Star. — London, England, 1811-06-08 00:00:00

IN Finn. Member stated, that at parting with him his and,a more favourable prospect theft another of words were, 4 , On now:count lose sight of the Penina resisting the enemy, it was tie he found in Spain And si d e , that is the Meee seat i nf werfare. , Even if you Portugal. It was there he dinceived it to he the pa- los- 1 whole army, do not relinquish it so long as A remount interest of the conntry to MAlO:tin the strega I TA rof hope shall remain." (Hear.) gle. (Hear!) With respect to 'what had been nee of, ' lkfr. WHITBREAD hoped, that seine mark of the went of feeling displayed by fermenting an,! keep. c oeinction might be conferred on the memory of the ing alive the war in the Peninsula, in his opinion no two officers of inf e r i or ran k, who so gloriously fell in calamity that might be inflicted on that part of the 1 t i t: b otie (the two En s i g ns). He was sure such 1 Contineut by a protracted warfare, could be equal t gore' would have a beneficial effect in the army. to the evil of French dominion. (I.'ear 1) Thus I Mr. rIiIiiaCROMBIE concurred in the sana much he deemed it necessary to say in explanation of &pinion. his sentiments formerly expressed. In answer to I Mr. CANNING thought it would be highly use, that part ct the Honourable Gentleman's speech, in fel to re ward, w ith m ar k s of distinction, persons in which he talked of Lord Wellington's not hiving been inferior situations in the army. But he found it would sufficiently reinforced, and of his exertions having t ee e le e n ecnictit were the Meese to descend lower than hew' starved, he heei it in his power to say, that Lord e had been accustomed to do. Wellington himself bad no such opinion. He would, Mr-WHITBREAD hoped the very mention now however, rather see this sentiment prevail in the pub made of thew individuals woulel have the effect of lic mind than the contrary one, that the blood and directing the attention of the Executive Government treasure of the country had beeiewantonly and extra to their merits. /t would be a gratification to their vegently squandered - (Hear! hear!) The reinforce• relations—it would be grateful to the feelings of the ments sent to Lord Wellington arrived sufficiently ' I).l)hr...end might serve as a stimulus to military early to enable him to prosecute all his designs. As exertion.—The motion was then agreed to. . to the general and speculative views taken by the POLICY Or VIE WAR. i Hon. Gentleman, it was easy in the closet to project Mr. HUTCHINSON rose, to bring forward his , schemes for sendin g 50 or 100,000 men ; but the :notion on the subject of one Military Policy. All per. moving and the maintenance of such a body, were difficulties not easy to be surmounted in practice ; ' sans were agreed as to the necessity of continuing the neither wa s the real military strength of a State to be present contest, and the recent events in the Peuin fairly judged by its numerical amount. What had sula had strengthened that opinion. On a question so ; been already done by Ministers was, in his judgment, vital as bur measures in the Peninsula were to the in terests of the Empire, he had long wished to deliver enough to procure them credit for a disposition• to ' 12 . s sentiments. He was ready to acknowledge great I make every practicable exertion consistent with the , object of preventing the country from exhausting s .ertions had been made by this country , but he did inelf so as to leave it incapable of maintaining for any it itot think those exertions hatye't been equal ne whet they ought to have been. The strength of the enemy, . length of time the contest on which its best interests i depended. However he might concur in the spirit even after the masterly defeat which they had sus with which the Hon. Gentleman had regarded the rained, were yet undiminished ; and could we flatter ! ourselves that he had abandoned his enterprise, be. : general objects of our foreign policy, he did not th i nk 'the House would be well advised if they were to adopt cause his attention had for the moment been directed t the Address of the Hon. Gentleman, or endeavour to other objects. Portugal for the moment is freed, but the rest of Europe is-still in thains, and this ito stimulate Government beyond that temperate and cautious, but firm end energetic system of exertion on ecuntry yet to be saved. He entreated of the House not to over-rate the exertions not had made—nor to which they had hitherto acted. undervalue the power of the energy. Here the Hon. Mr. HUTCHINSON then replied ; alter which Member entered into a review of the principal events the motion was negatived without a division. of the life of Bonaparte, and contended, that all his YIIE REGENCY. military efforts had been ably planned and wisely exe- Mr. WHITBREAD rose to make the motion of cutede and, without extraordinary efforts, the subjte. which he had given notice the night before; but if gation of the Peninsula, which was now considered he could !ewe expected a fuller House, he would not as our own, must follow. Mr. Hutchinson then ad- have brought it forward then. Very early in the p r o. veiled to our different Continental operations, from gress of the Regency Bill, he had called on the Right 1800 to the present time ; the unfavourable results • Hon. Gentleman opposite to introduce a perm:mem which had almost generally attended them, lie con- clause in that measure in case ce the King's recovery, tended, arose from the misapplication and division of and again unfortunately having a relapse, for the put. our force. He then snoit a review of the strength of pose of preveatiteg protracted debates ;of preventing this empire, and asked o What would Bonaparte have the long want ot the Regal Authority, as in the case done with such means as we possessed, and such op- to which he alluded ; and for the put pose of counter portunities as we had suffered to pass by us ?" With acting that indisposition, to declare the nature and all our re-ources, Lord Wellington's freer, which ori• length of the existence of his Majesty's illness, which ginelly amounted to 95,000 men, had, in two years, it was now known to have continued for a length of ' only increased to 36,000, and this, when we had in time before it was made known to the Public. His our pay 121,000 men unaccounted for. If.thie unac. object was, that, if ever such ap unfortunate cii cum counted force were unnecessary, and not required for stance should recur, there should be no such suspen- . the service, why was the country burdened with a stow of the Executive Government ; no such party charge of three millions for their Support ? Would heat exhibited ; and that these should he some fixed the Right Hon. Gentlertian say Lord Wellington re- rule of guidance founded ou their statinebouks. If they quired no additional force ? The misfortune of the recollected that the Prince might unfortunately be liken from them (of which, he thanked Gen, there country was, that we were too much exulted by our success, and, in the pride of that success, calumniated . ' w as no prospect at present), that the King was inca the enemy. tfe (*off.) hmrever, denied that tht pablee-that tbe presumptive heir was a minor—and fame of the Pretich arity was diminished ;—on the 'that the next was Commander-in-Chief .of the army, contrary, he coatencled,it never stood higher than it it could hardly be supposed that Ministers would ad did it present, from the masterly retreat of Massena. vise a prorogation Of Parliament, with such prospect He did not say this icediminish the praise of our own of danger to which the succession was exposed, with army, but with a view tre impress on the mind of the out adopting some measure, for the purpose of guard- Right Hon. Gentleman the necessity of increased ing against such danger. In November last they had exertions, which, at this period, the state of the Pe- been told that there was every prospect of his M a . einsula required. Every one acknowledged that now jesty's complete and speedy recovery. Since that was the moment for exertion, when facilities unex. period there had been a number of Bulletins published, pected opened to us, which would perhaps enable us all of which were enigmatical and inconclusive, such to become the deliverers of Europe. A Right Hon. as no one could believe, for they ended that his Ma- Gentleman, (Mr. Canning), on a former occasion, had jesty was ever approaching toward:, the goal of good expressed his wish that we should meet the enemy health, from which, by-the-bye, according to their ac single-handed, the world the witness, and the world count, he never was far distant. He had heard a re the prise. - He (Mr. H.) h onoured the boldness of Port that some of the Members of the Queen's Coun cil had so late as April, given their opinions, that the that Right Hon. Gentleman ; but to obtain success .King was capable of resuming the Regal Authority. we should endeavour to Insure it! We should attack the enemy with the army of a great empire, and not, If his Majesty was proclaimed well, the power of the like the pirates 'of a petty State. From a retrospect I Regency Act • would cease. He thought it his duty of our military operations it would appear, we never not to allow Parliament to be prorogued without calling its attention to this most important subject ; had been in sufficient force on the Continent; we had and he concluded by moving, that on Thursday next never hem in time for our operations to have effect ; we had never anticipated, but had stood in stupid , the House should resolve itself into a Committee on gaze till the enemy's intentions had been effected ; we the State of the Nation. had suffered the enemy to overrun the Continent, while ' The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER , had no hesitation in stating, that nothing could be our conquest of the insular wor ld had satisfied us. The more inexpedient or improper, in his opinion, than Hon. Member concluded by urging the necessity of ; increased efforts iti the Peninsula, and by moving an ' hat of ekin any permanent provision at such a time as t m his, for the purpose of regulating prospec- Address to the Prince Regent to the following effect : ! tively the CAWS of future incapacitated Kings. For his( " That an humble Address be presentee to his Royal Highness the Regent, assuring hint of the confidence which the House had i part, he should be disposed to think that the only re in his abilities and wish to coinc de with the opinion of the nation; eessary regulation was, to require Parliament to meet that it was the opinion of the House, from mature deliberation ' within a given period of the occurrence of such a me of the exi•ting circumstances, that exertion' had not been made.. al'c 1° • ev ent 1 i IP ; and he thought enough had been equal to Vie reamer -A of , he nation, sstich it was hoped, on put • . thig hoth all the British strPngth, that It would teminate the collected Of the sentiments of the House and the taw; that it was iii ly htconimue. union and turner, we might Country on a recent occasion, to show that very twee to prevail agzinst a WWI unequalled for abilities and success , s li g h t regulations would be necessary to be adopted iii the at:na;., of history; that we had to lament the negate of on t he appointment of any future person to the office op opecinereties 0: c.inqueritig for wart of equal force; and A . , • 1 oP , nit nut 1 4 is Royal HiGhne., wool; lse gr iciously pleased to M SUPPIPng p o tempore the Executive Government. order the b awe to be taken into consideration.. ,: lie should, therefore , think that Parliament would On tile motion being read by the Speaker , . not entertain such a proposition as that of the Hon. Tne CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER Gentleman. No such opinion, he believed, as that said, it was not his intention to take tip much of the which had been stated by die Hon. Gentleman, had time of the. House, in assuring then, that in what he ever prevailed in the Queen's Councils, that any of had foe tritely stated respecting the views entertained its Members had, at any period since last November, by his Majesty's Government, he had Dever designed considered the King to be capable of resuming the to undervalue the fat ce and the power of the enemy. Regal Functions. At least, such an opinion had :t lied lover been in his contemplation to represent never come to his knowledge. With regard to the :he French tame as degraded, but on comparing it Heir Presumptive being an infant, and that therefore ire the state to which it was reduced by ?teen! events, such an arrangement as that proposed by the Hon. .. ith that degree of estimation in which it was before Gentleman was necessary, it might he so if there were held by its successes over the powers of Europe, he but one step between her and the Throne ; but there. tied meant to say, that its glory and its terror were being two lives between, he thought it not right to diminished. h was lowered in character from that on- speculate on a future Regency at present. teiturel h e i g ht_which it Isa4previously attained, (hear, Mr. BRAGGE BAI HURST said, that unless hear) and clearly proved to have no claim to the title there was a paramount necessity, which had arisen of invincible. With respect to a system of protracted since the passing of the Regency Bill, he thought they warfare, be certainly did consider that the maintain- ought not to enter on any such step as that proposed aoce of the contest on the Peninsula, even for another by the Honourable Mover. By the present regula year, did afford achance which it would be consonance" tions, it was laid down in a manner sufficiently cur e iry sound view o f practical policy to adopt. He had met, that Parliament was to be assembled as soon as a venhoweeeoconfinedhiniselftothebeliefthatanother his Majesty was capable of resuming the reins ef Go ye r was the ne c essary limit to our exertions in that vernment ; and contemplating, as lie enviously did, 9' nee, and had never intended to urge more than the possibility of that resumption, he could not sup : t, ii the . was any alien a peculiet opportunity, port thissnotion, from a regard for whit might be the .- . • . . TTV":‘ feelhtge of the Soveteigh with reaped to atith a pro teedinge, should he fortintateltrecovbr. He thought it impossible that Parliamentiefaulatlay down a code. of regulations which. lama answer the *cases df alll future Regencies. Mr. CANNING thought the . gegeney Bill not oily provided for this, but also, with very little alteration, would apply to louse Regencies. To enact at this time that Patliament aould not be prorogued at the will of the Crown, when the Person holding that Crown was incapable, although he might scam recover his ca pacity, was, in his opinion, not only unjust, but would he making a very dangerous breach in the Constitu tion. He was prepared to argue, that, on the late Re gency question, no other mode could have been adopt ed for the purpose of supplying the deficiency in the i'oyal authority than that which was pursued. if they entered into this qnestion again, at such a late period of the Session, ahey would have to fight the battles over again, whether, such restrictions ought to be iroposea on the Regent or not. They must either renew a Bill, with those restrictions in it, for the Re gent's assent, which they knew %vete disagreeable to his feelings, or rescind them for the future. He wished that the road to the Regency should be made shorter than heretofore; but he must object to the mode of proceeding proposed by the Hon. Gentleman. — Considering the Crown in that abstract nature i., which it is contemplated by the Constitution, the situa tion of the Executive Government could not now be 1 so considered. It is impossible not to contemplate a degree of personal feeling, which, from what we know to be the sentiments of an illustrious Personage, I night tend to serious arnharrassment, in the event of tik House passing similar resolutions and restrictions I to the present. It was unnecessary for him to point our the dilemma in which the House would then be placed, or the consequences to which it would lead. The House must either rescind the Regency Act, or a consent must be looked f, - ,a to restrictions in a certain degree, where, from circumstances already known, no such consent was to be expected. But why should the House make any alteration merclyon presumption? If any one supposed his Kumasi's recovery of a du ration so short as not to admit the possibility of snak ing regulations, this, he might say, was an extreme case, upon which it was unnecessary to make any observations. The fit time for permanent regulations was w hen the throne was full ; all others, adopted in circumstances similar to the present, could not be any thing in their oa n nature but temporary ; agreeing therefore, in the ohjact which tho l ion. Gentleman had in view, but thffeaing from him in the na ide, he was against the House going into a Committee. Mr.WHITBREAD iu rerly, thought the declara. tion of Ministers the most miserable farce ever played off to the country, when not sanctioned by an Act of Parliament. He thought the Right Hon. Gentleman perfectly capable of prorogning instantly, if he should think proper. It had been said that there would then exist justifiable grounds for arraigning his conduct, but he had always famish whataver justifiable grounds , there might be for arraigning the conduct of Minis-, ters, these ga nods never appeared to them justifiable. He had found them even voting on such arraigning I of their contact, in favour of themselves, and to hoist I their own ti igs when conscious that it their. votes wese withdrawn they would obtain a very_ small ma jority. A recent c.oe had shewn him what a distinc tion men are apt to make between their own case and the case of others. A colonel of Militia lately in this House was in a minority of one votino for 40 investi gation into his own conduct. ai.J this mode of pro ceeding was received with acclamation by those per sons who had themselaret'hehaved so vet y diffe rently. What security had the country in the re- sponsibility of Ministers ? They might be arraigned and arraigned, but they would always vote that there ware no grounds for arraignment, and so put an end to the proceedings. With respect to the King's feelings, he could not conceive how a mind approaching to convalescence could he affected 1 1 with knowing that in case of any accident Parliament should immediately meet. He thought the present time peculiarly favourable to the consideration of this subject, when men's minds were alive to it. With respect to the divisions in the Council, he had cer tainly had no private confidential communication on the subject ; but he had obtained the information in a way that he could not disbelieve it, especially as he had heard the names and numbers of the division, and he must therefore believe it to be true. Although the Right Honourable Gentleinan was dumb as to the subject of his Majesty's health, and dumb as to the reports of the Physicians—at least if he said any thing it escaped him—he did not mean to say that recovery was imposssible. Undoubtedly little expectation of that recovery could now be entertained by any rational man who was not sanguine from in terest. Supposing, however, his Majesty should re cover on the 24th July, and have a relapse on the 21th August, there was no provision in the Act of Parliament relative to that recovery and rel tpse ; and although in the hands of the present Ministers there WAS no danger, in the hands of untie Ministers much mischief might happen. One of the objects to be in tinned into in the Committee would be the grounds on which the physicians' opinions were founded ; fOr the country was informed hy the Council-, on the au thority of the physicians, that his Majesty had made a material progress in his recovery ; till at last, from progress to progress, he seas cast a graati way back. If they were not a nation of fools, physicians ought to be obliged to state the grounds for their opinion. After a few words from Mr. POLE CAREW, the House divided—For the motion 22; against it 94. Majority 72.—The other orders being disposed of, the , House adjourned. THE rx ENIN sT.III. -~ --- •,- I.ONDON. SATURDAY, JUNE A "PittcF. OF STOCKS TIDS DAY A I ONE O'CLOCK -3 per Cent. Relinct-41 6 , 0-4 vet Cent. 193 HO Cons. mousy shut—fi4 dps 6.41 CS—Onsetlin I pre. kachey. Is. dis. to go. prent.-61.tunds t is. IS,. pre. IThe following was received in town yesterday Pee' , in g : •' eiteDsoe, JUNE. 7, 11A1-1 1 aPANT TWO. " morning the KING cssntiaut a muds sit ilte.saitie ante si he wa> yesterday ; be 111. pi.r..(4.1 a heater " The Qvtrm obi. . `. ay had in ii.;..ivnw with the KINC for half an hour. To•sato:rosa several of Royal litaket are ex pected. Peisee R nciese went to Windsor thisimorninge . and, such is the pt4 - carit , us state t f his MAJESTY'S that the int iidcd fete at C a rlton 1 - I , u e is pit • off to Wednesday, the 19111 instant. The Thanks of both Houses of Parliament were last night unanimously voted to General Pe. itesle.ltD and the !levees of Alletera. In the Critrapens, Mr. WurraetAn afterwAids bionela forty:ad his ni-tion for providing against any future Suspension of the Royal Authority. The CHANCE/A.OR of the EMU)- ! (wen, Mr. BA - I - nutter, and Mr. CANNING, made some strong Airctioas to the proposition, which was nega tived by a majority of 9 to 22. The AUDACIOUS, the ariiyal of which from Lisbon we noticed yesterday, has !nought letters, in which it is stated, that the anemy in Badaj• s was much dig. tressed for the want of provisions, and that the gal ria son had set at large a number of the inhabitants on account of this deficiency. A discharee of :lib:dory frum the 'rock tif Lisbon. was beard bet; re the delta. • lure of the :gip from the '1 ages, ;nd Inecs are indulged that this demonstrat;on was iis consequence of a Telegraphic corniuutticatien al:pouncing the sur render of Bedajiiz. The lest dispatches from Lord WELLINGToN state, that the third and seventh divisions of his merry bed joined hint from the Agliuda, and that he had ordered Badajoz to be closely invested. It is said that his Lordship's letters give reason to • expect that the Fiench will rally and attempt another attack, but for which the Allies were prepared at every pint. By a vessel which loft Gibraltar as late as the 47th of last :mulch, very f ivoinable Accounts have been re ceived front the neiglib.nrhocil of the Pyrenees, which has become, since the acquisiti n of Figneras, a new theatre of action of the lsi hest importance to the public cause. The gallant (Altera! Dover., to whose assistance the Spanialds have been so much indebted the eastern coast of Spain, has succeeded in his enterprize of gaining access to Figie rtes, and he is now in perfect security within the fortress. By recent letters from the Fiench coast. we learn. that BONAJ'Artirk: h.ts ordered sixty-eight Captains of ships at Entbden to be arresied, who were suspected of bat in, had intercourse with England, and has sent them on board French ships of war at Antwerp. Several crews have also been impree.e.f. They also mention, :gist a new decree has lately been issued by the French Cloven:melt, having for its object farthtr restraint en cite intercourse * ith England. An em bargo has been laid on a number of stuogglng eels in the ports of Denkirk, from England, and their crews are ordered to be die:tined. Le.tee.. from St. Pete shingle of the 10th ultimo, state, that one of the ENIPEItOit'S /Idiot tots had been detected in furnishing the French Minister, CAuare. couler, with statements respecting the Russian armies, which must have pioved bigLly dangerous to them, if any rupture had taken place with France. At the request of the Merchants interested, Sir WILLIAM SCOTT, it is said, has given his written opi. nion on the case of the Am.aican sllip Fox, in which he is understood to state, that the said vessel is liable to be condemned under the Orders in Council. PLYMOU 113, JUNE 6. Arrived a retaken schooner fr m Lisbon, laden with fruit and cnrk, prize to the SCYLLA, of 18 guns. It will be recollected that s'me time ago the launch of the DitEADN ,- CGIIT was taken by the enemy, in at tempting to cut out a vessel from under some bat teries near Ushant. This launch the enemy decked, and fitted nut as a small privateer, to cruize coast wise ; and it seas this little vessel that fell in with aid captured the schooner above-mentioned ; but shortly afterwards the privateer swamped, and her crew, with difficulty, got on board the captured vessel, which was fallen in with and taken by the SCYLLA, Six hours af terwards.—Wind W. S. W. in which state it has been the whole of the week, and is consequently fair for arrivals Irons the Peninsula. P4RTSMOUTII, JUNE 7. Arrived his Majesty's ship VALTOUR from a cruize. Sailed the IMPERJEUSE frigate for the Baltic.—Wind Southerly. SHEERNESS, JUNE 7. Arrived the FLAlklkit trim the Westward; OSPREY from the Northward, and came into harbour.—The Pitirra went out of dock. CHATHAM. JUNE 2. The EPERVIER 'sloop, which was taken into dock for repnir, is found so very defective td,at she .is now pulling to pieces. The OnutNno, a rtw Itigate, is nearly complete, she will be launched About the 21st of the present month. GREENOCK, JUNE 4. Arriv.,d the Herald, Nl'Kt s:.ock, from Jamaica, a running ship; gel; Black River un the 17th of Apr.l, in company with the fl.tes Brolters Vasasoti. of sad tor Loudon, and parted the sant, renews. Off the Hsvannab Heads, felt lit wi,h the Charlotte, WILLIAM, of and for Wistol, Jamaica, art kept contrail tai the 4th oh. in lat. 32. SP. hing. 68 51. when they parted in a fug. On the '2th ult. in Lit 45. 5 g. 52. :4. poke the Lord Carrington, of Newcavle, front London. bound to St. Am.lrew's; on the itst, in lat. 53.41 tong Stt. 39. spoke the Dervreht, i)s wave, front Workington for Slietlamf ; and nu the 241 inst. off Torry, spoke the Royal Edward, Arlo! a .(tN, from Liver, ont foe Halifax, oat three ways, ad well. raid has brought in with her, under suspicious circumstances, the Norwegian &Allot Magdalioa Christina, from Bergen, h0., 0 :d to Bout drain, taken on the West coast at Ireland. A LIST OF THE MINORITY WRO VOTED TOR LORD MILTON'S SIDI lON OP CENSOR It ON THE MI NISI ERE TOE sa-arruisr ism° TME DUKE Of TOE r. Ammar, W. L. • Hanbat y, Wm. ' Sbarpr, R. Babitigtor., 'llos. Kamp, Thomas Shipley, W. Baring, Alex. Lambton, It J. Smith, John Brand, Hun. T. Langton, W. O. Smith, Wm. Burdett, Sir F. I.atourisa, John Thornton, Henry Byng, George Lef•vre, C. S. Tracey, Chas. H. Cala aft, J. Lloyd, Sir F.. P. Teens syne, J. H. Coke, I'. W. I °ninon, Georg. Wardle, G. L. Colborne, N. W. R. I.yrtieton,Hn.W. H. Western, C. C. Combr, HC. Madoeks, W. A. WMtbread, S. Crew/ el, '1 hos. lvlddinay, Sir H. Wilberfor. e, Wm. Deltittonn, Wm. Ord. W. Wynn, Sir W. W. kibut, R. Hon. W. Osborne, Lord F. G. Wynn, C. W. W. 1 Folkstone, Viscount Osmium , Led TLLLEE.. I Grenville, Lord U. Piers', dewy Milton, Viscount lilbbert, George Romilly. Sir S. A tborpe, Viscount I i Gruel • franca,* .U. aholsyst, Sir 1. The Agnes, Corps, buund.to Quchec, h put hack to Plymouth, with damage. The John C. etocher, Singleton, from St. I.ll,e's to Philadel phia, was stranded op the coast of America, the 16th of April. Cargo and crew saved. .1 he MM.'s bog Mlinrea, Rail, from T orm i ngt o, l a , b oa sent into Yai mouth by tine tit ot.r eruizcrs. Tau Norway, —, from Jersey to/ Sourhamrtort, b utally lost, and and une cf the crew. The Nancy, Ripley, front Gibraltar to Tarrago: a,.is taken and carried into Malta. The Unity, Caster, from Poole to Laval was lost oar Portland, on Wednesday. 40 r -Ai P 40 11