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P ...I.' / I' ...' 1~. .. 4 .t . I 11111r . "W , 's lettee they 'begin to discuss inn-hat Modes they had better he engaged, would soon become d rakedisobeient, • and perhaps ho an easy pmgressinn, beg ' o into their consideration the affairs of the Govern ment. The priteiple was dangerous, and in him should always meet within eppeaent. The SECRETARY at Vs - .Z It maintained, that the cotnp:nison would not hold between the troops . of the Army of Reserve, and thow of the 20th re .giment, whose services were extended to Europe, and had enlisted oh those terms, before they were sent to llolland. Therafterwards volunteered their services to Egypt, as did many other corps---but the faith of the Government was religiously main tained. General Abercrombie, faithful to the pub lic agreement, had sent home some very fine troops from Portugal and Minorca, before he proceeded to •Egypt, because they had only been engaged for limitudiervice.. •It was true, that some troops of the . above• description - .went subsequnntly to that counter; but from _Their . own spontaneous and vo. luntiryampulie. , After the glorious battle of the 1 21 kt of 'hlirch, several regiments at Malt:sand Mi uotca, which were in that predicament, not only vo lunteered, but clamorously demanded to be led to Egypt, in /order that they might share the fate of their companions—and claimed it in such a manner, that for more reasons than one, it was not thought expedient to refuse them. Mr. rirr declared himself by no means adverse to the provision under all the present circumstances, even though some old regiments might be consi dered locked up, by having some of those soldiers of the Army of Reserve amongst them. For some weeks, and perhaps f o r some months to conic, It might be of much more importance to us to • have a strong and powerful home defence, than a large disposable force. In that inter val, 'though the regulars may in a great mea sure be tied up 1:y having those recruits, the re tell/4u would an the mean time have the advantage or being filled ; for it was a great error to suppose, that while these ballots were going forward, the re cruiting fur the regulars was at a .stand. Such a contlusion was not warranted by experience, as the recruiting for the litre never went on more briskly, than when the ballots were at the same time going forward. It was not to be supposed, that we should confine our exertions to the present levies, 'r that we were not still to raise another great irre t , lar force independently of this, as well as more regulars. It was by no means improl able, that we may soon have an opportunity of proving the of eetive strength of our defence, by repelling and c. nfounding the daring and insolent foe, and which (and England could never be satisfied without it) we should be prepared to employ, with a confidence of being safe at home, our great disposable force, to make a pro. per and send! lc return to the presumptuous hopes and threats oF an arrogant and intoxicated enemy. Thus would the favourable and auspicious moment arrive, for our reguLars and volunteers, covered with honour, and confident of 7 access, to assert the glory, after they had confirmed the defence and the security of the country. His Majesty might then, with greater e irea, transfer them to other corps, when they were acquainted with teal service, had seen new corps, served under new generals, and at tached theniselvts to new comrades. He concluded with recommending, that when there was a greater proportion of regulars than of ballotted men in a regiment, the troops of the reserve should be trans ferred to other regiments, and their places supplied by draughts from other regiments of the line; for it teal necessary to fill up the weak regiments as well as those which might be stronger. C .1. CRAUFORD said, he never felt himself so happy in his life, than in having his sentiments con firmed from such high and distinguished authority. Mr. SHERIDAN apprehended that so much to iance in their enlisting in the line might opt rite as a check upon the alacrity of substitutes in coming forward Mr. PITT replied, that there was no evading the discussion. It should be distinaly understood, that though the men were only ballotted for limited ser vice, they would be invited or applied to, but not compelled to a service of a general nature. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER repeated what had been so often said before, that the balloted men c)uld not be enli'.;ted under this A.t for general, until they were discharged from temporary, service; for, without doing that,the regi ments to which they belonged could not be sent abroad. As to all that had been said respecting the interference of the ballots with the recruiting tor the --eulars, he need only state the following faa.— ithin thew few hours (these twenty fours at least p recruiting orders had been ivsued for the two gene ral services of the Cavalry and the Guards ; and he had already been is formed, that it was going on with more adivity and success than at any former period. Sir LAWRENCE PARSONS expressed his ap prohation of the clause. General TARLETON observed, that this men. sure was in pla.•,ned, as to he equally calculated for " • offence, defence, and is such :t manner as that both these objets should assist each other. To :thew ti.e advantage of it, he referred to the well known circumstance, that recruiting was always most diffi cult in this country at the commencement of a war, and, in the most successlat times, never produced more than twenty thousa.... men within the rear. ' Now within a few months there would be raised no ler. than 100,000 ; and this exertion was no nlore than what'was necessary, considering the great in crease which France had obtained last war in po pulation, ettent of territory, extension of coasts, and military experience and reputation. The effort was also the more necessary, as it must be allowed that, at the peace, our establishment was by much too far reduced, and that we were speedily to be op posed to a most vigilant, skilful, and implacable neemy. I)r. LAWRENCE said, he must protest against • the principle so frequently asserted in that House, that it was unceesthational to raise men by ballot for the line. He was ready to maintain, on the con trary,that it was not unconstitutionalwhen the neces sities of the State required it. Mr. SHERIDAN, in reply to several obserra lions, which be thought were direaed at him, de clared, that be never objeaed to the complement of the line being made up from the troops of the Army of Re,,erve. He would propose them then to take ten men from this new arm?, which in all probability would he stiffiCient to recruit the line, there would still remain thirty thousand men for England. This army mould aot, like the .r. Militia. he commanded by country gentlemen in terested in the ,lusty of the •constitvueiti, but by ',~=".~ +~!~ -. M_•..e 1 1 /!3! oetcert of another desc4iion in the service of, and attached to, the crowns and thus circumstanced, nothing could be more' dangerous than c 9 piece them in a deliberative capacity. Ile was ready, whenever the opportunity offered, to meet the Hon. and Learned-Gentleman who spoke last in the ques tion, wie,dier it wa, or was not constitutional to ballot, and compel the people of this country, to en list themselves for foreign service. With the ex ception of impressing seamen, the people were not compelled t , .) serve in the navy. It was true that the parishes had bsten called upon to ruriiish extra ordinary levies ; but they had contrived to do it by means of bounties. Dr. LAWRENCE replied, that he should have no objection to meet his Honourable Friend on that ground, whenever it may be thought necessary ; but what struck him must, was, that he heard the same doctrine advanced by sonic of His Majesty's Ministers. • Mr. PITT said, that he bad no desire, nor was this the time for entering on such a discussion ; but he owned that he saw no limits to the powers of the legislature in this respea, with regard to any mea sures that m!ght be required for the public safety. Policy, however, required that it should not he re sorted to, except in cases of the greatest necessity. In his opinion, the only way in which the Army of Reserve could well be converted into volunteers for the service of the line, was not to grant permission to individuals to enlist indefiaitely, and at whatever time they may think proper; but that at stated times, and these very few in t year, they should be drawn out by the commandi g offi cer, and the question put to their choice it: a bodf ; alter which the same opportunity should not recur . till some period subsequently to be settled. 7 1lis he conceived to Le the onl- certain method of preserv ing discipline and subordination. Colonel CR Al . FO R D would prefer leaving the power of enlist' • , :z unlimited in the soldiers. The clause was then agreed to, as were several other clauses, vi ithout any amendments. In the Claude for investing his Majesty with power to allow men so hallooed to enlist into the line, The SECRET RY to WAR said, he should move an amendment, that no soldier who had for a limit ed time been guilty of any military offence or trilled of discipline should be suffered to avail himself of this clause. Mr. Prrr said, he was mora anxious that this should be done than to add any thing to the details of the measure. He should despair of the preser vation of discipline and du e subord i flat ion, ifat the ti me we were providing for home defence and for a des picable foreign force, there should be hanging over the soldiers of the reser ye, whenever they entertained any dislike or disgust at their officers, or an unlimit ed and indefinite power of enlisting in the regulars and dissolving the connection. The opportunity should only be afforded on stated days, and all men should be excluded from it till within a certain time they had unierzolie any military punishments. He had full confidence in the Commander in Chief, that he would omit nothing for the observance of discipline, but he could not but feel anxious, that these regulations should be explained, in general or ders or otherwise, but, he believed, in general or ders,' on the very first day of the formation of every regiment, least the soldier should be led into the error of supposing, that he might, by enlisting in the regulars, at any time set his Officers at cieis ante. As he supposed, however, that this would be dome. as well without any- Parliamentary injunc tion, he should refrain from offering the clause he first intended to submit. Mr. S lERIDAN said, the Right Honourable Gentleman must have looked at the clause in a very careless manner, for if he had examined it more carefully, he would have found that all his pains were unnecessary ; for though the law would au thorize His Majesty to allow the men to enlist in the regulars, the latter would have no power to de mand it. Mr. PITT said, all he could colic& from the last observation w.t;, i.ot that it corietiled any mistake of his, but that the Honourable Gentleman had changed his own doeirtre, and was now reconciled to the clause, because :t corresponded with his (Mr. Pitts) ideas. Mr. Sheridan and Dr. Lawrence added a few words in explanation. 'the SECRETARY at WAR then agreed to move as an amendment, that this explanation should be given out in general orders. Mr. PITT said, that would he the more neces sary, in order to prevent mistakes, as in the year 17:Io militia soldiers were allowed of their own ac cord to enlist whenever they pleased into the line. That amendment MSS agreed to. Mr. WESTLEY POLE moved, as an amend. ment, that the soldiers of the Reserve should be al. lowed to enter into the Infantry of the Line, or into the Royal Artillery. The SECRETARY at WAR thought the amend ment unnecessary, as every thing was included un. der the words, as they stood in the clause, " for ge. nerd service." Mr. W. POLE said he was satisfied, if it was to be understood that they may enter for the Royal Artillei y. Mr. PITT observed, that the Guards and the Ca valry had already a g-eat facility of recruiting with out this extraordinary aid, which he thought should be particularly appropriated to the Infantry of the l.ine, and tl.e Royal Artillery, which stood most in need of it. The SECRETARY at WAR said, that the Guards and Cavalry were already complete, and were now proceeding in their augmentation. Mr. SHERIDAN was for applying this aid to the Guards or Cavalry, or any other force which re quired either to be completed or augmented. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that however strong or numerous our cavalry might he at present, were he at liberty to do so, he might point out possible circumstances in which it would he highly advantageous that it • should be very much augmented. After a great deal of conversation the amend ment was withdrawn, and the original • clause agreed to. The SECRETARY at WAR said, he had no more amendments to propose, and then moved the two following clauses, which were adopted. tO 1. penalty for not serving or finding a sub stitute. 2 1. 2s. to be paid by the Receiver-Geperal to every substitute on his joining. The remaining clauses of the Bill, and some 3f3S tional clauses, moved by Mr. Secretary at War, were then:east and area to; add diaCliairmx..l intv. LONDON, THURSDAY, Jume 30. It is reported that the Earl of HARDivicxt has solicited his recall from Ireland. This determination has proceeded from the most laudable motives, and not from any difficulties in his government. His Lordship thinks that in the present st:ite of the empire, a military character should be at the head of that part of the country ; that he should be able to command in the field as well as preside in cow cil. As soon as these sentiments of Earl H•IiDWICKE were communicated to Government, rumour assigned for his successor the Earl of MoI RA, as a Nobleman who might fill that station with pecu liar advantage to the empire. This opinion is not more founded upon his Lordship's spirit and military skill, than upon the personal attachment which the people of that country bear him. It is no doubt the duty of every subjat to resist an invading foe with their utmost energy, without regarding who may be their commander. But it is a fault in the Irish charader, that the lower orders of the people more frequently consult the heart than the head, and as more from feeling than from principle. On the present occasion, however, that defea might be turned to advantage, as their personal regard for his Lordship would be a pledge 14 their loyalty and attachment to the Government. The report of his Lordship's succession to the Lord Lieutenancy has, however, began to subside, and Marquis Co aN.. w ALLY is now the person considered most likely to be appointed to that station. His Lordship has, we understand, expressed his readiness to as in any capacity, cis' AI or military, in which it shall please His MAJESTY to employ him ; and when his Lord.- ' ship's condua, during. the rebellion, is considered, the world must admit that the trust could not be committed to safer or abler hands. Last sight a sum of 20,0001. was voted in .the Committee of Supply, in the House of Commons, to wards defraying the expense of cutting a canal navi gable for men of war across the Highlands of Scot land, by Fort . William and Inverness. It is esti mated that the whole of the Baltic trade may be conveyed by this channel across the Island in t*elve days in winter, being two months and a half less than would be consumed by a voyage round the Island daring that season- ' . • • . • Our tielnved libvereign, we are resolved to deny himself the tranquillity month, that he inky effeauatly attend tion of thew plans which are formed don, and the annoyance of our enemy, . • Yesterday we received Paris Journals inclusive. BONAPARTE left that on his journey to the Belgic Departments. to sleep the first night at Amiens. Yesterday a Court of Directors India House, which adjourned this day. Letters have been received in which state that the Dutch Fleet that Admirals DE WIN i ER and: ceeded over-land, supposed for Paris. According to letters from Florence, Merchants in that country were t word of honour that they would escape. Sir Jour.; Bur IVA RIM( ' the Court of St. Petersburgli, has, . permisiiou to return home, for the , a naval command against the enenc Officer is unwilling to be confined ' relent, when his country is engah teresting contest as the prevent one. The 14th regiment of Light Dr doing - duty along Lire coast, have , from Dovtr to !lye. The signal supplied with night signals, so that tempt on any part of the coast, would be almost instantaneous tent of shore. Tuesday morning three troops ment of Light Dragoons left Bury on their route for Ipswich, and were remaining three yesterday morning. The 24th, 30th, 53d, and 69th line, with the West Suffolk Milit from Ipswich to Bromswell, wi. said, is to be formed of 90,000 men. A Camp, it is said, will be formed Folkstone, a spot which commands ' sil,le point of the coast between that' The East Middlesex regiment - through Maidstone on Monday, Coxheath C amp. The Marquis of I Icr; rtev leaves to take the command of the Aberdeen Scotland, according to his appointment. Sir EYR 'Sown: left town yesterday command of his regiment now This day a Court of Conirton held at Guildhall, at eleven sider a letter received by the Lok the SECRETARY at WAR, respeEtin, men for the Army of Reserve, London may be disposed to furni of the realm in the present conk' Yesterday a Common Hall was . to consider the propriety of instructing sentatives in Parliament to oppose passing into a law. The LORD MAYOR laid before a requisition in writing of several being read by the Common Cryer, to several Resolutions, which • published in all the papers. At a meeting of the Table-Beer don, which took place on Frida: it was unanimously agreed, that Beer should be raised on the sth , teen to twenty shillings per barrel, the new Duty on Mart. The Aberdeenshire militia haw George, under the command of The Edinburgh, Forfar, and tia, encamp at Musselburgh next Lanark, Perth, and Fifeshire, at We hear that a corps of volunteers diately raised in Leith. The city of Glasgow has offered _ _ talion of 00 men. satorda i ynext,tho Hero, of launched fi oin Messrs. PLRR Blackwall. The Blanche frigate, Capt. M, sail in a few days from Portsmouth, the West Indies. During the threatened Armada, Queen ELIZA 111:T 11, the milltary , servants but one behind the carriages, bility and gentry, to serve against my ; a similar measure at the would be equally fitting, and far In consequence of a resolution ; ing of the coal.owners and fitters on Saturday last, liberal bounties to such men as will volunteer Navy, in lieu of the keelmen I the impress. About 25 of the raised, have since entered. An extraO of a letter from and Co. liamburgh, to Messrs. Hull, dated June 14, 1803, say , now seems to be placed on a sur - Towns, as the Hamburgh Senai assurance of the Russian and Prussian they are determined to enforce the towards the rights of those places. have now changed from their old Tonning, on the Eyder." The rived in the Humber on Wednesda laying in Grimsby Roads, where ' she is to be stationed fur the del( the river, and the protation of and from this port. The trade on the Lincolnshire Lynn and the month of the I fun has within these few days been' by some French privateers: szveral is feared some trading vessels, 11- - and carried into Ostend. On large fleet of ships, consisting _ of different descriptions, passed , coast to the Northward, supposed voy of a sloop of war which was smuggling lugger, which had l tity of Geneva at Robin Hood' day se'cinight captured a little Whitby, by one of His Majesty to the Southward. The lirsuvius O'Brien, has sent into the River brig, laden with French property. liatubtirk;ll, value 30,0001. tither, • • 11144/1.Z.1".-. e well ihfonned, Lai ranquillity of Weyi ttend to the COM*. rmed for our prutec- enemy. Journals to the 2Stli tt city on Saturday, partments. He wai s. Prs Was held at tlle I at sli &Cluck till town from Ferrol, t remains there, and A R TURK had pre- Paris. rence, all the English to have given their laid not make their , our A mhassr.dor at s, it is said, requested he purpose of taLiog temy. That grllant ed to a Civil employ- iged in such an is me. Dragoons ' who are ore a nightly patrt Ic Jnal stations are also in case of an at- the communication along the whole ek- ps of the 18th regi- Bury St. Edmund's, were followed by the ling. Ith regiments of the ilitia, have marched where a Camp, it is nen. armed on Castle-hill, ands the most acces- hat town and Hythe. of Militia marched y, on its route for leaves town this day • Paberdeen Distriet in iintment. .esterday to take the at Ipswich. non Council will be ock precisely, to c0n- .051) MAYOR, from peCting the quota of !, which the City of rnish for the defence juncture. vas held at Guildhall, structing the Repro- s Pose the Income "fax re the Common Hall ral Liverymen, which -yer, the Livery came were ordered to be Beer Brewers in Lon- ay, at Brewer's Hall, Lt the price of Table- h of July, from eigh- -el, in consequence of ave marched for Fort f the Earl of Etta ox. Dumfriesshire mili- Et week. The Royal it Dunbar. nteers is to be imxne- ered to raise one bat- -74 guns, is to be RI - Dock-yard, at diner., is expected to mouth, as. Convoy to nada, in the da) s of • try press swept off all riages, &c. of the no- inst the invading ene- the present moment lir more produCtive. on adopted at a meet- , Ts of Newcastle, held ties have been offered m their services in the i lately liberated from 80 intended to be s() Messrs. Thomas Lee Goodwii s and Lee, says, « Every thing ire basis for the Ilans ate have received the Prussian Courts, that the striftest neutrality olaces. The packets Id port, Cuxhaven, :o l'he Helder frigate i i :.- .esday last, and i , :119.p sere (with other foie. ) , fence df the mouth I the trade sailing t 3 • shire coast, between iniber, we understand, . considerably annoyed izveral colliers, and it have been captured, Sunday se'nnight, a of upwards of 70 sail red by the Holderness nosed to be under ;en- was in company. 45 landed a small quan- l's Bay, was on Thurs- le to the Northward of esty's ships, and sent iiciiat tender, Capt. It. 'et- Coln, a Hamburgit perty, from I isbon to ken off the Vlie. 1 ~^r iag the left chair, reported forthwith. Th l wa4 ordered to be erigrased, illd read the thlkl time . to. MOITOW. The SECRETARY at WAR then shoved, thai the further consideration of the Report of the Com= mittee on the Scotch Additional Army be deferred till to-morrow, when, he desired to be understood, it would certainly he brought forward, Mr. I. HAWKINS BROWNE moved the Or der of the Day, for the House to resolve itself into a Committee of Supply, and that the third report of the Committee, to whom was referred the survey of the Scotch Highlands, be referred to the said Com mittee.—Ordered, and the House resolved itself into a Committee. Mr. I. H. BROWNE said, the objal he had this night to propose for the consideration of the Com mittee was, a proposal for a grant of I.'oooo L for making a Navigable Canal across the Highlands of Scotland from sea to sea ; the distance was 59 miles, of which 29 miles consisted of deep and un fathomable lakes, navigable for the largest ships of the line; and the remainder of the distance it was proposed to cut artificially, to afford a depth of twenty feet water; and of a width capable of allow ing the passage of vessels of war. The result would be, that the whole of the Baltic and North Sea trade, could be conveyed across the Island, and into the Irish Channel, in seven days in summer, which would require a voyage, . often dangerous, of tinirteen days, round by the Shethuid and ')rkney Isles ; and in winter, the conveyance would be effected in twelve days, which would require a voyage of three months, North about.--- The motion was agreed to without opposition, and ordered to be reported to-moi row. , Read a second time the Irish Excise Duty Bill, and committed for to-morrow. Mr. CORRY.moved the Order of the Day for resolving into a Committee on the Irish Saltpetre Duty Reduction Bill. Mr. HUTCHINSON rose to explain his mo tive for resisting the Proceedings upon this Bill on a r• rrner night in a House so thin as only to con sib: of seventeen Members, and strongly urged his former arguments. Mr. CORRY vindicated the condal of the House, and of those whose peculiar duty it was to prepare the business of Ireland for the consideration of Par liament. The other Orders of the Day were de. ferred, and the House adjourned. Many intcresti!),7 articles, already announced, are still de ferred by the pre of temporary tnauer. An fn.lex to the Honks and Pamphlets advertised in the BRITISH PRESS, from J.utuary 1, to June 30, 1E303, will be given on Monday. TETE .BRITISEI PRESS. - THEATRE-ROTAL, 1147'.11.-IRKET. THIS EVENING will he presented, THE MOUNTA INE ERS. A Play in Three A. ()Caviar& (Seventh Time) NIT.. Ellisron ; Visnlet, Mr. Pal mer ; Kilmalock, Mr. Denman; Roque, Mr. Clidimian. Zurayda. Mrs. T. Werodfall ; Floranthe, Mrs. Goodall; Agnes, Mrs. Atkins. T.) which will be added, a Farce, called THE JEW ANL) THE DOCTOR. Abedneyo, Mr. Grove (being his Second Appearance) ; Old Bromley, 'Mr. Mathews. Emily, Miu Gaudry.