The Sun.
London, England, 1806-01-09 00:00:00

ADDIT/O L FORCE ACT.

The Itlinwinzr Circular Le,:tvr from LOrd TIAw Kts-
BURY, (kited Wil;telial4 • DtC..2 1 ilaS been trans-
mitted to,the Lord Lieutenants of Counties :

" MY LORD,

" Upon careful inspection of the number of men
raised by the reTeaive counties under the Additional
Force Aci, it sppearslhat, Out of the 91 counties,
and, places consiJered as counties, under the anus
Laws, of which. Great -Britain is composed, three-
',fifths of the whOle number of men raised by Parish
Officers have'been furnished by ten . counties, and
those. On-an average,'not peculiarly favourable to the
levy of men tin- military service ; that above five=
si-:t:s of the whole have been supplied by twenty
Counties ; and that of the remaining 7 t counties, 2b
have not forald a single man by their Parish Officers.
It also appears, from the reports lately received
from the Lieutenants of the several a o nines in whit')
they were -calied on to state the causes that had hi-
therto ob3tritaed the execution 'of the Ad within
their resliedive, counties, that, in addition to certain
impediments, which it will requite the intervention
of the Legislature_to remove; the failure was chiefly
to be attributed to the supineness and inadiiity of.
the Parish Officers, resulting principally, as they
conceived, from their ignorance Of the'provisions of
the At, of the mode of executing their- duty, and
of the advantages resulting both to themselves and,
to their parishes from their carrying the Law into

In order to afford to Parish Officers all the ne-
cessary information for the dire-Ction of their con-
duck, to relieve, the Deputy-Lieutenants from the
troublesome detail of instruding men in their duty,
and to facilitate to the parishes-the transfer of their
Lecruits to the Receiving Parties so soon as raised;
1 :is IVlajesty's Government have-:thought it em)e-
di.,.nt that an intelligent Officer Should be direCted
to make a circuit through each county for the pr.-,
prse of meeting the-Parish Officersin, the. manner.
least inconvenient to them; and of giving them its
fOrmation anri assistance -on the spot.
t is hoped by an inspection of this nature,repeated.
at stated intervals,, untii the full quota has been sup-
plied, assisted by intermediate reference to the Of-
tcer 'charged with this duty, in case of any thing
particular oceurring, that the service may be, ma-
terially ; and I haVe received X.ineS
commands most earnestly to requeSt. your Lordship
to make _an immediate arrangement Within your
'county for the assembly of the Parish Officeri on.
successive days, within a convenient distance of
their own homes, notifying.the dayS and places of
assembly I:6 the Officer, who is directed to report
himself' to. yoUr Lordship, and to the Clerk of Ge-
neral _Meetings of Lieutenantcy as charged with the
above duty; and I am further to request your Lord-.
ship will cause some Civil Officer, fully'infornied
of, the proceedings already taken
.under the Ad
Within the county,: :ad to whom a suitable allowance
IA ill he made for his trouble avid loss of time on the
occasion, to, accompany the Officer in the circuit
he is directed to make."

LONDINIANA.