The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1808-05-17 00:00:00

LOCAL MILITIA BILL

lIVADS Of TIE BILL, AS AMENDED eV l',111: COM-
MITTEE.
His Meierty empowered to establish and elliisstain a Local
Fevre for tie defence of the realm
Not to cseeed six time militia quotas anclading Tobin-
leers.
Deficiencies in effective Volunteers to be supplied by
Militia under this Act.
pun receiving order to knot um, Lieutenant and De,
petty to appoint general and subdivision meetings.
.Countira may be divided into divisions.
_Powers of Militia Acts extended to this Act.
Alen to be ballutted out of militia lists, or new lists easy
be mails.
Persons of bodily inability shall be excused.
Exensming liceonsd Teachers and Senical saes. sail
Persons o tin have veered, or Omni Ouhatitstes, or paid Fines,
in regular Militia, ur Army of Reserve.
Certnio Persoins, tbouJiexempt from Militia, nut to be ex-
empt (torn being be:lotted and trained under this Act.
,Peron., enrolled, to ss rar al'eg•atire to H. Ju elp, mid
Neat they: will scree use the apace of four years, unless s..untr
discliarted.
Penalty on Persons not appearing.
Person claiming exemption upon payment of smaller Fine,
tu nen a declaration
On eaglet.; to serve, without pay, in Volunteer Corp.,
port of the tin to 100 rt witted.
Penalty un such peisoas, nn being returned non-effective.
Persona claiming t 'tempt:nu upon payment of liens, to In
sumuioned to swear that they leave not insured.
Quake' a to he exempt. on payment of fine.
Regulations restos-cling Vonantecrs euralling tbentsehres.
Bounty to per‘uns enrolling themselves voluntarily.
Volunteer Corps may teamster tbeniselvesinto Loral Militia.
Volunteers to swear tlrit they have not other beauty.
Allowances for neeessani s.
Persians serving be be entitled to exemptions.
Pcrsinis insuring for providing substitutes, or volunteers,
subject to penalty.
How tu be formed and officered.
Volunteer Oaken transferring themselves into time Local
11 Adis, to hold the sante rank.
Local Militia may be placed under General or other Of.
errs.
Training and exercising Militia tinder this Act.
Militiaman removing into another county.
In ease of invasion, may be embodied and marched to any
part of Great Britain.
%%lin training or sasibodiesl, to be under the Mutiny Act
and articles of war.
Estitled to same privileges and allowance as other Militia
forces.
Same relief to wives and families as to those of Volubtecis
under 44 Gco. 111. c. sa.
May enlist into army, navy, or marines, except during pe-
riods of exercise.
Vacancies by enlisting to be supplied.
Fine for men deficient.
Renew of fires alien men found.
Connuaneas•!l shall transmit to the Getters' Quarter Ser.
nous, catifieates, and lime Justices there saseabted *ball
lumen '5l. for each man certified to be debt Mist.
Pines to be remitted to Treasurer of comity, oho is to lay
accounts before Justices earl. QlNttifir Sessions.
If lines, &v. paid into the Bank sot sufficient to pop
bounties, 64...Mi1ey to be paid out of county rate.
Penalty kik, of sob-division nasetinp ntairiug Mu-
ni y.

Clnks of meetinp to keep book of fines a:AI
peralti+ s receireal.
Clerks of sab.division meetings to transmit sc.-ousts to
Semler) at War.
Clear of sub-division meetings to transmit e,titn.ite f
rains requirrd Cor moyntent of penal Les ieus‘tttcl t Ito. SL-
cretar) at War.
Application of penalties.
Cinque ports.
Stamm/tea.
Exteutling pruclsions relating to comities. to rid; the,
10 Isun.lrede mud to coral:4111m to other plans sag
Act may lie altcrcill in flail' stieises.

An Account, she., ing what has been reeleemeri . f
the National Debt, the Laud Tax, aml lospenal
Loan, to the let Mar, 11'MS :
Redeemed lir Anneal Million, kc L Co,-.4n,e; 6
Ditto on aro:mat et Loans 6 ..O-0.,1 11
Ditto by Land To. cynic, ik. 1-
Ditty lay 11 per Mat pee inn, on Inaraltroal Lain 106e,T; 7

Taal L ukost,vs7
The sum to he expeuded iu tht: eusulug Su,tetsr,
is Itito3),3litd. 4s. Id.

The small majority of Ministers npon Sit Joss
NSWPOIIT'S motion, loit night, was not the only
mortification that they were doomed to suffer.—
Although an active canvass has been carried on for
some days, and all their forces were put in requi-
sition, . and akhough they debated the question
ogler again until almost two &el rick this morning,
they were again defeated upon Mr. PATMEIt's
claim, which was carried against them, by a majority
of 50. There is something whimsical in Mr. Peace-
vat's (economy, to which virtue he has lately made
such tierce pretensions in the cases of Maynooth Col-
lege and Mr. PALNIEII. The repeated exposure of
his weakness is, however, considered too !urge a
price to pay for the name of a virtue, of the reality
of which we find no traces in his former conduct.

An officer of the 3.5 th regiment, who arrived at
Falmouth, on Tuesday, from Sicily, states, that
the Roclifoit squadron, after joining that from Car-
thal,Penn, proceeded up the Mediterranean and re-
lieved Corfu ; after which, they appeared off Sicily,
but did sot land their tmops there, as they seemed
to threaten, but returned bock to Toulon. Lord
CoLLlnowoon arrived off Toulon in time to see
them enter that har►rour, and now blockades them
there. It was feared, however, that they had cap-
tured one of our frigates. This Officer also in-
forms us, that great improvements hare lately been
made in the fortifications at Gibraltar, which are
now mcielt strcniger than wheu it was so nobly de-
fended by Gen. RtuoT.

his MAJESTY is expected in town, to-morrow, to
hold a private Levee and Privy Council at the
QUEES'S Palace.
Yesterday morning His MAJEsTe, Princesses
Autaist•, SOPHIA, and AHi.t.t&, accompanied by.
Lady BULILELEY, Count MUNSTER, Hon. Mr.
liumat.e.y. Generals FITZROY and Gwr NNE, and
Colonel TaxLoa, rode in the Great Park, and
returned at twelve.. _

The Quays and Princess ELIXASETII took As
airing hi Her MAJErry's phaeton to Pflucess Et.i-
'maarrst's cottage at Old Windsor, and returned
at one. . _

The Lord Nelson packet, Captain STEWART,
from Heligolaad with a mail, arrived on Sunday at
Harwich. A Yell singular rumour has readied this
country by this Packet, to which we know not how
to attach any degree of credit in the prewnt
rircom-
Mance* of Europe. It is that Austria has declared
war against Franca. Captain STIWART, and she
Agent for the Post-olifice, set off togetho in a post-
chaise and four for Lowlon, immediately after the
Lord Nelson arrived. They retithed town On Sun-
day night.
Admiral Lord GAMBIER lioi.red his flag an
board the Villa de Paris, on Saturday last, pre-
paratory to his taking the Command of the Chan-
nel['feet.
The Eadyinion frigate, Hon. Capt. CATEL, ar-
rived on Saturday at Portsmontli, fioni the 11,,n-
-terranean, with the Eli:a of London, from New
Providence, which she re-captured from a French
primteer.—The Eadywrios parted from the: Illus-
trious, 74 guns, Capt. BROMMTON,and IVeynionth,
atoro-ship, on Monday last, 14 leagues wed of
Scilly, with 53 sail under convoy from Gibraltar.
They sailed from Gibraltar on the ,20tt: iilt.
The following-is a Copy of an Order issued at
Iffayoune by BONAPARTE, as stated in a private let-
ter of the yth inst.
LETTRE de CONSFJ ',E'ER d'ETAT, Rya" Isom,
I. ORDAR OF 1113 MAJESTY TOE EssrEana, ISSUED
AT SAYONNII, APRIL 17, 10404:
" Amerimin lUovernoneet basing placed a Frseral
embargo mall the ports ef the UniteJ StMes, had edispdoded

ail roseinerce.
•4 All Americas nips shalt in cosatinevere be countered
ae from ffel, and pat ander aeqoostretino.
" the
shall be sent to the Councillor of
Atata, inorder to .be laid before His Majesty, a statement of
al. the Americas weenie .hick catctod our ports siace
tint tat d smart, law-