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13 uridine fans face ant falling to pieces has pitched headlong and now lies ficaiirg long and large full mrny a toou and will be invifible as fortn a j becomes red hot a being of a differ ent nbrtanee from that of the fun will upper blighter till the fubilances are amalgamated thus accounts he fr the inns bright aa el as dark lpota h doubts the reality of any fpot and attributes the appearance to an epidemic difordtr in mens eyes 1 caniot tell what it la no u sl ttr to brine into the fiflcl vv tn mat view of the conteii it would have been moft unwife to have ftarved it in any of ii parta or to hae nbftained from throwing into the alliance all that vigor and energy and exertion which the lib erality or the houfe had enabled minis ters to prodi cl the houfe would fee they fa nn o of trying tha ad ofey eaaumtoti w j q mnr fecumr h h i military in its ligheit pnfaion gamfr vance towards the french frontier be- a ion fen m war iftw ah haj that of england and pruffia afli vd by fore any arrangements were made to giv imrliscd nmoie nhtivcomfe fp i ff f k minnf a i kim iliit fiikfiiiarv tiitanre whfcll bad if thtv bail adontjci t vnn ii pon examining the great rnafs cf treaties highly intercfling to the public the black spot explained the president of the philological specula- tiveepicureancacu pumpkin cmhavng read with altonioiment the multiplicity rfvain attempts to account for the fpot obferved a few weeks fioce in the diilt tf the sun and unwilling that thecommu- mty hould be duped by the agronomical ifeacres who have filled almoli every newspaper on the continent with their tfaf0 ordered a fuecinl meeting of the club they convened at the club room on the fifteenth day of the fifth month and the fifth of the full moon anno domini mdcccxyi precifely at eight oclock p m a rid after a length and very intereurag difcuffion determin ed that the pvefent leafon in the region of the sun i- uncommonly fruitful and that the pmemomenon which has exci ted fa much aftoniftment and can fed the deftruftionof a vaft quantity of quills inhana paper ha large pumpkin that when the part of the sun on which it grows is nearell the earth ft is fuf- pended by it vine which is of fnfficient length to reach below tfie circumambient atmosphere ihc sun and is viable to the mortal of this mundane fphere it vill be vifibt every revolution of the oon until it is gathered which will pro bably be a few weeks previous to their next tbuksgitfingx the club have no doubt that d ctor herfchel lias puhltfh- cd a fimilar account in england and are aware that many envious and ill dif- pofed ptffons after hiving feen the doc tors ftatment will ace tel hem of plagi- nrifm but they aver moil folemnly that they have feen nothing from the lear ncd doctor on the fubjtct by order philander sarcasm s 5 e c j c club room 15th may 1s16 portland paft t rfd and yellow snow omtwin as dj ton ijbing at spots in the sun under the head of terramo in italy tst dec- we read a follows theta hs fflllcn during fix h jars in our city arid iu environs a greater quantity of mow than has beer known in the mem pry- of man to this phenomenon there is added another even more altonihing which l thit the fnow is red and yellow religion procfiinns have been made to arpepfe thehfavens people believe that fomcrhiug extraordinary has taken place in the air it is to be hoped our philofooherfl may account for this phe1 oomenon mr profeflor sigagnoni a jefuicdiftinguifted by the intendant of j he province 10 make experiments upon the fnow a bout which the people are yet very much alarmed foreign tntklugknck speech of lord cajlhreagh in the eritib houfe nf common feb t9 on moving an adjftfi to the prince re gent n approbation of the late treaties en- ttruiinto lv the britifli government loith france and the allied powers alter lomc introductory remarks princi pally upon the form of the vote which he vas hout tj propofe his lordfiim prcreeded frn the very nalnre of the vrar and tuecharaacrof the enemy with whom thy had to contend the cojitcfl wafonc of that defcription in which all reftricted effoits would have been equally anwife whether with refpea to a found pnlictl u r maayhoo centp had formed ai erroneous opinion of thai cunteft as if the mafs of the french na tion wet- embarked in the caufc of bo rapartes but though that view waj er- oneot one general a unanimous feelj mg pervaded europe that it would prove one f the moft arduous contehs in which the alliance had whatever doubts exifted as to th peratc character cf the ftfuggle they on frmnaitared an mkimd realbn win- ever engaged def the ly ft goverr meat m any arrangements ft might make for atcyfag on tke war jnono make them upon the largeft and mofl enmpr hcaitve fcale the country c mi in a condition to be abe toaffrd the rxpenfes of a protra5t ed war aird thev fore it became the with of vlrrmcm to nas the cofcdcacv 3 poffim rotonlv w hre- t to f power included in it u as to the ew wmdrach were li before it the extent to wliich all europe combined with tc exception of swe den who wa9 by no mean indifpoted to unite with the other powers but who was prevented from fo doing by motives of economy which the other members f the alliance allowed to be a fiiffiucnt ground of exemption there was not 3 ingle power on the eaft of france who was not comprehended in the general league on the other fide of france dfo although portugal was prevented from immediately joining in alliance on account cf the diilanceof the prince re gent from his dominions there was no power except spain who was not bound up in that confederacy the rtafon why the name of that power was not found affixed to the treaty of the 25th of march refpefting which a queftion i had been afked by an honorable member n a preceding evening was becaufe file j objected to the form of that inftrument and from a point of etiquette not be ing one of the four principal powers who figned the declaration of the 12th march he declined from a dignity of feeling which perhaps ought not to have opera ted at that moment to become an acce ding party to the treaty of the 2eth of march but at the fame time he rea dily made an offer of her afliftaticc to the full extent of her means withrcfpeft to the amount of fubfi- jies which had been paid he t rutted go vernment hud pur filed that courfc pi po licy which efleutially contributed to the confolidation of that vail force which was arrayed agninll france the gener al mafs of the fubiidies paid to the four gr cat powei s its vvtll as to thpffi who af terwards acceded to the alliance amoun ted orfgnflhy ro live millions we on our part llipulated to bring into the field 150000 men or to pay an equivalent in money equal to the amount of force not adhiallv fupplied during the courfc of the war we have kept up including the hanoverians and the corps in italy and flanders between eighty and ninety thoofand fo that we had to pay in mo ney for a proportion of troops amounting to about lixty thoufand men the powers of europe was agreed in opinion that fome had better be employed towards the general fyttem of alliance by ubfidi- tng all the minor powers the king of 1 he netherlands received no fobfidy for reaforw wheh were fnilviently obvi- our ror did the troops of switzerland re- ceiveanr becaufe ihev were not ailivclv employed again ft france the genera rate of ftibfidy was upon the calculation of eleven pounds oer man the fourth of the whole fnbfidics was faved and the grofs amount of them did not cxccc i fix millions the houfe had feen xvlat was theeffetof that policy 1 had j contributed to unite and coflfokdtlte a confederacy fo immenfe tht no extent of difafter could have altered the ultimate ifme of the campaign though certainly it might have been protracd even if the battle of waterloo had been as fatal and diiaftrousto the allied troops as it proved to the army of france yer the means which were brought into aiire operation were fo prodigious and io pow erful that the final refult of the conteft would unqueflionablyhnve hen the fame it was a general impreffion felt by every member of the alliance that no delay fliould take place which might be avoid ed delay would have given to the character of the war a feature of aggra vation and difficulty which was moil anxioufly to be deprecated it wss in tad of the lad importance not only that he focceft fliould be early and that it fliould be decifiv- but that europe the profecution of that great caufe which was thecaufe ofeuropc againft tifuipa- won and an attempt to renew military defpotism hould aft with that ftrength power and unity which might undeceive the french nation upon a point in which their national vanity was moft likely to delude them whatever might have been the fucceft of the campaign if they could fliitcrthemfclvca that it arofe out or any peuicular concurrence of circum- mce and not from the magnitude and controilmg force of the powers afleiibled anft them there would ftill rnve ex- iteda difpolition conneftcd with that national pride which belongs to them to the troops of fome of the minor dales there never war an army which took the field mareample in ail the refdurots and equipments which could give vlgqr and efficiency liere never was an army which went to battc with a more defpet te de termination to conquer or to die than that which bonaparte led to the frontiers of the netherlands and yet be ap prehended there was no inftance m the annals of war fpeaking it without any derogation from the prowefs or kill dif- played by the french on that memorable day that could be compared to the manner in which the army of the duke of wellington aided by that of prince bfucher defeated that army with fuch a character of fuccefa as could n be found in the moil brilliant victories upon record in any age or country hear hear hefliortldbe glad to know what finale vichry ever led to reftdts fo vail and impoitant in 3 political and mil itary point of view as the brttle of wa terloo i hear theeucmyby that one victory were abfoluteiy precluded from again appearing in the field while the victors approached in a tnunphant march of fourteen days to the capital of the enemy which they had reduced to fubmifiion hear that battle de cided rhe character of the war and the fire of the government and compelled the individual by whofe lawlefs aggref ron it had been excited to feek a refuge from deftroction in the very country which he had defigned to ruin lie did not think that he indulged in any excefs of national exultation when he thus de- fcribed the unparalleled character of the battle of waterloo hear hear j having dated thofe grounds of the policy upon which his majcftya govern ment proceeded he trulled the roufc yould fed upon that branch of the ques tion lit tie or no difficulty in comin to fuch an opinion as would enable the to go to the foot of the throne w ith unanimous exprehlou l fentiment there newer perhaps cxilted an infinnce of a confederacy to fuch an extent of mi litary length combined wh fa ich military order it appeared from tha circumllanceofareturu which was made of the elleaive force in confcqncuce of an arrangement made with the french government who were to fnniih tlu ne- ccllary equipments and clothi 1 1 hi an him that fubfidiary stance which tiao already been uttowed upon the lowel of the minor powers embarked in the fe neral cotfcderacy me ihttft there fore that it was nr good policy to an ticipate imaginary danger from uic m itary ftrenjgth and refourccs of rufu when they had hthcrrj been cmployd only in the public caufc cf europe i was not wi e to provoke the filpicion- of that power by fuch imputations upon it views hear j with refped to the combined effort made by all the members of the alliance he diomd not ovcrilatc them when he laid that if the war had continued two months longer there would have been a million and a half of foldiers in france to catty on the contell so large a holt comoofed of the military of various na lions night be fuppofed to have a tendency to produce thofe evils infepara bly attendant upon the movements of ho i lie armies but it was not among the i lead of the ohjes which occupied the i attention of the allied fovereigns to in troduce into their corps a ftricl and rig orous difeipllne which might rellrain all excefle it was impofiible perhaps to do that in the early lage of the tranfac- tion in fuch a way a fliould prevent all juft grounds of complaint in the dittrict- where they happen to be but even in thofe diltiicls the evils complained or arofe principally from the circumftauee that the peafantry were ilarmed at then approach and did not remain in their jhoufes t adminitler thofe fupplies which were required after fome time how ever a degree of order was introduced no left creditable to ihc armies thendche- than to the civilized times in which we live there was no inttan e in hxlory t f 10 or 11 hundred thoufand men being thrown into a country aa they were into france living at the expenfe of thit country and yet without any marked in ftance of indifcipline occuvring on the contrary though theie exifted many pow erful feelings of refentment in fome of the troopn arifing out of the circumftait ces under which the spoliations ami fub jugatiorrs of france throughout europe had been carried on 3 g- neral fpirit of benevolence and clemency animated te whpu confederacy towards their qnifhed enemy not ho we if they had idopfd t rnrds f nur ljcnapurtc a courp f rncafofies part king of more eventyand rign pen brament who wereto fiivufth tbc ne- qiftl ciiemv n v vn eentratcd wthfn the territory of fraiicej p wvmy to that particular pout on after the hattle of watterloo amounlinffl which he apprehended wltcvei differ- 1 to 1240000 men ihe could affure the houfe that the ntpmhers were not overratcdf r the rcttir vcrc mo lctu puloufly checked bv the ruke of wel lington vho was appofnted to conduct he arrangements in qnrjcftton 1 addi tion however to that l afo in movement againf fiance different corpa of large tnagnituf there wtre 100000 atifirians rrr cardfl the rhine and ijoc r the head of which column i 7 advaa ced beyond the ejw franconla fhere was a point to which he wmied 1 ike- dulge in thofe mikury flr vvhfcl never aanbe compatible with th general rcpofc of europe but certainly the claraaer of th bntle f waterloo to- gcthcr with the arrangements fubfequent pon that battle uroatt lave no ground oquelun what erehe motive that brouglitthe whole of europe again them it was of great importance to reach ftaoct that icflbnof wifdom and there was no frenchman who could now have a doubt upon the fnbjeft fn the fah caupagr a the battle of waterloo to allude while mentions thecorpera tiobofthe latter pow- a n w3s the more bound to n r 1 r there teamed to of that power becaiiie e exift a difpolaion on tl of th coun try to view its general grafter pro j- u i v for hl9 own feedings with leaioulv n 1 r ihin rdiich could pait he certainly law in juitifv that jealoufy rf contrary m fome points of policy j f cardinal in the fyftem c f h had obferveda ditptftion t confuh and pro mote the intereft of grc hear i hear l t l r ih with regard to th ifla was anl he had mentioned h conld wdtt butconfider it as an iif jealoufy which we md co ih p cr becaufe of its vaft r nu meous population an ts c ritory as if therefore ft difpofed to play a gn or wn which threatened the rermaent wteretf and fecurity of europv hccr bear it became him hovver to p a tribute of acknowledge lo the emm en tfer vices which it pp7j to promoting the ffened oh of thc confederacy by the bqwhteww of the treaty of the 25th m flw asunder no farther obliv t tbat of brl ing into the field io9 mra num bcr which he in the fir ftanc increaf- cd and ultimately au to icf than 250000 the 1ule of vvelhue- in ton faw 150000 rijwaw reviewed thepjafna of vert us ail under arms and hi grace declae tn he had never j i feen army better eqfl moic per- i j fct in difcipline or exhibiting altogeth er a more martial and oldicriie appear anee hear hear h was his duty to ft ate that that increffed and moft im portant force was brought into active fer- vice by the qmperor f ruitia without even an attempt on ihfche part of this coun- try or that of his mperial majefty to jitabiipny pecuniary fgociaticn he lhad aually put xuc men ir motion encc of opinion might arffe it would he found principally to turn in adverting to the line of policy vhich was purfued it was ncceftay lu hould observe that a reat diflihljon exifteil btwecn th peace of the preceding year and that which was afterwards- concluded for bis own part he would never fori et the generous and difiuterefled conduct of flu 1 lie towards france in the year 1814 though perhaps il looked at in conjunc tion with the events that aferwnrds oc curred it miht be wifhed that it had never been adopted but wlut human tranfaftion would bear to be fo confider- ed or would endure the application of vfur occurrences in determining its ab- lh wifdom or prudence hear hear j if the aes when they conquered the peace of 1 s 1 4 when the french nation teemed ready to leap into their arms and into the arms of their legitimate king when only one llrong and eledric feeling appeared to be cntcrtaied throughout the whole country a feeling of joy anl gratitude t being delivered from ther ty rant if at that moment they had refufed i to meet the general rlthufiafm of the na ttion and purfued a hern and angry poli cy if they had carried on the war with the determination of deftmymg bona parte and his adhi rents inftead ofccep- ting his fubmifiion and permitting his de- parmre he tvas confident thy would m have been actufed of interefted and nar row views of policy and of having clou ded that horion which looked fo calm and beautiful to all who obferved it it was on the contrary and always ought to be the chief policy of a great confed eracy to aft upon lare and libernl prin ciples in every part of its career and up- on thofe principe in the moft extenfive feiife of the word the confederacy of laft year unqueftionably afted if in every member competing that confedera cy had not o acted the very elements of which the confederacy con lifted were of ru 1 hp the confequencc would have ben involve that counfrvand theconfedcr tc in a protracted and inteibne wafarc it was tibvjnus however that whnevef notvcs of wifdom cr difcetion d0attj that forbearanca and frencrofity in is3 it woidd have been cuiijifhivefs in the ex- ireme if at the olofe of the laft carni hign they had indulged in the fame fee- ins to the lame extent and not have founded the peace upon fundament principles ftorc calculated to con eft any new mifchiefs that taijfht anfe in ex- amining that question in a diplomatid point of view he wihed firstfaflumingil as a wife and ncceffary plan to adopt fome principal of prccnon becaufe it had been contended by an honorable and lear- nvd gertlcman on a former evening tbal we had no right to form any fyttm of precautionary meafures that interfced with the ifiieinal aitursof france a pofi lion which ne hould artie afterwards o exaniinethe two modei in which the principles could be applied first the general principal and the general ground at political neceffity upon vhich inter- ferencc could be jus ilkd and fecottiln a more partial view of the particular fitu- ation hi which the allies i od with rrf el to france he wa ihc more anx- bufi to meet that branch of the difeuffiod j fairly becaufe it was one wliich had been much prefled by the honorable gentle men on the o- er idz of the houfe a refertence had bwen made on a for j mer evening to a j iter written by lo clancarty from a fijle feaence of which it was attempted to be a mutfdp that we entered iipdh te late war fwr the ilngleand exclufive object of depofin nnaparte and that provided he did not reign- it would be a matter if icrfft in- difference to ui who was at the head of the french goverooient he appuhc ded however if the honoahe and lenr- ned gentlemen wlu referred 10 that drf- patch of lord clancarty had read he fen fence which he quoted ii conneclon with the next feutence he would hc found tire principal diftiiclly avowry lht though we never declared the ubjttt of the wai to be fur ihcpurpojenf impo- lin on france any form of iovcnuirne r thai rhvfhoraiy 1 r ivgrwum prepared to treat for pence yet otk vi cou cnnce a to vno rnigh be foverrm that we were fo blind as not to prc chabliiliment of a government in th did it therefore follow tint we had hofce a to who nueht befover n or the per iom relation ofamry could be mod fecurdv 2 tamed to the ereftion of any other ernmentat of hich c might foil of that individual wij p be phctdt paion ponmg 0ut r hrtmtar yftem to abate ik4ut 0 w h have be n the pi mary obj f the allance he denied that rl was any thing in the letter of lord s carry which gave even a lhadow of thorny for f a conltrudtion to be 2 upon t and he would refer the houfe to j the deelaraton made bv hi m 1 ovcrnment in the ratifieation of the trtv tyofthcjtl of march afljj wa declared m that treaty that the de- potion of bonaparte and the cxclufio ofhsdynalty were the fpecific objeaj thereluranonof the legitimate sovcr ngn louis xvii i w a pont moftde firaoletobeaccomblilhed by any julifo ble means we guarded pre againft being underttood a pledged to bring ab out that reftoration he begged the houfe worold diilinaiy unjerltaad t grounds upon which that declaration i went to be contlnutd lonon march g sua is the fcarcity of work thai nands are err ployed oil the plyou dock lines t 93 a week and great nn hers cannot get milerable pittance engaged cvei at tli i- faacharaaertbathar lly a ny attempt could have ben made which wuld not hem altogether own correftive and 3 u a co formed rca1 oppreffion and not to inilift i and never was ts eharaan hewn i v lmofm im t yiew t j againll france they retired from her ter orywut claiming any other ss mareh i letters from kcmv burgh a- berkn announce the death yf the dillinguifvd commander wm billow within a few week after he hv retired from the army he was in thr 61 yew f hw ngc and die mflimation in thffiiver 01 4 or reward than that peace which a jed to lear france mure 1py a eu i purls march 10 oneofje dutch eafi india ik iia tihiiidered 1 1 00 perfon dwwiwfl the spaittflj refugees it biyonnfhnn been ordered t quit that rty witfiin week to retire cithci to cts ir to rr turn to spain we have a report from lorwjcni tfa lord liverpool s refilled it m laid that p in e bliuhr mirtp ieit unfmtiiatey ahlifled with a derangement