The Sun.
London, England, 1810-03-30 00:00:00

riFon eir.lsted-'6etween the.-trio cis: 3, Carinin
having pi:essed these points with his usual ekquence;
a:lvertect to the resolution, respecting the retention of
WalCheren: Much had been .said again,st Mit.isters
for sending an expedition to a phce I,vliere the climate
was known to be uowliolesorne. If thd authority
of the book that had beenmen tinned to guide the
condhel of Ministers, no expedition should be scot to
Flanders, .as the same objecti,,n could lie made to
them °which the policy of two pentode, lia(r been
so frequently sending. They onght not. to be to -
severe
on those vVito had planned the Expedition on
account:of because it Migut suit
c.ulat purposes. They ,must not .think by visiting
on the heads of thOse who . had sent out. the
Expedition the calamities occasiond by the pes-
tilential -climate, to conceal the tenure by which we hold the 'West-India Islandi. They .ought
not, by direairig all their resentment agai
Ministers on bynst the present occasion, and be. stowing all their compassion on the sufferers •at
WaicherFn, to think they could purchase ahso7
lutiontother cases, Walcheren had been before
an objo
d of 'poltey. of attack, aye, and of possessien
to the sChish. It, was riot more pestiferouS now,
I):!cause':it tvas> more important.than formerly.
.14e
,did not know that there was a clause in the capitu-,
lation that had been spoken, of, stipulating.that the
Swiss . soldiers should not serve in Walcheren, but
he knew
.that,witklin the last twenty years it had
been twice garrisoned by-Swiss soldiers. If, hew-
:ever there were such a clanse, what did. it 'prove ?
hag we not similar clauseS respecting some c.i. our
'preseta possessions ? .Walcheren was a place of 'such
.military • importance, that he thought no M:nister
eot4d at. once determine on evacuating it. But if
MiniSters had resolved to abandon
,tt, he was not
prepared_ to admit the propriety of -rc.tain:n; 'it,
while the .works :of Flushing were or
in compliance, with the,' wishes 'of
If in, the then sittiatioti OfAustrianaffairS our army
was.p)spokidto ten. days unnecessary siekness to- aid
them; theke'was no proportion between, the good we
aid and,:thetsacritices we made. It had been said.by
the Anstaian.,dovernment, that if we retained our
conquest, some of. the dependencies Of France might
encouraged for throw. off the yoke; but this he
did not wish, for the lemons he had air, ady, giren-; and-besides be did, not thizk that the time, when -
an instirreLition was likely to break-out. favour of •
the Emperor of Austria, was just after he had aban-
doned the ill-fatedTyrolese. When- the importance of
..Walelteren was ponsidefecl,hecciuld not think
tors were liable.to any b'arne for pausing before they
gave it up, and he trusted the House would join tith
bun in thinking that', as tovertiment had been
'engaged receiving reports, some of. which en-
courted- the hope •of retaining Walt:bereft, if
could' not -be • imputed to them , as mattcr of
Oame, •that they had not tome to ..an lin-
-mediate:decision.- He' would rote far- the con-
ciusiob, therefore, that ho blame al-ladled to the.
Gove.rnmeht; but lie must change the premises.
could not believe that .theljoase, con-idering the enemy. we had ti) de:al with, wouht be dispoieu.
to render respotisibi ity so heavy as to. 'crush ad ea- •
tt4l)llZe. • •

We regret that the great length of the debate
comptls Lis to compress the latter part of ti.is Gen-
tleman's spec.cll,' which Was.-marked- with all -that
usn:d eloqu-,.act.', and, ap.)-ared to produce a sgr-teat
cfrea Upop the Housa,..• by the hid and re'rwated cheers with
,whickit was received. He concluded
with expressing hiS detertnittation to vote against all
the Resolutions. Mr.
WIIITBREAD commenced by observing, that
much as he had attended to the many topics urged
by the Right Honourable Gentleman who had just
sat down,
.there was one circurnstnrce attached to
his public conclud for which he could not account.
He thought' the Right Honourable Gentleman,
above all others, responsible for the failure of the
Expedition,---for more inconsistency. ofcondua than
charaderised that Right 'Honourable Gentlethan
was rarely to be found in the history of the world.
It was remarkable, that ou the 6th day of April the
Right Honourable Gentleman should deliver to the
Duke of Portland a declaration, that the Minister
who was to plan the Expedition then in Contempla-
tion was a 'man. incapable, in - his opinion, to 'con-
dna the. affairs of his office. The Right Honour.,
able Gentleman had outraged his private"feelings,
by communicating to his Majesty-that the L' rd
Lord was incapable of executing the dnties of lt;s
situation, and at the same trine he suffered hiM to
moceedin the planning and fitting out of the pedition. The Noble "lord .biMself had forma: ly
used a 'signior expression. He had said that the, AdminiStration. was put on Ei.rock';' but little-did- he
know at the tirtie- that the rock was Undermined,
and that he should be blown in the air. He would- ".
not apply to the Right honourable Gentleman im-
proper motives; but he would contend that the
Right Honourable Gentleman-was bound as a States;
man not to expose his charader to public-obloquy.
If it should be proved that servants of the Crown
had advised: their Sovereign. to go to' war, from their
own -private interests, and history afforded "many
lamentable examples of .guch,rniscOndud, it would
become persons who possessed such iotuntioni to
proceed with caution. The Right Hon. Gentleman
had done nothing. but from principle, but with re-
gard to the public, how did he answer for his Con-,
duct? He had had ,orol communication with his
Sovereign respelling :one of his Colleagues., in offs .e.
The' vote which had recently-passed in that Hops
had declared it unconstitutional for a Minister to
convey privately to the. Sovereign written comniti - pleat:ton respeEting official transactions, and he could
not see any difference .bet Ween. oral and writen communications made in this inanoer. The Right
Hongurable Gentleman supported the -conitu:a of
those who had concluded the Expedition, and he
had .old the House-that it was not inclined to fiod
fault with Buonaparte tailing in 'his expedition to
Aere ; but what had the House 10 do with Buo-na-
parte ?. they could not bring him to their,B:ir.- The
Im;iliess was with the Right Honourable Gentleman,
end .the Ministers of England. The great cause of
complaint against the Right Ranourable Gen; lemati
was for-having suffered the &Ole Lord to conduct
the Expedition, with the kirovvledge thit he would
ultimately fail. •He had talked much about rte
balance of power in Europe, and he had stated that
an
.army was`not sent to the North of Germany, be-
cause the people, ready to'sink under their Co t-
querory, should not be distressed; so that these