Star. — London, England, 1810-01-24 00:00:00

; ,,;ER 71431 FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE. ' BANKRUPTS. ' i B arnes , Truro, Cornwall , draper , to su rr ender Ja n. 27, Feb' Marsh 6 , at Guildhall, London. Attorney, W. Wild, jun.. le.street , Falcon-square. E. Chanc e, Bury - street . llloo th shury, *racer, to surrender :w ry 3, 10 , March 6, at Guildha ll . Attorney Mr. Priecank, x-urcet, StranAs. , P. Division, -Vrydges-street, Strand, stationer, to surrender 27 Feb. 3, March 6, at Guildhall, London. Attar's*, : R i c h ar d s on, Fisher, and Lake, Burpstreet, St. Jamees. , Schofield. Skipton, Yorkshire, money-scrivener, to surrender . 13. 1 4 , Marc h 6, at the Hole-in-the-Wall, Ski p ton. Attar- Messrs. Vile), and Stocker, Furnival's Inn, London. . Smith, Newcastle-upon - Tyne , woollen - draper , to surrender . 31, Fub, 14, March 6, at the Turk's Head, Newcastle-upon e. Attorney, Mr. W. Atkinson, Chancery-lane, London. PARLIAMENTAItt PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, !AMY/IAT 2t. This day, at three o'clock, the Lords Commissions for delivering his Majesty's Speech took their seats t h e House of Lords. The Commissioners weilt A itCIIBISIIOP Of CANTERBURY, the LORD CHANCEL. It, Earl CAMDEN ( Lord Psnsident). Earl of AYLES. Ito (Lord High Steward) , and the Earl of. Muir. t i rit (Lord Chamberlain.) The Marquis of Lansdowne •and Lord Down took oaths and their seats. : ... A message having been - sent to the Commons ? they d at the Bar, with their Speaker at their head. wertt informed by the Lord Chancellor, that it O n g convenient for his Majesty to meet them in tyare n, he had been pleased to direct his Commission certain Lords therein named, to open the Session, lich Commission they should hear read. Crhe Commission having been read by the Clerk at 'stable, the LORD CHANCELLOR then read [following Speech : My Lord: and Get:dime*, s lajesty commands to to tkprets to you hirdeep regret edit exertions of the Emperor Of Austriaagainst the ambition isiolence of France have -proved unavailing, and that his bu il Majesty has been congpelled to abandon the contest, and to *lode a disadvantageous peace. Although the war was tinder en by that Monarch 'without encouragement on the pats of his linty, every dolt nu made for the assistant* of Austiia edible Majtelty deemed consistent with the kite aupport s of his ies, and with the *elate and interest of his of Dominions. An wads upon the Naval Armaments and Establbhments in t Scheldt, afforded at once the prospect of destroying a VOW farce, which was daily beeaming more formidable to the se ' of this Count[*, and of diverting the esettiens of France the important objects of reinforcing het armies on the Da , sad lif tontienling the spirit of resistance in the North of any. These tonsiderations determined his Maloof to em his forces in an etpeclitien to the Scheldt. !though the principal ends of this Expedition have not been ;,,e4, his Majesty confidently hopes that advantages, mew, anectiue the security of his Majesty's boinintons in theteatel prosecution of the War, will be Found to result frOM die I olition oc the de-ks and arsenals of Flushing. This important ect his Majesty was enabled to accomplish, in consequence of ,y 1 e reduction of the island of Walcheren, by the valour of his sets and armies. ,His Majesty bits given directions that such documents and pa rs should be laid before you as he trusts will afford satisfactory fltmation upon the subject of this ESpedidon. We have it in command to state to you, that hit Majesty bad Jrmly notified to Sweden his Majesty's decided wish, that in rmininglipsn the question of peace or war with France and r Continental Powers, she should be guided by considers ; resulting from her own situation and interests : W bile hie 'ty, therAore, la-rents that Sweden should have found it MT. / to purchase peace by considerable sacrifices, his Ma r ratinot complain that she has concluded it without his Ma s participation. It is his Majesty's earnest Wish, that no :t may occur to occasion the interruption of those relations of y which it is the desire of his Majesty, and the Interest ci i countries to preserve. Pe have it further in command to tontirtunitate to you, that dons of his Majesty fur the prenection of Portugal have [powerfully sided by the confidence which the Prince Re [has reposed in his Majesty, and by the co-operation of the a Government, and of the People of that Country. The *ion of the French from Portugal by his Majesty's forces kr Lientenant-General Lord Viscount Wellington, and the knots victory obtained by him at Talavera, eontrihuted to rest the progress of the French arms in the Peninsula during l ' l6e e'mPaifi u"maitat7 direers es to state that the Spanish Government, Isate and by the authority of King Ferdinand the Seventh, detern‘d to assemble the general and *unordinary Cor soft/I'o+l4s, : His Majesty trusts that this measure will to fresh artithation and vigour to the Comfits and the animal 0 . 3 . 3 /141 skeessfteay direct the energies 'and spitit of the Spa. 411 People to the maintenance of their legitimate Monarchy, to dte ultimate deliverance of their Country. lb ' licit linportsat considerations of policy and of good faith lm, that as hog as this great cause can be maintained, a prospect of sums, it should be supported aecordbtg e sa t iate and circumstances of the contest, by the stnnuons tentialted assistance of the power and resources of his Ma r'ilmninicoll‘ ; and his Majesty relies Go the aid of his Puha -3a his anxious codasvmsn to Est rale - the attempts of Aping the indepertdenCe et Spain and Portugal, and the Ultima anellinoilels of *du loyal end resolute [s Mijee.y CrimiCands us t 6 atepnint *en, that the Inter• le between hit Maleify's Minato In Arnerlca and the Go -alnat of the United States has been suddenly and one:pea l! iltetrupted. His Majt.sty sincerely regrets this event : He blotter received the strongest assurances fr om the Amerl .Miniutr 7esident at this Cod: t; that the United States are 'our at maintaining f ri endly telitions between the tio6 coun- This desire will be met by a Corresponding Magmatic. Otk of his Majesty. e ens lemen ihe Howe of Common:, Maleitl has directed uito inform you, that he has order. Vte Estimatei for the current year to be laid before you . His itiq has directed them to be formed with all the attention to ' lll7 which the support of his Allies and the security of his aaa permit. And his Majesty relies vs" your zeal IVO r tO vet eaklT. Ms Nall chi citere 'der lee : of Is) a 1 ing, itrir ton-' rs of will the iron I ►W 1, so a the gave tt, Ire cure an to a n mf oura • alur uuina. thus , nte, g 730 1 asz.• LA V. ER. ri• s, 0* Leyor Jeabit P witb Ly Ci n " , pi Ca" - . • J and Wye*y to afford Mm such apples as Baybe. neeessery for those essential obj eets. He eonitnands et to espressitow deeply he reltreb Merman upon his Subjects, which the pretraetol dofitinualjee of the War '-~ renders inevitable. ,fr.Lordr, seed Geistlsms*, We are conunanded by his Majesty to express his hopes that you will •rellome the consideration of the state of the Wake Clergy, aixradopt such further measures upon this interesting sub• ject as may appear to you to be proper. We have it further in command to state to yes that the ac counts which will be laid before yea of the Trade and Revenue of the Country will be land highly' satisfactory. Whatever temporary and partial inconvenience may bare re • suited from the meastuns.witich were directed by Franceottgainst those great sources of our prosperity and strength, those mea sures have wholly failed of producing any permanent or general' effect. The inveterate hostilky of our Enemy condones to be directed against this Country with unabated shimosity and vieleare. To guaid the security of his Majewxy's Doodnions, and to debit" that designs which are meditated against us and Cif Allacydl ti juke the unniV efforts of vigilance, fortitude, and pemeveranse. In every &Milky and danger his Majesty confidently trusts Art he shall derive the most effectual support, under the con d oned blessing of Drama Paoviverics, from the wisdom of his Pak ilament, the valour of his Forces, and the spirit and determination of his People. Lord GLASGOW rose to move the Address. His . Lordship extolled the magnanimity of the Emperor of Austria, and lamented the adverse fortune of the war, during which so much valuable blood had been sacrificed on the Continent. Having taken a general view of the topics contained in the Speech, his Lord ' ship concluded by moving an humble Address.to his Majesty, to return thanks, and express the concur rence of the House in all the circumstances to whisk the Speech alluded. Lord GRIKSTONE, in a very short speech, se conded the Address, and observed, that although there might be some dissentient opinions on late events, his Majesty had promised that all papers on those subjects should be laid before the House, and therefore he hoped the Address might at present be unobjectionable. Lord ST. VINCENT said he had it not in his in tention to have spoken, but having heard the Speech and the Address, he could not refrain from saying a few words. It seemed to him that Ministers made a merit of every disaster which befel the country, and they gilded over all our misfortunes ; but it was no ewe than was to be expected from men who came byte office under the mask of hypocrisy ; they began their career in f.tlselood and fraud, and they had con tinued the same practices ever since. They had at tacked and plundered a friendly Power under false pretences ; they had set the bells ringing, and the toWn to illuminating, for the disgraceful Convention of Chltfa ; they claimed merit for a glorious victory lit Talavera, after whieirthe yenty had lost soli the sick, wounded, and its baggage ; and they seemed to think it a merit that they had wasted their blood, and expended the treasure of the country, in blowing up an insignificant harbour, and taking a few old ships. Another great source of their triumph was the commercial and financial prosperity of the country. But this was but a fallacious prosperity ; it arose merely from the state of war, and when peace came, and before long peace we should be compelled to ac cept, all this sort of prosperity would be at an end. Then we should see the river Thames crowded with vessels, with brooms at their mast-beads, and the merchants of London crying out for freight, which' would as soon after be followed by them with ano ther clamour for war. And before he sat down, he wished to ask the First Lord of the Admiralty a question upon this subject, which was, whether any measures were taken to make a wet-dock at North Fleet, for he was convinced in the event of a peace it would be indispensably necessary for the accommoda-' tion of the King's ships t Lord MULGRAVE said, it was not very regular to call upon him for an answer immediately, but he had no objection to tell the Noble Lord that measures , had been taken by Government to secure die ones sary ground, in case it should be deemed expedient, upon future consideration, to carry that plan into rect. Lord GRENVILLE said that whatever might be said of the necessity of inquiry, of which necessity, not iiisesely of inquiry, but lit deep and serious inquiry, no Iman in his senses could doubt : yet there were some things already so plain and apparent, that the House was, in the solemn discharge of its duty, called upon to Il express an opinion before they separated even on that tight. Of the extent of the waste of blood and trea sure in ill-concerted expeditions and fruitless negotia tions, the time for inquiry would hereafter come. — Many and many were the topics urged in the speech of his Majesty's Commissioners which demanded the serious investigation of the Country. But his heart was so full of the pressing evils which surrounded us, that on the great pointshe could not but demand the House should express their opinion before they sepa rated that night, and which they were competent to do from the information which they already possess ed. In considering our present situation, and judg ing of the propriety of the measures of the preseisc lAiiiistration, it would be necessary to carry . Y..air recollection back to the last war. At the periipd of that war, it was advisable to adopt a. differ ent polity than tltt n rich was fit in the present state &things. It was then judged expedient to stimulate Europe to a confederacy against the po'ker of France: But the situation of Europe was then•fery different to what it was now. Austria was then a Power in Eu- , rope, Prussia and Russia were ustsubdued ; but after the Peace of Amities, when Frcnce by arms or policy had the complete controul of the States of Europe, it was then our obvious pe;licy to withdraw from a scene of action when our efforts must be) unavailing, and to resort to our nraritime strength in defensive vfarfare, and by whiel we could also most effectually distress our enemy. We might have said to France. , , IVEDNE?•pAY;:jANUARY 24: 1810. • *Duet you haveinicontrouled &million of the Sea, yet we are safe in our naval superiority, we ce, tarry on defensive warfare to the end of June if it be , and instead of exhausting our finances, we am ley reducing our burthens at the time we are so contending. And in point of fact the last Ad ntinistration did act upon that wise system. Not so the present Administration. They had indeed kept their word in acting diametrically opposite to the wise principles of their predecessors ; and, as they avowed, they looked at all their measures, not as matter ofl imitation, but as beacons to be avoided. What had been the sad consequence of their departure, every matt in the country knew too well to require it to be told to him. He believed it might be said,and truly saidohat the present Administration had a, dispos ableforce of one hundred thousand men, aired how they had applied thaerorce the countrypeThaps would esPettable ch were tW be iad when those Papers were laid oft et whi ke *mistake li fised. here he Must . : the Noble Lord who se coaled theightlbll. e f said that all-the Papers would be laid before the. House; but the Speech Said no such thing ; it merely stated all that was neces sary to convince the House; that is all that Ministers deemed necessary to communicate information, and the House had a sample of garbled, suppressed , and partial extracts, which tended so far from informing them, that it really had misled them, and therefore he now called upon the House to accede to an amend ment Which he should move, and for which he should convince them they accede to without more information than the l ;t h ett already possessed of. He had observed, that Mhisters had 100,000 men of dis poseable force, of this 15,000 men were in Sicily, of whose employment it might be fit to enquire here after. The remainder formed two armies, each of 'about 40,000, one of which was employed in Spain, land the other in Walckeren. Of the Officers who commanded these armies, he was inclined to think much more favourably than many were, because he firmly believed they were put into unfortunate situa tions by the ill-advised and rash conduct of Ministers at home, nor would he suffer those who were guilty of the original error to throw it from themselves to the Commanders. He remembered the shamefil at tempt to sully the character of a brate officer whO sacrificed his life to the preservation of the remains of his army, after having been forced on an expedi tion into the heart of Spain, entirely against his remon strances and better judgment. He hoped every Noble Lord had read the narrative of the campaign pub lished by the nearest relative of that gallant officer.. For those who had lot read it could not properly ap- . preciate the merits of that Expedition. By the au thentic documents there adduced, it appeared that General Moore wished to go to the South of-Spain ; he was forced to the North ; he was taught to expect cooperation from the Spanish armies; he found no arebes to croperate with him ; be found no *OA - sion made for his reception ; he was unstipplied with money ; and lasdy, he was to obey the orders, not of a superior military commander, but of a civil accie dited agent, of whom, at present, he wished to say nothing. In examining, however, the conduct of Ministers, he was willing to concede to them what Ihe by no means considered a fact, namely, that these hundred thousand men, properly employed, might have turned the fate of the War on the Conti nent. He admitted it might have turned the fate of a single campaign, but not of the war. However, acceding that to Ministers, had they Wisely employed the army in Spain ? They had the recenrekperience of Sir John Moore's campaign before their eyes. He had met no co-operation ; he found no regular army, on which he could rely ; he could not provision and feed his army ; yet, they planned another. Expedi tion to the heart of Spain. The gallant officer who led them and his troops did all that valour could do, but they met precisely the same disasters, and 4f - ter losing many by the sword, and many more by sick ness?, the Commander was forced to abandon his en-. terprise, and retreat with the shattered remains of a' bra* army. With respect to the Walcheren expe dition, a thing more disastrous in its consequences, more disgraceful in those who planned it, the country never yet saw. It had been loudly asserted, that it was to assist in the deliverance of Eintipe, and aid the rising spirit in the North of Germany. He supposed that it would be admitteat, that ;t was ne, cessary in all these expeditions that. they should..be prompt—that they should be ce-operative,. and that they should be designed to act on some material point. In all these points tiad this Expedition been most miserably defective. And now we were gravely told, that it had reneged essential service, in blow. ing up a dock-yard tend capturing a few ships. If it were known, as by.: believed it was in September, . 1808, that Aust6a was pteparing for war, it was pot very prompt to, have an expedition as a diversion .in, her favour, ..vhich did not•arrive in the Scheldt used, the last clo:y of July, 1809. But in truth, before that; period 0-ustria had drawn forth her mules in battle' , array; before that period she had fought three ha y batttes, and had been completely subdued, and was olPliged to receive the ires' the victor ; and abovi 'all, those facts were known to Adz inistration before the expedition sailed from our own shores: Yet be- 1 Cause the capture of a few ships at Copenhagen gilded that exploit with some few people at home, he really believed that Ministers acted with miserable policy, of hoping, by the capture of a few ships in the Scheldt, to varnish over their tardy inefficiency. But even here they were so miserably deficient in idea., :nation that they found a garrison of 14,000 M O where they expected to find only 2000, and a plait which they supposed was open and wholly defencelesi it appeared had beta regularly fortified as long back as the memory of man could reach. So much for the promptitude of the ....-- ask how it of Au tined ' room . ' =DUN 7. .. 46 4rtr' . • • 44.: • _ . 4 . -.-- ': • . _ -.• Bonaparte was . enalslid to avail hit:mitt:tab Amnia' • of Marmots and *Donald, .which Were both most effectual in the reduction of Vienna. By what fatal infatuation Ministers those the infections Marshes of Walcberen as the scene of their Military' operations it was impossible to tell. tt yas known to be a most climate, and they `chose the most pestilen , dal season for their operations, They had their choice of ground, it was not the case of a retreating army which was compelled to pursue that line of march, but they *ere advisedly sent there hy Mini sters, Their misconduct hoWeVer did not stop here. The troops landed on the last of July, and before a month had elapsed, it was obvious to every military man, that all the objects of the expedition had failed, and the Commander had so distinctly stated it to the Ooveinttlent at home, yet were the troops left to ' perish in that swamp until the middle of November . lad what was the Administration doing that time f *ere exhibiting a disgraceful scene , at home of cabals, attempts at reeencitiatiot, end more. slosh/fur esposurei, which rendered, and mutt render them contemptible to theeyes of all the world: His Lordship then concluded by conjuring their Lord: ships to express their opinion on this !feint by agreeing with him in the following Aisandnient " That this tirsasi has Mt with slit deepest torrow aid ladig•! nation, the unavailing waste of ondind resources, the loosed our brave troop*. *lime valour his linsCunprohtably in anew:emeltl enteiglehtes, usitimed by any adv "; marked by a repeddra of fervid efleV6 tardiness, spa !icy, to our own sillspilai any assistance tO dsti Allies, bet etpost i t ill , ti= Cement to seem and deed don. ?raying, that Ms s wiltba s pleased wi institute a vigoroes inn tiry Into the Imaantalde emeadings *lrish haat. ate tracted the general ate abed dl dig eanattt, odd led to inch use' exampled calamity." The Ainendment being reacl- . .: , Lord HARROW BY could not stippose that hit, Noble Friend (Lord arenVille) could have moved ail amendment such -as that he had just proposed went not only tb determine that there should be an inquiry, but it would induce their Lordships now to come to a vote of indiscriminate censure—of absolute condemnation. Bitch a mode of proteeding was surely unusual and unprecedented . It was Unjust not to allow - the proper time for producing the grounds., and stating the reasons upbn which rested the de ,, cision and conduct of his Majesty's Government in adopting the measures which his Noble Friend has so loudly arraigned and so severely c (tilde:Mae& His Noble Friend had laid &Wit the line of po licy to trhich he says he would hints& have ad. hered, and by which he thinks his Mai 's Mi nisters 'ought directed. Tic adtnonished ditions— wY imaffined the last Session, - joined - , general enthusiast& in ravoarof the Spanish cause, and, - an the anxiety prompted by that enthusiasm, to afford.. it every - possible aid in our power: -Government did .. , not stimulate -and 4 ive •birth to these exertions an., the part of the Spaniards; but they felt it their duty, . and conceived it to be the interest. of, this country, . • • to encourage and assist them. Neither bad they , incited' other powers to embark anew in hostilities . withirrance. - Austria was inclined to appeal to the , 1 chances of war...to the decision of the sword ; but i to the adoption at those hazardous steps she had . * . not been advised or impelled by the British tloveon. 1 meat. On the 'contrary, she was warned by them . r of the perils of the attentpt, attd of the inability of . this edunny to _lend her any , effeetnel, supports she ~.; could not there fore haie entered into a esnawar, from the hope of any powerful dieasion.to be effected in ..: her favour by the military operatiens.ef a Btitish are if . my. But his Noble Friend would insist, that such i i ~ diversion might have been -made. in her favour by the ... -force which had aobsequently been collected here, had :. it been brought to -operate at -a proper. : point. 7 .l•Ps • . - Noble:Fsienatad 'alluded to-certain. of these pinta • where. - he :conceived our- •Militgry'.ferce-.losht have , 1 le-rated advantageously; in .fo(ittr of wouti l ti l _kki c~ . ,lowevir, advetled to somepointa _t4 Me - . • : diterianeati,. and more detkiediyetillt k o..the-rforth of Gerthany. He had also supposeddihakfilio,..ePPAY might have . .i . . 100,000 nten into *se. field;. whet* these 1 , 1 4.4 I Men were to be found, he.coold net pretend to eq 1 but-were it ,possible to procure , thent, what must not havebeen the-expwse and dlr.. fieuky ofsranspetting theni•to. the Mediterranean or - Adriatic ? The thing was impracticable. No less ins. • practicable end unpromising would . he the plan OF sending them to the-North of Germany. Itvras said they would there find a numerous band, of men ready . tO rise, in vindication of their independence, against the . cum son oppressor of 'mankind. It was eves Mere than insinuated by his Noble . Friend, .that the British Government had encouraged them to rise,and 'promised them assistance, but that the' promise.had not been performed; that these brave patriotic men had been deserted by us and abandoned to their fate ; anise allegations, he would venture to say, were :teatelly unfounded ; there might be numbers of men in different districts of Germany who were anxious to rescue themselves from the oppression and tyranny of • the French ; but they had neither arms nor uni forms, nor were they instigated or encouraged by this country to rise up against their oppressors.— .Even had they given a greater demonstration of the power and determination to resist, . , it still would • have been impossible for the British Government to send such a force, as had been mentioned, to assistance. As be already oteerved, wheel 1 ' of one houdred thousand men to - l' win. had they been at the disposal how could Government have provid it. ,_ "''' subsisting and paying them in the north . • . jJ 4x • ; • 110 )..'416111.114 t,..•/ - 14' I l i o ip t ',4 - 141 . .; T * 4 . .' f:: : v * . : ."), , - -- • : , 1 1 . :::_:. i . - ",...z • i _:.4 .14, .. 4 . riee. . 0., ~_ . • • ' `. 4 4 r . 1 . . .., • .. .. ..,......4..,...;,.. 1 ...1.•::.....•:.:, ... ..... . 1 .. . . • 1 ""1"111.‘• 4 w" ".. " . . . .. . • ' I.N. ie memory Ug alarm •••••••••• • ,•••••••- --- CO t•enu sucn promptitude of the measure. He would nest . their how it could operate as a diversicu in favour ..=` lustria, even admitting it had been mo re . in I.mm%; and t If it were meant to aid Austria, th . al* should have been- on-the tide of thellinter. the means of in * few by not assailing France on that side, nisters , ought to have been dit+ected. - ` What po y adinonislted the abstaining from Continental Expe- ditions—from making ourselves pattits in a warfare which had bong ceased to afibrd any hope of what ~: w as - so often emphatically called the deliverance of . Europe. He had not the lsonottt of being any length plrsil l of time hi his Maletty's Conn • s since a contrary lined conclnit hia been S hut 14 helieset he might Sititainthlilloble Friend that such had wt been etacdy his sentiments on all occasions. He imagined that not vet htely, even in the Course of the last Session, his Noble Friend had joined in the , . • of lino the bee% ._.‘ - . ~