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London, England, 1810-03-23 00:00:00

(MPEEL4L PiRLIA.V.ENr.

ROUSE OF LOLDS, ft uftaiv, Waste lc

The Rays; Maria lliatir.y Bill. and several Bills, coati-
istst.ig certain expiring Laws, went through a Committee.
Me. Owen, from (lie Eon, I ilthxcouipsit), presented cci fain
Pa(mers, ordered on t►e 15th int
MI. DAVICS GIDDY, Mr. SUMWEII, and Mr. LI3IIIIIO-
- brought ■p a Dumber of Bills front the 0011111011% ;
among which were, the Eschemiuer Bills rimmelinz dill, ant
the trill, Distillery Bill; which were laid ou the and
afterwards remi a Brat time.
The Earl of Dane LaY intimated a wish. that time second
macho; of the bah Distillery Bill should lake 1..,11 i• on
)londay ileac, which we uuderstood to have been acceded to.
The Lotto Cit•actLima having quitted the woohark,
ryroc-eded to give judgment in time Appeal Came Lam the
Court of Sessiou in Scotland—. •

MaaTtaTua o. IllcalJOila and eT11719.
Ilia Lordabgp said be bad, on a foatnir evengag, adverted
to the pal-tickler points which the Hugme had to take into
ennt•id-ration It had hi en strenuously argued that this case
etomldlie glee:tied on merits which the low ef Scotland dill
.t rlcogititt. Hy the lia.glish Corporation tan, a distant.-
Imo was wade io the mode of proceeding pugsued try Cor-
i mate biddies when they ronsisied of n definite or an in-
straight camber; and also between those whose charters
speciked that " o indica inat"'shurld concur in any Milnet
act, and thew, whose charters did not contain sorb a provi-
sion Rut he fuuud, by a case decided by the SeutchCoorts,
so fag back as the year 1747, tbat nu distiuttion of that kind
nus thee admitted in Scotland ; and, by another decisings, of
the year I so 3, the Sane ardent seemed to be acted upon. He
tbersfere thou;ht it would be attended rri..h the most dap.
gernua consequrnets to alter or abrogate that conme of
proceeding a Inc. had prerailed in the Scotch Courts for baq
a ceutor. The welled point which had been argued wag,
that th ..e k. mph' i in 01 the set done by a nsinonty of the
Corporation of Ostrow,. had no legal richt to complain. in-
asmuch at they themselves *ere wilfully absent. Now, this
was a very rind plea, if Ruffling-in o•gal evidenee hail hero
adduced to place the wilful abaegire beyond doubt' Dot, altho'
Le laginseif snip vied, nay, eh ht.**, as a 3 individual, he belitwe•l
the Astute of Aithia to have been intentinital, )et
egos, bowever strong, was not a ground tsi *Asia. 'foie
Lordahno (mold deride—legal and oodisubted evidence of the
fat t was abiolittely necessary. It had been situ cogittuded,
. .

that, its point of fact, a majority had assembled at the time
tbe Corporatist consisted of eighteen pm-
so4:ll, and those making this aqierti that but nine
of Morse presorts bad been collected , but," said they, in or-
der to prove that Rive was a 'majority of eighteen, one of
those pe ri-te had a mistime vote;" as if, because when the
be,",7 met, this c wain rot, was allowed, that, tbercfure,
it should b. allowed it. all othi r cares. Ih' more he thouebt
of this pioposittou' the more was be COtlttiteed that it cool
sot be tolerated. Coder all these circam,trincrs, he should
'ore, " That the deessiaa of Ma Coact of .-iesstou be album-
ed."—Agreed is.
MILITARY STRENGTH OF THE COUNTRY.
The Em I of Lit tart LET. in pursuance of a notice
he had gi v. it on a Cornier evening, to.e to move for
▪ doeutnent, relative to the present slate of our
fOditary force. At the lime he had given notice of
ltia iotention, a Noble E4rl (I.iverp,:ol) opposite,
had intimated to the Haase, that obi never the mo-
tion came before their he should feel it
his duty to oppose it. If that Noble Earl run'p.r.
*slated ni this determination, be trast•-d l e v•ould
advance snore s.,hd rea,mis for pursuing such a line
of conduct, than were generellv give.' on such
ssettsions. For his par , i.e rale.; iiitt c•eirei.e
what good ground of opposition could he adduced.
The necessity for the procluction of the paper
which he intended to move fur, must be evidrut to
every ono. It was ootorious, that the present Mir
oisub by their itial..adlitinistiation of the alfai ra of
the ,couotry, had lost lhr confidence of every dm-
interested i,, it. Notwithwandiug the
Manifold atosf..rt ttttt s which their mi.cooduct bad
Unmet upon the coninry—notsvith&tandieig the
Isilu.e of their hoa.ir4 ostieditions—they sere
still sehrliog front)* out of the lougdnin. They had
lately, br sea, iiirormed, Petit t. regituriit of dra-
goons to C;:cliz, where, it w is 'mint-loos, if there
Was ti.l an se•trei'y, yet, It taunt be admitted,
there" were sin pfeleitia.s. to si.are.—Well as he
war at Crl4llred tmir mode of conducting the
gir!illtey atigas of the tou:.10 as
(holy experience had taught I tr, eel 'Mite their
elnlit tea --little us he respected frmn I heir exoticism--
yet, had not tis fact been will autlie:itie4ted. he
could not have hAleveil it p.'s-ihle. Ile would not
t;,eir Lordship farther. hut Larne—
" The an humble Addrr•ss hr pre,ented to His Wajesty,
preyhtithat Ifis Majesty spay be graciously pleased to ter, es
be kW before the House, en account of the number of ca.

rota hati been slated, a ground notorious
throughout the country. .His !Noble Friend had
distinctly stated, that tile prodaction orthe piper
was readeteel neoevsaty by the disastrous cons..-
.pence* which hid re tilted from the various ex-
pillitions sent out ht Ills Majesty's Ministers.—
Surely it could not be denied, that it a .ati
..fter such an enema:ma waste of men, to ex-
amine into the state of our fur: es ? 'rite No-
tile Lord had told them, that, it aen a well-
grounded suspicitni prevailed, that the forte 'of
the country had been iinprcvalently used, he
7.114111111 not have been so greatty surpri.ed at the
motion. What, them was there no well-grounded
suspicion? Did the unfortuaatc eanyaigu of leo9,
under Sir John Moore, excite no suspicion ?

(Hear hear.)--13i,1 the still more disastrous
eanipai4n of isog—he called it inure disastrous,
because the favt of Sir John 'Moore's artily was di-
rectiy before their eyes—did ii, he asked, excite
❑o suspicion ?—(Hear ! hear !)—Dd the deplo-
rable and disgraceful Expedition to 11"nlcheren,
excite tea suspicion?—(Hear! hear !)—Surely,
stately, here was abundant ground for the produe-
tiou of the document caned -for. But why should
the Noble Earl call on them for each cogent and
palpable ground ? If other ground were wanting,
His Majesty's Ministers had themselves given suf..
ficient. Hid they not, in the speech from the
Throne, at the commencement of .the Session, in a
matinee- the most extraordinary and unprecedented,
by draining that it was His Majesty's pleasure to
order to be laid before the House all the necessary
documents relative to the Scheldt Expedition ; did
they not, he asked, by such conduct, avow thxt
suspicion existed, and that inquiry was necessary ?
This, of itself, he thought, without seeking fur-
titer, I competent ground for complying with the
motion. The Noble Earl hod argued, that the
preseut motion was unprecedented—hut, if it were

*sky, iofastry, and arttite'ry, scut on foreign sen ire, (smut
November, leug, up to the present time."
The Earl of LIVEUPOJi felt it a ditty impei4tive
on him to oppose the produc jun of the. arc ttttt it
moved for by the NoWe Lord. He trusted the
House would feel with hint the proptiety, oat., the
necessity, of refusing to grunt the object ut the rats.
lion, uule•ss some rngent, palpatile, and par...did
ground was urged .for the production of the u-
Tutor, taotnmi•unt to the danger likely to be in-
curred by :ts being made imblic. New. in point
of fart, what ground had been ail/Armed by the
Noble Lord ? why, truly, it hid been insetted,
that I Its Majesty's Miniriers hart 1.i:4 the eo;,tidetu e
of the rem:ore, nml therefore. moth, t:•,s docu-
ment should lie produced. rus was the only r.st-
ann he could collect. Sot lie aid nut think the
Howe generally crane-Wed with the Noble Lord in
s opinion of ifie Majesty's !Wallets r. ; and uules•
they eoo••nrred In that opinion, lir was cone 111'5.11
they would not ■gree to the motion. If errs, a
well-grounded suspicious had been entirtaiiie.l, that
the force of the country had twin improperly wale
tine of, he should net have been so moth s,l►lrri.ed
at the Noble L'eed's motion; but no •such susiviion
hail sheen manifested. Sw Is is 181011,11 W.lll 11111.11 r.
sod ought 141, t,/ le eutr•t,,insd,
r,r104 facii, solid rtuerma proselarti thersr,,le,s
in. its favour. When Nulale l.onh vrasureil the
mod. ie which the force of the rnnn,•t• •r.s ti.s.
peeed of, they should argue the point, with Fifer-
encw to the este of the Continent ; let them take
into their view, the events which hid passed,
egui which we►e passing there, and tel
eider what wee likely to result; thus, awl oiCy.

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t eons:ire. he could adduce many of a similar
description. the motion 'would rot, as asserted,
be productive of evil consequences to the country,
by informing the enemy of the points on which he
was likely to he attached. This. certainly, was •
taisunderotending. The motion merely w..iit to
14,ice before the House information OR to the num-
ber of troops sent abroad, in a given tine ; it could
hr of no detriment to the country, and had his
warm concurrence.
The Earl ..f Wesreost.exn considered the
speech made by the Noble Earl, who keel just sat
down, exactly similar to that which .he had deli-
vered en the first day of the session; it went first
to condemn, uml afterwards to inquire. An in-
quiry was then ',coiling, relative to one of the
measures so much deprecated by the Nuhie Lords
opposite. Of the result of that inquiry, he enter-
tained.no doubt ; but, until that ipiestion was de-
.eitled, he hosed the House would not he led assay .
by assertion, however strong.. if. the Noble Lords
opposite were desirous for inquiry into any rues-
sure, let them bring their proposition forward,
and, lie doubted not, he and his friends would be
able to inert them. Much of what had fallen from
hi' Noble Friend (Liverpool) had been misunder-
stood; and a meaning attached to it. which it,
-vouid not, in reali•y,,bear. The Noble Lord had
enumerated a loop list of failures—they failed in
Spain—they Veiled iu Waleheren—he wondered
the Noble Lord had not noticed their Allare, in
lakif:9; p.Nsessn ii of Lisboa—(we presume the
Mite Earl meant Cadiz.) The danwer resulting
fi fon g,siting the object or the motion was so evi-
dent, and had been ro_clearly demonstrated, by
his Noble Friced (Liverpool); that lie felt man hest-
miion in oppasi.i,; the production of the document
moved fur.
Tha .I.lartiu:r of Itrient.ss said, that, much as
Nolilc 1f...rl in the Hine Ribbon (Westmor-
land) had ouppoi,-4 the Noble Lord (Liverpool) to
have been iiiiminferstood.. the Noble Earl himself
had nut been manure corset in his comprehension.
Ile Ives not bane omit by any thing which had fall
Ira from his Noble Friend ((Irey), in the observa-
tions be lied mode re.latire to condemnation and in-
piny ; two rid th. tendency of the motion itself au-

time:se it. It had been alletTsd, thst this paper called
for, ii produced, would impart to Cl:enemy infiuma-
hoot of tie most vital consequence. But the con-
trary lie Met. H. Noble Fricnii, ono ono ed fur
the acconat, well aware that, in all piolmbility, the
Noble Lords opposite. would advance such au ob-
jection against his motion, hail so worded it, that
no one could, unintentionally, mistake its extent
and purport paper moved for could not, as
had been, more than once, confideotiv noierted. in-
form the enemy of the points to which. tro.r4 had
been sekt—it would merely. as had hen distinctly
specified. point out the number of trmuis sent on 1..
reign service, during a given time—hot was tot it iy
rilriot as to their destioation. With respect to the
propriet... of granting the information desired,
against which so much had beru said, it appeared
to him tot only proper, but absolutely necessary,
Old eery information, not clearly fraught nitli
danger to the country, should he laid before the
public. Ministers. I th h badrta be ...0u4..t, .4l.e_ it proving
that the document floored for was likely to be at-
tended with any ill effect ; in desiring to have it
lat I before them, he. therefore, thought he was
so rfecily justified. When we weir almost excluded
from the Continent—when we were likely, with re-
spect to Europe, to he rortined within lour own
shores—was tt uot. he would ask, a duty, in the
highest degree incumbent on their Lordships, to
s. riitioise, with a .emotions exactness, the means
which,atter the disastrous expeditions that had so
much thinned the ranks of our army, were still
I it u, to protect the c.onitry? Would they refuse
coun try, smarting under the misfortunes
imoi.4!); out it by the inraincity of Ministers, that

eouhl they come to a ju.t cuncltniioo. %Yam, in 6-1-41 rt.oa shit h was so Irma), called for, mid war
w odd alma to their Lord-tips, be the in..- ,•. iv flue
effect of producing the account oilltat for f:,, liars of DIRNLItT, in reply to the a lion
why, ea iitentl% to inform the enemy or tile awe cf. h 1;1 from to .de by the Nohle Lords oppieute,
our military eiree—to p&ot not to him yhere h.• Al slffic.ent kround had been advanced to Ito.
w.,• I,kely to be attacked ; :I cowcipie,.er•which hr j t 1,,e protliieuourtf the paper eitherl forotated,
• lint ssirseiettilv deprerate. all thr,,c tit 1.. thologht suffi-sent renairm had been assigned.
con .I,leritionu, he ie:t it ii,mintry Alto"( the lit" 113:Oft0101111r eapisiitionsi, our cavalry
*prow r.doetd to a moss inefficient state. Vet, thaw
Earl t iILET rote to •,n!cdo t the motion of Lis 11i ,-seers who awierted that there were not sufficient
Noble Freud, (1):11.11; F.) /IC o.lllthrly fll,lrnle• I re.e.ios milite.,l fur iv niilt tog with ha motion for
from the ariginaci.i, neva liy the Noli!c (1.1- information, tho,..e ver, 't ;misters bent out of the
verpool.) That hotels Lord had aware ed, that no suf. country the only reconitilt of light drasinotis which
fic,ent Kround bud ',wen stir,' ado. Hone • was man effective stale. Whether they were gone
in nerede to the motion. lit,! ~,list 11,4 i./ Itt ('..di or to Lishoii, 4,4lsitierl little. iVheo that
Pa. th.t, in lit% , 4 full and e eveiit 41, whicit every thiolirrg and unpre.