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• - HOUSE OF PEERS.' - •
FRIDAY, hIARCE-1 16.
Counsel were heard in the 'Appeal Mastrton
Micklejohn.---A further hearing on Monday next.
Several Bills were brought up froin the Common;,
and read 'a first time.

Lord_HA Dwr c E moved for furt:ier Papers ie
spewing the price of. Corn and Gratin.--Ordered. '
FOREIGN TROOPS.'
- Lord KING, pursuant to the notice which begat e
yesterday,. rose to move for a return of the numb.
Of foreign troops now: in the pay of Great Britain.
The introduClion of foreign-iroops iato this c'itintry
had. of late years, principally taken placeduring the
present ,awl the, late. war. They were introduct,cl.
under a variety of pretexts. Some were supposed to'
be only on their pats.ige to another destination, bat,
once having set font on British grooud they,
continued to remain here. Frain the' estimates now
before the other House, of Parliament, it. appeared
that their number had considerably increased,
and that nearly a million of money was proposed to
be voted for their maintenance. This was a material
ddition to the burdens' under which the country '
had already to groan. Indeed the introduction of
foreign troops was .a growing and all eady a great
evil. In better times •it was, and still ought to be,
Considered a most unconstitutional measure. He
could not ;-better express himself' on this point, thin
by adopting the language of an Address to the King,
by a Speaker of the House of Commons (Sir F.
Norton)... " The introdoction of foreign iroops was
considered by him as highly onconstitt,'!.onal, and •
Wholly unknown in the better petiod of vu) history.
,Not only was it unconstitutional, but it wk.s ex-
tremely injudicious and_ prejudicial to- the clSons
and merits of Brash treops. It should, therefore, in
his opiuion, be resisted in limine as an encroachthent
on the rights and liberties of:Englishmen, and as such
he should feel it his duty Io submit a motion to their
Lord-Ships on that' head. Could it be, retle'cted uA
without f4lings 'of pain and mortification that fo- _
reign mercenaries should have a preference over our
own 'countrymen ? Yet such was the case with
-respect to these foreign levies. Their services were .
on &much -kess exteuswe scale than that of British
troops. They enlisted tir#r certain conditions as
to tee Countries t%liete they_ were. to sere and not-
withstanding thislinniatioo ef the extent of their -
services, they received
erpial pay a.ild as
full an establishrrient as 'BrittSts troops.. Was riot
thata'-'circumstance elltretnely .mortifying •to
,the
:feelings of British soLktie:s ? Bnt' die, waiter in=
volved consideiations of a mere serious tuomem..
,Buon'apaite, the mortal enemy of this, conntry, was
now master of fhe•couotries to which nioA of these •
troops belonged. Woukf they trans'er thenr affec-
tion and allegiance from their oative soil to a SoVe.
who was at War with their nark e country
Would.they-absorb -and lose all their early
.and
total affections to a cold sense of duty ? • Where
would they be employed ? What place of import-1
vice would you etibust to their hands ? Sorry, I
indeed, should he be to see Inland, for example, or
Gibraltar, or any of nor ,valuable possessions, placed
under their protectioo.., Look to the time of
William, and tee •what the country ' thought, and
how it felt with respect to his Dutch Guards. The ,
thing should, not be overlooked. The evil should ,
be checked' zn limine, before we might have to la- .
ment its consequence.' not be' totvotten
what effects were produced in. the Roman armies,
by the introduction of, a foreign rabble into their
ranks by Marius. . lie thought, the precedent Should
be Earnestly deprecated, and if his present motion
Was acceded to, he should ground upon it others
that wOuld have'for'ibeir object to discountenance'
'such a prat-flee, It' Was
_a gross violation of the
Consiitution ; and-it moreover was an injury and
•ea insult to the feelings and the interests of British
troops. The Noble Lord concluded by moving for
a 'return of the number of foreign troops in )3ri- --
tish pay, and of the 'districts where they were
employed. •

'the- Earl of LIVERPOOL said he had no objec-
tion to granting the, tidal-illation moved .for bk. the
Noble Lord; and as he had no objection to the No-.
ble Lord's motion, be thought it unnecessary `to
malt any observation- on the arguments that bad
been offered in its support.
L„id DARNLEY'observed that the answer of the
Naule Ea'rl seemed to imply an 'acqUiescence 41 the
motion which he had' die honour of submitting to
their Lordships a_ few nights ago, .respecting the
small nutnber of British troops-that were nog nbe
left in Great Britain, • yet it was deemed .exp,:dier.i
to negative that motion. • -
Lotd I,6Earool. denied that 'any such infer-
ence court be drawn from the few- Observation he
had made. ,

The question was then put on Lord King's mos.
tion, and agreed to yvithout any opposition.
-The House thep rOsolved itself into -a Commie
on the Mutiny BM.

The Duke of NORFOLK found fault with the new
clause which enabled that recruits should be -billet-
ted on publicans. The Bill was an annual One; but
of late years there was an annual addition of ne.i.v'
clauses to the Bill, \which Parliament was Dot. pre-
parecito expect. This clause imposed -a new bur-,
then on 'the publicans, who weie already butler);
heavily' burtheried., He , though/ it quite improper
to make such innovations in the Bill, especially
when it was, to expire in nine or ten days, and there-
fore might be subject to much opposition-.
The Earl of LIVERPOOL denied that any new
clause of any importance was introduced into, the
Bill, and that it impos,ed no additional burthen
Innkeepers, who ,had already been indemnified tor-
any additional expence 'to which they might be
exposed.
After a few word from the Duke, of Nottso4,