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of the e's'raeter or a requisition., and partly of that
tita rex :\s a tequisiti nit was :ncffiyienr, and as a
a
t tx
cppres,i,e, ;old unconstitutional.. As to
:le
IR'r tax, there was no qu,stion as to burden or no
`len. but ]'ether the burden was unequal or
(coLd ; whether it was partial, or whether the whole
C.,ontry was equally r ,xed. he end of e resent
h.ma•l!:e would I,r, sme Parishes wouldth hep heavi.
ll taxed, and others not all. In the manufacturing
)''ars of the County
met' y , here wages were high, the
could not be procured, and the fines must be
P"ul ; whilst, in others, the men would be raised
withoat pay ii g any tax at all. It had ht en said, that
.11 Officers had hero employed in a similar
is .fore, in raising men fo. the Army of Re-
; but there vt as a marked distinction in these
cases; ney were employed ministeri IlYt whilst here
tit, % were to he employed active] ; and when
the '1111,"•Yliy of which these men were possessed
considered, it was to be feared they would find
that the übvi .us way of making exertions to procure
men, w 4 uld be the exercise of that authority.—
Added to this, it the Bill passed, those men would
Le chosen tor Parish Officers who were likely to
Make the best Crimps, without regard to any other
tconsideration. Ht considered the present Bill as
'lagous to the Quota Aft, which produced the
Tea s
'verY worst description of persons, and he saw no
rt to suppose that better would result from the
present ros„,ore. He concluded by expressing his
deermination to oppose the Bill in every stage of
its progress.
C'"unel Citaassoßti went over some of his old
arguments in opposition to the Bill.
Mr. •LEII rose, antiesti dst repeated cries for the
(P' The and in a allot, speech supported the Bill.
Q3e't was again loudly called for, when
r* 4 in-d A G Nrose.—He expressed great un-
ob
guess to trude himself upon the attention of
the
the }Lust, it having been his intention to wait till
Bill had received all the Amendments which
were intended to be made in it, although no Amend-
menrs cculd remove his objection to the principles of
the Bill. It has been stated, that he had said that
the I resent am punt of our Military Force was amply
sufficient fur the ex'gencies f the Cruntrst y. He ap-
pealed, however, to the 811 which ill remaned in the 11 ,use for the consideration of Parliament,i for the
alSpurpoie of repelling this unfounded charge. It had
also been said, that he wished todeiay every measure
for the D fence of the Cy ;ut the ve which he was
as
actuated wountr b
his perfed comotinvidibyon
that the op.setit measure was not so well calculated
for the Defenc
been brou e of the Cnintry as that which had
ght forward by himself and his Colleagues
ir,l.s IVIRIHs/ration.
till He was therefore desirous tat
measure, particularly as it invJlved Consti,u-
tional oriticiples of the highest importance, should at
least stand over for consideration in another Session
of Parliament. He begged leave .co recall to the re-
colled.on of the House, the circumstances under which
they were called to the discussion of the present mea-
sure : a Bill was brought. in to suspend the operation
of the Army of Reserve Act, which appeared to
receive the concurrence of Parliament : the Right
Honourable Gentleman (Mr. PITT), with all that authority which belonged to4iim, and all that elo-
quence which he so eminently possessed, represented
the necessity of making a large addition to the Dis-
posable Force of the Country, and induced a cunsi.
derabte number of Members to vote with him for
postponing the discussion of the Army of Reserve
for the purpose of taking his Plan into con.
sideration, which was then founded upon the
idea of perpetuating the system of ballot. In the
present measure, that idea had been given up as in-
efficient, and he owed it to himself and his Col-
leagues, to state the reasons w
in their by they persevered
opposition to this Bill. He had had the
happiness to hear it stated, that the amount of our
Military Force was sufficient for the purposes of the
Country, and that the exertions of the late Admini-
stration had, during the last year, been immense. But
experience did not warrant their forming any expec-
tation that men could be procured if the present
hill was passed into law. During the last year
100,000 men had been drawn from the population of
the L entry, whilst at the same time there was
abundant employment in trade; the deficient in the
ordinary Recruiting had been y great, and they could
not therefore expel that this measure could be
effiCienr ab ,ve all, thy should not forget that they
had a free Cons:itution, and he dreaded any change
in the manners
of the People, which might eventually
take place, by iitfu-kg that sort of o system
wis now attempted to be erected. It wish
was which
his
always to ke' p alive the principle of
ballot, whiei
app,,,r,d to him to he a fair and equitable method.
ohj -tart] also to converting Parish Officers into
ecriii tog Offs •ets
late , which he conceived was calcu-
d to pr duce the most injurious consequences.—
He contended that if this Bill was carried into exe.
cution, it would limit the recruiting for the Army
taot
fairs99o° men annually. Those men who formerly,
outte wakes
reserve to , surrendered themselves with_
on their
Recruiting Officers would now be
guard; ihey would know ;heir value, nor
would they ever think sixteen guineas for of accepting a bounty of
entering into the Regular Army
When they can obtain twelve guineas for entering
into the Army of Reserve
wa_rds for extend 'and twenty more after.
extending their services to the Regulars.
this measure would be nan
b productive of great dis-
tage
tto the Regular Army, without producing
enefi., It has been said, that this was a mild
H measure; but the measure first proposed by she Right
tourable Gentleman was rigorous and severe ;
hre Principle of mildness which pervaded the Bill
was
forward by himself and his colleagues,
sure,
afterwards infused into the present mea-
vs", and now Mi:iisters claimed to themselves
to the
merit of that mildness which artilY belonged
Zthe late Administration, in which the characters
ol ithis measure had been changed from rigour
inefficiency The alteration which had been
triads
I• by which the proposed Force was to be
jtleig:n_nllndied during Peace, did not do away his ob.
`u s to the measure, as they should then have
•wcs
• Militias instead of one, without any prat.
Ilea'
g"od resulting from them. He understood,
Ili! said, that some comments had been made upon the
line of
however
leavinghe that condutt to the judgment of others; ,
new the motives which actuated his con.