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London, England, 1813-07-04 00:00:00

TETE NATIONAL REGISTER.

IMPERIAL, PA 11.1.1 A AI ENT. ,

HOUSE OF LORDS.

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DirINDAy, .ivvE t!:.
rail I.:Lyra POOl. brought down ttse n'.ual Mecsafe Om the Prince
Regent, relative to tlte Vote of Ciedit.—Ordered to be considered
to-morrow.
The House. went into a Committee on ti:e Act for the rellef of
Deluors confined in the Meet. Bench, and Marshakert
Prisons, and having negatived one of the clanse‘, giving a powyr to
Mtezimtrates to levy penalties, the 1301 passed thrott:,h a Committee,
and ordered to be reported.—Adjourtud-

TUECTJAY, MUSE 9.9.
On the Order of the Day for the consideration of the Prirce
Regent's Message, Earl Ltv teßPoot. said, the snot %vac: undouhtedl3t
considerahle, but when it was considered that tA e tio.v
cari.ying on operations on a most extensive scale in the South of
Enroll., in the l'eninAila, and when the pre!,t'lli •ithathrn ofarairs
in the North oh Europe was also considered, the stun would not ap-
pear mole than snffie:cnt. Itis Lordship coi.eindel by moving au
,Xddress to the Pvioce Regent, cuncuring in the object of his lti*al
,:dessage.
Lord Him AN declined at the present moment, and on sa short
a notice, entering. into the complicated details Wick the present
situation of Einope involved, but he telt he should tit
Isis duty Win. did not state (and that opinion lien cant to record)
that a great opportimity had presented itself' to Ministers. either of
atketing a permanent peace, or of pri:ving the re jeetion by the
enemy of fair honourable terms, which would have prevented him
rrom making the exertions lie had made to renew the war, and
which opportuoity they had lost. Tins opportunity presented
itself at the termination of the last campaign, and they bad no
in-
torination whatever of any effort having been made, either for tin'
attainment of peace, or in the failure of etteetiug that upon lair
and licnourable terms, for a vigorous prosecution of the war. I lad
propositions !welt oth red, stick as were eohSktent. with the honour
and cluiracter of the conntry, at the time of the return of the
Fioperor of the Fiend' to Paris, from his disas.rons eanipaign
Russia, could there he a doubt that either peace most have been the
result, or that it would have been rendered manitest to the peopi,!
of France, that the war only continued in cowequence cl the am-
bitions projects of 10.:ir Emperor; and must not this couvirtion
have prevented him from makiiig those astonishing exertions he h
made in the present campaign r Instead of this we hail ar red a.
recrnillog scrieant,; to the 'Emperor of the French, and had mini-
hilted 1).. the absence of that frank and many pulley to swell bis
ranks. His Lordship concluded by moving an Amendment, statiott
the desire of the House, that no opportimity might he untitled
which might Aim(' an opening to a secure and honotnable peace.
The Earl of LIVER Pool, denied that there was the slightest rc won
to believe that there was :Inv disposition to peace on fair initi
honourable terms of the Ruler of France. On the contrary, at the
very period of his retort) to Paris, his own officio' papers publicly
stated the terms on which alone lie would make pc.tee. and which
were too exirav:gant to be listen( dto for a moment. The Amend.
meta was limlideil in distrust of Mini•ters, for which tuere was un
reason, and would, if carried, defeat tl,e very object it sought to

attain.
The Earl T.Aunrrt» tT.E contended, that even supposim,. the
Amendment to he carried, there was nothing humiliating in Otr`rilla
t:tir and honour:lWe terms of peace, nor did it inipiy a eolifts,ion nt"
our being reduced to the necessity of suing for pear,.. lie concurred
with his Noble Fr-end in the opinions he had stated.
Lord 1-101.LANn observed, with respect to the French official
papers, the they were put forth for the pnrpose at preventing the
otter of f.ir and honourable terms of peace, and the effect which
such a policy would have had in France, and the object had sneceedeo,.
AA to tiktrltit. In, was at the commencement of the Session disposed
to place every confidence in Ministers, that they would not neglect
a lit opportunity for offering, peace, an i theretnre he forebore
bringing' C.rworillittl..: ''utotiOn upon the subject. but alter the op-
portunity they)) d'ne*cted lie was houlit to distimit them.
The Vino' tit ..wits4ogi.tived, and the origina; Address arztee:l
to, and ordiTtlii*.byilpresest;ed to his Royal Highness by the Llrds
with tikteloz-?
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" 111FEDN thA Y. JUNE SO.
The AmendniehtfattinQhy"the Commons in the Insolvent Dehtnr's
BM, were, on the'nOtien. of Lord REDFSDALL, ordered to be
taiwl into consideration on Friday.