The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-03-23 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN.

B' ;fish subjects should be requested to conform to not to have taken place without the warrant or. Par•
thi, regulation, of applying for a passport previous Helmut.
to sailing from any foreign port. This extraordinary Lerti CASTLEREAGH negated et soli leagtiii
letter, the lion. Baronet observed, appeared to hare to show that if the principlesmaintalned bythe Um*
undergone very little deliberation at the Foreign l'Harottet.were adopted, they would boson injetiotte!
Office before it was acted upon, for printed copies of than beneficial to aliens.
it, dated the 6th of May, were circulated among our L Sir J. MACKINTOSH contended, that the winds
Ministers and Consuls; yet no communication upon system of the Alien Laws never supposed any won-
the subject of tisk letter was ever made to Feriae. 1 lion of them out of the territories or Great iiritatu;-
ment, nor was it even made knowu or alluded to by and referred to the wain which they tad been me-
any of his Majesty's Ministers, in the course or the 1 soled within this realm.. According to Blackstone,
discussion which took place since it was issued upon , we had a right to send away alien friends, but not to
the Bill for renewing the Alien Act. In this lull, : refuse entrance to. them. Adverting to former pe-
too, he observed, that a provision was made directly I nods, he enquired what would have been thought,
negativing the right to delegate its powers, especially 1 bad the unfortunate beings who lied from the tyranny
in the way stated in the letter alluded to—namely, I of Robespierre been refused an asylum, and been sent !
that no foreigner should be allowed to land iu this , back to the scaffold? In proportion to thesevefity of
country without having a description of his person la law, should be the lenity with which it was ender-
and character communicated to the proper office.— I stood and put in force. And more particularly
From this provision he concluded that passports, , should a suspension of a law, founded on one of the ,
such as Lord Sidmoutt.'s letter referred to, were , most important clauses of Magna Charts, be guarded i
never contemplated in the law ; because if they were, ! from a loose and undefined construction. The whole '
it was obvious that such passport would suffice to , body of Consuls and Vice-Consuls amounted to 23
render the required description unnecessary. After ;in number. It was not fitting that they should be en-'
forcibly remarking upon this clandestine and illegal I trusted with the power that had been vested ig them. 1
delegation, and particularly the injustice of granting Five or six of them were natives of the countries in i
it to Consuls, who were thus enabled to prevent any which they acted ; and it was highly improper that
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man from coming to this country who might have they should be empowered to shut the doors of British
complaints to prefer against their own misconduct, or I humanity and hospitality on all those who requested
who might interfere with their views in any commer. I admission.
cial speculation, the Hon. Baronet maintained that it Mr. 11. ADDINGTON explained. I
vas a great dereliction of duty in the Minister to de. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL maintained that
legtte the powers of the Alien Act at all, and con- there was no doubt as to the general power of the.,
eluded with proposing a Resolution descriptive of the Crown to decide whether aliens should remain in this
proceeding to which he felt it his duty to call the at- country or not; and that the particular circumstance
tention of the House. The Right Hon. Baronet's in question would not bear the construction which it
Resolution was read, containing in substance a re- had been attempted to put on it.
Oat of the preceding statement. Mr. BENNETT mentioned the case of a Member
Mr. H. ADDINGTON contended that his letter, of the Cortes, who had taken refuge in a merchant
which had been commented upon by the Right Hon. ship in Cadiz, which being known, all the British
Baronet, was perfectly unobjectionable, as it recem- ships in the harbour were searched, and the person
mended nothing more than a mere measureof vigilant in question only escaped being delivered up to the
precaution. In consequence of numerous applica- Spaniards by the houourable conduct of a Captain
tions which were made to the Secretary of State for who concealed him.
the Home Department, expressive of the apprehen. After a few words from Mr. W. WYNNE, the
shuts which were entertained from the number 'of House divided—
Aliens then in this country (amounting to more thirn For the previous question
20,000), every effort was used to prevent, as far as Agosawt it
possible, the entrance of others, unless they were of. Majority agviast Sir J. Newport's motion 47
unexceptionable character. It was, therefore, perfect- Mr. WHITBREAD then again briefly stated the
ly obvious that the persons best fitted to accomplish circumstances under u hich he was informed M. Cor-
reja was sent out of the country, and concluded by
those precautionary measures, by enquiry and cor-
rect information, were the accredited agents at those moving—
ports from which Aliens were likely to embark for " That an humble Address be presented to the Prince Regent,
pray.ing.him to communicate to the House Copies of all Com-
this country. A great error pervaded the whole of
munications between the Secretary of State for the Hume De-
the Right lion. Baronet's speech, who seemed to sup- purtment and his Excellency the Portuguese Ambassador, re-
pose that what had taken place had been done under sting Don Anselmo Cerneja, a Portuguese. Also the Copy
the Alien Act; on the contrary, as the proceeding in of a Remonstrance from M. Curreja to the Secretary of State,
question was founded upon the law of nations and and the answers, if any, thereto and the date of his departure
the admitted prerogative of the Crown, accredited from this country. k
agents at foreign ports were justified under the for- Mr. 11. ADDINGTON opposed the motion on the
seer in refusing passports to Aliens suspected of ground that nu prima ground was made out for the
hostility towards the country they represented; and, 4 production of the papers, as the fact which the Hon.
by the (suer, the Crown was empowered to send any . Member (Mr. Whitbread) had stated as the ground
person out of the realm under similar suspicion.— on which M. Correja was sent out of the country,
With respect to this letter, it merely left the Alien was not correct.--[Mr. Whitbread asked across the
where he was before that letter was writtenv as he table, what were the grounds?]—He did not wish to
rei.,,, t still come to this country without a passport, state what were the grounds, but they appeared to
it he chose to run that risk ; and, iu point of fact, him sufficient to justify the Secretary of State at the,
nut one Mien who had so entered the country with. time in sending him out of the country. •
nut a passport, since the regulation was made, Sir J. NEWPORT asked why, if the grounds
lia.l heed either refused admission, or sent out of it. were sufficient, would not the Right Hon. Gentleman
Ile contende,l further that the letter could not be , consent to show to them to the House?

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considered as applying to any Aliens, but such as
were .uspe-ted of hostility towards Great Britain or
her tlepe.oletteies ; and that it was utterly impossible
cnu!d hate a reference to Aliens taking refuge
bete from prosecutions of any kind under their own
G„, erttotent•

Mr. 11. ADDINGTON said there was no ground
shown to justify their production.
Mr. WIIITBREAD explained.
Mr. GOULBURN contended that the assertion
of his Right lion. Friend (Mr. Addington) was at
least equal to that of the lion. Gent. (Mr. Whit-
...

Mr. 11 lIIIBREAD said, that he should not en-
ter into nay discussion as to the prerogative which
belonged, or might still belong, to the Crown, with
r.s;ect to sending Aliens out of the country or re-
refu.ing them admission into it ; but he would just
ob:erre, that the law which passed in 17E/3 defined
that power, and at all evetits, that that law was the
rule• by which the conduct of the Secretary of State
for the Home Department could alone be justified.—
lf, however, no Alien had been either refused admis-
sion into this country, or sent out . of it, in conse-
quence of the regulations recommended by the Hight
Hun. Gentleman's letter, then the regulations them-
selves were nugatory. Ile should now proceed to
mention the case of Anselmo Cot reja, in which a most
unjustifiable transfer of power hail been made by the
Secretary of State for the Home Department, to M.
de Souza, the Portuguese Minister. Because Cor-
reja had written some lampoons which annoyed M.
de Souza, he applied to Mr. Itydnr, who was then
Secretary of State, by whom he wns sent to Lisbon,
a place which seemed to be peculiarly selected for
the reception of persons guilty of political lampoons.
laughl—Surely, however, it could not be said
that these was any thing in such an offence which

bread), so that there was no ground for calling for
the Papers, unless the House went into all the cases
which bad occurred under the Alien Act. He was
himself in the Home Departinent at the time, and
could corroborate the statement that the cause of M.
Correja being sent out of the country was not his
having written a libel on the Portuguese Resident,
.though it was true that he had written such a libel.—
Wear, hear !]
Sir S. ROMILLY thought, that as abuse had
.been imputed, there was a distinction between this
and the other cases under the Alien Act. The pow.
.ers given by the Act were so extensive, that they
required some interference of the House. In the
case of De Beringer papers had been seized, for
which there was uo authority either is the Alien Act
or the common law.
The Motion was then put, and negatived without
a division.
PAPERS RELATING TO THE. CONGRESq.
Mr. PONSONBY wished to know whether the
Papers respecting the Negociations at the Congress
world be laid before the House after the recess. He
wished to know whether among those Papers would
be the instructions to Lord W. Bentinck

justified the exptcise of such a power. There was
nothing seditious in it, nothing which tended to ex-
cite mutiny or diiitlection in the army or navy ; it
was contained in a Portuguese pamphlet, which, in
fact, had never been translated into English. The Hon.
Member neat read a letter from Mr. Reeves to a Porta.
gnese Gentleman, informing him that it was necessary
to have a certificate from the Portuguese %Master, bep
fore ne could receive a licence for remaining herb;
and contended that such a regulation was transferring
the powers of the Alien Act, so far as they related
to the Portuguese, to the Ataba,sador of that nation
resident here. lie had been informed that the prac-
tice still continued.

Lord CASTLEILEA.GH said he was afraid the
papers could not be produced before the recess, but
,be would take care that they sboutd bt►laid before
the House immediately after. There would be in-
cluded in these papers as much of the instructions of
Loki W. Bentinck as related te Genoa : it would be
in the power of any Member, who thought such
parts as were produced insudifieut, to ,call for fur.
ther information.
Mr. PONSONBY said it was therefore impossible
that he could fix a precise day, for a ,Motion which
he intended to bring forward respecting those Pi-
pers. lie shoukl, therefore, give notice generally,
that after the recess•ba sheold bring forward a Me-

Mr. If. A DDINGTON observed, that when 4e
Honourable Member on a former occasion adverted
to the present case, he stated that Curreja had been
sent out of the country because he bad not been re•
gularly provided with a passport from the Portuguese
Minister: Now, he had found out a different cause;
but he would tell the Honourable Member he was
now quite as mistaken as he always had been, in the
grounds Odell he had mentioned. Ile trusted the
House would not consent to lay the papers on the
table for which the Honourable Member intended to
more, without a stronger case being made out for their
prorltulion. Before he sat down he should beg leave
to move the previous question upon the motion of the
Ziight Bon. Baronet.
• 'Sir J. N V.WPOILT made a short, but anitnated
reply, in which he contended that the delegation ought

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tioq on that subject.. • •,
WIIITIII3.Ii.AD said a Declaration had .been
publisheii porporting to be ,a. Declaration of the
Congress, by•wbioh.the Proceedings. of *hat body
were stated to have terminated. lie wiallari to know
whether that Paper was authentic' assti whether tbs.
hlinisters and Sovereigns assembled Pere.now pro
seeding to their respective homes tq ginera•pagler the
principles there determined on ? . • , t
Lord
,c4TLt.,Ii.EAGLi said, ant thip..pressult
was a specimen of
.the West to
Member's system of ttasetiellis was cmrgied• • )110;
(Lord ) had recently declared. time 4wetsed-:
lugs of the 4ougress had not yet leesnintsed) -sad
the state in which they chess wet**. its.4.olowAhli
lion. Member wished to know whether thit Con-
gress bad issued another Declaration.—Lis It anthem.

tic T—feentAllr9. Whitbread.) The Dectitralfer in
, rquestionundlet to a state of tiiitigs whirls did not
mest-7thebreaking up of the Congress.
Mr. WHITBREAD wished-to -andel-Rend Ad*
tber or no the Deilaration was authentic?
Lord CASTLEREAGH saki, if the Ron. Montt,
ter wished to krill* *Wiwi wmanated Wosa
As &agree at Viasialiolkilretinif had sot-
, • Oftma OR, TIM SATE.
. C. MONCK, IRA** to bring forward bit
Motion respecting the Order of ,the Bath, observed
that it was not his hitentibn eMbr it attempt to curl
tail the prerogatives of tire Crewe, nor to derogate
from the merit of those who had beeo rewarded with
its honours. He merely thought that to confine ass,
order of honour to any particular class of persons,
was an improper limitation of the King's prerogas
tire. The Hon. Bart. then entered into a detailed
account of the creation of the Order, and the modi:
ficatien of it by the serious statutes; and be cow.
tended that the Crown had not the power to extead
the number beyond 343. He concluded with mollig
for copies of allietters patent issued by King Geo.
I. for the creation and erection of the. Order of the
Bath into a regulAttnilitary order ; of all letters pa-
tent issued sines up to the present times, and of the
papers by whirl that Order fiat) been lately modi-
fied.

MARVELLOUS DISOOVERkES.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STATESMAN.
Sift,—The last twelvemonth may be considered es
equal to an age of discoveries. Projects which here
been on the anvil for W years, have been suddenly
brought to maturity, and the real views end designs
of the projectors exhibited to the •wiitid. Pretensions
set up to Intirpureendirtnlittilestotlvesis the lore ti
justice, the emancipation of ossoltinA frote..tyoutoy
and oppression, the extension of a free goeernment
on the model of the English Constitution to the des.
potic States of Europe, with various other Idiotic(
professions for ameliorating theconditinn ofmankind,
have been brought to the test, and discovered to be
hollow and deceitful :—whilst, on the other hand, the
virtuous indignation which some.great persons hareaf.
fected to feel at the sacrifices made by a bold ti nd adveo,
to roux leader to gratify his ambition, has been discover.
ed to be only a pretence for seising those very !Toile
and making a partition of them amongst tfiemsrives.
But among all these marvellous discoveries, which,
indeed, some folks, whose politiell faith 'was very
staunch, can scarcely bring themselves to acknoe.
ledge, though they übw stare them in the face, there
is one more hnpertant than all the rest, enlithat is,
the discovery just made of the real sentiments and
disposition of the French Nattiest: 1 have called this
discovery, Mr. Retro", the most importaat of all ;
because it was in consequence of the doubt arainin.
certainty with which this point was artfully enveloped
that means were found to prolong the lair so *ay
long, that it has sent thousands, yee, hundreds of
thonsands, of our countrymen to their Isla home,
and accumulated such a weight of tamelkiksi!Ceise
shoulders of the survivors, that those 'pedals ''ss
are left to groan under the intolerable load, .Nly le
.as much to he pitied as they who 4111 past swas
particular classes only excepted, This, Sir; went.
ing to my construction, and I think it maybe called
la charitable construction, hair been the fruits of
• that uncertainty which preVelled her* respecting the
real Sentiments of the French. ~Is it to be stoppaged
that a nation so generous in their • principles as the
English's nation that holds every species •
in horror and detestation,* =thesis* wham
of freedom has been hereditary for
to be supposed, I ask,thata Nation se high
so brave, so honourable, abould become
I degenerate, and corrupt, ii ha become '
1 sten of on oppression spot ethers which'.
I not bear tisemselvese--the cowardly instruments
setting op a despotic force to overawe sad
in others that free will and independence
value In ourselves beyond life itself?
can never believe that the British nation
, intentionally guilty of so atrocious so degrading
! act. I can never believe that knollikeyeiy '
folly they have hired the swords atwisio
of Mercenary foreigners, and used their .
and their own bayonets for the base and
purpose of over-bearing the fro voice
Intim' of the French nation ik, foveae
Leon ; I say;Sir, they have never dens ,
shame, this, outrage against the will of
Law ef,,Platwl* an4...t4-sek_nowiedcil '
Independent nation s.-TNo ;Itney quer di
POLEON; they never set up Lunis at the I
bgyobet with a conscious kaosukji thit
the object of the people's choice, and I
their aversion and detestation; bat no,
knowledge is revealed ; this important
made, there can therefore be ne,tOssger at
hesitation upon the subject; end it wow
..burial insult, a disgraceful reflection
honour and generosity, to suppose Engle!
'or undertaking another war; mind, sir,
war,—not egaitast Neroeses,§pt egadusett
Nation, to compel them to change Arm
Dinatity a second time. I • casino help
that such, a war would not be a war 6
! French nation themselves, indeed it weed
against the independence of all nations,
is still more, it would be a war against the
that set the house of Branstrick on Me
li Yes, Mr. EDITOR, now this important ,
, sided in favour of NAPOLEON,. beyead.
Isibility of dispute'. er.,lcOutradiction,, •
and evident that. *lkuiiirAtera reigns. ,
Iby the *same title that the
.House of
reigns in England • and the Englishman,
I may be, that sees force to deskrty the ail.
I must, I conceive, by a natural coyeequeoce,
}to the other. What fair can diere then
1 other war, for the purpose of dethroning N
Where it the man to be found who w 7
sword in such a cause? Where the Itepresern
that mill vote soppliet for a war to overture
principles of the Revolution of 1688, and '
• the independence of all free nations ? For r
Mr. EDITOR, I cannel conceive it possible
persons can exist ha this country. But
disgrace of the nation, .a few such indlsidut
be found to exist in it, I trust that all par
tions will be laid aside' and that the Whigs,
formers, the Country Gentlemen, &c. wil'
defeat their criminal designs. I remain, '
• TIMOTHY TR.
P. S. This letter was written in consequence
Intelligence that BONAPARTE had been received
I open arms by the French nation. that he l'
entered Paris, and that Louts XVIII. ha,
the Throne. As I was folding the letter
telligence was received, by which these fai
tradicted; Louts, it seems, has nut abk
capital, and hopes are entertained, by Mr
party of making a stand against his rival.
tete may, perhaps, be sanguinary ; but wil
reign assistance which Louts will resort I
not be said, whatever may be the issue, el
• ' N • . -, , s
ii '. ' . . c ' 0.1 Tithib.who - cisive of the free will of the nation. It
' no vertu THE _witiFts_--......._ are hi ,**lll be more just to compare it to one of
311tEllirof pod; maybe iii4ilet/ ;rails Thousands at thins not unknown in our Parliamentat
lailu's,.4, Csiakill, it 9,. Clsaring..Cross, by pur.. : where one Member has hien known to hay
Challing Title* or• Shares before thi Ath of April, whole Ueigltupf the Treasury to support
hit Tlicv gf tee Five 404Cseloillatriams most be the ether I heloprobation of the unlnfieenr
&intik* aid will be paid in Gold as wren Ars Ore- pendent 'oars only. Such &decision is t
clalused.—N. B. All the Three SO3 0004 Nags may i tiiied-ro the name of a free election, as
.
be drawn oa the aims Day. - iAt this moment is passing in France; will

.Lord CASTLEREAGHsiId, daft the lest war
it had been feii that this country was peculiarly do-
. titute of those honours by which the Crown could
reward splendid military services. The rights of
Esquires would have been equally affected by creat-
ing the different individuals rewarded with the ho.
noon in question, Knights or Baronets. Some ho-
nour of this kind was in .the contemplation of Mr.
1 Pitt towards the close of his life. He was. willing
to allow that these honours had been pushed too far
on the -Continent. By extending them too much
they lost their value. Every person knew hew
eagerly in Austria the Order of Marla Theresa, and
in Russia the Order of St. George were desired by
the armies of these countries. ' He saw nothing in
the manner in which the Crowe had exercised its
1 prerogative on the occasion, to invite Parliament to
consider it as an abuse. As the other Orders were
disposed of, he should conclude with moving an Ad..
journmeut.
Mr. GORDON ~Seeded that to a time of peace
1 it was the duty of the Legislature of this country to
repress rather than to encourage any attempt-ft/flee
too great a military character to this country. They
had at present an instance in a neighbouring country
lof a military despotism traumas/ on the wishes of
I • the people of that country. He complained of the
attempt to separate the citizen fromthe toldier ; and
• objected to the measure as an imitation of foreign
manners, of foreign frippery and frivolity. It was
I only such a constitution of mind as bad contrived the
late exhibitions in the Parks, that could Imagine this
1 piece of frivolity.
Mr. WM. BATHURST said, if other nations
had found out that soldiers were pleased with thise
1 honours, why should we refuse to avail ourselves of
such a mode of rewarding an army merely as that
account ?

Mr. W. WYNNE thought that in Austria and
Russia where the Soiereigns vested entirety on their
army, such a mode of rewarding it might be proper.
In Russia all honours were military • and Maids of
Honour in that country, ranked as dajor.Generalti.
—[Laugh.]—This measure might ultimately be at.
tended with moat dangerous condequenees to oul. li-
berties. It was the first attempt to establish min-
sive military honours. He complained of the In.
equality with which they had been distributed be-
tween the two services. Out of 180 Knights, only
49 belonged to the navy. He instanced Capt. Philli.
more as a person who ought to have received such um

honour.
Mr. B. B.A.THURST denied that undue preference
had been given to the army.
Mr. WHITBREAD said, these new honours had
dissatisfied every body, arid pleased nobody; they
had disgusted those who before belonged to the Or.
der of the Bath, and those who had since entered
were ashamed to show their honours!—The mea-
-1 sure had revived the jealousy between the two set..
vices. Government had been more than just to the
army, and done less than justice to the naCy. He
' participated in the feeling of jealousy it the attempt
to make this a military country. Was the Duke of
Wellington bred at a military college? or Lord
Lynedock, or Sir John Moore ?—There was not
oise•who had received medals who would net rather
continue to wear them, than be adorned with this
distinction, which had been diluted almost to no-
thing. Before the French Revolution, the Cross of
St. Loois being it every button-bole, was not
worth 2a. 6d.; and in Portugal the same distinction
was worn by upper servants.' When we talked of
the splendid iervices of our army, we ought not to
forget thoselhen who had 'Wept the seas to make
room for that army. The navy Was now congenial
to the Constitution of this country. The army were
contented with their medals, and discontented with
their badges, and rather ashamed of them.
Mr. GOULBURN observed, that it was not the
fact that the army had been honoured more than the
navy; the distribution to both services was made with
strict reference to their respective numerical strength;
and on this principle the army bad only 20 Knights
more than the navy.
Mr. WHITBREAD explained.
Mr. I'ONSONBY contended that for some time
there had been a marked partiality shown to the army
over the navy.
Mr. W. POLE contended, that the distribution
had been made on the fairest principles, and if the
Gentlemen opposite did not think so, they ought to
bring forward a charge against Ministers.

The Adjournment itai then wiled withoo • di-
oue o'clock.

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