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IMPERIAL PARLIrCIENT.

HOUSE OF FORDS.
TUURSDAY, JUNE 2.
The Secretary at War brought up the Militia Bill
from the House of Commons, which was read a first
time.

Several more Bills were brought by Members of
the other House, and disposed of in the same man-
ner.

CONDUCT OF MINISTERS IN THE LATE NEGOTIA•

TION4,
Earl FITZWILLIAM, on the Order of the Day
being read, rose and delivered himself in a speech
which lasted near an hour and a half, but in so low
a tone of voice, that the greater part of what he said
was not distinaly audible below the Bar. He com-
menced by stating, that it was with some reludlance
he proceeded to submit a motion, comprising a
string of resolutions, the effect of which would be,
if adopted, to implicate a set of men respedlable in
themselves, and deriving an additional conse-
quence and importance from the high and
confidential situations in which they were placed.
As he sincerely professed himself far from being ac-
tuated by the slightest impulse of personal preju-
dice or malice against any of the patties he alluded
to, nothing but the paramount duty which he con-
sidered himself bound to for the national dignity
and interests, should have induced bins to put him-
self forward on the present occasion. The extensive
subjea he had to review, and which he should sit-
tempt only to touch upon as briefly as possible, was
not confined to a single faa, but related to a series
of proceedings from the signature of the Prelimi-
naries of Peace to the conclusion of the Treaty of
Amiens, and since that, to the final rapture of the
late negotiations. Whatever opinion he might have
entertAmeti of the expediency, in point of time, of
at all signing such preliminaries, or the terms of
them, had been already expressed to their Lord-
ships, the majority of whom had formed different
sentiments, which he should not now animadvert.
upon. In what he had to propose he should
only follow the papers laid upon the Table by
the Ministers themselves, and the statements ad-
vanced in his Majesty's dularations, which
he thought must naturally induce the. House
to concur in the conclusions he should draw from
them, viz. That the condust of. France, since the
time of the preliminaries being agreed upon to the
present mome at, was an uninterrupted and unremit-
ting series of violence and aggression towards this
country ; that they were evidently intended to in-
sult the dignity of his Majesty, and to injure the in-
terest of England ; and that his Majesty's Ministers
being for many months convinced of this, had not
only unconstitutionally withheld all information re-
sped:ll4 it from Parliament, but deceived and misled
the nation into an opinion that we were in a state of
profound, and, apparently, permanent tranquillity.
Fo prove this, his Lordship, with a detailed view
of all the proceedings from the o iginal sin, as
he called it, of not making a Stand on the first
ad of aggrandisement of Trance, after the prelimi-
naries being signed, to the return of Lord Whit-
worth from Paris, referring to the various docu-
ments as he went along. He laid it down as a prin-
ciple, that wheal the leading parts of an acconuno-
dation were agreed upon, any at of encroachment
which Materially extended the power and territories
of one of the parties, and altered its situation in re-
gard to the other, was an ad of aggression, and
ought not to be allowed. He did not contend that
every encroachment made upon a foreign power
was always a justifiable cause of war to England,
but he maintained that it was so, when the disposi-
' tions made, and the Ihnguage and manner evinced,
on the part of the First tonsil', a hostile mind
against this country. Yet so little reserve was
used by Bonaparte, that even while the Treaty of
Amiens was riegotiatin;,',,, he did not scruple to dis-
miss crowned heads, and annex kingdoms and coun-
tries of different laws, manners, habits and govern-
meats tai the already overgrown territories of the
h' French lieptiblic. Our Government, however, from
any thing that appeared, used nO inter fetence when
he did not hesitate to incorperate with his empire
Piedmont. ten's, the Alihnie.sc, and in faa the

whole of Italy.
tut their protedion,
nesation of any
a sufficient cause
island of Elba,
would have been
quarrel. Havin'
as they thought
operation of'other
ly interested, oar
ded the treaty,
those important
in the course of
only from their
and the sources _
the mother-country,
advantageous positions
of war, which
inevitably and
scenes at oppression
the unfortunate 7.
Switzerland, and
troul over Holub
to be altooerlt, ter
tations at least •
an agent into
however, by this
completely foil:Ilea,
be ordered to -
vian Ropublic.
tilities was so
vinced of the
which we had
consent to make
though nonainull,,
and sent orders
some other places
sooner did they
French would ey.icitate
they had the wea.
counter orders, _
Hope, and probably
dered. In the
sembied, and the
lent and atrocious
represent the nation,
that the nation was
which they themsel'
all the appearance
the country
of siseority, till t
try was thrown
alarm by the
jesty to both
a curious question
what occasion
Never ,
the Ibilt article .
render of Malta,
Consul himself
Immediately after 1..,
Sebastiani was officially ,
the French Government,
so far from disguisini
this country, but t,
to calumnies tending
Kingdom, and
vernment in the
however, Ministers
enough still to
of the Sovereign
.4.
nuin to negotiate
sTessions, and
jesty's representati
illeries, made it •
ship then recal.
with the violent s
property of British
treachery of sending
under the name of
business was to
ferent sea-ports,
long-meditated
contended, that
a right to expel
those accumulated
came to the knot
the House had
a constitutional right, to advise his Majesty on
the measures to he adopted for the national secu-
rity, and the maintenance of its dignity and ho-
nour. This constitutional right, however, Par-
liament was deprived of, by the total silence of
Ministers, whose niiscondud was aggravated by
the deception they pradised in making false re-
presentations to the people of the country, being
in a state of profound and apparent peace, at the
moment that they were conscious of numereits insults
and aggressions being offered, which could not be
tolerated consistently with the honour and interests
of the nation. His Lordship at length concluded
with moving a string of resolutions, the effed of
which were, that the uniform conduct of Frame, since
the signing of the Preliminaries of Peace, was a
series of insults and aggressions; and that the l‘fi
nisters by their concealment, and representation of
the notions of our being at profound peace, had
aced in anunconstitiitional and unqualified trimmer.
The EARL of LIMERICK begged the indul-
gence of the House, whitely availed himself of an
opportunity which he had not seited before, of des
livering his sentiments on this important subject....
In many of the positions laid down by the Nolshs
Lord, he thought it would be impossible fop
Member of that House to withhold his approbelenl
and assent,
.the right of Parliament to be at korl
time the constitutional adviser of the Crown, with- '
out however interfering with its just prerogatives.
But be confessed, that through the whole of this
business, so far was he from having any disposition
to inculpate Ministers, that he considered all the
charges wide against them, only as so many proofs .1
of moderation, and a just attention to the illy:nett'
of the country, without.the smallest degree awn:
promising its honour. He did not think it neces-
sary to follove the Noble Lord'throuills Athlete—
. •
pies, and over ail the pentads! be •wits pleased 4+.
traverse, as he conceived it would be sufficient to
considu the condul ut his .Majesty's Ministers under