The Sun. — London, England, 1805-02-22 00:00:00

~ A fr , ft. 1' „of, Itirl 1' ; 4 ifof i . t -. ac t tn is was the s t iatent which was in . 'j ! tn 4 - iately t o pro d uce all .we .Wanted , aitd: to 41f0t4 a continued anti full s uppl y• to -60 Battalions. I t , 4 : whatsituatioh w as the 'Country when th e b a ll ot f a il e d of the altogether,. and when n o hope ,co u l t l be entertained ' treasures brought forward t o replace it. lt was not only a present supply that we wanted, but the means of constant ly kceping,up ;ha r. suppl r; sopo mien was the whole. slim obtained by the Staff recruit. int. The rest was obtained from sources reprobated, not as unproduelive, bat as unfit. to have recourse to, as exhausting the pernment hOpe, like the savage ~ who cut down the tree to get At the fruit : To por.. sue thi s system further was to at like amen living en credit, and goin soli t g, on amoothly fota• whil e , b ut o shu t his door as soon as the bills came in , .for payment. ' When. were .we .i0..g0 hack t° t h e hallor; ,the Gentleman: who had tried a t last had stuck ' to it while it could produce.any thing ; and now it WAr like a fallen .Minister, in company- with whom . nobody widied Cc) he seen (ii,ilavgb). The present meaitire had gene far beyond the..ballot,- except that the had Officers were not compelled to act, as it wis notcould- 'determined how we. s h ou ld procee d .— lilt afraid ), not ge t the men, and. Minis t ers were. t° take tke Money. It may perhaps-he resolved to take it from tvvo or.three parishes,.to quicken the ut heti. by whipping, t h em, j ust as the ship CiP- ,, tAin compelled the dropsical,m an to mount.,the mast, Sling hi s complaint was but arising from in. dolef,e, till the fall of the _poor man into the Sea convinced him of the truth of his sickness by: the loss of his life. Another cJinplaint against' 1 / 1 4 . mode of recruiting. was, that while it ►Pruiesceti tit keep the bounty below tole the crimps, who titre eeerally employed, had the 'l4l. allowed 'by' .:"I,"nteee,r, in addition to the at:4. making 411° '' violet 341; tor *every man. thus ingenu ty' e fl a c , 4 '„ e at itngth in aid of the .zeal of the Pariah sneer " and obtained some men .at an. increased; h Y. He therefore considered the experiment as ulthlg Completely fail e d ; and here he might say, --' 10 , 4 , 3 j 1 he t ivas . sure .. the ilouse would be ; - glad he I sv i Lt.' that his task was at. an. end. He 1 1 3(1 .. .. i; t ,' R 'at as , a means ofimproving our MI r • 4r ; "Yit'eln, this measure was abortive. In i . 11 1, ': , months an increase of t 14:1o° had . been made i h ri '"lgn Corps. In the same period the losses at 0 1 1, 11 !,' and ab'road amounted to 0,000. Both theses ia l 7,. 27,000. ,onglit, and n.'ust have' been .sup :".°Y ottier means, if these had not lieen resorted And if, ,on. the whole, the increase had been 116i_gad to both these, 'fifteen .in Bi4teell .(40y$4111‘1 -thi itote h,..en tor. the consumption alone, all T i ll ' rt3 t would be derived ' from Foreign eotirees• a11e.14 ii appeared that ori6/ $OOO men had' been i tl for the general service in the fi rst initatiCe• the i''e rer t i airlder or the ineresbe by measure* which onne liin. Gentle:oars had, reprobated, so that only' e ' l liitil of the increase had beet, 'supplied by the scans thlt had 'been empl4ed• s,_°ll" small add*. to " had Lien made to the CdvairypUt when it was B:l4iidered how, .14yourite, a service that was, the. proper Wag by no means 4UCh as it ought under ,1-1,,".1,,'". encouragement, If the Tro9pf employed vi 'olonial S-.!rviee, which were all set fast to 1,,, , 7"., r ' tht toe ml demands, and, could not be de. ,1 4 -1 ,„!' exc eilt, perhaps, on smilli Zipeditionsi f " t ",, -41);(34ki roppose that the Top o rw in garrison at ,u)stitaltar, .ecc, could . be safely employed .in 'that t : 4 1 , , th,;re would eemi'in, inc:uding fOreign I ' r , ops tisl l l lll ,, i 'l .tn.about 4c t , 004), only 47,003 of 8; i• snd',.. 44 'ntrY foe Ah e korpes I f in,ernai ti?fence, 1 , 1 , :°l` eOntinental operations. ',Thew Foreign bur'; an ti he, etitnits e d, ~ were nearly as good as 11014„ ; . an , 4 Marir of them .were very 'nue!! at 40t ,", wllgre. .they.. were ertartered, but . • could 4 ii ,` ) , e n ~:l o ulcu l t ip ork -in .zany other light than Iri c k c'.ls . serving • in. Camida, New Bruns. Il a ,„' ' l 4 other .parts ,of the:, Empire. The l'cl f ir ti("ilii) Iroweyer, think itodti that in these T ( ,; in et were inciudedi.i. br s,csoo . Native , Ps of e t 1 • i , ' v nuld l',' ', Y On. t , corn ' - ; what he had stated, at ' r ' evident that sotnething.rnote than Abe pre. isotnriliellePutes-Were necesiary to fill the vast vacancy tinii, " r tn . Y• and niter having shewn what were our %ot4r/t Pt4ii lieCti a ,lle was sasis.fied that every tu?dY %i s & m a gri.e in the .necesaity of resorting to,' the. .tece,, ' 7 (''' Parliament for.altat.sometlii2g that was r" • rY rest be done. In saying that tt would he _ t o t to ta' • 'et to the wisdom of Parliament, no 4r ?) , tif c , . ' ow l vp .. A 048.0, taalti bA., stiprnteti II mean' his here, a . i .,'',''''ltl; but ,the.neor e he feliiiiinseli tnedim-: - t ;" t he mote he' looked to others as nne he ai; e i n , t „ i t " I")int tint, else.theissures that nosh( les to thli'L-* 'kr more necessary it was to ecut . 41,.,h,.,w444113 ,of Parliament, and of the Nstiusi., i tter c i . '" lle tl• in toe event of • his Motion being Li s ' ' 4 4 he. ,should feel it his duty r^ submit , ' the C mimic. tee 144 ,'. i iiie nit' Cl) the: eubjeft in r. , i llOu:1 1 9 , 1c h, ir vols.-his intention to rooms. he „ 4 ,, i s ~ it would not -be altogether out et plate his h'ile ititurnarily the particular *Netts to *hi", did!ittl'e"vattolis would apply. ' Here he heggeti n t: N.ii'i ti 't Ystems, his objea b4ng only to wi th j.) 6hatruftions..which at present toterfere *tte th e regular supply of 'the'. Army, a nd Cu ti* of It opt Milittity Estahli/titillitlt to tha old w.y ezi,ttiFt4iling, it• fie' had alr eady sheWn fr'rn lot ti e'l the itrinowi effeels of the system of "I. ' ' 4 l h. i Iht 0_4.4 first•created,' and afteewards continued, 4ial IC.itiell in keepirg up the numbers of theAiiny; the.r, L . was confident. that the' fault was with tliZtri'ineht. Whatever difficiiities 'and mp ' 4 W . f e lt • . " .- ri me , Ll* in . hew . • et ' it wa s * , 15 % 1 1:-.., a,Pieril to be iriferred alai the fault lay that '"4°vetninent. .He was-aware; however l ki)o4l. Mil ey 4411in.itter C ou ld, as..bed , been boasted' b y . I n is tb ot I.! i- iett, raise an' Army ay ''searnPi!'ll ' v iol be ' n - l l'e ilo.or. Tile creation of an Artily r t h': r, tine .of f t , 9 ,`"k "I Sline.—fle was. not, h--w. , , ' oigni, m . "` ,thole ' wh, svire apt to run into a 1,,,, li ar * I.' 1 " re so i, • c ' every thing' that was wrong •le ti 0,;,.„; 'trial the fa u lt of .Goveronient.— l'itli rill fi t ght he divided into two p arts, k av e. snd 0 t 4 lcn . Army within our powe"" 411 4 , an Fir m s IR Of CU, pdtVer to have. - We infght 4 t ircur,,. to the extera which our iittu.iiion krlialt -14,1hee.4 r a. , ; 14.., wh o 1 ItlVltd and lie wished to W, --rsht„ '1,,(441(1 pc:vent us from obtaining as -h Y eft - Ite ai l° 11 b ' well .• ' --ttler,. i t t e necessary, just as as in vi l s. til 11)" t _ 4,41 ,apeenlation. Make it an objet} to t t,l b e i nd u ti enter ,into the professi on , an d catiough tt li h ad e jti to juier-iai, -lixtensive cotton lac. 'nen ettablished in this Country s. ~. .. ~ . . \vithiii 'a• few yeari back'; at first the otii.: ;Ms. nufaefures had been eifeded, but they all soon ,settled into that state 'in which neither interfered with the other. If shoes were. : tirade of materials that would last but half the time of-those now usett, double the 'nurnber of shoemakers would span be found; as also, if men had as many feet Heats have, a Man would not go-barefooted for want of shoe. 'makers. • • There was no want of men tOengage in .nnwholesome trades, to sink into the Mines of Cornwall - or Lancashire ; neither would there be any want of men in the Army, though 'some sta. lions were unwholesome. If Government, which was . the-trader in the autism' dits'i should make the profeesion of a soldier desirable, they might be secure-of a • supply. There were. many Countries where religious scruples interfere with the pro-. fession of a soldier, such as amongst the.casts of a 'certain descriptitin in the East, and the Quakers of Pensylvania. But no impediment of that sort was to be apprehended by us. If we doubled our num. her cif Ship* We ecould. not fail to . obtain men lot. them, eu neither we re we l ess limited in our power , of peocuriog- than of maintaining soldiers. If we had :failedin getting them, then the Minister and his predecessor were to blame ; but if that Mitaisret were hi& own predecessor, ihere was little to be candied. :.freiM him. The first thing, therefore, he would tee ',commend, would be to clear away ell ohstruaions whatever, all the parish recruiting, all competition, which choked up all the channels for supplying the Army, ,and one step would be 'gained.' He did not wish-to get rid of the-Militia 'altogether,- which, as a Home Force, he-thought might still be kept up; and, odd as it. might seem, hel did not wish to part entirely with the ballot, because, in the .present circumstances of the Country, he did not ,thinlcit wise-to part with the means of keeping up ,s 6 tespeflable a portion of our Military Militia, and Ads notwithstanding the tendency of all he had ,sail , to prove that obstruCtion to the recruiting 'of the. Regular Army arose from the ballot, He had heard: of the facility of raising'a Force of tOOODOo men within a short period boasted of, and much of thesecredness of the origioal Militia ; but it should be remembered, that t here mi g h t be sacr i.. legious hands to break in on that .Militia that had beenbefore broken in upon, and in to manner that had ' never been attempted to lie justifiect hut on the score of -necessity. He therefore cautiUned the Militia Colonels to-beware of a similar at Oieupta the Militia resembled the lamb entrusted to the care of the , butcher, whiCt would be no longOr sale than the Co.' lonels wouid'be able to prated it; The next thing ; 'that he wont) recommend would, be, to clear away ' char profusitie, of mili.ary ho nours v.hich, being . Altered throughout the Country, , if-eted the 'feel. inks ff . Honourable al:mil:pen of tie profesiiop, ' by - ,takose from the .r es p e tt a hili t y o f t h e i r .prii.. frost.4l4l dtsiindiont s , The diffueion of these ho. mem o liewever o did not take es much &ern - , the respectability of a military man as in other - cases, becau s e, take away his distinetion from an Officer anti the reape4tability of his service will remain,; whereas, in other cases, if you take away the - distinEtion which may have been the, price of, the support of a Miniver, , or of the abandonMent • of eeerY thins 'that could re(lrlet a man' revaltible, C . /thing will- remain. 'The first step, 'therefoie, would he ' welter away the bruehwoode brambles, ivy. rubbish, -anti rnoso, and let in the air andlight on this fair tree, and it would fLni* rish apace., If, ofterhivitig thine so ; 'the men Could still not be pro. cured, he should recommend -to recruit for a limited time, instead of for life. There Were various other arrangements that 'Would aid ,apd co.operattovvith these..' Ili a - Couhtty 'where 60 !Wadi weight is attached to money," it ' was• peCuliarly desirable to, render the situation of the ,Sebaltern Officers com. fineable, and to relieve:lberia from thMe difficulties to which-they were unavoidably rethiced by strug. • gles with poverty'and a riarroW purse.' The neat thing would be to make a total renounciatieti of drafting; whiCh excited 'so great a 'horror in the minds of - thoie entering into the service. The amelioration - of the condition of Siihiltern,Officers,, and the mitigation of the draft for the West e lndia - Servitie, Would go IV great way'towards removing the impediments to a respedible 'Military Este. blishMente ' The Hon. Member - here submitted, • whether some regulerion might 'not he made .for the employment of the Natives of the Colonies, ' together with t'anch a proportion of 'E uropeans. as w -old not be•feltas 'a drain, nor Whipped. is heretofore without 'any previdus preparation. , He' suggested the ' propriety of 'employing the m gra . `duttity, first in thißermiias, then Bahamas, or in - Novo Scotia, till their constitutions should be pre, , oared for 'the' climate, 'and then to 'give them the - benefit of a rotation. This, together witlnihe ern. ployment of the Black Troops, might- i n t i me ta k e Off' the terrors of the Colonial Service.'' Another point to which he should refer wee the improve.; nein of discipline, by removing oil' degrading ; punishments' for trivial offences. The capital pit. • nisbotents might be continued, .and' they 'would ' hoot the attain of tleterthigitoin 'heinous offence's,. without .befng •galling to the ineividual, who woold be convinced, that if innocent he might de fy ' them i at no man in 'this 'Country • f e l t any appre. hensi It therefrom, - because penal laws were formi. ,drible only to the vilify'. 'He did not think that the pay of the Soldiers op ht•to be incr ease d ; b e c ause' . the present' pay bein ` s o ffiei ent , t h at 'would emir tend to impair diseiP ine. But there were many i r other things that could be done to -render the condi. don' of a Soldier More desirable. Part of his bounty might be kept hack till' the period of his dischaige, • arid that would have' the effitEl of milking him a bet..., 'ter Sootier whilst he continued in t h e serv i ce, at the • same. time that he would serve with morealacrityo • fr om the prospect of some provision at the'termi-:.' nat i on „f hi s service. Having 'summarily' stated, his senthnents, he hoped to be indulged in taking a ' brief view of the ohjetlionti that:Were' urged against, - it. - One objection was this-e-ir would 'be unconstitu. tiOnsi to keep up a' lergetstanding - Army; but that, Was an hereditary' objettioe, and should give Way to. circumstances. ' Another objection was, - thae•the danger was pressing; and we had not‘tiine to take! such measures as would require much consideration.; This had been made the ground of all the hadnea.. sures that had been resorted to; and if bad measures: were taken because the danger was pressing, then • the danger would infallibly become every day more _ • tirgent. Titenod. Meieitier lieu contended, t h at the - peesent 'Moment, affording some relict from the or. gency of thetleeger, was the most favourable fur re. owing our Military Systems, and making a general improvement therein: The Rt. f-L.m.+ r.nt. then re. -t urged the propriety of R •cruiting tor a limited time, which . wnuhi::ditminisit descrtion,and not interfere, as objected, with dischsline, because discipline would •• began with the commencement, and cease with the termination-of a man's period of service. If limit ed service watt iniatital to discipline, then we had tiete,ooo men without any discipline, the. Militia and Army of Reserve ;being raised for such terms •. Another topic that had peen insisted on was, that the local infliehce of the Parish Officers and Gentlemen would be exerted to procure Recruits; but if the life service were to he abolished, and a limited service to be' stibstituted, the Gentlemen would exert them . selves with tenfold zeal and efeft. In, adopting the measure of last Session, they had set out with • acknowledging that all they had been doing for rip • years had been of rio avail , and wit tt had been then offered had totally failed, and therefore it would be necessary to have recourse to something else, tin. less we were to be contiet 'with setting the Conti. nent to fight with our Money, and :o shot ourselves • up in our Island like, a tortoise in his 'hell. The ,Right Hem:Gentlemen coecluded by tneving, "That it'be referred to 'a Cornmittee to revise the several Afts passed during:the twO last Sessions at Pattie.. event,' far - the defence of the Country, and to eonsi. titer of such other Measures as may be necessary to 'Make that defence MOM COMpit Le and permanent."- On the gee.tion being 'par, Mr. C.' 'INNING said, however be might differ ftoin the argue:tents tied sentiments that had been stated by his Right lion/ Friend, he did not differ with him as to the grounds upon which he proposed die Motion that had been Just submitted to tae House. In adverting to those arguments, he ehould abstain front having eeeetase to those common place, • which his Right I loin Friend had deprecated, as he should not be disposed to dispute the propriety of the measure' he proposed tor a Parliamentary In. l• • qutryof the case existed which he supposed, either that GOvernment had not done any thing, or very little, • for the defence of the Country and the - impalement of its miiitary means. In those principles- he, agreed; he only differed in its epplicatiom. 'Before he should proceed, ever. it- was necessary to set himself 'right with his. Right Hon. Friend, .beeause of the , indignation . anti astonishment which he supposed him ptepated to feel on fioding .any person declare himself an advocate for the Bill'of last Session. .He 'was pre. pared to justify that . measure, though he should iitet contend that it had succeeded to the full extent chi!: heel been. ,expelled; :but this was not the proper time to pronounce to what degree it had :failed. He begged to eemied the 'Honourable Qhotlem in that the .Bill had two objects, one to raise a large present force, 'anti the other to he_ 'carne the • source of a permanent, supply for the Army.' This latter :abject hati not been yet stied, and until filet should he-done, it.could not he fairly decided that the, measure "had failed. The latter objet was by much the men important one, and tat whichhed induced many Gentlemen, wit.) felt dissatisfied with serne sit the delails of the me asu re, to agree to it. That part of, it which related to the .permaneriaOrce 'had not yet bete tried, theenealtute having had its Operation hitherto confined to raising the immediate force, end hilieg up . those vacancies which previously exisitel. \Vatic then did he idler ;from thiS That they should try : the merit, of the measure, not-from ire eifett in the first case, but on ,its success with, respect to the more important 'l'l:e operation of the Bill commenced by filling up existing Vacancies in distrifta that had been ',before exhaneted lay means of the .Army ' of Reserve and the Milirix , anti, that:eh it had net sue. ceetied in such distriCts, lie cententled that it was not fair to'conelude that it had failed in its diffu. sive operation all over .the kingdom. He did nut insist on this as a conciu.ive argument, •hut he looked upon it as a safficient one a ga i ns t t h ose . who dwelt on 'the total and general failure' of the Measure. It bad' been :urged thee it- neither- had succeeded in filling uphthe vacancies, nor in pro. curing a permanent supply for the Army ; but he * should refer Gentlemen to the'etiect of the measure which this 'had sticaeded, and in (chose place' it :stood, he meant the Army 'of Reserve, and they .would find ~that it had :yielded scereoet men this year for the Army. Did that prove that the holk of a supply froth tetcli a measure Wall SiOn 9 rYt and ought to be abandoned ?...-Virere there not 'oche" reasons elm' to thew.. diet it ° tight not to be givers eip t—When th e y looked to ' t he circumitances off the Country, exhausted of men by the Army of Reserve - and' the Supplementary , Militia, there could heno surprise felt at this mea. sure not havinghadillioediate and.comple te success. There was another difficulty to its operation which had -arisen from the opposition that had been made to titt•tneasere last Session, and the report :het an effort would he tide to obtain the - repeal, Or it early in the present. 'These circumssances had. thrown a damp, in a great measure, on the.zeal that ,would. have been exerted in carrying its provisions into • efreet, ,which Might afierwards turn out to be nugatory. But it , was nit alone in thisgeneral prin.. . ciple that exertions were ;lack.coed, but experience elite concurred to the same end. In execution of the Army of Reserve Atf penalties h.id been in. ctirrstifor deficiericiei, which had not been levied, and the Parishes might have had an expeetetion escaping, in the seine manner. Here there was an • example of pehalties incurred 'and n ?tad ed and • the expedation of the repeel of ' tlie measure, though he could nut allow the expedation to hive been just;. and he would ask any also, whether, with such expedatione, there had been a fair chartce fur obtaining that exercise of zeal; of local ineuence, and personal • exertion ; whether the Meaeure had a fair trial ; and whether, the Coontry did not require the defeat of the Motion submitted that night, in order tti give the measure a fair and partial trial? *Another reeien hit Right Honour. able Friend had assigned in. Suppori,,ol his- Mo. titan was ,forintieth on the variety of eopinitenti that had been stated - in the 'different discussions on this' subject in that Heftisee' litidchibtedly the' rulalic looked with considerable interest to the discussione in that House, and to the opinions urged in limp, antl . to none with more respeek , then to those of his . Right Friend. But it 'was rather curious to make the - number of various' opinions and various measures that - had originated in that House, an argument • for repeating this measure s - in order to . sheer that they . had come to som e steady and consistent \ system ar lair. If the eneasure were even less unexceptionable than it realle is, and net as likely to answer 'the end fist' whieh it WAS in.. tended, as he maintained it was, he insisted, that instead of repealing it, it ought to have a fair trial, and not precipitately, or prematurely, receive its condemnation. With respeet to the merits of the Bill, it appeared to -him calculated to produce an etre& which his Right Henourable Friend had fre quently dwelt on during laic Session s , and had that night mere particularly and directly, adverted to.-- Lct the Army alone, said his Hen. Friend, and it will get on. His Right „Hon. Friend would n. deny that this meditate 11141 the merit of deing aw a y the high bounties, ordoing .sway the compel's. 'ion, especially as since the failure of the u.nhappy, Parish Officers, the men had been recruited by the regular Officers of the Crown. But his Right Honourable Friend was not to be satisfied web any mode of recruiting, unless it was conflated all in one way, and for one descriptien of force, for until he had reached etearly the end of his ,speech, the only inference that could he' drawn horn i ;11 the preceding points of it, was, Olt he weelsl allow of no species of Force hut Regulara. In the close of hi; speech, however, he seemed to have kept one remnant, for the Militia. Had he not found to what purpose 'his Right Hon. Friend hdd.tureed this concessionby the appeal be had made to the . feelings of t he Militia Colonels, he should have given him credit ler on bonoutahle and praise. w ,rthy attachment to that Constitutional •F ice. Had his Hon. ktiend recommended the extiteetion of the Militia Feree, he could not have bad th e opportunity for his appeal to the M ilitia cldonels; but in proposing to continue the Militia on its orieiliaf establishment of .40.000, and to raise cleat number still by the Viol, he seemed by his apetel t o the Colonels to have mss e' nil stetement for his Conclasions, not his conclusions from his state. ritent. As to tie argument of his Right Hon. 'Friend, with respect to the policy of such a ;nixed force as that proposed to he raised by the bill, it appeared weak in principle, inconclusive in reasoning ? and dangerous in tendency. • If' on the conclusion of War, our Regular Force were to he reduced It) the Peace Establishment, which alone the Constitution of this free Country could have • sanetioned,'he would ask his Right Hon. Friend, how We were, on the ,breaking uto of a'. fresh Wrtr , to raise ' such a fierce as he was sure his :Right Hon., Friend would be as anxious to have as any other MeMber of that House, a force capable of being employed With effect for the annoyance of the Ene. my What alternative was there, to chose, - but Whether large Standing s Army should beakept up, or force of the description of that proposed to be raised by this :Bill Neither the Country nor the 'House would consent to the former ; and in proof of this he could refer to these arguments that had been to frequehtly repeated ,in diet House s of tire danger . ef havi ng t h e Liberties and the Gen. stitution of the Country subverted, by having a large Standing ArmY at the disposal of government. There was no alternative, therefore, but to obtain a force that might take place of the Army without offenee to the Constitution. Of such 41 force there were two descriptions the Militia, of which We had 'experience of' half a century, or sods a /tree as should be limited in service like . the Militia, bet, being Officered by regular Officers, should approach more nearly to rite quality of Re. gelato, and be a nursery for the supply of the Army. He agreed, that the Militia ought noel() be carried 'beyond a certain extent, Just steCeuse it could not be kept tip to that extent, len became it was aster. tained, that it could 'not he inainteieed In that ex. tent donsistently with the principtes of its original institution. It you 'vary from t'se original mode With reopen to Officers, you may vary e 'still more, so as to 1-ender Ole force e more pester!, and to bring it nearer to the discipline and condition of a Regis. he Force, which would be the same at >~ Standing. Army..' _Right ''honourable Fri e nd, a f ter stating 11f4ut al soljet is itans to the Bill, had proceeded to detail fairly: the alrereti >ni and itnetovernents in t he Military System which- he propoSed to 'mit to the Committee. His leading:, principle of Objetlion Was• to the variety of fOrce on foot ; but h e conics nor himself see .on the face of it what ohjAlen there could be to variety. if a pure Monarchy were to exist in any country, with a p eselation purely• agticelturat, unmixed with commercial pursuits, -there would be no diffh. culty in obtaining a large Army,. augmentable and reducible in short petiod. But the mite does not take plaC'e in a country were anstiefaCtiires and,' commerce Nye made. cave:naive' progress. Did le follow, he asked, that if we idiouiti not get t h e whole number we wanted in the way most tk.sird..* hie, that 'we shOuld throw the reminder away as dross Or useless ?—Did: it follow, that because the , whole number 'emit! . nor he procured of that sic. scrietion for Which. his Right flenoureble Frivol had a great feterness and: anxiety, 'that we should ' not march'such a proportion of our population, Who might enter into die dkposelsle force, Whose absense would not be felt nor lamente..i,' and leav e 'the prote(tion Of 'their Distrias to those who te. retained in the more limited force. If "the •Dlifitia • could be carried to the exicot necessary?: then his Right isioneureble Friend would 0;144 'Bat They haid• tried eke 'Militia, and had feend it imeealie • 'tale to keep it to th e extent to which' it had. been carried consistently with the• principles* of its institetion. Was 01i:re any thing :so absurd,. surprising, or mischievous, its the arrangement 7 tot ,employing men whose occupations ' prevented theM frem engaging in the disposable force at home, and thereby setting free so newts eef the disposable force to be employed abroad ?—A great - obje6tion to thielevy was, that it professed to raise the men first for limited service , and afterward s to leave ' them free to enter into the Regulars. ' But if be understood right What his Right Honoureble Friend had urged on a former occasion, not having • been present he could not of course speak with certainty, his. Right Hon. Friend, -when the Army of Reeeive Was ender consideration, had acorn.