The Sun.
London, England, 1804-03-01 00:00:00

l'srrrtell bald been. prod giously increasing their; ;_
that alt'hoUgh- we *were- told-by-a riciiii-of the Ads- 1
miraliy- some months ago, that the Navy of France.'
c",../nSited' a a" few-Fishing Boats, yet we had allOiY.
ed thrill to increase their Niyy so rapidly, as to be'
now equal in number ofShips, or nearly so, to us.
—The French had 400 or five hundred Gun Boats,
an'J we had not zo to oppose thein ;- he thought we
had been most culpably deficient in that resped. -He
thought that althouglrour Frigates Could not go'close
to the harbours of the Enemy, that we should have
had gun boatg to do so, and attack and destroy them
in their harbours, if our Admiralty had done their

duty. He observed that our system of Sea Feri
cibles had been greatly neglefted—He saw no pro-
vision upon that subjel in this Bill: he should

ehdeavour to iorrodue something oNltat sort into

the Bill it t the Committee.

Captain MARKHAM said; he muss beg leave to
make a few observations on what had been advanced

by the Hun. Admiral, and he could not help re
marking on the painful sensation which he had felt
in his detailing what he had just given to the House,
and which, when detailed, appeared to him to he ob.
jedionable, for he ought to have made it a suhjea
of a diStiod, motion ; he ought to !laic brought it
forward in a specific way, and not in the very un-
handsome manner in which; •he must say, it had
been done----(A great cry of" Hear! hiar ! Chair
—He said he could not help feeling what he
He did not mean Co make use of any terms which
were not Parliamentary,- but he could not help
having the kind of feeling which he had expressed,
for the Hon. Adiniral had stated that the faculties
of the Noble Earl at- the head of the Admiralty
were not adequate to the situation he- occupied ; that
he left the basiness to inexperienced hands ; but his
faculties were now as strong as when he instructed
that Hon. Admiral; althOugh his health required
that he should be sometimes in the conntry. How
far that Hon. Admiral had improved since he had no
longer the instruction of that Noble Lord, he did not
know: Now he said he would not speak at all of
hiMself, althobgh he was one of those inexperienced
hands wherri the Hon. Admiral alluded, but be
would speak of his colleague (Sir Tho: Troubridge.)
The first 'voyage he' made he was'twelve years in
the East-Indies; he had nor heird from the Wirt.
Admiral where his foreign services had been. As'in'
the small craft of which the Hori Admiral had
spoken, he did nut 'know lioW he would manage it ;
that was beyond his comprehension ; how small
craft could gb into the harbours of France he could
not comprehend, for. the •whole coast was lined with
cannon. He -said that our FrigateS cannot go in,
but that our small' craft may. It was entirely in-
Comprehensible to him, how small craft could go
0:-.der the Enemy's cannon-. It had been intimated
that we might have had a number of Gun-b Oats• to
oppose_ the Gin-boats of the Enemy. That was
ridtculbus and absurd. He was not used to speak
the laTiguage that was common'in that House, which
was generally smooth' fine flowing -speaking, but he
• must speak the langUage of the profesion' he was
bred to. If we adopted a system Of-going to the
Enemy's ctiasein•Gtin-boats to attack them there,
the first gale of wind would bring the news that
they had been all -ship-wrecked; •and if they were
• not lost in the storm, they must be destroyed
by'the batteries of the Enemy ; there was no get-
ting at the Enemy's G-Un.b•,iats without getting
under the cannon of -the Eneiny, for the French
Gun-boats crawled along'their Coast, like crabs, at
low water. HoweverOf the-Hon.: Admiralwiahed
to try his luck: in a Gun-boar to go to destroy the
French, he should be provided with a Boat for that
purpose. He then repeated what he had said on a
former occasion, that the low rate of Insurance was
the beSt proof oldie good cooduti of the Admiralty,
and he appealed to' the mercantile part of the House
• to bear 'witness Whether that fad was as he had
• stated.

Aa'mirol BERKELEY explained, and observed,
that he did not mean by inexperience, inexperience
as -a Naval Officer, but inexperience as Lords of the
Admiral') . With regard to. his -own Foreign Ser-
vice, he had been in all Parts of the Globe, except
__[We dia not hear the name of the place.]
Col2nel LYRE applauded the Volunteers highly
for their gallantry and rote patriotism. He thought
their discipline entirely 'respectable, and pettedly '
adequate to the purpose for which they were in-
tended; he could not bear the idea of hearing them
spoken of lightly of. He thought, if all partisa in
the House were to unite at this time to Support the
Government as they ought to do, this Country
would be perfectly free from danger.
Sir W. YOUNG -opposed the Bill, on the gene-
ral grounds of the impropriety of the present Vo.
lonteer System, and of its being a dangerous as
well as unnecessary interference of the King's Pre-
rogative in calling out his Subjeds for the defence
of the Realm.
Mr. FULLER passed many very •handsome com-
pliments on the Volunteers, for zeal, courage, dis--
cipline, and pure patriotism, but said he should vote
against the Speaker's leaving the chair, because he
thought the Bill both unneceisary, and might'be in
some degree dangerous, because now that a Court of
Justicehad set an,tmportant point at rest respelling the
Volunteers, they would susped that some measure
must be in agitation to take them some hoW or other,
which might have a bad effed on the whole system.
As to the idea that the Volunteer system interfered
with the Militia and the Atmy of Reserve, he was
confident that was not sn ;• that if they had no ex-
emption whatever, the Volunteers were persons of
that condition in life, that at least two-thirds of
theth would have provided_ Substitutes instead of
serving in person, either in the' Militia or Army of
Reset-ire. He was very sorry that the Volunteers
had been treated so lightly and improperly_ by as
worthy a man as any in the kingdom, he meant the
Right Hon.-Gentleman 'on' the -Bench below —him,
' (Mr. WINDHAM) who was very fond of theo..
ries-, and who 'studied more than • his judgment
ripened into execution.
Mr. FOX said, he owned that he should not de-
liver what he bad to'say in the same way as he now
thought himself compelled to do it, if it had not
been fir what was said by his Hon. Friend who had
spoken from the opposite side of the H lose, whom
he did not now see in his place (Gen. MAITLAND) ;
and also for what had been said by an Hon. and
Gallant Officet behind him (Col. ETRub who. had-