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Es own personal conveMenee in that retpen ; ar,cl
.o ,idering the debar and impediments which h.t..1
n c.,ntimaally thrown in his way. much courtesy
accommoJation could not be expe&ed from him
be seen tminotrew. that the tiecretsry of
the Hard of Conttoul had num unjustifiably kept
back papers which had been ord.cled by the House.

surpLy.
The House having resolved itself into a Com-
mittee of Supply, the Accou.its presented by Mr.
Vansittart on Friday, were referred to the same.
Mr. VANSIT CART then moved, " that a sum
not exceeding 4,5t)0,0001. should be granted to
His Majesty for paying off the outstanding Exche-
quer Bills of last year ;" which was resolved ac-
cordingly, the Hous resumed, and the Itepoit was
ordered to be received to-niori ow.

AMENDMENT OF TDE raorv:TY Act'.
Lord HENRY YEW l'Y lose to give potice, that
he would, before the end of the present Session,
submit to the House. a Pl:i to improve and amerd
the Property Biil, as far as I egarded the Etemptions
allowed under the same. 1-1 k objeel was not to in-
jure the produce ..f the tax, but to omit the abate-
ments already in cert.tin c.t4es allowed, and to ex-
tend them to persons haring • small incomes. and
large f.tmilles.

PRIVATE BREWERIES.
He also gave wince that, in compltancit with the
suggestion of an lion. Gentleman, that it mould be
very unpleasant to the private brewer to have the
exciseman introduced into his house, it was his in-
tention to move an alteration of the mode of mak-
ing that tax payable int the ft.:chequer, and that
he would, in the Committee of Ways and .deans,
on Friday, move. that it should he charged
as the Assessed 'Faxes are. and nut come under the
care of the excise.
Mr. PERCIVAL aske I, how it was to be ascer-
tained who were, and who were nor, private brew-
ers, and how they were to be distinguished from
puhlie brewers.

Lord HENRY PE I I'V replied, that every per.
son would' be caued upon. as in the case of the
other Assessed TAI:S. w SLAW thesz particulars to
his return.
THE NIIJIINT BILL.
The House having, on the motion of Mr. Secre-
tary Win iham, re... Seed itself into a Committee on
this Bill ( %lr. Alexander in the Chair), and a mo-
tion :'et g made that the blank in the oat:., con.
tattled so one of tine claus.s. should be filled up
with the words seven yea.
Lord CASTLES r.A.tall said, that he wished
to nag that opporof icy of stating the a, jetlio.is
which He felt to tee measure, w:dch were confirmed
and multiplied in ploportii a as he attentivety con-
sidered it. In the oleseivotioso.. :oiwever,
had to submit at present, alt more confine I
himself to the most projrnari:t finds ot the Plan.
this.: advert to the many mil use features ot it,
which, at the tams- tit.-e, he conceived to he very
deserving of Deuce t must be ackuowlesiged,
that a MetnLer of u...t House teas sullefted ta
much ditii,aity and uisadvanrage, in being called
vole to ....ecish- sport the details et a great mill
tart' projett at a short notice, 'and 'untwisted
,at:sostetorr infoimatio a. Af er the Right
ilonourable Secrseary KJ taken so many rood • 5.
both in a' d out of office, in the formation
of his system, it was an tomes-. nary enema
raument he imposed on the House, to take wens at
so short a nnti,e, and also to witnhold from then..
that mass I,f int oniation on which His Majesiy's
Ministers had themselves raised and altered their
opinions. The lit st j-anon that struck him, and
which tie hoped the House would be duly sensible ot,
was, that it was a wanton and unnecessary encroach.
ment on the undoubted prerogative of the Crown ;
and. in that view, was by no means creditable to
His Majesty's servants. The Crown already pos-
sessed 41 the power, by the Constdutitin of• the
Country. which this 8111 would maw transfer
to the Legislature. There never was any instance
before of the Parliament assuming that p ewer to
self, without at least a previous iecommenslati-n
from His Majesty. The precedents quoted in a for.
met debate did not fairly Apply, as none ot th m in-
terfered with the royal prerogative; to which gees
leveed every thing that la to to dispensing mo-
ney, or the disposition of hoootos in the milker) ser-
vice ; the only install se of any attempt of interferiog
vr;th the prerogative or the internal organisation,
except in one solitary Cast, which occurred. and
was succcssfully resisted, in the reign of Queen
Arme. It was true, that when tar Parliament
thought proper to raise a new army for the
Kong, suet as the Militia, or the Ad itional
rarce, it assumed the power of annexing condi.
tions to particularly as to the numher to be
so raised. There was this distinction, however,
in the attempt alluded to, that it WAS not pro-
posed by any minister, or person in of Ace ;
but the oath now proposed applied to the limita-
tion, in point of time, of every man recruit. d for
the Regolar Maly, thereby circumscribing the an-
ciao and ecknnwledged prerogative of the Crown.
tie did not like the projeet of raising Jistiretions in
the minds of recruits, between h:s ensue
with the...ikon. are lin engagements witliTatil•-
r.iinent. He knew that iu the year 1759, when a
great jealousy was entertained in the country of
the powe, of the Crown, both in tesped to
the Standing Army, and the Mutiny Bill, a
clause to satisfy these doubts And jeainusies, Was
proposed, not by a•.y Minister, but bs Mr. Thomas
Pitt, which was thongnt to interfere with the
royal prerogative ; but though it was net at-
tempted in the way of appen lie er rider to a Mu.
tiny Bill, it was :ejelfed by a very great majority.
Here, however, it was engrafted on the Mutiny
At ; a money Bill, which must p iv, or be pro.'uc-
tive of danger and ii.convenience to ti e 'nowt:7.
The precept Ministers did not even leave it open
to the House of Lords to ne,:ative the clause, hr.
cause in es doing, as a money Bill, their alteration
must prove fatal to the whole, and that trio at a
rime when it was so.° iglr rept:nen:ed. thlt the
former Mutiny Ad, which kept the army together,
was shortly to tapir.. If tilt: clause, the-L.l°re,
sh.oild he omitted in the other H.iose, th.- con.
sequence would be, that the country wi old be
won= an army. and the crown at once
abandon all controul and jorisd.efon a er the mi-
li•ary system. In corro..worei• in tit. his se Critents,
Le quoted. what he it:: octed be a r.opeelable
authority So that House, a passage Item Mr.

Iletselrs hook, Where it xi; stated, whenever it xve-
attempted by the Correnons to look to a hill
of - supply, any clause which must compel the
King :slid the House of Lords to agtee to it, was
an infremely irregular proceeding, and that
. the
measure to that effect was proposed by the Fortes
in the year 1701; it was meant to put a stop to the
war, to reduce the Military Force, and to compel
the Allies of England to accept of such terans
as France should be pleased to offer them. 11,
theerline, this measure passed, the King, in respect
to the Army, would he placed in a state of degrede-
tion, and prevereed horn raising au/ Black or other
, Colonial Hoops for local purposes. Having said
so much as to the mode in which the measure was
proposed, when he tame to consider its effects, the
objections to it struck deeply into his mind. The
&nett of the measure was not to convert *bed Army
into a good one, but to increase the subsisting t,rce
of the country. N., one was more ready to Admit
than he was, the people-1y of raising the existing
Army above its present standard, though it was
now greater by 23,000 than was known in' any
former period. The Right Hon. Secretary (Mr.
Fox) in arguing this question, quite turned his
back upon his colleregue,,and, digressing from the
main subjeeel on a former night. seemed desirous of
attrailing the intention of the House to topics,
which, he thottght, might be more popular, respel-
- 'some late disasters. lie, however, must con-
tend, that the event of the last unfoitnnate cam-
paign upon the Continent was not at ail inflo-nced
by the want of a sulliciently large disposable force
in this country. We had at thee moment 2.5,000
troops, including Hanoverian', on the Continent,
and were prepared with forty thousand naise.-in a
state of discipline scarcely paralleled bee:reef circam-
btel-tei had opened to us the opportunity et em-
ployieg them with adveivege. Adverting next to
the policy of the measure, he did. that from the
century, in which be was pr •II tut having drawn his
first hrea:h (Ireland,) he would, no doubt, be ac-
vine, of committing a blunder. if he had proposed
a p an for the cncreese of the army, which, et itt
first operation must be proetraive tit a waste of it ;
if he gave up 3 me istire whic was producing
13,000 men annually, andeubstir used another, which
began by the loss of at least U,OOO of the veteran bat-
teiion. If the Rt. Hon Gent.'s improvement con-
sisted in a rapid and extensive slimier ion of the force
we were already in possession of, he had certaittly.
made a most unfortunate option Inc the country.
t'he army of this great nation should be such as ca.)
be lit for aelitel set vice in time of war, and such as
might he adapiel to its p rtcy in time of peace It
r 4.., therefore, with pleasure he observed Mr. Fox
to have changed his former preference to a low
military estalthehmecr, and become a convert
to that of such a stenditg army as at the concersien
of -a war, would enaele us to preserve and se-
cute all the seivanteitees of peace ; to hare a
large a- my fire service in war, and so ceaszi-
med. that. after being disbanded in time of
peace, it could. it necessary, be easily re assembled.
The militia system was of that description, and
such wit the Onjon of his depeeted Friend ( \fr.
Pitt) in the addition it firer, with the (nether adven-
tege of its being always 'applied by regular offieers.
roe present plan. on the contrary, only subjected
men to the loss of their penslen- it they did not le-
ase. note, and retain eta other entylpul-ion aver them.
It could not b.- denied that the policy -if this c "en-
try could admit of no more than portion of the
At my to be employed in Foreiin Rervice. where it
gutght lanai.. for the average d of from seven
to ten years, and this meesure, if it succee zeds
vele! not Afford the Army abroad more than thief-
diets However, upon, tee si hot-, he sise nN
pound for thieking that tee Right Wilmot ink
Gentleman couldever succeed in the drew ion of his
plat The experiment of I'm ted service WAS flied
before, in the American War, upon the more in-
viting terms of three yea's, ordering the war, and
the eff..ft was, that the regular reeilaiting fell short
at that time of its usual anneal proportion.—
l'his proof /Mewed that the limited service did
not possess the charms ascribed to it ---
In the year 1799, we had 80,000 Militia, and
when an AA passed for 44,000 of them to enter
for limited service. only 26,000 of them were found
to embrace the fifer. The experiment was after.
warJs repeated for unlim ted service, and proved
more successbil. Datil/ the late wee, also in 17e9.
upon the suggestion of Lord Cornwallis, the lush
militia were allowed to vorunteer, upon a bounty of
10 geoid* for limited service, and 12 gated, for
unlinsiteJ service, and the effect was, that only 500
of the while preferred the smaller to the greater
bounty. His great distaste to the measure was the
complete subversion of that relate .TI io which the
King heretofore stool with the army of the country.
l hr soldier before looked to the rown for all a.ts
of benevolence. hut his views would now be turned
aide to the Parliament; et the same time that, if the
measure should ever come into full operation, it
w•'.,1,1 bring a greet pressure on the commercial in-
tetests of the nation at large. It it was right, as
it certainly was, to reward the soldier who-had do.le
hie Jury. by completing is tini • of service, it
should be lett to tee bounty of the Crown, and not
given as a premium to ieduce him to enlist
nor pledge the faith of Parliament to give lam a
pension at the expiration of seven yews. even thoneh
be thwart not have been in any aival service. As
to its influence on the state of discipline, he did not
presume to give what could be considered as a mili-
tary opinion. His dislike was, to give the soldiers.
in lieu of a real military spirif, a kind et mercantile
etstend ; and the system of perpetual re-enlist-
meet he thoeglit must have a had effect on
the discipline of the men, who where to be in-
duced to re-enlist, towards the expiration of any of
the teree periods of service; it would also revive the
ab minable preetice of draughtieg from one has-
cation to another, when a reeint re was t be wet
abroad. T. 41 1114(11110ns so married to each other
might be stationed in diffe ent quarters of the
wield, and could not be hi-ought to unite. except
by a kind of criminal intercourse tie lamented.
that after tee attention the Right 1 lonourebte
Secretary so laic bestowed on military affairs.
we were now no farther advanced than at the first
moment of his ever -giving a military opinion;
and the only prospeA he gave was, that of
beieg able .t a me to are period to get rid of some
of the obvious objedions to the plan. In. kiwi(
Hon Seel-nary htnaself segrcttcd, that he had nut

had titre to calculate oti the waste either of men oe
' treasure whi:h his system must occasion; and he (lad.
not know of any greater dereliefioe of public duty
than to ps opose and attempt, by the power of en.
vernment. or force through the House 'meter
on which he had not made the necessary calculus
tiorrs. Any carculatien to he made, must be apai
the supposition of paring an army of 250.000
men, including artillery mid marines, and the only
estimate he had recourse to was by a reference to
the seven bane:inns. consisting of 7832, ft,
Lordship then went into * di Tose caleiderion of the
increased e:p-nce of this plan, at the different psi
sisals of 7, Ili. and 21 ros, with the additional
shillings and sixpences, the bounties on re-enlist,
meets, dec. Ste. ; the result of which war, is(
at the first priicid the augmented expellee souls
be 380,0001. for the second 700.0001. and for
the third 600,0hd1. The most gloomy Fart
all was, that of a pension after 21 years service,
which from the remoteness of the period a.•,,
the contingencies to which he must be exposed.serts
be a less inducement to a rtcruis than half a 'envie
' offered at the neoment,at the same time that it scold
ultimately be productive of an enormous expecte,
upon the public. Assuming. which was not
favourable position to his argument, that i min
should be induced to enlist at the age of 46 vino,
when he t.erved.his first 14 years he would be it the
age of 40 ; arsd. according to Dr. Fluiley's tablh,
aed the colcutations made a' the Life insurance
offices, he found that. Ater tarot period, the longest
a man had to calculate upon Wall e 2 veers. In or.
der. therefore, to provide the Chelsea pension, to
which the sot Uer woul•I be entitled on uttlining
the age of 47, vOien his whole ptriotituould Se
completed, it woulu he necessary to cre.te ~the,
fund, not yet included in the estimates on t: e
The aggregate of the expence then,which this rhea.
sure wunid entail upon the country, would be
2,018,0001. Independent of th- increhrid pit meant
to be given to atilsaltern Laker'. It msy be stud
that this would admit of a reduetion in peace, but
atfohuoately, the plan left the qu dificetion hf she
men going on, even an time of peace, when they were
exposed to eery little service, which left no chalice
of a rerluferon. Upon a suthied of such material
importance to the welfare of the country, he did not
see how any principle of delicacy, ra fancied danger.
should deter him, as a Member of Parliament, from
a performance of Aix political duty, in considering
the application which this system had to the other
essential service of the navy. He whuld appeal to
the Whir Lord at the heaa of theAdmitalty Board,
and ask him, %whether it was right or just that the
nation should be embaiked in this hew system
of expence, to make future priorihorh for sol-
diers, and mate no corr.-mu:thing one for sai-
lors ? How would it be felt, or what impression
was it likely to create, it the m oriole onboard a ship
were, at the expiration at certain perials, to be en-
vied to advantages which were withheld from the
sailors, who co:opt...seri the same period a service,
were exposed to the same sir greater hardships
and dangers. and to whom the country was so
much indebted f,r its security and salety. It was
true, that they were liable, according to emit=
usages. to be dragged into the service by compel.
sine• and the impress. without being acted any
additional inducement; but was it censisteut situ
policy or liberality, that this argument of peccary
hardship was to be turned against them f if
then. which he must suppose to be tile ease. the
sailors were meant to be included in the new
arrangemtints to arise out of this system, the
aenoal expence upon the country could riot be
calculate) at less than three millions of money
These lest observations, he said he thought it his
duty merely to advert to, but not for any invidi us
purpose, or with the view of prooaki tg any dos to-
lion .f them at psese ta, Hive awe was a violent
ever el hear! bear!
.1:ow 14c lhassfrruid Loch, end
reutrmfrel same trier. by bulb aides of the Maud.)
His Lordship then proceeded to obsinve on the
seriousness of such an additional expence upon the
country. of three millions annually ; much to the
creak, as he thought, of the present administra-
tion, this canary had in a late instance most
wisely and m infer come to the resolution of
raising so large a proportion of the supplies
within the year, as an augmentation of 10 miilivcs
by means of an *simian of the Property Tale and
64 for' the purpose of relieving posterity from the
prtssure of no mote than half a million annually
which would be suffixient to defray the interest
of that rum of money ; but poseinity would nave
but little rea.on to applaud the spirit and liberality
at the present times, if, at die %rime time that we
were preserving then Irani the pressure of half-
a-million, we should, by this extravagant and
inconsiderate system, saddle them nub a burthen of
three minima a-year. He then concluded with a re-
cepitulation of his arguments, in which he trusted,
tlait he had satisfediorily sheveei, that the piers was
a wanton encroachment on the teerogeave of the
Crown ; that it could not make the :limy better than
it was th-for.t, that theme/1U fia ite.Atni.l from past a.
perience for supposing that limited would produce
srare men than an unlimited service 11 ..'hh •t it wheat-
:he relation in which the crown now stood ith the
army of the country; that it would be injotious to
the discipline of the service; that It would create
great a aste, riot only of the effedive nurahers of the
army, but of that treasure also wirkh • the country
could not bear if it should have to contend for its
existent by the exertion of its own remaining re-
sources; and finally, that being fatal in au tnese
points, ix would also materially abridge the power
of the Crown.

Mr GRA rrAx said. the Noble Lord had ab*
jeard to the plan, and yet bad no plan to offer in'
its stead. lo the American war limited service
had been tried, aid yet it did not increase the
army. The Noble Lord firmed part of an Ad-
mi.linistsatinn which had. f•r three years, tried
limited service; first, in the Army of Rese;%e
Aa, then the Addition'al Force Alt. and y
he ohjeaed to the expence of the present pl.i:
and contended that we should not derive 41
adv.intage from the 200.0001. to be paid f.
the seven years service; the 700,0001. for the fr.!:
teen years service, nor the 6vo, lON for the
years; so that, in fa.l, he says these are three tt
given for nothing; and, according to Lis argr.•
merit, we should not ga.n a single man bs. suzla a.•
ernormous expellee. And yet tne Noti!e Lrrd d:.•
not state, that he meant to propme the ballot, I