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rap! ions ortg‘l)t to be taken away for the future, 4r.ki that some limitation of the system ought to be tn.ide. Mr. ERS'ICINE immediately rose and deprecated differences 61 opinion upon minute points at a crisis like the present.. It Was not now the film tn, f le.. precia;te the force of the Country, when perhips at the moment when he was speaking an Enemy might be off our Coast. Did the Right Hon. Gent. (Mr. 'WINDHAM) mean that they were at that moment to .disktitti the Volunteer force of the Countryond for -I.:ar of insulting the regular Troops, to leave. them t what they would not consider as a'privilege, to fight the •whols French army by themselves ? A speech like that of the glen Hun. Gellt;encoUrag: ing as it did persons out of doors to publish sirni l4r sentiments, tended to invite the Enemy to in. vatic this Country. Mr. W 'NN' Art here rose to Order,ind wishecl the Hun. and Learned Gentleman would confine him. self to hOls. Mr. ERSICINB prorceededH—Sentiments, he said, like those of the Right Hon. Gentleman, coming from persons of distinCtion in that'Honse, were too apt to invite the Publication of similar ,sentiments out of . doors'; and he had no difficulty in Saying, that any man who had published such sentiments as b.s own, would have been guilty of a misdemeanor, and liable to be punished for such, as tending to disparage the whole Military Force of the Country. Not that he meant to say, that the Right Hon, Gentleman was culpable for what he Utteredin that House. What was the situation of the Country at the period when War was declated ? Our Puree was. ' then insufficient, particularly. when they considered the charatter of the person at the head of the French covernment, who di:emetic(' this Country with In. vision. It was impossible at that time to foresee' how, soon the Country might he attacked, and His Majesty's Ministers were bound to receive all 'the offers of voluntary service that were made to them. The Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. WINDHAM) had I , said,' that the Volunteer force. was an armed D emo . cracy ; it could . not be a Democracy 'when they Con- eidered that it consisted of all ranks and classes, who had indiscriminately come forward upon ati occasion which demanded the exertions of all in de. fence of the Country. If compulsory means had been resqrted to, it was impossible that the same reliance could be placed on men dragged forward in that way, as on spontaneous efforts. When Men came forward voluntarily hi the defence of their Country, each man stood individually pledged, and each man Would feel himself dishonoured and disgraeed by se. :ceding from a cause in which his honour, his cha. ratter, and his interest were involved. They were in a situation*of the greatest difficulty. He did not Mean to contend, that if the Volunteer aystent were to extend throughoutthe whole of the Country, the greatest inconvenience might not result, but they had only a Choice of difficulties. Small shades of difference upon a subjea like this, were, however, not worth discussion. The Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. PITT) had furnished an example of what he himself suggested ; general report. had stated, and 'no doubt with truth, that that Right Honourable Gentleman, in his conduti as Commander of a Corps, had refieded great honour upon himstlf-and produced the greatest 'advantages to those whom he commanded. He apprehended that there wa s not so-much military skill, required in the subaltern•de.. 'Torment of the. Army us was - supposed by some, and if Officers were not aftuated by mere vanity in acceptine their Commissions, they might easily be. come acquainted with the whole of their duty. Much had been said abOot the, services to be expetf. ed frein an irregular armed Peasanity, though not possessed of much military knowledge, yet be knew that the toonalet , res of the Light. Infantry *could not be carried on without being Previously acquaint.: ed with the' niaortuvres of the Line. The minutiz of the parade had been ridiculed as useledst .but' he denied it ; there was not a thing dotie 'upeira the Parade which wits not of essential service in Wars He would ask, how•it was possible a Comps could aft with tan unlesss ..they were enabled, without confuslon, to ,form lioe and column, and change their position, io every direaion, according to ili`e inctruetiens of the 'General under whose , command they might be pk.ced Heiaw no reason to 'ima. .give that the Volunteer Corps would not be of the Most este tial service- to .the Country, if that re.• !pal was kept up which the Countiy ought to have' for them, and ifehey were treated with that regard to which their exertions entitled theM. With re. spelt to the suggestion of additional Field Officers being attached to Volunteer thOugh he Would' be willing to receive any Officer, if it was thought necessary he should be tommand. eel, yet he apprehended there„would be this dal culty, the Commander must consult with his Corps upon :I c ; the Volunteer Corps .chose all their Officer., and if an 'Officer wesjntroduc rd without theeonsent :of the men, it 'Might, ex. • cite consid rabic diiniatisfaetib i n ft It did not strike that the military profest,ion would suirer by the titles, given to ILlunteer,Offieers; they.,had, inertly a, tCnlpOrdyy' tank, and no other than the necessity of the service in which they were engagedrequired. On the contrAry, he thougii . i the Army, Must feel the greatest po , sible, satisfAitin. When they found ti,.einsel yes surroundea by the WholeCounti'' ),ready to support their tir)rts ; they would.not, be placed in a situatiOn with an enemy to front and disaffaildn in their rear, brit wets:d have 41 the support which th4could reAtrire - from , the' whole population of the Coentry. What could the Army of itseif beHalsle to, e . t.a, if the Enemy litnded in variGui parts of the Country at the same time V Calla Regular A tiny by iiself . stop the progre3s of an Fnetne 1 . 114 making his shack, . hboat t he' 'molt tart ;thud C 4. lantiticS to. 'Cuuntry ,Was it not (A , advantage that' the Whole mass of society out dktlnainn, led to military diF,cipliee and were reatiyr, to Stthifia-till:MtiClVOitollliiitdt3! law, if - an Enemy totaled, orat most of ilietti Without any. emolument He admiitea the evils and the inCO3.. ventence which resulted frin the existence of Such an Et:emy as we had inowtoeentend with, but those evils and inconvenir,ncts must he met in the best i na ,,,„-0 t h ey (ou ld.. No i ry,n would contend that the discipline of the Volunteers was ecival to' that of the regular army, hut at leak' front tlteir spirit an d ateir feelingi they were' able to give the mast effeCtual , ;‘llOl . to :hat army. lie was ready to admit that but the question now was whether that system should he• abandoned altogether at the moment of danger ? No man could tnresee that no attempt would hive been .made on the part - of_the Enemy before this time, and surely it could not be said that His Majesty's Ministers ought to have rejeeted the voluntary offers of service that were made, from which condutt the greatest danger must have resulted. He admitted that the Volunteers ought not to relax-- in their 'exertions, and he for one—was glad to' hear any proposition made that tended to improve their discipline. -What he rose principally to say was, nut • that they were there to consider what it might have,been better to have done, but to state now, whether it was wise or expedient, to disparage the Volunteer FOrce of the Country, and..to decry it as inefficient and use: les. He considered on' the contrary, that the Coun try had , derived the greatest benefits from the Va. lunteers, and that they deserved the highest praise for their exertions, Mr. PITT rose in explanation: he did not mean, he said, that the Field Officers whom he propOsed to add to Volunteer Corps, should be 'placed over, the ComoAn . ders, but should he subordinate to them,— As to the circumstance of a Commanding O ffi cer's applying to his Co r p s fu r' their consent, it never entered into his contetnplation. 'He had-heard that night, fOr the first. time, of a Committee' for the re. _ . gelation and manag ement o f Corps, and he had heard it with regret, a s lie conceived that' such Corps • could never be well disciplined • and could never be made either useful or energetic. With resped to the . Corps which he had the honour to command, . the fad was, that • whatever superiority of disci. pa ne it had acquir e d, it .went in support of his sug.: gestion,' as' it was entirely to be attributed to the assistance of regular °Akers of ability, whose ex. ertions bad - beenuntemittfng in bringing the Corps to that state of discipline. - Mr. CbURTENAY said, there were two points, in ,the Speech of the Right H o n oura ble G en tle man (Mr. 14/ n st) and that under heads, .divisions, and•sutxti visions., the leading objects ot which were to shew.,the inefficiency' of the Volunteer Corps. , Now he sho u ld Oppose to the opinion of the 'Right Honourable Gentlemae, who had nothing but theory to build upon, thine( an able and experienced Officer, he spoke of Lord Hutchinson, who had said he should have no hesitation in heeding a Volunteer Corps, and charging the French with them with fixed bayonets. He made this dia. tindion. , He admitted that the' freneh would have superior discipline in a lung detailed campaign, but here he said where the coufliet must be short, and by the forming of our Velun teers-sinto a-close column, and charging the French. with fixed bayonets, with such large number* as there could be brought immediately into 'the field, he would have eo ficulty in heading a body of VolunteerS, and saying to them, " I will brave the danger or share the glory ot: the clay with you," that • they • would immediately engage, anti that they would be vidonous. Stich, was the opinion of that expeo diced and gallant Officer; and the Right Honoutable,Geu tleman would allow that he drew all his observations.from theory alone, while this opinion was that WIIIO was founded on experience. The Honourable' Gentleman had expressed an apprehension that the Volunteers would corrupt the Army by their being 'more •-xised to • licentiousness : now in what manner thut was to be effeetedbe did, not conceive; on ;he contrary, he thought that so many Gentlemen doing voluntary duty would rather be a stimulus to the regular. Army to do their duty. As to the democracyot this plen,against which the Right Hoo.Gentleman exclaimed, he could nor help. observing it was not very. probable that the Right Hon. Gentleman wider the Gal lery( r. Pitt) would propose,or that Ministers would sup port any plan that was of a very democratic nature. Nothing of that charader was likely to be supported by them. Another Officer besides my Lord It. andai man ot high military eha. ratter, the Earl of Melia, had declared that he had n o s crupl e in saying that he was ready to head and to lead a body of Vo. lunteers against the Enemy at any time, and that in so doing . he about(' ba assured of victory against time F rench, if ever he should happen tie be so engaged These were the opinions of Officers of experience and high military character, and were of much more weight than any theory loon any neer ter, however respectable. He observedelao, that those who opposed this syitemn wduld do well to shew someother way by whien 379,000 menmight be raised ,tor the defence of the .Country. As: to the': objection to the contitSion it was likely to produce in tank, he apprehended it could have no • such etfcd, but. the etioteuy, for .Gentlemen of the first rank were among. the Volunteers, and they. • were generally the objects ot the choice of the' Men ci) be their Officers; In short, he was Convinced that every thing • was - to ice expected from the zeal, arctoto, and spirit of the Volunteers, and the Country r might safely rely on them ; and that idea was -rather COntnenallieei by the waded ante Right Hon.' Gentleman himself, witotal example in this, as • it had on other OCcaSiOtiS happened to others, was contrary to his Law, 'for he had himself said,. already he was a Cap. rain, and mated to be Colonel at a . Volunteer Corps, amid then he would most probably change his, for an office had.' sometimes the eftett of changing the opinion of that Right Hon. Gentleman. He tvoulil,no doubt, be happy again, us -he had' already fought under the banners of the Right Mu. Gentlentan under the Gallery (Mr. Ply e), who. Was such a champion of the Volunteers. • • On LAWRENCE matte several observations on the' • SpeeCh of Mr. EarKllls contended that , it had a ten dency to impute to his Wight Hon. FrieuesSpeech - efti:d which it. neither was intended, nor was calculated to heVe,• 'that of making an injurious impression upou the Public .Mind. • He laid in his , Glenn on behalf of himself and his Right 'Hon. Friend to perfeet freedom in the delivery of thetropinions, however dift4ent they might be from those of others. He agreedin the sentiments which had been de....• livered by Mr. %VtNDHA M, many of which arguments lie re peetocl, and urged otheri ale similar tendency, 0111 the sue,- jed of the present Volunteer' System. Lord CAVTLEREAGEI took occasion to 'Observe on that part of the speech of Mr. Wrt; on A 44 repeatedly inSiStCd . .upon by him as well as by Doctor La 'reset:ix, that the high. bounties for Substitutes tot the Army of 'Reserve had totally destroyed the recruiting for, the regular Arrily-r-He • should hitth veought so -too, it . he had been left -to ' reason upon- the probability of things • without having any knowledge of fads, but no man would deny that tads were - better Ifliateliali for . fanning ones judgment ot :the cited- of a measure than any. probabte reasoning--He had formerly stated his informetion an that subject to the -,House, and that from fads; but he • had now more fads to atete, and coebenuently more infiprnia tion to communicate-,The. tvhole three Which the Regular Army had been supplied with from the Arany of Reserve Wi13,7500 men., NQW the number of men that hat been raised for general service since the. month • of May last to the pre. sent time through' time ordinary recruiting of •the Army, was beet men, to %Odell were to be added 7 jeo front the . Artny of Reserve, making an aggregate amount at 14,2 et. From the Mouth of May to the month uf- December 18oa, the number of men raised for general service was 72,)4: settled the present year, uotwithstanding all the dleadvantage pf the.4lmy of -Rea nerve. bounty, was:less only. by one 1401 than that of the year and that too wheh wetter) .Militias and Scotch Fend bles were disbanded, and many of them or:course entered into the. line, and when. the itiompoly of time Rectuitiog Market for the regular Army was enure, for there Was t h en no competition against i t.. . Dauer LASPRANtek; was not satisfied with this compari spa- beeause R did not takeexclusivety• the mamba of August, September, Ottober and Novensti:r in each of the years cotta. Pntedt hi:cause these were the Months in which the Attriy of Res rye Bill was balloted thr, • and when or course the hie! ) bounties for Substitutes to serve in it operated.' • • 'ATTORNEY GENE.RAE -said, he - should not make many observations on: the Speech ot the Right lion Geie. Oman (MnlNt N up a is), although larishould certainlyarsake some. tits did not moat to - cast any censure on that Right Hon. Gentleman, Or say thing - as if any Speech cot' to tam: htm tended by Min to give any atiaantaee io•time.Eneiny over Ite• was peratiaded-that tie: Right hunt Geotlentamt was one of last in the House who would use any curiou s ex pars ions in argoinent for th e sa k e a t edventage, MI ap. parfnt advantage lit-debate. Ile Was persueded that the Right - Hon. Gentleman did out MA to give our Enoilnes any such, or any ether advantage whareiter; but he hed•fiatomMetaly had occasion to feel that the views which. the Right N un , Gentleman hail of things that came under his conssferati on , amt-tlie consequent manoor in which he - expressed himself; Ina}; although not- so intended by him, a 'tendency to the great disativuntitee of the CoUntry; for what he thoughtoap st useful the assured, Whit In: so. thought, - or lie would not say it, rite "A aro!tN tv GLmtua, in mane es tton now before the House Was a new question-Whither we s: should o t h r we should wish to stop ,the Right Hon. cent, from entering; e s r h :t u v i e d re lio h t; ar a gl o y Fit at a iy in lrn i t e it o s f of P c el rft n it e is b m y , Vtgoltuenhilmehr _but when the Volunteer system had been adopted to such an extent as it had been, so that it must be in vain for any man to hope that any observittione`could induce the House to aban. don the system; then it did seem to him to be not every use ful pradice to dwell upon the defeds of such a system, but 'on the contrary i it appeared to him that some mischief might result from such a practice. If the Volunteers were not such a force as the House could desire, which he did not say was theirdescription, but it; ter the sake of argument, they were .eo allowed to be, could this sort of language repetting them be useful ? On the contrary, he would ask it it was not . most prejudicial ? The condition of the Volunteers should beattended tee many suggestions had been' made cementing them, and they were must valuable suggestions, highly de serving elf great consideretion, as every thing :inlet be, that tended to ameliorate the condition of three or tour hundred thousain men erMed and associated in defence of their Coun try. But the effisel of the aigument of the Right Hon. Gentleman was to degrade the Volunteers in their own Eyes.-.aide did not say it was the intention of the Right 'Hon. Gentleman so to do, but it was the tendency, and it' assented to, would be the ! ' elte't of his observations..-No Man could hear or read the Worded( the Right Hon. Cent. but must, it' he gave Credit to the observations, look upon the Volunteer Corps as a body of a very low estimation--But was that all ? Let any one who.beeld the Hon. Gentleman to night, or indeed at any' time this Sessioueask himself, whe ther, if the Volunteent. had that respect fur the Opinion of the Right Hun..; Gentleman, which his Opinions in some Other matters were entitled to, they would have contidence in themselves 1-Could they have any such Confidence ii the language ofrorliarneot, of these who had, encouraged them to come out for the Service of their Country. was to be on the ' Model of the Rt. Hon. Gent. and Parliament were to say to theta--" At beet you will be little better thane Rabble-you may depend upon it no useful service can laeexpetled of you" -Now as to the Corruption of which the Rt Hon. Gent. spoke as being found in the Volunteer Corps, the Right lion.. 1 Gentleman, in his . predilection to finding fault with all Vo-, lunteer Corps, might have been able to find out some of them who - had behaved improperly. But was it fair to argue against the whole of such art immense body as this, on ac count of the conduct of a kw. who might have disgraced themselves The persons to whom the Right Hon. Gentle man al lueledehad been a disgrace -to whom ? -to themselves; but not to ehe whole Corps of Volunteers, who were as un conneded with those persons as possible, and 'stood as Ms. tind from them, as they did from their faults. if the Right Hon. Gentleman took the character of the• Volunteer Corps from the character of those who disgraced them, there was an end at' every thing like reasoning upon human attain : as , well might the Right Hon. Gentleman gain the goal of New gate, and insisr upon taking one of the Cells there, cha racters 'front which to. term a general. opinion of human nature. This was only an error of the Right Hon. Gentle man, in his predilection to finding fault with the Volunteer system--not that he himself would make a ban emulator of a Volunteer system-on the contrary, he was perseatiell, that if the Right Hone Gentleman were to set his *mad. to it, tw ' man would be more active or heartily employed in ;tinning a good. Volunteer Corps than he would.--But If he went acid '' told them, " You have made me a Captain, and you arc going to make me a Colonel ; but it you ask me my opinion, I am of no tete to you, noeleive I any opinion of you-I know, in. deed„ that I ant an Englishman, and that I will run against a Bayonet certainly-You must run too against a Batonet, but that i. all we can do ; we have no skill to nicer the .Euemy, we can only be destroyed"-Why, if that was to be the lan guest,. of the Right Hon. Gentleman, it would .not be.wone dertul if the Corps were to say, " We do nut like this Gen. Heinen ;" for it' a man becanioan Officer of such a Cores. he ought not to endeavour to make them think meanly Of duelled veto but to inspire them with epint and with coq. fidence, tied that he could only - do by she Wing then) that they were equal to what they had undertaken, aid therefore , this doctrine ut the Right Hun. Gentleman was as injurious to tile Corps to educe tie was attached as it was to the . sea ral syseate of the VUttititeer Service, For the Right Hon e Gereleinan said; that they were nut only unfit now for what they are !mended . tor, but that they are totally incapable et becomine of any utility whatever ; this he said arose from theeleittueratic nature of their constitution, and in support of this he read the Articles of one of these bedie.s. The Learn ed Getitleman said, he realty did not know exactly to what • Corps the Right lion. Gentlemen alltuted ; 'but, lie said. h e himself' had been an unworthy M em b er ore Volunteer Corpi's to whom he did believe the Ri g h t H on. Gentleman intended his observation to apply, but to which it did nut apply with justice, mine.), that not only the Officers were chosen by the Corps, :but also that the whole of the military co ncerns oeshe.Corps were muter the controul and manage ment of a Committee. If there was a n y strong object tion to the formation `or to the regulation of that Corps, and if the constitution of it was upoh a false or an improper foundation, that was not the fault ,of the, present Minister*, because that Corps was aproved of under the administra tion, of the Right Hen. Gentleman hittiseite but this was an observation that occurred 'so frequently on the objeftion which that Right Hon, Gentleman had .been in the habit of making. since he was out of Administration, that Ile 'should not, insist much upon that. But he take the liberty of refuting the assertion of the Right .Hon. Gentle man, sitar these Committees commuted the military concerns of tile Corp". The fact-was, that these Committees had nothing upon earth to do with the military Weirs of the Corps. They were a large body who suppoited their own expellees; and all they had to do was of-•u civil nature entirely. They did nut in the least degree ine. terfere 'with the military authority of the Officers, nor with any one thing that was of a military nature. With reaped to the idea of the Right Hell. Gentleman, in having what he called en Armed Peasantry, he would save the Regular Army nothing by:that with regard to Oflicersplexpertence, for the Armed Peasantry would as muc.:ll require Officers of expo-. rience as the Volunteer Corps. And as ro the objection of the Right Hon. Gentleman to toe Volunteers on account of theircorrupting the Regulars, because the Volunteers would nut be miner Martial I.4W—that was an error in the Right lion. Gentleman's assertion, for the moment they joined the Regular Army they would bc under Martial Law. The ob. jettion that the Volunteer System tended to contusion of rank, was ill-founded ; der, .eetierally, speaking, men of rank and character were the objects of choice, with the Corps. "file - inipediment this System ,threw in the way of recruiting, his Noble Friend had answered by a state ment of facts. If there was any doubt whether a Volun teer would enter into the .Reguler Service, the prat - lice was to the affirmative, but it any doubt eiisted,upon that mat ter, it was proper to remove such d ou b t b y the Bill which was now in the hiouse, arid stood for a second Reding to - •night upon the subject of Exemptions of Volunteers. But what he wished to submit to the House most of alt was this -Did any Gentleman really think that these Armed Pea sentry ought to be resorted to- instead of the Volunteers 1, Did the Right lion. Gentleman himself mean to say, thatif he could persuade the House Of Commons and the mime ! House of Parliament,. and His Majesty to consent, that we . should now abandon the Volunteer Corps, that .he himself would propose the Peasantry . instead of that System, or had he any other system in hie mind -instead Dun ? It we had ro Volunteer Corps there must be a compulsory Lety, and that would be very difficult In comparison to this system. If a ballot were to taker place it should be remembered that great numbers of titer VOlllllleer Corps, would:find .I.?epuiies, and tbat would impede the Army as much as the present system can do., Now if the Right Hon. Gentleman had no plan instead, of this system of the Volunteer Corps, he would upon retlettion, perhaps; doubt the wisdom o f theopposition he rave fir. WINDHAM explained. SAVRATARY al !VAR said. that in answer to a fad which had hee,i stated by a Learned Gentleman, that the operation of the Artily of Reserve lustt injured rec ru i t i ng hi t the Regular'service during the months it operated, he had to state that Upon a compa'rative view of the trionths.from July to Now:riper,. the recruiting for the. Regular Army had been greater than in the year iSoz, notwithstanding all the advan. cages of that y6r by theiceruitipg service having the MOOG.. p o ly of ,then, and alSo that the two 'Militias and Scotch fencibles - had been discharged, and in the present year the Army of Reserve had 56 operated. The question was then put and carried, and all the Res°. 'mums of the Committee were read 414(1 ilArcecl TO. A te - w words then past between cllr. Rua r, Mr. Secretary You< and 1)r. L' Wit ttg Ci, OQ the subjeet L of the BUM bet or days in which the Volunteers are to be trained. Leave was given to bring 'tithe Mutiny and 'Marine Mu. The Bill for amending the Volunteer Exemption Bill WItS read a .seeon,i time, and onieted to bcl‘.4tintntitted too Com mittee at th,-. whole flouse to-marrow evening. The' House in a Committee or Supply voted the annual slims tar maintaining 4 ::ortviets at hatne and abroad, at New South Wales, tie.--anti on, the Fir.st f=ruits , lire Protestant Sella° Orp4an Fund, &c. in Ireland =Report to.rt:,, roow. At Eleven o'Clacic the flow adjourned. PRICE OF STOCKS, THE SUN. SOLIII QUIS DICIR vaLium AUK'S*? ? LONDON, DECEMBER 13, 1803. A Dt.bl; , / Mail of the 9th arrived this morning. Sunday afternoon the &ma of CLAR ENCE paid visit to THEIR MAJ ESTI 'Es at Windsor, and yester. day morning returned to Bushy Park. morning the •Doxii of CAmaa. toot Yesterday arrived at Windsor from Oatlands, where His Royal Highness had been on a visit to the Dux r of YORK* The Volunteer Corps of the Home Distri& are expelled to be reviewed by Hts MAI ESTY' at Hat. field in the course of the present week. Tough no official advices have been received of Admiral . RAINIEz's • having detained the French Squadron under Admiral Lisiors at Pondicherry , yet from the information of a Gentleman who carne trom Bombay in the Alexander, and which place left on the tath of Jnly, .we entertain no doubt re. osinleathe ;7h Ling it. We shall probably have the first offi cial. information by an overland Express., it . w as of July that the news reached Bombay, the day before the Alexander sailed. • A Paper of this morning stares, that a Gentle• man, who formerly held a high military rank in tar 'Majesty's Service, arrived in Town on Sunday from Holland, and that he had communicated some vert important intelligence to His Mrjesty's Ministers. The substance of this intelligence is said to he, thit there are ioo,ooo men ready to embark f r • o m at an hour's notice, and that not only plans and Charts of our Coast have been distributed among the Officers, but that drafts of ihe Seats of severa l .of the rich Nobility have also been circulated, by order of the First Consul, who, in a Circular Lei• ter, has assured the Officers, that the Landed Pro. I T r e artyoef not En disposedglandsh shall be doubt ether the e rd of their serv ices. of this intelligence, for we , know that t h e French Government has assembled great numbers of mops in Holland, and these is no doubt but, that ever! desperate a t would p Expedition t i u o s n e d for t to h e i n c c h o encourage diem n a e t t r l e i a e imdcstctoilir a cc u ra cy and a stronger inducement could not be held oat I ' l a French Soldier than the prorpea of pillage' of ROYAL ACADEMY. --- A General Diteeb-0 for the Academicians took place on Saw /30: r tho the purpose of nominating the proper Otiicer"o nea . ensuing yea!, and of coining to some rlecisive )t sure on, the subjeft of Has MA 00' 4 tare i f i r l Communication relative to the diferen ces w.. m,,i ,ri. prevailed' between THE COUNCILf ang t ' W tU ~,tta ty . of the Members. We have .11re40' /' : ' t • o nt the scope and substance of Hu Mat 11 419 4 '1 1 " TIIE rKE. and orders upon this delicate sutiett. ' eel in vie ws. bl DENT declared that he had 'no obj through the whole business, but the hotiour of riot! Academy, earnestly recommending a complete t storation of harmony among former OffiCers were re-chosen, and alter several their sentiments respelinig persons had expressed' it was general" the subjea of the late disputes, the Members. V! agreed upon by ties should be - buried in oblivion, and give•way to a zeal far the honour of the Institution and the en. couragement • ble Address a theMeinbers, that all pas! aniinost. of the Arts.—A Stlll4 Thanks will be presented to His MAJ seven weeks Cruize off the Texel, having been .re- Shi Y pi t3 rt tl es T r n' of D O E Orange, 2 e l ..."" C lk et P r t r . i V R " 0 1 G H E i R s S i r f j :0 5 : 11v:: THoarroaquoti, in, the Rsh.r. The Ship ors clirevaiezdinfrgotmheirleta,tarSet,attihoen o p n efr tne ,c o e, th inst : by ikl;iil e rig t. the thricarn Frigate, Cilia. HAR DI M Ati, and Rrittf o r s bearing the Admiral ' s Flag • to the Princes: of Orange quitting l .svC:i t yG b' s shi was close in to the. Texcl, of consequence had taken place, except that Il: lea"- .Wit Guard.ship, and the Dagger :, each of 74-guns, h a d ret ired from, their advahcoos. position qua to the inner part of the New Diel). Where no moveine!,3l._ indeed from any .apPrelitusioH ofattack, 'but th e frQsr apearing set in on the Dutch Coast, the largr Basting bodies of ice iouketi for in consequence. would not have suffered them to remain where 04 f ::D in re E . t A h L e t . iclu p : I C J . 1 2..-*ArriV e k i..the Lela "(1 P 1414 Schooner, ters i h r r u t tn ,e t ti n ie . u gh p an u t t i l e g i e Fle g3 ; ; " 3nd the l'ar*fli .Sailetrthe Pegarus to the Westward. ictil L i e T t ti, ' 1) 3". the Wardens of the Trinity ii"l4'e ea t :Ships till, requeting information as to the nufil n " or i_f of W;ir which .could 'find anchorage -: hst ; •t i t ict h lti mtb! : ye9frifii ‘ i , i c s sli s i ll k i: l e e : 1 1 1 o bY o p et riti:nnnit this c j i , e 'rc i e l ei i rfi o cc i f li n e vem e d x ° s' i l l i n tt e lai i r f s '6 i orc e h le n t ' 'n c f r o et i iA :l t i e l i i N n a ll in 3r l : : :lll ie l" t it ; f ; the Hawk, and forty or fifty more betwee n Ori°" ' - ' by and Whitebooth Roads, if necessary. 'ft" ten, trical situation of that Port, . w i t h regar d to .1 extensive.coast opposite, ,now under the controul t) the Enemy,• renders it very suitable for such ,enter "513 lion, and the facility with which Vessels may of leave the river, at any state of the tides, adds considerably to its other advantages. Yesterday a match against ti me took place on the Greenwich Road; for too g t t i o eas; and the beg depending exceeded 3 001 . A Mr. MtroitstAt Clerk to an Attorney, undertook to walk: far miles in 3s minutes. Tice first mile he formedpet.— within the given time with ease; but 11) . the second he was obliged to exert himself; .4 1 c'' . . two miles 'he walked 'in seventeen minutes Oa ..' half; the third in nine and a half ; and the foot ( ' in eight Olitt 3 half. The half ,lime allowed being_ 'thirty-five minutes, he of cour se lost. by 4 minute. Mary and Rourke were warm word, arising between the two former, Be" struck lizvrit ; the latter . .returned the blow, ~,Itot_ they had then a regular set to, when Beithrr.,gavci present SO, • his opponent a knock.down blow. declaring h$ sequence declined all further contest, did not come 'there 'to fight Bekhir, but for i i,: o .i e : ' purpose of meeting the Chirit,v, with whom he some ,busilicss to'i-,ettle. —...e London: efsiacti M...,,„ t t. te