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It EP EA,L OF THE ADDITIONAL FORCE ACT.

tleman.- He hed'noobjet'tion to see the experiment
tried : but. it should be without risking the dimitili-
tion of the existing Airny. ~ It was contended, that
unleSS,%the pra&ice w 4 general, it would give-rise to
inconsistent anditividkeus dislEtions. BLit he Main-
pined, that there..wOnld be a vist expencg and in-
Convenience in re-engaging the men, if ;it was general.
'feneral LOFTUS had voted for 'the Additional
Force .40, jib the-hope that it would have been ef-
feetuaL If the parishes had raised the men, he was
sure the 'Mt- would.- have been highly beneficial;
for local knsONVledge and personal connexion would
have prevented 'desertion! But the Parish Officeis,
insteadpf raising the men theinselves;raised them by
the interventiou -of recruiting sergeants and crimps,
and thus the- benefit was lost. A certain diStrie-t
which had to fUrnish sixteen .men, *bad pbtained
them from. -London,' by' the aid of a recreiting-
serjeant ; they were taken 'down and 'passed; and
the next mernieg-fourteen of the sixteen deserted.
Thus it was the ordinary' recruiting, and the high
bounties, that-found the men ; and .Ministers were
deceived if they thoUght men would engage-for gtiall-
sums, when' the Country had been so long accustom
ed to these high bounties. He thought the -enlist:
merit for a terra of yeai; must be produ6tive : he,
had himself been employed to recruit fora term of
years in the American War ;, when the general re:/
cruiting was Slack men were 'easily obtained, and
no inconvenience was felt but he Would have
the engagement for a term of 2 years, whether it Was
for five years, or seven years, always coupled with a
concurrent engagement-during War. It would geL
ilerally happen, that the Men, on- 'revisiting their
hoines, we-uld return and engage'forlife. He was
Sure the improvenient of Chelsea would give infinite
se( isfaCtion, and' do vast service, particularly in -ex-
empting these Veterans from the hardship of being
called out after 21. years service ; • now they had not
thateelOMption till after 25 years.
Lord DE BLAQUIERE said a few 'words in a very
low tone; in support Of the enlistment for a term of
years_
Mr: YORKE was sure that the Right Honourable
Secretary having suffered the whole of the busi-
ness to proceed with such a dignified silence; could
not now be moved to depart from that silence by any
thing he co:114 say. lie claimed a right to discuss
every- part of the Plan the Right Hon.Gentleroadhad
stated. 'The Right Hon. Gentleman had concluded
his statement with a Motion for the repeal of this
Aft, and thereby establish a connexion which every
one had a right to :preserve. Ile thought the other
,parts of the Plan ought to be brought distinatly before
the House, and not he suffered to operate,longer upon
the Army and the Country in the loose forms that
report had given to them. He had opposed the
Additional Force Bill when it was brOught for-
ward, not on the principle, which was the same
with .that of-the Arniy of Reserve Act brought for-
Ward by- him, but on the Mode of applying the
principles. He thOught it very wrong not to preserve
the ballot in some,shape. It was a system the Country
had beep accustomed to for above halt' a century, and
that had contributed much to give us the greatest
Military Force (fer he considered the Naval Force as a
etilitary,. one) that any Conntry of the same-popula-
tion ever, had. He feared the Right. Honourable
Gentlemen -had no better ieasen for repealing this
Bill than some prejudice caught when they: were
on the side of the House opposite that where they
now sat, and a sort of obligation, as-they thought;
to redeem the pledges they had given. But let
them recoiled that they .were the sworn servants of
the Crown, and bound to . give the best advice
in their power, without_ prejudice or partiality.—
This Bill had been more efficacious than he ex-
peCtecl„ It produced 10,000 men annually in
aid of the Army. The average of the ordinary re-
cruiting was 12,000. The average redu&ion by
casualties, including the men discharged at the Peace
of Amiens, was 15,000. The ordinary recruiting was
therefore short of the casualties by 3000 ; but cou-
pled with the Additional Force Ad, •it exceeded it
by 7000. It-was prudent to calculate en a probable
loss of n'large proportion of our Army, in case the
French should invade us. There were losses in every
battle. It was therefore necessary to have a large
subsidiary.
.force. He preferred the Army of Regerve
Mt, and the ballot, to this A&; but as this 'Act found
such a number. of men in conjundien with the or-,
dinary recruiting, he would not have it repealed.-=-
He thought it herd, that five weeks after the general
statement, the House had yet no means of judging
of the particulars of -the . Right Hou. Gentleman's
new measures. , There was not any calculation of the
numbers that were likely to quit the Army on the
expo-ation of the first period; nor how many of them
engaged for five years in the Arnerimit War, had re-
enlisted at the expiration of that period. The Right
Honourable Gentleman's Plan was not founded on
British pra6tice, nor on British principles. It never
had been the pradice of a wise nation to discharge its
Soldiers in tinge of War. He did not like imitating
the practice of the French Monarchs, when the
French Armies were beat by-the English and the.
Pressaiis. He would rather imitate the French
pra&ice now ; for though he was *sure the English
were capable of beating them, they, had .beat every
other nation. He still pressed the maintenance of
the ballot: for if in consequence of the disuse of 'it
a Militia c 0614 not be raised on the breakine out of
a War, 'the Ministers who should have laid it aside
would deServe to lose their heads.

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Mr. WI:IC 16FIAN moved
,the Order of the Day for
the third 'reading of the: Bill fOr repealing the Addi-
tionalfaree.Aat.

Sir J. PULTENEY defended the course of pro
ceeding in opposition to the Bill.' It was impossible
Government Could ask the repeal of a Bill of this im-
portance without giving some reasons for it: He sup-
posed those reaso..is to be contained in the military
details the Right - Hon. War Secretary had unfold-
ed in the speech with which he had prefaced his 'no-
' tion for leave to bring in this Bill, and therefore it
Was fair to consider this Bill with reference to those
details. One part of the Right Uon. Gentleman's
. plan he highly appr(34ed, and that was the improve
ment of chel.i,ea. • A soldier's condition did nut pen-
Mit the acquisition of much property. It was, there-
fore, fit that.the State he served 'should provide as
well as it could with propriety do, for his comfort in
the decline of life. He considered the plan inecient
Misrany present purpose ; and he thought it ex-
tremely unwise to fieek for distant and Specu!-Itive ad-
vantages at-such a risk as it tended immediately to
create: It' had been said that an immediate increase
-tobur Regular Force was necessary, and he had heard
that. measnres A 0 that effeccl Were to have been pro-
posed by the-late Chan6ellor of the Exohequer. But
this plan had nothing immediate in it; The object
WEIS to Mist inpn' for a shorter'time,. in the-opinion
that they wonld7engage in greater numbers,. and that
on the expiration' of the terM, they would engage'
again, qr others' would more easily be found in their
room. This was zi speculation in which heWas'not •
s:) sanguine as the Right Rononrable Gentleman ;' but
at all , events 110 was-averse to the diminution of the
Aany during war. - Of the fourteen' General Officers
Wilo.;-ie opinons. had: been taken on this point, eleven
were decidedly. against discharging, the meh in time
of War ; the other three were not so decided, becanse
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that part of the question
,had not come under their -
Consideration, Jt was not the pra6tice of any'country.
in Europe to discharge men in tithe of War, thOugh
their term of Servicemay
,have expired.. The ordoh-
valice of the French Mimarchy, in 18!8, contained
,an express exception ti) discharging the men in time
of War, though thoir service of eight
.1-Tars may have
expired ' they had only no additional- allowance per
in 'n.,11 the clhi of the War, when they were dis-
Charged. He 'thoughts the Second Battalions, ender
the ArMy of Reserve. Act, and the Additional Force
Aas, the best system for keeping dp the Army of this
52ountry;• and he could not consent ;to the repeal of
the'Aeditienal Force Ad, until a better system was,
ffeee'd than bit proposed by the' Rig ht tion;Gen..

Colonel EYRE considered' the Bill for the repeal
Of the Additional Force Mt not as part of the Right
Konotrable Gentleman's PlaD, but as miking way
for It. When this impediment was removed the Plan
-wbuld'come after.. The Additional Force Mt \vas'a
bad MeaSure; and therefore it was right to &et rid
Of it. This he said, considering it without reference
to any thing else. If it had n,,t produced the men
by the ever boos 'of the parish, officers, but by a com,
petition which checked the ordinary' recruiting, the
mischief was evident: The A& it was said had become

operativ6 from the thne that it had been explained by
the Inspeding FieldOf:leers. He disliked this expla-
nation. These were not the constitutional explainers
hut the Deputy Lieutenants. 'They were better
explainers to the Crimps than to the. Parish Officers,
and therefore the men' were not' had for less than .26,

guineai. if ' redu:Jibil was not made in this, the
country would not have less than 6,000,0001. to ex-

pencl in. bountiei. It was not only a more efficient
system that was necessary, but a more economic one:
The improvement of the condition of the. Soldier

would a-tfbnl gr,;:at inducements to enter into the ser-

vice. The lli-hitation of the term would also attrAct

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reater numbers, mad better men.: -Theieetliiiige • ;nee c dis Obedience I t would be better to c:eleae
Would tend to improve the cherader of the Soldier, 1 the phraseology, of 'Ads in future,. and submit thee..
which was alio e'tnost essential point: '. to tile good sense, wisdom, and discretioi-tof the
.211,-. Secretary iVI NDH4 ill eveuld say a few cords People. He deprecated the triumph which had been
on etie preseut.queatien, *hough -theyery 'able Oh- assumed over a measure..originating with a gaeat arici
nervations made by the Hon Gentleman: who had illusrricese . Statesmase If .he might judge' 'from
just sat down, and for which he considered 'himself what the Right Honourable Gentleman had said, he
.much indebted to him, almost rendered -any thing really believed that he had not even read the Ad.
from him superfluous. , it was rot necessary fler'him . which henotv proposed to Repeal. • The Right ko,
to account for his Silepce,ol4 the last occasion,- When noorable Gentleman had talked a. great deal on a
this busineSs was discussed : that. silence seemed to fin-tiler night of the blind Cyclops, that after a good
have been deemed eienturpeliogs, but uptruly. The deal of puffing and hammering had produced a most
fiet Was,' that the -Geptiemen oppos'ite hide on that defariae measure. He Would tell that Right Hon.
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occasion, spok,ep-on every thing but the question be- qentlerp4n, however, that with all his 'accuracy, it
foie the frouie.. He did tiot depy their right to go would befpund necessary to insert a Clause in the
into_ collateral subjects; all lie said was, that; in Bill before the House, to remedy an omissive to
that case; it did not become' necessary to reply provide for the wives and children of the soldiers
to • thein. They had almost entirely confined theme who, were raised under the Anna, of Reserve Ad.
selves to observations on what 'had nothing to do This Clause might be introduced by way of a little
with the ,Addifirepal Force Ad-e-the intended mea• rider in the Hee. Gentleman's triumphal car.
sure's, ail 'outline' of which he bad formerly sub- * Air, tSHERIPAN replied to the arguments that
mitted to the IfouSe. NoW. were those measures
_had just been urged. It would seem as ifthe Hon,
ever'so bad, they had nothing to do with. the repeal pentleman opposite had held a Council pf Vv and
pf the Additional_ Force Att. ,At -any rate they had deieemined, iit discussileg the merits of the mea-•
were not more connected with the consideration of sure, to avoid eayipg any thing about it. He went
it than it was itself:' The triode of discuseion which minutely into the consideretien pf the Additional '
the Hen. Gentlemen opposite had adopted, Was," as if Force eld, and contended, with his Right Hon.
at an entertainment every one should be a guest but Friend, that it had not been successful, except m in-.
the master of the house * After dwelling for some stances in which its success had been obtained by 4
fiine 91 the nature 91• the Papers before the House, great injury to the general recruiting, by the intro-
he observed, that when in the first debate on this , dediett•of vice, and by a grpss yiolatipn of the Law..
'subject he had beard a Noble LOrd opposite express J The indeMeity was demanded by justidea--for it
a diSrelish fel- theM--ewlien he found that the Noble ►, -Would haee been
.ai easy for the Parishei to bare,
Lord had lost his taste for Papers, (like Sir R. De furnished elephants and rhiupcsrosof ae oseasless'aile
CoVerfey; when he lost his roast beef appetite) lie
~ terms of the 'Act. In tracing the progress oftthethought it was all over with him. ' Not being will- . • AEt, lie commented with peculiar severity on the
ing, however, idimitate the example of•the Gen-
.leetter from Lord Hawictisbury tp the Deputy Lieu-
denten opposite on this eubjed, 'he would confine tenants of Counties, dated the 31st of Decemher
himself to the consideration of the A&; the repeal , last, Which he considered as Most atrocious, and as
of which was now before' the House. ' For a year , involvieg in it a higherime and Misdemeanor, and
after it tad passed nothing was heard' of *it—not s a gross violation of the Law: ' From any particitias
only in the town but- in the country. Every bOdz '' tion in that Letter he completely acquitted the great
was asking what had become of -it:. At last, it was Character. whom the Country had lost. The- .till
considered dead. The') came the faniqus Letter froM before the House had. been called a triumph • ovgi
Lord Illawkesbury, and, as appeared by 'the first vo- th4t great- man ; and something had been said of
lume of Papers on the Table, a kind of coroner's hatred being entertained to his memory,. for one
Inquest sat on the Ad. AS it seemed to be the fa- he diselaiined such a feeling. '.l*hrough, that ita
shion in modern novels, to begin instead of to end f lustriouesCharader's whg,e llfe he had been wal,
with a marriage, by way of giving a newiturn, and fortunate enough to be in opposition to him; but
astonishing their readers, so the details 'in these he did full justice to his transcendent talents*, to hit
Papers commenced with the death. of the hero of . matchless eloquence, to hiS noble independence.
them. He should be' very unwilling to dispbey the sw-ery human creature had failings : among his
admonition de mortals nil, nisi tonum,' but the fa& S'were too great an impatience of controul, and top
was that, he was not really deed-.. This was some great a love of power; but he firmly believed that
suspected. A looking-glass was applied to his moutle, in all his undertakings he was solely actuated by a
and at was with joy found that he stained it with 'his • wish to secure the greatness and indepeedence qt
breath. Immediately the whole apparatus cf the. his Conntry.
Humane Society was set to work. Bellew's, flannels, The Bill was then read 3 third time without e
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hot water, and friCtion, were used with -persevering division.
industry, and by slow degrees resuscitation began to , On the question that the Bill do pass, a conver-
take Place. The Ad, it seemed, ekes .tike those,aro- I sation .toole place en a suggestion made by Mr.
matte plants which would not yield their scent until 1 PERCtVAL to adjourn the debate till to-morrow, in
they had been chafed and rubbed a little. -Its title E order to allow time for preparing a Clause by Way
was to provide a permanent foree. - Now it did any . of rider to the Bill,. re-einideig . the Clauses of th.,
thing, and every thing but t'eat. -It had a mortal Army of Reserve Ad which gaye a provision to the
,principle in its stamina, which. must bring it to a' - wives and families"
,Of the 'men enlisted under that
conclusion. Its success must be fatal to it.' He was Ad. The Motion that the Bill do pass was ulti=
aware that it might be said,.and said truly, that theee • mately withdrawn ; and the further proceedings oe
'could be no danger_of its the's, by its suCcess, *come ,the third wading of the Bill were adjourned till to-
misting a felo de se on itself. But he contended, . morrow for the purpose proposed.
that if it could succeede'euc:i must be the conse- ' Lord HENRY PETTY moved 'the Oeder of the
quence ; for if the Aa should,send to the Regular Day for a Committee of the whole House to take
Army a greater number than 9000 a 'year, it then into consideration His Majesty's most ' graciente
wopld becoMe a losing cohcerfi—for what it fiw- Message.
Dished more would go. inadiminutionof its quota, ' .0p the question that the Speaker do leave the
and therefore it would soon supply the casualties, on . Chair, . •
.9000 men.. And if the Bill were thus to succeed, Mr. s.roexe took- the opportunity of putting a
how would it succeed? By cutting up all the regular question to the Right Honourable Secretery, 'When '
recruiting; bj introducing- into the Parishes every he proposed to bring forward the Bill which had
kind of low and debasing vice; • by, inducing the been ordered, as it would be for 'the convenience;
Churchwardens; these keepers of morels, those grave •of Gentlemen to be acquainted with the precise
and sad men, whose business was to, shut up ale- f. day.
houses, and by inducing Constables; whose civil. j ' Mr. Secretary Wneretteat replied, that if he was
duty should teach them trekeep the-Jiing's peace, to prepsered to name a day, the eueetion of the' Ho,
go about like so many•Serjeant Kites, telling droll uctarable Gentleman Would be unnecessary: He
stories, and singing jolly songs, such as -
,
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"we shall lead more happy lives ' name the day. ,
By getting rid of brats and wives; - Mr. YORKE, as the Bills had been some time since
Who scold awe brawl both night andliaye .
• • ordered, thought that it might he competept to any,
. ~ Over the hills and far away."
After all this depravation of eharader and conduct Member to move auother order that they, be forth,
on the part of the Parish Officers, it was probable with brought in.
.Mr tCr•
that they would not be very. successful in their new. Secretary INDRAM observed, that -if so . 4
• profession with the Costar Pairm the Honourable Member might makea Motion on
ains and Ture
hat un- maa the subject, but could not compel him to ansWer •
Appletrees of their village, en account of t his
lucky " we;" " we shall lead, questiOn.
more happy live.." .
He remembered it had been said of tw The House then resolved into the Committee
o French • Lord Howick in the Chair: Committee,
-
Officers, one of whom exclaimed to his mere, "Go Lord lIENI-0(
_Pe EI:Tt stated, that the objed
on,•my brave lads !"- and the other, " Let
.us, go of the Resolution which he should have the honour
on, my brave lads !" that the soldiers liked the latter. to submit to, the Cc:mm'ittee was, a Grant to Earl
Officers were telling the rustics 6ftoe -
better. He . rather thought that when /he Parish '
Nelsen ofd sum of 50904 per a-nnu'in, to be charged
e merry life
on the Consolidated Fund. And also a further
which a soldier enjoyed,. that they would reply— G f - ~ l
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Grant o 190,0001.- the larger part of which was to
If you think this so merry a 'life,- why do you' be applied to the purchase of a House and Lands, t 0 -
not go and. be a' soldier ?" The effeet 'that the Act be : and, although do
necessar 'vested for ever in: his famil •
would have on• Inc morals of the people, was
_. of ' persuasion he could use, would-be to in-
itself sufficient /o warrant its Repeal. * VC,''ith re-yduce the House to adopt this Resoletiei, yet it was
gard to the ignorance which the Country had ex-
pressed on the siibjec`d, impossible for nun, unless destitute of those feelings-
t
ebjed, it was not iinigriciranee of , °ff 'which- no individual in' that House could be
he precise meaning of a particuler disuse,, but it was, A :
uestLtute not to
address a few words to the Com-
simply on the question, whether then or money .I'Zl:i . •
rilittee. on' the occasion.. He admitted that it was
desired. The* late Ministers swore till they were
one of the few gratifications lie' felt in the situation
black in the face, that the Ad wasnot intended for. he ,filled to make this application. Much as lie felt
the purpose of obtaining money. The. people evould
not believe them the necessity of economy, and a system of saving in •
; by an odd perversity of disposi- the-exi expenditure of the public money, there was co
tien, they would pay money. Why.? Because, they' - saving nor any economy 'that could ,ive knew that men could not be had by the Ad, end there- satisfabh him more
ionthan the Grant of Public Money
was the intention of the Legislature. The judga
fore they could not persuade -themselves that such . which hi e, n this instance, meant to propose—b'e- •
Ment of the many was in this instance better than couse out of this Grant the Country would derive- re -essential advantages than could be corn -
sated by any pecuniary considere' tions in PerpetuaPteinng •
that of the few. This was 3 question on. which sin,
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the influence of great example. The House would
the rustics in a Vestry were' more competent to de: ,
cide than all the Statesinen and politicians in Down-, not ex ,-, - • .
ing-street. He alluded to the censure "expressed pa mm to enter into a -statement of the
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by an Honourable Gentleman the other evening, eminent Qualities and virtues of the distinguished No=
of the Clause in theßill before the Ho
bleman whose family was the'objeft of the Grant he
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.use for . indern7
.wwas to Submit to the Committee ; but it might be
Such au indemnity could , not, be withheld .
pitying" parishes' that had failed in furnisbin„d men, was
{Permitted him to say, that in no history, not even in
Violating the maxim
the British hiStory, was there recorded any person
' •• •- " memo tenaturr.d itnpescii;i!e:"
' 1 whose life and history afforded SQ perpetual a claim
a
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on the gratitude of his Country, as the life and history
o t le I 0, e whose services he proposed to
It was, equalizing by a general remission instead of f I N 1.l Person.
'general enforcement. .
' remunerate—a life, the early adions of. which, if not
Air. PERCIPAL argued at,corisiderable. length,: , contemplated through the splendordhislaterachieve-
ageile,t the: Bill,' arid
.filor2 partial:m-1r against the I inents, were sufficient to cover his name with glory.
Clausejust mentioned,' Whether cepsidered pro- i But-his early actions had been eclipsed by the bril-
spel:.tively or retrospedivcly, the injustice -of -it was I Jiang of his subsequent exploits, and in proportion
aliu-ming,' It tended to tell the Country, that if ne- .as his age"advanceds and his experience 'increased,
cessity- rendered necessary any future harsh. Measure , in the sense proportion was ,he enabled'. te• give the
ei Leg eisla ) tien they might find iudeinnity in syste- ' fullest.fullest.effea to the portentous extent of his talenii ' •
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abilities, and r•irtues. They a?I kneiv 'the '-shde.thit
he had in tin: viaory obtained over the- Spanish Fleet
otf ,Cape St. Vincent's in the last War, and the
signal destruation of the French Fleet by that Noble
Admiral at Aboukir. It would also be remembered,
how that Noble Person bad, under the walls of
Copenhagen, dispersed the storm impending
from the North of Europe, and dissolved the Con-
federacy of the Northero PoWers. The Committee
would lastly remember the glorious Viaory obtained
by him over the remains of the French and Spanish
Navies that had escaped in the last War, which, by,
a combination of circumstances, had united, and
whose progress was some time a source of alarming
solicitude. It would not be forgotten with what
ardour and perseverance they had been pursued by
'the Noble Admiral to the West Indies, and thence
mgain back to Cadiz, mud on their first attempt to
leave that Port, he brought them to that a6tion
which terminated so gloriously for the arms of Bri-
tain, and in which he so unfortunately fell. Such a
death, however, was worthy of 'such a life ; and it.
might be said of that Noble Person as had been said
to a great man of antiquity—" Tit fidix Agricola,
non tantum felicitate vitae sed opportuntate mortis,"
The Grant proposed was to be a living proof and
testimony to, all future ages, that no-difficulties, no
distress, however great, could extinguish the libera-
lity, or narrow the geberoSity of the British Nation,
in rewarding such talents, such virtues, and such a
life, so devoted to the service of his Country. The
-Noble Lord concluded by moving the Resolution.
161 x. ROSE wished to know whether in t he 120,0001.
%vas included any, provision for. 'the other mem-
bers of the Noble Lord's funny; or whether any far-
ther provision for them was intended ?
Lord HENRY PETtY replied, that DO,OOOl.
were to be laid out-in the purchase of a mansion and
lands, to be annexed to the title ; that 10,0001. were
to be given to Earl Nelson, to make such reparations
or improvements therein as he should deeth neces-
sary, and that 10,0001. each were. to be granted • to
Lie Lordship's two sisters.
Mr. ROSE expressed great satisfnEtion at the
Statementof the Noble Lord, because be knew that
nothing had been so near ' the heart of that NOble
person, now no more, as some provision, for thoge
sisters.
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Mr. FRANCIS did not mean to oppose a Reso=:
lution which went to reward en-tine-tit services. These
were times of great services and of great liberality
but it should be remembered also, that they were
tithes of great difficulty and distress. The Grants
Proposed were ,greater than the Rewards that, had
been given to Lord 'Chatham, or to John, Duke of
Marlborough.
Mr-ROSE stated, 'that 'a sum of '5.10,0001. had
been expended 'on Blenheim alone for the Duke of
Marlborough, besides the Manor of Woodstock,
granted 'him by the Crown.
General TARLETON had always been 'an ad-
hiker of the military glory of the Duke of Marlbo-
rough'; but his Vi&ories bad not been achieved by
English Armies exclusively. Lord Nelson, on the
ontrary, had conquered with British Fleets. Never
bad triumphs been more completely English than
those ;acquired by him.,
Mr. 'WILBERFORCE bore testimony to the
andeharader of the Mike of Marlborough.
He admired the.principlOupon which the Hon. Gen-
tleman -(Mr. Francis) had spoken, but was of opi-
nion, that no reward for the services of Lord Nelson
could be excessive, and he 'only wondered bow the
Noble Lord could 'top short where he did. Fortunes
were larger now than in the time of the Duke of
Alarlbdrough, and the-Grant was no more than -stif-
•tcient for ale 'situation of the filthily. He recom-
mended that the lands and mansions should be pur-
chased in some place where they might be insight
f our Fleets, to animate our Seamen, the instru-
ments 'of his Victories, to timilar achievements, by
'displaying --to their view the splendid manner in
Which The Nation rewarded -such signal services.
Mr. FEANC;IS explained.
Lord lIENRYTETTY agreed in the suggestion
Hof The lion. Gentleman '(Mr. Wilberforce). The
Idea had occurred to himself, and the Trustees, iii
whom .the money was to be vested, would, he was
sure, pay every attention to:it.
The Resolutions Were then agreed to, and the Re-
Port ordered to be-received to-morrow.
An Address was ordered to His Majesty, on the
Motion of Mr. ROSE, for Copies of the Reports of
the Committee of the Privy Council for• Trade and
Plantations, in the years 1.784 and 17411.!.
IRON DUTY BILL. • '
The Committee on the Iron Duty Bill, which
stood for Tl.u-sday next, •was, on the Wien. of
Lord H. PETTY, deferred to Thursday fortnight.--
The Noble Lord stated his reason for this Motion to
be,. that he might - have an opportunity in the inter
mediate time of proposing other Taxes in lieu of
this, which, from what had passed on a. former eight,
seemed to be disapproved of by a considerable num-
ber of very respettable Members of the House.
Mr. Rose.' and Mr. WIL,LIAM SMITH compli-
mented the Noble-Lord on his candour and mode-
ration. •
The Committee on the Property* Duty Bill :was
deferred to Thursday. •
Adjourned.

From the FRENCH and DUTCH PAPERS.

lir PARIS, MAY 4.—M soon as Prince 30SEP1l had ar-
rived in the Kingdom of Naples, he divided his Atiny
nto three Divisions. Thefirst he. laced under the Com-
mand of Maishal MAsSENA ; the. second under ST.
Cyn ; the thirdunder REGNIER. The first was ordered •
la occupy Naples, the surrounding country, and to lay
siege to Gaeta ; the second to occupy La Puglia,,the
.peninsula of Otranto and Tarento, and the shores of
the Adriatic ; the third to occupy Calabria.
The Siege of Gaeta is carried on vigorously. Our
Soldiers have apnroached the ramparts, and ereEted
some strong batteries against the fort. The second
division of the Army .had taken pOssession of the
peninsula of Otranto, of La Puglia, of Tarento, and
the Coasts of the Adriatic.
On the 20th of March General &Grim. had oc-
cupied Calabria. Prince JOSEPH himself went to
Calabria : at the beginning of April he was at Co-. 1
henka. He met with an enthusiastic reception from ;
the Calabrians. The wreck of the Neapolitan Army, .1
which had been dispersed in the mountains, had.j
united, and committed every .species .a disorder.
General \TERMER marched against them with
tbreo battalions, puriued. thexa from mouptaiu to

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mountain, ;nd from rock tO. 'rick, and killed a great
number of them, -took the ',greater part prisoners,
and re-established tranquillity; , 'General Doroutt
distinguished himself by the adivity and the courage
which he displayed in different affairs. The King-
dom of Naples is entirely subdtied.
Although we have already giVeil the details of the
various events which occurred in Calabria, our
Readers . will, we think, see a 'complete account
with pleasure. Our Troops could not display machs
courage against such bad Soldiers ; but they gave
proofs of great activity and much patience, in sup 7
porting fatigue, Calabria being_a 'country entirely
decomposed by earthquakes and vOkatioes.
On the 17th. of April Prince Jatra arrived at
Reggio, having made-a tour to the extremity of his
Kingdom. Zt is there, most probably, that he will
learn that he has been. acknowledged King of Naples.

tHere follows a long Report of the Operations of the Third
Corps ot the Army in. Calabria.l
Letters from Turin mention, that among the Pri..
soners brought from
.Naples, there is a person of the
name of BIANCHI, accused of being an accomplice
in the horrible attempt of the 3d Nivose, in the, year
8. This offender will be conducted under a military
escort to Paris:. The other Prisoners are detained in
the Castle of Fenestrelles.

Letters from Rome mention that the privy purse
of his Holiness the POPE, containing 7000 Roman
crowns, was lately robbed in the Palace of Monto
Cavallo. •

The Port of Cherboufg has obtained the advantage
of becoming a depOt fin colonial produce.
PARIS, MAY Aid-de-Camp of the KING
of NAPLES (Prince JOSEPH) has brought ten
Standards here, which were taken in the different
actions. He quitted Prince JosEpti on the 18th
April, at the moment when that Prince had been
proclaimed KING.9f NAPLES.
At the audience which took place yesterday at St. '
Cloud, Captains LUCAS and L'INFERNIT, whb have
lately arrived from England, were presented
.to his ,
Majesty. Capt. LUCAS commanded the Redoubleible,
in the Battle of Trafalgar, and- conduCted himself ,
in the most gallant manner; be attempted to beard
the Victory, Lord NELsoN's Ship., Captain
.L'IN-
FERNIT also behaved in the bravest manner. After
an unfbrtunate Affair, it is gratifying to acknowledge
such conduCt. His Majesty said to the Captains
LUCAS and L'INFERNIT, " If all my Vessels had
conducted themselves as well, as those, which you
commanded, the Vielory would have been ours. I
know that there are several who haVe not' 'imitated
'your example, but I have ordered their conduit to
be investigated. I have appointed you Commanders
of the Legion of Honour. The Captains of the
Vessels who, instead of boarding the Enemy, kept
sont of cannon-shot, shall be prosecuted, and if con•
vicard; made a dreadful example of:"
REGGIO, APRIL 20.—The new KING of NAPLES'
arrived here two days ago. The CalabrianS have
distinguished 'themselves by the reception. which
they gave their new Sovereign. Every one was
still& with the 'eloquence and purity of his language.
He speaks the Neapolitan language as well as if he
had always liVed 'At Naples.

The Striiiures on the Plyal iltissierify are unavoidably post.
paned tid Tc.rnorrow.

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wr.oNss-DAy, MAY 14, 1866.

Ma. jACKsog, the late British Minister at 'Berlin,
whose arrival in England we announced yesterday,
has,,, we 'understand., brought over with himlhe final
determinatiou.of the KiNGof PKIIstA, and we Ire
sorry that that determination is such as 'to afford.
the. most decisive proof that His Prussian Majesty
is aaing under the influence, or rather 'the 'coniroul,
of France. - in consequence ethe inforMation corn-
municatea 'by Mr. JACKSON to the British 'Govern-
ment, measures ef a6tive Hostility have 'been te-
solved upon against Prussia, and Letters .of Marque
will be 'inimediately granted ag Prussian., Bre-
riietV and Pappenburgh Vessels.: The whole of the
North d Europe will, if we are not muf± mistaken,
be involved in all the calamities of War. The
Cabinet of Berlin; it appears, has at length:deter-
mined upon the Invasion of Swedish Pomerailia..

Orders have been issued for 'reinforcing the Army
under the command of General KALKREUTIT, which
is on the frontiers of Pomerania; and it is said that
the command of the Expedition is to be entrusted
to the veteran Meld-Marshal 4.VioLLEtcnoay.

WE yesterday stopped the Press to state the ar-
rival of French Papers to the 7th inst. and we have
since received Dutch Papers to the nth. They
add-very little to the intelligence brought by the'
Mail. The Russians) so far from having evacuated
Cataro, are natively employed in strengthening
themselves in that quarter, and have taken posses-
sion of the island of Cuzola but upon this subjeet

the French Pipers preserve a marked silence. With
respect to Naples, it. is asserted in general terms that
the whole of that Kingdom has submitted to the
French, and that the Inhabitants have testified the,
most lively joy on the exclusion of the old. Dynasty,
and the appointment of JOSEPH BONArARTE to be
their King. This, statement; however, does not
. accord with the Proclarriation lately issued by
- Prince Joseph, in which he declares that the
retell ous 'Condua of his new • subjects have
toreod him to -adopt measures 4..4' extraordinary

severity, .cratraiy to tiro vellticahn• clemency' of his
•
digposition...-:-The-rortre§s. of Qact4 is at presed too
insignfficaq to be noticed in the Avinteur, though
if it should dn'fortanately be 'convened to surrender,
that Official P*er will diScover its importance. .

Lora HENRY PETTY yesterday moved to postpone
the consideration of the Pig lion iitiity Bill till to-
morrow fortnight, and signified that he:should in the
mean time-endeavour to discover some atibstitute that
may be less' objedionable.

.:" a., •
Mr.'PLomtk continued his defence <A Lord MEL-
VILLE this morning, with great earnestss and force
of argurnept.. The Hall was not so wi.4l. attended
as Yesterday.r, particularlythe Galleries. .

TWo Over-land Dispatches Were yesterday t•er..ei-
ed'at the India House. The intelligence by.thls Con-
veyance, we are happy, to find, confirms Or forgier
statement of a Treaty of .Peace and Amity
been concluded between the British Government acct
ScusimA. BesideShich the Dispatches annotk•y
the important fait of HOLKAR, reduced to the utmost
distress, having sent Vakeels on the 23d of Decem-
ber, to the Camp of General Lord LAKE, to entreat
of his Lordship t6.grant him such terms of Peace as
his justice and humanity might dictate. HOLKAR
was.reduced to the necessity of thus throwing himself
Upon the mercy of his Opponent, not only from 'the,
severe piivations Which lie hut so long endured, but
from the circumstances of 'his having been deserted
by almost the whole of his 00-icers, and a great part of
his Troops. The overture of 1.*3 submission having
been made so far back as the mouth of Decenaber,
there can remain no doubt of all matters ha‘ving ere
this been completely adjusted ; and hence .May the
expeaation be reasonably entertained, that tjie next
advices will announce the re-establishnient 4f a Ge 7
neral Peace in India, upon a permanent and lasting
foundation.

Yesterday, at twelve o'cloCk, THEIR MAJESTIES
and the PRINCESSES arrived at the Queen's Palace
from Windsor. .
About two o'clock HER MAJESTY and the PRIN-
CESSBS honoured Lady C. FINCH with a visit, and re-
turned to the Palace at three. The DUES of KENT
and CUMBERLAND dined With HER MAJESTY. In
the evens g' THEIR MAJESTIES had a seleet party.
HER- MAJESTY Will hold a 'drawing•roonm to-
morrow.

Au Order arri'v'ed at Stettin on the 2gth ult. to
prevent Swedish vessels (several lying there) from
clearing out.
A Convoy i 3 appointed to sail fi-orn Leith Roads
for Archangel on the. 20th inst.