The Sun.
London, England, 1823-04-30 00:00:00

CASH PAYMENTS.

On the Motion of Mr. BENNET, the notice relative to the
Resumption of Clish Payments, Made by nn lion. Friend of
his, was postponed from the 14th of May to the 3d of June.
ADJOURNED DEBATE ON TfIE LATE NEGO-
CIATIONS.
On the motion of Mr. Secretary Calerefwee, the Order of the
Day for resuming the adjourned Debate was read.
The SPEAKru having read the motion,
WOOLRIDGE WHITMORE rose tp explain his
reasons for voting in favour of the Address propOstel upon his
aide of the House. Ile confessed it was with pain he declared
that he had looked in vain throughout the papers of this nego.
elation, for that expression of manly English indignation which
the atrocious invasion of Spain was caleulated to excite in all
feeling breasts. lie thought that by all that appeared in these
papers, the Right Hon. Gentlemen opposite had placed them-
sake in the unfortunate situation of appearing as the Allies
of Franee._(llear !)—France had done nothing which in some
mitt or other of the papers an excuse had not been found fdr.
In the first place, there was the Army of Observation, for
which it would be found we had furnished an explanetion:' It
might be a just and true one, btu why, be would ask, had we
pointeViat out.? Why should it have come from the mouth
of the atish Minister?. France, he-thought, would have found
it. ditticult in the first instance, to find an excuse for conduct
which on all hands it seemed to be admitted, struck at the
root of liberty. But here again our Ministers had helped
them out of the dilemma, by ,suggesting that there might
he something in the special. situation or France to call
for the course about to be adopted by her, and the reach-
mess with which she echoed the suggestion proved how va-
luable it was to her. All that she had been able to advance
that he knew of timelier to the soil and situation of France
wan, that the consumption of mules would be less than it hail
been.—(flear and laughter.)—Then came the fling of France's
speech ; and he should have thought that document too plain
to be misunderstood ; but here again the ingenuity of the
English Minister had baled ordinary calculation, for he found
out that it bore a conditional meaning, totally differing from
what plain common sense would have put Upon it. The letter
of M. de Chateaubriand, received the 27th January, stated
that Me le-Comte de la Garde bad been instructed to commu-
nicate to Sir William A'Court, that " his Most Christian Ma-
jesty demands that his Catholic Majesty should; of himself,
and by: his own authoritye apply the necessary modifications
to the institutions which have been imposed upon the Crown
of Spain by the revolt of a few soldiers." The answer
of the Right Hon. Gentleman appeared to be as follows :
" Vt'e disclaim for ourselves, and deny to other Powers, the
right or requiring any changes in the intermit institution of
independent 'states, with the menace of hostile attack in case
of refusal. The moderation of such demands in ,no degree
justifies, in our eyes, such a mode of enforcing them; and this
distinction it is the more important to keep steadily in view,
and to impress upon the • French Government, at a moment
when, for their sake and at their desire, we are suggesting to
Spain, in a tone of friendly counsel, alterations similar to
those which France is proposing as the alternative of hostili-
ties." Taking this answer m connection with previous con-
duct to language he (Mr. W.) must say that it placed this
Government in a situation the most unfortunate—for it made
it: appear that they wished to further the views of France.; and
all the circumstances connected, it required one to have that con-
fidence which he had in the honour of his Majesty's Ministers,
not to tel convinced that they favoured in their hearts the cause
of France in. preference .to that of Spiin. fie would offer'a'
few words before he sat dawn, respecting the Holy Alliance,
which he thought more necessary on ltix part from his having
once given his vote to Government on the case of Naples. Ile
had given it in the absence of that information upon which he
had since' discovered he should alone have founded his vote,
and he must now gay that there Was nothing he had. ever done
he repented more #than Hear, hear !)—lie considered
that with.Naplea had begun that fatal system of armed inter.
ference which was subversive of freedom, and at' the rights of
all independent and free people.----((;heers.)—fle felt assured
that-as soon as the Allies became sensible of the power they
poesestied from their ascendancy. over States fallen under the
weight of their insolent domination, they would determine to
attack liberty in every shape wheresoever it might appear:
This would end in a system of eggrandizement in the form of
partition.. When these- Lords or the aseendant founct. they:
could do any thiner,lie repeated he never could suppose they
would stop floet• trespassing on the territory of those Whose
rights they had trampled under feat..4llear hear t)---First
diesemdon, and there. partition, alWays hod been the policy of
Russia, as her conduct towards Sweden and Poland fully tes-
tilled, Ile (Mt...Whitmore) felt anxious to take that opportu-
laity of d.,ciariog it to bolds deep conviction, that although it
was. not Low the. policy .of this country to gO to war, he
was vertmhdect that it was obvert necessary for us to
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