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STATE PAPERS.

In traninnitting the answers to them by aa iefeintlijet to
Paris. I have the honour to be, Ste. (SiSeta)
OZONGI CANNING.
His Excellency M. Chatnpagny, &c. &e. &c.
No. Vll—(Translation.)
Letter from Mr. Secretary Canning to the Russian Ambassador,
at Paris, dated Yoreign Office, lath October, 1808. • •
Sex=—Having laid before the King, my master, the two letters,
which his. Excellency the Count Nicholas de Romanzoff has trine.
mitted to me, from Erfurth, I have received his Majesty's cora-
, mands to reply to that which is addressed to him, by the Official
Note which I have the honour to enclose to your Excellency.
However desirous his Majesty might be to reply directly to his
Majesty the Emperor of Russia, you cannot but feel, Sir, that
from the unusual manner in which the letters signed by his Im-
perial Majesty, were drawn up, and which has entirely deprived
them of the character of a private and personal communication,
his Majesty has found it Impossible to adopt that mark of respect
towards the Emperor of Russia, without at the same time ac-
knowledging titles which his Majesty never has acknowledged.
I 'am commanded to add to the contents of the official Note,
that his Majesty will hasten to communicate to his Majesty the
King of Sweden, and to the existing Government pf Spain, the
Proposals which have been made to him.
tour Excellence/ will perceive that it is absolutely necessary
that his Majesty should receive an immediate assurance that.
France acknowledges the Government of Spain ,as party to any
Negotiation.
That such is the intention of thrEmperor of Russia his his
jetty cannot doubt. _
His Majesty recollects with satisfaction the lively Interest which
his Imperial Majesty has always manifested for the welfare and:
dignity of the Spanish Monarchy, and he wants no other ass*•
ranee that kis Imperial Majesty cannot have been induced to
sanction by his concurrence or by his approbation, Usurpations,
the principle of which is no less unjust than their example is den-.
serous to all legitimate Sovereigns.
As soon as the answers on this point shall have beetireceived, and
as soon as his Majesty shall have learnt the sentiments of the
King of Sweden, and those of the Government of Spain, I shall
not fail to receive the commands of his Majesty for such commit-
nications as may be necessary to make upon the ulterior objects
of the letter of Count Romanzoff.
I have the honour to be, &e. (Signed) oxoaca CANNING.
To his Excellency the Russian Ambassador at Paris.
[No. VIII. icthe same as No. VIT. but addressed to M. do
Champagny.)

CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE RUSSIAN AND FRENCH
GQVERNMENTS, RELATIVE TO THE OVERTURES RE-
CEIVED FROM =FURTH:

No. IX.
OFFICIAL NOTE.
The King has uniformly declared his readiness and desire to
enter into Negotiations for a General Peace on terms consistent
with the honour of his Majesty's Crown, with fidelity to his en-
gagements, and with the permanent repose and security of Europe.
His Majesty repeats that declaration.
If the condition of the Continent be one of agitation and of
wretchedness ; if many States have been overthrown, and more
are still menaced with subversion ; it is a consolation to the King
to reflect, that no part of the convulsions which have already been
experienced, or those which are threatened for the future, can
be in any degree imputable to his Majesty. The King is most
willing to acknowledge, that all such dreadful changes are indeed
contrary to the policy of Great Britain.
If the cause of so much misery is to be found in the stagnation
ef commercial intercourse—although his Majesty cannot be ex-
pected to hear, with unqualified regret, that the system devised
for the destruction of the commerce of his subjects has recoiled
upoh its authors, or its instruments—yet is it neither in the dis-
position of his ajesty, nor in the character of the people over
whom he reigns, to rejoice in the privations and unhappiness even
of the nations which are combined against him. His Majesty
anxiously desires the termination of the sufferings of the Con-
tinent. The war in which his Majesty is engaged, was entered
into by his Majesty for the immediate objct of national safety. It
has been prolonged only because no secure and honourable means
of terminating it have hitherto been afforded by his enemies.
BM in the progress of a war, begun for self-defence, new obli-
gations have been imposed upon his Majesty, in behalf of powers
whom the aggressions of a common enemy have compellyd to make
common cause with his Majesty ; or who have solicited his Ma-
jesty's assistance and support in the vindication of their national
independence.
The interests of the Crown of Portugal and of his Sicilian Ma-
jesty are confided to his Majesty's friendship and protection.
With the King of Sweden lus Majesty is connected by ties of
the closest alliance, and by stipulations which unite their counsels
for peace as wells. fcr war.
To Spain his Majesty is not yet bound by any formal instru-
ment ; but his Majesty has, in the face of the world, contracted
with that nation engagements not less sacred and not less binding
upon his Majesty's mind, than the most solemn treaties.
His Majesty, therefore, assumes that, in an overture made 41
his Majesty for entering into Negotiations for a general Peace, the
relations subsisting between his Majesty and the Spanish Monar-
chy have been distinctly taken into consideratipn—and that the
Government acting in the name of his Catholic Majesty Ferdinand
the Seventh, is understood to be a party to any Negotiation in
which his Majesty is incited to engage. (Signed)
GEORGE CANNING.
No. X.—(Translation.)
Letter from Count Nicolas de Romanzoff, to Mr. Secretary.
Canning, dated Paris, 31st October 1808. Received No-
vember 4.
Ske—trhe immediate departure of the English Courier who
conveyed to me your. .Excellency's Letter of the 28th of this
month, obliges me to confine myself for the present to the ac-
knowledgment of its receipt. I rejoice that my arrival at Paris
has enabled me to receive that letter myself, which was addressed
to the Russian Ambassador; and M. de Tolstoi, who held that
'mist, having been recalled by the Emperor my Master, in order
to his being succeeded by the Prince de Kourakin, I am happy
to find myself in a situation to correspond directly with your
Excellency. I have the honour to be, with sentiments of high
consideration, &c. (Signed)
LE COMTS NICOLAS Dle ROMANZOTT.
To his Excellency Mr. Canning, &c. &c. &c.
No. XL—(Translation )
Letter from M. de Charnpagny to Mr. Secretary Canning,
dated Paris, 91st October, 1808. Received Nov. 4th.
SlR—His Majestyy the Emperor my Master, having left Paris,
I Am not wining to wait his orders to acknowledge the receipt of
the letter which your Excellency did me the honour to write to
me on the 28th of this mouth, and which I received this morning,
as also of the official Note which was annexed to it. I shall lose
no time in forwarding these Papers to his Imperial Majesty; and,
as soon as his intentions shall be made known to me, I shall hasten
to send another Courier to your Excellency. I am with the
highest consideration, &c. (Signed) CIIAM,AGN T.
His Excellency Mr. Canning, &c. &c. &c.
No. Xll.—(Translation.)
Letter from Count Nicolas de Romanzoff to Mr. Secretary
Canning, dated Paris, 16th-28th November, 1808. Re-
ceived December 6th.
SIR—I transmit tc your Excellency my answer to the Note of
the 28th October, which you were pleased to address to Count de
Tolstoi ; and I hasten to seize this fresh opportunity of renewing
to your Excellency the assurances of the high consideration with
which I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed)
LE COMTE NICOLAS DE ROMANZOTT.

No. L—(Translation.)
Letter from Count Nicholas de Romanzoff to Mr. Secretary Can-
sing, dated Erfurth, 110th September (12th October) 1808.—
Received October 21st.
Sir—l send to your Excellency a letter which the Emperors of
Russia and France write to his Majesty the King of England.—
The Emperor of Russia flatten himself that England will feel the
grandeur and the sincerity of this step. She will there find the
most natural and the most simple answer to the overture which
has been made by Admiral Saumarez. The union of the two
empires is beyond the reach of all change, and the two Emperors
have formed it for peace as well as for war.
His Majes., has commanded me to make known to your Ex-
cellency, that he has nominated Plenipotentiaries who will re-
pair to Paris, where they will await the answer which your Ex-
cellency may be pleased to make to me. I request you to address
it to the Russian Ambassador at Paris. The Plenipotentiaries
named by the Emperor of Russia will repair to that city on the
Continent to which the Plenipotentiaries of his Britannic Ma-
jesty and his allies shall have been sent:
In respect to the basis of the negotiation, their Imperial Majes-
ties see no difficulty in adopting all those formerly proposed by
'England, namely, the (hi Possidetis, and every other basis founded
upon the reciprocity and equality which ought to prevail between
all great nations.
I have the honour to be, with sentiments of the highest consi-
deration &c. (Signed) COUNT NICHOLAS DE lOMANZOTT.
To his Excellency Mr. Canning, &c. &e.
No. ll.—(Traaslation.)

Letter from his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, and Bo-
naparte, to his Majesty,.doted Erfurtb, 12th October, 1808.—
Received October 21,
Sire—The present circumstances of Europe have brought us
together at Erfurtb. Our urst thought is to yield to the wish and
the wants of every people, and to seek, in a speedy pacification
with your Majesty, the most efficacious remedy for the miseries
which oppress all nations. We make known to your Majesty
our sincere desire in this respect by the present letter.
The long and bloody war which has torn the Continent is at
an end, without the possibility of being renewed. Many changes
have taken place in Europe; many States have been overthrown.
The cause is to be found in the state of agitation and misery, in
which the stagnation of maritinte commerce has placed the greatest
nations. Still greater changes may yet take place, and all of them
contrary to the policy of the English nation. Peace, then, is at
once the interest of the people of the Continent, as it is the inte-
rest of the people of Great Britain.
Wt: unite in intrcating your Majesty to listen to the voice of
humanity, silencing that of the passions ; to seek, with the inten-
tion of arriving at that object, to conciliate ail interests, and by
that means to preserve all the powers which exist, and to insure
the happiness of Europe and of this generation, at the bead •of
"bleb Paoyinettea has placed us. (Signed)

ALEXANDER.-.-NAPOLEON.
(No. 111. is a duplicate of No. I. but signed Champagny.)
[No. IV. is a duplicate of No. 11. only with the signature of Na-
poleon First.)

No. V.—(Trar.slation.)

Letter from Mr. Secretary Canning, to the Russian Ambassador,
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•
at Paris, dated Foreign Oillce, October 22,1808.
Sir—At tke desire of Count Nicholas de Romanzolf, 1 have
the honour to acknowledge to your Excellency the receipt of the
letter which Count Romanzoff has been pleased to write to me
from Eriurth, dated the 30th September (12th October), as well
as of the letter annexed to it, addressed to the King my master.
j shall lose no time in laying these two letters before his Ma-
jesty, and in transmitting the answers to your Excellency by an
ll,aglisp Courier. I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed)
GEORGIE 041NNINO.
To his Excellency the Russian Ambassador,
84c. Bte. &s. Paris.
No. VI.

His Excellency Mr. Canning, &c. &c. &c.
No. Xlll.—(Translation).
NOTE.

Letter from Mr. Secretary Canning to M. de ChamPagny, dated
Foreign Office, 2i'd October, ISOB.
Sir—l have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Er.
cellency's letter eff the Ith instant, from Erfurt, inclosing a let.
ter addressed to the King my master.
ebeil lose no ticm in laTins these letters before his Majesty, and


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bail

. Unaided to the two Intp.fers, that he is Ulna
agagesnent with those who have takes up arms in
Aber fifteen years of War, Europe has a right to demand
Peace. The interest of all the Powers, including that of Eng-
land, is to render it general; humanity eommandisit ; and such
a desire, surely, cannot be foreign to the feelings of his Britannic
41:s:. How can it be, that he alone can withdraw himself
eh an object, and refuse to terminate the miseries of suf-
fering humanity.
The undersigned consequently renews, in the name of the
Emperor his august Master, the proposal already made, to send
Plenipotendaries to any City on the Continent which his Bri-
tannic Majesty may pleas to point out ; to admit to the Con-
gress the Plenipotentiaries of the Sovereigns in alliance with
Great Britain to. treallupon the basis of the wipe/aid:, and upon
that of the respective power of the Belligerent Parties : in fine,
to accept any basis which may have for its object the conclusion
of a Peace, in which all parties shall fled honour, justice, and
equality.
The undersigned has the honour to renew to his Excellency
Mr. Canning the assuriglees of his high consideration.
(Signed) COUNT NICOLAS DI ROMANZOIII.
To his Excellency Mr. Canning, &c. &c. •&c.
No. XlV.—(Translationk
Letter from M. de Champagny to Mr. Secretary Canning, dated
Paris, 28th November, 1909. Received Dec. 6th.
Sett-1 have the houour to transmit to your Excellency the
answer which I bare been commanded to make to the Note which
accompanied your letter of the 28th of October last.-1 have the
honour to be, with the highest consideration, &c.
(Signed) CHAPAPAGNT.
To his Excellente, Mr. Clfining, &c. &c. &c. London.
No. XV.—(Translation).
NOTE,
The undersigned has laid before the Emperor his Master, t
Note of his Excellency Mr. Canning.
If it were true that the evils of war were felt only on the
Continent, certainly there would be little hope of attaining peace.
'fbe two Emperors had flattered themselves that, the object of
their measure would not have been misinteefreted in Leaden.
—Could the English Ministry have ascribed it to weakness or
to necessity, when every impartial Statesman must iecognize
in the spirit of peace and moderation by which it is dictated, the
characterlstiehre of power and truagreatness ? Erato-tee and Rus- ,
sta can carry on the war so long as the Court of Lemon shalt not
recur to just and equitable dispositions ; and they are resolved to
do so. . .
How is it possible for the French Gcrrernment to entertain the
proposal which has been made to it, of admitting to the Negocise
tion the Spanish: Insurgents ? What would the English Govern-
kient have said had it been proposed to them to admit the Catho- 1
lie Insurgents of Ireland) t France, without having any Treaties
with them, has been in communication with them, has made them
promises, and hp frequently sent them succours. Could such a j
proposal have fend place in a Note' the object of which ought to
have been not to irritate, but to endeavour to effect a mutual con-
ciliation
and good understanding ?
England will find herself under a strange mistake, if, contrary
to the experience of the past, she still entertains the idea of con-
tending successfully upon the Continent, against the armies of
France. What hope can she now have, especially as France is irre-
vocably united with Russia ?
The undersigned is commanded to repeat the proposal, to ad-
mit to the Negociation all the Allies of the King of England, whe-
ther it be the King who reigns in the Brazils; whether it be the
King who reigns in Sweden ; lie whether it be th,e King who
reigns in Sicily: and to take for the basis of the Negotiation the
Chi Parade:is. He is commanded to express the hope that, not
losing sight. of the inevitable results of the force of States it will
he remembered, that between great Powers there is no solid pease
but that which is at the same time equal and honourable for all
parties.
The undersigned requests his Excellency Mr. Canning to ac-
cept the assurances of his highest consideration.
(Signed)
No. XVl.—(Translation.)
Letter from Mr. Secretary Canning to Count Nicolas de Ro-
manzoff, dated Foreign Office, 7th December, 1808.
Sin—l shall lose no time in transmitting to your Excellency, by
an English Courier, the Answer which the King my Master shall
command me to return to the Official Note, annexed to the Letter
of your Excellency, dated the 16th (2.Bth) of last month, of which
I have the honour to to acknowledge the receipt.
I seize with avidity this opportunity of renewing to your Ex-
cellency the assurances of the bask essaiiisreasis witiveliai I have
the honour to be, &c. (Agned) CLOROZ CANNING.
His Excellency Count Nicolas de Romanzoff.
. .
No. XVII.

CSAMPAONT.

OFFICIAL NOTE, dated Foreign Office, Dec. 9,1809.
The undersigned, his Majesty's Principal Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs, has laid before the King his Mister"the note
transmitted to him by his Excellency the Count 14khOlal de Xi*:
manzoff, Minister for Foreign Affairs of his Majesty the Empe-
ror of all the Russias, dated on the 16th (28th of November).
The King learns with astonishment and regret the expectation'
which appears to have been entertained that his Majesty should
consent to commence a Negociation for general Peace by the pre-
vious abandonMent of the cause of the Spanish Nation, and of the
legitimate; monarchy of Spain, in deference to an usurpation which
has no parallel in the history of the world.
His Majesty had hoped that the participation of the Emperor
of Russia m the overtures made to his Majesty would have af-
forded a security to his Majesty against the proposal of a condi-
tion so unjust in its effect and so fatal in its example.
Nor can his Majesty conceive by what obligation of;len=aof
interest, or by what principle of Russian policy, his Im
jesty can have found himself compelled to acknowledge the tight
assumed by France to depose and imprison friendly sovereigns,
aad forcibly to transfer to herself the allegiance of loyal and in-
dependent nations.
If these be indeed the principles to which the Emperor of Rus-
sia has inviolably attached himself ; to which his Imperial Ma-
jesty has pledged the character and resources of his empire, which
he has united himself with France to establish by war and main-
tain in peace, deeply does his Majesty lament a•determination by
which the sufferings of Europe must be aggravated and prolonged;
but not to his Majesty is to be attributed the continuance of the
calamities of war, by the disappointment of all hope of such a
peace as would be comestible with justice and with honour.
The undersigned, 3c.c. (Signed) GEGRCIE CANNING.
No. XVIII.
LETTER from Mr. Secretary CANNING to M. de CIIAMPAGNT,
Dated Foreign Office, Dec. 7, 1808.
Sir—l have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Ex-
celiency's letter of the 28th of last month, and of the official note
therein inclosed.
As soon as I shall have received the King's commands upon
the subject of that note, I shall not fail to transmit to your Ex-
cellency by an English messenger, the answer which his Majesty
'may command me lo return to it.
I have the honour to be, with the highest consideration, &c.
(gifned) GI.ORGI CANNING.
No. XIX.
dFFICIAL NOTE, dated Foreign Office, Dec. 9, 1808.
The undersigned, his Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs, has laid before the King his Master the Note
transmitted to him by his Excellency M. de Champagny, dated
the 28th November.
He is especially commanded by his Majesty to abstain from
noticing any of those topics and expressions insultihg to his Ma-
jesty, to his Allies, and to the Spanish Nation, with which the
Official Note transmitted by M. de Champagny abounds. '
His Majesty was desirous to have treated for a Peace which
might have arranged the respective interests of all the rowers
engaged in the War on principles of alum.' justice: and his Ma-
jesty sincerely regrets that this desire of his Majesty is disap-
pointed.
But his Majesty is determined not to abandon the cause of the
Spanish Nation, and of the legitimate Monarchy of Spain : and
the pretension of France to exclude from the Blepxiation the Cen-
tral and Supreme Government, acting in the Mille of his Catholic
Majesty Ferdinand the Seventh, Is one, which la *fajta), could
net admit, without acquiescie in an usurpation eudi* has no pa-
rallel in the history of the •The endemism& fee.
•

The undersigned, Minister for Foreign Affairs of his Majesty
the Emperor of all the Russids, has the honour to reply to the
Note of the iBth October, signed by Mr. Canning, Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs to his Majesty the King of Great Britain,
and addressed by his Excellency to the Russian Ambassador at
Paris.
That the admission of the Sovereigns in alliance with England,
to a Congress, cannot be a point of any difficulty, and that Russia
and France consent to it.
But this principle by no moans extends to the necessity of ad-
mitting the Plenipotentiaries of the Spanish Insurgents ; the Em-
peror'of Russia connot admit them. His Empire, in similar cir-
cumstances—and England can resollect one particular instance,—
has always been true to the same principle. Moreover, he has
already acknowledged the King Joseph Napoleon. He has an-
nounced to his Britannic Majesty, that he was united with the
Emperor of the French for Peace as well •as for Nt'ar ; and his
Imperial Majt sty here repeats that declaration. He is resolved
not to separate his interests from those of that Monarch; but they
are bath ready to conclude a Peace, provided that it be just, ha•
pourable, and equal for all parties:
The undersigned sees with pleasure, that, in this difference of
opinion respecting the ,Spaniards, noshing presents itself which
can ebbe; prevent or delay the opening of a Congress. He derives
tis Persuasi9l/ in this respect from that which his Zritatinic Ma-
.

aletlag without date, wbieh was saboswpasiod by 2 note, aat„
dtalicA December. 1 shall transmit the whole for the inforn.a.
don of the Emperor my master.
• I avail myselfi of this opportunity to resew to your Excenetc.,
*it assurances of the high consideration with which I have the h
sour to ha, icc. (Signed) COUNT NICOLAS b 8 ILOISANZOFY,
His Excellency Mr. Canning, &c. !cc. icc. London.
No. XXl,(Translation.)
Letter from M. de Champagny to Mr. Secretary Canning, dated
Paris 13th December IWe. Received December H.
Sir—l have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Er.
cellency's Letter of the oth instant, together with the OlEcial
Note which accompanied it. I shall lose no time in laying t
Note before the Emperor my Master.
I avail myself of this opportunity to renew to your Excelletc,
the assurance of the high consideration with which I have c:
honour to be, &c. (Signed) CHAMPAGN T.
His Excellency Mr. Canning, &a &c. &a.

pARLIAmEltrdiRr PROCEADINo.f:.

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HOUSE ,OF LORDS, FRIDAY, JAN. 20.

Lord WALSiNGHAII p: mated a Petition from Lord Boriag.
don. praying for a-divorce.
The Proceedings in the Congstory Court in the Divorar
cause, Lord Boringdon v. Lady Boringdoa, were delivered at tlw
Bur.
Lord WAr.stsronate presented a Bill for divorcing Lord Es-
ringdon from Lady Boringdon, kis now wife, and enabling 16:1
to marry again, which was read a irst time.
Colonel DRINIMATItI presented the 7th and nth Reports sf
the Conunissioners of Military Inquiry, the former relating is
Foreign Accounts sod the Dep.:meat of the Chaplain Geserd,
and the latter to Miscellaneous Amounts.—They were ordered
to lie on the table.
The Earl of Liviaroor. phatanned the Correspondence relating
to the late Overtures from Pranging Rusaia.—The .paper were
ordered to lie on the table. r •
On the motion of the Earl of 14vazeota 1., tke Lords were Es
dered to be summoned for Monday and Thursday.
Adjourned till Monday.

HOUSE OF COMMONS,
A new Writ was ordered for Westbury, in Wiltshire, in tl.e
room of Glynn Wynn, Esq. who bad accepted the Chiltern IIL,-
dreds.
Mr. CREEVIT gave notice, that on this day week he would
move for the Paper relative to the Affairs of the East India Cum-
pany, which he had endeavoured unsuccessfully to obtain la-t
Session.
The Seventh Report of the Commissioners of Military Inquiry
was brought up, and ordered to be laid on the table, and to be
printed.
Mrs STURGES BOURNE moved the appointment of the
Grand Committees of Religion, Grievances, Justice, and Inde,
together with a Committee of Privileges, with other •)tAnkar;
Orders ofthe House.—All these motions were, of course, agml
to.

ERPUPTH CORRESPONDENCE.
Mr. CANNING brought up the Papers containing
the Correspondence with France and Russia, on the
subject of the Proposition for Peace from Erfurth.
Ordered to lie on the table.—Mr. Canning observed,
that it waf, of consequence that these Papers shot.ld
be taken into consideration as soon as possible, and he
,I should therefore on Thursday next, make a proposi.
tion to that effect.
1
CONVENTION OP CINTRA.
Lord H. PETTY, i pursuance of his notice, rose
to move for the Pa especting the Expedition to
Portugal. He understood there would be no objec.
it
tion to produce them, and he hoped that no unneces.
sa dy would take place in laying them before the
11 House.- He professed it to be his intention to call the
attention of the House to the subject as speedily as
possible after the production of the Papers.
• A short conversation took place between his Lord.
ship and Lord CASTLEREAGH, about the mode
of wording the motion, so as to procure the Paper con.
wining the alledged disapprobation of his Majesty cf
certain articles of the Convention.
Mr. RYDER suggested, that by adding the words.
Proceedings - -

--- and all , founded upon the Report of
the Board,"---would attain the object. The motion
then stood thus :
" That there be laid before this House a Copy of the Report
of the Board of General Officers, appointed to inquire into the
muses that led to the Convention of Cintra, togethtr with the
Papers and Evidence submitted to the Board, and also any pro-
ceedings founded on the said Repott."
Lard CASTLEREAGH pledged himself that the
Documents should be produced as soon as possible ;
and expressed his hope that no delay would take
place on the part of the Noble Lord, in calling the
attention of the House to the subject.
Lord HENRY PETTY wished to know at what
time the Papers might be expected.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
answered, that, as the proceedings were voluminous,
and as another copy of them must be made up, the
Papers could not be produced immediately ; but he
could got state any particular time.
PRIVATE BILLS.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER,
after adverting to the convenience that had been
found to result from the arrangement made, with IP.
spect to private business, for these two last years,
proposed the 24th of February as the last day tor re-
ceiving Petitions for Private Bills ; the 27th of March
as the last day for receiving the Bills themselves ;
and, the Sth of May, being about five weeks after tLe
Easter recess, as the last day for receiving the
ports on these Bills.
Mr. SHAW LEFEV RE expressed his sense of tht•
convenience that had resulted from this arrangement,
and hoped that the plan would be persevered in.
The SPEAKER said, that he would, as formerly,
call the attention of the House to any application for
an eitension of time.---The Resolutions were then
agreed to, and ordered to be printed.
BOUNTY ON EXPORTS.
Sir WILLIAM CURTIS adverted to a llill pass-
ed last Session, for a Bounty on the Export of Irish
Salted Provisions, and asked the Right Honourable
Gentleman opposite (Foster), whether he meant to
move for a similar Bounty to the English Merchants,
or to move fora Repeal of the Irish Bill.
Mr. FOSTER replied, that he certainly did not
mean to move a Report of the Irish Bill.
DUKE OF YORK.
Mr. WARDLE gave notice for Friday next, of a
motion, relating to the conduct of the Commander in
Chief
ewith regard to Promotions, Exchanges, and
Staff Appointments, to Commissions in the Army.
and Staff of the Army, and to raising new Levies.
VOLUNTEERING FROM TIIE MILITIA.
Lord MILTON mentioned, that an apprehencien
of ;tting 111c11

acquiescing ,
'the world.—
(Signed)
oitoitox CANNING. was entertained, that the measure _ permit' g
(No. XX.—(Tranlation.) to Volunteer from the Militia into the Regular ArmY,
Letter from Count Nicolas de Romanzoff to. Mr. Secretary Can-
ning, dated Paris, lit (13th) December, isos. was again to be resorted to. He wished to-know from
itseelved De- the Noble Secretary, whether this was in contempt t.
camber 17th. tion, as the plan for augmenting the Regular Army,
Sir—The Messenger whom I bad dispatched to law Excel-
which the Speech adverted.
lency is returned to this place, and has IKON* its .the letter to
which you did' me the honour to write to U 311,661 diellik atDe-
cember.Lod Some Isoursafterwards, the Meetedetielskeeitemegad. to give an explanation to the Noble Lord ; but,
celleScy llae eat to Paris,tlellwred tow Gun rairlismagasfi
l'Aboved, it wa4 unusual to give any explanation it
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