Star. — London, England, 1805-03-27 00:00:00

~;++' ... : PiaIIiLVENTARr P4OCNEDING;. 3401111 OF LORDS. =LSD" MARCH it Rehr Lordedps proceeded further he the Appeol 16odsrl4111(9. mph& Moloch Bert. Mr. H. bides segoisal 144 f, if width torsbar coolideration was poipmed-oft T wet. MI. Amomiroso, Mr. Arrow sr, eadfionard odor embus of tbe Hook of Cemosees, brought up the Leger? Duey lip, WI too prime IN% which were forerilly read • ftrft des. Mr. Hosesmi, from the j o esdast Herm Cempeol, Warnoviii the Armed Ammo. At* Company, which were yoked to no ▪ I" e e 4 i L toilionow. (this dsy.) ~.- HOUSE OF COMMONS. Tit Cassemartka liken Marry )3411 was, co die mottos of Mr. Hama?. Wslames, read a Wood doe, aad ordered to be retard as a Comeleses. _ Wateavr.= the Leaden licar Cesipsay. preload. in purfameaal of die .Heete. ss west* of the country et Wbad. Ma., and Bread. artieb lave bees nsansthaaral by them: and alfe aNI the Perrone Met ant Preapeletors made the above Inno•Ordered to be laid es the tabk. ii:tio:iiiorTc4 be week% tows diet It be es to the Canaktee Arlo are to propose the 111 ter tin XIMMOIr it et Frodsehl Afdlou for 1 -wades end Ida% in !Mod. dht they sake radios for the betake end %PPMet Oshisf bdhharke sad "maks ether Cheritdde Few- — The Amadeu Treaty die Neutral Prise BM, the Ca* Trade Duty 1111. sad the Etalre Additiettal Duty yak wat k yeses rod sir* doe, and (=Wed foe a locoed rod* w siograir. Irma OF NMI.. Coked arautav pretested • Petielms f paylig for have to pre. fiat a Mies froatiolla Deist of Athol. The objedt the Petition sppearelte have was. shit of prays!, far a eonspersaim for cea tee bibs sisigel to haute:ea nrrticed is easketenee of the re goistkes width have lady mhos piece with refpodt to the trade of the lie of Maa. The Aka of his Majefty having hese someneed, the queike was pet. the teemed Fabian ordered to be brought up, end to be ' referred use Coseeittee, coediting Uf Coked' kanky. Sir Jobe William Amiable, Mr. Illaukhorn and fevers! cominereial men, appointed by the Houle to examine ;he mattersut the raid Petition. CM the motion of Mosel Sea 'mar, the Repots of the Com willemes of Er mity who were appointed is yps, for the pr.' M p at e of Mus Oft to the names on Meat of the Revenues of the His of Mee Irbids newt evades bill Wort the Houle), • Was calumet be sheared to the abommeeraistellOomminee. As limik Malts was die adored. dh a *a motion of Woad Ovavartrpea be te Ms bleldly. praying that he , would be gnaw* te order. shit the Report of the Lords of ..eenia•• of the sift Joey. sloe. ea Me brae ft**, he kid before this oats. The lie of Mae MI was, after this. ordered to be minted for the persist of the Members of this Hoak. • Mr. BAN leofolll prefented a Petition frees certain inhabitant' • of Leimiteidre, ageing the Provilleas of the late Cora Laws. - Orderd to lie cie the TOR. Mr. ?tummy pvc notice, that he would to-morrow move. that the Hoek active Riff into a Co.'epitoes oa the Aft of the gyth of the Wog, which mimes to Ps Duty on ,spoilt Moe. IttauCTine OF Till MILITIA. The order of the day being read for the fecund reading of she Bill for the Reduction of the Militia, and the Siesta. having ;spoofed the queflion, Mr. HUGHES (aid he was not in the habit of o f. fering himfelf to the ettentiois of the Houfe, but the ftrong call of duty conftrained him to overcome his natural rehaftatice. He admitted the prefent Bill was lets objectionable than that which bad been adopt . ed in two, from the modification's it had received; but as be mud refill the principle of it, thole varia tions could not reconcile .him to the meafure. The El was brought forward without any ground being laid foe its Introduaion. When the former one was fubmitted to the attention of the Moore, a . eafe of re markable urgency was made out. although not Inch* cafe as, in his mind, vindicated the expedient. What was the fitnation at tbai tints t In the year 1790, we bad a prodigious defenlive force: the Militia exceeded roo,aao ono, and we had a numerous body of Fen cibles: On the contrary, the Regular Army• was wafted by a protraaed war ; and it was under there peculiar eircumnances that it was permitted to recruit out of the Fencibles and out of the Militia; under the authority of Parliament. In' this inliance the fame febeme was recommended. when the motive was gone. We were told by the Right Hon. Gen. tleman, (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) that the Regular Army bad ;read* itierealed ; that the re cruiting was active and effectual ; and that his rayon. • rite AA for the augmentation of the difporable force, was foal to be brought into complete operation.— Why then lhould we retort to this odisoi and obnoxi. ass method ? If the quote of rbooo would not enter as volunteers, would the Right Hon. Gentleman dif• band the Nat West Militia ? Did he, after all his ex preffioncof doubt and alarm, begin now 'to confider the garrifon of the gauntry as too ftrong ; Had the fears of the nation been abfurd and nugatory ?, Were the fleet. of the enemy deftroyed ? Were, his armies dikanded Was his ambition annihilated? Did the Woollen of this country no longer tempt his appetite for univerfal dominion? But there were conftitutional objeaions to the meafure. Every tending army in Europe. which menaced or deftroyed the liberties of the foil by which it was fopported, we were told, had its origin in a barm)efs Militia ; we ought then never to We fight of that precaution ' we ought never to abandon that ;tido*, whit% would prevent fuch dangerous encroachments. The bee Officers in the Mattis ha d been difgulled by the former regulation, and bad retired from thefervice ; but it was promikd no fuch plan would be revived. Now Walt and flat tery wave combined, and it was vpinly expected Gen tlemen would folnnit to fuch illufions, and patiently bear with repeated merrifteations. Mr. YORKE being hindelf an Officer of the I& • lids was estrentely Corry at finding hinsklf impelled, by a fish of -Amy to exprefs an opinion very diffe. • rent from that which was entertained by many NO. blemen and Gintlemen of dui higheA .cask And of the Sri refpoilahaity in the forme. Booseer, Jae would boldly idetaipe. that it a- a toting that fonsetblog iba this ormAl pan n• of the Bill ought to be adopoi lt ,1141 . at un itir ksub eeeediog, although few., *deo& eras ly sable to although a m ' a Tithery &RI wafers had not been toll .i s order that there might have been fairseleot *ma for soaking the engagements whieb were rieeelfery before they could be lent agairift the essay. But beobjeded to aoy of the Militia being allowed taivoluomer into dm Toot Guards' s, that is nor, corroall freebie& a port of our difpofable , . feet & 4 iipea of tbaruko gait the MilitiA Otoold bi a iota into the Artillery. and 3 or accao be thought might be , with great advent* to the good g o b s or the lasfui tk e e l i a: l 7. grafted ed e ili se S bHe itt i he a paverSOWA WPM to odoce l ao; the coniitudemg err uriesriftitsti,pl Into the prevent fogi adios could be setbEis. unhook-1 .tut Kral * ',lk to waif s h e mi d tai ass a Askew so*Collaq! . . width hot boos boy* IVO& Iht Ms of `, l and difgolk behig created by it'in that brafiteb , Woks, be rebutted, by acquainting the Ware, thai l, loci men bad volualmead kens his own regiotentsanf entered into on tbe w :dis and t 46th, an ved g d a y e e il t e the grea , Lel the officers were as trongly attached to the ferrice as ever they were at any former period. Indeed, be did not think it right that in it& -a of Militia thould expels diffatisfaaton at his Miliaria Government, as a majority of that Houk having ezprefed an opi- Mon slairmt from that which be entertained. .He then adverted to the circusnikanee of the late meeting of Lord Lieutenants, at the Thatched Haute, and pulling our of his pocket the paper which contained the Refolutions of the meeting. obferved, that fere. tel of the perfons who had fo &trembled were in the regular habit of oppofing his Majelty's The ideas of there Gentlemen he roppored to be fomei, thing more political than fentimental; and he belie,/ ed, iliac if the broad energetic Government which they recommended, had been placed over the affairs of the nation, they would have adored the very fame fort of meafure. But though he clearly yaw the neceffity of the Bill being paired into it law, there was another part of it which be did not like:thin was the part where a ComManding Officer was defied to cut , his regiment in two, and have the men taken from one half, while the other.sras free from the Operation of the Bill. He had no doubt that great numbers of the men would readily ezprefs an indent, defire to join in the glory of any expedition in which they were told they would have to pall down the Emperor of the French, or to piill down the King ofi Italy. But he was apprehenfive that Officers asisht is Tome inflames with to keep the beter part of their regiment, that the Grenadiers the Light ;armory would probably be yet afide, and-prevesited from r ing abroad. He therefore *commended the sideption of the mode , of ballot generally among the whole.' colonel BASTARD did expea that -the Right Hon. Gentleman who bad jail fat down would hairs op fed theprefent meafure, as it was the necefferi reule of that fyttem by which his own Meafures had been all deßroyed. But he bad often heard, that it was a good child that killed the rod. Howeverthat Righ a t Hon. Gentleman might think it right to dip. port fyttem fo very oppo fit e to that upon which he himfelf had afted, he felt it to be his duty to tipple this Bill, for the fame reafon as he had fupported the meafures of the Right Hon. Gentleman binsfelf when he was at the head of the War Department. What. ever might be the ingenuity of the Right Hon. Gen: tleman himfelf, in managing his own regiment, be ; init t l i taintain that, generally (peaking, where men ed adefire so leave the limited fervice of the litia, for the purpofe of enter' ag into unlimited fervice, and for an undefined per there mull be either a want of attachment to their officers, or a ge neral fpirk or fnfabordination amine them. If the idea of...the honours and glory of a common giddier marching to Paris to pull - down the Emperor of the French and King of Italy could prevail on them 'to quit a Militia regiment, he did not think that their attachment could - be-very &Kern Lord TEMPLE declared, that he Should not have this night fpoken on the rubjea, but for the curios. (tent which had been jut then exhibited of a Gentle- man arnergliog to preferve fonwappearance of con filleney in his condo& and endeavouring to reconcile all the contradiaions which might expelled to re= fult from the in fl uence of his different fhOaticess and his different conflation:. The Noble Lord then traced in regularfucceflion all the proceedings of the Haute from the year 1799 to the prefent period. In 1199 the levies from the Militia were limited both as to time and (pace, now they were to be unlimited in both points of view. Since that period, during* time of Peace, the Right Hon. Gentleman had himfelf, he believed, brought forward a Bill, which 'declared, that 60,000 Militia were abfolutely neceffary for ,the defence of the country; and yet, now he could, friend to the Militia fervice, declare, that, in a died of War, and of alledged danger of invafion, it was fig that the numbers of the conaitutional defenders of the country mould he immediately reduced to 40.0001 The term contlitutional. he contended for it, was moll correaly applied to that defcription of force which was to . be direeted by the principal part of the landed intend of the country, and through the ranks of which there. flowed the moil lively ez preffion of , every local intereß which could poffibly attach them to the foil, or make them with to defend naoaintt foreign invafion. The Marquis of DOUGLAS conceived the Bill to be unjuß in its principle, and injurious in its ope ration. The Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Yorke) Old it was not unconßitutional—he did not contend it was fa t but es far as refpefted the conßitution of the Militia. The Right Honourable Gentleman had talked much about the delicacy of his feelings-- but he feemed deßitate of all fenfibility—bis military apottacy was only equalled by his ininiatrial apoßacy. —(1 gourd ery ?bear/ hear! order! erder).4 , -When, by the interpolation of the Chair, filmy was Tailored, The SPEAKER defired the Noble Lord' woul d Attain from any thing perfonal.' The Marquis of DOUGLAS replied, that he was not aware be had tranfgrefred the rules of the Houfe; but if he bid, - he was ready to apologize generally `for having fo done. He then refurned—Every meant had been taken to elienati the affeftions of the tin elfin's, before the Bill was brought ist, and inch void* ohligadeos of the Officers on that eltablith meat. What Would be the -painful fitnation of ghefe Gelidellien when they were called upon to commu nicate to their regiments propofitions fo remote from thole on. which the fervices of the Corps were tender ed ? He, too, had feeling; but it was of • very dif ferent kind from thin indulged by the Right Hon. gentleman, and if would be molt thatffay excited under tuck circomflanees. He did not objea to the Bill merely eq account of the great landed cs a te- 4 , tors ; be refined it alto for the fake of the occupant, the indulbions cultivator of the foil,, who would be called upon to (apply the deficiency *felt ing from this nseafure. It was no proof of the rude tiros of the men raving in the Pada, if they (cold be more &ragas to embark on Ibreign expeditions; than to defend the unitary of their country ; fo that all the arguments flow gamma zeal and male am bition, were vain and Moho* s but if therm* to go abroad, where ore* they to aft I We had Ito fig's Ally os tbccoosiiant : not fist& a term wii iii the fpeech - fr the 'Throne ; the only lomenece tblt was emPleged of this 'sodomy was nprellie iffoiaqi .onhamwa privets with whom his Majelly was in the' habit ej'friendly insercourfe. His Lordfhip conclud ed withjepeating his conviaion of the inexpediency sad abdhy of thi# STANLEY sok to make fame. remarks as' .. t had fallekfrom a former Secretary at War . Yorke). and on the incomfiftency of his con dna, in the pert be bad taken in the preknt mea. Cara *did not know .how to reconcile the can tina of the Right Honourable Gentleman, in -4. provlag of the "dent =adore for the reduaiOn of the-militia, after having Uinta introduced a Bill for angmentlwtbat conaitutional fpecies of the na tiosal*cet The Noble Lord defended himfelf, and there who'oppofed the prefent Meaftwe, from the ob late*** ,af Om Right Honoorable Gentleman, that if what he calleda broad bottomed Adminifira don bad been fogged, thole who voted againft 'the precut bill - would have given their reatb , concur reace to the at now pyopofed. He then entered at confidetable Inagth into # dirt:afoot of the eonfe alma= ef 4114 which he charnamised as uncon filtutkrial mad "Ifieß. He (aid, it was an attempt to *grog; the bgniar Army, without afcertaining thej Ito be the objea of the Rigby Hon. a lass* rce, without be tidirb iiicented !dim the apias he made afe of sce:omtt l : . • Lard ON opptoted of the meafure. The. principle was that 4 tbe Sill for the gradual reduc- Clos thirkilida. He was cue wha thought that op atositeri 'thee lad feffion by hit ;tight Hos. lrlsad (10.) +tt 3 or he felt then, and aittaill fuel, that ,there were not fulficient officers for thi Militia, as it toed at the sacreakil number of alootoo. Hs Was as Officer of Militia biter* and Mould do every dues is his power to (award the bbjeas of the meafore before the Hoof.. TheCHANCELLOR of tbe EXCHEQUER laid that be bad bees fri 'veil an:ions:to hear the fenti jams of C umin odverfkm the mei** that he' lied gonad . * that rather latallaiwi without offerist hh feminsaiti; and if fame of Ai olifeevations ot thole noble sad bmutable perfontka4 given pain, the ("detente of the Nohlei.Ord were highly . grati fy*/ to his fediugs. He was co=ernedTto he ob, uga Eo direst in opinion from Co 'many To:freebie dear, olficers of militia, yet as their objeitions clif f-Slid very litde from thole brought forward by them when he Ara introduied the meafure, it would not be neeeffary for him to enter at large into the cone.' deration of the fabled before the Erode. Ati ear - ;ion bad been urged- that there had been' no ,groond ' laid for taking the meafure for ineteafing the regular army. Now, Gentlemen mall have forsotten,beith what he had always of late advanced, hepatitis our inilitaiy force, and whot they *unfelt= bad faid in all debates on the fobjeil. "They (tented to think ' that he hail kid that the regular army was fuEcient as it eats. He had e'er thought our army not fuf ficendy *Omitted, and is gasmen with the Honour. able Gentlemen thensfelvea, that difpofable -army was t (peeks of force molt particularly renal*, If there was any Point in which thol e Honourable Gentlemen and himfelf and Meads had feinted to be ;Med, It was, that the regu lar army, ought tote in crenfed, the only difference being , arise tinderhoA as the bell Mesa of profpeaiv y accoinplilhinsthat objea. Whoever would look at the fituation of this eomitry and Europe, tif the profpeas there might be deepen the Coatis* la in honourable rciftanee to Franceormild parcplie that we:did math want to Wreak out army. It was &silted asfileonfiaricy in a Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. - Yorkeyllsa&he bad owe laid, that the Militia ought only to be reduced in cafe of emergency ; and that in puritance of this notion that Right Hon. Gentleman bad not content. ed to its reduelion till an expedition 'was on the eve of being undertakes. Was the Country, was the Monte" then, to wait in the prefent intbuice, until an expedition &old be op the eve of being undertaken ? —lt was Paid that the meafure was extremely unjust and unconftitutional. The obfervations afthe Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. 'Yorke) on the point of The ateafure beintonditational•or not, he thought un•. anfirevable. The Web* of the mtafure the Hon. Gentleman had not better fieeeeded 'in proving.— Gendeiten urged that the Sfilida was raifed for home defence4fur its own defence.. But would it be be lieved that 68,000 men were raifed for the defence of the Militia, or that any pledge was given,' that that number mould not be reduced in any circumfiances of a war of Continental alliances and operations, and many more eircutillances eafy to be divined ? Ano ther fuppokd contradiaion in the fpeech of Mr. Take, noticed by'his (Mr. Pitt's) Noble Friend and Relation (Earl Temple) wasothat in time of Peace, that Right Hepourable Gentleman had r thought 68,000 , Militia acceffiry. ; and then it was eked - how it happened thin they were not necefikr, in time of war? But the faiß was, that uo,ooo were the numbers in time of peace • and by an Mt of the Legiflature, the King had the 001Ier e in time of war, to calf on half the Militia to embody for general (mice. . Was this as objeaionable as would have been an A 4 for difembodying them altogether ? -With'refpea to the feelings of the Militia Odicers, they were :OA krupitlotifty confulted's and (Wald be throughout.' Reverting to the argument, that the Bill broke faith with the farmer andloufeholder • who had elready contributed their (abdicates, how (vas that breaking faith with them, to render their rubllitute more immediately and effieiently'nfefulr towards the 4efeace of their King and Country ? The • fabditate would ty. this MI be rendered .moct valuable to the canary. without injury to the fisratei4, If reduked to 4o:coo, the paftilhy of further but= lot would be 'veer final s and if WNW there lhould again be a hallot,• that would not fall upon the farmer alone, bit' upon the whole of the country. If we ,were botiqd_po the other head, to keep up the eafualkics of 70,0 no• what would be the injury of &tete iadividdds, inftead of the catual ties of 40.000t - lleit it was andited, that the Militia Swage was glivaSed by the. telnittiori held oat to awn to recruit into the Line; 11" that was fo, he did not know ; but he was fure that 'eVery• meafure would be taken. that could be taken leglilatively, to keep, the ,Clldeere of she Line diftinft from Chore of the Militia. Still be. would not deny, bat that if Recruiting Offcers and derieants came in the way, they`woord taiga the Militia men as much as they were able; but fo rite from that pradlim being coun teaanced by Government. in the only one intiance in .'teltichaa ar.B had been made to them for re *1111001"W‘: the agitation of the relent took Axe. leave had him peremptorily refaced. Pa %Be part of the Military Department, every thing Mould be done in this fpitit, and if the quota &mild be fet apart by the Officers, nothing fhould be done to in• terfere with the Militia. So far then, as to the (Ned 'of the Bill, which he would contend was a juit object. As to the obfervations on the regulations and detail of the 'ineafure, the proper place for fuch would be in the Committee. Repelling the appropriation of the 17,000, he held rather a different opi nion from the Right Hon. Gentleman. (Mr. Yorke . He did own. however, that he hat it in contemp lation to re unit from it to the Artillery; and might be difpofed "to recruit a few into the Guards; if to be met with of the proper foe, and paeffing the other requifite qualifications. In coer,4ofion. lie °barred, that as the ground of the meatoitee. that ofincreafing our dif porible force, had been tinivorfally admitted, and even by i t Fenit i lext Gentleman-(4r. Windhain) ;as the meaftire was of urgent • ,as it would greatly tend to the advantage the tnuatry, it (hould have his bell fupport. Mr. WINDHAM Paid it ante not to be fuppnfed he had any objeftion to the locreifeof the troops of the line. That was an object Co Much iti conformitr with all the &raiment' he had maintained, and fo di rally jp op tion to all thou that bad been foppor coht ted by thei Honourable Gentleman who moved this meafur e. 4 10.10.), that itwas sot likely he &mild oppole him in The pelt Honourable Gentleman wit now employed •in taking down a part of the lli g g: which be bad been fo long employed in e a r tt i .- He applauded the workinan and he ap planded the work. it was afatisfadiop to find that the- Right Honourable Gentleman was fo good-na turedly difpofed to coned every thing erroneous be MO :have formerly efiablinted. Confidering the kites of time the Right Honourable . Gentleman bid formerly been in power, confidering he Was now in Power again, and that many wished him to re " main. in power, it would be to be lamented indeed if he adhered to every error he bactfillen intp. The Right Honourable Gentleman completely 'relieved the Honfe from that apprehnifion, for a more point ed recantation of his former principles and pradice could nor poffibly be, eabibited. It waccertainly a departure froolhisforiner fyfletn only in part, far with a happy varkey, it contained in it what, in the (porting lantnage was called a hedge (a laugh), the drat of which was, 'that there was a chance dip Right Honourable Gentleman would at all events 'win.—(divid &orb.) Here the aitioureblerrentle man adverted •to the extent tp which the )(alias (It: tem bad been from time to time carried. The Ang lifit Militia was inereaffiebY the addition of the Sap. plementary ; then ***. San& Maki* was added, lend aftawaids the frith. The builffing liras elevated by heaping Rorer on florey'till it was nopeihlip to go farther. The Rig ht Honourable Gentleman wash thin *time in the 'Militia has, he afterwards ictjall {(top under the abolition of the ballot—.(o dregl e ..4 4: He bad, however, Ruck to the old trade tart He kept clofe to the ballot till its death, audit* cried out its laßfpeech in the introduction of hit Pardit Bill .....(a high)—this par& beauty, in cparfe rufkt o that he had round fo fafcinating (e . /opigh.).--The ballot had not been given up till late. . it bad been glean up, however ; tt was found that it increafed the bounty, and that, by its peons, men were mot" to be had for general rice: Then the Right Honour able Gentlepian fet out with a general declaination agaida the ballot, which he at leng th found our was very injurious ' to the fervice. The abolition of the ballot was one Rep towards that negative Nero. Whieb he and his Honourable Friends had mom liended. When being aiked for their plan, they Paid it codified merely in getting rid of all the impedi ments that ebecked the fimPle recruiting. TQ re move evils was certainly the fir* Rep towards effect ing good; but the Right Honourable Gentlearea change bad not this e ffect. Two negatives, it was Paid, made an affirmative ; but the Right Honour, Me Gentleman's &tend proceeding, was but a furtheh departure from his former principles and pradice.-- . His parilh bill went to abobili the ballot, or at, lead to remove it to a ionfiderabk diftance. But if that took it ;way, this meafure gave it back. Becaufe the pariffi bill removed it to too great a difiance, this brought it near, fo as to enable him more eerily to come at it--(a lewd laerf). There ohfervations went more to the author than to the meafure ; but though meafures were to be judged of in themfelves, yer a part of their credit was connefted with the perfonal charader of thole from whom they proceeded,' and therefore what be had laid on this head was not im proper nor irrelevant. The Right Honourable Gen demo had argued, that he and tbofe who were of opinion with him that the regular force wit too finidl, and the militia too large, ought to Support this meafure. Certainly it would not be inconfiftent in that to fupport it, but they were not therefore necerarily to do fo. Though they argued thee the militia Should be reduced, and the regular army aug mented, they were not therefore bound to approve all means whatkever propofed -for carrying the& ob jeds into effect. His objection to this meafure Was, that it did not produce advantage to the regulars in proportion as it did injury to the militia. The only difference was, that the number of men transferred would be applied to a more advantageous ferrite. He allowed the fervice was more advantageous, but it was not trained men that the army wanted ; and be pat 'it to the regular officers, whether they would not Prefer unexercifed men to thofe disciplined mili tia, who would never make good troops. He did nor fay that the militia was not in every refpeft equal .to the rett ne ill staining ; in many inilances they were .get a a to' compl y felrere difcipline„ but filltri the nature of the &reid there was always fome thititrrehanlhg afoot li Milithi-man which rendered Win ** ' untraSatile than' Was • ennfiftent with the Well being of the reguLtr fervice. Ho did not mean in this Co- firllui ; that no aid r ilitittld erer be taken from theanditia to the line, but never without great emergency.' Another °Mahon he had was on u broader ground, titer' if aby general modification of our military ()Item itas to be retorted to. it would be retarded and rendered more difficult by thefe occa fional expedients. The great deft of the prefent fytlem was, that its flirts were not well joined, Co as 0 aid and co-operate with' isteh ' other. The Right Hon. Gentleman had 'befides overlooked another point of difference. The• eolith/tent' here propofed was for life. which' wag • equally contrary to the ge neral, principle propo(ed by . him, and 'the original prinCapie of the militia: He allobred that, if necedity required, be biaSelfwerald be ready ii take Sport 6 , . ~.r_~: