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4" hlikfo4!eletber.,,,dliis mite:etisolved itself Intgergebrartettes t first, the
these were, he As eolArincedlhat all who heard him end parcliiiecrfor the Duke of MatThoirrnievr Perts!jscesilst expellee in the aleptstowetie!esreibli.hmellis,
would agree that they were not. so large off the rank Ids nth'. pert he Would' iether tidd M4OOOl. ftiOre4 :lions the restetatein of peseta od-intercourse wet. ell
e hiehatie-Crown had bestowed peon him required. thepresenteete, if by so tieing he tentight the erect : eittlesegnekla,ges,ilas to (he..eitattlisfintawf of the '
Ife*Wis-hed to state, that since the Itesulutimi of the On of a intuition for the Duke of 'Wellington would !rrin .Res,,,, enr..pereptlng en:144001. on would
I lousedast Session, and' since the passing of the Act ' be secured.
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his a pperj, !,cess of expenditure, the him, of 121.0001. was
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hy which it was carried into effect, much enquiry , ! Major-General LANGTON expressed
had been instituted by the Trustees to find a suitable bation of the grant, and his
.conciarreece in (he sen-4iotinetly-' considered. 'NIS sum. Was allowed (1;14
estate and mansion for the Duke of ‘Vellington, but timents of the Honourable Gentlethip uto fp•oit. ' ! s.- egenree femmee beehteejudetweet of
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they had not as yet lwen completely sticcetsfel. Many last,
designs also, for erecting 0 dwelling, had' been sub- I .Sir W. WYNNE spoke to thesuese effect. .•. ', .7'l Less should nit- -**apt arili:rgiterte"u!i:u4Pch'.eddltirsal charges
'meted, by various artists, whose uniform opiniue it I The CHANCELLOR of. the EXCREQUEII., here throwniatethe ' leit I.:1•Y `the erraugernente
was, that a smaller sum than from 150,0001. to thought if a suitable mansion could be • procured ate inf the Act cif 1812. Vtireisbtedly It became the
200,0001. would by no means be sufficient to erect smaller eapence it wojild be sacrificing a wise princie liftgekli.ty.ofParfisment that PrZliiortebWibenta(l*. •
and furiiiih such a mansion as anted become the pie of economy to a mere feeling of netioual pride ill, hr % tothi payllr otjter ' for enefiliii tip . Cidi- Lis C-
gratitude of a great nation for such services as the reject U. ) 4 nett t I
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• •the ortlineey 'expendltore, +(Mout id
Duke of Wellington had performed', At the same : Sir T. ACKLAND said, that accortiiivg to •••ilitt any excess. In the mean' time,' hodetivei,• he
time, he was quite satisfied that a mansion adequate terms of the vote, the trustees were empowered only propose to the Conwnittee, evoker aethoolly%
to the %Id les of the Doke of Wellington might be either to erect a suitable mansion or to weenie ejiw; the Report, to make good the arrears am the Ci e
obtained for a much smaller sum.—[hear, hear !) i but whatever house the flakeear, of Wellington fitted, List, and he should move, therefore, that.tho spivs •
, His intention, therefore, was, to move in the Corn. would receive its character from him.; and becoeie a of 53.4,0001. lisegratiliel to make good thedelicienCir
i mittee that the sum of 200,0001. should be granted, Bl;nheim to all intents and purposes. He' rejoiced of the 'Civil Lie on the sth of Aptil last.
and vested in the hands of trustees, either to erect or in the victory obtained by the Duke of Wellington, Mr. BARCLAY suggested the propriety of taking
purchase a suitable mansion; and if they acre en. because it was the only thing smiting to complete the debts of some of the other branches of the River
i abled to accomplish the latter, at a less expellee than
:• his military character, and the military character of Family into consideration. The 1t0,,. Gent. made
the present vote would cover, then the surplus of the : the army. It had long been the opinion of many, some observations respecting the debts of 'his Royal
• grant was to go to augment the fund by which the • especially among those who were the enemies of this Highness, which were ineudilde to are.
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I dignity of that illustrious, and he hoped, perpetual country, that if the British soldiers ever came fairly The CHANCELLOR of the -Excltr.otrga
family, was to be maintained. Before he sat down, into contact with the French, that it would be doubt. said, the:Creditors of his Royal Hlitiaesti were vire •
he hoped the Committee would allow him to make a fial our what ground they would stand; but now the •fectly satisfied with the arrangement respecting th.tn ;
few observations upon the transactions of that mes• :question was triumphantly answered. • : but the Civil Lixt had bathing in common % ith ttia.e
morable day, which his Noble Friend had so forcibly Mr. WHITBREAD explained. • ' debts. With respect to the ether bratichey of the
described. He understood that the illustrious Corn- Colonel ELLISON expressed hie concurrence in' lineal Faintly be did not monsiefee himself entitled to
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: mender who guided the course of that momentous, the vote, after which it was carted neuritic contra- come forward with aWy proposition with,4the• cone
: struggle, transcended, in his own personal exertions, r•dicente. , sent of the Crown. - . an: .t , .s- 4,
even the great deeds of his former campaigns. Ile ARMY Plti26-Mditrii. • Mr. BANK ES obsorindethet ntiti •Ilisitert:they
had himself received a letter from an Officer of high I The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER 'would come with more *disobey to the disatioltan
i tank, who aas on the field •of battle, and one ' moved that the sum of 8130,0001. should be granted. s of the question. The.defreeiewettur charges 'of, 441‘...1
Iwell qualified to form a correct judgment, who stated, , a compensation to (he Officers,. Nen.commisiitthed bassadors out of .the Civil' Litt gres,aseincenvecrisespik ,
: that the personal exertions of the Duke of Welling- Officers, and Soldiers of the Duke of. Weliingteb's to the public service, arid art•lreustieeio the :,'estoft; ~
ton were incredible, -arid threw all his preceding ' Army, for the value of military stores captured by and when theCrosu was reliti4eo tell sn'tills arreae
achievements 'completely into the shnde.--[//earli them from the yeek_lBo7 to 1814, both irtelusiee— 'and the'ezeenee in question, he 'hoped. the Heim
hear!]—At one period of the battle he took pose ! Those stores, he Jibed, were the: result of twelve would 'not be so often called opus ii,totake goer'
session of a high ridge, from which he declared he general actions and five greet sieges, and the agree- exempts, , ; .• . . ' • ' •:ree r le; to • '
! would never move, nor did he more, burin triumph. gate value of them had been estimated, accordipg to'. *Up WM. Small; !aid, if, *lf Ita detig •
' At another, when his position was strongly attacked, ,an account laid before the House, at nearly 9Q0,0001. of: t 'Civil List hadansplloted to Al, •s ,;•'l,t.llr:
he threw himself into the centre of a sqviare of In.! bet he had merely taken the round sum of 800,0001. catilielt sioitilt hiye eriinsiii,(ecl 44110 slim; jf oyes
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Pantry, which was furiously charged by the enemy's IHe apprehended the House would feelno hesitation 'neyilvad'not been taken frog ihe nriwitli• of A`114ni....
, cavalry, but which, fortunately for his country, mil in complying with this motion, •whiCh only' went to 'trellis. 'After Ike sum taken: from the' Devills'of the
I the world, resisted the shock with dauntless intre..l satisfy:a very'jest claim which the army had for such Admiralty was. • deducted, ' there still • remained
pidity. 64 I mention these things," said the Meer,. - firm. ' • , 836,0001.; arwliir they deducted, hesitles'l3o,oool.
'6r because they are precisely those of which you will . =EATON objected to the motion, beastly for the expencete of, the.tvisit of last year, and the
i. not find a word in his own dispatches.—[f/ear, hear I, he' thought it was brought forward at a moment when additional 'expeece of fgreigil Ambesnado,re, end tee
—Every person tannins! him was either killed or-lithe Itense‘was.not in a state of mind, from .the feel-.
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' wounded." There was another characteristic trait 1 iwes of eieltition which the subject of the recent 400,1)001., aninouting to inore‘thatelbo,-o(o.heeear.
of that illustrious Commander, which he could not i.votes had leeched, to consider it dispassiOnateltand The Resolution was then agreed .14.' • ..
• abstain hem communicating to the House. He had coolly. • - ~.. • • t: The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER,' '
received a letter from the Doke of Wellington, dated Tile CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER then moved 'for 100,0001. to' the -Poor Wergy aVi
from Binch, a town in advance of the place where said, that be had given notice of his intention to England... . • •• 4 .. .
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the battle was fought ; and in a postscript he sayse...fbring feemeal his motion,, some .days before any ace • Mr. PREST.ON approved o gran , . . ,
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I forget to mention, in my public dispatch,. time 4 count clime of thaldistieguished exploit. - 1 Mr.
•W. $M It If oppOsed it...., ' ,
five thoiniiird prisoners have been already brought in, lit Colonel, CALCRAFT that it wait a 1 After settee -Aservatione from the Cloacrilor 414- '
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and otheis are constantly arriving,".—illearaltear a • esti of right, as. it respected the army, and could the Excheqeor, Mr. 'Peewee 'Mc W. Seiirlv, turd
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1 Mr. WilurßitEAos.iti, 'that he lid -nit 'del *WA*, hadeekert at the polot of the bayonet, any ! The 'CIIANCe.;LLQ.II, efeAlse, knell:n*lEn, 4
slightest iittelition of opposing the grant, as' it. Irsi filters than oqr oaitors, who always obtained their obserVed, that 100.• next glint Nos, lrftim- kelt Am. •
the only means aloe left Toe the nation -10estiff ifil sin &Of prig.* !thick they implore& .
gratitude, beyond 'that Vott' of Thanks which the .111 r. .111 re ROSElniintaitted Ale morn gentod'Or right C.lrgy 0, 'thirsch, of!SrestiOid4,llF `alp' i. ,
had just passed. It remained for the Duke of Wei— 'and justice on the part of thearney.: -1 • .' : ' ' ' 2119,10001:4i 91104411,4144.biti0ttfr Wilin ofl‘e.
lingtoit to do that, which he alone coehlvto, to edd to! '• Nish
GASCGIONE fed lt tike • a practice Sentiaide've47siT ;:' - - ,'-. -.ifs 1-7;.,,.: ised. vl ,; .4s •-..
his own great military-fame, and he had indeed done- *Nth had ptevailed from 'time imniemoilal, thougl
.. Mr: W.:SP/001 lieallly alitarreht ;IP Ati44110“.•
more than was ever done, he believed, by any single under a different 'form to that which was now 'pro: becaysn;ihes veyibnetallgiMur ,-:C?!blrah • aksiOttfla*
Commander.—t Hear, hear I]-1 t ibit:. ft odedbeedly posed. se 5.4• were dieided iii dr. a sarei•eliel alt•tee,..ciprewrea, .
gratifying to the house, end 'it must -fie itatifyintree Mr. R. WARD Witmer/
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that it wars y etiselebeefo stafse.oriineti enr, At ,ie•cfr,ol,Y :tt.6liicia see 6" . ..
the country, to hear those individual tikiti of It‘ belonging to the army, and that in far as the Ord. wane were
g etolehTett.tr he te!tm. Oue.efisliai,,, .. j`iylie, :'
roism in that illustrious Chief, avid especially thafonle eance'Department was coneerned, there was eiery*fession. - - . - - - • e"" •• ' -.
which the Right Hoe. Gentleman had relateld, ton: i year an item in the estimates of -money for ordosate Themettofi-was.theit agreed et • -es .., I ,
fleeted as it was with his entire confidence It, the stares which were captured. .- •••• :!• :eie ' • The sum of 2,950,0001. was then granted, tope? •
bravery and fidelity of his troops. 14 such •tt trait) - Mr. FORBES said, that as he•understebd (reel off outstanding Exclieves pills. .• . ~, •
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were recorded in history, as Fleeing occoned tittreeni ' the Right Honourable Gentleman that the 'value •of • SO,OOOl. on account Qf charges of.the disrbiocd!ed 1
turies ago, with what emotions- of edariratinn and those stores was nearer 900,0001. than 800,0001. he Militia..
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tooproos enthusiasm would it be react.—tHeer, Would rather g;ve a -hundred thousand mote than a 14,00,:54;757i., 29371., an.: :18 oei .? ti • :
hear—'l' see a Commander of his eminence, disc ; hundfid thousand less than was due, and rtiOs make good insnit paid out of thecit:Litie, not
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ting"i"bed "lore all she Commanders of the earths' the tom 1,000,0001. 'At all events, if the Commit- • the orditiery-eipentlittoo. •."' et,...• • ;:.h .....) Al S -. .
throw himself into a hollow square of infautty, as a tee would permit him he would move, as an amend- $0,0001• Inc defraying thEeTPPNW. 4 OP, Willett le
secure refuge, till the rage and torrent of the attach j esent;-etrat the sum should be 900,0001. :t Forts on the coast of Afrirag for Ifiltll;e6oQl.4o4 e
was passed, and that not mice only, but twice or 1 'TAr.'PRESTON explained. -1 daughter Of .Lieut, Bell for SO invention to save the
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thrice in the course of the battle, proved that his Mr, BANK E.; denied that it was a vested right.-- lives of shiPwristked seamen: .
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confidence was placed not in any one particular corps, . The right of captors to the captures they made in war The Iterate then resettled, the Report was ordered
but iii the whole British army.—[llearl hear!]--la emanatedirom the Proclamation of the Crown alone. to be received on Monday next.
that mutual confidence ley the strength stud power of ,It was certaloly, however, new to move these grants . In a Committee of Ways and Means, the House I
! the troops. The Duke of Wellington knew he was; altogether; they had usually been proposed in de- voted the War Taxes, and a sum from the Futrils Its . •
; safe, when he thus trusted himself to the fidelity wed toil ; and he thought it would be expedient to refer the hands of the Commissioners for the,Hattlentioior ,
' valour of his inen,and they knew and felt that thesacred ! the subject to the consideration of a Committee to of the National Debt, towards the interest of the late. '
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' charge thus confided to them, could never be wrested I inquire into the details. , Loan. • ,
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from their hands.—Law, hear 1— He should have Lord CASTLEREAGH could see no danger in Mr. THORNTON, on thelderetsc*Mi.• M i4le n, i
I been sorry if the votes of that day had passed with. giving the sanction of Parliament to the principle of gave notice that on Monday nest' he would *Aisle' A
out his presence, to express his most finfeigited apes this proposition, which was to put the army upon forward a motion out the subject ofuihe Kinantetneola i
probation of them. With respect to the loss thee the fooling on which the navy was always put by the between tiveßeek of •Ettglaedt anal the Public,.
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had been sustained, and which had plunged so many.. King's proclamation at the commencement of a war. ' The Trade Protection Bill, end.ebe Frencli Cole. ,
: illustrious families in eteierime he could not advert : The principle was simply that the stores captured by ;ties TradelUgulatien Bori were read a firs/. rimei ,
'to that loss without dissenting from an expression the army, and taken for the public service, should be and ordelred•lo be read trilepfnd
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''used by the Noble Lord, and lamenting the grievous' paid for at a proper rate. . ! next. -• • .'o'. :''• • .. 1. e! -el: ', eine ae it
fact, that they had fallen in the prosecution of a war.,
; After some further discussion, in which Mre; Adjoisened le Monday diet. 1 'ie.....
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into which.thiscountr had neither occasion nor right Bankes, Mr. Rose, Mr. Calcraft, Mr. R.- Ward,' . .,, emsr,=!L-ssmmesermis.,,., ~i'' i , „4„; ~.z
ito enter. Neither the events of victory nor defeat, Sir H. Montgomery, Mr. letshington, Mr. Forbes, :•1 After Kip/ bad, played Leon, oe Tublidepoights , ''.
I could alter the principle of the war, and his opinion : he left ;owe .(or Word, where he arrieed at sit ~ •:
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Mr. W. Smith, the Chancellor of the Exchequer,:
remained unchanged upon the subject. He could Mr, P. Moore, and Mr. Preston participated, the. o'clock 19 ihensernieg. At se early an hour nom. 1
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: not sit down, however, without discharging what he Resolution was agreed to. . :L: • • bet., of thilnitableints had 'assembled to ,iwelcome
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!considered as an act of duty. He had always bent . The -CHANCELLOR. of the EXCREQUER .hire, and- et 12 o'clock at noon he played /We "
one whir looked with an eye of extreme jealousy to : then moved that the sum of 1.18,0001. should be'. Richard Mt with which the Oxonians were so well '0 •
the proceedings of Ministers; but ibeir conduct in granted to the Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers pleased, that he lied to repeat the Character on the • -
1 the prosecution of (his war, waving for the moment and privates of the Army serving under Sir Samuel ' fame evening. • Upon bete
,occasions the house was .0'
ill Coltiblerritton of its necessity or policy, was such Achniuty, for ordnance and stores captured in the
,excessively crowdedr Bilr.• Keats had, many very f
as extorted his applause e end he find no hesitation island of Java, and appropriated to the public ser- flattering invitations. brt hi had to play Leon again, .
in saying, that every department of Goverinnent vice. at Drory-lane; tin frituchany hijO :3-11,,,titergore, ,
must have exerted itself' to the utmost td give that • After some observations from
.Mr..Bankes, Mr. could not eveirhirmielf•i4 them. • . ,
complete efficiency to ill the component parte of the Forbes, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the.,
1 Ast argeont in eseellenfeenditlideWeighing nearly
I army, which enabled the genius of the D Ike' of Wel- Resolution was agreed to. .
.. Ili cwt. was lately Weenie a net tterte-CoOnseeiri the
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lington, aided •bs such means, to accomplish the wawa 1 1-6 ~.tml. •CIV,It. LI§T. • - ',on,. • liege Swoon. Lt" twilit ft. roysity',' tile fishermen
derful victory he had achieved.--(lkrtr, hem !) I " The CHAIWELLOit of tkei.
,EXCIDAVamis •i ateditso the Mayor et:Leland& anti his Wdr.
The CiIIiNCELE.OR. of the EXCHEQUER. oh. ' alluding to the Report of the •Commilf4 111014ibtd.4 geto sent al, parcel •Of it tu.'his Es Pent the
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served, that the army wl:irti the Duke of Wellington to enquire into the Eapenditiiie et t.lteCivil Litt, ob. .e.„iiv e,ffer.m.4.o„.
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had led into the lied was by no Means a picked or served that the Committee elrggested sevetai re- '''7!, e,7o,i;;;',sefr.„...miist
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selected army. • gulations with regard 'tethat expendjt,ure. Had the ''T. 4, 41. 't. ~ ,‘- ‘; 7..rr,rrY., V
body of a Vey rwe.v= years of age, who. fell from
Mr. W. SMITH mid, he wished it were possible report been made at an earlier peri(xl, sit would hove •
the top of ii cart l•eulee with grass, at Brittle-bridge,
that some other mode could be devised of rewarding been his duty to hive sobmitted,some preeovitio•iei op „Flit,
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ewent ever his bertv !which caused his
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such transcendent merit as the Fluke of Welllogton's, the subject to the•lleuse; but itritpa. pt.:went-kit; f
°- cleat h..4-itelorifl;4-iffalifivatai Dia** ' . '
instead of a pecuniary compensation. However, as the House,. he tether chose tai leave the.ottirde•marttev, .
tmenvut-Onics, ' 81restsaY. .To.tnnerow'a
all other modes of approbation were exhausted,' 'open till the entuiejt•Session. Ile lapephe rettglae,.l
in rdditlon to thsedTxtruordinoee &matt:,
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must at least express his desire, that thesurn new dons would turn out to be efficeeinus in a consider. veMfr, ...
be enabled at tartirlBto,. well.paLitsißeade,s in mosseasion 4a-
*voted.should be employed in the erection of a palate,- able degree. Parliament would, however,
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'rather than ih purcliasing one. . Every. Britlin most to judge4reuttheeeperiesice of slew monthebow .. t Ire 4 !Pit.. "IF'"
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look et Blenheim with emotions of pride and set's- they were efficient. Iserge•es the excess of , . . , Dairy-lane Theatre will chess rib: At 15th, and .-..
faction very difforeut from what' Weitlitb• Mt If-tt , 'List appeared) ted.rl'SK9l3ol. they: would_ Ind Mai •, &fp
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