The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-12-09 00:00:00

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tons meddling. has been felt and deplored by every
Officer in the Peninsula.
6th. To the charge of Lord Wellington being
without artillery, sufficient for the capture of Bur.-
r; yOu say, that there were three or four trains
of artillery on the borders of Portugal, and at sea.—
Why, your guns might as well have been deposited
et Woolwich. But your Lordship, wilfully shirks
the complaint, which goes diitinctly to this single
point—that the British General was left utterly
destitute os r is t or mosey To TRAnsvoltT his
cannon. hat have you done with the me-
rorable five millions, given you expressly to pro-
vide for the late grand crisis of the war ? 'rlt;
Inte, I call it, for it is gone :—nhoot one third of that
disappeared in the vortex of the Elections—
i. jog war upon the Constitution of England,:
'ith the remainder yOu embarked in trade upon the
Con.na. lit: but Beroadotte would neither aid yeti,
pr,: accept your assistance—and in return for the
kith which he gaits our Ambassador, yen saluted
hire a Prince—and made England guarantee his do.
To these few amongst your unnumbered glories as
Olinister, I shall for the present content myself
With one addition. You plead guilty to having fore- ,
pea the uorthern war—so long back as last December.
Now vou must have been aware—nod you boast of
having been so—that no event within the range of
human fortunes, could have proved so propitious
so our arms iu Spain, as this determination ef
the strength of Bonaparte towi.rds Russia;—
nay more—you know every man that could be mus,
tried in Spin by the enemy, and the distribution of
wry regiment. Here, then, were materials for a
rrecise calculation as to what extent of force, on the
part of Great Britain; would suffice for the expul-
sion of the French armies. Whets have you done ?
There is no running away from this argument, my
good Lord, and every man in England feels its
power. With a crisis before your Cabinet, for
which you boast of having been long prepared—with
the accurate and fixed elements of a calculation
in your hand, by which any clerk in the War-
office might have foretold, to a hair's breadth,
What progress could be niade towards the Pyrennees
in a given time—l say, in the presence of all
mankind.-you ought to have secured the object—or,
finding it, on investigation, to be unattainable, you
ought to have saved the whole expence. We demand of
you, why you (lid neither? Why you have drained
us f blood and treasure for nothing 7 You must
either have believed that such exertions as we could
wake daring ?Napoleon's absence in Wissia. would
be sufficient to liberate the Yeilinsulti—or that they
would not. If the former were your sopposPion•—•
you have shown yourself a shallow speculator, unfit
for the desk of a common' insurance office: if the
lat'er—no words can describe your wickedness, in
sot having withdrawn the British army, from n
scene where it must be unsuccessful, to one where it
might possibly succeed. The opportunity,—let our
rcpeat,—was one which the whole world expected,
ald which never could return. The calculation was
easy ; the tables were before you. You have dire.
garded the first lesions of vulgar arithmetic, the
proper science of a drudge : you have forfeited all
claims to common hushanity, the legal inheritance of
a saint: every life you have destroyed in this now
fruitless contest, cries aloud for vengeance: every
dollar wasted, is a debt on which we shall levy ess-
ential. •

My Lord, I hare done. The British army starves;
—is unpaid,—and defeated. The People starre,--1
qre disappointed,—and disgraced. The mind of !
your Sovereign has undergone a revolution. England
I: roused ; and yoi are ruined.
Dec. 5, 1812. V ETUP. •