The Sun.
London, England, 1807-01-06 00:00:00

NEW WRITS.,

ew Writs were ordered as follow :
For the Borough of I-Lithe, in the rootn of Sir B.
Warren, Bart, who has accepted the Chilterq Hun-
dreds.

For the Borough of Stockbridge,. in.. the room of
kir. Barham. •

For.the Borough of inniskillin, in the room of
11r. Sneyd, who having. been: returned -.for the
County of Cavan and the Borough of Inniskillm, had
Made his eleaion to serve for Cavan._
For the Borough of Dundaik, in the tbony of Mr.
Mudge, who has,accepted the office of Escheater of
Munster.
A Message from the. Lords announced their Lord-
-ships' agreement to the Bill for regulating contro-
verted Eleetions.

The Malt Dew Bill and the Provision Duty Bill
passed through committees, in- which several new
Clauses were introduced.—The Reports were ordered
to be received to-morrow. • -•

In a Cprnmittee of Ways and Means it was re-
solved, on the Motion of Mr: Vansittart, that to-
'Wards raising the Supply the sum-of 1'0,500,0001.
be raised on.loan by Exchequer Bills, for the service
of Great Britain.—The report was ordered to be re-
ceived to-morrow.

On the Motion of Lord Temple,- the second read-
ing of the Oak Bark Bill was postponed "un►il -this
clay se'nnight, and the Bill was ordered to be printed.

TILE NEGOTIATION.

The Order of. the Day for taking into 'considera-
tion the Papers presented to the House by cOnt.;-
'nand of his Majesty, respeEting, the late Negotia-
tion between this Country and France, having been
read, . •

Lord HOIPICK rose—(We shall content our•-
selves with a brief sketch of his Lordship's speech,
as in the greater part of his statements he was anti-
cipated by Lord Grenville On Friday last in the De-
bate in the House of Lords, of which an ample de,:
!ailiwas published in THE SUN.) His Lordship
egan by observing, that the Papers Which had been
laid on the table Must have by this time under-
gone the serious and. deliberate examination of the
,Alembers of the House. It USW 'bectuno his duty to

TUESDAY,

propose that the House, as on similar occasions they
had beemaccustomed- to do, should,' in an humble
Address to his Majesty, express the feelings by
which they were actuated: In rising to perform his
duty, it was impoSsible for hint not to experience
many painful.sensations ; in the first place he felt a
-deep and vast regret at the failure of the efforts which
had been sincerely directed towards the restoration
of Peace; and he alai felt great anxiety and pain
at the difficulties which 'the rapid succession -of
disastrous events had recently thrown in the way of
accomplishment of such a desirable event. ,But
he had also painful-feelings, which' were more peen-
liatly his own ; it was impossible for him not to re-
Oiled the great man who was now no more! whose
hiss was to
.him irreparable as it was by the country
to be lamented ! At this moment he more strongly
felt the severity of the lbss, when he was called upsin
to detail and defend a tratisadiOnlo which that illus-
trious Statesman alone' was equal, and to -which he
felt that. his own powers were insufficient. If any
thing Could support him in the execution of this task,
it was his knowledge of the principles which his re,
vered friend held on this sn'oje6A, to the last moments
of his existence, of the anxiety which he felt to se-
.
cure,, if possible,. the peace and prosperity of the
country. Could he trust that the general concur-
rence of sentiment which prevailed abroad on the
subject of the Negotiation prevailed in that House--
Could he trust to the impression made by the unani-
mous vote of the other Hoese of Parliament on this
occasion, his task would he easy; but he knew well
the severity of criticism which he had to apprehend
from the Hon. Gentlemen opposite, -and the funda-
mental. inference of opinion which existed between,
there on this subject. He would endeavour, how-
ever, by a clear and detailed-statement, to shew that'
Government had neither on the one hand compro-
mised, _in a single instanceS the honour -of the
Crown, by any improper concessions or sacrifices—
norron the other, negleded any means of concluding
such a Peace as would be consistent with the interests
and prosperity of the Country. He was not aware
that it was necessary for him to shew, that at the
commencement of'the Negotiation Peace was desira-
ble. It always was so; Peace was the only legiti-
mate end of honourable War. *The qUestion rather
wag, had the Negosiation been opened at a favour-
able time, and when it could 'be reasonably helped
that equitable ierms of Peace might be. obtain-
ed,? After the failure of the third coalition,
in consequence of the unfortunate battle _of Aus-•
terlitz, it could hardly be denied, that could
Peace have been obtained, on terms not in
themselves dangerous, were it even 'but ' for a
, temporary repose, irwould have been desirable. -If
on such terms desirable, he could not understand on
what principle the terms proposed in the late Nego-
tiation could be obje&ed to. Recurring to- Mr.
Fox's first answer to M. Talleyrand's original letter,
he repeated the passages which 'st.ited the principle
an which Peace could be obtained. Out of that prin-
ciple
grew these conditions: First, that we could not
' treat but in conjundion with the Emperor of Russia.
Secondly, that the Negotiation should be concluded
on the basis 'of actual possession ; because a Ne-
gotiation -to bb honourable must be equal, and to be
equal each party most acknowledge- the other not
to be under the necessity of purchasing Peace by
Iconcession. On the first day of the Session, a Right
. Honourable Gentleman (Mr. Canning) had stated
Chree points, which it appeared to him to be Ise-
. co-ssary that; his 'Majesty's-Ministers should make
The first w ' that out. r,st v6,,.5, te the :overture for Negotia-
tion had- proaeeded' froth the: EneMy i the second,
'ihat. the Negotiation- had been instituted' on the basis
of actual possession ; and the-third, that we bad a6t-
!
ed in concert with our Allies. As to the first over-
turehaVing been received-from the Enemy, that faa ,
I could scarcely be doubted ; for- he did not suppose
I that the Right Hon, Gentleman would recur to the
Ifanciful supposition, that.any pacific proposition. had .
been made prior to'Mr. Fox's letter respecting • the
1 assassination. ' The answer contained pacific semi-
merits ; "1 buf (it might be said) irproposed a dif-
! ferent basis ; 'it proposed the . stipulation of the
Treaty of Amiens."—True--but what was the re-
ply ? That that Ni'As a basis on which there-could -
be-no hope that , the Negotiation could be condua-
'ed to a salutary end, because it was so _undefined
and liable to uispute that 'dile first business of the.
Negotiators must he to determine' what was - the
basis of that Treaty itself. -In his answer, M. Tal-
leyrand gives up that basis
.in etfest and almost 'in
words, 'with an implication, that he is willing to .
treat on the basis of actual possession. fle says that
Fsance desires nothing of England; ,that "the Negri--
tiation ought to" be conclue-ted on the- principle ef-
equality's for,.' as France- was a great Power-on the-
Continent, so Great Britain was a great Power, at sea. -
The fair construction on these expressionsswas, that
the basis of .i6tual possession would be admitted ;
but let it not be-supposed that he meant-to rest the
_ case upon constructive evidences . although. that evi-
dence might fairly- corroborate succeeding offers of a
more dire& nature, 'in consequence of which the
Negotiation commenced. But the letter
,to .which
he had alluded insisted we should treat without ow. ,
Allies. ':This - Mr. '.Fox had at once rejected, deter,
mined not-to separate their interests from those 'of
Great Britain. • In the'answer to the letter in which
this reje6tion was contained, M. Talleyrand made
nse of arg-unients soabsurd, that he would not detain
the House by reviewing them. All \his lengthened
sophicisms vanished before the plain reply of Mr. ,
Fox, in three or four lines. Any person who has
read the last paragraph in Mr. Fox's letter of. the
2'oth of April, must see that he thought the Ne-
gotiation at an end. Up to this period could the
House wish any thing to be altered ? A Learned
Gentleman -had improperly, as he conceived, taunted
the present Administration on the plainness and
simplicity with which they professed to negotiate.
Let him look at Mr. Fox's letters, and be would
there, find a frankness and unequivocal sincerity,