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- • . .. . . . . . . . f , t o \ ;11111611.- rt 11354 , Et t . - , • . • sumaga 1906. ~ IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. about to puraile • and iiispling that the House could not proceed. or come to an' determination upon the evolouce, which their privilege and judg ments had enabled theta to pro ii.tice. He trusted that those interests fur justice which the House of Cotuinoini always hail, would never want dictating to by any 11143. lie concluded by saying, that be thougfit a Committee alionld be appointed to take the letter into consideration. Mr. PEACE:VAL said, that as rinrsday neat had been fixed upon for the Cominitlee to takc into consideration the conduct of Ins Royal Highness, he tl l glut it' necessary to state Floats the printer could not possibly get the minutes Featly before Wednesday, and consequently there could list be sufficient time for their coninikrattioin Ile there. fore wished sonic other slay should be fixed upon. This introduced a ratsverwstion relative to thongs ing the order of some of the questions before the house our consideration ; its the course of which Mr. Paaccvst said, there was smother subject in soma degree connected with the rii.trgen againd tles.., Doke of fork—lre allude:l to the transactions, . its tfie course - of this inquiry, which had been men tioned as attaching to the Chow/Tl e. until the Duke of Portland. A friend of his had informed him of an udsertisement in a iirwsp yin of the 13th of January, which offered n place under. ioverninctit fir sale. lie hilt! ant tinrised the So licitor to trace it, and lie now toforincd the !louse that four permit's . were intliettal for this transaction.. A person of,the name of Cole:tem, one named Taylor. au another wawa: same we could not hear, atria banker. Mr. CoSlll3e said,'as the others bail been named. it was brit fair the hanker sinitild. Mr. HUIKlisqN said, his twine was WM; 011 he was indicted tor receiviug the deposit, and giviug • a receipt. After toots. further conversation apse the day fur coosidcriii4 the roudtict of His Royal Iliglinees, it was fixed tur Wrilimatiov se'ooight. DISTiLLE,RY LILL Mr. WitAkTOX brought up the report of this r Jou sr NRWPOIT objected to its being hurried proceeded in et present; the equal when last consider-• i for further consideration. ' irom Mr. PERCRIf AL icitt Sir in:St was fixed upon. tGN IN SPAIN. rise, :in, to propose to the .1 a subject the most material honour, fame, and interest of perliupe ever beets aal given no notice whatever ,r. I asp sate those expressions . used would have immedietely • to the mind of every suits liest of the late couipaign in wuish iiistirrestion, as it l e a HOUSE OF LORDS, Fustian', Frn. The Marquis of Douglas - was introduced, and took this oaths as a British Peer. Coastal were fartbee heard in tic Irish Appeal, Itooke s. Tlae Irish Militia Inlistment Rill, andpiree private Bats, wre hvouehl frees the Coatiwins, and Arad a first tune.— Ailiourued. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The S informed the Horse, that Mr. Robert tt dhotis , wlia had petitioned agn;wit the rttont t.e the -rough of St. Albans, bad eat entered rub/ his recogni zance. . • Mr. Sheriff : Storm preseuted a "retition from the City of Imadota, pray ing (us revisiuu of the Inas for the recirrery of Steel DeMis. - R.C.essllfverm MI was rest a second time, and ordered to be ousintittrd os Weeds. sennigtit. Ou the Egotist of Mr. o'll ARE, the order of the 'lay for the mooed mediums? the iris!. Constables Rill was dirreharg ed, for the purpose of enabling him to hring tr a better hill art titt~t. - 1101/011 - .Meorhor Arms *Aosta Wins sew Dill, which was read a first time, and ordered to be read a ,coned time ou the ilth .ef Apnl oral. Oa the station of Ilfr. Alit:man consWcra• titer of the 'deports from Public (Mem WAS deferred from Ttleotiay 'text, to the 15th of ifareb. A Petition wit patented tire the Cotton Menefactorers irf Lancashire, which ere %IRA stave cower-sawn Ism even Mr. emnoss, Mr. PIM/MT/AL, Mr. Craws o, Mr. Rost, Mr. *emu, and Mr Parteson, whin it was ordered Sr lie os the table. A great rre tuber ofprirate Petitimie rime prisented,resoeg 'which wee use best Mr. Incitorsosy kw the disclosers , of imMos Mordspe,lllotaemet Mr Mucus. promoted a Petitiostrook the subscribers to Cps Lights. On the Gautier, of the Loss Assoc 41., of Seattle the Bill . telative to Child Murder to Scotland wee ordered to be printed, sad the senoud reading fixed for Tuesday twat. RI. Joni Neersose cored fur en scsmat of all sass of seanee paid under the beads( " Incidents" relative :o Stomp Duties in irelwri. fir there Oars .....3814,tra. Mr. Must NW! pro w tate d s peutios foe the iliattelre sf Sotto* Moutsgeo, 11411Willel • TILE I/VICE OF TORIL Mr. WHITRIMAD CAlieri the otter/tin , ' of the "ranee to euttinguteilett na- to this cninitry, the Or ate awl the rest of the As rib made it a mutter re consideration, the most , icitude, that this*. who pais nitidence mid Ware mitrunted ti this comitry could heitow Europe mi,glit he said to be power of France, by the fall y one or the nations that had lest with her, whetlicr 4roni their council's, or energy and . adequate to the enterprise know not, but in every coalition been e4ident that failure was oence upon their putt, and , and aggrandisement upon _. enemy. England alone stood in that situation, in which it was for her to defy th.. ambition and poser of France, and still to continue the contest ,with her, so as to con clude * peace upon tern*{ either honourable, or at least advantageous for her interest. To England alone tolotigs the power of resistance to the im placable and ambitions enemy of Europe. The [louse of Austria, blind as it were against the sense and opinion of her widest counsellors, those who un derstood best l'Pr interests, its etnn pared with France, even iii 111111 unfortunate war, the third coalition, was hurried into rr, n, overcome in her strength, anti precipitated at the feet of Frame, and by tl.e 'tower of the conqueror had to submit to any terms he thought tit to grant. Whether seduced IN the promises of France, whether overawed by the misfortunes that had befallen her ; Prussia and the other p6wers of the Continent. swayed also by DcW counsellors, pursued a line of conduct ferent from whet was expected, and were unwilliug soy longer to participate in the coittest. Thus stood the world divided, as it were, between Great Britain and Frince, and at that moment when every power had withdrawn themselves from the contest, and when all had become the vassals or tallies of the latter power. there appeared a spirit of rraietanee in one of those nations deemed her vas sal,, and who uppenred stinongst the firs' of her allies, and the most submissive of her depecititom. Spain, .ad o red to struggle against the usurpation df France, applied to this country for assisteuce.— This anphcation was made to us shortly before the conclusion of the last Session of Parliament ; a time, when it was not, 1 believe, in the power, but if within the power, it certainly was nut within the intention of His Majesty's Ministers to lay be fore Parliament any information onthatsubject. All that Parliament was apprised of, was merely that such. a spirit seemed to be arising in Spain, and Parlia ment neat' closed before there was any opportunity of offerintr an, thft of the nature of a deliberate opinion upon it. The snanagentent of this delicate and important affair was therefore necessarily left entirety to those who then conducted, and who still conduct, His Majesty's councils. From f‘ot time to this, Potrialtent has had No opportutity of in- so nothing in . the privileges of tht Itonse. The Hon. Gentleman bad certainly nut 'read the letter in the same sense which he had; and if there were two ways of un derstanding it. he hoped he was not wren„ in re tointnending the mildest. The way in which he understood it was this : that when his Royal High ness found he was charged before that . House with crimes the most et-Miniml and ilngnieeful, and that an inquiry hail been proceeded in, which was in sin Way resisted ma his part, and which hod excited troasjilembly the attention of the public, Ire was dennias to niert it with his allegation of conscious innocence. and nothing nowt; yet, if, after dint allegation, doubt and suspicion should be enter tained, aucl, his diameter and honour appear ques tionable; in that case lie nal!, snakes a call upon the Honer, or a wiriest. that they will - not pursue measures which vmntd have the efi l ect of condemn. ing him without trial ; nut for the purpose of pre ve,:ting an impeachment, I ort that, before his dm: meter and honour were ru.ido nosed, lie might have the privilege which, In- the constitution of this cunn try, every British su'l*et could claim, from the highest to the lowest, or Bann the lowest to the most elevated. The Right Hon. Gentleman said cmild not conceive how this could be consider .l an attack upon the privileges of the House. Tne manner in which the letter hail been prestuted riud received was not a common proceeding; yet Mat wholly unprecedented ; so in that point it was so attack. It might at all events have been pre sented, as petitions are, and, if improper, it might have been objected to, but it would never have been rejected on wrong grounds ; for be hetieved his Royal Highness as little thought of making a princely attack on the Howie as he did. He wished to knew whether any Heil. Gentleman intended to matte any motipu on the subject, as he did not; nor did 1w know of its being in the contemplation of any one so to do. ' Lord HENRY Parer said, he hoped he might be allowed to say a few words no the subject. He ' did trot understand his Honourable Friend in ob ject to the or legation. The part be unit ' , toad him so object to woo, his going beyond that allegation, said questioning the lane of coodpet the House was . . • ~ ?:~ r~L~. • 1 SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1809. ~, . PRI terfering in the manageritent of that campaign, because Parliament did not then exist in its Re gular Sessions. Iles Majesty's Miiiisters had, just at the close of last Session, recitved from Par liament all that Parinie:ent mined give than; every estimate they had submitted had been voted for, every guinea they hail N.lttli in supply had been cheerfully granted; odd to this, there was also a vote of credit bestowed upon them to the utmost limit which they chose to *Mx 'to it; in short there appeared but one miltd and one spirit to prevail throughout this country were ectit ated by the same reasoning, arid every one joined with them, heart and hand, upon the subject (Hear! Hear! Hear!) No 111i:esters, I behove, ever entered into a co:deist like this, under more favottrable auspices. 'There was not found in this country a twin who could entertain a wish contrary to that which they themselves expressed, namely, that the power of England might be directed in the most efficacious muntier, h, order to assert and secure the tottering lilmties of Spain (Hear ! Hear! !pear !) Standing. Sir, upon that emi nence Official sifinitious give tip His Alujeuty's Ministers, from which they can view the pros:wet before twin, orti from winch all other 'nett are shut out, it was their duty to have survey ed with cure and circumspection not only those views which re imintiliiitcly presented thi.in selves before them, lint to ha:r aseertaimil die power, strength, anti credit of this country, before they embarked in this project, as well as to have understood the real situation of Spain. Upon that occasion, Sir, it appears to me, that the lirstsmea sures that ought to leave liven impressed upon the, minds of wise and considerate Ministers, was to send into that country oven or rrul knowledg , Men of great rapacity—men versed not only in civil, but in military atfairs—men flualiiied to clou d:let councils, us well as to lead armies ; and they could have had such men, for utitlaubtedly - this comitry affurits them, on whose judgment they might hove retied for net-unite information. They eould not be io'notant that on this Was founded the only proper chance that existed of breaking down the power of France in Europe, sod displacing her from that pre-emilitince in which the success of her Ruler hud plated her, and to afford to the other States of Europe yet soother opportunity of resist ing her aggressions. I know not the character of those Ministers scut to ttpuin, upon their missious or embassies, but I cannot Iliad amongst theta the name of one person distinguished by long expert ewe, great exploits, or known and established reputation iu civil a:id military affairs. I under staud they are all young In-n of little experi ence in matters of this sort. and but ill- thus ligled to form jut! meat or the real aenti ruent and feelings of that people, amongst whom they were sent. Sir, in order to judge how far Etiglund slott:il go in *sts,imorting Spain, it was necessary that this point too should have been' -at seseimelkst fee _ !is _Maj l eett Ministate sec-.J sponsifile, not only for the degrev -...- allbrded, hut the ILNIIIIICf and mode of afforibirg it. It was for this, that So their hanids were placed, not only Ole means of stootting Sinn). but the means sit' edditie, to the &leiter of England. They were re: moveable, not merely for the fusee they ini..tlit employ, nod far the money flay might daily furnish. for assistasg the `ipsiniards in the curtest which was to essuLle them, ill well as ourselves. lottger to resist the power of Franc.. ; hut inn rashly nor. ninidvisahly leAs es sine. th e means o f our own defence, unless they were 4 otivinerd they were furnishing most ...freebiel ineaus of defence to Spain, and of destruction lig:insist, France. To judge of the temper stud power of the Spessi.ll nation, required, in my opi nion, the interference of men of the first ability and discernment. It was necessary to know - by olust spirit and by what motives the people of Spain were uctuated. It was evident to every 'non of r e flection, that great us our pewter confessedly Is, and has been at sea, is power which 1!:111110t I.e contested by any but ourselves, vet that our mili tary power, when conquered with the of France, could not alone secure • sni:censful issue to that contest. (Hear! heir ( Hear!) It was ne cessary therefore to te.ssertain beyond all other things. the ilispositiats and feeling of the tilinnish people, what was their opinion PP to the const act of of flamer. what were the sentiments s.ot only of the higher. but the lower daises of society, wbether there existed union sinning themselves, or any cordial disposition to co-operate with ns. You were not for this purpose to send voting men, of sanguine dispositions, ts judge of the characters of that people, but to choose men of the greatest ex- I • penence, and such as were not likely to be led away by their own capricioes dispositions: Yeti were to send men most likely to judge of the temper and dispositions of a whole nsition, such as were capo ble of knowing how ft r the different classes of so ciety were willing to co-operate iii the exertions of this errantry. It wits nut Aufßeietit that you should know that the Monks of this and that Couveut were willing to raise the ferment, and to excite hostili ties against France, lon you were to ascertain whe ther the gnat flosses of society, men of influence, either from their property, inflinnation, rank and estiination in their country, and, above all, whether the middle ties' of society, the great link between the higher and lower classes, wit'iout whose concur rence there was no snore of success, were ready to unite in defence of their country. These were the men whose tempers mod dispositions were to be as certained„ in order to know whether the Spanish nation were ready to undergo all the difficulties that presented themselves, in order to secure suc cess. Se far as we can learn from the history of that nation, they had not formerly evinced that dis position of universal resistance so necessary to se- core emcees% in the assertion of their iihertics sod indepentletme. In looking hawk 100 their histos v, we do not find any detislostire of its achievements that shook, have led us to the supposition, that they would htive sated upon this occasion other- , / ..1 , INCR. 3 .1 -2 • wise than formerly. We dew that the Moieties& • had already resigned their liberties into the bends of a misguided Government; and we know that iii the war of the succession there was *wittier much vigour or much einerprize, that there sous a greet want of public principle in the higher elate" of society ; and we have seen men dis tinguished both by their birth and by their property fluctuating and ;one; backwards and for wards from competitor to competitor—we could not find, therefore, in the character of the Spanish people fur a considerable bine past, that they were animated by that public opirit or energetic mind, winch can alone enable one country to resist ano ther. Under such circumstiatices as those in•which France iittatled Spain, the moat powerful pith espies which actuate a nation, whether conteistiug fur freedom or for conquest, are feligion or li berty. The greatest conquerors that ever hats appeared, have acted upon one or other of dense priociplcs, or the nations which they have governed, have set out upon one of them. Religion always furnishes an instrument the most powerful in the bands of leaders, which enables them to conduct their followers to mu hievements need emiluits to which no other principle that aide:lane the • human mind and heart, has ever been capable of conducting them. The grtutest Oforts of the hatitem mind as yell as bodily exertions hate been foaled to rest upon that principle, mid the greatest contests that have ever been main tained by mien and comparatively insignificant powers against their enemies hare been those in which religion and the love of liberty were • ed. In German y , Hollaitid, nay even in Eat:gland itself, it wil l be found that all those great efforts that have been made, were thole in which these two great principles were combined, These were soda metes as evinced, that there was . a spirit of reformation animating men, and some proposition to the body of the pea:le to remedy those abases, to cure those defects, tied to destroy those super stitions which the people hated, ante 'mdse. the in fluence of which they laboured. Holland, when she resisted the power of Spain, Irmsdf Ong *initiated hey those principles. It was not the spirit of liberty alone that her religions principle tended toraise, lett that enthusiastic feeling which led them to victory or to death. It was necessary to see whether uny• of those principles animated the Spetritsh petits*. and actuated their Government. -I do dot Olean by this, that it was necessary to Ilea that the Spa nish people were so wild or so toad 'in their enthu siasm, es to destroy all that was good in their cou stitution or institutions, or to tear their monarchy to pieces. I tiooot mean that they-ihould have heroin such a diposition as to tear down the whole fabric of their 'established religion in that struggle:lost I do say that it was necessary to know whether they were telisilsle of those abuses that existed arhongst Mein, arid" •electlier they were willing to hu mour ell those calasoities which were siecessery to kri tolerated in °Act tm-rcri f rna. /Hear, Itear, hear !e--eff all classes. of men iii spy - were not unitutet, d by that spirit which was felt by mice tenions have alluded to, it was impeciblit for any male oho had reflected upon the histery et mankind, to suppose tiaut the contest could be conducted to a successful iseie. Do not let me be accused of vieleaeouritig to inetilente any doetainas unfavourable to the established Governinent of any country. Do not let air be accused of saying, ttsz.t Ministcrs wish to interfere in the interned Akira of Spain, or to dictate to Spain• what they ought to da in that. struggle. IVIIIIt i mean to say is, that if the Spaniard* did not feel their own degradation, and the titeeteitys for an aeneliu ration of their Own etrilifS;. It ties in vain for England to attempt accomplishing theiroljeet.What would have Isewim rife situation of Englasei herself, if she had stiliiiiittsd to be governed by one inso lent and dexrsited PriesthesaJ, or induced to wear the fetters of the kiidal system ? What would Cate hen die situation of Engfuod, if she had submitted to those degrading distinctions which divide one c hase of society from another, if she iced not adopts oil those equality*, in justice and in laws, a hien se cure to individuals the liroperty lied fruits of their owe iiidnstry, isisd•einible evert man in society to rtert his talents for the benefit of himself cinch his tinnily, in a manner which constitutes the reel glory acid interest of 11 state? Could not their itolluence the Spanish station if she were actuated I y those sentiments? But if the Grand Inquisitor were to be the reformer, 1 need not ask what you were :es expect would be the issne of such u etneest What intorinetion hbuisters here received u:tou these topics, I know not. I sin in perfect bete ranee upon that •subjeut, and „it . is not a little re markable, that during the whole course of the con test io which we have been many years engaged, from the commencement of the war upon the con tinent. to its 'conclusion by our expulsion flout Spain, the people of England have known less of the true sutra things arming the Spaniards, tfaan in any former part of the contest. (Hear, hear Vt'hen Bonaparte was carrying on warm the hereditary stabs of Anstria, in Poland, and in Prussia, we had mome infotinattois of facts when lie was fighting against others than when he was fightintegamst ourselves, and even when the ports of Spain were almost in our own power. 1 appeal to every wan whether it be not true, that we , were sot more iguorant of what was going on in Spain, than we were during the Russ ian or Austrian campaign. What infoßs towboat Ministers may here received upon-that sub ject, it is impossible for me to say, hilt it is evi dent, I think, that they should have taken every means to know what was the real die position of the Spanish people, what length+ 5 all claws were inclosed to go, mad how touch they we disposed to endure. before these Ministers cis *witted into the laeart of Sietiri, 'what VIM tflekied by Parhament to them, the greatest bah arms that ever was trusted ilea the beat of Europe, I `mews that which wee °niche the ~mood of Sir John Moose Hear,hear. hem/ The first step which His Majastelk Ilbsioteno teak e • • • , •• a :j ' \ ng t.witc” %UPC ••• • .0• ••••••• 7.11 . N eiveciaT On !lidose to the letter of his Rnykl Highttees the forward or fi(ether proc Duke of York, wltteh had been eeeetvett sod read niunliers Injaig nearly I yesterday ;he did 111;s beetuse he thongot that ed, proved the iiecessity I Miter most seriartity aeetul the privileges of the Af.ear a few words trim Honor of Coawoon.. When the Speaker pro- T. r iITO N a Monday he ',e'er(' and rend it, lie aeted e as he always haul done, • CAMPAIG: with prudence unit yotition, anal did not by any M r . p„"nnny_o 1 ri Means hutry it forward. - lie kit Ott it might be !haute an inquiry upon a staked why he did not then object to the nasisoires and isnpiirtaut to the hoe' which had been take., topint it, to which he could that has F reply that its importance- matie him hesitate, and tatinl here. If I had r. he eras taken by surprise. lie however conceived tlpo:i Otis itilijem, Sir, 1V that it was inettinlwaio on the House to tuke that witie,, I bi t er now cooed letter into their serious. consideration, as it stniek culled, and fo'resented I its most vital privileges. Ili% Hord Highness w h o h ears to e , lic e ent ,i, i desires, as he is conscious of his innocence, float me s pa i n . Wl sen the slim greAcedinge shall lie token Alum the evidtmee we • ;yr. ealltal . nwrnwahig have heard at the bar, as the mode we have taken t o th e ettempt. o f tr, is not compatible with jtihtieu; just AN well miglit tio„, were first 1„,„,,, he have desired us in the Arai isistnaire, sort to on- et:lost:awes in O. hi lt stitote any inquiry, because he was i !!!! ocanit. if world wood, were well any one had advised him to adopt this course, he quiring the most attest, thought such person must merit the eensure of the CA - rile/A suet 3111XiOil* SOLI Hausa., or at least u Committee should be appoint- Stalled His Atjesty's cud cl to inquire ilitra the subject ; howiav rr, for the with the Goveroatent of present, he would content himself with ',rotes:tug open it. TThe power of I against the procedure. prostrate through the p. Mr. Puttees'. said, that the lion. Gantletnno and overthrow of every I had stated the letter, which he had presented from entered into the routes bin Royal 'lig/moo( to be a dangerous attack al"" waist of wisdom in the the privileges of the House of Commons ; had the ei.ertinn in their force lion. Gentleman male a illation wpm; the sattojeet 'they untlertook,l know it would have vo explained his meaning, as to have against F rimee i t ;,„ be given him an opportunity of answering his °bite- the necessary cnuseque hone. When he read the letter, he confessed there enerease of power la was nothing. in it which strnek him 89 atfectiug that of t h e i r enemy ~~ . s '..'d ~-~.- _I I