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ancit as to afford instances , of inter(oAnce, which, unless checked by the good might deprive us of . 'the eiiiiivantages now derived .train" the influence Witt li we - ,enjOyed among foreign fowlers,' and Oil the - Continent • of Itrope. lie desired that he thiglit.not be tinder.- stood as alluding to any particular cirettinstance,'• inlringing forward what he was about rnett ., tion• lhere was a feeling, ahroadi , that .in. this comatry there,w.as,a.stroug disposittnn . tointerfere in the concerns of foreign nations, anti to dictate ill those measures which did nut exactly squard with our own notion. , In the:same proportion as - the nations of the (:ontinetit - 614d'us th - eir titude they would withdraw it, ivbiiithey build upon it, forthe purpose of clic-tilting 'to them', in'the relpilatioh 'of then- internAlaliairS/1 - lear, bear, hear . !) . As'io the p'recedent, 'cited . by: the Honourable Gentle Man, Of IhaThrterference , of the House on behalf of the • Royal'Edmily of . Fritiee,the lion.'Gentleman - seemed- to' ttirtl thifif the British iqinister had then reinaine'd' l itt Paris,' that .dreadfut tragedy prevented, But as Jitactical precedent, the flop, Gentleman vvitOieryunfortunate . in 'adducing- this as 'a proOf of theeffidacy oldie 'interference of the house, when It 'WAS iectilletted thin it had been followed by the death oralitioSt every member Of thiVretreh Royal 'Fatuty tllcltt, hear I.) Itto alluding to other, sitiitlac eases, the - lion: Gentle.: luau had gone as:far back as the reign of Queen' • Eliistbeth ; of . the -interference inlliese Cases with to..exert the inflneneeof the colintry onibelialf of the' PriKettants Ott tlie Cola' ticent. The iincilerence . of this t °witty tben,., was rendered necessiiuy by the previous interte.r , time of the 'See of 4orne; and it Was tOrepa its attacks that u c were" 'oliqged, irt out awn de fillie;A6'stippo't t the . Protesfatit interest. • It was a case of intetterence_bottourtttort 'the rmentice of . a lior,eign:..ktafe . against our best. Ally. The last e:tse 'Or interference alluded tv by the Honour= able one in.' ,it had taken iduce , oinlci- a to,tal misconception of .tlie faCts 'there were no Spiv:olio of any, combination. of the Catholic .against the Protestant - POWera oil, the co9trary„ the proceedings of the (4)n grcts at 'Vienna would show, that there never *as a time When the, religtons, of, the different States were less embattled against Carib other.--- • • There eould 'be nothing more fatal or ,calainitritis thrill thu. I'el'►i4l of a.sysfettiatic contest between the Catholics and Protestants ; and there might . have . beettreasUn to deplore the injudicious: inter- Jere:ice of sonic; pto:soits in this country; . art there . • tha th .was ri,k t ose religious, feelings, tinforto . stately ~1O this . cotintry,, might Caught 1.. a Loy. a. a. hale. view it of the case to which L ..Y Ile os itil4 , 4,ltigiiproce.eyleti from Puiatiwit atpt instttiatovereign—iltat benevolent , Soieirign—for ,p,sch s he, would atttays call because such Ate wt.--.(tear, ktear, bear, heat • afixett i..tetinAo to recal that act of t44cration ,Never .was,thete.ail tnipu tatiun • tuenuio,pit.fact, ,Ti u ,'the nfortunate Cir. • thgsnit i tti of which gate one par t iced! 4p.ot ; hart 't i . is .1i1c41 . ,11 t;CI 1411 .was mistaken :for • tibea:se, t►u this mistake,' sonic hid ititertercn by addrei4ea t,tie Uilferept departments' of prtsitig the . ,irassistance. , What Was tits consequence le d ,Erat•ltreptitliated.the iLitett , isuce ; not, from any, want of sense of the benevolent nitcjniu..,,, .hut tutu the conviction tinkt. it t% as,ratlicr calculated to increuic the C4lir r valor. , better,, too, w,cie atiduessed tie-all fife di,- triets of .Friiict4' althOn. it It was only in one vet y . . r *itt#ll . biiot that uTiuse latkiviitable sCitlei• had taken ~,id in the very nett,, , ,libotirliood_of that spot the l'iutesta'uts and Catliplica had acted tskget her . with t he iii must ro t dialify, No wonder, rhet,, that • they were siirpr,sed to receive letters tram Eng-. land„.written on the Oppositiou that thrtiogliout • Viatice the l'rotestaUts autl Catholics were actually !ti arts against each other. As to what the iio,i. Centleinan had siltt alidin the Slave . .rtatt, it 44[0! fteitiM4utetipon the finestion. , The St‘a ve TraAlkivak, Tit eol out of the class. It was a ttiaoppAC, mouton interest to all nations.. There want,:Etso: interference concerning it sehich at all reltit4tl 3 44 .10estion li - etween sovereign and subject,- ,or -*Mgr involved any such discusion'witir foreign rowers, in !tic most remote way. lronly related to a common question. of-general policy, on witith each Go% ti iiincot was of cui)4tse, . tit liiterty to ad dress to any outer such, reninns.totude us aright be thought moat eaictihttedto,o4tnili (litthe Whole,. as to the Precedents - adduced. by the ,14 9 p, upi t tigio tt , tie ,litoed that' I n . Woillti tee, that tlitt-ea,eB which he had adduced :bud'no inttnetli . ato refat ion to. the.!eiticstioti or thm,ir they. dirt touch. the prattical griestion; -that the. re .nit was: against tile measures which the Getirkinan.Verit:itinnetided. Did it, follow, trootall thathe bad said; that it' 'a .CiriVernmetit oPrienached another in a six'ait of conciliation Mid of Mandate or tlicttt.iori;-.-out in a tone of insult or injury—ntit in a way. to vilify it Hi a,State,—itor :in any . of - •these Words, but In the 'Spirit of friendship' and . .erttleable coon-' sel,—did ic follow that such . s'eourst oteonditet was, inexpedient ? Lie disclaimed .pushing-the principle so' tar. In talking'of titTsittistion of bpain, the - Honourable Geittlemanitad been pleas - •-: ed to call the Cortes, the .Britigh Cortes ; aqd then proceeded to what was rather anew view of the cuie, hvconsidering us boned with respect to o them o assent chants anti figliti which etiold uot.y tie maituained as against' their Sovnreigtf without alcttialfy goint; to war.. . But point of fact, his Ilaicsty's Government had liot been vranting • to! ohtt of interfireneetivi lrehal fa these iidwvldtt;il '' • ff the Gtivertinfetrf iviiS . sifiterely disposed to eel 49Y its efforts, it could' do a great deal Ivay, which could never be effected by.the species 7f ii. terilo6ition r e commended by the t,iet„,„ edr ' ; he ," l)--Broad differences bad been el ' toe Brit'sh Government and the Cortes, it did it 1 : f ront • • • • s •• Prevent ministers intettering us far as • was iit their poiver, to Mitigate those tills 'f°llll.l.le3 t Whial ' i the'lreai of party rage theY'had beet exposed to. It was -always the duty of ry, "-Veriiillent to it-net - fere for the p ur p ose, of '-. le PFeren',ing th e i ncrease o f party rage; - but in " Present ease; the htittstl Government -found tho T i 'e=ves"pirti 'I ' t o de 10 -- (Heltra t e44 , , unit hz' Bear papers:and doeuments -,:he t : T u ll ec t we . re 110 t , 01-tt litattrt cu enalilcUiL4t,e42o at this time to lay thrin upon tic tittle of the ; bittlf th4 - itjOrthi believe Mtn; 'thage - pa pirs'iiturld - protre ttfat Government had eathergone ' beyond the ihnits of the duty the :extent to which - they-W pushed irirrterferetice.—(Hear,- r, hear:).-zWhile heaohnitted this.country had been.: teiteharked , in. CoMMOTt CHUM %%it)) tb r. Cortes, he. say that it was going too far to say that the interests of this:country hadheen throughout hien teed tvith those of• the -Cortes, or- eveo au tar as ID be resPoosible, for a)ly . of their , measure. lion. Gentleman, had attempted to support larinisettiOvs on this itibject by the ablecorres. pundence of the Martinis of Wellesley. - Nowr , to 'this very cerrepotidenee he would -refer to con. • traditi'Ahe :Hon. Gentleman to sinew that the . . Cortes had nut ' acted under British infitretice..4- Thesehoi substance Ol . that cOrrespondettariveastr that the Cortes of: - SeVille*coilld not be got to make - . thvellident exertions that were required:.: :41though the party called the Libefaits- had mat* inerits in:the eyes of this country-iilthirugh to a certain. ,extent„ it was to be consitlereft a an '.anti-Fieuch party, •and as inspiring the spirit, of resistance. to' the French yoke—yet it it was' meant to 'be-iaid. that was „a British party, he denied it ; and 'maintained that the - very reverse was demonstrated by the whole course of it.v conduct during : the war. He would take one instance of this. -At -one of the most glOriotti Periods of that splendid military career :of `the Duke of Wellington ; at the time when. he Was* about to elimoch his army . behind the lines of :rotres-Vedras, that great (hiker had thought- that be *Would be in• his - duty it he-did not, before having recourse to this position, endeavour - to *fix himself in sonic point witoio the spaniSh frontier. For this -POrPobe the punt which he chose was Cadiz, affil through the Cortes he was refused admiAstou to it.. 1 his single instance front among many, was enough to- disprove; what the Hon, Gentietna:: had said as to the intim:ace of British Councils in the Cortes of Seville. As to the conduct of . the Spanish Monarch tow urdi the Cortes, the 'Llon. Gem lemon had asserted what was contrary to the whole history of that kingdom, • When he trail sind'that toe Crown bad-never so . far trenched tquer the power of . toe Cortes., . Thee transactions in Spain anorded a memorable lesson to those who wished to correct- partial imperfec tions, by the_toial" subversion- of an established system,. ,The Cortes thought that they would best effect their purpose by overturning the entire Lin den( *system of the kingdom, and 'especially by merging the whole class of : the Nobility and Clergy io the third - estate, according to the example of the JacobidS (a - Trio - tee. it was to't his that most qt the calamities of Spain were to be attributed. At the. saute time he concurred a nth the Honour able Gentleman in thinking, that there aere many ;illostilous'illinnbers of the 0114es:who tot med ',eeetions Ao' the general character of - that hotly ; - and that there was no man more sensible of toe false • stepi takenhy them, titan the distieguished huh vi dual 'whoa the Hon. Gentiemaa hatt-mentamed. The extreines to Which the Cortes-lad prOceeded naturally caused a very .violent re-action, and the consequence of the great - swing which the Spanish Government had Wield!) thedireetion ofdacobinism under their management, was, .that . now, 'under its SOVereign, - it* had* taken as 'violent a swing ill* the` direction of despotism: might . he stipposeil that during the Government at the Cortes, whom -.the Hon. Gentleman hat( described as ,so impli ,enly under Britisli infleenee, none 'of lhosd vnortnitieS- bad taken place' Spain which were now so much reprobated., But -the very contrary was the case. Many of the (mortal ties w hialt. • _had_ lately been - .perpetrated must . be' attributed to what was done by the Cortes, and the prevalence of that party among them called the Liberates, who, in a military point-of view, %% ere an anti-French party, but politically were a French party of tile very worst th-scrie • They- had declared that they wutild not ii.a4lait Ferdinand's right to the throne, -Illness 1,0 put his seal to the . principles which they lent . down, and among the rest, to that of tLe Save ..,reignty being in tile people. - The Liberal's were a perfectly iliteobinical party in patiaDt principle. Hehad no widi to recriminate en the 1 - ion.. Gen., , 41eitatto s:hut- really it . was something very- stew, to hear *from the other side of the • House so Mitch in praise of-'tire-Cortes, when it was recol lected, that from that very. quarter it had ; been*the practice to overwhelm them with every _Dtrprobriotts•epithet-- . --with cont wisely and scorn. (flear,lteart) Stich was I he kind of langtiirge Which ruthe•Gentletnewoothe other side of the House were , the habit of bolding towards these very Cortes; '"'.1111 their acts had been ,cOured at—their efforts for tl emaneipation 'of their countryfied been 'necked itheS7 11114 beettealled a set of DoirQuiXotes fight. in .against-wilt-mills. These were the tributes , nd applause and respect which the Cortes had been ini the habit'at reeel6i4 frotnthe other sidelif rthe Houk. , (Hear, bent, hear !) But when be now" was obliged - to state the question against .the, Cortes, . wished to' estimate fairly the diffieeltics and faults on ; 'tl►'oti ;ii there-certainly was no reason why theyshotd&be -*addled - With cohis to 'which, the proceedings of the' Cortes bOd Nothing; Was more glorious and distill- •gtiiitheil Ili the 'Spanish eharacter; than the devo-' thin - With Which- they gliitf theriiselees-up to their-' *critmtry in- the contest for expelling- the invader `But then, to describe thew lending themselves tt us,---to say that Spain had lent herself to us to s"e ti contrary to 't be Tact. 'Spain degied her.' 'self to us - ; ands here war:to he seen the difference - id- this respect het ween.the conduct of Spainaud ',Portugal. The latter lent herself to us,—she gave' herself 'wholly 'to us in expelling . the Frotly,•antrthe'conseqeenee was, that she Was. dated.- -But -Spain never .bad done so, but had indutributed to her own liberation, by her free iliirit.'There walbue pregnant fact on this sub lest to Which hewouldeall' the attention of the 1-Incise. Among the Cortes existed; a determined diipositioo to withdraw from die Duke of Welling ton the win:inland of thenatiMial troops'whie'b: lsretl been given to , bilis by a deliberate •aet of the Stale.' The consequence of this was, that the: matter came to this.'rata- . Mitons Imre,- - that the fluke of Wellington was forced; in the very filiddio of a campaign-, to de. date that' if the' authority which had been:'so. „toady confided- to him was not- fully continued, YtQ !Youlti CO0111411(1 Spauish rote Army altogether, ant! contend with the 4., yith only:tite,Britigh `troops.` ..And 11 ; 4 s C n tt t ,”,, .completelyhilluenced by . th , 1 repreSeoi4il„ vernr Uent,and lion. Genilemap, the Cortes . ,' rts . orveil fo , continue the corionaiiil in the Duke of'Wellington by ooly , the„stuall)pity of 4;;G VOieri t 1.1(: tlitieri iinCettly tilt! 1111 ', 1 , .1 rt to les to xVLiich these ill.: t fated mid is now exposed; but truth compelled liiul to s tate, that 00 the querstionurt'ontmuing theDolic.of Wclliagton iu the cohonand of the Spanish army, the minority ,who voted against: it was eomposen en; ;rely OF - Lit,er a les. It Wits Among that part of the &4:thish- pe6plc wlibiivere .tie Peak- enlightened :in the nrinciples.of the French, Revolution—it was in the higher orders, the no., bility and ,the clergy, that the British fount! the most pirwerfel assistance 'in conducting the war' for - the expulsion Of the. French. Ministers had interfered. in. behalf of these unfortunate in : dividnals to the tullcst. extent - in which 'they• . could possibly have been ' justified; ' and the system of interference meted upon up to' - this drsnot merely by representations through tier Ambassador. Sir 1-leery Wellesley, ktio%y - jog 'hOiv" the Goverirtnint 'felt itpoh. the .subject, ' interfered An :every : possible way ; nay, he bad gone su far its .. ..tiiiteny all pe euttiary- eidomless meestirespfiless,rigorotis na ture were adopted toward` the individuals in question, and unless some reasonable expecta tion. was held out to Spain, that the promise which the King had made of giving to the peo ple a freeGoyernmeut, should be fulfilled. The lion. : Gernieman was completely mistaken it he supposed that -it was by means of British mondy , i that the Spanish Monarch had been.enabled to proeeed to such enormities. So far ; Was this from being this case, that the only scam which I had been advanced to him by the British Go. vernment, between, the beginning of April, Isll, 1 - (w hen "he left Valency to return to Spain), I amid December, Was 'toot thotriand dollars ; and small 'sum had been advanced by the : authority,: of ;our. Ambassador,. to defray the Mere table. expenses of the King :—nay, ,it had , been advaneed upon the suggestion of One of the • Liberitles.• All pecuniary'aidlront this country was refused until positive information were given on o . points -as .to the measures adopted to the prosoribed ;. and secondly; as 'to the promise of a tree Groverombit, held'eu t . in the King's Proclamation:. As to: what .11a& been ' said of the conduct of one individual (Gen. Wit tinghain), he thought it impc!ssible that it could be of any iniportanee, he'wns placed in 'such a situation as to be of course obliged to obey his orders. But he --woof.r.l tell. the, I,lonourable Gemtleman what the British ,Amba,Sador had done. The Ambassadbr declared, that the Duke of Wellington .tvo , ild never lend 1141'44:11 , 10 any such purpose as ,that which the Spanish' .Monarch had in view. At the: saute time, the AmbassidOr iepeated his advice to*the "to accept theConstitut ion which had been - proposed . to hint, with all itsfaults; reserving• to hiluselt:the pOwer of altering it. The liati. Gentleruau had described this Monarch (before. Whom he worild have the Prince Regent to appeTer, if not as ti sup. - pliant, at least with a menace of war)—as ,acting all along from the time that he had entered Spain, upon the Treaty of 'Valency. Yet Ferdinand had all along,prutestvl against and divAvoweclehtkt Treaty'. If the Hon. tneant,to say that Ferdinand had gone into Spain with the deliberate, intention of overthowing the tortes, lie , would .state in con, tradietion to thii, uod on theautirdfrity of ,Sir , Wellesley, that Ferdinand came into Spain with the deterovued purpose of accepting the Crmstit t and it. was only when lie fOund what the real st a te of tne n a tion was, and that the Constitution would not he congenial to the ; feehugs,,of the people of Spain, that 'he had determined not to accept To refer r again,to the.part which tire 'Cortes had taken in the , liberation of, pain, the maintenance of the particular constitution Which they trained---. the merging of the nobility in the third estate, and the degradation of the..Churai: , had, during. the whole contest,-.been hanging dead weioftt upon the nation, and had greatly connteracted all. its efforts. ; When the King retitintiti,: and extl imuned the feelings,of the nation,, he ;found loin- self ;surrounded by the whole impulse 4-natiothil feeling !whist. the Constitution. While this feeling vas operating, a great:.Deputation of the Cortes waited upon him, praying his Ma jesty not to accept that Constitution which the majorityof the tante tortes rhart. declared : it would be a forfeiture of the Crown to reject. To give one-small instancestSaftetl,reiltreteruipitii-olawri,acY, toof he might -Madrid, his carriage, was drawn from Aranittez (thirty miles), by the people. Whets the - Consti,, tution of the:Cortes was, destroyed by hint, Otte was not-a-mormur in Spain ; .for iu tact the pea, pie were more attached to .some of those pee culiarities their :ancient Constitution, which we thought defects, .than the people of country to the most perfect part of our free Cimatitution. Euoughbad passed , :Ole „world within-the, last 'thirty yeirslo prove, that in or +let to amend defects. the way was not, to lir°, ceed ,by overturning the whole fabric. For his Own- par 4 he woOld always regret that 'the King ,of •Spain bad not the means . , after his return; "of carrying into effect the Declaration of the 4th of May, as it contained all the principles 'of u just and 4ce Government. lie hoped however that it tulgitt yet be effected, But if there was atiy,thing! ,calenlated to place at err intertninable distance the, period when .. this tfesirable event should take place, it was this country taking the part of 1 , 4 one faction in that nation against the other,,, We were too much disposed- to magnify tire 'evil of the moment. This was not, the only periad in s vhich there had been Similar Occimtrenees in . Eyerr . the - authority. Of the tortes were now to be re-eittihlished, he was' - iifraid this would not purge Spahr frOM eneratities.-4 ; Many .of :the .acts of. the :ortes had been of the mos-t cruel 'kinil- 7 -nbliorrent to ell [Mina-. - Of Ibis hewould mention some instances. —The 0" first that occurred to` hint were the cases of ;Generals Palatax - and Abisb!,ll. - The latter of these lsmie officers, - hecauie; he, had written a paniphlet atainit the Cort€S; hall beets by them Cast' into prison,` and aftern . a4l o , oat arty trial, banished for ever from' !Spain Wlica t DYCruieut of Caatit igwattvitid exclpt a o a n d.. I % ) , l i s th c al a i s t e , n t y he so tv rt h , o o l f e t vv .ri e a r l e ,. phi int o hit ell r: the "Cprfeti appointed by we Oc.si'itelleed tam. - be ituprisoned .and (Loud cries "f bear, hear . , bear 0 —General Valafox a dungeon in Minorca, .where %Its. •C!'" ned by the ;Cfirteg. - Besides . tLcse . ,' ti e, Bislt^a , o ()Tense, than wheat there wets net. • a more . pure . nod . •-excelleni character,.. ', f .haviug,' been a MeMber of th . , Cortes, and relet'si..g to sign the paper in which that bout Stat . ed. the dartrille'of the sovereignty of the people, be lykti intrnedi•i,tely displaced from hi s Bi s h o p r i c ; and was .torced to take refuge in 'Portugal to save his life..(llear„ hear, hear 0' 'These were the nets of the Codes • , and chewed" What Was the boaste.d..purity in the ad. ministration of atriiii.s evinced b\ this body, who, torsooth; 'Were . said to have iieted under Ltritisli fluence; and were thus celled (surely fin the fit' At. thne), theliritishCortes.—(ltear, hear 0-11 the British Government hall not interposed with tha. • "Goyerntnent Of Spain, he could understand that a,. lesson tif f :denerosity might have heLii taught But if the cascl'ad bLen set, ,any Member in bringing the matter befOre the !louse would, he, thought, .:have proceeded diikrently from the course adopted by . the' Elontlurah'.e (icn tiewan. however, a ot the Crown statad to Parliament that the t3riti th. . CGo • vernment had interfered, and th4l the four ' .great Powers of Enropc had instructed their nisters at the Court of Spain to interieie, to all great an extent as was consistent with pi opriety (Loud cries of, , Hear, hear, front all of the ; thelfOuse were now to 1 itse lf 1 ss .such a purpose as that intended by the Gentleman, it woidd Only prevent any chance.:, of - success« . Considering the motion 10 Otl 1.19 V. riant . 4hie one in point of ptilicy and .e‘in'gt, that the, Hon na . Gen:lein had not taken , the . (as to inquire what had been done ; ,considefiny ; , 1 . 00 . that the motion ,would disqualify- Wily:, rp inent from future intertetence with success, lie c onio, re d the House, not to take a' t:4lsv step o i ' tla is occa sion: They wet c now on the ese pe r -haps th e most important discussion that had cver, bren elif titled 4011 ving flit; gcneral tions 01„04: country with the Powets of lintope. Mkt , this moment, therefore . , there was nothing mutt importa“ thou. to preserve that character and in-. finence which the country had, v‘ith the other Eo lopettn.Powers,Lipt there : was a spit-it dignity throughout 4urope that would not . 0 , rap d io p o - ., • i r -:1 " - ..:114141J4,,OVelhealingly t a u g ht LI -. they ,ought to .traill3pire.' only through thq, wisdom 2f,our councils. , If •we began To assume dietatoriaj thoclion towards, other. P o wers, eve should become obj e ct. of deserved Ala:red.—. hear !)---The • tuna : onnl4 not devi4en mode of interference wire cKletdateti 'utterly to inin the unfortunate persons in whose behalf it was' intetuted. On these and all thu gioundsite had: stated, he never found hiunkif caller( uj►ou to give a More paramount or stronger 'negative to any.: inotionet--(Lotui and continued cheering), . Lout J. Russia:l, was glad to bear that the interferenCe of the Briti;b Government had bceni, exerted; but was satisfied th►it nothing hut ad vantage oottld result Worn the expresiiun of the sense of Parliament. `, Alderman,•Surrti -was' of opinion, that the. Noble Lord's statement proved thar.Ministers bad tleat . Wal I.ossihk., and that 'any attempt to urge them to further`interposition tuusChe at tended with daDeenus consequences. General MATIi TeiEW said, he would 'not ve* spoked on this r at casion, if it were not for the extraordinary opinion, delivered hylhe Nit Speaker, an opinion whiell had not, however, the merit originality, us it had been thrown- out on a fuesier oecAtion,. a n d been Most triumphantly answered. •,by the able arguments'of his Learned Friend, who broug ht, forward Inc present motion, F or his part, lit ly,oultl further add, that hdwever .Il4inistcrs.• attglit dictate to . .o.rei g n Tyranta %villa course they, should_ pursue, it sii‘ttilcl never prevent him, or the independent Mimbers, („, t h e same side of the house, from rakiug their Voices whenevrr justice and ft hew . ) , :equired Ire would ever maintain the right of sbc, commons' to jmigethe,crime, l's ahroAq as well as at flume.. (hear 1) The influence of the:r debates on the Coot went ) , he ou•ierved, was very,c9psiOrawe (hear, hear !) and it was therefore, reasonable to expect that their interference on this oecasiots would province much effect. The lion.(4entlemari inveighedAstronly against the tyranny : of Perin mind, owl p'hp agttitiq the conduct pnrined by this. Goveratnent during the loft , twenty-five years.. 'What was lulu . • 'la ) t ask . 1 —The answer was, an telyoo evident the effect of that eunditet, l ie wou ld in the general distress and bankrup:ey throughout' the coantry, as would appear on the itivestigation, which was to Jake place on Monlay se'attight,, was sorry,. indeed, that a longer notice had 'licit been givers tor, the sake of his ct o utryuleti, the Members foi Ireland., who he feared, would not • have money to defray their eXllellevs 4tt that time. (A ,hlugland, said the lion. gentle. unan,•'' ye •eau collect half your rents ; Ireland, we 'coo •get no part r ot' 'lieut.- 7 (A loud laugh.) Mr.,litittNeTT vindicated the character of rise Liberales,, who had shown 'the most marked pre— lerenee and admiration for this country. opiniona , of thi4t Honse were freaked up to by. every country in Europe ) , and the nfotion of iais I tun. Friend only called for no earnest of their favour .of the Patriots in Spain. - Mi. Bitonatiast, ita rvply, acknowledged that was tAlten by surprise•iu be , tring 4 . the inter. positionjit-4qitlktors •trith the. §pauilh Govern., ment—aYpt9iti t tiiltstiee' which lie Was tStoniShett had nut transpycd * before the present moment. lc looked as it the .Nolole food,' locked up in the triumphant tone of his (tetrnce, wished•to entrap. rouse Menther into tt debate on the subject ) . The fronoorable and Learned Cattleman here - roCA a revievi of the different Treaties made by this Coto, try with Spain, in some of ,which express stiptt* lations were made relative to the Slave Trade, 414 other' subjects,' and not one appeared in layout of toe suffiring Sponitthis. it was not - surprising, therefo r e, if he and others had concluded that no * step bad been tkiien upon t case. e. now wi%ned of the - Nohle i4or t i ‘vbetbef we had ikvariably ipieffereti, ant,eeedently to latupeeeta.. ber, %%ien 'rertiinand bad: orbit own oce,!n, , „ uutrrea 'ine junpflat functions c his people to-qs wswe. l . l .i