GENERAL HISTORY. 



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When the report of the Atldrcsb 

 wuis brought up on tlie t'ollowuiy 

 day, some conversation occurred 

 respecting the burthens and dis- 

 tresses of the people ; and Mr. 

 B'lTing, fiom his knowledge of 

 commerce, made some observa- 

 tions calling in (piestion the fa- 

 vourable view of public pros- 

 perity held forth in the speecli : 

 the address, however, passed with- 

 out opposition. 



The several treaties and con- 

 ventions of the past year were 

 then laid before parliaa>ent. They 

 formed a very veluniinous collec- 

 tion, of wiiich a summary will l)e 

 found under tlic head of State 

 Papers. 



On Feb. .5th, Lord Casllereugli 

 rose in pursuance of notice to 

 call the attention of the House of 

 Commons to the propriety of 

 adopting some signal mode of 

 expressing the national gratitude 

 to the navy for the gieai services 

 performed by it during the late 

 war ; and he concluded a pre- 

 liminary sjieech by mo^'ing an ad- 

 dress to the Prince Regent, le- 

 questing that he would be jdeascd 

 to give directions that a national 

 monument be erected in honour 

 of the cver-mcmoi able victory of 

 Trafalgar, and to couuncninrate 

 the fame of Lord Nelson and the 

 other ofliicrs, seamen, &c. who 

 died gloriously in their country's 

 cause on (!iat occasion. 



This motion, obviously supplc- 

 mcnta)-y to that which had con- 

 ferred .so much hommr on thp 

 army by a resolution for a mag- 

 nificent monument to record the 

 battle of Waterloo, brought on a 

 C(mvoisation in whi( h. willi a ge- 

 neral roni-nrrcuce in the inten- 

 tion, it a]»pearcd that opinions 



were by no means uniform as to 

 the best mode of biinging it to 

 effect. The motion, however, 

 was carried unanimously. 



Of several preparatory motions 

 for future proceedings it is not 

 necessary to take notice ; but a 

 motion by Mr. Brougham on Feb. 

 9th, referred to so singidar an 

 occurrence in general ])olitics, 

 that although it had no puldic re- 

 sult, tlie record of it will be in- 

 teresting as a matter of history. 

 The hon. member rose to move 

 for the production of a copy of 

 the treaty concluded at Paris tin 

 Sept. '26th, between Austria, Rus- 

 sia, and Prussia. By the tenor of 

 tliis treaty, expressed in tlie most 

 devout and solenm language, the 

 three potentates, mem.bers of 

 three different Christian churches, 

 declared in the face of the world 

 their resolution both in th.e ad- 

 ministration of their own states, 

 and in their political relations 

 with other governments, to take 

 for their sole guide the precepts 

 of the holy religion taught by our 

 Saviour. In consequence, they 

 signed an agreement to thicc 

 articles, the lirst of which bound 

 tliem to a fraternity of mutual 

 friendship and assi.'^tance, and the 

 '•onunon pintection of religion, 

 pciicc, and justice ; which in the 

 second was explained in a kind pf 

 mystical strain, to notify that they 

 legardcd thcnisebes as delegated 

 by Providence to govern three 

 branches of one and the fame 

 Christian nation, of which the Di- 

 vine Being \uulcr his three cha- 

 I'actcrs was the sole real sove- 

 reign ; and the third declared a 

 readiness to receive into this ho- 

 ly alliance all the powers Avho 

 should solcumly avow the sacred 

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