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throat\ the Hasse without the fullest eossideratioa.
There -dolma were preferred by Gesieral Desfoornesez, ea
the reprellehistive of a Montirer Abeille, for the care sad
provision for altit and wounded British troops in three hos.
foals at Guadeloupe, after flit Charles Grey look possession
of the island in April 1994, and fur furniture sod property
• eiret.orti in two of those hospitals, which were burnt on the
• syrtNinn of the Dritiab labia* of the same year, but whether
by the French or by the British theasselvea did not appear.
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_,► •11,0TISVI *lots *elks -enrauttlur
.eqt and woos aud 180,000 livens for the properly ,
1 At, This had occ•rted in 1794, but for 16 years no
e.Likjis wait preferred. Up to 1410 &skim wan loosarel,nlz
sitfbielb The peace of Annette had fateriewea, of I to lir=a'
• radian ora FiNek subject opus the /MOM Goeiliiittent:-.-
'io tete robruitir Alrhantler Coehrsae alma took polemist°.
cf the island, this elated was first put forward. He referred
Tb claimauta to the Government in this country, and a
Ciannittee was appointed to inquire into the subject.
evidence, however, was produced to shin natter what cif.
eliminates, the property was destroyed, or eves that' II
was *aloofly *co destroyed. He hoped therefore it would
nor pass without the Wink exzeoluatims ; and that it would
he brooght soder Oraeldbeition in a fell House.
jar. A RRIYA fir %ilk. it was worthy of sootier, es • dr.
eomatanee which tredve hit 'greet degree to,thruw diaeiedit
em these claims, that nu one MrOihrt of that House who had
tiny commons with Guadeloupe. imams the Committee..
The papers Wrenn airileivel to Its no tlta amble.
AFFAIRS OF SICILY.
• Lard W. rising to make- the
4eetiou of which he hail given notice reef:webs% the
effort of':3icily, entrained the Hou.e to believetlist
it was with 'extreme pain and reluctance he felt
h• imself compelled to bring forward this *Object.
Feeling, as he did, the strongest sense of hit own
▪ ihripacity to du justice to the subject, he would
• 'willingly have transferred the task to any other
g•
entlemin, of whom ninny might have been found
_.lector qualified than himself by the habits of public
• business. It was impossiltle fur him, hosreier, to
• sranger to another the weight and authority derived
• ern his own intimate acquaintance with this
subject ; and it was still more impossible to
transfer the zeal and warmth of feeling and attach-
Assiut which that acquaintance inspirer) towards that
Moral, the disappointment of +inar hopes, the dr-
atructinu of ',lpe rights and privileges, and the
Oaring of whose inhabitants in a worse coisilition
than that in which they had bees found by Great
Britain, unposrd on hint, ass point of honour, the task
of bringing their comb 'tun antler the consideration of
Parliament. The cause nos one which oar cute of
Wain inanitiog a much greater degree of attention thou
he could have any right to mak or expect; and that
atierinuo given. lie had only nue inure favour to ask,
namely, that the masse might not suffer from the
Mobility of the advoceie.--/ thee, ing.)—He had nu
dihhe, for his own part, to bring under discussion
tig.psctiotis with which he was connected, and to
which it might be that h's vanity perhaps had led
hint to outwit much more importance than they
seslly deserved. He could assure the House, on his
honour, that lie brought the subject forward without
the aidicdation or suggestion of any individual whet-
' ever; fiir, as hilted said before, sioce he left Sicily lie
. theld uo comosnoicat ion whatever with any per.
sou remai ll il ig tit it. fits motion arose solely out of
t Ilkaftlerip interest in the affairs of Sicily which he
had Imbibed from his long connexion with it.
When we were 'about to teoire from the Wood, the
, Lord oppositeinstructed our Wooster at
Septet to require of the King*. promise Of gua-
rantee of two conditions:—the first of these was, that
rib Sicitrou should he subjected to airy molestation
en account of hip former political conduct or opi-
nions; and the Second, that in nn case should the
134shOstas. _of-that i,litod be placed is • worse
• c9Pdthisa with respect to ills„,political rights
`And liberties -rhea they were in' before the Eug-
•liels Were in• posetearon of the Island. ' From all
information, however, a bleb he had beeu
.1414 e to collect, he was convinced that those eon-
*lmil been grossly violated; and that the
kelt. sights of the Sicilians had been Wholly 'min-
**shed. • If antiquity gore any value to nations'
rights, those of the violation of which he coin-
jahriped, were as valuable as all which were
clisamed by tither of the Allied Sovereigns them-
delve% • . for they rested on the antiquity of
des. The Noble Lord then entered into •
fetid of 'the history of the connexion of this
c*untry with Sicily from the expulsion of the Royal
Family from Naples in 1805; of our occupation
of .the island for ten years subsequent to that lime,
'daring which we maintained there s large fleet amid
arpiy, and paid large subsidies towards maintain-
isg. it, mid attempting to regain Nap* from the
dominion of the French. In retort, for our assist-
aerie. we received nothing but distrust, jealousy,
hatred, and hostility. During the first six years
tar our occupation, the government was in the
tials of those of whom it was in vain to expect
any cordial support. All attempts to. rouse the
Thepolitena or their government to any titer-
lieu were abortive, while the Sicilians did all
la (heir power to second our endeavour!,
Retracing down the circumstances of ;hie Sicilian
ktices, he took occasion to eulogise the conduct and
faiucipleo of the heir apparent. He thought that it
vresuld• be a happy day fur the Sicilians when they
411004 be given over to his paternal care. In mak-
iag out the-case which he hoped to estublials, he
contended that there were no n,ce shades of (Justine-
atom to be mode as to the degree of liberty nth Ch
belonged to either state of government—that which
Nit, and that which-did exist. Ile contended that
*lb lied been entirely deprived of her rights. She
44-A constitution and a Parliament; she had all
.esesonahle obacks on the collection and disbars,-
meat of the public revenue ; a revision of the Cons! i-
tidtion took place; various improvements (which the
11-i/ble 'Lord:described) were resolved upon, aiiii.the
Aarons did an, act of magnanimity unparellelid in
Ilha history of mankind by abolishing their term
toodot rights. The Constitution was intended to
-tilltsewtsle a. much as possible the Coast:ration of
Pltiglatitt. went on with the particulars which
lititkfallen.-•at after the evacuation of Sicily, until
this remnuatraume ',loch was put to, alpini.t the
tdmoges which had taken plume. He described the
oftet of the onion if the two kingdoms, Naples aqd
Meily,. to:hive liOirt most in)selnevods. becriuse iof
which the nettle.* of either kitigdetti
hard r the other. When the revoluti beoke•but
the iiiswerro•iais at Palermo was totally different
Ml* that of Nettles. At Palermo it wave ti strtiggle
leg jpgorndrnefrf eltd the French revolirtiourty
grivernineut at •Itlepks warrdblird to ittotei:e.corn.
tal4thrit to, Asir' dodos of 4041.-pv.ili.lice.•:—Ll4
10f..0i over this, post *r. 44 aim, be real *retell ex-
ItletAa from.thc dsolorstion of General Church, in
prottfsitathiet if Aker from crrisiii rosorkt