The Statesman.
London, England, 1813-03-06 00:00:00

IMPERI44 PAR L Lava!


We desire peaty, but If we cannot
She leuditiou•, the war must be ,
ascii year of war .our naval forces
'Without the enemy's naval superiority
preteut it.

LAND ARMY.
The Land Army is composed
Curd, which comprehends /0 regitnents
and 44 squadrons; of 152 regiments
37 of light infa►►er), making 189
fiery, or 945 French battalions;
of artillery ; of 30 battalions of the
giments of cavalry, of eight companies
pendent of four Swiss regimints, sir
. meats, and severe) colonial battalions.
I will not wok to you, Gentlemen, about
tary or politicak events ; I can add aothhig to
you know, arid *hat the Emperor told yob, in.& few
words, but with so much profoundness. It appealed
to me, that the simple expose of our interioisof
maritime, and rhilitary situation, were
make the immt►nslty of our resources
the solidity of one system, and the ►
to a vigilant Government, whose Mots
staidly consecrated to all which is grand
to the glory of the empire.
The firm resolution of the Sovereign
equally all parts of his empire, and '
proceed in the same system of ewer
grand administration, cannot but
vas possible, the confidence and love
faked' bear him.

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111101ISF. OF L(RDc, Magee 5.
toe Otte of Athol and Ltird King took the oaths sued their
OWL
In the Appeal Cause. the " Rank of Scotland v. Watsoo,”
Mr Samuel Ronsillv and Mr. Lerch were heard for the Appel-
lant, and the Att irney-tiemeral, as Leading Counsel, fur the
illaspowdort.
The LORI) CII A NICELLOR proposed Tuesday for the next
haselog. but on at-emits, of the interv.-nintotbness, that day was
definitively settl•nl nn the part of his ip.
The Crown peMnrs' ItAief, the Salt Excise, the Cornish Mi-
sers Lilian, •ni, and a few ether, chiefly private, Bills, "ere
in:t op from the Commons by air. Losaington, Mr. Ad-
tt, and Miter Members, and respectively read a lint
doe.

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ells, then prevailed .up. , claratious parties, . add ambiguous upon ~ and i.
to restore the Princess to favour : find she was rtes bra seas out, to require any such interference on mended explanation at lel:tie:1,
v.
the common to.
cordingly again received at Court. Side° that time . the part of. Parliament ? The Hon. Gentleman him. contradicted rumour, it a that she had
no material change had occured in her titillation, till self had made his statement in such a manner is to dressed a letter to the King, impeaching the pr.
recently, when she had received a commenication show that heentertained no doubts upon the subject: ceedinge.ef the four Noble Lords who were he
from the Earl of Liverpool, by which she seas hi- yet when neither he, nor any other Member, had Commissioners in 1806 ; and it should be remember.
formed, that her accustomed intercourse 'with the any doubt' respecting the legitimacy of the Suc.. ed, that in• so doing, she was understood to be act.
Princess Charlotte was to be abridged. This produced cessi
he called upon Parliament to legislate. ing under the advice of Mr. Perceived. Lord Eldon
her Royal Highness's Letter to the Prince Regent, : —it was perfectly true that there bad been no it was also stated, approved of that letter. The
I and led to the late reference of the case
tp certain prosecution entered into of Lady Douglas: her evi. i same was said of Sir T. Muter, now his Majesty's
Members of the 'Privy Council. In his opinion, the dence was taken by the Commissioners in the die.' Attorney.Genirral, who, being present, could cot:.
four Lords Commisioners in had gone beyond charge of their duty ; and the Honourable Gentle. ' tradict the assertion, if it were untrue. He wished
their authority, in pronouncinlilfeltitptilion on the • man should have stilted in candour, that the first to know from the Noble Lord opposite, whether,
Princess's conduct, as they had done. The charge Cabinet recommended that no proceedings should be with the privity and knowledge of those persor-,
against her Royal Highness was no less than High had unless the Crowe Lawyers deemed it advis. ! and for the purpose of making her Royci Highness's
Treason. If, as biagistrat It they had a right to : able to prosecute Lady Douglas for perjury.-• Innocence manifest to the world, a work was oat
examine witnesses to the facts, yet be conceived that A case was laid before them ; and though they were : printed, intended to be published, and circulated
they had no right to pronounce either her condem- , satisfied as to the perjury, they nevertheless, saw ' throughout England and Europe ? When the Noble
nation or her acquittal. That Report, therefore, A 8 great difficulties in the way of establishing it by legal , Lord talked *fan appetite for slander and calumny,
far as concerned their judgment, he
looked. upon as evidence, and, therefore, they did not advise prose. ' was he not aware that Newspapers had lately teemed
of no effect in law. Lady Douglas's deposition, ; cution. If he were so disposed, he might use some with paragraphs and extracts, the tendency of whist
who swore to the pregnancy in 1801, remained on- i grounds of personal complaint against the Hon. was to libel the Princess of Wales ? Was not •t.-,7
contradicted. In what a state would the country' Member, for he had transgressed -the rules of his public mind in a state of agitation on this sueje ~
be placed, if this proceeding was again to be called parliamentary duty, in stating that Mr. Perceval had which it was highly expedient to allay? Nobody
for, and the evidence of Lady Douglas produced ; prevailed upon the Cabinet to espouse the cause ofthe doubted that Lady Douglas was a perjered person ;
'while that of witnesses on the other side, could erincess of Wales. The 'Cabinet had acted dell. but though that was not doubted, she still remained
not, from death or other causes, be obtained ? ; berately and conscientiously in the business, ' a competent witness; and, therefore, some check.
It was, therefore, the bounden duty of Puha. I acted deliberately and conscientiously in the hesi. ought to by put to the propagation of ambiguous lc.
meat to provide against such an event. He call- i and had advised, that there were no reasons ' ports. It appeared that her Royal Highness, fieis
ed to the recollection of the House, that no pro. I why her Royal Highness should not be admitted . ing the Intercourse between her end the young Pri e
ceedings had been intt:tuted againsi See John ! again to the presence of the Sovereign, agreeably tolcess was restricted more and more, addressed a lett,
or Lady Douglas ; for defaming , cheracter the reoommemeistion of the former Cabinet, with to the Prince Regent, which was rwice retureed e
of the Princess. He thouget woe theet, one( ''al wheal -h it had osiglasted. The Hon. !Nom- .opened. At length, it seems, it was read to bI
servants of tie Prince Regent(eight. elle • ••e,,,,,,,,Atieseed elm a masked emphasis ihm Lad Royal Highness, and the cold answer retarned w,p
Princess oiples of all letters aadtar .141 t, der.freonsks47— by ear... '64 ,
iL tito stems... 1....L75....5h0i5a - • tormaiweitiosetambrelmil , .
her conduct since 1,806, as far, 6.4„,„ . ~,a, "at atghegtz nice
nt. a this scatter, Jam. That letter at last found its way WO the pa.
alluded to in die proceedives on the' .; , seeped. A• 1 the Prince Regent followed the advice of Lord Thar. lic prints; sad then his Royal Highness, not as t'
strict and impartial investigation of her conduct i low, which was to have the evidence reduced to Heed of his Family, but as Prince, Regent, ',
ought certainly to take place. In the task he had ! writing, in order to submitting it to legal con- advice of Ministers, summoned a Privy Council i •
undertaken, he was actuated only by a conscientious I sideration; Then his Royal Highness felt it to be consult what he should do : and the extraordinet
sense of his duty as a Member of Parliament. After' his duty to communicate the charges to his Royal advice of his Privy Council to his Royal Highne
various other remarks, the .Hon. Member concluded I Father, with whom, and with whose Cabinet, and was, not to refer to the present conduct of the Prii •
by moving two Resolutions. The first was of great i not with his Royal Highness himself, the whole cess of Wales, but to the evidence of 1806 or 71---
lengths recapitulating the contents of all the reports affair bad from that time remained. He could really Was there ever- advice so preposterous, and so cruel
and papers concerning her Royal Highness, The see no necessity for pursuing the subject of this dis- The levities of her Royal Highness in, 1806 were tc,
second was for an Address to his Royal Highness cussion any farther.. It could not be properly be punished in 1813, more severely than wee thou& t
the Prince Regent, praying his Royal Highness to , brought forward, except on the presumption that necessary in former years, by increased restrictiot
lay the whole of the documents iefeare the House, some doubts existed relative to the Succession to the and restraints! Mr. W. then adverted to the opinia
together with all other papers i Active thereto, Crown ; and he trusted, that in what he had said, lately given by the legal advisers of the I'rinh
Mr. J. wurtwroN seconded the motion. be bad convinced the House that no such doubts did Regent, which had but recently been made known;
Lord CASTLEREA,GII rose and said, he felt : exist. Calling for further information, if agreed to, and which stated, that, according to their exper,-
that he should act most consistently with his duty in ! would only be the means of gratifying private curio- ; ence, cases not of grater Import might be sent to
confining himself to explanation, with respect to city, by making Parliament the instrument of pro. a Jury. Here, then, it would appear, there must
parts of the Honourable Member's speech, which . curing that gratification, that taste for calumny, be doubts as to the succession to the
,Throne !
would tend to guard the [louse against those false i which was so much the rage at the present moment. ! When the Noble Lord and his Colleagues framed
impressions which it might otherwise excite. The Ile should trust to the indulgence of the House, to ' their last Report, had they not all this before them ?
mode of proceeding adopted by the Honourable' explain farther in reply, in case other circumstances lf so, let the House see what this Cabinet did, who,
1 Member was somewhat gingoiar, nig first leeeolu. were touched upon, which might render farther es. in 1807, pronounced a verdict of entire acquittal oa
tion was, in fact, e'en in his own view of it, without planstions necessary r and he hoped that the House , the part of her Royal Highness, and who fastened
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any proof. His second seesolution called for those would not tolerate suspicious or doubts, where none such serious imputations on her in 18131 By the
very Papers, es matters of information, on which his whatever existed, by adopting the motion of the Hon.
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first Resolution was founded; as if they were mate . Gentlemiiis advice of Lord Eldon and Mr. Perceval, so it was
I understood, the Princess of Wales threatened pit b..
terss of certain knowledge. He did not mean to ' Sir SAAI UEL ROM ILLY commenced by observing, ' licity to the former proceedings, and then she was re-
urge it in the way of cavil against the proceeding, that the Hon Member (Mr. CutkraneJohostone) had indulged admitted at Court. Her advisers musts at that period,
but surely if there were any grounds for the &so- him, if ~ , terms of such strong censure of the Admiuistration have been fully persuaded of her innocence, or they
lutions, the second should have been the prelim'. of taigl, as to render it iinpossible fur him to preserve silence. never would have recommended her to risk such a
nary one; as the first, in its order, could by no No Imo who knew them, would throw the slightest shade of ' publication to the world. Mr. W. then commented
possibility be adopted by the Hoeft, The only oh,' diserspect or suspiciou on the conduct of those four Noble on ,the various circumstance. connected with the
ject of the information called for, seemed to be to per- Lord., obe composed th.t Commission of Euquiry. With transactions of 1807, when a unanimous opinion waf.
suede the House, that such Serious doubts existed as respecth•ito ilo L?liairlf, hr. had to say, that he was coo I d
"31 - by jelared, that ssU she particulate OM-Princess's con -
to the succession to the Throne, as rem_est
• theritla ; I.
. Royal Highness
1-itbeved, selectOesi
ed for that purpose,,by duet, to which any character or colour ofcrieditality
raerforence of Parttanteree He shifild not enter Into • the'tveomine dation of the late Lord Thurlon, that he might could be ascribed, were either satisfactorily contra
ny detailed enquiry as to the legality of the Privy gin his umakii on this very delicate investigation. eater dieted, or rested on evidence under such circene
Council acting as a tribunal in their proceedings on . h.seirig coulsa
eittitere;l it with the Mount care and anxiety, be ad• stances as to render it unworthy of credit. This war
This subject; but he would state, that he was per,. a
meets en the emratotehri!iniDgriniiiheigrhntelsmii;.cniAtfilterilleg ghalsee%e:liiiii; ! a complete verdict of not guilty. The sine had
fectly satisfied, that they were fully competeitt to opinioe, his Royal Hi - took , tosses to so. i been previously advised to receive her Royal thigh-

ness, -with* a reproof for her unguarded conduct; but
those Ministers advised no reproof, and called on
his Majesty to restore her, and to receive her at once,
in the manner due to ber culled rink and station
hi the community! But now, in 1813, was raked
up the old evidence of 1806, by some of those very
persons, hi order to defame her, sad punish her
by additional restrictions I Ought else to submit
to these imputations ? Ought sot that Moon
to interfere ? The Noble Lord, indeed, had eb.
served that any of her Royal Highness's legal
advisers who chose to de so, might come forward
in her behalf. There was a •time when she did not
want legal advisers—when Mr. Perceval, and Lord
Eldon, and others, were her legal Advisers ! But
one of them was now dead and the others had be-
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ity being able to moved the Standing Order; and ft - lle* • ' . sad 11101 kit 1 of she meaty of sydsgeasat oaroistases sa i
I opened. .., -.• .• . 1 . 4.,. eia am, epee that gairssitrtil.l.4 flakseer proceedings? filo maa, be believed, who a11,,„1.1,ft.
! Mr. BENNETT repeated his modes efedteorste : esti ' „.4 . isle. doubts with she dotty begilkilseme the Lop leriry—EZ*
~ vs nsiters. wield Mimed saebia oessellisi It • --••
of the Imperial meat, stating, that he did so.nttrely le park ,11,.....di15".• . ,:a„. . •
~.. ' • the eirdos * aard,a. tats au mature ~, a 5f10000,u,1741 'hotter
„eats of infooarg owitobausa iv . of all fijili wor I, ' . . w They did
inorwodiairiase thee roferred thew se she reeeke teilmasie foe trial". 're
sof the line and ' optlos was 4 tlifilloi. ii . Halo ', ,ffise*areilibt the ine of 'Lady Mad ease, ter in folt Merge* eikaot.o.; ow light
regiments of in.., 'Mr. COCK 11 JOHNSTONE sib,* resr•—'!. . ; ditepased with, or eonts‘eled te, that ti Cooacil &god tbe weloao to be lessee; sae so i0,,e,7b/
of lyregiments 4. His motion, be stated, attended endrely with him. ; trimlir *Olson i bet y that thep had 1 elegem wave hostketed ageism her. tlir Seated RoZlift
at vane itenetb, in reef el' theOtt win ne.i.-7
train ;of 90:re• self, without any osenewsketlen with other porton'. OO4OO blistery of thedlisictit so etsesplit ;Wale:
rea.mui;rdzocilbe
(sue% seta;
steeibeaw:ibuleastof
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ore for lb.
Isaias each, inde. He'even did not knew that he should And ens Mum. !OA seulagoopors that ae pew= could re. i eaten speeded, of ebiests,, be tunneled, as cbete I;
six ferrite regi. her to second it. He bad transmitted to the Priocestaillt that It teainna bons of the
in.s. : of Wales, and to the King's Ministers, a espy of het of souther
,erouutne mood Siphia Austl44;.. .Nor, 1 thli°44l" "I" to be "iatived• '
men about mill. ' the Resolutions be intended to propose. He dims Weed, did thkosablits oat Only On *lir Report, i Mr. ,wiltraßßAD observed, that the lies,
tit ha :71, mu.
. wise afterwardi referred to ether ertelldeettel Member who bad Weight forw7adni_tethe presentg
ao;king to what referred to the Report made by the Commissioners 1 ~r it
old yob, io ii few '1 of the Privy Council, at the command of Ma Ma. &tribal§ 4 his Ilfidext mho Live a eolemajedg. • thus had stated his intinthe to Mm ; and he hoe(
eft
Mae It appeared ! jelly, in 1806 ; and the authenticity of whi4its be Meats 10.segiudes the_ port of the gra commis.: told him, that he thought his int
tutoktion
coal
ir interior, of our i said, he was enabled to prove at the bar, if rewired alootrip., The supposed tteeht rispeeting the sewn. ! not be adopted. 'He, therefore, did not rise is se •
were sufficient to ; to dol
so. lie' read over the charges made Oust I den, wet, therefore; rebelled bj the isetkortty of the ' port of it, for he concurred in much that had fillPe.
es comprehended, 1 her Royal Highness at thit time, and man f the ! first Commiseletten ef the first Ciabliset ; and also from the Noble Lord opposite;
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9 thanks we owe ' particular items of those charges, with t eon.] by that of the subsequent Cobinet, to whom the mat. this period at least, no such motion should W toter.
labours are con- eluding Report. The princess, he stated, hetit was referred, and who confirmed the same judg• bitted by the House, as might render it the vehiet
, on es
doubt found its Way into the mind of of communicating to the public at large, those ma .
grand sod useful ! receiving a copy of that Report, addressed a letter , mot. If any
Ito his Majesty, a copy of which he read, (this I Parliament, he would mot deoy, in the abstract, that tars which-it was much better should be supisresse .
to the question of Succ
exist,
as easion, He must; however, ,envied the Noble Lord of h c
ereign to 'protect 1 letter was of considerable length) the authenticity Ino case is
ad to constantly 1 of which be was also prepared to substantiate.— which it be the duty of Parliament to examine ; expression of his readiness to make explanation
Plow/ and of the ! The letter alluded to the malice of her enemisisl—to 1 but would Honourable Gentleman say, that after particularly with respect to the mere recent par
redouble, if that ' her not being called upon to make a fair deftMce,-- I all those authorities which ha had stated, it would of these transactions. If the House dismiss(
be regularrational for Parliament to interfere ? this abject without' any
ne which all his and to the parties not being credible wkintises.-11 or
That Report was signed II the four Lord. car, 1 Weeld net such interference rather serve to originate or Procoedingll, the Privets et Wales would,
Grenville, febil amble" whereon *mists existed ; and tottetedetione ..)111. Wad, be Grossly injured. its:loyal Big
Mil Fit • • 1807, a ; Erskine, and Ellenborough.
image took place in his Majest a Conn. ° tellies. to eesplcien re
s, etbetrary to the • deloess complained to thse,:i.,. • et Sat._
cite, and Mr. Pewees-al then prevailed. !pro the King clarations of all parties, tisk no case whatever had add ambiguous blame thrown open her, and d:
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