The National Register. — London, England, 1812-01-12 00:00:00

24 _ l t I was resolved, on the motion of the Cuamcattron of the Excite gout, that no private Bill* should be read a first, time after Monday, the 24th Februai y, and no report of a privat.e.. Bill' be taken into consideration after the 20th of April.-ISiir. Peeceval also moved, that Orders of the Day should have the preced.ncerf Notices on Mondays and Wednesdays, which practice had seen fuund very convenient last Sessions. • • Considerable oppot4 iop was manifested to tt:l4 Resolution by Mr. Whitt - ire:id, Mr. Abercromby, Sir J. Ne w p ort, and Nit-. Ponionby, Oil the ground that it atirlOtted the privileges of Members to make a'mo tion whenever they thought proper.. The House divided on an amendment of Sir J.-NrwroßTi 'when the Resolution was carried by 58 to 11. On the motion of the CiIAtiCELLOR of the Exciirguta, that the House go to-morrow tnto a Committee of Supply, Mr. Ca a EvEr took that opportunity to advert to the number of Pen sions and Places enjoyed anti held by Members of the House, the num bers of which were increathg; and even since the end of last Session three additional Placemen had been introduced into the House s namely, a-Marshal of t' e Admiralty, a Clerk of the Council, and a Paymaster of Widows' Pension's and who could doubt of the shotivei for bestow ing these places t The hrtter appointment he particulitrly considered as fly ingin the face of Parliament, that office having be-en recommended so abOlithed ai long ago as 1783. He concluded with'moving, "'That the Committee be postponed till to-morrow se'nnight." Mr. P AC EVA]. defended the appointments alluded to; with regard to - the Pay . astership of Widows' Pensions, it had been expressly inti to•Colonel MgMahoo; by the Prince Regent, that the Mike was tone eonsider.d as held by hitch ttibkict to any regulation or modifica tion which Parliament might think proper to iitaK e concerning it. Mr. ROUGIIAM and Mr. Wet (SALVO spoke with much severity. on this nppointnumt ; in the opinion of thAtiter. If i, were possible for Ml nisterA to have wished to cast ~ilium and disgrace on their Royal Mas ter, this was, of all other, the very appoiotmety which they should rec , sr :mended him to fill up. After much discussion, the House divided ; •r the amendment, 11; against it, 53; majority, 42. The oreinal trririon eat Tied. Mi- rcul N SON dace notice (after being repeated;) info:Tried by the Seteakvr that it was ol.:t of order), hat he should, on the first Tuts in March r-ove for a metal of the Legislative Culon between Great Britain and Ireland.—Adjourned. /MID AY, .j AN. 10. Mr. Secretary RYDER postponed his motion respecting the Parish Watch until Iri&ay next. THANKS TO LORD MINI 0. Air. PeLezvAL said, that, in rising to propose a vote of thanks in that House to I..rd it was by.no means his intention to exclude from the 41 . alittvie or gratulation of their country the brave and dibtingui%lickl Officer, oir S. -Auchmuty, who had eonducted that expedition, or the brave Officers and s Idlers who had borne a dii!inguished share in the perils and zhaies of the enterprize. Every thing that hod occurred in ti,e condu , l of it was in the highest degree creditable to Bi heroism. Our I' in chi- affcir was'but trifling. The enemy lost 500 men, and Br i!adier Alberti was dangerously wounded. Her cc;!1(1 not h e lp men tioning to the 1-I..use, that at the time tile eneray•comlo:mced their re- ' treat Cokenel Gillespie was much indk - pc.. .d ; but Mill, after all the toil and exertion of this hard fought day ; after that fatigue of mind v..hic!i a brain man must feel woen glory is at stake: alter Iti,din„ his gailmit men t victoi y and to fame, even at the moment of fainting, he strug gled td be valorous, and called for his horse to tramp:e in pursuit of tho-t whom he had not beaten down in battle—( Loud cries of 4ear, hear ! ) lie could not, he said, suppress, without i:ljustice, the name of 0,101-el Kl‘l.l-od, who fell un this glorious day. Captain Sayer, of the 1 Royal Navy performed with promptitude sand skill whatt vt:r was liven to his direction: and here the Right 1-ton. Gentleman could not hut congratulate the country, and himself, on that Wilting combination of . effort which pectiliaiay narked an) enterprize in which the occasion de mande.' the union of our ni,litm.y and maritime strength. The subordi nAticn existing among the troops was, he said, a subject of pride to their Commander, of honour to tneinselves, and of exultation to their coun try. From every thing he could learn, nn army had ever conducted themselves with more moderation, and though the temptation to plun der was such as - could out he .easily resisted, there was not, he was proud to Nay, one instance of barbarity or rapine that ci•t:ld, in the small e,r d, gree, darken the fame of British arms upon this occasion. The acquisitßAl of new territory might not, perhaps, under its present cir cumstances, be a subject of much exultation ; but, viewing it as a place from which the enemy could, at all times, and with hopes of impunity annoy our conundoxe trl t 1 Last, it could not but strike every Gentle man As an acquisition of the utmost importance. Mr. SIILitiOAN, as far as related to the General and the army em ployed upon chis service, could not entertain the slighte4 obj?ction to sive them the warmest acknowledgements that his heart could dictate; but a country so extensive in territory, so numerous in population, so difficult of matn;tment from the many couten4ing petty interests which exist in Might afford sufficient employment to a pet son of equal mili tary talent,aisd not inferior civil capacity to Lord Minto. • Ile had been sera out for the purpose of governing that country; the country required' the employment of any talent that Noble Lord pk.r6Jesseti f• he should, JAN. 1:2. then, be glad to know what necessity could have ur&ed Lord Mint° to "out himself at the head of this expedition, and traverse the seas from .Malacca to Java. He would tint now enter into any examination o f the value of the acquieition ; but when he came to thank the planner of the expedition, he could not do it without calling to mind the expense of blood and treasure which it brought upon the country. Thia e, n. quest, from the destructive nature of the climate, could not he retained without a regider annual expenditure of lives, and if we quit.it, leave tiie inhabitants to certain eestruction. His disposition to tha:.k Sir S. Auchrouty and our brime troops was as eager and as waint as that of any other man ; but with respect to Lord Miuto, he could le t but recollect, that if his representations of the gallant General Nita,re had been received some years back, his country would have been doi prived of the services of that able Commander. The expedition might have sailed, and been successful, without the Noble I.ord accompue)e g it ; and he must reprobate the idea of civil controul attending nn t , e movements of an army—it savoured too much of the plan of the French Directory, who had one of their political missionteries to wait on every General, and to controul operations'of which they knew nothing. Mr. Yonxe said, that among the multitude of able Naval Officers we possessed, there was not one to whose exertions the nation might look with greater confidence than to those of Commodore Rowley ; but, is the pre-ent case, it was but justice to say, that if that Officer had Lot r ctived reinforcements, or if Lord Minto had not himself proceeded to the Mauritius, his zeal would have been ineffectual, fur he would undoubtedly not have performed what he had proposed to himself.— Now, with respect to Java, he could allege that Lord Minto hod !ere el , o anticipated the views of Government; and that, if it had not beta 1 ., e - the arrangements he had made, in consequence, the instructioes fr , on Government arrived at so late a period of the year, that the expe dition must have been postponed till the next. With respet tto the nee., city for his prestnce, it should be ret ullected that it was not a purely expedii m ; hut that tliere were various points connected with the policy of retaining the island as a colony, which could be best judg. e e l of end adjusted by a person havineauthority for the purpose, and being on the spet. Lord xpfit, was therefore right in going to see what arrao;ements were immediately necessary, and he had no doubt that the good effects of his having done so would be very sensibly felt. Sir )HENRY MON rnomERI: could not justify the thanks to Lord Mint° w hick bad been called fur. General TARLETON could not concur in a vote of thanks to Lord Minto. Mr. Git.s•wr was of opinion, that Loyd Minto, in proceeding himself to Java, had performed his duty as Governor of India. After some further observations from several Members, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEI2VER moved the following Votes of Thanks :—To the Right Hon. Gilbert Lord Minto, Lient,Gen. John Abercrombie, Lieut.-Gen. Sir Samuel Auchmuty, Rear-Admiral Bettie, Rear-Admiral Stopford, Majors-Generals Henry Ward and Frederick _Augustus Weatherall, and the several Officers under their command; Commodores Broughton and Josiah Rowley, and the OC:- cers acting under their control; the Non-commissioned Officers and Soldiers, Sailors, and Royal Marines, engaged in the late glorious con. quests in the Indian Seas, which were all, except the iirst, carried tiers. curt.—Adjourned to Monday. TIIE NATIONAL REGISTER. REPORT OF THE KING'S PHYSICIANS. The following is the Quarterly Report made to the Queen's Council by the Physicians attet dint; his . Majesty :-- 6 4 We, the underwritten Members of the Council appointed to assist her IViaj.•!sty in the execution of the trusts committed to her Majestyl4 virtue of the Statute pas-ed in the 51st ve;.r of his Majesty's reign, it:- tituled " An Act to provide fur the Administration of the it oyalAu. thorny, and f.r :he care of his Majesty's Royal Person during the cots. tinuance of hi% Majesty's illness, alio for the resumption of the exercise of the Royal Authotity by his Mi.jesty," having duly met together en the 4t.L d...v of January, 1812, at the Qxeen's Lodge, near to Windsur Castle, and having beiere us, and examined upon oath the Physicians, and other persons attending on his IVlajesty, and having ascertaineil the state of his Majesty's health by all such ways and means as appear to us 1 to be necessary for that purpose, do hereby declare and cern*, that the state of his Majesty's health at the time el this our meeting, is not such as to enable his Majesty to resume the personal exercise of his Royal Auth ,, rity. " That his Majesty's bodily heabh appears to us to be as good as at any of the periods of our former Repots. " That his Majesty's mental health appears to us not to be worse th.n at the period of our last Report. 4 * That all the Physicians attending his Majesty agree in stating, tl.at they think his Majesty's compkte and final recovery improbable; slit -1 feting, however, as to the degree of such improbability; - some of them expressing themselves as not despairing, others as :mot entirely despairing, and one of them represen ing that he cannot help despairing of such re covery. (Signed) C. : entaur. Aylesford. E. Elam.. Eldon. •- . Motatrose. Ellenborough. Witichelsea. W. Grant. " Shortly after the above Rt-port had been read-in the presence uf :;:t I`/ no to frum On I,f ter of ct n. ained :, the lank m as 4 not inure n de. might uy is g to t. .e rt nch every' rs we t look ut, in d not eeded would I ht re t been ,ctiotis expe. nec•_ 5. ly mi. I wits judg. e, and what )t. that Lord Lord Votestiwself dmiral rd and ✓ their to Or,!- Is and .ts col!. 4 Acta. S. Council :o stag testy by ign, yal Au- he cOO exercise ther Vindsur •siciaus, ncil the 'ar to us that the lot such is Royal is at any rse th.n ng, that )le; of them spairing, such rc-