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• on -etal to, by the renewal of bristillties, were not lire pl.-..Lte conferences that pawed Uetw.en that 5 u , e ,...1.:3 avid Lord Whitworth, published in this couvtry, to the jartidcation of the war? Now, • he °untended. tlitit no representation or misrepre sentation of the words urea bya foreign Sovereigui, entail ever be so anisehievous as the practice of r..a.liug partial :mil garbled extraets 4lr letters awl other &cur - lulus, and refusing to produce the witole of than when culled for. A view of the whole -would give a very different imprei.eioa front Vicar most he felt, when only a part was suede ht . The CH AIKELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, he agreed with his Right lion. Friend, that consider aulti itsc9nveniencie must be produced front pitb li,litng the conversations with Sovereigns; and the prat:lite oeght generally to be abstained from. Ile . would not, however, go so far as to say, that tin Cdr um,b,tnetzt could oceer ii, which it might not to be abstained from. Them; irliglit be occasions when it Inlaid he pi', pet to make such ceminunicatious public; but there sliouhl always he &sow; ground few doing to, wleith aid not exist in the preseat iiiitanee: he would thcrefore appose the inotion. Mr. fkruitne PON soxior sad, the best times in •our history were those wit* every thing gala: male Public, aid when too much eesitidenec was not re posed in Ministers. lie wished gentleuien to set whit the doctrine now h 4 out would land to.— ie co meg ti ..1 ice w ouldbdirst Mini.ders might shel ter their miscoutliiie exit" these forms. AU Ambas sador (ruin this cannel"( might have trescherour eivaigua,atl they taustbtaall kept concealed Leconte the Foreigii Sovereign chose to art as his own Minister, unit bad conferences with him. If the emileveaces were livid with the Minister of that Sovereign they sum ',lien Ist-niade public. if ho feign Sovereigns. became their own Ministers what serer we to know of the conduct of our Ministers atirowd ut all. Were the people of Eunleed dein to be told that there was an end to all inquiry, hecausti Bonaparte compelled the So vereigns of Europe to confer with Ambassadors parsonally, sad not through their Ministeni? Mr. CA16741111; ..splained. Mr; 1% %Dtlari said, the House and the country slight nos be congratulated on having a new de fender of those rules of propriety, vel.t,•ll lie had . lately broken. Sometimes a smuggler made a very good crestom-artist 'flits was anala- R oes to the Hight lien. (Ividlcinaii who spoke with scch mtiwatino against the practice of disclos tag rontideldial conitriunicatiou.,. The House then divided— Far ow notion Against k Maturity —6e sawn I t Enalt PEST " moved for the several papers erlsting to America, which he had given notice of ei.l a former day ; acil Doctor I•AWKEttiI; moved for a copy of the Message to Congress, in lebruary, 107.—Agrer d to. • • MOUS' Uell at half-past twelve. 110/38E Of LORDS• Tla• Earl of CA Fel Its took (hr oaths sad bis mt. 'noir line...hip. I.erft dais day summoned to attend on particular banner. OttailatS OF coll'NclL. Lord At.efildsa D proieedcd to state to the House vassoiss which had induced him to britig antler its consideration anise regulations of the Executive Cotrevement of this country, which had already 1V1V.3411 the 'attention of the public by the suffer ings toey bail compelled the mercantile part of this reiintry to undergo and the apprehensions too justly exeiteil of die defection; of our allies by enforeement. His Lordship wished to draw she attention of the How to the sevend grounds $* Inch those O.ders of !Lis Idalesty in Council i bint be.n already impeached. lie had always been • sif °pinto', that the chief policy of the Government of this country iiecessanly was to protect, assist, 410 fllCOUrtge its trade with other nations. To :tfect this, it was not only necessary we Should !nail laws for the rest rvatton and defence of our two trade, but we also should endeavour to insure Ilse support and areistance of other nations, by a lair and cu idid uckeowiedgment of their maritime rights, and as adinission of the advantages *suit- Ow front mutual traffic and general eointneree.— Our preseat polity 4tad been the very cmposite; we Aid, to eousequessce of the inimical Manifesto of our aeon c.i enemy, violated the limilamental prin eipita of that gunend law by which time intercourse of nations had hitherto been regulated ; nor had' the corutetineaces of this conduct affected the in terest of the enemy, against whom we were anxious to level ti.e lilacs, but they had prineipally fallen upon there nations with whom we were then at ismer, and with whom the present Govern tuesit professes itself anxious to continue in the stri, t. st t. ems of amity ; its effects had been in jovisses to let A4IC allies Islin navigated the seas, and its eousexiurnee bad been to alienate and exasperate the feeitr.zs that nation with whom we should be most destrims to enltti ate pence. From these orgunients ronclitursl, that the Orders had been pet only illegal. io a general and national sense, Lot arse altagetimr isitnistiliable. Neither had tlw defender, of these weaseres proceeded to soh - stantiate elicit that defence, on winch they had on pun, idler oerwouns rested the hares of their justitication in the eyes of the country. They had faiLd iu proving the expediency of these irwinaireq. fu litteuiptiug to ;son- it, they rest) admitted, by iutisteaee, the reiersc—Frunce, it luau Insets stti•l, bull resorted to tin:se auesuntres of general tdechade aguiust as; brute, we were COMpellett to tiwoduption of u sinsilur lire of conduct towards whom t—uot ards Franee—No! AIo ! to our allies, towards neutral nations. The aility of one it.itiou thus was :osumed as a justi fic:dion of au 00 !Mgr ru tillaitted b y ns against other oautfrudrog owaceutile maritime nations. While hasrlascountryrt it u lcd tile idea of France denouncing us in a &tide dat . l.loL - Lati , ', we entered into the m'et bodily and rigorous meinare towards all the world; sad ibis fur th.. protectiou of that trade, he con tended notiu t he to:wile:a de tiger from the late ad ditionAl restriction of the enemy. It was in vain to ..y we bud acted jualy other eotiotries, in warning thcos not to cuter ti:e portaitfthernerby; dill this tither justily our t orwitact or prohibit them from catering the enemy), pens ? Did our warning the constnaaders of 11..titad euesids of the daurr of e..; tering the pert 3 of the empire, establifib tit tight cur such the ~.c wAs tio procedeut in t h e asigibtettl iiittion*? Could we claim to ourselves the pineet.' of dispedailig to independent nations the mode in which they should carry on their trade? It hid been said, in justiticution, that France had aloud so. This lontheett felsitied by the Papers laid be fore the [louse, cud the express testimony of feat. France had, 'tis true, nominally issued Ltecrets; she had not put them in force. We had faltuntated, from the oppusite, shore; and executed them with the utmost possible riper. Next, ad these orders, and all this ngour, had failed of accom plishing its end ; veseels, though levant of their danger, still continued to enter die' enemy's ports. It hail been found difficult to render neutrals sett eble of the flagrant impropriety of trading with na tions who were our enemies. t They still continued to enter their ports at all hazards Land as it tias scarcely possible our cruisers should know then desttuation when out at sea, and us they woald never inform on themselves, he neutral trade to France had suffered comparatively little. In snrance, the Noble Lord stated, had tint risen one sixpence, notwithstanding all our rigour. Ile pro ceeded to express his doubts of the begat extension of the King's prerogative, so far as to warrant his granting to part of his sniects an exclusive right of importing and exporting the produce of this and the enemy's cou n try, under certain restrictithis. This bud been done iu favour of the islands of Jersey and Guernsey. In fact, the conduct of this entintry had tin othier tendency than to render her rieijeulous in the eyes of Europe, by theabortive metres employed to effect her rtsentment.. . It had been ( ler intention, no doubt, to annoy France ; this appeie-ed inconceivable to him, since ourselves, it appeared, ,had been the first sufferers ; mid next, neutral nation,t, with whom this country should have cultivated the closest connection. We had by these orders on:y co-operated with those agttiust whose injustice we so loudly declaimed. We and France had now place.: all neutral nations between two coutiscations, widish this had been done under the idea of deceiving the nation into et belief that their trade was effectrally benefited by emit ting otf all supplies front France, and through her front all Europe. He said he could scarcely refrain from laughing, when he had first read the title of these orders: " Orden issued by His Majesty in Council for the regulation of the navigation of the seas:" and the reasons assigned for their beilig issued were equally ridiculous, viz. "the preservation of the independence of' Nations, and the maintenance of general communication throughout the word."— Such was the varnish of words used by the authors of this system of IN; aeigation Law. It had, however, failed to deceive this country, and most deplorably failed in its effect on the enemy. Neutral nations had felt its severity, and resented, with becoming spirit, our innovation. They Wel felt, as all mode rate and ratioual men in this country, that we had descended to run the race of violence and outrege with France, and though she had been the aggressor, we had amply compensated for our lateuess, by time severity of our enactment. The intention of Bo naparte was to prohibit trade between his country and ours only. Our intention was to cut up all trade whatever with Europe, either by ourselves or others. The annual amount of our trade in import* and exports, in the past year, ending on the I ith day of November last, had amounted to 11.5 millions. He was sorry to say, lie felt it very im probable oar amount this year would be near so much; perhaps nut one half, perhaps less; per haps our export trade would dwindle into inbiguni cance. What had been said on a former night by the Noble Secretary of State, respecting the jealous teeliug of the powers 011 the continent, strongly ap plied to the present disposition manifested by neu tral. nations. They saw we were totally out of the power of the enemy, except in the capability he possessed of excluding the produce of this na tion from the territories and dependencies of France. We should not then injure all other nations by the precipitance and vio lence of our measures, the very tint moment we felt any of the greater inconveniences of a war, into which we had forced almost the whole world, and which had been supported with the territories, blood and treasure of our Allies, whilst we remain ed aloof from the contest and the danger. The Noble Lord concluded with moving, " Thnt the papers furnished to the House, on the subject of His Majesty's regulations respecting the trade of Neutral nations with France, be referred to u Com mittee of the whole House." Lord BATHURIM defended, at considerable length, the policy of the Orders issued by lln Ma jesty at a period when France had insultingly dared this country to its utmost. On the hare principle of retaliating the hard conditions of France on her own head, the Ministry were justified in the con duct they had adopted . . They had enacted, pro tempore, a species of modified blockade ; which, it was to he wished, should, as soon as possible, be removed ; but which had originated, aigl must Ow cease, with the diepoeition displayed on the part cT the enemy. It had ever been a principle, that 1 neutrals should not relieve or supply an enemy. In adoptin the measures the y . had, the Ministry had only followed up the principle of the lust Ad ministnition, in the Order of the 7th of Januars.— The present Orders had this precedent for their adoption; and, as nothing but a strong and com prehensive measure could be of force etifficient to operate in convincing France of the possibility of ultimately reviles* herself, more acute!,, the evil • effects of such restrictions in trade, the Ministry had, he contended, consulted, in the suspeusiett of the neutral law, the interest of this country, and, he trusted it would be found, even that of our Allies. Lord Ewsuutts, in an energetic speech, of con siderable length, strongly expressed his disappro- Maims of the conduct of the Government of this country. Ile was amazed to hear Noble Lords talk of the aecessity, or even policy, of the mea sures under discussion. Did they shelter them selves under the principle of retaliation ? If vo, the House had bent long since apprised, that tlii; invwsnre of our Government for outstripped that of the enemy. It could iickt undoubtedly be d,'- fended on the principle of policy, for here it met the most direct oppowti.m from the common cone mist of inreikiaid, in the institutt.s of liatiorral jaw. Perhaps ,iine would be bold enough to assort our right, when we meowed the power, to vie** e: ea . • .. , tacrtl toinpaerbets ten Men: i'INC": 4 I? . 4 e fel - our own, ethirraiutee. Sucii a de: you • sick..na ledge', be fair sail co.isistrat,:ltosting • from t h e lips of those win; had advised sad 41122C tioAe:t such s flagrant set of natlonal , injustice' ; but it certainly null newr be heard with pails cum by 4:iy 011., :riled the Ito4our of Os Ma jesty's crown, or le dignity of the e.upirc. Tree freuch•Decree, ua ire us it idle: veil America. had, he niaintaioca, Leen satisfactorily chaired up !o the Minister then and was deemed to even by the President of the Unites.' States, add by him colunsolii:•.:teil to the Seniite. Ileum he con cluded, A•uerit‘a was an party whatever in the Decree of the French Emperor. 'rids was evident also from her subseque.it contkrt ; when tomes:re even of our Orders of Council lucre, she orderer) si •general einhargo oo all the vessel; then in her bat'- boom. Much had :seen arid of the right nt retali ation, CM which these Orders were founded ; body denied the right to resort to such a milieu', when the conduct of the belligerent justified necessity—loot ecru that his had its liaiitutiotta. —lt should not overstep the nature of the ri ll which ifr went to redress ; yet, iu these Orders, ull limitation was lost sight of, and convenience alone regulated the extent. —lt would seem, that' if the Fiends Emperor declared the moon in a state' of blockade, this country would have a aieetiot of the Board of Longitude and our most celebrates' aistrononiera, to retaliate, 'br prohibition on the satellites of 'Jupiter; wino he commanded a cessation orthe lunar maim, of Kee conjunctions and opposites, they would react by S. declaration that the whole planetary system should Atop still—(a load laugh/roes the Ministered Brach.) He really ersaceived,. notwithstanding the manner in which - the compariselr was received, that. tlftwasei were, in's' great degree. similar: inns- Much as he believed Bonapartilhad us touch Oh-. lacy over the moon, as he had in his declaration of plocisg the British Isles in estate of blockade. The Le-seised Lord cautioned Ilse 'tense how it :record- • ed with a system calculated to provoke the liosUlitv of America: This country nould feel, *throng!) every branch of its tnule e the'evil consequences of such conduct. It would then liud, when too late, that it was cutting, up one of the principal sources of its prosperity, aid that, by an unfortunate and uli , justitiable policy, it had dettro)ed the lieu that laid the golden egg. 'flue Loan CHAPKELLOIC took • view of the various objections - made to those Orders of Coun cil, which he coutendel were not violations, either of the public Law of nations, or the municipal liiw of this country. They were founded oa the most paramount of all rights—that of self-preservatiou. lie considered it inconsistent with His 3lajesty's late Ministers to raise objections tyiiiist a system of conduct, which they were the hod to Institute, and which every Mill must admit was called ter by the violent and unjustifiable decree of the French , it Lord KING considered tnat was necessary,. before those outrages upon neutral rights a. e carried into effect, to bare at laist pro 4 that thee had itcquirscyl in the provisions of the French decree. No such evidence was before the liouse. Atileri,!a had disclaimed any such slispoaitiot. and yet the King's Ministers had treated that irottntik. with the same severity Os if she had ac!liesced. Ile was strongly imp/read with the injustice of those orders, and theretore should icive his vote in support of the nation of his Noble friend (Auck land.) Lord CInE%VILLI observed, that it was fro (lucidly the object of pnblie speaker*, in older to. interest the attention of their auditory, to magnify the importance of the subject upou which they addressed them. But on the topic then before, the House, it was out of the power of the most eloquent to exaggerate the magnitude of this ques tion, considered in all its beurings, whether to the justice, the constitution, or the policy of these Or ders. Indeed it inuonuted to au absolute impossi bility to bestow on them, in one desultory debate, the attention they so forcibly merited. and that Tras amongst others a strong reason for acceding to the inutioa for going into a Committer. It was cote teuded, that those Orden were founded on the same principle as the order of the 7th of January, introduced during the' late Administration, al though the two measures stood upon totally adverse grounds. Let it be remembered, that the Order ' of the 7th of January was founded on a known assumption of the Law of Nations, k first made a declaration of the blockade, and next took the steps fur acting upon the Declaration. It was solely grounded upon the right of retaliation,, not upon any view of convenience, the only principle to which the King's Ministers appeared now to ' hare adapted tic-it policy. Therefore it was that he was surprised how a mind so perspicuous ar that of the Learned Lord, could confound things tuft measures so radically dissimilar. Was it nut more natural to expect, that Ministers would de fend their system of policy by a full discussiou of its s Olt necessity. that at last. there linulo be an end to that eternal circle of arguing present questions from past transaction*? With that feel- I ing lie entered on the discussion, believing in his soul, that on the revocation or non-revocation of ! these Orders. depended the ultimate existence of this country. Let us, then, in the Iseunsien of such a snt jrt. lay aside this petty war of per anal recrimination, and look distinctly at the essential interests cchich it involves. The framers of these Orders of Council appeared to have con founded two right* iu themselves, totally distinct ; they have confounded the right of retaliation with Bat of self-preservation. The latter, when truly applied, supersedes every other roasi4ratioa ; even the horrible act against t'opetiliagen would, in such a case, be warranted. But though on this right your power against the enemy was complete . and perfect, yet against the neutral no right was acquired by the conduct of the enemy. If a neutral power has been forced by a belligerent to afford to it certain facilities amid advantages, this change in her Mini., • the "tiler State at war Rive to tits o f considering the Nentnil fie the view` 'ciliary, or ask from her 'thirmasma advantages facilities rue k ..r 01 Cl' aat ertLlci7 u, its i sot:kelt, icsmatt . ...4it C 111.161 nasty to r%e!F lent of the eisrilna . s p.. 1 . 1. fled X.:Misters waited to mieertaiu the in teuilims of Auletiea ? Did they tausider tier, wicther the Fieueb Decree was executed tonsure;; them anti if it laid, whether tit Government se t a, rio t ed a 'fhb was the comaderstion up :o whielfs.L t r i nebtit.n hinged, and if Untidy's were nut teuke out the Ail menet of that positiou, then had not will loom of ground to stand' uper..-- The ttetiv,6 "Kerte way not put in force agetat • the direct traae of Detututrk with this country ; anal ;yids respect to ship of that cottony • bad Ii .'.n actually takeu lute the ports of Fraaw, and the Court of Pr4e releured the. ship, upon Ae sad iv-vents, that the Decree held mit . nu sueli inetructions ivitu respect to neutral shipteMil int; direct to a Ilritieh poet. la Speits, au 'American ship; similarly lilirlled.. *as also rehtived. Moe .were strung woofs to be opi.oied to the totatat - 64T111:e of ou ell a •preaustoptiou of pool ea %Lich the 'King's istinioners have veutural tai act. hely pendeut of this. the Prmident of the United lien.. intimated to Congress the thrtual di3OVUWOI, on tae part of France, of such a rigorous corm:tit:nu e of the French. !Jeerer as was at tint view tapptr , beaded. The tnieriasn Minideni COMM 411.1- tailed similar infermation to the 6overianer.t it this ceuatry, and therefore it was the duty of Mi nisters, betare they violate' mid dissolved tIM! old public law of nations, either to have called upon the Ameiican Ministers for proofs of the, verity. of their atatemeut, or to hare contradict. ad their avowal by the production of the evidene It was impossible to make out a stronger ca,e, , order to puove that America had not umplicseed ui , the provisions of the F,rencli decree ; and it was, in the 'downepp of that acquiescence, an absolute and uujustilable . breach of the law* of nations, to have issued orders 60 directly hostile to the lint interests ,qt' that enititiy. The i asiun of those orders upon the in lpal law of the laud was the next import ' **tot consideeetion. Was it anu maim of Terence, to have violated ten of the positive stutuit, the renhu., to have .placed the sanctioned awl promulgated laws of the country at the übsoltee • dispoeld of tile Privy Council ? It was ouceiliotteht , even by the advocates of it dispensing power in the Crown,: end in the great question of ship-mooey, for the violetisin of a stn ding law, the neces sity- should lie ttrgent, and aniline. es it were, in the interval between the promgetio.... and mectilig •-f Parliament. At the Revolution it was hoped that Mi. question was fur ever set at rest, and thid to Paths nieutwas the resort, when it was necessary to delifie . pate on measures suited to the occurrence of great art 4 seawall' concerns. .To what other purpose was it that Pori ament was assembled? Why this farce and spew of an assembly, manes to go through the . iinockery of Bilis of Indemnity I The Noble Lord contl toted. in a most animated appeal to the House, to iutetpore hetweeti this country and its destruc tion. to retread its steps, as the path throe:ell which it moved. led quickly to the grave. Ile warned them egainet the .renewal of a system of taxation. '''Eritiite 'bi'rectly or indirectly, upon Ameriein ade ; and con,uted them to seize the opportunity afforded them by the nre-etnitieuee of France in this rivalry of injudice, of erasing from "the Month oldie country, and of obliterating fungi the mintier the people, the least hitention of aeti upon a sylitem. of ;Miley Freshly ititroduced, and wanteidy pursued. calculated for no other purpmb than to • involve tai, na. ion in an unjust war. - • . , Lord . NewoSsiusts said, if ever there was a .epiestida Material for .the oonneleration of that I Inuni .it was .4e , pre'ent one ;.the measure wale • found; upon.. an eionnple furnished by Ilk Ma jesty.* Jate Ministets, and surely, it,was unjust them to find fault' with via act taut originated with themselves. Whe • Order of Council of lee 7, laid tlx foundation for the ,Orders they Fere thee diet:easing, and when a ride wee sauce laid dowie • it was geiletelly unwire to depart frqui it. The Earl cif Latiplpfit us, end Vi6L•ollot SiD• MOUTH, lath spoke for going into a Committee. The House then divided,— Contegl, 30, IPTozies is 45 Nuii-C4..t.teiAstn,ProOgo 165.. 3OO • this Iffonml- Athos rie..l tizocza-3 per Cent. fled 64 4-3 per Cent Cunt THEATRES.—KING'3 - THEATRE: This Eves. the .4riutlf Opt.= Of LA Dl/Dora; sitar %Idyll. a New Grand Mythological Ballet, alkd, L'Es LILVEM Dr Du A a —DIU' RY-LAN E : This Erasing ; n New Opera railed. KAI!: OR, Loa's IN THE r . after which ' , the Fame of Talc CaTi ;U.—COIN ,N 1 GAR DEN : This Evening, a Now Comoty, ealka, Buitrti: CARE; oa, How MILL IT alb to witch will be added, Tilt Thiel) Boa. THE EiRITISIi PRESS. LONDON, TUESDAY. FEBACART IG. . %Terre,iced, reuesrlay, Paris• Papers to the 31st I,t -- 1 . 611/ CUUtiell LIMP isst.sit4Tiox of PRVOSI A agiunst tts., country. It is as moderate as ,wind be eweettrii . Power acting hatter the influence of Ito Ti . reftwal to 'cept tie mediation of Ituasta is asiismed as . effuse of brenk:ag off al cu. neetlow it'h Enelo 1, . pcare between her nod Ft/ITICI. A al.44yun grog of ?e, sail has veinal at 'Priest.—A neer Vic...tars of the Ease.. . retitled C0vii1104.G.1..r4 of lie Depart mauls 'rejoin .t. Alps, has held (tested lbLi t t Aea RTE. itv &COie fasourhe fur obit this is ret.rviit, is mei.. • .10. ^ pi operas a Seer cf the !lumbar lirov..le. • . the Empire. He is expeelsol at lot once. 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