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advantageous to the nation ; all it wanted was to hive it made known In make it acceptable. It had been afferted that,this fyflem would be produttive of a fudden inflow to the army, and that i.e had propa gated that principle; 'nothing could be more errone ous ; on the contrary, his conilant theme was, that it• would encreafe-hy flow degrees, and prove, in the end, the moll efficacious of any meafures ever yet foggefted for the army. But it is charged with being dilatory; be it In; he u ould give up !elf rather than the meafure, and take his chance for its faccefs. The ope ration, however, of it was lefs flow than he anticipated; t'ie meafure wanted but publicity to give it effee ; when that would take place, which mull be the cafe when the Penfioners, feattered all over the kingdom, once begin to partake of the bounteous boon, it would operate like magic to encourage the pl.tn, as they would naturally praife it, as they enjoyed its benefits. It was no argument to fay, that hecaufe a meafure did .cot at fir ft fucceed, that therefore no hope was to be entertained of its ultimate profperity. Had that rear:ming been applied to the At my of Referve Bill, it would have been abandoned at once, for from the id o: July till the sth September, it procured but fix men, though promited in fix months to raife 4.0h000 ! and which in fad, after a trial of two years, produced no more than 53,200 men. Now when Gentlemen, par tic ulary that Noble Lord, had failed.fo egregioufly in his own favourite meat Ore, he thould not fir rattily impute blame to others without at lead giving them a fair trial ; and yet with all its failure, it was not the meafure itfelf lo much as the immorality appertaining and attached to it that he appeared then to blame, and which ultimately removed that Adminiftration, of which the Noble Lord was an effective and alive Member. He blamed it for its unconilitutional prin. cirles as coon he perceived its effects, and as foun as re di:covered that inftead of men it railed money, and produced a general fcale of penalties and for fei• tures, to the enormous extent of 500,0031. It con tained feeds of its own deftruCtion ; but the Noble Lord goes fometimes to refults, and then to details; but neither in the one or the other was his favourite fyllem to be fupported, whereas that now in agitation was only to be taken in the detail, and if its progrefs equalled its commencement, he not only Ihnald not fear, but would be proud of the refult. In like man ner, when the Noble Lord talks of " Numbers," he contended that this meafure had the advantage.— The Infpetinr General's Office made a return which proves its fuperiority to all others yet attempted, and upon the accuracy of that Office he relied. By their returns it does appear that the growing and progreffive increafe is at the average of about z to 1, added to which, the decreafe of defertion, which be. yond any ether circumstance whatfoever tended to ellablifh beyond a doubt its vall fuperiority to all others. So much for the " failure" of the meafure. The Noble Lord had complained, " that after a fer vice of a long or Rion duration, a court martial might unhinge all his theory of juftice, or elle the foldier might become independent of his officer, which mull be defirudine of all difcipline." His anfwer to that was, that the veteran who had ferved 14 or zt years fhould not be at the caprice of his officer, neither Mould he be left at his mercy to find a provifion for his old days (al cry of Hear! Hear!) Every neceffso y provilion was made againfl his mikonduel and vice deriving any benefits from it, and he trufted that no man would force a fever, or break down his own con flitution, to avail himfelf thereof. Should indite& attempts be made in other relpetts to-gain by finifter ends thefe purpofes, the Surgeon would take care to prevent them, and hill more the Infpector General. Upon the whole, he could take upon himfell to fay, that the more he was called on, or any other Gentle man on the other fide, who demanded proof of the efficacy of the meafure, the longer it lafted, the better able he Mould he to give it. It would be gradually improving, and the cxpences talked of were but a bug bear, when compared with the value of the rneafure. Mr. PERCIVAL adverted to the fettlement of Buenos gyre , , which he contended had been neglec ted. It made no difference whether the account of the intended expedition reached this country in June or July ; lint time and opportunity were afforded of fending reinfOrcements thither much fooner than they went. The reinforcements were delayed by the ne gociation ; for not until the eepeCied return of Lord Lauderdale were any thought of. l'ae Honourable and Learned Gentleman then proceeded to the inbjeCt immediately before the Houfe, and by comparing the Right o trable Gentleman's fyftem with that of the late Adminittration, argued, that it was lets effi cient, and ht the event would be found much more expenfive. Upon thole points he entered into a contiderable (train of calculating theorems to eftablifh Lis reafoning, paffiag a very high eulogium on what he termed " Mr. Pitt's Bill." He then priceeded to Thew that the fylirm was not fit produalive as had been afferted,and.appealed to the papers on the table, which, he cc mended, did not prove that fad. From thence he proceeded to draw ionic extreme cafes, to thew that the mealarre might be rendered in many inflancea abot tive by the vice and impofi:ions of de. tigning and artful perfons, and concluded with re marking, though he th sold not oppofe the queflion, he would take another opportunity of entering more at large into the fobjeCt. Lord HOWICK lamented that, at that late hour, he was called upon to offer any fentiments of his to the Houfe on the fubjen under difeuftion. Bat the Noble Lord and the Learned Gentieman charged Milliners with not fending a fpeedy (apply to BACCOS Ayres, and that tilde fupplies were not fent in ten days after the writ al of the firft intelligence of the expedition. The Noble Lord was greatly millaken; if tupplies had been fent out, where were they to have reached the expedi.i' n ? There was no cci tainty of finding them, and Minifters were nut in puill dion previonfly of any intention that fuel' an expedition would have peen put in execution ; and it little be came thole to accure Adminittration of not fending (applies to another hernilphere in ten days, when they could nut furnith an expedition only acrofs the Chan nel in as many laugh generally throughout the H6ufe.)—Thofe very Gentlemen who, thouill in polfetliun of Count Stahremberg's note refpeCling the then coalition, and the necetlity of fiipporting it, yet could not be brnnehr to prepa: e far the p6rpoie until the December tonna ing, a (pace altugetntr of nearly to months. He begged the Houle to cono a : that concha& with the conduCl Of his Majefty's pre tent Miniticrs in the matter of Buenos Ayres.— The tirft intelligence they had of the capture of that kith Trieja WM. OH the 13th Stptembtr, aid en the 9rh. of bltober fupplies were rent there ennfilling of three regiments, under convoy of a (hip of the lint. He certainly would not conceal the fad that forte little delay had occurred to the reinforcement by the in tervention of a temporary circomfiance, bat that, neverthelefs, the fupplies were fent with alt•reafonable and pollible expedition. The Noble Lord next proceeded to defend Mr. Windham's (ellen) of railing men for the army ; in doing which, he drew fevcrel contrails between thole fy(tems by which men were railed fince the year xlloo and that now under difeutTion, and clearly demonllrated that. this was the molt efficacious and the bell: he recapitulated the ftveral ill effefts of the Additional Force Bill and of the Referee ; and here he took occafion to Rate, that when the meafute was fir 9 propefed by his Right Hon. Friend, and even down to the prefent moment, that Gentleman never undertook for it that it fhnuld raife a number of men on the fudden : on the contrary,his conllant theme was, that it would be flow in its progrels, but cet tain in its efficacy, and that the objeas of it were to put the recruiting on- its own original footing, and that as the mcalure advanced, its attendant benefits would advance and Boer-ale with it. The Learned Gentleman oppofite to him might complain of inaccuracy in the papers on the table, but if he would take the trouble of examining them a little more accurately, he would find that the excels, in point ol numbers, gained from OEtober 1806 to Jan. 1807, by this meafure, over that of the•much favoured meafure of that Learned Gentleman and his friends, it would be found to amount to no lets than 947 men ; and if he compared it with the number railed the year before that within the like period, he would alfo find the encreafe to be Hill much more. The principal objell of the meafure, he was con vinced, would be accomplifhed, namely, the im provement of the army, and this was already corro borated in the matter of defertion, for of 1805 men railed in 1800, upwards of 180 deferted ; of 1.105, in 1805, no lets than 175 had deferted ; whereas out of 2155 railed by this meafure, only tcs had defected ; and by the returns of lalt week, 255 men were re cruited by it. If die Honourable Gentlemen means to move a repeal, he was fatisfied that by the time they could do that, the advantages of the meafure would be (till more apparent. Sir JOHN DOYLE Paid, that he intended to have made fome obfervations on the fubjeft under confi• deration, but as the night was far advanced, he would take another opportunity of replying to the attack which had been made by the Noble Lord on the prefent Adminikation. Repeated explanations afterwards occurred be tween Lord CASTLEREAGH, Lord HOWICK, Mr. WINDHAM, and the SECRETARY of WAR, on the neceffity of farther accounts, to affill in forming a companion between the prefent and the former fyllem of recruiting. Mr. WINDHAM and Lord HOWICK Rated, that Government was anxious to afford the fulleß information on the firbjed, and that therefore it was wifhed to lay the returns of the Infpettor General, as ( well as thole of the Adjutant General, before the Houle. Mr. JOHNSTONE laid, that the Honourable Gentlenian who moved the climates had intimated that he•( Mr. Johnflone) had pledged hinafelf to make good a charge cf protution againti Minillers with refpea to the army. He had, however, only pledged himfelf to a arkk examination cf the accounts, in order to fee whether the claim to economy, let up by Minifters, was well founded. He now reminded his Majeßy's Minifiets, that it would not be fufficient for them to late that they only followed the fyflem of their predeceffors : for he had nut forgotten, though perhaps they had, that one of their principal charges againa thofe predeceffors was profufion of expenditure. The SECRETARY at WAR Paid, he was very much mittaken if the Hon. Gentleman had not entered into fume node: flood pledge to prove a charge of profution. The prefent Adminifiration certainly had not followed the example of their pteieceffors ; and, he bclieved, he had already fliewn to the Houle, that iince they came into office they bad eflablifhld a lb ia roem of economy in the military department. Mr. ROSE role, not to trouble the Houle with any obfervatic.ns at that late hour, but to (late, that as thu Right Honourable Secretary had pretended that the prefent &Unifiers were more diflinguifhed for their economy than their predeceffors,Jte thould call the attention of the Houfe to a comparifon on that point to morn , w. Sir JOHN DOYLE fuggefled, that the returns of the men called at the head quarters of each regiment ► thould be produced, in order to enable the Houfe to compare the prefent fylem of recruiting with :hat which it had fuperfeded. He alit obfervid that if any difficulty remained in afeertaining the number of men entitled, that difficulty could be eatily removed by obtaining the pay Lab of the different regiments from the War Offic.:. Mr. WINDHAM ohferved, that the means painted out by the Honourable General were very proper, and that it was the with cf his Majetly's Minitters to render the information laid before the Houfe as full and as fatisfaaory as poffible. Lord CASTLEREAGH thought that the returns cf the Adjutant General ought to be complete, both as to the men entitled at the head quarters, and the out-quarters of regiments. Sir JOHN DOYLE let the Noble Lord right on this point. The returns fent to the Adjutant General only expreffe,l the number of men who had joined at heact.quarters on a given day, but there was no column for the men enliflcd either at thehead-quarters or out quarters. The Refolutions were then agreed to. The CHANCELLOR cf the EXCHEQUER tofe to move climates for two departments ut the Public Service, which formerly ufed to be included in the Army Extraordinaries :—theft were the Corn. ruitfariot and the Barrack Ettimates. The expence of the former was neither increafed nor diminithed fince lati year, but it included one charge which would loon ceafe, namely, 57,0001. for the Royal Military Canal. With regard to the barrack depart. menr, the expence had tali year been reduced from 1,1 oc,cool. to 5 50 : 0001. , and in the prefent year there was ftill a farther reduaion of about 50,0001. The climate however included . a new charge, which amounted alto to 57,0001. an expence, however, urich perhaps might not be all incurred, for it was determined not to undertake any new works, nnlafs they were found to be abfolutely necclfary.. Of the noccil. charged is the barrack eflimater, 47,3001.' was for the works at Hiifea. He concluded by mowing refolutirth for the following fumy :—For the, Commiff.trioi Department, 84.1,5261. —For the air rack, 5c6,2371. There Refolutions were agreed to nem. can. after which the Houle was refumed. The returns prefented to the Hnufe by the SE CRETARY of WAR and Mr. CALCRAFT were ordered to be printed.--Adjourned.at one o'clock. LONDON. THURSDAY, JANUARY ss. PRICE CF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Cos&ls, Jan. 6.#}—Reilu.:ed 91-onunum s. kichequer BUN par 2a. prem. RECAPTURE OF BUENOS AYRES BY THE SPANIARDS. We are much concerned to [late that we have this day received accounts, which leave little or no room t.► doubt, that this important acquifition has again fallen into the hands of the Spaniards. The American (hip Alexander Hamilton, Captain CALLAHAN, is arrived at Liverpool from Savannah, from whence the failed on the 25th December, and givrs an account that an American Chip had arrived at Charleflon from Buenos Ayres, where fhe had been embargoed—but, by flipping her cable in a gale of wind, got away : the brought the news to Chatleflon that Buenos Ayres was recaptured by the Spaniards while the was there. In thole letters from Liverpool, which we have, feen, the date of the reported recapture is nr.t Rated, nor even the period at which the ',OM that had ar rived at Charleflon left the river La Plata ; but the fad of the recapture is pofitivcly Rated, and that it happened while that veffel wzts at Buenos Apes The circumftance of an embargo having been put upon all the vellAs there, while it accounts in Rime meafure for out having been fo long without accounts from that quarter, Chews at the fame time the policy of the enemy,; for, by preventing the news from tranfpiriog diretlly from that port, and by keeping the Biitifh colours flying, they might with Dome fon expect that fume Britifh veffels, ignorant of the citcumflance, would probably fall into tlte foam, and come in without any fufpicion. A letter is reported to have been received from the Continent by the Ruffian Minifter, which fives that the Imperial army, with the Pruffians wtich had joined them, have been canti'us to avoid age neral engagement, and have retreated to Groino, where, after waning the country, it has taken a flrong pofition. This intelligence is extremely [no bable, for fuch, in faa, was the fyflem expeeled to be purfult DENMARK MAILS Arrived this day, and have brought us Hamburg,' and other journals to the 7th inflant. They bring, however, no news of battles, if we except force mere fleirmithing ; and their (Hence in this rept& corn pletely refutesall the reports that have been circulated of a terrible engagement having taken place on the Vifiula. In f* 1, nothing has taken place but what is perfectly conformable to the fyllem known to have been adopted by the Ruffians, and which, if perfe vered in, will its the end:prove more deflruClive to the enemy than even a defeat in, a pitched battle. We fubjoin the ptin9ipal articles futnithed by thefe Journals : WARSAW, DECEMBER 2.5. On Tuefday lel, at five o'clock in the morning, the Emperor Napoleon fet out f r the outpcfls. He palled the night of that dAy in Jagfonna, at the houfe of Prince Poniatow(ky. Go the fame day a bridge over the Utka, at its junction with the Bug, was fo• red, as alfo two iflands where the Ruffians had for:ifi,d themfelves. The Emperor palled this night in Okunim. On the following day, the 24th, the Ruffians were driven from their potations at Pomikowo and Czar. nowo. They fell back upon a corps of from ten to twelve thoufand men, which was potted at Nafielik. This corps was alto beaten with the lofs of a number of ptifoners, and three pieces t,f cannon. His Ma: r efiy paffed this night in Natielfk. The Aufttians permit every kind of provifion, required by the French Army for its fuppert, to pats through their territories without any molellatian. POSEN, DECEMBER 27. Yefterday was coniectated, in our Cathedral, the flandard of the cavalry of the Woywod(hip of Pofen, affembled for the general defence of the country. — General Wengorzwowfki, and all the other Polifh Officers here, were prefent at the ceremony. BERLIN, JANUAI.Y 3. The ratification of the treaty concluded at Pam, between the French andithe Dukes of Saxe Weimar, Gotha, tee. were exchanged here on the 3oth ult. Barracks are preparing here to lodgc the troops which are to form our garrifon it is thought that thefe troops will be thofe of the Grand Duke of Naffau Wcilburg. The volunteers of the Emperor are Sill here, they are all young men of good family, who maintain themfeives at their own expence—they form three companies, commanded by M. McntMo. rency, and are couliantly exercised every day. The Telegraph announces that Bram is in pof-- fellion of the French. (DRESDEN, DEC. 28. Mils tranquil in Bohemia. The troops have re. turned to their garrifons, and they have. been every %%here placed upon the Peace Ellabliflment. An the letters from Vienna mention that every thi ng there bears an afpeft of peace. 'lire Sczon Conti*. gent appointed for the gland army, hai been affem. bled, and given proofs of the bell difporitions. . VIENNA, DEC. r 6. The mititary movements of the Auflrians on the frontiers of Silefia and Bohemia, and the frequent communications lately remarked between the Ca. binets of Auflria and France, have been made irk of as a pretext lot propagating doubts as to the good untlerflanding which fubfitis between the two Powers, We are at prefent completely tranquillifed on the fubjea of there movements, and as to the nature of the conferences, which, according to fome jour. nals, gave occafion to there movements of troops, we can affure the public, that the frequent corn. munications between General Andreoffy and our Cabinet, are of the moll friendly dercription.—. Baron Vincent, who was appointed as Ambaf , fader to the French Court, is fufficiently known ler Ms enlightened underßanding and his peaceable dirpefitien. This choice, which has given fo much fatisfaaion, may be regarded as a convincing proof that his Majeßy the Emperor of Auntie is determin. ed to tie firmer if poffible, the league which at pre. fent unites us with France. STOCKHOLM, DEC. 23. Hi. Majelly has been pleafed to prohibit, for the prefent, the entrance of all Jews into Sweden. The diy bcfure yelerday, the Royal Proclamation to this eTeet was publilbed in the churches. For thete three weeks pail there has been no direet communication between Sweden and Pomerania, adverfe winds having detained all the packet boats at Maland. COPENHAGEN, JANUARY a. The exchange of couriers between the Northern Courts is at prefent very bra. TRIES TE, DEC. a. Cattaro fill remains in the hands of the Ruffians and M3ntenegrins, as well as Caftel Nuoyo, notwith. (landing it has been reported in the Italian Newf. papers for thefe feveral weeks pall, that the latter for trefs had been taken by form by the French. NUREMBERG, DEC. 29. Letters jolt received from Vienna, bring advice that Archduke Ferdinand, exbaufled by his illnefr, is dead, at . the age of 53 years. The fame letters (late, that the Archduke of Au. aria will in future take the title of Imperial Highneft. Levers from lay affert, that the Ruffians have taken poireffiun of Choczim, with the confetti of the Put te. BANKS OF THE ELBE, JAN. s. According to the pofr.ion taken by the French army arrer paging the Viflula, it woad appear, that the Ruffians had quitted the mouth of the Bug, and that they were not in any great force ; their principal army was Rationed chiefly on the frontiers of Lithul ania. The Swedes appear prepare d for all events. Lieu. tenant General Benen and Ild'Armfeldt command them. I: is reckoned that the Swedifh troops is Stralfund are equal in number to the army that marches againll it ; but M. Monier receives daily reinforcements from Italy, France, and Holland, and has above all a numerous- train of artillery. A corps of scoo Swedes occupies the ifland of Rugen, the conqrteß of which has always been a principal point, whenever it was witted to attack Stralfund. A- report is circulated, that the troops in Sadie, under the orders of Prince Jerome, have received direaions to proceed to War. law, and that in confequence, the blockade of Brellau has been raifed ; but this news requires confirmation. According to a letter from Lemberg, it is .not merely tome regiments, but a eonfiderable corps of Aultrian troops, chiefly compared of Hungarians, that has advanced upon the frontiers of Gallicia. A letter from Anclam, without date, given in a public journal, hates, among other things, that Martha' M)r, tier, who had been wholly occupied with reinforcing his army, was on the point of entering Sl,veclith Pomerania, and invelling Stralfund. Yeflerclay, at two o'clrck, his MAJESTY held a private levee at the Queen's Houle, when the follow• ing bad the honour of being prefented to his MAJESTY: Lord CHARLES SPENCER, by the LORD CHAMBER LAIN, upon his being appointed one of the Lords of his MAJESTY'S Bed chamber, on which occafion his Lordfhip bad, the !amour to kits his MAJESTY'S hand. VIICOUIIt VAL LNTI A , upon his return from India, gid his travels. Brigadier General ACKLAND, on his return from Sicily. 'Major General Starter*, upon his being appointed to thecom mand of the gth Garrifon Battalion. Brigadier General BRODLUCIC, upon his return from the Mall? terranean. Hit. Map STY held a Privy 'Council, at which the Recorder of London attended, and made his Report of the Convias capitally convitled at the laft &Mons in the Old Bailey, when Watkin Herbert, the foldier, for robbing Samuel James, in Hyde Park, was or• dered for execution on Wedncfday. Yelletday a Court of Direanrs was held at the Eati India Houfe, when the undermentioned Officers were (worn into the Command of that refpcaive Ships: Captain !Wu aaAr , of -the Lady Caftlereagb ; Captain PLNDERGRASS, of the Hopei and Captain HAY, 01 the Coutta. The flowing Commandeys took leave, previous to departing for their refPedive detkinations Carr. Wools, of the Worceder, for St. Helena and Madras; Capt. YATES, of the City of Los don. for Madras and Bengal; Capt CAIN, cut, of the Baring, for ditto; Capt. Ex ADFOKI), of the Lad Duncan, fcr ditto; and Cart ISA ACKIL, of the Me calve, fur rsomhay. 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