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. • • stru&eii Clic; - fecruithy; inn former year,' then, that woilld - ha an - admission that he had.ne ,:er before Made, ii having•• al' , ;ilys ; been stated that the .I?arish Bill did ? the ordinary .recria,iting.!-- If Noble- . Lord should not so objeEt, ,then .the conclui6n - was inevitable that the -present was the better nude of recruititrg. But then the Hon. Gen tleinari opposite night say that this mode of recruit ing did 'hot prothice as much as the other two, and be•shoUTd - rint say that it had. , But it produced in thalraportion df two to - one more tha - n • the .ordi narywcvniting, and the desertion was considerably ditpipiih4ti. Besides, under the Parish men . above the standard age of fifteen years, and three inches: below the standard size, were received. At pß.s‘lnr, no men would be received under five feet five•inches. The increase in the recruiting had been progressive, but in the last few weeks it had ex- seeded the produce of, the Parish Bill and ordinary recruiting in the correspondent period of last year, 'There was to that advantage to be-added the amount of the recruiting at head-quarters, whic4 had been totally extinguished by . the Parish Bill, and.Of which no returns had been yet procured. He was not aware of any other observation of the Noble _Lord to which it was at'that time necessary for, him to advert.—Many he was sure were worthy of retnark; but other' opportunities would .occur for that pur, pose.,-4s to the circumstances of the men being intitled of right to the allowance,it had been thought proper that men .. who had spent their lives and constitutions in the service of their country should not be left to the caprice of Commanding Officers as to their title to their reward,--after a service of four teen or twenty-one years. The Noble Lord bid observed,, that a man wild might be disabled after two or three years service would be entitled to his pension, but if disabled in the, service, he would ask why he should not ? He invited the Hop. Gen tleman opposite to go-into the proofs of the state. ments be had made, because the more they should ' be ineuired,into, the more they would be found cared. All he had further to say he should reserve for the present. • Mt:PERCIVAL professed himself far, frodi be ing satisfied with the explanations that had,heen gi ven respeaing the delay in Sending reinforcements, to Buena; Ayres. But he would confine the-few observations he should now offer to the House, to two ',or three of the points upon which the Secretary at War had dwelt much, and upon others; to which neither the Right Hon. General, nor the -Right Hon... Secretary had' scarce alluded. The Right Honourable . Secretary (Mr. Windham), ia' setting out with his plan, hall boasted much, that it would produce a regular force, an Army, and -that alinOst immediately. Nuw, however; he talks - of the re sult of hi , ; plan as merely intended to afford a supply. diffitrent was his present language With regard to the Army- of - Reserve : when that 'measure was under discussion it incurred his censureinow he speaks of it rather with praise. Other alterations wertqo be observed in his system as' far es it 'went to discharge veterans; and to grant the Chelsea Pen sions. to both these respects it was deprived in part of the" benefits which it at first held out. 'Now, as to the omissions of the Right HonourableGentle man :—Upon the Training Bill nothing is said by the Secretary at War ; scarcely any thing even `by its author. Even- respeteing the Volunta.N - s, little has been said by them ) alkthat little would better-have been omitted. It is contended that scarcely any di minution has been felt in that establishment; but it is not the ebtabliLliment that existed before which is to be, compared with that establishmentaSlt now exists ; but the alteration is to be takete TrOin the returns of the numbers ; they will prove{ 'the real 4. - liminution. Yet the Volunteers wet 4 esactifieed to the Iraiaiog Bill, which Training Bill is confessed to have produced nOthing. The next: point was the recrOips, It was cOntended that 'the pre `gent plan produteddouble what the old recruiting System had produced. He could see no proof of this assertion. . Did the Right 'Hon. Gentlemen Leep,it4ty their pockets ? If they would not come 'forward with that proof, he would produce' ope to 'suety! - -quite the contrary ; and here the Learned €3 . ,,zitrlerretn - went into a comparative view Of the '-niled,bers raised under the two systems during the 140-7mdti tbs..- most favourable to that service, viz. Septembie 'and October ; the result of which was, 'that` ditridg'the same months under Mr. Pitt's Bill, with the checks and fa(itious opposition to it, the ' , number of men raised by it exceeded . by more than 200 that' raised by the present plan. Ifthe'opera tion'Olthetwo plans was examined for a, Ing,er riod;the, , saine proportion would attend the result. Thus this branch of the new system must:he allowed to have completely failed. As to the progress of the recruiting at head-quarters, he should say nothing. The only military intbrination he could possess must be colleacd-trom the documents upon the table, and iltese only led.to.error4 : He , had alsojo regret and . rep - ciwte the alterations that have been made in the 'terms of recruiting - ; they were. contrary to law ; the INPriiil% of theM was improvident, .flier left room kir fraud, He should not.. now detain the House far ther. - As tar as the sum of money proposed to be raised went, he should make no objecaion ; but what had fallen from the' two Right Hon. Secre taries called for the few observations he had made. Lord I.IOIVICK had little . _ to say after the clear and -able : manner in which every objeCtion had been obviated-or answered by his Right Hon. Friend (Mr. Windham).—The objedions and censure dealt out by the Noble Lord (Castlereagh) for the- delay in sending sucours to Buenos Ayres, came with an extreme ill grace from that Noble Lord. Succours Were sent to that newt conquest with all the dis patch that was possible, considering the length of time • the ships were to be.provisioned for, and the difficulty of colluding transports at the moment, and the distance of the voyage the more so, as no p• - evious expectation existed of such an acquisition tying been made. Yet all' this should have been d we in ten 'days according to the opinion of the Voble -Lord, who, during one of his' administrations (tor be was known to have two strings to his bow), did not, in so many months, fit out any expedition 4n - en to CPOb3 the Channel, with all the previous . geowledge he possessed of the great Coalition that tas formed against Alia common. enemy. The Noble Lord then proceeded to retort the charge 44 •Aiagni.4eent promises „being held out by, his Ceti.: - leepes, which were .followed by no proportion LcUtion, -hy stating, that similar promises had 'Oeotinlield 'tint by the Gentlemen opposite him when . in power, which, however j - were attended with still • one Of their measures to raise forty thousand men : the plan, notwithstanding, did not foise six thousand: Was it then to them to speak of promises ? Undoubtedly a large force was raised during one of the Administrations to which the Noble Lord belonged; but the praise of that mea sure belonged,to anot►•er person, who, however, had resorted to a great variety i)f means for raising it.— So much could not be said of the military measures of the last Administration, of which the Noble Lord was also a Member. With respe& to the Training Bill, it was true that; little had been said about it ; but that was because all that was necessary to say had already been observed on various former occa sions. He should not therefore delay the House with any repetition of it, especially at so late an hour. Sir JOHN DOYLE felt anxious to offer some observations on what had passed; but at so late an hour, and-as a. new Member, he should not now at tempt to claim the attention of the House, the more so, as the attack with which a Noble Lord (Castle reagh) threatened his Majesty's Ministers, would soon afford him an opportunity of delivering hii opinion on the same topics. Lord CASTLEREA9II and Mr. WINDHAM entered into several explanations respeaing the extent and nature of the documents laid before the House, and Mr. WINDHAM expressed a willingness to afford every additional information in his power, with the reservation of what he had already objected to grant. • Mr. GEORGE JOHNSTONE, in allusion to some part of the speech of the Secretary at War, 'de nied his having pledged himself to bring forward a charae'against Ministers for their want of economy, and ° their profusion in the expenditure of the public money. He never had given such a pledge : he only said, that he anxiously looked for the proofs of the promises they made- of a frugal and provident Admi nistration of the Finances of the Country, on their coming into office. He should watch - for the exe cution of them; and, from their high professions, be should 'even be justified if he were not satisfied at seeing them not snore prodigal than their predeCes sors, whom they had so often 'accused of, the most wanton profusion and cKtravagance. • • The SECRETARY at WAR explained. Mr. ROSE said, that as the comparative economy of the two Administrations had been - brought into question, • he should to-morrow, upon 'the Repoit, take occasion to offer a few remarks upon that subj - After several further explanations and obserVationg from Lord 'CASTLEREAGII, General Doris,, and Mr. WiNntrikm, the Resolutions were agreed, to, and the House resumed. After the different items had been moved, Lord HENRY PETTY rose to observe, that the principle of economy upon which his Majesty's nisters had set out would be rigidly adhered to, and referred to the' gradual diminution in several of the charges, particularly in tie .13arrack Departthent, as .a proof of that determination. The Report was then ordered to be received to morrow. On 'the Motion of Lord CASTLCREAGH, the 'Re turns of the Etit.t.itive Military Strength of the Coon try, together with the Regulation Book, were order ed to be printed. Also the Papers on the table re speBinu the Ordnance Department. Sir fouN NEWPORT brought in the Rill to'amend the Corn Intercourse. Aa, passed last Session; by limiting•the provision of the former Aft to any grain not the growth of . Great Britain and Ireland. The Bill 'was read a first ,titne, and was ordered to be read a second time and printed, • • The Bill for Abolishing certain Offices in Ireland was read a second time, and was ordered to be com mitted to-morrow. LONDONDERRY ELECTION. Gen. WALPOLE moved, that the Order of the Day should be discharged for taking into cOnsider ation• the Petition complaining .of an I:indue Elec tion for Londonderry, on the (29th inst, - tbrthe pur pose of ectending the time to the 17th ~ of March next, on the'grounds of the delay which often oc curred in the pa.sage between England and Irektnd, and the necessity of . having an IriSh Agent in, this .Country. Mr. C. DUNDAS, Mr. PEIICIVAL, Mr. •iYisE, attd Lord G. BERESFORD contended, that sufficient grounds were not made out, and that there, was am ple and sufficient thne for the, parties to . be pre pared. Lord HOWICK and Mr. C. WYNNE argued on the. contrary ; and that As . the Aberdeen Petition Arai. deferred, and other ScotCh Petitions, they were' of opinion that the same indulgence ought to be grant ed in the present instance.' he House divided; for discharging the'Order7— . Ayes, 67 ; Ncirs, 49. , ---Ma3ofitY, 18. - The Petition was then'Ordered to be taken into, consideration on the t7th of Aldrch. A(!journed, .11.1.4 EL, nsAw, DEC. 25.-- , The Emperor set out for the advanced posts, \ on Ttiesday; at five o'clock in We morning; he passed the night at Jablonne, at the house of Prince• JOSEPiI PRIATOWSKY. The same day a bride:o was constructed over the Wrka, at the place where it fails into the Bug. The Russians were forced froM two Islands where they had en trenched themselves; that day the Emperor slept at OkUnion ;. the following (the 24th) the Russians were drivel) from their position at Pomikowo and Czartnowo; , they fell back and joined a corps of to ar 12;006 inen posted NasSelsk. This corp was beaten; some prisoners and three pieces of can- . non were taken from the . Enemy: The Austrian.; permit to pass, freely, the provisions drawn from their Country for the use of the. French ArMy. BERLIN, JAN. 3.—Barracks are preparing here to lodge the troops which are to tort our garrison : it is thought that these troops will be those of the Grand Duke of NASSAU \I 7 I LEL RGII. The Volun ,,teers of the Emperor are still here ; they arc ad ''young men of good family, aO4l who maintain them.: selves at their own expense. They form three com panies, commanded by M. AIORTMOLANY, and are The Telegraph announces that Breslaw is in pos session of the French. On the 26th of Dec. the Standard of the Nobility of that Palatinate was con- secrated at Posen. DRESDEN, DEC. 28,—A1l is perfe&ly tranquil in Bohemia : the Troops are returned to their former Garrisons, and have been placed on the Peace esta blishment. The letters from Vienna speak of no thing but Peace. NUREMBERG, DEC. 29.—Letters just received from Vienna bring advice, that the Archduke FER DINAND, exhausted by his illness, is ciad, at the age of 32 years. The same letters state, that the Archduke of Austria will, in future, take the title of Imperial Highness. • Letteri from Jassy assert, that the Russians have taken possession of Choczim, witla. the consent of the Porte, • BANKS OF THE ELITE, JAN. 5.---According to the position taken 'by the French Army after passing the Vistula, it would appear that the Russians had quitted the thouth of the Bug, and that they were not in any great force their principal Army was stationed chiefly on the frontiers . of Lithuania. - BERLIN,. JAN. 3.—The Ratifications of the Trea ties lately concluded at Posen, between. his Majesty the Emperor of the French and King of Italy, and their Excellencies the Dukes of SAXE \VEIMAR, GOTHA, AIENNINGEN, HE/31.71WHAUSEN, and Co t BOURG, were exchanged A Berlin on Um-30th of December. MAILS. ARA ivzn—i Dublin. DoE-6 Gottenburgh, t Lisbon. • 2 Waterford. pßicti oF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVIL O'CL ,, !!K. Consols . - 591 I Reduced Ann. - 59 THE SUN. 110/4114 QUIS DIC4RE FA UM AtJUKAT? LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 1807. Wm are happy to have it in our power to lay be- fore our Readers some most important and gratifying A G-Litle,inau intelligencro . fro - tp the Continent. arrived thii, morning at the Foreign. Office, from Poland ; ho has brought Letters for Lord •Howtcic from Mr. AD.6It at Vienna, and was also able, from his own .observation, to communicate very important intbrmation, The substance , of the Intelligence which he brings that the French Army is in a most deplorable condition ; the num ber of Men carried off by disease ig estimated at not less than 40,000. It does not appear that any de& sive battlQ has been fought, although them have been a great many skirmishes which have terminated with various success; but generally in favour of the Rus- Sl2lO. Tins morning a Mail from Denmark arrived, but it is perfeelly barren of intelligence. Letters from Warsaw, of the date of the s.th December, men tion some slight skirmishes having taken place, in which the French had the advantage, The following account concerning Buenos Ayres' was this morning received at LLOYD'S : • ro The American Ship :4lexander Hamilton, Capt.. CALLAHAN, is arrived at Liverpool from Savannah ,4 from whence 'she sailed on t the 25th December, and gives an account that an American Ship Wad arrived at Charleston, froth Buenos Ayres, where she had been embargoed ; but by, slipping her, cable, in a gale of wind got away, and says that Buenos Ayres was recaptured by the Spaniards while she was there." At two o'clock yesterday His MAJESTY held a Private Levee at the QUEEN'S Palace. His MAJESTY 'also held a Privy Council, at which the Recorder of London attended,. and made his Report of the Con= Vas capitally convicted at the last Sessions in the Old Bailey, when Iflatkin Herbert,:•the soldier, for robbing'Sainuel'James, in Hyde. Park, was ordered .for execution- on Wednesday. Soon atter four o'clock His MAJESTY set, oft for Windsor, where the rest of the Royal Family had gone before. Yesterday a Court of Dire6.lors was held at the East India House, when the following Commanders took leave previous to departing for their respeetive destinations, viz.—Capt. SEARLES WOOD, !Forces `.ter, for Sr. Helena and Madras. Captains JOSEPH YATES, Citfof London; JAMES CARNEGIE, Barins , ; EOM' ARD C. BRADFORD, Lord Duncannon.—Ma • dray and Bengal. Capt. 'MATTHEW ISAACKE, Met calfe—Bombay direft. The folloWing Captains were sworn into the corn -, mand of their respective Ships, viz. Multanv . :, lady Castlereagh, Madras and Bengal J. PENDER: CRASS, l/UPC ; 'JAMES HAY. Omits, China dire&. Dr. OUTRAM, Public Orator of the University of - Cambridge, was introduced ro the Court, and delivei ed a Letter froM the Senate in full convocation, ex pressing their thanks for some valuable Oriental ivflt‘bcrioi presented to the University by the I'V 14 tAL NE TV ,. PLYMOUTH, JAN'. 20.—Arrived the Merlin.Sloms Of War, of ai guns, with Dispatches from Tortola. , Sailed the Acosta and Lavinia Frigates, 24 pion Sloop of War, on a Cruize ih the Chan nel. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. .21.—Arrived the Redwing Brig of War, Capt..Usnaa, with the Duke of Mon , trose, Castle .den, and Atliniral Gardner East In diamen ; the Greenwich Southseaman, and, four or, five Coasters from ,the Downs ; also the Ant Schoon- ' yr from a cruize. _ . Sailed last night the Spartan Frigate bearing the Flag of Rear Admiral Sir EDMOND NiAGLE, sod the Bor z eas Frigate; Capt. SCOTT, to the Westward• cifiszne into the Harbour the Dragon, of 74 guns, and t.O Locust Gun-vessel to ,retit.. The ilveyer'Sloop of War has detained and sent into this port this day the Oidenburgh Ship Be triesemkeit, from Charente, bound to London, laden with brandy, but released her again on coming into port, Dckz, JAN. .—Arrivtd the Palter. Gun-brig with a Convoy from ; Ireland; which are sailed for the River. ' _ Sailed the Argus Sloop of War to the Westward. Arrived, and sJiled for the River, the Mar q uis o f vudit g ,. J - ARUES, from Tobago. . - Tire Pidorous Piaam ha's a'signal flying fora Con' IV the Westward, SiftkrzNEss, JAN. i .—Arr - hW tl e Hete Tender fr6M i tynn, with a few impressed Men and Voluno .ieeti r: flif the Fleet. • ' 4 Sailed the Trompeuse SlOOO of War, Capt. DOLING, for the nown6. • Arrived froth the River the tilifil . :nook Store -ship, i pv Capt. WTIBTE ; and the L or d Itielziille I),:lence _ Armed Brig . —A new lirig has passed tur Ch.:..ttha:rs to he fitted out. . By intelligence received from the Fleet off Cadiz, dated the 41 st Dec . :en - 11)e", we-learn, that the greatest adivity prevailed in, the, Enemy's Port—that clew} Line4-battle Ships, French and Spanitib, were said to be,retidy for sea, and three others in a state of great - fakwardnesi. The French were represented as being a aXIOIIS to put to sea, and it was thought that the Spanish Admiral would not %enture to oppose . tleirwithes. We are happy to add, that at the 'time specified, the British Admiral had . I tu c t cr his immediate command, nine Sail of the Line, of which were three-cleckers. So that there is rips tho least doubt, if the "Combined Fleet should io l iore - out, butt that we shall SQOII receive a 4.00 d R,;couPt of them. . , . , A Gentleman said to have arrived from France with intelligence of a Decree having been Welt published in France, directing the - litmedite mutts cation of ev;;ry.species of property in whichany Sub' je6l of Great Britain should have an interest. Tb same decree-, it is rumoured, direas the susp.ensiofl _of all payments, and that. an account of all rnoPics due from the French to the British Merchants may he accurately. rendered and registered at a place appointed for . that purpose. The'public have for some time known that,-tire command of the Russian army is entrusted to Gen , KAMIrNSKY. The following are said to be, the cir cumstances which led tO this promotion.:, After the battle of Austerlitz this veteran, grieved at ,the disaster, could not refrain from sp ea ki ng his sentiments freely respetling the management of the army on that occasion. His observations, • bavirtg reached the Emperor's ears, ..A.Lzxmtagrt. sent _ him, and after a little conversation, asked the Ge'' ucral's opinion respecting the conciuft that hail been followed on the day of battle. This veteran replied with great coolness* 'c Sokliers have Id: lien to complain at . any thing that happens where stir Mo narch exposes his 'person along with' theirs but if General KUTUSOFP had managed the army as it , .Wa4Sinatiaged on thatday,he would haVeleen shot.' The'Emperor, far from being displeased 1 / 4 % ith the in- , sinnation of an old soldier against his juvenile Gene. r;alSliiP, on colledting the immense army that, has .been sent to oppose the French, sent to Gem KA' an offer of the command. He accepted it — l -irin, it is understood, with'thiS stipulation, that neither the Emperor nor his brother should join the army and ; in case of bringing forward a reserve., should not accompany it farther than Riga.. General KAMIENSKY, in consequence, takes u pon himself the whole responSibility. He was bred undef Gem . SUWARROW, and in Russia is considered as 0 man not troubled with the " compunctious visiting of Nature." , Generals PENGRATION and KuTusoFF stand high in the estimation of the Russian army, a 5 first-rate Generals, but neither of them are employed on the present occasion. They were both at'Peters burgh when the last letters u - me from that city. The Old Bailey Sessions finished yesterday, when Nix,- Smith, for receiving' stolen goods, was sen' tenced to be transported for fourteen years. Ei g hteen were ordered to be transported) for seven' 'Yeatt, artriong whom were the Swiss Valet and Mott gen, who defrauded. Mr. LONG. SHIP NEI, S. POOLE, JANUARY 20. Arrived—the Garland, Duren, Harniony, Walters, .3 0(1 General Wolfe, Tullock, from Newfoundland;, Saunders, from Boston ;. Robert and George, BE an, to"' Youghali ; Robert and Sally,. Palmer, and Suce.ess,::ere" man, from Portsmouth ; E X periment. BaScorub, / 101 Cowes; and Union, Bown, from Plymouth. Sailed— the Code Haab, Brosena, and Amphitrite,T l) " MdS, fur Lisbon- Fieskim, Hutu], fur ,Cadiz ; Charlotte Fitzgerald, for Lisbon; Hope, Riglithead. arm l iahnson, for Southampton; and Alinerva, Lancer, tin L. 01 1" .don. GRINIFSZNII, JAN. 20. Passed by—the'Union, Davis, and Chester, Neile, from Cork Fodor, Conway, from Beltasi ‘• 1 0, 4): Hunt, Friend, Richards, Two Friends, Bully, loon, Belinda, Roberts, and Gcrtrude, Cuildy,,fr , )in Waterton, Sailed —the Mary, Billings, for Faro ; and City of Co t Bickerton, for Cork. Lox.nox l'rinted by R. •1-lAitais (of Mar tiett-cou /4 Bow street), and pnblisned" by W. A: sex irrs.(or , • Moulton-street), at the Sun.tilllce. 112. St:And.