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LONDO N, March n.
"WN the debate, which arose in the Committee of Supply
§ lail Monday night, ch the eflimate of the army extraor
-1 binaries, the ccath of the gallant General MONTGO
=- MERY was lamented in drains of the moll pathetic elo
quence that ev^rwerc heard in the House of Commons. Three
of the principal orators Mr. Burke, Mr. Fox, and Colonel
Barre, distinguished themielves on the occasion, and vied with
each other in the panjgeric of that hero. General Burgoyne,
though he expressed a hrong zeal agaiuft the American cause,
in a very handiome manner, did justice to his merits, and
said, that ail his virtues were abundantly rewarded, when they
were thus " praised, wept, and honored by the muse he
loved."*
Lord North censured the unqualified liberality of the praises
bellowed cn General MONTGOMERY by the gentlemen in
oppefition, because they were bellowed upon a REBEL ; and
said he could not join in lamenting his death as a public loss.
He admitted, indeed, that he was brave ; he was able ; he was
humane; he was generous ; but hill he was only a brave, able
humane, and generous rebel; and said, that the verse of the
traded) of Cato might be applied to him, " Curse on his vir
tues, they've undone his country."
Mr. Fox refe a second time, and said the term Rebel, ap
plied by the noble Lord to that excellent person, was no cer
tain mark of disgrace, and therefore he was the less earned
to clear him of the imputation ; for that all the great affertors
cf liberty, the faviours of their country, the benefactors of
mankind, in all ages had been called REBELS; hat they
even owed the constitution, which enabled them to fit in that
House, to a REBELLION.
Lord Irnham said it was a shame to punish the poor voters
of'Hindon. and Shaftfbury for bribery, while the names of
Several Members of Parliament were to be found in the lift of
contractors, amassing sums of money out of the calamities of
their country. He moved that the accounts on the table of
all the articles of extras for the army at Bolton, four crout
and all, might be published.
Mr. Tuffnal complained of an extravagant article for pick
les and vinegar for fix thou fund men at Bolton for three months,
and said, that if they had lived upon nothing else the whole
time, it could not have come to haif the money.
Sir Joseph Mawbey objected to the war, and to all the
<chafgds of it ; he was bitter against the minhtry, and said
somebody must answer in the long run for this deftru&ive war.
Lord North, Sil Grey Cooper, and Mr; Ponnal, (poke in
fu,port ofthe measures, the expences and the resolutions of
the Committee of Supply, and on putting the questions they
-were carried.
Mr. Burke then made the following motions :
Resolved, That it appears to this House that 'the sum of
£. 849,000 14s. Bd. farthing, charged as extraordinary ex
pences of the army, was chiefly incurred for services within
the town of Boston in North-America. It passed in the nega
<ivd.
Resolved, That ample provision for the comfortable accom.
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modation of our troops at Boston having been made by the
public, there could be no .pretence to call upon the nation for
any farther supply. Palled in the negative.
By ah abftra& of the naval and military estimate's for the
year 170'4, taken from the records of Parliament, when Go
dolphin was Lord High Tieafurer, Prince George of Den
mark, Lord High Admiral, and the victorious and immortal
John Duke of Marlborough, Commander in Chief; when the
campaign was carried on in Spain, Portugal, the Lower Coun
tries, on the Rhine, and the Danube ; when our fleets were
victorious in the Weft-Indies, the narrow seas, and on the
ocean ; and when the lines of Scheldenburgh were forced ;
and the power, fame and military strength ofthe French mo
narch, then aiming an univeffal empire, was nearly annihi
lated at Blenheim and'Hockfttt, it appears thdt the grant for
the navy amounted to £.2,693,135
For .guards and gafrifons, 35,1060
For men in the Low Countries, and subsidies
to the King of Denmark, Landgrave of
Hesse Castle, and Elector of Treves, 935344
To troops of augmentation serving in the
Low Countries, and fublidy to the King of
Portugal, 504,661
Ordnance for the land service, 153,000
Total 4,641,140
Lord North's budget for the year 1775, when
the campaignwas carried on at Boston neck,
Btfnker's-hill, Mystic river, Charleftown,
Lexington, Concord and Boston common,
a circuit of eighty-seven furlongs,' 4,886,651
By the above estimate it appears that the glorious campaign
of 1775 c °ft us more than the ever memorable vidories gain
ed in the year 1704, though we had an army of fifty thousand
men in the Low Countries and in Germany ; sixteen thousand
men serving in "Portugal; forty thousand seamen ; and that
we traVerfed with our armies the kingdoms of Spain and Por
tugal, great part of the Empire, Flanders, and part of the
dominioiis of France, while we defended cur own coasts
against all attacks, and spread terror through those of our ene
mies. The pay of our seamen and soldiers was the fame at
both periods. Add to this, we had a pretender to the throne,.
-Scotland was disunited and difafte&ed, and a fourth part of
the people even in England were zealously attached to the,
-Stuart fam/y.
It may be depended upon as an absolute fa&, that the
Prince of Brunswick positively refufed to let his regiment go
to America ; and on its Teing infilled on, resigned his com
mission immediately.
1 here have been killed from September to January last, for
the use of the navy, at London, Portsmouth, Plymouth, and
Dover, for sea stores and harbour meat, eight thousand oxen,
and eighteen thousand hogs, besides a large quantity of sheep.
The accounts ot a late deceased pay-maker, who went under
the name of the defaulter of unaccounted millions, were lately
finally fettled, when there appeared a balance due to the trea^
fury of two hundred and .kirty-four thousand pounds.
[Num. 223.