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lion then was, to improve the discipline of the fume
tium subsisting. But has nothing been done since ? I
reconunewkd originally, that the 1, ulunteers should
• be called out upon permanent duty. That system
has hem adopted; and I am sure not leas than
from 0%400 to 160,000 Volunteers have been
placed in that state for improving their disci-
pbne. Now I would appeal to every officer of
esoesienee, whether the result of this proceeding,
by the improvement of their discipline, has not en-
creased their strength more than if their number
boa been encreased one half ? I will not there-
fore have it said, thAt AdministrAt i on have been wholly
ides aed Ant nuthinocha4been done for the defence of
the country. That being the case. 1 know nothing on
mrpart inconsistent with any rational ex peaation t hat
the or any man who has attended to the no-
tices I gave, could have formed. I am ready to
have my measure decided by experience, and I a ill
confident tb,at every discussion will be beneficial
to it. as it will place it more and more in its
trot light. Of the mode of opposition which it
.leas experienced, I have a right to complain.—
There has been a disposition to draw into argument
uesigu topics, which divert the attention from the
teal subjvct, and in such hands as those of the Hon
Geatleman v.-no spoke la.t, may be productive of
ontertainment, and relieve the tediousness of debate
by the brilliant display of wit which we have just
witnessed. As to the argument, that the Admiiiis-
tration is rot worthy of confidence, I am At a
• loss to coqjcaare upon what ground it r.:sta.—.
T'ais, its first measure, surely canant be the cause,
for it loss to an ohject upon which all per.-..ms
of all parties a:.d all descriptions 74.-e agreed.
There must then be something awkward or unfor-
tunate in the manner of bringing it forward, if it be
the cause of this loss of contill'ence. It is a delicate

thing to speak upon the formation of the present
iliEnistry t but with regard to the question of a more
er 1., extended Administration, I believe I may
eppeAl ter the Hon. Gentleman opposite 01r. Fox),
whether, in a conversation which I bad with him
wpon the su''jeet, he did not admit, that if the
Administration was trot considered efficient and

competent to its purpose, and that it conse-
quentlyn became right to remove it. that it was
the province of tau House to died the chauge;
but as to who is to be the Minister in the place of
the person removed, I ask the Hon. Gentleman
whether he did not at die same time say, that he
ham his duty too vecil to agitate that question in
the House ? then, what is to be done
obstrult the Minister? Wby, because his
Grit measure is a good one, that is to be
Rude a sohjod of complaint, and this is
to be a .list to him to retire from office. But the
Lint is not broad enough, and I shall not take
k ilelich). I think Bill will pass with aa
auseated majority. I will not undervtand this
hint, and I do assure the Hon. Gentlemen, that
though they were to gain this point, they would
lave a good deal more to do, hefts' e they could rec-
kon upon success. It is curious indeed, that I
should be thus attacked by a combined confederacy
of troops, who unite in sentiment upon this sub-
jell only, while, during all their past lives, they
have beets involved in contradiftioo, and wiformly
opposed to each other. lam not prepared to say
whether a mere extensive Administration would not
Live been more suited to the present times, but it is
the prerogative of the Crown, to call any person
whr ot it ti•inks it to the situationl have been at
•
issue upon O. pnirt in firmer times, and I am
now ready to maintain' it as necessary to the
free and Inonarchica: Constitution of the country. As
to my suffiziency, or the &efficiency of those in of-
- lice with me, it is Flat necessary to say a great deal
cpis: that eunjed I bat lem surprised at the lan-
/peke that has fallen from a N. Ile Lord (Tempt ).
r I clink it ii•tle singular that my ading in concert
with- a part of the late Administration should be

made • bar to the confidence of him and his
Irian's. I de remember the time, when, in the
trwarem of his bitterest hnstility to the late Mi-
nister t I je remember that they then said, if His
Majesty would include me in the Administration
theysadd withdraw their opposition. (Herr! 4~ ! )
I ant mew I have done nothing since that which
can *tiff any change of opinion; and, therefore, I
aesat a little loss to know upon what ground they
al laid now say, that the exclusion of men
likel whom they have not sided should make
am refuse me their assistance, and send them
beis opposition. I hope I have spoken guardedly
"pa this delicate sabjoft. It is one, which, from
baits of private friendship and eonnedions' I
ditadd wish to have emirely abstained; but what has
/one forth itttotheworld calls on me to say thiamin!).
lir, much fault has been found with the present
BBL but I think I may, without vanity, be allowed
Ms my it is a much better Bill than the other,
because it attempts to raise a force on better grounds
by many degrees than that Bill did. It has been the
custom, Sir, during the debates on the present
Bill. to contrast this and other matters with the
measures of the former Cabinet ; gentlemen may
amuse themselves in so. doing. I can only say this
h not a Cabinet that decides measures by telling of
noses. as is done in this House, nor that adopts
memores according to a plurality of votes. A great
deal has been :Aid, Sir, in the course of the debate,
Ni my not Navin; formed an ashninimation on
broad basis, and an extensive settle as to talents and
inlbenee. Sir, I am perfenly aware that it it tea-
ennable to eared great advantages from a broad
Admittistrati"s in times of danger—and, yet Sir, I
have my doubts whether such advantagrs are not
rendered doubtful and questionable, from the grest
variety of arguments 1 have heard advanced
during the debates on this Bill, which chew,
almost to a cert. inty that the Hon. Gentlemen, who,
from their opposition to it. and who would, many of
them, have been expeded to term a ran of that
broad Adnii.i;stratice, scarcely agree in any twa
pines on which they give their opinions. Another
avument, which has been urged on the present cotta.
Won, is, that the piesent change is not sufficiently so

constitute a new Gneemrnert. So far as rebates
..to the Hon. Geet'omen no. the Bench b :dr,
Ad lington) ; I think he must be convinced, and
has evidently shown, that this Government is identi-
fied not to he his ; and, notwithstanding all that has
been said of it, I holdet to be substantiel enough to
:answer the purposes for which it was farmed. Mmy
mijed;ons have been urged ag then it by the Hon.
Gent who spoke lest, echo has i udulged hi mself in that
rein of pleasantry and burnout, for which he has
Most deiervedly acqiiircd soinuch celebrity, incom-
pei iag some of the Members of the present Adrriiiii-
stretiou with those whim the. y have succeeded in
office, aid has indulged henelf particularly in
contrestine Lord Melville with tee Fail of St.
Vince-t. I should unceiestiona'sly myself
extremely wrong. were Ito say than Lord Melville
was as good a sailor, or understood how to work or
fight a ship of war as well as Earl St. Vincent ;
and yet I can have no hesitation to say, that in my
opinion, there is every reason to suppose that Lord
Melville will make as good a First Lord of the Ad-
miralty as Earl St. Vincent, for experience has often
forcibly theism, that it was by no means necessary
that a First Lord of the Admiralty should be a naval
cherader. Ido not snepose the Hun. Gentleman
thinks the First Lord of the 'Treasury worse than his
predecessor, and ye he persists in stating that a
Government or Administration, in which the two
Secretaries of State are changed, and in which the
First Lord of the Admireltr ns changed, besides se-
veral subordinate changes, is no new Government.
In addition to this, it has been held that I enter-
tained a general remohation of the whole of the Lite
Government. I can hoWever ueequivocelly assure the
House that was not the case. Indent, it must be well
known to the greatest pelt of the House, that I here
ever entertained the greeest regard and the highest
respeft fee ni my of them; and that with some of
them I have lived in habits of the stridest friendship
from my first entrenie into public life. %Vith reseed
to another person, in aneelier House, I must beg
leave •to say there were many things which pass. d.
dieing the time he held the seals, which I did not
approve; but still no words ever fell from me in
the smallest degree indicating that I would not
agree to eft with him. Another point, Sir, which
was touched on by the Hon. Gentleman who
spoke lest, seas the degradation which one of the
Nosle Secretariee of irate has suffered in conse-
-1 ! quence of having changed his situation. I always
did hold the Noble Lord alluded to fully equal to
the itschei ge of the s arious, essential, and important
duties which it fell to his list to fill; and I can by
no means think that he suffered any degradation in
accepting the office or one Secretary of State for
that of :mediae indeee, I cannot see with
what view such a thine come he mentioned, unless
it was for the purease of sowing jeeloto.ie- and dis-
amnions anions His Majesty% c': event Ministers,
and, as such, it deserve: my severest animadver-
sion. If the present Bill elsould be lost, I shall
be sorry for it, because the I louse and the country
will thereby lose a good measure; but the Hon.
Gentlemen opposite will be much mistaken, if they
think they will thereby be any thing the nearer
getting rid of me. It is well known, and has ever
been allowed to be one of the first and most es-
tablished privileges and prerogatives of the
Crown, that His Majesty has a tight to these
and nominate his own Ministers!: and with that
convidion on my mind, 1 shall not be deterred
from bringing forward snch measure as may be
necessary, in aid and support of the preset Bill.
which I have no doubt will meet the approbation of
a considerable majority of the House, notwithstand-
ing all the opposition it has met with trim the Hon.
Gentlemen en the opposite side of the :douse."
Mr. Fox then rose aid spoke .he fallowing
purport:—" Sir,l shell not a: rte hour of the
night, and on a question whieb i• •en so often and
soleteniously debated, take up ill of the time of
the House in adverting to the topics which the
Right Hon. Gentleman has thonght proper to take
up. In a discussion on a Bill of this kind, lam net
sarptised thereshould hew yet ygreat a difference of
opinion. But in one of the arguments of the Right
Hon. Gentleman with respect to these topics, he has
said, eiat the mode which has been purste d togs: rid
of this Bill has been very personal. I can only say,
Sir, that in every business that comes before the
House, on whatever subject it may be, no one can
he more averse from personalities than myself, and I
think I can eddy :tercel to the House, whether the
introduction of such tmecs, dining every ciscussion
which has taken place ott this Bill, were not
brought on by himself, except on the present day,
and then whether they *ere not entirely owing
to the Honourable Gentleman who is near him
(Mr. Canning) ? ‘Vlietever maybe the inclination of
the Right t ion. Gentleman opposite to enter on per-
sonalities, 1 de not feel the smallest inclination, nor
am I willing to shew my regress on the sua-
jed. I have. indeed, no wish to treat it i
such a way on the present occasion; my prin-
ciple being totally averse from it. I certainly have
entertained the opinion ever since the commence-
ment of the war, that the misery could not fail to
be highly and extensively benefited by an Admini-
stration formed on a broad basis, and which would
embrace the greatest talents and the roost pre lomi.
nant influence tie the kingdom. and as such I have
uniformly given my oeimira. I thick it therefore
best to avoid every thing that may tend to exaspe-
rate. 'There are, hawever, one or tries points of the
Hon.Cerelemices speech, on which I must beg leave
to makc a few observations. He rays thet His Majesty
is by Ins prerogative uartistinnably entitled to choose
and appoint his own Ministers. This is a positien which
I do 11431 mesa to deny, though I am clearly of opi-
nion the I louse may so condud itself at to convince
His Majesty be ought to remove them. I don't know
what the Right Hon. Gentleman means by speaking
of an opposition composed of such discordant ma-
terials, that there is scarcely a point in which they
can agree ; and that it is a point of time merely. if
' I recelka rightly as to time, there was a period, and
that at no very great distance, in which that Right
Hon. Gent. himself sepported,end slime also quickly
succeeding in enich he opposed the late Administra-
tion. Inn the coarse of a few months, he supported,
with the Inmost warmth, all the military mea-
sures of the Riele Honourable Gentleman, his
predecessor, and very soon afterwards he opposed
the Army of Reserve Suspension Bill, in or..:er to
make way for the present measure, which he
gave the House to ondernend was so much
more eflivient and available at the present ins-

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remelt crisis. To return, however, to tree pre.
rng serve of the crown. if it be, which 1 do not
deny, the prerogative of the King to choose his own
Ministers, it is equally tile right and the duty of the
House of Commons to judge of the capacity and the
intentions of those Ministers ; and if thiiy should be
found deficient in the confidence of the House of
Commons, and in the confidence of the country, such
disapprobation was a strong and fair ground for the
King to dismiss them. if ever there was an Adminis-
tration that was deficient, he thought he might fairly
and justly say it was the present. NVlien the Right
Honourable Gentleman is attacked on the subjeCt,
he has no other answer to give, but look at
rue, as if the whole Administration were wrapped
up in himself. He says, Lots! Melville is a better
first Lord of the Admiralty than Eatl St. Via-
ceitt ; and, after speaking with the greatest com-
placency of himself, and the two Secretaries of
State, he asks the Hon. Gentleman on the Bench
below him, whether he is rot practically convinced
that this is a new Administration? I should be
sorry to give credit, Sir, to the rumours which
are abroad, and which all go to prove, that
all his wishes are centered in the objet he has
attained. 'I he Right Honourable Gentleman says,
he thinks the opposition to the present Bill extra-
ordinary, and that it is a hint to Ministers to
retire. On some principles of the Bill, he says,
the opposition totally differed, and then he asks
how they would have agreed, heel they tormed
part of an Administration ? There, indeed. I cannot
answer the Right Hon. Gentleman. How far he
might have insisted on any one or more parts of his
Bin, and how far he might have conceived that
we ought implicitly to yield to his opinion and to his
direflion, I cannot pretend to say; but I think an
Administration, formed on a broad and comprehen-
sive basis in times of danger, would be highly be-
neficial to the interests of the country ; and in such
case, if the present Opposition could not bring
themselves to agree to this measure of the Right
Hon. Gentleman, their refusal would certainly be
meritorious. The Right Hon. Gentleman says, we
may give as many hints as we please, he won't
take them; but 1 should be glad to know, if the
House of Commons says, by its proceedings,
we have no confidence in you, are those hints whirl]
he will not take ? if that be the case, why did he
not give such advice to his predecessor I I have un-
derstood there are some of the present Administra-
tion who did advise their colleagues to give
way when they saw the opinion of the House
of Commons was against these measures. I
don't know which it was, but I hope it was not such
only as boast of having a two strings to their bow ;"
that would be taking an advantage with which he
was by no means desirous to charge any of the.• pre-
sent Administration. The Rt. Hon. Geutleman has
said. Sir, that it would be abiurd in the King's
Council to be counting noses as we do in this House.
I dare say, Sir, he is rerfeFtly riKht ; and if it
was his intention to firm an Administration where
no counting was really necessary, I believe he has
completely succeeded. He has mentioned the
change that has taken place in the Secretaries of
State, and contended that in such a proceeding
there is no degradation. The Right Hon. Geode-
man is most undoubtedly at liberty to form his own
opinion and judgment on such a humiliation ;
can only say that I totally differ from him in opini.
. on. Having made these observations, Sir, I will
beg leave to trouble the House very shortly on
the Bill itself." Mr. Fox then proceeded to
comment on the Bill; and contended, that af-
ter all that hid been said on the Army of
Reserve Bill, the Right Honourable Gentleman
must be perfeetly aware that this Bill could not be
agreeable. The Honourable Gentleman had laid
great stress on the clause which had been in-
tiodnced this day. By which 70,000 men were to
he embodied during the war, and then disbanded
at the peace, but registered, so that in case of any
future war, they might be called on to serve
again. This, he asserted, was by no means equal to
a Militia; for in that kind of force you knew where
to look for them. lion could look for the Yorkshire
Militia in Yorkshire, and the Kentish, in the
county of Kent: but these battalions were to be
composed of such a mixture of men from all parts
of the kingdom, that you might have to look
for the Yorkshire in Cornwall, and the Cornish in
Lancashire. In short, that there would be no knowing
where to find them. They would not be so efficient
either as the Militia or Army of Reserve. He con-
demned severely the mode of raising !emits by
parish officers, and insisted that the influence of
parish officers could be attended with no further
or other advantage in the raising recruits than
what resulted from a system of terror and op-
. pression, which could not fail to be the case
in such a system as the present, where persons
were to be fined for not doing what it was ima
possible they should be able to do. Besides, fines
were in themselves a species of punishment, and
that ought never to attach to persons who had been
guilty of no crime. He contended that there
was the greatest inequality in a system of
tAzation by fine, such as.this was, and illustrated it
by the following position—" I send my servant to
market to buy a bushel of wheat, or any ether
grain; but I tell him, At the same time, he must
not, on any account, g.ve rn,:e than half-a-crown
for the bushel." " HA:i.a.;iown, Sir 1" says the
Scot, " I can't buy a bushel of wheat for that sum;
it is worth seven shillings a bushel, and no one will
sell it fcr less." a Nosmatter," say I ; " you must
give n 1 more than half-a-crown, and if you
don't buy it for that, you shall be punished
with a fine." In the same way would it ex idly
turn out with the recruits under this Bill. Men will
not enlist for the sum to which these parish . ea uiting
officers are restricted by the Bill. and then the
parishes must be firsts', which would prove as great a
hare ship as could well be conceived. the whole sys-
tem was also very unequal, for it fell much heavier
on the landholder than any tither description of
persons, and with the greatest inequality even on
those. He saw no reason why the mode of recruit-
ing for the regular army advised by his Right Ho-
nourable Friend (Mr. Windham) should not
be tried. %Vny not enlist men fora limitted time, or
fcr limited service? He had no doubt, but inch
trial wouid be attended with success. He could,
however, see no pcssible advantage, but only the
contrary, in enlisting men for a limited service, in
order to seduce them afterwards into a general ser-
vice, which was to be the operation of this Bill, and

from which he could not see any benefit could be
expeCted. Because the Army of Resrve could not
do its service with the ballot, it is rashly picslitt,j
that this Bill will etre.% the same perposes witlant, the
ballot; a mode of arguing, which militated rt.
pressly against the nature of things. For his ;,,vii
part, he fad voted for the suspension of tt;e
Army of Reserve Bill, for the express purpose if
giving this measure an opp.rt tttt ;Lye f being f.t;rly
and fully discussed ; and now thachad taken place,
he was convinced it was one of the most opprc!.the
as well as one of the most inefficient meanne,, ;;;
could well be devised, for the purposes it was in-
tended to ellen. Indeed, to speak of the also-di,
ties of the Bill in detail, would be a wondro,
waste of time. He had said just now it would
he oppressive ; perhaps it might be answere I
him, why it cannot be oppressive an 1 inefficient
too ? But he insisted that it might, for it was
full of oppression and injustice, and tended b! 4
more circuitous mode to recruit the army, dati
the plan proposed by his Right Hon. Friend. lie
must, therefore, continue to give his opposition to it.
Refo-e he. al; down, there was ode observation whi,
had fallen from the Right lion. Gentl-rnan that It.
cou'd not let pass without saying a few words on it:
The Right Hun. Gentleman had said, if you throw
out my Bill, I shall be sorry ; because you 1:-.4
the country will lose a good measure ; Lut yr‘tt
won't be the nearer getting rid of me." A rnoTl
incedent and disrespeCtful expression from a NV.
nister, to a British House of Commons, he hit
never heard. He asked, if it was possible that
the House could send a Bill into the country
of such unexampled seteiity and oppression, which
would pass against the opinion of one-half the
Members of the House. It must be allowed,
the Bill, with all the influence of Government
(the honourable influence he meant), would be
carried by only a very trifling majority, and
under such circumstances he found it his duty
to raise his voice, and give his vote against it is
every stage which it had to pass.
The Question being then loudly tailed for, a di.
vision took place, when there appeared, for engross,.
ing the Bill with the Amendments,
Ayes, 263—Noes, 2'l3—Majority, O.
The Bill was then ordered to be read a third time
this day.-Adjourned at HALF PAST FOUR.

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IA )N DON,
TUESDAY, Jura 19.

Mr. PITT had this morning a majority n( 4?. Urine the
division, his party went out iuto the lobby, where le
pressed great eitultAion at tilt resuk, and said, he esp.-cud. a
mach larger majority upon tits third tending of the
evening. Th's declaration was semi', ed with

It was reportvd yesterday, we knew not upon what autho-
rity, i at a person had a rived from the Comment, 16 tit rive-
tinga of peace. We received by the last Flambingh Mali, a
er fro.o tile Continent, which dates, that rumours of pm::
were became general; but that they were suwessed to be cv.
colated.ny Bonaparte, far the li:repose el impos.tran.

. .
Advises were yest,olay received overland from Madras, oc.
dear date the Itlth of January, bringing the pleasing Intel-,
genes et a deinitive truty et' perpetual amity -and alliance,
having been visaed and =titrd un the :30th Deirernbic
betwrien the !Swish Government, and the rnited Tones of
Scindia, and the Rajah of Bcr.,r. The Treaty wu signs I
Major General Wellesley, on the port of oor (taverna:amt.
and wo learn that it it highly advantageous to the British it,
tercets. We retain the imivartant Fortress of Broach, with
every important ,ituation on the Coast in the Guterat. The
aathority of the rcishwa is acknowledged, and he is expected
sho,tly to be restored to his former dignity an the empire.
Colonel Maloolin was appointed to proceed, a ithaut
as Aniiiessailer at the Conn of Scindia.

We hare, 'maestri, to add the partkalan of another echo%
which took place a short time prior to the ratification of the
Troaty. It will be recollected Oat a cessation of hostilities
had taken place for some time en the part of Scind.a i hot die
Rajah of 13.-ar hid decliiied ente-ing into any engagement Qf
the kind, though lie n:rn• sliewcd an inclination to hava,l a
battle.

About the middle of Dezember, a detacheteut from Cele-!
Welk-dry% arm., with Fin of the satsiliary force nodes
lonel htevenenn, storme I the (enters of Oyalgur, ea the bur.
tiers of the territory of the R d.h of Serer. Our tom wig V(.l
triimg con,itlercil with th• en.rn,y's i and the following will le
rowel a correct retina on that occasion :•••••

114`of G,nerel Wenewty's 15.•,siune.erwropwant 5 killed 1.14
11 wounded. Netivos I killed, 9 wounded, and I OM% ag

Subsidiary Force—Ettropr.i.rs, b 7 wourided, pa.
killei, 4? sround -4, aud V usisming.

Toci—.F.un,,,,..es, 3 kined, Si wone.:^4. 1C4.,, •
31 wounded, 3 mixing.

Lieut:nant G.•nrge Young, of the 24 ISatta',..n of t.t.:

Regiment of Native Int r.iry,thed of hit wounds.
Wntartesi—Lieutenmit.Cantel Ktnny, 14 Batt..l i
Regiment Native Infantry, and Lint:tenant Par:Ly,il4
7th Regiment Nrive Infantry.
The forting: was taken be Storm oa '0 a 15th of D'.t

and 52 brawl and ono g MIS kll Into •-t3 r
The a ccuetno front iforrttly by the eustveyante mute tt,s
as Tate a, the t: ;th of Janu.oy.

A Paris Paper, received yesterdAy, comp'^:
further particulars of the trial of MustAlr
entered oa his defence on the sth inst. lie req..% ••
est ro be permitted to speak befr•re his Ativ:scaiL.
This request was granted, and he gave a k'r..!
histories! summary of his life, in which he e"
deamared to shew how little fonnd.ttion t:.;''
was for the charge; brought against him. U - •
he had concluded, his Advocate Dosvery
ceeded on his defence. After a speech of rnr•.*
detAble length. the Prrsident adjourned the skull);

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