The Statesman.
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porary seconddediare4Wits sSe4Aihi' fort& larger
body of horse, when occasion should rsvaire.
Mr. WitriBILEATO %waled to the Committees
if there was a singleimanie the House who had had
the smalleit Iftwef the tAltyrA'of this grant till now.
Either the Right,llosioeablo Gentles** who spoke
last knew mere sett* subject than the Seerectary of
• the Treasury did, or the litter had act done his duty.
He asked, wonld the Hoe. Secretary not now agree
to postpone this grant? Or *mild not the Committee
feel a jealousy how they acceded to the graatlag of
money on such an estimate?
Mr. PONSONBY said, the potion was not
whether this sum should be voted at all or not; but
whether or not time should be given to the Committee
to understand what they were doing. All he should
say, if it was true that France and England were
new to be compared to two men up to the neck in
water, and If in such circumstances, barracks for
350 soldiers were to mot England 133,0001. it was
hot difficult to see which of the two must be choked
first.
Lord FOLKES'fONE strongly objected to a lar-
ger grant than was proved to be necessary; particu-
larly for the erection of barracks, which that House
sad the country had been accustomed to regard with
a jealous eye. The speech of the Right Honourable
Gentleman (Mr. Perceval), too, furnished additional
ground for postponing the grant till the House was
better informed.
After a few words from Mr. CREEVEY, the
House divided, when the numbers wate—
rs*, sae Amendment
Agetad it .
Majority —4B
When strangers were again admitted, the few re-
maining clauses were put and carried, without a di-
vision, after which the Report was brought up, and
it was.ordered that it he received to-morrow.

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411,1441t#04tke-Q W14:14. 116 cli,tfidh-
d L i airnystationed, in EitreMadisni,hal tooted'
towards Ltersua, *a& that General is mid to
have tone 'to renew the dap co Tttikl. Fre&
all this it appeers, that :the French Marthala
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are no way alarm2d as to , speedy fall of Ba 7
dajos, and
,that 'they
.I:akat to on reducing Can-
' dad Rodrigo - and Torii**, before ' their assistance
will be necessary for the relief of the Ureter platy.
The Lisbon Papers are up to the 31st of March, ant
Government are said to have received dispatch&
tiom Earl 'WELLINGTON to the 28th. If the CO,'
tents of his Lordship's communication transpires in
time, we shall give them in a Second Edition. The
following are attracts from the Portuguese Pa-
pers :

--1 s-s ,
I accommodated the hers% while the men were•clis,
permed all coves "the, Metropolis., "'Now," conti-
Rise Mr. 'j, 414, " wit those, Gentlemen who•
• 111111010111bered the,- isse distatbences in London,
would think that ft was a thing very much
to be desired, that the men should be accommo-
dated in the neighbourhood where their horses were;
for if this were not the case, and another disturbsece
should break out in the Metropolis, the men might,
all be intercepted in their way to their horse bar-
nickel,' In speaking of other barracks proposed to
be built at Bristol and Liverpool, he also assigned
as a reason for these, that they were both " pope-
lona cities," which, of course, required to be kept In
awe, should the difficulties of the times, at any fu-
ture period, incline them to lift their arm against
their oppressors. Bristol too, he said, was a depot foir
French prisoners, and one of the ports for the debark.
ation- of troops between this CoUntry and Ireland,
1 which afforded additional reasons for the erection of
barracks there. In answer to these observations,
Mr. WHITBREAD explicitly stated, that the barrack
system bad always been considered by the friends of
1 freedom as unconstitutional ; and directly charged
1 Ministers with having no other object in view, by
this infringement of the Constitution, than to limit
t the liberty of the people, and 'Reroute the oppres-
Isions they were already labouring under, by sqqan-
dering immense sums of money at a period when two-,,
thirds of the nation were starving from the want of
employment to procure articles of the first necee•
sity. The system which the Right lion. Gent. was
pursuing, continued Mr. WHITBREAD', 44 was of a
nature so profuse and extravagant, that it would,
by destroying the resources of the country, in-
duce the necessity of peace by submissibu. The,
expenses of the country amounted to nearly one
hundred millions a-year,—en amount unknown
and unheard-of in any age or country. Every
week some new additions were made, while every
retrenchment was syMetnallcally opposed; how,
then, would it ever be possible to make our de-
creasing income meet our Increasing expenditure?---
As to the barracks in London, why was it so necessary
that the soldiers and their horses should he always
together ? Was it meant that there should be no
mixture—no intercourse between the soldier and the
people ? Were the barracks„to become fortresses for
controuling the citizens I With regard to the Bris-
tol barracks, he knew that an enormous sum of
money had been thrown away on the purchase of a
number of ruinous h(uses at Clifton : the plan was
afterwards given up; but now ft seems it was to be
renewed ; and the ostensible reason assigned was
the number of French prisoners in that district.—
Would to God, he would add, that 011 the French
prisoners were out of the country !"—This
manly—this constitutiomil language was too much
for the little-minded Mr. PERCEVAL. Truth is ,
at all times obnoxious to him. But, when coming
from the mouth of a gentlemau of so much tried in-
tegrity as Mr. WHITIMEAD, it galled him to the
quick; it called forth the exercise of those weapons
which Ministers never feel any hesitation in employ-
ing when all 'other argument fails them. The vile
abominable charge of traitor to his eon:Aryl whiCh
lie aimed at bringing under the yoke of:NAPO-
Lecos, was more than insinuated .by the CHAN.
eutoe of the EXCHEQUER against , Mr. , WHIT.,
BREAD. What man, possessed of the least
spirit of an Englishman, could • sit incl_ bear
himself so grossly vilified, without expressing bfir
indignation against the individual who thus darid to
I rob him of all that is worth possessing on -.earl—a '
good name? Who can blame Mr. WHITBREAD,. ist
• these circumstances, for the warm ebullition of his
honest feelings, when he stigmatised hit avowed
enemy " An adventurer from the Bar, who was
brought into that House to get into power, and to
take a place when no other man could be round to
accept of it?" It is true, Mr. WHITBREAD was called-
-1 to order, and readily acknowledged that the warmth
which he used in vindicating himself from the
! foul charge of his antagoaiit, was not altogether
• consistent with the regulations of that Ilonoureble,
" House; but, in any other situation, we are con.
, winced, Mr. WHITBREAD would have been justified,
had he resented the injury in a more pointed manner
1 than he did. The Morning Post, as we anticipated,'
has charged hf c,.Werrnazao with having now become
44 a pander to the worst of passions," and we ex-
pect
to find the same language reiterated in the
columns of the immaculate Courier. Let the Edi-
tors of these Journals, however, first clear them-
selves of the charge of being the " panders" of Mr.'
PERCIVAL, before they claim credit for the part
which they act. Let them also sliew, that they
have a right to apply the epithets " Traitors,"" Dia-
..oical Incendiaries," " Liars," " Low and rile
illiegme," to their opponents, merely because they
alter in opinion as to political subjects, ere they ar-
%gate to themselves the right of censuring the poli-
'deal conduct of others, or of setting themselves up as
~the advocates even of• the pious, the philcottioropic,
1 and the tieeevoleist Mr. PERCEVAL.

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LISBON, littacn 29.
Letters from Badajos have just been received. Ow operations
there go oo most prosperously. On the evening of the 25th alt.
took by assault, after a most desperate eogagemeat, the strong
redoubt, called Pickering, in front of Badajoa ; it was occapied
by 150 picked men, With fire gnos and a howitzer, 180 were
bayoneted, the remainder surreadered f the taking possession of
this place enables as to carry out works to the west of tbe Glacis.
It was not carried withont taw on our port ; the regiments were
the 45th, 74ths 88th, and 11th Portuguese, under col.
MARCH 90.

Pattatertsre had let the water of the Guadiana halo the ditch,'
so as to cut of the retreat from Pickering, the garrison of which
received no injury till our men got in, they Shea called Ass
quarter. 'MARI/oyez is at Salamanca, and we/would sat be
suprized Isere at bearing he bad made biome at againstOa-
dad Rodrigo or Almeida as a set of against Ra jos
MARC. SS.
A battery of four guns having opened on Fa t Pickering, we
carried it by assault on the night of the 24th. The los se
either side is not yet known ; and at nine o'clock en the.
morning of the 25th, 23 '2l-pounders opened on the town of fle-
dajos, sad this most amazing expedition was used ootwithstand-
ing our men worked six successive days up to their knees in mad
in the trenches, and the rise of the Guadiana carried of sae
two bridges; tine weather is returned for the last three days, and
all is spin set-to Our lots has not as yet been of any come-
quence. General Sir T. Gasasst is still in advance towasds
Zafra. General Ilit.t. has returned to Merida ; a party of 600
Febncli had taken their stand near the bridge of Merida, hat en
perceiving our people they fled ; we took two or three Officers
and a few men ; they went towards Horoaches. We do not
hear of hlaamoscr ; he must come soon, and in great force, if
be thiaks to do any thing.

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It was further moved, that the Estimates for the
St. Mary-le-Bone, Liverpool, and Bristol Barracks,
be laid before the House.—Ordered.

Mr. CALCRA FT moved that there be laid before
the Reuse, accounts of Bank-notes in circulation on
Saturday the 4th and II th instant, distinguishing
those of and above the value of 51,--Ordered.

.The like !Natio,' was made for the Notes of Ire-
laod.—Ordered.

After some -remarks from Lord Folkestone and
Mr. Poesonby, the Report of the Gold Coin Bill was
brought op by Mr. Wharton, the Bill was re-com-
mitted, and it was ordered that the Report be re-
aired to..morrow.

BANKS OF THE GUADIANA, Kiang V.

In doe night of the 2lst. there was a movement in all the points
which the French occupy in Estremadura ; it is announced that
they cetired towards Llerena. On the 9d instant, Swats was in
Xeres de Fronteira. There is no notice of the coming of a con-
voy or troops from Andalusia. On the 18th Inst. the French
united in Villafranca, and from thence marched to ltebeira. On
the same day Danorr set oat from Llerena for flornachos, and
flora thence for Serena, to join Geis. Qum?, who is in 7.alamia
de la Serena. The Spaniards in civil employments, and the re-
mainder of the French Army, are to march to Constantin, and
thence to'beville. On the 19th, General Gummi, with the
corps ander his command, entered Zafra. We hear nothing of
the coming of troupe from Andalusia.—(Lisboa Gazette, March
28.)
MARCH 12.
Ott tie 17th. the first parallel against Badidos was finished,
and part of the commuttication- for a second. In the night be-
tween the Ilith and 19th. the second parallel warassopletod, and
two batteries commenced being erected, one of which, accord-
ing to appearances, will be directed against Fort Plearina.

The Imakeepers' sa was read a third time, and
passed.
On the motion of Mr. W. POLE, the House went
into a Committee on the Irish Spirit Qin, when the
Report was brought up, and it was ordered, after a
few words from Mr. Shaw, of Dublin, that it be re-
ceived tomorrow.
Also, on the motion of Mr. W. POLE, the Irish
Tobacco Dill was read a second time ; to be commit-
ted tomorrow.

On the motion by the same it •+•as ordered, that
the House to.morrow resolve itself into a Committee
of the whole !louse, to consider of the Salaties of
the Auditors of Public Accounts in Ireland.

The Noose went into a Committee on the West
Indi♦ Goads Bill, and it was ordered that the Re-
port be received to-morrow.
On the rootlets of Mr. WIIABTON, the Com.
mitten of Ways and Means was Be erred uutil Wed-
aesday neat.
Leave was given to bring in a Bill for•eJteriug the
allowances to certain superannuated annuitants.
Mr. WALLACE moved, that a paper presented
in 1801, respecting East India Freights, be reprinted.
The other Orders ef the Bay were then disposed
of, and the Ifousnedjourned.

MARCH 11.
Our works have been continued for the third parallel, and are
considerably advanced. The rain has fallen in torrents. The
vellies have been iuuudAtel, and the Guadiana cut. As soon as
the weather nets a little bettcr, our batteries will open epee the
place.—(Sane Paper.)

BANKS OF T 111: OCADAT.QUIYER, Nissen 15.
All the grain which arrives at Seville, from Cordoba, is imme-
diately forwarded to San Luau, in a hich city famine has rises
to such an height, that people die in the streeb from absolute
want. The actual force in Seville is 1000 infantry, and a few
cavairy, SOUL? hall marched southward, and it Is positively as-
serted, for the purpose of attacking Tarifa.--(Some Paper.)
FRONTIERS OF TILE NORTII OF PORTUGAL,
Wilma 15.
The reglimeat of Castile Cassadores, eontamoded by its chief,
3lsiszo, has made 200 of the enemy's dragoons prisoners, he-
tween Leoa and Villa blonha—this iatelligenee is official.—
' (Same Paper.)
Letters from Eh as; of the 25th inst. state, that on that day the
Are from our hatterics opened with great vigour upon Dada-
'jos which replied with corresponding activity. This was the
I first good day, and we hope that it will continue. They write
from Porto. under date of the 241 h, that on the 99d, in tht even-
ing, Captain-tiener.o Castanos arrived there, and was received
with the most lively acclamations by an innumerable concourse
of people, who went out, accompanied by tbettroops, to receive
him; he was visited by all the authorities, and treated with that
distinction die to the conqueror of Bayles—(Liskoss
March 28.)
VALENCIA D'ALCA.NTARA, Nimes 20.

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5 per (*cut. Navy 94 1 Consols for Acct. lOU
Lail. Ann. is. Lottery Tleketi £21:18

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The works against &dojos are continued with activity, and
a more brilliant success eves than that of Ciudad Rodrigo is
expected. The eattnriastie joy of the inhabitants of this Pro-
vince, at seeing its capital likely to he rescued from the bands
of the enemy is indescribable. The standard of liberty waving
upon its walls, will he t►e ►ignaal for new exertions. The fee-
bieness of the enemy, and his confusicia mast prinlacc a violent
explosion, which will revive oar grandeur w ith that degree of ,
glory which Is due to ear love of iodepeadeoce ; our constancy is
the struggle, and oar resolution not to submit to the haughty we-
my „—(Lishea Gentle, March 30.)

VILLA FRANCA, Id4arn 14.
Accamb have been received of two bellow, in which the
Commutate( CA211111.14 has ebbtained considerable advantages at
site village of Memel*, between Samosa and Santander. It is
also said, that a Mail has been intercepted with various papers,
and amung them some letters which iodinate the return of the
French to Fraace.—(Lisbon Gets#is, March SO.)
A most interesting anitiosiiinated Debate took
place last night in the Monte of Commons, on the
motion, in a Committee of Supply, for the 'Um
554,4411. to defray the expences of _the Barrack DIN
pertinent only for the carrent year. M r.Psacevse
tinctly admitted, what we have tong charged Mini
with, that the establiihment of barracis within 'the-
country, was with toe view of °yenning the people,
and rendering them more compliant with 'low;
sores Goverument.

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