The National Register.
London, England, 1812-01-12 00:00:00

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I was resolved, on the motion of the Cuamcattron of the Excite-
gout, that no private Bill* should be read a first, time after Monday,
the 24th Februai y, and no report of a privat.e.. Bill' be taken into
consideration after the 20th of April.-ISiir. Peeceval also moved, that
Orders of the Day should have the preced.ncerf Notices on Mondays
and Wednesdays, which practice had seen fuund very convenient last
Sessions. • •
Considerable oppot4 iop was manifested to tt:l4 Resolution by Mr.
Whitt-ire:id, Mr. Abercromby, Sir J. Newport, and Nit-. Ponionby, Oil
the ground that it atirlOtted the privileges of Members to make a'mo-
tion whenever they thought proper..
The House divided on an amendment of Sir J.-NrwroßTi 'when the
Resolution was carried by 58 to 11.
On the motion of the CiIAtiCELLOR of the Exciirguta, that the
House go to-morrow tnto a Committee of Supply,
Mr. Ca a EvEr took that opportunity to advert to the number of Pen-
sions and Places enjoyed anti held by Members of the House, the num-
bers of which were increathg; and even since the end of last Session
three additional Placemen had been introduced into the Houses namely,
a-Marshal of t' e Admiralty, a Clerk of the Council, and a Paymaster
of Widows' Pension's and who could doubt of the shotivei for bestow-
ing these places t The hrtter appointment he particulitrly considered as
fly ingin the face of Parliament, that office having be-en recommended so
abOlithed ai long ago as 1783. He concluded with'moving, "'That
the Committee be postponed till to-morrow se'nnight."
Mr. P AC EVA]. defended the appointments alluded to; with regard to
- the Pay . astership of Widows' Pensions, it had been expressly
inti-
to•Colonel MgMahoo; by the Prince Regent, that the Mike was
tone eonsider.d as held by hitch ttibkict to any regulation or modifica-
tion which Parliament might think proper to iitaK e concerning it.
Mr. ROUGIIAM and Mr. Wet (SALVO spoke with much severity. on
this nppointnumt ; in the opinion of thAtiter. If i, were possible for Ml-
nisterA to have wished to cast ~ilium and disgrace on their Royal Mas-
ter, this was, of all other, the very appoiotmety which they should
rec,sr :mended him to fill up. After much discussion, the House
divided ; •r the amendment, 11; against it, 53; majority, 42. The
oreinal trririon eat Tied.
Mi- rcul N SON dace notice (after being repeated;) info:Tried by
the Seteakvr that it was ol.:t of order), hat he should, on the first Tuts-
in March r-ove for a metal of the Legislative Culon between
Great Britain and Ireland.—Adjourned.

/MID AY,
.j AN. 10.
Mr. Secretary RYDER postponed his motion respecting the Parish
Watch until Iri&ay next.

THANKS TO LORD MINI 0.

Air. PeLezvAL said, that, in rising to propose a vote of thanks in that
House to I..rd it was by.no means his intention to exclude from
the 41.alittvie or gratulation of their country the brave and dibtingui%lickl
Officer, oir S. -Auchmuty, who had eonducted that expedition, or the
brave Officers and s Idlers who had borne a dii!inguished share in the
perils and zhaies of the enterprize. Every thing that hod occurred in
ti,e condu,l of it was in the highest degree creditable to Bi heroism.
Our I' in chi- affcir was'but trifling. The enemy lost 500 men, and
Br i!adier Alberti was dangerously wounded. Her cc;!1(1 not help men-
tioning to the 1-I..use, that at the time tile eneray•comlo:mced their re- '
treat Cokenel Gillespie was much indk-pc.. .d ; but Mill, after all the toil
and exertion of this hard fought day ; after that fatigue of mind v..hic!i
a brain man must feel woen glory is at stake: alter Iti,din„ his gailmit
men t victoi y and to fame, even at the moment of fainting, he strug-
gled td be valorous, and called for his horse to tramp:e in pursuit of
tho-t whom he had not beaten down in battle—(Loud cries of 4ear,
hear ! ) lie could not, he said, suppress, without i:ljustice, the name of
0,101-el Kl‘l.l-od, who fell un this glorious day. Captain Sayer, of the 1
Royal Navy performed with promptitude sand skill whatt vt:r was liven
to his direction: and here the Right 1-ton. Gentleman could not hut
congratulate the country, and himself, on that Wilting combination of.
effort which pectiliaiay narked an) enterprize in which the occasion de-
mande.' the union of our ni,litm.y and maritime strength. The subordi-
nAticn existing among the troops was, he said, a subject of pride to their
Commander, of honour to tneinselves, and of exultation to their coun-
try. From every thing he could learn, nn army had ever conducted
themselves with more moderation, and though the temptation to plun-
der was such as -could out he .easily resisted, there was not, he was
proud to Nay, one instance of barbarity or rapine that ci•t:ld, in the small-
e,r d, gree, darken the fame of British arms upon this occasion. The
acquisitßAl of new territory might not, perhaps, under its present cir-
cumstances, be a subject of much exultation ; but, viewing it as a place
from which the enemy could, at all times, and with hopes of impunity
annoy our conundoxe trl t 1 Last, it could not but strike every Gentle-
man As an acquisition of the utmost importance.
Mr. SIILitiOAN, as far as related to the General and the army em-
ployed upon chis service, could not entertain the slighte4 obj?ction to
sive them the warmest acknowledgements that his heart could dictate;
but a country so extensive in territory, so numerous in population, so
difficult of matn;tment from the many couten4ing petty interests which
exist in Might afford sufficient employment to a pet son of equal mili-
tary talent,aisd not inferior civil capacity to Lord Minto. • Ile had been
sera out for the purpose of governing that country; the country required'
the employment of any talent that Noble Lord pk.r6Jesseti f• he should,

JAN. 1:2.

then, be glad to know what necessity could have ur&ed Lord Mint° to
"out himself at the head of this expedition, and traverse the seas from
.Malacca to Java. He would tint now enter into any examination of
the value of the acquieition ; but when he came to thank the planner of
the expedition, he could not do it without calling to mind the expense
of blood and treasure which it brought upon the country. Thia e, n.
quest, from the destructive nature of the climate, could not he retained
without a regider annual expenditure of lives, and if we quit.it,
leave tiie inhabitants to certain eestruction. His disposition to tha:.k
Sir S. Auchrouty and our brime troops was as eager and as waint as
that of any other man ; but with respect to Lord Miuto, he could le t
but recollect, that if his representations of the gallant General Nita,re
had been received some years back, his country would have been doi
prived of the services of that able Commander. The expedition might
have sailed, and been successful, without the Noble I.ord accompue)e g
it ; and he must reprobate the idea of civil controul attending nn t ,e
movements of an army—it savoured too much of the plan of the French
Directory, who had one of their political missionteries to wait on every
General, and to controul operations'of which they knew nothing.
Mr. Yonxe said, that among the multitude of able Naval Officers we
possessed, there was not one to whose exertions the nation might look
with greater confidence than to those of Commodore Rowley ; but, is
the pre-ent case, it was but justice to say, that if that Officer had Lot
r ctived reinforcements, or if Lord Minto had not himself proceeded
to the Mauritius, his zeal would have been ineffectual, fur he would
undoubtedly not have performed what he had proposed to himself.—
Now, with respect to Java, he could allege that Lord Minto hod !ere
el,o anticipated the views of Government; and that, if it had not beta
1.,e- the arrangements he had made, in consequence, the instructioes
fr, on Government arrived at so late a period of the year, that the expe
dition must have been postponed till the next. With respet tto the nee.,
city for his prestnce, it should be ret ullected that it was not a purely
expedii m ; hut that tliere were various points connected with
the policy of retaining the island as a colony, which could be best judg.
eel of end adjusted by a person havineauthority for the purpose, and
being on the spet. Lord xpfit, was therefore right in going to see what
arrao;ements were immediately necessary, and he had no doubt that
the good effects of his having done so would be very sensibly felt.
Sir )HENRY MON rnomERI: could not justify the thanks to Lord
Mint° w hick bad been called fur.
General TARLETON could not concur in a vote of thanks to Lord
Minto.
Mr. Git.s•wr was of opinion, that Loyd Minto, in proceeding himself
to Java, had performed his duty as Governor of India.
After some further observations from several Members,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEI2VER moved the following Votes
of Thanks :—To the Right Hon. Gilbert Lord Minto, Lient,Gen.
John Abercrombie, Lieut.-Gen. Sir Samuel Auchmuty, Rear-Admiral
Bettie, Rear-Admiral Stopford, Majors-Generals Henry Ward and
Frederick _Augustus Weatherall, and the several Officers under their
command; Commodores Broughton and Josiah Rowley, and the OC:-
cers acting under their control; the Non-commissioned Officers and
Soldiers, Sailors, and Royal Marines, engaged in the late glorious con.
quests in the Indian Seas, which were all, except the iirst, carried tiers.
curt.—Adjourned to Monday.