The Sun.
London, England, 1804-03-01 00:00:00

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if the tuettly ta*, them ,coming, n, tnignty eturri-,*
bens the' day alter an aim and another equal..
ly nutherotis body The day
.following,• the Ene-s
my would not only exped, but would soonbe sure
of a defeat. The lion. Gentleman had quoted a va-
riety- of cases, and some of Which he had never be.
fore heard of, he had qu.,ted the case of the battle of
Jemalve, to shew what Frenchmen could do ;
I.vhat.
Frencli'Volunteers could do : they were a parcel of
shopmen, and some of them barbers from. Paris, and
yet they dFove the Duke of Brun wick off the con-
fines of:France. . Now, if the French Volunteers
could do this, cloathed arid equipped as they were,
what was to he expeded from English Volunteers,-
cloathed and accoutred as they are, alai ading upon
the. beit principle, in the best cause, tor the best
Conititution in the World, and impelled by the best
feeligsi and looking to the best objet that could in.
hall't rte
human mind ? Now,- the sublet} of n hat
ibeen accomplished by these sm .ck.fruck soldiers
Rhad been very copious. They had been tried in the
ebellion in America, a country better adapted for
m than any other in the known world, and under
'circumstances peculiarly favourable to that species of
inrCe--That force was tried at the beginning of the
Rebellitin; but after Wards the Americans found it ne_
cessary to use Regular Troops. What was the case
when this sniock-frock Army Caine into the field
against our Regular Troops ? What was the effect of
this smock force being relied on ? Why, that every
man John of them was taken ; but afterwards they re-
lied on Regular Troops
th . He observed also, that as to
S t:.enOgernents in La Vendee and the case-of
the
Sc these •
coteh, to
ad forkwhieh the Hon. Officer had referred, some
they could not tot but they only had them because•
get firelocks ;• and the Highlanders,
although they had not been disciplined, yet they
fought in the way with which they were hest ac-
quainted, and so far they resembled Regular Troops.
Why then it came to this, that meta With a great
deal of ardour and zeal may do a great deal wit f, out
discipline, but to say, that even such men would not
do better if the
would he y had the advantage. of discipline,
to say, that which was, in his opinion,
saydined to g that which w
cee as irrational. He. then pro.
take a short view of the state of our
Navy. Gentlemen said, that this was not to com-
pare with any Other time
but had ;he did not say it was,
meat w yet to learn that there was any depart-
hatever in the Navy deficiently conducted,
Or any exertion wanting; w we re now infinitely
superinr to the united Fleete s Of France, Spain and
Holland, and that to a greater extent than we were
at any period of the last War ; nor were we in any
degree deficient in preparation to meet the Enemy's
fjotilla off Brest
France. , Boulogne, or any other port in
Neither did he think that the opinion
.of
the Hon. Officer was to be taken in prdference to the
very grave opinions of others who must have con-
sidered maturely the pOints to which he had called
the attention of the House. But one WoU!d suppose,
, .
4 ,the speech of the Hon. ()Moat:, there
was
no wh"
'tan who understood
Was to lay down the ihese Matters that he alone
this -Country ; wherealsawh-for militaryl
matters: in
e • ought to remember
there were others of
~, higher. rank than the Honourable
experience aial dot:K.lo
who ad.
Officer
iin-
'vise(' His Nlajesty' Portant matters. 1C Ministers upon theseth
case
With respea This was particularly .
1i
to the preparations which la( bee" II"ie
°fficer In a District which that Honourable
alluded to, he meant the entrenchment at
Chelillsf•l'd ; that was under the suverittendance of
General Hooe, and others who had gained' tlwit-
laurels in. Egypt ; besides if all the measures which
the Honourable Officer had go. freely censured were
indeed -SO full of del aas he stated them to-be, it
tthigh, have beeD desirable that he should have proo
sed some pradiCable system that was better.--
-Neither did he see the rtopriety of the HonoOrable
nt .r, leman's Sentirhents respeaingMilitary
"--ierls it. Having gone over and answered most of
the tojiies of the of the Honourable: Mem-
be
der who preceded him, he then addressed him_lf.. to the. Plan mentioned -on at former occa..
Sion .I,
i ,-- ~3r Mr. PITT, whose authority he admi'i-
‘ ..eci ~. ii
in `° ne very high indeed, which was that of hay.
Cures
Adjutants from the Line for all the Volunteer
butt:ohe admitted that to be extremely desirable,
to‘tine-aNtehended it to be altogether impracticable
the trYuelittent that could render it truly useful; for
Ict•find 'llvaso that nothing was more difficult than
and he aB°l3d Adjutant that could be at all spared ;
aPprehendaetV some other inconveniences which he
014
plan
. would ,attend the attempt of carrying
in ~carolt' dliln().eXeCtitiffil, and concluded with assent_
g yto the Motion for the SPEAKER leaving
the Chair.
Five Gentlemen stood u at once to
Chair. p address the
Colonel-CRAWFORD, however, was first heard in
explanation, as teas afterwards General MAITLAND.
t ildmlra 186 R ICE LEY said, it was quite impossi-
-451e for him• to Sit any longer silent upon this occasion.
A questibn had been brought forwaid in that House,
in Which it might have been ex peded from his pro-
hitherto havinfession he should have taken some part, and for his
He was brow ght 'g passed it. over he blamed himself.
up under the Noble Lord who,
was
now at the head of the Admiralty, and he be
much atreaed indeed before he could open hismust lies
• against hint. It was for that reason he observed si-
lence upon the subjeCt. the'Noble H
Lord w e did even now hope that
the blame- ould be exempt from his share of
for blame, there-certainly was attaching,
to the'Admiralty, for want of proper preparation:
That Nbble Lord was off his.duty fur three:fourths
of the year, leaving the business to;inexperienced
band; 'He did say that the Noble Lord's- prepara-
tions' for the Defence of our Coast was most lament-
ably'defedive otliisAvaa only--an idea of hiss ; but if an
inquiry took place into that .matter , he should call to
the Bar of that. House Officers in the service, from the
highest to the loweso,•to prove what he was saying. -
----He -had not before spoken on the subjea in that
House, but ,he had communicated to Ministers his
ideas' upon it long ago, and had alluded to what had
Past in the months of August and Odober last, when
nut Coast might have been, and ought to have een
- in a sufficient state of defence. The preparations
fort_ the present War were not to'be compared to
those of an_,
y other : the former Wars had no mote
leselliblance to the present one, in point 'of magni.•
,acne, than a small S
corn kiff had to Noah's Ark: •He
Plaintd tloht we-had ntleded our Flotilla, while