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brought fairly grip _
to the late brilliant Action fitii-gisttippitAtikights of
Darrosa. In the debate ttpOit the. Peninon of
thanks to General Graham, he was tinwilling to di-
vert for a. moment the tide ot .2.4oicium thatw*s flow-
ing in from Al quarters.upon *alSiinguished merits,
et that day, by introducing any other subject than
that of the British General and his British army ; but
tow that they may have been supposed to have looked`
at the other circumstances of that memorable day, lie
raight be allotted to ask for some explanation of, or
if that could not he given, to express his deepjegyet
at the unfortunate and deplorable misconduct. •
their Allies in the hattle of Barrosa,—(l44r hear%)
that cceiduct it would be idle to affect th.
speak
in doututel terms—it unfortunately wore but-
toe deciO# a eharaeter, and was known,
harked' o
and reprobated Witn,equal .iodination by 'all 'parties,
throughout the country. 'General GrAaM. hid not,
to be sure, spoken of that Misconduct• in the tertns.
*hien it appeared to, have deseried t.hui *ben the
del..cacy of the' site4dno in which he Stood, and' bt
the duty he had to discharge were considered, hii
forbearance would be attributed to that wise :discre-
tion is which such minds Were seldopriound Air 1
deficient. But though General Graliann had, for ob-
vious reasons, forborne to ctimplaih,l,ygt the'cbticlu-
ions to be drawn frotri his silence must speak in'
lar.guage too emphatic fOi a moment to be misunder
stood. They Te not - thlcthirsti: Ge. Graham
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feremie shewn by Cunt; in obit bAttls off. Tiiiiveri? ,ar.tisSie:graciation and sla
Was all twin& in Cadiz? Was there no nen& pares Notwithstanding tt
there i Web British armies never before betrayed till hawk re-entsred the city wi
• bat° --- - it was • Xii: of England." Part of

itteesits, y---are aidto
MIN of is Lev leve the
will nn doubt be shot.

the_ ctli of' Birrtisal Pie said isettayed,- for .
nothing less: the cigar battalions never came up till Tss a the guards, in cursing front Hamburgh to
i our army liiid repulsed the French, beat them off* Marburg, threw thetnketees into the river and were
• and, was in- hot puttuit of them as fast, as our drowned.
army could, pursue, as fast as their exhausted limbs The spirit of the Hamburghers appears completely
could carry* their noble hearts ! then what have broken, and despair and consmrnation are every where
been our allies—at Talavera.aothing—at Barrosa no. visible. Several have put an end to their existence,
ak—or rather at both, perhaps worse than nothing : and the final extinction of their importance as a State is
tristory of Barrosa was not yet told—a mystery fixed The disposition to emigrate is general; some
g about it. The allied face salted from Cadiz- individuals have already wi:hdrawi, to tussia. The
British fought—the Spaniards looked on. The funds of the Senate and Admiralty have bt•en appoint-, '
ash conquered ; and yet the siege was not raised. ed by the new Govefnment, and the bank, though ac-
cording to the latest accounts still respected, is cam-
that be asked, was all sound at Cadiz t Was it true
that Gen. Graham had been obstructed and foiled in 'Wiesen in a very precarious state.
..all his plans—that in the midst of the fight, while the The conscriptiiin in the towns lately incorporated is
'British troops were doing feats which, perhaps, Bri. considered a most grievous measure. Thirty of the
.tish troops alone could do, their allies were doing young men liable to be drawn fled over to this Island .
.
r,vehat, he hoped, • such. men alone were capable of on the 16th inst. to avoid being sent to the army.—
There have been instances of wires luring maimed
taai nlundering the British baggage ?—Was this true ?
Id was not the Spanish people he complained of, their husbands by cutting off their hands to avoid be-
lt); *awn, so strong is the aversion to the measure..
*it' *ve them every credit ; but he gave their
War between Russia and France is still talked of
leader, none. If all this was so, or nearly so, were ;
the British armies to be risked so worthlessly ?—Were ,as unavoidable. The troops of both parties are said
tatty to be abandoned to treachery or cowardice ? , to be nn their march for the frontiers.
Frikeither or both masthave originated. the unnatural, The French Government have interdicted ihit.,
Ningr,ateful, and infamous treatment they had met with. granting of passports to Russia.
weden
liss CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER enblned. S has been called upon to furnish lcul)
SonetakTARLETON went into considerable detail, and In.
men for the French marine, and 10,000 land troops. -
,
*d that there must have been treachery on the part of the Part of the seamen have already marched thiNgCo.
Commanders. ••
L WALLEiLEY olstellse, tett lit .had beta enee cow fiambargiu.,mid. it is said, have inanifei
.t°4l - •
. - - -- • discontent.

PIT.
sidesed by the Honourable Gentleman opposite, I. lit -
in this eountry to mate itself a prietdpal in the war es thtil=
1
bat it now was held to imp kapok& even to acts antniii!,
I TM Honourable Genesi; Ind said the cavalry* of
Ebree was inactive in Otelturiernent of Barran, but
wag consistent with the Itetallit in General Cleiltanes E
piaci, which dentilaed Ommelltilidttingiwn te. lily* Mimi
ontliberable ancesei at drafirinflk . anOthee ,46011140
the toe do Iwo. The,Han. Osinti. Whitbread) '904:
much of the corrupdpn of , k
oft m be forgotten eat they the
fostered the gensral arlinetrinli
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• ildr. WARD enpleined, Md.& entilinmiliMiyormagailla MI.
dewed between Ur. PUMP& and Adr.. * lin Ott
commended the corrtetness andiffliftglitiC
the ordnance estimates, but would reserve Ms tensidln. Stir flie
Report
;.. Mr.WHARTON then moved the sums contalimile the !id.
mates of the Commissariat Department, which, afar some ob.:
'Serration from Mr. Whitbread, Mr. Hustisson, and Mr. W.
Smith, were voted.
Thnstam of 1,600,0001. was granted to pay the interest of Rs-
**sr BRIJ.
, ‘ The Colonial istiptates,wetrattetpopedte Wednesday.
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rusum The land forces have been te-
ede-411e of Sweden alledging they Were rie-
cessery 4:the defence of the country against any
attempt that might be made by the English.
Masai 28.—We learn from passengeti, that. the. .
Danish •or Norwegian. seamen, from some new ar-,
rongement betweenß;ossia and Denmark, or frogs. st."
netmnderstanding with-their conductors, had actii,aly.
stopped on their march to Antwerp, and that even
some part of the last division had recrossed the Elbe.
Nothing further respecting the Russian watt. •
• -;
A Gentleman has arrived, hi Amp ,ftrosCatbna..
which place he left on the 15th ultimo.. *ascot' is
PENA had been brought to trial for his caiiiiigt.ka tiier
affair of Barrosa, and acquitted of cowardwa• ,hut•cnsei
victed of gross misconduct.
•
The late Governor of Astorga, SaKTOCILBSS, has '
made his escape from France, whither he .had been
conducted a prisoner of war, and is arrived at Cadiz.
The Regency have appointed him Governor of Co.
runna, and General MANY is ordered to, the army of
Murcia.
Shot and shell' have been fired into the town of
Cadiz since the battle of Barrosa, but they Nape dune
no mischief as yet.
Accounts had been received at Cadia of the king-
dom of Peru having declared itself %dependent. 'Me
spirit first broke out in Lima, from whence it rapidly
spread throughout the rest of the province, but not
withvt some bloodshed.
On the afternoon of the 15th some British forces
were embarking on a fresh expedition, the object of -
which is not mentioned. •
The Speech of Mr. BUR AN, in secbnding the
Motion for the Address of. Thanks to General Gem,
RAN, has given rise to considerable discussion in mai- 1
rfcircles ; beeaifseltliai been always belierel, ihOt
at was owing to the rigid adherence to rules laid down
•by the Duke of nee, that that gallant Officer was
;so long prevented from getting rank. That his Royel
.Highness in the end gave way, when the thing was
pressed upon him by circumstances that he could not
'insist, is true ; but in our minas it is not putting the
-merits of the Duke of YORK on the right ground, to
praise him for relaxing from that which he had so
long resisted upon principle.
Previous to the Military Administration of till
.Duke of YORK, we need not state, that promotion is-
jthe Army was in the hands of the Minister for the
:time being, and was used as an instrument of Parlia-
`mentor), influence. Rank was obtained, not by ser-
vice—not by gradation—not by talents—but by con-
'nectien, and by votes. A youth with borough interest
'could start up a Colonel in a week. This was a mon-
:strous grievance, and cut up the character of the
;Army by the root ; for it then was, as it now unfor-
tunately too often happens in the Navy, that a Gen-
tleman might be a Lieutenant all his life.
The Duke of YORK effectually corrected this evil, '•
:by establishing the rules of gradation, which no Par-
liamentary influence could overturn or evade. But
that which destroyed one evil created another. The
new rule of routine which stood in the way of extraor-
-dinary instances of merit, and Gen. GRAHAM, among
others, was for years kept back by the interdict which
it gave to his career.
We state the matter shortly, because we would wish
that the question of the system of strict routine, or of

loose discretion, should be discussed by persons more
44ifeirtint with Military affairs than we affect to be.
OUrXe.atlers will observe, that it is necessarily coupled
with another most important question, namely, whe-
ther the War Office should or should not be placed,
likerem other part of the influence of the Crown, in
the. hag* of the confidential Servants of his lAA-
Jars', and be subject to the cootroul of the Minister
in like manner gs every Other Department and Board
o(. thc..Spte or..whqher. it may safely be put into
the

4e bands of persons too high for contrast- 1, and over
whom -the Administration cannot exercise that au-
thority which is essential to promptitude and unity
of action ?
Se enortss, Aran. 1, 1/lil.—Arrived, the Vsztst, from the
Northward, and sailed for Chatham; Dittesittct, hum the
River Thames. The Kt re went out of Harbeer.
Y*ltssourr, APRIL I.—Arrived front the Note the Bruiser,
Pincher, and Exertion gun-brigs ; Pigmy, Tickler, and Swan
cutters. Passed a fleet of Merchant:ships for Heligoland.
Dem., APRIL I.—Sailed the Atciettve cutter with a convoy
of coasters, &c. for Portsmouth; whin ACTIVR COM* 011
cruise off Flushing.—Arrived the Ftx sloop of war from a cruize.
PORTSMOSITS, AFOUL I.—Arrived his Majesty's ships FOR..
ISIDASILR and THAIS from Plymouth ; and the Arnett* fripte,
from a r off Havre. Came Into harbour. Ms Majesty's ship