The National Register.
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THE NATIONAL REGISTETL

imlitted, viz Ca-holic C Depreciation of Currency, Est‘bl4ll-
- east of !Ivaco, &c.
'rile Amendment was seconded by Sir G. ATIICOTE.,
Ttte SrEAKER hivirg rea.i i froin the Chair,
Nlr. BATnuasT, in a speech of con3t.lerable length, opposed the
A mendmcnt. - _ .

Sir Cs LIIER T fir ATTICOTE thought that the gallantry clisphrked by
our troops in Spain was highly eiesiitable; hit he deeply regretted
that no negric.ation peace ha.! been entered into.
Mr. l`oN sov EY expressed hi, disa;,brrbation of any negociation
peace, anti t hought that Government w• yid not le w.Ari.nted ia 114-
towing the ccurse preiscrlbed by his Hon. Friend.
Mr. FAA toT tiv.u. lit the means proposed for obtainirg peace
would i•e the very means to prey nt it.
Mr. VER NON ObiL.Cted to the ide:is of Mr. Wu tTIIRF AD On the sub-
ject of peace, and the Russian and Penininla Wars.
The Question was then put from the Chair, when the ori,inal Ad-
dre.-s was agreed to, and the Anvmdment negatived. AejJurned.

TUASDAY, DECF.:II:SER 1.
PR I VATE BUSINESS.

Lord CASTLEREACII rose to call the attention of the House to the
arrangements necessary to he tr:alle with regard to private husinc“.
He was desirous in this rc§pect ut following the example. of the li:t
Session, which ha .1 proved to he so advantageous to the dispatch of
this growing-rnass of matter, and concluded by moving the f llowirg
Resolutions, which were severally put from the Chair and agreed
to :

That no Petition en private business shall he r. ceired after Friday,
Ilzih of t I e current month of Deceinher ;
" T;iat no Priva-e Bill text a first time after Monday., the Ftn
day of ,I.irc.ll next ;
" That no Report on a Private Bill be received by the House after
tf nday, the 10:h at 111;sy."
These Res:luti•itis were nrilerel to be rrintecl.
ELECTION PETITIONS.

Lord CA ST LF. a EACH then .1"()%:C to propose nia..sing arranger:tent•
with resi.et.t to the foi Coirmf trees to try the merits of con.
Election. Ile st.iti.sil that be did not conceive it c:utld ci:hei
stilt the convenien, e of 111,. House, or prove beneficial to the pait,es
concertied, w :re they to take up the consi•ferAtion of th:-se suhjects
during the slc rt period their sitting before the itoi.k.y.s. But it
wt.ittd.he desirable to ta':e up the hli.t7:i.:*Ct as soon after their sub.
meet i 1 as pot,ible. In the view lie at present took of tl.e
subject, lie shaali! p-opose, t hat the wijoirtioncsit !should
extend to the first Tue.idav in leb7uatv ; or,: he thol,wit the t.,,170vv4g
Tu,..sday would be a o*tipt..r titre to for pr,:cee:lio.,4 t.t !Miler tc•r the
first Committee co an Electiem Petition. In select Ai: the first, tii.y
wm-lti of course pro...ee! ACC “rtling to the usages of the lion-se.
The question that the House should not take any of these Petitioi:s
into comi:le:vion before the Holitidys, was then put athlcartiedt
fireSrFAt:r.a said, it t!lcie were any Petitions in thc House corn-
pl.tinhig of 'mine Electiour, this wis the ti ne. to prese:it them.
A Periti:m vias farthwith pre;ented a zin.,t the return ot Nfessiti.
atLI Gurney, for Shaftesbury ; the Petitioners were Messrs.
Weith-ra,lt atiA Thellitson. the rejectel CanOidates and Tuesday, the
Sth '.; F:bruary, was appointed tor ballotting I.n. a Committee to try
the ir7tits of the same.
REGOLATIONS RESPECTINC; ORDERS OF THE DAY

DEC. 6,

Mr. FREKIVIA NILE thought some notice ought to be taken of ea
final)• es, and that the resource) ought to be ecmpated w th the Lit,
cumstances of the country.
Mr. ffIoRINSON regarded it as extraordinary that it should be cr,n.
tended that our Situation had not impr wed cii,cc the dose of tic
last Session of Parliament. The 'War in the Piiiinsula had b,.0
reatcd as if the eatnpz,ign had crinmenced with the Battle of Sal -
manta. This was not taking a rii,ht view of the suhject : it cuo,,
to he remembered that it comme.ticod with the Siege of Cind,l
; and this borne in mind, it would be foned, hevnrd
doubt, that our prospects bad exceedingly improved, and were in.
hettt.r than at the boginning of the cant paten,
Mr. R osF. wished to reply to what had fallen from the 1-1,,p,
Gent. upposite, on a subject on which };feat misreurt•sn!a!i,n 114
vzone ahroad. It kid hca understood that his Hon. Iliend, 11:2
Chancel!or of the Exchequer, had it in conteinuhtirn to prop,;,,
a tax on capital This he wished now to state, to prevelit• further
inisconceptt-n. was not true, Suck • had never bi-en his
tact he (Mr. R.) would say, that to derive benutit m such a
sure, WAS impracticable and imrossible. A lii, lit Rev. Prel
some tear; ago, Published a FFm!'lilet in favour of lax nr.on capj,
Ile 'Mr R.) bad, on that occasion addressed that Right Reverend, to
.hew that it was impracticable, an t exerted himself thin to rt.ye,
.c hat he still belieVcd, that, putting pat.), out ut thc question,
a m asure cottA not be rescued to.

Mr. S. Wortley. Lnrd Mtlwo, Mr. St-phen, Mr Wilber:.wv,
Lord Ca:le.eagh, Mr. Whitbread, NI r. Potisoubkly,
Mr. CANNING WE:red further ob-ervat'altts, ;met which the
port of ill: Address was agreed t i, and ordered to be pt..'elaed by the
whole House. Adjourned.

, DEC. A.

This di), the Hoits:e met at liAtt-pasl two o'ckick, for the purprlse rf
waiting on the Prince Regent with the A it.!ress, and proceeded
mediateiy to Carlton House. Tbq returned at four o'clock, and .
!!)tiri:ett.

TFTURSDAY, DEC. 9.
The SIF.Ax ER informed the iftvise that the Adlress voted in answer
to the Speech of the Prince It ek:ent, had been pre7enrcd on IV edreA.,y
And read to the Noit•e rte most gracious Answer of the Pripce Red ii
,)n r:cLiv;ng Address.
Tii.I.NNS TO 1,01.11)

Lore' CA t o.r.ti esc if rose, pursuant to th:.• notice he had given on a
fornier d tr, to call the attcnton of the I loiw: to the servi,;es rmiercd
to !loon country by that gallant Officer, GeriCT,ll the Martini:, ot
luiet:in, :en! the brave Army wider his t.rnnainal in Spain, and parr.
cularlv to tho,e by which they 1)3;1 sign dized thems, yes in the gic.
linos ever memorable bat ti: of Salamanca. fie was sure be should
forget his duty to that iliostrions Officer and his Artily, lion this re-
casion he were to introduce into the discussion, any matter that miglit
cause a controversial respecting the polity ot the tvar in In
Peninz.nl,, and afore eqiccially if he kvere to otkr any thing re' r"L-lO.g
the condor:t nt his Majesty's Ministers in comwctinn with
of the motion he was about to subtnit to the House. At the J4l!;'
time, however, while he wished to guard against the introduction
any matter on which a ditiereme of opinion nfght exist ; he, thou' t
it would not be just to the army, and more particulari . he thryig,ht
it would not be just to the M orquis of Wellington. was tar 3
v;etotv which had been thrown in the way of Lord \Yellin:4ton.
he had been able to accomplislrtm the instant ; but it Witi a tr311:11.
bon which wuund up a military object, the result of long privarxio
andOt. foresight, in which the appEcation of just principlei were .0
interwoven with various circumstances that he should foil in his dx.:
to the Army. and to the'Marquis of I'Veilington, if he were not shortdi
and generally to describe the causes which led to the victory of S:1:4-
manca, and its consequent advantages. The House would recollec',
that at the close of the tinnier, and at the commencement Of the nr-
sent campaign, Lord 'Wellington, after dispossessing Masscna of Por-
tugal, had made himself master of A Weida, but Ciudad Rodrigo and
Badajoz were still in the hands of the enemy. Both armies load N-
tired into winter.quarters ; but such vigorous preparations for renor•
ing hostilities wee ntarle by the Marquis of Wellirgton so early as jn-
-I;'l3rV 4: i period at which, even in that clime. armks have seiduro bcen
occupied in preparing to take the fi.ild) that in that month he
nabled to lay siege to Ciudad Rodrigo. Nothing higher t,) the pr;:se
of the Mar cols of Wellington could be said. than that he Matt com-
pleted his preparations for this operation with such activity 51id s:e.
crecy, that ne was enabled to reduce this fortress (which was one 0i.,!
most respectable description) betbre Marshal Marmont was able to call
his troops frnit their winter cantonments, and advance further On
Salamanca. Lord Wellington having got possession of Ciudad Itodiio;
meditated an advance on Radajos, and his arrangements consequent 0"
tins deatign were made with so much secrecy, that Marshal Marmoot
believed the English army to be still at Coast! Rodrigo,
when soca
of eight divisions hail arrived, at liadajos. He attacked this fortress,which was greater and of more importance than that of Ciudad Ro.;
wtr
unto,ngo, ea'ly nt the month of March, and carri...! on the works
such vigour acd alacrity, that the F:ench armies ot the North and.
Portugal, under Snult and Marniurit; were unable to relieve it, and
was even coafcsse4 by Son'', in enplaning; to the War. MillOCI o
. .