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freptied to allow the men to enlist frrm it into the
Line.. For himself he could not discover what the
absurdity was in supposing that the men would br
i..duced to enter for limited service in the first
ir,vtanee, and that afterwards, from the force of
acquired habits, the influence of example, and
attachment to their Officers, they might be in.
duced to take the second 'step... His Right Finn.
Fiietnl had ;aped, that a limitation of time would
operate ati a strong temptation to them to enter even
for general Service, but was not there equal reason
tee soppose, that a limitation of place Would also
,-:;:orate as a temptation ? He could not conceive
why the first limitation should aft as a direct tempt.
atiun, and the other in the inverse ratio. If
ei-
thr,!r cva, to' have any effett, both combined must
have a greater; lot it, could not be supposed that
both together should fail when one was irresistible.
With reTett to the limitition of the time of service,
th4e Were many differentopinionsi and he should
not venture to haiard any, though he could not

admit,
,that it was a subject which would be
i-ro,lo,'.3tive of little difficulties in the detail in the
unnitteee Any body might see that a great
;,cae7,V,ariety, of diffieteltics would occur. if the change ,
eesete to be made in time of War, and, the condi. ,
tics; ta he extemled to all at present serving, would
not the offer be a boon to one, whilet,it would he a .:
miechief or a punishment tea another ? But should
'hey begin' feurn the ;brevet moment, how were
they to proceed ? were: the new Levies to,, be in.;
vorporeted with the old Battalions ? what 4 5011r0
of disquietude, heart.burningS, and 4siteisfeaiort
wire they to be disposed of in separate 13etta.
lions I then they would come to the present Bill,
and do that precisely which it professed.„ He had'
,err hesitation in teying, that the idea of a Colonial
Army met his approbation, withut exception
even of the Bleck Corps. But any body who
looked
,to the Pepulation of the Colonies must
perceive that it was impossible there to suPpfy.
the Attny, and it would therefore be necessary ff
to recruit in Europe. Mark; the consequences 'ef
restricting the Amy (ruin Service in her Colonies :
*Would the other Powers of Europe follow the ex-
ample'? Seppositig the Army of St. Domingo to at,
tack Jamaica, would it be wise to tie 4p the Dis•
passable Force of this Country in Europe, and buffer
rime of the most valuable of its Possessions to be
desttoyed ? As to the other parts of his Right Hon.
F ienth's Speech, with 'iut any intention of dieiesped
to him, he did net think them of much importence.
Thete Was one point, however, which.he begged
tti touch upon, told on which' he did not differ Crum
hiS_Right Heni Friend, nainely„ the oleo of taking
aid for the Regular rercefrom the,Militia in the re-
dutlion of them proposed. Ile felt less reludence
in adverting to this, topic, inasmuch:. as the Public
was in vane
rdegree prepared to expect it,
anti lie had reason to believe that the meaeere'wes
in the contempleeion of His Majesty's Govern.
merit. his Right Henettrable Friend should he
surprised at his opposing his Mullen for going into
the committee, he should ask him, whether he
thought the state of the Country was in such int.
immediate danger, or at little prepsrei to meet that
danger, ,as that he could not he justified in opposing
hie. Motion His Right Honourable Friend had
stated hut a siegle result from the Papers on the
Table, 'and that was, that the Army within the last
year had been but re,ooo men. Perhaps it might
be for the satisfattion of the House to state a view
of the whole Military: Force of the Countrer.":The
t; ire! of the Disposable Force on the rst January,
IEO4, Was 1+3,261 ; on the tat of January, 18001
fOOO ; the whole of our force on the for.
mat Liar. 27.C90, on the fatter 20,747. Deducing
the limited Force, which was included in the for-
men af;gregares, thej whole of the Disposable
Force
.was, on the ist of January, 1804, 11.5,00 o;
oi, tie tar of Jonu.iry, mBoe, t 35,900, necking an
increase, of Disposable Force of from 18,000 to
eehcaeo men. Toe Henoweble Member then pro_
eceded through a variety of other combined ,state.
nieetv, to shew the improved state of our Military
D4eece, the result of Which was, that WC had at
!'tweet Arroy of t 2,600 Disposable Troops
mare than on the 141 of Jan. r Bo4e applicable to
pirouset,, for which Troops might be necessary. He
exultiogly adverted to the numbers of Our
Volwiteer Force, which he could never leave out
cn ins con6deration. We had upwards of 306,000
Veluoteers, that had withstood all the temptations
or example, exhortation, and opposition, Of these
I cio,ooo had beets reported fit fOr set vice, not
to go into the field against Austrian and Pros.
&len Troops, but fit fur all the purposes for which
had been incorporeted. Could; we with
such a force 'save any room for the gloomy retire.
sen(atione frequently meue 1 Could more he ex.
preted from the wove and extent of the population
iet the Come r> 1 If we wish for di criterion by which
eetirnate the !''ililitary Force of the Country, let
oi look to the state ref tile different Power* on the
lec,:ontioeot, IKt us look particularly to France, WhiCh,
with a population of is millions, had an army net
exceeding any time five or. six hundred thousand
teem , while in Greet Britain, which contained hot t 5
millione, the Regular Force amounted to three
forotired thousand meo, besides those to whom the
,theneetic defence wee entrusted, as also seventy thou.
~And Alitia, and three hundred thousand! Volunteers.
ae. was ;e4eeteie,le fOr any man who fairly examined
the situating in which we at present steed, and
compared it with that of last year, to refrain from
allowing tki,t ).;. was greatly improved. Could
euch a marl be found, he would ask him, was it rio_
thing to have added, as we had done, to the Strength
tat those Oct.'s, whose peculiar province it wan to
peeteel us the eXeCittioi) of the menaces 'of
the ineeder ? Was it nothing to have succeeded
so completely in the blockade of the Enemy's
flotilla, the; instead of venturing on the ocean to
ettaek t,,, it was with difficulty that it could be
hilly moved along the coast 'from one port to ono_
tiler ? • What would the Enemy have said, had we
acted in the manner they have done Hed we, in
the fireninstaeee, prepared an extensive arthement
for thee'expreer and avowed purpose of invading their
shores, thea :Wowed it to be insulted at least, if not l
injured,' by the a‘,ltialilt3 of hostile stet:aborts, amid
eoneluded by 'sending a flag or truce to the very

Against it,

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parties to whom we had dennun,:ed destructaon,-
With what exultation would they have then exclaim-.
ed, "Such were your threats, and such has been your
execution I'? With regard to many of the suggestions
which his Right lion. Friend had thrown out rcla.
irive to the inyrovement of the state of the Army,
he had only to lament, and this he did with the ut.
rumt sincerity, that he had not the advantage of
official situation to put them into praittiu.e ; he was
convinced, that Goveinment would hear with Acten.
tion, and adopt with anxiety, any of those sugges-
tions; the propriety of which was obvious. He mint
repeat what he had said on the measure which was
the objeft of Right Hon. Friend's Motion. The
principle of that measure could not be said to have
failed, for only the first and the last part of it had
been put in execution. It would be a strange, and
surely a very comradidory mode of proving to the
Country the stability of our Councils, to abandon a
plan to which we had not yet given a fair trial
this would rather be a new mark of fluthation and
uncertainty. If what he had asserted was true, if
there was nothing in the present situation of our
affairs that could justify in us either precipitation
or despondency, but if, on the contrary, the area.
sure under consideration contained in it the seeds
of a permanent system, which would ultimately
put us in possession of a Disposable Force greater
than anyone we had yet had at our command, le
then thought his Right Hon. Friend had not made
out,a case sufficiently strong to inthiCe the Hiatus
g 6 into the Committee he required.
Mr. WINDHAM, in explanation, obserTest,
that he did not propose totally to exclude Troops
immediately from England from Service in the Writ:
Indies, but to render the number as small as pos.

Sir W. YOUNG endeavoured to invalidate the
statement of the Right Hon. Gentleman with re.
gard to the increase in the different descriptions .of
our Military Force; he contended, that since the
commencement of the year 1804 there was a de.
crease of B'sa men in the Brill'sll Infantry, although
he allowed that in Great Britain and 'being there
,was an increased Disposable Force since that period
of above six thousand six hundred men.

The Question was then loudly called for, and an
a Division there
_aypeared,
For Mt. WINDHAM% Motion, 96

2+Z

Majority,
Adjourned.

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30LISM QU 6S DPOSRII FALAUM ALIAIIAT ?

LONDON,

FkIDAY,
rBRUARY 2Z, 1805.

LAsr night Mr. WINDHAM bronght forward his
long promised Motion in the House of Commons
re fleeting the state of our Military Defence. The
Debate took a singular and very unexpeded turn ;
for, after a most able and eloquent reply from Mr.
CANNING, the Opposition did not feel themselves
disposed to continue the contest, or possibly
bored to detive some advantage From
an early
division ; and this threatened attack, which
WAS to shake the stability of the Administrit.
lion, ended in their complete triumph, the nuns.
tom who voted for Mr. WINDHAM'S Motion were
96 against 242—Majority 146. We are happy
to find that Mr. WINDHAM has very considerably
changed his .opioion respecting the Volunteers ;
they are no longer represented as the depositaries
of panic." It is now merely said, that they are
not equal to Regular Troops—a proposition which
never was denied by the most sanguine Admirer of
the Volunteer Systero.—lt is evident that there is,
a want of cordiality in the different orders of the
Opposition, as not one of the MeMbers of the old
one supported Mr. Witiotima, and as Mr. Swot!.
DAN) as soon as the Motion of that Gentleman was.
disposed of, announced his intention Of bringing
forward another of a similar kind.

Advices • from Dublin state, that the Heads of
the Irish Catholics had 4 final meeting on Saturday
last, un thC subject which has ao long engaged their
attention, and which they were preparing to submit
to the Legislature of the United Kingdom. At
this meeting, however, Lord FINGAL expressed his
determination to secede; and the Catholie NObility,
a$ well as the great Body of Landed Property, sig.
nified their resolution nut to proceed any l'orther
upon the subjed without the express sanaion and
countenance of Government. This resolution, in
the 'present posture of affairs, is highly honour.,
able to Lord FINGAL, and to all the Noblemen
and Gentlemen who have followed his patriotic
example, as it skews that the wellfare of the
Empire at large is the great aka of their con.
tideratioe'; and that whatever they may feel in
matters of private faith, they are determined not to
engage in ITT thin that can tend to disturb the
operations of Government, and hazard the tram:
quillity of the Country at an awful cribii Eke tht,
present. There were, however, persons prpient

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t at this:Nlectiog who did not enter into the enlarg.
eel views of the Majority, but who pined Sir 'nip.
FkILNCti in the Chair, and resolved to persevere in
,measures which, after 4110 an important secession,
afforded but small hopes of eventual success.

Yesterday, about twn o'clock, HIS MAJErry held
a Privy Council at the Queen's House, at which the
RECOIDER, of LONDON attended, and made his Re-
port of the .Convicts under sentence of death its
Newgate.
The Council was attended by the 'L011.15 CHAN.
CELLOR, the Duke of Mowntosa, Marquis HEIM.
FORD, Earls WESTMORLAND and CHATHAM, VI9.
counts Stomotyrii anti MELVILLE, and Lords
HAWERSEURY and MU LGEAVE.
After the Council Viscount Me vrt Lta and the
Earl Of CHATHAM had audiences of H•IS MAJESTY
far a considerable time.

The following had the honour of being intro.
duced to Hts MAJESTY

The Archbishop of Canterbury, upon his translation from
Norwich to that See, when the Rev. Prelate did homage be.
fore His Majesty upon the occasion.
The late Baron Hotharn took leave of His Majesty upon
his resignation. _
_ _ _

The lion, Mr. Sutton was introduced to ills Majesty, upon
his being created Baron of the Exchequer.
Mr. Dallas, upon his being appointed Chief Justice of
Chester.

Mr, Gibbs, upon his being appointed Solicitor. General.
Mr. lekyll, upon his being appointed Solicitor to the
Prince, of Wales.
Sir Thomas Trigg, upon his return from Gibraltar.
THE QUEEN's DRA.WING.ROOM.
Yesterday about half past twelve o'clock, .Haat
MAJESTY and the Pat rrcassas went to St. jaines's
Palace, for the purpose of holding a Drawing. Room,
which did not commence till half past two o'clock.,
It was attended by, besides Hatt MAJESTY and the
PkiNerms, Their Royal Highnesses the PRINCE
and PRINC ass of WALest_the lOurcit ass of YORK,
the DUKES of KENT and CAMBRIDGE. The Arch.
bishop of C‘WrllltKUitY, IheLORD PRIMATE serial-
LAND, the SECRETARIES of STATE, the MASTER of
the ROLLS, the ATTORNEY ,GENERAL, Baron Sur.
TON, and other Officers of State ; and a great num.
bet of the Nobility and Gentry.
The following Presentations to Hsa IVla.lesTv
took place :

The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Rev.Dr.Llgge (Dean
of Windsor),' Baron Sutton, the Countess De Clitibrd (on
being appointed Governess to the Princess Charlotte of,
Wales), Miss Poole, Miss Somerville, Miss Vernon, Miss
Eliot, Lady Catherine West, Miss Bradyl, Lady H Fitt.
gerald, Lady E. Townsend, the two Ladies Fitzgerald, Miss
'Glass Earl ltosslyn, Mr. D. Giddy (M. P. for Holston),
Mrs. Warner, Miss Le Fevre, Miss Smith, Capt. %Volley,:
Mrs. Lockett, Miss Glynn, Mr. Majendie, GenerelMaitland,
Misses Bouverics, Miss Dashwood, Miss James, Miss Mahon,
Mrs. and Miss Thompson, Miss Baker, Mrs. Forbes, MiSs
Burdett, Hon. Mr. and Lady Wellesley, the Hon. Mr. and'
Mrs, Paget, Lady Frampton, Dr. Fisher Miss Knight; Miss
Mildmay, Mr. Serjeant %Villiams and dr. Holies, Miss Ge-
rald, Miss Smith, Mr. M. ' Nield, Miss Manning, Miss
Wright, Lady Eliot, Miss Gunning, Mr. Dampier, and Lord
E Iringron.

Admiral Lord GAR DIV RR has appointed, a Convoy
for the Linen Ships from Belfast to .London, to sail
from Belf st itlit fair wind after 1.110 ISt of.Mareh
next.

The Earl of ORM'tND and suite left Bath early
op Monday last, fur his new purchased seat at gh.
mouth, in Devonshire; and on Tuesday morning,
PRICE CLARIS, 'Esq. with his daughter, his Lord.
ship's intended bride, set off for the sameplace; and
this day the nuptials between his Lordship and
Miss CLARKS will he celebrated. The Lady, who
is only sixieen, bestows her fair hand, with 80,0001.
in cash, and a clear estate of tB,ocital. per annum.
ANCIENT MLT:4C. THEIR MAJESTIIS and
four Of the. PRINCESSES were present last night at
'the. third Performance of this grand entertainment.
The EA of LIXERIDOII was the Direnor for the
night, and the oclettion was a full proof .of his
Lordship's taste and judgment. HANDEL is ge.
nerally the great store-house on these occasions.—
Mrs. BILLINGITON was finely in voice, and was
particularly successful in a bravura composed by
HESSE. Miss TENNANT and timentsort were
much admired, particularly the latter in '' Gentle
airs." The Chorusses were distinguished by cur.
fatness and grandeur.
STEPHEN KEMeLE is engaged to perform four
nights at Derby, where he makes his debut in Fal.
:tat, on Monday next.
'lhe ensuing Fitt at Windsor is to be one of
the most splendid of the kind. Two hundred per.
sons of the higher ranks are invited to the dinner,
and so° to the evening amusements.
Som: of the Public Prints have .given a fine de.
scription' of the mignificent style in which Mr..
MlLrg PETER ANDRaws has fitted up his house in
the Green Park. Whoever the Writer may be, he
possesses a very, generous temper, since most of the
superb ornaments with which he has decorated the
mansion were the rift of his own imagination.
One of the Grandees of Spain, in his patriotic
zeal fur his Country, has, it seems, determined that,
in order to contribute all he can :to the support of
the War, only three dishes' bhalt be served up at bib
table in future. Considering that this patriotic-
Grandee is a Citarchman, it might be thought th3t
three dishes were enough for him at all times, if he
aeled according to. the simplicity of the tinatines
which it it his duty to exettiplify all well as in.
culcate.

Su t c Int.—Mr. Qv i tt,a Gentleman much esteem.
ed in the fashionable and literary circles of Dublin,
shot himself on Saturday last in that City. He
had passed the evening at Lady GLANDOkt a's, and
the same night was at the Kildare-street Club.
House, apparently in good 'spirits. He committed
the fatal anion in bed, Without any assignable coo.
aye. His death is much regretted.
Sevitwrit DAY.—The First Drawn Ticket yes.
terday morning, No. 20,952, entitled to Ten
Thousand Pounds, was Noiti in Two Quarters, and
Eight Sixteenths, at tl4 Old Office of SW IST and
Co. in the peltry ; where No. 9,802, 44 First
Drawn ther3"(rDay, entitled to wool. and No. 8,200
Prize ofozoctol. also in the present 14->ttery, were
,Shared and Sold. in the last Lottery the First
Drawn Ticket the 7th Day, entitled to totoool.
and the teligi, DI 4wn the Bth Day, entitled to
tra,ooo, werelaoth sold in Shares by Swirr and
Co.

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