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merits of the Noble Lord (Castlereagh) who, he ob.
served; in vain, bottomed himself upon Lord Chat-
ham and tire Expedition against Rochefort, and then
proceeded to a height where he continued elevated,
like the poor monk on Pompey's pillar. Leaving the
Noble Lord upon his imaginary height, it would be
easy to drive him from his other holds, when he would
be left bottomless. The Noble Lord had, however,
tried to bottom himself on Lord Chatham ! the great
Lord Chatham ! Why, if the talent of the whole Adm-
inistration was united and compared with the single in-
tellect of that man, it would look as " Ossa to a wart."
Lord Chatham dislodged a wretched and intriguing
cabal; he was dismissed from office; he rose superior to
his difficulties, gained strength from the fall of the mean
administration which superseded him, and raised Eng-
land to the pinnacle of gloryonwhichshestood proudly
at the commencement of this reign. On such a man's
acts, he feared the Noble Lord could establish no prece-
dent for his conduct. Failing here, the Noble Lord next
bottomed himself upon General Wolfe ! Gen. Wolfe
went to Quebec, most probably ignorant of his ulti-
mate destination ; but he succeeded in his designs, and
General Wolfe stands, both for us and for future
times, a model of enterprize and discretion—(Hear,
hear.) The next person to whom the Noble Lord
had recourse was Lcrd Nelson ! Lord Nelson had a
foresight peculiarly his own, to which he feared the
present attempted parallel was but ill suited. At
Aboukir he depended on himself; he saw that his
ships could sail where those of the enemy swam, and
lie made an attack on them ; only one ship of as gal-
lant a Captain as any in the Navy went on shore, and
Nelson said he was glad of it, as it served the others
as a buoy ; he succeeded in his attack, and attained a
glory, in comparison of which the present imbecility,
sunk doubly—(Heir, hear.) At Trafalgar, he im-
proved on the expedient of Clerk ;...and at Copen-
hagen he confirmed all his former successes, and esta-
blished his future glory. On this man also, it was
to be feared, the Noble Lord could find no bottom.
Thenext precedent chosen was theexpedition to Egypt;
that expedition first was intended for Belleisle, and had
actually proceeded to. Ferrol ; it went, however, to
Egypt ; and the event covered Abercrombie and his
brave coadjutors with glory. On this also he feared
there was no bottom. (Hear, hear.) - He did not
know, indeed, where the present Ministry could find
a parallel. He would remind the House, however,
of the expressions of the-Great Frederick relative to
the men who had preceded Lord Chatham. The
House might apply them. " They were" said hey " a
batch of wretched little lawyers, presuming to compare
themselves to Prince Eugene, whom the great Lord
Chatham ousted." (Hear, hear, hear.) Having in
vain tried to bottom themselves, then, upon great pre-
cedents, they had recourse to such authority as exist-
ed among themselves ; and a Right Hon. Gentleman
declared that General Brownrigg gave an opinion in
favour of the Expedition. The fact, was, however,
he did no such thing. The Right; Hon. Gentleman
then said the Dutch were sluggish and would not
rebel. The General was here against him; but the
Right Hon. Gentleman used his evidence most con-
veniently.; affirming.it where it made for him; and
totally disregarding it where against him. It was
said, however, that they wished •to discredit 'this
evidence. They certainly did not; they merely
contrasted it with the' evidence of vthers,• and
finding three to one against a gallant General, and
the gallant General against the Right Honourable
Gentleman himself, they drew the obvioui inference.
. An attack of this kind came badly from those who
thought proper themselves to disregard Colonel Gar-
, don. But it had been found out that Colonel Gordon
• , was a young man without experience. Now, really
• he would much sooner be a young man without ex-
perience, than an old man in the same situation. He-
;meant no disrespectful allusions, but he certainly had
no fear in putting the experience of Colonel Gordon
against that of Lord Chatham.—(Hear.) By way of
an excuse for, the appointment of Lord Chatham, it
bad been said he had served in America. This was
not the case; he never had served in America. He
-bad served, indeed, in the disastrous campaign of
Holland ; and, as Sir David lYundas had said, he
had no doubt he had behaved very bravely .there;
but still that was no reason for now 2giving him the
The Noble
rely on his own judg-
he disdained military
foble Lord's language,
/ens who would first
ieed, and-,then run and
;. Why, what rogues
Lord have associated
What an aspersion did
ions ? (Hear, hear.)—
inions. There was an
on this subject, when
if the army in Italy—
of the campaign, which
this plan he read to his
.ding it, he tore it. He
had the Noble Lord.
the one produced vic-
disgraces, for which an
demanding vengeance.
ether anecdote recorded
shew his respect for
aescription -of persons
derive them. After a
igns, he did not choose,
I upon himself, nor did
ipon his Generals or
ion-commissioned of&
their decision. The
: only thought proper
I stance, but even now
_ not supply him with a
express his ridicule of them ;
new word to express his
William Erskine ; it
grotesque and " chiral-
, of comprehension in
unprehend the term.—
light he sir William
.c him as Commander
'e General Brownrigg
tould take the field thus
the issue ; and he saw
he was willing to fight
evidence of his General
stations cast on it ; and
)uncing it as clear, dis-
had ever heard. It was

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but still that was no reason for
command of 40,000 men.—
Lord, however, 114 d chosen to
rnent in all his appointments ;
opinions ; they were, in the Nc
like lawyers' opinions—lawye
deny the validity of a title-dee,
purchase the estate themselves.
of lawyers must the Noble l
with !—(Hear, hear, hear.) W
i I be cast upon his old companio
The Noble Lord disdained °pit
anecdote related of Bonaparte
ha went to take the command of
He brought with him a plan of
had been digested in Paris ; ti
General Officers, and after read
had a plan of his own, and so I
The only difference was, that 1
• tory, and the other calamitous d
' • indignant country was now de
(Hear, hear.) There was anti
of Bonaparte, which would
military opinions, and the de
from whom he chose to del
failure in one of his campaign
' like the Noble Lord, to depend
he choose to depend either It'
Captains, but he collected his ni
cers together, and abided by
Noble Lord had, however, not
to reject opinions in the first in:
the common vocabulary could n
phrase strong enough to express
he had absolutely coined a nev
disregard of the evidence of Sir
was (said the Noble Lord) grc
roes." It might be dullness
him, but he really did not con
, , !.‘ Chivalrous," however, as mi
Erskine, he was content to take
. . of his army, and he would give
to the Noble Lord, and they woi
arrang-ed—he had no fear for tl
, by the Noble Lord's smile, that h
him on his own terms. The ev
1 . •he must dtfend from the imputa
he had no hesitation in pronouni
v at!, and erudite, as any he hal
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