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P4RL/41.VENTARr PROCEEDINGS,

HOUSE OF LORDS 4 FEBRUARY is.

Their Lordships met at about three o'clock, on the Appeal
Cause, Kerr v. Kerr, when Mr. Maconnochie was heard con-
citisivrly for the Respondent : and Mr. Leach, at great length, in
.sfe*, for the Appellant. At half-past fite o'clock, the further
litatinewap poirponed till to• Morrow.
Mr. NV! t.t.taM DUNDAS, and others from the Commons,
brought up the Naval Stores' Embezzlement Bill, and a private
Voclosure Bill, which were read the first time.—Adjotarned till
to-morrow (this day.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The East-India Lynn Bill went through a Committee.—Report
ordered to be received to-matey.
Mr. CURWEN postroned his motion with respect to the
number of Suits in the Court of Chancery, which stood for to-
morrow, till to morrow se'nr.ight.
Sir THOMAS TURTON saidi as the Army Estimates was
to become to-morrow the subject of dhcuarion in the House, he
wished for att account of the numbs r of Troops now In Great
Britain and Ireland, extracted from the latest returns.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER had no objec-
tion to the-production of such an account, but could not perceive
whit advantage the Hon. Baronet could expect from it.
Sir THOMAS TURTON said, that it was usual to produce
an account, such as he required, on similar occa►ions.

AMERICA.
Mt. WHITBREAD rose to make his promised
motion. He could not but feel regret, that a mo-
tion on a question of such importance should be at-
, tended by so few Members. Whatever others might
think of it, he felt it to be of the greatest consequence
to hafe that information laid before the House, which
was the object of the motion with which he should
conclude. He had thought it advisable that no time
should be lost ; and he had brought it forward on a
day that interfered with no other public busine,s.—
All parties seemed to agree in deprecating a war
With America ; and yet that event, it must be admit-
ted, was but too prrbable. The Governments both
ofGreat Britainand America had, from the b!ginning,
professed uniformly a conciliating disposition. Un-
fortunately, however, with all those professions of
friendship on both sides, the breach had widened day
by day. From all the authentic information he
could derive, from the President's speech, and other
proceedings in America, war seemed inevitable, if we
continued to persevere in the same system which we
bad now pursued for five years. The case between
us and Atnerica Vas now placed before the eyes of
all the world, exbepting the two Houses of Parlia-
ment in this country. Congress had the whole merits
of the case—the people of France had them—any one
who merely read the newspapers had them—but the
British Parliament had them not. He should he
glad to know why the papers were withheld which he
solicited near the close of the last Session, and which
now, with the additional documents on the subject
were, as lie understood;to be refused to him, and to
the House. Motions for papers were certainly not
infrequent, whenever there was any ground tor ask-
ing information, or any jealousy of the conduct pur-
sued by Administration. SCh was the case in the
Russian armament, and rdpecting the Walcheren
expedition. Such also was the case with respect to
some parts of our conduct regarding the peninsula.
Such information being asked, bad been frequently
accorded ; but Avben withheld, it was generally stated,
that the disclosure would prove injurious to the result
of negotiations pending ; and it had even been said,
that other Governments would dislike it, and that fo-
teign Ministers would be induced to hesitate in
making communications, which were likely to be.
made public before the objects of them were com-
pleted. Here there was no such plea, since the whole
matter had been disclosed ; and all he asked, was
the production of papers which had been already
printed by order of Congress. In reading those pa.
pers, he saw great reason for blaming the conduct of
those who conducted the correspondence, on the part
of this country, with America ; but he should then
make no specific charges against any person, because
• the House was at present presumed ignorant of the
contents of the papers, and, as he learfied, was to be
kept in that ignorance. In a late discussion, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer had wisely said, that he
should counsel to bear more from America than from
the ancient states. If that was wise counsel, surely it
must have been also wise conduct to act towards that
country with the strictest and most punctilious atten-
tionlo decorum. The reason for this peculiar atten-
tion was sufficiently obvious ; but he would say, that
so far from that having been the case, it might be
shewn, if the papers were produced, that the greatest
inattention, amountingeven to diplomatic incivility,had
been experienced by the American Ministers in this
country ; and that our tone in America since the recall
of Mr. Erskine, had baen most inconciliatory ; but all
the means of shewing this, he was that night to be re-
fused. The Right Hon. Gentleman, who was the
Minister's colleague at the time when the celebra-
ted or famous Orders in Council were promulgated,
had never refused giving the House correspon-
dence which had been previously printed. Indeed,
it appeared like an insult to one's reason, to refuse to
produce, formally and technically, documents of such
a nature, of which every person could obtain posses-
sion in another way. The papers at present in pos-
session of Parliament came down to the termination
of Mr., Erskine's mission. That Gentleman was suc-
ceeded by Mr. Jackson, who certainly did not go
out with such instructions and in such a tone, as to
be very likely to conciliate. Things proceeded so
far, that there appeared every probability of an open
rupture : the consequence of which was Mr. Jack-
son's recall. It was by no means, however, his in-
tention to move for the correspondence between Mr.
Jackson and the American Government, since that bu-
ones& had now gone byi and beshould be exceedingly