Star.
London, England, 1813-11-05 00:00:00

years ofunsucceesfol warfare, were now opening, on
the conritry. Vfe'Were now, he said, about to reap
the rich hartist;Of national prosperity which we bad
sown al)d unfit 'With so much toil, assiduity, and
patience : the ports of the Continent were about to
be . thrown open to our commercial enterprite, and,
all those amiable relations between us and the inhabi-
tants renewed Which were so condticive' to the wel-
fare of either party. Them! never, perhaps, was a
season so meet fir grataalften,,_ wherever we turn
our eyes British valour was 'eonspicuous, and the
4ritish flag ttjiMtpbant • in such a survey our eye
nould be chiefly directed to the ver-memorable con-
it which -Intel been carried on and was still carrying.
• on in the Peninsula ;: it was there the unsheathed
brand of England had, indeed, thinned the ranks of
.4gre4eill3Y,Arid carried terror to the verge of.hia
inikcius. Amidst so many and so fertife themes of
414 and there was nnifoatinetely one suh-
.yeet calculated: to draw forth feeliegs of a very diffe-
rent nature,* dark spot in a prospect of no ordinary
khoteh !Pete gf gin PP the Pr, and in-
tifxuptipg a cianeord of sweet seunds—he alluded to
tie lamented indisptioo of his Majesty. Ample
ground:l6i 'sorroVihadied was it that he could not
participate in the Whistphi of his people, he who had,
during so long and so eventful a period, directed the
helot of the state,guiding with a .watchful eye and
masterly hand the energies of hiX pricain.
hear.) But it was the nature of sublunary felicity to
be commonly imperfect, and perhaps it was a salutary
dispensation of PitOTIDINCE that k shonkl be so, the
constitution of the human mind perhaps required that
prosperity should not be unalloyed. But, how little
reason had we tei repine when we contrasted our pre.
senetftiiktion With the fallen 'state of our implacable
enemy ! How was his phoned pride trampled in the
etust ? • Where was now the mighty host.be bad
brought into the fielcpee the ccennwneemeot of the
present campaign, by the aid of,rhich he expected
to wash out the disgrace he hittl'lnstained iit thate:
in the blood oithenationi that had inflicied'it ?.
That host was prostrate, he trusted never again to
rise to the work of blood and devastation. If he
.. were to abstain from commentigg in detail an the
, great events which were every day crowding on each
&her, it was obViout that ie was not because the-
. **write-was. infertile, the difficulty Was in its eapions:l
ness—he could not hope to do it' justice within the
limits he had prescribed to himself. He would not
trespass on the patience of their Lordships; by tracing
the astonishing tide of success which had tten-
ded the aims of the allied nations atom the bloody
• field of Vittoria to 'the recent stupendous achievements
Which had tuelled the power of our enemy, and given
security to the nations. It would be loqg before the
Wasted strength of France would agate germinate,
• bud very long before the growth of her power would'
he 'setfiCientlt aigdions to, enable her to sustain the
waste of another Campaign beyond the boundaries of
her own -territory. Thus had we to look fetWe.ril to
a fain reward for our perseverance, and the slimy
privations we. had long endurei in the coarse of the
arduous struggleWe had never thought of exchanging
tit submission. Oar awns,• and those of out
everywhere victorious, wereaecuring for us the bles-
sings of a secure peace; and the victories of our
allies, as well as our own, it was a proud and grateful
consideration, were the result, in a great measure,
of the Wisdom and firmness of British Counsels.—
..—When we contrasted. those Counsels with such as
might have been supposed to actuate the French Go-
vernment, how much were such feelings enhanced ?
Bloody, atrocious, framed to enslave and oppress the
Isuman race, the vigour of the latter would have no
effect but to blazon' the infamy of those from whose
minds they emanated, while the former constituted
a monument of patient and temperate but robust and
unyielding energy which iveuld fill the brightest page
of British history, and long command the gratitude
and veneration of a delivered world. To the coun-
sels iSt. Britain—to the example. of Britain, the 'la-
' bons' of the Continent owed it, that, rising now in
their might they were shaking off the yoke by which
. they had been so long galled, and which some time
since there was but too much reason to apprehend
;wasiorced on them for a very long period. In Spain,
where the influence of those counsels and that ex-
ample was chiefly felt, fortune had just deserted the
standard of the enemy, and not a little was it owing
to the incomparable skill, the unwearied perseverance,
and the daring enterprise of the exalted individual
who was now guiding her energies, that he who
some time since was filling his harbours with ships,
and his ships with troops, and threatening to cover
our fields with his thousands and tens of dsousanils,
was now finking beneath the pressure of accumulating
armies, and trembling at the prospect of his own ter-,
ritories being speedily violated by •the footsteps of
hostile cohorts. Feeling how many persons there
were present much better qualified than himself to
raise the voice of gratulation and send forth the glad
tidings that had reached us to -the world with appro-
priate emphasis, he should no longer trespass on the
patience of the House, but conclude with seconding
the Address that had been moved byhis Noble Friend-.
The Marquis W,ELLESLEY said, 'he should be
forgetful of every public and political printiplehe had
held in the course ot his life, every sentiment he had
tier cherished, every motion he had ever urged, as
fit to influence the deliberations of the Government,
if he did not now express *his cordial approbation
of the Speech which had been delivered from the
Throne, if he did not assent to its several parts with
the utmost enthusiasm—an enthusiasm, which the
tone and spirit that, pervaded it all throughout, were
well „calculated to ipspire. Much, indeed, did he ,
sympathise with the sorrow expressed in it, for the
• malady of a Monarch who had been the object of
his people's love and veneration, whose private vir-
tues were not less remarkable than those which dis:
tinguished his public conduct, who was the tenderest,
the best of fathers, whose calamity was the subject of
permanent and unfeigned' sorrow to his offspring and
his subjects—sorrow which could not be dispelled,
though it was mitigated by the consideration of how
worthily his place*as filled.—(Hear, hear.)—Before
he sat down he wished to observe how little: the pre-
sent agreeable state ot our affairs in the Peninsula
was to be considered as the result of fortuetous cir-
cumstances, it was the result of a prudent, vigorous,
systematic course of measures, carried into execution
by him whose mind had planned them, with that
consistency, celerity and. perseverance by which his
character was in se eminent a degree distinguished.