The Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1818-1824, 1823-04-08
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
Extract Of letter 10 Gc Editor of tie Boston
Daily .4dpeytiSer, dated
LIYERpooL. Feb. 9Gth.

Cadiz, which is thought to be unpreparcd for de-
fence against a sudden attack. The language
Of the French government with regard to Spain
is very decided, and preparations for hostilities
are rapidly making by them. At Madrid, il has
been proposed i'll the Cortes to remove the King,
and Seat Of Government, to Corunna, and which
is thought likely to be carried The report of
Letters of Marque having been granted by the
Cortes, as yet wants confirmation if it were
true, it would decide the question at once. The
only chance of War being avoided appears to be
IN the efforts making by this Government, and
by which it might be inferred that they had not
given up all hope.
The Parliament was opened on the 14th of
Feb. by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord
Chancellor, the Earl Of Harrowby, the Earl Of
Westmoreland, and the Earl CT SALISBURY. The
commission having been read, the Lord Chanccl-
dor delivered the Speech, of which the following
are extracts -
Ny Lords nnd Gentlemen,
awe are commanded by bis Majesty to inform
you, that since he last met you in Parliament,
his Majesty's efforts have been unremittingy ex-
erted to preserve the peace Of Europe.
Faithful TO the principles which his Majesty
has promulgated to the world as constituting the
rule Of his conduct, his Majesty declined being
party to any proceedings at Verona which could
be deemed an interference in the internal con-
Germs Of Spain on the part of Foreign Powers
And his Majesty has since used, and continues
to use, his most anxious endeavors aud good off,
ees to allay the irritation unhappily subsisting
between the French and Spanish Governments !;
and TO avert if possible, the calamity of war be-
tween France and Spain.
" In the East of Europe his Majesty fatters
himself chat Peace will be preserved, and bis
Majesty continues to receive from his Allies,
and generally from other powers, assurances of
their unaltered disposition to cultivate with his
Majesty those friendly relations which it is equal
j. his Maesty's object on his part to maintain.
eve ale further commanded TO apprize you,
that discussions having long been pending with
the Court of Madrid, respecting depredations
committed on the commerce of his Maesty's
Subjects in the West Indian Seas and other
grievances of which his Majesty had been under
the necessity of complaining: those discussions
have terminated in an admission BY the Spanish
Government Of the justice of his Maiasty's COM
plants, and in an engagement for satisfactory
PREPARATION.
I'VE are commanded to assure you that his
Majesty has not been unmindlu Of the Addresses
presented to him by the two Houses Of ParIia-
ment with respect to the Foreign Slave Trade
Propositions for the more efectual suppress.
sion Of that evil were brought forward by lis
Majesty's Plenipotentiary in the Conference at
Verona, and there have been added to the trea-
ties upon this subject, already concluded between
his Majesty and the Governments Of Spain and
the Netherlands, articles which will extend the
operation Of those Treaties, and greatly facili-
tate their execution.
Gentlemen Of The House Of Commons,
Ills Majesty has directed the Estimates Of
the current year to be laid before you. They
have been framed with every attention to econ
omy and the total expenditure will be found to
be materially below that of last year.
6 This diminuton of charge, combined with
the progressive improvement OF the Revenue
have produced a surplus exceeding tbs Majesty's
expectation. Ills Majesty trusts, therefore. that
You viii be able, after providing for tie services
of the year. and without affecting public credit,
TO make farther considerable reduction in the
burthens of his people,"
The Earl Of Morley moved the address, il an
swer to the speech, in the usual terms, aud was
seconded by the Earl of MAYO. Earl Stanhope
moved an amendment, which he supported by
speech; the Earl OF Liverpool replied, and Lord
Peterborough reioined. The amendment was
following are extracts from the speech of Lord
Liverpool
"The occasion which ha' called forth the
principles which his Majesty bad promulgated TO
the world as constitutng the line of his conduct"
must be fresh in the recollection of their Lord
ships. 1t must be quit evident to them that the
principles alluded to in that passage ofhis Majes-
tvs Speech were promulgated in the Circular
Note which had been written and addressed to
the various Governments of Europe by dear and
ever to be lamented friend of his in the year 1921
In that Note, which had reference to a situation
of affairs, and TO views of policy III some respects
(although certainly not in al) resembling the
present, the Government ofhis country had dis
tinctly declared what was the principle of the
Law Of Nations on which they founded their pro-
ceedings. That principle was universal. 1t re-
ferred TO Spain as it referred to Naples. The
principle was ths-that every country was the
best Judge ofthe way in which it might be most
henefcially COVE rned; thateyery country was the
best Judge Of the nature Of the political insitu-
tons which it might most advantagcously adopt.
He woald now say that his Majesty's Government
had all along viewed the question fSpain as one
perfectly clear, as one on which there could be
no doubt of the applicability of the principles
which he had been describing; because ii was
question exclusively constitutional IN Spain, and
because what had taken place on the subject in
Spain, was confined to increase purely Spanish
The Spaniards has not las in other countries had
been done) mixed up extraneous considerations
with those in which they were themselves ma
tionally concerned. During the war they had
resolved upon certain changes in their consti-
tuition, and that constitution SO modified, had been
recognised and acknowledged by Great Britain.
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was in the power Of the Spanards, and they had
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