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Wellesley, toPortugul, was not a powerful diver-
sion? he now are well iiifitrinerl, that if the
English army had not errived in Portugal, Ju-
lia would have detached a force to strengthen
the army of Dupont. Was not the consequence
of this part or the conduct of His Nlajesty's
ter% that Junto was obliged to reinaili with the
whole of his force in Lisbon ? was certainly
of considerable inspamance, oink the French force
i i the south of Swain remained undefeated, that no
acquisition should strengthen it from Portugal. lir
contemning the merits ad:tiereist cousin: order, al-
luded te this night, it would be far limn in uuiaJ
to draw any invidious distinction ; and with respect
to that lamented officer who fell at Cretonne I
know of mire more emiiient than he was ; he
peculiarly possessed a disposition at all times to do
his duty. With a view to the appointment of
officers in Portugal, I will make 110 eulogy on
our victories, or the bravery of our mem ; but I
have only to observe, Sir Arthur Wellesley went
to Portugal, and within thirteen clays lie heat the
French forces, and obliged them to coorlicile am
armistice. I do not router with what lets been
urged by the Noble Lord concerning the change of
°flit:rill which took place after Sir Arthur's arrival.
Ile undoubtedly posseseed, although a junior 01A-
cer, all the merit which could recommend him;
acid on a small scale I vin williiig to admit, there
are many reasons to attend to such officers more
than generally is the case. Boit when 40000 inns
sere to lie confided to the commend of a ( ieaeral,
it Might not he alto;,,,,ether prinlent to have appal t de. I
a joitnoro4l such au occasiou. It is a subject eltiree-
titer ulipleasant to discuss before Porliaineut, viii
I have only to all, i do not particularly Liuw of
any inconvenietiee resulting from a stir-vv.:o,in of
otfiertri, taking the command. The diti..tenee I
entertain from others on the numbri of cavalry
which ought to have been transported sonar Cos
country, dues tint. arise from the mourns at borne,
but it ought to b•• recollected with respect to tram.
sports, fur ten trot, in•tst he allowed fur every horse.
therefore it requires as much tonnage to carry
3.000 cavalry, as it would require to convey 40,000
ifaistry. 11. sides one ship in font is not adapted
for that mode of conveyance, and it ought also to be
recollected that even is en ordinary transport
of cavalry, not one half of them ran be applied.
because nearly that noinlier are requisite to con-
vey every thing appendant to such a body. Again,
I allow that the interior provinces of Spain ore
cavalry countries, bet all those provinces towards
the coast form that kind of country where cavalry
are employed under the greatest disadvauta4es,
and this was the country through which you had
to go. Sir John Moors boned it necessary to do
that which ought seldom or ever, if possible, to
• happen ; he divided on his march his cavalry from
• his infantry, because his infantry in those promitera
were 'milder! to march a nearer way, where it was
aportsible for them is he acco:npanied by the ca-
valry, because they would not have been furaished
with the necessary supplies. In other expedilions,
your Lordships- will find that it was thought ad-
vieeable to send few cavalry :. in that in Egypt,
only 150 were sent. There never was an instance
where so many as between it and norm Cavalry
were sent, and nearly 8000 more were ready to be
sent, if Sir David Baird had not preveimil it. by
k 'informing us of his retreat. In sending this soecier,
oh' force, it can never be done, but gradually. I
grant, that the force originally sent out with Sir
Arthur Wellesley an, lint Cu the puri ore of
going to Portia-al and then it ass not po ivy to
send more, bust the inomerit Portireal beeinne
the object of our attention, a proper and adequate
force of cavalry was sent out immediately to that
country. At any rate, Ido ten consider the want
of cavalry could at all have excused the Armistice
and Convention of Cintra. With respect to the
Conemition. I think more favourable terms might
have been hart. When in the first instimee we scut
onr troops there, our wish was to reinstate the
Prince Itegelit, and I do not know of any under-
taking more likely to farther the general cause.--
The Noble Lord has proposed Leonel plans which
might hare been adopted in Spaiii aril Portuaal ;
in Spain we might hare sent force. into • !dal's-
sir. Butt what would the A adahi.ians have sib',
t, we have no righting here, yogi shoukl go iota the"
meth, fa; we have sent oar nail furies from home."
Why, they would have direlited your sincerity in
thr reuse. My Lords. I now come to the enns'deration
of the general plan of the campaign in Splint; in
commenting on which Ic• t hint observe, that the
Noble Lord has wither overlooked souse eireum-
stances, or else he has lint stated theni tie thin can-
did manlier which is usual with bin. Not to men-
tires the delay which necessarily took place is the
transporting the Spanish force hens the shores of
Denmark, to their own emintre; it will be retail-
!feted that the Central Coverninelit of Spain, with
whom aloes• all effectual arrangement for the pro-
motion of the common mute bould be made, rind
which formed as it acre the groniid-work of what-
serer assivtancw we were to afford them, slid not
take place till the Cslh of September. Thad fatty
appears by reference to the corycepoodence of lord
M illiam Bentinck, upon your Lordshito' table ;
the further circumstances of delay will also op-
'war from that correspondence, as the inevitable
consequence of men newly elected into office, with
whom we were to treat, as also the necessity of con-
certing the plan of our operations with General
Cisstaime. who did not stove in Madrid till some
time after. The Noble Lord has also omitted to
state, that this plan was adopted in conformity to
what was agreed on with General Castello., toge-
ther with General Romans, namely, that the Bri-
tish army should carry on its operntions es a dis-
tinct nod *emirate corps ; that Cornnna should be
an putrefies for the purpose of introducing and af-
fording the necessary supplies, and that the British
army should direct its march into Spain by laud.
It is true that it was left to the option of Sir John
Moore whether he would prosecute that march by
lend, or emceed by sea to Cornnna, and he accord-
ingly preferred marching direct from Portugal. f
do not, therefore, hesitate to maintein, that having
succeeded, in the first instance, in driving the
French out of Portugal, we ware bound, by every
motive of policy and prudence, to attempt the
mosistanee of Spam in her own territory, and that if
that effort ham failed, it his been owing to circom-
stances which could neither have been foreseen nor
prevented. It was impossible not to snppnee that
its enemy, possessed of the vigour ais4 temnrces be I

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Wes known to d minutia, would hate soave part; I
successes, or that the business could be iniccessfully
terminated in one canyieigii; accordingly the
principle adopted by the Sioiliards, and upon
which they determined Elam concluding the oar,
was that of keeping to their mountains, and avoid-
•gi I actions; and I know that (ion. Humana,
tit the time he left this rotititry, ticiern.wed, from
his knowledge of his c °war% mess, to follow this
plan, till the arrival of the force in the
cc try. I admit that, at the note Sir J. Moire,
arrived at SaLuuwucu, his holies of further ally:4ller
were dipappo:otl d. t;eneral Blake tens riefrati ii ;
the army of Estrantiodtsra had bees defeated ; lie
bad found himself unable to form .1 j.niclion either
with. Gemini's Hope Or Baird, suit lie judged it
hoe
for the latter to retrace Ills steps, and that
he itittitelf 'Amnia retreat to Vigo. lu the iuterim,
however, a change took place, which materially al-
tered the fare of 'affairs. General Hope joined
him, and the resistaiite at Madrid lawns to show
t self. • The General bud brought with bun a body
if cavalry, and he himself possessed a competent-
oaiii of artillery, by which lie found himself at the
rend of a corps complete iii all its points. My
Lords, this brings sue to the qsiestion respecting
Upon I Mr. Freer. this subjectcannot but think
that the instructions *rut to 111:1) were by no means
unusual. that the Nlilitiiry (;iimusaiiilcr should cor-
respond with the Minister, ui,d this tint as giving
the Alintster say military authority or power of
rfereuce %letterer. Aecortkaigli. your Lorilshiya
will Mail Sir John Moore. his letter to Mr.
Forts., asked his opinion how he should proceed. I
do relifema that, to this moment, 1 rensaiu of opi-
nion that the object .t Mr. Frew, in considering
that the abandonment of the Spaniards, at such a
time, would be highly injurious to the cause, was a
•otind opioimi; lint if I so consider it, I am equally
ready to admit, that the sending s Messenger to lie
examined before a Council of War. was not the
best mode of effecting his designs. But the real
question is, Was Sir John Moore governed by the
advire of Mr. Frcre or slot? Now, does not Sir
John ~lotdre evitressly say us his letters, lie should
not be goy surd by Isis advice, if he were even pre-
sent, as it'svas a question purely military. Could
he then Ile to be advised, in !scaling only, act-
ing as he did from his own judgineut at last ?
In tar opinion then, there exists no right to assert
that his aihi. ticr IVH• 810, the ..tfect of hit Ile II judo
meet, ant perhaps *Mount some attention to the opinion of
Mr. Fiore. I come now, my (mita, to Hie advauce itself of
Sir John Moore; and here tam ready to defend that step
as the memo by which the Came of Spain is nut yet lust ;
lint that, on the concrete., if she is to he saved, it is to be
attributed to that nicieure. It is well kauwa, that after the
various defeats she hail sustained, the MOM general aud sc-
rims* apprelwasious weer entertained, that if the French,
(Mhos mg up their Idow, snitched southward, they would
overruu the Primo:ale, without the means iir ite chance of
resistatice. The papers npon your lanillsbits' table, chew
this to have been actually their kitentiiiii ; I therefore main-
tain that the advance of Sir John Mouse upon Sutilt, by
bringiug the French upon kini did give to Spain the time
necemai, to rally her mattered fumes, soul has caused alt
those stroggku she has so gloriously slid asiecessfully made;
nod that if any thiug is to be effected towards her final sal.
statism, it is h>be attributed to the adoption of that immure
Your Lordships hive heard of the difficulties attending the
retreat, yet these the Noble Lord hats wholly ovestooLed.
The defeats ehsich Meheeeil the necessity of ttiat step had
taken piece beim,: Sir J. !tloore Lit arnvcd tit the pond of
his destivaliuu. Cl,lja!ms had heen originally !keit upon as
au but ui ..... that weemiion Yiga use represented
better adapted for the purposes of a secure re- end, irkatius.
Centime, however, win at last fixed upon for that purpose,
and the traiispint• %Wel. had beta meat round 0. Vigo, mem
oi *red back intuits; if therefori, they had remained at
their in iginal destination, I have nu doubt we should have
suffered no loss ehatever us Ike rweasient. • I mean sot,
however, to be underetemit as iinputiret any blame whatever;
on the contrary, under all these circumstances we have to
boast liana% achieved sue of the must brilliant victories us
tecorill. • pon the while, I ntaiiitain every thing peesible
was dime that could be effected, upon shit proicip:es adopted
as a guide Iff conduct. My Lords, I deny that our loos has
bees emourherable, when we hale into consideration the na-
ture and extent of the service, nail the atuouut of the force
einpinieed ; %him the Noble Lord talks of a Ills, of 7..00
iseu, he semi include between f and 4060 as the amount
of casualties fairly to he estimated in an army of 45,.iir0
men; mat theiefoce I vaunt, no the &urry, that our
loss may be onneiileied as inconsiderahle, all things taken
into rosisirleretion. Having gone through the several
points %defiled to IT the Noble Lord, I wish now to
eioss.der e hat his been the event of the campaign
Be it we hare raised the possession of the Russian fleet,
while mos own has been relieved from the trilionemess end
diniculttes of s blockade; we have materially wetted the
cause we esdeitooli to support; anti I maintain, whatever
may he tier anal !molt of the contest we are engaged in, '
ham, has nut ,et sat-seeded in subiliiiag Spain. I admit
bonsraite he, men in that country, that his troops
are ut the limiest, and liial:enerals among the moat skilful
to the won hi; and, abuse all, he has IWCII hirmelf at their
Lad; and yet. with all this, lie has nut got
'Nowt territore than he had last year; on thee...teary, he
mob holds such parts as in every war fell to the lot of
whichever hs ought the largest army into the Geld ;.even by
the lam animals, he had gained no heel. advantages. I well
reilletlitort what was mid a year ago, that either flimsy/ire,
must caters shone succeed, or wholly fail, for that partial
would never answer his potpie, •' what then is
the fart in the case o He has had partial sorters; and,
nutwitl-stenrlmg, he Itss nut yet got i• to his posersoion
more than half of brim, and the people have evinced
I a spirit that may be truly railed persevering. lam far from
aaeing, regard being bed to the man and she ehessostaneei .
seethe ease, that they will ukimately Illitteedi bid, at the
'am* time, linking at the spirit they have ?viewed, and the
&chows that hate happened, particularly the defence of Sa-
regime'', so gliwinuely persevered in, I r 1 feel lukewai on
in nee hope that their effort. nay be crowned with 1111111131 C
lillerfPF. WIWI% your I.orrlshMii consider the ereat popular
revolutions 'lilt have occurred, do they ultimately emceed
without gnat changes ? Switzerland and Holland are in-
stances of this ; bus, above all, America in that fatal coit-
ion we had gained every battle; we had fowilit and taken
every toe n we tiestegeil, until the capiiiie of General Bur-
goyne; and yet they had ultimately succeeded by preset-cr..
ace. In the present important struggle, do nut the ex•
. tent and nature of the ciiimtry Alford a hope of sneers.;
dues not its popelntion forbid deep Or The Noble Laid
rourinded his speech with a memos upon the imusluet Midi&
Majesty's Miuisters; bit 'Amdahl's may sot approve of our
measures, so neither do I approve of his CIPIOUSCII-.-•
I do not approve of those sublime operations in Egypt, at
'home Ayres, at e'onataiitisopie, and other places, that
emanated from the vi isduni of those with shoat his Lord-
ship has 1), PO 1154-11 to act. Upou the chide I have the
satisfae lion, is common with the rest of the Guvcrument,
to reflect that whatever may be the coseequences of the I
struggle we are embarrassed in, we have sot lost the eau-
&lmre of the Spanish people; we know ghat every trae
spaniel. heart beats high fur this country; we knew that
whatever shall happen they donut accuse W. holianissioa may
be the lot they arc fated to endtire in the mid, but they du taut
impute to nsthr cause uftheir misfu-tunee; they are sensible
that seitherthe thirst after commerce, nor territury, slur secu-
rity tato be impaled to us, in the assisiaece we have afforded
to them upou this important w caauu. H hateeer may be the
Malt, we have done our ditty, we have nut despaired, we
have persevered, and will du sit to the last, while there is
sit, ihiug left to contend fur with a prospect of success.
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ad and every (celiac nested on that greet ocesisloo, iii ii
bee/tine the Ministry to consider well the meaner in which
thee applied the 1•11011111:t11 uf the country. In order to
judge of the polity which they pursued ; it would he ue-
ceesary to consider its what situation anus wee at the time
they were called upon to act. Nuthiug could be wore iin-
entpected thee the sinteltsiteeus rising of the people of Spain.
The plan which the eisesny adapted, poietrit out disiinet:y
to us the course we eleonlil pursue, *kith was simply a
course of comiterattiter pedal ; we sleittld have leveled our
troop in the North of Spam, last that perhaps appeared to
the Noble Secretary of State. a plan of too aituple and ob-
vious a nature, and ought to be reliequisbed fur slue of
newer bathetic design ; he ass of opinion, that the force
should not be shieeted that quarter; the met place that
presented itself wus the South, fur which Gibreltir would
have servesl ass (tepid but what did the Secretary of State
and Lis colleagues ilo ittler repeatiog such policy in the first
instance ? they wrote to Sir Arthur tVelleslev, nut to pene-
trate too far into the South of Spniii, as the North was the
snore favotireble position ; if the reduction ofJunot was the
pristripal object, which lii les /min ium it was nut, lantugal
would him-leen a fair Met elation ; but he did not approve of
it uuder the circumstances, cirecially after what followed
upon our advantages in that quarter. The riench army was
to he cinieidered as mess py is.g Burgos, whets Sir J .lo orr aas
marred to 'starch in that direction. He wished to know
why they should have mow to Coruuna at all ? was it nut
clear that the too termite, one at Portugal, and une at
rerrunite, would find the grittiest difficulty in unitiug? The
Noble Lord had said, that much was done by it in the way of
diversion, but in point of fat t, it slid slut operate /toadies? lion,
it Mil not prevent the French troops hum occupying Madrid,
and overrunning the odor parts of Spoilt. Ile believed
that there war en unconquerable spirit in that country ;
lieurevi•e, thotieh they might and be hotel would succeed its
rearing a pintail trophy of independence over tirautiy ;
this station, in coesequessee of the buitecility of its Councils,
...old out claim auy share in the glory; it would only have lo
lament ever the tomb of a gullunt General null a gallant sob
/fiery., with the nsurtitication of reflecting that their death
produced no advantage to the country iu whose cause they
bled. The Noble Lord had stated that the want of wiuoa
wits clue of the principlel cause* ..f the failure ; that MIS owe
of the charges which he (lewd Moira) besought against the
aliiiistry—thi v had laid the foundatims of ilisunion by
the upperiututent of Mr. Vivre. There ens 5110Itter
ground of jealousy to the Spaniards, they howl espoused
the Clittlie of their King, us the principle that
they would stipulate with • him fur the removal of
such powers us were agaiuet their interests mid liberties;
but we esponeed the cause elf reriliinuid skw, and left them
he entertain the enspleeiti that we might stand iu their way
sputa the subject of reform. After what was nleraily done,
he arkisowleileed that he um not one of ilium who cared look
furward eith hope, 'Owe lie am the retain uf such proJoga-
lily
of 11141111 h 10 be within but shame, repulse, and defeat ;
when he saw a country big with energy, and glue in; with en.
thustasm, reduced by the impoteury of our commit.. Wheel
lie •3** this, lie could nut entertain mach hilm of a hippy
result I.t the conquest, while those kid Indult°
conducted, were still contieued in the management* of
*Maim. As to the retreat, he would not /wimpy their
Lordships' time iu praising the skill milt conduct with
*hick It Mal effected ; but as the only reparatiiiii he could
make to the spirit of hint end his brave troops who fell in the
tomcat fur the injuries they hail fissional!, lie would tote
fur the inert ion.
Viscount St OVOCTIt said, that whatever differences of
Opinion there ought he as to lliC Merits, there could be uone
as to the ionmstance of the tneasure ,• it was connteted with
the beet interests of the country. He did nut hesitate te.
prommice not only that the preponderame iif areitineist was
in Comer of the Searle Earl who brought forward the imam.,
but that there was PO 11111.1er VCll,,tuoeeet given t,. the pujiiii
hr had itreeid He would not go it to the aetail of that tuts
jest at that hoer. He newer heard of an introit...it to
employ the British forces nit the Cootineat without en.
unlashing mach apprehensol ; he would but say that
there could be tin mrcadlW It.irlital it ; but the rep/amuse
of the Iwo t years had taiight him a lemon i.f cautioa. It
au army was to beeent into the interior of Speisa, it should
lint have heirs seat until necessary praviaiusis were wide to
'Heuer its retreat in cane disaster; it 11.0 IteCtts.ll) that
there should he a eepresite esecutive andeirity to the vete
try t n ass neremary that there shunt) he a t7ouirmsnelee-
issettief, and though he thought it pefectlyr.eht in His Ma-
jesty's Ministers sot to stipulate for my advantage as the
prim of siscriner, it was yet aecirearry to stipulate for mich
pndections as might be waiting to their mare cumiikte se -
cavity. If it had been twine th Dopoitt was defeated, it
wesitit have Leen right to send bums to Portngel. Sir it
Wellesley should not h ire quitted the (meat, eithout an
adeimete force. 11w object of the repeditient to Portugal
was stied to be the impuisiwe of the French ; but the Jr-
mileice in is hicli it CallielllitC.l formed s just grotiiiJ of coin-
plena ; never •as there a better description of it civet), than
what Ili. Majesty's Ministers had themselves stoned—that it
had disappointed the hopes and expretatious of the country.
Amalie other causes which contributed to the armis-
tice so utibiriuttafe for Ilse lie bite service, was, the
rep id succession of °dicers appointed to the command.
The Nohle Viscount then ulvrrted to the conduct uf Mr.
Freer, whose itifloence on Sir tutu Moore slime inclined
that gallant General to make the fatal movement lie dad.
Mr Frere appeared to purees, ardour without judgment,
and Ills almesty's Missiaters seenteJ to approve his measures
measures whirls etrumelleil Sir jou, Moore to retire wilt,
baste, when heliail no secure piece of retreat, and to seal a
life of honour with a death ut glom, He agreed with the
Noble laird who spoke last lent one, on the pruprkty Of sup.
portiug thecae... el Sonia, while there was the Tenet chance
of seeress, ass woulil on all ocessious stark his abhorrence
of the &troches. COlittiltt of Bonaparte. He concluded by
isbierviug, that while he VIVC Ili* Majesty's alfinistem credit
for zeal sedsincerity no the Slnuisk cause, that it had been
deplorably miseneameed, and yet was nut eu be akspaired of.
Lord Mb 1.1. i Pi %u: 1140, that the opinion.' pace by
Noble lauds, Meat the proper nude of conducting the opt-
rations in Spain moil Portugal, were so vari tttt a, that
had they been in power, they must have fund a diffi-
culty ins laying down a plate of operations. One Noble Lord
approved of the troops going to Portugal; another would have
hal them at the Pyremes; while another recommended the
co-operei toe of Plying equadro.m. A Noble Lord would have
hail theist plated between tlw Pyrenees and the French as,
niy ! But he was at a lose to know, how they were to mats.
lain themselves against the force of flonaperte ? 0 ! they
ere to farm a chase of "um, men across the Preemies, sag
Ittsaspletc ly shut them up. Thus reusiuded him cof a otory of a
chemist who haul discovered a menus to destroy Ratticassakee;
it nofoitunately happened, that the Not article to make his
recipe • $l4 s Rattle-snake, soil the difficulty was, bow to pro-,
care uue ho the purpose; su wills the Pyrewees, it was no
ainail desirable to *het them sip, Mat the difficulty was
In duiug it. They mum hest be taken before the Trench
could be prevented from pitsdeig through. The Spaiiissisis
desired artillery, arum, riusiminitiou, amd money; they did
not west men. bir Arthur tVelleeley was to call at Spain:
be dual so, when they were desimel to clear the French from
Prirtrigal, which would be the must desirable object. He
differed in opinion with the Noble Viscount, that Spain
should he the laid plane its the aorta to which troops shonld
he sent. Spain was e great in mins, but she had rimed
tio he so, since her connection with France, and wee no hist-
eel• a military manioc—Leine arose die necessity 411••••ti;ng
a [tidal, force to their •••11112144-, —.He did not OM-
reive it necessary to vinilicete the propriety uf the ceps Jo
boo to Pm fugal ; a more brilliant three weeks roma not he
found in military annals; he would nut therefore /filth' the
House by entering spas it As to the :umesitieu of ('sirs,
it did not originate with His Majesty's Ministers, anther
did they approve it, as :night be gathered Inure what had •
bees said by them that 1111•11 SP. Ihe NIA& Lord then
rimateted Monsters from any blame on earl %sag on
the epeuitious in Spats, bat would not justify air Eerie,.
whose ester* astsiety fur the public semi,-e might have led
Sir Jodie Monet auto some eintimiassieteuts Ile hyped las
had *hewn that Ilia Majesty's Miunters were net so rept-
benalble es they had been represented ; contended that they
bed sheisti au want of selnd diecretion, ur
anitteemted that they would amt lose the couffileswe of their
Lerida* or of the country.
Lard ER111116; was, aid said, God forldd that he should
wish to pus teatime ow any set of men, *aloud they justly
deserved It. If His Majesty's Ministers plasm had lees
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have tome forward us their advocate; free dwy
oat sod ran head foremost 'into every thaw that Ira
wrung, by which means every thing they eadartuok wee th-•
remcii, sod at the end they would he lust themselves; that
hiss would be but trifling compared with the lives of
meu they had endangered lie then took • retro-
vpi etive view tot the cunipaitus in. Spain and Portugal, and
followed the arsaments of Earl they, which evert most
gemously .1113 eloquently retimehed by his Lordship
There vial site eircurnstauce whirl, had eseaped Lis !Solite
Prieuil, that the greater part of lb. communications
Sir I). Bard had have sup', saved, he Lies it,lve could prose
it at the Bar of the House, that Sir 1). Baird wrote His
Maji sty's Ministers an acconot of the apathy and want
spirit amongst the Spaniards, and they had received the
commuuicat ion when they were pressiug Sir John Moors to
advance. lie concluded by observing, that he considered
the battle of Corunna a victory, and the great, the brave,
the valiant, and heroic Moore, died, to use the sorties( a
great English Author—
'• lo jib's of conquest, be rcaign'il bin breath,
" with E aglan•l'v giwy, •aiii'd w death '^
The Kiel of WrIITMUILLA ND spoke at lotigth. and en..
tended that this Majesty's 111nistrrs, iiistesd of critsure, de-
,...red the thanks of their Country fur their &induct relaive
to Spain and Portugal.
laird tioeset kke, in a very eloquent wed able epee,
auimadveited upon the impropriety of the Noble 11,..1,
who had pis ceded, having made use of surcAsuis
such a serious occasion. Ile then entered into a cri-
tical c%ainitiatioo of the two esmilitions to Portugal n 13.1
Spam, and ruler:Ted cousidcratily upon the iiicimakte-
vileness of Miutsters sending out hoops so badly equip-
ped sod provided with Caialr. He blamed murk the
supineness uf the officers, whom he excalpitted ; but saw,
they were IM:why placed in • must ea toward sites.
Lion. He also threw out many reflections upon Miotstens
fur hrodug allied Frets to interfere with the military
uperatioos of Sir J. Moore, owing to o hose superior jedg-
uieut tour 'troll!, hind Inc., prevented fruis falling into
the hands uf the enemy. rt4ave all, he thought that
Ministers *ere isorrliensible for entlenvousing to throw
the blame oft themselves, and transferring it upon Sir
Juba Moore, who avoid slot now appear to speak in hit
woo justilleateni. lie looped that such a cmaduct would nut
lessen the ardour and grail of the army, on %Inch the salva-
tion of the comas-, so greatly depended. Cpou these rounds
be should vole Mr a motion that attributed to Mona-
tin the loss of mini ilhosisaink men; the loss .1
Sir John Moore, right milliuus of money, mil created Ike
addition of Mill a niiillou of money to the Isirdeus of the
country, and above all dinrace to our Comm ds rad our na-
tional character.
Easil tioosticatin spoke a few words is favour of the

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Adjiiurniril at HAL.I.PASt SEVEN +MUM dita.
31uoutig, till Mutatity.
HOUSE Of COMMONS.
A Meledge from the Iltnise of Peers announced
that their Lorallisps had ii4reed to atvernl
and other pritatc Bills.
Mr. ParrhawN moved the second mailing of the
Norwich Bridge Dill, winch occabioniel • short CO 9.•
versitiun ttetween that Getillriataii :lad Mr. Wtt.-
USN Sxlru. wilt) proposed that instead of the
Bill being read Now le secoml time,. it should be
read .. see....if time on this illy rodeo.
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The partteulurs of tb isentoack attack made
up,to the French fleet, iu laaryse.hkeisdN, are giten
iu the KrtratnNlinary Gaze*, of las Ifinglet, a copy
of which will be fonnel to the fillet page of this
Paper. At a late hour lest night se received the
following euniumiiii.ation, Yt LaPalt os, (tout Ports-
th. The reader will perceive, t list it was sent
under the inipression, that it would reach town
before the dispatches entrusted t a Sir HAKIM
N E• LE
" PORTSMOUTH, TWRI.'IR O'CLOCIL
" The imperious. frigate, Capt. Lord Cochrane.
is this moment arrived from Basqu I. Roads. with
dispatches from Admiral Lord Gain Lier,
ing the destruction of etNK ii.tll. ov Tilt: Ltest, to
Basque Roads, by the Beet under Lis I.ordship's
order.,—The tire-ships were not made use of ; die
British fleet having wade the attack, and driven on
shore and destroyed the whole of the Freud' ships.
except two Nail of the line, which hat. escaped nut
of Brest, midi those that joined them out of loch-
fort.-..The two ship* winch made their escape.
were drive.. thrniigli the passage d'Olonne, and got
into ltochfort.—Lord Cochrane landeal at N quarter
past eleven, end instantly set MI im a post-chaise
anti four for Looduii.—Sir 11. B. Neale landed
yesterday at Falmouth from the loperiener, with
envies of the same dispatches, with which be set
ott for London ; but, owing to a oast favourable
chan4e of wind. which blows strong from the S.W.
which brought the loptrieuse in a fine hours after-
wards to thus port, Lord Cochrane vrill reach town
before him."
The Livery of Londou Dinner, yes'erilay, at
the London • Tavern, we, numerously admitted.
Lord FOLPIWTONR, Sir FRANLIS lattatiarr. and,
Mr. WARDLE. were among. those who delivered
their political *Potion:sits at it, and urged the tic-
i....sery of Reforest. The length of the Psel:.l-
- Debate croliges us to defer our account
of it.
Earl lIARCOORT died on Thursday moruing.
We have received exclusively I/nteli Papers to
the 19th inst. emit L; the Paris ilea. to the
I3th. The treaty betweru Englaud and Turkey, is
copied from the illuniteve or the Nth.
The Treaty emesist.- of 12 articles, me follows:
Tim. property wheel. either may, lure is Is proarastoa
belonging to the other, and all Alps of private istritioluala
ander realwego, shall he inuarchlttly restored.
Front the tounteat of the massing at this treaty all besti-
lilies shall cease, :sod the simmers of war Os both 'Ririe%
shall be restored withal tat/arum days sties-oh/is& wettieut
111, 14M1010.
Slutikil ate 1111 l na.srlalton, In regard to commerce, to ha at
fooled in it, fullest weed—the taut at Cuustautample
11.111MiR sail Is.
F.ogland arrasents, that en Onvirs ship of woe shall used
the No dauttlea, ea the k 64:41.
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LONON D Printed ITT t; DTVlDstits, tow
Notoiell mart, Carey, toil and published at the Wk.'
Nu. is, Park of ht. Cluittesea Church, %Mad, by •
14 H ITE, of sae,. place —t trues, Our. for this Paplf
seal is lba thbae,licat paid,, .sell lc July attended