Star.
London, England, 1807-01-24 00:00:00

ance at the drills and ennfleestlmitthere was formerly,
and that confequently the force could not be fo ef-
feeive.

Sir JOHN DOYLE was not furprifed that Come
Gentlemen wilhed the difcut!ion to be adjourned.—
There were fome Gentlemen at that fide of the Houfe
(the Oppofition benches) that (poke at loch great
length, that it appeared they were only fpeaking
agatal time ; and although they were very minute in
their calculations on other fubjeds, titneatpPea red to
be a thing that they never took into their calculation.
—He agreed with the Hon. Baronet who (poke lan,
that although the day was dill:int, it was not at an
end ; he was furprifed, however, when he heard Gen-
tlemen from that fide of the Houle fo anxious to ex-
tol the Additional Force Ad, when they themfelves
hal been obliged to confers, that all the hopes they
had of it was from the improvements they intended
to make in it. Although the Ad had done little in
its original (late, yet it was to do wonders when it
was mended. This puts me in mind of a Rory of
one of our Poets, h o being irafcible, as well •ts de-
formed, ued to fay, gi God mend me." %Viten a
friend °bre, ved, it would be better to make twenty
new ones, than mend one like you." But they wet e
going to mend it. This alto reminds me of a Pt iell's
maid, who, when called for any purpofe, was jut(
going to do it ; and when her matter silted her one
day, had the wattled his books, in order to try her, the
as ufual anfweted, jolt going to do it.' Or, like the
Duke of Wharton's puppies, they never opened their
ryes till they were going to be drowned. Whenever
any deka in the mea'ures of the former Admittiata.
tionoyas pointed out, they immediately cried out—
" 0 ! but we were jufl going to remedy that." This
put him in mind of another !tory : He had heard of
a let vans maid, who, when found fault with for ne-
gleding any past of her Wines, ufed conflan,ly to
anfwer, " Sir, I was jolt going to do it." Her
mailer wifhing to fee how far the would make nfe of
this anfwer, afked, " Have you washed my books
and papers ?"—" No, Sir, (laid the maid) but I
was jun going to do it." In the fame manner, what-
ever was left undone by the late Administration, the
Houle was conliantly told that they were jolt going
to do it, before the change. It was fomething like a
feu of puppies he had heard of, that never opened
their eyes till they were drowning. The Additional
Frirce Bill ailed or the army as the French do to their
allies, that is, it cut off all their refources. The pre•
fent fyflem had in its effeas not only beat the Additi-
onal Fotce Bill, but that meafure added to the general
yeti oiling, and to the recruiting at the head quarters of
the regiment. He thought the plan of the Right Hon.
Gentleman would infure a regular fupply to the army
in the bet manner, in the way that a good landlord
can infure his income without racking the tenantry.
He was lorry that the meafure had been fomewhat de-
layed in its execution,as bevies conviacedthat it would
have done more for the Right Hon. Gentleman than he
had done for the meafure. if it had really been a
year in operation, it svortld have allowed hint to
make a very tritimphato Rater:tent of its efficacy. He
(hould not attempt to follow the Noble Lord (l.rnd
Catllereagh) in the infinite leaks of his diverging
calculations. The arguments and the calculations i:f
the Noble Lord were extremely good, if he had but
data to go upon. His calculations wcte extremely
minute alma: he defcended to the truckle bed of kthe
worn out moldier, and difcnvered that it was too loft
and too comfortable : his calculation went to the
cheapen way of ht ingiog an old foldier's grey hairs
in forrow to the grave. His calcul trions and his
reafoniogs were fo very profound and accurate, if
they had but any foundation in mull, or in fact,
that they pat him in mind of that clafs of men
(madmen) whom Mr. Locke Oates as perfons who
argue tight upon falfe premifes. If he fp .ke from
that fide of the flontle (the Gmfition Sid,). it was
merely from a cattle that, no doubt, operated with
other Gentlemen in another fenfe, becattfe he could
not get a good place on the othet fide of the Houfe
to latish). He allowed that, in a free country, there
ought to he an oppofition as a check to Motillers :
this oppofitinn, of courfe, ought to conha of men of
talents, and as no one could doubt the ability or to
lents of many of the Gentlemen now in oppofition, he
could not but with that they thould remain h'ng in
that situation, as the cortaitutional check to Admini-
Oration. He could however give them one recipe,
which, if they would adopt, wind,' add much to their
importance. if they would adopt towards the Go-
vernment the language, as they had the manners, of
Monsieur de Talleyrand, and if they would fay to the
Gentlemen on the Minillerial benches, " (tons re vont
Irlenrandons rien," or its plain Englah " we do not want
any of the places that you hold," in loch a cafe there
I could be no doubt but that their (Trillion would be
more liberal and more harmonious. He had heard
objections to rite negoci 41ion, but it appeared to him
that no negotiation could . have begun under better
aufpices. The Right Honourable Gentleman, (Mr.
Fox) who was then at the head of the Department of
Foreign Affairs, was a man endowed by nature wi.h
a vat and comprehenfive mind, that could cieatly
perceive the interells of the cottrary, and what it had
a right to claim. He was a man of that benignity and
fuavity of manners, which conciliated the affedinns of
every individual with whom he had intercourfe; of
that probity and known honour, which immediately
gained him the confiience of all lot ciao nations with
whole Minitters he neguciated. In him them was
nothing doubtful, nothing ambiguous, nothing coun-
terfeit. He was ton peat to be proud or haughty ;
he was taro wife to be cunning. He was, in political
life, an example of the old Englifh proverb, that
Honefly is the belt policy." He thould not pretend
to praife him, for that was a talc that would require
talents as gigantic as his own ; but he vanilla fay, that
we never had a negnciator mote fit to lupport the
cattle of the country with Foreign Powers in general,
and with France in particular. He begge; leave to
late to the Houle two inliances within his own know.
ledge of the effed of the Right Hon. Gentleman's
(Mr. Windham) fyflem. In one regiment that he
knew, where the fecond battalion confines' r f;4t men,
147 of them had volunteered for general service in
the fix months preceding the new fylleno, but in the
fix months that followed it 267 of what remained
elf° volunteered. In the regiment that he had the
honour to command, the fecond battalion confined
ef4oo. For the fix months preceding the new fyffem,
there was lout one man who volunteered ; but in the
month of Augutl, when the new fyflem was explained
to them, no lefs than 269 volunteered. He had no
right to argue upon thole tads, as they were net offs-