The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-03-03 00:00:00

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• The Bill was then reported, mid ordered to be
read a third time on Tuesday next, when it was,
agreed that Couusel should be heard against ,the
WA LCUEREN EXPEDITION.
I• The Marquis of LANSDOWNE then moved
the Order of the Day fur proceeding to the motion,
of. which he had given notice, respecting the Au-
thor or Authors of the Answer which his Majes.
ty had been advited to rettten to the City if Lon.
dun Andress, praying that an Inquiry should be
instituted into the causes of the fail, of that Et.

of liis Majesty's Answer,2had 'disappointed: the ioidd have explained ;hi colittoet 44. Lord Chat.
hopes and expectations of the country ? And eu ham. or the cireumstasteartlite intseeced andguid.
not the Expedition to Walcherei of much larger ed-that conduct. He wis confident that there was
site, of much weightier imprirtance-and7.lmi its no Wish or intention on. the part otliecord ChathaM
failure less disaPpolnted the hopes and expectetione to reflect on the eoadiei et Stritlehard Strachan ;
of the country ? In the former case there welkin as little wax ikon oethe Pot, of . that gellant•Ad.
alacrity at inquiry, where the same -grounds were miral to inipote.blointe 4thit coisdent ef .that No..
not adduced for it: in the present instance thin hie Lords Neither could be brie' Mitategto.lloo.-
was to be no Inquiry, although theMnstest call Hess thee perill' Wilt (4 diantisfactloni-.had tees •
and reasons hist for Reinstitution. Bet ite would, neitodlitecnen' the ;two services: and *forbid
leaie it to Ministers to reconcile tlieselirring ion- then sheoftV Titers , wee moseit, no doubt to b.
tradictions., He would onlytali•npon their Lord.' lamented in the eircuonstanceir and failure et 'that '
- notto allow dint to .afai,sto hi, Majesty'sfdi r-''" - _
the .digthit 41r inichglittipg TtletisSioteocies..-7. ' -
tiiiit illes,.....Milt_tp:l:o4tirs:ol .tkeet, 'pej
' . ealtwetia*vAtifir*liir;
;lea et ills ileistoe- hi had
!shiers. "A, let,:ehoild not
thats'•:lllßo'he Moved ea
___ Majesty, .-prayist his' Ha:
jestA mould te'eracionsty pleased to inform that
Haan who hit that idvierd his. MaJtstrtutay
l:
fit,
his answer to the Address of the. City of Land ,
tliat there were no. grounds for inquiry into.
.',
.conduct of the Commander of the Expedition toAt "
oi
ficheldt. • • •
; .. The . Earl of LIVEBPQOI.4 speke'. in "pit..
He felt no hesitation in 'Cordial/ the Noble Mar..
(pis that infortiation which it, sense.' td besthe
object of his 'motion to obtain. If •the Noble ,1
.Marquis then desired to be informed who had ad-
vised
his Majesty to return the answer in question
to the Address of the City of Leosodon, howould
readily tell him the& it was hie Msijesty's Minis-
ters--that all his itlijesty's Ministers, With ex-
' °option of the Noble I..orsi (Clialbem)were per-
..fergy signed in the propriety of *kit sivisinroend
•that they alt concurred in 'advising his Majesty to
return that answer. From whatever degree of re.
.sponsibility therefore attached to that advice, his
Majesty's Ministers did not shrink;; they ,iberig:.
:pleaded guilty to the charge. Bet Without. Ned ,
enterieciotio the merits or demerits of the Exped4.,
tion, for7Atik.distiossion of which there would bo'i
other opportunities, ho should content • himailif.
- ,
with observe--- that the comparison anode by the
Ni the '

which his MO
Address of the

lour,
-.---i
iirmea both farriers, were an eternal Pinks Of
their mutual octeem and respect fee each other.—
rilpia‘the whole, he could not but think the Earl '
iii lighatham was severely med. NaP the-begin.
'Aug, his reputation was assailed on all sides. He
was the object of the daily attasks of ail the jutio. •
-lie eints, which seemed to vie with esch•other is
disparaging his conduct in the eyes of the eons.' •
try, Even those prints 'and newspapers which,
ea every occasion; seem so anxious to panegyric*
and blazon the conduct of Ministers' were among -
the foremost to animadvert on Lord Chatham,
and hohlkint to public censure • and 01'41114 4% .
. thus apealtintor lord Chatham, he wished- it-t* -
be underatogl in bespeaking from hintsciteitotte.
He was in no habits oeintiesacy with -that Noble
Earl ; indeed, previous to that Expanders, he had
scarcely any acquaintance with hint. He most
•thcrefuro be puderstood Jaskol. thing ho had said
FoneerniogiShewlinits'of thesethansactions, to hale
stekensolcly from hianwnopinion, and not to
;1441PAIIIMOd !11, advamainstord.from any previous
wtopsoil
etp wigs that Noble Person on the subject
' 7ots. - ni I would again repeat his
*po ~,timis no *barge Was ever intended hies
-rnissjor ' the other, and that eeniagteet.
• that any ill will kid beim
. ;
..eimerved, that the orestits
iiiitaiderett with * fulatoNdb to
the public Dbpitelies
• by itasp•Al
Lehithent IsoiA.'
0--
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6 instituted into the causes of the failure of that Ex... weithgotbsecring, that the comparison made by the one service mains' the otier,
pedition. But ho wished that, 'before he entered Noble! Marquis between the two events, of the 17 he could uot Pellbodee that
on the subject, Lord Cbatham's Narrative, respect. Expedition to the Scheldt and the Convention of excited between Om., '
iog the fairUre hf that Expedition, be read. antra was not just ;—and that titelailurn of the Lord HOLLAND observe
The Clerk having acoerdiugly read the Harm. Expedition to the: Scheldt arose kin, one chief befoul them most be considert
0 live cattle, a departeiv'fiotts the original plan laid two distiuct documents—th
0' live=
Noble Marquis begiut his comeseltlarm d►w or the • -01.. th _ ...., '..,: T .1. ballitAbaCtmalpaliiierLssfsetbe
—4ll, in Order to prove, that iviThis faiii"it (Ear (11;. t °picture was pet ts Ao. osyt • • 1. I' private Tterrative presented I
cement, drawn up by
.one of his Majesty's Minis. able as blame to the Couurnantiart isf.;illo Extidi. bis Majcdty. The answer ar
ten—by the very Commander in Chief of that don. It grew out of necessity—a necessity ins. been advised to give to the Ao
Expedition, the re was abundant reason for the posed by the elements, by the winds and . waves, London, involved it in this
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