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• 'Or LORDS, NOVEMBER g.
ThiiHnitee tint * ten o'clock in the morning, to proceed with .
Nadal blerhtess. In u Appeal from `the Conti of *.e.sloit .t
Soudanlikr Smith v. M'Niek" the Respondent did net at.prit-o. •
Jedgnarit reversed. lea Writ of Freer front the Court of King's
Bench, " The rateable nos .of the Wed Rid:ng or tune Corm 4r,
regis v. Tat King '1 Mr. Lambe and Mr, Scarlet: tweroiii.v.%
far the Plalntffh fa Eynon,' and Mr. 'C'eppina and Mr. giatt4,'
for 64,P/beet** Resporident—Judgment adlrmed. Man A
•Irtili die Oxeye, of .Sestkm in Scotland, " 1111Innaid tr.
" Sir Sanwa& kiontilly sod Mr. Nolan were laird for
the Afeeliiitt, and Mr. Abercromire and Mr. Adam, jun. for
the Respoistient—Judgmat on Wednesday.
TREATIES WITH THE ALLIES.•
The Earl of LIVERPOOL talc! on the Table, by command et
the Prince Reim, certain intimations concLided boteraverdie
country apd our Allies. .three wire two supplrmattary Con- :
amnions concluded with. the Emperor of Russia and the King of
Prussia (for the fulßlenerat of objects referred to in tbe•former
Treaties), of *kith the flanks -ions had Cot yet been exchanged,
ihitietheconvenlente of the HOW* with reference to the de-
; Wits 40 would mon an hsteable ihdrirestto the Prince Regent,
prep:* his ttoyal Mew* to es* the substance of tiptoe two
coaventlias to be laid Ware the liouse.
This Motion was agreed to. • •
In answer to a gentian from Lard }kittens, the Zeit eC
larthavootinwittioned, that the Cucvention with disidairiserr
of Aspirin was net In I sutra to be laid Mere the Mew nem •
lia•Ting.pet been rati§oL .
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VICTORIES OF THE,YRENEgS..sarAitt• •
'LURE 'OF.ST. SEBASTIAN, Ste:
Earl BATHURST observed, that when Ise last
had the honour of addressing the H iuse, it was on
'the gkiions victory gained by the Marquis of Wel-
lington at Vittoria,anirthe consequences be then an-
ticipated from the splendid result of that aetion had
happily been verified. Bonaparte no sooner heard of
our army having passed the Ebro, than he appointed ,
Sonic, with extraordinary powers as -Lieutenant
d'Empereur, and that Marshal having been reinf rc.
ed by the under Clause!, and other t
advanced on the 2.5 th of July, for the purpose
r driving us from our positions. His Lordship thee,
proceeded shortly to detail the operations up so the •
SOtti, whet. the French were completely repulsed, and .
ifecins the effet,tr; of which they were unable to recolier.
Soak had the most sanguine expectations not only of
'relieving Paniplona and St. Sebastian, but alms of
driving our army across the Ebru ; but the defeat ho
then experienced clot only completely frustrated. all
.his projects, but the. French army was More com-
pletely disorganised than even by the battle of Vitto-
ria. His Lordship then adverted to the capture of
St. Sebastian, and took the opportunity of noticing a '
foul calumny upon our troops Chat had been publisb- ,
.ed in the Spanish papers, charging them with corn-
.mitting the grossest outrages upon the inhabit ints of
'the town. This calumny, which.vai to be attributed
to French partizans in Spain, who circulated these
libels upon tbe specioussresence of a jealousy of fo-
reign interference, viral .wholly false. That some ex-
cesses might be Copulated ins town taken by storm.
after a most obstinate defence. n2idig "'WHY bi tau—
gined, but nu one could for a mon*nt believe that •
the deliberate cruelties in this ptiblication stated to
have been practised, had been committed by 'our
troops. Sir Thomas Graham WAS on tree spot at the •
time, and in the neighbourhood for nearly a month
afterwards, and no complaint whatever was ;trade to
him by the Authorities of S. Sebastian, or by the
inhabitants, of any outrages h.sri rg been committed. '
We were charged with having committed sacrilege
in their churches, and plundered ahem of the plate;
but watt it to be believed that the French, who had
uniformly, in every town, carried of the plate from
the chtnthes, would h.tve made St. &basti-an a soli-. • •
tail exception ? or that when they had converted the
-churches of that town (as was the fact) into barracks, ,
stables, and hospitals, they would have suirered the
plate to remain on the comMunion tables? -- The
charge was utterly, false: equally false was the '
gation that our troops were occuped in rionJering
the town at the moment they might, by following up
the enemy, have captured the Castle. The fact was,
that our troops did follow up the enemya with the
view of capturing the Castle, and suffered much itt
the unsuccessful attempt ; the9th regiment in parti-
cular suffered severely, and it was actually found ne-
cessary to reprove some of the /Aims for not checking
the troops in attempting, that whit h was impracticable.
The last charge against us was, that of setting lire ter ,
the town. This also was utterly false; so far from
it, that repeated representations hating been made to
Sir Thomas Graham, of the expediency of bombard..
ing the town, for the purpose or hastening its surren-
der, by the consternation which would be thus met-
sioned, he at length transmitted them to Lord Wel-
lington, and his Lordship sent sixteen mortals, bat
with express directions, that they should not be used
so as to set fire to the town, and only four of them
were used in the direction of the attack upon the
works during the whole siege. It was not Our in-
terest to set fire to the town, but it was that of the enemy ;
and the fact was, that almost immediately after the
entrance of our troops into it, the flames burst out in
several places at the same time. The only part of
the charges to which he, on the part of the troops
employed at St. Sebastian's, pleaded guilty was, that
of saving the lives of 600 of the enemy. When our
soldiers entered the town, smarting under the effects
of a most obstinate and protracted resistance, sue-
roundedby the tircaehich was consuming the town, and
scorched by the
.flames, 600 of the enemy's soldier; •
unable to escape, flung down their arms, and threw
themselves upon our mercy. Our troops certainly "
were merciful enough to giant them their lives, an
act which was 'sanctioned by their officers, and which
was not nor bad been since übjected to by Sir Thomais
This therefore was ibe only part of thew
chaigktat Which troth was attached. His,Lordship
then thorot adverted 40 the subsequent operatingle;.
(hig,lily praising the conduit of the Portuguese 1,04
Swish troops), ending in the establishment of eltii
army in the Fl efich territory, which he slated to be
necessary for the purpose of perfecting a line of dr-
fencecand of enabling Lord Wellington 'to %vete) chit
opgratioos of the enemy, whilst be could toteceal,liia.