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did rot furnish unit gnotatthey were only required to ray a small sum of mo y, and if they did, they were paid for the men they furnished. He thought it 3 matter of great importance to keep up the Army of Reserve. It was that class of intermediate force which served as a most useful source for supplying the Regular Army with men. As to postponing the Bill, there was no complexity in it that required him to consider of it. He denied that parish officers could be considered as recruiting ser jeants. He believed the people of parishes would cheerfully give their assistance in procuring men for the public service; and it was the duty of every man in a parish to lend his aid for that pur pose. Upon the whole, he believed this measure would be produetive of good, and if not, it could not do any harm. Sir W. GEARY spoke against the Bill. He thought it a measure that could by nu means con duce to the object it professed to have in view. He deemed it also unjust, as it was meant to throw the burden on the parishes, who, if they cannot find men, must at all events pay the penalties, and this WAS not, in his opinion, obtaining what, in the pre sent circumstances, the country was most in need of. It had been allowed on all hands, and by all parties, in the various discussions which had taken place on this subjal, that what we most essentially stood in need of was a disposeable force, and, in his mind, this Bill was not the way to raise it. It had been stated that 13,000 had entered from the Army of Reserve into the Regular Army, and that was no argument whatever in support of the present measure ; for he bad not a doubt remaining on his mind, but that more men would have been procured for the Regu guise Army, if there had been no such body of men as an Army of Reserve. In respect to a defensive I . arce, he thought the country had every reason to pride itself in the utmost security. He had not the smallest doubt but that 400,000 men in arms were in every resped sufficient to contend with the proud, insolent, and overtiestring enemy, at present opposed to us, let him attack us whenever he might think proper. lie was not one of those who wished to see a great force from France landed on our shores; the inevitable cons.. .ences of such an event were such as every considering and feeling mind must depre cate; but, if such a circumstance should by acci dent take place, he had no doubt but that the force we ba4 in arms would be a'ole to repel it ; and as the pres.mt measure was only meant to raise and aug awns oar disposeable force, and he was of opinion it would not avail to that purpose, he could see no reason for the present Bill, and as such should op pose I. Mr. FOX said he did not rise to give any opposi tion to bringing in the Bill moved for by the Right Hon. Gentleman. lie did not know whether he should gain any credit from the I louse, or from the Right Hon. Gentleman, in what he was go. ag to say ; but he co tld assure them, that he had endeavoured by every effort and consideration he was able to apply to the subjofl, to impress his own mind with a favourable idea of the Bill, and to drive away all prejudices which, from his own slight view of the subjeCt, when it was first opened by the Right Hon. Gentleman, or from the argt; aentc or opinions of others, he might have conceived against it. Another reason which he had to dispose hint favourably towards this Bill was, that he was decided!, opposed, in principle and in judgment. to all the va rious plans which had Monads:tidy been brought forward on this subjea. He remained, however, confirmed in his cl,i,approbation of the present Bill, because he could lot concetve it was calculated to fulfil those ends and purpoxs which it professed to do. In all the objedrions which had been urged against the various plans proposed by the last Mi nistry for augmenting fii e Regular Army, and thereby the disposable force of the country, one ofthe strongest and most generally urged objeCtions was, that very fundamental one, indeed, d`endeavouring to make a limited force a foundation for a general force. He was clearly of opinion that none could be a more defeaive mode of defence for the country ; and lie had uniformly given the tame opinion on the sub jett. It was not by any means his intention to enter into the question, of how far any of those different modes of defence, which had been proposed, were right or wrong ; but he could not help objedling to the mode of enlisting men, first for a limited force, and then. by various artifices, endeavouring to pre. wail on them to go into a service or force of an un limited nature. He thought it never could be a good foundation for an unlimited army to be drawn from a Entree, which, in its origin, was supposed to be decidedly and altogether limited. His objeCtion to the present Bill, he said, was funda mental ; and therefore, though he was extremely de sirous to lend his aid towards increasing the force of the country, be could not in the present instance do so. If, however, the Bill should, on consideration, be deemed by the House to be a good one, he saw no reason whatever why it should not pass during the course of the present Session. It was undoubt edly requisite that the House should have time to read the Bill, and to consider it in all its different bearings ; if there was any thing essentially wrong in it. there could be no doubt but it would either be totally rejefted, or modified in such a manner as to meet the approbation of the House ; but if it was found to be absolutely good, in the opinion of a ma. join:y of the House, it might surely to pass as soon as possible. Ile thought it his duty to snake these preliminary observations in the prt alit stage of the business, and should reserve his further opinion till he had an opportunity of reading and considering the whole of the Bill, during the future progress of which he should have many opportunities of de livering his sentiments to the House. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that as the introdudion of the Bill was not opposed, he would not wish to trespass on the House at the present moment, by entering at large on the sub Jed. There were, however, some prints to which he most entreat the indulgence of the House, till he delivered a few observations. lle then adverted to the objedions which had becn made as to ballot', and begged the Home to recoiled, that till the Militia had reached its lowest member, according to the present plan, the ballot should net be filled up ; so that we should have, in the mean time, the ad. vantage of two or date years experience, tiorn which the greaten advantages naight reasonably be erpeßed, and from which no preseht inconveniences could b; any means arise. There was another point which had been alluded to o and which he allowed to be of great weight and consequence ; that was, as to the time of service in the Regular Army. It bad been urged by the Right Hun. Gentleman opposite to him (Mr. Windham), that the service should be temporary and limited. He would not deny that such a regulation seemed wi :e and judicious, if there were no great difficulties in its way. He should always he ready and desirous to listen to and obtain the opinions of the most distinguished mili tary charafters in the country, on the snhjeet ; and if it were found that circumstances would admit of lt, when the situation of this country came to be com pared with those of the different powers of the Con tinent, so that with a full conviaion it could be adopted, he should certainly have no objellion to adopt it. The Right Honourable Gentleman paid a compliment to the manner in which Mr. Fox had delivered his sentiments in opposition to the present measure, which he acknowledged to be fair, candid, and explicit. He felt, notwithstanding, that he was completely at issue with him, for he believed there could not be a doubt, but that, taking the country as it now stands, and looking with the most serious attention at its present state of society, the measure of increasing the regular army by immediate supply was not by any means so good or so effeltual as by an intermediate one, which could no way so well be had as by an Army of Reserve. The great objell is, that if soldiers are wanting, they can with greater safety be detached from such a source than they could from any other, which was founded on the general system of rinsing men in a regular way. Indeed one of its greatest advantages arose from that part of the system of the Army of Reserve, which is en tirely new, and which, by the peculiar mode of ar rainging the men, gives it a degree of discipline, which cannot well be attained by toe united zeal, talents, and perseverance of the officers of the Militia. He denied the etb•f of Mr. Windham's argument, as to the Army of Reserve being an irredit. at to raising men for the Regular Army. fle allowed the utmost scope to the playfulness of his Limy, in supposing that men in that situation would naturally think they had sown their wild eat', and would, therefore, have no concern with the Regular Army; on the contrary, he believed, time habits they would in course imbibe, in con.equence of their entering into such an intermediate force as the Army of Re serve, would .so tar predispose them for a soldier's life, that very few indeed would be found who would not be desirous of sowing . over again their wild oats in order obtain a station in the Regular Army. The Right Hon. Gentleman adverted next to the objeftions which had bee-' adduced Against his Bill, on account of turning the Parish Officer into a Recruiting Officer. If the remark was taken in its literal sense, that a Parish Officer was to he converted into a Commander of Soldiers, whom he was to discipline and render fit for the service of the field, it would certainly have a ludicrous Jet ; but he saw no nbjeaion whatever to making the man, wen best knosss the situation and circumstances of every man in his parish, a kind of recruiting officer to a certain limited extent, far the furtherance and promotion of the service o: the country. He si.urned the idea of raising them in modes similar to those prataised. by the kidnappers o. the slaves in Africa ; though some distant allu sions had been made to it; and it had been said, that these parish recruiting officers had it in their power to refuse parochial relief to such as should object to go into the army; hut this, he con tended, was mere illusion. The parish officer, in this, as in every other case, alts under the immediate inspedtion and cognisance nf the Magis trates; and it is impossible th..t he should have an opportunity abusing the pus •er put into his hands. At all events, it was however certain, and beyond a doubt, that if he had any temptation t exceed his authority, or abuse his power, under th- present Bill, that temptation was four fai under the Pill of the Right Hon. Gentlem in (Mr. Addington). who so pointedly objedted to this. He then adverted to the ..bjeaute. against the degree et . c• "yulsion allowed by this Lill ; and obse rved, that ..•eording to the philosophical, moral, and met pi: /hull dis tinaion made by two Rig it Hon. I ;eatlemen (M.-. Windham and Mr. Acidiagton). th e House and the world would be e ; to suppose those Ceidemen were enemies to all compulsion, of what kind soe ver ; whereas, the nits; is. the present Bill give; much less comeutskin than is proposed by one, and recommeadeJ, but not . .ted, by the other ; and, in fact, tat 'be compu ..on wa. less oppres sive than that h hid pieviously been proposed by Mr. Addington. In the arguments of one Hon. Gentleman, it had 'e'en recommended to him to do nothing ; for it was aid, we never did bet.er than when we did nnhing. Others had, on the contrary. argued, that he had been guilty of too much tardi ness and delay in bringing forward the present measure. Hr conf ssed, that he had been,in some degree, harrassed, di tressed, and embarrassed, by these opposite argumtnts, the he acknowledged he was in some degree compensated, by their, at the same time, firing on each other. One Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Addington) had proposed to post pone the present measure for a year ; he differed with him altogether. If we do not see occasion for adopting it at the present moment—that is the vei y time we ought to embrace it, in order to be, at all events, prepared for every attempt, and every at tack, that may be made on us, and not trust to the chance of another, whether we may be attacked or i not. lie isistedthere was not a word like indivi dual compulsion in arty part of the present system. The fines, in this Bill, were by no means so heavy or oppressive as in the Bill of the Right Honourable Gentleman ( Mr. Addington); and as to the numbers proposed to be raised, in addition to the Regular Army, they could not be said to be too great, when it was recolledled, that a Right lion. Gentleman, not then in his place (Mr. Yorke), had, a few weeks ago, proposed an augmentation to the army of 50,000 men. He begged pardon of the House for having so long detained them; but he could not., in duty to himself, pass over the argu ments urged against the Bill, without making the observations on them, which he had just submitted to the House. Mr. ADDINGTON said a few words in expla nation. The Right Honourable Gentleman, be ob served, had stated him as arguing, that no aug mentation of the regular force was necessary. This was not what he had Illaintained ; but that the plan of the Right Hon. Gentleman was neither so etrecual, nor so mild in its operation as that he had submitted to the Ronnie. He had always admitted TIEIE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6. Mr. PITT last night brought in his Bill for the more effe6tual defence of the country. He pro poses to reduce the Militi . to its old establishment, and to form a great intermediate but limited force, which may serve as a source for the supply and in crease of the Regular Army. Mr. WIADH•I4, Mr. ADDINGTON, Mr. Fox, and several other Gentlemen, expressed their disapprobation of the whole or parts of the measure ; but the conversation that followed cannot be properly called a debate. As we stated on Monday, the grand opposition to the Bill is reserved for the second reading. The House was uncommonly full, and the business ap pear.rd to have excited a considerable degree of ex raation. The Expedition now fitting out for the Cape of Gocd Hope, god tile Dutch Settlements in ludia, is on a very extensive scale. Bocides the Indian built ships now in :his country, and the several packets belonging to the East India Company, Government are about to purchase the Company's frigate the Marquis Cornudt c, which lately sailed from this country for Bombay ; also the Indian built ships Sir Edward Hughes and Bri tennia, belonging to the Company. These ships being now on their outward-bound passage, it is intended they shall be equipped for His MAJESTY'S service as soon as they arrive in The Hamburgh Mail of the 22d, and a Gotten burgh Mail, arrived yesterday. The former contains one allude that deserves notice, as it evinze; the increasing jealnusly of France with respell to Russia. A letter from Constantin le says, " that both the RUSSIAN and Fa ENCI4 MINISTERS continue to have frequent conferences with the GRAND VIZIER, CAPTAIN PACIIA, and Reis EFFENDI ; but that General Baurst, in a conference with the last, has lately declared that France could n, see, without resentment, the Turks forming Any nearer connedtions with Russia and Eng land, than those already subsisting.' The con sequence has been, that the SULTAN has issued or ders to augment his armaments both by sea and land, as the only means to force France to respal the independence and neutrality of the Turkish Em pire." Yesterday morning, about eleven o'clock, Mr. PITT had an audience of His MAJESTY. Soon after twelve o'clock, Their Mai 'snag in a post.chariot, and the Paiaccsses in two coaches and four, with their usual attendants , escorted by a party of the Light Horse, took an airing by Hamp stead and Highgate. The Vkl , ig Club dined yesterday at the London Tavern, but Mr. Fox, Mr. GREY, Scc. being de tained in die House of Commons by their Pat ha me:lmq duty, the attendance was thin, and nothing interesting to the public took place. Yesterday, the Right Hon. the Lotto MAYOR ordered the price of Bread to be continued the same as last week, viz. eld. the Quarters Loaf, wheaten, and 7d. household. _ _ This day the Loan Mayoa will 'hold the first Courts of Conservancy for the Connties of Essex a Ai Kent, at the Swan at Stratford, and time Ship Tavern, Greenwich. A Court of Common Council will be held on Friday next, at Guildhall, for the dispatch of public business. All the Provincial Papers, received yesterday, that could contain any account of hionday, abound with instances of the zeal, loyalty, and devotion, w.th which it was celebrated in their respeflive vici nities. The Right Hon. Gnomon Rose !us bon retort.. ed for the Borough of Quistchureh. -. o . - i LAW INTELLIGENCE. • COURT OF KING'. BENCH, WESTMINSTER, Ism S. - - - - TfO4•s DORRIEtS, 4. uurcnists This WAS one of the many actions which had be= commenced re:ative to the Transfer of Stock on the ever memorable sth of May, 1803, when a report of p peace with France was so industriously circulate? ppon 'Change. The action was brought for a AreAch of Contract ; the Defendant, having, on the same sth of May, contracted with the Plaintiff 's llri.ker, for the purchase of 15,0001. 9 per cer's 'Consols, to be transferred on the lath. When a - plication was made to him, that the Plaintiff was ri-ady to make good the transfer, he refused to fulfil his engagement, alleging that he would abide by the resolutions of the Stock Emliange, which were entered into r.:lative to all bargains made on that day: in cons '<pence of which, the Plaintiff was t safer the necessity of immediately selling out, by which he mist lined a great loss. The damages sought to be recovered by t! , e Plaintiff were the diffeience between tae sum which the Defendant had contracted for, and that for which he was obliged to sell ow. at. The par ticulars of this ti Nve gave in our paper of Thursday last. 'the Jury sound a Verdict ;Or the Plaintiff of 6621. 104. Mr. Etsi; i u t this day moved she Court to set aside the Verdict . b ;Oled by the Plai.itiff, and to omitßule for a new trial. His appliciition was grounded first upon the point, that the 10,0001. anal 5Q;101. which were to constitute the 15,0001. were ascribed to two different persons ; and secondly, that as the transfer was to take place on the 10th, the ll.'tencl aut had the whole of that day to perform his Con tract, and the Plaintiff had no right to transfer his Stock until the day foilowing. Lord P.1.1.F.N80110....;H i-bserved, that as to the first point, it was a weii known fact, that the Broker never names his Principal at the time of making a Contract for the sale of Stock ; it is quite sufficient to produce his principal at the time of making the transfer. As to the second point, the Defendant peremptorily refused to accept the transfer in the course of that morning ; the Plaintiff was therefore at liberty to dispose of his stock whenever he pleased. if this Rule wis to be adhered to, all the great contracts which are made with the Ac countant General, the Bank cf Er.glar.d, 4:c. would become void. The Court therefore refused the application. PITO V. nitotr. Mr. G•111110W moved for a Rule to thew cause" against the Verdict obtsined by the. Plaintiff in this use. The action was luvught on the st.tute of the 7th of his present Majesty, „co recover. a penahr against the Defendant as a venth.r of coal., for in-. sufficient meaoare, and foc permitting waggon to go out without a Coal Memel Ticket. He re lied upon the worth of the Act cdParli.snae:-.t, which. were, that, " The Defendant should be convicted, h.ture Magistrate previous to action at Law:" in this cue the action ua. bz ought without any conviction before the NlagiStiate. Motion se-. fused. The king his been pleased t? ayp;;:r.t Charles Arbuthnot, bl.l. to lee Hi. Majesty's etiptoliassaioe Extraordinary and Plenipotent,are to the Sublime Ottoman Purte; Benjamin Gall.se, E , :q. to be His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary. and Min:Am Pleni potentiary to the Court of Copenhagen; Charles Stuart, Esq. to be His Majesty's Secretary ot. Ems !sassy to the Court of St. Petersburgit t Edward Thornton, Esq. to be His Majesty's Secretary of Legation to the Court of Baffin; Augustus Foster; Esq. to be His Majesty's Secretary of Legation to the United States of Anusici ; Frederick Lindeman, Esq. to be His Majesty's Consul at I.S.mbden. Lord LOVAINE has been apiiointed C..lonel of the Northumberland Militia. The Admiralty Sessions begin at the Old Bailey on Monday the 2d of July next. A new and interesting Female Association has lattly formed ender the Patronage of Her MAJESTY and the PR 11.4.7.C55E5, entitled—" The Ladies' Committee, for promoting the Education and Employment of the Female Poor."—lt was a sight honourable to themselves and interest ing to humanity to behold the Ladies who com pose this laudable Institution assembling yesterday at Mr. HATCH.IRD'II in Piccadilly for th.. noble pur pose of arranging and extending their plan. In this distinguished list were the Dowager Mar chioness of Dosszoss 1., Countess of LOl4O A I I Countess HARCOUET, Lady ilawitcsnuav, Lary R %D,TOCIC, Lady Teioamotra, Mrs. WlLlll.lt roses., Mrs. GOODEIEDIJOEI t Mrs. WORTLLY, Mrs. Taint arose, Mrs. Yollifal, Miss VAIESI ET A AY, &C. Private accounts state, that Boa AP A nTL will, ca the 14th of July, be invested in the Champ de Mars, by the(;RAND CtiI.ST•SILII, with the Imperial Man tic, and receive from hilt the Imperil &mord, both 1 of which will be peeviously consecrated its the ca thedral church of Notre I tame, by the Ca no ,nt. ARCHBISHOP of Paws. It is said there will be nu anointing or coronation. Boa AAAAA e, after receiving the Mantle, will take the oath attached to his high dignity.. is pre , sence of the Metn¢crs of the Sestet*, those or the Tribunate, the Legislative Body, the Tribunate, and the other Constituted Authtrities. 1 All the Prefells of the Depurtments will likeWsp repair to Paris, tc be present at the solemnity of thz. 14tIr of July, AS also a deputation from es-h of the different Corps of the Army, and the disisites of the Navy ; all the Archbishops and Bishops, and the Presidents of the nix principal Congregations at Pa ris, Bourdeaux, Lyous, Geneva, bfaistilles, and Strasburg. We are assured that the Tribunate will receive a President for two years, and two Questors, who be appointed by the Arad of the Government, from persons presented by the Tribunarer. An ankle from Paris, bathe Ifs ni.2 7 h CurrApon drwien, received yesterday, says, that the Corona tion will probably take place at Lyons, where the Pots is expeited. The Grand Diamond in the Pioot Lotrsav, and the Grand Prizes in Coax's Lovreav, were sold by kloaxsav and Co. who are appointed by Aleut:. BOYDSEL to dispose of the Ti;;ltets in the dr ssCI• aria s E Lorrzav, at Three Guineas each, vial e% Admission to the Gallery.—Piens at burr ameba had, free of Expence ' at Hora,ugy and Co.'s Old • liT•Ba LOTTSItY Offi ce, NO. SC Cusehilis the Army cf Reserve to be a measnre Pr , ! he had contenjed for it only as a measure of wi•- cessity, for a temporary purpose. This was the difference between him and the Right Hon. Geo- deniau, who of this severe measure made a perma nent system. Mr. WINDHAM said, his Right Honourable Friend represented him as wishinx nothing to be done, in order to increase our regular force, and. therefore as inconsistent with his continual invita tioo to increase it. Lie wished murk Ao be done for that purr ; suid he wklied to begin with un doing a great deal. Much of dse sysseor of our mi litary force, going beck to the commencement •nit the militia, he wished to see altered ; and till that was done, w- should never havd such a regular force as the circumstances of the country and of Europe demanded. He remembered the time when the bounty for a Militia Substitute was one guinea ; and it was that he spoke of, when he alluded to a time within his memory. Mr. FOX, in explanation, sa;d, he objected to a limited service being Ina le the channel of re cruiting for an unlimited service. Mr. GEORGE VAhhil ITA said a few words, which could not be heard : the reiistion being loudly called for irwn every part the liouse Mr. PITT's motion was arced to without a di vision. The other orders of the day were then disposed of ; after which Mr. PITT brought in a Bill agree able to the tenor of his motion, which was read the first time, and ordered to be read the second time on Friday next. Ordered to be printed. Adjoutn ed to to-morrow.