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f.l -.ir.uy wiltung tor pre'eltiC UCIaIIS poWSSCCI as-they; an Ito substitute others km etabotti the public coca,- army under General 13Jake, the army-of Estrernarlit-
,wciere of dener.d information `respiding the - occur- • fidence was placei.. He. now ca,m;3,to the question . I ea, and the army of Caeeinos, atecrefter• the 6nitor,..
' fences in Spain ?:.'llley knew deal they could safely respeaing the march' of Melt, Wish artily. into Spain. lof Madrid.. .if the Frenuli had beenperinitted to int,,h
' trui-t the gallant Officer a; the 'bead of that Expe-, The Noble !,ctrl had said, 'that after havingeaccom- I on towards' the Soutle; while- the Sonisli ti-,r,c,..:3 ‘,;.,1,,
dition with'the discretion vestrya in him e they knee, ' plished tlicobjea ef.their.,,expeditien, toat'ortugat,
~if :1 so 'diapersed, no 12'4 could hare been made, and-the
that even as a diversion aloneohe li,XpeditiOn Would . it ,c,!re'lliouglit eipedient thot they should go into ; Biller of Franee tee,leVery thin,;- irt his p.)wer.-- That
onswee, a most important olet6t, Were their Lori-' Spain;' that they thoold'ite sent only. to 'the Semi) ;it was' his, desiget 40 rnjrch into et ! • Santh.app,iared
ships` aware of the advan'tages which might have ',' of Spain.; and that he was.7Sure that• af:tittliz or i from- the inter(XPted nrresponderree and o' tree
pa.;;er,
beee desired from' :that: cfirce, even had. it het pro- at, Altdaltmeia ethey-wenldehave been received_ with t upon the lahl4. Sit I. Moore% advaiinc did g,,y, Ili
eeetted to the place of its, destination,, by-diversions great satisletSlieo. To Andalusia,! There was no ! South timte to -rally : tlie different eerie, were ere.
upon the coast ? In the state..ot Spain! and. Por- -• danger there; rue danger was ha the NOrthe , The I
aiAiled. to re-assemble the Central -Junta tri fort- ;
..tugal such diversions vroold have been most sir- -Andaluaittes,bad'even- seht their whbleaartny toe nd, in ,fine,.it was the source of all the resistance
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vieeable: it was to thr" diversion of Gneral Sperie distance. There was- .not a single Frenchman, • had since witnessed, as without it Spain would t,' .. v.
crier at Ayamonte that the- sryeedy defeat- of Dupont ; nor the chance that there evould be one in the been,crualted by the Conqueror: , Net rink, was it
, was attributable, In his opiniooeit was the duty of . wll9lp
.proonee. Bad such, a step beeo teken,', the attended • with these obviously gond -efli.:ets, out it
Government, as it .wits their ell'ort, to equip the best gfcanil.tds . would indeed have thought we
,were t gave courage,. spirit, And Aninottion to the peopie.-.
force theY 'conk!, 'and'to dire, it against. the °tele& shrinking and nal in earnest. Furr the delay in Asa diversion, as Sir J. Moore in More than one
weieh it seemed 16-them toot!) mto ti
aterial tthin,-but matching the ',Ale* late - Spain, . 'his 4 Majesty's j letter had .stated, it had completely eticeeeded--it
ewithout such a tioal ..detetrnination.:as -should pre- t Ministers were not answerable. Before -they knew i had indeed confounded all the plans cif the enemr.
lude all discretion on
ehe part of the Commander.' of the evacuation of Portugal, or of the probability Leaving however this, part
of the.subjefl, lie had to
This force, tinder Sir A. 'Wellesley, called at Corunna ' that such air Occnr-renCe'woOld.take place in so short turn to the more general question of the measures
at a Very critical Moment. - :The Gellieialiinnta de- f a time, his IVlajelly's' Ministers' Sent out insirufti7.eiS takeo.by the Government, of this Country, and he
clareid, that tVie,firetembjeet of she British ought to be to the
_British. Commailders eo. prepare toi.essist, had no hesitation in saying, that if the original plans
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the expulsion of the French from Portugal. :At that . Spain the moment that, their immediate objet was they laid down bad,been cafried Into.ctlea, their
time such an operation wos- obviously the most ad- accoMplisifeE Thee insiralioes were seta on the ' success would have been adequate..to the most san.
vinitogeaos, 'both f'Or-Spain and Portugal. General ' etith ofeAugette and on' the '24' of'September, guine hopes that were.entertained. Cretimitancea;
! Duilont was in estate of resistance.. The contest in when
,ithe ne,weof the battle: of Yimeira. had: just not in the power of men .to controul, .tod, in sorn,t
the South was undecided. But evert after the ante . artiveel, iniiroolphs were. again sent oute not to measure, prevented:this, but next to eon-whale stu.--
render of Dupont, there could be little thaubt,ofehe wait'for" Shy defaile'd orders before the army Was ~ icesslit must•be-allowecit:that an ateempt, consietent
ftdlley'Cif expelling the' French frotti Portugal, and . set- is trintion. a He-lred ni) reason toleelicie, hew- with the safety of our army, was oecc-,4sary to in:
dusmnabliog the Spaniards to (tired-all their atten- , ever, ethatethe delay which took place was avoid- , spirit and aid the SOMA) nation. In making this
jion to, the Pyrenees. In compliance with the wish . able. Armies could not tiy, .nor could they live ' attempt. Corunna was fixed on as an cub emir, end
ofd tire' C4,lllician Junta, Sir A. Wellesley proceeded .: bit air. Great' preparations must necessarily be the transports, vieluallere, eac, re.quisite to, theeup.*
ply and embarkation of a !aerie :force.., wer'e sent
8'11)(1; 'T,tgus, 'an& .determined to attack the French i . made.' -:HZehad no reason to believe that. the delay :
there'. Ile couldevivawith troth of thargalhint offi- 1 was- occasielbed either by Sir flew Dalrymple or-Sit there. it .was afterwards rt.presented by experienced
car, that ita eomitig .te ~this_ tielermitratnati. he wee.: David Bairdeoreuesequently by Sir Jahn Moore.--, thfieers and persons in whose.4skitt:antu integrity
intlueneed,,by bis:poblic ditty alone; for, stnidst all It- die-ti...c4.,1,hit„ looked; „t., the correspondence of
,contitenee could be placed, that Vieo was better
: ilk brilliant'lnAlitiete-no oire was' more etnitiertreelien Lord-Wm. Bedirickethey NtOttld timid that the delay
,adapted for this purpose, and accordirt;iy the fleet ef the complete absettee of envy and. of any tbelliveof : originated in those embarrassments under ,which a vessels were sent from Corunna to, Ow r6rt. • Sir
degradelion at beioA; 01P149/vd under ertyPtiler ;Ili- : Otivernioellt,nu,kly fo,r,rned, ,likc.thaten the General Jelin Moore afterwards deterthined to retreat-on Co-
. Ffo 4.4 would .not remit an
,efilogy ettl, tk.%:1C107 , j"jillt3, must naturelly, labour. kle- now Caine to. the runna; the shipping bad to be sent •round again to
'. ries Obtained in PottugAti he Would Only 'oberve, : general •plaribf the Cittepeitth. in his remarks ott this that port. In this then: was no. lileine to:lie etteeit.
thatin thirteen dayseSir A. Weyetly heetetheellreoch ~ subjeet, the Nook Earl netts; °netted to. vete -that eed to Ministers, who had in every step done their
oree,gentraleend, twoetei,ittielesegagements, i! that plan so adopted Vials irrittridt conformity to the ditty, and Provided toe most means,' as 4ell:asidl-
ow in
.oed.compelled them to' an armimiee, and lo .w, tilii7 'i serlYlPlnti of tholetgt,meet militely ameorities- in reeked:them, in the beet manner forthe safety and
mate evacuation of Poritigal. With t-espa,t to the .. soh'. Castanos and t;melsdcmoto de Ronmana had . preservation of the British army..., .With rept-dot
' supersession-of Sir A. Wellesleye it-was impOisible t givereee.os theirewtoyeittmei• the 'British army ought what tell from the Noble Ea •1 respeCting the fleet Itt
' that Any.A.Metuber Jo( garhantent abould 'Hay who- ' to aet.in one corps in the North; lied Corouna.ought . yerrol, from the papers on the table, it was evident
cinght, ett.eivrioeouglie,,Oet to command an, army. , to be rive !weeper, too doter:Poe* train England; that ' that every thing that ceuld be done, consistent with
era Hee, alrvmupjeD ~\srals at Gibraltar' v< ht titst ; the -BTitish trth,Ps frern Portne-ol otight to march by the principles on which this cOuntry acted., had. leech cetimmuitieWlbes•OHrlibeemotions"ineSpalti -arrived, : land into the North dr§iiiirj, and itiat that line of 1111,executed in the naost prompt and vieore
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and he bad conducted himself with distinguished watch
,_„hiee, was ,seesegeeetey adopted, was the
,No violence, indeed, bad 'been used ; hut on the
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ability.. Teepreeece . mane the aceulations Of: the ' beat: for the purposes:. 1... v Sir John Mooreoetas left leth:ot Janoary,, After a .long negocitition, a solemn
Nettie Bari, ,S.he. nexteti'"' 1110 alleged Wept of .ca- the option whether to prOceed tie the North of Spain Treaty , wee. etitered , into, by which the Spanish
fleets,_ not .pnly to Cache, but in Ferrol • and other
valmy in Portugal, and the nsionmptien, the to -' by Lind, or to' go to COrunnom by sea. He deter 7
that suppdieLf 'dead:6'll4' the Artnioice and Con- mined. to trearclielireugh Portegel and' Spein, And to `ports of Spaina, were secured, He woeid.put it to
ventiors ivelv to e"ascribed. He.w.ished to.enter :: rem -lime chance. of tortnieg a Junction in-the North the Noble Lord upset his own .ponc;plete if more
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14 on the tobjeti of the British at Spain with Sir David Baird. The policy of pros.than this could have been done. The Noble Lord
cavalry whiuli had been seta to time continent. The ceeding 'to spin at alt --e-o-uld licit be questioned,
etla,. ri
also gene at some length into a detail of the
public inind`hal been very nitteli misled an this so- i Would-it have. been Witte' for Ilse `British GOVern- great el men we had sestamed, and of the trea-
pic, andie wantiaterial, ,with r:etereneeboth to this 4 ment,lo.contino theirs operarirms to the defence of sureeleit had Wen expended, in thee eampaiele 'lt
ape /ether ,I‘4ll,e(lition6, that the House andOe-gouit,- 1 Portupl, and to have made no effort -for the I was time inisfortone of war, .thatin it fume to a con-
' try sh,t.lltilr run Away with tae ideate -. Heti the ' deliverance Of Spaie ? 'lt' was therduty of the 411(0 Siderahle event must accrue; but. if Nagle tnrels
Noble 'hurl evere 'divined what the proportion of Govemenent; having driveu the Vienett out of.Porto- would take into consideratiou the extern or the eN _
tonnage for nevi-ley bore to that of tounage 'fbr-in- I .gal, tO,Make a powerful aloe in favour of Spein.— m.), and the length of the eeryiee in which they
(*Wry ?I AtaPjkfinfry„antl., for actitleoredietaisceosieton llt that etforteud not been so completely successful. were engagedi, they would findi that there had
per man was considered as atitlicitterette every.liunita .14 as could bate 'been wished; it woe to be ascribed net rarely beet; en similar force employed in WhiCh the ,
transported ,Jot leis' than nine ot ten ions wereal. Ito a want ot plan—not to detitteuey of judgment loss hid been so :small.. Look .at the. Helder and
loWed.' Thusit,Weuld appear, that it wheld take at lor tbresight in the Bri!ielrGovernment, but chiefly Egypt, and Other armaments in which the Nob e
' parmuch bannage.to carry 5000 cavalry, as .4(4006 iti.• I to. hontitfgeencie3 which attend all military occua- Lord had a shore, and they would find that in them
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ryee B 4 ehe Anmouot of tonnage; was (1,10104 tiotit, whietehetnan lower could not controul. In the the loss was- proportionably trifling., . lit the Noble
part of the queetion lili totelity of the ttanepOete i eolmversatictietovhicti had passed' between -his Wes- Lord's estimate he had included casualties, without ' •
was a more Mareeiel'coesiderafion. ,A' IrotStltetitio 1 ty'l Miteistetts and the Spanish Deputies and OrficerS remembering that in such an army 'as that sent to '
portAttoit he tivrtisiei Of tecertain description, 'having 1 its thie,oeoutryetlie tormerinade Do at leiript to instil Spaitt,ohey would naturally have amounted to 3000:
e.certain height between the decks, &c. The goon.; 1 into theitther too sanguine- eipittations. Ott pie- men; . 'He also left 'out of his colentalion the fro
til that 6:wernment coold at any eime procote eel', ' ceetrimethey represented to them the uncertain i general actions' that had been fought. The corpe
such vessels wee v6tylimited ; besides it mots to tie lea issue of the contest in which they would engage. • had been embarked in. April, and the loss,
collettedehateevalry were not the only horses.seot f erteedet.wee imp 0 Conteinfitiltelhe military though considetable, WLis trot untemel, and looking
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with an irtny,i there most be hems fur the artillery, 1 e I-era of the mow
tied 1113 extraerdinary -re- to the service perfertned, the. sacrifice. was not ,
tor time Statf,
.4c. 'The next consideration .was- the 'ablutoss without 431/Pratiog .that be •tntistftneet too ,great. He had. agaie to itpeat, that by the
country in which cavalry were fella i the central' , with partial success. 'These
.took a Very narrow enterprize, of tine force we bad gained - many • -
provinces of Spain •wereieavaleyecoutitties ; the two I view- of the cause, who, supposed it would be adtatitagee. We had driven the Frctich from
Castiles, And, a 'considerable' part of Leon, ;were I overid one asinvtign—that there could be no re- Portugal,a,tolten then-Russian fleet in the Tagus, re-
cavalry countries; ton the districts through, which, verses, but that all must-be success 'and viaUry.— hayed our own blockading squadron, contributed in
time British army marched -were not So. Bikay, lln the 'conversations RI which he "alluded, it had the -beginning of the campaign to the defeat end
Asturias, t u rim, `Gallicie, ;and even 'Portugal, were not s?.. .been the tiodeviated advice of his Majesty's Mini- corisecpeept surrender of Delmont, And, in the end of
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John Moore. was under- the necessity oo this 3 esters to the Spaniards,,toporsne a cautious policy—, elle campaign, had utterly saved Abe South of Spain.
count, and on title alone,, of separating his caealr to playa prudent gatoe—to,keeptheie troops intim Whatever might he the result of the enemy'
• from his main body' of infantry, because in' p
that motintains, and not to let them descend On the plain cesses, he had not yet subdued Spain. flea ceded
which eves . the 'emearese route for tolstetry, cavalry I until they beds regular army woe which they might to the Noble Leta, that Buonapartealtad•employed
could not be adequately supplied. Let their LOrel;"t fall back, and from which . they might expect 'lope 200,000 men in that country, his best Generals to
ships look at other expeditious, on the eubjeet of co- port and proteCtion. To proceed with' 'the state- lead them,. and had besides added his own presence
valry. Let theiti look at rime expediehet to Egypt, mint of Sir John Moore's march t--On his arrival ;to encomage them the more, But with all this ex-
an-expedition Which he had never heard arraigned. at Salamanca he found that Blake's army was de- lertion, ho was net at this moment more in poseee-
Egypt was a cavalry country. - The ,French cavalry leafed; he was not joined byoGetioNl Hope, and he sion. of Spain then-he was last year. He had the
were in great numbers, affording
them the only . anticieeted- conaidereble obsteclesito a junction with Castiles, part of Estremadura, Catalonia,, Leon, end
chance which they possessed if resisting the British Sir David Beard. Under these circumstances of pe- the provinces bordering on the Pyrenees—parts a
troops,yet the whale of tbecavalry landed in Egypt collar I
difficulty, Sir J. Moore ordered the-, army to which, had, in all wars, been subjected to tile army
Amounted only to lbw and there were no hortiee for I retire; but he presently heard of the resistance'at I which was tn.aeter of the, field., Sot lie had Out all
the artillery, which ?Fe men were obliged to move Madrid, and was joined-by General :Hope, without ' Catalonia lie' had not Murcia, Arragon, &c. nor
thertiselves. 'flaying stated these general proposi-
.1 eihion. his arine was incomplete, being deficient in " had he Gallicia, of which more would be heard
tiotms witls-respei-lioehe ditticeity of seette, cavalry the material ingredients of cavalry and infantry. ,The ! hereafter, He could not,- by occupying Madrid, a .
abroad, he would boloiyeay, that there was not an iriteliigetice of the resistance to the. French at Ma- ' be had by oeeupying. Vieillia and other capitals, sub-
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instance on record,' in winch. such an effort had been -chid was communicated to Sir .lehn Moore by Air. due the people. He had exerted his utmost power,
Made. 'By the ilocuments on the table it appeared, Frere; and here he would make a few remake net ' and atter all, he was not in possession of one hollot
that during the last I.ew months eight or nine thaa.° whait had' fallen from the Noble Earl on this part of ,' the Steens!' MobarcltY. The Siminali people too, -
sand horses were tent to Spain and Portugal, arid that the sulkies% ~ 'Fite Nohle&tri had endeavoured to after all their defeats, by their re-assembling, sheave
that number would have been augmented to at least j .proveethat Sir '3, Moore had .heeninfineneed In fa, ! ed a spirit, which, if it might not be successful, was
I 0,600,• had it not been for aclvices trtim Sir David your, of the movemeot Which' the Nobleßarl thought ' at least entitled to the epithet of a persevering exam
Baud, With respett to the 'sepposeu operation of so unwise, -eolely by the advice of Mr. Frere, and He (Lord Liverpot4 could' not see that lukewarm..
this alleged deficiency of -cavalry in tile produCtion of hid reprobated the manner in which that opinion ness in the Spanish people which some people saw, -
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titeetletiaistice and Conveotien, he totally denied it.: wits given.a-Mr.' Frere's opinion with resped to the Their siinultatieous rising, the surrender of.Dupent
Oil the 22d of
~August),the 'daY on. wlticii the ar- calamities in Spain; which must result from 'aban- to an army, of, which, one half wee composed of
mistice wits eon'ettided, the British cavalry an l'or- dotting her cause, was, in his opinion, most sound, badly armed' peatiattts; the gloriOus reSistance- of
tugal WfiS considenibly stinerior both in'euality and and hit conduct in declaring that opinion highly me- Saragesea, a piece not adequately fortitied--.3
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number toethe,Yrench artny,. for. the. nioltivnt that tin:ohms; At .the same time he must not be un- resistance scarcely equalled, and surely not. sw-
,the destination or Sir A. \Veilesley was tieee tear l''Jr- derstood as commending the mode in which that paesed, by eny eveet of the, kind., -recorded .in
tugal, an aderptate supplyof cavalry was sell( ((,) IMI). opinion had been conveyed. Bet tlfetnaiti question ' inetory—end almost every other movers
With resPectOtrihe qeestion wits:thee:it wag poise was, nt of the was Sir John Moore governed by this :Kielce Spanish nation clearly proved 10 hilt that they.could "
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or not to allow :Juno" to evacuate Portugaletbat must I or opinion ? The correspondence sl?ewed that he . notinstly,be accused of coldness oteltolifferenete-e-
in a greafclegree.depenCon considerakigs,,4 which. could -not be so ; for ht that correspondence he told The Noble Lord here .drew. a parallelebetween. titt.t. '
military men' Were old best judges. a confessed Mr. Frere, that on military questions he should not Spanish nation et this moment, analeelte
_At-pelican
that he did' iiotriniSider la the same &int of view as ask nor follow his opinion. -It Was impossible, there- people during our colbnial war.. We had at first
Others ehe,supiteinsed toedity with which the French fore, to contend that Sir John Moore Was averse to ' beat them' in every querterae taken •alrtheir - prince.-
tnieht Lave crossed the Tagus,. had, the :Convention thus movement, wilier! was a military one. Still pal tovos,
.10.* driven, them
.train the field, Sot
.no't been cuncluded. Iqta it thee lfreimch could , further to prove, that in, his advance against Soule when they tiedfrem the North .it -c,.a,, out to renew
even have maintained theneselees iii Lisbon for a Sir John-Moore was ieflaeneed:solely by his own the war in the South, and when otzain ernigneri.d in
month or two longer, it must have materially delayed ' jodgment of the ellitary prudence and expeil'ettcy the South-, they again rose to oppo ic- tis in tita' North,. '
Ole operations of the British army,, ,and might have .4
-if such a st'ep,' let their' Lordships refer to that part . They evert in .the-issue succeastel .; ;led by the same
eventually caused the loss of sor nOOO more men. -7,i of the corrospondenee in which Sir Jelin. Moore rules we had every reason to hope thelSpauiSh nit
As to the. steps taken by time British army after the - states, that the diffictilties under which belaboured j tion would ism time cod overcome its enemies. From
evacuation of Lisleon b`y the French, they appeateti fro-el not having been joined 'by General Hope, and ' the state'allie Country, 'exquisitely edepted by na-
te hiM to, he highly, prudent. The .:British mums: i from the apprenetoion that be mieht not be able-to titre for defenee, ,trout the ehatacter of thepeopte, not as compageors, :but as deliverers.. 'They could etfeet a junction with sir David ifleirde being reniov- famed for steady valour and yereevering,. we .liad
only restore that 'poWer which the Prince Regolt: = ed, tie should have it' in his power to do sometlinie.: good grounds to book for viapeyeateesmetiog their vt.
acts, and the extent of the discretion which - they . Heevaa-prepared 'not- only to defen t' d the advance oforts. A, tor thetioursts taken by Mrnistei S, it eo mtt:d
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thoegtit theaeveseesofted in using wait.) eXeleldtre I Sir .14143 Moore; but stilt further -to rriaintaie that by net pie lops compere willm that di-elated by the con.
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