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!Mika! 4L FAALIA3fENT.

HOUSE O. LORDS, Wcoutsuat, AUGUST 12.

The Scotch Appeal Cause, the Duke of Hatt:l.
th•n v. \V. son. sttr,n- go:ne observations trom tne
LORD CHANCELLOR, was ordered to be sent
back to the Court of Sessions, with the sevcial cob-
jeztinnh for their re-eensideration.
Mr Pierce presented at the Bar an account of the
state and condition of the Forts on the coast of
Africa, which was ordered to lie on the table.
The Post 0:Ike Regulation Bill, the Irish Salt
Exportation Bill, the Legal Quays Bill, and Gene-
ral Delancey's Estate Bill, were severally read a
third time.
Tae Exchequer Bills Bill, the Irish Treasury
Bills Bill. the Consolidated Ftsnds Appropriatien
Bill, and the Curates' Relief Bill, severally went
through Committees, without any amendment, were
reported, and ordered to be read a third time to-
morrows
Upon the third reading of the Militia Transfer
Bi'l,
V't,count 31E0,10UTI-1 renewed hi; former oh-
:- cies to this Bill, as wholly inadequate to the
;e...qosee for which it was intended. It was a mea-
sure winch, in his opinion, went to destroy
that force which had r. arrived to that state of
perfeetion for which it was intended, without yald-
ing any advantages to the general force of the coun-
try. His Lordship then entered into a comparative
view of the At my of lieerve, and the present mea-
sure, and considered the former as calculated to the
purposes of a permanent addition to our d.sposahie
force, while the latter produced a temporary suppiy,
not sufficient to meet tee present eeigencies.
Lord HAWK Ei BUR 17 defended the meeeure,
as the best cis:culated to produce an immediate dis-
posable force, so trained and disciplined as to be
able to meet any emereency. fir did not deny
that the Army of Reserve was a most excellent mea-
sure ler the time ; but the present measure not only
added greatly to the disposable force of t?.e coun-
try, hut secured the sin vice of a number of the
Militia force, who witeld be entitled, at the end M the
presena year.totheir str.chargesbesidesthe advantages
of filling u? the vacancy they should create with a
numb r of other men ; by which means the dispo-
sable force was inetease I, with an addition to oar
defensive Mice of 41,0n0 men, thus enabling the
country to meet any emergency abroad, and in the
event of our fleets not being able to proted our
shores, leiving, besides Voluntners, a trained po-
pulace, kc. a sufficient d f esive force to meet
any emergency which ceuld possibly happen.
Viscount t• IHMOU • 11 sloyly explained.
'ne LORD (41AX-le.-LOX admitted. th it
the Army of Reserve, at the time of its adoption,
was the best measure that could be thought of ; tar,
in his opinion, the present 8.11 was calculated to
procure an immediate and permanent disposable
tome, equal to the pros. nt rnerg ti

Lord NIULGRii V F. assn di fended the measure ;
when, after some further explanation by Viveount
SIDMOUTH, the Bill was read a third time.
ne Barrack felataces Accounts Bill, and Four-
sti;er's Patine Paper Bill, were severally read a third
time and passed.
The Traders' Assets Bill, after a verhal amend-
ment, by 1..,4d ItedescLle, and:the Philantliropie
Society's Bill, were ordered to be committed to-
merrow.—Adjourned.

FRENCH MILiTAItY LDUC.47IO.V.
(Fiona a F .ch Pa, er.)

The PhEotopher who undertakes to investigati.
the causes of the present military sur,seriarity of the
Trench, will, perhlps, be inclined to att.ich some
importance to the fasts containel in the following
anecdote:
It is well known that in tke course of last winter
pan of the pupils of the 1-I,yeeneeni, at Paris, left
that city to receive appointments as officers in the
!rand army in Poland. The route of these youths,
of wham many had not attained their full stature, and
others had a weakly appearance—though they were
neither so small nor so tteak as were tormerly many
subalterns in the Prussian army —led them through
Berlin. An officer accompanied them in quality of
inspeaor. They passed one night in the capital.

A well-it,foirned inhabitant of the city, who had
formerly been in the sinviza, and pestessing consi-
derable military attainments, had occasion to be in
the ne:ghbourhood of their qua; tars. Their juvenile
appearance induced him to ask the offizer who ac-
companied them, whether these youths would be
capeale of enduring the fatigues and dangers of
field encampments in a northern climate, so
inclement a season, ani in stria a country as Po-
land; The officer, alio seemed to be a polite and
nsible man, made this reply t—
og Thee young men, Sir, can scarcely be subj.ited
to any contingency fir which they are net perteelly
p-ep-ired by education and pranice. You are
niiiiaken if you imagine that the Emperor Napoleon
considers theoretical insuniftion suilicient fora sol-
dier; our institution g-.es farther, a great deal
farther. Ail these youths whom you here see, have
had much more experience than many officers in
*anal service in other armies. Their constitution
is early inured to ell the prejudicial influences which
menace the pratlical s4dier. Among these young
men there is pot one but what his winked with his
own hand at the constritaion of real forts ; not one
but what has stood sentinel whole nights together.
All of them have slept many cold and tempestuous
nights in the open air. and next day performed a
18 leagues ; have climbed lofty
nth the combing rays of a meridian
sometimes in their clothes, some-
rough impetuoutrivers and chilling

strums ; have even been &Aged to c.bstair.
whole days from food, and dovir.;;; the h itteA
weather from drink, that they might k un to andara
all possible iilionvenifnces incid.ht to a soldiet's
life, and that they might he in'vria-.71y acquainted
with them before they were involved' in them by
necessity. Nlthing would terrify them in an un-
common degree; for, ;n the sham fights in our In-
stitution, the rapier is thrown away after the first
kw hours, and a sharp sword is put into the hands
of the pupils. If any of them receives a v.-nund ,he
has notiiim but his own aukw.ardness to blame for
it. It is his business to protea himself by his su-
periority. Would you now repeat your cliestion ?"
It is easy to conceive what a happy effe& such
a praaical cclocation must have urn the soldi-r in
the higher ranks! What may not be expened
of an officer thus prepared for every event
the conduet of their leader operates with a pir.reifu
impulse on all those who are under hi; command, is
not to be denied. Exercise begets courage and
I energy, and at a period when war is a trade, flick
who possess these t.vo qualities in the highest di-
wee, must predominate.

EXTRACT Of A LElTati TROY ?ARTS, DATED
JULY 12.

u Among the various new works, either g 'hi!! for-
ward or projeacd at Paris, preparations are milt-
ing for the execution of a may ifi:cnt monument, •
in honour of the French soldiers who have fallen
rie late campaigns. The decision of the Eineetor
respeaing this moimmerit is witthy of notice. It
is well kriown.that in consequence of a decree is. ued
after the battle of Jena, prizes were offered fur the
best plan for this sirtiaure ; hut with this con.ii-
tion, that the whole should not cost more than three
millions of livres, and that ate principal parts of
the Church De le MuttAine, on the scite of which
it is to be ereEt•d, should be retaine.l. Among the
many plans sent to this competition, and which were
exhioiteJ for some time in the Ma,eurn of Paint-
ings, about thittrea were particularly dibtin-
;lashed. M. Beaumont otitailied the first prize,
and three remaining prizes were adjudged to three
other Architeas,among whom was H. Vignon; who,
though he did not adhere to the condition erpc2-
ing the expense, yet produced a plan in a style of
extraordinary grandeur. The prizes were adjudged
by a Committee of the National Institute, appoint:,
ed for the purpose by the Minister or the Interior.
As the Madefaine, of which one colonnade and the
exterior wall are finished, was originally intended
hr a Church, it appears as if all the Artists had suf-
fered themselves to be misled by this idea ; all their
plans of the monument are plans of temples. Vir
non alone, rejeaing this.idea, had given full scope
to his imagination. His plan was not a temple,
but represented a monumental edifice, in a grand
and original style. What Was the astonishment of
the Committee, and the whole tribe et Aichitcas,
when the Emperor, in a few words, decided as fol-
' lows:—, I shall adopt the plan of M. Vignon ;
what does it signify it the edifice costs more than
three millions ? I am certainly et opinion, that
the other artists should receive their prizes ac-
cording to the decision of the Committee; M. Beau-
mont, to w:.cim the first prize is adjudged, shall
also receive from me an extraordinary gratuity ;
but Vignon's plan alone shall be executed ; partly
because be proposes something grand, something
new, partly becau.e his performance is not a tem.
plc, but a piece of arthieeaure adapted to' the spi-
rit of the monument. If we had a. temple, our
edifice would continually be subjea to comparisons
with St. Peter's us St. Paul's churches, or with the
$ Pantheon.'— l'his decision of the Emperor requires
no commentary.

" In retirement. and accessib!, only 0 a few
friends, David continues to work at his Pinar?. of the
Lwapresa's Carom:tam. He has lost some time with it :
his design had not pertsaly expi cried the effta pro-
duced by the attitude of the Emperor. The mo-
ment is that of the aft of Coronation, in the church
of Notre Dams. The position was such. that the
Emperor app:ared alone, in a strained, and, indeed,
it might be said, a theatrical attitude, in the aa of
placing the Crown on his head. The Emperor dis.
approved the idea, and the Piaure will now repro-
Bent him, after crowning himself, placing the
Crown on the head of the Empress."

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