Star. — London, England, 1805-02-22 00:00:00

• , . • soilleas and a half; in t 783, it was three guineas and a half, but not to exceed five guineas ; when the brunty core the Militia had allimilated snore and mote _to the Regular Army. I-le had read in a periodical publication, a letter from Edinburgh, abound;ng in true philofephy and plain fettle preset ling to be a fuminary o f t h o l e op i nions which_ and others, his friends, entertained cn the fll'o;ca of our national defence : but the letter (fated there. mat ters in a (Lyle fuperior to what he could afpire at com p:Wing. He thought this letter worthy the pertifal of every man who beard him. There was one thing which was Paid, and with much truth, in behalf of the Volunteers. Many thought the Volunteers of ufe to the country, as a manifeltation of the refolution of the country to :chit the enemy. The enemy gave us credit ror thus much fpirit without the teilimony of Volunteers ; for tho' they did reprernit us as a na• m of fliopkeepers, yet , as filch, as MCII of. P ro P cf J7oving property, they would affuredly expect ,a that we Should defend our Shops, main .rrights of propety, our lien, our liberties, .• ..•.tiince as a nation. The fervice would be done whetti..r there were Volunteers or not, if the coun try were even left to itfelf. But the Volunteers never could Rand, or reach permanency. It was &burn of the public fpirit that gave them eliftence, and they wa.: &flitted to expire as that fpirit found its oatutal level. We never could attempt to hold a country in a military atthude. interminably.— The Volunteer attitude, was a fine theatrical at titude--but it the curtain do*, the arms ma st drop. This force could not make . an army. As to the Army of Reserve which was itfelf a little it could not laft, it mug to its &II Rate. Indifeipline was the curie of all there illegitimate fylltens ; yet indifcipline was ereuied. We were told that tho' there were but few at drill thecorpi were numerous,. and thole who were abfent from drill were rerfeet in their excrcires: From This yop s.ou'd think ilia thole who attended were the awks ward (quad, only gauss g on with their exercifes be tel:reality were imperfea. But even in this view of the matter, the evil might be great. Praelical habits sere liable to grow irkthme, and to.be loft. Then serre things which Once learned never cola be on hinted. Such were mathematical truths, or otbet.' t:uths, which Ruck to men. Tke art of fwimming was fo ; but the exercifes of the Volunteers laughs no imperithable sot, He new took a view of the fyllem of railing men for rank,. When in office in . 4795, he remembered litters hafrilig been written to Lieut. Colonels froer: who, 67 tile way, had never before been in the army) iseftritling them to fifteen g!ineti hovroy, one fource of the deterioration of a; my. The Miiitra has, however, to do every !-ar.! all fnr.oi ; old, new fupplementary, an jaw:nisch, that it reminded him of the man, who, having ti oat, taken to cure a horfe's foto, had made applications which only ;tweak(' the wound, but as often as he was told of this he Lade :hem have recourfe tobrs ededirine. Thus, if want. men, if the country have not a' force a.kooate to its deeen:e, a t once the cry is railed " ! the Militia I There is the Militiase" Teeing of ate Supplementary Cavalry; he li:hem :wed having once - le...en told of an old lady in the country, oho had offered 60, 70, or 8o guineas not fn be sfrawn for a light-horfeman. He thought the fyliern altogeoter radically bad. That was done order to avoid perional fervice, which every body att-repted to ay.'.id ; and which, froth the great gal f our Milliner, did not active even women. The fytl4:n might be fald to be an evidence of fogy popenft. The ballot was the bane that paled with malignart lintlil4,7 to ai our comforts over the land.: Vol% 4 . r,000 V7E.e to be railed by this means, then &hoof), until was run up to the amount of 90,00c0 bad Paid, that the Army of Referve was only a Militia under another name. This brought up the to t rc.coc, Would then the recruiting for Mil... At my not stand Rid ? 13,1 t they obtain permilSon enter into the Regular Army ; which, if they do, tlie friends of t h e lyflens (the M inister) direaly er elaims, shore are our recruits ! tilde we have pro. cur-d by our D:lence All 1 This reminded him of the Man in the Ct ;tic 's famous exclamation," That is my thlinder !" One confolation was left. The &nem had come :o its end. It had burnt itfelf out. The Ml !Ater was now vomiting up the Army of Referve, as fomething tco Orolg for his llomach ! So patients, -tlica their medicines partook too much of the Shop. Tie M;nittcr is now Rapping Mort. He laying up precious elixir of the ballat, and his vaunted fyl sen-.4 are on the point of diffolction, or of cxpl;•:ion. He wertt on with his military fyflem till at lee'gth :be fallible 1)141 ; the houfe had Stopped payment. It was net for leaving Europe in a date of defertion at the metcy r.l Bonaparte, that the laq Admini. ftrati,n was driven oat ; but for a crime they did alit commit, for in fael the ballot had ceafed to at. IA art now left totally without any means whatever. Jfr hadlhe word of the Right honourable Gentle :l),n cntsolite, for 0 e pernicious tendency of all the Other Bills : and we have ever y other per:oris' word for the fame quality in his own. I t famed better to go back to the Army of Referee, ihaa keep this MI. There was fume meaning in thaffiill ; it was, at hall, coati !rot with Hell. Bad as he thought that Bi.l, for Lad he mull think every mcafure that v'llablifhed an eotirc boe4 of force of a large fize, el a &fluent dcfcription from that of the Regular Army in this country, and that recognized, and even Encouraged military honours, independent of mili tary fervice ; Still he mutt repeat, that bad, and ex. 14.i•five, and cumbetionie, and circuitous, as it was, ' had, when compared with the prefent Bill, fame and meaning in it. It carried its compulfean so r4k.ti-:r than its power to raife men. That referve ••otly .-as to aft as a kind of large refervuir, and kig;ier than that the pumps eauld not work. But :t was quite a jcke to fuppule that.it gained us any umber of recruits. It gave them to us, becaufe it neck them in the fill inttanci. It procured them by the bounty it gave them for coming in, and it fent them into the at my only becaufe there was a bounty for that, on going out. The dal:4 of men who would wittingly enter fur flame fervice, would go of cootie to the Army of Referve; another dafs would go to the regu . :Jr army at once. The Referve itfelf nei rhen;:res to, nor takes from the reguiar army; but it air said, that there were numbers, who having en , tettd into and served in the Army of Referve, were aftirwards induced, from the habits acquired there, to go into the Army for Home and Foreigitfervice hut nett ;here not Saint who, vt*l • Lkrit' Wm: • of Referee, would, inftead of going into it, have gone direa into the regulars, to that, upon a fair debtor and creditor accothlt riot . 1 man perhaps :s *on ? The. Members of that Houle came id through the ' lobby. What a wonderful glace this lobby mull • be to fupply th: Hnufe with fo. many Gentlemen ? This Army ot Referee was a kind of lobby to the Regular Army. It was a kiiid of turnpike where fo!. diets did not pay, but were. paidfor patfing through it.. A man would be thought rather foo!ilh not to gd into the lobby era, by which he was able to get a double bounty before he became a regular foldier. He hoped to hear no more of the good - cffeCts of this lobby. The whole fyflem was encumbered and weighed down with a complication of machinery. Toe exilling Bill was a fort of great dialer, fop plied with almoil innumerable fmall capillary one running to every parifli in the kingdom. Why not a large lira:ght pipe, making a d7re..f cominuni Cation at once, and free from the confusion of ufe leis intricacies ? Bot then he fhould be told, Oh ! there is no invention. no cidurivance in all that! It was much eafier in thofe Gentlemen's eyes to take a circuitous mode of filling the great machine, titan to throw all the materials Into it at once, in a firaight. tor want way. Gentlemen had talked about the Bill not being oppreftve ; the oppreffion was not upon the recruit, but it was pretty heavy upon the parifh. The parilh was to do the won k after the old laying : " Fire born flick, flick beat dog, and loon." There was no fort of compullion made ufe of to enfure the exertions of :he parilh officer in providing the re cruits, though care was taken to levy a penalty upon the parifh. The parish ofcer efcaped the conic. quences of his neglect, and threw the burden on his parifh. You whip the patilli for the fault of the oliScer. You can't compel his zeal, affiduity, and diligence; you can do nothing with him any more than you can make a bode drink by takitig him to the water. I really cannot think of purism% this Bill at a much greater length, through its various errors and abfnrdities. It is mnch better undertlood, I am lure, by thofe who haie witnefred the effels that have refulted from it where it has been attempted to be carried into operation. But really it is Amon nnneceffary to fay many very Tevere things upon it. for who is there that (peaks well of it? If you tell any obferving perfon. that you have no opinion of this Bill. the natural reply is given at once, Who has any thing to ray in its favour !' The Bill is in • fa& nugatory and inefficient for any purpofe for which it was propofed toParliament. To talk of i t , is like talking off -n o thing that was; and is no more. It it like the old lines upon a horfe— . One fault katl—a fault belt-tall What (cult is that? the hark is had." Why, Sir; this famous Bill, this in9rument of the fal vation of our country, is dead! But though dead, the Humane Society have not yet done with it. Ohl bgt fay the Gentlemen, the Bill, we muft confcfs, has not fucceeded, but fuccefs is not the Only criterion of wifdom. fuccefs does not always follow great adions. We can't get every thing that we defire.' 'Tis not io mortals to enntrnutml fuccefs, But we'll Is sone,Sempronius, we'll dlirve it.' Really, Sir, if the ltight H o n. G en tl eman can fi n d any rearonfor content arifing out of this Bill, it mull be purely' from fuch defervings, of which we can fee no-proof; and certainly, not from any pofirive be nefit his Bill has conferred on the country !" The Ora officers were an uncommonly long time in learning how fo undertland the meafure. Siz weeks 'elapfed after the palling of it before any flops were taken to aft upon it; but the 3oth of Auguft at length arrived; on that aufpicious day it was etpeded to go on with aftonifhing alacrity, and to work as fall as a Spinning Jenny. The frty battalions were hardly conceived to he large enough to receive the incre dible number of reeru:ts that were to flail forward, and jump into their ranl:s ; any body goirig ullout the country at that time expeded to meet with nothing but military ardour and military bufile and finite.— man thought of fomethiog like that infed that buzzes about yon..io every direction, when you are travelling througl. Italy; fo here, the clatter and belle was to be in your ears wherever you turned.— Infield of all this, you went about as quietly as ever, and people ? in their difappointment, were every where enquiring, " Where's the new Parini Bill ?” Wonderful indeed were the effects of this Parith Bill, that was to work with fuch unprecedented local efficacy, and which had produced, allowing for ca. fualties and defertions, the aftoniffiing number of 665 men !" What a f..tuation for the country to be placed in ! and yet this was to be our aim anchor, Or complete teem icy againd all itorMs and tempefts, and every political anti mili'tar'y danger ; that was to remedy all our diforders;and to put an end to all our difidvantages and nbllrudions in the railing a dif parable force! It was great for immediat e an d f or . i remote purpoles ; for the rritant creation of the force we wanted, and the foundation of our future martial fyltem. It was, as Sir Franc;: Wrortzbearl lays, juft for the precut." ICinethingth be doing ;" and it was loon to expand into fixty fine battalions of foldiers— And now that it had done nothing, we were to be e tiled upon to foi bear our interference with it ? The Houle had Peen what* fort of confequenee had been derived.from the balloting fyllem, which had brought the military affairs to inch a pars at lalt, that they could flourilh no longer; they were atfolutel y at a flop. Whar,he wouldagain afk Gentleme:i,what mull be the fituation of the country under filch circumftances? Was it not the duty of Gentlemen to think of tome other mode to be adopted for the future management of our artny ? Five and twenty thourand pounds had been charged as the expenses of the Staff for half a year, for recruiting sOOO men—a fum more than it cog us for recruiting the whole army together in for. mcr days, and all the numberlefs little .?reams from which derived what additions we gained, were, in fad, derived from thofe fources which bad been already over and over again condemned. The oew meafure did nothing,•but the bad parts of the old fyftern were retorted to to force the recruiting. Our condudWas unphilorophical and unwife. We were like the favage who cuts down the tree to get at the fruit. If, indeed, 'a uniform petfeverance in a habit of fbifts and cape. clients could have any profped of talking a long time, it might be Paid, it was juft as well as any other; but human experieice and reafon tell its that it is no fuch thing ; that it mutt flop ; that Wafts and expe dients in life may do fora little while ; men might draw bills aldiaant dates, they Might rage means by 2sitHpating futurity; and Toile:910 we might feettis .leAkriptiieor pet (io ns liviwg at welrat bettt pedal!?! ;• fiat • it' Gould at , lair t altiarri -the • • (bet: will eeafe, a-t 3 then there's a 1 fon fir their portion. If we timid,' go on in a similar way .uith our means. Of defence, without a proper plats, fubtlititting fir it a thoufand thifts, we limpid esen find the country left in 3 (late too ditagteeable to contemplate. The Right Hon. Centlernan bad taren up the Ballot with great earnellnels at flit}, but round .it fail him ; then came his new experiment, that falleii too : now he was at a (land, and in dif• tiers, and looked about to every fh:p that thould come ur to his affillane.e. He did feem to be fo fond of the 'Ballot, that he gave it no with great re• hietance, bet Ween .the cup and the lip, between the making of his fpee...b and the making of his motion. Every one teemed to f.e !he ,ni!fcbiefs of the Bal lot ; bin then it was with inil,4:ty dexterity obferved, 0! if you diflike this Additicoal Force Bill, you moll go back to the old fyliem by ballot." He could not admit that ; he never had admitted.tt.— That was direelly Contrary to the opinions Le ad vanced. There was no fuch alternative forced upon the nation. Ballot had got quite out of reputation now, and like a turned out lvliniatr; found nobody to (her/ it any countenance. He had heard in Come circles of a moll exquifite plan for giving operation to the propofed objeCts . of this Bill, by the admira ble facilities which the provisions of it afforded.— This was no other than to tine a few pat idles, in order to quicken the roll in the neighbourhood.— He had heard of a man exceedingly overgrown with the drop(7, and unable to work, but win tie verthe leis on giipboard, and received a wtriiiping at the main throuds, for being indolent and 4 l t_y, and negleCting his ditties. Here it was proposed, in =Drier, to give two or three parifhes a good round dozen, and Its to quicken and spur on the reit. Thefe few we were . to lath for what they could not do, to male the others do what they could. Some men V•ere by the parifhes in the modes (stationed by thole who h a d ori ginally ntpofed the meafnre. The parifli, to get the men, gave a fum far above what a man could get by . going into the regular army. The crimp got his man as ctieap as he . could get him, and got to much more from the patifh ; the parith received the Government allowance, and if the men were not procured in this mode, then the parith paid Governmient the fine in. Read of the recruit. The only conception of the whole of this notable experiment in the mind of the Right Hun. Gentleman (Mr. Windham) was, that it had totally and completely failed. He was now glad that his talk drew near to an end ; he was glad of that, becaufe his butinefs was merely to m a k e out to the Houle a cafe of dithers ; to thew their), that this country at prefent, multi the exiling fyftem, laboured wider entire dcflitution of the means, an of tile profpea of the means, of maintaining a fuflicient and a diipofeable military force. Our army had been augmented by only t 1,400 men, and our deficiences amounted from is to 16,000, in our home army and our troops abroad. Here were fo many men to be fupplied from fome fource or other. A fluctuating body, like an army, required conflantly to receive accellions to make up for the continual wear and walk. The recruiting fervice ought Curtly to make up whatever deficiency of this kind might . be created. Other modes, it appeared, be fides regular open recruiting, were ufed ; NCI! as railing troops for rank, &c. however could, by no means, be let down as any.pirt of the regular (landing rode . of recrnitilg the Britifh army. Four thoufand new cavalry had been added to the army. But hove were they railed ? If the Houfe conridered ail the Colonial troops of the country fa!l loclzed up, by tilt nirctimfiances attenditil7, eluting was. th , : fi!u atipri of the places where they wet c ; fuel), tor cc• ample, as Gibraltar, why then all the tegulai infan try we had to difpafe cf, amounted only to 5 . .-„xo men ; and, indeed, if we took off the amount of fo oighets, we thould find it to be only 47,000 &kith .infantry. This was all we had for any important and unexpeCted demand whatever, whzther it were at home, or for any effott in any great Continental operation that might be undertaken. As for the foreign troops, it was, doubtlefs, very proper to have them in our pay ; but one could net help being 14116ra:hide with the character of thefe foreign troops —Soldiers of this deicription were generally fup poled to be for general and unlimited let - vice, ready to go any where. But a great part of them are Canadian Fencibles, and New Brunfwick Fencibles. But then we had four thoufand natives of the ifland' of Ceylon, armed, he might fuppof e , w i t h b ows an d arrows. n fad, he mull repeat it, we had no fyflem in our military affairs; all wars vacuity. For every military object the Bill was an abfolute nullity. Projectors were a valuable Pet of people ; but they were valuable in proportion to the utility and excel lence of their fchemes, not according to their intri cacy and troublefomecohiplexity. Every body agreed that fomething mull be done, and by whom could that be done but by the wifdom of Parliament ? It might be raid, that perfons meant their own wildom ; but that was not whit he meant. He wished to go to the united wildom of the nation. He witted to fee that whole Houfe in a Committee, .exerciling their wifdom on- this important fubjea. Inthat Committee:" lie might beg leave to trouble them with his own ob . : fervations on feveral points of moment. He fhould be happy to explain his own not:cas upon thi, inbj,,a. He had, indeed, after all, little to offer of his own. He wanted Government only to go back to olJmethods. He walled to fee them give up vain feheme, and abandon thole modes and fyflems which expeiince had proved to be fo unproductive, nay, fo fatal.— Having, as he thought, (hewn, by experience and hiltc.ry, that the country was brought into peat danger by thefe falfe notions and inefficacious arrangements, by the fyflem of Ballots, by the other bad mode of railing men, and by a constant repetition of military blunders, and that theft things are the fault of Government, he would ail: the Houle whether it was not time to exercise the united wildom of Parliament on this molt important point of National fe.curity ? • But for the faults of . Government we need have no fuch evil to com plain of. An Army was hot to be made in a mu. ment. Government cannot fucceed . by aping the tyrant in the pray, fiampLig his foot, and calling forth armies from the ground. He was glad to fay that our want of an army was the fault of Govern ment, for them we knew hovi to Pet about remedy inif the evil, and what was the bell mode of reeking to fupply the deficiency. If it were not the fatit . .t of Government, our cafe Would be muct: - .3r - orirtNan it , novf,it There were ronte things defer able , .that were not in ou:'iowar?odid Conic Owls Om: ail- i . . .. es I elnahtedir were within our power. or ;here IA s theiraming and maintaining a good Britith artily. For any purpofe that we wanted, he sous happy le : think, that an army wa s comp l ete l y i n their (e'n power. An array olio!' t undoohteely be ca:-ricHoo fir. aesevtil as rat glre: - :ed '.OD mud!, end not carael far enetrl; : bat v hat was there to hinder ro, with our poptileeinu, from makine a proper aim) ? What was to prevent us from turning a cert tin pr-Teeth n of our pc prile.tion towards the miliotry nreGirron, (at well as towards any other ...r the !siefellions, er any particular trad e ? Whyeseeld not the a rmy l'e made to appear equally weir 11l t:reir while to go to ;hat pre felon, as to go to a trade ? Suppofe apy new merit'. fafture of great importance, tome great cotton menu lafttoe fer intlance, friddetily fprung up and filu rithed, forte other trades and manutaeturet were pin bably at firth hurt by i:s prefperity ; but there thiegs found their own level. riit're was a new mean. of fuhfillence difenvered. Mr. Mithus had not, indeed, difeovered any new prir.cip'e, for that was nbvions before ; lent he had purfucd it with great per fpicuity and truth. The demand will have its relation to the fupply. Why, if Hines took twice their qtratety of materials, if men had four legs intlead of tan, or even fuppoiing he had as many legs as a caterpillar, !hues malt hill be warn ; what was there then in the trade of a f rldier fo exceedingly fo; bidding and re volting to the people of this country : A foldier was not quite fore of a very long lift, 'eat his oecupvinn was more healthy than molt fv...hf...1 . 5. People wett. found every day to go dov,m into damp untreal:VY mines in Cornwall and Derbyshire ; we had retiree's and other tradefroen following unhe tithy ;surfeits': nothing was wanting hut to put the feldier's trade upon a.proper level. The army had great . ettrae tions to the young and ::relent, and Itigh : foir:ted.-re Nutwithfleeding all fecinini; difacivamay,es, th•le was an ineineible attachment to a rniPtery li'e to be 1 found, by no rneans uncommon. Bet when he fpoke , of tne trade, he. might an lireak of the trader. The military life' Was the trade ; the trader was the Go. ', vernmera. Could riot thi s gicat trader do as muc h . as o:her traders do to put this par tieal.rr trade on al high a ground at )tilt as any other el the Fr( titable. purfuits of mankind? Could Governmeee tear any. competition on fuch a fubjett ? They could grant. paieileges, they could bellow immunities, they Could confer diclindions. We know very well that . in tome otherec4untries the force of certain religioal opinions had been fuel), as would either entirely prevent, or elle impair the formation of an army. . . Thus, in fome parts of Afia there were people that could not be brought to military purfuits. So the numerous body of Onakers in this country could not be perfuaded to throw off their religious opinion& on this point. We find no fuch prejudice opera ting generally among us ; but would any body fay, that we were become fo unmartial and fo effeminate: as to be pall the age of military glory, in the hitttie ry of this country ? Why were our fhips manned, without fear of forms, or wrecks, or enemies ? If we had no army, it was entirely our own fault. Mini . fers had fometimes laid the fault of bad fyftems up. on the heads of their predeceffors ; but what excule. of this kind could be made, where a Mieiller had. been his -own predccefl'or ?—(el loud lap.6.)—Thos fault then is his own fault. Now the tirtt thin; he thould propufe, would unqueftionably be to clear. away all the obtlreeions that flood in the way of get ting an army. To the fyftern of ballot he certeinly obieeted, theegh he would not at once do it totally „away in the cele of the Militia. He had been mifre orelented es the enemy of the Militia, whi.ll he had . ,never been. lit did ere like to lie it extended too far 4iond tire c.itirerl . ol.jee er l, and cl ogg i ng t h e Re guilt Army. lle`erri'e:ed the manner in wirer the Militia was bioeen n ::poll time years hack, rs the molt iejerious nr ud t of meddling with thet e t Mithment, and as on: which could only be juflitihi •y ,an immediate emergency. Some Gentlemen who h r commiflions in the Militia, fancied they had the \I 144 under the protedion of the Chancellor of ,: ,e Exchequer ; but he would teL them, that' they h • 1 put their lamb under the butcher's protation t• a t I if they pleated, he would tell the Militia Cohen • v how long it would be fafe. It would be felt :ad s long as they themfelves had power end num'il .enough in . Parliament to protea it. The Rie:,t Hon. Gentleman then dwelt at confiderab:le len;th 'on the improper profufion of military honours.. Mi. litany dillinetions, he Ltid, were fcattered about: over the land with a profufe and inditcrirciiiatink liberality. He here referred to the letter from Edin burgh, addreffed to him, and publithed, which c ,, ri twined tome good obtervations on this head, written too in a part of the ifland, where be hed: good rex , fon to believe the Volunteers were the molt perfeFt.. " It is odd, that while all other el:araelerilit ho. flours are fpacioully diffuffed and cherily kept, arid while they iallained their imprn - tanze by their rarity, • they lhould be fo prolate and unbounded in their 4e... lations . to a profeflion which is nintt particular abo ut its honot:r and its glory, and which, as the l'uet fays,• leeks . - ' Thl'bubblc rcntta:ion, . • ',E'en in the cannon's mouth.' Why ()wind there be this oran ge , an,l fc;:tr.:r,?ls.•nr-'1 accountable and entailed Improper d;?7,'retict ..' Whfc, Sir, it is but very lately that feverjl blue ribb.tntls, very high and diilinguillied honours indeee, I.a v ti been given away. Tittle are Lc:loins whicl ) are best err-fret-- red on a few, and th:refore are more etgerly fought after. I make no doubt Cot). were all sq r; rroperly bellowed on theN.-ible per lons %.iio'ilow we ir iliern,und probably limit' of thole were nbt defici•mt in wing all the means in their power to obtain them. But every where, over the whole furface of the country, the Mi litary Officer fees nothing but the.badges of his pro. fellional rank and diginEtit , n. There Is o.le difference • between military hood:ors and fome • - the.s,inafniuch as thefe may very fa-ego:July he chiefly diflinguilliing, as they thew the nun tf) be of form t , .i•fiderable int. portance to acquire them, and a_l diltinaions are not always the lot of talents and merit. But I molt fay, that if you Alen roy the p-culiai ity of the fymbol, ' you take away the flit clt poi tion of i?s value. If you, by your indifcConioat: life of a &gin:lion, take. , from him the fiu:t of what be h as earne d b y a li.F.: of niilisary aftivity, and the zrcliums e: , eri;•lts o: a long . and well-fought field, yoit moil, beyenct catenation,. dellroy the fpirit of an a; my, and that Wish •mincled: ardour of military-life, that whit!) 1 . 4 r. lk.rke calls tits . cbiaP &Felice i.,lnation 6. Now, Siri'in this,. 'as in, other rn [ attc - ,t,•r fay, .Cie: ri4 of th i t ittnithlaititte': artro:,- . , e • ~ 1 . • I . . . . . • • • • . • . • • • . .. teru l flin for their I cinolitedly were within our power. or ;here Taff tea% imilar way as ith the.framing and maintaining a good Britiffi artily. roper plats, 1'...t For any purpofe that we wanted, he tea! nappy . io . we lhould ev en think, t h at an army was comp l ete l y in their own diragreeable to power. An arti l y rni:eht undoollterly be cairieHoo ernan bad tar-en fir. asswell as otglc.:*:ed 'Mr/ moth:, ;.ml nos carael els at fir a, but far eneroet : bat v hat was there to hinder ii , , with i lew experiment, our poptiie'iou, from making a proper Al rn) ? What land, and in dif• was to prevent us from turning a cert tin proporti rt t hip that thould of our pi potation toward, tire mili:ary nrofeillon, fat 't teem to be fo well as towards any other...( the !srafellions, or any <: o with g reat re • p art i cu l ar tra d e ? Why•t-ld not the army l'e made ip, between the to appear• equally win Ili their while to go tc ;oat pre- 1 . gof his motion. talon, as to go to a trade ? Suppofe any new mann- fe i. refs of the Bal. fafture of great importance, ;lime great cotton mama- tterity obferved, laftrire Ix instance, firdeleoly fprung up and li ru- ' Force Bill, you riffled, fume other trades and manutaauret were pro- I ' r ballot." He bably at fir il butt by i:s prefacrity ; but there thiegs I adroitted . :t., found their own level. riit're was a new mean. of .•' • opinions Le ad. folifillence difcovered. Mr. Malthus bad not, indeed, ive fore:A upon difeovered any new princip . .e, for that was obvious tof . reputation before ; butt he had purfucd it with great per fpicuity found nobody and truth. The demand will have its relation to the I heard in fume fupply. Why, if limes took twice their qiiatety of ;iving operation materials, if men had four legs infead of awn, or : by the admira- even fuppofing he had as many legs as a caterpillar, .• fit afforded.— flues malt liill be worn ; what was there then in the . *cat !satiates, in trade o f a f ildi er f o exceedingly forbidding and rc- • gliboa l ho o d.— yoking to the people of this country : A foldier was :. gly overgrown not quite fore of a very long lift, 'eat his occtipaiirit • , 'rt watoeverthe was more healthy than molt ri'llz...i . s. People were. • . ping at the main found every day to go dovrn into damp tinhcal:Vyi anal neglecting mines in Cornwall and Derbyshire; we had pairo.ers . like =Drier, to and other tradefroen following untie athy 'surfeits': and dozen, and nothing was wanting but to put the foldier's trade tele few we were . upon a.proper level. The army had great, aurae- rnaLe ttte others thins to the young and ::relent, and high:foirited.•-•-• re Janke - by the NotwitlifleAing all feernine; elifaeivantay,es, there l y e who had on. was an in Tint ible attachment to a roiPtery li'e to be • ,aritli, to get the found, by no means uncommon. Bet when he fpoke •• . so could get by of the trade, lee.nught an lineth of the trader. The mp got his man military life' was the trade ; the trader was the Go : tto much more fverti m r i a . Could not thi s gicat trader do as much . he Government as other traders do to pot this pat tiealar trade on al oroctfred in this high a ground at hall as any other of the Fr( fit able. lent the fine in. ,purfuits of mankind? Could Governmee. - . tear any. '. ' ion of the whole competition on Inch a fubjett ? They could grant. td of the Right ,ptiyileges, they could bellow immunities, they ' 'as, that it had 'Could confer ditlindions. We know very well th at s was now glad in tome other•c4untries the force of certain religions ti he was glad of 'opinions had been fuck, as would either entirely yto make out prevent, or elle impair the formation of an atoll-. . i• • sew then), that !Thus, in Tome parts of Afia there were people that i' ezitling fyflem, could not be brought to military purfuits. So the . f of the means, numerous body of (lookers in this country could not 4 f maintaining abe perfuaded to throw off their religious opinions Pi r force. Our on this point. We find no fuch prejudiee opera- -1,409 men, and ting generally among us ; but would any body fay, 16,0a0, its our that we were become f o unmart i a l an d f o e ff em i nate : Here were fo as to be pall the age of military g l o ry, i n the hiffii, fource or other. ry of this count r y ? Wh y were ou r fli ps manned 111 oiled contlantly without fear of f orms , or wrec k s , or enem i es ? I f we r the continual had no army, it was entirely our own fault. Mini- . 0 fervice ought . tiers had fometim es l a id t h e f au l t o f b a d f yf t ems up- icy of this kind on the heads of their predeceffors ; but what excule. 1 t appeared, be- of this kind could b e m a d e , w h ere a Mieiller had, i . ufed ; foal as been his -own predeceffor ?—(4 loud lap.l.,.)—Thot however could, . fault then is his own fault. Now the lira thin.; • fof the regular he thould propofe, would ungneftionably be to clear . „ •.1 Ri army. Four away all the obtlraeions that flood in the wa y o f get - dto the army. ting an army. T o th e fyflem of ballot he cert.,inly loufe confldered objeCted, thoogh he would not at once do it totally fall Ice:zed up, _away in the cafe of the Militia. He had been ruifre- 1 o og war. th e fitto prefented as the en e my o f th e Militia, whiell he had . i : ; fuel), for es- ,never been. lit did pet like to lie it extended too e tegulai infan- fur beiond tire c.: , einel . oljeerl, and cl ogg i ng the Re- only to 5,-„oco gulor Army. lie eirri-:'::td the manner in w:riel .. e amount of fu. the Militia was Ino!eri in -eport mine years back, ,s y 47,000 &kith the molt injurious mode of meddling with that et •- y importantand Milliment, and as on: v.lich could only be jultitied •y 3 1 ther it were at an immediate emergency. Some Gentlemen who h r eat Continental coo,miflions in the Militia, fancied they had the VI :, e . n. As for the litia under the protedion of the Chancellor of .: ,e ' proper to have Exchequer; but he would tell them, that' they is • 1 . • nct help being put their lamb under the butcher's protation ;• a: I fe foreign troops if they pleated, he would tell the Militia Colon • v generally fup- how long it would be fafe. It would be felt iti.t s d fervice, ready long as they themfelves had power T.nd num•er rt of them are .enough in . Parliament to protea it. The Ri,e:.t i' l (wick Fencibles. Hon. Gentleman then dwel t at confiderab'le lerytth res of the ifland' 'on the improper profufion of military honours.. Mi- with bows and litary dillinetions, he laid, were fcattered abort' P e had Ito fyflem over the land with a profufe an d i n dif cr i m I. inating vacuity. For liberality. He here referred to the l e tt er f rom Edi n I abfolute nullity. burgh, addreffed to him, and publilhed, which con. , topic ; but they twined Tome good dbfervati o n s o n t hi s h ea d , wr i tten tility and excel- too in a part of the ifland, wh ere h e had: good rea- '1 ; to their intri. fon to believe the Volunte e rs w e r e t h e moll perfe.it.. el • )' ery body agreid "It is odd, that while all other cliaraclerilic ho. .. •4 ,y whom could nouns are fpaci ou lly diff u ff e d an d c h er il y kept, arid . k 4 'ornament ? It while they faffained their importance by their rarity, • it own wildom ; they thould be fo prolate and unbotended in their 4e... ! "A . re wilhed to go lotions . to a protein - on which is mod particular abo ut • . • Ic witbed to fee its }moor and its glory, and which, as she Puet exercifing their fays,• leeks . that Committee': ' The wall( re:arta:ion, . • . I 'alb his own ob . : e E'en in the earmuffs mouth.' I t. He fhnuld be Wary fheidd there be this liran ge , and fietr.ln?ls'• tt;fo' l I ~ . this lubjeil. He accountable and entailed improper d:e.',reirce*.' Wffy, ,t if his own. He Sir, it is but very lately that fe vera l blue ritrh..inds, .I'. ,' to oumetb.ds. very high and didinguilhed honours indeee, ;.a 1 :: been lik:. frheme, and given away. Thele a re ho nours which ar e bet co.-tree-- 1U experience red on a few, and therefore are more ea ger ly fought ri , lay, fo fatal.— alter. I make no doubt they were all vi re properly i t ‘ experience and bellowed on theNable per lons ry iimiow we it thern,and :lit into great probably fume' of thole were nbt deficient in using all ' I d inefficacious the means in their power to obtain them. But every ts, by the other where, over the whole furface of the country, the Mi- I )y a conitant litary Officer fees nothing but the.badoes of his pro- tid that Oink fellional rank and difintlien. There is o.le difference • . 1 , he would aft: between military liondlps.s and home ether s, inafrauch to exercise the as thefe may very frequently he chiefly dillinguiThing, - ;i molt important as they thew the man to be of tome e , wiiderable irn. T the faults of portance to acquire them, and tide dillinaions ate , u i evil to corn- not always the lot of talents a nd m er i t . B ut I mutt .r . made in a mo. fay, that if you .deflroy the e‘-euliarity of the fymbol, ' I . by aping the you take away the flitelt portion of its value. If l'•:1 ' - ,t, and calling you, by your indifeihn tile inate of a train:lion, take . ' I 1 vas glad to fay from him the fruit of what b e h as earne d by a lit.: of unit of Govern- rallisary aftivity, rind the ardroms exerti•ms o: a long , ! bout remedyinie and well-fought field, you moil, heyead calcalation,, . cof reeking to dellroy the fpirit of an army, a nd th at hi s h• m i n d e d" 1 tot the fatV . .t of ardour- of militarrlife, that which Mr. Berke calls the . ! h'w•orirtion it ' ctiap &Felice efnations. Now, Sir, iu th is . , 'as in other. ,1' e•-finilrtie; that .nlatteee•r fay, *l•;,> back to..fiznpticityais your , k h eorT. O• otiteis . that tali- anal pritr:tie:•* Ge: rid . olthe inateroki t inee awr e e, I .. ....,....1,