Star.
London, England, 1805-03-22 00:00:00

JRISN ■ICHAIGI!.

Lord ARCHIBALD HAMILTON brought for-
ward his motion refpeaing the Rate of the Exchange
between Great Britain and Ireland. The delay in
bringing this fubjea forward was partly owing to
the various difpofitions made on recent occafions of
the public bufinefs, and partly to the commotions
among the Printers, from which the papers laid be-
fore the Honfe had experienced retardation. Every
body knew that the Rate of the exchange between
the two countries was in the worn imaginable fitua-
lion. A Committee had been appointed WI Sefflon
to enquire into the flare of the exchange, and a Rrong
report was made by that Committee on the fubjea to
the Houk. Now he witted to bring the fubjea un-
der a fair and extenfive difcafion. It would appear,
that no improvement had taken place in confequence
of the labours of the 'Committee, for we were in the
fame fituation, if not a worfe, as on the day of the
report. As to the pares of the rate of exchange
being fo much againa Ireland, the Irifh currency,
which partial meafures bad depreciated. was one
caufe ; but the great caufe was, that of the improper
condoe of the Treafury of Ireland. The Treafury of
Ireland had, when wanting to bring money over to
that country from England, made a partial publica-
tion of its intentions, offered the negociation of the
tranfaaion by public advertifement, and in every way
Iharpened both the avarice of the jobber, and the'
cupidity of the ufurer. The meafure adopted by the
Treafury had produccd no good effea whatever.—
The exchange was at tit per cent. or the average
rate t a per cent. at the time the Irifh Treafury
brought over the firfl part of the loan of laft year,but
owing to mifmanagement it fell to par. When the
notice of the Treafury was given to the Merchants of
Dublin, of the loan being about to be brought over,
the rate of exchange was, in fall, 13 per cent. The
Merchants and Jobbers took their meafures accord-
ingly, and well knowing that the Got ernment mutt
make its arrangements within a given tin3e, they held
out till they brought the exchange to par. By this miF
management on the part of the Treafury, the public
was a lofer of 40,0001. on every million remitted to
Ireland. The refolutions which he fhould have the ho-
nour to move prefently were, at leaft one of them, de-
vifed, in order that fuch a praitice Ihould not be conti-
nued. There were praftices of the Bank of Ireland,iohe-
rently calculated to injure the public. The Bank of
Ireland would accept of no depofits of the Loans, ex-
cept Bank of Ireland notes or in fpecie. Where was
there fpecie in Ireland ? The ready cant of Ireland
was in counterfeit harps, and ire thillings ! He did
not mean to infinuate, however, that the Bank might
not take a profit. Far from that. But was it legal,
regular, or fair, that the Commiffioners of the Trea-
fury fhould have the power of taxing the public with
40,0001. on every million remitted to Ireland from
this country, a tax which, from well-known circum-
Ilinces, was received by the Bank of Ireland as its own
emoli.Ment ? All this was neither more nor lefs
than the effeft of the method of bringing over the
money, adopted by tbe Treafury of Ireland. The
fituation of the Bank of Ireland was next to be con-

%wed. It had produced meta of the evils of the
general fituation of that unfortunate country. The
retiriaion on the calls payments of that Bank was the
caulk of the national calamities Ireland had fo fatally
undergone, from the depreciation of its credit and
circulating medium. The profits of the Bank, in-
deed, had fullained none of that deterioration which
all other interelts. in Ireland had faffered. A re-
markable change had occurred in this refpea, info-
much that whim in t 793 its flock was at from go to
too per cent. in 1803 it was at from 107 to 117 per
cent. He had no objection to fair profits. But if
the Bank was not free from guilt, much more was
owing to the long neglect of Government. As to
the Bank reflriaion in itfelf, it was a meafure adopt-
ed without refleaion in Ireland; in this country, it
was the refult of tome fober deliberation. He would
here alk, under what circumfiances could they in
Ireland expel to return to payments in fpecie ? The '
univerfil diffufion of paper money had caufed the
total corruption of the coin of Ireland; and it ag-
gravated this evil moll poignantly, that the bate coin
was notorioullygivien, but reafed to be taken in pay-
ment by the Government of Ireland. It was a '
known and lamented fad, that in Dublin, numbers
were met with walking about the fireets with their
hands and pockets full of bare metal, received by
them in payment of their hard earned wages, but of
which they could not, poor creatures, obtain the cir-
culation. Silver in Ireland was worth only nine fhil•
Bugs in the guinea. Government ought to attend to
this. Now, under thofe circumfiances, when the re-
liriaion on the Bank was continued unlimitedly, and
without a remedy by Government, when the unfa-
vourable exchange continues without redrefi, when
the bale coin, though not worth nine (billings in the
guinea, is the current coin—amidli this defolation of
the commercial interefts of Ireland, would the Houfe
hefitate in adopting meafures preparatory to the cor-
ration of thofe enormous evils ? The Noble Lord
concluded by moving his firft Refoluticrn.
The SPEAKER put the queftion

u R efolved, That it Is the opinion of t►is Hoare, that a confider-
able part of the fum raikd by way of Loin In Greet Britain, for
the life of Ireland. In the year tlos, was remitted to the Irlfit
Treafory in Bank of England Pelt Dills, was publicly advertifed
by the Lords of the Treafury In Inked, and was, becaufe of fuels
notoriety, negotiated at a rate of exchange touch lower than other
fume drawn from England for the ale of Ireland.*

Mr. FOSTER oppnfed the motion. It was a di•
tett cenfure on the Irina Treafnry. When their con-
duit, and motives of their conduit, were known,
they would not be thought to have merited cenfure.
A large part of the Loan was Made in England,
which was remitted to Ireland in November. On
the 29th of Auguß be wrote to the Bank of Ireland,
defying to know if they would bring over I aoo,oool.
of the Loan, which would be remitted from Eng.
land between November and January. The Gayer.
nor and Direaors declined, and in their letter Rated,
for their chief reafon, that If they thould be found to
have interfered with the difcountr, an impreffion,
very unfavourable to their charatter, would be made
on the public mind. The irith Treafury ordered the
money over in Bank of England Port Bills, but it
was at theirjown diferetion to fix the rate of exchange.
The exchange was then 13 per cent. The Treafury
offered aoo,oool. at a fortnight's notice for r if per
cent. ditionnt, yet, ftrange to fay, only the tam of
570,0001. was offered, fo that the public fervice was
deficient 30h0001. in the fupply on that tranfattion.—
Another offer was made of soo„000l. more at to per
cent. and again only 170,0001. were offered. The
ITreafury nest lowered the dircount to par, and got
all it wanted. The Honourable Gentleman went
through the table of exchange, in fuppon of his ar-
gument. An exchange between countries depends,
as to its rate, on the whole of their money tranfac-
tions. There went out of Ireland 3,300,0001. and
came into it 3,000,00011. Yet there was not more than
a balance of soo,oool. againft the country in the
anal times. And with regard to the exchange, net •
that in the particular cafes fele&ed by the Noble Lord
nor in any other cafe, was the difadvantage owing to
mifmanagenient at the Treafury—at leaft, he felt
free to fay fo, in as far as he was himfelf concerned.
The reftrietion of payments by the Bank of Ireland,
in fpecie, was all the evil. Speculators in exchange
availed themfelves of that, and of the other circuits-
fiances in the fituation of the country favourable to
the views of the avaricious and rapacious. The de-
preciation of paper in Ireland was notorious, and
was owing tothe over Hine by the Banks. In May,
June, and July, the Bank lowered its iffues from
3,000,0001. to 2,700,0001. and the exchange fell—it
raifed its iffues, and the exchange rote. In 1793,
when the Banks broke, the over-true being thereby
cured, the exchange righted, and found its level.—
This was exemplified by hiftory. In the reign of King
William, owing to the depreciation of the coin, the
exchange with Holland was is per cent. againft this
country. As, therefore, the rated exchange and de
preciatiOn of money in Ireland, w.s owing to the
over iffde of paper by the Bank, and as in all they
did,. it was the with of the Consmigfioners of the
Treafery of Ireland, that the money remitted by
England thould have no other effea than mercantile
tranfatlions have, he law no ground whatever for
cenfuring the Treafury, or for the motion of the No-
ble Lord, and hoald therefore move the Order of
the Day.

Lord HENRY PETTY, in rinds to fupport the
motion of his Noble Friend, felt great fatisfaftion in
concurring in opinion with the Right Honourable
Gentleman, refpeaing the fatal confequences of over
Me* by the Bank of Ireland, and the neceffary de-
preciation of money ; and if be could not exculpate
the Treafury of that country from blame, in the Iran.
Cations on which his Noble Friend's motion was
founded, yet be was quite willing to own, that of
molt of the meafures of the Right Hon. Gentleman,
fine. his coming into office, he approved ; and above
all, of his beneficent labours for the effeftual and eco-
nomical railing of the revenue of Ireland. The de-
parture, however, of the Treafury, from the ufual
mode of bringing over the money, was what had the
effee of turning the exchange againfl Ireland. To
be fine, this effee was nominal and tranfitory, more
than real and permanent. The fair way to try the
propoiitien of his Noble Friend, u by confidering
how the difference ftood between ordinary loans and
loans in which the Treafury had interfered by extra-
ordinary methods. A half per cent. was put on a
per cent. on loans, owing to the manner of the Tres-
fury interfering. The rate of exchange was owing to
that interference. This was an evil.. He infifted that
taking all the loffes together, incurred by the public,

men/ to the departure ofthe Irifh Treafuryfrom the
of ti the amount of 40,0001. Rated by his No-
ble Friend, was not exaggerated. He found fault
with theTreafury of Irefand not attending to the pro-
vifions of the Refponfibility Statute. He thought
the mifchief was greatly owing to the pahial publi-
cation cite Treafury had made, of the remittances
comingg from this country ; and afked, if h was not as
if the Chancet.or of the Exchequer for England were
in going from the'Honfe that night, to take and die
tribute money to the piffengers onWeßminfier-bridge,
inßead of dittributiog it over the country ?
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
danced in opinion from the Noble Lord. It was
not filch a cafe as that fuppofed one of Weßminfier-
bridge. Here Was no indilcriminate wage of the
public money. Though a partial benefit might have
accrued to a few individuals, no degree of notice
could have altered the effeet. The inordinate ifue of
paper, and confequent depreciation of the circulating
medium, formed the main caufe of the difadvan•
tageous rate of the exchange, which, more pr,perly,
was, that the paper medium of the country was not
at the fame value as that of the other. One caufe
neceffarily was the large remittances. The argument
of the two Noble Lords went to fay, that what we
could not have got at to per cent. we fhould have got
at 13 per cent. It was the fame as raying, that
the Treafury of Ireland could have forced the ex-
change. Now, as the ground of charge againa the
Treafury was not made out, he fhould feel it to be
his duty to oppofe the motion of the Noble Lord.
, Lord HENRY PETTY explained.
Mr. FOX was happy to hear the Honourable Gen-
tleman concur in the opinion, that much of the evil
now fought to be remedied was owing to the over
iffues of the Bank of Ireland. He felt likewife happy
to find abandoned, the fantaßical opinion of laft
year, that the depreciation was not of the paper, but
owing to the price of gold having been railed. The
excel Eve iffue was no doubt a caufe of the difadvan-
tageons rate of the exchange ; but the new method
of bringing the money into Ireland had an effetl
which the old had not. If it were believed that the
objea was to lower the exchange, that might be a
politic manoeuvre, but it was far from being a judi-
cious expedient. He fupported the motion of his
Noble Friend.

Mr. LEIGH denied that the rate of exchange was
owing to an over iffue of Bank paper. Such was his
opinion, and he witted the public to be informed that
it was ; becaufe, otherwife, an undue prejudice might
be imbibed on the fubjeft.
Mr. ALEXANDER jußified the Treafury of Ire.
land.

Mr. J. LATOUCHE fupported the motion. He
imputed the whole blame of the difadvantageous
Rate of the exchange to the Treafury of Ireland.
Mr. FOSTER explained. He would not admit
that the latter was inferior in utility or favings to the
former mode of bringing over the money to Ireland
from England. The old mode was kondemned by
the Committee of lait year.
Mr. GREY Paid, that what was condemned by that
Committee was the interference of the Treafury of
Ireland. Near 200,0001. of the loan oflaft year was re
remitted in the ordinary way, and had no bad effeCt. By
the meafnre the Treafury took it placed itfelf in the
fituation of a man who thould have property to fell,
and Should advertife that he mutt fell it on a particu-
lar day ; the obvious confequence of which would be
the depreciation of his property, from a knowledge
beforehand of his neceffity.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
infilled that the circumftances of the times would
have had the fame effed on any other Bills, drawn
in any other way, when known that they were for
the public fervice.
Sir WILLIAM PULTENEY remarked, that
when large funs were remitted, the exchange mutt
be affeCted. The fubjea of the over iffue had not
been fuificiently inveßigated. As to the depreciated
Rate of the paper of Ireland, it was a fad, of which
feveral Gentlemen might not be aware, that the notes
of the Bank of Englatid were at a difcount of 3 per
Cent. in Ireland.

Mr. HENRY THORNTON [poke at fome length
againft the motion.
Lord ARCHIBALD HAMILTON replied, and
his mOtion was then negatived without a diviGoa.

REDUCTION OP THE MILITIA.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER-
-4{ I rife, Sir, in order to fubmit to the Houfe the
motion concerning our Militia force, of which I have
given notice about ten days fince. The obj.eti of
the motion which I ball lay before you to-day is that
of providing a meature, the cited of which (hall be
the leaving the Militia at what, by elating flatutes,
it wonl4 gradually be ; namely a force of 40,000
men for England, and Bono for Scotland ; and this
effed to be produced immediately, inflead of pro-
ducing it by flow degrees. By an Ad of the Legif-
lature, with the natore of which we are all familiar,
the men ate allowed to volunteer from the Militia to
reduce it to the Randard at which it permanently
Rood. At prefent the Militia for England and Scot-
land is 70,000, or between 650,000 and 70h000. By
the redudion of it to the permanent Randard, it will
be for England about 4.t,000, and for Scotland 8000.
The total returns include rank and file, but by the
Ad of Parliament only the private men can go to
eftimate of numbers: it is therefore neceffary to efli-
mate the corporals. Thofe amount to 2,300 on the
reduced eflablifhment, to that we (hall have on the
reduced eltablifhment of the whole Militia for Eng-
land and Scotland about st,ooo men, rank and file.
The full ellabliffiment being 68,000 at prefent, the
difference from the excets will furnifh an augmenta-
tion of 17,000 men to the Regular Army. I will not,
Sir, go into the detail of there objeds of national ho-
nour, fecurity, and glory; towards the attainment
of which fuch an acceffion to our force cannot fail to
contribute a great, comprehenfive, and eflential aid.
There can be no circumaances of the country in
which it ought ndt to infpire a proud fentirnent, that
we have had it in our power to form fuch an availa-
ble refonrce towards the increafing the efficient
erength of our Regular Army.
11 To have a dig-potable army, is a great eflential
article in our fubfifling meafures for the vindication
of the national character, for upholding our Rate and
laws, for the honour of the Crown, and the fafcty of
the people. -

KNo"t only is this a force eminently clearable in
our own particular fitnation, but it is in the higheit
degree a force we mull with e:tenft►cly to create in

the fltuation of Europe, and, above all, riot* V., re
hopes which every bonen man mutt cher ith, of 11l
ing to the world, that if the Iword than iiiif•-riunal. '
be in the end the only arbiter of our differences o
our enemies, we porefs ar anti formidable in non
bers, and tremendous in point of vigour, courag,.
and energy.
In another view, the acquifition to our force, 'lf
filch a body of men as that of which I fpeak, is nod!
important. It is not a body of 17,w, raw, untlim. •
plined, inexperienced Toting men and boys, bin .
trained foldiers ; men who yield to none iii Ore doe-
rafter of true Engli(h fpirit and bravery; men who
have the old blood of the land in their .vein,, who
are proud of their country, and world lay down.th-ir
lives in her caufe. An augmentation of our regolat
force, by fuch troops as thole, I need not rental
of far higher value than numbers. In trith.
value of fuch an acquifition to our permanent thia-
tary eßabliffiment, will furpafs molt, if not ail -.;
our later meafures for increafing our means of
fence, fecurity, or annoyance : and I have no if, t
but that this fentiment is very general!) felt amon, é
more reflating of that illuflrious Ctoflitto ionat Po
4, Yet great as is this acquifition, to obtain :.oft •
is the purpofe. Sir, of the notion which I fh ill this
night conclude by offering to you ; and much as the
fentiments of all fades of the Houle concur in think-
ing, and not only in thinking, but in believing, that
fo to add to our difpofable force as 17,000 o en from
the Militia would add ; I, Sir, fhould not have taken
the refolution, which I have felt it to he my duty to
take, in bringing the prefent fubjed before the Houle
and the country, if I thought that it would be at-
teetded with injury to the Militia. I am, !or one, a
perfon who thinks that the zeal of themilitia man ought
not to be damped ; that this fpirit ought nut to be
reprefled ; that his attachment to his fervice timid '
not be lowered, and I Ihould be as forry if the pride
of the officer, the honell love of his conflitutional
army, that fpirit railed by an enlightened and gallant
devotion to our country, were by any meafures of
mine impaired.
But let us fee, Sir, in what fituation the Militia
Rands. We have formed an opinion that 40,000 for
England, and 8000 for Scotland, are fufficient num-
bers at which for our Militia to Rand. I will not now
examine the grounds of this opinion ,• but without
doubt, it is the recorded opinion of Parliament. Now
thofe who thought that force sufficient when its num-
bers were adjulted, and who now with that the coon-
try may have a difpofable force, will hardly be of
opinion that fuch a force ought to be locked up from
difpofable fervice.
a The prefenr eftablifhment of the Militia is snore
than its fair proportion of the army ; and interfering
with the means of recrillting the Regular Army is I
not compatible with that wile policy on which it is
founded. It has, however, been decided, with the
concurrence of that refpatable body the Militia Of-
ficers themfelves, that a large force cannot be kept
up confiftent with the principle of the Militia ; and if
a large force were attempted to be kept up, the dif-
ficulty of obtaMing fuch Ogicers as are qualified to
ferve in it, would loon bring about a partial diffolo.
tion and thinning of its ranks. In fart, all this is ac-
knowledged. Nay, more, I have reafon to think '
that it will be confelled by every intelligent, liberal
perfon, who has properly turned his attention to this
fubjea, that he is the bell friend of the Militia whole
obje*l is to bring it within bounds.
" But this is not all. We have palled an Alt, de-
creeing that vacancies than not be filled up in the
Militia, nor its regiments brought to confitt of more
than the old eflablifhment rate.

" If, therefore, we are in a Situation that we can-
not augment that force, or permit the vacancies in
its regiments to he filled up, where no regular pro-
portion fubtills between its companies and battalions,
or between thefe and its general economy and fyf.
tern, where regiments, nuw in fkeleton, can on the
prefent plan never acquire life or healthful vigour,
ought the Militia not to be brought to what is de-
finable ? Befides, we have the other motive, the
fearcity, according to the proportion by the Aft, of
officers of adequate fortune, and due charalter and
local influence, to form the fublluting numbers in
permanent regimental array. There are more than
Soo commiffions for the Militia at this moment ly-
ing unfilled up, becaufe of the paucity of gentlemen
to fill them with the requifite qualifications. The
fluituations in the fyflem afford further motives to
the compreffiun of its numbers. And will any man
fay, that while the nrilit a is in a (tate in which no-
thing can be liable, and that the perfons who com-
mand will have the option of their men, while the
men themfelves are feveral of them difpofed to ren-
der their fervices ufefully to their country in the
line ; in fuch circumftances, would it be becoming
to withhold from the nation the benefit of a great
furplus force ? But, (fill more, the perfons who
conttitute the excels of the Militia can only be ren-
dered ufeful by transferring them to the line. Why,
then, if thefe conflitute the excels, and that the gra-
dual reduftion is not of utility evci, where it mutt'
operates, and where the gradual procefs avails, is.
Dill infufficient to yield what is wanted, I ;tile if the::
can be a fircmger cafe.? and if we ought not, by an
efficient meafure, at once to draw off the excels of
the one force into the other ? In the Situation of de
army, what is now done gradually fhould, be dnr:l,
immediately. We have experience of the gradual
operation ' • which is this, that we have gradually re-
duced the Militia in nothing that can bz lenftbly pt.t-
ceived. • •

44 In regard to time, the prefer.t is the moment
when we ought to propofe the meaflzre ; (ince now
is a moment when the zeal of the private men is ar•
dent to ferve their country in the way that fhall be
judged moll conducive to its interells, fecurity, ho-
noun, and glory. And it is an afcettained truth, that
this fentiment of the live of our country does at this
moment animat.: every heart.
44 I am free, however, to own, Sir, that the grnurds
of the prefent meafure are fuch as I underhand to b•
not agreeable to the feelings of many refpcaable per-
Eons holding commands in the Militia. lam in the
utmoit degree &firm,' of confulting the feelings
loch undoubted lovers of their country, for in doing
fo I know I conlult my duty to the public ; tnd I
do with and purpofe to leave the Militia in a
loch as thall not offend the pride of thofe
individuals, as well as realize the hopes and expala. lb+
tions of the country.
46 Now baying ("Wed this, I know not that •!—te
is occafion for much detail. Sere/Item thouland men

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out 70,000 will leave filch :..1 the oftceee are par.
tial to.. But however the Volunteers may be felefted
it will be impoffible to do it fo as not to leave, in the
one cafer
,the regiments fuch as fhall.be fit for •the
Militia, and, in the other, not to obtain an augmen-
tation Inch as to be ufeful to the army.
" The mode of Fairing the 17,000 men, I propofe
Mould be, that having fixed the quota for the coun-
ties, orders (hall be ant to the commanding officer
of each regiment, to let apait; at his own difcretion,
withont the intervention .of;regUlar officers, fuch a
number as he (ball think fit; and. if the number
amount to four.fifths, the quota, to be difcharged
from all further contribution.
" Now it is unneceffary to Rate, that this meafure
has been deviled wish a view to confult the feelings
of the Militia officers ; for that it has is evident, from
its being framed to avoid the intervention of regular
officers. Suppoting that not alths are obtained by
• :he above "procefs, the officer is then to let apart half
the quota of his regiment ; or if it coat& of a great-
er number then its quota, the furplus to be appor-
tioned to the refl?eftive Cervices by ballot. To ex-
emplify this, fuppofe a regiment, confining of tOOO
men by its quota, in other words, whole full comple-
ment is woo, reduced to 750 effeftive men. the offi-
cer is hill to fet apart Soo which cannot be touched,
and the proportion into the line will be taken from
the remainder. Taking 68,000, the half is 34,000,
out of s i,OOO, that, with corporals, is the permanent
force of the Militia ; and out of all that, what we
want to raife, is a force of r 7,0c0. If 4.sths are ob-
tained, the ad part will not be touched.
" In Rating this it will be feen, whether the mode
I propofed is fuch as does not confult the various in-
wens and feelings of all concerned. lam lure I
have wiftled to do fo ; and am ready to linen, with
the utmoll difpofition, to adopt, if praBicable, fuch
alterations of the fyftem I have annouced, as will belt
conduce to general efficacy.
6' I am not aware, Sir, that it is neeeffary, in the
prefent fituatlon of this fuhjeet, to enter further into
an expoftlion of my views. I will only fay, that
when I (hall have introduced my bill, I 'hall be ea
gerly anxious to maintain, in every nage of it, what'
I have avowed this night : that 1 (hall confdk the
feelings and even the prejudices of a defcription of
Gentlemen who are, indeed, valuable, who are bene-
faftors of the Rate, and rank high among the guar
dians of our liberties. Nor do I fear that their fop-
port will he in any very material degree withheld
from a Bill that is propofed to embrace and ac-
accompli(h objets of the molt folid advantage to the
country.
6' Having Paid this, Sir, I know not that I have
any thing to add further, than to move you
" That leave be given to bring in a Bill for allowing a certain
Proportion of the Militia to Witt into the Regular Faces of
Great Britain."
Lord TEMPLE, hefore he erpreffed his fenti.
ments on the fubjeft. wifhed to enquire of the Right
Hon. Gentleman, whether any order had as yet been
given by Government to facilitate the receiving
men as Volunteers from the Militia into the Regu-
lar Army.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
had not heard of any fuch order as that alluded to
by the Noble Lord.
Lord TEMPLE raid, that in offering to the Houle
his remarks on what bad fallen from the Rightilion.
Gentleman, as well as on the particular merits of
the meafure in queftion, he would confine himfelf to
Come fats that came under his own obfervation.—
He fuppofed the prefent meafure was to be confi•
dered as the. offspring of another which palled
through the Houfe laft-Seffion. and (prang from the
fame prolific fource ; he meant the Defence At,
which was promifed to effeft fuch mighty feats, and
of which this was defigned to be an improvement.
When that meafure was propofed to the Houfe, the
Right Honourable Gentleman expreffed his intention
to reduce the number of the ?Alicia and engraft a
certain proportion of them into the Regular Ar-
my. Their number was to be gradually leffened
to 40,000, according as death or other calbalities
interfered to produce that effeft. The Right
Honourable Gentleman finding that his Bill did not
produce thefe mighty effeits which he promifed
himfelf, and held one to the expectations of the
country, had taken this moll fingular method of in.
culpating himfelf, and attaching blame to his own
meafure. He was formerly counting the days and
hours, and fed himfelf and the Houfe with the hopes
of eftablifhing a great military force in the country.
The Right Hon. Gentleman felt fully confident that
he fhould, by hit boated meafure, be able, not only
to repel the invafion of a foreign enemy, but to hurl
deftruftion back upon their heads. Such was the
promifes he held out to the country. But what had
been the effet of that wonderful Ael ? The Right
Hon. Gentleman was deaf to all the reafoning urged
againft the efficiency of it, and refilled every attempt
to point out the obftacles that lay in the way of its
operation ; and he now propofed this plan, with a
view to get over the difficulties of the preceding one.
It would certainly be recollefted, that the great
defign of the Defence At was to abolilh entirely
the. praftice of railing men by ballot, at haft it
threw that eonftitutional practice at luck sgrass
diftaace, as to render it but trifling and assgaitsty.
Fcrhaps we were all agreed as to the eligibility of
tip the Regular Army oat of thelitilitia by
voluntary fervice ; but there would be a difference of
opinion upon the wifdnm or equity of (acrificing a
favouilte and conftitutional force, to anfwer the pur-
pores of this Bill. He would fay a few words relative
to the Gate of the Militia during die lag war, and the
promifes made to diem previous to their expeditiot
to H.,lland. Prior to that event, Come promifes were
held out with a view to encourage the Militia to vo-
lunteer their Cervices on that expedition, and fosse al-
teration was propofed in their conftitistion and terms
of fervice. Under the Adminiftration that fucceeded,
the promife was made good, and a Bill was intro-
duced into another Houfe for regulating Chef Militia,
reducing them to 60.0c0 men. The two overn-
ments had fince united ; and, although it was reported
that there were lonic points on which they had con-
fidcrable differences, yet on this point they feemed
pcifelly to agree. The hit Government held out
large pumices to encourage the Militia. There never
was a moment when the ardour of the Militia was
more dwelt *upon, and their readinefs to volunteer
into regiments of the lines but what the Right Hon.
Gentleman gloried fo mach in commending, was
made to recoil with peculiar force upon himfelf, and
formed a very (COWS charge Willa his Admini"

Rration, He meant to eiprets limtelf in the molt
ftrentions manner againfi the condnft of Government,
;When he Rated, upon- evidence which he was ready to
produce before the Boole, of their having given or-
der: to nuottrau's recruiting parties to rendezvous
where the, regiments of Militia are quartered, with a
view to ir.ducc the men to volunteer into the line ;
And he hid undoubted authority for-Rating, that a
recruiting party from the IR battalion of the Ift re- •
giment of Goat ds bad attually taken down the names
of thofe who were likely to volunteer into the line.
The method that was taken to promote thofe ends
was the moll fcandalous and flagitious that could
difgrace any caufe ; for they thought their purpofes
could not be fo eafily accomplithed without feducing
the regiment into every aft of debauchery and infu-
bordination. in vain did their Officers remonftrate
againft thefe praftices of the recruiting ferjeants, who
were alwiys at hand to receive thofe who were ready
to defert their own banners. By loch means the re-
giments had been thinned, and the Officers injured in
honour and reputation, while their men were crimp-
ed by a fet of people, tupported, and fent on the ex-
prefs purpofe by Government. To fhield the men
from the confequences refulting from their infubor-
dination, and to complete the difgrace of the regi-
ments, orders had been fent to Courts-Martial, to
refpee thefe men, and put on a tendernefe of condue
towards them, which amounted to a participation of
their crimes. After the repeated afturances that had
been given and broken upon this fubjeft, what pledge
had become necelTary for our fecnrity, it became the
country to determine. At the expeditious rate at
which we were now travelling, what fecurity bad we
that we &mild not fpeedily be called upon by the
Right Hon. Gentleman to reduce our Militia to
zo,ooo men, provided he fhould think fuch a Inca-
lure necettary It was expedient that Tome dillinEt
pledge lhould be even to the country upcn the fub-
jeft. The Right Hon. Gentleman's aril propofition
was, that our regiments thould be reduced nearly
one-half, fuppofe from 900 to 600, by the propoted
method of volunteering into the line, which was to be
done without the concurrence, and doubtlefs againft
the inclination, as it mutt ailed the honour of the
Officers.

Here the Noble Lord was entering upon particulars
which tranfpired out of the Houle, when he wastall-
ed to order by
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER,
who obferved, that the Noble Lord did not ad con-
tinent with the rules of order and decorum in refer-
ring to matters of private communication, which,
though he might rarely difcufs without the doors of
the Houfe, yet did not come within the order of the
prefent debate; and he would fttbmit to the Hoare
the felicity of the mode of reafoning, on the regula-
rity of proceeding in the Noble Lord.
The SPEAKER obrerved, that it was diforderly
in the Noble Lord to go into the difcuffion of a quer-
tion that was not before the Houk.
Lord TEMPLE reformed. He conceived the pro-
pofition of the Right Hon. Gentleman which he had
alluded to, was made at the time of the expedition
to Holland. But the propofition, as it was now put
in pra&ice by the Right Hon. Gentleman, was not
only to encourage volunteering from the Militia into
the Line, but to-hire and Inborn recruiting Ser.leants,
tint to promote debauchery and infubordination in
the regiments, and then to crimp a certain number
of men, as belt fuited their purpofe, leaving the re-
mainder to the care of their officers, who would have
the/gait/a/Nor of (icing returned them, out of half the
number of their regiment, igo of the mere refute l
The Noble Lord concluded his rpeech by recapitulat-
ing his former arguments, and expreffing his firm and
decided oppofition to the prefent meafure.
Lord STANLEY exprelted his difapprobation of
the Bill, on account of its injuftice in Co many diffe-
rent points ; it was fubverfive of the Conttitution of
the Militia Regiments, and direftly contradiaory to
the many pledges that had been given to the Hoare,
particularly by the Right Hon. Gentleman (the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer) himfelf. He had given this
pledge, as many would recolleit, during a debate in
1799, and again more recently on the Defence Aft.
From feveral important confiderations, he molt give
his decided negative to the Bill.
The Marquis of DOUGLAS expreffed his difap.
probation of the plan propofed by the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, which he confidered as tending ma-
terially to hurt the Militia fervice, and likewife to re-
tard the recruiting for the line. That an acceffion to
our difpofable force was extremely defirous, he
thought no perfon would be found to deny, confider.
ing that quellion abftrattedly. But the prefent pro-
pofition ought to be viewed under the particular cit.-
cumftances that attended it. If the Houfe called to
mind the ufe made by Minifters of what difpofable
force they had poffeffed, with what confidence could
they place in their hands the addition now called for
The Right Honourable Geatkman had (fated the
difficulty of getting officers. Did not this proceed
from the fault of-Government, which had broken
faith with the Militia, and had placed them in their
prefent degraded fituation t Were not this the cafe,
abundance of Gentlemen would be found ready to
some forward and officer the different regiments ;
but the deceptions praftifed upon them prevented it.
At oee *he the fear of invafion was raifed, at ano-
ther the aeceffity of &miss ferric*. When the Right
Honourable Gentleman &mild fubmit his new plan
for the further degradation of the Militia, he &mild,
both from his feelings and from every other confi.
deration of the Tuition, give it his hearty oppofition.
It was held out that there men were to be procured
for the regular fervice on cheap terms ; but indivi-
duals had paid the expence ; and, after all, with
bounty. and the gratiftcatioas of the ale-houfe, he
redly believed that the colt of a recruit wouldamount
to more for the regular army, than by the ordinary
mode of recruiting that part of the public force.
Colonel CALCRAFT raid, he Ihould refervt the
fuller delivery of his fentiments till a future occafion
prefented itfelf. He waked, however, to know,whe-
then the men were to be enlifted for life, and for un-
limited fervice. He was likewife not perfectly clear
in his underltaading of what fell from the Chancel-
lor of the Exchequer refpetting the number of four-
fifths of the recruits being made up from the Militia
regiments.
Sir JAMES PULTENEY thought it could hardly
be neceffary for any perfon to ark for any particular
reafons being given for the propofed meafure, which
was merely a proportion, that, if carried into effe&
went to make the men mare Aral to the country

than their prefent mode of ferviee could poiribly
render them. Under the various limitations and re-
nditions that were [mplied, he could not perceive
that any injury would be fußained by the Militia Ser-
vice in general. On the contrary, he was led to
think, that though the Battalions were lefs in num-
ber, they would, from the provillons of this meafure,
be made more effedual in point of flrengih, and con-
•fequently more ufeful. A great part of the fafety of
the country he confidered to have been owing to the
Reps taken with refped to the Militia, in the year
1799, during the Let war. Upon the whole view of
the fubjeft, he was convinced that the plan propored
deferved to he fopported.
Colonel BASTARD took notice of the three rea-
fons alledged for the introdudion of this extraordi-
nary meafure; namely, the want of men for the re-
gular army, the fcarcity of officers. for the Militia,
and the Rated ardour of the men belonging to the
Militia to volunteer for the regular army. Now, as
to the firfl, he conceived it to proceed *from the inef-
ficiency of the meafure adopted at the inflance of the
prefent Miniflers, for the augmentation of our regu-
lar army: and the fecond, he thought it a very na-
tural refult of that fyßem of tampering with the Mi-
litia, which had obtained of late years, particularly
under the aufpices of the Right Hun. Mover of the
propofition before the Houfe. If that tampering, of
which this propofition was a part, had not exided ;
if men were not thus feduced from the Militia after
they were fully trained, officers would not be want-
ing for that body. But the fart was, that the country
Gentlemen were fickened and difgufted with the Mi-
litia in confequence of the pradice alluded to. As to
the third allegation, that many of the Militia were
ready to volunteer into the line ; the manner which
teemed to have been taken to afcertain, or rather to
excite that difpofition, had been already Rated, and
animadverted upon with proper feverity by a Noble
Lord (Temple). To what that Noble Lord had
Rated he fhould only Cay, that it appeared to him ab-
folutely nothing lefs than an endeavour to excite a
fpirit of mutiny among the Militia, to render them
difcontented with the force in which they were engag-
ed, and to which they were fworn :

Fledere 6 nequeo Superes, Athcronta mouth°.
Miniflers teemed rcfolved to flop at no expedientq—
to refpeet no boundary, however venerable—no in-
ftitution, however Itcrcd, to attain an (Ned which
they promifed when they difplaced their prede-
ceirors, to accompliffi without delay or difficulty.

—The Honourable Gentleman complimented the
late economical and conftitutional MiniStry, for de-
clining to lay a facrilegious hand on the militia,
and declared that he Should rather fee the militia
fyttem diffolved altogether than thus mutilated and
frittered away. He conjured the Houfe not to give
way to filch Bills as the Right Honourable Gentle-
man who propofed the motion was in the habit of
bringing forward, for he could tell them fuch a. ftct
with refpett to a Jury which was impannelled to ad.
judge compenfation between the Crown and an indi-
vidual under one of thofe Bills—[The Honourable
Member was proceeding to date this fact, when he
was called to order, and the Speaker informed him
that he was travelling from the queltion before the
Houle.]—He infifted that the Militia was entitled to
the peculiar patronage of Parliament and the country,
as the bell calculated force to refill foreign iuvafion,
to reprefs internal diforder, and to form a conftitu-
tional check on a hired army.
Mr. FULLER was furprifed that any Gentleman
could attempt to thwart the willies of thofe brave
men belonging to the Militia, who manifefted a dif-
pofition to ferve their country more effeetually, by vo.
lunteering for the Regular Army. To give full ef-
fell to fuch a difpolition was the objea of this Bill,
and therefore he would fupport it. With refpeft to
the Militia fyttem itfelf, he thought it to have much
degenerated from the principle of its original eftablifh-
ment, and be on that account approved of its reduc
lion. He confidered as tidiculous the language tiled
with regard to the dangers of our fituatton. With
fueh a force as we had, he contended that we bad no
thins to fear. With soo,ooo men in arms, and a high-
fpirtted people, there was only one thing wanted, and
that was, that the Honourable Gentleman on the
othef fide (Mr. Fox) Should take his feat with the
Right Hon. propofer of this motion, to enable us to
bid defiance, to overwhelm all the dangers that me-
naced us. (Loud dem.) Thofe two great men united,
we Should Coon extinguifh the power that threatened
to annoy us—we Should foon deftroy the veffels on
the other fide of the water—(a /augb)—we Should
fpeedily clip the wings of the bantam Emperor that
commands them.—( A loud hiugh.)
The CHANCELLOR of the EXC HEUER, in
reply to the Honourable Gentleman ( Mr. Calcraft)
Slated, that it was propofed by the meafure he meant
to bring forward, to leave, in the firs inftance, the fe-
leftion of the men who Should volunteer, entirely at
the difcretion of the Commanding Officers of the
Militia, without prefcribing to them any form of pro-
ceeding or reftriftions whatever ; unlefs tome of ob-
vious neceffity, as to the five, age, and health of men;
or allowing the interference of regular recruiting of-
ficers ; and, that when any battalion Should offer
four•fifths of the men required from fuch battalion,
no further Step Should be taken, under this Aft, with
refpea to that battalion ; that is, that the All Should
have no further operation upon it. But if a batta-
lion Should not furnifh the complement Specified with.
in a time to be limited, which would be propofed in
the Cormnittee. namely, a week for inftance, that in
Such cafe the Commanding Officer Should let apart
one half of his regiment, from among whom the re-
gular recruiting officers fliould be at liberty to obtain
the number required under this aft, if fo many Should
volunteer for general Service. According to this re-
gulation, the officers would have the opportunity of
retaining the prime men, and dots, after the propofed
redultion, they would have in their regiments two-
thirds of prime men, which would be a much greater
proportion, according to the Strength of Loch regi-
ments, than they now have. From this the Right
Honourable Gentleman argued, that the pride of the
officers of the Militia had no reafon to be diflurbed,
as the means would Rill remain to them, by their
own feleaions, to preferve the charaaer, appearance
and difcipline of their refpeltive corps.
The Right Hon. Gentleman then proceeded to
remark oo the pledges which he was charged with
hawing given on former occafions, not to interfere
wi tie Militia ; but in the ft& inßance he begged
to alb. whether It could be feviootly argued that the
pledge of any man at any Mallet Should tie up she

allthotit or parliament ?It was trintoubtedly in the
power of any man by his pledge, to tie up himfelf,
but with refped to the pledges alluded to, he could
moR confidently fay, that he never was himfelf, nor
did he know of any Mininry that ever was, a party
to fuch pledges. He was aware that when a meafure
of a fimilar nature was propofed on a former occa-
fion, it was alledged by thofe whd oppofed it, that the
intention was to render Militia Officers mere drill
ferjeants for the Army, and the Militia itfelf a mere
paffage to the Line. Thole were ideas which he dir-
tinaly disclaimed, as he did another infinuation at the
fame time from the fame quarter, that it was his inten-
tion, and that of thole who aged with him, to recur to
the plan of volunteering from the Militia on every
ordinary occalion. Although he difclaimed thofe
things which were the exaggerated conclufions of
Gentlemen on the other fide, he never gave any thing
in the fhape of a pledge thatthe projed of volunteering
from the Militia would not be retorted to upon any
futureoccaft-n, however extraordinary. And what was
tlasafe at prefent ?—Why, that Parliament, having
alread7 decided that the Militia (hould be reduced
to a cent, in number, and it being actually on its pac
Cage to tha,oumber, it was now propofed merely to
accelerate that reduCtion, and more quickly to ac-
coniplith the refolution of ParliaMent. A Noble
Lord had afferted, that at the time the Defence Ad
was propofed Taft Sellion, he propofed to " keep
good faith with the Militia." This was a declara-
tion of which he certainly had not the flighteft recol-
leCtion, or one rather which he was quite pofitive he
never could have made. Nor did he conceive how
the occafion could have called for any fuch declara-
tion. In propofing the reduCtion of the Militia to
ao,ooo men, the improbability of any projed of
volunteering from that body for the Regular Army,
when fo reduced, be might
.have made ufe of as an
argument to recommend his propofition; but he was
quite certain that he never made any pledge upon the
lubjcia, however Gentlemen might have mifunder-
flood him. With regard
.to the Rater:lent of his No-
ble Relation, refpeeting the condun of a certain re-
cruiting party, in the operation of his candour and
good nature; which feemed rather to forfake him in
the warmth of his outfet, the Noble Lord was pleafed
to acquit his Majefly's Milliners of being a party to
fuch an irregularity. [Lord Temple nodded difrent.]
Then timely, fald the Right Honourable Gentleman,
the Noble Lord would not fairly confider Govern-
ment refponfible for the milconduCt of a recruiting
party. If, however, recruiting parties, in their zeal for
the fervice, did in towns where Militia Regiments are
Rationed, behave in the manner Rated, and that fuels
confequences were apprehended from their tampering,
that was a Rrong argument for carryinginto operation
as expeditioufly as poffible the Bill which it was the
object of his motion to introduce ; for that certainly
was the belt way to prevent fuch effects. That regu-
lar officers fhould he fent to the different quarters, to
receive the men who lhould volunteer, Ceemed not
only unexceptionable, but Jefired by the commanding
officers of the Militia, for a Noble Lord (Stanley) had
obferved that it was much to be waited, for the fake
of difcipline, that fuch recruits thould be taken away
from the quarters of the Militia as Coon as pollible.
Some Gentlemen, the Right Honourable Gentleman
obferved, (hewed a prodigious defire to defcribs every
meafure as calculated to increafe the burthens upon
land. But he hoped that the landed proprietors pof-
feffed too much fenfe, and were too anxious for thefor-
cefs of an arrangement, defigned for the defence of that
land, to be influenced by fuch allegations. Indeed, if it
were not for the authorities from which they came on
this occafinn, they were too frivolous to be anfwered..
How could it be terioufly maintained, that the land
owners ought to be difeontented ; or that their bur-
dens would be increafed, becanfe men, who had at
fill engaged for limited fervice, were now ready to
perform more than they originally promifed ; that up-
on receiving a bounty from the Rate they (bould Rand
forward to ferve their country more effeaually than
under their prefent engagement they were enabled to
do ? There was one other point of which be fhould
take notice in the obfervations of his Noble relation,
although, indeed, the Noble Lord had rendered that
almoft unneceffary, as he had anfwered it himfelf.
This was with regard to the order for fufpending
the Courts Martial, and its tendency to break down
difcipline, as the Noble Lord afferted. But the No.
ble Lord, himfelf, afterwards noted that this order,
of the lithe of which he (Mr. Pitt) never heard be-
fore this night, was fent in confequence of the altera-
tion recently made in the Mutiny Bill, which altera-
tion made that order fair and neceffary. However,
as that Bill was now palled, the fufpenlion would of
courfe ceafc. The Noble Lord was enabled to go
on with any trials that he withed, and bring them to
a termination alto, before the Bill to which the mo-
tion before the Hotfe referred, could be carried into
a law. Bat left it fhould be Cup fed that this Bill
would have any tendency, as it feemed to be appre-
, headed, to encourage infuhordination, he had only
to Rate that it was intended to make fpecial poet-
fion, that in cafe men, under a charge of mifcondu&,
meant So be tried, or undettoing a trial, or under
any fentence; fhould offer to volunteer for the line,
Commanding Officers fhould be invefted with a power
to refufe their difcharge. The Right Honourable
Gentleman concluded with Rating that if his motion
thould be agreed ro, it was his intention to bring in
the Bill this night, move it to be read a firil time
and printed, and fix the fecond reading for Tuefday
next.
Lord TEMPLE in explanation, reßated his for.
user affertion, that the recruiting party he had al.
luded to appeared to have had authority for their ir-
regularity, and therefore Government was refpna.,
ble for them. As to the order refpe6ing Courts
Martial, he laid that the order was not only for fuf-
pending Courts Martial, but to prevent the execution
of fenter.ces, and the, holding any Courts Martial
whatever, until further orders.
Lord STANLEY explained.
The Motion was weed to without a divifion.
The Bill was then brought up by the Chancellor
of the Exchequer, and read a firfl time. On the
queßion being put for the Bill to be printed, and to
be read a fecund time on Tuefday next, Come obis",
tions were made to the precipitation with which this
meafure was brought forward, by Lord Temple, Lord
Douglas, Mr. Calcraft, and Sir John Newport; the
latter laid, that if the Printers did not ufe more ex-
pedition in preparing this Bill than they devoted to
the ordinary matters of the Houfk, the Members could
tot be furuithed with it until a week, or perhaps tt

,

fortnight, had expired; and it would be extremely
indecent to attempt to proceed further in it, until the
as..l,llcrs had the opportunity of carefully perufiog
Ls contents.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER Paid
that it was not intended to read the fepatate claufes
of the Bill until it fhould -appear before the Commit.
tee on Thurfday next. With raped to the printing,
be this moment uoderflood from the Officers of the
Houle, that it would be prepared for delivery to the
Members before the departui e of the poll on Saturday.
General TA RLETON thought, that as the Houle
had given authoi ity to proceed in the bufinefs, in a
:natter of fo much confequence to the army, and to
the country, the snore difpatch which (hould be em-
ployed, the more beneficial would be the effeets.
General NORTON obferved, that it would be all
the fame whether the Houfe aeled one way or the
other, and therefore he attached no importance to
the point at iffue.

It was then agreed. that the Bill fitgarld4in toad a
fecond time on Tuefday next.
At half pall nine the Houle adjourned to shit day.

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Channel Fleet got under weigh from Torbay, and
flood down Channel with a fine breeze at E. N. E.

Mr. PITT lac t night defcribed the outlines of his
plan for the Augmentation of our difpofable Force,
by the more fpeedy Redußion of the Militia. The
number of men to be thus obtained is to be 17,000,
leaving 40,000 as the amount of the Militia Eftablifh-
=sent for England, and 8,000 for Scotland. Tice
slumber of Volunteers from each regiment Is to be re-
gulated by the amount of the quotas for each county.
Lifts are to be tranfmitted to the refpeitive Comman-
ding Officers, and if four-fifths of the original number
volunteer for the Regular Army, the County is to
be freed from all further charge. In this cafe, the
whole bufinefs is left to the Commanding Officer. If
fuch a number ()mold not, in the firft inftance, be ob-
tained, the Commanding Officer is to divide his re-
giment into two equal pans : the one-half is to be
be wholly exempted from the operation of the
Bill, and out of the remaining half, Volunteers to
the amount of four-fifths of the whole number are
to be obtained.

On Wednefday,G•ves nment fent orders to Graver
end,.Portfmouth, and the Downs, to detain all China
and Madras (hips, which were ready to fail from thofe
places, in order to embark troops on board of them.
Ships of the large a flze are to carry two hundred and
forty men each, and the others two hundred, or lef.,
according to their dimenfions. The China (hips are
to difenabark their troops at Madras. The whOle
number of troops feat cut will be between four and
five thoufand. The 69th regiment failed from spit-
bead the Bth of March, in the &et convoyed by his
Maier HINDOSTAN, for the fame deaination.
—Thcfe troops have been ordered to India, in confe-
quence of the unpleafaut intelligence lately received
from that quarter.
The following are the Regiments which are going
on the Secret Expedition, as it has been called, but
which is generally believed, to be deffined for the
l4edi;erranean :----Four troops of the soth Light Dra-
goons, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel
Tay Loa ; the 19th, 44th, 48th, 58th, and 8111 re-
giments of Infantry, from England; the 25th, 28th,
and another regiment of Infantry, from Ireland ;
feveral companies of Artillery, Engineers, Ord-
nance, &c. General Sir PAIRS CRAM is to be Corn
inander in Chief. Under him General Sir JOHN
STUART, and two Brigadier-Generals. Brigadier-
General Cataract', Adjutant-General to the Expe-
dition; and Colonel Bussualt, Q2arter•Mitiltr•Ge.
neral. That the Mediterranean will probably be Coon
the fcene of tome enterprise, Teems pretty evident
from the quantity of acres lately fent to Malta; and
there, it is probable, the Ruffian auxiliaries will fir(}
be employed.
The expreffions made ufe ()flail night by Mr.Prrr
in the Houle of Commons teem to hold out a hope
that we (hall Coon have the co-operation 41 Come of
the Continental -powers.

Add to this, that more Ruffian troops, according
to letters by the Hamburg,' Mails, which arrived this
day, are daily expelled at Corfu.

We have received Paris Journals to the t 7th, and
Dutch papers of the zoih
The latter contain the plan of the new connitution
prefcribed to Holland by Boa-trait-re. We have
given an outline of it in ant part of our paper.
It is, however, of little importance by what name or
under what form Ile,iland may be ruled, while a 10.
reign Rate diißates every meafure that is adopted.—
It will be teen that the Legifiative Body is to be
new modelled, and the antient title of " i heir High
49P" reliored to it. Of the " High and Mighty
LGrek" there are to be nineteen; and the Executive
Power is to be veiled in the hands of the Prefiomeiry,
who of courfe wills& as a-kind of Vice-Roy to Bo-
sarAzet. Scsitslissransimcs is the perfon ap.

pointed to fill this latter fituatlon. He is to have a
Council of State; the fleets znd atmies are to be at
his difpofal ; he is charged with the fupreme police,
and is to have the foie direetion of the Maury.—
Tneir High Migbiialu, in whole name be is to aft,
may approve or rejeta his plans. but they moil not
alter them.

An article from Frankfort, of the s 3th, contains
the following interefting particulars refpetting what is
flitted to have lately paired between the Courts of Ber-
lin and Stockholm, with regard to the negotiations
carried on by Sweden with England :
" The Court of Prufila, as has been already Rated,
has declared, that in cafe Sweden fhould conclude a
fobfidiary treaty with England, the Pruffian forces
would occupy Swedifis Pomerania. Mr. de BRIM IC-
MANN, the Swedifts Minifter at Berlin, tranfraitted,
upon this fubjeB, a letter, written in his Sove-
reign's own hand, to Mr. HARDINSIMG, the Pruf-
fian Minifter. In that letter, his Swedith Majefty
declares, that as a Sovereign Power he did not think
himfelf forced to give any account to other Powers of
the alliances which he might think proper to con-
clude : that, in cafe any foreign troop, thould
enter his territories, they thould be treated as ene-
mies: and that, at the fame time, he thould claim
the affillance of the Ruffian auxiliary troops, con-
formably to the treaty concluded with Ruffia, oao-
ber 29, 1799."
General BRUNS is arrived at Paris from Conftan-
tinople. According to letters from the latter City
of t:.e 25th of January, every exertion was making
by the Ottoman Potte to place the army and navy
on the beft footing, and to provide for the regular
pay of both. The navy is to be new modelled, on
the plan of that of England.

A letter from Vienna, of the 3d inftant, in the pa-
pers of the fame date, mentions that the Boys of Egypt
have gained a decilive viaory over the Arnauts,
commanded by Mohammed Aly, within two days
journey of Cairo. The Arnauts, though tope.
rior iu numbers, are Rated to have loft in this con-
teft about 3000 men, killed and wounded. Ibrahim
Bey attacked them in front, while they were flanked
by Berdizi Bey, and aft:tiled in the rear by Elfi Bey.
The French Funds on the tsth were 59 f. to c.
FRENC-1 AND DUTCH JOURNALS.

PARIS, MAI CM 1 6.—Marthal Ba us a paired through
Stralbuurg on the 18th Ventofe, on his way to this
capital. He has employed three months in Ills jour-
ney from Conftantinuple. He brings with him a
young man, whole father, a French merchant fettled
At Conitaniinople, was imprifoned at the Dardanelles
At the beginning of the 'evolution with M. Maavars,
the French Conful, and who died in the bath.

Ntcs, t t V104203E, MARCH 2.—Meths. LICLIIC
and Ca. fhip owners of this port, received intelli-
gence 1i om Alicant the 4ay before yeaerday, that the
Intrepid privateer has taken and concluded to a place
of (day. two Englifh privateers. having on board
shoo piaares, and different articles of merchandife,
the whole valued at 40,000 francs : (he has taken 39
partners.
lIAMIURCH, MARCH I.—We learn from Stock-
holmohat the Duke of Suderminia has fallen fud-
denly ill. The return of the King to his capital is
Rill the oecafion of feveral fetes. The Chevalier de
CORRIA. MiniQer of Portugal, has publifhed an Ode
in the Fiench language, to celebrate this event. The
Contul General of Kuala, at Dantzic, has received
official intelligence from Berlin, that the prohibition
of the exportation of grain from that port, does not
extend to veffels of that part of Poland which belongs
to his Majefty the Emperor of all the Ruffiss.
MARCH 2.—We are allured that the Prtalian Am-
baffaclor at Paris has delivered lately to the French
Minitter of Foreign Affairs, a, note containing an
anfwer to the propofals made by the Court of Berlin
to that of Peterfburgh, in regard to the differences
which exill between Ruffia and France. They fpeak
here alfo of a letter written by the Emperor of the
French with his own hand, to the Emperor of Ruf-
fin, at the time when overtures were made by France
to England.

CUNSTANTINOPLII, JAW. 22.—The vielory which
the Pacha of Bagdad has gained at the head of his
troops over the Wehabis is confirmed by new reports.
As the greater part of there vagabonds remained on
the field of battle; as many of them were made pri-
foners, or feverely wounded ; and as few of them
efcaped, there is reafon to believe that it will be
difficult for them to collect an army again.

STOCKHOLM, Fas. oz.—This day, athalf after two
in the afternoon, the (teen was happily delivered of
a Princefs, an event which was announced by the
firing of 128 cannon. About four o'clock the King,
accompanied by the Royal Family, repaired to the
grand church, where le Rum chanted on the
occafion. The gneen and the new born Princes are
in good health. The Duke of SUZ2AMARIA is Rill
innifpored.
FRAHCKFORT, MARCH 6.—The laft letters from
Triefic fpeak of nine Ruffian tranfports which have
I..ttly arrived with troops at Corfu, anJ which teem
to he the fame that put into a Tull:ills port to be re-
paired. A new convoy of Ruffian troops whicii were
to fail from Seballopol, is expracd at Corfu. `'fhele
letters aad, it is hoped that peace will not be inter-
rupted in Italy. It is mindere.' as certain that the
King of NAPLES will be a:sleto maintain his neutrality.
MARCH 7.—We read in a public Journal the fol-
lowing article from Ratilbon :—" It appears that the
aetivity which has prevailed in the Diet fence the be-
ginning of this year, will be again checked. The
Au(lrian fslinitters have declared, that they cannot
take any past in the new deliberation until the Col-
lege of Princes has received a different orSanifation.
As the principal Courts of Germany have hitherto
(hewn themfelves little difpnfed to adopt the princi•
plea of the Houfe of Auftria in this matter, the pro-
grefs of the affairs of the Diet mull experience a Rag-
nation. unlcfs a remedy be applied by lather nrgo-
ciatioas."

FamseavoLT, MAILCIII.—SeveraI Princes of the
Empire continue to form a military slate, far lupe-
rior to that which they had before the late changes,
which have taken place in Germany. Our neigh-
bour, the Landgrave of Hclfe Darmftadt, prnpofes
to increafe his troops to to,coo men. Before thelail
war of the Empire, the Princes or that Houle had
no more than 6000. The different Princes of the
Houfe of Naffau propofe alto to raife Come troops,
and to give a better organization to the militia fyl-
tem already introduced into their Dates. Tht4 troops
of the Prince of Orange Fulda, are to be organized
like thole of the King of PrufGa. There levie',
however, are not owing to any uncafinefs in regard
to the tranquillity of Europe.

MAR x-LANE.

CORN ERCHANCT, MARCH 22.

We have to-day a confiderable farther acceflion of:
Wheat, and feveral arrivals from Scotland. Sales in
general at full ss. per quarter lower fence Mon-
day. But fcw famples of Fine Old that reach our
currency. Many arrival. of Barley from Norfolk ;
that, with Malt and White Pias, 2s. lower. Ticl
Beans in great fupply, and rather cheaper.—There
are large arrival. of Oats, and many cargoes of
foreign, alto at a redution of 25. per quarter.—Flour
is in large fupply, and may be named ss. per fact.
lets.—Sales of all articles appear at a general &den-

GENERAL CURRENCY AS UNDER.
Wheat. yos. 88s. 9E$ per tr. Grey Peafe 365. to 40a.
Fine Ditto, 1004. 104 s. wt. Beans, 421. 48$. od. s
Rye, 546.6 a. cd. Tick Ditto 4is. 478. od
Barley, fits. 463. od. Oats, 231. 154.28 u
Malt, 745. Bos. 04. Poland ditto, 295. 30s od.
White Peak, 40$. 464. od. Cinquefoil, 365. 4p3 1
Rape Seed. 431. to 471. per Is tt.
PRICE OF FI.OUR. 1.
Fine Flour B,s. to 83s. Seconds yos. to Sos. pe: CAA.

NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE. i

MAILS THIS DAY.—Wind E. N. E.

ARR. DUI. ARR. DUI.
Dublin I I I Hamburgh a a
Watcrford 0 3 I Gottenbirgh o s

PLYMOUTH, MARCH 20.—Came in the Spann fhip
No(lra Senora del Filar, alias Fortuna, horn Vera
Cruz, laden with logwood, cochineal, and 432,0r.n
dollars, taken about three weeks ago, by the PA ~[.As,
of 32 guns.—Sailed the PaiNcrss ROYAL, of 98 grins,
to join the Channel Fleet; and the P. AZ AZD, of tit
guns, on a cruize.
PORTSMOUTH, M4RCH 2 I.—Paffed by from Lon-
don, the Ann letter of marque, Capt. ATKINS, to the
Weftward.—Ar&ived the Paisctss ROYAL man of
war, from Plymouth ; Country Efqoire, ROBERT..
vur, from Newcallle, bound to Jamaica ; the Anna,
Mornington, and Earl Carnbden, from London,
boom! to the Lilt Indies.

Dpat.,Mettcn 21.—Arrived yefterday evening the
CFNTURION man of war, with the Lord Melville,
Earl Spercer, David Scott, Britannia, and Euphrates
Eaft Indiamen ; Michels of Portland, and William
and Juno South Sea-men, a Spani(h prize, 8.7 c. under
envoy from Plymouth, which are failed for the
River. The CENTURION remains in the Downs with
etc reft of the (hips as per latl.—P. S. Came down
the VULTURE floop of war from Sheernefs. Sailed
the Norfolk defence (hip for Sheernefs. Wind E.N.E.