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London, England, 1810-03-03 00:00:00

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LPRICE SIXPENCE 11AL-PPlNiqr

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

• MOUSE OF PEgRS).
imiDAY,,BIARcH 2.
Several Private Bills were brought up from the
CoMmons, and read a first tune.
.DISTILLERIES.
•Oit the Order of the Day being' nioved for the
House,to go- into a Committee on the Bill to pre.,
vent the Distilling of Spirits from Corn, &c.
Lord H,Aavvvicxs rose to move the Amendment
of which-he had given notice on a former day. Front
all the inforrriation which he had been able to obtain
upon the subjeal, he was led to believe that there
now existed no necessity for the Bill ; bur that on
the-contrary, it might be produEtive of great incon=
yenienee and loss to a very large -and th,eiul descrip-
tion of the community.' He should therefore endea.
your to limit the duration of the Bill, by. moving
that it should expire on the 3,lst of May next, in-
steatl of the 31st December.
After
_a few words from Lord BAT'HURST,v the
House divided on the Amendment, • ,
Contents
Non-contents . . . 22,1
Majority against the Atnentitnept . 4
Strangers were not re-admitted immediately aftet
this• division ; for another div,sion atierwa!ds look
place on the motion, that the Bid be how .reported
to the House without any aniefidment, when
the numbers v% ere—,

Contend
Nw-contents
Majority . .

23
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The Bill was then reported, and or4ered to be
read a third, lime on Tnesd.iy next, when it was
agreed that Counsel should be heard against the Bills,
WALCHEREN EXPEDITION.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE then moved the
Order of the Day for proceed-14.th :he motion of
which- he had given notice; respecting the Aufher
or Anchors of the Answer.which his Majesty. had
been advised to return to the Address of the City of
London, praying that an Inquiry might be instituted,
into the causes of the failure of-that ,Expedition. But
he "wished that, before he .entered on the sub4..et,
Lord Chatham's Narrativk respeeling the failure of
that Expedition be rnd.
The Clerk having accordingly read the Narrativp,
The Noble'Marquis began his comments upon itf
in order to prove that on the faceof that docunient,
drawn up by one of his Majesty's Ministers, by the
very Commander hi Chief of that Expedition, there
was-abundant reason- for the institution Ait a Mi-
litary Inquiry.. Were -Iris •:M;ijesty'S Ministers pre.
pared to say that Lord Chatham never made any
coinmunication to them on the snbjeti. matter of that
Narrative ? Did Lord Chatham, himself one of the
advisers and framers that Expeditor, conceal from
his colleaguse the-causes which, whether arising
from neeoritroulable occurrences, or from ,
neglect; had defeated -the accomplishment of
the objeEls of 'the Expedition ? If they 'do say-so;
what a new and al:lain:holy proof is"given to tlietr
Lordships and to the country of the distrust, the
jealousy; and the want of harmony, which stishLee-
fully prevails'aniong the advisers of the Crown.—
Can the affairs of the country prosper in the hands
of men bet Ween whom- there is no confilence
and cordiality ? Among whcirb there exists no
common tie of feeling, no cotnnion syLs!ein
aai-on, Is :any other eXplanation- necessary of ail
the difficulties we. are involved in, of all the
disasters and disgraces we have endured ?--The
Earl of Chatham enumerates in his Narrative the
various delays and omissions on the part of tile
Natal- Commanders of the Expedition, to which
-he imputes the miscarriage or the Expedition.--
He came forward with these serious charges against
a principal branch of _the armament, and -yet it
has been said there was no cause or room for In.
quiry. , A foul blot. is atteMpted to be cast on'
the character and condo& of that' service to -Which
,the country owes so much of its .glorys- 'and_ to
which it must chiefly look- for its protection and
`security. If such a charge were . therefore well.
founded, how darkened would be -our horizon—s'
bow gloomy the views of our present and future-
situation !—Their Lordships have observed the tium-
ber and the pature of the causes. to which Lord
Chat em has ascribed the failure of the Expedition;
yet his.celleagues advise his Maje,sty to tell the .first
Corporation ain the, country, that he sees no cau,.e
for instituting a Milittry Inquiry. Here, the. Noble
Marquis,red and commented upon the answer of
his Majesty to the AddreSs of the City of London,
-and asked. who of his Miniters could have dared to
advise his .Majestyto".e.rake such an answer, when
he or they must have known, that such serious
grounds of. inquiry lied, been furnishetl 'by one of
their own celleagties. But fully to know the true c
ratter of those Ministers, to whom, in this crisis of .
fate, the affairs of tas nation "are now uhfortutratecy
entrusted, let their Lordships but recollect the ,an-
swerwhich these same men advised his Majesty,
.to
,make.to another aeldress* of the same City of Lon. •
done on an occasion 'ot, a nature ,soMewhat.'siinilar.
The disgraceful ,Comentioe of Cintra must still bp
green in ,the memory of, their 'Lordships-. 'What
was the complexion ..of the answer to the Address of
'the City of London, for an inquiry into the causess of .
that..shametel transactione?. Was all inquiry reftised ?
On the, contrary, was not the City oeLeridon rebtiked
fur thsinuatinreven a doubt 01,. bi.s Majes.ty'sdisi)o;i-
tiein and deterinitiatien to. cause-au inquiry tine in-
stituted into that evept--iatievent Which, the lan-
guage of his Majesty's. Ates,ver, had disappointed
.hppesandezcpee.lations of tee count y. And wets net
the Expeditibir to Wakh,iretrof ineeti larger si“, of
:much weightier. inlp t taiice-eeind th.s its fallure.less
disappointed the' hopes amid extiv..-ct3tik)ns, of the -
country ? In the former case there was an alacrity at,
inquiry, where'the satne ,grounds were not ath:uced,
for it; in the -present instance there hats-tube-noe
inquiry, although the strongest call and reasons eir_