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London, England, 1805-02-13 00:00:00

had ever met with. In hia Note ‘Of -the t Bth
February, Mr. Frere drops the Subsidy, and con.
fines himself to the :two points of the Armaments,
and the sale of ,prizes in, the Spanish Ports.—
After M. Cevallos had twice demanded' explana.
tion on this point, its nor being pressed is an
absolute and unequivocal abandoning Wit ;•r -and
on the 22t1 of March M. Cevallos states, that
he considers the Neutrality of Spain admitted.—.
lie was at a less to conceive on what grounds
Mr. Frere bad couched his Note ofilre rBthl of
February in such strong terms. He certainly af.thi.
in (bred contradietien to his authority,''for Lord
Hawkesbnry, 'in his instructions` of the 21st Jai;
recommends him c.4r,;tolly to. iitroid bringing. the
Negotiation to an abrupt termination, 'lt 'was evi.
dently the system of the then 'Government- of-G'reat
liritain, not to enter into 3 Wai With Spain.> on
account of her Subsidy to. France. Spain. is said
never to have given official communitaiiima With
regard to that Treaty ; true, but the progress of,
it was ,well known, iltl4 had been. stated in every
stage of it by Spain.' With respret erb 'verbal
communications, if we admit the accounts-of the cone
ferencea between the Prieee of Pine .and
Frere, must also admit accounts of those be.
tween our Court aed ill. DrAnduaga. When, the
Right Honourable the Chancellor of the .tx-chee
ever asserted, that the Dispatch of-ti e-- 2901 Sep.
tetubef, t 80. alferded full: evidence of a deter.
ruination 56 rewire a stihjeCt that had so long
dormant, it appeared to hint to.lxe merely. ail as.
sertion of_ the difference between a week and, nue.
rile Administration, and that
,the Right Hen.
Gentleman compared these Dispatches with those
• of May, in which our Government,elearly elem.
cloned the :Subsidy as a 'cause of War, provided
no Armaments provoked theM to' hostility. lint,
say they, Armaments did take place. If they
werre, direOed againal tngland it would requite. no,
argutnent to prove. the Unteedified rieht of England
to make them a ground 01 War. Wh,it reply, !tow.
evert.. did :the Governor, of Ferrol ,make to the
representations that,wrre addressed 'to•. him on this
suhjea ? That the Arenament is destined for a secret
purpose ; that it needa• not excite the jealousy of
any European Power, she h hips being but half man.
sued. It Spain were divotted to contravetne her co.
gageneent with this Country, French finesse would
have suggested a happier mode of concealineni.. Ac.
compatoed as this answer wasby the want of prepae
ration in curry othee,Port ref Spain', its truth cult!
. not be'd,'Obted. On D'Anduaga's being roes.,
tinned by Lord HarroWby, he prefes,et utter igno.
ranee of the stihjet:,:t, and two days after brings an;
OffiCer belonging to One of the Regiments 'compos.
ing the .Armaments at Ferrol, with letters, stating'
tlixt the obje6 of it was to quell the Insurgents in,
liiscaty. '!'iris' NlreFrere, in a subsequent Disp itch,
confirmed and. expressed his conviEtion that' Bach
seas the fad. ..Some of the Minister's argtimentsope.
rater) in two ciantrary direetionS, andAteereeed etas
other. isgr'eeneent to suspend ;hostilities were
advantageous to li`iar‘,Ce, She wOuld'not have itroi.
`te„aual 4esin to bleak it if War with ;Spain were
snore advantageous' to France, we shall be losers
by precipitating ottrselves into it. It. was inex.
how,on such inatruCitions as welt contained
in Lord 14 Dispatch. of (Maher 19, Mi.
B. here puttied himself warranted in m 'king the
cinnmunicatiOn of the Tce reaty with-Frin and the
retitip MO us All Armaments in Spain an ultimatum.,
:e vet eiy tta robated. a -pitssae7flT;aee of
I\l, try to M. Cev311,,,,„ts being justly
fenstee.to te Court of ;;;..tie, and di!gracetet to the
C., yet f Wraith It mendoeed tl.e idiot-lice of
ance on the Spant,h Conch. esetreed ..the
pentleec- oiSpain,onthat Po set, 41,41 iusinieited, the
cent went distrust of Eielaitd. Ithese 'circum.
sta. co uetc true, but (his Tendered it metre improe
per to hie!' at them; and he 'wits well Assured that
tem condOt of the litatieh Charge it M:Fajita' was
eirmiely repeobated by the
„whole Oirps Diploma.
tic ut Europe. But this was nothing to' a-subie.l,
treat part. of MI; Frere'a preceedings; He read
a .dote t Nl. CeValin,, in which be tells hitt), that
exkeets:lll answer by the )tearer.. What would
cur Atimitti.orAttonhlye thonght had a similar in.
ijult been offered to diem rfle disclaimed all pere
sonal t f 1 Li }tons run Mr. 'Frett, but' such were' his
wit the affair. Mr. joteNsTout repeated
sit me of his hornet observations 'with regard
to the'Strlisidy stii,ttlaterl to be paid by Spain to
Franc, and roledgcd that it war' a shameful Mac.
Time its its for such a trifle to 'desert Portopii 'our
oncient Allay, and expose her to lye .over..run and
destroyed.- This anion' certainly dirt 'teat redound
to the honour ef
.Great Britain, even at home,
and on the Continent it ,was' regarded with uni.
vernal disapprobation. ,He concluded 14 tkelating
iiit‘determitiation to support the Amentbnent us the
Address propched by his Honourable 'Friend' 'Mi.
Mr. RILEY. ADD/?NM enuhl not re.
frain from expressing the greAcst saus.attotte at
being able entirely to concur in, opinion with the
}lon. Gentleman who had iipoken second in order in
Debuts of this evening : he wished, however,
to add one or two observations to those Which that
geotlemati had tacit 'OA the statements of the
Learned Gentlerosti 'Who' had preeeded him, and
who cormnenceti the diactiasion ihe night. 'Hu
should avoid adverting to the 'Speech of • the:tiob.
Gentlemanwho, had just "sit not nut a the
.blighteet disrespect to 11141 Cxetttleitisan, but because
to rill ',IS arzoments, complete antwers would
found its the statement made yesterday. evening by
!.fight lion. Friend near him; and he was very
unwi',ling to detain the Houoc long, anXious, as, they
neeeasarily must be, hear" the opinions of so
many greet and distinguished eherattere atheag
theme who lead not been afforded 'an opporeu...
tarty of eNeressing their sentirhento.on this motnent
ems sunicet. With regard, to the arraingy which
the Learned Gentleman (Mr." Retteir) anaerted to
_
exist between, diploriewc ere,ceedtrees'alldethe oc.
corrtnces of special pit aed teith it:yard to
construCtion which he had at t• I;:ti44Nl tO -rut Oil
the different passages ;het he had quoted' :ftoni vae
rioua writers on the law of hatitinit`fl:•"'"
ni ten
ter into any dispute With the Learnt*, Gentleman.,
conee'ale a., he felt.of iiis oWng itteninpetency toAhrt
vial: e otherwise he would not licliitate to acknow.
, ledge that the passages s. (pleted conveyed to his
annul a 4ery
,difft:icnt metioingonal led to very up.