The National Register.
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THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

TURKEY

CittisTmeelNOPLE, FED. 6.7—Intelligence has been received
here not •r+stly of the honourable reception of the 'French Ant
bassador, Cen. (lardanne, at the Court of Persia, but also of the
beneficial cfli•ets of his first uegociation. It is, for imtarce,
affirmed, that the uncieut treaty nein een France and Persia has
been renewed. These tidings, which are confir.ned by various
letters received here, have enticed several "'reach mercantile
house, M Web were settled at Constantinuple, to establish them-
selves in l'erbia.

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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.

MONDAY, AI A ROI 28.

The Royal Assent was given by Commission to the Orders in
Council Bill, and several other Public and Private Bills.
The House in a Committee heard Counsel and several wit-
nesses in support of the Petitions against the Orders in Council.
The tendency of the evidence was to attribute to those Orders
the present stagnation of Commerce. The most interesting de-
tails connected with this subject were related by Mr. Glennie of
London, and Air. Martin, of Liverpool.
Mr. (actinic stated, that lie received remittances on American
account from the Continent to an amount considerably upwards
or half a million yearly. He could positiscl) state, that of the
ve.sels hound to ports on the Continent, the proceeds of whose
cargoes were placed at his dispm-al, not one had been confis-
cated. Pe had been usually in adVance to the British Knamfae-
turers, upon the drafts of his American Correspondents, to I tee
extent of 30,000/. but had began to decline making any such ad-
vances as eniv as October last, in con,,equence of the capture by
a Plymouth Privateer of an American vessel consigneu. to him.
' The remittances from the Continent had rapidly declined since
the issuing of the Order, in Council, and would speedily cease.
altogether, as he was now receiving only the arrears of the car-
goes Luic:eil on the Continent previous to the :11uerican Em-
bargo. This measure he conceived to have resulted entirely
from the expectation of the Orders in Council, the purport of
which he had seen pr:lty accurately stated in an American
Paper of the 17sth or 16,1 i of December. The explanation given
at Paris, in September, of the Berlin Decree, could not in his
conception, he regarded as the immediate cause of the embargo,
us it must have reached America long prior to the imposit ion of
the embargo, which was enacted the 22d, and took effect on the
26th of December.
Mr. Martin stated the details of the American commerce
with the port of Liverpool, and spoke generally to the iejn-
rious effects of the Orders in Council upon that branch of tratt:c.
It appeared clearly fron his evidence, that the purport of that
Orders in Council reached America on the 12th of December.
The earliest copies of the Orders received in Liverpool did not
arrive until the 16th or 17th of November; but he had heels
apprised of their contents =u long prior to that date, as to be en-
abled, on the 12th of November, to communicate theta in a
printed Circular to his American Correspondents.
At nine o'clock the !louse was restored, and the further hear-
ing of the evidence postponed to Thursday.—Adjourned.

TUESD A Y 31 R C 29.

/Ann tier. LAND entered upon n discussion of the general po-
licy of the Orders in Couheil, particularly attaching himself to
the consideration of their probal..le eill'et on the United States
of America. The Noble Lord considered it as the dictates of
sound policy to cherish the friendship of America, as affording
the cons.da tory proTect of rearing a great Transatlantic Power,
which, united w ith would effectually control the mi-
litary despotism which threatened to unite the whole Conti-
nent of Europe under one dominion. lle concluded with mov-
int,, five resolutions, funning an abstract of the chief topics of
his speech.
LORD WIESTMORELAND asserted, that if war were to take
place with America, it would he more proper to ascribe it to
the effect of the speeches which had been delivered iv Parlia-
ment. than to any thing done by his Majesty's Ministers,
i.orto EA nries).4 considered the evidence delivered at the
harms comite-ise, with respect to the injurious operation attic
Orders in Council, and as having established the fact of their
being the immediate cause of the American Embargo.
Lord Grenville suyortcd, and Lord Hawkebhury *pried

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