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MONDAY, MAY 23.
The Order of the Day having, by Lord Pelham,
been moved to be read, and being read,
Lord PELHAM said, he was perfellly con-
scious of the great importance of the sublet, under
their Lordships' consideration, nor could any man
feel more strongly than he did the necessity of the
Ilouse coming to a unanimous vote ni the otcasion,
but as he was perfectly assured that every one of
their Lordships had perused the papers on the Table
with that anxious attention which they must natu=
rally excite, he felt a considerable degree of confi-
dence, that however some Noble Lords might, as
times, have differed in opinion with respea to the
ccridua of his Majesty's Ministers, every Noble
Lard •.vould, that day, lay aside every party feel-
ing, and considering the vote they would be called
upon to give, as a vote of the first consequence to
the honour and dignity of his Majesty and his Go-
vernment, would manifest their proper sense of
their duty, and evince a unanimity so necessary to
the c:iarafter of that House, and the true in-
tecsts of the British Empire. His Lordship
said, as it was impossible to imagine that every
Noble Lord had not made himself master of every
par: of the contents of the papers on the table,
it would not he necessary for him to waste the
time of the House by going into a lengthened
de:ail on the nature of those contents. He would
barely state some of the leading faits that were ne-
cessary to be adverted to in the course of his debate.
His Lordship began his statement by assuring the
I-louse of the sincerity and -good faith, which his
Majesty had uniformly been desirous of manifesting
in a stria adherence to every article of the Dellni-
tive Treaty ; and that with respea to the tenth arti-
cle, that respeCting the cession of the Island, as soon
as a proper neutral power would join in its guaran-
tee, his Majesty had evinced the most anxious wish
to discharge the obligations the tenth article im-
posed on him, in the fullest and most e.,.:aa manner.
It would be seen from No. I. of the printed papers
that immediately on Lord Hawkesbury's receiving
a note from M. Otto, mentioning, that the First Con-
sul had appointed General Vial to be Minister Pleni-
potentiary to the Order and Island of Malta; that
Lord Hawkesbury in return, communicated (No. II.)
to Mr. Otto, that his Majesty on his part had ap-
pointed Sir Alexander Ball. No. 111. contains an
extraCt of a Letter from Lord St. Helen's to Lord
I lawkesbury, expressing his apprehensions that his
Imperial Majesty declined taking part in the pro-
Losed joint guarantee of Malta. Thus he Sent a
etter (No. IV.) dated Mar 7, 1e0:4 stating a hope
that the first impressions that had been produced
at the Court of St. Petersburgh had been re-
moved ; provided that the steps, which had
been taken towards the elution of a new Grand
Master, according to the mode suggested by the
Russian Court, be considered as fulfilling what is
required by the latter part of the tenth article of
the Treaty of Amiens. The next paper, No. V.
contained a letter from Lord llawkesbury to Mr.
Merry, at Paris, elucidating the objea of the para-
graph No. I. of the tenth article, stating the readi-
ness of his Majesty to consider he elthion, which
Ltd taken place at Petersburgh, under the auspicious
of the Emperor of Russia to be valid ; also, that as
the 13th paragraph of the tenth article stipulates,
that the Governments t,f Austria, Russia, and Prus-
,sia, should be invited to accede to the arrangements
rape& in .I. Malta, it would be desirable that the
French Government should instruct its Ministers at
those• courts to make, conjointly with his Ma-
jesty's Ministers there, an official communica-
tion, desiring the accession of those powers to
the arrangements made in the Definitive Treaty
relative to Malta. No. VI. contained an eatrai't
of a dispatch from Mr. Merry to Lord Hawkes-
bury, dated Paris, June the 17th, 1802 inclos-
ing the copy of an answer to his note verb:de, con-
taining his Majesty's propositions, relative to the
execution of some points of the arrangements re-
spating Alalta. The enclosures referred to in this
number are, the "note vi rkile," and M. Tallevrand's
answer, with the contents of both, on the subject of
Malta. No. VII. is a letter from Mr. Merry, stat-
ing a communication from M. Talle;Tand, repre-
senting the several circumstances which stood in the
way of that perfect reconciliation, and good under-
standing between the two countries and their go-
vernments, which it was the First Consul's sincere
' wish to seise-establiblied. That to further this the First
Consul thought it incumbent on him to express a
wish that all the French I'rinces should be re-
moved out of the British dominions, together with
the French bishops and all their adherents, the
Other French individuals whose political principles
and condua must necessarily occasion great jea-
lousy to the French Government. The letter also
stated, Mr. Merry's reply to M. Talleyrand on this
subjea. No. VIII. contained Lord Hawkesbury's
answer to M:. Merry, stating that the French
princes, bishops, and others, resident in the British
dominions, condated themselves conformably to
the laws of the country, his Majesty could not feel
himself justified, or feel it consistent with his dig-
nity, his honour, or the common laws of hospitality
to deprive them of that protection, which indivi-
duals residing in his dominions, can only. forfeit
.by their own misconduCt. No. IX. contains Mr.
Merry's explanation to M. Talleyrand on this sub-
let% in consequence of Lord Hawkesbury's instruc-
tions. No. X. is a note from M. Otto to Lord
Hawkesbury,conaplaining of a numberof M. Peltier's
publications, containing gross calumnies against the
French Government, also of she Courier de Londres,
Cobbett, and other writers, and calling for positive
laws against the liberty of the press. No. XI. is
Lord Haivkesbury's reply to M. Otto, on the subjed
of his note. No. XII. is another letter from M.
Otto to Lord Hawkcsbury, containing six distinct '
requisitions, Which he has been instruCted by his
court to make to the British Government, relative
to the French Princes and -bishops being sent out of
the territory of the British Empi:vo • N0..X111, is

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