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Sir JOHN NEWPORT proasslod a petition from the tanner
of \ Vaterford, praying for the repeal elite tax upon leather.
Ordered to he on the table.
VAGRANT A CT.
Mr. LITTLETON (in the di:sena& of the Member for Stafford-
shire) mored for the return of the camber of persons cotntuiuut
under the Vagrancy Act, the sentences passed upon them. and
the offences for which they were comniietcd, from the Ist day rat
I January, 1823, to the Ist day of January, 112,4 ; also for a state-
ment of the various suet paid by the Treasurers of Corrodes e
England
„FA Wales egjlig dirortot Gamy tat Weis' guppies:
passes, Ac., The Hon. Member wished for thee* returns became
I there appeared to him to be en error respecting the Act to which Ile
alluded. This error, he would maintain, was owing to the misap-
prehension of the Magistrates who enforced the Aet„ To hit lion.
Friend (the Member for StafOrdshire), who introduced. the Act.
was due the merit of endeavouring to mitigate the sever:ty of the
other Arts upon the same subject, and of consllidating Sato one all
the laws winch were in being upon It. 'To hint waists° due
the merit of saving the country a sum of 100,0002 annually, TAM%
was formerly the expence. lie was anxious for the ;rroductiomoi
the documents before the dipeumion of the question, that ths Houie
might be enabled to come to a right concdusion.—Ordered.

A I'STRIAN .LOAN..
Mr. Secretary CANNING laid upun die table certain papers re.
specting the coovention with Austria regarding the Loan ; also tht
additional article entered into vial his Most Christian Majesty ia
regard to the traffic in slaves. .
WINDOW TAX.
Mr. 110EHIOUSE gave notice of motion on thc Eth of March
for the total repeal of the window tax.
LEATHER TAX.
Mr. CALCRAFT gave notice .f motion !in- the 25th of the
month, for the total repeal of the leather tax. Ile hoped, however,
that his motion would be unnecessary, as he trusted the High
Hon. Gentleman (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) would antici-
pate hint.
SirlV. DE CRESPIONY, in a low tone- of voice, asked
question respecting the addition which was making to our military
force.

Mr. CANNING said, that he could inform the Ron. Member
that nothing would be done in the matter to which he adverted,
without the consent and approbation of Parlilunent.

EDINBILTRGII REPRESENTATION.
Mr. ARERCRO3IBY (nn the part of Lord Archibald Haab)
ton) gave notice of di motion for the 26th of Felrmary, for the more
efficient representation of the City of Edinburgh.

CHANCERY.
Mr. J. %VI LLIAMS gave notice of motion for the 24th Feb= -
ary, to inquire into the abuses of the Court of Chancery.

JURIES. •
NVEST.RRN gave notice of motion for the 11th, to make
some aheraticr in the qualifications of Jurors.

COALS.
Lord STANLEY presented petitions front various districts,
praying for the repeal of the taxer upon coals--Ordeied to lir or
the tabld.

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ROMAN CATHOLIC BURIALS IN IRELAND,
Sir JOHN NEWPORT gavenOthie, that he would mores 02
the 111th of Felxuary, for the repeal of dor flth and 9th clamors of
the 11th of King respecting burials. Hisobject
be to secure the right of burial to the Roman Catholics, MP to
bring the matter before the House.
PROCLAMATION FROM TM? fSiselaftla:
On the qqestion that the report bit brought up,- s.
Mr. HOBHOUSE said, he thought it necessary to MOE • Ore
observations sespethig the kipswels which had been delivered- ellet
night before. (t we not his inteeltiono trespass upon the House.;
he did not mean to delay than far more than the minutes : his ob.
jest in doing so was, because his friends had protested against beiog
supposed to give their concurrence or assent to the systeds of
policy pursued by the Ministers of the country. He might,
in like manner, guard. himself against any such -concurrence; be
did not epee in the sentiments contained in theAddreas upon this
subject; if he had, he would be concurring in a system which
brought disgrace upon this country, its constitution, And the re-
nown of our ancestors. He did therefore hope that he was entitled
to ask a few questions of the Right lion. Gentleman opposite; sod
in• asking them he was not influenced by any light or ,idle curio.
silty of knowing the secrets of Government ; but he dAd conee•re
that he was compelled by a sense of duty to set as he did. It
was web known to the Right Honourable PendeMll j that not
only this country, but all Europe, was listening to bins—that
note single syllable escaped his lips upon which,_perhaps, the
fate of nations did not depend (Hear, hear). The question,
therefore, t 6 which he would ask an 'never, and the poitt
to which he would wish him to apply his attention, was that
respecting the situation of the South American Colonies of Spain.
He has sorry to be obliged to acknowledge that the Right Moth
Gentleman had touched upon this subject so lightly (judging our
reedy, no doubt, of its great difficulty) as to afford but little saki.
faction to those who heard him, with the exception, perhaps, et
his own immediate colleagues. The Right Hon. Gentleman bad
affirmed he thought it to be an act of grace and favour due to the
K(ng of old Spain, to allow him, without any opraitian upon
our part, to attempt the recovery of his Colonies. This principle
he thought to be right. lie agreed perfectly with theJlight Hon.
Gentleman, if the King nf Spain was his own master—if he was
eel jeris—if he could call his capital, if he could call his crown
his own. (Hear.) If lie were thus circumstanced, he certainly
would not deny the King of Spain the right to recover his colonies :
but will the Right Honourable Gentleman come forward, and 'so-
lemnly tell the country that the King of Spain is free, when
seventy thousand Frenchmen are the possessors of the country—
when there is not a point from Barcelona to Cadiz—when there is
not a single position from one end of the kingdom to the other,
that is not occupied by the French armies ? Would, therefore, the
Right Honourable Gentleman suffer such a farce to bettered be-
fore the country, as to maintain that Spaln wss not in the hinds of
the French; and though the French troops hadsocceeded,though fht
Constitution had been put down for the time, and no symptom ofre.
action appeared at present, it would be absurd to call the King of Span
of Sptin free, any more than when he was in the hands of the Con.
stitutionalists. He was in fact now surrounded by hayonots. But.
I were the French troops to be withdrawn to-morrow, could it be
I doubted that that unfortunate King (and unfortunate he undoubt-
edly was with respect to his character) would fall from his throne
lie did not, as he before expressed himself. wish, from any idle
curiosity, to extract the secrets of the Government, hut tit, thought
it his duty to ask the question, if, whilst the French troops were
the possessors of Spain, the King could be cannidered in any other
light than that of a nominal Monarch, and could he therefore be
considered as endeavouring of himself to recover the possession of the
South American colonies? There was, in his opinion, another in:-
pm-cant omission in the Speech. It would not be denied by the Minis-
ters of the King. that the French were now in possession of Spain; bus
no terns was axed for the occupation. The Right lion. Gentleman
could not tell how long that occupation was talast. (Hear, hest
He would not take upon himself to say that the question Wait
asked, but he *u rather disposed to think it was; and the de-
scription of answer he received may be judged from the fact, that
of the hundred thousand who invaded Spain, seventy thou-
sand were left in the country. Though in making the inquiry
he could not tell upon whose statement the. Right Hon. (lent.
could rely: not surely on the word of the King of Prance (for as he
well knew, the word of a King was now no guarantee)—of that
King, who had pledged his sacred word and the sceptre which
he held, that the French army were not to retain possession of
Spain. After this shameless breech of truth • after (he would
use the strongest language) this falsehood, which,l if uttered by a
!person in private life, would disqualify him from the association
f men of honour, he could not rely upon the word of his 31 a.
jcsty (hear), much less could he repose confidence in his 3linitesr
Chateaubriand. There was also another topic to which he woull
call the attention of die Right Hon. Gentleman. He meant a
strange proclamation Which hid been issued from the lonian
Islands. He was aware that many strange documents. Mid come
fronts the same quarter. It was issued by Sir Thomas Maitland,
and all his titles were set forth. Ile was a knight of many orders.
Far his part he was disposed to feel the highest respect for so dig-
nified a person, hut he could not conaeive how tk: proclamation to
which he alluded could be put forth except !a a frolic. Ile did
not wish to interfere with the private habits of any person, but he
thought it right that the Hossearul the country should be made ac-
quainted with the facts, Ile (Sir Thomas Maitland) had Im-
posed a quarantine of thirty days upon two of the lonian Islands,
for whathreach or violation he could not tell. Sir Thomas Malt-
land should, (Wall others, be par: icularly cautious in this respect
as he had hinisellcononittal the grossest breaches of the quarantine.
In issuing this cache he had done much, but at the conclusion of
his proclamation he had thundered his anathemas upon the Greeks,
who were fighting for a cause upon which he hoped Sir Thomas
Maitland should set sonic. valise. (Hear.) Ile hod done this with-
out cause, and when men, who were struggling fqr liberty, were
anathematised. there should at least be given sonic reason why or
wherefore it was done. He haul seen the proclamation in the origi-
nal Italian, in which 31aurocordato was described as a person
called Prince ; and it then detailed the act for whirls the qesrantlpe
was imposed ; and it goes on us state, that if he did not take sigh
measures as would prevent a recommit, the British tioveranseht

would be coneideeed as a party in the various acs of and slaughter
which were so often committed by both parties in the war. Here it
was clear that these words had reference to the Greeks as well as to
the Turks ; and if so, more than a fair share of blame was thrown
upon the former • and if, after the affair at Ithaca, such epithets
were deserved, the Greeks should not be blamed, for the Turks
were the origin and muse of all ; and so far was Prince Mau-
rocordato not guilty, that he had done every thing in his power to
prevent it ; he made rery exertion to restrain his men, and he had
suite made repeated ap agies far what had occurred. The facts
were, that a Greek vessel pursued a Turkish, the later approached
Ithaca, and her master and crew consisting of from fifty to a hun-
dred, reached the islands in bails ; here they commenced a men
damn fire upon the Greeks, who landed and put their enemies to
death In fair fight. He hoped that similar measures would be taken to
prevent the Turks in future front actin as they had donein the case of
theOreeks. He was sorry to find Sir T. Maitland saying, that when
men were fighting in the awed liberty, all the dreadful atrocities
wee charged as the crimes of the Greeks. In truth they had origi-
nated with the Turks. There were two or three instances of the
Turks violating the neuntality of the island of Prevesa, when the
examined some vessels, and finding five or six Greeks on board,
they took them ashore and beheaded them and it was upon oc-
dem* such as thine that Sir T. Maitland had thought proper to
give epigrammatic turns. He was sure that the Right Hon.
Gentleman was not acquainted with these circumstances ; and his
object in stating them was, that they should be communicated to
the House, and, he need not add, to the public. The charge of the
grievous atrocities, which had been made upon the Greeks, had
spread great alarm amongst them. Prince Maurocoedato had sent
two messengers, one to Corfu and one to this country, lest the
character of the Greek cause should be injured with the public
hue, and those who did not know them should imagine that
every great atrocity proceeded from the Greeks. This country had
perhaps no right to give direct assistance to the Greeks ; it might
as well assist the • Italians against the Austrians, or the
Iftthiards against the French. He, for his part, liked the
Turks much better than he did the Austrians. He had seen both.
He was glad to have it in his power to say, that no obstructions'
wareigiven to the Greeks by the Government at home. Nothing
was done in this country to prejudice their cause. Sir Thomas
Maitland had spoken, in his proclamation, of the unfortunate
struggle in which all parties were engaced. What right bad he to
call It unfortunate ? (Hear, hear.) Inst right had he to de-
WIZ= as unfortunate the struggle of men who had as good a
tight to be free as himself / (Hear, beat.) The Honourable
.rober concluded by expressing his conviction that the Greek
cause would not be injured with the public, and that Sir Thomas
Maitland would he able to shew good and convincing reasons for
the proclamation he bad issued, and for the part he had seemed to
take in the struggle.
Mr. CANNING said he was perfectly ready to give either the
Honourable Gentleman who had just sat down, or any other Ho-
nourable Member, any information In his power respecting the
important matters to which he had alluded. He would, however,
state that he would not snake any allusion whatever to the Speech
which had been delivered on the preceding night. As to the first
question which the Honourable Member had put to him, it was
most uncertain in its purport ; and the Honourable Member had,
as it appeared to him, fallen into misapprehension, from confound-
ing a question of principle with a question of fact. He had main.
tamed, and he would still maintain, that it was the undoubted right
of the mother country, if her power were equal to the right, to at-
tempt the rxovery of her colonies ; but he did not carry his prop°.
sition tothe extent that any other powers were to interfere under the
mask of giving her aid ; and he had affirmed, that England would
not suffer the interference of any other power whatever. This was
the principle upon which he had acted, and he was satisfied that the
Government should be tried by this principle, and by it he was
ready to stand and to be judged. The Honourable Member had
tneutioned no events ; he had not brought forward any Mel, accord-
ing to which he would try the me Lures of the Government. lie
would assert, that under the presentcircutnstances, we had no right
to interfere between Old Spain and her colonies ; and as to the tin
ture, with regard to those events which are not in our power, there
can be neither debate nor discussion. The lionourable Member
had barred against him all the channels of assurance and informa-
tion. lie was not to believe the King of France,—he was not to
believe his Minister. He would refer the Honourable 3lentber to
that which he would believe—the despatch read by him in that
House during the last session, in which he stated his opinion re-
. specting the occupation, which he too credulously, perhaps, had
expected would be of short duration : and in that document he had
dressed, in the strongest manner, his views of the subject. lie
. still retained these same views respecting the aggression against
Spain ; but considering it as separated from its injustice, reflecting
upon it as not charged with the vice of the originalysion, he
would
affirm, that history could not produce an exam e of allies,
whose aitl was solicited by one of the parties which finally pre.
dominated. who had given such little cause of quarrel as the
French. As to the other question which he had put to him, he
did not know if he could give it a distinct answer ; it was a case
purely imaginary ; and by putting it, he was not tried upon the
principle which he had laid down. As to the point, if there was
no danger to be apprehended from the occupation of France,
and what was to be the term of this occupation, he would
make this answer :—from his knowledge of the state of Spain,
and the situation in which she was at present placed, that
if the limit of the occupation were to be fixed for to-morrow,
the would, as a friend to humanity, exclaim " No". As to the
other question respecting the Proclamation issued by Sir Thomas
Maitland, he wonld communicate that information which he had
received himself upon the subject. With respect to the :node of
styling nlaurocordato as the person called Prince, it wax not done
with any intent to disparage him. He had no right to the title,
and therefore it was not given him. The Honourable Member
asked what outrage had been committed by the Greeks ? He would
state the circumstances as they came to his own knowledge. A
Grecian squadron had pursued two Turkish vessels ; one of them
succeeded in reaching the island of Ithaca, a spot sacred to neutra.
lity ; the Greeks pursued them on shore, and out of about one
hundred and twenty who landed, ninety were butchered in cold blood.
Sir Thomas Maitland was the guardian of the neutrality, and
under the circumstances he thought it his duty to take notice of
what had occurred. Sir Thomas Maitland had maintained the
strictest neutrality with an even and impartial hand ; outrages had
been committed on both sides: this was to him a subject of regret,
but it was impossible to prevent them, and he was sure that the
British Clove nment had not received the slightest stain.
Mr. WESTF.IC commenced in so low a tone as to be almost
Mandible in the gallery. Ile said he felt it necessary to state that
he did not coincide in the measures of foreign policy pursued and
acted upon by Ministers. lie valued peace; n 9 person appreciated
its blessings more fully. But to maintain this peace, he would not
go the length of, the Right Honourable Gentleman. He would not
go to lengths which were, in fact, an abandonment of all principle,
a sanction of the grossest violation of right, and an utter infraction
of the laws of nations. He would not go so far as the Right lion.
Gentleman, in asserting that this country should not interfere for
the preservation of the weaker States. The principle may perhaps
be right, but it was a different thing to remonstrate in their favour ;
and if England had remonstrated as she ought, Spain would be safe,
and the invasion would not have taken place. These were the prin-
ciples dangerous to the liberties of the people, which owed their ori-
gin to the Congress; ant- he remembered, when the lion. Member for!
Yarn moved for the production of parts respecting that l'ongress ;
and their principles, Lord Castlereagh opposed the motion, on the
ground that these principles were merely promulgated and had no
practical application whatever. He would now, however, appeal ;
to the blouse, and ask it' they did not all witness the practical ap.
phcation cf these principles. lie must therefore enter his protest
against the system of crooked policy which had been pursued by
Ministers.
Colonel PALMER stated, that heroine under feelings of shame I
and indignation at the conduct of the Ministers • he had nut I
opposed the Address against the general sense of the House, but,
impressed with the conviction that not only Europe, but the world '
at large, had never yet been reduced to such s state of actual
and prospective misery as at the present moment, and that such
state was to be imputed solely to the conduct of the British Go-
vernment, he considered it. as a duty to God and to his country,
as a member of that House. to declare I is opinion upon the subject.
If it were true, as the Ministers had told us both in and out of
Parliament, arid more especially in a late speech of the Right
Honourable_ Secretary, that the country had been so long prepared
for war, they had sacrificed its honour and most vital inter its by
suffering France to conquer Spain; if it were false, they had
equally betrayed their duty, by deceiving the country to sun.
port the system of their Government. But whatever the real rate
of the nation, the conduct of the 3linisters towards Spain had been I
wholly indefensible ; as looking to the avowed intentions of France
and the Holly Alliante, neutrality on the part of England was
impossible, and could not be maintained t for what had been I
the late measure of the niininers in sending Consuls to South ,
America, but an act of hostility to those Powers, which, if not
resented, was but a further proof, if any were wanting, that if
England had acted with firmaess at the Congress, and declared
herself the ally of Spain, France would not have dared to in.
wade her? If, on the other band, after abandoning Spain, the
country was to be involved in war for the independence of
her colonies, what excuse was to be made for the 31inis'ers
who might have secured the liberties of both at a less expense
to the nation, than had already been incurred by the active
measures to which their crooked and inconsistent policy had
'
at last compelled them ? The Ministers, in the last Session, to'
cool the ardour of the people in the cause of Spain. declared
that any interference an her behalf would involve all the ex.
penses of the former contest ; but lie then stated to the Right
Mon. Gentleman. what he now repeated, that no such expense
was necessary. All that honour and policy required of Eng-
land, was to render Spain the assistance which her mine af-
forded, and those means were more than adequate to the ob-
ject : for to have sent but half die force of our Naval Peace Es-
tablishment, lying ready in our ports, to the defence of Cadiz,
would have prevented all the disasters to the cause of Spanish
liberty which the consummate folly or treachery of the British
Government necessarily had led to. Vet tbie straight and pru.
dent policy, which every consideration for the htmour and in.
terests of the nation demanded, had been termed Quixotism by
the Right lion. Gentleinan. Would that his conduct as Minister
could bear the same comparison ! but, unfortunately, it had be.
?rayed all the insanity of the character. without a spark of that
chivalrous feeling, which, however romantic in its origin, or thauk.
has in the end to the mind of the Right lion. Gentleman, was, in
the opinion of the lion. Member, the hat foundation of a great,
a good name, either for States or individuals. The Right lien.
Gentleman, too, in his late speech, farther to mark the distinction
between his Quixotic opponents and himself. had openly declared,
as the 31inisvr of England, that its the conduct of political affairs,
the grand object of his contemplation was the interest of his own
country ; and what had been the result of this most wise and ames'
policy, but to combine the whole world against her ? For where
was the nation wherein, both with the Government and the people,
the name of England was not
.iunty held in detestation? She was
necessarily hated by all the Governments of Europe, as the only

nation wherein thstliberty dif the press existed, which, if not des
strayed itself, must eventually destroy their tyranny ; and she was
equally hated by all other nations, because in every instance of a
struggle for liberty, whether in France since the commencement of
her revolution, or latterly in South America, in Greece, in Italy,
or in Spain, the British Government had invariably opposed
it. Thus England, through the system of iu Ministers, was the
enemy of the whole human race; and whilst the Right Honour-
able Gentleman had been exhibiting himself about the kingdom,
trumpeting in all directions the praises of himself and colleagues,
there was net a nation but abhorred them, nor a power in
Europe that was not pledged to destroy the liberties of the country
committed to their hands. And after all his fine speeches, what in
fact had been the measures of the Right Honourable Gentleman to
oppose France and the Holy Alliance, up to the total destruction of
Spanish liberty be the fall of Cadiz ? Nothing whatever but in-
temperate abuse of their conduct, and a positive declaration of strict
neutrality. This was not quixotism certainly, nor did he know a
parallel to such conduct in history or romance; the only re-,
semblance the Honourable Member could find to it was in the case
of the late atrocious murder, wherein the Holy Alliance was
the bold villain who went straight to his purpose, whilst the Hight
Honourable Gentleman was the humane and consistent accum-
plice, who, after furnishing the ropeand sack, resolved, "come what
might," to have no share in the transaction ; for precisely with the
same feelings that this miscreant hung back whilst the deed was I
perpetrating, so the Ministers of England, who had gone hand-in-
hand with their accomplices, in their plots against liberty, for the
last thirty years, now stood aloof whilst their victim was expiring
under the blows of its assassins. As to their accomplices, corn-
with themselves, they were F honourable, upright characters,
car their conduct had been consistent throughout; and whilst he
detested their policy, in justice to their private characters, and
what he believed and knew upon the subject, he could not agree
to the odium cast on persons, to whom every allowance was to be
made for those prejudices and ingireseions which, however hostile
to the liberties of mankind, were inseparable from human nature,
and would be felt equably by others, under similar circumstances.
Foe the same reason he could excuse the Ministers of those
despotic powers, who were, in fact, Oar slaves; but he could find
no excuse for the Ministers of England, who were not the slaves
but the tyrants of the Crown and people, and of all others the most
base and cruel that ever infested the earth. Even the King of
Spain, madman or monster that he was, had been less base and in-
human, for his conduct had been coneistent with the feeling of
bigotry and Divine sight ; but where had been the consistency or
humanity of Ministers ? For, at once to have declared against
Spain would have prevented a struggle equally disgraceful and
deplorable in its consequences to the victors and the van-
Mquished. But what had been the refitted policy of England's
Minister, and of that heart, which, by its own account, beat so
high for the interests of humanity, but to create this contusion
of horrors in Spain, by means of a treacherous neutrality ? and
having so far succeeded, it was now to perpetuate the miseries of
that wretched country, to prevent France front reaping the fruits of
her victory. So much fur the humanity of the Right Ilonourable
Gentleman. As for consistency, let him reconcile his prayers for
the Spanish Constitution, and his contemptuous answers to the
Regency. with his subsequent congratulations to Ferdinand on his
success, and the treatment of the Patriots who sought refuge in
Gibraltar; and when he had answered that charge of apostacy
from Radicalism to Divine Right, let him answer the charge of
ultrampostacy from Divine Right back to Radicalism, in now
declaring for the Patriots of South America, in the teeth of
the Foreign Enlistment Bill, expressly enacted against them :
let but the Right Hon. Gentleman reply to these questions,
and the lion. Member would spare him many others, which
the course of his political life, and his late speech at Plymouth,
had fairly called for. And now, continued the lion. Member,
as to the real situation of the country ; he remembered long
since, upon a quesion of the same nature in the House, they
were told by an Hon. and Learned Member of the landed interest,
that it was time to speak out, and look the danger in the face. If
that was his opinion then, what did he think now, when during
eight years of a peace establishment no reduction whatever had
been made of the burthen of the public debt; when, in spite of all
the retrenchment which Session after Session had been force,. upon
the Ministers, the load of taxation still pressed too heavily upon all !
classes to admit of a increase; when, such was our state of real
weakness, that the Ministers, who in the last war expended mil-
lions upon millions to deliver Spain from the power of France, had 'I
now suffered her to fall without even an attempt to save her ; when I
France herself, whom so lately, in conjunction with our allies, we
had humbled to the dust, was now again on foot, more great, more
powerful, and more inveterately our enemy than ever ; and lastly,
when those same allies, who first combined with us against her li-
beetles, were now combined with France against the liberties of
England • and the storm so long gathering around us, was now
let last ready at any moment to burst upon its head? If in such a
state of things,so humble an individual of that House as him•
self might venture to speak out, and look the danger in the face,
he believed he could state the cause and the oily means to remove
it ; but having already trespassed too long upon the time of the
House, he would avail himself of other opportunities of declaring
his sentiments upon the su'.:ect.
hir. H U3IE said he was anxious to my a word or two in reply
to the Right Hon. Secretary of State, respecting the subject intro.
duced by the lion. Member toe Westminster. ue had also re-
ceived another communication from the lonian Islands ; and from
that he was enabled to state that, so far from any blame being
justly attached to the Greeks, they had waited to be the ling AM
upon. Both parties had been equally guilty of tbe violation of the
neutral territory, and he lamented, therefore, to see this Proclama-
tion hold up the Greeks as the only violators, and without stating
the particulars of the atrocities which it characterized by such
strong epithets. His information induced him to protest against
the general statement, that the
,Turks had been murdered in
cold blood. It was, unhappily, too true, that in the course of the
hostilities, std in pursuance of their noble and L.et attempt to
recover their liberties, the Greeks had undoubtedly committed some
atrocities. The guilt of these deeds, however, rested not with the
Greeks but with the Turks, with whom they had originated ; and
if they were now not so frequent as formerly, it had been found
that the retaliation of the Greeks had been the only means to put
an end to then. In the person of Sir Thomas Maitland, he saw
only one more instance of the danger of entrusting power to those
who had changed their principles ; for there never had been a
man within the walls of that House who had been a greater friend
!to revolutionary principles than Sir Thomas Staitland. (Hear,
I hear). If any difference was to be made in the treatment of the
belligerents, he (Mr. Hume) did not wish to see the scale turned
against the Greeks, and he believed that his Majesty's Ministers
wished the scales to be held even. lie hoped, therefore, that they
would lay before the public an official statement of the atrocities
which had been falsely designated as confined to the Greeks.
The Greek Government had declared its readiness to compensate
every sufferer by this infringement of the neutral territory. Again,
therefore, he could not help expressing his regret that Sir Thomas
.Maitland had not withheld his proclaniation till the particulars had I
been fully in his possession.
Sir T. LETH BR 11)11 E said he should not have risen but for
some renlinks of his lion. Friend (Mr. Western). He was aware
that his lion. Friend alluded to a declaration he had formerly
made respecting the state of the agricultural interest, when he said
, that he considered it the duty of the Ileum to look the dangers of
the country in the face, anti meet them manfully. At that time
he undoubtedly felt, as strong as any man could, the severe ths-
tresses that were then pressing on the agricultural interest. lie
was, however, happy now to state that there was a east change in
! its condition, which had been very properly alluded to in the
Speech from the Throne. lie could himself -perceive ti.at there
was a permanent amendment in that great interest, and lie be-
lieved confidently that its improvement was neither accidental nor
likely to be of temporary duration. He did not dread its cessation,
because it proceeded, he had no doubt, from causes that would Per-
I manently operate. Ile did not join with the Hon. Member under
the gallery (Col. Palmer), in his view of the state of our foreign
' alumina, fur lie believed that this country mood high in the opinion
of the other nations of Europe and the world at large. Instead of
the British character being divested of any portion ut its greatness,
Royer, or renown, he was convinced that at no period did the
British name stand higher than at present;—( Hear, hear)—and he
must pay his Majesty's Ministers the tribute of his applause for
keeping the country out of any engagement arising Inn.' the
Spanish cause. It would have been a fatal determination to have
interfered in the war between Spain and France. The result had
proved that, fortunately for themselves, and for the country whose
interests they had thereby best consulted, they bad adopted the
comae of stria neutrality ; and, whatever might be the opinion of
a small party in that House or in .he country (for he was sure it
was very small indeed), the general voice of the people applauded
Ministers fur the wise (entracte they had given to their Sovereign.

Mr. W. SM ITII said he had only a few words to address to the
house. lie was sorry that neither in the Speech nor in the Address
iaisters had said nothing, or at least almost nothing, respect leg
the negotiation now pending in the east of Europe ; and he was
desirous to take the earliest opportunity of expressing his anxious
hope and wish that no negociatton for the termination of the differ-
ences between Russia and the Porte would be successful, that
should not leave the affairs of Greece better than it found them. He
owned that he should have felt glad if the Right lion. Secretary of
State had felt it consistent with his duty, as he was aura it would
have been with his inclination, to have assured the House that no
such termination would take place as would leave the Greeks ex.
posed to the barbarian revenge of the one power, or to the insati-
ableantbition of the other.

The report was then benught up and agreed to.
EXPORTATION OF 31ApHINERY._

Mr. II lliiirgaZ7Zi;;il3ii instant,;!,"thi2lK i;;;Isould mote,
that the laws respecting the exportation of machinery, and respect-
ing the emigration of artisans and mechanics, be laid before the
House.

IMPRES3MENT OF SEAMEN.

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Mr. HUME also gave notice, that on the 19th instant he should
bring before the llouse the subject of impresamelit fur the navy,
and at the same time move for returns of the number of IA:WWII
impressed.

WINE.

Mr. WARRE moved fora return of the 9nantity of wine im.
ported into etc several ports of the United Kingdom, during the
year totting the 11th of January, and a similar return of the plain.
iny exported, and remaining in bond, distinguishing the several
' sonnet of wine, and a return of the amount of net revenue on
wine during the same period, distinguishing the amount received
in England, Scotland, and Ireland.—thdavd.
IRISH CONSTABULARY ACT.
Mr. GRAITA N gave notice that to-morrow he should move
• fur a return of the nu.nber of constables appointed under the late
Act, and of the parishes in which it had been brought into opera.
tion.

INSURRECTION ACT.
I Mr. (RATTAN also gave notice that he should move to-mor-
row for n return of the committals of parsons to gaol, under the In-
surrection Act.

Mr. WESTERN moved fur s return of the number of persons

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LONDON, THURSDAY, FYCHL'•!Y s, 1821.

Monday's French Papers reached our office last night.
Extracts of any thing of interest will be found in our co-
lumns. They contain nothing worth dwelling upon. We
give below the leading contents, official and otherwise, of
the Mundt-ter:—