The Sun.
London, England, 1813-04-03 00:00:00

it to justify any intert!:.•reace on, the part of Ga.
vernment. It would have been 'discreditable to
them to have fettered the,will of the head of that
imiOrtunate fancily to -whom we had afforded an
asylum, if .it, would not have appeased like eon-
verting that asylum into a prison.. If the Hon.
Gentleman thought Ministers were parties to that
, .
paper, chin any waytted up to any particular line of
conduct, he begged distinctly to state that this vas
not the fad' He Would assure the Hon. Gentle-
man, that they were as free to pursue any line vf
conduct which .night be called for by the interests
of this country, as ever,",they had been at any, •
former period.. He admitted that before the Fro-
clamation appeared, he knew that such a 'paper
vas to come out, but any knowledge of it, as to
approving of it, or being in any way a party to
it, he denied.
Mr. STEPHEN obser"vid, the Hon. Gentleman
(Mr. Whithread) had represented the Noble; Leird
(Lord L. Gower) to have said this was a proper
time for attempting to negociate a peace, and stated
hithself in that to agree with the Noble Lord.---•
He had gone 'l,vitlt the Noble Lord in 'all he had
said, which he could not have done had.he made '
such a statement. He understood the Noble Lnrd
' to have said that circumstances kistified sanguine
hopes, and in this he cordially agreed, but be did
not understand him to have said the present Was a
faVourable opportunity for negotiating. a 'peace,
Though he applauded the conduct of Government
with respect to the Proelaniation, he hesitated not
to say of that paper, that as the act of the rightful
heir to the,Throne of France, from his sAnil, and
with all his heart and judgment, he bighiyapprov-
ed of it. ' if a 'declaration sti wise, so moderate., so
benignant, could find its wayto the eyes and ears
of the French; it would he likely to produce the
wished for effect, and tend to overthrow that mi-
litary tyranny which was established in France, and
. as fatal to' that country as inconsistent with the
repose ofEurope, •
Lord L. Gowen said, the Hon. Gent. (Mr. W.)
had understood 'hint rightly, and bad not balite-
, presented him.
Mr. WHITBREAD was not sorry the Honourable
and Learned Gentleman (Mr. Stephen) had mis-
understood him (Mr. Wnithread) ; 'as,, bur for
such misunderstanding, he ' (Mr. S.) must haft'
concurred with him. —(4 laugh.)--,lJe had uot
commented on the Proclamation as being the ac,‘
of Louis XVIII. but be was glad to hear it ibis= ,
avowed by Governmeni. '
The
.Petition was then ordered to lie on the
tablC. ',
Mr. WHITBREAD presented petitions on' the
same subject. from Melbourne, Greenock,' Mat-
loCk, Derby, and several other places. . Vie pe,;
titions 'wet e ordeted to. lie on the table.
Copies :of extracts from ~treatieS Conelwitled by
the East-India Company with the native-powers
i with. other, papers relative to the conduct of Ett;.
1.
the East India Com-
ropeans, not the servants of
pany, towards the natives, &c. &c. wire ordered'
: ! to' be laid before the House., , . .

Several papers reintive to the appropriatfion of
monies arising frnm the First Fruits in Ireland,
within the last year, were ordered to be laid be=
fore the House.