GENERAL HISTORY. 



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motive which the noble lord could 

 have for refusing its production 

 was, that he was ashamed of it 

 and of our allies." 



Mr. Brougham next moved for 

 an address to the Prince Regent, 

 requesting a copy of a treaty be- 

 tween Austria, France, and Great 

 Britain, signed at Vienna in Ja- 

 nuary 1815. 



Lord Castlereagh, in stating his 

 objections to the production of 

 this treaty, alluded to it as one 

 which, being intended to be car- 

 ried into execution only in cer- 

 tain conjunctures which never 

 happened, and parliament never 

 having been called upon to sup- 

 port the executive powei' in mak- 

 ing good its engagements, it 

 might be considered in the nature 

 of an unfinished transaction, a 

 meie historical fact, which could 

 have no influence on our actual 

 affairs. 



It appearing on the further dis- 

 cussion of the question, that this 

 was a treaty from whicli Russia, 

 represented as oiu' most faithful 

 ally, was excluded. Lord Castle- 

 reagh endeavoured to divert fur- 

 ther inquiry by saying, that not 

 three months afterwards, there 

 was evinced the most cordial con- 

 cert and co-oparation among the 

 allies ; and that if, as the gentle- 

 men in opposition maintained, 

 there existed dis-union at one 

 time, reciprocal confidence had 

 subseciuently been restored. 



In answer to this observation, 

 Mr. Tierney said, tliat tlie allied 

 powers did certainly xmite against 

 their common enemy, Buona- 

 parte ; but what he wanted to 

 know was, how they were afl'ected 

 to each other, when this common 

 enemy was supposed to be no 



more. The noble lord had not 

 denied that a treaty was actually 

 signed with France and Austria, 

 witiiout the participation of Rus- 

 sia, and, he believed, of Prussia, 

 and to which he was himself a 

 contracting party. The House 

 ought to be put in possession of 

 tlie document. If the noble lord 

 could show that the causes which 

 gave biith to the treaty of Ja- 

 nuary 1815 no longer existed, it 

 would be well ; otherwise it would 

 be impossible for him to believe, 

 that there was a cordial commu- 

 nity of feeling among the allies. 



This transaction, however, was 

 still kept a state secret, for the 

 motion was negatived by 92 votes 

 against 25. 



On Feb. 12lh, the House of 

 Commons sitting in a committee 

 of supjdy, the Chancellor of tlie 

 Exchequer mivoAwced that import- 

 ant subject, his Financial Exposi- 

 tion. He began with a brief ex- 

 planation of the vote with which 

 he intended to conclude, the pur- 

 pose of which was to provide for 

 the payment of ditferent out- 

 standing exchecpier bills, the 

 amount of which he stated, for 

 the year 1814 and 1815, at 

 35,600,0001. He then proceeded 

 to make some general observa- 

 tions as to the probable extent of 

 the supply, and the ways and 

 means to meet that supply. Be- 

 ginning with a statement of the 

 different brandies of revenue, he 

 gave an amount of GG,443,802l. 

 for the year 1815, exceeding by 

 more than a million that of 1814, 

 which itself was greater than tliat 

 of any former year. In the ap- 

 plication of this sum, 21 millions 

 had been employed in the i)ay- 

 ment of arreari, by which the 



whole 



