The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-03-24 00:00:00

read by the Noble Marquis appeared to him to be col,
rect. Rut that Noble Marquis was mistaken in con-
ceiving that article to have been concluded at Viekna;
to tip Isest of his belief it had bees entered into at

Naples.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE was, of course, bound
by the explanation of the Noble Earl to believe that the
to:1y two objects for which one squadron had been sta-
tioned in AP Bay of Naples. were to protect British
rratintir, and to watch over the personal safety of the
King and the Royal Family. But as it was most im-
portant that it should be made manifest to the whole
world, in the most convincing manner, that those were
or sole objects, would the Noble Earl have any objec-
tion'ttv lay before the House the instructions which had
been sent to our Cottimander in the Mediterranean ?
The Earl of LIVERPOOL said, that great objections
were certainly always entertained against producing the
instructions sent to officer'. He should, however, wish
to have some time for consideration before he gave a
f nal answer en the subject. Meanwhile he felt fully
authorised to repeat, that with the exception of the two
cases whioh he had mentioned, ininry to British pro.
perty, or personal violence to the King, the instructions
were: moat explicit as to the maintenance of the strictest
neutrality.
Earl GREY perceived, that whilst the Noble Earl
statid that the instructions enjoined Sir Graham Moore
to p serve the strictest neutrality in all circumstances
of the tontest between Austria and other States against
Naples, and confined the eases in which I.e might in-
terfere, to the protection of British property, and the
security of the King and Roysl Family. that Noble
Earl admitted that, in those cases, hostilities might pos-
sibly arise. The squadron had now been reduced to
the peace establishment.
The Earl of LIVERPOOL only wished to explain
Rai the peace establishment for the Mediterranean
leas only one ship of war and one or two frigates,
vr!iilst Our force in that quarter was now one sail of

toe line and three frigates.
Earl GREY maintained that still the force of the
settadron had been diminished ; and that its reduction
rit the same when hostilities had commenced must ap-
pear to all most extraordinary. lie did not mean,
however, to find fanit with the reduction ; but then
another difficulty arose with respect to the principle
;aid down by the Noble Earl that hostilities might be
undertaken fur the purpose of protecting the personal
safety of the King. No man could object to assist-
ing the King, or to orders being sent to our officers
far that purpose. But the Noble Earl and Sir W.
A'Court assumed the principle, that if any insult were
offered to that Sovereign hostilities would be justified.
No man would deprecate more than himself any act of
violence towards the King of Naples, not only on the
score of humanity but on that of policy. But be
wes.yet to learn that if any violence were shewn to
that Sovereign, it would justify us in engaging Is
hostilities. The essnmption of this principle, there-
fore, rendered the production of the instructions sent
to Sir G. Moore still more necessary. The Noble
Earl had not said that he had an insuperable objec-
tion to lay them before the House. He had only asked
for time 4„. consider, and he (Earl (trey) hoped that
ete resuTiof his consideration would be to produce
them on the table. The more he looked into the sub-
jut, the more did lie find the conduct of his Majesty's
Minister' towards Naples blameable. Whatever dan-
ger now thribtelled that country, nay, whatever dan-
ger threatened the world at large was to be attri-
buted to the system of false policy under which the
Noble Earl and his colleagues had acted. As to the
secret article between Naples awl Austria, his Noble
,Friend had not only inquired whether the copy were '
correct. but the date of its communication to the Bri-
tish Government. It was important to know, whether
ata time when the Congress of Vienna was settling
e%e interests and the peace of the world, that article
Lail been concluded at Vienna, and kept coneesled from
tr.ir Government, in order to be able to judge of the
good faith of Austria. The Noble Earl said that the
secret article had been concluded at Naples ; hut if he
(Lord U.) recollected right, the whole treaty bad been
concluded at Vienna, and therefore the secret article
1131135 t have been agreed upon and signed in that city.
A,s to the points of difference between the Circular
which was published in the Hamburg!' Papers, and
that which had lately appeared in the Vienna Gasctir,
l;e certainly recollected that the Noble Earl had ail-
rpitted their existence. at the time o hen the subject
was first introduced to that House. But lie had then
represented them as mere verbal inaccuracies, whereas
they now appeared to be very material, and to affect
mot only the langua,g, but the very substance of the
Paper.
'The Earl of LIVERPOOL said, that if the Noble
Earl or Marquis would give notice of a day ultra he
altoeld move for the production of the instructions sent
to Sir Graham Moore, lie would by that time consider
whether they could he lair' before the !louse. The
Noble Earl had objected to the admission that hosti-
-I:ty might follow the accomplishment of the purposes
for which our squadron had been sent to the Boy of
biaples ; but what he (Lord L.) had stated was ex-
pressly to guard against the inference. that if occa-
sional hostility proved necessary, it could induce the
country to make common cause with the House of
Austria. No such consummation was ever contem-
plated. The only objects ever in view were to pro-
tect British property, and to insure the personal
safety of the King and the Royal Family. With re-
spect to the protection of British property be (Lord
44) believed no question could eels; ; and lie would
mdt at present enter into that which concerned the
personal security of the ling and of the Royal Fa-
artily. lie should be ready, however, to defond his
4.:rinion whenever the Noble Earl might bring the
sitliject before the House. He should now only add,
that the nature of those very instructions hail given
the greaieit satisfaction at. Naples ; and that there was
pp suansoinected with the revolution in that country,
who hatrooi divined those instructions a tower of
stteigtV ip his hands.. For all were convinced that
.sio:tiehtg Mould he more disgraceful to their cause than
tbeAreri'or ass insult to the King, had they even de-
terminal to establish a republic instead of a limited
Ittnarchy. :With respect to the secret article between
4aples Ind ;Austria, it had b•en concluded, as far as
.. - -
!aples and not at Vienna, and long
of Vienna had been dissolved. As
communication to this Government,
(artful communication of it had
the Austrian or Neapolitan Courts

• lig reeo)lecte.d, at Naples and not at Vienna, and long
:atn. the boner's of. Vienna hid been dissolved. As
to the date of, its cgmmnnication to this Government,
.beyrepesiecf that nu Unmet communication of it had
Away been Made by the titustridia or Neapolitan Courts
t 9 this countrx.
• . I.wd 1911,M4D Wished to know at what period
that secret article had hecnuse known to his Majesty's
titth.ars, ■s, if ht tas not mistaken, one of its ob-
ill I