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trusted that the House would feel it a boon, and a

duty, they owed to the count•y, to remove so mate-
rial a bar to the formation of as efeliive army.
Mr. BA BINGTON expressed himself in favour
of the repeal of this Bill, -vhich he said had not oper.
ated in a manner which could betersnedsutc-ssiul, in
any part of the kingdom. In the county of Leicester,
with which he was acquainted, he did not believe a
single man had been raised by the mode direßed in
the Aft ; it had indeed been looked upon by the
Parish Officers, as nothing more than a money bill.
Colonel BAGWELL was astonished to hear an
Hon Gentleman, who spoke early in the debate(Col.
Graham) assert, that inflammatory language bad
been made use of by the gentlemen who oppo'-esi
the bill. Such an assertion, he conceived, never
could be established to the satisfanion of the Hon-e,
and therefore should not have been made. LI« was
of opinion, that if ever there was a cause which more
than another called forth the patriotic feelings of
the country, it was the present. When the flight
Hon. Gentleman who brought in the Bill now un-
der debate, and his collestgu,s, firit c•ime Inca'
office, the public were elated with the hope, that
some meas.). e, beneficial :a t•ie country, would be
undertaken ; but, instead of having these horses
realized, they were astonished to ti I that nothing
which was likely t•o be so, was prep zed ; and. in
short, that the new Administration nail n •t only not
increased the number of the at my, hut that they
had notend.•avoured to encrease the spirits of it. He
then referr.•J to the late gallant achieso.ment of the
British force, at the Cape of (nod [lope, anJ said,
that the Honourable Secretary, instead of bring tirst
to move for the thanks of the House to the officers
and soldiers w•ho fought so gloriously on that occa-
sion, was the very first who threw an obstacle in the
way of that vote. That the Army of Defence A&
'Was unexceptionable in every particular, he did not
mean to contend ; but that it was better than none,
be believed few would be' inclined to deny. For
these reasons, he hoped the House would not suffer
this Bid to he proceeded with fatther ; it ads not
inch a one as was likely to be of service to the coun-
try, and proved that, however calculated the present
Ministrymight be far declaim and alarm, they were
not calculated to do service to the country.
Colonel GRAHAM, lu explanation, denied hav-
ing applied the words .6 inflammatory language" to
the speeches of the Hon. Gentlemen at the opposite
side of the House.
Colonel BAGWELL explained.
Mr. LEE said, that having heard an Hon. Gen-
tleman (Mr. Babington) state, that the men ob-
tained in Leicestershire were not raised under the
provisions of the Bill, he thought it necessary to ac-
quaint the House, that the county of Waterford,
and, in fact, every county that be was acquainted
with, was in the same predicament. In
Waterford. certainly, they' had raised all the
men required, but not more than two hail
been raised by the Parish Officers. He conceived
they were particularly fortunate in getting
the men, and this originated enti rely from the
Counsel of an intelligent Field Officer, who
was quartered in the neighbourhood, and had or-
ders to raise a consilerable number of men for the
regular service. It so happened, that, according to
his orders, he could not enlist any man who was un-
der a certain size, he believed, five feet five or six.
He was, of course, very often obliged to teluse
some very fine men, who were, for him, under size ;
hut as the standard for them was but five feet two,
they employed, by the advice of this officer, re-
cruiting serjeants, who enlisted these men. From
this particular instance, and from others which he
could enumerate, he thought he might say, that the
Bill was entirely inoperative. Besides this, therewere
many other authorities, and none that deserved
a greater degree of attention than that of Lord
Hawkesbui y,scho wrote to the different Lords Lieu-
tenant of the counties, to know the reason that the
Bill was not produilive. It had been said, that the
deficiencies were ❑ct so great in large and populous
counties; but he would take York, the first on the
list, and he asked, how many men it produced? In
the North Eiriing not a single man W;AS raised,
in the La.t only 1), alai in the %Vest not mote than

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'5, malting a deficis, in di! whole, of 5204 men. The
Ilan. Gentleman then oliA.rved upon the injury
which was done to recruiting for the line, and sail,
that it was against the dims's), of the House to
countenance the practice of raising meet directly
contrary to the provirions of an Adt of Parliament.
With respect to the plan proposed by the Right
Hon. Secretary of State, he declared his intention
of opposing that past of the limited service, which
would entitle the troops to their dismissal in the mid-

tile of a war. Every other part of it met with his ap-
probation.
Sir E. HARTOPP rose merely to cleclase, that
the county be bad the to belong to (Leices-
tershire) on all occasions, snowed a promptitude in
executing any measures proposed for the good of
the cioantry. It wa, this which induced them to
raise the men by means of recruiting officers, not
considering that they were doing an injury to the
general recruiting service.
Mr. PERCIVAL vric 'surprised, that the Right
Hon. Gentleman should remain so long in office
without prripOring to repeal this Bill, which he had
•so bad an opinion of. At first, he conceived, that
it was his interition to wait until he could bring for-
ward a measure in its place, which the House might
consider better, hut this not heing.,h he thought
it was a very gond rcnso:r why the Bill should not
be :Allowed to procee4 turiiter at present.. He then
referred to the statement madetliy Lord H. Petty.
in. which, he said, the Noble Lord bad confined

himself, in giving an account of the meos raised, to
England. and Scotland ; but, in stating the deser-
tio:., he had taken in Ireland also. The Noble
Lord, Is. conceived; would argue in favour of any
of hii plans of finance (his ten per cent. oa
comes for instance) that any other which would be
equally produdive, would ad with apater degree
of hardship on the people. It was fair, he thought,
to make use of the same argument with regard to
this bill, and he was in himself convinced, that no

other, which would be equally produaire, and less
oppressive to the people, could be found. The
Learned Gentleman then adverted to the modes of
obtaining men, which, he said, was either by
inducing them to enlist, or by compulsion. The
former could not be done, and with respell
to the latter, he thought the present established
mode, the most as it did not compel any
individual to pay a large sum of money, but levied
it equally off the parish. Many questions were to
be considered in the prekent case, before this Bill
was suffered to be repealed ; namely, whether it
was intended that the limited service should ex-
tend to the Navy, to the Artillery, and to the
Marines ? and whether, at the end of seven years, a
new bounty was to be given? It this Bill were re-
pealed, the effect would be, that the nation would
have nothing in the place of it—(a laud cry ft-hear!
hear ! fium the Almisterili RencA)—He wished t•
know, did the gentlemen mesa to say, that the re-
gular recruitin:r, service would give 20,000 men a
year, or a suaciency,,if the Act were not in force?
Void rep rof !.. • ! h.ar ! from toe same quarter).
He toe:. adverted to the opinions of the General
Officers, and said. lie nnderstood, that all of them
were direetly against allowing the men to be dis-
banded in time of war. With respea to the artil-
lery, he had the best information, that the
Officers si ere all against it, and conceived it
would destroy the whole establishment; as a man
was searcely of any Ise amongst tbettr,•-until 1w
was six or seven years in the service. As to the
bounty, he understood the Right Hun. Gentleman
to have said, that it would be little or nothing at
the end of the seven years. This, he conceived,
would never have the elicit of inducing the men to
re-enlist in the same regirnent, as by going to ano-
ther, and entering as a recruit. he would he entitled
to the 14 guineas. The expence of this would be
scrim's, and that of the additional sixpence and
shilling, at the end of 7 and 14 years, would cost
the couotry, at. the end of the first period,
no less a sum than 200,0001. a year. With re-
sped to the Volunteers, he did nol know whether
the Right Hon. Gentleman meant to encourage
them or not ; if he did not, he should have removed
them at once; and if he did, he should nut have
raised so many donbts in the country with sesped
to them. He, tor one, considered the Volunteers
as a body of men who might be of the most essen-
tial service to their country, and who were capable
of acting in line. A Noble Lord (Mira) who was
called to His Majesty's Councils, was of the same
opinion ; and with respect to the Volunteers of
Scotland, in particular, was known to say, that at
their head, he would march to meet the enemy on
lauding. He was afraid the Right Hon. Gentleman
had formed his opinion of the Volunteets in general,
by the appearance of the Fellbrig carps, of which he
was Colonel. There were no Field-Officers in that
corps, ne Captains, no Subalterns, but two Setjeants,
he supposed drill-serjeants, and 73 privates. It was
most astonishing that the Right Hon. Gentleman
should be the only Officer in the regiment, and
should hold that dangerous post of Colonel. lie
supposed, that when the Hight Hon. Gentlemen
went home, lie reviewed his corps, and of course
they having no other officers but the colonel and the
serjeaats, he would find them all in disorder, arid
therefore come back and state from this, that none
of the Volunteers were worth a farthing. The
Learned Gentleman then concluded, by hoping,
that this patriotic body would not be judged from
the example of the Fellbrig Volunteers.
Mr. FOX rose and said, he could not hut request
the attention of the House to some observations
he had to make respecting • the present Bill. A
Noble Lord (Castlereagh)"bad told the House that
it was a year and a half beim e the Bill was under-
stood. and afterwards that it was a considerable
time longer before it could be acted upon. 0 ! wise
Legislature, said he.to pass a Bill of such importance,
so worded, that it uas a year and a half before it
could he understood ; and still wiser Executive
Government, to take so much more time before they
could at all make it subservient to any purpose for
which it was passed. It was impossible, it he were
to wish it, that he could have a greater triumph
over his political enemies, or rather political rivals,
than such acknowledgments of the real nature and
operation of the Bill in question ; was it not
enough. that it could not be acted on, without
being liable to inconvenience, and subje3 to various
and multiplied instances of oppression, to make any
one sen,ible that itcould not be too speedily Tepealed?
It had, however, been said by those who supported

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this Bill, that it might lie arr.'
this to be doh*? trod
trig ; a mode which went
ginal prineiiile and ground work
rionomeabla Gentleman, alio,
ways maintain/ed.:inkblot .:,o:
great advantage whichUttoched
and the necessity there was
for the tirst battalion:. being
the second battalions, who
coming from the same ~clis•
vicinity, they would newel;
eager to terve iu the same regi.
haa always from their earliest youth
ilea" each other. and bad thereby i
kAbits, and nearly the same prejudices
parishes, dre. All those reasons,
meats, which had been advanced
much warmth and energy, -
away, and the pi loci* of
'Mel), destroyed. He had beard
be further amended by tak;o-
bounties--btrier and better,
strayed the principle of the
so by the produas and effefts
way of amendment, to what 1
meat at was proposed, bad
object to, as highly inefficier
pi cssi ve ; and Which he foretoL
that it was a waste ct time to expend
than of so tutile a measure. Otherargnments had bee,,
used assn, w!;ich did not in any re-peCt ii;./ply to th.:
Hid. The measure meant to be adopted by his Right
Hon. Friend, had teen drawn into the argument.
and Lis•Rill breaattaArd, as holding opinions re-
, 'Peeing the Volunteers, as if either of then* were
immediately conneeted with this f1:11. In God's
name, said he, can the repeal of Lis Bill d •
pond on whtther the Volunteers shell be discus
died or not? It was realty trifling with the na
land ground of the measure, to suppose it.
Hon. and Learned Gentleman who spoke last, bad
• however gone into such a length of detail on Us&
those subjcds, that he' would not attempt to Wit
him snit, it they sere at that mrrnent debeilint
the second reading of his Rit•'fit Hon. Friend's
Bill. The alt I. and Learned Gentleman had also
objeifted to the getting rid of this sill, before you
provide a substitute -for it. He, on the contridy„
insisted, that the only substitute there was for et,
was to repeal it. The mischief it has done, earnest I
be done away too soda ; and to wait for any further'
legislative measure before you relieve the country
from so burdensome and odious an Act, would W
. _
to play with
distres•es.
Right Hon.
to be substit
Act ; and the
told so ; and th
why he did not 1
he could answer
particular point,
Friend thcof
formation al
jest, by delay/
ward, till the
' for though (
the other, yt
be much snore

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this, before
ari.:wer Was,
and the soot
chief objeibi i r 1
law, said to - , speedily e. se, d
regular and disposable army. Had th:s b-sen effe&
ed? Had it produced such a force ? Nothing like •
it. lie had already stated, that ibis bill had pros
duced next to nothing ; but, on a closer exaMina.)
Bon, he had found that it had done worse: it had,';
with regard to the regular at my, produced a verb.
alarming mints. acc, oat indeed. He had corri
pared the statements of men raised at different
rods undet this ad, and they were much verse
he had at first suepeired. \r lah rerpei to t' eag
of doing this, he had not gone to any = '
for that was not to Le compared
war ; nor did he mean to speak
Reserve. He would take his date
of the Parish Bill, from the Ist
which lie allowed was greater in .
take it first with a view of the three
her. November, and December, r'
them with those respective three
Those raised for the Regular A,
November, and December, 1804,
indeed—they amounted only to ell
sponding months, ih 180 S, to 91:
recruiting, during the first period.
November last, 2588 ; so that tb
ency between the two periods,
Fox then went into a similar era
period of six months, beginaine
the corresponding months, in 1806,
two ipariods togetlshr, be made it r
tosaLdecremse in the recruiting for tt
amounted to 767 men : therefore. '__
Flimse ought to tepeal the Bill, which,
of the last six months, had raj?
service for the regular army, to
as that he had last mentioned.
Gentlemen to consider whether
more for the benefit of the coantr)
by recruiting singly, than by being
cient, in conreqtrence of the aid of
It put him. is mind of the efforts
was mend of being employed in
came forward, and said, in.praise
" there, you see I am bigger than ,
have done all that worki', True, sail
eel but if one of my regular Wm
employed on it, he would have."
more. So was it with regard tc
for if the recruiting bad been left
have done mine without its aid.
sill was first introduced, he
who asked If a force were wanted ._
ed on home service, why reduce the Militia ?
which answer was given, that it was necessa
to raise a force to increase the regular army,. by
less objeftionable mole than taking them sunk
diately from the Militia, sod Cris large and reit/
tar force for disposable service was to be °bran
though the medium of the artoy of reserve andA

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mewled ; bat how
4# 1
ly, tty ext-nding di.
to sit..troy the werk:9o4•l„
work of it : flr the
'ins, oi ~. •• : egoyake,
,t,,.... sir.., . • • haute,
bed to it, Nulls Locality,
is of aucattlig to th:s ;
g to he 6iled up from 4
ho would all be muss
.distrift and the saint
ssrallf be Ilealous and
regin.ent with those who
est youth teen bred Up
:ereby imbibed the tame,
prejudices as to counties, 4
reasons, all those argu-
armed and urged with SE
were now gone. Aorta -•
the Bill totally and en-
heArd also that it asight
eking away the double '
ir---..bey had already de-
Bill, and would now do
fts of it, and all this by
..
at he, from the fi,ct m .
:ad deemed it his .t.tt; to
ient, and grievou,ii ‘,0.,
toll, would be so use!, it . •
toexperd it in the firm. s

rith their feelings, and trifle with their
The Bills to be brought forward by his
n. Friend were never meant, or intended
stitutes forithis inei..:ient and oppressive
the Hon. Gentleman opposite had been
and then his Right Hon. Friend was asked,
d not bring them on moose ? He believed- b
answer fur his Right Hon. Friend on this IL
point, that the fact %A,, his Right Hon.
cught he should be able to give more in..
and satisfaction to the House on the:ob.
lelaying to bring any one measure for.
the whole of his plan was completed
01 each part might be very independent of.
, yet the effect of the whole would. perhaps.
more forcibly and clearly thew°, by bring-
'hole to ether inn, one compact poutof
[Zit rt.T.aT6eitis wan you" part w •
ire you get any thing else in its place ? His
'es, yes; for you parted will; a heavy lois.
'Goner you get rid of it the better. The
varof this Bill was, before it passed into a
to be to procure, as speedily as possible, s
.nA eiienesa,hl.• h e m.• AMA.

any period of peace
red with a time o
ak of dm Army o •
ate of the operatior
t of October, 1804
n 11105. He wont,
ree mr.nths of Octe
, 1804,and compar r.
ie months, in HOW
Army in Octobe
04, were very littj
D 48. In the corn
913. The gener .
rind, was 9059. 1'
1 there was a deScr:
,of 152 men. M
comparison for tt
January, 1805, ar.
806, and taking tl
i it appear that t
or the Regular Arc
re. he contended, t.
which, in the cum'
ijured Cie resruitir'
o so large an amon
And he would witt
they would not q
lnuy by gaining n
reing so much cht
id of the Parish
forts of a child.
in a garden, And
raise of his efforts-
than I was last year!
ir, said he, you hays I
rim kmea bad bei i
re- don• a great de
d to the Parish Ril
left to itself, it woe
Id. When the Peri '
e was one of .ho
inted to be esapl,,
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second battalions: this had, however, altogether
%,.,aileil ; and having now a sufficient force for nome
T-.llgeekce, we want 7o a twin a bogs dispels-
.
force In the situation in winch this mostly
r. littieesenr stands, it is thou,tht most advisable, and
'.IIIINIt for its interests, to obtain a pleat force in a gra-
dual way, :Ind he thouet no plan could be better
' altptecl to 4-5 t this, than that of his Wght Hon
Friend The rarish Bill, he hoped, was now nearly
one with, and as such he would not take up more
'of the time of the House by dwelling on it any fur-
' -thi:r. With respe& to the Lery en Matte AR, which
bad b:en adverted to by His Right Honourable
Friend, in the opening of his plan, there might.
7 be nonfeshed, be difficulties attending it, but he
.'-conceived the principle to be right, and when-
' ever it came to be argued, which it most
likely would, before long, he should certainly
defend it. There could be no doubt that it was
the first wish of every man in the country, that the
, . enemy might never effect a landing ; but if such
should be the case, our first and most important
object was to give spirit and energy to the people,
and that could no way be so effectually done, as by
. gritting in their power a safe, simple, and ready
I. • ow ins of defence. This might certainly, he thought,
Ise J ine in a way very different, and much more
al, .anise• than by that which was in common use,
Iprior Ibe discipline of the regular army or militia. As
. • to rite Volunteers, the Hon. and Learned Gentleman
hays, he did not know what to make of them, or
what his Right Hon. Friend meant to do with them.
This, he apprehended, arose very much from miscon-
ception of what his Right Honourable Friend
had from time to time said on the snhject, and he
had himself ensased many persons in tlur country,
when ha t Id them whet his Right Hon. Friend had
said, aid w' at he had not. His Right Hon. Friend
- had sa.d t: at his plan would els& that which, in
his opinion. "mild trod to increase the Volunteers.
is sass to Sc done by rev' tonne ; and till those
were brought f werard, it was not candid or fair to
strribute to him any designs which were hostile to a
boll), of men in truly and highly respetlahle. Much
' had been said of the Impelling Field-Officers ; did
the Hon. and Learned Gentleman think the Volun-
teers %retold deem it a boon to keep the Inspeeling
Officers, nr that they would feet a pang to part with
them ? He thoirght it would be found a matter of
very little conseqnence, and of very little dispute.
The ground of all those misrepresentations, he be-
, lieved to be the taking unfairly what a person said at
one period of time, and coupling and comparing it
with what he might say at a subsequent pet hid, when
circumstances relating to them might be very
materially altered. His Right Hon. Friend, as
well as himself, thought, that on the first institution
of the Volnoteltre, their real, ardaur, loyalty, and
patriotism were highly deserving of praise, and that
they merited the good opinion of the country ; but
they both thought, perhaps, that at the same time
that seal and ardour might have been better em-
ployed ; two years afterwards, perhaps, the cir-
eumsoui, es . f the country were sn different, that the
measures p:.l-,J.d relative to the Volunteers might
' draw from his Right Hon. Friend opinions which
' might be very correß and pr6per at that moment
respeding them, but which ought not to be now
dwelt upon and considered in such alight, as to set
him down as hostile tnthe system of Volunteers al-
together, or as by any means wanting to get rid of
them, fir in any respell to hurt their feelings. He
knew his Honourable Friend had never in-
tended any such thing. In fag, his Right Ho-
nourable friend had never expressed any opinion
respecting the mode of training and disciplining the
Volunteers, in which he did not cuincide-with him,
and he was therefor* entitled to the share of any
blame dist attached to him on that score. One
' word more to the question. He thought the House
might to repeal the Bill, without giving any oppo-
sition to it on the score of no substhute being pro-
vided in its stead. He insisted that the Bills to be
brought forward by his Right Honourable Friend,
might be equally adopted, nejeßed, or modified,
after the repeal of it. as before it took place.—
With /wiped to the question of Limited Service,
that might also be eleally well considered, and as
fairly and fully discussed by the House, as if the
Bill should be allowed to continue in force. In
shout, if the House act properly, they will repeal it;
(because it has been fully and incontrovertibly shewn
by many Members, that it is of no use whatever
I-le was also of opinion, at the same time, that it
would be well if some measure for mere effectually
recruiting the Army should immediately be brought
forward, but that might likewise be done with equal
pre priety, and receive the same attention and am-
ple discussion from the Hattie, without this Parish
Bill, as if it were still allowed to exist. There was
Ifone point more on which he wished to say a few
wornis ; and that was as to the opinion of the
li Genefal Officers on the subj.& of limited service.
* I .e was sorry that any delicacy should prevail on
a paint of so much importance as this, as to cause
aft objection to those opinions being produced;
but it was thought it might produce a shyness in
On;reTl in future holding similar communications
with the Commander in Chief, and to that oblection,
he, as well as others, was obliged to concede. The
*lion. and Learned Gentleman was, however, greatly
wesorken, in rinpresiog the majority of these opi-
oi.sa, wets in la., oi!, of his side of the argument, or
that there was a majority of only one in favour of
litnited set vice. The precise question how limited
service would operate, had not bees put ; but the
principle of it had ; and the difference of opinion
arose chiefly on the inconvenience that would result
4 from the Adoption of it in time of war ; otherwise
. there was a considerable majority in favour of
limited service. In the Bills to be hereafter brought
forward, he had himself had a share in the various
points they embraced ; and as each, he should be
calwaes ready to support them whenbrought forward;
• and whenever that time should arrive, which hehoped
was not Now very di-tint, be had no doubt but the
measure would be found jest, wise, honourable, and
efficient ; and that it was neither contrary to the
true principles of the constitution, nor deserving
that violent language which bad been so copiously
wed apaiest it.
IM. # EcK rose, Atli spoke for some time, but
there was so much ceiling for the question, we could
Tot hear what he said.
Mr. Babington, Sir E. Hartopp, and Mr. Keck,
r etspisintil.
1,4:..11. givistiMarsistras not to Callan. para.

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lathy, but to let popularity follow them ; by adher-
ing. to the principles of patriotism and justice, they
would always have the people in their tabour, and
need not fear the success of their measures. He
told the Right Honourable Framer of this Bill (Mr.
Pitt), when he first brought it in, that it would not
answer, and his opinion had been so fully verified,
that he should vote for its repeal.
Mr. CANNING said, that after the great indul-
genet. lie had eeceived on a former night, in heating
hors at so mneh length, on what bo deemed to he
the same question,he should be ashamed to trespass
on them at present with more than a very few obser-
vations. He could not, however, suffer the present
debate to go off in the state it now stood. If it
was suffered to do so on the ground stated by
the Right Honourable the Secretary of State, it
would be daaAerous to every question that could
hereafter be urged. If it were competent to Mi-
nisters to start what measures they pleased, and
then suppose they are at liberty to chalk out what
line of argument those who chance to differ with
them shall pursue, the statement and the con-
clusion would soon become one and the same
thing. The Right Hon. Secretary for the War
Department had% in a speech of four hours, laid
before the House a plan, consisting of many parts,
which he wished to take place of the whole
military system existing at present, and now the
Right Hon.Sectetary of State would have the House
believe, that they may move for the repeal of
this Act, which forms a very large part of the
present system, without those who thought it ought
not to be repealed, being allowed to advert to diet
favourite and fanciful system of speculation and '
novelty, which is intended to do away the other.
The Right Hon. Gentleman here proceeded to
answer, not only the arguments of Mr. For, but
• alsoof Lord H. Petty, which he did in a Speech of
considerable length, but in which our limits, and the
hour,will net permit us to follow him. He denied
the statements made by Mr. Fox, and insisted the
Bill was good and efficient.
The LORD ADVOCATE of SCOTLAND
(Mr. H. Erskine) said, that in that part of the min.
try from which he came (Edinburgh) they found
the Riil was neither more nor less than a dire& tax
of 201. upon every parish for every man raised
in it ; and in that large city, not a single man had
born raised ; for it was a parish bill, and who were
the Parish Officers there? Wby the schoolmaster,
the sexton, and the grave-digger ; and the church-
yard was but a poor seminaryf or raising men for the
service of the army either at home or abroad. He ob-
jd.fled to the Bill on three grounds—first, because it
was perfeetly useless ; secondly, because it was
oppressive and unjust ; and thirdly, because it
was destructive of recruiting for the Regular Army. '
The Hon. and Learned Gentleman delivered a
speech of considerable length in a stile of great
humour, in which we are sorry our time and limits
will not allow us to follow him.—He concluded by
saying, he would vote for the repeal, because it was
an AR which could not be enforced but by the-
actual breach of it.

Mr. BRAGGE BATHURST, in allusion to
some censure on the Friends of Lori Sidm iuth, for
supporting it, and now coming forward for its re-
peal, said, that those hien is did so on positive as-
surance that it was only to be a Bill of tria'sind it was
therefore untair,i* the present supporta' of the Bill,
to charge them with incnnsistcncy,when they knew,
that it the illustrious personage who framed it, were
sill alive, he would be teddy, and one of the first,
to acquit them of any such charge. The call for
the question becoming very great, the Hon. Gen-
tleman then sat down.

The question was then put and carried, without
a div,Aion ; t"e House went into at Comioittee upon
the Bill, and the Repast was ordered to be received
to-morrow.
The other orders of the day were then disposed
of ; and, At ONE O'CLOCK, the House adjournad
until to-morrow.

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