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military force, and a larger expenditure than , of ;Ministerial safety were appointed—that nail ni any petiod of any war in which the country night meetings were held, to which the' Coat lei(' bet n eugeged preceding the late extraordi. mander.in-Chief was stunnumed - ; and then, but nary 'coetest. . H e was o f opinion that niter the not till then; novas thscoveted that Tetrenchment, piedge wbicli had been given from, the Throne for which hefore had been declatedjmpassible, was , economy and r , trenchtnent, the House would he found both practicable and easy.- After this ex- ginity of a dereliction of its (bays it it did not en- ample of • what perseverance could effect, ought force such measures of ecouomy,as could he by '" the House to relax in its exertions to produce eco. an y means a dopted. The Hon. Gentleman was :Homy and reform—on the adoption of which the himself' A frienchto even small retrenchments, 'pit ex istence of thecomit ry depended ? The Noble Lord . it was' not by small retreischnientk—by a saving and his colleagees, the lion. Gent. observed, ought of 100,0001 on this branch of the Estimates, or by this time to have learnt that the day of bli n d 200,000/. on another branch, which could pre- confidence in Mittisters was gone by. indeed, on serve Ihe con:lily ; hnt it unlit be by a general re• what grottnth could the Noble Lord call for or• titivation and revision of our system. The Hon. claim that ,contidence—wns it in consequeticea Geetletuan then 'vent into a review of the sums the want of system which they had for some time stleeedy toted for the public service ;- and Misery- displayed—was it for the bold assertionseOf to. et!, t het there had been already voted for the Navy do, ,or the after-thought of to-rnorrov—wai it nine millions, and the Army el;:ven millions. Ord- for those declarations of determinations to-day to Dance Extraordinaties, which had been estimated.at support measures by which they would either . 400,0001. had beet) reduced, in cowequence of the • stand or rill—Abandoning those Measures to senseless clamour of the public, 100,0001.: yet the morrow, yet still staggering to and clinging to soil voted for the Ordnance was 2,110,000/. These their places ?—Were these the, grounds-on which sums, to,. ; et her with theseveralothe i r sums voted for the Noble Lbrd and his colleagues called for con the Establishment of the year, amounted to no less fidence, or on which that confidence 'could be thaw:if ,683,659 t. Out of this, indeed, Ireland given to them ? Now was the time the House of shoeld pay two 17ths. But sueh was the state Commons !mist show itself the vanillin of the of that country, that there would he a deficiency People's purse—now was the period at which the on her part A t least of 997,0001. to be added to House of Cotunions must speakrout, and tell'the the expeediture. To meet this expenditure, we Noble Lord, if Ise was not yet aware,of it, that shottld have a 6nm of 12,600,0001. leaving a de- the Public would now be satisfied with nothing ficiettey in this first year of peace ,of near twenty ' lesg than a bona jide sacrifice of patronage on the Millions. Now let the Noble Lord, and those part of Ministers, for the good of the country. who acted with him, say how much of this Lord NuGaNT supported 60Address r , euty millions u mild they be able to save in Mr. CutrwaN was persuades! that the NOble rani succeeding year, they recollecting that one Lord would not hare proposed such a Military million in taxes would be added to the annual ex. Establishment as he had done, except with a per renditiore by the interest of the '2O millions thus suasion that liceshould be able to carry the In. borrowed. He would now ask, how conk) the come Tax. The Noble Lord, 'by his defeat on Noble Lord and his colleagues meet this excess of this subject, should have learnt the real situation expenditure-- an excess, amounting, in time of of the country, and should riot now attempt to peace, to a sum so alarming and extraordinary. insult the people try imposing on them berthens XVltat' would have been the feelings of Mr. Pitt, which it was plain the country could nor bear.— had he found himself in such a situation ? tVhee 'flue view of die Noble Lord appeared to i.e no . he,'in 1790, found the peace expenditure exceed- thing lesk than changing the national character, ing the income, he dill not rest till he had fathomed and making us a military people. 'He called on the situation of ,he country to the bottom, and the - Noble Lord to give up this system, and if it laid it open to the peblie. He did not rest in were necessary, even to give up some of our cola. his bed till he had raised our income to our ex- nial possesSionk, which he rather considered as a pee:iitnre, or, rather, till he had reduced our esta- burthen than as an advantage to the county. bliThments to our means ; and he met clamour, and The Criss:utter...on of the Exceereuen opposed disregarded opposition till he had effected that the Address, which, he said, must either: go to object. The Hon. Gentleman then proceeded to call for a reyocationof.determivat 'on of Measures take a review of our military establishments, as' already adopted by the Mouse‘ or as a recoui detailed in the Estimates, and contended, that an mendation relative to the Establisht»ents for next establishment 0150,000 men far exceeded the ne- year : on both these grounds be would oppose the cessity. lie deslred the House would advert to Address., Another Hoe. Gent. (Mr. Macdonald) the Estimates of 1791. He . wonld allow for the had indeed given another turn to the Address, and increased expence of every article since that time, had described it is intended to express a want of anti he would also allow for the charge of Ire. confidence in Ministers. His object was :IS well land, which. :was not included in those Esti• attained in the Honoureble Gentleman's speech, mates, and that w e h a d some additional Cob. as it could by in any other way. The Right Hon. vier,' and then give three times the amount of Gentleman said, he should not now enter'at length Me' Pot's Estimates in that yeat. These Esti- into a review of a etihject which had been so mates, thus tripled, would atnount to 6,500,0001. Often discussed ; nor weld it be expeeted that he and . would, he contended, be fully eyed to all should enter upon his Midget by, anticipation. He the oecessities of the case ; yet the Army Es- should only advert shortly to one topic that 'he'd timatek now lying on the table exceeded eleven been touched on by au (lon. Gentletnan (Mr. millions. It would be for Ministers now to prove Grant) who kohl, that in the %%rays and . Menus that thisextraordinary. establi s hment was necessary. there Would be a deficiency of nineteen millions; He was one of those who d ou bt e d muc h w h et h er On-the contrary there would only he svanted, a the errattgetnents made by the Noble Lord would bum of thirteen millions and a half, of which tend to Preserve the ppace of Europe ; but he 415,000 had been borrowed; and nine millions, did not believe that the preset state of tranquil- namely, six millions in lien of the Income'Tax, lity would be interrupted for some two or three and thi'ee millions for the Malt, remained still to years to came, because there was no Power on be provided lot i, and at present he did not cpn• the Continent which had at present the ability to template any necessity for making a loan any part of, interrupt that tranquillity; these two or. three t he Supply of the present year. if we had nine ' years, therefore, ought to be anxiously seised by , 111i14011I to provide for, the House shonld recol• us for the husbanding our resources for another lect that Use country had been relieved from 17 struggle which might unexpectedly break out millions of taxation, whilst Mr. Pitt, after the ~,„„, us. T he H o ,. G ent l eman t h en a d verte d to conclnsiou of the American war, instead of a re. the large military force proposed to he kept up in fluetionof taxation, .had been obliged, in the fit st Blighted, .amomiting to near 30,000 men, a f orce year, to add upwards of two millions to the exist wiiich„he said, .ought, to be resisted in a consti- lug taxes ; besides this relief, it should be recol. tutienal its well as au econourical point of view. lected, that there was a Sinking Fund, amount• Lord PALMEasTON, in rising to oppose ehe itigto 11 millious, and therefore the expenditure motion, should not rest his objection on the would very little exceed the revenue of the coon ground of precedent, as the Sittlatipti of the,coun. try. With respect to what had fallen from. an,- try must justify any i Gentlemen in proposing an other Hon. Gentleman, his Majesty's Ministers. inquiry ; but his objection was, that the present certainly were entitled to tome ptaise,• even in •"motion went to inalece the House to rescind the his shewing ; since, in the pursuit of a'system of Resolutions that had been agreed to for the Mill- - finance, which they considered for the, public be. tary Establishments. With respect to the future, nefit, they had risked time loss of those places to • it was impossible, at this distance of time, that which they Were represented as having a stronger the House could say what might be the necessary,, attachment than to any thing else. C o lo ne l Piemen supported the Add ress , ant i establishment for another year. ,In the Estimates for the present year had been included the extra,. particularly that part of it whi c h e mu , ) et ;nett of ordinary charges for winding up the war, which I a large standing army as being unconstitutional. would not be incurred in future. ' lie was decidr .1 Mr. J. SMITH contended, t hat the comparison edly of opinion, that the safety and welfare of tuads.. by the Chancellor of the Exchequer between the country required the force which bad been this period and 1783 had completely failed. voted by the House ; and he , was t disposed to The House then divided upon the ettestioti for passing to think, that a groat part of our military failures, the other Orders of the Day— Ayes lsfl i and financial difficulties, had arisen front . low Noes ' tell Peace Estimates. His Lordship concluded with Majority against Lord G.4;avendish's A &kegs - - --56 When we w ere re - a d m itt e d tot he Gallery, we fount! the moving an amendment, that the other orders of the day be read. . liaise in a Committee on th e M a lt-D ut y Bill. Mr. Calvcrt objected to proce e ding at this late hour in a Mr. Maenotestm supported the Address, which matter *,f ' such importance, and Mr. - Vansiitart consented to lie considered as truly 13ritish, inasmu c h a s i t reporting-progress, with the view of goi.g into the Coto- , spoke the language of truth. The people had ~. mime to.morrow. . ALIEN ACT. spoken loudly to the House the language. of truth. Lore c.,Se'r LEttEAGII rose to move for leave to bring in lit e Muse, in pistice to the T.brone, ought to a Bill to isootinue the Alien A c t un d er t h e same provision: as speak tMt b iii itb turn. The .Prince whose ,car reit- t ba•Peace . of Amiens. fie did. not wish Government to truth nvver reached:, could not he popular because t r ii, u c t a txt i o ti sli e th of po iA w .a s r .7 . s b s u it t el i t t a a n: , those allowed tliein in be cool(' not be just. He defended the Address Rich powers as would pr ev ept Imp i• 0 penr*Zres4iri fir ITo t tn u s t .. 1,1 ;t 4 1- 1 1 il l ii i ii t i this country. lie then moved for leave to be .. ' from .the charecter of inconsistency which had Itoe nt a been given to it.by the :Noble Lord (Palmersto.n); mr. alTltlVP:lttheneglientiotAaeltiw thi s without tasitnasgtei;:f the busine s s it did not, as that Noble Lord had represented, that there could he now no dread of the machinations of fo pray the undoing what had already been done to li stt c a t Eo7 o. 4 f . a i t t l .e t h r. i . s c o u at n il t Zt . io: l l .l t u o -e for a certain period; it only called for the adop. ; r :T C „,: t i t l p t r ° ,,, t e i r e s t r o u rf l e ,. the entry of foreigners into this riots of inch nteasuree-as should render a', Continua-unit of the same system nttneeessary. The Z'sobh c tio ls tt . y ll it tt ri l i: l cip u i l e ts w ir as 4 ;•t i t 71 t t b i l it:i e lielt d s i t: t4 iu s i f :t f Y i . e t s t h . t .l.•l t t i l 70' t r ig e l v t °l rt , Lord in the blue ribaod itt,tl indeed been most li. no doubt, was much dimi nis hed. knew that their residence ,beral iu his challenges . tor examination of, these atroulable t might ileum of expenditure, irvin by item ; and had as settle here and disturb the peace of the countre. Mr. BARING contended, that at re4ent W, • • ' oriels iat.strted . that l i o reduction could takoplace; faction existed in this country here mis un ° c, reigners, if they toward: the )regst,•nuttr.d sans= And It Wkis.w4 till the Noble Lord had been de • lions , we, therefore, wanted •no Bill •of 'this hint) to n . ' li ti e t tlf: terited or bis ,, ftp , otirite rneavare _ tnat he had had town any rertniont of Jacobin principles. The only rt-iion r this till was, no doubt, to enable foreig S , only , b a i r .b rea: ith escape front having a censure r e -.. get their obnoxious subjects turned out of tlii i :L'•ol e t r ry L" l t4 corded tot his -4dministration, as being extrava. had hAawil foreigners. f had purely tommercial purposes, turnedsait of the coon 4 Vii wao collie into this conat'r ' il; gant and improvident—rod that he had heard lips I f thevafresentation of foreign Ministers. w hi„h t , t i p to this 14110, liltd only been known to mr. H. ADDINGTON said there were 243,0n0 aliens in the titter praises and pnnegyrics, threaten war and op. kikee t i: i n i a..-_ Ili ‘ , s:asrtat aware t of ply alien being sent out of . . in it was only as the Noble Lord this- ~ the i gd_ tau o the . represen att . tia me rely of , foreign Ms post Itr f ulster...4,ga we sat then elven to hu ng In the Bill. his, t was not his, 1 On the motion of Mr. HORNER, copies of all Correspon- PO Vercit that flit?. nollse of Commons . tb•nce between the boiird of C‘int rout and the East India Com iltut theco it n try!:--1 hal the Noble Lord a woke from 1i in. t!any, on the:objector prov'efite; for Laticars and other Auiati: Iris golden dreams. became re then a ~ ,r inef Seamen were ordered to he laid before the fltatie.--Adjsaraed deed, but uot,t,'CtOtllled. it was th ell that 0-,',"9•14.): tCC 4 at Tvizeve o'Clece, TRIAL OF SIR R. WILSON, bether in your heart's you submit to the French :egislation : you are submitted to it by necessity. Crime is a thing peculiarly belonging to local juris diction. The offence was committed in France: the prosecution of it belongs exclusively to the French law : English prisoners, therefore, stand on your defence! (Accuse At:glair, chfende mann) The Court, after a short deliberation, prc" ndunced the following decision :- - -4 ' Because every offence. committed in a terns tory is an ohject of jurisdiction, and because,the exception demanded by the English prisoners is not allowed by any construction of the criminal code , of France, the Court .declares that there is no_ gtmind for, the recording, at the reqnest of the. English prisoners, the declaration now made by ,: m the ; the Cou r t, th ere f ore , or d er s the 1620 0 proceed." - Heide the Clerk read the arret of the Act of Accusation drawn up by the Procureor-General Bellart. The reading lasted mitre than two hours. [Btith these pieces have already appeared in Tag tita, with the exception of one passage, whi c h is .follows, and purports to be an account of au extract in Sir R o b er t Wil son ' s l etter to Lord Grey: . ---" He does 'tuft disiemble the unpleasant . consequences of his ent er p r i s e 7.- .he was not ambi tions to he i m p r i sone d, or to l ose hi s c ommission, but he was r esigne d on b ot h po i nts. H e b a d con- ceived the id ea of corumunicating what he had done to a Great Personage, in order to g eoid th is reproach of a clandestine conspiracy ere° asks advice on this subject. lie appears to Ira" / acquired informatiOn of great iinportance, waits fOr a sure conveyance to send it to his cot° respondent. He had learned,. by the Confiik.irst ots of the Duk e o f F e l tre , t h at S ou l t was , on. the t list of the proscrib e d, an d h a d written to aprr'l e him of it."J The Advocate-G enera l retrace d rap idl y the 1.4'3 of the indi ctment , nod fixed the attcntiim of th l3 jury on th e p r i nc i pa l point, 'he applied him self particularly to the distinction in the cases at the difTer'ent prisoners. Some have to answer for a crime: others for an offence only. Ile rCillatte d that the Chamber of Accusation had remitted to , the three Englishmen the charge of having col" •' spired against thelegitimateGovernment of France,. I now leave (said he) the facts to develop thew selves : it is right that you should receive your first impressions from the evidence. You will oh., serve with coolness, and determine with cookie"' 1. need not tell you, Gentlemen of the jury, that justice, whose impassive organ lon are, has tio regard to the distinctions established in society : weak or powerful, rich orpOor, natives or foreign- . ' era, in all the accused, justice sees only nun: it knows nothing of their quality, it wishes to know 'their actions : but what more can I add to thedig nified sentiment which you entertain' for your funetions? When the question concerns equity, jus-ice, honour, I need use no further TeC0111111e11(1., ation to a French jury. Maclaine de Lavalette, the young lady her daughter, and th e i r o ld f ema l e d o mestic, have not been summoned he re as w i tnesses: at the quest of the p u bli c p r Os eentor , but of the pri soner Eberle : th ere f ore t h ey w ill not b e heard till after the ch arges are gone t h r O ug h . The President here ':successively interrogated the accused ; their answers referred to th e detail% alr,eady given in the indictment. We pasS over in silence the long interrogalo - ries of. Eberle, and the debate which they wife rise to between him and Kergnidec, as nu fact resented front them. Eberle still appe'ued to labour under We most unfa . vourable presioriptiops, while the keeper of the prison was ortly so far culpable, thathe had omitted souse precautions which lie did not think necessary, and had showo sensibility when he should have shown only Vigi lance. Tears dimmed his sight : a gaolor should never weep. 7 • M. the President made the f6llOwing observe• tion to tire gaoler "Ot t the 201),0t' Dee t ethber, being informed by one of the advocates-General that the execution of the convict Lavalette was to take place next day, you went to consult M. the Count Angles, prefect of police. You said to hints !. Madame Lavalette is in the prison: must I tear ther from the,m 'nivel her husband ?' M. the Count Angles said to you, I give you no advice see your superiors it is for you to know what are the ditties of your titnation. You, are a roan ': hut' you area gaoler.' Ido not say, added the President, what you ought to have stone : but at least yon should have redoubled your vigilance." The President then addressed himself to M. ' Bruce:— Q. How long have you been in France ?—A., About' 13 .tnonths. AND MESSIIS. BRUCE AND HUTCHINSON, RELATIVE TO THE ESCAPE O 1 THE CONVICT; LAVALE rTE. PARIS, APRIL 23. "ISSIZE COURTY . the DEPARTiligNrqf the SEI NE SITTING OF TILE 221) OF APRIL. These persons appeared before 'the Assize Court, together with Jacques Eberle, turnkey of - the House of Justice ; Jean Ildpriste tic Kergui . . dee, head gaoler of the sanic prison ; Guerin, alias Marengo. Madame Lavallette's drib-Man ; and Benoit Bonneville, valet of AT.. Lavalette, charged respectively with having taken a part, more or Itss.direct, in the escape of Lavalette. he trial, which attracted an immense audi tory, among whom, we remarked a great number of Englishmen and English Ladies, commenced at eleven o'clock. 11,1". Romain de Seze, . son of the Peer of the same name, so honourably dis tinguished by his defence of Louis XVI. sat as President of the Court. The other Judges' were Messrs. ,Plaisatul du Chateau, Delaville, Deeerny, Diniaty, Demetz-fury. Eloa, the Advocate-General, was charged. with the functions of Public l'rosecntor. The July consisted of Trouillebert, '!'iron, Thiplesses,. Lemit, Therenin, Guillon de Chapelle, Eden, Blainvilliers, Nlarze, Deliege, Alerceray, COtte ., tcatt. The ' , mewed were introduced, and placer{ on different benches according to the nature of the different charges 'itgain3t• theni. General Wilson was in grand uniform, and ornamented with brilliant decorations•of seven or-eight orders of different States of Europe, one of which was the Grand Cordon of the Russian Order of St. Anne. Captain Mitchinson wore the uniform and decorations of his rank.• At 11 o'clock, M. Deseze, j un . th e P res id ent of the Court, opened the, sitting in these terms : —" The Court is going to submit to the in.ves tigatinn of the Jury several accused persons, French and 'foreigners,' in a.cause which has for a lone time fixed the public attention. The Court is convinced that the persons admitted to this 'as sembly will not in any way disturb the public tranquillity :, that they will observe that, religious • silence which. is due to • the presence of Jaw and • of astim" The accused being called upon to give their names, surname, and qtralities, gave their de. scriptions as before mentioned. M. Bruce said with enerey-I am an English citizen. The 'President then observed, that although the three Englishmen relied upon the correct knowledge which they app eare d t o have of the French language, and did not ask for an interpre ter, yet the law 'of France, always a law of pro tection, willed that the.accused should not be de prived of tiny means of tacilitatin ! ; their justifica tion, even when unclaimed ; the Court, therefore, named to that office M. John Robert, who ae& cordingly took the usual oath. "M. BrUce (speaking the . French language).— Otittlenien of the Bench and Gentlemen .of the Joey,, I have a declaration -to make to you in the name of Myself and my two _countrymen.. Al- . though we have submit te d ourselves to the French , law in consequence of the accusation against us, We have never lost the privilege of invoking the law of nations. Reciprocity aiming nations is the first article of all treatiet ; and as in Eng ' lati,l French culprits have the right of demanding a jury composed half of Englishmen and half of foreigners, it appeared to us that the same right, - ; - Or, if you will, the same favour could not be re fused to ns in France.* With this view, we sub. Witted to erninent lawyers of our own nation se veral questions, the solution of which might ills tify the right of which we speak. Strengthened by their decision, we should have been justified i n demanding the favour of a jury half French and _half English but, gentlemen; the justice which' has been rendered its by the Chamber of Accusation, (in acquitting us of any plot against the tranquillity of - Europe, and• particularly against the French 'Government), We have deter. mined to renounce our right. We, therefore, a b c vloo ourselves and without reserve, to the bottom., and conscienee of a jury entirely cam-. msed of Frenchmen chi not , even mak e th e I • least challenge. • It:, notwithstanding, we think it necessary to make a special declaration, it is to express that we only reno Since the right as far ai we are per sonally concerned, anti to prevent any precedent being drawn from our ease against those of our compatriots who may hereafter be in the same si tuation. We ,cannot and will not prejudice their rights. In faith whereof we have signed our pre sent declaration. 'Q. You remained here during the stay of 8u0:..' naparte ?---A. Yes ; Y left Paris two hours after Buonaparte; when be went to take the command of the army. 1 did not think it right that ars 'English gentleman should remain in a' country which had commenced hostilities against his owl). Q. It appears that you returned to Paris, and were here on'the 28th of June.---A. It was be* cause Marshal Sachet, who commanded that part of the frontier which I wished to pass, refused to , let me pass in spite of a letter which I wrote to Mm, and I was obliged to return to Paris. Q. You wrote also to Madame the Duchess of St; Lett, whom you culled Imperial Highness, although your Governmer had never recognised Buonaparte as Empetor.—A. it is true that I wrote such a letter; 1 gave her that title because it was the one she bore. . , Q. You were connected with several pe rs ons tty the intimate confidence of Buonaparte, pnrticu larly the Duke of Vicenza I—A: It is 'true ; hurt do. not see what relation these questions have to the affair of Lavalette: M. Dupiu (Advocate for the Englishmen). Will the Court be pleased to enter this declaration on the teem(' ? M. Ma, Advocate .General.---. This declaration is calculated to astonish ! To claim in France, for un offence committed in*France, the privileges of st foreign Legislature, is to set at nought the first principles of social order : the form in which the pretension is urged does not at alt change its na ture. We oppose the entering this protest or de claration on the record. I M; Dupin maintained that no French law pro. Whited the composition of a jury half of French men and half of foreigners. - It was a question entirely new, which might fairly be discussed, ,and might or might not be decided against the accused ; they, however, renounce the discussion, but in renouncing it they wish Micir declaration to be recorded. They will one d ay return to their coiinrry and they do not wishto expose themselves to the reproach of having sacrificed the right which eminently belongs to ah English citizen—. riot of Maintaining, even in chains, the preroga til,•cs of -a free man. Q. It is not for the accused to judge of the merit or of the object of the questions addressed ter hUll ; the President has a discretionary power of putting what questions he thinks proper. IVO there not found at your house the original of 00 answer of the Duke of Wellington to Marsloil. Ney. You took a vary lively interest in Marshal Ney ?—A. Yes, a very lively interest ; I do not blush to own it ; the most lively interest durini. his trial. M. the Advneate-General.---To say that they sobruit to be tried by the French law, is to say, that'if they did not submit,. the trial could not take place. It is this pretension which I repel for the ItaLional botwur at interest. it owters lath Q.. Was it to you that the first ()scuffle 'kills, made of the plait ut transporting 144valette out oz *[ld Ot t he plan of c-4nre,ltneit Three was nn question of coaoarbrusint, for khit Was Do Inner possible.