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London, England, 1805-06-29 00:00:00

OD Els. PODiUIR DE LA MUSIQUE.

ROYAL„ HkYMARKET.
rHIS PRESENT EVENING, Julie 29, will
r be produced a Ple, In three acts called
THE WON CHEST.
Tu which will be added a Comic Farce calrti
MRS. WIGGINS.
On 116ndla_t,UT. or Not Guilty

DV...MUNE.
Under the Patronage of
fin Oracle the Duchess of tit. Right lion.Lirly Eliot.
Ar 411.11. Right Hon. Lady Somer-
g. Iron. VI-e.n.ntret Newark. ton.
lon. vi..kaini tem Hawardin Lady Lambert.
THE LAST BENEVIT OF COUNT BORUIVLASKL
The P..l,ah Nubletclaii, only Three Peet Three Inches High.
and o' Sir:if-nine Team of Age (who stairs a rust
se-re tr. the kl'olurkane hunt. E/Vl.llr Cecasimisexplatititt..nd
in OM metrepoh.,.
A T CU VIEERLAND GARDENS. this pre-
-11 sect SATURDAY, the 29th inst. or, in tale tho
7.ove wer, on Mortfaa, Jul) 1, there will be
A I:RAND PIN/MENA F. and DEJEUNE. A Mditaty
rA,d and ra,e P.rod?,,,s %/di attend, And, in the coure o? the
running, the Colin ur,il have the tion,mr ~f performing on the
Lunar, some Pieces of his .i.an conipo.ing.
T P.ornenade to begin in the Saloon at (hve o'Clock.
each, to tn• had of the Count, 125' Strand i and
at Ulf; 140-alCumber'and li.rdens, near Vauxhall.
Breax:. t commences precisely at Eleven olanic.
_
PANTHEON .
STLTPrirtOUS TI:LEGRAPIIIC BALLOON.
1U it. I.UN A RDI most re(pettfully acquaints
t.eN4...t.ty,GeD,r, ...id the Public in general, that his
jav,astel 'BROS I .-cric MACHINE will remain exhi
htadreirerl IN.' Week, without alteration. The CAR will
M, •di 01,umo fr,4 the admission of via,tors. A Gentleman
will expletin the mode of efFe hint the Transfiguration
oth, miichille, lane+ will, when in the air, assume the form
d a 1,..c 04.01, teoluld. Lobes arid Gentlemen,deiirous of
Mr. I. pa-di ii hr iota ,d.ra Excuntrin, are m-
a,. 4 r• :Al' to ll:•r: at the Panthelti, wittiont d,slay, as Five
,;(
~.,,est number of s Wsrre have re.,eady ena,e?d with
A4abirtalict to the Pantheon, from Nine till Six, One
Shilling..

-•--- - - -
COURT IM RECTORS ofthe UNITED
comPAmy of mF.RcHAN rs ENGLAND
TRADING to the EAST INDIES, de iseeekty Notice,
Thu r GENERAL COtTar a• the said entnpwci tr;ll
h held at akar Howe, in tentlesttell weft, ett FRIDAY,
the GA July sett, at E:erets o'Cleett no At 14oroinmi, fur the
purp.dc leyi.g l'efors the Cotter,
.tise.her Proerettin:s of the
CAA If Arll4oll, respettrog the Plea fee fa+ miv au Estill's&
out e Now fee the Ed,tt—tta Yews .lien, intended ft, Ike
Copury% Cant Service al &die.
wil.l.llkM RAMSAY, Sorrow*
ROYAL EXCIIANI;

WITC r:
JL'4l, 1105.
IVERSrINS, whose kings, Premiums afire en
• thelt4th inst. err hen ha int.irined, fiat Retelp.ds art
le iv delivered ot the envApviis tlAitts, OVER TUE
At rtufAmw;F, Qv, PAIL MALL, os ia I.
~, Conotiri , 21,1 i the val
Adore i ire reqvrot•V 11 apes,
.f.r the renewal .1. their Pidic
so sr irfuet the 94; q Joan titre, 44 the uswil Fifteen Days
v...wedier Veyinen,,ityuiri the Dote e cosh Pobriwrill then assure.
SAMUEL FLNNING, .tun. Secretary.
•.• Ateedenee is given itsibi, at the seed 011iress rite
A 14,44 Ce of ilasitdisett, Go.hlot, Mrr,hanitiee, end .Naps is Har-
lbw., u D..rlr, se while avildivg, foot Loss or Damage by Fire ;
io. alsofer the Assuraere of, isio grantioir on, Lifts
B. Fire Polities will kr Woad, pee tf Expersce, to the As-
lova. litre the Sanwa l'reul:aos 41140411114 to 10. or upwards

frHE OWNERS of the DISPATCH
11. r4cxEr, of MARGATE, Daniel Washorn. Mater,
begin's* to inform the Public, that they will sail 'IO.M )R-
-ROW MORNING, at rive otlock, without fail, as the Tide
will serve so late in the Afternoon; and, by sailing in the
eta:eine they will, io all probability, be at Maigate by the
tiros the Tenets will sad from London in the afternoon.

110.UID ANU LODGING IN THE CUUN city.
ALADY or GENTLEMAN, of respetlability,
may be accommedatrl in the most pleasant and healthy
pm of the Environs of London, near the Botanic Garden,
within a Mile and Half of Hyde Park Corner. Or a First
Hoot, confiding of a Bed-Blom, Drawing•Rnom, and small
Room inhuming with two or three other tied-Rooms, if re
quire& for the Summer Season, ail genteelly flunsshed, and
buerd, if required. Respectable references will be given and
expected.
For Cards Madre's, please to apply to 6P, St. Same.'s-str•set.

rrHE IRISH LINEN COMPANY have jutct
lauded a considerable Cargo, consisting of four fourths
and sesen•eishtlis SHIRT LINEN, and of five.fourths and
4x-fourths SHEEr INGS , and they request it to be noticed,
that all Cloths sold by their establishment are engaged to be of
the best ft; dc, and bleached on the grass.
No article sold but Irish Linens. and not loss than a Pier.
Ole here it the Wh Aessk Price, and no second price made.
Pssciscontains about twenty fee yards is warranty.* and
• miner returned if a fault appears. dash (as usual) fur
Rank of Ireland Notes.
•a* Rerouted from Great Russell.street„ to Ne. 4, B:001112-
Iturs-sloars, near Hart and Southampton streets, leading to
".ET

QTEl,4.'s LAVENDER and HONEY WA-
TERS —The Nobility and Gentry are respelfully in-
formed, these relebraturl Perfumes continue on Sale at fa 9.1
and 4s. W. per Mottle, as usual, of the most approved Qtl3ll.
104, at sta.' and Meyer's, Lavender Water Merchants to Her
Royal Meiners the Prinecia of Wales, No. IS, Catherine.
street, %rind. From the great demands male by Merchants,
Captains of Ships, and ethers, for these articles to export, they
are ingvieed tney mar be supplied from their extensive
stockorith from one to 140 Croce at Two Days' notice, and
that the lowest Price, by tiieUrsice orily, is 213 e. per Duaen ; the
Ls 28v • th. limey Water, 38: T. Meyer's celebrated
Dentifrice is sold 114 usual at Qs. the Box, or 11. Is. per Dozen,
the ex.ellencesif wlisi:h is tuu well known to steel a repetition.
Vanditsreiirliiii in the Country, may have any quantity of
••
Limn, bi remitting a Note or order for Payment
111 i or*,

BLACK LEAD PENCILS.
many gross impositions prallised on the
A Politic by ionrincinled ini who vend a the coin•
nrantorm, in a7ipeeranee like black lead, but which has none of
provertiev, render it necemary (or N MIDDI.ETON,
LACK LEAD PENCIL MAKER. to the king and Pnoce
of Mars to inform the Trade, Artist:, and titan (.;,i'ntlasaams
who are in the habit of uii that the Pencils, the re.
violation of whim's ha+ boo • emaididvil mop...hart fifty vrtrq,
mil atm, Is have been fienowlr kansia by the width of Mold e
0"q. .i dath.tnisned from coaritselinr, be tie name
N ii.ihtheaddoteiof g.e.suumf.ctuae, No
Snarl. Ism t m and Illteai.o vs be had, •t 1114 "Ow'
No lek, Strand, roppefte C .•,111'1,111.11tIVtt, when, and at his
cm•Atiie helve .et the gemte.t variety in
4.41.11e.C.1N ai..l D-ev•dolg
Dv.lts and howcy and a largo .rtinevir of
PiThel Vtleivs. imamantly ready in san ton the 'owed
Moe.


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HOUSE OF LORDS-1,111,0AT, June 28.
ROOS PEERAGE.
Pursuant to the Order rd' the Day, their Lordship. retolved
into a Committee of Privileges, and Lord Walicsighain having
taken the Chair—

Mr SOLICITOR GENER kL was heard at considerable
length, in tupp.rt of the evidence adduced by the D.ilce of
Rutland, and on behalf of his title to the above B. oac, to-
wards his conelu.ion. lie still he el he had male not to
the sa.isfaction of their Lordship, all those proprnitions that
proved the N-oriel)ukc to be entitled to the Btnnty ; that he
had always held the Barony by tenure, tieing poshessed of the
territory by which it was constituted ; th.d a Barony, in held,
could not descend to the heirs general, except actrompanied by
the testators ; and that he held it impossible that the Noble
'Petitioner (Lily /leers Fitz;;etsld) eould support her claim.
The Cheirmiii was then oilfired to leave the Chair. The
farther consideration of the case Wall postponed, and the House
resumed.
The !tills up .n tile table were forwarder) in their avverit
stages, and two or thr.a %IL brought up room the Commons,
were road a brat tone.
A Petition rat resented from certaie petiont, whose names
were t7ieraunto z.ab.cribed. by Lord WidsingOard,
Bill, now pending before their Lordships, for enflaming the
suspensviii of prosecutions until the first day of Match next, of
certiiti pericusi engaged r. the Wool...tit :Manufacture, &c
praying that the sa.nc may rind oow into a Law and for leave
to be heard by Counse'. erg ling the same.
The Prayer of the Petition was t•thillet, opposed by the
Duke of MON :'ROSE, an.l Lard IIAWBESRMIY, he
whom it wet obsei wed, that with respect to the laws which had
been passed relative to the Ma...Miiery ernpioyed in the flute,
which made part of the subject of the Bill, it may be diair,,atile
to repeal, or modi'y them. On that, however, he meai t not
then terve an rvinion ; bum, with regard to the Acts, which
authorLued the enforcing penalties for the use of Machinery in
the Wolllen it was defamed expedient, under the cir-
cumstances vi suspend prnseentions, which !night have amen,
bY Annual Ball; and this mode of proceeding took race for
the two last years, that now before their Lordships went to
continue that snsperisiim f a .1 short time Imig,r, oviy Oil the
In of Marts next, at it was proposed the general subject
should be taken i early in the next Simon Were the pre.
sant Bill nos to pays, an immediate burthen would tar uanw
upon t'inse it was 111:allt.t0 relieve, as the Act, at present in
fusee. would expire on the Ist tia. "(Judy.
Oa the... grourils the Pieesr iii,. Petition was oppns,d by
their L.t lahipa, and the Duke of 'MON rHUSE nosed that
'he W.l be now r "id a second time.

This procrrod.o,-. titer s is,' wards fro a Lnici H )LLAND,
and 411 theervatioet from

The LORD ('ti NNCELLInt, who seemed htt'",le to the
rineiple nr Siispen.l r iltdi, and r.x otosel his Attosiaclinn at
the i.nol,ed pledg • th •• the general w3s proposed to be
liken op ..arly io C., next Se-000, wat agreed to by the
Hoot? ; *Ad on so!Neitton of tit - Noble Duke, the Bill
was c ',emitted 6x t.• owns,.

The Irish Civil last mil, and th,! P')Of Cl..rgyr Relief Rill,
severally went throngs Committer of the whole Hons r, an.l
were ordered to b re:)orted.

The. seeortd renting of the I.'sh 11--ensue Regulation Rill
was, on the motion et Lief IIAWKF.SIBUIt Y, posponed for
throe months. This rinei al reason • .signed be the Noble
See-etary of Styr.. w that C being ap;iointy.l to
envire sow the ,ttojeti, affnet...' hy the Rill, it would
be .1..5,rab1.1 to ha,. the Iteport of Coos. Cootonsitonem before
Parltainent prev:ous to the pawing such a Will u that in Ties-
hon.

Their Eneiships resolve:l into a Corumdte• ea the HAI for
rooti,..ifirg toe !Noce. d. to the e. sc of Vt. .!..t^t'e•! Flat,
the next StrKloll of Parliament.
Some AlTletbi'll•M% were proptwed by the Earl of RADNOR,
the principal one of which was in the preamble of the fill, and
ativerted to the Acts, with reference to which the Howe had
proceeded its the cue.
Tn tint nu obiectinii seemed to be urged% but the Noble
Earl liay..ig, m th,t fir,t inctance, in 1112
their Lo•d-hips o The House of Peers," the phrase wet oh-
je,ted to, as not the most proper, particularly by Earl STAN.
HOPE, who said they were not a blouse of Peers, but a House
of Lorde-•-because, for instance, the Bishops were not Peer.,
but Lord: of Pvliattient.

Lord IIAWRESIIIIRY had ne particular objection to the
phr.re, but thought the appellation owed frequently uo
shou:d be adopted. This he -anceived to be House of
Lords," aria sueh wording he hut used in the first instance.
The LORD CHANCELLOR thought, upon the whole,
the term House of L 1(16 to be preferable s In a legislative
sense, the House collectively, was always termed, The
L ads Spiritual and Temporal."
The alteration in the Earl of RADNOR'S first Amend
meet was acccedingly mule. and Or: WO, alter receiving sonie
further Amendments, was agreed t e by the Committee, and
ordered to be reported to-morrow.
The LORD CHANCELLOR having pmpiwed the re,em-
mitcnent of the Stipendiary Curates' Rill, their Lordships ac•
cordingly resolved into a Commiuce •u the same.
Some further alterations and aineiscloirmss were made, prin-
cipally on the sup•Se.ti•rn of the LOR D CHANCELLOR,
and in the c 'uric of some discussion on the different points
between his Lordship and the Bishop of St. Asaph ; atter
which the House rmunsed, and the Report was ordered to be
received to-morrow.

Front mine oh-ervationt which were interchanged previous-
ly to the rscoininitment hetweno the Noble Lord uit the wool-
sack, and one or two of Coe Lay Peers, it appeared to be under-
stood that the third reading of the Rill will be proposed on
Monday. .
TRUST MOSIE.S.

Earl STANHOPF. called the attention of their
Lordships to a topic, which, he conceived, strongly
called for some legislative interposition. He allud-
ed to the circumstance of monies being vested on
trust to a considerable amount, with respect to
which, in consequence of trustees becoming bank-
rupt, or otherwise failing in their circumstances, in-
jurious effects might arise. To prevent these was
the objet of the bill he should propose, and which,
in his own opinion, and in those of many Peers, he
had consulted on the stihjea, was very desirable.—
The bill was very shirt ; its leading provision was,
to enable the parties interested to petition the Lord
High Chancellor for the time being, who was
au-
thorised by the bill to give the necessary relief. He
then presented his bill, which was intituled, ,4 An
At for the better securing of trust monies."
The LORD CHANCELLOR observed, that
though a hill may be very short, a great deal might
be done by it. With respea to the legislative mea-
sure proposed by the Noble Earl, he did not (Meet
to its principle, but imagined it may requite some
amendments in its phraseology.
The bill was then read a hist time, and ordered
to be printed.
The remaining Orders of the Day were then dis-
posed of, and some private business transaace.
+airs which the House adjourned till tomorrow.

lIOUS.F. OF CO N MONS.
Mr. DICKINSON brought op several Aecoonts Coin the
Navy Boa 1. witch were ordered w is on the table.
Tha.Rep t upqn the redtharort Causal Coal Bai wag post
poled onrd 1140,aav
Mr SIURUBS BOURNE trwegSt tip the Riven of the

Committee upon rate Crown Glass ; also the Report of the
Own tco upon the lion Duties ; also the Report of the Corn-
row :is upon Sugar Drawbacks and Bounties ; the Resolutions
of which were severally read, and leave given to bring in B.lls
pur.uarit thereto
Mr. RHIN LATOUCHE bronchi np the Report of the
Committee upon the Dublin Bikers' Regolation the
Resolutions were eee eaa Ily read, and the Bill cwd...ted to be
engrossed.
Mr. RI risCRIV)UR NE brought up the Report of the Com-
mittee upon the Corn Bill, with several amendweuts, witch
being read—
Mr. MACDoWELI. moved, that the el.ots., " that the
Middle Dutie• should ceas-," should be left rrt

After some eonversatont between that Crew ie•nan, Mr P.t-
tesou and Mr. Ruse, the Litter proposed, that th. twiner c ,n-
-siderat.un of the question ►hould be postpooed tilt Mon lay
next.

Mr. PATTESON resisted this, and thought any delay
whatsoever would he improper.
Mr. RUSE declared he did not wish ally 4-layers take place.
The House then proceeded, and Mr. Maraiseweli's motion
was agreed to
Lord AltaillsALD HAMILTON broneht up a Clause,
rimhp,,,auaig mpg Lepurezpors of Cont, when the price should
exceed a certain ma, which was read and agreed ko.
A converestinnol some length then t•r.k Waco between Mr.
DAVIS GIDDY. Mr. Ft RGUSSON, Mr. PATTFSON.
and Mr. WESTERN, on the subiect of mane in tire hist.en
Maritime Districts of England, Scotland, and Wales, iii-
sre.d of the twelve Maritime Districts of Englend and Wales,
miter, the amendment was agreed to.
Mr FERGUSSON also moved, that the word " biscuit►"
shmi:el be excluded from the cause, which was agreed to.
The sever ii Amendments were then read, the all ordered to
be engrossed, and to be read a third time on Monday.
Upon the M ition of Mr. SHERD) 1N for going into a
Conimitte- upon the Isle of Man Bill, a conversation ensued
between Mr KIRWAN, Mr. FERGUSSON, arid Mr.
CRAFT,CAL-
wren a divimin took place, and there apinerel,
Fur going lido the Committee, 53—Against it, 22—Ma-
jority for going into Committee, 2s.
The Efou,a then went into C.onmittee upon the Bill, when
going clauses were proposed, and agreed to ; the House
turned, and the revert was order,cl to be recessed next Monday.
A Message from the Lords informed the House that their
Lordships had ag,!etl to Mr. Pitt's Indemnity Bill, the Land
Tax Redemption Bill, the Ciinart Canal Bill, and sevetal
P: ieste Bills.
Mr. Coke, from the Exchequer ON e, promoter, several
Accounts of Interest upon Exchequer Rills, &c. which eels
rdered to lie nn the 'rabic.

Mr. WHIT dR EA obtained trove t b,ing in 1 Sill to in-
deo:icily all pers.mna wit., should give. ovule's-to smut Lurt
Melville upon gme Imimp,actiinerit antra agnmist nun by the
House of Commomo, reapecting uffi.es held by them during
t.mr tome the SA.4 V,comint Melville was head of th.! Adioim,-
ifeb)ll vat the Admiralty.
The Leith Harbour Improvement Bill way committed, and
ramdeted sobs reported on Monday neat.
Upon the Motion mmf Mr. RUSE for going into a Committee
upon rb: Southera Whale Fishery IWI, a e it erswon tollowed
between Mr. Barham' Sir Charles Price, and Mr Sheridan,
upon time subject of the Foreigners at Milford Haven, who
would be niuch peejmulmeol by this Bill ; when the lion:event
into a Committee, and Mr. Barham proposed a Clause to ex•
chide the Foreigners enpged In the Trade, from the prOViiOOS
of this Bill; upon which a dmyi,iat took phase, and the Clause
being earned, the House resumed, and the Report was ordered
to be received on Monday twat.

Mr. FOX preseuted a Petition from Todd Jones, Esq. who
isat present codfinecl in the Gall of Cork, in Iceland, com-
plaining of Ilse harder:o which he labours under, the very
!evens 1712.10 Cf he has been trcatc4,,tc. mid pra)ing rams, an
gene. al terms.

Mr. FOX then said, he hail no doubt, from what he had
heard upon upon the subject, that the facts stated in
the Petition were true ;—suiil it was evident, (rota this
llentleman's car, that no character, belt ever so remarkable
for mildness ai.d humanity, could be protected from the effects
of the Suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act in that country.
At the Petitioner was in a distant part of Ireland, and the
lateness of the Sessein, he found that many difficulties might
arise; he therefor., thought it would be vain to make any spe-
cific M itlo❑ on the subject at present, and he resold therefore.
in the mean tune, content himseif with moving, that the Pe-
tition should lie on the Tahle. At the same time, he strongly
re••nmmeuded it to Hit Nlajesty's Ministers, and to the Lord
I.ieutiniant of Ireland, to make some enquiries into the sue.
pensioa of this Act, and the o-cutreices resulting therefrom.
It was a matter which threatened immediate danger to tl-e
Stale, and well worthy their serious cousirteratinn; and tie
hoped tne result would he general redress. The injury sus-
tained by this Petitioues in his health, he believed to be much
worse than he had stated in his Petition; ■nd whatever crime
he might lave heen guilty ef, he lutist assuredly had been suf.
ficiently pu•iithed.
Mr SHERIDAN observed, that front the eireemitanees
which had come within his knowledge, this was a rose of the
greatest oporession, anti he heartily joined with his H•mmt able
Friend (Mr. Fox) in recommending the wiet.ject to the cos-
sideratires of flit Majesty's Ministers
Mr. vAxstrrmur said he WAS bOUIWI in assert what lie
firmly believed, that upon investigation it
,would be Mond, that
the losliGovetanient would stand aripitti.-il of all harshness
and injustice.
The Petition was then ordered to lie on the Table.
Mr. PAUL moved, that- there be laid before th • House a
Copy of the Minute, appointing Major John Milford to t►e
otfi.:. of Private Secretary to the assentor-Omuta', in the room
of Mr. Ilesry Wellesley, who was appointed 6-irritant of the
ceded provinces; also of the a;mointment of Captain Shaw, in
room of Major Mario also an Account of al the Sums paid
as stir Salary, or fur the Establishment of Mc Henry Welles-
ley, while Uovernoe of the ceded provinces; also an Account
ef the several Officers, Civil and Military, upon that Establish-
ment, Secret Service Money, &c.
Mr. WELLESI.EY POOLE said, that during th• whole of
Mr. Ilehry Wellealey's Mission, he never drew isle farthing
fur Secret Service, nor did he ever directly, or mdirectly, re.
oeive aoy public Money.
The A.•counts were then ordered.

Lord CAS I'LEitEAGH moved, that there he laid before
the House a Copy of a Letter frum the Secret Committee of
the Court of Dieectors of limgal, of the lath of Novemlier,
1801. Ordered. _ _ _

Mr. FRANCIS moved for an Arc iunt of the Dates of the
Latest Dwpatches from Rental, in the Po.itical and General
Departnaerit, and eeveral fatter Papers, which were ordered
Ile then said, that it was essentially necestsary that a corre•
spondence should be re.:ularly kept up between this country
and India. The Noble Lord (C.istleresith) had said the other
slight, that no direct communication had been teceited upon
this subject, and that the dispatches had been taken by the
French; he was satisfied some neshereince most hare taken
place in the transnaision of these despatches, and he considered
this a smatter well worth enquiry. A considerable sum had
been expended by the G iverrinient of that country, nearly
double that of the (inner year, stud tins may be the reason the
Government of that Country did not wish to send home Ow.,
accounts Wheat he moved fur papers, he was answere I that
he shuidd have the papers se far as Wa•cuasestmit with the pun
lie service And safety ; those dispatches, however, wn.ch he al-
luded to, came user the other day in the llisisueer, th_nw
could not te.o, ta, any very great teeret of the matter.
Lord CAS ILI:RI...AG/4 answeieri, that if the Host Gentle-
man had formed his motion sith a view so tobtim Copies of
tile freatim with the Name Ponces, he knald hese had it lea
rnediately, A. to the expenses, he c./!M not see huh the
lion. Gentleman had ,ita.k that oat. He then nit... Tied to an
overland dispatch, winch was never re'eived ; a ,e.5e1.,a.1 been
captured 111 the Golph of Pesia, which 'night be tins one al-
luded to.
After some further conversation twtwecat M:. FR %NM
sod Dr LAURNCE, the 'abject hopped.


The House then w•nt into the Committee of Supply.
In a Conimistae of Supply it was agreed, atter short con-
versation Between Mr. FRANCIS, woo 0./VV ed it, an t Lord
CASTLERF.AGH., that 1,000.0001. should be pall .1 the
East lirdm Company on avcou.it of the 4,000,0001. due to
them by the public.
h was ale • agreed that 20,0001. should be granted to His
Majesty, hr the puraoie of purchasing grounds for building a
Naval Asyhtm. 10,0001. was granted far works done lir the
Kilfs kt.mcit Prison; and several other mu ne were ranted
far bitseeraneout services, and the report was ordered to be
received to-morrow.

SMUGGLING BILL.
On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the -
EXCHEQUER, the adjourned debate on the
third reading of the Smug,7,!:ug Bill was resumed. ea
Mr. GREY said, that Counsel had been heard at
considerable length against this Bill, and that they
had produced a number of chatters, by wliich the
island of Guernsey was allowed to legislate for it-
self—he therefore thought it necessary that mat .Irs
should be examined into, before the hill would be-
come a law. He allowed that it could not be dis-
puted, that smuggling was a very great evil ; but
then it was carried on from many other parts be-
sides Guernsey and Jersey, so that, even thong„ this
bill was passed, the smuggling trade would be as
extensive as it Was before, and these people would
be dissatisfied and discontented, conceiving that
their rights had been encroached upon.
Mr. S. BOURNE though: .t a duty imposed on
the House to protect the hune.t and industrious
trader, in every manner they poesiOly could. This.
he conceived, was in no way mere likely to be done,
than be putting an end to the trade of the contra-
band dealer. He did not conceive the inhabitants
of those islands, who were not absolutely smug-
glers, could have any cause to complain of this
bill, as it would not interfere with their lawful
trade ; on thesl grounds the bill should have his
decided support.
Mr. WINDHAM said, that from the arguments
of Counsel, it certainly was a doubtful question,
whether this country had a right to legislate for
Guernsey eel Jersey, or net ; he therefore thus:girt
it was enJ.t important, that an investigation should
take place. 'Etc e were also many reasons could be
urged, which placed the bill in a very questionable
ipotnt of view : one of which was, that it WAS to
last only during the war. He hoped, therefoie, foe
these reasons, that the measure would be well con-
sidered.
Dr. LAWRENCE declared his intention of op.
posing the bill—as, during ,he war, several .vessels
would be brought in, and, indeed, he was sere to
say, that it had already happened, that vessels w :TO
brought in by our cruisers, and condemned in the
Supreme Court of Admiralty, for want of being
able to produce sufficient proof, that they were
neutral, though per haps, in fad, they were so.—
Taking this into consideration, he thought it alluld
be well weighed, before they would run the cs:tucet
of rousing the indignation of maritime nations, br
passing a bal. whin would, at ail events; make -1' •
very probable, that some of their slips would be
taken and condemned, because found within a cer-
tain distance of our coast. He then made some
observation on the Law of Nations, Weikh lie said
allowed a jurisdiction for three miles ratted the
coast ; and, on the right which this country had
asserted, with tweet to the narrow seas, which, he
said. hid afterwards been given up. It ought to
be considered also, that a country, even though a
barren rock, should not be considered in any other
less favourable point of view, than the mother
country ; and that there should be no such thing as
internal and external legislation. The inhahitants of
these islands were, above all others, useful in her-
rassing the people with whom we were at war, and
with whom we were likely always to be at war—
and if they e:ere driven, by harsh measures, to be
friendly to those with whom they are now enemies.
it might be a greeter disadvantage to us, than the
bill would be, if its provisions were carried into ef-
lea. He then observed en the hardships of the
bill. which enacted, that if any vessel was found
within two leagues of the coast, she will be seised
and condemned, unless she voluntarily comes into
port, and proves she is not concerned in any contra-
band trade, If, therefore, by contrary wind, or•
any other casualty, a ve,sel is driven within two
leagues of the shore, she must come into port. at a
considerable lass, in order to avoid the still greater
loss of the ship and cargo being liable to be con-
demned under this all. From these arguments.
which occurred to him, he thought they sh sold
pease, and have the matter submitted to the con-
sideration of the House.
The ATTORNEY GENERAL said, the Bill
had been on the Table for a considerable time ; he
did not therefore think that any further time was
necessary for taking the matter into consideration.
As to the part of the Bill which su'ojeeted the vessel
to seizure, if fund within two leagues of the
coast, he did not think that was so great a hard-
ship, at least, there was nothing new in it, as they
had been dealing in it a long time, under the name
of hovering. But the Learned Gentleman he J not
quoted the Bill correctly, as it stated that the ves-
sel should be found within two leagues of the coast
at anchor, or hovering, without proceeding on her
voyage, wind and weather permitting, or some other
reason preventing her. As to the independence of
the idan-ls, and the idea that Parliament was not
competent to enact laws for them, he thought no-
thing could tend more fully to refute that assertion,
than the interference of Parliament in regulating
their Government, and also the !Meet Corers Att.
the N tvigation Aft, and several other Aas being ex-
tended to then. He regretted mu. hhe was not in
the !louse last night, when the Counsel were heard
against the Bid, and then entered into an historical
account of the conquest of this country by Nosy
mends, and the subsequent conquest of Neel:land,
, by Henry the First, King of England, over his
brother Ruhert, the then reigning Duke, by tight
of oh es comp.,: the Islands of Guernsey and Jer-
sey were attached
e ,Hand.
E Ile also referred to
the authority of Mr / else Vaughan, and Goes A

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eluded by fejt ng he sird r.nt think the aliment%
made use of on the other side of the House, could
stand for a moment.
Doctor LA\VRENCF. explained.
A new clause was then brought up for the pu-
nishment of persons for carrying contraband goods
ten larses.
Colonel CRAUFURD said, he had given a nn-
tf:e of a motion for this night, and as it was the
general rule that notices should have precedence, se
thatinht this debate should be adjourned.
The SPEAKER said, he understnod the 'ineniir-
ble Gentleman had given a kind of consent to busi-
ness of this nature goiog on.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
said, the Hon. Gentleman need not make
very uneasy, as it would nosy take up but a very
short time to go through the business.
The clause was then agreed to, added to the Bill
by way of rider, and the Hill passed.
General FITZPATRICK gave notice that he
Would on a future occasion bring forward a motion
of a very important nature ; but, it this late period,
he did not think it could be accomplished till next
Session. It related to a gross and alarming viola-
tion of the military law of the country, in respect to
the duty of the office of Advocate General of the
army. Every one knew that the prerogative of
the Crown extended so far as to dismiss any person
from the army without calling him to a Court Mar-
tial, and to annul or confirm the sentence of a
Court Martial ; but he never knew that the Advo-
cate General of the Army was the sole adviser of
the Crown on these occasions. It certainly was not
So until lately, and since the worthy Baronet (Sir
Clarks Morgan) obtained the office. He did not
see why there should not be the same solemeity in
the case of person. convicted by Courts Martial, as
in other convictions, namely, the advice of the
Council, and then instarced the case of Colonel C.
Johnston, who had lately been acquitted by a Court
Martial, and nevertheless was exposed to penalties
and punishment by the Advocate General. He
would therefore, next Session, bring forward a Mo-
tion in two parts ; t'-e first, in the nature of a com-
plaint; and the second, to limit the power of the
Advocate General.
MHITARY STATE OF THE COUNTRY.
Colonel CRAUFURD rose to male the motion
of which he had given notice, relative to the military
state of the country. He began by saying, that be-
fore he entered on the business which was to be the
immediate subject of the motion, he should this night
have the honour to submit to the consideration of the
House, he begged leave to assure them that he was
not :ablated by any such motives as had so frequently
been insinuated against him ; that he did not wish, by
any means to take up the time of the House at this
late period of the Session ; nor did he think, that
his opinion on this subjed was of greater weight or
consequence than those of many other Members of
that House. What he did was from a sense of duty,
and he was sure the House would anew that he did
not frequently trouble them ; and, indeed, that this
was the only subjeCt on which he had ever done so.
He was, however, on this, more mistrustful of him-
self than he had ever been before, as it had been
taken up in so very masterly a stile towards the close
of tlaklast Session, by an Hon. Gentleman, wliche
high character was far beyond his praise (Mr. Fox),
slid early in the present Session by his Right Hon.
Friend (Mr. Windham), who had treated it in the
fullest and most enlightened manner. A still fur-
ther disadvantage he had to encounter, was, that
the war had now gone on so long without our hay-
ing aduelly sufl.ired any of those dreadful disasters
and evils with which we had been threatened front
the beginning, and therefore the people were natural-
ly grown weary of the subject. To him, Lowever,
our danger, both at home and abroad, appeared to
be equally at least, if not more formidable than it
was in the beginning of the war, and as our means
of defence and opposition to the enemy seemed to
be every day getting worse and worse, instead of
increasing in strength and vigour, he thought it was
his duty, and that of the House also, to endeavour to
obtain an inquiry first, as to tile true state of our mi-
litary strength, and secondly, how it may ibe made
stronger and more efficient. In attempting to effect
so important, so salutary, and so desirable a pur-
pose, he had endeavoured to shape the course he
should pursue in such a manner as that he should be
entitled to the approbation of the Right Hon. Gen-
tleman (Mr. P)tt) himself of the Motion with which
he meant to conclude. Before he proceeded &redly
to the subject, he thought it necessary to refer the
House to the recolledion of that Right Hon. Gen-
tleman's plan, in which he undertook to legislate
for the army, when, in eloquent and military a
style, he condemned the modes pursued by his pre-
decessors, and now his colleagues, for raising addi-
tional troops, in order to increase our military
strength, and particularly that part of it which is
denominated our dispmeable force ; and by a fair
comparison to ascertain whether that military
strength has been increased or diminished, and in
what proportion, allowing for the difference of
time. Ile must also observe, that a considerable
and important change had taken place in the
political situation of this country, which required
that our exertions should be still greater, be-
cause the Right Honourable Gentleman and his
colleegues had thought proper to give us an ad-
ditional enemy to contend with. Whether it was
the West policy that could be pursued to provoke a
Spertieh war, he would not pretend to site, but he
thought the expediency of it was very doubtful, and
Ice had no doubt but it might have been avoided.
He was of opinion, he said, that if we had behaved
in a candid, open, generous manner, to the Spa-
niards. we should have had them, instead of an in-
veterate enemy, which they now are to us, an nn-
willing ally of France. If welted pursued a mode-
rate conduct in regard to her, Spain, labouring under
the double Aldine of disease and famine, would
Ire have so easily been induced to enter upon a state
of active hostility and warfare with this country.
France might perhaps have taken possession of the
ports and her ships; but the Spaniards, once so high-
minded a nation, and to a certain degree he believed
rill were so, would never have submitted to du

more Against us than what aCtual force and compul-
sion would have effeeted, and that must in compa-
rison have been small indeed. The question is, whe-
ther we could derive more advantage from a war
with Spain, or by being circumstanced as we then
were, at peace with her? It had been said that we
derived giivant.tge *tom it by Use opportunity and

power it gate us of intercepting, their treasure coin-
ing from South America, and thereby preventing it
from getting into the hands of the Emperor of the
French, and enabling him Therewith to equip his
Stets, and support his armies. Let us, said he, see
hew this stands. In the course of the last twelve
months he had found, he said, by the papers on the
table, moved for by an lion. Member for another
purpose, anti since printed, we had in this country
iectiosed our Navy by the addition of six ships of
the lire, hut that there had been a diminution of
five 59 gun ships. Now, as it had always been
held that our 50 gun ships were equal to a Dutch
ship of the line, and were once used in the
File by us, the aaual increase in our Navy in the
course of twelve months was only one ship of the
bee during that period : by an aft which he thought
was a disgrace to the conntry we had added 25 sail
of the line to the enemy's naval force. It re-
main el then to be considered whether we had
in the same time improved our milit try force
in an equal proportion to the addition of
semi strength we ha I thus bestowed on our enemy,
and if in that way we had obtained any additional
security ? He would begin his statement with 1804,
he said, and in doing se he should give the Right
Hon. Gentleman the advantage of- four or five
months of the efforts of his predecessors. On the
Ist January, 1804, we had 46,698 men ; on the Ist
June, 1805, we• had 65,358, but out of the last
number, upwards of two hundred, instead of being
already stated in the returns, he found were in the
Isle of Wight, and of course included in the home
trawls, which made the number 63,358, being about
13,360 more than we had in 1804. During the
present year, the enemy had detached 18 sail of the
line from the port of Toulon, accompanied by a
proportionate number of troops, and he thought
he made a moderate computation, when be estimated
these troops at 9000 men. There had, during that
time, two French squadrons sailed from Ro:hefort,
the first consisting of six sail of the line, and by which,
he computed the troops at 3,000; the second five mil
of the line, and 1,500 troops; so that it appeared the
troops sent out by the enemy to attack oar distant
possessions amounted to 13,500 choice, picked, re-
gular disciplined soldiers ; and begged to ask which
of the two in this respea had added most to their
land forces abroad—France or England ? In the
uonps returnedfor the Island of Ceylon, there were,
he said, 1,700 composed of the miserable natives of
the island, who, whether it was good or bad policy
to employ theta at all, he would not then enter
upon, but who ware certainly not entitled to the
name of soldiers, and ought, therefore, to be struck
off. This would bring the total amount of ours to
14,858, and the enemy's to some few hundreds
above 13,000. Where ours a-e he 'would en-
deavour to show—where the enemy's are, God
only knows. Our increase in Gibraltar this year
had been 1639 ; and on what ground of policy
that was done he could not conceive, for they were
so many men locked up in that spot, and totally un-
serviceable for any ether emergency whatever, and
therefore they ought also to be struck off the dis-
poseable force, which would then he reduced to
10,229. Of these 1,300 were in Nova Scotia, and
different numbers in places of a similar kind, which,
why they should now be particularly reengthened,
more than they had been in former wars, he was at
a loss to guess. There was, however, one body of
men had lately been sent out of the country, on an
errand which appeared to him incomprehensible, so
far as it could answer any good or beneficial pur-
pose to the country. He meant the expedition
under the command of Sir James Craig, which
had sailed to the Mediterranean. He knew nu-
tting could be done in the Mediterranean except
to take Minorca, and that could do us no service
but for the purpose of blockading Toulon ; and to
talk now of blockading that port, was like it shutting
The stable-door after the horses were gone." It Ap-
peared from this then, that the real increase of our
army was only 7,500, while the enemy's were
13,500. How these 7,500 men were disposed, he
could not say ; but he thought no one could doubt
that our situation abroad was much worse than
when the Right Hon. Gentleman made his violent
complaint against his predecessors, for their want of
energy in effeaing an encrease of disposeable force.
If our situation abroad was not more secure, he was
afraid that it was still worse at home. He meant as
to tile danger of invasion. He was one of those
who, at the beginning of the war, thought that
danger very great. When he considered, that we
had to contend against an enemy so :Olive and so
enterprising, he thought then that he would have
endeavoured to have surprised this country by an
immediate attack, before our navy could be in-
creased and properly dispersed ; and that, having so
large and well-disciplined an army, and so numer-
ous afl itilla, he would have risked an immediate
invasion. It seemed, however, that he had prefer-
red taking more slew, more deliberate, and more
digested measures of attack ; but, during the whole
of the period in which his threats have been post-
poned putting into execution, he has unceasingly
and unremittingly added to his force of every de-
scription; not, he was afraid, as had been said, for the
mere purpose of amusing the people of France, or
to frighten us, but from the settled and firm deter-
mination to do it with more effeft whenever the
opportunity may, in his opinion, most favourably
occur. A Noble Lord, who is now in the Cabinet,
had declared, in his place, that the plan of the war
was changed, and that it was become altogether
colonial ; be hoped that Noble Lord was singular in
he opinion, but, if not, as that is to be the case, the'
Administration will be prepared to meet them there.
as well as at home, from which they suppose the
attack to be diverted. If the Toulon squadron
should have sailed direfl for Jamaica, and should
have landed 10,000 men on that island, where we
have only S cr 4000, they might not be able to take
it ; but they would be able to carry on a very
serious and destruaive war in the colony.—
The commander of the fleet might, as the
commanders of other squadrons have done, re-
turn (bred for Europe, and take his anchor-
age in the Downs, for the purpose of furthering the
enterprise of that immense flotilla, which is lying on
the opposite coast:" He was sorry, he said, to see
the Right Honourable Gentleman opposite (Mr.
Pitt) smile, as if he thought what he said ridiculous.
11 it was, however, lidiceleus, it was not new. It
was very well known that during the American war,
when Mons. de Grasse commanded The French fleet
ia the West Indies, and Mons. de Doodle the land

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forces t Mont. de finttnle, heinre the engagement
with Sir G. Rodney, praposi•d to the Admiral to sail
direaly for England, and to make a sudden attack
on it. If at that time they could conceive plats of
this kind, he saw no reason why they should not
now, when they had such an immense force, and
nothing wanting to put it into aaion, bin a sufficient
number of large ships to prated and cover its pro.
gross across the Channel. He was afraid. that
if they had increased so much abroad,, they had
full as much so at home; whilst we had de-
creased at home in horse-men only 4,000, and in

the whole of the army are deficient not less than
49,346 men, which is not more than one-thirty-sixth
part of what has been voted as necessary. In May
1804, our number of ships compared with that of
the enemy was 88 to 50, which was very near two
to one ; whereas it is now only 94 to BS, so that in
that species of force the enemy has greatly eceeded
us. It appeared that the atival increase of men in
the last seven months was 5633 so that, supposing
them to go on as before, which it was not very pro-
bable, it would take 11 years to complete the army
to the establishment at which it was now voted. lie
wished, therefore, to apprise the house of the na-
ture of the resolutions, which he meant to propose as

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the ground-work of his motion. The first was,
That the army ,h,uld be kept up to the e tablashntent voted

The army estimates had been voted at two millions.
In' the present month there was a tioficiencv of
nearly 50,000. men ; and though he had no doubt
but the estimates voted were applied as direEted, yet
it was the duty of Ministers to shew the reason of
this deficiency. He .pledged himself for the ace's-
racy of his resolutions. but if any inascuracy wsti
found in them, nn investigation by a Committee he
should move for, the House could very easily rescind
that resolution. If our navy was nearly 2to I, and
our land forces nearly 50.000 defative, this measure
of a Committee to inquire into the state of our military
strength must he as necessary now as when the
Right Honourable Gentleman brought forward his
proposition for a similar measure, unless on the
ground that he was not the Minister then, and ano-
ther person was. He should, perhaps, be asked, If
this Committee be not granted, what would you do
then ? He did not think it at all incumbent on him

to point out any further nv.asure4 but if really asked,
he would desire the House vs undo all that has been

done, if they wished to do an essential service
to the country. What, it would be said—de-
stroy this beautiful system, this notable Parish
Bill, and have a Committee only for that—Oh
sacrilege It was, however, what he would do as
the most effeOive way to increase the Army. Hie
first complaint of the Right Hen. Gentleman was,
that we had not enough of disposeable force, and
that he since proposed to give us 5) or 60,000 m,-n
that were more undisposeable, had been so ably and
incontrovertibly shewn by his Right Honourable
Friend (Mr. Windham) that it was unnecessary
for him to go further into it. He was convinced
the best and surest way to obtain a disposeable
force was to enlist men for a term of years, in-
stead of for life. What were the feelings which
aOulted men to enter into the army The first was,
perhAps a dislike to hard labour, and the love of an
idle lite ; eh! second the pomp and parade; and the
third fine claatlis. These are all to be attained
by going into the Militia, and you never want
Militiamen where the service is fora term of years ;
not so the Regular Army —into that a man enters
as going to the bourne from which no tra-
veller returns." The other is merely an experi-
ment, which will cease in five, six, or seven years.
Did the Right Hon. Gentlem in wish that the Parish
Officers, who ought properly to be the proteaors of
the morals of the lower class of people, should daily
sit tippling in public houses with the peasants of the
country, for the purpose of seducing them into the
service? Such a line of conduit might be proper
enough in recruiting serjeants, but must be very in-
consistent with the gravity of Parish Officers. He
begged the Right Hon. Gent. on such an occasion as
this, trait to deal out and trust to his fine and splendid
flashes of eloquence, but address plain language 'o
A dull, common, and homely understanding like
his, it he meant to prove that this w.ts an effeanal
or consistent mode of proceeding He represented
to us, that the parish officers would go from door
to door, and explain to the people the advantages
of the bounty they would receive, as it tl.ere was
any man who did not know that, without the inter-
ference of the parish officers, by going to the next
market town might receive the bounty. Not-
withstanding all that had been said of its ad-
vantages, he would maintain that there was not
• one man raised either in Great Britain or Ire-
land, by the operation of this bill. According
• to the . statement mentioned in that House, the
Bill was said to have produced 3399 men, of
which 2200 hid been raised in Ireland; so that
the Irish Parish Officers seemed to have made
the best Recruiting Serjeants. An Irish Member
had asserted, that, in the county he represented, the
parishes did not raise a single man by any other
means, hut that of giving additional bounties ; and
he believed that wherever -.hey were raised at all, that
was the only means of doing it. The bill made it the
interest of parish officers to give bounties. They were
subjea to a fine of 201. for every man they failed to
raise, and, when they got a man, they received a
bounty of 141. ; as the Mt compelled them to give,
if necessary, a bounty from their own funds of
and it was their interest to give any sum within
141. to save the fine of 201. Therefore, upon the
whole, there were few men got for the first ballot
or muster, under 3 tl. ; to which, when the 121. or
141. which they again received after entering into
the second battalion, was added, the price of each
recruit might fairly be •fated at an average of 4til.
The whole of the establishment appeared to him to
be a heavy and unnecessary expence upon the pub-
lic, amounting in the empty useless battalions, and
altogether to no less a sum than 390,0001. annually.
Upon all these grounds he maintained, that if the only
effea of what the Committee determined should be to
get rid of this oppressive Bill, he thought he should
have dime a most material benefit to the service.
In what he had to propose, his main objeft would
be, so to model the establishments, that none of them
should interfere with the regular recruiting ; but
should rather concur in promoting it. The first
thing that he should suggest then was, to revise the
whole of the Volunteer Establishment, but abo►e all,
that glaring and preposterous absurdity, of giving
their officers rank Oen so high as that of Colftels.

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" Gond God !" continnett he, n what ran st see
House think of the feelings of military gentlemen,
who can scarcely arrive at that rank, after a long
life of glorious and laborious service, when they
see men of that description in the rank of
Colonels? Can the House suppose that, to see
such persons in the same line with them, and
partaking of the same titles and honours, will not
muse their indien miner and rah:test their patience?
Can professional Officers hear t 7) see a Pastry-cook,
after selling his tarts and cheese-cakes to them
'in the morning, taking rank with their Colonel
in the eveniug ? I do not wish to speak disparagingly
of any rank of penple; I make no doubt of their
being highly respeetable in their station ; hut, I
eit-cis that I should think it hard, and highly de-
grading, if' I myself, a Lieutenant-Colonel, atter re.
turning from foreign service, should come home to
be placed under the command of a Pastry-
Cook I—Neither I, nor any otter military man,
who at all regards the honour of his profesion,
could, without the greatest rein lance, receive any
orders and instrueitions from a retailer of tarts
and cheese-cakes. I repeat again, that I do lee
mean any disparagement to any particular
vidual, such a person may be, and is, I dare say, a
very respetable man, and an excellent pastry-co
but he mty be ell that without being qualified to
command Lieut.-Colonels of long service in the bar.
If rook is to be so prostituted and debased, let us net,
at least, be subject to the must mortifying absurdity
of serving under such masters. !have heard boasts
made of the ridiculous experience they require, I.e
going upon permanent service. IVltat a miserable
gratification is this for a Commander of troops; and
how contemptible a spectacle must it exhibit to the
eyes of foreigners! Yetis mighty permanent duty
consists of a diligent and laborious march of feet or
five miles through the villages of a neighbaring
district, eating and drinking all the way thit go,
while their parade and military music tknied
military men ut what they must have seen and heard
at other times, and ou very ditfcrent ocCeliiol2l.
This, however, I own to be a matter whice,
after all that has hitherto been done in this system,
would require some deliberation that might there.
fore be di }erred to another session." The rest
thing he had to propose was, to change the terms of
service from an establishme it for lite to an enlist-
ment for a number of years. When the euhjed
was before 'stated, the Hut. Gentleman opposite
said, that it was a subject deservinte of very serious
attention, but in a short tame afterwards they in.
formed the House that it did not meet the tippre-
tioe of some of the first military authorities of the
country. With the utmost deference to these high
authorities, he thought it would have been no more
than tespedful to the House to state to them who
these military authorities were' and what were the
grounds upon which they formed the.e opinions,
for. however great their judgeremt may be, it WAS
nether toe much to rate teeny beyond the coPeeire
wiselo.-n of that Ho .se. In fad, military teen were
no' the best judges of such a subjed, as they came
to it with the professional prejudices of a long lite,
all were not so well aequ :hued as others with the
feelings of the people. This consideration divided
itself into two branches: First, whether it was tight
th 4t ; evens sedte.ed into a military lie at thl age
of 16 years, as heretofore, but of 13 or 14, as lately
pranised, should be Allowed to deprive themselves
for life of all the benotits of that glorious con-
stitution which eve, y Member of that House,
he hoped, prized so hieh;y as to be ready to
shed the last drop of his blood for it. As to
the second branch, he should not waste his own
breath, or so much abase the indulgence of the
House, as to argue that more men could be
enlisted for a term of years than for life. The nest
consideration was, what men we are likely to lose
by this change of service ? There was an opporti .
nity of forming some opinion of this from the num.
bers of those who returned from their time being ex-
pired, or from their being lameter worn out ism the
service of the East Indie Company, by which it ap•
peared, that they did not amount to one fifteenth
of the whole. This, he said, was easily accounted
for, as he observed, in th tt park of the East
Indies where he served, the men usually enlisted
again, when the term of their former service
was expired. When men should return to their
homes, after five or seven years set vice, they might
justly boast of the exploits they had atchieved ; and
by representing the glories and chances of a nails-
tary life, become the best possible recruiters through-
out the country ; but the affair was tar different
now ; for as no man was ever seen to return home
but with broken bones or constttution, it could not
operate as the least inc-utive to a military life.—
The next thing he should advert to was the punish.
ments inflided in the army. lle admitted that the
Courts-martial themselves were highly hum..oN
and desirous of ading so ; but the defect lay is
the extreme severity of our military code, which
did not correspond with that of any other.
country in the world. It WAS extremely wrong',
that the charges which e one before Regineee.
tad Courts Martial should be decided la' awls
young men as generally composed them, and he
thought the revision of the cnee seotri,d
at-
tended with any relaxation of diselpliee. Within
his experience, he knew of an instan.:e a man's
being convided, who did not deserve punishment;
in the
and the difference of it lay merely *dot be
degree of
it. He believed there was no each thing es confine-
ment amongst the punishments for the army; but
in many, he thought it the best method, as tie eve.
rity of corporal punishments and whipping, for whet
civilly would be no offence at all, must of itself he
sufficient to deter men from ealisting in the army.
The next point which he had seriously to recom-
mend was, to increase the pest of Officers, so as to
enable them to support the rank of Gentlemen ; for,
it was shartieful that a Captain's pay WAS not more
than what it cost a Volunteer Officer every year in
keeping one of his domestics. He himself knew 01-
cers now, after teS or SO years of service, had artisedt
nor were they ever likely to arrive at any higher
rank, than that of Captain, and were placed at a
pay of about 1901. a year. The subalterns also,
though obliged to wear a mare expensive dress than
other Gentlemen, had only from :01. to 801. a-yrat
to subsist upon; therefore, if this Home bed no
feeling for them, though they had it for all the other.
branches of the establishments, policy Al lead shoe'
induce them to make some allowance for the gr tit
rise in the price of every article, since the pa. I, of
the army was originally focused. One ;date g' .at-

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