The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1808-03-09 00:00:00

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IMPERIAL PARLIAMEAT.

HOUSE OF LORDS—ToLsoair, MARCH 8.

This day their Lordships wore particularly summoned to
attend on business art importance.
The Earl of L•VDEADALE moved "That the order of
the day for takie{ into coosideration the commercial policy
of the Orders iu Council be deferred lentil Muudsy uest.'
Ordered.

Lord HOLLAND moved "That the order of the day fur
taking iuto cunaideration the general policy of the Orden so
COWLS' be fixed fir Friday weak." Ordered.

AMERICAN TREATY.
Lord Gommo Lox wished to be informed by the
Noble Secretary, whether the terms of the Treaty,
signed by the American Minister here, had been
transmitted to the President of the United States

sufficiently early to be submitted to Congress for
the purpose of ratification.
Lord HAWILESSUIIIr replied, a copy of that ar-
rangenient of Treaty had .baes teassattttest to the
President, and had been received by hinuan the
ld .f March, the day previous to the separation

of Congress. The copj, he stated, was not au
official one. No OffiClat copy was received until
some time after the recess of Congress.
Lord tiou.snD stated, that unless an autliPntic

copy of terms of the Treaty had been submitted
to ColiAress, it was impossible that Treaty could
be ratified, as the power of ratification lay iu that
body. lie therefore feared the delay ha.l been
the only obstacle .which had stood in tlie way
of a Mud adjustment of our differences with Ame-
rica.

Lord Ilsweessuse conceived this impossible,
since the President. having in his pnasession the
terms of the Treaty, might- have prevented the Cir•
paration of Congress, until the arrive! of official
documents, when the Treaty might have received
its sanction. But the disp`ofition for conciliation,
it was evident, did not exist; therefore, no steps of
this nature had beers takers.,
Lord Ettsetestliiie 'addressed the House, on the
Order of the ,Orly being read, requiiing their
Lordships' attendance, on business of serious net-
portance :—•, My Letdsoat this particular crisis,
when the established principles of justice and nu-
tiouol fidelity have been violated and outraged
.throughout all &mope, when the greater part of
Europesa nations have successively falleu beneath
the coaynlsive efforts of France, in a state of
.anarchy, Or subsequently in an organised system
••of overwlriming despotism,. I fkel it peculiarly
!Jay duty to direct the attention of the House and
the Country to the conduct which has been
pursued by His Majesty's Ministers respecting
those countries. whose situations, am allies or as
neutrals, rendered their interests peculiarly our
own. Int while I deprecate-the manner ip wine
dm Ministry -of this country have treated those
mations. I trust the House will do me the justice
to believe, I have no intention whatever personally
to assail those who compose that Ministry, of whom
I am. extremely anxious to maintain the good opi-
nion, esteem, anti friendship of' several ; nor would
I on this occasion be found the brut of their
accusers, were I not compelled by the ir-
resitible calls efjustice, public faith, and my in-
oured eouutry, to expose the glaring breaches of the
ne, and the undeserved wrongs and suffer-
ings of the other. I had hoped, that the happy
situation of this country, excluded from the cruel-
ties and misfortunes which have attended the pro-
gress of incesaant war upon the Continent, would
have enabled been as she had resisted the power,
or rather had been but qt' the reach, of France, to
resist or keep aloof float threse principles and
practices which have so degraded and debased that
country in the eyes of die world. But it is, alas !
far otherwise; and the character even of this coun-
try has been committed by the conduct of its Mi-
nisters. The 'principle upon which nations should
reciprocally regulate their conduct to each other,
has been so long and .so ably defined. I should
scarce have expected to hear of a doubt existing
as to its application to the nature of the present
subject of discussion. But we have been told,
that those authorities, hitherto held sacred by
the learned world, are merely speculative dreams
and fine-spun delusions, unfit to be applied to puts
popies of national advantage or general utility.--
Stich have been the topics and such the priuciples
insisted on, in order to cover the foul and disgrace-
ful machinations of men who were anxious to lay
down new principles of geberal policy, since they
were convinced that an appeal to existing and uni-
. venially-received maxims would he attended with
disgrace and conviction. The Ministry have ac-
cordingly resorted to the principle of necessity for
the justification of their conduct to other nations.
' They have assured the country the nature
of the circumstances in which they were placed
is the best spoke), for their deviation from
the customary tonne of proceeding towards other
nations ; yet though this argument derives all its
force from a fall and clear demonstration of the
rimperiousness of that necessity. they have hi-
therto neglected addncing any arguments on this
most important part of their case, but such as
prove directly that no such necessity ever existed.
They assert, the measures adopted by France in
its conduct to other neutral nations, warranted us
in enacting similar legislative measures towards
neutrals. This, indeed, is to repel injustice by
injustice; to punish the innocent for the guilty ; to
waist the strong in persecuting the weak ; and
feeling the odium to which they would necessa-
rily subject theinneves by setting up such a
defence, they proceed to charge those neutral
newev with a pmportion of the guilt, in becoming
accessaries I. the designs of the enemy, and giving
his Decrees against us effect, by submitting to
their 'serialise on themselves. Tiaii Ministry has
considered the strongest ground of its defence, and
has hence spared no pains to collect something like
proof to bear them out in their assertion. No 'nevus
have been left untried to obtain proofs of the die-

particularly America. to
French Decree, but all in
►ain. Their iuvtstitjationalra►e proved their deleat.
No instance whatever has been adduced of Arne-
.

rice's yielding to the terms of the French Decree; •
tee itistanresliave been adduced to prove the arrest
of American vessels, yet, in pool instances, thesd •
vessels were immediately liberated by au appeal to •
the French Government. Thus the only support ''‘
of the conduct of the present Government, falls by
the very means used to prop it ; had they them.'
selves not proceeded to make this inquiry, the
affair would most probably yet remain enveloped
iu uncertainty ; but such proof as yet is before the
public, is altogether against the justification of the
measures resorted to. The principle of retatiatiou,
as resorted to by the Ministry, has Leen also proved
defective. Whatever 1 have yet been able to learn of
the word retaliation, induces me to believe the com-
mon Neeptatiou of the term sigeides fleetly the
adopting an exactly similar line of offensive or iiii.
mice conduct towards those who had attacked
us. The word then could never some with
any propriety from the Ministry of this coun-
try. Could they maintain that to be retaliation,
-which consists its retorting the injury done to this
country, by an open and avowed enemy. on an on-
offenaliiig peaceable nation ? This strongly reminds
sue of au anecdote, related of the late insurgents
in a neighl.ouring country, remarkable for a talent
of blundering : the Irish rebels having a particular
dislike to a banker of eminence in the city of Dub-
lin, affairs, for his interference in public affai, resolvcl
on his ruin ; to effect this purpose they determined
on electing his betaking credit; they is council
entered into a resolution to destroy the Bank-nett s
• issued in his name; the effiket, as was natulal to
suppose, was directly-the reverse of what the i
rant contrivers intended, and the banker had the
pleasure of receiving fro& the ill-meant devices. of
his implacable enemies, a tuns not less then 40,0001.
(Low(' laughing.) Such has been the conduct oF
this Administration. They have prohibited tile.
importation of our colo.'ial produce into the porti•
of the enemy, while they hate, under certain res
. etrictions and regulations, pkrmitted the produce
of Geier nations to be carried, into all the ports of
thelinerhy.'. Another part of4these orders issueed
in cop;il,made it unlawful to carer French colo-
nial
er p •
_into the ports of neighbouring nations ;
if then •, rgneli uce, passing through 'many,
heads, iffd at ength come into the Laude of a
British suer Thant, who imported it thence to Great
Britain or Sweden, the consequence would he, if •
it were discover—id, that the property of the British
merchant would be liable to cemfiseation. This is

levying war upon our owl; resources, and our owl'
sulijects. Another reWOlLisiode it necessary elk
neutral vessels Atm eisterksto the ports of Great
Britain, for the purpose of waiting thereto receive Ms
'Unction and W 911661011 et the pleami e of the office; s
of our customs, fur sailing to different ports of the
Continent. This was indeed a solmisin iw legisla-
tion. It was not only illegal, but ludicrous in the
lest degree. What would the House think of a
law which had compelled we, when in the habit of
attending Westminster Ha lon pressing business, '
to go round by Hyde Park Corner to Court ; tint
detaining me at Hyde Park for further orders, or
perhaps for further deviations from the direct road?

not Government at once send me house,
with my bag and my briefs, without this species
of tantalizing ?—/A gexcrei laugh.) Another
clause required, that vessels, on entering our har-
bours, Shull he permitted, on payiug certain
duticv to the port, to clear out when they
please. 'God forbid,' say we, that the urgency
of that necessity which compels us to protect our.
selves should compel us to injure you ; pay but
the mere fees of the Custom-house officers, and

away with you.' This is like taking up the hone
of one man fur the trespass another has committed,•
and when lodged safely in the pound we might with
equal justice exclaim, ' Really, hottest man, I with
you not to be compelled to pay for the trespass
made, Only l ay the pound keeper for his trouble, and
you
.bizay shoot tour horse if you hart a mind =-•
are not the only inconsistencies in these re-
.
viatica' of treat; they are too numerous to recite."
Hereite went into • lengthened argument on the
nature 6f blockade, and quoted aeveral authori-
ties from Lord Mansfield and others, to prove, thlit
we had exceeded the legal bounds of blockade, as
recognised by the Constitution and the Laws. of
Nations, and concluded with observing, I, The prin-
ciples I have adduced to support the doctrine laid
down, are those of the Constitution and the Revolu-
tion, which placed the present illustrious family on
the throne of this caftan, principles which I
shall ever hold dear as my 1 fe, nod dearer than the
honours conferred as me by tiis Majesty, or the
privileges of a seat sad a voice in this House ; sod
sooner would I thrust into the fire the instrument
by which I hold these valuable privilege', than
sanction the iniquitous system which ham been re-
sorted to by the present Government." He con-
cluded with moving the following Resolutions :—.
3. That the power of making laws to hind the people of
this realm is exclusively tested is His liglectv, by and
wait the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and tem.
pound, and Coinuities of the realm, in Parliament accent-
bled ; end that every attempt to make, alter, serpend, or
repeal mach laws, by order of His Majesty, in his Privy
Council, or In any other manner than by His llegjeaty, in
Parliament, is uneonctiturimitil and illegal.
2. That the *deicing Majesty to issue any Order in
Council fur dicpeasine with or suspending am; of the laws of
this realm, M a high violation of the fandameotal brim and
cm.stitution thereof.
that thwecusse cannot, in any ease, se jumbled, bet by
some erillereseeti and or.. cut necessity, embiageriag the public
safety
And that in every inch are It is the dot, of His Mri.
jetty's Ministers to adv:ce Hi. Majesty, aft amine such
thdtv, fortliwith to inceniii`e his Parliament, is order be*
that the meeriuty of such proceed...it may bettiojoacJ law
and deterinieed, and that hue provs:u, may I. made toe
the public tarty by the authority of Rn Majesty is ?skis-
UM at.
a. That the law of ?jetfoils iv a pan of lb. Low of the
Land . amt that weetrid netienc. um.t interposing in the use
between tits diatoity and his enemies, hots a hp& Ada to