The Sun.
London, England, 1813-11-09 00:00:00

ruHfst b etch aware, COWIIS vet e
.kktkvil by storm, It Ava's a matter of no small
tlith
'Peaty to restrain Ille.o(ee,s4 of an ekiisperateil Or
infuriated soldiery ; "vin siMie'occasions,it wa,:;
'l“;iih,le. Emit tilt TCB.SIC to he referr(ql
it as
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."of.4a very .differenk detctiption. •The calum;,
iliettiS as,iertioiis," front tin Very natutetsfilie ease;
i:otild not lie Otlienvke n'ntOricnifily.ti64 cu
ticely false.. That must exetilentOiliceriSir Tlio-
alas Zrtahlrtn, reinained In the fOr so,tll tittle:
alto 1; ►t0::, nuver re..;cived a Single
ibc kind--=-no one entilid:iint
CVO' ; nano. dicl.4eneral Illy. The ti:ocipS
were most gh.46lifmind fakely accW.eti of eonimit-
ting various nets Of sacrilege, of breaking into
dint dies, and .rifting them of all their valijable.
contents. Now it was well known, Hot ouly.,tci their
,Lordships, .but to all the world, that,- the Yretteli
never lett4he'claircheS of any place Which fell intd
their Inxiuls, without robbing, them of their liltite;
antrit would belVeri extraordinary, in4ed, if Se-
bastian were the only place, Whosechtirche rcmain-
ell sacred.. Besides, in the particular cas.e, all the
principal churches were converted into barracks
by the enemy ; and could any one believe, that
under such circumstances, the church plate was
unwind-led ?.-The charge of every other species of
plunder was equally and notoriously:false, as was.
that of the infliction aay kind of insult Or out.
.rage upon the inhabitants. The most partictdar
I;irections, and the greatest care %VHS taken by Sir
Thomas Orttbam in ;Lose respects. The last
charge in the tissue of calninniesi was that of set-
ting tire to the tQwn, and that was still, if pos-
sible, more .notoriously false than any of the
other 3. It were nci her them wish nor the interest
of the British, that the town should be destroy-

eel ; htit at their entrance; they found the town
;dread- ihnne ;it was set on tire very soon
after l'4leir taking possess,on of the wodo,
,so
that itAvas iintioisible the British could have (toile
it. So far from that being tho case, wbeit re-

,presentations were made to Sir Thomas Graham,
,that the throw;ng of shells would -facilitate the
operations of the siege, from the dismay and
terror it must create, he declined the expedient.
A communication afterwards took place on the
.itthject with Lord Wellington, and in the result.,
out of 16 that were, prepared, only four shells
were used. There was another, point of equal.
feeling and importance; the British troops:spay.'
ed:the lives of 600 Frenclanyn, who were Os°,

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luta)," and unconditionally iu. their powet, and
Whom, by the laws of .ear, they•miglit have put
.to death. These men, though the British troops
were at the moment smarting under the wounds
they had received from their fire; and even scorched
by the .flumes they had lighted, were spared by
them. Very differ:it would have heen the Con•
duct of French troops in similar Circumstances ;
and possibly one ground, of dissatisfaction. ort the
,part of the enemy, was that such a Hue of conduct
was so',, diametrically opposite to that- which
they generally adopted. (Hear, v!)
topic of the advance of Lord Wellit44ton upon
the French Frontier, was, the last touched
ItiPon by the Noble Earl, the advantages of
which, in every point of vie*, were generally
pointed out by him ; the positions were every way
more favourable, better line of defence-was esta-
hlished, the motions of the enemy could 'be better
watched, and operations of any kind einild prefer-
ably be entered upon, Fle adverted to the vast
and incalculable difference between, the circum-
stances. of the Peninsula now, and of the
,com-
bined armies, looking down upon the City of Ba-
yonne, from what it was at .those periods, when
the troops of. the enemy passed in myriads through
that fortress to invade, and in the' vain attempt
to subjugate an unoffending country.. 'How tri-•
timphantly dissimilar was .the . actual prospect,
when every hope presented itself, of their bring-
ing the, arduous and sanguinary contest Co
a happy and honourable termination:.• Though
.the bravery anti exertion of 'Our army could
not be surpassed, yet. the spirit and perse-
veranCe of the resistance against the common ene-
my was what Most e6sentially contributed to the
StiCCCSS of .the OoriouS cause ! The sacred (lame
of national. independence which had arisen in ilk!
Peninsulti was not to be quenched. lt,becanie
cheering and exemplary beacon to other Countries
—a pillar of fit e, which ditfus'ed its sacred light
and ardour over the face 'of . surrounding nature,
and gloirionsly pointed. out the road to seettpity,
independence., and peace: ! His_ Lordship eon-.
eluded by moving, that the Thatlkq this
House be given to Fieltl Marshal the Marquis Of
Wellingum, K. G.. for the consiamnate
and the admirable
,skill and valour displayed by
him in the...operations' by whieb the eoetuy. were
Compelled to abandon the 'Western' Pro;tinces of
Spain, niid the Allied Army 'enabled to establish
itself on the frontier of Ranee !" 7 ,
On the question being put—
The Earl of DitikLE? ObSCl'Ved,,thEtt, be per-
fectly concurred in the motion, and in every word
said 'tleserVed praise' of the truly noble subject,
whom he regarded, front the eminent qualities
with which he was endowed, to be the only malt
capable of bringing- the contest to such a glorious
termination. The extraordinary 'forbearance and
prudence which he so frequently manifested, per
paps more especially contributed to su happy a re•
stilt. But what he pt incipally rose for, vas to
obserVe, that in his mind the transeendant merits
of the great Officer in question were by
adequately remunerated. lie did .not think
that the insufficient, and indeed comparatively
paltry SUM, which was voted by Parliament last
year, at all adequate to the object for which it was
peofessedly granted. Their Lordships mnst feel
that the sUltt of 100,000/. for•such a Oaract:2r;
and the maintenance of his rank mid station, fell
hort of what was proper and necessary to. be
conferred. He also thought that some great na-
tional and adequate monument should lie erected'
in commemoration of those pliant and inerito-
-Hans' heroes, who so.gloriousty fell in the& great
mike. A sinall portion of those, sums that were
expended in fortifications .would "stiffiee. for the
erection,of a splendid and-appropriate monumelit.
He trusted Ministers tvotihr ace the jnatiee acid
propriety of' what he hid suggested.'' . '
.The motion for the Tlwilks to the Marquis of
Wellingtori were then voted by their Lordships,
item, dis. - ' • •
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