Star.
London, England, 1810-03-31 00:00:00

r PARLIAMEATARr PROCEEDINGS.
HOUSE OF LORDS, MARCH-So.

Upon the Scotch Appeal, Hill v. Ramsay, Mr. Bet tt.t s was
heard further for the Respondent, Mr. Boas ca for the Apel-
bnt, and Mr. ADAM in reply. After which the Loan CHANCEL,
LOR affirmed the Decree 'of the Court of Session, but without costs.
Mr. LUstIINGToN, Colonel S rANLEY,attd Mr. LONG, brought,
up several Private Bills from the Commons.
The Duke of NORFOLK having; received some further informa-
tion upon the subject of the Bil, the second reading of which he
had moved for next Tuesday, obtained leave to withdraw that
Motion. . •

SPANISH PAPERS.
Lord GRENVILLE now rose to make his pro
mised motion respecting the Spanish Papers. It will
with. extreme ,reluctance and pain,: that he now ad-
dressed their Lordships, and proceeded to -the dis-
charge of it duty no less embarrassing than it was
painful. He trusted that no disposition would beim-
puted to him.of creatinsei:naginary difficultiei, Or of
magnifying real ones. 'sßut the present difficulty bore
so hard upon his mind and feelings, abet be would •
gladly accept of the Noble Lords opposite, or from
any Lord who heard the intimation, of. any means
to lessen or relieve it. It had always been the prac-
tice with the Government of this country, and it was
an indispensible obligation upon- the Gevernmencof
every civilized country, in their negociations with
foreign states, to take peculiar care to protect their
agents from peril or inconvenience This, indeed,
was a duty so obvious, that any omission or depar-
tuie from it must unavoidably contribute not only tc
the dishonour and disgrace of the Government so
conducting itself, but must deprive it of all credit or
competency in the progress of future negociations.
And yet it would be found, that on the perusal of the
Papers recently laid upon their Lordships table, and
which he now held in his band, that a most shameful
and opprobrious disregard, or rather, he must say,
contempt of this honourable and essential principle
had been manifested by the King% Ministers. He
trembled and shuddered at the task which he felt im-
posed on him ; for, while it was necessary to essmee
and brand with signal reprobation an enormity which
he believed was unparalleled in the diplomatic history
of this country, he could not but be aware,. that even
in that .exposuie, he might perhaps be aggravating
the evil of which he was complaining. The evil itself,
indeed—that dismal and disgraceful calamity to which .
he alluded, was now' past remedy—
" Voir irrevocabile r
The dreadful shaft was shot, and now the only slen-'
tier consolation that remained was, to prevent the
discharge of more arrows from that fatal qaiver.---
Upon looking into tha Papers on the Table; their
Lordships weadd find, that not only all honourable
and conflosential regard towards our Allies, and the
persons. acting under their authority, had bon omit•
ted s but that their character, conduct,And principles
issd been directly and shamelessly attacked, and that,
too, whhout the chance or possibility of those in;livi
duals de. ending themselves, or repelling accusations
which must render them odious, as well as criminal;
in the minds of their countrymen. Here his Lordship
read part of a letter from Mr. Frere, in which that.
Minister stated, that General Cuesta was more than.
suspected of hostile designs against the Central Junta,
Inter whose authority he held his command. That
this hostility, for some fancied injury, had been rank-
ling in his breast for six months. That he was jealous
of the superior talents of the Duke de Albuquerque,
then serving under him. In another part of the
letter, Mr. nese described General Cuesta as utterly
unfit f,:r his post, and that all the world agreed, that
there were only two men in Spain that were duly qua-
lified to take the command, even of a small body of
troops, and that these two were General Blake and
the Da::e de Albuquerque. Here his Lordship ob-
served upon the effect of those letters, which, by the
scandalous publicity which Ministers had. given to
them, had probably reached Cadiz, where Isiah Gehe-
r :1 Cuesta and the Duke de•Alboquierque now were.
What kind of feelings were those letters calculated to
- excite ? His Lordship then adverted to another letter
of qMte a private, nature, from the Duke de Albu-
querque to a friend of his, in which the Duke ob-
serves, that he had obtained the signal approbation
of General Wellesley, and that he was considered By
every officer, and by the whole army, assbeingMuch
better qualified to take the command than Cuesta.—
It was impossible not to foresee the most injurious
and lamentable consequences from such indecent dis-
closures as these. The letter from the Duke, hehad
observed, was merely of a private nature, and so
much of that character distinguished it, that it con-
tained an injunction not to mention the name of a
certain person who had recommended the appoint-
ment of the Duke. Yet in defiance or:contempt of
this solemn, and he would say, sacred injunction, the
paper was sent into the world ; aye,, and Ministers
had the audacity to make their Lordships, the inttrii-
went of so outrageous a breach of trust delicacy.
He would not be understood to throw censure on Mr.
Frere, for Iny-commuuications or. opinions. which he
might think fit to transmit to Ministers, though he
must strangely condemn the flippancy with which that
aatches -be -haracters of

Gentlemati discusses and dispatches the ct, —.p tcrent circumst.„.
gas from that which the Noble Earl suppog.ed:'. The
persons entitled to respect.. But wlrat. be felt himself•
bound to condemn and execrate, was the stand*. circumstance now alluded to was subsequent to thai
ex- connected.with the sf .otme.
loss and unprincipled conduct of Ministers, in multaneous Movement of
posing those papers which they ought to have pre- ral Venegas with Sit... Arthur Wellesley. .- -
served in sacred silence, merely with the despicable', -,. -
rt•
i he qu
' estion VMS then pot on tlle MOtiolVai Lotd.
view of screening themselves by any means, or at any
GAYA Vi..4i and negatiied without i.diVitiond .. ~
sacrifice, horn the odium which their conduct through . Adjourned
0 monda T. . .• . . . , ,
the whole of this business, as well as of every other ...
---
in which they had been concerned, must draw upon . . -:
them. The papers would distlos? the names of three __
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r,teeived
from
itulividnals, who in all probability might soon be in LgewsreutistAr:ol
orwertb the 'lloki of' the liOuse. • !,
the.power of the French Government—Here it was The Sall ihield 14; *nicer Hid' Rif read'i first,attiardited to be:,
intimated from a Peer behind, that two of those per- read a second Oise
.antlaliteri!tairxt. ,•. • : '-: -. • .
sons were now actually in the power of the 'rench).
cogaile?ittliAosr
°Cf.
the
_2..satt,
niXCPtegra.Eilltsimritand,sitithasscotthr:
—upon which his Lordship made a solemn and pa-
loatesshouldb‘def t goodsi. • , :)
thetic appeal to the House to step forward, and as his, CRIEVkY : *nto* 4wheptet4tiez,hfaied Sir a: '
far as it was yet possible, to save the country - fi'om -Barlow Saibmvoisteradfoakeof .
._ . , -..- • . • 1
^. e which the neglect, and m is- llte CHANCELLOR, at thit EXC.ii4S2u 4_ll, te,lo. al well at
*ettriksip
,as calculated to bring upon it. ' the le."1".. a hit vette erg* '4olleits that such a
could cow move, that Whatever. nilffec".""rtv.E77,....lll 4/214.,„..; • -, . • ;hie eh 1me..,..,. ,_____, . _
e_ proceedings in Spain, which be weal& more for all trefloornorr:adomi‘ :be ria''7•4l:7o rot.
be printed after those already veroaseita le the-whiter er theist. e.♦ tetatrieP"te.ir.tPteetteet to
..idships, should he. consigned to the Plethhtter el hle4cefe_.__, ,• •
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bertha*
ttedihe !
, such as may be disclosed with-) 1": ""frm7gin Wu. t.:7647:1114:14/ta:ileattiefr
Lerdamps 1
lunlry, or 410;7 0-01* Allies, of • bed posed. a *17114 ••, sr ihteddikiat Iran Lady Essex by
Tned. rOta Wei, roWliki ttiol(Afteditlutsscurrowe Odds Howse.
LEY agreed with the Noble
,Tols Bat was go4*.cant dme.

•.. _ _ ;
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Lord {Grenville), as to what he had said, partici"- f - ''' -• a DR. MAYNE.
larly. circumstanced, respecting the production of,
__14.1%,..a5-5. tag
since upon The Report of theConrinittee of Inclu!ry
.resptr
confidential' docuinents. What, however, was the 'rith a n 0
tin , 'g to ionic observadors be bad' made some
I.....„tature, what the extent of the present call. on theai in trgusactions in theiiiciattd.Hun DepartMein.4%istal2l wished to
onle
a whether
any
prosecution "d berelfa°rleatrons hint thatg gDe-
-11.0-oset The militaryaresialt of the cartipaigns in- ag'ainst Doctor Mayne for his pecuniary
'Spain `not 'having been' tsi thejust hopes , euralaialat '
Mr. ciOKER replied, that it happened to him to know that
and expectations of the' country, asitO wag there ;
the fart was, as the Honourable Gentleman %opposed, a prose
aMong their I.orashipi, thitt - %TIMM •iiot.'lriail the
;•oitie other ;l on very lately.
cutiva had ',exit comMenced against the Doctor, and was goo.g
case thoroughly sifted ? Hence, then if
-
ground, the undeniable necessity.of laying the pre- ; . BUPP L Y .
sent papers before 'their Lotilships.• Concerned
. was '
be to say, that the real `
thirsts of the rnistottunes of
the Peninsula had been obscured. • Those misfortunes
originated in the roismaaagentent and misdirection
the military resburcei. of Spain; nor coald they be
.11_ Mr. WHARTON moved the,House to go into a C. onstnidttee
of Suvie. The amount of Exchequer Bills outstaudi,og,.an
.Of
monies issued under addressel, not made good by 1 arhaa. ne.r...,
of were referred to the said Committee. The Honourable. f..ent t
• nil thl: Committee moved. that the sun) pf £15,160. sis. 61.
"2". granted to make good so much money issued portuant to ad-
i undue.lood WitliOnt the utmost eaplicitnees.. Respect- dereass and alai sei,6oo
• . The Resolutions having been agreed to, the House resumed, and
in General Cuesta, there-Was not one: woad *hien 000 be granted for Excheqtaer servicus.
i the papers orl Eke table did not 'fairly and fully the Report was ordered for Monday.
•
WALCIIEREN EXPEDITIONI.
bear out. With *gar& to: hi-111501f,, 'he 'trusted, The CHANCELLOR of the. EXCHEQUER
1 ana ilils. in . GOD t. that all the documents . expla-
. Navin
natory of his conduct while ina
Spain, would be g moved the Order of the Day for going into the
djourned debate on the Walcheren expedition,
Iconvassed • and not as the Noble Lord {Grenville)
Sir THOMAS TURTON tell that he could say
Moved, referred to any Secret Committeel The re-
I nothing new after the long and able discussion which
smoval of General Cuesta *as not *worth his :formal
had already taken place, and given the House all the
demand : it was that which of-coarse must take place;
and in fact, General ttiesta; With universal katisfac- information that was necessary on the subject.—
laugh.) For his part, be *would not limit his yen-
'
How itted ell command
wete Ministers fri het? illfartisir Deatees, t'" servedance to one Member of the Cabinet ; they all de--
ty
(Hear, Lear.) But lie must acknowledge he could
Lion to the people Of Spain, nbdit
there, the 'first week after-bit OW'n arrivalinSpain.— not help speaking on the subject for all that. *(A
gether with the imbecili of the GoVernmeot,' were
Elie proximate causes rind ete rindntitalag'entsi of and ,in, to be attacked, and he could not let one of
them pass ; but he must take the liberty of apprieing
the catastrophe Otthireabiaulta. Were the*.causes
to be screened? Were-those'effeets to be. He
denied ? the House that they might simplify the subject,- and
perfectly sathfiedivith recomMendin g rite Duke save themselves trouble, by forgetunitheolddiaiiien
of the question, and adopting a new one. He would
d'Albuqueique : winless, -as hill COnfirMation of
this, that General's defence of Cadiz. Four men therefore, for the sake of brevity, arrange theaihole
lin three divisions—the Ist, of the object ; the 2d, of
theme were, though the -Noble Lord did not, pru-
the means
dourly he supposed, naine'thent, Who might 'be, he
;• and the 3d, of the retention of,Flushiag.
The first he would divide into two others. (A laugh,
felt free to own, affected by the' papers'on the table.
Of these, the first was proscribed by ourGoveenrnent and man 7 Member: leaving the Home.) Those two were
I—first, the British objects concerned ; and second,
.—the second was notorionaly disaffected to the cause the objects of the allies. It had always appeared to
of Spain - the third case was one whkh the Noble him very extraordinary that expeditions were so much
Lord either had not sufficiently examined, or did not , the favourites of the English Ministers. The Ex-Se,
understand ; and, as to the fourth, the fourth was the crerary had said, that the last was. undertaken as a
lease of some one employed, notoriously employed,
.-diversion ; he had moved for many papers to spew
by the French Government. Now, where was the , this ; and lastly talked of the retention of the island,
evil of exposition, where the benefit of compromise, . as only prudent with a view to combined operations
in all this ? If, indeed, we were at amity with
' with Austria. - It might be necessary to make sacri.
Spain, _perfectly understood, we should conceal, even • fices to secure an object like the destruction of the
honour, her feelings: but when the weakness of her
. French fleet ; but for his part, he would not enlarge
conduct had produced incalculable calamities, why , upon the operation, for he (Sir Thomas Turton),
conceal the evil ? Being her allies, instead of conceal- . knew nothing whatever of military matters ; but five
ing such Mischief, we ought to expose it ; in order to . Generals said the contrary ; they were all adverse to
lay the grounds ter at better policy—(•Laugiu)—be- i the attack ; and if Lord Nelson's authority was to
tWeen the two countries. Whatever might be thetas- ibe brought forward, what was it that his Lordship
ject of the Noble Lord's motion, he {Marquis I.Velles-
t said ?Nothing more than that Flushing ought to be
icy) desired that his own dispatches respecting the
! taken, for the sake of the ships that were lying there.
Peninsula might, at least, be candidly lubmitted to ,
But when it •was afterwards proposed to take it by
the world. ...._ i
surprize, we had not 15,000 men out of 104,000 that
Earl GREY supported the motion moved by Lord
. •• • were on the table. The Honourable Member 'then
Grenville ; and insisted on the impropriety of produ-
' went into the examination of the facts stated in evi-
cingdpetantents which involved the fate of individuals, i
deuce by Sir Richard Strachan. Here, said lie, we
not.called fiaa when sufficient passagea might have i
find the Admiral giving his opinion against the pro.
been selected to answer the purpose of inquiry. Were, ect ; and is it not wonderful that they ever should
however, :the papers 'referring to Cuestaa rtn-d Albu- (have sent him ?(A laugh.) A aallant General,
querque sift that strip'? (H'. r, Hear.) The opinion (Crawford) had, after going. through his campaign,
of the Noble Mirquis as to Ctresta's imbecility, with !
I said that he would have driven the enemy's troops
that of Spain, was rather adverse to what h© nut
! before him like dust ; but perhaps that dust might
once pronounced in the House.. Formerly the Noble 1; hare been particles of shot that might have touched
Marquis praised Cuesta-a-( Hear, Hear.) —Formerly;' our men, and laid them level with the dust. (Loud
the Noble Marquis panegyrised the Spanish niilitary.llaughing
.) .
He bad great respect for runny of the Mir
—General Cuesta once collected, according to the nistry, and particularly for a Noble Lord (Castle-
Noble Marquis, the best disciplined of the Spanish . reagli), for whose absence he was extremely sorry.—
armies. Even now Cuesta was at Cadiz, contending I Indeed in the thin state of the House (the Members
for the last best hope of this country in Spain, (Here ' having almost entire)aleftthe benches), he was sorry
Marquis Wellesley motioned, with his hand, some-
to
fundamen-
thing like a negative to what Lord Grey had said).. have delivered his oVitaion on this great
ad vital subject ; -,hui-theVkwaS'no- part-of the eon-
-Why, then,' produce confidential communications, ; duct-pflalinisfers to Whitt) he Must notistijecta What
betraying private correspondenCe ; affecting the- uke I •
did ttey do With ont'arilifjeasaontileir return '?- What
'D'Albuqucrque, and General Venegas, one of__ the i he woi.ld have theluettheprOper Made .was, 6 have
most. distinguised commanders Of Spain, no* in I sent them off to stiiWn ao recoveraind then pot arms
, South America ?. Considering the influence we once I
into theivabands, and Seat that .to of nose the 'enemy.
•
possessed, in the Peninsula, why did we not remon-
(Lou
strate against the Spanish Junta, when they suffered;l. d and: continuellbuihing.) He would not have
seat aliem'aout in 'drigleti a. lie woad not have sent
(consequently on the information of Cevallos) seven them out -piecemeal. 'After some. additional obser-
hundred French prisoners to be put coolly to treat- ! various,the Honotfinble•
•Meivilsei concluded, by
Surely their Lordships would pause ; and consider saying, that hiawished to extirpate the very name of
the effect that this ;oviduct Might have on the future eapcaliticni- •'
character •of the war. Could the Noble Marquis
Mr: CANNING rose to explain. He was surprised
(Wellesley) have already fargotten, that his -Noble ,at the mistakei.whieb the Honourable- Gentleman
Brother (Wellington) had found himself obliged to
ictadd haveauffeied hiniself to make in remarking on
appeal to the humanity of a French .Gerieral; on be- his (Mr. Canning's). evidence.. In contradiction to
half of his abandoned prisoners ; and that the appeal ' those -remarks, the fad was, that he (Mr. 'Canning)
was attended to, generously acknowledged, by the
had never moved tor the Austrian correspondence ;
foe ? Suppose the present p:lpetS• to be translated into or. spoke pif the retention of Walcherep, as a come-
Freud', and meet the eyes of the Emperor Napo- quence 'deny 'cotniatunication with Austria. . •
lean ,• might not he, particularly in the instance of .
jenetal I,.OFTUS thought.it was necessary, in
,the Governor of Million—might not Bonaparte, who order toc-appreciate the merits of the Expedition, to
was more able to, strike than to threaten, inflict the consider-the* state. of Europe at the time it was sent
Most terrible Vengeance on those, exposed by our do- out. The great pii*er of Prance, die great impor-
curnents, whom hp_discorered to be traitorous to his tance of the"nattaw seas„ and the paraniount Dirt
of the Scheldt' fleei, rendered it -In hiii.oPinicin e sera
interests ? The Noble Marquis did- not, he hoped,
wish." to situate the House in this situation." It tially necessary to our own interests, •to Make this
Was his wish that a Committee should be appointed effort. The opposition of wind and 4cather frus-.
to revise the document% now on thetabled the House. trated the effort, arid a 6 rishneit on the part of mi.
• Th. Marquis WELLESLEY observed, that the nisters. ,
Sir FRANCIS BURDETT was very much stir-
papers now before their Lordships referred..tO• a' dif-
-.tante in the conduct of GenefalVene- wised - the doctrine which heahad heard, that be-

prised at
clue it was. an object of vital' importance.to destroy
Antwerp,
.we should therefore have undertaken it
*with' meant. , fa. its executiow •He 11:13
that-in proportion to: the iniportante of the
. object ~•.Ingla to -be the -means. employed. StirPriseil
as he was at,this,, live/ever, he confessed his astonish-
' meet was hicrdisesl in **tenfold degree at the coot
indiffirisiei.witkiihithihe.floble Lord opposite had
affected to-argue talaniines which had been . de-
' rived, tn:iheinnetry his
More dilas!roos, Mord:tilt:a ceful, and more. dreadful
ttfait FitrartsMfrnio'nol'otheil'expeditiotrin. the his.
iopt; the .•ttf 'the present period. The
tstdble'Ldirhatt t tesli a ivish to ha4e this expe.
triecrby fati: •tn fris'OPiaiori? Diat.viii Pre-
l'clael:t the' ordeal by ';,,ihictr;Ati,- order, to suit Fit
iettiit of the Otithf'nnft•Olg-tried
thereiVii 'wli?cti lid liot; ,
ion.: Teti
I-160,.Geotle.ripin .469hadrein 'ListiltAt; •
;lam a low and outfit- •
4hd to Od6to-..diittrait tbiiiiiiiictbfilte: • Sifnsin!
`the' oiq take to*hteltit-ihiftricFbisibelikV,
iiirveftif Wtuitkitt''tie iworia itO
argued *atilt •Etiz'altron'thight to 4041 beg` fent
admewlnee.' Piellatritatextthillt
to the. NortlaVvilozGittiiiifiroftbVirteitttNitthOut-

-eonsldera 'go datigerelft ; d, indeed, of a
total fai!ur
He had even, in his fandied speculations, talked or
treading the Straits of Gibraltar, and prophesied
great danger fisnm such ail attempt. He was not dia.
posed to deny that every one of those Expeditions
might have been abortive and ill-advised in the adop-
tion, but he would deny that any one of them could
,have met with more complete failure, or more cal.l-
- consequences, thanN eiddidierththgaeindeacnit:.:ei:itnytavitiLl:zeilltidcatl::::‘.J..
acted one—
, siah Inia, nor'the Straits of Gibraltar, nor ',!-:e Zkl,
( Hear, hear.)
. d
thei te iram
aril
~itit
eS f,-,,:t,
which, cot isledntheotmtro;nte
vferi
to fall before an invincible enemy, the plague,
Marshes of Walcheren. • Ministersi•however, •:;1 ~,,_ .
think so ; they determined to tend out an ENF:,•:.1...,
land out they sent one, without having obtained 'a.,.
'particle 'of information as to how it should pence :2,
or taking one single precaution against. 'lie r:,.-• -
perils which- impeded their progress. In N...:
last, the Noble Lcrd conceived the idea ti ibis ; •: •..
paign ; be thought he had a disposable !nr;-,. ; ,!
.once he had it he was determined to waste ii. ; ir:.: ~,
he sent to the Commander in Chief for hie .pinion dii f
the subject.a-The Commander in Met sent back
for anSwer; that he could not spare 16,000 men fi r
the purpose! -Sixteen thousand men out of the enor-
mous establishment . paid for by the country ! The
ExpeditiontOuld not therefore sail in March. No ;
necessity and the prudence of the Ministry prevented
it. The feVet was-not then to be.met with, and the
ships might then Intere•beeis taken.;- and so the Eite
dition was *dent-red until the raging of the disease,
'and the ii6ry of the airtnament. ' In July then they
set out to carry' the fever, Antwerp, and the fleet,
by a coup-rte:snate..:e-(Hear, )--a coup-de-main ! and yea
it appeared by the ceders of the French' Emperor to
his officers, that he was apprised of the intention even
se far back •as March. • if he had not this certainty,.
such were thetabals and vacillation of the Ministry,
that he would 'not believe they had themselves con-
ceived the project at that period. He could not help
'now making One inference, however, from our ea-
' verty of force in M irch last ; which was, that the
House and the country had been most grossly de-
ceived in the estimate of our loss during the preced-
ing campaign in Spain, which had been laid before
them by Monsters. If this estimate had been true, it
was impossible that we should not have had forces
enough to send the expedition to Walcheren ; but tip
estimate waanot true. We had lost much more iil e_
the Ministers chose to disclose, and the country ea.,
idriped into an opinion, that its situation was more.
[prosperous than it was.—(Hear, hear.)—At length,
however, ,ttl:tispo
eNosbaLle force
Nobleuz cotild muster, undertook the
i ertEx, pedition
with against
the great skill of-the ..Frepeli Emperor, and the great
roper
of France, _whim slnsweirer, wrotffe viq now, in _eect, all Eti-
rope. The Noble:Lord, a most cu-
rious letter to tin:Commander ,itaChief, pointing oue
the advantages of 'the Expedition, and declaring, if
it was not then undertaken, that Antwerp would soon
be impregnable. After this, what did he do ? Why,
commenced this important Expedition without one
single iota of information i He sent out an immense
armament, merely to see whether a blow might not
he somewhere struck against the enemy. The Noble.
Lord dispatched the Expedition at last without infor-
mation on which to proceed, without a plan to guide
it, or the supposed opprisitiim of any danger, until
it reached Batz, while all its 'operations terminated t
From the depaiture of di! Expedition, till its artiss.
at Bate, there was not r roe step which did not demand
enquiry. It was sent out without an idea of danger
till it came to -Betz, and yet at that very place did
Ithis great Army, conducted by greater lolly, end
its catalogue of disease and disasters by an announced
failure.—(Hear, hear.) To send out this Expedition,
however, the .Noble Lord was determined, because
he considered that there was a fit disposable force ie.
the country ; a supposition taken tip in direct opposi--
tion to every military opinion 'he bad asked. The
Noble Lord was like the poor man in Horace, who
could not be persuaded that all the wealth in the
country did not belong to him. The indifference of
tht Noble Lord was-'now detestable ' • the calamities.
which he entailed on the country were horrible, fright-
ful beyond expression, and the levity with which he
treated the subject now truly dreadful. The Noble
I Lord had an idea, that because Antwerp was at the
nwliotimmeti:tt di‘..lifitirul4tt y.traio.phsis,
lhve:s naligmhotsttafkaellaictioautsoidneT
There was not, most probably, at this moment, a
perfect garrison either at Toulon or Brest ; and yet
what man in his senses could conceive the notion of
taking either by a cols-de-main ! If these things were
to be persisted in—if diefoeces of -the country were
to be thus unnecessarily; and unprofitably squanderea,.
it was impossible not to foresee how it would end.—
The Noble Lord had, however, thriught proper to
take sonic opinions as to the possibility of taking
AntWerp by acoali-de-rartina, - He asked the opinion (-e
the Commander in Chief; he knew nothing at all
.about the matter: bur he tcferred to four General
Officers, and they, indeed, produced documents it,
'reply, full of official`' form, hill of affected science,
assumed pomp; and perfect inanity. All of them
sail,
..if you 'do so and sop you may succeed ; yet all
agreed upon the idea of the coup-de-main-upon An:-
werp being absurd. General Brownrigg propoaa,
two places of campaign.; there was some slight oh-
jections to both ; the one was impossible, and the
other impracticable. The, attempt by Ostend was Get
oethequestion ; and the other plan, evert putting the
fever aside, verY: doubtful of success. In such ase
tnation was the military part of the Expedition s
out : the same miserable deficiency in means, pila.
and inforination, attended the navy—the Noble 1,-71
at the head of the Admiralty- knew nothing at ;i.'
-+he was -quite ignorant 'on every subject ,on which
he shmild be 'informed ; so traX Sir Richard St: t.'
;ban ; be told Lord Mulgrave 'so, but Lord Mita
grave was not,tobe persuaded even by fact. 4g Nor
wud he, 44
. you certainly'do know nothing, but that is
the reason.l have great easaftfidence in you."—Thes
'lorent forth this disastrous'Expedition, to diminish
the hottotiteof our army, and destroy the best hopes of
=cLAlfear. , Nsen.} In fifteen days, it Was cal-
toga
Vie' thi thavereached Antwerp by Ostend;
thii wits 'data . fit a svejaile-weia• and was *ban'
=lre in varakaesses was
' ; the other .afalanding
even beret we got to Bats the lima
ravel ' eihaustesi. (Ear, hear.) Ilut stiatebii•
tai • And the Conthuntert vreraddighted..anatul.
'' '.'•- Ti • • between them--it was. av nu,-
' ' ' .•
• pissed
:•,• • - sued ailecfithis It . ever beard of. The ~t..
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