The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-07-08 00:00:00

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. A Court of, Common,6oungil was, yesterday, held
for the dispatch of various public and private bu-
siness.
.Tbe gLCORDER read the Answer of. his Royal
Ifightiess the Prince Regent to the,Address. of the
Corporetion,, and on the motion of Mr. lAcis, it 'Was
ordered to be entered on the /partials.
THAN KS TO 17,8 DUKE OF WEIff!NCTON.,...
. Mr. JACKS observed, that in introducing the R;-
solutions he should have.the .honour to, propose,
was tnochet a loss to know how to begiu,.the Court
had so often noticed the illustrious actions of thta
buke of Wellington, that the language of patiegyriq
was almost exhausted; there were,. however, some
peculiar traits in the conduct of that here recorded is
the debates of Parliament, which threst new /esti!,
if possible, around his character (he read several pare
ticulars from the
.speeches of Lords Liverpool, Cass
tlereagh, &c.)=-Since the_ last vote of this Court to
his Grace, we bad witnessed his conduct as e rtegoe
ciator at Park and Vienna, which tended to show
the 0,4% ersality of 11;s talents, which seemed not to
he confined merely to his profession. His piesenCe.
of mind was admirable. We find in the battle of
IVateiloo, that after nine hotirs'constent.fighting,
and when it would be fair to suppose his mind had
somewhat soffered from the fatigues which. attended
his pessonal.bravery, yet his eagle eye observiid the
confusion attending the.. Fiend!' army in their last
attack upon him; whereupon he patared . his • valiant
troops with immediate. and irresistible ardour upon
fhe enemy which greed manoeuvre, completed his
destruction. But to the numerous excellencies be•
longing to this great man.; his want of vanity watt
very remarkable : enost.great conquerors, both of at
dent and modern times, with all their high qualities,
appeared to possess a portion of this fo,inle. Cesar
had written to Rome, after -a; great victory, only
three words, Veni, Vicii, rVici, I came, I saw,
conquered ; but Wellington neveratsed the pronoun
in his dispatches, but when absolutely
;necessary to
record his proceedings; and although he conducted
himself with this modesty, his.soul appeared in be
highly alive to, the social affections, as Kiks evinced,
by his affecting letter to Lord Aberdeen, condoling
with him on the death of his brother., .Bet, the.con.
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sequences of. this battle promised to be moot impor•
tent he.was not aware of any ,victory.. of modem
date similar to it. The battle of Marathon a: also
only case that appeared to him to he Ate b is at at it
history. If Miltiades with . his 10,000 Minimum
and Platmans had not successfully resisted thwmislitty
hosts .of Persia, the liberties of Qteece.would hoe
been lost ;. we should not in that case WOW{ the
beautiful. monuments, of sculpture new in alltisteect,
nor would the sublime lesisons of, wisdoms heie: bees,
eihibited whii:h were the ((modelle* orient knew.
ledge when young, and of our contemplatisi.ln ma.
toter age. Greece would have, been immersed In
barbarism as at present • and, Europe, would. bare
been under the iron desplotism. of Boesarlarte•—•
But this great event .had moremeer tended tot
place not only the British name in a higher rale
of elevation than before, on account of its mailer,
excellence, but he trusted—y=ld he. a 1131114 pow.,
servative of future peace; hereafter neither France,
nor any other nation, nor all Europe united, could
entertain ally hopes of success by attacking that
people who stood at the highest pinnacle of glory
which had ever been attained ; they were the first
in commerce and in tithes, the first in arts and
civilization, the first in the practice of true religion
and morality, end the first not only in naval power,
but in military excellence ; he trusted also one more
benefit would urise from this victory, which wet of
much importance, namely, that them would now be
an end to the practice of those revolutionary theories,
which for the last twenty-five years had spread so
much desolation over Europe. Since the last debate,
when some observations had been made iu that Court
upon the import of the meaning of Whig principles,
he had read over the debates of the Convention Par-
liament in 1688; but he never did understand, nor
could he perceive, that Lord Somers, and the leading
Whigs of that day, hail ever broached the doctrines
of King killing, and King cashiering, as practised
by modern France. He then moved the first and
second Resolution. (See the Advertisement.)
Upon the third Resolution, he observed, that.
such was the extraordinary discipline now practised.
in the British army, that the moat of the British
troops in this memorable battle were not the veterans
of the Peninsula, who had been sent to America,
but second battalious and new troops, who, owing to
their being instructed in one system of tactics, were
capable of acting together under one command.—
Also, that the Officers new knew their duty, which,
until the illustrious person now at the head of the
army its this country had come into Office had not
altogether been the case, as it was possible by mouser
and interest for a. man to rise in a very short time to
the highest rink in a regiment.
After moving all the Resolutions, Mr. J. proposed
that a Committee should he appointed to consider,
" if any, and what further means can be taken to
'since the high sense this Court entertains of the
heroes who engaged in the battle of the 18th of
I June." lle observed, that if this was granted, he
should again refer to the battle of Marathon, and
; consider whether the names of the brave men who
fell in the battle of Waterloo could not be recorded,
and also whether a triumphal arch ought not to be
erected, composed of part of the 306 cannon taken
on that day, so as to perpetuate the glorious event,
and which he thought ought to be placed at the en.
trance of Blackfriars Bridge, or at some grand
' entrance into the City of London ; the ideas on which,
he was free to admit, he had seen in the public
Papers. .

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