The Sun.
London, England, 1803-06-07 00:00:00

a glorious effort to de S 3 in the last War—we had
continued in the crates; Cir that purpose long, after
every British ohjed had been attairted, and as long
.as it was possible with any hopes of .rnAting
,an
pression favourable to the general interests of Eu.
rope; we had Continued in the contest until we
were left without alliance for perseverance in it;

and then we did what, under auch circumstances,
it was wise in us to do; ,but there was not, what
the Right Hon. Gentleman ha said, any thing
shabby on our part. The Right Hon. Gentleman,
after having charged us with negleCting cur true

interests, by adopting a system —purely defensive,
which he denied, had proceeded to state that the

force we had hitherto proposed to adopt is not ap.
plicable to our case, and alluded to the Militia.
Now upon this subjeCt he must be allowed to lament
a little that the Right I lon. Gentleman had not
brought forward his objeCtion to this system at the
rime it was first brought before the House, because
abundant opportunities had been afforded to hear
the reasoning of the Right Hon. Gentleman upon
the subject, and indeed upon the system of the Mi.
litia altogether. He should have been happy to
have heard the 'opinion of the Right Hon. Gentle..

in.►n upon that as well as upon any other subjea.—
lie was perfectly open at the time to eonvielion,
and so he wished to be still, but. he only wanted to
know what the Systerntof this Country had always
been, and whether:the mea,ure now proposed w.ts

not an improvement upon that plan' and whether
the observations of the Right HotL Gentleman, if
they had been twat. last year, would have induced
Parliament to'vote too,oo6'meti on the establish.

:nen% pc' thought not, our nteaures lasi year,
however, enabled us to stet a stronger force on foot
than was ever knoWn at the' coirnnenetnent of a
War, and we had at this moment a coitsideralle

body of the best TrottPs on font we ever had ; for
reasons he ih inght that Govermtient was m,t
liable to reprimch for negligence. He shoUld not
follow :the Right Hon, G.:utletnan through his ob.
serVatiooi tin the Militia, as he had stated already.
He lamented that thesHou,c had not been favoured
with the opinion of the Rightflon. Genticat in fully
on this occasion formerly, but the question now
was, whether the Committee would not votr a

foice which on consiticrAnn la it Session %vas

thought necessary ? Thc Right Honourable Gentle,
man said that a regular army 111 V acting a %gm-
try could be opposed only by 4 regularly
that was tru:, but it admitted of tcrusin
cations ; it was trtie with regard to an engagement
noc to a prottadcd W.ll. Amcrica Was a proof
of this—the regiiht army indeed bear the An-tetri.

cans in evorycugAgerat:nt, but at last they harr;iss_

ed, and finally overpewered the regal army.
This was also the case of France ht rsclf against
Prussia—the Prussian army was composed of the
bo.q regular Trops„ and he believed that the.
FrenQh who tare op,' used ,to them consisted of the
National Guard froops of that description,
lie must say, that v.hatever eharancr. the French •
Troops had whatever thy',' may now
he, they had gone thronizh a great deal of hard
fighting, but they did not safer themseivei de_
viand or to be alarmed on account of their nut be-
ing regular Trcops althOugh they were to be op_
pmcd by regulacs, they exerted thernselves,by a re.
solution which enabled theta to get the better Of.
their difficulties—and if, this Country hid the same
resolution, of which there could be no doubt, be.:
cause we 411 felt the. propriety; of it, we should not
only get over. our, diifienftieS, but We should teaelt
this our •iniplent Enemy wel are nor to be insulted
With impunity, and if they attempt us, to on their
own words, on our own dunghill, woe be to the as.

•Nr. PITT said, he was in a great degree S 3 tiS.
fled by what he had just heard froth his Right Hon.
Friend: He was happy to understand horn him,
that Ministers did not think, that the piesent
litia was all the additional force which the Public
Service, at .this interesting moment requires, and if
they (tiro not t teen r uit n the subjea at present,' it
07,1:1 Only I;ecause they hail measures of augm2niat inn
in view which were not mature; that they had not
laid before the Committee. the moans of knowim
the plan now for that reason, hot that Hwy at r
.L a conSiderable augmentatiOn most
, being of that ..Opinion himself, he shoo :d
bardlk have occasion to make more than one. re.
[nark, which was, that in his vietv of the sulj
on the priecipie tvhich Ministers had adopted, that
of more vigtr,ius measures than tad been hi,"herto
Cron tried, to obtain th:►t for CC W hich seas ,of the
best sort, that of S'appl,:mental force to the, arMY.,
main. under (..:ommissioned and Non.comvai'sSinned
Officers in the regular Army. It did apt):ear that
tvalitltl h.ive heen lumina-tc it they had ea ther, begun
by establishing in of Parliament and of
the Country the necessity the thing to be'done,,
by preparing the rok mind by an, ath•quate vote
for thin tir 'woe,
course and pursuing the means, may be
now desirable twunivia.,- the public mind to the
adoption of what may be ,thought essential
either for the, safety of the Island, or ,what we
should couple with it, the vigorous prosecution- of
the War. with France,' that of calryingten Witr with
a f'otce which may he at once adapted either for
Offence or defetic., the bt!t effeAs inay be expeled,
but we are not in a stato. tit for War "tvith'France
until we are in a situation to avail ourselves of
every opportunity hich tiny QCC:IIt. for Offensive
as %yell as defensive operations. He wottld go for..
thee, and say, that tye,.wallto the means of offon,
M
sive we should have the ore, of defensive V3r."••
tk
_applauded every' desire which Ministers could'
manifest, to labour with perseverance IQ consider of
the best means for the safety of the State; but,"
said Ite, "c 1 it-7-do it effeaually I and to do it
,el..
you must dO it soon— Doing it soon Will
be better, though you do it with difficultyi than if
you do it some time hence, and after muchOelibera,
tion: easily, I think it is bitter that.. the thing
should be done at once, or os 5000 as possible, 'than
that you should delay it—that is, I think it better
that it should be yolod without delay, and the 4
that you should consider about the nte4tis: first vote
the measure, and then come forq%trd With the vote for
defraying the.expence, becatise by bunging the mat.
ter forward immediately, you will call the spirit of
the People bit° aaion. The quiestion now is, will
you save your Country ? Save rt in the best and most