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amend. He could not see that any purpose wool l
be answered by carrying the Resolutions of the Ho-
noorable and Learned Gentleman, as they led to Aso
practiyl inquiry.
Lord CASTLEREAGH regretted that politics
should have been unnecessarily mixed up with the
present question, and that an attempt should have
been made to wound.the Government through the
distress of the country, instead of discussing the sub-
ject with a view to some practical measure. He de-
clined answering the latter part of the Honourable
and Learned Gentleman's speech au the present oc-
casion. He, however, believed he had a right to as-
sume that course which had been pursued by Minis-
ters, had the unction of that House—had the appro.
bation of the country—and must now be left to the
judgment of posterity. No line of conduct could be
more criminal on the part of this countr) than to have
endeavoured to make arrangements for the govern-
ment of men in other parts, according to our corn
mercial views ; and nothing, he was satisfied, could
ultimately prove more impolitic. It was most grati-
fying to hear from an Honourable Gentleman, so
able to give information, and so recently tram a great
manufacturing district as the last speaker ( Mr. Fin-
lay), that the distress was already abated. This
was consoling, as it went to prove' that the pressure
now felt arose from causes which were tealporary.—
To what had been advanced on the subject of Com-
mercial Treaties, he would say this country had, in
his opinion, made too many of them, and we could
not now attempt to add to their number without risk
of implanting in the country we treated with a spirit
of commercial jealousy and poitical hatred, tore in-
jurious to our interests, in every enlarged view of
policy, than the concessions we obtained by it could
possibly prove beneficial. All things considered, the
exports of the year 1816 were tnech greater than we
had a right to expect they would be. The exports
of British manufactures had amounted in the last
year to £36,700,000. This was the highest return
made in any year but that immediately preceding the
last, when the value of our exported manufactures
had risen to 444,000,000. Alter such a year a falling
off was to be expected. At present he could see no',
real decline in the demand for British goods; our in-
tercourse with the Continent was five times greater
than it was before the war, and instead of feeling any
thing like despondency, he could not but look for—
v.,ard to the result with cheering hope. He ;hewed
!how immensely the industry of the country had
I been affected by the cessation of the Government
demands for those articles, of which such large sup-
lplies were wanted during the continuance of the war.
When this was remembered, and when the difference
;in the exchanges, which fro:n being 30 per nut.
I against this country, were now six or seven per cent.
in its favour, were taken into consideration, he did
not see that the consequences which had ensued were
other than must naturally be expected fr..m such a
revulsion. He therefore moved, that the other Orders
of the day should be read.
Lord COCHRANE did not believe the causes of
the present distress to be of a temporary nature.—
Taxation was the root of the erril, and tial the people'
were relieved from the burdens under which they at
present groaned, all but those who derived their re
venues from the taxes must be distressed. Commerce
could not revive, for it would be impassible for this
country to enter into successful competition with fo-
reigners, while our manufactures continued to be op-
pressed as they were at present by taxation. The
Bank, in the present Irate of things, could not •esnine
cash payMents without producing even greater dis-
tress than had yet been experienced.
Mr. Alderman ATKINS thought it was ind'apen-
sibly necessary that the House should go into a Com-
mittee on a matter Of such importance, to inquire into
the causes of the distress, and to endeavour to disco-
ver the means by which it might be removed.
Mr. BROUGHAM would not follow the Noble Lord (Cu-
derugh) into al the tog ice of his speech, short as it was I Ns few
arguments could easily be answered. In sheering the state of our
exports, mud comparing those of hut year with the exports of pre-
ceding pun, hr hal only rated an argument which he (Mr.
Brougham) anticipated. The prices were taken from the offi.ial '
returns. Although greater last year than those of any former year,
except 1815, they did nor, u the Noble Lord intended they
should, allow a E 'wishing state of our commerce, He was pre-
pared to prove, that these prices were never realised ; that they
wage invoice prices; that 50 per cent of those prices we not
paid. His Honourable Friend, the Member lOr Glasgow if he
would allow him to call him so), had truly stated that out ex-
ports were great, that great quantities of goods were sent out of
' the country by the manufacturers; but these goods were not
sold ; or, if sold, they brought no price that would repay their
expenses. The Hononrabk Member knew that be was obliged
to export his cotton webs at no profit, and sett them at a price
that would not enable him to support his labourers. The Noble
lord had accounted for the present emharrauments of the trad-
ing and manufacturing interests from the ditoinution of Govern-
ment demand, In conk queue of ele peace. 'The Commissariat,
and the Navy, bad funterly consumed to a great amount; and
this demand had now been annihilated; but how cim!ti this
hap-
pen ? Wu nut the money in the country ? and was it not to be
employed inywonsoling our internal commerce Did the Noble
Lord mean to state disc we could not use the money in our
pockets except we allowed the longer arm of the Chancellor of
the Exchequer to be put in along with our own hands to take it
out—(Hear, and a laugh). Could we not, if the Chancellor of
(be Exchequer allowed us to keep our money in our pockets,
postdate aid consume the goods which Government purchased
and consumed hew.) The Noble Lord proceeded on
the tepposition that be (Me- keesighant) bad urged thasecem:ty
er propriety et interfering li foreign politics for commove*
purposes; of planting governments for the interests of oar tradh;
and of doing what was in Itself wrong or unjust for the sake of
securing commercial advantages to which we were not entitled.
- -Wham a Government by -its own avowal has been reduaqi
to such a mate et deplorable weakness that It cannot tee.
form its tuncrlons—when it had not only been reduced to
a number of clerks in ernes, but could not answer the
woodmen and iromoeu that came to oppose bas another in
tie Trade-odice—(Cries .f leer, laser.)--te Mu high time fo
Parliament to step in and retests the country from their hands,
sad Inquire into the best =canoed redressing the grievances which
it suffered from the Admit:thirstiest. He had;os a forme: night,
given offence to a Right Haw Gentleman (the Muter of the
Mint) by mentioning the eetaloasert an eminent Muter of the
Mint ot a former reign. He might Dow be ea for going a
little farther back, and quoting the advice gives by a great States-
man, who,., he was a Cabinet Minister, and a Lord Chancellor,
might expect amiss favourable bearing. 'Megrim Lord Chan-
cellor bacon, in speaking of a state of thirty which, might arri-
,gest the present times, had said, ,* that the best means of cheeko
Mfg disturbance wasto seek into the cause of the distrese, whisis
had arisen out of as eaceserve taxation, diminution II aerie,
steamers in the land, custom and privileges, disbanded solaria;,
and whatever tended to knit the diecontented together. 7 am be
gate a warring against putting down discontent by tura* the
humours back upon the people, and causing a bleeding' toward
—(Hest). He prayed Ministers not to turn back tbillamieurs
open the people, and increase an Irritation that mighghe yogi—
(Cries of hoar)..—Strangers were that ordered to withdraw, and
the Haase divided, when there were—For the Iteetimiga gg ;
Against them Ila ; Malotky SS.
114. MACINTOSH Axed his motion ea the Decks of Aid.
ratty for the glib of ApriL
The other orders of the day weep than disposed of, and the
House adloorned at est o'clock this snotsing

BON4PARTB.

The Memorial in the shape of a letter to Sir Hun:
sou Lows, of which we yesterday laid. a copy belore
our Readers, has been published as a Pamphlet with
some prefatory remarks by M. SANTINE, who calls-
himself " lhdnirr du Cathree de l'Empereur," from
which the following are extracts :

" I am a native of the Island of Corsica; at the age of thirteen
I entered the military service in the battalion of Corsican sharp-
shooters. I was present at the battles of Ulm, Austerlitz, Jena,
Prussian Elau, Friedland, Ratishon, Eckmuhl, Aspern, Ypers-
herg, Wagram, and, finally, at the battle of Polark ; after which
I quitted the profession of a soldier for thnt of a courier. When
the Emperor departed front Fontainebleau, for the Island of
Elba, I determined on following him, without feeling any concern
about the rank in which I might continue my services. A abort
time after our arrival, I was presented to the Emperor. He
recognized an old soldier who had never failed in the fulfilment
of his dot)!; and Sad the nosiness to grant me the Elates of
Messenger to his Cabinet, and Keeper of bit Forth :Ito. I re-
turned to France io OM, in the suite of the Emperor; and after
the battle of Waterloo. I accompanied him to Rochefort, and on
hoard the English skip the Bellerophon. Finally, I was one of
the few faithful servants of his Majesty, who had the happiness
to fallow him to St. Helena, where, for nearly a year, I screed
near his person.
" The Emperor, on his arrival, resided in the house of a mer-
chant named flalcombe, where he remained for about two months;
Mr. Balcontbe's house was neither suitable nor convenient ; but
for th s Sir G. Cockburn was in an way blameable. On every
occasion be endeavoured to conciliate the duties of his office with
the respect and delkaey which were due so the rank and misfor-
tunes of his august prlcouer. Front thence the Emperor was
transferred to Longwood, which was once a farm belonging to
the but India Company. In this wretched asylum he still re-
mains. His sleeping chamber is scarcely large enough to contain
a bed sad a few chairs. 'lle roof of this hovel consists of piper
coated with pitch, which is beginning to rot, and through which
the rain-water and dew penetrate. In addition to all these in-
convettlences the Louse is infested by rats, who devour every
thing that they can reach. All the Emperor's linen, even that
i which was lately sent from England, has been gnawed and com-
pletely destroyed by them. For want of closets, the linen is ne-
cessarily exposed upon the floor. When the Emperor is rt dsnrer
the rats run about the apartment, and even creep between his
feet. '1 he report of a house having been bulk for the Emperor,:
rhich, it has been said, was sent from England, is entirely false.
Some pieces of timber work have, indeed, arrived; but. the Gen
vernor declared that a house cannot be bulk in km than three or
four pram.
" When the Emperor was established at Longwood, Sir G.
Cockburn introduced the most exact economy intoevery branch
of the expendkure. The Emperor, however, Dever wanted
what was necessary, and the Admiral always took care that no-
thing should booefused which, with due regard to the locality,
the person of the Emperor; and hie duty, was indispensable. It
is not. however, economy which the new Governor has intro-
fluted into the household of the Emperor, it is absolute want.
" It is to be recollected the Governor took upon himself the
entire charge of the maintenance of Napoleon and his suite; but
the provisions lie furnisheslwere always in too small a quautity,
and also, very often, of bad quality. lu the latter ease, *hen
the Emperor's bouse-u.wari (Cipriani) has loud himself under
the necessity of sending back the provisions, the ankles were
never replaced by others more fit for use, and it has been neces-
sary to wait until the following day for a supply.
" It has often happened that. on finding himself without any
butcher's meat for the Emperor's table, the steward has scot toe
to purchase a sheep, for which I have paid four guineas, and caftan
could unly procure pork for making soup.
" Captaiu Puppleton, of the L td Regiment. appointed to guard
the Emperor, if he Is the nun of honour I believe hint to be, will
not fail to bear witness that he has often lent candles to lighten
this 1/.de of desolation, as well as breast, better, poultry, and
even salt. I was oven, from necessity, in the habit of repairing
secretly to the Eeglish camp to purchase butter, eggs, and bread,
of the soldiers' wives, otherwise the Emperor woulb poet& have
been without a breakfast, and even without a dinner.
" The Go manor sent seven servants to Longwood, but the Em-
peror was ohllsed to dismiss four o' them, from inability to supply
them with toot) ! on which the Governor grantee...soldiers' rations
to the three that rensained.

•• Ohm has k atao happened, that Cipriani, the steward, has
purchueti front these thresservaals dm' micas si bessdrday re.*
eeheti ft Wel the camp, in consequence of the want of provisions
for the Emperor sod his suit, witiothliau nut arnvet

" it is a fact which will appear Incredible, but which is not
less trust, that the Emperor is limited to a bottle of whir per day.
•Ma►shll and Madame Bertrand, General Muotholutt and his
Lady, General Gourgand, and Count de Las Casa', have also
each their bottle.
"Menial Benand has three children, M. delMontholon
two, and M. de Las Cazas one, about t 5 or 16 years of age; and
for all them months gybe Governor allows no rations.
6' In this ante of things, the Emperor ha' been compelled to
sell all h s plata to procure the first necessaries of life! I my-
self broke, it in pieces befortgit was setts to the market. 'f he pro-
duce of the sale was deposited, by order ut the Governor, in the
bands of Mr. Holcombe, and the Emperor was not permitted to
touch a single penny.
" Whey the House Steward, wishing to supply the deficiency
of .% provisions lendshed by the Govsruor, makes purchases
hints.) (which happens every day) be ern only pay them by or-
den upon Mr. Holcombe.

" I used to rise at break of day, and when I did not succeed In
shooting a few meow in the neighbourhood of our dwelling, the
Emperor frequently had nethhig fur breaklast. the provisious
did not reacu Longwood until two or three o'clock in the after-
noon ; and whin they were of so bad a quality that the House
Steward had to send them'back, the Emperor subsisted entirely
on the prodtee of my shooting. On these occasions, the Cook
thought himself fortunate In baying brought front Paris some
portable cakes, with which be made ►oup fur the finiperor-
" There is no water fit for coo►ing at Longwood. Very good
water may, however, be procured at a distatice of It.'oo )ards,
which might be conveyed to the Emperor's barracks at an expense
of from it.: to 1500 francs.

" The house is ouly supplied by the water which is brought
from this fountain; it is open only met, doting the den; at all
other times it is lucked. It is guarded by an El gush 011icer,eho
is scarcely errs presets when water is wanted. There is a eels.
dolt foe conveying water to the English cmnp; but it was thought
unnecessary to do as much for the unfortunate Napotetiii.
•- I spare the great and humane English nation a picture of the
other Insults and humiliations, to which tie Emperor is esposed,
mid also a fugitive detail of the complaints, which the Euiptror
mikes against the Governor, Mr bliiidedu Lowe. I shall confine
omit to. observiug, tkat at tim last visit the Governor made to
Longwood, and-at which I was presto; he offtudett to such. de;
grew, that the Emperor sod, ' Here you nut then drine with bl-
oating ate! Leave say presence, and le: me never see you again,
unless you have recinstil orders trona your Goveratigent to meas.
Stoat. met you will then And me ready to lay open my breast to
you. My person is in your power. You may stied my blood.'
" Tbetlinice of Longwood it besides most unhealthy; every
thing is there In extremes—the kuguldhy, the wind, and die beat.
Admiral Cockburn bad marked out r circuit of two leagues
for the Emperor's promenade; the present Governor has, with-
out my nietive, abridged it to half a league.
" he isicenveniences of the climate tat Loormiel, and.parti-
adatiy the humidity to which the Emperor is exposed, have con-
siderably Injured his health, and it is the opinion of Ms English
physician that be taunt remain there another year without ha-
zarding its life.
" The Eropererhaving disposed of his plate could dispense with
the services of the keeper et the plate, Slid having been eumytaled
to diatitaisla the Lumber of his horses, for want of a sunkient sup-
ply of lOcage, be has discharged oue.of the two pikemen whom h.
kept In his service; !avail: to longer any cabinet, the ogite
i(yisprrbetame equally suptreacins, and he thought prupet to
elleulee OM. la Use same mauner objects of the brat uecessity, ,
fifr his imesehoid, saw daily diminution.
" Coiencl Pontatowski has since been removed from the Wand
order of the Governor.
• We departed from St. Helena on the lath of October
beard the Ruskin frigate the Orontes, and after hewing sailed to
the Cape of Good Hope, we again returned to St. Helena. Therti'
we remained for several days without kin suffered to land.—
Me Emperor laving bees inkulised et our return,Causesi come
provisions to be purchased at ' leases Town fur oar voyage to
goolood, which were meet at board the vessel.
‘• We were, however, under the necessity of seeding beck the
live dock, as the Coruna insisted moor killing it Immediately.'
Itic wine/ we saw fasted it desieg the voyage, u we wield

not subrni• to bane the Etrivrlr',l Crete-t. tvr.-Is was str'
our own, dibiributed to us in 'alum by ti saptafn.
" On the 2;t:i of Fantiary we art ',red at Po rtenotrh,w!,e.c.
! proceeded to London, to fulfil the painful but sacred tl.ity
1 now discharge, by the publieatwo of this Narrative."

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140Nii(ax.

FRIDAY, MARCH 14. 1817.
PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT RV RIME O'CLOCK :
Reduced strut—Cons. limey, 0;1 —tur Ace. 690
4 per Cat:. sltut--5 per Crut. N.. y, 991
Emile:qua B Us 44. 12s. pc—lnds. ISunkts 35 36 pr.

The discussion last night, in Ole Houie ..f
mons, on the Present S:ate our Cttmrnerce
manufactures, was of a most interesting des:, •:
How very different the oratory and leAsol,l,,g
GAOL:GUAM, on this occasion, from his te,ble t+
gested attack on the Master of the Mint, alt w nii .
ago. His statements last night were perspicet ~•
his oratory was persuasive, and his reasoning coocit..
sive and convincing. He was not answered, nor ca•:
his facts and arguments be controverted. Wk,
we sty be was nett answered, our meaning, surety,
cannot be ntisundetstood. There are people o,
on some occasions, will deny that two and two m
four, but the asset tions of the wireft melt upon eat::
will never prove that the sun is not to ate titeridtat.
'at Noon.

Mr. RamssoN's answer to Mr. 13novou4sa, r-
annaltzed, so far from overturnivir, served to cit hi"
the statements of the latter. He admitted that •
Present system operated to produce and continue ter
present distresses of the conntr) nu, can f:ict
be altered by a truism—that other Powers A .0C
have consented to commerciA mai.: exclusiv

naficial to us—that such arrangement, to
lasting or advantageous. must be (Donde t oi. te..•
—This is the very jet of the argument
all sound economists. Now look at the fact—
exclude foreign butter and cheese, for instance, r yt,l
impose tti.oli them what you call a pr9tetiing
You do this not by a Treaty, but by a Statute. D: fl
this alter the case ? Where is the reciftrottly ? Cea
you expect the Dutch to take your maturiactures fro :n
you, when you refuse to take payment its such pro.
ducts as they can give you in exchange ?
you ex,.ett this, you look fcr tcft.tt is imps:it:le.
Your own tre rchants will not serai the it gas's e)
Holland in a present, m. rely to get rid of
Chey look for payment, but the Datcli canaot pay
but by the sale of their products.
Again—Mr.' ItoclNsaN was weld/ mistaken is
ascribiug the depression in the .clock and wah
making trade to the poverty of foreign coun!r:es. The
greater part of the demand for clocks and watels
WI the home maiket. In many places over tv:
country there were watch and clock clubs where each
snubber subscribed a small sum weekly for furnish
, is turn, with one or other of these ankles; a%t
rotation of supply was settled by ballot. resources
of these clubs have been dried up by the individual
distresses of the members.

As to the commerce which might he secured to
this country wiih South America, we have always
been of opinion that its value is of a magititut!,
hardly to be calculated.—Ao4 we have eat maity oc-
casions stated our opinion, without disguise, that W:
owe no debt of gratitude to Spain. Spain as.,ilaed is
wresting our North American colonies frt m u 5 : fun
the, United States the flame of Revolution retichef
France : this, by the rotation of the wheel reaetel
South America. Britain invited and encouraged tilt
South Americans to separate themselves from the &-
minion of the Mother country; but at length the hest
BON ArARTE !This very man sent back, in Lis ...le
policy, the beloved FERDINAND, and we have beei
such fools as to do what he wiled to .11—to give
up our efforts tor the emancipation of South lne:i:a,
and thus deist ive ourseves of the means a•e possesstd
for rtirieviag the prosperity el' our corumerv..—
Miserable iutatuation and folly ! to sacrifice soc:i
netits in favour of the B loved I:Enntwon, !
Would Spain have done so ? Look at the American
war. %That nation upon earth would have dine r.
except ourselves?

Late accounts frem MArtin;que say, the yellivr
lever has made great ravages iu ►hat ill-feed 1,1.9 d.
We havv.this morning received the French Pap -rs
of Tuesd ey. 'lke new King of Wtivrcur FRG
couvened the States of his Kingdom, and cotm:•teal
Ito them the Plan of a ennstitntiun. Yam:. 1:1 t.:" .
*1 he lour :one arrested at Ntanchester 06: .`•••rt•ta; r••
sivra is t v. e, and ap. the Ulnae id Correction, C•-: •
frl l'heir lA:unto:ld, Ogden, liacule:, e'4
Itin,tott.

e thouiaad of the Troops expected from France, ore
ordered to layered direct front Calais to Leith, In &el. te..
Thqt are r.:tet wirds to proceed westward, to the Cl...xecw
trim ThLy Ali be conveyed to Leith front Calais Ist the rent.
enit,loyrd in the trade between Leith and Lsndnn.

sicv riou .—This racrning Ara'rew is.: a-.' J:ma Newt'
trot, ectivicie,l of highway robberi, were executed ti.•:* ire r.
Debtors'-door, Old Bailey. The uctoe vinare men appeire.ir•:.
fectly resigue,.l to their fate, and conducted as:timbres welt b.,-
001:11/fli fortitude..--13arton, it will he recolitc..ed, VtLa the yrx.;
man taken up soirie time ago, on suspicion .f helot car :e. red!n '
mfirder of a sai.or in Newton's.4otiet, Vic( siercee—lheevid.r-t.
arganut him w.ia issuacient to warram hts eetentien, and
discharged be 1):clme fOqt, after a iarty witn s'!e
F: amyton, 01 the robbery for which he sew furfel, .1 his t.
CORN-EXCHANGE, MARCH :4.
We had a fey fresh arrivals of Wheat front tioti-elk ntrr:'
ing, which met ready sale at MoniLy's press. Sark.7 also of tr. e
gliaiity sold freerly, and lolly bieppures ‘l'eilnesday's pries. i
t,ats are es. pet qr. (Tearer than ou Mundey.-111 Yeas, )
a... 1 tither attic!, , there i. uu alteration.
*Milt-WIELD MARKET, MARCH 14.
Lett Ss ed to as Veal fbh er,l to 6. e!
P.liitton ea Od to be 44 I Pack el 01 '0 5' 1.4
Bases 760—Sheep and Lambs 14100—Calves 1110 -
HAY AND STRAW PAR LOAD.
Hay £4. 0. to eSS. 15e.—Clover AS. Os I:3 7 7
• • ---,snow 16a. to La. ss.
LONDON: Piloted W Lava&
-PoblisiultioroAdl at Ike •tar•Oticr, eaaty a-Bar.