Star.
London, England, 1808-02-06 00:00:00

UtLIAMEIVTARr ,P RO CEEDI N G S .

HOUSE OF LORDS, FEBRUARY S.
GLAATON BURY MO HUTCHINSON took the oaths.
rchbishop. of YORK' who was introduced by the Bishops
• and Bristol, took the oaths and his seat.
NATIONAL DEBT.
Hate, from the Bank, presented an account of the co.
of nine millions last year, under the authority of the
!unnissioners for redeeming the national debt.
ROXBUIZUH PEERAGE.
AUCKLAND moyed, that the consideration of the pes
' Sir G. Ker lnnes, relative to the Roxburgh Peerage,
postponed until Monday next.--Ordezed.
CURATES' BILL.
House, on tho motion of the Bishop of BANC:OIt, went
Committee on the Bill for repealing the act of last se_lion,
suspending the Curates Act. The Bal was reported without
amendments, and orderott to be engrbesetl:
'WWI APPEAL.
Irish Appeal Cause, Goold v. Langley, was finally decided.
...runoel appeared' for the Appellant. Mr. Stevens was for
Respondent. The length of the tittle 'whiCh the Appeal was
'ing, and the great expellee his Client was put to, was stated
Counsel; on which, after a few remarks from Lord Rt.-

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lORD CHANCELLOR moved as thejudgment of the House,
Decree of the ]risk Court of Chancery b.: affirmed, with
costs. His Lordillip took occasion to express his satisfaction
been instrumental in procuring the late Order of the
by which costs so high as 4001. might be allowed, and
operate as a great check upon improper aud unju%tifiable
llisT.ord.hips propo ;Mon as above was agreed to, and the
judgment of the Irish Court was accordingly affirmed, with 2001.
,djourned till Monday, when their Lordships stand sum-
,tpon the Duke of Norfolk's motion for certain Papers re-
the Expedition to the Baltic.

HOUSE OP COMMONS.
ettIPPENIIAM ELECTION'.
Miarquis of 'f ITCHFIELD brought up the Report of the
ttee on th,: Chippenbain election, which was a double re-
tnd the Committee determined that John Maitland, Esq.
duly elected, and that James Dawkins, .Esq. was duly
on which the Deputy Clerk Of the CroWn orders to
and amend the return, by inserting the am* of Mr. Daw-
rhich he did accordingly.
Hase, from the Bank, brought to the Bar in account of
receipt. and expenditure of nine millions and upwards, by the
nissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, from Ja.
l nO7, to January, isOn • and of 2,492,0001. between let
try and May, 1808.—Ordered to lie on the table.
Dawes, front the Accountant General's Office, presented
Bar an account of balances in the Bank on dividends due
last three years; and also on dividends due the ensuing
7 ; and an account of unclaimed prizes in the Lottery drawn
co the lsa January, 1805.--Ordered to be printed.
ROSE brought up a bill to amend the act to regulate the
'reasurer of the Navy, which was read a first, and ordered
read a second time on Monday, and to be printed.
• third reading of the American Treaty Bill was deferred to

LAND AND MALT BILL.
HUSKISSOI! brought up the Land and Malt Duty Bill,
,a was read a first, and ordered to be read a second time on
inlay, and to be printed. Also, a Bill for regulating the issue
noney to pay; OtExchequer Bills, which was read a first, and
k-red •ob :-read isecond time On Monday, and to be printed.
dr. BUS USSON ntoOed for an account of all Balances due on
LOyaby Loan.-:—Ordered. Also, an account of the Interest
14n all E.xchetieter Bills during the three last years, distinguish-
each year.--ordered.
DOCUMENTS.
4r. witrrmuun asked the Right Hon. Secretary (Mr.
:anping) whether he had any objection to put the House into pos-
tssion of ihose letters of hls Majesty's late Secretary of State,
omwhieb he read ,nstracte in the course of the last debate, which
jostiet to the Noble Lord he conceived he ought to do : as also,
"es of the letters from Mr. Garlike, from which he had also
v read extracts ?
Ir. CANNING observed. that if the Hoonourable Member
thought proper to put such a question to him privately, he
Id have answered him ; but surely it was not a regular prac-
to ask such questions in that House. If the Honourable Mem-
had it in contemplation to move for the production of certain
:is, his regular course wculd be to give notice to that effect.
'r. WHITBREAD said, that he had no desire for a private
\ unication with the Right Honourable Secretary. He had
. his intention on a former night; but, as a matter of coin, 1
on account of theahsence of that Gentleman, he abataiued
. entering a formal notice on the Journal of the House. •
was afterwar6 understood that the production of the papers
fixed for Monday.
'r. ABERCROMBIE gave notice.that he would, onThurulay
move for a Copy of the Instructions sent to Earl St. Via-
, relative to the Expedition to PortugaL
CO.:I1/41ITT:11; ON SUPPLY.
The House resolved itself into a Committee of Supply, in
which 10,800,000 L were voted for War Taxes,' and 9,000,0001.
for paying off Exchequer Bills. The Report was ordered to be
received on Monday.
`er.'fIER'NEY moved for an Account of the Naval and Mill-
. f St'res taken at Copenhagen, sad ibe quantity, quality, and
condition at the sane.—Ordered. • O .
COMMITTEE lik WAYS AVID' MEANS.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
wed, that the House do resolve itself into a Com-
ittee of Ways and Means, and that copies of the se-
veral Orders of Council lately issued be referred to
said Committee.
Lord H. PE'T'TY said, that from the lapse of time
hich had taken place, from the day on which the
iglit Honourable Gentleman had given notice of
intention to bring these Orders before the House,
.e. had formed some hopes that the Right Hon. Gen-
tleman would have previously favoured the House
ith some communications relative to those Orders,
.nd particularly on the question of their legality. If
there were any doubts whatever on that point, the
noble la,rd thought they ought to be removed, before
House should he called upon to enter on the ques..
ton of giving its approbation and sanction to those
rders. If the House were at all dubious on this head,
td there Was a serious objection on the score of le-
lity, that objection . ought to be made as the first
:ep which shotild. be given in the business, and ante-
!dent to any thing which could -at all be construed
,to or taken as an approval by that* House of the
!dell in question. , For his own part, he felt than he
,-.0 juct in the same predjeatrient with a majority! elf
that Houcte, and fotrnd himselfunqualified to ' dge
decidedly on: a case which reqviiied a' thorou
esiu
and
pprfect knowledge of. the law of scitions as w -at of
A municipal law of the land. • H. therefore hoped
'',,r the ipaidgence ..of the House, as being very utt
tcit:4ll4 Opposed to ..the Right liatict ,Learned gen-
tleman, and those great legal authorities, who had;•no
doubt, been .consulted on the subject previous to the •
,rdcrs having been issued. -* But nottvidistandingt the
great weight and authority which:Wascertainly due
to such opinions, hi could not still submit to
p o;:Aen-
tirely bound-by them. However.great his. for
them might be, he• had a
.dM' to exectite:iiti .hat
House which -required hint 0 41.. m. a judgpraq for
iiinself on that mcvt itrportant meataire ;-and from
the most serious and delsbeauteessnaidesation•he had
been able to. ie to it; he confdttOtrettbiltit implicitly
u:
toboto suet authority, and to give his countenance
to measu•
re .which IA thought to be illegal. The or-
ders he well knew emanated from.the King in Coun-
cil, and (aimed a part of the Royal Prerogative; but
still it WAS only such a part of the prerogative 2.5 WaS

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liable to many restrictions, both by the
and the municipal law of the land •
Council, like the Court of Admirali.
Courts, had:no paramount jurisdiction,
decrees binding, except in cases which
fermitp with the law of nations, or had t
sanction and authority of an ACt of ParEa
support of this doctrine, he would refer the
the Duke of Newcastle's letter respecting the Prussian
ships, and to the opinions of Sir Dudley *Ryder, and,
Mr. Murray, who were the then Attorney-aad Solici-
tor Generals in this country. There was also another
legal opinion of great weight and consequence on the
same point ; he meant that of thcyreeent Lord Chan.;
celior, (Eldon), who, speaking on the inlbject of the
authority of Arty of the Privy CeunCil,eXpressly says,.
that no order of Council should be considered in any
otheilight than in conformity to the law of nations,
and that• it was contrary to the Prerogative to seize
the ships and goods of Neutral Powers on the high
seas, or to detain them in ports or on .shore, unless
they could be proved to be contraband or forbidden
by the law of nations, or by the municipal law of the
land. These orders in council, he said, as well as
that of a similar nature issued in January last pear,
were issued in consequence of the Decree stating it to
be the determination of France to place England in a
state of blockade-eor,ein and empty beast--:and were
meant as an act a 'retaliation. " It ha3,--however,
been held by the highest authority, that any mea-
sure of that kind,
,not acted upon, became .thereby
null and void, and the sante as if never made at
all. He was clearly of this opinion, and he founded
himself on .it with the greater confidence, because
he would shew. the House that it was supported by
the authority of a learned civilian, who • was allowed
to be one of the first and most enlightened judges of
matititme law that ever lived. He meant the present
Sir'W. Scott,- the-Sur eme-itidge of the Admiralty-
Court. This opinion, was recorded in Robinson's
Reports of Cases adjudged in that Conrt--ea'book
whicals Was allowed to be most remarkably flAtleill
and correct, and which as such, was the more valua-
ble, as it might be supposed to give .those tiljudica4.
tions in all the.elegant and classical langnagein which
they were delivered. In this book, it is laid down by
Sir W. Scott, 6, that no blockade is sufficient without
a fact to support it," and he(the Noble Lord) ins
sistcd, that up to the 11th of November, there never
-had occurred a single instance in which that decree
of France had been acted upon. Nay,. an explana-
tion
had been given by M. Decret to General Arm-
strong, the American Ambassador, disavowing theit
intention of carrying it into effect, and of capturing
ships at sea, or in any other respect infringing upon
the rights of neutrals, In th_ orders issued on the 7th
January last year, the species and. character of the 1
retaliation were prescribei, and. in such a way as to
shew that it was calculated to produce effect on the
enemy ; for the principle of the order was not open
to the objection of neutrals--for hrthe usage of the
year 17. 6, country . had uniformly limited-ill}
trade of neutrals in many instances, and continued 4
do so during the whole of that war. In that order
there, was also a power ,reserved, in case of France
not acting on the decree, .to permit neutrals-to trade.
In consequence of the explanation of Monsieur De-
cret to General Armstrong, nothing short of confis-
cation of goods could be deemed acting on the Decree,
and not that it could not be done by a detention and
taking vessels at sea. This was strongly exemplified
by what subsequently took place ; for after the order
of the 1 lthNovember,issued by his Majesty's present
Ministers, a new Decree was published in Italy, de.
nationalizing, as Bonaparte called it, alF.ships which
had been in an English nort, and rendered the goods
they carried liable to inlinediate confiscation, which
shelved that the former Decrees had not been.acted
on, and that it was necessary to frame a new one,
which should counteract as
_Tech as possible the prin-
ciples and effects of the order of the 1 lth November.
He was further of opinion those orders .of Council
were illegal, because the Privy Coancil had thereby
undertaken to issue licences, and to give powers to
ships which by the law of the lartd.they were not. en-
titled to. They also, empowered his 'Majesty's ships
of war to compel neutral vessels to come into English
ports, and being arrived there, they afterwards pre-
vented such vessels from taking away again many kinds
of goods, which they had otherwise, as neutrals, a
right to do. In this, he was decidedly of opinion,
they had exceeded the bounds prescribed by the best.•
!kik
and. moss imp. ,nt laws of this country., Thisprin-
ciple was exp laid down in grfaCitit. which
lied radio- e House. • -his Lo - ip read.
• • Sage inimatin, the p ' - which was. that
►
ill ips of this country shoal, 'ACK ~
„,spipt the goodk.'
olke# ngers on the seas, unless they. 46.•• as were
expressly prohibited by Ape of,Par , ...k; and Ale-
commentary and exposition of theAtininini. and' in-,*
lightened Lord Coke on that passarnf hingrus Char-
ta, was to the same effect ; and thatlearried. Lord
carried his doctrine on thet subject stiftratther, and
said that this protection, of the law was meant to apply
to the body as well as goods of foreign strangers, and
to apply to them on shore as well as on the seas, in
order that all foreigners might be enconragedui tiring
their goods to this country, by being sure of freedom
and protection for the same, and for their permits,
and that if they could not dispose of them here; they
Might freely and unmolested take themselves and
their to such other places and countries, Where
they ds
thought they might find better market. '.'*Par
part of Ada a Charta had been confirmed by the .Dth
and 14th Edward HI. and the 18th Edward 111. ex-
pressly provided, that the seas should beopen to mer-
chants, strangers, and their goods, and .they should
be allowed to convey them into and out of the ports
431 this country. He asked die Right Honourable and.
learned Chancellor of the Exchequer if that Act of
'lB Edward 'III. had-been repealed ?If not, these
Orders of Council were directly in the. teeth •of it, and,
as such, were illegal. Again, the 28th Edward HI.
expressly said, that no ship having goods on board,
not prohibited by any laws of this country, should be
compelled to come int ) any of the ports of this kingdom,
against the will and consent of the master or owner
of such ship or goods. Nothing could be more.plain
, than this language—and he would be glad.to know if
anT one could say that Act had not been infringedby.,
the Orders of Council then alluded to, and most par-
ticalarly by that of the 11th of November. He was,
the more- surprised such incase es should have been:
resorted to,' as • Ministers could not be ignorant c.f
the explanations Which had been given as to the
French Dacreas, against which they were to. ope-

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retaliation ; and„helhought they should
waited' tiN thily.'cs. what effect. --
. America, in cipsequence of the concei-
in the alf;0 .of the ,Chesapeake, before
orted to, and adopted measures which
~.aitated against the eights of rieutralet..-
. infringed the most positive-Pitts orlriffiam,
...full force, and which were directly. etintrary to
an absolute treaty. This treaty. it-
.was not in his
power at peesent to lay before the House k but was
that entered into bet Ween. Lord' Gtiffrfille` and- Mr.
Jay ; and he quoted a pafsap from it wliiclr said,
that in consequence of Antenein -ships not being ac-,
qua'aned with What partlenlar ports of France here
blockaded, and what were not,euch.shipi should not
be compelled to enter into British ports ; that was one
very striking and important article in the treaty, not
long before enteeed into ,• and though it had been said
by many that the• President of the United States of
America had refused to ratify that treaty, he did not
see it in that light ; and, for aught he knew to the
contrary, that treaty might even now be ratified.—
(.4 cry of hear, hear, from the Treanay Becch)--the or-
der larthe Ilth November -was. certainty 'ln- 9pett,
downrightinfraction of that treaty. 'There was only •
one more high legal autheriti with .wliktrbe Fuld
at present trouble 6* Honk by referring to,and that
was the opinion of. Lord Hale, who was allowed la be •
one of the most learned and enlightened Judges *that
.ever graced the annals of this country.. On.this sub-
ject the learned-Judge observed, that several acts of
Parliament having provided for and made it not only
lawful, but advantageous for foreign stranger's to bring
their ships and goods into the ports of this kingdom,
unless an act .of Parliament should afterwards be
made to shut them out, no other power in the coun•
try can do k • and having wider such sanction and
audiority entered info tht ports of this kingdom, no
power exists' in it.of preventing their. going out of
tten,
port again, but an act of Parliament.et In the prestmt
zuccimas, -the PrivrCeamcil had &rot , . , -Ore—Olel
Which nWthing btit..P4liarbent amid do, . • le4
licence theybed giveit.a poster to dispense ditt;
which the(-Awn order was meant to effea, In the
event of any such. cases, it was allowed that 14k:old
only be suffered inparticuiar points, such a5...16f im-
portation-of provisioner arid similar acts of great no'
cessity ; but by ate theans.did the law ev'en count(
nance, much less. tolerate, The receiving si-enneserkls
the obtainment of licences. - If the Orders of Counci
were against the hi, of natiiint, or•the municipal law
of the ranil;nci Conte of Admiralty or Prize Court,
• could- give judgment on any ship or.goods.hrouseht ;
and detained, till they had the ;tenon and authorii
lof an 'act et Parli ix 11 ainent, or ' of . indemnity,-
.
1 Ministers chose to. ask for it ; and in this doctrine l
1 Was positively and directly supported by the apini.
of the late learned. Sapreme itictge of-the Adfnikelt
Sir lames. Marriott, who had laid it down, that :
Court of AdMiralty was hound. to give judgment
'any &der not alioited 'or sanctionedby an acrof Pa
lia*mcat Leaving oft • therefore all eotsidera#6
,and. opinion as to thi policy of the case for the p.
sent., until the Right Honourable Gent email hat.
convinced the Honse that the Orders were conform--
able to law, it was 'the duty of Parliament to 'atresi
• the course of the Rigeht.Horiouratilc Gen,tlernan, '
least till he should 1d for a bill of indemnity...
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER -
swered the Noble. Lord. He most readily coineidtd
with the Noble Lord in his assertion, that the Oydr
issued by his-Majesty, and now so :nuch.cansiettir
by the Noble Lord, were a violation bolt: of: the;
of nations, and of the municipal law of this connt,
as applied to a period Of peace ; and the Noble Lord
opposition was-perfectly consistent with his professi'
on a 'former ,night.• He had no difficUlty in
' proposing, that part of those Orders which seeme4
1 most obnoxious to the Noble Lord, should pass
nine in the shape of resolutions of a fitiancialetettrre,
in order that they might receive the sanction of,
ewithout however feeling, as the Noble Lord we
lesersuade the House, that his Majesty's Governmeo
.under the circumstances which imperiously eitlled •
-those Orders, had committed one-furaordiaary. yi
lotion. of eit'ler national -or municipal law. The
was, in fact, no argument which the Noble Lor4l:
urged against thOse Orders, now that they.werete•
brnuen, forward for the sanction of Peril-an-tent. sel.
would-not :equally apply a i ga_nst the pulley under
which they were issued. But having fully adini
the 'Noble Lord's argument, that his Majesty had
legatintheaity to controul the rights- ornett_trith
amity witlt 'this country, oCto rdttse them..
frer ''
trance and :departure .to aid frim.our Parisee4fit
the speeittVeki of an Aet of Parliament ; yet he
ze 4 jto inform the Noble Lord, that the Order's'
referred terkietti.o -i. iiirrely, 9n, bas IrkiertY'Vulr
rerogi
jitivet and not on anyyreirsiptivegeercisid. bl
hir...Dlaesty in time of peace, such ae; on an ernerger
-the:retaining from' export the prodace a the sot'
ordef to prevent the approachei famine. • It was
ther a Tacna-me intended tcreitertetch earths privil
of commerce or the rights oftionztal, trade.' nor
-any impost for the purposes of reVenne ;lent nu
'related to the King's war prerogatives' a waste
retaliative enaoyance. upon the enetny.., :The '
Lord had said; ttiose- orders were contrary to thA
of nations : he admitted tha ficf,ssantrliit :eat
objection to lay, that neither the King ret.the R
ment itself had any right to alter that-law of net
But still the House, in coesieletimit liiiw far it was
led on to sanction web- a • proeee:h4, would ade
what had been done upoi former occasions;. ant
tainly, if ever there was an in stance in which such
ceeding was iustifiable, it was so in the present
and therefore every Mien/nett Of th 6 Noble Lord
the proposed mode• of tainging the entestire- to
for the sanction of F.'arWirtite would equffllf
against a Bill of Indeinnity. - .H..a maintained,
what- *mold 'become an independent nation
under ciecems&iiiiertif filch imperious urgenc,
be determined by the actual state of thingsr---as
and circemstancesthernselverwpd aPtlnereljt.by
-abstract principlit of the last ,of nations. Thue
be thought it 'necesstiy to vtemise in general,
actually done : an ,AJala point
he proceeded to the consideration d what Ir.
it must be evident
:House:ail& ta•011- Europe, thatthe'measures
ineliseisisehly necessary by his Majesty's Govern
resulted entirely rts3iti`the proceedings Of the
.Government, and were measures of defence
protectiod of the rights and interestseef •tho-
and t Cte-of retaliation against the rs
who had issued a similar decree ' • and that the
sates Were not intended to insure the rights of

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hould nations. This tact he would maintain, in 0p00,4
..t was the assertion of the Noble Lord, or any other
Concittettt
aneesc. cate, in v.ir.dieetimmof the French Goverraneat„ 'TA *nen', an
before of no, rl5, from the jVtontion benches.) ", I con
Lich so the Right Hon. Gentleman, ,g that the Noble t„,,'4 -gn to in.o
which at.: Linens this night have been urged in def.wti ~ tied sca
• •- - , ' Addleilterseeent "ilLcetl _the t.
7ary to criminate that of his Majesty : for the Noblel,o7. ),,_ " ll • vi
in his stianachlabat4hc..X.“4l;Ginfokbe.British r "11 -
d •sely the
Tt was die pr:rt.;",-TrEriet; itirthihe f the coorimi°.l3lVomit
id- Mr. to her sway, ill mile mauer,of internal regulatin74M ,It *SC", ,
Ir said, that a psiblio•snahifetito, iiinedty the knit. aee'ls! olor-a,,,__,,f
rag ac- ..-•cilitaitlng not teriirall dal. ports of the-StiglisiZ • F'm •
tend,f,4,fn involved it
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e where i,n a state ofblockade; and haired againq the apple .41 At.
act not Oritetitol4lj,sobut that British produce aninlat " 9,... t-'
was one fiiCtore wits.iceer found, eVen an board neutral
vessei. ~. 4160
ty, not and on any. ir tit of thelligh was, shall be lawfu , , '' *ld
:en said to the cruiser yrauce and' her allies—was reL.relit,
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did not wholly disregarded as beneath notice, ana . • '
to the aced by a similar decree am the part of this G,v -, 4itheir
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ified.,_ mais;o.. Was this I'lketre to be considered ratti;co. . ' ' i
~the or- matter Of internal, reguation, the operations a•t• - .'
eras
st‘ie, with tha
n- (Ten, so far from being confined to French ports, erteaL,
as only not only so 1W the ports under the controul of pm: so Ps
would iiiciudijog nearly all those of continental Etnepe:C, t statute
nesled
send hat even extending to the high seas in every quarter-0Z 'lur - •
ed
Lobe globe, and to.uoutralS of every nation. 'lz be A '6; .at provia
ges 'that nistration, of K.--"frich the Noble Lord was 'a i. ••• ce, am
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his sub- in ast
Mentlser, did not hesitate -to take notice of-i. imZ ' ' 4%.
I acts of decree; and •to adoirt: upon it more stroll . i
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not only sures
.of rettliatione•iikk•sdieh they held it sea. . rm,,n. -ix
;to bring sary to apply foillthbanction of Parliament,* • -.„.,-:t.i.l's
in although they did -net. deem k expedient toeel,: ire ,'
yards be the .principle, of retaltatiOn quite to the extra; e,4 , __,a
;he coun-, she enleinee.s. _Decree ~ yet he would be glad ,c'
~ aw'''
tion and know wharckinage hats taken place in thecireunista4 : ink pro'
p:
dm, no of Emtiope, or-in. the eondoct of France towards ti the sti;
out of country froth that time to the present, which 410:11 war ;
re present render hi s . Majesty'S present Ministers lees sensible .
9 _ exei
2.4AVAIet thetiostile decrees of the-Frevielt-rstlerrtlitaue46,ll;.
by decessors had been ? He *as so far from eondenzi, she
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Aft OW! 'the conduct of: these. Ministers at- that time, thai ould ha,
In the blamed them only frar not goingfar tank/ gut tht,s . and
:414ctuld who issuedthe orders of the "Ala pfl l anuary;aw a, 1
. those
im- same timiteepecieally avowed the righttfeetaliaiia, _ their ca
great ne- and Itsirince atainit the aggressionsti France, h tea, or
n counte- the fullestexteift, should subsequent eirentr.star4, was, hoN
1111111*,for -fleastter-it-neeessarys eanie witb-24todisaesawassii, as far of
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3f Council -orders founded on pateciselystrailar.principles,nadio. the He
icipal law ed on de lt•tis of-November. His Majesty's Gen, any na
ze Court, ment did not, in fact; point thte orders more sot • arid ens
brought in the'`Ships of America, dills Against those of any 4 acting .„,
l authority neutralstate. 1-loweverobc order of the -7dulta. would 1
enmity,- if nuary 'was obnoxious to the same object* ino • n on-he i
x maine he notperhap,iti the full extent, without fmesthei geared,
he apinion irnpute hlanteki the late Ministers, he meant tole, tilted°
kiltuiralty, their tonductind been the' same. Ai to.the pad retaliat
a, that no dedimpracticahility, -and consequent fatality of de unjust.
Igment:eri decree of-Bonaparte, he tufted the }louse would - sort of
aer of Pali thence. infer that this country. had. no right to reed.. Arend
asideratton -uptir Prance, -It wan said, thei4lis-deeree- •• • . Irked
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)r the pre, subsequently explained to Mean only, that ;; ; going
'omen bad commodities should he excluded from French h okeyti
conform.- lours ; hut he siould refer to the devee.. itself
i. ' • lave 1
tto 'arrest true meaning. 'llla,t decree charges this country sir ready
ttlernan, at' having twit violated the lair of nations, bY preclaim• viola
iaky. .. ing tho blockade of-ports where we . had not lase legali
QUER n. suffitient to carry the blockade- into execution; ni potie.
I coincided it hence justifies proclaiming . a similar blockade a dicta,
the Orders this country. • Not only •theu does the French Go . woul
condemned vernmeut proclaim she blockade of all the Brae • day.
i-01: the law ports in these sands, n ithout a single ship to supper li aomi
his country„ at,lalit k declares ill neutral ships, with British pr, st:, bees
oble Lord's 'duce on board, lawful prize... Would the Noble La ' Be
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s professions . is-a measure of mere_internal r,Yulation ?Pe us b•
thy in now sides, at the same time, a similar decree was put 4 ionic
Lich seemed force at Hamburgh, as a place likely to. give reap en e i
uld pass the tion to British commodities. It was said, thetth the
ncialnattre, decree wt's to operate only' n produce at sea appal, plie
:don of .la*, ing these islands. Outsehat was the explanami el ale
Lord would M. Beurienne, the.. French Militster, in answer to .• fact
;oversiment, remons&•ance of the Hamburgh merchants comp ... tun
ly dffied for ing of the seizure of goods their property ? Why - s out
ardinary.siO- declared that any 'nation harhotiring British . • safi
law. There. should be treated as cowatir'...s in the interest of El; 'it v
Ile Lor4.had heid, and that all British manufactures were to, tie,
rywerelo he seized wherever they might be found. He ' .'' V 2
Liftenl., Which 41, persons possessed of British _ goods to deir era
policy under Within forty-eight hours, inventories of the ,s 4, PT'
illy adinitte,d, despertalty of being punished, by analhaFite• ''
ea
aj.--.1, had s? haperte also, in answer to theses's . tonnahrellee •:+no
f eetetr*t the jiaddaturgh merchants; dtielait_4.; - - . •..
*an_ ftW - - leave a-Means unemployed to- aettrer Or ..." -tie
ortseivitliont tierce ..ancl-ha a.vcoared..lais. wish to ..destiey ;'" ..seti
ries :le beg- .burghotsone of the best meanato effect his p. •, ..
now flonaparte haste's, obliged the nations under-#s w
rrieltyrs-war-- -fluence,..viz• the Coon :of -Spain, Scc. to adopti.•. • ~es
:tzercisscl by French: slew, and with the same virulent sign c.'.
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in ernergeady, .aetive.sevesky. This was pry sudicient of the. tie.
f the soil, !in tendons of France. These, then, being the • • .;e!
r. •it was nei- not governinent k tight to retaliate Soto:m*lTel ..,tt
the privileges blockade, he 'believed. was .never attempted, ezei LA
Klei nor to lay that declared by the. lateGivemment, that gunk 1
a-
hut merely, from the Elbe to Breit, which, bowever, he. los I
s a measure of ready to allow, was founded upon just grounds- 421, 44
••, -The Noble 'Comparing the present measure, and- those :dor
are to the likw by the late Ministers on the 7th 'of January, 112 110
:,lid-'-even no the House would-think that the Noble Lord sat'
ntit.the Parlia- former colleaguestould not refuse him their s',„
note of nations. without condemning the, own conduct. The*. . s,
far it, was cal-. Lord was equally unstaken;With regard tea the, Put."
!dull advert to lice in 1756 ; for it was. never allowed that nears 4
ons ; and, cer- vessels should coast between any two pertsuffor-, 4
licit such a pro- AN thus give the 'enemy the advantage of at:01 il
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e present c: e ;trade between.their,own, ports in time of war,, '' ' ; A
.leLord a st they would not admit a neutral to supplrin-_:, c
unite f rd peace—but a neutral was not prevented lion% c,fo'.l g
equfali% ' tk 41g between the poets of' France, and those of b?"' j
It
;lint:lined, at or Portugal' not being at war with this corm*, ' t
nation to: do. .IP:a bcieutiaid, that the Orders in question hid
urgency, Must offence to nentrahnations, so had those issued ay: ,
hings'—as facts Administratinn of the Noble Lord—for
lknrt he
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mere)tc.lsy-seme not onlf. etpressed' much dissatisfaction, but u
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s. Thus much lieved-threattened to resist-them ; and the Prenasit. •
general, •before the American States, in his" late Message to Co
what had been referred to therti with much acrimony, ana C
l ,` w.
ie evident ttothe plained of them as violating the rights of neutr_o
neasures judged .ttons; but it was impossible to admit France, rg
y's Government that commerce with neutrals which the detne4.t?_l7
s of the French- ~ . ' , • ; nor was it to be expected that .fraPee 0°
defence_ fpr; the he alloWed the advantage ofelse neutral flag' t00wi,,,1 P-
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411* ebustry,,-her-portS the produce of her coloniestwhile ,
moors efErance, I vented all British commerce, and declared Oess, ',.; •
1 that these men. lin a state of blockade. If the Noble LA?"
rights of neutral • colleagues, decreed the h10..--.ltadc., of a ;teat river
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