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

and difgolk behig created by it'in that brafiteb
, Woks, be rebutted, by acquainting the Ware, thail,
loci men bad volualmead kens his own regiotentsanf
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the officers were as trongly attached to the ferrice as
ever they were at any former period. Indeed, be
did not think it right that in it& -a of Militia thould
expels diffatisfaaton at his Miliaria Government,
as a majority of that Houk having ezprefed an opi-
Mon slairmt from that which be entertained. .He
then adverted to the circusnikanee of the late meeting
of Lord Lieutenants, at the Thatched Haute, and
pulling our of his pocket the paper which contained
the Refolutions of the meeting. obferved, that fere.
tel of the perfons who had fo &trembled were in the
regular habit of oppofing his Majelty's
The ideas of there Gentlemen he roppored to be fomei,
thing more political than fentimental; and he belie,/
ed, iliac if the broad energetic Government which
they recommended, had been placed over the affairs
of the nation, they would have adored the very
fame fort of meafure. But though he clearly yaw
the neceffity of the Bill being paired into it law, there
was another part of it which be did not like:thin was
the part where a ComManding Officer was defied to
cut , his regiment in two, and have the men taken
from one half, while the other.sras free from the
Operation of the Bill. He had no doubt that great
numbers of the men would readily ezprefs an indent,
defire to join in the glory of any expedition in which
they were told they would have to pall down the
Emperor of the French, or to piill down the King ofi
Italy. But he was apprehenfive that Officers asisht
is Tome inflames with to keep the beter part of their
regiment, that the Grenadiers the Light ;armory
would probably be yet afide, and-prevesited from r-
ing abroad. He therefore *commended the sideption
of the mode ,of ballot generally among the whole.'
colonel BASTARD did expea that
-the Right
Hon. Gentleman who bad jail fat down would hairs
op fed theprefent meafure, as it was the necefferi
reule of that fyttem by which his own Meafures had
been all deßroyed. But he bad often heard, that it
was a good child that killed the rod. Howeverthat
Righ a t Hon. Gentleman might think it right to dip.
port fyttem fo very oppofite to that upon which he
himfelf had afted, he felt it to be his duty to tipple
this Bill, for the fame reafon as he had fupported the
meafures of the Right Hon. Gentleman binsfelf when
he was at the head of the War Department. What.
ever might be the ingenuity of the Right Hon. Gen:
tleman himfelf, in managing his own regiment, be
;inittlitaintain that, generally (peaking, where men
ed adefire so leave the limited fervice of the
litia, for the purpofe of enter' ag into unlimited
fervice, and for an undefined per there mull be
either a want of attachment to their officers, or a ge-
neral fpirk or fnfabordination amine them. If the
idea of...the honours and glory of a common giddier
marching to Paris to pull- down the Emperor of the
French and King of Italy could prevail on them 'to
quit a Militia regiment, he did not think that their
attachment could-be-very &Kern
Lord TEMPLE declared, that he Should not have
this night fpoken on the rubjea, but for the curios.
(tent which had been jut then exhibited of a Gentle-
man arnergliog to preferve fonwappearance of con-
filleney in his condo& and endeavouring to reconcile
all the contradiaions which might expelled to re=
fult from the influence of his different fhOaticess and
his different conflation:. The Noble Lord then
traced in regularfucceflion all the proceedings of the
Haute from the year 1799 to the prefent period. In
1199 the levies from the Militia were limited both as
to time and (pace, now they were to be unlimited in
both points of view. Since that period, during* time
of Peace, the Right Hon. Gentleman had himfelf, he
believed, brought forward a Bill, which 'declared,
that 60,000 Militia were abfolutely neceffary for ,the
defence of the country; and yet, now he could,
friend to the Militia fervice, declare, that, in a died
of War, and of alledged danger of invafion, it was
fig that the numbers of the conaitutional defenders
of the country mould he immediately reduced to
40.0001 The term contlitutional. he contended for
it, was moll correaly applied to that defcription of
force which was to. be direeted by the principal part
of the landed intend of the country, and through
the ranks of which there. flowed the moil lively ez-
preffion of ,every local intereß which could poffibly
attach them to the foil, or make them with to defend
naoaintt foreign invafion.
The Marquis of DOUGLAS conceived the Bill
to be unjuß in its principle, and injurious in its ope-
ration. The Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Yorke)
Old it was not unconßitutional—he did not contend
it was fat but es far as refpefted the conßitution of
the Militia. The Right Honourable Gentleman had
talked much about the delicacy of his feelings--
but he feemed deßitate of all fenfibility—bis military
apottacy was only equalled by his ininiatrial apoßacy.
—(1 gourd ery ?bear/ hear! order! erder).4,-When,
by the interpolation of the Chair, filmy was Tailored,
The SPEAKER defired the Noble Lord' would
Attain from any thing perfonal.'
The Marquis of DOUGLAS replied, that he was
not aware be had tranfgrefred the rules of the Houfe;
but if he bid, -he was ready to apologize generally
`for having fo done. He then refurned—Every meant
had been taken to elienati the affeftions of the
tin elfin's, before the Bill was brought ist, and inch
void* ohligadeos of the Officers on that eltablith-
meat. What Would be the
-painful fitnation of ghefe
Gelidellien when they were called upon to commu-
nicate to their regiments propofitions fo remote from
thole on. which the fervices of the Corps were tender-
ed ? He, too, had feeling; but it was of • very dif-
ferent kind from thin indulged by the Right Hon.
gentleman, and if would be molt thatffay excited
under tuck circomflanees. He did not objea to the
Bill merely eq account of the great landed csate-4,
tors ; be refined it alto for the fake of the
occupant, the indulbions cultivator of the foil,, who
would be called upon to (apply the deficiency *felt-
ing from this nseafure. It was no proof of the rude
tiros of the men raving in the Pada, if they (cold
be more &ragas to embark on Ibreign expeditions;
than to defend the unitary of their country ; fo that
all the arguments flow gamma zeal and male am-
bition, were vain and Moho* s but if therm* to go
abroad, where ore* they to aft I We had Ito fig's
Ally os tbccoosiiant : not fist& a term wii iii
the fpeech-fr the 'Throne ; the only lomenece tblt
was emPleged of this 'sodomy was nprellie iffoiaqi
.onhamwa privets with whom his Majelly was in the'