The Sun.
London, England, 1803-06-28 00:00:00

JUNE _B, 1803.

cause there the quota which was to be fernisbed by
Scotland was stated. It wouldo ke.therefore neees.
sary to leave Out that. part' of the clause. The
Committee would observe,,that the tuniber which
each County Ai.as to furnish varied from the regula.
tions contained in the Militia A of last Session
upon that subjea. The• reason why that alteration
was proposed was, because Government was new
in possession of the latest returns of the number of
men liable to serve., Lt was therefore thoughrpro.
per to have Pecourse to those returns, which were
nearly complete. By these returns it appeared that
the number of men liable to serve in the Militia
for Great Britain, amounted, to 000,000 men ; of
that number about. 750,000 wete liable to serve
for England and Wales. The quota of the Coun.
ties had been assigned inconsequence of these re.
turns, which appeared to him t 6 furoish, the most
eorreCt mewls of apportioning the ,nember of men to
raised by eltelt eounty,, They had also received
some farther inioraLaton. item the
.returns under
the Population Apt.. tipon the follest'examination
which it had been.possible-to. give to this subjeet, _
it appeared tharEao or 8+ men out of every to,ooo,
upon the general population of the Country,
would furnish the 4.0,000 men that were to be
raised by Great Britain. The calculition had
therefore been token at 84. 'teen out of 10,000.
This was taken at a medium, but- in no case was
there taken above t 6 more.than-the nor in any
case more than 16 less than. the Si,. As far, there.
fore, as England and Wales was concerned, he
hoped the quota to •be furnished by. each county.
was aortal), apportioned; he, cettainly knew of
no means that, could be had recourse to, that were
so likely to produce an equal apportionment. With
regard to Scotland, • the quota had been regulated
upon prteisely the same principle. lie understood,
however, that some objeetioris might be made (in
the, part of Scotland, to this part of the plan, It
might therefore, .perhaps, be.better to resort to the e
numbers which Scotland was to. furnish under the
Militia Ads. When the Billrespeaing Seotland
came into the Committee, it wott-ld be time enough
to consider that part of the subjeCt. At all,
events,. the whole number to_ be furnished by
Scotland was 60o1) men.
,The next .imaterial
point was the exenytions he should huts,ho
ever previously' state ;moth, r alteration 01 impor.
Lance which kid been adlpied. The Bill, as. etri.'
gi-way mimed, pti,xeeded upon the vrniciple 'of the
Militia Bril, awl extended only to persons of from!
t 8 to 45. The basis of the Militia System being
personal service, that regulation, might be very
imp r ; hut on this occasion it would. be worth
while to consider whether the hurt hen upon • the
Ceiuntry might not be in some elwee alleviated by
ext• rlit% that provision a little. It would be-'rte.
cessary then to look to persons
;above the age of 4.5',
who were possessed of competent property. it
would therefore' be proposed that persons between
16 and +5, if of a proper. height, Sze. shouldflie
liable of serve personally or by substitute, and that
persons-above 4.5, and being possessed of sufficient
property, should, if drawn, be Obliged to and a sub:.
stitute. The criterion which he should propose
with regard to the property, of, persons above 4.5,
would be, that those • persons above that age. who
paid 301, and upwatdi to the Assessed Taxes,
should, if ballotted for, ke bound to provide' a sub.
-stitute. The Deputy Lieutenants would be,eailed
upon to make new Listsiin consequence of this al-
teration, or, where it; ceuld he dope, to amend the
old ones, which would certainly be more expedi.
tious. He now came
,to the Exemptions. The
line of the plan of exemptions was nearly.. the ,same
as those enameled in the -.Supplementary, Militia':
Every body. might see them, by a referenceoo •the
Bill itself. He should propose to take, ,the zeal
of June, the day. on which time Bill was intro.
doted, as the, day beyond which some of the • ex.
ernptions were., not to extend—such .as articled
Clerks, Teachers of ',licensed eongregations,
Volunteers, &c.7.-Pains had been .taken, in the re-
gulations which „were introduced respecting licensed
Teachers, to guard against, those. frauds othich they
had too muchleasoo to apprehend were praCtised—
He came now: tothe other class of Exemptions, Viz.
,the Yeomanry' and Volunteer Corps. He proposed
to strike out the proviso which related to them,
and to introduce 41, clause stating that the exemp.
(ion shotdd extend, to all Volunteer Corps whose
services had been accepted previous. to throe 22. l June,
'and whose services were co-extensive With the mill=
tary district in which they, were situated, In cases .
of large cities and Towns, such as London', Bristolf
Edinburgh, Liverpool, Glasgo w,_ York, LeedssMuo.
cheater., and Birmingham„.he should propose to ex-
empt the Volueteers of those places, provided they
consented to do garrison duty. It wad, for many
purposes, be necessary to have Troeps its. those
places, and lithe Volunteers would. offer their sere,
vices for that apecies. of service; Ile thought they
were entitled‘to exemption:. .He should,,also pro,.
pose, that they s'hould'he bound to attend muster
and exercise, a certain number of days in the year.
By the last Acts, which was madewith a view to a
Peace Establishment,
the number was fixed,at ftv.e
days in the yearl'but that certainly. would ,not
be enough, in time of War, he. should therefore
proNse that they attend ewo days in time month
at least. Another Amendment which he had to
ProPosei related to Subqietuee-4 It was pro.
posed that do Substitute siDold be taken who had •
more than three children.peni this subjett it Might
not he improve ritti, refer to the Regulations- tespeif.
ing the Supplementary Militia.- In that A-4 there
was no reference whatever to the milliliter of
&en of the Substitute. He now felt it his duty to
adopt the same Principle in this Measure, and also
that Ihe
.0(441 fur the.ParWtts, a!! in the case of the ,
Fallnilies of the Substitutes shoula.be pro.