The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1815-06-07

Pehuen1 sovereignty, and guaranteeing Par
ma and Placentia to his consort and SON. his
abdication was secured, and the consequent
submission OF his Marshals and Generals
These were tive motives which induced no
bic friend OF his (Castlereagh) to Concur with
the Allies when he went to Paris, and to give
a qualihed accession To the treaty; he SAID a
qualihed accession, because this country had
never recognized the person in question as
the emperor of France. Bonaparte was not
closely watched in Elba, because he was not
there as prisoner, but as sovereign, and II
would have been a contravention of the treaty
to have subjected him to any restraint. The
whole British navy would be insufficient to
blockade Elba, so as to prevent the escape
OF an individual who chose to leave it; and
had his residence in Elba been objected to.
he might not have been brought to abdicate
Col. Campbell resided there by permission,
but had no influence or authority. The
French government had not violated the trea-
ty for the payment of Bonapartes allowance
was to be annual, and until the year had e.
lapsed, there was no literal breach of the
treaty. But Bonaparte did not come into
france on the ground that the treaty had
been violated by the non-payment of his an
nuity; but his proclamations in spirit and al
most in terms, bore that he all along meant to
violate the treaty. His Lordship concluded
by observing that Bonaparte, by his return to
hdu NIOldlSu tue COnQltlOnS OF the
treaty, and that they had only one or two al
ternatives, armed defence or active war -
but between these two alternatives he did
not call upon their lortlships to decide. He
then moved the address.
The Marquis Wellesley said that all the
Powers had gone astray from the Treaty of
Paris. One oftwo great systems ought to
have been adopted. One was to circum-
scribe France her ancient limits but then o.
f1pfDr
theirs. The other was to change the limits
of the allied powers then, but then the same
measure must be applied to France Why was
the scale Of crime iii states so irreguiarly gra-
duated why were some punished because
they had seeded first, and others because
they he'd seeded last Why had we requir-
ed France to retire within her ancient limits
while we allowed others to aggrandze them
selves, and among the first ourselves-The
French people felt themselves degraded, and
Bonaparte appealed to this degradation. He
acknowledged there was sufficient contraven-
ton OF the Treaties of Paris and Fontain-
bleau TO authorize our making war; but here
he must stop. Was itintended to pay Napo-
Icons pension and fit was, why had he not
received any provision for his support Why
had the other stipulation been broken, ana
Parma and Placentia not secured to his son
Why was he not more strictly watched, or
further calculation.
Lord Grenville concurred in the address.
Lord Grey observed, that from the expla-
nation given by the Noble Lord it appeared
that Bonaparte did not owe his life merely to
the generosity of the allies; it was necessary
satisfy the officers and troops of the French
army, who would not compromise the safety
of their chief. He agreed in the sentiments
expressed by the Noble Marquis C.Wellesley)
mr. Dem -,,lNs a..
why no money had been transmitted to Bona
parte for his support, trusted that ministers
would be called to severe account for their
conduct.
The Address was carried nen,ine dissen-
ticnte.
HOUSE OF COMMONS, April z.
Address 10 the Regent-Sir Francis Bur
dett, rose and agreed, that while Bonaparte
was in Elba we had no right to restrain his
actions, further than as they tended to repro
duce war in Europe. 1t was absurd to talk
OF his invading France. Whoever heard of
80 millions of people being invaded by one
man. His success could only be accounted
for by his character standing so high, that the
nation regarded him as its deliverer The
real causes, he took it, were that there was
quite new order of things in that country,
that property was changed, and the present
possessors of property felt themselves nse-
had not kept faith with the nation, and had
not accepted the constitution according
to the stipulation agreed to by his brother He
would not be harsh to the Bourbons but their
conduct seemed to have deprived them of the
throne, and it would be hostile to make war
upon principle of forcing monarch on a
nation, in combination of the other arbitrary
governments of Europe. The Hon. Baronet
said were these preparations intended to re-
pei aggression, he would concur in the adj
dress but notwithstanding the ambiguity of
the noble Lord, he perceived desire to stir
up the elements of war upon the principle of
maintaining what was called legitimate SOW
eighty. After inveighing against the procee-
ding of congress- and contrasting the conduct
of Louis XVIII. & Bonaparte, on the subject
OF the slave trade, he observed that we had
already done more than could have been
expected for the cause of the Bourbons. We
had spent oceans of blood, and had incurred
many millions of debt.-The experiment to
restore them by force, might fail for histo-
ry scarcely gave so magnanimous a test to the
opinion OF nation as in the recovery of the
throne by Bonaparte. In conclusion he dis
sented from the Address, because it was a
measure leading to war, unjust in its princi-
pies. and which might be ruinous in its con-
sequences.
Mr.. Whitbread considered the whole as
Himsey veil, to entrap his Hon. Friend. on
great question on which reace or 49,. IL