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. ' • to rbeide on the propriety, or otherwise, of oar donnesious with them, but that each case must depend upon its individual merit.--s. In the case of Sweden it most be admitted that that power had in no degree persisted in the system of hostilities through the suggestion or Whinier of Bighorn' ; on the contrary. it slionlil Ise kiiipwit that it was fully and distinctly understood by her that we were in no degree dissatisfied with her making any arrangement consistent with her own interests, for terminating hostilities* with the enemy. exceirt ing only as it might l ea d her i,ito hostility with tlds country. Ilpon the subject, however, ("faint !sow er, he felt himself bound to a ' , beta degree of si lence, ouly observing that the !optima of the sub 'tidy had been put a stop to only sip far as had been • already stated by his Right lion. Friend. With respect to Augna, it was rertainly trite in is very eminent degree that a total ebstioence from ell ad. eke or influeriee had been observed towards that rower; and this gronioled upon a feeling that no iiilvifrute whatever we might hope to gain by her oisieg to war, should make (Is urge that which she ylol not feel to be her peeu:iar interest to adopt. if, however, she should find it necesary to adopt hoeti- Inks a disposition bail heel, shown by this country to silent her vetch assistenee as night be within our power. At the same time, uo engagements whatever, or a specific noun., were entered tutu on the subject; one prelitninary only, mill that tweets nary to our ()Wl' I.IIIIWIr, was insisted on, namely, that of rest/snug the ancient relations between the two conaitries. As to the bills drawn by Austria ou the treasury of this country, he agreed there was certainly- tin sp oifird or authority en which.the step could be jubtitit•ib cited that they might, in strictiteap, have. been dishonoured; and care had 'been &beady taken to pot a *top to so siogulur a mode l& proseisling; at the saute time, that it was - not thine;Mt fit definitively to reject them, until the reuse of Purlianieut should be when on 'the subject. It had not been deemed expedient. to define the extent of the assistance to be af forded to Au s tria ; on the contrary, it was revolved only to apply to Parliament for the means in the 'halm of aof vote credit, leaving in the hands of His Majesty to retain the power of disbursitig it in such proportions, and at such periods as lie should be advised. Mr. Possostav contended that the instance of Sweden demonstrated the danger of grouting sub sidies without being first folly assured of the event • intended to be extracted from the measure. The Right Hon. Gentlenialt had said, they had left her at liberty to Make a peace, if she had thought tit, and in doing an, they had certainly done what was right, hitt in Ibis judgment Government should have done miteh more. They should have been acquaiukd with TAW was palling in Sweden utotithle, or even weekly; and if they had. they should bave known, that furnisliiiig him with too: uey was only hastening his ruin. As to Austria,' he begged to disclaim every 110t1011 of giving mo ney, as consideriug it utterly useless. Ile stated it as hit decided noiniou that uo effort on our part, in the shape of money, could possibly effect anx gond, and Otis we should fail in our efforts with us souall inconvenieuce to ourselves. Ile knew how painful it was to deity in what he feared 'Meld he deemed a last struggle. hit he was impressed with the most thorough conviction, that no pecuniary assistance could - prevent or impede those misfortunes, which he foresaw, while it would be attended with the most serious inconvenience to ourselves. At a period when he feared we were about to couteml, eingle-handed, with the whole undivided power of France, with no reliauee • but upon our own resources, he conceived we should not lightly dissipate those resources, to which we must ultimately look for our preservation. Mr. CANNING explained, that he meant only to votivey, that it was not intended to bind Govern ment to any specific stipulation. Mr. Witurlsaasni declared, that he had rather lave seen the whole of the money advanced to Sweden given in one suns thou measured out as it was IA fieLnil, no he considered it utterly finite to expect, titat either principal or interest would ever find its way back to this couutry. They all remembered the !onus that were taken Islam the limn to Austria to secure the repayinent of it, ca c ti to the taking care to insert a power to sue the Bruperor in Ili. OW it Courts for the money ; lie would therefore prefer seeing the whole sum ad vancer' as o gift, as then we should. lows what we were to expect. On the subject of the subsidy to Amorist, he felt himself obliged to go further than what hail been yet advanced, for he dud not hesitate to say that lie eonld not assert to the payment of the Bills drawn by that power. For his own part, he was decidedly of opinion, from the beginning, that it was enadness to urge Austria to cutter into the struggle; had she at first made a stir for the pur pose of enabling Spain to sustain the conflict she bad entered Into, lie had no doubt that Bonaparte would have crushed her : mid now when he had so large a force stn Spain as to be able at least to keep heir iu cheek, he hail marched tgaiiist Aus tria, and he firmly believed he would shortly be in pnssemion of Vienna. lie thought it was not enough for Ministers not to advise time power to go to war they should advise her to remain quiet, as, iu his opinion, to stir was to meet destruction. Ile Bonaparte what he may, she .ought to look back oil her former con quest mid -restoration among the powers of Eu rope, and ask herself, had she no fidelity due to her engrigements with any other powers than this coun try ? If, therefore, a ruheiely to that power hod been !proposed this slight. he should have felt hi to oelf bound to oppose it, even if lie had stood single in his vote; as firmly believing that British gold was slot Ale to overcome the trot of Franer.— Upon these ' oi-mods he was of opinion. that those bills draw l' by Austria should he refused payment in the first instance. • A vote of credit to the amount of three suillions• was now proposed to he taken, and yet lie could not see where a single guinea, except in the case of Spain. could be used with adruntage. Ile wished Ministers would take ad vice from Ong book, which lie could neser peruse without admiration of the superior excellence of its author. (Mr. Fos) whose knowledge was intuition, and opiiiiiess proplievy. .* that in order to site teSs we elionld stop noel pitilte at the past, and at the same titem kook forward to the future." For this bathe. money inteiteled for Austria what i_ tolizlit, whether fire pounds,, live thousand, five . h 1'... _ _ ~ ' I • • handled tlionsoni, or Ave millions, he would not consent to it, as considering it as so mach thrown away. Ilecotild not sit Joon' without .advcrtatig to a circumstance of a dotuestie molter, and to which, but for waist of opportunity, he had wished to draw the attention of the House before the oprain4 ofthe budget ; he meant the subject of lottery es a mat ter of Fieance. The wisest and best men hid c.cr considered it as the worst mud niost mischievous mode of extricting-revenue that ever was devised, as tending to the eueourageinent of vice among the people. It .. had ever been moldered the wisest policy to rlneotorage industry amuse.... the potpie as the lie.t KOtiree of revenue ; but when the passion of gambling was Once excited, it was fotiorl to end in their destruCtiou. Such were the fatal and afflicting effects proilliced by lotteries, not as depending on commoa fame, but as proved by the retool of their own Committee. laid noon their table during the best Session of Parliament, and which displa3eil the consequences of this mea sure, endiog in the woe, misery, and tuiti of multitudes, until all this fur the paltry guilt if three hundred thousand pounds iir the disliurseinrsit of is revenue of upwards of seventy millions. That great Statesman, Mr. l'itt, bad long ago declared thut Lotteries should be for ever abolished when ever the war should be brought to • a co:Minion ; and yet the Cliencellur of the Exeliequer tame ngaiu with his Lottery, though he most be await that every 'anus' were utterly useless to prevorit the evils attendant on it. Of those evils he took a most.ettlicting view, particularly staßig the c.se of a married amp in, who having to conseqiietice of insurance pawned the principal part of her *nit sumer., and drisidong the reproaches of her husband, was so struck with remorse et unexpectedly •inerting with low forgiveness, instead of reproaches, that slur alisolu.ely lust her senses, and us now the misera ble isitnate af a in liseenes such as this could not tome the house to un absolute rejeetiein of ro pernicious a measure, he could not but con sider their views and feelings far different indeed from his ovens • Mr. PONSONST wits surprised at what had fallen front his honourable Friend; it seemed as if ha mean to accuse Austria of having broken faith,. if sock was his Honourable Friend's tii• tog, he differed widely from him, he could not ad mit that Austria had broken faith with France, nor the impheatiou that might' lot intruded to be drawn from it, that France had observed good faith with Austria ; France , vaa the aggressor, the violator of faith. (During the coarse-of ?hese oh serrations the at. Member Inas interrupted teitle• cries of Hear ! hear ! from the Ministerial Mr. WHITBREAD said, that lie was not prepared to expect u lecture upon politics from his Ilion. Friend : lie appealed to the House, whether lie had declared any decided opinion upon the fitiestiou of Austria, which he conaidertxl mutter for a futnre day ? NIT.. Castel's° thought that the discussion was itteonveeictit at the proe.ent moment. lie timid not but think that he would have deserted his duty, if lu did not notice what had fallen from the Ron. Getit.; but it had been hataileil with so much more ability by the Right honourable Gentleman opposite, thee lie was unpaid/pa bringing to it. it was unnecessary for him to dwell upon the subject. This country had not advised Austria to go to war, neither had she ailvitied her to seek sakty to pence, in tame sulnuieeitm and dastardly The eye of the conqueror was upon her ; she adopt ed war, and. as be thom4lit, wisely, hot not in con sequence of any from this govertia rm. Mr. WHITBREAD was happy to hear the compli meat to his Right lion. Friend, the first that had been paid hitnity the Right lion. Gentleman since he had entered that ilotp , e; it was perhaps to Ir; Considered an ittilication that some trusty had been ratified, to which the Right 11. m. Gentlemen were parties. Mr. PIRCETA.I. said, that the question, whether there should be a lottery or not, was not now sah uutred to the ; when it was, he hoped that :railemen would torn in their minds, whether all the iticonvenience which had been so eloquently deso tilted that night, was not to attributer, to insurance, mid not to the lottery itself, He pro posed to do away the insurance, by limitiog the th•uwing to one day. The Rouse should consider well, before it resolved to alashab one of.iti re sources. Mr. Wttneaeoece said, that if his Right Ho nourable Friend had originally laid in his chino to a future discussion, he would have been willing to acquiesce ; however, as the subject was toroth', ed. he would offer a few words upon it. Ilis Right Honorable Friend seemed confident thaa . he would put a stop to the evils of insuratice t but he (Mr. W.) would beg to inculcate on his mind some distrust of his success, In what so many had • attempted with little success, lie thought it could not be remedied ; it was impossible to Violate the great moral principlts of the world, anvil by th• applietttivil of paillations and ipillideations remedy the evils that most result. lit &Ailed that it Seas merely from insurance the evils arose, the system of dividing tickets into small shares Was also in jurious. The tins 717 unit vice produced upon so ciety were not to be compensated lay any pee's 'shay advantage. But even the pecuniary advent ta4e lie denied ; industry was ruined, and the money that would be applied to munufailining purposes, drawn into a less productive fund. Sir T. TuaToe thought that illy g rant of public money to Austria war useless now. Ile &sap "proved of the nianner.iis which the loan seas ctis posed. Mr. Ilusettsoe defended it. Sir S. Rossi thy said, that he would not go at lunge into the subject. lie wail surprise.' and ills appointed that the lottery should he again brought in among the number of their resources as • matter of eourse, without even any notice beitig taken of the report of a Committee upon that It hail [well said that the lottery was one of the axed resources of the country; that it was adopted in former administrations, and therefore might in this: that it was adopted in former wlanuistrations, was true; but, then, former administrations had not the tame experienciraii the present of the evils resulting Rom it. Theffenupe stood in the same situation with .resPeef to this, as it was souse time ago with.re spect to the Shiest Trade, it was a source or mi sery •tel unsehief to the lower orders of society ; it deetrayed industry, counteracted enter, and - . _ . ,----- _ . lhodgist toady unhappy victims to apt igoominious death. Ili* light ;too, Friend proposed to abolisli insurance; ii, his own opisiuwi.his Right /tom Friend flattered himself very much, but tyro if he did succeed, the evils produced by small share* would he innumerable, so thit the merit to which he aspired, Wall thnt of doing less miseli:ef, not of doing ally good. Some would• still be driven to rain, some to transportation, and bowie to suicide ; but all would not be resiuued from such terrible disasters. Ile 'Sir S. H.) had eisdestioured. some tune, ago to call the atteadion of the House to the criminal law ; the object of that WAS to prevent the commisoion of crimes, but what were they now about ? They were about to mike a law, whose opt.. ratio.s would be to ',support them. The evils en. tonal by the Lottery were not merely confined to the vice of gaining ; the evil was, the great nuns ber of iuslustrions agents it call: d into action, to *edger, by advertisements and other means, the dupes of this artifice into destruction. Those evils existed to a greater. degree now than ever.— Formerly, Lotterie. were confined to the metro polis, hut sins they found their may into the cairn try,, whore they brought with them s ,rent 111 WIS of evil. lie was of °Minot' that the report would be lunch better sad attended to at alb than attended to in the way which his Right lion. Friend pro posed : Whir reguletion was adopted, ass iinpression • would be made that something wits dune; the re meinbramis of the repeat would die away in at few years, anal the.evds of Site Lottery world return.' Mr. Yeagevsh arnd, that no new fact was brought td . light by the Committee. Other Ad inirsistratious knew the disadvantages of the sestet's u. well us.the present. When be ass a member of the Admiuistn i ti on over which LeactSidniouth I pre. sided, much had been done to rente:dy the client , vs, uteges. Mr. WIIIITSRF.AO said, that there tits one *ab ject upon which be would take the sense of the Consinittee.• if he could then, if not, at some other time. Mr. Wood 1•41 pa al by Government, as Inspector .of Lotteries, 5501. a-year, for which he did turduty. lie had nigteo inconsisteut evidence Infere the Coaduittee, and he wished to know whether he at as Still is, the pay of Government lie would propose a Motion respecting the lottery and him at u *awe day. ' . Mr. Pi:act:vat said, there were no inconsistencieti its the evidence of that gentleman in the different accounts he had given. he had been speaking of different thingi. tie considered that Mr. Wood had a claim upon Covernment for part services whirls . atithal him to the place he held. Mr. W. SmITII reprobated the practices adopted to seduce the poor as violatioos of all pnblie mo rals. Sir J. NEW ecoRT objected, to it, mat as a financial measare: it WUllt to tbaw from the people, by ra pine and fra id, t% hat never went 'luso the Exche quer at all. After a few.. wore!: from Mr. flsetenToN and i Mr. Secure. Paiteano, the several Resolutions were agrer:l to, and the. report ordered to be re ceived on Monday next. Mr. It...se brouglit up the American Trade Bill, whirls was read a tirst time, and was ordered for a Ipeeptsj rittSdlitgo. Q 11 14 01 ,43 . * . - The other Ordere of th e D a y were then disposed Of, mail the (louse adjourned. " . FOREIGN 11VTALLIGENC NROM THE DiTin P.iI'F.RS. DRESDEN, •►LII. i. Count Von Zichig, the Austrian Envoy, left this city to-cluy, with his whole legation. LEIPZIG, APSII. 27. The Government has .published the following Proclamation AVGCSTCS, By the grace of God, uf&mony and t: araaw. " Enrope knows, that Austria, without beim provoked, tie any sufficient tiottivo has for ainuelime made such war like prepnia•tiiiis, asti p laced ' herielf in suchw surnacin.4 at titude, that her neighbours caimot neglect assuming u pas. Sure of defence. Now has she, under the idle pretext of an. ticipatio4 an attack, &dared war agaiiist the Emperor of the l'reindi and K int Of Italy, and hos violated the territor.o .a the eutifedeiatian at the Rhine, of which fns Imperial and Royal Ilaiesty is the Protector. This unjust attack obliges us to unite with our Iliostrious Prot...A:tor, aial 'ha Princes our Allies, for our general defence. To-day has the Court of Vienna. Wllhlillt ahy precious decimation it war t caused its troops to &denser from tiallic la ate out Duchy of Warsaw, who, iu their march, have disieilioted proclama tions, leading to alienate our sulijects, tin. inhabitants of this Duchy, from their lawful Sovereign. Such are the measures with whiett Austria has commenced. " People of Saxony, your lore for us is known, as well as that which we bear to you, and we are contine n t th a t y ou kel in a lively meaner the insult Offered to our Hlustriuw protector and to ortv allies • and that you *lll unite your endeavours to ours to defer ' d your tummy' from the fate which It is einleavouicil to prevare for it. Reaveaoldiers ! take op arms, with conlideuee in Divine Provideuce, against Austria; her injustice shall he punished by the invite-We arm of this gnat Emmy* sae ally, which is already raised to repel tbo enemy, and prepurit fur you the Witter/. la OMIT ta establish finally a durabie peace, which is our wish, and yours, and that of all nations."—(.lniskrurairs Rsyrd Courant, 410 3 9.; liy letters from Poland, we have received advice of a siiii4uitiary battle, fought ois the 19th oft. be. tweet the brave Poles and the Austrian army, which was three times as strong as theirs : but the issue of it is not yet known ; ire only know that the 1500 Sasso* who had joined the army of l'riuce Poniatowsky ti ught bravely, and did great iujiity to the cattily by their artillery.—(Sonie Paper.) MUNICH, Yesterday tire Couriers arrived here front the Reid-cptarters at Landshut—three to Ilia Majesty. gad two to the Hereditary Prince, who bring a:t wice that the Imperial Gourds had arrived at Laud shut, and had been reviewed by the Emperor, who immediately afterwards set out for 11 - usseishurg, where great events are expected -to take place. The head-quarters of the Emperor will to-niore row be at Nieitinarkt. A part of the troops of Item have.entered Paisau. The corps under the Archduke Charles has taken a prisit;im at Chum ; butt as the corps of the Prince of Ponte Corm is mareboig upon E4ra, it is not probable that the Austrians will rNlndill there. hug. Yesterday a Ititssisio Officer, who appears to lie of rank, arrived lime, accompanied be a French Adjutant, who ivta attend hint to the Emperor.— Ile is Mae from the army of Prince Prosorowsky. Lieutenant-Ceneral Baron Wrede has passed the Inn. with diviflon, at Mirli!dorf. The 2,500 tuella the Imperial Guards, together with 1114i4) • .• n &diets of the mine WPM who arAved on the g, alt . at Augsburgh, , were dbe eext morning conveyed forward in live hundred. waggons, and passed /60 Lech. The grenoditeijotirteen days before, were • still in Madrid. On the day of the Battle of Abensberg the Em. pernr gave for the word. Baavery Barone . 1 -,(Retb lerditur Courant, .111 w; 9.) WAILIA'S, APRIL 17. The Austrians have 'Creeds commenced hostili. . ties against the Duchy pf Warsaw. 4)n The 15th inst. the Archduke Ferdinand, transmitted to the Polish Minister ut War, Prince Pintiatowski, it printed declaration of war, dated Gallicia, the 14th of April, together with a letter, in which lie in formed him, that twelve hours after the departure of the messenger, who was the bearer of these, he should advance into the Duchy uf. Warsaw. with • tile Austrian army. The etieihy lira taken possession of the frpniier towni Noweiniasto, on this aide of the river Palmas. on the direct road to Cracow, ten miles fruit hence. After the receipt of the declaration of Iry hy • Austria, en extraordinary couileil of abate and war was held, at which the Prench Minister De Serra, was present. Three hours iittekwaido all the regiments of infantry and cleralrystatis.nied here, with a stron g tr a i n o f artillery, had already broken up to tumult swollen the i.neiny. In the night oldie 13th, the Minister of lVar, Prince iriatosrski, with his whole staff', set oat for the army, in order to take the chief command. We shortly expect to hear. that *corps of Polish troops. in consequence of the Austrian declaration of war. and the violation of the Polish territory, har,totered G Lucia. Seseral skirmishes hare already taken place Lea twerp the Austrian and Polish advanced Hans, and we dint), expect a general battle in the vicinity of Noweiniasto. • 111031 THE POETOOtIESE PAPERS. • CA D IZ, APRIL 9. We have lately received in Eta, port 15,000 urns keg, 15,000 p kes, and large quantities of other warlike stores, sent lib by the generous and constant English nation ; mid intelligence has aiso reached us, that the ship Al‘rsirtis, which took his Excel lency Don Pedro Cevallist to Loudon, is speedily to return with a considerable cargo of muskets and other implements of war.—;Lisbon (.e. April 13.) BADAJOZ, APRIL 7. Private intelligence has been received, stating that our army is perfectly concentrated, that its advanced parties have reached Zaire, but that the Commanding General continues in Lerina, where he expects reinforcements from Accilalusia. We therefore hope the eitemy will be considerably ties at:acted in the conquest of a Province, protected ' of _ la by arespectable army, and if the a capital . which is • a strong place, defended by a garrison and inha bitants filialy eletermitied to sacrifice etery thing for the preservation of their precious and. prudence. APRIL II). With the greatest disgust we infirm you, that Generals Urbino, La Pena ' and Morino, have been discoverld to be turitors, liming sold the army of Andalusia. as well as that of Cuesto. It has been diacovered that the agreement was made with some Colonels of Freiseh cavalry ; but we are happy to say, that every necessary preeauuou has been taken to prevent its taking phioe. The poet from Seville has not vet arrived ; but it is false respecting the Junta having left that place. We hare nothing particularly new. The French have retreatectfrom Telavera sad Lotion. We have reason to believe that they got intelligence of 15,000 men having reunited with Gen.!ral Cursta, but we have not yet received official accounts'of this. Gift. Citesta.informs us, that his head-quarters ore at •Mostaro, and he hopes soon to have an action with the French. Our Paper is not published dittly. Lists*, &NUL 14. Letters from Elves state, that letters from Me ' (bid have been received there, which contain in formation, that in consequence of en attempt made. by the French to carry off the young men, with au inteutinsi to compel them to serve in their snorer, _the inhabitauts rose upon the garrison, ami . put it to the sword. The same letters say s that the French head-quarters have been removed from Merida, farther into the interior, in consequence of unplea sant news received from other parts of Snail'. Letteis front Malaga advise that his Excellency General finite arrived there the (ith of last mouth, mud immediately pursued his march to Catalonia. Qrdcrs have been given by the Supreme Junta of Spai fur packets to he appointed to sail regularly between Spain and Triest, iu order to facilitate the communication and ititerenitrae with Austria. His Excellency Marshal Beresford pat hims , ll* iu motion Ors the 7th inst. at the head of oar troops, and the English are also asbranciag tan all points ; they are as yet 'guarani of the object of these inoveuienta, hut it mist soot: lie Icarian. BiLladier Silveira a cites film Chavi s, that, in eoreviiiteare of iutellisence received of the French having detached a r ible tidy tram Oyorto to Penalich he immediately or dered his troops to mauls to Ahnilsoth, instead of Bata, whither behest inteteled to much. APRIL 15. The Director General of Police in tine capital, has given public notice, that all the inluthitaiits are daily to deliver into fiis office, Correct bats of such foreigner* as reside in their houses, on pain of being considered as suspicious person., and dealt with accordingly. tasuori, seam Iti. A Gentleman has arrived hero, who left Porto lost Friday, who reports that the French irmied Prod's mations (after three days plundering the inhabit ants, and ravishing the woineir), declaring, that every protection should be r iven to the pcople: the Gclieruls there are, S ou l', Laborde, 411, i L 9 ' ,16 ° 1 1. Accounts have also been teceived INito Car:Joni:l, that the Cleneral-in-Chief, ltedilitig. the Marquis Liman, and Franenico Palafox, have formed a junc tion with an acing of sp,otio nee. suet are driving every thing before titers. The regiments of Gooks left Sneer cm, on Smutty list, for Alhandre, about eight leagues tip the 'largos, since which they have continued their mute towards Oporto. • Gen. Lietevforil, at the boa of the Portuguese troops, is advanciirg by the AMC flifECielllie I be lieve he is ut Saiitaren, or Tactic. fit ;er thought by these inneemelits, that Grit. Wellireley had lauded some troops on the roes?; some of ca ',dry mere sato the river ) 4totertery. wl'it.ll it is ..IA left England with Sir Arthur W e dinucy, but we are RA certain that such is rite case. - 111." 'PM 1 I 1 I : : 1,4 , _~, _.~r _ _ _ , ..~` ~J