Star. — London, England, 1809-02-22 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, TUESDAY, FEB. gi. Their Lordships, in a Committee of Privileges, heard Counsel and evidence in the case of the Banbury Peerage. 'llle 10,500,0001. and 1,500,0001. Exchequer Bills' Bills, and 1 1 1dt Duty Bill, were read a third time and passed. The Militia Enlistment bill, and Equity Debtors Relief Bill, went through a Committee. An additional Report was presented from the Commissioned of Inquiry in Ird/incl.—Adjourned. HOUSE or COMMONS. A Member was sworn, and took his seat. Cregson's Divorce 1'.411, from the Lords, was read the second time, and committed for to-morrow se•nnight. IC4. 13A NK F.S reported from the Select Committee appointed to inquire respecting abuses in the sale and disposal of places un der the East ladle Company, that John Annesley Shee bad grossly prevaricated in his testimony before the said Committee ; and then moved that J. A. Shee be taken into the custody-of the Serjeant at Arms, and that the said Serjeant do bring up the said Shee from day to day, to give evidence before the said Com mittee.—Ordered. A person from the Office of the Chief Secretary for Irish Af fairs, presented at the bar the Eighth Report of the Irish COM. missioners of Inquiry.—Ordered to be printed. A person front the East India Dock Company presented their annual account —Ordered to lie on the table. Mr. W. 'W. POLE Lave notice of a motion on Monday next for have to bring in a bill to enable the widows of naval and ma rine officers to receive their pensions with greater facility, and for other purposes relating thereto. Mr. Ms' l' ER presented his bill for better preventing the for gery of Irish Ban!: notes, drafts, and post hiller—Read the krst time, and ordered for the secon d reading on Friday next. Mr. WHARTON brought up the Report of the Committee of Supply who sat yesterday.—Agreed to, and leave given to bring in a bill. The SECRE.TARY at WAR presented, pursuant tO orders, a Rctur,i,of the numbers of Yevnianry Cavalry, with the state tticreof.—Ordered to be printed. A MeS.age was received from the Lords, with the Malt-duty Eill, and the two Exchequer Bill. Bills, agreed to by their Lord sli;ps. On the motion of Mr. O'HARA, the second reading of the Irish Constables' Bill was postponed to the first Tuesday after aster. Ordered, on the motion of Mr. HUSKISSON, that Mary .Anne Clarke and Mary Antic Taylor do attend to-morrow, to give evidence before the Committee for inquiring into the con duct of the Duke of York. • Sir THOMAS TURTON moved, that Mr. Lowten be or dered to lay before the House all papers relating to the inquiries 'nada by him respecting monies obtained by Mary Anne Clarke, by using the name of the Dui of York. The CHANCELLOR of the IXCHEQUER Ibbmitted to the Honourable Baronet, and to the House, whether it was a fair proceeding to call upon professional persons confidentially em ployed, to produce all papers which might have come confiden tially into their possession, for the purpose of furnishing evidence against those whose confidence they possessed. Such a principle was inadmissible in the prosecution of persons for ordinary of fences ; and, if adopted, might be productive of great mischief.— He therefore trusted that a principle which would be held sacred towards any other subject under accusation., would not be vio- ' Wed towards the Duke of York, and that Mr. Lowtcn might not be ordered to bring forward such papers as came to hie hands in confidence. Sir THOMAS TURTON assured the Right Honourable Gen tleman that he could not be more averse to force any man to peO duce papers of a confidential nature than he (Sir Thomas Tur tosq was ; hut the motive which induced him to call ibr those papers was a suggestion made to him by an Honourable Ash her not now in his place, that scone considerable sumo of Money had be.n raised by Mrs:Clarke in consequdhce of her using the • Duke of York's name ; and understanding that the discovery bat: been made by Mr. Lowten fu the course of hit inquiries, be. wished_ to have the papers laid before the House, as tl set tiff against other statements which have been made of the large sums expended by her. Knowing no 'other mode to come at the infor mation with which he thought the Hanle should be acquainted, he had moved for the production of the papers by Mr. Lowteh. Having no wish, however, to ergo his motion if it was objection able, lie would withdraw it. Mr. 1-'ONqjNIIY gave notice, that he should, on Friday next, submit to th,,, House his promised motion,on tht conduct of that _war io Spain. TEMPLE wished to. know, whether any progress had been made in the re:tiers, for which he had moved on a former da of tie rosses sustained by the British army in Spain; or when they would he laid before the House ? • Lord CASTLER EAt 11l answered the Noble Lord, that no r 'urns had yet been mode, and, therefore, he could not slime a day wh.ll they would he laid on the table. Mr. EAD twined Monday se'nnight for bringing on his n , •,:io.r . respecting Ainerican affairs. Mr. FOSTER moved, drat the Hons. do, on Thursday next, rei - olva itself into a Committee for the purpose of taking into con sideratio-n the cultivation of flax and hemp in Ireland. Sir JAMES HALL moved, that Mary Anne Clarke lie or dered ti ”raill:Ce all papers in her possession which relateto the snbiect .he inquiry re..lptctio7 the Duke of York. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER asked how she was to know th:- relevancy of any particular papers in her pcisses- sion? She had an opportunity certainly of consulting with an Ilornsuiable Genzleman, of whose judgment she might make use on the subj. ct : but how was she herself to be capable of judg ing? Sir JAMES HALT. withdrew this metion,and made another, few the preduction of all the papers in her passessio,f, in order to a selection of them by a Committee. This motion, however, seeming to meet the general disappro bation of tire House, the Hon. Baronet withdrew it also. CONVENTION OF CINTRA. Lord H. PETTY rose, in pursuance of the notice he had given on the second day of the Session, to call the a-,tention of the House and of the country to an inquiry into the causes and effects of the Con vention of Cintrh, which, at a time that the bril- Pant success of our army against the French in Por tugal had led us to hope for the most splendid and beneficial results to this country and our Allies, and ultimately to all Europe, had, in an unfortunate and inauspicious moment, raised a cloud, the interven tion of which had cast a dreadful darkness on the till then prosperous and brightening prospects and hopes of this country. He hoped, that whatever might have passed from the commencement of the &ssion, the House Would not refuse its most serious attention to the progress and cenclusion of the cam tkaign in Portugal. As to the inquiry which had al ready taken place on the subject, he had authorities to show, that nothing could be more incompetent than such a tribunal to effect the purposes for which it was instituted ; and, on 0.11 , 1 subject, he quoted some passages from a book published by Lord Wood houselee, on the subject of Courts-Martial and Courts of Inquiry, and instanced one case that strongly shelved how very reprebensible,• and even dam gerous, Courts of Inquiry were, which was that of Sir John Goddard, who before a Court Martial pleaded tliat before a Court of Inquiry he had answered ques tions which tended to criminate himself. Having said thus much, the Noble -Lord observed, it would be unnecessary to state to the House, that in May last an insurrection had burst forth at Madrid, and subsequent ones in different parts of the North and • South of Spain. Nothing could at that moment be more auspicious for the people inclined to insurr-c -• tiQn, than the warmth and zeal of the people. of this c ountry to assist them, and the power the Govern ment at that time possessed of gratifying the wishes of the people, and of affording ample succour to those who were so desirous of becoming our allies.— . . . , , • ~ ti ;411.0i •;' ..' 4 There was a considerable Exlsedition at . este. ' e - - - eated, and then Sir }Thera Ilurisard toot IThe force under Sir John Moore could tot lis ,-Al in a state of forward preparation, unde r: itiif eitieirit ee i . the commiids 'l l L , ,e *hid of the North: culated on immediately , as its getting free ot mend of Sir A. Wellesley-, the d'estinationlfriallif s : t bi. Worn him thither for that par Pose. , and the next i :Baltic was uncertain. Th e estimate of the last pee, wae then known to no one—he believed not ist-v* , -.4a the wind of the south Wafted Sir ,Hew Dalrytn- I...force had been referred to ; aird that estimate pee, Ministers themselves. There was another under Vile isle to the shores of POttilk2l; and Sir Harr Bnrrard',• shewed,. that there were sufficient transports to oil neral Spencer, of pout 3000, men, - intended to• tats ' was script of the commaadfer ever. The Noble Lord duct thirty thousand men to the T agus in en esat ei possession of Ceuta • but it was soon - fonmi- that then-'stated the - ease of Sit' He* ThileYetiple intehin- 4- tion r eotteentingserlriele lie was suthe country t a . ; Ceuta had got into the i hands of those who knew how his. (the. Noble- I..ortlts.Y opinion, a very hard one in- ! made up their minds, whatever might be the opi to defend and take care of it, and, therefore that ex- deed. He -had been called from the goiernment of : ion of-the Noble -i e or4ean the suirject. B u s megl , pedition was ready for any adventure vat ateter.--;- - GiSfaltai to command in 'Many he led never'seen, in lethey had that. foree then, it did by no means coleys There was also a third expedition, consistipg of ehout a country of which he' knew teething ; and he most 1 that it was to be suppereed at A vast erpence, ae j„., 14,000 men, which had been dispatehed - into the , justly described his own situation in hiselispatches, in : np such emergency occurred ; it was not to L e ,: Mediterranean, rose . ach of a place •to te attacked, which he says, hefound all the responsibility vested in pectiii that the resources of the country were to I), .., but there w a sr, none to be found. That expedition him, and e all the information on which that responsibi- , trifled with. But it was objected that the es pee s,, was obliged to return—the Noble Lord became rich lity must rest vested in others. The Noble Lord then . hed been sent out with !so de,ftete objeat. N o e s. in his failures ; and if these forces had then been united read a letter fiom Sir Arthur Wellesley, RS to the situa- : instructions to Sir Arthur Wellesley, dated ti e e . they would hay. constituted a considerable army, and tion which led hitn to think an Armistice. necessary ; of June, had merely a general View . ; but that ;,. might have been sent with great effect te the assistance one -meson for which was the want of cavalry. Sir Sir Charles Cotton was an-advice not to t to : of Spain. With respect to Sir A. Mrellesley, he assured Harry Bureardi in his letter to Ministers of the 22d, i Southward of Cape Fiaisterre, till it could b e i t ;,,, the House, that on his (the Noble Lord's) part, it the day after the battle* or Vimiera, says, i ho* he could be employed in Portugal. \\-;: was no cause of complaint against Ministers that he army is in full health and vigour ; but the cavalry ,to be expected that Government were to give (i was appointed to command., The - gallant General's were reduced to about 100, and the horses bad."— i s finite orders toetheir Officers before they set bravery, skill, and eminent military talents were so Si r Hew Dalrymple, in giving his reatons for a sus- ' considefing the circutristances of the case i e • well known, that it was rather a source of satisfaction pension of arms, says, the enemy's cavelry gave him South of Spain bad not moved ; the North :.: to every one that Sir Arthur Wellesley was appointed ; a decided superiority, especially after they should pass : Portugal had ; and he hoped if blame at l : and in sending put in Expedition, it certainly re- Torres Vedras, where they would come into a more ' any where, that it would be cast upon Coy: , quired that it Jtould be equipped for every species of open country ; and speaking of the artillery horses, ' ado and not on the Junta of Gallicie, es: service. It required also, i f success were expected to • • he says they could not keep up with the infantry to • had ised the expulsion of the French from Pail attend it, that when n Officer was once appointedsupport them. If the object of the Expedition was to gal. He was particularly glad that the Noble 1 - the cOmMand, he Should have it continued to him. ' drive the French army out of Pernigal, not oue of these had broached no new military plans, but hid le : He thought no consideration in favour of our Allies Generals had been made acquainted with it. Even his Right Honourable Friend (Mr. Poesonby) el could induce Ministers to take possession of Portugal, i Sir Arthur Wellesley, who had daily conversations credit of his original conceptions on that subject. as it could be no assistance to them for us to hold w ith the Noble Lord (Castlereagh) previous . to his The qeestion, according to him, was, whether Portugal independent of Spain. Bonaparte 'thew leaving Ireland, never heard a word of it. . Under Expedition was to do nothing, or to march strai better, and therefore held it in contempt ; for, if once all these circuraitances--in want of instructions, ca- to the Pyrennecs, shut the French out of Spain secure of Spain, Portugal must fall of course. There valry, and artillery, the Armistice was i s with . were in France, and shut those into Spain who u was, however, at that time, a French army in Porto- 'an army that had twice been beaten, and with 30,000 out of France ? Such was the plan tit - those new gal, and a Russian fleet in te Tagus—a French army English in the field. The Convention then followed, rary warriors, and such the alternative to which t , cut off from another French army, and surrounded and, he thought, the House would feel it was such a would reduce the army. But even this plan pa by a country, the people of which were hostile to Convention as deserved what his Majesty had said of med that there was only one pass in the Pyrennse them : that army was also destitute of all means of it, viz. e athat it had disappointed the hopes and cx be taken possession of, whereas there were foreyei assistance, either by sea or land. But it seemed the peatations of the public." He then adverted to the practical entrances into Spain through these mi Expedition under Sir Arthur Wellesley was not at case of the- Russian fleet. Ministers had been ,in- tains. This Quixotic scheme also would have tl first destined for Portugal : it was intended to act in formed by Lord Strangford that the Russian fleet 25,000 heroes set at defiance 100,000,French in S different places in the South of Spain, as eppeared, he *as in such distress, he thbught that they might be and according . to its own author's calculation, said, in varions parts of the instructions to Admiral prevailed on tosenter into a Convention for giving it hundred and ninety thousand in Frenae. This, h. Purvio who was in fact Commander in Chief over all up to the English Admiral, on certain conditions. ever, the Noble Loed had not attempted to deft the Expeditions then sent out, and after Egonrovin out An instruction was. accordingly sent out by the Lords nd it was plain he considered the Pyrenee for some time, the place of its destination the sof the Admiralta to Chaties Cotton, to endeavour d i tion a forlorn hope. It was objected, however, 30th of June, Ultimately fixed for Lisbon, by the ad-' to effect such a Measure.; notwithstanding which, in the letter to Admiral Pnrvis, Spain alcne vice of one of the Provincial Juntas of Spain, who, he , though circumstances had - afterwards so greatly mentioned, as if it was necessary to tell the Ad; believed, knew as little' as Ministers of the real state changed by the existence of a rebellion in Spain, and ; of the alternative, when the only object of the 1 of either Spain or Portugal ; but being animated .with : another in Portugal, no further instractions had been . was, that Sir Arthur Wellesley might get infc. a sttone desire not to have this Evedititin among forwarded to Su. 'Charles Cotton, who had heard tion as to the state of Spain, which perhaps nr b them, and yet, finding that his Majesty's Ministers! nothing from Winisters till September, and who was have directed his views for the time from Port, would have an expedition somewhere, were en' .thereby -induced to conclude a Convention on the , General Spencer, it was true, bed been sent a that day tempted to advise the -gallant General , basie of his former ' instructions. The Admiralty ; first instance to Cadiz, and not to Portugal 1 to take his forces to 'Lisbon, in order AO expel the ifterwards wrote to Sir Charles Cotton, and did not plain rezon was, that if he. had arrived in the T French from Portugal. This was otethe'merning e a blame him for making a Convention, but tor con- before the .main force tinder 'Sir Arthur "Wellesl the at of June, and in the evening of that day, a eluding' it on a new principle of maritime Conven-- might* have been a signel to the enemy to con, ' dispatch arrived front Sir Charles Cotten, stating that tion, ..by which we had seen an enemrs fleet enter l trate his forces, and th ereby present a greater 1 there were only 4000 French in Lisbon, ;and the Bri- our ports in such a manner, cir is had never before ,to us than he could otherwise have done. Te fish might take possession It when they pleased. It been witnessed ; from which cumstance it was a pitches pfthe SOth June had given a tone to t tr had since been pretended, that on this simple allege- fair to infer that the maritime Convention had also i pedition, because it informed es of the enemy's tion the expedition had been dispatched direct for disappointed the hopes and expectations of the public. ' ness in the Tagus. Sir Charles Cotten's inform. Lisbon. When, however, the Noble Isord found after- .-He then adverted to the sittration in which General ion this subject, too, might have been con ect wards that Junot's army was 20,000, he assured Sir Junot, in his letter to the Grand Duke of Berg, had times for the enemy, at the particular Period a: A. Wellesley, in a dispatch of the 15th of July, that -stated himself to bet on the -7eli of June, when he was : rootigh have sent some of his forces into 6; a proportion of cavalry should be sent as far as the applied to for asance, in which he told the Duke , of ' the country. The question 7,s to .tLe means of transporting thenoexisted ; and it had Since of Berg that he could not, fram the verious insure; ment of the forces had been much narrowcd . sir been proved; that the. whole of the cavalry sent out to reetions around him, spare him a single man. hat' W original enquiry on the subject. Au army ne him ;mounted to no more than 700 orBoo menehough had intervened between that time and the signing of , very well provided on its setting oft, and yet . the Nobl-Lord had some time before put a resolution the Conventio Br itish ra Junot had been twice de-: in possession of all its conveniences immediat. on the table of that House, that he had provided trans- feat by the forccs, and yet, notwithstanding landing. This was a part of the business whi ports for 4000 cavalry. He had, in vii, sought for a large reinforcement had arrived, under Sir John' quired time., Every expedition, since lie h; an explanation with respect to the artillery ; but the Moore, the French army had, by the Convention, not knowledge on board fc or controul, sailed with ant at le force.ast five narration of Sir A. Wellesley told us that it was ( for onl y been ;allowed to depart from Portugal, but it ; provisions r the attend what 'reason he was at a loss to guess) found expedient had also been stipulated that they should be convey- j number andssa ies were to eccompen so g to work the artillery with bad horses; and bad indeed ed to a port in France, nearest to the scene of action, ; army ; it could not be capable ew r y a f es they seem to have been, for the account of Colonel in which the French armies were engaged in Spain ; ; march without a -consequent number s fcattle Robe described them ai sick, lame, blind, cast off, and the consequence of which was, they ]tad arrived there' vey them, which, of course, required time. unfit for service ; and this eras not by accident, but by as soon or before our own army, which had twice de-1 was an ihconvenience to which every expediti, concert between Lord H:twkesbury and the Lord Lie- feated them ; and . the only French bfficer'who had by a naval power must be subject. When a tenant of Ireland, before the expedition sailed fade - been taken at the battle of Corunna was found, to the . artillery horses was complained ot, the Nobli that country. So instructed, and so provided with grief, shame, and disgust of our brave army, to be must have willingly shut his eyes to the lei cavalry, with theadditien of artillerythht could not one who was also taken prisoner at the battle -of Vi- i ment which was immediately to follow flow be drawn, Sir A. Wellesley sailed from Ireland , on m iera. Warned as we had lately been, if we found t land, and which made all the artillery horses; July 20th, and soon after reached Corunna, from these to be the only results from the bravery °lour ito 778. The badness of the Irish horses sent which port, by advice of the Junta, he went to Per* troops, and the skill Of bur officers, after the most , Arthur Wellesley had been next complained 1 tugal, and arrived in Mondego Bay. Three days af- brilliant successes, and victories, he eunceived that ihe must beg leave to defend his countrymen (A ter he sailed from Cork, another Chief was appointed; nothing less than humiliation must be the inevitable 1 These horses had been very much admired and soon afterwards six more Generals were sent out, consequence—blame must lie somewhere, and it was French in Lisbon, and 100 of them had ken all senior to _Sir A. Wellesley ; and at last Sir Hew -for -the House to consider on whom that humiliation I selected to pursue the campaign in Spain, Dalrymple was appointed Commander in Chief for ought to fall. The Noble Lord concluded-by moving! one of the most fatiguing marches ever mad army. Such were the fiats of the unjustly i the present, not for a continuance, but a mere ere " That it is the opiniolt of this House, that the Convention of 1 tempre appointment. Sir Heßurrard was to succeed Cititra, signed On the signedf August, that the -maritime Con- I fully abused Irish horse: (il laugh). It was, le and supersede Sir A. Wellesley ; Sir H. Dalrymple vendon bf the Tagus, on the 3d of September, 1808, have I - a question whether an army was useless was to supersede Sir H. Burrard ; and if the campaign di sappointed the hopes and expectatio ns of the p ublic." I horses at :11. In Egept e our forces had I had lasted, some one else was to have superseded him; . Lord CASTLEREAGH expressed himself happy ; horses, and in Holland Sir Ralph Abercron and after all this, the Noble Lord concluded his letter that this was made a ministerial question, the.onus of ' none at all. Even Colonel Robe's report, to Sir H. Dalrymple with recommending harmony to which was thrown completely upon Governmens, and which said the horses were defective, admit and among them. A most curious and whimsical neither he nor his colleagues would deserve the con- . they did their work efficiently. The atelier idea I The Noble Leader of the Band puts all his in- fidence of Parliament nor of the country, if they med wonders, too, though drawn by his Ciinr.'l struments out of tune, throws them e n a strain of could not fairly meet it. He considered, comparing , rd i wisr h . . s Indeed, as far as he could nee discord, and ill% conjures them to b harmonious.— the first part with the last of the N oble LotcPs speech, : tory of the Irish horses, 'to the hit thee et (A cry of hear! hear ! from all parts.) By *this thee ) . 'that it was superfluous for him even to waste-thP ' effective. We had also 1300 cavalry in s r , however, the Noble Lord was himself become corn-. ' few sentences he had upon the subject of the Board 'of the enemy neverhroughtento action, it we eletely ignorant of who was the t ommander inChief; Inquiry, as it seemed he did not mean to press for by examination, above 1.200. As much c.tv they had beim appointed in such rapid seceesairme he any farther investig . atiou, and of course in this. in- . ' ment. lie must, certainly been sent as there were means o. however in justice, sir - . knew not to whom he should address himself as such, stance at least admitted the -propriety of Ministers. and all his future instructions Were therefore directed He was prepared, however, to defend the course of .se to the senior Officer fee the time being. ( Hear! hear!) inquiry which had been pursued. It was most consis- ',Lame were to be cast on any one, -it mutt be i tent with the military history of the country, and he . self, as he could not give sufficient praise to The Noble Lord then contended, - that the expedition I was well aware, that if Ministers had recommended port Board for their exertions. 'With rape. was not properly supplied with provisions, fortvhich a Court Martial, instead of a board of Inquiry, then , question of command, it certainly was advi: the Noble Lord had relied on Portugal's whereas it 'tealloble -Lord would have beee ready to exclaim, the person who cosinienced the - operatic, appeared by the examination of Sir A. Wellesley, that the paiticular O ffi cers concerned, and not the - .rtng it 'toto a conclusion but circumst• nc. that no exertion could have drawn ftotn Portugal a Ministers, had been put upon their trial, and that a ' arise render it advisable to adhere ;nv; supply of bread or bullocks ;. arid 'in tiffs letter to Sir narrow ground of investigation had been chosen, for this principle. He recollected an install , H. Burned, he says, Portugal couldnever supply it the purpose of screening the delinquency or negli. : Austrian campaign in the Low Countries, ' self for seven months, and yet the -Noble Lord had re- of forty-eight hours (A laagh). He did not gence of Government- It was, he il iought, ver y command had changed hands four times in lied on it for the supply Of the army he though t pro mean to infer that this was an advantage. H `been to say, that the swords of the country had : highly ofthe abilities a his Honourable 1 per to send them. After the sure-ender Of elponte the retreat of Bessieses, and the departute of Joseph ' been drawn in vain, after the events and victories we had witnessed. It was a trite: retribution indeed to • Arthur. Wellesley) bet it was not possible to Bonaparte from Madrid , - the Noble, Lord writes to ' hiteinges' i n nof e tli rn e p c i o o m yin m g aild an w y it o h ili ol c it el f s er ( e 4 g g oi t i e tg at t t.l 7 s the brave soldiery concerted. As to the object Of Sir Arthur Wellesley that hetes the fullest reliance Ministers in sending Expeditions, as had been stated, • or. his decision and prudence, and yet he bid at that 1 in search employment , woul donl y say, that he . of'Sir Hew of he moment superseded him, and . let hint down tO the how- ! was sure the - Erpedititm sent to Sweden, and that experience. His Lordship justified the api seventh in commands The gallant General, preparing at Cork, were full y as —ln —2 l rvmple, on account of his ever, on landing, commedeed a bold system of opera - Of Spanish a ffairs, and - the great contideno tions, and with that gallantly and skill which so erns- effects to the country, as those ' sent to Egypt or -the -beneficial. in their Castanos and the Junta of Seville had in I nently characterize hop, aided by the bravery.of our Dardanelles.. Ministers .. had a disensable forge 4f ' conten d ed, that - it Vas a brilliant addition troops, he, act the 17th, obtained the victory of Ito- 14000 men under General Spencer, at Gibraltar ; limeglory or thi s 1 y . .country to have expel] leia. On the lfith, Sir Harry Burrard, the heit ' 9000 at Cork, under Sir A.Wellesley ; and he wow seouese of *short campaign' of three week Commander in Chief, arrived on the COMit, and Sir asks was it no t better t o send these•f°mas toile int lof tweniv-five thousand . French f P ort Arthur was intemipted in his career. On the 2Tst, 'Mediate aid of their tett*, thaw t o dtslity Item 41161 meaty . , . Ire itte ..,.. ......._ hour . uno dote for (lair aeon, t h e ga ll ant G enera l was attac k e d b y t k etsemy . w h o p . additional succours could be provided in Ingland ? • sags of the people broke loosi. and th ..y w .4 a 11 4 the ‘,"11- tilvt 1• 'l`a•=• C 44111 opt. Lov,g)., be (e 61;0..; fico l. the 01 be • boNO sian i w Oa that t ~• bloei gain a:: •• the d forni x•L! <i • on t 1 Cow : meo of ti ho v., flee Le 1 i and Id: • . sail wo >jeer. tiro her the utt straigl.:-. ain shi \\e C tbt Lew kb :IL- y in 4 n • • pot r~ f tierce ape e moor, or the these in Spain Lo ou, tour his, how- hai ) defend, to 2 .n I't:pc- sot !vet-, that lune was hi! Adrilr .1 the let..c. arl infc:11:1. ini an nt in 1; and Lie ea he Ttu t ;l:s tr( ellesley, it riC conceo. in ter pc.v....r The dis• th to 111 • Iy's weLLI:- d, iforma,.i,'lt ect at ti:e od t :0 the tLe eciti:r• :d since 7 might I.c -; yet not :diatel:- 4 Whiel I:'• ie had a::y five s • :e. A s-,st so ..11) of two days Little to cult. ime. This edition sent !n a want et Noble Lord r..L• reinforce. from 4ng- rses amowlt sent with Sir ined of ; but n lenig';). Lire,' by the xen acteaiiy • thoui;L: made by :tie tly ungratc• ras, howevc: , less without had but 1:41 cronibie Drt, dmittcd :illery pc mice tl:c is y %tee in, n SraiLl, t c.ivall ns oi . fnat 11 Let be on - c to the -• rc , pect • it•nces 111 . ‘ istance .11 she :s in the Li not hos...c . r e. He 1.1'.0;1 . le I:riend ble to cent 1,i1•! 1g the ad eat talei.ts e appoint , : his dente 6 ,r.. din hini : . 4, tion to t:L.. Xpelled, reeks, an .11; 11 , Portnigl 1 . :- ttion. t!y ncioc: