENT.. vni LORDS oothing was done except a notice from Lord lillenhorough to wove the second reading of the New' Marriage Act. IN 'NIL Comatose a discussion of no very great in. test took place about the Yeomanry of Ireland.—Neat r an icike act.—Mr. F. Lewis moved for leave to bring ;...) a Br 'l to amend this Act. 'f his Act must be repealed. Lt never Ca it go into effect. it would ruin, or drive from ch t ,i r f an „,,. a i the farmers in a considerable part of the ki ng d om . T o 1 ,, eke the drove.lanes and cross-roads admit the wheels %. Lich are ordered by this Act would cost half the swab of the present fee simple of the I..nd. Cations Cations LaNr:s.—Mr. Hare moved for papers relative to this public property. If he get an accoent such as be te:elit to have, this would be the most valuable deco- ment that the country has possessed for a long while. We do nut tee whether his motion is to be granted. Hat, :,t any rate, it will awaken attention to this important' subject ; for we repeat it with perfect confidence, that if . properly disposed •of these lands would pay off, at an equitable rate, much more than a hundred millions of our enormous Debt. 14 it be observed, that Mr. Home said' that he intended to propose that the Crou n lands ~tinuld be sub), and the proceeds appropriated to Me • payisi r.(O 49' Me :mama debt ! What, have we Nor ;,.lit Petition here again? And will Lord Nuffield from • i.;s tarn, and Cockey • Hacou from his hole, and Mr. Coke trout 'his hole . and coiner, all Mr. Hume a plea- -.... • DUI. deter of the Crount!—They most, however ; 01'1 they must blush for their conduct with toped to that proposition which the county meeting sanctioned, and which they have bad the fully, Or the something worse than folly, to abuse.—Vice Treasurer of freer:ad.—Hr. Hume, in moving for some papers relative to this office, made a very just observation; namely, that he thought that the long list of dependants upon a Lord Lieutenan of Ireland, served no o th er purpose than that of addimi to the taxes of this country : and that he thought tht office could be quite as well performed in London. Good : every man of sense must be of the same opinion. —Window Tar.—Mr. liobbonse gave notice of his in tention to renew, after the Easter recess, his motion for a repeal of the window tax! This was odd enough, after Mr. Maberly had given notice that he should make emotion for the repeal of the whole of the assessed taxes. But, a man must have his motion. However, Mr. flub. house had a contingency in contemplation; namely, tor less the country should le engaged in tear, or unless Mr. Maberly's motion should be carried, or unless the ministers should take off the window tax! Why, the ministers have said, audain as they can speak, that they intendiwialta eff the window tax; so, that, all that we have c f novelty here is, or, rather, all that we find likely to be useful to the ministers, aid likely to assist hi' keeping en the whole of the assessed taxes, is a declara• tion clearly implied that Mr. Hobboase is ready to keep on all the taxes for the sake of going to war ; and, that too, without oue single word about reduction of interest of Debt! Mr. Hobliouse will see no war without such reduction ; and of that we ran assure him. ..... - • • ••• • ••••• ••• " ' ' '• TUE ." ISTATXBM4 ,"-••••, rejected nod that an ameadmokof General Foy, tend. ing to declike any occupation, et ctoperntiop by foreign Powers; was likewise rejected by the previous' qneation. It is added, that the amendoielite rem asp' ported by Messrs. Sebastiani, Cabsoon, Emetioenr. and Chauvelin, and combatted by the Minister tit Finance; that the Minister of War. was absent, and that the Minister of Foreign Affairs did not utter above one or two expressions on the great question under discussion. The attack of Delalot for not having begun the war before, is stated by the Journal du Commerce to have provoked M. de . Witte to a very extraordinary defence. By acting imprudently and with precipitation," it is asserted be said, " there would have been a risk of ex. peeing the life of King Ferdinand. Every thing which could be done against the Constitutional system was done. It was difficult to supply the extravagant demands for men and money made by the chiefs of bands; but as• sistance was given them, insurrection was stirring ap wherever it was possible. But, much as he appeared robe inclined to peace when war was not possible, so much %vas he disposed for war, now that a hundred thousand med were assembled at the foot of the Pyrenees. and now that it was necessary to attack Me South ia order to eacupe iron. Me North." This ambigioos biairttage, it is said;required some explanation; the a which Wan. that war was to be made on Spain in order not to give a passage to the armies of the IsOrth who have to take vengeance on the Peninsula. This reasoning says the Journal du Commerce, appears to us puerile and in admissible. But the close of the general discussion of the address appears to have been pronounced without any speaker of the left sidi having taken part in it. A mail from Holland brings intelligence that the Zm peror of Russia left WAISAW on the 23d ult. on his re turn to Petersburgh. On the t Oth there was a grand review of all the troops in garrison there, before ►im and Prince Constantine. One of the Prussian Ministers of State, Von Moss, died at Berlin on the 30th of Janu ary. Norfolk (Virginia) papers have arrived to the 14th of Jan. from which we extract the following:— Pans BAHIA, Nov. B.—We learn from Para that the Junta of that province continued firm. The vessel from Rio, was obliged to depart immediately on her an lea!, and to carry back the emissaries and the ordtrs which were sent by her. On the 31st, the expedition from Lisbon intended to reinforce the troops stationed thee landed amidst the acclamations of the people. The cry of " King and Constitution" was in every one's mouth, and no one seemed to think of the Prince or his decree. Nov.l2.—Tbe last arrivals from Lisbon inform us tba a second expedition was to set out forthwith. The King in his royal letter dated the 31st of August, ad- d d to the Junta of this Province, states that it being necessary to station in the waters of Bahia a squadron for the protection of the tranquil and pacific residente,for the maintainance of the Laws of the Cortes, and for the preservation of the anion between Portugal ins{ illsioner.sodneevoiedemstinder in Chief of that squadron, Juan Felix deCampts,authorizing him to attach to his command any Portuguese vessels of war which he may meet in his voyage, or may find at Bahia on his arrival, and enjoining in Portuguese citi zens to aid and assist him in suppressing disobedience to the Laws. fovea, Fee. 10.—Me. Mates, the King's Messenger, arrived here last night, direct from Madid, with despatches. He erns detained some time at Tolosa, in the Pyrenees, owing to en armed banditti being on the oetskirts, that plundered every one that passed. However. on the Govern or of St. Sebastian sending a body of 60 troops to guard the mall and despatches, Mr. Mates was about to proceed, when accounts reached Tolosa that the banditti was up. wards of 100 strong, and that a small force would inevit- I ably be cut to atoms. In consequence, a representation was made to the Governor of St. Sebastian for a reinforcement ; but fearing an attack on that place, only an escort of eft men I could be spared, with which the messenger and the mail set forward, and reached Bayonne fortunately in safety. To pass the Pyrenees now, without a very strong guard, is ex tremely dangerous. It appears by a letter from Paris, that a suspicion is en tertained of an intention on the part of the French Govern ment, in the event of war with this country, to detain all British subjects, as their expenditure, drawn from Great Britain. consists of several millions. We learn from a quarter possessed of excellent infor mation on the subject, that the French nation has at this moment on the seas,or in the act of being shipped on account of its merchants, from various ports and islands, property to the amount of fourteen millions sterling,— (Morning paper.) The Spanish papers contain dispatches from General O'Donnell (Count del Abisbal), dated the 30th of Janu ary, descriptive of his proceedings against the force under Bessieres and Ullmann. According to these a counts, the Insurgents ocenpie4 Sacedon, on the 29th, with 4 000 infantry and 2110 cavalry, and three pieces of', artillery. It also occupied the principal heights between' , the Tagus and Sacedon ; but the commanders, it seems, knew not bow to make the best of their position, and in consequence of which there must have been little more than a series of severe skirmishing. They evacuated Sacedon in great disorder, and took the road to Heute, with General O'Donnel close in pursuit. There appears to be some dissatisfaction at the conduct of the pretea Spanish Ministry. The approach of bands of the army of the Faith so near Madrid, is attributed not to the strength of these bands, but to the want of talent and vigilance of the Ministers. A coalition is therefore called for between the moderate and the violent party. The Curacoa Courant, of 7th Dec. states, that the re. port received by the way of Coro, of the recapture of 31aracaibo, by the Colombian troop., was discredited, no battle having taken place at Garabuya since the 13th of Nov. The Colombian Minister has been ordered to quit :he Mexican Empire. Letters from Maranham, dated Dec. 26, and received yesterday, mention that Pernambuco was blockaded by three Portuguese vessels of war from Bahia. Letters from Port au Prince, dated Bee. 20, mention that President Boyer had issued a Decree on the pre ceding day. in which he declares, that in consequence of the dreadful fire that had taken plate on the 16th and 17th of the same month, all !amber and building ma terials shall be free from all import duties and dues of wharfage, during the current year. The point of law which was pleaded in arrest of judge ment, at the last ,Limerick Assizes, in the case of the abduction of Miss Gould, has been decided by the Judges with the prisoner's Counsel. Lord Grenville, it is stated, has lately bad a paralytic stroke, from the effects of which he continues to soder. MONIIOUTL—At the monthly market held on Wednesday last, we rejoice to end that cattle bore art advance of price, as it did at the fair of Hereford; pigs also *ere purchased readily, partisuarly those fee feeding.--(Bt isiel J4vouri V 0 a.-w. - , ;k7A. nom! • All't .4.4.1A1NNA "fe.efe PRIVATE (::OWISPON.VENG& . . • . Manittn, Frs. 2.—A change appea-s to be. eicting In public opinion; from which new and very interesting combinations have resulted, whereof the most important is an approximatioa between the Mvilcratee and the Commuiteros. This alliance, shlch is on the point of taking.plsee, rind of which the roaditions are at th's moment negotiating, aill have for object assil The dismissal of She present Ministry. replaCing it by a Ministry formed from the party of the Moderate: I and the Communtros. 3. A negociarion which the new I Ministry will immediately endeavour to pro with England, having for basis certain concessions that die Government here will xffike for peace, and cowmen/tat ty some modifications in the cy.istjng constitution.-- Things are in that state, that withunt duuht some deei - sion must within three or f‘ttir data take place. As to the present Ministry, it appears that they have deter mined on resigning : the waht of foresight shown in, permitting the factious to approach the capital, without taking any precastioc• to repel them, has ruined their characters even.with the least enlightened. One of the first meituies,of the new Ministry, a measure strongly advocated by the Couttiutnerot. sill be the formation of. an warty of the centre, the command of,..bich will ehe given to Ballasteros, with karco de Valle as Ids chief o f die stair. . . Sill PIVOU I NULLIGOICE. DEAL, Fes. ll.—AiAvid and sti:ed for the river, the Selina, Dale, for New Providence.; Travers. Cable, from the Cape of Good Hope. Came down fr.m. the river. the Slaters, Bishop, for. Naples; Cecrops, Ha rrison, for Ja maica, and remain with the rest of the outward booed, ail W.S.W. PLTMOUTM, Fen.lo. Arrived the George, Smith, from 'London to Gibraltar, wind mound.—Wind W.S.W. FALMOUTH, Fes. 10.—Arrived a frigate, supponsd to be the Tartar, bound to Booth Ameriea.—Wind S.W. Haawtcu. Fes. I I.—Arrived the Henry Frosting packet -from Holiaod.—Wind S.W. The Matilda, from jam/ilea to Liierpool, and Richard, Findlater, from Pernambuco, to Ditto, are on shore on Newry liar. . The Ann, M'Greary. from Strangford to Liverpool, wns totally lost 6th inst. on Strangford Bar. The Nelly and Kitty, Sharp, from Westport to Liverpool, Is on shore neer Mocktettger. The Quernsbury packet from Falmouth, arrived at Jo. male. the 10th Dee. COURT OF KIND'S BitiolCH.—Tiiis DAT ) GAMING. THE KING V. V. 1. IIOGIER, W e. lIUMPHRET AND OTHICRt. These di fendanis were brOaght op fee the judgment of the Court and received the folllowing see 'once!: Rogier to be confined 12 months in Cold Bath Fields Prinz/ and to pay a fine of 5000/.; and Hum phreys to be confined in the nine prison 12 months, and to be fined 2QOI. Oldtield and Bennet were sentenced to be severally confined two years in the King's Bench prison, and to pay a fine of 100.1/.. each. __— OBSTRUCTION OF THE MATI.S.—The roads north - of New Castle him been so obstructed by snow that it was not till this morning that we received the Inverness Joareul of the 31st. ult. The Mails from Edinburgh, of the 2d, 31, 4th. and sth instant, arrived yesterday. It is stated in all quarters that there ha. not been such a storm for more than thirty years. Even in Cornwall, between Launceston and Beduin, the snow was on Thursday from t 3 to 10 fret deep. Tbe followin notice was exhibited to day at the 4 10 Getters! Post, it,,i— Tl.e Mail e thef9ll3, lett ikewcastle in the afternoon, :. and if the Mails die from Edinburgh bad arrived afte•. . wards, so as to have afforded any chance of their reaching York express by 6 o'clock, A. u. yesterday, they would have been forwarded. lint they have nt,t arrived. The following mails are doe:— Edinburgh, 10th, 11th, 12th ; Leith, 10th, llth, 12th ; Morpeth this day; Alnwick: do.; Belford, do. ; Hexhao, do. ; Glasgow, dn.; Aberystwith, do. Gen. Post Office, 1 o'clock. DUBLIN County ELECTION.—The state of the Poll ea Saturday.eveolek:— IVhite 66 Gross Poll 904 Doraville...... 92 BO2 Majority for Col. White, ICr2 Law A protsurm tiours.-31 r.Cuurtenay, Master in Chan cery, anti M.P. ass yesterday sworn in a Baron of the Exchequer, in the roum of Mr Baron Wood, who has je , tired superannuated. Mr Justice Li yley, we telieye, wished to obtain this appointment, but the Leary./ Judge's friends did not consider it quite a suittible tran sition for a Judge of his m-rite and long services, ever its duties might correspond with his declining It is now said that, by other changes now in rOntempla lion, an opportunity will he afforded of placing Mr. Jas• tics Bayley at the head of the Court o f Exchequer. consequence of Mr. Courtenais elevation the Lt;:si Chancellor will be und-r the painful necessity of exer cising his patronage in the nomination of duo gentlemel of the Long Robe to the office of Master, in the room of Mr Courtenay and Mr Jekyl. Mr. Wingfield is alrt:4/y spoken of as one object of his Lordship's choice, but use other is not yet named.—(.l.forning paper.) Extract from the Agent to Lloyd's at New Orleans dated 17th December: --•• The Clyde. British sloop o war, was spoken with off the Hole-in-the-Wall 2fith with three piratical vessels in company, which she hid captured three days before. Their crews amounted to about 200 men His Majesty's ship Charokee, Capt. Keates, haying been to Einnaird's head, returned to Kessock roads 31 Wednesday, with Mr. Adam of the Academy. We hale not been favoured with any detailed account of the ex periments made by Mr. Adam, but we understand. r! rally, that the result was satisfactory.—(becerntve nal, Jas. 31.) CORN•EXCLI INGE. —IV e have had hut few arrir:.'s since. Monday, and but little doing this morning. The prises of all descriptions of grain remain as per our Jut quotations. We have had good sales of corn this wee in conseqnence of the consumers featiog to be oat of stork. EITZNSIVE BlAlGLAni.—Mord.y evening the hoase of an elderly infirm lady, na:ned Cobbold, residing ia Beaufort Row, Cheleea, near Battersea Bridge, was entered by robbers, in the following manner:—Abdat haltpast seven o'clock in the evening, the old lady ar.d her female servant, who contote the whole fanilbe. were sitting by the fireside in the parlour, at needle work, when they heard a noise in the wainscot, as if some persons were scraping the wall in the next boast., which was under repair; they considered it to be the bricklayers at work, and took no notice of it. Aboat half an hour afterwards the servant went up stairs to fetch something from her mistress's bed room, when si‘e found the door barricaded inside, so that she coald oc!v open it a little, on doing which she heard a great risis in the room, and ehe ran down stairs, calling out mu tter, thieves, &c. The neighbourhood was soon i 6 an uproar, and many ;weans went up stairs, when they discovered the room in the greaten confusion; a:l4les of apparel. were strewed about, and every drawer and other depository were broken open; on further exaa:i• nation it was discovered that the robraers had effecte.l their entrance from the next boos', by means of Itair;ng a breach in the wall, about It; tactics square, stifficiertky large to adroit a man. The rubbers succeeded iu brook iog open the plate chest, (ruin which they stole a greet quantity ut plate, two handsome suite, of jewele, trio!urts, and otter property, to the am/dot of nearly lUtlel. 0 4 -•- 1 TRIALS IN IRELAND. From the Morning Chronicle of this day we gather that the Orangemen tried inf 'viand have been acquitted. Upon this the Morning Chronicle observes that Lord ‘Vellesley ought not to expose himself again to such an insult and to such danger. And adds, that, "as go .. vernment identifies itself with the Orangemen, it " would be absurd in him to suppose that he can remain "an anti-orange Lord Lieutenant", It mould In i sfeed We are very glad the men have been acquitted ; because we never could see any evidences of any conspiracy at all ; and as to putting an end to orange tyranny, Mr. fume's are the only means. SOUTHWARK MEETING. • • There was a Meeting in Southwark, yesterday, and a Petition was agreed to, praying for P:srliameith/Y- Re folio and for reduction of taxes. A Mr. Black moved this petition. He enumerated the public Debt amongst the heads of expenditure. He observed thithe thought the ministers would be ready to reduce the Debt with- out reducing any thing else ; but this be said was what the country di* not 4 want. It wished that every Possible retrenchmeitrshould take place before any ar rangement tfits made with the public creditor. Mr. Black was right. Thlris precisely wh 't% country wants. Sir R. Wilson took as opportul 111 - ihstylt of old Sheridan, to compliment the press, littfirer to an observation which bad been made against it, Woad (just in the words of old fitteridan) that to that great instrument mankind was greatly indebted ; it pointed out to nations their rights as well as their wrongs; it enabled the people to euntend against oppression." For " mankind" the press may be very good ; but to Hog , land it has been the greatest curse that e v e r a ffl i c t e d 1 the nation. Mater this, Sir Hobert uttered a philippic against the Fiend) government, and complimented the French nation ; though he did not tell the meeting that the war in France was as popuiar as any war that had ever been waged. Sir Boleti darkly hinted thattircum stances that might arise would impose upon him the duty (as the Morning Chronicle seems to understand it) of going to help the Spaniards; and the Morning Chronicle takes this opportunity of tickling him in return for the tickle which he had given to the infamous Press of Londod. if the worthy Knight, of the order of Maria Theresa; if the great historian of the Egyptian cam• paigns and of Buonaparte's poisoning his own Soldiers; if the envoy who negotiated with the Swiss a passage for the Austrian, into France; if the Lavalette hero should make the "painful sacrifice" of which he talks, we trust that the people of the Borough of South wark will have too much sense to be gulled into the keeping of the seat for him; but will insist upon his resigning it. so that th o t Borough may not be in' the same sort of state as the boroughs of Batton, Reigate, Haslemere and Bkchingly. STOCA EXCHANGE, HALF-PAST TWELVE O'CLOCK,—In consequence of an expected change in the Spanish Ministry, which may lead to another negotiation with France, our Consols opened this morning at 74, and were done at 74i, but on the arrival of Expresses from Paris, with an account oft le decline of the French Funds to 77.45 cents, the market fell to 7313-74, at which' price they remain. The public generally can not attach any confidence to the idea of a negotiation between France and Spain, particularly µ•hen the King's Speech and ear debates reach Madrid, where no doubt they will have an important effect. The most warlike preparations are still going on in France. Within this half hour an immense quantity of Stock has been sold by the Hebrews, who are getting out of their accounts. In consequence Consols fell to 7 3 11 , with a gloomy market. The French Funds were done so low as 76-SO, —No prices of any Foreign Securities, except Spanish 35/ ; were done 36 361 35L, Spanish Scrip 311. [ The decision of the French Chamber of Deputies has been made known,:and the result can occasion no sur prise. The address, as proposed by the Committee, that is, more menacing and more warlike than even the Speech from the Throne, was adopted by a majority of 202 against 93. The persons who spoke were, accord. ing to the Illoniteur of Sunday, MM. de la Bourdon. naye,de Kergolay (Florian), Delalot, the President of the Council of Ministers, Duvergier de Hauranne, Gene ral Sebastiani, Cabaaon, Leine, Lesigneur, Chauvelin sod G. Foy. According to the Conseitutionnel, Messrs. de la Bourdonnaye and Delalot attacked the Minister of Finance for not having begun the war soon enough ; that U. Duvergier de Hauranne proposed in favour of i peace an amendment, which was rejected by the previous question ; that M. Laine proposed a second, which was ._y.,.,.,~r-----. 1