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eth Medan Bata ill Onr-Cdpef Is A. eiibioni nwa ihe,o4; iktpation of two years t' at
.a Hate when,. ne talc, .it
foot, to be Captain of ,a Company, vice Mellis, who ex- would hove to operate on a population, out of which,
dam.; Anthony Moran, Cent. to be Ensign, vice Gybes, by various
ppo•ntrd to the 6tht Cirrison Battalion.
8 t means, a drain of about 4,8,000 men will
Zit-o Tel 1 Veteran Battalion—seheme William M`Math, from have been taken. As 'to the argument in favour of
the 3d Foot Guards, to be Ensign, vice Crawley, deceased. the measure, founded on the high price of substitutes,
. BREVET. he censured it as fallacious, and its principle as
Captain Ulysses Burgh, 924 Foot, to be Major In the Army. highly reprehensible—as well might it be enacted in
MEMORANDUM.
the case of ordnance, which was a necessary ianple.
- Criffith• of ssth Foot, who ma. niperaeded, an
Ensign . -, ment of war, as well as men, that on account of the
stated m the Gazette of the 26th alt. is reinstated in his rank. increased priceof iron, individuals should be compelled
OitbSANCE-OFFICE, Aram Q.
t°3 furnish •those articles, when that commodity was
Royal Artillery Drivers,
• beyond a given price. Such a proposition, he thought,
Second lieutenant George White to be First Lieutenant, vice
Reeve, deceawil. Dated March 26, 1211. would scarcely be entertained by their Lordships
Alexander Mattbeson Gent. to be Second Lieutenant, vice and yet that part of the Bill proceeded upon such a
White. Dated as above. principle. His Lordship concluded, by moving to
Commissions in the Huntingdonshire Local Militia, insert, by way of Amendment to the Bill, after the
signed by the Vice-Lieutenant and Deputy Lieu- words, " that from and alter the passing of this Act,"
tenants. " the ballot be suspended."
Lieutenant JoAeph Harris to be Captain of a Company, vice Wells, The
Earl of LIVERPOOL answered the obser-
itsigned. D:.ted February 9, 1211.
vations of the Noble Marquis, and defended the prin-
Samuel Edward Cooch, Esq. to be ditto, vice Jay, resigned.—
sots', Matthew Wardell to be Lieutenant,vice Harris, promoted; ciple and provisions of the Bill, which the necessity
-Gent. to be ditto, vice Coach, of the times and the existing state and im tances
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William Payne Rugeley, , pro-
moted ; James Clark, Gent, to be Ensign, vice Wasdeil, pro-
moted. Dated as above.

ig . circus
of the Continent of Europe rendered necessary. The
be raised by ballot - for hr

honour were involved in the question. It was not on
a ror-- or mischievous ground of policy, that they

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Comm'Asions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the
County of Leicester. •
Leicestershire Regiment of Militia.
Major W. F. Hulse to Le Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Winstanley,
resigned. Dated February 27, 1811.
Second Major 1. Wilkes to be First Major, vice Hulse, promoted.
Captain W. B. Astley to be Second Major, vice Wilkes, pro-
moted. Dated as above.
Lieutenant Nathin Cooper to be Captain, vice Astley, promoter'
Edward Tufton Pbelp, P 1. to be ditto. Dated as above.

men proposed to - by were for home
defence in the first instance ; and it would be subse-
quently at their option to inlist or not for unlimited
service. The original principle of the Militia was
thus adhered to. The home defence of the country
Was, he observed, considerably relieved by the ope
rations of foreign service, when well directed ; and,
in either point of view, the domestic defence of the
country would be benefited. He could not conceive
rational •

_mantic
were called upon thus to come forward, but upon
equally clear, strong, solid, and substantial grounds—
grounds confirmed by the suggestion of every senti-
ment that should be dear to a British heart. Upon
these grounds and considerations, the Noble Marquis
said, he should move their Lordships to vote an Hum-
ble Address to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent,
assuring him of the cordial concurrence of that House,

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Emitros Thomas Freer and James Pritchett, to be Lieutenant
Dat Al .as above.
John Crotty, Gent. to be Ensign. ;Dated SA above.
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Lori Lieutenant

any , . well•founded objection to the Bill, which
embraced the best plan, in his opinion, that had been
yet devised. _ _ _

in steps to enable him to afford the desired reliefs to-
wards the allebiation of those severe distresses which
our faithful allies, the Portuguese, had suffered in

of the

Commissions signed by the
County of Nottingham.
lst, or Nottingham Regiment of Local Militia.
Sytl•!ey Henson, Gent. and George Tomlin, Gent. to be Ensign.
Dated March It:, 1811.
Commissions signed by the Lord Lientennnt of the
County of Lincoln.

The Marquis of LANSDOWNE spoke in expla-
nation ; and, after a few observations from the Earls
of GROSVENOR and RossLYN,
The Earl of HARDWICKE, after referring to
what he observed upon the measure in the discussion
of last --* moved for the omission of that clause.

their persons and properties from the invasion of their
country, and from the wanton and savage barbarities
exercised upon them by the enemy, &c. His Lord-
ship added, after lie had read the proposed Address,
that the sum intended to be proposed for the purpose,
was one hundred thousand pounds

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Loveden Regiment of Local Militia.
Zohn Shepherd, Esq. to be Captain ; and Richard Rimmingtoi.
Gent. to be lieutenant. Dated March 7, 1511.
nd Lincoln, Regiment of Local

night,
in the Bill which went to inflict certain penalties upon
such parishes as failed to make up or supply their
quotas.
Earl of HA

On the question being put,
Earl GROSVENOR expressed his opinion, that in
consideration of the proposition now made, they
should recollect what this bad already done

Lindsey, Kesteven, and

Militia.
John Fytche, Esq. to be Major. Dated March 9, 1811.
Clifford King, Esq. to be Captain. Dated as above.
James Brown, Gent. to be Lieutenant. Dated a above.
Brotherton Straw, Gent. to be Ensign. Dated as above.
Lindsey Reginient of Local Milita.
John Tesh Bell, Gent. tote Ensign. Dated March .20, 1811.
Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the
W of the County of York, City and

The question was first put upon the _ ,RD-
vrtctz's motion—on which a division took place, when
there appeared, fer omitting the clause 12—against
,it 25--Majority 15.
The question was then put on the Marquis of
LANSDOWNE'S Amendment as above, and on which
his Lordship divided the House.—Contents (for the
Amendment) 12—Not.contents 25—Majority 13.
—l,e Bill was then read a third time, and

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RELIEF or THE SUFFERING PORTUGUESE.
The Order of the Day respecting the Prince Re-
gent's Message on this subjeet, and on which their
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greatest
at the present Moment, but which was a very small'
part of the country. This circumstance happily de- I
stroyed one of the main arguments for their voting I
should be - of consider;.

_.., Nov. 19,1810.
16, 1810.

were summoned, being moved,
His jZoyal Highness's Message was again read by
the Clerk. -
The Marquis WELLESLEY then rose, for the
purpose of moving an Address to his Royal High-
ness- on the occasion of his Message to their Lord.
ships. The interesting' subject to which this docu.
ment.referied, his Lordship said, was intimately con-
nected with the glorious successes of his Majesty's
arms in Portugal, so essentially promoted by the ex-
ertions of those native troops, raised upon the princi-
ples of which the House was already apprized, com-
manded:by pacers of his Majesty's army, and main.
'Mined in British. pay. This system, it was manifest,
'kit-contributed most importantly to the interests of
Portugal ; and he knew not which most to admire
and appreciate, the magnanimity, the perseverance,
or the zealous regard and concern with which the
people of that r exerted themselves in

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. country . . opposing
a most determined resistance to the wanton and un-
provoked invasion of the enemy. The proposition
before their Lordships embraced more than one point:
it involved the consideration of effectual assistance to
a faithful and ancient ally, who had been under the
necessity of making every possible exertion in its
power to resist the invasion of the enemy ; and, 2dly,
the consideration of what that ally had since endured
from the wanton and savage barbarities which that
enemy had inhumanly exercised upon them. He did
not conceive it necessary on the present occasion, 40
expatiate upon these topics, or to enter into Iffiy
degree of detail upon the subject ; but he could not
avoid troubling their Lordships with a few observa-
tions on the general wisdom and sound policy of the
proposition made in the Message of his Royil High.
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foundations 04 springs for those military aorta and' 34 etzsideralion.fUr the House and the Coats ,
exertions on the part of our allies' which were so e - —With respect tO the'lubject more.regulerly before
sential to the common cause. Thus we should not them, he thought that if the policy of Ulis cotatry
only have the consolation to feel that we contributed induced us to embark in the cause' of the natives of •
to the relief of'tkeir extreme safferings and distresses, any touotry, particularly of any of the subdued no-
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but the satisfaction to know that we erected, at the tions of Europe, we should determine upon Cattsini .
same time, new stands and foundations for future and the power and the influence of this country to be ex. ,
increased military exertion. Thus the proceeding erted in ; siray the most beneficial to the interests cit
now proposed will rest upon the most solid founds- the respective inhabitants. Whatever the object of
tions of substantial policy. It will be the means of our policy might be, it would be wrong to nithhola ,
making still greater and more powerful exertions our liberality from those people who shoal live
against the destructive progress of the enemy, and claims upon ;t. We should connect our interests and
therefore proportionably operate as a part of. the ge- feelings with those of the people whose cause we es: '.
neral measure adopted for our own safety, It was poused ; for the moment may come when we shquid'i
not merely onshe ground of feeling and humanity act with greater vigour and energy in behalf of snr: ',
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therefore; we were called not merely in the view of firing Europe than at present. It would be politic,
feeling and hurhanity to afford assistance to a suffer- therefore, to impress a conviction that we acted cor-
ing and faithful ally, but on a ground and principle dially and freely, for the interest and the happiness .
of obvious policy.—He felt satisfied that their Lord- of those countries. Under such impressions even the .
ships would fully appreciate those important consi- general deliverance of Europe may lie looked for a;
derations ; and he felt still more confident on the oc- some future period ; but, such can never be eqectuat.
casion, when those of_ humanity, fidelity, and national ! ed except in conjunction with the free and cordial ef'-

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forts of the people of those countries, for whose tine-
rests we ►hould embark. But even with referr

to the contingency that the Critish CORI mander shcoei •1
be ofiliged in the end to evacuate the Peninsula, is
would certainly be a wise; as well as a liberal policy,
to leave behind us a character for our having made
every exertion in our power for the beneOt and ad-
vantage of those we endeavoured to.defend ! We
sboyld so act as not only to ensure the gratitude and
good will of those we immediately henegted, hat .co
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to be rem'--'

art. be remembered with a grateful respect by their
posterity ; that in future times, and in the course, of
eyents, we may be looked up to - id calla! upon to • -

act, as the generous deliverers of an oppressed and .
insulted country. With reference to the future policy
of this country, he observed, that if he entertained.
any objection to the particular proposition, before
them, it would be to the insufficiency of the sum:pro, .
posed. And feeling that the character of the country,

with respect to humane generosity, was implicated in' •
the question, he should, not have refused his concur-
rence to the motion of the Noble Marquis, even were
the sum in than what now Appeared to

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for the suffering Portuguese; that on a former day be judged necessary.
they had concurred in a vote for not less than two After a few words from the Earl or DARNLEY, in .
millions, when one of the chief grounds assigned for which he referred to the former opinioni hebad avowed
that measure was, that such a large portion of their on the general subject, the question was put, and the
country was in the possession of the enemy, that it Address to the Prince Regent voted b'y their' Lord-
was impossible that any supplies of money from the ships, rum. ai,ft.
Provinces could be received. He had latoly heard, P The Vote of the House was then ordered to be cnsn
and with the - satisfaction. of one in possession mu-icated to his R..iyal Highness by the Lords, with : .

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white Staves.—Adjourhed till tomorrow.
HOUSE OF COMMONS.
et the Committee of -Iv, the

of

go large a sum; it _ . a matter _ Reports -.. __ _ . Supple, Committee o.
inn with their Lordships whether they would, under Portuguese
Weis and Means, and the Committee on Pouguese Commerce,:
were brought up, and the Resolutions read a second time, ad 4
the present circumstances of their own country, take agreed to. ,_ .
upon them to ,relieve those distresses, or whether it • The Printers Regulation Aill vest read a third time, and pawed.
should be left to the Portuguese Government, under The Repot on the Deer Stealing Bill was brought up , the
ro Antendments read and agreed to, and the third reading ordered
its improved circumstances. We should be just be-
lure we were generous, and care should be taken of for to-morrow
In a CoMmit.tee on the Act of the eith of the Ring, respecting
our own people preferably to those of a foreign poun- Duties on Timber, several Resolutions were agiced to, 4e Re-
try. He was,-however, of opinion, we should do all pOrt of which was ordered ro be received te-moitow. '
reasonably within our power for the assistance of a : Mr. LUSHINGTON brought in the Westminster Pull Bill;
which was read a first tiate, and ordered to be teed a Recut
deserving and faithful Ally. Thetjoble MarctuiS had
;time on Thursday. •
expatiated eloquently upon the exertions of the Por- i On the motion of Mr. HORNER, a number of returns were
Fuguese ; but how were these exertions made I Were . ordered to be laid before the House, of the average price of wheat,
not made under the influence and inspection of
of the grain, corn, and meal eapolted, of the trading licences'
kber
!-oar own Officers ? They now perceived that any granted, of the wine “ported In "(4' 11509,1"' 4' • ;
• Mr. "[REMAIN moved for leave to gd' brip in a hilt to Amen '
great exertions to be expected from either the 1.301111- the 41th of George the Third, entitled "An Act for the' better •
guese or Spaniards, were to be only under the direc- Care and Maintenance of the Pauper Lunatics of England?•
tions of British Officers; this he deemed a lament- After seine observations from Mr. W. WYNNE, Mr. Warr-
able consideration, and a heart-tending reflection:— sawn, and Mr. TR eta Ate,deave was given. '

•• . . Mr. HOWORTH gave notice of a' motion for the 26th of
The moment was now arrived which had been so April, with respect to the exeinpoou of Foreigners bunt the pro.
often predicted, namely, that the whole burthen of the , perty-taz.
war must fall entirely upon ps, and upon us alone. , Mr. WHITBREAD asked the Chapeellor of,theFachequer
The Earl of HARROWBY expressed his strong !iwasr
La
hettlersthheadr renewal fines on Crqwn Leases, exeCuted within the
difference of opinion from the Noble Earl who had • T
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CHANCELLORIPoi the EXCHEQUER answered in the
just spoken. The argument so pointedly referred to afrinnadve. - - : .
as used .on a former occasion, was.not within his re- PARISH APPRINTICRS.
collection; but even if it had been stated, as repre- Sir WILBRAHAM BOOTLE moved for leave
seined by the Noble Earl, it would form no solid ar- to bring in a bill to amend the state of parish appren-
gument against the proposition now offered to the tires. -Formerly. the parish children, who were put
House. It did not folkiw that because the enemy • out as apprentices, were bound either to masters resi-
had
withdrawn from a great part elf Portugal, that , dent in their own, or in the adjoining parishes. The 7
the tracks they had devastated and passed through overseers appeared to have forgotten, that it was their
would be able immediately to afford the necessary duty to stand in acme measure in loco fterevis, and to -
supplies. The barbarities and atrocities of the French look to the interests of the children when they were
army had rendered barren deserts those parts which putting them out as apprentices. The Fir. Merolrer
find been in their - 'anion, so as to leave the un- here - 'the words of Lord Kenyoth in a case where •

toms. . _ _ ~- points Us cur and hinninity in- occup. as _ _ - quoted the words tn _ _
volved—be could harbour no possible doubt that the happy inhabitants no resource but in the liberal and a foreigner was indicted and found guilty-of
ill-tae t-
;Portuguese nation had evinced the most justifiable , humane teelings of Britons. With respect to what ing some apprentices which had been bound to lull
spirit of resistance, whenever the least possibility pie- ' was said of the necessity of keeping British Officers by parishes. That Noble Judge reproved most se,. .
sensed itself of effectually opposing the plans and at the head of the Portuguese troops, he believed that verely the conduct of the overseers in that instance,
operations of the enemy. Not only the honour, but all the skill, talents, and exertions of these Officers and said that they had acted contrary to their duty,
the obvious policy and interest of this country called would be unavailing, were it not for the fund of na- and to the law of the land, in putting seventeen Oil-
upon us to encourage and support that principle of maid spirit and determined resistance of Me Porto- dren as apprentices to a man who could neither employ •
resistance the utmost. That country should be guese themselves, which impelled them io.such exer- or feed them, Too many overseers appeared per.
trnade to know, that not she only feels that animating tions in the hour of trial, and rendered them worthy fectly content to rt rid of the burden of the chil-
, principle, but that we also participate in her fallings, of fighting-by the side, and even participating in the dren,• without' eating what afterwards happened 'Co
and enter cordially into her spirit of resistance against glories of the British. troops. Under these circum- them. In fact, it was impossible that the overseers
each an enemy as she has now to contend with. Her stances, he trusted the proposition before them would of parishes in the Metropolis could exercise the super.
eetertions in such -a case must be attended with diffi.. not meet with one dissentient voice, but that they , intenaince which the law required, if the children •
'inky. danger, and the suffering of distress. These would be enabled to present to the eyes of Europe *ere to be sent off by 200 at a time to Mulches.
all must be encountered in the present situation of and the world the striking and glorious contrast be- ter br Yorkshire to the manufactories ; neither was
the country, before a successful resistance can be op. tween the humane and liberal policy of Great Britain it likely that the manufacturer who took two or
Ilesed to the enemy. Upon these grounds they were and the unparalleled atrocities of the common ene- three hundred apprentices could pay that attea-
,Ualled upon to proceed as pointed out by his Royal my. These boasted they Would drive us ir.to the sea, tion tolheir rirdibls that was due, or in any warstand
Highness's suggestion. It was unnecessary to press and that they came only as the defenders of the coun- /op parauis, as the law required the Master to,
to the consideration or to the feelings of their Lord- try ; but sae the contrast between those audacious. de. A. very considerable number r: children were
Chips, the sufferings the unhappy natives, who were lboastings, and their actual conduct, and the event I regularly imported into Lancashire from the metro-
ohnoxious to the enemy, experienced with respect to tWe made no such boastings, but endeavoured, in the polls, for the purpose of the manufactories. To re- •
their properties, their persons, their families, and face of every hazard and difficulty, to effect-the deli- , medy the great evil which often resulted from chltdren
every thing dear to them in their individual situation. verance of our suffering allies ; and what we had done being thus sent friendless -into distant parts of the
Upon this ground, which obviously furnished one of and effected sufficiently spoke for itself. country, he wished that there should be a regulation
the main springs of the spirit of the people in their The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said he should that they should not be sent to a greater distance than
determined and persevering resistance, we were in not detain the House with any detailed observations on forty miles from the place'of their settlement ; at this
the case immediately before us called upon to act. the topic before them. He could not refrain from ex- distance they might be occasionally visited by some
—To that spirit may be attributed the creation pressing his concurrence in no small degree with what of their overseers or by their parents, which would
avid the exertions of their Militias, their Ordinanza,'had fallen from his Noble Friend (Earl Grosvenor) and prevent their being illareated by their masters. He
and armed peasantry—in fact, of those exertions- thought that if the supply in question could be fur. would wish at least' to try the experiment whether
which were essential to effectuate the redemption nished from the resources of Portugal itself, it would employment could not be found for the poor children
of the nation from its inveterate enemy. He re- Ibe preferable. But he felt convinced that after what of this metropolis within the distance of forty miles
peated, that it was unnecessary to enter into any de- had taken place, and from the conduct of the Preach from it. lie should also propose a limitati nof the
tail upon this topic; for whatever difference of opinion while in that country, these people could only be number of apprentices which were to be bound to one
may exist as to minor palls of the question, there relieved by the British Parliament; and if that as- man, as it was impossible that in those manufaeto-
seemed to be none as to the result of endeavouring as sistance were refused by this country, they would ries where many hundreds of children were taken ap.
far as possible to frustrate the effects of the enemy in have to look for it throughout Europe and the world prentices, due attention should be paid to each of
that quarter. The proposition before them referred in vain ! It was a point that came home to our oa-
them. He would also propose, that 40 days should
to owe of the most stable and solid grounds for suc., tional feeling ! At the same time, he felt equally elapse between the time that the child was sent and
,cessful war that could possibly be conceived. They \ convinced, that the utmost attention should be paid the completion of the indentures, in order that it 'should
were emphatically called upon, by the same principle Ito economy in every branch of the public service, be ascertained What was the temper and character of
upon which they.had hitherto acted, to do that, which.' and more especially in what regarded expeditions to the master. After a few general observations upon
evidently must still further encourage, and create new :the Continent. It should always be a most import- •the whoa:taro ofiregulations similany those he had
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