The Statesman.
London, England, 1814-04-21 00:00:00

IMPEL:Li PARLIAMENT.

BOUSTi OF I.o:tns. APRIL 2'.
The House met at ten o'clock in the morning.
In the Appeal " Aylmer v. Blake," Sir Arthur
Piggott and Mr. Leach were heard for the Appellant.
Judgment affirmed.
In the Appeal 44 Walker v. Gibson," Mr. Leach
and Mr. Murray were heard 1,4 the Appellant, Mr.
Adam and Sir Samuel Rocnillsk for the Respondent,
and Mr. Leach in reply. Judgment on Monday.
The Committee of Privileges on the Airly Peerago
wag appointed for to morrow selnnight.
Mr. Kingston, from the Eriu India-Roose, pre-
sented some Accounts directed by Act of Parliament,
.0 hill' were onlerei to lie on the table.
Adjourned tlic to.nim row (this day).

‘101:3V, OF COMMONS.
There being at four o'clock not one hundred
Members present, as required on account of the
ballot for the Cal nay Election, the SPEAKER. took
the Chair, and an Order was made, That the names
of the defaulters at the ballot to-morrow be set aside,
and afterwards reported to the House., in order that
the absentees may then be taken into custody.
The Mini then of;tourse adjourned to to-more
row.

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THE STATESMAN.

LONDON:

THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1814.

Once more it is our melancholy task to relate the
horrible occurrences of war, occurrences which are
more distressing to the humane mind, because they
can have no effect on the attainment, or the condi-
tions of Pears.; because the most confident and
pleasing hors had been entertained that our columns
would no more be polluted by pictures of slaughter;
and because the calamitous event to which we now
allude, is to be ascribed to the most unaccountable
eakriess, or the most atrocious perversity, in
some quarter or other. By French Papers re-
ceived this morning, it will be seen that a
Most sanguinary conflict has taken place be-
tween the French army of Sovs.r, and that of
the Allies, under the command of Lord WELLINGTON.
The triumeli, the melancholy triumph, remained
with the Allies, who, in consequence of this vic-
tory, took possession of the city of Toulouse.--
The battle is said, by the Monileur, to have been
fought on the 10th inst. ; bat, In one of the minor
Journals, it is stated not to have been till the 11th.
It is thus evident, that from the Ist, the day on
which the counter-revolution may be said to have'
taken place at Paris, there was ample time for the ue.
eessary communication to have been made to the Com-
manders of both armies, the distance from the capital to
Toulouse being 470 miles. In what manner, or
owing to what circumstances, this disastrous delay
in the arrival of the information at the head-quarters
of either of the contending armies, took place, we
are left entirely to conjecture. Thus far, however,
appears certain, that if, on any day prior to the sth,
or even the 6th of this month, that is, within four or
five days after the change of affairs had ac-
tually taken place, any person or persons of
sufficient consequence and authority to command
an uninterrupted progress, and every facility to
accelerate it, had been dispatched from the capi-
tal, this battle, the most deeply-afflicting of any that
has taken place during the war, would have been
avoided. Every drop of blood thus uselessly spilt,
must indeed excite a more lively regret than
any effusion of blood, sacrificed for the at-
tainment of necessary and honourable objects.—
On such a subject, our undissembled grief, as
well as our consciousness of the magnitude of
the offence in those to whose neglect our cause
of grief is in any degree to be ascribed, may
well secure us against any undue promptness to pre.
.fer accusation. It will hereafter appear whether
Lord C!OTI.EREAGII, and our other Ministers, made
such representations to the Mlied Powers, and so
employed their influence with the exiting Authori-
ties in France, as to secure the adoption of means
the most certain of success that could be devised,
• for the speedy transmission of . the intelligence, that
would immediately have terminated all hostile pro-
ceediegs, to the armies iu the south. It is evident,
that if ordinary measures only were resorted to on
this occasion, enough was not done to satisfy the
deep importance of the interests at stake. In such a
breaking up of all authority, to expect that a com-
mon messenger, or any of the common modes
of communication, could be efficient, would
have been little short of insanity. It is clear, that
some individuals of sufficient weight to ensure the
respect and obedience of the provincial authorities
should have been employed ,on this momentous er-
rand. Perhaps, indeed, this has been done, and
some unexplained accident may have prevented their
due arrival at the place of their destination. If,
however, it shall appear] that nothing of
this sort has taken place ;—if, above all, it
shall appear that our Ministers with the Allies