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.117)-, C./AIN/11-G' observed, in, the c)rder-book it
on:xeredit.,:(l. LOrtilluichinson wa's E 9 time-
ereditti : he was a pritqlte inttivideal Peters-
blra from eurio,ity. ' 'rh 1.1(»). Gen-
Tioci not gone the Lnglli of saying, the corn-
tono'w:ltion of a Sovereign with ;.) private in-
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whielavatirloes tnietn have been .succesaial, as tea
inhabitants (tidy waited fear a. British force, to ri,,e in
turps France. He 'cottld assure the I Joisse
on doirkinge over the note he could not take tire:
sentetices together in which there were. not express
'sinus committing places and individuals ; and he
trusted he should obtain their consent to withhold a
disclosure, the effens of which would be so erne] ;
forlt WEN 'well known those very diatrinsa must be,
"as every diStrin on the Continent was, under the Iron
hand of the littler of France. He hoped the lion.
Gent. would not press his motion, to make leis argu-
ment better or worse. Worse, he could assure him,
after all, would it undoubtedly be made, were the
Note produced. ' By some of the Hon. Gentleman's
other Motions he seemed to have it in views to asccr-
tain whether the cause of theaCountryasts adininis-
tered by the late Government, had been defended.
by .the present Government. He appeared to think
that enengh had not been done by, the preient
sten to maintain what had been done by the late Mi-
asisters. When the Hon. Gentleman asked fur any
•assurances.of military assistance that had been comr
municated by his Majesty's present Government, in
cenfirmation of the assurances that had been commu-
nicated by the last Government, he supposed that he
alluded to the disenssion An that House, in which it
had beets stated by himself (M. Canning) and • his
Co:leaves, , that on their coming into office, they
found the expenations of the Allies of Great Britain,
of military assistance, raised to a great height, but
that they lOW no Means provided of satisfying
.those expenations. He now .repeated, that those
expenations had been stated by foreign Courts, more
particularly and with greater precision than the dis-
thin assurancea and instructions which he had found
recorded its the FOreigu Office seemed to warrant.
lint it wits well known, . that with respeel to assa-
ranees of this nature, much passed in personal com-
municatiots, which Was not transferred to paper.
With some of the motions he should comply most
willingly ; because when the Papers were pro-
duced they would shew that great expenations had
been entertained of Btitisla assistance, by the Conti-
nental Powers'; they Would sheW that the Noble
Lord to whose authority the' Gentlemen opposite
were vo fond of referring;,. and for' Whose nut [levity
on military subjeas, andon subjena connected with
his situation, he entertained the highest respect ; that
lord Hutchinson had distinctly stated to the Empe-
ror of Russia and to the King of Prussia, that he
. knew his Government intended to maken Continen-
tal diversion their favour ; that he was authorised
to make them the strongest assurances on this sub-
ject, although he could not particularize the point at
which the diversihn was to be'effeat(d. By some of the
Papers it would appear, that at the commencement
of the late war bet Ween Prus:iii and:France, Dia'-
patches had, been sent to the Courts of St. Peters,-
burgh and Stock holm, calling loudly on these Powers
to make the greatest exertions, and to March, an
'army to the assistance of Prussia. He did not mean
,to contend that that exhottation was a distina and
particular pledge on the part of Great Britain, but
.surely Great, Britain had no right to requiSe such eia -
onions, unless she meant boniifide to imply thatahe
would bear her share: in them. After this call, how-
ever, a great interval elapsed without any specific
promise of as'sistanee our our, part, and the whole c0t...,
respondence between Russia and Great )3ritain con-
sisted of applications and reproaches' from the former.
'The Court of St. Peteraburgh, was unquestionably
entitled to suppose that they would receive.snp-
' port Isom this Country, either by military diver-
t:lion, or by pecuniary assistance they had neia
thera A proposal made by Russia to negotiate itt
this Country a loan, for six millions had been re-
fused, He did not state Aids as attaching 'blame
to the late Ministers, for he fairly allowed that the
negotiation of such a loan iiiust, in effen, after
the experience which this Convey had had, be
considered as entailing a great risk, if mit eltitnately'
a burden on. us. But there was a wide difference be-
tween refusing that loan and doing nothing. We
might' 'have, declined making so considerable an
exertion without disappointing Russia, by leaving
her altogether without help. Had.We agreed to raise
four tniliions, or three arillions, or two millionsa(for
which .of course provision Must have beets made as for
a subsidy), we should at.least have gratified the feel.
ing of his imperial Majesty ; brit of such an inten-
tion on the pert of the late Government no trace ex-
iated in the records of the Foreign Office. This corns
plcte refusal was the more censurable, as no Power
on the
.Continent had been so uniformly faithful to
its pecuniary engager-net-its as Russia, andrwhen the
wants of the Russian army Were so fressing, that to-.
wards the lan erpod of Ilia last campaign Lcird-Hittel
insou, in the sound exercise of the discretion wills
which he was invested, had advanced the miserable
sum of thirty thousand pounds to relieve them from
their embarrassments. Since the war between
eteetivriespe
two
countries that money had been repaid-
to the charge 'brought by the ,AllirSian Government
against the late Administration of this country, for
disturbing their comtnesce by unnecessary detentions,
the present Administration )sad refuted it in the fitee
of Europe, with. as much anxiety end
.decision as if
it had:been preferred against themselves. Though he
thought it had been sufficiently refuted, he had pooh-
jectiou to the laudable, desire expressed by the lion.
qcnfleatati, of vindicating his friends by the produc-
tion of Popp on the subject,
.The Honourable
Gontleman was desirous to obtain the dispatches from
this Country, containing those assurances of support
and co-operation, which it was stated in his Ma-
jc'sty's Declaration, ,that' his Imperial Majesty had
received and acknowledged with apparent confi-
dence and staisraction." The Hon, Gentleman im-
plied, that in that passage of. his Majesty's Declara-
tion; a dist'inetionawas meant studiously to be taken
between the last and the preSent Adtpiniitrationa and
that the assurances referrecho, as having given such.
'lively satiatection whit Imperial: Majesty, were the
asserances of the present Adininisteat ion alone. The
Hon. Gen-den:Sao was Mistaken t the Declaration re-
ferred. toa the assurances communicated to Russia in
March, by Lord Hutchinaon, from the last Govern-
ment, us well as. to those communicated in. April
from the,piesent'Government. HoWleould his:Ma-
jesty's Mittiaters more fairly defend -the. conduct of
'their • predecessors, than by .their identifying that
conduit with their own the accusations by
Russia, of our interrupting, her commercesaoLour
withholding front her` pecuniary and ilitary aid ;
as thou; accusations were stated in the Russian De-
claration, he did not see that there was any thing

till;. Wut_llll
In Ille itn MU, ' ilia L 1
scout be produced by the Hon. Gentleman's
ee.tiees. But there was a specific chsrgebroUght
by Russia against this Country, namely, the. Ex-
titin to Alexaildria, which.. the Honourable
Cleutieoian's motions would not sufficieutly eluci-
date. In the Correspondence of his Majesty's
existing Government with the. Court. of St. Peters-
burgh (without any reference to their private opi7
nien), that Expedition- had been defended against
Russia, on the ground that the war with Turkey bad
beep undertaken by this country en Russian instiga-
tion, and for Russian objeas. That in the course of
that EXpedition, it was diverted from a pointswhere
it would have been successful, to a point where
it could not, was a part of the stabjea which could
not be entered into with minuteness ill his Majesty's
Declaration. In moving for the correspondence re-
speaing the offer of mediat ion. between Great Britain
and France, made by, Austria, the Hon. Gentleman:
thought that the chasm which existed
.from the month
of, April to the Month of November, in the official
Notes between Prince Stahremberg two the British
Secretary of State, an extraordinary one. It -was'
easily to be acCounted for. The proposal of media-
tion was made in April, while the campaign on the
Continent was proceeding, and before Prussia and
Austria had made a' separate peace. Under these
circumstances, it. was cheerfully accepted by this.
ConntryoubjeCt only to the condition that we must
not be expeCted to depart from our good faith . with
other Powers. Mr:Adair was then at sTients3, but
it was a matter of general knowledge, that when a
negotietion-was carrying
,on between the two Courts,
that the corresPondence -from the Court where the.
negotiation was carrying on,, to :the Minister at the
'other Court, consisted only of a transmission of:
the official docinnents, lest a cross - negotiation
should. be prodisced; -Lord Pembroke soon after
that time was
,appointed the British, Minister at
Vienna. Had his Lordship found the terms of
mediation accepted by the other Powers, he:
would have eorrenunicated that --acceptance to:
his Government at home ; but his voyage and
journey had • been; so `delayed by unfavourable
circumstances, that his Lordship did flog.' arrive a:
:Vicuna until timel latter end of June.
,A few hours
afterwards thefatal news of the battle of Friedland
reached the capital ; and of course no more was
heard ofAnstrian mediation ;' nor had Government
received any other political communication of impor-.
tance from the Continent, until that offer (at the
desire of France) which was then on the table.
On the .qtfestion being put on the first Motion,
Mr. GEORGE PONSONBY expressed astonish-
ment at the speech of the, Right Honourable Seere-
'tary, because the greater part • of it departed from
other than applied to the Motions of his Hon.
Friend, and 'because he had employed more of it in.
•supporting charges insinuated against the late Minis-
ters than In assigning reasons to the House why he
should not 'assent to these Motions. His Honourable
Friend called for a copy or extracts of the co63lTlW-
nication of what passed at an interview which Lord
Hutchinson had:with the Emperor of Russia, trans-
mitted by his Majesty's Minister at St. Petersburgh;
ancbthe Right Honourable Gentleman • replied by
stating, dint assurances of SnppOrt had been given to
Russia, but no diversion made; that pecuniary aid:
in the shape of a subsidy bad been refused. As to
the'reason assigned for withholding one of the Papers,
he declared it satisfaCtory tel him. It the produetion
of that paper would expose any part of the Continent
to the wrath of Felece, it ought not to be publish.
ed. But he could' not concur ist the reason assigned
tbrrefnsing.the communication from Lord Hutchin-
son. It was not sufficient for that House to be told,
that the communication had been verbal; and not
made to that Noble Lord in writing. Sovereigns
Were not in the praCtice of writing dispatches. Had
it not been made and transmitted for tin:information
of the Government of this country ? And was out,
'the ebe&j of his Hon. Friend's motion to, fteeertaio,
whether his Majesty's Ministers were'right in put-
ting an end to theintereourse with Rue.`ta, relative to
the offer of mediation t Thecommunication from Lord
• Hutchinson was in substance, object, 'pnrpoki, and
hearing; a public dispatch for the information of 14s
Majesty's Government. It surely. was not to be von7
sidered as a simple piece of news, detailing the cc-
vdrrences at the Court, and the ordinaSy succession
' of. its amusements and fetes. .It was not a commu-
nication 41.0rn one private individual to, another pri-
vate individual, on a siibjeet unconne6ted with the
King's business. It was no matter how, or where,
or
.when, the Emperor of Russia had stated his sen-'
timents upon the mediation to Lord HUtchinson,
whether in his cabinet, or on horseback, or when
walking in his garden ; these sentimeots had been
transmitted to the Right Hon. Gentleman, and the
House had a right to be put in poisesston of them.,
Would not the Right Hon. Gentleman. aa upon
such a' communication ? Would the Right Hon.'
Gentleman, if hereafter it should be discovered that,
in that instance, he had violated his duty to his
Sovereign,, and lie should be impeached, defend
himself by stating that the communication .had
' been made - to him by his Majesty's Ambassador
in a private letter ? The communicatiou had
been received in an authentic shape, and ought to
be laid befere the HOuse;. unless, 'indeed, theris.was
some charm in letters of credence, which rendered the
dispatches of the Minister who might have them
Inure, worthy of credit Om the statements of unac-
credited persons. The whele argument of the Right
Hon. Secretary was founded upon this, that the com-
munication had. tint been transmitted in a public dis-
patch but in at, private letter, But he would cntifess
that he was not so much a regarder of forms es to lay
any stress upon such an argument. ForsthisTeeson
be did not think that the statement of the Right Hen.
Gentleroste was any.answer to the &muds:laid by
his Hon. Friend tor the ,prodation of this Paper,
which was the most essential and vital part of the
string of motions which he had proposed. As to all
the othersPapera, he could not see what otherbear-
lugs :thercould „have than to throw some light upOts
the temper of the Court olltusAa at that time. These
c.loevitriseits. were to be eraisteit which Woold enable
the flouat to h.)rm a CUojeCltire as io the temper of
the Ilessiso Cella ; but that Paper wh'cli would de-
monstrsite what the acteal_teeiiesssnd ten ,per of that
Court,Was at that filnP, was to 'LK. wit libeid. Upon
hot satisfied
these' he declared ose Ls was
to ith the statement ut 11.41 Out.
acct he should vote tordll NJratiuu.chf Isis i Lou. hriond.

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Alr..Yo:retrtr?J CdNiVING rte to exploit), and
(Abel:Veil, that Wu question btfore the i-lotm.nliatte.l

lV LUG' s 4,ra.a
tion; to the prod'utElion he had no obje6tion
the speech of the Right Honourable Gentleman ap-
plieil wholly to another, cut of the Nine Iqotions
proposed by the Honourable Gentleman opposite.—
(Here a question of Order aroie, andit Was decided
by th'eCliAr, that the Motions should he put seria-
tim „ when it %,vonld h3C competent to tatty
able Member to comment upon each, as the ques-
tion would be respedively put upon them).—The
first Motion vas thon agreed to.
Mr. 0111TBREAD begged leave to 'alter his se-
cond Motion, by substituting " the Substance" fen
" a Copy " of the Communication'from Lord lint-
chinion.

On the question befog put am the amended sne)

tion, •
•
Mr. Secretary CANNINGcouId tyn agree, that
the introdn&ion of the words the Stlb.ilance".ren-
-tiered the motion more hI to by con plied with., Fla
in-the obje6lions be bad to ma ;e, 10 this inqtion) 11=-•
begged to guard himself by premising, that he so:
The meri ts. of Lord Hutchinson wholly out sof tbe•qui...s,
tion. `''That Noble Lord ranked d6civr,.r.ily in'
that station which he „adoined so eminently,' itt),l
therefore anY observations be shnalcl nuke' on this
occasion Were not to be considered a$ applyiug
the particular individull; but gencraliy to any indi-
vidual who might happen to be placed in similar
circumstances. Upon this gronn(l he 'frit it nt-
eessary to put a bar to ''.any :argument "lotinLYl
upon a reference to the ptiron;ll nhar.q7.l4l
Noble Lord. Having When this precnution 0 golrl
himself from any misconstmaion„ he hill next 44
state to the House, tliat the Paler tuovod fur "'ld
not regulady nor consistently be pr.‘Atioccl. *Such a
course; if adopted, would be hiBbly inconvenient
to the public service, because when a Minister
once' accredited to a tiireign Cotirt, he tradst be tt
sole channel of communication between his tv.vo

Government and that Couq. This wog a Inlll6lls
that was not to he done away by any !-ideling com-
munication which might bo mad throtrh any cilia
channel. He was aware that it might be hek,
that the cOmmunication had bct'n conveyed home

to the Secretary of 'State • through M
accredited Minister at the ati' of St., iVers-
burgh. 13th, it was the undoubtri right of hurry
accredited Minister alone to deckle what commitni-
cations he should clothe with an official charader.
The. Gentlemen seemed to argne, as if dig thought
that this was the only instance in • which a i..rivare
communication had been made by, individuais, Wpt.
invested with a diplomatic chargier, to his Majesty's
Government. But there had been many instances
of inforination transmitted in that shape, which was
never preserved in the archives -of the Ofiice.--
There were several others in -the, Country %vim
had received similar commintic,;itipns at different

times, without ever having regardoLl them als
official, or put them upon record in ,a office.;
and certainly he did not link upon this commonhia-;
tion to he such as, would have, warrantv4 him in de-
parting from the regular and establiqied mile of t;ro.!-
ceeding, that is,•ot cop finineto one chancel all iil-
- with a foreign,Pnwer, as: that' wiLittinold.
afford the best prospo& of cnntiocA in tiny disctwws
which may be pending to a happy issue. He whs
conscientiously convinced that, if any principle ‘:::!i•
indisputable in diplomacy it was this, and Avlynever
may be the merits qf Nobto t.ord;
looking at this question, try it as a C:te of an unac-
creditectindividual. If tha Motion nt. tlic I ion. Gent.

were to be agreed to, it might lead to cross and thwart-
.
ng communications, because any lit it travelicr,wlu)
1 m,ight becotne,acceptable to a t0;,•.i,..,,r3 Court, •by
ing his court to the mistrexs, or the favourite, or eves
the'Sovereign might take upon himself fo transrnit.
such 4om.rtionications, which trii;:,ht also. be in"eap'
tradiction. to those from. the :ice: fited Minister. Was
it right then, to withdraw from the regular Minist6r,
by sanctioning such a principle, he exclusive dui), nr
atiliirs of his -Cia..:33netit
I it be nt t 1 titnelw !wt.( a'most important
u•as eatrying on by. I.iis iMaje,,t v.'s legal:lr
and accredited Minister, a Briti4t traveller ,slinnld
take. upon himself tO cnale opposite corntnunicatio9c,
and transmit such communications Ctielllo is party at
home ? He did not mean to say that any sochctise
as this had bappetp-d; though persqns might
have read of it somewhere, smug might hare heard.
.of it, and others may even remember. such a carte;
If the illiltloo House before the onse were 4'
. t
be agreed- to, such a ca-.e.(1310M occur'; but
Noble Lord, to whdrn heathlike! ninler l he hmitati"9
beti)re hiid down, was ti) he the e.....-.•.option,
could take upon hint to say Ilia" ali thesa... \‘'ho !night
beryatier be. placed' itt a like s.twit;(4l 'll
egttally (non N; ~I)1,! bold
In the diplomat:l'ot the Count ot Lott;, 'Ay. it '4 `d*
10 *employ an oni:ecreditva ,
ports wereat check upon the .3tAii:ll
did not know whet!per it wa's the dosire of tit.' ti(i--„
pourable Gentleman opposite, that such-tlsty~►ie 1c
diplontacy shooid be adopted in this cotintry ; 1"-*.
he should reel hound to r,:siat the Mcti:,o
ut
the Honourable Gantlemati,
P°';V:S°S/VZ disclaimed any idea ot
citing any cross or 11111)4,1;am feelings . lOweei)
individuals alluded to. with curie cif whom he 106044
hotioue to be intimately aCquuttited,whllit -lift"' 141(4'1
the other a high re:Ted.
'CMi. Secretary (;A:.;;INO C:q"):2.olt'd tl[:1"651 tlx
table, that the tvotet ertm.s was applied tly him U'
the difference in the tet:ai of thcl' ~1."01.:1;.7::'2Y Gl. cora-
municattons tln.n. might he sent'lv.an..]
The R. H. Sect entry hadt,aici, i!i• .11 11,0 11":"`it'a
upon the bf-cfa.,l princip:c.
put theellar:.icter of Lord. illutt:1120Soll QM Of :114t1;
question; but he wonl:1 not
,do so, He may be wrongs
and the Right lion. Cr..:,(!etuan may be right but
he begged not to he induLk.d by a compaet to whicu
1)4,. %ea.. no party. 1Vw.11.3 :,e, ,t 1 lutl. Gentletil'ill
k
consider Lord .\ ' !•04-,31 (omit:
of confidential comnotni,:,,ti,,i; Fmi., tar. of
during the ~n tie toot"
ing of: a travelling young C,•titienuit, \Vlt!'-ntt
meaning any thing to tr.:
.A.;ettlieteon, 'f:e I'o,l de"
gri.,:e pu..,3134}-
.20 inch a (.( 3.,
bad that Lord I iutoitinFt,: w,, :-Jot iu all
accredited charaZter. Lint had
ter the c.icatt...ntnotion tr;in hint; an"
.•tranintittect it h0t,)..-, ant !l raffle 11r." dOne so by
an,orTioary tr.1,01.„7;,2 t,
Dr. ,L(111:p . , the Rig
iron, Geoileman in:puted 1"")livcs
hil 11°11' F`jel;e4, 1 :0S PUrPi"V

Stockh,',lm, Was— acceded to, with some modifica-
tion, as were all the 'others.

1 Past; tipon the first mentfain in that House, the:
Gentleman particularly concerned lied challenged in:
(Nita, ;eel bad since been in office. The Right,
1 Hite, Gantleman had put the charaaer. of .Lord:
Hutchinson oat of, the question, but introduced
Zanier, that of the idle traveller, and, In. fad; was
Vibhiing as% .e, the Crinatitution. If it - had-been
said the produdion of the Paper would be incomeiient to the 'public service, that would be plain and
intelligible. Upon the principle then laid down, a
4cretary of State, and a Minister at a Foreign Court,
light deprive • this Honse of all inforthatien. which
'They might think fit 'to conceal, by having it trans-
-1 tented hi a pin-ate letter.—lt was time to put a
%tope() this praCtice.
•.'is TIIOMiIS TURTON contended that. all
peeedents were against the prosin&lon of Papers
relating to a confidential Conversation ' with Sove-
!,eigns• He an
commended -the resistance. made by
the Secretary of State in the preSent instaie:e. Is '
ta, ( 1 DENMARK.
. ,the. by a res'erve of this kind that the disposi-
te . • • ,
us ef Sovereigns and their Ministers to hold con- Note from M. R ....IS rto Lord Visc. ilowleK, March 9, 0307.
tsist, • •
tial euminunicat ems with 'us could be preseired.. l The Undersigned Charge-d'Affaires of his IVlajes-
Ile w
as reatie to vote. for the produaion of all Papert ty ,the King of Denmark, in transmitting in due tune
11'teehlry to the justification of the late Ministers, to his Court the Note by which his Excellency Vis-
itLote the charges preferred against them throughout count. Howick acquainted bhp, on the loth of Ja-
t_,'•ec°'-11111-y.; lint he would not consent to the pro- nuary, with the Order in Council issued•by his' Bri-
eataion of any, Papers not in themselves proper to be tannic Majesty, ,prohibiting all commerce, between
roduced, 'and ctilled for 'only front mere party me- the different ports of the Enemy and those subjeei
-,!'.'e,s• He professed a great peraonal esteem for the to the influence .of the French Government, foresaw
.040Uil; Lord who was partieultirly interested -in the at that thee the deep and painful inspreision Which
preleetion of the Paper prim eipally alluded to, and that Order could not fail to produce upon the Court
11e nierefo're lamented the more, that the *Noble . of Dentnark.
Lield had disclosed ,
as much as he had done. ' He bas this moment received its orderS, to. ex-
1:1r, f•Viiii se:F-4D in a short IC!ply 'adverted to press to the Ministers of Iris Briemnie Majesty the
iiti`tio'lt.. eleseeees made to'the produaion of.the mi.: surprise and grief vviii•cle. the Court of the, Under-
e„••.•',, Of Lehi eluteliinson's colieersation with the signed leis felt •in taking notice of a resolutioue
refhparor of Russia.- ' The Baehr Hon, Secretaryhhad which, bonded on i principle in 'tacit. inadmissible,
••aine the
to M?. Adair's liission to St. Petersbergh, • attacks
.011 e of the chief sources of the commercial
les,,".te cross cointtninication, as the _Right Hon. prosperity of Detimark,
:and seems tc., give a blow, as
:•17,ficirtan called it, which the Right:Hon.. Gentle. direct as it is unprovoked,. to her most sacred rights
,i.i",'' HO,. happily elueithited 1.):' crossing his zingers; mid the 1 reaties valuell connect her with
,Oreat Bri-
ye, °,llvise! neh. her the pleasaetryor the iii: hi Hon. twin. rh has .received the orders of Ills Court, to
serestillsetau, nos Chet of those who laughed With hint. detail to. hits Britannic nuesty's Government the
ii•Lh. 11tetit lion. Gentlealan very poinponsly an- fatal consequences of this measure, and finally to re,
I7,,,usweed ins determinaiion to stand by and to pro- quire itestappression. , h. . .
,r, tits regular diplon iiitie I‘linhilers ;' that hi, h pro- 'fite Un,ftsrsigned, in
.ecquitting hinisell of these
4.4'cm weelti hot be te:-seirted from, by. gran ( toga Orders to his Excellency Viscount Howick, takes,
4.sP"telt. thee the King's accredited IVliiiisier, Lord the liberty of demanding from hint all the eerieus at-
:(rg4qi. Gower, whom. lie (Mr. I'Vhitbrt?:l6) re- j tention which the importance of the obits6t iequires,
Lleci al touch ~i' those who Viretessed most relied fur this exposition ; v high will be dictated .by that
te hint en tiie other side.' Lth'd G. L. 'Gower had • feitikness end moderation (worthy of aleindependent
'''' wed the dispatch in question from Lord Lint. ; Cos ern mern, and one trieodly to Great .11ritain,) by
Ittesee and transmitted it' in an official Turin. The which the Court of Denmark:: has - been " constantly
le6tion of cross-corrnminieation and double diplo- Hanaled in her , proceedings and discussions with
Sisy, could not therefore apply. Lerd Hetchinson i that of London, • . '
~t, e recalled, it was true, on the .7th May, 'from Ins l ()foll Coates, whose duty and interest it is to
Isiott to Prussia, and he had never been an 'acere- defend the rights'of neutrality, that of the Under-
:teLl elinister to the Cow I of Russia. Bet lie was signed is callaci upon to do so .oo this occasion
;tot-dinar), ti av eller, and i:illy Arnbassador would. have more particular! t, as well by its situation, as by
Teel) heund to transmit, and ally-Secretary of State: the nature of the Order in. Council in qoeStion.---.
Y,halit to con,:eive, it his duty to .:trend to, a coat It is, agetiest her interests principally' that it is di-
-•.eleation from such an authotity ut the natureof +het ' reefed;
:her subjects chiefly will suffer by its con,
'flailed te. The dispatch of Lord fiutellinsiin t,tined, et,CII4.eOCCS. • AIIIIOSI. exclusively iu possession of the
r the Euiperer ot Russ:v.l'S OWn declaration, that he atlyantageous coasting trade; bet Ween the different
~,rd made the peace of Tilsit under the ,iulluetice of ports which will hencetorward become jnaccessible.to
'ilasolute necessity. I. ;Ite laratidn cOntradicted his • them, they are menaced with the deprivation of a
h.l.ajesty'a Speech', which asserted that theTreaty' of branch of their navigation which has occupied until
llibit was made not by compulsion, but in a moment i the present time lieuttreds of vessels, thousands ofssil-
°l. despondency. His Atijesty's Declaration, at the ors and industrious workmen, and considerable capi-
'etene time expremcd'a hope, that on refieetion, the ithis. Henceforth, the Mediterranean e:ill, for the most
11,41Zeteer of Ii would return to his former senti- part, be shut against' their enterprizes : a voyaze,
fonts acid pritleiplee. 'Phis invitation to the Empe- • from Holland .to France, Irons Italy to Spain, front
siete,",! llessia,' to desert • a Treaty he bad just the anise I'owns to the ports of the Mediterranean,
'l/434, slimed a . great levity in the sense that will render their vessels and their cargoes subjea gifQ ~,, .
8' Wilt) .expressed 'it entertained of the sa- to confiscation. Excluded from the ,greatest
.1,4 a
crecip„.... ,
...
tra,,os of the obligation of so solemn a public con- of .the pens of • the. Contieeet of Europe, le is
int", and would give but a very unfavourable wished that-they should renounce, not only the con-,
~,yressitin of their fideliters in adhering to such en. siderable adventeges which the neutrality of their flag
!:',eineitts, when coritracted' by tbetuselVes-I•No, insures them in Carrying on the coasting trade, but
2°. , f'rom the other sicie).., Certainly, when a SOVe- also the continuance of to essential part of their diret‘lt
i'leil,{4.ll Was illVitai to desert itnmediately ( • hgations - and legitimate commerce with the ports ebeve-men-
iildft Ile had but the moment befol e entered Imo, the. tioned. After having sold the produce of their eoun.-
11,?retwe was, that those who gave the in :itation try,_ planlis, fish, .or corn, in one of the northern
1114° but little regard.for stile faith of treaties. The ports of Holland, . France,' or. Spain, they will be
tootiol.ls which lie had seibmitted were designed not obliged to return•in ballast, . because they will not
Promote party purposes, nor yet for the more re- be allowed to seek, in the southern ports of those
• i
lt4lable intitive of the justifieatiou of friends, but countries, and of Italy, . such, tucrotiandize as -the
era te'reitt Pu
blic purpose, that of ascertaining whether countries of the NprO have occasion fur, mid which
e 'lot his Majesty's Ministers had ncgle6ted any,fa- can alone produce returns sufficiently adveutageous
tyrQuralsieoppertunityol restoring peace to the Coun- to reimburse the expellees at their voyages.. In
~...,I).lpers of the setne description as that novit most order to pcocut•e salt, wines, brandy, and9d, it will
ittirtteularly called for, and most essentially neces- .be necessary fur then to sail from Danish !torts eb r
tY to the purpose be had in view, had been the most part in ballast, itt order to fetch them frompr ''',°ethl without reserve on the impeachment the ports in the Meliterreeeau, if they do not prefer,
of '
eClitlistets subseouent to the peace of Utrecht. which,
According .te all appearance will be the case,
iiint, 'tight Hon. 6entleman should not conr.ne to to renotniceeitogether a ;tattle which would. hence:
'
-'esk public doctiments.se 'essential and important, forward become, a ruiitotta speculation. • •
•-licllc,it..lle gothel that they were mere private comtnu-, . Arid
.lioe, ceil this subject, 4 ills I) mutt Majesty
oiler "()4s• fi feared the neeletl of • the litissian be deprived of
tot :hof, 41 their legiten.iie trptiie, at one of the
ediatin would proVe one of the must .lead- ,principal hrancties of their industry
,i ~By what right
rste in the `'' " " policyof "- • ' ..i.; -41, tali they be sto ) eel in the earseit of a /C.lced4l4 oC-
it ' le this Country. With 1 5p,,.. ‘ 1 i 1 I
le usutatices of assistance and eooperation said
to Ise e• cupation, the esereise of winch is guaranteed to
. • .1v"-.ti to the. Ali* .• d the ' • iof th • COn-
tingtin, - , les, an an is a e. - them hy the public law of netione, ,and jay the Sa-
, . .
lie sal °lt which that aid was to ha ae been given, cred.feho at treattese which insere to,l)entnerk, on
"tis"''d ' • 'f .rel t I-1 n'G- il -roan wnni, .. that i the ~.. 1 o . ...n e.. the part of Great Britain, the unliinited liberty of
re . e geese, . s . . ~, ..,.., • , 1 t
ein, tes , sto trial, the webs, e, putt' g 9 against , the seas in all cases in which Denmark tem not her-
self consented, by express stipulations, to renounce
Noble L7r•d`'iyhe4l hetore he sat doWn, to esti the , . a .
.„ f 1 _
.i,,ht . )
happy to 1 (!gore{ G. Leveson), whom be should behet' I ,
tear `the exercise (IT a pai tlo
3ection ,', • again, notwithseinhing the, formal ob- They will be
~ so .deprived, according to a princi-
there esslat this was theconcluding hpeech, whether • pie of retilleition, net against I)etimark, tor she has
tee - not some error; probably of printing, in never swerved trotnthe strict execution of her Tte.U2
Oates f .
Were three
..,
0 some of his dispatches.—Ttiere ties,
.or from 11er dutieslow.trts li.'...,nglitiel, but against
Alio i.lree tor • instance dated. Qd .September, ~ a thisd. Powee, whose example (..17teat Britain seems
1 tigh it Was evident instance,;
the tenor thAr all could
-'°thiav • but too ready, to felloW, in :tinder to render the stipu-
e L been %Wince on the same day. There -were and the paeitie relationa bettveen
°More dated
' •14141 e hie the eth of Septernbar, in which the States suborstillaita• to a right of wet:, indefinite In its
,t, onsisteney appeared. principle,
,unlimited in its extent, incelculable in its
tee tlrd GRASP:U.4,E GOIPER said, the first of consequences, but completely foreign to aed by no
'tree
ritten notes now dated the ocr'September, arts means binding one neutral Power, independent, and
Secretaryoteilled by solemn and recent'! rmitte3.
dated on.the first, but by an error of the P' ;-- • -
the,# gill
the others. Of Inc two Leader the date of ' The''.Ull44s:gued has received•, exiPmc,'''.B9rd6l3frol.
2.”4.1 one was -
, written on that day, and ihe other his, C;'utl to declare, in its mites, t lat it regards the
Oil the 1 'lbis
es 19tH. date •was aheri-d in i upon which the Order io Coun
ehe assurenc 'll .' • .the 1 T:). - ..
Blinn:WlC Majesty is toundedens absoltitely
paintinehee. .rigtit of retaliate); , ,
Fit at-his
~
..
its .
~. . .
addressed es a tided to In note of 28til June,
adinissilee, in principle and In its consequences.
• aac. to General Hedberg, were elven in a- pri- In` ~
To ,establish this right, it would be necessary to be-
t
ee onferenee by the Emperor of Porssie at Tilsit, -
" Which his Imperial -Ma'est ei 's • I hint (LoutG gin by destroying the first notions of, general and
eseaem),
that
notill , j y. s uretG. .
public la ,V. It ititist be he:entice' to lays it down as
;ther his friendiy di, :I)g.,,it.tilt Ili'l hap; i'ened 'lll,`)uhla al principle, th.dt every Power has a right arbitaa-
'ta.itl; satisfied as h :1 '''' ".'
l'.ln(- ni''c'''''ll°ll.l t`' -"g.-: ' rilv to reoutince eligagements, and to ticrcr•rate.
, e
se.
ic.p,es
I, 1 e was of ti,e tv.,t-i;t:, and j',1,,,ct.: of f,, , 1 hti I. - another p ~., "' sons solemn s ipu e 0 ib soli ot4o, for
Ayr":ltil o es darn:stone 'Siajesi .• .
no other reason tient that its relations with a third
sseend rrfiREAD With(ll-(',V I.i.i illat MOtiCiil ; the . . •
I, . , calltwi 1(.47 '''''ll'l'''' ".
Power have changed their ehttraCter. It mug be in-
'''''soie • D..'" • . h•-- • • •-•s 1.1(ht• ;el haeville
l'4tr, A 3 ILLUICII,. c,,tltoiiiing .s,, , -.' ~. , - tendert tohiesist that the privileges, interests, and
e to
-t4 • • . ,,,..,..: le- ' a neutral it • • •
wee 4 his Note to el. De „iss, ~-. . , , s lsroperly 0, . I, are at the disposition of
--... '
• 'n"Zottved i the' for • ' • every other Power, 'althOugh comitEled with it by
Olle La les
p t.,.. ...., ~,.6111,-.1114.;C5'

Sir J.,NEWPORT -gave notice, that on Friday next
he should move for certain Papers, relating to the
power txercisectby , the Lord Lieutenant and Coun-
cil oil:eland, with respect to the volunteering of
Ballotted Men from the Militia to the Line, and
the Bounties allowed to those Men.

. .
The CHANCELLOR di:the EXCHEQUER gave notice,
that on Friday he should submit certain Resolutions
on the subjed of
,the' Exportation of Cotton and
Salt.
The.seCond reading of the Orders of Council Bill
was deferred till Thursday. —Adjourned.

P4PERS

PRESENTED lilt HIS MAJESTY'S COMMAND TO. BOTH

HOUSES OP PARLIAMENT.

1

rreattes,
es soon as tne course. or events; or the
incu-
nation of that Power should-engage in a war enti:ely
foreign to the neutral nation.
The' palpable inconsistency and falsehood of such
reasoning cannot be equalled but by its Wel conse-
quentes with respect to society. It ceneot escape the
penetration of his Britannic Majesty's Ministers,
That a principle, which would render the relations
and mutual obligations
,between two countries de-
pendant ipoi, any acts whatsoever of a third Power,
or rather which would constitute a state' of War the
Supretne Regulator 'of all ,the relations of human
society, would destroy the very basis of that soterety,
'in orderopenly to . sanction the right
,of streogth,
and, in the end, to pave the way for that of universal
anarchy.
This (the Undersigned regrets to avow it) is never-,
`Hitless the tendency of the, principle upen which. the
reselutionsadepted by the French Gavel Lunen t aeatost
the commerce of Great Britain are 'cited, as motives'
to induce his Britannic Majesty, torset aside the Irea-
tiei subsisting between Etightne and Deilinaik, and
especially that of the 17th 'of June, -1801; which
guarantees to the latter Power, in the case express-
ly- fbrese.en, of any maritime war whatever, the en-
tire,libirty of its commerce, with the ex eeption
only of those restrlaienr tnentioned in the third:Ar-
ticle. This is the -spirit. of a measure, which.
upon the r ormuerce of Subjests the most
severe wound of which the history of neutrality
offrs an example.
The Undersigned does,not apprehend that be has
Said too much in advancing.this assertion : be .has-
Pule soptupesely, entirely toreseeing t hat the French
Decree of the 21st if NOtiember, 1806,' tegc. her
with all its pernicious' consequences to the commerce
of neutrals; will be cited. to invalidate it. ;The Uti-r
dersigned would hive esteemed himself lovunate, if
he could have avoided the heces.sity of mat.ing a
coMparison between the two measures; or of draw
ing a parallel hetweeneheir effeCts, more or less per-
nicious to the commerce, of Denmark : but the
weighty and invert:int, natore of the task which be
has to feffit trilpeses tiihrdrity upon him. He will,
however, ill-order to make the Ministers of his Bri-
tannic Mitjeity acquainted. with the measure. of the
impression which these two Decrees, in oppe!thiee
to each other, must have produced in Denmark, con-
tent binrieil with stating that, according (tithe ofti-
dal explanetious which tile Undersigned. has just re-,
ceived from his Court, the French Decree does not,
as we we.'e led to snivole fiorn its expressions, bear
upon all vessels carrying on commerce with Eng.
land, but only upon those which, coming from an
English port, are desirous of entering a port of
France; that it emit% the confiscation of those ves-
sels only which refuse to submit to the notification
Of the Decree at their entry into one of the said
putts, or which are desirous of concealing their hav-
ing lately put into a port of Great Britain that
therefore the pro Visions of the French Decree; a
great part' of which cannot from their nature be
carried.into, effed, have apt es yet caused any sen-
sible interruption td the commerce of Denmark' with
Grea.(Britain:

.UACalitinCy V tqf'n
Ili;11 and ,!..4"°.o4itii
London, Ailed) T. R!ST.,

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NOTE from •Lord Viscuutl.- fJowl cx to Mr. RI Jr&
ivi,arch I 7
,11,7.

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Unlersigned must also observe, that the De-
cree of the e Ist of November, limited as it is in ita
application, turns evidrntly againSt France herself
and her Allies, or at least'obli:•,tes them to patticipate
in the greatest part Of tho evils and annoyance di-
reacd.against the commerce of neutrals : that it
therefore seems to carry_ with it the guarantee of
its lenient execution, and probably of its short du-
, ration.

The Undersigned feels it his duty to add, that
his Court neverille.is has made urgent rcpresentaz.
tons to the French GAlernment aga;nst a Measure,
the principle of which it cannot but consider as a
direct and manifest violation of its rights : that, far
1 from being willing or able to acquiesce in it, his
Court thought that it' emplJyed the best weapons
which its situation and the 'justice of its cause
forded, when it protested solemnly against the rib.-
. version of principle and the contempt of the Law
of Nations of which this Decree gives so fatal an
exaMple; • •

But the greater the disgust of the Court of the
Undersigned at the spirit of the D.:eree or the tat
of November, and parmularly at the moti%e alledged
for it jul/2tification, namely, that of retaliation, the
more profound was its regret on , seeing Greatßri-

tain, beriale measure,tollow the footsttps of her
enemy, and take advantage of his example to
.sanc-
tion a doctrine, the piiikiple of which Seenis More
to be feared in itself, than the more or less enlarged
scale, of_ the regulations which determine its effed
and extent.
The Court of Denmark cannot disseMble her ap-
prehensions that the Vrench.Government Will reckon
among its triumphs, the having engaged England
in measurp.s., which, while they justified its own pro-
ceedings, necessarily wetiltned the ties Of friendship
which attached the neutral nations to Great Britain;
and that it will find in the Order, in Council of his
t. Britannic Majesty a new motive, or at least a pretext,
not only for persisting in its fatal measures, and for
enforcing their dormant rigour, but also far aogment-
ing, if possible, its original violence; and completing •
the ruin of nations, which until the present time
had preserved the blessings and the presperity. 'of
peace. The Undersigned, abstains, but too willing-
from completing the terrible pidure %%'.hicli the
spedive of
,such a contest appears to present.
Authorized to declare inethe most preeise manner
that the Court of .Den Mark can :never acquiesce in
any degree in the Order nf counCil of his Britannic
Majesty, which has been conimnnicated to the Un-
dersigned on the inth of January, nor consent that
her Vessels should .be treated in conformity to it,.
and to protest formally. against its principle and- its
consequences ; the Undersigned, however, feels
pleasure In transmitting to his Excellency ViScount
HOwick„ and in partaking the hopes Of his Court,
that his Britannic Majesty will not give eired to the
r:solutinn in question; but that, by suppressing it,
he will continue and cement the relations of amity
and good underStattding Which attach to his interests
the court of Denmark, whose constant efforts have
been direaed to the observance of her engagetvents
and to the peservation of her relations with Great
Britain.
This hope receives additional vigour from a know.
l'Mgc. of the liberal way of thinking and acting of
the enlightened Minister to whom the Undersigned
l'as the hononr' to address these. representations in
favour of neutral rights,' widen. have , already More
thtl once fo,lnd in him their advocate.
Ittid,,,r;.=goivirs.3l has the lien= to abr to his

Foreigd Qliice, Marc}, 17, xB,l,

The Undersigned, his Majesty's Princ:pal Sevrt«
tary of State.f4r-Foreign Atiaits, the lionoar to
iolorlo I. Riot,-that he ha.- no ti( in sub-
mitting-40 his :Majesty's Goveralu-nt his Note of the
9th inst.; and- Altai itlias reeekeet, all atiention
which the znagnitude the various
and-important considerations which it inttolves, cur-
tainly require:.

It is m•ach tolve wished that the Danish G.)l-,!ro-
ment, before-it suffered itself to indidge LI I:ie.
representations contained in. the above Official l'a;)•
had considered with .nore, calioness -the nature d
objects of the Decre: of the French Govern:,:e.l, of
the 21st of NoveWacr last, and the Order in Council
which, in, consequence of, that Decree, ben
issued by his Majesty. -
The UndersigtA is under, the, necessity of thus
calling, in,:the outset, the•attentior 'of the D
Minister to the origiwal state of the question ; b;.l.
cause M. Rist, in- hirreferenee both. to the •

. .
of the 21st November, Isofo, an:l to his l.!elaysty's
Order in Council, seems to Ilaye in*.once.ivt=cl ILLt
tenor and etli!et -of both ; excia,ing U
palliating the one,- and- in no less a dc'grce •
ing and aggravating the supposed tendency
sequences of the other.
By the Decree of the 21st November, ,w.Jt
upon the falsest allegations ju.it,tut.t.i by the 11-,
ciple of retaliation) the: Enemyh r, i,rCrutlueJ ti, ~e.
dare the British isles in a state of
biting at the same tiale ~all conne..t.:.? witfl tn,
and all, trading in English ; and by tile
S 3 Me instrument, the Prize Courts of i:;-anct., are, di
re6ted to enforce these regulations. Neutrals are
consqugtitly interci .ted. from ail
courte with" Great Britain, an'.: ail trading in be;
commodities.--

The French Government, in adopting a measure
at once so violent in itself, and of 'such injustice
with respea to the consequences, which-musi
sarily have been expected to result :rote it, commit-
ted a manifest a& ,of houile tegres,,iou (though im
mediately dirc44ed against Great Britain) against the
rights of every State not engaged in the war, which,
if not resisted on their part, must unavoidably de-
prive them of -the privileges of :t fair neutrality, and
must suspend the .operation of treaties termed for
the protection of neutral rights, thus fundamentally
violated in. their first awl most essential principles.' r;
The injury which would be- sustained by (.4r,cat
Britaih, if she Suffered her commerce with foreign
nations to,
,be thus interditited, whillt that -Qt
Enemy with them,should reimiin unmolested, .
manifest, that it, can require no illestration. It ne-
ver could have beep t resumed that his Majesty would
submit to such an, injury, waiting in patient, acquits-.
ceuce till. France might thipk proper to attim,i to the,
slow'and feeble remonstrances of States not engaged
in the War,. or that he should forbear to take iintue,
diate steps to, check the.violenee of the Enemy, and
to retort upon him the evils of his own injustice.
Had his Majsty at once/ determined to exas.i the
full measure of retaliation to which he was justly
entitled, (and which nothing but the most generotts
regard for the commercial interest of neutral Pow,.,s
could have. induced him to forego) let. Denmark lc
-
fled upon the effea which such. a ,detertnitiation
would have had upon her commerce, taking- into
her consideration at the same time the twatis which
Great Britain possesses of enforcing it ; and then let
her compare it with the me ore qt forb2arance add
lenity which has been adopted. ,
His. Majesty would unquestionably have been
justified' in resortieeto the tellest nicasures of reta-
liation, in consequence of this unparalleled aggies.
'sion ; and other.PoWers would have had no right to
complain, if the King had immediately proceeded
to declare all the conntrieS occupied by the EtteMY
to be in a state of bleckade., and to prohibit all irtide
in the prodoee of those countries ; for, a's the French
Decree expresses it, the law,of nature justifies the
employing against the Enemy the same arms whieli
he mikes use of. If third parties Sutter from these
measures, their demand of reparation must be
to-that country which first violates the' establiSlte:d
usages of war, and the right of neutral States.
The British' Government, howeter, was neither
hasty nor- rigorous in its measures. His Majbity
waited nearlr two months before he had reeoltr,,,
even to the mitigated'measure Of retaliation v. hich
a due regard for the dignity of his' Crown 011.1
interests of his subjetls haslatiength ekatied front
him. '

Whether in the mean time any such steps were
taken by Denmark as were required by the insult
which had been offered by the kinemy to her sove-
reignty and. independence, and the injury done to
her neutral, rights, this Government is altogether
ignorant. All that is known hero is, that a ;tOrtn,it
communication of the Decree of the :et st Nov. wds
made by the French Minister at the Court of
the answer of the Danish Govern ri rpe...t _as not •
pired ibut no intention of resistance ha„pi,e „.,:d-
-in say public tlocument,,or in any steps taken by
the Danish Government : whilst on. the -other. h:tl)d
,it has obierveda„conduti,not apparently c.,ilcuilta
to enforce the respect due to the rights of a noutrAl
nation, nor in consistency with. the charade rof a
Power determined equally to resist any measn'res af'-
feaing these rights, tionu whatever quailer thq
Might proceed.

The troops which were stationed in Holstein,
whilst those of the Allies were near that liontter,
have been immediately withdrawn on the approach
of the French army; and the general intercourse
between this Country and Hustint, never refused
in 4ny former war, has been the sub;c6t of continuni
complaint and remonstranceon the pa rt of tin,t n
Ministry.

Having made these preliminary observationg, it
will u. necessary to enter into a caudid
sionate investigation of the general nature etl'ect
of the Order in Council of the 7th January, ot the
causes which produced it, and of some (Wale ptinci-
Pal objects which it had in view. In -doing this,
the Undersigned is first led to consider thr:) proba.
ble extent of ity operation, as it ;.tifeets the carrying
and diret!..t trade of Denmark, and of other Iu
Powers ; and this will be the snore net essary with re-
gard to the latter and more' important thiwripti,.:n
of coinmeree, inastnuch as impediment.; are
as to be throwa in the way of it b),