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rap! ions ortg‘l)t to be taken away for the future,
4r.ki that some limitation of the system ought to be
tn.ide.
Mr. ERS'ICINE immediately rose and deprecated
differences 61 opinion upon minute points at a crisis
like the present.. It Was not now the film tn,fle..
precia;te the force of the Country, when perhips at
the moment when he was speaking an Enemy might
be off our Coast. Did the Right Hon. Gent. (Mr.
'WINDHAM) mean that they were at that moment to
.disktitti the Volunteer force of the Countryond for-
-I.:ar of insulting the regular Troops, to leave. them
t what they would not consider as a'privilege, to
fight the •whols French army by themselves ? A
speech like that of the glen Hun. Gellt;encoUrag:
ing as it did persons out of doors to publish sirni-
l4r sentiments, tended to invite the Enemy to in.
vatic this Country.
Mr. W 'NN' Art here rose to Order,ind wishecl
the Hun. and Learned Gentleman would confine him.
self to hOls.

Mr. ERSICINB prorceededH—Sentiments, he said,
like those of the Right Hon. Gentleman, coming
from persons of distinCtion in that'Honse, were too
apt to invite the Publication of similar
,sentiments
out of. doors'; and he had no difficulty in Saying,
that any man who had published such sentiments as
b.s own, would have been guilty of a misdemeanor,
and liable to be punished for such, as tending to
disparage the whole Military Force of the Country.
Not that he meant to say, that the Right Hon,
Gentleman was culpable for what he Utteredin that
House. What was the situation of the Country at
the period when War was declated ? Our Puree was.
' then insufficient, particularly. when they considered
the charatter of the person at the head of the French
covernment, who di:emetic(' this Country with In.
vision. It was impossible at that time to foresee'
how, soon the Country might he attacked, and His
Majesty's Ministers were bound to receive all 'the
offers of voluntary service that were made to them.
The Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. WINDHAM) had
I, said,' that the Volunteer force. was an armed Demo.
cracy ; it could. not be a Democracy 'when they Con-

eidered that it consisted of all ranks and classes,
who had indiscriminately come forward upon ati
occasion which demanded the exertions of all in de.
fence of the Country. If compulsory means had been
resqrted to, it was impossible that the same reliance
could be placed on men dragged forward in that
way, as on spontaneous efforts. When Men came
forward voluntarily hi the defence of their Country,
each man stood individually pledged, and each man
Would feel himself dishonoured and disgraeed by se.
:ceding from a cause in which his honour, his cha.
ratter, and his interest were involved. They were
in a situation*of the greatest difficulty. He did not
Mean to contend, that if the Volunteer aystent were
to extend throughoutthe whole of the Country, the
greatest inconvenience might not result, but they
had only a Choice of difficulties. Small shades of
difference upon a subjea like this, were, however,
not worth discussion. The Right Hon. Gentleman
(Mr. PITT) had furnished an example of what he
himself suggested ; general report. had stated, and
'no doubt with truth, that that Right Honourable
Gentleman, in his conduti as Commander of a
Corps, had refieded great honour upon himstlf-and
produced the greatest 'advantages to those whom he
commanded. He apprehended that there was not
so-much military skill, required in the subaltern•de..
'Torment of the. Army us was- supposed by some,
and if Officers were not aftuated by mere vanity in
acceptine their Commissions, they might easily be.
come acquainted with the whole of their duty.
Much had been said abOot the, services to be expetf.
ed frein an irregular armed Peasanity, though not
possessed of much military knowledge, yet be knew
that the toonalet, res of the Light. Infantry *could
not be carried on without being Previously acquaint.:
ed with the' niaortuvres of the Line. The minutiz of
the parade had been ridiculed as useledst .but' he
denied it ; there was not a thing dotie 'upeira the
Parade which wits not of essential service in Wars
He would ask, how•it was possible a Comps could
aft with tan unlesss ..they were enabled, without
confuslon, to
,form lioe and column, and change
their position, io every direaion, according to ili`e
inctruetiens of the 'General under whose ,command
they might be pk.ced Heiaw no reason to 'ima.
.give that the Volunteer Corps would not be of the
Most este tial service- to .the Country, if that re.•
!pal was kept up which the Countiy ought to have'
for them, and ifehey were treated with that regard
to which their exertions entitled theM. With re.
spelt to the suggestion of additional Field Officers
being attached to Volunteer thOugh he
Would' be willing to receive any Officer, if it
was thought necessary he should be tommand.
eel, yet he apprehended there„would be this dal-
culty, the Commander must consult with his Corps
upon :I c ; the Volunteer Corps .chose all
their Officer., and if an 'Officer wesjntroduc-
rd without theeonsent :of the men, it 'Might, ex. •
cite consid rabic diiniatisfaetibinft It did not strike
that the military profest,ion would suirer by the
titles, given to ILlunteer,Offieers; they.,had, inertly
a, tCnlpOrdyy' tank, and no other than the necessity
of the service in which they were engagedrequired.
On the contrAry, he thougii.i the Army, Must feel
the greatest po,sible, satisfAitin. When they found
ti,.einsel yes surroundea by the WholeCounti''
),ready
to support their tir)rts ; they would.not, be placed
in a situatiOn with an enemy to front and disaffaildn
in their rear, brit wets:d have 41 the support which
th4could reAtrire-from,the' whole population of the
Coentry. What could the Army of itseif beHalsle
to, e.t.a, if the Enemy litnded in variGui parts of
the Country at the same time V Calla Regular
A tiny by iiself.stop the progre3s of an Fnetne 1.114
making his shack, . hboat t he' 'molt tart ;thud C 4.
lantiticS to. 'Cuuntry ,Was it not (A ,
advantage that' the Whole mass of society
out dktlnainn, led to military diF,cipliee and
were reatiyr, to Stthifia-till:MtiClVOitollliiitdt3! law, if -
an Enemy totaled, orat most of ilietti Without any.
emolument He admiitea the evils and the inCO3..
ventence which resulted frin the existence of Such
an Et:emy as we had inowtoeentend with, but those
evils and inconvenir,ncts must he met in the best
ina,,,„-0 they (ould.. No iry,n would contend that the
discipline of the Volunteers was ecival to' that of the
regular army, hut at leak' front tlteir spirit and ateir
feelingi they were' able to give the mast effeCtual ,
;‘llOl. to :hat army. lie was ready to admit that

but the question now was whether that system
should he• abandoned altogether at the moment of
danger ? No man could tnresee that no attempt
would hive been
.made on the part- of_the Enemy
before this time, and surely it could not be said that
His Majesty's Ministers ought to have rejeeted the
voluntary offers of service that were made, from
which condutt the greatest danger must have
resulted. He admitted that the Volunteers
ought not to relax-- in their 'exertions, and he
for one—was glad to' hear any proposition made
that tended to improve their discipline. -What
he rose principally to say was, nut • that they were
there to consider what it might have,been better to
have done, but to state now, whether it was wise
or expedient, to disparage the Volunteer FOrce of
the Country, and..to decry it as inefficient and use:
les. He considered on' the contrary, that the Coun
try had,derived the greatest benefits from the Va.
lunteers, and that they deserved the highest praise
for their exertions,
Mr. PITT rose in explanation: he did not mean,
he said, that the Field Officers whom he propOsed to
add to Volunteer Corps, should be 'placed over, the
ComoAn.ders, but should he subordinate to them,—
As to the circumstance of a Commanding Officer's
applying to his Corps fur' their consent, it never
entered into his contetnplation. 'He had-heard that
night, fOr the first. time, of a Committee' for the re.

_ .
gelation and management of Corps, and he had heard
it with regret, as lie conceived that' such Corps
•
could never be well disciplined • and could never be
made either useful or energetic. With resped to
the. Corps which he had the honour to command,
. the fad was, that • whatever superiority of disci.
pa
ne it had acquired, it .went in support of his sug.:
gestion,' as' it was entirely to be attributed to the
assistance of regular °Akers of ability, whose ex.
ertions bad- beenuntemittfng in bringing the Corps
to that state of discipline.
- Mr. CbURTENAY said, there were two points, in ,the
Speech of the Right Honourable Gentleman (Mr. 14/
n st) and that under heads, .divisions, and•sutxti visions., the
leading objects ot which were to shew.,the inefficiency' of the
Volunteer Corps. , Now he should Oppose to the opinion of
the 'Right Honourable Gentlemae, who had nothing but
theory to build upon, thine( an able and experienced Officer,
he spoke of Lord Hutchinson, who had said he should have
no hesitation in heeding a Volunteer Corps, and charging the
French with them with fixed bayonets. He made this dia.
tindion. , He admitted that the' freneh would have superior
discipline in a lung detailed campaign, but here he said where
the coufliet must be short, and by the forming of our Velun-
teers-sinto a-close column, and charging the French. with
fixed bayonets, with such large number* as there could be
brought immediately into 'the field, he would have eo
ficulty in heading a body of VolunteerS, and saying to them,
" I will brave the danger or share the glory ot: the clay with
you," that • they • would immediately engage, anti that they
would be vidonous. Stich, was the opinion of that expeo-
diced and gallant Officer; and the Right Honoutable,Geu-
tleman would allow that he drew all his observations.from
theory alone, while this opinion was that WIIIO was founded
on experience. The Honourable' Gentleman had expressed
an apprehension that the Volunteers would corrupt the Army
by their being 'more •-xised to • licentiousness : now in what
manner thut was to be effeetedbe did, not conceive; on ;he
contrary, he thought that so many Gentlemen doing voluntary
duty would rather be a stimulus to the regular. Army to do their
duty. As to the democracyot this plen,against which the Right
Hoo.Gentleman exclaimed, he could nor help. observing it was
not very. probable that the Right Hon. Gentleman wider the
Gal lery( r. Pitt) would propose,or that Ministers would sup-
port any plan that was of a very democratic nature. Nothing of
that charader was likely to be supported by them. Another
Officer besides my Lord It. andai man ot high military eha.
ratter, the Earl of Melia, had declared that he had no scruple
in saying that he was ready to head and to lead a body of Vo.
lunteers against the Enemy at any time, and that in so doing.
he about(' ba assured of victory against time French, if ever
he should happen tie be so engaged These were the opinions
of Officers of experience and high military character, and
were of much more weight than any theory loon any neer-
ter, however respectable. He observedelao, that those who
opposed this syitemn wduld do well to shew someother way
by whien 379,000 menmight be raised ,tor the defence of the
.Country. As: to the': objection to the contitSion it was
likely to produce in tank, he apprehended it could have
no • such etfcd, but. the etioteuy, for .Gentlemen of
the first rank were among. the Volunteers, and they. • were
generally the objects ot the choice of the' Men ci) be
their Officers; In short, he was Convinced that every thing
• was- to ice expected from the zeal, arctoto, and spirit of the
Volunteers, and the Country r might safely rely on them ;
and that idea was -rather COntnenallieei by the waded ante
Right Hon.' Gentleman himself, witotal example in this, as •
it had on other OCcaSiOtiS happened to others, was contrary
to his Law, 'for he had himself said,. already he was a Cap.
rain, and mated to be Colonel at a. Volunteer Corps, amid
then he would most probably change his, for an office had.'
sometimes the eftett of changing the opinion of that Right
Hon. Gentleman. He tvoulil,no doubt, be happy again, us
-he had' already fought under the banners of the Right Mu.
Gentlentan under the Gallery (Mr. Ply e), who. Was such a
champion of the Volunteers. • •
On LAWRENCE matte several observations on the'
• SpeeCh of Mr. EarKllls contended that, it had a ten-
dency to impute to his Wight Hon. FrieuesSpeech -efti:d
which it. neither was intended, nor was calculated to heVe,•
'that of making an injurious impression upou the Public
.Mind. • He laid in his, Glenn on behalf of himself and his
Right 'Hon. Friend to perfeet freedom in the delivery of
thetropinions, however dift4ent they might be from those
of others. He agreedin the sentiments which had been de....•
livered by Mr. %VtNDHAM, many of which arguments lie re
peetocl, and urged otheri ale similar tendency, 0111 the sue,-
jed of the present Volunteer' System.
Lord CAVTLEREAGEI took occasion to 'Observe on that
part of the speech of Mr. Wrt; on A 44 repeatedly inSiStCd.
.upon by him as well as by Doctor La 'reset:ix, that the high.
bounties for Substitutes tot the Army of 'Reserve had totally
destroyed the recruiting for, the regular Arrily-r-He • should
hitth veought so-too, it. he had been left -to ' reason upon- the
probability of things • without having any knowledge of fads,
but no man would deny that tads were - better Ifliateliali for.
fanning ones judgment ot :the cited- of a measure than any.
probabte reasoning--He had formerly stated his informetion
an that subject to the -,House, and that from fads; but he
• had now more fads to atete, and coebenuently more
infiprnia-
tion to communicate-,The. tvhole three Which the Regular
Army had been supplied with from the Arany of Reserve
Wi13,7500 men., NQW the number of men that hat been raised
for general service since the. month • of May last to the pre.
sent time through' time ordinary recruiting of •the Army, was
beet men, to %Odell were to be added 7 jeo front the.Artny of
Reserve, making an aggregate amount at 14,2 et. From the
Mouth of May to the month uf- December 18oa, the number
of men raised for general service was 72,)4: settled the present
year, uotwithstanding all the dleadvantage pf the.4lmy of -Rea
nerve. bounty, was:less only. by one 1401 than that of the year
and that too wheh wetter) .Militias and Scotch Fend-
bles were disbanded, and many of them or:course entered
into the. line, and when. the itiompoly of time Rectuitiog
Market for the regular Army was enure, for there Was then
no competition against it..
. Dauer LASPRANtek; was not satisfied with this compari-
spa- beeause R did not takeexclusivety• the mamba of August,
September, Ottober and Novensti:r in each of the years cotta.
Pntedt hi:cause these were the Months in which the Attriy of
Res rye Bill was balloted thr, • and when or course the hie!)
bounties for Substitutes to serve in it operated.' • •
'ATTORNEY GENE.RAE -said, he -should not make
many observations on: the Speech ot the Right lion Geie.
Oman (MnlNt N up a is), although larishould certainlyarsake
some. tits did not moat to-cast any censure on that Right
Hon. Gentleman, Or say thing-as if any Speech cot' to
tam: htm-
tended by Min to give any atiaantaee io•time.Eneiny over
Ite• was peratiaded-that tie: Right hunt Geotlentamt was one
of last in the House who would use any curious ex-
pars
ions in argoinent for the sake at edventage, MI ap.
parfnt advantage lit-debate. Ile Was persueded that the Right -
Hon. Gentleman did out MA to give our Enoilnes any such,
or any ether advantage whareiter; but he hed•fiatomMetaly
had occasion to feel that the views which. the Right Nun,
Gentleman hail of things that came under his conssferation,
amt-tlie consequent manoor in which he- expressed himself;
Ina}; although not- so intended by him, a 'tendency to the
great disativuntitee of the CoUntry; for what he thoughtoapst
useful the assured, Whit In: so. thought,- or lie would not
say it, rite "A aro!tN tv GLmtua, in mane es

tton now before the House Was a new question-Whither we
s:should ot
hr
we should wish to stop ,the Right Hon. cent, from entering;
esrh:tuviedrelioht;aragloyFit ataiyinlrniteitosfofPcelrftniteisbmy, Vtgoltuenhilmehr-
_but when the Volunteer system had been adopted to such an
extent as it had been, so that it must be in vain for any man to
hope that any observittione`could induce the House to aban.
don the system; then it did seem to him to be not every use-
ful pradice to dwell upon the defeds of such a system, but
'on the contraryi it appeared to him that some mischief might
result from such a practice. If the Volunteers were not such a
force as the House could desire, which he did not say was
theirdescription, but it; ter the sake of argument, they were
.eo allowed to be, could this sort of language repetting them
be useful ? On the contrary, he would ask it it was not
. most prejudicial ? The condition of the Volunteers should
beattended tee many suggestions had been' made cementing
them, and they were must valuable suggestions, highly de-
serving elf great consideretion, as every thing :inlet be, that
tended to ameliorate the condition of three or tour hundred
thousain men erMed and associated in defence of their Coun-
try. But the effisel of the aigument of the Right Hon.
Gentleman was to degrade the Volunteers in their own
Eyes.-.aide did not say it was the intention of the Right
'Hon. Gentleman so to do, but it was the tendency, and it'
assented to, would be the!' elte't of his observations..-No
Man could hear or read the Worded( the Right Hon. Cent.
but must, it' he gave Credit to the observations, look upon the
Volunteer Corps as a body of a very low estimation--But was
that all ? Let any one who.beeld the Hon. Gentleman to-
night, or indeed at any' time this Sessioueask himself, whe-
ther, if the Volunteent. had that respect fur the Opinion of
the Right Hun..; Gentleman, which his Opinions in some
Other matters were entitled to, they would have contidence
in themselves 1-Could they have any such Confidence ii the
language ofrorliarneot, of these who had, encouraged them to
come out for the Service of their Country. was to be on the
' Model of the Rt. Hon. Gent. and Parliament were to say to
theta--" At beet you will be little better thane Rabble-you
may depend upon it no useful service can laeexpetled of you"
-Now as to the Corruption of which the Rt Hon. Gent. spoke
as being found in the Volunteer Corps, the Right lion.. 1
Gentleman, in his. predilection to finding fault with all Vo-,
lunteer Corps, might have been able to find out some of
them who-had behaved improperly. But was it fair to argue
against the whole of such art immense body as this, on ac-
count of the conduct of a kw. who might have disgraced
themselves The persons to whom the Right Hon. Gentle
man al lueledehad been a disgrace-to whom ? -to themselves;
but not to ehe whole Corps of Volunteers, who were as un-
conneded with those persons as possible, and 'stood as Ms.
tind from them, as they did from their faults. if the Right
Hon. Gentleman took the character of the• Volunteer Corps
from the character of those who disgraced them, there was
an end at' every thing like reasoning upon human attain : as ,
well might the Right Hon. Gentleman gain the goal of New-
gate, and insisr upon taking one of the Cells there, cha-
racters 'front which to. term a general. opinion of human
nature. This was only an error of the Right Hon. Gentle-
man, in his predilection to finding fault with the Volunteer
system--not that he himself would make a ban emulator of
a Volunteer system-on the contrary, he was perseatiell, that
if the Right Hone Gentleman were to set his *mad. to it, tw '
man would be more active or heartily employed in ;tinning a
good. Volunteer Corps than he would.--But If he went acid''
told them, " You have made me a Captain, and you arc going
to make me a Colonel ; but it you ask me my opinion, I am
of no tete to you, noeleive I any opinion of you-I know, in.
deed„ that I ant an Englishman, and that I will run against a
Bayonet certainly-You must run too against a Batonet, but
that i. all we can do ; we have no skill to nicer the .Euemy,
we can only be destroyed"-Why, if that was to be the lan-
guest,. of the Right Hon. Gentleman, it would .not be.wone
dertul if the Corps were to say, " We do nut like this Gen.
Heinen ;" for it' a man becanioan Officer of such a Cores.
he ought not to endeavour to make them think meanly
Of duelled veto but to inspire them with epint and with coq.
fidence, tied that he could only-do by she Wing then) that
they were equal to what they had undertaken, aid therefore ,
this doctrine ut the Right Hun. Gentleman was as injurious
to tile Corps to educe tie was attached as it was to the. sea-
ral syseate of the VUttititeer Service, For the Right Hone
Gereleinan said; that they were nut only unfit now for what
they are !mended. tor, but that they are totally incapable et
becomine of any utility whatever ; this he said arose from
theeleittueratic nature of their constitution, and in support of
this he read the Articles of one of these bedie.s. The Learn-
ed Getitleman said, he realty did not know exactly to what
• Corps the Right lion. Gentlemen alltuted ; 'but, lie said. he
himself' had been an unworthy Member ore Volunteer Corpi's
to whom he did believe the Right Hon. Gentleman intended
his observation to apply, but to which it did nut apply
with justice, mine.), that not only the Officers were chosen
by the Corps, :but also that the whole of the military concerns oeshe.Corps were muter the controul and manage-
ment
of a Committee. If there was any strong object
tion to the formation `or to the regulation of that Corps,
and if the constitution of it was upoh a false or an improper
foundation, that was not the fault ,of the, present Minister*,
because that Corps was aproved of under the administra-
tion, of the Right Hen. Gentleman hittiseite but this was
an observation that occurred 'so frequently on the objeftion
which that Right Hon, Gentleman had
.been in the habit
of making. since he was out of Administration, that Ile
'should not, insist much upon that. But he take the
liberty of refuting the assertion of the Right
.Hon. Gentle-
man, sitar these Committees commuted the military concerns
of tile Corp". The fact-was, that these Committees had
nothing upon earth to do with the military Weirs of the
Corps. They were a large body who suppoited their
own expellees; and all they had to do was of-•u civil
nature entirely. They did nut in the least degree ine.
terfere 'with the military authority of the Officers, nor with
any one thing that was of a military nature. With reaped to
the idea of the Right Hell. Gentleman, in having what he
called en Armed Peasantry, he would save the Regular Army
nothing by:that with regard to Oflicersplexpertence, for the
Armed Peasantry would as muc.:ll require Officers of expo-.
rience as the Volunteer Corps. And as ro the objection of
the Right Hon. Gentleman to toe Volunteers on account of
theircorrupting the Regulars, because the Volunteers would
nut be miner Martial I.4W—that was an error in the Right
lion. Gentleman's assertion, for the moment they joined the
Regular Army they would bc under Martial Law. The ob.
jettion that the Volunteer System tended to contusion
of rank, was ill-founded ; der,
.eetierally, speaking, men
of rank and character were the objects of choice, with the
Corps. "file -inipediment this System ,threw in the way
of recruiting, his Noble Friend had answered by a state-
ment of facts. If there was any doubt whether a Volun-
teer would enter into the .Reguler Service, the prat-lice was
to the affirmative, but it any doubt eiisted,upon that mat-
ter, it was proper to remove such doubt by the Bill which
was now in the hiouse, arid stood for a second Reding to -
•night upon the subject of Exemptions of Volunteers. But
what he wished to submit to the House most of alt was this
-Did any Gentleman really think that these Armed Pea-
sentry ought to be resorted to- instead of the Volunteers 1,
Did the Right lion. Gentleman himself mean to say, thatif
he could persuade the House Of Commons and the mime
!House of Parliament,. and His Majesty to consent, that we
. should now abandon the Volunteer Corps, that .he himself
would propose the Peasantry. instead of that System, or had
he any other system in hie mind -instead Dun ? It we had ro
Volunteer Corps there must be a compulsory Lety, and
that would be very difficult In comparison to this system. If
a ballot were to taker place it should be remembered that
great numbers of titer VOlllllleer Corps, would:find .I.?epuiies,
and tbat would impede the Army as much as the present
system can do., Now if the Right Hon. Gentleman had no
plan instead, of this system of the Volunteer Corps, he would
upon retlettion, perhaps; doubt the wisdom of theopposition
he rave

fir. WINDHAM explained.
SAVRATARY al !VAR said. that in answer to a fad
which had hee,i stated by a Learned Gentleman, that the
operation of the Artily of Reserve lustt injured recruiting hit
the Regular'service during the months it operated, he had to
state that Upon a compa'rative view of the trionths.from July
to Now:riper,. the recruiting for the. Regular Army had been
greater than in the year iSoz, notwithstanding all the advan.
cages of that y6r by theiceruitipg service having the MOOG..
poly of
,then, and alSo that the two 'Militias and Scotch
fencibles- had been discharged, and in the present year the
Army of Reserve had 56 operated.
The question was then put and carried, and all the Res°.
'mums of the Committee were read 414(1 ilArcecl TO.
A te-w words then past between cllr. Rua r, Mr. Secretary
You< and 1)r. L' Wit ttg Ci, OQ the subjeetL of the BUM-
bet or days in which the Volunteers are to be trained.
Leave was given to bring 'tithe Mutiny and 'Marine Mu.

The Bill for amending the Volunteer Exemption Bill WItS
read a
.seeon,i time, and onieted to bcl‘.4tintntitted too Com-
mittee at th,-. whole flouse to-marrow evening.
The' House in a Committee or Supply voted the annual
slims tar maintaining 4::ortviets at hatne and abroad, at New
South Wales, tie.--anti on, the Fir.st f=ruits, lire Protestant
Sella° Orp4an Fund, &c. in Ireland =Report to.rt:,, roow.
At Eleven o'Clacic the flow adjourned.

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SOLIII QUIS DICIR vaLium AUK'S*? ?

LONDON, DECEMBER 13, 1803.

A Dt.bl;,/ Mail of the 9th arrived this morning.

Sunday afternoon the &ma of CLAR ENCE paid
visit to THEIR MAJ ESTI 'Es at Windsor, and yester.
day morning returned to Bushy Park.
morning the •Doxii of CAmaa. toot
Yesterday
arrived at Windsor from Oatlands, where His Royal
Highness had been on a visit to the Dux r of YORK*
The Volunteer Corps of the Home Distri& are
expelled to be reviewed by Hts MAI ESTY' at Hat.
field
in the course of the present week.
Tough no official advices have been received of
Admiral .RAINIEz's • having detained the French
Squadron under Admiral Lisiors at Pondicherry,
yet from the information of a Gentleman who carne
trom Bombay in the Alexander, and which place
left on the tath of Jnly,
.we entertain no doubt re.
osinleathe ;7h
Ling it. We shall probably have the first offi-
cial. information by an overland Express., it .was
of July that the news reached Bombay,
the day before the Alexander sailed.
• A Paper of this morning stares, that a Gentle•
man, who formerly held a high military rank in tar
'Majesty's Service, arrived in Town on Sunday from
Holland, and that he had communicated some vert
important intelligence to His Mrjesty's Ministers.
The substance of this intelligence is said to he, thit
there are ioo,ooo men ready to embark fr•om
at an hour's notice, and that not only plans and
Charts of our Coast have been distributed among
the Officers, but that drafts of ihe Seats of several
.of the rich Nobility have also been circulated, by
order of the First Consul, who, in a Circular Lei•
ter, has assured the Officers, that the Landed Pro.
ITre artyoef
notEn disposedglandsh shall be
doubtether the
erd of their services.
of this intelligence, for we , know that the French
Government has assembled great numbers of mops
in Holland, and these is no doubt but, that ever!
desperate
a twould p
Expedition
t iuosne dfort to
heinccho encourage diem naettrleiae imdcstctoilir accuracy
and a stronger inducement could not be held oat I'l
a French Soldier than the prorpea of pillage' of
ROYAL ACADEMY. ---A General Diteeb-0 for
the Academicians took place on Saw /30:r tho
the purpose of nominating the proper Otiicer"o nea.
ensuing yea!, and of coining to some rlecisive)t
sure on, the subjeft of Has MA 00'4 tare ifirl
Communication relative to the diferences w..
m,,i ,ri.
prevailed' between THE COUNCILf ang t'W
tU ~,tta
ty.of the Members. We have .11re40' /' : 't
• ont
the scope and substance of Hu Mat 114194 '11"
TIIE rKE.
and orders upon this delicate sutiett. '
eel in vie ws.
bl DENT declared that he had 'no obj
through the whole business, but the hotiour of riot!
Academy, earnestly recommending a complete t
storation of harmony among
former OffiCers were re-chosen, and alter several
their sentiments respelinig
persons had expressed'
it was general"
the subjea of the late disputes,
the Members. V!
agreed upon by
ties should be- buried in oblivion, and give•way to
a zeal far the honour of the Institution and the en.
couragement • ble Address a
theMeinbers, that all pas! aniinost.
of the Arts.—A Stlll4
Thanks will be presented to His MAJ
seven weeks Cruize off the Texel, having been
.re-
ShiYpit3rttlesTrn'ofDOE Orange, 2el...""Clket Prtr.i VR"01 GHEiRs Sir fj:05:11v::
THoarroaquoti, in, the Rsh.r. The Ship
ors
clirevaiezdinfrgotmheirleta,tarSet,attihoen opnefrtne,coe,th inst: by ikl;iilerig
t.
the thricarn Frigate, Cilia. HAR DI M Ati, and Rrittfors
bearing the Admiral's Flag•
to the Princes: of Orange quitting l .svC:it
yGb's
shi was close in to the. Texcl,
of consequence had taken place, except that Il:
lea"- .Wit Guard.ship, and the Dagger :,
each of
74-guns, had retired from, their advahcoos.
positionqua
to the inner part of the New Diel).
Where no moveine!,3l._
indeed from any .apPrelitusioH ofattack, 'but the
frQsr apearing set in on the Dutch Coast, the largr
Basting bodies of ice iouketi for in consequence.
would not have suffered them to remain where 04

f::DinreE.tAhLet.iclup :ICJ. 1 2..-*ArriVeki..the Lela
"(1 P 1414
Schooner,ters ihrruttn,ettinie. ughpanuttilegieFleg3;;" 3nd
the
l'ar*fli
.Sailetrthe Pegarus to the Westward.
ictilLieTtti,
'1)3". the Wardens of the Trinity ii"l4'e eat
:Ships till, requeting information as to the nufiln" or
i_f of W;ir which
.could 'find anchorage -: hst
;•tit icthltimtb!:
ye9frifii
‘i,icsslisillki:
lee: 111 obYopet riti:nnnit this
cji,e'rcielei irfiocciflinevemedx° s'illinttelaiirfs'6iorcehlent' 'ncfroetiiA:lti
eliiNnallin3rl:::llliel"tit;f;
the Hawk, and forty or fifty more between Ori°"'-'
by and Whitebooth Roads, if necessary. 'ft" ten,
trical situation of that Port, . with regard to .1
extensive.coast opposite, ,now under the controul t)
the Enemy,• renders it very suitable for such ,enter"513
lion, and the facility with which Vessels may
of leave the river, at any state of the tides, adds
considerably to its other advantages.
Yesterday a match against time took place on the
Greenwich Road; for too gttioeas; and the
beg
depending exceeded 3001. A Mr. MtroitstAt
Clerk to an Attorney, undertook to walk: far
miles in 3s minutes. Tice first mile he
formedpet.—
within the given time with ease; but
11).
the second he was obliged to exert himself; .41c''..
two miles 'he walked 'in seventeen minutes Oa ..'
half; the third in nine and a half ; and the foot('
in eight Olitt 3 half. The half ,lime allowed being_
'thirty-five minutes, he of course lost. by 4
minute. Mary and Rourke were
warm word, arising between the two former, Be"
struck lizvrit ; the latter. .returned the blow,
~,Itot_
they had then a regular set to, when Beithrr.,gavci
present SO,
•
his opponent a knock.down blow.
declaring h$
sequence declined all further contest,
did not come 'there 'to fight Bekhir, but for ii,:o.ie:'
purpose of meeting the Chirit,v, with whom he
some
,busilicss to'i-,ettle. —...e

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