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ina're3ty'3 comer endearnorr for the presctration
of rtsoe Amin; failed of sue-iv., he entertains the fullest
eoufidertee that It shall reedy, the same support from
his l'arliarnent, and that the same zeal and spirit will be
manifested by his people, which he his experienctd on
evert Occlsion e hut the honour of his Crown los been
atu;k..ti. or the essential interests of his dominions have
bscn indarthereel.
[boring the %thole course of the negotiations which
led to tlw Preliminary and flettitii i.e. Treaties of Peace
b. teen his Nlajestv and oboe ]rench. Iteptililie, it tv,i; his
Molests.% sincere desire, not only to put an 'end to the
hosttlities which subsisted between the two countries,
to adopt such measures. and to concur in <,ucli pro-
p-460,m, as nsic.h t most effectually contribute
W to co.iso-
att the general tranquillity of Lorene. The wive :mo-
tives tnr wjaich his Ntsrsty was actuated doting the ne-
poi diens for peace. lutes since int ariabh. got.-toed his
conduct. As soon at the Treaty of „Ilai,•10. Con-
e's:4lrd, his Mneny's coons were open to the iessplc of
}'race fox every purpose of legal redrew; all sesvieste,-
trans ion, Ultra off t!usr property ; all prohibitions on ;
their trade winch bad been tuiposeil riming the war were
rensiwv:, sod titer were placed, La ?Wry Wirett, on the
came loath); vents regard to commerce and intercourse. .
as the i habitants of antrenotth,r state in amity with his
M ktesty, with ninth existed no tivaly of cont-
tn
Ta a %mime of conduct thus open, liberal, and friend-
ly, the ploccediugt. of the French CfnctOoletil afford the
sow striking comsat. The prolnbstions which had been
placed ors the erimmerre of bus Nlajesty's subjects dunn7
s:re war have been enforced Nllll4 nicniased s.netriess arid
weer ity ; vinienee has been offered in several instant; to
flirt: yowls and slwirpropenc ; and, in no true, bah jos-
' fe:e been afforest! to these who may have heen a•4l.triceil
conuquettee of such arts, no: has any satilacto3 an-
swer been Kteu to the repeated representations male lie
114tjesty s .Miu'aiters or Ambassador at Paris: Unsic.r
such circumstances, when his Majesty% soliects were
not soffertai to enjoy tkw to 1111 l ton adtantaaes of pew
:thin the tenttortrs of the Er.-tich Republic, and the
c-saatrisostiepentlain upon it, the french Government had
re-an se to the extrisnedinary measure of '&11,1.11,1.; over to
cluntry a number of persons for the proftssed pur-
pose of rl 'Siding in Ow most eon.e rahlc stalx.rt towns
of (heat Britain and Ireland, in the clsaraeui of eninnier-
es do:Asti or month. Thee itersons could hate no pre-
fensicns to be acknotwiili;:cti in that chancer. as die
of Dein:, so aelinowleri7ed. as well as all the prisi-
klw,
_duetted to sorb a batiati.,:i could only ht. derived
float a commercial trm:y ; and '25 no treaty of that de-
syrision was iu existeata: lx..ween his Majesty and the
}'tench rwpublic.
'preen: was consequentiy ton notch reason to suppose,
tli it the owl objeet of their mission was by no weans of
b einninercial nature, and thi. )1.144100 was confirmed,
roil spoly by the tirciiinstature that some of thew were
mititar, awn, but the actual discovery dun several of
them were fortashed with iastructitots to obtain the
souritlirets of the h arbours, and to procure Military syr.. "
V. V% of the
_plays whew it was intended they should re-
side. 31,ajesty hit it to be his linty to -prevent their
&porton. to their respective places of destination, and re-
pt. st 'soil to the &knelt Goverrimrot tae necessity of
sr,.tivirolint them; grid it cannot or uenied that ths.:
cir-
t•nutrarrces .unter whiehthec were sent, awl rite iostrut.-
1.0:1.4 %LAI .3 dre piveults tient. ought to i.e considered
decistre intheattom of the disposivions and intentions
of the Governreent-by whom they.were employed.
The ciroduct of the likeneh Ciivenunent, with respect
to the commercial inteleonrse between the twucountrici,
must therefore be eousitit red as ill suited to a state of
peace, hod their proceeding? hi their uu.re general poli-
tical: rebates, as well as in those which itnniodiatelv
concern his Nlajc..y's dontinions, appear to have been alr-
together ir,consisowt whit every principle of iciest faith,
modension. anti justice. /its Majestyliad enurtained.
hares. in corusegnenee of the n4.taterl uratices and pro-
fessinns of the French Goverriment, that they might
hive bees 'tutored to adopt a s...stetn of poliev which, if
it had not inspired other poster, with confidence, might
at least hare Ala.-eel their jealousios. If the French Go-
vernment bad really appearcsl,to he actors:et, bs.a doe at-
tention to such a systeut i if their dispositions'had pureed
to he essentially p.u.itic, %Allowances would have been
made- for the situation in
.wittch a new poveninicnt
ghost be placed save 'so dreadful and esters re a eons la-
moo as tiro which hal been protium, by tiff:tench Re-
IJlAtion. Bat his llaittott has unfortorundy had too
comb ream, to observe aria to lament thaktlse swells of
violence, aptreardsts; and idtoontliscinent which charac-
Writes, the procealints of the diet-tent Governments of
France duting tit war, lia%•been continued with as little
,r,,pase qincetti • ion. They:leave continued to
kern a IlieWl. easy. Olanil against the will, and in
eftimasbefonedsgoofflappery of tilt Hatavia:t Go vern-
Leto. and in repugnance to the letter of three solemn
Ovaries. 'I Iwyliave,.in a period of peace, invaded the
tatiStory, acid violated the indepcndzact of the Swiss tta-

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en 6 Aefiative tit fix laity of tot.e.ate. w • Li
stipulated th; itrieestecletire of their territone and l'ici‘
right of the ieltahitaats to ehu es their on Kum of Gtr.
versunent. Thee hare une.eeed to the dominions on
!railer, Pieeltner'et, Perm:, aed Placentia, and the isletW„
of Elba, wi:liout alletteig err ;envision to the King
4.F.Ainia. „;into tiny have dt spoiled of the most vain-
a:sle part of his hesitate-. though they were bound by a
solemn eneagement to the Emperor of Ressie, to attow4
to his interion, end in provide for his eseitslishment. It
near, indeed, with trudt be asserted, that the period
whirls has seared since the corwiusion of the IXestinive
Treetv, lese been marked with one auditiod s-ries of
assieses, inn, viiecuses, and insult uo the part of die Fivnisit
Cover:anent.
In the month of Osenher last, his Nleeesty was imbues&
ill consequence of the earnest velienatinn of the Swiss
tiatioo. to make an effort, ht a represeatatiea in the
•French Government, to avert the eyes which were thin
impending lOW' that coition-. Tine representation was
couched in the most temperate tenni, ; and measures
were calico by his Dlajesty for entertaining. ender the
circumstances which then existed, the re 4 situation and
wishes of the Swiss Cantons, as well as the sentiments
of the other Cabinets of Europe. His Majesty learned,
however, with the utmost regret, that noeliipoeition to
counteract these repeated infractions of treaties ;mil acts
of y iolenee• was sianifested by any of the powers moist
i tttt noliatele interested in preventing them ; and 4 4 Ma-
jetite- thereffire felt, that. with respect to these [Alio'''. his
single etfurte conlil tint be repecteil to produce any con-
sislemble advantege to those in whose favour they might
he exerted.
It was about this time that the French Government
floc distinctly ash aneed the Principle. that his a!ejesty
hal po right to complain of the conduct, or to toter-
fere si ith the proreedinee of France. on any point which
did not form a part of the stipulations otthe Treaty of
Amiens. 11,at treaty wa.c tuipwstionabir Amman! upon
the same principle as even other aniciedem treaty or
convention, on the assumption of the state of poises-
shin and of enepeements subsisting at' the time of its
conclusion ; and if that state of poesession and of en-
gagements is materially affected by the yolumarv. act of
any of the parties, so as to prejudice the condition on
which the other party has entered into the contract, the
change, so made, new be considered as operating virtu-
ally as a breach of the treaty itself, and as giving the
party megrim ed u right to demand satisfaction or compeo-
sation fer any substantial difference which such acts may
have effected in their relative situations; but whatever
may be the principle on which the treaty is to he consi-
dered as founded, there is indisputably a 7ene,al law of
nations, which, thongh liable •to be limited, explained,
or notreiped by- conventional Lew, is antecedent to it,
and is that law or rule of conduct whieh all sovereigns
and states have been accustomed to appeal, where con-
ventional law is admitted to have been silent. The
Treaty of Amiens, and mere other treaty. in providing
for the objects to which it is particulaire directed, does
not therefore assume or imply an indiffereswe to all other
objects which are not specified in its stipulations, much
less does it adjudge them to be of a nature to be left to
the ss ill and caprice of the violent and :he powerful.
The justice of the cause is alone a sufficient mound to
warrant the interposition of any of the porsers of Eu-
rope in the deference. which may arise between other
strs-s, and the application anit extent of that jest inters,
position is to he determined belch- by coasiderations of
prudence. These principles ran 'admit of no dispute;
but if the sere and extraordinary pretension ,irly-aneed
by 1114 French Goeernment, to ex-clear hi* Nlajesty from
any right to intrr.ere with respect to the eon' enis of
other powers. unless they made a specific part of the
stipulation-, of the Treety of Amiens, was that which it
vele poesible to maintain, those power; would e per a
eight. at least, to claim the benefit of this erinciple, its
every ease of difference bcnreen the two countries. The
nulittaation of all Europe must surely then be excited
be the declarations of the French Governmer t, that, in
tfie event of hostilities, there eery powers who were no
parties to the Treaty of Amiens, and mho were sielie
lowed to derive any ;rive:stage from the rernowerimad of
his Majesty in their tiefillf, are nevertheless to be man
the Beams of a war which is alleged to arise out of the
same treaty, and are tmbe sacrificed in a contest which
they not only have slat occesion, but which they have
half no moans whatever of preventing..
His Majesty judges! it most expedient, under the cir-
cumstanees Which then effected Europe, to abstain from
a recurrenre to hostilities on account of the. views of ant-.
Isition and acts of aggression manifested 1w sFranee on
the comics:eat ; yet en experience of the cher-as:ter and
dispositioso of the Trench Cori ram ent could net fal to
impress his Majesty with a sense of the neceesity.of in-
creased vigilance to guarding the tights and dignity of
his crown. and in protecting ute iteertos of his people.
Whilst his Miskety was actuated 1w these sentiments, he
was called npon by the French GOvernment lo evacuate
the Island of Malta. his Majesty had macifested. from
the moment of the signature of the Definitive Treaty,
an anxious dispositiou to care) into full effect the stipu-
lations of the Treaty of AIIIWIIS relative to that island.
As soon as he was informed that an election of a Grand
Master had taken place, under the auspices of the Em-
peror of Russia, and that it lead been agreed by the dif-
ferent • Flours esecinbled at St. Petersburgh ti acknow-
leilat the !Arson whom the Court of Rome should select
opt of those who had been named by them to he Grand
Master of the Order of St. John, bit Majesty • proposed
trethe French Goverment, for he pct ense of Breeding
env diflicoities which might arise en the execution of
the arningennint, to acknowledge that election to be
valid : and when in the 'mouth of August, the French
Got ernme et applied to his Majesty to permit the Neap°.
titan troops to be sent to the Island of Malta, as a preli-
zninary measure for preventing any uenectentry delay.
his Nrejesty consented without hesitation to ttuapropo-
oal, and gave dies (oleos for the admission of the Neapo-
litan troops into the island. his Majesty bed thus shcwn
besteisiatoonn not only to throw nu obstacle in the way
of the execution of the treaty, hut, on the cooteary, to
facilitate the execution cif It by every inmates in his
power. His Majesty cannot, finites-tr. actor,. that at
any period since the oriodusion of the l'reetesor Amie.ne
the• Fnizsch Government have had a right is call upon
him, its conformity to 'the stipnlation% of that treaty,
to withdraw his forces from the Island of Matta.— ,
At the time when this demand %yes made by the French
(;overnutent, several of the most important stipulations
a the aeyanseerocat respecting Malta reinaincal uncsecut-
eil: the election tele (;rated Master had not been carried
into effect. The tenth article had stipulated that the
indepesidenee of the island should be placed under the
t itarantee and protection of Great Briteitt, France, A 'o-
leo, ltiosia, Spain, and Prussia. Ibe Freperoteof Ger-
many had acceded to the gnarautee, hut only on comfi-
t-mu ma. 5 like actession on the pert of the Other powers
speritiO in the article. The Emperor of Russia had re-
feiesl his accession, except on the comlition that the.
Maltese 'emote should be abroseited ; and the King of
Prussie koi gsseu no answer whatever to the application
which had been made to hint w accede to the errepsr-
- none Hut the fundamental principle upon the exist-
ence of which depended the execution of the other parts
of the article. had been defeated by the changes which
had taken place in the constitution of thejerier rimer the
conclusion of the Treaty of Peace. It Wits to the Order
of St. Joists of Jerusalem that his Majesty was, by the
first stipulation of the tenth article; bound to restote the
island of Malta. 'Me order is defined to censist of these
lingoes which were in existence at the tiros; tit the cos-
elusion of the treaty : the three French a eLoSeoara having
been aeolisherl, and a Melte lauguageosided to die
ogi
slitistion. The ostler consisted, therefoos, at that Li e.•
of theasliowing langste*, NIL. the lafigues of An .
Castile, Germany. Reverie, and Russia. Since the con-
clusion of the Definitive Treaty, die la:Agues of Allegan

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anA Caulle have been ()nletlif Stain,
a ptlrt of the Italian,langue has Leen In the
amncatioti of 'Aixlmoni ;old Parma to FnuICC.
striate triegoi to belief': the, it hits s been in conteiaplatiiin
to Ite.ple+irate the property of the Ravat:lut langue, and
flee Mtentinti ha= hem I avowed of keeping the ILnasien
lanzties Ivrthiti the dominions of the litstueror.
ruder these eirefim-winces the Order of St. John .ean-
hot he cnusidered as that body tb w lhich, according to the
etiptilations of the treaty, the island Was to be restored
siusi the (ands indispensably nares.;:tre for is sopport, and
for tic' maintenance of the independence of the island,
hare bectulearly, if not wholly, seque.aeratl. Even if this
had ar15411 from Cir:lllllstaiiCes AvliWil it WM not in the
power /Wane of the contracting parties to tb: treaty to con-
tront, his Nfajestx woild nevertheless hate hail ti ri,tit to
defer the efticnation Or the island by his forces, until such
time as an eqiiivalent arrangement veal been conclitiled for
the preservation of the independence of the Order and 4b(
the ;stand. ]hut if th.L-se changes have ta'aen place ill con-
segues:cc or any acts of the other parties to therTare,acy ;
if the French Crovernment shall appixo to have p ed
upon a %%stem of rendering the Order, whose inde-
pendence ill& bail stipulated, int.:lli:dile of maintaining
that Independence, his Majesty's right to continue in the
oremeuion of the island, under such eirciunstanecs, will
hardly be contested. It is inclisputahl:: that the revenues
of the two Spanish langfies have been withilravvn front
the Order by his Catholic Majesty ; a part of the Italian
langite has in fact been abolishvxf be France, through the
unjust annexation of l'ictlinunt unit Parma. and Placen-
tia, to the French territory. 'rite Elector of Llavaria has
been insti;tated by the French Government to sequestrate
the property of the Order within his territories ; anti it is
&main that they bare not nob: sanctionedinit encouraged
the idea of the propriety of separating the Russian tan-
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s the conduct of the Governments of France and
Spate love, therefore, in some instances directly, atid in
others indirectly, contributed to the changes which have
taken place in the Order, and thus destroyed its means of
supporting its independence, it is to those Governments,
and not to his Majesty, that the min-eacrution of the
tenth article of the Treaw of Amiens must be ascribed.
Such would be the just conclusion if the tenth article
of that treaty were considered as an arrangement by itself.
It must be observed, however, that this article (onus a
part only of a Treaty of Peace, the whole•,of which is con-
nected together, and the simulations of which must,
upon a principle common to all treaties, be construed as
having a reference to each other.
His Majesty was induced by the Treaty of Peace to
consent to abandon and to restore to the" Order of St.
John the island of Malta, on condition uf'its indepen-
dence and neutrality. Bor. a further condition which
must necessarily be supposed to hatehadconaiderable in-
fluence with his Majesty in inducnig him tia make so nn- .
portant a concession, was the acquiescence/A.6e French
Government in an arrangement fur the security of the le-
vant, by the eighth and ninth articles in the Treaty stipu-
lating the in•eerite of the Turkish empire, and the We-
prudence of the lonian islands. His Majesty has, how-
ever, since kerne theft the French Government have ere
tertained views hostile to both theeteolsjects ; eons! • 'that
they have even suggested the idea of a -partition-Of the
Turkish empire. These views must now be nianicest to
all the world, from the official publication of. the report
of Colonel Sehastiani ; front the conduct of that officer/
and of the other French agents in Egypt, Syria, and the..
lonian islands, and feint the distinct admission of. she.-
First Consul himself', in his communication with Lord
Whitworth. His ,Majesty was, therefore, warranted in
considering it to be the determination of the French Go-
vernment to violate those articles of the Treaty of Peace,
which stipulated for the integrity and independence of the
Turkish empire, and of the lonian islands, and conse-
rptently he would not have been
,justified in evacuating
the island of Malta; without receiving some other seen-
ritvewhich might equally provide for these important ob-
jects. His lal•oeste accordingly feels that he has an in-
contestable claim, in consequence of the conduct of
France since the Treaty of Peace, and with retie-elle* to
die objects which made part of the stipulations of that
treaty,ato refuse, under the present circumstances, to
relinquish the possession of the island of Malta.
Yet notwithstanding this right so clear and so unques-
tionable, the alternative presented by the Frenili Go-
vernment to his Majesty, in language the moat peremp-
tory and menacing, was " The evacuation of Malta, or
the renewal of the war."
If the views of ambition and aggrandizement, which
have thus been manifested by the French Government
since the conclusion of the Treaty of Peace, havc.in an
very partienler a manner attracted the attention of his:
Majesty, it has been equally impossible for him not. tar
feel, and not to notice, the repeated indignities which •
have been offered by that Government to his crown and
to his people.
The report of Colonel Sebastian' contains the most
unwarrantable insinuations and, charges againSt his Mal
jetty's Gevernntent, against the officer who commanded
his forces in Egypt, and against the British army in.
that quarter. The paper cannot Ix; considered as the
publication of a private individual; it has been avowed,
and Weed bears evidence upon the flee of it. that 'it is
the official report of an acceedited agent, published by the
authority of a Government to which it was addressed,
who thereby have given it their express sanction.
This reprirt had been published a very short time, when
another indignity was offered to this country in the com-
munication of the First Consul Of France to the legisla-
tive body. In this communication he presumes to affirm,
in the character of Chief Magistrate of that country,
" That Great Britain cannot /single contend against the
power of France r an assertion as unfounded as it is hi-
decent, disproved by the events of mane wars, and by
none more than by those of the war which has been ere
ccatly concluded. Such an amertione advanced• in the
most solemn official act of a Government, and thereby
meant to he avowed to all the Powers of Europe, can be,.
considered in no other light than as a defiance pnblicly
offered to his Majesty, and to a brave and nowerful peo-
ple, who are limb willing and able to defend his just
rights, and those of their country, apinst every insuk
and ageneAinn.
The conduct of the First Consul to his Majtis. ty's !maps- •
sador, at his audience, in presenceof the Ministers of most
of ti,c Sovereigns and States of Eurupe, furnishes another.
ineance of provocation on the part of the French Go,
vernment which it would be impropernot to notice on
the present occasion, and the subsequent explanation of
tins transaction may be considered as having the effect of
aggravating instead of palliating the affront.
At the very time when his Majesty was demanding sa-
tisfaction end explanation on some of the points above-
mentioned. the French Minister at Hamburgh cndea- '
voered to obtain the insertion in a Ilatnburgh Paper of a
most gross and opprobrious Bled against his Majesty,
and when difficulties were made respecting the insertion
of it, he availed himself of his official character of Minis-
ter of the French Republic to require the publication of
it by order of his Government in the Gazette or the Senate
of that town. With this requisition so made, the Senate
of Hamburgh were induced to comply; and thus has the
independence of that town been violated, and a free State
made the instrument, by the menace of the French Go- •
vernmeot, of propapting throughout Europe, upon their
authority, the most offensive and unfounded calumnies
against his Majesty and his Government. His Majesty
might add to this list of iudignities, the requisition
Which the FrencheCruvernment have repeatedly) mired,
that the laws and constitution of his • country shou d be
clanged /dative to the liberty or the press Ills Majesty
osigh• likewise add the calls which the French Govern-
.atient have, on several occasions, made upon him, to
va,:efe the' lases of hospitality with respect to persons
Who had found an asylum within his dominions, and
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tint I..4a'.4oliotatitiated. tt is impossilsle to reqeet oft
these d;ffereat proceedino„ and tlta course which the
French Gosentment lose thought propos to adopt
spuctiug them, without the thornily confielon, that
they are not the effect of accident ; but that tlicy rorrt
part ohs system which has been adopted fur dr.: purpose
of degradnag,. vilifying, and insulting his Majesty and
his Government.
Under all dick insults awl provocations, his Majesty.
not without a due sense of his dignite, his pl-cre,-1.:I
with every (fence of temper awl mit:ter:Aim to obtain sa-
tisfaction aoiredress, while he ha, neglecied nn means
consistent with his banner and the same.; of his domi-
nions. to induce the Government of France to entice:lei
to iuiai. what is, in his judement, absolutely met:moil
fur the future tranquiliit% of Europe. His eflorts in 11114
respect base prove abortive, and he has therefore judge 4.-
it tr;cessary to order his unibassadcr to leave Pans. In
having foclitiriZ. to this proceeding, it has been his M,-
jestv's object in put an end to the fruitless disrussiom
which has-c too loo; subsisted between the two Govern-
ments, and to close a period of suspense peculiarly inju-
rious to the subjects his Majesty.
• But though the provocations which his M:-.ii!ur has re-;
ceived might entitle him to larger claims than those
whit.% he has advanced, vet anxious to prevent cal:ni-
t:es which might thus he extended to every. part of Eu-
rope, he is still willing, as far as is consistent with bia
own honour, :owl the interests of his people, to afford
every facility to any just and honourable arrangement;
by which such evils may be averted. Ile has, therefore,
no difficulty in declaring to 41 Europe, that notwith-
standing all the changes which have taken place since
the Treaty of Peace, notwithstanding the extension of
the power of France, in repugnance to that treau.-, and
to the spirit of peace itseh, liis Majesty- will not avail
himself of these circumstances, to demand in comliensa-
tion all that he is entitled to require, but will be ready to
concur, even • now, in an arrangement by which sati.
faction shall be given to hint, for the indignities which
have 'been offered to his crosmand to his people, aid
substantial security afliwiled against further encroacls -
wenn on the part of France.
His Majesty has thus distinctly and unreservedly
stated the misons'of those pi*.ceedings to which he ha't
found himself compelled to resort. -He is actuated toy
• no disposition to interfere in the internal coucerns of any
other state by no projects of conquest and aggrandizo-
mcnt ; but solely by a sense of what is due to the honour
of his Crown, and the interests of his people, and by an
anxious d: sire to obstruct tbe further progress of a•sy;
stein, which, if not resisted, may prove fatal to evert
part of the civilized world.

HOUSE OF LtrRDS.
WEDNESDAY, MAT IS.
The papers relative to the Negociation with France were laii
upou the•tihle.,
The Meccas Workhouse Bill was reported from the Com.
notice above stairs. Adjourned to Friday.
HOUSE OF COMMONS.
wruwasnaT, MAY 18.
Mr. T. H. BROWNE boa, ght up the Bill for regulating the
passage of persons emigrating• from Scotland. and Ireland to fu-
re.gti platitattnis, It was read a first time, and ordered to be
read a second time to-morrow.
John Simpson, Mayor of Great Grimsby, was brought to
the bar, and having received a suitable admonition from the
Speaker, was discharged on paying his fees.
Mr SHERIDAN gave notice, that Ite should to-morrow
move for the House to come to a decision on the !Middlesex
eluctiou.

• The SECRETARY at WAR, in pursuance of his notice of
yesterday, ruse to move for leave to bring in a .Bill for the bet-
ter enabling his Majesty to provide fur the safety of the United •
Kingdom. He stated, that it was precisely similar to the mea-
sure adopted in the year 17913, with this only exception, that it
was intend dto extend its provisions to Ireland. He presume-id
it was not necesetry to enter into a detail of the measure, the
general•object of it was similar to the Bill which during last
war made part of a system that had bees found necessary and
efficacious for the purpose of jeovidisg for the security of his
Majesty's kingdoms in time of great danger, as well as for the
pu.pnse of enabling his Majesty to take such msasorse as were
necessary for ascertaining the strength and resources of meta
distri. t, and to acquire possession at a short notice o. such local
puinta as were necessary for the &Ilene •of the country. The
further object of the Bill was to privide a summary mode of
carniicirsating such of his Majesty'y subjects as might suffer in
their property ins consequence of the, pre para Wry measures of
defence adopted in pursuance of the Bill. Hissing further en-
larged no the propriety of reviving the plan of internal drfenfe
providixl by the Bill of 1795, he concluded by moving fur leave •
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to bring in a Bill accordingly.—Lca‘e given.
The SECRETARY at %VAR. moved the further. •consider-
ation of the Report on the Soldier's Relief Brll.- A stem crin-
yersation took place on the subject, after which, at the snips-
• of Mr. Shaw Lvfevre, the Bill was recommit:4 fireita.
Morrow.

Toe Older of the Day being reed for taking info consider-
ation the Report of flit: Committed on the itchaster.Eloctesny
Mr. ROSF..rnoved, that tie House agree its trtoseCond Reso-
lution, Thiit Jame; Dbvison, of St James's square, was Cntla-
ill a corrupt conspiracy in the said election. • .
The Motion was supported by Lord Acchiblld
Mr. Smith, Nlr Lee, Mr Itragge, end others; and opp,•ed by •
Mr. Wallace, who ow:4 the previous question, as also byltte
Mauer of ths -Rolls, Mr. Sheridan, &c. Aftet wbick' *ha .
li.,use divided on the previous question,
Against it 36 • '

Fuf. it
48

IVlaiority 8
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The original Motion. Was of- course armed_
The qu•-stioo was then put on the next Re.ohttien, That 'the •
Attorney General be direr-cal to proses:ate Mr. Davis.irt. •‘N f..
a division, the numbers were
Ayes 31. 6O
• • NOes... s -.... 29
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,'.•• Majority' • 01
teport the Clergy Regidenee Bill was agreed to, EAI
the Bill orttexd to'be.iyad a qinjtirne to-iitorrow.
Ailiotirnid at nalf past twirl ve.o'Cloc k.
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