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strl'ret mist. not haveheen the expence and difficulty
ransporting them to the Mediterranean ovrAdri-
etic ? The hi e; -§ impraCticable. Not,. less im-
eraetirab!...• and rornising wood be the plan of
sending then] to the North' of Gentiany. It was
. sad they would there find a numerous hand of
t:; .n v nelication of tt-ie,r independence,
Real ta.t the common oppre-stir of mankind' ! It was
even et-i,,atated,by his ,Nob!e: Friend,
that the British Goveinment had encouraged them
to rise, and promised Merit assistance,._ but that the
prorate bad not been performed ; that these brave
pattiotie men had heendeserted by us, and 3.l):ltid,
s• ed t(*.their f+ e'; these allegatious, he Would venture
- toesay, were wholly ll:Wounded; there
,Might be
is
nuMbers- of men in different distriets of ,Germany
who wereeamtions to .-rescue themselves Irons the
oppression, and tyranny the French ; but they
• had neither arms aior lliufe rzns, hoc were they
gated etc e.tieeeraged by. this country to rise up
aeanist their oppressors. Even. bad they, given a
• greatec demonstration 'of poWer and dotermina-
, t ion to resist, it ,still would have been impossible
for the 3ritish Gevertimeet to send suela a force, as
Frei ivertnierstioned, 10 their 'assistance:, As he had
already observed, where Wa.,l a force Of one
,hundred
thousand torn lobe foetid ; and even bad they been
at tile disposal of Goverripatute how could GoVern-
men, be pcovided means of subsisting and
paying thein melte North 0f46-ermany ? This would
have been • a tiiing altogi-2ther itepradicable, and
therefore at W3i useless to meditate such an enter:
prize. 'lt Surely was no eaey matter to colleet such
a force as that which had been assembled, with all
the m.,!aos necessary for its equipment ;',and so much
time wasnecesmry to prepare so large tin 'atknautent.
When 14 was prepared, intelligence was received of
the Armistice entered into between France and
Aostrioe- yeti it 4vas still uncertain whether that
Armistice would euti in a 'Defi nit e-Nae. The
-contrary, for a tieue„ appeared the more probable.
Wherever it was employed,. it might there foie ton 7
tribute to produce a diversion in favour of Austria,
and sustain her firmness in resisting theterms'ot an
unequal and ignuminions peace. . Looking at all' the
points within our reach, and 'Where our • means
might be effeatrallY exerted, there was none. 'which
promised so -faVourable a result •as an attack upon
F/ushing.and Antwerp. There the enemy had for
years i*eu 'eicpentling its then a 'Paborir and'money
tit ere( itig a /12val arsenal and depot, and in eA-ecling.
a .n1.33t by which 'he would be enabled to menace
the most vulnerable ,poires. of
,thse "ea:tense tic
• heaved of ' having opened a river-Vihich.ll6iii .so, king
been sleet, and of 'having made it the seat of a na-
val pekvirer, and <he ,fieurce of cOmMercial
• L esrobled t 1 Ittiler of Frairee to‘cherish 'the fond .
hopes f:* etratiging his-animosity agairalt this coon-,
tee,. '4teel, it was known:with eetaat indtfor table
and etti:aityhe tOliovred eiiky fivouritte design
for ned by hi rei e:ige <r li ambit ‘..)tr. He l&idly
bii,sted GI fratriteg br< ugliti iris designs`' and hi,
rrateuts a,t Antrxeip to full m Aurity and perfeetion ;
athe j,,,ikete" wiser, tree ~d a retain ()hied to gale, he,
let notated and, unteeerted' to accomplish
it Was "Jae this' thet'ef,re a proper 'Arc( to eti-
.l.lol a iisitleh Government, and to
point otY the ilt!VeSfi,y feuvratioe :40 toirndable
- a desv.; ? A(T4troirig-ty, it was resolved to dtetroy
the arse, at 'anti triavy, and to deprive our bitterest
ruk-wr of ciiiglitincSt me. hs c3'y which he was en-
atrrd to ~coroy cs. • The design, variptisun=,
- ezikc er4 uroseertairizsbie ditlieur-rep,' hos not
beers wee/ly .eceottipl!slied ; ho; it is so tar 'accore-
'Wished as to render abortive iris schearcs of hostility
from oat qs43f ter t bi'!,complete.dernoli t ion- O. .the
aedreenet of Flushing has secured that end..
What ili,:altretis efieet . luive arisen horn the opera-
tionvneclissary to its attainment are indeed to be
latuetued ; t .it they are not to Eh) apprehended.
The tteign promised to be executed in ashen time,
and.baore the season set in,-whose pestilential in-,
fli,el;ce wai to be guarded against. The Expedition
waeready to sail about the middle of. July e but was
detained nine or ten days by contrary winds; other
--,tutfereseen and uncontroulable obstacles afterwards
occurree to protract the operationstill the unhealthy
pet ied of the year,; but all these oktructions could
not have been foreseen or guarded against. • This
the information Would show, whiehhis,Majesty bad
al &tied' to be laid• before then. Lordships, and until
that information, was in the possesQon of their Lord-
ships, it would be impossible for them to ,itistirpte a
fair inquiry. These, crinceiVed; wodd be. of
thetriselVes sufficient to induce -the justice of the '
Peoe,;e. not to admit the Amendment proposed by
his Noble Friend. The other point so much
itisted upon and reprobated by his Ncble Friend, was
the expedition to Spain' and portugaL Here again
his Noble Friend's strictures and censures were al-
moSt in evetyrispect without foundation; great and I
important 'objects had beenactrieved by that- Expedi- I
ti ;it had rescued POrtogal frOm the French ;' it
bad covered the British arms 'and the character of
the iititish arev with glory, and- by .the -position
it ;if er weeds ocenpied and maintained, it' rendered
infiriite• service to the' Spanish armies, It covered
bleat in several points ; it secured • the defence of
and to a great treasure that of La Matt-
On.. To his 'expedition was also owing the deli- i
\entree of Galicia, and the seculing of 'the ships
at Ferrol. Were cot these important objects, and
did not the attainment of them aff.iird very:just
geounds of triumph and congratulation ? Wo'uld it,
therefore, be fair to Condemn 'in the gross the con-
doet of his Majesty's Ministers; to' precipitate ari
inT,iiry into the -ineaures they had I.ursued, or ra-
!he,' to pronorince judgment a, d condemnation of
than illiout instituting aey inciury at all ? Such, !
'he thin:gin, would he the et feet of 'adopting the
Arnenclaient moved by h's Noble Friend, 'and be
t herelore feel! himself caLed upon to resist it as un-
precedetrtel and unjust. • I
Tie. Earl of IVIoraA contended that it was need- I
less to wait fir any information Which Ministers
oulcl I reduce. They would produce none 'but
mutilated and imperfect documents, and such only
as would tettd to palliate their own misconduct.
There were sufficient tact,. before the country, on
'the race of w hich their incapacity and, misconduct •
was telly t;pparent, and their condemnation was -
already seal d in the mind of every observing man.
fits -Lordship then adV'erted to the various: points
where a British force might have been tnost advan—
t<teeously employed in favour of the common cause.
anieadvened on the improvidence which has
involved the army in Spain in Cal-jennies and dis,,
grace;, and dwelt with considerable asperity vu the

ignorance-and incapacity_ so glaringly betrayed:in,
the exPedition against Antwerp.. These werefads
which could not he disguised, and which furnished
'sufficient and indisputable, proofs of. the, ern-Ili:lei
tieelee,t aed unpardonable ignorance-of Ministers: 7
Lord SibasOuTo could net but acknowledge, that
is there-wis- much to regret, and perhaps omen, to re-
'• preliend, both in the Expedition to Spain, and ez:pet
daily in that toWalcheren... He could not,
,how-
eser, bring himself to thintte that the Amendment
'proposed h} hi, Noble Friend was altogether uneb-
aectionable. it would condemn without inquiry.
There was much of irritation, and much of de-
spondency in- the "public 'publit
.mind, atid, the adopting
' such a proceeding yotild not tend to soothe the one,
or re-animate the other. He .was a friend to mot 7
deration, and he trusted his conduct had shewn
1'
1.! himia)et
iopnrt
eo:veobnuetl
diands fi
4t
ar
sinebanaedd,
et
ao
hrjeiutgsnatircdferom
• Amendment as it now stood. -The second para-
ttnju2slit iocd:!.tisiitodnisn'odiet-1
acceding to the
graph of it was inadmissible at the present mo-
, [tient ; it
.was for itiquiry, but he did not see the
necessity' of coupling 'it with the address to the
CroWn in the manner' proposed by the Amendment.
He wished an early day might be fixed for going
" 'into that inquiry, and he wished the inquiry to be
shill and rigorous; hut he was not for prejudging
the , conduct of his Majesty's, ;GoVernment, ,which
would be the case, if the Amendment of his Noble
Friend were adopted without any alteration. '
' Lord MULGRAVE spoke at some length in vindicas
tier of the measures which Government had pur-
sued resneding the twb Expeditions. To the. Ex-
' peclition to the Scheldt, and the Means,. of carrying
it into execution, he had paid particular 'natation ;
' and nothing, he believed, had been ()Mated or ne-
gieeted that could secure its complete success. When
\ the plan and: the means for givitig it effect weie
duly considered, he was confident ,they would be
found to have,; been contrivedandpeovided with wis-
dom and attention Land that no blame was Cobse-
quently impotable tolhefraMers of the, Expedition.
Equally free flow blaine,wbold those appear to whoni
the execution of it had beeo entrusted. If, there-
, ,fore,. neither, the framers bf the; Expedition, nor the
officers Who executed it, were blamable, how hard
would'it be withcut ,any inquiry to' pass; the sentence
' • on both which 'Was pronounced
..by the 4ruenOment
mowed by the-Noble Baron.' He Was con fiden etheir
.. Lerdshipa, in their juarice.'and ceuclohr, would never
consent to adopt it. ' . e :.
' . Lord Gitcx supported the Amendment-in a speech
of ,considereble length, in . whlchehe followed and,
. enforced the arguments .urged by Lord Grenville:.
, . He never' was more astonished than by the trine as-
' .suined in the Speech;. and the credit it took for tie
- acdantages and. glory our army had acquired in Spain.
hi. whit consisted these advantages anchthat glory ?
The 1114tish..artny had fought a battle arid gained a
vi&orv, 'whiill was much aboasted of in this 'court-
'try,. But - what wad the result ? This'victorions
army was-'cbmpelled to retreat; and was nearly cut
off by that very army under .Soult; whom the
British ComMander had boasted of having destroy-
ed. Indeed, his misfortune proved his salvation ; for
bad he not been destitute-of the means of advanc-
ine. further, he sabtild have used those'meaos to en-
tangle himself indifficulties from which he 'could'
never have been extricated. 'The necessity he was
in to retreat, at timeline he retreated, just saved the
army. - Had it continued to advance, not a man-
would have escaped ; and here, however reludantly,
he feared he must take some of the blame from the
.Minister:, and throw it on the.shoulders of the Csim-
mender.. Lord Welliegton, he was ready to confess,
. was a bold arid enterprising officer.—On this occa-
sion his boldnesi degenerates into rashness, He ad-
vanced into the heart of the'country, without ascer-
taining his means of subsisting his army, his means
of transport, or, his means of information. Hafights
,the battle 'of Talavera, which the Speech styles a
glorious and decided victory, but a victory attended
with such consequences as must deprive it of all me-
rit; a victory remarkable only for a fruitless display of
courage and waste of blood ;. a victory .which was
ostentatiously - extolled in this Country, ' and for
which a-peerage had been bestoWed- on the, Gene-
ral who gained it, and to whom no doubt the Thanks
Of ' that House
would ' be moved. ' He shonld,
hOWever, give this early notice, that he would op-,
Toaesneti a motion ,whenevereit would "be made.—
The Noble Earl then insisted on, the advantages
that Might have been derived to the common cause,.
by sending thelarge force, which appeared to have
been in the poster of Ministers to celled, either to'
Me Adriatie-or to the North of Germany e if to the
former, it Might assist Austria either on the side of
Italfor Vienna. It might hive drawn away a part
of Buonaparte's army . at a most critical moment,
and even endangered i he. safety Of the whole of his
army. If employed. on the. Enss and the'Weser, it
'might there also have prodUced the most beneficial
effeds. It would have found to co-operate witluit,
not an undisciplined rabble, but a numerous band of
disciplined veterans, animated with the. best dispo-
sition, and fired with the fiercest hatred against the
oppression of the .French. But all these Opp-is-twill ies
were negleqed, and the neglect is justified by 1 he most
enSatiSfedory reasons. They could not pay an army
•i is the notch of Germany.,The expellee of conveying
troops to the Mediterranean, or the Adriatic, Would
have bean enormous. Yet have not Ministers in-
curred sinoimous expenCe in sendirig this devoted
artily:to-purchase discomfiture arid clisgracejn Wals
clieren, and, to perish' ingloriously in the.pestilential
Swamps of that Island ) Instead of defending such
unwarrantable measures they endeavour to censure
,the conchs& of a for Mer Administration, thus re-
sorting 16 the pitiful shift of endeavouring to, di-
vert the censure.of the country from their own con-
duet, and fixing it on that of their opponents. But
this sort of diversion 'will, not avail them. It will
not divert the rage and indignation of the rela-
tives
of those brevet-nen whom they have so wan-
tonly consigned to a premature and inglorious grave.
It will not rescue them from the contempt and exe-
cration of the country whose interests they have be-
trayed, whose resources they have shamefully squan-
dered, whose character they have watitonly:exposed,
whose honour they have indelibly tarnished ; surely
no. Amendment could be thought too severe, that
went to censure such conduct, and visit it with A
punishment that would effectually prevent the re•
currence of such abuses for the future. The Athend-
ment moved by his Hon. Friend 'had that objeEt
in view, and as such it had his must cordial support.
Lard SIDMOUTII explained:

. The:Earl of LIVERPOOL rose in reply to Lords
Grey and Grenvill!, .in an able speech,_ went
through and answered the topics ot these N ble
Lo'ftls, but the want of room compels us reluttantly
to abridge his speech. He observed, that the amend-
, Merit .was unprecedentedin Parliamentary history.---•
I: first went to condemn c rtaitr measures, and after-
Wards requested a,i inquiry into them It was com-
pletely the judgment of RhadamanthuS, audit cas-
tigat quo; by which the Elduse might, 'if they
adopied it, reduce themselves to this situation, that
they might first condemn Administration, and,
upon investigation, might turn out- that there
was no cause off blame. He next adverted to the
operations of our army in Portugal and Sixth.),
and insisted that they had been most beneficial
for, the interest *of this country, and whenever
the details came to .be inquired into, he 'pledged
himself to prove that *the conduct ,of our -General.
and army had been most wise and. beneficial. He
instanced as a, proof that the provinces. of „Estrema-
dUra, Gallicia and Asturias, had been completely
Cleared of the French frees, and.. although it It as
true that they had by sum' ise defeated ,two Spanish
armies, yet they had not been able to gather any
fruit front *their victories, for they had not advanced
a single Step: With respect to
,the Expedition to
Walcheren, his Lordship 'admitted .that the Mini.
. stets kuew.of the Austrian armistice before it sailed;
but he was ready to contend that it nevertheless
operated as a fayourahle diver-Sion for Austria. But
it was not Merely with that view. that
.it was under-
taken. Ile had' also other objects .which we:c
Wholly British. It was known to be 'a favourite
tneaitare of cur enemy to torm.a naval arsenal avid
dock at.the mouth of the Schelilt,, and it. hathiNen
always admitted by professional men, that it an u
vasion or thiOurrery' were CVel: to be attempted, it
cold never be effected but :r(;,11 Scheldt. „It was
therefore an nbjr4 of importance,fo dtte3i the views
of otir destroying* that• poi hich be
had wilh
ll so much industry, and at such great ex-
pence been preparilt.- 'And in this objeCi, we, at
least, had succeeded ; for, in the opinion Of proies-
sional men, it. wonld-re-qUire much less time and ex=
pence to form anew 'harboor and arsenal than to re-
store the one which we had destroyed at Flushing.
Nor was this the only objeel it. had erfeeled. It bad
H-been serviceabl-.! to Austria, for it had diverted a
large body Of conkriprs which were intended to have
aeled against-her. And thiS .he knew, it was the
desire of Austria that we should retain Walct:eren
until she had made terms of peace, 2nd bad and
hard as those terms were for her,'Whocver compared
-the threats of Buonaparte with the terins which he
afte'rl/4%ardsltanted, vnust admit;. that,some 'cause re-
duced iim to the necessity of relaxing from his t eat-
'acted scver.ty, , His Lordship declared, in his opinion
it way occ:i,ioned by our holding Walcherepi and, in,
, tict, that was the reaion why -we held it after the
_ulterior ob;(cts of the Expedition were known to be
dere.„ited, and at the.relnest` of Austria. His Lord-
ship concity,led by supporting the, Address.,• •
L9rdCAiti!Sk'OUT spoke in favour of the Amend-
ment, atter which the Hutt* divided.
For the Amendment - - - - 55
Proxies - - --- - 37
r For the Original Address - 92
Proxies
r. 44
Majority in fa4our ot the Address' - -5/.
The lionse adjourned at Halt past Three this
.Adorning..'

HOUSE OF COMMOVS;

TUESDAY, JAN- 23.

The SPEAKER carne .to. the Housc A- three o'clock,
and at 1131 t-post three the Deputy Usher ot the Black
Rod summoned the .House to the House of Peers to
hear the King's Sper.ch:
The SrBAKEtt, on his return acquainted the House,
that in pursuance of the Act of the 24th of George
the Third he had issued New Writs for the follow-
ing places :
Borough of Pembroke, in the room of john OWen, E sq,
County of SutherlanLd, in the room of Randal M`Kan-
zie, Esq.'
Itoss.shire, in the room of Lieut.-Gen. Thomas Frazer
M'Kenzie.
Shire of Buckingham, in the room of the Marquis of Titch.
field, now Duke of Portland.

Cimpty of Essex, in the room of john Bullock, Esq.
The customary Bills were then read a first time,
pro forma. 'W us were issued for the following
places :

• BorOugh of Buckingham, in the room of the. Right Hon.
thoinaii Grenville, wit() Has ampted,the Chiltern Hundreds.
Camelfurd,•in the room of Lord Henry Petty, removed to
the Upper House as Nlarquis of Lansdown.
County. Of lout 14- in I rekand,,in the room of Mr. Jose& yn.
Tiverton, in Devonshire, in the room of-the Right Hon.
Ricliard lqder

Queen's County, in, the room of the Right got . William
Wellesley Pole. ' • '
Newport, in the.roorn.of Lord Palmerston.
tiossiney, in the room of the Right llonourphle the Earl of
D)

'Cockermonth. in theroom of the Right Hon. William Vis-
count .I..Owther. . •

Scarborough,, in the, room of Charles Manners Sutton,. Esq.
lYtincicli,in the room of Snowden Bartle, ESq.
Tones, in Ireland, in the roomof WITI. Fitzgerald, Esq.
Lmierick, in the room of Colonel Vereker.
Shire of liclinbur!zh, in the room of Robert pandas. Esq.
Malmesbury, Lhe romn of Sir Georo Bower, Bart,

The'SPEAkEit- inf wined
.the Members, that the
Commons hail attended the .House of Peers, by-
desire (Attie Lords Commissioners, where.the Lord
Chancellor had reAd a Speech to both Houses, and
to prevent mistakes, he had procured a copy. [He
then rend the Siiee li, for a copy of which see the
House of Lards
Lord Big's: A RD moved Addresa, which Was as
usual an echo of the-Speech.

Mr. PEEL, in rising to second
,the Address., made
avery ableand eloquent speal, of which we.lament
that, on account
.of the length Of the debate in both
Houses,. we must give a very brief report. After ob-
serving, that it was some consolation that Austria
Was aot brought into difficulties awd disasters by the
instigation of this country, he took a, view of the po-
licy of our interference,which he justified upon every
ground of reason and hitmanity.He then vindicated
the expedition 16 Waleheren, as one of the most
promising diversions. in ;favour of Austria, in opposi-
tion to the opinion of those who thought the means
should have been directed to another quartei, or that.
We should• have augmented, our army in Spain.=--
He adverted to the condutl of America, and the
situation of Holland, and after discussing many im-
portant topics, concluded. one of the 'ablest speehes
we ever heard.

-Earl Go*En -rose to pre.poqe an, Amendment to
the Address. 'The Noble 'Earl went over the
,cit-

cumstances of the campaigns in Spain and, Wald
terii,, and particularly criwinateAl IVEnisters for ill
expedition to the latter place, the unhealthy gt 3.•
of -which was notetious.-7-Pre other eircurmiaat
to which .be had albHed was, that_ iii_the..cattO
lion Made,betWeen ihe Dutch an Swiss-trnop's,
was One. of the stiAlotions,' that the Swiis rrao'
should uot_ be compelled to serve itt Z,-alpnd in ill
particular Sy'aVll: when the cl:Tulte was `the mr.'
unhealthy. The ,-Nobl?, Earl having stated tO
much, 'observer!, that he should abstain from me •
any ether ttipics of• tniscoduet,
font should lea
theM to 'be discussed
-by abler persons, and woll
'
propose the Amend.hem, whichbe substance,
by. moving, thst after the word " that," in the cri'
nal Address, it should run thus
Wv4eve seen with the utmost sorrow and'irr
,dignation the scent-notated, failitres, and disasief
which hare-itten,led rilans of the, Government;
the unnecessary wasted the uational resonrcei; 3114
the loss cf -thousands of sonrbrave,troops; thm Ole
distinguished valour ;pad skill of our arrnr has beetsempl9yed in enter rises which hay?ye-rot Itcnnlpro'
dut•.tive of advantaes to the country', but of. lastiN
injuries ; that the conduti of the 'Government had
been nothing less glair a Jcpetitionof,rotrner,:eirorst
ank in short, exposing' his v's C6uticilsho
the storn ands, derision of .thewol-1(: : that,, unEler,
these eircumstanc& it became the bounde.o,o,lv
io do instic to a l inytted.pcfr
ple, •to'institute such cife:Ol:d tag
the 11:s I`,,:ojcsty's
should becommensurate with the ncensi&l
piped the country in a unexaNple44'
lamit yanddisgrace."
Mr. WA s, condeci the Amendrrtrnt. The ft op
Gentleman (-)nsidere,l tI (1,,,,,`t ion not. only Ot.itr,
portance as it revarded the ;ent-.21-.!1 iT,Terrsts ot'the
country; but as it wools! lord tothe It clr,tn"1 .
questions a should tend on any public occmippoto
the inismrtH.l,,,ement.of Our pobiic anktlie
ptisittee, of our armies.:lt was ki11:0,1117e to Jet surit
an Address as that moved by the Noble Lord
.p 355
over without becan,;f, toe
- ther expres:ed resen.m!nt for the past, ,nor amxie,ti
for the future, it would in eiTe& induce other G.O"
•%;e'rumehts to treid in the same .steps. laninortiot
like the preSent,Of great public ,ii-tress, for such, it
had been adcrloWle4.ed bylki inisters, it was highly es'
i.-pedie it to take notice of-condot.c.l which ityVolvedt!!6
-well7doing^of the State.,l-lopei?ss indeed would he the
task for him if he did not as new, for he must ‘have
determined to resign to any set of men; and to give u
that contrail which the Constitution gave to Parla..
nient over the Servants of the Crown; In the first
place, be- was prepared to contend, that the mag;,li'
t their Inilures fornished a strong pri»th.irje
case of their incapLicity, not only in the,Conipn'SltTho
of their plans, bet in the execution of theta ;
this he • might ills cafe ti'y numberless hist inc.;-.5.
Within, the last few months they had failed sti "no
less thaw three.Of their untetp-rizes'; that, in .s1),O,
,
every thing had failed 'which they bad undertalf4n,
except the attack-I.lobn tOPe
sore was not an expeoition ag.linst the cO6iti-i'on
enemy, unit against but-ally, and that 'perhaps :Ail;
the reason- why it succeeded.' :The country liad,
• ef0.4..
perienced diScord at "botnea w s cell as diS;-:raceibroid,
and yet Parliament, Were requestd 'to inter In ul.l'4llch
condnet that wisdom was tn i-ound in the Gor.o:i_n-'
rnent. The ,f ion.. Gentle lan a'dvet'ted
Ex >edition in•xthich -our Art-ny,'he conten'tlet,,,
destined to erie,,e with di;:.,•;‘-: at I;Valcheien..\'''vith
respe& to the bat,h.s`of rintr,wera ,-.•nd tie'l)ouro,
was: d isposea- o admit tint t e, fieri":4-ed
'greater 'defeats t`, an f:iny other troops i,i tit
viorld, but eVen tho,e great as they wee:.,
had not"nrodhoed any benetits ; and if, on, the con-
trary, Our, armies bad, been defeitti, what would
have been the consequence ? Gentle..
man was of opinion that the only exeme which
Ministers could Offer for this 'second campaioi iii
Spain was, that something it-lost be done to atnne
• the-public mind. He insisted that ,the
North of
Germany was the shot' at which our forces should
WaVe been coneetured, wits,, any real benefits to the
objen of the war ;" that the general' conduit of tit&
Giivernment,', in: the prokecotton of it, bad tended to
make this country the laup:hing-gtocii at the world,
and concluded us ith •dx"pressikg his hopes that that
House would.sopport the Amendnient.
,Mr. lihsEit'r could not aflree with the Amend-
ment, because it went to criminate Ministers woh-
ourinquir.y.
, _

Sir THomA§ TunTori'Was disposed to patine before
he atreed-to the Address-.:. Fie was -bound to tell
the people of
_England thitt't he character of ;lit coun-
try liad been;degraded by.i.clinisters,aA maintained
th4t inqUiry was necessary:
Lord KENsugo-t'oN considered unanimity-desira-
bte, yet could not support Ole-Address nor the
Amendment. The latter plkiged the tiouse to cri-
minate Mipliters, when the'ntieessary docurneuts ort
whiCh to ground that 'conclusion were not ht-fore

• Mr. LAMES supported the hatenclan.'nt, and *as
of opinion that the •eardiness in executing the platui
was suffic;ent.ground of criminal ion.
•
Mr. 'LItiIi!NOTON nat :impute blame- to
Ministers for tUe expt:cliiion nto :Copenha4e and.
Spain ; toe fulor;!' the last-i'listance wits ::-gcrinable
alone• to the coudoct of t'b Ezxecutive Orlictrs in
Spain.- • He %%7'116 not without• hopes th.lt the clufind
of Governfilent would re-zfianfinte the people of that
dountry. - He depri!er•.!e'cl. la:1v tatltivc4
at .ther prest mou,elli; and reeonnnended t.-0 ttionty
in supporturg hi,.Majc.sty. • • •'•
Mr. BATfiu INT Chleßded' I !)o cOndtlist of Sir Jobn
Moore. Without entfring • iwo an oorninatidt: of
the whole a the- (.I;s:isati.s 'the
Country, he was of opirtj.iin- they were unconnect-
ed with the Address, and should theiefore vote
fur it.

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derstood the ..AinenL;ment.• It did not go to crirri:,'
nate any particular ponon without Clue inquiry being
previously wade, hut it expressed the deep concern
and indignation they it;lt at the disgrace that had
fallen on his Ali,jety.'B Counsels, anci the disaster* to
which those Counsels triad -exp6std our brave artni.,:s,
and to declare ti,eir rtso;utionof ma'.;ing a rigorous
inquiry in;o Vie causes (f such 1,n,e3-;,upled'calami-
ties and disgrace. Wuull thu Hon. c;entleman say
those that tiffs ;race were not unexam-
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!le, sympethising in that' feeling, viewed them' tvith I Mr:BATHURST 'explained. - other object in view.—Flushing was. no. an cbject . might be said by others, nothing allonllindeee hint'
, • .
of sufficient magnitude to call for such art
.exertien. '-to break the resolution he had formed Of never Spealt-
')rft ?--,lf, nofWithZtanding the-calamities arc' dis- tord CAST4SIMAGtt felt it to be his duty to jus-
.... . • . .
giaces eve suffered, 'oar counsels feid been di- tify the line of conduct.that had. been puraued, and It was intended to so-Ike a blow at the naval power mg on the' subject. •- ' • ' ;'' ' l -'• •
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tc,ed by wisdom, then it became necessary' to, le- he assured the
,Hon- Gent. who seoke lash - that of France, and • this
_Was an ohject or., the greatest Mr. WMTBREAD eXpressed the eisoppoin,ment
quire into the aonduet,of the of-ficerseo whom- the tht:re, was, no part of,. his coeduet.which he, shoals! ' iMpiattance. - .If' it 'Wastrue that. Buena-pate, would .whicb he f it, that•the Right Hon: 'Gentie,,,,a<l had
')lntriaritl. t;f our'expeitiorta had been entausted, for not have an opportunity of knowing. •He wwild ' twver he induced to ls3seSight of toe objects he might not more fay explained the reason of, his ellowirg '
'Li/as scarcely possible to suppose that if neither the never ask indulgence, but he would claim Jtv,tit!e:— be irrirtdiatelY 'in pursuit of, whatever „efforts his Colteague. to remaje so. tong in his, taledas ys.
Councils; he himself contirining also a. Member of
wlinisterg, who plannad, nor. the Officers who had He did not complain of.the Honourable Gentleman ; might be: made to. call off his 'attention, then ,it
e those Councils, and.coticeivingsatat Colleagueunfit .
enihmandecl were to blame, that such evils could ; his conduct, was perfedly coasistente thinking is he must be :obvious that it would Wire been equally
of for the which he. occupied. He trosted
1.111 on us Justly fo aripreeiate the disappoint- . did ; but he thought,' thorigh .an 'enquiry' ought to -Us less to have sent • them to the North;
wotild be made a Substantive it;quiry in • •
41euts that had befallen us, it would beenecessary. to .be made into the ground!' on , which Government Germany or to Spain, and in
,that case. it.. should ate- that *hi,.
to. the Expedition to the Scheldt,
'tlite a' view of the stare in which Europe was placed , had aded, it wt's not, right to . condemn them on peatethat the best diversion it was possible to make, ; • that Home, As
, • . • respeeatitig whieli the Right Hdne Gentleman., had
. 'it the corrimencernent of the late cattpaign. When the prima facie evidence of. which. lie was possess- • was (as -a great man once 'observed), to keepayour
batd.
in so fleerely, o far was it from having': Sue-
s
tart gallant but 'much traduced officer Sir 'J. Moore . ed. ' He did. not hesitate to Fay that a marked lin- armies at hOme, tlia the enemy may be in constant telhe•
tall in the tittle of- Corunna, which he thought to •.proventent had taken ..plat 'e in -.the Devil and mill; appreliensiona-Voin not knowing where
.the danger ! ceeded
'lre full as glorious as that of Talavera, Austria inedi- tart': resources of the county„ since the Administrae -is likely to approaeh• . Had; the übjeQ of, the Expe- ; Banks or withstre wing any French troops from the
the Panuhe, that Buonaparte did nOeeeea
condeseend to' tool at it: Tine m•ghtv lion that we
'ated a. blow against France. 'On the 27th of tion to which he It 4 had tie honour to belong had dition•been-fully aecomplishedo it, would have pro- 1.
.
,had attacked had thirown us off with' one sweep of
jaguar BuonaParte-• left. 'Spain, in 'consequence of • beer in office. .He then spoke- of the security af- ' &iced etfe&s the most important. The asubjeects
e that
i - .
ire warlike ' arlike appearance'
.of Austria. 'Austria's in- ford•ed. to't he country by, the expedition to Copenba- ' of
;Buonaparte would there have found, that •while his tail. kre called -upon' tile Right Hon. , Gentleman
taittion must at that time have been known .to gel,, the destrudioo of the French •fieet at. Rooties. o.lie was "delighting, them with aecOunts. of con-
oppesite. (the -Chancellor of the Excheq.oer) to de-
ji, elate what Were his intentions. twit'' i'e3ped to the
l.e - ,
i`siinisters. It ' was for them to 'consider' how :
_fort, anal the weakening (fit least for a time) of the quests abroad,.
.they. Were riot secure orom in-
best to eaerr the strength of this country in the Cause, French force; byTthe co-operation of Spain: The; vision at• home.' . .At that titre a disposition condoet ;which he should pursue. /To ti
laiddely to-weigh in what manner it should be ap-, military efforts we had made within that period : had manifested itself, ,in that part- 'of . his domis Right Horse Gentleman's mothers tongue.; there
,were
Plied. When Buoneparte quitted Spain, it was,: were great, and if utstortunate, they had. still con-. . nions,to shake of the yoke his tyranny and usnr- V manyindiaments kaidagainat him, and meneecoaots
be • taken: into in tho,se• indi,l":lMents' to kviliesh he had to plead, and
; . Palaittly his oplOion that _war between France ' and i ttibuted to the honour and • security .of the'Coentry. patibn had : inaposed. It should'
o yet he ;-hed hitherto rearained peraersely, silentha--•
alustria was inevitable, as it has ever been his prat- Tole summary
.mrete adopted by Atte .Hen. Gent. of, 1., consideration lii).w fet it rnght be politic to encon-
`' There were many eircures'aisc'ea, .nesides the „dis-
..
lice to go in person against the most forniidahle ti'De-. :ft-x-I'4*(6g his conclusion before he possessed that in- 1 rage such a feeling, by making an effort in their nes.
.graceful. 'Expeciitien to the Scheldt, ,for, wlilleil that
'lilies and not to trust the conduct of the most 'Un-' i formation, whichealone could enable him to form a half, more especially'
_as it was believed a:military
Portant part of the campaign-tO lii Generals, h°wqa 1 .rhaht jUdgtattanta la:: thought inconsistent with the force from this country would not have been receiv- a Right Hon,- Gentleman was 'cleeely tesponelblea--
vet- able they: might be. Government • must, there- 1 . dignity of the House- The principles on wlich the
.ed, with, genera." hostility. It, w,0,.. perhaps, .hardly i. The first` ves tee delay, 'at sucli a critical periA, in .
forel have possessed at least an - imperfect knova- i• cameaign jp.. Spain, es he called it, or more prOpetiy
.possiple so tO commit ourselves, . that in .no case la the aaseMbliOg of Parliament. The next resPeded ,
- 'edge of Ole- elOw 'meditated by.' Austria, .and, !. speaking, in POrtegal, had-been coadueteel, wheater ,we could separate ourselves from those we wish-,, i. America; : anal here he co.L.l.dn<lt leln expressitig his .•
'ltnowine• that, the cause of Austria: and' of Eta;;- a, good or_ bad, were widely different to thOse Whinh re- 'ed to serve, and provide' for our own safety.—el, surprise, that- the.. Right 'Hon. Gentlethan-Wlichhad
land •.bfcame • ()race; and -it then behoved, Mi- 1 ;gtltated the , operations; of the former campaign.— i It would therefore be e cruel to excite ,an
.in- I last spoken; had abstained: from exelai ang .i7:l in - ,
1- the last Session he had withheldefrom the house a
Dist(l-s to con^le how far we could aid the i The army enirustedeto Lord Wellington.: had been i sarrection, 'Unless we had the most ample means
Odocemente :which went to the complete islet fieatten
commoh cause. In Apail, Lord Wellington' was I committed: to his direction, aud he thought Lord of insuring success- to those , who entered. into
ielit to Spam with a large expedition. Ott ihs 20th i -Wellingonein,advancing as he did, had acted aer- . our.. views e but . when insuarection,.. and discon-, of our late Minister in that country. Heesais e.,:?..cl •
and the Ito hear). by a-passage in hiS Majesta's peest telt
of that month, the Austrian arm baying in"ct,ed .
.fectle right. -The Hon. Gentleman had: thought no •, tent hid already made their appearance,
.. i-- --. •-e- , '
16avaria; was defeated by Boonap-t, - ,Virile ,theSe 1 •atteotiou had been paid to the army in Portugal for ' struggle
.Was about to be made vvitheut, yoer aid, I- Our affitirs with America. were in al traitt ot ac...:orn-
I modation ; but the Right I-1(m. Gentleman OPeseille.
lours:el:lnt event were pasing, 'what was the situa- i some time 5 but within' the period to: which he al-
.tlyen to assist and. enable die oppressed more effect-
is. deeply responsible fee ,the tafainess with Whi(.ll I -
tion of 'Ministers ? In that very month; one of : luded, two corps under Gets. Sherbrook and, Hill,
.ually, tostruggle against . tyranny was worthy a na-
cur Cabinet ' Ministers was endeaVOUritlg to get ' :111d been_ sent to strengthen it. .Instead of Lord tion-like Britain. . this was done in §pain.. In the, 1 that arrangement had been entered int,. He hal
"another removed • from the War Department, be- Wellington's hating 38,000. mete with him at the l North -of Germany, it was true,, there were. some
‘; also toi ask the Right Hon. Gentieesen of whom the
'cause he way 'incompetent to the discharge of: the aime the Hen. Gent. had stated Iris army to have • -insurreaions, but they were huh partial. To send an ! 1
i existing Government were COMpnvd, for of that he
duties of his situation. Instead of being united at ! cousiaiecl of that thrasher, he. ihad not snore • than army would have been most unjustifi.thle, unless such.
I was ignerant, -esseept as far as the writs %eh:clashed
llonte; ,such was die 'want of union in the "British I 2b,000. It was, riot well tarup down the character aforce could be sent as we furnished in the 30 years •T that day been moved illustrative of uhe subjeas A
Cabityet, that those who eomposed it were labouring I saf, a 'gallant Officer by such misrepresentations.-- war, which was almost a nation living ,wit.hin a. !la' i .Right Hon. Gentleman had obje•led tathe amend-
t° dl's lace each other: This • was but 'an un- I At pe time, he fought the
.battle of Talavera the
.tioo. But bad we been able' to do so, that
_force i anent, -because he asserted that it condenaned with.
Plotoisina outset. FlOm the 20th of April, the dhy I force ;with hithainounled to not more than 20;000 I must have been entirely detached from. our service 1-out inquiry. • fit did not do so. jJ-1 conjure t loos,
'3ll whicu the Austrians :were first defeated,, tilletliee "Men ; and to tarniSh.the splendour of That action by for .so coosiderable a period, that it would almost .who wished for substantial. justice to• vote for the
21st of May, - when ' the battle of Essling %, as 1 ,gaming a mote 61000 ,VlCtory Was ever gained, was hate been entirety alienated from us. And• if we l amendment.' 'Against Ministers there :appeared a
'l'nglvt, 'nothing waid (P
as done on our part tti ar to sacrifice olt at lettal glory for. the sake of party.had
been resolved on . sending an army there,we court I :
p? ancifacie so strung, that he was prepared to Stole
Allies. Lord Wellingten 1)11:1' in Spain 0,000 men , ! bit been Aied, why the army of Sir John Moore 1 aave,
agony done -so, or after stimulating. them to rise- t
against their &it-I-limiting resolutions. The events
4,0,000 were afterwards sent to. the Scheldt ; and Sit ~-,,vas not eniiiloyed iennedietely, on .their return 00 less „exertions, abaudon them to and de- l . wof the ar in Austria e- had unfiunately jUstitied iris'- ..
John Stuart; in Italy, .was at' the heed of an army of i that. service? ~ It had.- been said they 'were ready; spair.. It appeared to his Majesty's 'sit misters to = predictions. Great Britain, however, ba'6ng , en-
.l6,o6b.men. These together amounted to nearly and could have beenembarkediintnediately ; but by be abettet and 'amore generous hoe of..condu6l,lo
gaged .tp-snppart Austria in the crisis of her tine,
0,000 men, and, war resources `.ere -sufficiently the aimea he regituen s had 'been recruited and were • take,sech e part, as would probably
.divert the atten- • the delay Which had taken place in the affiarding....of
treat to. enable Us to theui to 100,000. -reported. fit f •.r. service, the ExpeditiOn to Pottugal titan ofifuauaparte in some degree- from out Allies; that assistance was- ighly criminal, especi.illy when'
-I'ne Austrian army, which-gave Buenaparte the only I had reached its destination, a, it Was not till the while we oply committed ourselves. This was the it was considefed that- fhb trial of iselonnet, the Goy
check-of coetseOuence he liras' ever exi.erienced, ac- 1 10th.of. June that they
.veete reported to. he fit for line of cenaluCt England ever had pursued since the vernor of Flushing, proved that the attack upon .
cording to the statement the Arehduke Charles, I service. The delay complained of in transporting -Revolution broke out, and w
, e began to take so . that place was anticipated by theeetemy so.long.ago
aallounted to do more than on 75,e_Ornetoand according- the cavalry it was inipossible to aviid, as, thoogii the great an interest ie the affaira of the Continent. jas the 22d of April. .He reprobated that .paregrapit
•to the French accouut the not exceed 90,000- If, transports were ordered ;rum Portugal in May; they. —Whare a. nation has been anxious .to burst in' the
,Speech which Mentioned the destrnetiee of -
then; ,our • forces had been .properly ccanbined, we dideret.airive till the 12th of Jely, atterrhe infan- the chairs of tyranny, England has tendered the Bason •of 'Flushing as onieohjeCt thatsf•ad he.-1-t
'night have brOught into the field a l'lrger and al),-;t- I try were .ernbai lied. • Here a new position wag as- . her assistance .; but where it was obvious every gained'by the. Bxpeditiori. This was to expose us
terarmy than that which defeated Bucinaparte. As to t. smiled, that. the; force thus collected could he em- exertion Must,
,prove uro_tse than.. nugatory, she , to the ridicule of Europe. The dcstruflion.of -Flush-
the Expotittion to the Scheidt,' did the Hon. Gentle- I ployed in., Continental opetations, or in. a coil Pde has cociscic otiously 2vOicledltl.ring a feeble power to . ing waS a moat unimportant objea andahe moment
aoan mean to deny the tosses, the disgrace, and the i main. Great. as our resources-. were, there were provoke the anger of a stronger, and an unavailing that the Commander of the Expedition had reported
Anisconduet which attended the schole of the pro, i -limits beyoud.whichahey could net be strained: It struggle foollberty. Austria determined on making i that the main:obiea of it could not have• ..beett <te-
eeedings,.as well before as after the 'capture of \Val,: I was impossible to - transport them to the North of another erskrt for her independence withoet the ad- complished, the troops: Ought'fMrnedi.ately 'to. stave
delleren-) Hid MiniSters, he 'would 'ask the H0n...1 Germany or to. Spain, -.and had it been possible, still vice of this Government; instead of being advised ' been ordered -borne:;
,but lie Presuinf;sl. that•,all:
Gentleman, displayedrnuch wiadoin in the choiceof I would it- have .heet4;.io ;a military.- point of-vieW, hoe . to, enter the lists: with _ France, the. counsel given the •'miseliet. had' baen •dOnsa while ;She :Right
" COMtnander ? ,Had theY chosen a General, whose I' proper, freest the. bitnatio.n and disposition of the. rather of a contr try, nature, .as it suggested the pro- Honourable Gentletilan Opphaite .was runningaahout
'mole' from hia. termer exploits would strike terror'` neighbo,*ng Powers. • . Antwerp. 'vas an objet of prielysof recernsiderjsig ehe subject. When. war , askiLv:
~r who Wanted a Secretaryship of State .or a
into the .enetity-aa General to whom. the soldiers 1 great polo teas imeertaece, and a descent on it. Was was declared, .we.ru...h4 to assist her. its the .struge Presidency of a Boatd ''oT Controa. ' Alluding to
• Could look 'up with' &rnfidettc-, fr,,to fits past' snc- 1, more likely tot ill forth Buotiaparte's attention than gle,, and, when. Vanquisho,- she was -•compelled . ethe battle ;if TalaVera, 'he contended that ',t , eves a
ess ?—No, an ''loos 'riot's Ciammauder was ap- l an attack on ,ally other place._ It is
his Practice to to make peace ; she, withdrew from the cots- :
viCtory arty in nanie, and ' that 011 V repueteens ,Mr
Pointed;•one whose name, as a- Military officer, was I slight' those distant diversions diversions
.that may be wade, test. tuneproeched, hy England.
~He . did. net think courage aims not-at so low an,elib as to rc.,I,J it lie-
scarcely known, and on' Whoa for NV;lnt of I aleot, bad. .• and steadfastly pursue his 'olio object ;. but thus • Austria thought 44giati(I had_done nothing for her. :
been set aside by Eris own brotheraWerentMinsters attacked in\ a vital paint, it • was.
,reasonable to. .He believed..her grateful, for. the support she had re- cessary for- us to allow thousands 'of Ottr brave sol-
i , diem to be cut to pieces, Metelyetb;tatiew that Great
culpable •i a aplsointi ng such arS officerto the cornmind expect that it . would operate powerfully in favour of . ceived. Tire Hoe. Geetleman who had made so :Britain prodliced them. Tiae•Glacliatorial speCiaeles
of so immense an Expedition ?• This armament was I out allies.. He was ready to state why ‘lie thought promising a • speech, indeed had drawn, partly frotn lof Maida and Comma were-of this deacripteui He
fitted out to make a.diversien in fae.our of our allies, 1 auccess -probable, and likely to be attended with local knowledge,, a sort of picture of Spain, frotn, ;
.entered ' into. a
.detail of Lord Wellititoo'e -Move-
' Move-
Yet it did not sail frorn'our ports till some days after 1 little risk- ,He was not. ignorant of- the nature of which it appearel that an indisposition existed on tire • i meats. in Spain, . and contended,- that had trot -the'
. - ''t was known that they had lost the bittleOf WI Jm ae' the,pature .of the climate at that season of the' part afire constituted authorities in Spain to give the French attact ed hint at tdavera; the. ch.”,l l'lOHri-' of
,-. • a disas!er .which they could not retrieve. On the' year, but it Was not ithenciedahat the army should, people. F an • interest •in the s'ruggle. It had .been . i his army would have been. inevitable. The inten-.
• • 1011161 July
o,
the Expedition sailed. Op the loth of be locked up there for such, a length of time. w said hy net endeavour to effect a change inter-
tion
.of Government. to defend Parte as gal• w - roqy
. August - letushin- was taken, and on the.l6th of It. was a coup ,de. main against the naval power -,a11y,.?W , Any Couditioo - almost might be coupled '1
sublimed into .madnesse The delay ha Lord el-
%member, Lord Chatham returned, have* prevle. of rite:: enemy that, was intended, and not the' with. assistance, almost with, less danger thin an
! lesley'a visit. to Speite.was• a Stlc*idui ciiTtirii,latiee,
i and would. probably,. -on. inauiry, he attribui ;:)...)'.i to '
()tasty given it as his opinion that to aceomplish ehe. capture of Walcheren .1101te , it was there- attempt. at internal aruclioration. Before you con-
"hjects of the Expedition was impossible. Two days fore . expected that the army would •be ern- .fera-bereerit, you cannutgo with rite
.. Boron hi titre tlie intrigues of The -Right hlon. Gantlemaii °epos
alter iris return, though the plan was abandOhedeen cloyed in . a..dry country .' between -Walcherett hand and a sword in the other, to change the habits :
, site., It was strange, that so soon 2t ter the Noble
the 'lB,h, an order ail:eared in the Gazatte for and BergensepsZOom. The melancholy accounts and religion of ;host you would aid. • Such atternet , Lord had toasted the .he ilth'of the • Fofie. in Siilin, - -
. ; l'cry officer belonging:to the army at Walclieeen to that haelabsa• n Circulated of the state of ' the-troops. . never fails to _excite a jealousy not easily allayed. Ihe should flee himself into the arms 'of Ilia 1-lelie
join his regirneut immediately, as if the biterior were • greatly exaggerated,,' and though our loss He was nos nice. in . the means he made uae- ot to -.
ness's implacable . foe. WWI resPeii to the oth'er ..
°S:leCts of the. Expedition were' still to be p'Oraued, I appeared great, to us, compared with .the losses t. thwart the views of Buonaparte. Ha would gladly ; new Metnbers.Of Administration, it was no anree-
Did the Hon., Gentleolan know how long the Island,. I of France
~in all her wars, it was. but aria press,a combination of all nations; and of all reli- •
' sonable supposition that the •Right Hon.eGentlernali ;
of VV-alclieten had been retained', . after the attempt fling.
~.No object of magnitude was' expected' gions into a , phelane, to oppose • bins. H- would . had resorted to his favourite expedient of ballot' in
' nn Antwerp was given up ? Did he know 'ilestit was to oppose our retaining Wacheren. ' It had never unite with the Turk without redlining him to lay , their aparohittnent. .. The two Noble Lords'to evliona
' . not evacuated till licerather ? That our tirtny had ~ been considered as an. axiom, that the risk attend= aside his tarbane, and_ he would March to the field
that
.Right Hon. Gentleman, had applied so soon of-1
• been kept there three "months ? and how were they ' ing the keeping. possession of that isle's & should ' with the peer bigptted Spaniard, without first insest- l ter haying boasted
.that he had get-the lot of 'office
- • erniduech? why.in perishing and wasting dailYawaY• ' deter us front tekingit,.., We held it 3i years during ing on his diverting himself ef supersiition. He Is by his cry of no Popery, returned Itinr-an answeru
"'td our army deserved this ; Was' it well. that our " theaflarrid Treaty, . and have since hid it in our • would let every men tight in.his own way. Some- , which became, the dignity' f their chataaera., The
gallant troops were thus dhomed to death in that pes- i posseesion. He was not furnished with materials to were of openue !been° aria should have [eaten grant- , Right Hon: Gentleman had-then- gone-ao the high-
' ' tilential island ? ought not 'the causes of such distresa I speak on the whole of the question. .He, however, ed till the Cortes were convoyed:, But he should be , ways ,and hedees• to ,fill hia -placea`; • the 'consee i
4ing.Calamittes to be (elle and rigorOuslyinvestigated? it the Officers employed' shOuld appear to have doge very. starry to have. to answer for such coziduct, as it
• l : quenee was, that the, Government were destitute of.
-laere was hardly a, Maniiiathecotintry,who was not their duty, would ever be ready to hold them abOve would hate been a sure-way of creating _intestine di- ,
l power and respeattbilitY. It was the duty of all
'?"%I.JUS, that an inquiry into these circumstances , that veigir eehnamy by which the would probably visions, as the clashing interests of the "4evt=ral pro- ,! honest men to combine to overturn them, 'and *ld;
`oohould be forthwith insinuted, and` ie trusted that 'be assailed. For his own. part he was ready, 'nay,- winces m;ght brie; prodhced the Most fetal• cense- 'l aliew that .Court. fevoue alone, wiihout the wools
''..°use would echo the voice i 1 t' ' le and ins anxitsus, to meet the fullest_ inquiry- inio his Condoct-, • quelnces. Thus at the.. Castiliao Cortes being-asaem-
, 1 the peop , &rice of the p-- ' "r' • i ' '
mph, was. It:St:Li:WWI-it or tee silo-
east. upon stick an inquiry beinge made without delay. and he-trosied they would. do him the justice to bled, Betoseparte, by,c.tllin the Arragonese against .. *
NY, . I''A - ' - - ' Ad ' ft se
. , Ith respect 10 , the afi,iirs ot Spaio, Ministers had own that, lie. had neaer shrunk front, .but; on thei i thesis, . iniahe ha ye ~Oivided,'Spters Wlt bill. ittISCIC ;Of our contest ec'r'u France„.he esiofessed that he sa vi-
uisPlayed k: little wisdom. Lord Wellesley hadbsen copirary, always courted Parliarnentary inquiry.' • I more, cotepletely• than. She is divi:led by 111 Ise prosped• of a successful issue to it, especiellv tie-
- .
`irPoitited Anabassader to Spain in April. -Phis l Mr.. PONWNI3V, in explanation, said, he •did not I, Ono., Spain, with all her faults, deserved l'iSit..- det the guid'ance 'of the present ''Ministers. Ties
I,l'°'llft, of all others, waelhat its which Ministers mean ,to state . that Lord Wellington hard 38,000 ! ance Of Et,glited,. as it ~V.: is not tor us to be par- Right Hon. Gentleman had 'taken'upon himself
he
tia
al indulged most in Continetitzl•.schetnes, and pri- . men at tile battleofTallayera, but that 38,000 then ticillar.about the weapons syitte-avhich ()Or etteitly Was alone the load ,if Government- alotte;--bs.assise ,tis.:
v'ate intrigues at liome. - Lord Wellesley Was •Ga I were employed in the Peniesula. ,as - . - . - I assailed. ' . led. ,He could, give, tin opinion for;or against an ;Noble Marquis . who had recently accealea to alie
_ • a
etred 'in April, but di noesail till the 24th of July. r •'• Geoetal•TeßtereN • cOndetntled the conduct put- i inquiry intoethe.affeits of Spaineit Ministers thought .
WI, •Administration-would be .rro support to it. An 'in-
' • oY was this unseasonable delay i' Wha, was the ' sued towatds Spain, and; despaired-4 Fantasia! • pa- ;it Would be proper, he had no objection. ,He alidnot diVidual who had proved himself in India -to be an
b-r., , • i ~, . , • .
(4*Sted vigour of that Noble Lord not displayed on no.-....4riZed General: Moore,' and,anirna-dieried upon' i. speek..egamst Lord Wellington when ire said the .
that enemy to th3t palladium of liberty,' the press, weal.
occasion, in hastening to the. assistance of his • the cooduct of the, Islarquis Wellesley,•.LordWela i . march toeTelevera was - his own .ate. -He 'ap- •an unfit 'Minister,for a free 'country. If such' a
-tjuther ? Lord Wellington in his. dispatch, dated lington, and Lord'Chatham, and called-ler agendrid : proved 9(.4,. and of the honours besowed on mare formed part_ of a -strong • GovernMent, the
Placentia, July 15, complained that .he could note inquiry into the, circumstances attending tile Expedie .: that gallaet Officer. Z'e'e ought not to undervalue rights and privileges of thesubjed might; be inaloi-
; hr!r.sue the enee of meting for the wantmettrail's-.Sc
ns of trail's- lion to the heldt.. • - , • . r the hts .though' laurels eve though' . they were bar- ger ; but fortunately he was introdected into such
.... • Port Or his army, and op August 8, in his dispatch, - Mr. CANNING' said, those who' • reSigned their ! refs.
tilted Had valour so long. been adotired arid .;at 'an inefficient Administrationeahat the means of de-
, ' Deleytoza, he states himself to be Oblieed to offices were not to be considered as exempted.frOtri I -bet lost it value ? Had we an a sudden become:else a.
• ad : - oing mischief would be denied him. . h.•
upt a retrograde ' moveinent, from the want .of -Inquiry, Which he doubted not they AV ore prepared : etillgieetted ;that, we could contemplete it with phi- .Ti
~i ,;e .....HANCELLOR of the Esc et EatrEll then rose,
Provisions. -These circumstances, as connected with teatneet ; ter hise/art,:he put in his claim fin- his lull losuptii.cal apfily ? He knew the .moralist might and said, th tEI G tie 'load just q the . on., en man who
the.'i
, edelay, of • Lord Wellington, called loudly for an , ;part of the responsibility- Subsequent to the time ! shudder at the shealsong,olehtiman blood '; he knew
its 'sat down had urged it as a serious charge
.
. . 'luny. It was essential thetethe inquiry shouldbe when the intimatiop was given-that the objects of '
toe -, e. Pelt reason frowns4it•Nvags unecinal gone, . ", him, that he
,had not taken an earlier part in the
60ious, as exannples were now become necessary to the. expedition could ' nut be - accomplished, hel . " w :ere thpusanb;c4.to.r?'"st: a siligte'haint." : debate, and . had accused- him, of disrespeEt to 'the
. ' heek c •
-os the growing evil: 'After some further observe- knew . nothing of what pssed•• -in' . Majesty's 1. •-ket still. ',vas Lord Waitsgtoneintitled to the grafi- House for having sae so 'long silent ; but no sooner
Rr-Ps onethia subjeet, he concluded by. hoping °oat Couucils, He , knew 1:).f. the • intimation being gi- : tUde of sils country, anti -the glories- of Talavera he. had the Hop. Gentleman preferred that charge than'
the la,
QUSe.would' consider the 'feeling and the bura. yen,
,but of -malting., . posterior to . that' -,.ircum- ; -c6utl not trunk r„urchase..l '-u- dearly a, to be for __he put a variety of ceeestiona to iii'm (tee teesuseel-
ens Of - people,
the - --ever dep'orede- gefore he 7siii;d6",,-,,,;; be would just tor .of ihe &setts-quer) to avaich ,he, ,lernAiidtd iii
. , .
i afro added ,.,
-s, - •
i:• ' d havel , i• . -ti s' - as ae a ' , ' .l/ t :, ' ,.i ~. ,• , ',L. . • •
ir: . to -rBOB, do their -duty by ettforeiq an .deton woul ccco,upi shed no,h. n& moi t< <it ,say, that 1t,..tb0 got <, incotr, 5t,nti,,,,,,.. the dlginty immediate and ,categorical anawer. Inc: best an-
.. qurrY, and thus do honour totheinaelyese aced gain the reduction of WaLberen, ;bp eerfainly would. not •• of thav,Hoese; le aeeali'iet a circutnstapce ci,n-lneell seer that could be given to this charge wt.' i"a
ithe c fid ; . g Sr,
on ence of the public. As'
' t ' have consented to sanding, out.such. a force with 410 wi,.11 the late ditierencei in the CabiLet, Whatever 'by the. .Hon. Gontlernan himself, viz: that " • being,
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