The Sun.
London, England, 1859-11-09 00:00:00

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MR. DEERE'S, M.P., ON THE NA-L'''2

DEFENCES.

The following address has been issued bi• - 1.•
Deedes, M.P. for East Kent : 111 IV'
waitdyhed:s defences. eetnnhceeo sw.. Clergy,
the Nobility, " Our national
" At a timeT
" To
: &In ig
IGVhenattriys
thheole oeufntthye.
kin; f
ill,
more or less under the influence of a feelin, of to
eveurity, when grave doubts suggest therase.i/nara.
thoughtful mind, as to whether our Prerwitil
tionrsy to resist aggression are commensurate of all
the
stake at issue, and at a moment when,' tiovel
othersin
the history of our country, it 'ui_e',,tell
England, as a means of avertinc, danger, t° ute„r
thoroughlyrc-
andl,CFeiaitodlioeir'ns:,(lo
prepared, I offere' no apolegY i' nal
inatio . _
peating a question on the subject of our
defences,' which I asked
at ...finer in,tnout
a public cu
county some weeks since—namely
What 1$ Kent
county
'TrueMaidstone urabioa
, and Ramsgate hono
rarin the Army List of this month as N°s' ;intl.
company of the volunteer rifle corps of the
nucleusc° of
I am
a aware also that in other places the ~..v be
corps has been started, which, I trust, 111-os‘rh?
_sfollowed by a similar result ; but is this e°,,:ntt
sol .this equal to what must be expected of a e' tot
important from its position, its populatinost?
its
wealth ? Why is so much valuable tittle.
cord
Why do not volunteers, of all classes, Coale f°j.,soted
—the
young and able to be enrolled and instri. to
—the rich and more advanced in life to fir
sinews,, .of war and produce their substitutes r that
we sit that we are not convinced—or ratbe. jily
resist the conviction—of the necessity', llose?
humble_r. judgment, the urgent necessity of he. ciices
interfere
is it that petty jealousies and local preja that
ia er ere ? Or are we under the fatal delusieztii rage
noPopulation, whose bravery and determined e°_ on
one would doubt, can, at a moment's
`yieldn an
instructedd in the use of the arms it nlust,": h cep,
uabn rilled in the simplest movements Niqueetiou,
solutely necessary to ensure combined ,aof olci
successfully oppose hostile forces comp
se,
and tried soldiers of thse'
" I stop not hare to inquire whether anY - „f °a
or what other reasons may be the cause -to er
apathy. My object is not to find fault but
_foci
cite to activity. I appeal to you to exhibit it
energyde and patriotism in defence of all that is
convict
dear to you, and I do so from a deep-seated ~ who
ion in my own mind that the time is at han°'sofeti
w_e must rely, under God's providence, for tiler 0 of
this count
kingdom on our own exertions; and .I_etto,
,lras coun,ty desire to preserve unstained oustPAttoi3O
victa, of which we justly boast, We ro a be.,
every sacrifice to meet
impeding danger, 1111
ware of being lulled into a false scciult• 1-. fa'
"Should ' it be necessary for me to offer anseiro-
th . r excuse for the liberty lam taking in au th.,t
in the flied re,
1. you, it may perhaps be f un 1
for nearly •
10 years I have teen—throngli ge° _ ,o,
sito.rt and EA 11 report—from a conviction of itc.,:_. 0,
_ltutional usefulness, a memberof a volunteer
.0;4
Al_y desire is not here to put forward the suPerl nsti.
tot' mounted ridemeu over a force of:envisc °cable
force cannot
I filly 1)( l'cve a more serviciotio
cannot be found—tut to excite the at' ,eO-
- all classes to fill up the linii'ed ranks of theitho
manry cavalry, and so to swell the numbers of
proposed rifle and artillery corps, as to Prve.ossioa
determination to resist to the utmost the aggl - sioa
of any enemy who may care to attempt the inv3s,
of this free and favoured land. " WrM• 1)11j)1';
" Sandling Park,
- invr.

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