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The Times, 1824-02-05T00:00:00

Mrl. bergeant I INSLOW gave notice, that he would to-moorrow inove for leave to brinpg in a bill to repeal the existing laws for regui. hating the rate of interest. Sir Wfsf. LEMON presented petitionis from twvo parishes near Penzance, Corn.wall plainlg for thie repeal of the duties on coals. Sir MILES N~IGH i7 GAL'E presented a similar petition from the borough of Eve in Suffolk. Sir J. NEWP'OkT przesented a petition frnm the carrners of the city of Waterford, prayng for the orepeal of the leather-tax. NilE VAGRANT ACT. Mlr. ILITTLETON said, that lie was requested by the lion, memn- ber for Stafford (Mr. Chetwynde) to move for certain papers which 1 were intended to shiow what had been the oneration oe the Vagrat Act, which had been passed last session, tPhat act had born the object of much clamnour, which arose fromn it having born misuander- stood. By havhingobtained the passing of that act, his honionrable friend had saved the countiesof England and Wales the sum of 100,0001Lannually, which had been heretofore expended in passing vagrants fromr onie part of the cauntry to another. To his hionour- able friend also beloniged the credit of having consolidated about .50 acts relative to vagrancy in one act. WheIn the subject should be discusAed, he belies'ad thatit would befoundltbatthle clamour to which he hadlalluded had been excited, not so much by the law, a.s by the in- discretion of somre mnagistrates wvho had admininstered it. (Hear.) He moved for a return of the number ofpersons committed under the va- grailt laws to the respective prisons in England and Wales, specifying thie particular act of vagrancY for which tacit pers.on was commi'tted, fromT the 1st of January, 1820, to the Ist of Ja-nuary, 1824 ; like- wise for a return of the suims of money paidl by thei treasurers of counties in Enigland and Ni'ales, for the passing of vagrants, from tuie 1st of Jtnuary, 1820, to the 1st of Januiary, 18-24.-Ordered. Mr. CANNINTG presentedi a copy of a coinve'ntion agreed uponi betweein his Mfajesty and the Emperor of' Austria, for the settle- inent of the Austria'n loan; and also a copy of an additional article of' a convention between his Majesty andI the King of France, re- specting the slavc.trade.-Ordered to be printed. NOTICES OF MOTIONS. Mr. HOBHOITSE gave notice, that hie would mnove on the 21 or M'iarch for the total repeal of the wvindow-tax, unless the Chancellor of the Exchequer should previously declare hiis intentioni of'remitting that tax. Mr. CALCRAFT sitated, that lie wouild on the 25th inst. move for the total repeal of the leather-tax. .11r. ABERICROMBY gave niotice of a motioni that lie would make on the 26th inst.. for lease to bring in a bill for the more effec. tual representation of thie city of Etlinbuirghi in Parh;ament. Aft. WEFSTERN said, that on the Ilthi instant he would miove for leav-e to bring in a bill to make Some alteration in the qualifica- tioni of jurors. Sir J. NEWPORT stated, that lie would on the 19th instan move for the repeal of cap. 7 of the 9th of \Villiamn. His object was to secure the right of burial to Roman Catholics a.-d Dissenters. COURT OF' CHANCERY. 5Mr. J. WtI'LLIAMS gave notice, that oni tue 24thi instant lie woutld submit a miotioni respecting the Court of Chancery. Sir IV. DE CRESPIGNY addressed a few words to M3r.Canning, hut in such a lowy tonie that ire were unable to hiear hsini. Wle un- derstood, however. that he aslted wrheriser it was the initenition of Ministers to increa lse the amnount of the army. Slir. CANNJNG replied, that AMinisters did initend( to apply, to Parliament to miake some alterationi ini time presenit niumber of the land forces. NM=e that application shmul,J. tie miade, every prouer explanaption wouldl be giveni to Parliamienit. In thie ineall tiii'ie limit a single man wouldi he raised beyond( the vote of latst yeatr. MNIr. WMA-. LAMIB presented a petition fromoi the Mlayor aiid Common Council of Canterbury, praying for the repeal of die duity on coals. THE ADDRESS TO HIS MlAJESTY. Mlr. ROWLAND HILL appeared at the bar with the report of the address to his IlA'estv. Mr. HOBHOUSEl said. that he wouild take thiat opportunitiy of rOOSlposin one or two questions to the right 111onourable SE-cretary for 'oreien Affairs. He mus-t enter his protest, as his honouirable and learnect frientI hiad last night done, against being Supposed to conicur withi the sentiments containied in the ddre.ss, so farras regardled tile foreign policy of the Government. fie shouald think that he dis- gracedI hirmself by approving of the foreign policy (if ministers, for, in his opinion, they had been totally unmindful of the renown of thieir country.fHe had attendIed with the utmost attention to every word,which dlropped fronti the right hon. secretary oppositelast-night:. It. was not su-rprisingz that he shouldd do so, for all Europe was attenditng to what he said, conscious that on his words, in somne degree, dependted its van' fate. There was one point upon which he thiought tue right hori. gent. was not sufficientlv explicit in his explanation,-.-namely, the Souith A merican States. The righthon. gent. appeared to bear,a're of the difficulty of the subject, and toucbed upon. it so tighty as to sa- tisfy no personi, except, perhiaps, hIis colleagues, wlio mighlt have rea. sons f'or wishing to p reserve secrecy On that topic. The righit honourable seceryhdsadtt he consideretd it a gra:ce and favlour done to Old Spainl to allow her an opportunity of attempting to recover possession of' iser colonies." I-Ic would admnit that if the King of Spain were capable of governing his king- dlomn withiout foreign assistance. he should be allawed ati opportunity of employing the resources of the once mighty mona rchy of Spaiti li the attempt to Ts.conquer his trac.s-Atlantic colonies. But (lid the right hon. gentleman mean to say, that whiilst the King of Spain was only kept on his throne by the presence of 70,001) French troops,whiist Barcelona, Cadia, and every, imiportant fortress in his territory wer in possession of the Frenich, Fecdloand was to be suffered to employ his arrmiesin an expedition against SouthAmerica? Itcauld not surely be saitd that because she constitutional system had b-ean puit dlowi in SPain, and there was at present no appearance of a re-actiots, Ferdi- nand was therefore ro be called a free King. if lie wsa befor'e a pri- soner tothe Consietistutonailists. what washernow? Hfewas htemisiiedi rounidwmith foreign bayonets; 'and every body who was acquainted with tlie state 'of Spain, k-new that if the French army was to withdraw from thzat country to-morrow, the unforctunate King-unl. fortunate he meant only with respect to his baA chiaxactcr,and not for hisi snisfottunes-would bedr-ivent froni his throne. lie wishied, then, to know from the right hon. gentleman, whether, while the French troops were in possession of Spain. the Government of this rountry would allow any attempt to be made on the part of a mnerely nominal King to tecot'er possession of the South American states ? He miight allude, to ani important omission in his Majesty's sipeech. The house had heard a gtreat deal diering last session about a positive guarantee on the part of the French mi- nisters, and that there should be no permanent occupation of Spain by the French trrro 3. T he right hnonourable gentletman had net told the house whet%er he had asked Monsieur Citateaub-niand how long his mnaster meant to keep possession of that couintry. He (Mr. Hobhou-se) dared to say that the right bonourabble gentleman had askld thhusin n ethought that theffouse of Common,s had a right to k-now what answer bad been retuarned. He hioped That the right honourable gentleman would not takte the word Of the French King for a guarantee. The word of no king was a guarantee, much less of that king whlo ha-d pledged his sacre worda of honiour and the sceptre whichi he wieldled, that what he called the army of observation should not cross the' Pyrenees. After that shapueless breach of promise-after that falsehtood whichi would have disqualified a private individual for the society of gentlemen-he triisted that fthe right honourable Fen- tlenmain woulld nor attach much -weight to the word of t'ile King of France, or of hlis itainister Chateauibriand. (Hear, hear.) He- would now take the liberty to allude to anoth er -matter niot unconniected with Ithe foreign policy of Government. He would wisisi to kniow whether thle Coloni:jJ Secretary had been informned of the reasons for the issuing of a recent procIz-nathon in the Ionian islands. (Hear.) Tht! proclamation was so very extraordinary, thiat hie should suppose it to be the result of a drunketn frolic, dlid net the lIngh situiationi which Sir Thomas Mlaitland held reniderit impossible for him to suip- pose that that officer could so farforget himoself as to be guilty of suich follY. But when they knew thlat SirThomnta Mlaitland had iss'uedi such a proclamation as this, putting two of the Ionian Islands under qua- rantine for 30 days, and w hen thev recollected that this same Go- vernor had committed one of the modst flagrant breaches of quaran. tine in lila own cas, ;otie couild not help feeling astonishmlent at the occurrence of which be (r.Mobhiousel.now complained. The reason asigned by Sir Thoinas Alaisland was also singular: he state-s that Prince illaurocordato having approached too near the islands, ithe quarantine becamne necessary, lest the British Governinetit should appear in an), wvay involved, or as partakers, in the cruelties else- whare inflict:ed..and inflicted by who'm? By, the Greeks; for lie ap- peared in every inistance to attack the Greeks, and to overlook, the Turkish share of the atrocities irliich liad been commritted. Now lie could assure the house, antI on the authority ot' an eye-witnlesis of tehat had occurred,that thiseatfairof. the shoreoflItliacahadbeen much misrepr'esented. The facts were these-A~ small Greek sqadronliaving clhased Trurkish armed vessels off thiat coast, mastered one of' thiem, the crew of whlichi, however, escaped on shore ; and then, whiile the Greeks were rowing to thec captuired vessel, pouted froml- the land upon theni a miurderous fire. The Greeks immiediately lan(led in their tui'n and took somerevenge Lunon their opponents. But so far from thte Greeks standing upon theli justification for this retaliation, Prince Alauroordaoem inade on their part the hiumblesit apologies for the infraction of the neutral shore atnd similar apologies were now oni their wvay to England. But wh y throwv all those acts ispon, the Greeks ? The Turks had repeatedly beeni guilty of siroilar infractions, withiout drawing down upon their hieads the4nathemaof Sir TVhomas Zhaithand. W'hetsihe adverted to the conduct of this gov,ernor, lie by no meatnt wished toimnpug,n the conduct of the Government atlhome; he knew that they could not pirevent the atrocities of either side, as long-as thiey observe'd their iieutral policy; the 'could no more pree snt the Greek-s anid the Turks, than they cooll the Spaniards and te Frenchi, or the Italians and the Austrians, though he preferred thie Turks to the latter, anid he knew bothn. (A 1aug11.) He had the original Italian proclamnation in his hand, atid was re-ady to present it to the right hon. secretor Alrl. CANN ING said, Zathe shouldI be alwa-ys ready to receive fromq aniy lion. memb,er whatever information upon foreign affairs he thoughit proper to favour hiun with; and also ready to afford sudsi in. formation as his official duty penmitted hiim to furnish, in.reply toi any Specific inquiry. But wheni the hon. gentleman adverted to somepar of he hseratins wich fel foni him (M1r. Canning) last ight he eeme so ave omponded hiis staterns-"t ol pricipes ithhi sateentof act. What he hiadit id last nigt rspctig te elaiveileeratonal situation of a m3ther counry nd ecclonis ws tis-hatini principle, a mother coun- try ad riht,ifae thugh sie hd te poiyer, to endeavour to re- cover possmsion of ayclnewhhlidb any efiort of their .own thrown offlher dominioa; ; and thtat no other country in amitv with her, would, upon the nake principle, be justified in interceptin' her effbits, or initerferinig in-the first inistance to cn.dearour to prevent them. She-bad arightiionaftdeto a resumption of-hercolonialpos- ses.sions, if she were in a cnditiontsoreclaim them5 ind-it would not lie correct in a ftiesntly power to preve-nt her. When he said correct, he mneant upon the strict prnciple of the law of' naitions, f'or circ-um. slAncea might ?elider it coarsct ito go to var', afdr the I'nteLs- ference in the first instaLnce might be. deemed a declaration of way. This wa-g theabLtract principlehie had stated, andw ihich he maintain- ed ; otherwise they would be avowedly interfering with a legitimate right not abjured by, the mnother country, and wvould he aiding thec governed against the governor. The honouirable gentleman had gone on to p Ut ccrtaini possible violations of neutrality: niow, he wouild nnt follow him by arguing upon assumed probabilities, or possibilities, tehicli might (teiettind a departuire fromi the abstract principle he hiad laid down ;buit he (Mr. Canning) would most dis- tinctly state, that Spain. that Europe, kLnewv most unequivorally, that whiilst Enigland admiitted the right of Sp-ain to recover her late Anmerican possessions, she denied thie eright of any foreigr power to interfere in aid of the mother countr-Yin the attempt. (lflar, hear.) Il'ith respect to the ultimate intentions of Franice uipon Spain, he felt a dlifficulty in satisfeing the honourable gentleman. in consequence of his observation that the British Go-ern. raent ought not to Five credence to the declarations of the French King or hiis ministeis ;, for he knew not how to satlafv thie hon . gentleman if lie refusedI him access to the official channels of communication wvhichi the Governmncrthad always maintained with the other powers in amity with themp. But if the hon. genetwo-jd PerMit hliM to resort to the reXular information of his office, he could assure himi in replv, that the 0Government had the most positive as-A surances from the court of France, that tney did not contemplate ttbe permanent occupationcof Sp3in. Jie gave crelit tothose assurances, and wuoldbelieve them still, notwithstanding the doutbt which the honourable genitlemnan bad cast upon thiem. Wlheni he stated this, he begged also to say, that he re?tainaed all the santiments hehadla,st year ex.pres,sed respeejting tleFrench aggression upon Spain; but whilst he retain'ed those sentimDents, he mnu.t be permaitted to add, that the vice of thie aggression apart (hear. hear), the conduct of tbe Fre-nch armies (alwavs separatin,4 their conduct fron,! the princple of their entrance) was, as une-xceptiinable as it coul~d possibly hav~e beeni under any circumnstances of military conflict. H obe hte history furishled a similar examiple of the discipline of a foreigni ar- ray engaged in the invasion of another state ; or rather, as in thi- instance, called in by invitartion to assist a predomninatingp?arrty in putin down a rival facdonn. lHe hoped he .mrd said enough to cx- ;lain the principle lie had laie. down respecting Spain and her'colo- nies; he denied the ri1ght of' England to interfee; he equally denied the righit of a-iy other power to interfenre in' the con'- test. HIow far a species of connivance to blind the plain meaning of liis principle minght he,reafter bDe set up by one power oir another, hie could not say, and lie wouldi not n'ow ar- gue. He wished to be juge olely by his principle, arccordin to its plain and fair construcion ad that he thioughteog to argue on the present occaLsion. As to the ho-nouirable genremn' secondi quiestion, he hat' only to repeat, with the same conifidence he had stated it laast year, that hie apprehended there Was nlo danger of the permanent occupation of S-sin by France. if a questiona were put to him hiow long the duratilon of that Occupancy shouldI continue, he should reply, that that was an event so entirely3 droendent upon ciccurnstances. as to render it impossible for him to ir~e an immne- diate reply buit thiere -was one question to whiceh lie was ready at the momen to give ani explicit answ~er. If he were ask-ed, ought the Frenich armiy to evacuate Spain to-morrow, as a friend to liumamiity, he must ~av no0. Wlith respect to rth aflixirs of' Greece, hie believed Ie w as in possessiot ofth requisite information upon that subject. Ile had not at present, although he had receivedl the document, an exact imrpres. sion upon his; niernory of the factso h otaet wheb Si Thomas Maitland's prnclamation referredI but he believed h at to be these.-A smiall Greek squadron hatd pursued some uks vessels into the lharbour of I thaca. where the crews of one of the latter landed, the), were pursued ashore bi, the Greeks, whlo butcher- ed, ini cold hlood, 90 OUt Of 120 m-en, of 'whoni the crew was com. posed ; ai1(1 this wa-s dlone upon an island guiarded by Britbsh reittrra- lits. On the subject of the imipartialitv withi which the nei. ralit e w~as- entbreed,he could distinctly aver, that according to the best infor- mation lie had it in hiii power to obtain, from thie momenit the neu- trality, was proclaim-ed, it was most strictly enforced against both par- ties. That outrages on bothi sides had been corninitted, was as clear as it was to lie lamiented ;buit niot the smallest desire lbad been evinced by the British authorities to incline the balance eitker to one aide or the other. AMr. WESTERN expressed hiis surpri'e at the declaraiion of tIre right lion, gent., that were lie asked, if the French arnmy ought to evacuatre Spain to-morrow, his answer should be no. tI-lear, liear.) S;ucli a declaration opened tile dloor to othier poiwers to prolong the continiuance of a daring aggressioti upon tie rigrhts Of an independ- ent stare, according, to their iiotioil of the itidefinite duiration of nio. tis'cs of humatiity. It wvas liis inztention,l hait iiiglht, to hiave moved an anienidinent to thie act(Iresa, liad nor his lionourable and learned t frienid (Mr. Brouightam) anticipated what lie liati to say fin the abe n eloqiuent speech which lie ma,le om the o,ccasion. lie wans dcely Pppose'I to rlue polic, of trie piresent cabinet re- s1iccting forig afftihis foutidetci as it was upSon a determitnation to preservepae at .1ll evetmti. He -appreciated the value Of peace as niuchi as nian could tio ;but still lie coiuld tiot go the leiigrtb of the righit hon. secretary in looking calmily uipon aggressintrs like rusat on Spain, aiid in. consiidering the iinfringemeii: of true Ti cht of aii inde- peiideiit nation to regulate its own roniecriis as a mAtIeroflteim portance to tite interest atid securityV Of tie Britishi etipc.Sc an interference withi the internial policy of an indepietu tstt,a it lhad been our fortunie recentlv to witness, wvould hiave cle ot rue strong reprohatiori atid decided oppasition of ouir siruyac- Ltos ; and he, for One, could see no reason wtlis wve snodabnn thte heroic policy wvhich thiey lial bravely pursued at every, hazard, in various penuods of our hiistory'. 'I'lte itirincipiles whichl the holy alliance had avowed oti different occasions, and particularly tn tesaeppr which thiey ihad sent forthi from Laybach, had openied this eyes of every mian in the country, except iAs Ma- jesty's ministers, to the infamous inature of their dlesigns. It would be in slit recollection of the houise, that when the honourable member for Yorkshire moved for the production of those pa5pers. Lord Castlereaglh ubjecetd to the mnotion, on the grounrd that rue pa-. pers in question containedi nothirit more tharn a prtomulgation of principles on which there was no intention of actinig, atid thle inn- tioii was in consequence negatived. The house had, however, re- centfly seen the principles the promuilgated carried into application anti, what was more important, had seen theist carried into applica- tion Without any atteMplt at resibtatice fromi the Britishi (iover-umeut. lHe should n.ot press thiis point an-,' furthter at present ; lie merely- ien-i tionesi it. thta it miighit riot be supposed that he concurred in the appro- bation whiceh had bieen bestowred on the policy oF thie present cabinet. lie could not describe the painfuil mixture of suirprise and indigna. tion by whiicl 'ire was affected, ,rhen he hieard the right.honlourable secretary declare last right. that we ouight net to interfere, even it the miinor states were goiisg -to be annmihilated. Het agread with him futhlY, when hre said that it would be Quixotic ia us9 to become the chliatpioni of all the niinr states upon every case of grievance whiech they had to alleg e; nblut It wvas one thinF to becomne tIheir champion, and another to reemonstrute against manifest injuitries which were in- flicted upon therm. To uphold thc cause of tihe weak, azainst the strong, to watch over thie relati-ve interests of d-ie different stares of Europe, andI to hold the balance of power between them with an ima- paretial hand, was formerly the distinguishing pride and policyl of frreat Britain ; anad he trusted that we should soon return to it, not- prithtndipe the temporarcy aberration we had imade fromn soundr prnilsudr the xruidarnce oif the present cabiniet. Colonel PALMEBR rose, under feeling, of shamne and indienationz. to Protest against the conduct of the Government; and firmly be- leig that Euirope anti the world hiad itever before been reduced to a state Of such actual anod prcospective misery anid degradation, and that such ecte was to be iimputedl solely to the conduct of the Bri- tish Government, hte considered Ift to be a dutr, to his cositrry. as a nisember of that house, to declare his opinion uponi the subje'ct. If it were trtte, as the hiinisters had told its, both in and our of I Parlitamentr and more especially in a late speeh of the right honourable aecretary, that the country had been, so long prepared for var heyl'st sarihced it-, honour anad m-ost -vital intetests by suf-. fe,ig Fs-ie t coquier Spain ; if itw-re false, they had equafly bet~3 e tust utyby decei-ving the country to support the system of dneir Go,enmt t; bt whetever was the real state of the nation, the conduttc of the ministers towards Spain bud bieen wholly indiefensi- hre , as, looking to the avowed intentions of France and thec Holy Asliance, riutrality on ithe part, of England was imposible, anid Icould not be maintained: for what had been the late ineasure 'of the ministers in sending Consuls to South Amnerica but an act of hostility to ths powrs, which, if nor resented, was but a 'further proof. if anyv sere wanting, that if Vncland bad acted with firmnness, at the Con'gress, and declared herself the ally of' Spain, France would nor have dared to invade her . if, on the other hanri, aftr aandnin Spin,thecoutrywasto be involved in war for theinduedene f hr oloie, watextuse was to be made for the initer, wo miht avesecredthe liberties of both at a les exens tothenaiontitn bd areay een incurred by thie actie masues t whch heircrokedandinconsistent polc li at last compelled them ? Tire ministers in the last session, to cool Ithie ardour of the people in the c-ause oif Spain, declared that any in- terference in hier behalf would involve all the expenses of the former contest. Bzut he then stated to dtie right lion, g.ent. what he now re- peated, that no such expense was necessary ; all that honour -and poylicy required of Enkgland was. tot-ruder Spain d'ie assistanice which hier means afforded, and those means were more than adequate to the object ;for to nave sent buit half the force of our naval peac est-ablitlment lying ready in our ports to the defence of Gadiz, would have prevented all the disasters to the cotter of Sr.anish liberty whichi the constumm ate folly or treachiety of the B-iitishi Government necessarily had led to. Yet this straight and prudent Course, which every cons ideration for the honour and intere.sts of the nation dernatitled, had been tenned quixotistis by rite riglit hon. gentleuian. -Wlouild that his contduct as imnister could hear the same comparison; butt, unfoirtunately, it hiad betrayed all the insanity of the character (hear, hecar), -without a spark of that chivalrous feel- ing, which, h~owever romnantic in its origin, or thankless iii the end to the iiiind of the right hort, gentleman, was, ini the opinion of the ht.member, tebsfunainof a, great or good naime, eithler for states' or individttals. The right: hon. gent., too, ini his late speechi, fuirthier to markthie distinction hetween his Quiixotic OPPo- isnd, that in rle conduct of polical affairs, thc grand obJect ofbis contemplation was the interest of his own countrv: and wbat had been the result of this most wise and liberal policy, but to combine the whole world against her? for where was the nation wherein, both with the government and the peoples thc name of England was not justly held in detestation ? She was necessarily hatedl by all the governments of Eiurope as the only nation wlierein that liberty of the press existed, which,if not destroyed itself, must eventually de- stroy their tyranny (cheers) * and she was equall ly hated by all other nations, because in every instance of a struggle lor liberty, whether in France, since the commencement of her revolution, or latterly in SoLoth America, in Greece, in Italy, or in Spain, the British Government had invariably opposed it. ([lear, hear.) Thus ]3ngland, through the system of its miaisters, was the enemy of the whole human race-: and whilst the right lion. gent. had been exhibiting himself about the kinglom, trunmpeting in all directions the praises of hinisem f and colleagues (a laugh), there was not a nation but abhorred them, nor a power in Europe that was not pledged to destroy the liberties of the country connniitted to their hands. And after al is lanespeeches, wrhat, in fact,had been the measures of the right hon. gent. to oppose France atid the Holy Alliance, up to the total destruction of Spanishi liberty by the fall of (Cadiz ? Nothing whatever, but intemperate abuse of their conduct, and a positive declaration of strict neu- trality. This was not quixotism, certainly; nor dirl he know a pa- rail to such cotidtict in history or romance. The only resemblance the lion. member could find to it, was in the case of the late atrocious mLur.der, wherein the tioly Alliance was the bold villain who went straight to his purpose, whilst the right hon. gent. w.as the humane anid consistent accomplice, who. aher furnishlinig the rope and sclk, resolved, come what mnight, to have no share in the transaction 'hear hear, and za laugh); for precisely withl the same feelings that h1ii si'iscreant huin back whiLst thedeed w.as prpetrating, so tle mi- nisters of England, who had gonehand in hand with their accomplices in their plot against liberty for thc last 30 years now stood aloof wbst their -ictim was expiring untler the blows OI its assassins. As to their accomplices, compared with themselves they were honousrable upright characters,ftor their conduct had bcen consistent throughout, and whilst he detested their polcy, in justice to their private charac. ters, and what he believed and knew upon the subject, he could lnol ogre in all the odiutm v=st on persona, to whom every allowance wa to bemade for those prejudfes and impressilou wMhich, l*evCer hostile to the liberties of mankind, were inseparable fromns h.uman nature, and would be felt equally by others under similar circisum stances. For the sanve reasonise could excuse the ministers ofthose despotic powers, wlho were,ln fact, their slaves; but he could find nD excuse for the miniLters of England, who were not the slaves, but the tyrants of the Crown and people, and of all others the most base and crael that ever infested the earth. Even thc King of Spain, siad. man or monster that lie was, had been less base and inhurnan for his conduct had becen consistent with the feeling of bigotry nad diville right; but where had been the consistency or the humanity of minis- ters? For at once to have declared against Spain would have prevent- ed a struggle equally disgraceful and deplorable in its consequences te tEie victors and the vannuished. But what had been the refined policy os England's minister, annd of that heart., which, by its o'wn account, beat so high for the interests of humanity, but to create this confusion of horrors in Spain by means of a treacherous neutrality, and bty.- nug so far succeeded, it was now to perpetuate the miseries of thrat wretched country, to prevent France from reaping the fraith of her SiCtOry. So much for the humanitv of the right hon. eenteman and as fur consistencv, ]et him recondile his prayers for the Seanish constitution, and hisacontemstuous answer to the Regency, wrth his subsiequent congratulations to Ferdinand on hisr suces, snd the treatmnent of the patriots who sough.t refuge in Gibraltac ; and wvhen he had gnswered that charge of apo.stacy fruim radicalism to divime right, let him n:sw ser the charge of ultra-apustac' from divine right back to radicalism, in declaring for the pamots of South America. irt the teeth of the foreign enlistment hill, expressly enacted against t'hem. And now, continued the hon. member, as to the real sittatiofr of the country. Hefremembered long since, upon a question of tie same narure in the house. they were told by an hon. and leadinx member of the landed inierest,tiat it was time to speak out and look the danger in the face, If that vas his opinion then, what did he tbink now ? WVhen, durinz eighit years of. a eace establishment, no reduction whatever had been made in the burden of the -public debt-when, in spite of all the retrenchment which, sessiob after session, had been forced upon the Alinisters, the load of taxation still prassed too heavily on all classes to admit of any increase-wheit su-h was our state of real weakness, that the Ministers, whoin the last war had exended millions :o deliver Spain frow the powet of France, now sua'eret her to f;.ll without even an attempt to save her-wihen France herself, wvhom so late;y, in conjianctioni -with our allies. c had humnbled to the dust, was now again on foot, more great. -sowerfsl, and inveteratte ats our enemy than. ever; a nd lastly, when t'hese same allies who first coibined with us agsain,st her liber- ties,w;cre nowv combined vwith Fr.ance against the liberties of England, and the storm. long gathering around, was now at ,ast ready at any n9sment to burst tupon its head-it. in such a state of thigs, he might be allo-wed to speak out and look the danger in the face, the hon. metuber beiieved he could stale the cause and the only means to remoye it; but hiaving already occupied somuch of the time of the house, he would avail himself of another occasion to'de- liver his sentimnents upon that subject. Mr. HUhl E said, that be me-ely rose for the purpose of prevent. ing a misconception fromi prevailing with the public, in consequebee of what had fallen that evening from the right honoarable secretarv He had receiyed information from the lonian Islands, fulv corrol borating that wlhich had just been stated to the house bv the honour- able member for Wlestminster. A letter, which lie had received from Ithaca, led him to believe that the statement of the right hon. secretary was far from correct; for instead of the (Greelks tiring first upon the Turks, the Turks ha.' first upon the Greeks from the shore, In thectruggie between the Greeks and the TuTks, atrocities had nw doubt been committed: but they did not originate with the Greeks ; and the retaliations of that oppressed people put an end,in a great de- gree, to the cruelties of the Turks. He could wish to see some desire on the part of Sir Thomas ',\aitland to act liberally towards the Gyreeks. Formetliv no man was more fond of revolutiOnary prin. ciples than Sir Thomas Mairland was. Let him. therefore look to his past condact. and suffer himself to be guided in some elegree hv the principles which he had heretoFore professed. He believea ministers wished the scale to he balanced equally between the two patties; and it was to he lAmentedl if their agents ptrsued a course contrarr to that wish. He knew that the Greek Glovernment had, with the utmost readiness, stated their anxiety to make amends for ever' violatdon of that neutrality which hadl been alluded to, and certainlv they could not do more. Ife most sincerely wished, in justice to those brave men who were now gallantly strupgglmg for their freedom, that Sir Thomas M1ait- land had not issuedl his proclamation until aU the facti were regu. larlv laiid before the Government. In conclusion, he felt it to be his hutv to protest against the ptrtialitv which the lonLas Govern- ment h:ad shown in opposition to the cauise of freedem. Sir T. LuTEi BRIDG E would not have addressed the house on this OccasiOl;, liad it not beeni for the allusion which had been made b, his hon. friend (Colonel Palmer) to an expression twhich lie (Sir Thomas) hat used in the course no the preceding session. He was well aware of theobservation he had then made, when speaking of the situation of the landed interest. lie said be considered it ithe wisest course, if the country were in d.anger, to look that danger in the face. and to meet it resolutely and manfally. He had felt as strongly as anv person in the house or otut of it could feel, the se- vere distress that pressed on the landed interest, and he was happy to find that a great change had taken place in the situation of that important class of societv. He entirely approved of what was said in the speech from the throne oii that subjecL It was pleasing to hin to observe, that a permanent amendmient had taken place in tle state of agricllture. He hoped, anl lie believed there was erery reason to suppose, that that great interest was not improving by mere accident, or through the agency of temporary circumstancesc but that it was advancing in prosperity in consequence of causes that would give permanency to that prosperity. W'ith respect to our situ. ationi as it regarded our foreign relations, he must say, that he thought this country stood hieh in the opinion of Eutope, and of everi'other part of the vorld. Instead of the British character being detested (as his hon. friend rather strongly stated) by the other na- tions of Europe. and by the world in general. he must contend, that at no former period did the character of Great Britain stand on higher or more enviable ground. As to the affairs of Spain. he should have considered it a verv fatal determination of this country, if sbie had inrerfered with the Spanish fause; and he thought the re- 'sult of the policy pursued by Englaind had been most fortunate for Spain and fo., this country. The line of conduct pursued by Mli. DniSters was tihe best for Engla-d as well as for the parties roncerned in rite contest; and, howve;er strong the feeling of a party in thi4 I coantry (he believed a ivery small one) might be for war, be conceiv- ed that it was the duty of the wreat body of the representatives of the people in thtat houtse, to give to Ministers all the support in their por.er, when thev used their discretion and exercised their functions in that pr.sdent manner which conferred such signal advantages on the country. Mr. W. SMITH could not let this opportunity pass witiott ex- pressing his mostanxious hope and wvish, that no negotiation for tXe termination of the dift'e:ences between Russia qnd the Pocte might be successful, which did not leave the Greeks t. a better situation than that in which it found them. He regretted that the situation of the right hon. secretary did not permit him to do that whIich he was sure wvouEd have been consistent with his indiination-namely, to give an assurance to the house that this country would not be a party to any arrangemient which did not protect the Greeks from the barbat coos revenge of one powver, and the insatiable ambition of another. The report was then brought up and agreed to. The address was ordered to be presented to ins Aajesty to-morrow by such members as are of hmis M\ajesty's Privy Council. M?ir. HtUIIIE gave notice, that he vwould on the 12th instant move that the house should take into consideration the state of the lawas respecting the exportation of machinery, and the emigration of artisans to foreign countries. The hon. gentleman also gave notice, that he would on the 19th instant bring be-fore the house the sub. ject of impressment in the navy, and that be would call for certain documents connected with it. MT. WARRE moved for a seres of accounts relative to the ex- portation and importation of wine for tie last two years.--Ordered. Mir. GRATTAN gave notice, that he would to-morrow move for an accournt of the number of constables and sub-constables appointed in Ireland since the passing of the Police A ct; and also for an ac- count of the cornmittais under the insurrection Act since it has been in operation. iMr. NrESTERN moved for an account of the number of per- sons committed in England and WVales on or bef.are the 20th of I December last. and the number remaining for rnial at that time-dis- tinguishing tnose committed for felonies from those committed for n iisdcmear;ours.-Ordered. i ir. HUl E renewed his notice of last session, respecting the ex- pense of she Governnment of Newfoundland; and moved for a va- riety of documents connected wtith that subject, which wereordered. An account was ordered to be laid upon the table of the number of persons retrrned tO serve on juries in the cournty of liddlesex for the last three years, distinguishing the common juries from the sp?cial. The house then adjourned a- half-past six o'clock. Errata.-.In Loiri Holland's speech, reported in The Times yes- terday. for *' Mock Christian King," read " Most Christian };ing." In our report of lir. Canning's speech yesterday, for " Austria l and Italy," read " Austrian-Italy." P.4RLIAMElflNTARY IJN'TELLIGEANCE. HOUSE OF COMAMONTS. WEDNFZSDAY. FEB. 4.