The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1810-01-24 00:00:00

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!OMIT ttnatile to ItttpritM 41111 Y. sey Uglo
tit hive been tatught Wisdom by the example and.
instructions received from Sir John Moore. He
never experienced assistance from the Spatsiards,
tied Ministers were well acquainted with the opi.
sail experience isai enabled hint to rum of .
the co.operatiori to be eapected Spain. Much
inquiry had ensued on Ibis loubjev, mod the wore
they knew Of Sir J. Moore the ou.dilia.l they cause
to %Misfire his conduct through life, and lament his
premature death, from whose. talerit 'anti exertion
slime it WAS, that ever a matt returned from the
expedition ruder his coinutaud; yet, uniostructed
by what had occurred, Ministers, with au oleic-
cOuntuble iafatiostion, rushed into the same error,
and sent soother army into Spoils, without previous
provision, aid without any change in the Spauish, '
Goveriiingut hawing caked place. to warrant the
hope of at dissiinder result. What good conse-
quence followed? The pompons embassy of Lord
Wellesley', from which su tnucis was rinunised and
co little got—if/earl hcat!)—A vteterly and a
is retreat-..d % ttry, which made victory amide.
.5 )))) 4.1.111011,, and which terminated in the
• way us if we hail hero beaten—our uriny, ever
at 1,.e trusting with disease, and unable to take au
active share is the camp:lieu. •Such were t!
epteleili.l fruits of oar disaideoae pol.tics with regent
16 list Spanish contest. Of the expedition to Wal-
e:hi:leis widen% better could be sans. The greuteot
peeve, ro:Utio ever made by this coutoir were sum-,
and this Jr most eau thins employed. The expedi-
two; tioatlrer. wee nut prepared to soil before on
armistice eta ounctadvd between France and Ails-
• trio; and, consepseirtly, all ideas of diversion in
lawns of cur allies welt futile, and ilioubject
i s o *retinas became purely British. This was Li
• moist eeprawnsilde step to he taken at a moment
wltotli it was the paramount duty of hlisiisters to
have evinced t ig foreu nations, tat our intentious
were la/enact !die.nterested. The exist-hatter's tattle
Scheldt was r aid whether the resolution
or vas a t • wise one, ebuld easily be shewn
trout the resnilh Eveu when there was no type-
onion to them, our forces retarded cruelly wasted
smit What then must the couveipseisces
bye bees,, had tey enissuntered the resistance
which might reesoisitif.y bare been calculated upon?
But the expedition, though Ministers were so igno.
let as to know nothing of the matter was hopeless
from the beginning. From Lord eltatbauf's die.
troc!ies it imird,..l moat eleedy, that • they had
acted on false Saforination. Antwerp, it appeared
from these ili,p4tel.es, aud coutrary to the expec-
tatwa of Nlioi•iers, wee strong and. impositer. It
was found ineNoedient, if not iwooosible, •to land
the troops on the Coatinent. and the result out be-
ing at all like what wee i.i.pected in our Councils,
Laid very prudently abeirelened the
eii-
surprise. But eveu this disgusting failure was not
toe wisest ; at:sec ciscurnstanceli called more loudly
toe puirlic isirliguatiou. It was thought that the
teturii of the army, without cleiug, any tlriog,
*mild he too great a, stroke for the patience of the
people ; it was tlierefure determined to snuin'oin
the gloriously fatal passowsiou of Welchere.a. This,
trio. In spite of the ..dictotes of couture. sense, hi
stmt fof 0011041 pulley, atid ia spite the boos-
ledge "hien eossiouu olreerverioir Lott uglit us to
make. more then half a century a In proof
of the assertion, that nothing lost a t ed or ivilfol
Wish:~ coatJ have iuchned Ministers to commit
Ns gross its error. he' would. not Mpp,isl to .many
facts, which were known to persons. the least inform-
ed. 691 VOlllellt hivturef with eildueirigtauiustauces,
*leen- oti4ht to have heels in the possession
of the Toler. .1' a country, and have prevented
their resorting to ea certainly disastrous god fatal a
10111111111 re. Tiitt ledrateil phy-iciati, n, whore fame
as eulogy from loos Inlaid add no la,are, Sir John
Pringle, in tremolo.; of the .14.ea5..• o! the army, in
11.17, 114.1 deelared, that the climate of Zealand
was so nosiou... as to enilaricer the lives of the sol-
diers In 1)11 proportion of fear to one, at the very
014100 U of the year to which our gallsk army were
consigned to its baneful influence. II- would not
enter into such calenletions, but he was certain that
Mangers ought to be wade answerable for every life
lot on lair occasion. The other circumstance of no-
twitty, to Which he alluded, for the utter condetnnw
Lion of Ministers, and to shew their absolute went of
foresight and information,wes the nsetliod of eirgag.
tug the Swiu regi•nents for the Hutch service. In
these eugegemeots ityros made a positive Stipulation,
that the Swiss tree Pi should not be smut to the un-
healthy climate of Zealand. He would not attempt.
to consider the other Matinees of iniscoildtict so
conspicuous in this Administration, because he was
aware they would fall into Miler hands, and inert a
more ample discussion. his only object ear to
mete souse of the seasons which induced him to of-
fer the Amendment he had to propose to the
ideratinu of the House. 'rise Noble Lord.coucluded
with useiet.ig the following Amendment. to coin.
sorrier after the word " pe,ce," which terminates
the first pretence in the Address.
have men with the utmost corue and Inebria-
ting', the seetainislntael wren,
and disasters of site last ems.
p deo, the awvaili tt wlsfe of our national resources, and
Min lass of so marry thonvinda of our brave troops, whiner's*.
t.acsisbcl and heron ',shirr has been unprofilab:s sserilierd
is emeriti ins productive, ion of mitrantare, but of lasting in.
jury to the rustary. liottro profit mortied uuly by a repo.
14011, and uncornbined ; Incapable
io their .strew of 'Oise our Ally, lit the er tteal mouton of
Instate. list exposing in their (oilier, His Majesty's Cos-
cue, to lie score soil Arnim, of the rummy.
•' That we therefore feel ourselves bound to institute,
without delay, awls rigorous and effectual measures and pro- '
e. Mines, as unity rill:eels as to adopt in a ease where nor
conntry has hems suspected to unexampled calamity and
dbirrnec."
:ilr. WARD Reconded the Ainerelment, which he
thought to be imperiourly called for isy the pre.
veiling Arossos.toseses, of great public distress, end
the iseknowlrshged erealtorrbi en the part of the Ad-
ustoistration. It Parliament did not act now, then
sisieist ti •v he raisoeidersd as tesigued• liaphcltly to
any yet of 'nem • 'soil gesiteg up Unit %mitosis!, over
I'm servants of the C4OllO, which, try the Coisaitu.
Loins. they possessed. He could nor help bell%
• orsed at these men: to believe that they thought of
otbee, when they osighe to tteruhle at impeachment.
was Ls lion a sin:toner piomoielemem But let them
Vint as they would, were ksairsatnent to soy that the
evandenee in eic•ii • Garsirnment was unship ken—•
Coveroment, turoeth Wlsook• .terries we were but
•„...rowelsing to ruin. sod that ',tete of corruption
*kith bort el• stem al the Metes of Oh.? C..et10,011
Ile would out .1e.i.,101 iw,r irertictdav acts. Ti,,
elan poort to he commie-red was, tlipot. since the
bed been cursed us sassy wire-

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