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Stitt : gave them access, and which were only opened to a
few. They perceived the sudden and powerful effect which
the blockading Decree of France ha& through the pusilia •
nimity of the Americans, on cur trade. The vessels of the
United States, obedient to the Imperial mandate, flocked to.
the Continent, and deserted our coasts. The urinal trade
with America, and throUgh American bottoms with the
Continent, was thus at once annihilated, unless some met:rosi
was taken to recall it to our shores. From thi; necessity
imposed upon us, first by the subserviency of the Americans
to France, and secondly, by the law of self-defence, sprung
our Orders in Conned, which declared every Atnerica,t
vessel that should go France without first coming to England,
lawful prize. Had we had no cruisers at sea to enforce till-,
regulation, the' Continent alone would have been Visited by
transatlantic trader*, as affording them a better market ; but
the diffieulty of avoiding our shipr, and the want of resolution
to insist °a the restoration of their neutral tights by NAPO-
LEON, placed the Amerians in a sitoation peculiarly diffi-
cult, from which they attempted to emerge by a measure
which nearly completed their ruin, as for several years, it
deprived them of all commercial intercourse With the rest
of the world. This act of imbecility on their part, instead
of preying injurious to us, promoted our interests, and whilst
our Orders in Council kept them away from all their com-
mercial haunts in Europe, we regained that trade to the,
Continent which they possessed before, that of the Mediter-
ranean and the Baltic, and whereas they used to convey
Chiefly the produce of the French colonies, we only sold
that of our own, which notwithstanding the burning Decrees
of France, found its way through every European kingdom.
We at the same time engrossed their .trade to South Ame-
rica, and the ascendancy which we thus once more obtained
over the carriers of the World, has struck a blow to their
prosp;lity from .which it will be many years before they cart
recover.

Had America acted justly in the first instance ; had she
not displayed a most servile subserviency to France, and
instead of siding with the Aggressor had she not adopted
hostile measures against us for a necessary act of self defence
on our part; had she continued her trade with us as long as
we did not go beyond the necessity of the cese, she would
have followed the dictates both of ;n4ice and of her own
interest. But, as an eloquent writer says', ‘. that she should
turn the whole of her vengeance upon w, and not on
France, was not to be calculated upon. It was an injustice
too glaring, a policy so completely at vat iattee with emittriion
honesty, with the neutral character, and eves the real
terests of the United States, that it could riot be cqntern•
plated, aqd the only legitimate. conclusion, therefore, i;, that
as the Orders hi Council were politic :Lod ncce:,-any meat

• s 8 A- • THE NATTONA:T.-RECTISTEIL: •

sure rhtmseies, so the present distress of the manufacturers
is nut owing to theM, lineurtlit Unjust leaning of America to
the aggressive belligerent, and to• her espousing the cause of
France a'.:ainst 'England ; a disposition, on her part, which
would have found pretexts for restrictive measures, bud even
for hostility, if the Orders in Council had never been
adopted."

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.

• MONDAY, 31/Nt _2S. •
The i.nrds met this day as usual, and after some routine busi►tess,
adjourned at hatf-past four. '

TVISDAY, 3VNE 23.
The Marquis Wst.t.zsttv rose and stared, that he felt it his
bounden duty, atte- he decision which the Commons had• come to,
respecting the Ca' to submit in form and substance a similar
resolution ro•their Lordsh'ts, and was agreed to in the other House of
Parliament last ti gbt. • In loin: this, he felt that he should only act
in strict cotitormi.uce to h s sincere opinion, that nothing short of a
•complete repeal u the di abilities under wh eh the Catholics labour
can give stability or .r.ngth to the British Empire. With that view
he should, on Wednesday se'nnight, submit, for the consideration of
the•ltlouse, a motion similar to that moved and agreed to in the
House of Commons, by his Right Her. Friend (Mr. Canning),
trusting-that it would meet the sarnedisoerning and generous reception
• which it ex-pecieneetfiin the other *rouse of, Parliament.
Earl GkLy thaiadvertirigAp the decision of the question last
• night in the Mee House, hecoulit•aselevoid congratulating the coun-
• try, anttakocongratulating himselron the event +..and he assured the
Noble Lord on the bench below filth (the Marquis Wellesley) that
wlienever;hZ should submit his ,notion to the House,
.it would have
his unequivocal and cordial support. It was now AVe years since
this Parliament was asseinbled, and it was hoTess.sitect far than it was
true; that the very Alkireeksof Adenbeiseveribn who assailed him with
so much odiutn, and raised-winter him so universal a cry for then only
• introducing " a little something," as it was called, in the Mutiny
• Act, in-behalf.of the Catholics, should be the very men who last
night advocated the capse of
.the Catholics, and who exclaimed, that
restrictions were continued upon them so lone.
After some further fconversation the motion was fixed for Weds.
nesilay se'imight, and their Lordships were ordered to be sum.
ironed: -
The *pule resolved into. a Committee on the Curates'
Earl G ROSV &NOR urged several objections to the BIN pitnleularly
that it interfered with private property, and coneludist by Moving,
that the Chairman do leave the Chair.
The Bishop of Exerte urged.titcfproprlint: or postponing the
Sill fur the present Session, in ortler4ogilve'frrne for furtlyr consider-
.
;mon..
Tile Doke of NoR rock thought that Curates, demanding an increase
' of saWy-uteler the Bill, might in some instance be ousted by the in-
cumbent i;oniing•to.rciide on the benefice, and thus the object of the
•.13r11 be defeated. ~ •
. The Artlibishop of e ANTRR BURY stated, that a licensed Curate
couldnot be deprived of his curacy in that manner, as Witte Incum-
bent did licit reall4, intend to reside as soon as he quitted the benefice,
the liceiled Curate would be again by virtue of his license in the ex.
• rise.. his duties in the-gure.
The Archbishop of YORK approved generally of the Bill.
The of LONDON- urged the necessity of postponing the Bill
for the present Session.
The k.:ari of 11.kaitov. ay entered into several calculations, for the
iitirposeof showing that Curate, received no adequate remuneration,
and that non- rewdence among the C 'trey prevailed to a great extent.
He conteuded, that no man could discharge' with due correctness the
ditties Of more than one paii,h ; yet Curates; from the smallness of
the provisi.n. Were mile; a :-.c.,essitv of undertaking the task. Ht did
not mean to go j'ar as to assert, that residence could or ought to be
Uniformly ehlurced ; ygt it it was admitted to be a duty, it ought to
be Lontinett :within narrower limits. He trusted the Committee
Would go through the clauses.
The LORD CHANCELLOR would willingly givelis vote in favour of
the Committee con, inuine, but did not mean thereby to pledge him-
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ppear in its final shape. There
idence and conscientious resi•
:tier was more to'he depended
perience, he must at the same
abuses too gesrally prevailed
ictly and legallr.ier dues.
•NOR. the House divided. For

and agreed to.—Adjourned.

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