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London, England, 1815-06-24 00:00:00

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ITHANkS TO IMJKE WitLLINGTON .A'ND

ARMY.

Earl 13atieunst rose; pursuant to his notice of
yesterday, and after apologising to their Lord-
s-hips for his late arrival, which was solely occa-
sioned bythe pressure of official busitiess, pro-
reedetrto introduce his motion, for the Thanks
'of the House to the Duke of Wellington, anti
the Officers and Army under his command. In
this introduction the Noble Earl adverted to the
prominent cOn;iderations,in the late glorious vic-:
'cries, espeteially that of the' 18th, achieved by
the illustrious Commander ie question. The
operations of that great Officer bad systematically
proceeded on the leading principle he had laid
down for himself, on, the system of warfare which
he hest understood ; and was the rule which he
had uniformly adhered to in the Peninsular War,
till the year ISI3, when the reinfortements he
had received placed him on something like an
equality with the enemy. Their Lordships then
saw that defensive system suddenly changed, and
an immediate display of talent in the fineof at-
'tack, equally to those he had previously .manifest-
ed iu the way of defence. On the present glo-.
lious occasion, the illustrious Officer in question
had given the most transcendent display of his
talentei in
.both these principles of wartare. On
-the 16th, the Prussians were attacked by the'
greater part of the enemy's force, and through-
out the whole of that day, the Prussians gallant-
ly maintained their post. The Duke of Welling-
ton, as soon as he understood his assistance was
necessary, made immediate dispositions to afford
it, and sent a force under Sir Thomas Picton for
that purpose. The enemy had vainly claimed the
victory on that day, and vaunted they had van-
quished both the Prussians and the English, who,
bo w ever;
bad maintained their position at-Sam-
bref to the last, and the enemy did not venture
to renew the attack after they were repulsed.—
having lost upwards of
The Prussians, however,
3600 men in these actions, anti finding that
their cavalry did not arrive in sufficient time,
deemed it advisable to retreat ; in consequence of
which the Duke of Wellington made a corre-
soandent mbtion, and took up a position at Wa-
feiloo. That position was ope to which he was
po'stranger, for•in the' military tour his Grace
bad made in the Netherlands preyions to his going
to Paris last year, he saw !Waterloo, when he ae-
clared, that if it ever were his fate to.fight a bat-
tle for the defence of 'Brussels, he should prefer
'Waterloo as the spat. He'therefore -knew the
strength_ of his position, and the event shored
the wistioni and skill of his selection.. In this si-
-teeth;o. the enemy attacked Win with his whole
. fore,'!„ Witt,the exception of one corps_that had
been left to watch the Prussians. On the circum-
stances and event of this.great action, it wasom-
necessary fur him to expatiate. In the case of it
the Duke of Wellington performed alternately all
the duties of a Military Commander—as a Com-
mander ill Chief—as -a :General of Division—as
Cdminander of a corps, and_as Colonel of a re-
giment. lir all these various capacities did that
great Officer act on the glorious and memorable
action of the of June, which terminated in
the complete and signal overthrow of the enemy's
grand army, commanfled by the Ruler of Frence
in persoie One of the additional effects of thatgreat
day, as he had learned from recent dispatches, was
bOOO prisoners sent Co Brussels, and upwards of2ooo
inore on the road thither. Of the ulterior operations
of the Prussians no acentints had .yct been re-
ceived. It could not he expected that such a great
nehievernent could be effectuated without a con-
siderable loss, and such, he regretted to say, was
the case"; but it was the lot of humanity never
to receive joy or grief unmixed. The anxiety
evhiCim• every individual who had relatives or ac-
queintagees iu the army, might feel on, such ate
occasion,- may he conceived. So many brave and
meritorious Officers had either fallen -or severely
suffered-ethat it would be almost invitlotts to se-
lect particular- names ; but the national regret
must accompeny-the fall of time gallant and enter-
prisini Sir Thomas Ileum. Who was there that
did not grieve at heart, at the early fall of that
brave and patriotic Prince, and most promising.
Officer, the D ike of Bruns:rick-, who fell glori-
ously fiekting at the head of 'his -troops.—(l.lear,
lie. r')—The lab of that young, :spirited, and ac-
complished Officer, the llonoureble Colonel Gor-
don, was pointedly to he laneented,,and as the
beet eulogy upon his merits, he quoted a
private letter front time Duke of Wellington
to the Colonel's brother the- Earl of Aber-
deen ; timongli alixiQty must prevail for time late
of that gallant wad enter,wising Commando-, the
Earl of tjxlnidge, A.vho braved the utmost peril in
repeated charges with fioe corps of cavalry.
It wOtdd ht impos,_:ble for him to do justice to
the merits of all those who fell or suffered; but,
before he proeer:ded to move these regular vetes
of which lie hail b-iven notice, he would ohserve,
th:tt lie h:tended to propose a similar one- to that
pliant and meritoriOns. veteran Prince Blucher,
1111 the galient army under his command. Their
Lerdshii" vvero- aware of the handsome manner
lit which the- Dike of Wellington mentioned this
greet Comm.:lll(kt in his dispatch : he had borne
tale
eb rguitti.ta
toi t
y.theCO: rpi
itoßot
ittion and;
those. cir-
,: of the 15th.froa: his horse on,the
cumt,t4oces was
born severely hurt
1601-,
and
was c.„:,-kird to his bed ; but on hear-
It? e the Duke of Welliegton was attacked ea the
he quiited'his couch, and led on dais gallant
The Noble Secretary
troops to our
of State concluded_ by ifg---

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