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fhould not this then be tried ? He hoped Mkuhlert 't would either withdraw this hazardous and impolitic t projeft, or at leaft produce it in the Committee in a i More digefted (late. If they would do neither of thefe, he molt make tile of the rights he had, and give I his decided oppofition to the meafure. The SOLICITOR GENERAL was extremely lorry, that his Learned Friend had faid In little on the novel had dangerous doarines advanced in the confiner this debate. It was faid,.that this ought net to be aft:bled of diftuffion. What was the rub ice before the Committee ? It was a Mutiny Bill I a bill ielddt detlated it mould be lawful for the King I to &Alia Courts Martial, and that only for one year t a bill which faid, that it was unlawful to quar ter troops upon the Indio", and reibieed this burden ' only to one year. In this bill a clank was propofed limiting military fervice to (even years, and it was to be aliened, that fuck a clears In inch a bill was on conftitutional. But this was not to be done in a Mutiny Bill. If it were to be abrogated, how could it more conveniently be introduced than into an an nual bill ? The Right Hon. and Learned Gentleman bid, that it was wrong fuch a meafure Giould be fang. tioned by Parliament ; it would have furl a power ful Itffea upon the public mind ; and yet its, the fame breath the Committee was told that theyA who entered into the fervice were utterly indifetent if it were limited or indefinite. One moment this was a great boon, which would render limited ferries in future seepodfible, the next it was nine valee,mdene additiooal Mtn would not be added to the arney by the coneeffion. He left Gentlemen on the esker fide of the Houle to reconcile there glaring WNW teneies. The moR extraordinaryargustient was, that it was dangerous to the conftitation to enlift ibidiers • task a limited time, and therefore the fchems ought to be rejetted. Did Gentlemen remember how sa lmis the natives of this Mend had always been of a Rending army in the heft times of our hiftory. "Vby was the Militia preferred, but becaufe they were engaged for a limited time, and returned again faM the leafs of citizens. Did not Gentlemen re member, that the foldier rafters the Habeas Corpus !la and the Trial by jury. He would quote the Innitiasents of a great and learned Judge, who he be lieved was indebted for his preferment to the abilities be difplayed in the work to which he fhould now re fer. " In a land of liberty it is extremely dangerous M made a dißina order of the profeffion of arms.— Zn &Volute monarchies this is neceffary for the fafety Of the Prince, and stiles from the main principle of their Conflitution, which is that of governing by fear: but in free Antes the profef fi on of a foldier, taken tingly and merely as a prefeMon, is juftly an objell of jesionfy. lii there no man fhould take up pruis, but with a view to defend his country and its lairs t he puts not off the citizen when he enters the camp 1 but it is becaufe he is a citizen, and would brifh to continue fo. that he mikes himfelf, for a while, a foldier. The laws, therefore, and conßi kution of there kingdoms, know no fuch Rate asthat of a perpetual Rending foldier, bred op to no other profelion than that of war : and it was not until the reign of Henry VII. that the Kings of England had to much as a guard about their perfons."—" No thing, then, according to tittle principles, ought to be more guarded againft in a free Rate, than making the military power, when fuch a one is neceliary to be kept on foot, a sody too diftine from the people. Like ours, it fhould wholly be compofed of natural fubjeas ; it ought only to be enlifted for a fhort and limited time ; the foldier: alto fhould live intermixed with the people; no feparate camp, no barracks, no inland fortrefes, fhould be allowed. And, perhaps, it might be Rill better, if; by difmiffing a Rated nom• bee, and enliaing others at every renewal of their term, a circulation could be kept up between the army and the people, and the citizen and the foldier be more intimately connefled together." What was ft that had happened Rote this luminous author pub. Silted his Commentaries, that Mould diminills this isaloufy of a Rending army ? Was it becaufe the ]ending army was three times as numerous ? Was it becaufe it had been necefuy to eltablifh barracks ? Was it bumf( a great military defpotifm had been expanding Well over Europe, or becaufe every ad vancing year the veltiges of liberty were progreffively dettroyed among* the furrounding empires? We had no fuperiority of anteater force, ofmilitary di lei pli n e. or of knowledge in the art of war, over our opponent: we had nothing to oppofe to him which gave us a decided advantage, but the zeal of our folchery, who were not to fight for a glittering tyrant, but for them• selves, for their own liberties, for a caufe in which every man mutt confider, that if he fell in the field, he was a martyr to the freedom of his country.— To make him burn with thefe energetic fentiments of virtue and patriotifm, he mat feel that he was not only a foldier but a citizen. He (the Solicitor Ge neral) could not Pico with patience to the cold arith metic of his Honourable and Learned Friend (Mr. Percival), who exclaimed, with a fort of triumph, that after the foldier had fpent z t years in the fgt.- vice, we had bought all this for (*lateen guineas. If be had counted the fears on the breaft of the veteran, with the fame precifion that he reckoned the guineas, the liberality of his nature would have revolted at fuch a frigid calculation. Then, he added, thefe Minifters hat ceconomy on their lips, but not in their hearts. The economy for which they contended. could, indeed, find no place in the heart. Whether be looked to the principles of the Britifh Confiitu ; whether he attended to the voice of reafon, juftice, and humanity; whether he regarded the max -11135 of political wifdom, recognized in paft times ; on whatever fide he contemplated this meafure, new motives were prefented to give it his cordial fupport. General NORTON (poke againft the claufe, and fuggelled an amendment, that troops in the home glands lbould be attelied to ferve not only during the term of !even years, but until fix months after the termination of any war in which their time fhould expire ; troops in the Mediterranean or Welt Indies to ferve for twelve months, and in the EaR Indies for eighteen months after the termination of fuch war. Colonel CRAUFURD replied to fome of the cal. culations of increafed expences to the fervice which would be annually produced by this arrangement, which he contended would only be an increafe of 637,0001. inftead of 1,638,0001. Rated by the Noble Lord, which was an error of above a million. Sir WILLIAM LEMAN, after exprefling his high approbation, and warm& thanks for the very conftitutional fpeech this night by the Solicitor Ge neral, faid, he had ever thought a large Banding armyi a great grievance to the country l and, if there were a neccffity for its exifience. it was , defirable to have it upon principles as conititutional as poffible. Lord LOUVAIN: walled to be informed, if the prefent army of the country was not eitablithed oa conflitutional principles ? . General STUART, notwitlalaoding the ergo meats which had been offered by fevers! Learned Gentlemen, and by an Hon. Iri(h Orator (Mr. Grat tan), who fpeke early in the Debate, could not agree in the good confequences that were anticipated from this plan. It was Paid, it would not only procure a rapid fupply of men, but :bore of a better defcrip tion. He did not conceive the army could have a better defeription than that of foldiers, and as to better orders of men, he thought the common day labourers made better foldiers than tradefmen or clerks ; he fpoke from the experience of ten years as a Commanding Officer ; and he could not coincide in the opinions of the Hon. Irith Orator. Mr. GRATTAN felt it neceffary to fay a word or two in anfwer to the Honourable General who had jug fat down, and who had thrown fume of his fcat. tering Riot towards that fide of the Houfe. The Hon. General, though he did not deliver his fentiments in the Ryle of an Irith Orator, Teemed to betray foam froptoms of an Irifh underftanding ; but he could with the Honourable General had evinced a little better acquaintance with Irifh order. But notwith (landing the confidence of the Hon. General in the opinion he avowed, he (Mr. Grattan), begged leave to decline his authority, either as an hills Orator or an bilb Officer. General STUART replied, that though he did not profefs to be an IriOa orator, he hoped he Ibould -away► maintain the cbarater of an It ifb 'skier.— (Lead aid reload &trim's.) Lord DE - BLACQIIIE RE (poke at confiderable length in fupport of the Clinic. Mr. BANKES had no oijeCtion to making an ex periment of the propofsd meafure, yet he expreffed himfelf adverfe to a general recruiting fyilem I as he con l:Wed general recruiting, very advantageous to the army, but calamitous to the country, in refe rence to its ufual occupations--thofe of commerce, hufbandry, and manufadores. He was willing to give the meafure a fair trial, bat hoped after that, if it failed, his Majetty's !Colliers would not puha, but fubilitute fomething which might, upon mature con fideration, be found more effedual._ _ _ Lord dARLIES thought upon fo cerioos a fubjett he fhoold not give a Meet vote, and had on hefitat;on in declaring, from all the confideration he could give the fubjeft, that it mull be extremely detrimental to the regular army, and, therefore, be voted againil the meafure. The queftion was now loudly called for, and ban. gera ordered to withdraw. While escluded,we under. (land. Mr. WINDHAM made a few obfervations in reply, after which a divifion took place, when there appeared—For the claufe, ao6—againft it, toy — Majority sot. The report was then brought op, and ordered to be taken into further confideration this day. The other orders of the day were then difpofed of, and at Two o'clock (this morning) the Houle ad. j•turned.. THE 'WINING STAR. LONDON. TUESDAY, JUNE 3. PRICE OP STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Reduced jp+/--Coakds, to opening, 64—Oninturn si fi PRICE or STOCKS YESTERDAY. Sink Stock sat India Bonds. to a sr. dlf. 3 p. et. Red Ann. splf Imperial 3 per Cent. 5S+ 3 per Cent. Cont. Ann. Rut Ezell. Ms par as. dlf. Deirrred 3 per CenL 331 Osmium s t prem. 4 Per Ceed• FWD!' Tickets ail. ijs. per Cent Nary, Om ConL for acedit Loop Ann.l73-tet The Houfe of Lords yefierday, after going through Come rowint bufinefs, entered again into the confi• deration of the evidence adduced on the trial of Lord Isfuvrs.t.s. It was expected by many that the day would be fixed for delivering the Verdid in Weilmin ger Hall. This hope was difappointed. Their Lord. (hips, after debating clogs jastria until midnight, ad. jammed the further difcullion to this day, with an order for the Judges to attend. The difeullion on the Mutiny Bill wu hit night re , fumed in the Houle of Commons. Mr. WINDHAM'S claufe was carried, after a warm debate, by a majo rity of two to one. _ Notice was given by Lord Harty PITTY, of his intention to bring in a Bill to amend the Income Duty Ad, by providing the neceffary exemptions in favour of low incomes and large families. NEUTRALITY OF PORTUGAL. The letters brought by the Lifbon Mail of yeller. day were delivered out from the Poll Office this mor ning. Letters of the 113th ult. flate, that a Treaty, guaranteeing the neutrality of Portugal, was figned at Madrid on the 19th of April by the Pleoipoteu• tiaties of France and Portugal. AMERICAN JOURNALS. We have received American Papers to the 3oth of April, and we arc forry to find from them that an unfortunate circumfiance has occurred, which the French party in that country will not fail to emits. your to turn to their own account. Captain WK t r iv, of the LIAISDIR, endeavouring to compel two Arne. rican coafters to bring to, unfortunately one of the guns fired killed an American feaman. The body was carried on fhore, exhibited to the populace, and honoured with a public funeral ; the public prints were put in mourning ; and, to complete the climax, a bill of indiament for Murde► was actually preferred and found by the Grand Jury of New York, againa Captain WHITBY, the commander of the Lc ANDER. It appears, however, by the affidavits of the Ame. rican Captains themfelyes, that they had refuted, in the firft infiance, to bring to, when required; and the queftion comes limply to this--Wits Captain W HITIY ;unified by his orders in ;dining on the right cor nifit ing and fearching American veils If he was, ho.wever much the accident may be regretted, is kill necafion no quarrel between the 'two Governments. If ha went beyond his innrudionv o which no one who knows Captain Wit rray's charatler will believe, our Government will give every reafonable fatisfattion. For the particulars refpeaing this unhappy acci dent, for (itch we confider it, we refer to the wrath given in the lull page. REVOLUTION IN SPANISH AMERICA The Philadelphia papers lisle, that Cip. Wass, of the brig Eliza, who itrrived there on the syth of April from Maricaibo, bed brought intelligence, that OR before be failed from that place, orders had been received there from the Governor of Carraccas to have the militia immediately organized, and the, city put iittri the belt [fate of defence, as a very alarming resole had taken place in the interior. To the above intelligence, copied from the Ame. rim papers, we have to add, that by the mail from the Leeward Wands letters of the tath of April have been received from Tortola, which Rate, that a a fquadron bad arrived on the Spanills Main, and taken pacific)* of Cumana and Barcelona. and that the whole province was expefted to fall." Tbc fquadron alluded to in this letter is no other than the Expedition commanded by MIRANDA, con fifiing of two veffels only. Other accounts Rate that MIRANDA bad arrived on the Spanifh Main, and ac. malty taken pi:dragon of the Wand of St. Margarita, where he had been joined by three or four thoufand Of the inhabitants, with whom, and the forte he brought with him, he intended to make an attempt to revolutionize the neighbouring Spanilh Settle ments. He is reported to have been provided with fulilcient pecuniary means for his purpolc, and to be confident of fuccefs, having with him about 30,eicso Rand of arms which he diftributes among the infur gents who repair to his revolutionary Itandard. The Row. FAMILY came to town yeflerday about twelve o'clock, and in the evening had a Wed party. Crisaa Cotctotrom, Efq. is eleited M. P. for Wes ford, by a majority of 230. Yeflerday, the sd battalion 3 tft regiment, com• mended by Lieut. Colonel CAM , was reviewed at Portfmouth, by the Lieutenant-Governor Sir Geo Pasvosr, previoufly to their returning to Southamp- ton. This regiment lately marched to Hilfea bar• racks, to relieve the Hants militia, who were fent to efcort nearly 3000 French prifoners, marched from Portfmouth to Yaxley barracks, and other depots fur prifoners in the interior of the country. We congratulate the army, and the country in general, on the favourable change which has taken place in the health of that very able and aftive officer, Sir Janis Caato—The benefit of the EA medical advice has rapidly gained him health. Captain GRIFFITHS'S troop of the Flying Horfe Artillery is on the march to Woolwich from Ware /rent, where it has been quartered for Tome time. Tranfports have arrived at Portfmouth from Cork, to carry all the infantry of the German Legion to Ireland they relieve troops in that country dettined for other fervice—the cavalry to follow. There have failed from Cork aOOO the German Legion for Gibraltar, to relieve the ard or Royal Highlanders, the 57th, the sd battalion 78th or Rota. (hire Highlanders—three regiments, amounting to nearly Soon men, and intended as a reinforcement to our army in Sicily. The only troops now in the neighbourhood of Wey- mouth are, the 15th dragoons, sd battalion, 7th and t3th foot— : the 15th are preparing to leave Wey mouth for Windfor. Colonel Colon/Le commands at Weymouth. Though the new military arrangements will fend from the fervice of the country a number of old and experienced Officers, it will make a very great Paving to the public purfe. There is to be a complete (weep of the Etat Major from the sath of June. In no dißriel is there to be more than one Lieutenant General, and few dißrißs require an officer of hig her rank than Major General. The whole of the Brigadiers will either be fent on foreign fervice or reduced. There is to be a correfponding (weep of the inferior Raft, of Majors of Brigade and Aids-du.camp. Wednefday, the Royal Regiment of Dragoons were reviewed on Portobello Sands, near Edinburgh.— This corps made a very fine appearance. The Court Martial, in Edinburgh Cattle, on Capt. CRAWFORD is finithed. The fame Court proceeded on Friday to try an officer of the Berwickfhire militia. The Lord Provoft, Magiftrates, and Town Coon cil of Glafgow have allowed the Committee a fuffi cient (pace of ground on the High Green, for erea• ing a monument to the Memory of Lord blatsow. Captain PH ittir s is appointed to the command of the BONS TTA Sloop of war, in the Downs. We are How affured, on the authority of leveret officers belonging to the fquadion of Sir JolN BOR• LAS a WARSAW, that there WAS no truth in the pare graph copied from a Morning Paper of Friday, rela tive to the pretended addrefs of Admiral Lirrois to his officers, Rating, that an edift of BON•PARTI had reduced all French Naval Officers captured by tt.e Engiifh to one fourth their gloat pay. Yefierday morning fizteen Spanifh prifoners of war were fent from the Buckingham prifon (hip at Chat ham, lying in the Medway, under the elcort of a Ser jeant's guard, to Portfmouth. A farmer in the parifh of Laffwade, on the )th tilt. had a bee hive, that hived a very large (warm ; a circumftance very fingular fo eat ly in the feafon. On Sunday Mr. Benjamin Boreman, the celebra ted Chatham Dock Yard pede(riaa, undertook for a trifling wager to walk to Dover and beck, in the courfe of the day, a dißance of 84 mileb, w hich he eafily performed within the time allowed him. Assize or BRIAO --To-day there being no Court of Aldermen held, the Loco MAYOR, after inipethng the Mealweigher's returns, ordered it to continua at its prefent price. NAUTICAL IN7 EL LICENCE. Dubai Waterfo►d Hamburgla )AY—Wind S. W. MAILS THIS D AIR. DOI. AIR. DV! O I Oottenberitt 2 o • I I Afton I 0 O 1 Loma: J Iflaids I o An official account has been received at the Ea ^- lnJia Honfe, of the fare arrival in China of the fol lowing fhips, under convoy of his bl.ijaly's (hips 13LitNH111111 and SIR EDWARD Hoours, viz. E , Cow I4tIIT ADDINOTON. BOMBAY CAITLI, Weeroers, WINDHAM, EARL Howe. ROYAL GROROR Hoes. lIIIILINOCRAN, Arrived co the tete of D. 'neer. COUTTII. arrind plieeMber 13; WAR Li •, lITIVed Per. Doassrspas, OAIIO2II, and WAILIIIII H•sTITICS, were daily expedlcd. The above information comes by the Anna Pr:i gen, Capt. Halm, (from Canton fir Copenhagen , ) arrived off Dover. LTNIN•TON, so...Salkd his Majefty . ll slip VILLE DI MILAN. .4411111141 D , with the fleet antler convoy GA. Newfnuadtted, Halifax. Bce. Weed N. E. FINZANCI, MAT 3o.—Since my lafl arrived here the Dolphin and Hind revenue cutters; alio the COCICATRICI hired armed brig, from a cruise; the William, HAT, of and from Plymouth, with il, &c. for Cork ; the Love and Unity, from ditto, for Nearh; the Neptune, of and from Chichefler, with flour ; and the Towan regular tin !hip, Captain J. CUNDT, from C SMYTH'S wharf, with bale goods, &c. for this place. FALMOUTH, MAT 31...ATTiTed the Auckland packet, SCllOl'l.ll4 with mails from Lilbon in thirteen days paffage t left there the Walfinghwn packet and his Majeßy's (loop Scour, which was expelled to fail from Lifbon the soth int having under her convoy the brig Hope, Captain lisarraz, with Lord Ro ane Firzosaain and family for Ireland. His Ma jelly's (hip Sven takes the next convoy for England, which is expelled to fail about the zoth June. Alfo arrived the American (hip Courteney, &erase, from Norfolk with flour, Sec. for orders ; Danifh (hip Ebenezer, Captain WIDSTIFILD ; and Chriflian, cap tain Ray, both from Norway with timber, for a mar ket. Wind N. N. E. POILTIMOUTII, Jura s.—Arrived the Marina gun brig from a cruise. Sailed from St. Helen's tbi■ morning the Axvitsors, of so guns, with the EaR India 11414 &c. under convoy. Admiral Polvis has knitted his flag on board the Cuirrougs, Captain WaINWILIONT, and will fail for the Mediterranean in ■ few days. The DRIUDIIOOOIIT is come into har bour ; and the NAMUR and COURAGIUI are drop ped down to St. Helen's. Doves, Juts a 2.—Paffec' by this morning the Da nifh Eaft India (hip Arve Prindfen, Captain HoLm, bound to Copenhagen, from China, which the left 9th January la It ; the following Ships arrived there on the 35 (1 December loft from England : Werford, Henry Addington, Bombay Caine, Royal George, Ocean, Earl Camden, Cumberland, Warley, Coutts, Exeter, Hope, and Windham. There were at St. Helena when this Ship failed from thence 6th April, five Eaft India (hips, and five whalers, which were waiting for a convoy to proceed home. The Arve Prindfen did not in her pafrage fall in with any of the enemy's (hips. His Majefty's gun brig ImraLLtorar has feized and rents in here the Erafmus cutter, belonging to Rye, with Spirits. Wind S. E. and moderate. DEAL, JUMP 2.—Sailed the ZISRA bomb, with a convoy for Spithead ; BELLoNA, and Sir Jolla Boa. LASE W RRRRR cartels, with Dutch prifoners for Flufbing. Arrrived the Game. and JacKALL gun brigs from a cruize off Offend ; BLA wCH e frigate from Dover Roads; Aar Schooner with a convoy from Portfmouth, which are failed for the River; CALYPSO Hoop, IsraLLiGliir gun brig, and Aititow Schooner, from a cruize off Boulogne. Sailed the BLANCH' frigate for Dover Roads, and BOLD gun brig on a cruize. Arrived the London packet, Capt. /sPDo u. GALL, from Philadelphia, in 3 t days rallltge ; and remains for orders, with the reit of the c lips as per laft.—Wind N. E. G aaaaaa en,June 2....Paffed by the Supply, johnfton, and the MaryAnn,Witfon, from Gettenburg; Zectuft,—,froral-fambro'; Charlotte, Sinclair, from New York: Weymouth, Weldor, iron . ' Smyrna; Johanna, Neilfon. and the Confrenia, Read c, ,:ii.,. from Norm y --Sidled the Queen, Rental'. for Gibraltar; Jars..•, James, for publin ; Mary, Morgan, for Riga; Vcltal, —, for Copenhagen ; Adriatic, Barham, and the Amphlon, Anderfon, for Elfioore. Eztraa from the Log Book of the Jefile. Harvey, which ar. rived at Greenock on luefday kit, from Surinam. Sailed thane on the 26th February, In company with the armed 04 Junian, Tucker,of Liverpool, and a Guinearnati ; March I, lat. 12. 3t. N. was chafed by a feknoner; March 2, made St. Lucia; March 4, parted with and loft light of the Junian and Guineaman, balm. 14. 35.; 3th, at 7 P. M. difeovered a (chooner (the'terrier), ftan:Esig, I towards us, which we fired upon and took puffeffion r f on the 6th at t t A. M. in lat. 7. 2. N. She was prize to a French privateer' March 9, came to anchor In Tortola, his Mleity's Clip Scout, took charge of the prize; lath, failed from Tortola with a !loop of war, and a yacht for Falmouth; at 3 P. M. fell in with a SpanHh privateer, engaged her—Ow ran off at noon, Tortola Ealt, diftant three leagues; 17th, brought to and dotain , d three Duni& Ihlgt, and fame day detained an American (loop front Martini:a% fent people on board the three Clips and Coop; llith, overhauled the litip's papers, and found one to be a Dutch Clip, with Frmels property on board : they attempted to get away but were fired upon and brought to; 2.:th, two Clips and the Coop came to an. chor in Tortola; tad, was boarded by the Nettey hoop of war, : overhauled our p,pers, came to anchor in St. John' s: 23 d, the , Captain of the Ncticy took the Dutch Clip from :be JefEe, and at. tossed her to proceed ; 24th, came to anchor in Fonda Roads; 1 Ara:l ad, tailed tram Tortola; 7th, (poke a brig (name unknown) from Barbadoes fur Charleston; pth, taw a Runge fail, fuppoled for Havannah, e‘oild not get within MU or her; 132 h, (poke; brig (could nut learn her name), from Liv:rpool for ?kw:our:4- ' o w ; agtb, was fpoken by a frigate abreatt of Londonderry, Was boarded fame day by a Coop of war. By t!lc fleet now at Portfmnuth, prepatring to fa 1 for India, many officers, and confiderable drafts r f recruits for all the regimeats ip India, Ceylon, and tn.; CAye, aie going out. I kc; i~.