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all thin I have read in modern hißory, I am per-, fitaded that this is one of thee g reat , the decided ad vantages I may fay, that the invaded hat over the imam The enemy who attacks y ou, may pares, an army equally numerous with your own, as well equipped. and as well provided at all points , wi th Generals equal in talents t but an armed peafantry (which I will call your peculiar weapon. as certain animals arc provided by nature with arms peculiar to their kind) they never can have. Thefe. Sir. an armed peafantry. may be truly called your Army of Referve. The Regular Atmy is but a portion of your Arangth ; that may be defeated, and the ene my yet obtain no ufeful advantage. He would be encountered by this force in the centre of every vil lage, at the turn of every load, and if he gained a battle, he would only rem ain mailer pf the ground be fl o o d on. He darn not fend a mile for a cart load of forage, and be would find himfelf (compara tively (peaking) a prifoner in the very moment of rriftoty. I troll, that this fpecies of force will meet with every encouraged nt. gram perfuaded, that thould the moment g and of aftion ever .arrive, the employment of it will, be produaive of • the greatell advantages. It is by a defultory war fare of this kind, that we (hall make fuccefs certain; for I troll that no prudent General would rifle the fate of the country upon a tingle attlion, or fet his all upon a die. and particularly if be Sould retie° that all the , great Commanders that have erifted, even rp m Cuba, have admitted that fortune Rolla haves great Sam in a battle. I would cite in flames MID the hillory of the Atnetimas way beg pardon ; I believe I thould follow the of alloble Lord oa an oppotite bench, and eau svierros : but be it called war or rebellion, it is a fall. that the BritiOi army, though it made its way through the estuary, and was always laborious, mast novoithekaading, compelled. and compelled by she meeffitat attacks of an armed peafantry, to lay dome their arms. and farrender as Fakeers of war, tee two Of the Olga Generals we polkaed I mum C.oravrallis and Bermes ;a nd and this is :be has valsials tams Sion. toliat,are aired to somemptooolly ; and by abaadoning this fe= ybroiever yeabell order you r Volunteers to search Irmo their dip or with for the psrpofe of beim eagreeked as, or farming part of a Woke. roe cauleommely. leave that part of the coomay be, fir, the pubes who have uaderealom the In arraegemer of die Voissiteer feree,lll3ll to have hod no proofs Ideas of the men. use is which they intend to omploy it. Their maim isms to approach that of a food parent. who feeds his be to the Diarerfity, for the peeps& of mike • him either a phyficioa , a law y er, or a parfon.lat oak may happen. Is the fame manner they fay, , M Volunteer% • you ball learn the Prelims; essreife—yea ball go through all the tedious for► may of comineatal tidies and difcipline. sod if. ',tweeds-we then confider how we are to as pity . yea' Sie,l have sot yet beard one military man of 1011311111 CO in his proteins. fay, that the Volun teers wore fit to ail in beanies. Oh 1 batoa as Honoarabla Generaloa the oppofite fide, • would yes have this armed pear/Wry come into the field , fa their/wed frock 1. Ido not know but I (Mold. I De &Gamow _that could wife from it ; on the antrarY, if they - Med, from the eireastance of their not being is milers". their failure could have two efeft upon the army; the gyros of light would at kal be avoided. Bah Sr. Ima fora that this defaiptioa of force may be made fo ofefal that no mime meaty would venture to advance is a coos ' try-whom he would be alma mivelopkd by it. where be amid net pats through a lam, or betweea two =rewithosit kin 'voted to a galliag and lige, Wicket to swerve tie brave& man. b Ming up the Veltman to look like foldiers, and puke, arms ooly into their heads, you give the • COM" advantages you sever intended. I precasts. If where there is so red coat. there is no weapon, the must of the denier is eerily afeeittintle. The french would'aaturally fay, we fee aus all we have to fear—there they are (goo.ooo men, If rot peak) let usliut once ddeat them, and we have nothiag snore to do.' I trail I have bid tomb to convince Gentlemen that as armed pc:- fairy is meek fuperior to the Volunteer force un abated as it is at prefent, or even after having . yr • aired aU the amelioration it is capable of receiving. It has been °Wetted to a Right Honourable Gen tleman on the Moor (Mr. Windham). that he treated the Volunteers with levity. lam not Cc:Able that he has. I know that in (peaking of them, be has always applauded the fpirit by which they were situated, and lamented that better ufe was not made of it. Hire entertained the contemptuous opi- Mon of the Volunteers that has been falfely attributed to him, I am confident he would have had too much manlinefs to have affumed the command of a Corps. With regard to the prefect Bill I know not what can be well done with it. You cannot take a bad fyflem sad amend it, without having the principles of a better fyfirm in your mind. Can that be polfibly accompliflied by this Bill ? If I fbould trefpafa upon 'our patience by going into the detail of it, I Ihould find that it contains in the outlet a declaration al law which nobody controverts. It does nothing with regard to the principle of elation. From the Com mittees, which have been the (übjea of to much difenlEon and fo much obloquy. I fee no danger. Their fuuaions only apply to the financial part of the fyllem, to the regulation of fines, and making provition for the neceffary expences of each par ticular Corps; objefl which could not be well, I would even fay conaitutionally. cunfidering the nature of the innitution, carried into effeet by ottr:r mean'. But, Sir, it is 10 ',in to ualie time in deavotring to remedy that, which is in Well incur able. These it a radical vice in this Bill; it was cal culated to meet the exigency of the tputnent ; the fpirit was excited fur the fpur f the occarion ; and the cchmati,n, if I may fo call the di and the more aclesuceil laic. was calculated or a long pro (politic period. Sir, invafion has been Co to much talked about, th q the people begin to We all bcliet in is; they are wearied out with this continued menace . m e e nemy, we were told, was to be upon us late June; then his attack was deferred until Ater s h e aa e u r t maleetpaittos; from tLa: nru.ltbei.ightsui.te long; and sow it fLould aprear until the day, t K . conic longer. I dr. rot far that the hoaility tit oaparte will be ci•r !wed to 0-ett menaces, 66.. stoat by perfeverilly en lion, it will Le iu his ist, wet to keep as in a cuartiuualtlate tai slim for years to come. Sir. the fpirit of the country cannot fupport this; it moil of neeelfity be worn out. Is there any man who will venture to maintain that it can be durable? But it is laid, that the fowlineiel Gentlemen. Gestlaws as they are called. contour. tuoufly I fuppofe. would be taken prifoners. Why fo they would, and fo would the bell regular array. I elk, can you bring filly thonfand Volunteers out of the diftant counties to bear on any central point ? Gentlemen on the uppofite fide will retort the quef tion. and all, can you bring fisty thoufand armed peafants to bear on a miens point ? Perhaps not; but if they were organized as they mould be, and as a prudent government who knew bow to appreciate the advantages of filch a force thould regulate it, the county of Heot alone mould produce that number. I have now. Sir, I think (effici ently pointed out the inefficiency of this force, the Volunteer force I mean, to prove that it is sot zed; and if it be not good, the nest confideration with as fhould be. is it asap ? lam fere that the MUMS& bears harder upon the people than they are willing to acknowledge. or than •I malt endeavour to beret& upon the Houk at prefent. On fame fume occaGon !hall enter largely into the qeeftion, as to taken in an ascoooluiad rut of view. The principles upon whisl. the Ishllotting fyftem is arried on. is dtreQly adverfe to all the knows principles of eqifity. Here we fee ten men, bilked ofcoatributingg their 4os. each, tong up who Oa pay sal. As to die Naval (Oka of the country. mach as I refpea the Noble Earl who is as use head of it, and moth as I admire Ws ta lents. and the great Cervices be has rendered the century is the caulk of his WS and v ar iede6"' caul We, Ulan meth to fay, sad fato blame s bet m that fubjeit wW wadage.. moa probe. bly, a regular difeelloa on fame ether da . I 64 1 &Wahl from troubling the Rode with my kotiteeata at pretest." Mr. PITT was ogled to bear the principle into!. aged. that the country bad to look forward to future danger, and that it was sectary to guard ageint . l being lulled into a falls and fatal tenuity. Ii wa s I t rue, it was dithcalt to keep up the impulfe of en thofiaan. when the objell which called it forth ap pears to be removed. It was very probable, there fore, that the exertions of a few. people bold relax, if they coaceived that the threatened danger had coifed. beau& so attar ason had beep made. Hs therefore agreed in the • Gated by the Hon. Gendesaaa who (poke though be man contend that that opinion bad so bearnig on the pftfest qußios. It was, however, his wont. when the pat ient Bill was gone through, and the (item readered as perfe& as pale. that foam more general ma. furs Should be adopted for the national defence. So long-as France mould remain a Military Nation, oe- 1 copying fo large a ponies of country—an extent of territory and population as powerful for the porpoise of offence as ever was.occopied by nay enter—bat, above all, fo long as France Should twatiaseipsslor a Governmentorbsch Seance walydellitute ed coati tutional checks, bat even dam 4 1 41 1 7 dna of pub lic opheloa, which, in no cable pert Benope. in the molt shish and degraded Goveroasests, ever was Rifled, except in Frames where a tbseibt dare not be breathed agaialk that tyrant who holies at his pleafore the broad sad treaters of the country--lb long as Prance ream e d is that eats. k was noce‘ fart' for this country to adopt extraordinio7 means of deface. He Arnold sot, however, f n pt r al his orioles freely of the Volunteer &yarn: if be did ray that k was sot yet brought to than fyases of petrel-lice of which it was futeeptible. He thought it was capable of being rendered permanent. and when coupled with other lanterns, of proving of the r:eutility. He agreed with the Honowable Gee sh that the patriotic efervefatnee which bad been difplayed, could not be expend to Sal in the apparels abfence of the cattle by which it was ex cited. The seal and p_atriatifm of the people had however done much. Their exertions bad not only is many inflames fuperfeded the neceffity of legiflative matures, but coonteralled no fmall Share of errors on the part of Government, In viewing the means of defence prepared to Parliament, it was the general opinion lea year, that it was better to invite and re ceive voluntary Cervices. than retort to cempulfory matures. Bot betides authorifing the embodying of the Volunteer force. Parliament had placed in the hands °ibis Majetly the means of effeeually enforcing the prerogative of the Crown, by calling out all the different Clarks of the population in the defence of the country. There were fame parts of that A& which might require future confideration ; perhaps the mode of enrolment might be amended upon revifion, but when the relent important and more urgent mature was difpofed of, there would then be fufficient time for the Route to dived its attention to this Mice. If his Majefty's Minitlers were firmly difpofed to enforce the law in all thole difiries in which the Volunteers fell Short of the number required, no danger could in the mean time Are. Indeed. he was of opinioo that it would be of aivantage, were the power of calling out the rations clatTes, defcribed in the General Defence AB, vefied in the Lords Lieu tenants of Countier. lie alfo repeated the opinion which he had urg.d lafl. of the neesfEty of a fur ther ballot for the purpose of feeding the witty $ but it was t.hvious, that the fowler the Houle proceeded to difcufs the clanks of the prefent Bill. the fooner would they be prepared to go to the consideration of Some great general mcafure. of the nature of tbat which Teemed to be the übjed of the lion. Gentle. man's foliatnde. With regard to the exemptions, he was of opinion, that fo long as the ballot elided, they could occafton no difativat.t.tge to the hitheia fervice. He was convinced that the Volunteer Syflem, fo far from injuring the army, was extremely ufetul in en• cnuraging recruiting. Men were much governed by habit, and fortunately for counuies who had to de fend thensfelves againSt aggreffion, and unfortunately fu thole difprifed to go to war in a bad caufe, but perhaps fortunately on the whole, there was a prone acts in mankind to fall readily into all the labours of a military life. With regard to the quake of proceeding with the preterit Bill, he °braved, that it seemed toe the general opinion that it was proper. in the reran cribs, to go on kith the prefent fyitem. until one of a more general nature Should be adopt el ‘Vhcn the Lill, therefore, came into a Cqns rnittee, an the improvements which the Volunteer .1, m was capable of receiving. mig ht be infufed it, t o it. It was not to be topprifed tha t - the principle f 'he Pill nett merely to the confoi.dation of the 4131 relative to the Vauntea C rps ; in- deed his Majelly'riireuitiers arlataed that the DOI was f rame d to merbseany eludes which might tend to render the me*plogre perky& Was itnotbetter then, force the &l ffibildy had undergone a (mid reading, to fuller it to go to the Committee,. where the vatious ideas which had been thrown out might be fully difceffed ? In common with Mr. Pus, he I difaroyed of the limiting the number of Volunteers in the maritime counties. Theprior i & of limita tion had been conceded bt his Majely's 11ffiailleve, with regard to the County of Kent. In that county. which had a coati of 6o miles, many points of which were within (even or eight hours fail of the French sod!, it did not apnea to the Gentlemen employed in carrying into dud the means of defence, that it was right to Binh the number of Volunteers to the fame proportion which alight be thoughtfufficicat for the counties of Derby and Cheller. Upootluir tyre feotation, the Government allowed an addirionof one half to be made to Volunteers, but they flopped two who would have (creed. He fhould be fors yif tiwni lsr augmentations had net taken place in the other maritime counties. He did not agree with she Non. Gene. who (poke lafi, in what he had Rated relative to an armed peafantry. A force of that kind could not afford infficieut feenrity to the country'. The war in La Vendee. which had been alluded to, was nut a cafe in isoint ; that was a defolating war, in which fire and ,(word entered every konfe, and where every thing I k was fubdued, but the heroic fpirit of the alio/innate , inhabitants. If an invafion of England were to take plus in Vat. he bad no doubt that the people would , the fame heroic refolution, the fame deter. 111111abon to perith with their country. which had m I been th did ibited in La Vendee. But any one fup pde that Brosaparte . s army, whits landed, would flop for the purpofeof layusg wafts i e gai . t of the wintry, when it mna be their chief ob to penetrate 6o or 7o miles farther. It was not a which could (offer andenatc,andacquimmilitaryknowledgefr omadvers fity, which was wanted for the defense of this country, but an a&ive force, which would look with confidence to viaory over any enemy that might be landed. The parallel attempted to be drawn, with regard to Ame rica, was equally inaccurate. The country invaded was large and extenfive. It bad no cenual point, no vital part which could be attacked. If a pro. vine was conquered, one half of it, perhaps, was a dd & art. The nation of the Americans !pee them, therefore. an opportunity of hartaing their indlfci pained troops, and rendering themindict, at tall good fol.- diets. loth was not the cafe with this country whets it wasassaltry to have a force bold soneo_ to Esse the mammy st oses.end powerful encash todegat Maul It was, howeva very proper to have a armed pedantry, "hid:, if the enemy &odd pals. Lou. don would rife up every where to Opole him i but then this was a force which ought not to be looked to but as a laft refource. If the enemy !Mold land. he joined in the hope . wltich bad been ezprefed. that be would be drives back into the lea with the ty . of lightning I...btit that might not happen. It might only be Fable in the &A Wit's= to balsas his force by that which was prefented to it. flare was, however, no doubt, that if proper meafures were taken, there would be (efficient tune to Wing forward the Volunteers of the &taut counties to (sprat dodo on the imal). or to repair any di(alse which might happeo, and which it was no &foe in tussling(' or courage to forefce. An armed peafastry would, doubtleti, be of great fervice within a few miles of their homes, becaufe they would be &cognise. cd with every psis and winding valley which fie rounded their habitations. If theffi. however, was conversed into _infantry, all the advantages de rived from their local knowledge wield be 1011. And this was the radon why it was neceffuy to (libelous al fattiest' dice:liaise whenever men were to be removed to a dills= from their own habitations. Gentlemen were very wrong, if they fuppofed that the Volun teers were Marveled. merely with a view to military parade and not to the duties of the field. He could at kali anfwer for the prance of the diazia in which I be refided, where Gen. Moore commanded, who was crf ir zto moil n that the Volunteers would afford mo e (civics when oppofed to the enemy. It was sot juR to ridicule 44 Rand at cafe," or other parts of military difcipline, which would indeed be very abferd if taken by themfelves, and confidered as hav ing no relation to any other object. But, in faae theft motions were the elements of a (deuce, and were jail as erode' to knowledge as learning an al phabet or a grammar was to the acquifition of a lan guage.. He thought that the Volunteer Force of the dißrias on the coati was too (mall, and in the internal countries not more than enough. The Volonters, however, could not be too numerous in every dißria and as nothing was well done without proper prepara tions. fo that each man fhould know what he had to do, it was secelfary that all the perfoos belonging to the claffes liable to be called out in the cafe ofinvafion, fhould know to what corps they.belonged, that in the momentof danger a man might not be obliged toga up and down,crying Oh! if I could be ufeful tomy coun try !" The more Gentlemen gave their minds to this fubjeft, it would perhaps be found that there was none which had been fuggeited. but which would find its place ins well combined fyßem of defence. He had not yet (aid any thing on a !Utica which he mention ed yellerday ; his opinion with rape& to which, ha was ready to admit, might Wye to be wrong : but enquiries he had ialeituted, had led him to conclude, that the kind of naval excetion, the nature of the conqucft in which we were engaged required, had not yet been comptetely made. H Ibould porlue his enquiries farther, and if he fhould not be (embed that his fufpicions were usitounded, he would submit the refult of his inrelligaticn to the Houle ;—and would then :ilk fur documents which would confute himfelf, if he was wrong. lie fhould rejoice on ac count of the (plendid fee vices which the Noble Lord at the head of the Admiralty had performed, but fill more cn account of the fecurity of the country, it his conjectures fhould prove erroneous :—but his fenfe of public duty tiiperfeded every other confider• anion, and induced bins to bring forward a fubjeft which was of the deepeft importance to the country. In doing fo, he was influenced by nn defier to viral nate any one ; and his obseft would be to carry to the foot of the Theor.e foci) entreaties as might teem fothcient tri rtr , ifer. excl. ors for the naval dc• fence (1 the I AK,. e, It h.tt part c.l era defence fhould be found deficient. I , lr. FO'. in esvia7.l . that the Right 11. n. Gent'cman, niiitakes his argo tinteti. lie tii-t r. t try east ()willd tray rp, u armed mafirntry aloft, bat as mated peafantry, gala' in aid of a regular army. Mr. W INDH A M (aid. it had been unjualy argued that thole who had commented on this bill wailed to deßroy the Volunteer Syllem. This, however. was .♦ by no means the cake though t►at fences was funda mentally wrong, no one could be fuppofed deacons of aboliihkg it, unlefs there was a very fpeedy profpol 4 fobilituting a better force in its (lead. The ex emption of the Volunteers, he °braved / operated in two ways to increafe the price of dubaitutes, gra, by throwing the ballot on perfons who were not likely to ferve pmfonally, but would orrice every exertion to procure fubilautes ; and, fecondly, becaufe thole Volunteen who might be .difpofed to ferve as fubaientes, knowing that they could not be ballotted for, held back, for the parrots of railing the price as high as poffible. He approved of a force of armed peagints, though he did not expo! that either they or the Volunteers could .'top the enemy. Nn. thing could (lop a regular army burs regular army. With regard to the mode of training adopted for the Volunteer Corps. it had been fAid, that what they learned could at any rate do them no harm. In the fame manner. it might be faid, that it would do then, no harm, if all the men were forced to learn Arabic; but a great deal of time would perhaps be loft before they were made perfea in That language. Mr. DENT (aid a few words, which we could not bear; from the general bat which prevailed. No Aviles took place, and the Houfe went into the Committee, when . Mr. YORKE, in mafideraties of the Imes& of the boor, propoird. that the Committee fitoold only proceed pro /erw and proceed winnow into the) fulteHoorn was refused. aag gai ngrefs bag re. ported, it was agreed that the use °mild fit • again this day. (Thurfday). The other Orders were then deferred, and the Hoak adjourned at two o'clock. 2=ll=3=OlMl=ll LONDON. THURSDAY. MARCH s. MCI OF STOW THAI DAY AT ONE 0 CLOCK s Cent kte tar Ara $5l - avelzf t . 73, New j pa Cee. A.-01441La THE MG. (Losses irate, Hasa r. tam. *Hu Aboarr huff than he war "Ad*" " (ii" I a fricre.)" Letters bee Admiral Graveßes leadrea. as tae u the ss& et Maury. Rate. that tbe Raad at MA was wry ant* ea aredord es the sods at tint ssamb. wits the sumer et Fuerafs Digs Iglag la the Omer Reed. mad all agerwali h hr fay ern as biers N-11111.• at *lie at 'dieter ars three deekare —Frigates tl-.orarßasts p..Lasys Thu ex. To qua week es Aimed be Meted at Ulhasio-lies it the Iles a tete at wee ware threalethers, sea propeniewas weer at Rea frigate tastes d tie Isaaerawelesal elm Is tined the 'adds &Was. as/ Ike MI of the Iles aid Dee tripe. the Where feadree, wile was weartheatiarset Or Tees Ones. 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