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!ir err L. be a great Lorimer of men who had
served olir their seven years, and who should de-
mand thrir discharge, would not this h. plociative
of great iirconvenience and inisc'.ief ? It ie well
that at the commencement of a war, the
greatest ea-rtioils are always wanting, and must
always be made ; would not a eery largo. oitcharge
of m• n, at sot+ a period, paralyse those arrtions ?
Would- not their loss be severely felt ? and could
• you, iii any adequate portion of timo, ems! Jing to
tee brgency of your necessities, e• place and make
them good? •.1 the seethed year of a war •-z lion.
become •siill more necessary. and yet you ..iU
• • 'empeollw.liableto have as mane more en, itlibd to th•ir
die large, and here again their loss will be more
severely felt. as the difficulty nt.repta'ing them will
always be on the increase ; and beam: you may
plainly see, said he. Utz danger of 'adopting th.ise
new and extraordinary measures. Resides, it may
so iseppen, and it is very likely that it should, that
toe men discharged may the beta soldiers in the
arm), they may be the strong •.st and healthiest in
pinta of sonstitution,the most ord-rly and exemplary
in point of demeanour and condlin ; men who have
seen a variety nf service, and got inured to different
climates,whohave acquired t:.e habits of soldier ...and
whose less, at the critical moment, when they would
.be most wanted, would be felt in the severest man-
wir, if it were not almost irreparable; for, in ex-
cnange. the Government must content themselves
with raw recruits, who are not in any lot ward state
of discipline; who have seen no service; encoun-
tered no change of climates; but are perhaps in al-
finest every requisite ta constitute a soldier, tilt, very
• eppoeire- to those who have thus been discharged.
In short, the difference would he almost incalcu-
lable. Filer* was also another incanvenience.which
scree!: him in a still m ire forcible 13 int of view.
• We have, and he hoped always should have, many
eery large garrisons in different quarters of the
. 'lobe; and if :his measure of the Right Hon.
6entleman should be adopted, it will, ja the *V U-
Tal course of events. Ireeuvroly happen, that great
• etsmbers of men may be entitled to their dischAtge
from ;base gareisn.s, at the same time. In that
cote, whet wt.'s to be dune? We ohest either break
the faith we have pkdp,. et. or ret•der our selves liable
to experience great inconveniencics, difficulties, a .d
"eon dangers. 'lb's, garrisons must be supplied
'etesit.h troops. to defend them in the room of those
• leetided to their discharge. fit e might not always be
&meanie masters of tree seas: be hoped we ever
should; but the case had sometimes base otheswise.
et was so for some time, iq tie ceurnsof the Ame-
rican war; and if we should be prevented from
lending net renuforseosents to replies those who
eitmoirtse entitled to their discriarge.and might per-
haps have *dually bees discharged, the totonv. ni
IMCSSIS and difficulties would be immense, and
• danger by no means inconsiderable. There was.
be knew, one answer, which would. he had no doubt,
le given to the gmatest part of Whet he had• said•
viz. that when the period fosedischarging the men
*nivel rbe greatest number of them would re-
- emelt. Is ails, however. he differed, widely with
c them ; and positively thought they woulet not re-
enlist : it was a delusive argument, which, he f6ired,
• would never be realised. The • Right Hon.•Clent.
• • had always stated it as mating in fAvour bf his
plan, that it would furnish the army with. higher
• order, a better desteepttomof personsi bias have
. heretofore been need to enlist: 11 it-did.' St :would
maim against: the argument of 'their' re•enlisting.
•Fve, y man. at the time ire shcnsio become entitled
• to his di.lsarge, would beestthible that he would be
We to tern his livelihood by the or calling to
•• -• which h•• had been bmvght up before he enlisted,
' and would not therefore be under any absolUte or
• considerable neccsrity to induce him to enlist. He
slight elm, is. all likelihood, have mit with diA,-
views, and been obliged to encounter hardships
and dangers, which he a mad be very loth to repeat;
and having she option of •cptitting the militarylife
`e from the expiration of the • term for which ho had
engaged his services, he would be very likely to
take advantage of his bargain. and leave his place
to be filled up as chimer or occasion might offer;
whereas by enlisting men for limited service, or,
during the war, as this set does which the Right
Honourable Gentlethan wishes to repeal, all these
inconveniencies, difficulties, and dangers, would be
avoided, and the service would go on in the same
prosperous way which it has ever hitherto done.
He °beetled further to the measure of the Right
H•snourable Secretary, from the very mischievous
• effed which he feared it would have on the discip•
line of the army. It was very well known, that
Officers naturally because attached to the men
who had been a certain length of time under their
command, and would of course be anxious to keep
them. 'I hey were welt aware, that however great
t• • their own military ralcros might be, they would he
' elk
of nn avail witliriut their men to second them, and
3 to carry their commands into rffeet ; they would of
emery- he aft. lid of giving them offence, especially
as the time of then discharge approached, and
onig,ht on that a:count be induced to relax in that
discipline, which is to necessary to the good of the
service, in the hnpe of preiailing with them to en-
list again ; and thus not only a great. but an irre-
pitiable injury, might be done to what was the very
~ , life and sere. of the ;Tenn uottd if
ts' crier lost, would
easily be regained. This very circumstance
"1"• "- had formerly raised one of the strongest obje.2ions
t 3• to tiling men from the Militia into the secular ar-
. • r mu for, in the Militia, the Officers were also very
anainus to keep their men ; and it des very gene-
rally supposed, did riot keep them to that extreme
serisitness of discipline, which was. prailiseil in re-
giments of! the line, though the Militia- was now
A come to eery high state of discipline, indeed.
He wee to-ry he had been obliged to trespass so
long on the time and patience of the House, but
• ins din+ as a Member of that House. and an Offi.
icer of the iii my. impelled him to state his opinion
111:' 1 :.sin the present ozeset•on ; and he hoped he lad said
t„, enough to induce the House not to repeal this Al,
tiii ...t.ey knew what the plats of the Right [honour-
:-• able' Gentleman is to be, and how far it is likely to
tattled. He begged the indulgence of the House
• . few chely ruse obsetvation more. He had said be
hal el.:mgrl his opinion on ::cis subjea, but in that
•
he spoke gvnerally, and nut of this measure in
particular. As to the psovisiuns of the Nil, he
luriked on them as out of the question.. The Ho-
unlit able General concluded without ne. king any
snotic.::. •

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