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London, England, 1804-03-12 00:00:00

IMP ERIAL P R lAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMNIC_VS.

SATURDAY, MARCH 10.

THE Dublin Watch Bill was read a first, and or.
tiered to be read a second time.
A new Writ was ordered for Preston, in the room
of joHrg H -RRocE.s, Esq. deceased.
Mr. CORItY moved the Order of the Day for go.
ing into a Committee on the Irish Duties Bill. ,
The Order having been read,
Mr. CORNY said, that before he made any fur.
ther Motion upon. this -subjed he
:wished to say a
few wor,ds. In the course of the Debate of yester.
day, some doubt was thrownout, that the gip be-
fore the House was one that affrded the.interest of
the Crown, and that therefore the Royal Assent
ought to have been signified. He was ready at that
time, and he was ready now, if it were proper, to
spew that the Bill was conformable to the precedents
of the Parliament of Ireland. He also understood,
though on
_this point he could not speak so posi-
tively, that it was not without precedent in the
Parliament of. Great Britain before tie Union; and
in the Imperial Parliament, since the Union, thete
were precedents, viz. the three different Aas
which had passed relative to these Duties. ; it was
true they were only annual Bills, and therefore he
,did not rely entirely upon them. But though there
were precedents of that nature, if it could enter into
the imagination of any man that this measure trench-
ed upon any constitutional princip)e, he certainly
would be the last man to take advantage of them.
Bat as there had not been sufficient time since the
ooubts had been thrown our, to ascertain how the
principle- stood affeaed by this proceeding, he
should, in order that full time may be given for
consideration, move to ,postpotie the Committee.
till Monday.
Mr. FOSTER said, that the great doubts and
difficulties which-had arisen in his mind upon the
subjeel were founded upon the circumstance of this
Bill being perpetual, therefore he did not conceive
that annual Bids could be considered as any piece.
..
dent. , '

The Motion was then agreed to.
The Committee on the Irish Countervailing Duty
Bill .was put off till Monday.
The Irish Malt Bill was read a second time.
Mr. YORK E moved the Order of the Day for go-
ing
into a Committee on the 'Volunteer Bill.
The House having resolved 'itself into a Corn.
rni ttee,

_
Mr. YORKE then proceeded to propose some new
Clauses. Tne first was, to invalidate any agree_
ments that might lave been entered into between
Masters and Servants, by which the latter were
prevented from entering into Volunteer Corps. The
next was a Clause to repeal a Clause in a firmer Bill,
compelling the Parish to pay the Drill Serjeants :
they are in future to be paid out of the Public
Purse. These Clatises were agreed to. The next
was a Clause authorizing the Commander of a
Corps, in case of any Member misbehaving him-
self, to deprive him of than day's pay, or else to
disallow that day as one of his days of exercise.
Mr. PITT said, ,the Clause now proposed would
have some OfFed, 'hut still he did not think it would
be sufii4;ient. He had prepared some Clauses upon
this subject, which would go a little farther. One
of 'them was to give the Commander of a Corps a
power to order any. Member misbehaving himself
while under arms, into custody during the time the
Corps remained under arms ; to inflid,fines as high
as five shillings, in cases of non-attendance, not
taking care of their arms, &c. He did not think
that this would give any offence to the Volunteer
Corps, because it certainly was not an unnecessary,
severity. He meant this to be a general Clause
applicable to all Corps. If a person should feel
self dissatisfied with these Regulationg, which he'
did not think probable, still they had the power, to
resign. But he entertained no apprehensions upon
the subject, and he should certainly take an oppor-
tunity of proposing them in some stage -of the Bill.
14r. TIERNEY said; he very much approved of
the Regulations suggested by the Right Hon. Gen-
tleman, but he was apprehensive
•that some Corps in
Town would feel'a degree of jealousy upon the sub_
jets. They were in many respects different from
most of the Corps in the Country ; they received no
pay, and many of the Members who kept shops,
,t,vho perhaps had only one apprentice, or perhaps
none, would feel themselves much hurt at being
fined so heavily, when they really could 'not leave
'their business without the greatest inconvenience.
But as to the power of ordering a Member under an
arrest for miscooducl while under arms, he, thought
there could be no objeEtion to it. •

Mr. PITT said, that these Regulations might be
applied only to the Corps who received pa}'.
• Colonel EYRE thought there was no occasion for
any further Regulations, and therefore should ob.
jet to these Clauses.
The Marquis qfTlTCHFlELDapproyed.entirely
of the ideas of Mr. Pitt upon this subjeet, and that
they were highly advantageous to the Volunteer sys-
tem. If he might presume to offer any thing in ad-
iition to that which came from so high an authority,
it would be, that the point of discipline to which
the Clause referred, should be judged of by a Mili-
tary Council in the way of a Court Martial, subjeft
to the approbation of the Commander of each Corps.
Mr. Secretary YORKE thought both the Clause
which he had proposed, and those proposed by the
Right Hurt. Gentleman, might lie adopted, for they
were not in the- least inconsistent with each other.
He approved uf-the system cf imprisoning Volunteers
among thern;elves for the day, when they, were tin-
der arms, if they had miscondtieted themselves in
the _ranks ; and he thought the ideas submitted to
the Corurni:iee by that Right lion. Gentleman very
;good. He dissented from the mode in which Mr.
Clause proposed to levy the fines, but thought
they should be submitted to. a Court Martial, aS
had been hinted by a Noble Marquis : he thought
also, that all these proceedings for fines and penal-
ties shOula be subjed to'the-apprbbation of the Corri
minder 'of each Corps,
Mr. ASCZLLES thotii;lit, that generally speak.
ing it was itnp,litiC-10 impose on Volunteer Corps
any other fines .liar those; Which originated with
• •
Mei-iveh, Cs.

Mr. PITT said, that he had not so distinaly,
perhaps, as he might have stated, what he meant by
miscondoEt of a Volunteer under- arms ; he did nor
mean general misconduct, for which the Commander
had power already to.punish him, in some degree,
by expressing,displeasure, Stz.;- he did not mean to
give a geoeral latitude to the Commander to punish
in the sple,fic manner he 'proposed for general mis-
conduft, but he meant to apply the punishment he
proposed, if any Volunteer under arms should
particularly misbehave, should neglea his arms and
accoutrements, or cloathing, in any remarkable man-
ner, or should- behave himself indecently, or art
contrary to most of the rules and regulations of the
Corps, then some pinishme,nt might folloW, and
that the punishment should he specific in order that
there should be no doubt what the result must be of
such miscOndua. •Perhaps the better way would be
to take the Clause` of the Right Hon. Gentleman
first, and thenihat'his (Mr. Pitt's) Clauses might
be brought up and read, so that the Committee
might the better understand the meaning of them;
which course was adopted. He proposed that per-
sons misbehaving in the way he stated, should be
imprisoned in their own Corps for 'the day they were
out, &c. That in some instances the fine should
be as high as five shillings ;. in others, no higher
than one shilling, to be. regulated by the fat,
whe-
ther the party incurring the forfeit contributed to
the Poor's Rate or not. Mr. Pitt professed him.
self very happy to hear the sentiments-of the Nobre
Lord on the other side of the House (the Mai-gals
of Titchfield) on all occasions, and particularly on
the present occasion. He did not entertain any.
doubt of the propriety of the Court Martial sug-
gested by that Noble Lord, 'provided the sen.
tence of the Court. Martial was made subjeCt to the
approbation of the Commander, but he owned he
thought the summary power of other punishment
might be mo:re'etreitual than the fines themselves.
After some further conversation, in which Mr.
Curwen, the. Attorney. General, the Secretary at
War, and other Gentlemen, took part, the Clause
of the Secretary of State was received and agreed
to, as were all his other Clauses.

n "
)After Mr. PITT proposed his Clauses,
which, he said, he submitted to the Committee
i without saying any thing in their behalf at present.
The first Clause for providing fir tile tines, being
read;

The ATTORNEY GENERAL thought, as a

permanent system, the Clause a very wise one, but
doubted ,whether,it was advisable to adopt it at
the present momerF, under all circumstances. He
was afraid it might. be, under all the circumstances,
endeavouring to do too much ; it was better, per.
haps, to do 'a little less, although the system was
defective, than by endeavouring, to make it perfeft,
possibly in some mvsure to overturn it. He was
afraid of proceeding too far upon the compnlSory
'system with Volunteers ; that might be reserved in
case His Majesty should- call forth his subjeas un;
der the compulsory enrollment.
PITT suggested that much, of the objedions
which seemed to be .entertained against too lunch
of the compulsory system being appied to Volun-
teersrnight be done away, by making i diitindion
between those receiving pay, and those Who
,did
not. He thought, upon a moderate comptitationl
the system he proposed would impxove the military
discipline of i 50,000 men in a very short time ;
objet well worth attending to at this important
crisis : and this he meant a 3 applicable to those who
might not come forward, under an invitation, to
put themselves on permanent duty, which, after all,
was the very best way to make them good soldiers.
This was a matter not to be neglected, for we
might look for the event in:which we should have
to resist the,enemy in the course of a few weeks at
farthest ; now he could have no hesitation in saying
—that might, be done.effedually by the Volunteers,
discreetly mixt,with.the forces of the line ; an,; to do
so effedually, care should be taken of the improve-
ment of the. Volunteers in their discipline. He
felt this so forcibly, that he must press it upon the
House,

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
agreed with the Attorney General upon this suojed,
that it was dangerous to try to accomplish too much
in the system of military exercise of the Volunteers ;
but he thought the Volunteers had already made
great progress in: that matter. It was supposed.
that twenty-five days would be sufficient to in_
strut,`{ them tolerably ; now there were 11Prdly
any of them who had not been instructed fur
forty, and some of them.for more than sixty days.
He was persuaded that Parliament had acted wisely
in giving the 'Volunteers an opportunity of ading
as they have, and he could not help thinking that
the degree of discipline they ha*l acquired already,
would afford us all a degree of confidence, not only
in their further improvement, but also warrant our
reliance on their sufficiency to meet any veterans of the
Enemy. He 'conceived, that at this moment, the
Volunteers had attained such a degree of discipline
as no one at the time of their first establishment had
any idea of, nor even at the time when the first
VOliinteer Bill was introduced ; sand he owned._ that
he contemplated with astonishment, as well as sa-
tisfaction, the degree of perfedion at which the
Volunteer. System was now arrived ; and this justi-
fied 'the hope that a very large portion of the Volun-
teers of England, mixed with the Regular Troops,
were fir to meet the, veteran Troops of France, and
that our Ineeting of them so would give us nothing
short of• hope- and full confidence of immediate
success. But he did entertain-strong doubts of the
prOpriety of this Clause, 'on, tbe ground which had
been statecil by his Leained Friend,. the ATTORNEY
observed, that in the last war, the
y(Aunieers were only Iso.coo, and yet they an-
swered the purpose for which they were intended,—
no one complained of their inefficiency in the course
of the last" War.--they achieved "a great object in
the course of their services. in Ireland, although they
were neither half so numerous, or under any such
regulations as they are at present. His main object
was, that Regulations of the Volunteers should be
left,' as much as possible to the Volunteers them-
selves; that Parliament should interfere as little as
possible with the in ternal
,rhulations and manage-
inent of Volunteer Corps, and partittif:* in the
system of inflicting penalties. He had no doubt of
the efficacy of the system recommended by: the
Right Hun. Gentleman 't Mr. "ITI.) as a permanent

system--hut clerc was riot
some risk in adopting it at the present moment.
Mr. PITT said, he certainly was willing to hope
With the Right Hon. Gentleman, and to believe,
and even to he confident, that there was indeed a

very considerable portion of the Voltinteers of Great
Britain, who, in concert with the Regular Force,
would to of great utility in the contest which we
are now to expea ; but he could not disguise from
the 1-I,)use, because he .could not disguise from him-
self, that very many of die Volunteers were in, no
degree advanced to that state of discipline in
which we could wish to see them, and in which it

was indispensably necessary they should -be in be-
fore' they could '-be essentially serviceable to their
Country, wheiCcalled
.-out for its defence, and
in support of its existence. There was an error in
the judgment of many Gentlemen who had spoken
upon the subject of the military discipline of the
Volunteers ; too many judged of the Volunteers of
England from the brilliant Corps of the Metropolis,
whereas it was notorious that many Corps in the
country were in nothing like the same state ; many
of them had but just received their arms, which
under the many difficulties with which we had to
encounter, was not to be wondered 'at. But from
what he himself knew, and .from the credible in-
formation he received from others, from the various
fluctuations and uncertainty that were incident to
this System, there were many of them in a state
in which it was impossible to say they were any
thing approaching that situation described by
the Right Hon. Gentleman. He. did oot
.say that
many of the Volunteers, who may in the course
perhaps of three weeks be put to the proof, and
may' have to meet with the Veteran Troops of
France, that they would not acquit themselves with.
honour in union with Troops of the Line, nor that
ultimately they would not be successfurin the contest
for the defence of the Country ; that was .not the
question to be now discussed ; the question now
was this : What was the most speedy mode of
making the Volunteers efficient for the purposes of
Action, with as little loss of blood as possible ? for I
that. was to 'us the most interesting part of the sub,
jeft, and with the care of which that House was'en-
trusted. As to what had been said of the Volun-
teers of Ireland in the last War, it did not apply to
the present case. They had long been called out,
and had been on permanent duty for months, and
some of them for years, antlacquired the qualities of
Veteran Troops, which was not hitherto the case
with the present Volunteers. He did not say there
was any doubt that our Volunters would meet and
defeat the ,Veteran Troops of France, but the ques-
tion was, What was the best mode to make them
meet the Enemy with the best Chance of saving the
effusion of British blOod ? He was not 'to be told
what the Volunteers were the last War ; for no man
would say, however serious the apprehension of In
was during the last War, that the danger
was then anything like'the danger with which we
were threatened now. There never was a period
io which the. preparations for invading this Coun-
try, were upon any thing like the scale of the
present preparations --, so much so, that Parlia-
ment had 'already expressed its sense to that
effect by the measures it had brought forward.
It• had ine.eed'onee thought of making many regu-
lotions upon the discipline of the Volunteers ; but
had afterwards confided that subject to the discre-,
don of Ministers, in the hope that much would
have been done, but Ministers disappointed that
hope, and therefore Parliament ought now to a&
for itself. As to the idea .of not attempting to do
too much, it was observable that, if these regula-
tioos were lileely to have a bad effect on the Volun-
teer system, the. hopes which he entertained that
many OS them would consent.t6 be put upon perma-
nent duty, by which 'they would certainly be sub-,
ject to *eh more rigotir, were very ill-founded ;
he did, however, entertain sanguine ,hopes they
would, in great numbers, accept of the invitation to.
be put on permanent duty, as the very best means
to make them a good- military force, and to exer,
cise ourselves betore the French come was the best
mode of enabling us to meet them when they do,
not only with a certainty of triomph, but alsb with
a reasonable expectation of conducing the contes,t
with as lirtle,effusion as possible of British blOcid,
He should he glad if every Volunteer in England
could put himself fur a while on a perManent mili-
tary duty ; but that, in the nature of things, was itn,
possible ; there were many who could not 'possibly so
engage. He admitted that muchbad been done al.
ready, but that was no reason why we should not do
as much more as possible. • This was a matter to be
considered most seriously.. Comparisons between this
and the \lat War were absolutely idle. The whole
of the preparations of 'France for. Invasion last War
were loudly equal to an advanced guard of one of its
numerous posts at present. He did not' disparage
the Merit of the Volunteers, nor was he insensible
of what they had already done; he only enforced
the necessity of doing every thing that was in our
power to meet, upon the best possible advantage,
the Enemy, and that in a few weeks to decide a
contest, on which net the interest or welfare, but
the existence of this country, was at stake. Nei.
ther did he wish to disparage the valour of his
countrymen—he knew what' men contending for
their ,freedom and existence, unarmed and undis-
ciplined, could do ; nor had he any idea that the
efforts of a %%hole People, such as Britons, would
not be uitimately,successful, although they might
be undisciplined, He knew that every freeman
ought to be a hero in such a contest, and he was
confident that few indeed among ,us would disap-
point the expeaations of Country in that ex-
tremity, should we come to it. But that was not
the question—the matter for the consideration of
the 1-louse was, what was -the best mode for meeting
the tremendous and awful contest, which must be ex.
peeled in a few weeks, upon a rational expec-
tation of spilling as little British blood as such
a contest can possibly admiz The crisis
was at a certainty approaching,' it would -be ,our
own fault if we were pot prepared for it-it would
be the fault of that Hpuse if it should not do every
thing in its power ;o prepare for it. No man in
the leingdoM ought to have any reason hereafter to
reproach himself with negligence upon such a sub-
je&. He would not tire the Committee with fur_
their
tube a
observations. 'Some he had delivered, he ad.
revetitior. of what he had urged be-

lore, possibTriT4 might fitit—irter tne ju0,5,7-
others, who were not convinced bY -them before•-
lie certainly had nO 1-iope that the argument' °,
others could alter the opinion he'had now deliv're3n
upOn this most momentous subjcd, for ‘vhich reasa
he found himself compelled to press this clause fa
the adoption of the Commit tee.
Mr. BRAGGE contended for the proprietY
conforming to' certain regulations ;' nay, 0/6"1”1-
lously adhering. to theM.; it was, to a certain ds.ect-,
gree, obviously a quetion of good faith with ttai
VolunteerS themselves ; and the Committee
recolled thar the sandion of Parliament had been
given on ihe'oceasion.
The Ouest inn was' here pret,ty loudly called for.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQPIEL
desired to. make one or. two observations which,b.6
had omitted to state when discussing the proli°sl"
tion of the Right Hon. Gentleman.,. He must del
that experience shewed the necessity of the Inejsure
recommended. He had heard of. no complail
made by any CorPs, as to an inSufficiency of interrr
discipline. He adverted to the provision for
holding a _certain part of the Pay of the Voluntee.rs
~"hile upon military duty, whiCh he considered 3:
likely to tend,. in a considerable 'degree, to 0,5
maintenance of good order and discipline. • 111111
in effed, went to subjed the Volunteer to a
who should miscondua hituself while under arms..
The Cornmittee then grew clamorous for IV
Question. Upon which a division took place, wil°
there appeared Ayes
shoulo
Noes

Majority for Ministers - 1
The discussion upon the remaining Clauses ao
Provisions of the Bill continued a Consider able t•-e,
longer ; but as Strangers were excluded the
;minder of. the evening, we are prevented fr ,
detailing' what took place. We understand, li°,`sc:
ever, that the remaining Clauses' and Schedules.,.
of the Bill were gone through by the Committ`coa.
the Report received by the House' pro forn/(71:r '
the Bill ordered to.be again recommitted for I\4o-i
when some additional Clauses are to be proe'el'•
and at half past seven o,'Clock the House adjoin

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40LEM QUIS DICERE FALSUM AUDEAT ?

LONDON, MARCH 12, i8o4•

Queen's Muse, March r r,
4t HIS KA J Es T'l is considerably better to-dAy than he
ba
yet been since the beginning of his illness.'!
(Signed) "L. Yso s. F. NI.ILMA•
"H. R. REYNOLDS "W. HEBEROV4•

Queeles House, March
" Ills MAJESTY cor)tinue* to recover.
Art.

(Signed) " 1.. PEPYS.
H. R. REYNOLD*. .C_W 14'0.1
to
Wc are extremely h:tppy to state, in aclaitt,
the above, that lits MAJESTY was yesterday so a
for
recovered.as to he able to walk in the Garden

short time. To:4
About two o'clock yesterday, Mr. AWN°
had an audience of His MAJESTY. o'o
Viscount Wewrwoß.TH and General Goal)
311 R
attended yesterday Sr. James's, as. Lord-
Groom in Waitirg•

•
Ttl E firing off the French Coast continued. -
ive
Saturday and' yesterday, but nothing had o'l 01
from that quarter, when ~the Post left Deal %,
Dover last night, so that use are still left 03 c°
roo,
iefture with re :Ted to the cause. It doubt
;ter/
cetded from an attack made by some of our tt
on a part of the Enemy's force, but effc
remains to be ascertained.

t 01. V.
lial:a4urgh Papers to the ist inst. were Yes- ee
1'
received in town. Several private Letters °l6;:et4'
received from France, which, though not 015° e
a date as the last Paris Papers,,containmore de(3-
accounts of the arrest of MOR AU, It is. Sidce ll° 3.
\d
is now confined in the Temple, to which pla ""
been removed from the Abbey, and that n° rcrs,oo
not even his. wife, is permitted to see hiiu• von
First Consul and his Lady Ord the greatest
ss
cern for the fate of MaR.Ao and 'exl"r.e.,
strongest wishes' that he may prove to 'be li"wceo
osy
That BQNArARTE may attempt to play off 5° 'f
g , i$
a piece of affeftation, we have no doubt, 'but
et(c
impossible that it can for one moment ittiPs-
Str°°Pve
upon his abject slaves at Paris.—Nlo fi
asserts his innocence, but even if he should Pt
c wlier
it, it would avail but little, in a countrY
O
c,r°
there is no Law but the will of a suspicious I
and where the Grand Judge, 'previous to any on
has taken upon himself solemnly to determine °`
the guilt of the person accused.
YESTERDAY morning CLINE, the Ad:f 014'
Messenger, went from town for the purrs- °Dot'
ing into his charge the man calling himself •Al4-j,,y,
soN, whoM we mentioned in\ our Paper of S4l`iflliac
I
and who came Passenger in 'the Prussian
was detained by the Guardship off SouthF-"'ld' ipt
says that he is fraught with a vast faun"
i,isrlt
p.,itant information for Mr. ADniNgrol'

•
his conversation connexions, beir:z married
to a sister of thenoted jottN,oll;
• . •
escape frorti.theFieetPrison, and who,• he says,: is
at present confined in gaol at Middleburg,. it woiiid
appear that his professi6n is that of •smugg-linz.—
, • JoHNsoig came over amongst a number of
other—passengers.by the same Vessel. •
ANDERSON may be ab,e to furnish some import-
ant inforthation with resped to the state of the pje-
parations in the Enemy's Ports.

Saturday -about twelve o'clock, HER MAJESTY
•and the Princesses ELIZABETH and MARY, attende4
by the C,:untess of"AYI.FI3oRy, tok an airing
a enach and four, escorted by a party of .the Light
Horse, in the neighbourhood of Hainps'tead and
Highgate. This was the first time Of HET,. MA-
jEsTY, Or any of the PRINCE.ssEs appearing in
public, since the indisposition of His. MAJESTY...—
We were happy to observe HER MAJESTY and the
PRINCESSES appear in good health, atter their long
confinement:. The ROYAL PARTY -returned 'be-
tween two and three o'clock.
The DUKES of CUMBERLAND and KENT dined
with FIER MAJESTY and the PRINCESSES. -
Saturday about three o'clock, the LORD CHAN-
cELLOR had an audience'of the ROYAL FAMILY.
JOn Saturday the Bulletin did not arrive at St.
ames's Palace till about twenty minutes before one
o'clock, being an hour later than the usual time ;
many were the conjeetures of the numerous in.
quirers, who* were waiting, with impatience, CO
MA
know the report of the Physicians of the state of HIS,
JEsTy. A number.of noble Personages and per-
sons of distindioncalled several times in the course
of the hour, among whom was Mr. Fox, who
called thre'tt times, •

Yesterday the Bishop of GLOUCESTER preached
before the Nubility at the Chapel Royal. The'con-
gregation was more numerous than any this vason.-
:Amongst them we noticed the Bishop of. LONDON,
the Marquis of TttomoNo, Earls ROsLTN, DART_
MOUTH, SPENCER, and GALLOWAY., Lords ARDEN,
CRANLEY, PAGET, C."BENTINCK, and C. SEY-
iIoUR. 'An appropriate Anthem to the times, " God
is our hope and strength," by Dr. GREEN, was
;yery, correctly sung by Messrs. GORE, VAUGHAN,
'and th'e SALES.
On 64turday, about twelve o'clock, the RUSSIAN
-',II,II3AsSADOR had On audience of Lord 1--lawices-
iußy for upwards of
.two hours, achis 'Lordship's
Office.in rioWning_sureet.
' Loid ECt.iot arrived at his house in Downing_
street, on Saturday, alter attending the funeral of
his late father.
ireetors was held at the
On Saturday a Court of D.
.whe'n Ceneral CRADDocx.rook
East India House,
'the u,ual oath on being appninked. Commander in
Chief of the cqmpany's Forces on the Coast of-Co_
oft
and secoilcl in Council at F 0 S Ge
The Court adjourned at six o'
wge•
cicck till Wednesday
Tiext.
On Saturday a most..., sumptuous
by the East India
thr dinner ~va; given
to General' eaors, Ai tilt Lonri:n Tavern'
Sir Jouist CRADDOCR, prel/10115 tO HS
:going out Governor Of Coromindel, in the Island
of Bombay ; JAcoB BOSANQUET .
The Marquis CoRNWAL L is, sat on the right.of the
Esq. in the Chair.
tiaitrnan, and . Si;
RADDoCK 011 ME left.
Lords l-IoBART and Pknr.:LCE the Mster of
the Rolls, And about one hundreddlioithers fiend is of
the Diretnors, were present. Every ' 'delicacy a
the 'season was on the table. The wines consisted
of Claret, Blirguncly, and champaigne. The com-
flepany were entertained With a number of lient
es by the three .I(NtVETS, N 11:
H,- sH,- and DIGNut4; the- latter sang
lent Songs, two excel.

It being generally supposed that the Ey ill
endeavour to push forward immediate) for tnemh we
Ca-
pital, every precaution
is now adopted for its de_
d M. Ca-
fence, General Fox, and several other distinguish-
at the
elitary Officers, had a long private conference
Mansion-house on Saturday with the
LORD
Mivrott, and Commodore LUCAS, the Commander
of the. Rivet Fencibles; when a number of charts,
draughts, and plans of the River Thames and Med-
way, under the jurisdidion of die Ct''el were strict-
ly investigatd. Ic is said the oljee't of the c""-
fer"ee Was, to place the River Fe:-);•mies in such a
state of preparation as to be able to co, 'e the Vo-
lunteers down the River at the sl• "Y .
'or test notice.
. The 2d Battalion Of 'the e7l -D
• eee Lee-in-rent, has ar.
rived in Dublin, after a passage of twenty-four
hours from Whitehaven; the Corps, inciin:r tile
women and children following it, composed 7585
persons.
The Prince of Wale t's Royal Volunteers marched
on Saturday to Blackheath; where they had a grand
fleld-day. 'They to enr through a great number of
manoeuvres, and fired several rounds with a pre highly creditable to their discipline. The
ores were afterwards entertained at the Ranger's
T
by "%jet. Ceeto with cold beef and p2rter.
The Corps were ieceivcd by the Greenwich Ver.
innteere with presented arms. A great number of
the neighboUring Gentry were present, who were
highly gr
reatified by the excellence displayed in the
rear) ha
manceuvs of the Corps. A serious accident had
of
the happened in consequence of the horses in one
Greenwich stages raking fright at the sound
of the drums. The coach was overturned, but ha_
pily the passengers escaped unhurt. p
A Court of Inquiry has been held on one of the
Officers of the Royal Westminster Volunteers,
charged with having endeavoured to induce several
Of the Members to form themselves
into a Rifle
Company, without the knowledge or approbation'
of the Commanding Officer. The result of their
inevedi stigati on was read to the Regiment at their in-
spon on* Tuesday last, in which it is stated as
their opinion, that " he was censurable in sandion-
ing the meetings on the subje& by his presence, and
in pre acingp Resolutions to be signed privately by
a number sufficient to command the acquiescence of
the Colonel ; and that his Letters to the
F ield Offi-
cers contained unwarrantable and improper lan-
ituage." We since learn -that HIS MAJESTY has
been pleased to signify his pleasure that. the above
Officer should be displaceerfrom the Regunent.