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t: 1! It B t)B36] PROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE. QUEEN'S PALACE, FEBRUARY 6. , Th e King was this day pleased to confer the honour of Knight -1,00,1 on Dr. Christopher Robinson, his Is.lajesty's Advocate FOREIGN OFFICE, FEBRUARY 6. The King has been pleased to appoint Charles Oakeley, Esq. to 11‘: Nlajesty's Secretary of Legation to the United States of :Isx; iu. MILITARY PROMOTIONS. WAR-OFFICE, FEB. 7. • -invent of Light Dragoons—Ensign the lion. George For front the 61st Foot, to be Cornet, without purchase, , sm i t h, promoted ; and Henry Court Arnie!, Gent. to be k,ornet, without purchase, vice roster, promoted. pi ! -,—Cornet James Tomkisson to he Lieutenant, without rc.:•2 and Cornet Michael Ryan to be ditto. t z - • T 1! of Foot—Lieutenant Thoinas Fraser, from the 4th it.ttalien, to be Lieutenant, vice Kirk, who ex - .t 3. 11,iroVolunteer Henry Gillman to be Ensign, vice Arm and Volunteer Hack to be Ensio, with out ps : r -.a:e, vice Monro, cashiered by the sentence of a Ge- Co.lrt Martial. . is . ; ‘ , D i t o—Hospttal Mate John Bell to be Acsistant Surgeon, ice,Vici!.la:, promoted in the .sth W est India Regitnent. ..t t h I t ,, .--:l , sistant-Surzeon B. L. Sar.dham, from the 87th t Assi.tar.t.Surgeon, vice Gibson, promoted in the go..:::‘!.;ic.m Corps. t;:h I)a:o—Lieutenant Dnualcl M'Donald, from the 79th Foot, iot, ',ant, vice Haviland, who exchanges, and Ensign ;‘: 1,01 Dourke, to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice ! . 0! F, promoted; W. S. Rind, Gent. to be Ensign, vice 8ci.r1,.. • E d is, t ui.-1-tugh Valiance, Cent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Li!h!ai, who retires. 6f.:lll;i:zo—liospital Mate Robert Function to be Assistant Sur vice 'Talbot, cashiered. t9.!l.:to—Brecct. Major Chalks Edward Blake, from the sth Battalion, to be Captain of a Company, vice Bennett, eseaanges. i:t:h Ditto —Ensign 'Thomas Hinton, to be Lieutenant, by pur ,L,‘, vice Ecswel!, vho retires. d. Ditto—Lieutenant Henry Glcnholme to be Captain of a ; •-parry, without purchase; Lieutenant John Moir, from the !•:., tobe ditto. r ;41:enants—Yosigns David Rose, Richard Le yne, and Raymond,. and Lieutenant John Purcell, from the %t•-. 11 i aot. To be F.r.igns—James Primrose, Gent. vice Rose ; Duncan Cac.plxit, Gcct. vice Leyne ; and George Hickson, Gent. vice ilto—Licuteisant•Colonel Meyrick Shawe, from the sth INt:alicn, to he Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Symes, de t e;• f.nsign Edward Jones to be Adjutant, vice Baird, res7 , o-, the Adjutantcy only. —; :Z.ichard Haviland, from the 25th Foot, !..I‘..a.euant, etc.: Macdonald, who exchanges. :.-I.i,ntenant John Lutman, to be Captain of a Com el:ceased ; Ensign Edward Le::„ to be Lieu : • Corbet, deceased; Volunteer John Lutrstan to be rice Marston, deceased; James lmlach, Gent. togs° ic„: Lee. •H sp::al•mate W. M. Br: , ckcs, to be Assistant Sur ,: , vice Sandham, :Ippointed to the 24th Foot. —last Lieutenant J. B. Hart, to be Captain of a Corn p..l out purchase, vice Norcott, promoted; First Liett tt!:..., Logan to be Captain of a Company, vice Bennett et, hzcond Lieurenant H. Manners, to be First Lieu te;,‘: t, vi:, ; Second Lieutenant John Charles Hope, to be ii:st Li.utui,int, vice Logan. 9::blie.o—C2o3:n4;illiatu Art:artily to be Major, vice tucker, deca.;,2, Li.uttnant Zwickey, to be Captain of a Cu vice M'Carthy. 9?'hl.r..!,,—.l..'nsign George Wightman, from half'pay of the 72d t,, be Ensign, repaying the difference; Ensign Rickard L::- to be .I.ljutant, vice Itillenstein, ippointed to the New a' At 'AC3I: Corps—Assistaiit-Surgeon Jehn Gibson, from the l'cot, to be Surgeon. .1 1 1 Battalion—Lieutenant John Kirk, from the 6th 1 . 0 . , to Le Lieutenant, vice Fraser, who exchanges. Va I :;:o—Major John Colbourne, from the Loth Foot, to be . .at Colf,nel, vice Shawe, appointed to the 76th Foot, .•i "'t Bennett, from the ti3d Foot, to be Cap t vice Blake, who exchanges. : . illiam Dillon to he Lieutenant, vice Kir .. e ; aad Samuel Sweeney, Gent. to be Ensign, vice BattsErr --Assistant-Surgeon Wm. Jones, . :• .: the 3d Drnoens, to be Assistant-Surgeon, :pointed to the Royal Reglint.at of Horse 110sPITAL STAFF. Dcakin, from Half-pay of the 9th Foot, to be Sur • .(..cruiting District, vice Wilson, who exchanges. I‘IEMORANDIJM. Ricbard Whitaker, of the 85th root, is superseded, .t without k.tvc. BANKRUPTS. ', , lierinzon, of Lowcroiby, Cumberland, drover, to -• :t r Ft bruary ;10, 21, and March 21, at eleven, at the 1 ram inn, Carlisle. Attornies, Mr. Birkett, Bond . IV?:hrook, London ; or Mr. Blow, Carlisle. I'.7:.ckerr;e, of King's-Arins-yard, London, merchant i'tb 11, IS, ar.d .!•.I.irch 91, at twelve, at Guildhall. tint and Bowman, Old Pay-OBice, Broad- - :‘,':a Powell, of Uxbridge, Middlesex, builder and earpen i.wler and chapman, lebruary 11, 18, and March 21, at elvt, at Guildhall. Attorney, Mr. Mills,Ely-place, London. • atn Allen, of Chandos-street, Middlesex, shoemaker.deafer chapman, February 11, 18, and March 21, at ten, at Guild- L 11, nuornies, Messrs. Pitches and Samson, Swithin's-lane. , - C '' s Eastwood and John Eastwood, both of Uppermill, Saddle v a, Yorkshire, dyers, dealers, chapmen, and partners, Feb. at the New Inn, New Delph, and March 21, at the Rose 7 1 Crown Inn, in Huddersfield, at • eleven. Attornies, Mr. I rghaan, of Dobcross, in' Saddleworth ; or Messrs. Me ' ".•••'.4 and Roibins, No. 8, Lincoln's Inn New-square, London. J- Ines, of Bristcl, cooper, dealer and chapman, to surren ; ;..br...ary 9,2; and March 21, at eleven. Attornies,. • ard Stephens, Bristol; or Mr. Samuel White Sweet, , i , . nth Walk 9, Temple. • •••;•::! C*.c . .ver aad John Glover, of the Poultry, London, ha . . - .cTc, dealers and chapmer., to surrender February 14, twelvz, 'al, at ten, and March 21, at ten, at Guildhall.. #tt:tray, Mr. Mzson, St. Michael's Church - yard, Cornhill. Nr•pson, of Sheffield, Yorkshire, innkeeper, dealer and • to surrender February 17, and March 21, at one, • • ; c . . ice Inn, Sheffield. Attornies, Messrs. Parker and • • `:r :field ; or Messrs. IllaF,rave and Walter, Symond's • ~ n ct7y-lane, London. • I of Bedminster, Somersetthire, bacon-factor, - , r 1 - ;_pntan, to surrender February 11, 28, and March .•• , at Guildhall. Attornies, Messrs. Frowd and I , .ii;re-court Buildings, '1 emple, London. • • Merry, of West Smithfield, London, oilman, to surrender February 11, 18, and March • at Cuildhall, London. Attorney, Mr. David • . Aldersgate-street. Nte of Reading, Berkshire, nursery and seedsman, • 4 :1( . 1 coapman, to surrender February 31 and 22, and • eleven, at the Upper Ship Inn, Reading. At ` • .r. :aunders, of Reading; or Mr. Holmes, of Great Loudon. Lc~i;;,. • it s t .... :. '-- ,/ . 7. 7:-: , .... : •:.....,..:,, ! • ll- 4 info . ? l ir - .../ N r s , [. l i ' I v • . ( c l / 4..... .-s, . .I+. v • i i t, • ~444 54 Ae&-i , ;-• •• •" . ..-17") t • , .....,-0." -••:;,. . % I 1 I L• ,- i 1 " ' ''''•::._!...:s r / 'q' j i ) ) ' . ' 4 c., AI pr •—...• .et WEDNESDAY, FEBRL AR Y 8, 1809 PiIRLIAMENTARr PROCEEDINGS. pressions that fell from him in that House in the course of debate, as an abettor of the system of Bona parte. He lamented that such a blessing as a free press should produce such evils ; bvt if the existing laws were not adequate to repress or correct them, it was high time that the Legislature should interpose. He would now make a few observations on the•cam- HOUSE OF LORDS, TUESDAY, FEB. 7. Their Lordships having met at an early hour, the House re solved itst If into a Committee on the Boringdon Divorce BilL— Counsel were heard at the Bar on the part of Lady Boringdon.— Several amendments were agreed to, and the Bill was reported, and ordered to he read a third time on Thursday next. A tem porary adjournment took place until five o'clock. DUKE OF YORK. The House being resumed, his Royal Highness the Duke of KENT observed, that, he thought it neces sary to address a few words to their Lordships, in consequence of some documents that were before the House. It had been insinuated that he had given his sanction to the charges which were made against an illustrious relative of his. He begged to disclaim, on his own part, being in any way privy to these impu tations. He did not believe them ;he was convinced the illustrious Person at the head of the army was in capable of such practices ai those of which be was ac cused. He could also take upon himself to say, that the whole of that illustrious - Person's family were of the same opinion, and that there was not the smallest foundation for the rumours that there was a schism in that family respecting these charges, or any other subject. paign in Spain, as that was a principal motive for inducing him to submit his motion to their Lord ships. Ministers from the beginning appeared to have made up their minds as to he kind of warfare they were disposed to wage. They anticipated triumph, victory, glory. They declared in the SF.ech at the conclusion of the Session, that in the assistance they intended to give, they would be solely guided by the wishes of the Spanish nation. After having disappointed the expectations of Sweden—after having by promises of assistance induced his Swedish Majesty to suspend theisfsets whisk he wouldntherwise have made, they recalled the troops that had been sent to co-operatewith him, and to this day there was no ex planation of any misunderstanding that produce d ihis vacillation in their Councils. &fore they sent out their expedition, why was it not understood that those troops were to be placed under the immediate command tf the King of Sweden ? The same misconduct was visible in the naval campaign in the Baltic. We had 12 sail of the line in that sea, and yet only two of those were found at a most critical moment acting with the Swedish fleet. The number of frigates in that sea was very deficient ; and it was in a great measure owing to that deficiency,that the Russian fleet was able to come out and return with so little loss to their ports. [His Lordship next adverted to the con duct of the campaign in Spain.] Never, said he, was there an occasion in which the people of this country were so willing to second the views of Ministers. The whole nation entertained but one sentiment on the subject, and that was, that the cause of Spain should ,succeed. The general expression was, that every ex ertion should be made to assist a great nation strug gling for its independence. What was the conduct of Ministers ? Must they not have been aware that fai lure would have led to the greatest exultation on the part of the ruler of France ? Instead, therefore, of driving the French out of Portugal, they should have assisted the Spaniards to drive the French out of Spain. Ministers, however, pursued a different course. With respect to the points of the Armistice and Convention, they had been so fully considered before, that he should not now allude to them : he must, however, express his disapprobation of the answer returned to the address from the Citizens of London, as well as the institution of the Board of In quiry. No satisfactory'result could hive been expec ted from it. He also must condemn the recommen dation, er the order rather, contained in rl-e letter Nom the Noble Lord at the heal of the War depart ment to Sir Hew Dalrymple. It would have been a more manly proceeding to have placed Sir Arthur Wellesley at once at the head of the army in Portu gal, than to enjoin that he should be consulted en every occasion. Why did not Ministers follow the example of Lord Spencer, who sent Lord Nelson to Egypt, to the prejudice of a senior officer, and by that judicious anointment enabled us to gain the glorious victory of Die Nile ? An opinion prevailed, that it would have been more consistent with policy to have sent the army to the South of Spain, in the first instance. Ministers, however, adopted another plan. The Convention of Cintra was signed on The 30th of August • and yet, notwithstanding the criti cal situation of ;ffairs in Spain, andlte urgency of giving the most prompt assistance to the people of that country, not a single British soldier marched from Portugal until the beginning of October. When they did send an army into Spain, though they had transports enough in the Tagus to have conveyed them in a few days to Gallicia or Asturias, they sent them by land. It seemed as if the Evil Genius of England directed every instruction and impulse that was given to that army. After a pause of some weeks, it made a movement in advance. Again it made a second movement. We might have derived some consolation for the calamitous consequences that resulted from these ill advised operations, if our armies had marched into the country to make a noble'stand ; but, instead of this, they marched into the heart of Spain, with the moral certainty of being obliged to retreat. • The result of that retreat was fresh in their Lordships' recollection. The army lost 4000 horses, the best that couldbe provided for that species of service to which they were destined ; am munition to an enormous amount was destroyed ; some of the finest artillery in Europe was spiked; the army at the time so dissatisfied as to be nearly in a state of mutiny ; officers marching without shoes or stockings, and some of them the most promising in the service, (he alluded to General Anstruther), falling the victims of mental anguish and excessive fatigue. Having reached the ultimate point of retreat, they were detained five days waiting for transports, which, by arriving sooner, would have prevented the bloodshed in the action before Corunna. Was it ne cessary that all these sacrifices should havebeen made to prove the valorous spirit of Englishmen? [TheNoble Earl next adverted to the treaty with the Junta, and asked when Ministers expected it would arrive, or whether it would arrive at all. He trusted they would have no objection to communicate the sub stance of that treaty, and that they would take care to secure the fleets of Spain, or at least to take care that those of France should not again come into the possession of the Ruler of Frantot.] He was one of those who hoped the affairs of Spain were not des perate ; but he was persuaded, that their success must depend rather on the exertions of Spain, than on any assistance we could send her. His Lordship concluded with moving, that the House should re solve itself into a Committee, to consider the state of the nation. The Duke of MONTROSE was of opinion - that the motion of the Noble Earl ought not to be enter tained .by their Lordships. He'had gone in a very AMERICA. , Lord GRENVILLE deferred his motion respect ing America until Tuesday, when he hoped every necessary information would be before the House. His Lordship concluded with moving for an Account of Duties levied on Exports in the course of the last year, in consequence of the Orders in Council. The Earl of LIVERPOOL replied, that every in formation in the power of Ministers should be granted; but as itwould be necessary to send to the out-ports, he feared the returns up to the sth January could not be I prepared in time. His Lordship moved, that.an Ac count of the Produce of the Consolidated Fund for the four quarters ending the sth January, 1809,_com paring them with the four respective quarters of the two preceding years, be laid before the House. STATE OF TILE NATION• The order of the day for summoning their Lord ships having been read, Earl GROSVENOR said, that he rose for the pur pose of submitting to their Lordships the motion of which he had given notice some days ago. After the recommendation in the Speech at. the opening of the Session—after the repeated declarations of Ministers, that they were willing every part of their conduct should undergo the strictest investigation, he could not have expected that the smallest objection could be made to the motion he intended to make. Rumours, however, had reached his ears since he came down, that it was intended to oppose it. If it should appear that Ministers had disappointed the hopes and expec tations of the nation, it was his intention to follow up his motion by an address to remove them. The im portant, or rather the calamitous, events that have re cently occurred—the portentous state of all Europe— mint have made a deep impression on the minds of their Lordships. If it should appear that these ca lamities were principally owing to Ministers having micemployed the resources of the nation, - there could be no difference of opinion as to die necessity of ini mediately placing the guidance of the national con cerns in abler hands. Before he went into the consi deration of the last campaign, he was anT.ious to di. rect. their attention to some other subjects. It was now upwards •of twenty years since the revolution broke out in France, and in the course of that time the consequences of it had been felt by every nation in Europe. This nation, in consequence of that Re volution, had now suffered for seventeen years, with the intermission of only a few months, the calamities of war. The question was not whether peace with France, as France now is, would be a benefit ? For himself, he entertained no hope of peace as long as the hostile mind existed in the ruler of that country. What advantage had been derived from the last peace ? Was it not a peace of distress, of suspicion, of expence ? Was there any thing desirable in a peace of that description ? No : we must make up our minds to a long and arduous' struggle. In any peace that we should make with France, constituted as she at present is, all her energy would be directed in the interval to prepare the means of new hostility, to sap the foundation of our commerce, and to diminish our revenues and our maritime proponderance, both of which were the result of that commerce. The system of France was regular and undeviating. The vast power she has acquired within these ; . ew years, was as much owing to her political dexterity as the victo ries she has obtained. The way for her triumphs was prepared by the total overthrow of the moral and po litical feelings of the countries whose subjugation she meditated. See what influence Bonaparte has acquired over the Emperor of Russia—how he has induced him to view with complacency acts from which a liberal mind would have shrunk back with horror—how he has induced him to sign the letter which was lately laid on the Table ! The calamities of Europe are ascribed in that letter to the stagnation of maritime commerce. Is it to, the stag nation of maritime commerce that the overthrow of the Germanic empire, the incorporation of Italy, the subjugation of Switzerland, the overthrow of the in dependence of Holland, the war between Sweden and Russia, the distracted state of the Ottoman Empire, and the atrocious attack upon Spain, are to be attri buted ? Is it to these; or to the insatiable ambition of every government which has been in France since the commencement of the revolution ? Though it was not perfectly regular to allude in that House to what had passed in another place, he could not refrain from taking . notiee of something that had lately oc curred. It was stated that a conspiracy existed to write down every thing that was noble or illustrious in the country. He was not quite persuaded that such a conspiracy evisted, but it was impossible for him to shut his eyes to the licentious and petulant paragraphs of which the press could furnish daily examples. In one of these, a noble friend of his (Lord Grenville) was stismatiml on account of some ez- ~~ !•-• _q:-.. ii 1' •- • : .4•2 ... * ...... I.r L , r,... . ......t,... .:..../..._ ....,-, W...." ''''''', A 74442--..'s* ;•• it .11f7'i i • • IC.. [PRICE SI x-pr NCE. desultory manner into a variety of topics ; and if the House should grant the Committee, two Sessinns would not be sufficient for the inquiry Dropi)sc2. The Noble Earl appeared to him to be tvtally . armed on most of the snbjects to which he adverted i:t the course of his speech. He agreed, however, as :o t he impropriety of the presumptuous reflections thrcten olit against a Noble 'Friend of his, the practice of whose life tuns in direct opposition to these indecoi rocs observations. He was happy to learn, that if these presumptuous. observations were carried to cer tain points, they will be punished ; but as t' the ne cessity of any particular legislatiVe provision, he would reserve his opinion "until a case was made out. The Noble Duke justified the Government for not having interfered in the internal concerns of Spain, and for having been entirely guided by the wishes of their allies in the conduct of the campaign. Any in terference of that kind must have ached the indigna• tion of the people that country, and have autho rised them to say, Give us your assistance, but leave us to model our own Constitution as we please. The plan of the campaign he contended was the best adapted to assist•the Spaniards that could have been devised. The British army entered Spain under the expectation that either the army of Blake or Castanos, or both, would have joined it, but unfortunately they were no more. They engaged in pitched battles with the enemy, the consequence of which was that they a ere defeated and dispersed. Our army having no support was therefore under the necessity of re treating. He must oppose thelnotion as being of too general and indefinite a nature. Lord DARNLEY expected that a number of ' their Lordships would have started forward to ex• press their opinion of the serious disasters that occur red since the conclusion of last Session—disasters, which, he contended, were solely to be attributed to the misconduct of Ministers. He expected that, in point of decency, Ministers would have laid dom• ments before the House to enable their Lordships to decide upon those charges which they had professed themselves so ready to meet. What hope could they have entertained that they would be able to stop the career of Bonaparte in Spain ? For his own part, he never expected Spain would do any thing, when he saw that all their force was incompetent to expel the French troops that had retired into BiscayandNavarre. Lord GRENVILLE observed, that the motion brought forward was particularly calculated to meet all the objections made byhis Noble Friend. Through, whatever quarter opposition came, he did not expect it to proceed from Ministers, when the last sound he heard uttered by them in that House was a challenge to enquiry. Were their Lordships to be deterred by the labour that . might possibly attend the proposed investigation from entering into it ? As to the motto proposed being unparliamentary, or at all contrary to the practices of the House, it was so far from it, that it would be seen, on reference to the Journals, that a Committee of the kind was granted during the Ame rican war. The instance he alluded to was the sur render of Lord Cornwallis's army,the greatest disaster that had occurred, next to the recent events in Spain. It was the practice of the House to pursue inquiry in the precise mode recommended by his Noble Friend. There was no mode more parliamentary cf affording Ministers an opportunity of meeting that investigation which they affected to challenge. One new ground for inquiry had arisen since last he addressed them. Circumstances had occurred to impress the public with an opinion, that Ministers intended to rest their case upon the discretion of an Officer employed by them, and that Officer now no more. If any circum stances more imperiously than another called for exa mination, it was this very circumstance. No small pains • had been taken to convince the public, that the measures that were taken were not in con sequence of the orders of Government, but the result of the discretion of individual officers. Let the truth be known. He trusted that in justice to the me mory of that Officer, who had fallen for his country, the whole conduct of the Spanish campaign would be speedily investigated. Tt was to bring this before their Lordships that his Noble Friend had proposed the motion, which they would be called upon to re ject. The Convention he thought was blameable, rather officially than in a military paint of view. The occurrences in Sweden were swallowed up in the para mount importance of ttle events in Spain; bat it would be for Ministers to explain why the Commander of the British forces was under the necessity Nf h!s escape in disguise, to avoid the indignities to which he might be exposed. There was no more ment.iry mode of pursuing all these important inqui ries than that proposed. The objections made would have been valid, if their Lordships had been called upon to condemn without inquiry, to make what is called a short question of it, and bring it at once to` the test of numbers. Lord ELDON stated, that Ministers were not dis posed to draw back from inquiry. The object of the motion was not to go into an examination of particu lar subjects, but to take under their consideration the . state of the country. For twenty-five years that he had experience of the proceedings in Parliament, he knew of no instance in which such a motion had been acceded to. He had even the authority of the Noble 'Baron who spoke last for rejecting it. The Cintra Convention, the conduct of the war in Spain, these were tongible subjects, mid therefor. proper matter for a motion ; but he could not agree to grant a Com mittee upon undefined objects. He could agree to no motion of so general a nature. If the Noble Earl would move for any information respecting the Con vention, or Spain, or any other subject fit for their Lordships to entertain or discuss, he might have it ; .but he deprecated that he or his colleagues in office, should be met with these dark and carping insinua tions. Let Ministers be censured if they deserved it; if not, acquit them., ".In a Committee of the nature proposed, it would be competent for any Noble Lord to discuss the liberty of the, press, or any other sub ject, though not matter pl' immediate charge against p U of dt.• of 430 II I ~ i