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throat\ the Hasse without the fullest eossideratioa. There - dolma were preferred by Gesieral Desfoornesez, ea the reprellehistive of a Montirer Abeille, for the care sad provision for altit and wounded British troops in three hos. foals at Guadeloupe, after flit Charles Grey look possession of the island in April 1994, and fur furniture sod property • eiret.orti in two of those hospitals, which were burnt on the • syrtNinn of the Dritiab labia* of the same year, but whether by the French or by the British theasselvea did not appear. ^44° _,► •11 , 0TISV I *lots *elks -enrauttlur .eqt and woos aud 180,000 livens for the properly , 1 At, This had occ•rted in 1794, but for 16 years no e.Li k jis wait preferred. Up to 1410 &skim wan loosarel,nl z sitfbielb The peace of Annette had fateriewea, of I to lir=a' • radian ora FiNek subject opus the /MOM Goeiliiittent:-.- 'io tete robruitir Alrhantler Coehrsae alma took polemist°. cf the island, this elated was first put forward. He referred Tb claimauta to the Government in this country, and a Ciannittee was appointed to inquire into the subject. evidence, however, was produced to shin natter what ci f . eliminates, the property was destroyed, or eves that' II wa s *aloofly *co destroyed. He hoped therefore it would nor pass without the Wink exzeoluatims ; and that it would he brooght soder Oraeldbeition in a fell House. jar. A RRIYA fir %ilk. it was worthy of sootier, es • dr. eomatanee which tredve hit 'greet degree to,thruw diaeiedit em these claims, that nu one MrOihrt of that House who had tiny commons with Guadeloupe. imams the Committee.. The papers Wrenn airileivel to Its no tlta amble. AFFAIRS OF SICILY. • Lard W. rising to make- t h e 4eetiou of which he hail given notice reef:webs% the effort of':3icily, entrained the Hou.e to believetlist it was with 'extreme pain and reluctance he felt h• imself compelled to bring forward this *Object. Feeling, as he did, the strongest sense of hit own ▪ ihripacity to du justice to the subject, he would • 'willingly have transferred the task to any other g• entlemin, of whom ninny might have been found _.lector qualified than himself by the habits of public • business. It was impossiltle fur him, hosreier, to • sranger to another the weight and authority derived • ern his own intimate acquaintance with this subject ; and it was still more impossible to transfer the zeal and warmth of feeling and attach- Assiut which that acquaintance inspirer) towards that Moral, the disappointment of +inar hopes, the dr atructinu of ',lpe rights and privileges, and the Oaring of whose inhabitants in a worse coisilition than that in which they had bees found by Great Britain, unposrd on hint, ass point of honour, the task of bringing their comb 'tun antler the consideration of Parliament. The cause nos one which oar cute of Wain inanitiog a much greater degree of attention thou he could have any right to mak or expect; and that atierinuo given. lie had only nue inure favour to ask, namely, that the masse might not suffer from the Mobility of the advoceie.--/ thee , ing.)—He had nu dihhe, for his own part, to bring under discussion tig.psctiotis with which he was connected, and to which it might be that h's vanity perhaps had led hint to outwit much more importance than they seslly deserved. He could assure the House, on his honour, that lie brought the subject forward without the aidicdation or suggestion of any individual whet ' ever; fiir, as hilted said before, sioce he left Sicily lie . theld uo comosnoicat ion whatever with any per. sou remai ll il ig tit it. fits motion arose solely out of t Ilkaftlerip interest in the affairs of Sicily which he had Imbibed from his long connexion with it. When we were 'about to teoire from the Wood, the , Lord oppositeinstructed our Wooster at Septet to require of the King*. promise Of gua rantee of two conditions:—the first of these was, that rib Sicitrou should he subjected to airy molestation en account of hip former political conduct or opi nions; and the Second, that in nn case should the 13 4shOstas. _of-that i,litod be placed is • worse • c9Pdthisa with respect to ills„,political rights `And liberties -rhea they were in' before the Eug •liels Were in• posetearon of the Island. ' From all information, however, a bleb he had beeu . 1414 e to collect, he was convinced that those eon *lmil been grossly violated; and that the kelt. sights of the Sicilians had been Wholly 'min **shed. • If antiquity gore any value to nations' rights, those of the violation of which he coin jahriped, were as valuable as all which were clisamed by tither of the Allied Sovereigns them delve% • . for they rested on the antiquity of des. The Noble Lord then entered into • fetid of 'the history of the connexion of this c*untry with Sicily from the expulsion of the Royal Family from Naples in 1805; of our occupation of . the island for ten years subsequent to that lime, 'daring which we maintained there s large fleet amid arpiy, and paid large subsidies towards maintain isg. it, mid attempting to regain Nap* from the dominion of the French. In retort, for our assist aerie. we received nothing but distrust, jealousy, hatred, and hostility. During the first six years tar our occupation, the government was in the tials of those of whom it was in vain to expect any cordial support. All attempts to. rouse the Thepolitena or their government to any titer lieu were abortive, while the Sicilians did all la (heir power to second our endeavour!, Retracing down the circumstances of ;hie Sicilian ktices, he took occasion to eulogise the conduct and faiucipleo of the heir apparent. He thought that it vresuld• be a happy day fur the Sicilians when they 411004 be given over to his paternal care. In mak iag out the - case which he hoped to estublials, he contended that there were no n,ce shades of (Justine atom to be mode as to the degree of liberty nth Ch belonged to either state of government—that which Nit, and that which-did exist. Ile contended that *lb lied been entirely deprived of her rights. Sh e 44 - A constitution and a Parliament; she had all .esesonahle obacks on the collection and disbars,- meat of the public revenue ; a revision of the Cons! i tidtion took place; various improvements (which the 11-i/ble 'Lord:described) were resolved upon, aiiii.the Aarons did an, act of magnanimity unparellelid in Ilha history of mankind by abolishing their term toodot rights. The Constitution was intended to -tilltsewtsle a. much as possible the Coast:ration of Pltiglatitt. went on with the particulars which lititkfallen.-•at after the evacuation of Sicily, until this remnuatraume ',loch was put to, a l pini.t the tdmoges which had taken plume. He described the oftet of the onion if the two kingdoms, Naples aqd Meily,. to:hive liOirt most in)selnevods. becriuse iof which the nettle.* of either kitigdetti hard r the other. When the revoluti beoke•but the iiiswerro•iais at Palermo was totally different Ml* that of Nettles. At Palermo it wave ti strtiggle leg jpgornd r n e frf eltd the French revolirtiourty grivernineut at •Itlepks warrdblird to ittotei:e.corn. tal4thrit to, Asir' dodos of 4041.-pv.ili.lice.•:—Ll4 1 0f..0i over this, post *r. 44 aim, be real *retell ex- ItletAa from . thc dsolorstion of General Church, in prottfsitathiet if Aker from crrisiii rosorkt a Mi. which had been made upon his conduct by Meter in,..the othiteiHousel—He proceeded to com ment otillOmposlittatkon w b Abe Putt. of. °Sicily had settAittlifir, offer het . tittle J liWethe Ihrtaer Mee lllleVnetietit revenue, had .:been matted at 1,110114006 Overt % That, howelar, Was the wee budget : there had hien two subsequent budgets, the Jotter of _which was only . 1,400 . ,090 ottrioess.—.l How Came it thit the litter budget had not been adopted ? But this was not all. Wh.t check had the Sot:dials to prevent the Crown frem . .getbering no more than this amount, when the Ktag, was to our it his own accounts, end was to be reepossible to AO party.in the State? The King had credit attri buted to him for consenting to the abolition of rho feudal rights, whereas the Barons were the Only 'check upon the royal power, •and besides that, the herons gave up those rights themselves, on condi tion that the King should give up a part of his rights, which were not at all more sacred than those of the Barons. He concluded Shortly by moving.a.Resolution to the following effect 14 That as humble Address be . preseated to kis Mainly, bre* to represent to him that the Haase had the morn "folios to learn that the coudect punned by the Sieibien irserettiqteld bad tended ts reduce iiskprivilegea of the pro. pie of the Sicilian nation, in such a degree as to lead to, • sospieion that the British Goverenaeut must have commuted to the adoption of It,. measurer Ulm by that Court ts% IP* press the people of Sicily, avid humbly to pray that ins Man jest, would be graciously ' , IWO Aft •Aive. direct's , '" to hies Ministers to interfere in 'web 'a thstssas as 'balsamic and dignity of the cuuutry May regain." The Marquis of LONDONDBIHIT WU willing to do justice to •the candour, intellogeneA'. and how veiny of the Noble Lord, but he considered the period unfortunately late for the proposed inter ference. fie reminded the House that the ttru"* - actions were those of ISIS. and the Noble Lord had found no fault with the inetractions sent out to the hlinister thereupon. It wee too late to ertinitione the G.sverinuent of Naples, especially at this mo ment, when the.Coistratoent of the Sicilisa.Uattoti Was about to ussainsp . re.orgeniestiotti Nays :We very basis of the deliberations was .to 'he that eel) , independence which the Noble Lord-seem ed to think so estimable. Upon fleet auliject •he appealed to the case. of Scuilendinal kelaWl s to *hew that whatever feelings belonged to 1110iNg *Mellon of supposed initionol importance, Slates alight tie vary happily blended for the strength wed advantage of the whole empire. He then described the circumstatti es under which England had tiikeu military possession of Sicily, with r view 4;heck ing the militery aggressions of France in that quarter. That military occupation had no refer mice to the happiness or constitution of Sicily, but only to securing the dominions of the King of Sicily. True it was that to time of war, doriug the occupation of Sicily by Great Broom, a smug interference was necessary to keep the constitution at work, and do that which Was neccessary to carry ing on the operations of the war. Certainly the Noble Lord was mixed up with annoy re monstrances which came from Sicily, and Its ai tuatiot. mutt have beet. euflicmutly irkeinne, but at the same time something must be allowed to the feelings of the station -at • witnessing this - coercive, though necessary tuterfereoce. He differed frau - the Noble Lord as to his maiming,* of the con siitunou, upon which he beltrited that all parties in the State were agreed that 'it could not staid. - As far as the rule and compass could make a etiti 7 stitution, it was perfect—hut fur all practical, military, civil, or political AsurpOses, uselesa., It was agreed thee, that • the ; constitution should be reformed. The Parliement went so stork, but Instead of doing it by constitutional means, as recommended by Sir William Al.:twit, they struggled for twelve mouths in Tau. Having come to a dead lock, they addressed the throat, preying that a Royal Couisnisnon might h.e ap pointed to adjust the Constitui l . In the mean time some sort of government was necessary. The natiou as, without any, as the old form of government had gone by. He proceeded to condemn any attempts proposed to be made by the Brit'sh in the affairs of nig constitutions of other countries. It was. be hoped, the teat office 'which wueld ever be undertaken by this Goverunteul. As to the 'present p r op o siii.ni, if the Noble Lord, with 25,000 troops ender him, had been unable to make hio'v o ice heard within the walls ti? the Sicilian plrfa - ce, Whit hope was there that at this distant period soy good could be • ffected by making speeches me Painamese ? His Lordship, defenited generally, and iv particelar, the conduct of the Watts!) Goveutament in all its conduct towards Sicily, which had nut bee., questioned by any Siciliam• high or low, except in One installer. Ile was willing to do justice to the Noble Lord*, militai y admi nistration it. Sicily, which had frequently forced him to act the politician, painfully to himself and the Goof -route's', sod 'nicely to be brought within the regulations of international law ; but be could nut *NW the ?fertile Lund to be supreme judge of the liberties of the people of Sicily, especially as ho professed to judge entirely oil his uwu observation of their circumstances. He repeated his mollies as to the supposed excellence either of the new or old coustitution, the de iseriptiott of ii.Lieh he attributed to oratui lirl exaggeratioes, wticis were well enough in debar, but of no nse in settling ▪ jaidgut,ut. He could nut consider Gras Britain as bring held to protect even the old constitution of Sicily, or that she was bound to may interference fir regulating the ion rust economy of that via . Hcproceeded to justify the COUJIIei of the British Goverumeeit as to the charger of !hid, and to 'hew that ill every case it bail hem the most anxious wish of Ministers to avoid being pleilged it. ropy 'w•y foie 'refire in adjusting the government, ur securing oho wen termed the liberties of the people. Not only were the in. streetwise to Sir W. ATunri so couched, but Sir William himself so sli icily observed them that he never yielded even to the personal solicitations of the moused), - when wily cegoe• led to give an opinion as a private friend on Ili. 'HIM, oral affairs of the State, lett he 'lonia be supposed to involve his own Goverument in any peke fnr the maintenance of that order of things which he might be disposed to recom mend. He (M argues of Londonderry) would not pledge himself for the excellence of the new Governmeiit, hist neither could he entirely trust to the description of its comparative deme rits given by the Noble Lord. He begged leave to read the opin expressed on the projected chaeges therein by Sir W. Ak:uurs, than o bons he evaceived that there was no man beiter•quatifird in judge.--(His Luc &hip proteeded to iced exirset• truss the cuesaisitocalione of the Hogttah Moister, which cootained Irmo of coegratelatiom at the Hircllsh Go vernment baying Items mittrely released from all responsibility or ley of iaiererreeee hit the propovedchanges.)—And here he look occasion to observe, bow clear it must he to the House Thal the ad •iinstration of the English Government while occupying those kitigdums must hare beeu ofhe mildest character; for not only Ind the turbulence sad imprielude • sprung up since the encomium, hat there a as nut tote ' party is the Siete, Out eves the d•scototeuted Carbonari, • which had not borne testimony to the mild amid equitable matinee is which the euveeument had hero administered. He do . mean to say, that if the new ' Constitution were in be sisbj.citel to jeridicial criticism, it slight nut be found dtkctivtio rnany particulars its the eyes of • Mentlwr of the britiah Vartiminesii. 13u1 ibe question was, did tie ay bit RI pursued bear such coldest,' characters of malignity tin the fate of it ? were the dims...4o6one to destroy the li'ierties if the people sms 'obvious that a Illiieirier of Englaud luokiug oe, supposing him als , r to be au elightewed Warmer, and wee eke well - km* Whit litisurdeetes triteep in the ezereisr ash' (auctions trailed to him,' would have felt it necessary Iltrlttowelneed hii Goverieseeut interfere ! To this question heitheiegid he had arliwlletent seiteret Iw the oemarke of Sir A'Cisort.-nffHe Sold itenther **WWI, In which Sir William save Omni pietist It the risk nppointaments of the state eaters, as asp teeliiifed all dseliertelfe wing had taken active parts with the British nation in the operations of the war.]—From these circumstances he confessed that hvieishl infer withi n , very defilements' to Ate liberties of • ike - people ; at any rate be could discover nothing which lelleit fur ' British imerferesee. Hering thus made this piker! defence, he thould sow proceed to make a few observe. thus on the transaction itself, and really looking at the transaction, not indeed with the microscopic eye of mistily lional criticism, it did not appear to him there was any thing ' its the change which had taken place that could lend to "diminish the dignity, to lessen the comforts, or destroy the prosperity of the people. It might be that his ear had been deadened by the sound of " 1111116116. bet he thought he dis covered some lurking disposition on the part of the Sicilians to effect sit onion. This union bad been effected, an union too similar in principle to the Scotch union, whereby the people bad an opportunity of taking all their own country possessed, hesidee all they could get in the other part of the empire at large.—( fieor, hear, and a latigh.)—And he moat my, that he did not feel the slightest appreheesion that the Sicilian people would suffer by the able and powerful aego ciation of the Noble Lord, nor did lie entertain the slightest fears that the country would be worse g d ender the new system than the old. The Noble Lord (Bentiuck) had borne a splendid testimony to one fact, that under the sew system all feudal rights bad been abolished. The question then was, whether there was any thing in the change so de. strut-five to all that weedear to Sicilians , which produced a slate of things under which the most oppressive of all th.ir grievances, the feiidal system, had beets abolished? They now possessed a Corporation, a regular Cuenca, and all the facilities and aecommodattoes which such • Constitution . . . (not posseming all the ble--aaleigs of the British Constitution) could posers'. There was mu is premium us his mind, or the minds of his Majesty's that there appeared say grossed fur iuterference. Their • duty distinctly was noe-interference, reserving the right of interfering if circuited bad occurred to render such a course etc y. The Noble Lord was the only person to whose mind soy animadversion bad suggested itself, soil that after a period of five years, after the cessation of that system to which his observations referred. They had taken every wise precaution which every wise British • Allender amid do consistently with the character of the country. It was not enough to come there and tell him that as iadividual lad suffered, but he contended that so cir , eunrstanee had occurred of a size and nature to warrant in terference. Nothing but a course of unjust and oppressive conduct could justify It ; bet so far from that, they had the 'uninterrupted silts .e of the whole country as a proof of the • contrary. They had besides the report of their British Mi. nister, that the conduct of the Neapolitan Giveratneul to wards the Srcilian■ was as pod as could be expected. Under all the circumstances, there appeared nothing in his mind that could justify Alluisters in putting their reserve into exesirtiou.—(fleaf, aar.) Sir JAM P.S MACKINTOSH said, that if he cossetted his own iodination. be should perhaps abstain from any com ments ON the observations of the Noble Lord,suggested prin cipally by what had extolled ou a former occasion. There was DO question of more importance, none that more loudly called en a Iliiiish Minister fur eaplaoatioo, ■nd none cer. tai lily in which every individual is that House was interest ed, tekle regarded the honour and happiness of his country. —(Near, heor.)—But it ass psiacapelly upon the slate. winds of the Noble Marquis himself that he founded his opappofi to this motion. The Noble Lord bail alluded to a former debale ; but lit hoped be world do him the jossoice to admit, that he concurred in the principles cuataised is the dispatch. but complaiseJ that the Government hail Aut aflitiered to them. Once more he agreed i■ those principles le their fullest estrut. What hs complain ed of was, that a cosatitutiun had mot tees gives to Sicily, not such, as could wily be discovered by a Nei ,firoikopie iiivestigatioa. sod that Ministers had violated the principles of their drityptek ad liostosseit progressed that which they promised to perform.--(Hear, ba►.)-1t was nut his iiit.ntion to say much about unions- The Noble Load had alluded to the Scotch Union, Ned was pleased rho remark that the Scotch had Ilse posses of all the poor - of, tied scanty things in, their owe country, besides all they could gel in the empire at large. But II he (Sir Janie.) could fawns any opinion from the present ap pearance of those, he should say that the countrymen of the Noble Lord hail nut been behind is the distribution of the °Sear, but that they enjoyed pretty liberally the advantages of the Irish Uniun.--(ileor, hear, and a laugh.)--He did not meals to canalise this. It was only as it should This was the only proof of a solid awl perfect union; but to consider the matter is s morE serious manner, ►e was sur prised that the Noble Lord should so strangely culifosnoi a solemn compact of onion between two west contort's, wish the submisriuti of asmall and defenceless State to the yoke of despotism. The Noble Lord paid but a poor complieneut is either England, Inland, or Scotland, in ibis extrauriburoy confusion. The Noble Lo►d had applied the argon/Infant ad itomineat in his Noble Friend, and said he had been rather late iu bringing forward his motion ; but the Noble Lord waned to forget the real grounds upon which the questiou rested. His Noble Friend had been long aware of the charges he bad now brought forward, but so mail could hare Ituowst the pledge had been to existence—,,o man could hare k non u, until it appeared in these papers, that there had been • voluntary agreement in existents. The urigival instruc tions bad trues were •ttlialituiedt in thror stead He could nut 'oppose that some instrurtnina had not been Orem to S r W. A'Cuart, or lame represtottat eeeee s nintk to t►e Sicilians out tie part of their friends.—(f/ear, heat )—And it was nu small smatter that these papers had not been laid before the House. They had sot A...gullet' the spirit of appeal to the feelings of na tions in 1614, at the end of the war; they led nut then adopted that diced of liberty which has siert become the po licy of the Holy Allies. Hr could nut agree with the Nobte Lord that the universal silence which prevailed was any woof of weii I content. It was too gement' to admit of that evustruction. f u Governateest, not the h. al that ever existed, could Ise fete from complaint. Thia unifiers:oaq was a proof the &plait, of the people; it procee.l.d from a dread of skew oven Government . , and • doubt that any in. ti.ference ou the part of the English Govern muesli woukl not be such es to compensate then) for the aspects they incterred. This nuirersal *deuce •f-blutoeco or Silveri& was up proof of the happiness of their governmesi. In 1815. when his Noble Etiend weal out to Naples, authorised by the English Go. veinmeui, lie was refused admittance on •rcouni of seine art • Inch had actually received the &anmie and approbation .. . o itte BritiolsGoveraateut ; aiiJ after tlo• irratotsesit to the friend of the Sicilian (for that was the mark of distractimi the Noble Nlargisis had conferred upon him), little cowl,' be expected by the Sicilian. from the English Goverrinsent q besides, they too well koew the new principles which hand crown up in the littlish Cabinet; they remembered the Treety of Vituna, cud the system whirl., unfortunately fur the character ui ibis eoiretry, had of late years hero ad o pt. ed. Three propusit . arose out of the fps uosi :—first, I bat Mere is no evidence of the impracticability of the new Government; second, that if the ancient were re. stored, the country would out be better; ■ud third, that the late change, and the Salereat and grins rlepar. litre of the King of Naples from the principles laid down, have opened the entire question, and placed the Eng. lush Government in precisely the seine situation as before the agreement; widen these grounds he contendt.tl he had a right to call upou the House so support the motion of his Noble }lkon/. First, then, what we■ the evidence of the impracties. batty ultimate , constitution ? The hubleMerquis bad supplied them with a dispatch which he received in thowniopstreel,- Indite had.not favoured them with ; any particulate. He had indeed given them some declamation about the pouchy that preva:lat• in Sicily, deemed out is the gaudy colouring of his own imagination, but which bay. to original in nature, from whence they profess to be borrowed. He (Sir James Macktotesb) • bail paid some attention to the proceedings of that sbort•hved assembly, and he was nut able 1 dis cover any addresses. These, if laid upou the table, might 'ford tbe House seem !Midi/Aims ; but ha had heard quits the contrary from prom fur whom be had the highest ect. He bad•bea►d that the first men in both Houses of ireeltelwelst theft were of opinion that some reform was kweemml, and that they had the me aniwithislisileas to effect that 'reform. The !Hanoi* Caeilello hiitUdipuken of •O'be eneoantegerha ea - stings - reform, bat be had sot atate4l what obstgelei iris is the way. lie sever heard is his life any object accomplished within, little ceremony its the sanleoce and execution of the Psiliam•nt of Sicily. The difficulties that lay in the way of reform, stated by Cici tello, appeared to be she only ground for the somihilation of the Parliament. Bet there was a coroner rename—the false and fraudulent concealment of that secret Treaty on the part uf the Neapolitan Ministers. Did they consider this Treaty binding? if so, they were bound to establiah des. potism. Asti was the House to take the evidence of an enemy who were actually bound to destroy the Constitution ? the 9th of June the General Congress of Vienna sat; on the 14th, the secret Treaty was signed, and they and the other parties to ibis flagitious enpaeniesit concealed the stipula tion from those with whoni they were iu close co-opt-ration. The Noble Loud had alluded to the autiject of conspiracies; this was delicate pound, and he dad nut wish to 'hotrod', Ike ashes of the dead; but he should ask the Noble Loral, whether it were in the two Hoes,. of Parliament these conspiracies ori ginated, ur rather, was it not in the Court, nay is the very ft roily of the Kind of Naples ?—(Hear.)--The people of Sicily admired and respected the institutions of this coutitry ; to it they looked for all tioise principles of freedom uf which it once boasted, but which, •he feared, the Noble LorJ and bus colleagues would destroy—obey looked ownu it as the classic ground and ancient seat of liberty; but they sever could suppose the lime wa IJ come when a British Minister would stale, that the Parliament of their country should be destroyed, b- it required a micros copic eye to discover it. He was sorry that a British Minister should resort to She minute technicalities especial plead ing, to justify the intsaction of a national Treaty. Nu comparison whatever could be instituted between the sew Government and the *ld. The old system was what our forefathers world have called a simple despinism.—(Near.) —The new Government, although it only possesselltSe germs of the British Constitution, stall it bore so strong a resem blance as to be able to trace its descent room our common ancestors, the Normans. The King was uhtiged 1. waves a Parliament every four year., because supplies wise Si he granted, just as the King of Engtatol aninta.ised his Parlia ment anuually. It was quite true a Council bad been sub stituted in their 'tend; but the King had the power of alter ing the taxes. There were e.timates and a budget, but saline was She Member for Aberdeen Su check the abuses and extravagance of AI is' ere %—(Cheers anti tougiver ) What resource had they left? None. bat what the "Holy Alliauee" would call au impious rebellion. If this then were the ease, the name was as great a delusion as ever ex• tutted. Hr should really he maligned to push this matter further had it not been for the admirable rase and under tones wish which the Noble Lord glossed over it. Ile moat either do this or join iii the sigitiGeasit smiles of the Noble Lord, which he confessed were very eoutagions.—(A laugh) --et qua vesperal 'mania noteseere peseee,reliequit. He really was ashamed to trespass so lung spoil the House (Hear, hear), lost he wished so say a few wuril• upon the Degree of the Kirg of Naples, by 'shish he subverted the Constitution which hit poemsl benevolence had given to his people. There seemed to be a fatality over every thing in the present times ronaected with tile name of liberty. We hid often heard of the caprices of popultr Goveritmeuts, but we hive had, within a short period, Iwo nee-hailed despotisms. One was held out as the perVrtisass of wisdom, and the other consigned to ass iosimistious cl-nth—( 11.00 — so that these Governments were not exempt (runs the charge of caprice. They were nut, however, liable to the charge of impractieabilily ; no more were the Enavernasents of Tisikey or Minorco, Hwy were most easily Insetted. He was free to admit she difficulties that existed in reforming a govern ment once tainted with despotism The merits of the poison lake possession of every member of the.body, and render it incapable fur a Wag time of say healthy anion.—(Hear.) — But he would ask the must enlightened l'ailiammst in the world, suit one which had risen fruits entail braiiinings and by s:ow degrees to it. present greater-as, whether they were prepared to essuatensuce Site destruction of a constitution afire twit year* esintestew. We had breed lea thosissend troops were about tit eater Sicily, avid custOntnis would to daubs be heard if they 61 not immediately submit so the inspeertioe of ibis upstart despotisms. He read the Decree to which he had adverted, with feelings far more at: fected than those who were is the habit of perusing such documents. He found it there staled, that " the Sicilians have as touch iedependence as was good fir theta :" That is, in fact, none at all. He did out meat, to slosh lightly of the und..pritilefice of either Ireland or Seollaad, as 11.1,1 rd with England. Fur himself he felt his country elevated buy the coons:hon.—(Hear, hear )—But wheu he saw foreign mercenaries prepense so impose their despotic yoke sin the neck of a free people, he was filled with imlignaloota and abhorrence st Oita slointerial abuse of tams.—(Lod cheering) The gallery was them cleared fur a (Belvieu. Fur the M•sisuu Agstusl it Majority against it 34 HOLY ALLIANCE. Mr S. WORTLEY rose to call the attention of the Howse to the motion of *hid, i.e had gives. notice. He was by nu mean* insensible of Isis own inadequacy to do justice to a subject of such importance, but be could nut refrain from so doing when he saw eerisai principles to which lie should call their attention laid down as the law of Europe; his Noble Fried would du hiss the justice to believe that lie Ws. persuaded lie entertains d joist as strung...lmposition to reprobate those principles as himself. The Honourable Gentleman theta proceeded I. reinask or the objecTun able passages in the circular chapati h. At the break ing up of the Congress at I-reabsorb • circular dispatch was issued, which, laser mating the restless dispaosition of Europe, proceeded In give the opinions of the third Powers on the reformation of Got/cram-me. It then stated list all changes were contra • y to law that were not ffectsd by those whom Giol had inti timed with the administration of the I swa. He would ask Honourable Gentlemen, if this had been the public law of Europe lierrtufule, whether we shunld have had soy liberty whatever at the present time! He should out have thought it • , 1 tassels mauer of eoniplaint had the Allied Sovereigns appliid there to those countries over whirls they ruled. With respect lo the conduct of Austria, notwithstanding, it appeared, the revolution at Naples did snit emanate with the people as • body, bat was the work of a faction, lit ass must cumplaiis of the principle under which they would all,sw au reform whatever, except surli as was awhorised by the of the countries reforming. With respect to the re. oulsitism at Piedmont, that appeared to have been brought about also by a small party, and if it had beets established, be was willing to allow a considerable danger would have arisen to tlw Austrian power; but the Congiess of Layhaeb did nut lout it on that footing; they say," You are begin sing to reform contra, y to Ilse will of your Suverrien, and fur that reason we put it down." It was quite clear they would have net nun Spain in the same way they had Naples if lb. y had bad it isi their poser. It might be said thin' intention was only to keep the peace of Europe ; but if in the lion of tut desists they prontolgaild priticiplcs contrary to the liberties of the win Id, it was the duty of the House and the eonoilry to interfere. Whist be should propose was, that co llie' of the papers should be laid before the Runic, on which it might hereafter act as at salient ; though these was so doubt of their authenticity, it was proper the House should be assurid of it. If there were any thing improper in the Production of these papers, he errtainly should out piers for them; his endeavorr was to point the titration of the House to kinciples fatal to the liberties of Europe, and through It the liberties of England. The HOU. Member concluded by moving, that an Address be presented to his Majesty to lay before the House copies of the Declaration of the Allied Powers at Laybaelt, and also of the Circular Dispatch Its the Ministers of Russia, Prussia, and dusting, at Foreign Courts. The Margaisof LONDONDERRY said it did not appear that Iris Huy. Freeud wishtd for these papers fur the purpose of liking any practical proccerlins ihmeon. There was au principle of psi hammier) , practice bettrr founded than th•ut of not calling fur documents uii which it was not iliteuded to found some proceediwg. He bad lie doubt his Honou►s. bk Friend mists' consider it his duty to rise is his place Bed make the abaerralione he had dune on the tenure the proceedings under di•eussion ; but he had so doubt the House would agree with him cleat it would best perform is deny to the public by alastaseisig from tilling fie the Paper s in question, and rest satisfied with the dreliration which the Executive of this country had ensile nn the subject, mud he thought there was no braueb of the public service which the House would Ire mdre desirous of toning to the Executive, than the conduct of Kontos aT.in. Ou the aulientierly of the papers no question had amen ; the document was of a general character, add dto all Europe; and though it might be our dirty to look at it with' attention, it oretaiely called lees fur the adention of Parliament than in the ene of Troppan, because is the latter the Councils of this elm,. try were adverted to, and it was snuistal we were how.' t. support a reetain Ike of cinder.' but eltlinngh that, ao • certain degree, called for the nonce of Gisierumene, ibis was by no Means a similar can.. At Triii.p. v e the document was issued with a view to a practical eff es parti-nlar States. It was not an abstract invention, bet came bolted and mist,' up with a certain coarse of couelueti to which they conceived this country were pledged. He . could 'tot conceive any preprint ion more npuirnaut to trio. epoillity, than the notion, that a paper putting full!, gesiers• principles, called fir any aniline from this country, neakivie Europe like sielebating society. and giving rise needlessly t.. angry passions. There eliedel be no doubt what pm?, ides were entertained by Great Britain, after the declaratewl which hail been made, and it was impossible that Perlis cent entail add may thing to the force of that document, and above all, leaving it a deed letter use the table, wink nether detract from weal the S ivereign of this country bad done. He could Marquis of Lowlier/sierra) *mild never be found the advocate of the principles in that paper—(Hear, hear, hear) — b.-cause a doctrine so monstrous amounted to this, that fo reign Siete. were not to judge of their own danger tram la reniatances, but on an abstract view they were to deeide on the legality of then proceedings. Such comities men abso. lately be destructive of nee independeitee of all twinge NO.' %segments --(Hear, Ewer.)—No foreign Power could this,. gate such powers without coniraveneng the poinciplel common sense. Though he thought the Allied S•drereigus had been ill advised, yet in hi. couseireire he heliesed they were guided by a sincere desire in preserve the peace of Eu rope, without Joey sordid view In dispotition to arsetisninn or aggranilieement. Though he said thus mitele, God forbid the country should mailmen firm, revolution was a good We had sever admired revolution fur its own sake, bet !Diked upon it as the greatest evil that could be •I • country. He thought that the doctrines of these papers were brosght forward as a euniiterbalance to certain dextrinee which too frequently found advocates within then walls There was tn t•inly on organised system to spread refutation sad anarchy and it such principles were in woe It. he was snit prepare.: to say that the Suvereietts ought to rest with their &mavens., waiting till the danger approached them, but they might thick that opposing on, rnaonu.l system by another unsound rya_ ten was the way to neutrabee the 'evolutionary daugera which the spirit that was abroad threatened Them with. As far as lin information went with respect to Italy, she Sure reigns cutertaiued nu ainhitioes purposes. He regretted that Turkey was bleeding at every pure. That cootie had bean put in coleslaw Ms by couls'elooded caballero, not to evils li berty, but lo promote anarchy. lie gave his Hon. Friend reedit for sent desiriug co embark tbs. country is fruitless roe tests wills the powers of the Continent, and he bail the esti•faclion to state, that uotwitlestendiug the obvious difference between the general principles we maintained sot l those promulgated by the Court of St. Pt Strabane', that deffcieuee had oral disturbed the good understeluting which , subansed between the two countries. 11. trusted that his Fej‘nd would not persist in calling fur • document sits which so practical proceeding could be founded. Sir J. MACKINTOSH 'mid be dissented from the erupcial lion laid doen by the Noble Margolis, that infunnatiede was never to lx asked for unless the applicant was prepared to avow what steps he meant to found un it. Ili his view it was sufficient to ask for itiformation that something bad occurred which might, by possibility, affect the interests of the colons'', unfre' some greet injury could be sheers to m oult from • commionieatimi being made ma the subject. did 1101 quarrel with the Noble Lord's g t I principles, he rejoiced is hear the repetitioo of the eentitnruts expressed by him un the subject of the Congress at Truppau and at Lag leach. From one proposition of the Noble Lord he 'nest dimwit!, that revulution was the greatest evil which could betel a country; the greatest of evils was pernimeet slavery, which ought to be resisted by any revolution or aerie* of revels limn—(►leer, Aeer)—or incurring any other evil, Which might indeed be repaired; but loss of liberty, that greatrairef all evils, was irreparable. Whoever ilimselo it might he compared with any other calamity, had in some degrte pre pared Ms roiled fur perpetual slavery.--.:The Hon. Meunier proceeded to are'se on the eternity of the papers being laid sin the tabie, and commented with great severity on the CS ' cielar of Flossie I—He asked if it were mot True that He three greet military Powers I.l' Europe were is a state of per manent twaspirsey against the law °realities ?—(llent,lwar.) Formerly the conflicting interests of the great States of Eu e opewere a prstectioa for the smaller owes, buss that pro tection was sbulished whew the accursed discovery of par titions was niade.--(thror, hear.)—Tbe Hon. Mender pro. needed t.. argue sin the inefficieut security afforded by the personal thwarter of Senereigna, and reviewed the conduct cif Russia towards Sweden sod Denmark, both of which Powers had been her allies, and in both she had committed acts of spoliation, because they cootinsied faithful to their alliances when Russia chose to abandon theta. For these revolts he should support the motion of the Hon. Member fur Yorkshire. Mr. C. HUTCHINSON thonght the Noble Lord ought to have saitsGed himself with refusing the papers , he had, gone farther, anti mode a geoera I charge that a revolutionary spirit was abroad. Ile (Mr. Hlutellittnitt) deui..l the fact. It wee stoke that in various parts of Europe, and in Greece, there exists. determination to ameliorate their iiistitnitent e and that the Noble Lord celled • conspirary If hr rightly understood the Noble Lord, he had d.srusercd some neigh bouring country from which that nsivellierinis spirit of which lie spoke emanated. Did the Noble Lord picas. Treace, which he presumed was desigeistell though not named. The Motile Lord had acted that night as nu oilier occasions, tic be *ever suffered any upportuaity to pans of tie people of those countries elm mole any (fleet is the caste of freedom, and panegyrishig the Emperors, mid be woo d again repeat the charge be had made last auks, **id Iffilikbu they were partners iu the transaction. The Noble Lord had inquired oho lie meant by minor Popovers ? He W 041141 tall the Noble Lord that •t present there acre only Iwo Come Reverie in Europe; one that had been considered to .bold that rank was, by the counsels of theNohle Lod, fast Makin to the second rank. The Noble Luria hail spoken of the desire of the Sovereigns to preserve awl prelect the pace of Europe, yet whenever they moved desol aims trotted their walk, the protection they *Moiled was such as the " Eagle gate the lamb, covering root devourisig." Colonel DAV lES thimglit it high lime this country toek some step to prevent the suspicion of being a parry to tint principles maintained in the papers 'aid us. the taiga., The Marquis of LONDONDERRY expliosed. Sir R. WILSON thought the occopatiosi of Sicily by .4e Asistriases, so far from being an itidiffcreid might oeelaie most injoriosistv to our inure-esti. The Marquis of LON DON Ell NY said, be could pot to along with the gallant Odic , ' HI his hypolbtats, red *tot be Irate to thorns (roar the conclusion', Mr. S wotur LEY briefly repheitl, after which the Muse diridrtl, whets thrre appeared.— For the Aluthiet Apivat it . ll3 Msjorily b4 - - - - Mr. Aldermen W 001) complained of the improvidemc of the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, in leaving a Otte quarry in Wales to the brother of tote of the Conmossiourrr of tibil Board. He concluded by moving, "Thai a Consist. s be appointed to inquire into the grant of a lease of a dor quarry by the Comesissiour re of Woods tad Forests to Lord l'enryn in Ilea. Will to Dawkins ['currant, Esq. in VW , and to inquire whether the quarry had been worked to tie Cellist rairnt, aecottliag to the peat tice of minute." Mr. HIJSKISSON opposed the tto.to n, and defeeltd conduct of the Conanetssioness Wods and forests. Ile had already 'two the Report of one surveyor, sed he would ask the Hea. 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