The National Register. — London, England, 1813-11-07 00:00:00

r• I. TIIF, \• TTONAL REGISTER. • 707 great Couimauder, Lord Wellington. (Hear.) Thies glorious C. ample was nut lost on the _Continent. No, it was Cie actual fon*. - dation, and acknowledged to be the foundation, of those st,:peri d.ois deeds that were . afterviards done on the Contiftent It was 01 coutOrmity to this exaluple ihat Russia had risen to resist the most Airmidable and appalling force that perhaps had ever been collect :eel to overwhelm a nation. She had resisted, and she had struggled out her own security. Yet, from peculLtr circumstances, Germany was the last part. of Europe in which tt successfid and combined re sistance could be looked ter ; and this, not Irons want of spirit in the people —no; from want olmiitary habits,—for she was, peth..ps. the most iribituated to war of any other empire—nut from the nature or het polity. Mall the divisions of Germany, Prussia was ever the last in which the spirit of the people might be expected to shvw it. 5 elf. Vet, good God! what a change, and that witlao a few mourns. And din History ever exceed the efforts now making by the Prnssians order. their King! (Hear.) Dot if those efforts were extraordinary, they ail resulted directly from their natural canse,—t'rom their ccin- • billing in great and cor,lial views on the sithject of the general safe. ty, an•l from their connection with Great Britain. • No one ribald doubt the spirit of the people or the Allies, nor of the bravery of their troops ; but the whole conduct of the campaign, the bold ai.d dotingly desperate mancenvre of mooting the .Scale, with the subse. yient triumphs, arose &um that manly and cordial union which was the consequence of that new spirit of independence. Vet that spi rit grew np in Spain, was strengthened in Russia, and was now triumphing in Germany. Let it nut be supposed, that be looked ma those successes as the signal for inaction Quite the contrary, all the powers of the country must be exerted, all its eitergies must be called forth. — ,4 God forbid !my Lords (said the Noble. Eari). that I should mean to exclude from our policy principles of justice and morality. I agree most heartily with the Noble Baron who spoke last, that we should have a general peace, and one founded on principles consistent with justice to all the powers concerned, not 'oily to friends, but also to our enemies. I could not, sow Lords. hare any thing ask front asked fro our enensii a, which we ourselves, in similar circumstances, wooddyefuse. Oil these principles :1 is that I ask toe the support of Parliament, and of the country ; and, acting on these principles, we hope, under the blessing of God, to bring the con test to a happy termination." The question was then put, and the Address carried nem. dissen. Earl BATHURST gave notice of a Motion for Monday next, for a Vote of Thanks to Lord Wellington and his army. The House then adjourned to Saturday. situationot ouecountry now, with that in which it was placed ten years ago. We were theu threatened with invasion ; and to decide our own indepeedeece, poured forth our thousands and our tens of thousands: we now behold the country of the invader not only tlacateved, lint aetually invaded. The Maeqnis of tVeeceseev said, he felt the most lively setiafae• tion in assuring their Lordships, that the Speech delivered that gay from the Throne, etas entitled both by its sentiments and languitee, t rout the In-wooing to the end, to the decided and unmixed approba that ot their Lordships aml the country at large. It was so judi ciously trarned to diffuse militia:ice, and to encourage union, that it held out to our Ailias. to ourselves, and to the whole of Eurol e. the mast aaspicioes omens and =ratifying pledges of the successtel tt ia • minatiou of the struegle in which we were engaged. The sound, the truly noble bite of policy pointed ant and recommended in Efe conclusive of the Spoech, called for the entliusiastie admiratiose :tut of this comma. only, but of all Europe. No sacriticee inconsistent with national rights and national indepeudeere were demanded ; and ' 1 if the principles laid down and recommended, were persevered in by !!Hoists rs, they could not fail to steseced- in effecting the salve-. Lion of Europe, and the security and prosperity ot• England. Lord GRP:NV[ILE coinvided in the eulogies expressed by Marquis Wellesley on the Speech of the Prince Regent ; never were senti ments more properly adapted to the occasion—never was languaze more adapted to express its purpose. His Lordship drew an ani mated philtre of the strnegles, theedieficidiies, the disappnintments had encountered derina the last twenty years, in endeavouring to curb the amhition o: France, and now he with gratitude thanked Divine Providence for having, after so long a period, permitted to behold his native land in such a commanding situation, as to be able again to pursue that which ought to be the only legitimate ob jest of foreiaai policy, he meant the establishment and preservation of a Balance ot Power in Europe. 'I his was a principle held sacred by our aticestors, which was slaver entirely abandoned by us, and ' only temporarily relinquished, because the suppliant nations of the Continent refused to unite fur its maintenance. Now, however, S the day-star of freedom once more dawned upon Europea—the night of igneranre and slavery is fast withdrawing, and a glo rious day of liberty and l'appiness is promised to the awakening world. Such was the happy situation of this country, that it ie . a matter of ieditierence to her, by what arrangement the 'erst! object of p•vserviesethe balance of power was secured, provided it.alionld be secured by some arrangement ; perhaps, however, with this ex ception, that of all the objects of success, there was wine for which this country ought to be more anxious—none in which the honour of the country was more concerned, than the re-establishment of Holland in the place which the had formeritoiteupied in the scale of nations. The Earl of LtvPoPoor. had intended to offer hut a-very few words to the House, but the occasion was too interesting to all his feel legs to allow hut pass it over in silence. He might csmuratulate the House and the - nation on the gloi ions successes which had, been just cominemorated in the speeches of NoWe Lords ; bat .he had no slight reason to congratulate then, on the unaniatens recline of those speeches. They had all • been full of Rentidenste and honourable promise ; and he could not pass thisapaelof the subject, without adverting to the charley by a young and. Noble fond win) • spoke early in the debate (Lord Clare), and who evinced _a large and THURSDAY, NOT. 4. happy portion of hereditacy talent. Mut there was,-et keast, one • The SPEAKER having taken die Chair, new Writs were ordered circumstance on which he alight dwell with genuine rejoicing. We for the County Palantine of Durham. in the room of Sir H. V. Tem. might now use the words Balance: of Power. The nyerpowering nest, deceased ; for the Borough of Woodsto ck, vice Lieut. Oeeeral strength of France had broken down the system of the Continent, 'Thornton, who has accepted the Stewardship of East Hem:red ; and in so tar as inntual security had been the result of mutual rigour; a - for the Horsetail of p Yerkshiree in the room of the Right but new, a flew light had daebed upon the world. It wal nut er- lion. Frede;•ick Robinsane viho has accepted the office of Joint roneoue, nor lowering the spirit u t outer nations to say, that this Paymaster of this Majesty's Forces. light had first dawmd in . the Peninsula. When lie leiuked to Lord COMPTON rose with peculiar pleasure, as the nature aids that, he felt that war had assumed a new spirit, and he felt it with task had - rendered it much lighter. In the sentiments of the Prince st higher and more animating hope of success. War had hi th erto Regent on the subject of the continued indispositioo of his Majesty, been the cenflict of Government aiiinst Goveenment : now all mnst par'icipate, and all must sympathise with tlie filial piety of chaegtal its character, it was now, for the fii•st time ; the war of la s R o yal th a eoeste The state of effair.4 abroad was now ‘'era the people. (Hear.) Such a cotiflict dill not seem likely to end as terent from tit had been at any former period of the w toilets had dotaa (Ucae ) England had ti•ken a peculiar . share in Witleoee exceatio n) (the attack on Dresde, the intereats of that wae It hal now lasted five years : during that i reen 'a set iCs of brilliant victories: the cameaige had and it sppeared, that evil' be:ore time. she had 'ten Powers the least military in Europe singly OP j the late glorious and decisive operations, the loss of the French pose that Power, to which all' the rest - seemed maapial• It was could not h av e a mounted to less -than 100.000 men. The scene. never to be forgotten, that, small ,as her territory was , Portugal indeed., with tpspret to France. was completely altered. Last year, Was yet the first comnry. that successfully resisted. the general Austria and Prussia were hevallies, and tecrmted her armies with enemy ; that the establishanent of the Poi tugnese army was, if not the cateeest of their troops; now they the example of spit it, iit - Thist of discipline, to the neiebbontine we re embattled againat her out the ensanenined What France oppose to the stations; and that it was this admirable discipline which ma de it fi t a:•miea arrayed against her? Raw .eon -cripts, dragged in to stand in the- field, basalt,- and !there the. dangers rrf, Britishai f ro m their ',ambition!, to treshaaattlea. Surrounded as the de`eot - tfuels as they Vttre folly entitled to do in the judgment et . their " was .s‘itli hostile - armies, and all his supplies cut off, his situation SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 0. Their Lordships having met about two o'clock, upon the motion at Lord V. kLsiNGitAst, their Lordships were ordered to be suin . • wooed for Monday next. The Lord Chancellor then, attended by Lord Walsinaltam, Loids Digby and Clare (the mover and seconder of the Address) with some other Peers, proceeded in their robes of state to Carlton-house to present the Address voted on Friday. Their Lordships adjourned to Monday. HOtTSJ OF COMMONS. ?igijbelitint I 011 the ellianelillied Wll:it CO'llli A: I ailuc made it tit a:•iniei arrayed against her ? Raw .eon-eripts, dragged in eilAills (WI BritiAto, I from their hakibitioir , to treslikattleg. Surrounded as the despot i"t I A . their WAS -1% WI 'Untie - arttiieS, and all his suliplics cut of 1; Lis situation