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pended, and he would not agree to a moment's delay till the constitution was restored. The motion had a tendency to bring the kingly office into contempt, to shew that the crown might be placed upon a cushion, and every thing go on as well, and without interruption. The House was placed in an aukward predicament from its neglect to do, in the first instance, its duty-a duty which it was not difficult to discover. The act, passed by a very powerful faction respecting the Prince of Wales, should never have had his sanction. If the same course were now attempted, he should resist it. He would not go back to the people, and tell them that, after the constitution had been suspended for a fortnight, he had voted that it should be sus pended for a fortnight longer. No effort should be lost on his part to restore to the people the government of the constitution.

ther its interference might be necessary.-Mr. C. Wynne thought it incumbent on the House to see what its real situation was, whether that of a parliament or a convention. In what capacity they now were he knew not, and nothing but a paramount necessity could justify them in doing any act. The first object was to establish the necessity, and then they might take up the question of expediency, whether to proceed to business, or to adjourn.-Mr. Sheridan was for the adjournment, thinking that it would be most agreeable to the feelings of his Majesty when he recovered; for though this was the fourth attack of the disor der, it should be recollected that the preceding recoveries gave hopes of one in the present instance.

Sir Samuel Romilly declared his intention of voting against the motion, as, if it did not pass, the House would meet on the next day, and so on from day to day; which, in the present crisis, he thought to be the proper line of conduct. He had heard no reason advanced, why the House should put it out of its power to meet for a fortnight; nor did he think that, when the people were deprived of the protecting care of his Majesty, it was fit to tell the people that they should also, for a fortnight, be without the assistance and care of their representatives.—Mr. Bathurst saw no advantage in the House being adjourned from day to day.—But Mr. Elliot conceived the immediate assembling of the House indispensible in the present awful crisis, which ought not to separate without a real knowledge of the fact, nor satisfy itself with the imperfect evidence on which the motion was grounded.—Mr. Wilberforce objected to the meeting from day to day, and saw no barm in the adjournment; trusting, however, that they would be better prepared, at the end of a fortnight, to consider the evidence which might then be laid before them.'

Mr. Tierney did not think that the motion was founded upon sufficient, evidence, and contended that, when Providence had deprived them of a King, it was unbecoming to deprive themselves, by their own act, of a parliament.-Lord Archibald Hamilton was decidedly of opinion, that the House, in such a crisis, should adjourn only from day to day, and should therefore vote against the motion. Mr. Fuller saw no disadvantage in adjourning, as the enemy could not put a ship to sea, and the French were retreating, he hoped, from Lord Wellington. Mr. Ponsonby stated, that he should not have objected to the adjournment made on the first day, had he been present at the meeting. The conduct of the mover had, he said, placed him in a painful and delicate situation. He did not approve of taking a man's word upon such an occasion, yet, as the certificates of the physicians gave hopes of recovery, he could not oppose the motion. Mr. Canning conceived this to be a question in which there might be difference of sentiment without impeachment of motives. They could not proceed to any act except that of adjourning, without entering into any enquiry, which, for the present, might rather be dispensed with. He thought it no dereliction of duty in the House to pause for a short time to see whe

On the division, there appeared for the motiont 343; and against it, 58.Sir Francis Burdett was, according to the custom of the House, teller for the minority and the noble spirit of the worthy Baronet, on his first meeting the House after their conduct towards him, will be highly pleasing to every lover of his king and country.

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Downing-street, Nov. 19, 1810. The following dispatch, from LieutGen. Viscount Wellington, was received at the Earl of Liverpool's office:

roads in that direction and the Fort at Abrantes; but I conclude that the rains which have fallen within these few days will have swelled that river, and that these troops will have retired again. They are still reported to be at work upon materials for a bridge both at Santarem and Barquinha: but I have detached Major-General Fane with a body of cavalry and infantry to the left of the Tagus, from whom I hope to receive accurate accounts of what is passing opposite to him on this side; and he will endeavour to destroy

Pero Negro, Nov. 3, 1810. MY LORD, I have not observed any alteration in the enemy's position or numbers since I addressed you on the 27th ult. They have a consider- these materials, if it should be prac able body of troops principally ca- ticable. It is reported by all the devalry, on the Tagus, between Pun- serters that the enemy's troops conhete and Santarem; and I have reason tinue to suffer great distress from the to believe that Loison's division of in- want of provisions. It is impossible fantry had not marched in that direc- to form an estimate of the quantity of tion, as I reported to your lordship provisions which they found in the they had in my last dispatch; some villages on the ground which they oc of the corps composing that division cupy; but it is certain that they can have certainly remained in the camps draw none from any other part of the in front of this army. The enemy country, the whole being in the pos have pushed some troops across the session of our troops. The garrison Zezere above Punhete, principally of Peniche, and the garrison of Obidos, cavalry, apparently to reconnoitre the which place Captain Fenwick, of the

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Portuguese service, has lately occu- which Marshal Massena had reported
pied, under the direction of Brigadier- to the emperor as having voluntarily
General Blunt, and the British ca- entered the French service) had driven
valry, continue to carry on a destruc- in the out-posts of the present gar-
tive warfare in the rear of the enemy's rison at Almedia.
right, while the high road from Co-
imbra by Leyria is in the possession
of Colonel Wilson's detachment. I
enclose a letter from Marshal Beres-
ford, on the effects of the operations
of Brigadier-General Blunt and Cap-

tain Fenwick. I have received no
letter from General Silveira of a later
date than the 19th of October. He
had not at that time heard of the
march of any of the enemy's troops in
Castile. He occupied with his de-
tachment the roads from Almeida to
Trancoso, Celerico, and Guarda. He
had heard that General Bonnet had
evacuated the Asturias; and, it is
supposed, had moved into Biscay. I
have letters from Estremadura and
Castromarin of as late a date as the
27th of October, stating that Mortier's
corps was still at Seville, in a very in-
efficient state, and having many sick.
My last accounts from Cadiz are of
the 22d ult.

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LONDON GAZETTE.

Downing-street, November 24.
A dispatch, of which the following is
an extract, was last night received
at Lord Liverpool's office, addressed
to his lordship by Lieut.-General
Viscount Wellington, dated Pero
Negro, Nov. 10, 1810.

Nothing of any importance has oc-
curred since I addressed you on the
Sd instant. The enemy reconnoitred
Abrantes on the 5th inst. and under
cover of that operation, moved a small
body of cavalry and infantry through
Beira Basa towards Villa Velha, evi-
dently with an intention of obtaining
possession of the bridge on the Tagus
at that place. They found it, how-
ever, destroyed, and this detachment
returned to Sobriera Formosa. I have
a letter from Gen. Silviera, of the 3d
inst. from Francoso. He had his de-
tachment on the Coa, and one of them
(consisting of a battalion of the 24th
regiment, which had been in garrison
at Almeida during the siege, and

GALLANT ACTIONS.

LONDON GAZETTE, NOV. 20.

Transmitted by Sir R. Curtis, Bart.

Diana, off La Hogue, Nov. 10. SIR, I have the honour to inform you, that though the wind was strong from N. E. and N. E. by N. on Monday evening the 12th inst. with a very heavy sea, I thought it probable that the enemy's frigates might endeavour to push out, I therefore placed the ships in the best position I could suppose, and at half-past twelve on Tuesday morning we found ourselves in shore of them; the wind having backed to N. by E. threw them considerably to windward of us, but prevented their getting round Barfleur; we were so near as to fire two broadsides at them before they got under the batteries of Marcou. At that time Capt. Loring, in the Niobe, had pushed in shore, in hopes of cutting off the sternmost ship, which he had nearly effected, but the wind blowing fresh from the N. and E. with a heavy sea, and the flood tide about to make, we could not prevent their getting through the narrow passage on the west end of Marcou. On Tuesday forenoon they weighed, and remained under sail, close under the batteries of Marcou for several hours, and in the evening got into La Hogue Roads, we having been driven to the N. of Barfleur by the ebb tide, the wind easterly. On the Wednesday morning I sent Captain Loring in the Niobe to give Capt. Malcolm, in the Donegal, information of the situation of the enemy's ships, and made all sail in this ship to the anchorage off La Hogue, and, on my approaching it, had the satisfaction to see one of the enemy's frigates run on shore. I anchored at one P. M. and continued so until morning, when I perceived that the other of the enemy's frigates seemed to be in a position where she might be attacked; I weighed on the first of the flood and made sail for her,

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