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price to foie, common Paper id. ESUS CHRIST'. SEItIvION on with a Conde of Qneftloos and Antwera, k portion of Scripture, and Intended chiefly Daryaimp of Wing Perfona. he Rcv."TOHN EVTON. Bridget Printed &AGM by F. Hamilton Hatchard, Piccadilly; Crolby and Co. Saa. Liblnfon, Paternollcr-row, London; Wilk. ham; Wood, F,:dowes, Morris, and Polio. *, Newport , Scarrott,Shiffnal, and all othcr ied, in one very Lags; vol. Bvo. price half a tbellilhed witisfeveral ftriking Likens:4es, f PUBLIC CHARACTMS of ring a 21..vr Volume of the Work irhich, for enjoyed an uninterrupted career of popular n of this Biographical Suits to do jollier to its, and Labours of our diftinguilbed Con performing this arduous talk, to fatisfy cu- Vying en malrvolce. In the eight volumes will be found full, ac-urre, and tropic- Lives of the molt diftingaitbed Perfons in Life—the Work may eonfequently be mot ional's Hillery of the prisfent manias Minlairs of Captain Charles Mortis Mr. Aaron Burr Dean Kirwan Sir Home Riggs Popham Right Hon. George Canning The Young Raking Id Rev. Henry Bate Dudley h Vice-Ad. Sir A. Mitchell, K.B. 1 1hbot Madame D'Arblay rbury Sir Charles Morice Pole iurrnn Mr. Elliflon ens Alderman Combe. IRD PNILLti4s, trldge After, Blaelifriar's ; dlers: Of whom may belled. new and cot , e (even roarer vela pries belie guinea ear.R. 'ETITARr PROCEEDINGS. LORDS, WEDNESDAY, JAN. as. RTMOUTH inkemed the Hoafe, that hie Moody p leafed to receive their Loedibips' this day) at half pan two. tursaconsur. Le appeared. and prefented at the (purfuant to a former order of their e Articles of Impeachment exhibited he Houfe of Commons. It in fob. t he is not guilty of any of the of gainfl him in the raid Articles, as ore before their Lordfhips' Right ire. ving been read, a copy of it was, Lord Wasamaaam ordered to be , to the Houle of Commons ; and Meted to be printed for the di of alfo of Lord WALIIIIGH.II4, Mr. NM, and another Gentleman, were fd for Lord Maxvixt I. was likewife, on the motion of LW, appointed to inquire into and is of Cafes of Impeachments for emeanors. MtitylS NCRLLOR Rated to the itionfe, that be had Vote of Thanks of that Here, palled oil the to :Marquis Wadley, and that be had re tch'. an lesser from that Noblemen. Un r, that that Noble Lord was now In England, it Houle. be thought It would be mere coo , of the Houle, (or the Marquis Wellefley to !deplete, than for tint (the Lord Chancel , which he had recdved from the Noble Wades of the Appeal Caufe, Ogilvie v. the is ordered to be refueled ea Moodey to-morrow. OUSE Of COMMONS. .131.114 .11.1ED'VEI l •4R MY IN INDIA. sakirgribe Chair, acquainted be bad remelted a letter from the ey, dated Fort William, May 30, mi his letter to the Marquis, dated doting the Refolutions of the Houk' , 5804, espreitee of its approbation the Government and Forces in In n' with the Mahrasta Powers, and fuch condud. The Speaker then the Houle in Alba:ince as follows : quit acquainted the Speaker, that be bad bad erg his later of.the 4th of May, 1804, dun& Rcfolutions of the Houk of Cossasuons. re ed the war that hod been carded no in India :cd Malteds Powers ;that be hid elided to publiOted, with the qpatker's Letter, in to Army, and trantivittad topics of tie' Re ad Olken and Corps of the Indian Army, y referred. The Noble'Martpda then re. I to communicate to the Houle of Commons 1 lively gratitude and refpeet, with which he on'; and concluded whit a declaration, that oy of approbation fo bandfnmely given to Not fail to animate every defeription of the 'tallier and more dill anguldted exerthanu" ▪ ordered to be entered on the Journals. PETITIONS, 4C. I prefamted a Petition from the Debtors eon. he County of Oxford, praying relid—Or sk. EARY prefentzd a Petition from the Debtors of Maldßone ...Ordered to lie on the table. ,EY prefented a Petition from thapebtors of the C..unty of Glouceller and Admirs., tho:e eon lined in the Gaol of Chelinsford, to he on the table. dented a Petition from the Maltilers of Ent'- , praying certain regulations rehweling. the could be equally produelive to the Revenue, n certain lionlfhips to which they are at pro ne, to lie on the table. !S DERFSFORD, on hi. Pleetion for the I, in the room of his &cc:4M father, and lc ', took the oaths, and their feats. L'Nftll IT. VINO IN r. CKENSON from the Admiralty, coal Paper. moved for towards the on, by Mr. Jefferys, and Admiral fling the Ship Building. Stores, &c. dent, of Earl St. Vincent a: the 'ally.—Ordered to fie on the table ; not Admiral Markbatn,to be printed. THE •DDREES. IS SPENCI: R, from the Committee pare the Addrefs in reply to his Ma ions Speech to both Honfes of Par ed their Report at the bar. as brought up, and the Addrefs read j time, and agreed to. ordered, on the motion of Lord OH, that it be prefented by the %elude fuels Members of the Huufe as were Privy Council fhould wait on his sr when his Majefty would he steel be waited upon therewith. NIS MAJESTY'S e►EEUM: Lord CASTLEREAGH moved, that hie Majef ' ty's moil gracious Speech be taken into conflderation to•morrow.— Order ed. CONTINENTAL TREATIES. - Mr. GREY delired to be informed, when the Co pies of the Treaties with the Powers of the Continent, which had been adverted to in the Speech at the open ing of the SelEon, would be laid before the Houfe ? Lord CASTLEREAGH replied, that no time lbould be 101 l in fur Milting the Houle with every do cument connected with this fubjed, that could either be wilhed for or produced. ►ERMANENT ADDITIONAL FORCE SILL. Mr. SHERIDAN rote to fubmit the motion, of which he had yetterday given notice to the Houle...— As he underflood that no oppoiition would be made to the production of the papers he wanted, it was un aeceffary for him to occupy the time of the Honk with any preliminary obfervations. He fhould, there fore, content himfelf with moving, .. 'That there be laid before the Houle, a return of the evinbe, of dfedbrc men that had been railed under the Aft of the 44th et his Majefty, entitled an Aft for railing a Permanent Additional Force, &e. up to the period of the IA return, together with an account of the number that have been recruited per week, diftin guillaing thofe that have been rated by Pariih Officers, and thole by his Majefty's Officers for the PariChes. Alfa, the number of thole that have volunteered from this force for general ferske."— Ordered. Similar Returns were alto ordered, on the motion of Mr. SHE• RIDAN, for Scotland and Ireland. Mr. CHARLES DUNDAS prefented a Petition 'from the Freeholders of the county cf Berks, pray ing a repeal of this Ad, which Petition he Rated to have been onanimoufly agreed upon at a general and very numerous meeting of freeholders, •convened at Reading. He begged leave to Rate, in his place, the purport of this Petition, for the repeal of a bill which bore peculiarly hard upon every dais of inhabitants in that county, but more efpecially upon the gentle men of landed intereft. The Petition, he lard, let forth, that nntwithflanding all the exertions which had been made by the Parifh Officers throughout that county, and the higheft bounties which could be offered, no mote than eleven men could be railed out of the full number of 342, being the proportion al lotted for that county ; this was by no means owing tu any neglea or want of exertion on the part of the Pari(h Officers, but to the utter impraelicability of procuring the men; notwithflanding which, fines had been impofed upon the feveral parifbes, under the authority of this ad, to the amountof 66201. which had operated in a great many inflances molt oppref lively. At the fame. time that he felt high fatisfadion that the quetlion fot the repeal of this molt oppref five bill had already been announced by an Hon. Gentleman yefterday, much more adequate to the talk than he was (Mr. Sheridan), yet he could not avoid declaring his eonvidion, that not only the Pe titioners, but nine tenths of the population of the whole country were upanimous in their deprecation to the further continuance of this bill, as at once a molt oppreffive and ineffeaual method, for that - its operation was equally fevere upon the poor and upon the rich : for in the poor parifhes where men had been induced to enlist, their families were thrown upon the pier lift, and the rates confequently (welled to an enormous pitch ; and, in the more opulent pa riffies, where the men could not be railed, the lines for defalcation fell upon the Gentlemen of landed interehl, in a manner the moll unjull and partial, while perfons whom he knew polkaed upwards of ig,oori in the flocks and on mortgages, were exempt firm the operations of the bill, the burthen falling folely on perfona of landed property. He begged leave molt particularly to imprefs this confideration upon his Majefly's Mlnifters, efpecially as he heard from the Noble Lord opposite him halt night (Lord Caftlereagh) in anfwer to the queflion of an Hon. Gentleman near him (Mr. Sheridan), that it was the intention of Government to revife this bill, with tome alterations. He hoped they would naturally recon- Sider the Cubic& before they attempted to revive a meafure in all its parts and details In burthenfome, which no alteration could reconcile or render effec tive, and of which the repeal was fo univerfally the with throu-torir the kinedom. The Petition was tiiTi - Eirs and read, and ordered to lie upon the table. IMPIiACHMENT OF LORD MELVILLE. Mr. WHITBREAD moved, " That the Entries made on the Journals, of the 26th of June halt, for the appointment of a Committee to draw up the Articles of Impeachment, be now read ;" which being done accordingly, the Hon. Member moved, " That the Paid Committee thould meet to-morrow, to confider the matters referred to them."—Ordered. On the motion of Mr. WHITBREAD, the name of Lord R. Spencer was addded to the Paid Com mittee. MIDDLIIIII2 'Lamina. Mr. H. THORNTON prefented the Petition of G. Bolton Mainwaring, Efq. Sir William Gibbons, Bart. and feveral other perfons, being Freeholders of the county of Mic:Bele:, againft the return for the laid County. The :WEAKER afked the Hon. Member, whe ther this were a new Petition, or whether it was the fame in fubllance with that which had been prefentcd in the laft Sefton ; and, if fo, what time would he with to appoint for its being taken into confederation ? Mr. H. THORNTON laid, that in fubllance it was the fame as that which had been prefented the 14R Seftion ; and that, as he thought, about fourteen days slier the cummenccment of the Salon would be a fufficient time to appoint, he would name Tod - - eliy, the 4th of February, as the day he should with to*, for takiig it into confideratinn. Its confidoratiou was accordingly fixed for Tuef day the 4th of February. NAVAL TlNQytity. Mr. WILLIAMS brought up the dath Report of the Connif!loners of Naval Enquiry, containing ob fervatinns, by way of fupplement to the Firli Report. Ordered to lie on the table, and to be printed. Mr. LAMBE, from the South Sea Company, brought up fundry accounrs.—Ordered to lie on the table. lIPIRING LAWS. Mr. ALEXANDER moved to renew the Com mittee for enquiring into the Expiring Laws. Mr. Sr AAAAA then proceeded to put the quellion for the Revival of the ()foal Itatiding Committees and Orders of the Honfe, as cuitomary on the commence. Mem of every &Ilion; which being agieed to, the Hoofs odknuneti. DEFENCE OF THE COUNTRY. • t To THE EDITOR OF TIHE /1 1 TAIL‘' 01 ! • LETTER f. Sibi team Infontes pepertre ISOM : lucangearstai Projaere animas. - .. SI It—When we (hall have, in fome degree. reco vered from the aflonithment and difmay which the fate of our illufirious and generous allies has pro duced, I think that the moll Rapid and gravelling of the Britifh nation mutt be roufed to enquire into the tattles of events fo dreadftil and unexampled. The conqueft of territories larger than our Mandl from the Emperor of Germany, in lefs time than we ever over-ran the dominions of an radian Rajah— the fall of Ulm and Vienna, while Burtpore has been defended ; the dellruelion or captivity of brave and difeipllned legions, more numerous than our whole regular ftrength, which were the model of our imitation ; and, finally, the diablution, by force of armr, in two months, from the commencement of hoflilities, of a confederacy formed by the only po. teinates who remain independent of France ; are faifts which demonfirate a change in the relative Rate of military fcience beyond the poffibility of difpure.— Spain did not conquer with fuck rapidity in Mexico and Peru. All idea of the Commonwealth of Na- lions that once fublified in Europe, feems to vanifh like a dream—and it is no longer true, that. the ufe of artillery, confequent upon the invention of gun- powder, can fccure to a nighty Rate fix months of exiftenee, if not polTelfed of the fame martial fkill and energy with that power which the French Emperor (ways. It is to this awful change of &nation, that it is my ()Nett to call the mat carnet and ferious attention of my countrymen, in the hope that there is yet time for us to remedy our fatal errors, before all in dividual refletlions and efforts cat{ be overwhelmed and extinguifhed here too, as in Außria, by national panic and, deftruCtion. Their patriotifm, loyalty, valour, and unanimity, in our common sanfe l never were more undoubted, and are as onquettionable as our fupetiority in bodily Rrength. It is from fuch materials that battalions, really invincible, Should be fcrmed. My motives and hopes, in my Fe int attempt, reft upon this conviction. But we have ken how all thefe qualities may be thrown away, may be devoted to certain perdition. Imprefftd with the belief, that the fame faults eziß, to a certain de gree, in the organisation and difcipline of our armies, which have ruined that under General Mack, and not leis firmly perfuaded that we can correct thefe fatal error► when we will ; I am fatisfied that it is a facred duty to publifh my thoughts. With the haft minded, to whom the ideas of public principle, and of their country, are loft—who think, 2a, and eziß as citi- zens, but for the purpofes of fadion—whether Aerial or anti•minifterial, 1 know well, that no vehicle or form, or mode of communication, can be chofen which will not, to them, Ramp the writer as actuated by the vile motives of which only they are confcious in their own bofoms. I would, however, folicit the honour of a place in that newfpaper, in which the publications are moR diftinguilhed for in• formation And ability, with a total difregard to the confideration from which party thefe moR frequently come, and with not leis contempt for the opinions of all, who retain not enough of the fpirit and cha• ruder of our forefathers, to furnifh to ' them a crite rion by which they may fairly decide from the ibtrin ftc merits of flateritents and arguments, whether theft are calculated to fare our country, or to drive a filthy job. There is not, Sir, any novelty in the obfervation, that ever finee General Dumourier was called to the command of the grand army of Revolutionary France, there has been a great and progreffively en creating contrail between the principle upon which the tactics of their armies in the field have been eon dulled, and thole of the nations they have combat ed. The celerity of combination, and rapidity of movement in all changes of pofition and hollile open rations, which exerting to the utrnoft every energy according to circumstances, prefent unceafingly to the foe a menaced danger not to be eftimated, becatife the force that brings it is never at nett, and which (hilts its direetion too quickly to be met by arrange ments in the flow method and formal regularity of the tyftem of Frederick the Great, have been often before ~marked. Their effees have been manitelt during the whole pre-Tres of that new mode of (lir cipliae and of warfare, which Bonaparte has, per haps, now brought to perfeftion. Both the advan tages and their caufes were as viable in the campaigns of that General againft Beaulieu, Wormier, Alvit:- zi, and Melas k in the fuccefs of Humbert, with a handful of men, at his firft invafion of Ireland, and in the proceedings and fate of our expedition to Hot land.in the tail, as in the amazing difafiers of Auf tria in the prefent war. There is no alteration of the cale,but from tlwadditional improvement of theFrencl', while their continental enemies have remained Ratio nary. That blindnels (as it were by the fentence of Goo), even to the dictates of filf-prefervation, which has brought the affairs of the latter to fo defperate crifis, and not its confeqnences, ought, Lowrie, ,1 be the objea of our amazement. All mankind have likewife had the opportunit► fro perceive, and all furroundiog nations have had tl, misfortune to feel, that in connexion with this our ward and general change of difcipline and operation, one not lets vital and momentous has taken "hoe with regard to the perfonal condition and motives the whole officers and foldiers of France. Every ad' vantage refulting from which alto their neighbours have allowed them to poi:refs almoft This coons in an invigorating and (visitant ailed. Lion to merit in all ranks with a certainty of prows. - tion and honour, obAruded by no privilege or ezclo. lion upon the principle of merit only, and with no limitation hut the degree of that merit and the Cum. mit of military command in a felled. The ambi tious and perfidious tyrant, who is the fcoorge anti dread of Europe, in this too has furpaffed all his Revolutionary Predeceffors--every difpatch of his Generals bears the inspreffion, and every battle pew claims its force—Deprived as his nave, are of Con ftitutional Freedom, and of independent individual Rights, hence his armies derive their. foql and energy. The uniform operation of thefe two great eanfes of fuperiority has been difplayed, both through tlic laR and the prefent war, not only in conquelis and battles, but in the chandler and genius of the coin. batants. It is molt remarkable that, during thefe. an unexampled. number of Generals have rifen to high reputation upon the fofid evidence of fuccefe, from the loweß ranks in the French fervice ; while, with the exception of the Archduke Charles, it will be difficult to produce one commander of celebrity, who has, finee the French Revolution, attained emi. nence in the armies of Andric. Clairfait and Co. hours had acajured their Imo Wrote that sera. But pride and prejudice only Mitt the telt of experience and the evidence of fees. Rather than acknowledge the effect of thrifts principles, which fatal experience has but too fully and frequently thews, we lay thq Combing Calico to our folly, that the enemy pre sails not liy-tlailaPerlasil of his Rem, but by trim fon-.Bonaparte, it is faid, overcame Warmer, Al, vinai, and Males, ,by corruption. General Mack, too, is ioutor seenfed of treafon here. But all jut and fair men matt demand the proof. All rational men can trace the events to other and evident minks. My convittion is direaly the reverie; nor is it now. } for the firll time, that the evidence of fuch a charge hes been called for. The fates and the faults of there Generals feem to have been precifely the fame. Their' eeputation and their armies have perithed from infiv. mated adherence to the tactics of the old fehool.- 7 , The l l mentioned, upon whom fo much obloquy has been heaped, is esteemed, by tbofe who knots him, an excellent grater Matter or Adjutant Gene ral, not left faithful to bit. Sovereign. than to the fyg. tern of warfare in with be was bred. Whoever, with the command of a large army in a wide field of ac tion, will not Tonic the energies and reafon of Ma troops, according to exißing circumßances, god op pofe to the foe equal exertion and altivity, apprillend, with equal reafon, by fimilar fortune, fubjea himfeif to limilat imputations. Believing, as I do my geed, that we have but to refolve and to pares all that difcipline has done in point of taffies for our enemy, and that to animate the minds and nerve the arms of our warriors, we have in our King, our Conaitution, our Counter, our national Virtue and Fame, tbe means of bellow ing impulfes which he can never feel but in our blows.-4 dull endeavour, in my following letters, to point out the regulations and changes which I hold not only to be necefrary to do jullice to our fpi tit and caufe, but candid to enable u 4 to fight on equal terms far our eaiftence as a nation. Mean while, I cannot conclude my fire Addrefs, without citing the example of our naval hillory, and hailing the omen which the atchievgments and renown of one lama and greatelt Hero afford. Are we Rill a ra tional people, and unconfcious that the belt and brarelt feamen of the world were uniformly baffled in the combats of our Ron, till individual exertion weskit unfettered, by adopting a more difengaged fyttem of fighting Have we hearts, and do not ' feel what we owe to individual merit in that glorious it t Oar Nelfon, when the loweft Admiral upcin the Lift, averted the fate perhaps of his coun try, and of the world. Had fenfelefs chilling rotation, or pecuniary difabilities in more early progrefs pre• vented his advancement, how different might have been oar recent fitnation I cite every intuition , : some, and every glorious atchievement of his fti . 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