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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF PEERS, TUESDAY, FEB. 4. ' On the order for summoning their Lordships for this day being read, Lord MULGRAVE said, that he had hoped when lie gave his Notice for this day, that the arrangements in .contenaplation would have been completed, so as -to have ensured a full attendance of their Lordships, it having been-his intention to enter into an explana tion respecting several points cOnneoed, with the Papers which he had laid upon the Table, at the same time that he. preSented to their. Lordships, by 'llls Majesty's command, several other Documents upon-the subjeEt of our Continental: Reletiens, He bad brought down the Papers to I.Aicli he alluded, and he could not let this opportunity slip, of giving some explanation' to their Lordships, upon Certain . 'points Which they inyolved." Had it- been upon any ordinary occasion that the Treaties were presented to the House, it would have been sufficient to have left' them .to speak for themselves. Their Lordships would, in perusing these, have found that the first °hie& of hiS Majesty's Government had been, to form a well arranged plan, which, in its execution, might afford every reasonable prospeat of effeating the deliverance of 'Europe;_. the next objet; that those 'means 'might be provided which might give cad to the Negotiation which was at that period expeded to' be carried on, or •in the event of that Negotiation terminating in War, might enable the' Alliesto pursue hestilities,with proportionate energy and vigour.: : ,TheY eveuld have seen by these Trea ties, thatTeoo,ooo nNn were to hive -been brought in:o the field, eeti30.0.6 be Austria, and 1,80,000 by . c6-tainisr amply sufficient, accord eueutation; ?-e- the purpose of carrying ii ce - eett the, objeets which it was sought, to at; tain. it bad been a matter of calculative, what num • - ber of troops Feapceseeeld have.brodgia to A upon . ZI cert3in pciiit., in.a given time, aed what panther of Austrian' and Russien troopsexotdrl, be at that point by the tee specified. 'He received- official returns, ' which it appeared, that 3,0,000 estrians, and sO,OOO Russians, were actually in thei;teld, or on ,their rnarch 'The Russian . troops„ha feet - ,. marched according to:: their engagement, and arrived, at their destmation,, and, were ready -to take the field„ two • days eerlier than the 'time specifi'ed for their reaching the point where they were to eti - eat a junation with their Austrian Allit s. . The. plan thus prepared, ti;e arrangements thus made, and- the calculations thUN formed, were unfortanas i ely deranged .by the pre, 1 . eipitancy of AuStria. . The deviation- of Austria from the plats agreed upon Was not slight or trivial, but it was a complete and entire deviation, and to this must be attributed all the calamitous consequences that ensued. The obje& 'of this Country- 'was, 1 either to promote a Negotiation for a general Peace, upon e perm :Inept basis,7consisteet with 'the welfare aed security of Europe, or to establish an , armed Negotiation ; with a -view of putting a period . to Che uSurpations and encroachments of France ; and, if War was the result, to support :that War by means AVhiCll, K0014113' g to all human calculati o n, were adequate to etleat the. object proposed: Austria' had, till the end of the year 1805, to negotiate, as the , Subsidies from this Country were payable; if eominericed hostilities leefore the end of of the year. le nfortunatery, hoWever, from her very great precipitancy in sending forward her troops, the • melancholy events of the _campaign, and the-cala . mitous day of Austerlitz, had resulted. It was the oCcurrence. of these unfortunate events that bad - in . duced.his Majesty's Ministers to obtain his Majesty's Comweuds, to :lay before Parliament every Dom- Ment.that could, in any degree, elucidate the sub jea, or explain any of the pointseconneated with the Treaties . which he had, ou a fernier day, laid upon theetaele. They had done this, in order that -their wean& might be placed in that point of view in whiehetheY : w.ishedlt to he considertd, as they. Were, thee - i.would be found free from the slightest blame on account of the recent unfortu nate events on the'Continent. He could not -help also, • agaih expressing his anxiety that the charaaer of that. illustrious Statesman, whose loss they - now de- j plored, should be 'cleared from the ImputatiOnS, which, on account of those events, had been so un justly cast upon it. In attributing 'those events to the precipitancy of the Einperor of Austria, and his deviation from the' plan arranged by . the Allies, he must, at the same time, derrecate anyiimpu tazions being thrown upon that Monarch on account of his signing an Armistice, aiitt sebseqUently a' Treaty ,of Peace with France. ''lt -'YtqS easy for those who were at a distance from the scene of . a&ion, to condemn the conduct of that fro- 'arch--but it shotild be recolleated, that he 'did and suffered mach for the common cause, that lie gave up his capital to the Elie* and fought in person against them. - Hefter thiS, he was induced' by . the calamitous circumstances that eusued to give way, and make Peace with France, it should rather be lamented• asam unfortunate circumstance 'than be made the snbjeat of cotidernnatioM As some Noble Lords had come' into the House since he had'risen, whom he wished ro hear his explanatien (Lord Grenville lied just entered the House), 'he would shortly recapitalatee He then . briefly repeated :his former steteinents ; adding, that the Negotiations betWeeti' Austria and- France, it was knoWn, must b e broken.niir in consequence' of tie annexation 01 : Genoa to ..France, and that it was eipe6ted that - when Hostilities' commenced, Austria would hate thled upon the ilefensive in Germany and offeesively in Italy. ,He had obserVed On a formet evening, that certain'Articlesofthe Treaty with Russia• were :withheld . ; -he repeated, that no other' motive had induced Kis Majesty's MiniSters to Withhold them then a desire that no injury might result to certain Continental Powers froin the' pehlication of the re- j. contained in those Articles.. This''was their only thotive, as those who were about to., succeed them would soon be' enabled to judge, froM an in- •epeaiion of the Documents themselvee„, He was anxious that the subject to which the ;papers on the. and those he was about to present, referrea, seould be felly and amply-discussed.- l e the result of that discussion he had i the utmost confidence; at d he would repeat what he had said on a .formee e , . ening, with retereece tO that subject and the con d. et of his Colleagues and himself, that there was rio need to wil e h' he- could now wish had been t aken,' tl.a had been omitted, rat any measure adopted which he could row wish to retina. , He concluded by intimating His Majesty's commands to present certain Papers ; whi c h; o n his Lordship's -Motion; were ordered to lie ott,the Table. They Consisted of Extratis aid Dispatches from Lord G. L. Gower and Sir. Arthur Paget to Lord Mulgrave, 4te Decl4Fation Of, Austria, and some other State Papers. The Archbishop of CANTERBURY moved, that the Bishop of Bristol should be appointed to,preach before their Lordships on Wednesday, the Oth instant. at the Collegiate church of Westminster.— Ordered. On the Mot* : of Lord AUCKLAND, the Stand ing Orders, : Nos.. 104 and 155, were ordered to be taken into consideration on Thursday ; for which day the Lords were ordered to be,summoned, Adlournetl.till,tn-gwrrow (this day). HOUSE OF COMMONS, TUESDAY, FEB. 4. Mr. JOHNSON presented at the Bar the Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the Ex penditure of the Dublin Paving Board.—Ordered to lie oii the Table. Mr. WM. DICKINSON presented the First Report of the Commissioners for revising the Civil Concerns of the Navy; which was ordered to lie ou the Table; and, oh the Motion. of Mr. WINTSHED KEENE D to be printed. Mr. Wm. DICKINSON also presented, by conl-! ?mild from His Alajesty, several Papers relative to the Transport and Sick and Hurt Boards.—Ordered to lie on the Table. A person from the Commissioners of the Cm,- tpms presented at the Bar certain Accounts, pur . sitant to order of the House.—Ordered to lie on the Table. Mr. STURQE 5' BOURNE 'moved the Order cf, the Day, thr a Committee on the Land and Malt ; also that it be an instruction to/said Corn piittee, that' they have power to introduce a Clause of Credit into it, acid a Clause • for 'making good the Deficiency of the Land and Milt Tax of t 604, out of the:Supplies of the year 1806. The - ALlouse, hawing ,resolved itself into the Corn- Mittee, Mr. ALEXANDER in the Chair, ' Mr. WIRk/SON suggested the propriety of in ..,eTting .a Clause in the Bill for allowing an .appeal from the summary ConviCtions before Magistrates to the Quarter Sessions, sOaicli would enable -indivi duals to obtain justice at home-, instead of being compelled, as under the former Aet, to resort to the Courts at Westminster for iefia from the op pressive decisions, in some instances, of the Magi strates. A long conversation ensued, ip which 'several 11- probers took a part; but it terminated in an under standing, ;hat a Clause to that eft - ea might be added on the third reading. 'rna• Bill then passed -through the Committee, and . the Report was ordered to be received to-mor4 row. The Pencion Duty Bill also passed through a Com mittee, and t t. lie Report was ordered to bey received to-morrow. NEW MINISTRY. Mr. FOX; puNuant , to the notice which he had yesterday given, rOtie to submit his Motion to the House, for leave to bring in a Bill to enable a per ' Son holding the - Ot&e Qf Auditor of the Exchequer to hold also the Office oft( Commissioner of the Trea, sury. The obje& of his was to. legalise the hold ing of these two appointments, by enabling the Au, ''ditor to appolnt-a Deputy for discharging the duties - of that Office, He had before slated, that he enter tained no doubt himself on the subjt:d. Yet, as pos • sibly others may not feel as he did, 'it was the wish of • _the-Noble Lord concerned, that not i Vng should be • withheld_from the- House, but that all tile circum stances conne&ed With the transaaion Should be be fore the Public. But as the idea was gone abroad, . that the Auditor of'thell;xchequer Was a check upon the Lords of the Treasuy, he thought it right to advert to that circumstance. The fad was, that he • was -not a check upon them, and it was absurd to suppose that any Officer whose appointment was in the gift of the Lords of the Treasury could be any check upon them: He should hope, therefore, 'that no difficulty would be felt in complying with this measure.' Nobody-, he thought, would be of opinion that the office should be given .up by the -Noble Lord, which it was intended he shotild and on that account he trusted 'that no objection would be felt to the Bill., He had yesterday (Mon day) stated the case of Lord Halifzix, in the reign of George I. the first of the present illustrious family that had enjoyed the Crown in this Country. In that case Lord Halifax had given the AucZitorship nominally to his brother, whilst he virtually con . - tinued in the enjoyment of it himself. The Noble Lord might, in the present instance, ad-upon that' precedent, but he was better pleased that the trims-- action should whollY rest on LegislatiVe grounds.-- Those Gentlemen who were not dissatisfied with the arragement that placed, his Noble Friend in these circumstances, would, he was sure, 'not make any objeCtion td the progress of this measure. He there,. fore begged' leave « To move for leave to bring in a, Bill.'for removing certain doubts," &c.. With respe& to the• doubts; when - they should come to the pre- .. amble Of the Bill, that expression might struck out, if Gentlemen should be of opinion that no doubts existed. 0n the Motion being pttit . ROSE declared that no Metnber,conld be lexs desirous than he-was to .throw - any difficulty in' the way of the appointment of the Noble Lord in question, which had given hitn great and unaffecled satisfa6iien nor should he then say any thing against the Bill if it was only to remove doubts.— kwas his opinion that no doubt could be enter tained on the SubjeCt, and he was 'certain that he could convince the Housethat the two. Offices were incompatible.. By the Ad of the Bth and 9th of King William, which :regulated the course of , the EXchequer, the Office of Auditor was rendered a disfind Office, and the two; had not been held since by the same person.. This Aft directed, that no money should be issued front'the Exchequer with out -the: order of the Auditor, signed by the Clerk of the Pella. As to the circumstance (Sittig appoint ment of the Auditor by the Comnissioners, and his being fherelCre no check upon them, he had only to Observe, that an ordei from the•cominissioners for:the issue of money from the Exchequer would be null and of no circa:without the sianaturc of the Auditor. By this it would -,13a. seen, there ore, thftt the Auditor was an etreaual check upon the Com missioners. The course of the .Exchequer he took, to be this*hen that House voted a cert a i n sum for - a' certain service, suppose a rtfillion ; if the Com missioners issued an order for more than thakriiii- Eon, the Auditor, to whbm the Yotes of .that Froii4V were sent, would not sign it,- . and'would therefore lac an efficient check UpOn the CommissionetS of the Treasury. He had himself knowninstancts of this nature, when .the funds out of- which - a particular sum was voted had been exhausted, and the Audi tor refused to sign an order foran issue out of other funds. There -Was another provision in she A&; which was, that the Auditor should Prepare—and draw the. orders by the direaions of the Cofirnis sioners of the Treasury. Every Qentleman must be sensible of thelncongruitY of the same person giving and receiving these directions in virtue of 'his ditfie..i. rent Offices. As to the cases mentioned by the Hon. ,Gentleman, they did not apply. Lord Halifax was First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer when the Auditorship became vacant. He did not then take the Office to himself, but gave it to his brother. When afterwards he resigned his former Offices, he sat down with the Auditorship of the Exchequer. If the , Deputy were tcl be ap pointed, it would be for the HOuse to consider how far he could be a cheek upon the Commissioners. In the case of Mr. Pelham, though be had been lip pointed First Lord of, the Treasury in 1743; the Auditorship of the Exchequer did nOt become vacant till 1701, When it Was given to his sop-in-law, whe ther' in tryst or in fa& he was not competent to say. The cases were therei j ore ,ditferent,, and this Bill could not pass without altering the whole course of the Exchequer. These were the difficulties be felt, and. he thought it his duty to state, them in the Hons.; but certainly without any, wish to impede the appointment of the Noble 14)4 : WILLIAMS WYiyl4E eouid not agree with the Right Hon. Gentleman., that the Clause of the eth and 9th of King William constituted the Au ditor a check upon the Commissioners Of the Trea sury. The Right Hon. Gentleman had correctly stated the Clause, but had omitted to state the reason for which it had been inserted. 1 The Learned Gen tleman here read frOm the Statute Book the Tara eaph preceding the. Clause, which he contended: shewcd . that the office of Auditor was designed ,to he: a check upon the issue of money voted for one ser vice to the use of and-noc as a cheek 'upon the Commissioners. He saw no reason why )De, Duty might not be appointed to be sworn in by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Right Hon. Gentleman had appeared to confound two cases re &peaing Lord Halifax, at different periods of his Achninistration, and on rcfeetion- would find, that the statement of his Hon. Friend on the subje& was strialy corre&. No evil could arise from the ap pointment of a Deputy, 'that would not equally arise from the appointment of-the original. .But there had been at former periods, a praftical objet ion to the appointment of the same person to' both offices, which did not at present ex, ist. The Auditor of the EXchequer had then only a per cetAta4e on the money isstiedi lte had now a 0 .. ,e(1 salary. Mr. ROSE explanation, stated that no altera tion had taken, place in the Exchequer since the Bth and 9th of William. The ATTORNEY GENERAL would feel happy to offer any thing that might have the effeet of re moving any of the difficulties that might be felt with respell to this measure. Of all the appointments that had takien place, no one afforded him more satisfac tion than that of the Noble Lord to the one he was to fill. He should be sorry, if in consequence of any obstacle 'to this measure he should-be obliged to-accept any other in place of it. He thought it would be de sirable that the Bill should pass on this day, through every stage consistent with the forms of the, House, .(Hear ! hear) and that Gentlemen might - come down to-morrow better prepared to - decide upon it. He acknowledged that what had fallen from his Right Honourable Friend had great weight with him. The Auditor was, it appeared by the tes timony of his Right Hon. Friend, a practical check upon the Commissioners, and' it would be for the House to consider how far a .Deputy, appointed by, and removeable at the pleasure ''of one of those Commissioners, would be such a check. The Offices were certainly distind. However, Gentle men would be able to make up their minds before to-morrow. - For his own part, h e th oug htwould _ be more proper to appoint a Trustee' to libld 'the Office, under a responsibility for the perfurinaiice,of,: its duties,. He did not mean by such a measurb - io interfere with the perception of the salary by Lord 'GrenVille, but that the person to perform the pub - - lic . &Ides of the Office should hold it on arlegal ground, and he irrenioveable but on legal grounds, whilst the principal should hold the Office of a Com missioner of the Treasury. . . Mr. FOX did not perceive the distindion between the appointment of a Deputy and of a Trustee, and for his own part, felt no objedion to adopt the sug gestion of the Learned Gentleman. But though irregular to allude/0 any thing that might pass with out doors, he thought it better td have some con versation first with his Noble - Friend on the subject. As to the responsibility of the person executing the Office, it had been his intention, if the Bill were allowed to be, brought in, to move an amendment to that effed, with resped to the Deputy. Mr. ROSE declared, that his objedtions would be done away by:the appointment . of a Trustee under responsibility. The Question was then put, and leave given to bring in the Bill, Mr. Fox and Mr. W4LLIAMS, WYNNE being ordered to prepare it., Mr. Fox trien brought it up,' and it was read a first and second time, and ordered to be committed to-morrow. • HIS MAJESTY'S MESSAGE, Mr.- ALEXANDER brought up the several Reports, of the Committees on His Majesty's Messages, .re lative'to itt provision for Lady Nelson, Lord Col- Jingwood, .and Sir Richard Strachan ; when the se veral Resolutions were 'agreed to nemine contradicente, and the Bills ordered accordingly, Adjourned', MIJLS. 4R!II\TZ D-4 Harriburgn, t Dublin,: lly*-1 3 Waterford. I' ;: IC E UF . STOCKS, THIS DAV AT TWELVZ O ' CLOC-tr. Consols THE SUN. saLzAt Ortr- prcERE PALSUM A UDEAT ? • LO.NDON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1806. . , Ofni Falmouth Letter states the receipt of intelli gence of an - Enemy's Squadron, of Nine Sail of the 4ne, being in sight of the Niue Sail of the Liue which - were convoying - the outward-bound West India Fleet. 'The following is also an Extra& of a Letter oR thie same - subje4, froin Capt. Osmt, of the Naiad : , d ‘f Yesterday left Nine Sail of the Eneiny's Ships in sight, 9 leagues wes t of U?hant—ouF Fleet in chow." / , We understand the faet to be, that a Squ3drra was in sight of Sir 11. SrRACHAIsYS Squadron, which was supposed to be _that of the Enemy returning, in consequence of the fright they on catch ing a glimpse of Sir. J. DUCKWORTH. The supposed Enemy may, however, perhaps, turn out to be a parrot - the Fleet of Admiral COIiNWALLIS, WllO was• the day before seen off Uslant. Earl SPENCER and Mr. *WINDHAM were sworn in this morning, and will take possession of their re-spec. tive Offices in the CQII;*SO of the day. The other New Ministers were we believe also sworn in, with the exception of Lord GRENVILLE and Mr. Fox, with resped to whom a delay of a dil l y pr two will toy, place. LAST night we received Paris s Paper,s' to, thp ggth ult. and Dutch Journals to the 2d inst. BONAPARTE arrived at Paris CO the 26th ult. Pre, vious to his arrival, (on the e 33) the Senate, at an `e3ttraorditlary sitting, took into, consideration- alette x from, 130NAIWITE, in which he Nitly :deVelOpes some of his plans for the future management of Eug, rope. The letter will be found 'highly interesting . Thosystem of establishing a number/ of petty de pendent Kingdoms, as a.sort of advanced guards of the French Empire, is one which is certainly found ed in deep policy. These Kingdoms will serve to ward off any attack upon Prince, not 'merely by their geographical position, but by that oppo4tion of views and clashing of interests which must necessarily arise, and' -which will, no dattbt, be promoted and increasedby 1301.ti'Ar'SRTg ever it suits his purpose, roe Federative States tClAy4iCh BONAPARTE alludes, evidently mean those newly erected and to be'cretled King4otns, which, whatever differences they may have among s t selves,, are to be c on ne ct e d by one common tie witlA ''Tance, - of whom their Sovereing must 1,101 , 3111eir Dominions as tributary vassals. This -syst em is only yet began ; nothing less will sa(isfyl:3oNAl'AATE thani Europe, and establishing - himself as the Chief of what lie will chase. to call the Empire of the Neat. The greater part of the South of Europe lies prostrate at his mercy. The North can only be preserved froM his grasp, or at least frorn the baleful effeets e 4 his . - infltience, by a vigorous and cordial, union amongst those Powers who are' yet - abled to maintain an, attitude of command and independence. Prussia feels this, and continues to maintain a Arm .alliance with the E:lPploit to which Saxony is likewise attached..—..- , Prussia has now a difficult part to play, in which perhaps more may be done by diplomatic skill and dextrous policy than by force of arms. The Prussian Minister, Count HATIGItTIT, had, it appears, reach. . ed!Frankfort on his way to, Paris. In the present 'ination of Europe we look''with considerable cei-ii dence to the polity of the Court of Berlin, 'as the means of pUtting some 14. its to the projefa i of Bo- NAP' AR'PE, and at least preventing him from taking these ambitious strides in the North which have overwhelmed the South of Europe. The Austrian Forces on the frontiers of the Turkish Empire are stated, in an article front Vienna, to have received orders to hold themselves in readiness for immediate service. The motive assigned for this measure is the approach of two di visions of Turkish Troops, to reduce the insurgent SerViaris under the command of CZERNI GEOROES. This, or some other equally flimsy pretext, will probably serve as a justcation for attempting to dismember the Turkish, Empire—a - proj eel which every successive account from - the Continent con.. tributes still further to develope. -- A division of the French Troops is stated to have entered the Neapolitan Territories on the Bth or I oth From :the number of French Troops :might be brought to bear Upon Naples in the course, of short period, we . fear there was little chance of any' elfecanal resistance being made by that natural.. n4e Kingdom., PRIVATE, Letters from Holland : , received this morning - , state, that in consequence of the late high winds, the dikes hi the neighbourhood of Amsterdam had been broken down, by N - vhich the Magazine had been destroyed, and incalculable miscllief done in the surrounding Country. ~-