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London, England, 1810-03-30 00:00:00

. • keftr, hear.).-There was a ttreat deal of farce
mixed with tragedy berate foie ; he would won
come to mounted tragedy. Nat having 16.1.100 then
in the mouth of March, of all our nnulermus mimes
esii,,papir, it was the cud of July before the Expe-
dition could be reedy to sail. The Noble Lord,
with Maternal fondness, would see it quit the British
abates. It was s mid, that the last person he saw
wet the most jelly of the Represeutetives of the
Loreluth—(9 lang4.)-;:ro whom, iu the
language of the bard of Calmat—
" mica, he cried, cud waled his lily knot"
This wormy Alderman was transported, as they
required. in it most appropriate meinier, to the
*came of action. He was borne in the Pluenix, with
a fine lively turtle, towards Walcheren (a faugh) to
enjoy the triumphs which there awaited our arms.
The Noble Lord,"the other ought. tomtit round to
colophon to hint of allowing the City of London to
swell the expense to 14.000,0001. hut, nut seeing
juviel face, he made has complaint to one whose
lice was of anotheskiud. Another Hon. Represen-
t Wive of the City was behind I who kissed the rod.
He was also an Han. Bert.; but this would not de-
scribe hint, fur the City sent 110 less than three Re-
presentatives, all created Hon. /Linnets, for their
unheard-opines-so. (A Laugh.) The army, when it did
go„ was fully completed in every thing ; the more
• shame to the Noble ion! and his Colleagues, tot:cud
it to a place where so many were ern en of perish.
ing, end consigned to a premature mill inglorious
grave. They might have saved theiii,harl they 'amid-
oil to the mud opinions of the officers they lc-
stilted, by asking in mockery for their opinions, upon
which they wire p. _.determined limit to act. The
Noble Lord dealt hardly by his witnesses, for when
they gave evidence, such as- he widiett, he would
have them believed ; out if they did not do that,
he impeached their testimony. The Hon. Gentle-
man then examined the evidence laid before the
Secret Committee, and contended, that knowing
where the French regiments were in Dee. Noe,
could be no information as to then stations in 1510.
The Noble Lord, in his speech, had arid to them,
to call the Freneti Emperor to his character, and
hear his opinion of the Expedition. Now they
could not get Bouaparte to their bar, and indeed
it was very ungallant in the Noble Loral to pro-
pose it, just at the lime he had got is young wife.
--If they asked him, he supposed the answer
would be " Married, and can't come."-..(4 /aNg/i.)
Of this marriage, lie would i see Irate to say, " May.
the hooey-muou soma it. felicity over the earth. and
aid In that pa, ification, so often offered by France
to this country !" Upon these grounds, he supported
the Resolutions, said thought st would be an
insult to the people, whose money had been
so squandered. not to as.ert the rialponsibility
of Nliniaters, and punish them for their offence.—
(Hear.)—lie now came to the uumixed tragedy.
In viewer to the ChM, put to hire—he would not re-
tain the West India islands at suds au ext.-wee of ha-
matt lives, nor would he have !sent an massy gallant
fellows to the marshes of Walcheren, at the
oat unhealthy season, to perish there, for
any national object, however greet. With ri-
spect to the diseases of the army, much had
been said, but great WWI the responsibility on
the part of Minis ere, and just was their reprr-
heusion. He called upon the House to look at the
evidence of Sir Lovas Pepys; with all his esteem for
that Gentleman, what could hese), ? Why, bring
called to iuspect the diseases of the army, he had
no region unity of staling any opinion, but what he
had observed .by looking iuto hospitals, where the
diseased troops were lying mound fem. What
could lie leans for It certainty by that mode of exa-
mination ? Why, • main might es well louk into
a pair of empty boots, to Ire what war the matter
with the feet which wore them. The Noble Lord
(Castlereagh) bilked of the &ceases of the army, as •
subject of speculation. What, were the facts on
all sides, roidirming the destruction our army had
experienced through diocese, to he termed specu-
lative ? not the Third Regiment of Guards
marched out of London, with the light infantry
company, and, out of lie men, not one returned.
Was not this the melancholy fate of many compa.
Hies, and many regiments Such were the means
pursto d, and such were the woeful consequence..
The whole idany was crippled, and almost wholly
destroyed, and by a carp de warm. He confessed
he never till now had heard so much of a romp de
roans, and no explanation could be more extraor-
dinary than that given by the Noble Lord. Ac-
cording to every definition, he had understood a
coup de twain ought to hr such an act, where mine.;
diate skill, and prompt action, are brought sud-
denly to bear upou the object. The attack upon
Copenheges, he supposed, would be called a reap
tie main. God alone knew how far the terni would
aoply, according to the meaning given by the
Noble Lord. The a-scull upon Seeollitz would
come under the same deunmination. Ishmael was
taken by a coup de main, when Siswerrow, having
seized the town, put ten thousand of his fellow-
creatures, in cold blood, to the sword. In the holy
war of Poland, Suwarrow also ordered le thou.
sand to be destroyed, mud he oimpneed that was by
• ramp de male. On the _!id of January, they
(the Opposition) had made an attack upon Minis.
ters; and, he trusted, for the lieustit of the country,
they should succeed by a easy de wain. To be
sure they had not been successful iu their first at-
teuipt, and they had been driven from some of their
erring holds. but they were MICS more making a
bold ettack. and he hoped they would be driven
from their situations by .t eunp-de-niain. fled the
Noble Lord satiefied the Ii use with re.pect to the
disseusion amongst Ministers thetat..hes. about the
police of the expedition? In the situation in which
we stood ,with an &my act ruined, '0 many of our
brave men lying rotting in the matches nit %Veldts..
run, so many widows and orphans mourning their
woeful fate, from the centre to the extremity of the
three united kingdoms, there was not a man who
did not call for justice. The Right floa. Gentle.
men wars. answerable, and it was for vengeance the
people of England cried. He hoped the widow
and the orphan would be avenged for the dead. and
for the iiipiries they hail suffered through the lit.
Hon. C.:cutlet-nen. The widows' hope and the nail-
honour. must be decided by the votes of the
lions.. on this very eintSlloo.
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PAIIIIma
ruse. amidst great noise and
Brie` of piesti". :law (mold Ministers answer fair
tke empeuct of the array, when it was gone beyond
the etide....! U soy thin mint/tie cowed, it could not