The National Register. — London, England, 1811-04-28 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER, IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. •Nr• •• - HOUSE OF LORDS. 'WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24. The House met this day, pursuant to adjournment. The Earl of Li v k:rt POOL rose to give notice, now that k was officially ascertained that .Portugal was evacuated by the French, that he should move the ti aniss of the House to Lord Viscount Wellington and the Ar...y undetr his command, on Friday seat. On the motion of the Earl of LAIIDER I) ALP, the Dwelling 40iise Rohbe7y. Privately Stealing, Navigable Canals, avid Bri tish and frish Bkach Grounds Robbery Bills, were ordered to be read a second time on Wednesday, May.—Adjuurned. THURSDAY, APRIL 25. Their Lordship.; forwarded the Bills on the table, hi •leir re spective stages, and then adjourned. FRIDAY, APRIL• 26. Their Lordships were occupied in the discussion of the Berke ley Peerage fr&in half-past one till six o'clock, during a part of which time the Countess of Berkeley was interrogated. LORD WELLINGTON. The Earl of LIVER root. in an animated speech, wherein he set forth the brilliant Inuits of Lord Wellington, in driving the French Armies out of Portugal, moved the Thanks of the House tehim accordingly. Earl GR Mt in a most eloquent strain seconded the motion, and it was carried nern. con. The like motion of Thank, was voted so Marshal Beresfsrd, and to all tke Officers and Soldiers serving in Portugal ; and the other Orders of the Day being disposed cf, the H ouse ad journed. HOUSE OF COMMONS. MONDAY, APRIL 2e. The I - Toisse met this day, pursuant to adjutant:4M. The Limerick Fleetion stood first on the Orders of the .I)ay ; it was therefore necestary that one hundred Members sholiki be pre sent before four o Cock, in order to ballot, and to appoint a Committee; For y-five 'll , Ternbers, however, only appearing, the House ctinsequentli adjourned. TUESDAY, APRT? 23. The House again adjourned for want of Members. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24. The SVEANER having taken the chair at three o'clotk, and there being preAent above itiO Members, the Limerick Election Committee wab !yawed for. • The Flux z.-• went into a Committee of Way; and Means, arid agreed to a kesolution sanctioning the Loan contracted for the mice of Ireland. Mr.VA :4 si . r . t ART gave notice, that in case the resolutions i wended to be moved by Mr. Horner, on the Bullion Report, abquld he rej ected ley dot liotne, it was h;s itite , ntion to propose e i tt:er resolut ions, the suiistance of which he should conunu- Licate on Frikluy. Ttritieii moved for some other payers, fiek:cit were graet4.--The How then adjourned. n','• IoI ,' I4V4 TAWIt'InAY, APRIT. 25. The Avon C' {1 Bill was read a third time and paised. • "Nlr. MA-n iy e rt rose to make his promised motion for an account of the i.atnbf , : - of Exchequer Bills held by the Bunk of F.ngland. That disc +tint trade Of the Lank ?hiving been cut short by their roost 0147J:tar and be. t customer.; having found their *fay into the Bette,lll# they !lOW carne into the market, bon, ht up .f..xcaecluerliii.i, vrbieh hoes fin intervflt, teltA paid with their own-paper, w:Aelt . cost them •notting, but which the public neither wished for ; the amount thus monopolised by the Bank •arnounted•to seventeen millions. In Mr. Marry , att's Opinion the Exchequer Bills might be subservient 'to mere useful purprfts thun the prollts of the Bank, and the itterease of a paper circulation, which was now 24 millions. lithe Y.sehl quer .Bills were put into -a form tit for circulation, and were made to pay even a low( r interest than now,.they might •pass as Bank notes do now ; they , would he received more willinoly than Bank notes, would naturally help to check their rxhothitant issue, and the country.certainly would be better inclined - to re cc ivo Bills paving interest, than Bank nova paying n9(te conei ide.i with moving. foe an account of e•.Exikaiu • Its tLe Bank from 17:. 4 7 to the-latest • k i pA" : ,•3 . it tiff ' t46 C__V o,* __.-0101111111 Mr. MA NNI NG spoke in defence of the Bank Directors, am! said they never purchased these Bills at premium, nor until money WAS greatly wanting in the market. After Mr. MAR R 1, - A•rr had said a few words in reply, the motion was put and negatived.—Adjourned: FRIDAY, APR7L BULLION REPORT. Mr. VANISSTTAIYT rose, and submitted to the House a long cOncatenated series of Resolutions (opposed to those of Mr. Horner), part of which ran as follows :—That the rights of his Majesty, as to the monies of the realm, constituted an essential branch of the Royal Prerogative, although the exercise of it had, occasionally been rtJulatecl by Parliament that the Promissory Notes of the Bank were always deemed payable in specie, until the restriction put upon the Bank, by Government, i 4, 1797: that such Promissory Notes had constantly been held 46 valid iu pout of payments:- that wars had been carried on in the usual manner, previous to November 180 G and the Sumin. r of 1807; since which commercial intercourses lad become Ini zardous and precarious: that our Naval and 1% , Hilary Expenditure had of late greatly increased : that currency to the amount or 57,000,C001- hal been cr,ined,in gold, during his Maj':sty's reign: that the restriction on payn,--rits in specie should be removed, whenever an improvement should take effect in the state of our commercial relations ; but that it would be high, inexpedient to remove swill restriction at the present time. After a desultory conversation between the.Chanct lior of the Exchequer, Mr. Abercrombie, Mr. Thornton, Sir T. ltirton, Mr. P. Moore, Mr. Vansittart, and Mr. Hutchinson, the Order of the Day for the House resolving itself into a Committe on the Bullion Report, was fixed for next Wednesday.—Mr. Vansittart's Resolutions- were, ordered to be printed. THANKS TO LORD WELLINGTON. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER (rising to move the Thanks of the House to Lord Viscount Wellington, and the British Army in Portugal) said, that it wal sometimes the mis fortune of persons in liii situation to have to submit matters un pleasant to themselves to propose, and as unpleasant for the House to adopt. A state such as that in which this- coun try now stood, a state of war, frequently imposed upon them Euch painful duties; yet there were instances, aris ing out of such circumstances, which happily placed an of ficiating individual in circumstances the ni , J4t desirable, it not even enviable. Such were his circumstances at this time. Whekn au opportunity was afiorded for extolling armies. who had gloriously and successfully asserted the cause of their country, who had, if that were before possible, augmented the splendour of its martial reputation, and at the same time upheld the cause of the civilized world against tyranny and devastation. When such an opportunity as this occurred to an individual, then was such ten individual happy in embracing it, and those to whom he addressed himself were also happy in cohiciding with it.—( neer, hear, hear o—Contemplating0—Contemplating the merits of the plan, the success of its execution, and the glorious prospects whit hit opened, not only to us but to the world, nothing of the kind had exceeded the late campaign in Portugal.--(Hear, hear, hear !) Looking too at the little lesson our side, at which the succetkes of that campaign bad been procured, nothing superior to it- had been presented to the view of Parliament.—ln other advantage* of the kind, however beneficial, they had found but too much to ; even in the glorious actions of Talavera, and of Bar- . rasa. it was impossible wholly to avoid reflecting on the cost o f lives by which those victories had been gained. Even on the victory of Trafalgar, lie would ask whether there was not a doubt in the public mind, a suspense of joy ; and whether, if it had hen lilt to their choice, the greater part of the people of this country would not rather telve forgone that victory, than have aequil - ed it by the sacrifi.:e of M'e'son !--(1-fear,hcar,/teorti Comparatively spcaking,how dear they now stood flow little to ie,gret, while there was so much upon which to congratulate! Their clultation must, he thought, be unfeigned, because . nearly unmixed with grief.—(Hear, he ar , low !)—Without wishing to enter into the merits of that policy which determined on the eanipaign, t.r gating into the detail of its cat chtion, who could . forbear, 10i.. wing its result, admiring the moderation, the equa nimity, the fcebearance of its illuarious Commander, and that sparing of the blood of hia brave troops ?--(H ca,,, hear, hear !) All this was attributable solely to my Lord Wellington's fore sight, who contemplating the termination from the comoieucc. meat, had, -frown the first, framed his plan; with a vi,:w to the coming result. Difficulties, sulln:al to be insuperable, had been by many honesc persons raised, at least in idea, against the cam peen waseh Lord Wellington had embarked since this was 'case, those who had l entertained fears as to his discomfituremult be the first to rejoice that their well meaning apprehensions had proved unfounded, and wou ld, doubtless, give an unani mous vote en this night --(Some laughs, and cries of hear !)-+