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soilleas and a half; in t 783, it was three guineas
and a half, but not to exceed five guineas ; when
the brunty core the Militia had allimilated snore
and mote _to the Regular Army. I-le had read
in a periodical publication, a letter from Edinburgh,
abound;ng in true philofephy and plain fettle preset-
ling to be a fuminary of thole opinions which_
and others, his friends, entertained cn the fll'o;ca of
our national defence : but the letter (fated there. mat-
ters in a (Lyle fuperior to what he could afpire at com-
p:Wing. He thought this letter worthy the pertifal
of every man who beard him. There was one thing
which was Paid, and with much truth, in behalf of
the Volunteers. Many thought the Volunteers of ufe
to the country, as a manifeltation of the refolution
of the country to :chit the enemy. The enemy gave
us credit ror thus much fpirit without the teilimony
of Volunteers ; for tho' they did reprernit us as a na•
m of fliopkeepers, yet, as filch, as MCII of. ProPcf
J7oving property, they would affuredly expect
,a that we Should defend our Shops, main-
.rrights of propety, our lien, our liberties,
.• ..•.tiince as a nation. The fervice would be done
whetti..r there were Volunteers or not, if the coun-
try were even left to itfelf. But the Volunteers
never could Rand, or reach permanency. It was
&burn of the public fpirit that gave them eliftence,
and they wa.: &flitted to expire as that fpirit found
its oatutal level. We never could attempt to hold
a country in a military atthude. interminably.—
The Volunteer attitude, was a fine theatrical at-
titude--but it the curtain do*, the arms mast
drop. This force could not make. an army. As
to the Army of Reserve which was itfelf a little
it could not laft, it mug to its &II Rate.
Indifeipline was the curie of all there illegitimate
fylltens ; yet indifcipline was ereuied. We were
told that tho' there were but few at drill thecorpi
were numerous,. and thole who were abfent from
drill were rerfeet in their excrcires: From This yop
s.ou'd think ilia thole who attended were the awks
ward (quad, only gauss g on with their exercifes be-
tel:reality were imperfea. But even in this view of
the matter, the evil might be great. Praelical habits
sere liable to grow irkthme, and to.be loft. Then
serre things which Once learned never cola be on-
hinted. Such were mathematical truths, or otbet.'
t:uths, which Ruck to men. Tke art of fwimming
was fo ; but the exercifes of the Volunteers
laughs no imperithable sot, He new took a view of
the fyllem of railing men for rank,. When in office in.
4795, he remembered litters hafrilig been written to
Lieut. Colonels froer: who, 67 tile way, had never
before been in the army) iseftritling them to fifteen
g!ineti hovroy, one fource of the deterioration of
a; my. The Miiitra has, however, to do every
!-ar.! all fnr.oi ; old, new fupplementary,
an jaw:nisch, that it reminded him
of the man, who, having ti oat, taken to cure a horfe's
foto, had made applications which only ;tweak('
the wound, but as often as he was told of this he
Lade :hem have recourfe tobrs ededirine. Thus, if
want. men, if the country have not a'
force a.kooate to its deeen:e, at once the cry is railed
" ! the Militia I There is the Militiase"
Teeing of ate Supplementary Cavalry; he li:hem-
:wed having once-le...en told of an old lady in the
country, oho had offered 60, 70, or 8o guineas not
fn be sfrawn for a light-horfeman. He thought the
fyliern altogeoter radically bad. That was done
order to avoid perional fervice, which every body
att-repted to ay.'.id ; and which, froth the great gal-
f our Milliner, did not active even women.
The fytl4:n might be fald to be an evidence of fogy
popenft. The ballot was the bane that paled with
malignart lintlil4,7 to ai our comforts over the land.:
Vol% 4.r,000 V7E.e to be railed by this means, then
&hoof), until was run up to the amount of 90,00c0
bad Paid, that the Army of Referve was only a
Militia under another name. This brought up the
to t rc.coc, Would then the recruiting for
Mil... At my not stand Rid ? 13,1 t they obtain permilSon
enter into the Regular Army ; which, if they do,
tlie friends of the lyflens (the Minister) direaly er-
elaims, shore are our recruits ! tilde we have pro.
cur-d by our D:lence All 1 This reminded him of the
Man in the Ct ;tic 's famous exclamation," That is my
thlinder !" One confolation was left. The &nem
had come :o its end. It had burnt itfelf out. The Ml-
!Ater was now vomiting up the Army of Referve, as
fomething tco Orolg for his llomach ! So patients,
-tlica their medicines partook too much of the Shop.
Tie M;nittcr is now Rapping Mort. He laying up
precious elixir of the ballat, and his vaunted fyl-
sen-.4 are on the point of diffolction, or of cxpl;•:ion.
He wertt on with his military fyflem till at lee'gth
:be fallible 1)141 ; the houfe had Stopped payment.
It was net for leaving Europe in a date of defertion
at the metcy r.l Bonaparte, that the laq Admini.
ftrati,n was driven oat ; but for a crime they did
alit commit, for in fael the ballot had ceafed to at.
IA art now left totally without any means whatever.
Jfr hadlhe word of the Right honourable Gentle-
:l),n cntsolite, for 0 e pernicious tendency of all the
Other Bills : and we have ever y other per:oris' word
for the fame quality in his own. It famed better to
go back to the Army of Referee, ihaa keep this
MI. There was fume meaning in thaffiill ; it was,
at hall, coati !rot with Hell. Bad as he thought
that Bi.l, for Lad he mull think every mcafure that
v'llablifhed an eotirc boe4 of force of a large fize,
el a &fluent dcfcription from that of the Regular
Army in this country, and that recognized, and even
Encouraged military honours, independent of mili-
tary fervice ; Still he mutt repeat, that bad, and ex.
14.i•five, and cumbetionie, and circuitous, as it was,
' had, when compared with the prefent Bill, fame
and meaning in it. It carried its compulfean
so r4k.ti-:r than its power to raife men. That referve
••otly .-as to aft as a kind of large refervuir, and
kig;ier than that the pumps eauld not work. But
:t was quite a jcke to fuppule that.it gained us any
umber of recruits. It gave them to us, becaufe it
neck them in the fill inttanci. It procured them by
the bounty it gave them for coming in, and it fent
them into the at my only becaufe there was a bounty
for that, on going out. The dal:4 of men who would
wittingly enter fur flame fervice, would go of cootie
to the Army of Referve; another dafs would go to
the regu.:Jr army at once. The Referve itfelf nei-
rhen;:res to, nor takes from the reguiar army; but
it air said, that there were numbers, who having en-
, tettd into and served in the Army of Referve, were
aftirwards induced, from the habits acquired there,
to go into the Army for Home and Foreigitfervice
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of Referee, would, inftead of going into it, have gone
direa into the regulars, to that, upon a fair debtor
and creditor accothlt riot . 1 man perhaps :s *on ?
The. Members of that Houle came id through the
' lobby. What a wonderful glace this lobby mull • be
to fupply th: Hnufe with fo. many Gentlemen ?
This Army ot Referee was a kind of lobby to the
Regular Army. It was a kiiid of turnpike where fo!.
diets did not pay, but were. paidfor patfing through
it.. A man would be thought rather foo!ilh not to
gd into the lobby era, by which he was able to get
a double bounty before he became a regular foldier.
He hoped to hear no more of the good -cffeCts of this
lobby. The whole fyflem was encumbered and
weighed down with a complication of machinery.
Toe exilling Bill was a fort of great
dialer, fop-
plied with almoil innumerable fmall capillary
one running to every parifli in the kingdom. Why
not a large lira:ght pipe, making a d7re..f cominuni
Cation at once, and free from the confusion of ufe-
leis intricacies ? Bot then he fhould be told, Oh !
there is no invention. no cidurivance in all that! It
was much eafier in thofe Gentlemen's eyes to take a
circuitous mode of filling the great machine, titan to
throw all the materials Into it at once, in a firaight.
tor want way. Gentlemen had talked about the Bill
not being oppreftve ; the oppreffion was not upon
the recruit, but it was pretty heavy upon the parifh.
The parilh was to do the won k after the old laying :
" Fire born flick, flick beat dog, and loon." There
was no fort of compullion made ufe of to enfure the
exertions of :he parilh officer in providing the re-
cruits, though care was taken to levy a penalty upon
the parifh. The parish ofcer efcaped the conic.
quences of his neglect, and threw the burden on his
parifh. You whip the patilli for the fault of the
oliScer. You can't compel his zeal, affiduity, and
diligence; you can do nothing with him any more
than you can make a bode drink by takitig him to the
water. I really cannot think of purism% this Bill
at a much greater length, through its various errors
and abfnrdities. It is mnch better undertlood, I am
lure, by thofe who haie witnefred the effels that
have refulted from it where it has been attempted
to be carried into operation. But really it is Amon
nnneceffary to fay many very Tevere things upon it.
for who is there that (peaks well of it? If you tell
any obferving perfon. that you have no opinion of
this Bill. the natural reply is given at once, Who
has any thing to ray in its favour !' The Bill is in
• fa& nugatory and inefficient for any purpofe for
which it was propofed toParliament. To talk of it
, is like talking off -nothing that was; and is no more.
It it like the old lines upon a horfe—
. One fault katl—a fault belt-tall
What (cult is that? the hark is had."
Why, Sir; this famous Bill, this in9rument of the fal-
vation of our country, is dead! But though dead,
the Humane Society have not yet done with it. Ohl
bgt fay the Gentlemen, the Bill, we muft confcfs,
has not fucceeded, but fuccefs is not the Only criterion
of wifdom. fuccefs does not always follow great
adions. We can't get every thing that we defire.'
'Tis not io mortals to enntrnutml fuccefs,
But we'll Is sone,Sempronius, we'll dlirve it.'
Really, Sir, if the ltight Hon. Gentleman can find
any rearonfor content arifing out of this Bill, it mull
be purely' from fuch defervings, of which we can
fee no-proof; and certainly, not from any pofirive be-
nefit his Bill has conferred on the country !" The
Ora officers were an uncommonly long time in
learning how fo undertland the meafure. Siz weeks
'elapfed after the palling of it before any flops were
taken to aft upon it; but the 3oth of Auguft at length
arrived; on that aufpicious day it was etpeded to go
on with aftonifhing alacrity, and to work as fall as
a Spinning Jenny. The frty battalions were hardly
conceived to he large enough to receive the incre-
dible number of reeru:ts that were to flail forward,
and jump into their ranl:s ; any body goirig ullout the
country at that time expeded to meet with nothing
but military ardour and military bufile and finite.—
man thought of fomethiog like that infed that
buzzes about yon..io every direction, when you are
travelling througl. Italy; fo here, the clatter and
belle was to be in your ears wherever you turned.—
Infield of all this, you went about as quietly as ever,
and people? in their difappointment, were every
where enquiring, " Where's the new Parini Bill ?”
Wonderful indeed were the effects of this Parith Bill,
that was to work with fuch unprecedented local
efficacy, and which had produced, allowing for ca.
fualties and defertions, the aftoniffiing number of
665 men !" What a f..tuation for the country to be
placed in ! and yet this was to be our aim anchor,
Or complete teem icy againd all itorMs and tempefts,
and every political anti mili'tar'y danger ; that was to
remedy all our diforders;and to put an end to all our
difidvantages and nbllrudions in the railing a dif-
parable force! It was great for immediate and for
. i remote purpoles; for the rritant creation of the force
we wanted, and the foundation of our future martial
fyltem. It was, as Sir Franc;: Wrortzbearl lays, juftfor the precut." ICinethingth be doing ;" and it was
loon to expand into fixty fine battalions of foldiers—
And now that it had done nothing, we were to be
e tiled upon to foi bear our interference with it ? The
Houle had Peen what* fort of confequenee had been
derived.from the balloting fyllem, which had brought
the military affairs to inch a pars at lalt, that they
could flourilh no longer; they were atfolutel y at a flop.
Whar,he wouldagain afk Gentleme:i,what mull be the
fituation of the country under filch circumftances? Was
it not the duty of Gentlemen to think of tome other
mode to be adopted for the future management of
our artny ? Five and twenty thourand pounds had
been charged as the expenses of the Staff for half a
year, for recruiting sOOO men—a fum more than it
cog us for recruiting the whole army together in for.
mcr days, and all the numberlefs little .?reams from
which derived what additions we gained, were, in fad,
derived from thofe fources which bad been already
over and over again condemned. The oew meafure
did nothing,•but the bad parts of the old fyftern were
retorted to to force the recruiting. Our condudWas
unphilorophical and unwife. We were like the favage
who cuts down the tree to get at the fruit. If, indeed,
'a uniform petfeverance in a habit of fbifts and cape.
clients could have any profped of talking a long time,
it might be Paid, it was juft as well as any other; but
human experieice and reafon tell its that it is no
fuch thing ; that it mutt flop ; that Wafts and expe-
dients in life may do fora little while ; men might
draw bills aldiaant dates, they Might rage means by
2sitHpating futurity; and Toile:910 we might feettis
.leAkriptiieor pet (ions liviwg at welrat bettt
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(bet: will eeafe, a-t 3 then there's a 1 fon fir their
portion. If we timid,' go on in a similar way .uith
our means. Of defence, without a proper plats,
fubtlititting fir it a thoufand thifts, we limpid esen
find the country left in 3 (late too ditagteeable to
contemplate. The Right Hon. Centlernan bad taren
up the Ballot with great earnellnels at flit}, but
round .it fail him ; then came his new experiment,
that falleii too : now he was at a (land, and in dif•
tiers, and looked about to every fh:p that thould
come ur to his affillane.e. He did feem to be fo
fond of the 'Ballot, that he gave it no with great re•
hietance, bet Ween .the cup and the lip, between the
making of his fpee...b and the making of his motion.
Every one teemed to f.e !he ,ni!fcbiefs of the Bal-
lot ; bin then it was with inil,4:ty dexterity obferved,
0! if you diflike this Additicoal Force Bill, you
moll go back to the old fyliem by ballot." He
could not admit that ; he never had admitted.tt.—
That was direelly Contrary to the opinions Le ad-
vanced. There was no fuch alternative forced upon
the nation. Ballot had got quite out of reputation
now, and like a turned out lvliniatr; found nobody
to (her/ it any countenance. He had heard in Come
circles of a moll exquifite plan for giving operation
to the propofed objeCts
.of this Bill, by the admira-
ble facilities which the provisions of it afforded.—
This was no other than to tine a few pat idles, in
order to quicken the roll in the neighbourhood.—
He had heard of a man exceedingly overgrown
with the drop(7, and unable to work, but win tie verthe
leis on giipboard, and received a wtriiiping at the main
throuds, for being indolent and 4 l t_y, and negleCting
his ditties. Here it was proposed, in =Drier, to
give two or three parifhes a good round dozen, and
Its to quicken and spur on the reit. Thefe few we were.
to lath for what they could not do, to male the others
do what they could. Some men V•ere by the
parifhes in the modes (stationed by thole who had ori-
ginally ntpofed the meafnre. The parifli, to get the
men, gave a fum far above what a man could get by
. going into the regular army. The crimp got his man
as ctieap as he.could get him, and got to much more
from the patifh ; the parith received the Government
allowance, and if the men were not procured in this
mode, then the parith paid Governmient the fine in.
Read of the recruit. The only conception of the whole
of this notable experiment in the mind of the Right
Hun. Gentleman (Mr. Windham) was, that it had
totally and completely failed. He was now glad
that his talk drew near to an end ; he was glad of
that, becaufe his butinefs was merely to make out
to the Houle a cafe of dithers ; to thew their), that
this country at prefent, multi the exiling fyftem,
laboured wider entire dcflitution of the means,
an of tile profpea of the means, of maintaining a
fuflicient and a diipofeable military force. Our
army had been augmented by only t 1,400 men, and
our deficiences amounted from is to 16,000, in our
home army and our troops abroad. Here were fo
many men to be fupplied from fome fource or other.
A fluctuating body, like an army, required conflantly
to receive accellions to make up for the continual
wear and walk. The recruiting fervice ought
Curtly to make up whatever deficiency of this kind
might. be created. Other modes, it appeared, be-
fides regular open recruiting, were ufed ; NCI! as
railing troops for rank, &c. however could,
by no means, be let down as any.pirt of the regular
(landing rode.of recrnitilg the Britifh army. Four
thoufand new cavalry had been added to the army.
But hove were they railed ? If the Houfe conridered
ail the Colonial troops of the country fa!l loclzed up,
by tilt nirctimfiances attenditil7, eluting was. th,: fi!u-
atipri of the places where they wet c ; fuel), tor cc•
ample, as Gibraltar, why then all the tegulai infan-
try we had to difpafe cf, amounted only to 5..-„xo
men ; and, indeed, if we took off the amount of fo-
oighets, we thould find it to be only 47,000 &kith
.infantry. This was all we had for any important and
unexpeCted demand whatever, whzther it were at
home, or for any effott in any great Continental
operation that might be undertaken. As for the
foreign troops, it was, doubtlefs, very proper to have
them in our pay ; but one could net help being
14116ra:hide with the character of thefe foreign troops
—Soldiers of this deicription were generally fup-
poled to be for general and unlimited let-vice, ready
to go any where. But a great part of them are
Canadian Fencibles, and New Brunfwick Fencibles.
But then we had four thoufand natives of the ifland'
of Ceylon, armed, he might fuppofe, with bows and
arrows. n fad, he mull repeat it, we had no fyflem
in our military affairs; all wars vacuity. For
every military object the Bill was an abfolute nullity.
Projectors were a valuable Pet of people ; but they
were valuable in proportion to the utility and excel-
lence of their fchemes, not according to their intri-
cacy and troublefomecohiplexity. Every body agreed
that fomething mull be done, and by whom could
that be done but by the wifdom of Parliament ? It
might be raid, that perfons meant their own wildom ;
but that was not whit he meant. He wished to go
to the united wildom of the nation. He witted to fee
that whole Houfe in a Committee,
.exerciling their
wifdom on- this important fubjea. Inthat Committee:"
lie might beg leave to trouble them with his own ob.:
fervations on feveral points of moment. He fhould be
happy to explain his own not:cas upon thi, inbj,,a. He
had, indeed, after all, little to offer of his own. He
wanted Government only to go back to olJmethods.
He walled to fee them give up vain feheme, and
abandon thole modes and fyflems which expeiince
had proved to be fo unproductive, nay, fo fatal.—
Having, as he thought, (hewn, by experience and
hiltc.ry, that the country was brought into peat
danger by thefe falfe notions and inefficacious
arrangements, by the fyflem of Ballots, by the other
bad mode of railing men, and by a constant
repetition of military blunders, and that theft
things are the fault of Government, he would ail:
the Houle whether it was not time to exercise the
united wildom of Parliament on this molt important
point of National fe.curity ? • But for the faults of.
Government we need have no fuch evil to com-
plain of. An Army was hot to be made in a mu.
ment. Government cannot fucceed.by aping the
tyrant in the pray, fiampLig his foot, and calling
forth armies from the ground. He was glad to fay
that our want of an army was the fault of Govern-
ment, for them we knew hovi to Pet about remedy inif
the evil, and what was the bell mode of reeking to
fupply the deficiency. If it were not the fatit..t of
Government, our cafe Would be muct:-.3r-orirtNan it
, novf,it There were ronte things defer able, .that
were not in ou:'iowar?odid Conic Owls Om: ail-

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I elnahtedir were within our power. or ;here IA s
theiraming and maintaining a good Britith artily.
For any purpofe that we wanted, he sous happy le:
think, that an army was completely in their (e'n
power. An array olio!' t undoohteely be ca:-ricHoo
fir. aesevtil as rat glre:-:ed '.OD mud!, end not carael
far enetrl; : bat v hat was there to hinder ro, with
our poptileeinu, from makine a proper aim) ? What
was to prevent us from turning a cert tin pr-Teeth nof our pc prile.tion towards the miliotry nreGirron, (at
well as towards any other ...r the !siefellions, er any
particular trade ? Whyeseeld not the army l'e made
to appear equally weir 11l t:reir while to go to ;hat pre-
felon, as to go to a trade ? Suppofe apy new merit'.
fafture of great importance, tome great cotton menu-
lafttoe fer intlance, friddetily fprung up and filu-
rithed, forte other trades and manutaeturet were pin-
bably at firth hurt by i:s prefperity ; but there thiegs
found their own level. riit're was a new mean. of
fuhfillence difenvered. Mr. Mithus had not, indeed,
difeovered any new prir.cip'e, for that was nbvions
before ; lent he had purfucd it with great per fpicuity
and truth. The demand will have its relation to the
fupply. Why, if Hines took twice their qtratety of
materials, if men had four legs intlead of tan, or
even fuppoiing he had as many legs as a caterpillar,
!hues malt hill be warn ; what was there then in the
trade of a f rldier fo exceedingly fo; bidding and re-
volting to the people of this country : A foldier was
not quite fore of a very long lift, 'eat his oecupvinn
was more healthy than molt fv...hf...1.5. People wett.
found every day to go dov,m into damp untreal:VY
mines in Cornwall and Derbyshire ; we had retiree's
and other tradefroen following unhe tithy ;surfeits':
nothing was wanting hut to put the feldier's trade
upon a.proper level. The army had great. ettrae-
tions to the young and ::relent, and Itigh:foir:ted.-re
Nutwithfleeding all fecinini; difacivamay,es, th•le
was an ineineible attachment to a rniPtery li'e to be
1 found, by no rneans uncommon. Bet when he fpoke
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of tne trade, he. might an lireak of the trader. The
military life' Was the trade ; the trader was the Go.
', vernmera. Could riot this gicat trader do as much.
as o:her traders do to put this par tieal.rr trade on al
high a ground at )tilt as any other el the Fr( titable.
purfuits of mankind? Could Governmeee tear any.
competition on fuch a fubjett ? They could grant.
paieileges, they could bellow immunities, they
Could confer diclindions. We know very well that.
in tome otherec4untries the force of certain religioal
opinions had been fuel), as would either entirely
prevent, or elle impair the formation of an army. .
. Thus, in fome parts of Afia there were people that
could not be brought to military purfuits. So the
numerous body of Onakers in this country could not
be perfuaded to throw off their religious opinion&
on this point. We find no fuch prejudice opera-
ting generally among us ; but would any body fay,
that we were become fo unmartial and fo effeminate:
as to be pall the age of military glory, in the hitttie
ry of this country ? Why were our fhips manned,
without fear of forms, or wrecks, or enemies ? If we
had no army, it was entirely our own fault. Mini-
. fers had fometimes laid the fault of bad fyftems up.
on the heads of their predeceffors ; but what excule.
of this kind could be made, where a Mieiller had.
been his -own predccefl'or ?—(el loud lap.6.)—Thos
fault then is his own fault. Now the tirtt thin;
he thould propufe, would unqueftionably be to clear.
away all the obtlreeions that flood in the way of get-
ting an army. To the fyftern of ballot he certeinly
obieeted, theegh he would not at once do it totally
„away in the cele of the Militia. He had been mifre-
orelented es the enemy of the Militia, whi.ll he had.
,never been. lit did ere like to lie it extended too
far 4iond tire c.itirerl.ol.jeeer l, and clogging the Re-
guilt Army. lle`erri'e:ed the manner in wirer
the Militia was bioeen n ::poll time years hack, rs
the molt iejerious nrudt of meddling with thet e t
Mithment, and as on: which could only be juflitihi •y
,an immediate emergency. Some Gentlemen who h r
commiflions in the Militia, fancied they had the \I
144 under the protedion of the Chancellor of ,: ,e
Exchequer ; but he would teL them, that' they h • 1
put their lamb under the butcher's protation t• a t I
if they pleated, he would tell the Militia Cohen • v
how long it would be fafe. It would be felt :ad s
long as they themfelves had power end num'il
.enough in. Parliament to protea it. The Rie:,t
Hon. Gentleman then dwelt at confiderab:le len;th
'on the improper profufion of military honours.. Mi.
litany dillinetions, he Ltid, were fcattered about:
over the land with a profufe and inditcrirciiiatink
liberality. He here referred to the letter from Edin
burgh, addreffed to him, and publithed, which c,,ri
twined tome good obtervations on this head, written
too in a part of the ifland, where be hed: good rex-
, fon to believe the Volunteers were the molt perfeFt..
" It is odd, that while all other el:araelerilit ho.
flours are fpacioully diffuffed and cherily kept, arid
while they iallained their imprn-tanze by their rarity, •
they lhould be fo prolate and unbounded in their 4e...
lations. to a profeflion which is nintt particular about
its honot:r and its glory, and which, as the l'uet
fays,• leeks

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' Thl'bubblc rcntta:ion, . •
',E'en in the cannon's mouth.'
Why ()wind there be this orange, an,l fc;:tr.:r,?ls.•nr-'1
accountable and entailed Improper d;?7,'retict ..' Whfc,
Sir, it is but very lately that feverjl blue ribb.tntls,
very high and diilinguillied honours indeee, I.a v ti been
given away. Tittle are Lc:loins whicl) are best err-fret--
red on a few, and th:refore are more etgerly fought
after. I make no doubt Cot). were all sq r; rroperly
bellowed on theN.-ible per lons %.iio'ilow we ir iliern,und
probably limit' of thole were nbt defici•mt in wing all
the means in their power to obtain them. But every
where, over the whole furface of the country, the Mi-
litary Officer fees nothing but the.badges of his pro.
fellional rank and diginEtit,n. There Is o.le difference •
between military hood:ors and fome •-the.s,inafniuch
as thefe may very fa-ego:July he chiefly diflinguilliing,
as they thew the nun tf) be of form t,.i•fiderable int.
portance to acquire them, and a_l diltinaions are
not always the lot of talents and merit. But I molt
fay, that if you Alen roy the p-culiai ity of the fymbol, '
you take away the flit clt poi tion of i?s value. If
you, by your indifcConioat: life of a &gin:lion, take.,
from him the fiu:t of what be has earned by a li.F.: of
niilisary aftivity, and the zrcliums e:,eri;•lts o: a long.
and well-fought field, yoit moil, beyenct catenation,.
dellroy the fpirit of an a; my, and that Wish •mincled:
ardour of military-life, that whit!) 1.4 r. lk.rke calls tits .
cbiaP &Felice i.,lnation 6. Now, Siri'in this,. 'as in, other
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attc-,t,•r fay, .Cie: ri4 of thit ittnithlaititte': artro:,-

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terul flin for their I cinolitedly were within our power. or ;here Taff tea%
imilar way as ith the.framing and maintaining a good Britiffi artily.
roper plats, 1'...t For any purpofe that we wanted, he tea! nappy.io .
we lhould even think, that an army was completely in their own
diragreeable to power. An artily rni:eht undoollterly be cairieHoo
ernan bad tar-en fir. asswell as otglc.:*:ed 'Mr/ moth:, ;.ml nos carael
els at fir a, but far eneroet : bat v hat was there to hinder ii,, with i
lew experiment, our poptiie'iou, from making a proper Al rn) ? What
land, and in dif• was to prevent us from turning a cert tin proporti rt t
hip that thould of our pi potation toward, tire mili:ary nrofeillon, fat 't
teem to be fo well as towards any other...( the !srafellions, or any <:
o with great re• particular trade ? Why•t-ld not the army l'e made
ip, between the to appear• equally win Ili their while to go tc ;oat pre- 1 .
gof his motion. talon, as to go to a trade ? Suppofe any new mann- fe i.
refs of the Bal. fafture of great importance, ;lime great cotton mama-
tterity obferved, laftrire Ix instance, firdeleoly fprung up and li ru- '
Force Bill, you riffled, fume other trades and manutaauret were pro- I '
r ballot." He bably at fir il butt by i:s prefacrity ; but there thiegs
I adroitted.:t., found their own level. riit're was a new mean. of .•' •
opinions Le ad. folifillence difcovered. Mr. Malthus bad not, indeed,
ive fore:A upon difeovered any new princip..e, for that was obvious
tof . reputation before ; butt he had purfucd it with great per fpicuity
found nobody and truth. The demand will have its relation to the
I heard in fume fupply. Why, if limes took twice their qiiatety of
;iving operation materials, if men had four legs infead of awn, or :
by the admira- even fuppofing he had as many legs as a caterpillar, .• fit afforded.— flues malt liill be worn ; what was there then in the .
*cat !satiates, in trade of a f ildier fo exceedingly forbidding and rc- •
gliboalhood.— yoking to the people of this country : A foldier was :.
gly overgrown not quite fore of a very long lift, 'eat his occtipaiirit • ,
'rt watoeverthe was more healthy than molt ri'llz...i.s. People were. • .
ping at the main found every day to go dovrn into damp tinhcal:Vyi
anal neglecting mines in Cornwall and Derbyshire; we had pairo.ers .
like =Drier, to and other tradefroen following untie athy 'surfeits':
and dozen, and nothing was wanting but to put the foldier's trade
tele few we were. upon a.proper level. The army had great, aurae-
rnaLe ttte others thins to the young and ::relent, and high:foirited.•-•-•
re Janke-by the NotwitlifleAing all feernine; elifaeivantay,es, there
lye who had on. was an in Tint ible attachment to a roiPtery li'e to be •
,aritli, to get the found, by no means uncommon. Bet when he fpoke •• .
so could get by of the trade, lee.nught an lineth of the trader. The
mp got his man military life' was the trade ; the trader was the Go :
tto much more fverti m r i a . Could not this gicat trader do as much.
he Government as other traders do to pot this pat tiealar trade on al
oroctfred in this high a ground at hall as any other of the Fr( fit able.
lent the fine in.
,purfuits of mankind? Could Governmee.-. tear any. '. '
ion of the whole competition on Inch a fubjett ? They could grant.
td of the Right
,ptiyileges, they could bellow immunities, they '
'as, that it had 'Could confer ditlindions. We know very well that
s was now glad in tome other•c4untries the force of certain religions ti
he was glad of 'opinions had been fuck, as would either entirely
yto make out prevent, or elle impair the formation of an atoll-. . i• •
sew then), that !Thus, in Tome parts of Afia there were people that i'
ezitling fyflem, could not be brought to military purfuits. So the . f
of the means, numerous body of (lookers in this country could not 4
f maintaining abe perfuaded to throw off their religious opinions Pi
r force. Our on this point. We find no fuch prejudiee opera-
-1,409 men, and ting generally among us ; but would any body fay,
16,0a0, its our that we were become fo unmartial and fo effeminate:
Here were fo as to be pall the age of military glory, in the hiffii,
fource or other. ry of this country ? Why were our flips manned 111
oiled contlantly without fear of forms, or wrecks, or enemies ? If we
r the continual had no army, it was entirely our own fault. Mini-
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fervice ought . tiers had fometimes laid the fault of bad fyftems up-
icy of this kind on the heads of their predeceffors ; but what excule. 1
t appeared, be- of this kind could be made, where a Mieiller had, i.
ufed ; foal as been his -own predeceffor ?—(4 loud lap.l.,.)—Thot
however could, . fault then is his own fault. Now the lira thin.; •
fof the regular he thould propofe, would ungneftionably be to clear. „
•.1 Ri army. Four away all the obtlraeions that flood in the way of get-
dto the army. ting an army. To the fyflem of ballot he cert.,inly
loufe confldered objeCted, thoogh he would not at once do it totally
fall Ice:zed up, _away in the cafe of the Militia. He had been ruifre- 1
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og war. the fitto prefented as the enemy of the Militia, whiell he had. i
: ; fuel), for es- ,never been. lit did pet like to lie it extended too
e tegulai infan- fur beiond tire c.:,einel.oljeerl, and clogging the Re-
only to 5,-„oco gulor Army. lie eirri-:'::td the manner in w:riel ..
e amount of fu. the Militia was Ino!eri in -eport mine years back, ,s
y 47,000 &kith the molt injurious mode of meddling with that et •-
y importantand Milliment, and as on: v.lich could only be jultitied •y
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ther it were at an immediate emergency. Some Gentlemen who h r
eat Continental coo,miflions in the Militia, fancied they had the VI :,
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n. As for the litia under the protedion of the Chancellor of .: ,e
' proper to have Exchequer; but he would tell them, that' they is • 1 . •
nct help being put their lamb under the butcher's protation ;• a: I
fe foreign troops if they pleated, he would tell the Militia Colon • v
generally fup- how long it would be fafe. It would be felt iti.t s
d fervice, ready long as they themfelves had power T.nd num•er
rt of them are .enough in. Parliament to protea it. The Ri,e:.t i'l
(wick Fencibles. Hon. Gentleman then dwelt at confiderab'le lerytth
res of the ifland' 'on the improper profufion of military honours.. Mi- with bows and litary dillinetions, he laid, were fcattered abort'
P e had Ito fyflem over the land with a profufe and indifcrim I. inating
vacuity. For liberality. He here referred to the letter from Edin I
abfolute nullity. burgh, addreffed to him, and publilhed, which con.,
topic ; but they twined Tome good dbfervations on this head, written
tility and excel- too in a part of the ifland, where he had: good rea- '1
; to their intri. fon to believe the Volunteers were the moll perfe.it.. el
• )' ery body agreid "It is odd, that while all other cliaraclerilic ho. ..
•4 ,y whom could nouns are fpacioully diffuffed and cherily kept, arid . k 4
'ornament ? It while they faffained their importance by their rarity, •
it own wildom ; they thould be fo prolate and unbotended in their 4e... ! "A.
re wilhed to go lotions. to a protein-on which is mod particular about
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Ic witbed to fee its }moor and its glory, and which, as she Puet
exercifing their fays,• leeks .
that Committee': ' The wall( re:arta:ion, . • . I
'alb his own ob.: e E'en in the earmuffs mouth.' I
t. He fhnuld be Wary fheidd there be this lirange, and fietr.ln?ls'• tt;fo'l I
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this lubjeil. He accountable and entailed improper d:e.',reirce*.' Wffy, ,t
if his own. He Sir, it is but very lately that feveral blue ritrh..inds, .I'. ,'
to oumetb.ds. very high and didinguilhed honours indeee, ;.a 1 :: been lik:.
frheme, and given away. Thele are honours which ar e bet co.-tree--
1U experience red on a few, and therefore are more eagerly fought ri,
lay, fo fatal.— alter. I make no doubt they were all vi re properly it‘
experience and bellowed on theNable per lons ry iimiow we it thern,and
:lit into great probably fume' of thole were nbt deficient in using all 'I
d inefficacious the means in their power to obtain them. But every
ts, by the other where, over the whole furface of the country, the Mi- I
)y a conitant litary Officer fees nothing but the.badoes of his pro-
tid that Oink fellional rank and difintlien. There is o.le difference •
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, he would aft: between military liondlps.s and home ether s, inafrauch
to exercise the as thefe may very frequently he chiefly dillinguiThing, - ;i
molt important as they thew the man to be of tome e,wiiderable irn.
T the faults of portance to acquire them, and tide dillinaions ate ,
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i evil to corn- not always the lot of talents and merit. But I mutt .r .
made in a mo. fay, that if you .deflroy the e‘-euliarity of the fymbol, '
I.by aping the you take away the flitelt portion of its value. If l'•:1'
-,t, and calling you, by your indifeihn tile inate of a train:lion, take.'
I 1 vas glad to fay from him the fruit of what be has earned by a lit.: of
unit of Govern- rallisary aftivity, rind the ardroms exerti•ms o: a long , !
bout remedyinie and well-fought field, you moil, heyead calcalation,,
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cof reeking to dellroy the fpirit of an army, and that hish•minded" 1
tot the fatV..t of ardour- of militarrlife, that which Mr. Berke calls the . !
h'w•orirtion it ' ctiap &Felice efnations. Now, Sir, iu th is., 'as in other.
,1' e•-finilrtie; that .nlatteee•r fay, *l•;,> back to..fiznpticityais your, kheorT.
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otiteis.that tali- anal pritr:tie:•* Ge: rid. olthe inaterokitinee awree,
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