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IMPROVZD MINERAL TEETH.

Ilk,ir MILS. FA LEU It nitaDT. i:AI:*()NS, of
ANL Woburn-pluce, Russell. aware, hew km respectfully
to &ambiance le the Public, that, in cuivesponsee of various ex-
prri meld s and of vast application to their profession, they are
en:Weak) recommend Art Melia Teeth and Palates, by imams
ay a mi,,,,a1 preparation, so as to give complete satisfac-
tions 110 tlpme who may have °cession fursuch substitute..
-.Jitters. Folmar mill De Latosi engaze to supply from
one tomb to • whole set, with or o about Gums, iii the
miertietefert•iry manner, without causing the least pain or
teritatims„ and of an Appearance so very immoral as to defy
trite wed trim il Wan-. vcr ; at the mind time that they will
assurer every purpose fur mastication, give to the voice its
mutest 'anw sail niodulation i .red their coo/Instil...l so
letterritptible, that 31essrs F. and 1). 1122gP to replace them
*re.'expimme, shoold they wear oe,blitge colour. Those
who may base occasion for the exercise of Aliwirs. F. and I):*
tarots, can easily astisfy thetuschms so to the eandoor awl
oinerrity ist their times toms ; for they are 'guided, thereat Om
liberality' and g4b0.1 Iwo. of their fr leads, to give referesees that
calinut fail of proving satistactory. *fltereAure, thorn. who
nosy t otrrtain doulds, slivtlier from inermbilitv, or front
linen* 'Well already deceived by so.mos of flasaeLenc.., oe of
Puffs in the public l'e;iers, will te, referred to characters of
high respectability, who will here the goodness to phew to
shapoimtration, the totem, etliteSs 01. y experience from the
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Leadenhall-street.

By Getters from Rangooii, of the 26th Septem-
ber, we learn, that a vessel called the Regina, lied
.arrived there from the Nieobars, by which informa-
tion was received at Bangonn, that the Freud,
frigate Crummier had touched at the Nicobar
Islands, on the 29tli August, and after receiving on
board WO butts of water, plundered the Weed of
whatever pigs, pointey, and other live stock, fell in
their way. (Aiiiitie Mirror, Nov. 4, 1807.)
The prize-master put oat board the re-captured
brig Experiment, on her being taken by the Semi!.
'auk. give* en account of the capture of two Ben-
gal ships by that frigate, he cannot recollect the
names, though he mention* their commanders.
These circumstances, connected with some others,
corresponding exactly to the .11thea and Elizabeth,
leave little room to doubt of the capture of both of
these valuable *hips. The Cause!! it is hoped has
escaped. The loss to Calcutta of the Althea,
E4:isbeth, and Ca!well, if taken, is estimated at Ift
lees of rupees
Information frim Cenjain states, that the
' Csrimersier and L'Adele privateers are both in the
bey. A privateer has also sailed for the Persian
Gmlph, in quest of British merchantmen in that
,quarter. (Asiatic Mirror, Nov. 23, 1507.)
Th. American ship Trace!kr, from Bourbon, the
4th October, arrived at Kedgeree on Monday last,
,*the following ships were safe at Kedgeree en the
r3tith Nov. viz.—Cantos, Frump Trite Americas,
I brig Telemachus, Alma, Saperwr, grab SoOle, and
Yoillecurrins.

The Mercu►y Packet arrived at Calcutta the
14th November. (Asiatic Mirror, Wednesday,
2d Dec. 1807.)

INTERNAL IJEI'E.NCE BILL.

Notwithstanding all that has been asserted and
avowed respecting the boasted vigour and decisive-
ness of the present Ministry, the Bill now before
Parliament, for securing the country against mos.
lion, has to cited cousiderable surprise, and very
general apprehension. This country has too long,
been accustomed to look with horror on the con-
scriptions of the French Despot, to hear without
murmuring that similar tune:ores are about tei be
adopted in a nation hitherto denominated free. If
this feeling be neve, the Government of the
country have to thank themselves for exciting it,
by that indecent abuse cod illiberal invective which
so generally chanicterise the speeches of somc very
leading men in oar public assemblies, and the re-
iteration of these sentiments through the medium
of certain public prints. If, all that applause,
bestowed by Lord Melville (on a late occasion)
upon the Gotnintuider-in-Chief, foe the highly-
improved smite of the present arms', both in disci-
Coe std elective numbers, be deserved, (as we
we nedsubt it Is--if the regular army be better
mese 'active, and much mere nuine-
roue, than it has ever been—if the mike force be
superior able in numbers and discipline—if the
volunteer spirit of the country, which Lord Castle-
reagh so much respects, and on which he has said
he would almost lie inclined to rest the fate of the
country, be worthy of contidence—if the trained
force he at all.caPable of assisting or co-operating
with these troops—if the defence of the southern
and rasteru mist of the kingdom be at length
completed at a vast expense—if our duets be
triumphant at sea, *equine! daily accumulations
of strength, contidenee, numbers, whilst that
of France can scarcely afford a yearly offering to
the angry spirit of the ocean—if such be our re-
sources, strength, and spirit, that Government has
been hence induced to resist every pacific disposi-
tine or overture on the part of the enemy, though
made through various channels--wits it reasonable
or consistent to expect, that the rime Goverii-
meet which thus vaunted of our national strength,
and the decided superiority of our military system,
should, within the same Session of Parliament.
nay, within the seine month, avow the necessity of
a lery-en-imacte, and call upon Parliament to ann
nearly the whole population of the island ? Cers
tainly nothing could be more distant than such an
apprehension on the part of the public, and until
these representations of the strength mid security of
the country be openly recanted and dearly die.
proved, the public can entertain but one opinion
of the expediency or necessity of this dangerous
and alaritung system of conscription.
Having said so much of the necessity, let us for
a moment turn our attention to the probable ern-
cacy of the Bill to pro:note the internal defence of
the country. A ballot is to take place in each
comity, of so general a nature, thnt it must com-
pete nearly the-wireie effective farce of the coon-

try. Of tliis last circumstance, the framer of the
Bill seems to he so much aware, that lee includes
those within the operation of the Bill who have
been hitherto, iii similar legislative acts, totally es:.
eluded. Neither the Weis, of occupation, natural
imbecility, and di 444 I oo utive stature ; more/et those
of distressand indigence, prevail against the provi-
sions of this drarossie law. Apprentices, articled
clerks, persons undersized, and even poor men,
who.w families, however large, depend for daily
suloistence on their individual Isbanr, are included
in the Act, utul compelled to take the field. Even
those who have but just found etenstitutes, or paid
the tine required by delimiters in the regular mi-
litia, are forced to abide the rcsult of a ballot for
the local militia ; and cvery Iverson hellotted must
of necessity serve personall, or pay the title, whirh
being preqxutintal to the income. it is supposed
will be ermme•milermil.lem Thus the system of substi-
tution is totally abolishes'. and this ulster the Pee-
text of coomilting the public advantage. ft has
been need by time framer of the Act, that the
erste-to ofsubstitsitimi being in gsmeral founded on
inissiocace. Weds eventually to levy a tax on the
public. This is admitted ; but is it hot evident
that if there be any tax less unpopular than ano-
ther, it hi ssieh as that naiad by this species of in.
qa rall Cr. iiincie it iblarrfeetls optional With the in-
habit...taus camel parish, whether they will pay a

small snm to insure themselves, or abide the riAz
of tieing ballotted to serve ? 'I lie Bill gueb another
step further ; uu person hailliitted to serve, shall be
permitted to provide u substitntis even at his own
expense. This is certainly miller a Angular pro-
vision, since it cannot be said, that substitutiou
on these terms would be any more a tax au
the public than the iiillictiou of the fine for
default of persoual service. Nor is it so very
dear, that a substitute may not he as 'flee-
tire a lotal militia-mita as the person ballotted.
Thus all means of substitution me completely cot
off, whether personal, which is alisolutely rendered
impossible, or by insurance, which is considered a
must consummate offence, in which all necessaries
are deemed principals : the person inuring hieing
compelled by a new and unparalleled innovation of
British law, to give evidence against himself ou
oath ; and thus he not only incurs the penalty. but
also is compelled to serve without uny possibility of
redemption: all concerned in this criminal act of
jammer may, in the same manner, be compelled
to convict themselves on oath, and subject thew-
selves to heavy fines. Au act thus made in the
teeth of the law and custom of the nation, insist
inevitably tend to corrupt the public morals, by
holding. out such areal; inducements to perjury-,
in the Sower orders. if it fail of this effect, it will
certainly prove one of the most productive financial
regulations since the enactment of the Income Tax.
It seems to be rather the spurious policy of a Chan-
cellor of Exchequer than the legitimate offspring
of a War blinister.

On a late (erasion, when Mr. Windham pro-
posed in Parliament an increase of local fo ce to
assist the oparatiurui of the army, in cases of great
public emergency, it was strongly objected by
the framers and official supporters of the present
Bill, that this ft rce could never heroine effective,
from the small space of time allotted for disciplin-
ing the several corps raised under that system. Mr.
Wiodhaut's phut provided that these corps should
be exercised at diffeient periods throughout the year,
including an aggregate of forty-two days ; but in
cases of emergency these corps might be embodied
far any space of time deemed necessary fur the ge-
neral safety. The local militia are to be embodied
and exercised for the-space only of twenty-eight
days in succession, except in cases of public emer-
gency and danger. Is it possible to conceive those
into, who could not be rendered effective soldiers.
by regular instruction at proper intervals through..
out the year, will. in nearly half the number of
days, become effective disciplined troops, merely
because those days are in succession ? The con-
trary is the fact. Frequent exercisieg alone can
make the English peasantry expert in the use
of arms, and perfect in military diseipline.—
This novel principle of conscription, it is evi-
dent, is adopted from the example of France,
without considering the extreme dissimilarity
that exists both in the manners and political
constitution of the two countries. The French
are early initiated into the use of arms and
the practice of military evolutions; they are,
by profession, • nation of soldiers. England is a
nation of merchants, manufacturers, and husband.
men. Hence the principle of the measure is ex-
tremely improper, and the practice, if the nation
permit it to be reduced to practice, will be much
worse. For a country like England, there never
perhaps was proposed a more injudicious, if not
dangerons measure. The population of the coun-
try are called once in each year to head-quarters
within each county for the purpose of exercising.
The calls of business, the pressing wants of a fa-
mily, the illness of any of its members, the unex-
pected and unforeseen accideuts of agricultural or
manufacturing life, are insufficient excuses for a
neglect of attendance. From each village are
seen groups of peaceful, laborious, and active men,
separating from their homes, families, aud occu-
pations, and proceeding to join their respective
corps. But a very small portion of their time can
be occupied in the ranks, aid it is almost mineces-
bare to suggest the different species of employmeet
ant amusement, which men, separated from all
domestic eujoyment, and exposed to all the temp-
tations of a large toms or a camp, will naturally
have recourse to for filling tip their leisure hours.
Seduced by the prevalence of vicious example, and
having contracted a taste for indolence, sensuality,
and debauch, they may return after the expiration
of their time to their homes ; but they will no lon-
ger be the tit tenants of the peaceful hamlet; with
no traces of the soldier but in his vices. averse to
labour, arid prone to intemperance, the conta-
gion of their profligacy will speedily be felt
throughout the country, and will prove .4 a sot
upon a vestal's robe the worse fur what it status.'
The Noble Lord ham promised much to the
country from the (economy of the measure ; as
proof of this, we need only select one instance.
The Bill enacts, " That the quota shall be raised
by ballot;" yet the Bill also provides a bounty to
such as shell enter voluntarily; thus, if the pro-
portion of the local militia of the county (amount-
ing, with the effective vo!unteer force of the county,
Le six news the militia force of that county) be
completely made up by voluntary enrolment, the
country is put to an immense unnecesspry reponse,
in providing bounties for those militisemen, who
must of course have been raired by ballot, without
any expinuie whatever. But this system of bounty
is a complicated evil. There are, b 7 this Act,
bounties for entering into the local tailitik, tither
from the volunteers, or the mass of the population.
There are again bounties (or entering- from the
,local into the regular militia, or the regular army ;
and there ate alreadv•bounties for enterusg from the
regular militia into the flue. This opens an maple
field for the ingenious to swindle the country out
of a triple kentuty, by entering the local. and trees.
ferriag himself from thence to the regular militia,
and again to the regiments of the hue. This is
certainly a novel speeies of .ceconormy. and worthy
of the Noble Lord's acumen. Another part of the
Sill provides. 0. that all deficiencies in the quot..s
of the volunteer and local force shall be made uo
by fresh ballots. or fresh bounties;' thus the mili-
tia are enticed into the line. The line is contain-
ally nceenattleting; yet the local force must be
Uniformly kept up to its original numbers ; ye, es
it is likely, the regular militia will be constuady in-
creasing by this system of bounty ; the country,
a. its popnlation decreases, must provide au increas-
ed proportion of effective force to the Local Militia.
Cuts.