Star. — London, England, 1803-06-21 00:00:00

'NUMBER 4529: lICTUALLING-OFFICE, jwr 9, iBe3. THE COMMIsSIONiiRS for VI .T 11 ALLING XIS ArAyEsrr, NAVY, d, bereiy:ive Notice ' That on . Friday the Bth of July next, they will be ready to receive Tends's, in writing (fealed ap) and treat for the fupply- Ing, on feparats Contradts, of SEA PROVISIONS, RUM, and FRESH BEEF, to His Majefty's Ships and Yetis at the laands of GUERNSEY and JERSEY conjointly, for Twelve Months eer als, and farther until Slx Months warning Mall be given on either Gde for the termination of the Paid Contrads. The mode of pay- Dent to be by Bills bearing intercit ninety days after dates The CeroAtion Centreat meg eAm at th e Secretory's Ofir, r **ix: t e the .1 1 4soefiere at Grergry awl Yrefry 44 el Perim* yak welt theta proper t. wade tendert ribea the fold kettle**, ere defied tithe astsee, that n• reyerd will it &d to dray Tea- Pr that *lt al is deduced to the Beers I kfire Ow ••Clad w the fad Frier(' the Bth of Yo(y and, aor raki, the Perfew who maks& Tesler, whew Pert o bit Ilhdf, atm& to eitfirrr_lir his when &allege. rod that fwd Teethes es rattails retrieve:eat Prices epee bete dairies, end Prim meth ioferior to the reel odor goon ether:, will Ie eoefseitred we•iseproper to he amine! IdARLIAMENT.4IIT.PRUCEEDMGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, MONDAY. JUNE so. Cowed were heard at coalldieshie letedi,eabibor aan API eal Tiellabee w Thdlifons, andlie IbtaJefies Amway Gale ; after whkh their Lordidpe adjourned the farther ecarddara. co of the Cafe till Thorfday. Ota the Modem of Lord ELLasioaocon, the Amendments Lade by the Commons to the Capital (*nee ReguLstine W e taboo Into eonfideration, In the Gouge of which, his Lord. IN in sorwer to a q.dtlon pat by Lord Snarristz, tatcd that t DUI In eineltion did not extend to Ireiattd, becaufa Ireland waa be atedtcd by a leparate Ankoeltocora were thee ad and weed to by their Lordiblpa. Lord Petnital recited Copies of certain Boner of McCall r Scodand, du. which, after a variety of oh( ?Cation- relative to:, IC general fu*dt, from the Earl of SOPPOLI4 in the coerfe or aich he flared his opinion that Government Should gin MCC :adicable &Mance to the project of the Caledonian Can - 4. and =Borate the condition of the lower order of people in Scotland, ardaalarly the Highlanders, were ordered to lie on the Table. Lard Poznan fpokc &only in explanation, in conform:cc of inc points which fell from the Noble Earl. MIS MAIRSTY 9 II %IMAGE. Lard Hosaat role, and fait!, that in confeqtience of he order of the day, to take into confederation his dajeßy's moll gracious Meffage of Saturday lak . it ras his duty to rcqueft their Lordfhip‘' attention Ma kw oblervations lie had to offer on that fubjea : aid be was very happy to think, that in woat he ad to deliver, he fhould not have occafion to tref fs at any great length on their Lordthips' time d patience. Nothing could be more evident. than at at this momentary crifis it was incumbent on ore to whom the Government of the Country is trotted, to de every means to put the fame into as mpkte a Rate of defence as poffibk. and to lean thing uocifayed that may ;attribute to the bray • fecarity of the kingdom. The enemy we had to • tend with was well known to be extremely naive d enterprifing ; and it mull be evident that no time haiever ought to be 101 l in devil lag the molt app.* ate means of counteraaing his holtile defignc. - 'rbe ge which had jun been read. (hewed their Lard ips that his Majelly's Government thought it necef ry to provide a large force hi addition to what ad been already voted by Parliament hi the way of regular army, militia, and fupplementary militia. adverting to the plan which his Majefty'sMinillers ad thought it neceffary to adopt, he thould do no ore at preknt than give a mere outline or &etch, in rder that their Lord - 11)4)s might, in the intermediate me of its being fubmitted to their particular dif ffion, turn the fame in their minds, and thereby . be Ailed to form fuch opinions as might be of (creme, bringing the fame as near to a Rate of excellence the united wiftiom of the Houle might naturally be ppofed to do, more than the efforts of a few inJivi ate could pretend to. Whatever difference of opi on, however might happen to exilt among their oidlhips as to the plan itfelf, he was certain that ere would be the utrnoil unanimity in voting the ddrefs, which he Mould have the honour to tubmit their Lordihips. In listing the plan for the ex aordinary force that was thus intended to be railed r the defence of the kingdom, which, as he before .ferved, was a mere outline, he begged their Lord. :ps to recollea, that it would be impoffible to carry y filch Ideafure into without employing Come tans of a compulfory tendency. He would, there re, as concifely as poffibk, give their Lordfhips the an propofed to be adopted. In the cootie of the It war, the militia forces of this country, amounted ti 4,369 men. At the prefent time. the Militia ready called out would be mono men, includiog :Wand and Ireland ; and in addition to the regular rmy, and to this Militia force, it was intended to ile by the pPefent plea, a body of men amounting ao.ono in England, and ichocio in Ireland: to be ofen by ballot, according to the mode of the 1 and the way of officering there men was ire. tided to be from officers on half pay in his Majelly's relict, thrice who had been officers of fencible mgt. •ents, and thole who bad been employed in the Eall • dia Company's fervice ri—that tbefe men fo re. aively railed in England and Ireland, were to be ternately employed, as might be deemed necelfary, r the defence of each pan of the Gaited Marlon), d the &ads of the Channels that this levy of men to cootia of Woes from the age of to 45, 100 are to be liable to lent. according to the rule of e Militia. This being the outline of the plan, be d not think it neeefary to trouble their Lordair ith say thing _further, than to move an Addrefs see wer to his Mickel; moll ' Speech, *hie.* tog headed to the Lord was read by Lordthip, and was to the fame purport as that ved in the Commons. His Royal Higheiefe the Dube of Ctaaanca Said, at in what he was about to fiats to their Lowdfilifis. begged it to be onderiteod that it was not his ta ndem to oppofe the Addrefs. nor to throw any els. ids or Impediment in the way of his Diteitty's Mi- Ras.Ds Me proffieution of any piss thezczlit a die .cellary m adops fee the defence and , agdoin but. as be could um airprove of at est e whisk had bees fubmitted to their Lordlips by Noble Searstary of Seats, be tbeeglit it his dety TUESDAY, to. requeft their Lordfhips' attention to the reafons which induced him to differ on that head from his Majefty's Mioitters. His Royal Highnefs then took a retrofpea of the various periods at which this coun try had been threatened with invafion, from the time of Henry VIII. to the prefent moment, and of the very large force which this country had been eaa bled at different periods to raife. He tnentioned, that in the reign of teen Elizabeth, it was an hillerical faa, that could not be doubted of, that a force of up wards of 589,000 men could have been brought into the field, had it been neceffary ; that at various pe• nods Since that time, particularly in the time of King William, when James IL invaded Ireland. and when the greateft threats were made of an invafion of this country alfo, by a man who was, perhaps, not to be compared in all rupees with the prefent Ruler of France, but who cobid at lea vie with him in ambi• tion, and in enmity to the glory and profperity of Great Britain (Louis XIV.) the reined efforts had been made, and with the happielt effeas. Confider jag. therefore, the prtfent fituatiou of this kingdom, which had enereafed of late years fo mach in parila 'ion. as VA as Scotland and Ireland. he by no means dreaded the confequences of any invafion. if we bad a proper force, and that force p operly di reeked. He profered himfelf to be a very warm a.t mirer of the militia &Ilan, and paid many cothpli ments to the Noble Marquis (Townfh:rid) who, he laid, was the father of it. He, notwithitaibding. could not approve of the prefent plan of railing a force to defend the kingdom, became it went upon a fyfteni, merely defenfive, which wa , , what he thought by no Imeans the belt. As, however. he could not approve of this plan, he thought it necefrary that he fhould mention what, in his opinion, would be more effi cient; and, therefore. were he to advice his Majefty on that fubjea. he would fay, that a force of 40,000 men, intlead of so,ssoo, fhould be railed, not by bal lot, but by the old mode of, what he called the King's bounty; and that the Cervices of thefe men, inflead of iseing'confined to the reciprocal defence of Eng land and Ireland. Geerofey and Jerfey, which he fuppofed meant the Iflands of the Channel, fhould be extended to carry on offenfive operations in Alia, in Africa, in America, or in Europe ; and that the mere defence of the kingdom Should be left to the militia and the regular army. With regard to the threats of Bonaparte on the Cubjea of invafion, he dreAed them not. If he were to land in this emus. try, he fhould not at all fear to face him, whom he emtfidered to be the Corfteap Harlequin of mlrallitt but who. be had no doubt , would be made to repent feverely of his attempt, if he mould have the auda city to make it, and Ibould have the good fortune to cfcape the vigilance and staivity of our Beets. He repeated. that in having, thes vvcs hls opinion dif ferent from the plan motored by the Noble Secretary of Seats. be had no intention of throwing the lean impediment in the way of his Idajelly's Government; but he thank he could Mk eoufillendy with his duty to his King and country. withhold his fend meats, or give a talent vote on matter of fo much importance. He concluded by Saying, that he fhould give his concurrence to the Addrefs. Earl Gaosysuoit Spoke very portly, in favour of the plan. of which the Noble Secretary of State had given the outline, and thought Government had aced very wifely in recurring to a mode of defence, fo con hitutional and confonant to that of the Militia. The Earl °Mateo Aaron fpolie very pointedly avian the plan. which, he laid, was neither more nor lefs than a fraudulent attempt to lay a tax upon certain claire' of the community, and fubjea them to pay a very heavy (um out of their own private piaci. in order to lave the public pork. By this mode of bal lo ting, every defcription of perfons was liable to be e flied out, Wit fell to his lot: and if his Aviation in bfe was loch that he could not go hisofilf, he mull find a fubititute, at the expellee of what i not of thr:e or four guineas, as , iras the cafe floes years ago, but of fifteen, fifteen, twenty guineas, or more. A nobleman or commoner of the &A femme, would be taxed no more by being balloned. that one of the lowed order, which (hewed that the plan was alto =unequal and unjuft i for he kppofed their 'pa could not think that in cafes ',here a man was Lot able to paying aibbiliiinut s %km he mull at aU events go in perafts toast uttplimlin of his bufi nets and his family ; if they ad to, be was.afraid they would find in the hour of _y and drallim's lit fuch difficulties as they wage allk to get 00 . 1 * —He fhould, thereforeogive the - his derided or polition. The Earl of Sumo' fold, be mold hive "ROM that he could have heard hews 1114811•• MI6 of making out plans of the different parts of the °mew try according to the Wiens of the Roams That great and warlike people never foot out a (= s o dillant provinces, without putting him is of a plan of the whole Country, with patticabw tis• fignations of all the (Iron' places and defiles weigh it contained. His Lordibip (poke pith:daft ordlV necefiky of having a very bong sad ARUM and fituated in as central a part of tbs irom porr ir gh ri fible, with carriages emits-seed few of conveying them areas the Comery whit as each Itif=as pebble. For what filmiest ear hissiag force in the North, when we are seasehed in the South i or in the Eaft when we are &washed is the Wei: whereas ea army of :woo =las eakhod as be rearmaseaded. waskl be ready to tars at any part of the Kingdoms la is scarfs of a few hears. As a mainery_auss, be would alto &riot* reesseitessai it to his liajelty's Unlike% to have an army ofreferve, the solassaael of which amid be gives to ewe at the moil able Owserak is the Elagiont. He could nun cios one every way worthy of that high and impor tant trolls my. be woad go to far as aanally to imation bins his Lordiliip then named Lord (hey. Thom was alto another Noble Earl whom he had in his ec (looking towards Lord Moira, who fat near hint wheat° ought to be eutruiled with a command, and thought that the Noble Lord who bid proved. biaskit in able a General, sad who had pined 40 , , 40' C . • I I k 4 t 011 r4.,/‘ 'Nf - 27, - 1803. - . . Egypt for this Country, aught alto to have a fepa-, rate command. fiord Clitosystioit ealle-d the •Nrible Lord to order.' The Duke of CLARENCE expteffed his furptife at' thy Noble Earl, for having called his noble friend (Lord Suffolk) to order ; /mil' what his noble friend had bid was dilorderly, everything that he this Royal Highnefs) had faid, mull be deemed diforderly alfo. The Loan Coaxes:date left the:Woolfack, and faid, that he was lorry the debate had taken that, turn, which obliged him to,fay, that the ['vetches of all the Noble Lords who had fpoken, were certainly iriegular, and in tome degree out of order. The quedion before the li,ulfe was, for an 4ddrels to hi. Majety, to return thanks for his Majelly's moil gra cious Menge. The Noble Secretary of State, in moving this Addrefs, had certainly, in rot* degree, been out of order, in mentioning the outline of the plan which it was intended to fubmit to the eon lideration nf Parliament, on a forme day. Though the Noble Secretary of State could not well do other. wife ; yet certainly, at this time, the plan was not the dirett fubjeet before the Houle. He therefore thought, their Lordfhips would do well to confuse' themfelves to the Cubit& of the Addrefs, which was the only queilluo for them to determine. Lord CA itystoßT erpreffed his furprife at *kat had jai fallen from the Noble and Learned Lord, and horn the Noble Earl who firft flarted•the fubjeft of order. The Noble Secretary of State had- Rated the outline of a phut propoled to be ad, pted, in confor mity to the fentimenti txpreffed in the Idefflge i and he thought it WAS perfettly competent to :very Noble Lord to deliver his approbation or difapprobation of that plan, without being liable to the charge of being either irregular or out of o.sicr : and be conceived their Lordships being told fo was an infringement on the privileges of the Huufe, and of the freedom of debate. The LORD•CNANCELLOR again left the weolfack, and denied that in any thing that he had laid, he had infringed in the fmalleit degree the privileges of the Houfe. The Noble Earl had bees called to order, and, in his opinion, very properly, for having dr. viated from the (pie - lion immediately before the Hoeft, which he again inflfled was folely relative to the Addrefs, and that the difeuflion with regard the plan itfelf, ought not regularly to take place s traw day appointed for the ccm fideration of the fame. • . Caettste raid, that as to thP point of order, he fay nothing, but he thought that any Noble Loed riling it his place, in that Houk, and giving his opinion ) . as to what General or Generals ihould be appointed to commands, was certainly an interference with the prerogative of the Crown, in whom wa s yelled the fole power of making fuch appointments, either in cafe of peace or war. Lord Surrout then refumed, and laid he had no intention whatever of interfering with the royal pre rogative. He had merely given his opinion as a military man to his Majefly's Minifters, and he would again repeat, that he thought the man who had con. quered Egypt, would be right in refuting to accept a command under any man. Lord MOIRA" My Lord, unwilling as I am to detain your Lordfhips, it would ill become me to let this fubjett pals, without offering, as fhonly as poin ble, my fentiments on the (mention. I highly approve, my Lords, the patriotic feelings and public font of the Noble Earl who has kill fat down ; and at the fame time that I thank him for the very flattering manner in which he has done me the honour of al: luding to me, yet I am at prefent perfettly fatisfied with the niode in which my Sovereign has been pleated to dißinguiflt me : and I Mall with as much cheerfulners and fatisfaetion draw my (word in the private ranks as a Yeoman, for the defence of my country, as if I were placed at the head of an army. I cannot, however, allow that my noble Friend, in the (cope which he tank on this queßion was Cut of order, beeaofe I feel myfelf the right o f per haps a Rill wider (cope on the fubjea. The fubjetl. my Lord, this day fubtnitted for your confideration is hit Majeßy's meffage, which communicates to you the dangers of attack again° this country, meditated by the enemy, and calls upo n you for co-operation in railing an eitraordinary force for the public defence ; and the Noble Secretary of State, its following up his Maljeily'envelage, by his tpeech this night, has chalk ed to your Lordltips a line for therailing that force. But in lying my vote this night, in fupport of the tri g s propofed for your Lordships ' adoption, I f eat to the detail by which it is to be carried into tilt I hold it my dety'to Mink to any mode which his hiajelly's MinitteriMall think molt advifa bit to point out in the prefent crifis, looking as I do to dit refpoofibility ; and however I may dire's prow in my own opinion of the plan now offered, yet I it prudent, rather to Coffer that plan to go forward, than by offering any plan of my own at the ' Igrefeat nossitent, to paralife or retard the operations d( ON which his Majefly's Minifters have projefted, r cowherd as lam that we have not a meanest to loft. That which particularly , into-ells my appreheafion, at the prefent moment ts, that the Noble Secretary ' of State does not teem to feel the urgent necetlky of expedition, when he propofes, that this intafurt fheold undergo, at a future day, a delitierate difeof. don is Parliament. Why, my Lords, it is now before Parliament aid in dikulfion, and we have not a angle hoer to lei is its adoption. While you are arguing, the enemy are acing I while you are cooly deliborat Mg the mean of your defence, they are deciding urns preempt attack, an 4 they will be upon you before MI are rertod. But, my Lords, say regret is, that we ai this moment are dehiseratiog on tin mode of premiss' _for owr defence, when fo lows no as the end, ad Marsh lag, his Majaßy's Minitters were aware diet war was inevitable, and thereCoeu came dews to this Houle to announce the neeefity of arm. fug ; they mud have well known at that time the ' aute they had to deal with, and the neeefStv of being , guarded ogee* his defigns i but now, at the latter I- end of Irmo they corn( forward with a plan foe the I defence of the Country, tube formatted for the del- (PRICE RIX PP.NCE. b,rate-ercutfi , ,n of Pariimoent ! Ida tint shea ti to gn ihto. the details of the plan, which is fubmitted inr 4difcullion this 'fight; neither (hall I give any tefillanct to the plan now offered t but it Noble Lords knew fo well at I do, that •oest to thekourge of an enemy's army marching through a Country, is that o r a friendly force, they would ice t h at our be • fecurity would, be in Waging offinieve rather th in in main. taining defenfive wit...in attacking the enemy. in wrening from his gape shore Con&ries that ni oas 'tinder his tyvinny, Without being_ able t•i rink*: •htimfelves. ••My L•irds, lance I had la l the bntritir to &hirers you no this topic, circum•lances -hare oc curred nyon the Continent which every min who poetics English feelings mil dephiie ; I mean the IA of Hanover—a hots which every Engliniman who loves his Sovereign mull lament, b-caisfe it is the tamilv inheritance of that gracious S wereign. The readin4s with ',kith his Majetly has -Iy , fat ill.-d every thing which belongti to his own , •-•1 I. in Aire every an tin., p••ffetfes a • •.• v. oh the ardent defire of reaming to th.i; H!iti• ritance thus wrefted from it by the corm , : I . :1 e was a time when leisure of that territory by would not have been viewed wi:ri :nee ' by thofe Powers over whom the broad Nikki of Bri, ilh pmteelion was fo oftenlpread alga in it Gait: ncr (melt. ment ; but the times are changed,and in ih -I•)fs of that territory at thismoment, the I:4lofcreditani advantage to this country is not to be fo much 'lamented, as the dreadful leffun it has taught the minor Pourers of the Continent, that any conneetion with this eon it: y is certain ruin. When you look at the map of Emope. and behold thole countries which in former wars were your allies, now Gccopied by rrench troops. and not ' onlyclofed againß you,but become the medium of me. nace and attack upon nr, is it one to be lamented that • before things came to fuck extremity fume endeavors were not made to form aliiances upon the Continent, or at kali to obtain the interference of fame G iemily Power, if (itch there are to be found, to prevent tiiat war for which, if you had not been better prepared, you ought not to have commenced it. I agree with the illulirious Duke who fpoke early in this debate, that Malta was not the true caufe of war with this country. For although it was the ollenfible and avowed ground of the rupture, the tidecarie of war, which impreffes the mind of every Englifliman, is the implacable enmity of France to this country, and the infatiable fpidt of aggrandifement that marked her conduct through Europe. But it was the Pitoti. DE*CII of Hsayss which perverted the mind of that man who rijles France, to reje& the conditions ot. fered to him on the fubje& of negotiation, his aecep. tance of which would have led to the ruin of pour country. My Lords, in the falfe fecurity for Peace, which has called ever fence the conclufion of the Treaty of Amiens, this country has been reprifing be. • neatlinhe baleful umbrage of the poifoned tree. I am glad that its drippings have bli tiered her feelings, and roofed her attention from the flumber of death. My Lord, awakened as we are, at length. to a fenfe of our danger, we mutt every motnent behold the folly of delaying the preparations for our defence, and feel that we have not a moment to loft. My Lords, when you talk of a mere defenfive war, you talk of defeat and ruin. The mereft bungler that ever handled a foil, if you nand merely upon the defenfive, and let him thruft at yoe, he will ecr. tainly hit you at tall. So, my Lord, will it be with any enemy againft whom you merely nand on the defenfive ; and the one with whom you have to con. _ tend is no bungler in the ufe of his weapons. lf you wait for cold and tardy forms ; if the bufinefs is to be done in-the nightgown and flippers of official ran. tine. in vain will he your refinance, and hopeleflt your fecurity. ' What was the cafe of'Aunria She was one of the moll formidable nations in Europe, but by oppofing cold forms to active vigour, by fitting mathematical taaics againa hearts fwoln with enthufiafm, the was conquered. It is not then, my Load, by the cold forms of official routine, or by the ufual proceedings of former times, we are to prepare ourfelves for encountering the attacks of that fort of enemy with whom we have now to contend. I would exclaim to the Britith Nation—. Rik, rife, my Cmmtry ! " Yw menhir you win portib r Yon mull call up the whole force, the whole re• fources, and the whole effedive vigour of your coon • try to furmouot your danger, or you eat fink ender its and better it were to fink in theglortous Anvils of refinance, than crouch under the humiliation of an inglorious defeat, which mull be the inevitable coo. fequenee of a feeble and inadequate efost to repel the foe. The whole difference between a manly arid fpi. riled 'menial and a timid and fpiritleh canine. is the fafety, or the total ruin of this countryse.Bot juflified as you are in the eyes of the realm, and of + Europe, in the reaitude of your quarrel. you have the hearts of the country with you s call upon them, then, and they will anfwer to your Cutworms. It is your. to give them the fire ot energy, and the tone of vigour. Yon have the fame Drift& buttons that have in all ages glowed with ardour in their country's caufe s the faint &Wilt blood that lowed is die veins of your gallant encellors at Agincourt, till animates Britons. will again vibrate at your mall and ark proudly flow eft the fame hoeourable eauft. As so the refources of the country, in point of property, on luck to o*alon, they are minor eonlideredusist and be &threes not the name of Engliflunan who would complain of theft. Nothiwg but an union of the whole nation can femme we spinet the danger; and, foe my owe part, I repeat rt. - I !hall as cheer&ily draw my fword as a private in any rank for the de. fence of my Country, as at the hood of aft army.— My Lords, this is perhsrps the INA time I may haws the opportunity of addretrang you, mid I wiSsto ufo it in warn;ng my country ofirest danger font the fps. cies of enemy to which Are as oppohd I the is obi. retina under the (had* of a Cologne 'Ow keeps you from else light of the fen : you molt neertern or he will overwhelm you. It is lo elle so depend upon Au& in et Nam ; they are both of naisd.—.. tai tL• Me .er at as ire. nal s cllll 41s. MO 11 4 W d lii t lim- I *I Is of M le MO 1011.1 ,soll =MC 011 P WI"