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sae Parliament is determined to persevere in it. With
all these drawbacks, and the additional circumstance
of the penalties under the Army of Reserve Aa,
which bad never been enf aTeci, and were modified
by this AEI, which gave the pariles more time and
mitigated their penalties, the reinit it, that the mea-
sure, under every disadvantage, has had the positive
success oldnubling what was the annual produce of
all our other ordinary meant of recruiting. Ni,tw,
Sir, to consider this measure as a permanent sys-
tem, for I cannot admit that it was brought for-
ward as solely and exclusively intended as a rapid
mode of raising levies, I have first to observe, that
1 always supported the original ss stein of the Army
of Reserve, though it was found afterwards in prac-
tice, by the co:npetition it excited, and the 110th
bounties that were given, to retard the regular re-
cruiting, and greatly to encourage the pre-
valence of desertion. By this Bill, however, we
mitigated the severity, by substituting in the
room of it, the expefations to he formed from the
personal and local influence of considerable persons,
and the adivity and interest of the parish officers.
I could not undertake to State as a positive certainty
that that ii.fliienee and alivity would have been
eatrted ; hot I mentioned it as a strong additional
instant:, re, our favour, and I argued it would at
lean produce something, in addition to what could
be gained by the plan for which it was substituted.
I mast hey: beg leave to remind the House, that
in the last year, both when in and out of office,
I stated it as my opinion, that the quantum of
force we already possessed was nearly sufficient
for every possible purpose of dt fence. and that
what we stood most in need r f was a di Towable
ter„ular army. I never telir:,l on this Bill so much
as a rapid, as I d;d on its bt:illg a permanent
operation; and though the Honourable Gentleman
(Mr. Sheridan) has undertaken to describe it as a
wretched and contirepritile .10, 1 much doubt
whether his cut io,ity er rose ocli fie t him to look any
further than to the • insist, rut ir. I lad he t i ken the
trouble to look Into it, he would have f utirl that it
went upon the system of progiess,v, proportions;
Mat it did not pron:ise to raise, the Mot yeal, the dis-
putable force to 89,000 men; that if it no-limed
in future, no more than 9000 mcn annually, it
would greatly exceed the I,!gulai means i‘l lecruit-
jog, which tirnio no greater average annually
thin 7000. The I o is, that under every circum-
stance of disadvantage which the measure has
hitherto encountered, we are aheady raising three-
fourths of what. on the highest calculation, for the
produce of it, as a permanent mea.ure, we had
any reason to expel ; and on this immcdi.ac fleet.
I must contend, that it bids vary fair to fulfil

every thing that its framers and supporter. mild
possibly hive proposed Iron' it. In the N%ll. le
course of my experience, I nestr knew Any cad
made upon Parliament. for the repeal of any AR
(von grounds SA very fei tale alai even fiivolous.
One good effect of it could n• t be disput• 0: in its
having released the country from the he..vy
Lur-
then of chor.nims baitatieir, arid, by doing 5.,, I, sv-
Mg also given force an aaivi:y to the Regular Re
cruiting, which was &fuse entirely at • slant!. In
order to chew that both the tact and the applicati,in
of all that can be called ariorneat in the I Inn. Gen-
tleman's speech, is totally e:.mneulis, I shall state
the resuk of the farce of the country, AS IS ..t.,cod n 1 the
Ist of January, I fiO4-and the is of January, MG"
—We cannot pretend, at this late hour, to
the Right Hon. Gentleman throiti;h all the state-
ments he then made from eh. ,tiflerent returns be-
fore the house ; but in, sulist.inee. they wtr.- to the
falag ing effect : on the Ist of .1 Anna, y, lin-S, the
total of the regular force, lnnit«d and unlimited,
was 142,00 ; to which wel e A,1,1«.1, by the 1.4 ()I

January, 1805, 12,000 for limited, and between
1 tt and 19,000 for unlimit .d service ; which, in.
chiding 1,700 for the Altai ty, &c. all snake a total
of 30,000 nsen,perfedly disposeable, including all the
foreign corps, both cavalry and infantry. He said
that in his estimate he could not consent to exclude
the native corps raised in our settlements abroad;
for, though they were not disposeable for the L oroc
defence at this coo.ars., they dekrided n 4 abroad,
insomuch as thvy saved the necessity of our sendit g
the same number of our own troops as we should
otherwise he obliged to do for the safety and pia-
servation of those possessions. Upon the whole, 1w
said, it resulted horn the different returns, that,
instead of being ml'.,, of what we were be-
fore, the actual addition made to nor disposeahle
force from the Ist of January, I i 9 1.. to the
Ist of January, lao3, was not less than 20,000
"nen for unlimited service If it should be con-
tended that all this was not done by the present
Bill only, he had only to argue that it had at least
its share in it, by giving t measures which
would otherwise be unpriludive. Ile next
stated the diff rent produce of the recruiting ser-
vice at the several periods of the war, and ar-
gued from it that this measure gave greater faci-
lity to the other means of recruitir.g than had
before been experienced, and that having raised
it ft oni 7 to 9000 was :c good earnest of what might
be expeded from its Insure operation. In the first
seven months alter the cessation of the high Is, iontics,
the enlistments amounted to 11,872 men ; and, pro.
ceeding, as be was justified in doting, upon this
average, he maintained, that instead of !o ur 10,000
men, vts former yearly average, the regular recruit-
ing would now produce 20,000 men annually. Nay,
what was more, proceeding upon the average of
the produce, taktli tan the returns of the latest
weeks, though he cauld net positively promise so
much, he was justified in drawing the rational con-
clusion, that it would produce 26,000 men annually.
64 With such praised' as these before us," ptocceded
he, " Let me ask, what dispassionate man will say,
that this Bill is iuefficient, or that it ought to be re-
pealed ? I belie re that will hardly he -found to be
the opinion of this House. The Honourable Gen-
tleman has supposed it to have been urged in sup-
port of this measure, that our naval strength was so
much improved, that we may be more careless of
the operation of this measure. This is certainly one
of the subjefts which the Honourable Gentleman
has thought proper this night to pram into the ser-
vice. I contend, that the rderits of this Bill were
never argued in that way, and mfeltly regale&
that when my Right Honourable Friend (Mr.
Canning), on a former night, alluded to the im-
proved state of ova naval lures, he did it with a view
In Asir, that the condition of the navy was such as to
preelpds the secs my of a Committee to inquire into
the general state of the Inifftary and naval force of

the country ; but never with any reference to the
Resent Bill. I confess thee I feel extreme telnftance
to make the subjeet of th l department any part
of the present night's dist-useinn ; hut as it has been
forced upon me, I feel myself at present again com-
pelled to say, that, from every. censideratinn I have
been enabled to bestow upon it, ram fully confirm-
ed in all those opinions which I before expressed. I
certainly have always, and do still entertain the
higheat respell for the Noble Earl who was lately
at the head of the Admiralty Department. I open-
ly disclaim the idea of meaning to bring any charge
:Reshot him ; but, entertaining the sentiments that I
d r on some parts of the Administration over which
he presided, it would be unmanly in me, if I did
not candidly avow them. t again repeat, that I
have no charge to bring forward, and am not in-
fluenced by any vindiCtive feeling ; but, while
I own this, I must also say that I can never have
the disposition to blink any thing which should
require to be investigated. Happily for the gal-
lant and noble Earl, his former eminent services
to his country in his professional line can never be
diminished, or, in the least degree, suffer by any
opinions I may entertain of the manner in which he
condueted himself in a different department. If
any complaint should he made of want of aetivity
on the part of my Noble Friend, who has sec-
ceeded to the department ; all I need say is,
that I shall always be found to meet such a
charge; and when Gentlemen draw compari-
sons between the number of ships now and at for-
mer periods, in commission, they would do well
to c rosider how many ships the present Board
has been obliged to put out of commission, and
what exertioes it was compelled to use, in order to
replace them. As to the distribution of the naval
force, it would be in vain to argue upon it now, as it
must always depend upon the seamen, and vary
according to innumerable circumstances. I must
here observe that the Hon. Gent. who has brought
forward the present Motion, though he does not
very often address the House, yet when he dots
come, he always thinks proper to pay off all arrears,
and that whatever- might for a length of time lie
lurking in his mind, whatever he thinks of himself,
or hears in conversation, whatever he takes many
days or weeks to sleep upon, the whole common-
place book of the interval is sure to come out at
once, stored with studied jokes, sarcasms. argu-
ments, inveteives, and every thing else, which his
mind and memory are capable of enieracing,
whether they have any relation or not to the
subjeft under discussion. If I propose a measure
of defence, and that he has no better objeetion to
mike to it than what he has now offered, 1 hope
the House will not lose the benefit, if any, of the
me ter the purpose of punishing the Minister,
when they have so many other opportunities of ex-
pressing their dislike of him ; but, Sir, I would advise
the /lon. Gent. not to be too sanguine in the confi-
dence which he seems to think the House and the Pub-
l.- ought to repose in the opinions of these virtuous
rernrlceren to whom he is so steadfastly attached.
Gentlemen pretes.es that he thinks ill
of me. and thinks that, for that reason, the House
should think the same; but, by some inadvertency, I
suppose, he has. for the first time in his life, paid me
a compliment, in supposing that I once hal a claim
to the confidence of this House : but I must own
then the compliments are the more singular, es
there is not an invefive he has used this night
which he has not uniformly employed against
me, through the whole course of that seventeen
years Administretion, dining which, he now says,
that I was entitled to this confidence. For this and
other reasons, rte is not the judge upon whose opi-
nion I can have much oliance. He has this night
exeressed himbelt one-Went of support from all
quarters of the !Melee ; hut he has also espre.:sed
the same confieenee in every discussion which took
place at a time when lie uniformly found, upon a
division, at least four•fittlis of the Members of this
Ileum against him. Ile has appealed to the sup-
porters of the late Administration to vote with him,
from aeeeolleftion of their coneurrenee inone former
vote, as it they could be eltogetle r forgetful of their
former friendships,thcir principle',thcir attachments,
and their fundamental objeftions to the prineeples
professed and aged upon by Gentlemen on the op-
posite side of the floes r. He items to take groat
merit to himself, err the support he gave to the Lim
!Minister ; and, I believe, he did support hint with
a few speech s, and with his vote two or three times,
when that vote was not necessary ; but, during this
time, he has declared that he was firmly attached to
all his old tonne ions, though lie suffered honest
opinion occasionally to interfere. In speaking of
one Noble Friend of mine (Lord Haerkesbury). the
Hon. Gentleman, very naturally borrowing a
phrase from the Jecobie jargon, said that he had
been cashiered font) the Foreign to the Home De
pertinent ; but in anoser to that, I shall only state
that arrangement to have been made with the con-
currence and conformably to the opinion of my
Noble Friend, between whon and me no difference
in opinion, with regird to any particular measure,
had ever made even t!.e slightest variation in per-
senal friendship or in private regard I think, Sir,
I have now said all 'itat is necessary on the present
occasion. I could not well say less, and I do not think
that I have occasion to say any more, unless fcr the
purpose of animaivertivg on the concluding appeal
made to what he called the country gentlemen, on
the ground of what he repreientea as the levee c of
the measure. In introdue:ng elk appeal, tee I lon.
Gentleman has had the misfortune to pey t .t re-
speetable description of members in this House a
very aukward compliment. I, for my part, think
that there is still AS much sterling stock of inJepen-
dance now in the House, as at any former period ;
and I trust, that whenever occasion offers, they
will shew all their ancient spirit in defence of the
constitution, at the same time, that they will not
be unmindful of the paramount necessity of pro-
Tiding for the national defence. Upon this ground,
I have no hesitation in giving my decided negative
to the Motion."
Mr. WINDFIAM observed, that the Right Hon.
Gentleman bad been at great pains to point out the
diversity of opinion which he :aid prevailed ; first,
between him and his Hon. Friend (Mr. Sheridan),
and next, between him (Mr. Windham) and him-
self. These had been particularly marked out in
the course of the discussion on a former night, and
again in the course of the present evening. As tot
the Volunteers, and the variety of force for which
both he and hie Hon. Friend bad argued, in °Pre-

sitetdireflinns, that *as a point that certainly had
nothing to do with the decision they were to come
to on this suhjea, and, of cow se. there never could
have been the smallest necessity to go into a Com-
mittee on that account; there was, however, no
difference of opinion on fundamental points. It
had certainly happened that the Right Hon. Gentle-
man and lie had formerly ailed together, and, there-
fore, because he now differed, that was to be charged
to him as a mark of inconsistency, compared with
his former conduft. He could not see the fore.. M
this seasoning, but he could assure the Right lion.
Gentleman, there was no one difference of opinion in
which he was not now fixed, particularly that of
1754, which was the most important, and in which
the gteat difference was, that he had adhered to his
(minion, whilst the Right Honourable Gentleman
had deserted his. But what of this ? Was it to be
supposed, when talking of different measures,
and whether they were party or not party to those
measures, that any man was to be blamed for any
subsequent change of opinion ? If he acted on any
particular measures at a time when he was joined in
the same administration with the Right Honourable
Gentleman, he held himself then responsible for
what he did ; but if, at any sunsequent period,
either from a material change in the circum-
stance; of the country, or from oetter and more ap-
proved experience, or any other cause whatever, he
should find it necessary to change his opinion, why
should he not do so ? What reason would be offered
against it? He knew of none that could, or ought
to bind him to continue always in she same mind.
It had been frequently urged in that House, and else-
where, that in this happy country the poore•t man
was equally well protefted by the laws as the rich
man was. He was sorry to say that whatever might
be the case in this respect, in the superior Courts,
the good example was not followed or adhered to
by the Magistrates in the metropolis. Hero the Rt.
Hon. Gentleman adverted to the interference of
certain Police Magistrates, who had sent their offi-
cers to a house where a number of Irish people of
the lower order were regaling themselves, on that
particular day, in which they have it only in their
power to enter upon any acts of festivity and sacial
mirth (Sunday, we suppose), many of whom were
dragged to prison, and many sent on board the
tender at the Tower, in order to be sent to sea, and
all this for indulging themselves in what they have
in their own country been always used to, as the
only relaxation and recreation in their pewee to en-
joy one day out of seven. There might, he
said, be laws to justify this, but he could nut help,
at that time, askine. whether it be legal for Police
Magistrates to :n:erfere in this manaer, and with-
out any previous trial or investigation of their con-
duit, by a summary :vat arbitrary jtidgm tnt, to s aid
men into exile from their country ? for, he would
maintain, that sending men to sea who had not been
bred to the profession, was, in lid, and in truth, send-
ing them into banishment. This done in a coutitty
such its this, which is called a lard of freedo:n, even
under the eye of the Legislature, and in the very
teeth and face of the Executive Government. WAS,
he thought, an ad which would make the House
extremely cautious how they permitted extra-
ordinary powers to remain vested it, Parish
Officers, who were much more likely to malt
an ill use or abase of those powers, than even
Police Magistrates were. Nevertheless, notwith-
standing all those powers, odious and oppressive
as they were, this Bill had completely failed. It was
tar, he said, from his intention to contend against the
mere dead carcase aif such a Bill ; but he was told
the Bill had not failed. The Right I lon. Gentleman,
and those who surrounded him, might, if they pleas-
ed, indulge th-enselves in these broad assertions ; but
he thought there was not one Hon Gentleman in
the House, that war not thoroughly convinced of
their fallacy and delusion. The BEI, he insisted on
it, had failed. It had not, according to the pro-
mise of its author, raised 14,0'./0 Men, nor any
thing like the number. The Right Hon. Gent. sets
out with confessing that the Bill has not raised more
than five ninths of the number proposed, notwith-
rending all the gigantic promises with which the
Right Hon. Gent. amused the House, in order to
obtaM their sanlion to this his favourite measure.
First, the Army of Reserve was to fied the whole
Regular Army, and this was to feed the Army of
Reserve, and wet the Right Hon. Gent. won't argue
in a f tie and direct manner. that the Bill has done
what it professed to do, but he goes off at a tangent to
his rule of three, and if it brings in men in a ratio
to a certain degree, he says, that is sufficient. Just
like the effect of a quack medicine, which if you
take without receiving the smallest degree of bene-
fit from it, the venders or recommenders will tell
you,' Oh ! wait only till the Spring comes, and then
you will find it will operate every thing you can
with in Your favour.' The Right If el. Gentle-
man calls this a measure of experiments, and he
requires something else besides the !Stll to raise
men for the army. The Right Hon. Gentleman
did not so much c eisider how effedive his measures
wiii he, as what figure they will cot in a speech in the
House of Commons. He deals, therefore, in very bad
measures, and very fine speeches, and he insisted
that the present Bill would be continually wasting
the strength of the army, without effefting any good
whatever. He should therefore vote for the Mo-
tion of his Hon. Friend.
General NORTON said a few words in avow
of the

Mr. LANG sai,l, if this measure was to be per-
sisted in, he hoped rotas alteration ►rould be nude
in its mode of assesslnent.,

Col. STEWART spoke, but in so low a tone of
voice, we could not distinguish whether he was in
favour of; or against the Rill.
Mr. WHITBREAD said, there were some points
in the speech of the Right fon. Gentleman that it
was necessary to observe upon, in order that the
Noose might not deport impressed with these false
statements. The House would recoiled the Right
Hon. Gentleman bad given up the enthusiasm be
boasted on the meeting and before the' meeting of
Parliament, together with all those sympathies of
calling regiments by the names of the counties they
belonged to, which was to cause a great degree
of enthusiasm in them, and contents himself with a
dry defence of the Ad ; because, as be said, there
had not yet been time sufficient for its opetatioa.
This position be denied. It was first stated, that
16,000 men were to be raised by the Ist of Odober.
The Ad in Jane, and in order to proceed on
it i • , Lord Havekesbury set his shoal-

tiers in the wheel, and wrote to the
tenants ; but the Aft, it was found, could
on, and it Willi at last suspended to the I:
A considerable time after the whole tyres fo
completed. If the Aft has not operated
till now, it can never be expeded to
%voile it exists in its present state, it would,
be an engine of oppies‘jou, net to be emit
the hill continued it 41141 he a certain deteriort
of the national force—sf it were repealed ;
n injury whatever—he should, theref
favour of the motion.

Mr. BIt.I.(;GE BATHURST spoke
length in favour of the Bill.
Lord A.HAssii.vosispokeinfavouroft.
Mr. TIER/41Y did the same, in a ne,
but our limits, and the time, will not •
follow him.

Mr. SIIAGGIL &TROUT explained.
Mr. FOX said, he should avoid most
topics that had been adverted to by ,
could not see how the present Administi
been harrassed by litigious and vexatious,
as stated by the Honourable Gentleman
last To oppose the Administration, bef,
been tried, would certainly have desert
erit'iets ; but he did not think that '
tion to it, after it had been proved,
inefficient, merited that reproach. If
prop:.sed and estimated at two millions i
only produced one hundred thousand,
would not show a litigious disposition to
with it. It had been stated, that he (Mr
gone nut of the House upon a former ow
Wi,,diam's late motaoa), in a very ill hur
was not conscious that the observation
founded; but he recolleded perfealy well,
his return, he certainly had not so muc'
be satisfied as upon a similar occasion lay
he had more than 200 members of the I
with him. It had been urged upon a I
sion( Mr. Wrildham's motte,), as an argue
going into a Committee, that though th•
army was not improved, that of the I
creased in strength ; but, for his part,
se.: any great increase in the Litter. '
aft prope:sed to raise 18,000 men by Oe
the first instance, and 9000 more suhset
time. Having promised to raise 18,000
tain!y, if we consider the danger th it tnr
country, they ought to have been foithc,
in the stated time, and the rest might It.
of coarse. So far, however, from th.
case, it appeared that only 1581 men
in fifteen weeks in Eitgla.,d, Ireland, at
and of these 1531, only t;4O se-re raise.'
15th of September and feth o• Nercem n
p .sing, dor the sake of .r.guelieut, that
were all raised in England within litt-,1
tv(ittld not be a justifizvion of 1: e 11
question was not about Ico .1r lihiO 011
would requite Ft 0 men a•va ek to to:
undertaking. T.ic result, rerL:ore,
less than an abso!tire f altire , nth, pal
nisters ; and yet be was to Le t. LI tle .
to repeal a measure thus defeslive was
and vexatious oppositien An ai,:n e,
man, formerly a Member of that Hods
Sidmouth), but now a Noble Lor
head of His Majesty's Council, had, I
ing in of this biU, advised that it ell
polled until the ensuing session, and so
sense of the country respeding it, in tin
He confessed, he had not approved nt .
as the Bill promised immediate benefit A
once. It was somewhat strange, howe
now, when it has been tried and foam
the very SAM? Gentle:um should say i
to be repealed. It had unquestionabll
men; it had not prusel more prods
money, for, assuredly, it never could ,
intention of Government to snake it operate
foe fine could have only been laid on A
pose of frightening the parish offices*
men requileA ; for, certainly, it could
been in contemplation to levy so unjust
any one instance to enforce this mortar,
oppression. It had been also urged in
objeelion, of no increase in the army b,
Bill ; that the infantry, geseraUy cons
not increased, yet that a larger portion
become disposeable. That, be allowe
some service; but when it wail urged ;
ter of triumph to the present Monist:
not think it of such mighty consequent
Its even consider it as the produce
Bill. He certainly had wished for the
Right Hon. Gentleman (Nlr. Pitt), to
ference to those who preceded him.
and his friends had assisted .he Right
man's return to place, he thought
right to call upon him for some more
sores smtihgrt
boast tboe wofthiich be. h
ievigorouwcsktitstiitnh:,
had recommended to His Majesty, cot
the weak and imbecile Minister who
but he did not think, that even partial
say, that this measure was the 91Fspri
and vigorous mind.
Viscount CASTLEREAGH entered
arithmetical estimate, in refutation of
of Mr. Fox.
Mr. JOHNSTONE attempted to..
goulemgenneststioofn
fVromiscoevunetryCastlparterrofatitei—iiii:
pastiest with a violent coughing. oblif
down.

Lord Cast LLLLL au and Mr. Josue.
explained.
Mr. SHF.RIDAN made an able
Home having divided. there appeared
Sheridan's M..tion
Ayes 127—Noes 467—Majority sgaii
AJjourned this Mersin at ICI
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rsae Parliament is determined to persevere in it. With tl
all these drawbacks, and the additional circumstance p
oibliaraillilligrile"WWWll4ll.lBlll f the penalties under the Army of Reserve Aft, ti
which bad never been enf.rceti, and were modified o
by this AB, which gave the parishes more time and fi
mitigated their penalties, the reitilt is, that the mea- p
sure, under every disadvantage, has had the positive b
success of.doubling what was the annual produce of e
all OUT other ordinary mean; of recruiting. Now, c
Sir, to consider this mevoliz. as a permanent sys- h
tem, for I cannot admit that it was bought for- a
ward as solely and exclusively intended as 4 rapid I
mode of raising levies, I have first to observe, that 4;
• 1 always supported the original s) stein of the Army d
of Reserve, though it was found after wards in prat- 1,
lice, by the co:npetition it excited, and the 11;0 . r
bounties that were given, to retard the regular re- 17
cruiting, and greatly to encourage the pre- f
f. valence of desertion. By this Bi!l, however, we
mitigated the severity, by substituting in the t
room of it, the expeetationt to he formed from the r
personal and local influence of considerable persons,
and the activity and interest of the parish officers. t
I could not undertake to State as a positive certainty t
that that iafluenee and alivity would have been r
e.ttru.d ; hot I mentioned it as a strong additional
instant:, in our favour, and I argued it would at
lean produce something, in addition to what could •
be gained by the plan for which it was substituted. •
I mast here beg leave to remind the House, that
in the last year, both when in and out of office, I 4
I stated it as my opinion, that the quantum of •
force we already possessed was nearly sufficient
for every possible purpose of dt finer.. and that •
what we stood mn;t in need . f was a di poseable
ter-„ular army. I never reli•:•1 on this Bill so much
as a rapid, as I d;d on its beilig a permanent
operation; and though the Honourable Gentleman
(Mr. Sheridan) has undertaken to describe it as a
wretched and e tieltt rn pri .1 0, 1 much doubt
whether his curiosity r r rest. ocli ie.t him book any
further than to the • insist, of i.. fled he t i ken the
trouble to look into it, he would have f trial that it
went neon the system of progressiv, proportions; c
that it did not pron:ise to raise, the fir,t year , the dis- ;
poseable force to e 9,000 men; that if it ra °limed 1
in future, no more than 9000 men annually, it
would greatly exceed the I,!gular means .‘f ►ecruit-
ing, which toinio•- I no greater averapf annually
thin 7000. The lif is, that under every circum-
stance of disadvantage which the measure has I
hitherto encountered, we are already raising three- r
fourths of what, on the highest calculation, fur the s
produce of it, as a permanent mea,uro, we naafi
any reason to expel ; and on this immediate ..al'ect. e
I must contend, that it bids vary fair to fulfil i
every thing that its framers and supporter. could t
possibly h five proposed front it. In Ns 11.1 e i I
Course of my experience, I m-var knew any cad
made upon Parliament. for the repeal of any Aft
hson grounds so very fe: ble aid even fi ivolou.. t
One good effect of it could n• t se disptiti d: in its
having released the country from the heavy lair- I
then of ettor.neas bd•tatie., :mei, by doing s.i,
ing also given tlnce An.l afivi:y to the Regular Re '
enticing., which was &fuse entirely at a stand. In
order to chew that both the tad and the applicatii-n
of all that can be called ariorneat in the I Inn. Uen-
tleman's speech, is totally ei.roneuiis, 1 shall state ;
the resuk of the force of the e•urntr y, as it i.ti,od n 1 the r
tst of January. 11304. and the Ise of January. I OW"

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