The Sun.
London, England, 1819-02-12 00:00:00

TREATIV:, &c —HOLY ALLIANCE.

The-E4l-1 of Ltirettroot. laid upon the table a
Convention signed at Paris, respecting financial

objects.
Lord HOLLAND wished to ask the Noble Earl.
frst, whether toy Paper had been laid upon the
table reNpecting :the Slave Trade ? and next, for
some e,xplanarion resreeting theDocutnents which
had been laid brittle 'the House. He did not
mean to desire no rexiihnaf ion of the Ist:pave of
g‘,lne of the Protocols, in which the Noble Earl
tvonld, perhaps, find it diffi,:tilt to discover a
tneaniin:, but to confine himself to certain ex-
pressions which appeared to retcr to what was
commonly called the Holy Alliance (to which ii
bad been hitherto understood England was not a
party), and to ash whether t..e Nob!e Earl in-
tended to communicate a Copy of the Holy
Alli-
snre to the House) in a Protocol signed at Aix-
la•Chapel!e, the 15.11 Nov. 181 S, by the Pleni-
potentiaties of Austria, Fiance, Great Britain,
pflisi4i, and Ilovi3, he found it declared, " That
they" (flint is to say, the Powers above-mention-
ed) " are, firmly resolved. never to depart, neither
in their mutual relations nor in those which bind
them to other States, front the principle of inti-
rnme union which has hitherto presided over all
their common relations and interests—a imion
rendered more strong and indissoluble by the
bonds of Christian ftaternity which the Sove-
reigns have formed amongst themselves." Those
bonds of Christian fraternity, he concluded,
meant the 1-I,oly Alliance ; and this Treaty being
rhos alluded to in a Protocol agreed to by this
Country, lie thought it of importance, with a view
to a proper consideration of the subject, that the
House should he in possession of a Copy of that
Treaty of Holy Alliance, in order to ascertain
what were its stipulations.

The Earl of Ltvearoor., with reference to the
Sla%e Trade, stated, that he expected shortly to
be enabled to lay papers upon that subject before
the House. The other question •of the Noble
Lord he' had no hesitation in answering. The
Treaty of Holy Alliance was signed at Paris in
1813, personally, by the Sovereigns of Austria,
a'nd Prussia, without the intervention of
any-Ministers, and was communicated to this Go-
vernment. It being, however, contrary to the
Constitution of this Cpuntry, for the Prince.Re7
Tent, acting in the name of the Sovereign, to
-sign an autographic Treaty, without the inter-
Nention of a responsible Minkter, information to
that effect was transmitted to the other Sovereigns,
.stating, at the same time, that the Treaty alluded
to was in conformity with the disposition of the
13ritish Government ; and this Government had
since indirectly acceded tti it. It certainly, how-
ever, was not his intention to lay upon the Table
.a copy of the Tieay of Holy Affiance.
Lord HOLLAND was of opinion, that as it was
:admitted the British .Government had indirectly
acceded to the Holy Alliance, a copy of that
Treaty ought to he laid before the House, that
Alien- Lordships might be made acquainted. with
Abe actual stipulations of that Treaty.
The. Earl of LIVSRPOOL said, he could not lay
on the table a copy of a Treaty to which this
-country was not a party ; and there could be no
necessity for it, as the terms. of the Treaty were
matter of notoriety.
Lord HOLLAND said, he only wanted to know
what were the bonds 'of the Christian fraternity-
to which the Protocol he had alluded to re-
ferred. .
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INSOLVENT:DEBTORS' ACT.

Lord HOLLAND presented a Petition front cer-
tain Debtors confined in the Castle of York, pray-
ing that the Insolvent Debtors' Act might be con-
tinued. His Lord Ship said, he did not wish, in
the absence of a Noble and Learned Lord (Reties-
dale), to enter-into any discussion of this subject,
He should only observe, that in taking the ques-
tion into consideration, it would be highly deitir=
able to compare what would have been the con-
sequences of the former state of the law, if this
Act had not passed, and the effects which had re-
suited from the operation of the Act. lie did not
mean to deny that many improvements might he
made in the Act ; but be thonght the result of the
comparison he had mentioned would be found to
be greatly in favour of its renewal.

The Petition was ordered to lie upon the
table.

JAVA-BANCA.

The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said, be bad in-
tended to tnovL for some additional Papers re-
sliming the Sultan of Palembang, riud the ces-
sion of Banea ; but not seeing a Noble Earl (Ba-
thurst) in his place, be should postpone his, mo-
lion till to-morrow. He did not, how_ ever,
any objection to it.
Adjourned till to-morrow (this day),