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currenee wilich went to prcvetil die fitting not of
large armaments for either of the contending
po , stew but he (-mild never concur in throw parts
which went to slier the I ivr of tile land, fir the
purpose of preveuting private eliteriirive and imli-
enfold ;peculation.
The Earl of HARROWBY, in re;ily to the Noble
Marrois, contended, that din. 1141 iv is neither in-
Collelstent with the principles or the best autluiri-
ties on questions of civil law, nor iiith the usage or
the country. The Isfahle irl tIo-n era I sr-rer4l
extracts from Grotirs,, %%Mel, and 11,1tf-tolortf. to
thew that it tea. a spee.ally ettiomell duty on the
part of neutrals not to interfere in the contentions
of powers at van:ince with each other, except for
the purposes of iiiterinethatory arljo-t-trent. Thee
writers, he asserted, went an fir as to state, that even
if the cause or one ft iro,‘ er were more just
than that of the power engaged arch it, that a nen.
tral had still no rught to mid the party oho hail
even the juster against the other, or 111 erect
itself up into a standard fo adjusting ilia Jiff-renew
of iiiilependelit oatimi.. It it as equally clear, lie
stated, arcordi.ig to Grotios, that is neutral had
no right to give all to each of the contending Ivor-
ties, for that would be to exteriniiiate
'With respect to the assistance give,' to forrign
rovers hylins-s I. nil Charles 1., that risti.rtilfee
furnished no precedent on the present oeca•ion—
fq in brth the former s.a.e. the volunteer, who
went forth were armed with the licrii.e of tloir So-
They were iolniorers holed by the consent
'loth the authority of the Crown, so far as at re-
spected the operation of their own loos upon them,
!hough he we, ready to Huhn 1, that if the ji 'toes
sertiost whom they murched, called upon their
Sovereign to withdraw them, the latter must hare
immediately complied, or a rupture must have
been the inevitable comequence. It hail been
atated, that if the Treaty of 1811 contained,
when it was catered into, the construction now
11111 upon it, it 'scold have hetet earlier enforced.
delay hod, however, risen not of the follow.
jog considerstious. . was, in the -first place,
hoped. that the proclamation would have deterred
indiridu ils from continuing to embark to South
America 1;ons this country. awl in the second place
it was hoped that the proffered mediation between
Spain and her Colonies would have rendered NS.
the! steps unnecessary—both however, had failed
to produce the expected molt, and in compliance
with the soul tooderstanding and provisions of the
Treaty, the Bill now proposed become tietestairy.
to prevent the neutrality which this country was
bound to hold toward. Spain. from Wong
ili-
tinged upon by British subjects. The Noble
Earl then referred to the existing state of the
Acts of Geo. 11. awl declared that. according
to that, the interpretation of tits law, it was fear•
td. would not be sufficient to promote the object,
'unless the neutrality was placed upon a firmer Not-
ing. The American Government, in 1799, passed
an Act like that of G,orie it. ; and when dotsbts
es to the interpretation of it arose. they then altered
It in the instiller (or nearly so) now proposes!. He
denied that it Was meant to 'kyr the law in the
sweeping way which had b-en stated ; it less rather
intended to give effect to it, and effectually to se-
cure and preserve the neutrality of the subjects
of the empire. He utterly denied that Ministers
had oloervid any other course toward.
than one of porfect neutrality. They had nei-
ther given nor countenanced any supplies to the
expedition slow lining at Cads, and the whole
amount of armlike rotes tent from this country to
Spain Was. according to the exportation returns,
as follows : —in 1816. 7 itatta—in 1817. 13—in
1818. 226 —and the whole slumber up to the
4th of Jatittilr'Y 1819. amounted to but 1,403 guns.
The value of the warlike stores of rvr.y descrip-
tion !sported front this (*entry to Spain, was,
%tinkling to the export valise. as rollows —in
ISIS, 5,2q0/. —if, 1816, 9961. in .1817, 303401.
ISIS, 4,63;/.—making, so far as the accounts
could he estimated since Ittlet mud including' Ilse
four orevious years, o sum not exceeding 16,0001.,
as forintrig the total 'Aloe of Nom of every &scrips
lion exported within the period he had
specified. `r tar, therefore, only had the sientrrlvy
which Ilia country via. hound to observe Mich Spam
been cnroptumi.rd by any in litidual With re-
ference to the arg nutrias upon the necessity of
("blintz the half-pay officers to avail th twitters
of this opportunity of ensiging in a news ',roles-
Naomi, sphere, to which their habits are congenial,
he should sneer with to deprive so valuable and
di.titioinslied a class of his Majesty's ',objects of
every fair op pertunity of siginslisino theniselvea. It
hail been insinuated that it would he cruel to she-
wive them of this opportiellity of retrieving the
oittration of their affairs. But li would I.ok, wee
this the epportunity which they could or ought to
.usbrece ? lie knew it was difficult to get at re.
act information of their state on their arrival in
South Americo. but he had received cominuni-
rations on which ha could rely, and from these it
appeared that the state of many of the British
cflicers who had embarked on this perilous expe-
dition was such, in point of clothing, fond, mid
trestmeut. from those who were to he liberated by
their hands, that so cif from encouraging otkers In
go oat to the same quarter, it would be mercy to
ltring back a number of those who were in it, and
re!irve them from the destitute state in which
they were now placed.—(pleat, hear, hear.)—
What was the icitoirc of the war itself—of that war
tehi.lt, it WWI insinuated, afforded those officer an
opooituility of retrieving their sittiatiou by taking
th• field f rr the losurzr•itts ? It was a war of the
1110 st deadly and dreaill of kind. Ile saw • prncts-
xnaGon, signed by '• BP/ivor the Deliverer," j tastily-
tug, in the most eloquent terms, the massacre, in cold
blood, of 800 Spaiitard.. See what would be the ef-
fect of this system on the minds of-those officers,
01i0... honour and character it should ever be the ob.
jrct it British soldiers to cherish, and olio by this
warination would have all their and nigh-
minded principles eradicated, mid instead of return-
O.! to their own country with miimpaired sentiments
el honour and justice, would return after being ha-
Lilo:Ord In secnrsa rapine and bloodshed, which
lower tliein w the scale of moral
Hod loosen all those finer bonds that associated them
to high and virt ttttt principles.—( I /ear, hear./—
lie should gi ieve to ate British officers tar.
uish the Issirelt they had so nobly won at A'itto-
ria and Waterloo, Iry being exit ised to the demo-
ralization of the Siiiiih American contest ; lie there-
tole thought that upon every gam lid of policy and

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joi-tirt..., their I.lrilsillpi were itounti le concur in
this Bill. They were its this iost sot e bound to utt
towards Spsin, us they would liner especteil she
woulit ■ct towards Englund under
The Nlarcinio of IlucE, in on onionoteil and iin-
pre%iiive ex creased Lis reaihness to ennette
iu ant• measure woods would Ist•d tile ill,tet of pre.
eenlint; arinomesit. for Spill, or S,ostli America
front► toeing tilled out in this country ; but he would
strongly object to a 801 l whit•th weld to prevent lies
upon their own risk responsihtlott•,
from giving their 'personsl sissisianue to is foreign
'Celt% Thu• "resit lentztli to which this country onglit
not to IVO fir the grn'ili••ation of any foregoi power.
The \•able llsripsis ditto e mewed it, II. •
conduct of France, ilisritig Ow American no or, soul
relented to the tt-o.titoc, w:oril to the Doke of
I I VIII!1"4.'' rasa, ,11111 111 1.1111.1'!4, 1k -01 anll•.-teel to lee
gives, to the Continental Powers, without such tx-
lieinsts as the present hiving 'Well riser re,ll.lril
Ile 5111( 41 hi. reallisiess to coot or in nut• t•lan•e in
addition to toe points tit which hr 11411 already ,assent•
VI. 111 111t-tVIII Lig:l4llg Roil acting Isere to procure owl
array Irtirt• in the manner in which they hod berm
are tt ed, to koin the iebellinsis subjects of oily
foreivo votentste in pence with this einlootry.
shookd also support any t Iyusrs to wrvrilt the
fitttui out of low vessels of war is, Briti•lo ',torts,
or for Ilse clothing of any bodies of melt Isar the
use of forei•„n powers. But. he mold not con-
, sent to go imp! step further—he ovoid never give
his consent to the proposed Bill 111 1111 prtortit
ape.—/!/tar.)
'l•hr Earl of CARNARVoN opposed the Motion

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1 iii an elotriritt Avert:l4 and denied that in any of
i the fiIIAMIIIIIS which hill twi* read I milli°.
1 titles tiro, the I.sw of Nations, a siiigle pas.
isage ninth! be ;1,11114'i, eut ; that rendered Isom!
inivate roli.tioeuit. by imlovititials.ir done without
I 1 the iternitt.sion a the state to chick they belonged
it was cutisid.reil no violation of neutrality, and the
1 individuals %%ere slime resonsible. The example
of America, by a Noble Earl opposite, was rather
ungracious, fur that country had suffered one of her
General, to carry wir into a neutral district, and
i hal even soluequeutly approved of his conduct.
The Noble Earl then prosioanced a line eulogium
upon the principle of the struggle in which the
South Americans were envied, and expressed his
decided hostility to the Bill.
I Lord I-Int.tatsu said, that, previous to Aerie's.
j lion tieing put, he wished to know from the Noble
Lord opytilate whether any representations had
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been oreae by the Cann of -Spans, respecting tl e
Isubject now under their Lordships' consideration,
i arid- particularly as to the two laws alluded to in
I the course of the debate (the pal mud. 2gai
1 of Geo. II.), and whether Ministers wossisl have any
objection to the production of such correspondence
• as might have taken 'dace ? The second (psit.
wits, as to the number of army and ammunition ex-
ported from this country for Spam ; whether Minis-
i I t..rs would liy before the !louse an account of all
licenses granted for the exportation of arms to that
Icountry ; or if it were deemed snore regular, he
(Lord Holland) would make a motion for on I.c-
-! count of all licenses ~ranted fur the cutiveyauce of
Isuch warlike stores ?"
I Lord Ilseauwov said, with respect to the two

; Lewis (he 911 and 9. 9th Geo. II.), there wi no re.
isresentation made by Spain ; and as to an are.init
! of the liceesses for exportation of warlike stores, he
• hid already stated the *mania a arms and aintnoni.
tints went from this country to Spain, and he had
I no objection to lay %deli account on the table.
Lord I itA.LAN D said, lie slid ant think the Noble
Lord had given a full answer to his former ques-
! %inn.

IA(41 LIVERPOOL said, that as doom laws there
W4ll_llo represetttationsmade by Spin ; but Spelt;

could not have been ignonnat of the prep:trona'',
mode in this country, to assist the South Aiuesiran
Culostive, What Spain complained of was, that
siotwithstandint the proclantatiiin of the Engli►h
Clover 00000 rest, those isveparations were still curried
on for ultimo; the Colonies. As to the riorteeposid-
ince, he did not think th4t the Noble 1,9r41
site had 1441 any sufficient grounds for the 'mythic-
I ion or that correspondence.
; Sirsii4ers were then ordered to withdraw, when
the Howie divided—
; Controls loin
NoN.Cuateals .

314jorily
The (louse rdjounied .t o.cLocK.

HOUSE OF COMHONs, Moso.ty, Joss 201.

The SI•FIRIR took the Chair about twenty minutes past
' Iwo o'clock.
' • el.wke from the Miry Council It fr,, pre•ritlefi an
Arcs is it of tltr number nt RePiliesot Awl Noll re. 1.1.111
In-
runtbeuts its 10.115 Hod 1,116 —l.at.l uu
j the table.