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nowing. But I may be afked, would you have that
oble Lord (Melville) appointed the War Minifter ?
Oh, No ! he was formerly adept enough in that
line. When I rec.:AlL:it our expeditions to Holland,
and even to Egypt, where fo much rifle was in-
curred in fendi,ig our fuch a force, and in the
face of fuch an enemy, I am not anxious to fee
him attempt to diive our car of military glory.--
But it may be conlidered as a bad argument, that
the man who has proved himfelf but ill capable of
concluding operation: by land, is ergo incapable of
concluding operations at lea. This brings to my re
membrance an anecdote of the late Mr. Garrick. He
had a Scots friend, named Moncrieff, an eccentric,
but ft iendly character, and who generally went by the
appellation of Handl Johnny Moncrieff.' He at-
tempted to bring out a tragedy of four ads,which Mr.
Garrick, to whom it was fhewn, advifed him not to
omplete, but to lay it by. Next year, however, he
'irmight a comedy of five aft,, which Mr. Garrick
-renounced execrable, and plainly told him, that his
neither lay in tragedy nor comedy. " Where
the effi then," laid Johnny, " can lie ?"—( A
grneral laughing through the Houfi.) Mr. Sheridan
then proceeded to declare himtelf to be a great
friend .to the whole fyftem of the Militia. The high
bounties given to the Militia did not arife from the
fyßem itself, but from the abide of it. He condemned
the modern praelice of removing the men far from
their own homes, which tended to leffen their attach-
:bent to the fervice, and, of courfe, to increafe defer-
lion; and, when once faith was broken, and they were
put in a tituation different from what they expelled
when they &ft entered, it was not likely that a Militia
could ever be fo loon railed again; and, when parents
found that their Eons were in danger, when they en•
tered the Militia, or being afterwards entrapped for
foreign fervice, this, of itself, created the eaufe of an
increafed bounty. "As to railing men for rank," Mr.
Sheridan continued, " I admit that, if the army
could otherwife be recruired, this method is objedion-
oiale ; but I do not think that the army, as a body,
has (offered in this refptit, for I am fore, that
the more property and rank that are introduced into
CI: army, the greater will be the fecurity. Why
not attempt enlifting men for limited fervice ? But I
„ill not dwell on arguments which prefs upon the
humanity of the Houle. I fay that it is unconftitu-
tional to take lads, and put them for life from the
enjoyment of the privileges of our free conßitntion.
Enliaing for life, no doubt, (lands in the way of re-
cruiting for the army. If a boy be taken from his
parents to ferve for life, is it not farcical to tell him
that he is to fight for the bell conflitution upon
earth ? If you were to take children in a foreign
clime, form them into a corps, tell them to fight for
a free country and the bell conflitution, would they
not naturally fay, " Delightful! When are we to fee
that country ?" The anfwer that they are never to fee
that country, nor to enjoy its bleffings, bat that they
are to fight for it, how mach would this tend to
lower their zeal and weaken their attachment! So
I fay, let our foldiers, after a certain number of
years of fervice, return under that friendly fhade
which proteded them in earlieft life ; let them
title of the fruits of that delightful tree, and this
will prove the belt fubllitute for any fuch wretch-
ed fyltem as is contained in the prefent Bill. Be-
fore I conclude this fubjell, I with to make a Se-
rious appeal to a defeription of Members is this
Houk, who are peculiarly interefted in the repeal
of this wretched Bill • I mean the country Gentle-
men, who Should confider the meafore, in the pre-
fent inftance, as proceeding de novo. I afk them, will
they give their fandion to this additional tax on the
landed property of Great Britain, after it has been
proved to be a meafure that can never be attended
with any of the good effeds that were promifed by
it, and has been fhewn to be fraught with the moll
atrocious injulike ? Nest to them, and certainly
only in the fecond dal's, I muff call upon thofe who
were the lupporters, and many of them Members of
the late Adminifiration ; I call upon the colleagues
of the depofed Minißer, on his colleagues and his
friends, amongft whom 1 am entitled to elate a num-
ber of the country Gentlemen, to preferve their con-
fiftency, and to be mindful of the arguments they
themfelves sited IA year, in oppofition to the a& of
which I am now moving the repeal. T, !n common
with them, gave that Miniller my feeble fupport as far
as it went. I did fo in an independent, and. I tril,
an honourable manner, without detaching me in the
leaf& from my Hon. Friend near me (Mr. Fox), nor
from any of thole other friends with whom I am proud
to have uniformly ailed, and whole principles I flail
never abandon, I fupported him, becaufe I confidered
him to have ailed generally with a view to what
he conlidered to be the good of the country, with
an honeft difpolition, and with a proper refped for
the found principles of the Coralitution ; but moll of
all did I fupport him becaufe I conftdered him as a
bar to •he return of the Right Honourable Gentle-
man oppolite me to power. I now appeal to all thofe
who :bed then merely' upon Similar views with my•
(elf, to concur with me now in voting for the repeal
of a meafure which has already totally failed, and
which they themfelves have previoufly condemned.
I furely cannot expeß them, after all the reproba-
tion expreffed of this execrable law, before it had a
trial, now having been proved an ineffective, cruel,
and oppreffive meafure, to turn round upon me fud-
denly, and, without affignirig any new reafon, fay,
• This is a good, a jolt, and a very humane law I'—
I implore of them not to ad in fuch a manner as to
make us afhamed of having oppofed the meafure on
is firß propofal. It would not be regular in me to
...1.1.1e to any thing which might have palled in de-
r rte in another place, where I am told a Noble
(Sidmouth) did not Speak of this meafure iii
loch a manner as I might have expelled from him ;
but, perhaps, Noble Lords, when transferred to the
saber Houle, may not think themfelves to much
Fledged to what has pallid here, as we do who re
main. Let all there deferiptions of Gentlemen to
whom I have alluded, put their hands on their hearts,
and fay, as men of honour, whether, if the late recon
siltation had not taken place between the Noble Lord
alluded to, and the Right Hon. Gentleman oppofite
they would not vote with me on the prefent
vieftion ? If fo, how can they reconcile any oppoli-
bon to any motion, with the opinions they before
to loudly proclaimed, and which, after the trial, has
jodified the condemnation they before pronounced
0,-in it? Let every Gentleman reficit, that the
extents of this country, from the nature of the wit,
Z which we art engaged, is drawing towatds a teals,

and that, unfortnnately, the enntinuance of hofti-
tides will impute upon us, the unavoidable neceffity
of levying many additional burdens on our fellow
fubjeds ; that, in fine, there can be no ceffarion of
thefe unvailing taxes, until the arrival of the now
feemingly diftant period of peace ; and with thefe im:
preffions on their minds, let them be careful of the
burthens they now impofe, and be cautious that they
may not be fuch as peculiarly to aggravate the feel-
ings of the people. I remember the day when the
character of the independent Country Gentlemen,
for whom certainly no man can have more refped
than I have, flood much higher in this Houfe, and
in the Country, than it does at prefent. I hope
they will this night recoiled, that their rank and re-
putation never were diminithed, till they were funk
during the feventeen years of the former adminiftra•
tinn of the author of this meafure, whofe corrupt
and unprincipled fyßem of bellowing titles to the
number of more than one moiety of the other
branch of the Legiflature, at the fame time, lowered
the ancient dignity of the Peerage, and impaired
and undermined the independence of the Houfe of
Commons, and the confidence repofed in it by the
people of the country. I know that it is fometimes
reprefented as invidious to deal in diftintions between'
one defcription of Member, and another; but, it
would be unmanly in me, feeling as I do, to abitain
from them, when, by detachingfrom this Houfe, thofe
to whom the mafs of the people look with molt vene-
ration and confidence, there i; a gradual introdudion
into the conftitution of the anomaly of a popular of
fembly, uncontronlable by the fentiments of the peo-
ple.: I therefore once more conjure the country Gen-
tlemen to keep themfelves, on this occafion, aloof
from the political prejudices or the bulling of parties.
Let them call to mind that, in the midi of the dan-
gers that furrouttd us, it is only by gaining the confi-
dence of the people that we can gland upon an im-
pregnable ground, and meet any circumkaeces that
may poffibly arife without fear or apprehenfion. It
by feenring to ourfelvesthisconfidence,that we can belt
Genre the co-operation and affiance of thole powers
on the continent who may be difpofed to make a
common caufe with us; by convincing them that, in-
(lead of haring no more than treaties with the Mi
'lifters and with Government to depend upon, they
ate making an alliance with the hearts and hands of
the people of this country; and, molt of all, it is
by this reliance on the hearts of our brave country-
men, that we can hope, with a jull confidence, to
be able to Pt bounds to the veil and daring ambition
of an overbearing, perfidious, alive, and eaterprif-
ing enemy; who employs againft us, with unparal-
leled craft and animofity, the fame inftruments that
have already overwhelmed the molt ancient and mag-
nificent monarchy in the world, and, by doing Co,
have probably fair ever deftroyed the liberties and
happinefs of a polluted, brave, enlightened, and ge-
nerous nation. I now, Sir, move for leave to bring
in a Bill for the Repeal of the Defence Ad of mall
year." _ _ _

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQ.yER-
-44 In riling, Sir, to fubmit to the Houfe the reafons
which induce me wholly to diffent in opinion from
the Hon. Gentleman who has jolt fat down, I do not
conceive that it is necefary for me to follow him in
all the parts of his fpeech ; of a fpeech, which was
certainly leis one in fupport of the precife motion now
before the Houk, than it was in the form of general
and indiferiminate accufatiins againft thofe enjoying
at prefent, or who have recently enjoyed, the confi-
dence of his Majefty in the adminiftration of the go-
vernment. Only a very (mall part indeed of the
fpeech of the Hen. Gentleman had any relation what-
ever to the quellion. A few of the topics did, how.
ever, materially relate to it ; but the whole related
but little to the various topics on which he has been
pleated fo long to 'dwell. The conclufion of his fpeech
had no reference to the queftion ; the commence-
ment had fcarce more ; and as to the collateral mat-
ter it was totally ii relevant. The Hon. Gentleman
has, neverthelefs, made Tome Dbfervations to which I
Sir, think it my duty fhortly to reply. But firs of all
I mutt call the attention of the Houfe to one or two
preambles with which the Honourable Gentleman
has opened his fpeech this night ; fuppofing certain
things to have palled among his opponents, which
can have palled no where but in his own imagination.
The Hon. Gentleman has laid, that the notice of the
motion he has kart made, was received by us with fur-
prize, if not with indignation ; that on this fide of
the Houfe we were in a (tate of trepidation and alarm
when we heard that notice given. Now, certainly,
there was, on this fide of the Houfe, no fuch thing as
either furprife or indignation bianifefted. I believe,
that in point of fad, the firft notice given by the Hon.
Gentleman of his intention to move the Hoafe on the
queflion of this evening, was not given within, but
without the Houle ; for I think I have undentood,
that the Hon. Gentleman proclaimed his defign in
the lobby before announcing it in his place. How
parliamentary this was, he will determine. When be
did give his notice in the Houle, fo far, however,
from our ezpreffing furprize and indignation, or, in
truth, any other marked feeling, that there was on
his own tide a great cry railed, and the occurrence
was hailed by the Hon. Gentleman's friends with
acclamations; whila on this fide not one word was
uttered. It is true, we could not give our concur-
rence to the motion of the Right Hon. Gentleman
(Mr. Windham), ably, eloquently, and convincingly
as the Hon. Gentleman thinks that Right Honoura-
ble Gentleman fupported his motion ; but the Hon.
Gentleman too gave that motion a fupport which he
did not think it neeeflary to vindicate by argument.
Still the Hon. Gentleman took pages of notes at the
time ; but no doubt he expeded to have hailed a hap.
pier moment, when under more favourable circum-
fiances he might amufe and entertain the Houle with
the refults of his meditations. The Honourable Gen-
tleman has, however, been mach millaken in fancy-
in4 that we have hailed his appearance in the field
with di(may, any more than we heard his notice with
furprife and indignation. But as to the latter, the
fad is, that we Paid not one word, nor intimated any
difpofition, ankh by a certain ezpreffion of our readi-
nefs to meet the Hon. Gentleman and his Friends,
whenever it should fuit him and them to bring their
propofition before the Houle. The Hon. Gentleman
happens at prefent to concur in opinion with a
Right Hon. Gentleman, with whom I have ailed,
and for many years concurred in opinion ; who, as
to all my perfonal feelings, and difpofitions, I (till
regard as my Right Hon. Friend, hut of whom I
cannot politically (peak in language fo &iced to my

willies. But at to the cordiality of the two Honour-
able Gentlemen, why, Sir, if expated to be found
in the fpeech of the Honourable Gentleman to-night,
notwithflanding his profeißons, I much doubt. whe-
ther haling friendfhip, or permanent formations will
ever arife, amid engagements fo difEmilar, and from
elements fo difcordant. The Honourable Gentleman
has difclaimed the idea of oppofing materially the
doftrines or fentimcnts of the Right Honourable Gen-
tleman ; but this he took care to do away in a fubfe-
qnent preamble, by rendeting his forbearance condi-
tional. He has told us, that there was not one prin-
ciple in the fpeech of the Right Hon. Gentleman that
he does not more or lets approve, although in point
of fat, Sir, there was notone principle in it, that he
has not unequivocally difapproved. In many glaring
parts of his fpeech, this can be deteCted. The Hon.
Gentleman tells us, that he approves of a varied
force ; the Right Hon. Gentleman again, holds it
as a firs principle, that the military force fhould be
uniform. The Hon. Gentleman approves of our
having an army for general fervice, one for limited
fervice, the Militia, old and fupplementary, the
.Army of Referve. and the Volunteers : thefe diftri-
butions the Right Hon. Gentleman vilifies; they are
ingredients of our force, which are decried by him,
but in which the Hon. Gentleman who fpoke to-night
takes pride, nay even glories. Why, Sir, the Hon.
Gentleman, we could all perceive, was not able to
reftrain his fervent difaporobaticn of any other fyf-
tem. Notwithflanding this, I have no reafon to fop-
pore, that there is not too much good humour pre-
valent in the difpofitions of thole two new friends, for
any obfervations of mine to make mitchicf between
them. I do know it is not by any means my inten-
tion by any nbfervations of mine, to make mifchiefl
As to one of the Hon. Gentlemen (Mr. Windham)
it is a little remarkable, that the fyttem of a various
military force was at one period approved and fup-
ported by himfelf. Although now condemned by
him, he formerly contended for its wifdom. The
Militia, Augmentation of the Militia, Supplementary
Militia, Additional Cavalry, all thefe .meafures he
fupported and approved, when he was only a Mem-
ber of the cabinet, and Secretary at War ! I will not
enter into the difcuffion here, whatever I may be in-
duced to do in a more advanced Rage of my fpeefh,
of the opinions of Gentlemen refpating the degree of
confidence that may be fafely repofed in any of the
Members of this Houfe. I will only fay, that, when
Gentlemen who have once approved of meafures
which they now condemn ; when they afk the Houfe
to rely in a peculiar degree on their wifdom ; when
they do fo at the moment that we know that while
Members of the Cabinet thofe meafures were never
once queftioned by them, much lets reprobated—
when thefe things ftrike us, we cannot give implicit
credence to the feltadvifed panegyrics of Honourable
Gentlemen. The Right Hon. Gentleman, in par-
ticular differs from himfelf. If he will only look
into a fingle page of the journals,-he will find, that
the 'Bill for railing men in the counties and parifhos,
for the augmentation of the Militia, the Cavalry, fup.
plementary and others, together with many more
meafures, all tending to render our force throughout
of a various defcription and charaaer, were every
one of them meafures in which the Right Hon.Gen-
denten was either jointly concerned, or partly au-
thorized. This far as to the confiftency of the new
friend of the Hon. Gentleman who has moved you,
Sir, for the repeal of the Mt for the National De-
fence. In regard to the Hon Gentleman's digreffions,
again, they were numerous ; the principal of which
would admit of very Tull invaigation, but for obvi-
ous reafons I (hall not notice more than one or two
of them. The queftion.in debate is, however, near-
ly, whether it would be right or not to repeal the
Additional Force Aft? In difculfing this queftion, it
will not be necenary for me to call on the Houle to
decide, whether the AO has anfwered in its full ex-
tent, but whether, confidering the time when the
meafure took place, it is evinced that it is at once'
a praaicable and ferviceable meafure—not whether I
it has already anfwered every expeetation of fanguine
natures concerning it, but whether it is likely, by its
operation, to effea, in continuance, falutary accef-
fions to our force, and to render thofe fources whence
our force (hall be increafed, alike produaive and
permanent. Thefe, Sir, I humbly think, are the
quellions which it is the duty of every Member of
Parliament to decide on, if he purpofes deciding in a
way worthy of the charater of Parliament, and of
his own honour and conliftency. He will decide with
a view to afcertaining the means of railing our Mili
taryForce to that 'dilatable Itate in which, as to dif-
potable facilities, it ought to be, and to which, in
reference to the fame (Nee, I. Sir, molt devoutly
with to raife it. The Hon. Gentleman has told us,
that the National Defence A& willnot, has not, and
cannot raife men—that it is only calculated to raife
a tax. He fays, he hopes I do not mean to continue
;it folely as a tax meafure. Now Sir, the fadt is, that
'I have taken pains to inform the Houfe, whenever
this meafure has been ftrialy before it, that of all
things, I hall intended to convert this into a law of
revenue. The Hon. Gentleman has, however, not
been content-with furmifes, but has made a queltion,
with as great readinefs as he has himfelf anfwered
it ; and demanding to know of me, if I do not intend
this as a law for railing a pecuniary aid, has anfwer-
ed for me, that molt certainly I do. The truth is
otherwife. This never was meant to be a pecuniary
meafure. I have over and over difclaimed the inten-
tion of at all rendering it a pecuniary meafure, nor
&all it ever be argued by me as a pecuniary meafure,
nnlefs it can be (hewn, that by fo converting it from
what was the original defign of its inflitution,its great
objea, namely, that of railing men, can be obtained
in a way more efficacioully, more expeditioufly, and
more certainly than (hall be deemed otherwife prac-
ticable. The Hon. Gentleman has imagined a thou-
rand chimerical fancies refpating my fuppofed in-
tention of making the National Defence Aft a tax-
law. He thinks I mean nothing by it but to raife a pe-
cuniary aid. He has, in fupport of this unauthorifed
notion, devifed arguments altogether his own, only
that he might have it eafily in his power triumph
antly to anfwer them. This is not unlike the inge-
nuity of the fool we read of fomewhere, or rather, of
that jefter of a great perfonage of antiquity, who
panelled a wonderful felicity in talking to himfelf.
Exclaimed the jefter, " I fay the fiats ,tsay fall 1"
and, anfwers he, o Right, my good felt; and fo
they will." The Honourable Gentleman thinks
that the Defence Aft may become a mere meafure
of pecuniary (apply, and that his bypotbeks timid

not be fufpended -14 argument, he bounds to his
conclufiun, and tells us at once that it will. But,
Sir, no fuch paltry, frivolous, and difgraceful pre-
text, as that to which he fuppofes I will have re-
cour re, (hall ever be retorted to by me. Every thing
of a pecuniary meafure I utterly difclaim, and is
difclanned. The Honourable Gentleman knows
this :he knew it when he flared the contrary. He
only Rated the gratuitous didum he has, becaufe be-
ing his own, it was what he could with the fame
hardihood of affertion maintain. He only (laurel
what he could refute, that he might divert the atten-
tion of the Houfe from what he could not refute.
Sir, I have many reafons, and all of them on
good grounds, for thinking that this meafure will
not only prove ufeful, but become efficient towards
increafing our military force. Yet Ido not fay that
in this opinion I can be infallible. I know I am
able to err. Many things in our fyllenr are not a
little calculated to difappoint our hopes of the prac-
tical refult of fimilar meafures. If at any time it
fail, if it ceafe to be a military tax on the counties,
and fo on the country, I-will at once give it np as a
pecuniary meafure ; for fuch a tax would be wholly
incompatible with thole principles of taxation recog-
nized among us, which alone are wife, and befide
which none other would be jug or enlightened. But
it the effect of the tax fhould be to raife men, of
which the country has an abundance qualified for mi.
litary fervice, 1 will draw a totally different concla-
fion ; and even render this a meafure of taxation,
that is, of military taxation.
'g The Honourable Gentleman has thought fit to
depreciate this meartire, as, in his judgment (if, in•
deed, be has exercifed his judgment at all on the Cub.
jeft), not fo mild as fome of thofe of my predecelfor,
which likewife contained a kale of fines, As far as
thole meafures were pecuniary, they were, however,
not entitled to the praife of greater mildnefs. In
truth, this meafure is much milder, as a pecuniary
meafure, than the one which preceded it. It is infi-
nitely better than the fyftem of ordinary recruiting.
In this fenfe, I will view it as a queltion of time. I
(hall not take a tedious view of this quellion. Gen-
tlemen will readily call to mind the history of the
Bill. The Bill did not commence its operations till
late in the autumn ; it was in September that the
firft movement was made to render it operative.—
About the [4th of November, 1804, recruiting par-
ties were fent out, and the Bill then became an ace
tively operative meafure. I may be alked why I fe-
parate the dircuffion, when another topic, that of the
productive efficiency of the meafure, and not what
was its luperiority in the incidental circumflance of
recruiting, is properly the topic for difcuffion in this
place. I anfaer willingly, that if Gentlemen wilt
look at the period from July. 1804, to March,
1805, or from July, 1804, to November 584, they
will perceive, that the meafure has done molt ellen.
tial fervice hitherto, as having facilitated in a man-
ner peculiar to itfelf, the recruiting of the army.
Look at the ftatement of the talk three months, and
then fay what opinion you will choofe to form of the
political veracity, or arithmetical precifion, or above
all, of the military reading, reflection, and expert.
ence of the Hon. Mover of the queftion, before you.
In the period of the laft three months, Sir, we have
not railed fewer than at the rate of zoo men pet week,
adding to the military force of the country from rs,ooo
to 14,000 men per annum. This number we have in
that proportion added to our force; and yet the
Hon. Gentleman, and I fuppofe his Hon. Friends,
are pleafed to think, that the meafure in queftion is
nothing better than wane paper, a wretched mifera-
ble Aft, which the Legiflature cannot be too pre-
cipitate in repealing. In the laft twelve or fourteen
weeks, it is a fact, Sir, that we have railed politive-
ly at the rate of 585 men, very little lets than soci
per week, which the returns on your table evince. of
which none butone indolent of refearch, as thrHon.
Gentleman, would have been thus long unapprized ;
and with this fats proved to us. the Hon. Gentle-
man, without fcarcely condefcending to argue the
expediency of it, calls upon us to repeal our National
Defence Aa. If this Ad yield us, in three months of
raw experiment, from 9,000 to 10.000 men, I would
Sir.whether that is not a meafure in the utznoll de.
gree important, when the great complaint is, that we
want means of recruiting our military force ? Whe-
ther fuel: a meafure ought to be prima facie contemn-
ed/ held up to the country and the world as one not
only not fit to be any longer acted upon, but
which the Britifh Senate ought to ftigmatii.e with
unqualified cmprobtium, and repeal without debate
The Hon. Gentleman lays, that it has not railed one
man, that it has rucceeded, and can fucceed, not in
railing men, but fines ; and that it ought, for chore
reafons, to be given up. Does the Hon. Gentleman
mean to fay that goon or ropoo men in the year
railed by the ALL, is not confiderable ? What I
is recruiting the army nothing? Will that, Sir. be
nothing when completed ? The meafure has already
operated a molt fignal, and as falutary as fignal,
change on the ftate of our recruiting. In fact, it
nearly doubles the recruiting of the country. The
Hon. Gentleman would, I am quite lure, not allow
it to be thought that they do not love their country
with a love railed wholly above party paffions. Yet
what do the Honourable Gentlemen think of a mo-
tion for the repeal of a law which is every day ad-
ding to the difpofable efficient force of the country..
—But if our meafure be not adequate, why do they
not fuggeft fuch as they imagine would prove fo ? To
do juftice to them, they teem no ways difpofed to clog
Government with any loch acts of patriotifm. If they
have filch meafures in (lore, it would appear that
they have resolved not to make them a contribution
to their country. Be this as it may, here the queftion
(lands (imply on the fad. The Houfe unanimoufly
agrees that it is necelfary to find more than ordinary
means of recruiting our army. Now if, by the pre-
fent meafure, we have found extraordinary means to•
wards accomplithing that end, if we have found thefts
extraordinary means not only without increafing but
by diminifhing the expences of recruiting, though
fill the fyftem cannot be perfect, yet the At furnace
means of a very powerful efficiency, and of very ge•
neral application. As far as expence is any way a
queition, I have told you, Sir, and repeat here, with.
out the apprehenfion of being contradided, that with
greatly diminifhed expence we have .doubled our re.
cr uiting. I would afk them if it be a continent wearily'
to call on the Houfe to repeal that Ad, efpectally in
the prefent circumftances ? We ought to give this
meafure a fair trial. I will not (late the precife pe.
dad who we ought to delta from our experiment 1