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    after an engagement , in which some lives were lost ; but the result of the courtmartial on this occasion have not pub - licly transpired . The governor-general left Bengal for Madras , but every thing was settled before his arrival , and he

    bestows great praise on the head of the latter department , for his conduct . This affair will lead to an investigation of the military system in India , where are two species of troops , the king ' s troops and the forces of the East-India Company . How far the claims of each can be made

    to agree with the general welfare of the whole , must be ascertained by those , who have a full knowledge of our East-Indian concerns , The differences between the Common Hall of-London and the ministry are not settled . A refusal having been given to the receipt of the petition , the Common

    Hall entered into very strong resolutions , and ordered them to be presented to the king by the sheriffs . Access was nowdenied to the king's person . The sheriffs made their report to the Common Hall , which entered into stronger resolutions , and very severe censures on the conduct of ministers . The question is not easily

    to be set at rest . The constitution , by which the king is seated on the throne , guarantees to the subject the ri ^ ht of petitioning , but the mode is not clearly laid down . It is obviously ridiculous to think , that the subjects ' right is allowed , by an officer of state receiving the petition , unless it is ascertained , that the

    petition is afterwards laid before the king . In the most despotic governments on earth , the sovereign receives petitions from his subjects $ but in a good government , it is the interest of both king and people , that a clear mode should be laid down , by which the petitions of the people should reach the ears of their sovereign . There is always a danger that

    if these petitions contain any thing un pleasing to the ministers of the day , they will guard against unwelcome truths being carried to the throne . In our country we have a privy council , and , if a minute were made of the reading of the petition before the king , all paitivS perhaps might have reason to be satisfied .

    The parliament has met ; but the king ' s speech was read by commissioners . The Austrian peace , the expedition to Walcheren , the situation of Sweden , the check at Talavera , the necessity of as-

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    sisting the Spaniards , and the interruption of the intercourse with America , formed the topics for the general address to the two houses . The commons . were called upon for fresh supplies , with regrets for this continued pressure on the subjects . Both houses were desired to take into their consideration the state of

    the inferior clergy , encouraged with flattering accounts of trade andTrevenue , and exhorted to call out all their strength end prudence against the common enemy . These subjects naturally excited very warm debates in both houses . Lord

    St , Vincent spoke blunt , but very unwelcome truths , and instead of praising the expedition to Walcheren , as the ministers had done in the speech , declared , that it had made 113 the laughing stock of Europe . Lord Grenvilte enquired , whether in fact there was at present a government capable of authority , and of

    inspiring confidence . Noble ; ords would he said do their duty ill , if they separated without marking their sense of the conduct of ministers , nut only at Walcheren , and in Spain , but in every part of the campaign that called for inquiry ; they should pledge themselves to a rigorous inquiry , To justisy his position ,

    he entered into a long detail of the history of the war , which he concluded , by moving an amendment to the proposed address . Lord Sidmouth could vote for an address to remove ministers , but felt difficulties in voting for an

    amendment , as it prejudged a question to be hereafter brought before them . Lord Harrowby justified ministers . Earl Grey made a most severe phillipic against them . The address was merely an echo to the speech , and the amendment was similar to that in the House of

    Commons : for the former were 154 votes , for the latter 92 , a very great number for that house , and portending a strong opposition to administration . In the commons , the address was moved by Lord Bernard , and seconded by Mr . Peele . Lord Gower moved , as an amendment , that the house sees with

    sorrow and indignation expeditions undertaken , in ^ which our resources were lost , and our troops sacrificed in enterprises , the consequences of which were most injurious , producing no other effect than the exposure of our councils to the derision of our enemies ; that now the house demands , as the only atonement

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    42 State of Public Affairs

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1810, page 42, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2400/page/42/