The National Register.
London, England, 1815-05-21 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

. a ereinnioary to inat investigation, he should move an Address fur
C pies of 41 Letter from M. Blacas, tientimitting three letters to
L rd Cas.l.reagh, respecting Murat ; and of one ft oni the Duke of
W• i,ingion. our Anilia,,satlur iu Knis, in consequence of documents
cuttomi.:;eateil to him.
Lc: d t AsTi.un Fs° who had jost entered the Howe, said, that
the leiter atarlite,i to thy Doke of Wellington ss•, authentic, but
It related to dociiments en to ely dit:Crent Irmo those meant by the
Ft h Of that krter be feateil no ropy could be immediately ob-
tain(' t, hot lie had no obj,ction to admit its anthenticity for the pur
pats d,f o mo:I. %Vita respect to the other letters, which were
eight itimi:ier, five of them were indisputably authentic, the en i
Viog to the possession of P. lure Cask !calve), and lie had again
4.0 (htnt shorty' before he came down to the flon,,e; and the re•
sti•lining three (litionoparte's letter.. to Murat's wife) were found in
tI e auchic‘vs of France by M. Met's in the only state in which
they could he expected to ne found, the original dianglibi or memo-
of them. 'the ,hole should be laid before the }home next
wick, together with other papers, and he theretOre thought there
sea• no occasion to ;tress the mot:on. He, however, could not but
. lament that the Hon. at.d Learned 0:I'll:loco should appear so
ready to Ore credence to what issued from the opposite side of the
ssa!er, especially when all mii•t see that these statements and
ch:;tgt.i constituted only a pat tof that system of filo icating sorts
of doetiment4— proclamations for Lor:1 Wellington (hear !)—for the
Prussian Govei meta, &c.; resorted to at the present moment to
*onport the di sperate plaii4 of that desperate Mall now at the head
of the t tiling pat ty iu France— (Hear, hear.)
Mr. HORNER, relying on his chrracter beim; truly, and too well
known in that Home to be affected by the Noble Lord's insinua-
. Lion, should treat it with pee feet inditierenee.—(Hear.)
AO( r sonic Inrther remaiks from Mr. Tierney, Sir J. ninths!),
STr. llut uer, and Lord Crstlereagh, the conversation dropped, Mr.
Horner withdrawing his motion, on the uuderstanding that all the
Correspondence should be produced on an early
The other Orders of the Day being di,posed of, the East India
Shipping Bill having been read a second time without bearing Cuun.
ael, Oal. the House aitintirned to Monday.

MEETINGS AT WESTMINSTER AND THE
BOROUGH.

Wednesday there was a meeting in Palace-yard of the
iinhabitant Householders of Westminster to con.thler of the jus-
tice or polity of going to war with France.
The High Bailin' opened the proceedings, and read the
requisition in consequence of which he had convened them.
Major Cartwright began by observing, that when we heard
of any of the abandoned wretches breaking into the dwellings
of innocent and peaceable persons, plundering their property,
stud ill treating their persons, we naturally felt the most
lively indignation. That indignation should be felt winch
stronger, when an unoffending nation is wantonly invaded
in tlisir dwellings, and made 5 ant. all the miseries which an
unjust war can bring down on their heads. lie could
conceive only two just grounds for war. The one was, if any
nation threatened to invade us, and overturn our laws and
liberties ; and the other was if any weak nation, oppressed,
by despotic power, shall call upon this country for succour
and support, The country, however, did not stand in either
of those two situations. As to Bonaparte, although he had
faults, as all other kings had, yet he was not threatening
this country. Ministers wanted the French nation to drive
from their thrown the Sovereign whom they had chosen,
and to give hint up to the fury of his enemies who were
thirsting after his blond. He thought the impolicy of this
war was equal to its injustice. The French were now peace-
ably occupied in foi tning a constitution on tl.e basis of an
*final representation of the people, and they had adopted
the good old English principle of putting arms into the
Lands of the people. Ile was convinced than when two or jj
three millions of their people should he armed, the Aliies
would never he able to penetrate much beyond the threshold
of France, and that every step they would take would bring
theta so much ntaret their desti uction. Alter sevcial obstr-

' vations on the weight of our taxes, and .the cot
wa., shewn by Ministers to the feelings and wis
pe.)ple, he concluded by reading a petitioo, cone!
s,reng terms, which lie moved to be adopted Fs
i•f the citizens of Westminster.
Mr. Walker seconded the petition, which was t
mousty agreed to.—A resolution was also passe,
should be presented to the House of kT,01111110115 b
! re esentative, Sir Francis Burdett.
Sir Frwieisßurdett said, he should have much
in presenting their petition to that budv which
called tl,e House of Commons of Great Britain a
At the sane time he thought it his duty to state to
he did not sec the slightest prospect of its being al
They all had seen with what contempt a peCtitin
been treated that came flora the Livery of Lo
prayed fur that reform in Parliament which was
Intely necessary. But he hoped tlett the time wi
when the voice of the people would ex pi ess itself s,
that Ministers could not affect to doubt ar dis'
There were some things which it was impossible to
and we read in holy writ " that the devils 'also be
tremble." Ile thou2,ht that it must be a belie'
strong, and of the same nature, which could alo,
any efrect upon Ministers. Ministers appealed n
mined td plunge the country again into war, or rat'
tinue the old war originally intended to restore the
to the throne of France. Although in the comm
of it, the object was professed to be the relief of
the Dutch, vet there could be no doubt but that t:
I tion of the Bourbon family was the real object o
broke the treaty of Amiens by refusing. to give
which we had agreed to give up; and that war di,
the restoration of the Bourbons. It was now a!
the character of Bonaparte made it necessary for
war with him, as he was a man that would % iolat,
Nov, in tiiis reaper-t, he could not have a chara,
than our allies. What treaties did our allies e'
either with us or vvith one another, that they did
as soon as it suited any object of their ambition?
ask. what treaty did Buonnparte ever break with
even if he was a common breaker of treaties, he
only on a par in this respect with the Emperors of
Austria. Ire therefore thought that his personal
was no ground of war. He thought that the r,
why Ministers were so anxious for war, was, that th,
monger faction was alarmed at the idea of the ex
France was about to set to this country, of a tol,
constitution, founded upon the basis of equal repro
After a variety of other observations, he conclude
!Dicing, to present the petition.
Thanks were then voted to the High BalliffTtir b'
in the chair, and various resolutions were agreed tr

On Wednegdav, a meeting took place in the To
the Borough of Southwark, in consequence of a R
signed by forty individuals, directed to Sir W. I.
High Bailiff, for the purpose of taking into conside
war with France—the Property Tax—and Far!lame
form.—At one o'clock Sir W. Lewes took the c'
there being but about thirty persons present, he
that the meeting should adjourn, not conceiving ti'
dividuals in attendance were stl fficicnth numerm
berate upon such important objects as tbo'e which t
i.ition embraced. This being, however, objected to
sines,: proceeded, and Mr. \V addington, atter expr
sentiments strongly on the impropriety of goin
moved a petition to the Price Clarlutte of Wale