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found. There *me openings to *ll4 and injure
this. enemy, and deeply too,' that yet remained.
Let not a moment then be lost in taking advantage ;
let Government ad vigomusly. Cali upon the
people, and they had spirit enough, as he before
stated, to come forth and assist, hand and heart,
in defence of their country. Let Englishmen at
least be found ".with harness on their backs." His
Lordship pursued this animating strain, with all
the zeal and ardour of true patriotism, and sound
political wisdom, and continued to recommend to
Ministers to recoiled, that by the system of submis-
"sion, concession; and procrastination, which they had
so long fatally pursued, they had suffered the state
of affairs to be placed in such a state of emergency,
as this country never had experienced at any time
in theannals of our history. Let Ministers then make
up for their erroneous system, by adopting one of
vigour and energy, proportionate to the urgency of
the cause. Let them not waste their precious time
in -dull deliberation, and discussion ; the time for
wirat was gone -by, and all the energies of the
-country must be exerted with earnestness, with
promptitude, and with such activity as would en-
sure success. His Lordship said, he certainly should
vote for the Address, and give every aid to all such
vigorous Measures as Ministers should bring for-
ward; and the more vigorous tlu, were, they would
he the better entitled to his support, in spite of any
-hostile obieerions he might entertain to the detail or
mode of carryine them into execution.
• . Lord 1114. GRAVE rose, and began by coin-
pl.:knotting the Noble Lord who had fast sat dors,
on the patriotic sentiments which lie had just deli-
vered—sentiments which- did the Noble Lord great
honour, and could not fail, being so well-timei,
produce the most useful and advantageous effect on
the people at large. His Lordship said, he agretd
with the Noble Lord in almost every word that 3e
uttered. He should likewise vote for the Address,
though he did not quite approve of the intention
of carryin.• his Majesty's Message into effect, in I.le
manner, the outline of v. hich, his Noble Friend,
the Noble Secretary of State, had opened to the
House. If he understood him correctly, the men
rais -d by ballot were ;it liberty to enlist into the
. regular army, whenever they thought proper. Such
a measure would disgust the officers who were to
. command the troops to be raised ; for what officer
would be pleased to be exposed to having one of
privates come up to him with his arms a-kimbo,
and say, I shall list in the army to-morrow.
Lord HOB ART spoke to order. His Noble
Friend had misunderstood him ; he had only said,
• these was no clause of prohibition put into the
bill to prevent the men from enlisting.
Lord NIULGR AVE resumed ins speech, and
went into a good deal of argument upon the means
of raising the men by ballot, and the effect it would
lave on the regular army, who were a disposable
force, and could be applied to any service at home
or abroad. Upon the whole, he approved of the
mode of raising the forty thousand men here, the
eight thousand in Scotland, and the ten thousand in
Ireland ; and, after reasoning at considerable length
on the subjea, considered in every possible view, as far
as the Noble Secretary of State had opened it, he
concluded with promising to attend every stage of
the discussion of the Bill, which would necessarily
be brought in upon the subject of the Address, to
lend it-all the assistance and support in his po ee,
and to give every facility posoiblc to his Majesty's Ni.
nisters, in maturing such measures as the critical ur-
gency of the war in which we were engaged required.
The war was as popular a war as ever this country
bad been engaged in ; the people he was persuaded
would manifest that spirit which the Noble Lord,
who had spoken last, had talked of, and unite heart
and hand in repelling those, who should dare to at-
tempt an invasion of this country, if their spirit
was properly called forth, and he had no doubt but
that Government would so call it forth, with as
little delay as possible.
The Duke of RICHMOND rose, and began
his speech in a very low tone of voice. We could
spot, therefore, distinOly hear the commencement of
his Grace's speech. He took notice of what had
:been said of Continental Alliances, and he thought
that in a war with France, it was a wise and proper
thing, if the Government could have willing and
able allies, they ought to obtain them, but they
were not always to be had. Continental Allies had
in former wars served to preserve, what no longer
existed, the balance of power in Europe. Had we
had firm and powerful allies, we might have pre-
vented the present state of Germany, and have
preserved Hanover, a loss which he deeply re-
gretted, not only from the sincere sorrow he felt, that
his Majesty should he deprived of his Eledlo-
rate, but also on account of the vast accession
of power it put into the hands of France.
The French were, therefore, exclusive of other
great advantages, by the possession of the Elec.
torate of his Majesty, enabled to remount their
Cavalry,
tavalry, with sonic of the finest horses on the Conti-
nent, at a moment when they were most in need of
fresh horses, as the breed of horses was exhausted is
• France, and such as they had in the use of their ca'
valry, were miserably broke down and jaded. Witli •
regard to the measure, the outline of which ha
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been opened by the Noble Secretary of State, he hai
some doubt of its practicability. let Noble Lore
recollect, that the country had already been called
upon within a few months, to ballot for two distinct
numbers of Militia; if they were now to be again
called upon to raise 40,000 additional men by ballot,
he feared they must be taken chiefly from the
agriculture of the kingdom, and that must be
attended with very prejudicial consequences.—
' —lie should have thought men might have been
raised by levy and bounty, as was usual for the
army, and applied to general service, as an illustri-
ous Duke bad recorrunendyd. A.force calculated for ,
general service might equally be employed in iirfat• i
*eve measures or flintive operations, as the na-•
tore and circumstances of the war might require
The Duke recommended it, to Ministers to employ
a number of cavalry in the defence of the country.
Our troops of horse were very fine ones, and the
horses of this kingdom; of which we had great '
plenty, some of the finest in Europe. With regard
to the raising 40,000 men by ballot, his Grace re-
peated it, that he had doubted of its pradicability.
The last Supplementary Militia regiments we net.,
yet coinpleated. His own regisneat was deficient
tiro hundred used, and they were extremely 'ilifscuk
to be got. Other- regiments to his knowledge army
equally incomplete. He endeavoured to get sighty
men, and sixty of them paid the 201. per man ,
for their exeMptina,* so that in iael you raised
money and not men, 'wlsen a farther attempt
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