and, that when the reserve was brought up by Major-General Clinton, the issue of the day was rendered no longer doubtful, and the victory was by him completed.

These plain recitals have marked out your exploits for public applause and admiration, and to these honors your country has also added the tribute of her public gratitude.

I do therefore now, in the name and by the command of the Commons of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled, deliver to you, severally, their unanimous thanks, for your distinguished exertions in the battle of Salamanca, upon the 22d of July last, which terminated in a glorious and decisive victory over the enemy's army.

Major-General Clinton's answer :

Mr. Speaker,

I assure you, Sir, I set the' greatest value on the honor which has been'

conferred upon me by the vote of the House.

I consider such an acknowledgment of services rendered to our country, to be amongst the highest recompences which can be bestowed.

This honorable reward, added to the consciousness I enjoy of having always zealously endeavoured to be useful to the army and to my country, affords me peculiar gratification; but I should be ungrateful towards those brave men, whom I had the honor to command upon the occasion to which you have particularly alluded, if 1 were not to acknowledge how much I feel indebted, for the honor which I have just received, to their noble conduct and persevering gallantry throughout the trials of that arduous but glorious day.

I feel, Sir, very sensibly your kindness, in the flattering manner in which you have been so good as to communicate to me the vote of the House, and for which I beg you will do me the honor to accept my sincere thanks.

Major-General Pringle's answer :

Mr. Speaker,

I feel most sensibly the high honor which has been conferred on me by the thanks of this House: I am well aware that very little of the success of that glorious day, at Salamanca, can be attributed to any feeble efforts of mine, but to the bravery of those troops which I had the good fortune to command.

I shall, however, always consider it as the most fortunate circumstance of my life, the having been placed in a situation which has procured me the high honor which I have this day received.

I beg leave to return you, Sir, my thanks, for the very flattering terms in which you have been pleased to express yourself on my conduct.

Jovis 11 die Novembris, 1813.

Major-General Anson,

When last I had the honor of

addressing you from this place, you came

to receive our thanks for your share in the glorious battle of Talavera.

Pursuing the same career, under the same illustrious commander, it is more gratifying than surprising to see, that in succeeding campaigns you have reaped new laurels. The badge of honor which commemorates your services at Salamanca, brings to our recollection those skilful operations in which you were engaged upon the Douro, previous to that memorable day, and the destruction which your cavalry poured down upon the rear guard of the enemy in their flight.

In the battle of Vittoria the British cavalry also took their part; and, acting with the left wing of the allied army, under the immediate command of Lieut.-General Sir Thomas Graham, (a name never to be mentioned in our military annals without the strongest expressions of respect and admiration,) your squadrons contributed to cut off the enemy from their direct retreat into France, and all Europe has

heard of their consequent rout and dispersion.

To you, Sir, I am therefore commanded to express the gratitude of this House; and, in the name of the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled, I do now deliver to you their unanimous thanks for your distinguished exertions in the Battle of Salamanca upon the 22nd July 1812, which terminated in a glorious and decisive victory over the enemy's army;

And also for your great exertions upon the 21st of June last, when the French army was completely defeated by the allied forces near Vittoria, under the Marquess of Wellington's command.

Upon which Major-General Anson said,

Sir,

This is the second time I have had the honour of rising in this distinguished assembly to receive through you, Sir, the thanks of my country, to which and to