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TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 1804.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

110,§ISE OF .PEERS.

MoNDAY, JUNE 25.
AFTER the Bills upon the Table were forwarded
in their respective stages, their 'Lordships adjourn.
ed during, pleasure.
Altera short interval had elapsed, a number of
Private Bills wefe,lirouzht up from the Commons by
Mr. BURLAND, Mr.BALDWI-N; and other Gentle-
men, and severally read 3 .hird tithe

ADDITIONAL DI.,FE/sICE BILL.
Earl C 4iIIDEN movrd the Order of the Day
for the Second Reading of this. Bin, ,which being
done, his lort.lship rose, and ih a.sbort but pertinent.

great, described to the House the,,n,ature of the
Leading provisions of the•lneasufe then before theM.
The Btll, as their Lordship,vvould see, was one for
otablishing zml maintaining a Permanent-Additional
Force ler the Defence of the Realm, and to proVide
14, His_..ll4aiesty's Regular Forces, and
fur the grtatiat rechK7tion cif the Militia of Ent;Tand.
Of the gt:nerai piipciple, of, the Bill, relattng to

these objects, tie trusied there would,be but little, }
if any difference of opinion., in that House.=--With
respea CO the leading provisions of the Bill, these
being already bef“re,pet fte;,,lers, through different
mediums, as having already undergone repeated
discussions in another place, we , .11,11 not follow
the- Noble Earl. in his . detailed exposition. He
expatiated on the.great . advantages', whichhywould
accrue to the
.Country by the considerable-addi-
tion which would speedily be made to the Regu-
lar or Disposable Force, by ineans'of the Bill, and
the -regular and systematic supply for the aame.de-
scription of the Public Force, which it would an.
nually furnish, during the operation of the Bill, after
the kat of Otober. next. One lea'..iing feature in his,
Lordship's speech was the policy an. the propriety.
of reducieg the Militia to its original nuMbers,which
he ably contended was in stria consonance with the
genuine principles on which the Militia of the Caen,
try was constituted, and "which position he trusted no,
Noble Lord, a genuine friend to that constitutional:`,
establishment, would endeavour to controvert. He!
had reason to expect that a very coniderable addition
would be made through the Bill, to the DisPosable.
Force in the course of the year, and
.that which
would commence on the tat of 061ober ,next, the
measure would provide for a:rtgular supply of
.9000,
men for the general Service. He observed upon the.
measure of reducing the amount of the King's.
Bounty to Recruits, as one of obvious ecouomy
in the first instance, and which, under the provisions
of this At, would operate in a most beneficial man-
ner. He next adverted to the various beneficial
effeets, with a reference to the general Service, which
would arise from the abolition of ballots in the way

2ruvided *for bitheßill; the duration of which was
proposed on such grounds as sound policy and the
circacmstances. or the Country most ,obviously
ed out convinced of the advantageous tendency
of the regulations proposed by Bill before their
Lordships, and feeling as he lid with respea to its
principle, he should now move that the Bill be read
a second time.
The Earl of CAR ICAVVON wishing for some ex-
planation from the Noble Secretark of State, with
respetl to certain pans of his nometical exptisitiop,
a short explanation took place between these two
Noble Lords
,on that head. • .
Earl .FITZWILLI AM' made a few general ob..
servations upon the Measure, of which he strongly
disapproved, conceiving, that in its operation, it
. would prove not a leyyi but a tax Upon the pop.
lation of the Country, His Lordship endeavoured,tci
'proceed, but was prevented by apparenily sudden,
indisposition. He seemed, to ritanifest. his wish, that
some other Peer, whose sentiments Of the 'measure
Were in consonance nwith his own,' should, follow
With his'Ob-jedions to the Bill. .
th.e DUKE of CI. A R ENCE, sae near the
Poble Earl, rose,. and after eraising the very candid,
as well as able manner in which the Noble Secretary
opened the discussion, expressed his tegret,' that his
'view of the subjel under' consideration;. ted to
opinions very different, from thoie delivered 'by
the last mentioned Peet.- He considered' the Bill
as of that peCulist. nature,, as that its principle
Cot'ild not be fairly Considered williout an occa-
sional ieferenec to is leading. ".provisions'ind re.
• gulations. ne assured the Noble .Secretary he- did
not mean'ioabisa in the least captiously tri the mea..
sure; .and' th-ache.hotild take up no More of their
Lordships rinse tn. the delivery of sentiments
Thai was necessary uponthe occasion. He was not
,
disposed •io assert that' there was
.any thin abso.
lutely unconstitutional in the Bill, before their Lord-
" Ships.. If 'he had been
,convinced there was, he
would have been one of the fOreincist among their
Lordship's in opposing it, whetherit had been pre.
tented to them as 'the prOduaion of a giant refreshed,
or a. person of meaner powers. He -respected the
• great abilities of the present Chancellpt of the "Ex.
chequer as much as any one among tile .warmest of
:his admirers, and, yet he found himself under the.
necessity of declaring, that although he saw nothing
unconstitutional in the Bill,
.yet it was so ,cornPli=
sated, and liable to be attended with so much veka-
tion in its operation, and so little efficieney in its re-
sult, that he acknowledged himself greatly digap.
pointed. With respea to aitanding'Army, as con.
.templated, by the.ConstitutiOn, he obserfed that a
`,Permanent Army may be necessary for the defence
of the Coiintry ; at the same time he thought. it
would be difficult to prove, that a Perrnanentqorce
was riot a novel propOsiticm. In this part- of his
speech His Royal Highness adverted to the intended
Motion of a Noble Marquis not then in his place,'
e present, theßoyal
but were h '
shPuld 1)4- gp.posite to him. With respea to a tie.