208] ANNUAL REGISTER, 1813. 



were known, negligence or im- 

 providence would not be ascribed 

 to the executive government. The 

 time occupied in carrying the 

 treaties through the necessary 

 forms had renderedv it impossible 

 to present all of them before he 

 was obliged to apply to the House 

 for the purposes he had in view. 

 He would, however, state their 

 general outlines, and would pre- 

 sent to their consideration, first, 

 the manner in which the sums 

 placed at the discretion of govern- 

 ment bad been applied ; and next, 

 the exertions further requisite to 

 be made in the way of subsidy. 

 With respect to the Peninsula, 

 there was a part of the expenditure 

 which he thought it unnecessary 

 to advert to in detail. When 

 armies acted together, it was im- 

 possible that part of the stores and 

 supplies provided for our own 

 troops, should not to a certain de- 

 gree be extended to those of our 

 allies ; and in this indirect manner, 

 considerable assistance was allowed 

 for the service of that part of the 

 war, independent of direct supplies. 

 The subsidy to the Portuguese, he 

 believed, would be on nearly the 

 same footing as in the last year. 

 To the Spanish nation, he calcu- 

 lated the money and stores fur- 

 nished at about 2 millions. Two 

 millions had been advanced to Por- 

 tugal, 4.00,000/. to Sicily, and one 

 million to Sweden. These sums 

 were covered by the vote of credit 

 for 5 millions, as to pecuniary aid ; 

 the mode of distribution would be 

 brought in a regular way before 

 the House. 



He was now to consider what 

 was necessary to be done in the 

 course of the following year. The 

 million sent to Sweden covered 

 the exertions to be made by her 



till the month of October, and a 

 treaty to the same efiect was agreed 

 to be renewed in the present year. 

 Concerning the policy of this re- 

 newal he supposed there would be 

 no difference of opinion, consider- 

 ing how well that power had ful- 

 filled the stipulations of the for- 

 mer treaty. In calling the atten- 

 tion of the House to the treaties, 

 with Russia and Prussia, he ad- 

 mitted that the effort to be made 

 in their support was the greatest 

 for which Parliament had ever 

 been called upon. The sum to be 

 allowed to these powers was five 

 millions. The general ground on 

 which this great advance was to 

 be made, was the conviction that 

 upon those the hopes of the cause 

 principally rested. There was no 

 reason to doubt of the ability or the 

 inclination of the two powers to 

 maintain the contest. Russia had 

 her full complement prepared at 

 the commencement of the cam- 

 paign; in addition to which, her 

 reserve had been so well arranged 

 on the frontiers, that she was 

 enabled to bring it up under gen. 

 Bennigsen, at a very critical period; 

 and the proper amount of force 

 had since been replaced on those 

 frontiers. The emperor of Russia 

 after delivering his own states from 

 the enemy, had contributed his 

 troops and generals to act in the 

 rescue of other states, in the mass 

 of the allied armies, not scrupling 

 to employ them in subordinate 

 stations, so that they were now 

 serving under the command of the 

 Austrian and Prussian generals, 

 and the Crown Prince of Sweden. 

 With respect to Prussia, the ener- 

 gies of that nation had been exert- 

 ed so much beyond all hope, that 

 its armed force at this time, includ- 

 ing garrisons, amounted to above 



