Star.
London, England, 1811-02-13 00:00:00

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the Adgrese. He had tett a 'former occasion presented
himself to the and had eiperionced their in-
cledgenee when proposing a similar motion to the one
which he should no* have the hnnour of submitting.
He feared much that his addressing them now would
only privint.e an additional instance of his own un-
worthiness ; and, indeed, when he considered the
ditheolties of his present situation, he felt sensibly
that he should require a double portion ot their in-
dulgence. The bare occasion of their assembling
presented unusual and additional difficulties. Tee
'case was new, but then it was jitstitiee bt an ienpe-
riot's necessity ; a necessity, in combating which
much praise was due to the vigilance of Parliament,
much credit attached to the enemies of Atiministre-
tion, much love and veneration to the Regent him.
self. The great singularity of his own situation
would, he feared, prevent the possibility of his
doing jtistice to it. lie should be glad to have
passed over the first words of the Speech, and in the
course of it altogether follow what he was sure was
the wish of the Regent, namely, to abstain from
saying any thing to wound the feelings of his and
their common father. (Hear, hear.) It was his
greatest and most confideet hope, that they were now
arrived at that period when unanimity mieht be expect-
ed; a period which more than any other clairned the pen=
tection of Parliament. It would prove, he should hope,
the commencement of peace amonet them, the date of
thecessation of hostilities, the signal for the union of all
parries, when one side of the House would offer its
talent and its spirit, and the other carry an oblivion of
' all disputes into Tone common exertion for the service
of the country. The speech sheaved them the necessity
of that ttnion; it displayed,in faithful fea i ores, the situ-
ation of Great Britain. He should now content himself
by g:ancing briefly at those. tooicks in itechich would
of course hereafter become the subject of in ire mature
discussion. The addition to our colonies be the c I pm: e
of the islands of Bourben and A mhoyna, he w-asfartrom
thinking inconsiderable. However, he dig not mean
now to offer as a boast that we had taken much, when,
we might have almost said before that we had taken:
, every thing. With respect to Sicily, and the fruitless
vaunting of the expedition to thatcountrysit might pee-
-1 haps contain an anal egy to the scheme of our own in-
vasitm. ' The defeat of the enemy seemed only to have
inspired him with hope ; and when his gun boats viers
railed out on the future occasion for which he Was pee-
'serving them, no doubt, our own shores would exhibit
, that gallantry which our soidiers had evinced on a
1 foreign one. He now came to the affairs of the Pe-
, niastala ; and there, lie could say, without fear of con-
tradiction, that the plans of the enemy were completely
imatrattd.-4 Thar, Hear, Hear.)—Comparing the
state of Spain now with the state in which it stood at
the commencement of the lest Session, it was plain
that we had every thing to hope. The ambition or
France was checked, her threats dieappointed,and her
predictions falsified. The very organ which had before
prtclestineel the fall of empires, and too fatally verified
ittepenphecy ofruin-aettiet very organ, the Moniteur of
Piance, which appeared to have had the gift of inspi-
ration, and the power of decyphering the scroll of
futurity, had proved at length its own fallacy in the
groundless vaunt that not a single Englishman should
quit the Peninsula. Wehad made no such boast; but
the absence of boasting was not to be considered a s the
result of depression. We had no grounds for depres-
sion. There was nothia epre3s us in the erstduct
of the campaign, nothint the battle of Busace, irno-
thing in the bravery andpetriotism of the Portuguese
army, (Hear), animated as they were by their own ar-
dour, and disciplined by the guidance of our officers.
They had, indeed, a noble exar4le set them by the sol-
diery,as well -telly the Cornmender of the. British troops.
Lord Welling" n had ernieently displayed, throughout
hiscainpaign in the Peninsula, those qualities for which
he had been bet'. ire celebrated; and developed, also,
every military qualification, his possession of which
had been before dnulred.— ( Hear, hear.) —He was
the more anxious to say thus ninth on this subject,
when he considered ehe delicacy of his situation who
was to follow him in the debate. Pottugal, then,
offered every hope, and surely Spain was not the sub-
ject cf despair—Spain, which had tirade such noble
efforts when her treasure was ebselu.ely in the hands
of her enemy, and her Legislature even at this mo-
ment blockaded by his armies. The, hype, cheering
as was the prospect it held out to all, ought to be a
subject ot congreulation, not only to the country hut
to e':e administration : it justified their Views and
their measures, and rescued them from a serious
weight of responsibility. Nn doubt in such a strife,
gle Spain must have suffered, but there was as little
doubt that France had also se tiered deeply. It indeed
he was asked, in what campaign the ei,emy had lost
most, he should point to the 'present. Perhaps it
would not he in his piover to offer the distinct and
precise docnnients for his assertion ; hut still from ge-
neral reeteoning and perticular dates, it would be
found that France had poured into the Pyrenees no
less than 650,000 men. If he could m t immediately
point out the parts of Spain in which they had been
disposed of, his excuse was to be found in the nature
of the country itself ; a country of which it has been
said, that it was in possession of the French by day, and
the Speniards by night. Not only, however, had Spain
been benefited by our interference in her cause, notonly
had our own character and country been elevated and
assisted—but all Europe, all the world, perhaps, par-
ticipated in its advantages. From what he now saw
going on in the North of rirope, he had little besi-
ration in saying, that had it not been for Spain, the
powers which wive now debating her policy might
have been suffering M her thraldom. Petersbitreh
itself, so far from being the extremity, would have
been the centre of *French dominion. ( Hear, hear, hear.)
He had but one observation pressed upon his mind
by the consideration of America, and that was, that i
slier the conduct of France should have been known
there, end the doubts with respect to her vessels pro-
mulgated, we had every right ne expect a favourable
termination to our present negociations. The view
of our •commercial and financial concerns was, as
represented by the Speech, with only one exceptioa,
particularly prosperous. Such a circumstance. at
all times consolatory, was now, when the war had
taken a new turn, especially so. In such a con-
test as we were engaged, ensue instances of par-
tial failure, even
in our maritime exertions, where
we were most successful.-trust be looked for. But
these were natural, and we must be prepareB 'for
them: we must nct, at all events, allow them to cloud
the prospect of aur generally Prow:roue situation,"

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