Star. — London, England, 1815-06-24 00:00:00

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Li s ts of the Timber to be supplied, and farther particulars, ieether wirh the Terms and Conditions of the Contract, may be ;.,,lord at the Secretary's Office in aforesaid, any ty between the hours of ten and four o'clock, where the Pre )cats must be delivered, sealed up and endorsed " Proposals r Ertglish limber;" but no Proposal can be admitted after the ,id of July, at twelve o'cluck a' noon of the same day, either will toy Tender be notified unless the party asking ir, r an Agent in his behalf, shall attend. By Order of the /Lard, R. H. CREW, Swam". Tk A ArS PORT OFFICE, Juni Itls rift COMMISSIONERS for CONDUCTIN6 E. HIS MAJESTY': TRANSPORT SERVICE, for tolati *lre ofYIICK xed WOUNDED SE44lfEll„;a# fir tits Cain steal seta+ e' PRISONERS if WAR, Aker:4 give Mike, That they will he ready at this Office, on f VEIDAY, the 4th July, 1815, to receive sealed Tenders, and treat with such a• may be willing to contract for Victualling Prisoners, f War in Health and Sickness, , at STAPLETON near BRIS• :01., PLYMOU I:H, VALLEYFIEL4, GatEENLAW and 'tll . ll - I, N. 13. for Six Month.: terrain. Nu er will he reeeiveJ after we ...Jock we the day or treaty, alr ay ntti:ed~ hitless the poly, or • competent anent for bid, pereonally r.a.h Tender must be accompanied Ay a Letter from two Plltectake 'owns engaging to keen e hound with the Posen tendering, in the sum sCIOOO, for the due iserin .truce of the Contract. Foo titer particulars may be blown, by applying. at this Office. I BISH returns the Public his grateful Thanks for • the distinguished preference given to his Offices, No. 4, and 9, Charing Cron, in the Lotteries just elided, in .hich he bold • - All the Three Prises If R 30,000 ! ! ! :asides Ton ocher Capilab, a few Shores of which remain Un learned, but will be PAID on DDIDAPID, (whenever presented) or ICIANDLD for rickets or Shares in the New LOT I' ARP, of 5.00 U Pickets, -to begin drawing 19th July. Sitheme-; with *artkulars may be had both of DISH's truly fortunate Offices, No. 4, CORNRILL, or 9, CHARING-CROS4. PdfaLl:lMEM'AltrAiit6i;iiiirkoE ' HOUSE OF 'LORDS, JUNE 29, The Telegraph Schub Bill, the Chelsea Pensioners' sill, and Naval Stores Bit), Were brought np from . tde commons, and sad a first time. The Foeeign Slave Trade Bill was recommitted, and a clause . .'r enabling the 4ttometGeocral to 61e a Bill agaill•t persons ...mcernid In that trade, was proposed and agreed to, atonrding n the stoggettlinf of Lord RDllletAt.s, on a former sight. The Sill was then ordered to be primed. ' RECISNT . GLORIOUS . VICTORY. Earl BATHURST rose, in pursuance of the no. :ice he had previously giveru , ttenitsvi• the thanks of the noose to the Duke of Wellington add the army, And commenced by . apolitglaiiig •to their . X.ardships or not being presentotelititi •ce tile •greand that he . 'eat aekal l / 4 4 by Aladlitlt4V lo4 . l l, l4 * Iria veil asiare;lbelr' . :Liitifcbilii i isiest - flaVe heat to die. :barge the duty which' they writ id the Duke of, Wellington and to the atMy,,!it; the effectual services they had just perterihed—litistothie as any 'man alight be disposed to calculate On the ultimate result if the contest, no man Could have - ;anticipated so miliant a commencement. .Bonaparte Could not low assert that the el rents wefe,a t gaifiest him—that .tie dictates of any pcpotti:mtlitti4ilitere,sts night seem -initei with his own had mieleil hint—that the defec tion of any party on whom he had a right to Calcu late had betrayed him—oi that by The interference of accident he had been cot off from his own resources. ft was altogether his own act. He had chosen his time, he had chosen 114 place, and he had chosen his •itiversary.—(llrar, hear). —By that adversary he was •esisted, defeated, routed—his genius had sunk un ler the ascendancy of the.rival with whom he deter mined to contest.--(Near, bear). —He should not :-nter at much detail into the operations of the battle. t had ofteri been observed of his Grace, that he was more disposed te wait the attack than to become the assailant.. -For a. considerable length of time that was his system, and many were of opinion, in con 7, equence, 'that it was the mode of warfare which ite :)est understood, and in Which he was most .calcu i eed to excel. Bat in the year 1818, when he was able to meet the enemy with something approaching a au ecpality of numbers his system was changed, - Ind he showed from.thinperioJ how nobly he could ,:ommenCe, and how effectively he could pursue, •a :muse of operations, commencing in :attack, and concluding, consistently with his formerundertakings, n victory. In the battle of the 18th he had corn. ::iced all the various excellencies of military science —for nine hours he did all that the mind of man eould do in the shape of defence—and, for the three ucceeding hoer', all that the pourer of man cpuld ,thieve in offensive warfare. With respect to the 'rattle of the 16th, he was now happy to be able to !a justice to the allied armies. It had been boasted iy Bonaparte that the French obtained all the ho. lour t but with what truth the House would be able bo perceive, when he stated, that during the whole cif that day, the Prussians maintained their post at ..onsiderable loss; and so f at% were they from being , iriven.lrom it, that after , relinquishing the position luring the night, it was not occupied the next day sy the enemy. With respect to our own troops, he could state, that they did not quit'their position till he' middle of the next day. Tee Duke of Welling .:rti bad intended to renew the attack, but the Pres. ..ans having lost 16,000 men, and their cavalry not' laving come up, it was determined, after t onsulta. ;lull, to retire, and take up a position at Waterloo. — in the course of the last year his Grace the Duke of ils'ellinston had passed through Fhittelecs on his way o Parts. kle-tosik a military survey of that country, :ad said what.bed since been verified, that if ever it was hie fortune to fight a battle fer• the defence of ikussels, Waterloo would be the place he would 7hrose. He knew its strength, and the event had eared-the judgeieta of his situation. The French it tacked him there—they fought with. the intrepidity 'hide thateeterises that- milieu.; .uarik..esialtout a )34st ' he could affirm that we had fought with the' Iti...linuropidiry of ours, aim! resisted their attack • with a firmness that never was serpassed.• The lei 'of Wellington had discharged all the duties of a 01. 1 liar, as Consmander-in•Chiel, as General of DWl *init. as Cointnattder of a Corps, as Colonel of a Re giment—he was seen at different times, .according to the exigencies of the moment, now presiding over and directing the treat movements of the battle, and again rallying broken regiments, advancing at their head, and'placing them in situations to render their resistance more complete.—Clieer, !tear). -'Cow ards the close of that illustrious day, the Emperor put 'himself at the head of the Imperial French Guards. The British Guards bore the attack; not as Bonaparte stated, in terra- at their presence—they met them— they overthrew them. • rhestruggle lasted nine hours. The impulse of .a superior forte was gallantly and iuccessfiilly resisted, until at length the Dike of Weffingion, rushing like a lion from his den, bore upon the first line and defeated them, then upon the second, and drove them before him, and followed up the defeat till his troops were exhausted. The fruits. of that victory, as far as they could at present be collected, were S,QUO prisoners already in Brussels, , 2,000 on the road,' and many moreeepected. As to the result of the Prussian pursuit, no accounts had yet been received—they were still in porsiiit.— So great an achievement could not be accomplished without great loss, and that•loss we had necessarily experienced. it *as one of the dispensations of Pito. nibetece, that we should feel neither joy nor grief unmixed, and this 'victory, which mist excite such ' enthusiasm of applause, was also unavoidably ac companied with strong feelings of private of .;nd general regret for the loss of the brave men who had fallen in its accomplishment. The anxiety on this subject was universal, but the interest of Uri who had connections and friends in the army, must be still more lively. I'o them the result of a victory might not, at the fii st view, appear a consolation, but when they reflected on all the consequences of , that distinguished action, they would perceive, that] the fate of those who bad embraced the honourable profession of arms could not be decided an a more glorious occasion. They were enrolled among the heroes who had fallen in defence of their couscry they were at the same time the objects of admiration and of regret. Who would not regret the manlt and dignified firmness of Sir Thomas Piston ?—(Heise.) —Who would not lament the energy and preface of mind for which Sir William Ponsonby was re markable?—(Hear..)—Who would not grieve for the, loss of the Duke of Brunswick, who had,spurned at the armistice concluded in 1809, and marched his. gallant band through Germany, then hostile to kirys, until he placed them under the security of British protection ?—(Hear, hear.)—No one could speak so in reference to those lows % as ilurDukt - 4 #l Wellington had himself done; in a letter tb Th -E ea of Aberdeen, commonicatieg the intelligence of his brother's death. After acknowledging the setrices he had experienced from his assistance, the Noble Duke proceeds thus—"t I cannot express, in adequate terms, the grief which I feel in contemplating the loss which we have sustained in the death of do many valued friends. The glory of such actions is no con solation to me, and I cannot suggest it as a consola tion to you ; but a result so-decisive will in all pro-, bability he followed by the early attainment of the jost object of our wishes and exertions, and this may afford us some consolation for our toss."—His Lord -ship then proceeded to observe, that, on looking to the list of the wounded, .their sorrow must be excited at Abe melancholy detail, who would dot feel anuious for the recovery of the Earl of Uxbridge, who had headed every charge of cavalry, and for that of the various officers and privates disabled in the same ca reer ?—(Hear, he4-.)-ialn the front of the list was the name at that hetoic man, who had spilt his blood in the defence of the Netherlands, and acquired by his bravery a better right to its dominion than the mere formalities of faintly descent could have conferred upon him—(Hutr, hear.)- . lt was unnecessary for him to dwell any longer upon actions that required no comment, and were themselves their own. pane gyric: It remained only for .him to state, that-after moving the vote of thanks to the Duke of Welling ton, the officers and men under bis Command, oa the battle of the 18th, it was his intention to accompany it with a proposition fur another vote of thanks to Prince Blucher and the Prussian army. 'Mae army had borne the brunt of the attack while two divisiems of the enemy were left to mask the British. • Old Prince Blucher had fallen • from his horse on the battle of the 16th, and wit confined to his bled. Having heard that the Doke of Wellington was at tacked, he quitted his bed, advanced to the field, and, there avenged die Prussians who had been refused quarter in the battle of the 16th. Such were the glutious'events, in acknowledgment of :which he was now to c.• 11 upon their Lordships ftir a tote bf thanks to those concerned...Nis Lordship then moved the flunks of the House to the Duke of Wellington and 'the Britishsi rmy, in the usual form. —(Hear.) The Marquis • of LANSDOWN said, he did not' think to add any force to the proposition of the Noble Lord by any thing he could say, but he could not permit so brilliant and so aseful an event to pass un-, noticed.. - He would confess that, in the first instance, he'l'elt a hesitation as to the propriety of the pecu &day grants not that he, had an, doubt of the mag nitude of the success, but that he appre;iended it might carry the appearance of an anticipation, which, though it might he fairly appreciated, could not be certainly expected, and ought not to be confidently proclaimed. .But when he reflected on all the cir-- 'cumstances of that great transaction which made the day important in itself, independent of military eon.' sequences, which made it 'a scene ter the display of the qualities of two trial nations, brought to public !trial by their respective Chiefs t in the face of Europe ;—when to that be added the remit; which was great, decisive, and indubitable, he felt -it right Mt a re cord should be attempted, if, possible, nikpertisetter and imperishable •as the glory by which • it'wo . Inked. How ter magnificent ht military or i 1 'rte resplt :, thti'ioiseettuentes* of that day would ex... ,'tend thernselieilieyood ttte fate of the arcnies that .were engaged, or the 'kingdoms :that Might be sub. slued, they would b:cOrite a , pArt,Of the national pro ?erty and history.. The Would be recur e 3 .% roe of those great events that make up the Character' of 'nations, and 'constitute the title of fame. lie shciuld vote for the motion now proposed; and for thit of further provision for the Duke of Wellington, bYwhich it was to be succeeded. %'he motions of Thanks tothe'Dike of Wellington, the Otliceis, and man, were then severally put, aud carried sew. di:. tad BATHURST then moved the Thanks to Price Blucher and the Prussian army, which we've' carded in the same unanimous manner; as also, that, to the Allied Foices under the immediate command' of the Duke of Wellington. GRANT To LosD WELLINGTON. The Ertl of LIVERPOOL, after 'remarking on the eulti3y pronounced by Lord Bathurst, and de spairing to add any think; to the effect already pro cluod, concluded by moving an Address, in answer to tie Prince Regent's Messa ge, pledging the House to =cur in making further provision for his Grace the Duke of Wellington. It was agreed to near. dips Adjourned. • HOUSE OF COMMONS. Mr. C. LONG moved for leave to bring in a Bill to amend the Lawn relative to the astributlon of Army Prize Money. the object of which was to direct that all Army Prise Money, which Is new paid Into Chehea Hospital for t‘e benefit of that institu tton,if It remain unclaimed four months after the public adeer 'dement of distsibetion, Should be immediately paid into that Hospital, and by them distributed to the clainunts, as their mans of distributing it were the most extensive. Under the present system, which was established by a inea%ure.he had for ' me*, proposed, 5e142,000, inclusling interest, had been paid to Claim Hospital; but .41142,0"0 bad been refunded lo claimants gating ‘lloo,ooo had ultimately accrued to that useful natit.nai 'establishment.—Leave given. The Kihnainhani Hospital BW was read a second dm, and orifailid to be committed on Monday. The Arnty Accounts Bill went through a Committee : the re port en Monday. Mr. LUSHINGTON, moved, that the Speaker do issue his warrant to the Clerks of the Crown for a new wilt for the elec tion of • Member for the town of Pembroke in the room of iir T. Picton, deceased.—Ordered. The Lead Ore 818 and the Irish Spirit Intercourse Bin were read a second time.- - fo be committed on Monday. Mr WhoTERN brought in a din to reduce the duties on Bri tish Won', which was lead a first time; ordered to be read a tomtit Me on Monday. TheGlebe Lands Bill went through a Committee; the Report to by received on Monday. Lord PALMERSTON presented estimates of the sums re quired for disembodied Militia, which was referred to a Com mittee of Supply. The Irlshtipiriu Reguhtion.ruid the Holyhead Road Bill went through Constnittees....4he Reports to be received on Monday. The bleat Distillery ItlM was read a second dine.--fo fbe corn "misted on Monday. : tilliositaareaeas thledtnne and pissed. THAIITICS TO THE DUKE OS WELLINGTON. Lord CASTLER EAGH.—I rise, Sir, to call the attention of the House to a proposition, which to every heart must be gratifying, as the best modesof conveying those sentiments which we must all feel, towards our great Commander, in the manner the most honourable to him and to ourselves. It has fallen to my lot, on many occasions, to propose the Thanks of the House to the illustrious object of my present motion, but numerous and very glorious as those great feats of Generalship were which calltd for those votes, it is no disparagement to their ex alted merit to say, that the Duke of Wellington has not before performed—neither would circumstances have permitted him to perform, any deed equal to his present services—(lfear, hear, &dr), in that great battle which it is dtlficult to consider without giving it the pre-eminence, not only over the former efforts of our own countrymen, but perhaps of any natiou in the world. Its political and moral influenci on the present war cannot now be calculated, but it teems with the brightest prospects for the future, and gives the best assurance of a happy issue in the just contest in which we are engaged. Of this battle it is impossible to speak without depreciating it, if we do not consider the character of the difficulties with which our troops and their great Captain had to con tend, and though I might best consult my own repu tation by abstaining from any remarks, and recom mend to the feeling and understanding of every Member the cause of this great man whom my at teMpts to support nay weaken, it is impossible that l can do so much violence to the exultation of my Own heart as to refrain from .mcutioning some fea- Imes of this great battle—(Btae, hear.)—The situ.t.' lion of the adversary in this day.gave him a manifest advantage, thistle, in fact war was understood to exist, hostilities had pet corntnenFcd on the ran of the Allies, who frOm superior necessity, were driven I to distribute their troops, with reference to the means of subsistence. The _distinguished officer who coin- 1 minded against the Allies, had consequently an op portunity to mature all his combinations, to direct all his moVernenti at his leisure, and to choose his point of concentration and his points of attack ; to bend his exertions and to bring in play the valour of his most gallant and experienced troops against those parts of our line which appeared to him the weak: st. It was to no deficiency of foresight on the part of Marshal Blucher and - Marshal Wellington that this was to be attributed; because if they had concentrated their forces 'they .wohld have left open a large part of the, Belgiefrontier,to invasion on the part of small corps of the enemy. Without any disparagement to the , Allied Generals ; therefore, Bonaparte had an advan tage in the first brush of the affair. It was also Ina %dial tb a person in Bonapartfs situation, while com bined movements • were magehy the Allied Armics ht every quarter tb invade wince, to bring to action one part of that force before it, could be supported by any In following op that res Ave he acted with all the decision and energy of mini in military affairs Which tistinguisbedlit *eharacter, and as soon as be had matured - his arrangements he executed this tlatilftd*st Withibe greatest rapidity. The nature at Wit *ith whit* belnade his attack is a material e44ttidel . 4lon tn jtidgintof the merit of repelling it. itoositititiddtvi coast trAcixiee, which if that watch , r~,~ is opposite to , Stresburgh he excepted, are the only corps of the French army which have attained their perfect strength. These corps were supported by the mass of the guard, his cavalry, and artillery, and united tinder him as their Commander, t! eir eon efuct upheld the high name which the arin'es of Prance hod deservedly acqiiired, and their Coin tilender displayed all that vigour which he has so often manifested in exertions of that nature. The amount of this hand of assailants, so fnrmidable from its own character and the character of its Comman cloth could not be less than 131,000, perhaps not less than 14th000 men. (Hear. hear ) The French army was carried to the highest pitch of discipline in the former war ; it was composed of those who had re turned to France from the prisons of the Allied Powers and those veterans who had survived the bittleS of the last contest. Everi before the return of Bonaparte to France. it was in the highest state of fecsireness, and since that period all the resources of his military genius, and all the activity of his advisers, had been exercised to accumulate to the utmost the ,power which was to be directed to this effort wlarli it 'was determined to make. The object of Bonaparte leas an attack on the part of die line where th" Prus sian force was connected with hat under the Duke of Wellington, and be hoped to strike a blow which would be attended with adv intages, which it he had waited the attack from the combined forces of the Allies, he could not Wave ho fed to have attained.--- With his overwhelrniog force he ittackel the Prus. glans before the corps in their rear, especially that of . General Bulow, ciluld join their comrades, and not. Withstanding the into.piiitrof the Prussian troops, 'solider such n commander as that experienced officer Marshal Blucher —( Hear, hear!)—he, to some extent, succeeded in his firs? movements on the 15th and 16th. ,Fie drove in the advanced posts, and hfarshal Blucher was obliged in prudence to retire towards the rear, and the Deice of Wellington, in consequence, was also obliged to retire Ft pm the positions which part of his army bad occupied. Oi those days, however, the whole force of the Frenckwas not directed against the Prussians, two divisias were appointed to attack the army under the Duke of Weliingron, and a small part of that army bore the shock of those two divisions during the whole of the 16th. The gallant resistance of that small body gave the Duke 'of Wellington an opportunity of taking up, on the 17th, that position which he had previeusly decided on as the best. At the *close of that day (clic 17th) Bonaparte bad so far succeeded as to have thrown the Prussians into the rear ; and on the morning ot the 18th, he collected all his forces against the British, with the exception of one division whom he appoin ted to watch the Prussians, from which troops, for a time at least, lie expected no formidable attack. It is to be observed, that on the former day, Bonaparte 1, left two corps to watch the British, while he thought one sufficient to watch the PI ussians. I should here remark, that from the dispatches of the Duke of Wel lington, which were distinguished by wehing mini than their innate modesty—(Hear, hear,)—it would not be discovered, had not other sources of informa tion been open to us, that he was opposed in person to the greatest Captain in the world, except the leader of the British army. (Hear, hear.) This mighty• opposing force made unceasing attacks, but the undaunted resistance of our troops defeated every leffort brought against them. It is impossible to speak of these troops in terms sufficiently high, fur then no species of martial science, or individual heroism, which could adorn a field of battle, was want ing there.—(Hear, hear.) —It would be invidious to speak in praise of any part, where elle whole was almost unequalled in merit. But it is to be recollec ted, that great as the merit of the whhie army was, it was, with the exception of the British, a green army. None of them had an opportunity so see service, with the exception of our regiments ; and this com paratively young army was OppaSed to the most ex perienced army in the world. D...duchng the 25,000 men who, under the command of Noce Fr.-eeric of Orange, covered West Flanders, and many other de• fachments, the whole atnly under the chnonand of the Duke of Wellington was net 61.,003. As this was the . extent Of his force, it would nct have been consistent with the prudence which was mingled is such happy proportion in the character, with the energy of the Duke of Wellingtoa, without further . ' support, to have begun offensive operations. For this support we are indebted to the illustrions troops of the King, of Prussia. At the moment when, from the advance of these brave men, our great Coinmare. der saw that he should be able topsail his victory, or to secure his army from the effects of failure, he pushed forward with vigour—and the result of his exertion is known to all. During the whole of the battle, tbaDuke afforded to the army every assistance which mini, example, or personal exertions could af. ford.' (Mar.) It is paiutul to look back, and consi der 'to what degree that invaluable life has been ex posed. No General bad before conducted himself so wisely—no private soldier had more' gallantly exposed himself —(Near, hear!)—and while he directed the movements of all, he bore a share of the danger— and a shale in the exertions. During nine successive hours our troops bore, unmoved, all the attacks of the enemy ; and when the Duke of Wellington thought tit to put his line in motion, the attack ot thosh who bad resisted the attacks of tharehch were irresistible; the French were again and again overthrown—and their General was obliged to leave behind a half, if not more, of the artillery of his army. Never weie such trophies gained before. (hear, hear.) %V lilt the loss of the French in men amounts to, it is im possible to ascertain. The Duke of Weiliegto h , at the chose of a fatiguing day, was enabled to hand them over to an, army which, compare* with his own, was fresh and accounted for as. an cakulAtino of good sense beat the army of the with tile Prussians, it to attack them akiaiu tinfatigueil. ft is not to he ebullition of temerity, but :is .1 sense ;—for if he could not now to Duke of Wellington conjoined it woitid never be in his poWer a nicer equilly liisadvanta;icws •