The Sun.
London, England, 1815-04-13 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

14011 SE OP LORDS, WEDNESDAY, APItIL 12.
After a short previous sitting, in which some routine busi-
ness was transacted, the House adjourned for some time dur-
ing. pleasure, and resumed again about five ;)'clock. •
The Irish Tobacco Custom Duties, the Irish Tobacco Ex-
sciss, the Poor House Bill, and a few othef Bilk; were brought
riv from the Com Mons by Mr. Brogden, and other Members,
an,l read a first time. - •
Tii,,st• upon the table were fniwarded in their respective
'stages.

7 , certain ten, ~ t.
ile Earl of ABERDEEN presented a Petition from Aber-
there was never yet a General so adored by those
deeielore, against certain provisions in the Scots Juries BM,
which, after a short conversation, was ordered to lie on the he commanded, and he believed it might be said,
table iist lie Petition of the-Subscribers.
1 there never was a Prince more loved or admired
Earl GREY expressed his intention to postpone the motion by the people of the South of France than was
for theproduction of certain Papers, of which lie had given '
noti cloy this evening, until to-morrow. The original no- that illustriouS character at the time. With Such
ti was occordingly rescinaed. immense advantages in their hands, what could
t.e.
Some further discussion took place respecting the course of induce them to agree for a moment to concur-in
GraeaadinF with regard to the Helston Election Bill.—Lord
RENVILLE and the LORD CHANCELLOR were the prin- such an arrangement, for the performance of
eipal speakers, and one or two persons were questioned at , which, on the one side, there was nothing but
the Bar; respecting the case of the witnesses to be examined the 'security of the aerson, y
whom the held out
in support of the petitions, their expenses, &c. The result '
of the whole was, that the discussion was ordered to be re- as utterly faithless and 'unworthy of trust. With
?sewed to-morrow.
respect to the stipulations 'for the provision
ESCAPE OF BUONAPARTE. for Buonaparte, as great a want of wisdom, po-
The Order upon which their LOrdshiPs were
licy, or foresight, was apparent, There seemed
-
summoned being read; moch of sufficient clearness with respect to those
parts of the. arrangement. He referred to the
The Marquis IVELLEsLEY rose.—The subject .
ps provision made with respect to the • Crown
to which he was about to call their Lordships p
; which in the original Treaty he described
most serious attention, was one, he said, in all its
to have been- a 'provision, that alt the Crown
various points and hearings, - not only: of the
jewels should remain the propeetv of France, in.
greatest, but of peculiar importance. Not ...I y
.te neaug cofisineren 4:,, .0..
as they would have to consider the high, the corn- • "ntraffistnic"
''''
of the French Mooarch. But bow Was .this trans-
mantling, the glorious situation in which this coon- ,
late-I in the official documents ) " All the Crown
.
try stood,• on the, one hand ; but the case of the 1; '
moods shall remain in France." But in -the
person, who with a view to the security, the trap- (3
course of events, he regarded it not as impossible
qtiillity; and- the independence of •Europe, it was
that there may be charges introduced into Certain
above all this the most essential to keep excluded
acconnts, fur a new Crown and Sceptre for Boo-
from power, on the other. When they recollected
naparte .—(A laugh.) That part of the. Treaty
who and what that person was, whose. fate and
fort, which conferred a large pecuniary allowance on
nos they would ;owe that night 'so promi- .
- Bnonaparte was most improvident, and it included
neatly to consider--who was so long the scourge,
brat three other
, not only himself individoally, b
the terror, and the desolator ot Europe, a charac-
classes of individuals were also nrovided for•iu the
ter of peculiar interest and importance'was noses- . 1
same way, viz. his faonly, a number of military
sarily' imparted to the discussion. Whatever side of
followers to •be gratified, 'and . the' d.ebll Of his
the Haase it was his lot to be placed in, it was his
household- to be paid. The-monstroos ebstirdity
uniform and decided opinion-, that theextraordinary
of these propositions spoke for themselv;s. The-
person to whom .he adverted, was not only the
danger to all the Powers from
,such -an arrtinge-
main, but -almost the sole spring of action to his
men[ was more or less apparent, but more'parti-
own system, and more so than any other person
elderly the danger arose from whatever might
ever recorded in the • history of the world ; but
more especially in the cause of the French Revo-. I tend to enable
.11im to regain the power of the
holm'. But although that person wa s thus power- Crown of France. Its • other points of view,
he deemed the Treaty and arrangements ten-
nevertheless, as the prime moverof his own
,system, he was,
surable. That very part of the Treaty Which
nevertheless, the most likely of all persons to
lie had i
kips
country ought more particularly - 'fo have
endanger and
,destroy the very sySrem,
ttpt aloof from, was' that to. [.!licit the seal
i
reared and brought to some maturity. With '
o England was affixed.. ile alluded again the
these •attributei he must. necessarily be still re- England
of Elba in independent sovereignty, as high-
garded as the fittest person .to effectuate the re-
ly muipolitic and hazardous, particularly When it
viva) am) resurrection of that very system on a
g led by Noble Lords themselves as a
future day, 'should an opportunity for action pre7
pisl'a'cseree'liairder the treaty) in which Imo .- never could
sent it-ef. 11'4h-this general principle in view it
be watched-on shore or-at sea, guarded by naval
was that he entered upon this discussion. .•Such . police, and certainly the article which conferred
an opinion was not only entertained by
.biroself, .
so dangerous a sovereignty upon him, where the
hat emphatically by the Noble Lords opposite.
difficulties of preventing an escape were avowedly
They all sheave(!, that they considered the person
iso great, ought never to-have been sanctioned by
n- question, not only as the main, but almost the the Seal of England. The st ate of parties hi
sole spring of those extensive and complicated
France too, was a consideration of importance.
mischiefs the Continent had to deplore. And
Of these -the military was one of the most pro-
peated such, he walold distinctly state, must, from re- :
rainent and efficacious ; and the point, of how
tar diems -nngnE nave -peen desirous of haviu“-
the ease, thetefOre, the first consideration motif!
tlecisinv,o- of tire—tiov.nc-, 13,----14:,..---,,,evelf
opinion of their
.Lordships. In such a vicar of their former Cli:el again at thit head, tram
be,worthy of consideration. Recurring again to
be, the. measures that', were adopted to provide
against the recurrence of 'those mischiefs that ' the. point Of the egress of Boonaparte from Elba,
Ime thought the orgument of the Noble Lord, on
i(; o long disturbed the repose of Europe,
and the general tranquillity oaf the world.—
Naarfi7e'llyie, I.lle li
[!!tint, a most extraoediaary one.-:--
great naval r fliculties of.retaining
Miserable, indeed, must be the situation to Which
sue- him' in the island, to whic
ngland inadeqh be deemed the whole
we were reduced, and dangerous must be 'the'si-
fleet -of Eoatee—that Was a most
tuation of. those governed by men, who, baying
extraordinary reason why tro effort at all, not
tonte guide time affairs of the country, were unable to
even the slightest should be made- for preventing
contemplate the utmost extent of their OW II the escape. Tlie greatness of theediffiCtiltY 31Mitid
,CeSS, bad Made no 'provision to meet its resultse.--
have been a spur to commensurate exertions.—
On their, own principles , they shOuld 'have -con- Not evert a frigate had been regularly empluyea
sidered it as probable, they should have taken there, but the whole,
"it seemed, was left to the
care, in the last glorious motnents, to secure the
effect Of an -understanding bet Ween two•persons,
ultimate object of all their plans and exertions.—
and which understanding in effect appeared to
But in these very moments did it appear ehey were. anti
been misunderstood. The Noble- Marquis,
destitute of plan; and management 'or system of
after again briefly, but eloquentlyetmforcing some
any kind to secure the fruit of these stupendous of, his leadiug points, moved,
efforts made by the country. tie now wished to . . .
Re:reflthathuamnbh:sumble. Address be presented to the Prince
lead their Lordship to the consideration of an-
Copieshisto)o,V Horiir!xinteralttshoattaittifnrsetrutiay
-he laid before th'ePiirZs7,
other point of the discussioamely, to a short
tions which may have been issued by his Majesty's Govern--
view of the arrangemeuts of the Treaty of Paris•
ttettetodettheentNizaol&( onnander in the Mediterranean, relative
In this he had first to obierve a very extraordinary
circumstance, Particularly with reference to the And also, Copies. ExtractsP°le()"fliioumo igranp acrt„eniiirni
itl.lii, ti:,l,,stlieml of Ell ha ,
subsequent Treaty'of Pontainblean. :On the en- may have been 'm ate, respecting the designs:cof Napoleon
t:
traoce, of the Allies into Paris, theY'-issised a d Bluonaparte to escape from the Isle of Elba to7ether with a
I atement of tho steps, if apy, taken by his M'ajes'ty's Govern-
clat'ation, that they could not treat With the peer-- meat, in consequence of the same?'
Lord Luvaitroot. said, 'the Noble Marquis had,
son then at the head of the French Governuse t
for • peace. In all that they had :heard froth in all his.speech,- talked as it' he knew notating
the treaty between Buonaparte ant' the Allgie(s),l.
the Noble Lord, the
,same
,(10eutersitnieonwas in_
vF:t• 'Europe, Whether
~ wast . a thought, it was known all culcated, that the, person
the Noble Alaruoit tilled it the wisest arid hest
man destitute of faith ; that q•
no.- obli'
-Treaty that could have been made or not, it
could bind him ; and yet it was most extrtaori,olit-1
teas,
nary, that when they came to the point, which
the Treaty actually existing,and as such should he
.
involved the only security ais:,ainst time revival of abided by. The actually
t question then for considera-
tion was,- what was time situation of the Allies
hire, his power, that the only security they took of
~the Treaty took
him, was his' own (Buonaparte's), What,when
to takeplace, and whether they
no other-sect'.,
other-security from the man who was destitute vele so situated as that they could consider they
with Bnonaparte as a-pri-Sffne-r-T Ur)
of faith ! from the 'man whose faith would -not be- -were treating ~ -
this he conceived the enti • question turned.
trustee( the treaty concluded for peace ! Such
advantages which it may bele imagined could be '('lie
was the failure, esuch the inconsistency w *th
_Wined must be compared with the risks to be run
ob-
spect to this.great and eventful crisis. -Butt of IT.'
and with what
critical situation of Buonaparte at that 'time atilt obtained. Buonaparte was
not quite abandoned,aswas not quite forlorn
of the general condition of France, he musti rl
peat, that a very different statement
_was made toe
utterly desperate during I
and
rtht r
oyf the negotiation
atfsi(engacoetct
attached
acutiliitetti
him by those who had actoal knowledge of the of the treaty. He had a s eirctonStance. . And on this part of the hinif.. The entire of
to him, Isis-garrisons•held all the fortified places
fluent, he was ready- to meet the Noble Lordargatititi
hoped
be would .discusa it with- !lire. po.in't by , in France, inFlanders, in
lie
Holland, and ire tire_
point, s;:dile would contend, that with reference many- A false move on the part of the Mae's,
circumstances, may have (testi. yed
to time great crisis, they were wti)t,h,on.igitatfoarlelsyiediimL,'
aullild tehreythl'Zl to that time obtained. On the a°r-rny
',-without providence,. without lo I-'
pe'rhaps not the most
°f
Italy,
,vlijclit'nethmouOgstkperfect of' arleliilaiiislcaeminmielst.
tinct issue of either good or ill-success. . The ' e in-
judicious movements :had( b} Bnonaparte at time
at the tinte, he could
elcit place implicit
numerous was i
time, brought him to his -disastrous -sioettion of
-and mtslitla(ll(t.cress
utclimie Aciirlieusgishraacil)
Foritaiablean. fie must d,...ny' twat he was as de- was under such
scribed iii the otlici,:d Opers. 'W- could, if ne- treat with him,.
they agreed to those in which•
cessary, Ming el idencelo the bar of the [louse
the only possibleeet.os
justifiable terms,
. consisted
to prOve the rontrary, persons who were in those
the present occasion. e ''('Lord Liver
grouuds of blame on
not pretend to such ' ' absolutely
'd'ivd'
armies at the time, and "who knew hint not to '
have been in a situation to pnipose conditions. -
theto deaCkil(4lieeswhtoethhearveit pursuedsyotti l h atzeir been
st,c tsstits)e,hll.•
at f(nclm:ri
j intuitive wisdom as
such an agree-
The risk of refttsing to accede to
ment, would not, ' ellecially- as the event has
, .
since proved, have heels' near so -greit, as the r pushed it to the utmost at the time,
, Or to have
imminent risks iocurred by coarbiding a treaty I done what they did. 1-Ia 'of
was rataer pinion,o
1 even 'now, that
of such a description. There had been in 'hison the entire, and weighingII •
a Cir..
:WI •
nictitate neighbourhocd•a-force of 00 less than 1 cumstances,, they had acted rob` ott
• If any 0 great
reverses, if any 'ini,rhty
public calamity b d "11'
a ap.