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atter, and habitually complained that his success in
that quarter had gained him no favour in the other.
lie complained for years that he was only a loser by
his disinterested affection to the public, and the
Minister gave him a low and unpopular situation of
SOOL a year, to get rid of his services and his
importunities together. If he had been of
b.se to the Government and to the people
both had a right to complain of him, as much as his
other two clients at Colchester, whom he had served
in the same way and closed his accounts with—by a
strange coincidence—for the same sum, 8001. The
Whigs were again in office. Mr. Harvey's unrivalled
eloquence and undoubted popularity might again be
useful to them ; and if the Radicals of Marvlebone
assisted him he might then, in the course of a few
months, retire from public life, in the enjoyment of
that reward to which his desires ever pointed, and his
p4st votes deserved—a high paid office where he
would be able to be attended by servants in livery,
without degrading his honest spirit to the base expe
client of violating the law which gave him office, and
employing policemen to wait at his table. The yells
and cries which assailed him (the speaker) would not
prevent him from saying that it was disgraceful for
professing Chartists to send a place-hunter to Parlia-
ment. Before he gave way to the clamour he would
beg to inform the meeting of something which
appeared to be unknown to them. Some one had
said that Lord D. Stuart, in supporting Poland,
supported only the aristocracy. That was a
deplorable error, which it was the policy of
Nicholas and Bentinck, Disraeli and Peter
Borthwick, and the un-English "friends of . the
people" • who now disturbed that meeting, to
propagate, in' favour of that tyranny which they
loved in common, for the tyranny of despot and mob
were, if not identical, at least kindred and sympa-
thetic. The cause of Poland was more the cause of
England than was generally understood in England.
The rest of the civilized world knew it well, and at
that moment Lord D. Stuart was looked upon by all
the freemen of Continental Europe, as the represea-
tative of European civilization against Russian bar-
b •
aris/n• In Fiance and Germany he was regarded as
the individual who in the name of freemen was the
chosen and the beloved champion of the Poles against
btitle infamous autocrat. The rejection of Lord D.Stuart
bMarylebone would be taken by the desponding
liberals of France, Germany, Hungary, Italy and
Russia, as a proof that Englishmen are indifferent to
athei principles of high liberalism, and the election of
thminded patriots of Eastern Europe in the opinion,
a the English are so mercantile in their nature, that
they prefer the man who makes merchandise even of
their votes.
The confusion which was all the evening indiscriba-
. ble, was so great towards the end, that it was diffi
cult to say in what way the votes were taken, but it
aPearectto be admitted.' at last that the amendment in
favour of Lord D. C. Stuart was carried.

THE TREATY WITH THE

The followin ZOLLVE REIN.
portionsg are extracts of the more interesting
r of the papers relative to the netice given by
oasis, on her own behalf and on behalf of the othi r
states of the Zoilverein, of the termination of the treaty
gust with Great Britain on the 2d of March, 1841
eus.t presented to beth Houses of Parliament by her
'Majesty's ciimmand):-
11IE CHEVALIER BUNSEN TO VISCOUNT PALMERSTON.
(Translation.)
The Prus • Prussian Legation. \Tay 10, 1847.
the Warne sian Government, in its own name,
ant in
rein
_!r;te or itscontederates, the members of the Zeller.
the give notice of its intention to cause the provisions of
with Geea,,atYt ,21.1. Commerce end Nevierition, concluded
in such
mannesereein on the 2,1 of Msreh, 1841, to cease.
treaty shalt
no
hales, from the Ist of January, 1848 that
as binding
. The rerieon thi
upon stnhg:r be considered as in existence, or
two high contracting rarties.
an the conviction that determination is to be found solely
to the e et the treaty in question, according
`lP'"ler'ee of th
its conclusion, has n
commercial relatio e years which have elapsed since
relations
produced that development in the
tain which had bee
ns of the Zollverein with Great Bri
tithe is n look( d for. The concession made
LiPbsetowfethee Zollverein in the first article, by which
t :e ports
n the Meuse and the Elbe are to be
considered es ports of the Union, has hardly been
found of any cereal utility. But what appears to the
rthrtle seltillne_oorernment to militate principally against
ciprneity4ciinhf the treaty of 1841 is the want oc re-
whch rule thaPPUY existing with respect to the laws while the e navigation of the two countries. For
of libert Prussian legislation, founded on the principle
int° tir Y of navigation, allows British ships to import
the h.llssien ports the produce of all parts of. the world,.
ports
IP_Ssof the Zollverein can only import into British
Ithilnsae_regards the enumerated articles, including
'owe
coon' 'ery article of importance) the produce of their
fir, iri2._47. These enumerated articles were, more.
peceit ‘ifeeltsed in 1827, subsequent to the treaty of reci-
r,s__ ,Y Ot 1824, by 13 articles, among which are to be
'44ti
excepteeneeaod other objects of primary neces%ity.
of measure could not -but augment- the want
reel -
• '4oll3P,tt:ittltroerty to the prejudice of the Prussian flag.
aggeie Yof 1841 does not allow Prussia. as the
Which • IMierests and public opinion in Cermany,
to,eistriPtelltlrfully support 'hose interests, would require,
tisieseiturf analogous manner the admission of Bri
to Great t'r the second article of this treaty accords
with roe Britain the right of the most favoured nation
Th tto the importation of sugar and r.ce.
e expirar
will rest iee
Year of the treaty at the end of the present
zent,
and a :bre that liberty to the Prussian Govern-
eo the enh•e ange in the laws affecting navigation has
Th
tom J et of serious consideration.
exareine ation of aPa liamentary Committee to
during thetne English navigation• laws, and to report
revert le present session of Parliament thereupon, has
11°Pe thee ss held out to the Prussian Government a
mesas t Great Britain will at no remote period, by.
steictia °f general legislative measure, cause the re-
Gertz lions to disappear which at present weigh upon
vious,,_4l navigation and commerce, and which so noto-
ef rapede the development and commercial relations
the wo countries.
B,,,,lizated by the desire to see these relations con-
Q7cly extend, and to avoid everything which could
Zj__yen, fora brief space of time retard a development so
4,7e1.1 to be wished for for both countries, the Govern-
,eot" his Prussian Majesty joins to the preceding
fi'_"o,..relative to the cessation of the Treaty of 1841.
-eelvflowing proposition.
e
nallTreaty of 1824, as general treaty of reciprocity,
remain the recognised basis of the relations of
ereneerce and of navigation between the two countries.
d shall co • continue to remain in force as heretofore, as
13g as notice shall not have been given of its cessation.
The, existing status quo shall, moreover, by means of
diplomatic declaration be de facto maintained, and de.
Pertmental orders shall be issued for that purpose to the 4
respective authorities in order to afford to the high con
starting parties the opportunity of coming to an under-
anding with respect to an application of the principle
of reciprocity as perfect and extended as possible.
Notwithstanding the expiration of the treaty, a modus 1 , vivendi would thus be established, which need not termi-
nate till three or six months after one of the high con-
tracting parties shall have made a declaration to that
effect.
In order to render this status quo endurable to Prussian
commerce, and, in as far as practicable, conformable with
the principle of reprocity, the Prussian Government ex-
Pacts with confidence that the British Government, from
feelings of equity, and out of regard to the intimate
relations which unite the two Governments, will accord to
the vessels of the Zollverein the same concession which
has in latesears been made by Great Britain in favour of
other Powers, relative to the ports of the Baltic, a conces-
sion which at present greatly injures the interests of Prus
44. It will no doubt be considered but fair by the British
Government that the vessels of the union shall hence
forth be permitted to import freely the produce of all
the noie Prussian ports of the Baltic, as if those vessels
Caine from Prussian ports, in the same manner as Rus-
sian and Hanoverian *vessels arriving from Prussian
ports of the Baltic are received with their cargoes in the
ports of England, as though they had arrived from na-
tional ports.
The undersigned, Sec.
(Signed) BUNSEN.
'VISCOUNT PALNEN,IONToT HE CHEVALIER BUNSEN.
Foreign-office,
June 14, 1847.
The undersigned, &c., has the honour to acknowledge
the receipt on the 13th ultimo of the note addressed to
him on the 10th by the Chevalier Bunsen, &c., giving
notice on the part of Prussia and of the other States of
the Zollverein of the termination, on the Ist of January
IleelEt• of the treaty concluded with Great Britain on the
else' of March, 1841; but at the same time suggesting
that the. provisions of that
itreaty should, after its expire-
belle, be allowed to remain n force provisionally, until
teli:"'gh contracting parties shall have seen whether they
titab-y,,not be able to come to a more satisfactory under-
ll'ing; provided, however, that the privileges granted
Great Britain to the shipping of certain other States
8211 be in the meantime extended to the shipping of the
"itne2 Of the Zollverein.
reply, the undersigned begs to say that her Me-
's
Government has already communicated to the
at :_aia.rt Government, through her Majesty's Minister
Illt7rlln, their view of what was understood to he the
trees etion of the States of the Zollverein as regards the
de of 1841. In the communication so made, the un-
Q.4goed had the honour to explain to the Prussian
rntnent, that if the engagements of the treaty of
1 at have ha, e been unproductive of advantage to the States
Zollverein, they have proved equally so to Great
ow,'" 1 and that her Majesty's Government would
he; regret the termination of that treaty, because it
Nee:ill end to relations which were conceived in a
te,„ Y spirit, and from which there seemed at one time
eete7elld to
,hope that mutual advantage to all parties con-
The kight arise.
noticereason assigned by the Chevalier Bunsen for the
i_olleertah:llB given by Prussia and the other States of the
4sers `°,l3 the want of reciprocity in the navigation
Feat the respective contracting parties. But that no
Oreet"tlefit has resulted to Great Britain from that.
trade with Prussian p irts, which the state of
Nrent:s.l law enables the Prussian Government
;Its kire__l,B sufficiently manifest from the fact which
the yea
been stated to the Prussian Government,.
ilact ye4r the Earl of Westmoreland—namely, that in
Chester,
efBl6 only four Pritish vessels, of the aggregate
on resolves tons, found it their interest to avail
,I,le of t,_ of the privilege whi -h, under article
the prZ treaty, Brit sh yes enjoy, 01 k,
lion enders; man ports frein third countries; and
s, 'sneer in fined cannot, there ere, but believe th, t,
"1, nilire derived by
gh g i fica.n t the corresponding advantages may 1
Prussia from the provisions Uf