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The Ead presented an account of the
gate of. the army, in die United Kirrgdons, upOn
the.first of-January, iBtYi. This, on ;kis Lordship's
Motion, was ordered to be printed.
After some time had elapged, Lord Mu roxiive
entered the House, and immediately presented a
number of papers and documents, relative to the
war with Spain, which he had it in command from
His Majeity to lay before the House. The tides of
one or two of the Papers were read by the clerk,
mu; gppealed to be similar to those presented yester-
day to the other House of Parliament.
SPANISH PAPERS.
Earl SPENCER stated, that. in the absence of
his Noble Friend (Lord Grenville), he had to call
their Lordships' attention to what took place ymter-
day, at the instance of that Noble Lord, respetting
certain additional Spanish documents, which ha
conceived necessary to be produced. Adverting to
the explanations which had passed yesterday be-
tween his Noble Friend and the Secretaries of State,
' upon the subjea, his Lordship proceeded to moye
for the produeion of accounts transmitted, relaio.„
to the conference with M. Ceyallos, and refe. red to
by Mr. -nevi, in his dispatch of the ss:Ch March,
1804, to Lord Hawkesbury.
Lord MULGR AV E expressed surprise at the
line of proceeding chosen by tib" Noble Earl upon
the occasion. He understood ',Au a full steel:mom of
what was required was to 'nave beep made that day,
previous to any regnl7:, mod= being made, for the
purpose of affor"....ing Minlsters an opportunity of
either answer,ag as to the diqinel items, or explain-
ing whig. might have proceeded in the way of mis-
, infon-mation or mistake, with resped to documents
supposed to exist.
Earl SPENCER spoke shortly in explanation, in
which he was followed by
The Earl of DARNLEY, who stated his opi-
nion that the previous explanation of what was in-
''tended to he moved for this day was given yester-
day by hi, Noble Friend, and that the distinct an-
swers or explanations of the Noble Lords opposite
were then fairly to lv expened.
Lord HAW KESBUR Y admitted the competency
of any Noble Lord to make the Motion adverted
to ; yet, circumstanced AV the Noble Earl was, in
the present instance, he saw not what advantage it
would be to him. The answers or explanations of
Ministers, as to the existents of particular docu-
ments, the expediency of producing them, or as to a
mistaken idea concerning their import or nature,
could be as well given without.
On the particular topic to which the Motion re-
ferred, some explanatory conversation took place,
chiefly between the Earl of D ARP:LIT. Lords Myr-
on* v s and S P ct R ; the result was as assurance,
on the part of the Noble Secretaries of State, that
no account, minute, or document whatever, existed
in the oEce, which referred to, or was explanatory
of, the proposed conference with M. Cevallos, as
mentioned by Mr. Frere in his Dispatch of the Sth
of March, or, at least, of a subsequent date. There
was, however, a reference made to a conversation on
the subje9, in a dispatch of Mr. Frere's, dated the
3d of March, which was included in the first selec-
tion of the Papers ; whether or not that (as possi-
bly some mistake might have been made as to the
dates) may not refer to the conference mentioned
in a dispatch of a subsequent date, they were not
prepared to state.
Earl SPENCER proceeded to advert to the other
documents and further information, which, it was
the opinion of his Noble Friend, ought to be laid
before the House. lie first adverted to the corre-
spondence between Mr. Frere and Ni. Cevalos, at
Madrid, particularly the Letters adverted. to by the
-Chevalier D'Anduaga. in his letter to Lord Hawkes-
bury of the Stith of -March, 1804, of the dates of
the 23d, 24th, and 27th of February.
With respect to these documents, in the course of
some explanatory conversation between the Noble
Earl and Lords Mulgrave and Hawkesbury, it ap-
• peered, that the dates, as set down in February,
were by mistake; that they should be on those days
•in the preceding month ; and that they were to be
found in the first selection of the Papers communi-
cated to Parliament.
' The Noble Earl then proceed-d to advert to the
important letters of the Chevalier D'Anguada, of
the 9th and 30th of March, the Ist of May, mid
more especially that of the 22d of December,
1804, to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
the Official Answers to these' Documents, he was
of opinion, it was highly impokant should be laid
before their Lordships.
This proposition also gave rise to some conversa-
tion, in the course of which, it was stated by the
Noble Secretaries of State, that no such documents
as these adverted to Ly the Noble Earl, in point of
fa. 9, existed. With respet% particularly, to the last
mentioned letter of the Chevalier D'Anguada, no
answer, 'ruder the circumstances of the case, could
with propriety be given, especially as a negotiation
was in train at the time, between the British Charge
Ajfairet and the Spanish Ministers at Madrid.-
i The next topic respeCted the information received,
as adverted to in the last mentioned document. re-
lative to the. Naval Armaments ; but no accounts of
this description, as explained by the Noble Secre- '
taries of State, were to be found.
The instruCtions transmitted to Mr. Frere rape/l-
ing the sale of the Prizes. and on which that Minis-
',ter, in certain parts of his negoeiation, laid so much
',stress, were represented by the Noble Earl as neces-
;Lary to be pro.iliced.
' This topic induced much conversation, in which
the Earl of CA none and Lord Maria took a part,
but principally between the Noble Earl aid the
Secretaries of State: the importance of what was
required was insisted upon by the Peers in Opposi-
tion, in support of which position a reference was
made by Lord Kite to one of Mr. Frere's dis-
patches.
Lords HAW/1[1111;11W and Mvtoaave, particularly

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The Bills upset the *lsle vi - t anumg
these; the Place and Pension Duty Bi . and the
-Mak Tea Bill. 'esti-Ay-went IhiesiglirOmnittees
of the whole House. Th.". firmer A6t remived.a
slight verbal amendment, formally moved by Lord
Nast ER ,• 'iibieh apPeased to bed reftification of an
omission in the :Bill, of the word tax. The Bill
I was ordered to be repotted to-Morrow.
1 The Earl of CAM.oss presented an account of the