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advantage of giving th the Battalion, .so formed, a
Field Officer and Adjutant from' the .line. The
mistake he wished to. coned. was this, he had been
so completely misunderstood • as --'to be represented
as •wishing to introduce Regular Officers among the
Volunteers, ,who would -have, the eontroul _over
theM. He thoUght he had expressly stated the con.
trary—he meant only to give to the Commanders
of these,Corps the. assistance of an additional Field '
(Veer, not to appoint an Officer sup;rior to him
from the Line., He was convinced. that from such
• .
an appointment as he. had - recommended, b6th the
Commatiders-.and ilieCdrps would derive essential'
service..' It waS a 'proposition that could not,, he
was sure, be- repugnant to the feelings of the C0m...,
manderr; themselvel, very
.few of whom had been
on actual service,; they, on the contrary
.would, he
was sure, when , they were- leading. their Men into-
halm, be glad to have' an opportunity of consulting .
(nen who had seen service.. He wits sure this
skas his ovimfeelingupon the subjeet, as commanding
a 'Corps, and lie' knew, it was the feeliog:of all the
other officers in that part of the Kingdom, who were
in similar situations. If there were: Comtuanding,
Officers w.ho did not think 'such:assistance neces.
nary, he ijoieed that they Lad reaiOn to lie so c-oi.
fident•of themselveS, hut he ingged,thai' those who
wished for'fbat assistance might .not be,depriv.ed 'of
it, A.nother point On which be had been ctlmpleatly
su)situderstOo‘t was this, he had been supposed to. say
• I*,the Field. Officer and Adjutant otight to he given
to every, Corps. I lis propositihn was this, that
• when the ,small Corps were formed into a Batialion,
.that the- Battalion should have. .a Field ,Officer
pointed to it,. if it was applied for ; not that the
Field Officer so appointed should comniand. the Bat.
talion, hilt that he shO'uld assist
.the'COmmander.
It could not be supposed that he meant to appoint a
Yield r. and an Adjutant . to every Corps, of
Volunteers,'.ht:e.4se he expressly stated..,ihe great
advantage-Of fLrMing them as frequently as possible
Lug kittalicns, that ftey might, have the benefit„of
. that instri,&on which he thought they. would derive
horn the 4poiotrneid of the Field Officer and the
-Adjuiant, eettainlv would he difficult. in syine
wliere.the . I 1 Corps were at a distance
troin. ezo,,Other, €;I7 !„the country in,
thenvolitot9get her to :in in bat-
talion;- but still:, in. the long. ',knitter days, lie'
think it might., he toil;'. in sore ci-tes,
rill
where .only four Coinpanies could, be
if they, were. strong C9Mpanies, he•
t:.o'!H;c might have the, benel4 of the Field
;Le Adjutaot, via? tnialtt.give thern, in
'',.• t ruction, "all the advan;a4eof a cow,
i.•.; The• Battalions iii g.--,:!,tro;
not consist of less than, roootlien ; but
even where. they did
.opt excpti Tv"; lie ilimight
Ofii,cf:,(iught to be appointed to 'them. 'lii
caret, where.they did, notexeerd 2 co W.:n, lit! thought
thq ought to:be 'allowed an Adjutant a a her..
Jeant Major. , That all these Corby di9,lay
~th;it cuticle which • Englishmen
.alWays..sheiVed in
. the presence of on Enemy, he had no doniir, but he
I• fished them to go into the
~fielti:'[with.' that confi-
dence which teulted,,tront a consciousness of their
sufficiency to do their duty correttly.—This was
the oblept which he wished to obtain:. whether the
means by which he proposed to obtain it were.such
as wt.uld.answettliar purpose, he would leave to the
1-fause to judge, liewas anXiotts only about did. prin..
'there might be. better mndeS.than those
which he Suggested upon this subject. • Ministers
had, an opportunity of consulting ever,' military 411.
. thority: iie,hati dine his duty in throw' ing-out the'
sugg:.stirin ,in a general. way. He was, hoarever,
sO'consineed of the propriety 'and necessity of this,
•Thealure, that though he would not:rte.ssit at the
present moment, yet unless 'he heard 'some very
satistA-ry reasons to. induce him to 'change his
nand, he would bring it forward again 'and
ag4ins beekuse he .thuught' it -Connected with • the
seetirity Of the Country: • It was not hiS wish to
upart' the 'discussion of a subject which had
, • been more than Once alluded to—he meant the triode -
- of enyloying the 'Volunteers. He hoped neit'to see
maximilaid down upon this
wiic .diet' imW" that general codescodesrrtigt 'be ini3taken..
.hereNtiliinteer Corps had .
good Officers, where- the men were
hardy Of their' bravery there was nodoubil,' where
they had' the advantage of being neat good Generals.
' who wouid not...tinder-rare their- assistance, l'utt who.
utcuidl instead, encourage' and foster:them, he be.
lies,ed where this was:the case that,there,were.many
of the Volunteer.corne who would. nut form the
We.ake.,z part c>f out line.,' He believed that on maoy
occasions they might b 4 bctter employed 33 Light
- Infantry, and he was sure that: even in. the.wor.4
stateiheywould show that spirit wltich
never ao Englishman in the presence of an
enemy. Bat he would not undervalue the Military
86f:rive rpuch as tO stippase that inert trained and
(114,.eti.ntne.1 ar a great exitenc,.
eft}eft}time :Ind
would tin.'
bC,III4C OStfUl Salk/3 than it they wire
belt ;n ht.. it original :.:mite. But e'••co if they v'ittre
. only to he employ ed as Ligh`t, in3truaion
wiittlti be vivally rece:,,,try, and it would, in his
bl'lriton, be oflreat 'ad: -,tage, that they 'should be.
first trained as regular Troops, aod,thqn aCCUSLOW:
elf to ttOrions which required more celerity, -with.
Put aba,;dontueorof E rceasit n, which_ admitted of
teroporary,disorder with t promptTe-
ttirn to R-Ttilarity. He thought, thet'efore, that it
• Was nselesti to discuss lioW the Volunteers were to
be eniployed ;,in Whatever way they were employ.
ed, they could not too. Much! science either
TrOops or Oflizers—=" All. I task," eta Mr. rirr,
th3i y,.,0 will ndt soppOie that we
know
MO 1411 We tio--:lhat- you will., not deny:Us that
M
assistance whieb:Vgill
.supptyrour tietiCieriCy;:and: will
' Make us. (that° whiCh I 'should be sorry ire Were
only on 'paper). the'lXlentlers of our Countryll'''•He
knew the VOlunteerg had not reached any tiling like
military perEetion 'rut ht hoped it Would not he
01441, that because they could not be made PelreEl,
they slitiuld be'made n,lthing nil, tie
.hoped- the
Country 'would never shut its eyes to this'consider.
*tint), that they might for years' be" opposed to 'the,
Enemy, ,11.11 d that.: they ought every yetr.-to .be
making :advances in the imprtivemeot of their de.
fence, and,' thus become every year more confident
• of their security,—and then they Might look with a
• rational hope,' that mg yaps of SeCtire Peace
'"Uld repay theni for 'all their exertions. 'Much

remained. false done, ~and. much might be done,. if O.
they would only, persist till this force was rendered
as perfeet KS possible. 'He would not troable the
House any longe,r,havin&expli'linod thoSe poihts in
which he had been 6thpletely misunderstoo.l.
Mr., YORKE 4aid,'he could,not agree with t!.e
Right 'Hon. (M:. PITT) 'on the necessity
raf Governmentincurriog.rhe heavy additional ex-
.pence of introducing, Field'drEeers from 'the Lire
into the Volunteer Battalions, as,. independent, of
the.increased:eXtience, it would have this two-fold.:
bad -Oen,. that of exciting discontent in the V 0...
lunteers, by having those Gentlemen put over the
liead.of their own Officers, anti depriving the Troops
of, the Line of the advantage of their assistance,
besides increasing the number of such Officers
.inot period of peace, be such an additional weight
toithe Half.pay tist, as .most be. seriously felt by
the Public, besides there' was. not much assistance
to be expetclA .from the Half,pay, is that establish.
hail already been drained.of its best.and most
effective
.01tic'ses. He therefore must decidedly
differ: from the Right Hon'. Gentle Mao -upon the
effiCacv ()Ouch a measure. He considered the sense
of Parliament to have been already explicitly and
decidedly given on this stibjeeto or at least in, one
• nearly- similar, as it would not suffer Officers from
the, Regulars,to interfere with, the Militia, Since no
unqualified Officer from. the-Half.pay was petalitted
tti holdoa lank higher , than that of a Captain in
the Militia. ' Great attention was in this ease paid
w Officers of. the Militia, and he thought Volnn.
teens entitled to the same attention. If the Right
Hon. GeOtleman's plan was adopted, Officers Would
be
.placed over the heads of Captains and of Co.-
lonels -even of 'Volunteers,' which he feared would
give very treat Offence. He was himself an old:
Militia -Officer, antt.he certainly would not have
considered 'that. a' very good 'system which plaCed
any person Over him who had 'not 'risen to that
,honour in the regular line
,of promotion ; besides he
considered tile addition of tWoa or-.direr hundred
Field Offieers on the Half-pay List at' the return of
e.eilce,• not a trifling objettion to the measure, which.
[Mts.( be the case if they were taken _out of the lioe.
'Mr. Pin' rose to explain : hr -said his Meaning
`had peen totally misconceived by the Right Hon;
,Secretary, but he. would not then enter into the
sullk:et out would take an opportunity of -doing so
is,lico the Rest'llutitlns were pot to thellutise.
`'.flit. CURWEN wished ,some plan • might be
adopted to 'render thr Volunteer Force as efil.:•ient
aioptissible. Ile thought some general plan might
he, afted npo' n which would' he beneficial to the
COuntry in.reOmpleting the discipline of. Volunteer
he reCommentled the -Subjed to the at.
ito“ton of• His Majesty's Ministers. • •
The Report being.thpn brought up, on the
,first
Resolotioo beirof put from the,Chair,
Mr. PIT'( said, he svialied to 1x informed what
c,f the Fbrco the House Wis. pow c.,llett.
upon to ;me, was at present a:in:illy' disposable :
for his parr, he feared there woo very great delis
cie,ney, and lie ha' ped it would h distindly stated
what number of -Regular' Troops,. of llli ari., and
of the Army of Reserve, the Country at this im.
•pOrtant itionient had to look to. lie understood
that the Ti pops for'ming the guards of Garriso.o,
consisted of 12,900 ; besidei 'those heovished to be
informed what Fierce was leads, to btobrought for-
ward in case of any, emergency ? With regret: to
his- observations relative t- Field Officers from the
Line, or other experienced Officers being mooched
to Volunteer Regiments, lie laid been most egre.
'gioosly misconceived ; he never had an idea of oh. ,
• trading Officers of this description upon Volunteer
Corps, -but when it should be found that the 'ollieers
of those Corps wished for such assistance, then to
receive it.
Lord C4STLEREAGI,I said, he could assure the
Right i ions Gentleman that the deficiency to coin.
plete tide numberof men to be voted, was by no
means, so' great as' was supposed by the Right lion.
Gentleman, the whole Of the -present -Force might
•be.eitimated at about tBo,coo'-!rank 'and ex;
chtl,i e'of Officer's and Nuo.comosissioned; of this
Forge 96,000 were Regulars-and 84.,050
Of the Regulars there would be found about a 7,000
from, the
,Army of Reserve whose services were
limited, 'so that there' remained a Regular Army
I whose services wereswithoUt limitation, of 69,006
rank and file. Re trusted .that the dOticieticy Of
the rank and file in the Regulars and Artily orße.
'serve -Would be very soon supplied: 'Hehoped -form
the spirit and energy of the Country, this would tie
:soon found to he the oast. In Ireland and Scotland,
as. well as in,England, the Recruiting Service was
•goin'g on with considerable soccess, ' and he trusted
tfy' to.see the -whole ()timber proposed:by Par.
,liatm.nt.matle.up. He wished to be understood that
in -a. short-time -he expeEted' to see this great °Nett
With respell to tliat part of the ge.
gular Army whose services were limited, he, h6ped
soon In see it great!y diminished, and` that these
persooS' would' come foldward in Conaiderable num.
'bets from the Arttiy of Reserve: 7500 tnen had
'already entered into the Line front the Artily Of,
R"e!,erve, and he had every reason to hope when
Others became better. acquainted with the service,
they would clp:erfully: tbllow the example-, From
the: Army of Reserve in Ireland, he looked:to
many personsof this 'description who had nor •yet
had lin opportunity of volunteering into the Line.
111 r. :NTT Pg.& rhie to beg the Noble Lord
who spoke last, would' indulge. the House by stating
l what was the exit} dekieney.
Lord C "ISTLIEREAGH said, the deficiency of
the Militia was about 20,000, which lie Iloped in
the course of a coupled mootha Would bee insider.
ably reducA, from the nteasurei' At present going
fOrwatd in the Coriotry.;,..the deficiency of the.
Army.Of Reserve was 5,c000, He was not aware
of, any plans His: Royal: Highness 'the Commander
in Clack... Might. li;tvc- for 'c(.iiripletini. the %ode.. of
this,deficiency, but 111 &rub: ed not that Some plan
- adopted try His Royal Highness fOr. that
purpose:
Mio-PlTT,•said, that greitt., part of the Arms of
Reserve had been raised very contrary to the Aa
• of Parliament for ernbOdying this Force; it was
there distinaly stated, that' every person loOthat
Army should be raised ?tt..the fOrnisliiiig to
quota assigned to it, yet it was, a fad well known,
'that those men were raised wherever they could be
fuuod, that crimps Were cropltltd in every direr.

. and t'i7tt that par: of. the Aft, of Parliament
,•;
tofally disobeyei, 'by which mth...h inconve
xf;',O.c.! NJ, 0 "c .3ijiled !tnAny instauces, and the;
of the Army:great& injured.
; ad,nitted the fad
t)y the RigWl fon. Creatkman (Mr.-Pttr)
b:Aritties ziven for the, Aroy of Reserve
had c-cutainiy injured the recruiting of the Regular
Army ; but when this Army was complete, which
he trusted wouis.l soon be the ca7e,' the regular re..
enticing serVice would. get into its former channels. '
ii'VLL ?? complained of he great expellee
and inconvenienee incurred by recruiting the Army
of Reserve, and hoped • some plan might be hit
upon for putting it on a. better footing.
Mr. rirr again begged to impress Upon
.the
Rouse the nece,sity of 'giving to the Volunteer
FOrce the aid experienced Officers.: he could nos
see, nor had he heard, any obj.:etiOn to the plan
which could induce him ito;char,ge. the opinion he
hail already given on .the sullje t. .Hc :was: per_
su.oled that a number of able and deserving C.:AC.Os
eOuldbe:folind without injuring the Regular Ser.
vice, or WitliOut stripping RegimentS of the Line.
Ail Regiments had tea capums, twOi:Majors, two
Lieutehant.Colonels. 'He
,did not wish to confine
him elf to Field'Oracer3, hp wished the Vulunteers
to have the assistance of 011icers who had seen set:-
vice, and, were eaPable of dire&ing them in case of
'attack: he wis.liedt.7aptains from the Regulaili. to
be temoved to ihe''VOlunteers ,wlten Majors
Colonels could nor be- found: this; besides being,
useful to the'Voltn,teers,- Would be giving promo-
tion in almost every &Ise io''deserving Officers.,
-Sorely
.one Officer might :he spared wallow injury .
to a Regiment ;. it. :would 4ord,toorn too for the
promotion of an 0141 t Lieutenant who in most cast,
would .also be found'dest.trviog•of it ; .there were be
sides a great ',romper of very deserving Officers.s.shiii ,
had served in 'the service -of the. Ease
::any, who by 'this regulation might'be bruoght, into'
'actual and useful s'erviee:' :Ho by no means: wished'
it to be understood that he :intended this spec.les of
service to interfere with prOm:)tion—un the.contra..
wish was o.4tt'Offieers-. should pass from the
Regulars to the Vohanteers.tm4. return to the Regu—
lars, retaining the rank from'thr .Volunteers, as if
they had-held the same tank.in the-Regulars. He
was persuaded Of the efficacy athe measure,. artd.the
ad vantage it .Wou;:i 'ultimately prove •t0%;....n.13 the
defence of the Country, onr would he bast,kr the
expellee which most necessarily 'be inc 0rr.!!.1 at the .1
conclusicn of. a Pe`ace, by ittereaF,ing the ii”.111,-ay,
list, of sufikient 'Weight to hior.to ;d:ndoti .
this plan, su-r shoo! t tie doso.unless something Fet-
ter was off:red in its steal. The Right ilon. Srcre.
tare had obj7fted to i( because Parliiment 114 d
thought prover to ..ad coot` ry in • the e
Militia, by preventing' Q.iiier:, fry:ft the Line, biv.
ing ~to his mind,. was uu
ment against the mensttr;.- • Was- ii, he al..,ked,-beeause-
Parliament'had eottimt!'ll: one crilt, that it should
'follow it up by conratitting•a second.? for. he, con.
tended that not auttnitting'Offiettrs front the-Line to
take commod, in the Nfilitia wit's a grip:. error, and.
riot permitting theni to tskecommands in the.Volun-
RCVS tv.ts It still grcater. ; •
Tik.; 114 NC ELLO of the li I'C R Ob.
served, that nothing could be ,wore unpo,bidar,.nor
'tend more to prOdu:e discontent than the introduc:
lion of Officers :of the Line into the 'V,:looteer
thoseGentlernett who principally corm_
posed our Volunteer Army, ariginallyentered as
from atracincot to erl-as from any.
other motive, and the feeling betw;:,..o V,dunteer
. anti his Oilier was V. 6), diifereot
which subsisted between Officers of the line and the
men over whom they tV 'rot' that he
meant there e/xited aoy thiUg die (14.1..ffc.411011' be.
tween Privates and tlx, Officers composing the-
Army, of the line, he ltop-I.tike'contrary.wasthe
case ;,.btit bet Nrc.i!nnt'cis and their Officers
there subsisted something like brotherly reglrd—
' they were friends; eGmpartioili;; and.
,excTpt ,thot
stibordlnatiOn which the service revired, ther.were.
perfectly their equals—therefore 'tliQk' men 7iitioulti-
consid,:r it nut only in,t,Jr to theif
but a slight unreel to case would
be very difft.ren't indeed, El,: 'nfis'ervect, if the VP:
it:lnfects required elicit a i,l, but till th:it was 'Abe.,
case,: he did not ,sec nect•Nsity of the measure.
Besides, he would 'ask 'wheher ft 'was eligible to
strip the Line, and, deprive it of the; assistance of
such Officers. : With regard to the H df.pay List,
it duei not furnith c proposed, as neces..
nary--the. I lalf.pay Li4c would furnish- very fetv
indeed. The nut ther of such Officers'.rerpiired
would malce'ii.Oecess,'lrY to .tale. eight-Out of every
Battalion ; 'they most be men of the first abilities
its their profession : they must' he 'men of temper I
and address anit by depriving the Army of the .1
Lint of such men, you woultl deprive it of its
settee, and persons unwilling tO Commute otie:se....
vice for ;another. -Indcpendunt of his objetltions to
tht ineastire, he had learned within these few days
that.the Volunteers would very teluftantly, or per-
haps not at all, admit of .such Officers put over the
Oflicers.who already commanded' their Lodes ; fur
owy could not Flatrsittly divest themselves of the
idea of such men- being put over them as their
Comtnantletta. He agreed with the Right Ho.
nourahle Gentleman :with regard to the, expe.
diency of throwing small bottres into large..—such
as Single Corps into Regituents, Battztlions, Bri•
&c, he-. for : the purpose, of 'accustoming
them to: att on a great: seal!: This, indeed, he.
thought absolutely neeesiary ibut at "his advatieed
period of their existence its and their`.,. present
improvet&and ;111VAnierd_tatt:t of iiisiplities'h6,could
not see the necessity 01 witht.h from the. Army_
of the Lille such 'tt nti riber. of tt,;:eftil and necessary
011:er,t,-arid ara king thern, on the: Volunteer Army.
ne.sides, such Officer' would still be in the way
of preferment, consevently, you would be under
the m.ccssity of Cre3; tosuepq their
place in the. Line, the disadvantages. of which were
nhvinti3 Coousiatrablt intrea'se' Of expellee, -
to Go
velnintiit in, the firil and 4 heavy addition
to the Half-pay List in a 1-et '1,04 of l'eace—these are
thc groin Ms-op etitertAincd dotilit.s of the
expediency or ptaclicaln tti:t of the measure..
left If 1 IV he had a variety of ob.,
I l!ftions to ure ag,iOnit toe Volunteer System. tits
I Right, 11,in. rriend (Mr. Pt..-r) had,, by means of
his great talents, I.;ruyzht the Corps which. be corn.

numded-,to. a great degree of perceMoo ;nAisciplipe
—and, this example before; his cyes, together with
others .in 'the neighbourhood almost rqually well
disciolinedhy Means of the same commartling s,
had biaslqi.d tNt judgment of his Right Hon. Friend
in favour of Volunteer Corps. It by means
towed,' however, that other Volunteer Corps were

disciplined in ilielame degree. Upon a former cc.
casion he had been the adv( c.ite of Volunteer Ser-

viec, which in the sense in which he had. support.
eat it might have been of essential service, but
the Volunteer systee met:with his decided opposi-
tion. 1-lis first objeaion to such a system was',
that it,migh,t eventually- be a great source of public
dJitger ; his nexr, that it interfereLt_ with the gene-
ral iunaions of society, it interfered with the ordi.

nary_ avocationi of business, it confounded all ranks
and distinifions, and materially affected tlte cliarac.

ter and the morals of those persons who find engaged
themselves as Members oithose Corps. Another
objet ion was the effeift it had in preventing recruit-
ing:for the Army, besideir which, it might have a ..
nidst injurious cited 'upon the Army, and they
should consider the possible dangers which 'Might
result ;from tire, influence :of 'the Volunteer system.
upon the spirit., and temper Of ,the' regolar Troops,
including as it 'did, independent of every other "
consideration, so great a depreciation of military
rank and aisti.nClion. His final objetlion `Vo.
lunteerio6tps .vas, their unfitness For i mtnediate use;
rregular waifait . 'Ungh t to b .thi,,,4l,),jsa of such
kind of- troopc,- and for this puipqse l'iti.Jl.lr bairn_
lion triiinin,B,.w4s of no use what:: el.. If .
was to taught scicntifically, the learner ought
undoubtedly to be :instructed in the fiat principles

.
;of Gtiontnar, but if a knowledge of that. langrage
was wanted for immediate use, it was to be consider.
ed not what were first principles, but what were in
the.firat prdAr of use, So .with tespeCt to the Vo-
lunteers, they ought to' have been ',naiad in that
would render them oldie greatest and most int.
medi.oe use. lie agreed witlthis-Rt.gon. Is;iend(Mr.
PIT r) in the necessity of having klditional Field Of.
fleets attached to the Volunteer Battalions, but the
priEcipte'roulii,probably fail in Nang carried, into
from: time constitution of the Corps,: which
displayed total' want of ,discipline, and were
:tovolly ittcapible of being Aittciplined. These
Corps -fOrtnt.d their organ Nation complete de.
mqcracy ;-Cora,nittces , were appointed; itonaisting
for the most ;.aft of Pri viies to which the Officcr4
were oliedir:r,t, whikt every thing ltab dune by
and Onicertt at plea.
sure -; it setnld en that the Right !on, 9entleinan
I.tht.,CHANCt I Leek. of rr ttr.ii.)• Must ask
Wise of ilia ti Onrps !,Lore enthred to t4risp,:rt
the meat tatep-etitcysed by his Righr I don. ;rt;,.1..:
'th,'y !Kati thth ~bt4.ned a co.ni viattry ()err i!te
.CI-LANC F 1,,, a Z11t?EX;:;110,T lie
1:1:y tvoili ed•.y i vi,'t.:ry et' 1!:e le.
gitini'oMmit.,%trte. 0.0 .y 1.1!t eer 'l 's
Minb4ters. 1 he Right Hon. Gmtle:otto (the Cli,sic.
t..t.0tt.,0f the .I!,cii.tly.pF.R) khed• wee
upOtt 1114 Sitti.kt Right ii Fdendi (Mr.
Pri-r) but at tilt: same' time lie wished to please,tha
Volunteer Corps : thus 'between his .tern; .r of hiS
Right driott. Friend on the one hand, ,1t..? i.c
' Voluptier.Cinms on t:ic other, the Right flop,
tleman was at ri it.;,s what to do, and b,la,,eed
vi.en these two enr..i.:lerations, at leng-th
agreed to a sort of compromise,. in which he agreed
to the rineip:e of the propotied measure, hot op.
po..cd its iipplkation. It w;is however certainly.
true, that C,,rps of this de,cription were not capable
of Aiiiicrplito:; it was intim:4llde to itt,,ktt a silk
purse Our cif so‘s,', ear. A Right lion. Gentle.
man (Mr. Rost:). hail :Itat:l arrtlZr obje.linn to
th,y VoluntPet System in the very outset of his
:pcech,,
`,by observing that provision ougst to
be matfe, for the' Wives and :Families of Vo_
lunteers called our into 'temporary a:Ural
was to this idea of taking
Irmo his family 'aild his baiii;oos that ite
jeded, Ouglit to be altogether Soldieri Or
not They could no more rroke a man
a Soldier by poises,. than 4:)cy could kill half a,
shcep, Thc t t ill oecalioned I.:y the Joss of such a
mail to tivt plAce in Which he (.;rrried on his business,
would soun.he filkcl up, but if he was. taken away
for_tt Cert;i'ot tiumbl of days in the, year, his bwi.
nesi.
.oi.tli.proltably he ruined as as his
Bni:wh-:itever utility might, result from the Voluo.
tetri they should consider the political danger which
might result from such a aystcm, and the rffeet it
might have upon. Ole!attrader of the Army. Was
there no ttinget in 'placing the regular Army,
small in comparison amidst such an immense,
mails' of 'Volunter:i ? What would he the efflA
of surrounding a small Ariny with x ya,coo Vo.
iunreert; Ittuy could not prevent the Volunteers
Corps from having their Committees ami their
1 debates, and when the Regular Troops saw other
Trota sante therageives in. ,trAoc•t ta• ••
pp oss.
11)4 out their Officers and treating them with the
greatest Eimillarity, would not the eice# bn,hight),
He- another objection to the Helene
anitnames given to Volunteers : it • temindedhitn of
• the observation ,of. Lad Tow nly„ that she ‘cOttlii
not spit out of window witbout runnitig the risk-
of spitting upon a new made Peer ; 'and so it might'
be said, that 0n,,...c0u1d not spit oat of wintlow with.
'oitt chancing to spit upon a Voltmte6,ofli,:e,r.
:(Mr, Wtrinakm)was a Cipt,iin, lie might Pri,b;tbiy•
be made but -what a figure' shouid he-
cuibefore'regular ()dicers, who 1.14 d ierv‘;tl- vet.
haps in
,Egypt, or, othe r clinic's where tlu
is had becour', ey:perienced in their ? would
he like a Kniyht's t: ptcsenott of at Coon-
,tess. JO military distinnions werc..then .recede.
cent. perCenti,„ Ail dbitiations weir conActin}'.---
:d
between 'the rei.am .Ary and,
.“..lt,teW;iinn Artoy.L
; 'lll4 tvon!tl be amongst this iinmen:.e
Mans of
;Volenzt.er9. wnula have had no o!).
jeakm ;a it regular tamed Peasantry, who would
hive done much more service thaii g'ay `ttkkett out
Volunteers, lormed in a regal in sir WI Rey.
ratinits and Bilgades, Ile )grecd with the Right
Iron. q-ntleirtan (the c."o:tice:l:,t, of the EicliNuer)
tenn;tr r 4 would no; lie voy w Wing io
Clint reg.ilir I.t.rbt;tititti for Volunteer COev.i,
the' titne, if .thisy were to ha ch-0.:,,,0 by the
»hey wou!d not ?very piob:thly tea t:hoseti.oa
accuttui of merit'. The. V.:0::;1,-er. syslent ,wat,
bov:,eyer,tistablisliod, and (.6(11 411:1!;t be,.kept with
Cie VOluOiter Coro ; but tht.litBht that all EA.