The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-03-03 00:00:00


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' notion vi" f a Military Inquiry. Were his Ma. which no human foresight could 'provide artiste";
jiggy's Ministers prepa.cd to say that Lord Chat. -which no human power could coutroel. :These
lesps never made euy comniunication to them as' unforeseen aierinncontroulable obstacles compd.
to the subject matter of that narrative? . Did .eel odeparttire Nom the original play of the,euterf
Lord Chatham, himself one of the advisers end- prize, and that departure ievolvedim miscarriage.
framers
of the Expedition. conceal, from his col. There was on no side eq. wilful neglect or want of
leagoes the causes which, whether arising from cortliaico-operation. The two services vied with
uncontroulable circumstances,'or from wilful neg. ehch other in activity and zeal. But impediments
feet, bad defeated the soceosplishment of the ob- arose which rendered every effort. insavailing (e-
-jects of the Expedition ? If they do say so,' wardseffectingtheattirnateubjeitsoftheexpeditien.
what a melancholy proof. it sifted, of the distrust! Here, too, would be found the Jitteiance between
jealousy, and want of harmony which au shame- .the present, case and 4tliat if the .Couvention "uf
Lally 'prevails among the advisers of thoCeown I Cintra. Here the two sorlices, the navy-and the
Can the affairs of. the country prosper in the army, were to co-operate in the executkon of the
'bands of men betweeu whom there is no cond. plan.- There the armionly was concerned. It was
deuce and cordiality--among whom there exists unusual, he believed whet,* unprecedented, for *
no common tie of feeling—no common system of Military Inquiry to be instituted into a conjoint
`action ? Is any other explanation necessary of service. Up •to the time when the antiwar was
pll the didiculties we aro involved in, of all the eve; to the Address 'of the City or London, no
disasters and disgraces we have enilui:ed f Lord charge bad been th'ade 9a any side to make an In-
Cisathauf enumerates in his narrative thovarious quiry, or on which to hinge any sort of investi.
delays and omissions on the part of the Piaui station. On this ground the propriety of ,that
Commanders of the Expedition, to which, be ha. answer rested. The case was quite otherwise, as
*pates the miscarriage of the Expedition. Hi' he had already stated, with regardto the Coofett•
came forward with these serious charges against them of Cintm.• The.blame, whatever ,of blame
a principal branch of the armament, and yet wes-halliwtasl, must rest with the service engaged-
it has been said there was no cause or room for li. in it. He could not therefore comprehend the ju;-
quiry. A foul blot is attempted to be cast on the lice of all the strictures which the 1110410 MitroUia
character and conduct of that service to which the bad made on the cOndect of his AlOl I,:a Go,
.couistry owes so much at its glory, and to which vcrnment. As to advising titcloseirmttirhich A
it must chiefly look for He protection and somseity. Majesty bid Made Sep, CityorestOtl'is,.,Adi..'
*lf such a charge were.. almeefore eell.foended,. dress, he had cOnfessinl 'that Ministerially!! ,Ifi;•
how darkened would be oar horizon—bow sponeible,end from that responsibility they would.
gloomy the views of our present and future si. not be issued to shrink. . .
tuation! Their Lordships have observed then's, Lord ROSSLYN. welt Into a m.' iut• responsibility
ber and the nature of the causes to which Lord lion of the diegatchei which•lnid b.eenaeot; !soma.
Chathatulas ascribed the failure of the Expe- at different periods of the ExpeditinOillte,,Na.
ditiun ; yet his coil/noes advise his Majesty try val and Military Commanders ...rely • metti 5.,, foil
tell the first Corporation in. the country, that he view of them Ile did not think It cpsdil•lts justly.
seesne cease fur instituting a Military inquiry. inferred that it was-ever the intention ,of Lord
Here the Noble Marquis read and commented upon Chatham -to cut any imputation whatsoever on
the answer of his Majesty to the Address of the condUct of 'Sir Richard Strachan. There, was
the City of London, and asked who of his some variation in the papers now on thttelale fr-
Ministers could have dared to advise his Majesty these dispatches, particularly that of the )filth
to.make such ati.auswer, when he or they nand August, and lie wiilied to know from whence.t
hare known, that such serious grounds of iuqoiry alteration proceeded.
had been furnished by one of their own colleagues. Lord MiIIGRAYE said across' the (*bill. thst,
But fully to know the trite character of those Mi. what alteration appeared in the papers en the t
nistcrs, to whom io this 'crisis of its fate the af. ble, was in consequence of a conversation which
fairs of this nation are now unfortunately en- he bad with Sir R. Strachan since his ectern ,frrr
trusted, let their Lordships but recollect the an. Weicheree, in which conversatint was exisiained,
swer which these same men advised hill Majesty to what be did not at first perfectly underatend la the,
make to another Address of the same City of Loa- dispatch. . , .
dun 9 on an occasion somewhat similar. The ells. Lord ROWAN, in continuitioe, observed,
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graceful Convention of Clem must still be green that the sameozportunity 9f paplanation should
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in the memory of their Lordships. What was have been ed to Lout Chathant,. by 011-11
the complexion of the answer to the Address of whet aPpeared to reflect tits that Noble Loole,
the City of London, fur in toqairy into the causes tho dispatch of the 11th August, might have lowa,
ef that sliaindul transaction? Was all inquiry'. remortiii. On the lime ground he bast to ,pkirct ,
refused ? On the contrary was not the City of to the dialiatches of thel2d snag 27th 4 grist if NAI4
(*linden rebuked Ll!eor, heart] for insiniatisig of, those dispatches had peen
tcoeeele4; oath ot
even a doubt of his Majesty's shapositipn end de. them was a letter sp)sich Rip Riclisr#Strohmkalhl
termination to moue an lag to be Instituted not intend Xhohldliti 'published ; . ton 4f30
lute that sweat—as neat wt:4 in the language published, nothing sbeuld hue keen *l44l4stkft
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his Majesty's Ministers baddoctili* his Majeatfr
or that they
,had thomeelvorbeen deceived by one of •
I;their owo colleagues. Saber they, bid net beta
n(ormed by. their colleague that he was distiefilin
with the conduct of the naval part Of *erg.
pedltion ; or, having received from hilitilide
formation they ,bad withheld, it from Plarjetity;
coc.# waslaspossible to concave, that bad bit Ma.
ty kuowa the imputations whieb were thrown-
out by the Commander in Cl.(ia of the Lend
Forces in the Expedition, ottltie associate Cote:
•Ctigr of the Navy, he would haver brill the city if
on that he did sot think any ingeiry into
paerat conduct of that Expeditiow tkr be* 411 vtt4. .
canary. if it should taro oat that hie MaiestY's
!Ministers baud Not enjoyed thcconftdencit of their
coUeague, he. would say; that were it.poisible for
Mato enteetain compassion for individuals' *bole
conduct demanded indignation rather thanVey leis
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shout! fed it for his Majesty's Mialstorepftraitil
es they would ba by such an avowal 914' w,Pedi
thus appear • that the ehistonce Of thit tetra id-
Iluence, • that unconstitutional infludoco
so,frequeutly been asserted, and as' fitersently de:
Pied, was proved beyond the possibilitt of doubt.
The Earl of WESTMORELAND declared that
14, Majesty's present Mialsters were &Wraith&
loner ip shrlakirom theiOduty.by teimikinimrt to
spooore
,the **possibility' which onghtf•tOrest
Osefai• uPOR. ithu shoulders of any other 'lntlivi%
'deals, -The preSent question lay in-it vitrien'o*
onapasp: .At had been tad), statnd lit • • Nob 4
Resion *he had just spoken, lkorst be determined
ttpooo.asosideratiOn of ilieriftinenis. ob 4th.
Bat tlbat were thosolliontillidnilel 11.1)04
lie diveitchas siege, meet liMieseinalliti eien to;
11241011600 of those dispatarie,leddriedeey bit*
,airy into,
a single instance fior•:•aitgetirte
:.,1414,01ry the co ad oc t rot- eitime he MeV
Pavia Commander of the•E41114,111.; and %V
haot conceive, therefore, bow it Ira possible
rise his Majesty. to give any other answer i;4111
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rem Adducts bf the City, of Lliadots dam that whit%
of had actually barafiaan.• With respect to the Nar.'
. the!, mire that had been protected to hie Majesty- hfi ~. ..- .
Lord Chatham, Itc by so Mums allotivd•tbat gide: • '
iltig *sped the reprohatitut taluleit had beet littiiiiiid ,
,t4.' epee it. •at mutt° rentlioited, Ida at on litesafilap,,, ,
lick Jett the lateralis ofthe Nab's' Eatil unit' titbit •4' .
rum his collcagues might be it Tattsaide. - that 'lO/titlt-
hod alight exculpate . him *tight inculpate- theta; •al that •
the, whichtaight illtillellii. Ostia might beat ate 'hitt.'
A Nobla fforfirsillot stutter oOcu cez litt "ebti: •• - • ;
red, pssiisostilrompoessod Idb eporsheemilli; - Al :. it
roid pciseutlldedobikentloe didletlxinlieltlit ttililit- '• • •
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