Excerpt from The Parliamentary Register, 1811, Vol. 2: Or an Impartial Report of the Debates That Have Occurred in the Two Houses of Parliament, in the Course of the Fifth Session of the Fourth Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

Sup ort the present Ministers, as if they were new and un tri men, as if they had never heard of their ill-fated ex peditions, and above all of the expedition to Walcheren, as if they were men who had not been already tried in the balance, and found wanting. He regretted that the former ractice of communicating the speech on the night before, the members of both Houses, had not been adopted on the present occasion, as thus an opportunity was afforded for iring it more mature consideration. Yet this was to be the regretted at present, asa speech of so ¿imsy a texture, and containing so little matter of information either with regard topast occurrences or future measures, had perhaps never been delivered from the Throne. Even in times of profound peace, much more information might have been expected with fegard to the situation and respects of the country, but in a period so awful as t e present, such paucity of information would indeed be surprising, were it not for a circumstance which it was quite sufficient to allude to, namel the consideration of who were the Ministers of his Roya H' hness, for certainl if they were Ministers who possessed is confidence, ones ould have imagined that some topics of a popular nature would have been introduced, some mention would have been made of a reform of abuses, and a diminution of expenditure, particularly when the noble declaration of the Regent was recollected, that the supreme power was held entire] for the benefit of the people. He looked upon the space as much more objection able for its numerous omissions than for what it contained. There was some mention made of the atfairs of Spain and Portugal, but there was nothing in it with regard to the internal situation of Ireland - nothing with respect to our relations with the Powers on the Baltic - nothing with re gard to the affairs of India, which were soon likely to cc cupy considerable attention - and nothing at all on that most interesting subject, the state of our circulation and paper currency. That part of the speech which related to Spain and Portu l, med to pledge the House to a continuance of thosee csts which had been already made for the Penin sula, and he must compliment the' noble mover of the Address, on th ity which he displalyed, and on the ia genuity with which be commented on t is part of the sub Ject, but he must maintain that the House had not heard.

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