760 THE NATIONAL REGISTETL imlitted, viz Ca-holic C Depreciation of Currency, Est‘bl4ll - east of !Ivaco, &c. 'rile Amendment was seconded by Sir G. ATIICOTE., Ttte SrEAKER hivirg rea.i i froin the Chair, Nlr. BATnuasT, in a speech of con3t.lerable length, opposed the A mendmcnt. - _ . Sir Cs LIIER T fir ATTICOTE thought that the gallantry clisphrked by our troops in Spain was highly eiesiitable; hit he deeply regretted that no negric.ation peace ha.! been entered into. Mr. l`oN sov EY expressed hi, disa; , brrbation of any negociation peace, anti t hought that Government w• yid not le w.Ari.nted ia 114- towing the ccurse preiscrlbed by his Hon. Friend. Mr. FAA toT tiv.u. lit the means proposed for obtainirg peace would i•e the very means to prey nt it. Mr. VER NON ObiL . Cted to the ide:is of Mr. Wu tTIIRF AD On the sub ject of peace, and the Russian and Penininla Wars. The Question was then put from the Chair, when the ori,inal Ad dre.-s was agreed to, and the Anvmdment negatived. AejJurned. TUASDAY, DECF.:II:SER 1. PR I VATE BUSINESS. Lord CASTLEREACII rose to call the attention of the House to the arrangements necessary to he tr:alle with regard to private husinc“. He was desirous in this rc§pect ut following the example. of the li:t Session, which ha .1 proved to he so advantageous to the dispatch of this growing-rnass of matter, and concluded by moving the f llowirg Resolutions, which were severally put from the Chair and agreed to : That no Petition en private business shall he r. ceired after Friday, Ilzih of t I e current month of Deceinher ; " T;iat no Priva - e Bill text a first time after Monday., the Ftn d a y of ,I.irc.ll next ; " That no Report on a Private Bill be received by the House after tf nday, the 10:h at 111;sy." These Res:luti•itis were nrilerel to be rrintecl. ELECTION PETITIONS. Lord CA ST LF. a EACH then . 1"()%:C to propose nia . .sing arranger:tent• with res i .et.t to the foi Coirmf trees to try the merits of con. Election. Ile st.iti.sil that be did not conceive it c:utld ci:hei stilt the convenien, e of 111 , . House, or prove beneficial to the pait , es concertied, w :re they to take up the consi•ferAtion of th:-se suhjects during the slc rt period their sitting before the itoi.k.y . s. But it wt.ittd.he desirable to ta':e up the hli . t7:i.:*Ct as soon after their sub. meet i 1 as pot,ible. In the view lie at present took of tl.e subject, lie shaali! p - opose, t hat the wijoirtioncsit !should extend to the first Tue.idav in leb7uatv ; or,: he thol,wit the t .,, 1 7 0vv4g Tu , ..sday would be a o*tipt..r titre to for pr,:cee:lio.,4 t.t !Miler tc•r the first Committee co an Electiem Petition. In select A i : the first, tii.y wm-lti of course pro...ee! ACC “rtling to the usages of the lion-se. The question that the House should not take any of these Petitioi:s into comi:le:vion before the Holitidys, was then put athlcartied t fireSrFAt:r.a said, it t!lcie were any Petitions in thc House corn pl.tinhig of 'mine Electiour, this wis the ti ne. to prese:it them. A Periti:m vias farthwith pre;ented a zin.,t the return ot Nfessiti. atLI Gurney, for Shaftesbury ; the Petitioners were Messrs. Weith-ra,lt atiA Thellitson. the rejectel CanOidates and Tuesday, the Sth '.; F:bruary, was a pp o i n t e d tor ballotting I.n . a C ommittee to try the ir7tits of the same. REGOLATIONS RESPECTINC; ORDERS OF THE DAY DEC. 6, Mr. FREKIVIA NILE thought some notice ought to be taken of ea final)• es, and that the resource) ought to be ecmpated w th the Lit , cumstances of the country. Mr. ffIoRINSON regarded it as extraordinary that it should be cr , n . tended that our Situation had not impr wed cii , cc the dose of ti c last Session of Parliament. The 'War in the Piiiinsula h a d b,. 0 reatcd as if the eatnpz,ign had crinmenced with the Battle of Sal - manta. This was not taking a rii,ht view of the suhject : it cu o,, to he remembered that it comme.ticod with the Siege of Cind,l ; and this borne in mind, it would be foned, hevn r d doubt, that our prospects bad exceedingly improved, and were in. hettt.r than at the boginning of the cant paten, Mr. R osF. wished to reply to what had fallen from the 1-1 , ,p, Ge n t. uppo s ite, on a s u bject on which };feat misreurt•sn!a!i, n 1 1 4 v zone ahroad. It kid hca understood that his Hon. Iliend, 11 :2 Chancel!or of the Exchequer, had it in conteinuhtirn to prop, ; ,, a tax on capital This he wished now to state, to prevelit• furthe r inisconceptt-n. was not true, Suck • had never bi-en his tact he (Mr. R.) would say, that to derive benutit m such a sure, WAS impracticable and imrossible. A lii, lit Rev. Prel some tear; ago, Published a FFm!'lilet in favour of lax nr.on capj , Ile 'Mr R.) bad, on that occasion addressed that Right Reverend, t o .hew that it was impracticable, an t exerted himself thin to rt.ye, .c hat he still belieVcd, that, putting pat.) , out ut thc question, a m asure cottA not be rescued to. Mr. S. Wortley. Lnrd Mtlwo, Mr. St-phen, Mr Wilber: . wv, Lord Ca:le.eagh, Mr. Whitbread, NI r. Potisoubkly, Mr. CANNING WE:red further ob-ervat'altts, ;met which the port of ill: Address was agreed t i, and ordered to be pt..'elaed by the whole House. Adjourned. , DEC. A. This di) , the Hoits:e met at liAtt-pasl two o'ckick, for the purprlse rf waiting on the Prince Regent with the A it.!ress, and proceeded mediateiy to Carlton House. Tbq returned at four o'clock, and . !!)tiri:ett. TFTURSDAY, DEC. 9. The SIF.Ax ER informed the iftvise that the Adlress voted in answer to the Speech of the Prince It e k :ent, had been pre7enrcd on IV edreA.,y And read to the Noit•e rte most gracious Answer of the Pripce Red ii ,)n r:cLiv;ng Address. Tii.I.NNS TO 1,01.11) Lore' CA t o.r.ti esc if rose, pursuant to th:.• notice he had given on a fornier d tr, to call the attcnton of the I loiw: to the servi , ;es rmiercd to !loon country by that gallant Officer, GeriCT,ll t he Martini: , ot luiet:in, :en! the brave Army wider his t .rnnainal in Spain, and parr. cularlv to tho,e by which they 1)3;1 sign dized thems, yes in the gic. linos ever memorable bat ti: of Salamanca. fie was sure be should forget his duty to that iliostrions Officer and his Artily, lion this re casion he were to introduce into the discussion, any matter that miglit cause a controversial respecting the polity ot the tvar in In Penin z .nl,, and afore eqiccially if he kvere to otkr any thing re' r"L - lO . g the condor:t nt his Majesty's Ministers in comwctinn with of the motion he was about to subtnit to the House. At the J4l!;' time, however, while he wished to guard against the introduction any matter on which a ditiereme of opinion nfght exist ; he, thou' t it would not be just to the army, and more particulari . he thryig,ht it would not be just to the M orquis of Wellington. was tar 3 v;etotv which had been thrown in the way of Lord \Yellin:4ton. he had been able to accomplislrtm the instant ; but it Witi a tr311:11. bon which wuund up a military object, the result of long privarx io andOt . foresight, in which the appEcation of just principlei were .0 interwoven with various circumstances that he should foil in his dx.: to the Army. and to the'Marquis of I'Veilington, if he were not shortdi and generally to describe the causes which led to the victory of S:1:4- manca, and its consequent advantages. The House would recollec', that at the close of the tinnier, and at the commencement Of the nr sent campaign, Lord 'Wellington, after dispossessing Masscna of Por tugal, had made himself master of A Weida, but Ciudad Rodrigo and Badajoz were still in the hands of the enemy. Both armies load N tired into winter.quarters ; but such vigorous p r e par a tions for renor• ing hostilities wee ntarle b y the Marquis of Wellirgton so early as jn -I;'l3rV 4: i period at which, even in that clime. armks have seiduro bcen occupied in preparing to take the fi.ild) that in that month he nabled to lay siege to Ciudad Rodrigo. Nothing higher t , ) the pr;:se of the Mar c o ls of Wellington could be said. than that he Matt com pleted his preparations for this operation with such activity 51id s:e. crecy, that ne was enabled to reduce this fortress (which was one 0i . , ! most respectable description) betbre Marshal Marmont was ab le to call his troops frnit their winter cantonments, and advance further On Salamanca. Lord Wellington having got possession of Ciudad Itodiio; meditated an advance on Radajos, and his arrangements consequent 0 " tins deatign were made with so much secrecy, that Marshal Marm oot believed the English army to be still at Coast! Rodrigo, when soca of eight divisions hail arrived, at liadajos. He attacked this fortress,which was greater and of more importance than that of Ciudad Ro. ; wtr unto,ngo, ea'ly nt the month of March, and carri...! on the works such vigour acd alacrity, that the F:ench armies ot the North an d . Portugal, under Snult and Marniurit; were unable to relieve it, and was even coafcsse4 by Son'', in enplaning; to the War. MillOCI o . . AND NOTICES. Lord CA TL ER EAaH next called the attention of the l'lrrise to this subject, and proposed a regulation. the same as that agreed tl list Session : which hid ben fount . ! so admirably to promite and ex redite the dispatcher publi c bu s i n e ss , name ly, th at O n Nl on d aes and Fridays the Orders of the D a y s h ou ld la k e p rece d ence o f t h e N ot i ces in their discussions, and the Noble Lord concluded by moving a Resolution In that effect. Rcsolution was carried. THE GF.RMAN LEGION. Lord FOLKSTONL save noticli that he would on Friday next submit a motion to the Ilouse, on The subject of an order issued from the Ilotse irds on the lien of August last, relative to the 011i_ers of the German Legion. KENAICK gave nwice at an early period, he would mov e for leave to bring in a Bill simiLir to that of last Session, with respect to Inclosures. Mr. WH A aro?: move the re-ti,;•ointment of the lISUaI Committees; the motion agreed to, and t! , e Coiiimit tee noininated. Mr. JAc. a gave notice tint he would take an early opportunity to maim for leavo to hr:ng in a to repeal the 13 , 1 i and 11th of Cli.irles 11. raative to the obtainment of Par,,chial S.itlements, by a Rental Of 101. per annum. REPORT ON THE ADDRESS. Lord Ceivr pre•ei•ted himself at the Bar of the House with the Report of , the Address, and on the motion that the same should be pow receiv:d. Mr. CtizEyEy objected to the motion, on the ground that sufficient tame hati not been allowed for Gentleman to make up their minds on the in Inv idtportant c•nbracted in the Speech from the 'rtrone, and .e-cchoed by this 'Addiess. He ccncluded by moving, that ilsread of " pow" the me uld be received o:i this thy week." • •• . 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