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r , tore boti.this' : rdep, and he abstained fro:n discharging these men, Who were' very numerotk, and who were still in the.service. If, ihera'ore, the' Right Hon; (h-Inflernab relaxed the Regulations of VarliAment snit his own convenience, surely he might call upon Parliament to relax them for the public and the ad. van Cement of the general interests. If he were so fort UM te - itts to persuade the House -toligree- to his prolvaition for transferring portion of the. Militia to the Line, and for _raising, a great number of men for the Militia, he Was . convineed he could stew them that , it would he adviSable to give to the Militia en:- liSting in 'the Line, the option of a limited or an um.- term of .serviee; of coUrse With an increased bnictity for they latter ; that those who, ,were notsci smsibk. of the charms of limited service as,theßight lion.' Gentleman; Might make! their ele6tion: accord- Hirdid not mean to. make tuffs a par. of the general measure, -but would submit it in a separate clause. , mustmo omit to , mention , what it was the intention of 'hi's ilvlajesty* Ministers to propose with regard to that p rt of the Military Force ot the Country which was not- Regular nor Militia, but was ready to support and come in aid of both ; and first, ps to the Right Hon. Gentleman's measure of last.year, the Training Bill. In duty to him and to tlw House, some explanation was necessary of what • had been done •by hiS Majesty's Ministers on this sithjea, since they came into othce, and of what they - meant to do. The faCt was, that if they had been the'originaLadvisers of the measure, or had partaken of .the Right Hon. Gcntictrianis .partiality for it, it would have seen out of their power to carry it-into effect.; for so happily was it contrived, that the ballot could not go forward in many. of the Counties, andthough in double carrying Bill the Militia.bal lots were suspended, it lelt the Training Lists com pletely in thv . back ground Censisteutly with the sentiments which he-had already stated ) he declared, that ihuagh not an original achuircr of the• Right Hon. Gentleman's measure, yet, being in existence, he wished-to draw, even from that measure, as much mi litary resource as possible. ih would therefore not propose to Pirnament to abolish that part of it which related to classifications, • hallots,; tee. for•the due execution of which Government had it in cone temptation to suggest sonic provisions ; but. as to the,trailiing part, he, confessed that be hart never. been able ao.obtain information ; and he called upon the Right Hron.Gentleman, if he couli, to afford it to him, 'how that could po e-iely take place tinder the soperintend.inee of a constaNe alone, the only way presented by the 1311. Indeed the Right Honourable' Gmtleman glad' contrived to throw such a culexiverehis part of the subje(l, that it was vain , to hope.wecould inspire a rustic feeling upon,it i. or convert 'the training so directed into a rustic amusement. He pledged himself therefore to pro-: pose that this part of theTtaining Bill should not be realized; but he reneged that he would not aban don the Bill altogether, or rather he Would not abary., don that part of it v. hich• was taken from the. D 6» fence Bill, which •• was 'the only efficient • part •of the Training Bill, and which the Hight Honourable Gen tleman ,had contrived very , much to disfigure. A ftutdamental objection which . he entertained to the Training:Bill,. was, that the time of.service was totrshort. It was impoisiblee to train men unless they were organized ; and. when so organized,. he thought that they ,ought to be liable to a longer service., What , with the registering., hallottitig, &c. &c. the year.• appointed by the Training Bill would soon vanish, and the ballot would be to recommence. If the . Volunteers should bud them e selves unable to continue a sacrifice, which was tine qu,:stignablyi severe one, which, had reflected: the highest Honour ott their charader,and conduct, but which, in many i qances; weaulclicarceiy be expe&ed to be permanent ; in this casts, in the 'Training Billi or rather in the Defence might. he diieovered a basis on which the :military efaabliihmente of, the mi2Jit het fonnded. Instead.of.ballotiug the mow° be trained for a year, he wouldipropose,that they,hould .he b;dktted fOr.two years at. in 4 4.keil three years would not be too long a period. If I~ariiainent.con4enited to this, they might gill tW ,bjpeti—in the first plade, thq,discipline thus ditfdied would be greater, and would quality-the subjettsof i t for t htereguiar trtoy if war4dee , ,in , the sem-4piece) -looking; to that amount of force which Parliament bad declared it was ; necessary should be six times ,larger. than. the or,-ip.iother words, two hundred- thonsa.ld men, t'ee weds of perm 4. 'meth military. force might be panted' iu. it, which might grow up as the..Volunteors might. decline.— notion..wets, having laid the foundation of: this •force, to enable his 'Majesty tochrelt that where the .Volunteers ware not in,this pronortion , o(six •times the .numeer ef .the Militia,: a total l\lilitia ;should • 1)e. created, by blilot,.out.of the "mon disciplined .by ,the Trainc4g, Bill, to .k e. offiCeredour oldie regular meant, to propose that this local, Militia peace, Shogld,he disciplined the, same nuatimr . ol !days as the r,egelarMilitia, but that they should never serve out of their Counties, :except,in cases of rebel. itou or invasion.; Th.ti4 , would be' produced a. regular ,and organized force, out.of that which, according'to the 'measure of the •Itight . Hon..Gentlelll4o,, could , create embarrassment._ By thise!lhe Training Bill Imight. be ;rendered. useful; ifot..he entered his solemn. protest against thrpwing,down • lny great public . establiAneut for, the •mere,pure poses of speculati4n. Here was the difference. be, ;tween the hightflionortrable Gentleman and hint,' •self ; when thiteltight..Hon:. Gentleman, carne,into ottice,he most :unwisely did every thingin I.;s power •to relax the Volunteer System; for the purpose of :introducing bi*Training - 8i11.., He (l,ord C.) OR the 4ontriiry, Was not desirous ,to subvert any thingdone !by‘ that lii, lit Hon. Gentleman ;. the faCt, was indeed, that with 'his best euth , avours he had dune nothing, ikle (Lord C.) had always advised that the eharae :ter and spirit of Atte Volunteer .Corps held until some, other .deeisivelrsoperior establish -mem should be discovered as tosubstitute.. His Ma .josty's present Government :had re-established the vstern of Inspedion of the Volunteers ; without that •ayStent i: watt impossible that any principle of coo , -rimy could be observed—that any secwity could he -enjoyed .for the proper administration' of the ,studs , epproptiated to V.sliOUS parts of the ,Voluineee; -vice, or that the Volunteer Establishment could be .kept in an organized_ state. It was in. the con-, lemplation of Elks :Majesty's hilliisters to, po— .courago Volunteer Corps not to substitute per enanent. , service. for their .frill days, for, that in most cases would be inconvenient, and in many invraaicable, but to pass those drill days in ex. ercise at home. ; It- would thee be seed whichi .of t hare .0-6 entLiVed Volt der Ceros:'' - ‘ll4 it l'Or 'tlitike I e "mptirne7or. tbr motive‘,.. ,l ; if Parlitti • ent ;"lioult‘ttfittic fit toeadtAte anyfetnilreettAc mea 'en th&S.A 7 leei, his Ntre : jesty's Ministers would not shrink filen it. La' them, however, he deliberate in their undertakiog, eieculleOingethe. arld:Seeing e ," tbeetnore .bpste the worse speed." The Noble. Lord here. entered into a brief recapitulation of his iirgemehts. 'He had been called upon to propose to Parliament in a thee of exigency,, a- ineaeire adequate to meat that exi gency,-and which watethereture, whatoer i its nature might, be, .open, to istrepg, and plausible objeCtiOnF, since, it must he one of great burden, and int !ming great, sacrifices op e country, which. had al ready borne great, burdens ,and made .great sacri fices —not with, patience only, but with pleasure. , n Rut he was cenvied that the. Country .would feel now as it had .always 'felt; that .thpse. who,, propc)sed these burdeps were, its best frieeds, be l they were proppsed for the secerity 'and welfare. of the Country. On subjeds of this na ture, (censiderable difficulty existed in.. giving .a. preference to one among various, measures, .all standing On the grotind of solid argument and in genious reasoning ; but he could assure the Hotise, that the proposition which he had the honour to sub mit to them was the result of the most anxious consi deration from the earliest period tiller the acceptance of office by his Majesty's Ministers, They had made the , best propesitam they could---had disturbed as little as possible the existing establishment, and had not allowed themseWes to enter the field ofanilitary discovery,. .Unquestionably the Militia service would, for a time, .he.disturbed, but it. would soon recover ' itself, nod he was ,spre that when the Officers of e she Militia considered that the men taken out of the Militia for the advantage of the Country were only those meta who.mest soon have been discharged by law, and that, in lieu qt' them they would receive . 'flesh and abundant materials for renderiug,the Mi 144 efficient both in ,peace and war, they wouldgive,' their cordial support to the Measure. It vas solution to relied, that the history of this Country did not. afford an instance in which, when the public mind was called upon to encounter' difficul ties, it .was not thepeculiar charaderistic Of Britain, to rise superior .to. every obstacle, and nev,er to be so ,strong er so ,distinguished" as after„ the. presSnreePf. distress. That audividual who, mum, tOrtunately for She world, had aceuired'such an as e tendency on : the • Contineet e was little „aware. that, by that very ascendency, he was, ereatiog, in thi s country, a; power to,. which the world mieht„ulti e mately look _for delierzieee ; and tlmt elit e of, the necessity whiclehis inordinate an preduced, the military chargler of, Peezti Britain would .probably be - raised to.. a:,greater heigth than any so which it had 1. hitherto attained. , The Noble eardeoncluded by observiog, that he should divide the measure into tWO,Bills, and that. the. Big for which he was about to moVe,4boulclAut i ; ready, fur delivery to /Vlembers4 that night,. of which he was somewhat apprehensive, he shouldoot press theseeend reading on FridaY, but propose that it be postponed to Mon day. Ue thee moved for leave to ,bring in a Bill, for allowing a certain proportiop of the Militia in Oreat Britain voluntarily to miter into his.Majesty!s Regular Forces.. • • Sir GEORGE IPARRENPEA thought that the Noble Leirdhad not iodic:nit any case tu.shew, that: any.,considerable addition was tieCes!iary trethe Poseable:force. It appeared to him extiaordinary that with the views entertained by the lion. man opposite, and copsidering the charges made by than . upon their Predecessors, tit not having sent E4peditions to the Continent,. they bad not oxide this proposition tq Parliament npop„ their coating bite office, If the measure had been broue l la for Ward last Seesione and he . had the ; houout of a seat in that Wu% he night have supported it ; but he could not give his conseut to it on the, present occasion, when the Coentry.,had ottly‘te look for a defensive force. ,Aaeto the trau4fer pygpesed frstrt the Alifitia to the .Regirrieuts of the. Line, he felt considerable diffi . eul r .tiee epee' the tenbj ect e becattse the measures necessary tq replace the torn so transferred would interfere , with the regular reerUiting. The, Militia was per,. tainly a favourite serriee, because it ~was, limited ,both as to, time and place, and was attended ~with a provision for the ! wives and tarnilies of the plops who engaged in it. 1:11 ; fe could benou doubt thec* fort: , fort:that Alen would be ; ,,triore, readily had for that Itervit L: than for the Litic,aefroiiistauce that would xnaterially,itatertey'e.with , the ()Mitt aree The eysteur that had be e n adopted last, year lie con tended. had preyeetemipel sucoeisful. The flight tion, Gentlernao who had brought tOrw:u.d that system,. 144 nnifOrinly stated that.the benefit s to he ,ee.peeleeifeem it. would be progressive, stud the evvpt juststhsrl ins statemeot. '.Flee etie4 produce(l by it op Abe Nataitlrn. Cpunties was very great, and by the „Neva, upon:the table, it . appeared that by this .systera .the %mintier of men raiaeel in the yqty was grvitier by 7,00 than the matuher raised in, the corresponding period of !eat year, meter the .old byo the remaining tootiths of the year should be ggually ProduEtive,, of which he had .210 .doubt, the Wholts.animber raised tinder the new sys tem, in the year )07, would be 4‘,'i,000. The Dao .ble Lord had said, that it vte,is not his intention to .alter any ,part ef that sy4tem by hi*,,measure, bqt _whilst the ballot _would be going on, it would. be ehnostimpossible to obtain a mar) Tor time ,Regular ,Artay e lie was sure the Hotise would bedispesed ,to make every sacrifice that the occasion might re- • quire, but She country had a right SO consider, .whetiter it could tool; with confidence to the efficacy; .01 the sacrifices it was called on to pialte, and to ex ile& that its resources shopld be properly applied. And if they looked to the maimer in which the present Ministers came into office, and in which this measure Auld been broughtforward, the country would h ave ' me reason, to . be satisfied on these heads, He felt that' she.measure.proposed would not add.to the military' :force. plthe t:Onntry, but transfer. a 'pertien Of, one breech, of,itso another; and, therefore, should not : think that he Would discharge his duty if he did not ,Oppose it in every stage, He apologised tur taking' up the time of the House, but lard nee observation. .more to. add to what he had already stated. e The ;r4obite,Lord had said, that the King had at present e the 'power, without resorting to ,Parliarnent,,Qt . - jpg.out the Supplemental, Militia to the number of 24,009. Piti is lie ci9tit4o, because there were sonie of the Supplemental Militia at present in 'the' ser-' vice ; and if the power existed at all, he could nott .. . s . , • 4441 would extend to a greater neer - 113er than the :esiiirgeinee het weeetelefeutentell of the Suppl e ineireif:V tlitia.now- serring, 4:§cl ti T whore altomit otitliat Militia. I hog might he Brent op Lions resPilliltire the pelpei.* of (Aug *et the §,fepple - mitiirtit - Militia, but of this he was certain, that the teett4lire of the Noble Lord would do away the benefit derived teem thee-ere:Jae recruiting. The system now in force would, in the present year, peodece Q 2,000 men, and would prove progressive- • ly more produelive in every futere-year. The Plan of the. Noble Lord would impeee. its progress, and pperate as a 'very . unequal tax upon the public; for : every' Gentleman must know, that not one of six of i , the ballotted men - served in person,'so that in pro curing a substitute the individual '*aS'stibje& to 'a Test severe. and ; unequal tae. Upon all these greende k]. he should feel it to be his duty to oppose • the measure, unless it shoo undergo such neeilii • cations in the Comthittee .as would remove, his oe ieetiiine • • . i'iir. YQZKE wished to take the cerlies oppor tunity of stating his objections to the tneesure. pro- posed 1:y his . Noble Friend; beeause, however disa greeable it might be to him, it'was the duty of every Gentletnan in that Douse to stele candidly.hieirne: pressioni,bpoil a subje& of such importance. He was undoubtedly aWare, th3t what he,w as aoing to state, , would not •meet with general concurrence, bull he was aisting under a feeling of dety, and sheeld:dee dare his sentiments with cend6ur. We had now come .to a crisis when the situation" of iffitirs •would' not admit 'Of • blunders, 'when an error mightlnefiltal, and every Member was therefore bound to make .. . a free communication of what he telt teem. the sub , jeel. HO approved most cordially of that part of his Noble Friend's proposition which provided tor the 'transfer of so maey' men from the Militia ay could' be induced to volenteer into the Line. That. pert of it was most efficacious, amt if ' the proposition were to stop there, it would produce great public , benefit, because : the m 6 .1 so added to the„ army .would be epplieable to the ProteCtion of !rated, : where the Militia could notbeeepeeled asp bodS , to seree. The men ale), Who should velunteer ui the Regular Army, would very soon be fit for service in t e e r e g i ments to which they might he • t , raneferred. As . he understoed, hi;N'oble Friend ' his pilitieeaseo raise 38,000 men f b'yv ballot for, the Militia, in Order to . replitCe those who shoUld eoitp into the line, and . tp provide.a certaie 'nuinber of supernumeraries,, in order to supply 06 vacanbiesVs they should occur hy .. Osiia4ies, and !lie e4piration of the aunt's service, so that it should not be . neeessarytoresert agidif' to' . .Ve . e , ': ballot ft):r some, tiele: To this . p:irt • ef his Noble Friend's' Plan he objeeled, becittise it'ilid not tipp . eare to him to be efficireeaus. As to the application of the, ballot, he had 'objeetious to that too, hue not en the grounds suited by the lion: Member who ' , Ad . just s;it down„ it was Itis convinien that tlie ballet s was necessary, and . when . that particular mode of raising a sepple fOr the Areiy had l,ecn .the subjets . of meat oblreety nt that House, he had defended and' supported it. 11e had, on that Occasion stetd, eelf at he was now ready to repeat, that 'no force adequate to the Pref - 014in and defence of 'this Finipire ceeld be obtained Without some specie's of eut . npulsion. NO great army could beraised and kept up With et Navin;ecourse t 9 kil - erm/p , .. - tisory levy. And it sur prised"' him to hear Gerelenien, who applied tilde minds to such stibitias, and stippeirtkrthe: Ile , dutagon P 1 Statesmen, assert, that, when :In army of three or fotrrehunered thousand men was to be raised, such ' a force could be supplied by voluntary service. He agreed with his Noble Friend, .that this was not the time fOr discussing•the merits of the Measure, anti he e q ually approved of his intentiPn not to disturb the system of the 'Right Himourable gentleman op- s posite (Mr. Windham) this Session. tt had alveay. been his wish to allow any measure that might be adopted by `Parliament a fiiir triel; ' and it was on that erinciPle lie need when lie had proposed to give the late Defene,e AO an oppOetenity of fair trial. • . With respect to the 'Plan of the RightHee. P rCpp entlemaoosite, however, he. was bound tp ‘ . state that it did not appear to him' 'efficeelocise, aid en ^ 'telt be dangerouS. That Plan, he admitted, might be adequate to keep, up the number ] ; of tee army, it once the antsy was raised to the establishment voted by,Parliament, and he had said the same of the 'nee- Sere of the Right Honettreble Gentleniae !naw no more. But though he admitted. this, fthe. measure would not answer his purpose, The system, he al , ,lowed, had produced something mere th.qn the 'orcli. , 'nary recreiting anti thePariSh pH. But t he Noble Lord had stated, that' the 6fi,eienoy 9 i the army, from the establishrnent voted lay Padiaim a t,ailidutit ed to between twenty-fireeheosand'end thirty thee sand ; the casualtieS amounted to thirteen thousand i so that the number to be, raised within twelve moutliii, iti order, le answer the purpoapbe had in l'ic . w, would ' ''b'e '30)4 He had. also .aeather ob*.ct . to - the . , . Jet- !on . `preseet system,: arising oat of the alteration be the terms of service. - The 'system might fur that reason `produce .more meti, 'but fewer . tfuleiere. British sot= 'fliers should . be 4filitark men, sei generis. They were `often engaged against - terice their number of enemies, and Meier 'disadvanhtees of' sittiatien and circutestaifees of debark,U ion and e'kuh'3rkali;.4 i t !wy - must th'PTel6R) be reill skhers,:aud,.J3i-itieh neaps had always prOved teemsclees to be of *that '‘,leseript ion, ~• It our brave bet:unfertreite "Country OW i) to Egypt, where the ellOris Of every individual, ~ v;, . :> 11( c.. , s:iar . ):. to , repel the superiUrity of numbers thateseee'el thee. ) , had net beeUtroopS of that charaaer,. it woukl rieVe been impossible to save the re*fiist that zir.m.y— . tie did not concur its the of jeetien to thel4;ill6, be e:4l3e it would 1 i 1 tCr lere with the system 0" ri h i e llieht Hun., Gentleman. This 4.10: , L1rC ':, - :aS to furtn',ll ,3 , 13,099 men to . the Army, an,: i . I ie e,11114 tint .,tt 1;1: , / l'tsoiiiible'pb , j e ali on to it on the: gr6iiil,l."o- itS 'ioter fering e ith a part .of the: supely ;tits' • - . 1 ' . ei• toe 1,..)tt..1)t . systern.,They eoUldntit peply t he eonscrietioii . , t whiCh 'had oul ll tr 'i y bi ; ed i . ) l e ' C ra' lre t b o a ( l!o 'c'r t 7 % . % t ta tl if il ' m a i Z 4 l .-: ic. ( - ) l l f iti e l l i iel.i t : ' e ..t l ( l ) be this- cautie . lt was necessary, and cOnfoinial)l,.:: to the prue- : ' p l e " e. „ H s 'i N re ( t i i b i l i c el ' i iii r ( Ne l e e . l.l l l 3 .j Y r lice of t he Constitution r `t e e .. 1.. ; (g ut cou d tat 'is' , ell i tt./ ' i t t i s l C a O P 'a P p i l ‘ r ' i t 't.17,10- as nt P li e r 4 ° t P ti ? o s i i: e d , it b a f° 6 l' , 6 o. e tt ' : t le P ss n' ; ' l l :Z t i w i 'let G u ie l:e it ~ , , B : if a. il t t b d t oi o :;ue lt. t Li\i C t . i• I f; an d t . ( t.: . :1 1 )i e c li d e l I ; i' s : i s ,i : ,t , ;,.,,. ~ :,": . . 1 a l t i ; i n - f w e l irti 'n rig so th i Z c d h eser . i 4 e s ti s ri a t i ) d o Upon this subjeg the House, he thought; eul-.t t o have som e explanation. 'fieeigh 11Q person .ought It hfle• to in a ch,hrge nyern ,Mitrister s for t h e i r `distribution of the public force, yet When he -COiee dered how that force had• been last year cLitributed, t Or rather icattereci, he could not avoid saying, that matter ought to be explained. A con;idei able force had been sent to, South America, and though he should not say anything of the merits of the first Expedition to that Country, because an Hon. Officer; a 'friend of his, bad been tried far having undertaken it, he was ready to admit, that it was advisable to eu Cori' the force that achieved the 31,11 original cote 7 quest. - - :tut wral cirtti:no i;r k:17( toe 'Tight Honourable Gentleman opposite (Mr. Windhant) why, -after - the' battle, of Jepa, .so large a: ferce..as . five thousand men lied been sent out under.Geuerel Craulurd to Arnertea:' , ,T'itese 'troops; from ner in which the Expedition been coeduCted; tad been nine months at sea. The troops which had been employed , in forelin service were the best of the British Army. There Was.an tirni'Plifeewie in the Meditecranettn,•frotervihiehlthe ExpOilitiOn iti , B,gypt had been detachedArhai Expethtion hefelt ittffifficult to appreciate; boe .11otirtd 'it haVe his approbation'i! Unless it could beeprovbci'to him, that undereli . thetir. , o i 7 the , tate Atte firi;jet.waS{Oell:correerte'di and the force. 444u:tied fully adequate - to' its. object.: From the circumstances he had stated, it .appita , red . . that a recruit htgfor the rrri'S , uilassery.' 11rere gular force in: Great Britain' arid liilland , 4 ptidsentil wai. 15,001; less' than:Oven last . woottlitifh . obvious how' nece4sNry it was.in , the presentlittrakiorto of the AvOrld,torianceniiiatethe4ritittli artily Islands with all . possible.g.xpedition. As that was impraeticable with rope& to. the distant, troops, he agreed to the'use of the ballot to trirsda'aisiderable force ; but he thought :the bdllot itlialil<t be'einployed to raise-.an .Army of Reserve, 'which- would be dis posable for the protection of Ireland,- rather. than to recruit the Militia. The Army of Reserve Ad, and ;the. other defensive .measures ,which he had kelneriv,bronghr forward, vvere,oply,spentirly: great . steps towards makirig-the Porietry a 'Nllitary Na-,; tion.. He had long been a tiiitjtia Otticey,. but should not stiffer his.naturel- partialny tar ,onb braneli of:; that Nilitary Establi , nliment AO. erevent Min frota stating his opinion on it freely es,a earr of the The Militia had done tnecti service, but ,was •uotsi now adequate to ~ the.objeel of. its ; esiahlislenent,,y. for it was not nutnerous enough. '-,AirsiimktrAveyoft the Militia had .Weii calcnlated epee tioopkig,vni4tofs 't be...wars in. whie t ia illia,;eouetry ; haA kettintlesrs . l4ltbrei, engaged, and was consequently inadequate.to,34 3 present crisis. ...A tlmph . smalkelr,ewhiiithintht, .wfts sufficient, when I,4'l l lo. ll 9,r l Poablti could be equipped against. auy Pou i ntry - ;' 1011044-st 'v4tich was .coOtytiNd . ltAattactOthitieopti3 Atir slo2o:4lei, assert - Med fitUtintOgi)o, han utt4r. Alivtitod "circumstances of the pre*ent hatitcoutinuctl. any' 1.4 .Ye- 11 " i inteienisittioe, and the OilicePsiolthe who hadstibui4ted.tx , considerable privations 'and, , incetwetrientvAln erder • tainake the tuselmes soldiers', would! not b 4 disported': ; to.continue Awing rtwar,;: e pt.etvilielt ho sew.nmend..,-,; 1 , He preferred, therefore, empinyinit the, ballot, ,u raise'ari.A.rtnpeif filusetve; boogie if ,:they, increase,tl4 - Militii,. Where could ()Myers be found,: such as Militia .ptlicers 'ought .to,be fiis,:Nrphlec Friend had stated, that the number• proposed to-bOr taken froth - the iVlilitra would be sufficient to All up the' 56 second battalions supposing:each. baftalion , te Lid completed. to 751Xtueur all bettallbtis .vt'onid eft haust the whole number, there wouldsernoinsitea eo battalioits tv be 'cotnplettd.' fill opinion, it would be ''‘74sol' 10 , 044:it 1 004* trAtillig 44 to the nine garrison battalions, which weia - t 4be,tee mains,of the .tirmy.:ofe, Ittset've,end to atinttileto the wh Lite tabooeach, making. altogethex Is9,ooo , nwrii to serve on the same, terms as the Antiyof.Reservd 'Ms was the _time :for such an oOttatilm ; stick. the ...whole might be lined "up in .three months. • 'By adopting his.' suggestion, there' would be an 'Unmet. diate accession of 404000 - ,men, to.' the disposable force of the' Country ; and when be considered the danger, and the point .in which that danger was most likely to take place, be was MQl'O. strongly itllpFCSied With the neceisit) of the distinsahle i;.:1011 of the Country. As to the objeCtioU'„c.if ih,S . Noblo Friend, Oa the ballot for‘ the I.l.6serv. I>e yo'? diCtive exPence, by raising the price of se i t u tes, he was sure his Net* Friend Musf . have been Upon that head, - bCP`iitise tind6iibte,,fly the ballot fr'ir the Reserve in the to' rmer instoneo }tad not the ell'et of, raising' the oounties fur sirbstitutes for the M ',ie. As to the rewibsi6n of the p italti,'s, ha bad ,klisanpl'oeo of that ineasure, Pjulciii'ot agree with hi, Noble. Friend,. that it would bean ob't stralion . to the efts,;, of ,a Nil for force becanse it wotild .011taily 4pill e to tba Nfilitia Atha, Which had not leonlinpod(r,hy lead never thought, 42.1e.nce he brought forvaid perfr.:4,.hut be'b;lo `tiered it,as a step ia4 wt ppun Coutitry ltd rnilithry orgaTzatiOn._ Whon i t ,t(11 . " . Warg, bad 1 104*.41, • it ere stilt to t[).° VAOnteer'force, tolieep 4,lyt 1 th;l(.it;llo,klin i 4iCh ,would-be:edequi.ne tq. t ;he 9111'%! ; ,' tban for any tturnecti,...te tre a t, ;ts„e,;.e 1 4 316, - ton. ile did licit Ilii01; kat reduced below. 30,00 o; en s i should I.)e left r u out of the , ),„ t1 ; 1°. it. As to ti , ;::f,ic,~tll Li t.. I , t. '' :t 1. , .: ail 111c.:1„: il,4101111,0titl:C‘1 . 1 I l e fr • • •-;" • • ) Ad lii 1.; Y 1 , •": • cd be the 1)t.1- , ,ou of. • • • , , • • bt: • • ; O Gt i) , . , . r lor • ‘. l • r • 1 «hie•-• " - ' 1 ' te's't' et -, • •• .., ' • • ~11C)11411 1)44 ts ter re,e - Ularl) ' '. t , • "' •• 1 =101 . i:::.; • . 1 5 . .' :...; '3 t !I •• :! .1 .• • . Lo t - • , , • . , .; " if tee 1 ' • t •• y the C. • to , 4--