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THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1812.

Another short Debate ;ook place last night in the
House of Commons, !upon the motion for btinging
up the Repott.•- Mr. Witersteeme took that oppor-
tunity of expressing his opinion upon the various
topics alluded to in thelleoeisis Speech. With re-:
Bard to the Peninsula, he was as desponding as
ever, and notwithstanding the complete disappoint-
ment of all his former predictions, and those of his
friends, he repeated prophecies of ultimate
failure with as much cenfPence as formerly.—
With respeet to America, be expressed his appre-
hensions that we should soon be plunged into a
war with her ; the whole blame of which he threw
upon the British Government. Upon these points
he enlarged some time, and concluded with saying,
‘c would to God BUONAPARTE had Merchant-ships !
would to God BUONAPARTE had Colonies ! would
to God BUONAPARTE had Commerce ! for until
he has, the world will never be at peace."—
In other words, give to BUONAPARTE all he wants;
surrender every thing be is,contending for; repair
all his losses ; restore all your conquests ; and then
be will give you peace.—Give to him, after an un-
interrupted series of successes over his arms, in every
quarter of the globe, all that: he could have obtain-
ed if he had been uniformly successful, and
then the world would have peace. We believe
it would; we believe that had BUONAPARTE
Obtained every thing he wanted, he would be will-
ing to mane a peace ; but under such circtim-
stances, what sort of a peace could we expect ?
We saw in 1806 what sort 'of a peace he was
willing to give 113, when his na:y was almost
annihilated, when his commeice was destroyed,
when many of his colonies were conquered. He
would not then, stippled as be was, consent, to feir
and equitable terms of peaCe, is it then to be sup-
posed that if he possessed all the sinews of war, all
the means of carrying it on with vigour and effea,
be would diminish his demands exad;y in proportion
to the increase of his power to enforce them, and
that be would become moderate as he became
powerful ? It, indeed, the colossal Continental
power of France were reduced within such limits as
would not endanger the indepenience of other
States, we should not be sorry to see her possess-
ed of trade and colonies, because they would, to a
eertain extent, be pledge for
_her pacific con-
dud ; but to give to France ships, colonies,
and commerce, in addition to her Continental power;

to give 10 BUoNAPARTE all that he has lost, in ad-
dition to all that he has gained ; in a word, to let
him keep all that he has, awl to give him all that
he wants, would in effea, be to surrender the inde-
pendence and safety of Great I3,itain to her most im-
placable foe. We cannot for a moment suppose
that Mr. WHITBREAD would wish to throw his
country at the feet of France, but we contend that
the d4,-lrine which he laid down would, if aced upon,
inevitably produce that result.,
We must beg to call the particular attent►on of
our Readers to the reply of the CHANCELLOR of the
E:CCHEQUEit, which was one .of the most complete
end triumphant ever delivered in that House.

• This morning we received Gibraltar Papers, from
which we have made the following extrads :
PORTO, DEC. I.B.—Not a word of ne A,s from the
Army ; all is quiet. A large quantity of muskets,
cloathing, and stores have been sent from Corunna,
for the use of the Gallician Army.

GIBI: kLTAR; Nov. 20.—Although General BAL•
LASTEROS was probably right to suppose that the
enemy's division, with which he was last week en-
gaged, would be in no hurry to renew the contest,
yet he finds, that other divisions are ready to sup-
ply their place, and that he is not to be al-
lowed one moment's rest. On Wednesday,
he received inforMation that Generals LEVAL and
REY were advancing against him from the eastward,
upon which he retired to his former position under the
Rock, and shortly alter, smile' of the enemy troops
made their appearat:ce on the heights of St. Roche.
As the whole however were no: in sight, General
BALLESTEKOS, on the next day; made a reconnoit-
ring from the Queen of Spans, and upon his return,
a skirrni,h took place between his party and a French
detachment, in which he had two men killed and a
few wounded ; of the enemy's loss nothing positive
is known.

It is understood, that their total number
was ascertained to amount to 6000 foot, and some
hundreds of horse, with a few pieces of cannon, and
that they exped reinforcements.
Very (avowable accounts were received from Ca-
. of the week. Far from

being cast down by the enormous losses which they
have sustained, and by the complete dispersion of
their army, after the capture of Tarragona, the Ca-
talans have plucked up fresh spirits, and created a
new Army, which is already 2.5,000 strong, and is
expected to be increased to 100,000 men before the.
end of February. The tact is, that growing every
day more and more impatient of the yoke, the gal-
lant natives are determined to shake it otf, and the
whole of them are rising en masse.
A printed paper has also been received from Ali-
cant, dated the 24th, acknowledging that the
...yellow fever had made its appearance in the town
in consequence of the clandestine introduction of

three men who were labouring under it from Mur-
cia, and of a nun from Aspe ; but averring, in
continuation, that owing to the measures adopt-
ed to put a stop to it, such as the removal to
the Lazaretto, not only of the infected indivi-
duals, but of ail the sick in the town there re-
mained no vestige of it so far bark as the 6th,
when the above precautions were no longer deemed
necessary, and concluding with an exhortation to
the neighbouring towns to re-open the communi-

cation.