Star.
London, England, 1806-06-07 00:00:00

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army had been heartily tired of the prolixity of Mini-
tiers. Col.ManlyPower wrote that he was gaping for'
what Mr. Wiadham's plans would be (a laugh). He
was completely lick of waiting for the fyltern, and
that he had applied for a month's abfence, as every
thing was at a Rand (till (Another laugh). He added,
that he had removed his fmall battalion, and that his
men were doubled by the Additional Force Bill, end
further, that every man fit for general fervice had vo-
lunteered into it on receiving the bounty. An Hon.
Gentleman (Mr. Grattan) had talked of Roman dif.
cipline, and then had reverted to his favourite Re
public; but what applied to the Roman phalanx and
legion was wholly inapplicable to modern warfare.
The Hon. Judge Advocate had fpoken of Scotland,
as of a country peculiarly fenfible where money was
concerned, as if the Li& and Enklilh were nut equally
fafceptible of the mercenary heeling. The General
did not underfland either the policy or the propriety
of thie local teafoning. From the view he took of
the meafure, it appeared to him mod unwife and
dangerous, and he hoped its progrefs would be inter-
rupted, before fo fine an army was impaired by fuch
fanciful fchemes.
Mr. WILBERFORCE and Gen. TARLETON

feverally explained.
The LORD ADVOCATE of Scotland did not
exagly know to whom the Hon. General alluded,
when he ailed him Judge Advocate, and his doubts
were not wholly removed when the allufion was made
to his nbfervations, for they did not teem to have been
corratty underflood by that gallant officer. Limited
fervice was the moll fuccefsfal way of procuring men;
god to fuppofe they could sot judge of the urban. i
tages of limited fervice,hecaufe they had not Main.
ed the charafter, was as abated as to imagine that a
young virgincould not beaequaitited with lose of the
bleffinss of marriage. becaufe the had not before en•
tered into that happy Gate. In the country is which
he was bell informed, the men were not obtained by
hanging a purfe upon a halbert; they took rational
views of their fituation and on thefe formed their
% determination. • With :hole Gentlemen on the other
fide, who had confidered perpetual fervice Co accepta-
ble, he fhould be glad to handle fuch a weapon,- and
engage' on the recruiting- duty with them. . What
Would be the arguments they had to offer to•the ge-
nerous youth of the northern mountains, who loved
the wildeof which they were #I3IIVCS, becaufe they were
the favourite feat of•liberty 't Haden with us (they
mutt fay) and lefign your country. Enter the wide
world, and forgtt the foil of your birth. Leave yoot
fathers and relatives Ao their romantic hills and fruit-
ful vales, for to them you (Call never return:" Such
mull" be the invitation they,molt employ. But what
would be the lapguage to which he would retort ?—•
" Young men (he would exclaim). the love of your
country clings about your beans t filial duty. honour,
and afferaion ark dear to you as exiftence; you revere
the fraternal artachMent, and, will furrender none of
the (acme obligations of dortuillic life. • I know you
will defpife all danger. in the defence Of thefe fond
()kWh of your folicitude advance then with me to
the field of Virtue and glory, and, if yon.furvive the.
' honfliCt, you fliall return to the aunt of your rela-
tives, and to the bofom of your country, covered
with that laurels Which flail command • the refpetts
"sad the gratitude of your compatriots." With (itch
=Clll3ent, and fuch hopes, thoufands-would flock
Strindard of their Sovereign ; nor would, they
pit oh; longing, lingering Icok" toward their na.•
Cite homes, until the war was terminated; for .they
would know, that if they..prefuirfed to
,relinquith the
teen of, their duty, they would return to parents and
irelativei, who *odd confider their appearance
Intone them derogatory to Scottifh valour. When
Gentlemen tallied of the fuoire and remote difadvan-
tages of the plan propofed by his Right Hon. Friend,
they reminded him of a difpuvetegarding a canal be-
tween Ediiiluirgh and Glafgoitt, for the fu ppl y of coals,
In one direOion it paired thro' a vale without the (Mel-
ia interruption, on a perfett level, and the tcack thro'
Which it was to pats Contained a (imply of coals for
three centuries i in another it was to, be ()Winkled
by firty•feven locks, and to be elevated 'go feet above
the furface of the lea, but the rupply of coals Was fut.
&km for five centuries. It was a difgrace to the
t good fenfe of the country, that like this Bill the for-
mer channel had numerous opponents. The temper
of the hardy Caledonian, to whole bravery the nation
bad been fo often indebted, was little known. Tell
him to abandon the fond fctnes of his youth for ever,
and he will retire to the deep teceires of his moun-
tains : indulge the expeaation, that he will, after a
-term of peril and fatigue, reedit his dorneflie hearth,
and he will accompany you round the globe. His
wants are few, but without freedom nothing can (e-
-erily his detires. Donald, the peafant, had three
willies to elprefs: the fiat was, ' fill my cap full of
foul;' the fecund. fill My barn with whiikey ;' for
the third, his invention, unit& tuned by luxury, was
deficient, and le exclaimed, 111 my cap again with •
(miff' Such (concluded the Lord Advocate) are I
my notions of the operation of this projt.) in Scot-
land, and it (hall receive my hearty fupporr."
GENERAL TA RLE roN role to explain.
Mr. JOHNSTONE oppofed the claufe.
Mr. WHITBREAD frapported it, and addl.& led
his arguments pr incipally to the rcafoning of the Mac-
' ter of the Rolls on a former night, and to the roll
irons advanced by an Honourable Gebetal the lime
evening. He laid, he thought that all the difficulty
limed regarding the limitations in the colonial lervice
was removed, by the facility with which this had been
managed with the troops of the Eel India Company.
Mr. STURGES BOURNE rote to move his pro.
mifed amendment; and, after a fpeech of confider-
tble length, in which he repeated a variety of former
arguments egainft the principles of the Bill, and its
probable operatlith to deteriorate the military fyilem,
concluded by ntheing an amendment in the at (elation
oath of the foldier, binding him to Cave to the end,
and for 6: months after the conclufion, of any war
in which the country might be engaged at the ter-
ruination of his per hid of temporal enlifintenr.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, at
much length, anfwered the arguments of the Hon.
Member; and contended, that the beta fide difcharge
of the loldi:r at the end of the definitive period of en-
liftmen was the chiel principle upon which he relied
for the falutary operation of the dill, becaufe it was
is
the one which, being clearly undertiood by the gene-
ral mind, without any exception arising from conti-
derations of war or peace, would be likely to operate
as so uniform inducement for entering into the army,
std Wearing the *amen) prevahrt of del:nylon,