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HOUSE OF PEERS,
. fiRIDAYi FEB. 17.
The different Bills before the House were for-
warded in their respetlive stages.
ORDERS IN COUNCIL.
Lord GrtliN;VlLllli_i-oSe to make his promised nio-
tioti. It would, be said, be in their Lordships re-
colleaion, that in consequence of the sentiments felt
and expressed by every class of Merchants and Ma-
nufaaurers in this kingdom, lie had ou a former oc-
casion, distinCtly and fully stated his opinions and
his arguments upon the question, which this night
his duty called upon him again to bring before
their Lordships' a question involving not merely
the commercial and financial interests; but the
political and moral justice, nay, in its 411timete
etfeets, the safety, perhaps the exigrettetv of the
Empire. It would likewise, he said, be in the
recollection. of their' Lordships, that when upon
a farmer occasion he addressed them on this sub-
je&, he was induced by a motive of fairness and
candour towards his Majesty's Ministers, and for the
sake of obtaining more correct information on some
essential points 'than at that time appeared before
the House, he meant the propositions made by the
American Government to the King's Ministry re-
speaing the Orders in Council and the Embargo;
and here his Lordship said, lie felt it incumbent on
him to make atonement for some expressions which
on that occasion had fallen from him in consequence
of a misrepresentation which had.been made whim
Of the Speech delivered by the Presideut to the Ante-
rican Congress. The Noble Lords on the opposite
side would do him the justice to remember, that,
under the impression of the statement made. by the
Noble Secretary of State, of the drift and sub-
stance of that speech, his Lordship had frankly and
implicitly acquiesced 'in the unfairness then ascribed
to Mn. Jefferson, and in his partiality to France..
His Lordship had since been able to ascertain, with
more correctness, the truth of those expressionsut-
tered by the President, by which not only himself,
but in.my other Noble Lords, had. been. misled.
From the .authentic and printed documents upon
their Lordships' table, to which lie should pre-
sently resort, he would make it manifest to every
Noble Lord who heard him,- that, solar from un-
fairness, or partiality exhibited on . the part atkioe.
rica against this Country, and in favour of France,
nothing could possibly be more fair or impartial,
except, indeed, what his Lordship maintained was
truly the case, a partiality,. and. a very important
one, in favour of this Country. The propositions
sent by the American Government to that of this
Country were said to be so framed as to threaten hos.
tility and a junction with France, in case of our refu-
sal to meet their offered suspension of Embargo, by
cancelling the Orders in Council, while their proposal
to France required no other equivalent than the with-
drawing of their commercial restrictions. Now the
Papers before their Lordships will show, beyond the
shadow of any doubt, that the t9rmi advanced by
America to France, and this Gofernment, were not
only in their see's° and spirit, but
.in their very
terms of expression precisely and literally the same.
Here his Lordship read the instructions sent by
the American Government to .Mr. Armstrong in
Paris, and to Mr. Pinckney in London, where-
"by it appeared that the proposal to this Government,
• was that; on the part of America, the Embargo
should be superseded, provided we would rescind the
Orders in Council ; and this being agreed upon, it
was added, that should France refuse to cancel her
Decrees, she must necessarily draw upon herself the
hostility of America. .The same proposition, and
in She saute terms, was wade to the Government of
France so that here was a fair opportunity of
not only conciliating the American States, bud
restoring the good understanding, . and the solid
advantages resulting to both Countries from it,
but a strong probability was afforded of a cor-
dial and itaiVe co-operation, by a powerful Ally,
in prosecuting, war against the common enemy.—
, His Lordship reprobated, in very strong terms,
tlo cendna of Alinisters, which appeared to have
been suggested by no motive of wisdom, justice,
or policy, but to grow out of a principle of petty
and despicable .pride. Buonaparte 'had boasted,
or threatened, that he would leave us without a sin-
gle Ally, and Alinitters appeared desirous, by the.
display of a silly, romantic, and ruinous spirit, to
meet him on the ground be had chosen. They re-
minded him of tt certain person, of whom be had
somewhere read, that, having received a severe
wound, was, by the orders of his friends, prevented
from receiving any kind of medical or surgical aid,
until it ihould he fairly tried whether the wound of
itself was really mortal or not. From the Papers
-,oh the table, he deduced a deplorable falling-Off in
the amount of Imports and Exports from and to•the
American States last year. •His %Lordship next ad-
verted to the deplorable condition in which multi-
tudes of industrious maitufaaurers, with their fami-
lies, were placed by the pernicious operation of
these Orders. In rvianchesttr alone forty thous'and
were now unemployed. In Birmingham, Sheffield,
and other great towns of metinfaaure, the propor-
tions of distress were correspondent, The !Mlle was
the case in almost every other part of the empire. In
Ireland especially; in-that country, towards Which a
system of condua, calculated it would seem for the
sole purpose of producing discontent and irritation,
had for a long time been most unwisrly and mate-
conntably adopted 3—the whole of the northern dis-
tri&, that part of the kingdom the.roest industrious,
populous, and prosperous, was reduced to a condi-
tion of unexampled distress. rs bad been customary
for the soil of that part of Ireland to proe.uce antivally
fortystive thousand hogsheads of MAX seed, of which
thirty-fivethousand were constatitly sent to America.
With respea to that most important article core,
'it was well known to their Lordships and to the

world, that this Country Aid not produce a qitantity
of it at all adequate to its own consumption; and now
that we were deprived of all our former sources of
supply from the northern ports of Europe, it be-
came peculiarly necessary to obtain It through Arne-
ries. But if Ministers, as teemed to be their ot.r=
jest, were determined to fcii•cOhat country into war
with us, what might be the consequence, in this.
point of view, it would well become their
,Lordships
seriously to consider. He concluded by moving an
address to his Majesty, stating, " That in cons 6.
quence of certain Decrees issued by the French
Government, operating upon general 'commerce,
and of an Embargo imposed by the Government of
America, his Majesty had been advised to. issue cer4
tain Orders of Council, which had since! by expo- ,
rienee, been found highly injurious to the commer
cial interests of these kingdoms ; this House there
fore entreated his Majesty to revoke those Orders,
and ro take such measures as might best fend to the
renewal of that harmony and good will which it was
the interest of countries to preserve, and to assure
his Majesty that no endeavour sbould be wanting,
on our part, to support him in asserting and ma'pl-
taining to the fullest extent, the ancient, just, and
acknowledged maritime rights of this nation."
Lord Ihanuast began by remarking, that the
whole speech of the Noble Lord tended more to
criminate his Majesty's Ministers than to prove the
insufficiency of their measures. If a system of hos-
tility was to be adopted against the Members of Go-
vernment, why not net openly, and move an Address
to his Majesty to remove his present Ministers. He
expressed a readiness to begin a negotiation with
America, as soon as that country would offer terms
• which it was consonant with the dignity of Great
Britain to accept. It had been stated by the Noble
Mover, that the intentioe of the duties imposed by
the Orders in Council un foreign trade, was to increase
the Public Weveoue of the State. But he declared,
that their chief end was to distress the foe, to deprive
and the nations that groaned beneath his des-
potism, of those
.commodities which they had So
long enjoyed ; 'and by these privations, Which must
be intolerable, to Ipree them to cry aloud far peace,
Tile Noble Lord pointed out, with exultation, the
smallness of the sum resulting from those duties, and
declared that they had not answered their ends. • But
hia exultation was unfounded. It was impossible,
that as soon as the Orders in Council were passed,
the duties should
,be regularly levied. Time must
have elapsed' before their execution could; be en-
forced ; and it was not thereforeastonishing that the
sums which till now they had produced, had not
equalled his Lordship's expeaations. As, to their
ends being fulfilled, he would only refer his Lord-
ship to the Continental Newspapers, which teemed
with complaints of the,darness and deficienc:' of
colonial produas. As to the statements which he
had given, of the' falling off of the exports of th 4
year 1808, ought to be laid to the account of the
American Embargo. It ought nut. The Noble
Lord forgot that in 1807 the ports of Russia, those
of Swedish Pomerania, and even those of Austria
were open to our trade. In 1808 they were all
shut. Some were occupied and defended by French
troops, others closed through the weak pusillanimity
of their possessors. This a'as the real cause of the
'deficiency in our exports during the last year, and .not
merely, if at all, the American. Embargo. The Noble
Lord was much in the wrong if he fancied that our
manufactures had suffered so much, be would find,
on the contrary, that, in the year 1808, there was.
an increase, in the exports odour manuladured
goods, of five hundred thousand pounds. It had
been stated that the Embargo was caused by our
Orders in Council ; with what justice, however,
be would spew, by a reference to their. respec-
, tive dates. He found that the Orders in Council
had been issued the e6th December, 1808, and
the American Embargo was dated the .s.iad of
December, of the same year. So that, in the short
space of three days, intelligence respelling our Or-
ders had been transmitted to the Government of the
United States, they had had time to meet on the
subject, and concert the best measures to punish us
for issuing a Decree so injurious to their trade ?
It was remarkable, that almost alt the articles
mentioned by the Noble Mover as being checked,
in their importation by the Embargo, were so only
by the Non-Importation Aet,.which had been passed
nearly a year after the Orders in Council, and be-
fore the last propositions had been made.' He
then pointed out several large traits of unculti;.
weed ground in' Ireland, Where it would be .
easy to grow ilex, as soon as the seed could be ob-
tained from Lower Canada, which, on account of
the River St. Lawrence being frozen, could not
probably be before June-next. He showed that the
imparts of timber and several other articles' had
increased considerably during the last year. Much
had been.said of the advantages which this Country
Would deriVe from the Embargo being raised withy
respei to England, and'continued with respect to
France. But this was a chimerical measure, the
execution of which was impassible; for as soon as
ships were allowed to leave a port, who could di-
rect their course "towards Great Britain alone,
would not an immense' isumber profit by the op-
portunity, and supply the Continent with all the
commodities of which it had so long stood in
need ? The moment the 'French Decrees were re-
pealed, ours* would, be so too. But his Majesty
purchase the
removal" of
of bnaortgot,o seembyan to
uet of
,yielding,
weakness beneath the dignity of this Country.
His Lordship then made some remarks oh the
propriety or Mr. Canning's letter, which the No--
hie Mover ~had read, declared that, the expliination
which it gave of the intentions& the American Go-
vernment wai an inquisitive mid, in Order to ascer-
tain what they were,,a proof that 'they. had not been
unfolded as plainly as they bad been represented to
have been: . Her couclUded by refusing his assent to
the Motion, as he had heard no reason which, in

Lord' Mmvir.t.v: remarked, that the Noble Mover
and his Frieud who hid last spoken had stated the
question on two widely different groUndsa He un-
derstodd that the first wished his Majesty, after liavr.
lag considered all theparticulars of the case, to open,
if praCticable, a negotiation with America. But the
latter wished to convey to the royal mind a distrutt
Of the persons employed in the Administration: If
the overthrow of Ministers were his objeti, why not
take a more dire& and Manly way of attack. Why
rest satisfied with condemning the aCts-of Govern.
ment, and yet leave that bovernMent tta concha
the opening negociations, in order to incur again
the hostility of the Oppositiou. H'e considered the
conduct of America as a 'branch a the neutral con-
spiracy instigated by Buonaparte againit !tie tom-
coerce of Great Britain. Those who insisted' so
strongly upon neutral ri4hts, Shenk' consider whe-
ther the parties had discharged the duties of neutral.
The LORD CHANCELLOR contended, that no
Peer could vote for the Motion now before' the
House,. wfio was friendly either to the late or the
present Administration. The Order of the 7th of
Jaanary, 1807, made when the Noble Baron (Greri=
villa) was in office, completely sanCtioned the Order
which followed. He•-must oppose. the Motion, as
not tending, in his judgment, to prtiduce a dignified
or effectual
Lord ERSKINE regretted the severe line of cantina
hitherto pursued towards AnieriCa, and regarded the
present as a fit season for conciliation.
Lord Gaimvii.t.e having ,made an able reply, the
House divided, when the nurtibers stead thus i--
Ayes, 70—Noes, t 15--Majority against' the Mo
'ion, 45.

The House adjourned at Three o'Clock.

HOUSE OF COMMOAS.

WEDNESDXY, FEB. 15.

Con the motion of Lord FOLKSTON e, it Was order-
ed, that Capt. Huxley Sanden should be brought up
from Newgate, to attend the Committee on the
conduct of the Duke of York, and that Mrs.
M. A. Clarke should be summoned to attend the
same:

A new Writ was ordered for Stamford, in the
room of General Bertie, who had accepted the.Citil
tern Hundreds.

A message from the Lords announced that their
Lordships had passed Gregson:s Divorce Bill, to
which they desired the concurrence of the House.
Mr. Alderman CONIBE presented a Bill for the
Improvement of Temple Bar, Etc. Read a first
time, and ordeted to btz read a second tittle on Mon-
day. • .
Mr. Foas•rsa gave notice, • that on Monday next
he should move that the House do resolve itself into
a Committee to consider of the Auk of the tJth Geo.
which related to the Bank of Ireland.

• The Irish Militia Bill went through a Committee,
the report Of which was ordered to be received on
Monday.
Mr. O'HAHA obtained leave to bring
.in a 'Bill
for better regulating the Office of Constable in Ire-
land. The Bill was brought in, read a first time,
ordered to be read a second time on Tuesday, and to
be printed.
Sir J. NEMPORT obtained leave to bring in ,a
Bill for tucreetfeetually preventing the. Embezzle-
ment of the Public Money by any Cashier, Clerk,
or other Officer under G'overnment.