The National Register. — London, England, 1812-12-06 00:00:00

- sack, after which it was read by the Clerk at the table ; where upon the EARL OF Leer:roan rose, and m - ve't an Address to the Prince R gent in answer to the SPIIIC. 1110 Noble Lool tettehed on the van us torr'es en braced in the speech, and dec k red hlniself happy in I the opportunity of being ::ble to express how mu il the. prospects of the country had of I, te been intoroved both at kin; e and abmad—at 1i re, by the.. reateration of tronquillity in the traonfactitrioe dis- i tricts ; mod abroad by the h illiant successes of our arms and those of 1 our Allifti He eas ow one, that to carry on stieh a war as the one in which this country was naw eioe.ged, great sacrifices most be made ; ! and no one could more sensibly deplore :'.tan he did the burdens under • which the country at present laboured, but they trout beer much more before it could be hoped that final success would .cro'o'n our eflhrts.—The Noble Earl col choted by moving an humble A !dress . to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, ‘vhich was a mere echo oi the Seeech. Loud R ()Ler seconded the Arire:s. On the question being put, the Marquis n to. 1. rser v rose an stated, that AS tar as the Adaress went, he coi nc ided with e.ll its seno- o meats. Ile acknowledged the t n rascendant merits of the British i : army, and he felt with natural pride the ettlogiums bestowed upon its 11 distinguished and noble Chi..f. He allowed that meeh was. don? and Ii much atchieved in the Peniosula by the exertions of our terces. He it did not hesitate to admit, that om-splendid and august ally the Em- : er.o- of Russia had nobly ac.''. his part, and that whilst he set :m example to other Sovereiens, so he merit ad the praises of all the States ' of Europe. He confessei that Slain had fought a most glorious fight, 1 :teal that she throefore demanded not only from this country. but from every other in Europe, their best aid in her strugelieg and godlike 1 effi,rts to oreserve her n:oi ve soil trout the pollution et a foreign ty Tont He further admitted that this country posses eu strength, I sinews, and te—roces to aecomplo.h Spanish ticedom, and with that freedian, the freedom also of the civilized , world. klut when he ad. mittett all this, he disired it should be understood, that his admissions oily went the length of saying, that still we hard not done enough to obtain and accomplish that glorious ,bject. The Ruler of France had not disguised hi; views ; uoiversal sway was his object ; and he avantfoi but the pos:.ess!on of the Peithooda to extend it !Ate!' Europe. The pclicv, the Yen existence of tHs country, tole(' nut to prevent it, avid Spaii: being tilt.:onntry whir re the game was to be won CT lost, it , behove:l England to apply to its resources, igloo:me as they are, to carry that object into ext.. utioit, and th watt the tyrant in his first expectations,—What, thereleee, he had to contend was, 'that to ac complish so desuahle a purpose, we acted town a scale of comparative insuttieienee. Here the Niolde Marquis enteied into :+ lung retrospect of the w:.: upon the Pcinnsola ' to prove that Ministers had not furnished the resources do y really possessed, to reiotroce the army in Sr do tinder Marqu•s Wellington. From the want of sufficient means that: gallaut General had, he said, been prevented raising the siege of Cadiz at the time of the so: render of Baelajoe. .From the same cau•c, on lemming with his at my to the North, he was cent yelled to remain en the frontier till the lit ii of June ; and when at .nigth he dicloopse forward, with the limital mea i lie possesset!, Ise toued Mat.noint's :trioy so touch stronger than Ws own, that he was obliged 1U commenced a real, not a feigned retreat ; and the battle of Safatharre'a, Which took place in the course of that retreat, .trose flout ai. accident which cc uld not reasonably have been hoped ' ter —.in /nom ot the enemy, and thieextriordinary talents of the Gene- ' ral, who tostantlv took advantage of that error, who, in a moment, s:w the opportunity of strik k rg and with the rapidity of lit liming. I.:hinged his spear into the he. of the enemy. Previ us to this vie_ tory, Lord Wellineten had not above r2 . ),000 doll:trs in the military chest ; ,and fte tidiest brigade in the at tny had not above three ttillars A suio of 47,0d1 dollars hapoetved then to he on its ea.-sage for the panisloarmy, and this lie was tinder the necessity of applying to the eurposes Of 114 Ili hist army. The nobly Marquis then alluded to the recut 'eon of NT'a-irid and the subsequent siege of Burgos, the capture or which would have been next to a miracle, with the means i i Lord Wellington's power ; and here, likewise, he said, was :tow her c oivlncing proof of his noble Brother's want of means to no 'neve tne object in view, and of the inutility of maintaioioe any contest, if, Nvfilll advantages are once - w hited, soele resources are not sup plied as wall eff.ct toll y secure them. Ale touched on the Sicilian ex ecdition under General Maitland, which had totally failed ateineving a gicat object, through bitd management, and adverted to•tlfe little assistance to be toftected trout the Spanish armies. In conclusion, he said, the plan for c tonic:ring the war in ohe Peninsula, which he hail always recemmetotol cv., to make the effort on A large scale, and to pu sue it with ail the might and inelos of the empire—the plan which hazarted our farce to a great extent, and at the sante time cramped all . s ooblev.kopes, was the plan adopted by the wisdom of hi> Majesty's .Ministers.—Tur. ire from that quarter to the North of tu.oee, his Lordship allud d :o the treaty with Sweden, which 'he denominated " a monster in diplomacy.'' as we had agreed to defend Sweden, without detnandiog an equivalent ia root re —T he next feature of our policy was the A nierican war. He wool 1 whint that no attack could be Mt*: IlUjoistifj.itite thw th a t n t o t e by y A meriro, .nit that no caw e cold.' he more riehteous than that of England : but the conduct of ife_ war otietu to have been widely Aitli:rent. A...erica was nut to be soothed and ti.nalltd into peace. The heads of that THE NvrioNIAL PEGISTER. DEC. 6. Goyerntnent had long been ieflitenced by a deadly hatred t __. country, an d by a deadly love o• Fraoce, feelO u t r h it e o i l m icy po t r lo n: le . u h; wisest. nay, our moat pacific measure would he, to shew } :i i"— ,., reach' for the emergency, to pre ego in front to Atherica a fi•rce j , , r i t i l l v c - i; would make her teal her danger, and chasing her safety by peace.—The Neble Marquis contese.l( hi; re. ;fret and surpriae at finding no mentieit ot the R nalan Catho li c , • l e n re .; in the Ptioee g e c ent's speech ; he trusted it WaS -Ot tl.e ill':.- 11 :r nn i Monsters to render the preceedings ot last year void and ir e ea,_ ( ; - , - „ef . —There had boon a remota of Parliament's voting a prolo !4 , :r i - o f . its own exi-tenee—a nteasure most wanton, roost uniiecess ir 13 , ° ,i which, if tint; otueetely carried into execution, most irelltje ' :l ' .. most alarnati,g consequences.—He should now (a-no:ail°. He o e ,, • ; t e l move no amendment. He had Seen in• rely anxi4;vs to ,iv,cl litallt. ct the opportuoity afi:•telesi. by the H. use 1,1 the cooreoei n of lis mind upon solajeots to which it was . coil , alive. Tee greet siitei l-- ; was the Spanish war. Ile most mice :woe press it upon the Ilea :, • we had no alternet ivs het wean vigour aid defeet. It most be puieT e d . with a t.ew heart it.'l mind. The Earl of I.: vss rooe replied to the i'sfarrlois of av e ln e e ) , 1 ,,"i alefended Ministsrs teen: the charge of imbe.in Ltv in • 1 ' ' " . Gllt maws tat r war in Spain. It Was execedirielv cask foi th Vo'ele hold to sit doa o i in his closet, wish for , r iooloi . ~ and .• , 6 4 (.., Ile, a nart i ctikir ea 4 1 .6 of AIV 1 PV . en ninrntlFle• But Ws4 this Statestnan-oil ? Moto Lot ev e ry 0 . ertien depeod re, the applicable resoure s of the coute rv, 310 be p, o _ portioned to the demands that arc made en it from .i her gooier,' it was for the Noble le rd to skew, how alai where greater elforsgeuld have been made, than those which were actually csoad t or o e p e was ready to agree that when the military force of France wag is a certain extent distracted and engaged by Russia, vie were than i , cu . !lady warranted in making exertions to a greater extent than at 29 tether period : but still even this admission was not without its (pea float ons. Would it be politic, for the sake of a formidable extrii a in one campaign, to exhaust the means of sooporeiug Lowe cam paigns 1= Was it net the duty of Government and of Park moo tolo a to the wants of toe country, not for one year only, hot f r futente Was every thing to be risked on the turning uo of a single ( 7 .e i an! for one extraordinary flourish this year, were we to threw away :,:l nut resource: , , and debilitate • 'all our future exertions? lit desired to know what additional exertions could have been made ? liv'epolest of the force required for the maintenance of our Indian Empire, csr Colonial possestions, and for our domestic defence, on the 25th of Julie, we had in Sicily, the Mediter lame n, and tie Peninsula, a Soo 1 of 127,000 mer, of w hid: the British troops, including of course the Germans, amounted to DI,OOO, while the Portuguese might be reckonoi at 36,000. This was altrget her indeperatei tof the Spani•ii atin;es hi June last, Lord Wellington had not fewer that !iB,OOO British trooas under h s command, exclusve of Port mew se. Did this ague nod. fort on the part of Ministers ; nay, he would a4c, would it have bon believed two or three years ago, that this country should have been capable of making such exertions ? plc had also to (ssure, that to the Russian war W 2; forea• en so earl.Y as Christmas, so the oalect exertions Ili s year had heicn suited' to that imvtirtant &mese. ! Singe the '24th of December last, not leaver than 90,000 msn, osi 7000 herses, had been conveyed to the Peoinsula in oac ca r. 'flees • 1 were eflbrts which in former periods would have been coetemp!sod las impracticable. T!•e Noble Lord next proceeded to observe, that the refusal of 11 illasteros to advaufe had been materially injurisus to die campaign. It was Lord Wellington's opinion, that i: Ballastoos had in ved, according to orders, from Grenada to Almarcz, tie French would net have been able to re-enter Madrid. Theadvance el i this Sparish General would have rendered the force at Alicaet dis. poseahle, and the Freed' would not hays made their moven:en; ell the Tagus with Ballaatenas on their left flank, and the Sicilial, tiM on their rear. —A t pre•ex• he conceived it as ould be inner; per to i enter into the di •cussion of our relations with Sweden. This olio it:, would observe, that there existed a thorough coatidenre berwean the two Governments, and that Russia, on her )art w as not disetho i fled with the conduct of that power.—The Noble hoot regretted thin the Catholic question had been omitted in Ho s peech. lie CL : ' ,` l . Liverpool) would declare, that on this subject he had never ;fermi!)!: to see 'iia ways c 1 arly to any satisfactory adjustment. Foeertainies i i that opinion, he thought it more maiily cloak of guarde, to seek means by which the claims of the Catho l ic! I might be ultimately defeated. This. however, he must and, was as it to ti.: to owe it, that under Ile . own itidividied opinion, and he dal nut necessaiiiv expect binding on those friends witb whom he had the honour to act• , I LOrd GRENVILLE eructed into the question of the Spanish war, and 1 said the Noble Marquis (Wellesley) had reasoned cor•rath: ill hi .... v . , lc _: i lof the subject. He admittt;ti that the iSpardsh peas:miry pocri',_ i a better feeling, hot that tile oriole. , I,' . 1101 V CollSthrtlA Werl.,Utc.9. lavail as allies, and instanced the aooduct of Ballasteroa, wl of .rt_ l or:t gleeted his ditty in the South, of preventing. :lie juhetroo S , , I anti Sonit ills Lordship also adverted to the question of the A it tll s ci i ; can war, and nisiteed that our C CCECSNII'II ill lerealing. III(' ( - )l. ' : Council exnec tr.() late, and that. if auch coneeasion had bet,u ea r ri_ l 4 made, it would have toeen more elßCrual.—Such was t lot ease ot ,s !i r A maiiCan war, which ended ii the loss of our Coloi.i.o; c orice r d ' was tn-vie after conceiaion, but ever this was den:: tat Ilite , se. that v..Wi li would on inahy have been received with e rateueleis` l ;:. I when ofretoil, rejected with cos:tempt. His Loodahip evert ovar lc sani All 20d A:le I io ,1 von 'V t tit 1. , )n v,t: the S.lia 17:i