The Sun.
London, England, 1803-07-23 00:00:00

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ending that otliers deorught :wqmte. 4 pep. •
would create a kind of ineitlious c-empartson, aati
torrid inspirethe-worst of all.feelitee,s, a eiyalshe?
tirttured- 4ith -animosity, 11141 appei•tred-eo pith
to be a mischief sOlsrear, that the ategmeating..t te
ra Reular Army
outbdo nut to be purchased at such
an expence. To thus propositioni therefore, l
could not agree, ; But certainly opon this subjeti
-much
.woolii depend uPoti. the- °sem' mA1e,..4)1 the
„Army of. Reserve .to fill up_ the itqlul' *", Regi-
merits: He confessed he felt greet djstttist of
himself' and 'great dlfefente when he spoke
tniiiitary Amigos, but • he uoderstood to 1)e a
point rstalalished by the _concurrent • opinion of eh
most all Officers, that if new Recruits were poured
Lao an old Regiment whith had all "its Commis-
sioned Officeti, that' such Recruits .would much
sooner beeome uiefel :Soldier's -than if they . were
formed iron a separate Corps.. He, luewever, had
some apprehension, from what had fallen from the
SECRETARY at WAR, that insteld ,of spreading the
Army of Reserve over all the Battalions in Great
itain and Ireland, they meant to. confine them to
thirteen Battalions. Now if so great a number of
neyoreised ineti ivore added to so• few Of the old
Battalioes,aif course they could not have so.much
.advantage from the knowledge of the Qfficers, as if
they were spread over rhe whnle so Battalions in
Great Britain aril Ireland. It would probably be
answered, that the Commis.s'ions might he filled 'up
out of the Half-pay; but upon this subject there
were one or two points that struck his enintl...„ln.the.
first place, that did not apply to Non_commiseioned
'Officers, who were certainly extternely essential in
,the formation of a Corps. 'But this was not all,
the military situation of this Colliery, while it was.
improveti, ,was altered by this measure Of they
'Were only to have the Army of Reserve, it certain.
ly would he proper to have recourse to the kialf-oaY
;List ; butt in etloit ion to that Army the flouse would
reeopat that they were now givingstheir sanftion
to,a meactite for raising 3 or 400,600 men
more to
, • fight for the Country. That there would he no
difficulty in reising•these. den te -bed not the slight.
est doubt. The spirit of the C meaty was now r
Int, it hart natiifeated itself in tile Capital, it 'would
pervade the Ottrerne parts of the Country, it would
•
catch from town to town, nod from village to via.
!age., and would make the Country one scene Mani_ resting the spirit of Englishmen; and displaying it
in its native Itistre'.
,Of the numbers of 'men they
wanted, they were. thel-efore surei• but then they
would want the
,means of. preparing .and.drilling
them with all the dispatch that the shortoeas of
`the time Would alloW. 'Did it not then occur to Gen.:
tlernen,that they would-then have infi nicely more use
for the Officers who were not at rach.ed, to Reginieots,
tttr elelt eureoer. Did it not -occur to. Gentlemen
thet if in atiditi'on to the Nebility. and Gentry who
tvould Cenonissions, if it- were possible, to have
fdr every three or four of thenoone or two Officers •
from the it would certainly tend tti
Vine di:a Army with teore rapidity and with inure
corredness. It therefore appeared to him a matter
•welf woishy of consideeatieree whether they could
mil., by .allotitee a.greater number' of Battalions of
tra• Line to receive the Army ofikeserve,
by 'reducing the necessity, filling up, the Ciirrents.
Mons in. that Arniy .e.-itli Officers
have More Officers of the. half. ,a to discipline Ore
•
irregular Army which they were now proposing to
vote. 'He apologited to the I fence for ocenoying
their time upon thiS subjeft, but he cotoidered it to
be tilt- duty of every Member id suite his opinionti
team those topics. He therefore applauded the Hon.
Officer for having given the House his opinions..upon
the mearts of National Defence.. He hail listened to.
dr Hon. Officer with great attention, and concurred
With him on many points, but in none with more
satisi.anion than in what he said of the advantages',
pf field 101'6 fieat ion as applicable to-the present (Tea.
ttion. Ha also concurred with the. Hon. Officer in
the propriety of Securice the treat naval arsenals,
inot from eepture, •for that was done already, but
front bomberdment horn
,the most ,remote distance at which it was poesible. This, for what he knew,
was now done, because, as he f had'l ie Ore stated,
these were, points wh IC' I had
of 'some of chte mess able OEI
eers the Country.
He 'trusted that there was not in an. oarte y
of chit 'false I ride. that would y q r makeany
us despise
meant; of deferce of this kind, if calculated to add
to our security ; much less he •I
( pc, wou d taey
be •
trotted upon ideas of mistaken ec
°limy ant
wretched penury. He trusted; that with 'a' view to
save ti fewepeurids nr Shillings,
,they _would nor run
the ri-k of wasting tht best I
--vote 0. tots ...ountry.
There was another •
to which. the Hen. Ofh_
cer adverted, and in which I Il' ''
n. IC ./Cileveu he been
little misund If
erstoot • -e meant that. part in
Which the Hon. G '1 ."
ent email talked of fortifying the
Cnests•of this C
;entry ; lie knew very welietlie pre-
-jodicesehat pro ailvdk
uputi this subjen ;, netv it
would he said, "WI ' f the
eat are you teeing to orti y
Whole
Coast •;, areyou, going Co build tt wall round-
3/41'111(mtl ?" llonourAle Officer. he was sure
111t!,.11I tan
.itch thing. He did not speak of 4°NitY.
'"g:the whole •eareot of our Coast, that tvoulda be
•ahono
. but Only such plus its were accessible, ',itch
:.‘", the flutimei ; he Iftlieved the Hon. Officer.
sett
agree willt in the.proptiety of adding
\"e'veastle, Wheat the Hon. Gentleman talked of
'i"g these d• secure, beelid not mean abso-
lute
ates
security, nor did he mean that tilde was
• to .1)1' a chain
,of VorificattOns till round the -Coast
Eltglend ; he apprehended he meant a selettion of
given situationtethat might ohs( rut auEnen's land-
t"t‘st nr, which might render it difficult for them.to'Pe-
/lel rate the Country. It coald not be supposed that eo
miles of coast would require so miles of'•foras"-
tit"). The objeCt eiropesed was to 'secure those
points.whereahelando•t-of tile Enemy might be made
most easel ;led to lea'ye those open which
were the most defended by feature. If this was -ace
cutnpli•hed, 'much might he tione, be:Cause it' die
)I'l depend su mud) upon, ereCtieg 'peat
,;'• in improviug -natural advanttrges• Every
body kne w '0- • netable valle s.
eat there ktre intim
11,A. 11115 c-l!nlry, with rivulets owning through •
1,11. tvloch . might be inouretateil,_ a measure
h •on many eteeattioos‘Might he of the greatest
.fle. Was diet-time convinced that at
vcr), cotTipslialive t.Xl4nce we might for-
tiq it „teat extent 4Coasr, or at least pot it in ouch
"Iletettott. that instead of being oblige 41 tO