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I --~.,, IMPEKLIL PARLLIMENT. HOUSE OP LOAD t—Muno.v. Jevii C. Senn after fatty ec:wk..Payer. were rearl-aaind strange.- wer.•, for a short ben*, adrine.l *low the bar. Dunn th', totet•al, tit • &II• itiont toe tab'', chiefly pri vate, were C411.81%1'. in ill •tr riebiteCllft sots.-.end tit, In.h I`.lalt Ihrty,and the IriA Revenue Collection Utii , weteread.l H1C , 1.41 time. tern, t of:he Insolvent Debtors' Bill hes over for farther to . deratr..n, Mr. R.erroian, Secretary to the Commissioner. of the Cale donian Canal, presented :he third Report of the said Commis sioners resrrethie that Work Mr Lying, liszpector ijerieral of the Cio.toms, prtsent..d certain Veouirts relative in the Cummeice or the Island cl Turtol,-...which ware ordered to he printed. %l e avideroun Combe brought op tram the Common., the Snow tiol and letople Bar Lottery Bill-awhich was read a *rat time. CASE OF VISCOUNT MELVILLE. Previous to the Order of toe Day being reed, for tlieir Loedslires resuming their deliberation' on :hit subject, The Duke ei CLARLYCE loosed the order for Cie es elthion in tile strangers, whith wus forthwith enforced. Frorn this inemem, until just trvilve o'clock, their Lordship's cell tinuel in eoie Debate. TM-, at we understood, was ad. jaunted until foot u'slock to-morrow, chest the Learned Judge. were ordered to attend, and shortly after an adjoins.- wont of the kl.iuse tusk place . HOUSE OF COMMONS. Toe $.ll for enabling/ the Company of Proprietors of the %lairs lion ag , t..,v to , t ieir Undettaking, was read a second time art/ en . nrinited. A new writ era mei .r e d inr the Boulugh of Ifonitria in the room of Ca•endi.h B•ad•l,aw, F q who, since hi+ election, has svcrte..l the Utnee of 'relict of ite AL , Jesty's Exchequer in A Memair, from Cie Lords, announced that their L. mishit.* had shoed nn an Ae. aummt , og an Act for making and re• pairing t,r. London Wet linek, wnthe•it any amendment. Two private B 11. were also brought tit front the 1.04.. and read a Ant nin e Sir Ctiailes Price presented a Petition front the Merchants r f I:n jinn •terinet the Amaicati I..tercourselidl.—.o.deree tome on the Table. Sir W. 4. •m Curies presented a P. titian Poe, the Master Sti.-owisets, any. Sail. makers. ae . ,nst the same 2 I aen IVA., rd.-ei h. lie nu the T ito e Ile also prose ihmt a Pet nr. from the Company of Cords, a. ni- against the hr the Reel of the Flaying-Act. Oidercd to be re ferri-d to the Co, mitte- on the !.:111. The Phil...At:mpg.: botisty Incorporation Bill, was read a se cond time Mr Foster brought up a B II for the better •inen.ling and 'Leeson 1.. .C..411f trio Post K. 164. Ca. marl a 11 ' 4 doe, all I or , :ertd le• a seet..4 read!' •g, uu Thursday next, L awl to he eri.,te4 - _ " • Nr Johnson. (mot the Office esf rh. Chief Secretary is Il• prewroted an Accoutre el the Maws .orr Au:lions, and 081 3iFitits Aros.ied. in Ireland. Ordered to 11,011 the Tata.. Mr. Yira•i..4 Goat the o.li o• the in 11.'4 d, Pre eentyel Ace , • rot of the Number out Tonna.,e of Strips, for • the I r.t sear t relent to I,- on the fable rya, from the India House, ..resen tad Copies of ere • esp. Letters a. 41 Papers from th• itr., 4 General of Bengal, to the Order ..f the House, .11 be late motion of it , it miu, saw 0.010r.d to he pone -A. Olt thee riVel • • Tit• FOS tut, ire wr-nrol read og of the . ` alto Lhownack Bill w... 1 postponed . until Thursday. M.. PAUL Rser. •nonee, that he would on Thursday move Co*. o: further Papers, reating to the Transaction, in „Veda • Mr V ANSI TTART moved fur less, to bring in a Bill for isholishing Fee. In the Punt ..f L. mho, And regulating the ..t -erndane• of ollic..rs •inoloyed thereio. H. stated, that the bill wroth] ben arly sirodar is that which had passed this House in the Ira %warm, but had been het in the House .•!" Lord., and they the pro- tilt state of the Port of Lo.id.oi •. o • . 16% pro %i•tons matter of rul.,:y and neeeseity, which the H MUM , et bunt aver-de In Leave given. Mr V ANSIT• ART then moved, " that there be laid be fiery he 11 , suse, a Cope of a Lefler from Maje., Davis, Assistant It Ica k %fa ;ice, at Newl...r , thelJe of Wigt.t, of tne 3lst of l a re, w i t h t h e eer theetio ' in futtltertmee of the E-qu nPi oo e F.apt entare in the It.irrark Devortnernt " Log 1 LE %INA brought up • Bill for better encouragmg the M.inafao ore n Ihrvad Lace in Groat "intim, be 111111.4•111( darrisul Duties 0.• Ire Tsti •11 of Foreign Thread Lire read a first trim, and ordeend to be read a ercond time on Thursday next, soda. be mintsnt. On the Matron of Si, JOHN NEWPORT, the 8.11 for the ' tette , Panne, Lighting. ar.l • teasserog the Coe of Dobkin, we . read a wont tone, and erder.d to be comiopted to a Cum. tutee of 1 , w 4 Horns. or. Thor-dew fleet Loid I EMPLF w, ivied ih• Onic- of the Day for the second rea.frng of the American 1 . 0 - reotlr•e B 11, for the purpose of poweini. tont rnuradar nest. itliNF hoped the Noble. Lord witte.d net press the se . eond re ading nt the Silt so silo°, as it was one of extretn• ion• porta ee to the consinercial and shipping interest, as there were sewn . a ;wt. ia.drod, which were ne:essary to the iv.. session or , rope , nuf••onalosn on the %object, and oh eh it was iiepossihle should be b-Erse the H rose by the day mentioned. Lord rEUPLE. satrl, he had postp..ned the seznarl read•ne et the 13 to this tai, to tact the wishes of Gentlemen, and as he w.ll sore the panels spoken of would throw no lia'it the sub•oet, hs could not consent to farther delay Mr RJSE. repterl, it wet omelets to grant the v01051 , 0n of the pipers, if the discussion was to Le pressed betore they were Defiant the Moose. After a few woida from Sir CHARLES PRICE, en elm tame • d , The se out reading of the Bill was ordered for Thurs.!ae her R •SE then mewed, the an Istsaitile address *hordd he rewrite*, toll, Maoist!, rams int that there b- lud before tile House C .pros n‘ LAtters and tr the Governors of t i nVr and Lower Canada, sliewidg how the Snipping and Ciinmeres would be a ffeArd by Sc' B II " The See 'wry at War preseat...: certain Aceoents reopening the tioildnig of Barracks in Sai.doven Bay, in the Isle of Wight o dered t.. be prated. Mr Longbrsoght up • Ite Repot! of the I •:sh Militia Volun teer Bill, with a,..endinects, tennis were u,deted to b, taken wan further c simder.olon en Thursday Mr. Vannitart bereght op • Bill tor the mere efreloal ex amination of putout a,aeutets in the West 'Amt. and pre• ...de g shore. there i n. Brad a font tune, Se d irdered to be read a WORN nest to Tamar, and to be p:r.t- I. Mr. kealmeter hr night ssi the Report of the Coaara;swe en the lisab Malt A pes" ' IIP. ten.liitUuse were agreed to, and a BSI ordered to be no ri c ht Ti,, Irish bLanip Duty alit wad road a third time, and parse& CHARCFS AGAINST ‘Pc:ls wri.Es.FY. Mr. PAt'L, seeing an lion. Baronet, (Sir Ar thur Wellesley) in his placeigave notice, that he would, on Monday next, lay on the Table of the House, his third Charge against the Marquis Wel- Issley Lord TFNIPLE said, it was his in•ention, if the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Paol) did not very anon name the brae when he meant to bling the Charges before the House, for discussion and decision, him self to move for the appniirment of a spocik d.iy for that purpose. The House ' , meld seeabe pro. pricey and necessity of this course, as nothing leer than a charge ur murder was contained in one ut the allegations exhibited against tie Noble Marquis, whose charaßer it was high lime should be este , Moused and relieved from the shade which was at tempt .1 to Ise th7own upon it. Mr. PAUL said, the charge of murder orizinated with the Noble Lord. If the papers. which had i . . Wee oraered. were pvidueed la-morrow, or the sear d 47, ne would bring forward his charges di ll. re 91y :be , A AS eatided, however, and &tumid suit Es own personal conveMenee in that retpen ; ar,cl .o , idering the debar and impediments which h.t..1 n c. , ntimaally thrown in his way. much courtesy accommoJation could not be expe&ed from him be seen tminotrew. that the tiecretsry of the Hard of Conttoul had num unjustifiably kept back papers which had been ord.cled by the House. surpLy. The House having resolved itself into a Com mittee of Supply, the Accou.its presented by Mr. Vansittart on Friday, were referred to the same. Mr. VANSIT CART then moved, " that a sum not exceeding 4,5t)0,0001. should be granted to His Majesty for paying off the outstanding Exche quer Bills of last year ;" which was resolved ac cordingly, the Hous resumed, and the Itepoit was ordered to be received to-niori ow. AMENDMENT OF TDE raorv:TY Act'. Lord HENRY YEW l'Y lose to give potice, that he would, before the end of the present Session, submit to the House. a Pl:i to improve and amerd the Property Biil, as far as I egarded the Etemptions allowed under the same. 1-1 k objeel was not to in jure the produce ..f the tax, but to omit the abate ments already in cert.tin c.t4es allowed, and to ex tend them to persons haring • small incomes. and large f.tmilles. PRIVATE BREWERIES. He also gave wince that, in compltancit with the suggestion of an lion. Gentleman, that it mould be very unpleasant to the private brewer to have the exciseman introduced into his house, it was his in tention to move an alteration of the mode of mak ing that tax payable int the ft.:chequer, and that he would, in the Committee of Ways and .deans, on Friday, move. that it should he charged as the Assessed 'Faxes are. and nut come under t h e care of the excise. Mr. PERCIVAL aske I, how it was to be ascer tained who were, and who were nor, private brew ers, and how they were to be distinguished from puhlie brewers. Lord HENRY PE I I'V replied, that every per. son would' be caued upon. as in the case of the other Assessed TAI:S. w SLAW thesz particulars to his return. THE NIIJIINT BILL. The House having, on the motion of Mr. Secre tary Win iham, re... Seed itself into a Committee on this Bill ( %lr. Alexander in the Chair), and a mo tion :'et g made that the blank in the oat:., con. tattled so one of tine claus.s. should be filled up with the words seven yea. Lord CASTLES r.A.tall said, that he wished to nag that opporof icy of stating the a, jetlio.is which He felt to tee measure, w:dch were confirmed and multiplied in ploportii a as he attentivety con sidered it. In the oleseivotioso.. :oiwever, had to submit at present, alt more confine I himself to the most projrnari:t finds ot the Plan. this.: advert to the many mil use features ot it, which, at the tams- tit.-e, he conceived to he very deserving of Deuce t must be ackuowlesiged, that a MetnLer of u...t House teas sullefted ta much ditii,aity and uisadvanrage, in being called vole to ....ecish- sport the details et a great mill tart' projett at a short notice, 'and 'untwisted ,at:sostetorr infoimatio a. Af er the Right ilonourable Secrseary KJ taken so many rood • 5. both in a' d out of office, in the formation of his system, it was an tomes-. nary enema raument he imposed on the House, to take wens at so short a nnti,e, and also to witnhold from then.. that mass I,f int oniation on which His Majesiy's Ministers had themselves raised and altered their opinions. The lit st j-anon that struck him, and which tie hoped the House would be duly sensible ot, was, that it was a wanton and unnecessary encroach. ment on the undoubted prerogative of the Crown ; and. in that view, was by no means creditable to His Majesty's servants. The Crown already pos sessed 41 the power, by the Constdutitin of• the Country. which this 8111 would maw transfer to the Legislature. There never was any instance before of the Parliament assuming that p ewer to self, without at least a previous iecommenslati-n from His Majesty. The precedents quoted in a for. met debate did not fairly Apply, as none ot th m in terfered with the royal prerogative; to which gee s leveed every thing that la to to dispensing mo ney, or the disposition of hoootos in the milker) ser vice ; the only install se of any attempt of interferiog vr;th the prerogative or the internal organisation, except in one solitary Cast, which occurred. and was succcssfully resisted, in the reign of Queen Arme. It was true, that when tar Parliament thought proper to raise a new army for the Kong, suet as the Militia, or the Ad itional rarce, it assumed the power of annexing condi. tions to particularly as to the numher to be so raised. There was this distinction, however, in the attempt alluded to, that it WAS not pro posed by any minister, or person in of Ace ; but the oath now proposed applied to the limita tion, in point of time, of every man recruit. d for the Regolar Maly, thereby circumscribing the an ciao and ecknnwledged prerogative of the Crown. tie did not like the projeet of raising Jistiretions in the minds of recruits, between h:s ensue with the...ikon. are lin engagements witliTat il •- r.iinent. He knew that iu the year 1759, when a great jealousy was entertained in the country of the powe, of the Crown, both in tesped to the Standing Army, and the Mutiny Bill, a clause to satisfy these doubts And jeainusies, Was proposed, not by a•.y Minister, but bs Mr. Thomas Pitt, which was thongnt to interfere with the royal prerogative ; but though it was net at tempted in the way of appen lie er rider to a Mu. tiny Bill, it was :ejelfed by a very great majority. Here, however, it was engrafted on the Mutiny At ; a money Bill, which must p iv, or be pro.'uc tive of danger and ii.convenience to ti e 'nowt:7. The precept Ministers did not even leave it open to the House of Lords to ne,:ative the clause, hr. cause in es doing, as a money Bill, their alteration must prove fatal to the whole, and that trio at a rime when it was so.° iglr rept:nen:ed. thlt the former Mutiny Ad, which kept the army together, was shortly to tapir.. If tilt: clause, the-L.l°re, sh.oild he omitted in the other H.iose, th.- con. sequence would be, that the country wi old be won= an army. and the crown at once abandon all controul and jorisd.efon a er the mi li•ary system. In corro..worei• in tit . his se Critents, Le quoted. what he it:: octed be a r.opeelable authority So that House, a passage Item Mr. Iletselrs hook, Where it xi; stated, whenever it xve attempted by the Correnons to look to a hill of - supply, any clause which must compel the King :slid the House of Lords to agtee to it, was an infremely irregular proceeding, and th at . the measure to that effect was proposed by the Fortes in the year 1701; it was meant to put a stop to the war, to reduce the Military Force, and to compel the Allies of England to accept of such terans as France should be pleased to offer them. 11, theerline, this measure passed, the King, in respect to the Army, would he placed in a state of degrede tion, and prevereed horn raising au/ Black or other , Colonial Hoops for local purposes. Having said so much as to the mode in which the measure was proposed, when he tame to consider its effects, the objections to it struck deeply into his mind. The &nett of the measure was not to convert *bed Army into a good one, but to increase the subsisting t , rce of the country. N., one was more ready to Admit than he was, the people-1y of raising the existing Army above its present standard, though it was now greater by 23,000 than was known in' any former period. The Right Hon. Secretary (Mr. Fox) in arguing this questi o n, quite turned his back upon his colleregue,,and, digressing from the main subjeeel on a former night. seemed desirous of attrailing the intention of the House to topics, which, he thottght, might be more popular, respel - 'some late disasters. lie, however, must con tend, that the event of the last unfoitnnate cam paign upon the Continent was not at ail inflo-nced by the want of a sulliciently large disposable force in this country. We had at thee moment 2.5,000 troops, including Hanoverian', on the Continent, and were prepared with forty thousand naise.-in a state of discipline scarcely paralleled bee:reef circam btel-tei had opened to us the opportunity et em ployieg them with adveivege. Adverting next to the policy of the measure, he did. that from the century, in which be was pr •II tut having drawn his first hrea:h (Ireland,) he would, no doubt, be ac vine, of committing a blunder. if he had proposed a p an for the cncreese of the army, which, et itt first operation must be proetraive tit a waste of it ; if he gave up 3 me istire whic was producing 13,000 men annually, andeubstir used another, which began by the loss of at least U,OOO of the veteran bat teiion. If the Rt. Hon Gent.'s improvement con sisted in a rapid and extensive slimier ion of the force we were a l rea dy i n possession of, he had certaittly. made a most unf o rtunate option Inc the country. t'he army of this great nation should be such as ca . ) be lit for aelitel set vice in time of war, and such as might he adapiel to its p rtcy in time of peace It r 4.., therefore, with pleasure he observed Mr. Fox to have changed his former preference to a low military estalthehmecr, and become a convert to that of such a stenditg army as at the concersien of -a war, would enaele us to preserve and se cute all the seivanteitees of peace ; to hare a large a- my fire service in war, and so ceaszi med. that. after being disbanded in time of peace, it could. it necessary, be easily re assembled. The militia system was of that description, and such wit the Onjon of his depeeted Friend ( \fr. Pitt) in the addition it firer, with the (nether adven tege of its being always 'applied by regular offieers. roe present plan. on the contrary, only subjected men to the loss of their penslen- it they did not le ase. note, and retain eta other entylpul-ion aver them. It could not b.- denied that the policy -if this c "en try could admit of no more than portion of the At my to be employed in Foreiin Rervice. where it gutght lanai.. for the average d of from seven to ten years, and this meesure, if it succee zed s vel e! not Afford the Army abroad more than thief diets However, upo n , tee si hot-, he sise nN pound for thieking that tee Right Wilmot ink Gentleman couldever succeed in the drew ion of his plat The experiment of I'm ted service WAS flied before, in the American War, upon the more in viting terms of three yea's, ordering the war, and the eff..ft was, that the regular reeilaiting fell short at that time of its usual anneal proportion.— l'his proof /Mewed that the limited service did not possess the charms ascribed to it --- In the year 1799, we had 80,000 Militia, and when an AA passed for 44,000 of them to enter for limited service. only 26,000 of them were found to embrace the fifer. The experiment was after. warJs repeated for unlim ted service, and proved more successbil. Dati l/ the late wee, also in 17e9. upon the suggestion of Lord Cornwallis, the lush militia were allowed to vorunteer, upon a bounty of 10 geoid* for limited service, and 12 gated, for unlinsiteJ service, and the effect was, that only 500 of the while preferred the smaller to the greater bounty. His great distaste to the measure was the complete subversion of that relate .TI io which the King heretofore stool with the army of the country. l hr soldier before looked to the rown for all a.ts of benevolence. hut his views would now be turned aide to the Parliament; et the same time that, if the measure should ever come into full operation, it w•'.,1,1 bring a greet pressure on the commercial in tetests of the nation at large. It it was right, as it certainly was, to reward the soldier who-had do.le hie Jury. by completing is tini • of service, it should be lett to tee bounty of the Crown, and not given as a premium to ieduce him to enlist nor pledge the faith of Parliament to give lam a pension at the expiration of seven yews. even thoneh be thwart not have been in any aival service. As to its influence on the state of discipline, he did not presume to give what could be considered as a mili tary opinion. His dislike was, to give the soldiers. in lieu of a real military spirif, a kind et mercantile etstend ; and the system of perpetual re-enlist meet he thoeglit must have a had effect on the discipline of the men, who where to be in duced to re-enlist, towards the expiration of any of the teree periods of service; it would also revive the ab minable preetice of draughtieg from one has cation to another, when a reeint re was t be wet abroad. T. 41 1114(11110ns so married to each other might be stationed in diffe ent quarters of the wield, and could not be hi-ought to unite. except by a kind of criminal intercourse tie lamented. that after tee attention the Right 1 lonourebte Secretary so laic bestowed on military affairs. we were now no farther advanced than at the first moment of his ever -giving a military opinion; and the only prospeA he gave was, that of beieg able .t a me to are period to get rid of some of the obvious objedions to the plan. In. kiwi( Hon Seel-nary htnaself segrcttcd, that he had nut had titre to calculate oti the waste either of men oe ' treasure whi:h his system must occasion; and he (lad . not know of any greater dereliefioe of public duty than to ps opose and attempt, by the power of e n . vernment. or force through the House 'meter on which he had not made the necessary calculus tiorrs. Any carculatien to he made, must b e apai the supposition of paring an army of 250.000 men, including artillery mid marines, and the only estimate he had recourse to was by a reference to the seven bane:inns. consisting of 7832, ft , Lordship then went into * di Tose caleiderion of th e increased e:p-nce of this plan, at the different p si si s als of 7, Ili. and 21 ros, with the additio na l shillings and sixpences, the bounties on re-enlist, meets, dec. Ste. ; the result of which war, i s ( at the first priicid the augmented expellee souls be 380,0001. for the second 700.0001. and for the third 600,0hd1. The most gloomy Fart all was, that of a pension after 21 years service, which from the remoteness of the period a .•,, the contingencies to which he must be exposed.serts be a less inducement to a rtcruis than half a 'envi e ' offered at the neoment,at the same time that it scold ultimately be productive of an enormous expec te , upon the public. Assuming. which was not favourable position to his argument, that i min should be induced to enlist at the age of 46 vino, when he t.erved.his first 14 years he would be it the age of 40 ; arsd. according to Dr. Fluiley's tablh, aed the colcutations made a' the Life insurance offices, he found that. Ater tarot period, the longest a man had to calculate upon Wall e 2 veers. In or. der. therefore, to provide the Chelsea pension, to which the sot Uer woul•I be entitled on uttlining the age of 47, vOien his whole ptriotituould Se completed, it woulu he necessary to cre.te ~the, fund, not yet included in the estimates on t: e The aggregate of the expence then,which this rhea. sure wunid entail upon the country, would be 2,018,0001. Independent of th- increhrid pit meant to be given to atilsaltern Laker'. It msy be stud that this would admit of a reduetion in peace, but atfohuoately, the plan left the qu dificetion hf she men going on, even an time of peace, when they were exposed to eery little service, which left no chalice of a rerluferon. Upon a suthied of such material importance to the welfare of the country, he did not see how any principle of delicacy, ra fancied danger. should deter him, as a Member of Parliament, from a performance of Aix political duty, in considering the application which this system had to the other essential service of the navy. He whuld appeal to the Whir Lord at the heaa of theAdmitalty Board, and ask him, %whether it was right or just that the nation should be embaiked in this hew system of expence, to make future priorihorh for sol diers, and mate no corr.-mu:thing one for sai lors ? How would it be felt, or what impression was it likely to create, it the m oriole onboard a ship were, at the expiration at certain perials, to be en vied to advantages which were withheld from the sailors, who co:opt...seri the same period a service, were exposed to the same sir greater hardships and dangers. and to whom the country was so much indebted f , r its security and salety. It was true, that they were liable, according to emit= usages. to be dragged into the service by compel. sine • and the impress. without being acted any additional inducement; but was it censisteut situ policy or liberality, that this argument of peccary hardship was to be turned against them f if then. which he must suppose to be tile ease. the s a ilors were meant to be included in the new arrangemtints to arise out of this system, the aenoal expence upon the country could riot be calculate) at less than three millions of money These lest observations, he said he thought it his duty merely to advert to, but not for any invidi us purpose, or with the view of prooaki tg any dos to lion .f them at psese ta, Hive awe was a violent ever el hear! bear! .1:ow 14c lhassfrruid Loch, end reutrmfrel same trier . by bulb aides of the Maud.) His Lordship then proceeded to obsinve on the seriousness of such an additional expence upon the country. of three millions annually ; much to the creak, as he thought, of the present administra tion, this canary had in a late instance most wisely and m infer come to the resolution of raising so large a proportion of the supplies within the year, as an augmentation of 10 miilivcs by means of an *simian of the Property Tale and 64 for' the purpose of relieving posterity from the prtssure of no mote than half a million annually which would be suffixient to defray the interest of that rum of money ; but poseinity would nave but little rea.on to applaud the spirit and liberality at the present times, if, at die %rime time that we were preserving then Irani the pressure o f half a-million, we should, by this extravagant and inconsiderate system, saddle them nub a burthen of three minima a-year. He then concluded with a re cepitulation of his arguments, in which he trusted, tlait he had satisfediorily sheveei, that the piers was a wanton encroachment on the teerogeave of the Crown ; that it could not make the :limy better than it was th-for.t, that theme/1U fia ite.Atni.l from past a. perience for supposing that limited would produce srare men than an unlimited service 11 ..'hh •t it wheat :he relation in which the crown now stood ith the army of the country; that it would be injotious to the discipline of the service; that It would create great a aste, riot only of the effedive nurahers of the army, but of that treasure also wirkh • the country could not bear if it should have to contend for its existent by the exertion of its own remaining re sources; and finally, that being fatal in au tnese points, ix would also materially abridge the power of the Crown. Mr GRA rrAx said. the Noble Lord had ab* jeard to the plan, and yet bad no plan to offer in' its stead. lo the American war limited service had been tried, aid yet it did not increase the army. The Noble Lord firmed part of an Ad mi.linistsatinn which had. f•r three years, tried limited service; first, in the Army of Rese;%e Aa, then the Addition'al Force Alt. and y he ohjeaed to the expence of the present pl.i: and contended that we should not derive 41 adv.intage from the 200.0001. to be paid f. the seven years service; the 700,0001. for the fr.!: teen years service, nor the 6vo, lON for the years; so that, in fa.l, he says these are three tt given for nothing; and, according to Lis argr.• merit, we should not ga.n a single man bs. suzla a.• ernormous expellee. And yet tne Noti!e Lrrd d:.• not state, that he meant to propme the ballot, I I