Star. — London, England, 1828-02-26 00:00:00

'try into the dust, and who would b' the authors of m r• r and outrage, if any foijowed• as -a con , egnetice of this Act, as they predicted. The l'etit;ini had been plinted,.ald copies sent to every Membet of the Ifo.ite, and i• contained this warning as to what would f. )1:o•N if the Act was no; repealed :—" Can you, as . Chri.;iar; Le gisl.tcrs, conieunplate two million of murders viitliont horror and affright?"' He was confident that no such 'consequences would result from the measure, and that the house would never hear any complaint upon the subject from the real occupying tenantry, because to .them it was a law of protection. He therefore 'called upon the House not to listen to the language of misre presentation such as the Petitioners had used, but rather to be guided by the reasoning and the discretion with which the Honourable Member, who preceded him, bad explained the real nature of the measure. He was. sure that its principle was good, and if there were any de fects in detail, they could easily be remedied. He should 'Ark follOw the Hon. Member into the question of Catho lic Emancipation, only, observing, that enough had 'fallen from the Hon. Member to convince the House that the evils of Ireland were certaiuly not attributable to that source alone. _ _ _ Mr. NORTH entirely concurred in what had fallen 'from the Hon. Member lir Armagh, and believed that there was not a reflecting and intelligent man in Ire land who did not, approve of the principle of the Act. There was some of its details upon which the lion. ;Member suggested amendments, and said that the last clause (right to be repealed as speedily as possible.— With the proper amendments, he believe.) it might be ma .le't be most beneficial measure that ever was granted to Ireland. )Ir. F. LEWIS said; that the greatest ben, fit which could be conferred on . Itelind was that of assimilating her establishments and institutions to•those of England. When Gentlemen visi.ed Ireland,nothing was found more striking than the dissimilarity between the occupying tenantry of this country and the miserable b:iiigs who 'existed upon the land there. If, then, there was no re• sident landlords in Ireland, was it not a great deside ratum that they should have a respectable occupying tenantry, able to perform those t fil:es in society which connected its different clas s e-, and I roduced hat mony amongst the whole? He knew' many parts of Wale, where there was not a resident Gent , 7, and where their place was supplied by an intelligent and respectable yeomanry, from whom the poorer classes found every • protection and support. To raise up such a class Ireland was the object of the present law ; and he trusted that - whatever improvement or modification it mighit require in detail, the principle of so excellent a measure unsold not be departed from. Mr. R. C,OLBORNE put it to the consideration of the House, whether it was desirable to enter into a par tial-discussion of an important question merely on the presenting of a Petition—(Hear, hear). It appeared to him that the time of the House was w tsted when spent in such discussions, and that it would be but right in it to proceed with the business of the night, instead of entering into them. If "Hon.Gentlernen were desirous of having the merits of the Act, of which to much bad . been said, discussed, their regular and best 'way would be to bring the properly before the House. Mr. Secretary PEEL concurred entirely with what had fallen from the Hon. Gentleman who had spoken list, and said that after what had fallen from his Right 'lion. friend (Mr. Lamb) the Other night, he had hoped that any 'desultory conversation' or debate upon the question would have been deemed unnecessary (Hear).. Nis Right Hon. Friend had expressly stated that he was ready to give the subject his most serious attentinh, and tb attend to any information or suggL'stion which*Might be made to him. He (Mr. Peel) did not think drat ony better course could be devised than that proposed by his Right Hon.. Friend, and the afore he did not regard' the appointment of a Committee as a desirable measure. ' With respect to the Petition before the House, he would only say this—without stopping to inquire into the motives of those who petitioned,, or into the way in "'Which the Petition was trained, he:was convinced that the most dignified revenge the House could take would be, seriously to reflect upon the Act complained of, and tO . trialte such alteVitions as shell be found necessary, or 'Queried' fikelylo be belief - lei& to thOse whom the ma.-- sure.particuiarly cculrerrls—(Hear). Mr. H. GRATTAN said, it was very easy'for ' Members to the and say that the presenting of a Poitioln did not offer k e iciper Or a convenient opportunity fur entei ing'inio tine merits of any question, but he was dt • a different opinion. He had a duty to perform tovrarcls Sis consti niuts, and he felt bound io take every possibl occasion of endeavouring to set forth the grievances they complained of, and so to procuie a teclres of thei He maintained that the Sub-letting Act was placed ignorance, and had had a very injurious effect. Tice sth and 6th sections were at variance with etch other, and it was impossible for any lawyer, however ingenious, to reconcile the difference between them. He hoped that a Committee would be appointed, and the sooner the time at which it was to be appointed was made known the better. Those who were most deeply in terested would then• have an opprirtunity of stating their seasons for being discontented with the present Act. The Petition was then brought up and ordered to be printed. Mr. HUME presented a similir Petition from the Roman Catholic Inhabitants of the City and Liberties of j.ondon derry. Mr. DAWSON said that there were no persons dis contented with the Sub-letting Att. He believed, indeed lie was certain, that considerable trouble had been taken by the Catholic Association to create a feeling of opposition•to the Act, and a part of money levied by that Body fur what is called patriotic purposes, had been spent in having 1,000 copies of the Petition ptinted, and so bad been made a matter of boast that the Petition itself pro.• seeded from the .Citholic Association. Mr. HUME bhould like to know whether the Roman Catholic Association had not a right to petition? If he were an Irishman be should feel proud of belonging to it, and he would there express his opinions as freely as he did in that House—(a laugh, and hear)—and he thought that any attempt to put that Association down or to throw contempt upon in, in consequence of an intemperance in language, was paltry aid unworthy of support. --The Petition was then ordered so he on she table. Mr. H. GRATTAN presented similar Petitions from the Ronsaa Catholic Inhabitants of Kilkenny-West, and another place. —Ordered to be printed. Mr. V. FITZGERALD Presented a similar Petition from a Pariah in the county of Clare. Mr. V. FITZGER.ALD presented Petitions from the Roman Catholic Inhabitants of. two Parishes in the County of Clare, ia favour of the Catholic Ciaiats. Mr. FAZAYERLEY.presented a Petition from Lincoln, praying for a Repeal of the Doty en Receipts.—Ordered to be printed. Lord MILTON presented a Petition from certain Malt sssss of Yorkshire, praying for a Repeal of she Malt Act of last Sessiou. Mr. WARBURTON presented a similar Petition from the Maltstert of Britiport.—The Petitions were ordered to be printed. On the asotion of the CHANCELLOR of the .EXCHEQUER,. the Homo resolved itself lama Committee of Supply. . NAVY EaIiMATES. Sir GEORGt CLERK 'Aid; that it Was not his in-' tension then to go intcs,the N a vy Estimates. He merely meant to move for such a vote of credit as would enable ' the Governrinent to - citty . on . the 'public Service, until the Estimates were brought regulitty tinder the Con sideration of the House. That was the plan which had been pursued - with' 'tigard to the Army . and Ordnance E timates„ and he did not anticipate any objiction to its thing followed'op'therre'sent occasion; le Wbuld not in the slightest jegree pledge the House to any parti cular. opinion, and therefore •he should content himself with moving, that the sum o f '2208,2321. 13".90. be granie : to his Mijety on account, towards defraying the charges of the Navy. On the question being puti Sir JOSEPH YORKE said, he did not very well understand the plan upon which the Government were proceeding. The Ho use h a d b een told the other night by the Right Hon. Secretary for the Home Department, that the Committee of Finance could not enter•upon the question of the quantity of men necessary for the public service; that that was a point upon which the Executive Government alone could be a fit judge; and yet now, from the manner in which Ministers were caking votes of credit, it would appear that the Finance Committee was to enter upon the question or quantity. And if that Committee was not to do so, he thought it would be placed in a very awkward situation. He re- membered that a late eloquent leader of that House, Lord Castlereagh, when speaking of the Finance Com mittee in 1817, had said, that it was not to touch their quantity—that it might propo,e,the reduction, for in stance, of the pay of the Army ; but, if it did so, what Minister would be found to'carry . the recommendation into practice? It, therefore, appeared to him, the House should have some distinct understanding as to what the Finance Committee was to touch, and what it was nut to touch, before such information should have become worth!ess. It had been sta•ed, and statea truly, by his Honourable and Gallant Friend (Sir H: Hardinge), that the Duke of Wellington had, during the time he was Master of the Ordnance, reduced the estimates of that Department nearly 30p001. and what was still more remarkable was, that the reduction had not only been effected without weakening the real efficiency of the Establishment, but that its active force had positivel) been considerably increased. The statement was in itself 'excellent, bur he should have been better pleased if it had had reference to the estimates before the House. But the Hon. Baronet, whom he re,juiced to see again playing the first fiddle—:-(Laughter) although his Hon. and Gallant Friend (Sir (1. Cockburn) had given way—the lion. Baronet said, he would not detain the the [louse more than a few minus, s ; he would merely take a vJte of credit, and then the House could pro ceed to the East Retford business, and by such a plan of pri ceeding the House was really left between two stools. On the one hand, they were told that the Cominitt , .e of Finance could not judge of the quan tity of force required; on the other hand, prece dent would have to go against the judging of the quality, and yet the House was called on for a •o'e of credit without going into the Eitimates, on the score that the Finance Committee was 'sitting. Looking at the Estimates before the House, it did appear to him that some of the great items might be reduced with great propriety, and he mentioned the subject in order that it should be noticed either by the House or by the Finance Committee; he cared not whiei. He wished to know it the Government were prepared to lay before the Committee any particular statement, for instance, with reference to the number of ships kept in a state of complete rep - air.in ordinary? found that one item alone in the Estimates was 800,000/. for timber and building ma:erials. That was an immense sum, and the Hothe or the Committee ought to be made 'acqtiainted with the intentions of the Government as to its continuance. The tact was, that there were 110 sail of lice-of•battle ships in ordinary, and from the estimate it would appear that it was intended to keep up that force. What, then, he wanteJ to know was— whether any plan had been agreed upon, whether they had made up their minds upon the subject, and whe• ther the Committee was to be allowed to investigate the matter? Ile hoped he should not be thought unkind in what he was saying, for he was a sincere friend to the Government, and only wished to throw out such hints as might be serviceable. In that spirit, then, he would make a few more observations. At the instance of the Honourable "Member fur Aberdeen, the Navy . Estimates for 1792 had been printed, and certainly, when he looked at those Estimates, and compared them with those for 1828, there were schne items in the latter which appeared not a little curious. Bet: he Would confine himself to the ships in ordinary. In 1792 there were in all 414 ships in ordinary; and in 1828 he found that there were-514. In 1792 there were 4,224 men victualled at an expense of 93,0001. to keep up the .414 ships ia ordinary ; and in 1828 there were 2,780 victualled at an expense of 105,8131. to keep the .514 ships in ordinary. Now that appeared to him: to require a great deal of explanation. The dis proportion in the charges was immense. But that-was not all, for in 1792 there were 12,0001. allowed in con sideration of the ships which might be called into active service, while in the Estimates for the present year their was no such allowance at all—nothing of the kind was mentioned ; so that he almost thought there was some lniatake in the printing. He had adopted that method of bringing the subject b.:foie the House at once, because , it appeared to him to be the must correct, and the most constitutional one which was open to him. He wits convinced that the subject should be investigated some where or other, and it was for the advisers of the Council of the Lord High Admiral to say where. He would not run against Royal authority; no man had less dispo sition to do so than he had. It was the Council of his Royal Highness that he held responsible ; and it was their predecessors who had been held responsible 120 years ago, in the time of Queen Anne. If they gave bad advice, woe be onto them—(4 laugh)—and he begged it to be understood that such was his feeling while. speaking on the subject to which he was just going to allude. The House had heard something the other night about 50,000 jackets, by . the sale of which, it would appear, the country was to be a con- siderable loser. Some disclosure or statement had been made by an Hon. Member, who perhaps from experience was particularly well able to sp:ak to the point, add he (Sir J. Yorke) wished for some information from his Hon. and Gallant Friend (Sir G. Cockburn) upon the question. He had understood that there were 50,000 jackets on hand, for each of which 12s. 6d. would be charged, and that the Lord High Admiral had, by the advice of his 'Couacil, directed that those jackets should' at Once be disposed of, and replaced by a better article. And that the Council had further advised that care at tbealOps should be transferred from the Atleim shoulders of the Navy Boatd to the weakly ones of the Victualling Office.'Then if those jackets were sold at 10-. each, time would' be at once *loss of 25,0001. to the public. But in point of • policy, as the measure affected the Navy, he objectediolt. He would ask' his Gallant Friend (wej 'believe Sir G. Cockburn) than whom the Navy had • never possessed more able Captain when he was otte, l if be 'slid not recollect that slopping seamen was a.suls •ject- open' which too much caution could be hardly ;,hewn? But [he ttiuniphant'part of the mew plan seemed' 'to' be, that it took it out of the hands - ot the Jews—of' tliote'hotriblefellows the Jews; and intd whose hands, tie'v/Aufti ask, : did it place it? Why, into those of the Gentiles—(Laughter)--the veriest Gentiles upon earth, ikho, instead of ch a rging the sailor its. would in all probability charge bias 245. And what moon was asigned for such a charge? That the old article was 119 t good en'iut,ll. Why, snoa he supposed he •should hear his Hon. and Gallen: Friend (Sir G. Cockburn) tell the House that a flnik.bed was not soft enough for sailor to lie upon, and that he whose couch had been AS hard as the Rock of Gibraltar, must now recline on down. But his Hon. and Gallant Friend very well kneo. , the process to be observed when a fine stout fellow entered on board a ship. However perfect the ans. tartly of his frame might be, and on his first appear ance it was generally easy to see whether it was perfect or not, for it was rarely encumbered with too much clothing, after he was well washed down, the slopping was begun. It was a proceeding which required great caution ; tor, as his Honourable and Gallant Friend knew, when a sailor once got in debt, there was no power over him. • If he absented himself, the slops sup plied to him were lost ; and, that being the case, he wished to know upon what principle the Council had advised the change which had been made ? And, as he was on his legs, these was another point upon which he -wished for some information from his Honourable and Gallant Friend. N,,t two years had elapsed since, by an Order in Council, the ink of which was hardly dry, the Uniform of the Navy had been changed. In the change immense trouble was taken. Not only were their different ranks duly considered, and a fair and just proportion of gold lace and splen• dour assigned to e ich, but their probable anatomical dimrnsicros were alkr) estimAted. Doe allowance was made for the big belly of the Adrnir.tl and the slim figure cf the Nlidsiiipman ; and, thus rigged out by nis Hon. and Gall ant Friend, lie had recently attended une of the very best dinners i t London—indeed, no other than that given by their Right Hon. S k seaker-- (L•ughterand he had been aloe complimented on being the best dies-ed man present—(Loud laughter). And from whom had that compliment proceeded? Why from no ordinary scarce, but actually from the Chaplain of that House—(Laughter). Receiving such a compliment, and from such a quarter, he, of course, could not do less than make some reply.— He had been forty.seven years in that service, of which he then stood the bumble representative, and I.e said that dui ing that pet od they had gone on regularly improving and improving, till at length they had ar rived at perfection. But in one of those evil howl, which unhappily world come, the Councillors of his Royal Highness had induced that Illustrious Personage to sweep away all the beauty of his dress, which had been so much and justly commended, and to reduce his well decorated coat to a mere livery jacket— (Laughter). No doubt he should be told that the last new uniform was most convenient, and he should not dispute upon the point, but what he wanted to ask his Honourable and Gallant Friend was this—. Whether he would, to borrow a phrase from one of the most celebrated speeches that had ever been spoken at Liverpool or elsewhere—whether he would guarantee _(Eied laughter)—that the present uniform would be the uniform twelve months hence ? Leave was already given to wear it till next January, and what he (Sir J . Yorke) wanted t., know was, whether it would be suf fered. to exist after that? It' his lion, and Gallant Friend should give him the guarantee he asked for; be would at once hasten to his tailor, and endeaiour to get his beautiful and becoming coat re-manufactured— (A laugh). If hiwever he shouldreceive no satisfac tion upon the subject, he 'should try his fortune with the Committee of Finance, and tee if they wettld not take into their consideration the propriety_.of .: ierstiruting some proper controul with respect to the demand upon private purses as well as on that of. the public. Sir G. COCKBUItN said, that the Honourable and Gallant Admit al - might at least h ire tiken the . trouble to know what he (Sir G. COckburnihad,rially-sitid before he found fault with him. Wirat,he had. said was not that there were 50,U00 jackets- en hand, but that there was a considerable stock upon hancl;• and it had been thought advisable AO effect :the charge` at once, and to sett them to the beit,bidder.• - The charge for them was I Is. 6d. and the contract priestess'ses" The loss, Viet chore, a oUld be far less than whithird9ien .stated, and the sailor s would get comfortable.: spa good clothing so: much the sooner.' They ,wonla_zot be charged mare for a jacket. thart_they had been . ,...but* they would have a much better- article• at the Same price. There would also be a best kipd : of jacket` fox such as chose to have it, for' which 24i:*fluldise charged and he was i ~formed that jackets ..of the same quality were now selling for between 495. and 50s. in'the Seaports. 'With regard to the number of 'ships itvordinaiY'atici,the timber required, he could only say that he fielieve4 the Finance Committee would enter fully into those points, and all others connected with the Navy. He had been twice before that Committee, and he was ready to give it whatever information he possessed. He could see no . objection to the Vote of Credit asked far, and it was only a continuation of a plait already sanctioned by the House. With respect to the ur.ilorrn of the Hon. and Gallant' Admiral, he could give him no guarantee upon the subject. Of course, if it was thought desirable, the uniform could be again changed. Sir J. YORKE said, he was glad to 'have gained some information, although he had not got Ell he wanted. • He wished to say one word respecting the manufacture. Of the Finance Committee. Ile was ' really astonished to see it so tattled out of hand, after it' had-been deemed of so much importance as to blow up the last Cabinet, and to give rise to acts which were 'perfectly di.grace'ul. It was really extraordinary that in a Committee from which th.se was so much expected, there was nut a single individual faniilar, professionally, with the services which formed three ot the great items cf national expenditure: Theme was not a splinter, a pistol, or a patarare, to speak of the Navy, the Ordnance, ot the Army, and the necessary consequence must be that those three great subjects must be blinked. Mr; Alderman WAITHM AN was astonished to find the House called upon to vote a large sum on credit, without any explanation 'being given. They were told that they had nothing to do with the establishments, that on the questions of war and peice they ought to be silent ; and indeed their only duty would seem to be, to come down to that House and vete away the money of their constituents. The only check *hied they had upon . the rapacity of Ministers was to hold tight the string of the 'ptsliiic purse, and he Would pot consentlo the vote withotit investigation. The noir. Alderman then re peated the statements and arguments he had u,ed on a previous evening,. and maintained that he was as much a friend to the Goveinment as the Hon. and G tilasa Admiral (Sir J. Yotke). If his (Mr. Waithman's) clans were pursued, the Governatent, and not the Committee of Finance, would have the credit of effecting the re.. ductions. He expected as much from that Committee, perhaps, as any one, but it was the duty, of the House not to alloW an overwhelming burthen to be thrown upon its shoul'deis. le therefore became the• House to go tote the Estimates before it voted away money, and to afford the Committee as much assistance as possible. He had been told by the Right Hon.Sectetary for the Home Department on a previous occasion,that he had not chosen the right time for urging his objections, but he was con-, inced that he }tai been tight in doing as he had done, and would maint 4in, that' ii he scale of expendi. tote which Lord Castlereagh had cleaned to bestith dent in 1818 had been adhered to, whicb it ()tight to have been, the country could have been saved no less a sum than 65,000,000/. The syst m was quite a rui , lous one. They borrowed at COI. or 701. per cent. and paid at 801. or 901. He hoped the House would agre4 to no Tote until the accounts were-revised. He was deter. mined to embrace every opportunity of impressing upon the House the necessity of reduction in the public ex penditure. Sir CHRISTOPHER COLE said, he should trouble the House with a few observations, as he looked upon the subject to be one of great importance. A return of the expenditure of 1792 had been moved for and laid upon the table—he supposed for the purpose of patting it in competition with the expenditure of 1828. Considering the very different circumstances in which the country stood at both periods, he did not think the comparison a fair one. In 1792 he was in the service, and then on the East India station. The force there at that time was the same as now, but the service to be performed was much less important and less extensive than at present. .They had then to watch only to two sides cf the Peninsula of India, the other two being in the possession of other European Powers: Now they were under ti e necessity of having part of their squadron in the Straits of M d :cca, and of having a force in the Persian.G till to keep down piracy. They had also the Alauritius arid the Cape of Good Hope to attend to. This was enough to spew that no comparison could be ins , ituted between the two pe riods, The service of South America also required a much larger. force; nn; must they put out of con sideration the increasing naval- strength of North America. It was true that in Europe the former naval power of Spain bad been destroyed, but then another naval Power, that of Russia, had grown up, and was much greater than had been ever possessed by Spain. The return for 1792 had been moved for by the Hon. Geatleman opposite (\lr. Hume), and he understood the Hon. Gentleman expected to produce a great effect by it. He was seldom in the habit cf addressing the House, and he trusted he should be pardoned for thus trespassing on their ettention—(Hear, hear). His only motive for rising was, that he thought it important to point out same of those circumstances, which at the present period rendered a larger naval force than they had in 1792 necessary. Mr. Secretary PEEL said he wished to say a few words with respect to the constitution of the Finance Committee, in reference to what had fallen from' his Gallant Friend (Sir J. Yorke.) He could assure his Gallant Friend that in appointing that Committee and constituting it as it was, not the slightest reflection was meant either upon the Navy or any other branch of the public service. The Committee were disposed. to enquire diligently into every branch of the pub Tic expenditure; and that enquiry would not, he trusted, be the less effectual, because there were no members of the Com mittee immediately connected with the Navy. They had, since their appointment, examined two gallant friends of his, who, no doubt, were able to giv e full and import ant information relating to that branch of the service. The House must see that, in a Committee, consisting r f no more than 21 persons, the choice was necessarily very limited. It was de..itable that ther••should be placed on it individuals' connected with Ireland and Scotland, and such Members as bad devoted their at eention•more particularly to objects c.f Finance. It was difSculf, -the number being 44).- limited, to gratify all parties. The -opportunity which would be afforded; and no doubt embraced, of examining every person cone aeeted either -with the . Navy, the Army, or any other branch of-the-public service, he thought, would be .uf: dent' for obtaining all the, , information desired. He could assure the Hon. Alderman that he quite misun derstood what had fallen.from him on a previous night. He never meant,to:tueationhit right of entering, in a Committee of Supply, into general observations. What he stated was, that it *Mild be -difficult to ground any practicalmerion , on the speech of the Hon . Alderman, as hedidnotlceinfo details, or pointxvut any particular iteist in wilich - a reduction could be effected. Sir G. COCK-BURN said he could assure his Gallar t Friend behind him (Sir C. Cole) that the various joints to which he alluded ks to the necessities of the service now and in. 1792, had not escaped the attention of the Committee: There could be no difficulty in shewing why 30,000 seamen-were required now, though 19,000 might have been sufficient in 1817. He could satisfy the House on all those points, but, having gone into them before the Finance Committee, he could see . no use in repeating What he stated in his examination. Mr. IVARBURTON said he hoped no alteration would be made in the constitution of the Committee, as :the formation of it 'had' given very general satisfaction. The Resolutioretvat thtlir agreed to, and the report ordered to be'received to-morrow. A Rail' RSTIMATIS. The Report of• &via , / on the Atmy and Ordnance Estimates was brought up. °tithe questioU that the Report be read, . Sir JOHN BRYDGES condemned the late Adrr.i• nistration for reduCing the yeomanry forces •of the country. He did not much envy, he said, the condition of the_ late 111:nistry. It was defunct, however, and peace to its m it;e , . He uould content himself at pre sent with applying to it the epitaph upon Sir _John Vanbrugh— " I le heavy on him Earth, far he " Laid many a heavy load on thee." The Hon. Baronet concluded by repeating his disap pro' ation of the conduct• of the late Administlation, for n t having made any acknewledgment of its services to a body of men who had been tbe patriotic protectors of their altars and their homes. Mr. S. RICE said, he begged to state, on the part of the Noble Lord (Latisdown), with whorn,he had , the honour of•acting in th.!llite Administration, that nothing was further from his mind, in reducing the Yeomanry, than to cast the least reflection on the former services of these corps. But the fact was, that at present the extent of their services was as nothing compared with the ex pew. Though effe:tive in some districts, yet when the service could be only pal tial, and the expense must be general, would it under existing circumstances be right to keep up such a. force? In the Circular which his Noble Friend (the Marquis of Linsdown) addressed to the Commanders of these 'corps, it was distinctly stated, that this reduction arose floras a determina tion of the Government to act on a •principle of economy. How then could it be supposed that any reflection was meant upon the yeomanry ? Devon. shirealone the charge on the public, during ten years, for the yeomanry corps of that county was 14.0001. a year, though during the whole of that timethey*ere never required to render any service. The late Gi vernment, in proposing this measure, acted upon two principles.-the firsts plinciple of economy,, arid the :secend a wish not to appiat to consider force as neces 'sary to their support. The fact was, that•with the ex .ception of a few districts, the yeomanry had• become 'utterly useless, and were kept up merely inconsequence -of the pleasures which some Gentlemen took in soldier • 11 I 41 r • lt • Vi i. 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