The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1808-04-02 00:00:00

eth.•plitause reform sad retrenchment k the public ex-
penditure have been particularly recommended to us from
the Throne sad because we are apprtheiaive that the re-
jection of the present Bill may be lousiikted by the people
of tllsc United Klegilme, as indicatiog a disposition is this
Hotest apt to give citc7t to that wise end salutary vet-ties-
amedetion. (Signed).
LAUDERDALE. PONSONDY, (Dosk.borurzb )
GREY. VASSAL lit OA-AND.
A LRESIARLE. ST.SPYORD.
ESSEX. CARRINGTON.
JERSEY. RING.
COWPER.
PONKIN HY. IMO.
Pc.: the Rest, second, and f‘...ertlk reasuus,
SI'LNCF.R.
CI. I FT() N, (Darnley.)

On dui third reading of the 3latiny Bill, Man.h
19, it was moved to omit the clause
re-
cruits to enlist without any huiitatinii ; and upon
the amendment being reixted, the tollowing Pre-
test wit. entered :
pt. Because the words proposed to be omitted, by esta-
blishing an option between hoisted and tdii.iited s:evicc,
effect an alteration in a system, the sneers of o bleb has al-
ways appeared to us to depend en a scrupulous, and
weintrnupted adherence to the principlca oo winch it was
originally binned. The inducement hold out to enlist, by
limiting the term of senice, is founded nu :no immediate
bounty or reward, but on the hue c,f future see! distart ad-
vantages. A confidence in its stability is, doer •1441-
lately necessary to 4. success, and soy alteration cost tend
to shake that cotifi&rme, and to (seats. an *purl:heroism iu
the minds of the people, that chances fmin tune to time
will be introduced, that faith to individuals will nut he
seniratinuily mailitaiued, and that the advaittarcs held cot
to them will heroine precarious and uncertain, 113 wan es m-
inute. Nor are sorts suspicions likely to be allayed by the
reflection, that the alteration in question was cbielly sup-
ported by venoms avowedly hostile to the p, pie limited
"Trier, and that the arguments uigul io favour of it in de-
hate, weer more calculated to recommend a total sishvernims,
than a nosiiliColion or improminiut, of the system as re-
cently ("unbind...J.
gel. Because the particular aitt-eation, now adopted, tends
fo riossituran the hunt beialmwrauun of tiw original measure,
by remileriseg evoephcAted a system which it. Mtn peculiarly
desirable should rJe. distinctly understood by that class of the
community from winch use army is doe fly recniited.
Became so meet unity, arising trim may failure of the
insteni established in id. 26, has been, or can be, largos/
in jitalinc dim of the than;:e cow introduced. Oa the con-
trary, the maelcd ref.-rime gircu to bunted aseire, he
thme she, enlisted from the Militia wader the Act ‘4 last
year, ea general success, sad, abOve all. the mune and
pecten svisc appeasement, which has hitherto .treaded the
recruitiug for a hunted terns of years, have exceeded the
hopes, sad condepaed the expeetatouns, of meet sanguine
of its supporters.
ath. Became the change is not recommended by any im-
aaidiate advantage, um adapied to any extraordaary exi-
VOW)* of the time; but calculated del), is the view of its
supporters themselves, to sat msau.,t dillicuities at mice
speculative and remote.

• nth. Because the admission of soldiers fur life tends to
perpetuate the existence, and to eigparate the incunse.
airtime, of that mixture in the co:editions of service, which,
vista temparary and onawaidable, formed the uso.it plansiblu
ahiectitisi to the original measure.
For these reruns wi thought it Muardoni to adept a regu-
lation, tee imaaroded by t:o matte of cunveuteuce, and halite
to many serious of iect isms ; we were yaw illiug, beefily and
wantonly, to tat. elite with wits: nun apparently well: and
wue anxious to record our disapprubatioo of au experiment,
which must disturb, awl may, eventually, if nut iuteutiusally,
obvert a system calculated to ireolluce a Ciallidalit,
unoppressit e, awl Cheap supply of recruits to the army.
(Signed)
VASSALL HOLLAND, ESE[,
GR EX, C.tW DUI.
JhASEY,