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\ r ' . • . 4 , . .ia,.. f.,..„ .„ .... .. . _ ii . 1 ).:,.. • tou,o - i • . . . . • ••• r, - %, •I .o' . 74 g mojtix.tezman. . ... .4:,......:11<tiN ;.. _ • I . .5.,..;.-44, , t) ,•111,14) ntti _ . .. •1 7 tincarre. LONDON ; TUESDAY; MAY 13, 1823. . . 51.--11bempsatiiters• luta e pm. mak, bat stliAlopir saber, haft baron/ wain- . ay expected a very coast. round eat, 'through tits et glee thus a profit up booovoiog eiseasy. Tee is who are.deair.oble o.:is rs themselves ..pleptifully mumd does not Improve • Prises on board, s.ls. 3s. 64. per ab out 3s. to 4s. 422. to 4-Is.. beginning to come IN atul Ay over for the ;wester. 818.—Waberf ord., 70.. t. ork, .6dt. to 1081.—Litur- weitlier coutinee. then* Chiresti. as th.n• seas this are givru to r bigh pries wisrky. thy will sell obiaiu; tor shefirat luaa Fine all Chi-shir.., —.DJuble eiloutrAter, ,t,. LLARICIi CS. Iy, there wee a good show of and bet few buyers ; prices 13s. The fair was very fall of 'cep lose by' ome 'millings ; nasny were taken back Is year on a Sunday. Ro•ton i Munilei in 11ide Hsi-date. eagerly engage! reached on eadin and !Veld seldom ,a it t %cis the demand fur. and ,o adranc.Nl -rifts,. of the Rev, - although all were fa. in the emptied before moon, and s.o. .tp in request Ili tt the *hots changed masters before t•i.. we MS fet.Med two guineas • *day. *as hot thinly sopp:i I ate( brasti euhiobsinni lei. wrr. (hill of sale._ _ . lair of this City. on NI Icily, horned rattle, tor w hich Vicre , hot which, 14 If for tie mo-t at tither inti 2 rent prio• ; Hinds to six gut teas gettrrall,. to nine pounos ; Dry Cu.... any th is could be csand ft, Store Phis was smatter Snag to whole went of br,sly, at considered very malt as nomerous at our fairs west in prtportion to the snor ts usual, the show sat post-,. ity, end few sales made. lo ir, though the attendance wt a seemed to he tratiSseted. rt.- The Cora trade list been t an edvaure In price. The to quarters of whet, ether gra;u, hut Battey at :As. lies, wit'.elt have h: en small f r II istqw.ved partietiltirlir sailer t .an ever. rind When,: rid tfot submit t.) hwet price ; s dour in utat article ; we quote row qr. ; those who submitted t of buyers, B trier, what little the price or lust week. Re ea rot way be noted nominal at ot,e dyers at an advance of Is. to 9t. 'e had a large show of Scots anti Int the grass kso backw rti th:a buy : a few SAIPO were effected, nn in price. Tie She;p-pens Aced toe supply WAS AO lar4 . 1114 itt getting them all pentr sold ; bot good !moos soh' . The Pig And Doric markets are been for some weeks. r had ago r. , 1 5... of What ull sales at full 9:. per quartct 11.1rIer %Lig fully rtl(*l t.. the the a- cline. Oat.. are a br , sk . l y e quarter. The same tot,..iy 3R ATU R E. eating New Works have :m may be had of ail Bookseller'. PSTISLIATIO:4 of lit are and timoi.- LA/KD ; by John Robinson, p.n. Pictures of 'rest Enstish ken, prier Os. buuud. or on roy a l us. 134. bit. MISTOV, MIN/RRALOGY. and Fe rn' htste of those B:knees ; by .1. lb Engrasin., price 10s.W. bk:s. y ALL NATIONS, Of Memoirs of as, in every walk of public Life, I in the size and type of Debrett's in S vola. 2/.25. in Wig. !K*SAL HISTORY and HISTORIC %I. 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THE PROPRIETORS and the Public are respect fully informed. That the following Gentlemen will give LEC rURES at this Institution, in the course of the present and succeeding months :—Mr. Partington, on Mechanical Philosophy; Mr. Wood, on Chronology; Mr. Gurney, on Chemistry; and the Honorary Secretary on Poetry. Mr. Wood's First Lecture will be givin on Time. DAV, the 20th inst. at seven o'clock in the evening; the Firs{ - Lecture of the Honorary Secretary, will be given on Foil. DAY the 23d last. at the same hoar. By order of the Committee, J 48. JENNINGS, Hon. Bee. Tlig r PICTO Rig of thoTRIAL of Mikis* QUINN, by Mr. GEORGE HA YTER, Member of the Academy of St. lAlkll. In Rome, ac• &c.—Mr. T. H. QAUTY respectfully notifies, that having paid a large sum of money for the right to exhibit this GREAT H ts•rmucm, PIC TURE. thesame is now OPEN to . the Public at his Rooms, 804. Pall-mall, from Ten till dusk. Admittance, One Shil ling. 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THE Court of Directors of Me United Company of Merchants of England trading to the East Indies, do hereby give notice, That a Special General Court of the said Company. will be held at their house in Leadenhall-street, on Wednes day, the.l4th instant, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, for the purpose of laying before the Proprietors for their ap probation, • resolution of the Court of Directors of the 9th inst., granting Oxman of Sixty Thousand Pounds per ann. tolls Majesty's Goverament, with a view of relieving the finances of the country from the charge incurred for retiring pay pensions, &c., on account of that part of his Majesty's forces which is ma intained in the East Indies from the 30th April, 1822, to he paid oat of the Territorial Revenues of India, on account of all retiring pay pensions, Ike., granted on that, may be hereafter granted in respect of hls.hiejesty's forces serving in the East Copy of the said resolution now lies open at this House for the perusal of the Proprietors. Tim Court of Director/ do also give notice that the said General Court Is further made special for the purpose of submitting for confirmation the Resolution of the General Court of the 19th March, approving the Resolution of the Court of Directors of the 18. h December last, granting to Major James Rivett Carnac, of the Madras Establishment, the sum of Thirty Thousand Bombay Rupees, at the rate of 2s. 3d. per rupee upon the ground therein stated. The Report required by the Bye-Law, esp. 0, sec. 20, to gether with the documents upon which the said Resolution has been formed, 'reopen for the inspection of the Proprie tors at this house. JOSEPH DART, Secretary. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. --so.— DOUSE OF LORDS.—MonDA T. The Royal Assent was given, by Commission. to the Warehousing Bill, the Merchant Apprentices' Bill, and the Edinburgh and Glasgow Union Canal Bill. The Commissioners were the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Shaftesbury, and Lord Melville. Earl GROSVENOR presented a petition from Shakes. bury against the Insolvent Debtors' Act. He also pre sented another petition from the same place against Sla very in the West Indies. The Marquess of LANSDOWN presented a petition to the same effect from Annan, in Scotland. The Earl of HARE WOOD presented a similar peti tion from Sheffield. RELATIONS WITH FOREIGN POWERS. On the order of the day being read for the Lords to be summoned, Earl GREY rose, to bring forward the motion, of which he had given notice, for the production of addi tional Papers relative to the War between France and Spain. When a war was going on in the Peninsula, and while there existed a danger that threatened the peace and tranquillity of all Europe, it was necessary that Parliament should be in possession of every inform ation that could be given respecting the conduct of France and the Allied Powers. The first subject on c l it c L u t e wished to be informed was one that bad caused Lion Is e lipis equator. He adverted to a re port tSpanlsli ship having Leen captured in the West Indies by a French ship of war, before any declara tion of war had been issued against Spain, and before it could be know n that any such declaration was intended. His view in introducing this question was, to enable his Majesty's Ministers to contradiet the fact, or to give each an explanation respecting it as should satisfy the public mind. This was particularly necessary, at a lime when an unjust and odious attack was made upon Spain ; and, under such tircutnstances, he did not think that England should sit by in her neutrality, and abstain from every kind of interference, while acts of robbery and plunder were committed against an unoffending nation. In this instance, a satisfactory explanation might serve to remove a great deal of odium from the French Government. The next point on which he wished to be informed related to an act done subsequent to the commencement of hostilities. He meant the Pro clamation issued by what was called the Provisional Go vernment of Spain, sPer the entry of the French army into the Peninsula. By that Proclamation, all acts done by the Government of Spain since the year 1520, were declared to lie null and void. If such a declara tion as this was mails under the sanction of the Allied Powers or of France, it would necesrarily follow, that the engagements which Great Britain had entered into with Spain since 1820, must be done away ; and that our merchants could not expect to obtain that compensation for their losses, which the Spanish Government bad agreed that they were entitled to. It was necessary, therefore, that information should be given as to this point. The third point to which lie should call the at tgntion of the Noble Lord opposite, was one of consider able importance. It related to the situation in which France stood at present with regard to the Allied So vereigns. He wished to be informed whether, during the conferences at Verona, the Allies had given France Any assurances of support in the war she was about to undertake against Spain ; and whether those powers were pledged to become parties in that war. At another time lie should make some further inquiry on this point. At present he should content himself with declaring as his opinion, tbat the more lie reflected on the subject, the more he felt convinced, that on no occasion were the interests of the country so betrayed, or the country itself so degraded, as during the conference of Verona. On a former occasion, some allusions had been made to opinions delivered by him several years ago. when the British Government was about to send an army to the assistance of the Spaniards ; and he now felt it necessary to make a short explanation, in order to show that there was no inconsistency be tween the opinions he had then delivered, and those which he now entertained. It was necessary for him to do so, in consequence of an attack made' against him in another place by the Right Honourable Gentleman, who now filled the °nice of Secretary for Fo reign Affairs. When Governient was about to send an army to Span, in time year ISM, be (Lord Grey) certainly did express it es his opinion, that in order to justify such an interterence, it was necessary to be convinced that the inter ference was just ; also, that it was coniistent with the inte rests of the country ; and that we possessed the probable means of acting with effect. • These were the principles he had held forth on the occasion to which he al:uded. Here the Noble Earl read several extracts from a book containing a report of the speech which he then made, and which, he said, contained the entire substance and spirit of whet he had said.—(We u Aerstand that the speech in question was reported by Mr. David Power.)—This speech related to the armaments which Government was about to send into the Peninsula at the period to which he alluded ; and the pur port of It was to show that the justification of such a mea sure depended on our means, on the policy of the proceed log, and the probabiliiy of success. These were the senti ments which he had thee uttered, and it was a misrepresen. tation to state in any other place, or. even to losinust e that he was against granting assistance to the Spaniards ; for hi s opinion at the time sits, that the utmost possible assist-' anee should be given to the Spaniards in the struggle they were then carrying on. lie would appeal to the 'speech he then made, than which ,no speech was ever better reported, whether a single sentiment bad been uttered by him that tended to disapprove of the conduct of Government iu giving assistance to the Spaniards. He certainly did throw out some censure on the Government fur that part of their conduct which had led to the disaster of Sir John Moore. But with regard to the assistance given to Spain, ht. entirely concurred in the sentiments of the No ble Earl opposite. Minkters then received every thing they asked for ; and every thing was granted them in sup port of the righteous cause In which they embarked. Of the support he then gave the Government, his speech was a full confirmation ; and the only point on which he differed relat ed merely to the modif of giving the assistance required.— He had no difficulty in stating that et the time in question, when reconsidered the situation of this country and of Eu rope, he did not think that the employment of the whole of our military force was likely to secure us against the dan gers that impended over us at the time. In the year 1810. the whole of Holland, time Netherlands, and a great part of Germany, vere in the power of France. Sweden had just received a French General for its Sovereign, and was array ed In hostility against us. Denmark was alienated from us, in eousequence of that unjust, unprinelpd, and outrageous attack, whiektermillated In the capture of her fleet, and the bombardment of her capital. The power of Austria was broken down, and had just entered into an allianee with France, In conseqnence of the marriage of Bonaparte with the Austrian Princess. Russia was at the same time at war with us. Such was the situation of Europe at the period In question, when the conquering armies of Napoleon threat ened the extinction of the last remains of Independence in Spain. The Spanish armies were then dispersed ; the French troops were in possession of all the passes leading into Spain, and also of Madrid. This was not the case at pre sent ; for, notwithstanding all they had heard about the en trance of the French tro.-ips into Spain, they could not be said as yet to have gained any success. There was, indeed, a great deal said about the quietness of the people, and the favourable reception which they gave the French in every place ; and it was very remarkable, that the very same state ments were made by Soalt in 1810. But at that time the French were in possession of almost every part of Spain, except Cadiz and Tarragona. Under suchcircumstances, he did not at that time think that a war carried on against France in the Peniasela was likely to be successful ; but he was afterwards happy tq find that he was disappointed. In the war undertaken against Spain, Napoleon had deserted from the principles on which lie had before been accustomed to act ; his practice had been to finish one thing before he began another ; and he (Lord Grey) did not thiuk that he would have attacked Austria and Russia until he conquered Spain. It was on that account he conceived that there might be great danger in attacking him in Spain ; and, be sides, he could not at the time foresee the heroic resistance made by the Spaniards. The attack of Napoleon on Spain was unjust and unprincipled ; that of Louis was equally so ; indeed it musttsppear worse to any one who considered how much Louis owed to that country which he was now invad ing with a hostile army. The only opposition he had given to the aid afforded to Spain in 1809, related merely to the mode of affording and it, his opinion was sanctioned by every military man of experience whom he consulted. The opinions lie then gave were supported by the Noble Lord now at the bead of the Government in Ireland, and from that it would appear, with what justice an dttack had been made against him in another place, on theground of inconsistency. Here the Noble Lord procieded to read other historical documents, to show how unfound•ia those charges were. He should not now advert to the opposition which the Noble Lord on the Woolsack had made to the entrance of that Right Hon. Gentleman into office. on the ground of his being favourable to the cause of the Catholics; but the moment he (Lord Grey) read the speech delivered at Liverpool, he said lie was cure that Mr. Canning would not go to India. Here the Noble Lord adverted to the overtures which had been some rears ago made to himself and Lord Grenville to enter into the Administration, and the failure of those over tures in consequence of the resistance made to the condi tions they proposed, that the Catholic Claims should be attended to. He then proceeded to read over the corre spondence that had taken place when these overtures were made; and he referred to the letter of Mr. Canning to show how unfair the attack was which that Right lion. Gent, lately made against him. The papers which . lie now intended to move for, were such documents as might show how far Austria and Russia intended to tneke common cause with France in their attack against Spain ; the Proclamation of the Provisional Government of Spain; copies of any information received by Govern ment respecting a Russian army in the Vistula; and re specting Austrian troops in Piedmont. He wished to know whether he was to consider the war against Spain as a national war confined to France and Spain ; or whe ther it was one in which the other Powers intended to take a part. In the whole of this business, there were many things that excited surprise in his wind, particu larly as far as respected the correspondence between his Majesty's Ministers and the Ministers of foreign Powers respecting the affairs of Spain, in which it appeared that our Ministers bad laboured under the greatest degree of ignorance ; for they must have known that the object of France was to compel Spain to change the form of tier Government, and that it was the intention of the Allied Powers to assist in producing that result. As to neutra lity on our part, it went fur nothing, unless we had the neutrality of the Allies; and therefore it was necessary to have it ascertained whether the Allies were to take a part with France in the war against Spain. No joint declaration was issued against Spain ; but the Allies did agree to assist France in the war, as was evident from the notes issued by the Ministers of Russia, Austria, and Pritss'ta, at Madrid, and the withdrawing of those Minis ters from Spain, which was next door to a declaration of war. They all concurred in one design, and the execu tion of it was left to France. He had no doubt of its being the object of all those Governments to crush liberty in every' part of the world. But that was not all. There was evidently a secret view on the part of the Bourbon Government—in the true Bourbon spirit—eventually co l attack and humble the power of this country. It was al revival of the spirit of Louis XIV , and the hostile de signs of the French Government against us was manifest from every act of theirs, and particularly from thefact of their non forming a great naval depot and dock at Hun kirk. The whole was a joint measure on the part of the Allies ; and the execution of it was left to the French Government, whose secret hostility towards us at this time was as manifest as any thing could be. The de claration of the Duke d'Angunleme on entering Spain express . ly stated that the invasion was undertaken by the concurrence of the Allied Sovereigns. No nun could form any other opinion from the declaration in question, bat that it was the intention of all the Allies to destroy the existing state of things in Spain. It was also etc ' dent, from questions which haul been put in another place, ant the answers given, that there was a Russi a n army on the Vistula ; h e - heard that army consisted of 120,000 men; from that it was evident that Russia in tended to take a part in the ear. There was also an ' Austrian army in Piedmont, fur the same purpose. And he wished to know from the Noble Lord, whether there was not a Prussian army on the borders of France. It ' was evident from every - thing that there was a lirect in tention to make common cause with France. No man dreaded or depranted war more than himself; but when he saw measnres of this kind going on, and the ilantlers 'that threatened the country, he was decidedly of PRICK SEVEN PENCE, that in the first, instance such a remonstrance s ho u ld here been m a de by us as would have prevented a war.— He did not think that there were any difficulties attend ing a maritime war carried on by this country, in case we were forced into the conflict. He believed that France would not have embarked in such a war with us, and that if a resolute determination had been manifested Is 7 us, the Powers of Europe would have kept away from a war with us. If the Spaniards were united, he could entertain no apprehension for them in a war with France alone; but he was not sure that, assisted by French in trigues, there might not be a counter-revolution io Spain. In that case Ferdinand would be restored to hi• absolute power, and the consequence would be, that Feed quid would become a member of the confederacy against the liberties of mankind, which Iraqi i be no lest dangerous to this country than Bcrnaparte's party ever had b-en. It would lead to the extinction of freedom in every part of the world, and a greater danger to rhis country could not be possibly conceived. Here (he Noble Earl voted the words of Mr. Fox to show the danger likely to arise from an extension of power on the part of the Bourbons; and he declared that if the liberties of Spain were de stroyed, there would be no longer any security for our own free Constitution. This was the consequence of the conduct evinced by our Government of supporting llo• narchs against their people, as Was evident in thebs.anc tjon they ga ve to t h e invas i on o f N ap l es hr Austria.-- They stood by while Spain was invaded, and rather pal listed than opposed the attempt ; and his fears were in creased when he saw that they hail invaded the free in• stitutions of their on n country. The papers he moved for would prove the validity of the assertions he now made. He was not now ro:ommending any romont'e or chivalrous expeditions; but he was contieent that by a different line of conduct the Ministers might have pre vented a war. He then concluded by moving for the parrs to which he referred. The Earl of LIVERPOOL said he should oppose the motion, because no Parliamentary ground had been laid for the production of the Papers. As to the capture of a Spanish vessel, be should not stand up as the aio!ogist of •Prance; but he had to state, that as soon as an explana tion was called for on the subject, the most distinct as surances was given that the French Government, had no knowledge of the fact, nor that any orders had been given to the French Admiral to take any Spanish vessel; but the fact was, an attack had ;seen made in the night time by a Spanish letter of marine on the Jean Bart, and the consequence was, that the letter of marque was taken.—(Hear, hear.) As to a Proclamation by the Provisional Government of Spain, his Majesty's Miric tens knew nothing of it, and it was denied by the French Government. As to the opinions formerly held by the Noble Lord, he certainly did declare that this country ought not to have sent an army to the defence of Spain at the time of that most atrocious invasion by Bonaparte, and what would the consequence have beets, if we bad not assisted the Spaniards in that war? But soma change took place in his opinions after the glorious suc cesses of his Noble Friend (the Duke of. Wellington). in Portugal : there was no other part of the world %here our forces avoid have been better employed ; and the war carried on by us in the Peninsula, was the COM= mencetnent of the victories that afterwards took place. As to what the Noble Lord said of the discussions at Verona, It was the opinion of Ministers that the prin cipal subject which was to come under consideration there, would be the affairs of Russia and Turkey ; and they did not expect that the affairs of Spain were to form the prominent features of their deliberations.— These were only then contingent points on which the Allies were to snake common cause wit:, France against Spain. The Allies might have given France a moral support, but they.gave no pledge to make common cause its the war against Spain; and as far as lie (Lord V verpool) knew, no such engagement existed even up to this moment. As to the Emperor of Russia, he believed there was a Russia* army on the Vistula, and that there were Austrian troops in Piedmont ; lint he had no rea son to suppose that they had any other than a defensive object in view ; besides, there was nothing unusuil in Sovereigns assembling troops in their own territor'e;. The whole policy of the Noble Lord went merely to this, that we should run the risk of going to war without rendering the Spaniards any assistance ; for he would distinctly state, that no assistance could be given them unless we sent an army into the Peninsula. This coun try embarking in the war might not have the effect of rendering the war more national in France; hut Could the Noble Lord suppose that any . effect could be pro duced by our confining our operanons to a naval war.— No one effect could arise from such a war; the taking of a few fishermen or an island could do nothing, and it would be worse than an insult to the Spaniards to go to war, and make no other efforts. He would ask then, if a maritime war was carried on by us, could prevent the troops of France from marching into the Peninsula; and what injury could France sustain from any eyed., we could make on her commerce. If we were to go to war for Spain, we must go to war in Spain. He main tained that our only policy was to hustand oer re sources, and that was the only way to be in a state of preparation for war. We were not now at war ;we were in a state of peace ; and our si tuation was now quite different from what it had b•en at the time when the Noble Lord, in 18119, objected to oar takinis an active part in favour of the Spaniards. At that time Spain was a united, now she was a divided country. 'this was a serious fact, well known; and were a e now prepared to embark in a war, in whiLli we should take part with one portion of the Spanish people against another ; and were we unnecev,itrily to run the risk of entering into such a war, while we were in a state of profound peace ; which was not thecase in IoOS. He did nut mean to justify the present conduct of the French Government, but time must point out the differ ence between it and that of Bonaparte, the latter made every country he invaded support his army ; but the French now paid for every thiug in Spain ; and while France was tuns exhausting her resources, was it not the wisest policy fur us to husband ours? If the scab bard were once thrown away, no one could tell how long the struggle would last ; and what other plan then had we to pursue bust to husband our res.nirrei ? It was our policy, if possible, to keep peace between all n-tious; but if that could not be done, let us he at peace with our selves. Ministers haul, in every respect, condemned the policy of France; but if there • were dangers Irons com binations of Governments, there were also dangers from the propagation of revolutionary opinions. We uere free from both, and it was our duty to keep ourselves in the position in which we now swill. lie concluded by opposing the motion, because there had been no Parlia mentary ground laid for it. Lord HOLLAND declared that every pos;tion of the Noble Lord was funded in Unary, pertscularly that which'expre , sed the low estimation in which he held the wooden wails, that were once the bulwark and glory of England. History had shown that the mods of makirg war by the Spaniards at all times was ut the muse ae scription as that which was practised on tire-present oc casion. When the Spartiarda found it neaessary to Mika • before, they had wont to contend with. 'lll-ii earwig,. the t•. ere alum, ;in po , :essiun of the , 4 6,4- •st •