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OFFICE OF ORDV.4NCF. J.Atre 19, MIS.
rHE PRINCIPAL OFFICERS of
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lor before MONDAY, the ad day' of July next from such
ersont a 4 "BY be willing to undertake •he Cupply of ENG-
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ear, upon notice of three lvlontits, at the option of Other party.
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ty between the hours of ten and four o'clock, where the Pre-
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r Ertglish limber;" but no Proposal can be admitted after the
,id of July, at twelve o'cluck a' noon of the same day,
either will toy Tender be notified unless the party asking ir,
r an Agent in his behalf, shall attend.
By Order of the /Lard, R. H. CREW, Swam".

Tk A ArS PORT OFFICE, Juni Itls
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IBISH returns the Public his grateful Thanks for
• the distinguished preference given to his Offices, No. 4,
and 9, Charing Cron, in the Lotteries just elided, in
.hich he bold

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All the Three Prises If R 30,000 ! ! !
:asides Ton ocher Capilab, a few Shores of which remain Un-
learned, but will be PAID on DDIDAPID, (whenever presented) or
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PdfaLl:lMEM'AltrAiit6i;iiiirkoE

' HOUSE OF 'LORDS, JUNE 29,
The Telegraph Schub Bill, the Chelsea Pensioners' sill, and
Naval Stores Bit), Were brought np from
.tde commons, and
sad a first time.
The Foeeign Slave Trade Bill was recommitted, and a clause
..'r enabling the 4ttometGeocral to 61e a Bill agaill•t persons
...mcernid In that trade, was proposed and agreed to, atonrding
n the stoggettlinf of Lord RDllletAt.s, on a former sight. The
Sill was then ordered to be primed. '
RECISNT.GLORIOUS. VICTORY.
Earl BATHURST rose, in pursuance of the no.
:ice he had previously giveru,ttenitsvi• the thanks of
the noose to the Duke of Wellington add the army,
And commenced by . apolitglaiiig •to their
.X.ardships
or not being presentotelititi •ce tile •greand that he.
'eat aekall/44 by Aladlitlt4Vlo4.ll,l4*
Iria
veil asiare;lbelr'.:Liitifcbiliiiisiest-flaVe heat to die.
:barge the duty which' they writ id the Duke of,
Wellington and to the atMy,,!it; the effectual services
they had just perterihed—litistothie as any 'man
alight be disposed to calculate On the ultimate result
if the contest, no man Could have -;anticipated so
miliant a commencement. .Bonaparte Could not
low assert that the el rents wefe,atgaifiest him—that
.tie dictates of any pcpotti:mtlitti4ilitere,sts night seem
-initei with his own had mieleil hint—that the defec-
tion of any party on whom he had a right to Calcu-
late had betrayed him—oi that by The interference of
accident he had been cot off from his own resources.
ft was altogether his own act. He had chosen his
time, he had chosen 114 place, and he had chosen his
•itiversary.—(llrar, hear). —By that adversary he was
•esisted, defeated, routed—his genius had sunk un-
ler the ascendancy of the.rival with whom he deter-
mined to contest.--(Near, bear).—He should not
:-nter at much detail into the operations of the battle.
t had ofteri been observed of his Grace, that he was
more disposed te wait the attack than to become the
assailant.. -For a. considerable length of time that
was his system, and many were of opinion, in con-
7, equence, 'that it was the mode of warfare which ite
:)est understood, and in Which he was most .calcu-
i eed to excel. Bat in the year 1818, when he was
able to meet the enemy with something approaching
a au ecpality of numbers his system was changed,-
Ind he showed from.thinperioJ how nobly he could
,:ommenCe, and how effectively he could pursue, •a
:muse of operations, commencing in :attack, and
concluding, consistently with his formerundertakings,
n victory. In the battle of the 18th he had corn.
::iced all the various excellencies of military science
—for nine hours he did all that the mind of man
eould do in the shape of defence—and, for the three
ucceeding hoer', all that the pourer of man cpuld
,thieve in offensive warfare. With respect to the
'rattle of the 16th, he was now happy to be able to
!a justice to the allied armies. It had been boasted
iy Bonaparte that the French obtained all the ho.
lour t but with what truth the House would be able
bo perceive, when he stated, that during the whole
cif that day, the Prussians maintained their post at
..onsiderable loss; and so f at% were they from being
,iriven.lrom it, that after ,relinquishing the position
luring the night, it was not occupied the next day
sy the enemy. With respect to our own troops, he
could state, that they did not quit'their position till
he' middle of the next day. Tee Duke of Welling
.:rti bad intended to renew the attack, but the Pres.
..ans having lost 16,000 men, and their cavalry not'
laving come up, it was determined, after t onsulta.
;lull, to retire, and take up a position at Waterloo.—
in the course of the last year his Grace the Duke of
ils'ellinston had passed through Fhittelecs on his way
o Parts. kle-tosik a military survey of that country,
:ad said what.bed since been verified, that if ever it
was hie fortune to fight a battle fer• the defence of
ikussels, Waterloo would be the place he would
7hrose. He knew its strength, and the event had
eared-the judgeieta of his situation. The French
it tacked him there—they fought with. the intrepidity
'hide thateeterises that- milieu.; .uarik..esialtout a
)34st' he could affirm that we had fought with the'
Iti...linuropidiry of ours, aim! resisted their attack

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with a firmness that never was serpassed.• The lei
'of Wellington had discharged all the duties of a 01.1
liar, as Consmander-in•Chiel, as General of DWl-
*init. as Cointnattder of a Corps, as Colonel of a Re-
giment—he was seen at different times, .according to
the exigencies of the moment, now presiding over
and directing the treat movements of the battle, and
again rallying broken regiments, advancing at their
head, and'placing them in situations to render their
resistance more complete.—Clieer, !tear).-'Cowards
the close of that illustrious day, the Emperor put
'himself at the head of the Imperial French Guards.
The British Guards bore the attack; not as Bonaparte-
stated, in terra- at their presence—they met them—
they overthrew them. • rhestruggle lasted nine hours.
The impulse of .a superior forte was gallantly and
iuccessfiilly resisted, until at length the Dike of
Weffingion, rushing like a lion from his den, bore
upon the first line and defeated them, then upon the
second, and drove them before him, and followed up
the defeat till his troops were exhausted. The fruits.
of that victory, as far as they could at present be
collected, were S,QUO prisoners already in Brussels,
, 2,000 on the road,' and many moreeepected. As
to the result of the Prussian pursuit, no accounts
had yet been received—they were still in porsiiit.—
So great an achievement could not be accomplished
without great loss, and that•loss we had necessarily
experienced. it *as one of the dispensations of Pito.
nibetece, that we should feel neither joy nor grief
unmixed, and this 'victory, which mist excite such
' enthusiasm of applause, was also unavoidably ac-
companied with strong feelings of private of
.;nd general regret for the loss of the brave men who
had fallen in its accomplishment. The anxiety on
this subject was universal, but the interest of Uri
who had connections and friends in the army, must
be still more lively. I'o them the result of a victory
might not, at the fii st view, appear a consolation,
but when they reflected on all the consequences of ,
that distinguished action, they would perceive, that]
the fate of those who bad embraced the honourable
profession of arms could not be decided an a more
glorious occasion. They were enrolled among the
heroes who had fallen in defence of their couscry
they were at the same time the objects of admiration
and of regret. Who would not regret the manlt and
dignified firmness of Sir Thomas Piston ?—(Heise.)
—Who would not lament the energy and preface
of mind for which Sir William Ponsonby was re-
markable?—(Hear..)—Who would not grieve for the,
loss of the Duke of Brunswick, who had,spurned at
the armistice concluded in 1809, and marched his.
gallant band through Germany, then hostile to kirys,
until he placed them under the security of British
protection ?—(Hear, hear.)—No one could speak so
in reference to those lows% as ilurDukt -4#l
Wellington had himself done; in a letter tb Th -E ea
of Aberdeen, commonicatieg the intelligence of his
brother's death. After acknowledging the setrices
he had experienced from his assistance, the Noble
Duke proceeds thus—"t I cannot express, in adequate
terms, the grief which I feel in contemplating the
loss which we have sustained in the death of do many
valued friends. The glory of such actions is no con-
solation to me, and I cannot suggest it as a consola-
tion to you ; but a result so-decisive will in all pro-,
bability he followed by the early attainment of the
jost object of our wishes and exertions, and this may
afford us some consolation for our toss."—His Lord-
-ship then proceeded to observe, that, on looking to the
list of the wounded, .their sorrow must be excited at
Abe melancholy detail, who would dot feel anuious
for the recovery of the Earl of Uxbridge, who had
headed every charge of cavalry, and for that of the
various officers and privates disabled in the same ca-
reer ?—(Hear, he4-.)-ialn the front of the list was the
name at that hetoic man, who had spilt his blood in
the defence of the Netherlands, and acquired by his
bravery a better right to its dominion than the mere
formalities of faintly descent could have conferred
upon him—(Hutr, hear.)-.lt was unnecessary for
him to dwell any longer upon actions that required
no comment, and were themselves their own. pane-
gyric: It remained only for .him to state, that-after
moving the vote of thanks to the Duke of Welling-
ton, the officers and men under bis Command, oa the
battle of the 18th, it was his intention to accompany
it with a proposition fur another vote of thanks to
Prince Blucher and the Prussian army. 'Mae army
had borne the brunt of the attack while two divisiems
of the enemy were left to mask the British. • Old
Prince Blucher had fallen • from his horse on the
battle of the 16th, and wit confined to his bled.
Having heard that the Doke of Wellington was at-
tacked, he quitted his bed, advanced to the field, and,
there avenged die Prussians who had been refused
quarter in the battle of the 16th. Such were the
glutious'events, in acknowledgment of :which he was
now to c.• 11 upon their Lordships ftir a tote bf thanks
to those concerned...Nis Lordship then moved the
flunks of the House to the Duke of Wellington and
'the Britishsirmy, in the usual form.—(Hear.)
The Marquis • of LANSDOWN said, he did not'
think to add any force to the proposition of the Noble
Lord by any thing he could say, but he could not
permit so brilliant and so aseful an event to pass un-,
noticed.. - He would confess that, in the first instance,
he'l'elt a hesitation as to the propriety of the pecu-
&day grants not that he, had an, doubt of the mag-
nitude of the success, but that he appre;iended it
might carry the appearance of an anticipation, which,
though it might he fairly appreciated, could not be
certainly expected, and ought not to be confidently
proclaimed. .But when he reflected on all the cir--
'cumstances of that great transaction which made the
day important in itself, independent of military eon.'
sequences, which made it 'a scene ter the display of
the qualities of two trial nations, brought to public
!trial by their respective Chiefst in the face of Europe
;—when to that be added the remit; which was great,
decisive, and indubitable, he felt -it right Mt a re-
cord should be attempted, if, possible, nikpertisetter
and imperishable •as the glory by which • it'wo.
Inked. How ter magnificent ht military or