another way-I sought materials of compensation in another hemisphere. Contemplating Spain, such as our ancestors had known her, I resolved that if France had Spain, it should not be Spain with the Indies. I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old. "Once more I declare, that the object of the address, which I propose is not war: its object is to take the last chance of peace. If you do not go forth, on this occasion to the aid of Portugal, Portugal will be trampled down, to your irretrievable disgrace: -and then will come war in the train of national degradation. If, under circumstances like these, you wait till Spain has matured her secret machinations into open hostility, you will in a little while have the sort of war required by the pacificators-and who shall say where that war will end ?" The Amendment was put and negatived, there appearing only three or four supporters for Mr. Hume's proposition. The original question was then put and carried, with only the same number of dissentients. On the same night, in the House of Lords, a similar address was moved by lord Bathurst, and seconded by lord Holland. The duke of Wellington spoke next; beginning by expressing a hope that it would be permitted to him, who for many years had had the direction of the resources of both the countries which formed the subject of discussion, against the common enemy, to lament that any necessity should arise for our interference between them. He also hoped, that the measures which called for our interference, were more to be attributed to the per fidious conduct of the servants of the king of Spain, to the captainsgeneral of provinces, and to inferior ministers, than to his Catholic majesty. Whether, however, they proceeded from the one or the other, he could not possibly see bodies of troops on both sides of the Douro, and on the south of the Tagus and the Guadiana, at the same time, all armed by the Spanish authorities, without immediately perceiving that there must be a concurrence of the Spanish government. Under the circumstances, therefore, of this preconcerted invasion of the Portuguese territory, he was of opinion, that the casus fœderis did clearly exist. War, however, might still be prevented; and he hoped for the cordial assistance of France, by negotiations, in preventing the breaking out of hostilities, in bringing his Catholic majesty to a just sense of his own danger, to a proper feeling of what was due both to his dignity and his interest, and to the obligations of good faith. Lord Lansdowne also declared his full approbation of the proposed measure; and the address was carried without a dissentient voice. The unanimity which prevailed in parliament on this decisive measure, was not more perfect than was the universal concurrence of sentiment regarding it, which existed throughout the country. The reasons on which it was founded, and the promptitude with which it had been adopted, inspired confidence; the ardour, the manliness, the deep tone of generous feeling with which it had been defended, excited esteem and admiration. Never were a government and its subjects in more complete unison. The activity of the public offices another way-I sought materials of compensation in another hemisphere. Contemplating Spain, such as our ancestors had known her, I resolved that if France had Spain, it should not be Spain with the Indies.' I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old. "Once more I declare, that the object of the address, which I propose is not war: its object is to take the last chance of peace. If you do not go forth, on this occasion to the aid of Portugal, Portugal will be trampled down, to your irretrievable disgrace: -and then will come war in the train of national degradation. If, under circumstances like these, you wait till Spain has matured her secret machinations into open hostility, you will in a little while have the sort of war required by the pacificators-and who shall say where that war will end ?" The Amendment was put and negatived, there appearing only three or four supporters for Mr. Hume's proposition. The original question was then put and carried, with only the same number of dissentients. On the same night, in the House of Lords, a similar address was moved by lord Bathurst, and seconded by lord Holland. The duke of Wellington spoke next; beginning by expressing a hope that it would be permitted to him, who for many years had had the direction of the resources of both the countries which formed the subject of discussion, against the common enemy, to lament that any necessity should arise for our interference between them. He also hoped, that the measures which called for our interference, were more to be attributed to the per fidious conduct of the servants of the king of Spain, to the captainsgeneral of provinces, and to inferior ministers, than to his Catholic majesty. Whether, however, they proceeded from the one or the other, he could not possibly see bodies of troops on both sides of the Douro, and on the south of the Tagus and the Guadiana, at the same time, all armed by the Spanish authorities, without immediately perceiving that there must be a concurrence of the Spanish government. Under the circumstances, therefore, of this preconcerted invasion of the Portuguese territory, he was of opinion, that the casus fœderis did clearly exist. War, however, might still be prevented; and he hoped for the cordial assistance of France, by negotiations, in preventing the breaking out of hostilities, in bringing his Catholic majesty to a just sense of his own danger, to a proper feeling of what was due both to his dignity and his interest, and to the obligations of good faith. Lord Lansdowne also declared his full approbation of the proposed measure; and the address was carried without a dissentient voice. The unanimity which prevailed in parliament on this decisive measure, was not more perfect than was the universal concurrence of sentiment regarding it, which existed throughout the country. The reasons on which it was founded, and the promptitude with which it had been adopted, inspired confidence; the ardour, the manliness, the deep tone of generous feeling with which it had been defended, excited esteem and admiration. Never were a government and its subjects in more complete unison. The activity of the public offices CHAP. VIII. INDIA-Re-commencement of Hostilities with the Burmese--Military Operations in the neighbourhood of Prome-British Army advances to Melloone-Conferences and Terms of Peace accepted-The Treaty not being ratified, the Army takes Melloone-The Army advances to Pagahm-men-Battle there-A Treaty concluded and ratified-Siege and Capture of Bhurtpore by Lord Combermere.-AFRICA-Defeat of the Ashantees. TH HE armistice which had been concluded on the 17th September, 1825, between the British and Burmese commanders, was not employed by the court of Ava in any serious negotiations for peace, but in collecting forces for a vigor ous prosecution of the war. By the second article of the amnesty it had been agreed that a commissioner from Ava, with full powers, should meet the British authorities, on the 2nd of October, half way between Prome and Meaday, the stations of the respective armies, to treat of the re-establishment of peace. These conferences took place on the plain of Neounben-zeik, the negotiators on each side being accompanied by a train of five hundred men, as the dignity of the prime minister of Ava did not allow him to move with a smaller retinue. The Burmese commissioners displayed ostensibly the most amicable dispositions; were anxious in their inquiries after the health of his majesty of England, and the latest news; uniformly spoke of Britain and Ava, as the "two great and civilized nations," and scrupulously avoided every thing which might be construed into an acknowledgment of inferiority. They endea voured to exculpate their monarch from any blame on account of the hostile acts committed in Arracan, which had led to the war, by assurances that they had been committed without his authority or consent, and that the remonstrances of the Indian government had been kept from his knowledge. In the terms of peace which were proposed, they quarrelled principally with the demands for a cession of part of their territory, and an indemnification in money for the expenses of the war, and laboured hard to have them withdrawn, at least in the mean time, gravely holding out such considerations as this, that the dignity of the king of Ava did not allow him to submit to terms imposed upon him by a present force, but that, so soon as the Indian government should have withdrawn their army from the country, there was nothing which his generosity would not concede to them. Being unable to obtain any modification of the terms, they desired, and obtained, an extension of the armistice for twenty days, that they might have time to transmit them to Ava, and receive new instructions. The extension of the armistice, although proposed by the |