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is state oreweeltnete, to a state of the inuet perfect efficiency. it upon the -attention and support of the Howe.- grant Mm every praise which his eminent merit so
Is 'era,' enn.g Br say leugib into _llea putt of.the subject, He certainly felt the highest respect for the talents sustitentitles him to. With respect to the gallant
and without malting ;my olevervatioop op thus.: parts of nus.
of the Rielit Hon. Gentleman •; yet, he could not army of our countrymen in. Spain no Member cart
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military institunious whatti are tia-re, salmi:HO t-t the mown-
hise with him in the boasted successes of the exeeed me in desire to pay them the most marked--
ai. stina of taffedereia, he sinned
.jit,t ostrve, that the rept. FrliPal
ler period at which the transfers fremehe M brit take place, country, and that at a moment when he had comma- the most signal compliments, which their petience,
io ie the tutnith of May After tleise trails:ae take plese ideated to his Constituents of Liverpool, that he was under the privations of a severe campaign, a virtue
sow further ems is SISC6IIII/7 to letioe the Innovate tutu reels, .t 0
he one of their Governors, while these only exceeded by their bravery on the days of corn.
that ..tste is whielitt is accessary that they should he previ-
tom to thew Mooching to their respective anew of embarks-
likely
- same Constituents were labouring .under distresses bat, so fury claim at our hands. So far I fully cone
outs. The croons', that, apes Weir+ he Moon of justify that evieced the disastrone and calamitous results of '.
eur in the Address. The gallantry which has been
Miaistela with respect twthe eweiart of the war in the the wee, " For myself," observed Mr. Whitbread, : displayed by our armies is highly creditable to the
Peninsula, wes, that they wee alit p iseessrd of means to act " I rise to deliver freel- and fairly my opinions upon , national charactre ; and, united to the disappoint-
iu :seem Niue a greater scale Sinn they had duue. As to the
tin ye. - perilous and extraceinary crisis in which ment the enemy has experienced in another part.of
4sr IS tin- north, that great Siivereten, on weeiet e Imps. the d
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et the eso, tit so mach drprud.-the leuerror oftussia-never weeare placed;--i rise to complain of. the want of Europe, if properly turned to account, might lead to
het: railed upon the: country either fur peruniai y Supplies: or necessary information in the Regent's Speech, which the restoration of tranquillity. It is, therefore, with
CH' IltotlltS. He felt Mr the tatuatiou ui the; eitiontry, mid had Ido uot heeitate to sae, ought to have been furnished much regret that I observe no pacific disposition tpe-
tele teen, that he expected nothine mere from Omni titan . .. sad
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atS noose. I feel that we are destitute 'of
,arly . rent in the Address, No tine is less disposed than my.-
as pteetie"ut a Jiro-sun in -Spain as they were capable of
are : self to drive or urgellai Peiifceitegent's Mi ti isters,w ho.
making. His Imperial Majesty had thterture not biked to grounds or documents whatever; and;. we
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olio lopp.oles : ever they may be,Weeter on negotiations injurious to
this semidry fur sresourem too tali:stain the war in which he
!s mope:ea. He looted only le the resources of his own pea.-4s. ..., t the
"thantedallupthoesiell toitaegliPtspe'eltrose'll)nle. requisites Address havg.beeq.-am- i. honour, or detrimental to the interests of the
pse seee he had Found et:limeades* resources-it) .the. loyaoty, , ~..A. ....
eateintiset. mod unientuded liberality of all e:eleVA'S Si lilt; .11h. ply' supplied. tt Ito regard to Spain,"' have Ittit a ;toletry. But whilst Govert meat continues the most
jeme. Welled culled upon nu l' or exertions Out ialluesla but in Single: tuft:of information. Does tit ousts "eei-lir,., c.tli'e military preparations-whilst the nation pre.
Spam. A:. to Sweden, lot fel_ it somewhat larder to, speak lest the internal situation of 'the co IT, 'T ' jraVtliS the bOrdiets the most undaunted • front, peace
neon the soilijme, He should lint lirsitAte., itasaxer.., 11l nay, - its pressures burdens and privatiOe s and i, ~latts. a stnefittesire to obtain it, ought to animate
Shot it affording sonte-pecuitimy toseistauceittitBwetl;ts wino:01 b.. .• this, •
mc!ing ;re we not infermed, from' 'the' am! t a Abir hearts. I Was not a Member of the last Par-
ttime brunet-her army into the held iu the reatuf thienevay,e AI L.. '
.o•elterattletit Millid haft ctlOCellrest this oneobjeet of Nisch sm.. Speech, from his own mouth, that hi! Sisecq,'sje-;i 'lament : a short• time previous to its prorogation a
lee Octet that they would have afforded that meestanee, even ' covery is less likely than ever, nay, that--it is if- t pacific overture was received front Franco-all the
altherseh it Mielst have *been nereseery to withdraw as much most hopeless, in-consequence of increased debility, ? weel.a are in p.oesession of that proposal, and the
.was the Idols it .era iifirdlite to the leer in Slur he - . •-.
' and repeateu. paroxlsars :- In' this dangerous* and , answer returned, I shall make no further comment,
A.lO the re redone between Sweden ate: France, he you d rift- - , .
ly say that Feiner ha' reunnim,a the mint unqualified air:
:. alarming state, arising from external warfare,and in- : than that I sincerely lament that answer. The Spa.
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resoees, fm a high Swedes, had opposed a qualified retaliation.. ternal (titre*, if I ant not misinformed, lam led to - lush war, both front its origin and our being more
. he seroie% Gev. ruineet had thourte pruuer to ;meteor; its • think, that the continuanct; of Parliament, should the . personally concerned, is particularly interesting to
e i limey tetabliahment to ilr preeeut meta reepeteable force; lt • thole event to which I allude take plac.es. Jobs i this country. Sorry am Ito observe, that ,
ite... it most be it melter of gretificatinn teethe Home, to find m° 4" •• . the
, that, noteitiebedie,i (hr 1,,,,0rge rekti„e, artiiek emigre- be_ ; contemelatiots hi direct opposition to the gra *ad I prospect of ultimate success dithinishes in thatquarter
tweets ftrtseao sod Sweden before the present enema, On me- 1 vital prieciplbs of 'our Coustitation.. Is it p I -we seem (edit' to retain those parts of thecouutry
e teat of the eisnerfatious of Finlaistl to' the it to- can ; Empire, i that at sneh t(e.risis, We are to expect au Act total. • occupied by our armies. The indolence, jealousy, or
is most perfect amity and reconciliation wet-exiles. Tido ,
, thew Cris Parlianicat ? I can only say, that Hl°, I 'iof loclintion hi thessnass of the natives is such
teeseo,hil, eee ,f,,,ei sreeerosetiiiig ees.roauttiseed• at the
„,t,„„iew at -Absi., awl stare that .tiaa. the -Entpei„,, ne shall fe,4 it tui duty to come prepared to oppose its ! :slittinrface thet flier, thet 'the loan of their territory
Ruesie has ebeein'his firm reliance ou the fti'oeittl-hiss of sec- If so, the tenureof -our Constitutional existence is i for the scene of our military operations is all we can
dee, by w.tudrawing a large fiace which it had formi.rie very precarious. It consequently behoves us to lay : expect; that our troops Withdrawn, they would
hers. colic
nettessary
to keep sip in Fildanii nod the . were the Prince Regent, a. true and faithful repro- I qeickly pass again under'the dominion of the French.
eternity of Pa tereloareb.. to coemoinence of this good no
it....,,,,andmr, I.e yam enabled to *tad, 14,0,,,, „„„ from ; seutation of our affairs; for! do not suppose that' The effects of the battle of Salamanca gave Marquis
Snows peneStwee, who arrived must seamonably at Riga, to re...; the Noble Lord means to slide all enquiry into the i Wellington possession 'of Madrid-what was the
tefuret the UMW, Whgeh were Shea cantelidthF aga'tist the ; conduct of the war with Spain,--into the unheppy. I conduct of the Spanish "Government and the Cortes i
money. ld, titer, nn active exertions had been ma& daring •• causes that have led to the
rupture with America,- ! at that time? How did they act at that critical con- I
tee temmaiess by Sweden, doe allievauces should he made for •
~dab tuft, whit :.,d out thi ~,1„,,,,,,,v, ota„ im.u;ar 'amt. ; not into a variety of topics connected with the best . juncture? Were they occupied in forming a strong 1
Sloe, hike this artistry. It nlti't be recollected; also, that the and dearest interests of the Empire. Among these
.I Provisional Government for their capital, by which
tan:Hole Lame by Sweden had a ennsidertaile effect on the ' topics, there is one in particular which I cannot for- . Lord Wellington could have his wants supplied, by
sseeteses etea of the campaign, soul placed their arlinCti Yin ' hear noticing,-1 mean one which comes before us : which the adjacent population could be embodied
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seenesce st their ease, (here there wets strops expressions ,
ee dieseet from Lord Temple) His lordship might have strongly recommended and enforced. I ant desirous 'by which the city itself could be placed in a
some better information ; bat he wonid say, that if it were of enquiring why the Noble Lord and his colleagues , state of competent defence and security.
Out Ar this eionsideration, he did nut Femmes' fieesOn Freach . have not counselled the Recent,---after repeated de. i liitelligence reached us from Cadiz of-their employ-
troops- worth! Iteve remained so Lung inactive Two corps bates; and a solemn resolution itt this (louse -after I ment ;at that moment they were delihelating on the
of their -:nay, that of Victor and elogereau, had barn kept 't
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entirely out of play during the summer : and it was very late-
the most serious proceedings to the same effect in an- 1 re-establishment of the odious and detestable Tribu-
ly ;fiat one et those corps, limit/ %Nettle, entered intu the field. other place, and a similar resolution negatived t nal, the Inquisition-Bo that the triumphant entry!'
fee .tv xt Caine to the ItiegerVat which, had been made by by one voice only,-to call the attention of Par- lof our army was to he contrasted with that of the
the 1:101I tionutiraair Gentlemen respecting the control ' Bement in his Speech to the state of Ireland. Monks, Friars, luenisitors, and all their tribe of
with America. On this head he must absolutely deny the
sae ei-ii Imo of the 'beta Hum Gentleman, that stinaters Another omission, is the deteriorated state of our; useless and lazy adherents. Nature seems to poiat
'.aid cm Need the war neon any principle of forbearance. it coin, which, with all its incalculable mischiefs out to Great Britain her true policy ; our insular
haul h.-a candocted with all the mean,, twill naval dad "'Billie ' tothe commerce and trade
int* the cousitry,
rv, alai th the country could have spared front other *eels.- • situation affords a forniidable barrier to any efforts
sites M-jeety's Minieters had detached a enabieenoite portion operates most heavily Povrers •if to be added our
upon our army in Spain. ff II of the European , this
of one temps in Spain. for belligerent posei io Almeria. am rightly informed, and I have taken some pains to ,' maritime knowledge, the native energy of our people,
n • n:n Id have expected to have experitoWiiii.the gootwall! ascertain Vie fact such is the want of currency
diertation of the Home, but from no MSSISW more 6t s in I and our concentrated population; it renders us almost
aim from the Right Honourable Gentleranslimnelt Aartli (tie Peninsula, that tlw Officers of that gallant army invincible. The advantage of continental alliances
e eesme of the restwation tor the Orders tit l'EsenciL it must ssho have reflected so much lustre upon their native have been questioned at former periods; but the
et rein,. ha en the rite/Medians of the How, ihet his Ma- „ „
lesty's, Minister, pryer dal hold forth that ineusure to the emu,- ' eueLE.YI by the splendour of their achievements, wild and and romantic scheme has been reserved
us 4a hkelV to .:accts the demand, of America. As to the have not the means of Providing themselves beyond for our days ; it has bee:. reserved for us to witness
cendeet of Ministere since the American declaration ot war. he
Outfight tam the Hight Honourable Otettlemen would not coo. • fthe C The
the rations gtvon from onerusaartat.debts, England-insulated England, becoming the prinel.
: t heavy as they are at present, are increasing from day rod that th ye ' W:ts Ml' metered ditierenee between the Order pat-I say, making herself the principal in a coal-
in Council orolerine tile ,eizing aiel deteining America. ships, to day for that army, and there is every penspect.of Rental contest. Europe has long been in that state,
tied issuing hittersel mai tine am! reprisal. The seseo inn the
preterencto gismo ea tee do suer wit?, that if the AmerLis- their being aggravated
to a most alarming exc. -11.•- oro e
••• I t is clr it impossible by ally immediate or open
vernment htul doom who' m .ny Gerttlepen exesseted thee would W:ten, with these subjects of complaint, the Noble , effort to change her destiny. Exertions, comparative-
d o, Oa heariug of thi. resmeetioh, and review( ei-it. rieeteratten
of war, then et would he easier to matte restitution of the ships Lord and his colleagues are called upon' to take ly great for this country, are lost in the widening'
a.. taken. before they had become the property of the captors.-- ; a review, however transitory, of the miserable state lof the field of action ; not to say that hitherto our
Assuan, however, as Government had learnt that the American ' of our manufactures, is it not astonishing to hear the interference has rather accelerated than retarded the •
~ if I own aof thefeebly
n'eeeran'ed. kid I."'weeded to the "edeinuati" of the ft• eli Noble lord exult irkthe result of his measure:. as 'ti f 1
epized under their Declaration of War, am& awns espeeielly ,
ashen it learnt that they had they the armistietepropmed were • one of the wisest and. most successful of enaeavoured notTport. If allies are to be sought,
our General in Csinada, they unmeeliateletemotved na*Or.
to the moors what had been seized under the Owlet is Ottani ; statesmen i" The Right Hon- Gent. observed Mr. surely le may be deemed irrational to thiuk,
west-
and the teeters of Marque and l'aoprisaillbeft knit& W. had considered the country engaged in three I that they might have been found on the west-
They had certainly seut to the American Mivereaseat a i pars-with. Russia, with America, and with Spain. I ern Continent-but this I will not now enter upon..
I, ',position. through the meats at the Adaftral mime
ea that s atinn ; but it was no oilier prooosilmo bat what ! • , ussiaWar and its attendant calamities are at all times to he
,eit 'We were merely looking on the war with R •, 1
t ley hail before dispatched to Mr. Foster, belbrvi they knew without granting subsidies. The war with America ! deplored, but how me* greater are its aggravations,
that he had 141 America. Be wished to much as arty matt that 'he could not help thinking as most fatal and aflame. I, when no end, no haltpy issue, seems to cheer the
,parie,wedce etiom;I:;111,:ew isoliiintililiniosed,!..;iiii.oh
wArionei
r:r; i ttlah
it% bentdomirif !he
hellddeetaerr' ! toes to the interests of Great Britain, and as most i gloomy prospects ? Whatever may have been the
and which the conittion interests required, he mast dephore tha; ' likely to cut the sinews of her force and energies 1 origin of the contest ; whatever features it has as. 1
deterstitatioa, hut it lief not in the power of his Majesty's Mi- ' wlii:h would otherwise be more happily employed. 1 slimed in its course, it appears to me theta is pursued
neters In preveut it. ik could not avoid repealing, that it was lee o
a ‘-r'at subject of eoneratulatioa far tiweeentry, that the speech i si Ita respect to the war in Spain, the Noble Lewd !at present to support our men Revenue, which de-
seSahi have annomiced such an important imp t in mtr had a mode psculiar to . himself to account for the ! pends on the continuance, to their late extent, of our
a Ethos The reieme wes now ilivolved in war torTt.2l::tremities operations of a campaign.
of Enrope-iii wars, nut sack as he had hem used to carry on iii He led in a triumphant ;commercial transactions. The late Mr. Pitt, after join-
rich countries. ahotiading In resnercev. Ile westew obliged not me -ter Lord Wellington from Madrid .to the lines ing the confederation of coalesced Sovereigns, saw with
only 11l tirdphil trumps from eonsidernisle disunion, bet also to of TorresVedras ; when it could not be denied, pleasure, that the convulsed state of Europe threw
bring with aim the moocy to pay those troops. ire failed in .
both seen:ries the esieenee which was to he evected, n here that the gallant and illustrious General himself . all maritime commerce into the hands of the British
ths ewe were completely national. He had called the Ra-bians , lamented the necessity which compelled lAut to aban. ' our merchants, contrary to former practice, grow
harionrians, and they wedi' slant to he a boadrel years
heeoud tie rest of tiorope in every poi,* of civilization.- don the siege of Burgos ; when it was. known to the ' richer for the war,, our trade increased beyend
M:tere could he site., t'w proof or this? Was there any i
whole world, that he was retreating before the measure, he (the Minister) easily obtained motley.
thing in the military art, which he es cinch prized, in French army; and ail these reverses. were evislently : Eager for the success of his plans, confident of
which the Reissinas weee fouad deficient? The retreat of caused, not by any failure in the plans laid by the : their ,accomplishenent, certain of the restoration of
e:,,,. •ae trade,ooterasioiv was eousitleied as a master-piece -
of Frendt military skill; bet it was in on degree to became- Commander in Chief--not by any want of skill in ' the ancient order of things, he proceeded boldly
pared nith mat masterly :wrest of the Reseiaa -armies from the direction, or valour in execution by the de- forward,. on the strength (to his belief) of this I
teenier! of Poland to the interior of Hernia, daring which no -
te toeian detachment wits eat off, no battalion brokeu, is or a hciency of means which he had a right to expect and inexheustible mine of wealth. What the result has
4iezie ore,- of eatteon taken. He would venture to assert. after with which he ought long since to have been supplied beet the country best knows ; and happy will it be for
orcz.v possible attention whisk be could bestow upon a subject
so truly important and gratifying, that the milietry history on' - -
by the Noble Lord and his colleagues.. If the situation ,itif it knows already all it has to feel ! We dread,
the worfil preeeord no ertmigo; so obstiouudyfonght, so ad- of the Continent of Europe be at the present element„ penes.,, because It will open the channels of cons,
mirehly enrricti on, and so gloriously completed; as that of the good for any thing, it is good for this that Great: oSenr.tollll maokied equally with ourselvei-we
K ils.ititi Sl'irtf. 'lSt ViltS nit less a Mee &real eiroltatitm that thee
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Britain hating been totted to sue "atter, and
• ,-vsFilao War, 410. se?,
.• .rtellraucainEat °Lille "w.l
kmperur of Russia felt the zeal, the enthnsimmt, and the co-• the toilttrostel systole ;,..,„iwt yaw we twhahrikiswethmeraey.
eeereihei of this coentry. That Sovereign wits folly convinced Icon having been foiled in another, this a
that be was, as it were, altogether idendtied with Great Britain, most proper season to cuter into aegociatisis for ' upset Bonaparte t &ill* it a chancel
mod dial the iaterestst:f the
ewe States were in the present con-
tr.' iuvepatable. He had the ithva of resistance to the insatiable Peace. The Noble Lord had not thong ht proper to „fore preferred, Our trade declines; it is, ,likely to
riee.iaini of Femme eo indelibly impressed open his mind, that notice in his speech the situation of this eoalirrlrwith suffer liven either alternative we embrace. Thus an
be wood bare suffered the lona( another capital, rather than respect to Sweden. Why ? Seam Ito 'no awful prospeckoffere to our view, bat a prospect,
can-eat toasts proposal from the enemy. Of his unalterable ii. •
sveaetioa, hi me given an unenuierteal proof in sending his succour, was to be obtained from that Power. lifter • however
nests to this country; and thus that high-minded Prince had the most ardent:.boetrever appalling, the Minister
nothing barb been of this coos ' nay the country, must face.-
held ue to all nations a glorious example, from which the most expectations,
advanteetems e uenees were likely to result to the comma done. Troops were, indeed,• @pick '
emote la losing bit capital he had not lost his hopes and his prepared,-yet prepared were A new it 'financial system, it is said, must
Bonaparte was left to iv • ' ' 611114MOrilei.
C"htledees but found *lltd his diesme was firmly seated in the of the cooperation of two corps d'arisidle ...
1 and 104 a rdinary means must be resorted
hearts uf his toabjects. Lard Quitlereagh contended with oh- State. In this di -
which that he was happy in affording that eepienatem far that quarter, against which the attack aa J Pito rinitietillbtllebaands of the.
the Right lion. vitideinen seemed so anxioss; and he part of Sweden was meditated. hie lettaina, *MIN* I demand is likely to be , made on
also felt no inconsiderable satiskietiun io find*, Ow the mea-
wipe roulserteral conduct of Minister* had not experienced any from the Noble Lord, and the . tie publie **let ma ask, whether it would not he
thing like comdeankcion. man, in their views and opinions Ott. pitatabt% more grateful to the nation, to know,
Mr, WIIITBII.EAD began by remarking, that if pail n. He differed most materially
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saeh ace% such a demand was the sacrifice, the
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be were the person alluded to by the Right Hon. gration of Moscow. The Right on. ' wad h. pries of peace, to supply auy deficiency in the
Gentleman, when that Right lion. Gentleman de- • was not the policy of Bonaparte to dear ' emir Revenue, that measiaiimight create, rather than an
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dared his expectation from the part of the House on ' nor had ft been his practice to destroy 'spilt!: additional Lean or tax fur the prolongation of a
which he (Mr. Whitbread) sat, of an Amendment to of the countries with which be comet iiii was . contest, apparently resideoed perpetual. I am for
the Address, he could only say, he was sorry, ho was not much inclined to praise the, pistrledass d the . trying to negotiate, whether I an, right, times
absent, Yet whatever that Right Hortourithno Gen- Russians, which had been the subject of io mach en- : which tries all things, - must deterinine.—Per-
Oman's reasons might be for welting for .atiy ' comium. After some observations on the whr in sonally to myself it is of little consequence
Amendment which it might have been thought pro. Spain, he concluded by moving, as an Amendment, who are Ministers of the country. Measures are
per to bring forward, he was himself rather pleased that all the parts of the Address be left out after the every thing with. me-men, in comparison, nothing
that the Right Honourable Gentlontait hod• preceded word 44 That," a ith the exception of that pirt re. --though certainly there are those near me of
/inn. To deal with candour, as-became every Melt. luting to the 'East India Company's
Lee of the House, Chatter.:--lle whilst ability and integrity I have the highest
he should ;tote, that he had an the read his amendment, which was couformable to opinion. What disposition may be displayed by a
Amendment to propose; yet, impressed, as he was,. his Speeds , number of persons he this new Yarliameut, favourable
with the propriety of the Amendmeatis he still hod I , Sir
MISERS lii[ ATHCOTE.-4i with tilled to the eeotlineets I have disclosed, remains to be seen.
an earnest wish to hear the Right Honourable/. to the able :Marquis of 'Wejlingtob, no Itemiser of M a friend to my country I hojea these will be mail)
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