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anii very important advantage would be obtaipirl ; lie would therefore suggest to his Hon. Friend to withdraw his motion for the present, and bring it - ou again early in the ensuing session, when "a fuller attendance might be expected. Now he had only to complain of a want of numbers, and not of the disposition of Hon. Members, who appeared to consider the question with a degree of attention and feeling highly honourable to to their character. The Right Hon. Gentleman, in stating that military punishments had . di minished, had only spoken of General Court Martial, whereas, for this subject, Regimental Courts-Martial would have been much more im portant ; and he was surprised, with the Right lon. Gentleman's means of information on the subject, that he ,had not said more on that head. He did not agree with his Honourable Friend as to limiting the punishment ; he thought it was disgraceful that it should exist at all. Some Gentlemen who justified the practice did so only on the plea of necessity, and yet that necessity was not shown ; it did not exist in any other army, and every other people were shoatal at it. At present the English Officers laboured under a pe culiar difficulty, because many of them were not disposed to use the lash, and_ no punishment had been spbstitnted in hs stead. TheHonmirable Baronet continued to argue against the practice, and said the advocates for the abolition of it had on their side the authori:y of his Royal HighnesS the Duke of York. The -- Right Hon. Gentleman bad declared the practice of inilleting,punishthent At different times foe one offence to be illegal, but what satisfaction was this to the soldier who had so suffered ; hesides,..this was the, first time he had heard that the practice was illegal. The lion. Baronet adducedsorne cases to shew the necessity of abolishing flogging in the army, and said good conduct was to be obtained as much by rewards as by punishments --r en were goTernell by hopes •and fears, and where the one was extinguished' the other must operate in its stead. This principle he considered to account for so many punishments being thought necessary in the British army. After •some other observations to the same effect, the Baronet, in conclusion, declared his satis faction at the tact hick had appeared, namely, that the odious practice %yea rapidly going out of use. • Lord I'ALMEFSTON and Air. M. SUTTON - `riained. 13AzttiGTou did not see the epediency of eny I(..gislative provision on this subject,. which, did not think would answer the end. The pro g7eis of opinion would do . much, and it would I. hctka to leave t h e question Ar!th the Officers slimy. • -_ , ti:pwA.an BULLER that no Captain the Navy Could take upon himself, as hod been .asserted by the Hon. Baronet, to punish and dis iniss a seaman without an order from the Adtniral : under whom he served, or from the j3oard of Ad- Sir V. BtiRnETT, in explanation, said, that Iris yncaning bad teen misconceived, he having taade Do such assertion. „ Mr. ISEZ.;NETT replied ; after which the clues. -tion . w.as - 4n4 the motion negatived w i t h ou division. . Lord PALMERSTON obtained leare to bring in a Bill re sp.cting certain deductions from the half-pay, and also a Bill • to enlarge the powers of the Commissioners of Chelsea sad .reenwiA Hospitals, on the s,ubj e o. of granting p ens i ons. , Mr. ,MELLISfi moved, that the . accounts, of Balances of Public Monefin the hands of the Bank, for a series of years, rtipto the 7th-of April, 18 15, shOuld be laid before the }louse. Ordered. • , • The Report of the Signal Station Bill was received, and the Bill orderred'to ht read a third time to-morrow. The other Orders Were 'then disposed of, and the House sdjotqied at gpsyEN o'Cipcx, I . 3 IIIVAI'I CO:I Et ESPONDENCE. HAtVO)VIIC,I4,' JUNE 13.—Nesterday the first co lUtnri of our 'Contingent of troops, consisting of a 'battalion of infantry and a squadron of cavalry, set put for the Netherlands, to join the army un -der.the Duke of The Lubeck contingent, destined also for the , army of Wellington, arrived to-day at Hamburgh, 'where it was fectived with Hanseatic fraternity. ' Tie following letter from Bremen, of the Bth inst. communicates farther information as to the march at the Hanseatic troops • 4, On the 14th inst. our co4tingent will break up from hence fo: the army. On the 15th, the first division of the tiara. burghers will enter ( on the I£lth, the Lubeckers; and on the 19th, the second division pf the Handmrgh contingent. Their route is by Wildeshausen, Lingert, :c. - forAntwerp." • Barclay de Tully, • with sonic ihr;:rsamk of Russian troops, attended the funeral pt Marshal Berth;er at. Bamberg. PiIiNCE REGENT'S COURT. Vcste,rday his Royal ilighness‘the PRINCE. Re,. Etvld a Cqprt at Carltoa..ljous, xvhich was 14nexrct edly summoned.. It was attovied by ,The L'rci President, flip Lord Privy SeAl, the Fir s t L or d o f Trehsory, the Chancellor of the 'Exchequer, the First 1'.,•1•41 i-1 thC• :'“lntiratty, the Mater-General of the Ordnance, the.ti,ree :;ecrewiries of State, the President of the Board of out. Ihe Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, the Masler of the Mint, the Cannitander in chief (the Mai., of -the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Vice-Chancellor, the ;111,1ge a the Admiralty, the .Groom of tlie Stcde, the ,J;.:Aer of the gorse, the Lord Steward, tie Vice-Chamber, A conhcil was held, -and among other iropor_ tiult proccedin gi a!: Ordet"iii Councl for Iti.pri •pti3 and Letters•of IThirtpie agnitist the Freud), was agreed twoh, an:l signed by . '"allMeittbErs p r preseiir, -ccitis4-44iience of ht liiics lotviug commetleoci. Alr. -. l.lut.t.Ea attended i:s Clerk of the Couheil. His Ray3l Ugliness-gav e ' au di ences to - the Eiirls LIVFRPOOL, nAtiIIONVEY, Vi3Collllt StD -1,1/OVTI-f allil BATH UrttiT. 'l,! itev. Dr Laixt»tre, the late Bishop of Hereford, did e t he P . doer, utwit his h piti . 4transiateil &mitt he 13; s h opf i c h , ,f L.:( of St. Asaph. jh e ~,,; ; :tte l iried. by oscoant SidiTtonth, a4Secretary of State for tlo; tionie Departatent, and the ices. 1*.:120oh - • fin; as Clert; i.):f illy Closet. . • ,..!i • •S iti*(itiis 11:.:ADFORT , c) i onc i STAN were the Lord and Groonyritvaalng. We have at length disc,pvered %Idly the blunder ing- C'orporel/, who - desrrOyed the bridge near Lvipzig, titi•rear of the liNperil AktnY, Was hot bi .06 41 1 t 'l6; . 'a . Court Martid—t he same Corporal 6.; conunitted anothet• sad blunder fqf the Grande Nation-0 rare Corporal Piolette It is said. by NApot, L oie s runalVai'StafT, that Corporal riolcue tanked very ;Vac at stin 5,,,1 4 t • ; he nineteent4 of 3,:ne. *** Many Articles of interest are unavoidably postpouvd. PRICE 01 Tais DAY AT T ' STOCKS VFLVE o'cvicx. Bank L. Ana. !43 India Boark, is. 7%. dis. Excheq. Bilk, 2s. 4s. s:s. dis. o:nniorn, 74 8 pr. COIL!. for Ji4ly, ssi Bank Stock, 3 per Cent. Red. 56if 3 per Cent. Cons. shut 4 per Cent. Cons. 713 6 per Cent. Navy Ann. shgt HIGH WATER NT LONDON BRIDGE TO-NIORROW. Morning, 13 minutes after 3. j Evening, 30 minutes after 3. TII E SUN. SOLEM QUIS I:I Eltg FALSUM AUDEAT LONDON. THURSD.-11',.11:4YE 22, 1815? TOTAL DEFEAT of T3UONAPARTE, We have more than. once exclaimed, while our hearts leapt with exultation at the mighty triumphs of cur aims, f‘ GREAT BRITAIN IfAS ATTAINED THE PINNACLE OF NATIONAL GLORY When shall we he allowed to stop with these ex- clamations ? Not while the principles of Wm.. LIAM PITT inspire our Counsels; not while a WELLINGTON, reared in the School of PITT, leads our Armies ! The career of Fame seems endless : summit after summit is gained, and still the im mortal road stretches into the hoth,on. Yet is ,the present an achievement of superlative bril liancy : if any thing was wanted, if any thing could have been wished to crown the naute of WELLINGTON, and fill up the measure of our country's greatness, it was that he should be opposed to BUONAPARTE, the hero of the ad- Verse host, that the Sons of Britain should be brought man to man, and front to front in battle, against the vaunted warriors of France, against these veteßns, overloaded with the wreaths of vietoryi-and scarred with the seams of many a hard-fought field ;—This Event which we did de- Sire, this Contest which we did contemplate with feelings of mingled anxiety and hope, but of anxiety pure from apprehension, and of hope stretching into the bright confines of certainty this momentous struggle has come, is over, and has left us little more to hope for, nothing more to wish ! The Eighteenth of June will be for ever meni)r -' able as one of the most sublime epochs in British History. On that day, the valiant soldiers tivho►n WELLIGTON has inured to victory, for the first time tried the fortune of war in a pitched battle against the choicest troops of France, commanded by NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE. The character' of the twa Countries, the military glory of the two Generals, as well as the fate: of Europe, hung in the scale; and on the bt'ave67 and discipline of the men, and on the skill and talents of their leaders, depended that turn of the balance which was to rivet the chains of suffering humanity, or confirm the liberties of mankind. The GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY tells' the tale which every Briton will be proud to repeat, and is so conspicuous for the noble simplicity 'of its record, that we need scarcely enter upon ouraccus toped tisk of taking 4 condensed view of this me n;orabic Achievement, for which the public mind was paytly prepared by the intelligence from Ghent, which we had yesterday the happiness to comrm!nicate, and which is now sq auspiciously authenticated. We shall, however, briegly_kkei c h the prominent' features of the Campaign. The French Army consisted iie .Fii;,., corp.— the Ist from Valenciennes, 2d from Alahbege, 3:d from Marienbourg, 4th from the rear, 4ml tith from Avesnes, together with ;dumpt all the ea, valry. With th 4 powerful' body, supportcd by' the auest,field.arrillery which France conic!, pro dike, - 149 Rebel Corsican advanced to-attztel the - Allies. . . JUNE 15TII. • The Prussians were driven in by Tlittin and Lobez on the Sambre, and - Chat leroi was occu r pied by the Enemy in froree. BLUCHER youcentrated on Sombref, with the villages Amami . and Ligny in strength on his front. The same day the French Left pushed on tqwkkrdb• Brussels by the main road front Charleroi; and the Belgian troops were here honourably engaged. JUNE IGTH. • On the last-mentioned ,poin!, the Ist and French corps, with the cavalry miller KELLER -1.,N., attacked the sth British diyisiop under the brave General PtcTori, which lunt 'conic nv to reinforce the Prince ofOitAsiGe and a vcry se vere action was fought at Quatre Brag, The rest of the bunny went against the Prussians,, nobly maintained the ppsition at on►href; result of tiese separate - chay.Aes wns that the 13ritis4 force repulsed their bnt as Prince 14uci-TES (who hat; sufferccl greatly,:ana WAS Wit licit ycr 411) Genvral 13t,Low) aetermined on falling back dur ing the night to iVavre, a corresponding move ment was necessary on our parts, and the Duke of WELLINGTON retired on Genappe. JUNE 17TH, Was spent in movements on all sides ; the French preparing for a renewal of the attack, the Allies bringing up their force from the rear, es tablishing their eocionunications, and consolidat ing their various divisions. The British position was in front of Waterloo, with Braille occupied, and communicating with Marshal BLuctieß at %Vavre, through °bairn. This line was about ten miles front Brussels ! The only action specified on this day is a brilliant charge by the. Life Guards under the Furl of UXBRIDGE. JUNE 18TH. DECISIVE VICTORY. BUONAPARTE leaving the 4th corps ,to observe and kold the Prussians in check, directed his en- tire efforts against the British Army. At 10 o'clock in the morning, the attack commenced on a strong position et Hogoutuount, the right of our Centre, and our whole line was thence successive assail ed with the utmost vigour and perseverance.— Thanks to the discipline and courage of our Countrymen, this combat was sustained till seven o'clock in the evening, and the Enemy was every where baffled. La Haye-Suinte was the only point he Fenetrated, owing . to its defenders having ex pended 411 their ammunition. As the French fell back from their repeated attacks, our Cavalry found many opportunities to cover themselves with renown by - brilliant and destructi►•e charges. At length, however, the decisive moment ar, rived. Our Hero, whom coolness and prudence . had restrained through the whole of this arduous day, caught the golden opportunity. The Enemy were retreating in great confusion from a last desperate effort upon our ling, and particularly from the left centre at La Haye-Sainte :—WEL LINGTON perceived that &Low had now come up so as to be able to complete •the rout of the foe ; he gave The important order—outr gallant Regiments rushed forward, and in . an instant the overthrow of the French :on every point, their bein g driven from the heights on which they vainly attenipted to make a stand * proved that the soldiers who bad - been so steady as defenders were irresistible as assailants ! A Hundred and Fifty pieces of Cannot, An:trim nition, Baggage, all die Materiel of the Enemy, fell into the hands of their Conquerors, who con tinued the pursuit, till exhausted nature - claimed the medicine of repose. But the Prussians took up the Unfinished labour, and following the fugitives through the night, bad 4lrody taken 60 pieces of cannon belonging to the imperial Guard, and even part of the baggage Of BUONAPARTE i);.111Self. The Duke of WELLIZIGTOI4 announces his de termination not to discontint:S his operations, and what with the loss of Artillery, tr::_ich the Rebels can so ill spare, the forward movement 0:: General But..ow; the ren ova t e d s pi r it o f the AMU, ,aild the despair of the French, we think we n a y cou• gratulate our Country on this Glorious . Victory,• as decisive of the Fate of BUONAPARTE and ale Traitors of France. - • •i ;' " On the melancholy eve list of the slain e shall offer no sorrowing comment. They have died likePatriois , and Heroes —they have inancsrtal4ed themselves, and ate so identified with the lilory of -their Country, that their names will be repeated with veneration by. the_latest posterity. We give, therefore, our Teats to the Men— our Admiration to the Warriors. Would to Goal they might all have been spared to their lovini and jet loved Connections ; but their fate deserves a Soldier's envy, and the Honour of their (lying will sooth.the Griefs which springs at their Death. A Brussels Mail furnishes some interesting news. In La Vend& the Royalists are Victurious, li;ighty Thousand good subjects are in arms, and two regipients of the Rebel young guards have been cut to pieces at Angers. The Allies were moving all along the Rhine, preparat or y t o th e invasion, of leranee.—The Imperial head-quarters were to be at Manheim, on the 13:11 or 14th. The Allies from /Lily, .5Q,0.00 strong, were in r4otion on Savoy. There arc favourable accounts of the earlier operations in Li, Vem!6!, in the Jot 4racii Lluiversq. We have no room for them to-day. The Hon. Major PERCY arrived between eleven and twelve o'clock last night, in a post chaise an d lour, %%ith two of l'slnt , (4.zoN's Eagles cap tured lii battle, which were displayed from the windows of the`carriage. He says; that on finding hisAt m overthrown and all his hopes destroyed the vanquished N.-xi:old:10N, who beheld the last des:- perm e efforts of his troops front tnateti on an etninence, Retook himself to raPid fliglit liotsetock,'lcaVinit Vis carriage and n - early 1119 whole of personal 4tati in the ptvenion t 4 he l.;•itisb? SF,COND , SUN-OFFICE, Two o'Ct.ocr'''.4 We have just learnt that an AUSTgion ARMY 135'°" Men, have entered Vralice the side of Switzerland.—Tliere 15 11° 10 1 -e quatc to oppose ti;ein. Mr. YOUNG, a most respectable l‘rercilg . l :l l it'i l the City, arrived this ingOrning Iron] tke 1- : 0 11 cartes of the Army in Belgium.l/1",(1,, Eye-Witness of the Battle of the ISth, °tl E cis scribes the Result as au utter II"' Vrej'ell Army. Report st a te s th e ir' at 40, 0°0 hors de combat. C sv Mr. YOUNG ally's that the effect o f °l4°ll .Rockets was most terrible and clestructive'toio they mowed down the Encrirv''. loll4s ‘l7l' in masses, ; „,,,111 4 The Funds continue to advance; ° mil ' ' ' . t o been done at 9, and may now be ii" t " 7 11$ ' SI per cent. premium. OFFICIAL BULLETIN' --,---.0.--- IVaterloo ‘-‘ Downing -era:, .1 .1 " :6 ''''' .- re ' 4 1 9. 5 pispatCh, (13 " The Duke of WELLINoTos the ~ the 19th of June, states, tiot on t he preceding day BUONAPARTE attacked, wit h • 5 whole force, the British line, supported by a Orr, of Prussians ; which attack, after a long and o r : , g i uinary Conflict, terminated in the c oynplc te (: ? " „f o t t h row of the. Enemy's Araly, Oil!) the 1055t0 mlatersiii:d:udcainiE4RF,if: who lo p i i . e o c i e ; : e bj: I. C:::::: 4 1). 44 : 1 1 ; :ntr a g : .Tqgles. D ur i ng • the night, the prossians It: , 01 the luemy, captured Sixty Guns, WIC lll c i At' part of BuoNArAßTi' , s Bwinage, The A l i' e ' T oo !Hies .continued to liursue th e Enenl.. 1 French Generals were t-I;ken." ' 70. ii ‘3. ilir.;:rr La soi L ir zi pv i": l,4 E D : htoahli ' ve r . , O , in :::_i s i t E re tLI,O.fItuDneN/A, 1. 1 ° ,13 81 / a .,:; 00 with pispatches from tleleitlllt:unk!FlaafjtlN:sr:::l:llPi:k.fP.artleVt:iiiii'sdinittjt:slitijiliritrirrt: (,1 !no, the Ipth in A. containing the account. (,f alO °s 1 ,614 i )# . l tbq t i l e and glorious Victory having , been obtkined,oW - ti, iio. 'the Frena At.y, by the Allied Forces, on, 01 1$ ieb psi f re"it o f which has been the overthrow a tlic 1 : 'r • „,' i L err 6° q w u it a l n %t i l t i y e loss of more than 200 pieces of al tillerYf s ';' 4; ;;i 4 fortunate) bean till' make out a r b e e t a u n ru lu e7 to 13VoNAPARTE. ~,esin° , ammunition, and a part of the PPV:Vi'e . " The loss of the. British Army upon OP 0— rossib+g or t i h e , ver h e iii ectlt aotlha , d W o , , , o l,l, b d,, 4 l : or , , D . r ilie T ai i i , 4 ll . Perc y le t t heE•d-quaetrrs • the names of the vw--olioele , wounded, as fair as they can be collecteci, a t ! ~- which see gatetie). .:,.rvio tr ; " I have the honour lu be., ,„, v tde -,-- „ D o; " You{ laordship's. root 0bet.10,,P",, 01-11,"`'... 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Linoi scfbutoi lizieitlclßC,EoeLcvLollofyilis , hostilities iin u e r yheas:gd ; e 1 :0 1 0 C I e s a ( iv :: , The Cabinet Alinisters were all preivexct the ' i w hicil let t: A Lisbon .111 ail arrived yesterttor!.-1 ,-,,,nout-- • tona l ta- 10. tern and papers have been receive( .113ot. of the Tagus to the date of the 1 I tfi ,I,:i`eborterP. • or Patent, P :124:ttetel i:ointsleireteld'ut9ti. e Vi l ' t i lc " ) : e . I ': ' ° T -'l, ls ° # sle: by which tik6:6cial P is to whkel oto)tiriodo . - roue , , . , ~, r b e C I is tO . for soeiationhas sO toiig entio7-‘l' f the • , oninitioo 0 • !per gra pt: - `! t"! years.sitb4ecretit t o: t,h, ceV ~ , : dioner4:::m7lours a . ii . 14":1;11cul t" " To the Right Ho D. the cord -'LY°r• tee • rip Pa Of r n itlt o • ." StIN-Als-ticii; NO. 11e, Strand ; wise"' at o r e, •, t . - 4 E v , food hF ;-;