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:* or things, 2%.1 forced the ngtion to
to the u.►ut'e bt• the artily. Tit, t gerc
wt., to t+e nu wohstitutiun whatever rrmittell
0,, to,%tent, but there was all
si•t to j,ilj the propowd tint., Or ee•rrc ; this
wnuitl h.• attetwieti with the ruin of Ha the
small tralksmeo, wrtizatot, nod uUte l auu,e hi
ttptitt its nit! co:itioued strow4le to Eery

coil debt from the doors; without iperl,aps chilibett
of to look after their cisoci.rn,, or servaats to
ti•tii.l their families, ;hose
Lacyle would he compelled to tuke the 1141 io
order to delve in the local t:;,. ooh
rospeet that awaited them at their retavit 11NVi
the seizure of their little elects or per;oiir the
ele.ots wliii:ll must be roatrseteti ahs-nre.
pe,truction appeared to he the order of the 1:ill
deatructioh °limo!, of labour, of property, of iadus-
tri., rod of iuorals. The whole :n. i lAry Acta. im
c[iateilded, bud been invaded, merely for the pur-
po,e of e:werinteirt. This, the Nohle Lord uouiil
say, was checking the military ardour of the coon-
..

try. That objection was at .all Usitair ii a
detibervtive hotly, but he shnuld nailer think the
. .

ro.trAry would he the erleet of expoz.ing the raga-

coax pl'aflCll/.ed nH wlll6 tiffs ti),-,sure p. occeded.
11 • o:)jecteJ, not only to the übeless.:xpe,vliture or
wo.,ey, he-was al.a ao enemy to the untiecessttry
tx•moditure of so much conacieace an oaths

cid perjuries, in ascertaiising tines by property.
The oloutters, it had been said, were ',teasel
with the measure, and nilling to become converts ;

the nyagistrates u 1 o, they tu *ht, mini he, have
addeil, the Lieutenants and Deputy Lieutenants
of Counties, would be pleased with the Bilt; uo
doubt, it would become a very useful engine ia
their hands to their own advantage, especially- when
it was revo!leeted how of late Lieutenants hid beck

appointed finis among ()emus a Ito had no pre-
teas t •to such en honour, whilst the rirst Nobllity
is the county were posted by and neglected.—
He finally objected to the inausiare, as productive
of an unsettled dangerous disposition in the
lower order of society, by opening a number of
mall places to them in the ranks, in which they
would bid their brew! mum easily earned than
by their daily lalioor. All who knew the
Roble Lord would not suspect hi.n of any' in
that way ; hut certain it was, all his
arrangements some how tended to a ii-ond fat hind
of m►nisterial milk and boueY ; he dehothted- in a
prospect of something aubstatitiaily good, and re-
plete with the fruits of odice; whilst the last Minis-
try's poor jejease plats of training, having nothiag
rieh or inviting to his palate, long since palled
with delicious viands of place and oa,:e, had no-
thing to recemnn it.
Mr. WILLIKFORCE, io explanation, observed.
that when he alluded to the example afforded by
the subversioo and nubju;,jation of other eau attic., he
meant to inter, that south iittiowi had fallen, because,
twinning tooted themselves of the varied resources
of their people, tlie•y had solely depended upon the
awastance and deftisce of regular armies.
Lord Casruaeacm said, that he had listened
to the speech of the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr.
Uiodhain) with a great deal of satisfaction—a sa-
tisfaction in which he felt assured the House had
fully eoincided, seeing as it did, that his speech a:-
most anticipated every observation. ,For his port.
he was never ashaitsied to borrow from the talents
sod ialonontiost of mime, aril in whatever way he
protiteal ca the military plans and arrangements of
toot /tight lion. Gentlemaii, be was ever ready to
give bun the fullest credit. Whether he coincided
with him relative to iticreasingthe military quality
of the volunteers, in rendering their nun-thews
snore complete, or in deprecating the-mischievous
system of substitution, he would not Inner his oppo-
titian upon other nil-a-tires of policy to induce him.
to declime the avowal of such tie agreement. But
still, whilst he had the good fortune of hieing
supported by the-military wisdom of the Right
Honourable Gentleman, he could not help cnn-

siferia; hie line of opposition to the present bill
rather usgrarious. I mantled air, he said, it woe,
upon that great military scheme, of which that
Right Hmeturable Geo:tertian was the parent, it
was surpriang t 6 he.n him that night characterise
the present ueatsure as week, imherile, arid ineffica-
cious. It was true tLat there were points in which it
materiully deviated from the system recommended
by the late Administration. It did not tr<t upon
an indiscriminate Training Act, which threw the
whole isopulation of the eauntry into confusion,
without either officers or orgiuneetion, and solely
depeorleut for its progress and advancement in
military skill, upon the exertioris of the cont,taMes
uurler whose guidance it was 1)1.1( Uli. The pre .ent
measure webt bot:i to irainediate ilet.eihe acid ulti-
mate security. It ddlired from the tamer system,
beeause, etttiough it considerably increased the
means of internal security, it neither affected or
diminished our resources for en offensive policy.
With a knowledge of the great and gigantic dan-
gers with which tl.is empire was menaced, it wide
calculated to afford a 'node of defence not alone
teruporatry, but fitted frorn its nature and ope-
ration to he settled acid pennane.u. When,
therefore, Hononrable Gentlemen wiped that
such a system was novel and uoprteedented,
it was for the blouse to reiect upon the powerful
meatus of the enemy on the new and momentous
dangers with which it was menaced, eallie4. as such
dangers did, for great aiel.riiniropitete mestartres of
reeistaace. In a geograpincal view, as immediately
applicable to our own safety, it was for Parliament
and the country to appreciate the particular faci-
lities which our enemy had obtained, arid how con-
siderably the dangers which ainailed this empire
from the port of Brest were increased by such
an addition to the means of France for inva-
sion us taunt inevitably arise from the possession
by that power of suet% a considerahle herbortr as
that of Flushing. Former sisterns an not contravene
Ow principle of arming your popidation. On the
contrary, in these systrans that principle was acted
en. Tie only ditferericr isias,tliat the population was
not made, by eicercine end military pritctice, as
efficient as it email with a little exertion he merle.
The great n!rject was and ought to be, to keep
your regular threes and perinauent militos at all
trines prepared for the duties of the 4totr, and per-
fectly free from lorel and aeridental disturbance:.
The next great object won, the provision of an au c-
inst., force, to be forme.l out of the nimt efficir;it
of r,s,mr male pripulatiou, in resell a manner as
altorild least interfere with the general interests of