The National Register.
London, England, 1815-04-09 00:00:00

TUT NATIONAL RFARTER.

*itit•sniiv. A PHIL 4.
1,1. F aereeablv to holier tmweti far the appointment of
e Coilitrittue, to consider the laws with te;zard to the. regulation of
tile assize of bread. and also wilethia.'t w.is expedient or not to !lase
any eAritilislicd assize. It wiss a filet, that velure no assiz•• wot fixed.
bi rad Vt cheapest; for instance, in the town of ringintln,
IA IN t e the law of assize was not established, and %silo at w.
f 3. a treater. the *varietal loaf Was sold at B,d. iY act ni
vt v ton, which divided twenty per cent upon their capital. fie
'Ad out to say dial this bet ail war quite sO white AS that sold
in Loorb•ii, nut it was of t,.e stand:lid wheaten quality. • According
to the old law, the as:ixe of bread was set by the price of wheat, but
Iy a statute, appis.:•4l/11. If. ',waken only, cinteted 1797,('.tesize
was .set by the prier of (line, pint this statute, which paused as a pri•
Hill, was aottially brought in upon the petition of the hi:1;os of
Imi•ilon. To till., s.attite the IS nourable Gentleman attributed tlic
r. eatef pat t, if hot the whole, of the evil complained of in the Loss•
110:1

grlcs said. enquiry vr:is certainly necessary; but as to the
Art of 1797, bread w, old ; retainly have been higher, if settled by
1.. .o:eat avera,...e in•dead ui fluor.—'file motion was agreed to, and
C.onniii tee ap;.olided.
Mr. VI iii-tmtrAn inquired, when certain pipers relative to the
SI .ve Trade ami the lode es proreedio with regard to Genoa, width
Lad heen oidered by the House, were to be brought down. Also,
A% ileilier on this day or Thursday, the 1.1-nse were to expect a coni-
utnication (tom the Prince ;Regent wi the state of Foreign affairs?
Lord easTi.EttEAnit informed the House, that he was about to
present the papers which had been ordered by the House, and that
01 Thursday he expected to lay before them a Message from the
Pc ince Regent, upon the state of foreign affairs, the consideration
of which he meant to fix for Fiirlay- evening, postponing the eon-
sqieration of the American question, which stood for that day,•until
the Tuesday follow ing.
Mr. Seakaet IIEsT postponed his motion relative to the rtpeal of
the Insolvent DI I ON' Act, till the llth instant.

Mi. iNVEMANTI..IC asked whether any and what measures had
heel, taken to prevent the escape of Buonaparte from the i?land of
Ehia?
Lord
,t CAsTI.EnF)a tt replied, that cinirers had- hen with that
41 view stationed 1 the island • fElba. His Lordship refused to say
any thing furtin r on the ol,hject.
A new wilt was ordered for East Grinstead in the room of Jag.
Stephen, Esq. who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds.—Adjourned.

WF.p?IFSD.rY, Allan 3.
Mr. HusEssoN obi/tined !cart: to in ing in a Bill for dibafforesting
the forests of Brccon anti Exmoor.

Mr. FUEEMANTLS rove to :epeai the question he hind put yes-
terday, whethrr any and what instructions had been given by hi•
Maje-ty's Miui•ters to the naval officers in the Mediterranean, to
prevent the departure of Iltionaparte from the We of Elba I
Lord CASTLEREAGaI said, that 110 positive instructions had been
thle.was ap club-mantling with the officers on that
station; that if they tnitaid Napoleon- passing beyond certain limits
the♦ were tri &lain him. • '
Mr. TtutsEs wked, whether he W2S to understand that tql pre-
cautionary measures bail been t416,e4% by his Mijest'a Government
to prevent llunnapat tc from going to any Nit of the world ?
Lord .CAstrtitEActi replied, that on a future occasion he would
enter into die disciiesion I I that subject. He did not wi•lt•to shrink•
ffuln explimation,—Adjoururd,

• THURSDAY, ATRIL 6.
The lrtingin-, in of the. Bill for the regulation of the trade of
balicrs in the City of London was postponed till tlic lath or May,
iu conkeugurnre of the appointment of the Cummitter to Davestigale
the Law of A,ize.

Mr. M A, Tivvi.ott moued for leave to brill.; in a Bill to abolish
fve 11)041imeht of the pillory. His gronHds for the motion wire,
that the punishment by pillory was the tetnninit of a barbaloos age;
that it WWI wor%e than death to t•onte, but no terror to otiti‘r: ; 11141
it talon n4Araddell a flimdlltiotis rabble who co:unlit ted outrage and
violence ; and hat hy itS lbperAtion, the alost lit tdutt3 ajul the most
e.erra.e might be equally subjected to this putii4untnt,
gi i en.
Lord CAITLF:RE.IOII brought down * Message from the Prince
oilar to the one presented in the Lords, and moved its
I.#,!eratiou t;iis day.
it; • Lordship, in reply to Mr. Wit D, reheated
e asser-
ti,. or rmi thf; I,4lraSe VV43ll9bCciti 41 ll* to the
%Italy u 1 Psi is,

APRIL 9,*

Mr. PONSONBT said, he did not meats to enter into premature
discussion on the sulject of such immense importance a% contained
in the Message. He was. not prepared to Say that the Allies and his
Royal Higlinesc should phinge into a state of war, nor that security
could be thond in a state of.upeace. It would he most unwise in the
House to to otter any positive opinion on either of those two sriti-
jects. He wished to concur in the Addresa, provided his future
conduct would not be bound by it.
Loud CASTWILACII said, the Address would not pledge the
Howe as to the future conduct of his Majesty's Governmci.t. With
re,peet to that evininet, or the use that mii:l4l he made ot the force
in preparation, tsbether the ultimate cud should be war ilt•
lutist devoid bpon the ifistie of goirenniqxpecii to be detrimined on
their own merit4.--On the motion of the Chancellor of the Exel e.
quer, the New Wine Duty Bill was ordered to be read a third Wu,
this day six Mouths.--Atijourued.

FRIDAY, APRIL 7.

TILE PRINCE !VG ENT'S MF,SSAGE•

Lard CASTLEREAGH having moved the Order of the Day foe
taking into consideration the Prince Regent's Message ; and the.
Message having been read, the Noble Lord proceed to call the at-
tentioo of the Howe to the important question invoked in it, in a
speech of considerable length, At nu period of his political lite, he
ob•erved, had it been his lot to bring before the House a subject
important than than the present ; but at this moment he was not
going to call on the House to decide on the question or Peace or
War. The policy of such course as the Executive might hereafter
determine upon, would more properly beccute the object of future
enquiry ; all that he should call on the Howe to do—all that ins
Royal Highness's most gracious Message. required, was, toe xpreas
approbation of what the Govermnent had already done, and the
willingness:to support it in its eudeavours to act in concert with our
allies. The object of the allies had been and still was not only to ,
relieve the nations of Europe from eali;mities and dangers. such as
they had undergone for more than 20 yenia, but to restore those
ancient and social relations which existed when Ile ~theirs ct the
world became convulsed by the proceedings in and the subsequilent
military asecumlapey of a neighbour ing country. In restoring peace
they desired tp restore the balance of power ard confidence amongst
States. Dift,if -the present state of things in France were to conti-
lute, judging from time past, what hope had they but. to see elleirs
agaiminade to continue and break id:se.ti the independent mass of
surrounding powers ?—(Hear.) Were they now again to behold
Europe driven from its political balance? After more than 20 years
of the great work of peace had been' accomplished—order, justiee„
and the independenoe of Statea had been restored--Fiance herself
had been left with her enticed limits aggrandized—confidence and-
the ancient state of things began to show themselves every where..
There appeared to be no longer any fear of being plundered and
oppressed by that over-weennigntilitary 'minority which was likely
•to etigulph and overwhelm every timing that was dear to man. Was.
the repose of Europe to be again disturbed by a military chit fain,
whose only pre(ence to power was the etteclueent of a soldiery,
liecaueellitiviews were. favourable to theirs.? Was that man to be
,'forced on a people (for it bad not appeared that the sentiments or;
'Abe French people were in gnonaparte'a favour), against the general
[voice and in violation of treaties ? Was that power to be endured, in-
which the military character was every thing, which set itself up Ice
the. ,destruetion of that social spurn iit,which the military Wel e
hemerged is the mass of the people? To live in a state of prccaution
.•and unitary organization, 'mole as hreenielauces rendered it to Cos,
:sary to be resorted to at the present moment. would be most unicon,.
genial to the habits and notions of this country, but such Measures
of preemitiop and military. organization were absolutely called tor
under existing cireumstenta:s.—(Hear).-4-lie kit, however,, the no-.
mense comuleence of the question of War or Peace, especially when
Ire remideted the awful struggle from which they had so recently es.
enped ; hot it might never fo be forgotten, time character, of the
military aseenatiney that was likely to be opposed to them- lint be
'should pot be-doing his duty by the country nor the by Comacils
of the Executive, to precipitate that House into the expression of
au opinion on the question of War or Peace. lie desired to elo no
such timing —Tice breaking of treaties, however, was a justifiable
elapse of war, and liutmaparte had broken all Treaties—he bad
avowedly proceeded in contravention of them all. %he Trudy of
Fontainbleau was one of great lenity and generosity; bet geocroas
iteil lenient as is was, it mist be remetidn't ed, that when it spas
negocioted, Ilinmap.mrte was not their captive. The military hind
not (teetered against. him--he was at the head of a very committer-Ade.
ro; end Wet a' ill !aye maintained an extended comm.:J. Nut tbs