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NOTICE.

Sir AM ES STEWART g:tve notice, that on Friday next he
shou;d_present a Petition similar to mat .which had been pre-
sented in the other Flouse, Calliplaining of the conduct of oze
of the udges in. I r,:laiat.
The CH,NCELLOW of the EXCItEQUER then Moved for
the poitponement of the Order tor tite consithration of the
Petition of the Linen Manulatturcrs in Ireland, till Thurs...
day next ; Which, atter a few observations from Mr. fo3 tax.,
was agreed to.
Mr: Pll"l`'s PLAN for INCREASING the ARMY.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER be- 1
ing Called upon by the Speaker, rose and addressed 1
the House nearly as follows "In 'entering upon .1
the subjedi which it is now my duty to bring tor..
ward, I feel a peculiar satisladion in being ena.
bled to state, that the principle of the Measure which
1 shall have the honour of prOposing, 'appears- to be
pretty unanirnhusly agreed oh, not only by the ob. I
servations of those Gentle'rnen' who have hitherto I
appeared to have turned their attention most to the
Military Defence of the Conntry; but the votes of
Gentlemen on every side of the House, appear to
have expressed very plainly, that it is their clear
and decideLl opinion, that it is now important and I
necessary to devise those means which may he the
most effectual for increasing, not only our Internal
strength and Security, but also for considerably
augmenting our Regular ArMY. It appears to be
the unanimous wish of the Country that we should
have such a Regular Army as would be stiffir.:i.z,nt to
take advantage of any favourable ei.rcumstance
which might occur in the course :n the War, and
which now and at all times-, 'alight he sufficient for
preserving to the Coun..iy that rank which it has hi. 1
therto held among the Nations of Europe, and which I
it ought still to bold. Being then so Unanimously
agreed upon the general principle, we haVe now
only to direa our best efforts to carry it into
execution ; and to consider by what means this ne.: •
cessary augmentation of our Regular Army canlbe ,
effected' with the least possible inconvenience or
hardship to individuals, and without weakening
those measures which have been adopted for the in,'
ternal Defence and security of the Country. With-
out entering at large into the principle of the
roeasurcs- which have been already adopted for the I

Defence of Oa Country, r shall observe, generally,
that the obje& of Use Plan which I propose is, io
the first place, to
,do away those obstacles which
are in the way of the. Recruiting for the Reinlar
Army, and whielt, in a greit. meaoire, owe' their,
birth to that competition which now prevails among
those who Recruit for the Regular Army, and those
who Recruit for a more limited description of Ser-
vice, or from which competition the bounties are
now so high. In the second place, I propose not
only to do away those obstacles which now exist
to the Recruiting for the Regular Arniy, but to
create a new additional Force, that may be a per-
mment foundation for a regular increase of our
Army. And thirdly, I should wish, if not to
create, at least to preserve and increase that Force
tvlien services are of a more limited description,
tint which may be sufficient for the internal Defence
of the Country, and to render our Troops of the Line
thore•dispoiable. When I consider how unani.o.
motes the sense of Parliament, and the voice of
the Country, appears to be in requiring a con.
siderable addition to our Army, I think I do nor
liatter myself; when I suppose the measure 4
shall new propoaco6ar the attainment-of this objet
to be such as most meet' with general approbatioe..
I am convinced that they will be attended with
much less inconvenience and personal hardships,
than What is experienced under the present mode. of
• raising the additional Forces which Parliament
have already voted. I shall reduce the obser-
vations I have now to offer under three heads.
sat, The amount of the Troops to be raised ; 2dly;
Their description as as to the limitation. of .their
services ; and 3:11y, The mode by which they are
to.be 'raised. As to the' first point, I shall not now
call for any new exertion on the part of the Coun:
; I only desire that the call which the Legishio
ture.his already thought it necessary to make shall
now be made good. The Legislature has already
thought it necessary to create the Royal Army ,of
Reserve, and to call out the Supplementary Militia,
which, as it appears to me, may be sufficient to lay a
pnrmanent foundation for the increase of our Regular
Army. If then I call upon the Country to make good'
that which has been already voted necessary, Ido
not propose any new or extraordinary measure, but I
hope we shall be able to give-such a diredion to the
Force already voted, as will best answer those
great objeds, for the attainment of which I trust
we are unanimous. Of the numbers which have
been already voted for the Army of Reserve, eight
or nine thousand are now deficient. In calling,,
thetefore, for this deficiency to be made good to
the Nation; I only follow the ideas of those Gentle-
men who voted that Force to be necessary ; and
I conceive, that by completing the-number that
is so deficient, we shall be enabled to devise a
means of so far recruiting the Regular Army. The
next groundl should wish to take for the purpose.
of increasing the Regular Force, is by the gradual
diminution of the Militia, until it shall arrive at
the point from which it had been so much in-
creased, and settle at the original compliment of
.40,000 for England, and 8000 for Scotland : I should
suppose that all the difference between the present
complement of the Militia and the Supplementary.
Militia, exceeding the original number, should be
transferred, together with the 9000 deficient on the
Army of Reserve Establishment, to the New Force
which I should now wish to have established. The
deficiency of the Militia is at present about 7000
for-England and Wales. If, then, Parliament would
resolve that the numbers which it had already voted
for the Army of Reserve and Militia, and which
were still deficient, should be now filled up and trans..
ferred to the new force, I should consider this as a
very great source for recruiting our Regular Armies.
In addition, however, to this source, it appears to me
that another, and a very abundant source, presents
itself to our view : Lesides the 9000 who are defi- *
cient of the Army of Reserve, and 7000 deficient'
in the Militia, vacancies must often occur, which as'
they were filled up, the number 'so added might .be
constantly transferred. The House haying once
resolved that the Militia ought to be reduced
to its former establishment, would also con.
sent that the vacancies should be filled up
in a manner the most likely to be of effeduak
service to the Country ; and it would ape
pear, that the numbers who should be required to
fill up these vacancies, would, if transferred to the
Regular Army, be not only a considerable 'rein-
forcement, but a reinforcement of a nature likely to
he a perpetual source of recruiting the Army of the
Line. This, then, was no new call upon the Ccdm.
try, but merely a demand that the numbe:l which
they had before declared to be necessary should
now be furnished. Ido nor, S:remerely allude to
the situation of the Couna:y -at the present moment;
but in the measure 'a:fifth I have now proposed, I
am sanguine ..onough to exped that we shall find,
not only for the present year, but for. future times,
a neaver.failing resource for recruiting our Armies.
I consider it as a: thing undeniably clear, that this
Country should at all times have a Regular Army
suited to the rank and station it has held, and ought
always to hold, among the Nations of Europe—it
should be able to at with vigour against its Ene-
mies, as
_well as to 'defend itself against their' at-
tacks e• and therefore such a mode of recruiting
must be found out, as will be' likely to afford a
permanent source for the recruiting of our Regular
Armies. I am happy. to be able to state, that of
those who have enlisted in the course of last year
for the Army of Reserve and the Militia, no less
than 13,000 enlisted for general service into the
Regular Army. 'lt would be seen in this, how much
benefit had already resulted from those institutions
which the House had formerly adopted; if thent3,o6o
Recruits had been obtained for the Regular Army
in as many months (and it was not 'bore thark

thlt teen months since any of those Bills were
in force) what might be exoefted from such a prin-
ciple constantly operating ? What vast benefit might
be supposed likely to result from the adoption of
such a system ? I certainly so far flatter myself, as
to suppose that the beeefits likely to result from ti7e
adoption of such a system, would be superior to any
thing that could be expected from carrying into ef-
fea any ideas or plans which have hitherto been.
anugested or stated by any Hon. Member of -this
douse. As to the mode which I shall point out, I
confess it differs, in some respeas,,from that which
upon a ormer night I stated to the House. I cer-
tainly much disaielove of the system which is now
in force, of calling upon an individual, under severe
penalties, either to serve (if drawn) in the Army of
Reserve, or pay a fine, which may often be in the
highest degree inconvenient: As it stands under
the Ad ot Parliament now in force, a person who is
drawn for the Army of Reserve, and cannot serve,
must pay a fine of zol. and also be liable to a re-
petition of that fine annually. The Parishes which
were deficient were also liable, not only to a fine of
201. for every man deficient, but also to a repe.
tition of that fine every Quarter Sessions. This
liability to Parishes, as well as to individuals,
accounted very sufficiently for the competition
which now existed, and for the high bounties which
were given; it was not to bet supposed that
either individual, or parish so circumstanced, would
not offer very high bounties, to extricate them.
selves from the penalties they would otherwise
incur ; and those bounties, so springing from the
high penalties ittflifted by the interfere most
materially with the recruiting for the Army. I
do not mean by this observation to call into ques-
tion the principle upon which the House passed the
Army. of Reserve Act; but I hope, that whereas
the intention of it was merely as a measure of tem-
porary defence, it will be found, that in the expe-
rience of it, it has pointed out a means for the per-
manent increase of oar Regular Army. Without,
therefore, examining the principle of that measure
which Parliament then adopted, I am content to
preserve all the advantages of it. I had before pro-
posed.a mode cf ballot by which every person who
should be drawn was immediately liable to serve,
under the penalty of a certain moderate fine. I
expressed my opinion, that the fine for not serving
should be very moderate, and that the ballot for
supplying the vacancies should be made frequently,
in order to try whether there were any in the Dis.
tria who would prefer serving in person, with the
receipt of this additional bounty, to paying the fine,
however moderate. This was the idea which first
occurred me to me; I must confess, however, that
I have, upon very deliberate consideration, so far
varied from the opinion which I at first formed, as
now to declare that I think we should lay aside en.
;hely all that part of the plan which calls upon in.
dividuals, and call diretaly upon the Country for that
proportion which they ought to furnish in the pro-
portion of their population ; for instance, if r z,OOO
men is wanting, they should be called for from the
different Counties, en the scale and in the pro.
portion in which the Militia are now raised.
As the Counties should, upon this plan, be called
opal, direaly to contribute their quota, so at the
meetings of Sub-Lieutenants, a similar representa-
tion ot the, number to be raised in that distrid
should also be made ; and when it has come so far,
I think, instead of having a ballot in every Parish
to ascertain who shall serve, the Parish itself should
be bound to furnish that number of men which it
was its proportion to furnish, or else pay a certain
moderate fine to be imposed. It is by no means my
wish or my object to form a recruiting fund from
. those fines ; all I wish is, to stimulate as much as
possible, all ranks and descriptions of people, to
m eke use of every exertion, and of all the advan-
tages which local influence gave them, to raise, in
their distriet, that number of men which was the
proportion of their district. As to the general ex-
pences of .the Recruiting Service, I think it should
be paid from the general fund of the Nation ; and if
I wish to impose any fine upon the Parishes in case
of deficiency, it will be only for the purpose of sti-
mulating their exertions to raise their quota. I
&hould not, however, propose a fine on the Parishes
which should be deficient, gteater or equal to that
which, by the present laws, they are liable to; if
they were able to find their quota, they should be
liable to tio fine. If they did raise the number re-
qaired of them, I should then propose, that the
Receiver General of the Land Tax of the County
should pay all over the stipulated bounty, for the
Recruits they had raised, and so the local ex.
ertions of individuals in their Parishes would be
superadded to the general exertion of the State
for increasing the Army. From this combined ex-
ertion I should expea the greatest possible advan.
tages ; but should I be somewhat sanguine in this
resped, I must say, that, be the advantages great or
small, no possible disadvantage can result from the
adoption of it ; there will be no sacrifice of any other
means or resource which the Country is now possess.
ed t3f. This Plan will by no means exclude the ideas of
any other Gentleman with resped to other more col-
lateral circuntetances. Some Gentlemen may be of
opinion, that it is of the first-rate importance to better
the situation of the Soldiery in general : this plan is by
no means in opposition to that izi4:3 j on the contrary,
that and any other Plan respehirg t:lts., improvement
of our iVlilitary System in general, was perfetE;y com-
patible with the Plan, and might be fully discusses'
after its adoption. The Plan which I have now
the honour to propose, does 'not interfere in the
smallest degree either with any general abstrafl ideas
of the Military System, or with any collateral views
of the present questior; nor dces it in the least
interfere with any resources which the Country may
now possess. This Plan may now be adopted, and
any other measures which may he proposed by any
Hon. Gentleman for the additional Defence of the
Country, may, on a future day, be adopted also. J
feel, however, sanguine in my hope, that the princi-
ple which I i ave endeavoured to promote must meet
t! e general approbation of the House. I trust most
con;idently, that it will have the support of those
Gentlemen (honking at the Benches where Mr.
WIND/JAM and his 'Friends.usually sit), who have
so often and so strenuottsly laboured to impress upon
the House the necessity of augmenting, in a consi.
derable degree, the numbers of our Regular Army.
They have felt strongly, that Unless our Regular

Army was put t:; on a scale proportioned to that
rank which the Country ought to hold, that we
should never be able, in war, to take any of those
advantages which the circumstances of the times
might present for effecting those grand objea, of
national policy, and the deliverance of Europe,
which they have had so much at heart. I there-
fore cannot doubt but I shall have their support
on the present question. I also trust that those 1
who have felt strongly the hardships and burdens
to which individuals are liable, under the present
system of raising men by ballot, will join with
Me in opinion, that the necessary burden for the
defence of the State should not fall so heavily as it
has done upon individuals, but that it should
be borne by the Nation. It is undoubtedly hard,
that infirmity of constitution, or the necessity
of providing for a family, which may render it
alroast impossible for many ballotted men to serve
personally, should also expose them to the heavy
penalties, which the existing laws impose upon
those who do not choose to serve ; this hard.
ship upon individuals has been felt so strongly,
and described so eloquently by many Gentle-
men of this House, that I cannot have a doubt of
their support in carrying into effet that very prin.
ciple which they have laid down so clearly, and de-
scribed so well. The consequences of this ballot
under the present system, are the enormous boun-
ties which absolutely prevent the recruiting in the
regular way for the Army ; but it must follow, of
course, that when individuals or parishes are liable
to the present severe penalties for every man that
does not serve, they will give bounties for Substi-
tutes superior • to any thing that has been settled as
the Bounty for persons enlisting in the Army of the
Line. I do not mean to state that unless the Plan
I now propose be adopted, that there are no
means left of saving the Country ; I do not doubt
but a very considerable additional Force might
still be raised upon the principle and the system
of the Army of Reserve but I will state, that
an equal body of meocould be raised with much less
hardship and inconvenience to individuals, and for a
more general and important description of set vice, by
the Plan which I have now'. the honour to propose.
If the Parishes which are called on for their quota
shall by their exertions be able to raise them, it is
my plan that the whole of the expence of the Boun-
ties shall be paid out of_ the general Fund of the
Nation, and that the Parishes should be only called
upon for their exertions to raise the number of men
required ; but if through negligence, or any other
cause, the Parish should be deficient in its quota,
then, and not sooner, I think a moderate fine should
be imposed upon them, something higher than the
Bounties for the men deficient. Those fines I
should, therefore, propose to form into a Recruiting
Fund, in aid of the Nation Fund for that purpose ;
and I should also propose, in such cases, that the
Military Officers of that DistriEl should have liber-
ty to recruit generally, at the established Bounty, for
the number of men that such Parishes should be so
deficient, and that the fine 3 should be recovered by
a summary mode of proceeding. I cannot but sup-
pose that many of those recruited for limited services
would, when they had by habit acquired a taste for
a Military life, be found ready to enlist for a more
general service. The Plan which I now propose
appears to me to be at least worth the trial, on this
account, that it is not liable to produce any bad
consequences, even if it does not produce all those
advantages which I am sanguine enough to hope
from it. It is no new measure that I now call
for, which is to be supported by new and severe re-
gulations ; it is only to do that which Parliament had
already resolved to do, • namely, to complete the
Army of Reserve and Militia up to that number
which has been voted ; and as for severity, instead of
laying any new 'or severe regulations, my objeet is
to take away all that severity and hardship to
which individuals are now exposed, by the system
which prevails of raising men, either by ballot or
by excessive fine. I propose, in the first instance,
to free the parishes from the fines and arrears which
they have at present incurred ; and When .it is re-
colleaed that they were liable to the recurrence of
the 20-7. penalty every Quarter Session, this must
be deemed a very considerable relief. They will be
immediately freed from their liability to pay heavy
fines, and for the future principally be called on
not to - pay money, but to use diligence, and to
make proper exertions to procure their propor-
tion of recruits, which are to receive their boun-
ties, not from the parishes, but from the public
purse. Such, Sir, are my ideas with resped to
the. mode by which the men are to be raised.
Having thus described the nature and extent of the
Force to be raised by the Plan which I now intend
to submit to the House, I proceed to consider the
second head of my arrangement, viz. the descrips
tion of the Force, and the nature of the services to
which it is to be applied. Upon this part of my
subjeEt, however, it will not be necessary for me
to trouble the House at any great lengns. I have in
a great measure before stated the nature of the
Force which appeared to me best calculated to an-
swer the purpose which the Legislature had in view,
and the particular sort of service in which it was
necessary they should be employed. It would be
needless for me now to enter minutely into a de.
tail of this nature, as my ideas on this head are
without any material variation the same as those
which I formerly had the honour of stating to the
House. The limitation of the Force is conform.
Bole to that which exists under the present Army
of Posaerve Ad.: it is to subsist for five years, unless
dismissed isssfore the end of that period, upon the
Ratification of a- lo?sfinitive Treaty of Peace; still,
however, to he suhjaa. to any farther call, that,
under particular circurnstancosa may be made upon
them before the conclusion of the War, in case it
should last longer than the limited term. Jn the next
place, this Force is not to be compelled to se.-ye in
any other situation than in Great Britain and trlt;.
t.
'slant's of the Channel, such as Guernsey, Jersey,
and the other Islands more immediately connected
with this Country. Such are the limitations of
the service to which this Force is to be applied,
which, it will be observed, are stridly conform-
able to the limitations that before existed on tins
subjea—now then, as to the mode in which it will
be proper to arrange this Force, so as to make
their services as effetaual as possible to answer I
the exigcncica of the State. On this part of the

subjea kis scarcely necessary to observe, that the
Regular Arrny is the most excellent sort of Force
which we possess in point of discipline, and every
quality requisite to form the complete soldier. Ihe
nearer then the description of Force to which I have
been adverting approaches to the Regular Army, and
the more intimately it is conneaed with it, the
better chance does it afford of being rendered fully
adequate to every purpose of internal Defence, and
of powerful and effedual resistance in case the EneMY
should dare to tempt their fate by landing in this
Country. The object proposed,therefore, is to attach
the Battalions of the Artny of Reserve to those of the
Regular Troops. The natural effect of this will be,
that the promotions will be regularly carried on '
from one to the other of these Battalions, so that
the senior Officer in one situation will be the
junior in the next place to which he is promoted,
and a perpetual interchange of Officers will be the
result, which must be attended with the best possible
effects to the discipline of the. Army of Reserve, and
to the general good of the service. The advantage
must be immense to the discipline of the Reserve, for
they will in a great measure have the benefit of being
under the eye of Officers who have been engaged
in actual service, and in this resped stand on a
footing with a great part of our Troops of the Line.
The Officer too, will have a great advantage ; for,
when he has been at peculiar pains to train a body
of men to the use of arms, and a mutual partiality
has in consequence taken place between the Officers
and the privates, then, though he in the course of
promotion should he carried from one battalion to
another, he has still the well-founded prosped, that
the men whom he has trained may enlist in the Re-
gular Army, and give him an opportunity of one
day facing an enemy at their head. Tothe private
men it will also be of the most striking service, by
presenting an additional motive to petted themselves
in their discipline, and to behave with that attention
to their duty, and that` general propriety, which
may. command the attachment, confidence, and
esteem of • their Officers: The reason is obvious :
if the Officer shall have a welLfounded prosped
of commanding the men against an enemy which
he himself has trained, the soldier is prevented
from behaving in such a manner as to incur
the disple'asure of his Officer, from the know-
ledge that it is not at all unlikely that he may be
commanded by the very same Officer in the Regular
Troops, though that Officer may, by promotion, be
removed from one battalion to another. With
regard then to the discipline of the Troops—with
regard to the experience of the Officers—with
regard to the attachment which will be mutually
formed between Officers and Men, and with regard to
the sort of intercourse, and family feeling that will
be established among them, it is scarcely possible
to dcubt that all these things together will be a
source of solid and permanent advantage to the
Military Establishment of this Country, (Cries of
" Hear ! Hear !") There can be no doubt, that if
13,000 of the Atmy of Reserve entered into the
Regular Army, when the Troops -were dispers-
ed in the manner in which they have been,
the family intercourse 'which the present Plan
will form among the Battalions of the Army
of Reserve and of the Line, will be produc-
tive of much greater effects. How much greater
may our confidence be in the result that will
follow, when a Battalion of one sort is added to
another of a different desctiption, when a mutual
transfer takes place from one to another, and when
we thus.form an additional motive to the Troops of
the Reserve for enlisting into those of the Line,
and at the same time augment. the diScipline of the
former, and render them admirably -11-tted• for every
purposes of internal defence ? That this will be pro-
dudive of the greatest advantages no one can-deny,
for while it. furnishes a more excellent:Force for the
purposes of internal security, it becomes a formid.
able body, by its experience and opportunities, of
exercising with the Troops of the Line. The
Plan which I propose will render our security
more complete, and without augmenting the num-
ber of the Force whiCh the Country is to fur_.
nish and maintain, I have improved its quality,
and that in so eminent a degree, that 'it is scarcely
possible to doubt, that one man, trained in the man-
ner which I have now mentioned, will be equal to.
two men disciplined in the loose and irregular maoa
ner in which the irregular troops are now disci-
plined. With no more troops than the number
which the Legislature has already thought pro-
per to supply, I have doubled their value ; and•
this, I apprehend, is the method of consulting
true and advantageous economy ( Hear! Hear!).
But this is not all. The Plan will be attended
with the farther good effect of rendering the
Regular Army more disposable, and considering the:
advantages which the troops of the Reserve will
derive from their intercourse with those of the
Line,' it is not at all unlikely that they will ar-
rive at such a degree of discipline as to be fully ade-
quate of themselves to protect the Country. In such
a Case, the whole of the Troops of the Line may be
disposable, . and ready to •be employed in any. enter-
prize which the emergency of particular circum-
stances may require. As matters now stand, those
who have the highest opinion of the Militia,
and few can have a higher opinion
:than I myself
entertain, both of the Militia and cif the Army of
Reserve ; those that have the highest ideas of the
discipline, vigour, and bravery of both these
descriptions, of Force, would still feel a considerable
hesitation in trusting the internal Defence of the
Country solely to them, without the aid of Regular
Troops. And why would they feel this hesitation
Because, whatever may be the bravery, the patri-
otism, and even the discipline of the irregular
Forces, still every one feels that a considerabe de-
gree of-experience is necesary, in order to induce
him to place entire confidence. in any description of
Force. But what- will be the of sd of allowing
the Army of, Reser.Ve to have the advantage
acithe discipline of the Regular Troop's, and of
thceieoserien-ce of tried Officers ? The of will
be, that every impedlrlierit be removed that can
prevent the free diaposal of the Regular Army; that
Without shutting up tlc channEls of Recruiting for
the gegular Army,, if we :fail, at tiny tune, twin..
soy patticulat cause in- the ordinary rn,:t hods of
that Force, yet there will still remain
ar7orlittrio‘.,ce. which, every ;3t“ pose of internal
Defence, will be folly athaoiw: to the wants of the I

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C,eorust: tor) I,e , ti,
.I have,sl ; then, stated t!:!a:a
! in"
the description of th4t F')rce,e'
F )
and the litnitation of its services, and ‘i th';,
two heads I have coupled the third, which wc"t
the mode of raising this limited body. I have
mained the methods to. be pursued, in "'der
more effeaually to -attain the requisite riwilbi>u;
which was not to be put in execution all at once' ,
to be carried gradually into eirea. I have stated IP.
the numbers should be limited to somewhere ah'!-`1:1
74,000 men, and that the Militia should be reduce'
in the same proportion. The Militia and the SuPO-
- Militia are, at present, about 74,91/4:,
men, It is therefore proposed to reduce this force, r`
about 24,000 men less than its present establishment'
and augment the new FO7CC in a similar Pr"l'f-
tion) which will raise it to about 74,000 me.ll'
the nutnber of the present Militia Establishment.'
The grounds of the Force will thus remain as Ma"
merly : for we have already exnerienced the g';',°
effects of it in some degree : our resources in r•e"
enticing will be greatly increased,. and our disposa'
ble Troops considerably augmented. This. is Ole
great advantage of the measure which I am sh°9r
to bring forward, that it affords the best rerriALldc
a failure in recruiting by ordinary means, and, at Jahe
same time, it doer not, in any degree, block q' the .!
ordinary channels by which men are raised for ;tl2e.
Regular Army ; nor is it of the stnallest inPrY
to any other measure of Dalence which has. b/e:1,
adopted, or that it may be in future neces:nrY.„,
adopt. I have thus briefly laid before the 14051: a,
the outlines of the Plan Which I, thought. be9'
i.
culated for our Defence in- the present Ciat
stances of the Country, a.nd for.furnishinga:s°s.oo%
force that may be permanently useful in a nYaa.,,d'aaerr'''
stances that may in future occur. • 1--haVr;'ll"f., to
omitted one thins which it at ill be.. proper ,
advert to, and which properly belongs tq (-abet
head, which I mentioned as coupled with ttleitioraf.••
two, viz, the mode of raising the propose43",u..l'aas
Force. What I antide to is, the: change 'Y'lic;ori
taken place in my sentiments and plan +%.lthr-7,is
to the ballot. The reasons for this ch4ne-
pwreoi[glehr
equallythat I s
tsrhoonugld
with state,t h aen
Hdhoi'use pe ; vi •
weighed with me (a cry " Hear! ileartif
sst
ohta
net
aeuidinyi
,voenr
naiecfo
ao
drnme
otel
frrroeancecasion, and aPParteil.;iloulyra,
moderate fine should be eesxuoatet:
enormous bounty, which was exceediln7lcyuroepapt.:stf..gi'l
upon individuals, and obstructed the recruitiolo
stetidttieuftoHer onuostelserviing
Teo.,
the Regular. Army. The same hardship VV,IS •
often experienced by the,.Parish, upon which,be
ever, the burden of the ballot was intentleat tO;i•
thrown. But the question with me, since
ed additional infOrination on this subject, has bef,l,
Whether the ballot ought at Milo he continue(;
oc'
great objeft of the ballot was t.' procre ar
personal service'-as possilite;an. 0110 Which
naturally be expe&ed to result from the, hiihlaii;
ties which it became necessary to give fOr sn-ea;
tutes ; but if the bounty or. the fine, was ani.crerhat-a7-
than usual, the danger to be appraahentled
less personal service could be obtained. I have . •
1 bf.
and but very lately, had recourse to. thd,a,ceporP.o,o••
the ballots, and by this means I have, fourattash2!.eef,,
of 30,000 men ballotted for, not more th4rl beta
2 and 3,600 served: personally, norwirhs,tan
the operations of the high bounties' for StIU
totes--I think not more than one.twelfth Part sere.
personally for England; and not more than 004:
sixteenth for Scotland. Notwithstanding, the 9
hardship on individuals, which the ballot occal tct
ed, a very small proportion could be procureare;
serve personally, and 'one great object ,was tt'oe
fore lost. But the small fine now required 1113011 ps•
parish, will remove all temptations to join,
as formerly, a pralice which had the mostPClll3o
ous effea, by raising the price of Substittite?!
tdA
- eg
thereby injuring the Recruiting of -ih R'l
e itest
Troops. The objea of the individual orb° f,: die
with any of these Clubs, was to procure
general Fund, a • sum adequate to procUrilus ill-
; in case the ballot fell upon. him, and. give,rl, •
Club was obliged to furnish a Sui;stitute:-0,‘303°: •
time, whatever the extent of the Bounty eLe
might be. Besidea, he hirriself had the' 'en-ersor"
the high bounty in case he chose to sei.‘re,lr• Old
ally. From all these circumstances it
while the ballot had a most pernicioUS eireraaJjae ag
ing bounties, it was by no means so prP°°:
ij;l,3ll°(
might be expected: If I thought tlia.t n the
could answer any solid purpose, and that t/Praisiog
whole it would be the best means f1,1,130:3g
the Troops required, with the least disa".,,-
to the Regular Service, I would ecrtal-sonce..
commend its adoption; but in the Circ"ls
which I have stated, when the ballot ch.iojarP
found to be produdive of a great deal 04:4
without being attended with adequate adv'beae;
if better means of raising this force c3i1,0 Itav
vised, then it is certainly proper rote re
recourse to those means. I will there iollut
lieve individuals from the pressure of the's, disf;••
rd`nith
I will relieve those who have foundj",'llty
greeable- circumstances, and so awe- .eve thosc:
carrying it into execution ; I will rell 10,30
who have been employed in it, from the upl
and
feelings which they have often experiene.edn, Farce'
ply `the other mode of raising the Additto
at prt,'
which I have before mentioned. I hdve r")
,t,
sent entered very minutely into detail) ooirose
given a general outline of the Plan which (sc.
to adopt, with the concurrence of the !-1""
should hope, that
,no particular discussion merelY
take place upon it at this rime ; I wou!3 sit tlty
have it brought forward this week, and
concurrence of the House, next week enter Ili the
consideration of the details. Such, hr.a.verer, v-oia•
outline of the measure which, with a little ocarlY'
tion as to the mode of raising the Force, is
the same as that which I subrnitted'to the flo.-:'hiog
a former occasion. If there has been arty
omitted, or if any thing wants explanatioc
of at;l
erne: i
tac
Nbe;eetmnionsr't rienadythetsoe croersnrie)lcat'sa.vitlhtwill Ire
,r•
that I have confined myself solely to the.
oron •
rd
rte
`Aision, and to thus, P tl:e atte
sou:liajecrttparntoswofb,e,uforremtilimeit,,l,l;:urth,e,rleicairler_q,,it'e
Regular Army itsa:4; triative to o'"
IFltralivaemesonmt lel''lr'orroepoasicli)::cgts