The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-03-12 00:00:00

PTO Tiilit, RIGHT II" LIEUTZNANT•GENERAL '
VIE. LOkB IFfsie IL C.%.BENTINCii, G.C.B. &aim.
Mr Laos,
ALI/Tga the speeches delivered on Friday evening,
ur and tm mach purpose, at the dinner over which
your Lords presided, IMO remained to be said • yet had
the *ports& ty offered for me to have addressed you, I
skald have foetid it impouibis toluive been altogether ii-
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' lent on meth an oteasicto. Every British bosom must burn
' to raise the eelce, while yet It is trot permitted to raise the
arm, in defence of the liberty of Spite : or should I not ra-
liter say, in defence of the libertlesof.Europe? for now, for
the mcoud time, will the liberties of Bumps be won or lost
*on the Peninsula! The combatants are in some respects
clanged ; the hands directing the struggle aro changed.—
Nations, who owe their preseet polities! existence, or at all
treats, whose brightest glory it once was to have been rel.
lied, by the ample of Spain, to resist arbitrary power and
to meintais the latogritypf ipdipoiadent States; those na-
tions ere now oldies the thradmmod aggression which in-
vited iss, be the ir eating on Friday, tolls expression of pub.
tic, of British feeling; but however cheered the combatants,
there is now, as before, on the oue side, the spirit of tyranny
aid absolute power, and on the other side, thespitit of brave
apdchivairobs devotion to liberty and ludependeoce. Let
- : Bugilshown choose between these!
.0..,. *lord, it is a memorable lesson, that sibrtbef thombit
ks, 'illegitimate power is Frener', or letlifolate power, the same
sktotis principle is all-powerful in itsconneile and relations
towards other nations; hurrying the present: Govern/O.IW of
France forward towards the same destruction, sod from the
same cause, which overthrew the limb My Lord, While
many may ascribe the present rashowe of conduct in the
French Government to bigotry and folly, lam tempted to
believe, there will be fowl in the Government itself a far
more fatal conspiracy against the house•of Bourbon, than
can be discovered in any on. of the present political parties
in Spain; a conspiracy misguiding the Monarchy of France
to a grave is Spain.
My Lord, be it so, or he it not so, it is with the friends of
national independence to resist: bithe aggressor a Buono-
* -te or a Bolt-bon, the people, of. Britain will acknowledge
:;.., friend but the friend of national inviolability and consti-
Lationel monarchy; the people of Britain will denounce no
enemy except the enemy of political freedom.
My Lord, we met on Friday, to celebrate feelings mi.
tional to England, and, I thank God, now nations! to Spain
and Portugal. My Lord, we met to cement the ties betwees
this nation and the nations of the Peninsula, and more es-
pecially, to welcome the- illustrious foreigner, who rests
his foot among us in his journey towards his native laud.
My Lord, that the rights of hospitality were sanctified
between us, let the enthusiasm of Friday beer witness.—
My Lord, far be it from any of us to precipitate the coun-
cils of our c.,untry ; but, individually, let us not forego the
Vino, that Spaniards will not fight alone the battle of libe-
rated Europe ; let us feel, skit the best commenterx upon
the past that we took in the former war, will be rend in the
part we take in the present war; let. England manifest,
that she acts now, as then, from principle, and not from
partiality ...r from prejudice ; for subsist cea, and not for
names.
My Lord, it is in the power of every indtisidoal to do
much for S;:atn. I athttle not to arms, and munitions of
war, which the zealous and the wealthy are new at liberty
to send-to Spain ;r or would I wait for the repeal of the'
Foreign Enlistment Bill. My Lord, we owe, and we will
observe, full allegiance to our tiro Government, but we
owe a pigheirollggiance to humanity ; the one restrains tie
body, but tire; oTher will always govern the soul of man.—
What though 11/b cannot, under-present circumstances, go
to the field 1 what though ens may not yet be foetid In the
wan of bottle ? still is the path of charity end benevolence
always open to us. Who shall arraign. who shat! arrest
the flow of British succour, sod British fellowship. spat-
) taneowely offered to alleviate the miseries of wart My
Lord, the want of opportunity alone, the full •occupatiou
of every moment of Friday's meeting, prevented• my en-
frAting front your LOrdship, and the numerous assembly
present, that a feed should he contributed by British sym-
pathy, towards the foundation of Spanish Military Hospi-
tals. Sects a course is open to us ; for thire is no law to
inhibit us from binding the wounds of the soldier, and so-
lacing him in his peril.
. My Lord, it is not too late to do something ; if we can-
not lead in the path of glory, let us be found following
in benevolence the desolation of war, easing the pains
of the s:ck, and soothing the spirit of the broken. If Bri-
tish valour is for the present forbidden to gather laurels
lot the glory of England, let British sympathy delight to
supply bairn and oil for the succour of the wounded.
"My Lord, as it was my purpose at the Meeting of Friday,
so it is my purpose in my present public addrets to your
lordship, to propose Subscriptions towards the Founda-
tion and Support of Spanish Military Hospitals. My
:Cord, is it is my pride to ',repose the measure, an it be-
comes my linty to offer a subscription towards it. In gush
a part Engli3timen may be volunteers. Let us proffer to
essuage the sufferings *e have tried in vain toprevent, and
as yet are pot permitted to shore. 1.-t us bind up wounds
we have been able to avert ; recollecting always, that in
the same degree that the invasion of Spain must be regard-
ed as an brtasion of the liberties of Europe, so, though
the vroands.we may heal are on the bodies of Spaniards.
yet-are we 'Ourselves wounded through them ; for the real
wound •to be deprecated is tne wound to liberty, whose
side is attempted to be pierced by the unholy spear of
France. I have the honour to be, my Lord,
Your Lordship's most faithful servant.
• • FRAS. WASKErr MYERS.
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