GENERAL 
ing the equilibrium and indepen- 
dence of Europe, they feel them- 
selves bound to represent to his 
Roya! Highness, that they do not 
think a war undertaken for per- 
sonally proscribing the present 
rule of France, necessary for 
accomplishing those ends ; but, 
on the contrary, that such a war 
appears to them questionable in 
its principles, and fraught with 
the greatest danger; and to en- 
' treat his royal highness to open 
hew communications with the 
allies for engagements on a de- 
fensive principle. 
This amendment was opposed 
by Lord Bathurst, and also by the 
noble mover’s closest political ally 
onother occasions, Lord Grenville, 
who declared, most unequivocally, 
his conviction of the necessity of 
a war. On a division, the amend- 
ment was rejected by a majority 
Of 156 to 44, and the address was 
carried. 
In the proceedings relative to 
the address to the Prince Regent, 
moved on May 25th in the House 
of Commons, Lord Castlereagh be- 
gan with informing the House, in 
answer to an objection drawn from 
. the want of the Emperor of Aus- 
tria’s conclusive accession to the 
treaty, that he on that morning 
exchanged ratifications with the 
Austrian ambassador, thereby 
rendering the act complete. His 
lordship also read a note signed 
by prince Metternich, expressing 
the full concurrence of the em- 
peror of Austria in the explana- 
tion by the British government of 
the 8th article of the Treatv, 
which declared, that it was not 
. intended to prosecute the war for 
the purpose of imposing any par- 
ticular government on the people 
Vor. LVII. 
BIs TO R'Y: 
of France. The subsequent de- 
bate was exactly the counterpart 
of that in the House of Lords.— 
The same address was moved, and 
the same amendment to it; and 
there was the same defection of 
members who usually voted with 
the opposition, among whom Mr. 
Grattan was distinguished by the 
eloquence of his speech in favour 
of the war. The amendment was 
rejected by 331 to 92. 
On May 26, the House of Com- 
mons being in a committee for 
considering that part of the Prince 
Regent’s message which related 
to the engagements for subsidiz- 
ing the allied powers, Lord Cas- 
ilereagh rose to make a statement 
of the extent of the charges under 
that head likely to be imposed on 
this country in the present ses- 
sion. He began with making a 
distinction between subsidy and 
pecuniary arrangement, in the 
instance of Holland, for whose 
colonies retained by us we were, 
by way of compensation, to pay 
the half of certain charges which 
would otherwise fall upon Hol- 
land alone; and he intimated that 
parsiament would be called upon 
in the course of the present year 
for one million on that account. 
Another arrangement not in the 
nature of a specific grant, was for 
the interest of a loan obtained in 
Holland by Russia, and applied 
towards the fortifications in the 
Low-countries, which was to be 
borne jointly by Great Britain and 
the king of the Netherlands.— 
Having explained the nature and 
purposes of this agreement, his 
lordship proceeded to the condi- 
tions of the treaty between the al- 
lies, binding each to bring into the 
field a contingent of 150,000 men. 
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