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tensnee of the Treaty ? Would the Noble Earl
say. whether, if such an occurrence tank place its
Foroope, it would not br called one of the foulest
it44llS4Clifirt*i 114.1 t had ever taken place? It would
1), more hrotliserable for the character of this Ilion.
try. and. as he believed. 11141fe CDlll.llltellt %Vllll truth,
if the Noble Elul were at once to coulee, that the
rotire proceeding origiunted in the grinatiot
f4,141'e, Mill that those who transacted the affair+
knew 1111 l hing whatever of the slate of the Colonies;
that winilol have proved only a very culpolde siegli-
reece. hot it would have been it charge of les+ tor.
'owl.. than that which might now be aildurel, for
Stir colooritig given to it by the Noble Keil ,•1\
oy uteri It sit a much deeper and darker 41ye. We
received, as was acknowledged, the tsletsol 131114(11.
but we conveyed it to the Dutch, and left the Sut-
tee of Palembang, who purchased our protection by
the island, without the mean* of enfortang the sti-
pitheturt• of the Treaty. This was a subject of
pooh a nature, ae uo British House of
could pone Iner without expressing all awnings on the
character of the tratosactimi. The Noble Earl
lied stated that the matter load been made a
soibrt I of amicable adjestment betweeso the two
Governineitts, but in his mind the •lionour of
the coon.try was trifled with, its being 'mete
the subject of such amicable arrangements.
t ens, ha belie :root, the policy or the Dutch
in the East lu to endeavour to 'rink and
degoade she chotrarter of Great Britain, so that
its tl•e event 8.1 a future Saar in that pat of the
world, the netters may feel a distrust in burr
fer•ltilio, Mill tremble heat WI the retorts of peace
the y might find themselves sacrificed at uur
Cr du-
. ball i.e. our own iiiteresist.
Lard BaTituusr, in explanation, repeated some
6.f ors former observations, sod lidded, that if the
Noble llaoyaiis thought proper to move for the
Treey formed with the Sultans of Paltinbatig, he
hall no obiection to produce it.
Lord Illothaatti observed, that if it war our prs-
-1 ry to wee tip I;Ace.s to the Dutch, the cessiom
should Ii ice been eccompanted with seine stipiely-
t iiii hit f afloat of the Prince from %bolls the inked
had lircso 4r!nyined.
'1 of livestroor. olojeetril to the prod sir-
Isms ol site notes% from its us.t beige an racial 111,
cuistent, hut use it waft known to the Noble Lords
opposite, they were Wt liberty to take any eaten..
1.54 e ui at..tuturtst of the topics contained ill it. The
circuinstatices to which the Noble I tolls olloided
1..1.1 hero 111441 e the subject of negociat 1111 l s a ith the
D.steli Government ; but the Treaty of Pam was
oineolute, and it would have been impossible on the
bubeequeut surreisder of the Dutch Cool ea to have
ilium:need any condone's. Ile thought it right to
frill irk, as a recuguiseil principle its the law, of ma-
twos, flint in the eveist of a coolony or other etttle-
-10,111 belong conquered its war, the sovereignty of
such coolomy or settlement was not thereby trans-
ferretl to the conquering Power, but still temained
in the former possessor, until the late of it eltuuld
he decided by thr Treaty of Peace.
The Nlerquie ui LANIDOWN, in reply, %NO that
lie vi qtoiesced in the suggestion► of the Neble Earl,
eaJ should t Governer Reifies' Pretest from his
motion, without, however, recognizing the priiirii;le
of the N nide Lords opposite, that a public netei-
lento, I.riocoriliiii under peculiar eirelmistancrs from
isentois us authority, sio matter what may lw
his
'auk, ,hossisi not he opasitlered suffit.iently offirlill
to he kid brtore Parhainesst, if it related to matters
of ionportoince. He also acquiesced lit the viigtzty..
twos of lbw Noble Earl ton oilier points, breuuse lie
leatrited from hint teat negotiations were priodnig
betwerio the two Gower ttttt rut., and he was maser
tit at until thew nrgoculttutts were tutu pier, it would
be improper to smoke them public. He did not
sheik it necessary to move for copies of the Treaties
01 Pail% because these Treaties had beret already
hail betiore the I louse. and he full,v admitted that
they some isiacentlittoomol as they respected the ssu-
roaeler iol the Dutch Colaitiee. The Noble Earl had
that previous to the vottqueot ,tr Jaya Mild it.
114-11 Sul-.test, by the British arms, the Dutch had a
end establialmient in the iblitud of Banes; but that
could make no alteration on the (petition, winch
was preyed by the tiecessity inif making a second
r far the cession of shat ulsud. The Noble
Earl o.lso ohserviol, that as roust as the mutual Ile-
ktoobl tigtueot of esovereigody was made tos either
sole by the British Government and floe Sultan of
Pa•rielirsag, the ',meant was complete. This
shrived with 1,0 a dilieresit frehing Treaties at the
other side of the Cape of Good Hope %vie l'oo's-
sieved, from thud with whirls such boods Loth
writ. regarded tummy{ Eurouratio.— (1 kur, hear.)—
The Nettle Marquis the,. modified his Hush by
.m 1111,114 Sir T. !tittles' Protest, and by adding
the Warrant* of the Court of Directors fur the stir-
'roofer of J*1114,4
Another usutiuti was also Glade, tinder she advice.
of the Ear! of Liverpool. for A copy of any.
Treaty or Engegenieut 441ilde Iwtwersit he Inane-
stanto6ovetnor of Java and the Silken of Poilem-
Long, relative to the ce.aolus or Kowa."
These motions were eeverally put and carried.
The House tlteu adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, Mos ovr, f CIIRVART 1.

The SPEAKIII took the Choir this tidy o few
toioutes helure four o'clock. Seseral Nlesubers
took the oaths sod their snits.

SCOTCH Be11.101:*; II S.

Lord ARCHIBALD HAMILTON' robe to postpone
the iiiotiori of which lie had 'coven notice, relative to
ticoich Boroughs, till to-morrow week. Hi. Lord-
ship stated that he did su to *CC WC the Lord
Advocate.
Lord Juct:t.irm informed the 'know that his
• al Ili/horse the Prince Regent had received
AdAresses toted by the House, relative to
Lie pi u.luetion of papers, and that his Royal
Ilikh-
hes, ordered that those papers should be laid befuie
the noose.
Too of the Judges brought demo n Bill from
the Lords, relative to the care of •liis Pristiest)'a
Person.
A Petition was presented from the Borough of
Newport, praying that the Criminal Code might
be revised and mitigated.

BANK ?COTES
An Account of the weekly issue of Bank Notes,
LA other Papers, were brought up, and on the
que,tion being put that the *ante should be
presAed,
Mr. Omni sugpsted. drat as time papers