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. MMnAiMtmerviDi, . . , -.I ' ... .. ,. i i ' 1 - ---- - RALEIGH, (NT. C.) . .' ' TBINTED, WBEKLt, BalBJt. LUCAS. - Term of mbtcription'i Tlm-e Italian per year, one half I pit than three months after a year's subscription be-. Ci 'roe's due, and notice thereof shall have been piven; " jlifrertiumnit, 6tPcidin M' lines; are huertedthriye frnnn rinllur. JUKI IOT wemv-nvi: ochui cutuu!w tjueni insertion r and in 1 ike proportion wher there w a greater number of lines than fourteen... Foreign. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT, "' HOUSI OF COMMOX3, MlRCH 20. " Mr. Whitbread called the attention. of the kouseilo the subject of the congress of Vienna, and after noticing "some reports that had gone abroad, requested that the noble lord in the Wife ribbon, would throw some light upon the transactions of that body. iid assure tne flpuse And here Batousi protest against the principle inixT bv the honorable gentleman, that old governments were to be revived ttierely b eause hey had once-ciisted, without any condij tioo:AiMexed to thei r re&tflraiian- He would say that this country, would not be a party to such imbecilitv of neeociation ( heftr tiean from the opposition, and re-echoed from the other side. The obfect has been to re-create those two monarchies whleh for all practical purpo ses had been destroyed by a series ot wars ; ne meant Austria and Prussia ; they wished to see an augmented barrier against r France Swit zerland re-established, and Germauy so con federated as to be a bulwark against the west and th eat. Ha must protestagainst tne use the honorable eentleman made of an expres sion in a letter, aboutlthrowiug so many human souls into the scale." irannexatioii were jasuna bk, population was as just a criterion of the pow er of territorrv as- its wealth or its trade. Tha honorable nteroberrliad assumed, that leMtJ Lord tASTLKEGAOU COU hftttt .vm. falt-iuntolrWr' iMMMripete, wm gtwn to uenouj inai i wm cob for so loug a time upon their notice, his felt he must this evening but where affairs so com plicated in their details, and so important in their result, were to be explained and justified, it was impossible for him to speak except at great length, so as to effostifally prevent the dangers which might arise from sueh an inac curate and "perhaps imprudent display as had beeffmadeby the honorable gentlemah. The question which lie had to discuss was not so much whether the interests of this country had been preserved, as whether its character, and the character of the allied nations, has not been compromitted. If he could shew that the so vereigns of Europe had conducted themselves with wisdom, and had broken no engagement which they undertook" to fulfil, it was not for him to spare any details or reasoning which might be necessary for sueh demonstration, lie must however, distinctly protest against the ipeeies of attack which had been made upon him in Iris absence. It was a system of par liamentary usage, at once novel and uncon stitutional, that while great measures were Dtill pending, any member should, from a mor ' bid jealousy of proceedings which be could not understand; presume all sorts of profligacy and Kad faith against any sovereigns otf imperfect ",urmies garbledtatementSTTindPijJieit-infor-mation.Zfflf, hear, from bbth tides.) Be called that information illUit which was obtain ed from, foreign agents, who stated in private What they had not thought proper to avow in their public protests. If a government was to be put on its defente, in such an unfinished state of a public negotiation, it was placed in --the awkward situation, either nTbeingeompeiled U mit any things DLateria) to its justification, and to defend itseff on imperfect data, and con feqoedtly Imperfect reasoning or itmust make jreutatnre disclosures which might be injurious o the.public serviee. '. (fleixr, hear.) Hit was tinfair, under such circumstances, to call upon the house to review the eonduet of an adminis tration, or to pass a-jiidgment on their acts. He must nowbeg leave 'lb declinejbjcover of fered to him1y the honorable gentlemen, of con sidering him merely as one of his majesty's ministers;' .not individually responsible more, than the rest of hi9.;eoleagues. Much as he ; ernment might have entertained at a former pe-J should be ashamed to assume or pretend to anyriod, and under bircumstanees entirelv differ in the slightest degree frpm ikat understanding)! (Imi eriea of Jtvirt hear) IU hoped that this cirwmitancewouldimpress upon the mind of . the hottorbl' gentleman, a practieal feeling of tXs . talus of preserving tkat government wlkh bad contributed so mueli to testore Ihe peate .ef Europe. , France came to the eon, cress Cot as an enemy,; bbt as a friendly power, deliber&Qnar'in common with the rest of the firmed bv the British eovernment; and after4 wards hrokeni He wished to disentangle the question of Genoa fromjlh'at of Italy j which had likewise been mentioned ; ana nrst ne wouia speak of Italy generally.-Long ago there was a eonsiderabTe feeling that Italy wa anxious to throw off that French yoke, and a disposition was immediately shewn on Ihe part df this country, to give succour to this inclination. But the expectatioWof its f isingwere never re alized. The disaffection was great, but no thing of action was to be hoped, for tire people no where expressed'so little disgust against the armies of France. We had not therefore, fal sified our assurances t Italy : she had taken no measures corresponding to our wish to ervej her. The people or Italy, were mereiore, sole ly indebted to the allies for their deliverance. When therefore after f hid, it was seen that the whole fate of the war depended on stirring Austria fromiitsslumbej, it was felt that eve- rv thins; consistent with general morals, ought to be done to set in - motion that great hinge of European policy. Jbngland felt that she eould not adopt any separate policy with respect to Genoa. She had to act, not as the ally of Ita ly, who would take no steps towards her own independence, but of Austria, who, with other powers were then employed about the deliver ance of Europe. The principle, therefore, sfi that treaty, and it was . Ad secret, was this- that the Italian independence was inconsistent with the effectivepower of Austria. , There was no man that did not know that the northern parts of Italy would not fall to the government of any" '"Ifafian-j As to the suppo sed pledge given by this country in consequence sreat powers, for the general cood of Europe He musndw say a few words in defence of the Au8tmni:overnmehi---as -eve'rjp - government and power in Europe, was made a subject of wiarje.aau accusauon oy ine nonomuie geuue maa.'vfhere wa A man in Prance In the revo tionantimes, ( Arueharsis CloolJ) who called himie the ambassador or orator of the hu man r fee, fcuek). Now it appeared to him, that tm BCttorable gentleman had taken an op- rpofilerpHn, and had constituted himsrjf at) ambyiaaQt or oratorjeotner war, laugn- duet of aU nations aad. tr ail goTetwatWi, and ihe levelled tfie strongest attaeks partfeu- larly asainst .their sovereiffiis. As to all he had said about-the rapacity of Austria, he should only state, that in the original forma- uon oi ine aiuance, u was periecuy unusrsiuou that the Po and the Tessen should be the boun daries of the Austrian monarchy in Italy. To return now to (renoa. -lie must deny that any part of Lord William Bentinck's success was owing to the exertions of the Genoese. There was not a single hand raised up in aid of the British army. It was a dryandsimple sur render of Genoa to the British arms. There was a Genoese Deputy assisting at the capitu lation, and he agreed to it on the condition that Genoa should not be bombarded. It was as complete a conquest as ever was made by the arms of any country; and by the laws of war and of nations, it had a right to dispose of its conquests for the general good. As to the ma king war for the sake of conquests, the allied powers had distinctly disclaimed that princi ple. 1 hey could not be, however, so dead to the obligations that they owed to their brave sibjecls, as altogether to abandon their inter ests and just claims ; neither eould they so far stultify themselves, as to profess themselves incapable of altering he face of Europe from the state in which it then was, to a'state that promised permanent security, and repose.-1 France was a willing party in. the arrange ments : and the principle of it was to make a strong barrier between France and Italy, on the other side of Piedmont., Instead of having one road leading through the territories of Ge noa, and another through the territories of Pied mont, it was thought more for the general in tt- e' rf V ,i4W When th. , jroclamtion first cameJnt hi, hands, he lost . who said hat it was the first time he had seen 1 ft yB,p-dUoii ) and in return to , at 9clal note which he addressed toJprince Hardenbthat Binliter returned anofceial declaratifln, hat the proclamation was wholly unauthorized on (the jart, of Prussia. Such were the unequi vocal declarations of both these Courts. The point of Poland he shiulwlsh to reservefor future discBssioA strong feel ing ; existed in the people, and ip the goveroment of hisxeuntry ftvor of thtindepiBdefce of Poland , and in the mean tW,the country would be rejoiced to hear tLt Poland, at least that.portion of it which mt under the name of the Duchy of Warsaw, feciti be gove rnti under a distinct sceptre, aViPoics, and that the ?i.5eWt b wore congenial .." -t t of the proclamation of Lord W. Bentinek, he'terest of Europe, that the King of Sardinia read, that proclamation with great attention. lie was,' at that time, at the head quarters of the allied powers in France, and a communica tion was made tojhjn." on the part of" marshal Murati then on the Throne of Naples, com plaining oC this proclamation. He answered the Duke de Campo Caro, who came-e'n the Iartof marshal Murat,' that bur(forces in Ita y were to act.in strict alliance with the Aus trian government, whatever intentions our gov- p re-eminence in the cabinet, yet in the present particular instance he could not- without a de grad atin to his own pergonal eh aracte r, pre tendiliat he had been nothing more than one otoe number composing the administration. He had been sent to Vienna, because he wasTtiines of Italy, was that any thing like what the ent. He then read over the proclamation, and tplrl that person, that in his opinion the proela matibruwould hot fairly bear, that eonstruction. When In the conclusion of the proclamation. nepoia, ot their teturning to tNie good old Supposed, to be thorotizhly arnua'mted with the views of this country, and of (ho other contratti iiig-artiea ? and ' if . under such eircumstanees he had suffered the great political machine to have stood 5still for a single day while he was iivaiting for instructions from home, he should have thought he wa betraying hjs trust. He felt it necessary in the first instance, to state to the house what had been the result of the deli- .berations on thestave trade When he last addressed the house on this subject, he had occasion to state that the ut most that could then be obtained from France, , was, & promise to abolish this hateful traffic at 1 the end of five years. Portugal at that time ' had merely given a premise o? gradual aboli tion generally 5. and from Spain no engagement . at all had beeri received, tie could now state, that though this trade was, not at once abolishr ed, yet all the great .powers had resolved, ..as would appear by a paper to be laid before the house, that this traffic was of a natore so im moral, that it ousht. and shodld be s went from the earth ; arid th?y pledged themselves to put u uu,ii ii. opam - ana Portugal naa oeen brought to abolish it" in eighth yearsas to Franee, he had every reason to believe that the French government was disposed to abridge the ds,te agreed. upon, if the feelings of Che people, -ttp... any favorable oppbrtu nit v should render !5?5teneajinr40 ver, had notheen definitely settled at Gongriess, but it had been resolved .that in what related to the slave trade, pongress shodld be adjourned, and that thisjpartieular.qnestionrshould be .left to the future anddeliberate discussion of agents frefll- the different MiintrlnB. Thff'nilfist inn f then ' wan simolv this takini th dfip.larati.irid of the allied So vurp lit! or nations hate those sovereigns fairly arid ho- raoiy luinuea their engagements i v.. lie was prepared to meet ' the "honorable' gentleman on "at issne,aBd Should be abl fa rrael the fmil ; Ja,mjiies, whleh i dottbt "'from misrepreseBta- n iue nonoraDie member wad been tndueed to ;3rjgaiDthu owneountry as well as others. honorable gentleman would understand by Ita nan muepeuuence : At wnat period w ere w e to fix those good old times f Italy ? He did not receive Lord W. Bentinck's proclamation till about the end of March. . He wrote to Kim, however, iminediately upon receiving the com munication he had. stated, and informed his Lordship that there were a few words in his' proclamation,, upon which a Construction had been put which he1 was quite sure was differ ent from What, his Lordship intended.', X: He trusted that he had now In sothe degree relieved this question of Genoa; from the charge of bad faith brought against liis majesty's government. It must, however, be obvious to the bouse, that no; general Jeould, without special authority fronutis government, be empowered to do more than establish. a nrovisional fnvfrnmpnt in n cnqu'edcottntryfheld by ,a military occupation.- - ii. - ::.J:...J ;. .' . ;.''....,. lst.ltle had no authorUv to settle definitive. ly the fate of Genoa, and nobody should sup pose he had suhjin authority. zuiy. ne - was ' expressly prohibited from countenancing the idea of what was now called Italian independence. i 3dly. lie neyer did so. 1 4th ly. He never could hvt done go.' fithly. The Genoese plenipotentiary exnreffs- ly admitted that he could have no authorityto rhe,JionorabIe. gentleman had -asked hi partieulartyjwas there any arrangement agreed io respeciuig noitanxt t tie should answer, that there was, and that be would presently explain the nature of it. . He had been reproached last season for nbtontinbing the'Var until all the objects of this country had been obtained be was now ready to admit, that he would have been gmlty of a criminal dereliction of hts du ty", if he had consented to part with the seenri- uc v. peace wuicu were, in our nanus, nniess thefe had been W complete underktandiag en those points. ; He was happy,' however, to state to the honorable gentleman and to;the house, that the French government had not departed sWAiviold tha whole defeniive force of Italy in tVis quarter, and that his states shouldTform the hnlwark between France and Italy. The honorable gentleman : had, on a fotvnier occasion, tauntingly asked, why he went to Vienna ; and why he came back before every thing had been concluded ? To this he should re ply, that he went to Vienna, because he had been ordered Jo go there ; and that he had not come back before the principal points had been com pletely arranged, in a . manner binding upon the good faith of all the powers, although the ar rangement .was not in a state to be laid before parliament. There was only one great poin respecting continental arrangements, w hich was not yet definitively settled j and that was; the disposition- of that part of Italy, on the south of the Po. To all these arrangements, France had been a consenting party and he conceived that France," throughout the Congress, fairiy and honestly discharged its duty, both to itself; that with regard to the States-general of H arid -to Europe, (hear, hear.) The honorable iver in particular, their deliberations had 1 nothing eould be of greater imnorf ani. f tuu country, than that Franee should not have a continuity of .tea-eoast, extended aloh .th whole of theiJNetherlands. , He had the satis! faetion to say, that the allied powers on the Continent were not more Convinced of thc imi. portance of this point to us, than to themselves a i !,elefo,re a11 were aSrd that the tinidn ef ,: the Netherlands with Holland, was one of the most important improvement &f ?ihm r.'kr Europe, in modern times. . - Hetrttfted it would noVlBUPl,0ea ay undue concessions had been made, with the view ol crease of territory to Hanover. ; Its people bad recently proved themselves fairt.r,.iJ Bnnntfki oi Ureat Britain ; and he would say, that there had not been a more eu.crnt, more faithful and honest bodjof men in our service, than the H. nove nan Legion they amounitd to not lets than 12,000 mer-to which Dauber they had al ways been kept up by voluntarv enrolment. Th increase of territory she had received, tended to consolidate her.cbnnexiqn withthis country, by the extent of sea coast whieh it gave her, The noble Lord then hriefly alluded to the affairs of Spain, and contended tjial painful and disgust- " ing as the proceedings of one party in that ' country were against the other, we bad no 'right to call that Government to account for its pro ceedings.. He had every reason to suppose, that the Spanish government wished to cherish a friendly connexion with this country; nor wai there any reason to suspect, that what was call ed the family compact, at least in its offensive parts, would be renewed with France. Looking then generally,, the foreign relations of the country, he tbooght thein highly satisfactory, . The honorable gentleman, had askedwhal line of policy this coiintry should adopt in regard to the convulsion by which France was at present" agitated. His Lordship said, he would give it as his opinion,' that on the issue of the contest -which now agitated her, dvnendtd the e.mt.n- uance of all the blessings to which this country could look forward ; ard that (t never chuld be7 said, if , Bonaparte , were f reestablished in France, England could look forward to tran quility. .Were that man restor.U to France, he should be glad to know how the .continent. of Europe could avoid being eg'airi cbriVerted into so many armed nations, as the onlv securifv for their independence. ;r He tmsted lhatt Provi dence would conduct (his country and Europe, through the remainder of its difticuliies. The noble lord then congratulated the house on the geneil adoption of repregentatirejpvernments in the different states "of Germanv: and said 1 - j. ano- been .V than the annexation of Saxonr to Prussia. - He should now state briefty the history of Ppince jitepnin's proclamation. Prussia n as desirous of obtaining the provisional occupa tion ef Saxony ; and to this, he, together with the Austrian Minister, gave their assent, pro vided the occupation -witt only prdvisional 5 from this consideration, that the power w hich Itfoked to it future possession - either in whole if in part, was most likely to use the country well.'. Then came the Proclamation of Prince Repnin, on delivering bp tbe government to the Prussian authorities, which he really believed originated in one tf those misconceptions o nations, and if Bonaparte was pot suffered 6 In.oiu.n. ly " i.l..-l. ...l.Vl- -.i ' iiucitrjTi iue , JJ U3JJCCIS which were ..BJl" l"g never touid. Europe look forward to brighter days than those w hich it migh'i now anticipate. The noble Lord sat down amidst 'loud and re peatcd cheerff. ) gentlcman'had imputed the most base, and sor- conducted with a degree of moderation, talent djd motives to the allied powers in consequence I and prudence, that did theni credit. A ereftt of the territorial arrangements which had been deal had been done to promote the happiness bf maaC; pui wuea inc. papers snouiu ot regu larly before the HouseJh ijiro'uld find that the peace of Europe, was tne great, object to which tie powers of Europe directed their attention. Wliat would there be; of. the ancient form of Europe, if Austria and Prussia were not to re sume their former place in it ? By the ar rangements which had been coucluded, Prussia gained about 40 or 60 thousand subjects more that she had at that time, and Austria three or four bundred"tUausand. TAustrjaihad, howe ver, cohsented';to'r80menrth for Prussia, to' balance this increase. With respect to the point of Saxony, he had always contended against annexation of. the whole of that country to Prussia, in the strongest mariner. So stro.ngly did the feelings of ministers ope rate on this point, that "it was only by great sacrifice, ; both In regard to Hollaml and Hano ver,' that Prussia, in conjunction with Russia, eould be induced to confine her claiui3 to only a part" of Saxony. Withorit- howeyerj Vish ing to state any;?lhing that might be;painful to the. venerable monarch of Saxony, he would AsaeiihjtUuUhe.M never waa aay thing "more fairly justi NEW-ORLEANS. v . -v- r - Looir,TllARCtt 3. - . Despatches of which the foirowing are co- r pies, have been this day received by Karl Ba thurst, one of His Majesty's, principal Secreta-'Jl ries of State, from Major General Sir John Lambert, K.'. C. B.-commanding on the coast of1' Louisiana. '--':."h- :--v ".. i---; , - j k : , Camp) in front of tho'tEpcmy's tines,? ,;"&.,:--: Mt Lord -It becomes my duty to lay he---' fore y'oiir Lordship, 'the proceedings ' of. the' force lately employed on the coast of Louisiana, under the command of Major General the Hon- .-'f orable Sir E. 3L Pakenhum, K. B. and atiug 4? in ebneert with Vice Admiral tbe Honorable . Sir A. Cochrane, K. B. - . ,V;" '- " - ' ', The reifort .which rcneTie from' major gen eral, Keaue,. will put your Lordship in posses' sion of the occurrences w hieh look place until the arrival of major general the Kon. SJr E pakenham to asrsumehe command ; from that period, I send an extract of the journal of Ma jor forest, Assistant Quarter Master General, up. to the time of the joining of the tr&rp (which sailed on the 16th of th'taber last n ; der my onfmaud) and-whieh was on the 6tli : of January ; and from that period,. 1 shall de tail, as weli as ,lm ablei.lhe suljeqfleHt e vents. '- 1 found 1he army in position In a flat conn ; try, with the Mississippi .on its left, and a ' A
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