Star.
London, England, 1805-03-27 00:00:00

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Reps with refpe& to the militia than the prefect. and
he confidered the mitigations allowed by the Rlght
Honourable Gentleman as the moll convincing
roofs that the necelfity of the meafure was not felt.
He regarded thefe expedients fo frequently varied, as
the ruinous refources of a fpendthrift prodigal. who
to tupply the want of the moment, cuts down the
young timber of his elate, which in 'a little time
would be double i!, prefent value. It wall initillmt
the Right Honourable Gentleman lead get into •
fyliem of fhifts and expedients which . ihould be ii;
moved every fix months,.. Thai idle Peri& Big,
which was to produke 17,00. men, of whlehlhmoo
were to be allowed to go into the iegehre evey.yekr,
and to be fupplied again from the coning, had Pro-
doted about 3,0009 which- win aeaily theira..maTErli"
?onion a tadoebore to a man (it 1.44). 'us
inllead of the fall grown man the), • Prgallted,
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the country Ihonla.now'conteni ‘l,tikthi •
hirer-
able tailor's apprentice. The. a Wittily • re.
diced to &haft upon itivotesarscalg .
wry properly expelled it on a .The
Houk bad voted the =mare nf ,laa Sliatatitrs
hope that it wouldroduce,recruitiLik 614 li,
a great amount. file hope lid kat... olit thle4
mature was called for with Attiller* inhales, and it''
was unknownwhat other equally infillilsliesiiedietirl
was in refer*, if.the promifed hope fliol 4 -lie
fulfilled. The meafure now propofed les' •
it!
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tended with grestincrovenience, and the ' q
the militia were swede to it.
The Honoorab:t Gentleman oppogie (Mr.Tiosbt3
had argued forcibly in fupport of his owalinithisent
on this =allots but he 'Bowed he had bet Kw. Of
his brother mars of militia with him. The quad=
was not which opinion was right, boverhat'Admitm:
prevailed. When the Honourable Oattlesung 614
that ill out of 3s Militia Colonels who figsedVbe:tc-
folutione againß this meatura..were adtaated by. pent
principles of opporition. to &Canters, be flarety• did
not fee the drat of this pofiti,on I for $f fo lirge I:
portion of the ariftocracy of the country; the 4artli:
the landed property. and influence. were to be (sized
upon a dißina quellion of this hind, to convey their
decided difapprobation of the Minifiers of the time,
it was a pretty clear proof of the fenfe the heft pan of
the country entertained of thefe Minißers. The ge-
nerality or the feeling, however, let what may be the
caufe of it, afforded no argument for the fuccefs of
the meafure, which went totally to change the militia
from its original conititution, to deßroy the principle
of connedtion, and thus to do a Taft injury to the
home fervice. without haying say thing like a perma-
nent good elk& on the army.• • This mestere could
not be made a part of k general fyitem for recruiting
the army. It was a meafure of futh a nature, that j
we could not long go on in ite but flu:4ld loon coma
to a total top. Our military fytiem &mkt %or to
conitruEted that its parts would correfpond with end
AR each other. The cooferiuence of doing Allis
thing in this cafe was,. that oike part of the exiling
fyfiem seed in one direttiow andasother in the oppo•
Rte. Then there was afort of 'compromife, and feels
a compromife was' moll ruinous to any thing like a
general Tyßem. , .
. The quellion was the* univerfaity ealkd for, 4nd•
the Hoofs divided—tor the (econd reedit, lel
againft it, 59.—shfajority. 80.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHWIER
then moved, that the Bill be committed on ThOfday
next. . . ,
Lord 'TEMPLE thought. that, con flaring:the
great importance of the meafure. and the indite. of
the chores which were to be difcuffed, the time was
too Rion. . . .
The qoeflion was then put and carried. Adjotaned
till to morrow. . . • . ,