the affairs of foreign nations, and the question of Prace or war. acceded to, would have placed our Eat India noprese simus, and every other intereft connected with Maira, Sir W. SCOTT defended the gentlemen of the a great or even grater security than if we petcommon, and assured he House that the causes sal retaining it oure'res. He was, therefore, of the bia, member were all of them conduct-d j dias.ying, hat on the alternative of evacuating as well at it was pas bie, by Mr. Heseltine the Mata de exord, and was decided, the recommenceKing's proctor, notwithstanding a gent. in part- › ment et • tilities. The hon. gent next took a survey nership with him, had sometimes been concerned of the Enix al datements Is before the House of the on the other side; however, that was a practice Chancellor of the Exch ger, and contended, th which was unseemly, and therefore he had caused so far from ther being accurate as to the expené: are it to be discontinued. He thought Cant. Cochrane' which would be ncurred by the war, it would, on the misguided in this case, and he reminced him of extrary, be found that the extenses of the war wad a maxim by which it was and, that when a min amount to nearly the double of what they were e becomes his own lawyer, he has not always the mateu at. He wished, however, that the calculations moft prudent client. HOUSE OF COMMONS. [ARMY OF RESERVE. —Sir W. W. WYNNE ob served, that in consequence of an intimation of the wishes of government, several offers of volunteer corps have been my de, uson condition of being exempt from balors, which exemption was intended by government; and, therefore, he thought, that all the cores so offering before the 22d June, should be exempt iron the ozlic of the army of reserve.Dr. LAURENCE Supported an amend rear to this effect, proposed by Sir W. W. Wynne.Mr. ADDINGTON op. osed this; obsev.ng, that the olers were so noumerous, that it was "to avoid throwing the additional borden upon the people, that many of the offers were not "accepted."Mr. PITT ejected to the amendment, and "could not believe, that any person en"tered into volunteer corps to save themselves from "the effect of this ballot. If the House," he said, "were to go on extending the exemptions thus, they "would greatly narrow the means of chtaining a "large regular force. He hoped that off rs of vo"lunteer service would come in, to a very great "amount; but he was sure the volunteers would be "actuated by that fee ing, which must govern the ❝ breast of exrry Eng shman, and not by any view "to exemption."- -Con the clause for drafting the men in the regiments of the line, Col. CRAWFORD observ.d, that he hoped those regiments would be filled up as soon asossible; whereuph Mr. SHERIDAN | said, “I object to any question being put to the men "thes disposed of, as to whether they are willing, to “ volunteer for general service.”—Mr. P11T wishet for an amendment to enable his Majesty to remove the men from one regiment to another.-Mr. SHERIDAN "repeated his objection as t› any question being put “to the men enrolied under this act, as to whether "they were willing to enlist for general service."— Mr. PITT thought, on th contrary, that there ought to be fixed days of master for the purpose of seeing who of these men were willing to volunteer for general service. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Thursday, June 2 th—(Min. p. 9-6.) [ARMY OF RESERVE. —Upon a motion for the third reading of the bill, Mr. JOHNSTONE called upon ministers to shew whether they had not involved the country in a new war because merely for the sake of keeping possession of Malta 'or a certain number of years, while it had been offered by the French government to give up Malta to Russia, an offer which, if on which he funded that assertion might prove fallacious: bat much he feared that such would not be the case. What then had we to expect ? With all our preparations, whether for defensive or offensive war, he was sure we should not be able to make any → pression upon France.-The attempt was holes, and the dr appointment of the country would gla compel government to see for peace. Wixen had we to look to but the mediation of Russ was in van to expect any success from a send popolarity of Buon parté. He might be diska by some, but the great mass of the French pope most even, out of gratitude, be attached to him h his opinion, therefore, attacks upon France must prove altogether futile-Mr. HUTCHINSON said, ha, whenever the hour of danger arrived, Ireland wood be found ready and willing to lend real and coal support to this country. If any thing I ke discrpient prevailed there, it was comparatively as nothing, ad on y what was to be observed in every, even the beft governed shares. The Irish people would shew themselves as lyal and united as any set of men could do, and their cordial co-operation in the day of dificulty and danger might be confidently relied upon. The only contett that could arise between the two countries would be, which wa to fand foremot in the bat'e.—Mr. ARCHDALL rose to advert to the observations which the hon. gent. had thrown out respecting Ireland. There (e says) government has and sposed one half of the people, without having conciliated the other. This was quite novel to nim ; not less so than seeing the hon. gent. ftand to as le representative of the feel ngs and affeétions of Ireland. If those feelings were accurately scrutinized, the issue would moft assuredly be found as agrecuba and u lcome to the House as the issue of a late scrutiny. There exified a spirit in the country fully arequate to furnish every mans of that defence, and when the time came that spirit would display itself. It was to that spirit we mail ruft, and mot ti government; for whether Parliament assented or not to the measure row proposed, their voice would be of little avai without the concurring veice of the empire. de BLAQUIERE hoped that this force, when raisee, would be employed in offensive operations; and asked what the late minifter would no, have eflected, w.ta a force such as is now put into the hands of government. Col. CRAWFORD was about to deliver his sentiments upon the subject, when Mr. Yorke rose and moved for the doors to be closed, by which ftrangers were excluded for the remainder of the sitting. Lord The remainder of the Parliamentary Proceedings, for this session, will be found in the Supplement to the next volume, where the PARLIAMENTARY ACCOUNTS also, and the LIST of ACTS, for the session, will be found. OFFICIAL PAPERS ON SUBJECTS CONNECTED WITH THE PRELIMINARY AND DEFINITIVE TREATIES, &c.—PART II. TREATY OF AMIENS. (For PART I. See page 1149.) Amiens, 22d Nivose, Year 10, Jan. 12, 1802; The French and British plenipotentiaries having met, Lord Cornwallis communicated to Citizen Joseph Bonaparte the answer of his government to the propositions for demolishing the fortifications of Malta; which answer is, that the said propositions being contrary to Articles IV. and XIV. cannot be adopted. After long discussions, it is agreed that the French minister shall present a plan of arrangement for the article relative to Malta. The conference is postponed until to-morrow. Joseph Bonaparte, Cornwallis. In the succeeding conferences, the article respecting Malta was discussed, on both sides, with an attention and minutenes which might have been expected to produce an immediate agreement: but, on the contrary, farther difficulties arose, both on this article, and on other points of the treaty to be concluded. The best manner of stating the discussions which took place on these topics, is to insert the Protocols of all the conferences of the French and English plenipotentiaries, from the 23d Nivose to the 18th Ventose. PROTOCOL. NEGOTIATIONS for a definitive and general peace, agreeably to the preliminaries, were opened at Amiens. Citizen Joseph Bonaparte was appointed plenipotentiary for France, and the Marquis Cornwallis was nominated in the same character on the part of England. The delay of the English minister in proceeding to France was calculated to excite astonishment. The First Consul, therefore, expressed, through the medium of Citizen Otto, his anxiety to see the preliminaries of the pacification immediately converted into a definitive treaty, which alone could establish the repose of the world. The Marquis Cornwallis repaired, in the first place, to Paris, where some previous conferences took place between Citizen Joseph Bonaparte and him in the beginning of Frimaire, year 10, (224, 23d, &c. November, 1801). It was evident, from the first, that the article relative to Malta was that which would present the greatest difficulties in the treaty about to be concluded; though it appeared that nothing was necessary to be done on this point, in the definitive treaty, except to name the power to whom the guarantee of Malta should be entrusted. But the seat of the negotiation was scarcely removed to Amiens, 23d Nivose, Year 10, 13th Jan. Ainiens, when the British plenipotentiary be- 1802.-The plenipotentiaries of the French gan to start new questions, and to make new Republic and is Britannic Majesty having demands concerning Malta. He demanded, me, Citizen Joseph Bonaparte, agreeably to that, if there were to be a French langue in his engagements in the preceding conference, Malta, there should also be an English langue: proposed a new arrangement, in which he it was agreed that there should be none for endeavoured to meet as much as possible the either of the two nations. He testified great 10th article of the plan for a definitive anxiety respecting the future condition of treaty of peace, presented by Lord CornMalta; and was not only desirous that the wallis. He declared that he knew no inconguarantee should be pointed out, but that the venience in restoring the island of Malta to protection should likewise be specified to the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, under the consist in the establishment of a considerable immediate protection of the King of Naples, foreign garrison at Malta. To terminate whose sovereignty over the said island should these discussions, and to remove every in- be formally acknowledged. As to the guaconvenience, the French plenipotentiary pro- rantee, he proposed to place it in all the posed that the Order of Malta should be mo- great powers interested in the maintenance of dified with respect to its composition; that, the Order; namely, in France, England, instead of an order of knighthood, it should Russia, Spain, Austria, and Prussia. With become, simply, an order of hospitality, respect to the troops, he proposed (in case conformably to its primitive institution; and, that those of the Order should be insufficient that the fortifications of Malta being demo- for garrisoning and defending the island), to lished, that island should be converted into a make all the guaranteeing powers concur in great lazaretto, appropriated to the equal ac-furnishing an equal proportion. In this way commodation of all the different nations each power might supply two hundred men, which trade in Mediterranean and the Le-who should be paid by the Order, and whose vant. The English government would not consent to this proposition; and its refusal is recorded in the Protocol of the sitting of the 22d Nivose, year 10, in the following terms VOL. III. officers should be appointed by the Grand Master; care being taken that the officers of each corps should be natives of the country to which that corps belonged. He also stated that France and England might concert an * Iii tain the rights and privileges of the people of Malta and Gozo, as they are specified in the present arrangement. The conference was deferred to the following day. Cornwallis, J. Bonaparte. PROTOCOL. an agreement with the other powers, in conse- | be open to the commerce and the navigation quence of which all the belligerent nations of all nations, who shall there pay equal and should in time of war respect the independence moderate duties: the revenues accruing thereof the island of Malta, and that it should be for from shall be applied to the maintenance of each of them a lazaretto, under their com- the Maltese langue, to that of the civil and mon guarantee. Lord Cornwallis declared, military establishments of the island, and also that while he adopted part of the principles to that of a lazaretto, which all nations may of the French government respecting Malta, use, in case of necessity. X. The principle he believed he should make the intentions of of perpetual hostility being abolished, the rag his court better known, by inserting in the of the Order shall be under the protection of Protocol the following articles, which he the above-mentioned powers. XI. The said hoped would reconcile the views of the con- powers shall be invited to accede to this artracting parties:The island of Malta, with rangement. XII. The rights of sovereignty its dependencies, shall be restored to the Or- of the King of the Two Sicilies over the der of St. John of Jerusalem, on the follow- island of Malta, are formally recognized; ing conditions:-I. In order to secure the consequently the Grand Master of the Order absolute independence of that island, it shall of Mita, or his representative, shall hencebe put under the guarantee and protection of forth receive, in the name of the Order, the Great Britain, France, Austria, Russia, Spain, oath of fidelity to the crown of Sicily, which and Prussia. II. The ports of Malta shall was taken at the time of the original grant, as be, at all times, neutral; and that neutrality also an oath (similar to that taken by the comshall be preserved, notwithstanding any hos-missaries of the Order at that epoch) to maintilities whatsoever in which the powers above-mentioned may find themselves engaged. III. The Order of St. John of Jerusalem shall abolish the principle of a perpetual war agains the infidels. IV. In regard to the sovereignty of the crown of Sicily, the ports of Malta, of Gozo, and of Camino, Amiens, 29th Nivose, Year 10, 18th Jan. shall be shut against the armed vessels, or 1802.-The plenipotentiaries of the French the prizes of any of the powers of Barbary Republic and his Britannic Majesty having whatsoever, every time that these powers met, Citizen Joseph Bonaparte proposed to shall be at war with his Sicilian Majesty. pursue the discussion relative to Malta. He V. The forces of his Britannic Majesty shall declared that, animated with the desire of a evacuate that island in three months, reck-prompt conciliation, his government would oning from the ratification of the present renounce a part of the articles which it had treaty; and it shall be surrendered in its pre-proposed, and admit several of those in the sent state to his Sicilian Majesty, who shall project presented by the British minister; furnish the force which he shall judge neces-that as to the IIId, IVth, and Xth articles, sary to form, conjointly with the Maltese relative to the abolition of the principle of troops, the garrison of the principal forts, perpetual warfare against infidels, and the during the space of years. VI. In stipulation which (as their consequence) would order to give his Sicilian Majesty the means open to them the ports of Malta, it conceived of maintaining the said provisional garrison, that those articles, though conformable to the his Britannic Majesty and the French Repub- soundest ideas, would nevertheless meet with lic agree to pay, annually, in equal propor- many obstacles on the part of the states postions (the payments being to be made every sessing Maltese langues, unless a reciprocity six months) the sum of VII. After were established on the part of the states of the said term of six months, the half, at least, Barbary. But, in the present system of hosof the garrison shall be composed of native tilities, how can it be proposed to those Maltese; and for the remaining part, the Or-powers to supply the Order of Malta, whose der shall have power to recruit among the natives of the countries which shall continue to possess langues in the Order. The native Maltese troops shall have Maltese officers; and the command in chief of the garrison, as well as the nomination of the officers, shall belong to the Grand Master of the Order. VIII. There shall be established a Maltese langue, which shall be maintained by the territorial revenues and the commercial duties of the island. IX. The ports of Malta shall ports would offer an asylum to their enemies, and a station where the Barbary corsairs would lye in wait for the mercantile vessels as they came out of the ports of Sicily, the Adriatic, and the Levant? On the other side, is this the moment for commencing a discussion which affects so many different interests, and the solution of which could not fail to retard the conclusion of a work expected by both nations with too much impatience to permit its progress to be interrupted by accessary answer the antecedent proposition, at an PROTOCOL. objects? It seems proper to leave it to the wisdom of the two governments to choose the moment when, secure from all the existing prejudices, it will be an easier task to attempt Amiens, 29th Nivose, year 10,—19, Jan. 1802. the abolition of a system proscribed by the -The plenipotentiaries of France and Engliberal principles which direct the two na- land, having met for the continuation of their tions. The following articles may conciliate labours, observed, that both nations must exthe rights and the interests of all parties. pect, with equal impatience, the signing of the Art. I. The islands of Malta, of Gozo, and of definitive treaty; and that the only means of Camino, shall be restored to the Order attaining that object was doubtless to inform of St. John of Jerusalem. II. The Knights each other mutually, and without delay, of the of that Order shall be invited to repair points which each of the governments was thither, as soon as the ratifications of the pre- disposed no longer to contest. Lord Cornsent treaty shall have been exchanged. They wallis instantly declared that he consented to shall there assemble in a general chapter, and adopt the form of the preamble employed in proceed, within the space of three months, to past treaties between the French Republic the election of a Grand Master, should such and other powers. He likewise consented to choice not have been made on the continent stipulate in the definitive treaty, the maintebefore that epoch. III. The forces of his nance of the privileges, ranks, and prerogaBritannic Majesty shall evacuate the island tives, enjoyed by ambassadors, ministers, and and its dependencies within three months after other agents of the contracting powers, before the exchange of the ratifications: it shall be the war. As to what related to-1. The exrestored to the Order in the state in which it change of the islands of St. Pierre and Minow is. IV. There shall be established a quelon for a part of the island of NewfoundMaltese langue, which shall be maintained land,-2. The cession of an establishment for by the territorial revenues and commercial the fishery in the Malouine isles,-3. The duties of the island. V. One-half of the gar-neutrality of fishers in time of war; Lord rison, at least, must always be composed of Cornwallis said, that these articles having Maltese; for the remainder, the Order shall been presented and rejected before the signhave power to recruit among the natives of ing of the preliminaries, could not be re-prothe countries which continue to possess duced with greater success. Citizen Joseph langues. The Maltese troops shall have Mal- Bonaparte, in his turn, declared that he detese officers. The chief command of the sisted from the demands relative to the above garrison, as also the nomination of the off-three articles. Lord Cornwallis then declared, cers, shall belong to the Grand Master of that his government could not consent to the the Order. VI. The island is put under the abolition of salutes at sea, because that was protection and guarantee of France, Great unprecedented, and had no connection with Britain, Austria, Russia, Spain, and Prussia. the present war. He demanded from what VII. The permanent neutrality of the Order motive the French government, in its counterof Malta is proclaimed. VIII. The ports of project of treaty, affectedly detailed all the Malta shall be open to the commerce and na- restitutions which were to be the result of vigation of all nations, who shall therein pay peace; whilst it was more simple and more equal and moderate duties. Those duties proper to place the parties in the same shall be applied to the maintenance of the state as before the war. Citizen Joseph BoMaltese langue, the civil and military esta- naparte replied,—1. That salutes at sea being blishments of the island, and also to that of a source of pretensions and disputes, it apa general lazaretto, open to all flags. IX. The peared proper to stipulate their abolition. powers of Barbary are alone excepted from 2. That the nominal description of the objects the dispositions of the preceding article, until to be restored, had for its object to make they themselves shall have renounced their known, by a single law, the positive state of system of habitual hostility. In this case the the contracting nations, so as to have no longer contracting parties engage to preserve for any occasion to recur to anterior treaties. He them the enjoyment of the same rights in added, that notwithstanding the merit of the Malta with every other nation. X. The Or- considerations relative to these two articles, der shall continue to be governed, both as to his government was disposed also to desist spiritual and temporal affairs, by the same from them in favour of peace. Lord Cornstatutes which were in force at its departure wallis demanded, that the article relative from Malta. XI. The powers whose gua- to the sequestrations should be inserted literantee is invoked in the 6th article, are in- rally in the definitive treaty as it stood in the vited to accede to the present arrangement. preliminaries, and in the project presented by Lord Cornwallis has reserved to himself to his government. He observed, that the addi* Iii2 tional tional clause of the counter-project which says, | shall consent to exchange the district of Valthat " English creditors in France cannot be dahour for that of Bahour, which belongs to more favoured than the French themselves," France; inasmuch as this arrangement, which, would be prejudicial to the English nation, it is said, was to have been made at the time inasmuch as the English government had not of the treaty of 1783, would secure to the intouched the property, the effects, or the funds habitants of Pondicherry the articles of the of any Frenchman; that of France, on the first necessity; and that, without requiring an contrary, had seized all that the English had important sacrifice, it would terminate contiin France, and had made only imaginary re-nually reviving difficulties. 3. That at the imbursements. Whatever right the French period of the restitution of Yanaon, France government had to proceed in this manner shall also be put in possession of the tract towards French citizens, according to the law which always belonged to her, on the left of circumstances, it could not so dispose of bank of the Coringuy, where the merchan what belonged to the English. Citizen Joseph | dize intended for Yanaon is embarked; and Bonaparte took this article ad referendum as the river has successively encroached upon Lord Cornwallis then proceeding to reply to the greater part of the tract where the workthe demands made by citizen Joseph Bona- shops are situated, there shall be granted an parte, relative to the augmentation of the equivalent tract on the opposite bank; so that French territory and commerce in India, said, the weavers driven out by the inundations, That the conditions proposed by France would may still find an asylum. And that, in exeproduce endless discussions, and that the Eng-cution of the treaties of 1783 and 1787, the lish government persisted in the return to the French may have, for the trade carried on by same state in which both nations were before them on the coast of Coromandel, and partithe war. Citizen Joseph Bonaparte observed, cularly for the execution of their contracts in that the pure and simple restitution of the the interior of the country, the same means French possessions in India, being rather to of security and protection as in Bengal. 4. That be considered as a charge than a benefit, it on the Malabar coast, France, in entering into would be natural enough that France should possession of Mahe and its dependencies, shall insist upon her demands relative to important equally recover the petty territory of Courchy, ameliorations; but that this government, wish-which has always belonged to her since the ing to accelerate the epoch of a peace so de- cession made by the king of Colastrie, to M. sirable for the whole world, insisted only on Mahe de Labourdonnaye, and of which Tipthe following dispositions:-1. That England poo Sultaun never had a right to dispose in shall give up, or cause to be given up to France, favour of the English, as he was not the prothe seven Joukans, or tolls of Villehour; inas-prietor of it; and, lastly, that France should much as the district of Villehour forming part have permission to establish a factory at Alepe, of the territory of Pondicherry, was granted should she think proper, in order to have a without any reserve or restriction, by the share of the pepper trade in the country of Soubah of Dekan and the Nabob of Arcot, to the King of Travancore. Lord Cornwallis the French East-India Company. That the said, that he reserved himself to answer, in treaty of 1783 confirmed this property, (and the subsequent conferences, the demands that, too, without any restriction,) and yet above stated. Citizen Joseph Bonaparte, not France has the dissatisfaction still to see, that being able to lose sight of the important 21duties, to her burdensome, and extremely in-ticle of the fishery, stated that France, in reconvenient, are levied in her own territory,nouncing the XI, XII, XIII and XIVth antiin the name of a foreign power. A remon- cles of her counter-projet, had only reserve₫ strance was presented upon this subject into herself to propose modifications, which 1785, by Messrs. De Bussy and Coutanceau from experience seem to be indispensable, and to Lord Macartney, who answered, that the which had been foreseen by the XIith article joukans in question formed part of the ancient of the preliminaries; wherein it is said, "that district of Valdahour, and belonged to the in the definitive treaty, just or reciprocally Nabob of Arcot. It was replied, that the advantageous arrangements shall be taken, to district of Vilhehour had, itself, formed part place the fishery of the two nations in the state of the district of Valdahour; and yet that, best adapted for maintaining peace." We are since the grant and confirmation above men- charged to demand accordingly,-1. That the tioned, it had formed a district completely French fishermen of the island of Newfoundseparate; that, consequently, each proprietory land, shall be protected in the same na ner as nation should enjoy the accessories of its por- the English themselves. 2. That France, should tion. Nothing was decided with respect to she deem it proper, shall have a commercial this just demand, by the explanatory conven- agent at St. John. 3. That, in virtue of se tion of 1787; and it is hoped that it will at veral treaties, we shall have the right of fishlength be done justice to. 2. That Englanding exclusively, and at all seasons, on the |