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C 6. sant.:Krounds as tit, Nonie . he mode which Mtni,ters had alooted, bolt t Penntsttla ani w:th our Northern Earls B vrituiv,T•and Mrtvtt.t.a defended the cont'atct of Admi,iir tratimi : alter which the Andress ryas agreed to without a division, sad the House then TUESDAY. .DF.CEMIIER. I. At two o'clock the Hcnt e !net. for the purpose of presenting the Addre.is mewed lat night, in .ins.ver to . the. Regent's Speech. • 'Hie Duke of GLoucEstut and Lord GaEN v i.ty. presented Pen- Cambriog: and Oxf)rd against the. Cato!)lie Emancip.i. tion, declaring at the same time that they did :his merely from duly, wiihout pledging themselves in any way to supp. rt the object et Petitions ;on the contrary, to opote thzni.—Adjourned till '1 a u rAay. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3. CAMBRIDGE ANTI-CATIIOLIe ADDRESS. Same conv:riation took plice be,ween the Bishop of BRISTOL, 1-I,kaoi.vickE, and Marquis LANSDOWNE, the former maintain i;.l, and the two later denying, that proper notice had been given cf the Anti-Catholic Address. THIN TO LORD WELLING - - - the Order of the D' ay was then read, for offering the Thanks sit the House to General the Marquis of Wellington, for the victory of Saiaelanca. Arm uR ST gave a minute narrative of the campaign. On the 17iii r,t Itine Lord Wellington had entered Salamatica : and it was a`laut that time that the correspondence between the two French Mar sh.ils fell into our hands, which related to the operations of Lord Wel -1 von front the commeneemant of his march into Spain : and if the great successes of his Lordship were required to be stated in the siraegest possiba manner, they could not be better done than by lay ing these letters before the House. From these it would appear, that there wis not any movement of the enemy which Lord "e'Vc::ington did not anticipate, no expectation which he did not frustrate, and co fear which he did not realize ; insomuch that one of tilt French Nlar inals declared, that Lord Wellington must either read their co res_ patience, or dive into their hearts.—(Hear, hear !) 1-laving received reinforcements, Lord Wellington was able to cross OW Douro, and, having selected Tordesillas, was attacked on the riext day by the whale army of Marmont, from which he retreated without loss. The two armies continued for two days in sight of each ether, watching, and anxious for an engagement. The critical moment at length ar eyed :—" Now 1 have it,'' cried Lord Viaillineton ; and the sante army who were before in.a disposition for retreat, were now in all array fOr battle, as if they had been so from the very dawn cf day Thc division was under the command of Major-General Pak •nhain, --a very young nun to undertake so great a task ; but he proved mu that occasion, that ire united ta the enterpriziog sprit of youth, the nisdm and experience of maturer years. He was well supported by the cavalry ; but it was not till th 6th and 7th divisions came to our assistance, that a decided advantage was obtained over the enemy : and the cavalry under the command of Sir Stapleton Cotton decided the fOrtune of the day, which was uncertain till they burst upon the twenty, and carried every thing before them.—;Hear, hear !,) I' is Lordship then pronounced an eulogy upon General Lc Marchant, who fell in the b a t t le, a nd left a family of orphans looking up to their country for support. His Lordship left it for others to descant upon the 1110-it Noble General's heroism, judgment, forecast, skill—all of Which were disp:ayed at the victory of Salamanca, awl which had not slept since. if he forebore from panegyrizing all these qualities as they merited, it was not from a want of teeling them, but from a con sciousness of his own inadequacy to do them justice. He therefore left the task to others better qualified than himself, and concluded by moving, " That the Thanks of the House be presented to General the Marquis of Wellington, for his many and great services ; more Particularly for the great and decisive victory of the 22.2 of July last, Whereby the siege of Cadiz was raised, and the Andalusian:; were rescued from the hands of the enemy." The Marquis of I. A NSHOWN V., from his heart, expressed his senti ment that the great military fame of the Noble awl Gallant Marquis "is not in the leant tarnished by the subsequent events. These cir cumstances made no alteration whatever in tine question bet Ore the Muse ; that question was not .vhethcr the means all'irded to (Ire Noble Marquis were adequate or inadequate, but whether those Which he actually possessed, were wisely, and, as tar as circum stances would admit, successfully emplOyed by hint. In a review of all the great military transactions which had distinguishe the war in the Peninsula,. if he were to select one point preferably to another, as the obj ec t of the highest admiration, it would be those circum- Vareces in which Lord Wellington was compelled to retreat before a superior army.-- (Hear, hear !) In these circumstances, his great 'tend shone more eminently conspicuous in availing himself of the difficult circumstances of the country for the protection of a retreat- I N army, and for maintaining his communications with his resources. was known and felt, trout the nature of the war as connected with e character of the Cominaoder ,• a kind of Military School wa, formed—the advantazes of which the caun!ry would, ie the career of THE NATIONAL REGISTER. 757 the times, have one day to avail itselt, perhaps with a re!erence to Iu very existence. such a school was the irive•ament and iepeated tacks of the Castle of Burgos, in which such a g slant and accom . plished officer as Major Somers unhappily tell : 4:1 effieer who, if he had lived, wouid have added to : name, direath' 7 !ruatrious, the ho nours of military fame and glory. —(Hear, hear !) He meant not to ob serve upon any alvice given by Ministers to the i'i Regent, as to the promotion of Lord Wellington after the hattie of Salamanca, but merely wished that-a rank. had been given hiflh, which Would have enabled him to avail himself of the services of those...galla.d GenerAls hootherwisecould not so regularly serve Lord Sonatas was most anxious to add his tribute of applawie to the merits of the great OffLer in question. 'There never war. a General inure anxious for the preservation of life; but %viten the services of his King and Country required it, noel' did any one dis play more ardour and gallantry. he Duke of Ca AR ENC F. expre.scd fiis strong sense of the unpa• ralellel merits of the Noble and Gallant Marquis, and had no hesita• tetion in s eying, ham every thing he had read in history, farnisning o ground tOr his opinion, that considering the very diffinertit CirCUM• stances in which they were placed, more hid been obtained by the great Officer in question, than by the renowned Duke of Marlborough! Hear !) In illustration of this point, his Royal Highness entered into a short comparative view of the respective history of those rear periods, and contended it could not be shewn that any difficulty had been cpposed to the Duke of Marlborough, that the Marquis had not also to contatel with. The motion had his mos:cordial approbation. Marquis Were. [seal* should not now intrude on their Lordships at any length, he should not intrude en them at all, hut from the natural wish to give the tribute Of a brother's f,elinga to a brother's praise (Hear.) But if the merits of the great General Co:ld have higher and more elequent eolveium than that pronounced by Ilu: Noble Secretare Bathurst; it would b.' that bestowed by a Nidale Peer ininer•) tear him. Fhere could have been but one ( - cling in the llothe, wheo that feeble: n-lsoi, spoke. His praise of the British Genciel was most valuable. He spoke like a proriot. He had sustained a deep and bitter loss, but he had sus:tamed it with the horlourible and manly feeling of one ‘vho had given up a dear son for his country. ( 11er - clef. Wellesley paused for a moment and seemed stronely elncted.) For my part, said I.d. Wellesley, if I were called on to give iti% impartial testimony of the merits of your General, I confess, hafere Heaven. I would te.t select his victories, brilliant as they were-1 we it'd go to the memento ya hen difficulties pressed and crowded upon hits,—when he had but the choice of extremities, —when he was overnuog by superior strength. It is to his retreats that I woo Id go for the proudest and most undoubted evidence ut his ability, hear, hear fl The speech of the noble Lord oppoSite (Lord Bathurst ; was sufficient ;it 'its chasteness, tastefulness, a•-d truth could have a want, it was more than corn peroated by the admirable speech of the Noble Marquis ',Lula:Lowrie) who had followed Mai ma the debate. The vote of thanks was then carried unanimously. The Duke of NOR FOLK , :XPECSSCa.it v ish to know whether it was the intention of Ministers to move any Thanks fur the late transaction in Canada ? Lord Liv ER roll. said, that it was in contemplation to move for a monument to General Brock, who had so gallantly fallen in the sera vice of his country. Adjourned. FRIDAY, Dt:CEMBER THE MARQUIS OF W ELLINGTON. The Earl of L k.K root. brought down a Message from the Prince Regent, acquainting the House of his Royal Hignness's intention ht . ni3king some further prod-ion Itor the Marquis of Wellington, and re questing their Lordships to coincide thereon. The Message being read, lint Noble Earl next moved, that it be taken into consideration on Monday next, which was carried unanimously, and the House ad journed. --- " 214111 " HOUSE OF COMMONS. . • Att i, NO V. 30 At one o ' clock the Si. R to4k the Chair, and several Members Were sworn. At two o'clock the Usher of the Black Rod summoned the House to the House of Peers. The SPEAKER, accompanied by a great number of Members, imme diately procc red thither ; a:).1 on their rerun', the usual. business of Corm was proceeded in. The Clin•destine Outlawry Rill wcs read a first and .)econd time : the usull Committees were appointed,. and the Standing Orders read from the Char. ' The SPEAKER then informed the House, that they had been sum moned to On. Hou , e. of Peers, for the Ittip)se of hearing the Speech of the PRINCE REGENT front the T hrm . e, of whi...11 he held it ct'p tit his hand.—(Vide the Lords' P.eiiutt.)—The Speech h4vm,i; been teal. from the Chit - ; Lord C LI vE movel she AddresF. Mr. HAR r DA v : s .cccildc . .l the motion. met ew sect w ''