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0 le prolinge.d; and then rrinting the Bill in that th 1, en, that could not . ;{ to a tt}rful parrose. If the Comm;.t:ee w-).11, 1 con,etit receive • the clause , hr had to prci,o,e, he t! the Bill 'night 1)e ready for discussi,,,, itl, :hesr Ckuses on Tues. day. MY. FuLt FR extil;i;: - !ed. mr. cL,A,(FEA• sa i, t, 1,,.. wiqlied there Could he a class enrolled statement male of the nil n ;,.., of eac h , ~,_ in Volunteer Corpq, aq lie •tio a ; lit it would be f , _ti r, 1 . that a very small part .. f . the whole were ben, that the by the exemptions. Fe wa , ef i pinion t Country would have come t r art-1 in the same Pa triotic manner if no innucement whatever had been held o ur . Col. CR W AFO RD (..hjeae(l to the exemp t i ons , 23 :entiirt to atTriv e the Coo'; y of that force Which WAR 11, nkt waile;i M :an A rmed Peasantry. r. PITT ll ;sit e d , . 1. 4 ; i,,fornsed 't the course of proceeding "1 i : , ' 'cit Ws, intended to he ;:darted ; he wished to x ,w what sed c'euses were inter' l (''l to he propo by 'he Right 11.,N. Gentie.mar, (M r . Secre tary YoRKF i at, if the:' did not meet his ideas, be intended t propose otl'ers, hut in what stage he did it was itnrr ateri al. He licwei.-1. wished to state his ideas upon the stilije6l. He thf, Home scp.,tmecl. The CIIANELLr'R of the p,.,y r .: HEQr_ ER =liff. ges!ed, that it w .ti'd he bent ' . for his Right H"P• Friend (Mr. Sec. Yoßt(o to propose hi', clatnes, and !hen the 13111 might 'he re . pr i nted f or further COtated ,sidera,ion. Af!et 's Right Hon. .F r i en d l r ,d s his liideas ti;ioti th e :ad,j t s t a, the. Committ e r wuuld then -see, whether i t was necessary to propn4e any other •;nner,4l,n.i.nx,, ' . • Sir /TM. YOUNs.'; said, he 'should nn t press his ame m i,,,,,,, 1 - , er w t,,,- h -d been said ; but he thought it wiadd het.o hre;icl, ~f Isith to take away' f rom the V,,:;;;Jerrs , v.*:it was never piven , n t h em. . Th e 1.;,!,0,ed ;tmendinnt-c- was then withdrawn. • Mr. S,cretr;),P)RKE i'd, if he understood the wi,h of the Cornmitte had t o :', it as tl:tat the Cl auses h e pro p w pose sh , :uld be received pro fo; ma, and th4 ted l t he should state his view o f the prf , visions sug . g r stv the Rie,ht lion. Ge nt . (M r. • PITT) with his reasons why he though ! so to be me of t h ose ought not the b in, that the Volunteer system must at present be nreserved, that it would he unwise at the pre• sent moment to lay it aside, hut that it must he ren dered as effenzal "11 I{ h thought that as possin e. e t ougt a great d eal of misconception had taken place with re -Bpeh rn the V lunteers. The Volunteer sy st e tn h a d *risen —it ot t h e Defence Ad ray that Adt Hi s e ar is en was mpoweted : to call out the Classes in caie a sufficient number of Volunteers did not Conit ker,„(ard, or to fill up any part of the s v't' ti , 'hat might be done away, but he was ,opinion, that that Act ought to remai n i n re . serve, to he only rStecute4l in . ease there was a tiecessity for it, as it was certainly much better 'ilia! what waS waoteil shOuld be efreded by the vo. Minflary System of the C' , unt ry than by .compuisiiin. any opinions had been thrown out that the Vo. lunteer syt,•turi %vas not carried to that extent which i t m i g h t have het!), anti some Gentlemen were of opioi:n, that clauses taught to be introduced for that purpose. lie wished to state the necessity thore ska , , that they should not attempt to (JO too much is t!le way of .Regulations. He asked Gentlemen ,to consider under what 11..•cilations the Volunteers at pre:ent subsisted, and wh It' had been done upon ilia: athjeet. The Aft a 1794.. did n more than enable Iris . . eiLiesty to' accep t t.:t• t pi, toy ` grant exentptions from the Militia ballots, and to make provisions MJrtial Law in tle.t avant for pl , uin., , them under of tllei! being called into attual service, hut left IF, iklijesty to wake sus_ rules and regulations for their &sciii. , .. as he slmuld thin tw k fir s He tie must rec. then o b serve, tr ahate t. e r r !? )1 t t o b e donein this p rati. ; it was not nece ssaty- to m a k e i t parr of the • : - escnt i;ill ;• it Was only necessary to I.ot e t h,• *rnoriey wanted for pay and allowances With re. spea to the allowancts, there could be n. qoestior as to those grated to Volunteer COrpS accepted- pre vicu to Ci , t,t of Augu s t ; but it had been said that similar i!,;-•,,ili!y li:lti ;:ot been spew to'tlie - Corps accepted since. He begged leave to observe that in the alhiwances to the latter, Ministers hail in view the provisio ns of the Defence A s ti and wished to• assitrtilate the allowances as intich as possitile to those to which these 1 liave been called persons woo would ,to iilaet that Art would ha-ve been . entitled to, twenty.days ray. In point of faa, he believed that mo st of tne Corps had exercised .0 Or go 'i'lYs in t l'e cootie nt . lilt year, which was a sti,,ng Fool ,f the r 7,-.11. ile Ag tet o, i t w as o f im. r , ri iice that in the cob t''. ot.'the next "three months 'the V i"iin,eer C e: 5 oneht, t,, otetcise more: fie _ . qt•—iy, i: or j e t . :,', rri:zt ,iternselves ii dis:ipline„ Tile Rtgi. 11,in. G;;;lli7Mitt! (Mt. PITT). had pth. posed titi: C , ,r cs ,h, 11'2 be invilwd to assemble 64, P osed !tient pay and duty , and had also-riiposed TWO - Mo fr?r. des inspeaing J p te‘e Corps. The fi rst , that Clfficers to receive they si•oula, have revile'. Officers a s ass i stant Field. ; time on permanent s and th e - oth e r, i!.at they should borrow f or the time, Officers frdm..ltegimetits asse m . of the Line. lie .vas friend' to th principl e 01Corii ,, htiog fe ir a certpermanent pay- ar,d dot : ard' if it should appear to be the wiser of a BuffiCil:nt number 4 bistria so Volu nteers i n any fcarticular in assemble, they might he permitted to d° sO hy His Majesty, Without any Provision on that sullee't being ,necessary i n the present Bill. All that would be yiecessary,. would be to vote the re quisite sums of money. P,!tmanent duty was cer. tainly the best stare it, wlsicli iliscipline ce'ald be learnt, but as to g : v t lig more than 20 d ays pay, i t became a questi. r ior crisi l eration, how far an equivalent would be received for that increased pay. ----He thonz i lit there was considerable danger in aliplying general rules to this subjeet ; it might 'be proper in van: cases to give the increased pay, whilst in others it would •--i n each ca.., it must depend U t.o ot P. circunritance..:, but certainly there need not be i.ny pr,.eisuintroducell up on the s;,:ljeft in the' pre'seni 3:11. Another poir,t adverted to had been 1',1. , r of Field Officers, ~ Lich he now under sto(al the. 'Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. PITT) to say, , .• , inl API y ;mended to app l y to those Corps wit' it d ire tor •tuch assi:Ann,:e ; h e at first und e r s r oo d i mr• o r.ndy, bit% at any rate there was no oifficuity - in tle Ousi:,ess, as His Majesty on the recommenda. tl, ion . ,,f 1 1,, L i LHatenant migh t appo i nt suc h I+-1.1 Odin - - •rs or others to Volonteet Corps as he thiAlid think fit. As to the pay to be given to these Officers, it had been thottr7lit advi , iable not to give rerioa n .mt pay to thOse Officers app-inted w C-rps pti , r to June last., but if they hold a Coin ,n in the Army to allow them their half pay, ;"4"4 1 this upon the principle that they were held to be. pers on s Who did not want such assistance: respea to these modern Corps, no allowance was made except for an Adjutant. It might he said, that allowances ought to have been made ; hut it was ntit necessary for him to apologize for Mini sters being as economi ca l as .possible ; it • was better to begin under the mark, than make too large an establishment, which it might .he . difficult afterwards to reduce. Adverting again to the subjea of per manent pay,, he would just observe, that as the law had stood since 179+, upon the offer being ac cepted of any Corps' to as,emble upon permanent duty, they were considered to he in, the same situa tion as if called out in case of ACtual Invasion, and -were entitled ro the marching guinea, to provide themselves. with necessaries.. He would propose a clause to do away doubts upoo this subjea, in w hich he should propose that this Guirlea shAild be dedmtted • frlin the two Guineas to which they were intitled after the defeat or expul,ion of the Enemy. The Rt. Hon. Gentleman (Mr. PITT) had propo , ed that a clause shonid be inserted to reiniqe doubts with respect to the ele6tion of Officers. It was not his intention to propose any such clause. His KijeSty undoubtedly had the power of commissioning Of ficers recommended by the Lord Lieutenant, or of rejeaing such:persons. There, therefore, appeared no question about an eleaion, except only where that was included in the terms of acceptance. — He bad mentioned one exception on a former occasion, in ►he case of th 4 Light Hone Vo lunteers, why► recommended to His Mjesty per- sons. t. hold Commissions in that Corps, but when cAled into aEtual service that right had ceasei, and in c use of the death of an Officer, the next in seni ority succeeded. There were some %tit° only I ok_ ed to the Corps of the metropolis, ennsidering them every tiling, a , d who, becAuse two or hree Corps had claimed the right of eletting Office's, supposed it was general ; but in the country, where Corp, were form,•tl under the influence of Grotlemen of rank ;tied prt.rtrry, no such idea was entertained. I! was , 0 he composed at ihe same time that n. persoo w, be appointed an Officer in a Volutiteer Cyrps ‘vno was not agreeable to that Corps. Much had keen said on a former occasion ah , ut the postier Of Committees, hut wherever they had interfered in military discipline they hod 1)::en checked, arld no person could say that, in the regulaYir:n of financial concerns, they were affing imppvcrly : it was wet! known that, case of the death of i; Pa; mater, tiltre was a C mmistee of Pay tn,,s t rs in every Regiment of the Line. The last point he I. id to notice was the sug%estions re. speeting Rules .mid Regulations ft,r enforcing di tenclanee and attention, and discipline, whilst under pans, by fine, inirtis9nrnent, &c. He trust say, that he was wholly to such, a plan, which he considered to be entirely iticons!stent with the nature 'of the Volunteer Service operating in its disembodied state. Such a system would, he conceived,not merely produce inconyenience,but would lead to the tlestruc. lion 01. the Volunteer Sys-em,or at least to a very con. Aitletalile diminution of numbers. There was another objection to it likewise arising out' or the Defence At. Provisions were made there for fines and penalties upon the different classes, in case of dis. obedience ; but it was expressly stated that if a suf ficient number at Volunteers came forward, they should he relieved from the Compulsory Clauses of that Bile. They having come for.varti in that con fidence, it would be in some instance a breach of faith to resort ro those Compulsory Clauses to he a pplied against them. He concluded by proposing several new Clauses, some of which related to the e xern , ;:rinns under furny:r. Afts, and the allowance .to Voluoteer. Another he proposed with a view to • remove doubts respeding the cxernutions of Volunteers from serving in the Militia and : Army of Reserve. It was not intended, he sa id, to exempt them from the Ballot, hut t h at _ on their names being balloted they should he placed on a sevarate - list, and that on any otte 01 them quitting his Corps i)e should be called upon to serve by himself or Substitute to fill up the filot vacancy that occurred ;n the sulytlivist qt. proposed that no i , erson sh )uld he exPnired from serving or fiatling a Substitute, who did not attend the midst . : of his Corps 24. days in the course f the year. Another clause went to enable the Dytity Lieutenants or Magistrates to apportion the quota., for the Militias and Aral; of Reserve, having reg .rd to the nutnt),-1 - of Volunteers in any particular place. Another cruse infliding penalties for the sale of arms belonging to Government, or inducing a Volunteer sell hiS arms, and t to enable• Com. minding Officers to have a place for keeping alms, _the expence to be paid by the Receiver Ge, neral of the Lard Tax. Another clause to enable Coortnandi'ng Officers to dismiss any one from a Corps, and another to prevent any dispute about, withdraw, ;i.g from a C ops, by entitling, that where a Com manding Officer shall efuse to accept the resigna. tinn tendered by any, Member of the Corp, the latter may appeal to the Lord Lieutenant or Deputy Lieutenant, who shall decide in a summary-,way. , Mr. PITT said, he should have been extremely happy if the Right. Hon. Gentleman who bad just ken, had relieved him from the.necessity . of ad, dressing the Committee,uL:n the:vas under p t r d es e e r nt t . h o a c t ca n s e i e o e n s. ; but as the matter s tood, sky, He 'was not desirous of particularly or ten . a.. ciously adhering to one mode rather than another, provided he saw that the sUbstatiCeof the thing, ho wanted was likely to be secured, and which; appears ed to him absolutely necessary to be accomplished. Ti was indifferent to him whether that was done by means of Clauses in the Bill or by the Executiie Go vernment, in, virtue of any discretionary power given for. th at purpose, provided h e found an a i ssUr. ance that it would be done ; in that ease he should should have been ready to acquiesce with Geivetn ment in any mode they might think expedient to adopt; but from the speech of the Right Hon. Gen.. tlemar.,. that matter was left whd, ly . uncertain, whether any thing that might amount to the sub stance of his proposal would be acceded to, on one or two Of the most important points, as it appeared to him, in the whole of the. Volunteer System; he must therefore state to the-Committee the ground of his•pro - prioil; that they might consikier whether Clausrs would not be better than to leave the mat. •.ter•nprn to . any di!cietion whatever. Fie Shot)11 rake first thq point. which with him was the most • ithportant objid .in his mind in the present crisis i which WAS that which was to render the Volunteers RecompliShed as poSsible in point of discip line, and he 'had the good fortune to have the con- currenCe of , the Right Hon. Gentleman upon the iinporfanee of that gubjei4 ; and he had admitted the necessity of calling out all .the Corps, anti hav ing them trained and ex , rcised frequently for the purpose of improving them in discipline, and that this should he done as early as possible, 3.71 he had assured' the Committee that the Executive Govern ment would enforce this measure ; hut Mr. PITT said, he doubted whether it woull not be ne cessary to insert a clause in the Bill for that purpese, in order to have the . thing ,done as effec. rually And distinctly as it should he. He was aware there was a clause in the Bill of last year for that purpose, which gave Power to His Majesty to as. semble the Volunteers at his command on the ap. pearance of Invasion, but there required soniething more than the atlital_ appearance of Invasion, or a , . general appearance of aft ual Invasion, as it o.as generally described, for the Enemy may be hover ing about, apparently for the purpose of Invasion, for many months, and perhaps for years, and when this expression of appearance of Invasion was of construetion, and particularly as that con struClinn governed the question, whether sn large and efficient a body of men as those of the Volun frets, should or should not be put in a situ ition in which they could best acquire perfe& di.cipline. Tr was -the pr , ftice to call out the Militia in timt. of War, - ,Ind that I .nwer was not spec;fically provided but was uo ter the general au' hority which the Clown derived fr 'm the stme sentence he 11,4 i 'early quoted, tha , of 2661 Invasion or in new tiititer thereof; tha• wai the authority by which the Miti:i3 were emb.,cliell, And put an yet. manent duty, as they always. 'writ. in t :me of War ; and he wi•h-tl some principle of t' is t, , he fp. plied to the V slttore. , r-, 'hey might- he iovited, as many Of them had '-‘,• n, to lake perrna. nen , duty for a cr.,tin places, as they hen list vear. Winters -- then hql apparent reason to believe that ;In I. vv ion was a t h.nd , and theref , ,ro. - they invirrd Volu:iteer , enti on permanent duty and pay. ,„, •hoti;hi that a sea in which that wps hi tie. He did not R ay d,at now there was a greater yr spett ..f it, or that 'his should he made a matter of tionise or q , •to., neibu t he should he sorry that any thing s!..uici be regle&d, oh any account whatever, that could he of use to the Volunteer System, for now there was a stronger reason f our being r t pared at all noints than at any former period, for that now the danger vas in his opinion • imminent than ever ; and therrfore he thought it should not be lent as an . equivocal sentence, as that of appearance of Invasion, r immioent dar !hereof : in his opinion, in yont of policy, the Volunteers so aald not only ty -stand that they may be put on I , ermanent dti , y n0 , ,-, if in the (pinion of the Executive Government it w:1, a, they should be so, but also that they should wide/vaind that in the opinion of Parliament they ought to hi. so for a •vltile.. Whether this event of Invasion was to take place in six weeks, or in six months, or eight months, we should be. prepared: and therefore he was of opinion, that they should be assembled, ana should march, and be Lit on pay and permanent duty,• where they should agree to do so, for the purpose of their impr .cement in their military ex. ercise ; and he would insert in the Bill words tot the purpose of giving the Crown the power calling this Force .tut in any part it might be thought Advisable; for he :7nold not help clinking . there was reason for going to that extent, and then the Volunteers would be undes precisely the same rep - - 1860 n as the Militia in that resped, although it might not be necessary to continue them'in that stare so lung this he thought necessary to be made matter of pro Vision in the Bill, not that the Crown had not the po,.,er already of inviting the Volunieer our on pay and permanent duty, but he thought it would he better , that the Volunteers ~ 11,, u 1d understand it to be the opinion of Parlia. men r, as well as that of the Executive Government, that they should be'-so invited. The nxt point he s hould . allude to in 'the Speech of the Right Gentleman was, that of a doubt of .wrest h e meant. He did not know what the Right Honourable Gentleman meant upon the stibjeet of the Bounty to be given to Volunteers on their being called out, whether this Bounty was to be extended to all Volunteer Corps who should be writing to serve tor a time, or only to the 24,000 who are assembled and on:perinanent duty 24,000 was a ebnsiderable number for an emergency, he was willing to admit, but in making a great effort, such as ought now to be made by means of- a body of more than 300,000 men, he should hope that many more might be imthediately put in this situation, and he should wish- this matter .to be explained ; but on this he was not saanxious to say much, pro - . Meddle was assured that the encouragement of pay was ;Meant to be offered to all Volunteers who may wish'to profit in their military acquirements: but on the subject of the - Bounty, as mentioned by the Right Hon. Gentleman, he doubted .what was proposed, Or rather what wai stated, would be sAtisfadory, or even admissible, , when it came tdte considered. The Right Hbni.Gentleman -said they Were to have ,pay for twenty.one-days, ow which they should be on permanent duty, but that, t h e guinea which was to 'be advanced to them was to be deduCted out of the original two guineas in tended to be allowed .in <the event 'of .their going into the Field--the- one on their proceeding to march, the other on their return-home after having expelled the Enemy-- , -Now that aid appear to hiM to be a very bad System to make them efficient for attuat Invasion, and- inverting the order of things ; , it was adding nothing to' what was originally in. tended to be given, and it was misplacing 'that which was tote allowed, for it was-giving to the men nothing whe n t h e y were - to- be most wanted, but raking away -all the effect of what was intend. ed to be given, for it was .transposing the time i and changing 'a gift into that which was the re. verse of it, for by this .mode of deduCting the guinea out of the two guineas originally intended for each Voluns?or who slut rch to rc ; vasitty, he would have not!iiry the 02.fr07 he had rece't vcd his guinea on ur,t em so that wh , :tri Voluntt.ers ought t ! .) be :n;:s! eourigeds GoVei:Tricrit propu , el fresh :ititv to them instead of B,,ority; and the,efore ho c.)ul mit thinking thit this pltt of the plan, as openi by the Right Hon. Ge,tietuan; NVOl4tl appear_ upon further consideration, such as could not be rtrii.cd in. 'f its was only saying, that if an Invariori came, 200,000 1 - might be saved to the Country. Now if we were sure they would return hortie to ,~.,j j . ...3 enjoy the sight of their f!mili:!s and Children sc._ cured by their , and enj,ving the thought of that idea, and the still more glorious one, that of their Country being secured in triumph, he should hardly think that in the most sober'di:yosition that any man could view economy, he would conceive that the happiness of Jilt thy would b e much_ increased by the refleftion that 261,0001. hqd been saved to the C, , untry by the scrupulous policy of the .'.xecu. tive Government, and therefore he hoped that the Rt. Hon. Gentleman would upon refleaion think this girt of his policy hardly worth adhering to ; and that when this matter came to he stated in detail in the Committ , .‘e, there would be a disposition to re.. consider it. If the Volunteer has had his guinea nn being first put on his permanent dozy, and that is to he deduded out of his original two news, as had been originally stated, •he will have nothing. on his march against the Enemy or if having it on his Match, he will then his two guineas, ,he will have nothing oc. :b. re turn home, and: therefore he thought this a very indifferent policy. There was indeed much wisdom in the policy of the Legislature, in giving men something that matken its good will.; and ;nde. 'tendert of that, it was natural that when men shotild upon on the sudden, to go for a period (he • hoped not a long one) from 03 -3, families and homei, they should have the happiness to know, that although they were obliged to go in the service 'of the Country, and leave those of whom they were the natural proteCtors, yet that what they had alreadv receitra, and for which their Cluntry had thready had their service s would no , h , • dedukied out of that which was originally either f)r their actual march, or their return ; jiat uh •t :hey rm . :), have spent before they marched, for which their Cntmtry mar already have had their service, will not he taken into the account, but that they shall receive their gui. nea on their march, am! also their guinea on their return h , roe, as if tiley had received nothing. before : he :(ight this matter exttemely import ant,. so much so, that he feel it hi. , duty to press it hereafter, if he did nor liu.i iu M;:lisos , :s a disposition to acquiesct in it. However, ih , ry .vas one thing of which he was ex•r2inely ni. was, to see the disposition she wn by the Itiet Gentleman' on the rat of the Exccini , e. went to encourage the improvement of "" and which, if rib' sly 4:tended to . by teers now, they may .i,:cy6fe m.. re in a than formerly they might have been i n so me months, bee; use, M , :he: ri :.r.Virigt: !hey now posses, itnprovt:el , --tt, if no;yr attende3 to, trig%t be very rapid. lie suivsed that when: the Right Gentleman to7tetioned t wenty-;:ix days for the present rfar, I.e meant over and Ahnve-the twenty-one for ....111ch.the p.v teas to allowed ; if so, there be no (I:fftr,:no! of opinion be tween hiin and he Right Hon. Geio)cman in that respeft, -as tar as regarded the present year .41)r al though he wished forty days, including the dat's i.f inspeaion, yet in this case he should be liog to allow that the twetity.one should 'tle deed part of the forty-six; and•he thought it would Oe extremely desirable and becoming the wisdom of Parliament, when this system was to become part of our permanent defence, to put the Vo'unfeeri for a w bile on permanent servic,., to give then a de. gr,e of efficiency which they' can never otherwise acquire, and this was a subjaft - upon which a very large portion of that House could speak from expe:. mote. He did not believe that any experienced Officer in the House, after having ',naked at this subjeft with the attention it deserved, would. say that the necessary discipline could be acquired in less than fi;rty days in the year, and that such attention, would be highly beneficial to all the Volunteer Corps, and of course beneficial to their Country, Which confided so much in them. for its security, When Parliament proposed only twenty days, there might have been reason to guide-Go.. yernment to have insisted upon a different course-be. ing taken frOm what they did take. He would re mark in passing, that 'the manner inwhich that was stated by the Right Hon. Gentleman to-night was not quite consistent With the plan he recommend ed ; tot the question now- was, what number of days, shall, or shall not be allowed for the training • and exercising the Volunteers The. Right Hon.-Gen tleman had said, it would be better not to provide for many of those paints by provisions in the Bill, bur leave much to the discretion of the Executive Go vernment to judge of the circumstances. Now, this in the first instance would have been very well ; but he had a reason, which he would soon state, • for not thinking that the Executive Government ought to have this discretion now. It did riot' apt to him that toe Executive Govern ment had judged wisely upon this occasion ; they seemed to have thought themselves confined to the twenty days,. and to give no more time than Par liament gave for this purpose, and that appeared to him to be a very good reason why Parliament shauld now think that twenty days are not sufficient; nor was there any objeetion to make provision upon this bead specifically under the present cirourn. stances. When the House was voting a, sum of money as a vote of credit, it was usually left to the Executive Government to judge how much oaf it should be issued for any particular purpose ; 'yet, when the House came to judge how much money should be allowed for a specific objeft, it was more regular and constitutional for the House to, regulate the mode of effeCtuating that ob. jed ; so that when Parliament came to. vote the money to defray the expense of this matter, it should state the number of days which' shall be, occupied for this purpose. Nor was , this at aii entrenching upon the principle by which the °the( branches of the Military Service of the. Country was concluded, he meant . that which was in any degree on-