Star.
London, England, 1810-12-14 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS.

PARIS, DECEMBER 5.

After the celebration, on the 2d instant, of the an-
niversary of the Emperor Napoleon's coronation, an
address was presented to his Imperial Majesty, in the
name of the Senate, by their President Count Gar-
nier, thanking his Majesty for his most gracious com-
munication of the happy event of the pregnancy of
the Empress.

....rECTING THE EXCHANGE OF
PRISONERS WITII ENGLAND.
Since the commencement of the present war,
France and England have agreed upon no cartel for
of The

OFFICIAL

-case, . ___ .... ...c a VJUSe, e—
nolds, Halford, and Heberden, on the House to-iris-which has
obstacle
lin what manner they shouldproceed
exchange . prisoners.
row, in order that they may be sworn at the Bar,
the calamity which had takenplace. He was happy opposed itself to any understanding on this
touching their evidence before the Committee, ancl, • • important object, has arisen from a discordance of
to declare, that he still entertained the most sanguine
further, that Drs. Willis and Baillie do attend for the opmion with regard to the following points :
hopes of the ultimate and complete recovery of his
same.purpose on Saturday next. England will not consent to consider as prisoners'
Majesty, but still be could not recommend that any
The Duke of NORFOLK said a few words in a only the native English ; she will not include in the
farther delay should take place. On the contrary,
low tone of voice, not in objection to the arrange- benefit of the exchange the Germans, Spaniards, Por-
be was of opinion that it was now come to this point,
went proposed by the Noble Earl, but principally to tuguese, and others of her allies, who form part of
that the House ought to appoint a Committee of
inquire, why all the physicians could not attend on
the Physiciansattending h. • her armies, or who constitute a part of the armies who
their own, to examine on is
,the same day ? combine and co-operate with her's.
Majesty, and to put on the records of their proceed-
The Earl of LIVERPOOL, in answer, observed, ings The second point of difference is the capitulation
fact of his M • indisposition.As suffi-
the .
dajesty's .
that the personal attendance of the Physicians men-of General Vnalmoden ; at the time of the conquest
cient notice had_ ogren y been. given of the
_ proceedings
boned upon his Majesty, to-morrow, would renderof Hanover, 17,000 men then surrendered as priso-,
likely to be adopted, to
didtlie event of n o favourable
their attendance before Saturday impracticable.—Heners of war. England will not consent to consider
symptoms occurring, he not see hat_ there was.
'likewise observed, that the proceeding of the ballotthem as such, although the greater part of these
• may be so arranged, as that all the lists may be deli- afny_occasion to adjourn to another_ daymdriteeenamenhgt
troops, officers as well as soldiers, have since been in
wed into the Clerk against the meeting of the House oowtheb Committee, but
ethsai that the
ld Comie
romigose
her service, in violation of the capitulation, and of
n c . ppo.in e
.. iou therefor , P P ,
tomorrow at four o'clock, when a Committee maythe law of nations,
that a Committee be appointed to examine the Physo
be appointed for the purpose of examining the lists, During the space of ten years these questions have
clans who had attended his Majesty during his illness,
and reporting to the House the names of tits Lords
of his M ' 'health, and furnished matter of protracted discussions.
. . touching the state - .
upon whom the choice should falL • • .In April, 1810, an Engltsh Commissary arrived at
' The attendance of his Majesty's Physicians, as mo- port the examination to the House.
.He should'
21 houlrLpro-
Morlaix. In order to clear away these difficulties,
pose that this Committee should consist o
red for by the Earl of Liverpool, was then ordered; em" negociations were set 'on foot, and they lasted eight
,bers and should then propose the names; but, that
and on his Lordship's motion, t4eoliouse adjourned ''months without being brought to any successful con-
tillo e• • the House might be the better prepared to judge of the .
to-morrow. . , e, , , .
fitness of the Committee, he should at once reads. all elusion. . .
e, -. .t . e France proposed two barns : the lost was, to
- . eeees, ei„ the names of the Members whom he proposed should
IiOrISE OF COMMONS, • - renew what had been done in 1780. By the cartel
s
Two Members took the oaths and their seats. • Mr. Secretary Ryder S. Whitbread, Esq. of 1780, the prisoners of the two nations were ex-
• • e NEW
•WRIT troll. LIMERICK. 1 The Muter of the Rolls Right Hon. G. Ponsonby changed in gross, by making up for the difference bya
sum of money.
.., . Sir JOHN NEWPORT then moved—, i William Adam, Esq. W. Wilberforce, Esq. . That basis having been refused, France proposed
..., , .the Speaker do issue his warrant for a New Writ, for * 1 Hon. H. Lascelles ' Right Hon. R. B. Sheridan
the total exchange of the whole of the prisoners of
to serve in Parliament for the County of Limerick, in • ' Right Hon. R.Dundas Right Hon. G. Tierney
1.,4r OM Odd!, Esq. who since his election had been sp. ' the two belligerents, man for man, rank for rank,
s rielehili Oithe Lords of the Treasury in Irelai.d. Lord Cattlereagh Right Hon. W. W. Pole Men who formed part of the same army, or of armies'
"son 'On the question being put, Lord Milton Right Hon. Sir John Newport who had combined their operations and co-operated
'' Mr. DIDDULPH expressed a doubt whether it Lord G. Cavendish Right Hon. Sir W. Scott in their movements, were separated from each other.
' e•:eresis competent to the House to agree to such a Mo- Attorney-General Right Hon. C. Bathurst By proposing that second basis France went still
- ' - n • The writ moved for was a King's Writ. The R.ght Hon. G. Canning T. S. Gooch, Esq. . farther: she consented to restore all the Spanish pri-
itse e. nt Session had never been opened by a Speech He then concluded by proposing the appointment soners which she had in surplus, that is, she was wil-
nn .. ' the King; and he thought it would be rather of a Committee.
ling to give up more than 20,000 prisoners beyond)
nirer anomalous proceeding for that House to order Mr. WHITBREAD rose only to remark, that the the number that would have been exchanged. i
a King's Writ to be issued, without any recognition Right Hon. Gentleman (Perceval) had now felt him- This basis alone was under discussion for eight)
pf them on the part of the King. , sell compelled to resort to that measure, which, in months. England affected to be willing to adopt
The-SPEAKER said, it might be proper to in- the opinion of some Members of that House, should the principle ; it was imagined that the cartel had
form the Honourable Gentleman, that on a former have been adopted one month before. He again beg- been resolved upon, but in her view of cartels, Log-
. • occasien the exercise of the right now called in ques- ged publicly to accuse the Right Hon. Gentleman of laud soon betrayed the tendency of her real intentienso
-
r.ore had been considered a paramount and primary not having given intimation of the unlooked for as-1 It was discovered that while she appeared to adopt
- .. (ben by that House, and • that, in pursuance of this sembling of Parliament to all the Members, without ' the principle of the exchange, she was anxients only
principle, the House had felt it to be their duty to fill distinction, as had been rbsei•ved on a similar melan- to lay a snare. Under this pretence, she attempted
io Odle seats which had, become vacant in their choly occasion by his predecessor. He had also fur- ito withdraw the prisoners she had in France, in ex.
ee • bey. It was also to be remarked, that this was titer to accuse him, that having it in his contempla- ' change for an equal number of French prisoners who!
gen
no application to the Crown ; and if the House had tion to propose certain Measures of importance, he were in England; and afterwards give rise to inci-
any right of their own authority to issue one warrant did not acquaint the whole Members of the House, dents, in order to justify the detention of the 20,000
' to this effect, they were entitled to fill every vacancy. without distinction, of the nature of the proposition to French prisoners who still remained to be exchanged,
The question being ern-we:ere be submitted by him, bat confined the knowledge of and to lease in France the Spanish prisoners, about
• Sir FRANCIS BURDETT rote, and said he it to those individuals whom he knew to be attached "whose fate she was unconcerned. The trick was too
• • could not for his own part call the meeting now as- to his own party. He knew it had been common for I clumsy to impose upon any one—England accepted
' sembled a House-of Commons or a House of Pirlia. feentlemen on both sides of the House to remind the proposal of a general exchange, and reserved to
went; neither could he reconcile the issuing of such• their own friends of the necessity of their attending on I herself, at the same time, the means of executing
a warrant as that now moved for, which mast. ores- nenarticulOr occasions ; but, situated a 3 the country I only a partial exchange, when she would have had
irately affect a Writ issuable by the Crown,' to the. now was, and when so important, and at the same 1 all her prisoners at horre for most undoubtedly it is
notions he entertained on this subject. So anomalous time so generally interesting a question was to Ise dis- • not the estimation in which she holds the Spanish
a• praceedin& he was unwihing to entertain, and the cussed, he presumed to think that the intimation prisoners, that woo'd have inducted her to respect the.
Impropriety of agreeing to the present motion struck ought to have been made to every Member without treaty, and to seed back to France the remainder of
him most forcibly. distinction. He only begged to bring back the re- the French peeoners. The English Negocieters'
Mr. inERCEVA.L did not think that it would have ; collection of the House to what was theiractual slam- called this ha monizing the principle of the exchange
been necessary for him, after what had fallen from ition—tbat this was the third time on which they were of man for man, rank for rank, of the sum total of
the Chair, to say :t single word on the subject now i thus assembled, without having yet taken any steps the two 'lasses, but not to be effected at the same
under consideration. The objection to the issuing of to supply the deficiency which was known to have ex- time. And accordingly did they throw otr the mask
, ...
'the warrant had tenen not unnaturally from the Gen- ! toed, at least for the last six weeks. That he (Mr. and 3reak off the negotiation when the conditions of
• '-' tleman under the gantry (Mr. Biddulph) ; but after i Whitbread) was proposed as one of the Committee, i a •artel were held out to them, which would have
n:refie infotmation Gentlemen bad received from the ' he unquestionably esteemed an honour. If appointed ' tarried bona jilt into effect the principle, that is, by
• hair he presumed to have thought that there would ihe should endeavour to discharge the duty entrusted establishing an exchange of 3000 French and allies
•
• . mot be a dissentient voice. :He coold not agree to :to him conscientiously i or if a more. proper mei of Prance against 3000 English and the allies. of
the statement of the Honourable Barinnet, that they should be propcteed in his room, he should sulenit , England, in the proportion whicl, appeared between
were not a House of Commons. Nothing was mote with all deference to the opinion of the House. the pr soners in their total numbers ; of 3000 French
important than that the public should understand 1., The motions
d for the appointment of a conenittee, amine IQOO English and 2000 Spaniards. The pro-
. that they were a House of Commons legally and duly and that it should consist of 21 Members, were then portico...6ln the mass of-elle prisoners was in this ratio.
' constituted ; and that, being so, they were now about put and agreed to. With Oispect to the capitulation of Walmoden, there
to take those steps for the benefit of the country which . Mr- PERCEVAL, previous toproponng the names was 10;ooming to any understanding. England
it 'was incumbent on theln to take without any farther in the list he had prepared, stated, that he understood wouldgive up for the 17,000 Hanovorians only 3000
delay. The argumeOt of the Honourable Baronet, Mr. Bathurst was not in town, he should therefore Freno.—France, in a spirit of conciliation, brought
(if at all to be listened to,) would go much farther propose, in place of his name, that oldie Right Ho- down mr claim to a third, that is, to 600 P Ftench ;
than he himself inten4ed, and would go indeed to nourable In, Addington. althou it was proved, that of the 17,000 Nano-
this—that no Write evert, in a Court of Law, could be; The names, with the additions- of the Chancellor of veriann epee than served, $OOO bed
• . , - or were asetly
good v so that ail legal proceedings, of wail triad, the Exchequer himself, to make up the cumber 211 sereialek she Demuth ranee,
.4 4 '

J. t:e •