The Sun.
London, England, 1806-02-05 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF PEERS,

TUESDAY, FEB. 4.

' On the order for summoning their Lordships for
this day being read,
Lord MULGRAVE said, that he had hoped when
lie gave his Notice for this day, that the arrangements
in .contenaplation would have been completed, so as
-to have ensured a full attendance of their Lordships,
it having been-his intention to enter into an explana-
tion respecting several points cOnneoed, with the
Papers which he had laid upon the Table, at the
same time that he. preSented to their. Lordships, by
'llls Majesty's command, several other Documents
upon-the subjeEt of our Continental: Reletiens, He
bad brought down the Papers to I.Aicli he alluded,
and he could not let this opportunity slip, of giving
some explanation' to their Lordships, upon Certain .
'points Which they inyolved." Had it- been upon any
ordinary occasion that the Treaties were presented to
the House, it would have been sufficient to have left'
them .to speak for themselves. Their Lordships
would, in perusing these, have found that the first
°hie& of hiS Majesty's Government had been, to
form a well arranged plan, which, in its execution,
might afford every reasonable prospeat of effeating
the deliverance of 'Europe;_. the next objet; that
those 'means 'might be provided which might give
cad to the Negotiation which was at that period
expeded to' be carried on, or •in the event of that
Negotiation terminating in War, might enable the'
Alliesto pursue hestilities,with proportionate energy
and vigour.::,TheY eveuld have seen by these Trea-
ties, thatTeoo,ooo nNn were to hive -been brought
in:o the field, eeti30.0.6 be Austria, and 1,80,000 by
.c6-tainisr amply sufficient, accord-
eueutation; ?-e- the purpose of carrying
ii ce-eett the, objeets which it was sought, to at;
tain. it bad been a matter of calculative, what num-
• - ber of troops Feapceseeeld have.brodgia to A upon.
ZI cert3in pciiit., in.a given time, aed what panther of
Austrian' and Russien troopsexotdrl, be at that point
by the tee specified. 'He received- official returns,
' which it appeared, that 3,0,000 estrians, and
sO,OOO Russians, were actually in thei;teld, or on
,their rnarch 'The Russian. troops„ha feet-,. marched
according to:: their engagement, and arrived, at their
destmation,, and, were ready -to take the field„ two
• days eerlier than the 'time specifi'ed for their reaching
the point where they were to eti-eat a junation with
their Austrian Allit s. . The. plan thus prepared, ti;e
arrangements thus made, and- the calculations thUN
formed, were unfortanasiely deranged .by the pre, 1
. eipitancy of AuStria. . The deviation- of Austria
from the plats agreed upon Was not slight or trivial,
but it was a complete and entire deviation, and to this
must be attributed all the calamitous consequences
that ensued. The obje& 'of this Country- 'was, 1
either to promote a Negotiation for a general Peace,
upon e perm :Inept basis,7consisteet with 'the welfare
aed security of Europe, or to establish an, armed
Negotiation; with a -view of putting a period.to Che
uSurpations and encroachments of France ; and, if
War was the result, to support :that War by means
AVhiCll, K0014113' g to all human calculation, were
adequate to etleat the. object proposed: Austria'
had, till the end of the year 1805, to negotiate, as
the
,Subsidies from this Country were payable; if
eominericed hostilities leefore the end of of the
year. le nfortunatery, hoWever, from her very great
precipitancy in sending forward her troops, the
• melancholy events of the
_campaign, and the-cala-
. mitous day of Austerlitz, had resulted. It was the
oCcurrence. of these unfortunate events that bad- in-
. duced.his Majesty's Ministers to obtain his Majesty's
Comweuds, to :lay before Parliament every Dom-
Ment.that could, in any degree, elucidate the sub-
jea, or explain any of the pointseconneated with
the Treaties . which he had, ou a fernier day, laid
upon theetaele. They had done this, in order that
-their wean& might be placed in that point of view
in whiehetheY:w.ishedlt to he considertd,
as they. Were, thee-i.would be found free from the
slightest blame on account of the recent unfortu-
nate events on the'Continent. He could not -help also,
• agaih expressing his anxiety that the charaaer of
that. illustrious Statesman, whose loss they -now de- j
plored, should be 'cleared from the ImputatiOnS,
which, on account of those events, had been so un-
justly cast upon it. In attributing 'those events to
the precipitancy of the Einperor of Austria, and
his deviation from the' plan arranged by. the Allies,
he must, at the same time, derrecate anyiimpu-
tazions being thrown upon that Monarch on account
of his signing an Armistice, aiitt sebseqUently a'
Treaty ,of Peace with France. ''lt -'YtqS easy for
those who were at a distance from the scene of
. a&ion, to condemn the conduct of that fro-
'arch--but it shotild be recolleated, that he 'did and
suffered mach for the common cause, that lie gave
up his capital to the Elie* and fought in person
against them. - Hefter thiS, he was induced' by.the
calamitous circumstances that eusued to give way,
and make Peace with France, it should rather be
lamented• asam unfortunate circumstance 'than be
made the snbjeat of cotidernnatioM As some Noble
Lords had come' into the House since he had'risen,
whom he wished ro hear his explanatien (Lord
Grenville lied just entered the House), 'he would
shortly recapitalatee He then. briefly repeated :his
former steteinents; adding, that the Negotiations
betWeeti' Austria and- France, it was knoWn, must
be broken.niir in consequence' of tie annexation 01:
Genoa to ..France, and that it was eipe6ted that
-when Hostilities' commenced, Austria would hate
thled upon the ilefensive in Germany and offeesively
in Italy. ,He had obserVed On a formet evening,
that certain'Articlesofthe Treaty with Russia• were
:withheld.; -he repeated, that no other' motive had
induced Kis Majesty's MiniSters to Withhold them
then a desire that no injury might result to certain
Continental Powers froin the' pehlication of the re- j.
contained in those Articles.. This''was their
only thotive, as those who were about to., succeed
them would soon be' enabled to judge, froM an in-
•epeaiion of the Documents themselvee„, He was
anxious that the subject to which the ;papers on the.
and those he was about to present, referrea,
seould be felly and amply-discussed.- le the result
of that discussion he hadi the utmost confidence;
at d he would repeat what he had said on a .formee
e,. ening, with retereece tO that subject and the con-
d. et of his Colleagues and himself, that there was
rio need to wile h' he- could now wish had been
taken,' tl.a had been omitted, rat any measure