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tske place in the terp rice of die army, and said,
he Wished en have ae et?ianation whether the
Right Hon. Secretary rnrant to aband -in entirely
lift ler,y-en met', ? Or it he did not, what wonld he
the esperice of it t and whether, or in what maroier,
that most fundamental change, the enlistment for
service, ‘;.as to take place ? The Noble Lnrd
Concluded by sayir,:y„ rl.ought the Right
Honourable Geritlernan should divulge what his
plan was, or whether l.e Lad one or not ; acrd that
he had not, Indeed, he conceived was not an unna-
tefel ennchtiOnn.
Me. WINDHAM disavnwel that he had
lower-
td his tune at all, as Hen. Gentlemen charged
him with sheering great dexterity in doing, for he
had never espressed himself in a way which he at
ill fonnel it necessary to change, or to coalify.-
11-te was much at re warranted ins lying, that great
dettetiry was evinced in misrepresenting what he
had said. It was impossible to answer ail the cla-
Wider which was raised, and he would, once for all,
tee', that he heartily wished the Hon. Gentlemen
weetild formally prefer their ittlielmeat, and point out
the pertienlar instance in which he had altered his
nine. What was called the measure of the present
Airtaininration, with respeel to the Volunteers, Was
teeny no measure at all ; as far as it affeeted
the continuance of neir service, it left them pre.
elegy where they were; and by reducing the super-
fluous officers attached to them, and making an ae-
the, intelligent tradesman, the drill Isetjeant of his
easepany, with an handsome, alt Inugh reduced al-
lowance, of 7s. a day, the country was about to
Wsperience a saving of .14..0001. This, with respect
to six-sevenths of the Volunteers, w4i all that was
tet done ; and, as tar as regarded the remaining
Cele-seventh, they were only to be pits from the high-
est to the lowest establishment. He adhered to his
nainion, that it was by no means expedient to con-
tinue the Volunteers on terms of peat additional
etpence, and even had he proposed tc have con-
tinued them, and to have extended their duty and
discipline, as it was now said he ought, he was sa-
tisfied he should have experienced from the Hag.
Gentleman who made that charge, the imputation of
Wanting to harass and disgust them, in pursuance of
the enmity it was xu:ribuied to him to have ever
tetireed towards them. The Noble Lord (Castle.
enagh), said,the Volunteers ought not to he taken by
sturprise ; but this accusation ill accorded with the
KiVilued declamation of that Noble Lord against
ifs (Mr. Windham's) excessive delay ; to that de-
elamation he would answer, that the execution of a
Flan mast come seriatim ; the exposition of it, altoge-
ther; he would, however, give all the information he
could OR the subjed of bringing forward the mea-
sures. The first measure would undoubtedly be the
eftilitary service of the army it would be divided into
the Mutiny AEI. and that which would previele for
the allowances to the soldiers, and which might be
Called the Chelsea Act. The Training, or Lery-ett-
Marrs Bill. would be ened before the holidays, so
that the House might have lea opportunity of con-
eidating, it. There would be also a Bill to make some
etesall atter:then in the Militia Laws. It had been said,
that be was going to abolish ballot ; but he should
Reply to this, as he hail to what wts advanced of his
intention respeding the volunteers ; there was al.
Pestle a suspension of ballot, and he orly mei:at to
continue it as long as it sheuld be found expedient.
Tills was the ccuree lie was about to liursue, and
which he hoped woul be one day generally ac-
knowledged to have advariced the interests of the
eollettry.
Mr. PEi.CIVAL said, that he certainly thought
the Right Hianiurable Gentleman intended to abo-
AA the ballet, and bad understood him to have so
great an aversion to it, that he cruld not bear its
Aallle, and had therefore called it hut. He did not
know in what the Right Honourable Gentleman
lad been nil • represented ; his manner of treating the
Volunteers was virtually an annihilation of them.
When they wcre :eprescnted to be like shew sot.
dies, like a painted entity. in which you were de-
ceived of the substance, and when it was said, that
in enrolling them as an at my, we atted like children
aebo put a dr y stick into the ground,and thought they
had planted a tree ; could it be supposed that the
Right lion. Gentleman was friendly to the system?
k was said, that the whole alteration was that of
;elating the carps on the August instead of the June
aflowarree. He (fir. Percival) thought, however,
that that was the least alteration : the material one
teat that of rela sing the discipline of the Volunteers.
It was not the word re wet or relaz he cavilled with;
tut it was the thing itself which the term meant to
express. The next great alteration was that of ap-
panting three Inspecting Major-Generals, instead of
ell the officers of t:iat class they have hitherto had.
ft was said, too. that although they were to have
Clothing allowed to them now, they were not to
Task for it again ; which he thought plainly inti-
elated, that longer than these chithes lasted, the
set Vices of the Volunteers were not wanted. He
night brpossibility labour under a mistake of the in-
!elitism of the Right Hon. Gentleman; but he was sure
that he did not misrepresent the public impression, in
rating it to be that he (Mr. Windham) intended to
dispense with the Volunteers. If he really meant
tSs retain them, it was extremely impolitic to re-
present them as a useless ineumbrance, occasioning I
. as enormous expellee, and thus to destroy them in
a *ay much mom repugoart than dismission at
true.

Mr. Secretary FOX said, there was certainly
t'nt mach difference between the words eldest and
r our, hut in der ivies the meaning of the word
no.: I,F his Right Hon. Friend (Mr. Windham)
tr)ni tl e context, there as certainly was a difference;
d it was therefore unfair to adopt the word eels,
a having been used uy him. It was said by a ce.
(ebnited author, that there was sometimes no better
way of conveying a falsehoo.;, than in the words of
*5 truth : and tois Lint seemed to have been
toted upon by those Gentlemen who attributed to
bins • desire to relax the discipline of the Volur-
leers. A Gentleman had, in a lone: to him (Mr.
fox) erpressed much surprise that his Hon. Friend
fklr. %-inelham) should have said that the Volun-
leers Were of no use, and never could be made set..
wize•lb.e:.do three things, however, said the Gentle-
Man, and I assure Feu they will be of great use ;
Put en end to limited service, to June allowances,
rh:d to iespeciing officers. ( d 10.,,eh.) He
( Ir. Fox) ineanest to that opin...n. If an efficient
culy could be made upon the principle of tLe Vo-
14!..:tcers, the House had wasted much time, and

used much tyranny, by the mutiny laws, to no pur-
pose. In reply to those gentlemen who said, do
you, rr y-n not, intern to 1o;ep the Volunteers ?
he wool.' -.ay, that he did not wish they should be
di,bande.l, it they could,be retained for a reason-
a'sle expend., like what it was proposed ro incur
fro them ; but, if they could not, he thought al-
.nest any sebstione was better. The Hon. Gen-
tleman sAid. that before the army estimates were
voted, the House ought to be apprised of all the
ee eericie ; het in the case of an entirely new mea-
elite v hith liateiament might not adopt, it was
imerissible yet to state what would be the amount.
His Right Hon. Friend (than whom, he would say,
no man was better qualified for the office he held)
could not bring in the Mutiny Bill till the estimates ,
were weed ; but, as it was his expectation that the
House would to-morrow agree to the report,te (Mr.
Windham) would then bring in the Bill : it could
be read a first time to-morrow, a second time on
Friday, and on the first day after the holidays, he
would propose that it should be committed ; and he
(Mr. Fox) should esteem it a very happy thing it
the House did the projectors the honour to agree to
the me.uures, al they formed a general system for
improving the military state of the country, and, if
nothing more were to be done by Nlinisters, would
be sufficient to distinguish their administration.
Mr. CANNING, after adverting to, and con-
demning the conduct pursued towards the Volun-
teers
of the country, said, that the natural conse-
Tl...flee of in long delaying the Military measures
which were to he proposed, was, that the azteetion
and attendance of Hon. Gentlemen was re-
laxe.l or remitted—(a lauch)—many of them hav-
ing already left town, des?airing that the Right lion.
Gentleman (Mr. Windham) would bring them for-,
ward this Session. There was danger, therefore,
that they might now be dismissed too rapidly, and
discussed too lightly ; and the course that Ministers
had pursued, was precisely that which a Govern-
ment would adopt, who wished f"r that hasty dn.
mission. To fix upon the first day after the recess
for a Committee on the Mutiny Bill, when gentle-
men would not have returned to town, was cer-
tainly being p vcipitate. The House POW first had
the admission, that it was a system that was to be in-
troduced, and he therefore hoped it would not befit-
tempted to isolate city particular measure, and to
interrupt all discussion not strictly relevaet to that
point. The Honourable Gentleman concluded with
expressing a hope, that the Mutiny Bill would
not be precipitated, and that in the discussion, no
objection would he started to embracing the other
heads of the military plan.
Mr. FOX said, he wished much for the Mutiny
Bill to come on on the Wednesday, hut Friday
would he the latest day to which he would consent
to have it deferred, and he would take the sense of
the House whether it should be later.—The Ho-
neurable Gentleman (M. Canning) might debate the
bill as he liked ; but he (Mr. Fox) hoped he would
not insist upon bus talking too. Ile certainly wished
that tie Mutiny Bill and the Chelsea Bill should
be brought in distinctly. in order that the rejection
by the House of ore, might rot involve the other.
The question of limited service, was one of suffi-
cient coni.equeuce to he taken separately ; and if
the fit.n. Geotlemau should make a good speech
again, and introduce much matter upon extraneous
subjefts, by mist not be angry, if he (Mr. Fox),
did not answer him. There seemed a vast alteration
in the tone of Hcn. Gentlemen, who, after them-
selves making so much outcry about delay, n' w
required a fortnight longer.
Mr. YORKE was surprised that a particular
day should be insisted upon for the committee:
at this moment he did not understand the naoire
of some clauses in the Mutiny Bill. upon which he
would request some elucidation from the Right
Hon. Gent. (Mr. Windham.) Was the limited
service to extend to Cavalry and Artillery, as well
as Infantry ? was the Army to bidisbanded during
war ? and how far was the increased pay to extend ?
Mr. WINDHAM said, the certain expiration of
the present Mutiny Act a sufficient notice to Gen.
denten of the Bill he wouli introduce to-morrow.
Certainly the limited service was to extend to
the Cavalry and Artillery: and with respect to the
period at which men were to be discharged, be had
originally proposed to give Government a power of
detaining them until six months after the expiration
of the seven yea: s, but it was found expedient, in
case of the war coutinaing, to extend that power to
two or three yeats; beyond which period the men
could not be detained. It was not intended to
make the increase of pay to the army general, but
some augmentation would take place, short of the
wishes, but to the extent of the means of the State
Sir JAMES PULTF.NEY made a few observa-
tions in favour of the Volunteers, and their being
put upon pernument duty for a time, instead of the
mode of exercise proposed. He thought the Vo-
lueteers should have larger allowances.
conversation then ensued between Mr. Ad-
! Ali ton, Sir James Pulteney, Mr. Windham, Mr.
Matthews, Mr. Rose, and Mr. Spencer Stanhope ;
the two last Gentlemen stating, that unless more
than even the August allowances was given to the
Volunteers, now their funds were exhausted, they
would not be able to support themselves.
Mr. WINDHAM said, that being the case, it
ought n.it to be attributed to the present Adminis-
tration, that they caused the dismission of the Vo-
lunteers.

Dr. LAWRENCE defended Ministers from the
charge of annihilating the Volunteer Corps.
Mr. Secretary FOX said, that the Ilst half
hour's debate had been important, inasmuch as it
bad completely exonerated himself and his col-
leagues from the charge, and proved that under
the late AdosiniAtration it would have been impos-
sible to have maintained the Volunteers without
great additional expense.
Lord de Blaquiere, Mr. Spencer Stanhope, Mr.
Mathew;, Gen. Tarletoo, Mr. Shaw Lefevre, Mr.
Ryder, Mr. W. Smith, and Mr. Ellisou, said a few
words, in favour of the Volunteers, and were an-
swered by Mr. Foa, the Secretary at War, and Mr.
Windham.

After which, the revolutions were put, and agreed
to, without a division, and report was ordered to be
received this day.

The Tortola Free Port Lill was committed, and
the Amendments read a second time.

r:e other Orders were dii-,osed ca; and at One
o'Cuck the Houle

LONDON,
THURSDAY, MAY 22.

Some interesting information respefting the new
htlitaf y System, was disclosed last night in the
House of Commons, and the suLieft will be turti,cr
elucidated• this evening.

The Hamburgh Moil due yesterd Sr, arrived last
night. Its contents are of Freat impott.ince.
counts from Berlin; of. the 13,h inst. announce a
great change in the policy of Pru•sl.ia, with iespet
to this country. They state that ORDERS HA•E
BEEN SANT TO ALL THIE PRu;cr.+N Foals IN THE
BALTIC NOT TO OBSTRUCT TN:: FNTRANGE ON DR-
PARTURE OF ANY BRITISH SHIPS, It T TO TRII•T
THEM IN A FRIENDLY MANNER. An article dated
Brandcaburgh, Mayl4, in The Hamburgh Curicsfroit-
denten of the 16th, confirms the Berlin_ account,
and adds, that milers have been receive:rat Stetti-,
Colberg, and other Prussian ports in the Baltic,
NOT TO OPPRSZ IN ANY MANNER THE /NTRANCE OF
ENGLissi suies, BUT TO RECEivE THEM IN THE
MOST FRIENDLY KELLER, 0-e
new Cabinet Minister, has been the means cf
effeding this change in the Councils of Ber-
lin ; in which, fortunately for the honour, and, we
trust, for dr: happiness of Prussia, he has
obtained the ascendant over the pernicious, rids-
tardly, and sordid principles of Count Hatio-
wiyz, who. it is said, has retired in diigraice t.
Silesia. While we rejoice in this revolution which
has taken place in the Prussian policy, and
congratulate that country upon the triumph
I of a KILLER over a miserable sordid HAUG-
wiTz, we must not forget the real cause of
this reformation, this arnende h*nePal.'e, in the
condliet Lf Prusilia. It is to the well-tempered
firmness, the wisdom, and the energy of she Eng-
lish Government, we are to attribute this charge;
change which we confidently expert will be attend-
ed with still happier feeults. Letters from Leipzic
of the Bth of May, state, that the Court of Vienna
has entered into new engagements with FtAnce,
which ensure peace and amity between the two
countries. This account is not improbable. The
Archduke FERDINAND, I!'e new Eleclur of Wurts-
burgh, ha* -taken possessicro of Shit territory, and
other events are announced, which diminish the
apprehension cf a rupture.

Yesterday, about twelve o'clock, His MAJESTY
arrived it the Queen's Palace; from Windsor. In
a short time after, the Dukes of Yi)stc, CcNista-
L AND, and C•M Bit ince. 'Whited His MAJESTY. At
half-past two o'clock, lips s.itsry held a Private
Levee, which was attended by—
The Archtbi.hop of Canterbury ; the Lord Chancellor.; the
Secietanes of State; the President of the Cotine°l; the Lord
Pi +vy Seal; the Lord Chamberlain; the Masser Genera)
of
the Ordnance; the Judge Advocate; Zeds Catriftrvon and
Arlesford; Lords Boston, Cathcart. arid Mail to; the D.an of
Winchester; General Coyle, ,• Major licseley ; and Mara.
Faokener, Villiers, and Ormsby.
The following had the honour of being presented
to His M•resvv :
Major Owe*, Aid-de-Cain,, to His Serene Highness the
Nib b of On I-, on his return from India, by Lord Mint°.
The Rev. D • . Rennet!, on lii being appointed Dean of Win-
chestsr, by Earl Spencer.
General Cuyler, on hi. late appointment.
Charles Montague Ori:lby, Esq. M P. for the loon of
Carlow, in Leland, on his being appointed Ch.ef Justice of the
Prince of tVales's bland in India, on 'hien occasion jig re 4
ceived the honour of Knighthood.
After the Levee His Ma/airy held a Privy
Council, at the breaking up of wilich His MAJEITY
gave audience to Jr.N Soso, who laid before His
MAJESTY the proceedings of several Courts Mar-
tial.

At four o'clock His MAJESTY set off for Winsor.
Yesterday, a Court of Direr!lors was held .t the
Fast India House, when the Rev. MARMADUIEZ
Tilostesoit was sworn in Junior Chaplain oa the
Madras Establishment.
The Court adjourned at six o'clock till Wednes-
day next.
No case of any public interest occurred yester-
day in the Coons of King's Bench or Common
Pleas.

Sir RICHARD Sr R ACH•N'S squadron, as stated in
THE By irrsit Puss of yesterday, sailed on Sunday
from Plymouth. Sir RICHARD will join Earl Sr.
Vincent. of Brest, and there receive his final in-
structions respelling his course and destination
The Evening Papers which announced on Tues.
day the capture of our in-shore squadron, off Brest,
now admit, that the report origin..;ed in
mistake, or (what is more probabl:) was a wicked
and mischievous fabrication."
Yesterday. Lord IN:crown attended at the
Public Office, Bow-street, before Mr. Git•easa, and
gave bail, hirmelt its 20001. and two sureties in
iOOOl. each. for challenging Sir Waves, brie-
Lista to Sght a duel on the I nth of last Aped.
The Ticket, No. 3330, drawn yesterday a Prize
of 'OOOl. was sold in nne Quarter, three Eighths,
and six Sizreenths, by J. Ba Amcor(' and Co. Pro-
prietors of the Lucky Lottery Offices, Nu 11, Hol-
born. No. 37, Cornhill. and No. 38, Maymarket.
Piccadilly, where the fortunate holders of each re-
speClive Share may receive the amount of their
Prize-money on demand, and where Tickets and
Shares are now seßing,warranted undrawn :—Please
to observe. the Fourth day of Drawing will be on
Monday nett, and the Ft: ist Drawn Ticket on that
day will be entitled to 10,0001. over and ahove
every ether beneficial chance of the present Rich
Wheel.

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HAMhIJ Gil MAIL.
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EERLIK. 154 T IS.
Since the appointment of Coont Keller, as Tliird
NUnister of S,ate, several Councils have been held*
at some of which the King has presided ; the subs
j^fl of them was a consideration of the effeas which
the measures token against England have prods'. oil,
and the c msequences their adoption have already
had upon Prussia ; on these points differences have
a•isen between Count Haugwitx end Count Keller ;
the former insisting upon the expediency of persevere
iny; iii the steps already taken, while the latter urvd
the neces,ity of an entire change in their policy*
from a consideration of the ruinous effects which
hive ensued ; the Kind is said to have been so im-
pressed with the propriety of C st Keller's tea-
toning, as to have desired him to suggest the means
be thought most likely to lead to reconciliation,
and to avert from his subjects the evils which
threat-ned them. Haugwitz, it is said, has felt so
much hurt at this, that he demanded leave to retire
for a few weeks to his estate in Silesia, which has
been granted. 'Toe first strp taken by Count
Keller has been to se id orders to all the Prussian
ports in the Bxhic, not to obstruct the entrance or
departure of any British shies, but to treat them
in a ft iendly maener.

(From the Himio. c ..respoidentew of the 15th May.
lIANDZNBUROR, M•Y

Orders have been received at Stettin, Co!berg,
and other Prussiantpotts in the Baltic, not tl op.
pose in any manner the entrance of English ship*
but. on the contrary. to rece:ve them in th- rnost
friendly manner; it is expeeted that Prussia vrlil
yet take other measures advantageous to England,
trod which it is concluded, that a good twelerstand-
ing will shortly be reestablished between the two
Courts.

♦IFNNA, r•v 7.
G mtral Andrcossy left this city yesterday ;
fore his departure, he wrote a letter to Count
d'Wrtina, Minister of the Imperial Cabinet, in
which he expresses, in the strong-st manner, his ea.
ti:ude, his respeet, and his esteem, far the Emperor,
whose sentiments and vii tiles be highly extols.
M. liochetcucault it appears will make a long star
here, since he yesterday received several carriages
laden with g iods and baggage.

•CGSIIIMGII, MAY 5.
Older, hive been given to all the regimeuts
be kivarian Royal Army, to hold themselves in
readiness to march At 24 hours notice ; on the other
band. it is reportnd that the columns of Austrian
prisoners which were on their march for Upper
Suabia, have received fresh orders to halt.
MAT S.
One hundred waggons laden with biscuit, set out
yesterday for Donauwerth, where these bisclits
will be embarked and seat on to Brannau.
It .was yesterday notified upon 'Change. that no
English goods were in future to be sent to Swit-
zerland. The present quantity is estimated in vs-
lue at 150 millions of bytes.
The news from the Southern parts of Bavaria is
most Raiding; in many distties the poJr are dis.. '
tressed to the necessity of living on ro.its.

teiez.c, 11• F 8.
The news from Vienna, received this morning, is
of a very tranquillizing nature. Th- good under.-
standing wl.ich appears to subsist between the Courts
of France and Vienna, seems to insure peace. The
Court of Vienna has not 'only accorded to France
the free passage for an army through Istria and Dal-
matia,whichwas the prircipalebjed theneg-Kiation,
entrusted to General Anclreossi ; but it has also
entered into engagements, by whic!) it is drawn into
a'very clbse allianie with tie F mperor Napoleon.
It has formally sandioned and recognizA the
exchanges of territory, and all the newly-ereded
Principalities, which. prece!ed and have followed
the treaty of Presbarg. It has eves renounced
all systems of neutralitiy, in the event of France
being engaged in a war ssith any power whatever,
on account of these innovations ; and it has en-
gaged to aft, with aaivahottility, against all Power,
that may make war with Prance on account thereof.
We are positively assured, that this new treaty i f
amity is the result of long and important negoci-
ationsi "'hitch have take, place ant the subjea, asd
which are at length terminated ; it is aided, that
the treaty will be signed without delay.:
VINITANTIPOPLE. APalt 10.
hlrulas Fifmdi. Ambassador from the Subimite
Porte, to the Emperor nf the French, set cut on
the 29th of Meech for Paris. Besides the Drago-
man of the Embsmy, he to, k with him another,
Who had been attar bed to the French legation.

VTRECAT, WAY 12.
The Address of the Rataeian people ton:mit !lies
.hrightinesse',, aga,nst a M.,narcNieal C intticutio%
emanated from Haerlern, aid has obtaintd a rnent
estrnsive eirculati an. Ere:7 :rue Bastian feels the
solidity and propriety of OA :71Ziples tot viLicb it
c..n:en&t.