The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-01-24 00:00:00

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eqiected to find oily 2000, and a place which they
eispi•osed was open and wholly, detencoon, it ap.
peered had been regularly forlidiedias loos bask.'
as the misery of man could washer Se munch for
the promptitude of the measure. its would next
ask bow it could operate as • direesion im favour
of Austria, eves ads sitdoeit bed been son in
• time I If it were won to sitt Austria, the di.
version &Mid has has. is the side el the Medi- .
terraneanl fir by ast-dosillas Tames on thdt'
side, Beemparte was sosibil to soon hinisett
the, oaks of Memos! emd 111‘Donalth .*6 ch
wire both most sllfsetusi is do ridstaion of Vi.
fo l
einea. By what fatal intension lilististers chose
the infections 'unites of Walcheren as the scene
of their military operations, it was impossible to
tell. It was knesen to bea mist pestilential cli.
mate, and they chums the most pestleetial see.
we
for theiroperations. They had their choice of
'resod,
.it was not the case of a retreating army
whisk stu compelled to penuethat line of marchil
but they were advisedly sent there by hlinisten3
II they bad read Dr. Pringle of the diseases of they
army, they would have feend,stball not only Ire:
stated the nature of that climate, said the causes
of that epidemic diseue se fatal to our troops,
but they might also have known, that iu .forekr
treaties between tbegwlss and the states General,
when the former used to hire .oat-their troops 'to
the latter, it was expresiely stipulated that these
troops should never be mint tO serve in Walcheren.
If they did not kaitw•thh, their ignorance was
seedy as criminal as seathog our bravo troops to
perish *mle with a knowledge of its fatal effixts.
Their mieenadoet, however, did not stop here.
The troops hods* oe Old last of July, and be.
fore a emegth hod 414,10,. it. walk ebyleas tearer,'
miditary Meet AU .111 the objects of the Eipetli.
tics NA kW. aid as Gellseaeaderhad so dis-
tieeikrehaMl BO the aavorostoat at home ; yet
'aloes the oh ne OS a la thatswistp can.
W I •atidilla . huff what ass -tho
:0•• I 'Plkteliarsit il*es:
Sabo 0 000grsaltswe siallas- ...`'
tai title' ' ' feadercd, and must'
rider thole Ombnallillihlll hi the ayes of the world.
Sorely they orsioissposilifilo toy all the loanable
lives w !web tell ildlkiiii.erimg this emsecessarirds.,
lay. ilisiaseddilpdhemeetbelided by cone rim diele
Lortidlips to ethers their opium om . this Out
by wean 'with his is lie koseultssot ohke be
proposed; whisk las in substance, stating, that
they depleted the mob of the late wintery Ex.
peditiems to Walther 's and Spain ; and stating
their oplmiee to be, that they had disgraced the
British arise, and were wholly uneerriceable to the
friendly Potrero of the Censtineat.
The Ameadmemt being read—
Lord HAILROWBY could not suppose that his
Nebk Feleud (Lord Grenville) could hare mend
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Amendment web as that he had jest proposed;
it *cot sot only to determine that there should be
an inquiry, bet it would Judaea their Lordships
New locum tea vote of indiscriminate censure--of
absolute ceetlemsaties. Such a mode of proCeed-
ing wu surely unusual and unprecedented. It
was emjust not to allow the proper time for pro.
dais' the grounds sad stating the raise's', upon
which rested the derision and conduct of his Ms.
icily's Governmeat is adopting measures which
his Noble Friend has so loudly arraigned and so
severely condemned. His Noble Friend laud laid
down the lined policy to *filch he says he would
himeetfaave adhered, and by which he 'thinks his
Majesty's hfinisters ought to base been directed.
That polio, admueished the abstaining from Con.
-Cliental Expeditions ; rrum making ourselves par.
tiniv is a warfare which had long ceased to afford
any hops of what was so often emphatically called
the deliverance if Europe. Ho had sot the bo-
omer of being say length of time in his Majesty's
Commas since t contrary line of conduct bad been
pursued ; but he belleved be might remind his No.
his Friend that such had not been ezactly'bis see.
timensts on all occasions. He imagined that not
eery lately, even in the course of the last remake,
hie N.M. Faced had joined in the general entha.
simm in (e'ers of the Spanish cause, and in the
anxiety prompt 1.1 by that enthusiasm to afford it
every possible 414 is our power. Gevernmeat did
nut stimulate and give•birth to these exertion oe
;he pert of the Spesiarde--but they felt it their
duty, and ooseeiesil it to be lbs hstprost of this
country, to aid avg. oft Neither
had they incited 4111110 Potrattelifto.4 soor lo
hostilities with Trims. 411.01.*. ato.
appeal to IMsheamba, WWI W ISt 0
the sword—but NY. odholos rir •
043 stip. she had het bah adabillor hopdistilp
the British Ofswirositat. Oa the cormary shs
was warned by Ana of feet the albellaito
and of the Usability et thi to lend booty
effectual supports—she Gould sit literate, heft
entered into a mew well frees the hope of may,
powerful diverse he he ollbeted io her latent by
she military impeastions at a British semi. Bet
his. Noble Friend would insist that such a ilirem•A
sirenesightisseebemninedriuAber thieve by the
force which had been sobortrestly aillested here,
had it been brought to operate at • peeper paint.
His Noble Friend had alluded to certain it( the
points where be conceived our military foresmight
have operated advasitageunsly in fewer of Au.
stria. lie chiefly, however, adverted to loan*.
.points in the Mediterranean, aid more decidedly.
etitl to the North id Germany. lie bad also sets.
posed that this country might bare brought esti
hundred thousand men into the field. Where dwell
hundred thousand men were to be foetid, be could'
not pretend to say ; but were it possible to pro...
cure them, w hat must nut have been theexpence and
difficulty of transporting them to the hiedlterra.
non or Adriatic ? The thing was Impracticable.
Not less impracticable and unpromising would be
the plan of sending them to the North of Ger-
many. It was said they would there find a nu.
suerous band of men ready to rise, in vindication
of their independence, against the common 'op.
pressor of mankind. It was even more than in.
minimal by his Noble Friend, that tbu British
Government had encouraged thsm to rise, and
vrumised them assistance, hut that the pruntise
had nut been performed ; that these brave Barrio.
tic Well bad beets deserted by us soul allandossed to