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n tentioa of the Honourable Member to a paper which he shnul.l sine read--it would shear, on the part of Capt. Hisochett, an *et of the greatest pro- Iligary. and t ;ye molt detestable wiekesine.a,and that he made the l ion. Member the instrument (lookuow ingly. of course) of putti l i t forth his daring calum nies. The Hon. Gentleman opposite would recol lect. that he had stated lie had w trued Capt. Han chett. after he had told bun his st irv, not to allege au' facts in hie Petition unless they were positive truths—ai.d that the. Hon. Gentleman had mated, that ('apt. Hatichett had, in reply, erturesslY de dared upon his honour. as an officer and 4 gentle man, that what h- sass r ell was true.--(e' n ea r, hear." frtnie Mr. Benaelt )--Irltiot alluded to his denial of havolg started the bargain of 6,0001. for his retiring soon. Now he sta. sure that the Hon. G-ntleman and the House would he shocked to hear edit oust have been ilie tit ssss incipled pro. 11 glary of the man. when he (Slr- Lushingion) in formed them, that he now helot to his band the very paper in Captain (kitchen's own baud writing, in which he bond inatle the calculation of S,OOO/. as the price of his retirement..—(fieur.)— This clotidesnite agreement was very ingeniously drawn is... It was averaging the value of an an unit% ~‘ 5001. for his life, he being 38 years of age, tit 7.000/. This paper he (Mr. L.) declared, from Ins ono konvoledge of the sosan's writing, to have Leen ',trine', by hitn. If his identity of the hand writing waisted confirmation, it had received it from those who equally knew his writisig.—( I Isar. ) The 11011. Gentleman then read a letter whoelt had been transmitted to I by the father of the young than, wid. whom Capt Lin Ilanchett was negociat iiig the retirement from his dote. and which stated that the Imo had jammed hint Captain Haitchett hall odered to retire fur live Intatlred pounds per sustain, awl a portions of the salary, or fur a tomtit sem of 6.000/. It was 8140 stated in another letter that the Application originated with, and was pressed upam the son, who had expressed to Ills father his strong disanprebatiom of it. by C.,ptstit Illanchett, in contradiction to what had been asserted by the latter, MIA the son, in his letter to his father, bilks at his " being saddled with a curious proposition." Ile would ask, whe ther, after such a developeineut as this, the Hon. &frontier opposite did not feel ashamed at bring ntitotteottionally the iustroment of such a ch Is racier ?—if be did not, lie .greatly mistook that Honourable Member's rharacter.—( /fear, hear.)--- The moment this bargain t'4111.• to light, lie COM. inunicated with the N dole lamd at the heed of the Treasury. and-also with 1,1. Right Ila n . Friend hirer hiss. The Noble Lord decidedly recom mended Captain Ha.,cloett'a toimetliate dismissal from he service. but hr (ilr. Lushiiigtosi), as the result shelved, with tem petopriesy, procured per. mission for the oscer to map. l'he whole con duct of the individoel displa a cootinued scene elf unesantpled wickeduews. He had made a va riety of charges to the public accounts fur his pri vate heave& ; us short, his gllite Wee so ellitittesee, that utilesa te 'was much deceived, the Hon. Member would at once avow in a manly snowier his 'ewe of the imposition that had been practised upon him. —PI/fur. hear.) Mr. fILNNETT concurred entirely in what had joist tal, it from tile Hon. Member, after the es :daoation he hail gives,. He was himself ignorant of this poison's hand-writing, but he had no lies,. tatt,on in saying, that, after the declaration made respecinig the paper by the Hon. Member, he be lieved it to be in Capt. Hanchett's hand-writing, and hr concurred in the opinion which the Him. Member had so properly prommored at such con duct on the part or any matt.--(Heor, bear.)--He was ready further to say, that he thougiot Govern ' • meta were %outlet to dismiss such an officer after then. k .ct ledge of his act, and that they had ottl% taken the step which was incumbent upon them to take on such an occasion. After what had passed, lie was ready to declare he should take no for th.r step oespecting Captain Hatichett's Peti tion. Si iii, however, some application might be necessary respecting the abase of patrona g e which ails caul...cull with the complaint. He believed the ditty of a Menther, generally speaking, wits to lar.ritt a l'etilion. and that lie ought not to be too suropulotio , as to the terms of it, if brought to hum under circumstances of apparent credibility.— ( I Par. ) Mr. LusuttinTos, in reply to the allusion to abuse or pstranage, observed, th.,t on a reference to the Tira•ury appointments which he had recoin mend,d, he found that for one hr had urged for a Canterbury friend, he had niaole two in favour of C.,ptain The Petition presented by Mr. LUSIIIINGTON sass then laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. ADJOURNMENT TILL MONDAY. Oo the motion of the CHANCSLLOII of the FXCIIIIIQUER, it was ordered that the House. at its rising, do adjourn until Mondsy next. PROTFSTANT DISSENTERS. Mr. WM. SMITH rtme to present several Petitions from Protestant Dissenters, who complained of the prewut operation of the Marriage Act, and who prayed that thry would, like the Jews and Quakers, be permitted to solemnise their marriages at their own places of worship, or that the objectionable wet of the cere►nony should he waived its their particular cases. The lion. Gentleman then pre genies' Petitions to this effect from the following ploces : The Protestant Divasnters in and near Tenterdeth in Kent ; the Protestant Dosentera of the City of Gloucester; the Cowrie* • in Parliament-court, Artillery-ground, and two other Congregations in London; two Cougregations in the county of Suffolk ; this Protestant Dissenters of Bris. tot, of Newport, Isk of Wight, of Exeter, of Chichester, of Norwich, and of Lincoln; also one from the Unitarian, of Liverpool. The Petitions from Tenterden. Newport. and Liverpool. were ordered to be printed. PUBLIC INCOME AND XE XPENDITURE. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved the trier of the Day for the House resolving itself into a Committee of the whole Douse, to take into consideration the First Report of the Finance Com muter on the public Income and Expenditure. The Right Hon. Gentleman then moved, " That the said Report be referred to the Committee." The House having resolved itself into the Com mittee, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER paid, that as the Resolutions of which he had given nctice ~.•- 1 i i 4. Irr 1 on the preceding eveiling, embraced subjects of a was, in fact, such an interference with the official very extensive and most Important nature, and as duties of Ministers, as, he emit-rived, with all de they would be fully discussed net a future day, he ference to the Hon. Gentleman, could tiot be con would not take up the time of the Committee by sidereel fair and proper. making any observations on them, but would pro- Mr. F. Dot/Gres did not mean to ark any quell . creel to put the first Revolution into the bands of don. the answer to which could involve the +secrets the Chairman. of Government. But. as he thought, from what The Chairman (Mr. Baounee) then read the had fallen on a former night from the Noble Lord, following Resolution : that Government contemplated the step which he 1. That it is the opinion of this Committee, that, genre had alluded to, he did not conceive that there was the termination of the war in the year IRIS, the property any impropriety in the question. tax in Great Britain, and other taxes in Great Britain and Lord CASTLICREAGH begged of the lion. Gen- Irelloil, to the amount uf 18,000,0001. per annum, had ex- tlnan pired, or bees repealed, or reduced. ei riot to be too hasty iii drawing colocluilions. There being a general cry of " Read! read !" Ills Majesty's Government would pursue that course when Mr. BILOCIDEN had finished the first, the which appenred to them to be correct. FOREIGN ENLISTMENTS BILL. CHANCELLOR of the Excneneen. read the re- The ATTORNEY-G6NERAI. 'tweed the Order of 11101111111 g Itraolutinos 1-i -2. That, by the Act of the 55th of his Majesty, the re- I the ments Bill. Day for the second reading of the For ei g n En. venom of Great Britain sad lreland was consolidated. The list net separate revenue of Ireland heing 4,501,00 0 1. and Sir R. IVti.sote said, when this Bill was intro- Me charge for the fended and untende d debt being 63111,00/01- d uced by the Attorney-General, that Leerned Gene whirl, charge exceeds the whole net revenue to the amount demon, in order to take all the responsohility of of 1,000,0001. without affortlisig any thing for the support of such an unpopular measure on himself, declared the Coed List and other charges, and that no provision has been made by Parliament for the same. that it originated solely with him—that it was en -3 That the...mantic' to be voted for the year will probably tirely his act. The Noble Lord, however, had re amount to 20,500.mi01 lieved I from that responsibility, for he declared, 4. that the amount of revenue applicable to She sip- in the course of the debate, that it was not an ab- Owe will nut be more than 1,000,0001. —leaving a deficiency stract proceeding. hut was intitnutely connected to the amount of 13,500,0001 to be raised by loan. 5. That the Sinking Feud, fir the reducti on of the ea- with the foreign policy of this country. To render fluvial debt, fur the present year, amounts to 15,500,0001. the 801 l less obnoxious in the eyes of the flume thus exreediug the sam weeeriary to be raised by tono,noot. and of the country. it was said that it was O. That to provide far the 'Memories of the public service, brought in to supersede two Acts of Pasha. sod to make pruvwssa for the eminent of the national debt,broug ht in . resent,.. which were ;sordid in their operation, and it is absolutely necessary that there should be a clear sur plus, beyond the expenditure of she country, of not lees inflicted the imilieliment of death cm those of than SAOO,OOO/. per mums—and it is, therefore, expilient fences which the new Bill would only visit with to raise the taxes of the country to the amount of 3,000,10 '1. fine and imprisonment, iti the first instance, and with per annum. trensportation in the second. The {utter punish. Mr. GREN}F.Lt. paid, he understood the CllBll* I meet hail, it seemed, been abandoned, in ohedi cellar of the Exchequer would, to-morrow, Hire ester to public oi )i ll inio—but the making the offence certain Gentlemen, for the purpose of discossieg eeleeioue, oligitially, sufficiently proved the uniater the terms of the loan Inc the prevent year. New. of those who formed the Bill. It was vaid that this as the terms of that loan mutt be very much leder- I measure was mead to repeal the 9th and ..29:11 of enced by the Resolutions which had just been read, Gm°. 11. Those Acts were 'mooed under special he took it for gnslited, that the Right Honourable 1 circumstances, stud the princiiile on which they Gentleman would nut, in the course of the negoci- were formed nes not suffered to mix with tile anon, pledge himself, either with respect to the I general policy of this country—that !Jolley, which, amount of the lusts, or to the appropriation of the as a tteulrel power, England hail always pursued. Sinking Fund, or to any other point, that could I Before lie showed that this Bill was nessentloy the have the effect of precluding Ilion from areitig on consideration of the House, it was necessary that lie what might appear to be the delilierete mese and should state a few historical facts, connected with judgment of the Holm, when those Resolutions the Statute' of the 9:h and 29th of Get , . 11. The come to be discussed on Monday next. He looped former Act was p.a , ri i in the y e .ir 173 6 . w ho , the Right Ilion. Gentleman a otild keep himself die- was the sometime of Eigland at that time ? All engaged, so that lie might ire enabled to proceed in &trope was 1,111014 ed no war, and England was the way that scented to Ise must proper and advs. solicited to mediate a 'race between Frence noel able, after the do eisioti of the Howie on Motiday. i Austria—and, indeed, to effect a 1/11C.fie8i1011 he tic was 111111181111 that this should he distinctly kitting*, I tweet' all the belligerent parties. King George IL in order that nothing might occur between the accepted of the situation of Mediator—and, when Right Hun. Gentlemen atoll those loan-contractors I England was intrusted with that sacred duty, it which could letter the judgment of the Irleuse, in certuinly was right that her subjects slionloi be pre any degree, with respect to those Revolutious ; mud I vented, while she was endeavouring to secure a peace, more particularly with respect to the uldAtcatiwi ` ) f from supplying any of the !Jame* with the memos of the Sinking Fund in diminution of the lime war. On it account British milojects were restrained The Cuttectekoo of the EXCHEQUIIIt Said. the from joining guy of the belligerent powers. But House must see, that, in the mottle centre' of this the course adopted by the Noble Lord was quite proceeding, his object v •s, to give the contractor". ddiereost. AVlsile negoociations were going on, he before they agreed to any loan. an opportunity of I po minted armaments to he fitted out ill British forming a full idea of the sentiments of Parliament ports, for the purpose of lostoting the South Ante on the subject of those Resolutions. Nothin.4 riCBllll—but. when all hope of an amicable adjust would he doer, on one ride or the other, to Iced mem with the Mother Country was at an enob.theu himself or the contractors, or to fetter lio discuss:um he came down mid said, "No inner succour shall lie or determination of Parliament. sent out to the South Americans." This was not The House then resumed. Mr. BROGOLIe re- I d une to preserve neutrality, but to prevent the ported progress, and asked leave to sit again oil I weaker party from receiviug assistance. The see Monday. I coed Act was passed in the year 1756. What was the cause of that measure? In the month of olenuary the French %rove! on all the British property at Dunkirk. In the month of Match a one-sage came down to Parhatnent, voting, that the Keg had received information that it was the intention of Frstice to invade either England or Irelend—and at that period the Pretender was in the 'might - hood of Paris, attended by a great number of his adherents. Ili slots state of thing, the 29th of Geo. If. was passed, to prevent British subjects from jonaing foreign powers, 'l'l l is w a s corr ect for it was impossible to say what foreign stele or potentate would become the ally of France or of the Pretender. Those A. is then were had recourse to, iti order to meet extraordinary circumstances. In the some way, the Arts of James I. and 11., which related to foreign enlistments, were passed with reference In special cioctornstalocee. The Act passed in the reign of James IL woos occasioned by the necessity he was ler of recalling *eerie! English regiment*, who were in the employ of the Prince of Orange—and who, lie tested, would ha induced by that Niece to serve against Ilion. The Act which was assented to sit the reign of Wil liam 111. was also introduced under the preestire of nrceesite. 111 short, out one Act, Moeda,. to the measure then before the House, hod ever beets introduced, except when England was a ptinci pad in the quarrel with some foreign state, or where she agreed to conduct u tiegocintiont be. tweets belligerent parties. What was the opera tion of these Acts I From the moment the royal assent was given to them, they were costeigued to the tomb, where their rest was never disturbed. No punishment had ever been inflicted under the 9 h or 19 , 11 of Geo. 11. When persona appeared in arms against their country, they WI suffered wider military law. or else the law of high treason had been enforced ugainet them. This was the ease, within their own remembrance, a lien, a few years ago, a 'member of sadism were mist biome lions the Isle of France, and tried and convicted for h oe i n g entered the Freuch service. 'rim this abatement was correct, was easily proved by a rsference tu ler tory. In 1746, a vessel lauded a Freuch force on the comet, which was, in part, comtnanded by Irish officers. Those iudividuels were toot prosecuted under the Act of the 9th of George 11. but were treated as prisoners of war. Here he begged lease to relate an anal dots in some degree connected with this circumstance. It would be recollected, that in the year 1793 or 1794, General O'Harr. who had been in the service of France, but hail left it. was made roomer at Toulon. The Na tional Convention ordered him to be tried tnr dis ernburking on the Freuch coast. and assisting the peasantry in ass ineurrection against the existing Govertiment—with the a seuraioce, that, it' found guilty, his puseishmeut should be death. On that occasion the Duke of York *elected au officer, whose name would speak much more than rosy panegyric he could pronounce on him. he meant the present Lord flincimoson, to pottiest against the Decree of the National Convenient, and to SUPPLY. Mr. BROGDFN brought up the Report of the Committee of Supply of the preceding evening. The Resolutions, providing fur the charges of the Navy, Ordnance, Transport Service, Exchequer Bills, and Irish Treasury Bills, for 1819, were agreed to. EAST INDIA COISPANY. Mr. HUME inquired whether, in making provi sion for the present year, the Chancellor of the Ex chequer had taken into account the large stun of money which was due to the Bust India Company for expenses in Ceylon, and other traiisitctimis in the East ? The CIIANCELLOR of the EXCIIFQUER icrti no hesitation in saying, that no provision had hef•n made on that account. lie did not know how the balance stood on either side—but he trusted the Company would not require any re-payment this year. WEAVERS OF CARLISLE. Mr. CUILWEN, seeing a Noble Lord in his place, wished to draw h►s attention to the distresses of the unfortunate weavers of Carlisle, whose mi serable situation was described iii a Petition which lie had submitted to the House a few days since. lie begged to inquile, whether it was the intention of Government to take any step fur the relief of those poor people, whose conduct had been most exemplary—who wished to do nathiug but what was legal and proper—and whose case was there fore peculiarly worthy of serious consideration? They were desirous of going abroad—and this was the very momeut when relief of that kind could be most easily extended to them—as ships could now be taken up at a very cheap freight, which might return to this country laden with timber from our North American Colonies. lie there fore wished to know what the determination of Government was, that he might apprise those poor people of it. Lord CASTLIUMAGG said, the Petition of those individuals had been placed in the hinds of the Secretary for the Home l)epartn►enit, who had lost no time in laying it before the Prince Regent. By his Royal Highness's command it had since beef transmitted to the First Lord of the Admiralty, in order that he might state what could be done on the subject. He believed no report had been yet made on the subject. The circumstances were certainly very calanutous--but the lion. Gentleman must be aware of the great difficulty which mast attend the adoption of a hasty lor partial measure. CESSION OF PARGA. Mr. F. DOUGLAS inquired of the Noble Lord, whether his Majesty's Government had adopted any proceeding to prevent the surrender of Varga to the Ottoman Porte ? Lord CASTLgggAGU said, the Hon. Gentlemen must see that it would be attended with great iii couveniente, if 'Ministers were called on to answer, in the progress of their duty, whether they had, or had not sent out certain instructions ? An answer to such a question necessarily . involved some notice of the nature of the iustructious themselves--end , • • • state, that when, in 1746, trial' Officers► serVing hi a French corps. were taken An the British coast, they were treated as prisoner* of war, when they produced their commionrries in the F►eueh 'service. A+t.,in, when a portion of the Irish brigade became prisoner* to this country, they were not anbjected to punishment, hut were taken into the English sera vice. The Legislature dud not pass any mea sure to relieve them from the operation of the 9'h and , 29th of Gen: ill. No, they admitted theta into she service of England—and their faith ful and gullatit behaviour proved hot wi►ely they had ected.—(Hear. !,stir./—There were also, in the Spanish service, Irish regiments : the regiment of Hibernia, and several others. Yet individnala. belonging to those corps, if taken, would not he visited like malefactors. Sir Sidney Smith had served en board the !Swedish fleet. yet Eriglatel and Sweden continued at peace. In the battle be tweet' Admiral Rodney mild the Count de Grasse, there were Swedish officers out board both fleets. — How many Scotsmen haul served in the navy and army of Busies ? Yet this circumstance never called forth hostility front those powers against whom Russia made war. During the arduous con test which had but recently concluded, were there slot thousands of Danes and Swedes on board the fleets of Great Britain ? Did they not assist in supporting that empire over the ocean which this couistry now maim:need ?—( 1104:v.1—This was the fret--and would they now eatablish a new system — would they make stew laws of neutrality—would they impose severe penalties for the mere toleration of that of which they hail themselves taken the utmost advantage ?—/ Bar. hear./—He would tint quote l►eges from Puffendortf, Gratin!, or Vottel—lisit he would say, without concealment, that neutral powers had a right to suffer their sub jects to tailed into the service of foreign states. without giving a preference to one state over another. In 1796 this country took into its pay corps of Hessians, II moverians, and Brunswickers— , yet the Governineets to which those troops belong ed always remained neutral. The Swiss troops were notoriously employed to support the respective interests of hostile nations—yet no complaint was ever muds ugaiust the Swiss Government on that sec t. It was argued that America loud act ed on the some principle as that which was recognised its this Bill. Ile admired America—he viewed her wish feelings of Htlection—because she continued within her bosom a bulwark of freedom, where the oppressed might find refuge and safety. Still he was not so much blinded by his attachment to America es wit to feel that her spirit of aggran disement hail sectored her to go beyond what the principles of justice and liberality dictated. Whet had she done ? She, in the first instance, assisted the South Americans—she supplied them with vessels and with ammunition ; but Spain said to her, " Give no further support to the South Ame• ricans, and we will give you Florida"—and Florida she had received as a hoots. The Gallant General then briefly touched on the ambitious policy that would probably he displayed by America, now she had seethed this rich possession. She would, as the price of further forbearance, demand Cuba. When her object was effected, she would dash► at the Main, and plant her standard in Mexico ; and. having secured to herself the commerce of South America, she would laugh at Eng land, as the dupe of her time-serving professions. After a variety of observations on the injustice of the Bill. which lie described as one that humanity rejected and policy condemned—as a measure 10 favour of Ferdinuud and in opposition to freedom — the Gallant General concluded by moving. " That the Bill he read a second time this day six months." The ATTORNEY-GENERAL expressed his aur prise at sonic of the positions laid down by the Gal- Witt General, who inward that individuals had a right to enlist in the service of another state, even if that state were at war with the Government to which they belonged,—(" Au! no !"/—Such was the inference to he drawn from the Gallant General's ar gutueut. He hail adduced cases where mercy was skew's to individuals who belonged to the Irish bri gade. lie (the Attorney-General) did not quarrel with these instances of lenity. But, if they were i►itrnahuced cm this occasion, in opposition to the principles of this Bill, lie most then contend, that the inference was precisely what lie had stated—and that the argument oent to give full power to indi vidual* to serve whatsoever potentate they pleased. lle defied tiny ittilivalual to adduce a single authority to prove, that when one state was at peace with another, the subjects of tither had a right to enlist in the service ol• a hostile power, mod thus to break the neutrality thut previously subsisted. The • principle of the Bill was this—that the sovereign power of the realm had a right to direct its subjects to do that which was legal—to command the obe dience of its ',Neror to a conformity with the acts of the state. With reference to this principle it was, that the law hail invested the Kisig with the autho rity to co tttttttttttt the return of those subjects who departed from this country. Fran the earliest times. the Monarchs of England possessed the power of preventing their subjects from going abroad ; although the mode of exerting that power was not now in use. If such a power did not exit, the cuusequence would be, that, where the executive power had been forming leagues, or professing sanity towards other nations, the state would be a mere cipher—since bodies of men might declare, that, in defiance of treaties, they would erect themselves 100 a military force s and contravene that which the state had undertaken to do with reference to some foiendly power. This Bill was founded also on the principle of the com mon low.—( Hear, hear,frour the Opposition.)--Why then was this Bill naroduced ? Because, though the Prince had by the common law the power of prevent. Mg his subjects froze► enlisting in it foreign service, • still that authotity was weak and italSeient. Why was it 60 Because, till itidividus!r had left the country—till they had committed the offrtice—the Plit.ce had no actual and positive power to utter. fere. Gentlemen had cheered loudly ' , rhea he said that this measure was founded on the common law. When they did so, they acknowledged that the act which it was intent to provide against was opposed to the constouu law, mud was therefore cri ed. Could any per►oo argue. that, in the midst of this metropolis, it was legal to enlist men sod procure officers, for the purpose of employing them against a power with whom England was at peace ? Was it nut contrary to every principle of mammal and municipal haw ? Unles► the House 1 pa..,. e.- • vNI It•••••• 4 II 1 s A 1 meant to come In this resolution, that n.. .ohjects had a right to enlivt stenc ,, lves iu the me of the Spanish insurgent'', and that the ',wt. of this country, though &alkaloid profered herself to he neutral, were to be turned itao o/nelt•pardr. from which assistance was to I►e afforrleit to the South Ameneens—then the preoent most be conw• tiered • just and proper measure. Mr. DEN it 4N ' , aid that if he had been •n►pri•ed et the introduction of the 801,14111 more_en hr. - . . at hearing the gtoundi on rtch it testo &few,. tt Ili. Hon. and 'rivet kite Attmiler: General), and at the way ill *lslets he ti•iil•••• and answered the argiiinent• of his 111 • laid Friend who intrairil liiv Um. au I Gallant Friend had never »owled at; ni.st the right of the Legislature to prohibit the subject from ri.• tering into the service of • state with which his oat, was in a state of wir—that the Art.; of 9 and ?u (•seo. 11. were unjust and iinproii.r—or thst ih King did not pos4ess the power I,f pons•hor.:th.: subject for engaging in enterprize% of Ora But his object was, to sties', how C. 011114111/ Hark rn actlnents were to the feelings of rolokool th , it the piirticular Acts referred to, tl h primed.? passed, had never beet) eitiorced, and had thesis , ' inferred. with the strirtest propriety. that iv. s 'hough the Bill beige the Ilosi , e might could never be carried into effect any ni.nr than otlreno.— ( Hear. )—The principle contended for 1),/ his Hon. and Gallant Friend was, that the stshirrt bad a right, if he thought proper to esemrae of engaging in the service of a trerwrist stale without any license from the Gavel- 00000 rot of has own; and lie arguill, that the slyptivo. tion of thin right, a+ Wel contrinirl lied, took away the terms of neutrithle. For could that be reel to be a measure of neutrality, where all the injury was done to one party, and no interference, in point of fact, made with the other—where a prollibitirei was directed against one side. and the other lett precisely as she had beet) been before ?—fur he well knew there way not a man its the cou n try, with the heart of an Englishman, that would fetal his IW.lgt. slice to Spain.—(Hear, iterse.l—Ths 13,11 indeed wore the mask of impartiality—its ostensible object was, that the law might bear equally oa both thi contending parties; but lie struilit like to hear whether a single Engliditnan had been preveute.l from enlisting under the hauliers of Ferdinand. It such an instance could be produced, then would he retract his opposition, and allow that the design of the measure was fair and just.—lllear, hrur.)-- But the question now war, whether th e (nowt i law ought not to be repealed—whether the soh. ject should be subjected to puniehment if let contlibuted his services to u state with *devil ifn• country was not at war ? In his opininuitshould tei repealed, and the punishment got rid of. " But," said the supporter, of the Bill, " are we to ;intuit regiments to be raised and paraded in the City 1.1 . London ? Are we to suffer bands cf soldiers to be marched, by sound of trumpet and beat of drain. through the Haymarket, destined for the aid of its South American Insurgents ?" In the first place lie (11r. Denman) did not know there was evidreaa of any such facts ; but if there were, he did w t hesitate to say they should be put a stop te. But was a new law of neutrality to he made for the purpose, or were the circumstances a! the country itt all similar to those in which she was placed when the former Acts hail beet) passed, when there was a Pretender to the Crown, ()perils . abetted by powerful States on the Continent From the earliest times to the 9th George 11. similar Act had been carried, though the uccasioar for it might appear es pressing as at that period. The doctrine of his Hots. Friend was, that if the 13 , 11 proposed was to be made the law of the lend, it ought to he obeyed—but that the queetii n was. whether it ought to become the law ul the laud' He agreed with the last speaker, that by a loin. ciple of the common law, the Croon might tiros hibit the departure, or commaild the roam al any subject ; and that there was a special writ of He exeut regau provided for the case ; and e.hat thee, he asked, was the use and necessity if a new law ? There was one clause of the Bill to which his I lon. and Gallant Friend had nut alluded, but to wince he entreated the most serious attention of the House, because if it were to be 'nude the law of the land, it, in his opinion, put and toil to all hopes of amicable relations with South America. and future commercisl advantage, to be derived from en niter course with that continent.—[The Honourable and Learned Gentleman then read the clause from the Bill, which empowered the custom-house officers at any port, on information that any ship thereat had person* on board intending to enlist under foreign powers, to seise and detain such vessel till the pe. ratifies should be paid, half of which were to go to the King, and half to the informer; and that iii case of any action at law against the infornites or officers, they should be protected therefrom ia the same manner as when acting on account of the revenuej.--He thought that provision required th • most strict eesmination and whom, in the Co";• mittee. He should feel much less objection to t! continuance of the old law than the enactment or new one, because he believed it originated meshy a desire to conciliate Ferdinand; and that it -not, like the former, to remain a dead letter, hot to he carried strictly into effect. It did stew to hen • to be a most ungracious proceeding, at a nee . when a great proportion of our populatioa, ezer• tired in military habits and fit for swilling else. were deprived of neatly all sphere of e xertioii. • cut them off from the only remaining touter wheel they could bring their talents into action. For this, and the various reasons he ha I meatioued, he should support the amendment. Pilr. WYNN did not know on what principle, either of the law of nations or the par:killer 13 4 of the land, the Bill could be opposed ; it what• ever point of view he looked at it, tie was per suaded of its propriety. It had been said that the former Acts alluded to had never been pot to Pee. but had always remained a dead latter—but he hi-ill certainly read in magazines of executions for e!' fences against one of them. The Boit. Geotietteet then entered into an examination ul the c lost ' this country towards foreign states during reign of Elizabeth and the succeeding Mouarelir. and argued that it wee regulated by the wise purr' elide on which the Bill was founded. 'The case the persons serving in the Irish brigade, relied" by the Hon. and Gallant General, was n o t et 0'114110"i they could not be looked upon as subjects of Eitire laud, .because they were the lumbers •of frinelni