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I,WPEIIIAL PARLIACIENT.

HOI;SE OF

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In the appeal cause, Creafurd r. Patrick, the Lank C.
rellur eunfiitaed the Judgment of the Cutlet of &oleo is
Sootland.

LIVERPOOL PETITION. •
The Earl of Defter informed -the House that he
had received from the respectable merchants of
Liverpool. enga2ed in the trade with America, a
Petition against the bill founded on the Orders in
Council, now in its passage through the other
House of Parliament. He therefore trusted that
due notice would be given of its discussion by the►r
Lordships, is case it should be sent up froui the
Commons.

Lord HAMILESBURY assured the Noble Earl, that
no improper haste would take place on the part of
His Majesty's hlinistera, in submitting that mea-
sure to the Cooside ration of their Lordships.

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Motion
Lord . iutended erotism
of certain resolutions until uext Tuesday. Re then
read a number of resolutions, in order to gist the
House an opportunity.ol ascertaining the nature
and extent 16' his intended Motion. They gene-
rally referred to the violations of the law of nations,
and of the inuisicilisal law of this sonutryt created
by the Orders in Louncil.
The Earl of LAUDEaDALE felt anxious to have
the resolutions of his Noble Friend (Lord Erskine)
discussed before he brought forward his Motion 011
the commercial policy of the Orders in Council.
lle therefore moved for the discbarge of the present
order, which afoot for to-morrow, and fixed it fur
Friday week.--,Ordered.

DEBTOR AND CREDITOR TAX.
The Earl of Moias declared his intention of no
longer postnoning the second reading of the
Debtor and Creditor Bill. which was fired for that
day. Friday 1 tth of March.

NJ( "WY
The Earl of Was LE Y•• introduced his Motion on
the late expedition to the Baltic. He had felt it an
indispensable duty to bring that subject, in a direct
manner, before the House, and had only to regret
that his inability to render full justice to the cause
which he espoused was then mush increased
by indisposition. Os the prerieus discus-
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Lou to those who opposed them the gaunt-
let, which he, on the present Occasion, took
up. He hail determined to call upon the House
to pronounce its reprobation of what he called an
act of the greatest outrage, of which there was no
parallel or similitude in the history of this or any
other country. It was impossible, either upon the
point of honour, or the principle of the assumed
necessity, to defend the conduct of His Majesty's
servants. They sent an armed force into the
country of an independent power, without any
manifestation or act of previous hostility on its
part, to justify their conduct. It was true they
sent 4 Negociator to call upon the Prince Re-
gent of Denmark to do an act, which, as men
of honour and of feeling, they must know could
not be complied with. And then the tefusal was
converted into a ground for the violent measures
which they adopted. What else but refusal
could be expected—what else but the indigna-
tion of Europe could such a procedure produce?
The King's Ministers had done an act, the recol-
lection of which must, in every good mind, inspire
the strongest sensations of regret and reprobation.
They bombarded an innocent and nnoffending ca-
pital, and carried slaughter and desolation amidst
the old and young, the weak and infirm ; sacra
ading to the fury of the assault, men, women, and
children, the subjects of the King of England's
brother-in-law. Let not Ministers idly suppose
that such conduct, though momentarily supported
by popular delusion, will not be attended with the
most fatal efiects. Already it had totally estranged
the feelings of the Danish people, and positively
realized that which it was alleged to have pre-
vented. It hid forced them from the strict path of
that neutrality to which they so peculiarly limited
themselves, and haul driven the Crown Prince- en-
tireky into g gratificatitin of the views and deiiiipps
of France. The • N oble Earl. eft commented on
the secret articles of the Trestty of Tilsit, which
the Kings Ministers had originally. made the
ground of their defence, but whiCh they were since
• He - by

:)rencl entirely to abas Awl. concluded
moving -an address to His Majesty, submitting the
opinion of their Lordships on the inconclusive and
unsatisfactory information Aich had been commu-
nicated to them on this subject, their fears for the
consequences arisiog from its Adoption, their con-
viction that it had excited the indignation of. the
Continent, and particularly of -his late Ally, the
Emperor of ltnosio, against this country, but, above
their permission, that it hadezated the jus-
uce of his cause, that proud - ration which
hod heretofore supported the 'fish nation
throughout alt the dangers and &acuities, all the
perils and vicissitudes, of the awful contest in winch
it IVO "Ilford.
Lord ELIOT differed totally from the Noble
FAA in his opimou of the conduirt of His Majesty's
Ministers relaiive to the eepctlitiou to the Baltic.
He• bad heard much of all uliandonment of the
principles of justice and morality ; lot still those
exaggeniteil statements corid nut produce oath a
COMVICtiOIt in his mind. Liu the contrary. he cote.,

PORT or LONDON.
he Earl of LAUDEFIDALB moved for the prO
lion of an account of the number of vessel,'
lusive of those essigerl le the hishr !Avid'. •
chhad cleated out of tie Port of London,
dar-
the last year, together with a similar account
the last week in 1. ebruary. 1808.
BATHVIIT had no objectioo to the iirolut-
i of this account, but thought the latter slinuld
made out from the id of January 180 e to the
1 of February, distinguishing each week.
ne Earl of L.O DEttuaLa complied, and the
Akin was agreed to ectordingly.
Lord ERSKINE postponed 111,4 intended aiotipn