The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-06-29 00:00:00

STANDING OItDIAS.

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pepsins mallet smut before the noose. posionoed his motion
for aostslier (hider to be Mop rd 'sigh regard to she
issirodisciion sit Bills relating to ilasodaesoses, sill Wednesday
sent.

Mc Armored Inver Cornwall!lna Kill. the Date of Wel.
Knima's Ema r Kill. Mc /levy 170aca K.II, mid ins American
Trade Cmoreminis Kill, arm lamina CommitMee in Its *oral
form.

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Aut. sad Sfovos arr. of Liars pool yogurt. Alai slir ristrige
Probihitiost 11411 onfals. hot pa.. atm a la•.
Aftrr lite Utrai able Emma,' Bill had heca t cad aietimied
time. it am. ti.ausiimitl for Thar-Mob.

lie Sesuare. W.tres 1141 we, rwa; served sine.
Ft)Fte.l(ol/4 L•LISINIEN II HILL
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BATH utti.r UK., slims the smolinz of the
Order of the Duly tot their Lordships ressolviug into
s Committee of the whole Hoes. to consider the Fn-
reign Enlistments Prohibition fill, and obsessed,
that in mositig for a Committee, he should briefly
state the notate of the foram bow upon the subject
of the Bill, what hail Off vtione,l 11$1 elteratiois in
that law, sod what rendered it both eapedont and
noressery at the 'terse's! lime. Be the Act of lime wisp
of George 11. if any potpie° mitered into the 14.111 left
of • Fuseign Pone( in hostility to that rower or
Powers with *bons this country was for the time
being at peace, or if any name was proved to have pre-
trailed on another so to ewes, Ise or they was or were
declared to be guilty of !flatly, without benefit of
Clergy. Means, hooters, were swell, (nand to
Coo• i s enactments bs g”iitg nut of this king.
dons, aid enlisting sn diodes. pales. Accooslie4ly,
the 29.0 of Georg. 11. prostdeg what was considered
to be remedial of this discrepancy. By she psnvi-
siring of this Niter, all 111'1,411111 who eutisted in fo.
reign !tarts, being subjects of this country, weer.
comprcheetled iii the penalties of the 9th of that some
reign. SP far, therefore, their ll.ursi.ships were Pa-
•hled to collect the spirit arid tendency i f oar
lotion on the sal jest then before its ;owl that shuts.
meas.'s,' were mist legislated with termer, to the
Pretender's cause, was ev.i:eut by its enforcement 1
cases which had no reference to him. This being'.
the prior obit, of the law upon this puiisi, it now be.
came him briefly to describe what had givest rise to
the alteration now proposed to be made. Soon O'er
the conclusion of peace, it was enderstond that Bd.
fish sot jests bed been induced to romp its the ear.
vice of the Insurgents of South America. As long
as their numbers were comparatively few, no colic-
we, taken of their conduct ; but the moment It could
be supposed that British Officers and privates Isere
enlisting Into the service of the Insurgents by the
connivance of the British Government, though at
vfoClr with Spain, from that moment, their Lout.
ships would doubtless rise, it became as it were in,.
pensive on his Majesty's Ministers to interpose. 1..
this manner had orignisted the regolflitto with respect
to nor half-pay Meets who were nut returnable in
the reamer, stay ; but this measure, he was entry
mo •liy, heti not the effect that was hopes! fur. Snl.
dims were eolisted in nor isiresns, smileless, display.
ed, and houses of sendeeenes were elleds.hP4 her in-
surgency. 1' hersensi, in this state of thing., net's.
airy to consider the Slaloms which presided for
offences of tke descrsption 110'0110ml to, when it Iles
.tuntrtinf how far they •Isplied so the present cosy,
inasmuch as the Spvniott In•trsgents were not tonsil.
tosionally to be considered as ass einuodied State,
within the purview of the ezisting laws. Prosiest's.
Lion was then i•sued i• wain both Offirers and pri-
vate, from entharking in the war NH Meru Sporn and
1,a4 colonies 'Pais conduct wise conformable an the
Intsty of 1814 with S!tsio, whit is in effect bound
us to abstain from assisting the insurgent aims,
though the same course t,.d in reality been
prescribed by the sisiormi four., of mote, and
assented to upon our pars (Liam those circumstances
it was that the Prortsms inn lie mentioned was is.
sue.!, to drier Ili. sahjeri of this kingdom, nest only
frnin engaging its the litturgise.i cause, but also from
accepting sect. consmisstons Irons his Catholic Majes-
ty as referred In hovilitiot in South A 'nooks. So
strictly • • this adhered in, skit two Officers were
struck °IT "wing res nno•compliance with it. It was
feared, and he should not disguise it from their Lord-
ships, that all thesis muesli/'s would he inadequate
In prevent Ike growing evil of entbarkiwg in the In.
sistgeot cause; but then, at that time, hopes were
che,ishrd es to the mediation of oilier States be.
tweets Spain end her Colonies, and peat efforts were
made to accomplish so desirable ass end. These es.
pertations and hopes failed, at length, last year, and
that failure was jeetificatery of the present Bill,
which *vended the Acts of dm 9th and t fith of
Gm,. 11. in this case, by making • misdemeanour, pia.
itislothle by fine end imprisonment, et the discretion
of the Law Courts, to smellge in the military servire
of a Foreign State, except by permission; sod the
like penalties to be is.diciecl tan all persons retaining
or procuring others to enlist in slosh case.—Misde.
amino's, not felony, was imputed to persona so of.
fending. 'llse same punishment was judged no less
necessary with retard to persons Attest* out •rmed
vessels to assist in military operations wit\ any Fo-
reign Powers at amity with es, Islamist licenses,

no issuing of commissions for Alps. To the letter I
clause, fitting out of vessels, 110 believed there
would be no great objection. b.rauss It so hap.l
;wised that our own merchants felt the toms-
venience of Teeing hordes of pirates who re-
spected no flag. sailed inhere they pleased, and
robbed all nations by turns. No apposition was Mi.
prehentled to plohibilille the fitting out of Insurgent
shim hut much opposition was PilleerPli to the en.
listotents' clues*. Ile would segue that chafe, there.
fore, not upon the emend of the (testy with Spoilt.
solemnly ratified, bet upon the general policy of the
Art ; and he was prepared to cornered, that if upon
general principles. the present 11111 ought to pass,
the treaty with Spain, considering her circumstances.
wade it necessary. that It should immediately pose
langasem was inallegeate to describe the degenerses
of that Government +lnch could not trialtitsiii the
' fsitb of treaties. Did their Lotilships wish to titre.
the Government in this state? taohliers were rait•ri
not merely to aii.jet the Colonies, but, as in
the case of Sir Green? Nl•Grrenr, at l'Orlot Bodo.
to invade plans at peace. Linde, Oh. sanction of
the British flag, and sittiported hi Balkh suns, h.ri
Porto Belle now become the prey to so Insurgent
fore.; and if this wrs sitsirtioned in the coo. rt
forte Bello, who could tell ithith•r the d...
tore of plunder niche not iniloce those patriots to C^?
And would their Lordships say. that this was* was.
proper for she law, to remain In, that they reqmitiol
it., amendment Was it conii.tein with common
sense, or common honesty. In Saar Ibe present ay•.
Ism In so on ? pith of duty was indispultbly
plain, that be was ashamed to oae up their time on
the subject. Ile hoped their Lortioltio• mould mar-
ten him to des. ripe the conduct .1 the U •i•ed Sates
of America with roferenc• en the qnestion no. be..
for. the M."... So far bark sa 17n4. this client',
bad entered into a treaty wish the United States to
the inft-rt that neither should
each daring police between bo•h. Now, when the
Fierch 'stir br-ke out, Nothing like sehtetfoe•
was attempted by America, for she rioted an Art'
to interdict her citisens from accepting all core.
missions from soy Sew". In op; osi.ion to that with ;
which they themselves were at pence, providing
that offenders should he Guild and imprisoned, and
sitschitig a like puniAment to fitting out vessel::
of war. Aft., w•rds ships were equipped its the
warren of the United Sates, sod complaint was made,
when, finilisio their laws defective, Cory in ISIR nest
passed en Act to estend the provision of the former
Isms. Such was the midget of the ti•ited Sates ea i
s,.tijects of this kind. and he s.ti,tied 1641 Lind.:
ships would have no nrces.ity to look into the
tortoises of German Jurists in order to deride
what measures it was fitting for this country to take.;
Never could it be the policy of Ibis cottony to de.;
%troy the duties of notionally, petting the obligations •
of treaties not of the question. ft masa question of
general policy, and upon this admission he flattered •
himself that their Lordships would agree tor into
a Committee on the Bill. I:ut if their Lordships mete
of a contrary opinion. it was better at onee to repeal
the ens. moots of the 9th awl 49th of Geo. 11. and
allow that British subjects should assist nn either side.
Neutrality, if it was to be ateintaiuml at all. must be
maintained on the systems of dealing as we desired to
dealt by, and piscine coarsely's in the situation of
other nations with colonies in resistance. Let it he
suptsow.d we were embroiled in a similar was, and
France tam neutral in the rasa. what would their
lordsliire say if France attffored her subjects to assist
the insurrectionary side, with men and ships?—
Necessity was itsedmissible.--France. like es,
lord just diebendod a large army, and felt much
difficulty in disposing of her stoops; bet what
would our officers r'y if 1014 that French officers
were ready to commend oar men. or oar ship-
owners if informed that French ships were ready to
bght nor batik? The irtierfereence its our contest
tains America had been deprecated by men of all
par•ies as it respected Frattre, and dearly bad that
I Peop:e paid for it is. af.er years. Suppose each an
lemon now. salvos* France to give a Getters' power
to entire, bet the pester past of her soldiers sheet,'
elitist for the Culookss, anti none for the Crown,
arca' would Ibis country think of the neutrality of
France ? Ile deoied that ever we hid acted on such
a neutrality as that. Instaurris were ci•ed from for.
met times, during the reigns of Queen Elisabeth and
her successor, to justify the present course; but if
such a system sm. adopted, it would certainly have
*truism's., this country. Ile most contend that
neither Quswes Elisabeth in the struggle of the United
Provinces. nor Jewel I in the alisir of Palatinate,
nor Charles I. et another period of lime, had
•cied on the principle now a.serted by the typo.
neon of 11.0 Bill, eccept for the common goad of
the Protestant cause. regard to the litter
Prince, be fell it impossible to speck with harshness
of his errors, which his virtues more than atoned
for ; but if be bail owe error more paramount thole
another, it, perhaps, was heist( astray by senor
semblance of
.advasetage for the time. Having now
stated those cases in which it was supposed that
the reverse of the present Hill was the neutrality of
Peace, he would ask their Lordships if it was pro.
per for enlistments to take place over which his Ma.
jesty's Nlinisters had no check, and without their
special liceace. lie was meare of one &vestment in
supped of the enlistment side. that in that case the
Esecetive was not responsible for what use rein • e.,
Ile, hu•ever, must deny this. Governments of
every kind mere responsible incoentriesn amity with
theme for hostilities on the part of their sohjr.ts.---i
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power of enforeing,its own rietts, he trusted that
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their lovdships would nut. by rerasiou the present i
Bills la 'Ent ray, that the sweet. et the Ctowa

most stand responsible to rotation Stat►. for acts
over which they have ins cootrnol. We were
jraloos of • standing state, and j11..1e so. and w.tiold
their i.nrdahips nos potion, that a foreigner ah.•uld
have the politer of valuing an one, her• ',A 'opt°, it
in f..r•ign and impolitic wars. He It dwell that he
had shortly made oat selhcient Erne,. %. (o► paring
th. pt-vent MIL and therefore he aislted no
to detain the novae. J 1111. le, wa. all he staked v..
beaten pith of equity lay bef,te them. ati.l 5... nar-
r.•w or seltiah policy mould, he was per.narl.,l,
duce them e.• diverge from it. W•. wet• htrr,nd by
the faith of Treaties not In enntrasen• dp. priurlpli
of neotrality in this rase, mote e*pecially when it
might 'totality be imagined that inteteat had been
mixed upatith the quecinn ..f neotr•l light.

Lord . ROLLA \lf twgaii by rrinantiog an the
great variety of moth«. that had been arbtoced for
lt'sittg the Bin Wore Boasts, rind olio g eat viriety
.1 for nand! on . liirh its policy was ilpf.itilisil. Wt.. A
he retailer:ft! w!•at happened more parlicularls in
thwart' place, where it was introduced on the go oitud
of cor••oeticg so elontre;ir in our Criminal 1.. s, by
perform eltot opposed them.ot•... In any f..•yis,is or
imprerement of the Criminal Code, h• enti..l toot bat
ausnevt the alleged molar.. That grotto,' was aftet
wards deserter', as twirl/ trend fun narrow for the
seperstruesre to be raised upon it; and then we
were told thst the appoomoir was moms*, ry to pre.
...roe the principles of riestr•li•y. t ishariei.ntlt
it hall horn dia d that this fo.uoide•lon • os still
ono confines!, and now the House was railed upon to
slops the me owe beta.. io, because tb• rounity wits
pledged in it by the woridniretion introduced rota oat
practice by the ripelatien of a 1,111,hr-slot Testy,
• I.irh was completely at variance with this oirnotniftit
in its favorer drawl, from the principles of neorrality.
It had been said, that ',toroth th• Hill ••• coquetted
with a policy opposed In our present inter...is, .04
more to the feetinn• and iii•hr4 of It. isethoo•, P.
slight to be suppored as enfoorion the lorinriples k 4
joloire end prem./0 ig the nalknal I ..... our. HP atom 4
ofter•atils•asootori the moor. and Vice of this plea ;
in the meantime it was aufG,ient to mention it. tee
show that it was at titillate with the other grounds
on which the Bill bad been d-roorled, end contained
a 'principle of so onuses! a kin.% sts reto•lered the sin.
ceoity of those who eel, fined it doutitful. If any
part of the roeseire was reationshi. and jam. he
(Lord Holland) was willing to adopt it, thoogh
he objected to the unreasonable tioi• at which
it was brought forward. 4n this temper he con.
i totted in those douses of the Bit 'IWO repeal.
ed the S•atates of e e 9'h anal 29th of Gee. 11.--
1 The latter ..f these Acts, it should be reo•rorplieperl.
a•a p 1113•11 its iii• view of a war. Tie :11.111e Earl
(Bathurst) had, indeed, useoriuo.,l one , nes fief iii
which they had been esecut-d, uneopinected with tiro
Pretender, soil shot was its the c.e• of some ;'.rants
enlisting into the Prussian Service. This only showed
that at the Arts were passed in time of peace, they
had been elpforceil to prevent ovr rubjerts fr:irn join.
inn a foreign force wOon their venires were unpaired
at itiirtie. Ile came now to the question. whether lite
preservalioo of the principles of ne .trality required
the enactment of the present measure? Arid Isere he
west sae. that he had heard tome pacts of the vetch
of the Noble Earl :,,ppootite that related to that part
of the subject with no little surprise. W:in would
hafts Ihoeght that the Noble Lord would here had
recourse to the legislation of she United S..tesi
of America for seniority on the Law of Nes .... a.
for an esposition of the prinripies of pieutralits ? 'Sly,
who would have thopight that he worth' hare set
aside all former ptecerlisnts and condemned all f•ormer
logialation at home, Input, this new authority ? Not
only dames I , who was censategl by the Nohle Earl
for hie pacific temper ; and Charles I . an strengely
tolemed and eulogised in the same breath ; hot all rtsgi
Monarchs of England, up to the year ITN. safer.
ed in companion with this new oracle; and yet they
had enortived, without any law of neutrality. to
maintain peace longer than (hose who had succeeded
them. Ile would aerator:. ha the way to sagest to
the Noble Esrl, that the love of pew motuf.sto4
by James I. was more %thrower...de to h•s People
than the nprosi,• disposition that ••f late lied guided
the Coanrils of this coontrv. In *peaking of ihe
Policy of Charles I. the N obi* Karl prof...teed a de.
rite to apse no harsh expression towards that ea.
fortunate Monarch, and yet enfold there be a ten.
sere more , —could there he • statement
more destructive of his character thao what had
fallen from the Noble Earl, who Illo•vol that he
was not sinter* in his conduct; that he privstelr
opposed those whom he pokily professed to 14a our ;
that be made- promises of neutrality, and booths
them to suit his convenience ? The Noble Ear*
profession of rorhe.r.or. and lenity assorted ill wills
his enumeration of facts. He " wished not to
speak harshly of the anfortenite Monarch,"' while
with the same breath ha mentioned that he made
war on his own subjects, and deceived hja silica ;
that he was insincere in his foreign politics, mid a
tyrant and e despot at home. All this was called
not speaking harshly of the 111 Is whose eon.
duct was alluded to. Astir, ornament in fltour of
the present Hill, the Noble Lord had sod. that
if it
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thet the pushing laws were Vet&
tiara, maintain,
ran the lisrt
Loiwredeuniuld not preserve air nee'
cient for that pairpose Worried even r a sarecnee
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of standing app for the pr•rogative in this
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