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system at this rate, , we should. consider -whether' it
equai to what we migh t obrain for the same sum in
another shipe. He -maintained,.. that when •locked
Lip .corps,, the men were not k apr.!-.ile of being Of
the same use in aiding,a, -regular army as when left
loose., Be did not.,meart. that .they should be
entirelY-without conibination. Even the Tyroleans
could not be of use -unless they were combined in
some way. • trained them id bodies it was
best to leave thorn tinOrribined till the time Of call-
ing them into aaio.n. It would be always ki the •,
powerort,ae King,.by his prerogative, to array them
as it shotild seem-fit, i nti me ofinvasion or alarin of in-
Vasion. The 'stronger men, and these of better age,-
may-then-be- formed into Corps, and the rest fell'
loose. Whether- vi&orious-or otherwise, in the-first
onset, there would be a loss, to. supply, fot which
we . would-. have - the whole- alive population of
the Country ready trained. This, done the Coon-,i
.try was,- invincible. Our, .Artuy„ howeyer reduc-,
ed, was always sure of an immediate supply : like
th,.!.thy the 'children use,..-compOsecl of sub-.
stake at one-end and'a'beavy substance At theother,i
it would always right.itself, after an overthrol.v like
Antxus, it would rise from the earth with :fresh`
vvrour, and whatever force wits brought against it, it)
must-prevail in Ifie end: :It AVII• .;)etter to t ll the ra
cancies in the reiments..-with individuals, than to sttp:i
ply,the general loss in the:field with Corps to the sanle;
amount. It was,better-to fill up-five skeleton •regi--1
meats by the incerNration of -•5-0(}O men, than tp).
vtid freSh Corps to ,the. atrio•tint of :10004nerrto fight
with .the?,e. skeletons.: Th6se were, the ideas that go-"
vented him, and on wl:ich a wise and permanent
system may be establishecl'aradually,-, for he was`nci
friend tosudden change. •• The VOlunteers may gra•
=
-dually bes.'brought to•'tlle •state described iu 170,
in a letter' Of Lord 0-renVille to the Lords
tenants of COninies;•. so that they Nk•roiald cdriSist
of the better sort .of men trained. *at their 'OiVn ex
pence. The rest of flee~ . men-- .of 'military age -he
would have trained,- if pnssityle, -Without having. re
course-to compulsion, anclemproyed as occasion May
require, either individually or in detached bodies.-4
In order to effe& this, the first objet c. was; to reduce.,
the scarcely thlerable expence of the present Volun-
teer System. No longer looking to the. Volunther4
as opponents- in the field to the regnlar force of the
Enemy, he would relax :their discipline, and retrench
their- allowances. . He would leave their allowance's
infinitely above what they ought to be, though much
below what they were poky. The redudian would
-nut be carried into effeCt till there was a force to re 7
place the Volunteers. But it was to be understood,
that in reducing Volunteer Corps the men were not
lOtit, they remained on the spot, with the advantage
of all their training, capable of being combined again
and employed as occasion might require ; whereas
a regiment once . dispersed was lost for ever.—
The present expence:of the-Volunteer establishment
could not he 'borre‘ It was, however, • a new.
• species of partnershipbetween the Government and
the individuals,' the wli,ole charge of which' would
tbe 'soon -throWn on' the Government • so that the
:Country would soon have-to pay 10,000,0001. instead
• of for three-years" and a -half of Volunteer ser-
vice, The' nUmbers of the Volunteers '*ould be
'reduced in proportion as the-allowances -were. With-
-drawn: not: think pure 'voluntary training
could 'be therefore, however relnaltutly, he
,ihetild have -reolarse,tO.corrip.tds'ion, but .that
traliiort shoUld'hii as as posSible. The. Gentle=
°then .Uri.: the (Aer side mtly assured them,
not like ;compuisiop the better
iai its "bei a:tct% eti ti-Qnitheiri.shw.. He _retuein-
• 'toted. vkie;ri they:we're un the 'ben ti Vliet he now
sit; how many compu is, or v .ACIs they, I>ilssed : how the
whcie smithy . was :it -vvork-liiiw they' labourpd
abtrat Anithur iif:Mars-1,--a set- of Cyclops, more
blind ..than their one-eyed brethen 5 till they-had
locked the Coo airy. in arino;lr,
•auid cunt-
'brow., that it was'tinahle'to nioii,-;•4t *as One or
•the advantagesbilliS Plan that' it conldbe!easily got rki -
-:of if -it was tioellitineraS beneficial as he hoped :
E.
Nv40,,t0 be . 'farceout a year hot: to be renewed
unless it ,should be found advantageons:, be_
•-waVsirnply .tra*theinilitkirpOPulatia.
• • try irainint 'was- to e'ileburaged as' much `ls. pas:-
-sible. He followed the .example of the lion. Gen-
. .11ernati opposite (Mr. Yorke).and _trod _aS much as
• possible. on
,old..thundations. On the %principle.. of
:the Levy7en7masse: A&, his Plan gave ,the prefer-
-price to voluniary training ; ,but Witha power of
resorting to cOmpulston, if- necessary •: it,Weiatalse
• •to as-iert the King's prerogative right to every_
p
• service:in •sescif.invasion. excluded the exception-
able part of that A&, the training of all.alasses46:-
tc:ether. This obje&ton 'was on of the reasons of
pis preferring the Volunteer System to. the Levy,.en-
- 4/f1.4.5.e, ,though that Volunteer Systeni-soon after
.t.c.o-k -a false :shape. The:first :part of the • Reduc-
tion he would 'propose in the Volunteer Expellees
NvouKl be a substit'htion of the June-Allowances for
the August -Allowances,. of a training of-twenty-
six days to:a training of .2
i 3 days. The total illedue-
*Coo that would be thus made on the Estimate of
year, I,479,oool.'exclusicie of
(-lotiting,. the 'costof.winch was 341,0061. would be
12,78,0001; The Allowances.- to Yeomanry
`would
be reducpd from f:?.01.-. Troop to a math The
saving by this liedudion..wouldnot be very great, but
:the allowances-of-i2Ol •a Troop .was far -too much ;
a mail -Vas 'fully 'sufficient. The of
-Officers' pay in the substitution of the June esta-
.blishinent to theAugust.,'establishment was 210,000 i .
A reduetien of the allowances and pay to Drill-kr-
Jeants, .the present number of_wlioin was far
.beyond
what was necessary, would afrbrcl 54,75 71. Under
•, the head of perinanerit duty, .a reduaion of no less
an lamount than :300,0001,may. be •Inade. It was the'
, unanimous opinien that the Inspecting .Field-Officers.
• may be spared, and that their bu,:iness would be as.
-trell-executed--brete•lorri-Lientenant,-or the Civil
01-Feets 'under Thi4 Would yield a -saving 0f-
.35,0001. Then Suppression of the marching. guineas
.paid by the'ReceiVer-beneral; a most improper 61;
-lowance; would yield.l(3 8,1001: miking` a total re-
duftion Of 1378,0091. These reductions lie,proposed,
not froin_any hostility to the-Volunteer-System, but'
with a view to the necessary iffiprOvethent in the Ali-
-litary Stale-of the' Country. The VOlunteerlabdies:,
were still preserved for all thoe who' wrveLl • in
- them tbr any, other motive than What they,:,gcit.
would afibrd .a more desirable station for training to,,
thoSe who .mail be 'unWilling to be trained" with the;
mass.. 'Tliis oppOrtunity was-icr-tireni t • suffreient,l
. reward. Till's with ThSpe.6. ;itieli• Volimmers as -!
would enter , to whom -Governmen
would not alloy,- any thing 'but arms.' To .those now

,oti foot pay WOhid be. allowed, beCatiae they lead bee!
hitherto in the: habit of receiving it, though if the
institution were to commence now, it would not be
right to grant-it. They.wouldlfive the privilege
being required, to ,serve.only in their own Corps, if
called out. -With respe6t to the- mode of, corlipul-•
sion,fif compulsion should be necessary- to; carry the
training into effect, a seleetion should be made of that
. portion of the mass that should be trained, in every
year, for.the training of the whole would be, if not
impraelicable, at least inconvenient. For the pur-
pose of making this seleetion, he could find no other
means than to havesecourse to lot 5 that species of
lot familiarly -called ballot, was the most convenient.
' He hoped it would not now be attended with its for-
! mer -terrors. The age at Which service would' be re-
. quired was:from AO to 40. Those between these
' limits would be divided into three classes,--the first-
class to comprehend all. from 16 to- 24—the second,
all from 24 -to 32-,-and the third, all from 3`:4
to:40: It would !be Wt... to the Crown to apply
the.potver of calling out which of these classes it
. should please. The number of days -of training was
to. be 26 ; the men to 'be allowed :a shilling-as a com-
pensation for the loss of their half-day's work. .Vo-
' luntary training were. to be accepted at the discre,.
tiocrof the Officers, and to-go in diminution of'the
ballot; There ,I'.'as not to be- any particular cloth,
nor were the men to be embodied ; but.-it was to he
in the power of the Crown to coiled them within 14
-days in-some town, for the purpose of tilore -needy
training.; those who absented themselves from ain-
ii<tg
f`on any-other 'ground than _serving in 'Volunteer:
•COrais- were to be subje6t to a fine. The trainity,
was to be performed by detachments of Militia, 04
•Of Regiments now nominally..conneded with
theCatioties, which Would,, by. this, gain a real
conue6tion' that ivould enable them to recruit itinch
better than the Parish Officers. :. They would exert •
themselves -in the training, in the hope of 'after-
Wards getting the men in o their ow n Regiments. This
Would employ to advantage the 57 Battalions created
before man was got, and waiting; like oysters at
lOw• ebb, for the-return of the -tide .to.nll them.. The
Officers who had been colle&ted to these Battalions,
with lunch inconvenience to• the. service, could not
be sent adrift without hardship. These :skeleton
Battalions would now be 'turned into these, and'
would have an opportunity of getting SO= flesh
upon their bones.-- This Bill, for which 57 Batta-
lions had been created,lad not filled futiellattalions;
all that it had doue' was to supply 000. men to the
Line ; all that could be expe:ted 'from it, if con-
tinued in full vigour, was to supply as'many every
year, and that in a' very bad Way. The Militia
should now be considered' as-part of the established
Army; and for home service it was certainly equal
to any other part of our force, with the single ex-
ception that it had never- seen service; and if it
should have to .meet the Enemy's attack on British
ground, the hiittle iu which' it would have to filet
for the existence of its Country would be the first
it would have seen. If it should be necestary again
to till up the Militia, it should be done by means' of
a recruiting limited bounty .as. in, Ireland. The
Irish Militia would be left on its present. footing.
It was desirable,- however, by all possible means, to
engage the .whole. of the Irish Militia-to enter into
The Line, if by-conferences with the Irish Govern-
Meat-- the 'Officers of the Irish Militia could 'be
iti-
duced to accede. The clothing to the Volunteers
would he:given this 'year, but without any pledge
that it would be given again.' With respe&' to lank,
he hoped no Volunteer Officer would have-any•dif-
liculty allow to Officers of the Line the recom-
,Petice,they were 'entitled to ; at least none ,that he
knew ')Ould have any, such ditficult. To 'claim
foi• property or .birth,-to the prejudice of men
Who had fought foi' their military distinaion in the
ernot6t-,cluarters- of:the ,Globe; was equally shame-
-fal to •:those Who- made -the 'claim, and those who
allowed it.' • He shduld propose that no Officer. of
the tine of a higher rank than that, of Captain, nor
any Caplain'crimniandina a Corps, should be cow-
hianded an'Orfleer of°Volutiteers. When an Of-
ficer. of Tli'd tine-Was ,deprived of the rank he had
acqnired 'by haid'fighting/ andlard service, he may
saaeOf the peri.ou put over him
lac takes froin.ine that which not enricheslim,
Alickmakes me poor iuct,:cci."'
-ge was so anxious to preserve to the- Army all its
disthii-Aions; that he thOught the -colour of the
uniform should be restrialed to ihem as
..strialy as his, livery to his .servants, -But as the
Volunteers had :been allowed to adopt -this cloth-
iticre he would not- now propose to change. it. But
.:he hoped the Volunteers would not from the dresS
have the vanity to appear• what they were not—
soldiers. These were the -principles. from the
adoption of which he looked for- a 'great and'
permanent supply to the Regular Artny..On
the other hand, our population would be pre-
pared to harass the Enemy ou'his march ; and every
individual of the Country would be:nearly prepared
to fill the•station of any. man that should fail, that is,-
aotrained as to be made a complete soldier in a very
little time. This measure, if authority were want-
ing to recommend it, was calculated. to do what was
_recommended by the eminent Statesman V‘ie had lost,
to be the point most desirable to the Country, to get
our whole population gradually into that trained
state, in which every one would be capable of being
made a complete soldier in very short time, and
with -wry little trouble. The measure he proposed
, would give one general -training; it would give it
without- taking the men from; their homes; it would
,give it,by portions, free of expence, and commuta-
tion for voluntary service in a Corps. It was to be
but an annual measure, that the opportunities of
.amendinent may recur, as frequently as possible.—
,Cornpulsion was to have no place runless-it is indis-.
Tensible. As to the operation of the measure he
.proposed, he would use the words of a -Right
Gentleman opposite, on a shsjiilar subje6t, that
the corniuust be long in the ground before the blade
could be eve&ed to appear. He did not profess to
be able instantly to, remedy the evil when things
-had been dong 'going wrong, it would be
:unfair to
..eapeect a nostrum that should without delay cure the
disorder.
~ He -hoped it would tend to reduce the
„present exorbitant. bounties., The basis of it was the
.Lezaa-aa-AVutasa-l;il, with, moditication9 .accommo-
sla tea to.-the • xisting cireautstances; to this it
Would -be necessary.to add some Amen.dinents in.
Lthe-,Militia Laws, And au alteration in the Mutiny
AP/. !. •

5,n3 Additioilai.Ftwee A& having been -:.;red-as
neid, •

Mr.Wrereen ;mai Moved, that leeee-be given to bilit
•
le a Bill to 'repeal the setd,Aeln. -
Lord CASTLEREAGiI Would not at prevent
ti'eapass so lunch upon the time;of the House as to
enter into an investigation of the detail contained
1e the Right Ilan; Gentleman's speech. This woulel
Lib a sulaieet,of future discussion, when did Bills
necessary to carry the new symtern into exdegtion
Should tae befere the }Thus& But in justice to hirb-
self and to the Country he could not abstain from
making a few obServations on the -Military. State of
the Nation, which:was so much involved in the pro::
jeEted changes, and the state of which formed so con-
siderable a part Of the charge moved by the Right
Henourable Gentleman against the late Administra-
tion. Heeonfessed, that in his opinion, it was one
of the most important subjeEts that had ever at-
:traeted the atteption of Parliament. The reputa-
tion of the latter part of the life of his distinguish-
ed and lamented friend was necessarily • involved
in the Military. System which he established. His
fame in ,this, as in: many other'instances, Was so
interwoven with the- public interest, that in defend-
ing lt, he felt that he took the best method of dis-
•chargig his: duty to the Ptiblic. -There 'were two
or three geeeeal principles in which the Right Ho-
nourable -Gentleman and himself were agreed.—
That Right Hon. Gentleman Must admit that there
could not be 'eoneeived a greater misfortune than that
it should be necessary to cause a furidarnental revi-e
'sion of otie of the great Establiahnients of the State,
at e tilne'When•theefate of Britain Might be decided.
' on -British ground liing before-that revision could be
completed. Sticlr an enterprize ought not to be tre.-
derteken witheetahe most absolute necessity: With'
regard tO the observations of the Right Hen: Gentle-
main there was one emint finaribly struck him,
that Was, that he had 1 aid but of his 'eonsideration the
fine ArMy that we new livid at our disposal, aed That
attentionhis hatiebeenentirely occupied . by an attempt
to redeem hi own policeeal pledges: Foe his part, he
Wished that the House Should he'fairly and fully
fornied of ilte existing quality -and anidunt, of the-
existing Anty. • -To the excelleribe blare qUality'a
that Ai My the Right Hone•GeetleMan had beeriejleit
testimon-ye 'lt had arrived' at perfeaitin in disci-.
piine and regulation hitherto unknown to it, and to
,which the Illustrious Personage at; the dread 'of the
Military Department had• contributed. More by his
eeertions then- any of his predecessors' ',in that' ini-e
pertant Office; .ThegoodrieSs Of the quality being
admitted, it remained tla inquire 'what yea 4 the- pre,:
sent amount, and to what it \yes desirable that it
might .be carried: The Right Hen. Gentleman had
not stated any apecifie. nuMber, but had theiely iu
timated the policy of extending eite In that policy
he concurred. He would niention' to the Hodse
what had been in the centeniplation of his life Right
Huh. Friend. He had not intended to propose iris
extension of the number any, fitethei thereto dimi-
nish the deficiencidsWhieh teow•stood at 40 or 50,000'
to 25,00, a 'floating deficiency from' whkli no
Army of magnitude 'could. be exempt. He would'
now stare the. amount of the 'Army at present e---;
It consisted, rank and file, including Militia and
Artillery, of 267,000 men.. At'the highest"period
antecedent to the' present, in' January, 1802, it
consisted Of only 242,000 men, so that the
amount was now greater by tweney-five thousand
men' than' it had '-ire.en'at the highest 'period of oer
Military Annak.. Willing, theretbree as he. Was to
admit the exigence of the times; he could -by no
means think the Right Hoe. Gentlernan justified in
casting .such a gloom over the present State'of the
Country. He' could eowspeak of the etisposability
of our Army. if the present "'state ofihe Army in
that respect were compared' with what it was in
Januatbly 1804 (a period to which he alluded, not
from a wish to draw any invidious-ccimparison be-
tween dhis late Right Hon. Friend and his itnine-.
diate predecessors; but merely to shew the progreas
of the Army under his auspices) the result • would
he .in favour -of •the -former. In January,
'l'Bo4, the gross -1-brce- amounted to 234,000 Men
at present it was- 267,000, being an increase of
63,000 men within the last two years. • Of -these
•the regular- Force, in :contradistintaion to'the
was in January, 1804, .148,000 ; it was at present
192,000, being an increase' of 44,000 men.' At'
that .:period 115,009 then were elisenSable foe.gene-
ral service;' the last retunts- made • that number ex-
ceed 1ee3,090 men; Making an incretige Of men.dis-
posabliefotgeneral service of 44).,000, 'or nearly one
half of the whole nnmbete Theeßight 'Horn Gen 7
tlernan, in the beginning of hiaeSpeeehe had insisted
on 'the' expediency of having all .oneTronps
posable, 'whether they were intended to be'used for
home or Threigti service. Why this should
universal principle he could,not conceive. Wheenot
let tb;:r(t he a due .proeoetion. of each ? In Core-
seleeing this subjeCt, it was. incumbent on thellight
Hon. Gentleman to lot* first at the waste of the
Army; and then at the best mode of sepplying
He would nut state this Waste as the waste, pro-
duced by War, which certainly had not been yery=
great in the present contest---but meaning it as the
mere casualties • that emit attend every Army es-en
'in Peace, the • Honse would deceive. themetvo :if
they alliewed a less number for. those casealties
than 15,000 anntially.. The House -were bound
first to look at this waste, and then to consider
of the means to supply it. And on the latter
part of the subje& it would be indispensibly neces-
sary to distinguLh between visible expedients and
speculative expedients. It appears from the Returns
that-had been printed (what was certainly a problem
-difficult of solutioe), that in the course of the year
I the regular recruiting for the line had produeecrfrom
-eleven to thirteen thousand men, and that this ac-
cession to the Regular Army had
_scarcely been dis-
turbed by circumstances which appeared likely. to die
minish it, namely, the Army of Reserve, and the
Additional Force Mts. :.In point of Ilia, the number
of men obtained by ordinary .recruiting, during
the last six years, was barely sufficient to cover the
casualties of the Army. Therefore, unless the
House would be satisfied to see the Army station-
ary, they must, look out for some extraordinary
supply that should make up. for the casualties at
least, if not eounterael the waste of war. The
measure which his late Right Hon. Friend adopted
, fir that purpose was, the Additional DefenCe Aet,
aided by other and smaller schemes: Qne"of the
tabst powerful of these assistants waf the encou-
ragement of enlisting froui'the Irish Militias into the
Line, the ntwebee•ot.men derived
.froth which was
only 4000 annually, and which could therefore be
entitled only to the .name of an 'auxileary measure.

t tit:it s As to the sure and steady pt'Ogress of.thi
Additional For.cd Bill his ...itfht Hon. Friend Iddited
with confidence. He would not now enter Mid an
ex.amknation Of the merits of that ,Bill, or .of the
circumstances attending its .operatiOn ; he only re;
quested HO House, when the Accounts wh.,:h.
were' now in the Press should' be delivered to
them, that they would pay peculiar attention tp
the Reports of the different InSpe6ting Officers'
whd had ben employed by Government in different
parts' of the Country on the subject. Such a mass
of vaTtiable information never, he believed, -came
berate Parliaaient, It:proceeded.from persons who.
were the moil: competent to judge of the subje6t;
and it would be found thiq the B.:, had been pro-
du(ive, wherever it had been :fated uPon, which
was in about one-fourth part of the Kingdom.---,,
These InSpeeling Officers found the people in many
distrias so ignorant of the true spirit of- the Bill, .
that they imagined its object was rather, to raise'
money than men. Before the House-determined
repeal the Bill, he trusted that they would examine
into its'merits from the decummts that Would soon
be before them. Compared with any rival military
system, with the Arthy of ReServe, -with the Militia •
Systett, or with the present proposed mode of ballot
(if he Might use the word-&lua t witlynit 4)flending
the Right'Hon. Gentleman), it was'a system of in- .
dulgence. Even under lhe imperfeet at.lmmistration
Of it, duriir, the ten 'weeks which followed the visit'

ef the Insfeeting-`offieers to explain '.their duty to
the ParisheS, under the disadvantages which the
prospect of a repeal-'occasioned (fur from- the lan-
guage held by "the flight' Hon, Gentleman acid his
colleagues, the Goentryeerteinly ex.peeted that when
they came into °like k repeal would 'be ,propase4,l
the produde bed been -on' the avorAc aboiit•-;300 men.
per' week ; the "gross 'prodoee of thoSe ten weeks be-.
mg 300 men s'andyet the House were called On to•
:give Op the Bill without any -suilicient 'substitute
having been provided for et, except indeed a .seecu-
lative change- in-the service elthe'seldiere might be.
termed a substitute: He could Seatcelyebhowevere
• think that the'Right Hon.,Getitlemeniwould 'serie
ously propoSe thiS alteration of the,.renn of the sol-,
dier's;seryide; with the anielioration of ins condition;
as a substitute for a measutethat lied proved' so nro-'
due tit On the desirableness in -the present state
eof society of -improving. the situation of the
and paying attention to the• latter part of this
service; he entirely. agreed with the Right Honour--
hie Gentled an. It .ei.'oeld be an. advantage to the
Contitre, and it Would be an adt or justice toWardS
e. , ,
the-individual. But this. etivan'taee and this act'
of justice, Were as applicable to thee soldier en-
,listed for life -as.
_to -,one- efiliSted -for limited
service:: • Tbis -WaA a most important abd delicate
part of the suejeae as much. so as any that. bad
ever 'been- submitted to the consideration of Par-,
liathent. Thellight Hon. Gentleman was evidently
Of opinion, that the system Ofenlistmenefer life was
inconsßtent With the genuineespirit and'ereedom of
the Country. Ile warned the House, however, that
if they once made the experiment, and declared
• by their votes 'that enlisMient fel- life 'was repug-
tiant to the character of tiie Country, it. would be
impossible-to re-tread their steps. Excluding. from
its influence the, existing Army, he thought •it a
libel or Lie Country to call the present mode of ete:
a bondage. It was by no means an engage-
inent fur life; ter although it certainly was not at
the option ()Nile soldier to. quit the service when he
ellose it, yet it was\ understood that he only remain-
ed while the Prince required his services. It was an
engagement, the severity of which had been at se-
veral periods qUalified and mitigated. As far as he
understood, it was an invariable tole, when a sol-
dier had served e 5 years, that he should receive his
discharge, end be, entitled to his 'pension. The n'titn
her Or diselefrees given were • very considerable,
and at no time was it difficult for 'a man pro-
viding a proper substitute-to obtain his release.. The
Right Hon. Gentleman:proposed to-debar the exist-
ing Army however of tbe benefit of this limitation'.
When the plan Canle to be discitssed, he was con;
minced that fit- could not -Meet the: countenance of
the• House. • Were the principle atell adinitted, it
must be ainde generally applitable to the4holeArmy.
fTe shbuld be glad to lenew• in What Coteitry the exe
Perimenefied been tried. Was PrilS,Sia? Was it
ln•Russia'? , In Austria it had:nevertheen introduced
till 'BO,, and then in' a initigeted Mariner. The
only Country in Europe that Could be'referred to es
a precedent eVas: Old France ; for as to NeeeFranee,
that itninen'se power had -none of these philoseohie
notions ; the soldiers 'in that -country 'served JuSt
as .Icing-aS •their Emperor wished theme In 'Old
Yranee, -the system of enlistinent ler a certain notn-r
ber of years' had: been admitted 'brit he begged
-the House =to consider the egieat difference be-
tween the countries., • The po-put,tion. of France,
poor and maive, vas'prone' to ,wale and a military
sey4tern could thereliiiee be carried on Advantageously
in that Country, which 'would- ill accord with Great
• Briteie. Tints' the • only case on Vied' the Right
'Hen. Gentlemen could argue was not a rat-aP.OI oo.s.
As teethe probability of. deriving the supply. from
this' measure, which was so confidently predieted by
the Right Hon.Gentiernan, he was' firmly convinced
that his expeEtations would 'be 'disappointed, and
that it would 'prove ab nugatory as it certainly was
dangerous. SO far from improeing the chaeader of
the British soldiers, he thought it would abstradt
from their energies. It was a mere imaginary eon-
•ception-that any great proportion of those who in-
listed wished for a -litnited term, united with unlimit-
ed. service; and for --those who required only the
former, were not the'Militia and the additional force
' open ? As little would the Right Hon. Gentleman
find himself borne out ltehis reasonings on the sub-
je& by the example of parts of our own system,
as by that Of; foreign' nations. He had men.
tioned the-test Indies, but certainly this was one et
'the wort fonndations on which he could have built
his plan. The East India Company could procel'e
' so lew recruits, that in the first Mysore, War, Lord
Cornwaliis,fi tiding that the battalions did not amount
to 200 men each; advised the Company to abandon
'these troops which had enlisted fora limited time; and
regiments. Nor could he
6tog+seletbtstoftwu
Itleattllyizeid been said of its etfeca ih desertion;
-and as.to the great 'desertion which had taken place
among the men raised under the'Additional Force
it was to be ntaibuted to their being rawl*.
cruits There was another seriouSeaed formidable
objeetion to- that part of the plan in:;::l4iin4.lllitthie
Right Hee. Gentleman proposed that the, ellen sh'a'd
be discharged, even in the MidSt of war,

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First -founded "; C proceeded' on a Similar
al principle, but an adherence to it in pradice
;rid to be impracticable; or at least ruinous.
'The loss of men at the expiration of eaclrterm would
be very considerable. In the Regiments on foreign
stations, itewas probable that Many, perhaps most,
would re-enlist ; but in those at home, the tempta-
tion of an additional sixpence . per • week, would be
found to haN4e but -trifling charms, in comparison with
the pleasure of re-visiting their. families. If ever,
theretbre, thia ruinous • system should. be esta-
blished, such a -deficiency must soon ensue, that
without the. power of conscription,- it mould be in
'vain to hope to f=l up the chasnar Or even-to keep the
Army alive.- _Deeply would the Country deplore hav7
_ing indulged speculations at a time when no
necessity existed for doing so. )(Vas the Army dis-,
contented ? Why affed to apply a remedy where,
there was no evil ? 'Why endeasiour to place Pasiht-
meat in,this most painfal dilemma,, tO:part with the-
means Ofstaength, which the Countrypossessed,with-
out gaining an adequate substitute. The Right Hon.
. Gentleman had -taken the easy course of finding-fault.
witlrevery thing. It certainly was
:not difficult to_
discover something in the administration in:•
every country liable to censure. " The .Right. Hon:
Gentleman .had
.eompletely degraded the military
state of the Country, and has condemned the Addi-
fional, Force ACt ; but with the, exception of the al-
teration in the condition of the Soldiers, what sub-
stitute. did he propose ? He took to himself-the
credit of removing what he -tethied an evil, but- he
did not chnse to incur the di.tficnity andresponsibility
of replacing it by any thing.gOod. For certainly-the
Right Hon. Gentleman was' not disposed to assume
much credit from the plan of the trained craftsmen.
To these he himself had no objetition There might
be cases, particularly in a protracted warfare, in
which they would be useful. .But _did the Right
Hon,Gen &man dream of incorporating them for the
defence. -of London ?—(A cry of Na, No)--Why
then ,had he statedthis as an advantage ! When the ►
Right Hon. Gentleman had recovered himself from
the labyrinth ,in whichvbe was at present bewildered,
he would find thatwe had an Army formidable enough
to attack the Enemy in some vulnerable-point. He
could assure him that such a point existed, and
that had the late Administration continued iti office,
the attempt would ere this have been made: He wish-
ed the Right Hon. Gentleman had been more explicit
on the subject of the Volunteers. With some of the
regulations which had been stated he was by nomearls
disposed to quarrel; He believed that as that truly
valuable: body of men had arrived at such perfec-
tion in discipline, they might dispensewith some of
their days of exercise. He deprecated the slight.
manner in 'which the Right
.Hon. Gentleman had
spoken. of- the Volunteers, and contended, . that if it
were. expedient to put them down, it would be better
to come forward in a manly and candid manner, vote
the thanks of Parliathen.t to them; and inform them
-that In lir.. services. were no longer necessary. He
confessed that he bail entertained hopes, that on this
subje& he-. might- have had to congratulate the Right
Honourable Gentleman on -a political martyr-
dom, and that he would have made a sacrifice of
hid opinion to that or his colleagues. and the
Country. The Right Honourable, Gentleman talked
of a gradual redu&ion of the Volunteers ! He
never heard a dodrine more pointedly, inculcated •by
him last Session, than that an abolition of thesystern
ought immediately to take'place. He had decried
the systesia as pregnant with danger to' the Country,
and had
_asked how. the Copstitution could be sate
when such a body was in being. One pecisliar ex-
pression of abuse he pettedly recolleCted-e-it was
this "If you will net believe My, opinion, 'wait till
you see those Gentle Men go through a General Elec-
tion, of a general -scarcity." And yet now the
Right Honourable Gentleman come forward with.a
suspicious declaraion, that it was not hiS intention to
destroy the Volunteer's, but toecoMbine them. with .
the other Military of the Country. As ..the House
might wish to be in possession ,of the sentiment's of the ,
illustrious Sta tesman,whorn the Country had so much
. cause to regret, on some of these subjeds, he could as-
sure them, that after a very full examination of the
system of limited service, theopinion firmly.implant-
• ed in his mind, on his death-bed, was, that to attempt
such a fundamental alteration in
.the military esta-
blishment at so, critical a period would be attended
with the utmost danger. That great man also
thought that thepresent disposable force of the Coon-
.try was adequate to every purpose fbr which it ought
to be rendered available. He trusted that-the House
would not beinduced to adopt any violent ',measures
with regard to the military estsbiishment. It had
been left bye his late Right Honourable Fidend
in such a state, that it' requirecL only the fostering
hand of Varliament to shpport it. It. was the
intention of his Right Honourable Fiend, had
he lived, to. haye proposed, at the close of the
war, some alterations in that establishment. During
the was he only meant to suggest some simplealte-
, vainns in the Additional Force Bill, by which the
'Parishes would have had a wider district in which
to recruit, and at the same time they would have
been prevented from injuring the regular recruiting
for the line. A .Right Hon. Gentlenian opposite
(Mr. Fox) bad caught fire at some observations ,of
his on a former evening, with respell to the situa-
tion of the country at the close ofthe last Admini-
stration.. In all the fundamental features of the
.State, it was a most proud situation.—He was not
disposed to contend that that Administration had not
struggled through diffieulties, and during a period
-mien even the great talents of his late Right Hon.
'Friend were scarcely' sufficient to counterad the
. danger; but every thing that could be done had been
(IC)De. Never did any Government stleceed to such
a beerof roses as the present; never Were any Govern-
. anent placed in a situation in which they so proudly
.possessed the means of contending with the hostility
of the foe. The statementanade by the Noble Lord
who opened the Bodget„s4ciently'evinced the re-
sources and proud prosperity of the Cosnatry. „ Would
the Right Hon. Gentleman say that he succeeded to
-a dilapidated Navy ? or that it is to hi exertions we
are indebted for _the discomfiture of the adverse
Fleets ?.. The military force in their hands exceeded,
as he had befOre observed, by twentyLtive thousand,
any former Army Establishment of,thiS Country ;
and it was in a state of discipline which even the.
Right Hon. Gentleman hiMsell could not iMpeach.
He trusted that it would not-be. taMpere&With, that
the present Administration would abstain from doing
• enuch, and leave the charge as it-Wag confided to
,
then

- Mr. S-ecretary FOX declared, :that: it was not
possible for human neves to bear the observations
that had been made
,by the -Noble Lorcr.who; bad.
just sat down without making SOITie remarks on
them. would trouble the lerense with but a few
words. This Country, it seemed; according to the
Noble Lord, had been left by
.the lute Administra-
tion in:a state of proud prosperity, such. as it-never
before enjoyed ! lle should like to knoev in
what that prosperity consisted ? In 'the Navy=
be ahowed there hag beep wonderful .succesS,
which -rendered that department Comparatively_
easy. It might be easy likewise to provide for •
the future .NavY, if every thing bad -been! dope
to continue and increase it that could be done.'—lt.,
was 'toe much, however; that the merit- of what
our -brave sailors had effeaed in the-last eighteen •
Months, should he assumed by the list Administra-
tion, particularly when it was considered, that the .
foundation for these, triumphs were laid by a Board of
Admiralty against whom some part'of the late Ade
ministration had beers Stropglyeprejudiced, He was
sorry to quit -so soon this subject, as it was the only
One which inspired him with hope. With regard to -
the fipances, theiast Administration, he supposed,
left an easy task to his Noble Friend. In what pray ? 44
Was it easy to lay takes to 'a large amount, because
the 'last taxes that had -be'en laid were to a large
amount -! The revenue of the Country -was ferty-i
three mniilions ! :That is; in other words, the Country
was deliVered over to the present Administratioa
with burdeils and imposts to thatamount : necessary
perhaps; in"the' name of Heaven, where was :
the prosperity in ali this ? The Noble Lord ought
to be -well acquainted 'with. the affairs of Ire-
land—without unPuting praise or-blame, he
,Would.
only ask, Was that Country .left in 'the best pos-
sible State? Were, the affairs of India proudly pro-
sperous ? Where
.was this bed of roses of which- the -
Noble Lord talked ? Supposing that the last Admie
nistration had been the beet that ever existed; and,
that the situatiou in which the; Country stood
.was •
owing to uncontroulable cireumstaneeS, still it was in
the highest degree-insulting in the tosay
that the present Administration reposed on a bed of
roses, when at the same time they were seratelied and
. torn. with branibles and briars.. _The Noble. Lord
told us we were-in a very flourishing state ! Did he .
consider the, misfortunes, some perhaps inevitable,
that had overwhelmed the Continent with ruin ? The
Nohle Lord boasts of our resources ! He would ask
him two questions.-e-pid he see any great probabi-'
' lity-of our being enabled to. conclude an honourable
or satisfatory Peace, or to carry on the War in
manner that should force the Enemy to. do so? Did
he see any great probability of currying on the War
in such a way as- to. reduce
,the power of France,
or- even prevent its extension ? The :result of the ate:
tempts on the Continent, during the last Campaign;
(attempts, whether rash, or-not, whether well or ill
condu6ted, he - would. not now tietermine) had not
secured very-strongly the of the Country,
unless, indeed, like the Additional Defence Bill, riew
advantages were yet, to , be .derivede which had hi-
: therto concealed, themselves,- Would the Noble
Lord say; that- the -public papers laid: before- the'
House •bad notaddech to the difficulties of the ems'
barrassingsituation in which the new Achninisteation
found themselves ? 'lf the Noble Lord would come
to his office,.he would hear from Ministers of several
kinds the effea that that unwarrapted.produOion had
caused. But the_ Noble Lord had refused to come
to his Office, and • he had. expressed this refusal in
1 terms se strong as to be something like criminel.
:The
Noble Lord -asserted that ,our army. was a great
army,. because it was :greater than we ever thed be-
fore ; hut the word-great was relative ; and though
our- army Might lies, great when compared with the
armies in the.days of Queen Anne, or the'American
War, it ' was not great when compared with ths
immense military-'force at present opposed to it,
He then proceeded to argue on the Motion, contend-
ing, that the Additional Defence A& was entirely
nugatory. He felt some difficulty in-giving credit,to
-what had been stated as. the,late Minister's opinion ;
Mark ,Anthony was not wholly trusted in his re- '
port of Csesar's Weil. He repeated and defended
Mr. Windham's arguments respea.iug the Volub-
teefs, in which he
;entirely. coincided, and rescued
Mr. Windham, from the ,imputation of having be- '
wildered himself in a ,labyrinth: His Right Hen. •
Friend's Speech was one of the mosecleer, and the
mast eloquent that he had'ever heard. :If hie Right
Hon. Friend's Speech, was. a labyrinth, and the Noble
Lord's clear, -then he could oely say, that he -was
completely mistaken in his. ideas of what constituted
a labyrinth. ..What.was.there degrading to the Vo-
lunteers in wishing :o separate them from the lower
orders ? The harsbnese o,f the Levy en ,111apl
Aft, which would preduce, this effect, would be 91-
vjated by his Right - Honourable Friend's plan.
The prerogative which. that AO gave to the. Crown,
to take a man and send -him to any-distant part of .
the. country, would no longer east. elle- Noble
Lord seemed to'think that if the enemy should land
in Britain, the loss: of London would be theless of
the kingdom. He was-de different opinion.. Should
the French land, it wouldebe''our duty' to' dis-
pute every inch of ground. -Bet he' should be
sorry to say, that the fete of Britain 'depended -on
one battle, as the Austrians seemed 'to think of Au-
-stria at Austerlitz. He knew. the English better,
_their attachment-td their Constitution, and to their
Sovereign, and he was convinced that uncle' any cir-
cumstances they would not abendon the cause Of their
Country as hopeless.. Thelate Ministers, it was said,
had added an increase 4; 25;000 then to the Army :
it was the determination of the preSent government
.to make the military establishment as ecomplete as
they well could. For what had the Country now to
.rely upon ? Whither could the Country now look
for assistance ? • In this bed of roses, upon which
-Ministers were so gently laid by their predecessors.
What Ally had we left but Russia? a Power too dis-
tant, both from this Country and from others, where
her .co-operation would be Most wanted, 'that her
_alliance could not well lee considered as very,effeaual.
In truth, wp were. nor left a. single Any to fight with
us. In such. a, direlio state, what had we to do but
. to increase ; our ,Army, -and to increase it con-
siderably, though to what extent he could-not now
say, He had no difficulty in saying that Much as he
had been' adverse to large standmg armies in time of
Peace, he; began tetther to-be weaned from that
; he coned indulge po prospeft of Peace/ without
diming at it through the medium of a large respea-
able, Military force. helped there were many other
shapes besides that of ti?, army he which things must
be viewed' to arrive at that objea. if all the attempts

that had ad me to diMinish the pOwer of France
have 'proved abortive, can those wiio 'succe-ed to t 11&.
consequences of these failures beconsiderekras placed
on a bed of, roses.? On the contrary,.not ate
Country
,compelled to come to the dreadful op-
tion either to abide by the 'system prestribed by
our instilay situation,' to ahandon. every claim, .of
Continental influence' and consideration,, to be lite-
rally 'the- lobo abdicos orbe -Britannos ; to consider
only our own paftictilan situation, and reap',all; the
advantages wecan from our ColoniarreSourceS: To
that alternative must we be driven, or tug .at the
'. most up-hill work to NV'hich any nation was ever
doomed ; to go on fighting without the 'least pros-
pea of success, to continue to weary ourselves out
in painful and ineffeelual effort's. Still there may be •
more spirit in acting thelatter part:' it Wasa partinore,
Worthy the chara&er of Englishmen ; bUt those who
had it to aa, were'not -exa&ly placed upon a bed of
roses: - But experience taught us that we must .have
a British Army. sonnewle..:re, either abroad or at
home,--at least• at, home- to resist invasion : he,
however, should' not hesitate to say that he would
depend tor our security on our naval means, and on
the hardy intrepidity of our Peasantry.' We should
not look merely at home—true policy ;diEtated other
views than those merely internal'. He- certainly,
entertained the most sanguine hopes of the beneficial:
effete arising from limited service. Sure he was,
that in England and Scotland the inducement, from
such a-change in
.otit- system, would furnish a large
force—as little did he doubt of,the effeeis it would
produce in Ireland ; a country that had so long suffer-i'
ed, but which he trusted would now enjoy the bless-
ings of a mild povernment, and under whose au-
- spices he confidently hoped for a great increase of our
Army—for better men could not be found in Ent
rope, and never, perhaps, covered the same number
of acres. - -

Lord .CASTLBIZEiCH and Mr. Fox mutually ex-
plained. • • - • -•- • ,
. Mr. YORKE deprecated all party animosity, and
thought it better ta.reseNe,all our, hostility for . the
Common Eneniy. He was willing, to acknow-
ledge that the present Ministers had great difficul-
ties to contend with ; but his late Right Hon..
Friend had left considerable resources, and our, MI:
litary Establishment in such a state, that though the
present difficulties were of great size,. yet they be-
came smaller in.proportien to the advantages WhiCh ,
their illustrious. Predecessor .had furnished to sur-
mount them. He admired the spirit and.elocinence
of the Right_Honourable Secretary (Mr;Fox), who
thought so highly ;of the Country, 'though it was,.
now deserted and left alone, after, all the, .exertions
it . had so strenuously made in the. Comnion.Casuse„.
He deprecated all systematic oppositions tq
nisters, unless their measures moula,:prove such as
to be, derogatory. to the charaaer_ .of the. Nation.
He could. not, however, .help- disapproving the
change which 'the plan noS.v. proposed. intended to
introduce into our Military .time
of War might be pregnant with:..the,racist, mis
chievous consequences. ; Resides, we .had alteadi
an' excellent Army ; our -Navy-was more triumphant
than ever, while that Of the Enernywas almost anni-
hilated ; this great increase of the Army was therefore
not so urgent; the more so, as all idea ofContinental
Expeditions seemed to be abandoned by the Rt. Han.
Gent.' If, then, there was to no attack upon a large
scale, where was the necessity of so perilous an.ex-
periment ? Though he had not approved of the Ad-
ditional Force Bill, yet.' he- thought it should not be
repealed without
,previously providing some substi-
tute for it ; the more- so, as it began to be so. pro-
ductive, since local .difficulties and 1.).-ejudiCes had
been removed. His obje&ions to the introduaion of
limited service ,were numerous and invincible—it
would be attended with none of the good effeas ex-
peaed
.to flow from it. It would neither facilitate
the raising of men, or prevent desertion. The Army
of Defence was raised for, a limited time ;--yet it was
found difficult to recruit for it—why then expert
that it would-succeed better
,When tried on a larger
scale ? Much better enforce the existing regula-
tions, and facilitate discharges, than . have recourse
.to such hazardous experiments. How would it be
viewed by the Navy ?, Why shOuld it not be ex-
tended to our Sailors and Marines. -He trusted such
.a measure would be rendered useless : no pledge
was yet given .for its actual introduaion ; and Gen-
tlemen should pause before they pra&ically gave
existence to what they before laid down only in
their,'Speeches. He • took the present opportunity
of entering his protest against that part of the plan :
all, the. improvements' it 'suggested for- the better
Condition of the soldier, the increase of Chelsea,
&c. &c. he approved of ; but the dangerous-
innovation of liinited service he must deprecate and
condemn, and that with the concurrence of our first
Military Authorities. • _ _

General Nowroii was of the same opipion as Mr.
Yorke.
Sir JAMES PtiLTENEY contended, -.that the
adoption .of lirnityd service would rather tend to. di-
minish than to increase our military establishment,
and gave his decided opposition this part of the
plan.
-Gener2iITARLETON reprobated the repeal of
the Additional"Porce Bill. He. had 'nevet- • bet-
terseen-.. rolls in his life than it exhibited; men frOth 16
to 24; scarcely
,any reached -40." They =produced
the finest recruits now in the ArMy. 'The County
of Laneaster 'produced' 84§ men.. He'. Wished. he
could Say the Same ', of Many great .Counties-;
but the -North Riding of Yorkshire 'had produced
none; Devon but 3S; and BuCks only 35. But what
coult be expelled, when the rising of the men was
obstruaed by -the Lords Lieutenafits of Counties ?
He was equally averse to the abandoning of the Vo-
lunteers. They had already reached a' high 'degree
of discipline, and he would as sbon go into a6tion
with them as With the veteran troops of any Nation.
Sir W. WYNNE declared that all the men fur-
"nished by Devon were raised by.one crimp of Man-
' cließ ter.

Sir T. LANGIIAM disapproved of the proposed
measure.

-Lord TEMPLE. would take a future opportunity,
to deliver his opinion. He now rose to observe, that
such charges as those just brought against the Lord
Lieutenants of Counties, by an Hon. (general (Tarle-
ton), sh6ul'd not be slightly hazarded : he there-,
fore challenged that Hon. Gentleman ti? make good
hiS charge. -
•.• 'General TARL.ETQN said, that the obi Lord
misunderstood whiat he had said; .but he still-con-
tended, that the Papers on 'the Table would prove all
he. had, advanced.

Sir `V.* YOUNG, Colone.lS Gli A-7.1 A NI, and CR
supported the measure...: _

Mr, atiDDLESTONE. said a few words against, the
Motion ; -.after •ltdicch•7'tire.- question was put, and
agreed to without a division.—Adjourned at Half-
past Two o'Clock till Monday se'nnight.

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THE. SUN.

SOLSM QUIS DICAR YALSUNS AUDEAT ?

AT 1) ON,

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YESTERDAY., Mr. WINDITAM submitted to, the
House of Cornmens his' Plan for the improvement
of our Military System. 'The principal obie&
this Plan is, the permanent. ncrease of-the Regular
Army ; and the means by' which it is proposed
to attain this objea are as follow. The Soldier,
instead of engaging for life, as at present, is only
to' enlist for seven years ; at 'the end of that'
period, if he be disposed-to enter again for a'simi--'
lar term, he is to hzye a small increase of pay ;-
and also a ftirther increase of pay if
.he should chuse•
to enlist fora third term of 7.years. At the conclusion
of'the 21 years :service, he is then to be entitled
to all the fall allowance of Chelsea, and the advan-
tages of that retreat 'are to 'be augmented.- rrt ihe
Cavalry and Artillery, instead of dividing the whole
term of service into three . equal portions of Seven.
Years, it is to be divided into periods of Ten.). Six,
and Five Years. Itt-the Militia, no alteration
whatever is to take• place for the present,
respe& to their number, but in future they are
to be recruited, not by the present system of ballot;
but by a small bounty; and the Militia of Ireland
are to be encouraged as. much as possible to enter
• - • •-
into .the Line: With-. respe& to the
,Volunteers,
they are not, after the present year, to enjoy their
present advantages ; they are only to be exempted
from the; -generaif straining - of the male population
of the Country, which forms an essential part of the
New System. With,respe& to the Levy en Ma.se,
.the male, population is• to: be divided into three
Classes : the first including -all from,t-le .age of 16
to 24, the second from 24 to, 32, and the third from
-32 to 40: .oFithese .three Classes, 200„000 are to
be- trained for 2G *days • every year,' and are' to
receive one shilling'; i ea} elery day they .are
The Regulatiorit. of the Volunteer Sys-
tem are. not to extend te—lreland. This is
the general outline of the Plan, which Mr. WIND:.
HAM opened 'with his usual ability. He con-
cluded a Speech, the delivery of which, occupied
nearly four hours;' with moving for leave to
bring in a Bill to repeal the At of 1803, com-
monly called " the Levy en Masse A&."—Mr.Fok;
we are happy to'state, was well enough to attend
the House, and to take a share in the Debate.

out.

We are obliged from the great length of the
bate.to omit the insertion of our Port Letters. The
only one which contains any interesting intelligence
is from Penzance, which states, that the Boats of
the ColpOys SChQoner cut out two Spanish Luggers
from a Bay -near Cape Parius, laden with various
articlef.

Yesterday morning Mr. JAtoxsotkr, brother to the
British Minister at Berlin, arrived in town from that
Capital. IMmediately after his arrival, a Cabinet
Council was -held, at which. Lord GR ENV iLLE; Mr.
Fox, Mr. WmanAk, and Lord Howicr: (Mr.
GalY) were present.

Yesterday a Court of COmmon Council was held,
at which it was determined to raise the salary of the
Common Serjeant (NEwmA.N. KNOWLYS, Esq.) tO
IQOOI. a year.

NEW-ST-Al' -LOTTERY

EqiNs DRAWING- the 12th of MAY, 1806.
LP • SCIIEME.

Prize of Z2s;o4q - is ; -
2 • -10,600 -‘• -
2 - - -‘ - X 0,00.0 - - -
3 - iodo - -
10
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10 - - -
20 - • -
56 -
6200 - - -

40,0*4
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15,00 Q

2.5,0t0 Tickets

'?cib• -` - 5000
1100, j- - - -
so
130,200

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250-'OOO

Five First-drawn tiekets,- ist 1000 each ,C 50c0
Five First-drawn Tickets,-s&Day
!000 each 5000
First-drawn - - 4th Day - - 10,000
Ditto ' schiDay 20,0n0
Ditto - - 6111 Pay - - 25,000
Price of a.Ticket ,J t 9 18 0
Half - - A,:to 2•9 I Eighth. - - kz 12 o
Quarter • - z o Sixteenth - - t 6 o
TICKETS and SHAKES are on Sale at all the Licenced
Lottery-0 tfices.
. .

STATE LOTTERY,
, •
To begin Drawing on Mond.ly, May 12.
HAZARD, BURNE, and Co. Stock-Brokers, at
their State Lottery Otfice,:93, Royal Exchange, Lon-
-don, are now selling, in great variety of Numbers, Tickets
and Shares for the above Lottery:
No. 10,730, a Ptize of 20(030.1. on t Bth Feb. last, was sold
by them in one Quarter, one Eighth, and ten .Sixteenth
Shares.
The present Lottery consists of only 25,000 Tickets, and
the Scheme contains
t Prize of/ £ 25,000 2 Prizes of £ r0,0c4
2 20,000 3 5000
&c. &C. &c.
Letters, post- paid,
.duly answered, and Schemes gratis.
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