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country to promote, as far as it was 

 within its power, the restoration of 

 independence to a state which has 

 fallen a victim to its alliance with 

 Great Britain. The Earl of Liver- 

 ^oo/, after congratulating the House 

 on its unanimity, and recapitulat- 

 ing the successes of the campaign, 

 said, with respect to the desirable 

 object of a general and permanent 

 peace, that it would be the policy 

 of England, not only to give full 

 security to her friends, but to her 

 enemies ; and that he himself could 

 not countenance any thing as de- 

 manded from his enemy, which, if 

 in the situation of that enemy, he 

 would not have been willing to part 

 with. 



The address passed without op- 

 position. 



In the House of Commons the 

 address was moved by Lord Comp- 

 ton, and seconded, in a speech of 

 much studied eloquence, by Mr. 

 C. Grant, Jun. Both sides of the 

 House concurred in approbation 

 of the spirit displayed in the Re- 

 gent's speech, and the address was 

 voted nem. con. 



On Nov. 8th, there were laid on 

 the table of the House of Com- 

 mons copies of Conventions be- 

 tween his Britannic Majesty, and 

 the Sovereigns of Russia and Prus- 

 sia. The first of these, with the 

 emperor of Russia, was signed at 

 Reichenbach on June 15, 1813. 

 By the first article, the emperor en- 

 gages to employ in the present war 

 160,000 troops of all descriptions, 

 exclusive of garrisons ; in return 

 for which, the king of Great Bri- 

 tain engages to pay to Russia for 

 the service of the current year, 

 1,333,334/. sterling, by monthly 

 payments, together with 500,000/. 

 for Uic maintenance of the Russian 



navy now in the English ports. 

 Further, he agrees to join vrith the 

 sovereigns of Russia and Prussia 

 in the issue of federative notes for 

 circulation on the continent, for 

 the expenses of the war solely, to 

 an amount not exceeding five mil- 

 lions sterling, the reimbursement 

 of which is to be allotted in the 

 following proportions : England 

 three-sixths, Russia two-sixths, 

 Prussia one-sixth. A commission 

 is to be named by the three powers 

 for regulating the distribution of 

 this sum. In return for the main- 

 tenance of the Russian fleet, the 

 British Government is to have the 

 right of employing it in any man- 

 ner against the common enemy- 

 These reciprocal engagements are 

 to be continued as long as the war 

 lasts ; and each party binds itself 

 to act in concert with the other, 

 and not to enter into any separate 

 negociation with the enemy. 



In the convention with Prussia, 

 signed at the same place, June 

 l-tth, it is stated, that the object of 

 the war being to re-establish the 

 independence of the states op- 

 pressed by France, it is essential to 

 replace Prussia in possession of her 

 relative power, and to prevent 

 France from ever occupying any of 

 the strong places in the North of 

 Germany, or exercising any sort of 

 influence in that quarter ; and, on 

 the other hand, Prussia is to co- 

 operate in restoring to their here- 

 ditary states, the House of Bruns- 

 wick-Lunenburg, and the ducal 

 House of Brunswick. Prussia en- 

 gages to employ an army of 

 80,000 men in the field, exclusive 

 of garrisons ; and is to receive 

 from England for the year 1813, 

 666,666/. sterl. in monthly pay- 

 ments. The issue of federative pa- 



