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BARBADOES PAPERS.

The Session of Legislature was opened on the 23d of
March, with the following Address from the Governor,
Sir James I,yon
" Ma. PRESIDENT, MY LORD, AND GENTLEMEN
OF THE COUNCIL, Mr. SPEAKER, AND GENTLE-
MEN OF THE ASSEMBLY,—

"It is to me a source of heartfelt pleasure that I am
enabled to congratulate you on the abundance of the late
crop of provisions, and I sincerely trust that the improve-
ment dawning on the produce, on which $Q much of the
capital of the island is invested, may continue steadily to
advance. Equally must I express the satisfaction I have
experienced on having seen the militia of the Colony under
arms. The state of discipline of the different corps com-
posing it is most creditable to them, and the zeal and good
spirit which pervades throughout, assures me that the
efforts of both officers and men will tend to maintain
them in their present good order.
" I suggest, for your consideration, the expediency of
some measure being proposed which may secure a supply
of arms and appointments to the whole effective strength,
in order that the services of every man enrolled may be
made available,

" Ma. SPEAKER AND GENTLEMEN OF THE ASSEMBLY,

" The cheerful and prompt manner with which sup-
plies were voted last Session, entitle me to anticipate a
continuance of the same praiseworthy readiness in meeting
the expences of the current year.

" I w ould beg most particularly to draw your attention
to the policy of providing, without delay,ifor the transfer
to Bermuda, or elsewhere, of those convicts who have been,
or may hereafter be, sentenced to transportation for life.
The benefits arising to the public from the speedy re-
moval of such persons from the Colony, are too obvious
to require recital.
" MR. PRESIDENT, MT Loa% AIM GENTLEMEN DP
THE COUNCIL, MR. SPEAKER, AND GzNTLE-
MEN OF THE ASSEMBLY,...

" In addition to the several important measures which
may be laid before you, there is one I must beg to submit
to your early consideration, that is, the necessity of a cen-
sus being taken of the white and free coloured inhabitants
of the colony. An approximation can only at present be
reached of the actual state of that part of our population,
and I have no doubt you will agree with me, that it is
very desirable a more accurate enumeration should be im-
mediately effected. I would also I ring earnestly to your
notice the amendments which were suggested by his
Ma-
jesty's Ministers at the time of passing the Consolidated
Slave Act, and which have since been very recently rei-
terated. Highly beneficial effects have already resulted,
and under the peculiar advantages we enjoy, still more
happy consequences may be anticil ated, from the erection
and maintenance of schools for the training up of youth in
reading and in the necessary knowledge of the principles
of religion. When we turn our thoughts to the surest
means of promoting the hest interests and well-being of the
people, we cannot but remember how essential religion and
a virtuous education are to obtain that end.

" Infallibility is no attribute of human endeavour ; but
as far as my humble powers will enal le me, in the discharge
of the high and responsible duties with which i am en,
trusted, it will ever he my mc,st 4nxiaus wish to merit
your affection and cpnfidpice. I am determined to know
nothing among you save even-handed justice ;' and
whilst I inflexibly support and maintain the supremacy
and dominion of the law, and render a faithful obedience
to the commands of our gracious Sovereign, at the same,
time supporting to the utmost of my ability eve-ry measure
calculated to further your prosperity, 1 know full well
I shall best establish the welfare and happiness of this an-
cient and loyal colony, and fulfill the wishes of his Ma-
jesty's Government. In all our deliberations, having but
one object in view—our duty to our ling ar4d to our
continuecou ntry— country—let
exhibit it addition
andhat calm o our
disilaseal7sidointelligence,te depo tt.
meat becoming matters of such high import, thus in,
suring to this happy island, beyond the other blessings of
Providence; uninterrupted harmony awl kleacg,".

" His Majesty thinks it necessary to inform the House that be
is labouring under a severe indisposition, which renders it incon-
venient and painful to his Majesty to sign, with his own hand,
the Public Instruments which require the sign manual.

" His Majesty relies on the dutiful attacliMent of Parliament
to consider, without delay, the means ny which his Majesty may be
enabled to provide for the temporary discharge of this important
function-of the Crown, without detriment to the public service.'

The Duke of WELLINGTON then rose, and spoke to
the following effect :—My Lords, considering it will be th e
anxious wish of your Lordships to take the very earlitst
opportunity of answering this Message is the cause of my
bringing it now before you. I feel, no doubt, as well
as your Lordships feel, the greatest grief and sorrow
at the lamentable indisposition under which his Majesty is
and has been for some time labouring, and I trust and
hope that his Majesty's health, through Divine Provi-
dence, will soon he re-established. My Lords, I will
not take this opportunity of entering into a discussion
of the means by which his Majesty's Government pro-
pose to carry into execution the objects which the
message has stated ;—that will be done by my Noble
Friend upon the Woolsack to-morrow. But I shall only
now propose to your Lordships that an humble Address
be presented to his Msjesty, to assure his Majesty that this
House deeply laments that his Majesty is labouring under
severe indisposition, and to assure his Majesty that this
House earnestly hopes, by the favour of Divine Provi-
time, that his Majesty's health will be re-established
at an etrly period ; and that this House will proceed to
consider, without delay, of the means to be adopted to re-
lieve his Majesty from this temporary inconvenience, with-
out detriment to the public service.
Earl GREY did not rise for the purpose of ()nosing
the Address ; he concurred entirely in every word of it.
He also felt equal sorrow with the Noble Duke at the
situation in which his Majesty was placed. He most cor-
dially joined with him too in the hopes that his 11Ljesty's
recovery would soon take place,—if that hope was still
to be entertained, and he was sure that the House and tho
country would join with him ir. such a hope. He con-
curredin the propriety of the course pursued by the Noble
Duke on the present occasion. He was sure that the
House would fed deep regret for his Majesty's suffering...,
and had every wish to relieve him; hut the House ultist.
at the same time, consider that it had a most important
duty to render to the public. He should not question the
Noble Duke as to the mode he intended to adopt, as he
understood that was to be pointed:out tc-morrow evening.
The House must enter into this question with great caution,
because what they were now about to do was rmtli:ng
more nor less than this—to delegate the Royal Prero-
gative. The House must take care that it did not esta-
blish a dangerous precedent. He had thought it his duty
to throw out this much—and he begged to say t 1: At
this would be the ground on which he should act toet...
after. The Noble Earl then sat down, cordially concur_
ring in the Address proposed by the Noble Duke.

Tile Address wis then read from the Woolsack by tlicl
Lottn CHANCELLOR, and unanimously agreed to.

Lord TEYNHAM presented a petition, pra)iog ror
repeal of the duties on Malt, from a parish in Sussex.
Lord RADNOR presented a petition against the pu-
nishment of Death for Forgery, from Glastonbury.
Earl GREY presented a petition from Waterford, ag4jost
the increased Duty on Tobacco.

The Bishop of WINCHESTER presented petitions 'in
favour of the Jews from Southampton and Great Marlow.
THE SOVEREIGNTY AND AFFAIRS OF GREECE.._
The Earl of ABERDEEN rose to lay upon their Lord
ships' table papers relating to Greece, and said :—My
Lords, in laying on your Lordships' table the hing_dssess.
red information from his Majesty's Government relating to
the final settlement of Greece, I beg, in the first instance,
to express my grateful sense of the forbearance the House
has displayed throughout the entire progress of these, sego-
ciations. In a manner the most praiseworthy, that natural
curiosity which is common to all men was suppressed ; and
all undue expression of sentiment or feeling upon flits
highly important subject was suppressed.. In this, ,Up
Lords, the House has shown a sound dtscretion, and evineed
a great sense of the interests of the country ; for ;my pe,
mature discussion would have trammelled, if not altogether
marred, the Treaties which were then pending, But, my
Lords, so far from there being any thing like a desire upon
the part of his Majesty's Ministers to take advantage of
this forbearance upon the part of your Lordships, we were
always anxious to take the first opportunity of laying before
the House all the information possible. We are at length
aldo to do so ; and it has been our object to muke
it as full and as complete as we cou'.d. It is very easy
to talk of implicit confidence, and it is easy for Ministers
to claim such from Parliament; hut our principle has
been to provide the most complete information. I now beg
to give it to the House, and I am eo ronvinced of its
character, that I have now only to add, that if any
further information be considered necessary, there is en
desire whatsoever upon our part to withhold it, My
Lords, I have now to state the principal objects which
the papers I lay on your Lordships' table embrace. I
will divide them into classes. The first class contains
the Protocols of the various conferences between the
Plenipotentiaries of the three great Contracting Powers
subsequent to the Treaty of the 6th of July. These
papers also commence with this Treaty of the 6th of
July, to which I am happy to state the assent of the
Sublime Porte and of the Greek Government has been
given. These documents are furnished without abri4ses
ment. They are, in all respects, perfect and entire. The
next class centaina the Protocols of the conferences of the
ambassadors of the three Contracting Powers„ furnished
from the date of the Treaty of the 6th of duly up tr, the
time of their departure from Consta,ntinople—a very jars
portant incident, be it remarked, in the history of these
transactions—for their departure, however necessary or
advisable it might have been, exercised a powerful influence
upon the subsequent course of our prooeedinga. These
papers are likewise furnished entire.—without any abridge-
ment or omission whatsoever, `he next class of papers
explains an _event of great importance in the course of these
transactions, b cause it was the first great step towards cos,
rying into effect the objects which the Contracting Powers
declared they had in view—l allude to the evacuation of
the Mores by the Egyptian troops; argil I lay before the
House all the negotiations respecting it, which, I may
here remark, were conducted with great ability anti
complete success by the Gallant Admiral who was em-
ployed in the service. The next class mefers to an event
which Created a great sensation in this country, anti one
which might have been attended with the most important
consequences—l mean the blockade of the Dardauellea
by a Russian squadron. It was a transaction which
occasioned considerations of much delicacy; but I trust
that when it shall have been explained, it will be evideue
to all that his Majesty's lUiniatera have done all that was
due to the interests and honour of Great Britain, 'without
trenching upon the rights, or unnecessarily interfering
with 4 friendly power : and here, my Lords, 1 cannot avoid
remarking that throughout this entire affair the conduct of
the Commander of the Russian fleet was most exemplary.
Never was there blockade more strictly limited—never
was there blockade in w4ia were courtesy and fur-
bearance was shown towards the subjects of all
friendly flowers, and especially towards the subjects
of his Britannic Majesty, creating no difference?,
and giving rise to no complaint. The last portion
of the papers consists of explanations respecting the
raisicg of some Circa blockades a ter the Airlsassadors
had returned from Corfu, and concerning the establishment
of ainivable relations. The explanations of the decision to
which the Contracting Powers came will, I trust, be found
complete and satisfactory. This, description comprises all
the Papers now laid upon your Lordships' table. Having
said thus much, it would only be prcper far me to again
express my r.etai3 of your I.4trdsliip's forbearance, and the,
confidence you have pleased to display in his Majesty's seen.
vante; but circumstances have occurred since I 'AA had
the Timmer of addressing your Lordships on. this subject—..,
indeed, since the last adjournment of the House—whitti
make it necessary for me to tress a a a little mipo
Xcsss-
Lordships' time. My Lords; if I call your Lordskiips\ at-
tention for a moment to the objects contemplated by the
Treaty of the 6.th of July, and to the final decision of the
Allies .and if 1 call on you to obserNe she present ac-
koowletlged independence of Greece at compared with the
qualified—or, if yott will, virtual.-.-independence it enjoyed
before, it is only to remark, that it was by the progress of
events we wSre enabled to establish the entire independence
of that country. But then the form of Government and
the selection of a Sovereign Prince became with the Allies
a matter of great difficulty ; it required the exercise of
much prudeoce and discretion ; for, torn with factions—
divided and disturbed as Greece must have been, and corn-
-I)",`esl as it is of materials so discordant—it became a
matter of deep importance to secure for the sovereignty
twit a piince as pessessed the abilities and prudent C•

which would enable hiro to maintain order within his
own territofies, and friendly relations with the Porte.
The Allies thought they had found such a Prince in his
Royal Highness Prince Leopold. The choice was highly
honourable to him ; and suffer me to add, it was also ho-
nourable to Great Britain; because, proceeding as it did
from our Allies, it gave the strongest proof of their confi-
dence in the enlightened policy and honourable conduct of
this country. We might, therefore, well feel proud when
a British Prince was proposed to us by our Allies as the
object of their choice ; and we could not avoid assenting
to it, the more especially as this throne had long been an
object of kis Royal Highness's ambition, and had been
solicited for him; while it was known that Greece herself
was anxious for his Royal Highness's appointment. Well,
the offer was made to his Royal Highness on the 3d Fe-
bruary. The acceptance followed close upon this ; and
the negociations respecting it turned exclusively on one
point. By a provision of the last Protocal, the Allies, in
consideration of the desperate condition of Greece and the
absolute necessity of the advance of a sum of money by
way of subsidy, were urged in the strongest manner by his
Royal Highness Prince Leopold to agree to the advance of
this money; and the other great Powers, preferring a pri-
mal.) sacrifice for the purpose of enabling Prince Leopold
to maintain his station and dignity to the alternative of
his resignation, agreed to a subsidy under the form of a
guarantee on a loan to be raised by the Greek Govern-
ment. Now we thought it our duty to resist this demand,
as not being authorised by the wants of the State, or the
obligations into which we had entered. We did not con-
sider that it would be right for us to expose this country
to the chance of any burthen beyond that which was ho-
mediately necessary to carry into effect the objects for
which we had united with the two ether Contracting
Powers. But his Royal Highness maintained his demand
with so much pertinacity, and gave us so fully to under-
stand he would resign the high honour to which he had
been raised unless this demand was agreed to to the utter-
most farthing, that we saw we had nothing but the alter-
native to which I before alluded ;. and as our Allies had
agred, we felt that it would have been an odious respon-
cinil y for Great Britain to destroy the prospects of a
British Prince being raised to the throne of Greece by
refusing that to which other Powers had agreed ; and we
oonsented. This was the situation of things some time
since, when I replied to a question from a Noble Friend of
mine, that the final arrangements were only delayed in
consequence of negociations still pending upon points of
minor importance. These points, which I then celled points
of minor importance, only related to the form of the loan,
and 1, therefore, trust the House will consider me justified
in so naming them. Well, my Lords, even the arrange-
Ineut of these points now in progress, when, in a few days
after, we found that fresh grounds of hesitation had sprung
op in his Royal Highness's mind, and late on Friday night
I received an intimation from his Royal Highness of his
intention to resign the situation he had accepted, and to
abdicate the high honour to which he had been raised. I

do not enter on the reasons be assigned for resigniag.—
Your Lordships will have laid before you, as speedily as
possible, all that passed upon the subject. Already the
information respecting these transactions is entire, with
the exception of the last papers; but all up to the close
will be prep:lied as speedily as possible, that your Lord-
ship may be enabled to form your own judgments.
certainly had hoped that the papers upon tire table would
have been more than necessary to explain all; unfortu-
nately it is necessary to produce others; but, as I before
said, your Lordships shall have them as speedily as pos.
siide. It would be dissimilation in sne, if I did not avow

that I feel the inconvenience and pain which must arise
from this resignation; I have, hen ever-, the satisfaction to
infirm your Lordships that the most perfect union sub-
sided between the three Contracting Powers, and that they
ectertain the same views of the event. Entire concord
subsists between them, and I trust that at no distant time
the affairs of Greece will be settled to the universal satis-
faction.

Lord DURHAM protested against the line of conduct
pursued by the Noble Earl. He had no objection to the
historical relation he had given respecting the papers be
bad said upon the table. He would not quarrel with hi►n
for that, if he had abstained from giving utterance to his
(pinions upon another subject; or if the Noble Lord had
coufined himself to the simple fact of the resignation of
his Royal Highness, he (Lord Du►ham) would not have
troubled the House with a single word. But the Noble
Earl's statement was neither more nor less than an accusa-
tion against Prince Leopold, founded on papers which
were only in his own possession. He thought that the
Noble Lord should have deferred his allegations until the
House was in possession of complete information. He
thought he hail a right to call on the House to pause, and
when the papers were before the House, he felt convinced
that the Prince would prove himself worthy of the high
opinion of the House.
The. Earl of DARNLEY would wish to learn of the

Secretary of State how soon the papers could be pro-
duced. He trusted that the delay would be as &ion as
pos.ible ; and he wished to know whether the. Noble Earl
intended to fo,und any motion upon the papers when they
were produced.
The Marquis of LONDONDERRY did not think that
the Noble Secretary of State had treated an Illustrious
Person as he ought. He wished to know what the Illustrious
Person had done, for it was impossible at present to know
what had been the transactions between the Government
arid the Prince. He wanted to know if the Noble Earl
would lay on the table of the House the papers prior to
the date on which his Royal Highness had declined the
honour intended for him. It was known that his Royal
Highness did intend to accept the offer, but with regard
to the mode in which the country had been established the
House was entirely ignorant. It was understood that the
Prince's acceptance was conditional, but it was not known
whether the condition had been kept. The House was
likewise ignorant whether a greater power was a party to
this establishment for Greece, and he would like to know
if Austria had assented to the arrangement. He called
upon the Noble Earl to say if he meant to give up the com-
munications with Prince Leopold up to the present day,
and if he would present them ungarbled. He had always
thought that Prince Leopold had done wrong in looking
for the Sovereignty of a people so unworthy of him, and of
a country that must be a prey to Russia, and the source of
future wats. He already saw in embryo causes which
would create future wets of fearful extent. Russia had
brought Turkey to accede to this arrangement for her own
advareage. Could the Noble Earl deny this, or that
Russia had given 1,000,000 of ducats to Turkey to accede
to the arrangement. Turkey was now only a Russian
province, but it would have been attached to England, had
she afforded her proper support.
The-Earl of ABERDEEN had already stated to the
House that it was only on Friday night that he had re-
ceived the determination of his Royal Highness. The
Noble Lord should have papers to his heart's content, but
not a syllable should be kept back, for he had no desire to
conceal anything. Ho wished no Noble Lord to entertain
any opinion respecting Prince Leopold ; but when he had
sand to the House that nothing but money matters were to
be settled, he had added.that new difficulties were rising,,
but their Lordships would soon be in possession of the
whole ease, and till then he begged them to suspend their
judgment.
Lord LONDONDERRY explained.

The Marquis of LANSDOWNE was not willing to put
any question that was not necessary, were the interest of
an illustrious and excellent individual was concerned ; but
Lis Noble Friend having accompanied his presentation of
these papers with a statement which might create preju-
dices, it became necessary that he should be clearly under-
stood. Ile wished to know whether the refusal of Prince
Leopold was founded upon money transactions ; and whe-
tter upon this alone ?
The Earl of ABERDEEN—Before his Royal Highness
had given an acceptance of the dignity, a discussion had
taken place which had led to the correspondence up to the
20th February, which ebould be laid be ore the House.
To the last week no question was agitated with his
Highness but that of money; but in the last week new
grossed' arose, and the resignation bad reference to these
grounds alone.
The Earl of DARNLEY thought this statement would
east reflections on a high Personage, and he wished to
know when the papers could be produced.
The Earl of ABERDEEN would produce them as
speedily as possible.
The Earl of WINCHILSEA thought that the fair
course would have been fur the Noble Earl to have ab-
stained from all statements until the papers were before
the House.
_ _

The Marquis of BUTE had distinctly understood the
Noble Secretary of State to say, that the Prince's resigna-
tion was totally distinct from any question of a pecuniary