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clause the Alien. Act which gives to foreigners
ghat right. The affidavit, which was then tead, was
to the followirg effect:
" I, the make oath, ar.d declare before Goo,
that when M. o:. the r..lrhing rf the 14th of Novem-
ber. :hewed me the ololcr of Lord Sidmot..:l4.co::-.manding me
ir.stantly to leave Grant Britain, I eamesay required to be
brought yetore the Peivy Council, according to the provisions
of the A1ren11111'; and I itifoimea Mr. Capper, that by refusing
rrrtnit me, he himself ..t.palitvd, the law. And-I further de-
clare, that at the time of the publication of my letter. to the
Edi.pri.;s Maria Lefuisa, I toissulted several Mends, Who knew
rrfectly. well; that in cue of arrest. I had a right to be"takes
be:ore the Council." •
The Tio;iourable Gentleman here observed, that it
::needless for hinUto detail the various tircum-
staucts attending his removal, as stated in the ,Peti-
tion. AU his remonstrances were met by the most
insolent and contemptuoua behaviour. He was taken
to the house of Mr. Capper, near Vauxhall, and he
then asked for the property which had been taken
from him, but'met with similar treatment. At length
General.Getirgaud, at eleven o'clock at night, find-
ing hiniself overcome by continued agitation, de-
manded perrnisiitin to be Allowed to go to rest : yet
even this wail not permitted, till after the men had
supped. 'The next morning Mr. Capper brought
with 'him • a Magistrate, *lra refused to have any
thing to do with hiM, ref him .t 4 Lord Sid-
mouth. 'He then requested that . be
.a letter for him to Lord Sidniontlx, richhe also de-
dined. "General ctonigatid then wrote a letter to, his'
friend, Cotaist ".FOrbin Janson, begging-hi:ls to take
care of ilaiiimiperty,.Which he had been compelled to
leave Ischia in-LandOn: On' the 18th, Mr. Capper
returned with an ,answer froM Janson, stating that
I,e had not been allowed evenlo keep the letter which
t:-c General had sent: General Gourgaud's clothes
s Te tot even returaed to him, nor his papers. He
tats put on board * packet at Harwich without a
passport. On hisrpresenting that he could not land
on the other side without one, he was at last fur.'
nished with a passport, and finally arrived at Ham.
burgh. A letter was received from him, dated from
Harwich; the '2Bth of November. That letter was
rather long ; but as it was an important one, he (Mr.
Lambton) would again -claim the indulgence of the
House. at was in substance as follows:
" My Lord—When no longer at a distance from those who
earl themselves your servants, I shall one day return to Eeg.
land--You will itouw that on the 14th of November, a body of
swan entered my room, and proceeded to take away my pa.
pers. and other things, my property. They said they acted by
ysur Lordship's order. I now write to beg that those things
may be returned to me which were taken from MC by Mr.
Capper. 'Your Lordship will remember that I did not come to
dilacountr; ay ateakh. Duringmy stay here I was guilty of no
infringement of your laws.-of no violence. Am I guilty? try
Inc. I wrote to my friend Count Forbin Janson -begging him
to take care of my property left in London. He was not al-
lowed Ora to keep or read my'lener. I declare I never had the
hist idea of infringing the order. of the law ; it would have bees
gigot folly If I had. Alone, warmed, unfriended, I was seized
by scree or eight vlioyous meth If your Lordship thinks that
the power granted es Ministers by the Alien Act Bill does not
eitendlo the tontycation of the property of an unfoetunate
'foivigner, who is driven Out of the country, I have the handier
to entreat you to allow me to return to London, to 411M1 the
effects, papers, and manuscripts which have been taken from me,'
and in Which my whole fortune consists, or allow isto to be
bibuzht to trial if I airs accused."
T:e this letter an answer was received, dated White-
hall, 30th November, 1818, from Mr. Hobhouse, ac-
knowledging the receipt of the General's letter, and
stating that he (Mr. Hobhouse) was desired by Lord
Sidmouth to acquaint him, that the papers, pistols,
add portfolio, taken from him, had been transmitted
to Hamburgh. General Gourgaud addressed ano-
ther letter totord 'Sidmouth, dated Bth December,
1818, in which'he requests, as his Lordship must be
brthat time aware how little foundation there was
for the idle stories abroad relative to him (General
(iourgatel), that he might be permitted to return to
London ; he stated that he had added a detail of his
rafferinp, that his effects had been pillaged without
illegal order, that not having received an answer to
second letter addressed by him to his friend, re-
qutisting him to take care of his effects, he presumed
iebuil never been delivered ; that Mr. Hobhouse had
transmitted to him only his portfolio, pistols, and a
boncUe of papers relating to business; that portfolio,
wltkhwas locked up by himself at the time of his
seizure, was sent to him opened, and that he would not
receive it (and to this circumstance the Hon. Gentle-
man particularly directed the attention of the House)
from the master of thepost-office, I.ut in the presence
of Mr. Bastade, the police magistrate of Hamburgh.
Then follows this passage —a I am not a conspirator ;
the object of my visit to England, was to let my
friends know the situation of tale unhappy Napoleon,
and to obtain for hint some relief. I was honoured
by his kindness, and distinguiShed by his favour, for
year's. Will Ministers find me guilty if I wish to
alleviate his sufferings ?" The General next pro-
ceeds to express his conviction, that any eulogium
.pasted by himself on Napoleon could hardly have
had any influence uponthe conduct observed towards
him, notwithstanding that he had said, that if Napo-
leon was vanquished at Waterloo, it was by fate, not
by his want of skill, and that he was the first of Gene-
rals. On the loth January Mr. llobliouse again wrote
to General Goureaud, that on the subject of the port-
folio he referredhim to his former letter ;that as the
General had not particularized the remainder of his
property, it was impossible to institute any inquiry
into the matter; and that with regard to the state-
ment relative to the portfolio, as made by the General,
it had been found upon inquiry to be utterly destitute
of foundation. In reply to this, General Gourgaud
again demanded to be permitted to return to London,
ohsetving, that as to not having particularized. his
property, his Liardship must be aware, that upon
being removed from it, it was morally impossible to
make out a list ; that, however, in his room were.
four trunks, or which he had only received one ; that.
as to articles of linen, tee. it would have been indeco-*
rous to *Mee troubled his tordehip : as to papers,
however, there were' on his table, at the time of his
seizure, some notes fora histore:of the campaign or
1914, and remarks on the violation of the pear&
Paris: That he disdained to'replyao the. charge of,
having made an unfoinstledstateMent, anclavouldnot
answer such offensive langUage. A'iertifieate Of the
Police Minister of Hamburgh is endlosed;dated
SO, 1819, confirming the fact of his finding, on being
called upon pa examine if, that the portfolio was
unlocked ; it istitistin.e possible fru' him to spr.alt to its
previous state hsiniethatcly on its,arrival, though he
had no dolgptiaiiadbAi transmitted in the'samc state.
He had isbw "doite with the correspondence on 'this
subject ; the prayer of the petitioner war that he,
come again to England, for

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