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~, kn i' ) - • - system at this rate, , we should. consider -whether' it equai to what we migh t obrain for the same sum in another shipe. He -maintained,.. that when •locked Lip .corps, , the men were not k apr.!-.ile of bein g Of the same use in aiding , a , -regular army as when left loose. , Be did not.,meart . that .they should be entirelY-without conibination. Even the Tyroleans could not be of use -unless they were combined in some way. • trained them id bodies it was best to leave thorn tinOrribined till the time Of call ing them into aaio.n. It would be always ki the •, powerort , ae King,.by his prerogative, to array them as it shotild seem-fit, i nti me ofinvasion or alarin of in- Vasion. The 'stronger men, and these of better age,- may - then - be - formed into Corps, and the rest fell' loose. Whether- vi&orious-or otherwise, in the - first onset, there would be a loss, to. supply, fot which we . would-. have - the whole - alive population of the Country ready trained. This , done the Coon-,i .try was,- invincible. Our, .Artuy„ howeyer reduc-, ed, was always sure of an immediate supply : like th , .! . thy the 'children use,.. - compOsecl of sub-. stake at one-end and'a'beavy substance At theother,i it would always right.itself, after an overthrol.v like Antxus, it would rise from the earth with :fresh` vvrour, and whatever force wits brought against it, it) must - prevail in Ifie end: :It AVII • .;)etter to t ll the ra cancies in the reiments..-with individuals, than to sttp:i ply,the general loss in the:field with Corps to the sanle; amount. It was,better-to fill up-five skeleton •regi - -1 meats by the incerNration of - •5 - 0(}O men, than tp). vtid freSh Corps to ,the. atrio•tint of :10004nerrto fight with .the?,e. skeletons.: Th6se were, the ideas that go-" vented him, and on wl:ich a wise and permanent system may be establishecl'aradually, -, for he was`nci friend tosudden change. •• The VOlunteers may gra• = -dually bes.'brought to•'tlle •state described iu 170, in a letter' Of Lord 0-renVille to the Lords tenants of COninies;•. so that they Nk•roiald cdriSist of the better sort .of men trained. *at their 'OiVn ex pence. The rest of flee~ . men - - .of 'military age -he would have trained,- if pnssityle, - Without having. re course-to compulsion, anclemproyed as occasion May require, either individually or in detached bodies.-4 In order to effe& this, the first objet c. was; to reduce., the scarcely thlerable expence of the present Volun teer System. No longer looking to the. Volunther4 as opponents - in the field to the regnlar force of the Enemy, he would relax : their discipline, and retrench their- allowances. . He would leave their allowance's infinitely above what they ought to be, though much below what they were poky. The redudian would -nut be carried into effeCt till there was a force to re 7 place the Volunteers. But it was to be understood, that in reducing Volunteer Corps the men were not lOtit, they remained on the spot, with the advantage of all their training, capable of being combined again and employed as occasion might require ; whereas a regiment once . dispersed was lost for ever.— The present expence:of the-Volunteer establishment could not he 'borre‘ It was, however, • a new. • species of partnershipbetween the Government and the individuals,' the wli,ole charge of which' would tbe 'soon -throWn on' the Government • so that the : Country would soon have-to pay 10,000,0001. instead • of for three-years" and a -half of Volunteer ser vice, The' nUmbers of the Volunteers '*ould be 'reduced in proportion as the - allowances -were . With -drawn: not: think pure 'voluntary training could 'be therefore, however relnaltutly, he ,ihetild have -reolarse,tO.corrip . tds'ion, but .that traliiort shoUld'hii as as posSible. The . Gentle= °then .Uri.: the (Aer side mtly assured them, not like ;compuisiop the better iai its "bei a :t c t% eti ti - Qni their i .shw.. He _retuein • 'toted . vkie;ri they:we're un the 'ben ti Vliet he now sit; how many compu is, or v .ACIs they , I>ilssed : how the whcie smithy . was :it - vvork - liiiw they' labourpd abtrat Anithur iif:Mars-1,--a set- of Cyclops, more blind . .than their one-eyed brethen 5 till they-had locked the Coo airy . in arino ; lr, • auid cunt 'brow., that it was'tinahle'to nioii,-;•4t *as One or •the advantagesbilliS Plan that' it conldbe!easily got rki - - : of if -it was tioellitineraS beneficial as he hoped : E . Nv40,,t0 be . 'farceout a year hot: to be renewed unless it ,should be found advantageons:, be_ •-waVsirnply . tra*theinilitkirpOPulatia. • • try irainint 'was- to e'ileburaged as' much `ls. pas : - -sible. He followed the .example of the lion. Gen . .11ernati opposite (Mr. Yorke).and _trod _aS much as • possible. on , old..thundations. On the %principle . . of :the Levy 7 en 7 masse : A&, his Plan gave ,the prefer -price to voluniary training ; ,but Witha power of resorting to cOmpulston, if - necessary •: it , Weiatalse • •to as - iert the King's prerogative right to every_ p • service:in •sescif.invasion. excluded the exception able part of that A&, the training of all.alasses46:- t c:ether. This obje&ton 'was on of the reasons of pis preferring the Volunteer System to. the Levy,.en - 4/f1.4.5.e, ,though that Volunteer Systeni - soon after .t.c.o-k -a false : shape. The:first :part of the • Reduc tion he would 'propose in the Volunteer Expellees NvouKl be a substit'htion of the June-Allowances for the August -Allowances,. of a training of-twenty six days to:a training of . 2 i 3 days. The total illedue *Coo that would be thus made on the Estimate of year, I,479,oool.'exclusicie of ( - lotiting,. the 'costof.winch was 341,0061. would be 12,78,0001; The Allowances.- to Yeomanry ` would be reducpd from f:?.01.-. Troop to a math The saving by this liedudion..wouldnot be very great, but :the allowances-of-i2Ol •a Troop .was far -too much ; a mail - Vas 'fully 'sufficient. The of -Officers' pay in the substitution of the June esta .blishinent to theAugust . ,'establishment was 210,000 i . A reduetien of the allowances and pay to Drill-kr- Jeants, .the present number of_wlioin was far .beyond what was necessary, would afrbrcl 54,75 71. Under •, the head of perinanerit duty, .a reduaion of no less an lamount than :300,0001,may . be •Inade. It was the' , unanimous opinien that the Inspecting .Field-Officers. • may be spared, and that their bu , :iness would be as. -trell-executed--brete•lorri - Lientenant,-or the Civil 01 - Feets 'under Thi4 Would yield a -saving 0f .35,0001. Then Suppression of the marching. guineas .paid by the'ReceiVer-beneral; a most improper 61; -lowance; would yield.l(3 8,1001: miking` a total re duftion Of 1378,0091. These reductions lie,proposed, not froin_any hostility to the - Volunteer-System, but' with a view to the necessary iffiprOvethent in the Ali -litary Stale-of the' Country. The VOlunteerlabdies:, were still preserved for all thoe who' wrveLl • in - them tbr any, other motive than What they,:,gcit. would afibrd .a more desirable station for training to,, thoSe who .mail be 'unWilling to be trained" with the; mass.. 'Tliis oppOrtunity was-icr-tireni t • suffreient , l . reward. Till's with ThSpe.6 . ;itieli• Volimmers as -! would enter , to whom - Governmen would not alloy, - any thing 'but arms.' To .those now ,oti foot pay WOhid be. allowed, beCatiae they lead bee! hitherto in the: habit of receiving it, though if the institution were to commence now, it would not be right to grant - it. They.wouldlfive the privilege being required, to ,serve.only in their own Corps, if called out. -With respe6t to the- mode of, corlipul-• sion,fif compulsion should be necessary- to; carry the training into effect, a seleetion should be made of that . portion of the mass that should be trained , in every year, for.the training of the whole would be, if not impraelicable, at least inconvenient. For the pur pose of making this seleetion, he could find no other means than to havesecourse to lot 5 that species of lot familiarly -called ballot, was the most convenient. ' He hoped it would not now be attended with its for ! mer - terrors. The age at Which service would' be re . quired was:from AO to 40. Those between these ' limits would be divided into three classes,--the first class to comprehend all. from 16 to- 24—the second, all from 24 -to 32-,-and the third, all from 3`:4 to:40: It would !be Wt... to the Crown to apply the.potver of calling out which of these classes it . should please. The number of days -of training was to. be 26 ; the men to 'be allowed :a shilling-as a com pensation for the loss of their half-day's work. .Vo ' luntary training were . to be accepted at the discre,. tiocrof the Officers, and to-go in diminution of'the ballot; There ,I'.'as not to be - any particular cloth, nor were the men to be embodied ; but . -it was to he in the power of the Crown to coiled them within 14 - days in-some town, for the purpose of tilore -needy training.; those who absented themselves from ain ii<tg f`on any-other 'ground than _serving in 'Volunteer : •COrais - were to be subje6t to a fine. The trainity , was to be performed by detachments of Militia, 04 •Of Regiments now nominally..conneded with theCatioties, which Would, , by. this, gain a real conue6tion' that ivould enable them to recruit itinch better than the Parish Officers. :. They would exert • themselves - in the training, in the hope of 'after- Wards getting the men in o their ow n Regiments. This Would employ to advantage the 57 Battalions created before man was got, and waiting; like oysters at lOw• ebb, for the - return of the -tide .to.nll them.. The Officers who had been colle&ted to these Battalions, with lunch inconvenience to• the. service, could not be sent adrift without hardship. These :skeleton Battalions would now be 'turned into these, and' would have an opportunity of getting SO= flesh upon their bones. - - This Bill, for which 57 Batta lions had been created,lad not filled futiellattalions; all that it had doue' was to supply 000. men to the Line ; all that could be expe:ted 'from it, if con tinued in full vigour, was to supply as'many every year, and that in a' very bad Way. The Militia should now be considered' as-part of the established Army; and for home service it was certainly equal to any other part of our force, with the single ex ception that it had never- seen service; and if it should have to .meet the Enemy's attack on British ground, the hiittle iu which' it would have to filet for the existence of its Country would be the first it would have seen. If it should be necestary again to till up the Militia, it should be done by means' of a recruiting limited bounty .as . in , Ireland. The Irish Militia would be left on its present. footing. It was desirable, - however, by all possible means, to engage the . whole . of the Irish Militia - to enter into The Line, if by-conferences with the Irish Govern- Meat- - the 'Officers of the Irish Militia could 'be iti duced to accede. The clothing to the Volunteers would he:given this 'year, but without any pledge that it would be given again.' With respe&' to lank, he hoped no Volunteer Officer would have-any•dif liculty allow to Officers of the Line the recom ,Petice,they were 'entitled to ; at least none ,that he knew ')Ould have any, such ditficult. To 'claim foi• property or .birth,-to the prejudice of men Who had fought foi' their military distinaion in the ernot6t - ,cluarters- of:the ,Globe; was equally shame -fal to •:those Who - made -the 'claim, and those who allowed it.' • He shduld propose that no Officer. of the tine of a higher rank than that , of Captain, nor any Caplain'crimniandina a Corps, should be cow hianded an'Orfleer of ° Volutiteers. When an Of ficer. of Tli'd tine - Was , deprived of the rank he had acqnired 'by haid'fighting/ andlard service, he may saaeOf the peri.ou put over him lac takes froin . ine that which not enricheslim, Alickmakes me poor iuct,:cci."' -ge was so anxious to preserve to the- Army all its disthii-Aions; that he thOught the -colour of the uniform should be restrialed to ihem as ..strialy as his, livery to his .servants, -But as the Volunteers had : been allowed to adopt -this cloth iticre he would not- now propose to change. it. But .:he hoped the Volunteers would not from the dresS have the vanity to appear • what they were not — soldiers. These were the -principles. from the adoption of which he looked for- a 'great and' permanent supply to the Regular Artny..On the other hand, our population would be pre pared to harass the Enemy ou'his march ; and every individual of the Country would be:nearly prepared to fill the•station of any. man that should fail, that is,- aotrained as to be made a complete soldier in a very little time. This measure, if authority were want ing to recommend it, was calculated. to do what was _recommended by the eminent Statesman V‘ie had lost, to be the point most desirable to the Country, to get our whole population gradually into that trained state, in which every one would be capable of being made a complete soldier in very short time, and with -wry little trouble. The measure he proposed , would give one general - training; it would give it without- taking the men from; their homes; it would ,give it,by portions, free of expence, and commuta tion for voluntary service in a Corps. It was to be but an annual measure, that the opportunities of .amendinent may recur, as frequently as possible.— ,Cornpulsion was to have no place runless-it is indis-. Tensible. As to the operation of the measure he .proposed, he would use the words of a -Right Gentleman opposite, on a s hsjiilar subje6t, that the corniuust be long in the ground before the blade could be eve&ed to appear. He did not profess to be able instantly to, remedy the evil when things -had been dong 'going wrong, it would be : unfair to . .eapeect a nostrum that should without delay cure the disorder. ~ He -hoped it would tend to reduce the „present exorbitant. bounties., The basis of it was the .Lezaa-aa-AVutasa-l;il, with, moditication9 .accommo sla tea to.-the • xisting cireautstances; to this it Would -be necessary.to add some Amen.dinents in. Lthe - ,Militia Laws, And au alteration in the Mutiny AP/. !. • 5,n3 Additioilai.Ftwee A& having been -:.;red-as neid, • Mr.Wrereen ;mai Moved, that leeee-be given to bilit • le a Bill to 'repeal the setd,Aeln. - Lord CASTLEREAGiI Would not at prevent ti'eapass so lunch upon the time;of the House as to enter into an investigation of the detail contained 1e the Right Ilan; Gentleman's speech. This woulel Lib a sulaieet,of future discussion, when did Bills necessary to carry the new symtern into exdegtion Should tae befere the }Thus& But in justice to hirb self and to the Country he could not abstain from making a few obServations on the -Military. State of the Nation, which:was so much involved in the pro:: jeEted changes, and the state of which formed so con siderable a part Of the charge moved by the Right Henourable Gentleman against the late Administra tion. Heeonfessed, that in his opinion, it was one of the most important subjeEts that had ever at :traeted the atteption of Parliament. The reputa tion of the latter part of the life of his distinguish ed and lamented friend was necessarily • involved in the Military. System which he established. His fame in ,this, as in : many other'instances, Was so interwoven with the- public interest, that in defend ing lt, he felt that he took the best method of dis •chargig his: duty to the Ptiblic. -There 'were two or three geeeeal principles in which the Right Ho nourable -Gentleman and himself were agreed.— That Right Hon. Gentleman Must admit that there could not be 'eoneeived a greater misfortune than that it should be necessary to cause a furidarnental revi-e 'sion of otie of the great Establiahnients of the State, at e tilne'When•theefate of Britain Might be decided. ' on - British ground liing before-that revision could be completed. Sticlr an enterprize ought not to be tre.- derteken witheetahe most absolute necessity: With' regard tO the observations of the Right Hen: Gentle main there was one emint finaribly struck him, that Was, that he had 1 aid but of his 'eonsideration the fine ArMy that we new livid at our disposal, aed That attentionhis hati e beenentirely occupied . by an attempt to redeem hi own policeeal pledges: Foe his part, he Wished that the House Should he'fairly and fully fornied of ilte existing quality -and anidunt, of the - existing Anty. • -To the excelleribe blare qUality'a that Ai My the Right Hone•GeetleMan had beeriejleit testimon-ye 'lt had arrived' at perfeaitin in disci- . piine and regulation hitherto unknown to it, and to ,which the Illustrious Personage at; the dread 'of the Military Department had• contributed . More by his eeertions then - any of his predecessors' ',in that' ini-e pertant Office; .ThegoodrieSs Of the quality being admitted, it remained tla inquire 'what yea 4 the- pre , : sent amount, and to what it \yes desirable that it might .be carried: The Right Hen. Gentleman had not stated any apecifie. nuMber, but had theiely iu timated the policy of extending eite In that policy he concurred. He would niention' to the Hodse what had been in the centeniplation of his life Right Huh. Friend. He had not intended to propose iris extension of the number any, fitethei thereto dimi nish the deficiencidsWhieh teow•stood at 40 or 50,000' to 25,00, a 'floating deficiency from' whkli no Army of magnitude 'could. be exempt. He would' now stare the. amount of the 'Army at present e---; It consisted, rank and file, including Militia and Artillery, of 267,000 men.. At'the highest"period antecedent to the' present, in' January, 1802, it consisted Of only 242,000 men, so that the amount was now g reater by tweney-five thousand men' than' it had '-ire.en'at the highest 'period of oer Military Annak.. Willing, theretbree as he. Was to admit the exigence of the times; he could -by no means think the Right Hoe. Gentlernan justified in casting .such a gloom over the present State'of the Country. He' could eowspeak of the etisposability of our Army. if the present "'state ofihe Army in that respect were compared' with what it was in Januatbly 1804 (a period to which he alluded, not from a wish to draw any invidious-ccimparison be tween dhis late Right Hon. Friend and his itnine- . diate predecessors; but merely to shew the progreas of the Army under his auspices) the result • would he .in favour -of •the -former. In January, 'l'Bo4, the gross -1 - brce- amounted to 234,000 Men at present it was- 267,000, being an increase of 63,000 men within the last two years. • Of -these •the regular- Force, in :contradistintaion to'the was in January, 1804, .148,000 ; it was at present 192,000, being an increase' of 44,000 men.' At' that .:period 115,009 then were elisenSable foe.gene ral service;' the last retunts - made • that number ex ceed 1ee3,090 men; Making an incretige Of men.dis posabliefotgeneral service of 4 4 ).,000, 'or nearly one half of the whole nnmbete Theeßight 'Horn Gen 7 tlernan, in the beginning of hiaeSpeeeh e had insisted on 'the' expediency of having all .oneTronps posable, 'whether they were intended to be'used for home or Threigti service. Why this should universal principle he could,not conceive. Wheenot let tb;:r(t he a due .proeoetion. of each ? In Core seleeing this subjeCt, it was. incumbent on thellight Hon. Gentleman to lot* first at the waste of the Army; and then at the best mode of sepplying He would nut state this Waste as the waste, pro duced by War, which certainly had not been yery= great in the present contest---but meaning it as the mere casualties • that emit attend every Army es-en 'in Peace, the • Honse would deceive. themetvo :if they alliewed a less number for. those casealties than 15,000 anntially.. The House -were bound first to look at this waste, and then to consider of the means to supply it. And on the latter part of the subje& it would be indispensibly neces sary to distinguLh between visible expedients and speculative expedients. It appears from the Returns that-had been printed (what was certainly a problem -difficult of solutioe), that in the course of the year I the regular recruiting for the line had produeecrfrom - eleven to thirteen thousand men, and that this ac cession to the Regular Army had _scarcely been dis turbed by circumstances which appeared likely. to die minish it, namely, the Army of Reserve, and the Additional Force Mts. :.In point of Ilia, the number of men obtained by ordinary .recruiting, during the last six years, was barely sufficient to cover the casualties of the Army. Therefore, unless the House would be satisfied to see the Army station ary, they must, look out for some extraordinary supply that should make up. for the casualties at least, if not eounterael the waste of war. The measure which his late Right Hon. Friend adopted , fir that purpose was, the Additional DefenCe Aet, aided by other and smaller schemes: Qne"of the tabst powerful of these assistants waf the encou ragement of enlisting froui'the Irish Militias into the Line, the ntwebee•ot . men derived . froth which was only 4000 annually, and which could therefore be entitled only to the .name of an 'auxileary measure. t tit:it s As to the sure and steady pt'Ogress of . thi Additional For.cd Bill his ...itfht Hon. Friend Iddited with confidence. He would not now enter Mid an ex.amknation Of the merits of that ,Bill, or .of the circumstances attending its .operatiOn ; he only re ; quested HO House, when the Accounts wh . , : h. were' now in the Press should' be delivered to them, that they would pay peculiar attention tp the Reports of the different InSpe6ting Officers' whd had ben employed by Government in different parts' of the Country on the subject. Such a mass of vaTtiable information never, he believed, -came berate Parliaaient, It:proceeded.from persons who. were the moil: competent to judge of the subje6t; and it would be found thiq the B.:, had been pro du(ive, wherever it had been :fated uPon, which was in about one-fourth part of the Kingdom.--- ,, These InSpeeling Officers found the people in many distrias so ignorant of the true spirit of- the Bill, . that they imagined its object was rather, to raise' money than men. Before the House - determined repeal the Bill, he trusted that they would examine into its'merits from the decummts that Would soon be before them. Compared with any rival military system, with the Arthy of ReServe, -with the Militia • Systett, or with the present proposed mode of ballot (if he Might use the word - &lua t witlynit 4)flending the Right'Hon. Gentleman), it was'a system of in- . dulgence. Even under lhe imperfeet at . lmmistration Of it, duriir , the ten 'weeks which followed the visit' ef the Insfeeting - `offieers to explain '.their duty to the ParisheS, under the disadvantages which the prospect of a repeal - 'occasioned (fur from- the lan guage held by "the flight' Hon, Gentleman acid his colleagues, the Goentryeerteinly ex.peeted that when they came into °like k repeal would 'be , propase4, l the produde bed been - on' the avorAc aboiit• - ;300 men. per' week ; the "gross 'prodoee of thoSe ten weeks be- . mg 300 men s 'andyet the House were called On to• :give Op the Bill without any - suilicient 'substitute having been provided for et, except indeed a .seecu lative change- in-the service elthe'seldiere might be . termed a substitute: He could Seatcelyebhowevere • think that the'Right Hon. , Getitlemeniwould 'serie ously propoSe thiS alteration of the ,. renn of the sol- , dier's;seryide; with the anielioration of ins condition; as a substitute for a measutethat lied proved' so nro-' due tit On the desirableness in -the present state eof society of -improving. the situation of the and paying attention to the• latter part of this service; he entirely. agreed with the Right Honour-- hie Gentled an. It .ei.'oeld be an. advantage to the Contitre, and it Would be an adt or justice toWardS e . , , the - individual. But this. etivan'taee and this act' of justice, Were as applicable to thee soldier en ,listed for life -as. _to - , one - efiliSted -for limited service:: • Tbis - WaA a most important abd delicate part of the suejeae as much . so as any that. bad ever 'been- submitted to the consideration of Par- , liathent. Thellight Hon. Gentleman was evidently Of opinion, that the system Ofenlistmenefer life was inconsßtent With the genuineespirit and'ereedom of the Country. Ile warned the House, however, that if they once made the experiment, and declared • by their votes 'that enlisMient fel- life 'was repug tiant to the character of tiie Country, it. would be impossible - to re-tread their steps. Excluding. from its influence the, existing Army, he thought •it a libel or Lie Country to call the present mode of ete: a bondage. It was by no means an engage inent fur life; ter although it certainly was not at the option ()Nile soldier to. quit the service when he ellose it, yet it was \ understood that he only remain ed while the Prince required his services. It was an engagement, the severity of which had been at se veral periods qUalified and mitigated. As far as he understood, it was an invariable tole, when a sol dier had served e 5 years, that he should receive his discharge, end be, entitled to his 'pension. The n'titn her Or diselefrees given were • very considerable, and at no time was it difficult for 'a man pro viding a proper substitute-to obtain his release.. The Right Hon. Gentleman:proposed to-debar the exist ing Army however of tbe benefit of this limitation'. When the plan Canle to be discitssed, he was con; minced that fit - could not - Meet the: countenance of the• House. • Were the principle atell adinitted, it must be ainde generally applitable to the4holeArmy. fTe shbuld be glad to lenew• in What Coteitry the exe Perimenefied been tried. Was PrilS,Sia? Was it ln • Russia'? , In Austria it had:nevertheen introduced till 'BO, , and then in' a initigeted Mariner. The only Country in Europe that Could be'referred to es a precedent eVas: Old France ; for as to NeeeFranee, that itninen'se power had - none of these philoseohie notions ; the soldiers 'in that - country 'served JuSt as .Icing - aS •their Emperor wished theme In 'Old Yranee, -the system of enlistinent ler a certain notn- r ber of years' had: been admitted 'brit he begged -the House =to consider the egieat difference be tween the countries., • The po - put,tion. of France, poor and maive, vas'prone' to , wale and a military s ey4tern could thereliiiee be carried on Advantageously in that Country, which 'would- ill accord with Great • Briteie. Tints' the • only case on Vied' the Right 'Hen. Gentlemen could argue was not a rat-aP.OI oo.s. As teethe probability of. deriving the supply. from this' measure, which was so confidently predieted by the Right Hon.Gentiernan, he was' firmly convinced that his expeEtations would 'be 'disappointed, and that it would 'prove ab nugatory as it certainly was dangerous. SO far from improeing the chaeader of the British soldiers, he thought it would abstradt from their energies. It was a mere imaginary eon •ception-that any great proportion of those who in listed wished for a - litnited term, united with unlimit ed. service; and for -- those who required only the former, were not the'Militia and the additional force ' open ? As little would the Right Hon. Gentleman find himself borne out ltehis reasonings on the sub je& by the example of parts of our own system, as by that Of ; foreign' nations. He had men. tioned the-test Indies, but certainly this was one et 'the wort fonndations on which he could have built his plan. The East India Company could procel'e ' so lew recruits, that in the first Mysore, War, Lord Cornwaliis,fi tiding that the battalions did not amount to 200 men each; advised the Company to abandon 'these troops which had enlisted fora limited time; and regiments. Nor could he 6 to g+ s e l e tb t st o ft w u I t l e at t l l y i z e id been said of its etfeca ih desertion; -and as.to the great 'desertion which had taken place among the men raised under the'Additional Force it was to be ntaibuted to their being rawl*. cruits There was another seriouSeaed formidable objeetion to - that part of the plan in : ;::l4 i i n 4.ll li t t h i e Right Hee. Gentleman proposed that the , ellen sh'a'd be discharged, even in the MidSt of war, ~..;;_~ I ..; ; '~ f , 4 fi ~ ~~ 1 l r