Parliament, fent money to the Emperor. been in the habit of hearing the right hon. This was not the only inftance of con- gentleman's declamation against the fercealment: Yesterday was the first time vants of the Crown and the meafures they we had been told the country was at adopted. It was not the first time, they war with Spain. The omiffion might be would recollect, he had made his stand be defended by the prerogative of his Ma- hind the laft dyke of the conftitution, nor jefty, who was not bound to communi- the first time he had predicted the downcate his reafons for making war. How fall of our liberties, and the ruin of our far this referve was gracious, he would ɓnances. The right hon. gentleman had not pretend to fay, but when votes of declared his determination not to fleep credit were granted, information ought another hour until he entered his proteft to be given. To grant fupplies to mini- against the adoption of the refolutions, fters implicitly, was refigning the power which he had tacitly agreed to the prece of the public purfe, and all controul o- ding night. It was not a little fingular ver their profligacy. The queftion was, that a fimilar expreffion was applied to whether Parliament, having given no the acts of the laft feffion; and not many confent whatever to fuccours for the hours had elapfed fince he had intimated Emperor, the House ought to make good his intention of moving for their repeal the money fo given by ministers? For at two months--for a repeal of thofe one, he should think it his duty to op- laws under whofe exiftence he had depofe the fecond reading, and every ar- clared he could not fleep a single night. ticle of Ways and Means, until the Par It was likewife a little fingular that this liament fhould do juftice to the coun- treafon, to which the House were to be try. At a future period, if the Houfe parties if they did not vote the fupplies, concurred with him, he fhould bring did not ftrike the hon. gentleman fo imforward a motion, that minifters, in vot- mediately as to induce him to rife from ing fuccours for the Emperor, without his flumber. It drew not from him laft the confent of Parliament, are guilty of night, nor his hon. friend near him (Mr a high crime and misdemeanour, and a Grey), a little liable to occafional irritagrofs violation of the conftitution. Not- tion a fingle apprehenfion of its alarmwithstanding the obnoxious and uncon- ing nature. That hon. gentleman never ftitutional bills that had been paffed, he spoke more placidly than he did laft believed that the country would declare night, under this apprehenfion, of the the law on the subject; for of all the termination of our liberties. This apwritings of Paine, and every other man prehension did not then prevent him who had been profecuted for libels, not from difcuffing to the minutenefs of farone was so calculated to bring the go- things; and it was not till now they had vernment into difrepute, and deftroy difcovered that the minister's fpeech was the conftitution, as the conduct of ad- not replete with treason; but after agreeminiftration. If he were fitting as a ing unanimously to the refolutions yefjuror on the libellous matter contained in terday, they wished to negative thofe rethe hon. gentleman's speech of last night, folutions which contained no treafonwhich, without forcing the construction, able matter, and called upon the Houfe meant, that he was better able to judge to negative all fupply to the Crown at a of the application of the public money period of war, and at the moment of nethan Parliament, he would not hesitate gociation. He could not but hope, that a moment to decide upon the malus ani- if the hon. gentlemen were again to fleep mus of the individual. The laft Seffion on their wrath, they might relent on their of Parliament, had confiderably'abridged, refentments. The right hon. gentleman if not annihilated the liberties of Englishmen, and if the houfe now fanctioned the right of the Executive Government to apply, ad libitum, the public money, what is there, he would afk, in the conftitution for which gentlemen ought to risk their lives and fortunes? Mr Pitt arofe under evident marks of agitation The Houfe, he faid, had long had declared, that if the Houfe concur red in his motion, he would afterwards move an impeachment. One thing he begged to fupplicate--if he really was fincere in his declaration, let him proceed to criminate ministers speedily, and not purfue a line of conduct that muft ruin the country--let him revenge himfelf on minifters, and not on England; but fhould fupplication be difregarded he E he should appeal to the Houfe, and throw traordinaries, which conftituted an adhimself upon the candour and juftice of mitted principle. all who had the interest and happiness of the country at heart. Mr Pitt next proceded to vindicate his conduct from the charge of treafon against the country. The practice, he contended, of admiting year after year, the expediency of difpofing of money, not previously voted by Parliament, was within the experience of every member in the Houfe; a practice that had obtained ever fince the conftitution had attained its matured ftate, and this was fufficient to defroy the principle contended for by the right hon. gentleman. His objections were equally applicable to all votes of credit and extraordinaries for the navy, army, &c. and acted upon, in what must be admitted the best times of the conftitution, and fanctioned by himself (Mr Fox), when he was one of his Majesty's minifters. The queftion refolved into this, Can Parliament commit a difcretion to the Crown; and was the conduct of administration, in the prefent inftance, juftified in the application of the money? To convince the House of the affirmative of this propofition, he would only beg of them to recur to their late vote on the King's fpeech, in which they declared their refolution to grant his Majesty fuch fuccours as the exigency of affairs might require. Could any man doubt of the expediency of iffuing that fum, which had enabled the armies of Auftria to give a turn to the tide of affairs, and fave the liberties and independence of Europe. Whatever may be the event, faid he, Itruft I fhall have no reason to regret the part I have taken; at all events, I had rather be convicted for having ufed the difcretion entrusted to me in the manner I have, than be acquitted for having with'held the exercife of that difcretion, which, if I had done, might have been fatal to the interefts of the country. As to the reft, I fufpend any obfervations till the charge is made; but in defiring you to support the refolution of your committee, I but defire you to avoid announcing to France, that you have furrendered your duty to your country, and your faith to your King. Mr Fox, in explanation, denied that what been urged was applicable to ex Sir W. Pulteney faid, the intimation of the minister yesterday struck him as being unconftitutional, and he wifhed extremely for an explanation. How far the explanation was relevant, was not for him to decide. The minifter was no doubt, in the right in defending himfelf to the beft of his ability; but he reprobated the infinuation, that because Mr Fox was in the habit of calling out the Conftitution is in danger, he is not to be attended to. In his opinion, the practical good of the Conftitution hinged wholly in the power of the Commons over the fupply. Votes of credit and extraordinaries had been urged, by way of analogy, as a juftification of the point in queftion; but he would afk, was it ever heard that a vote of credit applied to an ally? The act was, in his opinion, not lefs culpable than the manner of announcing it, which did not happen till there was no poffibility of longer concealment. But the Houfe is not to go the length of ftopping the supply! It was he said, the artifice of minifters to bring the Houfe into the dilemma, and then call upon them for the fupplies, without offering the leaft apology for wounding the vitals of the constitution. He hoped and trusted that the House would exprefs their difapprobation of the conduct of minifters, by fome marked refolution. Mr Grey spoke at fome length in reply to Mr Pitt, and moved that the fecond reading be put off till to-morrow. Mr Wilberforce, Mr Yorke, Sir P. Arden, and Lord Hawkesbury, spoke against the motion. Mr Harrison, Mr Curwen, Mr W. Smith, and Mr Fox, spoke warmly in support of the motion. Mr Bafard, in giving his vote for the fupply, wifhed not to be understood as voting for the money to the Emperor, a tranfaction which, in his opinion, merited the reprehenfion of the Houfe. A divifion took place.-The numbers were, for the amendment, Ayes, 58 Noes, 164 Majority 106 The refolutions were then read a fecond time, and bills ordered. Adjourned. MONTHLY MONTHLY GAZETTE INTELLIGENCE. Downing Street, Nov. 26. Difpatches of which the following are copies, have been received from R. Crau. furd, Efq; by the Right Hon. Lord Grenville. Head-quarters of his Royal Highness MY LORD, I have the honour to inform your Lordship, that official accounts were this day received by the Archduke from General Davidovitch, flating his having beaten the corps that was opposed to him, and taken a thousand prifoners. His advanced guard has taken poffeffion of Trente, which place, as well as the ftrong pofition behind it, were abandoned by the enemy without refiftance. I have the honour to be, &c. R. CRAUFURÐ. MY LORD, Offenburg, Nov 13. I have the honour to inform your Lordship, that by a report received by his Royal Highnefs the Archduke from Lieut.-General New, Governor of Mayence, it appears, that the corps which had advanced to the Nahe has been obliged to fall back, and take a pofition behind the Seltz. This corps confifted merely of detachments from the garrifon of Mayence, commanded by Major Generals Simpfchan and Rofemberg. The latter, with the left wing, was pofted on the heights of Biebelsheim and Planig, to obferve Creutzenach; the former, with the right wing, on the hill called the Rochufberg, to defend the pallage of Bingen. They had orders, in case of being attacked by a very superior force, to retire nearer to Mayence. This pofition on the right bank of the Lower Nahe is well known from the operations of last year. It is not to be maintained against an enemy of very fuperior force; for Creutznach lies fo entirely under the fire of the hills from the left bank of the river, that the enemy is always mafter of that paffage, as was fufficiently proved by the affair of the 1ft of December 1795. On this fide Creutznach, the heights are fo diftant from the river, that the enemy has every facility in bending himself in front and on each REGISTER. Hank of the town; and a corps of very inferior force cannot take poft near e nough to prevent this formation. Rofemberg were attacked by two divi On the 26th, Generals Simpfchen and fions of the army of the Sambre and Meufe. The action lafted feveral hours, and the enemy, notwithstanding fo very great an inequality of numbers, was repulfed with confiderable lofs. Early on the 27th, the French renewed the attack; and advanced in several columns from Creutznach, to turn the left of the Auftrians; but the latter, by an exertion of much ability and ftead nefs, maintained their pofition. In the evening, however, the Generals, in conformity to the order mentioned above, determined on retiring behind the Seitz; and the retreat was executed with perfect order. The lofs of the Auftrians on these occafions confifts in nineteen killed, one hundred and eighty-four wounded, ninety-fix mifling; on the whole two hundred and ninety-nine men and eightynine horses. The enemy's was certainly confiderable; two hundred of them were taken prifoners and brought into Mayence. I am thus circumftantial in ftating the particulars of this, in fact, unimportant affair, because I obferve that the official reports of the army of the Sambre and Meufe, I mean the late ones, contain the moft abfurd exaggerations. I fhould confider them perfectly undeferving of notice, were it not that thofe who have no other means of judging of the events of the campaign, than by comparing the accounts published by the contending armies, would be led into the most erroneous conclufions if they gave each par ty credit for only an equal degree of fairnefs in their relations. In the enemy's official account of the affair of the 21ft of last month near Ne wied, it is reprefented as having been a ferious and general attack; whereas it was merely undertaken for the purpose of deftroying his bridge, and spreading alarm on the left bank of the Rhine. Both thefe objects were effected by a very infignificant force; and there was not the fmallest idea of making a serious af fault on the Tete-de-Pont of Neuwied. The enemy states, that, befides an im menfe menfe number of killed and drowned, he actually took one thousand prisoners, whereas I can affure your Lordship, from the most authentic information, that the whole lofs of the Auftrians did not exceed two hundred and eighty-four men. After General Moreau's army had croffed the Rhine, two divifions of it were detached towards Landau, and one divifion of the army of the Sambre and Meufe arrived about the fame time in the neighbourhood of Kayferflautern. General Hotze was ftill at Schweigenheim, on the road from Speyer to Landau; his corps was not of fufficient ftrength to have any other object than that of fpread ing alarm in Lower Alface; and it was evident, that as soon as the Rhine should again separate the main armies, the enemy muft immediately become masters of the vicinity of Landau. General Hotze, therefore, on the approach of forces infinitely fo fuperior to his own, retired towards the entrenched camp of Manheim, without being in the fmallest degree molested by the enemy. He established the advanced pofts of his left wing on the Rechbach, from whence they ran along the Fletzbach towards Franckenthal. On the 7th inft, the French attacked General Hotze's line. Their principal efforts were directed against the left wing, and the fire of artillery and fmall arms continued a great part of the day; but the enemy was repulfed, and General Hotze ftill maintains his pofts in front of the entrenched camp, extending from the Reebach, by the village of Maubach, to Franckenthal, I have the honour to be, &c. R. CRAUTURD. MY LORD, Offenburg, Nov. 14. It is with the greateft fatisfaction I have the honour of announcing to your Lordship, that official reports were this day received by the Archduke from Generals Alvinzy and Davidovitch, wherein it appears that the offenfive operations in Italy have been fuccefsfully commenced. I should not prefume to addrefs your Lordship upon this fubject, were it not that, if Colonel Graham is, as I fuppose he must be, with Marthal Wurmfer in Mantua, he cannot as yet have had it in his power to correspond with your Lordship. General Alvinzy's report is dated at Caldo-Ferrɔ, November 7th. Gen. Da vidovitch's at Trente, the 8th inft. After the second operation, underta. ken for the relief of Mantua, those corps of Marshal Wurmfer's army, which could not penetrate, retired; the one under General Quofdanovich to the Ve netian Fricul; the other, under General Davidovitch, up the valley of the Adige, towards Neumarket. Thefe corps were fuccefsfully reinforced by confiderable numbers of frel troops; and General Alvinzy was appointed to command the whole of the army, until it should effect its re-union with Marshal Wurmfer. After the arrival of the reinforcements at the places of their destination, General Alvinzy, who ia perfon had undertaken the conduct of the corps in the Frioul, arranged a plan of operations, of which the following is a sketch. His troops were to advance through the Trevifane towards Baffano, and, after forcing the paffages of the Brenta, to proceed towards the Adige, whilst General Davidovitch should defcend the valley by which that river runs down from the mountains of the Tyrol, forcing the pofitions of Trente, Roveredo, &c. On the 3d of this month, upon the approach of part of General Alvinzy's advanced guard, the enemy abandoned Caftel Franco; and on the 4th the Auftrian corps advanced in two columns to the Brenta; the one to Baffano (of which they took poffeffion), and the other of nearly equal force (under Lieut. General Proverto) to Fonteniva. General Alvinzy halted on the 5th inf. and spent that day in reconnoitring the pofition of the enemy. He found the French army encamped in three lines in front of Vicenza. On the 6th, as General Alvinzy was on the point of pushing forward his advanced guard, Buonaparte, who had marched in the night, commenced a moft levere attack upon his whole line. The action began with General Proverra's corps about feven in the morning, and very fhortly afterwards the enemy alfo advanced against Bassano. General Alvinzy reports, that the enemy's attacks, though made with the greatest impetuofity, were conftantly and completely repelled; and that night put an end to the affair, without either party having gained or loft any grounds 6 Ꭰ an But an indifputable proof of the Auftrians having had the advantage in this action is, that when General Alvinzy next morning was preparing to renew it, he found that the enemy had completely retreated. He reports, that they directed their march towards Lifiera. General Proverra's bridge over the Brenta having been deftroyed in the courfe of the morning of the 6th, his column could not cross the river till towards noon on the 7th, and General Alvinzy's whole corps arrived late in the evening of that day at the camp of Caldo Ferro. General Davidovitch had, in the mean time, driven back the corps opposed to him, and made a thousand prisoners, and taken poffeffion of Trente, as was mentioned in his former report. On the fame day that the above mentioned fevere action was fought on the Brenta, General Davidovitch attacked the enemy in the ftrong pass of Caljano, a little to the northward of Rovoredo. The French had entrenched their pofition, and occupied, in confiderable force, the caftles of Baffano and La Pietra, which, as I understand, command the pafs. The ftrength of the pofition was fuch, that, notwithstanding his repeated efforts, General Davidovitch could not force it on the 6th; but on the following day he renewed his attack. The corps on the right of the Adige eftablished batteries on the heights of Nomi, which fired with confiderable effect; the troops on the left of the river attacked the castles and intrenchments with persevering bravery, and the enemy was at length completely defeated, with the lofs of five cannon, eight ammunition waggons, and a thoufand prifoners. General Davidovitch fuppofes the enemy's lofs, in killed and wounded, to have been very confiderable, and ftates his own to have amounted to four hundred men, killed, wounded, and miffing. I have the honour to be, &c. ROB. CRAUFURD. Doruning-Street, Dec. 20. Dispatches, of which the following are extracts, have been received from R. Craufurd, Efq; by the Right Hon. Lord Grenville. Head-quarters of his Royal Highness the Archduke Charles of Auftria, Offenburg, Nov. 25. MY LORD, I have the honour to in form your Lordship, that in the night from the 21ft to the 22d, the trenches were opened before Kehl, on the right bank of the Kinzig. The first parallel of this attack, with its communications, proceeding from the right and left flank of the right wing of the line of contravallation, were fo far completed during the night, that before day-break the men were tolerably covered. The enemy did not attempt to interrupt the work, nor had he yet fired a fingle fhot upon the trenches; but early yesterday morn ing, the 22d, he made a sudden attack upon the left wing of the line of contravallation, and, after an action, than which nothing could be poffibly more fevere, was driven back into his works with very great loss. The enemy having, in the course of the night, from the 21ft to the 22d, brought over a large body of troops from Strafbourg, formed his columns of attack clofe behind the chain of his advanced pofts, with so much filence, that they were not perceived. Just before the break of day, (which, however, was rendered extremely obfcure by a very thick mift, that lafted the greater part of the forenoon) thefe columus began to advance. The initant the Auftrian videttes and centries gave their fire, which was the only notice of the approaching attack, the enemy's infantry rushed on with the utmoft impetuofity, without firing a fhot, and in an inftant they were mafters of two redoubts of the left of the firft line. The village of Sundheim was attacked in the fame manner, and with equal fuccefs; after which, coming in the rear of the curtain that connects the village with the first redoubt to its left, the enemy immediately carried that work, one face of which was not quite finished. Upon this, large bodies of their infantry rushed through the openings in the curtains on the whole front of this wing; and, whilft part advanced against the fecond line, the others endeavoured to make themselves mafters of the reremaining redoubts of the firft; but thefe, though perfectly left to themselves for a confiderable time, entirely furrounded, cut off from every affiftance, and attacked with fury by the enemy, who frequently got into the ditches, and attempted to climb the parapet, were de fended in a manner that reflects the highest honour on the officers and troops that |