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London, England, 1806-12-31 00:00:00

WOQLI,EN'T'R'ADE.

Lord ,7W.,11P1,1, in pursuzmce cif notice;called
the atteoon •ol.the House to.the. Woollen ':•=frade.
A • Committee had been appointed• last :Session,
which produced It great deal of evidenee,':Which,
:with a geport; they presented. to •the 'House.
had. hoped that.omeineasure founded on. t his might
have been prod4ed early in. this Session. But the
di.ssolUtiCn of Parliament .had rendered it,njc4ry
to.begin the business anew, and to appoint anottier
Committee. Her believed, however, that tins Com-
mittee might found its Report on the eollet'lee- be-
•Aga taken. At the same time,it could not refusr'.-to
Wear any cpe that rnight.bestill offered to con-
sideration; though he hoped s that it Woula-rior be
-thoughtnecess:l7 to produce-any caseo.
concluded by tuov4ig fo'r;th'e• Committee, and :that
the evidence •;barbre taken should be referred to it.
This was asTeed tr-41 Mr. Wilberforce Mr: f:a-vcir.L.4
and 'Llore,, •we among the Members
.pointed.

NEGOTIATIQN . PAPERS,
.711 r, rose, and expressed his 146:
that he -might be indulged with putting- one or t.,±xio
quesnns t..; the ;Noble -Lord oppo,,ite
the stibieCt of-titese-.:lapers.• 'lle might ,have intro,
duced them by 'Way of motion, but. The answer*
might renders any motion unnecessary.- The., firsl
question respe ett the eommunit•atioti of l'alleyv7ind
to Mr. ToX, of the. bth of March. In'the.k.reacix-
aec.:Ount of the itiatter ..rhere•apped to be a,str,wige
interpolation.
_He .wislied to .ask,-...\-‘,hathc..r then;
was infalclauyiiiity,i; in the letter to Mr •.b,,x intir9
than is given' in the Paptirs •now on the. tith.,,,or
whether. there vas. tmy thing like it in any of the
Other letters off ALTtilleyrand? It thero was.,„lte
wished, it to bp, piedttped. , tluestic:n. Le
wished to ask with regard to the letter nwarice4
Na. 3,;l.witich- I.fars one of the• sth. of
.-Aiarch, frbiu
-it-appeare4 .tbit

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extra!, and that it was important that we should
leave the whole letter; apd if this was refUeed, he
would be obliged to make a m( tan' on the subje&,
tied then lie would state his reasons why he thought
it Se material. He should also like to know, whe-
' thjr to this letter, which appeared to be a private
one, any private answer was sent by Mr. Fox ?
further wished to be- informed, Whether any eerie;
munication had Lean made •to Lord Yarmouth-On
the subjea of the. Negotiation, by 'the French Glee
vernment, previous to the conversation which he
• had with M. Talleyrand immediately before he left •
Paris; and what was the time of hiS leaving Paris ?
He observed, ..that the Paper, stating the nature of
the conversation, to Mr. Fox,-was dated the 13th'of •
June. He wished to know whether that was'the
time- when the Paper was drawn •up, or whether''
it-was the time at whielpit had been:delivered to
Mr. Fox ? There Were other points on which some
explanation was necessary. One related to the Paper
of Lord Lauderdale, of the 7th of August, in which
he stated to the French Government that circum-
stances, which it was unnecessary to detail, pee-
mitted his Majesty •to negotiate separately ! He
wished to know exactly what ethoeP circumstances
• • Were ? Then, in the letter of Mr. Windham, of the
loth ofSeptember, it was said, "' that every endea-
veur was made at the outset of the Negotiation to
• obtain the restitution of Naples to his SiciliereMa-
jestye and that the grounds on which it was thought
fit•••to desist frointhat claim are detailed in the cor-
respondence of this office with Lords Yarmouth ded
Laudetdale." Now, there was not one passage iii
the Papers
,produced relative to this subjeCt, except
a very short one in one of Mr. Pte's letters. .He
thereforewished to know, whether there could be
any objeaion to the eroded ion of the rest of the
correspondence alluded to ? Then, in' a letter of LOrd
Lauderdale to Talleyrand; he said, " that the terms
which would be insisted upon, were in substance
the same es those required by Baron de Budberg."
Now, this was theonly allusion to the terms npen
which it appeared the NegottatiOn broke off. He
thought-that the House should be int'ermed what
' these terms were. The point Was eertehily a ma-
terial one: He hoped' the NOble • Lerd would give
such an answer to these questions, as' would render
any mo:ion fronellim -unneceisary.
Lord 110:PICK expresAad ihis desire of render-
ing every thing-relating to this Negotiation as clear
and 'perspicuous as possible,, and therefore he bad
no objection 'to answer the questions. - The first
question respeaed the interpolation by the French,
in the letter of Talleyrand to Mr. Fox, of the nth of
•••• Marche, The Learned Gentleman asked, whether
'there-was a similar passage in any of Talleyrand's
letter.. ?—To this he answered, • that nothing more
was received than- what was contained in that letter,
and that there was nothing in-any of the other let-
tee bearing the least reset-el:4nm to it. The next
question respected the leper ,to Mr.. Fox, stating
the basis oft which a Negeaiatien would, be entered
upon. This letter, the feearned Gentleman said,
Was en extract, 'and he wished try have, the whole;
and insinuated that he,meant to Take this the stib-
-it.6l of a distill& Motion. The only part of the
- letter, however, -that related at all to the Negotia-
tion, was given in the Papers—the other part of
e• the letter was private, and perhaps be would tell
the •Learned Gentteman in private what it was, if
he chose, hut as it was confidential it was thought
• wrong to produce • it, as it would. evidently be im-
proper with a %itm to any theme Negottation.-:--
- The Letirned Gentleman then asked, whether, there
• was any private answer returned by Mr. Pox to
.• that letter ?—The public letter, however, in answer
to the public communicative of Talleyrand, was
all that 'had any thitig to do with the question.
:Be did not certainly know. Whether aii'v private an-
swer had been returned-4e rather 'believed that
there was, but he would rriakeinquiry as to that.—
. The next question was, Whether there had been
-any correspondence between the 'French Govern-
ment and Lord Yarmouth before his first return
'froth Paris, on the subjed of the Negotiation ?
He believed there had not. Then as to the date of
Lord Yarmouth's communication with Talleyrand,
be could not precisely fix the date, but it must have
been before the 23d of May, as 'Lord Yarmouth
that day left Paris, and arrived in London on the
'4th of June. As to the communication of Lord
Yarmouth to Mr. Fox on the 13th of June, he be-
lieved the intelligence had been given on the sth or
6th. But nothing was done till the 11th, when it
was understood that D'Oubril had•been sent to Paris
'by the Russian Government. It was then thought
proper to send Lord Yarmouth to Paris, and the
sub Stance. of Talleyrand's communication was by
him committed to . writing on the .13th, that there
might be a record of it at the Office. He left this
on the 14th. The time 'et' his second return was
.to be foetid in the Papers by looking at the letter of
Lord Lauderdale to Talleyrand of the 17th of Au.
gust, which was' received on the • 22d. then as
to the " Circumstances," alluded to by Lord Lau-
derdale, which permitted, his Majesty to treat sepa-
rately, the principal one, he believed, to be the
fad of a Treaty having been conclUded by D'Oubril,
pn the 20th of July, after which there could be no
pbligation to refuse to treat -separately any longer,
as whatever confidence his Majesty's Government
might have in the ltussian Government, they could
have no moral certainty that this Treaty 'would not
be rafifird. The next question Trelated to the letter
of Mr. Windham, of the 10th of September, where
mention- is made of the correspondeficeat the Of-

Tice, containing the masons for desiiting from the
claim on Naples. As to this, all that was thought
'necessary 11 repett to it had been given in alp

Papers,. He hoped the • Haase therefore would not
insist upon inure, as it was material to'conceai what
was • confidential with a view tci any. future Negotia-
tion. The Learned Gentleman then asked, 'what
were t tmns Avon which Baron De Budberg had
insisted' —.l,Vtiatever Paper had been sent to this

Country. and to the -French covernment by Russia,
Ministers would not be justified in exposing it. But
the thing was not material, for thelertns might be,.
in a grnat measure, colleaed from what appeared on
the tate of the Papers. .The principal points on
which the Negotiation had broken. off were two—,
the s.:cu ring c)f Sicily to hiS Sicilian Majesty, and the
evacqzttioil 4)1 I)almatia by the French. These were

the point; chk4ly insisted upon by Rnssia—that he
had no ithjettion • to state..i LAftkr what he had said
‘upposed the Learned Gentleman would not
any causr forspressing for the produdißn'of the Ein4'-
sian Pam. This m4s nil that theAnatiatz :teemed
to c. 41 fax. •

before the. King that part of the private letter
,which related to Peace, and the basis on which it
might be discussed ; and he, would not have done
his duty if he had withheld any part that related
to that subje&.

Me. PARC.WaiL observed, that if a confiden-
tial Communication had been made to this Country
by Russia nobody would have .thought of calling
forit—but when this was made the subjett of a
conesamication to France, relating to this,Negotia-
tion, it then became a different matter. However,
be Would not press this point, as he was satisfied
respe&iug the terms of Baron De Budberg from the
Papers, and what had been now said by his Lord.
slap. As to the observations on Lord Ladderdale's
allusion to certain circumstances that permitted his
Majesty to treat separately, it would appear by a
careful examination that these expressions could
not refer to the Russian Treaty only, but to
some other circumstances. But he must still per-
sist in -making a distill& Motion on the subje&
of the Extra& of the Letter to Mr. Fox. He
would state the grounds now, rather. than give
a previous notice, if that should be agreeable- to
his Lordship and the House.—[Lord Howick here,
by a gesture, gave him notice that he wished him to
'proceed.) The House then would perceive 'that
issue had been joined by the two Governments on
the truth of a fa& ; and though there might be some
difference as to the force of evidence, yet there could
bd•no difference as to -thiS—that if •Miuisters had
made his Majesty assert in his Declaration what was
not proved, they were highly censurable. The
letter, or. rather the •extraa, was this--[Here he road
it]. This certainly was an overtire on the part of
France, as it contained an extract from Bonaparte's
speech to his Senate, where 1i expiesscd his readi-
ness to conclude a Peace oir the basis of the Treaty
of Amiens. Now, if the words " You know upon
what basis," Ike. referred only to the• extriea from
the speech, then the besis proposed by the French
wtts not that of the uti possidetis, bet that of the
Treaty of Amieus -. therefore he \v fished to have the
remainder of the letter, ,in order to see s‘ Nether
these words could refer to any thing else. But there
was another ground on which the House had a right
toexpect this letter to be produced. The House
ought not to pass it over without the greatest jea-
lousy, that private communications should take
place between the Ministers of two Powers actually
at war, where it should appear necessary for ou of
them to apologize to the other for laying a part of
his letter befre' his Sovereign. Yet here there was
an apology by Mr: Net Falleyrand for commu-
nicating that part of his letter that related to Peacd
to his Majesty. And though all this passed while the
war was • raging, we were told that the letter was
not to be communicated to the House of Com.
mons. That certainly was matter of jealou4y,
and-was one 'principal -cause why he thought it
necessary to make a distindt Motion for the pro-
duetion of the whole letter. This, he believed,.
must be done in the shape of au Address to his
Majesty.
The Motion was then made, and seconded by Mr.
CANNING.
Lord HO WICK did not know whether an Ad-
dress was the mode to come at a private letter which
was not matter of record. Yet if the letter ,tvie
the, possession of any body, and the House insisted
upon it, it was the'duty of Ministers to produce it.
But ,without dwelling on a matter of form, he woulst,.
proceed to examine the grounds of the Motion. He
perfeetly subscribed to the sentiment,. that if Mini-
eters, made his Majesty assert what was not true,
they were highly censurable.—The Learned Geutle-
Man scuttled to suppose that this-letter would prove IT aepeare that Beeerenez is seriously deter-
whether this was the case or not. Ministers were - •
into execution his Plan of Preventing
certainly responsible fir what they made his Ma-
mined to carry
jesty say ; but he had no hesitation in declaring, any Intercourse whatever between Great Britain and
that the rest of the letter did nut in the slightest de- all the Countries under his Dominion. On the 15th
grce refer:to the terms of Peace. He cotld not po.
the new Kin.- of Holland published a Decree
sitively say that Gentlemen could not by any inge. ' '
nuity torture some expressions of civility' hao an al. which appears to us expressly calculated to destroy"
lusion of this sort, but it certainly 'had' no direst re- • the small remains of the Deitch Trade, altiletagh-_
fereace to the subject, any farther than whet ap- • is nonelually dire&ed against this Country. By
peared in the extra& before the HOuse. But the !-- •
this, extraordinary Proclamation, no Vessel is to be
Learned Gentleman had gone farther; for he had said,
that the House ought to view with extremejealousy a permitted to sail from, a Dutch Port until certain
private correspondence between tlesMinistere of two eccurity is given that the cargo is not to be unladen
countries at war. He did not know what the Learned •
Gentleman meant to insinuate. If private letters in any of the Enemy's Ports; and every Ship, that
passed between two persons who had: lived in enters a Dutch Port is to be detained until released
habits of intimacy, and perhaps of ,souel':degree by a special authority, signed by King Los himself.
of friendship, in which there might be ' statements
of some private matters made in confidence .to each
If these regulations should be strietly carried into exe-
other which related to themselves only, he '"did not cution, as they most probably, will, the Trade of Hol-
know that the one ought to take advammteed of the • • land must be aneillihned, because it is absurd ta'supe
other, by exposing what was communicated, in con-, ee
pese that any A.tutql Ship would venture to put ipto•a
fidence, to general view. He had stated -; that the
rest of the letter contained nothing that coeld throw I.l•atch 1,),,,t with the certainty of being immediately
additional light on time subje& of the NeOiation, • seized and detained, until an Order can be obtained,
and the House would judge as to the propriety- of te, bv. K., ~ • . . .
Louis inmeelt, for its release.. The
producing it. He was persuaded, • however, that , -14
the House, and the Country, and all Europe would fees for: obteining such an Order of ReleaSeewoulds
be satisfied that whatever privete letters- Mr: Fox probebly be eere, hieh—hesides, the vemitiotii'des,
might write, there would not be an exptssion iii
them
IJyN which tkus SyStWil must create would of them-
that could compremise the heeser, of this : • • • •
Comery. As to Lord Lauderdale's expressioes, they sel"ee be autlicient to deter all strangers from carry-
did seem to refer to sonic other circulnstances ing on any mercantile intercourse with a Country.
than What he had already stated ; but he believed • ,•
t
. , w Jere SIX irestrietens prevail,
that it was nwing.to some little inaccuracies on the
part of his Lordship. The object .ieiee the The Papers which have been received contain the
ben* of a joint Negotiation in enbetance,leaving the Thirty-fifth Bulletin of the French Army, which
form to France.
confirms the intelligence which we had before re
-
• /1(r. CiiNNING said, that the Noble Lord seem. •
ceived, of the'rejeCtion of the Armistice by the KING
seem-
ed to suppose that the question. Was as to the first
overture. But the teal point was, whether the of PRUSSIA, and the reason assigned for it is, that.
basis of the uti possidetisi had been cooeeded by part of His Prussian Majesty's Dominions being now
France, as was stated in the Declaration. From the
• oceupied by the Russians, he had npt the pOWee
Extract it appeared that the basis propoSed by France
was-not that of the ua posadeas, but that of the of carrying the proposed stipulations into; effect.
Treaty of Amiens., The French had shifted on Fresh rumours continue to be circulated of battle*
other points, but they had uniformly persisted in havine been fought between the Auseiane and the
denying diet They had agreed to the hese, of the .uti • m
poseidetze. On this paint, therefore, depended the }`retch, but they are entitled to no. credit.
faith of the two Goveenments. The House, there- Yesterday a Vessel, theLatona, of Shields, ar-
fore, would see, the necessity of puttiuge that fad on
its proper footing. It was trived Fiverfrom Dantzic ; the Captain. states,
ime we st materialpeen
of all, and in comparison with it every ether Wee. ins-
that oe:l4e:eels were within fifteen mileS of that
significant.
.
City when he left it; The Prussien Garrison con-
-4.ord 1-1041 CK said, that this point wOutd he• •
,sistecl of ii,ooo. Men, under the command of Gene-
discussed on Monday, Whet, he would Ale* from • •
ral AIAN From all the information we have
the Papers, taking them altogether, that the basis.of
aduel possession was originally pro :l by Fretless, beet able to coned respecting the state of Dant-
**. SLIZRIDAAr saki, that he wessurpeised that zic, it 'is not capable, notwithstanding its nu-
the .
whole letter should 'tee called fbr, when it-was ,
, meroue &meson, of rnakine •any very r>
known known that it would be a heinous offence in st.iso
nisters tettiithhold any thing that related to the Ne- sis:Lu'ce- If it is not, it ie strange that the- Pros-
gotiation. If there had been thing else in this' shies ehould uselessly saerifice .so large a portibti.itf,
letter that referred to this,wr.:!) ;3:
""id course have. • the renanant of their Aemy, for if the French haee
been produced. If, the 'Learned Gentleman had
looked a little farther, he. Would . heee seen -. that -•.g°t•Nsses'i°3 of the E4tern Ballk of this
•
"selk.' 'Fog, in his • answer', said, 'that he tad laid, ' the Gertisoe MM.* cseat*
•••••'• • ' • • e • •

Mr. PERCH/AL said, that, the only 'absurdity
to . which the Right Honourable Gentleman
_had
brought him way this, that he had suppOSed it
possible for Ministers to have done what was wrong.
He was willing to give him the full effe& of that
argument, and leave the matter with the House.—
He was. not more accurate with regard to the Ta-
pers. What he (Mr. Percival) wished to know
.was, whether there was any reference to a basis dif-
ferent from that which appeared In the Extra6l.?
But as the Noble Lord had declared that there was
nothing in the rest of the letter that at all related to
the subje&, he would not press his Motion.

Lord YARMOUTH observed, that as the Learned
Gentleman had asked, whether any communica-
tibn had been made to-him on the subject of peace
previous to his conversation with Talleyrand before
he left Paris, he wished to give an explicit answer
to theluestion. There had been no previous com-
munication. The faa was, 'he believed, that Mr.
Fox had earnestly desired that he should be set at
liberty.- Being arrived at Paris, it was, 'probably
.thought that as he might be in habits of friendship
with Mr. Fox lie would be the most proper bearer
of a Communication of this nature. He did bear it,
aed actual possession was the basis—Of this he was
the more certain because Talleyrand had rejected th 6
basis of the Treaty of A.uiiens, as it might be the
cause of quarrels, and did not approve of the status quo,
ante bellum for the same reason. He bad moreover
said, that as there might be disputes about the basis
of tit/ passidetis simply stated, hp would send some
explaeation of it, Which he would take care should
arrive about the time that he (Lord Yzirmouth) ar-'
rived. This' fhrmal communication aelually did
arrive on the very day that be arrived. The French..
afterwards shifted the ground,. from a jealousy that
we wished not to take the uli possidetis as the bads,
but to Make the basis itself the. Treaty, Ho iii tipt
know whether he was understood— (.-‘,/
14a0. . . „, •

,
After a few words from Mr. PERCTtiAL and'Lord
YARMOUTII in explanation, the Motion watt with
drawn.

The Report of the Committee of Supply was
I.)rought up, and the Resolutions agreed-to. •
On the Motion of Lord TEMPLE, the House went
into a Committee on the Leather 2-1.6 t : • he proposed
that so much of it as related to the I,legrating of Oak
Bark should be repealed. This eras agreed
The House resumed, and leayp was given to bring
in a Bill tbr the above purpose.-,-Adjourned..

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LONDON,

1!4 ED:`,/jI;SDAI, DEOEMBER al, 1806.

of Commons, respecting the Papers which hare been
A conversation teok place lAA night in the H6143:-.:
laid before Parliament relative to the late Negotia-
tion. The Answers given by' Lord liewrcic to the
different Questions proposed by Mr. PERCIVAL were
.sosati.sfaelory, that that Gentleman did not think
prepeeto submit auy Motion to the House, except
'uport 'one point. viz. for the: prOduatiOn of the
whole of the Letter marked No. 3, from M. TAU.'
LEYRAND to Mr. Fox, dated March 5, an Extra} of
it only having been given in the Papers laid before
Parliament. Lord Howity., in reply, stated, that
every part of that Letter which had any reference to
the Negotiation was already before the-House ; the
remainder had no connexion whatever with that
subject, and therefore it Ivas not deemed necessary
to publish it. Mr. PERCIVAL, upon this- declaration,
withdrew his
,MotiOn: In answer to one of the
questions proposed by Mr. PERCIFAL) viz, whether
any :Communication had passed between His Ma-
jesty's Ministers and Lord YARNIOUTIrj* before
that Noble Lord left Paris. the first time, Lord YAR-
MOUTH stated, that no communiPation had taken
place, and added; that the reason why M. TALLEY^
RAND had seleded Idm to be the bearer of the com-
munication from the French to the British
.Govern-
merit, was, that in the previous ail-respondence
which had passed bet Ween Mr. Fox and M. TAP.
LtvrtAzrn,-the former Gentleman had strongly so-
licited the liberation, of his Lordship. It was pro-
bable, theretbre, 'that M. TALLETRAXD conceived
him to be in Mr. Fox's confidence.

Ot( Readers will find, in our subsequent Co-
lumns,.a very interesting account of the Revolution
-MIMI- has taken place. in St. Domingo, and of the
,
;;Death of DES4'AI,DIES, The Proclamation of Gen.
c.:l-11t;ST9.PHE, the Successor of DESSALINES, respe6l-
- the Con-Amerce between 'St. Domingo and Neu-
Aral Nations, is worthy of the attotion of our Com-
mercial Readers. • •

A Gentleman who was made
,prisoner on board a
Quebec Slip, •and carried into France; is arrived io
London from Mot.laix, from whence he made his
..escape. He affirms, that prior to 'his coming, away,
..liesead.the French Papers tet the inclusive, and
:.1..:pc0 that date they had not annouhced any engage-
:•thezw-,hetween the Russians and French ; but they
meta but the probability of a great battle soon taking
place, , the armiess~ being so situated with respeet to
:each other as to render an anion unavoidable.:
The letters from Altona mention, thit an exten-
sive and alarming dysentery, the consequence of
forced marches, bad and scanty provisions., and con-
stant exposure to. almost continual rains, prevails
among the French troops in Poland'. it is computed
that aiifth (some Recounts say one-fourth} of the
nutty has been attacked in this way, and that tile
h6spitals at Reilin, Custrin, Stettin, and other places,
are scarcely 4ut*ient to contain the vast numbers of
sick.

Our Squadron off Rochefoit has suffered from the
late dreadful gales ; the Dragon was nearly log ; a
providential current of wind caught her courses
when she was within five minutes sail of the rocks;
the-FO udroyant halal! her head knees loosened, and
the Kent
,ako suft:ered the severity of the gale.
The kfitisbro', LUNDY, frOm 'Aieviss., is arrived
.at Liverpool:' she sailed from Worthia on the igth of
~,Novemher, with a Fleet under convoy, of His Ma,
jesty's Ships A10;44 and 4,a..s:eirizize, and parted from
them on the incl. •

On the 29.6. itist. died. at Goodwood, in, Sussex,.
his Grace CgARLES Duke of RICHMOND and LEN-
NOX, K. q. &c. sm. &c. His, Grace is succeeded
in his titles and estate by his nephew tiieuteuant,.
General 61,1AL4 LENNOX,
Lord CALEDON arrived in town yesterday, to be
present at the next examination of his butler.
Mrs. BlLLiNzuwo,w,. it is said, has determined tct
enter into nonmusical engagenients for the present
Reason, having realized a •tortupe which pices, her
libbve the necessity of 'patronae and the caprice of