The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-12-04 00:00:00

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dalOilas and by that means, either get possession of that Rouse ; but the Noble eird had entered into 4
Seville, and the magazines el that city, or, if the
reline the conduct of c,, ~,,"...' '
'enemy should prefer the risk of a battle. oblige the House to satictiou tis::(l:Oledi'P " ni I!
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them to that end, to withdraw their troops from the vernment Les •
eiegq-Of 'Oadiz, one great object of their military and to endeavour to . .
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ley. From the neglect of the Spaniards, how- %venting itt atelle„, ~
ter,. to revictual Ciudad Rodrigo, the French had [No, no!
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Ciudad Rodrigo, for the relief of that feseress. lie often, hoe ever, 101 l t• • for. '')ri"" ''''.l" "1"" It
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.ment hisbeing obliged to ehassee the scene of hie ope. Noble Lori; ; art! now, . f ,•. " mea"hai of tte
rations, for, depending as he did on the moral charte.
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ter of his army, he should not shrink from -meting he felt that there was,' u'oi eslaSs,
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proposed to himself by the operation in the South. dkinclined,
But, when he had advanced into Castile, and to the lee army, to undergo the heating of details ~(1)
line of the Douro, the enemy had been so reinforced, might Fossils!), detract from the eneral o'l'io,-' .--
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by abandoning their garrisons in the Asturias, and in favour of thanks to those wile. .
by the army of Caffarelli, that he declared his deter- titled them to nil the I et ',,.,its te.
urination not to risk an action, unless he found them it masin • the newel-abet reeo,. - - ..ipense %%;,01
power ' i •
rdthteore v%l:l7lie some
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of their country hot •
in some such a situation as would afford a hope of upon them. Rut, I
success ; but in case such an opportunity should not , serrations of the Noble Lard
and that it 0 t _see
I offer, he was determined not to risk the safety oli not prevail upon himself to aeree".. •••••
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Ode forces, for he well knew that while he corn. i wherein he represented. the victory sums
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j mantled such an army, Spain could never be sub. ,as more important then what this o.
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deed. In taking a view of the celebrated battle • achieved its former time;;s country Het
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Right lion. Gent. opposite (Mr. Ponsonby), that no its effects like the great battle of 1.1• ler I-* • 1 one et
military success ever depeinded less on titmice than : which, superadded to the decisive defeat
that of Salamanca. Tice troops had not come into ';
French Army, we took Marshal 'r 1i.,1 of
one another's sight just before battle, but these two and by which, in fact, wea..,11'.. lwr
changed the foe of es'
and gerfl
great armies (of which, however, the French was rope? Though it was far from his wish to t'-.
the more numerous), had been manoeuvring in the ' value the mit,.trlikis
presence of each other from the 16th to the 2'2d of • Salamanca, vet
olort he thought
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manner,'iot g‘aind
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Vas delusion to umq.
Juts'. Without entering into a detail of the ripe. : country to
ration!, for there was no linglishmeti, he presumed, readily' concur in the vole as a merited compose"
who had not read repeatedly the Gazelle, which con- ! fiom that House to the skill, and bravery,
teitied the account of those transactions, lit' would . conduct, of Lord Wellington : but the 'coo asses.
observe, that the battle was fought after complicated ed a different complexion, if it was it:tended to • ler.
and skilful movements, while. each General saw 1 suatle us to perseverance in a ruinous ' •
war, amid fe
every movement of the other. The British General l make us think that the same Ministers who had s„.
was not attached to the defence hi any particular po- ; ducted it, were lit to pursue it. What tee N.
sition, his determination was, that he would even re- . Lord called success, he (Sir F. Burden) must eta de.
treat, rather than commit the safety of his army, the; feat, as far as he could understand the matter;
though lie never till then .had knev that the ei
HOUSE OF COMNIONS.
glory of his nation, and the hopes of mankind ;but if ,
Some Memhers took their oaths and their seats.rti o• et
the enemy should afford him an opportunity, lie would : of Ministers was not to expel the French altoests,
The SP LA KLR informed the House, that he had
waited on the Prince Regent, o ith the Address,
seize it with the genies peculiar to himself, and make from time Peninsula, but only to keep up a war
Highness's answer to the Address was read.
AIL LOCKHART rave notice or a Bill, to prevent the them feel the valour of his troops. and the genius ' there. He had never thought, that they would driole
Trustees of Caartiable Funds from making lung and improvident which•directed them. •Was ever battle more noble' cleven millions in one year, only to raise the sleet s
se
leas.
fought, or mere important to the common cause? lafliz. As to the Andalnsias, they must fall agals,
Mr. WILBER POitc E p,eive notice that he should, on Mon-
day, stove for certain Papers relative to the Slave Trade. Looking at the end proposed to himself by Lord ' es a matter of course, into the hands of Frailty.
A Massage frost the Lardy requested the House to cornmuni- Wellington, as the raking of the siege of Cadiz, ti Under all the circumstences of the contest, it
tate to their Lordships a Copy of the sth Report of the SPlret
Committee uu the Affairs of the East India ComPaoY, which we and not the expulsion, of the French from Spain, his i appeared to him, even upon the Minister's owl
delivered to the Messengers accordingly. object was accomplished.- The French had been ; slioeitio, that we are unable to find sufficient mess
A Petition was pnfiented against the return for the itorough obliged
not only to abendon the siege of Cadiz, but Ito support the .campaign ; and ~tat after Lord Wet.
lingtotes retreat, he had only the two fortresses fit
of IVeinnuth and hleicomh Regis, which was ordered to be
taken tubo cutoideration ou the 9th of February. all Spain westward of Alicant; and if in conse- I
A like Petition was preseumed by Sir :'. ISLTRDETT,from J. quence of the collection of the French forces, Lord ' Ciudad Rodrigo and Badejos, left to him as the fruits
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ot) and S. C. t ;raves, Esqrs. against the return for the City of • I
1-%telltogton had been obliged to retreat, it was only !of his campaign in Spain. AT to the very inn:arta:ft
Li TH I.: VOTE OF THANKS TO LOllO WELLINGTON. by the enemy's abandoning all• their principles of part, the attack on Burgos, he could impute nothieg
Lord CAoTLeiItEAGII rose, in pursunitce.uf his I warfare, and their military possession of the coup-: to Lord Wellington, who, he believed, did ail, crj
notico, to move that the Thaivies of the House in try; and that army,. which went into Spain for the • Perhaps more, than was to be expected from a great
given to the Marquis of Wellington for his suc4easirt f complete subjugation of that country, only occupied l Commander ; but either he failed for want of mean.,
during the present campeieto and particularly the the ground on which it stood. But to turn away ! which implied no blame, or eisa he completely faieo
glorious and decisive victory at Salamanca. lie felt from its eontetpiences in Spain, he should advert to ! having the possession of adequate menus for success,
that he snitinl be doing injustice to the gtillant army, its effects on the;rest of. Europe Had not the effect !There must, it would eppear, be grounds for hose
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and their distinguished General, if use introduced iii. of this victory been to animate the Russians, and' somewhere. This matter called loudly for (levee;
to the present discussion, any timing of a cont over_ might it not have beneficial effects on the countries and in this state of things it was fit to knee howlt
sial nature, especially the question of the policy of ! unnaturally subject to France? '
After the repulseof ; hetTened, that with all the means of support whirs
the present war in Spain, by which the mind of the the French at Borodino, a repulse more serious to !Ministers had in their hands, we should feel none of
House might he turned aside from a subject on which i them than that at Fylan or at Asper', General 1 the fruits of our victory—none, of the benefits of ,Ler
all must delight to de ell—Ulcer, lacer! ]--from i Kutusolv was enabled to animate his trolips, by the i exertion s; but, on the contrary, all the conseq niers
achievements, for which they could feel nothing but hisfory of the glories gained by the English at Sala. I lle of calamity ? Either Isord Wellington was not e,
gratitude. Capable as the victory was of stamiin; manes Dear !], and to let them know that by'simi. f tied to the praises and thanks of the House, or rise
on its own basis, as the effort of a great military lar exertions, they might obtain similar glory. This I there was some fault its th.; conduct of the Minis.
nation (for to that name we were undoubtedly glory they afterwards obtained, when 30,000 men, ! tors. lie could not see how they could get Dot of
entitled), he should tlimiaish its importance, and da under Prince Bagsstion, a General whose kiss we i that dilemma. But he rose rather to say, that ho,
enuld not agree to a perpetual system of de injustice to the army and its General, if he did not fer one had since to deplore, repulsed the whole military force ; 1
at the same time take a view of the system of min- lof the French. - lie laying before the Russian Calti- i lusitm. This sort of delusion had now bee'carriat
tart' operations, of which this achievement formed so net the counsel of Lord Wellington,- good effects lie lon for these nineteen years past in the course of the
distinguielied a part. The house would recollect, I was in, lined to beiieve had also beets produced ; and I war; in his . own, experience for sixteen years,
that at the end of the last, and the beginning of the tat the time that Moscow was o Mil pvil V sacrificed, 1 speeches like that of the Noble •Lord had beet
present campaign, time fortress of Ciudad Rodrigo ;it was consoling to the ROSSiIII% to know that Leal ! constantly delivered, holding out uniformly Co
was in possession of the enemy. With such celerity 1 Wellington had wrested Madrid from the enemy.—' same prospects, and the same penegs•rics on Cam.
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1 and secrecy were the prcp,tratituts of Lord Welting- l Another not less important consequence, restating ! menders, amid on Ministers the•nselves, and endine
!ton conducted, that early in January he laid siege to from that victory, was, that it we's a victory over l constantly in disappointment. He was unwilling at
Ciudad Rodrigo ; aid a circumstance which formed • Spelt* itself. To the House, who knew the pride, I that time to enter into any discussion of the merits
a sufficient eutoeiten on hie conduct, was, that that (ho honourable pride of the Spanish character, it !of the campaign, and serially so to dissent from the
' important fortress was tate before Marshal Mar. would he lone to appreciate the circumstance, that ! proposed vote ;ebut still lie thought it would hem
'nolot could get out of his winter cantonments, and the Corte,: had surrendered the whole military power been better. Lot to have brought it on trite so early,
march to its relief. At the very time wile:: he was .of Spain into Lord Welliabton's hands. Ties moral ! amid without any previous miquit.y into the merits of
occupied in the siege of Rodrigo, this gallant Gene..victory over the Spaniards, could not, however, be so . the whole operations. But the Noble Lord a; if he
1 rat made preparations for the attack of Badajos, and well understood b.' the votes of the Cortes or 80. ' did lint feel himself sufficiently strong in tee l'eu:as
such was the secrecy and celerity of his inoventeets, gency, as by the case of Gen. Bollasteros. That sula, went to Russia, to find cothfort• Br' trinralm•
i that, notwithstanding the warning given to Marshal • Officer not only mile-fled no individual to support ed at the terrible act of burning the whole city ibl
I Marmont by the rapture of Ciudad Rodrigo, seven him, in the-Cortes or Regency, but even his• owe' Moscow, by which .2. or 300,000 individuals gyms
out of eight of the divisions of Lord Wellington's army ! troops, those troops whom he had so often led oe driven wanderers from their .hahiratione, and thou-
; were before Budajos, before the 'French General: to vlaaryr 44vesnitelves delivered him up.-4/leueti -, bands of Russian sotdieis, as it was stated, became
knew any thing of the movement. This important In adverting to this point in the character of the • the prey of the devouring llama's. All this terribls
1 fortress, with greater capabilities of defence than ' Seanith nation, he could not but lament, that they ! destruction he approved, because it d leered the
even Ciudad Rodrigo, was attacked early in March ; bad not permitted us to do so much good for them ! object of the enemy in getting. winter quarters in
and it appeared from a letter of Soult's, which fell :as we could wish. But let the good effects of this ; Moscow ; and considered the destruction of the time
into the hands of the British, and which explained ' pride be at. the settle time considered—stile uohle ! dent capital as a matter of triumph to Russia._.
to the Government of France, by what causes Lord , resistance which it has onabit'd them to make . Russia had, in fact, half destroyed her own country.
Wellington bed got possession of two frontier fur. to the French. And let it be considered, ha Suppose Ilattaparte extricates himself from his imml's
tresses in the presence of two hostile armies, each Judging of their actions, how great the difficulties divee diiliculties, and, getting winter quarters else-
equal to his own—EL/coo .I]---(for it indeed appear, ' they have had to contend with, deprived as where, prosecutes his invasion, .in a similar manner,
that ',Vermont and Soult's army were each equal to ! they were of their Generals and their magnifies : its the spring, could any man of common sense he-
to that under the British Commander), that not-' and when it is recollected, that though they havo not Here that Russie could undergo the repetition• f
withstanding that distinguished General had •as- beets able to bring armies into time field, with what ' similar dreadful experiments and sacrifice: :.
sembled his army with all possible celerity, suck matchless. vigour- their small corps have acted, the Could she burn another Moscow to prover t it,
was the vigour with which the approaches were made, wonder might be (deprived as they were of their occupation by the enemy ? %Val she horn' Peters-.,
and such finally the intrepidity displayed in the as- accustomed supplies from South America) not that burgh too: The Russiami Genera! Kutusow,
.s'o:eent-
sau"s that the Preach army could reach Albuera only they had done so Effie, but that they had done so log of the battle of Borodino, said, tint he 'IS' tli,,
after the fortress the came to. relieve had fallen into. niuch. After recapitulating some part of hiss peeelo follow up the results of the battle, because he should,
the hands of the British.' Having accomplished these tho Noble Viscount begged flue House to compare in that ciise, risk both his own army and the a ,
two great objects, which would have formed so large the operations of Lord Wellington, with those of of Moscow. The event of the capture of Mosioe
a feature in the fame of any other individual, after the French) and to observe with how small loss his did, notwithstanding, take
admire the megnanimity of horning that,
accomplishing two objects, which completed the ad. movements had been effected—no rear-guard surprised • not greatly been fateda
vareageous effects of the former campaign, and I e—no cannon taken (except. the few which had been , the preservation of which ought to have
of
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secured the independence of the Ally to whom we I abandoned at Burgos, and which might, had it beets for; nor could he see the ehining character
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place. Ito, for one, malt(
had always Well so closely attached, Lord Welling- I worth while, have been preserved).”-elloping that he- Estoperur Alexander, who was not, likethe
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ton had to consider iu what manner his army Miht I had avoided all controversial Matter, the Noble Lord of the French, personally
he best employed. He was not so sanguine ass to I concluded, b lnoving; that the Thanks of the !louse ,' the war, if 'Alexander could coolly feel lois dreadful
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imagine, on comparing his means with ttsoof the be ' hi • W li* . for his ' der-' calamity,—this sacrifice which lie could not agate
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Spain, but he entertained hopes
enemy, that he should lie able to ape) sharing its the
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the French ing the last campaign, and especially for the glorious ford to make. if he was told of ,
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from 1 state of Bonaparte's army, and then looked to Neil"
of compelling victor obtaioedenearsSalamantea. ' _ .
them to abandon that militarypossession of it WM' • The • .
quest's:us was putting, when . , .
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out which Spain could never. be conquered.. P Du" • Sit FRANCS BURDETT rose, and bern by ; failed. e• H knew not what to make of what . ,
moral reeling e
Inc the siege of IJadajos, he stated to his • cir obatottnintet hlahedi diallket *alms; his tiesinion-1 We Lord said of the conquest of .
s were really
'tent' he did not etiitao to mn i . gz;
y t ng. which 4,e•sabjeete•perelfaiiiiierys se whieh he was such ! Spain. He could not believe, that we
. Ihe roust see that its the latter we had complett:ls
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