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F3lt EIGN INTELLIGENCE. FIFTY-MNTH BULLETIN. '• Pluf Eylau, Fcb.l4. “ The enemy has taken a pofition behind the Pn.gel. Our pa trolcs are before Konigfber i t, hot the Emperor has thought proper to concererate his army in svint:.r quarters in fuch a rummer, tha, it may be in a condi:ion td; cover the line of the Vitlula. The number of car.r.oa which have bun taken !inc.:the battle of Berg fried, is ahout tisty. The twenty-four piece: which the enemy left bt hind in the battle of Eylan, are-ft tit. to”' horn. The enemy have circia,r•ed the fohjuitted report, which is cutirely falfe. y attacked the tn.wii,l , ut were immediately drives; back. They ac ltnowledge men and wounded. hut their I , fs is much reat cr. Their cloture of nine eagles is no kfs falfc than the ac ctaint a their taking poillffion of the cost. rt. lite Grand Duke of Berg lOU Ms hi: held quarters at Wirmitherg, c'cfe upon the Prevel. General Flautpoylt has died of his wounds; his lofs is genera:ly clfplored—but few warriors have terminatol their ca net fo glorioully. His divifion of ruiraffiers have diflingoifhed themfeives ;n a'l the battles. The ewperor has given orders for removing his body to Paris. The General of Ugade, Bernard do St. Sulpice, who was wounded in :he wtift, retired to go to the Field Hoi - pital in the tear to be dreffed, but made a fccond charge on the enemy with his cavalry. His Majelty is fo well pleated with his condua, that he hat appointed him a G. nerAl of On the rath hlarfhal Lefebvre advat , ced to hlarienwerder, where be found (even Prulli.m fquadrons be defeated them, and made prifoners ,in men; among whom arc a Colonel, a Major, and feverl other olneers—he 41;0 took as.:, hones. Thofe who cl eaned. fled towards o.tii:z lc." (The Ps eilia.n Report.nitmioncd in this Bulletin is not given with it; .SIX FILTH BULLETIN. Fru!Tian Eylau, Feb. t 7. " The e.mgceit of Sik profezutcd. sl'he fortrefs of Schwei dnitz has furrend• rd. a..d the czpitulatioa ii annexed. [We do not think it neceilary to infert it, :14 the conditions are the fame as thole on which isrcilm 'urrendered.] " Preim Co"ei nor of Si.efia is ihut up in Glatz, after bavnit by General Lefehyre 4 , :it of the potations of Fraiikevittein and Neurohde. lu theft sri . . , irs, the Wnrtemherg troops behaved remarkally well. The Bavarian regimentof Tour and. axis, commanded by Colonel Sey.!is, and the 6th regiment of Bavarian iillantry of the line, under Colonel Baker, eminently diftinguillted themfelves. The even y loft about too killed, and 300 prif , ners. The liege of CoL.I is nonducled with vigour. " Si , .ce the ba!tle of Eylau enemy have re-aittmbleal behind the Fregtl. We hoped to have drivea them from that pilaw' bad the river remained fr. , zen hut a thaw has commenced, and this river is a boundary beyond which the French army has no late teft to purfue them. " About soco 4tufrian prifoners who were at Wellenberg, have tact fct at libertyhya troop of Coif:Les, confiding of toot) men. " 1 he cold has entirely ceafed: the blow is every where melted, and the feafini exhibit, a iii:gular phccnomenon of the mild weather of the IA days or April, in the middle of the month of February. " 'lke army h entering into cantonments." • SIXTY-FIRST ISULLETIN. " Landherg, Feb. [8 - • The battle of F)lzu was at firft confidered as a vidtory by (event ot the enemy's cthcers. Such, indeed, was the belief at ho nig:be:7, during the whale evening of the 9th, but the alarm was great when the Ruffian head quarters and the army arrived there. oon after the found of orr cannon was heard, and the French were Peen in the p011 . ..M0n of a height which flanked the whole of the Ruffian troo;:s. tt lhe Rufilan General declared that he would defendthe town, which greatly iecrtafed she alarm of the inhabitants, who 6 We 411 flare the fa: eof l.uhecic.' It was fortunate, however, fur this t:Arrn, that it did not come within the plan of the French Generals to drive the Ruffians from this pnfition. " The numeer of dead in the Ruffian army in Generals and other officers, is very remarkable " it. confequence of the battle of Eylau, more than sOOO wounded Ruffians found on the field of battle or in the neighbouring hofpl tals, have fell ioto the hands of the vktors. Part of them are Erne dead. The remainder, who are Rightly wounded, have increafed the number of rift:nets. Fifteen hundred have been fent back to the Ruffian army. It is reckoned that the Ruffians had 15,m0. w ounded, baides there Coco which fell into the handsof the French " The army has reit:mai its quarters. The diftrids of Elbing. Lichfladt. and Oftrrode, are the finrft in this country, and the Empetor has chofen them for the cantonments of his left wing. " Nlarfhal Monier has gone back to Swedifh Pomerania,— Stralf,:nd is blockaded : and it is to be regrated that the enemy have, without any reafan. burnt the fine fuhurb of Kniper. The Ere prefented a horriLle fpedtacle, and more than We° perfons are in conic cituxce o: it J.:flit:ate of any home or fhelter.". PROCLAMATION. " SOLDIERS, Prupian Fylau, Feb. x 6. g 4 We had hectm to enjoy a little reoofe in our winter quarters, when the enemy attacked the firft crrs, and (hewed themfclves on the lower Viifula. We broke up and marched againft him. We have purfued him, fwora in hand, eighty miles. tic has fled to hit ilna.g !tads, and retired heyond the Preget. In the battles o f b e t-Oiled, Deppen, !Lai and Fylau, we have taken from him 65 pieces of cannon, and t 6 itandants, befides his lots of more than .40.cc0 a. en in It!Iletl, wounded, and pi ilon."rs. The heroes who, on our naL, retrain in the bed of honour, have died a glorious death. It is the death of a true (oilier. Their relatives will al ways have a juft claim to oar care and beneficence. ‘, flaying thus defeated all the enterprizes of the enemy, we that return towards the Viftula and refume our winter quarters. 'thole who than ,:are to diiturh there quarters, fhall have reafon to repent; tor. whether beyond the Viftula or on •*..e other fidc of the Dauttl , e—wh,clus io the middle of winter or ha the beginning of Autumn—we ftill be found Frcoeh foldiers, and foliiers of the e;rand Army." TURKEY, FEBRUARY 13. The Pore having demanded of the Englifh Am baff.der, what part his Court would take in cafe of a rupture b.tween the Porte and !UNA the Ilinifler anfsvere,!, that England would remain neatral, pro vided the Porte did not form any tonne lion to at in concert with France. JASSY, FEBRUARY 7. The Ituflian ai rity, under Gen. Nlichelfon, teems to be marching to CnltaLtinnple. It is now at Georgia, on the road to Widdia. Near this place a Rattle ha; been 1..114kt between the Ruffians and a body of to c.) ,- )o Totkl, uho were defeated. The Ruffians, on 'hi• occalion, 101 l 3000 men. The Ruffian fleet, %chid) aopeared in the Black Sea, it is laid, is def. timcl to occupy the mot.th of the Danube. VOSEN, FERRUARY ti. The c rps under Genera' Dombrowilti, goes into Will er quarter, with the Grand army ; its can t inment, wiil Le at Gniewit, Amiletwalde, Geelen, Eack•xir7„ and N rwie. The Poles who are with Lefevre confill chiefly of cavalry, and very 'it.goiilie..lthemfelves in the action at Mati• e t vetrd,:r. The Marfhal had his . head quarters at that piz.ce on the r zth. WARSAW. FEBRUARY 18. Mai ni:o Matiena, who arrived here on the tzth, is Ili.' in this town. It was expa.led that he wt,uld bare procec,led before now to the Emperor's head coatters. 1 1 .4 equipage is, however, now forwarded to . 1 . :,0rn. Corps of Ruffian prifoners are fent acrofs the Vtltila at cliCetent vinis. Above 8000 have ,i,„d y r a.red through Thum, but only about Soo through ells town. r.u.t„ Not nrly their Maj.:airs the King and Q2een, but th: whole Court, are Ifill here. We know n. , tl,ing of the operations of the Pruffian army that la:cly advanced into Ea(fern Pruffia ; but w•e are Prince Bagrathion at prelim com mands the van guard of the Ruffians. baron Ciefar, forinet;y Envny at the Hague, is af. pointed our .u 707 at the Court of Copenhagen, BERM, FEBRUARY s. While the principal part of the Grand French Army was empl.,yed in driving the Ruffians beyond , the Pregel, General Savary, who, in confequence of • the irldifpofition of General [Allies, had the command• .of the Fifth Corps of the Grand Army, which was left behind un the Bug, to hold in check the Ruffian General Von Ellen, who was cantoned un the upper pall of that river, attacked the enemy on the 14th, at Ottrolenka, and gained a complete victory. The ac• county received here of the lois fuftained by General Effen, !late it to confiß of eight pieces of cannon, two flandards, and 1200 prifoners. Prince Italeniki, the fon of General Suwarrow, who commanded the Ruf fian cavalry, is feverely wounded. General Savary purfued the enemy three leagues, but as his orders directed him not to leave his pofition, he could not follow them farther. The left accounts from the French head quarters ate dated Liebfiadt, the zoth. Since the affair of the 16th, no action had taken place. The Ruffian and French armies were occupied in refunaing their refpe&ive winter quarters. It is af (cried that the French head quarters will be removed to Oflerode, in order to ellablifh a better communi cation with the different corps of the army. On the 17th the Grand Duke of Berg had his head quarters at Wittenberg, not far from the Pregel, while his patroles were punted dole to Koningfberg. With refpeet to the exchange of the French General Victor, it is Paid that it has probably already taken place, though not for General Blucher, but for the Prince of Orange. If this report be realized, it is expeded that General Vidor will be employed againft Colberg, as that enterprize was formerly allotted to him. We learn from Memel, that the Pruffian Secre tary of Legation, Schulby, es appointed Charge d'Affaires to London. STET TIN, FEBRUARY 24. Reibeeling the military operations commenced on the left bank of the Viltula for the blockade of Col berg and Dantzic, we have received the following information. On the t6th, the town of Stargard was attacked by a Pi Alan detachment of Soo infantry, 200 cavalry, and three pieces of cannon, from the garrifon of Culberg. The French garrifon which was in Stargard made fo brave a refinance, that the Frnfßans were obliged to retreat with the Infs of Come dead and wounded. On the t7tb, General Beufauti received orders to reconnoitre towards Nangarten. On the tflth General Fouli marched from Mafow to Neugarten. The latter place is fituated in the neigh bourhood of a morafs, which could not be eafily turned, and the French, therefore, refolved to attack a redoubt which had been thrown up in the front. In five minutes it was in the hands of the affailants, who ea* made themfelves mailers of the town. The enemy wu driven back with the Infs of too killed and wounded and 138 prifoners. The lofs of the French was about twenty-five men. ANCLAM, FEB. 17. The fiege and defence of Stralf . und are carried en with equal energy. The garrifon made another fortie en the 12th, under Lieut. General Armfeldt, with the view of getting pofteffion of a battery before Frankenfront. This attempt, though affifted by the fire of two gun beats, did not fucceed, but coft the Swedes about thirty men killed and wounded. The French are fo alive on their part, that preparations for a bombardment are already viable. Another train of heavy artillery is upon the road to Stralfund, and as the veffels at Wolgatt and other places have been put in requifition, it is not improbable that an attack is preparing againft the Ifland of Rugen. HAMBURGH, MARCH 8. It is remarked, that fince the conferences took place at Keil between the Crown Prince of Denmark and the Swedifh and French Minillers, an evi dent coolnefs has prevailed between the Courts of Sweden and Denmark. The former, it appears, has• rejetied the mediation of the latter, though the, Da nifis Government off:red.to ufe its good offices in en deavouring to rellore the ancient friendly relations which fubfilled between Sweden and France. It is related that at the lalt conference, a certain perfo nage of the highefi confideration faid to the Swedirfh Minifter, Baron Von Taube — " Well, be it fo ! Since your Mailer is determined to lofc Pomerania, let him lofe it." VIENNA. FEBRUARY 18. From Wallachia we learn, that a corps of Radians that had pallid the Danube near Widdin, were joined by the troops under Czerni Georges. Letters from the Turkifh frontier confirm the re• port that Pairwan Oglou had died in confequence of a diforder. PARTS MARCH z While the Englifh, through their obtlinacy in con tinuing.the war, have involved our brave legions in hoflilittes, which have carried them fo far from their native country, we learn that his Majeity the Empe ror has given the Englint prifoners a proof of his fa vour and humanity. According to the accounts from Verdun, all the Eng!ith women, the wives of fearnen not excepted, have received permiflkn to re turn to England. Many have already availed them (elves of this permiilion, and others are expeded to follow. _ _ The eoloffal figure of the Emperor, executed.by the celebrated Canopius at Rome, is completed, and will be brought here by the fira opportunity that offers. MARCH s.—Of the fix (hips of the line which COM poled the divilion of Vice Admiral Willaumez, the Caffard and the Veteran have long fince arrived in our harbours. The JE ‘lus and the Patriot are in the United States. The Impetueuz, after having with flood the hurricane, in which the Englifh frigate the Chiche(ler and a number of other veffels •were was wrecked in the Chefapeak, but all the crew were Paved. The Foudroyant, which, in confequence of the fame ftorm, was obliged to put into the Haven. nah, is now returned to Breft. Thus this divifion, after a long cruize on the coati of Africa, to the South of the Line, in the Antilles, and to the North of the United States, has eluded all the enemy's froadrcns which purfued it; done confidetable hijury to the Englifh commerce; and has not loft a tingle (hip in confequence of any effort of the overgrown power of an enemy who boas of commanding in every fea. MARCH 6—They write from Warfaw, that General Savary, commanding the fifth Corps of the Grand Army, fupported by the Referve of Grenadiers of General Oudinot, defeated on the 16th February, at Ofrolenka, General Ellen. The latter loft eight pieces of cannon, two ftandards, t 200 prifoners, and I left the field cf battle covered with dead.—ti unit BREST, FEBRUARY 37. • We have received a fre(h proof lif the total ineffi ciency of the Engli(h fyffem of blockade. This day a French man of war of 8o guns flood into the. Bay of Bertheaume in order to enter our roads. This (hip is the Pmdroyant, commanded by Captain Antoine Henry, and has on board Rear 'Admiral Willaumez. This Admiral, who commanded the fquadron of which Prince Jerome's [hip formed a part, was obliged to run into the Havannah. This unoblirueed arrival will probably form a fubjed of accufation again(t the Engin Admiral who crm. mands the fleet Rationed before this port, as neither wind nor weather favoured the entrance. DUNKIRK, FEB. 26. • Five Engli(h velfels that were lying at anchor be twcen the Flemifh banks juR after the late Norm, have been taken by Captain Corenwinder, of le Revanche privateer, and two other Captains in this port, who went out for the purpofe, with three (loops and 20 men, and brought all the five veffels in here. LUYR, MARCH x. This morning 350 of the Belgian light horfe, with the Prince of Ahrenberg at their head, fet out from this place for the Grand Army. The organization of there, and 1 co more that are to follow in the coorfe of two months, is looked upon as one of the won. ders of Napoleon's Government. _ PARLIAMENTARr PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, THURSDAY, MARCH 12. In the Committee of Privileges, Lord ELDON, after fame obfer vations on the evidence adduced rerpeeting the claim of Sir Cecil Bisibopp to the Barony of Zouch, moved to poftpone the further contideration of it till this day fennight —Ordered. On the petition of Lord Vircount Kilwarden to be allowed to Vote in the Eledion of Reprefentative Peers of Ireland,after font.' obfervations from the Earl of LIMERICK and Lord El .DON, the further confideration of it was poftponed till Tuefday next. Lord HOLLAND prefented petitions from the Debtors con fined in the Gaols of Chefter, Derby, Cattle of York, Newcaftle upon Tyne, and the Fleet, which were ordered to lie on the table. The Earl of MOlRAlftated, that, with rcfpedt to there petitions, force propofition would be brought forward upon the rubjeet, in the courfe of the prefent Seilion. Lord WALSINGHAM reported the Sierra Leone• Bill i—the Amendments made in which were agreed to. The Thames P.lice Bill went through a Committee, Lord Fldon having, at the requeft of Lord Auckland, pottponed Ms oppofition to the claufe relative to rumen, until the third reading, which was fixed for tomorrow. On the motion of Lord GRENVILI.E, after a thort converfa don, in which Lords Kinoaird, Lauderdale, Eldon, the Lord Chan cellor, and the Duke of Montrofe took part, it was ordered that the Lord Prefadent and the two Senior judges of the Court of Seffion tould with all fpccd attend the fervice of the Houle. Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. DUBLIN ELECTION. The following are the names of the Gentlemen remaining on the reduced lift to try the merits of the Petition on the Dublin Contefted Election : __ E. Lowden Loveden, Efq. A. Brown, Efq. . R. Mackenzie, Efq. J Horroeks, Efq. J. Robinfon, Efq. Hon. N. Fellows:. Earl of Yarmouth J. Lemon, Er+ T Johnes, EC% Sir J. G. Cotterell, Bart. F. Fane, R. Thomas Erg. Sir C. Mordaunt, Bart. Henry Parnell, Efq. General Gafcoyne, Nominees. The SECRETARY at WAR brought up feveral papers, put.- fuznt to order.—Ordered to lie en the table. Mr. ADAM moved to poftpone the Aberdeen Eleaion Petition to the 3oth of April, which was oppofed by Mr. DUNDAS and others, and negatived without a divifion. Sir JOHN NEWPORT brought up a Bill for more effeetually improving the City of Dublin and its Environs, which was read a file, and ordered to be read a fecond time on Monday three weeks. Sir N. BOND informed the Houle from the Bar, that his Ma jetty had been waited on with the Addrefe relative to the eftimates of expellees on the lots of the (hip Dunkirk, and would give direc tions accordingly. The Report of the Committee of Supply, and of the Mifeella mous Services voted yefterday, was brought up and agreed to. The Irilh Tax Regulation Bill, the Ira Tobacco Bill, and the Fourteen Millions Loan Bill, were feveraUy read a third time and paired. The Sugar Drawback Bill, the Paddington Canal Bill, and the Bahama Salt Bill, Ilverally went through a Committee, and the Reports were ordered to be received to-morrow. Mr. VANSITTART moved for an Account of the Number of Diitillers who have opened Houfes, and taken out Licences for diftilling Spirits to be exported from Scotland to England, from the tft day of Odtober tilos to the tft day of Odtober tBoh, and from the rft Oaober t Sob, to the stb March tBO.--Ordered. On the motion of Mr. WHITBREAD, the order for the further confideration of the petition of Mr. Paull relative to the Weftmin fter Eledtion, which Rood for Tuefday next, was difeharged, and the fame was fixed for Wednefday. Sir T. TURTON pottponed his motion relative to the Carnatic to Monday fennight. WEST INDIA MERCHANTS. Mr. HIBBERT complained of the coolnefs that had been exhibited by the different adminiftrations of late, refpeEting the Weft India Colonies. He Rated their great importance to the country, .and the hard fhips under which the Weft India merchants laboured, and concluded by moving that the petition of the Weft India merchants be referred to a Sclera Corn. mittee, to confider the fubjea, and report their ob fervations and opinions to the Houle. Mr. JACOBS denied the exiftence of the indiffer ence to the Weft India Colonies, of which the Hon. Member had complained, but affented to the motion. He adduced the American Intercourfe Bill as an in fiance, that the prefent Adminiftration were not in different to their interefts. Mr. ROSE contended, that the American inter condi Bill was not called for, and that if had not paired the navigation would have in a year or two been entirely in the hands of Great Britain. Lord TEMPLE faid, that the Bill was loudly cal led for, and that the colonifts Rill complained dm. too little had been done for them. After a few words from Sir Thomas Turton and Mr. Wilberforce, the motion was unanimnufly agreed to. Lord Temple, Mr. Hibbert, Mr. Bathurft, Sir William Curtis, &c. &c. were appointed to the Com mittee. MUTINY BILL. Mr. HOBHOUSE having brought up the Report of the Mutiny Bill, the refolutions were feverally read and agreed to, atter a few obfervations from Mr. Ballard, the Secretary at War, Mr. Yorke, Mr. Can ning, and Sir John Doyle. The SPEAKER then afked if any Member in tended to move that any amendments or -claufes mould be introduced into the body of the Bill ? Lord CASTLEREAGH Paid it was not his in tention to enter at any length into the fubjed then before the Houfe; but he could not refrain from ob. (crying, that he had the fame ground now which formerly called, for confidering the fyflem of the Right Honourable Gentleman (Mr. Windham) vi cious in principle, and wholly inadequate in eve:) , point of view to the end fur which it was intended. Having on former occafions troubled tbe Houfe a; confidetahle length, both on the principle and api,ii• cation of it, he ihottld confine himfelf tl.erefo re , prefent to one part of it, namely, to the praCtical effea. The Noble Lord then compared the ordinate recruiting under the new fyftem to ,hat of former years. and endeavoured to prove that the advantage in favour of the late plan did not confiderably e ,. ceed the atm' mode of railing recruits. His (hip next confidered the (late of the army at hem ! and abroad, and charged Adminilhation with neglea and want of judgment in leaving upwards of twenty thoufand men of the flower of the Britifh Army locked up in Sicily, at the time when they might I,: employed to the greateft advantage on the Continee:, in co-operating with our Allies. After the-check given to the enemy of Europe in his fyftem of ao. grandizement—after the gallantry and firmnef, played by our Allies, what had Minifters done, b ut given, with relatance, Eighty Thoufand Pounds to the King of Pruffia ? He was well aware that weighty individuals in the Houfe would be found adverfe In fOfidiCS ; hut he Rill contended, that, under certair circum(lances, they might be prodative of the greateft benefits. He was furprifed, therefore, to obferve Minifters feel as they had appeared to do nr , that important fub . jest. The operation of the Rig!.. Honourable Gentleman's plan, at this moment, die sot fupply the deflciences of the army on its prefer eflablifhment. What flotation, then, could the forc e of the country be placed in at the expiration of keen years, when the wafte would taccertrily amount to 25,0c0 men. After a few general obfervations as t o 1 the mode in which out forces abroad, particularly i the expedition againft South America, had been dif: poled of, his Lordfhip concluded with proponag, !that if any recruit, who may come, tinder the prefeot Bill for limited fervice, to be attefled before a Magic. trate, should choofe to engage for an unlimited time, fuck Magiftrate flicull have power to attell the re cruit accordingly. Mr. Secretary WINDHAM was happy to En,'• that the Tuition on the prefent occalion was nor, between failure and fuccefs. but regarding the ch... gree of fuccefs ;" and a great part of the Noble Lord's fpeech was direeted to account for that fuc. cefs. The recruiting, he faid, had increafed ; and it was to be hoped, that the Noble Lord thought alto the defertion had diminifhed : the fuccefs of recruit. ing was greater in January OM, than in the March preceding, and in January 1807 it was yet more produEtive t fince that time it had acquired 4.000 men. It had been faid, "It is better to do nothings than to do nothing." This was the fort of ufelefs activity the Noble Lord teemed to expert when he talked of the military expeditions his fertile mind would projea. So, when a man came into Parlia 'meat with this reties difpofition about him. he would fay, " I will make a law ;" precifely with the fame fort of feeling the Noble Lord was difpofed to ex. claim, " I will have an expedition ;" but if the ex peditions to which his avidity was directed were to be of the fame kind with thofe which were conduCted under his Adminiftration, he (Mr. Windham) thought he had better turn his attention another way, The Honourable Secretary next entered into a variety of details, to (hew that the rem uhing for limited fervice was abundantly fuccefsful ; and that the amendment could be attended with no beneficial eonfequence. Mr. ROSE referred to the various papers on the table, from which he computed that every man ob tained under the novel fyftem of the Right Hon. Gentleman would colt the country 651. Colonel SHIPLEY, in his maiden fpeech, adduced feveral faits refpeCting the regiment to which he be longed, to thew the advantage of the prefent mode. He had paired fixty recruits, three only of whom had deferted. He was confident, that on this plan a fu perior order of men would be obtained in the defence of a country which was the Taft afylum for liberty left in the globe. Colonel PARRY approved alfo of the prefent CI• pedient for recruiting. Sir JOHN DOYLE objected to the amendment, becaufe it blended limited and unlimited fervice.— " But what does experience fay of its confequencest It proves in this oppofition of theory to theory, that, on the part of the meafure, it was the theory of human nature, whilft the theory of the Noble Lord and his friends was abundantly fupplied from a fund of para doxes ; paradoxical, both as applied to home and foreign fervice. But we are told of the torpor which has charatterifed it. In anfwer, I will date a plain pofitive Wt. and no oratory; namely, that it has twice fucceeded in the regiment which I have the honour to command, by nourithing the battaliun•on foreign ' fervice, with an addition of zso recruits ; and nest, by an actual increafe of that at home, to the amount of goo men." He was perfuaded that on any occafion of emergency the Britifh troops would not abandon the fervice. He knew a brave Highland regimentin the Eaft Indies, whofe time had expired during an expedition; they all volunteered to ferve excepting two : the two men were fo fcouted by their former companions, that they returned to join them, but nor aman would ferve with them, and they were difrniffed with difgrace. Mr. I'ERCEVAL entered into various details.-- • He infilled that the defertion under the Right Hon- Gentleman's plan was asgreat or greater than under the Additional Force Bill, though it had been pro• mired that it•would entirely ceafe ; that we weir to ditcard the poor diftrefred, unemployed mantotc• turers from the ranks of the army: Goo in his mercy might take care of them, for they were not to be a l• lowed to become foldiers. We were to have a oraz rior race of beings—the lons of yeomen anJ men. Nature was to become mare extenfiy c ler operations, and we were to have fuldiers only fix I et high ; perhaps he might hope to be improved 'n ture from the magical operation of the Right Ho nourable Gentleman's Bill. As to that valoaai , : body of men the Volunteers, they had been c am ? , pletely done away and extinguifhed ; (Hear, .) and yet we were told, that this " depofitor y of pant:" as It had been called, were now flockii.g to t'+ "r flandards to repel the enemy. (Hear, ,:ear, mar!) With refpeet to the gal'ant Colonel rrr Genctat (Crawfurd), whole name was introduced, he woke, that to whatever part of the globe he was dettima, he carried with him the countenance of Ministers. He hoped that his labours may be crowned wilt fuccefs, and that he would not have to report hi' triumphs to ungrateful mafters (A loud ety ff liter! &ar!) That if he should be fortunate enough to fecure for his country as great a coriqueft as the Cape of Good Hope, he will be at lead entitled to ■