The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1806-04-15 00:00:00

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LON DON,
TUESDAY, Aram 15.

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We stated, yesterday, that at a meeting on Friday .2
last, of the Committee of the St. Saviour's Vulun-
teer Corps of Infantry, consisting of the Olicerc
and several Privates, summoned by their COMMAI.J•
ant, Major Ports, it was agreed that the Corp
should be disbanded, and that a letter WAS sent to die
Lord Lieutenant of the County of Surrey, to ap-
prise him of such determination. This proceeding.
which was avowedly adopted in consequeace of Mr.
WINDH AYES new Military Plan, has excited mud
interest ; but, we trust, for the honour of the Vo-
j
lunteer System, will not induce many to follow the
exantple. The Lieutenant-Commandant of tve
Loyal Southwark Regiment of Volunteers, %tali 4
Sharp Shooters attached, lost not a nicirmnt (^
stem the spirit which the precipitate condull of the
Committee of the St. Saviour's was calculated or
excite, and published on Saturday the following 6--
cular letter to the Members of that ecia:)•
Carps :
T. the Lit)al Southwark iteginvnt of Vo unteorr,
Slurp Shooters art,chet.
Ca/4 flg•dtb--1. feel .t my di.ty„ au yrur Conmsodbeg
o.scrr, t.. rauttnn you (todividually) against any int:nes-ion
unfavoursol• to the Volunteer system, whetl.er originating in
the proposal new arrangements, as su,:ge•teri by We S,creter
at Wsr, or that of any Corps prematurely disband ng 114"

A 4 4 b kV, your attachment to the honour reputatinn
the regiment, tuibid it ; and I trust the e...nbArtice COy I`4'.
(La pieced in put F veld Officers will not bo slmnin.sh
thrt you will be prepare.% if n,ce.sary, to amiergo t'es:V

you rati•.rol:h to the proua I
an 1 honourable title of ne:Urirlati of your King an.! Country.
y 6,1 wili n.id nut hrazli:r officers and myself at our poets,
and I call mono not' to persevere in that zeal for the service,
which first induced you to amiciste, as the best answer to any
attacks upon your :mat services, until officially informal they
are nu longer necessary.
I hay: the honour to be, Gentlemen, ever your'.,
Head Quarters, JOIIN ALCOCK,
April It, MG. Lieut. Col. Comm. L. S.V. nd S S.

A meeting of a Committee of the Bloomsbury
I-ns of Court ('nips has also, we understand, been
h Id, upon the sime subjeA ; at which moderation
was itrongly urged ; and it was agreed to await
the determiu.i:inn of the other volunteer corps.
Mr. %Vista's.% ri being a leading Member of Ad-
ministration, and his plat., having, no doubt, re-
ceived the approbation of his colleagues, a very rea-
sonable expeAation thence arises, that the plan will,
at least in its leading feature% and general outline,
receive the sanction of Parliament; but it is not.
cnnstitutional to presume, that it mast pass pre-
cisely in its present shape, or to suppose that the
very part which has given off-nce, may not be en-
tirely expunged, or, at all events, rendered less ob-
jectionable to the Committee of the St. Saviour's
Corps. Under such circomstances, a statement of
their °billions, in a remonstrances would have
evinced their independence, and, at the same
time, their mpeft for the Legislature ; but to
Dave recourse to extremities, before the plan
was even introduced in the shape of a bill, or
had advanced a single step towards a legisla-
tive measure, argues a precipitancy unworthy of
' that spirit whic:i characterises the volunteer ranks,
and may have b-en supposed to actuate men who
had made up their minds to submit to many pri-
vations, and endure with patience the common lot
of the solif.:r in the defence of their country.—
. T•e Volunteers enrolled themselves for the great.
est o: je:t th 4, can present itself to the mind of man-
the most smomentous purpose that could possibly
influence thew judgment, or excite their passions.
• Ate any set of men, then, fully convinced, and pos-
' mused of this-purpose, and this object, if they can
• s Istavested from it by any slight difficulty or ob-
•
• ? If Mr. WINDHASt ohjesl to their
41, • a sod coat, or assuming the command of
e is war, arid who must be presumed
61! aelluove more of it than amatenrs,ate they, therefore,
it to forget the sacred cause for which they enrolled

thilatehres; their count, y, their libel ties, and their
• ' efts? But this 's not all.—We have been encou-
raged to loJlt to the Volunteers, as a principal Bart
• ..af oar dulkace. as a sure and amain resource in
11601tatartedanger, as a means of preserving inter-
' *al order., and repelling an invading foe. What
'Mamma of all these flattering hopes, of all this
4 Ipthoiliad security, if the Volunteer Corps are Juni-
" Me is disbanding themselves at a moment's
leder, for any fancied slight, or insult, and leay.
the cottntry at the mercy of the enemy ?
•••The only answer that can be made to this ques-
lion is. th at they will still remain for the purpose of
diftscr and may be called out as individual sub-
' Nab by His MAJESTY. Bin, would not this be
fiaregf sbuiss. that they are equally useful, as trained
0. Me diatipitimi sums as if they were embodied in
t. Witilharra however, that the Volunteers
3 , are dirmafilled with Mr. WINDH•II% plan,
t last be over anxious to admit this principle.

Both Houses of Parliament met yesterday. In
the House of Commons, Mr. Pees. gave notice of
his intention to bring forward his charge against
the Marquis Wes.s.ast.cv, on Friday next. On the

motion of Sir JOHN Ncwposr, a Dill was ordered
to be brought in to repeal the House Tas is Ire-
land. This tat attached upon houses paying a tent
cr fifty shilliags a-year, and had excited much dis-
satisfaftion among the lower classes.

The Windsor Castle packet arrived, on Friday, at
Falmouth, with mails, in fifty-three days. from Ja-
maica. She left, lying at Port Royal, His Ma,-
JLITT'S ship Svperi, Vice-Admiral DVCILwORTII
Canopus, 80, Rear-Admiral Louis; Donegal, SO ;
Simons? and Allah 74 guns each; and several fri-
gates—with the French prizes, Le Alexandre. 80;
Brave and yri,iter, 74 guns each. which were re-
fitting for the pa:.sAgr !woe.

It is said to he the intention of Government to
make an ex:en-ire promotion of the °lacers who
served in the la*e glorious anion under Admiral
Decawoavo, nil St. Domingo.
We have I.f-rented Dutch papi•ts to the 10th
in which the only article oeservlng notice. is An es-
tract of a letv r from the French Minister for foreign
affairs, stattnil that he had rojo:red the French Nli-
'sisters ar Dresden arsl Cassel, to remnns!rite
against the heavy impositions laid upon the stilsjeffs
of France who profess the Jewish religion, resident
in 'he stops of Hesse and Saxony.
Notice seas given et the Stock F.schange Tester-
tbat the Chancellor of the I.7:chequer for Ire-
land, would I,e ready to sec Gentlemen this day
upon the sobj-a of fituag tie period when the bid-
dmg for a Lo+lll of Two Milhous for the service of
Ireland, us be borrowed ia Ireland if possible, shall
take place its Duldsa.

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