The National Register.
London, England, 1808-03-13 00:00:00

011117:11S IN COUNCIL.

Mn. Prricry.ti. moved the Order of the Day for the House
rt•ganittp. the attjourned debate on the third reading of the Orders
in t'iliiii..l

in. /Ns defended the principle of the Bill, as tt measure of
On• utniin4 importattre to the mercantile interest of the country.
N vomits had !io ri4ht to complain of the Orders in Council, for
the became unavoidable, in consequence of Bonaparte's decree,
declaringlue Briiish Isles in a state of blockade. He coucluded
with obseryiog, that the preseat Administration had no hostile
idea again4t America.
.1I it. E. .110 Rios sad, the Orders in Council were contrary to
the common law of the land, in direct violation to the 28th of
u and 111. and contrary to the law of nations ; since it was
there laid (limn, that the cowent of the neutral ought to be pre-
% ion-1y obtained, before his right could he infringed.
JP:. n err Ix abstained from taking any share in the debate,
in the li.ipes of hearing any thing in the shape of argument from
the other side, in favour of a measure which forboded the ruin of
Itritish commerce. lie uas astonished at the mode in which
!hi- !till u as originally forced on the House ; and he was equally
sorpri-ed when the e..itlence which the Merchants of Liverpool
:NO London had to olfer against the Orders was rejected.
lin. CANNING, in a very eloquent speech, supported the prin-
ciple of the Bill, hich tsas an experiment rendered Necessary
by the unprecedented situation of the country.
The Ifuu>e divided for the third reading of the Bill.
Ayes., 166--Noes, 66—Majority 100. Adjourned.

THE %TY WMI Sl% EDEN.

CON v lION iscrwErs Ills M 4..IESTY AND THE KING OF

swED I:

Sig!oed of Stockholm, on the Bth of February, 1808.

The consequences of the Treaty of Tilsit between It ussia and
Fnotee unrolding themselves more and more in such a manner as
If! eii ett'U Sts with a speedy Invasion, for the purpose of
ff.t.rin,r her to accede to the French system ; and his Swedish
7‘1.1,ic.1 v :in lio:r hint-elf therefore under the necessity of bringing
t•icward, to resist it, effects, a greater force than he has at his
nrdinary disposal, his Britannic Nlajetty, animated with the
con.tunt de.ire of contributing to the defence and security of his
Ally, and of supporting him by every means in a war under-
t,iken GI,- the mutual interests of both• States, has determined to
roc to his Swedish Majesty an immediate aid in money, ns be-
im.; the most prompt and efficacious, to be paid from time to time
;;.t tied periods : and their Alajesties having judged it expedi-
cu,, that a formal Convention with regard to their reciprocal
:locutions in this respect, should be concluded, they have, for
";xis purpose, named and authori7ed their respective Pleni-
patPritiaries ; that is to gay—In the name and on the part of
!ifs Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, Edward Thornton, Mg. his Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plenipotentiary to his Majesty the King of Swe-
den ; and in the name and on the part of his Majesty the King
of Sweden, the gamin d'Elirenheim, President of his Chancery,
and Commander of bib Order of the Polar star, who, after