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GOderntnent as alasolutely bound to iin to the treaty of St. Ildefonso, it . that his object was to gain time, and passible, any thing like a dire& or satisfac- The next proceeding of any material note delivered by the Chevalier to Spanish Ambassador at this Court, *parted an instrunion received from ;pain, which authorised him to offer of the King his Master, in settling tbsiating between this country and an intimation, that he considered his hound by the treaty to supply France wccours, though the treaty itself was And defensive, as would appear from copy of it on the table. He then pro lesci ibe minutely the purport of the treaty, Spain was bound in any war to assist h an auxiliary force of fifteen ships of the ,000 troops. When the other stipulations were considered, it mast seem a whim ttion to talk more of an auxiliary aid. is he observed, stiled by it s framers, of tfensive, Spain was net at liberty, when war, to ccnsider the nature of the :'nether her ally was or was not the Evil' supposing the auxiliary force, as t, merely a limited one ; it must be re that fifteen sliips of the line, and 21,000 const ituted the greatest force which it ,posal at the time. But the objenion land had to it did not rest here, for the d ressly stipulated—" if the said suc should become insufficient. the two put into anion the greatest fume rer, as well by sza as land, against of the power attacked, whirl; power the said forces, either conjoint tely, according to a plan that shall he tween them." This was certainly inccm any idea of neutrality; but the same Ts was suffered to remain, as it did not t France required the fulfilment of the about the 12th of September, when her cgan to become more pressing, in conse which, the naval and military services muted for a pecuniary subsidy, more in the interests of England, and more ad ; to her enemy, than even the exe the Treaty. What the stipulations ty were had .never been sufficiently corn though repeatedly and unremittingly re the Spanish Court ; but from such in as the British Government received from sources, the subsidy which Spain agreed to Fiance with appeared to be twenty - f our mil ' reels per month, amounting to the sum of a sterling per annum. When the British , Mr. Frere, had information of this, he of remonstrated strongly against it. and was I to declare to the Ministers of His Catholic that, however, on account of the embar - of Spain, his master might he disposed , or connive at any small and temporary money, the continuance of such succours • considered by him equivalent to a declara • against England, and he shouldcommence immediately. It was admitted afterwards, was, for some time, a negotiation between Spain on the whir& of the amount of money. the fm demanding a larger sum of away than tam tatter seas willlngto acceded°, to the 700,0691. a month, wuich was afterwards 600,0001 The money first demanded iu teals, and next changed to hetes, ~ calculated either way, was nat less in Eng money than a 00,0631. When with this was con al the assen.blage of troops at Bayonne and other contiguous m erance, before the subsidy WAS no longer delay could be interposed, ing matters to an issue. An acknowledge . the neutrality of Spain, after such indiea must appear, indeed, a very strange proposal was, that the neutrality of Spain never was, could he recognised by this country, with renunciation of the Treaty of St Ildefonso, it communication of all the articles con . the Convention of the 12th of September, , was strongly insisted on, n,d steadily refused. could never consider such a state of things, se thin As a violation of the proposed neu bat tart strongest thing of all was the pro tat Spain should continue the payment of tms, and expected us to respen her state of no ieutraltty. In the publication or manifesto Spanish Court, it complained of this cir =stance as one which wa; us exhibit us in a per - point of view ; bid, for which we were, cer iustified in the eyes of Europe. We could ti remittance' to oar enemy as a war sub.idy, equivalent to a decimation of war. Spain itely refused to explain to us even the di pttla 'fete convention; though it walby OSIV: 7 mo :cis ware! to amonat to 3,000,0001• sterling, An dy. Linter such a subsidy, or granting Prance loaned succour, immesliately made Spain a pritt • the war. To shew of how much conse this was to the enemy, it remained yet to .nit this con-ention was more advantageous to enemy than even the treaty of St Ilelefonso. • communications with the Spanish Ministers, Manifesto before alluded to, it was said, indefinite and unexplained sum was no :hail equal to the espence of raising and sup - an army of 21,000 men, and the eqnipm•mt it and tear f 15 ships of the line. To:pidge of this, it would be necessary to consider. Tatters of this kind vary much from the situa of different contitrie , , come of which could such exertions nviel. cheaper than othets. In - country, flourishing in revenue, and where is highly rewardad, it most naturally be that every thing must be paid for at a much price than it ;voila cost wader the absolute int of the Spanish monarchy ; yet, in Men .cre, the expc3ce of such a fleet and army not be greater than one million annually, utmost. as the support of one regi 1f dragoons was nat more than 10,0001. ith. But what sheaved most the disadvan acceaing to tie continuance of such a , was, the: it amounted to one half of the revenue of Spain. It would probably be , if the disadvantage was so great, why was it made the ground of war in the hrst instance ? To `• e shoat* reply, that great allowance was made teluehtnoe Spain had to be brought into war, and the intimation afforded that she only 606- • waited for some opportunity arriving. from a change in the affairs of Europe, for shaking off the shackles which necessity and pusillanimity had imposed upon it. In expressing himself in this manner he wished it to be understood, that it was with pain he could use such language even towards an enemy. He did not doubt but there were many individuals in Spain who re tained all the spirit and dignified pride so conspi ceous in their ancestors, but certainly he could see no appearance of it in the circumstance he al ' luded to. With respea to the imputation that ' situations may occur, to enable Spain to extricate itself, it could not be expetted that he should be in diredly communicative of the reasons, which did, at the time, afford a probable chance of a change being effeCted in the condition of Europe, which infiaenced, in some degree, a generous forbear ance to a certain extent. Spain was told that England might connive at small and temporary suc cour, but not with large and permanent sums of mo ney, which were the most effectual co-operation in her power to afford the enemy, and which must themselves be considered a ground of immediate war. We have ever retained the right at all times of airing upon that declaration, and of making any naval preparations, or the admission of any French troops through the country, an immediate ground of war. —ln fine, we annexed the same consequences to any refusal to treat British ships or commerce on more disadvantageous terms than those of France, or a refusal to discontinue the sale of English prizes ; and even added, that all armaments of any kind would he viewed with the greatest jealousy. The nest period that presented itself was on the list of January, when fresh instrudions were sent out to Mr. Frere, in consequence of intelligence that the Convention with France had been ratified. • It would be seen by the letter of the Secretary of State, that Mr. Frere was directed petempterily to demand a full communication of all the articles contained in the Convention, and the real amount of the subsidy • and to inform the Spanish Govern ment that a re fusal would be in itself a declaration of war. These were the most lenient and tender Conditions that could be expefted from England ; and His Majesty's Ministers would be indeed severe ly to their country, if they did not also insist as an ultimatum, that the armaments in the• port of Ferrol should be discontinued, and the whole naval establish:nent reduced to the state it was in at the commencement of the war with France. While our !Minister at Madrid was demanding distill& satisfaction, M. D'Anduaga was preparing a note is which he represented, that, had England agreed to let Spain furnish the succours in kind, pur suant to the treaty of Ildefonso, France would not have a pretence for demanding more than limited assistance ; but that she c , iuld not now be prevented from incrsasing the subsidy to what she may deem an equivalent for the stipulated aid. This argu ment it seemed, however sophistical and un'enable, was very highly approved of by the Court of Spain, which, no doubt, expefted us to become the dupes of it Mr. Frere informed the Prince of Peace, who bad the rule in the Spanish Cabinet, that the only , answer he could take was a full communication of the t whole Convention, but that Minister evaded any es planation. M. Cevallos, however, acknowledged that I the nei essity of its disclosure to the Cosirt of L ondon, ' of the whole contents, ores strongly urged by Spain, but that Genera Bourrionville altogether over-ruled it. It could not be denied, that by this conduit, Spain itself recognised the right which England had to demand such explanation ; but what must be tbs influesice and controul of our enemy, when Gen. Hour:. t.,ville shotild have the power to colintera& so very fair a proposal ? That we could he satisfied with such explanation was so repugnant to corn moverisr, that it .would be idle to waste any ar gument upon it. Mr. Frere so punflually obeyed his instrudions, !hat he never made any admission or recognition of the neutrality of Spain, nor had they ever any convention with us upon the subjeCt. What Sr Ain, in its mat.ifesto, called neutrality, was a war subsidy of three millions, snore than one-half re venue to our mortal enemy. Considering the dispro eortion i.l the revenues of the two (minute:, this is the sort of neutrality which we should have to boast o', if, dor:.es any war upon the Continent, we al lowed a subsidy, or half our revenue, to the amount of 15,001 ,0,01 annually, for the payment of Au strian or Prussian troops against France ; and could we have the folly to suppose that country would be satisfied to recognise it ? If, from forbearance and tenderness, we suffered for a while the temporary and nominal neutrality of Spain, it was violated by the conduct of that country in F raming such a subsidy. We connived as long as was pov ible ; and though the naval armaments in Ferrol and Cadiz, as well as the sale of English priz s, d, teonstrated a hi sale mind, we were con creted to connive again. We made, however, conditional declarations of War, and, from not being able to obtain satisfaCtion or explanation, Mr. Frere three times asked for his passports, to leave Ma drid. There was a circumstance of a personal na ture occurred at that time to Mr. }'rere, from the unprovoked and unjustifiable condua of the Prince of Peace towards him, which it was not thought necessary to make any part of these public papers, but which rendered it improper for that Gentleman to remain longer in Madrid, and expose himself to a similar treatment again'; but though the Gover ment of this country must be naturally inclined to support its accredited Minister against the Prince of Peace, yet it continued its connivance, and di reded iiim to withdraw from that Capital, under pretence of leave of absence, and to state, that a successor would be appointed for him. This forbear ance was carried so far, that a geatleman was appoint ed to replace him at Madrid, on the 17th of Dec. when the sarne vessel which brought Mr. Frere home, contained the dispatches from Admiral Cochrane, relating that the Spanish ships, which were said to have been disarmed, but which remained in a state to be equipped again in the space of 24 hours, were adttally drawn up, and ready to sail• in a line with the French and Dutch ships, blockaded by our squadron, thus meditating an attempt, faithful, in deed, to France, but perfidious towards us. If, af ter that intimation, Government omitted to exert a vigour and promptitude suitable to the occasion, they would be guilty of the most criminal negli gence ; and, for his own part, he would rather have the censure of Gentlemen for the share he had in that vigour, than obtain their praise for having neglefted it. When M. D'Anduaga was called upon for ma explanation on that subject, le replied at first, that he knew nothing of it; but in a day or two after, said, that an Hibernian Colonel here, who was in the wilt' ice of Spain, had now received a letter from a Consul, who said that another person had informed him, that the squadron was destined to convey troops, in order to suppress an insurreCtion which prevailed in Biscay. To shew how much such a destination was to be relied on, he would only observe, that the shortest way from Ferrol to Bis- Ay would be by land ; that there was out a port on the coast of Biscay it for the reception of such large ships; that the season of the year was not at all suitable for sending troops into that tempestuous bay ; and that it was perfeCtly un known even to the Governor General of Galliciii, who, in reply to a letter from Admiral Cochrane, informed him, that the ships were destined for a se cret expedition. When an explanation of it was demanded from M. Cevallos, who informed him, that the equipment would be considered as an a& of hostility to England, he gave no satisfaction whatever, but a bare assurance that the expedition had no object coterai y to the interests of England. He wished the House to bear in mind that this armament had taken place in the port of Ferrol, where a British squadron was for some timeobliged to blockade the French and Dutch ships which hadtakenshelter there. If Biscay had been their obj ect, why not, when Spain itself was not at war, take the usual and more cenveaient method of employing unarmed transports, instead of men of war ; and where was the occasion of arming the packets, in a way which was never done except in time of war ? It was farther to be observed, that the accounts received from Captain Gore, of the naval armaments at Cadiz, exaCtly corresponded with the time of similar preparations in the port of Ferrol ; and that the Court of Spain had not made the explanation which alone could b- their passports through our blockading squadron. All the preva rications, he said, authorised this country consistently with, and sanctioned by the law of nations, not only to take the vigorous precautions which it had d o n e , but to have commenced hostilities much earlier, if it had not been desirous of still leaving the door open to repentance, and to give Spain time to consider, and to trace back its steps. This was the motive for the simple detention of the treasure ships. des. tined to assist the enemy in his lung meditated, and, for some time prepared, plan for the invasion of this country. In our endeavours to obtain the commu nication, se long withheld with a degree of perse vering obstinacy, we remained for weeks and months expecting that some mode of accommoda tion would be resorted to. This long forbearance, even after the detention of the treasure ships, could only be ascribed to our moderation and humanity. In taking the measures we did, of necessary vigi lance and precaution, he deplored, as much as any man, the bloodshed which happened, by a concurrence of circumstances always in cidental to transaaions of a similar nature. — The Right Hon. Gentleman said, he should now conclude by reading his motion, which was to the following purport : " That an humble Address be ;mantled to His Taf .jeasy, thanking lion for the information be had been graciously pleated to communicate from the Thorne, relatise to the top two with the Court of Spain, &c." (See the Re,,ort of the Lords): The Srsasta having read the same from the Chair ; Ms. GREY lose and said, that, confident as the Right Hon. Gentleman seemed to be in the state ment he had just made, it was matter of the highest satisfaltion to him, to retied that he not only differ ed with him altogether in opinion, but that he did so on such grounds as he flattered himself would fully enable him to detea and refute the numerous fallacies with which the Right Hen. Gentleman had attempted to mislead the judgment of the House. The first point to which he must allude, in follow ing the course of the Right Hon. Gentlem, n's argu ment, was, that which he had laboured so much, viz. the nature and beating of what he called the offensive treaty of St. lldeionsn. He allowed, that ' if that treaty was strielly offensive, it was a just cause of war ; but he contended, that according to the arguments adduced by M. Anduaga, it was clearly shewn, that the Court of Spain considered it merely as a defensive treaty. He would even go further and say, that if the treaty was not avowed, every means should have been tried by His Majesty's Ministers to avert the measure of creat ing to this country an additional enemy, by entering into a war with Spain. If we could have ensured the neutrality of Spain, it would have been the wisest and most prudent policy of Ministers to do it, an 1 that even the subsidy paid to France was such as this country might fairly and prudentially have sanetioned, when it is taken into consideration, that we should have saved As much in the expellee we must now he at in the de fence of Portugal. That question of policy was one nt the must material and important which Ministers were called on to define; and strange, indeed, it is to say, that there does not appear, till the 2d of June, 1803, any the smallest instration to Mr. Frere on this most extraordinary and consequential subjeet. No step whatever was taken to endeavour to find out how far that neutrality would be kept or respeeted on the part of the Spanish Govern nient. He was anxious to hear how the Right Hon. Gentleman would interpret that dispatch. He says, it was an offensive treaty. Lord Hawkesbury tells Mr. Frere " that it is the King's sincere and earnest desire that the Spanish Government may be enabled to maintain the strietest neutrality in the war that has commenced between Great Britain and France, and that he is to endeavour by all the means in his power to impress on the ministers of Spain the ex pediency of their adopting this system; and to as sure them that if it should be adopted, His Majesty would respell it with the most scrupulous good faith ; that His Majesty's Government, hav ing , no means of deciding how far His Catholic bilsijetty may con sider himself as bound by the treafe_of defensive and offensive alliance, which was cqpilinied at St. Ildetonso, on the 19th August 1796, it is indispen sably necessary he ( Mr. Frere) should lose no time in ascertaining this important point. If the Spanish Government should state to you, that they coocnve themselves to be under the obligation to fur nish to France the number of troops and ships which are stipulated in the treaty above-mentioned, hut that their co-operation will extend no further, he would refrain from giving any opinion at present on this measure, but only content himself with signi4ing rciosider his Ce REQUER. • r r ,Vevictiticr r for taki ng • ' Int elk* on the 2d, dd.. if posailsii late differ. , y at•swerr Ti Ist satisf ac ; was a of entering ; •.-Incluaga, the those do n . , which he irnPs thick, that Court of Spa In of them, , mediation 0 nprcludtced e disputes sub the inestat rance; and an e consider.d curt only hots tjesty's Co. ith limited sort ty confirmed 'th offe.:sive an ments made e printed COPY the Court of ded to desctil :his country, , which Span; length into ranee with an ; Asians, rela. re, and 24 ,000 !night other- I this treaty we perfoi irt‘TlO cal inter pretati to Mr.:. t L .., the treaty, as the 1.1 . ' t; . ' osive and deft ng .fags. :.1. 'ranee var, at • I their; ':•::,, . reel; err Wit assertions,* , gre asor. E' place, •tlien, icy called it, :reaty of St. , inbered, tha ndSpsin, in ~ Rive men, I mindful both d at its dispc ;tiered all the Melt Eaglant tipulations Of ' ith article exl t that she WaS ' urs are, or ass, in ce ! nse. . seers shall ;gresslons df n their powe flied to conti• • he enemy of if she should all employ ant she then y or separate] ...ind almost oacerted bets totintry. Hr i•" tt with a ser:ty of the iti.e of thir.g, d, if he sir; . ppear that F persons entry reaty till ah instant hosts. ,emanus beg: I this count?), .uence of wit 11 in the sins. Tic comrnur Governor s 4., urious.to the genera qis Ala antageotts ti massake - ge in I: OU of tl consideration, of the treaty .- 1 tlaillee. she snunicated, tl it adversary. quired from eel as to tl ri telligence as urselves other source; rt iirf , : supply Franc in ler • lions of real m t ..:e 3,000,000 st tied L. .., ]Minister, MI 11 .. :el od In course rano ; tnapresskm, instruCla to ustice told ,In• hlajesty. tha holent snems sassed stare , had reason to to overlook, 'as not do.tsar aid in more antry time re would be co, r might have tionof oar as in even to spurn hostilities m one must ihe that there w; would be pm- France and secant pretau- the money. ,1 the way, 4i snowy than tion of Franca amount of 7 in the iatorati: reduced to for the pm- was st tied sot 'be allow ? which, eerie s lerimiur. to fish money Hated the d 1' to get hero?:? table her As places cone arranged, a wlr, Ish ,, st independent! in brin;ins ig this, Franc: tent of th without sum'! lions, must effizß hviirtail The ilia w; >lace the rest , I and never c Illeitior. whirl out a renu ;dorm of Spain. and a f oil t ?use, by a rein , - echoed in tl to what extent which was n applied. t 1 We could otherwise t ad Lyn sent tat Madrid, ne .uat trality ; he posal that inning tel pr 4 ' these slims in from Franc* is direCled 'Jig's• rninal new might make •ts of the Sp ith respea ether curostance e pas fidious poi sage of *II T. He was fut. tasty use s Risaosed mar view such' the i and as eq n sulin:ls:a . ..,, , otiainatel; ru.e, he ;was I'd- -1.,:1s s. tilt thuug,lst , hcsaels di .cos:re: to assist .Frarat ssist with ships. nually. I sort. He sras 0 unlimited ciFal in t old the Tunny d or should opus quence tl • ty, by she .cats - hew, that rs, he had , Ides tie enem i 1 , of those c 'cute - h:! cos '.% England as eq.'aail the that this H: was not +0r- :30,... :11j, It CORIM1111;4' ilwr lan twg it IMaajets sit 11. and wear stationed in du' of *pain. In :t• p; operly that expel 'mot was not c* ions, but I'y ere/ non of d suave sue sty, to take re this free • I instructions * industry h all ti eir pow* expeßed I I forming a Jos' n:my. 'fir l A* higher ps from Spain an !la' despotisn r of St. Llsletenif" , Laing den wirald n , so in the first in ' at the to cur a bsiinencs. meat of the dozumcnrs hlr a mont hr. Frere 4854113 tage oh f s, and that s ome sut.sidy, add obt tin oil whole u when he had $ asked, if ' eacc , whom nseri .not mad' luence of any Mao' is of Spain. sn!,, d this he sl A fur the sen i o r influence te tha war. Peace se emsd all .....,.. i . ...di'. -....a.: * . t • • . '.. ,•-: i '77:#:.3""'Rr — -3. : that he would transmit the infortnelgon - • 'tic Court. He wit, however. to watch, wit: he mad unremitting vigilance. he progress of any prepara tions which might he made for carrying it. into eat; . eution, and, from i ime to time, to transn it sues intelligence as he migot he able to acquire on Ole subject, to the Commar.des a cf His Majesty's ships in the Nleliterranean, at Gibraltar, a•td at Lisbon. - and generally to pursue sucit mea.ur -s as might be best calculated to intercept the Spanish auxiliary hips, on their attempting to sail from the ports, either of the Mediterranean or the Atlantic. He is eien to pay particu'ar Attention to the situation of Portugal, and to signify that the neutraliry of that power must be iespeded by Spain ; and if these re presentations are not particularly regarded and at tended to, he was to de:nand his passports and pro ceed to Lisbon." This, said the Hon. Gentleman. was the mode in which the negotiation commenced. and he was afraid it would be found that Mr. Frere had ailed but too conformably to his ir.stractions. Indeed Mr. Frere seem; to have felt his situation, • and, as the Right Hon. Gentleman hid stated. on the Sd June following, he informs Lord Ha ei ke.- bury, " that upon a former occasion he had pressed the Prince of Peace to an explicit declaration of /he intentions of his Court as to the 81 article Ot tfns trelay of St. Ildefonso. and that, according to clar the hostility of Spain was so inseparably connected with that of France, that Great Britain, once engag ed in a war with France, would be justified in commencing immediate hostilities upon Spain." —From the 2d of Jane to the 24th of No vember, no dispatch whatever was transmitted from Lord Hawkesbury to Mr. Frere; bat, - during this interval, a treaty was entered upon for the pin pose of an explanation of the treaty Of St. Ildefonso; and, as early as the (ft'l of September. Ministers were informed of the urle it demands that had been made by France on the Government of Spain; and the latter was under the necessity of endeavouring to compramise for its neutrality by the payment of a subsidy. Nobody can deny but that it was the pecuiiat and bounien duty of Ministers to have as soon as pos•ible made arrangements on this import ant subject ; and yet, after a space of ten months, no instructions were sent to Mr. Frere. but he was left to ad entirely according to his own , liscrettun, from the 21st of June to the 2Jth of Sept but, particu larly from the 2iath of Sept. there was a criminal neglea in the correspondence with our Minister in Spain. On the 24th Novmaber, a dispatch was seat,on which the Right Honourable Gentleman had descanted at some length. The: dbpatches of ire 9th and I Ith of °Reber tre:st of the rending news. tiation, but the Right Hoitoisrabk Geoti•man gave no information of a precise and distinet nautili rest'eaing those Notes which were most -t• markable for the fraud and fallacies they . tamed; and, strange as it may appear. artni... standing Lord Hawkesbury knew pesteetiy well t- state of affairs, no instrudions were sent to Mr Frere to consent to the neutrality of Spain ; ban, hi was told, that if a subsidy to the amount inentknivn was agreed upon, a declaration of war runt ar. sue. Instead of such a proceeding, Ministeri one to have stated, specifically and thstinaly, the amoisti 'beyond which they would cease from war. Instead l•of which, they content themselves with saying, t:: 4 ..nst.a 'if the Spanish Government pet Oat itlp_uMillg . )ll itTreS of a subsidy, to the annitteatritiie met tioned, he (Mr. Frere) was to pvocnct again it as a justifiable cause of war.---1-1: wishes particularly, that Gentlemen would take th part of the question into consideration, for it be grunted to the extent to which it has 11 ea i tempted to be considered by His Majesty's M :-.: tars, we might be brought into a situation in whit all the public laws of nations would be entirely dot away; tor, having a jiastifiable cause of war. yr may keep that cause back till it shall suit your os convenience, and then bring it forward to ar.,w the most fallacious and unjustifiable purposes. I instanced the case of a truce between two armies. which there must be a certain period fixed, and In tice given of the commencement of future lioni ties ; but in the resent instance, in which t Right Honourable Gentleman so vauntingli boa of, and pretends to moderation and fits ance, Ministers aaually placed Spain ier site lion by much more unfavourable swat a truce, at which she never would hairs 1, -.'cli in °I her own 1 c ins or i d st , vd if ,v,notoc.oatst:pellediat,lannyY naval preparations w i : i t be looked upon as an objet of great jealousy. a the Right Hon. Gentleman has said that would excited by any appearance of affording succours France. In consequence of these Instruelions, , negotiation was commenced at Madrid,- hetwi Mr. Frere and Don Pedro Cevallos, 'er the emu purpose of ascertaining whether the Tteaty of Ildefonso could be modified, ard how far it co be done, by allowing her to commute for peeun: subsidies. Mr. Frere began by lammting hi. having information from his Court how to prose He declared he could not help feeling for Mr. Fr who was thus obliged to make a distind and psi avowal of the complete state of ignorance in eel he was placed. On the 22d Sept. MI. Frere ki well, that a ItaAtV had been concluded between SI and France,en the store of a su'asidy; he spoke of Conventon as a thing known, and then gives an count of the conversation between himself and Cevallos. He says, in his dispatch of the 13th 1 which is explained by this conversation, that hi strudions particularly relate to these two poi first, the payment of a subsidy to France; and condly, the passage of French troops through Spanish territory. On the former point he st " that it is expressly enjoined him to declare. pecuniary advances, such as are stipulated its Convention recently concluded with France, ca be considered by the British Government in any i light than as a war subsidy; a succour the efficacious t and best adapted to the wants and t tian of the enemy." The second relates to the trality of Portegal; but not any of the procet,. of the Spanish Ministers seem to lu te been Lit' MO' to Mr. Frere, who unequivocally tells there ' he success of the Negotiation del ended on the sat on of all armaments, and on the probibitin sale of prizes in the Spanish ports. it is to be oh ed th..t on the 27th of Dec. Mr. Firm co.iplea two points together as an L',11114(10111. T.,i, said. was the state in which the Negotiatio mained till the 3.1 of March. He then sec , Lord Hawkesbury's instructions, which the 1 Hon. Gentleman says nude no matesial alteta , o 0„, 7,cal