The National Register.
London, England, 1812-12-06 00:00:00

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sack, after which it was read by the Clerk at the table ; where-
upon the
EARL OF Leer:roan rose, and m - ve't an Address to the Prince
R gent in answer to the SPIIIC. 1110 Noble Lool tettehed on the
van us torr'es en braced in the speech, and deck red hlniself happy in I
the opportunity of being ::ble to express how mu il the. prospects of
the country had of I, te been intoroved both at kin; e and abmad—at
1i re, by the.. reateration of tronquillity in the traonfactitrioe dis- i
tricts ; mod abroad by the h illiant successes of our arms and those of 1
our Allifti He eas ow one, that to carry on stieh a war as the one in
which this country was naw eioe.ged, great sacrifices most be made ; !
and no one could more sensibly deplore :'.tan he did the burdens under •
which the country at present laboured, but they trout beer much
more before it could be hoped that final success would .cro'o'n our
eflhrts.—The Noble Earl col choted by moving an humble A !dress.
to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, ‘vhich was a mere echo oi
the Seeech.
Loud R ()Ler seconded the Arire:s.
On the question being put, the Marquis n to. 1. rser v rose an
stated, that AS tar as the Adaress went, he coincided with e.ll its seno- o
meats. Ile acknowledged the t n rascendant merits of the British i:
army, and he felt with natural pride the ettlogiums bestowed upon its 11
distinguished and noble Chi..f. He allowed that meeh was. don? and Ii
much atchieved in the Peniosula by the exertions of our terces. He it
did not hesitate to admit, that om-splendid and august ally the Em-
: er.o- of Russia had nobly ac.''. his part, and that whilst he set :m
example to other Sovereiens, so he merit ad the praises of all the States'
of Europe. He confessei that Slain had fought a most glorious fight, 1
:teal that she throefore demanded not only from this country. but from
every other in Europe, their best aid in her strugelieg and godlike 1
effi,rts to oreserve her n:oi ve soil trout the pollution et a foreign
ty Tont He further admitted that this country posses eu strength, I
sinews, and te—roces to aecomplo.h Spanish ticedom, and with that
freedian, the freedom also of the civilized ,world. klut when he ad.
mittett all this, he disired it should be understood, that his admissions
oily went the length of saying, that still we hard not done enough to
obtain and accomplish that glorious ,bject. The Ruler of France
had not disguised hi; views ; uoiversal sway was his object ; and he
avantfoi but the pos:.ess!on of the Peithooda to extend it !Ate!' Europe.
The pclicv, the Yen existence of tHs country, tole(' nut to prevent it,
avid Spaii: being tilt.:onntry whir re the game was to be won CT lost, it ,
behove:l England to apply to its resources, igloo:me as they are, to
carry that object into ext.. utioit, and th watt the tyrant in his first
expectations,—What, thereleee, he had to contend was, 'that to ac-
complish so desuahle a purpose, we acted town a scale of comparative
insuttieienee. Here the Niolde Marquis enteied into :+ lung retrospect
of the w:.: upon the Pcinnsola' to prove that Ministers had not
furnished the resources do y really possessed, to reiotroce the army
in Sr do tinder Marqu•s Wellington. From the want of sufficient
means that: gallaut General had, he said, been prevented raising the
siege of Cadiz at the time of the so: render of Baelajoe. .From the
same cau•c, on lemming with his at my to the North, he was cent-
yelled to remain en the frontier till the lit ii of June ; and when at
.nigth he dicloopse forward, with the limital mea i lie possesset!,
Ise toued Mat.noint's :trioy so touch stronger than Ws own, that he
was obliged 1U commenced a real, not a feigned retreat ; and the
battle of Safatharre'a, Which took place in the course of that retreat,
.trose flout ai. accident which cc uld not reasonably have been hoped '
ter —.in /nom ot the enemy, and thieextriordinary talents of the Gene- '
ral, who tostantlv took advantage of that error, who, in a moment,
s:w the opportunity of strikkrg and with the rapidity of lit liming.
I.:hinged his spear into the he. of the enemy. Previ us to this vie_
tory, Lord Wellineten had not above r2.),000 doll:trs in the military
chest ; ,and fte tidiest brigade in the at tny had not above three ttillars
A suio of 47,0d1 dollars hapoetved then to he on its ea.-sage for the
panisloarmy, and this lie was tinder the necessity of applying to the
eurposes Of 114 Ili hist army. The nobly Marquis then alluded to
the recut 'eon of NT'a-irid and the subsequent siege of Burgos, the
capture or which would have been next to a miracle, with the means
i i Lord Wellington's power ; and here, likewise, he said, was :tow her
c oivlncing proof of his noble Brother's want of means to no 'neve
tne object in view, and of the inutility of maintaioioe any contest, if,
Nvfilll advantages are once -whited, soele resources are not sup plied as
wall eff.ct toll y secure them. Ale touched on the Sicilian ex ecdition
under General Maitland, which had totally failed ateineving a gicat
object, through bitd management, and adverted to•tlfe little assistance
to be toftected trout the Spanish armies. In conclusion, he said,
the plan for c tonic:ring the war in ohe Peninsula, which he hail
always recemmetotol cv., to make the effort on A large scale, and to
pu sue it with ail the might and inelos of the empire—the plan which
hazarted our farce to a great extent, and at the sante time cramped
all . s ooblev.kopes, was the plan adopted by the wisdom of hi>
Majesty's .Ministers.—Tur. ire from that quarter to the North of
tu.oee, his Lordship allud d :o the treaty with Sweden, which 'he
denominated " a monster in diplomacy.'' as we had agreed to defend
Sweden, without detnandiog an equivalent ia root re —T he next
feature of our policy was the A nierican war. He wool 1 whint
that no attack could be Mt*: IlUjoistifj.itite thw that nt ote by y A meriro,
.nit that no caw e cold.' he more riehteous than that of England : but
the conduct of ife_ war otietu to have been widely Aitli:rent. A...erica
was nut to be soothed and ti.nalltd into peace. The heads of that