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tlqf ending that otliers deorught :wqmte. 4 pep. • would create a kind of ineitlious c-empartson, aati torrid inspirethe-worst of all . feelitee,s, a eiyalshe ? tirttured - 4ith -animosity, 11141 appei•tred - eo pith to be a mischief sO l srear, that the ategmeating..t te ra Reular Army out b do nut to be purchased at such an expence. To thus propositioni therefore, l could not agree, ; But certainly opon this subjeti -much .woolii depend uPoti. the- °sem' mA1e ,.. 4)1 t h e „Army of . Reserve .to fill up_ the itql ul ' *", Regi merits: He confessed he felt greet djstttist of himself' and 'great dlfefente when he spoke tniiiitary Amigos, but • he uoderstood to 1)e a point rstalalished by the _concurrent • opinion of eh most all Officers, that if new Recruits were poured Lao an old Regiment whith had all "its Commis sioned Officeti, that' such Recruits .would much sooner beeome uiefel :Soldier's - than if they . were formed i ron a separate Corps.. He, luewever, had some apprehension, from what had fallen from the SECRETARY at WAR, that insteld ,of spreading the Army of Reserve over all the Battalions in Great itain and Ireland, they meant to. confine them to thirteen Battalions. Now if so great a number of neyoreised ineti ivore added to so• few Of the old Battalioes,aif course they could not have so.much .advant age from the knowledge of the Qfficers, as if they were spread over rhe whnle so Battalions i n Great Britain aril Ireland. It would probably be answered, that the Commis.s'ions might he filled 'up out of the Half-pay; but upon this subject there were one or two points that struck his enintl...„ln.the. first pl ace , t h at d i d not apply to Non_commiseioned 'Officers, who were certainly extternely essential in ,the formation of a Corps. 'But this was not all, the military situation of this Colliery, while it was. improveti, ,was a l tere d by this m easure Of they 'Were only to have the Army of Reserve, it certain. ly would he proper to have recourse to the kialf-oaY ; List ; butt in etloit ion to that Army the flouse would reeopat that t h ey were now givi ngstheir sanftion to,a meacti t e for raising 3 or 400 , 600 men more to , • figh t f o r t h e Country. That there would he no difficulty in reising•these. den te - bed not the slight. est doubt. T he spirit of the C meaty was now r Int, it hart natiifeated itself in tile Capital, it 'would pervade the Ottrerne parts of the Country, it would • catch from town to town, nod from village to via. !age., and would make the Country one scene Mani_ resting the spirit of Englishmen; and displaying it in its native Itistre'. ,Of the numbers of 'men they wanted, they were . thel-efore surei• but then they would want the ,means of. preparing .and.drilling them with all the dispatch that the shortoeas of `the time Would alloW. 'Did it not then occur to Gen.: tlernen,th a t they would-then have infi nicely more use for the Officers who were not at rach . ed, to Reginieots, tttr elelt eureoer. Did it not - occur to. Gentlemen thet if in atiditi'on to the Nebility . and Gentry who tvould Cenonissions, if it- were possible, to have fdr every three or four of thenoone or two Officers • from the it would certainly tend tti Vine di:a Army with teore rapidity and with inure corredness. It therefore appeared to him a matter • we lf wo i shy of consideeatiere e whether they could mil., by .allotitee a.greater number' of Battalions of tra• Line to receive the Army ofikeserve, by 'reducing the necessity, filling up, the Ciirrents. Mons in. that Arniy .e.-itli Officers have More Officers of the. half. ,a to discipline Ore • irregular Army which they were now proposing to vote. 'He apologited to the I fence for ocenoying their time upon thiS subjeft, but he cotoidered it to be tilt- duty of every Member id suite his opinionti team those topics. He therefore applauded the Hon. Officer for having given the House his opinions..upon the mearts of National Defence.. He hail listened to. dr Hon. Officer with great attention, and concurred With him on many poin ts , b ut i n none with more satisi . anion than in what he said of the advantages', pf field 10 1 '6 fieat ion as applicable to-the present (Te a . ttion. Ha also concurred with the. Hon. Officer in the propriety of Securice the treat naval arsenals, inot from eepture, •for that was done already, but front bomberdment horn ,the most ,remote distance at whi c h i t was poesible. This, for what he knew, was now done, because, as he f had'l ie Ore stated, these were, points wh IC' I had of 'some of chte mess able OEI eers the Country. He 'trusted that there was not in an . oarte y of chit 'false I ride. that would y q r make any us despise meant; of deferce of this kind, if calculated to add to our security ; much less he •I ( pc, wou d taey be • trotted upon ideas of mi st aken ec °limy ant wretched penury. He trusted; that with 'a' view to save ti fewepeurids nr Shillings, , they _would nor run the ri-k of wasting tht best I --vote 0. tots ...ountry. There was another • to which. the Hen. Ofh_ cer adverted, and in which I I l ' '' n. IC ./Cileveu he been little misund If erstoot • -e meant that. part in Which the Hon. G '1 ." ent email talked of fortifying the Cnests•of this C ;entry ; lie knew very welietlie pre -jodicesehat pro ailvdk uputi this subjen ;, netv it would he said, "WI ' f the eat are you t eein g to orti y Whole Coast •;, areyou, going Co build tt wall round- 3 / 4 1 '11 1 (mtl ?" llonourAle Officer. he was sure 111t! ,.11I tan . itc h thi ng . H e did not speak of 4°NitY. '"g:the wh o l e •eareot of our Coast, that tvoulda be •ahono . but Only such plus its were accessible, ',itch :.‘", the flutime i ; he Iftlieved the Hon. Officer. sett agree willt in the.proptiety of adding \"e'veastle, Wheat the Hon. Gentleman talked of 'i"g these d• secure, beelid not mean abso lute ates security, nor did he mean that tilde was • t o .1 ) 1 ' a chain ,of VorificattOns till round the -Coast Eltglend ; he apprehended he mean t a se l e ttion of given situationtethat might ohs( rut auEnen's land t"t‘st nr, which might render it difficult for them.to'Pe /lel rate the Country. It coald not be supposed that eo miles of coast would require so miles of'•foras"- tit"). The objeCt eiropesed was to 'secure those points.whereahelando•t-of tile Enemy might be made most ease l ;led to lea'ye those open which w ere the most defended by feature. If this was -ace cutnpli•hed, 'much mi g h t h e ti o ne, be:Cause it' die )I ' l depend su mud) upon, ereCtieg 'peat ,;'• in improviug -natural advanttrges• Every body kne w '0- • netable valle s. ea t there ktre intim 11 , A . 11115 c-l!nlry, with rivul ets owning through • 1 ,11. tvloch . might be inouretateil,_ a measure h •on many eteeattioos‘Might he of the greatest .fle . Was diet - time convinced that at vcr), cotTipslialive t.Xl4nce we might for tiq it „teat extent 4Coasr, or at least pot it in ouch "Iletettott. that instead of being oblige 41 tO IC your attption to such an immense eittent 0 ,eav, c things must lumen, unless you flail an enormous hir e i: ,: t t sig ea lit ti :i n e d l i i i a l ero !.o w ,a ct a rt ;d t e s t x me l:n n t t o 7 c te a d: a . t r : While ol.lco you were t,to v , t) my indeed, viz, you ire!st either Coneenter your Army at . some point equally distant from all,the pro: 'bible points of attack, or else _it 'Must he fritteved ' away in small detachments, to be ready ,to oppose the danger Wherever ,it might occur, The olsjed of the Proposition made-by the pon. Officer was to avoid this . inconvenience; 'it would, 'in the first placee afford the means of obstruttting the Enemy on, his landing, and also of obsqueling his subse quent progress. This Watt. the teal meaning of the Ilan of Fortificir ions whirls had been suggested, not 1 the fdolish notion s';f buildirtg a Wall all round Eng.. land.- By the adoption. , f. this measore moat danger - would be avoided, andGovermnent would skew that while the People LI England were desirous, not to be spared in the. necessary contest in WhiCh they were obliged to engage, the Goverment were on the other hand anxious not to make an unnecessary use of . that courage, which, w hilts they applauded and ad. • mired, they should at the same time manage and spare. The third °Nett to which tile lion. Officer alluded ' . Was . a at of employing fortifications en .t!se 7 . line of, internal defence.: this rested upon so. plain a principle, that although it tniep require Military knowledge to state it withprecision, it moulted only the plainest common sense to see the advahrage of the measure. lie really had many apologies to make for trespassing upon time House Upon these points; he would only make a few observations upon the +th propaition of the• Hon. Officer, and the comtnents that had been made upon it by his Right lion; Friend the SEC R iTAR v at WAR. The manly feelings, of his Right Hon.,Friend, and if he might add,- the expression 'of his. obstinate- prejudice in Emvotir of his own Country, would not -suffer him to believe that the French would offer such -an insult to the People ofEogland, is to fight.onEeglish ground for the Capital. He certainly Was . one ,of the last men living who would detract from the merits of the. Navy, or who would be inclined to place lesi confidence in them than they deserved. He was as little disposed to think lightly of the Army, or of the spirit and exertions of time Peop* . .of England. He had no doubt, they would render. Us invulnerable. Bu•t• still there trete possible accidents depending even upon a day, which, would counteran the best conceived, Plan of Defence, and by which the bravest and most numerous Army ,might he baled. The •• Enemy might hazard an operation for which a General in our service cyanid he brtikeor shot, but which the Frenelt General would hazard, because he knew if lie did not litt.rtipt it he would be broke or shol:'""TiliwZvet Mad such an attempt would tip. .r r t i r t t c o , o in tta l . ;.t . pe i spme i t would not appear so to the illat proud Despot, while trembling on his usurped til•rooe, sv ot od feel but little con: cern fur having sacrificed uOO.OOO Frenchmen, ah&stili less would he feet for millions of English. men, it lie h a d thorn 'within his grasp. They were iliereldret in :trilling upon their safety, not to . he - satisfied by probabilities. It was not enough tor us to know iliac the Fito4 Csmsul was eecentric ' and mad, to justify Ili in tiegledieg any practicable means of deteoce. . Ile would doubtless in time pay the price of that madness, but we must take care -that we did out pay for it first. .We ought, theter'res not now, to disdain precautions which formerly were not Considered 'as necessary. He therefore could not agree in that; short and decisive answer given by thteSECRETAKY at WAR .to the Hon. Officer, in which he declared he would not fortify London while we had suds a Navy and ..Army. In the first place; . with regard to the Navy, we must retolleethow large a part of it was in very _distant stations. But even-if we had all our Navy at home, he could concei ve Sittlalthlfli in which Ships of the Line or Frigates would not be sufficient to • i • ntercept all . that innumerable Flotilla that would issue. at once from t h e Ports of France, . and which would coyer leagues of the sea. If in. deed the Navy. was quite sufficient for this bur. pose, then where , was the necessity of this ? because if the Navy Would-not suffer the Eoemy• to land, there certainly would be ni) . ,occasion to. fight them on shore. Nothing appeared to him so a bsurd as to argue upon what we (night to do, from' what our ancestors have done, -1 he present state of this Country, was not to be compared with its condition at ,any former petiod. Even at the time o f the Armada,' Queen Elizabeth only colleted .140,0ta0 men ; now the Regular Army was almost - as numerous, and we e found it • necessary to arm, in'additinn 3 or 400,0e50 men. , The times were changed, the 'system of war was changed, atiti were' they to ,be told that because they had .not . Fortifications , formerly, that they ought not to have any Fortifications now ? It might be as well said, that because, men : fought with arrows and lances formerly, that they 'ought now' to oppose them to heavy artillery and Musketry. But it was a very great historical error to say, that our an cestors in :England, but partitularly • in- Ireland, ; did -not constriett great numbers. of Portsigeati. ,ons, lunch more numerous than any it was now proposed to eree4. With regard to the Fotti. tication of the Capital,' unless iz ' would surpass the powers of- the Country to accomplish it e if it could add to our reasonable security, in his .epinion it ought to be done. Here again the Hon. Officer did nor, he supposed, - mean that London •was to be encompassed coMpletely With a Fortification. He 'supposed he meant that.proper advantage should be mede of that great natural barrier which was capable Of rendering it stranger than almost any Other Capi. cal in Europe. The-great error tharGentlemen-ran in - to upon this Subjett„ was that of making no difference between Regular -Fortifications Alla , Field Fortittea. tions., It was not prOposed to "comma works like those of Lisle or TOOtllny, Which could not be taken till after a regular siege,but if we could by throwing up these works delay the progress of the Enemy .; for two or three days, or . .a week, it might make the difference between e the safety and the destruc. ' titin of the Capital. - It was known to His Ma. jeStyab pll.:Cilt Ministers that this system was in , eutat l nplittico, that a plan was d:a wn out which chi. feted in very feW particulars indeed from the-state ment which had been made by the:Hon.. OffiCer e -, The Plan was digested, tint! accompanied with a mi. note-survey, and the Works were Mutiny traced by . General Dundas, It was not suggetcd by any waist of cooklenr.,e ;he the em be the pie Of ihiS CoUntry, hut was founded Lißcu th isprin. ctplei that while Weset no liinits to !he e.kt':itions of the People', oh the, other hand, that every means should be employed to diminish tWdanger, to mike the'tontest as short as it was possible, and to prevent that horror, 'Misery and devastazioo which this C ,, untrytnOtexperiencefroM a more protraaed war. fare, even though we should be ultimately suecessfu!: tngland must loek at this ai a contest from which, L?v.the eittraordinary favour'of Providence, we have beeh so long exempted ; and if we were at length called upon to enter into it, we ought tO•meet it vitlt just gratitude, proportionate to the length,of time we eujnyed the exemptioM elle . more this.Silhjed was discuSsedil. the more it was ithpressed upon his mind; that nothing hut. a 'tide sense of the mag'tude of our danger, : anda proper view of the' means of the Country, could bring us to that temper of mind which was calculated to produce just c•Jt. fidence, which neither desPised nor dreaded danger. It would only'4emaiti to exeente' me asures that the that had. been adopted, to, take care that Govern. ment employed the means with which it wa s vested to the best advantage, that the kegular Army be as high as passible, that the Militia be kept'entire, and unbroken in. spirit, and the Auxiliary FOree be as prditiptly raised and disciplined as the nature of things would admit of, that nothing should be omitted that military skill, could suggest, to render success more certain, and the Contest shorter. If there existed the same disposition GoVern.: ment to apply'the means with which thy were en.: trusted, that Parliatherit had shown in giving them ; if the Nation was inclined to follOw up that spirit of which Patliament Mind y et the.exaMple; and of which there was every day fresh proofs arhong the People, then 'the Country was safe, ,a 4 he should not be considered as sanguine, when he said . that this contest Was sure of being teminat. ed to the eternal glory of this Country, and to the shame and confusion - of the 'Enemy ; ,that it would open the o n ly dbor to-animate the spirits, to revive the courage, to' break the lethargy of the surround. kg Nations. He was sure that a French Army that invaded these ,Coasts would tieviir again revisit the shores of France,' or. that if it did it would only be to find alining the People ofithe Continent a re viving spirit, .thas.would induce them to retaliate upon France all the-oppressions which had protecd. ed frOm that wretched fabric, fbuntled upon the pro , stitution of Liberty, which had reduced the People of France to a' state of wretchedness and slavery, and which had produced greater scenes of'oareision and injustice against the. surrounding Nations, than the history of mankind ever affolded an example of. Pecs. I The SEC B.I:TARY a . t WAR, in explanation, said, that the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Pm) had mis. coneeived what he had observed with respeti to, the remarks t 4 the Hon. Officer (Col. CRAW ram)) on the ' subject of fortifying the Coast and I.ondon. It was his private opinion that the System of Fortification • adverted to by the Hon; Officer had not been carried, to that extent in this Country to which it might to have been carried, His, opinion, howeVer, went' more particularly to the propriety of, taking the steps advisetkat the pretent moment ' rather than to the general poliey of the measure. ' With respect to the'llattalions formed out of the Army of Re. serve, the Plan attled upon had' been sanetioned by the best Military Authorities;. and so far as he was concerned, had his approbation. Jr was tp ,he ob. served, at the same time, that the other Regiments, besides those he had alluded to, would afford their aid to the formation of the Battalions of Reserve. 'wi t h respect to the training of the new Levies,- measures had been taken to call upon all Serjeants who were capable of 'such a duty, above 3000 had been. already provided,. and a 'much greater number had appeared to tender their exertions fur the same service. . . , , .. Ms. COV RTEN AY said, :that . if the utility of the ideas suggested by the lion. Officer (Colonel` CRAWFORD) wanted any confirmation, they had ob. mined it from the eloquent and -masterly Speech of theißight lion. Gentleman (Mr.Ptre).. That Right !lon. Gentleman had .shewo that, the plan of defence. with fespeet to the objects alluded to in this De bate, were in possession of,Government, but not a single idea with eespeet to,ithat std,jed . bad been 1 . , acted upon. The ideas suggested by the Hon.Of fleet bad previouslx . received,a confirmation' in that HOuse from the opinion : of General Lars 0x,.. who was Certainly as perfectly capable as any one to form a correct Gen upon the tibjett. The Right Hon. Gentleman ( the Ss ca c VARY eitAVA4) had fri.., dictded the idea Of defending London, but the,Right lion. Gentleman under the GAllery (Mr. Pt rT) had. stated a very jest opiniOn upon...th4subjed. ; The fortifying of London bad indeed been done aleeady in the Civil Wars between Charls 'I. anti His Par. liament; anti when the, Duke of Brunswick was on his march to Paris, the Inhabitants of that Capital ex.. ertedthemselves in every possible way to throw up not regular fintifications`hut field redoubts to check, his, progress.. He saw no reason why the fortification of Linnitio should not now he proceeded upon,it had been santliOned by ate opinion of the best MiliraryOffieers. Former times.badbeen,recurred to by the-Rt. lion. Gentleman (the SECRETATY . at Wmt) but it should be, recollected that the urgency of the tiwes was ' now ten times Mute pressing, and thelorce of France ten tunes greater. With jeave4 to the Army Of Reserve, he had understood that the Regular keg. - merits were to be completed before any now B;tha. liOns were formed; but from what hatl been said by the 'Right Hun. Gentleman, (the Sec a ETAar at WAIL) he woold ask if the skeletons .of Regiments were to remain whilst the Army of Reserve was to be tortned into now Batt4lions (the SE6R F.TARY at WAlt answered across the TohltkqM)).• Then were the old Regiments to be completed, he would ask, before new _Battalions were form:d out of "the Army ,of Reserve ? (the SeCa STARA' at WAR. answci.ed in :the saute manner, Yes)„ Mr. CouturcNAY cx. l'ireiieLl himself satisfied with this explanatioo. The Representatives 'of the People had, he sdid, done their duty in putting a great machine in mo. 'lion, it only wanted animation. fie wished that the Pe.ntle might be able to liiok up with confidence to the skill and eXperienCe of a Military "Council, CoMposed ,of Offieets, such as Lord ', Grey, LOrd Howe, Lord Cornwallis, and, other,-,equally dis, tinguished men, who bad often - led- the Britith ' Troops to viaUry . and glory. Measures of the ut. I • tunsf iniplrtince '1;;:d bCCn 4 Hon; (Co:6)nrl CR Av.' I , it the P;,.;.kti. Hon. Gentleman - 011e r - i ) 1. had not been ,totiilly omitted, but had :lit); et.et bten begun upon Captain 11/Mr& Said a sVottis With tespen to the prohataity Of Inva , .fo!!, a, tillu t red tO 1.)); ilatiouriibie Officer (Colonel CaAw n).did n o t Cont.eive' it pra6i , ..:able, which opine in hi. was sanctioned, .Ire said" - by that of several Nay.ll Officers, that the Pnemy could einbatk 2sckor too',6a Oki t ran , pot . t them hither and disemoaik them in the course of twelve (ours. Calonei WOOD stated, that there had been this day a Meeting of the Lieutenancy of the Coulty. of Surrey, in which the whole Plan rot the 1),1e4o of the City of,London had Wen bronght forward iiy the Officer commanding the Distria, and commente.l upon with' the greatest ablity. The Right 1-1„m. Gentleman (Mr. Prr-r) had alltuftd to the fl.s-irt of Elizabeth, but had forgot to notice Ow titrifs issued/by her to her, Lientena n to assemble a7Military'Couneil, cOmpotied of most able and` effeCtive r.rder, that ihe most able Plans might be suggested fir the crefenee of the country., If such a Plan was deerti7d necessary at that time, when Miiitary Science was compara. tively, in its, infancy, how initcli more w a s i t •nec es . sary at present? lie agreed' with the Right Hon. Gentleman (the SECA t:TAR.Y AT WAR) with re.yeCt to the propriety of arming those melt of the new , I,evies with !tikes, for whom imps of anoth , r , scrip! ion would not be f o ttod ; such a farce, added to a small ntuntor of Rogular 71!roops, ssint6l be lonia of the most essential service in the case of lov'ation: With respen to the stibjol of Fllt:ll.:ati6o, as al • bided to by the Hon..otll:er,(Coi. CRAVti•otto), it Was certainly true that - there was not time fur eon.. stritaing new Batteri4s; as it . wasAtighly probable , ihey could 'not be finished in time, acid if so t hey bad, bettertiOt be'ltgun at . IYIND "MAI 5',1,1 he !loved the splendid . elorreoce of ,his 'Right Hone Friend (Mr. OtTor) would !Pave its etieCt itt rousing that in:tnl)'.. fortitude ' which grew ttift of the steady cov,templation of the danger. Exhautited as the House Was however, up o n . th 4 subjeti, lid must 'detain them with a few opinions. advice given by the Officer (COI; Ott Aw Fo n) had not km• treated in the most kindly manner by the Right Hon. ,Gentleman (the. SECRETARY• at WAAL; hot whatever .the opinkttis of . the I kit. Qiiker were, he wished to share in them,. as he had statt!d on a fir. met' night, or at least meant to state the'stne"dpi,.... niont. He thought thin a Military Collodi Ought. to be assembled„ Ile should be ext remely sorry if, in urging this measure, it should be considered to be ; any 017ttlion upon the Illltstritaus Person at the head of the Arniv, but he could n i t conch: der it as any re fizEtintl‘ 111 , ,ni the ChAroaer of that' Illustrious Person, that he c , ,uld rot dis patch a quantity of business which no man wa s equal to. -Without -the least ,refl::tinn ihe charafter of that Blustrious Petson, lie thon, ! ht :there , was a strong call for the assembling of a Council. It •was no answer tri say that there wqs a depaitment in the Quarter-MaStetGen,eral's Q lice immediately appropriated to receive the , alluded to by the Hunburable Officer. He wlq • .happy to bear testimony to the gallantry of the Officer who held a distinguished situation in that Office, and he was glad that the prrjudice a,:aiost Foreign 'Officers being employed in the Service 4 this Country was in sonic measure: overeotne. fle hoped that' distinguished Officers in Foreign Service would not be prevented from corning forward in sup. p ort o f what ,was a ciunnionCauie. Jr iv:is, however,' impossible for one man, whatever might be his ta. lents, to receiVe and examine the greater part of thent, and thus form a-correet judgment. 'They should nut - `overlook in this r'esped the abilities of persons in Another Country, or the abilities in this ; L'lrd Grey, Lord' Cornwallis, and Sevetiti other drstin-. guished Officers : Was it politic that the taleots of these Gentlemen thould he suffered to run to waste without any Of that 'measure ? It' was also to , be obserVetl, that military plat;s 'would be much bet. ter considered in Council, than when they were - submitted to an individual, There, were.sr... verakopies urged, on which he thought it onneces. nary noW`to speak, lot they had been so ably corn. ' !Dented upon by his Right I - Jon. Feiend (tVIr. - Pmr). But if theSO things slimed the utility'of this sort of discussion, hOw much- did ,they tell against the Judgment of Flit Majesty's Ministers, because the first inquiry was, had these Things been adequately' considered ? The plans urged by.the Hon. Officer were of the greatest : importance ; ,and 'even if they were not, they cainerecornmeu&d by it high degree of military authority, The, Right Hon, Gentle. man (the SECRETARY at WAR) had said, that the plans alluded to were considered ; and if dic e y had not been adopted, it w as because they were deettied not . advisable"; . .but he (r.'\'Vt:cou.A . :t) had seen many things adopted which were not comtiOtred advisable at the time they were. plopOsed. It appeared ti) hint that Ministers al:vays spoke in the wrri tense'; it was tiot,the past or the present, but tilt: futuret it was always that skit a thing willobe considered. He wanted to know if any . one ; thiog had been done which might not have been dona• long ago. Now„ when they were on the very brink of f .lairger, those measures were brought ward by Ministers .whteh there al: ),ved to he 0 . e.), cessary, and yet they were Ira brought forward in Hine. Ministers semi .'d to play last and 10-tio ; they now sail, that under the resell( c - !reutrt. stances Of dan , , , ,er, it' any ohan 4 es we re .rn a d f: iii the Military 6ysteuti they ought he with still greoter danger. The pres t o t t sure was ,a ndessi , :u i,t,. the danger, ar it must be a lOng titw. , fore it coital he c,rri, J 1 1 To (;xec‘otio n ; lie ,a,vno reason why it b ee n b roug h t forward at an earlier i t ?pith of the Country had not 1 / 4 1 now, Because Ministers had not talke,.; ss hich they were now talking. Wi,c, iMastire, the c7,,“.;;:ttlioil of it It. the discretion of Goverionent, upon the training tit the then , ss iti;dl very likely to he faulty, hod that appointed to perform that si:rvice the old system, and attempt 19 ters:::l necessary, by which a :nu .n would .be consuitsed, C , (i