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London, England, 1806-06-09 00:00:00

non•commilTioned officers would be more competent
judges of it, who had bees acculiomed to recruiting.
and who knew the inclinations, the habits and the
views of perfons of their own rank in life. In mart,
he thought that little more was neceffary to qu-lily any
perfon to from a competent lodgment upon it, than
common retire, a knowledge of human nature, and
an acquaintance with the national chara.ter. The
predation of thole papers would therefore have been
nugatory, in the view that he had token of them.
If any demongrative proof was wanting to (hew
the certainty of enereafed facility of procuring Re-
cruits for the one fervice in preference to the other,
Gentlemen need only refer to the printed Papers on
the Table, which had been ordered indeed with an-
other view, and to which fo much reference had beets
made in difolging the repeal of the Parilh Bill, par-
ticularly and with fo mitch effea by his Friend (Mr.
Hawthorne) near him. It would be reconciled by ad-
verting to No. z of thole Papers. that the explaining
infpeftors who were fent forth by a late Secretary of
State to fupercede the ditties of the whole Lieute-
nancy of the Kingdom, aimed to a man reported the
g ate of ignorance in which they fooad the °redeem
as to the provifions of that Bill ; fo complete was it,
that they had even fuppnfed the men were to be railed
for suifimited fervice. They bad, therefore, been uni.
verfally quite hopelefs of fuccefs. But as loon as the
new light dawned upon them, and this mirapprehen-
fion was removed, they intlantly became alert; were
confident of fuccefs ; and did aaually experience Come
in thole parts of the kingdom where alone under that
Bill fuccefs was prafticable. And this too for a very
inferior bounty ; which, with the certainty of great
ravings by diminithed defer lion, mould betaken ascon-
fiderable fet-offs ageing the exaggerated flatements
of the expence that would attend this meafttre, made
by a Noble Friend of his (Lord Caftlereagh) on a
former debate.
Mr. A. laid, that nn a former oceafion he had heard,
with confiders le furprize, apprehenfions exprelfed,
that if this change in our military fyliern wasadopted,
we fhould be in danger at a given period, of lofing at
once the greaten part of our army. This fanciful
alarm had been already fuccersfully refuted. But he
would beg leave to put a cafe: Simpofe that we were
at peace, that our peace ellabliffiment was so or 60,000
men, and that a war fuddenly breaks out ; in the firft
year of that war, we fhould undoubtedly raife a larger
number of men than perhaps in any rubrequent period
of it—but for the firlt two or three years great addi-
tions mull be madeto complete our eftabliffiment, and
the calualties mull at any rate be annually rupplied
while the war Wed, which a Noble Lord had hated
at rs,ooo men. He would take them only at to,ooo,
confident as he felt that by the prefent meafure the
frightful item of defertions would be utterly (wept
away, and which had tall year been little (Lori of lie
thouland men. Thus, then, is the cootie of ten years,
Humid the war lag fe long, the Houfe would fee what
large additions mug be annually made to our military
eitablifhment, rublequent to the &It year 44; Co that,
in Aft, none but what remained of thole railed in the
firft year could claim their difcharge at that period.
were they dais/sled to do 10. and that infinitely the
larger proportion of the army mull continue their
finite beyond it.aod could only be gradually releafed.
This apprehenfion, therefore, was crake chimerical.
He had Paid that he would readily participate with
his Right Hon. Friend in the obloquy of being a
raft fpeculator I he would go farther, and add, that
he was much more fanguir.c as to the immediate fuc- '
eels of the meafure than the projeftor of it himfelf,
who, in difelainring the expeaatinn of early good
effeas from it, reminded him of the generous and
manly policy which marked the conduft of our an-
cettors, who on all great occafions, not content with
having recourfe to temporary and paltry expedients
to meet the emergency of the moment (as was too
much the modern prallice), teemed to be legiflating
for fu:nre contingent difficulties, and for pogerity it-
felt. He admired and applauded this trait in his
Right lion Friend's conduit ; hot owned, that under
pt efent cit cuntgances he liked the meafure the better,
Inatome!) as it apreared to him to provide a remedy
not only for furore but for prefent evils. His opinion
had not been haitily formed ; it had originated more
than a twelvemonth ago, from the perofal of an inge-
nious paropitlet publifficd by a gallant Officer (Gen.
Stewart), and had been confirmed by mature reflec-
tion. Ile would hate to the Houle, that under fuch
impreffions, he had, in the cootie of the lag rummer,
confulted feveral petfons who had raved in the so.
my, and whom lie touts,: in the ranks of a Volan.
leer Corps which he had the honour to command.--
They had one and all Paid that " it would be the
making of the army ;" and fo confident was he that
they (poke their real opinions, that he fhould be rut--
prized indeed if many of thole individuals were not
among the forentog to take the benefit of this new
military arrangement. His own opinions were thus
fortified by what he could not but confider as good
authorities.

On fome former occafion he had heard with incr.
predible allottilhment fome Gentlemen give it as
their epinion, an! make it the ground of objeaion to
the meafure now under cnnfideratiou, that " we are
well as we are :"—and it teemed, though not in ex-
prefs wordr, in argument adopted by his Learned
Friend on the bench below (the Mailer of the Rolls)
who thought nothing more was neceffary than to per
fill in our old fyilem. Well as we are I—Look at
the Map of Europe (with whore inielefts our own
r moil be ever conceited), and we fhould fee nothing
there but France, written in large and frightful cha.
rafters; with the exception indeed of two honourable
and glorious powers, be meant Ruflia and Sweden,
1 whets fortitude and magnanimity would no doubt he
I recorded in she brighten page of fount bianry. Well
as we are t When we perceive from the Baltic to the
Adriatic every p-rt, every naval miens!, in the bands
of our implicable enemy, from which future refour-
co may be drawn to embarrafs and molar! us?— Well
as we are! when we compare what Europe was even
a twelvemonth ago (degraded enough then, but com-
paratively in a golden and Wept' date) to What
the is now, when in additinn to the former partial fob-
itaion, we fee the great Powers of Naples. of Auntie
and even of Prof& hetfelf, in a flats of humiliation,
1 proftration nr vaffalage ? And fimilar fentiments 11-6
had recognifed with furprife in an expreffion which
be thought mull have been accidentally drop{ from
a Noble Lord oppnGte to him on a former nighcs.wl
feetned to think that the Government, and of colt
the country, wasrepoling nn a " Bed of Rofcseir7!
ufed the term 47,xidratal6r, Inca ufc he bad on fubAquent