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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF PEERS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 20. Cou war r. were heard at some length respelling the Scotch Appeal, lohn Syme, Writer to the Signet, and others, v. Sir Wru. Erskine ' of Tory, Bart. Alex. Forbes, F,sil . and wheys, namely, Messrs. A LIIXANDSit and ROMILLY, for the Appellants. Mr. Arime, :IS leading Counsel for the Respondents, did not deem it necessary to take' up the time of the llouse in itraning in favour or the decision of the Court below,, but would let the case rest on its own merits for the decision of their Lordships, The Loan CtiaNcar,t,oit rose, and immediately moved that the Decree be affirmed,' Whith was ordered accordingly. Lord Per.HAu presented a Mesp,ge from His Majesty-re lative to• the concurrence of their Lordships. in a Vote of Credit (as is usual in periods of War, towards the close of. the Session), and similar to that deliveredto the Coninions, to which we refer. The message Toeing read, Ithe Noble SacsEY A.KY of STA Ta moved a cOrre*ontling, Address to His Majesty on tim'oCca sion, which was tOrthwith agreed to by the House, Mr. ALEXANDLR. anti others brought up the Militia Aniendment Hill, the Irish Treasury 13111, and the Churt:h and Chapel Endowment Bill. Mr. Alderman Com n p. presented the London Quota Bill, The, Bills being sevonilly read a first time, and some private titisipe6t, disposil td, the House adjourned till thtee•o'clock to. morrow. HOUSE OF COMMONS, WEDNEsDAY, JULY 23. Sit WM. SCOTT moved for and obtained leave to bring in a Bill to ratify a Clerical Error in the Clergy Residence Bill. I.t was immediately brought up,' arid read a lira and second time, and ordered to be committed to.morrow. The ATTORNEY GENERAL Moved for leave to bring in a Bill to etne,oiver the Judges of the Cotirts 'of Record at West Minster to issue writs of Herbed t Coreui to bring up perr,ons confined for debt to give evidence before CourtselVlartial or before Commis sioners. to he named in the Bill. Leave was given to bring. in the Bill ; it was immediately brotight in, and read a first time. The Cm ates Bill was r,eetteesecond' time, aial or. tiered to .be committed tin Monday.. .. • Sir Wet. Pu Ler eNey moved for leave to withdraw the Bine had brought in relative to the . ereElioo ' - of a Light Huse on the Bell Rock in. the Frith of Forth ; and gave notice, that.he 'should to.mOrrow enove for a Committee to take into consideration `the different. Ads reletiVe to the erection of Light Houses. The City of London 030t,3 Bill was read a tlifril time and passed. • 'The CHANCELLOR of. the Excit equitß delivered the following Message from' His Majesty GRORG.,4R. His NI Ail. rv, relying op the 3c s support of his faith ful Commons, in the vigotousprtadecution of the Worm which fits erirAted, CCCOTlOffietidti it to this House to consider of ruakini provision towards H t s MA.J&S. ?Y. to itefray any extraordinary expcnces 4hich%naY he in • 4,1)174 for the service of the present year, and to take such measures as the exigency of allots uoay. reiluire. • G. R.' The Cite NC L, teen of the EXCHEQUER. moved, that the Message e should he referred to the Commit. tee of Supply e f e :Ordered. Theletsirg l itUde Bill was. read a third time, :10 paSSCd• The Bill for the relief of captors of Prizes • was • read a first time, and was ordired to be read a se. coed time te.morrow. • The ComMittees .ori the „Val) justicesePikl, and., thelrish Militia Familiel'Btll, and the committees of Ways and Means and.S.lPply, were put WI till Friday. • The Committee on the Volunteer Corps Bill was put off till teAnorrove. The Order of the Day for the farther comidera lion of the General Defence' Bill beitig read, SECT: AD,MY at :WAR said, there were several Amendment i . to propose to this I3ill ; lie should propose to,recommit the Bill ,fOr the purpose of adopting those Amendments.; he should then propose to have it printed. He begged at the S4ITIC time to suggest to th;mc gentlernee who might be diyosed • to' discuss the ptieeiple of the •Bilt that that discussion might earhap,i inure 'conveniently take place in it None stage of the Bill. Mr. Si 1 IcII7AN s lid, he perfetily concurred in what hid fail - t•eS teem the Right Hoo. beptletriaFt, atthe same time lie hoped that sio delay would take place, but that'eirery effort would be Made to carry the Bill into etfea as soon as po3sible. If there were any Gentlemen who opposed the principle' of the Bill, it certainly would be more. convenient to pristpone that dihensslon to' a future stage of the Bill. If gentlemen only entertained objeOloos . - to partichlae Clauses, ;het undoubtedly was ti , 'iCtliOti for going into the Committee. lie hoped thai upon t hi s occasion gentlemen would not enter intn:an mtamin4tion'of the merits or demerits of Ministers, tut that they would for this day sacrifice All p art y feelings, and endeavour,. to make the Bill' as period as po:,sihle. , • Mr. KIIVNAIRD did not agree with the Him. Gentleman upon the propriety of postponing the discussion upon the principle of the Bill.. It appear. • ell to him that the principle of the Bill, • which he collet 0 from no eeaminalion of its Clauses, dill not confirm' the avowed ()hied, fur, which the Bill was brought forward. lle lamfeited that the. Bill had not been brought forward earlier, even if h a d , been in a more impeded state than it now4as, be. Csllse then they would hoe bai t ime to i re e e l i f , particularly front -.the suggestions they woeld,have received from the biBheat authority in that flottse. e expeeted to have fcand-this u measure caleulat. to mite in the People an e n erget i c f ee li ng and a ratiorwl sense of diner, but it seemed as if the (ib. jest of the Bill was to remove tibia" the minds of,the p eop l e all 'apprehension, -of danger from InvasiOn. l eetee d o f eeeeeregi e g the .People, it._ containcii reproach upon these for not com:ng 'forward sooner. He expelled to have fetmd I!...iiii . OeUce reposed in the People, instead of which tie::teev a s a Ch ese , torte vent them from selling or pawnitig their arms. It NV a r et! th:it thi:! t:ike at leii s t live o ti t six wc..l i4n 'it it vy:cution. mid yet it' ;contained a Cloe,e. th e r the People. should be trainedebcreee: eo l en l y Day and Micietelmes, so that tltie weittri remain wily a ...h err specs. lilt thein to t) . t (gilincd., htt 11 rti, Alvawr H - Gcreding to mike some otaerVx,iun , thy is with se. to i4l:l:tt cli;0 to Order 'oy Tube SECIUETAItie at WAR, who 914 ,tbat the Hon.. Gentleman was going into a discussion quite. irrelevant to'the question before the House. Mr. KINNAIRD said, he conceived, lie as in order. He then made some obServations npon the Bill, which he considered as, much too complicated, and hoped it would be simplified in the Cottunittee, i Mr. SHERIDAN said, he would not detain the l e House a moment. The Hco.Gent lemon who spoke : I last seemed to misappreheed the principle of the. Bill, for though . he disapproved of it, he had not urged ant arguments against it. If the Hon. Gen actual-Iliad waited till the Bill had gone through the Coneinittee, he might have saved himself the troUble of making many of the observations he had done. The Lion.. Gentle Man said this Bill was cal culated to set • the . minds of the People at ease, and td make tbein think there was no danger of Inva. sion. He really could not see how a Bill,which, for the first time, proposed to arm all the People in the Country, was a proof that hilinisteee did not think that any clanger existed ; though certainly, aftei the Bill was carried into eifed, it would •re. ,move all ground of apprehension from Invasion. He agreed with a Right Hun. Gentleman (Mr. Wreeume),:. that the spirit of the People of this Country was not on a level with the danger with which they were threatened. He was anxious to see the Army of the Line completed, and the tia, and he instanced the case of the Surrey Militia, the euMbera of which were far from being complete. The'People of this Country must be made sensible of their dangerhefore they would come forward ; he had an opportunity. of knowing that in the part of the-Conntry in which he had been, an Invasion was coteeideretle as impritaicable. Nothing, was m ote common in Men's mouths than the old expres .sion, if my head does not acts till Bonaparte comes, it will never nelt. 4l He would not take up more of the time of the House at present, he hoped the House would go with one heart and and hand to the consideration te i lthis Bill, with a view to make it es.pet feet as possible, and —that they would set aside this day for fleet purpose, without entering into any. disetission about the coniludt of Ministers, for •which are would be time enough on a future occasion. Mr. PITT said, he agreed with the Hon. Mem , ter that the further distussion : upon the principle should at present be suspended - le thought that the Bill required vey considerable alterations,though he flotered himself they would not be very difficult ones to snake. The principal objeetion he had to the Bill w as , t h at i t h a d no tendency to procure with. in the time that the exigeocy of .the case required, a force suited to the danger. With which we were threatened. But whatever might be the general ohje4ioos to the Bill, lie took them to be that the Provisions of the Bill , were not sufficient to attain its own objed, or that they did novaim 'at the attainment of that tihjeC't in .the best way. This was certainly fit matter for diienssion in the Committee, though it was regular to enter into the discussion in the present stage. One of, the objec., tio4S which had been stated to die . Bill was, that it , did not give sufficient encouragernerit to•volutetary C.:eltiOnh." He had . .hitnself expressed a desire to give a preference to that species. of . service, and he thought that epecific provisions were necessary to point much mere strongly that preference ; Fitt that. might be done in the Committee. There was a clause in the Bill the °Wert of which was its accept of a lea; degree of volunteer service Where that could be procured, thane that which would be oh - tamed under the 'other provisions Of the Bill ;' but this was a provisioti which, with all'hite attachment to voliinteer service, he: could nor' wholly approve He wished , now 'to go . into the Committee without further diecussion, tend after the Amend filents which Ministers. inter tled 'to preposie, anti those. which other Gentlemen might suggest, Were, considtred, if the Bill' waS reit then free from 'ob.. jeCtions, it, won;d.bi then open to every Gentleman to state .his• opinion upon it, and to move, : if lie thought proper, that it should be re c ommitted ; though he hoped that 'would not 'he 'the case, cellist: he. was anxious that every passible diiipatcli should be used. ' ' ..111rt !`..ilfielif..o.bet.eeid a few Words andsaid e that tite.Rigbt Hon. Gentl&Mati had mis. understood R re also explained, • •Mr,II I INDIIAM laid,' it was not very wonder- IA that his Right Hon, Friend had misunderstOod the lion. Gentleman (Mr. Seize' tenet) for lie did not seem to knOW himself on which side of the question, 'or on which side ''of the House, he was speaking,; indeed he had of late goqe backward and forward so Often, that it was natural. He certainly was not, anxious to - go into the general diecussion at ehet time, though he was of:opinion that those Ifiods of discussion, previous to going into a Com. weee' often attended with very beneficial effeas. However, as the House seemed anxious to gointo , the Committee, he would, not detain them with any further observations' at preseete • - Mr. D AN said, the Hon. Gentleman had accused him of inconsistency ; nothing; would 'please him more than to have that subject And some others fairly out with the Right Hon. Gentleinao at e pro. per time. , On the question being put, the Bill was ordered to be recoMmitted, and the House resolved itself' into.eCommittee ttecerdirigly. • "' The SECRETARY at IS';;;; then said, that Nut— C.Y.try- s,nosv it was tinpesseble to make a Bill,perfen in the first instance. He had several'hOwever material amendments to propose In the Cununittee, lot the purpose of making the Bill as Pl'46ti"ble. a s possible, Which.inlVir course tae the object in a nicest:4c l . tk.e the-prcsent. The principle of the 'Bill was to enable His Majesty efe 'felteaally to exercise -his . preapgative of calling out his,liege Suhjeets for the detente of the realm;. For this putpose i t was necessar y that : they sho u ld tic trained and exercised it was neeeesery also that they ehotild be eerellede in order that His Ma.. jesty might knew the number of persons, on whom :te could cail 'in, cast: of emergency. - With re s pia to the eubjeett'Ofe-return s , ribsolutely neee soy to root 'tint:. that syetem -or Irmo whicth kid preyailq! Jtip r! . fit :places._ With /respell oe t ee e time and of cereeeing the Biil int.o . eeteettio n , it roust depend, in Aegreat.measote; on,Geerk rne e of iellentecte in the countt'y , they must tet their shoulders to the wheel, and then the Bill would G., he speedily carried into circa. With respet to the moile of assembling the persons to be called out under this Bill, he should propose, that in the maritime counties, in case of alarm on certain sig nals being given, the whole of the first class should move our, according to dire&ions to be previously given ; the other , classes might wait till they re ceived orders. With respect to Volunteers, he should propose that not only in all cases where there should be a sufficient number enrolled in Vo. lunrcer Corps in any distria to satisfy His Ma. jesty, but also where a sufficient number of per sons volunteered their services to the extent re quired by the Aa, that then such Distria should he exempted from the operation of the compulsory clauses. The Volunteer Corps formed under the present Bill must be formed .upon a principle co. ex:ensive with the objets of the Bill, and it was intended that they should be compellable to march to any part of the Kingdom in the event of Inva. sion. As to the Volunteer Corps already formed under the Defence Bill passed during the p r e s ent Session, he conceived the public faith to be pledged to them, that they should not be called upon to march beyond the limits to which they had agreed. He should also propose some alteration with respel to the duration of the Bill, and to the time limited for exercise between Lady Day and Michaelmas, which he thought ought to be extended. As there were alto some objeC'tions in Scotland to Sunday. being mimic the day appointed for the e4ercise'of training, and for the relief of tender consciences in general, he 'intended to propose that the Lord Lieutenant should be empowered to appoint any other day for that purpose. With respeet to the second and third succeeding ;lasses, he should also propose, to give a discretionary power with respeet totalling them out to exercise. Lord CASTGEILEAGH wished that a power might be• given His Majesty to call upon persons- for their exertions even before the period of 'enroll ment. would be ado /2r )te . d P/ i Tj l s v a i i l d ic , h he al l e to o p b ed some jeao f means theßill might be in some measure ,attained.before the Pqiod of enrollment. lie ' also wished that the process of enrollment might be Tendered as short as possible. lie did not like that part of the ph)) of his Right Hein. Friend (The SP.CRETARY at WAR), which went to ascertain, first, the number of persons who ‘ were willing to Volimteer their services. The fitst ()Ned ought to be, in his opinion, pot to make rese palate class of those who were wilting to serve, but to ascertain the number of those wyo were willing to outstrip the compulsory clauses of the Bill, whilst the process of enrollment was at the same time going -on, What he wished was, that they should not wait for Volunteers corning forward, but that the proper officers should go round and en rol them at their own doors : he thought this was inure conformable to the principle's of the Bill, thin making a separate class.of Volunteers. He wished that all should be called upon, in the first instance, .to come forward ;. and though such must be a Mee. sure uncertain in its effett from its very nature, yet when the enrollment was completed, those would be discovered who had kept back, being liable to be calle: up +n under the present Ball. It was provided in the Bill as it at present stood, that if a certain number of Volunteers came forward in any Distria, satisladory to His Majesty, His Ma. jesty might suspend the operation of the compulsory clause& in that-Disttiel. lie wished that the pro. pertiotiate number of such Volunteers should be fi xe d i n the Bill, as it would be a guide to the people in general. He was of opinion that that number might be fixed at three-fourths,, or, at most, fuur.fifths of the whole. A probable calculation with resped to this number might be easily made by a reference to the returns under the Population ACt, and to what were called the Tables of Mor. taiity. He wished also that the time for making up the T trollment should b e ren d er e d as short as possible, By the Bill a G eneral Meeting of Lieu tenancy of each Cou nt y was to b e called Within ten days,.at whith orde rs were to b e issued Co the Con, stables, Which of cotirse would cake up some time in delivering. The Constabl e s were then to g i ve notice to tlili'llHeitteholders, and receive returns within fourteen days. He thought this time might be shortened to two or t h ree days. Aftet that, seven days were allow e d to t h e C lerk of the Sub . division Meeting to make out the Roll for the Ge neral Meeting of the Lieutenancy, and fourteen fur the. Clerk of the General Meeting to make out an abstract of the Roils to the Secretary of Stare ; he thought this time might also be shortened. The whole number of days then taken up in the Bill amounted to very near sixty, which would go on to within a very short, period of Michaelmas, so that not aboVe one Sunday • would remain for exercise. He thought some of these stages might be got rid of altogether, and others materially shortened, soar to make the whole time, necessary for carrying the Bill into execution about three weeks. ' He hoped also that with respett to Volunteers .ceming fur ward under this Act, a power would be given to dispose of their services in the same manner, as under the compulsory Clauses, and a power Elite. wise of increasing the Regular Troops in case of 1 emergency from that source ; enough would still re. main to display jlte gallantry of k;.nglisluxten under their respective Commanders. 1. - e - ed-, Ce:Ts,gittnuit and Mr, Par severellY explained. The SECRETARY at WAR observed, that he had no objeition to the Lord Lieutenants making a canvass, In order to see who were ready for vohm tary serviceihsind-, who were not ; but there is a clausein they in 'Which went to the extent wished for 'by • the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. PITT). This claust•gives the Government a power to ascer. Lain The number of persons ready to volunteer their services to the Clown. He thought that by a trifling alteration in the clause, His Majesty would have.a power toaseertain the strength of Voluntary 'Service before the enrollment took place. The Right Hon. Gentleman wished it to be noderstoOd, that the Voltintary Service produced by this Bill Was not to be considered of the same nature, a s th e °hi VOlunteer. Corps. lie then stated that the male population of effettlive young men in this Coun try, taking them at one in twenty-four, atoottnted to between four: and five hundred thousaed L'ersons : f lie therefore th .aght the plan recommended h' the Right Hon. Gentleman,• would be too great a duo., on the People. im p pro r. ve LA me lv nt it s EN w c h t ic e h xp l r t e ad ssed been llis aSitl)Prgg(e)bSirCir of the f by Right Hon. Mr. PITT. Sir JAMES ruLTENEY urged the necessity of bay. , ing the number of persons enolted as early ,as posoif ble, that Government.were in want of, and not de• pend too much on Voluntary Service. Mr. SHE It/DAN spoke in favour of the measal adopted by the present Bill, but he could not Ittlr,' s ' . think that the vol un t ar y s pi r i t o f t he Country wait; not sufficiently roused. It is now six weeks agg.'" - since the Lord Lieutenants had authority to coile;r: the Returns of the different Counties in the king, darn. The Hon. Gentleman then alluded, co the: spirit of the Country in the last War ; he observek that he was i n C um b er l an d w h en t h e Lists came routtd, for persons to enter their name, and what they w ere '! willing and equal to for the defence of the Countrk,; but the manner in which the measure was congtelok, gave him and his friends, cause, not only of 14 " ) ,".,1 nishment but censu re , as . it did no t inspire tit': least spirit in the iehabitants to defend their pt perty and country ; and out of a large body of. t , sons, (who would, if they had been properlY„CY couraged, have entered. their . natiL:s„ and have gut their services to the protedion of tilt Country scarcely one in twenty gave themselves any trOuhlt on the sub:tecl, But all this supineness then a, now, was • pot` the ' iviAt of courage; the da ) was not yet known, not perfeCtly felt, otherw_, ; ,.. every individual would be regdy to giye his vice to the Country, Mr. Strz4tyma said a few words on the. Mr. lONall.ol thought that those pen'. would be the most effective Soldiers who h volunteered their services, as rainy. others w enteredthe service, might' h av e some physical de. feft, which would •not exempt them the service ) 1 0,1, render them unable for 'efficient duty. . • Lord 6 AST Z, R E 4011. s. k ia, the Bill now ortqC , consideration of the Committee would no t narrow the-Prefogative of tha.grcpr!, as HiA Maj est y. cool :4 , call out hiS subialtsnt..any dne, 'when the Counttf was in want :heir services only went t 4;: train a body of I*ll to be, ready. in. case_of 1110: vasion. , Lori-i/AWWFSWPY also observed, chat rb object of the Bill wAt to,t rain the people to. arm a lYl 6 : i iie w st i 7c h l e u r ld tl , lil by ßi l l h f e w L a a s w i9 o e f l t i h t e el t . l e m o d: n gli 1 9 11 i;, hi' G S e u n b e i :a E / 5 . T o A i X e L Ft .4 .'l 7.' 11 O t N he- sa C it ° l, he 4ntrY.: had received Letter from one of ' the most populous Cuuntiea.i4 the Kingdom, which stated, that the Supplementary, M riy i t l i t° of w ß er e e se r r a. %t et w i :e w re iti .:l 9 s u n t r d e i od fitc y ul t i o Ys tak an e d th tl e l ' a l t i'i t e h ll A '' against the E n emy. The 'Ho n . gentlern an then pai4 ..: several compliments 'to different Volunteer. cure who signalized themselves On various occasions, and he observed,. that 70 Volunteers were equal 10 100, ':.t7lenit-liftrui.Bl4ChitvileHN,N4:: the n. went over the remarks Made 1 / 1 ...' I h e i t s , :t e l d )p , roliation G of e ' ll :l i t e e ru s a e n n Right Hon. Gentleman. (tiMmern.PotTdre)iiivaenidedexbp;eisbsro The CHANCE.I,4O4 of the EXCii,EQUER ob . ' ~ of June last, a been bl e i i n n ° l 4 orn i- i n a tit . I Bill, no t t ila w t it n h ci st a a a nd u i a n i g inc i g. r r ic e t h s i s i.. l : 7 a l l i n e had been received. The Right lion. Gnuleinart. was itifotmeti by then informed the House, e l t l u o r n n . s Ge oi n ! t il lc e n; o m u vas n : e n n d f : r i o il7 n e t fi b ; an ag : Hon, :s G to en 6 t o le , man behind him, that since the Bill 'pettation of the Returns who had volunteered their aeroccs, for the Defence of the Country, to be very eonsi• derable ; y et l & did not wish entirely to depend ol this report, WI be prepared at every point. Mr. N. L ACE Li . ES said, he should wish that , we availid ourselves of voluntary service as 11;ttch a'.' pOSsihle, btit that depended very mach on the sake which the People Itad of the danger to which .we were .4 exposed. That had been vow announced to, existt and when it was properly felt he .had no doubt but that the voluntary . servio would be abuntlant,, for 1,10• . .' had no doubt that., whatever depended otl thitfitt'`Y , spirit of the People would: be performed weir.. 'f:_: ,- is Mr. PITT said, he was certainly very desitni!.., ../ of proceeding to the Clauses of. the - Bill .without atjgi i delay, .and to go on through theth io their order.iq but although the subjea of the Claus; for voluntatf, 4 ' 6- . , 1 service was nor in 'the first Clause, and although 4, was propel to proceed to the first Clause withoPs now entering into any.othar, yet as 'that subject hroC i t now beena good deal.tliscussed, he thought he sluittlt do better to say a few kvor4l4 uppri that bubjeit at - ‘, l thii time, rather thin dtke it to a further lime, , while it was fresh the recolleaion of the Coat.... , the route particular. mittee and of his own, and . upfeo which he hail entertained l'iy his Right lion. Friend the SgCtly blYeeans .m tl is e u r : e ): : l ‘ a V r e rt r t t O s d on . 1 e ;: d th l e ha ;rst place a doubt. was Tiktt* at N.V.ka, -what was ,the proportion of rhc `Voluntary Service to whick,he applied, and upon which ,he , meant to found his 'suggestion ; it •would be a Mistake .. i nt levd, if it was supposed that lit 's lo9lo I,tr.T94anyouipegijon of the operation of tlit litii, ;f iii;c4;..f..y_” , .ths tutu of the first class were made up by ..otters of yoluoteeT Service:Etat whatever was the number, on which -he stated no fixed opinion, b' had rather favour 4 voluntary service,. and that under the first 'class I but it was supposed that rie wished -tia:e.rxes - spz alt .. - 7, - ;:tv eht. Ent- sehm...-fruitt shewint their voluntary zeal. He expressed a sentiment upon this' subjed as well as he could consistently with brevity, that he wished to take the Voit l° ' tary services of thin all. ' Yet it Was said Iliac tilts Voluntary Services of these men would be ineffi ca " ' clans, and that it would cause delay to adopt wba,i'' he had proposed. lie Sai:i, on the contrary i t wo o. be the meani of saving of time, and he was happy that the Committee seemed now to be impressed,w it the idea that he had - thrown out on a former o ccasico! tlt.,t the great , 'and. essential question on which Il ' public sality so much depended was that of Savil tint.? ; but it was said we had not hitherto Vine. any great number of Volunteers under the Del ta ' Bill, and that ! we did 04 obtain many in that v i o ...in the last WAT ; on t hi s h e hart the satisf.nion _ ltear_ Irtun petted authority, that there trdl he great force un,'er that part of the Bill which r:d .lard Volunteer 6eTVICC, but we must n ot itel'e, _. entirely . ou that information, ' f u r however the I" • f,