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filar servi:e lo not " I st rongly J. le, upiat all tu. great difficittry ,rove ever sort.. that it is a vre too much in old recommend mtleman, whil e 2 T 2° °I•t ,1 ) , and ask him, ..Mere r y, who !tat r.ct his Prtea,ur.l Is it Rill Las not 'hers froni t h e thoir own Wm. her they otig ht 6 nod for ;,, already to ,r berating on th e resign ? (a loud sal beitch, which position !) Are gradual diminni prohlblv be de. m -ekti'sl at (et All Oliatta. what Sliniate:s .42.! act orhiniz fill Ira rr"- e them in histaue khd lot it out of notinmran tel us, a; that ale Atitho.. :the ntettsure are *Abet, Sit-, I err . ;K a ne . Officers of on I shall forbear from the plan of td I never hear) vele of a differraf ittird to ask FIN Is of 4 V I Y Offic:r, the yourigest los ,meat tacirtg mad, belle,* he wont& lon. OfZepr (Col. ppy to see in hie led, that he hall hich would oblige meat; At iea l t„ fie inai upprxing his prio- r wiiny years con- Oposalc and plans, e been id the prat. ace is now altered; t right about, and have been doing." with so little invitt. •man has had from have paused a little al a change. My alto;ev.er to pre extremely solici stiaation to amply ervices, for Gentle. of its sufficiency. — Right bior.out.ble ,e the ' biota.* tO•lus oveveli•rie the pre to rePtesent serv:ce I was to endute uc particae. but the !la hid of late years dition of toe soldier, exertions and loan- I in Chief has done ban will be efetlel to Right I lon. Gem raw an or t ,v)utat.lt n of soldiers, and of the community; that the state of the n! htt yovny p e ople, ages ill physical life, the cer tent, lostgirig, care it are nr.t F r,,risew•cl hr ilferior stations, are I ocemmit to enter ta e Right Hotioaroltla en the tw!ri . we:e d their time of set Vac, igh the courtly, aril nder the shaded then Iventures, and itisptre neighbour hoods, with I own, Sir, that I ara hat a military spitit this way. which may mon the military kr the sequel of his plan. f limiting the service, on of a military spirit, hope of being able. to after their term of Ki te One strong objectiAn that it the term t‘t ser ten, shall he nearly not %1 abroad, his remNl men into other rey:l - add, that the pray• rto been considered as a in the service ; enJ ne 'bat ester I !leant a of approbation. It to all the authorities ur of the advantages of vice ; but there is on* in the course of last will be thought worthy Mtn that of the late almost all his letters to complains of the great Ins for short periods• to whole of their calmer II consequence of the. onldering a• diss.-11 the eve • • • ,toll a rriwart • • '•• • V Al' It 1% • • to hav herr r1:-.1 • . : • !rat time was the pet; . years, and what the Cruet al principally complained i was, th it they were not engaged to serye till the ter mination of the war. But, Sir, if these ohjectione are generally itrnng, surely they must be allowed to apply with doable force to the colonial service. It may so hempen, in future, that a colony may he deprived of its garrison, even upon the point of its being attacked. it may indeed he seta. that the spirit of Bii•ish soldi es wnnld never allow them to take advantage, in such a conjuncture, of the expi ration of their service; and I am strsinely inclined to hove. that snch an expectation would rot be dis appoin•el; but the Hnuse should conrder, whether, it men weie ever called upon to extend their set ekes on such an "session, there may not be a ground fir complain', that the national faith was not kept as strictly as it ought to be. I know that one . f the founders cf the French Revolution is reported to have said, Perish the colonies, sooner than one of our principles should he infringed upon ;" but I will not susiiett the Right Hon. C e entelm in to have adopted that maxim. I hope, indeed, that he will he a!tentivit to the preservation of all our pnssessicns ; hut, it must he allowed. that the adoption of the new system would tend,in a gt eat measur. ,to endanger these possessions. Tare Right Hon. Cent also laid great stress on the advantages now taken by the Recruiting Serje anis of the pas. . • sham, the feelings, the necessities, and tempos ary eat ) barressments of men ; that they cajoled persons by disappisintmrtirs, infimoseed byjefl"asy, Iced taro intoxication, young persons crossed in love, &c. dtc. But I apprehend, that if you give up this source of enlisting, and rejed all persons in. Bum cm' by such circumstances to embrace the mint .ry protess.on, you will seon find yourselves with very (eel. recruits. I also have great tear, that tats eastern will have *very bad effea upon tha di.. eiellne and aithordinatien of the army. The Bight Hon. Gentleman says, that a power will be givknof retaining them for six month: after the expiration of their terms ; but if se, as the officers will very aa• wish to retails their men, and induce them to re-enlist, will not these last six months be a scene of drunkenness and relarat•ne of all that discipline necessary for a geed and . effective army. In detail ing this pate of his plan, the Right l ion. Gentle reen has told us, that he has dipped deep into human nature; and at last found a means to recompense the Wien far the tolls of a m'ii 1-y life. But, Sir, how ludiernes is the result, w a hiolesque does it appear, when we find, that the fr-el d all this fine phnosophical research into human ii moire. that this Nepentha all the surf- rings and h... ct.hips 0' a so- deer, this I atileart denught, which is to cause antebh ?ion of all he has undergone, tunas our to be no mare than • aixpener, or a pot of den , a week; ( :pie,eris/ peal ofloqh or ikruitifiert the Houle ) !his. Sir. I mast confess to be one of the strangest philoso pi,isal discoveries I have ever yet met with. But the Right Honourable Gentleman goes on 101 tell us, that nr.ne of these askew ages are to be extended to the soldiers now already enlisted' neon other terms. Realle, Sir, I An not know any thing more dangerous than to discuss tIW 2 nature of .1 contra& with bodies of men its artns io g; nor em Iby any means sati,tied, that it is more dangerous, and Kahle to be the mare seamy sidered as Oppressive, a:hen the party who sets I the unfavourable cosiatrudinn on it, is the party that has the gnvernicee.t. Neiti.er, Sir, 4.n I eon- . -winced of the jestier of this kind of interpretation I: may fairly be said, that a men ohne:Kers into a contraet, en sites hienself . liable to all the additional burthms or hardships that may att.te'n tO the service be engages to petLsrm, butt is he not also, i r stria jestice, entitled to all the additional and incidental • advantages that may belang to it ? And irk the fur• . deer ask.. it, be not the More stronely arid jastly en titled to them, if the :mention of thelliglat fieniGent. is well founded, that the majority of the recruits heretofore raised, have been cajoled. and entrapped • into the service, in - the manner be so 4'4 and feel-' • ingly represented ? lam indeed awore, 'shit $t may he greed, that the expenee of this exteasinn would be feennd rather inconvenient, but I niaiwtain, that the same objeation applies to every part of his sys tem of iniu)vation can safely assure the House, t'•.at I am scestrongly impressed with the force of times manifold objedkions. that I ens convinced the deeper the Right Honourable Gentleman goes into ti.e examinatian of his plan, the more will these dif- ' fitulties multiply upon him, and the • mflaie solicitors will he be to find an opportunity of. eitiaoing his stem. I have lately heard of a person who, by the . per mai of some agricultural trans, had been so much a loser by some experiments in husbandry,'that he declared, .• 1 have read myself into it, and now here only to work myself out of it." So the Right Honourable Gentleman, perhaps. seduced by ssme fine theories, might have read himself into time adoption of these experiments, best I fear lie will find considerable difficulty in working himself out of them. I hope, Sir, that without being opposed to be influenced by a higotted and seperaitiaus at tachment, or veneration, for the prune-plea of our ancestors, one may be permitted a' least to douht whether a great, chain& standing . army, without being balanced by any other k.nd sat force, be that which is fitted -for the fres constitution of this country. It is very true that I, as well as many of those about me, did wish for the establi.hm-nt of a great army, boa we e ishedfor it on I y o mei t the exi gency of the moment, and never thought of having nothing else but a standing Army. 'file gentlemen opposite may say the balance was no more than a farce, as the Militia could never. be drawn out against the standing Army, under any -circum stances. I sincerely nnpee that the time wili never come when any necessity could arise for it, but I maintain, that should an attempt ever be made to force a military despotism on the country, the stand ing Army would meet with a strong balance in the blihtis, the Volunteers, the Parlieinent. and the Spirit of the People. On the other hard, however, should this balance be altogether beaten d a wn, there will be great reason to appiehend,that hencvlo-ward a man could venture to stand up in th st f its sse, and make a speech, such as he a asnow doing, in support of the constitutional jealousy against a stainling army. I remember that one of the ationgest and mem impressive arguments made use of against the Additional Force Sill Wes. that it was liable to :ill • the übjiteßions of beir g plaid at the &sauna of the Crown. without possessing all the advimta;zes of a Standing Army; but let me ask, whether the WNW a Vann iota not mama iol4,tioay ege.ly against a , measure which soperTe3es Militia, by Ms tiatra- KnecA standifl army. and places a mass arthe dis ptlsn: nt the Crown, witty:tit any rnlitary difcipline? It is aisri acircarnstance entitled to Owls considera- :ran, that this is the only year, since the Revolution. when the army estimates were voted, without know ing what the amonnt of that armywould be, and thus one of the effectual restraints is taken out of the hands of Parliament. This plan also goes much farther, And takes away likewise the check of the Mutiny Bill, w!.ich recognises a standing army only for one year ; but, by this measure, you enlist the recruit for the period of seven years, and give him the eventual interest of a pension, in case cf his re-enlisting and completing his service of 14 years. I cannot but consider the treatment of the Volunteers under this system as a very serious and roost alarming step.— I make no doubt, that it iisreauing Ancient History he found in such states as Tyre, or Carthage, ready to sink under tie weight of their own prosperity and luxury, and, at'the same trine, menaced by a most powerful enemy 4 say, Sir. that if in rich a situ ation of a country, preferring only, as it were,The belli rirmatrerere,' he met with such an instance of publi c .pirit and ardent patriotism. as that of 3DC1,030 men starting up in alms at C.zir country's call, hecnuld not AVOld being captivated and deliglr ed with it ; he most assuredly Would; but it nnfostu- ssa►ely happens, tint present realities do not suit his fancy. At present he adopts the tnne of the Honourable Officer near him (Colonel C►aufurd) whom he once. heard mention, in this . House, with ridicule, the name of a Vo:Unmet Officer of high woo came for ward in arm;, at what he justly considered a: the call r.f the country. He now conNiders the stauding army es the cham pion of the country, and thinks that if the cham pion is worsted, the countly must be ruined. In illustration of this, he refers to the fall of Ulm, atter thick the French a my marched to Vienna, through a yielding population, had as untesistiag medium. But let me ask him, would that army have done so, if, like us, the Attshia. , , hat! a disciplined Volunteer army of 901,00 h men be tween the Inn and Vienna ? The same contrast repreiented between the Volumes:is aid the army, is equally observable through the whole of our system. The union of the different parts of it is peculiar to, and charafteristic of, the constitution of the couatry., It may surprises 1n..; reigner to learn, that a great an 1 impai tam part of the mueicipat functions here, in'tead of being eon fined to lawyers, was discharged by a eft r.f private inagihratts. who have na connexion with that, profeadoo ; but I never hears yet that the pro fission ot the lane was degra.ied by these Magis-, treks being ahnciated with ir; and I sincerely hems that these contemptuous expressions will never be jastly applied to the Right lion. Qe:ttleman's mass Ile Right lion ittra!ile Gentleman said, that our system did no nee 1 a standi . na atm/ to rneinin age fotetn n sti -ns in the e'pear iiina that we could co-'per Ito with them. • .11mr elfrd of our system, on the contrary, was to re islet the peater part of tie army disposable fur foreign set-trice., tine sail, we had too much eessopuls oct ill the piny. and too little in the Volunteeess..witeae it.eris -more' wanting. But is not his 1 tended mass eivdraly a system of compalsson? I consider it a very haaar. dons thing to accept the services if the volunteers . and afterwards disband them ; but to this the Ilight, Ho". Gent. adds injnstice and unilecersary hard m ship. He will make such Volunteers as rasian, still 11.41 , 41 to the mass. How preposterou• ! that t h e Volitn 'teer, already completely trained and diseipliited, 4 should ba stillaubjel to a useless drill DC TS days,, only, is his Levy en Masse ? He tells us, that the. Mass are to be trained in their own parishes. The e are 10,000 parishei in Ragland only ; and where is he to find 10,0000ificers to train them, for they cannot be spared from the army, and the. Militia cannot at present procure their own necek. Mary compleuent ? How does the Right Honour- Gentleman intend to commie a registec of the , names and plaices of abode of all this Macs I and bow can lie know where to find them in case of an 1 j atvasion; oafs-n he gives them so little indhce. anent to come forward of their own .accord?— He tells us, that if an million were lost, and London • -taken, this levy would be useful, in retarding their further progre's, by firing at them over the bridges; but I am 'dm-rued, that this species of warfare. re- , quires much more training than any other, and More than people of the quickest parts could ,obtain in a drill of only 26 days. Let me ask, would Of ficers of the Line be willing to take such men to fill up the vacancies in their regiments ? Bin, suppose even that they did, they must fall in, I suppose, in coloured clothes ; and then, I ask, what reliance is to be placed on them, if they are met by a proclamation of the enemy. stating, that they will not extend the rights of war to any persons but the soldiers ? If it be true, that the recruits taken from the Militia, did more hurt than good In the cam paign in Holland, what reliance can we have upon soldiers of 26 days driifrg ? Ilse Right Hor.. Gen tleman complains, that tie whole of the eapisnces of the Volunteers, amount id to 600,0001. but what is still mo:e trange, he mentions it as an aggravation, that o; e half of this money came out of their own pockets ! On the other hand, he will be obliged to ply the whole expences of the mass. He also complained of the variety of the service, and he has remedied it by a varied force, half limited and half unlimited. He would find in his (take, a plan by which, in case of invasion, a very powerful army would in 24 hours be collected, between the enemy and the metropolis. He rejeas this, however, and recommends the utility of his mass, by giving them a pail obit upon London, few the exer tion of their bravery. I thought I hat a right to expel!, that his plan would, at least, be a contradic tion to his complaints ; but I find myself miserably disappointed. The Right Han. Gentleman has the /sappy faculty which was, I think, attributed to Pori lea, of always leaving a sting in the tan of his auditors. His illustrations are sometimes so appro. priaie, at others so quaint, but always so' striking, that a recoil:Ethan of them leads to many things which I might otherwise forget. I remember his nom wring the concurrent services to himaa Pert looking about for a friend; the Additional Force or Detence Bill, to a stemerh, or digester, w;t4 a piles Wes running into all parts of the system ; the billot to the loi.Sy of the house of Com mods, through which all the members enter; compariag also tEe cous:urreat service ut the aarnyot . . . riserie With the regulers, to a fran!reition, as well as to the lobby; but Low touch must I he eurinkeJl to find the Right Hon. Gentleman himself become' ing a ?sir:, and looking about for a con.. leetion of the same &getters, ceiellary tithone transrusions. and lobbies, fur the completion of hilt system. In reality, I believe the Right: Hon. Gan tieman himself thinks more lightly of hi, own plan than he is willin e enn ocknowledge, for I can see no direct principle it ha;, bus to disarm the property ef the country, and toot entirely to a standing army. I admit that the Defence Rill wa; unequal in its operation, and that the double bounties ought to be discontinued, but this did not constitute its princi ple, which was, pre 1000, to set free the regular ar my. What we hare then to enquire is, whether it be adviseable to get rid of all our other resonrces for the mere chance and speculation of getting an unbalanced standing army. ilia late Minister, in his endeavours to augment the regular force, fenrti his plans all circumscribed by the bounda ries of the constitution ; but these, at present. are not allowee to farm any impediments. Tee stand ', ing army appears to me, according to this sys tem, to he one permanent i•i peace, and disso hinle in war; and to be liable to every con stitutional objeetion, witliont possessing any mi litary advantage ; and, Sir, upon the whole, let the ask, what is the Right klonormurable Gen tleman's plan. .compared with bie niighty pro mises of having an army equal to all our wants This couetty stands, in the system of the world, as a first rate nation, and it is incumbent upon it to maintain that rank ; but thoug% our power is not exceeded by any, our pnpulatiou does not admit of our equalling in numbers the armies of the first rate nations of tl e Continent: butt i earner's ways we do possess the nieens, tinder the long es talslishen syetsm, to sttpentt oer dignity, rank. and interest otnonist 'Lewes, eel keep a balance 1f constitutional' force so ineient to itef end u. at home. and a standing arm; also I hut not of such a sire as to be able 4 any time l`tb oppress us under the iron rod of detpotibm. lie then concluded with moving. that the word " now" be struck out, and the words, "this day three weeks" he Mooted, which he said would give the Right Honouree:4le Gentleman tune for the develnpernent of bus owis eastern, and the Hoosethe moms of con:oaring, and fairly deciding bet wenn elem. • Mi. VVILSER FORCE said, he Ind listened With a degree ohattentioe to the eeiraordioary elnepieuce Of his Hon. Frienif; but el; in hre'e;fillon h.e had digreseed from the i nflect - nib bell4e the feeuse, would' nut, otteMpt tie foUnst'bini threugh the Teri. les aegtimente lien made use of The qnmeitief on which hienen. Friend lead said so lit.le, fens. whether the Peeditimal Forte Kill should"; entities:lld not be repealed. Fee . Ills pAre, he tlictueht it thetuld mad i i exoressing hinfself oneni; Opireen, re did not , will it should be theurent by the Melee that heformed it without nature eensinerafiorin Ideerrepmilry that was postible'foe hint to mane,' he Mite; and from men, who Moo chile situatlen ih lifenehnght to he coo ddercd mew a fie nieee Its for ill d Osten jiingment, and he wn . seeeielgel inn 41*feet-eyes-en:lin IT flintby the tern lariineiple of the pm it must be unprodudive. In the cnu.hy whin hne had the ho linur to represent; (York.) . he had made the most mintier entroties with resped to the produce the and • foond that in the East, West, and Wads • idings e scarcely a man tad been raised. He had aiktl exteeded his reseatlhes into part of Somerset. sfere, and found that iretne eitenei ve district of bathe not man had been raised. In snort, he conceived that it never could Se 'art efficient Measure, bat it far as it'was broken, an 4 he could not on that ac count ever nheue in favdur of it, tow did he think it could be e stipparted by any. Ilis Hon. Friend :who had contributed to hriu ,, it in, mustte *were. that it was mit' the parishes who raised the mojenty elf the men, but thee they had been raised in the or dinary way ; and he was convinced, slier could no vet. consider it produdive. If his Right Hon. Friend then no more was amongst them, he was certain he Would before this 'have proposed some 'illuminist' alteiatioo ; and, in doing this, none could consider him wavering or irresolute, as his greatness o: soul would prompt him, when he conceived the mea sure he had proposed was ban for the country, to come forward and propose such alteratini s as in his judgment seemed most likely to be of service. This was one very powerful reason why he had al. ways considered him to be a particularly proper person to be Prime Minister of England. It was, 1 ; indeed, monstrous to suppose that we should go un with a plan which was found deficient ; but he thought that some hints might be taken from it. in the promotion of the plan which should be substi tuted in the place of it. He would give his vote for the second reading ef the Bill before the House. 1 but at the same time, he did not wish it to be under stood. that he agreed with the Right Hon. Secre tary in the entire of his statement, particularly that part of it, where he states, that the present force of the country, which was nut regular, would fly be fore au enemy. It was, indeed. his wish, as was hinted by his Hon. Friend below him, (Mr. Can. ning,) that the country should remember, that this was not a Military nation. and he did not think we should endeavour to be considered so; for though we could assist our confederates with bodies of men. if necessary, still there were otl.er more effeetual means by which we could contribute our support. Our Navy bid defiance to the world ; but if its vigi lance should be eluded, be had no doubt of the re ' suit, when France and England met man to men. The •propriety of remarking on the plan proposed by the Right Hon. Gentleman, he had }emote ques tioned, and he did not wish to do it, but he could not avoid saying a few words with respell to the Volunteers, for whom he entertained the highest ra sped. There could be no doubt. but they would be of g reater service, when incorpora:ed with the regular army. than the Levy en Nlesse ; and their readieess to stand forward in the hour of danger, was equally unqemtlonable, as was evident, from the circumstance of turning out with the greatest promp titude. cut the coast of Yorkshire, when it was un derstood that the enemy were at hand. The Hon. Gentleman then made some general remarks on the speech of the Hon. Gentleman who had preceded him, and concluded by saying, that from the failure of the former Bill. he thought this should pa.s. • • e Mr. LONG d'ffered with the Hon. Gentleman who had just Lit do •1. with tesped to the pre • riety of entering into a eoreiderrtion of the plan he thought i: ouett to be considered, and he wen dered that the Itip.if, it Hoe. proposer of it, thou: graded so match by me •p:ech of his Hon. Friera had not thotyht it necessary to enter into a dcferc alit. • With respeel to the Bill now proposed to repealed, he would make a tew oh•ervarions. 'Xt. army, amoile.t the lower order of people, was COI' tittered the very .worst employment they e.nui ernbatk in I that accounted fur the dilficul7 t rei,iite recruits; but it the pay of the armywas raise so as to be equal to the pay of the manufacturer c the day-labourer, Clem would •then be no want c soldiers; but the Nition coeld not afford this c• pence, and it 14. As Ihnefine ev;,telit , that some moe of compulsion should be tesarted to. That ss hit was least oppre,si•e, was moo advisable ; aid i his opinion, the Ad lite-mai Force Ath, 0.1 11141 a l ' count, should not be repealed. An Hun. Genileme behind him (Ir. Wilberforce,) had said that th measure was not productive ; but had he sown to returns which have been mide lately. 11- was rattle inclined to believe, he would alter his opinion. 11 fate of the Bill Wore the House was certain ; It thought it could not piss. In the course of thr la. I Session, a Right Honourable Gentleman (Mr. Sht ridan) had made a Motion for the repeal of th ' A. Several Gentlemen who he then had in It: I eye, voted against the Motion, and if they no: I voted for the same., merely became it ta/ne 1/10111 Minister, they would •1 on grounds that could nc be justified. He wahed mach, that the Right Hoe Seaerary of State would inform the Www, wear hi intentions were with regard to the Veltrustrs.- Evet y person possessed of discrimtnativmenest thir, that they were undervalued ; but he, however, at prove-4 of the idea of putting them alt no the stun ' allowance ; and he was sure, when they wes placed on the August allowance, it wend i ls? fans that 16 or 18 Voluotres could be maintain, I fc the shne sans which wool t suppoi: .=• e regular so. dna ; and he would ask which would be nt ammo.. souse to the country ? He then soverted to th circumstance of a similar measure to the present bent', under consideratii n, by the lase Chancellor c the Lx - :h (pi -r, and said, that it it had the adoptei. the period for which ti.e enlists., would be now expired ; and the statist( Would, in it present state, incur the hazard Of losing almcs every sto!diet• it hid. • He conehtded by saying ''shat the w.wds of the Right Housourab'e Mevet as 4okesi a long time since on a great qaestio: - w Will x us repair your house while the hurricare i raging?" was applicable here, a id that he 'wool, support the amendment. Mr. HAWTHORN thought there was brit on ; objeet. in 'view *ids the whole Hotter, name'''. t 1 tbad some advestitiotu rnodeof encre isiag the army I To nbtaiti this otsteß, he said, he you'd eottrtor th I repeal of the Asietiiional ir.sree Aiet, v.hith ha. unfurl on. so incompetent. The Him. Centleirt then adverted to A ststerfl. OE made by a N .ble Lot, (Lord Cvtkreagh), on a former night. aed tol 1 rived him thinner, .t circumstantial statement t I Cie ,numbs 44 she dispereette Militia, end ott.s fences of the cautery, at different periods, poi tt:: j out tO the Ht.use the inaccuracies which occurred i t' 'course at it. The Noble LorJ, h- said, had state the ritsposable force of the Country oil the Ist ,t January, 18A, to be 267,000 men, instead ti which, it was not more than 23),952, and h did not think,' tor the first three menthe of the year, so much credit should have been taken, as great priest part of the augmmtatioo was attribt table to the eocrease of the German Legion ( 1 the Ira of J Tuary 1801., the disposiible fart amounted tollai,;',l9, and on the Ist of Jan. in th present year. as Iha had before stayed, it amottial only to 25 ),962. ,malting an encrease in all Os time, of not more titan 13,633. The Hnn Geri then proceeded w:th a further statereent of figur: aid said, that the number raised by the parish iiffi:c was rot more than tree-fifth c-f the quantity pr voted, and. taking England and Wales together, n more than one seventh. Th. r • was another point view in winch nab But had also failed, nunely, not making an immediate addition to the dispos We fetreeot the country, by ailing up the deficiene ot the Army of Reserve. In the Administration here the last. letters of s-rviee were belore ;he House I raising 20 regiinert,; only four of those were rot when this !hit was brought in ; but these four a tained 3,400 men, which was nearly one-fifth of I number ot men raised by toil Bill, which was make up the deficiencies in these regiments. 1 Hon. Gentleman then read a letter of Lord-Hawk bury to the Governors of the different counti and SeVeral other papers; and alter going cove. minute detail of the state of the army at diffet; peri.res, for the purpose of preying the inefficacy th- Additional Force Bill, he concluded by declai, his in•ention of voting for its repeal. air. LASC ELLER admitted that the men rail under the AB, were not in general obtained eta? according to the enactments of it ; but he i thought it . a produflive measu re , w hi c h i t wo not be poi itic to repeal ;hew As the more inch to this opinion, because he considered tiro plan I posed, atd the manner of the exposninn, *- y Right Hon. Secretary at War, as ex rernsly germs, as far as ft regarded the regular ar I,y, gusting to the Volunteer force of the color ry, inefficient with respell to the /ere re wave. Lord EUSTON said a few worth, in a tont voice almost inaudible in the gallery. We to r stood him to express his disapprobation of tt.e fence Bill. Mr. VANSITTART thought no adeat t which it could b. said had been, or was likely t derived from the bill, shorted insince the ittapat tolerate ti,entoiced. or railsee defeated, as it been, by the 'nen .eni 1 which it had been A upon by pari-Is ofs. els. From tee returns v had been rowie, he could .elect an nutatice w: , a one county atone, tbi.§itee amounted to 6,6. 5,4001. of which had been .4a11414 ptiid. Mr. SPENCER STAY:IOPE elk; not t hial Bill so objetltimable as it vas considered by i. Gentlemen. As to its !ravine perverted the was r i le n ii r r a , :bl u e p ire e to r : s itc h t °th sa c m -r e g ob , j t e he ttist r ; :i ; i' a ‘lt s t i : i n i e t l b ta e lt % . : ,-sthirt service acre ma.ol - t. theby t n h e es w e o i ffi e. c i t e a r f s ,, fo s r y ~a e m p I w ern m i c u h m h . a d W h . , j i es t :e l by the ht gin Hod Csautlem sn (Mr. v.' ti.dham had supposed that that Rips it •• . Get..l, wait:dem bele Shelia tio.di to have pi cisosi . -