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CORK 31)0100 ) Q51,1)410 TIP Cesie4m gf tit Cewewatt r.....heca some nem Reodoliatte &awe hen intombeed) wee be sem it the Sott. , etie No Merit ea ha Add ea May TemSew is wirei the Pric• set it timitsd is moth at Or 112( 0.1! , net he dein era to the Beard ite4ett Ose ?Clerk me t.tvt said T,eldww, tie lit .Vareh west; nor sakes tLe Arun t...4s naked the rewrite, et se^:• Pers. , ow Ai: bekrif, stue ia, is owraer :obits called for. IMPARIAL PA' N T. 111101114 Of C. 031.1101%, Pu O. • I .llr Pirthunse fres the Commissioners for investigating the Claivi on the late Nabob of Arcot, resulted then- Third Report, which was ortkred to be printud. Mr. Hlain, from the Comenisaioscra fur Itedeetios of the National belt, pns4ted the last yetu's accoaut.--.orikred to lie us the Table. A tow Writ Ws; Owned foe the baronet of Ennis, in the r:unt of the Right Hon. J. Inzgtrald, who has aectTted the *thee of Eseheetor of Monster. A new 'Art was also teemed for the borough of Trslee, in the room of L. Foulkes, Esq. who kis ..ierepted the office of Steward of His Majesty's hundred of Lail Hendee& Mr. riot° , pinwritcd n Petition trout the 'I rustres of the 'Royal Culler of Maynoods, in Ireland, praying fur kare to purchase a greater extant of land, than, under their pre- P yrot restnetions, they are entitled to do.--Ordered to b. re fetal to a Coosinittex. Mr: ii'Ii.:L 7 .S.I 7 ILLE thought it necessary to make a .few obsevations respecting the paper* moved frrby a Right Hon. Gentleman near lum, relative to the Expedition to the Dardanelles. It may be uecessary to state to the House, that the late Adminietration, with whom he was connected, being out of office some time previous to the result of the Expedition to Constantinople was known, he wu anxious to havelhose papers front the offices where they were deposited. As it was not iu his power to ascertain whether certain papers, which were of censiderable importance to the investi gutiun of the merits of this Expedition, were on record, be trusted every assistance and every faci lity would be atforded by the Right lion. Gentle man opposite in obtaioing them. He wished for the letters from Lord Collingswood, in winch the state of the Turkish fleet, batteries, &c. was de- These he thought absolutely necessary for the information of the House. lie thought it his duty to call the attention of His Majesty's Mi iiisteis to those papers, to which, whenever they an nounced them, he would propose the addition of any other that would in any degree tend to the in formation of the House upon this subject, and communicate the saint to the Right Hoe. Secretary opposite. Mr. CANNING said, he would at all tiros' as sist is affording the House every information in his power, but that fron t the *chums of the Hon. and his Colleagues, be had no wish to cafirt communication with them. Mt. GRENVILLE was unwilling to provoke any discussion, or take up the time of the House. He was alone solicitous for the production of every paper and every information that could be afforded to the House relative to this Expedition. COPENHAGN. Mr. WiIITBREAD said E . the Right Honoura ble the Secretary of sate seemed to him a good 411 chagrined, at the refusal of His Majesty's late Government to avail themselves of the Right Honourable Secret ire's preferred commiusication with them, on the aulijert of the production of the Npera relative to the expedition to Constantinople. did net see what the necessity was for such !°nnntlakiltit'an and he felt pmnd that if was re eted. That expedition did oM st an d in need of liing covered or ontoind no in the cloak of mys trisua—nn, it re.. i t e rl anon (rommis which woold be fund valid and tenets:AlM. It would. he was ~~ ~T~I~~~~~I ~ ._; r , r to 4 ItikSDAY, FEBRUARY. 9, mos. , satisfied; when, thoroughly invesfigate4/ peeve highly creditable and honotuabteto the projectors ont.. The Hight Hon. SecTetari , in.lits wind, introduced a practice into this House extremely alarming,. .and• had carried it to greater lengths fhuft he had ever heard of. lie Meant the practice of suppressing err holding from this lions! any Of the information ceceiridlbyHis hlsieetis Ministers respecting the important emuerits of the count/7. This wits* completely . exeinplitied by, the Hight HoMiurable Herretery to the manner he has thought proper to deal ‘ willi.thili 'louse, it) the production of toe . pipe:sand letters relative to the expedition to eiipenhageti. Ile (the Hight Hon-Secretary) had not, in hisopinioo, dealt faitly with those frol.n whim he received those letters, extracts from which he thongl.t proper to read. These letters, by being read „by piecemeal, may be made to codrey a Meaning totally different from the meaning of the writer. Mr. Gatlicke, he conceived, might tel himself consider:Oily-injured by the use the Hight Honourable Secretary had made of iris letters; mid 41itellid believe that he had not - been dealt with in the mot fair way iu this respect. There is a We) of reading a letter, • gesticulation, manner. and emphasis, which wive it it meaning. He did not min is assert that the Right Honourable Sects , - tiny had forged any part of MeGarlicke's letters, or that by leavb-g out a parenthesis, by stopping where he should not, or by reading ont Anti' sea tences, he had rendere 1 their meaning totally dif ferent from that intended. Ile never had the plea sure of seeing Mr. Garlicke ; he was a persou, he understood, employed by Government, who was in the habit of - giving his opinion on the state of politics at Copenhnren. If the Right Ilauonrable Se.reeny was to have the privilege of reading ex tracts from Mr. Garlicke's correspoodeuce with him, without being obliged to produce the whole of it, it was very apparent that he could wake that Gen tleman say just whet suited his (the Right Holiourable Secretary's) purpose, and no more. For his owa part, he was satiated that the iusinu aeons throwa out against the Crown Prince of Denmark, by the Right Honourable Secretary, were caluunnee. He ass convinced, that it was the determinutionef that gallaat Prince, to waist tain, with every effort of his niture, his independ ence and neutrality. He would suppose a case for a moment, which he thouisht would place Mr. Garlic ke in a very distressing predicament suppose that Mr. Garlicke had aentnimicated to the Right Honourable Secretary, that. Ite believed it to be the inter.tion of the Crown Prince of Denmark, to use every eiTort to maintain his neutrality; and in the event of hi not ben able to do so, he was determined to call upon England for her &inst ance and protection. He would ask, it Mr. Gar licke had cominitnicated this information to Mr. Secretary Canning, and that that Itigiit Honour , able Gantleinati bad not read such cousingnieetion to this House, would it not be placing Mr. Garlicke, in the eye, of Denmark, in a light highly discreditable to a man of honour or character ? From all be could learn, he believed Mr. Garlicke had made such communication ; and be could not but say, that iu his opinion the Right Houourable i Gentleman had not dealt fairly with bias. There ! were other reasons, he believed, which prevented the Right Honourable Gentleman from producing these letters ; it was not. be feared, convenient to give the House of Cominoos every information they afforded. They! may have the tendency of producing a change of sentiment in the minds of many Honourable Gentlemen, who were now tho roughly persuaded of the uecesiity of our expedia tion to Copenhagen. Ile had heard a good deal of time dexterity and managemeut of the Right Honourable Gentleman and his colleagues, but much as he admired it, lie trusted it would soon be at an end. A laugh). A good deal of threat had been held out with respect to the espeditiou to Constantinople. The trial of that expedition, he was proud to find, was at hand, and he felt pleased that it was. That of the Copenhagen Expedition, he would inform the Right Honourable Gentleman, bad not yet arrived. He would, however, abstain from all recrimination, which only tended to mislaid, and can never answer any valuable purpose. The Right Hon. Gentleman produced three letters from Lord Granville Lrveson Gower, same date, extract* from which he read ; hut it is clear, that, without we had heard them read throughout, it remained with the Right Honourable Gentleman to make them blow hot or sold, as it suited best his par pose. When the Right Honourable Gentleinan has done what the country, he asserts, deems one of the most glorious acbie:einents recorded in our history, one could be inclined to thiuk he could have no hesitation in producing the information that led to it. If the information he so strong as the Right Honourable Secretary would have us be lieve it is, as to the intentinn of the Crown Prince of Denmark attaching himself to France, why not produce it, and satisfy the country of the expe diency of the measures adopted by him and his col leagues ? If the Right Hen. Seermary has given us a false statement of the iotentiou of Denmark, or at least one not warranted by Mr. Garlicke's let ters, he eertainly has horn dealing with the feelings of Mr. Garlicke rather harshly, That there might possibly be letters which it would not he prudent topenance, he wss ready to admit ; and such as may have the most remote tendency to injure the public service. he wonlil lie the last mats to prim for. There were other letter), however, which hare not been pwithiced, sad the eisclorure of which. be had every reason to believ e, could I not be hurtful. He iambi therefore call upon the Right rionontahle Centleman to produce them. 'The Right Honounible Gentleman eon ' chided by lancing fin a copy of Lord Howick's - letter to Mr. Garlicke, dated September 3, 1806, f with Mr. Gerlii Ise's answer thereto ;—also a espy - of the note font the Danish Charge d'Affaires, (Mr. Heist) ts Mr. Seeretary Canning. I Mr. Sec:vary CAI'S NING and, he felt consi derably astonished at the observatems which fell from the Honourable Gentleman who 'had just sat down. He was the more surprised at thieve ob servations, which he conceived be did talk ia' the slightest degree merit. If beifing every diiiptee sition to render all the accornioodattou in his power to those Right Ilea. Geutletneu composinle the tate Administration—if a wish, to coinumnieate with them for the purpose of rendering them assistance in the selection of such papeeit is they sheik' think necessary to produce for the invesiOgatinn of tine Expedition ni*Constnutioeple ; if that Wits fair ground for the harsh observations of the lion. Gentleman, he certainly did plead guilty to theth. He trusted, however, the House would feel, that his conduct did not merit such rebuke, nor such observations. With respect to the letters from which he read eittnicts, they were not included nor comprised in the motion made by the Itj A ht Hon. Gentleman opposite (M 7. Pousonby). Hs had read the 'extract of the letter alluded to by the Hon. Gentlemase,. few Ye purpose at l itti 4 mil himself in an anainent made use of re 're to the dirpositiou of Denmark. It was contended, that the Danish army at 'Holstein might, in the event of their being obliged to stimuli/It that place, transport themselves with facility to 'Len lend. He did, on a forffier occasion, contend, that it would be very difficult for them to do so. —ln this situation there were strong 'apprehen sions entertained, that Denmark might be iuduecd to compromise with France, end abandon her Riot to the enemy. Denmark was accordiugly apprised, that if she was seduced to make such compro tnise, she would lacer the resenlineut of Great Britain. How the use that was made of *Lord 1-lowick's letter, to support the opinion of the wa- ' verity.; disposition of Denmark, can be a recrimina tion or imputation cm that Noble Lord, he was at a loss to conceive. Another nee made of Loni . • Howick's letter was to spew that Den Mark had re fused an offer of 25.009 Inca froth Sweden Which was deemed necessary to keep Holstein . fie tinst ed, that the reference nt h de to this letter 'could not ' be deemed, in the most reueste depute - an:dealing:l unfairly with Lord flowiellii? The other letter of Lord Ilowick, frodi which, he :cad an extract, was corroborative of the diem-iliac of Denmark.. On •( the appearance of the French Decree of the east November, there .'bas en evident istelstnut shewn on the pert' of f ratice tai deal - lie-10y with Desulark with reseict to restricting Lee trade. He had a cocemuureation about that thee' from the then Secretary of State (Lord Ilowick) and Le was willing to give every information he obtained, sa tisfied, that when it was produced, it would be scan that he and his colleagues walked in the foot steps of the late Ministers, whose opinions were fullymade ty as to the wavering, it' not hostile des poliation of Dealuark at that time. The lion. GetatitutliP bon &laded to Wm-bitten whit 4 fee far to particular facts, and go to shew, teat after the battle of Jena, the Datnsh Neutrality was vio lated, and that it was the evident intentiou of France to possess halal of the Danish fleet. It was alio well known, that p.saole in the highest offices in Demerit' had a bias towards Frteice. Her deferring to snake preparations for defence against France, whether arising from terror, or alarm, or from neglect, er hostile disposition, was equally theureroui ; tad there was every reason to believe, from this wavering and inactive state, she would have become an easy conquest to France. Such then was the disposition or situation of Denmark, and to the proof of this, he had read qt extract from Mr. Gavlicke's letter. The Right Honwerable Gentleman has said that a quotation cannot be fair, if it be partial ; hut, according to that ride, there would be an end to all prudence and reserve. He did humbly conceive that those with whom these letters weredeposited, ought to be the best judges of what should be produced, and what not. This rule with the klo.rourable Gentle- MM. he was sure would not be admitted ; but he was satisfied the House would feel the reasonable ness of it. The Right Honourable Gentleman alluded to three dispatches received from l, e rd Grauvide Leveson Gower, dated same day. He thought it net-emery to explain, that from the dis tance and precariousness of the passage from Rue. sin to this country, it was found necessary, and indeed unavoidable, to send dispatches, different in - point of date, on the same day. If the Right Ho nourable Gentleman mold find no other objections than such paltry and frivolous ones as those, he very much feared that nothing short of putting him and his colleagues in oaire will satisfy pie'. This be would, hoverer, Imre to the observation of the House. He trusted, that, ae the Honour able Cleotlentan was not satisfied with the discus sion that had already taken place 'seem the 'no tion for the production of papers relative to the expedition to Capenimeen, he would so shape the beet motion to be submitted to the [louse, as that it would produce every paper relating to that Expedition. Es 1 TE3IPLE expressed his astneishment and surmise at the member in which the Rieht Ito , nwurable See,etary had chesen to retrit the sent ' ments of the l'ig'ht Honnien'ile Gest:emu:l :Aar him. He has thought preeer to make an to the insqliness of my Honourable Friend, in order to dissuade him from !brevet-et for papers, the production of which the Rieht Hon. Secretory woribi have ns believe would prove hurt , fel to the public service. The Right Ilouourai,le fieeretary did not think it improper to real( such I ectnirts from those letter'', as soiled his purpose, sail to suppress such did not. Ile was 111111niat!ti ri the Right Hon. Secretary was not asiiarned of the conduct he hat pursued in the justificet:on of Himself. Could he think that this House would be , satisfied with the evidence of scraps of. letters se leeterl by himself, in proof of the hoetile disposition , of Denmark torrents this country ? Did he not feel, that by readiue hut e-treets from those let - tern, and by refusing to produce the letters them (PRICE SINI'ENCE. selves, he was liable to the charr of simpreipijag their true meaning. The Noble Lord concluaell, by expressing his regret at being under the faeces. sity of chauging his. opinion of the candour Of the Right Hon. Secretary, who had certainly tostrayed a great want 4f it iu the present instance. Mr. HERCERT rose to express his conviction Of the impropriety of refusing to Farhat:Rout, et any time, papers resting to Important affairs of date, when there was no danger to he appreheoded from their production. He considered Ministers as now brought to the bar of public opinion, their character was m 'tithe, the intosprobandi lay on them imperatively and exclusively. They had endea voured to prove the 'necessity they were under of actingois they had done ; but this plea, like that of an blibi in law, was either the beat or the worst...-. If lu any essential part it failed, it involved the person who resorted to it in the suspiciou of rubor notioa or deceit. The Ministers had failed iu tube standating their case lay domixneots ; it was not then !wit to aspire frets the Heiseti e trofoond reverence to the opinion of Ministers , • St.ssakiserviest so. quiescence in the acknowled%mant of a proposition, as yet destitute of any argument to support it, but that drawn from the expedieucy of confiding. in those at the head of affairs. The SECRETARY at WAR thought. no men of common sense would insist . on- the.ptOduction 44: the papers in question being requisite to foci* an opinion on the necessity of the conduct of His Majeety's Ministers. -That .necessity was evident from the avowal of France's designs on Denmark, and from her inability to defend herself against France, should not Itussia co-operate in effecting the inteatiotts of the enemy. Mr.•TIERNEY lamented that the brilliant sirs fence his Right Honourable Friend had, on a for mer evening, made for himself end Lis colleagues, derived its chief strength from a boldness Hamer. lion peculiar to himself, suit en itiusindid garbled statement of official letters; of which, while he pro duced those parts he conceived be might wrest to his Own justification, he frankly and unblushingly denied any farther use to the public. For his past he had never felt more surprise than on hearing the Right Honourable Secretary appeal in justifies. firm of the late conduct of the Ministers, to the letter of his late predecessor ip office, whose aver sion to the outrage ou Copenhagen was ever doe cided and publicly avowed. The Right Hoe. Se- . cretary's admission of the papers iu his own defence was certainly very injudkions, when he bad already determined to refuse them in any other shape than that wretched state iu which they had been exhibited to the House. Rut this inconsistency to him wee not difficult to eurittount ; he was a man of ingenuity and resources far above vulgar conception ; his reply was, of course, suited to tfor emergence Yes, you shall haitthe,4esperaethaa..... is, the sutsrterie6, at far' issties to prove a certaia point, bat not one jot further. You shall never obtain them to answer the foul intentimu your minds are now fraught with. I only wish to esta blish a particular fact, and that once effected, I care tittle for satisfying the public anxiety, or the wishes of my in Parliament ." In all this, he observed, oppose rs was no mention of the only defence lie had, in his experience of Parliamentary usage, ever heard made against the production of important officatl papers—the danger to be appre hended from a developeuient of the secrets of Go vernment.' Rut it had not even been urged that the public service might be injured by any each Conduct. He had boldly called on the house to give implicit confidence to the servants of the Cro*n, and thought it meet to hinder the Holum from being so aise as himsehl The fact was. there was nothing contained in any part of the carrels.. pondence submitted or concealed from the House, which could warrant Ministers in the proposition they had at first set out with in their defeme, awl they had, therefore, wisely shifted their ground. They had first , led the country to suppose they were in possession of cerbsiu information on the head of the secret arranlements of the iiatiow of the Continent. Since then they had denied *hat they had before as directly asserted. The Right Ho j noorabledentleinan, he j stat.4l, finding biotite - If thus reduced to desperation, had resolved to lois represent utt authority, which he well knew would hate its dn. weight with the lionise Ifeuce, the disingenuous, disgraceful use, winch had been made of Lord Howick's letter. If this letter, and the reply of Mr. Garlick:., were produced to the House, Ise maintained they wovild inataittly falsify the inference drawn, and assertions made, in so vaunting a tone, by the Right Hon. Secretary. if these papers and so ca-efitlly secured within the dark bostunv of the Right 11-mournble Gentleman and his friends, were protinced, and read publicly, at High Cress, there could thence result nn injury to the public service. Nor could the 'light Honourable Gentleman have kept his counteuanee. (even admitting his talents in that way to be conspicuous end surprisitig - ,) had he been compelled to resort to such a defence. If even the Right Honourable Secretary did, he cer. tainly should not. 'The Right Honourable Secre tary had said, its aturst of triumph, to doubt oc. cnsioned by the successful speech he had made a few evenings ago, (a triumph which, liocever it might he overlook NI fora night of .two, ccttai uly did not reflect much credit ou the Right llonouni. able Gentleman who was so eminently tilled on to act a clignided and exalted part, in eenseepsence of his situation at the bead of the Foreign Devitt t ment,) " Who will, with all their complaints, pledge themselves to more a censure on the King's ?" He felt it his doty, and was proud of the present occasion of avowing his intention to move that vote of censure on the Ministry. " You challenge us," said he, "to move s censure', Yet you conceal all the et idence you safely can, and eat w hich the possili'lity of luta/Intl • censors princivally rests. Yes. f let ton have we information. and I will, tbolseth ' 1