The Sun.
London, England, 1815-05-26 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

Mr. B. WILBRAHAM moved for leavc to bring in a Bill
to amend the
_Laws respecting,. Parish Apprentices. Leave
given.
.11/41r. B. SMITH bronght in Lis Bill to prevent property be-
longing, to. the Poor from beity, etuhr.csled. Read a fist
t
ime, rdzred to he read a.secondptime on Tuesday next, and
to he printed.
Mr. ROSE obtained leave tai bring in a Bill to regulate the
tate of pilota4e on the River Tharnei for foreign veOel 4, and
the same was afterwards brought in, read a Grit that ~arid or-
dered its be read a second time to-mu:Tow.
The IriAl Hired Servants' Bill was read a third titne.and
passed.
WESTMINSTER PETITION.

Sir F. BURDETT presented a Petition from cer-
tain Householders of the City of NVestminster,
agreed upon at a recent Meeting in Palace-yard,
praying, after detailing numerous grievances, that
the House would inter fere and avert -the calami-
ties of war into which the " evil Councillors" of
the Crown were about to plunge the Country.
The Petition having been brought up and read,
,Lord CASTLEREAGH desired thatthe Clerk would
again read certain passages of the Petitioni which
was accordingly done‘:
Mose passages denounced the objects for which the coun-
try was..to .he. involved in a war as flagrantly unjust; aunt
that to think of a new war on surh• ground:, was nothing
Jess than desperation or insanity. Rot the Petitioners were
not sogiriSed at this, when they recollected that the Minis-
ter,rwito advised such desperate me:ism-vs were the promoters
of corruption tit home, who robbed the p,ople of their rights,
stutlwito would in time subvert the:Constitution itself.)
. Lord CASTLEREAGii then appealed to the (loose
•whether' it was possible for such lingurage to he
useful to any good cause, and whether it could,
with a doe regard to its own dignity and charac-
ter; receive it Petition that described the House
to be a set of traitors to their country.? (Hear,
hear, heart)---ile cotild not but deem such a Peti-
tion to have'been framed so as to, procure its own
reintion. , The petitioners twist have felt that•ik
"wits impossible for the, 'llouse to receive a l'Oit ion
couched in- sOch language. Whether the pea-
tiouers conceived' such language as calculated to
proionte the parposes they had in view,- at the
saints time it tended to insure its reivetion, he
..'coaftt.'ttot. tell ;,:bot. convinced_ that, the
'Petition could not be reCeived, if the k4epr4ouenta-
tires of the 'people in that House did their artv.
lle regretted that he felt obliged to oppose the
motion that this Petition do lie•on the table; but,
although he was for- opening the doors as wide as
possible to Petitioners, such a proceeding was
more likely to secure than to shake the right of
petitioning, by preserving it from-abuse. (Ilear!)
Lord 'MILTON SVM 111111i/le to perceive any sent i-
inent in the Petition that-01dd justify the House
in rejecting it. It might contain severe and in-
sulting remarks on souse individuals, speaking of
them in other capacities, not as Members of that
House ; but unless it contained what was insult-
ing to the Howie, that tact could not authorise
Abel-loose to reject the Petition.
Lord CASTLEREAGU then read other passages ,
from the-Petition', to jostify his opposition to it,
particidatly where it said, that the - corrupt and
6'll Councillors of the Crown, by.eatropt. means,
.liad obtaineil,,an umptalitied re-enaettneut of the
Tax, the Government and the House.
having proceeded on the iniquitous principle of
taxation without representation.,---(Heari hear !)
'Sir F. BunneTTsdefended the Petition, as it
Cnntailled no assertion that was not founded in ..
troth, and as the objectionable language pointed
ont by the Noble-Lord was necessary to express
what the Petitioners were anxious to convey, lie
should persist in his motion that it do lie on the
table. It the Noble Lord, however, should de-
sire it to be rejected, he had no doubt the House
would comply ; hut it was perfectly indifferent to
him whether it was received or rejected.
Mr. V. FITZGSRALh was not surprised that there.
was an expression of imbift:renee whether the Pe-
tition .should be received or rejected, .for lie was.
scarcely surprised at any thing that fell flout the
Honourable Baronet. He was not even sur-
prised at the Honourable Baronet's new Con--
sntliahtnotti,n, that a Petition was a 'c de-
of us tress, which the House had no right
whatever to "reject. (Hear !).---Tlie present Petition
c"o'anstanirreetri'iliii)ts,ed bu(t)notti laiecegronTliti'l Cit ftlti.etilltleS IT Si
let grt
Jett-
. , .
figunnigi:eimn•ewreilleph:etpirt'eryetllvetoreacdoZt.eyteh'aLt coErxrZipltlthullie-
nisters,-- by their corrupt influence, could fix any
taxthey
it.e pleased
e coonultdh er
epple,-
eeeoi ies didt
Itlioottts.---e
(ti'le'l'iler.l2otion was then put, Etna n egatite4
out a' division,
moved for a Copy of tare WTarrant,
granting a pension of :1,2001. to Colonel W.
Congreve.---Ordered.

WAR :WAINST BUONApARTF,.
The Order of the Day fur taLitig hit° consitlern-
lion the Niessitge of the Prince Regent having
beett'ntovell, and the Ale',4,ige read, -
Lord CASTLEREAGH ssii(ti in rising to cull the
attentlini of the Houle to the Prince Re era's
mast gracioas Message, alp! to submit to them

that proposition which appeared 'to lthn necess,
sarily to grow out of it,* In' was, sure it Was. Mote•
cessery for hit to say, that. it was impossible Let
any magi to htiVell more deep, more awful seoce
or he consequences of.tbut vote,: to which ltF fel;
it his duty to endeavour to persoade the flou,s to
come. He thought he might .essome, -as turfoitu»
nately the House had been too much in the habit
of consideriog onestiotts connected with: war, not
to have decidedon the bearings of, wally of the
points which otherwise world have been compre-
hended in the discossion, that it was not neces-
sary for him to 'go into the subject on that ex-
tended scale, which nt,,der other circumstances
would 'have been expeeted, If he should omit
any thing its argument or explanation which
should appear of importance, to-the IlOuie, he
hoped he might be permitted to supply it in clos-
ing the debtae. However important the question
now to be considered. might be, stripped 'of all
that extraocons matter which had.been connected -
with it, but which itt fact formed no part of it, he flat,-
tered himself that no brauch Of the question ou
which the House would that night be called
upon to decide, trunk] neither appear so compil.
cated as some inre4itied, nor the ditlieulty in COM.
ing to a conchoitin so great as had been supposed.
The first topic which befell. it necessary to sepa-
rate 'from the present discussion, was the doubt
Which hail been
.raised with respect to the con-
duct of oae great Power on the: Continent,
tria, front whom the ratification of the, Treaty of.
the 25th (if March had not been received, though,:
her assent to it had been officially notified, when
the subject was last touched upon. Ile had felt
this might start a difficulty, hut he Iv:4S:happy to
say in the course of that tlay'he had been enabled
to remove that difficulty nitogether, for that morn-
ing he bud 'exchanged with the Ambassador of.
the Emperor of Austria', the ratifications Of the
F Treaty, the substance 'of which had been laid be-
fore the House, which Treaty was now techni-
cally, as before in solidity, a complete documeet;
being formally ratified by the three great .t.;onfe-
iterated Powers'. Ile might, perhaps, now by
allowed to resit the tote which had been transmit-
teal from the Austrian tioverwocut, on. the cleclu!.
ration which had accompanied the ratification of
the treaty by the Prince Regent, ‘elt.ielt note be
proposed' to lay oil- the :able
,of the House to-
morrow, and he thought it right to !Jute, the D -
claration of the Prince Regent had heeo,aeceded
to in the same terms by the Soveteigns orßoss.ia •
anal Prits'4a.
,The Oyer in oitit,:tioo was signed
by the ,lostritut Minister Prince Met let nieh, and
,ran as follows The undersigned Minister of
State to his Majesty the kauperor of.
.Austriap
.having informed: his .August, Master of the.
note communicated by Lord Castlereagh Irma
his Royal llighoess the • "since :largent „on the
Bth Article of the. Treaty of the With °fnne],
has received Orders to., declare
,th.tt the in-
terpretation put upon that article by the British
Government, is entirely' conforma;Jitt to the I.trittf•
civics on which his Imperial Mpjesty proposes to
regulate his policy during the rescue war. The
Emperor, though irrevocably determine.' to cti
rect all his efforts, as bound by treaty in concert
with his Allies, against the usurpatioo of Napoleon
Iltionaparte, is. neVertheless convinced that the
duty he.owes his subjects and the princ.iples of the
confederation itself., Would nett permit hint to est-
.gage in a war to. dictate any, particular form of
Government to the French people. IVltatever
wishes the' Emperor may have formed to see his
Christian Majesty on the Throne of i'rance,
solicitous as he is to contribute with his Allies to ,
the accomplishment of so desirable an object, his
Imperial., Majesty nevertheless thinks it right to
accede by t declaration to the explanation trans?.
mitted by the .English Government, Ott the ex-
change of the ratifications which the undersigned.
is authorised to accept accordingly." The Ilottse
could now no longer pause on entering upon the
discussion of 'this question, on the ground that
the policy of Austria was 'tint sufficiently known.
But it was objected that kile 1.10145 e ought not to
proceed to dispose of this qttesCon, till the whol.e.' •
of .the,nogoetations which had taken place were
laid before them. Ile coutentled that it had beet'
the invariable placticenfPutiiinent, on meek ing
such at Message, to take it; into cousiderat ion on
. the very next day of loreiness, which was not
a day orstipply, and -to receive those explautt-
lions which. the Minister was prepared to
This be she wed' to have been the constant
course front the time ..)I*Qoven Aline up to the pre-
sent period, and ise: maintained that the Muse
could come to a general ,Resolotion to support
the Sovereieit its the war in which he Was engaged
without going into all the negociatious which pre-
ceded it, and, without expressing approbation or
disapprobation. of the treaties which might Mace
been concluded. He admitted ,;:at the treaties
themselvestoultl not be ditip4,sed of, till the whole
were laid before Parliament, but the common
sense of the rise, proved that they, might support
the Crown in a war, without hest requiting in-
icuert;ent4l tiit(),"wc.ineiliterejOeltl‘lvtitttitlt ,tiltleerheavic:s",tsbe"cticnitstipni;tei..-
edictl without. ieinett This
consideration was, sufficient Co prove, tat if Owl,
could .not decide on the treaty recently conelodtd,
they were not precluded .from giriog their supoc)rt
to one p3rtiettlar branch of it, lie %visited this
priocipleof separation to be admitted, because LI. .
wisited the Itenty of Vienna to he thrown. meato
their consideration in, the thlt.ite a,t th:lit
t to tole .
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