Star.
London, England, 1815-03-08 00:00:00

FOREIGN RELATIONS.

Mr. WHITBREAD said he should, on to-Mor.
row se'nnight, submit a mction to the House on the
subject of our Foreign Relations; and thereby give
the Noble Lord: (Castlereagh) an opportunity of fa-
vouring the Honzie..and the country with some infor-
mation on that important subject. Being now
he would ask the Right Honourable Gentleman (Mr.
H. Addington) whethir he had made any inquiries
into the caseuf,a Portuguese, mated Coraia, who
was said to hove been sent out ,of the kingdom five
years ago, under the Alien, Act, by .order of the Se-
cretary of State.
Mr. M. ,ADDINGTOI4' repeated what he had
laid on a ((yaer night, via..that.thictrausaction had
not taken place under the administration of Lord
Sidmouth, but under Mr. Ryder ; and he was con-
vinced that the Gentleman whose name. he had men.
timed would be the last person to have stretched the
Alien Act to any improper extent against any indi-
vidual ; and W Mr. Coraia had been sent out of the
kingdom, it was his opinion he had been rightly
sent out.

Mr. WHITBREAD said he was by no means
satisfied with this answer, or with the eulogium
Which the Right Honourable Gentleman had uttered
on his friend, the late Secretary ; more especially when
he considered in what manner the Alien Act had
been alluded to by that Right Honourable Gentle-
man, and by a Noble Lord (Sidmouth), in their cot.-
'respondence with Sir J. Duff. Not being' satisfied,
he therefore gave notice, that he should, on thenight
on which an-Honourable Friend of his would move
for other papers connected with the Alien Act, also
move for the correspondence which had taken place
relative to sending Mr. Corals au of the kingdom.
On .the Order of the Day for the County Gaols
Chaplains Aillsoing into a Committee-ft., ..., • „
Mr. D. GIDDY proposed that the provisions of

the Bill sh-ould be extended to Chaplains of Houses,
of Correction, as well as County Gaols.,
The Bill then vent into a Committee, and on the
motion of Sir T. BARING, . the salary was axed at
£lOO per annum. The proposition of Mr. D.-Gamy,
Ifor extending the provisions of the Bill to 1-loues of
Correction, was also adopted, the salary to the latter
being limited to ,C5O per annum. The other cLmses
were agreed to, and the Report ordoted to be receiv-
ed to-morrow. _ . .

Mr. PRESTON moved for leave to bring in a
gconotiintgheentrirgehmtsaiatindders,
interests a"
a forQf
tilielibecoterrppresZvinrvation
persons having estates in remainder and reversion.—
Leave given.
On the Report of the Bank Restriction Bill being
brought lip—
ilLr. GRENFELL proceeded to make some ob-
servations on the Report of the Bullion Committee
of last Sessions, from which it appeared, he said,
that though the price of bullion, last year, f.. 11 '2O
per Cent. the issue of hank paper had increased. lie
denied that the state of our foreign exchange, or of
the price of bullion could ever lie, judged of by the
issue of bank paper. That these circumstances never
*guided the issue of Bank of England paper, but that
its fluctuation was caused by tha greater or less issue
of paper by country banks, and, therefore, that the
increase of Bank of England paper last year was
owing to the failure of country banks, and the with-
drawing of country bank paper from circulation, in
consequence of such failures. The Honourable
Member then proceeded to take a review of the state
of the country at present, and contended that with
oer present prospects our metallic currents, ought to
have been 'restored, instead of which we had a forced
paper currency, bullion was at 15 per cent. abovo its
real value, and our foreign exchanges were 15 per
cent. against us. From these circumstances he could
only infer, that the coinage of the country was de-
preciated, and at a discount, and that the only way
to cure the evil would be to return to our old system
at as early a period as possible, and again restore our
old circulating medium, viz. a mixed currency of
coin and paper : with this impression on his mind,
he should, on the third reading of the Bill, move for
an amendment similar to that which he had moved
on a former night.
Mr. ROSE acknowledged it would be cicsirable
for the Bank to return to the old system of.cash pay-
ments ; but that at present was impossible. The
Honourable Gentleman who had given notice of his
intention to move an amendment on the third reading
of the Bill, had acknowledged that the Bank price of
bullion was above the Isl.nt price considerably; there-
fore, if the Bank was now to coin guineas, trey would
no sooner be issued, than they would be bought up
and melted dawn again. The Honourable Gentle-
men also forgot what large sums in specie we were
still under the necessity of sending abroad : above a
million of dollars went monthly to Portugal ; and we
were daily sending numerous sums abroad. If the
Bank were to coin '2O millions of guineas to-morrow,
under the present circumstances, in a month not
100,000 of them would be in circulation. The Bank
therefore would be put to a very great expense, and
the Public would derive no benefit from it.
Mr. HORNER did not now mean to enter at
length into the question ; but he should, in a future
stage of the Bill, propose a Clause for the resumption
of Cash Payments at as early a period as possible;
but he could not, however, avoid entering his protest
against the Bill altogether; which now, after Peace
had arrived, proposed to continue the'Restrictionsin
the same form as they had been during the War.—
The present Bill proposed to provide for the revival
of Cash Payments in 15 months, if the Bank should
then be in a state to do so. This was a mere.fallacy,
for could it be supposed that the Bank, if left to itself,
would ever resume Cash Payments ; or give up a
system so beneficial as the Restrictions were to them?
Neither himself, or those who acted with him, ex-
pected the Bank should immediately resume Cash
Payments ; but he wished Parliament to say that
they should, at some particular time, do so.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
said, it should be recollected, that though the sitiii-
° don. of the country was very much improved within
these few months, we had not yet concluded peace
with Amt-rica; and though we had concluded peace
.with'the Continent, it had as yet only operated as a
preliminary treaty. When 'it was considered what
was the state of the Continent even at present, it was
astonishing that the state of exchange as related to
rps should have improved at all. It bad, however,
already improved X 25 per
.centt in our, favour, and.
a further improvement of 10 per cent. Might be ex-
pected. Such an improvement would turn the ex-
change in our favour, and might do much towards'
the resuming of cash payments.
Mr. J. P. GRANT was but little Linguine. that
the present measure would produce any good. ' He
should'cxpect, that at the ekpiration of 15 months
the Right Hon. Gentleman would come down with
a proposition for the further continuation of the 'ke-
strictions.
The Report was then agreed .to, and the Bill or.
dered to be read a third time on Thursday. t
The House then went into a Committee on the
Mutiny Bill.
Lord PROBY complained of Officers 'being dis-
missed the service by the power cf thetrown without
their having been tried by Courts Martial, He be-
lieved he should first have moved.for papers to prove
the existence of the evil ; but the dismissal of the
Officeis of the loth 'misers, in consequeice of she
trial of Colonel Quentin, was sufficient to prove the
existence of that of which he complaided. Hewes
convinced it never was the intention of the Legislatur
to vest a power in the Crown to drive a man from
his profession, with a stigma on him, without his ever
having been tried. But lawyers told him, that cus-
tom made the law. The cases of which he complained
were, for bringing charges against superior Officers,
for what was considered ungentlemanlike charges ;
and for being absent without leave. All these cases,
he thought, were more fitted for the investigation of
Courts Martial. In proof of this, he instanced the
invariable practice of our Navy, from which no man
is dismissed without being tried. The same was the
CM in both the Austrian aad Russian armies. To
remedy this evil, he moved a clause-0s That no
Officer should be dismissed the service otherwise thin
by the sentence of a General Court Martial."
. Lord PALMERSTON Would not have wondered'
bid a proposition of this nature come from some of

those theorists who are .:onstoitly propoitiaw,alter,
tions. But he was surprised that it shoOd have co,
from the Noble Lord, and that, too, without his I.
ing any grounds for such an f•ntroacllment on 0
prerogative of the Crown, pc,. now es.,:sted ha t..
first time. For when the liroks of t!:T. prereght s
were circumscribed, the Cr0....1 w. s Lut deprived
this power "which the Noble Lord wise. d to tak
from it. lie conceived this p ~osed alit, ation woul
tend to destroy the discipline of hie army, and alto
its telatioos towards the °tiler parts of the State,-
Besides, .he could not con icier holding a comm .
sion as a sA•t of freehold preps: ty. He conunsle
that Ouse v:ere many cases in which the Kier{ woe!
be justified in dismissing Oilicers for things thp
could not prf:perly be termed military offence.. H
instanced disaffection as a case in which it might b
very improper to declare before a Coort•marrial
I WAY in which tlto Crown obtained that inl3rmatior
Another case was that of complete incapacity i
an °dicer to discharge the duties of his statior.—
Therq...3.Yele- Uraux4inproExicties. th,st an Office
might telfuiTtY &against the rules of society
honour, that could not beigought under the militar
law For ifitse reasont "was warranted in rec• ro
mending that the proposition of the Noble Le
should be rejected. But this was no new prepositicli
for Sir R. IValpOle in' lilt, recommended to ti.
King to dwoiss Lord Cobbs's] and the Duke of B:I
ton from the command of their reriments, far 11.-1.
political conduct in Parliament. consequence c
this, a propositism like that of. for Noble Lord \;.•
recommended Palls:nem ; but, after the n.,-
mature deliberation, was rejected.. He (Lord Pal.
merston) under:toed the Noble Lord was in error re.
specting the Navy ; for he was told that the king
did possess the power of di6ntissin7 Officer.; from ttv
Navy without the sentence of Couris Mhrtial. Bat
the, adoption of sucb a measiire would be injorions to
the service, and to the good of the State. The Noble
Lord had made out no case to justify the adoption
of his measure ; and he hoped the Committee would
reject it. •
Mr. BENNET stated, that he had known Reg'.
mental. Courts Martial, the Members of which were
not sworn, nor even the witnesses examined nn oath.
He had also known ISO lashes given for what was
not now a punishable offence in the Army. it was
only by the discussions of those theorists, described
by the Noble Lord, that they had been shamed out
of the cruelties practised in the Army ; and the exit.
tence of which were, at the time, denied.

. .
Mr. WARD stated, that there was a power in the
Crown to dismiss Officers from the Navy without the
sentence of any Court Martial.
Mr. TIERNEY could not de otherwise than sup.
port the proposition of the Noble Lord as a broad
constitutional question and principle; for it surely
was contrary to the spirit of our Constitution, to
punish a man without his being brought to trial. An
Officer, charged with disaffection, should be tried
by some Court or other ; for unless a m.m is tried,
his character might be whispered away. The °dicers
of the 10th. Hussars were made their own execu-
tioners : for could it be supposed, that a man would
remain in the service with a mark on his forehead,
that he had been dismissed from his last regiment fir
being ignorant of the first rules of subordioati,4l.
Gross injustice seal in that case shewn, in punishing
26 Gentlemen without a trial, whose ebaraeters in
the army were unimpeached before. The Corn-
Mender-in-Chief did certainly, in the kindest manner,
endeavour to soften the rigour of their sentences,
and to induce them rather to remain in the service
than to quit it. Where could have been the possible
inconvenience of allowing these Gentlemen a chance
of justifying themselves before a Courtanartial?
Colonel WOOD instanced the case of five or six
officers of the 85th Regiment, who preferred a charge
against their Colonel (Ross) 'for which they were
dis Missed.. Several others remained who hid aided
and abetted them ' • and the same system of cabal and
intrigue continued till, three years ago, the Comman-
der in Chief was obliged to have recourse to a gene-
ral removal of all the officers of that corps, and re-
placing them with others. Now there was not a
more efficient or gallant regirnent in the service than
the 85th. Ho read the regulations as to incapacity,
by which it is ordered that they may be devrived of
*their commissions. He apprehended they could not
properly try any man for incapacity. He thought
this motion ill.tirned, since we had now arrived at the
end of a long war, in which the British army bad dis•
tinguished itself as much toe its discipline' as for its
heroic achievements... To the excellence of the regu-
lations of the Commander iu Chia -was
that disci-
pline owing.
.
Mr. TIERNEY saw no aifficulty in proving the
Incapacity clan officer before a Court Martial.
Mr. MA.SUTTCiN .thosiglit, that if this .prepnsi;
lion 'vete asiopttd, itoottld not meet• the cases is
lanced. 471? ere was, in, his opinion, a shorter way,
ndihat.iis by addressing, the Crown to redress the
kw), defile to indrviduals in khe way complained of
1 , the Nuble•Lord, and'alici to dismiss the advisers
,_l.nialr:eneh iilitlatiee.' Whet the Parliament, in the
reign of King William, regulated the laws respecting
the army, it left .the power over commissions as a
prerogative of the Crown. This proposition would
destroy that prerogative, apd4, therefore, be would
vote•against the Clause of Noble Lord.
Mr. W. WYNNE' tiai convinced that the House
should exert its constitutional jealousy to rut the
army on a different footing than that on which a had
hitherto been: kir the 29 millions proposed for the
peace est'abliohntent augured the keeping up of a
large military force, and consoquently keeping up the
influence of the Crown. • on this account, he w. 1%
decidedlyfavnumble to the Motion of the Noble L(;r,...•
• Lord PROSY's clause was then negatived wita-
out a division.

Mr. WHIT— BREAD called the attention of the
Noble Lord (Palmerston) to a clause in the Mutiny
Act, which gave a power to the Commander-in-Chief
to transport soldiers to cond,•mned regiments, on their
confession before a Mag.strate of their being deser-
ters. He hoped the Noble Lnrd would take steps to
remedy so en,,rmous a poser.
Lord PALMER3TON said, this clause had been
introduted to prevent frauds, by persons endeavouring
to obtain the rewards tor the discovery of deserters.
• Mr. W. WYNNE wished to know if any steps sve:e.
4itken to prevent duels arising out of Courts.martali
by some strong mark of disapprobation being put un
practice so subversive of all discipline and justice.
Few men would stand forward to bring perms t°

they were to be make answerable for it of
iertrards in their own persons. He instanced the case
„, ,t Officer named Cowell. wbo had been dim:l'ms
service for not having sent a challenge to a Cnn.
11,:sary, of the name of Harley. The Officers wh
Tv. on this case write to him that he must be awari
tha fizhting a duel was contrary to the articles
And yet he was dismissed the service for nut
6zytiog a duel, and for making an apology to a man
vb.,l he had provoked at the theatre at Bourdeaux,
,a;.;,.,ntozicated. 'This Gentleman had acted like al
honour in making an apology when he knew ,
if 1.1 be in the wrong.
T'le Bid then went through the. Committee. and
„ ordered to be reported to-morrow.
Me Resolutions On the Assessed Taxes were post
pied till Thursday.
The Committee on the Malta Trade Bill was post-
rved tilt 1.--m..rrow (this day). •
The Pancr is Paving Bill was read a second time.
Mr. MELLI•H presented a Petition from Limehouse
icAinst the Corn Bill. Ordered to lie on the table.
Adjout fled at Nine o'clock.

TH E EVENING STAR.

LON DUN.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1818.
MICE OF • Wks THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK.
ketincrd ‘1112,—.4 per C. shat—S per Ct. Navy 924
Coti.ol4 ev:ii 64—for accoom, 64 11—Ornniurn Sidle.
80, Lurk Anna. 4hut—lin.ls Sr. Sa pre.
Isttrquel• Villa 2a. 4s. prem.—Lottery 'fiftets .C 22.

1 his morning Capt. W. PIRCY (nephew to the
c,',lke of NO HTII UM BERLAND) arrived at the Admi6
rally with dispatches from Sir ALEXANDRA COCIf•
ItkN F., at New Orlea.is. Dispatches were received
it Lord CASTLEREAGH'S' Office from the same quarter.
The contents of these dispatches have not trans-
riled officially, but the reports respecting them ate!
an unfavourable complexion. The expedition is
:aid to have sustained a check in an attack made on
New OrleanS OR the 7:11 of February t and we are
=caned to add, that among those reported to have
:alien are mentioned Generals PA KUBAN and Gists,
:he first and second is command. The loss in rank
and Ce is reported to have been about 2,500. We
:nem however, yet vouch for the accuracy of these
particulars, and we hope that when the real facts
hall have transpired they will be found less disastrous.

The 'minted expedition against South America
s rude,' in t!.e troops being relanded and ordered to
old quarters. Some of' the transports, it is said,
-Ist be refitted s but the fact is, it is dui:tight the
:,Oro men may be wanted at home. In the mean
ime the dress-maker to the Virgin, in the fullness of
:is devotion, has got all the . Spanish American pa.
riots excommunicated, and obtained a bull to that
feet from the Pore I

Today we teteined the Paris Papers of Saturday
Ord Sunday last. They studiously keep up die idea
Kir.g JOACHIM'S approaching deposition from the
prone of Naples, bni they are not always borne out
n their surmises on this head by the complexion of
;nzelligence from other parts of Europe.
The KING or Some/ has, it seems, left Berlin to
3ke upon him the Government of the States which
-.are been reserved to him.—We select the following
utracts e

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