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r" • , peace.-4_ _ -__r psi* of °or stseestossmn. dee* the army and essuslaie the tarry Lee* 01 lett this came wee reversed ► the messy smog. tedeptsl spd the army mossented.—(Heer./.:-On en *average of years frees 1706:to 179 i. the votes for the orasj • were 17,000 men. for the nary $9.000. On se the army This had tied the in the that t , lame mu* for establiskrisent which jaded to byllas other Ilouse.,Upte 1720. there seas tie ppecillms4ori in the MAUI Bill of tin, number of men to be• esepll,, but is the lens .1741, 14,./Olkirag num b r ,, proposed in that House, *hug tbeAomis . reduced. it 4.1.4 3 4.;.enti yet in Ilse next..yew** *hates it snowed that the t:urargspa s hs4 pctgallg, increased 11ve member by 'MVO 111•0 1 and.ProSided supplies fur an establish went of 111464,teeli a though they bad, previously ruacersed in the reduced Dumber tieepoted• by tho Linda Apin .this. number was ordered to be.te tlueed to 110,441,uud this wrath° agreed to. though ii. point.of fact the largee,nurnhomess still by one megagement or ameba kept op. The Mutiny 13111. °AY Preeided, that, o now* beyond that toted ( *lold not bo admitted kite ,Enshiadi, but it was a f "" umit they millAt!..AbotWilbohrliding any stip/Ilse. ti is in doe Motley. Meals, be , introduced into .fn-1 reignireejemm e. Ile was fully of opinioa that mine rediiettini aught be effected in the Coburn's:. bus. lir did not think this was the way to gnabout.ll. Ile thougltt . that the Volutes* should be law/Oaf' grose p.srl to maintaiu their nees,establislintensa;,it was. tweury,.,yrero, spoilage JuthriCe iter pp a re vvuent of cav a l r y. and IttelgifiNittlr or 1 1 " ow" deNnpe. The Coleineo h. 4 serteialy, s right to for protection to tho.ptoljter eouupy t but tl protection could be only. called:fee to aid them 1.1 the treat of camse dainger..sodoto for jut.f.• • • • three regiments, or of 2.415) meri.• could,: with the 'utmost propriety, be made its the home establish. • tents.—lther.)- —The newly-acquired colonial poseemicrns could surely be. also reduced in their I.ruilitary deportnieuts, so es with the home retitle. 'lion to strike off the 5,000 men, siccordiog,..to.ths . terms of the Amendment. Seeing .nothitig, there. lore, in the foreign or internal state, of .the country to call for so large a military expenditure s he should certaidly vote for the Atiteuthuetd..-(lisaci 'hear.) C• Lord PALMERSTON would not touch nu the for• mid question, whether the Mutiny Bill was or was linotilte proper mode of introdniing a discussiou sin this subject. lie 'would leave that question to he die. posed of h these who were better versed•in niesitary forma than he caul , ' 'pretend to. Ire. and .atoald •at once go to the 'plain question with the .Nuerie.Lomi, es to the suffreiency of the proposed .eote.for. the public service,. and the inadequacy of sqy lesser ausoautt.-..fhear, heor.)—The Noble Laird, in support of Ins Amendment. had -cited the establishinessts of the yenta 1796 and 179?; but hi. , argument in dint respect roust go for ',tithing, tin. less hecould prase a similarity of *circumstances in the former and .present state of the country. Bat the Noble. Lord, in has statement of the foam in. 1704+4 omitted to mention, that there was then. is !subsidiary loom of from 10 tot:Lon° Hessians. which, though not actually in the island, were yet availabk for its. getters! service. As to the prece dent of 1792, that was worth little, fur Mr. Pitt, rho made it, was soon sewilde of the error hint -*bleb lie had Collets. It would he recollected, that - 1 4 011 that Filliwisters in Feb- 1792, proposed a reduc tion in the military establivlsuirsit of the couatry, he exploined that lie did soon the :inlet state of the in team, and the prospect Oren held out brit least 15 yaw of pesos ; but • few months, however, haul passed *wry,. whets this golden dream vanished— when the interim{ stale of the country was so NW. Paced. diet thertilitia was obliged to be called out, end Parliatainit ut once convened, to consider the ...aloof -the country. Whether the present prospect •C the counity was that of fifteen years pace. be could not say, but i.e would distinctly say, that it ales blmsyi miss to preserve the resources of the imt arirolo.o. that whenever it should be necessary /OMR eitemata gen ..... a reliance might he had ou their atriagilimad efieacy. Ist having alluded to the growing pepulatiou of the country on a Cornier even. ism.. he byte imam Malin toasty diet the increase is the nualbee /if The people called•for an augments. ties of this.military force, or for a system of go. verniug them by the edge of the sword. But he Submitted" that withouelsit population at times a a *pi/jinni/he' SUM which would .inquire au in. maistatimmomappreasion. Such. fur imstance. was ska ease stake-time of the Corn Bill ; and a sitnilar Illffeareseenee tatighs.at site time arise from a visits lim•ei ties siremeis. latti•tite• principal way in which be applied Isis argument on the subject of the nowt. blebs" Seas this, for the protection of the vast and imeamplog property in •the metropolis. from the dimiters to which it might be exposed hying, sud. the ientergeney.afor-the ease of the naval stores. *high. had so hugely grew:whited in the Dotk garde...foe .tine protection herd collettion of the memoir., mhicli•hed -so grealli augmented with the extent of the• population—and for the tranquillity of the interior in the popeilaos totenufectitring dis tricts: The precedent, of 1792 they were sot very likely to follow., from their experience ollebe.dattgers to which such a relaxation might expose thew. Ai to their futaign relations. the Ouse or Europe was now most eersainly•changed for the better; but yet it was impossible to: export • it once every thing woald.settle.into a cool and peareahlevystein, after the stormy and revolutionary • events which it had been the lot of the present. generation to *dud*. The Noble Lord hod well sairl.•that a large number' were necessary for reliefs. Thie number could trot be estimated at less than 5,000, which would be in comities! minion to and from the different settle. meale.. The .sitsatian of the.Colrioies. so far as %beim opeerily.w.• coot...rued, ninst of coarse greatly ilivpuNta. their local•siteation, end the facility of their roam .... ication with this country. Canada was • nearly. connected • with a parer • (the United State, oh America) whirl, bad sonde It considerable alter:dim in its military force, and although the best-dispositiou prevailed now in those States; T e t it ass known •that independent Goverunrents were liable at times to misunderstandings. Tile addition to the. force is the West Indies *as equally appl; any period, attempt w!( made to oppose the exhiteuee of a• abuidiut hear./—The amount of 'the *lauding army was not, however, soottoosious to him, ea the arguments rod observaitioue by which; it was attempted to he suppuiteil. Lord Nalurour conceived, if reduction were ltiesessely intruded, that it ought to be con). gesilteed -will) the. mercenary troops in the pay of Usti country.. Let the Him* look, for indent*, to . 11m611416 reginiesst,cirosisting of four battalions, and comprising natives of many countries—French. Gemini , . Moanlards,. &v. arc. Pram that regiment many desertions frequesitly-took place—and. in his opinion, a reductiou with respect to it, sod other regiments, similarly composed, might with great propylkty take pleceeme(heer.)—Witlsrespect toour Army of Observetien in Prance. he certeinly was adverse to its existence, although he was aware 41nit mussy sheers prejodiee. (mended in favour of its continuant*. He could not support entirely any estimate which provided for that most anomalous, most dangerouryend most unernistitutional system of maintaining -a British army iu France. It seemed to him to be stfiengly • opposed to these, liberal feelings that ought to fill the breast of every Englishwatn. That army was kept op ity the view, cud in the support, of a military Government—in the support of that which, when their troops) returned, they mast be told was, as far as regarded this country, most un constitutional. To dots part of the Estimates. he should object. And, he w a s sure, the House would willingly agree to any subsidy that might he writ ing to defray the expense of supporting the con tingent of this country, the men being supplied by 'toss*. Prussia or (lemony—and thins **suing an oglish army f rom i the disgrscefol vs-/Art bill office of supporting a military Guveptneist.— hear, bear.) Mr. Ws nes said, the deficiency of revenue was, on all hands, admitted; they hail u Sinkirig Fond to train, but not iu operation--and. under there circumstances, althonglithe system of Mr: Pitt. it) 1791. might he condemned by some. lie conceived it ought to be followed. Much of the public inn. ney had been frittered sway in follies of a very con: temptible nature. They were told. that it wee be. cessary to support a greeter number of troops in the capital. Ilww were they employed ? Solve in guarding the Chinese bridge, and others in pro. tecting the celebrated French marter.--For his lion. looking to .all the eireninstimtesof the times. he saw no roman whatever-for no:reeving the force in the metropolis. Now, in former times, they had heard much of the danger of the military power Of Monte. That, it appeared, was no longer con. 'tittered as formidable. The different Monarchs who were the object of French ambition, had taught their way brick to their •thimits. But. in hill opi etion.• that military monster, as the Noble Lord had termed it, did exist, although it might not he Supported .by the same nation who formerly de. lighted in it. It was, however, no less dangerous.... and. as this military mimic: in other countries had beeissisongly censured in this, he hoped his 111 s j e s. ty's Ministers would abew their dislike of it, by *king immediate steps •for • the reduction of the standing army.—(Heer4 The Gallery was then cleared for a division, when the numbers were— For ' " Lora Althurp's motion Agaiiist it Majority . On•re-entering the Gallery. we found Mr. Gunnar no his leg•. He stated that. in 1719 or 1730.•' a prupolition was made in this li4estsea•und supported by General Conway. to allow open to retire. on half-pay, after ten yearn service. That motion was Inst. But he conceived that senteerstrietion of this kind, its to the period or service. ought trt be introduced. The .Report hawing been agreed 'to, the Bill was ordered•• to. be read the third time ou MoUdity, if then engrowed.. SCOTCH BURGHS.. Lord CASTLERNAutt ssul , iettug a Noble Lord (A. Hatailtaw) iu his plare, he begged to state, in answer to a Question put by him um a former itiglit.. that the Lord kdrocatt of Stntlait.d did not fret himself jhMighl/1 lit bringing forward his Bill relit. tire to the expOoditure of the Rojo! Burghs to Seothearl, limit 'lad fully consulted the first k sinhetrilies its ttat mum". Lord A. HAMILTON ifsinersed his ,great cliosoolo, .: which the Lord itiVoCale Lad tattled a -- o carat" d e l a y. tisk LA* d had ifid e d iiion, tram . the 'Abject before said, it was the first time, in evrr heard a soltanietit mole; to he animated on the pro a Bill. It was for them to _ not to interfere with it s enact . MixtY did he reel the importance Watt* Would tell the attention of.: - "he Considered a meet gross ou t- Airilegel or Parliament. Lititeasitt was astonished at the warmth' Barostet. He could not conceive t'rfiy an individual's hiking the hest tb beetnne riettainted with 11 4 _ etteuipted to legi s lat e ou it.— cititiatiolt ins a City delicate one : it priatiou of money by the Royal., proceeding to consider it coolly , he conceited. the Learned Lord great propriety. kiln:TON iftdted, that, at the trine the intiodneed, the Lent Advocite said, a the subject had been bir some time tin-. consideration --and, three months before luttl occurred at hiontrese. measure peculiarly net:reeky. instances. he and the country had' •t the promised Bill would have forward. the West Indies liidetnnitief Bill -Third reading on Monday. 'ohms Bill went through a Commit- Monday. moved, That there be laid be- Account of the Troops in Great iishing Horse, Foot, and Aridlery•— _ on foreign stations—and the Oorses—on the lit of January, 1818: Mutiny. BM went through a Cont. atittee.—Report on Monday. • SAYING BANKS. The CHANCgI.I.OII of the ExCHEQVCRAsirI tice that he would, ou Monday. move for bite .td bring in a Bill to asetetid the Act relative to Bttiltt~ Bunke, chiefly with respect to ilia late - rest etustlits* deposited in such Bankw DISPOVERT OP THE LONGITUDE; • Mr. Comma. in, rising, to move fur leave to bring in a Bill to consolidate the Longitude Acts; observed, that the Acts to which hirpropoised Bill had reference, amounted to 20 or 21, and, in the Fiat instence, leer quested that those Acts should be viiterett i i read.—['Phis wus accordingly dune.] —The lion. Gentleman thin said, that the !somber of Acts on this subject was, of itself, a sufficient , reason for the introdlictien of the meapare he should propose. They wefe•in a • state unpandleled in le gislation--ell them being;, to a certain etteut, in existence, but stone 'of' them wholly so. It was, in consequence.. moat difficult to know• the true • operation of the Acts. By ass early Act, 4,000/. were granted for o certain step towards the disco very of the longitude—and, by a subsequent stn.. lute, 40,000/. were appropriated to the *acne ofs ject. An individual had made the extent of ills.' covery contemplated—and, in -conseqiience of the ensfusion iu those Acts, received !toots?. •insterid • of the rewind which • was evidently intended. Op • every near' discovery, it was • found necessary to' come to Parliament, and' the. conseqaence was, nal he had stated, that a great number of Acts, on the' amine subject, were, in worm degree. in force.: li e wi s h e d t o conso lid a t e them—and to reduce into one Act all the paits of those now iu existence. which • were worthy of being continued. Before he sub mitted his motion to4lie House; he would shortly state what had been done on thiacorioureribjet. The first statute enacted in this country relT,tive to • the longitude was that of Anne—but. long before ' that 'seriali s es early as the timers(' Philip If. of Spain, whew tint Monarch was laying the fossesdetion, as he 'supposed, of the' maritime glory of his flatfeet, which was afterwards altogether destroyed by'Bri fish skill sod pronegs lie conceived it necessary to offers large reward for the discovery of the longi. tulle. The Dutch also offered a reward. Bet. iu *either instance was •tlie study attended with • any success. A Frenchmao, of the name of Miran, in Ilse' time of Louis XIII: first hit on the idea of fi n d. ing the lOngittide' by means of lunar observa tions. Bat. iu consequence of the waist of lunar bibles, the .'plan failed, and was generally 'Coated at the time. It was. however, extraordi. nary; that that whiChi i ivas originall y thrown aside, as tudikely to lead to a successful result, was paw retied on with the greatest , confidence. Sir Ise* Newton' was particularly alive to this subjett— and to his solicitude was owing the institution of the Bo ard of Longitude. That Board, however, made little progress, until the .attention of the public was forcibly called to the aubject, in cense quence of the loss of Sir Cloudesley Shave' and his fleet,owing to a misreckoning. during a tremen dous gate of wind. That fatal event led to the enactment of a Bill, which, with true munificence, prolided ass exceedingly large rewind .for the die. , cowry of the longitude.' The Act set forth. that; if any mode were found, which, in a voyage from Eng land to the West Indies would keep a ship's longi. lode within a degree. the author should receive a reward of 10,0001. If it proceeded in keeping the longituderwithin two-thilehr of a degree, - lie was to receive 15,0001. Bid, if the longitude could 'poi.: sibly be kept within half* degree, or 30 miff. tint then the projector should receive 20,000/. it sp. peered that oboatelse year 1745. an ingenious web I chanic. named-Harrison, invented a watch. which, on its first trial, fally wet the provisiont of the Act ofQiieen Anise. In *voyage to the Island of Bee.: bice, it kept its, longittede within 30 geirigrunkical miles. Mr. ilavrisorewas fortunate enowei to get 4.000/. more than the last •Act contempletek - This' was effected merely by a chronometer. The dif ference of longitude was 'easily discovered by the differenceof time: - There were hest two wave. how• ever, of arriving at a - trite koowledge of the loch t taide. The one wis e by* watch set '; the tawdry . its from whieh a ship depirttitl. and aftirwarda 'cern. pima! with the time 'of the country to which she ' proceeded. The comparison evideetly gave the distiince, in time, ►which could afterwards be reduced . to space. The Second •mode wali by taking observation, of the Moon,' in relation to a titled star, which was The surest Method. The one . the 171,lutibil acquisitimia , tor 8.006 mess were ems. nal purpeosi.• 'He was sorry he rodstwetiogArat . not No Albel as_ was toppowed. It consisted ii Niko at the course w s•mitly required to keep up reliefs. Th e some ter- iu this insubraf effectiug th .. Lie d. 3792. of. 1.100 into, and thie hpsnire i watAtui- Mira ; and aeloich tats . ...__, .„, sir,. in :pat have required the same application in MR ti .._ ~.. 411ralliend- nieuted'to Sp° wow s and in anaistess I fillfillenee. ' the eliodUet of 11114.1111 17,16: taking the latter, thee-fore. on a fair and Meello lllt se Arm; . alg u amid) mint alluded tw.hy Mt lift. asst Ltinted Otottir. .eLrevented him trot I. 1,. r.,1 ....1 'mate. he apprehended that tem ma . • litstis - Ali ESTI. aor a* - man (alt. 'Wino) twin fircei.teled tog impost diav : Mile. ..,;,-,i,t 1, , . , .• been kept for relief in 17 1 e; there was - lnealltl-tilewt. searrjrl-: *ford a tropyly of . previsions to the troops iii their Sir J. Ntivrawe at thr,l en .-i:..ese of 4,000 and upwards nu consparisess et - ifrieurielsd uo memo of conindieg the service. But the great charge 'maim the new Co. 'Mkt Houve c im hid a iser‘verol :he former mot perseut period. There mill thibt of llltic4ll2looll.la..aids.tha mambas .1 do Tonto) ' They were estopserod by‘lifilisif retie. that the . ruirgisi'isere room d• a wi nerril•sesegwi nleee p es „,Th — aa!"serhap ir a nit. i m ithi a w ry sta g e of the Mutiny and were releissed, in fact. as military pee, Bt. priety of introducing %PO I " . ","• It !toe toed ' , irdard. that the imago. Bill. auy Has. Member had an undoubted right Ludic slim not .o mach held el a commercial eta. administer thelals,..a Sais:l4isliitbses s 4 the essoinief required the hr to Control the p_rinwwitiOn ref the tote of any 111"84 IS", new 11," Cm*. for itir Constautia, war Molter mist ; end. smoubbi Itikret - Hlt-tomuitoralltitolf‘liiiiirlt v;iiravaiiiiiiihairtiror.)—Hii Roo. and Leersied ' for its fertility. They force at Gibtalter woo WOW ofthis ettisjeetv BM 'II an "eguaseitt olds*, aj t il..tho . • otear leibisiookier4 th e im , e 4,,,, i . gill& to. andil. km then it was establielwil its 1795, mid tlm senor the Houre,to what "Ise nuluMs . '6i fairlitsi e; iwo`rsr f s e itt: - oath. - thalam* lord interfered in the number of rat tarfeere in the colonial estrlslialtateule wai re. ,s intip again* the pri • vil tinnal rorrgiyake its .. i It: iitsV , ' rimy,. ait, olio* the melt hod • been the rittired by the peculiar satiation is which they - .l.oo,trant.ltittacil itirtimay force to sieve -4,) e g tie eggr u sed erdeeilioss. though it was stood. Ha therefore, from all the* itomiderations, •of the lion: lieroaet. 1 " 4 ._ " 01 , 6 . 4•4 q se.* -~ • woorberwos at to '• Ikit4tra yr 4pry .1 1 04 4 /p a ppdpuit, a W aite poseitetiiwg. hot his • Mr. 01t11- selatism intrbded hintarli . upon the ineaniio his poster I pnpulittosa to do witlk` . ' ins Wea ry of th# . HMI. and 'Learned Frioad horse well' that that • attention of the House. nor would he hu.the pie- subjeet before he nth . West 1 44 1 , oralliatfitste tigthekl theort !pup s lind Rower, whammy( itwraikeri to minas - ieur weariest. hut Aar the iinporteuee of the goes- Iff*F.l- - Tlie iitielsti Til e it em ..o17,• .. . . 1 - stilwatithest t• 'li e to etaforcir a,4 aseiatisia its emu views sit lion tothe rent interests or the_etsuistry t . The Noble .related to the °Nara!). 1 14 4'r...,refear: • .•: AmilmialiergwodOut a. ' tconomp. II their soreuturs were Negligee* in. the Lord heal alluded to the increased demands ou Burglas--and, in pro "." 4 " l __ t , _I • • • - • ietwrillbilliakt o 4 *ills," . pesfurampace ova poetical. duty. that wen no memo the military service at home{ felowthe-groleiug pro- Avid temperately, be I 7 1" .1 ",...... '.1 1 1 . I 1, . 40411 1 1011HPOIMI a liity their megaspore aboottl nu:weals equal respoosi• isolation. He totally differed , - Atli him in that re had acted wish great 1 itPP,. Veins,. • • . ~. '' sill fee • her v hilit! • . slid if ill the prepable to the blestissy Ball 'pert, and could nwt adasst• that the elute of the Lord k. limn LTO' it ti; iitslikall of , ~.....,• OW*. • . 'aids ot '' the minced member should beset forth, he hod no population called far the intervention of a large turbjeet was intiodner tit, tio - --- Wig c approbaspion that his Majesty's Ministers remold act military force to preserve it its tranquillity . !inch measure on the subje nvat'ildni•t . a ems . at • foraterperiashattiort iu Contrivirotion of the order of the Mows 11 the was net the casein England . nor in any free state. der - his consideration i• x terual d i ri,Ams. . The . C l olosiothes) ' this. aspect , twit Itettoell Pow docialml ou ass ecossousical establish- Never. even in a detpolic Ooverutheut had such that, circumstaiscea sts4 isefolarAp'enttlipe t.ear.ity . .xitlik . men', he had iso fear that the Krarcuiieu Govern- au approach been attempted towards a perfect mi- which ressilered wale ~1)- imji g tv tl*t waa passible to anms .to them mesa would am on the bad precedents alluded to. !awry system. •No &eosin...room could now be Under these circunist ilium . b"...justieitaitear front America s TWO" wriote '' and evade the:eserforstauer fo r slot which was inn - held withoat •. great array of troops —(Hear)— a right to expect that Ikritudutottieo 'did . aistwunt tto Iv ; • Imitatively coniurned to them......../fkar, hewn)-- such so array as would here made - Weir forefathers been brought forwak yet they' were to b r ~..t i +4 we is• . .wry ' Tin, was now the third year of peace, a n d it was • integiue the French were' at their doors.--(heary .. The Report of the "It'ostto by no lalltkillt 10.090;—(bait./.-T.be ' sorely ti6te for the Hems. to look closely et the hear. hear.)—He. and the Plume in general, could was agreed in.—Thin souly.swilirsiou be meaik toyserpoor was 6.000 me% mibterpestablishouesits 7 of the country, wits) a view recollect the lime whets his Majesty's birth-day The Dank Tokens aid . Ais vioadd. be iusag Med. ere)die.• • el!wie4l.*" . te their reductien t o a ' , raper peace establishment . was held without those noratning symptoms—(hcar e Tee . — Report ou Mon ere aati4isi of 106.0110. I!!st braids th e eeteltieete v• He *Orvovere of taking rho Iteriod. of 1792 es a heur);—when as Gentlemen- might be preiented ad . Mr. C,st.cairr mm 'Wising for his antics from a view of the perticulat criterion for, remaining this subject ; said be would Court, without beholding an armed force. on ell` ,fore this Home an A wear* of the dilfirreirOgovripons, and their out re-.., ask, whether the :country was so cluangod'ablise that sides—when the civil power was deemed natply surd Britain. distitaguishus •tioiring Ibis additienel forcr a there-.ens slaw the time, that it could not be initurted with the limbos ficient.—( Hear. hear. )—The observation that Mr. together with those great cimetitationel argument against large stand- of preserving itseenta intermit tranquillity. without ' Pitt, io 1793. pr o p os ed a r ed uc ti on ° M e m ilit ar y numb e r of horses—e •Ing a wa ke j a ewe of parse.-4)/eps e keur. ) being encumbered with a. large • military force.-- force. and that three months afterwards war broke —Ordered. . . • h used to be the wise policy of our aneetemas.tw.re- (Hear.) . He was convinced dist a ra-iluctiose , of Out, would equally apply to any period. when an I The Marls, Mott . - - insole - 4yeen since , the vote s were fie the army 20,000, end for the oink oily 20,00. This country would never here etteined the glory else had acquired. had she not :been. m greet livid power, anti the:rMhUttionoof hoe, !mph: tu- het uavy *tight lierenlier he seriously. felA,.,iind, pretreat hea frosts resumnie the proud elation she bail liersofore•halal, —/.Hair.ltersr.l-In vievvjgg. O R . six a brooch of tire ietneithiienal argument, thetrrei{ iocreese of hiffi.ence }}e the Gown ' 'fro" a. 1, 4**00 4 g,. ArnlYi the I‘aeSe - Aauld,watch, with I iesl***•*):* , in, tMjg dilltigui Pi.tcltdillet !Ct lltPetatithit. OMY. wow* iellemice ; and *ouch. the, red to. uctitub of 5 : 43 ".', 0 .. P unto 1 0 1 411,adIEall%Alt*titilers .re. NIT,* ih* lli -4 wOliidc nip. ceciatet sow, c id IT euntserA a! .. limit jkpolmmela aelLeVerMioo. T. 4 5:1:0 4 % elnk* .**Pc* .1ii,.040414 the,Colo. 11 ,11' 1 4.P thefie. *Petard. no 1 ► 0.94...1. di mpi ti o r ee . tem, ter 4 instauct, se many .of_them i there ,war., native'( Fr its ti. e _p l y s eCe; v m k t fitiiein. . gurely,t *it soy we= no nesriq of iiittritiot.Whiw reg.. lit !seism •11 neuillees in the.eatite : plagee.. ustlewy. indeed. they were. sq .placed to watch the.. Bieck eerie,' rod this weeld, oitly..move the_netwssity of redUcVng i htlatier., and thetehy effeictiug,the. pre- lamed* . samtig in pt.iti% of exwpie. 7 -14 hregh o and liqvi,l—N the military anaemic*. et how, cos.-. aidenble seeing might be bad tr 'thank eyes. touching . the revel disposable force ; fur immure.. in the, lines it Lissitheet, & fortifications at,Poetatunuth. so! ! „ other 1,1 ) .er. WC," an unnecesetry milita t y vitae • was . kept pp. Why . not aim ..redoce.she, number in each, battalion", ar before ,the,. wise? The., the number was 1 00 guso—it well e loi4loo ; but suppose only 60 were talteli frelneeeh.. theww Miterial saving, would take,place, Isepretwed with the fin. net:es4ty . of making the .utm pleisionn. eel . •rigagewests which the milety of the; .country wiwild ethell. he Would.mtaciedc,by .omylegota Au emvidineekt—'Cleat a reduelton .be =Of 11,4.900 men in the ,nainher premed to be ke,pt up by, the , Hool alien or the Ceimpittee. .-/ Rem, leer./ Mi. : Weise, after heeepte, the preemble of the Mutiny Bill read by the Pleik. said, that, be felt the gteatesidilficulty atoppeeiag the Amendment prupored. by di, Noble Lord, because Welly cost. furred with bin; in the twomity of caging for every rLirentilieseik in the pstblie extreme, ,which the sure _ , _, Jhe ‘ coootry called for. The. ditimphy wini in It:, of factu, occurred. was, this. : dim refl., i ;Ow euilment siege carped, be. couldeot fitc.hiNt tbe.olleet it ahead at .weasld:be et4i.....t. The Metirty , ill, wee oar.. in hie %Maim', the: way ac,e!teiles .the' reduction.. They.hadw prim( of thitr 1 , .mirrtemeatary history.; for in the : year )7: ) 1,01•118 y in SIR SH.Pl' l 3**-10te119.934 Men. MT tAritteNTMarilo feducral thicuuniber. to p. 040, and theColemowegreed to the reduction,: and yet in th* EsoPutscs. of the folillWin year, it was roui44 that . th e. Contettri.tul. expepded precisely the gli inkeent .rer.- the r -mqa_ldithiltste. which was lint oh. V. wai a mechanical, the other a scientific 'node of or riving at the same conclusion. In 17ti-1, a Mr. Meyer published tables so extremely useful, awe brought to such a degree of arcuracy, that Puha inent, though no particular rewind had been pro mised for.this species of invention, thonclit proper to.directil;oooi. to be paid to him. though lie Vim self did not live to enjoy .their Idwiality. By the means of those tables, and of the iiniirwit-tt meters, the longitude was now found, within a fraction. lye famed, by some of the log.boiiks cf hie ftisjevy's ihips, that ail extraordinary degree of correctness had been arrived at. , The lig kind by a chronometer, was discovered to ia:: ; very little from the real loagi:iiile, if lie ”it ; ;Ilt allows, .to use that popular expression, since, in deed, there was no real longitude. Suppose, for instance, the true longitude of St. lirleiii, oat 5. deg. 4 min. 30 sec.--Cird. Martin carried it opt . 5 dug. 3i min. 31.1 see. Capt. Haywood 5 dev. Jo Hilo. its Majesty's Alp Beiceplialus agreed ex. actly with-the true lime, 5 deg. 43 min. 30 sec.— thriag a poetical expression— '' So wide is art, se n arrow haulms v;rw," -• !night Lay, thiltioo long despaired of object of scieutilic.repearc the was now dis , erivered.. Within so small is fraction lead the coin putationsbeen u carried, that for practical mu-poses it was discovered. Still met:bifocal instruments were • liable to decay--and to improve the lunar method, was still a great subject fur legislation. What had been already dune shrived the treat utility of offering rewards. The ',lngres' prius. cipally owing to the exertions of this cnunir ) , and the suggestiona of the immortal Newton.-- ur so Muth had been done, wliut was the object his itiotioti, it might be asked ? IPaiit.iritrnde,l by 'it to throw a reflection on the present member. s the Board or Longitude ? Certainly it was very E:r from his intrritioli to reflect on such well-kilowii respectable twines as that of Vince owl his coadju tors ; they were too well known in the 5t . i.. , .. , :f...: 'world to' be tirketed by any obiervais.ai °lbis, were lie-inclined to. detract - their merits. But it would be ellsove that it was not right that the inierd should not contain a single scientific mew her 'twitter din the Universities. His irstettlion wits to 'lelistre•the ptescot mentbere on the establishment, awl to add lik more; to - riiiive, in fact, the o r i g i n al Act; 'to ;told inen who; residing iti or mar the metropolis., atight •give respectable and efficacious support to ;the views with winch the Board was framed. IVlsett 1 . his object was considered, that it was to proutiiiii "tisw ettdrof its formation—to coact strength emit *entity an its operations —to consolidate!! the rite' 'Winning to the principal end for which th e nerd e . .;arse constitutedit could nut be supposed Witneint the smallest imputation on its. existing mi;nilwria. It could tint be looked upon .as present:lntuit to Ngitete a 'abject nut discussed its Parliament fur near a hundred years. Dr. Mit-kelyot, in the ;year 1767; .cotonienetrol the Nuutied Abannart.. 'Through the whole of his life it was u rigurted with reat aeturaey, stud the entire applubation of a ll derested in (lie putArciitirm. But lie hail luelcat Idsro tt gli it Loeb., and was sorry to sa t . that fault .less as it bad Leen, it did wit of late maintain its character. la the work for the present year thrift 'were nn less thati . eighteen errors reirtiiiqr„ to the places of the suit aticl moult, and the co . anptitatiniiv in at flying sheet at the rad of the work, unit lii ot eetaituf edition of the same no les. titan fully. lie would not olo.his duty, or met its u way bow ' g o f . hintsell, not to tame that The.Nutif led .4 linunitel wan now a bye mord among literary men. Ile- Ironld state a curious fact on the subject he haul lately read in the "tiew4taperr... - A Captain of a Trawl, b Ito the West [tubes.. thought, for the lake of curiosity, to try the table:. leaving Chatham. lira short time lie found himself in a longitud.e, itrtri hy the tables which he certainly thought could not be true ; fortunately he made Pelts inoutit—weist to a maker and vender of the alma.. lucks, who told titan it was only a typograpluert oirefr, and corrected it by a stroke of his pen, sierid lug lam out to the West Indies with' the alumna( is tuld'all its mistakel. The truth was; the'errors were typogrophicul, not scientitie. Be ineutioned this to - exculpate the literary men connected onto theWiirk.' They were professional men. having miler v , importaut *vocations; and ti could not to be expect . ad that they could either make the computation., or eximitte them' The method pursued wit., the Astronomer firiyal inade the observant:m.- Ikt furnitlied them to persons called computers, who. performed the operation imported by heir mime— and the computations then passed thrott l es the hands of a man called a comparer. Pt is this last individual' who ought to be responsible fur what ever imperfections Anigin be found in the alma neck. But be was a person not recognised -by the Acts—his office wits not legally ktiowii. !letters it lbllostetc diet errors aboonded in whist oirg;it to be eSpechiltt. antsibeit off . other prodioctimis ; void of errdr." What lie liad stated shrived the absolute 'necessity • that . a pereon should be, se. (acted mid paid by authority of Parlininent, to superintead the composition of the work alluded to. • Another topic he washed to advert to. ' 'flit partite , betweeu the Pacific and Atlantic Oceurts. snit* 'the reign. of' t;ei.o. 11. had been a c nisi (*able object of reee.ttreh with all the wo -Id ; but particularly commercial men. To stimuls.e to Iles discovery, 20,000/. had been vested by Act of Par. •liattietst as a reward also in the Board of Longi tude. He need Aot 'telt the ' flOuie this had never beets claimed. Another object of treat curiosity roil:, iutresttgatiou was the approach to the North Pole. This too had engaged the attention silt labours of Parliament. It kid bean itet forth in tt:c Act 30th 'of Cleo.. 111. that "where** whalers had opportunities of ifigiroeching the North Poole, it was provided'that Whinevet; Captain of a whaler should approach within 10 degrees of it should be eutilled to a reward of 10,0001.; but the Legislature had beet. inconsistent, for another Act on th eft subject utterly opposed' Mid 'prevented the ben efit held out by the drat froM being pursued or chinned. The Act apt. cifyilig the oath to be taken by the Captain of eve; y whaler going out, regoited him to sweet-lion in It., app.:ouch to the North Pole fie Avoir:ct be Ito u.ittii he no other motive or prospect of advantage but the h . Wrests of the owners. 'ibis enactment was obviously at variance with the offer of a reward. To recoeCde the two Acts, and Make an exception iii the oath iii favour of the rewind propottedby Patti .111111.!Illt, Wag ~of the views 'of the Bill. It remained to state opt object more. It was proposed to add to the Board three scientific peesons residing in or near to 4 3 t* . :tc corrl Cid! Dinv puri i iie 1.0111 111 y New aignti ' s plit rettlio ettto hily the Mr) • 1 1;11 111.1 t. 111111 A Ur. utile( NJ duct briti i from M look weal ilitev be a itsel i M tent! brid. 1111441 i tiro Men llllbiut i imbil &twit Al expl his h the I Al T to I jt;111