The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1808-01-28 00:00:00

s • 7, to ascertain their Inaturt or drift, lieth bal k , • divine the remotest possibility ofintstOnt or loWollo'l AS tage likely to 'accrue to this conotryt from adoption. - Notwitlssuanding the unintelligible "ter an which these Orders appeared to him, he still unable to supprow great and powerful feel ings of alarm. He shuddered at the sbtte of pr licy upon which this couittl7 ism proceeding to act. Neither could he hide from his contemplation the dangersil that precipice, to the verge of which it was so lamentably awl so rapidly advancing. What was the ultimate object oT the new commercial code, seemingly established by the joint consent of the Governments of France and Great Britain ? It was mutual skestreation. • it resembled the efforbi - ' chid object was to their restless. 'le means of themselves. to the insa ith knives ,jury that ily satisfied them ail. ' required, • Mk ! • utmost cireum -rence to the For his _ from the _ could nit so far, is lotoplience with it, look upon the dangers. of the estuary, either unappalled or undismayed. The news of that day, to, connected with our re lations with America, was replete with melancholy . reflections. It was to him the source of very deeps regret, stronger than be had, in the course of his political life, on any previous event, ever felt. He but still the personal gratification to review the fine of conduct which he, and those.% itli whom lie lead acted, bad mule it their duty to adopt towards America conduct, that if persisted in, world have produ••ed between those two countries the.strongest bonds of friendship and alliance, without any-surrender of the rights, or any coaripMmise of the honour and character, of (item Britain. again impressed upon Ministers the necessity of an explicit and • prompt weasel of the objects and reaming of those document's_ in order to nodetstood them, it was, In his opinion, absolotely nrCessart that a c opy . of the declaration, signed by himself. and a Noble Friend of his !Lord Hallaud) ea Plenipotentiaries of the British Government, on the gist of De comber, SOfth. and handed by them to the Pleni -I=iasies of the United States. should pro. ler the consideration of that House. M Thee Or4es of Grimed arose from, and were actuear i • isandei epee, that Declaration. Indeed. thee sane ersathage delmenism, the source and origin afta • the subaqua* ulpshaioos ; but he was, at passeto et las tea : art : Lisa way or bra verb a paper ! ' amid be • bohutethat Lordship% MC seam* tbs loads dearmeent, elated' ire INIs Alossion mi. Previous to his of .tinje ear sties for those papers, particularly copyst . the Deele.on of the 91st of De anthers tem, he wiebed to hear from the Noble bloopossey of Stateou bother be ha 1 any objections to their prediction, and if as, what they were • Lord HA WILESBURY wieued his Noble isisiod, that it was the wish of His Majesty's Go vernment to abed to Parliament the fullest infor mation, consistent with their public duties. and to esbusit the whole of those orders and regulatiods to the meet ample and accurate discussios. In whet sty the adoption of what proceeding, in the C M. stage of that %object, he was sot prepared It had occurred to him, that as thaw were promoted in anothei place, and were ketir to be pet in such a train of procedure as meet in doe tame be tbubaiitted for the coubidtio *lkea of their Lordships, the inostriesirable mode teM, • At/await dist period. under the prqhable hope, theft the moat beneficial effects would arise from we pending the discuroion until brought forward in that &Wipe, when, if approved. their isissing into • law would immediately follow the ditcuseloo.— However, it ass enotrtent for the .Nelde Lords on the opposite side to substitute arty other proceeding snore compatible with their view of the mute, and calcalated to protiure that investigation from which • neither he or his colleague!' were in any degree in clined to slitiuk. With respect to the question . put to bun by his Noble Friend opposite (Lord Au;kland) be t onld only say, that the objection he felt to the production of the papers alluded to, arose soloy out of consideniticoui of form. The Derlaratiois of the .2 tot of December had been the stali*:.oct of much whwervation. It was ranch spokes '1 or in puhltr, and experienced a good deal of am toriety, but a it was an appvii.lix to a treaty never hail before that house, it %v.v., in his vier, out of . the course of all form to produce it is a oltiesete character. Not lest so was the French Deem ; Government bad got it in it way which all late A+ ministrations had - considered officio'. It was re. • erased by these. inserted in a paper which states itself to be the official register of the edicts of that oyernmest (the iferikeir.) At the saute eine, to •..nuns net see in what manner each 4.0 , 0411.4 , brought before Parliament. Allsrl cilli =l • be was willing. with the roasent of the Noble: • Lord, to suspend hie ultimate answer for a sheet' period, meta be comidered more maturely the '` • • • grounds of the olOcetious which then preoetted • thernseless to his cued. !Aid IiOIL AND denied that the declaration of the 4n, of December was necessarily coutseeted with any Treaty of Peace. It was a dos anent sanding purely upon its owe merits, and was the source tad fruadorion of those t 'Orders of Council. The objection with respect to form could not. by sin m ea t us, apply to it, whatever difficulty might *cum aft to tlleproductiou of a copy of the ?melt Decree. Bat seen upon that defmmtmt he wished to Imre from tie Noble Secretary, who • ther Him Vajestis Ministers had not received a • cemmunicution from some acerAted Agent 4 a , Power, of the explima tine gureu by )ho • nrech Oevernment tektite to that decree ?-U isteb a coinmunioation had bees received, there Muhl remain no objection to its being laud lucre:o. Parliament. He was amused that his File-int (Lord Atiekland) would willingly stfool time to the Noble Lord to rt-cousitler bun obj,c- Moos. gat BATIIIIIRST, in a vr r ra , low tone of voice, thilhollod the pokey of the °Ayr, of Council, ilbea"Pe• atiolug out of the cleats of the hues, anal ot• a set of Rimes, whose chief object starve each other, and wbo, to obtain their !lye gratification, were all pursuing the u insuring the inevitable starvation of the Such conduct could only be compared to I pity of maniacs, who, cattingeach other wit across the seios,disragarded the positive inj ewth iudivideally received, and were only is casevelesitiog the destruction of t The was dreadful state of things, and ea the pest of their Lordships, the utmost spectiwo, before they gave their concurred aressutre which tented to promote it. Pat. although the encouragement came roast dignified and exalted source, he you . nunn till such a shape N tn. ends* them to lay it Wove Pat% 'lament. The intended .160tionss of Lord Auckland, for were wittadrairu, until Lord Hawlsesbury bus more Ally considered his objections.—Ad- NOUSE OF COMMONS . . accurate investigation of. the consequences to which they lead. %I as the House to heir with pa tience, that ou a serious and unprecedented mea sure, involving no less than the existence of our commercial interests, it was to suspend inquire, to postpone discussion, until it had received its lesson from another place ? Let the House recollect the state in which it stood with respect to the measures oensoqueut on the promulgation of those orders. Ministers had advised His Majesty to act upon them. The commerce of the country, and of neutral states, was ut that moment subjected to their operation ; to the operation a a system of regulations, souse contradictory to the other, awl which, he contended, were unintelli gible even to Ministers themselves. lie would say, doubtless, unintelligible from the com plicated nature and extent of their bearings. lie did not arraign His Majesty's servants of a de sign to destroy the springs and sources of British commerce, or of an attempt to close for ever that intercourse of nations, which tended to diminish the -wants, and support the happiness of mankind. Such au imputation he would not east upon any set of men, because he did not suppose there ex isted in human life that being, who could coolly aid tolualy devote himself to the accomplishment of such a work of depravity and destruction. But "as , Mr to a meaning could be extracted from this IMMO Iligible mass of orders and counter-orders, it most positively went to exhibit, that to such a —....... ruinous object, and to such deplorable cense- ' COMMITTEE OF SUPPLY. quences, their operation went. Could their On the motion of Mr. JOHNSTONE, the se- Lordships under such circumstances think of sus- veml resolutions of the Committee, appointed to pending investigation, or of delaying that dis- consider that part of Ilis Majesty's speech relative cursion, made imperative by the nature and cx- to the granting of Supplies, were read, and seve tent of the danger which impended? But this was rally agreed to. It was afterwards ordered, that not the only senior consideration. It was for the the I louse resolve itself into a Committee of Sup- House to review the spirit and operation of these ply on Friday next. measures, net upon their prudence or their policy ESTIMATF.S. , On the motion of Mr. WARD elope. It had to take a constitutional v ie w of those provisions, and ascertain in what wanner and accounts of the expense attending various they affected the dearest mid most essential in- broaches of the naval department, including the tomb of our political state. For his part, he was marines, the building and repairing ships of war, i s ,, peam d w i t i, t h e co „i ct i on , that d ime om en and also the expense of guards and gammon, the -., ow _ ordnmice service not yet provided for, together • t h e with the estimates of the transport service, were . law ordered to be laid before the !louse. Foe thi s pur sy,tent of pose, it was aloe moved and agreed to, o That an .ear! liter!) bumble address be presented to His Majesty , pray subversion of Mg him to order the production thereof.' s loiterer- ASSESSED TARES. 'the re- The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER A ster had stated to the House, that dieing the Inat Session of is force, Parliament • Bill had been brought in respecting a in the new mode of collecting the Assessed Taxes, which im- Bill had been printed, in order to be circulated m viola. through the country, to give persons an opportunity please to of urging objections against it. He hail cense _ proceeding. Will the quently received many communications from per- Noble Leeds get im in their places, and assert, suns of skill and judgment , upon the sub j ect, dna that is ass constitutiostal violation in the oiler- which be bad since taken into considemtiou, the Adios of those seders ?or if they have a different result of which was, that he thought there were ye and admit their illegality, how comes it news ports of that Bill so considerably obnoxious , , i dm* do not declare it, and ask for a Bill of that it would he proper to alter it entirely. With ? It will be then for the House to respect to the abolition of the office of Assessor, !oseejeara the prudence, the poli c y, the c ommon and the nant:e of supplying the Clerks of the iimMaif throe measures. It will be knit to recol- Commission, lie thought it would be necessary to bathe expediency o f time and Me c onestonesa, to revert to the old established custom of collecting sat even were they right in the abstract, whe- those taxes, and to carry forward that improvement it was not vitally ruinous at that moment to at the expense of the public. E n, re hazarded their operation ? The Noble Serre- ORDERS OF CM - NM. tars had started an objectiuti to the production of Lord HENRY PETTY, in allusion to what had the copy of the Devlaratioa of the gist of Decem- been stated, yesterday, as to the Orders of Cover'lser. That objection has been ahewn not to apply cil, said, that lie understood the Right lien. Gen to that thicument ; but was it even informal, he Oman opposite (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) put it to the manliness of Minister+, to reflect, whe- meant firm to refer these Orders to a Committee of ther they were determined to withhold a paper, Supply, and that Ministers would be under the ne brought by themselves before the consideration of minty of applying to Parliament for in indenosity Parliainemt, in the Speech from the Throne, where for certain acts, which had been the consequence it was arraigned as a weak and ineffectual experi- of them, viz. t he issuing of licenses to trade in melt ? Ile 6-1 t actuated by a due sense of his own, particular cases. Although that Right Hon. Geut. and the characters of those with whom he acted, had given a distinct notice of the. day on which to press the production of that document, so ewes- he would move that those Orders of Commit tially necessary to a full understasiding of the re- should be submitted to a Committee, yet he gulatious and orders, and so indelicately put by had not given notice of the motion for his intended Ministers in the month of their Sovereign, as a Bill of Indemnity for those acts. it would in subject of animadversion. deed be most natural, that di Home should first Lord II AWKESBV ItY contended, that die Oes see the legality of 'lie steps that had been taken, ders of Council, advised by Ministers,were felt by the before they considered of the policy of the measure. country and by the enemy, as measures called for On the question of indemnity there were two very by the altered state of the commercial world. When essential branches to be adverted tu, the first, the period for discussing them arrived, he would whether, under the circumstances of the case, His prove to the conviction of that House, that Ministers Majesty's Ministers were placed under that meets neither violated any principle of public law, nor any sity which could entitle them to any indemnity at provision of our municipal code. la saying this, he all r ? and. secondly, if they were eutitled to aim,. did not proceed to the extent of concluding, that whether that extent of iti;leninity, to which the in carrying into effect such Variefall and extensive Right Honourable Germanium had confined him details, there might_ not be some literal viotatMn of self, in his notice yesterday, was adequate to exit certain Acts of Parliament. It was often die Imo. aerate Ministers in all partieulars in which they voidable consequence of great public measures, had violated the law of the laud ? called for he on unexpected pressure of events. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER Lind ACCKLAND was anxious, without any obeenesl, that he certainly did 'give notice, yester freetisaal dismission, to emisider the general dint- day, that he meant to din Wednesday liar, with the hope of assisting in either repealing to refer those - Orders of Prn rol e ncil to a Com them, if injurious, or efficaciously exerting them, inittee, and if it were found neceseary to ap if `added on salutary principles. There were, ply to Parliament for a Bill of indemnity, he ' bousear, some particulars which he could not un- should propose that that-should lie afterwards ac award, viz. Why Guermoy and Jersey were complishell. There were certainly some orders Node free ports; the new conditions of trade at respecting trade, and also some measured adopted Gibraltar and Malta; and, above all, upon what by the Treasury, which could not be reduced to ground, whim commerce ass to be coerced, a any existing laws, for which it would be indispen oleo was granted to neutrals in war. which they sably necessary to procure Porliasneutay sanction, diA not pewees in times of peace. He alluded to by a Bill of ludeminty being given. He thought, the power granted to America of bringing the pro- however , that the Noble Lord ought to restrain duct of foreign colonies. his judgment relative to the subject, till such time Ead BATHURST explained ; but, from the as he knew what thew orders were. He begged low tone of voke, it was impossible to collect his farther to observe, that many Merchants were rations. obliged to quit Portugal , and to imp or t g oods in i HOLI -AND expressed his surprise. in not witted ships, which, by the Navigation Laws, were recer.ing from the Noble Secretary an answer to either to be bronght home in British shipping, or the,qui•stion put by him, relative to any cornatuni- the shipping of the country of which the goods catiou from a Foreign Actibmeader, of the explana- were the produce. He appeehendod, that that was Mr of the FrenelrDeeree. It was a matter of no- an iristauce in which there could be little objection ?witty- that the American Ambassador, General to a Bill of Indemnity, and there were others that Armstrong, did receive such an explanation from would be brought into consideration upon the the French Minister, seal therefore he thought it motion which stood for Friday. prohabfe that such a communication alight have Some additional couvenation upon this subject been made. en-oeJ between these same Gentlemen, hut as it Lord HAWKESBURY answered. that Govern. erigivated from a anisonderstsuidingr, it is unworthy meat did mat receive any official commuisimitiou, is of notice.—Adjonmed. AMERICAN INTERCOURSE BILL. Mr. ROSE stated, that it had been his intention to move, this day, for the further emitinuance of this Bill, but that he now thought it w mid he better the House should have an opportunity of consider ing the nature of it in a Committee; and, for that purpose, he should now give notice. that be would, on to-mornow, move, " That the House should go into a Committee thereon." ELECTION PETITIONS. The following were appointed, es under , — Sultssb—ksollser, la to the right of Election ; tined for the same day with the former one of a similar nature. Ditto—Aaother, up= the doable return; turd for the same day with that art similar nature. Bridgewater—Thursday March 17. Westniinster—Tuesday, et. Christcharcle—Tuesday,_ Marcia 4 9. Dnegarrait—Teiesday, March 29. Newry—Thaisday, March 31. On the motion of Mr. WHARTON, the order of the day, as it originally stood, for taking into consideration the Saltash Petition, respecting the double return, was discharged, for the purpose of giving precedence to the Petitions as to the right of election, and postponed to Thursday, ,25th Feb. next. It EV ERSIONS. On the motion of Mr. BANKES, the Bill for abolishing the granting of Reversions was read a second time, nem. eon. and ordered to *committed for , . tAtisi as netrael acts of re ' upon the retric- tins lesposed by the Fr overnmeut. • s " Lard GRENVILLE... I It every observation Aids bad Mtn from the Noble Lords iu His Ma- iosit's conlideace, as corroborating motives in that 'louse to veal for explanation from the friuuers of these orders, and to enter on. the most prompt 'and which Ministers had advised His Majesty to e cute, *ere a direct and positive violation of public and soknorledgad law of nations; that whisk was agrofted to the legislative system every. free and civilised countrv. ( Hear ! heal In this Malicious, they were a tlirect subvention the municipal laws of the realm. Such a Ann =v. sift of the bias of the land, and of the oegeklei Parliament, as no Minister I era shad aa • the Crown to put is is since the amaaplian.of a dispensing power in nip et how She Simla. Vader such an preemelsk meld he er the House suffer this vi ties Se eselisree mail Ministers should pleats rtramitand thair plan of proceeding. NI ill THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, THURSDAY, hit. ss. FLAGS OF TRUCE. An order was sent yesterday from the office of the Secretary of State for the Home Departmeut, to the Lords of the Admiralty, directing, that no flag of truce from France should in future be suffered to land a Messenger at Deal, but that. in the event of any such arriving, she is to proceed to Dover, and land the Messenger at that port. Their Lordships, in consequence, sent off a Mes senger last evening from the Admiralty to Admi ral Rowl,Ev, the Port-Admirali at Deal, N ils dispatches, communicating these iustructions, and orders for their execution. It is probable that some abuse has been committed at Deal, under colour of these flags of truce. At all eveuta, Dover is the direct port from Calais or Boulogne, and it appears a good measure of precaution to have one fixed It is a curious fact, 11 wp. ever, that though the French cannot be afraid of in vasion, they seem more apprehensive of the abuse of flags of truce than the British Government.— Hitherto motives of delicacy to Austria, on whose honour any restriction of this kind might be con ceived a slur, prevented any such arrangement, but as there remains no neutral Ansimasid 7 or 'gel* the Court of St. James's, or the Thuillidiss through whom overtures for peace r.w be I 4 and any communication for that purpose, by Dowgr and Calais, must be direct between the two Cso veruments. Ministers are at liberty to make the rule which they have .now adopted. We do not pretend to say positively. that the present mea sure is any thing more than a regulation of conve nience and precaution ; but still we must confess. that the late correspondence, by Flags of Trace. was attended with souse circumstances calculated to excite suspicion. Some time ago the Monitore put forth a paragraph, stating expressly, that no Flags of Truce would be allowed between Dover and Calais.- No reason was assigned for this order. No Flags of Truce had previously sailed, the abase of which might have called for it. The French °merriment, however, found out that it was a soli tary instance, in which the Flag ought not to cover the cargo, and prohibited the tr a de. Scarcely, however, had the mandate been issued, whets a Flag of Truce did arrive from Franc:, and a tole rably active correspondence in that way com menced. In the regress of the correrpdPeores the Moisiieur made another assertion, equally posi tive and unfounded as the former. It stated tLx the existing correspondent* affected the Acs 'MlAs( AMBASSADOR esclusivel,, and that nei ther France nor England had any concern in it, directly or indirectly ; a sound gladly echoed by some of the London Prints, and these too of the Ministerial party, who never ceased to propagate the same delusion.—Tbe writers in the Menitear have long been suspected of trading in the English funds, and these 0/Leila falsehoods may probably bail. been published for stock jobbing purposes : still, however. where there is so much impudent falsehood, suspicion ought to ie ever awake. We own that in the condole of Count Sesuar.sissaa himself, whose zeal to bring about peace has been sp highly and so no accountably blazoned by the 31inisterial Prints, we do not see any thing to increase our confident So far l,irek as the iitth instant, he peremptorily demanded his passports, and though he received them on the next day, he lingered here until the evening of the moth, the very day before the meet ing of Parliament, without spy pacific pretence, or any ontansilsio comae of any pisibte good N be de rived by England from his stay. The arrival of the Jamaica fleet may be hourly expected. Three ships Arrived on Tneaday et Port.- mouth, which parted from the rest en the 4d iu.:• The fleet sailed from Jamaica on the tOth Novon - her. Previous to ita departure, the !lids. had arriN. from Caracas with an account that a violent hu:: • cane had destroyed part of the town, and do..t much other damage in that Island. We gave yesterday acme extracts from OA New York, Philadelphia, and other American papers to the 27th last, received at our Office. There is in one of them a loon, article upon the Embargo, supposed to he the proluction of Mr. MADDISOW, who wall be a Candidate to alerted Mr. Jarraasos in the Pi esidenf From the remarks of Mr. M.tootsort, it sarPea" to be the intention of the American Government to confine their ships to their rite, until the Belli. gerent Powers .tiandod,the restrictions which lune been Unposed on neutral commerce. Foreign %a ids are not to be permittedto trade with the eniteci States, be,ame, it is alltgee, the naval guliericnq cf this couotryaould, is t! - tt cam-, Owl the line of l imn 1 are th itisp either be be es prim c i s ' rano NV of T 1 Sit vent , Pros t. lin fvul foil, Prt the tlh sot