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-IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, TOMMY, MAUR IS. Their Lordships met at a few minutes before Nor o'clock. Mr. Mason, from the Directory of the East India Company, presented the Resolutions of the Court oFlNreiturs. "grazitiniresinAii. iinnutries, pensions, rod gratuities to theta; Offieers.—Laid ou the bible. Mr,.l.ollifler and other hiamben of the House of Centittnni, - Ifiottight ui i pneisie Bill, whichoreiq, read *brit time. The'Ltinatie Stoelt,Trasafer Bill, the New Bondi Wales Duties Bill, and the Porta Scotia Trade Bill, severally wept through a Committee of the yehple House • 00 .I.l* ilohle•Chairesau reported, 064 they had boa agreed to without any amend= meet; c•D . - 0. 11 ' ' 1 " The GeOrtal Boelmasie Bill went through a Com mittee; eioo the' clauses agreed to with some verb a l Amellgyttr, and the Report .ordered to be hies& up ts.morrow. •Our ilkassotion of the Marquis of Lam:town, Lora listschamp was appointed to be added as a . Menthol's( ills Select Committee on Foreign Trlideldjourned. ••• NOUSE OF COMMONS, Tenser, MARat 13. 'The &MAIM" entered the House a quarter before four' Mr. Ernie presented a Petition from the Dean and Chapter of Westminster. spinet the removal ottlie disabilities of the Roman Catholic!.—Or dered to be printed. NEW CHURCHES. Sir JAMS! (341111A1l presented a Petition from the Migistrates and other inhabitants of the City of Carlisle, lamenting the great increase of im piety, immor,ility, and irreligion, and the iade qnsey of the late Bill for the erection of additional churches to supply the deficiency of places of worship, and praying that some further provision M aY be made try the Legislature, investing the parronuge of, and preseutation to, such churches as May be built by subscription, in those persons who may contribute to the same. Mr: JAMBS supported the prayer of the Petition, although he could not concur in Its preamble. Mr. CURWIEN said, he concurred in the general prayer of the Petition, but he deprecated the manner in which Petitioners came to the House, and stated, that blasphemy and irreligion prevailed is a p ar t of the enoiney where it was known not to exist. The clergy in particular ought to know the state of the country better, and ought not to hazard such unfounded statements. He would • appeal to the Hun. Member himself who presented this Petition. toss) , whether the inhabitants of Car lisle were not a steady, moral, mid religious people ; and a Nether there had been a single prosecution for blasphemy in the county of Cumberlimil. He was eurr, from his knowledge of some of the !ter sons-whom names he saw affixed to the Petition, that they must have signed it without reading or knowing its purport. Meet]. G. USN N err, we understood, complain ed of the system on which the new churches were built, by which little or no accommodation was oft . ..rhea to the poorer people. Sir J. GRAHAM said, all the most respectable inhabitants of Carlisle had signed this Petition, but he was sorry to say not a single clergyman. Ordered to be printed. AGRICULTURAL PETITIONS. Mr. E. WODSHOUSB presented a Petition from Owners and Occupiers of Land in the neighbour hood of the City of Norwich, complainit ° r of losses nod distress sustained by them. which they attri buted in • great measure to the low price of pro duce, particularly of bailee ; they complained of the injurious operation of the Isle additional duty on barley, and prayed that the House would take the subject into consideration. Mr. Weresei presented similar Petitions from S.ff.ou Walden, and Colchester, in Essex, and P ool the Cciunty of Linlithgow, in Scotlaud. These Petitions were severally ordered to be piloted. Mr. Witsmte postponed the motion of which he had given notice, and which stood for this day, for the repeal of the sdditional duty on Malt, im posed in the last Session of l'ailiament. He did so at the request of the Noble Lord, the Secretary fur the Foreign Hepartmi.nt, who, he was sorry to say, was unable to attend in his place, he believed, in consequence of indispo.ition. The earliest day for which it could contentently be fixed was Wed mighty, the 46th March, on which day, therefore, he now gave notice that tie should make his motion. Mr. i.:RICaVaY said he thought his Hon. Friend bad acted incautiously in co, renting to peatpone his motion. He had before repeatedly observed, and he would now repeat it, that whenever any money was to be voted there was always a full at t-sidance of Miniateis and other Members of the !louse, but when etas was proposed to be repealed, they were sure to be absent or its bed. lie thought big lion. Friend should not have pat of his motion on account of the absence of the Noble Lord, even if be were ill, us it was brought on by the useless battle . be had fought the Isreceding night for the Army E•timates. in which he had been defeated. Laughlera—Thu.e estimates would be voted be fore the period now fixed for the mo , iose of Iris Hon. Friend, and as they involved the giant of 81,000 men, and several millions of money, it would then be argued that the removal of this tax would render it impossible to MISe the supplies. Mr. CvxwxN postponed, to the 2611 s March, his motion for the repeal of the Husbandry Horse Tax. IRISII TRADE. Sir ii. PAIIMILL m ,, ved fur all Account of the quantity of Pig Irene, Foreign Sheep's Wool, Cotton IVool, and Cotton and Woollen Twist, imported into Ireland for the lust fire years. Also, for Re turns of Goods, of certain descripliorts. exported (ruin Ireland during the san e treriod.—Ordered. Sir H. then postpuord motion for . Commi Bill New Mr. a Bill Assize,. The Bill was afterwards bameght in, and reedit Irk time, and ordered to ha al-e a saaaatakisa - • this day three Weeks. . .•. •GRAMPOUND DISFRANCRISMOT 'WILL. The Order of the Day . having bete read, for chi, further consideration' or. the Report on the Graftie pound Disfranchisement Bill— Mr, STUMM Wollll.lllf moved that the Bill be 're-committed. which was agreed to, and the Hotter having resolved itself into a Committee, severolr, 'verbal amendments were proposed and agreed teal The House then resumed, sod the Report was 4.4. dered to be brought up to-morrow (this day). Sir JOHN NEWPORT moved for an account of •all sums of money paid for salary or per ventage to the distributors of stamps in leelsod daring the last seven year.. The other Orders of the were'then severally disposed of. and the House at half-past 'five o'clock. MINORITY l ie favour of Mr. How's Resolution, "That it is expedient to make a large Redaction in the Nambers'and Experise of are Military Eatahholiment," March It. _........_ Abercromby, Ho. J. Ellice, E. Palmer, C. F *slborp, Timpani Ferguson ' Sir R. C. Phillips, G. Allen, J. H. Farraad, R. Pyre. F. Barham, J. F. Gram, J. P. Ricardo ' D. 'Boughey, Sir F. Gordon, R. Ridley, Sir M. W. Blake, Sir F. Donde' I, P. Robinson, Sir G. Bright. H. Deiffilli, J. W. Robarts, A. Bernet, R. . Gleitireby, Lord Hobart., G. Barrett, S. M. Harbin* Hun. E. Robotism§ ' A. Bakke, John Rubberise, J. C. Boron, H ord W. Hewett. John Hutchison's, He. C. Smith, John Ca leraft, John Hornby, E. Smith, R. Coffin, Sir I. James, Wm. Satins, Earl of Curers, .1. C. Lawley, F. Talbot, R. W. Creevey, T. Lemnos, Sir W. Talk, C. Clifton, Viscount Lairibton, J. G. Taylor, M. A. Calvert, C. Lloyd, J. M. %Yenisei.. W. Colborne, N. R. Hubert!, J. Wisaingtoe, Sir T. Coke, T. W. Moberly, W. L. Whitmore, W. Crompton, J. Macdonald, J. Wilron, Sir R. C.onesooon, L. Marlin, J. Wyvill, M. Corbel, P. Hugest, Lord 11'bitbrearl, De Crespigny, SirW.Newport, Kt. Hon. Dowd.. ' Hon. T. Sir J. S. Davies, T. H. (led, W. Smartt, Hon. 1H.(:. Doncannon, Vile. Ossulstoo, Lord Home, J. Devisor), W. J. Fusel', Sir H. PORRIGN INTLLEIGENCE. prog . priiej PARIS PAPERS. PARIS, MARCH 10. The King yesterday before mass, gave a private audience to Lieutenant-General Dabreton, com mander of the girth military division (Strasbourg.) The Duke de Cases is expected to-morrow in Paris. The Commissioners have pe►fected the agreement for the purchase of Chambord, to be pre sented to the Duke of Bourdeaux. The price is 1,542,000 francs. This sum, now raising by sub scription, is to be paid in two years in four equal instalments. The news from Italy confirms the last advice, re ceived relatively to the march of the Austrian troops, and the means of defence resolved upon at Naples. The multiplicity of these measures proves the imminence of the danger, and the approach of the Austrians to the capital.—Nuotidieone.) The Five per Cent. Consols are, 85 f. 45 c.— Bank Actions 1,534. ir‘ia; part, Spain will inviolably respect in regard to all oilier coun tries. " I have the satisfaction to announce to the Cortes, that the Allied Sovereigns, according to all the communications which I have hitherto received, are agreed to acknowledge those principles wi►h re spect to Spain." The Speech concludes in the following remark able manner : " I have intentionally deferred till the end to speak to you of myself, that you may not suppose 1 think more of my own person than of the welfare sod happiness of the people whom Divine Provi dence has committed to my care. " However, it is necessary I should inform you, though with much regret, that the ideas of some disaffected persons who seek to delude the credu lous into a notion that I am hostile to the constitu tional system, are not unknown to me. Their object is to inspire distrust of my pore intentions and upright conduct. 1 have sworn to the Consti tution, and I have always observed my oath, as far as depended upon myself. I wish to God every one else had done the same. The outrages and indig nities of every kind which have been committed towards me, to the utter disregard and contempt of ' what is due to order, and to my person, us a Con stitutional Monarch, are public. I have no fears as to my life, or my tatty. God, who reads my heed, watches over one and the other, and will take care of them, as also of the greater and better part of the nation. " But I cannot this day conceal from the Cortes, as principally intrusted with the cure of that invio lability which belongs to a Constitutional King, that these insults could not have beets repeated if the executive power had displayed all that energy which the Constitution prescribes, and the Cortes desire. Want of firmness, and the indifference of many of the authorities, have occasioned the re• newal of such excesses. Should they continue, it will not be surprising if the Spanish nation finds itself ingolfed in innumerable evik and mis fortunes. " I have confidence, however, that it will not be so, if the Cones, as I hope they will, unite themselves closely with their constitutional King, and employ themselves unceasingly to destroy abuses, to testae's public opinion, and to repress the machinations of the seditious who wish to produce disorder and anarchy." •pastabiell imskaftess which his subjects, sad .espe rially the inbabitants of Madrid, hod manifested on a thousand occasions, repvired to the Legislative Hall, ocrompanieil by a detachment of the regi ment Almanza and of the Modeid militia; a con siderable aias* of the inhahitunka su!erplited on the ocession, end on the countenancts of each were depicted secret thought or fears. The Hall way not specioss enough to hold the immense multitude which thronged the avenues of the Palace ; and they awaited without the result of the sitting with the most restless anxiety. It was soon known sod circulated in different versions ; the following is most generally agreed on as correct : The King took his seat with great dignity of man ner, and after the accustomed formalities were • over commenced his +peel:h.—l Another omission is here indicated in the some manner as above mentioned.]—But the King soon laid down the paper which be held, and with an accent which was at once firm and penetrating, observ ed to the assembly, that lie could not reflect with out a just feeling of sorrow upon the tumultuous scenes in which the respect due to Royel•Mojesty had been so unworthily forgotten--scenes in which the generous devotion of some servants had alone ' prevented, perhaps, the cainmissioo of a great crime. His Majesty added, it is said, that the first canoes of this disorder had their origin iu a spirit of disturb. ance and revolt, which had been fostered and strength ened by an anarchical faction, the enemies alike of all social and legitimate order, and propagated amongst a class the most easily misled, by all pos sible seductions; that this faction exerted all their efforts to alienate the affection of the nation from its King, which was the deepest wound they could inflict upon his paternal heart; finally, his Majesty expressed a hope, that under such serious circum- . stances the constituted authorities would do all in their power that the Royal Majesty should thence forward be shielded from all the attacks of auda city, and the instigators of disorder, well convinced the vengeance of the laws awaited them, should no longer be encouraged to infringe them, by the weak ness of the civic functionaries and by impunity." It is said that this discourse, which was pro nounced with an accent at once firm and noble, produced • greet effect on the assembly, and that • the King left the 11.11 with sin air of dignity which struck all present with admiration. It appears certain that immediately slier this sitting the Ministers sent in their resignations ; but they were not dismissed by the King, as sonic Paris Journals yesterday announced. The Revolu. tionists of Madrid reported in like wormer amongst the people, that Ferdinand had dismissed his Mi nisters, and that the constitutional system mid the country were in danger." Mobv assemble 4 in various quarters of the capital ; shouts, biasing, and the most brutal exclamations were re-echoed round the Royal Palace; but whilst certain characters endea voured to foment the commotion, and to exasperate and urge the populace to the commission of crime, it is consoling to think that all that Madrid con• tains of generous citizens, penetrated with attach ment to their Sovereign and their country, have formed a vigilant and faithful troop, whose numbers have so multiplied, that they are found in all quar ters where agitation assumes the most daring cha. meter; and that Madrid will, perhaps, owe to the energy of these worthy citizens the salvation of its King, and Spain the preservation of the honour which she has in other times acquired by her heroic fidelity. At the departure or the courier on the night of the Yd instant, the capital still continued in • very agitated state. ROME, FEBRUARY 25. The Austrian army coming from Tuscany, the van of which defiles under our walls, amounts to upwards of 50,000 men, and is followed by a considerable park of artillery. The second army, which ad vances along the Adriatic Sea, and traverses in like manner the states of his Holiness, is of an equal force. These two armies will be in communication off Foligno, through the Passes of the Appenines. It is presumed that the advanced posts of Gene ral Pepe behind the Trout*, have been islready described very near by the Hungarian hussars.— The Generals, and even the inferior Officers, are prnvided with excellent geographical charts, drawn by their engineers in the campaign of 1814. MADRID, MARCH 3. In the Sitting of the opening of the Cortes on the tat instant, at which the King presided in per son, his Majesty announced that his relations with the Foreign Cabinets have not ceased to be friendly and pacific, and that he thought it due to his own dignity and the honour of his throne, to declare to the Powers of Europe, that he would acknowledge nothing that would be contrary to the positive law of nations, in whatever concerns the liberty, the independence, and the prosperity of Spain. The President answered, according to custom. in vague and general terms. After the departure the King, the Count de Toren° proposed, cm formably with the practice in Englund and France, that a Committee should be appointed to propose ficient to satisfy Europe and the nation upon the points noticed in his Majesty's speech. It was ne cessary, he said, that all the world should know what the national Congress thinks of the events of Naples, and the Congress of Laybrch. The motion of M. Tureno was carried, and a Committee of five members was appointed, viz. Messrs. the Count Tore no, Munos Torrero, Mar tinet de Is Ross, Clemettein, and Gavely. 'l.'J-LE BR IT SII PRESS. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1821. We have received Paris Papers of Saturday last, but with regard to the *Gars of Italy they add but little of importance to the intelligence wbich we have already published respecting that country. It appears by • letter from Rome, of the 25th of last mouth, that the vanguard of the Austrian army, which bud marched through Florence, filed off un der the walls of Rome on that day, continuing its progress toward.. the Neapolitan frontiers. This army, which is attended by a numerous park of artillery, amounts to 50,000 men. A second Aus trian army, to an equal amount, traverses the eastern or Adriatic side of Italy, and had at the date of the latest accounts reamed t lie frontiers of Naples, at the point where General Guns-mime Peri commands a large division of the Neapolitan error. These two armies, ■mounting together to 100,000 men, would be in communication at Fo ligno, through the passes of the Appenines. A party of Hungarian hussars had, it is said, recon noitred General Papa's division, preparatory, as it would seem, to an attempt to cross the Tropic). The accounts from Spain continued in the Paris Papers represent Madrid as suffering • very alarm ing degree of agitation. The KING, as our readers are aware, opened the Session of the Cortes on the Ist of this month, and excited by his Speech from the throne an unpleasant feeling in the minds of the Deputies. His Maisere's Speech commenced with a reference to the foreign relations of the king dom. The answer of the Government of the United States to the notification mule by the Cabinet of Spain, respecting the cessiou of the Florida, and the fixing► of limits, had not arrived at Madrid. The Kira, after noticing this circumstance, ad verts to the recent proceedings at Laylmelt, but in a manner extremely indefinite and unsati.factory. He avows the extreme interest with which he learn ed the intention of the Allied Sovereigns to inter fere in the domestic affairs of Naples, chiefly " be cause," as he admits, " it concerns the independence of all States, that the sacred rights of nations and of Princes should be respected." His MAJESTY, therefore, thought it necessary for the honour of the Spanish nation to cause it to be made known, that he would " recognise nothing which was coatrary to the positive laws of nations." And finding that the Allies were resolved to acknowledge the right of Spain to alter and modify her Constitution and form of government as much as the people pleated, his MAJESTY forgets the extraordinary and deep interest which lie so lately felt for Naples, and suf fers those magnanimous despots, who dared not to meddle with the Spaniards, to indulge the utmost excess of their insolent tyranny upon the unhappy Neapolitans, who were just so much more guilty than the people of Spain in proportion as they happen to be less able to repel aggression. Why FERDINAND should have chosen to vapour about the deep interest he felt for the people of Naples. and at the same time satisfy himself with the naked avowal of an indefinite principle, too general to be clearly intelligible, or if intelligible, nugatory for any purposes of protecting the people of Naples from enduring the horrors of a hostile invasion. we cannot easily comprehend ; but it is certain that this part of the Kteo's Speech was very far from proving satisfactory to the Deputies of the Cortes, and it was for the purpose of apprising the KING of the feelings of the Representatives of the nation upon the arrogant pretensions of the Allied Powers, and of protesting in the face of Europe against so dangerous an infrinp,ge•meut of the most sacred rights of nations, that a Committee was ap pointed by the Cortes to frame an Address in an swer to the Knio's Speech. To these topics, however, his MAJESTY did not think proper to confine himself. Having disposed of the foreign relations of Spain, and forgotten vie!, his extraordinary interest for the fate of Naples. l e i• MAJESTY complains, in an angry lone, of th.• ..1- tempts made by certain disaffected persons in . Nei a distrust and disloyalty in the minds of the people towards him, by representing him as hostile to lie constitutional system. This feeling hail led to the insults and outrages that had been offered to person, and which he insinuates might have termi nated fatally to his life, had not this great (lime been averted by the devoted fidelity of some e; iii servants. " These insults," he says. "could rot have been repeated if the executive power had ilis lioll that the evidence taken before the 'Committee on the mull'rioces ilionla be 'respeeted. 1 lusellitiaght ' <Public lutodis sod,Exßestlittire in:llltd, so far it mires t ary for Ik e bl ast ers( my TiMpse, and the se relates to the Audits. dignity of the great nation over AA I have the Mr.‘Vitorrustar. obtained hive to bring -in n glary to reign, to calm it to be made known that Bill for regulating the Aid arrangement. in the New Bankruptcy C013e.. , 1 woad recognize nothing which was contrary to Mr. B. lilt Ls asm am obelised 'leave to 'bring 'in the polities laws of nations, upon which are found- s Bill to regal* isar eilmident 04 1 11 1 / 011 M the ' - alliiiirliberfy; - their inderiendence, and their Amis... '- principles which; on its part, Spain T r 0:11 _r._A- ii..---_a... :- __A -. -A . P a n ty; ( From the Quolidiessm.) The intelligence brought by the Madrid courier on Thursday last, had already excited forebodings of some decisive event; one of our correspondents in that capital, judging the situation of things with feelings, which, although they decidedly partake of what is termed liberalism, are nevertheless those of a man who anxiously wishes the welfare of his country, and the preservation of public order : this correspondent, we ►ly, cannot but acknowledge, that the mistrust which uew ideas have inspired iu • nation, the majority of whom are not yet capable of appreciating the principles of the age, is an in superable obstacle to the consolidation of the new system. The answer of the King to the Deputation of the Cortes, which waited upon him on the 25th ult. to convey to him the desire of that body that his Majesty, would attend the opening of the Session on the let instant in person, has been inserted in all the Madrid Journals in an inaccu►ate min 'ter , rela tively bath to sense and words. One of the numer ous spectators, who was witness of the ceremony, and who occupied • place in the space partitioned for the accommodation of Ambassadors, has transmit ted us this reply, correctly as it was pronounced. Present circumstances render it of the highest in terest. The King, seated on his throne, answered in the following terms : " I em informed that the Cortes is iiirtittsted. I shall, with great pleasure, be present at the open ing of the Session, on the let of March, at ten o'clock in the morning. I hope from the wisdom and prudence of the Deputies, that they will adopt energetic measures, calculated to avert the evils with which the nation is menaced, the precursors of which 1 see iu the ineolts and indignities offered to my place and person, in defiance of the Consti tution." Letters which arrived yesterday (Thursday) even ing, by an extraordinary channel, supply *rune de tails relative to the opening of the SeaAion on the Ist instant, by King Ferdinand in person. Some particular circumstances precede this solemn cere monial. [The. omission of several lines, which have been suppressed by the Censorship, is here denoted by KING OF SPAIN'S SPEECH. The following is a sketch of the important Speech delivered by the King of Spain on the lit instant, on opening the Session of the Cortes. After adverting to what may be considered as the customary topics of such an address, and describing the internal state of the country in terms which belie all the accounts which have tran spired through other channels, his Majesty pro ceeded to lay before the Legislature ■ view of its internal and foreign relations. A few paragraphs (loin this part of his Speech will be read with in terest. " If the actual state of America," he observed, " has not undergone any change with respect to us, war has at least suspended it ravages for a moment in terra tirma. The effects which will be pro. dueed in these countries by the events ■t borne, lead us to hope that they will vet be re-united to the mother country, as internal parts of the same etnpire. 14 The state of our diplomatic relations with the other Powers remains in state yuo. We continue to preserTe with them the same relations of amity mid good faith which subsisted when the Legit'. lature was Itut assembled. " The notification Nbich I line,- thought it right to make, with the authority of the Cortes, respect ing the cession of the Florida*, and the fixing of limits. with the United Sidles of America, has 'cached that Government too recently to permit of our receiving any intelligence from thence on the subject. The 'evolution adopted in the Congress at Troppou, end continued iu shit it Laybsch, by the Sovereigns of Antrim, l'eussiv, and Russia, Su yr 41- a Committee on the Cornrci the sovereigns 01 Austria, r Mims, upp r] iusslib and s, t sresse ny tne a.;ensoninip. Is Here (mune° oy toutu ni tout a ornittee swm uue appo nei neu to propose have been repe a t it the executive power had in inead listercourse be- tween Great Britain and Ireland - , to this day fort- to interfere with the political changes established asterisms.]—" Doubtless, at this moment," observes I to the Codes the plan of an answer to his Nlajesty's played a proper energy." This complaint won night. . r is the kingdom oldie Two Sicilses, has excited all our Correspondent, " the King could not but 'evil- i speech. seem to have been directed spinet his Ministers, at Mr. MACKENZIE presented a Petition from the my anxiety, from respect to that Royal Family, lect with sorrow, that those of his faithful servants A Member objected, that this answer was made proves the truth of what has been already slim Prnprirtors of Casts nn th e north . '. .Irif the Frith ,united with mice by ties of blood ; from the in- on whose devotion he could most depend had been by the President. that the KING would accept of their avoistaa , of Forth, complaining of U 4 114664( • de , in con- tercet which I take in the prosperity of that coon- removed from his ► person. Ills Majesty, however, M. Toren°, in support of his proposition, replied in ► preparing his Speech for opening the Session sequence' of the Act ter pigecting At Sunderland and Slinlds coal trade. ;... ' :i try; and, lastly. because it concerns the independ- encouraged by his conscience, and the remem- that the President's answer most be conceived in the Cortes. Under such circumetaucea his NI M r . H. U. Busaarir moved fur the minutes of .ence or all States that the sacred rights of nations !mince of the markt of attachment, end even im- very vague terms, and that that would not be sof- nisters had no alternative bat to resign their (Act i tb -