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tn 4 -iately to produce all .we .Wanted, aitd: to 41f0t4
a continued anti full s uppl y• to -60 Battalions. It, 4:
whatsituatioh was the 'Country when the ballot failed
of the
altogether,. and when no hope
,coultl be entertained '
treasures brought forward to replace it. lt
was not only a present supply that we wanted, but
the means of constant ly kceping,up ;ha r. suppl r; sopo
mien was the whole. slim obtained by the Staff recruit.
int. The rest was obtained from sources reprobated,
not as unproduelive, bat as unfit. to have recourse
to, as exhausting the pernment hOpe, like the savage
~ who cut down the tree to get At the fruit: To por..
sue this system further was to at like amen living
en credit, and goin
soli tg, on amoothly fota• while, but
o shut his door as soon as the bills came in ,
.for payment. ' When. were .we .i0..g0 hack t° the
hallor;
,the Gentleman: who had tried a t last had stuck
' to it while it could produce.any thing ; and now it
WAr like a fallen .Minister, in company- with whom .
nobody widied Cc) he seen (ii,ilavgb). The present
meaitire had gene far beyond the..ballot,- except that
the had
Officers were not compelled to act, as it
wis notcould- 'determined how we. should proceed.—
lilt
afraid ), not get the men, and. Ministers were. t° take tke Money. It may perhaps-he resolved
to take it from tvvo or.three parishes,.to quicken the
utheti. by whipping, them, just as the
ship CiP-,,
tAin compelled the dropsical,man to mount.,the mast,
Sling his complaint was but arising from in.
dolef,e, till the fall of the _poor man into the Sea
convinced him of the truth of his sickness by:
the loss of his life. Another cJinplaint against'
1/14. mode of recruiting. was, that while it ►Pruiesceti
tit keep the bounty below tole the crimps, who
titre eeerally employed, had the 'l4l. allowed 'by'
.:"I,"nteee,r, in addition to the at:4. making 411°''
violet 341; tor
*every man. thus ingenu ty'
eflac,4'„e at itngth in aid of the .zeal of the Pariah
sneer " and obtained some men .at an. increased;
h Y. He therefore considered the experiment as
ulthlg Completely failed ; and here he might say,
--'10,4,3j 1 hetivas .sure ..the ilouse would be;- glad he
Isvi Lt.' that
his task was at. an. end. He 113(1
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i;t ,' R'at as , a means ofimproving our MI r•4r; "Yit'eln, this measure was abortive. In
i.111,':, months an increase of t 14:1o° had. been made
ihri '"lgn Corps. In the same period the losses at
0 11,11!,' and ab'road amounted to 0,000. Both theses
ial7,. 27,000.
,onglit, and n.'ust have' been .sup-
:".°Y ottier means, if these had not lieen resorted
And if,
,on. the whole, the increase had been
116i_gad to both these, 'fifteen
.in Bi4teell
.(40y$4111‘1
-thi itote h,..en tor. the consumption alone, all
Till' rt3t would be derived ' from Foreign eotirees•
a11e.14 ii appeared that ori6/ $OOO men had' been
itl for the general service in the first initatiCe•
the i''e rertiairlder or the ineresbe by measure* which
onne liin. Gentle:oars had, reprobated, so that only'
e'lliitil of the increase had beet, 'supplied by the
scans thlt had 'been empl4ed• s,_°ll" small add*.
to" had Lien made to the CdvairypUt when it was
B:l4iidered how, .14yourite, a service that was, the.
proper Wag
by no means 4UCh as it ought under
,1-1,,".1,,'". encouragement, If the Tro9pf employed
vi 'olonial S-.!rviee, which were all set fast to
1,,,, 7".,r' tht toe ml demands, and, could not be de.
,14-1,„!' exceilt, perhaps, on smilli Zipeditionsi f"t
",, -41);(34ki roppose that the Toporw in garrison at
,u)stitaltar,
.ecc, could. be safely employed .in 'that
t:41,, th,;re would eemi'in, inc:uding fOreign I'r ,ops
tisllllll,,i'l .tn.about 4ct, 004), only 47,003 of 8; i•
snd',..44'ntrY foe Ahe korpes I f in,ernai ti?fence,
1,1, :°l` eOntinental operations. ',Thew Foreign
bur'; anti
he, etitnitsed,
~ were nearly as good as
11014„; . an, 4 Marir of them .were very 'nue!! at
40t,", wllgre.
.they.. were ertartered, but . •could
4 ii,`),en ~:loulcul tipork -in
.zany other light than
Irick c'.ls . serving • in. Camida, New Bruns.
Ila,„' 'l4 other .parts ,of the:, Empire. The
l'clfir ti("ilii) Iroweyer, think itodti that in these
T(,;in
et were inciudedi.i. br s,csoo. Native
, Ps of et 1 •i,
'vnuld l',' ', Y On. t, corn' -;what he had stated, at
'r ' evident that sotnething.rnote than Abe pre.
isotnriliellePutes-Were necesiary to fill the vast vacancy
tinii, "rtn. Y• and niter having shewn what were our
%ot4r/t Pt4iilieCtia,lle was sasis.fied that every tu?dY
%is&
magri.e in the
.necesaity of resorting to,' the.
.tece,,'7 (''' Parliament for.altat.sometlii2g that was
r" • rY
rest be done. In saying that tt would he
_tot
to
ta' • 'et to the wisdom of Parliament, no
4r?), tif
c,
.'owl
vp..A 048.0, taalti bA., stiprnteti II mean' his
here, a.i.,'',''''ltl; but
,the.neore he feliiiiinseli tnedim-:
-t;" the mote he' looked to others as nne-
he ai;ein,t„it" I")int tint, else.theissures that nosh( les
to thli'L-* 'kr more necessary it was to ecut.
41,.,h,.,w444113
,of Parliament, and of the Nstiusi.,
itterci.'"lletl• in toe event of • his Motion being
Lis ' '44 he. ,should feel it his duty r^ submit
,
' the C mimic.
tee 144,'.iiiie nit' Cl) the: eubjeft in r. ,
illOu:119,1ch, ir vols.-his intention to rooms. he
„4,,
is
~ it would not -be altogether out et plate
his h'ile ititurnarily the particular *Netts to *hi",
did!ittl'e"vattolis would apply. ' Here he heggetint:
N.ii'iti't Ystems, his objea b4ng only to
with
j.) 6hatruftions..which at present toterfere
*tte the regular supply of 'the'. Army, and Cu ti*
of It opt Milittity Estahli/titillitlt to tha old w.y
ezi,ttiFt4iling, it• fie' had already sheWn fr'rn
lot ti e'l the itrinowi effeels of the system of "I.
' '4l h. i
Iht 0_4.4 first•created,' and afteewards continued,
4ial IC.itiell in keepirg up the numbers of theAiiny;
the.r,L .
was confident. that the' fault was with
tliZtri'ineht. Whatever difficiiities 'and mp
'4 W . felt • .
" .-
rime , Ll* in . hew .
• et' it was*,
15% 11:-.., a,Pieril to be iriferred alai the fault lay
that '"4°vetninent. .He was-aware; however
l
ki)o4l. Miley 4411in.itter Could, as..bed ,been boasted' by.
Inis tbot I.! i-iett, raise an' Army ay ''searnPi!'ll
'viol be 'n- ll'e ilo.or. Tile creation of an Artily
rth':r, tine
.of ft,9,`"k "I Sline.—fle was. not, h--w.,
, ' oigni,m."`
,thole ' wh, svire apt to run into
a 1,,,,
liar *
I.'1" resoi, •c ' every thing' that was wrong
•le ti 0,;,.„; 'trial the fault of .Goveronient.—
l'itli
rill fit ght he divided into two parts,
kave. snd 0 t 4 lcn . Army within our powe""
4114, an Firms IR Of CU, pdtVer to have. - We infght
4 tircur,,. to the extera which our iittu.iiion
krlialt -14,1hee.4 ra. , ;
14.., who 1 ItlVltd and lie wished to
W, --rsht„ '1,,(441(1 pc:vent us from obtaining as
-hY eft - Ite ail° 11 b ' well .• '
--ttler,. it t e necessary, just as as in
vils.til 11)"
t_ 4,41
,apeenlation. Make it an objet}
tott,l be induti enter ,into the profession, and catiough
ttli had ejti to juier-iai, -lixtensive cotton lac.
'nen ettablished in this Country
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\vithiii 'a• few yeari back'; at first the otii.: ;Ms.
nufaefures had been eifeded, but they all soon
,settled into that state 'in which neither interfered
with the other. If shoes were.:tirade of materials
that would last but half the time of-those now usett,
double the 'nurnber of shoemakers would span be
found; as also, if men had as many feet Heats have,
a Man would not go-barefooted for want of shoe.
'makers. • • There was no want of men tOengage in
.nnwholesome trades, to sink into the Mines of
Cornwall- or Lancashire ; neither would there be
any want of men in the Army, though 'some sta.
lions were unwholesome. If Government, which
was .the-trader in the autism' dits'i should make the-
profeesion of a soldier desirable, they might be
secure-of a • supply. There were. many Countries
where religious scruples interfere with the pro-.
fession of a soldier, such as amongst the.casts of a
'certain descriptitin in the East, and the Quakers of
Pensylvania. But no impediment of that sort was
to be apprehended by us. If we doubled our num.
her cif Ship* We ecould. not fail to. obtain men lot.
them, eu neither were we less limited in our power
,of peocuriog- than of maintaining soldiers. If we had
:failedin getting them, then the Minister and his
predecessor were to blame ; but if that Mitaisret were
hi& own predecessor, ihere was little to be candied.
:.freiM him. The first thing, therefore, he would tee
',commend, would be to clear away ell ohstruaions
whatever, all the parish recruiting, all competition,
which choked up all the channels for supplying the
Army,
,and one step would be 'gained.' He did not
wish-to get rid of the-Militia 'altogether,- which,
as a Home Force, he-thought might still be kept
up; and, odd as it. might seem, hel did not wish
to part entirely with the ballot, because, in the
.present circumstances of the Country, he did not
,thinlcit wise-to part with the means of keeping up
,s 6 tespeflable a portion of our Military Militia, and
Ads notwithstanding the tendency of all he had
,sail , to prove that obstruCtion to the recruiting
'of the. Regular Army arose from the ballot, He
had heard: of the facility of raising'a Force of
tOOODOo men within a short period boasted of, and
much of thesecredness of the origioal Militia ; but
it should be remembered, that there might be sacri..
legious hands to break in on that .Militia that had
beenbefore broken in upon, and in to manner that had '
never been attempted to lie justifiect hut on the score
of -necessity. He therefore cautiUned the Militia
Colonels to-beware of a similar at Oieupta the Militia
resembled the lamb entrusted to the care of the ,
butcher, whiCt would be no longOr sale than the Co.'
lonels wouid'be able to prated it; The next thing ;
'that he wont) recommend would, be, to clear away '
char profusitie, of mili.ary honours v.hich, being .
Altered throughout the Country, ,if-eted the 'feel.
inks ff. Honourable al:mil:pen of tie profesiiop, '
by -,takose from the .respettahility of their .prii..
frost.4l4l dtsiindionts , The diffueion of these ho.
memo liewevero did not take es much &ern-, the
respectability of a military man as in other -cases,
because, take away his distinetion from an Officer
anti the reape4tability of his service will remain,;
whereas, in other cases, if you take away the -
distinEtion which may have been the, price of,
the support of a Miniver, , or of the abandonMent •
of eeerY thins 'that could re(lrlet a man' revaltible,
C./thing will- remain. 'The first step, 'therefoie,
would he ' welter away the bruehwoode brambles,
ivy. rubbish, -anti rnoso, and let in the air andlight
on this fair tree, and it would fLni* rish apace., If,
ofterhivitig thine so; 'the men Could still not be pro.
cured, he should recommend -to recruit for a limited
time, instead of for life. There Were various other
arrangements that 'Would aid
,apd co.operattovvith
these..' Ili a - Couhtty 'where 60 !Wadi weight is
attached to money," it ' was• peCuliarly desirable to,
render the situation of the ,Sebaltern Officers com.
fineable, and to relieve:lberia from thMe difficulties
to which-they were unavoidably rethiced by strug. •
gles with poverty'and a riarroW purse.' The neat
thing would be to make a total renounciatieti of
drafting; whiCh excited 'so great a 'horror in the
minds of - thoie entering into the service. The
amelioration-of the condition of Siihiltern,Officers,,
and the mitigation of the draft for the Westelndia
-Servitie, Would go IV great way'towards removing
the impediments to a respedible 'Military Este.
blishMente ' The Hon. Member - here submitted,
• whether some regulerion might 'not he made .for
the employment of the Natives of the Colonies,
' together with t'anch a proportion of 'Europeans.
as w -old not be•feltas 'a drain, nor Whipped. is
heretofore without 'any previdus preparation. , He'
suggested the 'propriety of 'employing them gra.
`duttity, first in thißermiias, then Bahamas, or in -
Novo Scotia, till their constitutions should be pre, ,
oared for 'the' climate, 'and then to 'give them the -
benefit of a rotation. This, together witlnihe ern.
ployment of the Black Troops, might- in time take
Off' the terrors of the Colonial Service.'' Another
point to which he should refer wee the improve.;
nein of discipline, by removing oil' degrading;
punishments' for trivial offences. The capital pit. •
nisbotents might be continued, .and' they 'would'
hoot the attain of tleterthigitoin 'heinous offence's,.
without .befng •galling to the ineividual, who
woold be convinced, that if innocent he might defy
' them i at no man in 'this 'Country • felt any appre.
hensi It therefrom, -because penal laws were formi.
,drible only to the vilify'. 'He did not think that the
pay of the Soldiers op ht•to be increased ; because'
.
the present' pay bein` soffieient, that 'would emir
tend to impair diseiP ine. But there were many
ir
other things that could be done to -render the condi.
don' of a Soldier More desirable. Part of his bounty
might be kept hack till' the period of his dischaige, •
arid that would have' the effitEl of milking him a bet...,
'ter Sootier whilst he continued in the service, at the •
same. time that he would serve with morealacrityo •
from the prospect of some provision at the'termi-:.'
nation „f his service. Having 'summarily' stated,
his senthnents, he hoped to be indulged in taking a '
brief view of the ohjetlionti that:Were' urged against, -
it. -One objection was this-e-ir would 'be unconstitu.
tiOnsi to keep up a' lergetstanding -Army; but that,
Was an hereditary' objettioe, and should give Way to.
circumstances. ' Another objection was, - thae•the
danger was pressing; and we had not‘tiine to take!
such measures as would require much consideration.;
This had been made the ground of all the hadnea..
sures that had been resorted to; and if bad measures:
were taken because the danger was pressing, then •
the danger would infallibly become every day more _

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tirgent. Titenod. Meieitier lieu contended, that the
- peesent 'Moment, affording some relict from the or.
gency of thetleeger, was the most favourable fur re.
owing our Military Systems, and making a general
improvement therein: The Rt. f-L.m.+ r.nt. then re.
-t urged the propriety of R •cruiting tor a limited time,
which.wnuhi::ditminisit descrtion,and not interfere, as
objected, with dischsline, because discipline would
•• began with the commencement, and cease with the
termination-of a man's period of service. If limit-
ed service watt iniatital to discipline, then we had
tiete,ooo men without any discipline, the. Militia
and Army of Reserve ;being raised for such terms
•. Another topic that had peen insisted on was, that the
local infliehce of the Parish Officers and Gentlemen
would be exerted to procure Recruits; but if the life
service were to he abolished, and a limited service to
be' stibstituted, the Gentlemen would exert them-
. selves with tenfold zeal and efeft. In, adopting
the measure of last Session, they had set out with
• acknowledging that all they had been doing for rip
• years had been of rio avail, and wit tt had been then
offered had totally failed, and therefore it would be
necessary to have recourse to something else, tin.
less we were to be contiet 'with setting the Conti.
nent to fight with our Money, and :o shot ourselves
• up in our Island like, a tortoise in his 'hell. The
,Right Hem:Gentlemen coecluded by tneving, "That
it'be referred to 'a Cornmittee to revise the several
Afts passed during:the twO last Sessions at Pattie..
event,' far-the defence of the Country, and to eonsi.
titer of such other Measures as may be necessary to
'Make that defence MOM COMpit Le and permanent."-
On the gee.tion being 'par,
Mr. C.' 'INNING said, however be might differ
ftoin the argue:tents tied sentiments that had been
stated by his Right lion/ Friend, he did not differ
with him as to the grounds upon which he proposed
die Motion that had been Just submitted to tae
House. In adverting to those arguments, he ehould
abstain front having eeeetase to those common place,
• which his Right I loin Friend had deprecated, as he
should not be disposed to dispute the propriety of
the measure' he proposed tor a Parliamentary In.
l• •
qutryof the case existed which he supposed, either
that GOvernment had not done any thing, or
very little, • for the defence of the Country and
the - impalement of its miiitary means. In
those principles- he, agreed; he only differed in
its epplicatiom. 'Before he should proceed,
ever. it- was necessary to set himself 'right with
his. Right Hon. Friend, .beeause of the ,indignation
. anti astonishment which he supposed him ptepated
to feel on fioding .any person declare himself an
advocate for the Bill'of last Session. .He 'was pre.
pared to justify that . measure, though he should
iitet contend that it had succeeded to the full extent
chi!: heel been. ,expelled; :but this was not the
proper time to pronounce to what degree it had
:failed. He begged to eemied the 'Honourable
Qhotlem in that the .Bill had two objects, one to
raise a large present force, 'anti the other to he_
'carne the • source of a permanent, supply for the
Army.' This latter :abject hati not been yet stied,
and until filet should he-done, it.could not he fairly
decided that the, measure "had failed. The latter
objet was by much the men important one, and
tat whichhed induced many Gentlemen, wit.) felt
dissatisfied with serne sit the delails of the measure,
to agree to it. That part of, it which related to the
.permaneriaOrce 'had not yet bete tried, theenealtute
having had its Operation hitherto confined to raising
the immediate force, end hilieg up.those vacancies
which previously exisitel. \Vatic then did he idler
;from thiS That they should try:the merit, of the
measure, not-from ire eifett in the first case, but on
,its success with, respect to the more important
'l'l:e operation of the Bill commenced by
filling up existing Vacancies in distrifta that had
been ',before exhaneted lay means of the .Army' of
Reserve and the Milirix, anti, that:eh it had net sue.
ceetied in such distriCts, lie cententled that it was
not fair to'conelude that it had failed in its diffu.
sive operation all over
.the kingdom. He did nut
insist on this as a conciu.ive argument, •hut he
looked upon it as a safficient one against those
. who dwelt on 'the total and general failure' of the
Measure. It bad' been :urged thee it- neither- had
succeeded in filling uphthe vacancies, nor in pro.
curing a permanent supply for the Army ; but he
*should refer Gentlemen to the'etiect of the measure
which this 'had sticaeded, and in (chose place' it
:stood, he meant the Army 'of Reserve, and they
.would find ~that it had :yielded scereoet men this
year for the Army. Did that prove that the
holk of a supply froth tetcli a measure Wall
SiOn9rYt and ought to be abandoned ?...-Virere
there not 'oche" reasons elm' to thew.. diet it
°tight not to be givers eip t—When they looked to
'the circumitances off the Country, exhausted of men
by the Army of Reserve- and' the Supplementary ,
Militia, there could heno surprise felt at this mea.
sure not havinghadillioediate and.comple te success.
There was another difficulty to its operation which
had -arisen from the opposition that had been made
to titt•tneasere last Session, and the report :het an
effort would he tide to obtain the -repeal, Or it
early in the present. 'These circumssances had.
thrown a damp, in a great measure, on the.zeal that
,would. have been exerted in carrying its provisions
into • efreet,
,which Might afierwards turn out to be
nugatory. But it, was nit alone in thisgeneral prin..
. ciple that exertions were ;lack.coed, but experience
elite concurred to the same end. In execution of
the Army of Reserve Atf penalties h.id been in.
ctirrstifor deficiericiei, which had not been levied,
and the Parishes might have had an expeetetion
escaping, in the seine manner. Here there was an
• example of pehalties incurred 'and n ?tad ed and
• the expedation of the repeel of'tlie measure, though
he could nut allow the expedation to hive been
just;. and he would ask any also, whether, with
such expedatione, there had been a fair chartce fur
obtaining that exercise of zeal; of local ineuence,
and personal • exertion ; whether the Meaeure
had a fair trial ; and whether, the Coontry did not
require the defeat of the Motion submitted that
night, in order tti give the measure a fair and
partial trial? *Another reeien hit Right Honour.
able Friend had assigned in. Suppori,,ol his- Mo.
titan was ,forintieth on the variety of eopinitenti that
had been stated- in the 'different discussions on this'
subject in that Heftisee' litidchibtedly the' rulalic
looked with considerable interest to the discussione
in that House, and to the opinions urged in limp,

antl.to none with more respeek,then to those of his.
Right Friend. But it 'was rather curious to
make the -number of various' opinions and various
measures that -had originated in that House, an
argument • for repeating this measures- in order
to. sheer that they. had come to some steady and
consistent\ system ar lair. If the eneasure were
even less unexceptionable than it realle is, and net
as likely to answer 'the end fist' whieh it WAS in..
tended, as he maintained it was, he insisted, that
instead of repealing it, it ought to have a fair trial,
and not precipitately, or prematurely, receive its
condemnation. With respeet to the merits of the
Bill, it appeared to -him calculated to produce an
etre& which his Right Henourable Friend had fre-
quently dwelt on during laic Sessions, and had that
night mere particularly and directly, adverted to.--
Lct the Army alone, said his Hen. Friend, and it
will get on. His Right
„Hon. Friend would n.
deny that this meditate 11141 the merit of deing away
the high bounties, ordoing .sway the compel's.
'ion, especially as since the failure of the u.nhappy,
Parish Officers, the men had been recruited by the
regular Officers of the Crown. But his Right
Honourable Friend was not to be satisfied web
any mode of recruiting, unless it was conflated all in
one way, and for one descriptien of force, for until
he had reached etearly the end of his
,speech, the
only inference that could he' drawn horn i;11 the
preceding points of it, was, Olt he weelsl allow of
no species of Force hut Regulara. In the close of
hi; speech, however, he seemed to have kept one
remnant, for the Militia. Had he not found to
what purpose 'his Right Hon. Friend hdd.tureed
this concessionby the appeal be had made to the .
feelings of the Militia Colonels, he should have
given him credit ler on bonoutahle and praise.
w ,rthy attachment to that Constitutional •F ice.
Had his Hon. ktiend recommended the extiteetion
of the Militia Feree, he could not have bad the
opportunity for his appeal to the Militia cldonels;
but in proposing to continue the Militia on its
orieiliaf establishment of .40.000, and to raise cleat
number still by the Viol, he seemed by his apetel
to the Colonels to have mss e' nil stetement for
his Conclasions, not his conclusions from his state.
ritent. As to tie argument of his Right Hon.
'Friend, with respect to the policy of such a
;nixed force as that proposed to he raised by the
bill, it appeared weak in principle, inconclusive
in reasoning? and dangerous in tendency. • If' on
the conclusion of War, our Regular Force were to
he reduced It) the Peace Establishment, which alone
the Constitution of this free Country could have •
sanetioned,'he would ask his Right Hon. Friend, how
We were, on the ,breaking uto of a'. fresh Wrtr, to
raise 'such a fierce as he was sure his :Right Hon.,
Friend would be as anxious to have as any other
MeMber of that House, a force capable of being
employed With effect for the annoyance of the Ene.
my What alternative was there, to chose, - but
Whether large Standings Army should beakept up,
or force of the description of that proposed to be
raised by this :Bill Neither the Country nor
the 'House would consent to the former ; and
in proof of this he could refer to these arguments
that had been to frequehtly repeated ,in diet Houses
of tire danger.ef having the Liberties and the Gen.
stitution of the Country subverted, by having a
large Standing ArmY at the disposal of government.
There was no alternative, therefore, but to obtain
a force that might take place of the Army without
offenee to the Constitution. Of such 41 force there
were two descriptions the Militia, of which
We had 'experience of' half a century, or sods a
/tree as should be limited in service like . the
Militia, bet, being Officered by regular Officers,
should approach more nearly to rite quality of Re.
gelato, and be a nursery for the supply of the Army.
He agreed, that the Militia ought noel() be carried
'beyond a certain extent, Just steCeuse it could not
be kept tip to that extent, len became it was aster.
tained, that it could 'not he inainteieed In that ex.
tent donsistently with the principtes of its original
institution. It you 'vary from t'se original mode
With reopen to Officers, you may varye 'still more,
so as to 1-ender Ole forceemore pester!, and to bring
it nearer to the discipline and condition of a Regis.
he Force, which would be the same at >~ Standing.
Army..' _Right ''honourable Friend, after
stating 11f4ut al
soljetis itans to the Bill, had proceeded to
detail fairly: the alrereti >ni and itnetovernents in
the Military System which- he propoSed to
'mit to the Committee. His leading:, principle
of Objetlion Was• to the variety of fOrce on foot ;
but he conics nor himself see .on the face of it
what ohjAlen there could be to variety. if
a pure Monarchy were to exist in any country,
with a p eselation purely• agticelturat, unmixed
with commercial pursuits, -there would be no diffh.
culty in obtaining a large Army,. augmentable and
reducible in short petiod. But the mite does
not take plaC'e in a country were anstiefaCtiires and,'
commerce Nye made. cave:naive' progress. Did le
follow, he asked, that if we idiouiti not get the
whole number we wanted in the way most tk.sird..*
hie, that 'we shOuld throw the reminder away as
dross Or useless ?—Did: it follow, that because the ,
whole number 'emit!. nor he procured of that sic.
scrietion for Which. his Right flenoureble Frivol
had a great feterness and: anxiety, 'that we should '
not march'such a proportion of our population,
Who might enter into die dkposelsle force, Whose
absense would not be felt nor lamente..i,' and leave
'the prote(tion Of 'theirDistrias to those who te.
retained in the more limited force. If "the •Dlifitia •
could be carried to the exicot necessary?: then his
Right isioneureble Friend would 0;144 'Bat They
haid• tried eke 'Militia, and had feend it imeealie •
'tale to keep it to the extent to which' it had.
been carried consistently with the• principles* of
its institetion. Was 01i:re any thing :so absurd,.
surprising, or mischievous, its the arrangement 7
tot ,employing men whose occupations' prevented
theM frem engaging in the disposable force at
home, and thereby setting free so newts eef the
disposable force to be employed abroad ?—A great
-obje6tion to thielevy was, that it professed to raise
the men first for limited service, and afterwards to
leave '
them free to enter into the Regulars. ' But if
be understood right What his Right Honoureble
Friend had urged on a former occasion, not having •
been present he could not of course speak with
certainty, his. Right Hon. Friend, -when the Army
of Reeeive Was ender consideration, had acorn.