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London, England, 1808-02-27 00:00:00

AMERICAN I
The order of the day fur the third reading of the
American Intercourse tiZI we then reed.

BILL.

Lord A,CILLAND said, I*ff-it it his duty to state
once more to the House the idea be entertained of
this Rill. There never was a !measure propowid
to the House, which carried on the very fans
of it such an absurdity. While • Ministers
kpresse,l for this Bill's enactment here, they
were also rapidly carrying through the other House
'mother Bill founded on the Orders in Council,
which would render this at least ntigatuq, if not
altogether ineffectual. Before they proreeded to
enact a law for the regulation, or rather permission
of say bade, between this country and America,
th y reetaisly should have taken into their consider-
s'io• the' probable consequences of the Bill which
was immediately to succeed it. If this were ne-
glected, leMalatism would move ridiculously defec-
tive. and Itetwasit treableoeme and tedious in the
extreme; the business of one day would he to re-
pair the ei rem of that inimethattly preceding.—
Home Wetness wisiold coutinually multiply with-
out eod. But there were other olieetions to it,
viz. the duties imposed by it 0e certain articled—.
tobacco, rice, &c. which were in direct violation
of the laws of this country, NW emoting. The
provisoes% of the Bill now forwarding through the
other House, in many turbeces went to oterttrim
tSe neiriciple and provisions of the Bill under dis-
classiest. To maitre • prosperous and sitvaistar-
ons trade with America, it was necomery it should
he fotpoled rya liberal principles of sequel pshry.
Flew tlestralile such • trade sad intercourse mist
be, the anxiety feat by the public et kW. eget.

•
hie Abe Anal Ileihisa K die Americas
wolida t serve as the aied estathialaititormystref.
es Titlitaitteutiog the it •
nista& •assuisig. these ()eclair is Co cad. $.
moment when, had they sot bees Wooed, be weli
Wished IN might hare entered into the west
ia-
tisfactory• and advantageous treaty with America.
Earl ii&Tucese rose to express bin sorrow at
' Noble Lard persist in throwing (Modules
in the nuy of Hi* hiejeriity's Goveniuseut at a period
Re the preseut. lie defeuded the Orders which
had, on a former occasion, been shaded to, as a
general measure of retaliation agaiost the messy,
slid by no mama directed against America, but as
she happened to be collaterally connected with
our &waif ; hence site had no just, right to vete-
plain of a measure which had not her cola-
men.e primarily in view. ,The injury she had
subtaified wait merely a couseqneuist of that done
to the trade of the enemy. Our care had for its
justification a broad unfit.—aerevsity. The pre-
sent Bill isad also been rendered necessary by the
circuinttauces of the case, namely, the positive ex-
pinstiou of the Bill, regulating any system of muter-
count lastweee the two minute% on Tuesday
nest. The bat was intended to continue merely
the trading iotereourae between the tee nations, for
the present, ea nearly the same tooting as it stood
before.

Lord Gacireiti z entered at large into the ques-
tion, al connected wall the treaty formerly signed'
in tile conutry, tirongh ultimately rejected by the
Anievitun Cougrt-fs. He considered the present
measure ts ill calculated is itself to procure the
ends proposed, and if even be shuald admit vt were
effective, the tosusures founded on the
in Council, with 4P;ltioli it was to be followed°l4,
would t,otOly teed* it atasetipa, He hoped tat
measure would, Jlowever, be detested; oast would
ever reflect iudelible displace tank inincy so this
country, while it attached -the very principles of
our own constitutional liberty.
Lord Havrectsvae defended the measure, on
the plea of accrarity. He asked, was it better to
let the trade existing between the two countries be
carried on without at all defining the terms or
regulations of that trade, and thus subject all'
parties whatever to the mast grievous tumor*.
nienciaa. or endeavour to continue those regulatioas
of trade, already proved * be so advalatnems to:
this country and America ? There was bat this
sA-
ternative. As to the orders which l,ad so repeatedly
been introduced into the debates of both Houses,
he would only say. that the Ministry bad males-
moored to affect the enemy, with as little inks, as
possible to Neutral nations ; and, in the provaione
subsequently made in favour of Neutrals. they had
end eavoured to *mist them. es far as was possi-
lily-consistent with the great cause of compethag
France to admit our produce into berdosaimosi.—
In neither case, he omegas ed, had they erred.—
Conciliation bad- *fir great object: W hile
America had eves refund to ratify the treaty sign-
ed by the Pleuipotemtihrias bores we bad so all et.
easions strewn au anxiety to accommodate. in re-
turn, America had first passed the nun-impottatias
set, and shortly alter laid an a general etchings.
These were stubborn facts, ou which the Itlithstry j
rested with confidence their defence.
Lord Gellert ti.it observed' that webed no right
to complain of the conduct stuns Auserikon Go. I
*cement isqlleeting tl* reithAoOrws Pf `the ti'Vit
which had been signed-by the TlimirestantliriefjK
that country here, since we bad. tall air port, pnitest
our assent go that treaty, re sips rat/ or. in other
words, on the bare probability of its ratification 1,•
the majority of the AntericatrSeaate, in whom wt
were aware the power of ratifying the treaty alone
existed.

Lord liswxxiscav admitted that our conduct
had been such as the Noble Lord described, but
he objected to the liberty the Congress had taken
of entering Mt° each particular clause of the treaty,
and stating to each, particular objections. This
was without precedent.
Lord Excuse 'maintained our conduct to Ame-
rica had been arrogant and cruel in the extreme.
He pursued our train of conduct to America, at
very great kagth. He conceived we had kcal:led
her hostility to us, by the restrictions we had pre-
sumptuously dared to put apse her trade and amt.
trolity, , and eisinesised, that even our diplomatic in-
ner to her remonstrance was harsh and ill calculat-
ed to produce feeliogs of concord and peace. No
treaty could be of long duration, but owe founded
es tome of equality. similar to the treaty con-
cluded iu 1794. Auierica, he, however, thought,
had too warmly resented, on one occasion, the re.
strictions exercised on her trade. She should,
' from the nature of her own frueizrutusot, hare
known, that the Ministers had and safueeed
. the Orders of Council. This sountry might be
averse to any such reitriceimis. She might then
have waited to discover was it the sense of the na-
tion or not. Yet, after all this, certainly these two
Bills should not bopennitted to travel is calumny
together through Parliament. One of which seem.
ed only to be wed for the purpose of deetroying
the good effects of the other. Such conduct was a
mere farce, arid must contribute to render a Britboh
Parliament contemptible in the eves of the world.
and a uto-less bunko to the Beitisiiiieople.
After some explanation between Earl BITITUEsT,
Lord GREsvILLt, and Lord HAMIIMSAVILY, the
Bill was read and passed without a division.
Their Lordships then adjonrned until to-morrow,
at half-past two o'clock, wben the Royal Assent is
to he warn, be *Commission under the ( Seal.
to several Bilks now on the table of the House.