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freptied to allow the men to enlist frrm it into the Line.. For himself he could not discover what the absurdity was in supposing that the men would br i..duced to enter for limited service in the first ir,vtanee, and that afterwards, from the force of acquired habits, the influence of example, and attachment to their Officers, they might be in. duced to take the second 'step... His Right Finn. Fiietnl had ;aped, that a limitation of time would operate ati a strong temptation to them to enter even f o r g eneral Service, but was not there equal reason tee soppose, that a limitation of place Would also ,-:;:orate as a temptation ? He could not conceive why the first limitation should aft as a direct tempt. atiun, and the other in the inverse ratio. If ei thr,!r cva, to' have any effett, both combined must have a greater; lot it , could not be supposed that both together should fail when one was irresistible. With reTett to the limitition of the time of service, th4e Were many differentopinionsi and he should not venture to haiard any, though he could not admit, ,that it was a subject which would be i-ro,lo,'.3tive of little difficulties in the detail in the unnitteee Any body might see that a great ;,cae7,V,ariety, of diffieteltics would occur. if the change , eesete to be made in time of War, and, the condi. , tics; ta he extemled to all at present serving, would not the offer be a boon to one, whilet,it would he a .: miechief or a punishment tea another ? But should 'hey begin' feurn the ;brevet moment, how were they to proceed ? were: the new Levies t o ,, be in.; vorporeted with the old Battalions ? what 4 5011r0 of disquietude, heart.burningS, and 4siteisfeaiort wire they to be disposed of in separate 13etta. lions I then they would come to the present Bill, and do that precisely which it professed.„ He had' ,err hesitation in teying, that the idea of a Colonial Army met his approbation, withut exception even of the Bleck Corps. But any body who looked ,to the Pepulation of the Colonies must perceive that it was impossible there to suPpfy . the Attny, and it would therefore be necessary ff to recruit in Europe. Mark ; the consequences 'ef restricting the Amy (ruin Service in her Colonies : *Would the other Powers of Europe follow the ex ample'? Seppositig the Army of St. Domingo to at, tack Jamaica, would it be wise to tie 4p the Dis• passable Force of this Country in Europe, and buffer rime of the most valuable of its Possessions to be desttoyed ? As to the other parts of his Right Hon. F ienth's Speech, with 'iut any intention of dieiesped to him, he did net think them of much importence. Thete Was one point, however, which.he begged tti touch upon, told on which' he did not differ Crum hiS_Right Heni Friend, nainely„ the oleo of taking aid for the Regular rercefrom the,Militia in the re dutlion of t hem proposed. Ile felt less reludence in adverting to this, topic, inasmuch:. as the Public was in vane r degree prepared to expect it, anti lie had reason to believe that the meaeere'wes in the contempleeion of His Majesty's Govern. merit. his Right Henettrable Friend should he surprised at his opposing his Mullen for going into t h e c omm i t tee, he should ask him, whether he thought the state of the Country was in such int. immediate danger, or at little prepsrei to meet that danger, ,as that he could not he justified in opposing hie. Motion His Right Honourable Friend had stated hut a siegle result from the Papers on the Table, 'and that was, that the Army within the last year had been but re,ooo men. Perhaps it might be for the satisfattion of the House to state a view of the whole Military : Force of the Countrer.":The t; ire! of the Disposable Force on the rst January, IEO4, Was 1+3,261 ; on the tat of January, 18001 fOOO ; the whole of our force on the for. mat Liar. 27.C90, on the fatter 20,747. Deducing the limited Force, which was included in the for men a f ;gregares, thej whole of the Disposable Force .was, on the ist of January, 1804, 11 . 5,00 o; oi, tie tar of Jonu.iry, mBoe, t 35,900, necking an increase, of Disposable Force of from 18,000 to eehcaeo men. Toe Henoweble Member then pro _ eceded through a variety of other combined ,state. nieetv, to shew the improved state of our Military D4eece, the result of Which was, that WC had at ! 'tweet Arroy of t 2,600 Disposable Troops mare than on the 141 of Jan. r Bo4e applicable to pirouset,, for which Troops might be necessary. He exultiogly adverted to the numbers of Our Volwiteer Force, which he could never leave out c n ins con6deration. We had upwards of 306,000 Veluoteers, that had withstood all the temptations or example, exhortation, and opposition, Of these I cio,ooo had beets reported fit fOr set vice, not to go into the field against Austrian and Pros. &len Troops, but fit fur all the purposes f o r which had been incorporeted. Could ; we with such a force 'save any room for the gloomy retire. sen(atione frequently meue 1 Could more he ex. preted from the wove and extent of the population iet the Come r> 1 If we wish for di criterion by which e etirnate the !''ililitary Force of the Country, let oi look to the state ref tile different Power* on the lec,:ontioeot, IKt us look particularly to France, WhiCh, with a population of is millions, had an army net exceeding any time five or . six hundred thousand teem , while in Greet Britain, which contained hot t 5 millione, the Regular Force amounted to three forotired thousand meo, besides those to whom the ,theneetic defence wee entrusted, as also seventy thou. ~And Alitia, and three hundred thousand! Volunteers. ae. was ; e4 ee te ie,le fOr any man who fairly examined the situating in which we at present stee d , and compared it with that of last year, to refrain from allowing tki,t ).;. was greatly improved. Could euch a marl be found, he would ask him, was it ri o _ thing to have added, as we had done, to the Strength tat those Oct.'s, whose peculiar province it wan to p ee teel us the eXeCittioi) of the menaces 'of the ineeder ? Was it nothing to have succeeded so completely in the blockade of the Enemy's flotilla, the; instead of venturing on the ocean to ettaek t , ,, it was with difficulty that it could be hilly moved along the coast 'from one port to ono_ ti l er ? • What would the Enemy have said, had we acted in the manner they have done Hed we, in the fireninstaeee, prepared an extensive arthement for thee'expreer and avowed purpose of invading their shores, thea :Wowed it to be insulted at least, if not l injured,' by the a‘,ltialilt3 of hostile stet:aborts, amid eoneluded by 'sending a flag or truce to the very Against it, „ parties to whom we had dennun,:ed destructaon,- With what exultation would they have then exclaim- . ed, "Such were your threats, a nd such has been your execution I'? With regard to many of the suggestions which his Right lion. Friend had thrown out rcla. irive to the inyrovement of the state of the Army, he had only to lament, and this he did with the ut. rumt sincerity, that he had not the advantage of offici a l situation to put them into praittiu.e ; he was convinced, that Goveinment would hear with Acten. tion, and adopt with anxiety, any of those sugges tions; the propriety of which was obvious. He mint repeat what he had said on the measure which w a s the objeft of Right Hon. Friend's Motion. The principle of that measure could not be said to have failed, for only the first and the last part of it had been put in execution. It would be a strange, and surely a very comradidory mode of proving to the Country the stability of our Councils, to abandon a plan to which we had not yet given a fair trial this would rather be a new mark of fluthation and uncertainty. If what he had asserted was true, if there was nothing in the present situation of our affairs that could justify in us either precipitation or despondency, but if, on the contrary, the area. sure under consideration contained in it the seeds of a permanent system, which would ultimately put us in possession of a Disposable Force greater than anyone we had yet had at our command, le then thought his Right Hon. Friend had not made out,a case sufficiently strong to inthiCe the Hiatus g 6 into the Committee he required. Mr. WINDHAM, in expl a nation, obserTest, that he did not propose totally to exclude Troops immediately from England from Service in the Writ: Indies, but to render the number as small as pos. Sir W. YOUNG endeavoured to invalidate the statement of the Right Hon. Gentleman with re. gard to the increase in the different descriptions .of our Military Force; he contended, that since the commencement of the year 1804 there was a de. crease of B'sa men in the Brill'sll Infantry, although he allowed that in Great Britain and 'being there ,was an increased Disposable Force since that period of above six thousand six hundred men. The Question was then loudly called for, and an a Division there _aypeared, For Mt. WINDHAM% Motion, 96 2+Z Majority, Adjourned. 346 MAILS. AltßivlD-1 Dublin, z'Waterforcl., Dus-6 liamburgh, Dublin, t %Vaterford. THE SUN. 30LISM QU 6S DPOSRII FALAUM ALIAIIAT ? LONDON, FkIDAY, r BRUARY 2Z, 1805. LAsr night Mr. WINDHAM bronght forward his long promised Motion in the House of Commons re f leeting the state of our Military Defence. The Debate took a singular and very unexpeded turn ; for, after a most able and eloquent reply from Mr. CANNING, the Opposition did not feel themselves disposed to continue the contest, or possibly bored to detive some advantage Fro m an early division ; and this threatened attack, which WAS to shake the stability of the Administr it . lion, ended in their complete triumph, the nuns. tom who voted for Mr. WINDHAM'S Motion were 96 against 242—Majority 146. We are happy to find that Mr. WINDHAM has very considerably changed his .opioion respecting the Volunteers ; they are no longer represented as the depositaries of panic." It is now merely said, that they are not equal to Regular Troops—a proposition which never was denied by the most sanguine Admirer of the Volunteer Systero.—lt is evident that there is, a want of cordiality in the different orders of the Opposition, as not one of the MeMbers of the old one supported Mr. Witiotima, and as Mr. Swot!. DAN ) as soon as the Motion of that Gentleman was. disposed of, announced his intention Of bringing forward another of a similar kind. Advices • from Dublin state, that the Heads of the Irish Catholics had 4 final meeting on Saturday last, un thC subject which has ao long engaged their attention, and which they were preparing to submit to the Legislature of the United Kingdom. At this meeting, however, Lord FINGAL expressed his determination to secede; and the Catholie NObility, a$ well as the great Body of Landed Property, sig. nified their resolution nut to proceed any l'orther upon the subjed without the express sanaion and countenance of Government. This resolution, in the 'present posture of affairs, is highly honour., able to Lord FINGAL, and to all the Noblemen and Gentlemen who have followed his patriotic example, as it skews that the wellfare of the Empire at large is the great aka of their con. tideratioe'; and that whatever they may feel in matters of private faith, they are determined not to engage in ITT thin that can tend to disturb the operations of Government, and hazard the tram: quillity of the Country at an awful cribii Eke tht, present. There were, however, persons prpient . Lormori, printed by Ric's), eu tina tt. is (ot No. 4, Niart)ett-cmift, Bow-sum z At tlic SvN °FYI 0.! No, 1 6ti,did .421Jeatstments, Orders if. )• t at this : Nlectiog who did not enter into the enlarg. eel views of the Majority, but who pined Si r 'n i p. FkILNCti in the Chair, and resolved to persevere in ,measures which, after 4110 an important secession, afforded but small hopes of eventual success. Yesterday, about twn o'clock, HIS MAJErry held a Privy Council at the Queen's House, at which the RECOIDER, of LONDON attended, and made his Re port of the .Convicts under sentence of death its Newgate. The Council was attended by the 'L011.15 CHAN. CELLOR, the Duke of Mowntosa, Marquis HEIM. FORD, Earls WESTMORLAND and CHATHAM, VI9. counts Stomotyrii anti MELVILLE, and Lords HAWERSEURY and MU LGEAVE. After the Council Viscount Me vrt Lta and the Earl Of CHATHAM had audiences of H•IS MAJESTY far a considerable time. The following had the honour of being intro. duced to Hts MAJESTY The Archbishop of Canterbury, upon his translation from Norwich to that See, when the Rev. Prelate did homage be. fore His Majesty upon the occasion. The late Baron Hotharn took leave of His Majesty upon his resignation. _ _ _ _ The lion, Mr. Sutton was introduced to ills Majesty, upon his being created Baron of the Exchequer. Mr. Dallas, upon his being appointed Chief Justice of Chester. Mr, Gibbs, upon his being appointed Solicitor. General. Mr. lekyll, upon his being appointed Solicitor to the Prince, of Wales. Sir Thomas Trigg, upon his return from Gibraltar. THE QUEEN's DRA.WING.ROOM. Yesterday about half past twelve o'clock, .Haat MAJESTY and the Pat rrcassas went to St. jaines's Palace, for the purpose of holding a Drawing. Room, which did not commence till half past two o'clock., It was attended by, besides Hatt MAJESTY and the PkiNerms, Their Royal Highnesses the PRINCE and PRINC ass of WALes t _the lOurcit ass of YORK, the DUKES of KENT and CAMBRIDGE. The Arch. bishop of C‘WrllltKUitY, IheLORD PRIMATE serial- LAND, the SECRETARIES of STATE, the MASTER of the ROLLS, the ATTORNEY ,GENERAL, Baron Sur. TON, and other Officers of State ; and a great num. bet of the Nobility and Gentry. The following Presentations to Hsa IVla.lesTv took place : The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Rev.Dr.Llgge (Dean of Windsor),' Baron Sutton, the Countess De Clitibrd (on being appointed Governess to the Princess Charlotte of , Wales), Miss Poole, Miss Somerville, Miss Vernon, Miss Eliot, Lady Catherine West, Miss Bradyl, Lady H Fitt. gerald, Lady E. Townsend, the two Ladies Fitzgerald, Miss 'Glass Earl ltosslyn, Mr. D. Giddy (M. P. for Holston), Mrs. Warner, Miss Le Fevre, Miss Smith, Capt. %Volley,: Mrs. Lockett, Miss Glynn, Mr. Majendie, GenerelMaitland, Misses Bouverics, Miss Dashwood, Miss James, Miss Mahon, Mrs. and Miss Thompson, Miss Baker, Mrs. Forbes, MiSs Burdett, Hon. Mr. and Lady Wellesley, the Hon. Mr. and' Mrs, Paget, Lady Frampton, Dr. Fisher Miss Knight; Miss Mildmay, Mr. Serjeant %Villiams and dr. Holies, Miss Ge rald, Miss Smith, Mr. M. ' Nield, Miss Manning, Miss Wright, Lady Eliot, Miss Gunning, Mr. Dampier, and Lord E Iringron. Admiral Lord GAR DIV RR has appointed , a Convoy for the Linen Ships from Belfast to .London, to sail from Belf st itlit fair wind after 1.110 ISt of.Mareh next. The Earl of ORM'tND and suite left Bath early op Monday last, fur his new purchased seat at gh. mouth, in Devonshire; and on Tuesday morning, PRICE CLARIS, 'Esq. with his daughter, his Lord. ship's intended bride, set off for the sameplace; and this day the nuptials between his Lordship and Miss CLARKS will he celebrated. The Lady, who is only sixieen, bestows her fair hand, with 80,0001. in cash, and a clear estate of tB,ocital. per annum. ANCIENT MLT:4C. THEIR MAJESTIIS and four Of the. PRINCESSES were present last night at 'the. third Performance of this grand entertainment. The EA of LIXERIDOII was the Direnor for the night, and the oclettion was a full proof .of his Lordship's taste and judgment. HANDEL is ge. nerally the great store-house on these occasions.— Mrs. BILLINGITON was finely in voice, and w as particularly successful in a bravura composed by HESSE. Miss TENNANT and timentsort were much admired, particularly the latter in '' Gentle airs." The Chorusses were distinguished by cur. fatness and grandeur. STEPHEN KEMeLE is engaged to perform four nights at Derby, where he makes his debut in Fal. :tat, on Monday next. 'lhe ensuing Fitt at Windsor is to be one of the most splendid of the kind. Two hundred per. sons of the higher ranks are invited to the dinner, and so° to the evening amusements. Som: of the Public Prints have .given a fine de. scription' of the mignificent style in which Mr.. MlLrg PETER ANDRaws has fitted up his house in the Green Park. Whoever the Writer may be, he possesses a very, generous temper, since most of the superb ornaments with which he has decorated the mansion were the rift of his own imagination. One of the Grandees of Spain, in his patriotic zeal fur his Country, has, it seems, determined that, in order to contribute all he can :to the support of the War, only three dishes' bhalt be served up at bib table in future. Considering that this patriotic- Grandee is a Citarchman, it might be thought th3t three dishes were enough for him at all times, if he aeled according to. the simplicity of the tinatines which it it his duty to exettiplify all well as in. culcate. Su t c Int.—Mr. Qv i tt,a Gentleman much esteem. ed in the fashionable and literary circles of Dublin, shot himself on Saturday last in that City. He had passed the evening at Lady GLANDOkt a's, and the same night was at the Kildare-street Club. House, apparently in good 'spirits. He committ e d the fatal anion in bed, Without any assignable coo. aye. His death is much regretted. Sevitwrit DAY.—The First Drawn Ticket yes. terday morning, No. 20,952, entitled to Ten Thousand Pounds, was Noiti in Two Quarters, and Eight Sixteenths, at tl4 Old Office of SW IST and Co. in the peltry ; where No. 9,802, 44 First Drawn the r 3"(rDay, entitled to wool. and No. 8, 200 Prize ofozoctol. also in the present 14->ttery, were ,Shared and Sold. in the last Lottery the First Drawn Ticket the 7th Day, entitled to totoool. and the t e ligi, DI 4wn the Bth Day, entitled to tra,ooo, werelaoth sold in Shares by Swirr and Co. a:11 , -,bra by v'+' ut AIu x CIR SCRIPPg. (01 Sellth thc!, p ate r, teifey The kv:er, rtint.pctd), NAIT;IL NEIVS. PLYmotmt, Fla. the Priors di Poole, from Lib')Ja, with ffsh, for Poole she vist taken the tith inst. off Scilly, by -the Suaratirs teer, of St. Matoes, and retaken twu:' a f" t by the Sirius, of 36 guns. Arri7ed the Carcline Armed Brig, of i+ guntr from a Cruize; and four French Gun.boatl, pttsu to the Me/ampus Frigate, and others. PORTSMOUTH, FEB. z t.--Arrived the 30 1 0 CLEAR, trom Guernsey ; Anlifitrite, ir ° Sea ; Anne, GIL L, from London ; Skarn, \ WAI. IO from Waterford ; William a n d Mariblio 0914/14 and Alar_y, ATKINSON, from Sunderland. Also arrived the Cbarwell 6100 p of wars 111°. Came into harbour the ship.Nile, Captain SOP LING, bound to the West Indies, to C repair, the da• mages she reeceived coming from the Down,. emareraelo , Dam., Fan. 21.--Arrived His Majesty"' 510 Aimable, Fur) Bomb, Basilisk . , Blcarr,and Rfiligtr Gun..l,rigs, from a Cruize off the Coast a FilA,ge'j Sailed the Illoodkommel Gun.brig on acrtinl e ' Calais. This morning, in a very thick fog, "the ' 1 " Con-brig got on shore breast of the South l4 / 7 land Lights ; it being moderate she got afiestitro at high water, with very little damage, riC, I into the Downs this afternoon. FALMOUTH, FEB . t9.—Satled the &or Wder Packet, Captain TODD, with a M il/ Lisbon LATE' REPORT. COURT OF KING's BENCH,Teroasosr , THE KING FASSINGLIAM AND EDVOIP i. THIS tram occupied the Court above 15.- -h i Ve t r and was one of the most extraordinary that r brought before a Court of justice within 0 0 7,i collet - Hon. But it involved in it so much and disgusting obscenity, that it would btlo greatest insult to pUblie morals and decency tetgo,'• more than the natute and objeft of the preLetilsol It was .an indiament against Col. Paegjnrn'aieni Mr. Edwards for a• Conspiracy. • The 04;01 charged, that Col. Passingham having de,2 0 0 40 the wife of Mr. F o r r e s t e r, he • and °Aloe ..Derendant conspired to Make Mr. Forrefigt;rert. his wife large separate maintenance, ening to charge, and actually charging ml°°. dist, an unnatural crime. Is appeared in eviaerifeitot NI; Mr. • Forrester was a Gentlemaa' living at Elmly, in Worcestershire. ole/ , . dents .were both related to his wit snd I siftt• net Passingham , after t h e d eat h of m s o ` v e r e 1 11 ' leaided in the house of Mr. Fertetteti„ - i n was received as the most i n timate , Inert serf ro ok nuary, 1803, he went a wa y with With b e reft and it was proved that he had' debauched het d slit that time. Edwards, the other Defer4i nt ith botiit been an intimate friend of the Prosecutoto having been theAntitioning Creditor to his,vot ruptcy, became an implacable enemy' then proceeded to charge him with unaluir" Cost tires, and sought to force the Prosecutor t° to . j im ply with Mrs. Forrester's terms of aePP TI W I tenance. , 04 The instances which they attempted fOsi' hi - (1 0 the Prosecutor's guilt are too shocking vim listed. At length they produced a boy, if m ,.. ); to been waiter at the Hummulls, whom t hey ("111'01 Bow -street, and who charged Mr. F. ; 0 1 assaulted him. On this charge the Margbt f t - h - r eslo l l their Warrant, on which Mr. P. was aPP:l,thilP but on a seco n d exam i nat i on , t he boy "• 41 01# marks of trepid at i on , en d con f esse d that his tion was false. These fads being proved on the part of erio secution,.it was attempted to be proved in 7,: e sift that the accusations were true, and eleven o rJ ' the stame forward to imp eac h t h e chars 1 Prosecutor, of whom two were clergyin el q, e strange to be related, three young men gic ; e - ridif e dined, who declared that they had been OP:Ai! engaged in Out - lice* with the Prosecutor, wPosoo not legally, certainly in morals, amounted 19, tura! crimes. I. The Learned Judge tried the cause jet greatest f or b earance a nd di gn i t y ; and Ill , e o Ptieql after giving the whole the most patient a'' d gir at one o'clock in the morning returned * vel Gmi/r against both d Defendants. de "ri y te Old - Bailey Sr.,: ie sion commenced Yes" Nothing w ort hy of attention occurred. CORN EXC lir /INGE, Fem. il• Tn is day —...........—. 0_ we have many fresh arrive!e °l,., '.„,,aplP . which, with that remaining, forms a larg e '' o llo l . good samples 2 . 8. and '34 , , per quarter ch4sP er ' 00 qualities at a f urt h er re d u ction, and harpiiii,' sale ; Rye an d R a p e S ee d keep their ri c l i i s tirt ley and Malt, w i t h P ea s e a nd Beans of Olgoirs: in great quantity, at less prices ; the t ool Fwa t i of Oats causes, that article to be lower' ati o " not in much demand, good at li tt le variatioo•oo , from the Nc;rth, which • difficult e , t. is i cis price than our currency. A t d , of Wheat 74s a sios a 102$ od Beans • 4 -6 2 : A 'r d .!, Fine ditto - 104$ a£o od Tick Ban. 4 4 ii $S' f l .17)1 - ' 53$ a to] ad, 0-ta 26$ a ,--, a i j o, . Barley - -40 s a 46s 64, Po m ianiidc. • I — 40, 0 . '4 7 ',1,:jr.1,^ . -78 s a bpi ;;d Rape Seed ' 2,.. ‘ I ~A.v - I' , hite Peaseof sale' Cis y ditto - 4os a 44$ od SecOilds • 46* a sas od Fine Flour ' Fit t i a)r PRICE OF STOCKS, Bank Stock, Navy 5 per Cent. 23 f 5 per Cent. 1797, taxi Irish 5 per Cent. 4 per 4.citt. 76 ikif 3 per Ct. keit 3 per Ct. Con. 5Y 571 i 58i ilAnk L. Ann. 17 7. tEittts Ditto Short 4nn. Slth.k, 184 CMS. G raivenor.sqy !rzi mucc br 3,o'dttsteri. IrltitiltnAY , 4 1. ' 0 I n dia Bontiat 3s. II it 411 $ E xilieti. 1301, S I I tilt. il l Onininm, 4 3 i,,d, 57 bnperiAl 3 pa v;iiiii e:), D.,,,, ikon. 99b 5; 1 ik a , Con, tor 1.8 ke• 0•0 5 per Cent. 17,n5"0 ,;3 l in AP 101 I *. I. DAY AT T - V - tt v a • 5 8 I Red. 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