The Sun. — London, England, 1813-03-13 00:00:00

. - ova; 1 / NTIUltEit ‘n - 'r ,~ ~} PARLIAMENT: 'SE OF, I,',ORD§, DAY, MARL} 12. took place befdra four o'Clock , 1 Newcastle, Earl Talbot, and took seats. adjourned during pleasure, and resumed. against the renewal of the ex- If the East India Cumpapy and he Catholic were prc- Trade Regutalon 13111, atul a private, were brought up from everafly read a fii.st time. PD IA QUESTION, • [uery from Earl GREY upon` the Stated the ill- Allan itesotutio 4 ; should be , axis of an arrangement to he A to the ttittirs of India, which subjeet in question under the lair Lordships; As to the rest„ upon what passed' elsewhere.— ciretunstauceq, and Ai the ma : aware.that he could give the her answer.' 'vet]; that- by what he under-. lite LOH, the Course , tO be Upon What shOuld pass in the that their Lordships*W.ere not )positions from his '3l.ajesty's lie subject, 'until certain pro . which , may or niaT not take Tarter. In his opinipw, . tilt .cceding• should be adopted. A ;culty and detail, involving not tercial interests of the country, , 1 6Q millions 'of subjects 'of the submitted generally to both ;atit. Their Lordships should 41.4nlity of originating proposi ,Pen the subject, iledepre oposed, which miy call upon points'of such iMport idequate previous ekamination xen precl u d e t he subject from n out Mouse until the other had ix•o n.tmsntßzt - sliortly replied, 'ornse was the most regular and nld ha Adopted. There ryas no delay on the Part of Ministers.' the subject cbtnikt•re p previous to the eonsideration tholutions up on ' i t, and it 'n''Y e mos t convertienand rcga ado r pted, - • then resolved into a corn". " 11 the St i p en di ary C urates Amendments were 4;reed to, C ANIPAI6I\I, IN SPAIN. ay, upon which their Lord ed, being read, . ELLESLEy, rose, and pursuroti, , itteri his propositiotl6' to the e in a sp e e c h of veil of wllieh , however, fair li brief and general sketch. He intset on the great contrast of at, which he described as ge throughout the country, and , at the brilliant and attspici :, and course of the late.earn ula, and the lamentable failare,. icing those results which were ttstly expected. The state of amiteneement, was such as to ies never before combined in and that array was led on by •e merits,. never surpassed by, ielit or modern hi,tory, be be -1 one sentiment in the world, :s was be added that of the in which they were engaged, time fotnided w true isdini ‘Vlty, th en , .h e would.ask, d i d innately lead only .to failnrtw Why should the actual - re- . , :loriously iidiqylt:ll)g.i ti a center into a system of retrograde or is? " was entitled to de :o' the latuses which led to a eel and so deplored. Was such to the exhaustion of their re ' weakness of arose wilt/Ault - M. Ls it the thunderbolt itself that .netlicient,, or were the hands anderbolt feeble and adequate? which., as involving the vital. Lir and character of the coon , iecineti w or th y the 4leyinus,con -1)4 tuat H ouse,. and as such he felt it it t i b Y to bring them before it. Ev er y t hi ng „lited to render the neriod neculiarly'atispi etrec the t ' •• • nikti oll of ng a SUCCebSita _and brllltant ;1,,, 111, (91„ . .„. . conflict with, the enetny in the 14 1 in q (pc individual who was the very life p i 4, 4 ted his: military enterprises, was ‘t (p4l,.ter (111re,,,Itntrsuit of his ,pro,jects in )I,l`,,trtti 81 4 , 40 Lvery thing which had it 'II At have, in C04111110%1 pi:licit:nee, cOurs e I'll(t):64.eueary of .affairs, beet 4 fore ,l4l nt a the head , of the National Avt,;. t ,, t, they should. have been pre tt Coannensurately. The were well et fi t , at 1 . lit Ind sufficiently necessary of .1„),til"c:t but oal' 11)fiSitiPnt1 Of.RussiA; and of the t , 1- ti4t a lay mesas self b y that "t 4 .7 the lu ttltriatio gtiltlht . ns of a system of re te eg4rtteetve and ainhitionstle- 0 Li ~.. , t . 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Peninsula. complexion of-affairs upon the Continent was alsia-, such as - 'to set 'tit liberty the great disposable force for active service, which ne.'-rthe com mand of an °nicer, who was one of those that watched over the dawning glories of the Martinis Wellington, he meant Lord Wi'diant Bentinek: The state of the PeninsUla itself. too ,was diffe rent, and most l'avournble too, froni-what it %vas nt. any preceding period. Its Military system was ahioillotted by bins that was the great soul of all Lis militltry operations, to a subordinate Admini stration ; and an interior system Of Government was. established of a kind so aidienlotts, so. Judi crows,' that could 'not decorously, in' that House, express his contemptuous disgust of it. The different armies of the enemy ‘vere placed in situations so remote, so apart from effectual cum, - mnnieation with each other; as to afford unprece dented facilities to the Allied Forces—that of the South, under the orders of Sonic, was occupied at -the time, in operatiima of 30 extensive, so peva- I liar iv maitre, that the presence 6f that excellent 1 officer Sir Rowland Hill, with the comparatively' small force under his , eonimand, was able to op pose a certain degree' of resistance to them,: and he did not think it tot) preach to say, that, under the then 'circumstances of. the French army, a ; force might have been brought forward, s(r as to bold it at check at another important point. Mar shal Marniont's force, too, .was comparatively in significant at the time ; and between these two General Officers there existed material differences., Upon the whole, the crisis was such ! as that a more favoiirable opportanity never occurred in the world. And at such a crisis, the country and.. Emilie were geuerally united in sentiment, that the most effectual exertion was to be Made.;. and that' • was .the universal 'feeling of Spain herself:. He . was.prepared ,to state to their Lordships„ and ire meant to endeavour to shew, that at every poi n t in which the late eintyai.on in Spain had failed : 'it was solely from theinetlectual means afforded--- from the inadequate resources given to the 'lllns-.• trious Officer who commanded, and so often led on ihe allied troops-to victory and to glory. From t hese cries es he 'wits disabletlfrom-folkiwing up Ilk hitherto unparalleled successes- 7 --from advancing . after the brilliant affair of Badajoz, to che attack and destruction of the aecumulated and main re, „, sources of the French at Seville, the very founda tions of their power 'which might have been caimplished in the then very , favourable state of things in the South of Spain.. The war might then, were it not for inadequacy, of means, have been carried into the North of Spain. He knew that at the-moment a temporary movement,to wards the North of. Spain had become.necessary with reference to the unproie.cteci state of the.for tresses:of Ciudad Rodrigo and Almeida ; though hail there. been unadequate force to hold. tire• French militaryin check in .the Noah at the time' stich a sudden _movement of the main army to- Wards.that quaiaer woald.ntit be necessity. . in deed the enemy's force in the North- *is such at the tinted that', as it wasknown to the NtahleLordS opposite, they were repulsed* by the Militia in the Northern Provinces of Portugal—that n i ith a small division of British troops Marmont might be takeu ; and it was the peculiar disastrous for , . .tune of the whole elunpaigti, that, from the same eat e, inadequacy, of means,. the main force was unavoidably employed la operations for. inferior, °hit:as. • If there . waS a stitheicat British forcelo . have kept Mariimut in chedit i as Sault .was kept 'by General Hill in the sonth, that sudden move meat towards the north would be unaecessary, and the main may hod been left free t , .) act against the immense resources of the French in the south°, which then might have been cut. off ; and that was- no vain, or fantastic opinion, but one of clear amid' tlitiit praCticability. But from the s:tine.pardys-. ing.cause, the inadequacy Of lila means, the illus.. trito3 Getteralwas incapacitated Iran rendering so signal, 3O complete, and so e s se nti a l - Wrvice to .his country, to. Spain-, and to Earope. These were facts and considerations Which afforded' ant ple grnand for aft inquiry, and such he meant to c;til seer. The..,same paralysing cause precluded the advauce of a victorious army into the interior of Spain.,Scarcely had' that great General en-: tared upon that progress, than fie felt. himself constrained, from the insufficiency of his means,- . to ciniunence what was,,under these-circumstances, a patient arid necessary retreat. He found him- , self opposed by itiartnont in such a way - as to ren, der that line of conduct necessary ; and, at the same time s ...through a similar line• of management, which induced hiS'imMediitte sitwttion, ire abso-. lately knew. nothing. of the arrival of the Sicilian expedition, nor was it po ss ibl e , in ,fair view of the subject, that he could have had !, ; From the combin WOOS of force against him, it Became not - only a matter of ,prudence and wisdom on the part of the ,of ahsolute neeessits, to continence a regular. Series of defensive nribra-, tious. Such was the state of things . on' the lith, Of ;filly, when the system of retreat adopted by Lord Wellington was - prudently, wisely, and pro perly entered upon, bet. use the force opposed to hint was , so greatly `superior to his owe. He was satisfied that If that ,Noble,Lord (Wellington) had received a reinforcement of J 5,000 men, he would have adVanced, instead of being o bli ge d to re ,. treat. But as Lord Wellington was realiysituat , td, it was impossible :for .him to adVallCe. .He had indeed, through an effort of 'his genius, taken advantage of a favourable opportunity, ancl con , SATU It DAY. \\IA H 13, 1813'. • vetted tietreat into victory. But something more dim a favimtable opportunity was necessary to ti,le him to Change a.- retreat, into an advance ; ie Girder to accomplish this, it was absolutelyne e cessary to Thane the'whole system of our depots . and magaeines, whiclewere not under 'his ;mine- . It was-not therefore . possible for him to change the retreat iptci an advance r To prove imw very inadequate the expedition from Sicily had been to the object which Was intended. by i:, it was only necessary tti obserVe, that after the arrival of that. expedition,. Suellet had been nbte to semi a reinforcement to the corps- of Jo seph, which rendered that corps efficient, - and by mudding it to bane. On the , flanks .of Lord Wel lington'saymy, issue deprived thanof the fruits of the victory, of .Saltutienca. But 'l.'6rd ,Wellieter . too had not Ate Meansof following up the ad vantage which• he obtained by the victory Of Salanancr e- the very success on that occasion ,showed the inefficiency of his means. Some persons had o!nected to Lord Wellington going I to ikladrid. If he (Lord Wellesley) -was asked • whether-he considered it a politic measure to have made the British army,take possession of Madrid,' although there-was no . certainty of their being able to keep possession of it ? he would answer the' be considered the policy of the Measure ques tioutuble: But in the case of the Commander of the Heitish army in Portitgal, the taking possession Madrid'wasa thattei of necessity ; for nothing would have been mnre - detrimental to- .his Lord ship than to have left•Mhdrid with 'a pOssibility of it being taken possesSion of by theFeench.' An other necessary object of inquiry would be into the meet Of the failure atßurgos. it'was an import ant, Operation to take that place, it would certainly ' be proper to knowwity fee failed. In a letterwhich lie himself had received trout his Noble Relation,- be • Was informed that he had beett e , from • accidental circumstances, imapprised of the strength of that furtress. Ile hod also heard from other persons that Lord Wellington had declared, that although he had succeeded - in taking Burgort, •be could not have made'a• successful campaign without rein liireements. Ihe object, it seemed, was to ac complish the t.!vecttation of the South of Spain ; bat was it necessai, iii Ordcr toevaCtelte the Whole of Spain, exce , ,?t, a few fron tier fortresSes ? But to let the palter still go further, what could have teen a more dreadful les son to the people of Spain, than eo see thei t eoun-• .try deserted by Our army, while driving 'the French before- them ; and they e ere scarcely de- • livered from that hardship whenitheywere exposed tnanother,, perhaps a wors'e;\ when titeyshw the French, in their turn, driving liack the British - twiny. The effect of such things 'must certaiuly eeery had; lint-he hopedin God, that the bad effects of such a lesson,- might be effaced by some future-success. But why did Lord Wellington re ,tiete---was it for the purpose of `completing the etacaation of the South of Spain hy.the• Peeneb ? He retired because he entertained deetbts of the safety of the corps of Sie Rowland Hill. • The re treat of the army was attended with gloryto them selves and- to tacit leader, 'but with none to the nation at large,whether it was taken.abStraetedly, or as it related to the cause of . Spain and of rope. From the conduct of the army on its re treat arose another argument on the:imperfection. of the system adopted by his Majesty's iliinisters. • No army could preserve-good discipline 'on a re treat ;. but -then the question recurs again , --why was the army obliged to retreat ? :Whether was it owing to a want of resources in the 'country, of to the bad:testi of the administration of those re- . sources That was a, subject which rleserved much scrutiny. The effect of the last vampaign had not been an approximation tie the object in view,7but on the contrary, a removal front that object. The object., the only honest object, sti n t the object which he was persuaded uanit had in view, was ,• the expulsion from Spain of the French troops, or at least such a diminution of them .as .would be adequate to an expulsion..: If the .campaign failed from the want of sufticient , tneans,.such as failure was not from necessity, but from the exercise an unreasonable, degree of,discretion ,in the dis*- tribution of those means. He Would wisleto tisk_ whether there were means, end to try the ues :lion on two points first, T whe'ther there were , really means in the Ceuntry. , Second, 'What the means were, with proper regard to the pressure of • the finances. He argued the %thole ulton • the, one point, that the crisis demanded the greatest possible effort. .One -Noble Lord had said, that a, great flourish might have been made in tile last , campaign ; but that by doing so, the meanS . Of the' country would have been so much exhausted; that it. would not have been possihie toelo witch in the ' succeeding, season. but he would.state poSitively, that any efforts which could have bee; - , made in the last campaign, howilver `great and however • straining :upon the resources- of the country; Would; considering the crisis, haVe brought mat- ters to an issue, and the efforts necessary in sue ()ceding campaigns wonld halve hi eft c4;teparatkVely small. Such an effortwouhl heve been ningnani" Meth in justic e , anti in resueet hair duties , Russia and to Europe : -The Ai: title Margas then went oe expatiating on the neeessitv :de manded the most strenuous efforts on -the part of Government. Ile emceed into a' tletail Of tlu Mon ber of troops in the kingdom in the year 1612, and contended from the state of the forces in the tom, reinforeements might have been sent to - Lord Wellington in such time, anti to havereached bon before-the battle of Sulamance. Ile had said, That 1.5',000 mist, sent at a proper time, would. have effected the object which was- rettoired. On com paring the 'number Sent by -eivernenent, be found that they amounted to about twenty thousand men ; scarcely so many ) so: that Ministers; and he 119 t difrer so nitwit a=ir thesubjeet of the nuin hers as on the flute when they, should have been [PRiCE SIXPENCE-HA.LPPENNY. sent.' He would ask the Noble Lord why they had not been sent earlier, since the crisis had ar rived '? It: might be answerer,!, that. Lord NVel lington had said he wished troops sent to him only . , between Christmas and March'. Such was an an. sorer he had once received from the Noble Lord, when he. renionstra.ted with him on the delay in sending reinforcements. But was that , n princi, ple isliich was to be applied on extraordinarir oc casions'?' lie desired toknoW whythe tro , R s were not sent betweenChristinas ISI laud reit 'lBl2, ,itiee that' Ind bee fy assigned as theproper period ? But supposing it es'tablished, that between Curist. mas and March Was the proper time.. for sending troops, at what time were the reinforcements sent . by Gevernthent ?. They were `embarked at the &panOk, a:season nnquestiotinbly the moat no. favourable, and 'arrived at Lisbon in November,• known to. be the very worst season, and ,when the roads were so much tut up, that' they could not join the 'army. He then went'on to enumerate Oif ferent means by which, h be thought that resources Might most easily he procured, to,assois6n niaking a vigoronS' effort in the Peninsula. The first which he noticed was 700,0d0i. the explmseS of the Lo, . Militia fleTroposed, than theitun expended on thit body for fourteen chlys in the year should he added 'to the means for'prosecuting the rya'. in th Peninsula. He then said,-thatt'the onhi dif feretiee Between nis opinion on the subject -4 war and that of the Noble Lord-.eras, as to the Sup. : parting' of the troops in Brighind or in Spain ; lot they hOth admitted that nothing hilt a securepence could sanetiort the reduction of the armament, 'even to the amount of one single Man, The terence between the maintenance of the . army at home and on the. Peninsula,. Was only - 600,0001. am! would any *one say that for so great an object the finances 'could not have borne so great a 'pres sure ? .When the impracticabiliryof the thing was talked ot, it was Worth' examining how the re- Sources of the country were applied. He Alien Went over each 'sum' voted for the army, mid other estimates, arid observed, that in most cases these. , i t uas, to the amount of 700,0001. Would have been. be.tter employed by being contribated U,.the part of the Peninmlar war. He then noticed-tln4 difficulty of procuring specie, and imputed it to the niggardliness of Ministers twit, did not offer ficient price. Their commercial restrictions' Were calculated Co jnforce.the exportatio n of specie.! ---7 What would the House sayi when tliCy were in formed, that at the time no specie could be sent for the support . of - the British artily -in Spain, set that 'very time the French army were suppled with it through England I IrhiS arose in a great de,- .gree front the sy s tem of .Licensei. He would state the case of one French vessel, which had ar rived. in thiS country with silk. Her eXp'ort cargo cargo was 'INA ounces of foreign gold coin, and '20,000 ounces of foreign silver coin, .1000 ounces home gold coin, and 15,000 milieus silver ditto 561 ounces,...f gold bullion, and 60,000 ounces of silver ditto. FroM this it. was clear, that 'there were means of procuring gold, if prodet means bad been vesorted to. Besides specie, the amount .of which received from Eaigland, the 'French Mi nister stated in his Erpose, there were umny other articles conveyed through this cymitry to the French army Spain The„consequence of:four of five.aent,:bidding at the same time for specie , for the use of the BritiShtiOvernment was to caus'e a great fluetnation 'in the exchange. It was curi ous to observe how litany absnrilitiei eriterell the regulationi on this'heaci. The agent of least importance was enabled to bid the hi hest, :rntf Lord Wellington's agent was left - at• the bottom of the scale. In one instance thereNVOYN2,OOO"O dollars to be,disptised of at Gibraltar. Lord lington's agent bid for them. The agent for - Cn • dig bid 64. the :Lent fOr . bidder carried them away, ,and left .f.,ord Welling ton without the means of, his in . Ijw hoped the Noble Lord `Oppoiiite, (LiVerpool) when he rose, would state the 'Nandi& of trobps sent. ' out, and ,the extent a( the means etitployea- ' on the reninsnla, bet not to indulge tit ge neral declamation upon the 611CeeSS of the ar my, and the skill Of . the General. • Another topic he expected to hear urged. iii that Noble f.aird's- Speech . was, that as LOrd Wellington was ciinterit with the means pliwed at his diSoottal,' the House 'and' the country should niso la 4 tent. Ii such a topic was , urged . , Ia would only say that he did MA know which to-kalinke most, the temerity of the assertion,: or the ;ihStirdity of the inference. Even if it were admitted, that Lord Wellington,' after being.,driveo in tetrelit Over the scenes of his former victories, Was yet contented, was that .a reason why the House or cotintry should be 'contented ?.; , --Statesinen.or the Country Ought not to besatisfied I)(rause that gaJlaut.Gentral was 'contented tfs act with thr.'.. meana pheed under his direction. His object Was to enter into inquiry, that 'it may he known whether the systeM pursiied in the Peqinsula was a good one or -WA ; ante whether it- was like to lead to it safe and honortrahle peace. Could Ile would ask, lead to such petioc, if it ivtts eonu." fessed by the Minkters'ot this country, that they brought nil the efforts of the country into opera tion 'in the Peninsinla ? If such w.as ae!itliV the ease, .could not Bon: yarte say, that with :di lien etfortS,, Eng Lind wits foiled on .the Foiled _she certainlv wtt ., , but'a't; seeinea dispowd rc, say,. it; tking every rinat within fier ? Vc";, , ,; the House prepared t o give tllt'i~ :que tion to by : refusing' -" engoiry ? Under, all the circumstances, he felt it his,..dtlty to nlove:for Contmittee to inquire into the: ewttict and the results of the last.camp zt i o gn in the Peninsula, • Lori 11A ruun, qaid, that the Noble 11Tarquis (WeHoley), in the courAe of his speech, ."-r . : 9 p4'tP,c.:4l to assert, that if it were roui eotleti the Howie and the country ought to he conteutezt, as