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of his•pro-prioil; that they might consikier whether
Clausrs would not be better than to leave the mat.
•.ter•nprn to
.any di!cietion whatever. Fie Shot)11
rake first thq point. which with him was the most
• ithportant objid .in his mind in the present crisisi
which WAS that which was to render the Volunteers
RecompliShed as poSsible in point of discip-
line, and he 'had the good fortune to have the con-
currenCe of ,the Right Hon. Gentleman upon the
iinporfanee of that gubjei4 ; and he had admitted
the necessity of calling out all .the Corps, anti hav-
ing them trained and ex,rcised frequently for the
purpose of improving them in discipline, and that
this should he done as early as possible, 3.71 he had
assured' the Committee that the Executive Govern-
ment would enforce this measure ; hut Mr. PITT
said, he doubted whether it woull not be ne-
cessary to insert a clause in the Bill for that
purpese, in order to have the. thing
,done as effec.
rually And distinctly as it should he. He was aware
there was a clause in the Bill of last year for that

purpose, which gave Power to His Majesty to as.
semble the Volunteers at his command on the ap.

pearance of Invasion, but there required soniething
more than the atlital_ appearance of Invasion, or a

, .
general appearance of aft ual Invasion, as it o.as
generally described, for the Enemy may be hover-
ing about, apparently for the purpose of Invasion,
for many months, and perhaps for years, and when
this expression of appearance of Invasion was of
construetion, and particularly as that con-
struClinn governed the question, whether sn large
and efficient a body of men as those of the Volun
frets, should or should not be put in a situ ition in
which they could best acquire perfe& di.cipline. Tr
was -the pr,ftice to call out the Militia in timt. of
War, - ,Ind that I.nwer was not spec;fically provided
but was uo ter the general au' hority which the
Clown derived fr 'm the stme sentence he 11,4 i

'early quoted, tha, of 2661 Invasion or in
new tiititer thereof; tha• wai the authority by
which the Miti:i3 were emb.,cliell, And put an yet.

manent duty, as they always. 'writ. in t :me of War ;
and he wi•h-tl some principle of t' is t,, he fp.
plied to the V slttore.,r-, 'hey might- he
iovited, as many Of them had '-‘,• n, to lake perrna.
nen, duty for a cr.,tin places, as they
hen list vear. Winters-- then hql apparent
reason to believe that ;In I. vv ion was at h.nd,

and theref,,ro.- they invirrd Volu:iteer,enti on

permanent duty and pay. ,„, •hoti;hi that a sea-
in which that wps hi tie. He did not Ray
d,at now there was a greater yr spett ..f it, or
that 'his should he made a matter of tionise or
q, •to., neibut he should he sorry that any thing
s!..uici be regle&d, oh any account whatever, that
could he of use to the Volunteer System, for now
there was a stronger reason f our being rt
pared at all noints than at any former period, for
that now the danger vas in his opinion •
imminent than ever ; and therrfore he thought it
should not be lent as an .equivocal sentence, as
that of appearance of Invasion, r immioent dar-
!hereof : in his opinion, in yont of policy, the
Volunteers so aald not only ty -stand that they
may be put on I,ermanent dti,y n0,,-, if in the (pinion
of the Executive Government it w:1, a, they should
be so, but also that they should wide/vaind that in
the opinion of Parliament they ought to hi. so for a
•vltile.. Whether this event of Invasion was to
take place in six weeks, or in six months, or eight
months, we should be. prepared: and therefore he
was of opinion, that they should be assembled, ana
should march, and be Lit on pay and permanent
duty,• where they should agree to do so, for the
purpose of their impr .cement in their military ex.
ercise ; and he would insert in the Bill words tot
the purpose of giving the Crown the power
calling this Force .tut in any part it might be thought
Advisable; for he :7nold not help clinking. there
was reason for going to that extent, and then the
Volunteers would be undes precisely the same rep--
1860 n as the Militia in that resped, although it
might not be necessary to continue them'in that
stare so lung this he thought necessary to be
made matter of pro Vision in the Bill, not that the
Crown had not the po,.,er already of inviting the
Volunieer our on pay and permanent duty, but he
thought it would he better, that the Volunteers
~11,,u1d understand it to be the opinion of Parlia.
menr, as well as that of the Executive Government,
that they should be'-so invited. The nxt point
he should. allude to in 'the Speech of the Right
Gentleman was, that of a doubt of .wrest
he meant. He did not know what the Right
Honourable Gentleman meant upon the stibjeet
of the Bounty to be given to Volunteers on
their being called out, whether this Bounty was to
be extended to all Volunteer Corps who should be
writing to serve tor a time, or only to the 24,000
who are assembled and on:perinanent duty 24,000
was a ebnsiderable number for an emergency, he was
willing to admit, but in making a great effort, such
as ought now to be made by means of- a body of
more than 300,000 men, he should hope that many
more might be imthediately put in this situation,
and he should wish- this matter .to be explained ;
but on this he was not saanxious to say much, pro-.
Meddle was assured that the encouragement of pay
was ;Meant to be offered to all Volunteers who may
wish'to profit in their military acquirements: but
on the subject of the- Bounty, as mentioned by the
Right Hon. Gentleman, he doubted .what
was proposed, Or rather what wai stated, would be
sAtisfadory, or even admissible,, when it came tdte
considered. The Right Hbni.Gentleman -said they
Were to have ,pay for twenty.one-days, ow which
they should be on permanent duty, but that, the
guinea which was to 'be advanced to them was to
be deduCted out of the original two guineas in-
tended to be allowed .in <the event 'of
.their going
into the Field--the- one on their proceeding to
march, the other on their return-home after having
expelled the Enemy--,-Now that aid appear to hiM
to be a very bad System to make them efficient for
attuat Invasion, and- inverting the order of things ;
, it was adding nothing to' what was originally in.
tended to be given, and it was misplacing 'that
which was tote allowed, for it was-giving to the
men nothing when they
were- to- be most wanted,
but raking away-all the effect of what was intend.
ed to be given, for it was .transposing the timei
and changing 'a gift into that which was the re.
verse of it, for by this .mode of deduCting the
guinea out of the two guineas originally intended