The Sun.
London, England, 1803-12-10 00:00:00

. insufficient.tcrinstrna themin military discipline:
This was an Opinion which he Would not adviance so.
eprititlently, if he wcre'not- 6)Pfinned-by the authO.'
~rity of :military men, and eveti•by• the opinion of
• Government, Who' Only'.ao Adjutant- to
Corps who exercised for 8¢ daysin the year.. But
• ,even in. jhese cases their was an unfurtunate condi,
; tiOo annexed, viz. that white 84 dayi'service Was'
required, only 20 tl!tys pay was allowed. He knew
too much,of the spirit and patriotism of the People
• ' of this Country not to know, that in a time of enter!.
• tericy, ant danger, they would, without hesitatian,
ser.ve without
,pay. But it would be too.much to ,
expeiff, that men should be taken year after year.:
• away from their business and occupations without.
giving them Pay. Therefore if it. was absolutely
necessary that the Volunteers shnUld be exercised
more ihan'tiverity d4yN.they ought .certainly to be.
•,.. allowed pay,.Wipt the number of days Were which-
. it would be necessary-for' the Volunteer Corps to be
out he did know, but' he should think that less
• than eighty,four days would be sufficient., but cer.:
tainly more Than twenty daYs Were necessary.:.He
should think 'about -forty or fifty days. Perhaps
fifty days 'for next !year', and forty for the
ing years. Speaking thus generally, it Must be
obvious that he could not be very • accurate in his
estimate, of the expense, but prnbably. it Would,
amount to between 3 and 400,0001. making toge:.
ther with the former sum altogether, about soo,oool.
Aid if for that sum you could 'Maintain a Forceof.'
• very near 4.0ch000 men in gradual and efficient pro,
grrsg, he would assert, without the danger of coo:.
• tradietion, that it 'would.bi the cheapest part of the
whole expenditure. Witho looking 'to More
tant_aperations, suppose, contrary, to- all probabi.
lity,. the Enetny should escape the 'vigilance of our
_Fleets, and .attempt a landing, in Ireland, if the
• Volunteer Force. was matured, a large part of the
Regular Artny might be detaChed there, And surely
•
we could never he :aid to have provided effedually
ftir our own security until we had placed otirC.
• selves in the situation of being able to, send a
, large Regular Aitny to Ireland if circumstances
should require tt. No.man could place a more per.. -
feet'relisnee than lie ,did un the national spirit and
valour of goglioltnen, but great as that valour was,
the safetruf the Cottnt.ry ought not to be risked
tipooir, when not Wattled by
.discipline and sys.
tem, nor placing the twist perlea reliance upon the
native couragenf the i).ople.of this Country, wOtild
it be site to detach' a
.large 'Pan -of the regular
.
Arnie until the Volunteers had attained that .degree
of perfection which he had deseiibed. • He believed.
• there was
.not it man who 'heard him who 'did' not
concUr with.-hirn in thinking, that. if the Enemy
. -wire to make an'atiempt oporiour coast, ;:nd that
-
they were to rill, at, he had no doubt they would—
• if then they Were to, carry the WO to, the COnti,
• stew, the e.lr-gt of winch probably would be to
yrouse those who were now in a state lethargiC
supineness, and' to inspire "them 'with the hopes of
regaining their liberty, by alieWing therit.the Kett
of vigorous resistance ; if under such circumstances
a British Army' could be seasonably applied for. the
Purpose ofd aiding in .effi;tting a, general Change
io the state of !the Continent-4f it enrich afford
ibe,,means of rescuing .Ylal.-..sgy's Electoral
Dominions from the tyranny ut if it Couhl-
• • •be the means of pro.duciog• that spirit in the Nations
of .Fairnpe that would tend ,to the delive.once•of
Holland, Was there a man, •he asked '.who w,:up
differ from him in dill:king that the spirit of the
Country, high .as it now iS4V; ought. not to' be
turned to account by the ineans.he. lied mentioned
• ... It at this expense these.objeas could be attained,
thicexpenite ha thought we ought. without baits-
tion to incur, and not to think, ufE economy (how--
ever valuable it was in itself.) when pin in comper'
tittoo with such service. lie owned therefore that
. •
would•givi! him great satisfildiun to find that his
ideas On this sabjett were adopted, by .the.flouse,
i! and ad=apted as .4..,L11* possible,—We had
fnne.-throogh the
,in-s'r tVingerous part of this year,
• ).11.4. c.tgo•ickiit.periovi 01_ kinter.weA.ontoot to re-
) • kslitst.outi.esiertioos, hut at .the same:little there tsr4ts-,
overy,raikego to think that'during a period when ;he
ports,of,Holland would ,be
,closed up hl' the Fryst,
the danger 'cif lny.ks;oo: would be less thanit bad
• been for some months. If then there was any
iotert,d of comparati se security, it ought, to be
used in ,the hest. and. Artist effretual mantis". be.
fore Spriegr4l, it should be ,thought right to ap.
. point those Cilkers, that he. had suggested, ..they
,
ought to•be anointed immediately, that they might
i. tu
•beene acqqainted width
.the- Corps and with, the
.• ' Officers witti whorn.they were to act--S,, that when
the Spring, cattle might he ready for service.
With, this view, lie should be glad that on this day,
thaevents before they separated fur: the It:et:ass.
t•. they. should vote such an, additional sum ea
would be necessary for the -great objects to which
be had alluded—These were the'4lily points whiAs
in. his opinion called for iltlttiCtilate alteration •"thtra
might be .maoy other thip of which he did not
APPrP,vP, reserye`them for futitre
sitleration;.bot„wittt regard to` the poiots he had
• mentioned, if, they were right at all, they ought to
be adopted without the delay of an hour. There
were several other points relatin r to' the Volunteerswhich required touch consideration but were not of.
*0! Presling4' nature sta.,to render
.it necessary to go
at present . into the .diiettsiion of them. If
the,
,HOuse should agree.' with, hint lin thinking
that the Fit:M-Officers and AdjUt.ants Ought to be
appointed, still she was of opinion that the object he
hittl,ittview, could not be attained meielx.'4y.t.he
iniertiAinn tht)seOffieers, without the adoption' Of
some. regulations which would ensure punduil at.
letidance, which would keep up their numbeih and
give the,rn those habits amid" that steadl.
• ; net necessary ..for Soldiers, certainlY he did
.not
Law,. but those- regulationi•which'
would produce !host effects and thrise habits to which
hehad-a11034.. Ike theiefoie tho_Llght that looking,
as_.we ought to look, to a Ica * WU, timot,to
take the earliest, opportunity meirtivuir
maintaining it fur a length of time. We 1141(1 Ken
what the ardour of the Country had !done,
tinder the appearance of immediate danger; perhaps
th'e .appearance of tiefenee Whichlt had already
84ewn$ might' produce
.tll:it, 'which might fairly be.
considt red as a triiittpli,-.7-perhaps it alight. make the.
L'emy, at, Press,!!, renounce his isty).solt as jun.
fro ,ttetlale.,, a.:l/41 „to 'the;