The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-01-22 00:00:00

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M r Fret ed irately by ortablialsinx a well-rargolated
right of maarch. The Noble Earl then briefly allarloal,

ro th. Commercial Convention with the United \tate;
of America, and to the improvement of oar commerema.
With respect In our I , he 'Jetliner! O'er,

4.linit should b► m•d' to r►nil►r • isrple.

t.• Ihe eveluction of the National DPhil That veal

I i.el on shier the sefoty of Ih• country •nd its

f. /.8/e poster in war depended. stlish' never he lost
sleht rsf, •lid Le 1,.1141.4 they had if finish ti+rlti~d tit
a 1).1‘041 when they wrield be enabl►d te make a very
imporierst beginning. It should ens, however, be
lineatt►e, that while on the conelesine of all ether
•ars, them had woolly been an ivories's of sates, a
otin,loolion of not iris than sevent►en millions and •
hell had befit made since the termination of the late
0e this subject he would not be jeoll-
fied la saying sty thing niece at present, as the sub-
,ecs would et a more convenient tame be brought be.
fere the consideration of the blouse.
Although he differed from the Noble Marquis be
tome of his views respecting thegesiteral certency
the cooretry, yet he did not mean t. ender-rite the
impeittsece of the subject. It, however, was not
usual to iiierodece such matters into the Speech et
the cemme•cement of the Session—they were left
In the spontaneous censideration Peflient.a..—
There was not, he fissured the House, a man in the
count', more ancious then he was to retarn to
a whol►sr.see and secure currency. of paper con-
vertible et pl into coin ; but be had al-
ways Nit, and had so espre•sed himself on various
occasions, that the greatest

which less

to be dreaded from the Rank Restriction was the
difficulty of potting snood to the system. Belied,
on Ow termination of war, crest hopes that the
period ntiiht have hems then defined when this sys-
tem ervald be cloard with safety. Three sears since
kb had, in that hong, proposed that a Bill should
be passed into a law, empowering the Bank to pest-
pone timeline for returning to rash payments•for
two yaws farther. Bet last Session the Rouse had
nit tat three days, when he informed them that the
greet pecuniary transactions in which certain foreign
tiovernments wore likely to be engaged, would pre.
tent the safe MVO to cash payments. These
still cuntieued to operate, and it might not be im-
possible that they should prevent the termination of
thus present system on this bib .f July next ; bat
'ghouls' each be the case, it wield be the part of
ineliammat to props.* as short a apses of time es
possible for the condiment* of that restriction. so
that Perliameat might be enabled to take the subject
Into its curraidoratioe at an early period to the gass-
ing bossism.
It was a considerable gratification to him to be
stabled to Worm the How. that the subject of Ilso
repeated forgeries on the Bank of Estglaod had bees
referred to a Commission, composed of men of eel.
coca end great practical eapetietare, and 11 ,at shop
had en,ertained the warmest hopes of Mee enaMed
to devise some means, if not of preventing forgeries
altogether, at least of removing the preterit great ha.
eility. " To-morrow I, or my Notts Friend, shell
prevent In the House the first Report of that Cole.
mission." The Noble Earl then alluded britly ter
the case of Messrs. Arbuthnot and Ambriater, and
said that he shield at the present moment consider It
premature to apprise the House of the steps adopted
with respect to that treasection by his Majesty's Mi.
roisters. But whatever might be the character of that
eel, it wee emiathorised by the Government of the
Usaieed States. and done without its knowledge.—
i lig", hear !)
• The Earl of LAUDERDALE said, he did not
feel that eitremo witisfection at the Speech, and the
Address now proposed, as had been repressor' by
atm', Nubia Lords opposite. Ile rejoiced as ninon
as any sow in the improvement of the revenue, !Pit
its asiteebuted that improvement to the industry and
oaertioos of the People.—(llear, hoar!)—But no
exertions had been made on the part of the Govern-
newt to new model or ameliorate the system of tax-
.atioo, es had byes, done nn the termination of all
former oars. Why bad nut the war mum, which the
,/ktople had been taught by tvonse who had imposed
them would be removed on the return of peace—
.wity have they not been submitted to the vinyl*.
elation end 'evasion of Parliament ? fillnisters have
,preferred taking their miters into their more cope-
.clel protection, aid the mere constitutional merest
of Parliamentary iovestigotion has been poupoised
to their convenience.—(llear, hear, hear.—lie
.remarked on general plitociples of political is..
toasty. that the commerce of this country could sot
improve if that of otlwr colloids.' was urnhibitaal, end
he thought the time bail now aerived when we should
reduce the sin we have imposed open she imports-
Sion of foreign prodeotions. Ile approved of the
principle of the American Commercial Convention,
and observed, that no negotiator, however skilful.
could conclude a Commercial Treaty, by which Ise
,could secure all the advantages to his country, and
yield *wee in Wean. The Noble Earl then took a
.review of Ike currency of eke coostry, and gave it
es his opielon, that as long as the present Mint re.
:gelatioos sere starred to sabot, so long woold Mi-
nisters And it impossible to revert with safety to a
cursency.
• .Tbe question was then pet and carried osearke
laiestratieate.
• .Attu CARS or THE RING'S PIIRSOPI.
While the House was in a state of oleoresins after
Jieclsiton of the former question, the Earl of
'LIVERPOOL, as well as we comb, collect, gyve Ise-
7#Ser, that on Monday neat be should bring down a
ICosamealcatiuts to the noose relative to that pert of
she Lords Commissioners' Speech, in which it is re-
cominendrdto Parliament to devise measures for the
safe of his Majesty's sacred Persia.
The noose then adjourned.

.• • • 110116 g OF CONIIION!‘
At simmer after Iwo u'elnek,tbegreket leek the
('Pair. A few Members Wet the oaths, end their
woe.
At a roaster Wore three the Usher of the Meek
ILA appeaser, et the bar in summon she House of
erritnoese to the Ike,* of 1.01,11-
The Speaker egad the Commons haring wimp()
• MIMI she Clones of sheet three o'clock, the
eweeting in sit the Petern,iris was preceedecl in till
tio(flosit four.
Clartl,itine Otaile.sty was thtu read a
Lit sr.. A •ri i uJ l:c e.

The usual onal Orders jet the appt=e:
Ceittaittrt flin.A.SiCiat,dit Our'
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slit, fete_iee @initial/Sutra. ,,.;
..,TltetiPXA R. then ,tatei, that the ni,... le
been in the /Nese of twits, vlb•ti the loved II ith

Chancellor of ('{real Britain, as one of the Commits
46.414. IT VC it ifir frOXifir i Fri Pillar .ft-,t'ir,
had delivered • specie to botitoeseetat Parliament,'
of which he had, for gresirfr convenience, tiVocoret i
ropy i.sail inies *ink IN Mae of the finosi, hi
woold then raid to therm. (Ile read Ow Speech,
which me *or report of the proceedings ix the lioxix

of Lords.)
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The Speech Irthi•na has riled by the SPEAKER,
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MG BROW 41.0* (grasber for Aflutter) rose
ID wove an Adttress se the Prises Regent. Ile PAC

that he rose ender considerable eetba sssss meat. The

noose, however, he hoped, would bh inclined, fun
consideration of his inesperience, to heir Msa
with patient, if net with 'outpace. Thevith dif.
6deot sod enberrneed. he coold not ovoid the dot,
which be bed ondertaken, ow accoont of his sung

attachment to that respected authority, from •hie#
the communications, made in his Majesty's Speech,

bad emanated. lie was sorry, that the first topic
touched open in that Speech should be one of •
painful and melancholy rehire. The sefferings of
the great and good, particularly when placed iu
high shalom', were, at all times, sabjecta of deep
regret, and called set merely for Individual, or pri-
vate sympathy, bet for general sorrow—for natiosal
commiseratiew. It was painful for his Royal High-
noes the Pelage Regent to be obliged, now for se
many years, at the opening of so many Sessions 61
Parliament, to inform them, that tint the slightest •I.
leviation had taken place of the lamented illness of
his Royal Father; and how much mere painful meet
it be for his Royal Highness to make the same me-
lancholy communication on the present omelets,
when it must he accompanied with this additional
circumstance of affliction, that oar beloved Monarch
had been, in the midst of his regretted calamities,
deprived of her, who bad been, for so many years,
the ornament of his prosperity, us well as the part-
ner of his ploughs and enj.syments ; and, more re-
cently, the kind and amiable geardian of his feeble-
ness sod infirmities. Nor was it his Majesty and
the Royal Family alone that were sufferers by the
demise of the Cloven. Her death, from the parity
la her morals and the invaluable trample of her
religious fifes and character, could not be, in the
present times, contemplated in any ether light
than that of • great national calamity and pub-
tic misfortune.—[!/tor, hear !j—lie regretted
that he was bet little competent, though no onetweld
i be better disputed than he was, to do justice to her
merits aid character. But incompetent as he hoe,
himself to be, ha timid not pass ever in silence sue
noble feature of her character; he meant that Chris-
tian benevolence, which always induced her to deity
nothing to misery bet her name.—pcor,
Not•ithstaadisa the i Wilco and misfortune* or
such a low in the ;smut painful and infirm etorsill.
lion of his Majesty, he was confident that •egery
measure, consistent with economy. would be taken
for the comfort end happiness of the Yin. The
neat topic mentiesed in the Speech, to whisk he
should allude, was that distinguished meeting d So-
vereigns and S4atesmee erbkh led to the encomia's
of the French territory by the troops of the Allied
Powers. There was no wirers on record es illes-
trines an 'sample oft he mutual benetroles“, or albs
happy concord of oat' —Ulcer, hear q-lt was
not a meeting for purposes of rapine or spoliation,
or for sowing the seeds of future animosities and
discord : botone,which had no other purposes in view,
lint the peace of Europe, and the propagatioa
justice sod benevolence among nation'. OL this
he wan sole tl.e House would he fully convinced

whoever the papers, mentioned in the Speech of his
Royal highness the Prince Regent, relative to the
important affairs discussed and arranged at AssAa-
Chapelle, should be laid before them. With respect
to the People of France, be trusted, now that the
restless 'abides by which they were to long misled
and deluded use Incapable of agitating them any
longer, that they would be heartily disputed to con..
cur with the other great motions of Eurnite, in pro-
moting every ththg that was calculated to render the
peace eatensive and lasting. Ile hoped that they
would be disposed to profit dell the advattteges that
were •ffered to them under the patriotic sod mild
government of the restored Home of !turbos. '
alleding to the lion of the French territory,
he could not avoid espressing his admiration of the
conduct and bravery of oar own heroes, who were
.enw returned by that event to their native shores.
Ile could not but consider this event, at well es all
the other proceedings of the Congress of Aia-la•Cha.
pall,' es strongly marked with the characteristics
.of peace : and he was sere that thou opinions
would hereafter meet with the epproballea of
the Mouse. He neat adverted to the notice
its the Speech, relative to the affairs of oar
po 'nos in ladle, where the oxalates, of the
Government had been as prosperous as they had been
in Great Britain and in Europe. Under the able
end wise administration of the Most Noble the
Masotti' of Hastings, all the operations in India had
been es seccestfel as they were well planned. The I
Plndarries had been completely estereninated ; and
he was happy to learn, that the war against them
was entirely a war of self-defence, and that the
hiehraties use, in every case, the aggressors. The
brilliant secceeau and achievements, wbirh were
every where conspicuous during the war in India,
afforded the best proofs of the able and wise govern.
anent of the Marquis of Hastings. It mutt afford se.
tisfaction to the House, and the nation at large, le
field that the rerelts of our negotiations weir art kW
prosperous than the socr eeeee of our arma. He Ilan
alluded to the recent renewal of a Comnieicial Timmy
between this country and the Government of the,
United States of Ame►ira. This event was the more
derir..hle, as he understood that the former Tflally
was within a fee mouths of •apiring. The present
Treaty was In continue for • I years, and afford.
eel the prospect of great advantages not only ha the
commrice, but to the manufactures and industry of
I this country. But though 11111 was su iesportaut
evert. and hithly coimuling, from the inguence it
was likely in have on our commercial end standee-
indite welfare, yet he was happy to find, that it was
I not necessary for him to wander so far from home
.for the rtoofi of out COllll.ef tl3 i prosperit). This

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ems linty went from the activity of our sea.portsi
sled minetieturing towns O,IM dillefkl at
sit' well ayfrom the acknowledged increase of the
revenue imeall its most important isseeches. These
were certainly great blessings—end, for his pert,
be did not well know how to impress seliclent
ae-
irstowledgMetiss to that Administration, to whose
',mite Ind' ptudyet measurer we were indebted for
/UM". He Ives glad to Cid, that economy ass
Tilly kept in slete, and that the Army and
Navy were restated et much es was consistent with
domestic tranquillity end security, and with the safe.
ty of *or Colonies. Ile wet doubly glad, as these ye.
dections afforded the happiest proofs of the peace-
able dispotitioss of all the great European Powers,
and of the leternal concord of the B ' h Empire.—
lie hopes, that the Meuse wield saint themselves to
improve still further the various blessings which we
eujeyed, mud to confer edditional advantages and
blessings ea this happy country. Ile hoped that the
Address, which he was about to reed, would meet
with the unanimous assent of the Boom; end con.

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efeded with an apology for tresponing so long on
their patient*, 'gyring them that he felt very grate-

fel for their indulgence.
The Address was, as @seal; an echo of the 'speech
from the Throne.
Mr. WM. PEEL rose to serond the Address to his
Royal Highs, the Prince Regent; bet from the
100 tone of voice is which he spoke, very Hula of
what he said was audible in the Gallery. He was
OW of trying the pedant of the House, as, from
the netere of the subject, be was anticipated already
by the Hon. Mover. He was desirous that the Ad.
dress sheild be carried with the greatest unanimity,
end he was sere that they all felt alike with regard
to the melancholy events mentioned its the beginning
of the Speech—he alluded to the contiosance of the
King's illness, and the meat death of the Queen.—
It because the Representatives of the People to
sympathise with the Prince Regent on the loss sus-
tained on this oecteloo, mot only by his Royal High.
ness sod the Royal Family, but by the British
Empire. As be was gaits incapable, be should not
attempt to do justice to her late Majesty's virtuous
and amiable qualificetions. Whatever differences of
opinion 'night 'list on the sobject, he was sere that
the sew arrangements for the comforts of the Kis'
would be tech as would merit the approbation of that
Hoes' and of the country. lie thee made some te.
marks en the affairs of India, adding, that every sec-
ceding arrival from that amenity brought us nothing
bet tidings of seams. After some romplimeutary
tributes to the Marquis of Hastings for there sue.
tosses, he added, that the Allied fieverelges, is ap-
pointing . the Duke Wellington Generalissimo of
their armies Ih France, had paid the most splendid
compliment I. the genies and the character of this
coantry. The use made by that great Commander
of the powers bestowed upon him, afforded the best
proof of his having deserted it. Fortenately fee
Europe it was not necessary to have bias any longer
contiseed in that 'salted station, there was net
any logger a steamily for those preatetlowary meg.
sures, which required the maraca of a foreign army
on the French territory. Ile hoped that great coun-
try, after the siensl act of justice performed towards
her at Ala.la•Chepelle, wield now snits with the
other nations of Europe in cultivatiog the arts of
peace mad the resources of intents' prosperity. If
was sorely happy for France, after Wring been leased
abort by so many revolutions, to witness se genial a
change is her condition, and to enjoy at length the
certaiety of long repose under a free Governuteet,
end a constitutional Monarchy. Leith* French Pee.
ply, therefore, easel themselves, end show that they
are desirous of esjoying the blessings, which such •
Government is ealestated to afford them. They es.
suredly ought et length to forget their absurd and
"Hid schemes of theoretical improvement. Ile was
happy to find that the superiority of British talents,
and the wisdom of British usesteerrs, were as ronspi.
cones in India as they were le Kornpe. He con-
cluded with returning thanks to the Hone for its fa.
vourable attention.
The Address having been read from the Chair,
Mr. MACDONALD said, he did not mean, in
the obserrations he had to offer, to follow the ewe-
pin of thelast speakers, anddiscuss the several topics
of the Address; and for this reason, that he hoped
it would pass unanimously, without prejedice to any
matter spun which it touched ; and he wan the more
analogs for this, as it was in some maroons an Ad-
dress of Condolence, upon which all mast be of the
anus opinion. It did not, however, by any means
fellow, that he should be precluded from making a
few remarks upon it ; and indeed he confessed, that
the eatraordinary and extraesoant nature, as well of
the Address itself as of the speeches which accomps.
sled It, were calculated to call for more remarks 1
alien he was then disposed to wake. Ile woold,l
however, offer a few. The Speech from the
Throne, and the Address in answer, with cemmeats
of the two lion. Gentlemen opposite,drow, in his opi.
mien, a meat estravegant and exaggerated picture of
the prosperity of the coantry. They had touched
upon every thing which could heighten the rulotering
(and it wield be lamentable iadeed if at the present
moment some Koch materials did tint olio), but they
omitted In introduce any matter which, though it I
might tint mke the whole so pleasing, would have
rendered it more correct. The House were told that
some r. &actions hail bees end were to be made in the
story and army. Those redactions, whirl, some time
ago were said to he wholly impracticable, were now
alluded to as ostlers of necessary economy, but
which ice should contend, if not made to a consider.
able event, in the present sate of Europe anal of this
country, would roomier his Majesty Slinivers &SM.
in; of impeachment.—[lfertr, hear!]—If this was
thought Wet. on the ether side, he could not help
it; but satisfied with the act as far as it benefited
the Public, he should give no further credit to
the merit of the intention, than that it was forced
by the itsetitatite neceratty of the case. Ile was,
however, sleet's glad to hear any mention of a
disposition to economy come tram the other
side. It showed at least come respect to the prin.
aisle ; but he vintrl.l rather, instead of those general
and sweeping promises of retrenchment, (which, by
the way, were not al all new to the Rouse,) hear
some particular mention of what had actonlly been
dose, or what it was really meant to do. It boil
like sincerity when, after th• promise, some to I
was g-nr into; f:r institute, he should wish to itt.J.l