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THE NvrioNIAL PEGISTER.

DEC. 6.

Goyerntnent had long been ieflitenced by a deadly hatred t __.
country, and by a deadly love o• Fraoce,
feelO utrhiteoilmicypotrlon: le . u h;
wisest. nay, our moat pacific measure would he, to shew}:ii"—,.,
reach' for the emergency, to pre ego in front to Atherica a fi•rcej,,ritillvc-i;
would make her teal her danger, and
chasing her safety by peace.—The Neble Marquis contese.l( hi; re.
;fret and surpriae at finding no mentieit ot the R nalan Catholic , •lenre.;
in the Ptioee g ecent's speech ; he trusted it WaS -Ot tl.e ill':.-11:rnni
Monsters to render the preceedings ot last year void and ire ea,_(;-,-„ef.
—There had boon a remota of Parliament's voting a prolo!4,:ri-of.
its own exi-tenee—a nteasure most wanton, roost uniiecess ir 13,°,i
which, if tint; otueetely carried into execution, most irelltje ':l'..
most alarnati,g consequences.—He should now (a-no:ail°. He oe,,•;tel
move no amendment. He had Seen in• rely anxi4;vs to ,iv,cl litallt.
ct the opportuoity afi:•telesi. by the H. use 1,1 the cooreoein of lis
mind upon solajeots to which it was . coil, alive. Tee greet siiteil--;
was the Spanish war. Ile most mice :woe press it upon the Ilea:, •
we had no alternet ivs het wean vigour aid defeet. It most be puieTed.
with
a t.ew heart it.'l mind.
The Earl of I.: vss rooe replied to the i'sfarrlois of avelnee), 1,,"i
alefended Ministsrs teen: the charge of imbe.in Ltv in • 1 ' ' ".Gllt maws tat
r war in Spain. It Was execedirielv cask foi th Vo'ele hold to sit doao
i
in his closet, wish for , r iooloi
. ~ and .• , 6 4 (.., Ile, a nartictikir ea 41.6 of AIV
1 PV.en ninrntlFle• But Ws4 this Statestnan-oil ? Moto Lot every 0.
ertien depeod re, the applicable resoure s of the coute rv, 310 be p,o_
portioned to the demands that arc made en it from .i her gooier,'
it was for the Noble le rd to skew, how alai where greater elforsgeuld
have been made, than those which were actually csoad toroe pe
was ready to agree that when the military force of France wag is a
certain extent distracted and engaged by Russia, vie were than i, cu.
!lady warranted in making exertions to a greater extent than at 29
tether period : but still even this admission was not without its (pea
float ons. Would it be politic, for the sake of a formidable extrii a
in one campaign, to exhaust the means of sooporeiug Lowe cam-
paigns 1= Was it net the duty of Government and of Park moo tolo a
to the wants of toe country, not for one year only, hot f r futente
Was every thing to be risked on the turning uo of a single (7.e i an!
for one extraordinary flourish this year, were we to threw away :,:l
nut resource:,, and debilitate • 'all our future exertions? lit desired to
know what additional exertions could have been made ? liv'epolest
of the force required for the maintenance of our Indian Empire, csr
Colonial possestions, and for our domestic defence, on the 25th of
Julie, we had in Sicily, the Mediter lame n, and tie Peninsula, a Soo
1 of 127,000 mer, of w hid: the British troops, including of course the
Germans, amounted to DI,OOO, while the Portuguese might be reckonoi
at 36,000. This was altrget her indeperatei tof the Spani•ii atin;es hi
June last, Lord Wellington had not fewer that !iB,OOO British trooas
under h s command, exclusve of Port mew se. Did this ague nod.
fort on the part of Ministers ; nay, he would a4c, would it have bon
believed two or three years ago, that this country should have been
capable of making such exertions ? plc had also to (ssure, that to
the Russian war W 2; forea• en so earl.Y as Christmas, so the oalect
exertions Ili s year had heicn suited' to that imvtirtant &mese.
! Singe the '24th of December last, not leaver than 90,000 msn, osi
7000 herses, had been conveyed to the Peoinsula in oac car. 'flees •
1 were eflbrts which in former periods would have been coetemp!sod
las impracticable. T!•e Noble Lord next proceeded to observe, that
the refusal of 11 illasteros to advaufe had been materially injurisus to
die campaign. It was Lord Wellington's opinion, that i: Ballastoos
had in ved, according to orders, from Grenada to Almarcz, tie
French would net have been able to re-enter Madrid. Theadvance el
i this Sparish General would have rendered the force at Alicaet dis.
poseahle, and the Freed' would not hays made their moven:en; ell
the Tagus with Ballaatenas on their left flank, and the Sicilial, tiM
on their rear. —A t pre•ex• he conceived it as ould be inner; per to
i enter into the di •cussion of our relations with Sweden. This olio it:,
would observe, that there existed a thorough coatidenre berwean the
two Governments, and that Russia, on her )art was not disetho
i fled with the conduct of that power.—The Noble hoot regretted thin
the Catholic question had been omitted in Ho speech. lie
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Liverpool) would declare, that on this subject he had never ;fermi!)!:
to see 'iia ways c 1 arly to any satisfactory adjustment. Foeertainies
ii that opinion, he thought it more maiily
cloak of guarde, to seek means by which the claims of the Catholic!
I might be ultimately defeated. This. however, he must and, was as
it to ti.:
to owe it, that under Ile.
own itidividied opinion, and he dal nut necessaiiiv expect
binding on those friends witb whom he had the honour to act• ,
I LOrd GRENVILLE eructed into the question of the Spanish war, and
1 said the Noble Marquis (Wellesley) had reasoned cor•rath: ill hi....v.,lc_:i
lof the subject. He admittt;ti that the iSpardsh peas:miry pocri',_
i a better feeling, hot that tile oriole., I,'. 1101 V CollSthrtlA Werl.,Utc.9.
lavail as allies, and instanced the aooduct of Ballasteroa, wl
of .rt_ lor:t
gleeted his ditty in the South, of preventing. :lie juhetroo S ,
, I anti Sonit ills Lordship also adverted to the question of the Aittllscii;
can war, and nisiteed that our CCCECSNII'II ill lerealing. III(' (-)l.' :
Council exnec tr.() late, and that. if auch coneeasion had bet,u earri_l4
made, it would have toeen more elßCrual.—Such was t lot ease ot,s!ir
A maiiCan war, which ended ii the loss of our Coloi.i.o; corice rd'
was tn-vie after conceiaion, but ever this was den:: tat Ilite,se.
that v..Wi li would on inahy have been received with erateueleis`l;:.
I when ofretoil, rejected with cos:tempt. His Loodahip evert ovar lc