The Sun. — London, England, 1806-05-22 00:00:00

Opposition Side of the I-Totte s' speeches Which eatus rally induced the Country to look for a new military era as soon as that Right Hen. Gentleman came into power, to expect from him another harvest of dmus. Four months, however, had elapsed since that event, and nothing had 'been,-done ! •It was above two months since the Right Hon. Gentleman made his long military speech in the House ; what had ensued ? Let any one candidly examine' the con auCt of the present Ministry in military affairs, and he would find no great cause of satisfaCtion or confi -aence. In the first place; on the Motion of a Noble 'Lord, a very unconstitutional grant 'of I'B millions and a half had been voted forthe Army in that House before thedistinct appropriation which was intended to be made of that sum had been explained. Then the ArMy Estimates were brought forward for two months, and then they were brought, forward for ene ther Month. The Mutiny Bill too was first passed for two 'months, and again passed for one month. All these acts Were no 'Very striking indications of the t gents and foresight of His Majesty's present-Mini sters. All that the Right ,Honourable_ Gentleman had done was to destrorthe Additional Defence Act, and by so dolne :he had " thrown awayst pearl richer .than all his tribe." 'He would not touch at present upon the gigantic subje& of : the Regular Army, but would Merely. make a' few observations on the Volun teer System. Tice Right Hon. Secretary, at War had eoniPlained, that great misrepresentation had- taken place of what his Right Hon. Friend the Secretary for the War Department, had said of his intenticnj with regard to the Volunteers. He did not .know where this misrepresentation originated. , The Gentlemen tvho reported the proceedings of .the House fer the newspapers were geteraliy better inclined asa. .a new Administration than to a new Opposition, and were much more likely to give the speech of the Right Hon. Secretary with correctness than the speeches of the Gentlemen who sat on the sane • bench as himself, and he believed that the sentithents and observations of the Right Boa. Gentleman had been very fairly stated to the Public. He could not but notice that a considerable change had taken place. in the tone of that Right Han. Gentle Man since he attended the great Civic Feast at Guildhall, when the Toast of " The Volunteers of England" was given, proving the truth of the old saying, " liz nine *erilas." commented'with great severity on the, speech which the Right Hon.Geei. had made hi sup port of the Bill for the repeal of the Additional Farce .At. That speech contained infinite wit, humour, and vivacity, and froth any indiffere4 ,Member would have been very proper, • and Very enter taining ; but coming on such an iMportant subject • from the Secretary of State for the War Department, he could not but consider the levity with which it. abounded as' in the highest degree indecorous. With regard to the proposed abolition of the General In.. seeding Officers, for the purpose of substituting the Lords Lieutenants of Counties, he considered, such a etnnige as Very injudicious ; and 'on this subject he was sure that lie might Safely appeal to the opinion of all who had any connexion with Volunteer Corps. Emtilatlon was excited in the. present mode, which would, by thepropoSed plan, become dirninislied; -if not 'extind. Nor was he a greater friend to' the propos ed abandonment ofpermanent dtity As an Officer, he declared that he thoUght permanent duty most es sential to the Volunteer system. He illustrated this eilsinion. by an instance in the Distri& which.lie had the honour to command: Five thousand Volunteers were collet - led in Bristol on permanent duty for lll ten days. When they first assembled their awk aisardness Was striking-, but at the expiration of the fifteen-days, he should not have hesitated to go into salon with them if required.. To .destroy, there= fore, the system of permanent duty, was a most ex traordinary and a most precipitate ad. By the re teres on -the Table if appeared, that there were in England •00,600 effeCtive Volunteers, 100,000 of whom had been returned as .fit- to act with the Line. They had cost, in four years only, .3,400,060 h Brit taking it - at the statement of the Gentleman opposite, that in three years they had cost 5,660,0001. he woald ask how such Troops Could be obtained elsewhere at so small an expence ? lie would abstain at present from entering on 'any other part of 'the seitenielits of the Right Hon. Se cretary at War ; they might be better understood at future period, as , he intended to move, that the Army Estimates should be printed'. All •that had been done' by the preSent AdMinistration was to de stroy. Most men, when they intended to build a new house, provided materials before they pulled down their old one, but the conduct of the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite Was the reverse. Usti- 11-lately, however, he was convinced that the Right lion. Gentleman would find the necessity of de-' scending from the flights of metaphysics to the plain _methods of his predecesSors.. Mr. WHITBREAD observed, that the. Hon. Ge neral had talked of every , thing but the Army Esti-; mates. • He had even introdnced naval subjeets, and had gone out, of his way to east a particular. blaine on bis Noble Friend at the head of the Admiralty, and a general blame on the whole ()fills Majesty's Mini sters, whom he had chosen to term drones. He would ask whether the Noble Lord (Lord H.-'Petty),- from whom th e Housa.had just -heard such display of talents, had shewn himself - a drone ? Was his Right Hon. Friend near hitu (Mr. Fox) a drone.? Was the Right Hon. Secretary of State for tlie'War de partment a drone, because, duly -considerina'' the magnitude and importance of the subje6, he had not proceeded so rapidly with his military plans as the impatience of the Hot). General prompted him to ex- Ped ? Adverting to -the Hon. General's supposition, !hat his Right Hon. Friend's tone With regard to the Volunteers had been considerably lowered, since his • Visit to the City; he.declared, that he should think. Lina very unworthy the situation which lie held in His Majesty's Councils, if he allowed a toast given by a worthy Alderman to bias his determination on the great Military System which he had in contempla tiQn• But did he so ? Was his tone altered ? On the contrary, all the statements made to-night b this Right Hon. Secretary at War, of the cessation of t he June allowances, of the reduetion of the ex- Penees of Drill Serjeants, and. of the abolition of p i e rtnanent duty, were so many strong proofs th a t ( Jo tone of his Right Hon. Friend remained un-' changed. With regard to the • obserations made bY the Hon. General on this last.pron. , 'on —names, 1,3:, fa tit of permanent . g,cat as was in the military skilref that Hon. General, h; could easily suppose that . his Right. Hon: Friend IE4 consulted Officers who .Screie.:as cOmpetent.to decide on questions of this' nature. 'The fad Was, -P6 that several Voluntet Corps .which had neVer seen on permanent duty.had been returned by the In speding Field Officers as fit to aft with the Ling, which evinced that permanent, duty was not in dispensible to - the attainment of discipline. The Hon. General had - misunderstood one part of the Right Hon. Secretary's-statemdnt : he had not said that Lords Lieutenants were to` be substituted for the present Inspeeting Field Officers' of VOlunteers 7 -- but he had expressly said, that three Major-Generals were to be appointed to' that service ; and thus a great part of the useless machinery attached to the inspection -of the Volunteers Would be got rid of: He repeated his former sentiments on the rank of Volunteer'Officers ; and declared, that in his opi nion no- - rational man who now cominanded-a Vo lunteer Corps, but must be rejoiced at being re.. lieved from the responsibility - which his having a command over Regular Officers above the rank of Captain had hitherto imposed . on him. To the printing of the, Army Estimates he had no objec tion whatever. Lord :CASTLEREAGH perfectly agreed with his Hon. Friend,' that the House was at present placed in a very peculiar situation, as well in its own view, as in that of the. Country and of Europe, af ter all that had already taken, 'place. When His Majesty's present Ministers had come into-Office, it, was the general impression in the Country, that some fundamental .change would be immediately made in 'the military system of the Country ; and he left the House , to judge how far such a funda mental change was consistent with the efficient state of the Army, as represented in the statements- of the Secretary ,at. War.. ,So full, however, had the. House and the Country been of the expeaaiion- that' some such fundamental change was to be brought forward, that he and his friends had suggested, with a view to afford the Right Hon. Centlenian an op-• portunity of maturing the measure, the expediency of passing a Mutinyßill for two months.- The sug gestion had been acted upon ; and he begged the House now .to recollea in what a situation it was placed. These were the fourth Military Estimates which had been voted this ,year ; and in order. to give effe& to these Estimates, a fourth Mutiny Bill was to be passed. He asked whether any Govern-. meet bad ever exhibited such an evraordinary, in stance of inefficiency ? One might have expeaed that these fourth Estimates _should contain some new niatter-sothe indication of the measures which the Right Hon. Gentleman meant to, produce. Yet strange as it *as, and must appear to every Gen tleman in the House, the Estimates now proposed to be voted differed in nothing from those that had bech voted in March, except In the amount of saving from the reduction of the Cavalry.-- He agree% with his Hon. Friend (General Tarleton) that it was desirable to' keep the Cavalry on a re spedablefodting, but from the difficulty that had been felt in maintaining that body on thefull esta blithment, he asserted' that it was the intention of the late Government to redyce them, according to the Plan now proposed, to eight hundred rank and file in each regiment, After all the parade, or ra ther farce, of such frequent delays in the production of the promised measures, the present proceeding _would have the elle& of shewingto Europe that there er.)sted an extreme jealousy between the Parliament and the Government, when such short Munity Bills were passed. The present measure was not calcu lated to - give the ParliaMent or the. Cciuutry any idea of what ; the- prindiples - or prominent feattires of the proposed measures were. And here he begged' to ask the Secretary at War for information respell ing the .subjea of the .Volunteers, with regard to Whom . considerable apprehensions had been excited by the Speech of the Right HonourableGentlernari, and 'notwithstanding the effiarts that had since been Made to explain away the impression produced on the Public by that speech, the statements made that night were not calculated to remove them. But on this .subjea he should take another opportunity of speaking mere at largei : and in consenting to vote the Estimates in this instance, he begged not to vote them otherwise than as matter of account, and not to. preclude himself from reverting to the subjea on a future occasion... The economy under the head of Volunteer Expenditure, he considered as a- Contemptible consideration. The objets of the Right Hon:int - 11We 'Gentleman seemed to . be,. to break dOwn that' respeaable Body, and to get rid of them -as lin effeCtive 'part of the Mili tary Defence of the Country. When the Right Hon. Gentlemen in the present instertee,' affirmefl that they bad no designs upon-the Volunteer System, but rather wished to support it,' they Ivere drily de fending themselves against the feelings - of, the Pub lic. But,.asthe Right. Hon. Gentletnan had Mai; niat.Q.d to the Hotse, on the - day when the Noble Lard near him (Lord.Howick) had bronght forward his Propositions for an increase of pay to the' Navy, from the Admiral down to the-Seaman, his inten tion to advise Majesty,to recommend it'similar augmentation of pay to - the Army, some estimate of the amount of. such augmentation . ought to have been submitted to the House, and, if any substan tive . obji,st, beyond the unnecessary parade of such intirnation, was intended,- the Noble Lord would have to provide forit .by,.a Supplemental Budget. If this were to have been matter of separateeonsider-' ation, the Estimates now proposed, might as , well have been submitted to a final decision in March. last. The expence of the projected training, « Bich he looked upon as the most buithensome part of the Plan, ought to have been included in the ,Esti mates. Was the House ever to be informed' of the mode of proceeding of the Right Hon. Gentleman? On the Irst day of the Session, at a critical period, the consideration of an important question could not be deferred beyond the day - fixed ;. and yet four months'had now elapsed since the Gentlemen had come into office, and the'only thing they had done; the only symptom of life that had appeared, during their Ministerial existence, was to bring 'forward the Repeal of the Additional Force Acid, by a Billeen taining that detestable Clause relative to the re-pay ment of the Penalties. The Irish Chancellor 'of the Exchequer had also brought in a Bill fOr_allowing the Irish Militia to volunteer their-services to this Country ,; and as That .was a measure which he had himself supported, the Hon. Baronet had his thanks for it; though from any thing the Hon. Gentleman had said on the subje& forrnerly, it did not appear to hare.met his approbation:. If Government could Make up their minds on the subjea, -and he thoeght they..were at present travelling between the diffical tes of she Country, and the •projeas into which they..had rashly precipitated themselves, he implor, T‘Tinisters, .and particularly the Fight Hon: Gen , demon (Mr. Windhatu);.to inform ti - House what proceeding he meant to adopt, and not . tel - bring forward the meaaures one a f ter ' another, Whereby_ the attention of the, House might be exhausted.=,. He asked of His Majesty's Ministers alSO:to Sate, when they meant to. bring their measures - forward, and to allow sufficient-titre between their . introduc-; tion and the final decision. He .wished. them to giVe the House time to consider 7 a 'subject which had taken them two months • to make up their , minds upon, after the disgrace and ignoring Of corning so Qften with Estimates to Parliament. • He - did not' think it fair for Ministers to take - credit for economy at the expenceaif the late Government. The re ,duelion in the , cavalry they.would Shave carried into effed but : the reduction of .the Waggon-Train- he disclaimed. The statements were tbmided on a false' -principle : of economy. • 'He ..called.'Orv: the Right Hon. Gentleman to state , ln Parliainentary shape*hemearitto bring forward-his Plan fOrlitnited ; systemervice, which w as t o alter the' whole Syste of the rmy, whether i n a separate Ata, - or hilhe Mutiny' , ; and if in the latter shape, he trusted he would bring it forward in a manly manner in - the face of the Bill,.and not attempt tO introduce it skulking . into the 1311) at. a late, stage ' of its• progress. .He Could not - see, what Ministers had done - since they , had been in otfice, except explain away theiriipres-• sion produced by the ipeech, of the Right 'HOU.' Gentleman. , ,:.••• • Mr. .Secretary WI ND ILIM did not mean Co follow the Noble - Lord in the speech lie had anade.2 . One of the topics insisted on 'by the Noble Lord was; the:frequent renewal-of - the ',Mutiny Bill,-,und the; effect this would have'upon Foreigners, which could only be an iMpression that it was oftener .renewed j than usual, or ifthey - shenld be acquainted with ,the forms of the Constitution of this Country, that the_ platis of the Government were not sufficiently Ma tured for a final' Mutiny Bill. 'lt was rather whim •sical of the' Nbbl e L or d t o take credit ,to him self and his friends for their intended economy 7 in the redutaion of the Cavalry, .and to approve of the opinion'of the Honourable General-...-4hat the Establishment of the Cavalry ought to 'he kept -up. The at - gument would not answerboth Ways: " - The' door must be either shut or- open. , The next topic the Noble Lord had touched upon related, to the-Vo lunteers, which;lioweVer, he deferred a more enlargdd coosideration of to 'a future , opportunity: The Noble Lord had talked'of the ciexterity and - .a& dress, that had been used to "lower the tOne :that bad been used by him 'on this sithjea On - a' formeroccasion, ' For' his • part he, h a d not' lowered • his tone, , not' having spoken upon the subjed but - once, and then only with a view to set •Learned Gentleman right as to what he conceived a misrepre= seutation of his•sentiments. Neither had. his,Right. Hon. Friend (Mr. Fox) lowered his tope; fordre' had declared his coincidence in every sentiment ex.:* pressed by - him, The, Noble Lord should have an, • plied the terms of address and dexterity to thernis representations that had "Nen industriously, circu- 7 lated. He wished the Hon. Gentleman would, once for all, prefer the indictment : he could then either deny or:avow the Charge, explain or insist upon it, - justify it or make an apology,: his measure was:no measure. at all; for six -sevenths of the Volunteers it would leave ;hem' exa4ly where, they are, except as to expense. • • It . had been said' that this measure was to deprive the Volunteers of their Adjutants of the Serjeauts Major, and 'of the.. Drill Serjeants ;- but no•sitch thing Was intended. A saving of 50,0001. was proposed on the Drill Serjeantsj ever, would leave them seven shillin&ks per day. for, every day of ti duty. H e alid not wish to aug ment the duty of - the Volunteers, though it would add to their efficiency at an increase ofexpence..-- It had been said that ,the 'duty . ought to be in-. creased; • and he knew it had been said to be his intention, from enmity to' the' syStem, to get-rid of it by harassing the Volunteers with increased i. duties ; but that was -no part of his ohjea",. As ,to the question of the Noble Lord; what proceed!. ings he meant to 'adopt; he should - answer, that as to the recruiting for limited serviee, which he. eonsi deied the most important - point that was to. beaStri, vided for in the-Mutiny Bill;* he wished as. small a ',arta. the System as wtf's consistent with security to the party to be provided for by Parliamentary regu lation, and to leave it open to future GoVernments to alter or amend the System.- Coupled with this pro vision in the Mutiny Bill be proposed .a permanent Bill for securing -to the individuals inlisted the rrovi 'sion, at the expiration of their term,.ofthe increased allowance from Chelsea ; as to what the Noble Lord bad said,' of the manlinas's of bringing the Clause forward iii the face of the had only, to say;.:- that : the Clause viould .most properly be introduced in the Committee, wherC Would• undergo a more: liberal discussion. With aNata to the, .Training,. he : proposed„. though he would notbe_Oedged to: it, to bring in !the..Bill for that p ur p ose ;Mere the eess, with a view to hale it printed,* in order to its hei'ug considered by Gentlemen, and by the -Com, try, during.the Holidays. 'Another - measure he _was to, bring for Ward respeded the Militia, on which he had, also been misrepresented, for he pupped only to extend-for a time the suspension Aifaliii-Ballot at -present ekisthig; An Aa .might also be necessary to' alter ktne_of the provisions of the - Volunteer Laws. ! This was all he felt it necessary to say in answer to the Noble Lord. • . Mr. PEROI.I I :Th contended, that he bad notmiAl - 1 represented the-Right Hon.. Gentleman, whose sub sequent explanations had, however, materially*soft- ened the sentiments he • had Originally expressed. He insisted that the 'Right Hon. Gentleman. had-de , dared hiribelf an enemy to the ballot, insomuch, chat when lie fluent himself under a necessity of resorting to it, to enforce *his training system, to avoid the odious Word, he had preferred to use the word " lot," l'e`Ning out the syllable , pal." When it was recollected that. the Right Hon. Gentleman had *- compared - the Volunteers to painted cherries, which. Ilene. but simple birds would take far real fruit, aiLd_ that lie had compared those who had eneourzgedltie Volunteers - to children planting sticks and then sup— posing they had planted trees., it would not be deem- *, ed uncharitable in them' to conclude that he was, not. ; friendly to the Volunteers. The Right Hon. Gentle- . Map had, said lie had used the word " relax," for remit," with respeato thediScipline of the Vo lunteers, hut it mattered not whielye used, as either would.be ruinous to the Sytein. It would he an in jury te•the flight Hon. Gentleman to suppose _,that he had ;ben misreprese 11 red tviili respect to the Volunteers, blea , ase, if his object were to destroy, their in4titutioa, hiss measur6s Nve:e rationd.l, if he y.a.i ,Inchnedto encourage and ' , ll his measure: were irrational, they being cL,;cutaed t,, producet_heir dest s ruction. • • . . •• Mr. Secreta.y.FOX rose just to say a" feW !! On what had fallen from 0 - lea - ay/led Gentleman had just sat down. It was . not : neceSsirY to review what had tak en pl ace i n a -former debate - I" . .2Spedieg , the Misrepresentation'of :he Si.sntiments of his Rig - lit i 'Honourable Friend. There' was'no - great gramnia tical difference,• he admitted, - between " " re'mi't , " but they might be used St) -as to have a far different import. It was . . rather extraiirdinaiy • that the use of the Wol - d •- " relax," .by his Right Honourable Friend ) should still be adverted to espe 'cially: as on the, very day when he had so expressed • liiinself, he had explained what - he intended to say., It:reminded him of an old saving; "'that there was Sometimes no better way ofuttering a falsehoodtban in the words of truth." 'ln the long parliinn e nt ar y experie;ice he had h a d ; h e had never known any 'speech so. misrepresented, a;:(1 - indUstrionsly cir culated, as thatl of his Right. Hon. Friend. The misrepresent ition had been eirchlated Over the, whole Country. 'He bad 'had eorreSpOntletice on the sub jedt from' varieus quarters: ArtiOngSt others, he. had a Tener : from a respeetable Gentleman-whiCh wonid throw some light on , theque4tion. • The Letter VOrted,to Mr. Secretary:Windbain'S Plan, and a sup posed prevalent opinion Ahat tl.)c,i - Vo!'euiteert wereef 'no use whatever, ,Which The' , writer denied, asserts `big, that only three things were klianting to :make 'them a valuable, 4!erviceabie, and efficient force—to take- away -permanent duty; the. June. allowances, and the ISpeahig•Tiekt QdicerS,, . This would then show theopinion-Of the Coiintry,On the subject. Bet: it-bacrbeed said that - His,Matesty.'s Ministers were of opinion that the VolUnteers - coull never be mad4e.._ an-Army. Well; and so they were. It 'was the system, not the men that - prevented it: Ilan Army -could be made .withoutthediiciiiline . enfor c ed by th e : Mutiny Bill, the n • had the 'Governmentand argent of this:Country been guilty:of t he:greatest pence and ertielty. But he 'Wits-so unfortnn:te as not to think that an Ariny could be: formed w;itiloot - tf)e. peculiar descipline enforced by a-aitioy Bill. He ;'thought thiS a good time for going Into the general question, but should follow the - example" of those who had-preceded him. It !matt, frequently been ail:- ed whether they Meant to reduce or diminish the • - Volunteers? - He answered, N. Whether -to dis courage'. or decline their services ? No, But it was 'not thought desirable to, have these services at the - present extravagant expellee they, cost,: If the- Vo • lunteers thought they. could serve. ,their. Country consistently with the Plan of his Honotirable-Frienci, he wished the m to 'remain,; if they could - not, Why then they might serve it in some othcl way, and di . less expen c e. He was sorry for the delay that, had 9ecurrQd, , because it had ficilltated thecirculation or the misrepraentationSV his aightlion;Friend; and the publication. of his me.a•Sures . \would have - been the .best refutation of them: TO search for the plats in • • the speech of the Noble Lortf, was like, the vulgar saying expressed,f! seek for a needle in a bun die of hay." He conearred.'entirely in the senti ments 4f, his Right Hon. - Friend; - atid if. he was: not so near him, lie should state that to .he his °pi,- Mon of. him, Which had • been imparted to him as his own; as he thought hiM the -fittest nixie in the Empire for the office , beheld. WithrespeCt - An the pro posed-those, as the INlutiny Bill WOtild be brought nr to-morrow, it might be read a second time 911 L riday, .and discussed Wednesd'ay or Friday after the 'recess.. The clauseMight_ be discussed in the Committee. As to the animadversions of the Noble Lord‘respeia ing.the delays that had taken place,..:the was callous to them. He thought it much. better that new mea sures; With a , view to ititure rather than to any im mediate objets; should be maturely : considered. . And he was sure, th a t It Would be a "happy.day fOr the-country. When'theTy should pass, and that every Gentleman would agree with.him,.. who wished tile eßritish Army to be placed ona footing suited to the .magnitude and siniatiOn of the Empire. If the pre, sent Administration did nothing else but carry these . measures into effeet„ tiley would do an important and grateful service to the Coiantry: CANNOT G rebutted the : imputation- m is 7 representation, by stating thatkis friends bad been grossly misrepresented. As to his panegyric pro hounce,d - oti ' the Right Hon. Secretary (Mr. Wind ham), -he 'had never heard any- thing of .the kind, except . on, a 'Member, not then in his'place ,(Mr. Franeis)., Who had beenstated to be th e b est oualified to govern India, and yet that Gentl ema n h a d not been. employed. He hoped the Measures, when brought forward, would-,not be precipitated. , If any Government wished to precipitate their measures they would precisely follow time course that had been purstied.in this instance;' first, by tiring the patience of Gentlemen by delays, and afterwards by hur rying the. bnsiness,forward, . He thought the Wed nesday after the recess too early a titty.for. the dis 7 cussion of the clause; as. many Gentlemen hadd - gone - out of toWn for the holidays; .iider, - .animpression that-the hUsiness would not be,,,broutl,htiorward SO aarly; nay, even .under a.supposiiion that.theimea-,' sores would not - be brought forward-at • all: • Fie thoughts the :Monday after the reeess'the'earliest day the busine;sccild be fixed for; and . tigges . (c.-d propriety of a call Of the House fbt that day: 1i r. FOX,would not consent tb delay thebusines's till _Nlon.lay,'nor would he atteralit to dissuade .the. Right lion. Gentleman (Mr: Canningy from .dis- Oussilig it in ony - Way. t he might think- most proper but for his part, .he should not toliow the e xamp l e thlt light Hon. Gentleman seenie4 disposo to hold A'Srlien the-question oflimitedService was before 446.:F10ite, it might suit that Hon. Gehtljrnan ft en. ter upon the consideration of the levy; en mas.qeibut .suell -desultory discussion lie shbuld . not .ht hour him in ; for one of these measures .did fait depend.upon the other,and therefore should not be considered. is necessarily connected,- He repeated, - he eoujd.iec _ no - necessity for - deferring the discussion of the :mein • points beyond Wednesday next. Mr. YORKE was anxious that more time should be granted; for he was not-aware what clauses might be , proposed in the ,Mutiny Bill, or what was the uitiniate decision of the Right Hon. Gentlehari re-. spetting the leading features of his Plan. - WlStt Was the, term and limit of service that was to to men when . enlisting? Were the.o6 Were the'pb - wers &claiming their discharge in irate of wai? • 'Was it equally to affea the cavalry and az-. - tillery. with, the rest_ of the. Army? Was it to e.x.- tenid to the Army now existing 'Surely - these were important and. complicated questions, to the clista4- i