The National Register.
London, England, 1814-07-03 00:00:00

THE NATMNAT, Tfl

JULY P.

satisfaction of being the medium and channel through which the hie,
honours have been conveyed at various periods to other gallant and
meritorious oleers, who commensurately ilistingnished tbeniselves
under your Grace's directions and command. In the instance of
your Grace also, is to be seen, the first and most honourable disto
tion of a member of this house, being at his first iutrodilrtion placed
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in the very highest and most distioguished rank among their Lord-
ships, and in the Peer,age, No languaLze, HO expression of mine,
however fully j fief impressed ith their magnitude and importance
condo e to }'our eieat and iiu services and merits
their maitre an.i eharatter is sm.!: as will reciter the name of
Wellington immortal ..nd will eoustitute one of the
.most brit
liant t p 'cies i•: the History of this eiondy. They have !well
ft etiouotly and justly telt 1;y this Incase, mid repcatedly made int.
*object of its thanks and lt, appl,tnoe. In the s...ntilvents so ottei:
,and so justly oy toe flouse. I have, fw my own himede
part, MAI folly mid cordially partieipated. The wisdom, gallontr),
anti exertions so frequently displo!,e,d GEM" I .4
JierieS Of service, iu tbe kingdom, oi'!'m 114;11 awl heYold
any langliage I can use, to •r i—terise or exeress. Your fteeing
the kloo,tool of Portagal from :iie arm Hod poaer of Fr.:lice—your
Aloriow career .of victory, i., hill)4llilMr, oil various occasions, and
pnr,oing lb enemy througa of Spain. mom especially
pn
the 'signal or:Astons of the vie!ories o`. Salautalica and Vittoria,
The capture of Cindad Rodrigo, and other mighty ortresses, will he '
lumnionsly inscribed in the page of l'iritish history, as Hell as you!
subsequent successes, by which you led on the allied forces, until
you had established them jo occupation far within the territories of
France. (fresh and important as these services are, in theinsaveo
their museoliences are Meal:lt:able, with reference not only to their
so greatly cut trilinking to seeikre the prosperity and tratiquillits• of
your owo country, but to the peace, the ioippiness, anti the indepen-
demo! of Eerope at large. by infusing the spirit of resizoauce, and
,
kind: hug outer cottutries to place theraselve.s ill that state, whicn
enabled them successively to resist t.hc it:lb:epee aed the power of
the common emenly. you wil; hear tie heartfelt, the glorious sst
.diction of considering yom self as principally instremental in the
achievemeirt of this great %yolk, and for all %%holt I Lel a conscious
piste inkt satisfact,ion, in being the organ of communicatiogin per.
son, and on this auspicious occasion, the recent Vote of Thanl,.4 of
this House, which 1 in thus ditected to pronounce—That the
thanks and congratulations of the House be given to Field-Mar_
shat the Duke of Wellington, on his return from his command
.on the Continent of Europe, and for the great, signal, and eminent
seryiees whieh he basso repeatedly Kentiere4 therein to his Majesty
And to the
Grare the Duke of WCZ,LINcTcv, evidently under strong anti
laudable feelings of embarrassment, assured his LoOrthillip and the
House, he felt himself overwhelmed by the stre:,gth of his fcclingi,
,occasioned by what ,he must cot: tidier as the, very flatteriug lauguag,e,
far beyend pelsoual merits, in which the expressis:us o,t' their
Lordships' favour and approbatjon„ as eenveyel to him that day'
;and for which he had to remoter his most sincere and grateful thanks.
The successes which had attend2,l his humble hot zealous efforts in
the service of his county, he hatl principally to attribute to the
able support which he 110 received from his Prince, hi; Govern-
Nent, and the Country ; awl also to the 4e.valous cooperation and
assistance which he had received kern his gallant and meritorious
gompaniruos in arms, and the ',Moor alqt .vNert inns oif the army which
he had the honour to command. The support which he had this
received,citeonrao:ed and excited him, nod gave rise to that conduct,
u h, hy the favtnv of Pysliauletit, it- tow:no:oils approll4tion
.god applause had I,:een primp:mica For those hoogors, and those
,of the other J4ousc, of Parliameut, e hit most griite.kolly indebted.
These, together with the very kind aud very tiatte6lig manner in
which ,tlO Nolle Lord was pleased to citprzss repeated,
Isere sufficient to overwhelm! one who felt uncosiscions of deserving
pitch a degree of panegyric and enlogiom. He cmOd assure their
Loidships he had endeavoured to seryc leis country and his prince

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to the very best of Li. power owl ability, and that ho would at..vay 3
ebdeavotir so to do when oceataon may terrire it, in the hest mut:-
tier which his limited cap.:city would allow hint.--(Loud and
plotted cheers )-14is Glace then retired to uhrobe, lie wore a
Field Marshal's uniform, with his Mae ribbNpi and other itoitznin et
the Order of the (Later, ?nil lemarkahly well. Ot., rr:
ptrn into the House) he s.et for a fe,.‘ minutes on the enttemitv of
ono of the bent kles, atu then retired for the evening.—Tileif -G„,„.1„,„
the Duchesses of Wellington and Rielmupd were pre •.-nt 01;1
aonneums occasion, as were the Countess Dowager of A;ornlnlto3
and Lady Charlotte Lennox.
Tice Duke et' St:F.SEYL presentl several pet;tious fTorn certain
attedieli and Prot( st.mts of 4(114 against the 014 n,;!, .7oriel irs:
Lu;'. (.itEy pre-ea teil a prtititon t 1.9131 Etigiish t:.:thultcs,
pray' vg f a te!ief trout their disidulttit's•
Lord Sr %;k1:01,C ~avv notice of ks intention ttl !Tito! in a
revk tit Ihe ilitilOrtMoll Or OegtOes 11.014 thy rriAbelt into the 15ri:i0o
Wei! LII i l islatalz• • and the nature of tire. Pill would he tVe4, th,a
t very t ego o SO imported should be ipso facto ace as Ilitipoited ifito
Bnta:o. _

Lind Ltr.:4,.DALE, aft.er an appropi late ,:peech. Moved, " Thit au
Inuniile Address be pre,enti d to hi' R.,val theTrinee Pe-
gent, thankitil him tor his gracious conae,ce.n..ion In etnuntn,tival(ll:.:
the Treaty of Peace concluded with the French Csovi•roment
Paris; ,:pressing 110 W fully sensible we are of all the au%antages
derived by it; that the terins obtained are honoinaideLlliat.-
,the :4reat objects of the war are aeconylislied--and gxiiressive 'of
sat kfaction at the restoration of the ancient Autlunities ate."
Lord DE I.P.INsTaNyttLE seconded the Addruss.
Lord GRENVILLE grave his iiiitrialit;ed apprehatioo, not only in
the' Addr.e:;s ()posed': hot ,al“) to the Treaty except•th It
article only %%hid: respected the Slave Trade, v.itich he condemned
in the in,est pointed tyrins.
Font, rep:led to the .'oble baron'p obiections, en the
same principles as he had defended the article in the treaty on the'
day previous.
The nintica fgt. an Address was (pen put, and rallied nem. die.—
Ad j owned.
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