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of the 'contest this action was .accompanied with such circumstances as entitled it to the thanks of . the house. (clear.!) Ilesairf . ‘c in this state of tilt' contest ;" for there was a time when victory neemed to he a stranger. to every standard but the Drench ; but-after the brilliant career of Lord Wellington, and the 'gigantic cffoltg of our Al lies,' tre - tilight afford tor dispense with •votes of thanks for victories, which at •a former period:we shthild have been' profit', of courting to.us by the ..encouragement of such'a vote of the house., Not . that we ought now to. he less grateful 'for victory; buf thtit we ought to let our. gratitude wait upon ontjud,gment, and an'Xiouslyselect only, the fittest occasions for displaying that emotiOnf,pecori eluded with moving, " that - the Thanksf of the House be given to Field-Marshal Atthtir Mar quess of Wellington, and the army • t+ler his con - inland, for the consummate ability, expe tienee, Skiff, and valour displayed by them in the victory of Orthies, term,inating in the signal de feat of the enemy, and leading to the occupation of Tourdeaux." Earl GaCY.—lie did not rise for the purpose adding any thing to what had been said by the • • justified, Lotd, who was certainly- fully ustified, in chlliitg for this • expression of their Lordships' hid h sense of the eminent services of Lord Well in.gton,.andthe gallant army under his it .gave hip the greatest pleasure to hear the Noble Lord's speech,. not merely on account of those topics to which .he had adverted, but also on • account of those from wbicb he had so properly ,abstained. (1-kar.) The Noble Lord had satisfied every man, that this was,a fit occasion for calling for their Lordships' - just•.tribute of applause and gratitude, for this last of a great series of splendid: successes, which had exidted the . name,of Lord Wellington, and that.,gallant army which ,be commanded, to as high z.tpitch .of renown asever \ had been attained by general or army •of any 'age or country. Ile said, " this last of a great series of splendid sucCesses,"--and . God grant it might be the last ;—that this might be the last blood shed.for the' accomplishment of t taie great,. geouine, and only proper object of victor.-"-peace ;_ . that Lord Wellington' might add to that :rich harvest of glories Which he had al wady reaped, that crown of glory,-.—Peace,—a safe and honourable. peace, to which his exer tions, and those of .our t llies, hactso essentially contributed, peace .suited to the, just preten • sions and•,bonourable of all parties, and • holding out a well-.l'onricled prospect,Rfbeing bene fiejul . ancl•pv,rmanent. That, the c.ocoequences of • theoccupation of Isoll.ltica . ux tnus,t . be, attended _with the' .most desirable effects, no one could doubt. In. a military point of view,, the advan- „ • taws of it: most be inknense, On account of the suppties-,which it afforded, and for. Other reasons, •athiell to the ,facility of communication, to Which, the Noble Lord - alluded. There, were, also, other views which might be taken of it, froth which the Noble. Lord bad properly abitainecl; and all he should now say in regard to that was, that be would refrain from• uow whaling' uvon it.. He desired to be understood as giving no opinion at all on that subject at this time - ; begging leave, however, to reserve to him self the liberty and 4ipportunity of giving his free, entire, and 'unbiassed judgment on the topic to which he alluded, when•alonOt could be properly given ; when the whole case should come before them, with all, its circumstances ; when it mightte seen what were the cause's, wharthe Hin en - ce . and means eMployed to prinliThe, the effects _which he would not now mote directly mention. Till then he should say nothing on that head; .and be was glad that the speech of the Noble LOCI' had relieved 136 entirely frOrn Inyeinbarrass . meut which he might,.anderotlier circumstances, lave felt in abstaining at this moment from stat ing any opinion on the oCcurrences at which the observation pointed. The tune 'would come when that topic might With propriety be examined and discussed, and till then Ire should - abstain from even asking an explanation (hear) ;" leaving the .matter, in the mean time-, , to the responsibi lity of •ministersi, and:trusting to that superior degree of information which belonged to their, si tuation.--He knew his duty to his country, and to the world, too well, to prejudice a question, on which the happiness-of to great a portion of mankind might depend. .For the present, then, with this explanation merely of .t,he . 'grot,inds of that line of conduct which be , 4arb;,ndopted, h e . entirely refrained from agitating the subiect. The Noble Lord was fully justified. in: calling for this vote of thanks, and:the motion 'bad his entire and anost.cordial approbation _ _ • Motions of ThaWks to Lord Wellington, to his Officers, and the Anity, were then put in the usual fain, and_ carried tam. dis. Loid HOLLAND moved the postponement of the second readink of the Dulwich College Bill, without stating any day. Adjourned., • HOUSE OF CO?I NI ONS. Mr. Spicer presented the general Accounts of Chelsea Hos pital. _ _ The Dover .Castle Debtors Bill went through the Commit ter; the Report was received, and ordered to be taken into farther etimideration on the Gth of April. • • • Mr. FAWCETT moved for. an. account of all ships Of, the linef:vither built by contract or its the Royal Dock-yards, January, I 7!n3, to January, • 16!3; as also for a copy of a correspinhlinee betwixt the Commissioners of the Navy, and Certain' private ship-builders, in 1.80.--.Ordcred. The Itoase weut into a Committee on the Writs of Assist ance Bill; RepOlt to-morrow; as &so on the act runitive to coffee, and to the West India Trade, when leave.was•givin to bring in Bills tir..coutintie the said Acts. OU the motion of Mr. LITSHINGTON, it was ordered, that the House should, to-morrow, resolve itself into a Committee, to take into consideration the Act relatiVe to tilt duty on salt. THANKS TO TIM MAIIQUESS OF WELLINGTON. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER rose, pursuant to notice, to move a Vote of Thanks to the .Marquess of Wellington. The long series of gallant achievements performed , try tlw Noble Marquess, might at first appear to have exhaust ed every topic of panegyric, and to have render ed it'abwist impossible that - newan4l peculiar fea tures should mark any - recent exploit. It might ap peal., that he should have to call the attention of the nouse to cvents siniiiat to those which had accom panied the expulsion of the enemy froM Portugal, - and the liberation ofth c k'eninsula r H.l3nt new oppOr tunitica for the display of courage,and.Conduct had been afforded from the varied nature of the e7s.er 7 .. tions which had been made, andf;otp 'the nature of the country which kid been c ,recently' the theatre cif acti , m; From the eyrenneM) moun tains to the plains 1)1' Languedoc the country was extremely diversified'. Part of it on the, !eft: of the Adour , was almost impassable ; ..aritL"the country on the right, ,from its being &viten and interrupted, 'And abouirding With - -torrents swollen in the winter, and extremely rapid, pre sented the most formidable obstacle's to . an invad ing army; 'While it atforded every advantage to an ari iy that acted on the defensive. -Het* ZUrd Wellington conceived the plan of extending his conquests from the 'Pyreunees to the Garonne; towards the close o f w i n t er h e b e gan to •.. move forward. • The country through which he had tri march was intersected' with narrow vak , lies, furnishing the enemy with the most power ful means of annoyance (hear, hear), but which were CoMpletely surmounted by British valour.--• Here he defeated Marshal Soult, one of the ablest Generals in the service of the F.anperur of Fiance, with the iuss of a great part of his army. On the 23d. the Adour was crossed . under citctw• stances of petuliar difficulties and danger, arising chietly front the bar in the river ; all of which, however, bad been successfelly overcome,• and the enemy completely repulsed, by the assisfauce of a recent invention (rockets), which bed , on many oceasions'been prodtictive.of signal advant tape. Nothing could exceed the exertions of the navy on this occasion; and the passage having been achieved byour gallant countrymen, a com munication was established betwixt both bankS of the river. • This r however, was but a wall part of the plan of the noble commander. After the ene my had been dislodged, Sir W. Beresford marched to Bourdeaux, arid was received withacclamations of joy. This . was a great and additional L trophv to our army, that while the French had been re garded as the most cruel enemies in the countries which they overran, * the British troops should have been received in France-at once as .0011- querors and as liberators. (Loud_ cries of heat', bear !) Anticipating on'the present occasion an unanimous vote, he should not trespass further on the time of the house, but should move, " that the thanks of the House be given to the Marquess of Wellington for the additional proof of commit mate ability and valour displayed in the battle of °allies, on the 27th of Febrnary, which had led . tosuch important results." Mr. W. KEENE said, °that whoever cbtittilted the Journals of the 'House as to votes of this na ture, would see, that in the case of the great Duke of Marlborough, a very short space of time hai elapsed between their votes of thanks to him for hiS first distinguished successes in his military career, and their vote of thanks to himi a§ Duke of Marlborough. He had arrived at that high rank within the first three years of his career up on the Continent Within the same time it would be found, that Queen Anne had granted him for his services the manors of Woodstock and Blen heim, with a pension of 50001. annua lly. In a ll the succeeding campaigns, additional bailout's and rewards had been conferred upon He did not wish to draw any invidious comparison, be tween the Duke of Marlborough and Lord Wel lington. The Noble Duke had 'certainly per formed services to the country which were un paralleled in his time, and was deserVing of the highest praise both as a soldier and a statesman. He considered, however, that the illustrious com mander who was the object of the present motion did not come behind him either for services per formed', or for abilities displayed in difficult and critical situations. lie confessed that he felt strong hopes that Ministers• would come down soon to the Muse with a message for erecting a monument to perpetuate his memory. In Ireland a monument had been already sub scribed for. As an Irishman, he felt proud that f" ci l t:to: the illustrious object of his motion' was born in the same country that be himself came then related an anecdote of the disinterestedoesS of hiS Lordship, when, after the battle of the travelling carriage of Joseph Buonaparte was taken. In that carriage were found pictures of inestimable value, by the best Spanish Masters. When Lord Wellington saw those pietUres, he im mediately conceived that they, must have been taken from the Royal palaces in Spain, and im mediately sent notice to Madrid, that 'if they were ascertained to be taken from the Royal Palaces, they should be restored. Sir FREDERICK FLOOD.—As an Irishman, and a Representative of that Country which gloried in the proud birth of the illustrious individual who was the object of the Vote of Thanks now 'pro.; posed, he would not be doing justice to those who . sent him to that House if he contented himself with a silent vote on the present occasion. " And, Sir," said the Hon. Baronet, " if I had a voice, (the increased loudness of his tone removed all dubiety on' this subject, and excited a general laugh) which I could extend even. beyond the doors of this House, I would exert okay' nerve on such a' glorious occasion, though it might end in a nervous fever."---(Laugh.) , The country tahich bad given birth to this great Herb, had also : given birth to a number .of other illri trious , characters could bOast of the blood of a Beresford, of the brother ,Of our Noble Ambassador,' of a Pon sonify, and ola Cole. That was a country' *which' could provide such a nUmber of herbes. It had been often said. in England, that Ireland Was a clog to her, but instead 'of a clog, it was the best feather in her cap ; for it not only produced the best soldiers, but the hest Captains, at the head of whom was the illustrious object' of the present Vote of Thanks. • When he looked 'infound him, lie saw many Members on both si4es of the House, in the first confidential Offices, of State — laugh)—he should have said, that those who held them were on theone side, and these who did not bold them were on the other. When he looked into the other House of rarliennent, he saw the same thing.: Was not that a .country of which a wan ought to be 'proud ? and 'a country to court a connection with ? It - did not only send them men, but it sent them also . grain, cattle, butter, and beef.• This was indt . e4 it_ country for one. to be proud of, and the people of it ought to be fostered. Governthent ought to extend the arm of its prhtection to the natives of such a country. '1 here never was a period in history where the achievements , recorded exweeded 0.4 e benefits which this ctmntry had derived from that - great wan, Lord Wellnigton.T;llk of an Alexander, a Calsar, and a 1-1 - annibal—(laugh)-- , ean those history. . bOoks boast of any General wlto did any thing to be compared with the object of this vote of tliAnks ? Ili lla<l c,aid last Session, that in the same mannetbt 1 - 11nlieini-hciuse had heel, erected for the ofrilarlburong,h; there shonld the Mironet . :besitetcd spine tiine) lingtonhouse built for (Laugh.)—lreland' had alryarly ,contribtited teen thousand poinuls for the erection of a testi— monial Of the •merit of that great man ; but there Oouldsalso - , aye, not onlyinireland, but in Scotland also,..and in Wales. ••: Lord lii i nKwAt,i. ished. to --contribute. his Mite of admirution for the zeal. and ability which at tended the splendid achievements of the Gallant General tviso•Was the - object of this motion. .He' could not. avciid 'expressing his feelings, becacec he 'was convinced, that however highly the Noble Lord might value the thanks of that House, still: that he would feel it a-much-bi g hr gratification, it, by proper . exertions at home, he Migfii l be enabled ;to realize,the bright prospects, which, front his successes, had begun to beam uppu France. The original Motion was then carried nem. eon. - The Thanks of the 1-louse, was then voted to' the General and . other Officers of his Army; and the approbation of the. Howe was declared of the conduct of the Non-commissioned Pfficers and Privates. , RESIDENCE OF Tilt CLERGY. . . Mr. BATHURST rose, pursuant tip • liptipq, to Move for leave to bring in a Bill to discontinue certain actions which had been bronght• against ecclesiastical persons for penalties under the Act of the.43d of the King, and to protect then frOfn vexations proceedings. He stated, that there had been 92 actions brought against ecclesiastical per sons by a Mr. Wright, of whom he should Sa'y thing, but that he - had; 'as Secretary to two or three Bishops, opportunities of 'disCoVering be. 7, yowl what any ordinary informer woultbiltave., what penalties ecclesiastical persons. had sukiemed, themselves to. Of the 92 actions that he had brought for penalties for non-residence, there were but two or three cases where that non-residence might not be excused. The greater number of the cases were against- clergymen who had two or three livings, and had actually resided on one of thetrt; - and had only-tubjected•Lthentselves to the penalties by pot sending a torwal notification to the Bishop of the living upon which they resided. It was probably merely front their- ignorance of the necessity of this formal .notification, that they bad omitted it. Another class of those non-resi dents were those who had' no parsonage -house ton their livingS, and resided': elsewhere, either in : their parishes or 'the neighbouring parisheNvith out the formal license of the Bishop,' aklap.ugh sitch.license would undoubtedly have beehiglatit 7 ed upon application. To stew the 'exteht, to which those penalties, went, he 'should state the. case of one eler&raan who had three livings, and - had constantly :resided on one or other of them for the last 40 years. This clergyman hid, how:- ever, been sued fol' penalties amounting to 15 ; 6001. although he had been a constant resident on his liiring, - and had merely. otnitted to give a formal notification to chi.. Bishop of the living Upon whiCh he resided. , What he should propose•at present was, to alloW those persons, who 'migilt have formerly applied to the bishop-for a license of non-residence, to applif now for such license. If the bishop should grant the licenses, then he should propose that the. actions should bediScon tinned. on the production of them. Still, •as the informer had the law upon his ,side, the persons against whom the actions had been. brought would be subject to the payment of costs; and lie-,trust., ed the House would conceive, that this would be a sufficient punishment for mere inativeitence, when the spirit and intention of the act requiring the residence of the clergy had been compied with. After some farther observationS, he con eluded by moving for leave to bring in tire Bill, Mr. WHITBEOW) regretted the :absence of Right Hon. and Learned Gentleman, who had in a great measure been the author of the - Act of •the 43d of the King, which was now found se in efficient for its purposes. It was an Act4vbich seem ed to,lead to the greatest incon venieneies. The cases now statedwere certainlyfall of hardship,yet bemnst say that it was also some hardship to the informer. The Act gave t large penalty as a stimulus to ex cite respectable men to be vigilant on the subject of non-eesidence ; and yet, as soon as an infor mer proceeds according to the Act, then -a Bill is brought in, first to suspend, then to discontinue, then to crush .the actions which he hits.heen in duced Co bring. At the same tiMe, he was ready to allow, that if great mischief might accrue from the strict execution of that Act, it should be mo dified or repealed. One case lie knew himself : a clergYinan in the Diocese of Norwich, who had been 40 years resident on his cure, and had never altogether been absent trout it 40 days, had been unfortunate enough, from mistake or ignorance, to incur the penalties, and must be rained if they Nv ere ekacted., llc hOped that the Right Honour able' Gentleman' who had . framed that Act, would once more apply his'powers to a careful alteration of it, . . Mr. PRESTON', Mr.WETHERELL, and Mr.WyxNE, said a few words ; after which Mr. BATHURST very oOrtly replied. Leave was then., given to bring in the Bill. It was brought up, and read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on Thursday next., and to be printed. Mr. BATHURST then obtained leave to bring in a Bill to continue the Act of this Session, for the suspension of certain Actions commenced against Ecclesiastical Persons. It was brought up, read, and ordered to be read a second ti►tie to-morrow, ,and to be printed. . _ . . Y:.'The CIiANt:ELLOR of - the EXcIIIMUER moved, that the motion respecting the Copper Coinage, which was fixed for to-morrow, should be post poned till Tuesday next. , Mr. BROGDEN brought in, a Bill to extend the period for purchasing legal quays.—Adjourtie(4. The following sick and wounded Huss - fir Officers were doing well at the beginning of the present month, at the Hospital station, Vittoria ':--7 Capt. Hamlin, 7th Hussars. ' LieutAilake, ditto, Lieut. Greeofield,7th Hussars. Capt. Croltr, 19th Hussars. Capt.llyliger, ditto, severely. Lieut. G. Wood}. urry, ditto, ~i:~l~,~.. Ma i "' AFiRtvEl),-1 Li;boti, I Dadin, I Waterford. M I E -1 L . ,Uadiz, 21 Goiterdicrh, 1 livli,',oltind. flullaud, 1 . - . Guerosey, I Dublin, 3 Waterford. • HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORSL• Muriaing, li)iiiiiintes alter 5. j Ereningi 35 militates -aft" ErtirtATA.—ln our Ship News of yesterday, for, "the An' o e , r , l 7; flotilla on Liz J i, had Pte,ia .dcstroyed"—re 44 Lakes," &c. TI- 1 4 E S_UN• if),1,E51 Qll .DICERE FAILSUM AtIPEAT ? LONDON, FRIDAY, IVA R6II 25, 2814. -- • An OfEeer, in a post-chaise and four, arY iv.ej thisforcnoon at the Foreign Once;,analanal eti diately went off to deliver his dispatches to Sri , . HAMILTON,. at his. residence. is state d (114 know not .with what degree of correctness) tij he conies from Lisbon ; if so, his comniol'ic3' ce tions, the nature. of which, from circuals tai o f above stated, has not tr ans pi re d, can not b e material consequence. • • isl e • We yesterday, upon the authority of P il ' letters fro th Amsterdam, mentioned:the p.-1. s lence of a report in that City, that the Nee clt t i tions at Chatillon bad happily been. brol;° ° l l and that Lord CASTLEREAGIIwas momentariV c , "pectediii the Capital of Holland. W e also-st ate , i no light - authority, that throughout Alsace a e d Lorraine the disposition of the p eo pl e lead b ascertained to be favourable to the 13. 0(1r4/3 1t , Cause.. And it will. be seen this day, by th e ' e v ter from 'Falmouth, in our Naval News, that t two _French_ Me.ssengers landed_ la n de at that V t '' r from Bourdeaux by the Landrail, assert, ti r e' the whole Country was , in a state of It e volut (a t i e j " To Arms 1 . 1 is the cry from the Pyrennees t ° Garonne; anti "to arms " will very speedib r o the cry foist the Garonne• to the Seine• is, indeed, an ; animating prospect—it % v3f , t , the blood, chilled by the Ne.gociations at Cli it r tilion,- whi c h, lik e t h e torpe d o, benumbs ° Ol faculties, and paralizes the best energi es t regenerating France. We cann o t but think x l'3 this new impulse will be-found to he irroisti ate even should the hwdness of the pacificatio n 11 . 0 i proceeded to the extent surmise d in the 1011°1 letter : 3 r..ct, t• tr Tl, 4 ..iba- •- 311)P " , of N this . afternoon , a very beays; and incess nn fi r: : : : has been kept up on the French Coa t, eel s . direction pf Boulogne. Many pe rsons love w to the heights, but the weather being sO $1" tremely hazy, nothing could b e s een: it is , "° ever, conjectured that Preliminaries of Pca ce id been signed, and that the firing was reioicing , the Messenger passing through Boulogne t° lais, on his - way to England." • be' The bare apprehension of this .suppositi° •ld ing true fills us.with alarm and sorrow. o fi we contemplate the noble end to our twenty 1, straggle, which perseverance in an opposite e ° 6. for a short space must accomplish;—when Ic e ti 5 irl cipate the interminable war, of which we d re g to be the advocates,. terminated in a manner f or congenial to the splendour of Great Britain' s 113 0 0 ' and 1 the repose and safety of mankind, by evie one effprt more, we have not a feeling ° r pertaining to us which does not bar" ardent . hope, that no peace will be rnzi e BUONAPARTE that no peace will be " of' until the Royal Representative o f the 14°1!3 c t vi' BOURBON . 15 re-seated on the Throne of Iris cestnrs—that T nopeace' will be made tii`i streams of social order and justice ar e 01 , 1 4 stored to their proper channels, and fee l ' lo o!i live out of the' temnest" which >has 5° sapped the foundations and shaken the r pe• of the glorious fabric of civilized E ull?- fl e0 On the other hand the surmise 'of an ag rec i r r j o r-' , with the Corsican to perpetuate all these 11 g . L4 „:a and entail a continuation of these tniScries 1 , ' 5 41 generations yaw come, quite noncrycs subdues our spirit. co t; Then conlea out fit again : We had else been P"' Whole as the marble, founded as the rock; A's broad, and general, :is the casing air zid • But.c/A•c, we are cabiu'd, cribb'd, coufin'd, "Jou ,To fancy thitibts and feay. coas t ' With regard to this firing on the Fren; b ail' however the length of its con ti nu ance, " the whole afternoon s o r a s th e o ther let t e p r op e for two or . three biatii.s, is a very strong o r' tire proof against its being in honour fo ch casion suggested. The British Cruizers a re o more likely to keep up a vigorous cnn °l3ll- 0 4 • some of the Enemy's vessels endeavouring t ; 0 6ret along the shore, than the French batteries ` P salutes for any'eVept during so protra c `" f che r riod. As, 'however, the annunCiati (l ' signature of Preliminaries must to It ae rf f a en lye ill this country in the manner € lllll ' e eo prell e b . 'Tye c;:.nr:Qt help entertaillinit, strong - s • 4111%,