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sAtiafly kcked up, as it were, in the Volunteer Corps. lie rellted; accounts he had from some Lord Lieulenants of cuunties, particularly that - of Wilts, - wh..un he Sp:;ke - of• very liindsorriely, as he did in deed of others ; by these accounts it appeared that mtn were aelually not to . he had, the whole pis ' tiffs having been balir)ted over and over again, and 111 , !re t‘ ere no men fit to serve in the Army of Re serye ,r Militia existing, except three who were alrea,ly in the Volunteer Corps. All this made him thtuls that the exemptions alloWedto the Volunteers were much too extensive, and that they had been! t!.._ ruin of the service in a regular way. He was confid-nr.tliat this system of the Volunteer-Corils could .1.4 he permanent. He was sorry to say that some measure of a compulsory . , natute , must be adopted to complete the •Army of- Reserve; as well as to increase the regular Army, so . 33 to increase very c ,n.iderably., the disposable force •of His Majesty, - fiir otherwise we could never ._take any adv.intage of any circumstance, that might occur in the affairs the. Enemy': suppose any th:ng happened OD. account. of I;I4OtEAU, or • any other great and, po.pulai man 4n .Ffanee, ,what ati vantage: could we turn it.to, if we had not a large: di4posabie Force, such at least as•zs,ooo men to be rd upon a sudden emergency Nothing of thi% sort Ct J6d be!expeaed,while.the whole popula-I tier, was" taken up with the Volunteer Corps,ncr was aclr thing creditable to our arms to be expcded while that mutinous Aisposition which.he had stared if in -any part of our Volunteer, or indeed ; - but .although te thought _.it would. agrie to serve during this War ?" If afterward; they • • assented to this proposition, it might be binding on them : but he would not. approve of fasteting 7this permanency of :service upon, them for any tiling tney had -already done, because-that would. he im- . posing•terms Upon some, Volunteers which could not affet others. If any one generAl syStt2rn of enact. meta was proposed, by t+ hick sub-' jeas.'were to be alUted alike, the Volunteers would have no reason to complain, nor would they coin plain he . was confident ; but they should not he se lefted as _Persons on %%Via a s ny terms should be ' fastened different. from r any.other class of tiis Ma jesty's subjeas. . . He took *ice of the diffefence which subsisted between hiM and his Learned and Hon. F r iend,the • AT-rox.Ni . v . GENERAL, and which the ,Court . had determined.in his favOui. They bad,„orily differed:. upon the question, Weedier a Voluntur ,was bound by law. ; they had no rtnce of opinion whether a Volunteer was b- and by- honour to continue his services while his Country might want them. •He had no difficulty in Lay if,g, that the an ought to be branded with eterol . infamy, Who withdrew his =entice while his Country •I was in danger hut still a Volunteer should have power of resioing, unless he had 6yeedicai , ) wail ell that power titer being seriously asked : —this was. the ~ - ,t inciple on which the Court of King's BenLli had decided 'the question. Here he quoted Al the former Ads 'of Parliament on which • that decision was founded, to justify the principle of .that decision, and ;or the pfirpbse of shewing- the propriety'of ad. tiering to it in the present case: Nor had he ilny doubt but that -the Volunteers would do ; the highest , honour -to the' Confidence which their. Country re. _posed in them, if ever the Opportunity should Offer. Fen these reasons - he thought" there shoUld ,be no enactment to impose upon the Volunteers any terms *-wilich'were-not . imposed on all_ classes of .11 is ' , Md. jetty's subjeas: He adverted also to, that.parr oi ; the Bill which provided ,that Masters should not in, t\erfere with -the Volunteer Service of their appren tices and servants, as a part of the till of serious con.,. sideration • or 'might, he of incaleitlable advantage to us `in the entirse of the. present contest, to have tutch. a. disposable Force .as might be employed c.ti certain favourable opportunities, such as he . had hinted at, yet he .was one of those who -should never wish to see a man sent out until both parts of the Empire were entirely safe ; what he; meant to say was this, that if,stich• an opportunity. occurred now, we could.notlavail ourselves,of.it in . the present state of our Army, the -whole of the young_ men-of the Country being locked up in the. Volun, teer Systern: He. said he was not bigotted .to any, -system. -All he wished was, that we ?night enter on the contest and face . the destrualon that threaten.' ed us, . that. we might get; over it, and live Englishmen, or if it mui4 be so, that we, might die: like Englishmen. To.place us in that situation it was necessary to adopt same new measures for the. Army, for that was the only way to 'put the Country in the best._ state -of Security, and ,he w a s re ady • to confess; that he did not think it secure at present. The good that might „result from adopt. ing some measure for the purpose of enlarging-, the 4'liks-pwable military force of this Country. might be • of Otis description, that. of preventing horrors to r uhichthis Country, thank God, .had long been a stranger; • If the population of the Country was 7 prOpefly employed, all this might be prevented, but :not otherwise: Upon these grounds he must con fess he - did not think favourably of the Volunteer system, "but be that system what it may, .whatev-er the danger may be," said he, " wherever it ,may • • arise, thkte•l hope I shall he found doing my.duiy" Geitt;ral said, he sheuld be sorry that any thing shartuldihe said of the Volunteers that • miglit create any alarm whatever, but his motive t , r rising Wai to allude to apart of the Bill which he noticed: on -a former occasiOn.—He _ The :CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER was decidedly of opinion deft - perfea faith with the Volunteers mast not-only - be kept inviolate, but that •Pat'linment should' not by any at -incur the: suspicion' of a breach of faith in such a cuse. In order to re. move all doubt. •upt;n that , subjed, lie recommended what tie was assured his Right Hon. Friend would adopt;that instead of altering the Otiose spoken to by the Hon; and Learned Gentleman, it should be left out-of the Bill altogether. He approved, how_ . ever,. of the Clause -in the , Bill which prevented masters from interfering with rhevoluntary services 'of their apprentices and serV ants. • ;Mr tr BRE AD 'animadverted at some length , upon the different clauses of the Bill. .He: thlight e ._ he said, it would have been farhetteriif •the•ex.; emptions had been wholly taken away, as they. were not expeE!.ed, argil the takirg them. away would. have been re) breach of faith. According to . the original •syktetp, ihe'Vollvefrs,, at least those ern e .bedie-clunder.the s i ubs,qoent,Aa , , were not cntitic& to those cetiesotiooS, and the fOfce,of, the .Country . would have been ti -eh mere effalive it• they had not - ken _allowed.- He pereeive&l in the Bill a Clause. •allowing • -Comnianding , Officers to grate . .leave of abbe:lee: e to ,vleinbers , .1 the Cu; l s; 1- e it those to vs Theo leave of itb.se;nce ; was gra n t ; ed, were o'olig;:i to make u,_ tht -e.ztljer of day -of attendance (twenty-f ) in the course of the 'year, or otlierveisethey vt-euld no t be:entitled.to ex emptions, isow, it ; e, c til that a very. g' , o and zealous Voluoieer might .by . sickness I,e pre_ vented from •attentl,ing .for so Jung .a .time, -that ,it woc:iii be invecs.,iblelor him to make up the number -of days of a ;Lei danCe in . the : eourise.of the :year, be eatise t h e Cei i s to sylikh ; he ,be)onged would not muter ( - Seen en:ugh, and he, plight. then, without any fault of his own, be deprived .of his ex .emptione- This, he though!, was a species of injustice which. it was impossible tie House would surfer to remain, There Os • also a proviso in the that a Commantling.OfEcer should make a special return, in .conformity with the Schedule annexed to the A. 6 ; there wasp penally cm mak. • ing, ;a false, return, but 'none,, e in making . no re. turn at all ; now it might happen that a Commanding Officer might by making no return, deprive a, whole ,Corps of their exemptions; this also required amend- ment. , The. next point to which . he meant to ad. 7 •vert, was, the power given to Commanding Officers., to dimiss members of their Corps,; he found, how 4 ever, ri-tat there was a provision that nothing should extend to abrogate the rules and regulations of any , Corps approved , of by His Majesty ? Upon this suOjea. he begged leave to ask, whether this pro. • viso extended : only to those Corps .who had sent in their rules and regulations to the SECRETARY ' of STATE, to .1;e approved of by His Majesty ? Cer tainly.the enactments upon this subject ought to be more explidit. „Another point was the power given to Commanding Officers to disallow a day's exemption or a cley's parlor misconduct in:any Member of the Corps ; to this be objeaed, because it might , h a pp en that' a volunteer might very. meritoriously attend for 23 d a ys in the year, and on; the 24. th might .du something displeasing to his Commanding Officer, who might 7 in a, moment of irritation disallow a day's exemption, which might deprive the person of his exemption altogether. This was a power so wholly unjust, that if the Clause relating to this subjea _ was:not altered, he._should object to the Hill alto gether.. ApOther objettion he hail to the Bill was, to the power given to Commanding Officers-to order persons undct arrest for misconduct vs:Mist under arms; •this;he thought could produce no good,but on the con rraty, ,might give rise to mutiny, ~whilst it would be ridiculous, in itself, and _could not lead to any bene ficial consequence. 'Another point to which he wish ed- to advert .‘ , as, ,the right of Resignation, clogged as jr was with a conditiontle“ the person so tesigu ieg should previously pay all tints and penalties, and all .subscriptions which he was or might be re quired by the rules .and - r e g ulations of the Corps to pay. It was known that ,the rules of any Cores were liable to alteration, but was it :o be said, that if 400 men out of . 500• belonging to any Corps chose to pay a subscription of ten . guineas each ; ; that the remaining too were not to be allowed to resigii until they had paid' that ten - guineas, which they had never previously agreed to pay ? This must meant :that part of e*Bill which wens to "prevent 'Member of a • Volunteer Corps resigninig or retir ing from a Corps he was engaged in it :such Ceor,ps had agreed to serve during the. War. lie said he had 'the hoocur to command a 'Corp,,but,,he under stood coat by . this Bill their continuaTce was . to be made compulsory, that Pict one of them could retire after this.Bill4lat , sed, - if it shou!d•pass in its present stale. He -could not ,help regarding this provision in the 131:1 - its a breach of faith :with the V i olunteers ; for it was 'saying that -what they hid agreed to three, ofroolts•ago, to serve. during the War, sh•li under alicircumstances he bioding upon them, and theft they'stail not retire fur, ,ar on-account of any circuteances whatever. To withhold from them' this option, whiie it was to.:..be. given -to all other I.rolutiteers, he could not help regarding as a Breach of faith; and-therefore that' was a part of th9.Bill, whiel\ he thought it his duty , to oppose. Air. Th.KINE said, .be was relieved from a • ds:,,A A "anxiety, by the Declaration of the Right •J.Gent. opposite to hitarupon the extension of the to Mr. Sec. YORKE's declaration h , t's the .Clause for calling out the Vo_ ~ t C ,urary, in case of fnsurreCtion or in Ireland) ;-He hoped aka, - that the Gentleman would, upon reflection, feel „- „lop i‘ty of altering the Clause . to which the n.-Genifem:os who spokelast, had objeCted,w;hich he "done - by the inireduttion of a - few' •se,irds,' for the Clause was, at present; top general. Xir inealit the Clause which .prevented all VolunteerS -Eton resigning, who had already agreed to co nt i nu e their- seciiceits- during the War. - This Clause,. he ais i lellendetf, the. House could not persist in, con fistently the judgment' of the Court of King's Bench, and the declarations of Ministers subsequent to that decision, stating,- that if that:had not been declared , to he the .law, they intended to : propose that it should become the law. .Now. what was the ground of thedecision of the Court of King's Bench uport die - question, whether a Volunteer had power to resign ? 'lt was not founded on the.construelion but (be-nature of the service. if a man came out •' uniterrrtt Upon -the occasion of an Invasion, what • ' as the duration of his engagement ? The dura tion of that'engagement was, as long as the Erie_ toy continues• in the .'Couptry, hose ;: entr i tuce into it created that service.; but that- continu ance not necessarily, and at all events the. • satire as the duration of the War. Since the judg., • rnent of the Court of King's Bench had been viven;some V,lunteer•Corps had comeforward and. tr.red their services 'during ihe War ; he thoroht Clause, as it n,-w- stood, was too general w ith t-ce d• H spelt Corps, and wanted sc.me amendment.• ',h-.0;;I:t that this Bill ought not to tie any Vo -1 down to any thing that they had hitherto d 4: 4 ,"liti't that, before' their services should be de ' 61-red-permanent. arid that they abould not be at ‘ 7 f-egire `from the. Service, they shouldhe their ConnuLtitling Ofdder, " Will you t s ert'v, knowing as you do, that you are at liberty to retire it you think fit, waive that right, and ..,o:;71-4•774., . . • • ee' . .,,,ate. ,- - , - ' . - certainly be an aa of injustice. There tvas another I ‘,".4 1 ' 7 50 -- r arms, r Ms, was necessary to preserve the e r e, . consideration of great importance, which related the contrads between master .' and servant. The a:e ..-. opr oli * to :::3 -- ''''- - I : cler and discipline in these Corps- lhe r• ;_rea , a'antlernan had then adverted to the rob— . e. _ .e.., , e-e- Volenteer Service might go to alter , the nature!.'.3 . .. ''':'Ffll.- : , , •.'-on and the subsequent eopdition. I.{..iAd,i, of 'thin contritd altogether. It must be evidce. ••,,-e'lea:e ' .npon this subjed the justice' of what ' l O that those Servants.. who were in Volunteer Core .: -,- • • "'.troed by the Hon. and Learned Geotlctls . --- • and who might ge to drill whenever they ple.•secte ---,- teasx-N a) with resped to Volunteers %sho t ' • , ,k r , ' . •might, • out-of-pique towards their masted .io - ',-a,o-1-elteir services-for s , specific time, and besitle s t when they were mist wanted. The Farmer, thus - . -e,.. ( h a . number of days of exercise had been a lt, ly e liable to injury froth his servants , m ig ht alit gether , from sto 24., the Volunteer mightsay, that there 1.% ) • . 1 give up the ptadice °tithing by the year, becaus` , a differ e n t sere,ice established to what lie had ag r f , e . when he. went to a Magistrate to require compensa4 't o, and he had t here f o r e no . oblation to alter t 7„ • ' tiun for the lass of 'his servants' time upon such,i, prOviso reteting to this subject. With respe 6t t " duty, he must necessarily do it with a b ad grit what h a d beeo urged relative to servants enrolling ‘ and, from the bias of men's minds,- was litible 4eo . in Volunteer Ceres, the .Honourable Member ( 13/11- 1 • considerable obloquy upon.suchan occasi..n. '"...;..! h e WHITBREAD ed) a. the House would observe, that. - r emedy, .therefore, which suggested i , s; :c -: /the the -Bill was founded upon the Defence. Ad, and Ilia , ti ' Faithers, was, to .hire by the tAlrek, a• 4 *then '. under that ACt no exemption Was considered, ,wit e if the servant, went t o . at etot a N/ . :.! ~,.... c orps • respect to servants, -their dory to the Public bel- 96 at a time when he wa s roost' µ:-“,:,:, `;, might conceived to be of much greater importance drat at ' the end of the week be '. eo eo- . ed. . The the contract between Master and Servant. -'- - ie 4 ; Government- had Volunteers . , eo, 0 ttle:et talc. deratood - 'that great impedimentS had been than servants and anprily a - - ,tooe thcr tnas- in the way of the volunteer syst l em by Masters I . : tuts: . • Apprentices- who re ~''' ' i no Oay for their different parts of the country, coMplaimeg of ° el V ° l4l l- labour, had frequently e e :- o :eeot -`. , e.ihtee.r Coris,.. - servant's neglettiog'their business to atteno attended drills, ~mug , e:',:i ' - .1-tasters, and pocket- jeer Corps ; but though in the first inst..nee C oe } _ a - I ed shilling. t o sperai as taey pleased. 'To this he might exercise-a great number ofdays, yet nosy t h 'i, t entirely objetted ; a statement had been . laid urain only exercised a sufficient -number to entitle t hero t • the Table of the.nUmber ofVoloniecrs, upon whichexton t itions, therefore the' objection with resl'''..c as-to their efficiency he did not.rely, but certainly, to servants exercising would be in a great tneo u , o .there was -enough without= taking Servants and rip_ , none away. But it had been said that haviogia64 p r entices,, 1-I . e. ~ )b,et-veci, that there was a ptovi_ great a number of Volunteers (and he thanked -4-'' ; slot; in the, Bill. for paylog : Arenourets .forsleaning they were so numerous) why take Servants and / 1 ?; the Arms of Vo,lunteer Corps ;he ccsild not conceive • I ,6icic:_s ? He was not'however disposed to - giv e ttr e Why other paythents were notdireaed'to Ajutants any' part of the number of Volunteers ,upon so c - 1 and others, who were assisting in disciplining these -ground. He.confessed he looked torwasd to t in Co; •Corps. :They had beetateld -three weeks since, that siderable defalcation of the Volunteer7systelo, h n , the Enemy were :, : hort.ly exrected, and yet ••the Bill always wished to call the attention ,of the 1 - 10 0e eca hael,not it: t ithed through the - House. Many Volunteer this circumstance; that they had still the 1) 4e. n0 , - Corps were still Qnt even provided with'the necesaa-• Mt to rely upon. In supposing' this d e latO t ' - o i ries,for a march, nor had they any funds tO bOy them ; , therefore, he would nor consent to lay aside SO lr ` if7 s I ,= ~ ti, .with respect to this subjed, he 'wished to know and Apprentices from the Volunteers, particulad) cat where they were 10 104 for. them, or-how to apply in Many marinfatturing towns the Apprentice, fortl.',,, Jet them ? - With respeft to the recovery of Fines, a . the great mass o f t h e population ; whilst under' t ''' n deal of discussion: had' taken };face on a fOrtner night, Defence Ad they were liable to be called out 3 ° J , ln t a aa to the . questiON whether •ithprisentrient should be, be 'ultimately enrolled. .The Hen. Georlet"''',: s t in some eases, smmb,erituted fordistress ; but he , was asked why not enad payments to the Dronin--; cooSltilerably ,cirri ^d to f*Jlcl that' in the. 'present fee. et VolunteerCerps, as wellas the Arl" °-ure v r i7 Bill, imerisonment-Was not mentioned at all. ; on the To .this he should answer, by referring t° the •Lne, contcary, it :vas provided that seven days notic e of litia, Where no allowances were en azied by ti n} ' j an-intended distress for Vines should be given; thiF., sitive laws, hut an estimate was to ought forw'r. to a certain rlesltipoion. of • Volunteers, would only every year, for: the purpose of t naking these Pl i ; be. a ncrtike:te•tlin away. It appeared .to. him the; men's out of the Lind Tax, ,So with I- c,peet to 1 • 4 ` . . e : the Volunteer System was not amended by the pre- Volunteers, he siva:no : reason for potting into t tic sent 1 . 1i11.; tbat, on'the,contrary, the Present measure ..Bill any enadraents .for allowances which' rotor ' would tend to disgust the Vuluntcsera aid create . continually Italele to alterations, whilst it co uld r; great denbts and difileultie; andlieitionid therefore done so much more satistactotilv by an.Estion•ct: , • , oppose ioaltogetlier. •Ae had great doubts of the -whichcould be present .ed every year, and ob t .a. efficaey of the Volunteer System ; but as eve had it would he open to every body for retnark, with re n, •to answer the eme:tgenEY of the - moo:07r, lie thought, sped to any increase of expencr upon this 5 , 1 . it ought to be made as effedive as possible... . . .jed. Ministers . had been - charg ed with a r i " e • • ~ Mr. Secretary koORKE said, that. ai the Hane economy, 6t3r- he knew well • the dia . ' re' ce Je .' „•OP Gettrletran had,4one.ptetty much into detail, he ' tween that and a wise distribution ,of - exre r n - ' 9 e j thought it necessary in some measure to follow him.. the latter of. which they 'endeavoured to ° 4l ''' f fe , Wify die f lon. - Getitieman had supposed that the at, the same tiinc, - hethought ii necessary , tomb s° fo r ... ; .Bill was not calculated to render the Volunteers t that Patliarnent Might probably be catled.urle f ac more effedive than they are as it at regent stood, i some increase in the allowances to Voluoteerst Ire ee he was at a loss to conceive. „Ile slicoA. proeed an Ilona Gentleman had saitf, that' several V° 4l ;att'i ow 7 - jai ,a.i eat - .to. the . chuse objeded to by ahollaia a .G•eri. Corps were still unprovided 'with nacessmi. a - eces lerrian, conceiving that there was no question now • march; and knew nut where to ....p r ly. f o r ti', a te, as to the principle of the.Vnluriteer Systent, bat only sary funds :. in answer to which he ,s - ii'dithi 4A- s aat • i al. . that when Volunteers , were called out i hi.y far the ,present Bill could he -rendered effeetive. f•he Him, Gentleman had expre•sea a wish . that the • service, the . y were intitied toewo'guineas s . exemptions were wholly taken a - way - from the Vo. • provide theMselves with necessaries, tviiici '''''„a s o $ lunteers, but upon this subjeA he must observe, •ficientafor the purpose, and that - the-re vias: gye r• that if any Gentleman - would take - the trouble to , provision made for supplying them wi th 1- ` t o, look into t h_Defenee Aft, : he wouldj . odthere - the sacks, Canteens, Ste; - Whilst upon an etnerg 103 arrangement made for the enrolment taf. Volunteers.. -' they nsight use . a Stocking for a . Haversle i 't n ara This being the caae,the l i o ly . qtr estiOn-wera - , --- Whether. a. Bottle:for a Canteen. The Honourable Gteoa the general provisions of tile Defence Aft took diem man had expressed his surprize, that nothiog iv i i f out of the general LaW'w i.lerespett to exemptions? • imprisonment was mentioned in the Bid, 0,414 and, the Crown:Lawyeranaereeof• capita& -that-the ; ; - he had _been ~in the House at theoitne, he j o , eXempticos extenmied to t h on iodisc;iminately. Be hdveilano.wn that he (Mr. YORuE) objected co d - bc . Jhatas it a n ight,:howevere m the exemptions hadbeent prisonnlent, and that it was at leng th agl3s iC ,:giiieri en • the Veio nfteis*:.in general, ,acid could not - the House .to leave the clause pretty m uch „let , :.be- taken tenety .without r a manifest beeacb Of faith. ' viaS'.:'A,s. to giving seven days notice of an .o e ;t It ' had been said, - tli r at the exreopti...oss ought to distres4be t hought it. was but 'reasonable 1111 , nl,• . loree been wholly e taken twayfreci time, Volunteers, to give that notice to the person . wloolvA s ".' ne 0 they . having- the right of "resignation ;• but he jeti of. the penalties, in .older to give hitit rt i ''' e a 'could nut bu t .considerasiach :a InO,Ore as extremely pay them, instead. of • resonting imreedia te : tilt unitise • in its priricHPl/. antr4trghly inea.Pedient, distress, -which must .tend g-reatly to e i11.i, 1 1 0 ,, t lit in poitit of policy. With respett to ot - tur.andina4 family. :WiCn renTa to What had been sal"; wing Offkers granting leave - ofalisenca and me:4o of Hen. General (General TARLEToN) . as to .' l ° - -ref a 0 , ea ~• votunteet Corps.thers_ky standing kchanceot losing able-to-find arm orderly Dragoon in, Bristo.- G ice!• their exemptions, tile , fion.9entivolrk-Nrf. Wf-tt , ri a message, he had to observe, that the 14 00 ' to tlic - BREAD) Would find, that there was a Special PrOvi.: had no right to give A the order alluded " ther e sion made, with remelt to siCie'nesse . aeherebv yo- Comdlindee 'of the- Bristol, .C:ivMay ; b ,ul e tatidi luoteerS thus situated : m . ight be entitled to their ex, . were •at Bristol some orderly Seojeaotse' n a . not. emptions, although to attend ;as to urgent tia, and why the; Honourable Geneial. % tit ian. . ebosineis, when leave of absence might -be granted send one of those, lie did net et:l4 l Y . , t loc ' for four months, it was not unreasonable to ask these stand. It should, hoWever, be underatooo, thef tO'Whom such leave of . absence was granted, to make when the: Volunteers . were not on actual.d,lo:4,re .up their dumber' of days of attendance in the course . were not under the cetninand of any General.; ~, of of the remainder of the year. : The nest point . ad_ was no doubt they would he.perfectly willieg o r oe o f vetted to by the Hon. Gentleman was, that there on- any .service that was required of their] its c _` t , 141 was no penalty attathed to the Obinrnanding_Officer emergency, but :the H-on. General had no p° w rg i o e . in consequence of thaking nosteturn. to answer to send one 'of the Volunteer Cavalry on aoY ' e ca ttO this, however, he e thouelit it an extreme case to , As to what had been stated with rest [that ;fie stappose; that a e cOmmanding Officer should omit to do Frnuae Selwood Leion,, the case was this , ra ol 4 r - . that which wasati such great importance to his CorPs. Commanding Officer wanted to give. a l' a oe i , - - --He had only met with one case cif that description coinp4nY tlw.prededence-to this the odic", adt.% ._.. ..,._ —__ .._____. and that arose - from a' misconception of the caw upon ed., Considerable disputes arose, and o „ t i:e Case ,0 • 0 1 ilieaubjed, and as no law •respeding ,Volunteera represented to him, hc (Mr.Yoatt.e) advis ed ''', Ir e at e u, , , h a d provided against such a circumstance, it proved cable accommodation; but that out being effe . p er e that' it was no griev . ance. Upon anailul - point it Corps Was dissolved, and the Companies taere, A , tat hati.been asked, whether the rules and regulations wards re-established upon another footing. eels lief - of a COrpe were not to he considered as of any ef- what had been said with resped to the Volau t a n, a e.° fed', ooless approved of by His Majesty ? He 'con- ing liable to he called o'utin case of the appea d ' ow , fie ceived they were of force unless abrogated by • His an Enemy off any - part of the'United.K l " B , 0 01 "I'llaje - sly - , .the only objet`.[ being to giiTe His -Ma_ - • rePeated what he had before stated, as to th . jo s i''' t - jesseY a poWer of abrogating them, if necessary.. As its which the words relating to that prev . l i s ki n de i to the next p o i n t, that a Commanding-OffiCer might . been introduced; but observed, that ha vvP' , eo cer 1,T0f 6 Jo deprive a Volunteer of his exemptions, by mukling rely upon the zeal . and energy of I t ..te ring 0, b him one•day's exemption on 'the .24th day, after he here, in case of any hostile itopressiooe• had attended the preceding 23, he considered this as . upon Ireland. - •• - - - see ,. not very likely to happert,as the r•Q ri Commandant was t ._'. Gen. TART rots and Mt. WHI - r g"1) obliged .co make a return upon the spot, perhaps rah i - I y e.xp_atntt., oti lcr st° , a not till two months afterwards; there was thefefore Mr. T GRENVILLE said he h:l4 un .. ! l e t''' sufficient time fur him to recensider any att done in ' .T. • ' itted, but 3 s - icoo oi that the Bid Was , to be. re.-cemm nne a t o the heat of the moment, and to return any .man a's ton of that kind ht.. Wl'• , exempted wheth be had previously struck our: heard no "gg - eSt • - ' vet in what state the discussion was. ' - oo ' The Hon. Gentleman had objetted to give a power to o est' • i e rae Commandin g Officers to put a Volunteer und4 ' The SPEAKER stated she: the q ea no( 1 , 4 „ et ' e o arrest ; it appeared to him, however, that such l a" that the Report be nOi'v'taken into tc.: l ° , ul a t iters • • it lA° power given to CointhandiogOfficers whilst the Corps tion ; if 641 Motion was earned ,