The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-06-11 00:00:00

THE ST.

bele( embarked is by subjects of this realm, were
intomerable; and as the Hon. Gentlemen on the
opposite side seemed to be NOM partial to them,
be would mention ease Spanish maniples, as most to
Their taste.—(Cheers and laughter.)— Noe were facts
and historical experience the only authorities
against the principle of the proposed Bill, bet there
*as that of the writers on the Law of Nations; par-
flailed, of the celebrated Bynkeishook, ohs was
President of the Courts of Rolland. On the question
whether It bee breach of neutrality to allow a friesdly
belligerent to levy troops in your territory, be answers
is the negative.—(l/ear!)—What would bare been
the cheers of Gallows opposite, bad any Hon. Geo.
demon on his side of the Howse veneered open as-
serting an opinion similar to that which was 111. re-
sult of this grove sage's eteditatios ?—( flear!)—ln
the war the Bishop of Monster against flatland,
in 1888, theStates-C-eseral complained to the Gower.
ar of the Spoils\ Notherlawde, that he permitted the
former to levy troops In his (the Governor's) terrl.
feriae spinal the States. And what did he reply to
them l° That the Bishop of bloomer was his friend,
and that the Spanish territories were as open to his
Wife as they were to the States for the same perpose.
—( Hear, hear !)—A groat breach of the Ise, for-
moth I Wto, what would they say in the cosi of
lone of the ielest Primes, and most valiant leaders
Europe ever saw ?—( Hear !)—Every body knew
that the great Gestavos Adolphus bad with him not
a little proportion of Britieb troops ; not a little
smuggled army, and a few half-pay officers acs hoard
a transport or two, is the Downs—(Mach laughter)
....bet a Scotch army of 8000 men; an army which,
melted with a handful of other troops, enabled him
to traverse a great part of Europe, burst the slavish
fetters which manacled his country, end give liberty
to Germany.—( Loud cheering.)—And who was the
commander of those 6000 men? Not a Sir Greeer
hil`Gregor, of whom he knew little, sod for whom,
be certainly cared nothing ; but the Marquis of
Hamilton, a man of the first distinction vial con.
sequence in his men country, and the pectoral (,lewd
of his King, from whom, boomer, he hod sto Berm*.
—(.l laugh, and cries of Ilear!)-.-Yot at that time
the Spanish and Imperial Ambassadors were resident
in London ; bat never promoted to snake a deemed
like that In question. Vettel bad distinctly said,
that it was no breach of neutrality for a nation to
allow its subjects to ne belligerent, and refuse
them to soothe,. lie (Sir Jams Macintosh) begged
to make one more allusion to the time of James 1.-_
A greet body of English troops, commanded by ass
of the most gallant Captains of his day, Sir borate
Vert, served spinet the Spaniards, and rece;eod pay
from a Foreign Power. Yet, Gadomar, the Spa.
slob Ambassador, whose the King (laer,os) was so.
deavouring by every means to criecilial"., and to whose
Cart he was even then uesklog the basest and most
abject mobesimion, did not dare to, ask that now pro.
posed is a British Howse of Commons.—[licarr,
hear, !]—Gendomar, the Ave.oassador of a haughty
and powerful Cwaris the ':,most Viceroy of Spain,
and the murderer of a arms emineet for all the at-
emilPliellsellin mid r,pleadid talents of rare and
w•bounderl Solo's Six Wall., Raleigh: a poet, a phi-
losopher, a statesroin, a skilful soldier, an intrepid
seaman ; in short, one of those in whom appeared
every requisite necessary for a character of heroic
greatness. Cmodomar, who, inleence procured his
desirous., and whose power placed him beyond pa-
oishotent, rtes he never had the courage to demand of
PotlinleAret seek a concession.—[lnsmeno cheering.]
—Hereafter thei Envoys pf despotic Powers might
besiege the doors of a British Minister, with claims
equally novel, onfoonded, and disgraceful, and say to
him," Yee cannot surely refuse to us what you have
pasted to each a man as Ferdinend."—[lleor !]—
What they had refused to the greatest of modern mili-
tary tyrants and despotic Sovereigns ; what they bad
dolled to Louis XIV. and Philip 11., they were re.
gaited to give to Ferdinand Vii., by whom
Inge t,f 01 men bathing were 'ached in u
way which he would not describe.—[Lad and
continued cheering.]—'rho simple mintiest thew
was, whether they would change their laws at the
desire of a foreign Power ? The Conatitotion framed
by our ancestors, more with a view to their own U.
berry, than the desire of foreign natioat, did not
perhaps possess sufficient conveniences; It did not
' possibly enable the Minister, In reply to the applica.
dons of foreign Ambassadors, to say, with a smile,
that certaioly every thing should be done to meet the
enlightened and beuevolent wishes of that Minces
Aurelius of Spain, Ferdinand Vll.—(Gheersngasd
larghtcr.)—That COMO system of our ancestors was
hardly ie unison with the ideas of Minister., which '
dwelt upon the refined and improved Governments
of the Contietental Powers ; sod, therefore, they
have satiating by way ei Ositation—en Alice Act
forfrestasee.—(4lsegh.)—le 1804, Lend Liverpool,
the then Secretary at War (and every body mast
highly applaud Ms coodect), replied to Napoleon,
with certainly as each propriety as it carte from
the Barons of old, " Nolumut Ives Anglia oeutare."
!)--They aboeld hare told Ferdinand, that
the law should be obeyed, and that he mast be sates-
Sod : and lime the time of Louis XI V. every Power
in Europe had been compelled to be satisfied with, or
to acquiesce in, the 'elides law. (The Mort. Member
bete took a short review of the nominal style and pre.
sat goversmest of the Insurgent States ; arguing that
the proposed Bill would be inoperstive in .regard to
Olicers holding commissions from that Government,
sod did net consider the cases of those who had no.)
There wee else sort of aid which this country would
glee to Spin, and not to the insurgents; and that was
an aid sbitb the proposed Bill did not guard against
—he meant the supply of transports to the King of
Spain. This, then, was an omission which bore
about it all the marks of the most anti-neutral spirit,
and which amounted to a flagrant violation of the nem
trality recognised by the Treaty of 1814. That Treaty
was all favourable to the Spanish King, and by the
stipulations which we entered into of net assisting his
Catholic Majesty's subjects against Spain, which sub-
jects in Smith America we professed at wish to re-
concile to the authority of his Majesty, we filed a
stigma of rebellion upon those very persons, towards
whom we now effected a neutrality. For his own
part, in a contest between tyranny and superstition
on the one hand, end liberty, or even a gleam of
berty, on the. ether, his heart never could be neutral.
Much had been said, and mast urj..stly, about the
contl-ct int•iives of the merchants. The Noble