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no otherr—ir there no whet- P)
Mr. W. WYNNE said, that in thi case of ad-
dressing the Pr►nce of Wales, to congratulate him on
his rfrirriage, the Address had been carried up by a
certain number appointed by the House. He, there-
fore, moved, that the present Address be presented
by the Mover and Seconder thereof.
The SPEAKER said, there had unquestionably
been instances, where, in extraordinary cases, the usual
mode had not been adhered to. In the reign of Queen
Anne, when her Majesty was indisposed, a limited
number had been appointed to present an Address;
but he thought it his duty to call tile attention of
the House to consider, whether they would proceed to
extraordinary means before having tried those which
were ordinary?
Mr. S. WORTLEY said, that if the House should
think proper to vote that he, in covjt.nction with the
Noble Lord who did him the honour to second his
Motion, should present the Address, he should cons--
der it as the proudest day of his life.
The SPEAKER put the question, that the-Address
be presented by Mr. S.WoinEY the Mover, and Lord
Mturox, the Seconder. .
Strangers were ordered to withdraw, but before the
Gallery was cleared, the motion was agreed to with-
out a division, and the House adjourned.

THE EVENING STAR. --

LONDON.

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FRIDAY, MAY 22.
Oar readers will recollect, that the last public de-
claration of the British Government, respecting
America, stated, that whenever the Milan and Berlin
Decrees should, by some authentic document, appear
to be actually repealed, then the Orders in Council
should also cease. It is now affirmed, that on Tues.
day last; the American Mission here communicated
to Ministers a dispatch which they had received
from the American Minister at Paris, contairring,tbe
formal renunciation, by the French Government,
of these Decrees, as far as regards America.-
-This document is stated to be of the date o: April,
MI, and to have been officially Kotified by the
French Government to the American Minister in
consequence of the Declaration of our Government
above alluded to.

Whether the Repeal of the Milan ansi Berlin De.
crees took place so fat back as is abfive stated, or
w4,hether the document h.is been AntidAted, if it has
now come substantiated to our Government, the Or-
ders in Council must be repealed as tar as concerns
America.

IMPORTANT' COMMUNICATION.
(Continued from yesterday's Paper.)
EXPLANATORY LETTER FROM TIMF. EARL Or LIVERPOOL
CO THE !MARQUIS WELLESLEY:
Fife-I-louse, May 19, 1815.
MY DEAR LORD—After the receipt of the Paper
which you sent to me in the afternoon of yesterday,
I should certainly have Ht it to be unnecessary and
fruitless to trouble you with any further correspon-
dence, if I were not desirous to correct the misap-
prehension into which you appear to have fallen re-
specting my opinions, and those of my colleagues,
upon the Roman Catholic question. In the commu-
nication which passed between Us on Sunday, as well
as that v.•hich I previously had with Mr. Canning, I
certainly stated my opinions upon the Roman Ca-
tholic question to remain unchanged; and that I was
not aware that those of my colleagues had undergone
I any change. With respect to myself individually, I
must protest against its being inferred from any de-
claration of mine, that it is, or ever has been, my
opinion, that under no circumstances it would be
possible to make an alteration in the laws respecting
the Roman Catholics.
Upon the last occasion on which the subject was
discussed in Parliament, I expressly stated, that dr-
cumstances might arise, in which, in my judgment,
some alteration in those laws would be advisable. I
have always been desirous of hearing the specific pro-
position which should explain distinctly, what part of
the existing. securities it was intended to repeal, what
part it was intended to preserve, and what were the
new securities which it has been so often declared
must be substituted in the place of some of those
which are at present in force. I have never heard
of any satisfactory explanation on this point. I will
fairly own, .that in the present state of the opinions
and feelings of the Roman Catholics, I do not be-
lieg.e such a project to be practicable, consistently
with the attainment of the avowed objects of really
satisfying the Roman Catholics, and of affording an
adequate security to the Established Church and
Constitution.
Entertaining this opinion, I have felt it to be my
duty to continue to resist a Parliamentary Enquiry
on that subject, which, in my judgment, could be
productive of no other effect than that of alarming
the Protestants on the one hand, and of deluding and
deceiving the Roman Catholics on the other. With
Crespect to the opinions of my Colleagues, there are
t scene who entirely agree with me in the view which I
have taken of this question ; but I am sure it must
Ibe known to you, from discussions at which you have
I been present, that there are others who have always
1. entertained and avowed different opinions from those
professed by me upon some parts of this subject.
I You must recollect that considerations of very high
•
rjrnportance, but which might be only temporary in
their nature, induced us all, up to a very late period,
to be decidedly of opinion that it was not proper that
' under such circumstances the measure should be en-
tertained.
I You may be of opinion that since the month of Fe-
bruary last these considerations have ceased to be in
force. But they are stilrregarded by others as not
having lost their weig9K. Besides the considerations
to which I have referred, the conduct and temper
which the Roman Catholics hare been induced to
manifest—the principle upon which the question has
1 been brought forward, and the circumstances of Eu-
rope at this time, give rise to objections Which are
I felt in a greater or less degree by different persons.
I have thought this explanation due to my colleagues
and to myself. •
In one point we are all agreed, that this is not the
momentat which the question ought to be enter-
tained, with a view to any immediate practical con-
sequence ; I am aware, that in this sense of our duty,
our opinions may be at variance with your's ; hut it
is material that these opinions should not be mist'''.
derstdoti, or subject to the interpretation to whleh my
silence might render them liable, if T had not. re-
turned same answer to that part of your paper.
Upon the subject of the Manner in which the war
in the Peninsula has been managed, I forbear enur-
ing into any particulars at present ; but I think it
material to observe, with respect to my declare.
tionohat since your resignation it bad been found
practicable to make seine extension of the military
efforts in the Peninsula ; that this has not arisen from
any means which were in existence at the time when
yeu were in office, and which there had been then
any indisposition or objection to direct to that object,
• but has grown out of events which have subsequently
occurred, and which may place at the disposal of Go-
vernment, means which were at the time unavoidably
applied to another service.
Asahis letter is merely explanatory, T will not give
you the trouble of returning any answer to it ; but I
am sure you will see the justice and propriety of con-
sidering it as a part of the correspondence whichlas
passed between us, on the subject to which it relates.
I am, &c. LIVERPOOL.
(Marquis Wellealey's Reply to-morrow.)

In another part of our Paper we have laid before
our Readers a continuation of the Correspondence be-
tween the Eta of LIVERPOnL, the Maiquis \YELLIN.
LEY, and Mr. CANNING. It is f 4 great impottance -
that the public should be accurately iiih•rmed of the
motives and views v.l ich actuate those who seek the
direction of our national afla'rs ; nor can Wit CATICOIVe
that any species of documents can ever he brotisbt
before them so well calculated to give them correct
ideas of the characters of public men and of ma-
taree of that system which, according to the success
or defeat of the contending candidates, will be atfopt-
ed for the rule of the country.

To many good and loyal subjects it Will certainly
be a matter of sincere rest et to find that the system of
Catholic exclusion, and we may add of religious into-
lerance, to which the dissenters haste been so long ex-
posed, has been avowed as the leading basis of the
new Admipistration. 'We did hope that the geaeral
voice of the majority of the nation, which has been so
unequivocally expressed that it cannot he mistaken,
would have experienced so much respect from States-
men as to snake them palm at least before so bold an
avowal--an avowal calculated to alarm and to irritate
every man of liberal principles.
Indeed, we would be but little surprised, after such
an avowal—after such numerous petitions from the
Dissenters and others on Lord SIDMOUTH'S attempt to
muzzle them—after so many petitions in favour of
Catholic and general religious emancipatip—we
would not, we say, be much surprised even to see
thousands of Petitions coming in from every quarter
of the country, praying the PRINCE RICORNT to dismiss
from his Councils all tht se who would perpetuate dis-
tention and division among the people—thereby pa-
rylizing the exertions of the Nation, in its efforts to
thwart and defeat the machinations of the common
enemy. Should it even be a fact, and we are not
going to dispute it, that the chief person in the State
entertains scruples averse to general religious liberty,
we njoice that we have such high authority as the
Marquis WE -Lest-EY as to what ought to be the con-
duct of even the KiNtes Ministers.

" My opinion (Ibys the Marquis) has always-been
" that the duty ef loyalty and affection towards a
" British Sow' eign does not consist in submissive obe-
" dience even to the honest prejudices or errors of the
" Royal mind, but rather in respectful endeavours to
" remove those prejudices and errors, by free advice
" in Council and by temperate remonstrance in Par-
" liament."

We do not throw out these thoughts from hostility -
of mind to the individuals who have been selected
to carry on the business of the nation,, but from a sin.
cere conviction that men pursuing a system restiie.
tive of the tights of conscience, however conscienti-
ously, cannot but produce, by their conduct, discran.
tents of the most intal character. Honesty of inch-
tion is no justification of principles productive of evil
—otherwise the crimes of every fanatic wad bigot
would be justifiable.
Can we have a stronger proof of the danger of ad.
milting a doctrine contrary to that for which we are
contending, than in the nkelancholy instance of the
murder of Mr. PERCEVAL. It is tremendous and ins.
pressive to-consider that Mr. Panenvot, the chant.
pion of erroneous honesty of intention, should himself
have fallen a victim to the operation of his own prin.
ciple. What right has any set of men to contend
that they of all others have only proper principles ;
for the detestable avowal which we have reprobated
denies all honesty of intention and rectitude of prin. I
eiple to Dissenters and Catholics!
The principles we maintain are not only sanctioned
by the highest authorities, but are the practical opi-
nions of the great majority of this Nation, which more
than any other has been distinguished by its g:004,
tense. The proceedings of last night in the House, j
of Commons strikingly shew the profound abhorrence
_i
that begins to be entertained of intolerance. It is
clear now that no Administration founded on such
a basis, will be permitted by the people' ter direct the
aCirs of Great Britain.

We have, however, to add, that it is with confi-
dence affirmed, that Ministers mean to retain their
places A all hazards.

In the return of the Property Tax, which we gavesesteraay,
the amount for the year ending sth of April, 1312, to stated. at
£5,231,935 6s. dd. This' is, we understand, gni: the sans mg.
'acted.
Eo N A PART if, the day before he left Paris, signed I Defies Sys
Ing avraziaturs on the price of corn, ordering it to be sdhi at the
rue of 31 francs the hectolitre, or seven bushels and tvro-thlrja
of the old French measure.
CORN-MARKET, MARICI.ANE, MAY 221
The Market to-day bee few fresh arrivals of Wheat, but again
tolerable supplies on hand—sales extremely dull. and do DOI asp.
pert last prices—some foreign expected—Barley and Malt are
each lower, the former almost without buyers—White Peal'
nearly at last prices—scarce any Grey—price nosulnal—AMMO
each sort vary but little—Flour at prices.
PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. i SMITHFLELD-.-May 22.
3 per Cent. Red. 60j-4 per Cast 74.1 i
Beef da 0.1 te da ed I Veal ts Oel tti Os od
mates es id to do ed Pork de Od to TS Di
3 per Ct. Cons. for money 301+-01tto for account 0011
riper Cent, 1797 91 —D
pre--Lg. Anns. 151 7-16tfts Lamb 71. Od. to es. 4d.

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