The National Register.
London, England, 1812-05-03 00:00:00

BARRACK F.Sj'INIATEi._.

The 11)use then went into a Conimittee uu the Report of the Barrack
Estimates. _

Fa F.EMANTLY. ObjeCtC'd to Votinz the smn of 90,0001. for the erec-
tion of Barracks in Liverpool, and Mary le-lione P.alt. Ile:
partieuh.rly opposed the es__ ti
Mate. for the eaval-y hartacks in the lna
inentionpd place, and urged tint the ile.u.e sh,Athi, under the i res, nt
(...irtnnstanc,-; of the (-Angry, :ook with a j :dons eye to eve...y
of the Ptthli-_. Fxren,litnr:•. .tnovvd, as an antetAnent, that ILe
Report of rha Barrack .FAittiates he taken iuto con.iideration
Six tr.Onths.

P NlCri cr;nreived fmc-InvePierce mii•l.t arise foul !1:.0
forai of tiir :o•nentlfilt-liz, 3T1,1 LliLit 9 shr:t,;,l
be tnlck.ti from the .i.tut to 'be vutcd tiro Resolq-
tiors
Crneral PHIPPS, arri IVlenlbers, bupportec.l the Reso-
lution. .

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Sir.]: NEWPORT, 11Ir. CEE spoke againts it.
Sir 1. lituinEr r said, that in coutempeating a subject of sue!) vast
in-Tette:fee, he would nut tell how oroogly he felt the ineonvtnience
of Barrack erectiers, nor eseo n the peoile on the trxpensive plans, eor
the high price of building meteriels, nor the dtarth of Peel, tin ugh
the cuusideret on of 'these were highly important he N.tiV •:,
country. Peramount to all these, a subject of 1•i,..11 nit ional con( ern
arose, to which he desired to call tae attention of the I loese, iit lid
been accused at the commenteenent of the present system, of being
a person who entertained tiniest apprehensions, because he had r,.
presented that the army was paid by the people, finally for the, pur-
pose of subduing the people (Lear, hear, lifer!) from the
Benches.)—and such watt the object in erecting the Barfack- in Nia, y-
le-Potie Park p.ro, no, no ! front the Ministerial side.)—a place whet e
soldiers were to he t wertained for the purpose of malting war up 'lt the
people N 9, no, no/ from sev,Tal quarter; of the House.)—roesieo•
up the people by taxation, urging them by severe measures with (•7 •
hand to murmur, and picking their pockets with the other—wit: n • e
and manufactures were annihilated, to exasperate the people by
dit'enal severities. He would nut say that Government, by tureo:t _
deaf car to the people's sufferings, would cause them to rubel ; but Ole
Right lion. Gentleman certainly said rightly when he told that now was
the time that barracks should be erected. Buonaparte had been (lie d
as a monster of ersectition and uoarpatiun and tyt alloy. But what did
the people of England think when they were to eave a GOVt:llltrellt no
longer of the law but of the sword---(No, no, no ! loiaVy from all
sides of the Heuse.)--ahnllshiog the civil law, to erect on its ruins a
military Governineta.—(Cries of Order, order!)—placing the soldie,-4
in a position so that they ofi‘lit be called in upoe Occa,loo to cominit
murder among the pi °pl.. !
General MANNWRS ruse to order, and said, he could not sufit r such
a violent irrpeachniret of the liriti ti miltery character to puss unnoOc-
td, and ti. sir ti that th4c words might be written shy.% D.
Sir Foe:eels Et:eve-re re-uming, said, th:t the scolds ut !ion.
Cener.il merited to be written down as well as his. 'l.lfroti;Ooet i! e
Riot A-t not oee word appee: ed to justify the Magistrates le t Able; us
the aid of the military to geed (Bette bailees ; and it W as, s,
tin-
Cesiary to know, at the egtablisturtent of a new (;4w4unii;t ter itt
commencement of a new era, whether it was foureled en the :•eeetieos
ef the people ur on . :tries of the miiitery. To g) oi. ei.)-t's..at it
was danurOus, and he would cow eel them not to pursue it. l ale
mightiest Sovereiens of England had always found themselves soften in
preserving and living in the aftletions of the people. The good Quec n
Elizabeth, when she was asked wi:ere were her Royal Guards ? by 1 ire
Spanish Ambassador, pointed to the people passing before the Valece
windows, and said " the people are my Guerds, they are all my levels."
In opposition to the maxim of that sagacious Princess, the ,viiiiisters
might counsel the Regent that hifi safety lay in the sword. The Parlia-
ment created and cherished an army once which finally tooled than
out of doors. These troops crept in with the same harmless appear-
ance as the Barrack system, but they soon altered their peaceeiok ..le-
meanour. The Lord Chesterfield exclaimed, %s lit a dangers were prior.
ta to arise from a standing army of 17,000 men, in the reign of Lirtuar"

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