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tske place in the terp rice of die army, and said, he Wished en have ae et?ianation whether the Right Hon. Secretary rnrant to aband -in entirely lift ler,y-en met', ? Or it he did not, what wonld he the esperice of it t and whether, or in what maroier, that most fundamental change, the enlistment for service, ‘;.as to take place ? The Noble Lnrd Concluded by sayir,:y„ rl.ought the Right Honourable Geritlernan should divulge what his plan was, or whether l.e Lad one or not ; acrd that he had not, Indeed, he conceived was not an unna tefel ennchtiOnn. Me. WINDHAM disavnwel that he had lower td his tune at all, as Hen. Gentlemen charged him with sheering great dexterity in doing, for he had never espressed himself in a way which he at ill fonnel it necessary to change, or to coalify.- 11-te was much at re warranted ins lying, that great dettetiry was evinced in misrepresenting what he had said. It was impossible to answer ail the cla- Wider which was raised, and he would, once for all, tee', that he heartily wished the Hon. Gentlemen weetild formally prefer their ittlielmeat, and point out the pertienlar instance in which he had altered his nine. What was called the measure of the present Airtaininration, with respeel to the Volunteers, Was teeny no measure at all ; as far as it affeeted the continuance of neir service, it left them pre. elegy where they were; and by reducing the super fluous officers attached to them, and making an ae the, intelligent tradesman, the drill Isetjeant of his easepany, with an handsome, alt Inugh reduced al lowance, of 7s. a day, the country was about to Wsperience a saving of .14..0001. This, w ith respect to six-sevenths of the Volunteers, w4i all that was tet done ; and, as tar as regarded the remaining Cele-seventh, they were only to be pits from the high est to the lowest establishment. He adhered to his nainion, that it was by no means expedient to con tinue the Volunteers on terms of peat additional etpence, and even had he proposed tc have con tinued them, and to have extended their duty and discipline, as it was now said he ought, he was sa tisfied he should have experienced from the Hag. Gentleman who made that charge, the imputation of Wanting to harass and disgust them, in pursuance of the enmity it was xu:ribuied to him to have ever tetireed towards them. The Noble Lord (Castle. enagh), said,the Volunteers ought not to he taken by sturprise ; but this accusation ill accorded with the KiVilued declamation of that Noble Lord against ifs (Mr. Windham's) excessive delay ; to that de elamation he would answer, that the execution of a Flan mast come seriatim ; the exposition of it, altoge ther; he would, however, give all the information he could OR the subjed of bringing forward the mea sures. The first measure would undoubtedly be the eftilitary service of the army it would be divided into the Mutiny AEI. and that which would previele for the allowances to the soldiers, and which might be Called the Chelsea Act. The Training, or Lery-ett- Marrs Bill. would be ened before the holidays, so that the House might have lea opportunity of con eidating, it. There would be also a Bill to make some etesall atter:then in the Militia Laws. It had been said, that be was going to abolish ballot ; but he should Reply to this, as he hail to what wts advanced of his intention respeding the volunteers ; there was al. Pestle a suspension of ballot, and he orly mei:at to continue it as long as it sheuld be found expedient. Tills was the ccuree lie was about to liursue, and which he hoped woul be one day generally ac knowledged to have advariced the interests of the eollettry. Mr. PEi.CIVA L said, that he certainly thought the Right Hianiurable Gentleman intended to abo- AA the ballet, and bad understood him to have so great an aversion to it, that he cruld not bear its Aallle, and had therefore called it hut. He did not know in what the Right Honourable Gentleman lad been nil • represented ; his manner of treating the Volunteers was virtually an annihilation of them. When they wcre :eprescnted to be like shew sot. dies, like a painted entity. in which you were de ceived of the substance, and when it was said, that in enrolling them as an at my, we atted like children aebo put a dr y stick into the ground,and thought they had planted a tree ; could it be supposed that the Right lion. Gentleman was friendly to the system? k was said, that the whole alteration was that of ;elating the carps on the August instead of the June aflowarree. He (fir. Percival) thought, however, that that was the least alteration : the material one teat that of rela sing the discipline of the Volunteers. It was not the word re wet or relaz he cavilled with; tut it was the thing itself which the term meant to express. The next great alteration was that of ap panting three Inspecting Major-Generals, instead of ell the officers of t:iat class they have hitherto had. ft was said, too. that although they were to have Clothing allowed to them now, they were not to Task for it again ; which he thought plainly inti elated, that longer than these chithes lasted, the set Vices of the Volunteers were not wanted. He night brpossibility labour under a mistake of the in !elitism of the Right Hon. Gentleman; but he was sure that he did not misrepresent the public impression, in rating it to be that he (Mr. Windham) intended to dispense with the Volunteers. If he really meant tSs retain them, it was extremely impolitic to re present them as a useless ineumbrance, occasioning I . as enormous expellee, and thus to destroy them in a *ay much mom repugoart than dismission at true. Mr. Secretary FOX said, there was certainly t'nt mach difference between the words eldest and r our, hut in der ivies the meaning of the word no.: I,F his Right Hon. Friend (Mr. Windham) tr)ni tl e context, there as certainly was a difference; d it was therefore unfair to adopt the word eels, a having been used uy him. It was said by a ce. (ebnited author, that there was sometimes no better way of conveying a falsehoo.;, than in the words of *5 truth : and tois Lint seemed to have been toted upon by those Gentlemen who attributed to bins • desire to relax the discipline of the Volur leers. A Gentleman had, in a lone: to him (Mr. fox) erpressed much surprise that his Hon. Friend fklr. % - inelham) should have said that the Volun leers Were of no use, and never could be made set.. w ize•lb.e: . do three things, however, said the Gentle- Man, and I assure Feu they will be of great use ; Put en end to limited service, to June allowances, rh:d to iespeciing officers. ( d 10. , ,eh.) He ( Ir. Fox) ineanest to that opin...n. If an efficient culy could be made upon the principle of tLe Vo 14!..:tcers, the House had wasted much time, and used much tyranny, by the mutiny laws, to no pur pose. In reply to those gentlemen who said, do you, rr y-n not, intern to 1o;ep the Volunteers ? he wool.' -.ay, that he did not wish they should be di , bande.l, it they could,be retained for a reason a'sle expend., like what it was proposed ro incur fro them ; but, if they could not, he thought al .nest any sebstione was better. The Hon. Gen tleman sAid. that before the army estimates were voted, the House ought to be apprised of all the ee eericie ; het in the case of an entirely new mea elite v hith l i ateiament might not adopt, it was imerissible yet to state what would be the amount. His Right Hon. Friend (than whom, he would say, no man was better qualified for the office he held) could not bring in the Mutiny Bill till the estimates , were weed ; but, as it was his expectation that the House would to-morrow agree to the report,te (Mr. Windham) would then bring in the Bill : it could be read a first time to-morrow, a second time on Friday, and on the first day after the holidays, he would propose that it should be committed ; and he (Mr. Fox) should esteem it a very happy thing it the House did the projectors the honour to agree to the me.uures, al they formed a general system for improving the military state of the country, and, if nothing more were to be done by Nlinisters, would be sufficient to distinguish their administration. Mr. CANNING, after adverting to, and con demning the conduct pursued towards the Volun teers of the country, said, that the natural conse- Tl...flee of in long delaying the Military measures which were to he proposed, was, that the azteetion and attendance of Hon. Gentlemen was re laxe.l or remitted—(a lauch)—many of them hav ing already left town, des?airing that the Right lion. Gentleman (Mr. Windham) would bring them for-, ward this Session. There was danger, therefore, that they might now be dismissed too rapidly, and discussed too lightly ; and the course that Ministers had pursued, was precisely that which a Govern ment would adopt, who wished f"r that hasty dn. mission. To fix upon the first day after the recess for a Committee on the Mutiny Bill, when gentle men would not have returned to town, was cer tainly being p vcipitate. The House POW first had the admission, that it was a system that was to be in troduced, and he therefore hoped it would not befit tempted to isolate city particular measure, and to interrupt all discussion not strictly relevaet to that point. The Honourable Gentleman concluded with expressing a hope, that the Mutiny Bill would not be precipitated, and that in the discussion, no objection would he started to embracing the other heads of the military plan. Mr. FOX said, he wished much for the Mutiny Bill to come on on the Wednesday, hut Friday would he the latest day to which he would consent to have it deferred, and he would take the sense of the House whether it should be later.—The Ho neurable Gentleman (M. Canning) might debate the bill as he liked ; but he (Mr. Fox) hoped he would not insist upon bus talking too. Ile certainly wished that tie Mutiny Bill and the Chelsea Bill should be brought in distinctly. in order that the rejection by the House of ore, might rot involve the other. The question of limited service, was one of suffi cient coni.equeuce to he taken separately ; and if the fit.n. Geotlemau should make a good speech again, and introduce much matter upon extraneous subjefts, by mist not be angry, if he (Mr. Fox), did not answer him. There seemed a vast alteration in the tone of Hcn. Gentlemen, who, after them selves making so much outcry about delay, n' w required a fortnight longer. Mr. YORKE was surprised that a particular day should be insisted upon for the committee: at this moment he did not understand the naoire of some clauses in the Mutiny Bill. upon which he would request some elucidation from the Right Hon. Gent. (Mr. Windham.) Was the limited service to extend to Cavalry and Ar t ill er y, as we ll as Infantry ? was the Army to bidisbanded during war ? and how far was the increased pay to extend ? Mr. WINDHAM said, the certain expiration of the present Mutiny Act a sufficient notice to Gen. denten of the Bill he wouli introduce to-morrow. Certainly the limited service was to extend to the Cavalry and Artillery: and with respect to the period at which men were to be discharged, be had originally proposed to give Government a power of detaining them until six months after the expiration of the seven yea: s, but it was found expedient, in case of the war coutinaing, to extend that power to two or three yeats; beyond which period the men could not be detained. It was not intended to make the increase of pay to the army general, but some augmentation would take place, short of the wishes, but to the extent of the means of the State Sir JAMES PULTF.NEY made a few observa tions in favour of the Volunteers, and their being put upon pernument duty for a time, instead of the mode of exercise proposed. He thought the Vo lueteers should have larger allowances. conversation then ensued between Mr. Ad ! Al i ton, Sir James Pulteney, Mr. Windham, Mr. Matthews, Mr. Rose, and Mr. Spencer Stanhope ; the two last Gentlemen stating, that unless more than even the August allowances was given to the Volunteers, now their funds were exhausted, they would not be able to support themselves. Mr. WINDHAM said, that being the case, it ought n.it to be attributed to the present Adminis tration, that they caused the dismission of the Vo lunteers. Dr. LAWRENCE defended Ministers from the charge of annihilating the Volunteer Corps. Mr. Secretary FOX said, that the Ilst half hour's debate had been important, inasmuch as it bad completely exonerated himself and his col leagues from the charge, and proved that under the late AdosiniAtration it would have been impos sible to have maintained the Volunteers without great additional expense. Lord de Blaquiere, Mr. Spencer Stanhope, Mr. Mathew;, Gen. Tarletoo, Mr. Shaw Lefevre, Mr. Ryder, Mr. W. Smith, and Mr. Ellisou, said a few words, in favour of the Volunteers, and were an swered by Mr. Foa, the Secretary at War, and Mr. Windham. After which, the revolutions were put, and agreed to, without a division, and report was ordered to be received this day. The Tortola Free Port Lill was committed, and the Amendments read a second time. r:e other Orders were dii-,osed ca; and at One o'Cuck the Houle LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY 22. Some interesting information respefting the new htlitaf y System, was disclosed last night in the House of Commons, and the suLieft will be turti,cr elucidated• this evening. The Hamburgh Moil due yesterd Sr, arrived last night. Its contents are of Freat impott.ince. counts from Berlin; of. the 13 , h inst. announce a great change in the policy of Pru•sl.ia, with iespet to this country. They state that ORDERS HA•E BEEN SANT TO ALL THIE PRu;cr.+N Foals IN THE BALTIC NOT TO OBSTRUCT TN:: FNTRANGE ON DR PARTURE OF ANY BRITISH SHIPS, It T TO TRII•T THEM IN A FRIENDLY MANNER. An article dated Brandcaburgh, Mayl4, in The Hamburgh Curicsfroit denten of the 16th, confirms the Berlin_ account, and adds, that milers have been receive:rat Stetti-, Colberg, and other Prussian ports in the Baltic, NOT TO OPPRSZ IN ANY MANNER THE /NTRANCE OF ENGLissi suies, BUT TO RECEivE THEM IN THE MOST FRIENDLY KELLER, 0-e new Cabinet Minister, has been the means cf effeding this change in the Councils of Ber lin ; in which, fortunately for the honour, and, we trust, for dr: happiness of Prussia, he has obtained the ascendant over the pernicious, rids tardly, and sordid principles of Count Hatio wiyz, who. it is said, has retired in diigra i ce t. Silesia. While we rejoice in this revolution which has taken place in the Prussian policy, and congratulate that country upon the triumph I of a KILLER over a miserable sordid HAUG wiTz, we must not forget the real cause of this reformation, this arnende h*nePal.'e, in the condliet Lf Prusilia. It is to the well-tempered firmness, the wisdom, and the energy of she Eng lish Government, we are to attribute this charge; change which we confidently expert will be attend ed with still happier feeults. Letters from Leipzic of the Bth of May, state, that the Court of Vienna has entered into new engagements with FtAnce, which ensure peace and amity between the two countries. This account is not improbable. The Archduke FERDINAND, I!'e new Eleclur of Wurts burgh, ha* -taken possessicro of Shit territory, and other events are announced, which diminish the apprehension cf a rupture. Yesterday, about twelve o'clock, His MAJESTY arrived it the Queen's Palace; from Windsor. In a short time after, the Dukes of Yi)stc, CcNista- L AND, and C•M Bit ince. 'Whited His MAJESTY. At half-past two o'clock, lips s.itsry held a Private Levee, which was attended by— The Archtbi.hop of Canterbury ; the Lord Chancellor . ; the Secietanes of State; the President of the Cotine°l; the Lord Pi +vy Seal; the Lord Chamberlain; the Masser Genera) of the Ordnance; the Judge Advocate; Zeds Catriftrvon and Arlesford; Lords Boston, Cathcart. arid Mail to; the D.an of Winchester; General Coyle, ,• Major licseley ; and Mara. Faokener, Villiers, and Ormsby. The following had the honour of being presented to His M•resvv : Major Owe*, Aid-de-Cain,, to His Serene Highness the Nib b of On I-, on his return from India, by Lord Mint°. The Rev. D • . Rennet!, on lii being appointed Dean of Win chestsr, by Earl Spencer. General Cuyler, on hi. late appointment. Charles Montague Ori:lby, Esq. M P. for the loon of Carlow, in Leland, on his being appointed Ch.ef Justice of the Prince of tVales's bland in India, on 'hien occasion jig re 4 ceived the honour of Knighthood. After the Levee His Ma/airy held a Privy Council, at the breaking up of wilich His MAJEITY gave audience to Jr.N Soso, who laid before His MAJESTY the proceedings of several Courts Mar tial. At four o'clock His MAJESTY set off for Winsor. Yesterday, a Court of Direr!lors was held .t the Fast India House, when the Rev. MARMADUIEZ Tilostesoit was sworn in Junior Chaplain oa the Madras Establishment. The Court adjourned at six o'clock till Wednes day next. No case of any public interest occurred yester day in the Coons of King's Bench or Common Pleas. Sir RICHARD Sr R ACH•N'S squadron, as stated in THE By irrsit Puss of yesterday, sailed on Sunday from Plymouth. Sir RICHARD will join Earl Sr. Vincent. of Brest, and there receive his final in structions respelling his course and destination The Evening Papers which announced on Tues. day the capture of our in-shore squadron, off Brest, now admit, that the report origin..;ed in mistake, or (what is more probabl:) was a wicked and mischievous fabrication." Yesterday. Lord IN:crown attended at the Public Office, Bow -street, before Mr. Git•easa, and gave bail, hirmelt its 20001. and two sureties in iOOOl. each. for challenging Sir Waves, brie- Lista to Sght a duel on the I nth of last Aped. The Ticket, No. 3330, drawn yesterday a Prize of 'OOOl. was sold in nne Quarter, three Eighths, and six Sizreenths, by J. Ba Amcor(' and Co. Pro prietors of the Lucky Lottery Offices, Nu 11, Hol born. No. 37, Cornhill. and No. 38, Maymarket. Piccadilly, where the fortunate holders of each re speClive Share may receive the amount of their Prize-money on demand, and where Tickets and Shares are now seßing,warranted undrawn :—Please to observe. the Fourth day of Drawing will be on Monday nett, and the Ft: ist Drawn Ticket on that day will be entitled to 10,0001. over and ahove every ether beneficial chance of the present Rich Wheel. • . • • FOREIG.V INTELLIGENCE. - • ."1 6 HAMhIJ Gil MAIL. .0 EERLIK. 154 T IS. Since the appointment of Coont Keller, as Tliird NUnister of S , ate, several Councils have been held* at some of which the King has presided ; the subs j^fl of them was a consideration of the effeas which the measures token against England have prods'. oil, and the c msequences their adoption have already had upon Prussia ; on these points differences have a•isen between Count Haugwitx end Count Keller ; the former insisting upon the expediency of persevere iny; iii the steps already taken, while the latter urvd the neces,ity of an entire change in their policy* from a consideration of the ruinous effects which hive ensued ; the Kin d is said to have been so im pressed with the propriety of C st Keller's tea toning, as to have desired him to suggest the means be thought most likely to lead to reconciliation, and to avert from his subjects the evils which threat-ned them. Haugwitz, it is said, has felt so much hurt at this, that he demanded leave to retire for a few weeks to his estate in Silesia, which has been granted. 'Toe first strp taken by Count Keller has been to se id orders to all the Prussian ports in the Bxhic, not to obstruct the entrance or departure of any British shies, but to treat them in a ft iendly maener. (From the H im i o . c ..respoidentew of the 15th May. lIANDZNBUROR, M•Y Orders have been received at Stettin, Co!berg, and other Prussian t potts in the Baltic, not tl op. pose in any manner the entrance of English ship* but. on the contrary. to rece:ve them in th- rnost friendly manner; it is expeeted that Prussia vrlil yet take other measures advantageous to England, trod which it is concluded, that a good twelerstand ing will shortly be reestablished between the two Courts. ♦IFNNA, r•v 7. G mtral Andrcossy left this city yesterday ; fore his departure, he wrote a letter to Count d'Wrtina, Minister of the Imperial Cabinet, in which he expresses, in the strong-st manner, his ea. ti:ude, his respeet, and his esteem, far the Emperor, whose sentiments and vii tiles be highly extols. M. liochetcucault it appears will make a long star here, since he yesterday received several carriages laden with g iods and baggage. •CGSIIIMGII, MAY 5. Older, hive been given to all the regimeuts be kivarian Royal Army, to hold themselves in readiness to march At 24 hours notice ; on the other band. it is reportnd that the columns of Austrian prisoners which were on their march for Upper Suabia, have received fresh orders to halt. MAT S. One hundred waggons laden with biscuit, set out yesterday for Donauwerth, where these bisclits will be embarked and seat on to Brannau. It .was yesterday notified upon 'Change. that no English goods were in future to be sent to Swit zerland. The present quantity is estimated in vs lue at 150 millions of bytes. The news from the Southern parts of Bavaria is most Raiding; in many distties the poJr are dis.. ' tressed to the necessity of living on ro.its. teiez.c, 11• F 8. The news from Vienna, received this morning, is of a very tranquillizing nature. Th- good under.- standing wl.ich appears to subsist between the Courts of France and Vienna, seems to insure peace. The Court of Vienna has not 'only accorded to France the free passage for an army through Istria and Dal matia,whichwas the prircipalebjed theneg-Kiation, entrusted to General Anclreossi ; but it has also entered into engagements, by whic!) it is drawn into a'very clbse allianie with tie F mperor Napoleon. It has formally sandioned and recognizA the exchanges of territory, and all the newly-ereded Principalities, which . prece!ed and have followed the treaty of Presbarg. It has eves renounced all systems of neutralitiy, in the event of France being engaged in a war ssith any power whatever, on account of these innovations ; and it has en gaged to aft, with aaivahottility, against all Power, that may make war with Prance on account thereof. We are positively assured, that this new treaty i f amity is the result of long and important negoci ationsi "'hitch have take, place ant the subjea, asd which are at length terminated ; it is aided, that the treaty will be signed without delay.: VINITANTIPOPLE. APalt 10. hlrulas Fifmdi. Ambassador from the Subimite Porte, to the Emperor nf the French, set cut on the 29th of Meech for Paris. Besides the Drago man of the Embsmy, he to , k with him another, Who had been attar bed to the French legation. VTRECAT, WAY 12. The Address of the Rataeian people ton:mit !lies .hrightinesse',, aga , nst a M. , narcNieal C intticutio% emanated from Haerlern, aid has obtaintd a rnent estrnsive eirculati an. 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