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proper to oiler a watt thereon. until they saw,
from authority, what the proposed plan was ; what-
ever it may be deemed poii:ie or expedient to *dope,
erns retied to the Volunteer system, he thought'
it was proper, under the present eircomstances, that
no time should be lost in making such plan known
to the public. Having moved for the produelion of
his first document,
Lord GRENVILLE rose and observed. that he
certainly had no objeClion to have as correCt a view
eaf the subjeet, to which the Noble Lord alluded.
before the House, as was prafticahle ; and he agreed
• with him generally, that it was desirable, that Peel.
Lament, as soon as was consistent with policy, view-
ing the magnitude and importance of the subjea,
should, as soon as it could, make known its decision
upon the subjeCt. With respeCt to what was in-
tended to be propost;tl by His Majesty's Ministers,
the impatience of the public, if any such existed,
w till soon be gratified ; bnt the. subjed was obvi-
ously nee, which should not be Motight forward
without due deliberation. With respeft to the Noble
Lord's present motion, it seemed to refer to some-
thing which was at least questionable ; and in its
shee •shiye, though lie was nut immediately pre-
pared es say, be should have, were it persisted in, to
oppose it, yet he° would have to address their Lord-
ships as to the ground upon which he thought it, at
least, questionable The N, .tile Lord then advert-
ed to his sense of what the Alts said was to be
considered as an etre:live Volunteer; and with refer.
once to which, he seemed to think the motion of
the Noliie Lord rather objectionable.
Lord Id AWKESBURY explained the objeCt of
his motion to be for an account generally of the pie.
sent volunteer force, and horn official documents,
with the opinions of the InspeCting Officers, as to
Will( volunteers were, or were not efficient. He
was •o are of the peculiar nature of the case, and
that cirtaie returns, in some cases, may not be AC-
rur.tuly drawn up; hut he thought farther &tett-
l','-`.ltA may tend to elucidate, what might appear
uaaciant in the first instance.
The Earl of ROSSLYN made some observe.
bons upon the motion, as worded by the Noble
Lard, and seemed to entertain similar doubts there-
with his Noble Friend sear him (Lord Grem
ville}; what appeared to him to be aimed at, he
thought it impttssilde to attain in the present
terms of the motion.
The Earl of DARNLEY made a few remarks,
as we understood, to the same general effect.
Lord HAWEESBU KY spoke in farther expla-
teflon.
After whielt, this pert of the discussion con.
eluded, by the Noble Lord's agreeing to alter the
language of that part of his mutton, to which as
objedlion seemed to be felt.
On the question being put thereon,
Lord GRENVILLE again arose, and made se-
. venal observations on the subjeCt if the present Vo-
lunteer system, under a hich, lie thought, there
*fluid by ne means be such an efficient force to be
depended on, as would appear in the returns. lin.ler
that, a volunteer who had attended a certain num-
ber of days, was deemed an etlettive volunteer.—
The hispeCtors-General were invested with no power
to compel the attendance of a volunteer. Such
compulsion would. to a cettain degree, militate
against the ptinciple of a volanteer sy stein. Wish
a military three it was different• Military men
truh.l judge. with seme degree of certainty, what
are-tree of discipline would be necessary for such,
and how Hear they had attained to it ; and returns
could be made accoldiegly. To the objeCtions he
£tst held, he did not deem the motion, as altered,

to be liable.
Lird HAWKESBURY conceived, that a great
deal f valuable information open the subj-a, would
accrue trout the production of the accounts he pro-
posed.
On the Question btiag put. the accounts were or-
dered to be laid before the House accordingly ; as
were the other documents moved by the Noble
Lord.
In the enure of a short explanatory conversation
of some of these, Lott' GKENVILIS. took atC3-
ion to remark, that the Ensiish and Itish Volun-
teers *ere vety different.
COLONIAL INTERCOURSF. :VIM N. AMERICA.
Lntil HOLLAND. after adverting to the linen.
tion of his Noble Friend. below him, to bring in a
Bill relative to this subjeel, made some observations
with respell to the magnitude and importance of
the subjeft, of which it formed a part. He alluded
to the opinions he had thrown nut last Session upon
the particular topic to which his Noble Friend's

Bill proposed to refer, and expressed his op Minn,
that further documents steel necessary to bring the
true state of the sill+jen before the !louse. His
Lordship concluded by moving for a variety of ac-
counts of that description, as, the Number of Bri-
tish Ships, the Tonnage thereof, and the Number of
Alen, engaged in the 'Trade between Great Britain
and the AVIA Indies, &c. from the year 1790 to
lani, inclusive ; and several other documents ;
which. after a few words horn Lord SHEFFIELD,
were ordered to be 'kid bebne the House.
The order for summoning their Lordships, upon
the notice of Lord AUCKLAND, being read,
His Lordship rose, and in a speech of some length,
introduced the of which fie had given notice.
Ile described the situation in which the commercial
intercourse between the British Welt India Colonies
and Islands and the ('nited States of North America
stood for a number of years, and the different re-
rlating Ads which had been chafed from time to
time. fie adverted to the necessity which at dif,
!Trent times existed, more especially in periods of
war, of the British West India Islands being sup-
plied with lumber and provisions from North
America. This necessity had induced the Governors
from time to time, to permit the importation of
their articles in neutral bottoms, contrary to the
provisions cf those Ads, by which it was intended
to secure, as far as was predicable. a prr;erence to
flattish s 1 iHron{, as wed as to British articles of
coalmer e. 'I ois unavoidable condad, on the pit
of the Governors, rendered Biils of kdemnitv, with
vesped to them, necessary. often, that *for se-
veral years, they became almost annual. In 1801.
an At of this kind WAS unaccountaoly omitted;
It had not been reoertol as an Expiring Ad; and.
throagh four &Mot-tit Administrations, including
the present, the ordinary Ain had not been renewed.
The Bill he shouht propu;e that evening, wed.'
rediff, among other pains, that onguatm. The