The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-01-24 00:00:00

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enemy to depress belkelliddge
letirlelied in a degree of '
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vigour afillrost .11411bleit;
e?t*Ml,.. The exports last year 'illdeededl,
several Mariana those of any firmaper' •
-(l.lear ! Ilear!) . Inland navipetios 'had been
'extended, and by the scobstitutido of ibichisery
'for liboni, we were enabled to employ I larger
pisftbf our population-in the defence of the coos.'
tats, While France.was drained •offliotr fibrillation
fur the purposes of ambition: The' Honourable
`Member expressed his hopes 'that the general
tenor of the Address contablid 'wothiteg to pre.
Trent• it from being unanimbialy ordispesod. There
was nothing is it which had any tboitlanty toatilli
retire inquiry ; slid all, that it Wont to pledge thel
Houle for was, that it would Cantinas to support
door own inolependetice, and whit yet .renraias of
'European freedom. ( Mgr, • heir !) . lie hoped.
1:k
'that the causes which have ItitNerio. contlibn .-;
our naval superiority wotild stilt enable nato.
out the storm in safety.. • Tlio floantorahte
her contluded with a wararenloginnt on the-Vs.!
lour 'of our soldiers, who ht 'proved themselves
so decidedly superior totlanneb whenever they
had come In tented with , soil afforded addl»
tio*al groiowd for relying with 'Confidence on our
power tO Wilt all the efforts which the ensiny
could mails tor nor 4estrncdon. ' '
Lord GOWER, a maiden Speech,: &Choked*
his intentinn of op in; the Aileen-. He shoo*
be very abort in liOl his tesset a.'' . ' , a
to the Addeo* - liteTo !ic Lord, a
oavd
,atithireas tijt
tralited the. il . -she* him that Indulgent*
winith, was twat 'ash toolSasions. At the cltis*
of 11 ft Session of sent, his litojetty's Coln:.
' missfasmors sinonlamai that hie 'Majesty was Pre,
parinV ta support his Milos with ill the means in
his po*er. The public oxisealled that some great*
effort soVould kayo been Medi, and the resources
at the ilXioposal of 'Ministers were abundantly ads,
quite for' that purpose. • He-did not, Ketend Als
be Ili"dr- 4( the esPedieact a Continental ope
rations ; bt he coca snit help observing, that,
while the liorth of Menial, war notoriously dial
steeled, nt;•asilstance /at Warded in that quart
'ter, where ilitr?bably it Slight Nave prod, .vd' the
'moat iiipresoion on the'eninvy, .and vitocilt
aid was analowsly looked for by • those glean
under leis tyra*ny. (tie& I - hear!)
.Mhtisteral-
atteotioa was 'diverted to other objects, which
neither con:altos t the true Interests, hoe the cha-
. meter of thttessantry. •(l/tar! Ajar !) Instuad
i of our fort* isaitsg united,. so as to
.produce as
`impression upails 4.h0 enemy, they Were divided:
The resonroati,ot .the nation were squendered•
with Pronipill. hit wash E‘tor I hear il .and the
plays- wasted is limitless shootiltOus, . Thu in..
of the bad p iiiicy of Ministers teem US.
.11.11SGe ' • but iii shorld Only advert to two
their expeditiosaimbickerere pre.etaigent Tor their'
illeassmasa twomalassabal--abosoe to Waleberen and
ilo Splii• 'Tim elms he campaign in the latter
c.ollelociits.4hi. year , S, ought. to have been
etheillihi IIII?"'.., illitlialet . 00$itt tiF /have known
thatit• agiittallitio4 1t00..*114k. to 'eelltef! ita
decrfess saiell utot_ )341:timilisiwa

,_____— ... prOVICIII fue.'.
_ _ -....•• or-tSIIBAKai army. Sir John Monte
experienced an assistance from the Spaniards,'
sad the exasestoragyel were too, Well> Maw ii,-r.,
'the *ors he coati ted the ' etinclatt.of the;
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gallant Officer', thil`-:there he felt 'r':disposaa,
„to ailuiire it—(hear, hear !)—But how' had Mi.,
nisters acted ? Uniintrurted by his melancholy
fate, they had sent anutls.r army into the same
coustryi without any previi us eolicert or arrange:
moat with the Spanish CuTernment, and the
eoueeqtences that followed .might have been fore:
such. The pompous embstely of Marquis, Wel-
lesley, which commenced with promising so much,
ended in performing. nothing..--(hcar, hear !)—The
victoey of Lord Welliegtoniended in the nine re.
sults sisdefeat—,(hear, hear'l)—Another expel/J-1
tion Is than sent oat, the most' formidable and ex-
, pensive Bait over sailed from dhe British shores.—
But its, sidling was deferrett 1 until Austria had
been weaqoished, sad compilled to nolo, an
armistice'. • it could not be said then that the ex-
patios'ssail stiesigaed to operate as a diveniou in
favour of A: oasis. It was ccinfilimi to British.
objects; *bur retnreed to our ports with numbers
diminished 24 d wasted by without having
carried' thane Asjacts into edirtrin the dispatches
of Lord has It was publicly esnoitoced
liar thy.- s of the roomy wen: drawn • up in
Maly sail, the pas of their citadel. The
ammemdar • Clad thou prudently dutermiasid
II *gm e iiiseltiding history of thl case
was as aseismals elyia itharest. Notwithseoadiag
... meow,. WWI! grasps had landed was so
• • y 44.0111,4. Oat Sir Jolla Pringle,
aceenee ' • sils disiasaa of the army, hid de.
*oil sa asp* 4 Stilt* the diseases of W;l.
*imp, hi to It lie' that liveissembeeief,
. - -on that don in the, par 1746, weetras,t'
to I—tikes,5~
ear! i —sad ;tot withstinditil it *es '
well known it the Swill regiments which were
isigloyed by A* otd Dutch Government, made It
s sisistaut sdpid scion in their articles of agree.
sent with thdir,,. Governante, that they should
net be Cmployedl4 m -Welcbetee at the lesson of
the year 'wheo .11 le Eepedition sailed, yet our
troops were mail lid to. remain till their ranks
were exhausted kr*. sieknets. After dwelling some
time en this stadia It with great force and anima.
dun, he said ha In mid not enter into an cambia.
lion of the othat.i. :barges which might be made
against his Msjelti 's Ministers ; they would fall
into other hapdsii a a could not, however, refrain*
from giviug aka lfis 1 most unqualified condemnation.
The Noble Lorst\al ncleded, amidst a very gene.
cal cry of Heir Le- lis; or I hear! by way of cheer-
ing, with movie; 114 A.isendment, of which the
►following is i het,: substance—That after the
,',words which thsaik ',4 his .Majesty for his gracious
,esneesonieation, : this 5 be substituted for the
test of the Addr east • " Thst, we have seen, with.
squaw and indii piatiol il tbo accumulated failurer
lad disasters of tbn b 4st campaigns, the Wilful,
weak) of our n• atonal• resources, nod loss of so
*tiny thousands of oar brave troops, whose dis-
tinguilli`ed and • heroic : valour
has been cieriliced
in many unprUl liable et tterprizcs, which, instead
of advantages, I lave pal ly produced a listi:1;; in.
jury tu this cc iuntry ; entcrpr,za directed only
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were disasters th.tt follaiteeit each oilier co cloti
that they wero sti•otio evidence of-the ittempaef
i.those who planned; and appear blameable in .the

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'&0 4 yelliddeiratimorerms; tater mod 41116. just, the beat, bat most nnfortattate Adasieistra,
fin eltolleffilllenis olliglial to. the anistance of arr lion; and yet these were the men rhea we Wad
idillfets butt ealposim its their feller.; his Majesty's expected to confidei in. ' Had,tbey the haunts' the
leselbells M the score and the derision of the attention to public •attaiis, mud the console:di*
Imossy: • That we limiters feel ourselves bound, elegem°, of shelve Jyte:'Pitt, which set of hie
lik the only stenensent now to,boanade to an .in. measures to Weenier, whetter eight m 4ar
'eaked .people, to inititattee without delay, such ojj, there was semi apologi poi: cosidemoe.
Agaves and effectual isequiries and proceedings as dHany of tb• present Administration possess itay of
it say bosoms us to adopt, since oar country hai these qualities S, Certalely pot. They.wgre dials.
'been subjected to - unefempled calamity and' dis. guielsed by sothitig except the disaster, witlelt Owl
grace." . hatiessegbt sport their country. They wire ss.
The Amendment was seconded by • • • aide Oen: to keep together; but they gate
The Han. Mr. .WARD, . who said, tat this with whether ; and the Holism etas Naha epee
question appeared to him' to be of grist .nerstl.; to, (111011 do is SZabinat cesepoied of Idlllllllda wh•
gnenc2 in itself,,itist the division of it. stillisio mono fatfont coolding in eith other, thine they
so, fur it. would enable. es.-to judge of all the were well -known to entertain for mak other the
future , measures of that Hanee—tflear, Hear, meat protested contempt. [Hear, hair, hear 1)
Hear l] —many of which will, :no doubt,. be of Was thelionstrof Common to beliorethit due et- •
vent inspoOnce. And this consideration gave notion weapaid to the affairs 'eta coistry by Mi-
groat impornintee to the... Speech before.tho House, misters, whose conduct wo had sem, and of whose
directed by his Majesty to be laid before them.' adtul,act there were documents in every body's
:...The general • habit of the House was, M'occa_ bands, and online be in every body's roollectioth
dons like the present, to express its approbation respecting Machiatelian • intrigues, . endeatearieg
or disapprobation of the past; end *passion of, the to over-reach one • another in purses el Islama
measures proper to be adopted, for the future. and, retention of °MO, but with* total disrepard
. When Sepias were to be moldered by the House for tho common good. ,Seekevas the olitrailer
of Comtnons under circumstances of great pain. and such the conduct of itlitk, aims 'a ii.biki 4to
lic distress, and acknowledged, weakness of our Hossered.coarathet Weir:vegairell to believe la
CIA neils.-.(tiear I hear! hen, t)—it,..seitt he their Stool Itf Manage the talkies et this 41•Statsy.
useless not only for him, -hal for any one to aid .41f *baler notlting...appessedzia. 'prima that
dra's Iliord to the Chair with any now tan dhotis, • •ishiesi ,disoprsi aev.hess....ll
that of endeavouring to save the century ; had abeentreelitt.have;that tillffiesalesdideltellifillift
if the Home did nut act now, it nod not net at teb.whiciveleekteed..taditikee:ba . led
'alt, for thee it would be apparent that the Horse vide* in thellefoirielieler!
had resigned itself tea Oita at inactivity and*. • -
lmiiitith •
difference to the public 'eters*, and a total (Hsu- iselfre,- lute** .Itt del.wi
gent of the fate of their country, which was mot' Krim of bete* evtditasistilieldti . leelliknef
'brandy the feeling of the Howe of Commode, Seiler" in siAbag, *tip. el.lisithii . tit '
and had given up that salutary controul .wirichAt the asone/111 ablfilits.• ,Deis**e * age
once held, and exercised over the servants of the eithar.4lllliapeeity itt Pat ' • ' ' i
public. If indeed we should see the dectittaif. 'ht. hogikeeseek. Off 111:WM*.!•iakailit: ' it
apheentn;lAe
the once jealous House of Commons..-the close -tAtaittsttallllol;liiliiiiisi46oiallekffir
controuline House of Commons, bend to the wilt onorsief tisk! lopteditannehdt IMPS
of those Ministers whom they had reason-to de. disaiser, entiNkield eat deatitide Si tili without
spite, there was no pretence for the iddspin. latermissiostrar a traildebilk etliesi.l. tlih liras
deuce of the House; for at this moment we bad' the aim wishisler oalotle.efeirsi eisidiAbositipstiet
a Governotent assuming the authority of ruling Mini:mt. had 'the geWsand fat- :aille4ae
us amidstalisasters produced by themselves, and not dillibmittr•Sed oetabe • 1
'seeking public confidence when they should be re. fint, theyamisesialtsof '
tiring from office ; and when, at least, the pieta, sego the WWI di a Statif.liiii, "sastiehty,
part Of them should tremble at the thoughts of an. *light ail We/Mu hid been intesugsted• byllffithen-
I mpeacismen t.—( Hear ! hear! hear !)...-Bat if duct ;: for *ha could be igneesat of thtVigiiiiimitt•
the House was -so . tsamindfut- of its duty, *ad so tdiesentloas they had smog . - cli
regardless of its Country's welfare,. se to auction -ha lamina int iota disgrinefet WWI Isigioesod
Stub. measures, and theuharaeteruf such councils hostility egaissistiech idler. , The proestaliamt
es the present Ministeis were distinguished fee,. awful -period. is the history of Englandsge* to
since the last Sesaiond Parliamratcby.the Vote of which Englishiiten is after- ivi OA !honer::, ek
Ala eight, to declare the andidesce of the Hoineof with a -degree
(Commons in such a Grovarldnast asthe present, then -sad to which,.
',he mint ley, that a great, nay, a total change, .1011 shoold •withheld
I.4snau!festly here tasted placein the practical effect of these,. after
otir.Constifutiout and,which change would make it . He therefore .
Namibia 'onto of those old. Governments of He-, was Oeftrieeed,
rope: which we hate lung been in the habit ef MembersAL,'
despising as close and despotic.... The. owls - vebft • anwort y
' 4itlairis the Liman lie, this night, to ingoire, for they did
Was into the,candect of the wars Several ethos* eloquence '
who new heard kiln must observe that dating coontename
the interval since thsalast Session of ierliament' we. - ?hey were
had had certain military operations 'on are;. ten of this:,
leave scale--prepirations in point of sire' more skidoo in .
gigantic—in point of expellee • moue. singslar... Able,- that, in nes 0p....7, -
aud in, point of lois, more deplorable than any every Member of 'the Homo .44.0i5ep...,
thing that was-to he found in the history of any shield be thobasineto of evastimepmtiolheit -.
former war in which this country bad ever been welfare of hie Century at Mort, brining' hiwielf
engaged. This was a plain statement of the iso *outmost of his power to mope ow, It
case; the Ministers' adherents most endeavoer• was not hit intention to enter mach . detail of
to extenuate, but it was impossible fur them to the 'redoes and important points whisk .tweets
deny the truth of it. Then let the House consi- ender the consideration • of,\ and which awe bond
der who planned these measures, which were at acted upon by, the present illembiossisfanesen!
once so vast and so disastrous. They were plan. ment ; that subject would be taken opin the gown
ned by those persons, a great. part, indeed the of this debate by others, whou'abilitisttardpitsilcit
realer part of whom are still Ministers ; and superior to his open that part otizeitssllsloolllen
since there was reason to impute ill these discs. he should. Oily teach wpm .onetorediels•dgiding
tars to the had plans and evil camel's of Ministers, points, and describe their as tbaykoppeamktesisjah
and that they were proceeding with an alarmisig L'..The Ant lo:poitit oUtinte, Jf 'got if lespeo:
celerity to the destruction- of their Cuuntry,by their ,itice, was the
.eaninsiee tit . Sri* . and'Portigd,
heedlessness and inespeolty,- it was time for- the the eircuoistanees .of which air mow, ant- for it
House of Cummins to .approach the' Throne, arid :eohslilerthle time Afars been, befooe-tba, poblici
humbly to assure his Majcmy that the Rouse pad *lsiah; as Well• ay tint Hoistlir.4,oomtiosis well
nu further confidenie, in, his' present Inlinkneri,- -ad w , able 'L4, , form: a ••cOnspe* .ktdilietit i .idv
and to assure his Majesty •that nothing, in the 'hilt own Omit, hrwar.not only at a-lolel to see tfinf
opinion of the House of ConvaidniN tan save this geed roundel 'bet avlsoNy at hisekto•Ohosy lea.
country from destruction bigiliodisithsal of his son at O'ioltititle.O.Miniseate .fo Miter' its *a se-
present Ministers from his eoesscifs;.-the,tauett if' .abed ' . . ie. Spain;' ther;Woria4isseetted
ell our failures and reverses it 'the. ilejliossac •pf •by ag• Serrdillheent fro*, •diatilitio•esin-
Ministers, and that their error, aitilialinsie4 •eidenettieehl lrideit.epsireistustaidid,..iiionoit., of
it is impolseible to, if/offload( .thesti lilt te n Apt.' tindiffeitit -of..lffeas*ollisilielt,edivajoittidtbm4►4o::
too that it is difficult to-state them SW withiti• Air e‘eatnalutiod *bilis:o# fultsikay prelaidiOn‘• to
ordinary tenth of •la4.dditest to. Me Majesty" indoinnee, 'expprienee,,aed assetkority;- .bae cur
Judging by the otifinet aonites, .or moon elf ,aitini•tervimei
.440."Rpplifer. air..Aare disdalsed
experience, • he- would. Weir' tr.*: ..-meerf* , tor
boeerised. iiitithrs, bet-delorotheid •teitaet
Ibis treat ry - never before failed to ' AS) egaii iii ' utter iht4ltteli'ittsill:oontemit . ooibodt: Our
tent, the sane length of title,' Ms. it pod hi- espy had
.141. eliPSessritioessasis, *it eat•air:
the list eight months. Ilk that pried/Joliette ' -salve., alt .
,li 4 he. *MA; bad Nisei We- .
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bad failed be three greet beeite. , ifftrilrat lible• disva , . itokesespelge iitsti-e"Wit
to he noticed, was theitiapaigts India' t ' had nee,. - ' Set lbebleatableiWirsells:
mand of Sir J uhn Moore; fellowedup, sh WWI vhatei Ito% ~ '.. _ ileum of thairaito;l444.lZ
been, by the Convention of-Cintra. The t • Ailey bed siliffsividlo'Spilth We ba s d od • t
ray, that in three failures to which he was nese •Uts wall Siceottairr so tar • frOm Wag Minify.
alluding, Ministers hid 'undertaken each of them, . le vaitleciduelly beadle to us; loassurpra.
on • the largest scale possible, and in every . win iietilitilnatetat of ekciting tistordoar or etratstni
they had failed ; indeed they had failed in retry- the'W of theSpaaierds,, had a centre, effint ;
expedilien they had 'attempted to carry intsvilf. ,iorttateljlphrhad barna erenottOot-ols•this. otaikida.
feet against 'the enemy' of their country. The It int* ti k liberal 'as to tnessoa, bet asiagoidsd ale
Only one in which they were successful, was that to "Coatildles. with regard to lipaia, fit we ought.
which they undertook against c opeottagen, bet Ito have•teleth a knee fro* etperisheo. • We,
that , biases'. *fib tens had totally Sefildeoked the
that was against their friends, for Ministers 'pro-
Cased to do all they did,oe that occasion out of .siatereirtinclantry of Spain, gad totally deer.
friendship for Denmark. Ministers had onder• looked the dqnsition and the sallitaiy Atm of
taken enterprizes in great numbers; and every its lohebitt" they had eves overiesiniadtho.
oats of them had had either a ludicrous, or a dk. eonditioe and the characko of otter Gilt=
.astrous termination. . Accident -might produce The troops for courage, sod for Oa' -
some disasters occasionally, and therefore, in a of meeting a large body of the *salty were ad. •
long Administration, many Qf them
.might be saleable, and calculated to achieve splendid
expected to occur; bat a Veit ne'mber of Alias. victories. The spirit of the' people of Spain
tern following each other in such rapid strecession was exalted by some people is this comity, as
as they hail done dialog the time the present Ad' one of the most glorious spectacles that ever
ministration had bees% in power, was strong esi. were exhibited to challenge the admiratioaof Clan.
deuce of ineapaeley. Such he considered the kind=-it was called; that of a whole people rising
campaign under Sir John Moore, the Ciiitra C ins fasts to asserrtheir eiglits, to resist tyranny
ventiOn, and the Elpeaition to Walelierca, 1" ander I 9 and to obtain freedom. Had this
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_oppirsion,
been renlly.a trim -description of tint , mails
of the pvnpfc Of Spain— if they were rosily aetu.
Idea by an kwatingnishAble dasire for national in..
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sires -or istonisboistipostootsrzi
ridobr unless . the WPM* 410
thheld its eenfitiones•fsedilogi as •
er ages will ham to 1111.11500114441#101
ore meet .sayi. most di p
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laced,: most -deli *.illso
*Las Goverdersifet ; St.
to 'possuctits coofilloasof fit;
bele
'id net. possess. atolls too ..
to .atturn tboie ossisarill 411, 1.1. to
roe these .who. wisited.444ollol,o6'
e unlit in strati : " lits..bo4.
toomotty. pia -.
sayer/Jet AMU spud
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