The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-12-04 00:00:00

Fir l• ~~, 1 , 4i t . i i ; • • • . T . ~:,! I.i i c r. ' , . 1 , ~ 1 1-•.,, -;', r. Ir .. 2,• IC, I S; • r • k ~. ~. . ;, . .. - 1 . : . I l e I , 1 : 1 ' 1 . li . . , )': i .;1' 44. k ' q. ' ..!,., , 1 '.,: 1 Marquis WELLESLEY felt proud and gratified by all that occurred in the debate. lle should not now intrude on their Lordships at any length,—he Should not intrude on th - em at alt, hut from the na.. tural wish to give the tribute of a brother's feelings to a brother's praise. [Hear, hear I] But if the merits of the great General.could have a higher and 'More eloquent eulogiom than that pronounced by the . Noble Secretary (Lord Bathurst) it would be that bestowed by a Noble Peer (Lord Somers) near bitn. There could have been but one feeling in the Mouse, when that Noble Person spoke. llis praise of the British General Wdil most valuable. H e spoke like a patriot. lie had sustained a deep and bitter loss,—but he had sustained it with the ho_ pourable and manly feeling of one who had giireja is dear son for his country. Iflere Lord . Wellesley paused for a moment, and'aiifeed shout 44001 • TIIE I{P' 0.. • • r. ,promise ultimate success, he was satisfied that Mi l That Noble Lord praised the humanitye end gm" . mast agree that the means entrusted to Lord Wel. parental kindness of Lord Wellington , teiesittiSfflie. lington could not have been better employed: all cer ; :--he g ave a p ane gy ric above all other. chi the must agree in the ability, the skill, and judgment, ! general subject of the motion, it couill scevelbly ant with which he bad successfully encountered the dn. supposed, that be (Lord Wellesley) would offera cuities he had to contend with. Not only in the jectious. One thing only he had to observe : the triumph of success, but in the more difficult scienclets3Mie z Aerefifill, kld •Sll .tosthetthqphty of the, of retreat, were the talents of Lord . Welling 'ti * Glineelll's Ifillebte BHP inetesure of titreat, eminently displayed—talents which prevented te* • aiad 404, dada fot . fies siibally displayed then in fortune from producing calamity, and which ina ifetoVy."Foe tnyeleit, kid Lord Wellesley, if I the utmost possible advantage of every success. He ester . ..Law/ow txs,gbta atiOnspartial testirnonysof . the viewed with equal admiration, though not with equal ' merits of your groat General, I confess, before pleasure, the ability displayed by Lord Wellington Heaven, 1 would stet *sleet. his.victnries, biilliant as in his retreat to Torres Vedras; in his subsequent they were—l would go to the moments when diffi advance; in his taking advantage of the predie mo- 'dilates ltressed lied' frowdeil npots hint—when he had meet whenglory awaited 'his 'standard at Selattiaticti I but the Lemke of •ettrethitieveewhen he was overhung ; attd.now, unfortunately, in hit again retreating to Use by superior strength. It is to his retreats that I ; fr'outier of Portugal'. In all these situations, in every would go for the proudest and most undoubted cvi circumstance, he had displayed an energy, a prompti- deuce df his ability. ' (Mew l ' hear !) It is not my tlide, midi decision, happily combined, and eiiincing a intention to dilate upon these matters—there is but I consummate' mititiry genius.' It was not merely too I one feeling of them among as. The speech of the from his own acts that the fame of the country revived ; Noble Lord opposite (Lord BathUrst) was sufficient; additional wraiths, bdt he formed asehool in his army, RI chasteness, tastefulness, and truth could have in whickollicetsuctiuitedall the military qualities cal.; a waist,. it was more than compensated by the admi- ctilated hereafter to 'lead Them to renown; who ! rable.speech of.the Noble_ Marquis (Lansdowne) who formed the best' hopes 'of the country, and upon ! had followed him in the ebate. whom the country might tely in that military career The question was then pot and carried nernine which, unfortunately, she appeared destined to run ; contratlicente. . . -for a considerable period to come. Some of these I The Doke of NORFOLK enquired, whether it young Officers had fallen, and we had to lament I was the intention of Ministers to move any Thanks their loss. One of them, Major Somers, he deeply I for the gallant efforts'of our army in Canada ? Tegretted : his talents would have added to the at- Lord LIVERPOOL replied, that it certainly ready justlytelebrated nameof Somers, the new at- ' was not intended to move the Thanks of Parliament, tributes of military fame and renown. Others also !but that they would, at a proper time, address the hail fallen, but enough still remained for the hopes I Prince 'Regent, praying him to direct that a monu of the country to rest upon as 'he future supporters meat be erected to the memory of General Sir Lsaac of her military reputation. He could not be sup- Brock. posed. to abject for one moment to the honours con- I Lord HOLLAND gave notice of a motion on' Vrred upon Lord Wellington, of which be thought I Monday next, for some further information relative Vat idghly and justly deserving; but he might be to the Administration of Justice Bill. • itlotrel to express his regret, that whilst those ho- Lord REDESDALE said a few words relative to itours bad been so justly conferre‘ (hat promotion the delay which such a proceeding might cause.— which would have been most essential had not also I Further information could scarcely be wanted, us been given—that Lord Wellington had not- been the Bill had been before the House threeyears, ratted to the rank of a Field Marshal. This promo- The House then adjourned till to-morrow (this 1 lion, so justly deserved, would, at the same time, day). lave been highly advantageous to the . country : many %hie Officers would thereby have been enabled to seive under 'him who would, doubtless, hare been anxious and eager to share his difficulties and his labours ; nor did he think that when we were urging -upon tte Spanish Government the sacrifice of all punctilio and etiquette for the good rO. the CO1:113011 cause, that any punctilio or etiquette here should have stood in the way of conferring upon Lord Wellicst ton that military rank to which he was so eminently entitled, and the possession of which, by that great Commander, would be productive of so many advan. tages to the country and to the cause for which we were fighting in the Peninsula. Ile should only add, that he most cordially concurred in the Noble Earl's motion. Lord somr,as cordially agreed with the motion then before their Lordship,. lie gave his testimony to the transcendent abilities of Lord Wellington, not only from a sense of public duty, but he was influ enced in cloinj it by his own particular obligation to that excellent General. lle could tell their Lord • ships, that while his great mind seemed to be wholly taken up a lilt the important cars of his situation, he bestowed ail attention, almost inconceivoldc, upon the comforts and convenielim of those under his command. [fkur, !icor !] Whether they were suffering from fatigue, from sickness, nr from priva thins, they were equally the ohj,!ets of his solicitude. tifeciqj For himself, he knew that to a near relation of his, whose constitution was fast pinking under the More duties of his station, his parental kindness was such, that it preserved a life which else had been yielded soon after the battle of Salamanca, nor prolonged till that period when he laid it down for his country in a manner which gave him a melee.. choly pride is% saying his snit so died. [hear, hear !) lu alluding thus particularly to . his own relation, he was far from meaning to insinuate that his was a single cast.; Lord Wellingthit's kindness extended to all alike ; but he thought it proper to express his peuliar obligation to him. There never was, deed, a General, as had been justly mentioned by the Noble Lord opposite, who was less disposed to sacrifice the lives of his men 'for the acquisition of mere personal glory. (Hear, hear!) Ws soldiers knew this, and combining that knowledge with his respleadent talents, what a confidence, he maintain ed, must it tend to excite throughout the whole army ; a confidence highly advantageous to the cause in which we were engaged. lie concluded with re. peeing his c.re dial approbation of the motion. The Duke of GLA ieNGE paid a high tribute to The merits of Lerd Welliogtcm, and contended that )t had been placed in situatimus, infinitely more I. trying and demanding much greater efforts of military genius than the Duke of Marlborough had ever been. They were none of them old enough to remember thins ware, but they might read them in history, and ha would venture to affirm, from his knowledge I of them, that the Marquis of Wellington had tri timphed over ditficulties . much greater than had eve r I occurred to that great General. In the war of the Saccession, the power of France was much weaken- i ed by hostilities carrying on in other parts ; but it would be recollected that during the present contest its the Peninsula, except the short and unfortunate canseaigst against Austria, -and the very recent one against Russia, the - whole power of France had been directed against Lord Wellington. The motion bad his entire concurrence. , Lord of sneh questi ons i . ce i °l dfi d cr t o • f •- ti l :s il i' 'n . that they had not Gs' ca.ptoritorthat fortress, he should march into An- varietyetLl n of much topics, and tl a t t e lsd agie ---- 17 ....."1"......"* """" t he 1 , dalOilas and by that means, either get possession of that Rouse ; but the Noble eird had entered int o 4 Seville, and the magazines el that city, or, if the reline the conduct of c,, ~,,"...' ' 'enemy should prefer the risk of a battle. oblige the House to satictiou t is :: ( l:Ole di'P " ni I! :s them to that end, to withdraw their troops from the vernment Les • eiegq-Of 'Oadiz, one great object of their military and to endeavour to . . ~,teet. ley. From the neglect of the Spaniards, how- %venting itt atelle„, ~ ter,. to revictual Ciudad Rodrigo, the French had [No, no! . fre - ' , applies to 1 •'''" .(1 l y ' l ' . n t !sett, trz i e l n v ab el l i e . d t t rs make an . iu . curt . eoll into Portugal, end F. I;unlett, " 1 :In n l :i c sial f,l Z: 6 :t if t l ;:: l , - i ." . r . l .. f i': " 7;ir on was dtßil l al: Ma u d return Into. ofN u t t) . : , e , I e r e .: i i i4 l' inimany instatires, no aisl', bit:" l Ciudad Rodrigo, for the relief of t h at feseress. lie often, hoe ever, 1 01 l t• • for . ' ')r i " " '''' .l " " 1 "" It 10 iris tti w. tot..'lv ji, then communicated to Goverment,s n i n es d rd ro o m n i i :pri,inn e :: , ,, , ,, : : ,,,d 1 , ": 1 , •! . 1iv i t,: : , : c us e far hi s a u d .i .; i tz itlehraeTtilatisid‘ivipleer,; I t i:t h l - :7 ; f:; t l f .t ti • V e t rite c s ; .ment hisbeing obliged to ehassee the scene of hie ope. Noble Lori; ; art! now, . f ,•. " mea"hai of tte rations, for, depending as he did on the moral charte. i fi d g e u a r e fo rni a ve n y d e s d eo to rd i s .icniin( . • .at.l, I t his flia •,•• t •,.) rop e .. ~e .. i d • f . about Clietnncfairr- .. i , ' ,hat might he . - ' ter of his army, he should not shrink from -meting he felt that there was,' u'oi eslaSs, h he to fie o lc b l a , otdh,emeAvetiiiitiaolofll:ie.thhemoithj,..tcctotnho pet r t th he °n F t re in ne t proposed to himself by the operation in the South. dkinclined, But, when he had advanced into Castile, and to the lee army, to undergo the heating of detail s ~( 1) line of the Douro, the enemy had been so reinforced, might Fossils!) , detract from the eneral o'l'i o ,- ' .-- - a es • by abandoning their garrisons in the Asturias, and in favour of thanks to those wi le . . by the army of Caffarelli, that he declared his deter- titled them to nil the I et ',,.,its te . urination not to risk an action, unless he found them it masin • the newel-abe t ree o ,. - - ..ipense %%;,0 1 power ' i • rd th t e o re v%l:l7lie some u 4. of their country hot • in some such a situation as would afford a hope of upon them. Rut , I success ; but in case such an opportunity should not , serrations of the Noble Lard and that it 0 t _s ee I offer, he was determined not to risk the safety oli not prevail upon himself to aeree " .. ••••• l' " " Lt Ode forces, for he well knew that while he corn. i wherein he represented. the victory sums r lie l as ilet j mantled such an army, Spain could never be sub. ,as more important then what this o. .13nia l'" 0f %%. e it u mould i.eniark b e e d easily ;Dray ,:; o o u n t ly o s f o t brilliant, l ( l i i i a 3 t i i c t o , 1 t b i u o t i thato of t i l t ,t, e c x a t , r o ico n it ii ...i i l l us and iiitoils, deed. In taking a view of the celebrated battle • achieved its former time;;s country Het sh seizedich ensued, s u the e d , u t o h o e se. character lt . was t r y l. • Right lion. Gent. opposite (Mr. Ponsonby), that no its effects like the great battle of 1.1 • ler I-* • 1 one et military success ever depeinded less on titmice than : which, superadded to the decisive defeat that of Salamanca. Tice troops had not come into '; French Army, we took Marshal 'r 1i.,1 of one another's sight just before battle, but these two and by which, in fact, we a.. , 11'.. lwr changed th e foe of e s ' and gerfl great armies (of which, however, the French was rope? Though it was far from his wish to t ' -. the more numerous), had been manoeuvring in the ' value the m i t , . t r l i k is presence of each other from the 16th to the 2'2d of • Salamanca, vet o l o r t he thought it ttilltitioostueigt that t n t .1 manner, ' i o t g ‘ aind I I u ct i : : l : rn ;:t. L '' ' , f; t Vas delusion to u mq . Juts'. Without entering into a detail of the ripe. : country to ration!, for there was no linglishmeti, he presumed, readily' concur in the vole as a merited compo se " who had not read repeatedly the Gazelle, which con- ! fiom that House to the skill, and bravery, teitied the account of those transactions, lit' would . conduct, of Lord Wellington : but the 'coo asses. observe, that the battle was fought after complicated ed a different complexion, if it was it:tended to • l er. and skilful movements, while. each General saw 1 suatle us to perseverance in a ruinous ' • war, amid fe every movement of the other. The British General l make us think that the same Ministers who h a d s „ . was not attached to the defence hi any particular po- ; ducted it, were lit to pursue it. What tee N. sition, his determination was, that he would even re - . Lord called success, he (Sir F. Burden) must eta de. treat, rather than commit the safety of his army, the; feat, as far as he could understand the matter ; though lie never till then .had knev t h at the ei HOUSE OF COMNIONS. glory of his nation, and the hopes of mankind ;but if , Some Memhers took their oaths and their seats.rti o• et the enemy should afford him an opportunity, lie would : of Ministers was not to expel the French altoests, The SP LA KLR informed the House, that he had waited on the Prince Regent, o ith the Address, seize it with the genies peculiar to himself, and m ak e from time Peninsula, but only to keep up a war Highness's answer to the Address was read. AIL LOCKHART rave notice or a Bill, to prevent the them feel the valour of his tr oo p s . an d t h e genius ' there. He had never thought, that they would driole Trustees of Caartiable Funds from making lung and improvident which•directed them. •Was ever battle more noble' cleven millions in one year, only to raise the sleet s s e leas. fought, or mere important to the common cause? lafliz. As to the Andalnsias, th ey mus t f a ll agals, Mr. WILBER POitc E p,eive notice that he should, on Mon day, stove for certain Papers relative to the Slave Trade. Looking at the end proposed to himself by Lord ' es a matter of course, into the hands of Frailty. A Massage frost the Lardy requested the House to cornmuni- Wellington, as the raking of the siege of Cadiz, t i Under all the circumstences of the contest, it tate to their Lordships a Copy of the sth Report of the SPlret Committee uu the Affairs of the East India ComPaoY, which we and not the expulsion, of the French from Spain, his i appeared to him, even upon the Minister's owl delivered to the Messengers accordingly. object was accomplished.- The French had been ; slioeitio, that we are unable to find sufficient mess A Petition was pnfiented against the return for the itorough obliged not only to abendon the siege of Cadiz, but Ito support the .campaign ; and ~tat after Lord Wet. lingtotes retreat, he had only the two fortresses fit of IVeinnuth and hleicomh Regis, which was ordered to be taken tub o cutoideration ou the 9th of February. all Spain westward of Alicant; and if in conse- I A like Petition was preseumed by Sir :'. ISLTRDETT,from J. quence of the collection of the French forces, Lord ' Ciudad Rodrigo and Badejos, left to hi m as t h e f ru i ts Ba All th. ot) and S. C. t ;raves, Esqrs. against the return for the City of • I 1-% t elltogton had been obliged to retreat, it was only !of his campaign in Spain. AT to the very inn:arta:ft L i TH I.: VOTE OF THANKS TO LOllO WELLINGTON. by the enemy's abandoning all• their principles of part, the attack on Burgos, he could impute nothieg Lord CAoTLeiItEAGII rose, in pursunitce . uf his I warfare, and their military possession of the coup-: to Lord Wellington, who, he believed, did ail, c r j notico, to move that the Thaivies of the House in try; and that army,. which went into Spain for the • Perhaps more, than was to be expected from a great given to the Marquis of Wellington for his suc4easirt f complete subjugation of that country, only occupied l Commander ; but either he failed for want of m e an ., during the present campeieto and particularly the the ground on which it stood. But to turn away ! which implied no blame, or eisa he completely f a ieo glorious and decisive victory at Salamanca. lie felt from its eontetpiences in Spain, he should advert to ! having the possession of adequate menus f or success , that he snitinl be doing injustice to the gtillant army, its effects on the ; rest of. Europe Had not the effect !There must, it would eppear, be grounds f or ho se l and their distinguished General, if use introduced iii. of this victory been to animate the Russians, and' somewhere. This matter called loudly for (lev e e; to the present discussion, any timing of a cont over_ might it not have beneficial effects on the countries and in this state of things it was fit t o k nee h owlt sial nature, especially the question of the policy of ! unnaturally subject to France? ' After the repulseof ; hetTened, that with all the means of support w hi r s the present war in Spain, by which the mind of the the French at Borodino, a repulse more serious to !Ministers had in their hands, we should f ee l none o f House might he turned aside from a subject on which i them than that at Fylan or at Asper', General 1 the fruits of our victory—none, of the benefits of , Ler all must delight to de ell—Ulcer, lacer! ] --from i Kutusolv was enabled to animate his trolips, by the i exertion s; but, on the contrary, all the co n s e q ni e rs achievements, for which they could feel nothing but hisfory of the glories gained by the English at Sala. I lle of calamity ? Either Isord Wellington was not e, gratitude. Capable as the victory was of stamiin; manes Dear !], and to let them know that by'simi. f tied to the praises and thanks of the Ho u s e , or r i se on its own basis, as the effort of a great military lar exertions, they might obtain similar glory. This I there was some fault its th.; conduct of the Minis. nation (for to that name we were undoubtedly glory they afterwards obtained, when 30,000 men, ! tors. lie could not see how they could get Dot of entitled), he should tlimiaish its importance, and da under Prince Bagsstion, a General whose kiss we i that dilemma. But he rose rather to say, that ho, enuld not agree to a perpetual system of de injustice to the army and its General, if he did not fer one had since to deplore, repulsed the whole military force ; 1 at the same time take a view of the system of min- lof the French. - lie laying before the Russian Calti- i lusitm. This sort of delusion had now bee'carriat tart' operations, of which this achievement formed so net the counsel of Lord Wellington,- good effects lie lon for these nineteen years past in the course of the distinguielied a part. The house would recollect, I was in, lined to beiieve had also bee t s produced ; and I war; in his . own, experience for sixteen years, that at the end of the last, and the beginning of the tat the time that Moscow was o Mil pvil V sacrificed, 1 speeches like that of the Noble •Lord had beet present campaign, time fortress of Ciudad Rodrigo ;it was consoling to the ROSSiIII% to know that Leal ! constantly delivered, holding out uniformly Co was in possession of the enemy. With such celerity 1 Wellington had wrested Madrid from the enemy.—' same prospects, and the same penegs•rics on Cam. 1 1 and secrecy were the prcp , tratituts of Lord Welting- l Another not less important consequence, res t ating ! menders, amid on Ministers the•nselves, and endine !ton conducted, that early in January he laid siege to from that victory, was, that it we's a victory over l constantly in disappointment. He was unwilling at Ciudad Rodrigo ; aid a circumstance which formed • Spelt* itself. To the House, who knew the pr id e , I that time to enter into any discussion of the merits a sufficient eutoeiten on hie co n d uc t, was , th a t th a t (ho honourable pride of the Spanish character, it !of the campaign, and serially so to dissent from the ' important fortress was tate before Marshal Mar. would he lone to appreciate the ci r c um st an c e , that ! proposed vote ;ebut still lie thought it would hem 'nolot could get out of his winter cantonments, and the Corte,: had surrende re d the whole milita r y powe r been better. Lot to have brought it on trite so early, march to its relief. At the very time wile:: he was .of Spain into Lord Welli ab t on 's hands. Ties mo r al ! amid without any previous miquit.y into the merits of occupied in the siege of Rodrigo, this gallant Gene..victory over the Spaniards, could not, however, be so . the whole operations. But the Noble Lord a; if he 1 rat made preparations for the attack of Badajos, and well understood b.' the votes of the Cortes or 80. ' did lint feel himself sufficiently strong in tee l'eu:as such was the secrecy and celerity of his inoventeets, gency, as by the case of Gen. Bollasteros. That sula, went to Russia, to find cothfort• Br' trinralm• i that, notwithstanding the warning given to Marshal • Officer not only mile-fled no individual to support ed at the terrible act of burning the whole city ibl I Marmont by the rapture of Ciudad Rodrigo, seven him, in the-Cortes or Regency, but even his• owe' Moscow, by which . 2. or 300,000 individuals gyms out of eight of the divisions of Lord Wellington's army ! troops, those troops whom he had so often led oe driven wanderers from their . hahiratione, and thou ; were before Budajos, before the 'French General: to vlaary r 44vesnitelves delivered him up.-4/leueti -, bands of Russian sotdieis, as it was stated, became knew any thing of the movement. This important In adverting to this point in the character of the • the prey of the devouring llama's. All this terribls 1 fortress, with greater capabilities of defence than ' Seanith nation, he could not but lament, that they ! destruction he approved, because it d leered the even Ciudad Rodrigo, was attacked early in March ; bad not permitted us to do so much good for them ! object of the enemy in getting. winter quarters in and it appeared from a letter of Soult's, which fell :as we could wish. But let the good effects of this ; Moscow ; and considered the destruction of the time into the hands of the British, and which explained ' pride be at. the settle time considered—stile uohle ! dent capital as a matter of triumph to Russia._. to the Government of France, by what causes Lord , resistance which it has onabit'd them to make . Russia had, in fact, half destroyed her own country. Wellington bed got possession of two frontier fur. to the French. And let it be considered, ha Suppose Ilat t aparte extricates himself from his imml's tresses in the presence of two hostile armies, each Judging of their actions, how great the difficulties divee diiliculties, and, getting winter quarters else equal to his own—EL/coo . I ]---(for it indeed appear, ' they have had to contend with, deprived as where, prosecutes his invasion, .in a similar manner, that ',Vermont and Soult's army were each equal to ! they were of their Generals and their magnifies : its the spring, could any man of common sense he to that under the British Commander), that not-' and when it is recollected, that though they havo not Here that Russie could undergo the repetition• f withstanding that distinguished General had •as- beets able to bring armies i n to time fi e ld, w ith w h a t ' similar dreadful experiments and sacrifice: :. sembled his army with all possible celerity, suck matchless. vigour - their small corps have acted, the Could she burn another Moscow to prover t it, was the vigour with which the approaches were made, wonder might be (deprived as they were of their occupation by the enemy ? %Val she horn' Pet ers-., and such finally the intrepidity displayed in the as- accustomed supplies from South America) not that burgh too: The Russiami Genera! Kutusow, .s'o:eent sau"s that the Preach army could reach Albuera only they had done so Effie, but that they had done so log of the battle of Borodino, said, tint he 'IS' tl i , , after the fortress th e came to. re li eve had falle n into. niuch. After recapitulating some part of hiss peeelo follow up the results of the battle, because he should, the hands of the British.' H av i ng accompli s hed these tho Noble Viscount begged flue House to compare in that ciise, risk both his own army and the a , two great objects, whi c h w ou ld h ave f o r m ed so large the operations of Lord Wellington, with those of of Moscow. The event of the capture of Mosioe a feature in the fame of any other individual, after the French) and to observe with how small loss his did, notwithstanding, take admire the megnanimity of horning that, accomplishing two objects, which completed the ad. movements had been e ff ected—no rear-guard surprised • not greatly b een fateda vareageous e ff ects of the former campaign, and I e —no cannon taken (except . the few which had been , the preservation of which ought to have of the secured the independence of the Ally to whom we I abandoned at Burgos, and which might, had it beets for; nor could he see the ehining charac ter Ettetert•r place. Ito, for one, malt( had always Well so closely attached, Lord Welling- I worth while, have been preserved).”-elloping that he - Estoperur Alexander, who was not, likethe _ anyer e , ton had to consider iu what manner his army Miht I had avoided all controversial Matter, the Noble Lord of the French, personally he best employed. He was not so sanguine as s to I concluded, b lnoving; that the Thanks of the !louse ,' the war, if 'Alexander could coolly feel lois dreadful .a _ ... imagine, on comparing his means with ttso o f the be ' hi • W l i * . for his ' der-' calamity,—this sacrifice which lie could not agate ‘e Spain, but he entertained hopes enemy, that he should lie able to ape) sharing its the . d ll l the French ing the last campaign , and especially for the glorious ford to make. if he was told of , ~ . from 1 state of Bonaparte's army, and then looked to Neil" of compelling victor obtaioedenearsSalamantea. ' _ . them to abandon that militarypossession of it WM' • The • . quest's:us was putting, when . , . .. the :at out which Spain could never. be conquered . . P Du" • Sit FRANCS BURDETT rose, and bern by ; failed. e• H knew not what to make of w hat . , moral reeling e Inc the siege of IJadajos, he stated to his • cir obatottnintet hlahedi diallket *alms; his tiesinion - 1 We Lord said of the conquest of . s were really 'tent' he did not etiitao to mn i . g z; y t ng. which 4,e•sabjeete•perelfaiiiiiery s se whieh he was such ! Spain. He could not believe, that w e . Ihe roust see that its the latter we had complett:ls r" 30 , a 40 4 : 1* lath?' 'duals that, after ge too teems . to *salt to dismiss 111$6 • ledeAli Belting there. for the liberties a / a f mankind, who vestrOay lug Royal . ~*`, . . ~ . --- 'c._.• -.1.....01111111111 . _ i+'..~: ,* , • ;..4 - :