The Sun. — London, England, 1823-03-15 00:00:00

THE' LONDON JOULLNALS. ' - 11tIrrilACTS FROIt:THE DAILY' AIOD,NiItO TAPERS, March - 15, 1813. [MORNINGI CIMONICLLS •Madrid' letters, of. a - hilt political character, ; skpress. the great satisfaction felt by all those ititerested in the. welfare of the Peninsula, at the total defeat of the attempts to prevail. on the Spanish Government to grant concessions, on the , plea of preVenting the comencement of hostilities. Every overture has been rejected - in the most manly manner, and, in, fact, this result might have been expected from the very commence ment, if the past occurrences iit!Spain had only !bee• • n remembered, and' the national character , • -welltonsidered. Even if the executive rind the Cortes had been willing to listen to modifications in the Constitution, the 'people, who have arms .their hands, would not have seconded them, aild• in particular *the - army would never have coUselited to the chauge, commanded, as it is, by men who were once the victims of despotism and itigratude, and are 'consequently now resolved to 'defend their liberties to' the last extrernity. The arrangements for the defence of the country are latt - cle,'and they' will be rendered extremely ef .tective. Mina is to have tne command of Ca talonia, with an army •of 40,000 men, in five divisions.. ' Ballasteros is , to . have tinder his or ders the military districts of .Aragon, NavSrre,- and• Biscay,. with a force equal to from 40 to 50,000 . men; and he left Madrid on the 25th ult. to take the command and organize his corps tPariate. Two corps of reserve are to be formed,' them: in Old and the other in New Castile, the first commanded by Count de Abisbal, and the second by General Morillo. Their united force is .to be equal to 50,000 men, In addition to the above, the militia' will be . generally or ganized, and us most of them were in actual service during the lite - war, great reliance is' placed oti their co-operatiOn".. Iu fact, the Madrid letters up to the 4th inst. speak not only of the great enthusiasm that prevailtamong all classes, and their firm determination to perish rather than sub mit to any humiliation;: hut also of the great and successful efforts of the Government in the prepara tions going forward'.. They find infinitely more fa cilities than they expected, in the devotion of the people, and. their determination to make every 'sacrifice and' submit to 'every privation, 'rather than.yield even in the smallest point. The de termination of the Cortes to remove to Cordova,. Arises out of no immediate dread of the advance 'of the French i • this measure forms part of the peculiar plan of operations the Spaniards intendi to pursue, if attacked. It is not on the frontiers . , %Litt the main defence will be 'made. The Go. Sernment were, heSides,glad to out of IVfadrid. This city has become a complete theatre of itt trigues, .and the hat-bed of parties, whose nations greatly embarrassed' the Movements or . . the. Government and the' 'deliberations 'of the Cortes. 'lshey have, thereforeoleemed it eip-r dientlo remove to a spot equally centrals,.aud. where the Governmentl wilt be more at ease. [Nur TIMES. j' The pressure of other matter has hitherto pre vented our noticing an article in The Times or, the Ist instant ? which casts a most scandalous And unmerited imputation on the Lord Chancel lor, The article is in the following terms We regret that Mr. Brougham'S professional engagements Will for some time keep hfm away from the exercise of his more • important functions as a Member of Parliament. The promo. tion of Mr. Sergeant Bullock' to the Bench makes, necessarily,; a certain vacancy in the lead on the Northern Circuit, which. wiJuld instantly be filled op by seine 'Barrister of equal stand., unless Mr. Brougham were on the spot to take his chance the advantage to which hi* talents fairly entitle him. Me; 'Brougham is thus compelled; in Justice to himself, and , fn the duty of securing, by his exertions; ' his independence of charac., ter, to leave the House of Commons at a moment when his •elognenee is adding fresh dignity and force to . the cause of civil 4berty. And he is thus compelled to be absent, because the "LOrdlihaneellor does not choose to - give the'due rank to a man who disdains to barter his principles ffir any personal advantage. „T be Profession, of which Mr. Brougham is so distinguished an ornament, ought to feel the slight put upon hint as an injury to "4)16i-entire Body." No one who knows Mr. Brougham will for a •simment suspect that he views this gross and awk4 - ward puff on his talents with any. other Sellitt. Vohs than those of contempt. The writer (a true ''.4ervile) no doubt - meant to .court the Honour-, Akble and Learned Gentleman's favour, by thus advertising hire a 4 a candidate for vacant hoi StOurs; but 'though such baseness be purely dash picable, the latter part of, the article call fort flings of real indignation. A venerable -unit .1a sight Judge is accused of obstructing the jus t i ht of anindividual„ . only because the latter -refines to barter his principles to .obtain it. The -o,due rank", .that • is :spoken of, `'we ,s Pose A'o' be that of a , King's - 'Counsel or a Patent 'of Precedence:'; and the offence of the Lord Chxncwllor . • . consists, it teems, in declining to advise his Majesty to confer this dis. ' Mtliction tipott 'one' who is .alleged •to have an t;kininestionable elann to the Royal' .favour: teeti' , what professional. pretensions this preferment 'is thus imperatively .denutrided, it is. not our tattiose! to inquire ; nor how it. happens that Ithei want of it should compel the • lionourahle '49lMber. 'to Tushlrom his . more 'important fume» iiihrihrarder instantly to. , fill up a vacancy for this 'f due rank" is claimed ,as a necessary -13utin justice to the Noble Lord, "We :fed it due to . 11i111 to say, Tat no one,ever presided over that, beartied Profession with tininri'atotions dealt* topromote a.just dispensatioa isOtidurs and . etnploytneutai and that none eves detiOved less tli'llnpittation'of the base :and , tittoortity 'notice ascribed to him Ili% Lordship 71)0VOieir Cannot but rotoitect -that: so me thi ng is 'Atm. tu g the • other NPinhers' of , that 'Cirnif, tn - 34 , hich he is still proud to have, once belonged. • yfi t tyioi4erliaps' . thstiso ' devote •titeWtime and Oltenia . hid lver *I fahotionS'itrofess I Of) land! -wha'tnity hap* for Afiat'ieeion,"oitlY be less:OtiOlcittru f ott - thed, jthhw .--ticat stage). have not deseived to ha SO toiier.. .`iMbet'f,ttod ~ t hat, iris , not: hic,.dety toi holran 'f.itaiin.litietnber, of 'tile' of 'Clutimons to -fitrarbrlerlaver their just but unobtrusive preten 'IA may knosiothatthey are tvelasi' bsittiring their principles f eat preferment even as the Ho. sourahle Gleman himself. Had his Lord. ship acted otherwise, he might then. indeed have expected the reproaches which are now so un justly invoked against him, from the entire body : of - the profession, Cure Tim Es. j We present the French papers of"the 12th rind 13th inst. and from them we extract a' kind of expose or declaration of an official nature % we pre sume, on the entrance of the French armies into Spain. This is, indeed, not an address to the Spanish nation :' we should rather term` it in de rision, a thinking aloud,, or soliloquy of Louis XV111. % which he meant toy be heard by all the States of Europe!. It reminds us of Hotspur reading the letter. " The French' troops are " good, the Spanish naught : the Cortes will " fly ; but the French will have no need to " pursue them. The oppressed party in Spain will 'rise of itself (being now kept down 44 ' by 'the weaker), and Overthrow the friends "of the. Constitution. France, it is true, " will obtain possession of the Peninsula, 44 and therefore will have , all the appearance of 44 a triumphant conqueror excited by ambition : " but she will show by the manner in which 'she c c , uses her conquest that she only seeks the es " tablishment of order and legitimacy." What insolence ! what confidence I .—we hope we shall be enabled to say futile and unfounded confi dence : but what shame and ridicule, should the Bourbons fail in a task which they here describe as so easy ! At least % according to their own`' statement, they can gain no glory by the enterprise : they have none to lose; they there fore stake their existence upon the infatuated vanity of prescribing, rules of government to the Spanish people, Thee article says, " There is no question now of the sacrifice of libe . " ral institusions, nor of foreign urterrention % nor, 44 in a word, of any thing that can compromise the 4 ' interests or wound the honour of Spain."' No : France only demands that the Spaniards shall substitute one mode of acting for another in the internal government of their country. But what is foreign intervention—what is wounding the honour of a country—if these propositions are not ? There is one assertion that can be quali fied by no other appellation than the term false. hood. It is said that " all the Governments of " Europe are united in a common wish—that of 44 destroying or controlling (comprimer) the 44 enemy." Now, whatever may be the case with other Governments—whatever may be the wish of the Russian Autocrat, or of the Regulator of Italy---it is certain that neither the English people nor the English Government approves of the invasion of Spain ; and. all' that can be ex pected from the latter is,- that it does not move in defence of the Spaniard's, In the mean time % " Timings ill begun must be ill maintained." The English journals which contain even the . ac. count of the dinner given here in London to the Spanish Ambassador have been seized by the, police. This is the liberty which the Bourbons of Franco, would introduce into Spain. But if 'they had the power,. what would they do to that country the subjects of which gave• the dinner ? 'They would not smother the reports of such fes tivities at a distance : they would nip them here in the bud.- [MORNING POST.] The Navy Estimates were last night voted by the House of Commons, On this occasion Mr. Hume gave a very neat sample of that accuracy which has lifted him above all those who have been opposed to Ministers for the last 30 years. Desiring to abolish the office of Paymaster of, Widows' Pensions, he 'wished the dirties of it to be transferred to another establishment, and supported this recommendation by referring to a letter written some 'years ago by Mr. Croker, in which, according to the Hon. Mem ber. for Aberdeen, it was stated that the offices of Paymaster of Widows' Pensions and Treasurer of the Navy were formerly held by the same ia, dividual. Mr. Crokericontradicted this ; and it appears the Honourable Gentleman had advanced that which was.directly opposed to the fact. Mr. Croker, instead of 'saying that the situation in question had been held by the Treasurer of the Navy, mentioned that it had been held by a Navy-Paymaster, whom it expressly declared to have been (us connected with the Widows' Pensions) 44 independent of the Treasurer, and 64 even' a check 'on person with a moderately .bad memory, and' indifferently. weak capacity, could' hardly have nriStakete thus ; but' strange 'to tell, Mr. Hume made the blunder in the teeth of a declaration in the same document; that any person connected with the, 'Navy Might be Paymaster - of the Widows' Pen» siOns,'teXcepting--:-exCenting only, the Treasurrei of the' Navy !11--After this we think Mr. Hume'slalentfor mistaking can never' again be 'queStioner4 and the Public, generrily, must 'of necessity eonclude, that to artive at atnowledge of - the 'real Mite of things they Mast look at shy thing but Ida representation of them. ffiRITAil PRISS. If the reports we have' given be true of the desertion of, the ,French troops to the 'ca'use of liberty and Spaini'and if the gallant 14Jina'ii ad. vanciug on the frontiers with a' van guard of Frenchmen, displaying the national colours and those emblems of liberty still An dear in France, the . gaine is already up with AngotilAnte' and the IBourbons ; and the fanatic - Ultras, in place of plunging the countryinto a war she detests,will be Elrediselves driien by popular Indignation from her councils and her soil, and the sway of that family they are. urging 'headlong ruin, pass away ---but tnever to return. Amtlous as • the 'vary' soldiers of France' may be foi emplayinera and con4ueit, a war with Spain ii Otte which on individual feeling, they-must ba t oppdgiA. NO memory 'of former glcfry actors Wane Mei retol lection 'that all they ex perietieeki . there' , Was hardship 'and disaster. There' Was Tittle - plunder; "feW'ietotirees, and or - 'Oertriany, - a decißive battle-S4- tUred the poilokilbit of the ctitintry, with it either - pertintitent conqUeseor quittledit4 peace. In Spain, their troops-dispersed.:upen defeat, but it was only to rally on the first op. portunity. Victory could not subdue, or re.. peated misfortunesdismay them.. The peasant of Arragon or Navarre, accustomed to no comforts, and experienced in a life of hardship, rose from the bare ground where he slumbered, and clad in his mantle of sheep-skins, and armed with his long gun and dagger, met the startled invaderat every defile and passage. The villages were abandoned, the country laid waste, the population retired to the mountains, from whence they again pured on the scattered detachments of the invader, annihilating them, or cutting off every strag gler. Where open force could not avail, the inhabitants dissembled ; they pretended amity to the • French soldiers, and 'when buried in sleep and wine, introduced the guerilla bands from without and sacrificed them in their beds. The very women mingled in the warfare ; they met the French soldiers with reproaches, loaded the muskets for the men, or hurled huge stones on the invaders' heads. When Madrid was in full possession of the French, and Murat had swept its streets with can non—when St. Sebastian, Pampeluna, Badajoz, and its strongest fortresses and towns were in Napoleon's hands, the Spanish people were wholly unsubdued ; each province threw off the yoke and acted for itself; and, at the hour when Spain appeared most manacled by conquest, she presented a hidden front of universal resistance ; her people rose as one man, and France never held an inch of ground beyond the spot on which her troops trode. (SSORWING The Speech of the King of Spain—or more properly of the Executive .Government, on' the opening of the Ordinary Cortes, puts out of con temptation the possibility of any compromise between the Spaniards and the French Minis try. Even the change of Ministry at Madrid, if that has really been effected, would alter nothing. The men whose • names are given in the new nomination are discribed as equally hostile to any compromise with those who have been dismissed. M. Flores-Estrada, nominated to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is well known in this country, where he found an asylum during ' the reign of despotism ; highly respected by the most eminent persons of the two great parties here. lie is the author of several tracts of great depth and talent, and is one of the most inflex ible adherents of the Constitution of 1811.— One important consequence may be expected from his accession to the Ministry—the ac knowledgment by Spain of the independence of South America. We find this measure sue. nuously recommended by him 10 a work which he ptrblished in 1818. It is doubtful, however / whether the chan ge o f Mi n i s t ers h a s b een carr i e d into effect. The private accounts, stating that the Cortes' subsequently re-established the dis., mined Ministers ! are as y e t w ith o ut contradie. tion or confirmation.. But it is scarcely ma terial who are the Ministers. Much of the political power,. and almost the,, whole of the moral power of the state, resides in the Cortes, and it is from them, therefore,. that the ' march of the Executive Government will take its direction: Now tire temper and character of the Cortes is already proved, even in their seeond Sitting. The first expression of this body was (,surprise, not unmingled with rebuke, because ' the Ministers were not prepared to state what measures they had taken to secure the seat of Government and the person of the King, in a place of more strength and safety than Madrid. A peremptory order followed for a report to that effect on the next day, the 3d inst. 'rho Ministers stated that they had e xp er i ence d difficulties— on the par! of Ferdinand doubtless. Should thii unhappy Sovereign persist in thwarting the councils of the country, it is probable that some energetic measure, which may give a new and ominous character to the politics of Spain, must be the consequence. The suggestion of a Regency Was already thrown out in the Cortes- The idea of continuing the seat of Government at Madrid would be ridiculous—. a place more open than a village. There can be no doubt of King Ferdinand's real motive for wishing to remain there. A LIST OF THE MAJORITY WHO VOTED AGAIRST WR. HUME's MOTION, " To limit the amount of the Sinking Fund to the real surplus of revenue, not . exceeding .£6,000,000 a-year." Alexander, J. D. Gifrord, Sir R. Peel, Rt. Hon. R. Alexander, J. Gilbert s D. G. . Philliinure, Dr. Antrobus, (L C. Gipps,o. Phipps, Hon. Ei Arbuthnot,Rt lion. Gordon, Hon; W. Plummer, John C. Goulburnßtflnll. Plunkett, Rt. lion., ' Balfour John Orenfell, Pascoe 'W. Baker, E. Metrics, T. C. Porcher, IL Bankes, Henry Hart, 0. V. Rae, Rt. ' fin. SirW. Bathurst, fin.S. T. Harvey, C. Ross, C. Blair, J. licher iR. Robinson, Rt lIn.F. Brogden, J. hill, Rt. Hon. Sir .Rowley, Sir Josias Browne, .J. G. F. SMYth, NV. Brydges, O. Ilolford, G. P. Stuart, NV. (Arm.) Butterworth, J. Ifotham, Lord St. Paul, Sir 11. Buxton, T. F. Ifuskisson,lttilon. Suttie, Sir J. Coffin, Sir I. . ' W. Trench, P.' W. Campbell, A. . Knox, Hon. T. Tulk, C. A. Coi..kbtirn, Sir o. . Lester, B. L. . Urn MI. M. Copley, Sir J. 8, Leuv, Rt. lin. Sir C. Walker, Josh. Corbett, Panton Lowther, Lord Warren, C. C ou rtenay, T. P. Manning, W. Walpole, lion. J. Crannorne Visa. .. 31an a fi e ld, J. , . NVellealey,A. Desbarouih, W.C. M ac k enz i e , Sir W. Wil s o n , W.. W. C. Divett, 'l. • Martin, Sir T.' B. ' WoOd, T. llMuglas, .1. . MOUteith, li. . Wortley, J. S. Downie, R. Alroland,.Sir S. B. Wynn, C. W. Evelyn, Lindon : p ane )), Sir H. East, Sir 11. Palmerston, Lard TELLERS. Pane, John -., Pearce, John r Lushingion, S. Frbs, C. Pethell, Sir F. B. Wilthot, R. J. MINORITY . . , Abercrombrilln.J. fi est j u ote, J. G. Price,. Robert Althorp, Visct. Hughes, W. li. Poyntz,. W. S. Ilariett, S. M. ''atirnes,' W. Ricardo, David llerrial, IL Jervoise, 0 . P. Robinson, Sir O. Blake, Sir F. L et hbrftlge, Sir T. RuMbold, C. E. Boughey, Sir J. P. : L eycester , Ralph Shelley, Sir John Brown, D. Lushinkton, S. Tierney; Rt.lfn.Q. Burdett, Sir F. Moberly, John . Wharton, J. , Crodock, S. Moberly, W. b. Wood, Ald. euewen, J. C. - ' Monck, .1. B. Wyvill, M. Davies, T. Moore, Peter Foley; J: If: 11. ' Newport, Sir J. • TELLERS. .' I Iriffith,. J. W. N orm anby, Visa. Mice, Ed. Ilahlithand, W. I ° elliam, J. C. Hume, J. A spirit exists among the Irish residing in this city %ilia we should be _happy to perceive in other places. A meeting , will be held on St. Patrick's Day, evid e ntly for the purpose of tes tifying attacittitea to the present Government for the conciliating spirit it has recently manifested.— (Glasgow Free Press.) PROVINCIAL. JOURNALS. [From the Glasgow Courier,. ADMINISTRATION—OPPOSITION. yl eal n m d e raithl tri 'yl'y opposite aiserted to the p , thitthep:ncies policy of o w u h l r ich t p h re dir a s s en bee netet edtheir MinistersrePea eirpredecessors diametrically in 1792-1793, and that Spain now stands in the same situation to this country that France did at that period. A short retrospect of the events of that Period contrasted with the present, will chew us that the asser tion is altogether groundless, and that, so far as public maa surea'are known, the conduct pursued by Great Britain is the same now as she pursued in 1792, while the. Opposition advo caucatey and ana mend then o m p eas pos u a re . s w A hich few th fa e c y thlianendsdyaatteeranawiuti be sufficient to establish these truths, and chew that it was not her internal Constitutions, but her ambition and meditated ex ternal conquests, carried on by every form of Government in France, flum 1792 to 1815, that Great Britain interfered with and was compelled to oppose. The schemes of external violence, aggression and aggran disement evinced and pioiecuied by France, we say, were the causes that awakened the energies of this country, and forced hex into war. When France declared war against Germany and Prussia, in the summer of 1792, Great Britain distinctly and frankly informed the French Government, that she was determined to maintain a strict neutrality. She maintained this neutrality in the most faithful manner—so faithfully that, according to Mr. Fox (Speech, House of Commons, Jan. 17, 1793) " when Savoy was wrated from the King of Sardinia, the answer of this Court (Great Britain) was a fiat denial to in terfere in procuring its restoration." " I defy contradiction," said Mr. Pitt, House of Commons, February 12, 1793, " when I assert that the strictest neutrality was observed.". France, in all her madness and disregard for truth, never was able, or even tried to adduce one act to prove the contrary. The silence for several months, of their Minister, Chauvelin, at our Court, is the moat convincing Proof •of the Net Professing tnoderis- • don, and desire for external conquest, France, neverthelest, at the same time, conquered Savoy, and made it the 84th de partment of France—Nice, and made it the 85th department._', overran the Netherlands, and, violating a treaty to which she' was herself a chief guarantee, she sent an armed fore up the Scheldt to attack the Citadel of Antwerp, laid the navigation of that river open, by which llollend was placed at her mercy, and the Thames became open to naval inroads at her pleasure.* Great Britain, also a guarantee to the same treaty, perceiving ,her security and independence thus menaced and placed in jeopnedy, remonstrated with France, through her Minister Chauvelin and his Secretary Talleyrand. Britain was an. swered with derision, defiance, and a bold avowal, that trea ties and the law of nations must yield to' the force of circum stances—to the law of Nature—the new French code.— " France," said 'Mr: Pitt, Feb. 12th, 1793, "to set up a new In 4 3 it • r 2: code of thi"Law of Nations, and proposed to give a laiv of he ssion their own to all the nations of Europe." Lord Grenville, in note dated Dec. 31, 1792, and which does him immortal honour, inforined M. Chauvelin, that how. ever lightly such proceedings might be viewed by his Govern -1 ment, that they were looked upon as matters of deep importance by this country—that Great Britain would ever be ready to op possi with all her forces such aggressions and aggrandisement, and that if Fiance really wished to maintain the relations of Peace wAlt her', .France ' must renounce her views of aggres icon abdaggrandisement, confine herself within her own terri torietr, without insultiiig other Governments, without disturbing their tranquility and without violating their rights." The re quest was nos y' specific, but just, With their characteristic arrogance,. however, the answer returned justified and aggra vated theatre:tee, and sv_hich answer also was distinctly given airt:lsfriainoyDlint Fvitoranngoc:Or.w(elsoutParrinlnte'dip3oilrigrosoDalutne:rniansaglivpie,:bueusert. s C° ub in m' Vie choice could not be difficult. M. Chauvelin was without delay informed, that satisfactory'explanations rega r din g t h ese points could only be' received or' attended to. M. Chauvelin then, with that consurhate audacity which distinguish the French Repulicans, told Lord Grentille, that he should pass by hitn a : a t: p a d ft dwelle mm s with' w ; h tl i n i eh ter i h eilti f en t s h b e y E at e :p u p ti Tal e G ui °v t ern he meEnngteisanh and ma k e I s oltnsufficiently'ight hhave acquainted bten answered us f t o lo rth ve e rn t in co e in n ol tc wnhitiloetiont iuirothPies w e er d e eed oir , er le e f d t , th A e t doo ien r g o t pn o w n by his imme d iate diertiissaf i still the dignity ' of the British s i. 6" N ned one til ` the 24th of Jantiary intelligence reached London th at Lo u i s XVI, wet miirtiered—ctit o ff, said Mr. Fax (borsting the tram. Inds of party and eying way to. his best feelings): House of Corn, Feb. 1, /70, by an act " inhuman and unjust —.as dis hraceful to justi c e a nd h uman i t y as any act which the page of history recoided—it was one o f t h e crue l est an d most inlwman acts trust had been perpretated in the history of the world, and could in no respect be justified or even paliated." Upon re ceipt of this intelligence, Af. Chauvelin, who had been accre 'dited as the Minister of the Ring; demanded that fie should be recognized los the Minister of the Republic (Speech, Mr. Dun- February 12, 1793) which was refused, and Chauvelin in formed, that a s h e h a d no explanation to Offer upon the subject of the complaints made, and as the Power which the Bntiaii Government only recognized in France was no more—.cut off by violence and injustice, so 51, Chauvelin's presence could no longer be tole rate d i n Britain, He, accordingly set out, but such Was the chicane r y of his Government, that, though he carried away all his Papers with him, the Convention hail the audacity to send Maret, under pretence of looking after them and to hold a communication with our Government, but said Mr. Pitt, in the Debate and Speech already referred to, h e never made a single proposal. At last found intriguing with the Re. volutionists here, he was ordered away from the C;ountry. On the Ist Feb.'l793 'war was declared by France against Great Britain and Holland—declared at Paris on the very day that Dumourler, by command of the Convention, had appointed, after an application male and readily acceded to by our Go. vernrnent, to meet Lord Auckland -on the frontiers of the Ne therlands to see if possible and continue such negotiations as would preserve peace. • The meeting of coarse came to nought. On the 11th Feb. war was declared by this Country, and, before the close of the year, Brissot, the • leader of the Convention and twenty-one Deputies were-guillotined in one day. One heavy charge . against them was; their •having wantonly plunged France into a war with Britain. Previous to the DeeliTraii - onof War, however, and the cot , respontlefice.with-M. Chauv e lin; th e famous Decree of the 19th November wati issued, offering asslitance to all people who should rebel against their lawful Sovereigns. The attempted explanation of this by the French Obvemment, was even more dangerous than the decree itself. Inundated with incendiaries sent over by Prance, Great Britain was forced to have recourse to the Alien Bill, which, though an internal and municipal re gulation, the Convention dared to threaten, if passed, they would consider as an infringement of 'existing treaties, and an act of hostility. . Their menaces were , disregarded. . France soon after laid an embargo upon all British ships in her ports, and thus matters stood at the death of the King. Oreat.Britain, th e ref ore , was; le ft no alternative but war` or submission. " The Freneh,". said Mr. Pitt (House of Corn. Feb. 12, 1793) " retbse to tolerate on the face of the earth . , any opinions -but their oWn. They not only dictate to you prin ci ples, but passions anti feelings, which you . must observe, upon the pain of their declarin war against you. You m u st n e i t h er l ove nor hate ; neither re dice nor weep, but do. as th e y ple ase ."— To such a pitch did t is domineering audacity rise, that, when the Spanish Amb a s sa d or , i n hi s o ffi c i a l character, appeared at t the bar of th e C o n vent i on „d ur i ng the sitting whic h condemned Louis to the scaffold, with a letter ; suppos e d to su p p li cate merc y for that unfortunate Monarch, the Convention- hot only refused to receive it or hear him, bytatising to the order of the day, but a Deputy—a monster, .sutmed Antan, proposed, that , they should instantly declare war against Spam, for the meditated haranue of her Amb assa d or I" Truth, law, and justice were equally contemned and despised by this assembly of blood thirsty Atheists. O n th e 19 t h, sitti ng as accusers, jury, judge, and executioners, they- decreed that .Louis should have an appeal to the people -from- their decision. On the 20th they decreed he should be Sent to' the block, without any appeal, and the tilted days' respite supplicated by that Salle relfim, to prepare himself for death, was rejected with contempt and scorn, They accused , the Governments of the Continent orentering into a treaty to partition 'France," and fabricated a treaty to support their iteettsation , 4lte treaty of Pilnitz, which, said -Mr. Pitt as they irmduced It, WO a complete forgery.— They accused this .country ofletiguingitself with those Powers for the same rpose, and thotigh they'never could produce t any thing but eir Ipse disit for this charge, millions believed - • The Netherlands were soon after incorporated with FraPee, by a decree of, the COnVentionc . which declated IRO Ttea *on Tor any FienehMan W l OOO4 O their .separatiotv and Which decree was rigidly acted up o n by t h e Convention, Directorial, Consular and Imperial pow er o f F rance , an d which lair we believe stands to this day unchanged—unrepealed in the French Statute Books, them. The charge was altogether false. In the debstell mentiemed retal " declare, tha t d t th qoied a u ttrea , " / d t ' y with o t 'in ile thi s House , "Empero r fir t s h e e id perpost 3l Mr. invading France and interfering in its internal GovennflenYii utterly and' absolutely, destitute of the shadow `of a fcgs " dation, and I thus publicly and explicitly say, that 0 ° • l i ch , step has been taken, and no one engagement r of eht has been entered into, either before 10th dsy.nt gust or since, with any view to any interference in lhe!e" f tern onn al o G f o t w ern men m t en o t f France, nor n co or u w nt i4h ., lny o v n iew the to l d p&il e; after war had commenced, and when reverting to the , A in the House of Commons, he again said, " I dechultgpr4 the part of this Government, there was no inten tion ;` P I " not been attacked, to interfere in the internal affairs of Valve , but having been attacked, !affirm, that there is DA, Cr , in the Addres s es to hi s Majesty, or the declarsti ces , rants, which pledges us not to take advantage of` sui; -et ence in the internal affairs of France that may be n We might multiply references in proof upon these .a „4; certainly without strengthening our airli ne " L I1) %14001 . be not be dolled. The y . tind upon honour' , shaken,. and are inscr i bed in records never to be bletteatiL, which, in the part that this count!) , took, our chlldrefes,enr"" will peruse with delight and admiration. „,, " From the influence of that moral and poll • " which spread over France and infecteil her hearts' 140,111 0 'Z lion was safe. Never, in the histo of nations, etTALI" -. " 'dad , vage, were law, justice and humanity , so trsor- -- ,.,. , raged and violated as when the C o nvention, duringri, ; Robespierre, decreed that the bloody Cnoni ttce ' 'ipy Safety, should condemn and execute without 14104 1 # As defence from or for the accused ! Never in this hisr human race, was Religion, the dignity of makor Fa t ; . (' of heaven, so insulted, degraded—dared, as vu' in Tthis" Representatives, 743 in number, with their Prief,,del! head, and with a l l the authorities, civil and , L „,rn w Fit a isal ef p,nied by " ill good citizens," marched to we •• A d s Notre Dam_ e, purified and prepared for the oecisinnt,, publicly adored a young woman—a public „,anneert,,2l7,,rc naked ! ! as their only Deity—" the Godtkos zwr" . Yet these things are facts, not fictions. 1 r ,;3 4 11/11,4 Against this diabolical frenzy, which in ` ; tin other nations, burst asunder with insult and ele~ bear moral, civil, or sacred, Great Britain bad t~ sword. Yet amidst all these scenes Of n u _A uln. Wo,oo 'r i tireat Britain never made the internal etinleeiti" of France, In themselves reasons to preen ( C OI peace. But she ruired security that should be lasting a nd not a state of fever= truce. But let him, and in his own weemrri e pi WV' whose comprehensive mind foresaw and traced out Lest dawn the French Revolution in all its subet r wi our 0* lgiri, crimes, ambition, tyranny and conquests , in lo i rsl fain drearled-:-what Britain required, but w t sneered at. it'd' wh° " It is not merely to the character of I ts b op of at would have to treat, that I ob j ect; it those crimes which have stained their 1. °67; - et aityl every stage rising above another in of si the i ota object to the consequences of that cluir. `"'" t° It* Z those crimes. Ts tr y are such as render and must entirely deprive of stability AV Pe o4 , - 1.410 1 be concluded in such circumstances. The i n n - 74104 06 , mob of Paris becomes under the influence . o leen .sed the "w" 01. the most mature deliberations are engagements sire are retracted, or free-wi ll doh (routed. In every one of their repeated re: *veto: had said, now we have seen the ' ""f ' obot ke fr iniquity is complete; we shall no longer and Octet astonished by the contemp lation , of sdded ...ow t „s or per ing enormities.' The next a u olivine.' 1 11 727 ope ass# o , lily, and by presenting us with fresh aimed, f; ;;0 0000 0 ,2 still more dreadful, excited impressions of new sieraisri and accumulated horror. All the crimes 1r4 1 , 7 14 7 - ar4 l tory, have occurred in one country, '''„„ s P l :eutren, with circumstances so highly aggrere_,, - ; s tb 10 11 "" d ok , and exceed imagination. Should we t''"", .„ i da we had finished the negotiation, he inill,"taiog snr i ,„ l as ed to the dregs of the people froth whom 'lwo ', ""7 id given place to a still more desperate villain ost ahliel,h had swayed the mob in constant succession, O ir co vity l lpj guilt y but rising above one another in t l i eee eser,sp u ' of striving to improve upon the crimeeof ilefel ds lrAti the black catalogue with new modes in 0.1t. t ota, wickedness. No treaty can exist on their, _Sn s i o o lli tx i t ly they be bound by engageinentt more sae,r"„ os which they had pledged themselves in return le! ihtr ot „ To make a treaty with them would 0 1 Y b li n l i el, ° pa. opportunity of breaking it of before it was ~tt ,. a ;z ect, 1 ing it in its very eommeneeroe nt„,".—( Coca. June 17, 1703.) Let the history o f E urope d uri ng 2 5 m..'„eitsde ' OP knee and blood, attest the truth of these, ,T - ratstVeMafteo',l need not trace the history of Etuope Warr hr their first aggression in the Scheidt te „ J uts , 4 bisen oe., Elba to establish the truth but shall ouncn" . ..„ i;000 0 ".„Aa010 1 once more quoting the words of Mr. rd" has Yell 3, INO—" All the Treatios which l'rBbe the Revolution s h a v e b een a ll b r oken h,f,V v ie l esetel l ,..,„olo: Treaties--slieseatters th e m to the winas , but fi_ . .,„9" t a n d' signatort of their authority change d i 9 r""" — „,,mindio w '„ tionary ambition her love of aggresso u LlTAtablef 0 1 0 , 1 vi°l W en e c cjno n w ev n er ot ch w anged hat the ash is isl we t f ße clir v° ll3-1".--I tri ce r w l ss7; o -1A when it becomes what the , French KW to a con I° Britain under such circumstance , rater" t idot the ot iosk port it, then, but not till then, can it be tack osber....dok namely, taoppose, interfere with, ana an d unn7 . lo l only when herself or her allies, are di* c ril s itain fer'bite* tacked, which have guided the councils ei hat she wt,i,ssi thirty years (except during the few montLs ° , lo . o Otos — , ed with " a broad-bottomed AtbniniStistilume x new policy a d o p te d, it 14. e1at414.4 *A COAL-MARKET, 1 11 . 41 c— rf Ships at Market. 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