The Sun.
London, England, 1818-01-28 00:00:00

THE ADDRESS

Their Lordships then proeveded to the reg Mar
bnsitiess of the day, which was the coosidtition
. -of an Address to his Royal highness the Prince
Regent, on the ocestsioii of the tiptech delivered
that day On his Royal .highness's behalf.--The
'Royal speech was read, as casual, by the Lour)
CHANCFLLOR, and sobseqounsly by the Clerk, az
the table.

.The, Earl.of,AYLP.sroan then rose to move an.
Address to iris Royal !lightness the Prince Rego):
on the occasion of his Speech. His Lordship
prefaced the same with a short pertinent speech ;
but delivered in a direction and tone of voice so
low, that very little of his remarlis confd he dis-
tioctiv heard below the Bar. The Noble Earl ap-
peared to advert to the leading topics of the
Speech, on which .he commented in such a tray ug
to induce repeated cheering from a number uf
theii• Lordshivs. After deploring, in appropriate
terms, the afflic:ing catastrophe which formed one
of the leading topics of the Speech, his Lordship
adverted to those topics which he d,e,,Oed of the
most consolatory nature, anti on which he accord-
in,gly congratulated the House and the country.
The Noble Earl concluded by moving an Address,
which, as usual,. corresponded with the principal
points it, the. [loyal Speech.
Lord SEt.sEA seconded and supported the Ad-..
dress in a speech of soine length. He lamented,
in pathetic terms, the awful and afflicting visita-
tion of Provid..nce„ by ‘.hich the nation was de;.
rived of brightest hope„ the lineal succession
to the Throne set aside, of a race under which the
ration had risen to such an unparalleled height of
splendour, weahh, and prosperity. Never had
there been an iiistance of sorrow and regret beiog
• so unanimously expressed as on that afflicting, oc-
casion. Never were the expressions of-condolence
so justly or so generally carried to the foot of the
Throne or the Altar.. Turning' from this gloomy
and regretful topic, the Node Lord glanced at
those points of the Speech which he held to afford
just grounds for congratulation. The continuance
of that advantaecous peace and tranquillity which
the nation had achieved in the issue of a long,
awful, and arduous contest ;the restoration and
establishment of internal order and quiet, which
resulted from those precautionary measures wisely
adopted by his Majes;y's Government ; tire in-
crease of the commercial and financial prosperity
of the country; the assurances received of the.
friendly dispositions of foreign powers ; and not
the least, the measures which were adopted to-,
wards perfecting the abolition of that horrible
traffic the African Slave Trade. Ile regretted it
had not Llien to one more eqoal to the task, and
more competent to do the subject justice, in the
seconding of 'an Address ...high he most cordially
approved.--Ou the Question,
Earl STANHOPE rose—lie felt himself called
upon to say a few words, but ir*.ort view of inter- '
ruining that nnanimity vt bleb he certainly
thought to prevail ypon, thF present occasion.
As a public MAO, he was neither enrolled under
the banners of the Executive Goverumeot', nor
arts he, on the other; hand, connected with any
regular or systematic Opposition.. In public life
be tool no other object titan the peace and hap-
piness of the country. Under the present citcum-
statices, Ire irttE more part icolat ly :adverse to Kny
systematic spit it of opposition; for which he inn,c
,ay there appeared 'no just gi minds. whatever.
Above all. things, they should take the uncrrin4
test of experience ftur their guide ; they should
Ackno.xledge that ont e,. the present Arimiotstra-
don every thing had been 'achie‘ed that the most

sangoine expectation eonld hope for ; anti as far
• 05 was possible, they had established a peace,
rich lot med -the liberty and the indepeodence of
tim•s rottoiry and of Continental Europe. They
shoot(' acknowledge that his Majesty's Ministers
had steered the vessel Of the State through the
tem;•ests of anarchy, and the quicksands of revo-
lotion, into a- port.ot satity. What he principally-
rose for, was-in reference to those reports, which
seemed drawn trout a variety of sources, respect-
boroire-.sittottion .anal circumstances. of .•3 oeigh-
.bouting kingdom ; tool respecting which. much
of opinion was advanced, and this
ehiellY'related to a question of the probable sta.
trimty -of the -existing Government. lf, in one sense,
the affirmative of these bpinions were correct, he
'would ask what possiide danger could there re-
from liberating-the State Prisoner at Saint
I.l!Froa Oil the contrary, the retaining that
person in such dnrauce.may be held as a tacit coo-
tes,imin that .the present Government of France
did not rest upon solid grounds Ili wool(' ah-
-stain from entering into any discussion as to the
.merits or demerits of these questions; but in what
he should now ;Ay, he would confine himself to
known facts. They knew that Louis XVIII.
bad twice recovered his dontinions, anti twice
taken possession of his capital, through foreign
aid ; and there were those who had thought
be held .his political power only through the
same medium. They had -been told by a-Noble
Lail that they had a right to interfere with the
internal concerns of that country ; but if they had
a right to the greater, they certainly had to the
.lesser interference. They had the right of con-
quest. Upon that principle they had the right to
Joists. participated that country, not for the ag-
grandizement of oilier Powers, but for-creating
other independent Sovereignties. lo the time of
the Romans that country had been divided into
three distinct Governments. So in the ease Of
the Allied Powers, they had at the time a right
to have participated that coontry. The mainte-
nance of
,the present Government of France he
retarded as an object of iinpOrtant yolicy. Those
,reasons which appeared to render Louis XVIII.
,obnoxious to the French people, ought (so we
understood his Lordship) to render him accept-
able 'to the ..Allies. The great object, and that
which should have most of the care and anxiety of
Ninisti 6. should be the preservation, of that
.pact which had been so long fought for, and to-
wards that desirable object be deemed, that the es-,
lablishment of the Government of Louis
would go a great way. He reprObated every
.thing that affeCted to proceed under the emblems
of liberty or equality ; and they should recollect
:the umprincipled course held by, the French people
while tiny acted and fought under these ensigns :
they should bear in Mind the inevitable calami-
ties which must ensue,. were that peace lost, in the
purchase of which so much blood and treasure
Was expended -; that peace which resulted from
the War so gloriously terminated by the battle of
Waterloo. Adverting to the report of the retorts
of.the 'troops from France, the Noble Earl ob-
'served, that the sprit of the Treaty under which
time occupation proceeded was, first, That they
should not leave France until allthe contributions
imposed upon her were previously levied ; Se-
courtly, That sufficient time and facilities should he
allowed to the neighbouringPowers.to establish
fortresses in the Low Countries ; and Thirdly, That
sufficieot guarautee should be afforded to Eu-
rope with respect to the continuance of peace, or
every secority that the state of France could af-
ford.' Upon these grounds it was that the present
Government of France should be supported by
the Allies, and Louis 'XVIII. maintained, as the
-most l,kely way of ensuring the continuance of
'peace. Were that to be•set aside, one of the first
events would be an attack from France upon the
'Netheriaods, and every attempt ,made to cause a
'rising iii these conntties. XVI:h reference to the
-much talked of cp:estion of economy, he trusted
Ministers would hear in mind, that no economy
could be real or. well founded, except bottomed in
the preservation of peace; and with respect to the
notions of equality or reform, there' were no ideas
so grossly mistaken as what were understood by
these names. With respect to the Suspension- of
the Habeas Corpus Act, there was cl.;
necessity for continuing it at present. But that
there was 011011411 y a necessity for its suspension,,
appeared to him to have been fully proved by the
two Reports ; however, the grounds upon which
he entertained those opinions be should not then
enter upon. On a firt tire opportunity, Perhaps,
he Shookd have the honour of stating thOse to their
Lordships, as well as the reasons which induced
him to dissent from all those chinieras which lay
under the specious name of Parliamentary Re-
form.

The Marquis of LaNspowtin followed, and
made a variety of observations on several of the
leading points which had been adverted to in the
present • discussion, deprecating any interruption
of that unanimity's hick it was so desirable should
pievail. lie censured the. conduct of his Ma-
it+y's 'Government with' respect to the Suspen-
sion of the Habeas Corpus Act, for which he con-
tended no necessi*y existed ; on the contrary, he
argued, principally front what appeared on the
State Trials, that the conspiracy, such as it was,
was by no means an extended one ; and further,
that it clearly appeared, from what had actually
taken place, that the existing law, wid especially
the Act of the 25711 of
.Edw. 111. :was amply „pi_
dent for the purpose. There was not a tittle of
evidence to support the assertion of the conspiracy
being numerous. l'he affair at Nottingham, on
which so much stress had been laid, was pot
do.vn by a party of the 18th Dragoons. 'Regard-
ing the harsh and unconstitut intuit measure of. the
Suspension as he did, he was glad to hear it was
the intention of Ministers to proceed immediately
to its repeal. With respect to what was said of
the increased prosperity of the country, there
could he none permanent or secure that did not
proceed upon the ground of effectual economy ;
and in that view, he trusted that Parliament
et,,1,111 tuost seriously consider the state of the Es-
tabl:shments with H view to their raduetion, so as
soin,i% hat to equalize the expenditure with the
rev tine of the country.

1:e E id of Livenpoot, observed, that the pre-
Qt nr w:ts neither a regular or a Tiiirahlenpportu-
:Y for vtitertile: iiilo-diSC-4135i.1) upon tl'e interna!
. '-ot the etiuntry. NVfien that irnporttiut slues-

ti"on shenid come to be discussed, be sboubt be
prepared to stew that the precautionary measures
which, were adopted had been called for„ by. an
adequate necessity ; and farther, that (bey had
been the means of preserviog the peace arid tran
qnillity of the cnnutry. He should be prypaLed
to prove a case where the lives and pioperties of
his Majesty's.subjects, as well as.the safety_o(the
country, might be seriously menaced, and wherein
Ministers' would ill discharge their duty, if they
waited to consider how ov,rch risk might be run,
or what degree of conspiracy existed before they
adopted measures-necessary for;the- mint-enance
and security of all, classes of 'his Majesty's sub-
jects,—nay, the very safety of the country itself.
With respect to the formation of the Speech, it
was framed in such a manner, as that a con es-
ponding Address may be assented to, without
implicating any pledge or opinion, as to several
of its most important topics. The internal si-
tuation may beid egarded as improved, were it only
considered that what is as done bad drawn from the
disaffected some of the means they had employed in
inducing others to join iii disturbing the general
tranquillity. He begged leave to say a few svo;tls,
in cow:et-pence of some observations which had
fallen front his Noble Friend opposite (Earl'
Stanhope.) The House would at once see, that
with respect to some of the topics adverted to by
his Noble Friend, it would hest beCome him (Lord
L.) at the time to refrain from saying any thing
With respect, however, to the policy of this Coun-
try in regard to France and. the Continent of
Europe, it must and will be the object of Govern-
ment to preserve the peace which had been's()
happily attained. Their object should be 'to per-
severe in that course always; and the most likely
way to do that successfully would lie the sacred
fulfilment of their engagements ; but with the ex-
pectation that other Powers would do the same.
He did not, however, participate in thoSe feeli~ e•
to whichihis Noble Friend alluded, with regard to
the situation in which the Sovereign of that coun-
try is placed with respect to the people of that
country. The subject was certainly one that it
was proper be should at present abstain front en-
tering into; hilt he was persuaded there existed
in the Councils of every Power in Enrope, a due
disposition towards the preservation of peace, aid
for the maintenance of the Treaties into which
they had entered.
The Qtidlions then being put, the Address was
agreed to, nem. this , and ordered to be presented
in the usual way, by the Lords, with white staves,
as was also an Address of Condoleuce, 'on the
motion of the Noble Earl,' to her Majesty the
Queen.

REPEAL OF THE HABEAS CORPUS SUSPENSION.

Viscount SIDAIDUTI-1 proposed, that the Stand-
ing Orders, which prohibit the passage of Mils
through more than of e stage. on the saute day,
should be taken into considereion to-morrow.
with a view to their suspension, as far as related
to a Bill to he brought in for repealing the Act of
last Session, for enabling his. Majesty to secure
and detain persons whom he suspected of conspir-
ing against his person and. Government. This
proceeding seeming to meet the concurrence of
their Lordships-, the Noble Secretary of State re-
gularly moved the same, and the relevant Orders
were ordered to be taken into considetation to-
morrow accordingly. .