Star. — London, England, 1806-05-31 00:00:00

tARLIAME.VI4Iir r'Rc•CEED/IGS. HOURS. OF I.DROS, FRIDAY. MAY , ;o. • Tlte L ORD VHANCFI I.OK haviog taken the IWoolfach at half p R foor the fevcral 11114 upon the cane, multi? , private, were tdavear.l,l s Rae, A Metf-ge wit Immght from the Comments. With Parra, pri vate Sam and ebc twat R,.vettue C"lleetiopliergui,itlnti : and rssurd.. an.. ha Mellage from the C. numme wiihn , bight the A I - 10:4 anal (trend other Mather., with the Propewy Tax Rill. th.t kills Malt Rill. and the * lotto's Free Port fill., all n 1 whi.h were read the Rai time. The Tortola IRO, and the Property Tat Nil, were ordered to be prilted. The Doke of MONTROSE moved for the prodeellen of f e vers' dormnents refpecting the elporti of tritirh produce and manure* tore I to Tortnla how the year t t 67; alfo the imports (rum Townie into Great &Italia during the fame period ; and alto the produce at neutral Mande Imported into 'fort,,la within the tali live years ; vet Ic I were ordered. The Order of the Day being read for pence...ling to the further tontideratton of the evidence io Lord cafe, on the mo• tine of Lord A tICRLAND. the Reamers were ordered to with draw% after w%lch. their Lordthlps continued in dote difeufflon spun the fulled till twelve u'elotk. HOUSE OF COMMONS. On the motion of Alderman COaIBE. the Temple Far and Skinner.fireet Lottery Dill WAS read a third time, and pared. On the motion of Sir J. NEWPORT ' an account was ordered of the produce of the duties on wares and inerellindize in Ireland, front January t Sotto lama y tBc6; and alfu of the new and ad. tlitional duties or Stamps. Sir I N Eta' POR r brought on the Dublin Paving Commifflovers AUL lbead a fait time. and to 1w read a iamd time on Monday. Mr. VANSIT FART sowed tor an account of the Exchequer *ills trued In I fog, which was ordered; and he then brought up the account accordingly. On the motion of So- I NEWPORT, the bird Additional Force Repeal INS, and the Irifh CUROMS Duty Dill, wee, read a third time, and puffed. Mr. SU t.LIVAN rote to move for certain papers that might do away ant Inds Sinn that a late (perch of an Honourable Gentle. man (Mr. W. Keene) was cakuiated to make. unfavourable to the tharadier of en Honourable Relarion of hi, (Sir R. Stillvan) not then prefect to defend hirufelf, and now UPII , IIILIZMY threw. He bad not been prefect when the obfervations were made, but from the acenunt which he had heard and read of them, ha nun , took upon hint to pronounce them unfounded and onkl. The Honourable .Vlerober then entered into a relation and defence of the conduet of his hr other, Su P. Sullivan. when Secretary to the Nabob of the Carnatic. in t 783.11 t yin advlfing that Prince to aflign the termite of the Caroatle to the Company. a mcafure which I ad met with the approbation of the flowzrnor General and Coon eft at that period. He Did that the affertion. that he had revealed the ferrets ot the Company tothe Naboh.was eatirely untrue. He alto entered at Tome length into an exploitation of the grounds on which his I lonauratic Relation bad received a (urn of money front the Nabolt, wild, had been laid to amount to co,cool but which was in effedt only to,oool. and concluded with moving for an Murat of a Icier from the Governor General of Bengal, to the Count of Direciora.dan•cl Ottober za. 5783. Mr. wtirrstiEu KEENE was Awry that any obrovations which be had made Mould have hurt the feedings of individuals ; 1 but he bad no objed:on to take up the queftion to which the paper ' new moved for reNrred, and to dircufs it on the grouods that nal m itt he prefruted to the Houle. After fame farther obfervations from Mr. SULLIVAN and 2sfr. EI.LISON. the latter of whom reprobated the predict nt witotority wounding the feelings of private individuals, the paper moved for rer as ordered; se was alto an extra& trom a Letter of the Govern, General to Ise Court o:Direclars.dated Nov. 28, t 783 Si- J. Nrd'PORT gm notice, that he Mould, Tucfday Pelt. fubmit to the Hoare certain propoStions for rendering the iiner• cootie to grain, between Great Britain and Ireland, free and no nitrating& Or the motim of Mr TOSTFR, an .td.lrefs was ordered to be preiented to hi. Majefty. praying that be would he ple.fal to dirs..), that there be laid before the Hook a (dopy of a lever from the Board oflrade to the Lords of the 'l4- fury, refpeeting the drawbaet on foreign linen. Mr. PAULL nursed for copies of all werefrodenee between the Hon. Henry Welkfl y a-d the tinverbor General of Btngal, *psi 4/etober tgos to March 19 3. relative to the //dab of saf. kew —Alter a few wont. (rum W.:ARTHUR WELLE6L N.Y who did vie dice( to the mutton. the papers were ordered On the mod .n of Sir J NEWPORT. t► /inure rt Wired lacif Into • Committee on the kith Militia Volunteer Bill —.Report to be received en Monday. lIISH TAX 3. On tbemotion of Sir J NEWPORT, the Houk refolved Welt into a Cununittee of Ways and Means.- , -I he Flight lion. lien:nun then laid, tint he had already acquainted the Houte . witit his in tention to withdraw the propnted Ramp duty on traria from Ire land to this country,and it therefore lieestue i.tertfary to habilitate fnmething in its place. He Mould therefore now prupute, th..t an addbloral duty of one %Olive per barrel he laid .ni all Malt In Ire land ut:d for the purpofe of brewing, and of four ibillinga per bar rel un 411 Malt Wed in the 4M:illation nffpirits, the duty to attach to the Rock on hand from the ad of Jose. 'the whole produce o; 1 thin tax he calculated at .10. - OGi. and it would make up for the de hciency occaficned-by withdrawing the duty on entries. Mr. ic/SYRR then (hardy exprelll,l no approbation of therm. Feted tat; and the report was ordered to be received on Monday I nett. _ - Mr. All XANDER brought up the report of the Committee on the Duey on 'thread Late,and a bill was ordered to be brought In urfuam to the refolut ions. The SECRETARY at WAR brought op certain aremints rela tive to the eftleUvc ftrength of the Dad& Army.--Ordered to be primed. Lord CASTLFRTiAGH gave notice of a motion fur Tucfday, rcfpeding the American Intercourfe Dill; and Mr. ROSE prefent • od a Petition from the Welt India Merchants of London, and Sir CHARLES PRICE front the Ship Owners. :Izabal the fail Dill. Mr. DANKES brought up a Report from the Committee sp. tonts.ted to Japed the new building at.the htufeum The KtPort Rated, that the buildings would he con pitted in three or four months, and that great attention appeared to have Lan paid to the work.—Laisi uu the table. MUTINY MILL. The SECRETARY at WAR then moved the or. der of the day for the Honk refoleing ittelf into a Committee on the ?destiny Bill. Lord CASTLEREAGH. before the Honk went into the Committee, wifhcd to put two querliens to the Righ: Hon. Sect et. y on the fuhjed.of his mile. tary plan. He glinuFlit t. defirable. that the Houle Mould be aware of intentit ns tefpaling the bison ties which he propoitil to give. He would therefore afle, whether any, and what bounty was to be given on ttinlillmcnt at the end of the 1411 C.:yen years, And what on reinlittasent at the expiration of the feconti period I Ile alto willed to know, whether he Rill &Sped to give the half penfion, nn retirement, a! the ern, of t 4 years, and the full penfion at the end of 31 years. Mr. WINDLIAM replied, that the bounties on re testament mull, ft. m the very nature of the cafe, be a matter of future, rather than ef prefent regula tion. The meafure, which he had the honour to pro. pole, was defigned rather fur the permanent fumanrt and ittereafe nt the at tny, than for a tarot i mme di ate fupply. In confequence of it, he expeCted to be able to go a ennfiderable length in reducing the prefent b unties ; but as to bounties at the end of liven or 14 years. that would be a matter pith:tare regnlatios. With regard to the penlion on retirement from ler vice. he had already mentioned 6d per day, as what might be gircn at the end of 14 years fervice ; and is. at the end of a I years. But it was now prompted In Inhltitnte 4d. per day, in place of 6ti. ;n the former pie, and that the latter laould remain as heti been miginally intended. Mr. PERCIVAL profeffed himfelf anahleperfaily on commehend the anfwer r,f the Right Honourable ..:etetary. The enquiry merely was, whether bounties were to be given at the end of different pit. I rands of fervice, and what kale of proporhn w is r be obfereed in regnlating thefe bounties? Mr. WINDEIAIf had no difficulty in raying, that it was likely bounties on re Inlifitnent would he toms, I neceffary ; but he could not date the probably amount of Arch bounties, nor the proportion whici. they %mild bear to each other. He was not yet aware what bounty would be neceffary on the fiat eulid mem, and Pill left inuld he know what might be requilite on the fecond end third. Mr. CANNING nbferved, that the import of the quellion put by his Noble Friend was, whether the Right Honourable Gentleman had fuch confidence in the fimerior allurements of his plan, that he looked to recruiting without a Ix:Linty ; or whether it would be necethry to have recourfe to the ordinary mode of bounties ? This quellion lie conceived went to the I very effence of his plan, and it was of importance that the Hook fhould know the Right Honourable Gentleman's intentions on this head Mr. WINDHAM replied, that he lonia not at prefent elate what bounty would he given o rue null enlitiment, nor what proportion would be nbferved in the bounties at after periods. He did conceive, how , ever, that Tome bounty would be necelfary ; for if a I tummy was given or, the 1::P enlittment, why not , alto on the fecund and third ? But the amount of these bounties mutt =airily vary according to the ciicumllances niche times, and it would be impoffible I now to fay what bounty might be neceffary feven nr fourteen years hence. Nothing that might now be fettled on the l imed of bounties could be unalier: ' ably fixed, but mull vary according to the change of ' circumfiances. Bit lie had no hefitation In faring, that Come bounty might be neceffary to induce tore enliftment at the end of .he &II and fecund periods. Mr. O'HAItA thought, that Government &mild , always have it in their power to regulate and pro. pardon the bounties, and either to give or withdraw them. They fhould be proportioned to the period of fee vice for which every man was inclined to e nter, whether limited or permanent, and thus adapted to the , eilhes and inclinations of individuals. He was prioTeding farther on the fubjeß, when the Speaker (Poke to coder, obferving, that the only quellion be tore the Houle was, whether it Mould refolve itfelf into a Committee ? The Houle Bien refolved itfelf into a Committee on the Bill. Mr. WINDHAM then took occafion to Pate and explain the alterations propofed to be introduced in• to the military oath. By it, the fiddler was to engage to ferve for a period of feven years, and alfo for fetch additional period as his Majeny might be pleated to direCt, not exceeding three years Ibis had a refer ence to foreign fervice, and alfo the period of war. But in the case of pence, it was propofed that his ler. vice (hould dete,mine within the period of fix months fubfequent to the keen years of his engagement. As A conliderable number of young men entered the army before the age of eighteen, and indeed when bale ' more than boys, it was peopled that the period of the keen yeats engagement was not to be begtm to be counted, till they art ived at toe age of eighteen. From that age, though they floold have entitted at fifteen, they wete to ferve feven years. At the expiration of his engagement, ii abroad, the foldier was to be brought home at the expenee of Govern ment, and on landing was to be entitled to marching m met-, to enable film to reach the place of his eolith' ment. It was alb, pi-roofed, that while the general eff.lt of the contra& thoutd he teemed, it (hoed he left open to the Executive Government to vary their bargains diferetionaliy as they might ke It was love:Ede to provide In the Bill for all the pothole cafes of variation that might occur, and, therefore, mach fhould be left to the difcretion of Government. This would remove thole übjeftioru to the Bill, founded on the idea of its being an irre vocable regulation, by which the hands of Govern ment were for ever bound up. The good faith of Parliament was only pledged, that whatever con trans Should be entered into lhouid be fully obferved. Such was the general Shape of the Ineaftwe now be rme the Hnufe ; and he beqed to call their atten tion to the rearm, that might he urged for and I againtt its Here it was to be confeffed, that the limb tenon of fervice was a confiderable facrifice made by the public. Something would be given away for the putpore of obtaining an objeel of greater impor ranee. It had been repeatedly raid, that the experi ment was hazardous, and he had been often allted, would you part with men at the very time when their Cervices were moll re q uired ? To this be could only fay, that it would not he done without reafon and without an ohjeft. The diminution might be mallet in the hope and expeetation of a greater inerenfe:— This was a principle that regulated the condna of men in common lite. A man lays out his money fir the purpole of increafing it ; and fuch fpccialations were a more frequent cattle of wealth than mere ac emulation. This was the general principle on which the theafure was founded : and be would afk, was there not a fort of neceffity for having recourfe to new meafttres, after to many different expedients had been hied ? The ordinary modes of recruiting had been found inCtifficient to liipply the demands of the army, and hence our Referee and Defence Ads, our inereafed Militia, and our high bounties. He then took a review of the different modes that had been faller, upon for increaling the military defence of the country. At the cornmencensent.ot the war, It was propofed to increak the Militia to 100,000 own. If the ordinary modes of recruiting had been•fufficients would that mealure, fo harfh in hfelf, and produc tive of fo melt inconvenience to individuals, have been adopted I The militia s however, ItnOped Short at ninety dond.ind, and ilb the penalties were railed from tot. to to.l, the whole meafiire tended to (lethal recruiting for the regular army. The Army of Re- love was the next maws adopted, and, had pe e ifuly the fame tired. It certainty, produeed w con fiderable force, of which the .entintry HI enjoyed the benefit ; but it was not intendpd as , a. *- Menem, refouree, and it therefore cone to an end, after completely wearing .out the prinaiple.of the ballot. The Additional Force Aft produced , offsets equally pernicious to the regelar fervice, and was attoded by the fame .diffsculties- The authors of that Negate had pledged themfelves to. bring for ward hams plan far the defence of the country, more deeply tiUM he and his friends had ever done. They had charged their presleceffors with providing inadequately lo t our military defence, and • on thefe grounds had forced them .to refigar aid they then brought forward thc Additional ftace Bill, be cats& thir were pledged to fame new Meafure.. It bad been a curious fubjeft of reproach to Minilters tram the other tide of she Houk, that they intended to get on thole fentiments which they had ezpreffed when out of office. One Right Hon. Gentleman, (Mr. Yorke) had conjured Minifters to recoiled that they were the (worn servants of the Crown, and that wherefore they Mould propofe filch meafures only as hey could canfeientioufly fupport. From this it ...mold be fair to conclude, that whatever teflimony •r opinion he and his friends might advance, they withed them to be confidered as coming from wit neffes who were not (worn (a Laugh.) The lan Mi• uiders were bound to do fomething particular, and .hey introduced the Additional Force Bill. When ,hj : diwns were urged againft it, it was replied— . Continue this, or you have nothing This is a -seafure, if you repeal it your have nothing left."— tiny, furely, there was fumething before that! There -tilled the old ordinary mode of recruiting. He Ihould have thought, that to have removed theAddi ional Force Bull, was at molt only taking off the cum huts fuperfirtaturre : the foundation was fill left. It was a plain arithmetical matter. Take away what was added, and what was there left ? Why, as much As there was before ; the new mode removed, the old one remained. There was no Deed to use our fates, and enter into much reindicting' to decide the point. He admitted, that the former mode produc ed fomething, but not what was espeded, and what was neceflary, and we were now brought to the situ ation in which we found nurtelves. Government had !nog been deviling means of various kincb, all of which had been confell:dly inefficient, whether of tem porary or of permanent application. He did not de- Mc to purfue the Additional Force Bill into its gray: " Nor draw its ratlines from their dread abode," but he tuna repeat, and maintain, that it had, in every important point, complexity and miferably fail. ed. In &feuding the repeal of that Bill, Gentlemen thought proper to introuuce chiefly the difcuffinn of the merits of the prefent meafures, and he fkould be equally jullified, if he thought proper, in entering again into the demerits of that Bill—but this he did nut intend. He had been told by 'a Learned Gen tlemen, that he did not onderfland, indeed that he had not read that Bill. He fhould be fatisfied with underlianding it, without the trouble of reading it, as the Honourable Gentleman teemed to be with read ing it without undertianding it. The Hun. Member neither had, nor did now underftand it, if he denied that it would product mote than nine thoufand men. It raited about thirteen thoufand men in 9 months. It ended with an arrear of twenty-fix thoufand men. It gut wince and worfe. It teemed to have run, a race with its own cafualtica, and to have 101 l ground. The farther it got on, the farther it was from its (ax ial. It was ruined by limed's, jolt as much as by failute. It reminded Lim of the words of a Right Hon. Friend of hir, not then prefent—it was " that tort of valetadinasy conftitution always ailing and never well, that will foesetisnes outlive a thoufand mink ones." The teed it had on the recruiting of the army had been prettified tufficiently. If it had got men, it bad on, t them at the expense of morality and of juftice. It had got them by robbing them ; nod, by both the modes employed, it had railed fewer than the old fyflem of recruiting. But perhaps Gem demen would fay, that it would, I:ft to itfelf, have done all that was neceffary to be dine for the armi. If that affection were True, then he fh sold code's his meafure to be unnecetto y. If we had already a way that was unobjeftionable, there could be - no neer:day to ny a new one. That, however, he was convinced was rot the cafe. In this hate of things what was Ito he done ? It was not poGible to go back to the old (Mein, withont time aid and affiltance. Then what plan might to be tried ? Not a return to expedients of temporary effeft, not to meafures for the tlaT,i b 7 cutting up our refoorces for the future. He I thought that the good feofe of the matter lay in !a narrow crimp:di. He had no new dircovery to open, and he Taw nothing of that fort likely io be prodeced that would be effeSual. The option left to them by nature was either force or choice. —in the various tchentes we had already been trying, we got the advantages that force gave us, hut loft almnfl all the benefits wiling from the ripe. ration of choice. Force and choice, indeed, might, in fame cafe?, mutually maid each other, as in the cafe of the Navy for innance. Junius had oblerved, that " the Itimulits of the profs quickens the opera tion of the bounty." But in our mode of land fctvice the cafe was not quite analogous, and would not equally apply. In the lad, it tota:ia deflroyed the efleft, by railing a fatal competition, and hydedroy ing the bounty. Every body knew the elle& when the bounty Ware railed to thirty, forty, filly guineas, or more, by the competition of the various ret akes of the Army, Militia, Supplementary Militia, acc. He law no great good likely to be derived from the fyftem compollion. Such meafures would he like drama and cordials. conferring a little momenta ry firma& while they injured the health. He war, therefore, of opinion, that there modes flvtuld nut he retorted tn, until every other better plan had been tried and found to fail. VV by not then go at once to voluntary colitirnent trtake the bar;.;ain worth takii:g, aud we fhall•have dune a great deal to render the proleilinn of a I.ldier more eligible. K r ep from rompultion, if pudible. It might be laid, that the prefent Cott ition of a foblicr was filch, that ! we craild not make it an eli 7 ibile life to the population of the country. We certainly could not change the I population, hut we could change the nature of the lervice or offer. Yon cannot snake the foldier's life a lire of freedom, of cafe, or of much profit ; hut yet, in fpite of all tittle, and many more diradVAlitacs, men we,e found in all times tagetly aarafled by the hononraWe conditionarf the foldier ; and therefote we. Mould give it lush aids and advantages as cc could, and fur that peirpofe drip it of great difadvan• tage, that of " entitling for life ;" or, if that phrafe founded unplettently to tome Gentlemen, he would fay, " of entitling for an indefinite time, at the op tion of the matter under whom they entitled." He had already ;worded to referve to them the right of being difeltarged at a limited period, and had fisted vatiOns realism in its favour. Indeed, re cognized as the praflice had been, even in this coon. try, bethought it almoll unnecelfary again to argue the ptinniplei The change he propoled was one which he was convinced would have a thong ten dency to render the proleffian of a foldier more cre ditable and refpeftable in the eyes of the population. It went on broad general principles. 'An Honourable General had given his prefetenee to two armies, ond for limited, and the other for unlimited fer vice. He could not, however, be convinced by the Honoura ble General', ohferiations, though he had defied all his ingenuity to controvert him. We offer limhecl Service in time and place, and unlimited ferrite in both refpeas: but may not Coate fay, we like your limited time, but nor your limited (pace ? We find, that foldlers often prefer unlimited fervice, in point of (pace. Why i 3 this ? Is it bccaufe of the unlit. mited time ? that is no adistntage &lined by theVd. Indeed, why Sould they lore it, but from their pre dilation for unlimited (pace? There mull, therefore. be attratlions. What are they? Why, the foldier drfires to go abroad and to fee the great fettles he hears fo much of, and to behold the deaths of she great heroes wkolall in the field of battle. It is the very ineonvenienee of the limited fpace that often makes him enter upon the fervice for unlimited (pact and time. He wants to go abroad and fee there great things t bat would nut he with to e nvoi s borne again, and finding tome village Defdemona in hid ltndlmd's daughter, tell her Of mares •at, sad &fans dire. Of Yawing said*** by load and Add, Of bair•bnsdtb Tapes i'fle imminent deadly breia With what pleacure would the, while handing Mu thi mug of ale, With greedy ear drover his nom While the father, enraptured with his valour, his tails, and his bravery, might give hint neither tankard for another Rory.—(Lord kergbier.)-- • Such wire the defcription of people who chiefly went into the twiny. But all the motives Teemed to tionfpire together in favour of limited time and unlimited (pace Then, why timid we check and flop their operation by unlimited time, "that bourne from which no traveller returns I" Let the foldier's difpofition to roam over the world be cherifled ; but don't difuturage him by ferviee for life. The tape. rience of other countries formed a firong argumenq not to be done easy by attempting to (hew a diffe rence in the nature of Europeans merely from a little difference of locality. Why fbould the uncertainty of the duration of war eked materially the certain limitations of rerviee or alai the foldier's charallert The Honourable General had obferved that this was not the uniform price in Europe; but he feemed wholly to that out the late kingdom of France, a country fo popnlons and fo military. Why thould it be put out of our view ? That monarchy being overturned fignified nothing finee the faestrefpetling it were quite well known. It was the rule of their ferviee in France to enlifl for limited Arvin, with the right to claim difeharge during war. The limi tation was fir years. lo the year loyft this right of difcharge was done away, by atoexpref. ordonnance. which he (toted as a proof of the pre-exi ling cuf tom. They fettled a fort of convenient emotion foe the difcharge of theToldiers. la ;765 the term was incysafed to eight years, without mention of peace cc war. Arbitrary Governnienrs were not th he renraina ed eerily, and it was ton true that the French Got. vernmeat broke its faith, which he hoped this coun try would never do. There were two views ia whichi this internee was ohjelled to, the one as tending to hurt the foldier's charafeer, and the other the incr.- , venieneee attending it. As to inconveniences, no doubt Tema avoid be found in this, as in many other I things. It was inconvenient often to pay money. A. to the Continent, almof all the Auflrian troops were difcharged at (bort periods. Had net Gentlemen bevel of a people called the Sail,, who were very excellent ioldiers in the pay of foreign Princes, end who were all engaged fur a fbnrt term of years 10-• But then it was laid, Aye; but tilde are Germano. or French, or Swifts, and not Et:ghat, and we are mere theorills. If this be theory, he knew not bow to avoid it. Theory might be defined, Every con. eltifion as to praelical effees, nut verified by 'Quid oiaL" This was the cafe with moll legiatitive area. lures. He then proceeded to animadvert et the ins . coafilleney in the conduit of the Gentlemen oppo lite, and the *various contradiaiwis in their argu ' ments, and ptuteeded to thew how groundlefs the ap prehenflon was of the difeltarge of the men creating any greet lois to the army, and entered into Meal , - tions to prove the abfordiry of objellions of thisfort; In his plan for ilifeliaiging the men at a limited pe riod, he went upon the principle cf giving them up as a faerifice for obtaining much greater advantage*. In doing 1., he was only following the improvements of human life which were progreflively going for ward as advancing rodeo (hewed us the modes by which benefits are obtained and fecured. What improve ments, on fuch principles, had we made, in arm. merce and agriculture, which were indeed kept hack, fonivinies by thrift who could but bring themfelves to fee their own advantage in a proper light, and to (hake off their preptlices.h--What chtlinguifned our merchants and agricelturins but an enlightened policy ? He did not bend fo much here to the cpitnuns of officers as on other points. They had their profeflional feelings, and they might take alarm at the idea of holing a fine company of Grenadiers, every man fire tees tear inches high. Why, it mull hen very unpleafant thing to a planter to fee his fine flourifhing trees cut down by the rude Broke of the axe. He did not know .much of ag:iculture, but in what little he did, lie had feta fomething of turnip hurbandry in his own conntr, where it had been hitherto mottly confined, notwith flanding its advantages, (imply becenti people could not be prevailed upon to make a neeeffaty faenfice. 'l'he prefent was the only meafine that teemed to hit* to offer a permanent Itipply to the army. Under the effete of many former ones we were now ruffling. In difi offing the quell ion, he trolled, the Houle would attend rather to the general friends of the menfure than to its avowed enemies. He then (hewed, in the cafe of the Eall Indi.t Company, how well the fallen had thriven there, which was 'lopped only hee.mfe it interfered with the regular army at home. He dwelt upon the prefent vicious means of filling up the ranks with perfons going into the army through difcrecli. table 6(lli:shies, intoxication, and from pi ifims. wish boys, &c. etc. by ways utterly unfit to be nulled to. Thus a better elafs was abfolutely almoli kert nut of the.army. He teprefented the beneficial aces of a general impreffion made on the minds of the people. of the improved &cation and condition• of` she fol. diery : not of this or that private, bat of thenrmy•ot large. He contended that the partiality of the objec tions (heisted their in.fficieney, and fir Ifeffed that Ito (tumid he glad to be able to commumente to the n a no Come civil qualifications ; Inch, for induce, as tie I *43. ~~' i I a no no lel 0.4 1 , h PI to H du fel the